Meet my Chanakkale lion!

This entertaining traditional Folk Art figurine of a lion is currently on eBay. The techniques used of throwing, cutting, rolling, impressing and pinching clay are much the same as used in Staffordshire Pew Groups in the eighteenth century. It is 20 cm long and doesn't hold much liquid although Chrisite's described one as a "ewer".  It would be difficult to clean if used as a creamer so I think it was made for smoking when the small amount of water would act as a coolant. eBay item number:405216883575

Potteries by Lilly Markus

A monograph on the Hungarian Art Deco potter published by her friend, the architect Lewis Kozma, in the year Markus fled to Switzerland, 1939. This rarity should have interested collectors of Poole Pottery and Beswick Ware as she designed for both companies when she moved to England but on eBay it raised £9.99. It was bought by a New York architectural business which might republish it, print on demand.

Season's Greetings

A lithograph by a pupil of Franz Cisek included in "Christmas Pictures by Children", London and Vienna, 1922. Edmund Dulac wrote the introduction to this classic illustrated book featuring 14 lithos by gifted children in the time when Gustav Klimt was the leading painter in Vienna. The image I've chosen features curtains in the modern style of the Wiener Werkstatte or German Werkbund or the Bauhaus, what we now call "Art Deco".