This is a collection of projects and ideas on how to design, decorate and customize tiles for all areas of the home. It includes a practical guide to techniques such as stamping, using stencils, decoupage and gilding. The projects offer a variety of tiling ideas for walls, floors, doors, furniture and splash backs, as well as applying tiles to tables, frames, window boxes and pots. You can create distinctive pieces such as a panelled bedhead, kitchen shelf, decorated tray, mirror frame or little...
The Chinese porcelain objects collected by Alvaro Conde constitute one of the finest private collections worldwide. This publication includes texts by leading experts in this area: an introduction by Christie's Becky Mcquarie, a main essay by porcelain specialist William Sargent and an essay about the business relationship between China and New Spain by Maria Bonta de La Pezuela.
Cosa (The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, v. 39)
by Cleo Rickman Fitch and Norma Wynick Goldman
This title is a marvellously illustrated examination of the history, importance, and legacy of the "back to the land" movement on ceramic art. The "back to the land" movement emerged out of the counterculture dialogue of the 1970s and was marked by a commitment to the organic and the home-made. The Vancouver Islands were an important centre for this movement as evidenced in the explosion of ceramic activity in this region at that time. The thirty-one ceramic artists presented here were among the...
Die Zyprischen Terrakotten Aus Milet (Milesische Forschungen, #7)
by Jan-Marc Henke
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Occupied Japan Collectibles (Collector's Encyclopedia of Occupied Japan Collectibles, #1)
by Gene Florence
Collector's Encyclopedia of Knowles, Taylor and Knowles China
by Mary Frank Gaston
Apothecary Jars (Monographs on Pottery & Porcelain)
by Rudolf E.A. Drey
This interdisciplinary volume is a ‘one-stop location’ for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functio...