Dear Judy Campbell: Here are photographs of two gilt-edged porcelain plates that measure about 10 inches diameter that I have owned for a number of years. Both carry five-digit numbers under beehive ...

I like to imagine the voyage of a single porcelain doll I owned as a kid. Her head was made in Armand Marseille’s factory in Thuringia, Germany. Her face, maybe 1 of 1,000 made that day, was produced ...

THE PIECE: A French Sevres-style gilt and polychrome painted porcelain box, from about 1900, with marks on the underside -- an "S" within interlocking "Ls" -- emulating Sevres marks used in 1771. THE ...