The most heavily tattooed porcelain ladies you're ever likely to see. British artist Jessica Harrison sources traditional ceramic figurines and gives them a new lease of life with delicate, hand ...

Price on eBay: $8,500 Porcelain dolls don’t have to be more than 2 feet tall to be worth a lot of money. This little lady stands only 15 1/2 inches tall, but her ornate details and impressive ...

Queen Elizabeth, Princess Anne, Prince Charles, and many more Windsors have veritable menageries of porcelain figurines stashed away in their homes. Below, 10 photos that show just how much the ...

How Porcelain Dolls Became the Ultimate Victorian Status Symbol Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible Maria Teresa Hart - Author, Doll ...

The disintegrating ceramics in Martin Klimas' series Porcelain Figurines burst with more energy than their fragile bodies can handle, shattering into shards and dust with a strange dignity.. The ...

This lovely seated lady, currently in the centre, is priced 20 pounds They are best known for their huge range of figurines (now numbering into the thousands) in more than 20 different categories.

CARTHAGE, Mo. — It was as Sam Butcher gazed up at Michelangelo’s frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that he hit on an inspiration. He would build his own Sistine Chapel. Butc… ...

Porcelain and ceramic figurines, people or animals, are an often spotted item amid thrift store shelves, coming in a variety of sizes and styles. While some are in great condition, others can exhibit ...

This little lady is on sale at GB Antiques Centre for £25. ... Lladró have become a household name for their fine porcelain figurines. The company was founded in 1953 by three brothers, Juan, ...

The dragon lady, the courtesan, the submissive beauty — these enduring stereotypes of Asian and Southeast Asian femininity circulated in Europe and America centuries before the vast majority of ...

From sci-fi mags to nude lady porcelain figures: The collection of Mr Smiles, King of Curios, goes under the hammer in Auckland. By Bernard Orsman.