CHINA
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Traditions and Old China
Copyright, 1920, Gilman Collamore & Company, Inc.
Traditions and Old China
From early days when the ancients showed their appreciation of finepottery and old glassware by burying “these most esteemed possessions”with the dead, fine china has been synonymous with culture and breeding.With our ancestors for generations we share the tradition that, just asfirst editions give prestige to one’s book shelves, old china or thefinest work of the modern kilns express readily that good taste anddiscrimination that is characteristic of our old families.
A wealth of association and historic data is to be acquired from the studyof the “fabrique marks” and periods of the master craftsmen. If in Americathere was a general tendency toward acquiring, even a smattering, of thisknowledge, there would be less of these drawing-room atrocities whichArthur Hayden in his “Chats on English Earthenware” points out, “To have amodern set of vases adorning a Georgian cabinet is like putting new winein old bottles.”
[Pg 2]For the convenience of the seasoned collector, as well as the beginner,in this book is a representative list of better known marks by which chinacan be identified. While it is not possible to include a complete list,particularly those of extremely rare specimens, those compiled haveparticular reference to the marks of English china which is greatly indemand by collectors. These will suffice to enable the reader to identifypieces whenever encountered.
The signatures or mark which the master craftsmen in earth or clay signedtheir products, just as a painter signs his work, were often speciallydesigned devices of various kinds, often a combination of initials anddates. Each “fabrique mark” stands for a certain potter’s art just as themodern trade-mark.
Beginning more than a half century ago in the old La Farge House in lowerBroadway (where John La Farge was born) the house of Gilman Collamore andCompany has done much to develop an appreciation of fine china in America.It was one of the first houses to bring over from England and Francechina, both modern and old, for its American clients. At this time manyfine specimens of old china are on view as well as complete stocks fromthe modern English and Continental manufacture.
GILMAN COLLAMORE & COMPANY, Inc.
15 East 56th Street
New York
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