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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Wedgwood Creamware Platter or Charger 18th Century Made in England Circa 1785
Located in Katonah, NY
This Wedgwood creamware round platter or charger was made in 18th century England circa 1785. The border is decorated with a traditional neoclassical design of iron-red flower heads...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

17th Century Spanish Hispano Moresque Copper Lustre Ceramic Bowl
Located in Bradenton, FL
Early 17th century Hispano Moresque bowl with copper glaze, from Spain. Hispanic Moresque earthenware has an Islamic style created by the Moors produced under Christian rule, merging...
Category

Spanish Moorish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Teapot, Fruitbasket, William Greatbatch, circa 1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic Greatbatch teapot, with ear-shaped handle, in the form of a fruit basket. The fruit basket was emblematic of hospitality, being full of rare, exotic items. William Greatbatch...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

English Pottery Green-Glazed Openwork Basket and Stand
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery greenware openwork basket & stand, 1790-1880 The wonderful green-glazed openwork pottery basket and stand are decorated in the form of green-glazed openwork trell...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Dated Creamware Punch Bowl, Leeds, 1787
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A documentary punch bowl, decorated with transfer prints and enameling, dated and inscribed for D. Walker. Unmarked, but this class of dated creamware with enameled prints belongs to...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

Bristol Delft Bianco-Sopra-Bianco Chinese Scene Pottery Plate
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine antique English Bristol Delft plate hand painted with a Chinese scene and dating from the mid 18th century. The pottery plate stands on a narrow u...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

18th C. Terracotta Jar with Incised Design
Located in Southampton, NY
18th C. Terracotta Jar with elaborate incised design in a worn reddish finish. Potentially much older, the design consists of hand molded lines running horizontally with cross hatch...
Category

Unknown Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Terracotta

18th Century Creamware Pottery Red-Printed Tea Caddy
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Creamware Red-printed Tea Caddy, circa 1765-75 The creamware tea caddy or teapoy is rectangular in form with large panels to fr...
Category

Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Salt Glaze Sauce Boat, Barley-Corn Pattern, English, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An excellent example of the popular Barleycorn pattern, crisply moulded in panels to the sides, with graceful sprigs. Salt-glaze particularly suits this sort of fine relief. Excel...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Majolica Sweetmeat Stand, Wedgwood, circa 1865
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A brightly coloured majolica sweetmeat dish in the form of a bucolic young man leaning on a basket. Minton majolica is a type of ceramic ware that was produced by the Minton pottery in the 19th century. It was created in response to the growing popularity of Italian Renaissance maiolica...
Category

English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Majolica

Pair of Black Basalt Reclining Figures, Cleopatra and Lucretia, Neale circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, rare pair of figures in black basalt from the Neale Manufactory. The Neale pottery was founded in 1778 and ran until around 1792. They made very fine wares, and were on good terms with Wedgwood, with whom they combined shipments to the continent. For two similar figures marked for Neale & Co. see Diana Edwards, Black Basalt, Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers, Suffolk, 1994, p. 208, figs. 313 & 314. Cleopatra and Lucretia are two women from different time periods and historical contexts, but are linked by their importance in Roman history, as well as by their tragic ends. Cleopatra was a famous queen of ancient Egypt, who ruled from 51-30 BC. She was the last pharaoh of Egypt and is remembered for her intelligence, beauty, and political savvy. Cleopatra was involved in a romantic relationship with the Roman general and statesman, Julius Caesar, and later with the Roman general and politician, Mark Antony...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Hot Milk Jug, Engine-Turned Jasperware. Wedgwood, C1785
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Superb and exceptionally rare small jug in tricolour engine-turned diceware. This is very early jasperware, made when "cherokee clay" was still being used. This clay, sourced from America, contained kaolin, the ingredient that makes porcelain translucent. Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Universe, Roche Foundation, 2023. Engine turning, also known as guilloche, is a decorative technique that was commonly used on eighteenth-century pottery. The process involved cutting intricate, repetitive patterns into a metal or ceramic surface using a machine known as a rose engine...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Wedding Plate in cremware, Wedgwood C1786
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A creamware plate, with transfer printed decoration. From a service probably ordered to commemorate the wedding of John Peter and Ann Du Port, of Guernsey. The plate is of plain cre...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Encaustic Painted Ecuelle, Wedgwood, circa 1790
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In black basalt, decorated with encaustic painting. An écuelle is a French word that refers to a shallow dish or bowl, typically made of metal or ceramic, and used for serving food. Écuelle is also the French word for a small, shallow saucer used for serving soup. In English, an écuelle might be referred to as a soup plate or a soup saucer...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Chinese Pottery with Decorations, 15 / 16th Century
Located in Aalsgaarde, DK
Fine Chinese pottery with decorations, 15 / 16th century.
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Creamware Chinoiserie Teapot & Cover with Openwork Gallery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English creamware Chinoiserie teapot & cover with pierced galleried rim. Circa 1775. The circular English creamware teapot with two designs front ...
Category

Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

American-Market "Peace, Plenty and Independence" Liverpool Creamware Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
"Peace, Plenty and Independence" Liverpool Transfer Decorated Creamware Jug, Circa 1800 The "Peace, Plenty and Independence" Liverpool transfer decorated creamware jug has a black transfer print on one side depicting a spread wing eagle perched atop a cannon flanked by symbols of Peace and Plenty with the other side with the "Farmer's Arms," the front with "Samuel & Rachel Hayne.s" within a wreath above four lines of verse, inspired by Cupid's Lessons, reading, "My love is Fix'd, I cannot range,I like my choice,Too well to change". a second stanza not shown read " Long may we live, Happy may we be, Blest with content, And from misfortune be". Dimensions: 10 1/8 inch height x 9 inches wide x 6 1/4 inches deep. The print of an eagle with its wings spread standing on a cannon above a medallion containing the words, “PEACE, PLENTY, and INDEPENDENCE.” This is flanked by two allegorical figures. The figure on the left represents “plenty” holding a cornucopia, while the one on the right represents “peace” using her torch to set fire to instruments of war. The New York Historical...
Category

English Federal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Pearlware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pearlware bust of Sir Isaac Newton, by Enoch Wood. The oak pedestal adds dignity to an attractive rendering of this great man of science. A handwrit...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pearlware

Japanese Ao-Oribe Glazed Stoneware Dish, Early Edo Period, 17th Century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and rare Japanese ao-oribe glazed minoyaki stoneware dish, late Momoyama or early Edo period, 17th century, Japan. The circular dish of wheel thrown stoneware, glazed in the ...
Category

Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

18th-Century Creamware Flower Finger Vase with Green Molded Leaves
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th-Century creamware flower finger vases with green details, Circa 1785-1800 The creamware flower vase, known as a finger or quintal vase, has five ...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Daunian Pottery Askos, Circa 3rd Century BC
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Incredible Daunian Pottery Askos from Apulia, Italy. Circa 3rd Century BC.
Category

Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Set of 12 Plates, Aesop Fables, Wedgwood, circa 1860
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A set of 12 plates in creamware, in the Spanish shape. Each is hand-painted with an illustration from one of Æsop’s fables, and carries a title painted o...
Category

English Romantic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Wedgwood Nautilus Sauce Tureen, Cover & Stand
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Nautilus sauce Tureen, cover & stand with Rare Yellow Color, Circa 1790 The Wedgwood pearlware pottery sauce tureen, cover & stand is pa...
Category

English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pearlware, Pottery

Delft Charger, Coursing a Stag, English, circa 1710
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Tin glazed earthenware (Delftware) dish, in an unusual shape; elaborately and skillfully painted with a man coursing a stag. Probably London; perhaps Bristol. Probably the salver for a large ewer. English Delftware is considered to be one of the most important forms of English ceramic production of the period, and it had a major influence on the development of the British ceramics...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

Miniature Salt Glaze Jug, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming, small jug in salt-glazed earthenware. Plain: just the way we like it.  
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Saltglaze Pounce Pot, English, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming pounce pot, or sander, in sale-glazed earthenware. Unusually good condition. These were used to sprinkle pounce on writing paper; pounce was powd...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Miniature Salt Glaze teapot, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, one-cup teapot in undecorated salt-glazed earthenware. The size reflects the early custom of a pot to each tea drinker.    
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

18th-Century Green Glaze Oak Leaf Pottery Baskets & Stands
Located in Downingtown, PA
British green glaze oak leaf pottery baskets & stands, Attributed to attributed to probably West Pans, Scotland, probably William Littler, Circa 1770 The oval greenware basket...
Category

English Regency Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

18th Century Tin Glazed Dutch Delft Pottery Blue and White Vase or Jar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine 18th century Dutch Delft pottery vase or jar. Of typical vasiform shape with medium and deep blue Chinoiserie landscape decoration, dot border to the top rim, and swag...
Category

Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Delft

Large Late 18th-Early 19th Century French Pottery Dough Bowl
Located in Houston, TX
Large late 18th early 19th century rustic French pancheon or dough bowl. This antique French dough bowl has a beautiful green glazed interior...
Category

French Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Terracotta

Chelsea-Derby Pierced Chestnut Basket or Dish Porcelain, English, circa 1770
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a rare porcelain desert dish or chestnut basket made by the Chelsea-Derby factory during the 18th Century, circa 1770. This pierced, reticulated Desert Dish or Chestnut Ba...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Porcelain

Dutch Delft Tin Glazed Blue & White Art Pottery Wall Plates
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A wonderful and impressive pair antique Dutch Delft tin glazed hand painted blue and white art pottery wall plates dating from the first half of the 1...
Category

Dutch George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Earthenware Tea Canister with Pewter Lid
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This pottery tea canister is decorated with very detailed, and quite pronounced, applied sprigs of fruit, flowers, leaves and butterflies, and there is a slight iridescence to the glaze. It is capped with a screw on pewter lid...
Category

Dutch Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

Creamware Pottery Large Dish with Polychrome Botanical Decoration
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creamware dish with polychrome botanical decoration, Circa 1790 The large circular creamware pottery dish with a blue shell edge with painted floral sprays. Dimensions: 14 1/4 inch diameter x 2 inches. Provenance: Montaine Collection, With Jerome Blum.
Category

Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

First Edition Portland Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1793
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
NOTE: We do not keep this in the showroom. Please let us know if you're visiting and would like to see it. Rarely does a first edition Portland vase...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

18th Century French Hand Painted Ceramic Wall Platter from Moustiers
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall or a shelf with this colorful antique platter from Provence; crafted in Moustiers, France circa 1780, the oval plate features grotesque people and is hand painted in ...
Category

French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Antique 18th Century Dutch Terra Cotta Pottery Tile depicting a Native American
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique 18th century pottery tile. In terra cotta. Depicting what appears to be a Native American Indian archer in a grass skirt wit...
Category

Dutch Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

William Greatbatch Saltglaze Charger with Barleycorn Design, Massive
Located in Downingtown, PA
Massive 17-inch English Saltglaze charger, Attributed to Wiliam Greatbatch, Circa 1762-70 The massive salt-glaze charger has a wide border of barleycorn or seed pattern within six shaped panels with deep molded ridges around the edge of the rim Measures: Diameter: 17 1/4 Inch diameter x 1 3/4 inches Reference: "White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles", Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson, Page 209, Fig 189, for an identical rim found in fragments from the William Greatbatch...
Category

English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Thomas Whieldon Fenton Staffordshire Redware Oriental Molded Teapot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare English Staffordshire redware pottery teapot decorated with Oriental molded patterning by Thomas Whieldon, Fenton and dating circa 1760/70. The teapot is lightly and finely po...
Category

English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Terracotta

Spode Neo-classical Greek Pattern Blue Rectangular Dessert Dishes
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode neo-Classical Greek pattern blue rectangular dessert dishes, Four figures in battle, Early 19th century The Spode Greek pattern pottery ...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pearlware, Pottery

Nils Thorsson Scandinavian Marselis Ceramic Vase for Royal Copenaghen, 1950s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Ceramic scandinavian vase serie “Marselis” designed by Danish artist Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenaghen, Denmark 1950s Please note that the item is original of the period and this...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

17th Century Hispano-Moresque Copper-Lustre Charger
Located in Bradenton, FL
17th C. Spanish Hispano Moresque Copper Lustre ceramic bowl / charger.
Category

Spanish Bakshaish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

English Creamware Large Teapot with Puce Flower Painted Decoration
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Creamware Large Teapot with Puce Flower Painted Decoration, circa 1770 The Staffordshire Globular teapot is painted with large puce-colored f...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Large Ming Dynasty Cizhou Hand Painted Vessel
Located in London, GB
Cizhou stoneware vessel, dating to the Ming dynasty, 17th century. Traditional urn-shaped stoneware, decorated with dark brown brushwork on a ligh...
Category

Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

English Rare Creamware Pottery Initialled Fox Head Stirrup Cup
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming and rare antique English creamware pottery fox head stirrup cup probably dating from around 1800. The lightly potted large cup is ...
Category

English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

18th Century English Whieldon-Type Creamware Tortoiseshell Glaze Tea Caddy
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Creamware Tortoiseshell glaze tea caddy, Whieldon-type, With Silver Cover, circa 1770 The creamware large tea caddy has a tortoiseshell d...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Delftware Mule with Flowers in Purple and Blue Amsterdam, 1740-1760
Located in Verviers, BE
Mule with flowers in purple and blue Amsterdam, 1740-1760 The mule has a pointed nose and a high vamp. It is painted in blue and purple with flowers. A band with dots is applied in blue just below the edge of the shaft. The heel and sole are in purple. Dimensions: length 13 cm / 5.11 in., width 4.6 cm / 1.81 in., height 4.7 cm / 1.85 in. Provenance: Aronson Antiques, Amsterdam Shoes in all shapes and sizes were part of the standard repertoire of almost all Delft potteries. Outside Delft, they were made in Harlingen potteries and in Amsterdam tile factories. Delft shoes...
Category

Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Staffordshire Pearlware Teapot and Cover with Inlaid Agate Surface
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
Staffordshire pearlware teapot and cover with inlaid agate surface, Attributed to the Ralph Wood Family, circa 1780 The squat oval pearlware pott...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery

Antique English 18th-century Derbyshire Creamware Large Leaf Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
Derbyshire Creamware Leaf Dish, Circa 1785. The large Derbyshire creamware dish with a naturalistically molded body in the form of two overlapping leaves with painted puce flower...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Baluster-Form Saltglaze Teapot, Decorated with Faulous Beasts, England, C1745
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In salt-glazed stoneware, crisply moulded with fabulous beasts and birds.
Category

English Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Spanish Faience Charger with Leaping Stag, Talavera, circa 1780-1800
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spanish Faience charger with leaping stag, Talavera, circa 1780-1800 The large deep tin-glazed earthenware dish is painted with a large figure of a s...
Category

Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Prattware English Pottery Cradle with a Sleeping Child
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine antique Georgian English Prattware pottery cradle containing a sleeping child dating from around 1800. The cradle sits raised on two rockers a...
Category

English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Teapot, with Naive Shepherdess, Wedgwood C1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A text-book example of Rhodes Studio decoration on a Wedgwood creamware blank. The shepherdess leans slightly, as though tipsy; typical of this studio. Prov: Kantar Collection. Exh...
Category

English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

18th Century Rare Terracotta Hand Carved French Biot Pot
Located in Miami, FL
This fabulous handmade terracotta pot originated in the Provençal town of Biot and was used to store olive oil. In perfect condition, the photo...
Category

French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Terracotta

Pre Columbian Nicoya Peninsula Watershed Burial Vessels
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of diminutive Costa Rican pottery burial vessels. One tripod red and black polychromed zoomorphic vessel and a smaller decorated vessel. 100 AD ...
Category

Costa Rican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Early 17th Century Ottoman Empire Iznik Pottery Dish
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
An Iznik pottery dish made in the first half of the 17th century and decorated with chrysanthemums and tulips. The rim features the rock and wave pattern. Under the direction of O...
Category

Turkish Islamic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Petite Neolithic Terracotta Pot with Brown Geometric Décor and Flaring Neck
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Neolithic Chinese terracotta pottery from 4000-3000 BC, with lateral handles and brown painted geometric décor. Born in China during the Neolithic pe...
Category

Chinese Prehistoric Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Mid 18th Century Glazed Ceramic Botija found in Southern Mexico
Located in Guadalajra, Jal
This elegant antique jar was hand-crafted in Spain circa 1760; round in shape with narrow base and neck, the vessel features a rolled rim at the top accented with a mustard color gla...
Category

Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

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