Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

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Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

from the editor

Curios • a name in antiques… mistletoe

The Romance of Vienna Porcelain • RENOWNED FOR ITS DELICATE CRAFTSMANSHIP AND ELEGANT ARTISTRY, VIENNA PORCELAIN HAS A RICH HISTORY DATING BACK TO THE EARLY 18th CENTURY WHEN IT BECAME ONE OF THE MOST REVERED AND SOUGHT-AFTER PORCELAINS IN EUROPE. JUDITH DUNN EXPLORES ITS ORGINS AND HISTORY.

Scandalous Silver • ELIZABETH CHEUNG AND BILLY ROBERTSON FROM CACHE ANTIQUES IN SYDNEY REVEAL THE CONNECTION BETWEEN EARL SELBORNE AND MAHATMA GANDHI.

A Master in Glass • FOLLOWING ON FROM HIS FEATURE IN THE WINTER 2019 MAGAZINE, GARRY STYLIANO TAKES A FRESH LOOK AT THE REMARKABLE INNOVATIONS OF CHARLES SCHNEIDER.

Have Clock, Will Travel • ALTHOUGH THE HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLING CLOCK LIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PORTABLE WATCH-WHICH AS EARLY AS THE 1600s COULD BE FOUND WITH ALARMS AND HOUR STRIKES - IT WAS NAPOLEON WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CARRIAGE CLOCK AS WE KNOW IT TODAY. HE WANTED A TIMEPIECE HE COULD TAKE WITH HIM DURING HIS EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN OF JULY 1798 SO, AS TONY RONSON WRITES, HE DID WHAT EMPERORS DO: HE ENGAGED THE BEST CLOCKMAKER IN THE COUNTRY TO MAKE ONE FOR HIM.

it’s a snippet • Snatches of information too small for a feature and too interesting to ignore…

movers and shakers

The Timeless Craft of Silver-Plating Restoration • A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTISANS OF W.J. SANDERS & COMPANY.

Trinkets from the Harvey School Pottery • WHEN HE CHANCED UPON A POTTERY TRINKET BOX AT THE AUCTION OF A QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, SPECIALIST DEALER RODNEY JENSEN HAD NO IDEA HE WAS ABOUT TO EMBARK ON AN OBSESSION…

Walking Above The Waves • THE WORLD’S OLDEST SEASIDE PIER IS IN THE TOWN OF RYDE ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT. IT WAS OPENED ON JULY 26 1814 SO THAT FERRIES COULD DOCK EVEN AT LOW TIDE, WHEN THE SEA CAN RECEDE ALMOST ONE KILOMETRE FROM THE SHORE. PURELY FUNCTIONAL, IT WAS NEVERTHELESS THE FORERUNNER TO THE PECULIARLY BRITISH SEASIDE PLEASURE PIER THAT POPPED UP ALL OVER THE UK. JULIE CARTER TAKES A STROLL.

The Five Famous Kilns of Chinese Porcelain • COVETED BY COLLECTORS FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, CHINESE PORCELAIN IS ADMIRED FOR ITS EXCEPTIONAL BEAUTY AND QUALITY. SHARON DOWLEY FROM THEODORE BRUCE AUCTIONS IN SYDNEY ELABORATES.

Rough Roads Recorded… • ROMAN ROADS WERE SOME OF THE EARLIEST ESTABLISHED TRAVEL ROUTES AROUND BRITAIN, BUT AS SPECIALIST DEALER KATHRYN NICHOLLS WRITES, THE ROUGH ROADS WORN BY REGULAR USE AROUND THE COUNTRY WERE NOT RECORDED UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE 17th CENTURY.

Impossibly Delicate: The Victorian Glass Epergne • FROM THEIR INITIAL USE AS A DECORATIVE BUT FUNCTIONAL FOOD DISPENSER TO THEIR TRANSFORMATION INTO THE ULTIMATE DINING ROOM FRIPPERY, THE EPERGNE HAS ALWAYS HAD A PLACE ON THE WELL-LAID TABLE, WRITES GLASS SPECIALIST JOHN FRITH.

Picasso for the People • IF YOU’VE EVER WANTED TO OWN A PICASSO, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE WRITES JULIE CARTER.

The King of Vege tables • THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ASPARAGUS UNFOLDS ACROSS CENTURIES AND CULTURES, WRITES DEBRA PALMEN. IT WAS FIRST DEPICTED ON AN EGYPTIAN FRIEZE AS FAR BACK AS 3000BCE AND WAS ADMIRED BY BOTH THE EGYPTIANS AND ROMANS FOR ITS DELICATE FLAVOUR AND PURPORTED MEDICINAL VIRTUES.

Mid Century Modern • "The details are not the details, they make the design." CHARLES EAMES

Wax on, wax off… • WAXING IS A SUPERB WAY TO...