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A collection of British art pottery and fin de siecle decorative arts.(Living with antiques)

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| June 01, 2008 | Donnelly, Max | COPYRIGHT 2008 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Over four decades two English collectors filled their house with British art pottery and fin de siecle furniture and decorative arts, presenting the whole with a theatrical flourish that reflects the creative partnership of an actress trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her late husband, an art college graduate. Recently, the surviving owner explained how a serious back injury more than forty years ago had forced her to find an alternative career; gripped by what she remembers as the "fervour of Britishness" of the 1960s, she and her husband decided to open a stall selling royal commemorative ceramics and eventually came to deal in nineteenth-century ...

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