Children’s Toy Pottery Porcelain Dishes 1730-Present / In-Depth Illustrated Book

Description

Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white, this scholarly text reviews in-depth children’s antique pottery and porcelain from simple plates and dinnerware items to entire basin sets and tea sets.
UNDERSTANDING MINIATURE BRITISH POTTERY AND PORCELAIN: 1730 – PRESENT DAY
by Maurice and Evelyn Milbourn, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1983 First Edition.
“The fashioning of small items has always held a fascination for potters and, in consequence, the field of miniature pottery and porcelain is as wide and as old as the art of potting.  Here at last is a comprehensive and definitive work on miniatures, copiously illustrated, and thoughtfully written by two authors who have collected and researched these wares for nearly fifteen years, and by so doing have become experts on the subject.”   244 color and mostly black-and-white photographs with associated captions identify over a thousand pieces of miniature pottery and porcelain items.  There is a rich narrative which reviews by chapter the following subjects: Teaware; Dinnerware; Children’s Plates; Miscellaneous Items (Cradles, Jugs, Ewers and Basins, Taper Candlesticks, Dispensers, Creamware, Jelly Moulds, Miscellaneous Plates; Artist Potters; Popular Bone China; Pottery Items): and Conclusion.  This is an invaluable identification guide for the collector or dealer of children’s chinaware.
5.5” x 8.5” color-imprinted hardback in very good condition.  183 pages.
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