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Bernard Rooke (born 1938) [1] is a British artist and studio potter. [2] [3] Rooke has exhibited his "Brutalist" ceramics [4] and painting both in the UK and abroad with work in many collections both public and private including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Nuffield Foundation, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Leicester Museum, Buckinghamshire County Museum ...
Dish with opalescent blue and lavender splashed glazes, Jin dynasty (1115–1234) The glaze of Jun ware is always thick and opaque. It is often very thin or absent around the rim, but thick at the foot, where it typically leaves a small part uncovered. Both the light blue and purple colours are first seen in Chinese pottery in Jun wares.
Pot Pourri with a scene of Tintern Abbey, painted and monogrammed by George Leighton Parkinson (210 mm tall) Light Blue Fern Pot with incised decoration. c1883-90 (105 mm tall) Brown Fern Pot with incised decoration. c1883-90 (120 mm tall) Langley Mill Pottery was located in Langley Mill, Derbyshire on the Derbyshire – Nottinghamshire border.
'Blue flowers/patterns') covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration was commonly applied by hand, originally by brush painting, but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer-printing , though other methods of application have also been used.
Aluminia was a Danish factory of faience or earthenware pottery, established in Copenhagen in 1863. Philip Schou (1838-1922) was the founding owner of the Aluminia factory in Christianshavn . In 1882, the owners of Aluminia purchased the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory.
Unlike other kiln centres like Jingdezhen, potter's marks were often used, allowing some to build up reputations among collectors, and giving some information about the structure of the industry, and lineages of potting families. [8] Helped by its proximity to Hong Kong, Shiwan continues to be a leader in contemporary Chinese ceramics design. [9]
The technique also differs from that of most Japanese porcelain, with the outlines of the pattern done in underglaze blue before the overglaze "enamelled" final decoration. [2] Nabeshima ware was not made for sale, but for the specific use of the Nabeshima clan and as gifts for the Tokugawa shogunate and various daimyō . [ 3 ]
It is known mainly for its sometsuke underglaze cobalt blue and white porcelain, with the amount of blue often low, showing off the detailed modelling and the very fine white colour of the porcelain. This has a finer grain than most Japanese porcelains, allowing fine detail and thin and complicated openwork in forms.