18th Century Ceramics

A pair of famille verte porcelain plates, the left made in China during the Kangxi period (r. 1662–1722) and the right a copy by Meissen made circa 1740. Chinese porcelain has alw...

A delightful cream pail in black basalt, decorated with Poor Maria and Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther. The associated makes it very special indeed.

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Hunting Scene" Measures: 100cm x 82cm 42 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered ...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Hunting Scene" Measures: 100cm x 88cm 49 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered...

This is a hard paste porcelain waste or slop bowl by New Hall in a hand painted Chinoiserie figure pattern number 20, dating to the late 18th century, Circa 1790. The bowl is well...

This is an excellent example of a porcelain Spoon Tray made by the Caughley factory, Shropshire, England. The Spoon Tray is made of porcelain and is vert...

A large 18th century French Rouen white glazed cul noir earthenware platter with scalloped edge, hand-painted with blue decorative banded border and a fruit basket in the center. Rob...

This is a late 18th century porcelain Tea Cup and Saucer in pattern 128 by the Derby factory, Circa 1795. This is a rare Derby pattern that we have not come across or seen previou...

Antique 18th century Chinese plate.

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Panel "Battle Scene" Measures: 120cm x 140cm 90 tiles Important Note: This panel is with the tiles in original 18th century condition, so t...

This is an early porcelain trio comprising a coffee can, tea cup and saucer, all in gilded patterns, which we attribute to Coalport, John Rose & Co., Shropshire, England, made at the...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Romantic Scene" Measures: 252cm x 140cm 170 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is deliver...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Sculpture" Measures: 128cm x 143cm 90 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered as ...

Covered bowl, perhaps for soup, in black basalt with ‘Etruscan’ encaustic painting.

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 187cm x 84cm 84 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is deliv...

An early Meissen porcelain teapot made circa 1715, decorated by a Dutch hausmaler circa 1730-1740. The teapot is decorated in a Kakiemon pa...

Cyclicrical tea canister in engine-turned black basalt, with raised decoration. Unmarked, but the quality and finial clinch the attribution.

An extraordinary navette, or cream boat, in black basalt with encaustic decoration. Complete with matching ladle: a rare find indeed.

A fine example of a German Baroque tobacco jar with original pewter lid. The rich ocher salt glaze decorated with raised floral motifs. A handsome addition for the collector of pipes...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Panel "Battle Scene" Measures: 154cm x 100cm 77 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles in original 18th century condition, so th...

18th Century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 141cm x 105cm 80 tiles IMPORTANT NOTE: This panel is with the tiles RESTORED 18th century. The panel is deli...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 121cm x 49cm 36 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delive...

In the past, this pair of beautiful ceramics carafes, was utilized in a Pharmacy to contain erbs and spices infusions. The carafes shows all signs of the time, but they remain a pai...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 170cm x 128cm 108 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is deli...

A large 18th century French Rouen white glazed earthenware platter with scalloped edge, hand painted with blue and red decorative banded border and a stylized fruit basket in the cen...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " River Scene" Measures: 181cm x 087cm 78 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered ...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Romantic Scene" Measures: 252cm x 140cm 180 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles in original 18th century condition, so they ...

18th Century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 184cm x 85cm. 78 tiles IMPORTANT NOTE: This panel is with the tiles RESTORED 18th century. The panel is deli...

18th Century Portuguese " Azulejos " Hunting Scene" Measures: 100cm x 80cm 49 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " panel "Leisure Scene" Measures: 126cm x 100cm 63 tiles Important Note: This panel is with the tiles in original 18th century condition, so ...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Panel "Battle Scene" 126cm x 140cm 330 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles in original 18th century condition, so they are n...

This large, beautiful and bold blue and white platter is Japanese Imari from the Edo period (18th century). This impressive early porcelain Imari ware is saturated in rich cobalt blue underglaze hand painted in an unusual cross pattern. It features four round medallions of lotus flowers and landscape vinettes and finishes in blue rimmed scalloped edges. A hand painted leaf design is repeated on the underside. Condition: Very good condition especially for it's age. One tiny chip is touched up. Nice wear and firing stilt marks on back. Measurements: 16" diameter x 2" depth Weight: 6 lbs. Experience and expertise - Clune Art And Antiques Studio.

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 121cm x 49cm 36 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delive...

Chinese plate, 18th century Measures: H. 2 Dia. 23 cm H. 0.7 Dia. 9 in.

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 326cm x 115cm 184 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is del...

18th Century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 187cm x 153cm 80 tiles IMPORTANT NOTE: This panel is with the tiles RESTORED 18th century. The panel is deli...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 172cm x 088cm 72 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is deli...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 180cm x 84cm 78 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delive...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 204cm x 088cm 90 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is deli...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Panel "Battle Scene" 462cm x 140cm 330 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles in original 18th century condition, so they are n...

18th century Portuguese " The Boy and the Dog " Sculpture " Measures: 144cm x 173cm 120 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18t...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Hunting Scene" Measures: 100cm x 82cm 42 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered ...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Countryside Scene" Measures: 121cm x 49cm 36 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delive...

Maiolica pitcher Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 8.66 x 8.66 x 4.33 in (22 x 22 x 11 ...

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " River Scene" Measures: 200cm x 083cm 84 tiles Important Note: this panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered a...

Antique Chinese expert "Blue & White" platter, circa 1780-1800.

18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Panel "Battle Scene" Measures: 239cm x 140cm 160 tiles Important Note: This panel is with the tiles in original 18th century condition, so ...

A fantastic pair of 18th/19th century French terracotta figures of Pomona and a Girl Carrying Fruit in her Skirt, Signed Clodion. These excep...

18th century Spanish "Puente del Arzopispo" Mardrid hand painted earthenware "salvilla" dish, a type of plate which stands on a pedestal and was used to hold and display smaller reci...

A late 18th or early 19th century English Prattware baby's cradle in a rare large size. Decorated with an overall basket weave pattern and a yello...

An 18th century European ceramic pitcher, most probably from Germany, with glazed decoration in blue colour representing flowers on a beige background. It has most probably been used...

A pair of very large Chinese armorial export blue and white porcelain 'Pelgrom' chargers Kangxi period, circa 1710 The two chargers, decorated in...

Maiolica tureen Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 9.05 x 12.59 x 9.05 in (23 x 32 x 23 cm) ...

OR19067 A large and stunning antique Chinese Qing porcelain charger decorated in the famille rose palette with scattered floral designs on a turquoise ground and set around five Chi...

Chinese export porcelain Fitzhugh pattern tureen, cover and underplate, 18th century. Very Unusual and rare pattern, beautifully hand painted in green enamels and 24-karat gold, havi...

A sublime Chinese celadon glazed shallow dish or charger, Qing Dynasty, mid 18th century, China. Beautifully glazed, with a carved decoration of a group of lotus, leaves, stalks and blossoms. The interior wall with radiating S-shaped lines, a motif that is repeated on the wide rim of the dish. The back undecorated. Glazed all-over with an even bright celadon glaze, with some attractive areas of crackle. Ex. Butterfield's, San Francisco. Plate stand for display...

This elegant inkwell set by Wedgwood & Bentley is crafted of black basalt, one of Wedgwood’s finest inventions. The set is comprised of two canisters, both held within an intriguing double stand. One is designed to hold ink and features a top with slots for quills or pens, and the other is a powder Shaker with a shell-ornamented lid. Black basalt refers to the fine-grained stoneware that Josiah Wedgwood, inspired by the hard, natural stone known as Egyptian basalt...

Two pairs of maiolica baskets Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, circa 1770-1790 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). Measures: A) Height 3.54 x 6.69 x 9.84 in (9 x 17 x 25 cm); B) Height 3.93 x 7.48 x 11.02 in (10 x 19 x 28 cm). Total weight 4.85 lb (2.200 kg) State of conservation: A) One of the smaller baskets has some areas of restoration, the other slight chipping from use; B) One of the larger baskets is intact and the other shows a clearly glued break. The mold with which the baskets were forged simulates a wicker weave. The two larger works have high, vertical walls, with branch-shaped handles penetrating the weave. The painted decorations, small polychrome flowers applied only externally, highlight the points where the weaves intersect. The decision to leave the center of the basket devoid of decoration is highly unusual, but given the size and complexity of the shape, as well as the quality of the enamel, it is possible to hypothesize that it represents a precise choice in manufacturing or for a particular client. The two smaller baskets have small, twisted handles and, on the outside, reproduce more decisively the characteristic wicker weave, obtained through thin molded lines. The interior exhibits a rich, typical decoration of naturalistic flowers: a bunch centered around a main flower and secondary stems accompanied by small “semis”. The exterior of these works is also adorned with small little flowers where the weaves intersect. The size and morphological characteristics of the baskets confirm their attribution to the Lodi factory of Antonio Ferretti between 1770 and 1790, during its most successful period; by this point his original reworking of the "Strasbourg" decoration, known as "old Lodi", had achieved great fame even outside Italy. This decorative choice represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and which Antonio Ferretti introduced in Italy. This production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple. The Ferretti family had started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano had started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano had started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59). In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory. In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, could commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables...