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COLLECTING ANTIQUE PORCELAIN
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This Sevres oval platter with portraits of Napoleon roi de Holland and wife Reine Hortense surrounded by gilt decoration was hand painted
by David Pierre Giotino De Humbert, a Dutch/French artist (1770-1849). Circa early 1800s. Photo courtesy LR Antiques & Restoration
for antique aficionados
Don’t miss the Houston Antiques Dealers Association (HADA) 45TH Semi-Annual Antiques Show
& Sale Feb. 13-15 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Peruse antiques from world-class
dealers who offer the rare, the precious and the bizarre.
For porcelain enthusiasts, a free lecture, “Meissen, a Fragile Diplomacy,” is scheduled for
3-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and sponsored by HADA.
Visit www.hadaantiques.org for more information.
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ABOVE LEFT: Hand-painted Royal
Davenport dessert dishes, England, circa 1860.
Photo courtesy Memorial Antiques & Interiors
ABOVE: These porcelain temple jars handdecorated
with printed details from the Kuang
Hsu period in China, circa 1875, now serve as
the bases for custom lamps. Photo courtesy
Carl Moore Antiques
UNUSUAL & INTERESTING
Collections come in all shapes,
sizes and colors. David Lackey,
owner of David Lackey Antiques
& Arts, lists these collections as a
few examples: by manufacturer, by
country, by time period, by color
and by form. “One of my customers
only collects rectangular
vases,” he says.
China related to the White
House is one interesting category.
Lackey recently bought a soup
bowl from the White House of the
Lincoln years that has a distinctive
maroon border — “because it was
a color preferred by Mrs. Lincoln”
— instead of the expected red.
Westergaard has an affinity for
solid color antique Chinese porcelain.
“With these pieces, you’re
looking for extreme uniformity
because it was so difficult to
achieve at the time,” he says.
At LR Antiques & Restoration,
co-owner Rachel Bley offers a
writing desk from 1860s France
that has about 25 porcelain
plaques inserted in it. The plaques
are hand painted with portraits
of the king’s mistresses.