[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... ...

英国瓷器公司Royal Daulton的瓷偶是很多瓷器收藏爱好者心爱之物, Every bone chine figure was modeled from a real person.

工艺精湛, 人物生动形象, 很多经典人物都有故事, 每个人物都有自字的名字. 历史上英国的瓷艺家在瓷土中加入动物骨粉成分使得瓷器的toughness大增, 瓷器可以做的很薄, 颜色更纯净,所以英国瓷有个别名叫骨瓷, bone china. 鲜艳华丽的人物造型甚至是彼时女孩心目中的偶像, 那个年代的芭比娃娃, 作为自己的梦想而持有一生.

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, 灵魂级设计师 Leslie Harradine的经典作品之一

一个卖气球的小人物,消瘦的脸庞, 寥落的眼神, 磨损的皮鞋,一个典型的小人物..

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Royal Daulton瓷器公司出版有专门的瓷偶手册, 我们也收藏了一本, 通过底面的HN号码,

可以查出这个模型的设计年代, 以及瓷偶的简单介绍. 

List of Royal Doulton figurines

有趣的是关于这个瓷偶的这段文字(并非每个瓷偶都有这样的描述), 这个瓷偶设计的灵感来自于

诗人Rose Fyleman的一首诗: The Balloon Man 

I made a song named "The Balloon Man" out of this poem,  using the famous 'Scarborough Fair' music. The singer is 偶尔掉链子, 文学城网友. 

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