Li Lihong
McDonald’s - Flower and Bird
2008
Porcelain
14 1/4 (H) x 17 3/4 (W) x 4 3/4 (D) in.
18th of November 2011
22nd of June 2011
Delft Redux
Conjoined plates by Amsterdam-based artist, Maxime Ansiau.
(Source: ladiesandgentlemenstudio.com)
2nd of June 2011
Michael Eden
Wedgwoodn’t Tureen, 2010
Wedgwood shaped tureen made using Rapid Manufacture from a plaster and gypsum material with a unique non-fired ceramic coating
Have you noticed any particular innovations this year?“There is one particular innovation that stands out. This is being used by our graduating MPhil student, Mike Eden, who has been working with a French company utilising rapid-prototyping technologies. This company has developed a process to impregnate the materials with synthetic ceramic material. He has taken a classic Wedgwood tureen shape and created it through purely digital means into a bone-like structure called The Wedgwoodn’t Tureen. It exists as a one-off piece, or it has the potential for some sort of small-scale production.”
— Excerpt from a 2008 interview with Martin Smith, Head of the Department of Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art, London
2nd of May 2011
This “knuckle duster” carved from china is a really poignant statement on violence & delicateness by Juliet Ames of the Broken Plate Pendant Company. i heart utilitarian art. One time use only though — maybe that’s all the better?
Juliet Ames of The Broken Plate Pendant Company made this knuckleduster out of china.
This is fantastic! I love any type of traditional porcelain used in a subversive manner (like this or this). Or like what Ai Wei Wei did with Chinese blue & white porcelain at Art Basel last year - seen here. I think I need to start a collection. Starting with this:
5th of February 2011
Antique porcelain, pottery and pussy willows, as seen through the window of Bardith Ltd. on Madison Avenue.
19th of October 2010
Bedroom detail: Elephants
Info: Curtains, Met shopping bag and corner shelf from Tiny Dollhouse, unit was stained by me; elephants are from (top to bottom) re-ment, garage sale, ebay; chair was found, and painted by me.
23rd of April 2010
Beautiful 60’s glass lion in my dentists office.
4th of January 2010
How am I ever supposed to start collecting fake Palissy ware if it is this expensive? I know the originals were made during like, the Renaissance, or whatever, but it seems there haven’t been any good repros done since the 19th century, hence they are all antiques now and thus way out of my price range. Goddamn it, I need some grotesque porcelain in my life. Get on it already, Target.
2nd of December 2009
I don’t know what the floor plans are of, but this set of trays on the ceramics shelves of the visible storage at the New York Historical Society is fantastic. Totally worth click-through to enlarge photo.
Seen on the ceramics shelves of the visible storage at the New York Historical Society.
I think milk glass is just the sweetest.
I used to halfheartedly collect it. And display it on a shelf with other white things. It is mixed in with the colorful objects on other shelves now though. Was beginning to bore me that way.
29th of November 2009
Tea cup & saucer
Limoges, France (pre WWI)
From a set of six passed down to me
14th of November 2009
Cauliflower coffee pot
Josiah Wedgewood, 1759
from the Wedgewood Museum
12th of November 2009
![Large lead-glazed earthenware oval platter with high relief of a snake, a perch, a crayfish, and other assorted squirmy creatures. Attributed to Bernard Palissy, second half 16th century, France. Located in the Salle de Bernard Palissy at the Louvre.
Known for having attempted to imitate Chinese porcelain for years, by the middle of the 16th century, Palissy developed a mixture of glazes which made ceramic resemble jasper, chalcedony and other exotic, colored stones.
Palissy produced his designs by attaching casts of dead lizards, snakes, and shellfish to traditional ceramic forms such as basins, ewers, and plates. He then painted these wares in blue, green, purple, and brown, and glazed them with runny lead-based glaze to increase their watery realism. [source]
These designs were called terre jaspée, but are now known as Palissy ware. Queen Catherine de’ Medici, who had given Palissy the title of Inventor of Rustic Ware to the King*, commissioned him to design her private grotto at the garden of the Palais des Tuileries in Paris, which he decorated in tile with his repertoire of super-realistic, creepy crawly marine/reptilian rustiques figulines.
*“The title of Inventeur des rustiques figulines du roi was bestowed on Palissy by Catherine de Medici at the instance of the Constable de Montmorency who knew that the only way to save the artist from death on the charge of heresy was to have him numbered among those of the royal household.” [source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksz2msx7dS1qzvxbko1_400.jpg)
Large lead-glazed earthenware oval platter with high relief of a snake, a perch, a crayfish, and other assorted squirmy creatures. Attributed to Bernard Palissy, second half 16th century, France. Located in the Salle de Bernard Palissy at the Louvre.
Known for having attempted to imitate Chinese porcelain for years, by the middle of the 16th century, Palissy developed a mixture of glazes which made ceramic resemble jasper, chalcedony and other exotic, colored stones.
Palissy produced his designs by attaching casts of dead lizards, snakes, and shellfish to traditional ceramic forms such as basins, ewers, and plates. He then painted these wares in blue, green, purple, and brown, and glazed them with runny lead-based glaze to increase their watery realism. [source]
These designs were called terre jaspée, but are now known as Palissy ware. Queen Catherine de’ Medici, who had given Palissy the title of Inventor of Rustic Ware to the King*, commissioned him to design her private grotto at the garden of the Palais des Tuileries in Paris, which he decorated in tile with his repertoire of super-realistic, creepy crawly marine/reptilian rustiques figulines.
*“The title of Inventeur des rustiques figulines du roi was bestowed on Palissy by Catherine de Medici at the instance of the Constable de Montmorency who knew that the only way to save the artist from death on the charge of heresy was to have him numbered among those of the royal household.” [source]
11th of November 2009
Ceramic lamp designed by Marcello Fantoni
Italy, c.1950’s
(via)
23rd of October 2009
Pimp cups of Ancient Times
Between visiting both the Greek & the Roman wings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you come to discover there are too many libation vessels to count. I, for one, think there can never be enough libation vessels made with horns (speaking as an Aries here).
The name of this particular style of vase shape is Rhyton. Rhyton? More like RIGHT ON.
Gilt-silver stag head libation vessel
Greece
Late Classical or Early Hellenistic, c. 4th century B.C.
And look, those geniuses invented kid size, too:
