PLEASE NOTE: This blog is now inactive.  After 10 years of collecting I came to the decision to stop collecting this particular pottery.  I ...

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14063/lot/277/ this link to a Bonhams page shows that even the experts can get things wrong...or can they?...

 Anyone who's ever picked up an antiques price guide, such as Millers, will have probably read that the main output of  Powell, Bisho...

https://www.tresors.com.au/index.php/porcelain/beautiful-vase-by-bishop-and-stonier-with-cactus-design.html I came across a wonderful (yes...

a couple of links to some really nice blogs with lovely things to peruse. http://nancysdailydish.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_22_archive.html ...

and if it's good enough for the National Trust, it must be good enough for the Brooklyn Museum . :-)

well, if it's good enough for the National Trust , it's good enough for me!

a while ago, i posted pics of some Bisto pieces of nursery ware which are decorated with images celebrating the radio programme, " chi...

Bisto were well known for producing nursery ware and commemoration wares - in fact, most of what is written about the factory in books lik...

ok, so they may not be tits, but that got your attention right?  This is a very lovely pair of Aesthetic plates by PB&S that i saw on ...

 Wowsers!  Another first for my Porcelainporn blog - a Bisto ware ginger jar decorated with a Fairyland lustre type of design, dated 1931....

I recently purchased this wonderful pair of Bishop & Stonier vases.  They're wonderfully restrained in colour, using the soft gre...

I have a number of nursery ware pieces in my collection by Bishop & Stonier and I've often wondered who designed the images on them....