well, it's on porcelain, of course. he was a porcelain decorator through and through, and a very competent painter, and here has painted his own family, and done it quite well in enamel. signed t.j. bott. this is thomas john bott, and he was one of a long generation of china decorators, and his father was also thomas bott, which causes great confusion. they came from worcester originally. and at worcester, thomas bott, sr. developed a wonderful new style of porcelain decorating-- what's known as the limoges enamel style-- a very fine use of white enamel on a dark background. and he taught his son t.j. bott to do it as well. and thomas john bott then brought that to coalport. so, thomas john bott here in 1888 at coalport, producing a plaque just for the family. we've got a matching picture of his sister, actually, as well. there's a set of them. wonderful to have family likenesses like that. i understand that thomas bott, sr.-- thomas j. bott's father-- died quite young at the age of 41, and i had-- the story goes that h

it's made to look like a carved cameo shell, but it's made of porcelain, on porcelain. and that technique is called pâte-sur-pte-- french term: paste on paste. and that is done by applying one thin layer of slip, which is liquid porcelain, over the other, over the other. so, instead of casting this, like a piece of jasperware, like wedgwood, this is applied with a paintbrush. so you'll get these beautiful, translucent effects. so usually when you see a piece with pâte-sur-pte, which are quite rare, they have these diaphanous gowns, these long, flowing shawls, so that you get to see the light through them. now, this technique was perfected by a frenchman called marc-louis solon, and solon worked for the sèvres factory in france. so when one sees a piece like this, so beautiful, one immediately thinks, mmm, perhaps this was done by solon, perhaps this is a piece of sèvres, and then, when he went to england, solon worked at minton, so i thought, perhaps it's a piece of minton. and it is none of these folks. i'm going to show the bottom. and we see the mark of the crossed s

meissen made lovely porcelain and was the forerunner of many english porcelain factories who copied their work, such as bow and chelsea. this was a little piece, is in perfect condition, has no restorations, no chips or cracks. very lovely work, quite beautifully executed, and the color is lovely. do you know what it's worth? no, i don't. that's why i brought her here for you to tell me. well, having not actually seen this piece before but similar pieces from the meissen factory, i would put a value on it of between $1,250 and $1,500. thank you. it certainly is a lovely piece and i'm glad that you were able to show it to us. thank you very much for looking at her. there are so many dazzling collections in our area. i visited this one and it literally sparkled before my eyes. rhea: i have never, ellen, in my life seen so many incredible purses. how many do you have in your collection? ellen: thank you. hundreds of them. i've been collecting for quite a while. rhea: well, i know i'm going to ask you a lot of hard questions. like, what is one of the oldest bags here? ellen: truly, the oldest

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. >> an ancient porcelain obama is expected to be sold for more than $10 million. auction will be held featuring chinese art including this bowl, dating back to the 1500s approximate. that will do it fastball edition of aljazeera news. i'm stephanie sy. thanks for watching.

they took a titanium vault with a teakwood box inside, put 16 porcelain panels down in the vault describing the history of the united states, why those four presidents were chosen, one about borglum. so, right behind us is the repository, and below that is the titanium vault and the teakwood box. >> then it was back to climbing. but at least here, there was a stairway -- a very long stairway. still, it beat climbing over rocks and tree stumps. maybe i spoke too soon. >> almost there. >> i can do it. finally, i could see we were getting to the top. yeah! so, was the long climb worth it? you bet. far below, you can see the building where the sculptor had his studio. some of the motorized winches used to lower the workers over the side are still here. the view from up here is absolutely amazing. being this close, you really get a better appreciation for just how massive these faces are. the presidents seem to be keeping watchful guard over our land of democracy. this is definitely an experience i'll never forget. from on top of president washington's head at mount rushmore, i'm nicole for "tee

woman: this porcelain material is so hard to clean. it gets scratched so easily. the handles are so wobbly and loose, they come off sometimes, and you never know where water is going to come from. i think it's time for a new sink. kevin: that's next on "ask this old house." with a little neighborly advice and the right partner in doing,

and they were copying meissen, the great german porcelain from dresden, from meissen, and they specializedplant shapes. and the idea of a leaf dish is something straight out of meissen, and wooster have copied that here in perhaps 1754, '55. so early. it's really early. so you've done quite well, haven't you? have i? do you have any idea what you think it might be worth? i've no idea. it's in such wonderful condition. it's so rare. it's gonna be... oh, £3,500. no. really? really? oh. thank you very much. it's fantastic. do you now, there's something slightly unsettling about this doll asleep in this case. tell me her story. it was passed to my mother and it was a relative, a child, and i don't know if it was a cousin or some other relative. but the litle girl long had been ill, and the doll just laid on the bed for a few days, and she died, did the little girl. shortly after she died, the doll and all these little bits were put in this case and it was sealed. and then my mother got the doll. of course, i've known it all my life, and i've never really taken much notice of it. but today, as

all-black porcelain and gold fixtures. plasmavs in every one. huh?lly something, ed. are those, uh, a pinball machines over there? yeah! i used to get up every day to fix cars, now i just play pinball all day. hey, pammy, you remember when we were kids when we went to atlantic city? and then we just like played all day. of course i remember, ed. yeah. do you know all these people? sure, they're all my friends. just hope you're not spending too much money. oh, hey, that rends me. i got, i got something special for you guys. no, open it. open it. oh! the atlantic city boardwalk. it's 50,000! wow! i owe you, pam. ed, you know you don't owe me a thing. thanks. you're the best, bud. thanks. if you guys need anything else, you just let me know, okay. (walkie-talkie beeping) george: smokey one-niner, youthis is rubber duck!kay. your presence is requested outside on the double. oh, dude. sounds like my ride just got here. hey, come on. come on! (engine revving) ed: hey! whoa! yeah! wow! oh! oh, hello, pretty car. ed: this is awesome! how much this car cost,

republicans go sam adams and miller lite and porcelain. what about tv shows?ocrats, a lot of people a partial to curtains. and republicans tend to go for reality shows. they're going to have to live this down. amazing grace, american qaeda. democrats prefer to watch both republicans and democrats. the democrats like the nba. republicans like college basketball. also golf, of course. nascar. parses it influences baby names. they love to choose tse democrats. um, names with different spellings. this is my favorite. jasmine. i like that. julie. republicans go for those traditional names, harder sounds. just some observations for you tonight. parsenia influences. we report, you decide. he says he is a harder, but he has been given the heave ho. the "a-team" on the democrats history of sex and scandals. lou:oining ups and announcing they aren't dropping spousal health care coverage because of obamacare. the university saying the changes are necessary because the law's projected to add more than $7 million to the cost of the health care plan in 2014 alone. earlier t

a lot are a variety of mainly iron stone, there's a little bit of porcelain, but it was mainly iron sne because it would wear better in difficult conditions. but what we see are a host of really international representations. every country in the world had -- even switzerland had a steamship. a land-locked country and they still had a good ship to come up with. that's right. i had several swiss ships. i don't know in all the time that i've been in this business that i've ever seen a collection like this. we see within our auctions one, two, three pieces. down in southern virginia, we also saw a lot of the ss united states iron stoneware because that's where that ship resided for so many years. it's different to value a collection of over 400 pieces in exactly what the collection in itself is worth. i mean, it also has an emotional value to you and your family that i'm not sure would ever equal the market value. but when we see good pieces, and you've got some wonderful examples, and one of the important elements of value is condition, the condition on these is wonderful. so often we hav

they say they found the porcelain pots and coins inside some pagotas these finds mean cultural ties between the 7th century. japan, an office worker has become internet sensation for his digital artwork. he says he uses his iphone and ipad to recreate master pieces. he does most of the finger painting on his lunch break and during his morning commute. his youtube videos have racked up thousands of hits. thailand, hop on board a pachyderm for a round of elephant polo 120 miles south of bangkok. part of the king's cup tournament. a charity event that helps raise monday to care for elephants. the matches give the animals a nice break from their usual lives of hard labor. and that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. >> around the world is brought to you by verizon, getting the b.s. back-to-school deals on device. that's powerful. >> fox report is crisis in syria are continuing coverage ofawmakers are weighing in on a possible military strike. what congressman now say president obama needs to do before america takes action. first, tears are falling in ireland for a giant of

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this day, the university of iowa still has this visiting locker room painted in bright pink with porcelainht pink urinals and lockers the thought was at halftime or before the game when the visitors arrived they would be calmed and weakened by the color. >> but why does it work? >> some of the research cherz believe it is biological in origin there is something about the way this color interacts with our eyes and our brains and our physiology to weaken us. i think another alternative is that it is just based on the association, perhaps if you are a strong, healthy male it makes you think of perhaps femininity. >> so the next time you remodel you may want to rethink pink, reconsider that picture, reinstate that tree in the kitchen, and remember what is on your walls could decide what is on your mind. >> osgood: just ahead, thinking outside the cubicle. >> Ñi >> osgood: how is this for an office? miami's famed book hardy building was a veritable cathedral of commerce, glade glass and all. >> not so for many of today's offices with, schlessinger looks at workspaces past and present. >> you ma

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fit in -- sit in my grandparents living room which was dark and sort of filled with frightening porcelainsand things like that and musty books and i was made to sit there in that sort of dark chamber to contemplate my badness and i remember it being on the harvest will although my grandmother now 83 bless her heart tells me it was part of the harvest will but it was a big cushion share. i'm not sure about the memory but it felt like a hard chair. i was made to look at the portraits that surrounded me. and one portrait to my right was -- i'm sorry, the portrait to my left was my great, great, great grandfather and he had fought the battle and he was a spanish brigadier-general and he was the first spaniard to charge and the first spaniard to fall and he was killed with a sword to his heart right away at the beginning of the battle he was at the left and on the right was a portrait was a beautiful young woman who was the daughter but she had never met him. she was born a few weeks after the sword pierced his heart. .. by the time he -- exactly 200 years ago in 1813 by that time began his adm

she wanted it to be american, as other first ladies had discovered there was not a strong enough porcelainacturing industry in america in 1891 when she started looking into new china so she decided this would go ahead and let a france company make the blanks but she would provide the did he dine -- the design. it wasn't a full service. she didn't try to order 12 or 15 pieces per place setting. it was designed with a shape that was pretty much the lincoln-era shape, that kind of simple -- this is a soup plate and a breakfast plate or tea plate. the eagle was very similar to what was on the lincoln china that represents the great seal of the united states. what she specifically designed was the border. there was a combination of ears of corn and golden rod which she felt represented american plants. the agricultural plants in corn. so there was dinner plates and soup plates and breakfast plates made in the blue. and there were also breakfast plates and tea plates made with the white border and then a series of cups and saucers. so there weren't all the other shapes that you might have in a s

fit in -- sit in my grandparents living room which was dark and sort of filled with frightening porcelains and things like that and musty books and i was made to sit there in that sort of dark chamber to contemplate my badness and i remember it being on the harvest will although my grandmother now 83 bless her heart tells me it was part of the harvest will but it was a big cushion share. i'm not sure about the memory but it felt like a hard chair. i was made to look at the portraits that surrounded me. and one portrait to my right was -- i'm sorry, the portrait to my left was my great, great, great grandfather and he had fought the battle and he was a spanish brigadier-general and he was the first spaniard to charge and the first spaniard to fall and he was killed with a sword to his heart right away at the beginning of the battle he was at the left and on the right was a portrait was a beautiful young woman who was the daughter but she had never met him. she was born a few weeks after the sword pierced his heart. .. bolivar 's forces managed to free up through and indeed, by the way, with