Books for Collecting Flow Blue China

Video Transcript

"So when collecting flow blue, my recommendation is to go out and seek out some of these books that are specific to what you want to collect and this one is the encyclopedia of Flow Blue China. A nice book with a lot of different examples of the time frame and it also gives you price ranges in there and it gives you a little bit of history. So this is a really good book to start with and there are some other ones here. This is White Ironstone which is the vase that we are looking at here and most is Flow Blue and it has a variety of different types of blue. This is a Flow Blue pattern and this is a later pattern. This is a Mulberry pattern strawberry, this is a cob luster pattern and a gold gilded pattern but these are all different varieties. You can see the different examples and it might help you to try to choose what pattern you might like and what particular Flow Blue you want to collect. This is a very inexpensive book, Shroeders Book and it gives you a wide range of different types of porcelain. Not a lot of information but a good starter book. You can also go to the library and if they don't have these books, you can ask them to get them for you so you don't have to spend a great deal of money. You can go into a place like Barnes and noble and have a great resource there to start looking to see what it is you might want to collect. So those are a few sources for you to start to look and see the different patterns that are available for you to collect."