The antiques dealer told me it was a posy vase.  I learned it is also known as a pouch vase.  The shape looked a bit formal for a posy, but ...

I was surprised to find a beaver in a pattern titled "Indian Scenery."  It is not an animal I associate with India. However, I...

The nine patterns in the children's series "The Potters' Art" illustrate some of the  stages found in ceramic production. ...

It is the first day of school in my home town.  The excitement is the same today as yesterday.  I have always loved transferware patterns th...

I have to be crazy to collect pottery in Earthquake Country.  I live in the San Francisco Bay Area which is definitely the land of rock an...

 Menagerie was the word used to describe a collection of wild animals kept for exhibition before the invention of the word zoo.  Zoo came in...

I saw a lidded rectangular ceramic box printed in blue in a junk shop in the 1960s.  Neither the owner of the shop nor I knew its purpose.  ...