You don’t expect your dishware to remind you of the climate crisis, disappearing species, race riots or, really, anything disturbing. Paul Scott aims to do just that. Except his ceramic works aren’t ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! In a high-ceilinged hallway in the bowels of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, an eager ...

In the early 1700s, fine English china was painstakingly decorated by hand. Artists were employed by the china manufacturing firms to paint elaborate patterns on each piece to be sold. Not ...

People collect and preserve things for all sorts of reasons. Steve Alcock’s reason may be even more understandable than most. Alcock, of Rochester Hills, wrote to the column about his 17 pieces of ...

Boasting bucolic pastoral scenes, popular tourist locales and historic sites, Staffordshire transferware dining sets were a common sight in the American household during the 19th century. An ...

In the early nineteenth century, ‘Transferware’, that is, china with engravings of popular touristic or exotic scenes ‘transferred’ on to its surface, and colored with cobalt, enjoyed considerable ...