Mary Daniels

Foliage has been a theme on fine dinnerware for centuries, usually teamed with fruit or flowers. This fall however, china manufacturers have noticeably become enamored of the feathery fern, in...

My husband's mother, who died many years ago, was given this chair by an older friend who lived in Elgin. My husband believes it is made of cherry wood and...

When I was a child I received a (scrap) book that contains 250 movie-star trading cards. My father collected the cards and pasted them in the book. This was about...

When purchasing an antique chest or highboy, be sure the sides and back are constructed with floating panels held within stiles (the vertical pieces in a frame) and rails. Single-board...

We have several Paul McCobb chests of drawers, which we have been told are collectible. The pieces can be stacked to create different types of storage configurations. Our pieces have...

I have not been able to find any information about the artist of this black-and-white print. "Percy Moran 1893" is signed in pencil on the border. After taking it out...

I have not been able to find any information about the artist of this black-and-white print. "Percy Moran 1893" is signed in pencil on the border. After taking it out...

These containers, which mix Far Eastern folk art with Danish style, are proving handsome and hardy adaptors to Midwest-ern gardens. The Malaysian stoneware pots, made of high-fired river clay with...

"I found four of these lamps, all alike and marked on the bottom, `Made in Occupied Japan,' in a closet in the house we bought. I know the previous owners...

"I have been trying to research this old china pattern; it's been in my family for many years. I do not know the pattern's name. Steubenville China made china dinnerware...