Homes Antiques

Inspired by European earthenware English pottery Minton & Co launched a range of brightly coloured low-temperature lead-glaz ...

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Bohemia (now a region of Czech Republic) has long been associated with hand-painted glass. ‘Since the 13th century this area h ...

Sweden was the most important glass-making nation during the mid-century period. It manufactured sleek understated vases mostly ...

INDIAN METAL VASES ‘A lot of the vases that were produced in India during the 19th century were decorative and made for the co ...

In 1935 florist Constance Spry (1886–1960) was fast becoming a famous taste-maker. Her first book Flower Decoration (1934) was ...

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1 Blue Bohemian ash-cut overlay hand-painted vase £295 The Antiques Warehouse. Small Chinese blue-and-white vase £35 Emporium ...

Find out more WHERE TO SEE K The Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB. 01223 332900; tzmuseum.cam.ac.uk (Visi ...

Diana and Hugh’s living room has an attractive mix of pieces that the couple have gathered over the years. Diana recently had ...

NATURE Second FEATURE JACKY HOBBS PHOTOGRAPHS CLIVE NICHOLS Inveterate collectors Diana and Hugh take an instinctive approach to ...

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H aving grown up above her father’s antiques shop the art of arranging and displaying antiques is second nature to Diana Clark ...

through windows that look out on to the large garden it’s hard to believe the move very nearly ended in disaster. The house th ...

fragment depicting a phoenix rising bought to commemorate finally moving in. After the trauma of the fire for speed and simplici ...

I like to mix old with new – artificial flowers with real; framed posters of Renaissance frescoes with oil paintings LEFT The ...

good example of this approach. It is actually a photographic copy that has been touched up with oil and varnish to resemble a pa ...

Antiques expert JUDITH MILLER tours her favourite room from this issue’s houses – the sitting room in Diana and Hugh’s Glo ...

1 PORTRAIT IN A CARVED FRAME The standout artwork in the room is this copy of La Poesia (Poetry). The original portrait oil-pain ...

In the drawing room the red armchair and stool were a present from Sebastian’s father. On the wall beside a painting given to ...