Italian Delft and Faience

A beautiful hand painted blue and white faience pottery jug or vase with handles featuring dogs hunting a deer By Deruta Italy, Mid-20th Centur...

Set of 2 late 18th century Faenza plates with the famous carnation decor 'Garofano' The Garofano design was initially developed in the Italian region of...

A fabulous vintage ceramic wall fountain from the 1970s on a wood panel. This is a great indoor three piece fountain, lava bowl with spigot in the shape of a...

Late 18th Century Italian Blue and White Chinoiserie Charger. Excellent condition. Italy Circa 1780

The dish is in faience. It has been made in Italy during the 20th century. The pattern decor arer Flowers and the main colors Green and Pink.

Italian Cantagalli Faience Polychrome Serving Platter, 19th century As found Italian Serving platter from Cantagalli. Wonderful example of antiqu...

Italian Cantagalli polychrome majolica vase, late 19th century During the 19th century Renaissance-Revival period the Cantagalli Majolica and ce...

1920's Faience Dish Of a Lady, Italy Charming Italian dishes of a a figurative woman representative of the 1920's era in Florence, Italy. This would...

A near pair of Italian maiolica plates depicting battle scenes of Roman soldiers one with garrisons on horseback the other possibly an allegorical tale of the assassination of a Roma...

The dish is in faience. It has been made inItaly during the 19th century. The pattern decor is a rooster and the main colors brown and red.

Love this! It is a large scale Italian Hollywood Regency Era terracotta palm tree with two puttis at the base. It is two pieces. The piece has a white glazed finish.

Elevate your table setting with our elegant brass jug. Its classic ball shape, sturdy handle, and spout make it perfect for serving drinks, while its stylish...

A good 18th Century Faience Polychrome Italian plate, in good condition with no chips no hairline. Dimensions are 9" diameter and 1.25" high. Please refer to photos for details.   

Vaso centrotavola molto elegante in ceramica, foggiato al tornio. Smaltato e ingobbiato. Intervento a riflessi metallici in terza cottura. I Crateri compongono la collezione di cer...

Vintage blue white Porcelain Delf style Italian fisherman wall art charger plate. Item features central fisherman design, scalloped edge, holes for wall ha...

Blue and white Italian plate. Antique condition large plate bowl from northern Italy with pale white terracotta glazed background with bl...

This large antique circular charger was crafted in Italy, circa 1960. The important ceramic wall hanging plate depicts a outdoor pastoral sc...

This is superb set of 10 faience "Vietri" Italy hand painted side or salad plates. The plates were painted and signed by Romolo Apicella. We believe that ...

This is superb set of 12 faience "Vietri" Italy Hand Painted Soup plates. The plates were painted and signed by Romolo Apicella. We believe that the plates date to the 1960's, but it...

This stunning lidded urn might have once been found in a 19th century Italian apothecary. The front of the shaped urn body has the hand-painted phrase “C. Violaru”, which is the heavily abbreviated form of the Latin word for violet (violaceum). Up until the mid-1700’s, apothecaries would make syrups from violets and use it to treat kidney ailments. Above the Latin wording is a whimsical musical scene with a man blowing a horn leading a couple who is holding hands over rocky terrain lined with shrubbery. A large house and trees can be seen behind the trio with a pair of mountains in the distance. On the opposite side of the urn is a floral display with a bird perched on a rock. Beneath the bird is a geometric design, possibly a stylized sun with radiating beams of light. Both scenes are segmented by a pair of thin quarter round moldings that encircle the entire vase. Other hand-painted motifs include floral and foliate margents, geometric patterns, and Vitruvian waves that are infilled with horizontal fluting. The sides of the urn have a fish-scale background beneath two mustachioed mascarons. Both men have been styled in grotesque fashion, with a pair of spiraled horns emanating from their heads. In between the horns is a looping handle that is affixed to the body in similar tight spirals. The domed lid has three scrolled arms that merge in a geometric finial. The base color of the urn is white, with illustrations in a monochromatic cobalt oxide blue, reminiscent of Delft blue pottery...

Beautiful set of Faenza ceramics from the 1950s. They represent a subject as original as interesting: cactus plants placed inside a ceramic vase! These small masterpieces are the wor...

Ciotola centrotavola molto elegante e leggera in ceramica, ha una forma con bocca aperta interno a riflesso esterno colore nero opaco. I Crateri compongono la collezione di ceramic...

Vaso centrotavola molto elegante in ceramica, foggiato al tornio. Smaltato e ingobbiato. Intervento a riflessi metallici in terza cottura. I Crateri compongono la collezione di cer...

Ciotola centrotavola molto elegante e leggera in ceramica, ha una forma con bocca aperta interno a riflesso esterno colore rosa opaco. I Crateri compongono la collezione di ceramic...

Ciotola centrotavola molto elegante e leggera in ceramica, ha una forma con bocca aperta interno a riflesso esterno colore indigo opaco. I Crateri compongono la collezione di ceram...

Versatoio nero lucido grande Contenitore foggiato al tornio con anse, smalto nero, corda nylon nera Queste ceramiche provengono dalla tradizione contadina. Forme di secolare prese...

Globular shape decorated with yellows and blues with central cherub and a variety of other decoration. Signed on side of body. SPQR.

Pair of 20th century Art Nouveau Italian wall brackets, two hand-modeled, hand painted ceramic brackets with a fine polychrome decoration with half-bust girl and boy figures and flowers. They are a Northern Italy manufacture, unmarked, dating back to the early 20th century in good condition, with minor chips consistent with age and use. A very charming pair of Italian ceramic brackets showing, in the lower part an unusual flower composition surmounted by two half-bust figures, girl and boy with a fine polychrome decoration. Ready to be hanged, this pair of antique wall brackets...

A hand painted midcentury Italian earthenware tureen set, circa 1950s. The four piece service includes the lidded tureen, ladle, and a large und...

Assortment of 4 dishes with braided rim Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). Measures: 14 x 10 in (35.5 x 25.5 cm); 12.2 x 8.39 in (31 x 21.3 cm); 10.4 x 9.65 in (26.5 x 24.5 cm); 10.8 x 9.61 in (27.5 x 24.4 cm). Weight: 4.4 lb (1.998 kg) State of conservation: some chips due to use on the edges and on the parts in relief. The four different dishes have a foot with a low lip from which extends a wide, flat, slanted rim resembling a basket weave. The small handles are painted green: they resemble wickerwork in the two oval dishes and take the form of a sinuous branch in the round ones. The third fire decoration is inspired by the naturalistic floral botanical patterns on the ceramics produced by the Hannong family in Strasbourg. Here the pattern is defined by the rapidity and subtlety of the brushstrokes and the result is particularly tasteful, characterized by compositional intelligence and pictorial expertise. A main corolla, either a wild or garden rose, is set slightly off center in each well. From this extends a thin stem holding a small secondary bud and there are small field florets dotting the composition to lend volume to the delicate bunch of flowers. On the brim, small polychrome flowers add color to the weave, accompanied by lanceolate leaves of a very intense green. There exist few and very rare examples for comparison with this morphology: a round plate - entirely consistent with those in question - has been dated to around 1775 (S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, tav. 200). Two other dishes with a basket rim, but with parallel striped brim decoration, were exhibited in the 1995 exhibition on Lodi ceramics; the attribution to the Lombard town near Milan is therefore almost exclusively derived from the decoration called "alla rosa contornata" or "alla vecchia Lodi" and constitutes one of the most popular decorations during the eighteenth century. (M. L. Gelmini, in Maioliche lodigiane del '700 (cat. mostra Lodi), Milano 1995, pp. 31 p. 162-163 nn. 181-182). 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...

A very fine antique faience pottery jar. The jar is marked for "Semi D' Agno Custo". It held vitex or chaste tree seeds (semi d'agnosasto...

Italian Creamware Tromp L'oeil Tureens in the form of Ducks, Nove di Bassano, circa 1800 The fine earthenware soup tureens are from Nove di Bassano. They are tromp L'oeil in th...

A very fine antique Maiolica pilgrim flask & stopper by Ginori. Decorated in the Urbino istoriato style with polychrome cherubs to the front and a lan...

An Italian Baroque Castelli albarllo, also known as a pharmacy or drug jar. It held 'Benedict Laxat' listed as far back as Aristotle as a medication used in by midwives. Beautifully decorated with buildings in landscapes in the free, almost impressionistic style typical of Castelli Maiolica...

A unique and striking Italian Majolica fruit basket in two parts. Basket weave base with multicolored top featuring a cornucopia of fruits.

From Italy, this hand painted Majolica platter has two areas of ornamentation. The outer circle has busts of two different men, one on the top of the platter and one at the bottom. T...

An 18th century Italian apothecary jar with blue and white tin glazing and hand painted decoration depicting a hilltop village in a lush settin...

A set of four Italian molded Deruta Maiolica/Majolica dishes 20th century Three plates and one large shallow bowl, all hand painted in polychrome ...

Cantagalli Armorial Vase, Ulisse Cantagalli (1839-1901) During the 19th century Renaissance-Revival period the Cantagalli Maiolica and Ceramic Fac...

From Italy, this imposing antique hand-painted Majolica vase with handles is nearly 39 inches high. It is mainly a figural vase in style, ha...

At over two feet in diameter, this stunning majolica platter or charger, is particularly large. The painted scene painted was taken from a ceiling fresco known as the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne...

Five oval maiolica dishes with pierced edge Manufacture of Pasquale Rubati Milan, 1770-1780 Three small oval dishes 10.23 in x 7.67 in (26 cm x 19.5 cm) Two large oval dishes 10.82 in x 8.85 in (27.5 x 22.5 cm) lb 3.5 (kg 1.8) State of conservation: intact The five dishes of different sizes have an oval shape, a mixtilinear edge and a molded polylobed shape with a surface enriched with a relief weave motif extending to the brim and forming a perforated basket...

Antique pair of Savona Majolica serving dishes. Painted in blue, one depicts a satyr, putti and two young girls, all enjoying the new wine: the other is painted with an allegory of ...

A set of three, late 19th century. Italian Majolica plates / chargers. Decorated with armorial crests of three different designs. Very good dra...

Vivid Italian pottery hand painted tray, depicting an abstract stylized rooster. The tray was made in Italy for the legendary Joseph Magnin Company department store. Established in S...

A thickly-modeled Italian tin-glazed earthenware polychrome (majolica) double handled vase; possibly Florence; overall with blue and white floral an...

Beautifully Decorated Majolica Urn