How does your antique house clearance service work?

Here are four common scenarios:

1 If the contents of the house to be cleared have no antiques or collectables with resale value, then we suggest you use a reputable, licensed & insured house clearance company like Abacus.

2 Some of the house clearance contents may have resale value. Common items with resale value include antiques, precious metals, jewellery, collectables and artwork. We'll give you an allowance for these and deduct it against the cost of the clearance.

3 If the majority of your house clearance items are valuable and this value exceeds the clearance costs, we’ll give you the difference (either in cash or cheque).

4 And finally, where the contents of your property have been valued for probate, this value can also be deducted from the cost of your house clearance. No matter which service you need, we can help.

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We will buy vintage clothing, costume jewellery, antique furniture, 50s 60s 70s furniture, in fact we will buy anything antique or collectable we can sell.

We will happily look through and pick out antiques & collectables from various locations including cluttered houses, garages, lofts, or basements, even if it takes us all day. We do not mind getting dirty.

Not sure what you have? Then call us! You will be surprised at what we actually do buy. Our staff are very knowledgeable and will pick out items you would have never guessed were otherwise saleable.

Art Nouveau Ceramics

In pottery, as in other areas, Art Nouveau was demonstrated by its break away from the imitation of the past. Shapes from nature were adapted into stylized decorative patterns. A new feeling for color was developed which continued to influence designs in the manufacture of pottery in the twentieth century.

In the 1880’s and 1890’s new styles began to appear as a reaction against historical revivals and reproductions of earlier models. A new generation of designers at some of the oldest factories began to develop fresh techniques of manufacture and decoration. The new style of Art Nouveau emerged in Europe in the 1880’s and influenced porcelain design, although to a lesser extent than it did the design of earthenware. A few designers in the new style, like Hector Guimard, worked in both kinds of ceramics. Guimard designed three shapes for production in soft paste porcelain at Sevres (1903-1904) with crystalline glazes.

The most dramatic innovations came in the development of new glazes, some of which reflected the design preoccupations of the period. French iridescent wares were largely restricted to those produced by Clement Massier, who pioneered the development of iridescent glazes. Other French ceramists appear to have preferred working with clean white porcelain such as those decorated by Georges de Feure and retailed by Siegfried Bing.

The Art Nouveau style was widely adopted, and expressed in elongated, sometimes controlled shapes, shimmering contorted shapes, or richly colored glazes. Patterns and motifs typical of Art Nouveau such as trailing or climbing plants or nude dancing figures were often used in decorating the pottery. New ideas were associated with the Japanese and their art. Japanese stoneware was, perhaps, the major single influence on pottery made in the last 25 years of the century.

French potters, unlike their contemporaries in England, had an attitude towards studio pottery, which related it very clearly to that of fine art. There was a collaboration between potters, painters and sculptors which was not unusual. Potters such as Andre Metthey used painters of the Paris school such as Rouault, Matisse, Bonnard and Redon to decorate their pottery. In ceramics, Art Nouveau was often found in the works of small art potteries rather than in the products of the great factories.

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