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Cold Porcelain Visitor Submission: I started out with sugar paste but found that it wasn't the medium I wanted to model with. When I first started

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Antique Bone China - Query: I have a small bone china swan figurine carrying two flowers on its back. The mark on the bottom is a kind of elongated

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===================================== Reply for Peter (admin) Hello Diane This query has been moved to Antique Bone China Main page Peter

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Antique Bone China Query: I have 6 bone china cups and saucers that I have never seen anywhere before. Hopefully I have uploaded a picture for you.

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Cold porcelain can be used to sculpt faces and figures, but you have to know how to work with the cold porcelain paste. Our resident expert Sangeeta

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China Manufacturers - The No 1 Online Who's Who A-Z

This guide is a handy who's who of china manufacturers and their origins, whether in the UK, Europe or America.

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The Best Antique Bone China A-Z Guide On The Net

Antique bone china - All the talking points needed for quick connoisseurs

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How To Sculpt - Part 2

This "How To Sculpt" part 2 is the second installment of the free online sculpting tips section.

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Pottery Clay - Potclays 1150 - My Lady With Fish Statue Update

Pottery Clay - Potclays 1150 - Drying Update. Just a quick update on my statue. As you may recall the plasticity of the pottery clay (1150) I used for

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Cold Porcelain - The Folk Art Tradition

I have been working with cold porcelain (cp) for 12 year now. I have a lot of experience with it as I teach it and make custom florals for wedding and

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Top Sculpting Tips From Professional Clay Artist

The sculpting tips most likely to bring you success more quickly must first look at modeling clay - Know your your raw material and how to work with it.

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Figurines Sculpture, Insights Into the Making of Collectibles

Figurines Sculpture Finesse are the 3 bywords of master sculptor Peter Holland. From the bone china collectibles to bronze art – all the techniques are here

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Antique Bone China - Backstamps Question Royal Worcester

We have a Royal Worcester antique bone china set of cups and saucers that we are unable to date or find the name of the pattern. Just wondered if

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Antique Bone China Page - Crown Staffordshire Fine Bone China Tea Set - "Clare" Pattern

Antique Bone China Page - Query regarding Crown Staffordshire Fine Bone China Tea Set - Clare Pattern. I was given a tea set consisting of 6 cups,

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Royal Vale Cornflower Pattern Tea Set Trios

I have a treasured set of 6 Royal Vale tea cups, saucers and side plates, Cornflower pattern, gold edge and trim (as per Design No. 7513). The stamp

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Pottery Clay Query - Air Dry Bone China

Pottery Clay Query - My husband bought me 25 pounds of bone china clay on e-bay. The seller said it was air dry bone china clay. Then paintable.

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Churchill Dinnerware - A Potted History

Churchill Dinnerware - The story of Churchill Tableware is the story of the China Industry in microcosm.

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Royal Vale Bone China - The Storm In The Tea Cup

Royal Vale Bone China may not be a household name but has always been in the eye of the China Industry storm in a tea cup

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Pottery Clay - The Online Guide To Sculptural Ceramics

Pottery clay explained in terms of ceramic sculpture - how to use it - all you need to know.

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Vale Bone China Tea Set - Pre 1913?

I am interested in your Royal Vale section. Thanks for your very informative site :) Do you know if the firm was called Vale on its own for a

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Pottery Clay - Drying Potclays 1150

I am an artist living in Devon and working with clay for about 10 years now. I mainly create small models or larger sculptures and vases and my

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I HAVE A ROYAL VALE TEA SET THAT WAS LEFT TO ME BY MY GRANDMOTHER 18 YEARS AGO.AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER IT WAS ALWAYS IN HER CABINET.ME BEING 62

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Art Pottery Revolution Within Revolutions

Art Pottery is the place to sling mud - Bernard Leach turns in his grave

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Antique Bone China Answers To Royal Worcester Backstamp Question

Antique bone china answer: Stewart, your Royal Worcester answer is as follows: From the info you supplied, my guess is your Royal Worcester coffee

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Dansk Tableware Goes Frilly

Dansk Tableware are going mad and wow! - we have color and patterns. Peter, I was highly amused by your only just hidden dislike of Dansk Tableware!!

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Dansk Tableware - The Original Minimalists

Dansk Tableware - The scandinavian style guru's have a lot to answer for. 50 years on and we are still chucking out the chintz ... or are we??

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Royal Vale Backstamps

A note on Royal Vale backstamps: Thank you, Peter, for your interesting explanations of the Royal Vale bone china on the main page. I am a china

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Clay Sculpting Supplies

The Pro-Active Clay Sculpting Supplies Online Guide. Join forces, share ideas.

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Porcelain China - The Complete Online Guide

A unique online guide to porcelain china with brief talking points for quick connoisseurs

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Bone China Manufacturers - The Complete Online Guide

Bone china manufacturers - A review of who's who - All the talking points you'll ever need to know.

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