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Biography

The son of

Henry Sandon Henry George Sandon, MBE (born 4 August 1928) is an English antique expert, television personality, author and lecturer specialising in ceramics and is a notable authority on Royal Worcester porcelain. He was curator of the Dyson Perrins Museum f ...

, a notable authority on

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porcelain, John Sandon left school aged 16 and went to work at auction house

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(formerly Phillips) in London in 1975, where he quickly established himself as a porcelain specialist. Since 1988 he has been the International Director of European Ceramics and Glass at Bonhams auctioneers in London. He is a world authority on European porcelain, and has written many books and articles on the subject. Sandon has been involved in excavations at the Royal Worcester factory site and has authored or co-authored several books on the factory. On 24 July 2013 Sandon took part as auctioneer for Bonhams covering the sale of Copeland porcelain, part of the contents of

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. Sandon is a regular expert on the BBC's ''Antiques Roadshow''.Brief biography on the Shire Books website

Selected publications

*Sandon, John ''British Porcelain'' Shire Books (2009) *Sandon, John ''Worcester Porcelain'' Shire Library (2009) *Sandon, John ''Miller's Collecting Porcelain'' Miller's Publications (2002) *Sandon, John ''Phillips Guide to English Porcelain'' Murdoch Books (1993) *Sandon, John ''Collecting Porcelain'' Mitchell Beazley (2002) *Sandon, John ''Phillips Guide to English Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries'' Premier Editions (1993) *Sandon, John ''The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain: 1751-1851'' Antique Collectors' Club Ltd (1999) *Sandon, John ''Starting to Collect Antique Glass'' Antique Collectors' Club Ltd (1999) *Sandon, John ''Antique Porcelain'' Antique Collectors' Club Ltd (1997) *Sandon, John ''The Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester Porcelain at Cheekwood'' (2007)

References

External links

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