I recently visited the National Museum in Krakow, Poland. This museum houses a wonderfully diverse collection of fine porcelain teacups that are, in a word, stunning. Collectively they speak to another era – an era of aristocratic elegance and refinement of Imperial Russia. I’m reproducing a sampling here from the Museum’s display cases. The firstContinue reading “Porcelain Teacups at the National Museum in Krakow, Poland”
Category Archives: Ceramics collections
Asheville Art Museum
The Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina, has a wonderful collection exhibiting fine craftsmanship in various media from the Southeastern U.S. The collection is diverse yet striking. The exhibition space is pristine. The scale is not overwhelming. It is an altogether worthwhile museum. Here are a few images of items that I particularly enjoyed.Continue reading “Asheville Art Museum”
Swiss Ceramic Stove at the Biltmore Mansion
One of my most popular posts has been on Swiss ceramic stoves. Today while visiting the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, I saw another Swiss ceramic stove. The Biltmore refers to the piece as a “fireplace-over-mantel” and a “Tyrolese chimney.” The Biltmore website has a post about this piece and it’s restoration in 2009.Continue reading “Swiss Ceramic Stove at the Biltmore Mansion”
Terracotta by Gian Cristoforo Romano
I encountered a magnificent terracotta portrait bust at the Kimbell Art Museum last month. It possibly represents Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, a celebrated art patron of her day. It is attributed to Gian Cristoforo Romano, an Italian sculptor and medalist who lived in the late 15th / early 16th century (ca. 1465-1512). The attributionContinue reading “Terracotta by Gian Cristoforo Romano”
Nok and Ife African Sculpture
I recently travelled to Fort Worth, Texas, for a family get-together on my wife’s side. We took a morning to visit the Kimbell Art Museum. I was impressed with two African ceramic pieces in the collection, one from the Nok culture and the second from the Ife culture. The Nok culture in what is nowContinue reading “Nok and Ife African Sculpture”
Teacup & Plate Designs
The Victorian & Albert Museum in London has in its collection a number of teacup and plate designs made as pen, ink and watercolor drawings for English bone china manufacturer H. & R. Daniel in the mid 19th century. These drawings speak to the scope and skill of craftsmanship that spill over the boundaries ofContinue reading “Teacup & Plate Designs”
FormaFantasma
FormaFantasma is a design studio of two Italian designers, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. The studio has offices in Milan, Italy and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Their stated aim is “to facilitate a deeper understanding of both natural and built environments” and to apply transformative design principles to product design and spacial design (e.g., designing environments forContinue reading “FormaFantasma”
Mayan Ceramics at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently running an exhibition entitled “Lives of the Gods – Divinity in Mayan Art“. The exhibit examines depictions of Mayan gods on various objects: ceramics, stone, jade and shell. Several ceramic pieces are highlighted in detail in online audio guides to the exhibit, providing interesting context to each object.Continue reading “Mayan Ceramics at the Met”
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
I found this interesting online exhibition entitled “Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics from the TFAM.” (Yes, that’s Chinese ceramics at the Japanese museum.) The exhibit is broken down into four chapters with 125 photos of examples from the museum’s collection spread across the chapter headings. The four chapters are: (1) From the Dawn of Chinese PotteryContinue reading “Tokyo Fuji Art Museum”
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