Much time this past week was spent finishing up the wax figures. Just about there. Panic set in which caused me to move up the clay part. My show date is the beginning of August, not the middle as I […]
Literally the day after a book I had ordered about the Batenin and Kornilov factories arrived, I spotted this jug listed as Staffordshire. Deja view. Didn’t I just see this in the new book? Checked and sure enough there it […]
The Russian Private Factories of the nineteenth century were highly competitive with each other. Certain popular subjects such as this were made by more than one factory. It can be tricky to tell the work of one from another when […]
Never did get back to mould making this week. Continued to work on the wax figures and heads. A little closer to the end but still some distance to go. I would be lying if I said this was not […]
This figure of Benvenuto Cellini (Cellni) has the same Popov mark as the spill vase seen last week. This model dates to the 1830s. It is from a series of Renaissance greats made by A.G. Popov which also included Leonardo […]
“Things take as long as they take”. So many times I have said this to myself. I estimated that each figure would take three days to model and be ready to mould. Last week I thought there were just a […]
I spent the week on the first of the furries. Didn’t quite finish the model but close. “Free Hugs” are offered by many furries. That is what this figure is all about. Call it a “Huggy Bear”. As it turns […]
This was a lucky find early one morning. This spill vase was misidentified, seriously undervalued and mine for a song as the old saying goes. Unfamiliar with spills and the vases used to hold them? Spills were lengths of dry […]