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)
18th of May 2011
![A very rare Schrezheim porcelain snuff box in the form of a pug dog is expected to fetch £12,000-18,000 when it goes up for auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 5th July in the sale of the Helmut Joseph Collection of Porcelain Snuff Boxes.
Around 1740, a series of pug related items were designed as secret emblems for a German underground Masonic-styled lodge known as the “Order of the Pug.”
It is believed that the Order of the Pugs was created as a fraternal group for Roman Catholics who had been forbidden to join the Masons by Pope Clement XII’s 1738 bull, In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula, and that it was thought to have started by the elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Wittelsbach. Members were required to wear dog collars and had to scratch the door of the lodge to gain entrance. Initiates were said to have been blindfolded and led around a symbol-filled carpet nine times while the assembled “Pugs” of the Order barked loudly and yelled “Memento mori” (‘Remember you shall die’).
— [source: Art Daily]
Best Decorative Arts/Auction Related News Story of The Day.
I would like to join the New Order of The Pug, who’s with me?](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lleecewbcR1qzvxbko1_400.jpg)
A very rare Schrezheim porcelain snuff box in the form of a pug dog is expected to fetch £12,000-18,000 when it goes up for auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 5th July in the sale of the Helmut Joseph Collection of Porcelain Snuff Boxes.
Around 1740, a series of pug related items were designed as secret emblems for a German underground Masonic-styled lodge known as the “Order of the Pug.”
It is believed that the Order of the Pugs was created as a fraternal group for Roman Catholics who had been forbidden to join the Masons by Pope Clement XII’s 1738 bull, In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula, and that it was thought to have started by the elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Wittelsbach. Members were required to wear dog collars and had to scratch the door of the lodge to gain entrance. Initiates were said to have been blindfolded and led around a symbol-filled carpet nine times while the assembled “Pugs” of the Order barked loudly and yelled “Memento mori” (‘Remember you shall die’).
— [source: Art Daily]
Best Decorative Arts/Auction Related News Story of The Day.
I would like to join the New Order of The Pug, who’s with me?
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:
29th of April 2011
A wall of Wedgwood (and yours truly) at the Brooklyn Museum
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, circa 1773
9th of February 2011
![Care for a spot of subverted tea?
Teacup by Robert Lazzarini, 2003
For this project, his first to use complex non-linear distortion, Lazzarini composited attributes of different cups and saucers to arrive at an archetypal object. He first drew the cup and saucer using three-dimensional modeling software and then found a well-proportioned spoon and laser scanned it directly into his computer. He next applied multiple sine wave patterns along different axes through these virtual objects. After finishing the virtual modeling stage, Lazzarini created a series of rapid prototypes reproducing the rendering in three dimensional form.
Part of Peter Norton Family Christmas Art Projects for MoMA
[Previously in surreal everyday objects]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgd307Gov31qzvxbko1_400.jpg)
Care for a spot of subverted tea?
Teacup by Robert Lazzarini, 2003
For this project, his first to use complex non-linear distortion, Lazzarini composited attributes of different cups and saucers to arrive at an archetypal object. He first drew the cup and saucer using three-dimensional modeling software and then found a well-proportioned spoon and laser scanned it directly into his computer. He next applied multiple sine wave patterns along different axes through these virtual objects. After finishing the virtual modeling stage, Lazzarini created a series of rapid prototypes reproducing the rendering in three dimensional form.
Part of Peter Norton Family Christmas Art Projects for MoMA
5th of February 2011
Antique porcelain, pottery and pussy willows, as seen through the window of Bardith Ltd. on Madison Avenue.
17th of January 2011
Beth Katleman’s sculptures and installations combine rococo decoration with icons from popular culture. Beth uses 1950’s squeaky toys, corporate mascots, miniature buildings, cartoon characters and dolls which she finds in secondhand thrift stores and flea markets. These trinkets are cast in clay and reinvented as bizarre porcelain objects.
Find out more about Beth’s work here.
12th of January 2011
Group of Staffordshire figures of dogs
The largest 11-1/2”h, 9”l, 2-1/2”w and the smallest 4”h
At South Bay Auctions in Long Island this Saturday, the 15th of January
If I didn’t have plans on the 15th to go to another auction I would so be there trying to bid on these little guys - the smallest pair would look so good in the dollhouse!
8th of January 2011
Annie Attridge
Love on the Rocks, 2010
Porcelain
7” x 6” x 6”
From Hearts of Oak at Asya Geisberg Gallery
January 15 - February 12, 2011
“The title of the exhibition, ‘Hearts of Oak’, is a Cockney expression, which in the rhyming slang of working-class British culture means ‘broke’. A sly nod to the traditional penury associated with contemporary artists, it is also a witty joke on the upper-class origin of the decorative figurines that sit atop mantelpieces the world over. In Attridge’s works, traditional British aristocratic referents — the hunt, the private garden, gymkhana equestrian events, and refined behaviors such as courting — are fused with private dramas of desire and longing.”
12th of December 2010
Lion, hard-paste porcelain, German (Meissen), circa 1732-35, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1st of December 2010
20th of September 2010
Jeff Koons
Puppy
1998
Ceramic multiple
17½ x 17 x 8 inches
I would like to find something close to this in miniature so that I can have a Koons in the dollhouse. If I can’t find anything in porcelain I’m going to be blowing up some very small balloons to make it happen.
31st of August 2010
Speaking of Wade Whimsies, I bought the entire Lion King Ensemble Cast Set for my The Incredibles-influenced mid century hallway. One dollar apiece. I think I’m going to put them on individual shelves on the wall opposite my egg carton stone wall.
