Earthenware Ceramics

19th Century Green Majolica Mallard Duck Plate Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of...

This elegant set of eleven large creamware soup dishes from Spode, circa 1820, is a beautiful example of English neoclassical style. The acanthus leaf border, painted with bright en...

A beautiful 20th century Majolica Platter / Decorative Wall Plate. Made in Santa Rosa de Lima (Villagrán), Guanajuato. Features a hand painted still life with a basket of fruit besides a watermelon, grapes and a pineapple. In the center is a porcelain face with Cala Lily's. The foreground of the plate is blue and the rim has a green and black repeated bat / hourglass pattern. Spanish-influenced Talavera and Italian Maiolica are sub-genres. Mexican Majolica...

A beautiful 20th century Majolica Platter / Decorative Wall Plate. Made in Santa Rosa de Lima (Villagrán), Guanajuato. Features a hand painted still life of watermelon and other fruit. The foreground of the plate is blue along the top with a sand color towards the bottom. Spanish-influenced Talavera and Italian Maiolica are sub-genres. Mexican Majolica...

French Majolica oyster plate with green acanthus leaves, circa 1890.

A beautiful 20th century Majolica Platter / Decorative Wall Plate. Made in Santa Rosa de Lima (Villagrán), Guanajuato. Features a hand painted still life of a compote with pears, grapefruit and a watermelon. A papaya, apples, bananas and more fruit are resting next to the compote. Towards the back right is a vase with yellow flower. The foreground of the plate is green with a yellow edge and black decorative pattern. Spanish-influenced Talavera and Italian Maiolica are sub-genres. Mexican Majolica...

French Majolica oyster plate with green acanthus leaves, circa 1890.

Pair of small coffee pots. Manufacture of Pasquale Rubati Milan, 1770 Circa Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). a) height 7.87 x 5.51 x 3.93 in (20 x 14 x ...

Goldenrold mustard Majolica plate with a peacock signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at t...

19th Century Green Majolica Mallard Duck Plate Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of...

Shiny green cup or vide-poches by Jacques et Dani Ruelland, 1960s. Signed on back Measures: Diameter 10,5 cm. Nice condition Bibliography : Les Ruelland Céramistes / JJ Wattel

Shiny orange cup or vide-poches by Jacques et Dani Ruelland, 1960s. Signed on back Measures: Diameter 10,5 cm. Nice condition Bibliography : Les Ruelland Céramistes / JJ Wattel

- Handbuilt ceramic coat hook - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potter Houda x me...

19th century Majolica Mallard Duck Plate Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th ...

Decorate a shelf or a kitchen counter with this elegant antique barbotine pitcher. Created by Sarreguemines, France in the 1930s, the pitcher depicts...

French Majolica rabbit tureen signed Caugant, circa 1940.

Big Majolica vase Ginori Italy, 1850-1890 Very good codiction Difetto di cottura sotto la base (vedere fotografia)

Early Arista y cuenca tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575.

19th Century French blue & white chinoiserie platter Creil et Montereau. Model Pagoda. 12 inches.

19th century French blue and white faience soup plate signed "Francois" Sarreguemines.

A double decorated Ceramic Vase by Joe and Pat Rowland circa 1960 Capron Blin A beautiful free-form ceramic vase. It is both a brutalist work, with its very rough shape and the use ...

Majolica oyster plate with different flowers on each shells, circa 1900 signed Longchamp.  

- Handbuilt white ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potter Hou...

- Handbuilt terracotta ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potte...

- Handbuilt terracotta ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potte...

Majolica pitcher Antonio Maria Coppellotti Manufacture Lodi, circa 1735 Majolica decorated in cobalt blue monochrome It measures 7.36 in hight x 8.07 x 4.52 (h 18.7 cm x 20.5 x 11.5...

- Handbuilt terracotta ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potte...

- Handbuilt white ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potter Hou...

- Handbuilt terracotta ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potte...

- Handbuilt terracotta ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potte...

Mid-Century French Ecru Majolica Oyster Plate . Lemon on the center.

Majolica oyster plate with different flowers on each shells, circa 1900 signed Longchamp.  

Dish with fruit in purple and yellow The Netherlands, 1660-1700. The dish has a spreading, slightly raised flange and is painted in purple and yellow with a fruit decor of grapes ...

William Brownfield Majolica Leaf and Strawberry 9-inch Plate in Cobalt Blue, English, 1876, in highly desirable cobalt ground. Impressed mark to re...

Minton Majolica platter, molded in high relief with a central medallion of leaves and a daisy, surrounded by basketweave latticework, with a continuous chain of daisies forming the b...

French Majolica oyster plate with yellow acanthus leaves, circa 1900.

The engraved and brush painted ceramic plate, Visage Gris (Grey Face) is one the most iconic pieces created by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, France. It is said "all portraits are self portraits". In this work, we see Picasso's wistfulness, vulnerability and humor set within a beautiful image representing both the sun and the moon, the masculine and the feminine. Picasso mastery of form, image, composition and subtle color is evident in a work that resonates transcendence. Created in 1953, Pablo Picasso ceramic Visage Gris (Grey Face), 1953 A.R. 206 is a Madoura white earthenware clay, knife engraved under partial brushed glaze with decoration in engobes (green, black, white) from the edition of 500. This work is stamped with the 'Madoura PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO’ pottery stamps on the reverse. Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 5/8in (31.4 x 38.3 x 4.1cm). Madoura was an artisan workshop created by Georges and Suzanne Ramie which collaborated with Picasso in the fabrication and hand painting of the works. Pablo Picasso designed 633 different ceramic editions between 1947 and 1971 at the Madoura workshop, with a number of variants and unique pieces resulting from these initial works. He began by creating simple, utilitarian objects such as plates and bowls, but later produced more complex forms, including pitchers and vases — their handles occasionally shaped to form facial features, or anatomical parts of his animal subjects. Picasso remains one of the highest-grossing artists at auction today, and the range of his ceramics means it's possible to find both a good investment and a beautiful object. Visage Gris is among the most important. A Short Biography follows: Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art world and to many is THE artist of the 20th century. He is famous for his role in pioneering Cubism with Georges Braque and for his melancholy Blue Period pieces. Original signed Picasso lithographs and prints are a sure investment. Madoura Picasso ceramics are highly collectible in their own right. As one of the most influential Modern artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is renowned as a legendary artistic master to this day. Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along. The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his early works, which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture. Picasso was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered. He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain – all in the years 1899 to 1904. Before he struck upon Cubism, Picasso went through a prodigious number of styles – realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. These distinguished styles are apparent in the unique original works as well as Picasso ceramics, lithographs, linocuts, and etchings that he created later in his life. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and is characterized by a predominantly blue palette and focuses on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes. This was when he also produced his first sculptures. The most poignant work of the style, La Vie (1903), currently located in Cleveland’s Museum of Art, was created in memory of his childhood friend, the Spanish poet Carlos Casagemas, who had committed suicide. The painting started as a self-portrait, but Picasso’s features became those of his lost friend. The composition is stilted, the space compressed, the gestures stiff, and the tones predominantly blue. The Rose Period began around 1904 when Picasso’s palette brightened and is dominated by pinks and beiges, light blues, and roses. His subjects are saltimbanques (circus people), harlequins, and clowns, all of whom seem to be mute and strangely inactive. One of the premier works of this period is Family of Saltimbanques (1905), currently in Washington, D.C. at the National Gallery, which portrays a group of circus workers who appear alienated and incapable of communicating with each other, set in a one-dimensional space. In 1905, Picasso went briefly to Holland, and on his return to Paris, his works took on a classical aura with large male and female figures seen frontally or in distinct profile, as in early Greek art. One of the best examples of this style is in the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY, La Toilette (1906). Several pieces in this new, classical style were purchased by Gertrude Stein (the art patron and writer) and her brother, Leo Stein. With his groundbreaking 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon...

20th century German majolica plate platter for serving eggs with two chicken as salt and pepper shakers. Nice addition to your table or just to display. Please see detailed pictures ...

This pair of majolia decorative wall plates is beautiful and refined. Characterized by a rich decoration with bright colours. In the center animated historical scenes of ancient Rome...

Rare French Majolica pigs signed Orchies, circa 1900. One side with dancing pigs , the other side with a pig playing Accordion.

Menton French Majolica (Barbotine) Trompe L'oeil Wall Plaque formed as hanging oranges molded in high relief with leaves and blossoms, circa 1880, the reverse with impressed mark for...

A lovely set of 10 Art Nouveau majolica plates, made by Villeroy & Boch. Colorful pattern with water lilies. The plates date from circa 190...

Early Arista / border tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575. Catalogue: La Azulejería Toledana a Través ...

Germany Frechen Circa 1620 – 1650 Bellarmine or Bartmann jug with a flower medallion. A salt-glazed and iron-engobed bellarmine with a narrow neck, sphe...

Decorative eartenware fruit platter by Anna-Lisa Thomson, Uppsala Ekeby, Sweden. Mid 20th Century. Beautifully decorated with fishes in various colors from late 1940s or early 1950s ...

- Handbuilt brown ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - slip applied with natural mineral pigments - ...

- Handbuilt terracotta ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potte...

Set of Midcentury multi color fish Plates and Platters as Wall Decoration A funny collection of eleven european glazed ceramic, porcelain and...

Berte Jessen for Aluminia. Advent wreath in faience. Hand-painted. Model 556/3359. Approximately from 1970. Marked. In excellent condition with natural cracks. Dimensions: Diameter 1...

Large-scale, hand-formed stoneware double-handled vessel (or jug) from the studio of contemporary ceramicist Ebitenyefa Baralaye. This massively sized decorative jug stands 31" inch...

Beautiful pair of vases made by Sarreguemines France. Underglaze mark. Nice addition to your table or just to display. Please see detailed pictures for vintage as found condition. Ma...

French Faience oyster signed plate Saint Clement, circa 1890. Rustic, Country style.

Polychrome lobed dish with King William III Delft, circa 1690 The polychrome lobed dish is composed of eight wide and twisted lobes and is painted in blue, green and yellow with a depiction of King-Stadholder William III between two flowering branches. The border is decorated with a continuous frieze of tulips and flowers. Dimensions: diameter 34.4 cm / 13.54 in. The colour scheme of blue, yellow and green is frequently found on lobed dishes from the sixteen-nineties, especially with images of King William III and his wife Queen Mary Stuart. After the Glorious Revolution...

French Majolica Lobster ,Shrimp and frog Platter HB Choisy Le Roi Circa 1930. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture a...

This colorful two-piece antique Majolica cheese dome was crafted in France, circa 1980. The piece includes a bottom circular platter decor...

Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...

French Majolica Shrimp Plate HB Choisy Le Roi Circa 1930. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th century, they produced very hi...

Blue and white plate with deer in a landscape Delft, circa 1700 The plate has a narrow, flat flange and is painted in blue with a landscape with four deer between trees. Birds fly ...