De Metalen Pot (The Metal Pot) Furniture

This elegant antique faience planter was created in Holland, circa 1880. Round in shape with bowed movement, the cachepot stands on small shell...

This important antique vase was crafted in France, circa 1780. Octagonal in shape with gadrooned body style and a tall neck, the elegant potiche features a hand painted medallion dep...

A superb antique 18th-century Dutch Delft faience floral plate. This lovely plate has hand painted flowers, a butterfly, and foliate border in cobalt blue and white. It would be wond...

A lovely antique 18th-Century Dutch Delft Chinoiserie hand painted floral plate in vibrant cobalt blue and white. It would look fabulous displa...

This is a good example of a mid-18th century Delft charger in a chinoiserie hand-painted pattern. The pottery is hand-painted in a traditional blue and white chinoiserie scene featur...

A gorgeous antique 18th-century Dutch Delft faience floral plate. This lovely plate has a hand painted flower pot center with decorative border...

A large 18th-century Dutch Delft charger hand painted with a floral and foliate design in cobalt blue and white, circa 1750. This lovely large plate would be wonderful added to a col...

Blue and white chinoiserie altar vase. Delft, circa 1685 The ovoid altar vase stands on a high-waisted foot. The flaring cylindrical neck ends in an outward sloping mouth rim. The two blue coloured lion-shaped handles have suspending rings in their jaws. The body is painted with a continuous oriental landscape with banana and pine trees, Chinese figures and houses, while the neck is painted with three bands of different ornaments. The mouth rim is decorated with rectangular ornaments, the foot with leaves under a band around the ankle. Altar vases are also called vases à chimères. The oldest faience examples were made in the sixteen-twenties in Nevers, France and are attributed to the Conrade potters family, who originated from Italy. The shape is based on metal vases used during the services in Catholic churches. Therefore it is no wonder that many altar vases are painted with the Christogram IHS. Altar vases were made in Delft from about 1675 onwards and production continued well into the eighteenth century. Marked examples are known from multiple manufacturers, such as The Greek A and The Moor’s Head potteries (Aronson 2011, pp. 14-15). A pair of eighteenth century vases was made between 1700 and 1716 at The Three Porcelain Ash Barrells pottery. They are marked with PK for the owner Pieter Kam or, after 1705, by his widow (Blazy & Boyazoglu 1983, p. 110). The pair is painted with a dense parsley decor. A miniature example was excavated from a cesspit in the grounds of the former Porcelain Bottle pottery in Delft. At the same location a larger fragment was also found, decorated with a triple-tulip design in blue and yellow (Eliëns, Schledorn, Van Aken-Fehmers, pp. 31 , 36, 45). Three altar vases with similar tulip and flower decoration in blue and yellow are in the collection of the Dutch Open Air Museum in Arnhem and can also be attributed to the Porcelain Bottle pottery (Klein, p. 152). Official Catholic services were not allowed in the seventeenth century in the Dutch republic, however Catholic conventicles were tolerated. At first sight it might be surprising that a Catholic object...

A pair Dutch Royal Delft vases. Tall decorative vases on an octagonal foot. The vases are hand crafted and hand painted in enchanting blue colors, blue camaieu. Floral decoration wit...

Late 18th century Delft blue & white charger, Dutch. Large pomegranate flowering tree in central reserve with floral border. Rim frits typical for Delft. 13.75" dia. Whitehall Antiq...

Hand-painted set of blue and white delft porcelain. Three covered vases and two trumpet vases. The lids depict perched birds. The vases ...

This hand-painted Delft vase was produced in the Netherlands in the 1700’s. Delft is a city in the western part of the Netherlands that is world-renowned for ceramic pieces. As a home port of the Dutch East India Company, Delft was at the forefront of producing faience wares, which were influenced by imported Chinese porcelain. The prototypical Delftware has a white background with hand-painted cobalt blue imagery, though they can also be found in multi-colored or “polychrome” variations, such as ours. Our baluster form vase has a hand painted scene depicting a woman in a flowing dress walking across a field. The scene is surrounded by flowers, curled leaves, and a diapered background with flowering vine offshoots. On the opposite side of the baluster is a large flowering vine. The lid has a rural life cartouche that is painted with a scene depicting a farm overlooking a field or body of water . The handle of the lid has a similarly colored bird perched on a sinuous branch, while pecking at a berry. This particular design was seen on many delft baluster...