Chinese Blue and White Fruit Coolers, Liners and Covers, circa 1790-1810

The Ridgway porcelain coolers are decorated in pattern #1173. They have a circular body raised on three dolphin feet and trefoil base and painted with flo...

Chinese Export porcelain early blue and white soup tureen, cover and stand, circa 1740-1750    The rare Chinese Export porcelain tureen...

Chinese export porcelain blue fitzhugh sauce tureens, covers and stands, circa 1780-1810 The pair of Chinese export porcelain sauce tureens, covers a...

Chinese Export Porcelain Chocolate Pot and Cover, American Market, Circa 17 85-95 The Chinese Export porcelain chocolate pot and domed cover is painted to each side with an en grisa...

Chinese export porcelain blue and white porcelain plates, After Maria Sybille Merian, Pronk Workshop Design, Dutch Market, Circa 1740-45 A pair of blue and white plates with a design after Maria Sybille Merian, probably from the Pronk workshop. The Chinese export underglaze blue porcelain...

Chinese Export Porcelain European-subject Blue & White Tea Bowl and Saucer, Neptune, The God of The Sea, Dutch market, Yongzheng Period, Circa 1730-35 The Chinese Export porcelain, probably made for the Dutch market, depicts Neptune, the God of the Sea, standing with his triton in the center of the design with a number of other figures to his left and right with three large fish or whales at his feet. The lower section of the design depicting the sea. The border of each piece with a repeating diaper design. Dimensions: Saucer: 4 1/2 inches diameter x 3/4 inch high (11.53cm diameter x 1.91cm high); Cup: 2 3/4 inches diameter x 1 3/4 inches high (6.99cm diameter x 4.45cm high). The design is after an etching called `The Realm of Neptune` by Frederick Bloemaert (c.1610-c.1669) completed between 1650-1656, after a drawing by his father Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651). This is a Baroque design which is only found in blue and white on Chinese porcelain, it occurs on fine grained porcelain and Chinese soft-paste porcelain. Both dinner services and tea services were produced. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a plate in their collection, Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1966 (Ass. # 66.27.5). Reference: Jorg states "The depiction of Neptune, the God of the Sea of classical mythology occurs in several varieties on Chine de Commande from the 1740`s onwards. How well the design sold is illustrated by an order from 1778, when they sent a chocolate cup with this design as a model for similarly decorated plates. However, the Dutch merchants...

A Large 18th Century Chinese Blue and White Kangxi Period Porcelain Covered Vase/Jar. Of baluster form this covered vase is truly exceptional in quality, condition and size. The body...

Pair of 19th century English Derby Fruit Coolers with Lids & Liners, ca. 1815.    

A fine pair of Chinese Export porcelain vases and covers. Dating from the third quarter of the 1700s, and originating in the Jingdezhen region of China, near the important China Trad...

Chinese blue and white baluster vase. Strong blue and white Chinese vase with birds, butterflies and flowering trees surrounding p...

A magnificent and rare Barr, Flight & Barr Porcelain Fruit Cooler c.1804-1813. Superbly decorated with a continuous deep orange ground band and heavily gilded, highly detailed rams head handles, greek key motif to header and a crowned deer armorial crest to the front and reverse. The fruit cooler is one of the rarest and most coveted tableware pieces amongst antique porcelain. This example is even more valuable with its original liner and lid. Impressed mark to underside. The first record of ice cream in Britain is 1671 on the menu of a feast for the Knights of the Garter held in St. George's Hall at Windsor Castle. At this time it was considered such an exclusive dish that it appeared only on the king's table. The earliest printed recipe appeared in Mrs Eale's Receipts, a work on confectionary which was published in London, 1718. It was not until the second half of the 18th century that ices became more readily available from confectioner's shops, and these pails were commonly found on upper class homes' sideboards to be used for a dessert of ice cream with cut fruit. If ice alone is used to fill the cover and the bucket, the ice cream melts very quickly. Although there is nothing recorded in literature, it is almost certain that a little salt was sprinkled on the ice. Porcelain is the ideal material for ice cream pails...

Hand-painted oversized temple jars. Foo dog on top of lid.