Modern House of Antiques

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Our team of experts travels across Europe to handpick the best items for your home and workspace.

Some days, coming home to a room full of things we love feels like just what we needed.A favourite painting, flowers ope...
17/09/2026

Some days, coming home to a room full of things we love feels like just what we needed.

A favourite painting, flowers opening in a jug, blue and white china catching the afternoon light. You chose each of them at different moments, yet together they become the place where you feel most yourself.

Perhaps that helps explain the renewed affection for layered interiors: patterned fabrics, old furniture, shelves of china and paintings gathered across a wall. What we now call curated maximalism has something of the generosity of a Victorian sitting room, with space for our own tastes and everyday lives.

Blue and white feels wonderfully at home here.

Its story reaches back through centuries of Chinese porcelain, admired and collected far beyond China. By the late eighteenth century, Staffordshire potters such as Spode were popularising blue transfer ware pottery, bringing intricate pictures into the rituals of domestic life. A plate could hold a landscape as well as a place at the dinner table.

And what lovely landscapes to live with. Look at these: a bridge to cross, a stretch of water, buildings beyond the trees. The little figures and grazing animals give the grand scenery a human scale. Your heart finds peace; your imagination take the walk, the weather, the afternoon.

I often think part of blue’s appeal lies in what it recalls. Open sky, distant hills, the changing colour of water. Here, those associations meet the intimacy of an object you can hold in your hands. A small view to enjoy on a day spent indoors.

Against warm furnishing, beside a gilt frame or amongst books, these pieces bring both richness and a feeling of freshness. Their shared colour lets different borders, shapes and scenes sit happily together, leaving room for the collection to grow.

You might begin with the landscape you would most like to step into. Then enjoy finding a place for it in the home you already love.

From our collection at Modern House of Antiques. ✨

[Blue and White China, Staffordshire Pottery, Transferware pottery, Curated Maximalism, Collected Interiors, Antique Plates, English Interiors]

I have a weakness for this sort of pink. A little faded, a little powdery, like roses just past their best in a vase by ...
14/09/2026

I have a weakness for this sort of pink. A little faded, a little powdery, like roses just past their best in a vase by the bed. And beside that lovely blue, it becomes rather difficult to choose a favourite.

A pink plate above the little chest in the bedroom. A blue one leaning against books on the sitting-room shelf. Before you have quite decided, you are already rearranging a corner of the house in your mind.

These Etruscan Festoon plates invite us to daydream.

And then curiosity follows. The pattern has a history reaching back to around 1835, when William Ridgway & Co. produced it in Staffordshire, just before Victoria’s reign began. Pink and black, and blue and black, are both recorded colour combinations, a rather lovely discovery when they feel so fresh to the eye today.

A festoon is a garland suspended in curves, and here those little swags loop between flowers and urns, bringing movement to the design. Your eye follows them around the plate, pausing at a bouquet, then a raised white flower along the scalloped edge.

There is something delightfully feminine about it all. Rose pink and soft periwinkle blue, creamy white blossoms and darker details that give the sweetness a little definition. They bring to mind floral cotton curtains, a well loved dressing table and a country bedroom with the windows open to the garden.

I would let them find their place amongst things already loved, an old landscape, a small gilt mirror, a vase of whatever happens to be flowering. Leave a little space around them so those wonderful edges can be enjoyed.

One of the pleasures of collecting is how desire leads us to learn. We begin with “I would love to live with that,” and discover a pattern, a name, a detail we will recognise again.

And sometimes, a whole room begins with that first little longing.

Part of our latest curation at the Noida studio.

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A flutter of wings just outside the window can interrupt a whole train of thought. For a moment, you put down your cup a...
12/09/2026

A flutter of wings just outside the window can interrupt a whole train of thought. For a moment, you put down your cup and watch.

There is something of that pleasure in these little watercolours. Each bird occupies its own small world of nature, inviting you to come closer and spend a moment there.

What first drew us to them was the unusual framing: delicate lace surrounding each study, set against a deep ground and enclosed in gold. There is a lovely balance between the birds’ wild little worlds and the femininity of lace.

We can imagine them beside a favourite reading chair, where you might notice a feather or a tiny painted branch between pages. Or gathered above a chest, with a lamp, a few books and flowers brought in from the garden. Their round frames sit so beautifully amongst other pictures, giving a wall a softer, more unexpected rhythm.

Here, we have brought them together with other bird studies and a little floral painting, following the same thread of nature through different shapes and colours.

Sometimes a collection begins this way, one small picture catches your eye, and already you are thinking of the corner at home where you would most enjoy it.

The round watercolours, along with the accompanying pictures, are available from our Noida studio.

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Sometimes, the nicest thing a painting does is take you out of the room for a moment.This painting brings to mind a rela...
12/09/2026

Sometimes, the nicest thing a painting does is take you out of the room for a moment.

This painting brings to mind a relaxing day. Fresh air, a walk, somewhere to sit, and no particular reason to look at the time.

There is something wonderfully freeing about the way it is painted, too. Broad strokes of green, pale folds of canvas, warm earth beneath. Your eye fills in what the artist leaves unsaid. It recalls the Impressionist interest in capturing the feeling of a passing moment, the light and atmosphere that make an ordinary scene worth looking at.

Living with a picture like this gives that small pleasure a place in your daily life. You pass it on a busy morning and remember the outdoors. Look up from your desk and find a little breathing space amongst the trees.

It’s a real pleasure having something on the wall that you feel drawn to, again and again.

For us, that is where collecting begins. A picture catches your attention, stays in your thoughts, and eventually becomes part of what makes home feel like yours.

A little escape, collected for everyday life.

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[Landscape Painting, Impressionist Style, Collecting Art, Art Interiors, Collected Homes, Fine Art, Vintage Collection]

I first spotted these Spode Mayflower platters in the window of a little shop in a Cotswold village.Perhaps it was the s...
08/09/2026

I first spotted these Spode Mayflower platters in the window of a little shop in a Cotswold village.

Perhaps it was the setting—the old stone cottages, gardens still in bloom and the slow pace of the afternoon—but their soft lilac borders and scattered flowers seemed to hold the entire mood of the place.

They felt like the perfect pieces to bring back to the studio—a small reminder of countryside lunches, blooming gardens and tearooms filled with beautiful china that is simply part of everyday life.

Each platter carries a different arrangement of roses, tulips and tiny garden flowers, making them especially lovely displayed together on a wall or stacked casually on an open shelf.

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[Spode Mayflower, Vintage Spode, Floral China, English Country Style, Collected Homes, Vintage Tableware]

Long before photographs could carry the image of India across the world, there were the Daniells.Thomas Daniell and his ...
05/09/2026

Long before photographs could carry the image of India across the world, there were the Daniells.

Thomas Daniell and his young nephew William arrived in Calcutta in the late 1700s and spent years travelling through the country—along the Ganges, across the plains to Delhi, into the Garhwal hills, and later through southern and western India. Everywhere they went, they sketched: Mughal tombs, ancient forts, temple ruins, rivers, trees and the everyday life unfolding around them.

When their great series Oriental Scenery was published in London between 1795 and 1808, it offered many in Britain their first vivid glimpse of India’s extraordinary architectural landscape. The aquatints were admired, collected and displayed—and their imagery soon travelled beyond paper, finding its way onto wallpapers, textiles and Staffordshire pottery.

This early blue & white Staffordshire dish appears to depict the Remains of an Ancient Building near Firoz Shah’s Cotilla, Delhi Oriental Scenery. Beneath an arch of trees, monumental domes rise above the landscape while travellers and a laden animal pass through the foreground, a whole journey held within a richly floral border.

There is something remarkable about an Indian landscape, first captured by travelling artists, being engraved in England and then returning generations later as an object to be collected and lived with here.

More than a decorative plate, it is a small record of how India’s architecture and scenery captured imaginations far beyond its shores.

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[Antique Staffordshire, Oriental Scenery, Thomas Daniell, William Daniell, Blue and White Transferware, Indian Architecture, Anglo Indian Antiques, Collectible Ceramics, Historic Interiors]

I have always loved rooms where the bookshelves reveal as much about a person as the paintings on the walls. A few favou...
04/09/2026

I have always loved rooms where the bookshelves reveal as much about a person as the paintings on the walls. A few favourite volumes, something brought home from a journey, and a handful of curious objects whose only purpose is to make the arrangement more beautiful.

These Wedgwood Jasperware bookends feel made for such a room. Designed like miniature classical facades, they bring arches, fluted columns and temple pediments onto the bookshelf. Even the smallest details, the lion mask handles, black rosettes and delicate borders, feel borrowed from an old classical library.

The rare primrose yellow ground gives all that architecture a wonderfully relaxed character. Warm beside gilt frames, handsome against old leather-bound books, and especially beautiful in rooms where things have been gathered slowly over time.

A pair made for holding books, though rather lovely simply holding their own.

From the Wedgwood Library Collection.

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[Wedgwood Jasperware, Primrose Jasperware, Library Collection, Neoclassical Design, Architectural Antiques, Collected Interiors, English Country House, Vintage Wedgwood, Vintage Collectibles]

A study in colour, fantasy and ornament.These antique plates are alive with fanciful exotic birds—creatures painted some...
03/09/2026

A study in colour, fantasy and ornament.

These antique plates are alive with fanciful exotic birds—creatures painted somewhere between the real and the mythical, with extravagant plumage and jewel-like colour. Each one inhabits its own little garden, surrounded by delicate foliage, scattered flowers and gilded Rococo cartouches.

But it is the green that makes them truly remarkable: a rich, almost malachite shade that shifts beautifully in the light. Against it, the white reserves, colourful birds and fine gold details appear all the more vivid.

Displayed together on a wall, they would create the feeling of a miniature aviary—wonderful above a console, arranged amongst paintings, or bringing colour and a touch of eccentricity to a dining room.

Rare, decorative and full of fantasy, they are the sort of antiques that do more than complete a room. They give it a world of its own.

A rare and wonderfully expressive set.

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[Antique Plates, Exotic Birds, Vintage Porcelain, Decorative Antiques, English Country House, Collected Interiors, Luxury Décor, Wall Plates]

If, like us, you love the way old country shops bring things together—not because they match perfectly, but because they...
01/09/2026

If, like us, you love the way old country shops bring things together—not because they match perfectly, but because they seem to belong to the same charming world, this curation is for you.

Each of these red and white plates has its own flowers, border and beautifully shaped edge, yet gathered together they create something far more interesting: a table or wall that feels collected yet natural.

A little English garden - roses in bloom, trailing leaves and patterns made to be mixed freely and lived with for years.

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[Vintage China, English Transferware, English Country Style, Collected Homes, Floral Plates, Country House Interiors]

Some landscapes seem to hold an entire way of life within them.A country house glimpsed beyond open fields, old trees ca...
31/08/2026

Some landscapes seem to hold an entire way of life within them.

A country house glimpsed beyond open fields, old trees casting long shadows across the grass, and a sky that feels unmistakably English. It is less a view of the countryside and more the memory of a relaxing afternoon spent wandering through it.

The beautifully aged gilt frame is part of its charm. Richly carved and beautifully weathered by time, it gives the landscape a sense of importance—almost like a small window into another place.

In an interior, paintings like this bring distance, atmosphere and the feeling of a home collected over many years, where even the smallest landscape has a story to tell.

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[English Countryside, Vintage Landscape Painting, Country House Interiors, Antique Frame, Collected Homes, British Interiors, Vintage Art, Luxury Interiors]

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