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Period: Late 18th Century
Worcester Barr Period Porcelain Coffee Cup in Royal Lily pattern, circa 1800
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good hard paste porcelain early Coffee Can or cup with a loop handle, hand decorated in the Royal Lily pattern by Worcester during the Barr period, fully marked to the...
Category
English George III Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Urbino Ceramic Plate end 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Urbino Ceramic Plate end 18th Century
Ceramic plate from Urbino, King Solomon honors the Queen of Sheba, painted in multicolor, glazed,
31 cm diameter
good condition
Category
Italian Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Early Coffee Cup Blue and White Boy on a Buffalo Ptn probably Spode, circa 1790
By Josiah Spode
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good, very early, rare blue and white coffee cup in the "Boy on a Buffalo" pattern, probably from the factory of Josiah Spode, stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, made...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Circa 1780-1800 Chinese Export Blue Canton Covered Posset Pot
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1780-1800 covered posset pot, Blue Canton, Chinese export. Double entwined handled. Porcelain. Very good condition & decoration. While the earliest pots had a spout, this form ...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Circa 1770 Delft Blue & White Plate
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1770 Delft blue & white plate. Central handled & footed basket vase overflowing with flowers, surrounded by alternating repetive floral vases & naturalistic motifs. Frits comme...
Category
Dutch Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century European Charger
Located in Ross, CA
Simply painted European charger / plate / platter from the 18th century, likely Spanish. The tin-glazed, hand painted plate is decorated with blue and orange flowers surrounded by gr...
Category
Spanish Country Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Delft Garlic Neck Vases circa 1790
Located in Arundel, GB
Ref: 126571
Pair of Delft tin glaze garlic neck vases.
Holland Circa 1790
Measurements: H: 28.5cm (11.2") W: 12cm (4.7")
Category
Dutch Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Basket-Weave Teapot in Black Basalt, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A most attractive and unusual teapot in black basalt, moulded with basket-weave decoration and interlocking arches.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter ...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Large Lambeth 18th Century English Delft Charger
Located in Free Union, VA
A large blue and white charger decorated with a Chinese inspired garden and fence vignette, and a repeating scroll pattern border with a brown glazed rim. An identical example is in ...
Category
English Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Faience
Chinese Export Qing Qianlong Famille Rose Medallion Porcelain Bowl
Located in New York, NY
This finely decorated Qing-period rose medallion or rose mandarin bowl is beautifully hand-painted with four vignettes depicting courtly scenes.
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Worcester Barr Period Coffee Can Porcelain Hand Painted, circa 1800
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
A very good Porcelain Coffee Can with a ring handle, hand decorated with an orange and gilt pattern by Worcester during the Barr period, fully marked to...
Category
English George III Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Faience Tromp L'oeil Jug in the Form of a Parrot, Proskau Poland
By Proskau
Located in Downingtown, PA
Proskau Faience Tompe L'oeil Jug in the form of a Parrot,
Circa 1770.
The European tin-glazed earthenware tromp l'oeil jug is in the form of a parrot with a removable head forming...
Category
Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Faience
English Pearlware Blue Ground Pottery Mocha Mug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Blue Ground Pottery Mocha Mug
Late 18th Century
The blue ground slip tankard with a white handle with leaf terminals has two bands of molded checkerboard black and white ba...
Category
English Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
Pair Blue and White Chinoiserie Porcelain Saucers 18th Century England Ca-1785
Located in Katonah, NY
This pair of blue and white porcelain saucers was made by Caughley in England circa 1785.
Painted in underglaze blue, they show a lovely chinoiserie scene of a mother and son in a lu...
Category
English Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Dr. Wall Worcester Oval Dish
Located in Wilson, NC
Dr. Wall Worcester oval dish, this first period Dr. Wall dish has a scalloped shape, the rim is gilt along with gilt decoration in the body, below the rim is a cobalt blue border, ...
Category
English Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Porcelain Soup Tureen
Located in Essex, MA
With domed cover with gilt lemon finial on a conforming base with two handles.
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Hunt Pattern Punch Bowl
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Chinese Export Porcelain Hunt Pattern Punch Bowl. Late 18th century. Restorations. 4.75” h. x 11.25” diam.
Category
Chinese Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Three Chelsea-Derby Porcelain Pieces
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Three Chelsea-Derby porcelain pieces, circa 1775. Central urn cartouche flanked by musical instruments having a cobalt border and gilt accents. The two serving pieces with of scallop...
Category
English Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Japan, a Late 18th Century Imari Charger, Edo Period
Located in PARIS, FR
Nice hand painted Porcelain charger in the Imari palette using underglaze cobalt bleu and iron red.
Japan, Edo period, late 18th century.
Category
Japanese Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Mixed Clay Ewer with Classic Decoration and Swan Handle Grammont Factory Orleans
By Grammont Ainé
Located in ARGENTEUIL, FR
Rarely ewer in mixed clay from the Orleans factory of Grammont Ainé(1764-1832)
End of the 18th century, around 1790
Very beautiful & rare zoomorphic ewer in earthenware mixed with ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Two Sets of Late 18th Century Dutch Delft Plates, circa 1790
Located in Madison, MS
These sets of Delft Dutch plates would be a lovely addition to a dining room or would make beautiful decorations displayed on a wall or resting on a buffe...
Category
Danish Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Delft
Ancient Italian Maiolica Tureen, Rubati Manufacture, Milan, circa 1770-1780
Located in Milano, IT
Maiolica tureen
Pasquale Rubati Manufacture
Milan, circa 1770 - 1780
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire).
It measures 6.69 in x 11,02 x 8.26 (17 x 28 x ...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Maiolica
Late 18th Century Terre De Namur Core Piece, Coffee Tee & Milk, Belgium
Located in Vienna, AT
3-part core piece consisting of coffee pot, teapot and milk jug made of Terre de Namur ceramics.
Terre de Namur
The fine black faience is a particular product of Namur, Belgium, lat...
Category
Belgian Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Mounted Imari Porcelain Perfume Fountain
Located in PARIS, FR
Perfume fountain in porcelain Imari kinrandé mounted in gilt bronze from the same set of porcelain. The cup and the bowl form the base, the pot covers the perfume container...
Category
Chinese Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Blue and White Plaques with Ships off the Coast, 1784-1800
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Pair of blue and white plaques with ships off the coast. Makkum, 1784-1800
Kingma pottery painter: Adam Sijbel
The diamond-shaped plaques have a raise...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Set 6 Imari Dessert Plates Late 18th Century Turner's Patent Ironstone England
By John Turner
Located in Katonah, NY
This set of six plates, crafted by John Turner circa 1795, features the exquisite Imari color palette of iron red, cobalt blue, and radiant gold. The color combination creates a vibr...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ironstone
Circa 1780 Chinese "Elephant & Mahout" Vegetable Dish
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1780 Chinese export "elephant & mahout" oval vegetable dish. Qing dynasty, Qianlong period. Retailed by Sarah potter conover, early label. One of ...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Rocking Cradle with Child. Delft, 1750-1780 Dutch Delftware
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Rocking cradle with child. Delft, 1750-1780
Polychrome figure of a child in a rocking cradle with open hood. The child is dressed in a yellow nightgown and sleeping cap with reddish-brown and green dots. It sits upright under a marbled blanket and holds the sides of the yellow cradle with both hands.
Dimensions: length 12,5 cm / 4.92 in., width 9 cm / 3.54 in., height 11,5 cm / 4.52 in.
Figures of children in a rocking cradle are generally dated to the second half of the eighteenth century. They may have been inspired by plates, made at the birth of Prince William V...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Fine Paris Porcelain Coffee Can Vue De Notredame De Paris, French Ca 1795
By Paris Studio
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very beautiful porcelain coffee can with a hand painted scene of Notre-Dame Cathedral, made by Paris, France, dating to the late 18th century, circa 1795.
The coffee can is broadly cylindrical tapering slightly to the base, with a ring handle having an inner spur.
This is a very finely hand painted coffee can with a view of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, all in many different coloured enamels. The view even shows various figures in the foreground, all set in a rectangular thick gilded border, against a lovely lemon yellow ground. with further hand painted gold gilded rims and outer handle.
Overall a very distinctive, beautifully decorated coffee can.
NOTES
Notre-Dame de Paris, often simply referred to as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral and is the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals from the middle ages, situated on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture.
Notre-Dame was built on the ruins of two earlier churches, which were themselves predated by a Gallo-Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter. The cathedral was initiated by Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, who about 1160 conceived the idea of converting into a single building, on a larger scale, the ruins of the two earlier basilicas. The foundation stone was laid by Pope Alexander III in 1163, and the high altar...
Category
French Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Rocking Cradle with Child, Delft, 1750-1780
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Rocking cradle with child. Delft, 1750-1780
White figure of a child in a rocking cradle with open hood. It sits upright under a blanket and holds the sides of the cradle with both hands.
Dimensions: length 13,5 cm / 5.31 in., width 9 cm / 3.54 in., height 11,5 cm / 4.52 in.
Figures of children in a rocking cradle are generally dated to the second half of the eighteenth century. They may have been inspired by plates, made at the birth of Prince William V in 1748, depicting a child in a cradle. At the time, the rocking cradles with children may also have been initially intended as an expression of support for the House of Orange. Separately, they were perfect gifts for a married couple to wish them a child-rich marriage.
Nice condition, some minor glaze damage, as to be expected with antique delftware.
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Delft Blue and White Landscape Dish Makkum, 1775-1800 Tichelaar Pottery
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Blue and white landscape dish. Makkum, 1775-1800
Tichelaar pottery. painter: Douwe Klases Hofstra [attributed to]
The dish has a wide and raised flange and is painted in blue wi...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Small Maiolica Flower Pots, Ferretti Manufacture, Lodi, circa 1770-1780
Located in Milano, IT
Two maiolica flower pots
Antonio Ferretti Manufacture
Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire)
The...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Maiolica
Hand-Painted Ceramic Jug with Lead Lid, Dated From 1762,
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-Painted ceramic jug with lead lid, dated from 1762, initials G. and R. and signed at the bottom, with scenes of windmills and a house.
Category
Dutch Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Lead
Large Delft Blue and White Charger with a Bird on a Branch, Harlingen, 1775-1800
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Blue and white charger with a bird on a branch. Harlingen, 1775-1800
Raamstraat pottery. painter: Pieter Ruurds
The charger has a slightly raised flange and is painted in blue ...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Large Dish with a Dutch Water Landscape Delft, 1760-1780
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
The dish has a wide, slightly raised rim and is painted in blue in the centre with a Dutch water landscape within a polygonal yellow band. The well and border are painted in polychro...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Delft Blue and White Landscape Dish, Makkum, 1775-1800 Tichelaar Pottery
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Blue and white landscape dish. Makkum, 1775-1800
Tichelaar pottery. painter: Douwe Klases Hofstra [attributed to]
The dish has a wide and raised flange and is painted in blue w...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Rare Meissen Marcolini Porcelain Chinoiserie Incense Burner Vase and Cover
Located in New York, NY
A rare Meissen Marcolini Porcelain Chinoiserie incense burner vase and cover, made for the Chinese market, circa 1800, blue cross swords and star mark, Pressnummer 58
A Museum Quality Piece.
Painted in the sought after famille rose palette with sprigs of indianische Blumen and enriched in gilding, the simulated pierced body supported by four feet painted with stylized dragons, the pierced cover with a Buddhist lion finial.
10" high x 6" wide x 6" deep
The shape of this piece, which appears to be unrecorded in the literature, is inspired by similar Chinese porcelain censers from the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1654-1722). An example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated by Li Yi-hua in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 65. Another in the British Museum, London (museum no. PDF, A.812) is catalogued as a perfume-holder.
These porcelain examples are in turn inspired by ancient Chinese bronzes from both the Shang (1600-1046 BC) and the Zhou (1046-246 BCE) dynasties, an example of which was sold anonymously by Christie's New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1601. This chain of inspiration tracking backwards from the 19th century to antiquity provides a clear example of how ceramics, and indeed other mediums, are able to influence and motivate the works of later generations.
For a Meissen porcelain snuff...
Category
German Chinoiserie Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Triton Candlesticks. Palmer C1780.
By Palmer
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An exceptionally rare pair of Triton candlesticks, in black basalt with gold lustre. The design is copied from Wedgwood, who took it from Sir Willi...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Chinese Porcelain Plate or Dish Hand Painted Blue & White, 18th Century Qing
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good Chinese porcelain plate or dish with a blue and white, hand painted river scene, which we date to the Qing dynasty, late 18th century.
The dish or plate is fairly h...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Early Wedgwood Neoclassical Creamware Dessert Dishes Made circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A set of four early Wedgwood creamware Neoclassical dessert dishes made circa 1780.
Sir William Hamilton’s Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman an...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Creamware
Large Chinese Export Punch Bowl, Painted & Gilt Decoration in Mandarin Palette
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large & Very Fine Chinese Export Punch Bowl, with Painted & Gilt decoration in the Mandarin palette. Jingdezhen region, China ca. 1780.
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian Derby Trio Tea & Coffee Cup & Saucer Pattern 569, Puce Mark Circa 1795
By Derby
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good porcelain TRIO of a Tea Cup, Coffee Cup and saucer by the Derby factory, made during the George 111rd period, circa 1795.
The pieces are well potted in the Hamilton...
Category
British George III Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Encaustic Painted Cup and Saucer in Black Basalt, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Black basalt, with rope handle and encaustic decoration of lines & anthemion, in imitation of early Greek pottery. Early encaustic examples are rar...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Rare John Turner Porcelain Cup and Saucer in Traveller Pattern, circa 1795
By John Turner
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a rare coffee cup and saucer in ‘The Traveller’ or ‘One Legged Duck’ blue transfer printed, hand gilded pattern by John Turner & family, of Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire. ...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Early New Hall Porcelain Coffee Can & Saucer Duo Chinese Pattern 421, circa 1800
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hard paste porcelain coffee can & saucer duo by New Hall, hand decorated with their Chinese figure pattern number 421, dating to the English George 3rd...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Georgian New Hall Porcelain Tea Bowl & Saucer Gold Pattern 142, Circa 1785
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very fine hard paste porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer by New Hall, dating to the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1785.
Both pieces have 24 vertical flutes.
Both pie...
Category
English Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian Newhall Porcelain Tea Bowl & Saucer Hand Painted, Circa 1800
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hard paste porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer by New Hall, dating to the turn of the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1800.
Both pieces are decorated over-glaze with ...
Category
English Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export American Market, Blue & White 'Star' Boarder Armorial Platter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Export American market, blue & white 'star' boarder armorial platters
China for American Market, Circa 1790s
A rare and unique example of...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Porcelain Imari Charger Made Qianlong Era Circa 1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This large Chinese Imari porcelain charger dates to the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, circa 1760. Finely potted with a lovely rich, glassy white glaze, the charger is hand-p...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century, Italian Maiolica Flower Pot, Pasquale Rubati, Milan, 1770 circa
Located in Milano, IT
Maiolica flower pot “a mezzaluna”
decorated with trompe l’oeil
Pasquale Rubati Factory
Milan, 1770 circa
It measures: 4.7 in (cm 12) X 5 in (...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Maiolica
18th Century Newhall Porcelain Coffee Cup Pattern 139, Circa 1790
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hard paste porcelain coffee cup, by New Hall, dating to the late 18th century George 111rd period, circa 1790.
The piece is well potted on a low foot with a plain loop h...
Category
English Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th C Derby Porcelain Bowl in Pattern 110 Puce Mark, Ca 1790
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a fine quality Derby porcelain bowl in pattern number 110, fully marked with puce crown & battons and dating to 11790, George 111rd period.
It is beautifully decorated in ...
Category
English George III Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Encaustic Painted Teapot in Black Basalt, Wedgwood C1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare and stunning example of neo-classical decoration on an ordinary househuld object: a teapot. The decoration is restrained yet lively, and makes excellent use of classical figur...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
7 Antique 18th Century Chinese Export Qianlong Armorial Federal Porcelain China
Located in Dayton, OH
Lot of seven late 18th to early 19th century Chinese Export (Qianlong Period, circa 1780) porcelain pieces in an American federal style with blue and gold motifs and armorial crest c...
Category
Chinese Export Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Maiolica Ancient Sugar Bowl, Lodi, 1770-1780
Located in Milano, IT
Maiolica sugar bowl
Antonio Ferretti Manufacture
Lodi, Circa 1770-1780
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire).
It measures 3.54 x 4.52 x 3.54 in (9 x 11,5 x 9 cm)
Weight: 0.394 lb (0.179 kg)
State of conservation: small and slight chips on the edges.
The small sugar bowl has a swollen and ribbed body resting on a flat base. The cap-shaped lid follows the rib of the container and is topped with a small knob in the shape of a two-colored fruit.
The sugar bowl is painted “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) with the characteristic floral motif of bunches and isolated semis.
An example which closely corresponds to this one is kept at the Civic Museum in Lodi (G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137).
This decorative style 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 later introduced by Antonio Ferretti to Italy. The 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 started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725.
The forefather Simpliciano started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces starting from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano 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, was able to 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, both with or without contour lines, as well as in purple or green monochrome. After efforts to introduce more industrial production techniques to the sector succeeded, even the Ferretti manufacture, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, started heading towards decline despite its attempts to adapt production to neoclassical tastes.
In 1796 the Napoleonic battle for the conquest of the Lodi bridge over the Adda definitively compromised the furnaces. Production resumed, albeit in a rather stunted manner, until Antonio's death on 29 December 1810. (M. L. Gelmini, pp. 28-30, 38, 43 sgg., 130-136 (for Simpliciano); pp. 31 sgg., 45-47, 142-192 (for Antonio).
Bibliography
G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi Milano e Pavia Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137;
C. Baroni, Storia delle ceramiche nel Lodigiano, in Archivio storico per la città e i comuni del circondario e della diocesi di Lodi, XXXIV (1915), pp. 118, 124, 142; XXXV (1916), pp. 5-8;
C. Baroni, La maiolica antica di Lodi, in Archivio storico lombardo, LVIII (1931), pp. 453-455;
L. Ciboldi, La maiolica lodigiana, in Archivio storico lodigiano, LXXX (1953), pp. 25 sgg.;
S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, pp. 17 sgg.;
A. Novasconi - S. Ferrari - S. Corvi, La ceramica lodigiana, Lodi 1964, ad Indicem; Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia (catal.), Milano 1964, p. 17;
O. Ferrari - G. Scavizzi, Maioliche italiane del Seicento e del Settecento, Milano 1965, pp. 26 sgg.;
G. C. Sciolla, Lodi. Museo civico, Bologna 1977, pp. 69-85 passim; G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981;
M. Vitali, in Storia dell'arte ceramica...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Maiolica
Chinese Qing Large Porcelain Floral Painted Cylindrical Mug
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine antique Chinese Qing large porcelain cylindrical mug hand painted with floral designs and probably dating from the latter 18th or possibly even early 19th century. The mu...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Newhall Porcelain Coffee Can Hand Painted Pattern 683, Circa 1800
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hard paste porcelain coffee Can by New Hall, dating to the turn of the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1800.
The piece is well potted of hard paste porcelain on a low foot with a loop handle having rounded attachments.
The cup is decorated over-glaze with hand painted pattern...
Category
English Georgian Antique Late 18th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
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Morten Lobner
Masons Ironstone Imari Plate
Wedgwood Green Leaf Plate
Ceramic Candy Dish
Antique Glass Swan Dish
Chinese Rice Bowl
Lindberg Horse
Masons Flying Bird
Masons Ironstone Water Lily
Lisa Larson Cats
Spanish Fajalauza
Italian Deruta Pottery
Josef Hoffman Silver