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Antiques - Art Deco - Art Nouveau - Ceramics - Delftware - Gouda - Pottery
Henk's shop in Muntendam, has Dutch
pottery, glass and other good quality ceramics.
Antiques resources directory
with related websites.
AMERICAN ART POTTERY ASSOCIATION
A site which promotes an interest
understanding, appreciation, and recognition of American Art
Pottery.
Annette's beautifully presented website specializes in vintage ceramics, glass and lighting with Scandinavian, French, German and Italian items to name but a few.
For a huge selection of pottery and ceramics collectables, visit Rodge at his fascinating site.
Over 1,500 Items Online! Antiques, Ephemera, Collectibles, Books, Magazines, Ads, Sports, Jewelry, Genealogy, Memorabilia, a FREE Newsletter, CyberMall, Free Classifieds, Historical Trivia, and Research Articles, Vacation Accommodations, and Educational Site.
Antiques and Collectibles information and resources.
Art Deco
Express has a great site for all Art Deco enthusiasts. With glass,
ceramics, statues, clocks, posters and much more. They also offer
a variety of services from sourcing an elusive piece, interior
design service, colour schemes & themes.
Online store specializing
in quality, original streamline-modern decorator items, home
wares, collectables and gifts from the 1920's, 30's and 40's.
This
site has lots of very interesting information about the Art Nouveau
movement - artists, companies, places, locations and more.
Information about Ashtead Pottery. The pottery had a short life, being in business for just 12 years from 1923 to 1935. The factory was in the village of Ashtead in Surrey, England. Set up with the aim of providing employment for disabled ex-servicemen and once gave work for up to forty men.
Worldwide shipping of original
and landscape paintings by Scotland's largest
supplier .. Scotland Art.com.
Capriolus specialises in Dutch
plateel.
It is an excellent website and has a vast amount of information.
Ceramics
Restored offer a professional restoration and conservation service
that is able to deal with the care and repair of all types of
china, pottery and porcelain.
Situated on the outskirts of Exeter, Devon here in the UK.
Ceramics
Today is a comprehensive site exploring all aspects of ceramics
and pottery. The links database has about 1500 ceramics links,
the largest regularly maintained ceramics links database anywhere
on the net.
Our friend
John Laurance owns Cherob Antiques & Curiosa. His main interests
are Dutch pottery, particularly the old Delft potteries and the
Art Nouveau & Deco Gouda periods. These include De Porceleyne
Fles, Makkum, Zuid-Holland, Rozenburg, Brantjes and Regina. Plus
a very varied taste in collectables from Lalique, metal chocolate
moulds, Olympic Games memorabilia to Dutch Royal commemoratives.
John has a shop within the Antique
Centre 'De Looier' in the Oud-West district of Amsterdam
on the Elandsgracht.
Note - these links take you to the Amsterdam.info site as John no longer has a website.
CHINA REPAIRS AND RESTORATIONS
David
Battams from Milton Keynes, here in the United Kingdom,
has been restoring since 1998. His clients include dealers and
private collectors. David has restored a variety of ceramics
including - Chinese porcelain, Royal Winton, Meissen, Lladro,
Nao Dressel Kister, Beswick, Hancocks, Coalport, Wedgwood, Worcester,
Maling and Royal Doulton to name but a few.
He also restores Gouda pottery - we can personally vouch for
his excellent work!
Het leven en werk van mijn opa - Chris Lanooy. The life and work of my grandpa - Christiaan Johannes Lanooy. This site by Hedda v. Engelenburg-Lanooij is about her grandfather, one of the most prominent ceramicists and glass designers of the early 20th century.
The biggest
vintage and antique resource directory on the web!
Look
for collectibles on this online web directory.
Large, eclectic mix of consignment
shop, antiques & collectibles mall, bookstore, reference
information, arts & events magazine, collecting web directory
and museum featuring Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts
design 1890-1935.
Lots of valuable information on all aspects of collecting pottery and porcelain. Different potteries, styles of pottery and porcelain that will help you to collect with more confidence.
The Collecting Network is a consortium of collectors, antiques
and collectibles dealers, auctioneers, antique show promoters,
antiques mall owners and trade leaders.
The
Collector's Portal.
Collections
opzijnbest.nl
A treasure of information on hundreds of different topics and websites including Pottery and Porcelain.
Quote - "The largest exclusive antiquing and collecting online directory".
Rick Erickson is an authority on
Dutch Delftware, in particular De Porceleyne Fles. He has written
many articles and given lectures on the subject. Rick's new book
on De Porceleyne Fles is out now to coincide with the 350th anniversary
(1654) of the factory.
You can visit Rick's website here which has information about Fles and the new book.
See also Royal Delft Collectors' Society below.
DenRon Collections in Amsterdam was started in 1996 by Dennis & Ron who are great admirers of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands. They also have other collectables of other members of the Dutch Royal family in their amazing collection. Dennis & Ron also design and commission royal commemoratives for present day events. They can be klomps, beakers or whatever. These are all hand painted, numbered and made in limited editions of 30 per item. Plus as a bonus - they also collect 1960's Beatles memorabilia! Take a look at their site.
Online
webshop selling all kinds of Dutch pottery. Including Gouda,
Flora, Makkum, Mobach, glass and antique silver.
Search this site. There are many
links to other antiques and collectables.
De Porceleyne Fles specialist
Chris has garniture sets, tableaux, chargers and cloisonné
tiles on his site.
Items are from 1850 -1950.
A well presented and
wide range of Dutch pottery, ceramics & glass from Art Nouvea
to the retro 1950's. A comprehensive site with a lexicon of architects,
designers and more as a bonus.
GPSA's
pottery links page leads to pottery and porcelain related sites.
A vast amount of information about the town of Gouda and surrounding area. With many links to other sites and information sources,travel, etc. Presented by Peter Glebbeek.
GOUDSE KERAMIEK DAGEN - Gouda Ceramic Day.
Website of the famous Gouda Ceramics Festival. The festival is held every year for two days always on Ascension Day and the day after. Many ceramics artists take part from all over the world. They exhibit and sell their work on the huge market square in the centre of Gouda around the charming mediaeval City Hall building. In 2009 the event takes place on Thursday May 21 and Friday May 22.
Our friend Cathern from Mukwonago (Southern Waukesha County), Wisconsin, USA, is an expert on porcelain and pottery shoes. She has a particular passion for Dutch clogs and is an avid collector! Her website has many shoes of all types for sale.
A collectables
and antiques directory portal to many interesting websites.
They have a new new website which is CollectibleListing.com. This provides another portal for online antiques and collectables.
INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC DIRECTORY
An international directory with
links to ceramic artists, manufacturers, historical sites and
more.
IN STIJL antiques, design and collectables
is a website as well as a fabulous shop in the town of Boskoop,
near Gouda, the Netherlands. IN STIJL specializes in Dutch, European
and Scandinavian ceramics, porcelain and art glass along with
a variety of other fascinating collectors items.
A full time production potter in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Look around some of his "production ware" and a brief history of his work. Also visit other pottery related sites. A good site with lots of interesting links and information.
Jan Kansy has a very interesting and informative website of German ceramic boxes from his private collection. They were manufactured between WW1 & WW2 or are from the Weimar Republic through the Nazi Regime (1918-1945).
Diddy & Janine welcome you
to their shop of curiosa, glass, ceramics, earthenware, lighting
and much more.
Rob & Saskia Meershoek's superb
website specialized in selling applied arts and in particular
contemporary ceramic art and studio pottery.
Specializes in Dutch ceramics from the period 1880-1940 and French 'Schneider' glass from c.1925.
LATTIMORE'S GLOBAL ART DECO DIRECTORY
Masses
of information and deco links to follow.
David's site illustrates the rich diversity of shapes, glazes and decorative effects of Linthorpe Art Pottery. The factory in Middlesbrough on Tees, in the UK, was in production from 1879 to 1889.
The home
page of Marinus Kalk which has a great deal of information about
water colours, painting, antiques, antique dealers, curiosa and
much more. Many excellent links.
"U
bent op de homepage van Marinus Kalk (roepnaam:Rinus). Deze site
wordt regelmatig aangepast, maar heeft toch al wat vaste vorm
gekregen. Het is mijn bedoeling om deze homepage informatief
in te richten ten behoeve van mijn beroep (economie onderwijs)
en hobby's (o.a. aquarelleren en het snuffelen op vlooien-/curiosamarkten
en verzamelbeurzen)."
Anthony
from the UK, has a fine collection of match strikers from all
over the world, including some Gouda.
His
site is dedicated to providing information and images about match
strikers and the firms that made them.
Your Source for Roseville Pottery. We are collectors and resellers of Ohio Art Pottery, Specializing in Roseville Pottery. Our site contains history and information on Rookwood, Weller, Roseville, and Hull pottery. It also contains a photo gallery of nearly 100 examples of Roseville pottery.
Mytton
Antiques - an antique dealer in Shrewsbury, Shropshire here in
the UK. They supply antique furniture, decorative antique items,
decorative antiques, antique collector pieces, 18th century antique
furniture and 19th century antique furniture.
Charles Allen's site, New Castle Delft, produces a wide range of handmade delftware and on-glaze ceramics and tiles individually made to your requirements.
Nico and Margreet van Eijk are
floral decor & design, flower and plant specialists. They
also have a superb collection and display of Gouda pottery for
sale on their new premises in Reeuwijk, Holland. See their website
for more information and an article with pictures here.
NVK (DUTCH CERAMISTS ASSOCIATION)
An organization run by and looking after the interests of professional artists and designers working with ceramics.
Teun Duynstee always has some very nice items of Gouda, Delft, Makkum, Rozenburg, Porceleyne Fles and other Dutch pottery for sale. He can often be found at his stall at the Gouda Wednesday and Delft Saturday markets.
Jan & Riet Peddemors, own a shop and pottery on Naaierstraat in Gouda. Riet is a potter and she holds pottery workshops for adults and children. Jan has some very good pieces of Gouda plateel for sale. Well worth a visit. Easy to find just off the town hall square.
Jan & Riet have a new website showcasing
their Gouda plateel for sale and the ceramic works of Riet. Their
shop now has a number of separate cabinets displaying Gouda plateel
from various dealers.
You can find it here or at http://plateel/tumblr.com
Perfect
Pieces are specialists in British pottery from the 20th century
including Troika, Carlton Ware, Poole, Pendelfin rabbits and
much more.
A website about Dutch plateel.
If you
are looking for a German porcelain mark or manufacturer, this
is the place to look. A vast amount of information on this great
website.
Joe Altare is a collector
of Regina and has some fine pictures from his collection.
Mike's collection of retro ceramics
and glass from the 1950's to 1980's is well worth a visit. Mainly
English but includes the great retro produced in Germany, The
Netherlands and Scandinavia, together with some British Royal
commemoratives and Dutch Delft tiles.
Site for some beautiful pottery and other links.
Rob's
site has his own collection of Poole pottery, together with lists
of marks and other reference materials. Lots of information and
high quality pictures.
ROYAL DELFT COLLECTORS' SOCIETY
The Royal Delft Collectors' Society was established by Rick Erickson. Rick is a devoted collector, an authority on Dutch Delftware and author. De Porceleyne Fles members have come together as a group from all over the world with a special interest in collecting De Porceleyne Fles. Visit the site and join if you have an interest in the beautiful products of "De Porceleyne Fles".
An extensive directory of websites.
An excellent
site which has been developed and is run by collectors with the
primary aim of promoting a wider interest in studio ceramics.
The aim is to provide increasingly "seamless" links
between potters, galleries and collectors.
On line
shopping & specialist encyclopedia on glass and 19th and
20th Century design classics. Specialists in glass, ceramic and
metal objects of beauty.
Susie Cooper was one of the great English ceramics designers of the 20th Century. Information on her patterns, factory marks, collectors news, picture gallery and much more can be found at the excellent and the original Susie Cooper Information Site.
Providers of a complete
home furnishing service, from a fork to a dining table to a whole
house. They specialise in the finest replicas of the greatest
designers of this period and supply Gothic Revival and Aesthetic
designs and also manufacture and supply the designs of William
Morris, Voysey, Mackintosh, Dresser, Godwin, Pugin, De Morgan
and Knox.
A site
for collectors and dealers of antiques and collectables.
From the publishers of The Collectors Companion Magazine.
The Collectors
Registry, an online community for collectors and the whole family.
One of
the very best sites we have seen for collectors. Simply packed
with information. A must to visit!
A knowledge base for collectors, students and lovers of all kinds of pottery. This is a really good site with a vast amount of information.
A website of vintage and contemporary American and European art pottery and prints. Categories include - American Vintage, Contemporary American, European Pottery & Art and Decorative Objects.
An informative website about Velsen
telling the history of the factory, pictures and stories by some
original painters. Also contains a brief history of De Leidsche
Fles.
Arjen's website is very comprehensive
with lots pictures and information about Dutch Ceramics and other
collections. If you are a collector you can also show pictures
of your collection on the website as well.
Willem Stuurman was a Dutch artist in pottery. He worked from 1928 to 1934 at Kennemerland, St. Lukas, Maarssen, Zenith and Goedewaagen. This is a great site with lots of pictures and good links.
A varied
collection of Asian, Chinese, Japanese and European art and antiques.
World
Collectors Net, a meeting place for collectors. Information and
features on popular collectibles and more.
Favourite charities
Having suffered two heart attacks
this charity is very "close to my heart". Pun intended!
- Stuart.
Another charity Stuart has first
hand knowledege of.
Another charity Stuart has first
hand knowledege of.
We are
Life Members of this wonderful charity.
The Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Some other interests
Native American pueblo pottery & Indian Art-Southwestern USA
In particular Acoma Pottery also pottery by the leading master scraffito artist and painter Norman Lansing of the Ute Indian Tribe. We have examples of this work collected from our many travels to the USA. You can see a beautiful etching on ceramic here.
Aircraft
The the only airworthy Vulcan bomber in the world
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Message from Dr Robert Pleming FRAeS - CEO of Vulcan to the Sky Trust  |
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Astronomy
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Stuart is the Honorary Life President of Sheffield Astronomical Society here in the UK and Kim is a past President. The original logo of the society was designed by Kim who also designed the logo for the Federation of Astronomical Societies - FAS. Kim is an accomplished artist whose degree course was in Fine Art. Kim has designed and painted artwork for many people and is a superb painter of astronomical art having won many awards. |
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In remembrance of Sir Patrick Moore who died in December 2012.
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