Vintage view

I attended a rangy antique’s fair a few weeks ago.

When I was asked what I thought of the event I moaned long and loud to a patient dealer about the lack of 20th century pieces that were not ho-hum, middle-class lounge-Deco.

On reflection, there was an area of pieces heading up the field in vintage ornaments a decade or two outside strictly antique — a many-legged herd of small animals. Lustrous, small and mid-sized ceramics by Beswick, Wade, Royal Copenhagen and lesser know Russian masters, frolicked across half a dozen tables. Proud shire horses trotted by melting-eyed spaniels.