Porcelain, Glass, and Vintage Lighting!

                We began our adventure in antiques with porcelains.  Like the Victorians we enjoyed decorating our house with fine china. Fine china and glass are remarkable; the skills necessary to make the china or glass is an art form in itself, and once the piece is created it must be decorated. We collected hard paste porcelain, namely Limoges and Nippon to start. Our love was RS Prussia, not only because of the beauty of the painting and transfers, but the molds themselves with flowers or other decorations blown right into the porcelain.  As the number of pieces in our collection increased we wanted to find a means to sell some of them, this was the beginning of our shop.  We are members of the International Club of RS Prussia collectors and have a large quantity of RS Prussia available in the shop.

Click the photo above to view some of our glass & porcelain pieces.

I remember as a child watching a craftsman making a hand blown piece of glass, and thinking how talented this man was.  The different types of glass available in the market place is amazing, hand blown, pressed, molded, colored, cut, etched, crystal, paint decorated, etc….  Our most recent interests are in art glass; these pieces disappear from the shelves as fast as we can find them.  We have a good selection glass including Tiffany, Orrefors, Fenton and carnival glass.

In addition to our love of porcelains and glass, we have become very interested in antique lighting.  The shop is adorned with several Gone with the Wind lamps which are antique oil lamps that may or may not have been converted to electricity.  They are all hand painted and beautiful.  There is also a large array of glass oil lamps available including miniature lamps, finger lamps and bracket lamps.  Included with these are several Aladdin Lamps, and converted gas lamps.  There are also several early electric lamps including a Miller Slag Glass lamp and lamps with fantastic reverse painted shades.