Dear Harry: I have a ceramic figurine titled “The Titian Madonna” that is marked on the bottom “A Borsato Original.” I purchased it about 35 years ago from Betty Sidel in Cherryville, Pa. She told me ...

There have been many ceramic companies owned by members of the Goldscheider family, which can confuse today’s collectors. Friedrich Goldscheider moved from Pilsen, Bohemia, to Vienna in 1885. He ...

British artist Jessica Harrison sources traditional ceramic figurines and gives them a new lease of life with delicate, hand-painted tattoos. Claire Cohen reports Remember those porcelain ladies your ...

Most of us know figurines as ornamental trinkets. They’re diminutive, breakable, and invariably sentimental. Modern-day iterations are often angels and fairies, rosy-cheeked children and big-skirted ...

No Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, ...

Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Ceramic figurines were part of a cache of objects found at an Iron Age temple uncovered at the site of Tel Motza outside Jerusalem Tel Motza, 3 miles west of Jerusalem, Israel Sometimes it is the ...

During the 2003 season of excavations at the Hurva Synagogue (Area X-9) in the Jewish Quarter, a fragment of the lower part of a unique ceramic figurine was uncovered. The figurine is made of clay ...

Polish archaeologists from the University of Warsaw discovered five ceramic figurines, dated to around 400 BC, atop a large pyramid in western El Salvador’s San Isidro site. Their positioning and ...