Chelsea & Other English Porcelain Pottery & Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Coll

English & Other Silver in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection by Yvonne Hackenbroch. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963. This book is limited to English silver from the middle of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, together with a very few objects of silver from other countries. It is a collection which, with some exceptions, was formed at a time when early English silver...

The Collector's Encyclopedia of Gaudy Dutch and Welsh by John A. Shuman III. Collector Books, 1990. First Edition softcover. This oriental-inspired English...

Miniature Majolica-glazed teapot, on a porcelain body, English, fish in waves pattern after shorter and sons, English, circa 1920. Mounted with a tiny...

This beautiful huqqa (or hookah), an instrument used for smoking—is a highly collectable antique piece. It created in the late 19th century, most likely in Russia. The huqqa is finely decorated with depictions of Qajar kings, suggesting that it was created for the Persian market. The huqqa features a bell-shaped base with a ribbed cylindrical top. This is covered by a cup-shaped feature on a knopped stem. The huqqa is crafted from porcelain which is white and finely decorated with deep blue stylised vines, leaves and flowers. Half-length portraits of the 19th century Persian kings, Naser al-Din Shah and Mozaffar al-Din Shah, ornament the huqqa’s base...