At first the decoration was only in underglaze blue and consisted, like so many other early English factories, of Chinese-inspired painted landscapes or simple floral ... and the competition for key ...

Demand for the best spoons has always been high and the earliest rarities continue to command very substantial prices. More than 30 years ago in 1981, a spoon with a wrythen knop from the reign of ...

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The virile warrior god of the north is seen as a romantic and doting son in southern India writes DEVDUTT PATTANAIK After the great war at Kurukshetra the Pandavas were haunted by dreams of dying warr ...