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Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co, has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery, with his commercial experience spanning a period of over 45 years,including valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site and is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects. He has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.
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 Antique Lamps – Blue and White Is Always Right!The display of blue and white is traditionally regarded as best seen against a yellow background. Yellow not only compliments both the blue prints, but also the white of the earthenware or porcelain. These combine to produce a beautiful display. When a blue and white antique lamp is added, the look is really dazzling! Behind Every Good Lamp is A Good Lamp Shade!As all discerning decorators know, finding the right lamp base is hard enough, but finding the right lamp shade can be easier said than done! So how do you complete the look with the perfect shade? Antique Lamps - A Lamp With a Message!We have all heard about the "message in a bottle". Here we look at an antique lamp with an ancient message!
The story of Siddhartha's transformation into the Lord Buddha, meaning "one who has awakened", is well known to both the East as well as the West, with a growing Western... Antiques - What’s In a Word?Within my subject of antique ceramics, porcelain and pottery, I have noticed a consistent confusion over a particular group of ceramic terms. These include the terms, “soft paste” and “hard paste” porcelain. Art as an Allegorical FigureMankind has always been attracted to beauty. At no time through the long passage of history has humanity not been expressed through art.
In every corner of the world, in every society, known as civilized or uncivilized, art, as an expression of that society, has flowered.
We can still look with admiration... Antique Lamps – A Lamp with a Message!We have all heard about the “message in a bottle”. Here we look at an antique lamp with an ancient message! Antique Lamps – Papier MacheAntique lamps, you would expect to be made of porcelain, glass, wood, or brass, but not paper! But, yes, there are papier mache antique lamps. We look at papier mache's 2000 year old history. Antique Lamps - In Peking GlassIn our modern world, glass is an every day part of life, but this was not always so.
The elegant and ethereal medium known as "glass" is simply and basically made of sand and, or, silica and a flux; sodium or potassium. These elements fuse together when melted at a very... Antique Lamps – A Berlin Lamp, Pure ClassicAntique lamps with a “presence” can add to our visual appreciation of life. An antique lamp can be seen and appreciated in just the same way as a picture, which can add so much to enrich our lives. Antique Lamps - A Classic Paris Accent LampThe early 19th century saw new heights in smart design. Here we look at a Paris porcelain, accent lamp from this stylish period.
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