[HobbyShow] Royal Doulton bone china & porcelain collection

In the mid-18th century, English potters had not succeeded in making hard-paste porcelain (as made in East Asia and Meissen porcelain) but found bone ash a useful addition to their soft-paste porcelain mixtures, giving strength. This became standard at the Bow porcelain factory in London (operating from around 1747), and spread to some other English factories. 

Developed by English potter Josiah Spode, bone china is known for its high levels of whiteness and translucency, and very high mechanical strength and chip resistance.

Bone china is almost the surrogate of English china.

This collection is not really for myself but I contributed to a big part of it , pay... ...

英國瓷器公司Royal Daulton的瓷偶是很多瓷器收藏愛好者心愛之物, Every bone chine figure was modeled from a real person.

工藝精湛, 人物生動形象, 很多經典人物都有故事, 每個人物都有自字的名字. 曆史上英國的瓷藝家在瓷土中加入動物骨粉成分使得瓷器的toughness大增, 瓷器可以做的很薄, 顏色更純淨,所以英國瓷有個別名叫骨瓷, bone china. 鮮豔華麗的人物造型甚至是彼時女孩心目中的偶像, 那個年代的芭比娃娃, 作為自己的夢想而持有一生.

Here are a few from the collection.

 

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2. I remembered her name is Amy,

3. Lady on Hill & fat boy

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6. two versions of Lady on Hill

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9. Porcelain flowers  are most likely Italian brand, the flower petals are very delicate, big flowers like this of a few centuries old,  is difficult to find a perfect one. We are not keen on collecting porcelain flowers, but this one is a rare to find perfect one, so a keeper.

10. small porcelain flowers

11. Paragon is a big name of pottery.

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14.  The Balloon woman is one of my faourites

16. The Balloon man is also my favourites.

The Balloon Man是Royal Daulton, 靈魂級設計師 Leslie Harradine的經典作品之一

一個賣氣球的小人物,消瘦的臉龐, 寥落的眼神, 磨損的皮鞋,一個典型的小人物..

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Royal Daulton瓷器公司出版有專門的瓷偶手冊, 我們也收藏了一本, 通過底麵的HN號碼,

可以查出這個模型的設計年代, 以及瓷偶的簡單介紹. 

List of Royal Doulton figurines

有趣的是關於這個瓷偶的這段文字(並非每個瓷偶都有這樣的描述), 這個瓷偶設計的靈感來自於

詩人Rose Fyleman的一首詩: The Balloon Man 

I made a song named "The Balloon Man" out of this poem,  using the famous 'Scarborough Fair' music. The singer is 偶爾掉鏈子, 文學城網友. 

Enjoy, Modern Italian Capodimonte porceline hand making

 

Music: Scarborough Fair (Sarah Brightman version)

Lyrics generated from Rose Fyleman's poem " The Balloon Man" by the Big shot & Yihuajiemu

He always comes on market days,
holds balloons a lovely bunch
And in the market square he stays,
never seems to think of lunch.

red and purple, blue and green,
And when it's a sunny day
Tho' carts and people get between
You see them shining far away.

some are big and some are small,
tied together with a string,
And if there is a wind at all
They tug and tug like anything.

Some day perhaps he'll let them go
we shall see them sailing high,
And stand and watch them from below -
They'd look pretty in the sky !

HE always comes on market days,
holds balloons a lovely bunch
And in the market square he stays,
never seems to think of lunch.

 

The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature’s. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this.

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”

THIS DATE, FROM HENRY DAVID THOREAU'S JOURNAL