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The soft-paste porcelains of Rouen are amongst the rarest of all European ceramics and the first porcelain to be made in France. Only ten or possibly eleven other examples are documented.

Calamander, also known as coromandel, is a valuable wood from India and Sri Lanka.

An introduction to the broad membership of the BADA, this first video in the series is from Tomasso Brothers' Gallery Director Emanuela Tarizzo, discussing a sculpture of The Infant Hercules.

1717 seems to mark the introduction of the ‘India’ or ‘Bended’ back to England, and the terminology ‘India’ began to be used in invoices and inventories. How did this explicit acknowledgement of Asia (if not China specifically) in the terminology come about?

The BADA Cultural & Educational Trust’s Bursary recipient at West Dean College recently completed her course in Ceramics Conservation.

Louise Phillips is the current Chairman of BADA and also chairs the Association’s PR and Marketing Committee. She runs Elaine Phillips Antiques, specialising in 17th and 18th Century oak furniture and associated decorative items including metalware, English Delft pottery, needlework, treen and tapestries. The business was established by Louise's mother, Elaine Phillips, in the 1960s and she joined in 1985.

A short update from SOAS student Corrina Ellis, winner of the BADA Friends Prize in Memory of Brian Morgan.

BADA Chinese ceramics specialists Catherine Hunt explores 'Master of the Rocks' porcelain

A history of Wally Birds and the Martin Brothers by BADA member Alison Davey of AD Antiques

BADA Jewellery specialist Sandra Cronan explores the history of Georgian jewellery

An Introduction to the history of Martin Brothers' "Wally" Birds and details on the passports being produced for them by AD Antiques