The exhibits at Nanchang Porcelain Painting Museum impress most visitors with their elegant and vivid depictions, but for some they may also evoke childhood memories, especially senior citizens.

Marjorie Cohen thinks she’s done. The first of four heart-shaped Limoges dishes she brought back from a visit to Paris is decorated now with a dainty, painted blue ribbon. Underneath the bow hangs a ...

The list of “lost arts” is endless. With the discoveries of technological advances, things that were once done by hand can now be done by machine in a timelier and money saving fashion from furniture ...

When Barbara Kay Vrana is creating porcelain art, she sometimes feels like she's part chemist, part artisan. She has been known to incorporate substances into her paint ranging from clove oil to motor ...

Gretchen Small was browsing a Moline antique shop some 30 years ago when she picked up a pretty little china tray, the kind that sat on woman's dresser, holding a hairbrush and comb. The name "M.W.

When Betty Ho heard a few years ago that Yuet Tung China Works, one of Hong Kong’s last remaining porcelain painting factories, was facing difficulties, she planned a visit. Porcelain is integral to ...