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Fez Carpet marketBob CromwellLet me examine some of the connections between Morocco and Europe I was familiar with. Visitors to the Paros Gallery in Greece should see the Sèvres Imperial Hunting tea service 1812, commissioned by Napoleon as a gift his second wife Empress Marie-Louise. The porcelain and silver gilt cups, saucers and pots each…
Map of Lowestoft in Suffolk,facing Amsterdam across the North Sea.A few years ago I asked my students to select an article on Lowestoft porcelain and they thought Antiques Trade Gazette to be particularly helpful. Clay was found on the Gunton Hall Estate near Lowestoft in Suffolk in 1756, leading to a partnership of local men that established…
The Apollo Awards have been celebrated since 1992 with fine ceremonies. It’s still as important as ever to celebrate outstanding achievements in the museum world. Yet senior museum commentators warned that museum culture may not endure with its current sense of purpose; funding for both national and regional institutions being squeezed still further. Thus the…
This is the strangest Faked Art story I've ever seen. Tom Keating (1917–84) was born into a poor London family. His father worked as a house painter, and barely made enough to feed the household. At 14, Keating was turned away from the college of his choice, so the teenager started working for the family business…
In 1900 the Exposition Universelle drew thousands of art lovers to Paris, many arriving by train at the new Gare d’Orsay. Opened in 1986 and located on the Left Bank of the River Seine opposite the Louvre, the building’s conversion into Musée d’Orsay was led by architects Bardon, Colboc and Philippon. Now home to c100,000…