Ceramic Furniture Rests

This is the first book to be devoted to them.

Ceramic furniture rests.

His interest in ceramic furniture rests spans over 40 years since his mother the late moira angela garland sparked his interest in these fascinating pieces. This is the first book to be devoted to them. The book is colorful informative and a delight to own a keeper for your bookshelf. Some are affiliate links please feel free to use them.

Although ceramic furniture rests were made in large numbers in the 19th century they have generated very little literature. Ceramic furniture rests were made in large numbers in staffordshire the north of england and scotland in the late 18 th century early 19 th century. At the end of the book is an appendix showing images of the author s collection and of other rests provided to him. Ceramic furniture rests details the places and dates of manufacture of ceramic furniture rests and identifies or suggests the identities of the subjects depicted.

Ceramic furniture rests ceramic furniture rests potteries auctions have received approximately 160 furniture rests for our next antiques rare pottery fine art auction to be held on 14 th july 2018. Ceramic furniture rests is the first book to be written about these decorative and unusual items. They are known to have been made in staffordshire yorkshire wales scotland other parts of england and probably on the continent. Evidence of dates of manufacture is sparse.

He has built up his collection over the years and it is now one of the most comprehensive in the world. The author after some prompting and encouragement from john howard an internationally recognised authority on 18th and 19th century british pottery wrote and published the book. Ceramic furniture rests were made in large numbers in the 19th century but have generated very little literature. Google analytics cookies are used to identify unique users and allow us to see where users come from and which pages they visit.

Find out more about furniture rests. 9 27 2011 1 comment i have just devoured peter garland s new book ceramic furniture rests. And you can see the book by going to the site so you. It is based on the author s collection built up over more than 40 years and on a number of rests kindly made available to him by others.

It is lavishly illustrated with images of rests in the author s collection and of other rests made available to him by others.