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Material: Majolica
Ceramic Hand-Painted Candlestick Candle Holder by DeSimone, Italy
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This vintage figural candlestick by Giovanni Desimone Italy is a unique and eye-catching piece of decorative art. DeSimone was a renowned Italian ceramicist and designer who worked in the mid-20th century, known for his whimsical and colorful ceramic sculptures...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Pottery
Cobalt Blue Majolica Vase Vessel Ceramic Centerpiece Sculpture Handmade, Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
The "ABISSO" vase, inspired by the great depths of the ocean, is handmade and hand-painted in Deruta, Italy. The special coloring technique makes each piece unique, with always diffe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Small 19th Century Majolica Palissy Fish Wall Platter
Located in Austin, TX
Rare small Palissy platter with a fish, lizard, butterfly, ivy leaves attributed to Thomas Sergent.
Category
1880s French Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Sarreguemines Majolica Jardiniere in the Japonisme Style, 1880-1890
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A gorgeous turquoise blue Majolica jardiniere made by the French manufactory Sarreguemines circa 1880-1890. The jardiniere is decorated in the eclectic Japonisme-style with beautiful...
Category
Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Faience, Majolica, Pottery
Ceramic Majolica Italian Grey Hound Midcentury
Located in Rochester, NY
Majolica Italian grey hound. Mid-20th century.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Delft Polychrome majolica dish with a village view The Netherlands, 1700-1750
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Polychrome dish with a village view. The Netherlands, 1700-1750
The dish has a spreading, slightly raised rim and is painted in blue, purple, yellow and green with a simplified vil...
Category
Early 18th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Modern Vase, Matte Finish Warm White, Spheres 24kt Gold Luster, Handmade Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
Elegant warm white vase with a matte finishing, alternating with reflective surfaces embellished with 24Kt gold luster. This technique sees ceramics to undergo three cooking phases: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate
Large 19th Century Majolica Vase with Birds Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
Large rare Majolica triple vase with birds, very colorful signed Delphin Massier.
Completely painted with flowers.
Height / 18.8 inches.
The Massier are known for the quality of thei...
Category
1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Modern Vase, Matte Finish Aquamarine, Spheres 24kt Gold Luster, Handmade Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
Elegant aquamarine vase with a matte finishing, alternating with reflective surfaces embellished with 24Kt gold luster. This technique sees ceramics to undergo three cooking phases: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate
English Victorian Water Lily Jardinière, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
English Victorian Water Lily Jardinière, circa 1880.
Category
1880s British Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
19th Century Italian Majolica Dog Pitcher Nove Di Bassano
Located in Austin, TX
19th century Italian Majolica Dog Pitcher Nove Di Bassano.
signed Giovanni Battista Viero GBV.
Category
1890s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Italian Midcentury Modern Pottery Lemonade Set by Cas Vietri ICS Kowaliska Style
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
Mid-Century Modern pottery lemonade set by CAS Vietri Italy set consisting of a pitcher, 6 beakers and a matching coffee mug. All pieces are decorated with hand painted scenes of rural life reminding of designs by Irene Kowaliska...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
George Jones Majolica Plate, Tortoiseshell Mottling, Green Leaves on Turquoise
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Dish, the center with tortoiseshell mottling, bordered with green-glazed acanthus leaves on a turquoise-glazed ground, the inner and outer border rims glazed in...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Large Vase, Matte Finish Olive Green, Spheres 24kt Gold Luster, Handmade Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
Exquisite large dark olive green vase with a matte finishing, alternating with reflective surfaces embellished with 24Kt gold luster. This technique sees ceramics to undergo three co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate
19th Century Majolica Cart with Donkey & Birds Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
Large French Majolica cart with donkey & birds signed Delphin Massier.
The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings.
The Massier family produced diff...
Category
1890s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Rare Minton Majolica Chinese Drummers Vase
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica vase which features a large drum with Chinese drummers stood either side. The drum has dragons on both faces. Intricate cut-out rim and base. Colouration: light brown...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Art Nouveau Large Majolica Vase, Whit Sarreguemines Stamp
Located in Verviers, BE
Art Nouveau Majolica glazed large Vase
Whit Sarreguemines stamp.
Majolica is a type of earthenware, decorated with colored lead glazes.
The base retains a factory stamp.
Looks si...
Category
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Riser Bowl Vase, Matt Finishing Ultramarine Blue, Spheres Copper Luster, Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
Large ultramarine blue riser bowl or centerpiece vase with a matte finishing, alternating with reflective surfaces embellished with copper metallic luster. This technique sees cerami...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Copper
Glazed Ceramic Majolica Coffee or Tea Cups Orange Design, Set of Six
Located in Barcelona, ES
Coffee or tea set of cups orange design, Spain, 1960s.
Cool set of hand-painted orange glazed ceramic cups.
Manufactured at the Mid-Century Modern Period.
This set will be a nice...
Category
20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Pottery
C.1890 Majolica Rooster Vase Choisy Le Roi by Carrier Belleuse
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica rooster vase signed Carrier Belleuse for the manufacture of Choisy le Roi, circa 1875.
Very rare colors.
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 June 1824 – 4 June 1887) was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of Honour.
At the end of 19th century, Choisy le roi was one of the most important ceramics...
Category
1890s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Faience, Majolica
George Jones Majolica Cobalt-Ground 'Doves Jardinière' English, circa 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Centerpiece Jardinière, the cobalt glazed shaped bowl supported by two naturalistically molded and glazed doves, with ribbon-wrapped garlands and trimmed in yellow ocher, on a rustic mound with green-glazed leaves and ferns forming the base; the reverse with molded and applied blue cartouche pad, 'GJ' monogram, and 'STOKE-on-TRENT.' Design number 2225 for the entry, 'Dove Jardinière,' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books preserved in the Victorian and Albert Museum, Wedgwood Collection, and reprinted in V. Bergesen.*
The design is documented in the Karmason Library of the Majolica International Society, Number KL001257 with the designation 'Rare.'
We have been among the preeminent specialists in fine English majolica for over thirty years.
BOOK REFERENCES:
-Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 202 (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 201-205).
-Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Volume Two, p. 246, FIG. 18.21.
-CHRISTIE'S London, 19TH CENTURY BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL CERAMICS...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Dish, Tortoiseshell Mottling, Green Leaves on Turquoise
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Dish, the center with tortoiseshell mottling, bordered with green-glazed acanthus leaves on a turquoise-glazed ground, the inner and outer border rims glazed in...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Barbotine Majolica Glazed Asparagus Platter
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A wonderful late 19th century French glazed 'Barbotine' Majolica asparagus serving platter with handles, wonderfully decorated in vibrant ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
19th Century Majolica Snail Platter Luneville
By Luneville
Located in Austin, TX
Unusual 19th century Majolica Snail Platter attributed to Luneville.
Decorated with grapes.
Category
1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
19th Century Majolica Asparagus Plate with Cabbage Leaves Creil & Montereau
Located in Austin, TX
Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates made by the Manufacture of Creil and Montereau...
Category
1880s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
19th Century Majolica Asparagus Plate with Cabbage Leaves Creil & Montereau
Located in Austin, TX
Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates...
Category
1880s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
19th Century Majolica Asparagus Plate with Cabbage Leaves Creil & Montereau
Located in Austin, TX
Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates made by the Manufacture of Creil and Montereau...
Category
1880s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Pitcher circa 1900 Brown Yellow and Green Colors France
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Water lily pitcher. Designed with large green leaves, water lily flowers. The top neck with handle circa 1900.
Brown Yellow and Green colors made i...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Apple Blossom Cobalt Blue Cheese Keeper
By George Jones
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
George Jones Majolica cheese keep which features a branch handle with apple blossoms. Basketweave to the sides. Cobalt blue ground version. Colouration: cobalt blue, brown, green, ar...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
19th Century Majolica Mallard Duck Plate Choisy Le Roi
Located in Austin, TX
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...
Category
1890s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
19th Century Majolica Asparagus Plate with Cabbage Leaves Creil & Montereau
Located in Austin, TX
Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates...
Category
1880s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Antique Handmade Faience Italian Bread Basket
Located in New Orleans, LA
An outstanding, hand painted, handmade pottery, bread holder created in Naples, Italy circa 1920s having intricate colorful applied swags of flowers around the boat shaped rim above a floral painted lattice work below. Superb attention to detail and selection of it's colors of spring green, blue, rose, yellow and lavender. The workmanship is absolutely stunning to behold and would make a beautiful centerpiece for your dining table, sideboard or in your cabinet. Put a floral frog...
Category
1920s Italian Vintage Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Pair of French Majolica Vase from the Cévennes 'France' Early 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of French Majolica vase from the Cévennes (France) early 20th Century
Anduze pots are an artisanal specialty of the Cevennes, a cultural region and mountain range in south-central France, located southeast of the Massif Central. It is a local pottery tradition that had enjoyed great success since the end of the 18th century. An Anduze vase needs three distinctive elements: shape, decorations and colours. These peculiarities are specific to it, and only pottery that contains all of its elements is qualified as Anduze. The other models produced in Anduze do not qualify as such if one of these features is missing.
The origins of the Anduze vases are the subject of numerous local legends according to which they were inspired by the Italian-style vases of the Medici or that they adorned the parks of the Palace of Versailles at the time of the Sun King. In reality, the Anduze vase was born in the second half of the 17th century century. It is the result of the different craft traditions of the potters of Provence and Languedoc. Its development is linked to that of the production of citrus fruits which must be kept indoors in winter so as not to freeze and therefore could not be planted directly in the ground. The fashion for the orange grove contributed to the development of the fashion for the horticultural ornamental vase.
The first Anduze vase model that can be perfectly identified and dated dates back to 1728 and is the work of the Gautier family of potters, present in the city of Anduze since the 16th century. However, the success of this model was mainly due to the Boisset family's manufacturing boom at the end of the 18th century. The Boisset family, born and trained in the art of Anduze pottery...
Category
20th Century French Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Iris Jardiniere Delphin Massier, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica oval jardiniere attributed to Delphin Massier, circa 1890.
The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They produced an incre...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Pair of French Majolica Vase from the Cévennes 'France' Early 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of French Majolica Vase from the Cévennes (France) early 20th Century
Anduze pots are an artisanal specialty of the Cevennes, a cultural region and mountain range in south-central France, located southeast of the Massif Central. It is a local pottery tradition that had enjoyed great success since the end of the 18th century. An Anduze vase needs three distinctive elements: shape, decorations and colours. These peculiarities are specific to it, and only pottery that contains all of its elements is qualified as Anduze. The other models produced in Anduze do not qualify as such if one of these features is missing.
The origins of the Anduze vases are the subject of numerous local legends according to which they were inspired by the Italian-style vases of the Medici or that they adorned the parks of the Palace of Versailles at the time of the Sun King. In reality, the Anduze vase was born in the second half of the 17th century century. It is the result of the different craft traditions of the potters of Provence and Languedoc. Its development is linked to that of the production of citrus fruits which must be kept indoors in winter so as not to freeze and therefore could not be planted directly in the ground. The fashion for the orange grove contributed to the development of the fashion for the horticultural ornamental vase.
The first Anduze vase model that can be perfectly identified and dated dates back to 1728 and is the work of the Gautier family of potters, present in the city of Anduze since the 16th century. However, the success of this model was mainly due to the Boisset family's manufacturing boom at the end of the 18th century. The Boisset family, born and trained in the art of Anduze pottery...
Category
20th Century French Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
French Majolica Heron Saint Clément Pitcher, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Elegant French Majolica Heron Pitcher signed Keller and Guerin Saint Clement, circa 1900.
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Cunha Palissy Majolica Lizard Wall Figure
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Jose A Cunha Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall figure which features a lizard. Colouration: green, brown, pink, are predominant. The piece bears maker's mar...
Category
1890s Portuguese Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Iris Jardiniere Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Small purple French Majolica iris oval jardiniere signed Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1900.
The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They pr...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Antique English Majolica Figural Basket Planter or Jardiniere with Vine Decor
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique planter is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1890 and done in the period Late Victorian style. The planter is composed of Majolica and done in a figural basket shape with and brown ground with cream accents to the rim and base and green vines...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Talavera Decorative Lavabo Sink Folk Art Mexican Ceramic Blue White
By Cesar
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Elegant white and blue sink lavabo made with the Talavera technique. Artist, Cesar Torres portraits the colonial art of Mexico.
The Talavera is not just a simple painted ceramic:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Spanish Colonial Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Majolica
Orange Glazed Ceramic Majolica Coffee or Tea Set for Four
Located in Barcelona, ES
Coffee or tea sea set orange design, Spain, 1960s.
Cool set of hand-painted glazed ceramic orange shaped tea, coffee or breakfast serving set fo...
Category
20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Pottery
Large Majolica Parrots Centerpiece Delphin Massier, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Large Majolica Parrots Centerpiece Jerome Massier, circa 1900.
14 inches.
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
Dinner set for 6 (12 pieces) by Bottega Vignoli Hand Painted Italian Majolica
Located in London, GB
Hand painted dinner ware set (6 covers - 12 pieces: 6 soup bowls and 6 plates) full-fire reduction faience earthenware (majolica) , all hand-p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Revival Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica, Faience, Ceramic
19th Century Majolica Hen & Chicks Plate Choisy Le Roi
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica plate with hen & chicks signed 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 c...
Category
1890s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Ceramic Lemons Wall Decoration / Wall Sculpture
Located in Barcelona, ES
Stunning lemons Manises Majolica ceramic wall decoration, Spain, 1960s.
Handcrafted ceramic wall hanging sculpture featuring a bunch of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
French Majolica Otter Pitcher Onnaing, circa 1900
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica otter pitcher signed Onnaing, circa 1900.
Category
Early 1900s French Rustic Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Antique French Art Nouveau Majolica Jardinière
Located in New Orleans, LA
For the serious collector of Art Nouveau, a charming and unique antique French Art Nouveau majolica jardinière with lovely hand painted...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Faience, Majolica, Pottery
French Majolica Donkey Vallauris with Basket, circa 1930
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica donkey with basket, circa 1930.
Signed Beretta Barnoin Vallauris.
Category
1930s French Country Vintage Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Set of Six Majolica Glazed Asparagus Serving Plates
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A charming set of six earthenware hand-painted square asparagus plates, with a pair of Majolica glazed asparagus tips at each of the four corners. In between, sprays of polychrome fl...
Category
Early 1900s French Country Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica, Porcelain
Majolica Hen Sculpture, White, Brown and Green Color, France 18th Cetury
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Magnificent Majolica, with splendid brown and green-white colors. This sculpture was made in the 18th Century in France.
Category
18th Century French Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Pottery, Majolica
1870s English Majolica Pitcher
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
English majolica pitcher with lilly of the valley decoration, circa 1870. Rope motif handle & center seam with acanthus leaf. Note the charming butter...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Flower Vase, Egyptian Décor, Majolica, Julius Dressler, circa 1890, Bohemia
Located in Wien, AT
Very interesting majolica vase, made by famous Julius Dressler from Bohemia, in the end of the 19th century.
Due to the boom and the particularly great interest in the Egyptian exc...
Category
1890s Czech Belle Époque Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Wine Ewer Designed by Hugues Protât, English, circa 1875
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Wine Ewer Designed by Hugues Protât (active 1835-90), English, ca. 1875, the body molded as a wine barrel with grape vines to the center, surmounted by four Bacchanalian cherubs, with a Renaissance-style shaped and scrolled spout; the entire piece from the pedestal to the spout is entwined with purple-glazed grapes and green leaves with tendrils, the handle formed by overlapping vines; the reverse with impressed marks, 'MINTONS' and design number '900,' which corresponds to 'Barrel Jug with Cupids (M)' as recorded in the Minton Majolica Ornamental Shape and Design books and partially reprinted in Bergesen.
BOOK REFERENCES:
Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 181. Minton Ornamental Shapes (i.e., design numbers) listed in Appendix D, pp. 180-182.
Joan Jones, MINTON: THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1993, p. 348.
Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, Volume Two, fig. 12.63. Full-page color photo of this actual piece. The author incorrectly dates the production of this example as 1863, but as it is impressed 'MINTONS,' it would have to be later than 1873 when the 'S' was added Minton.
Victoria Cecil, MINTON MAJOLICA, Jeremy Cooper Ltd., Exhibition 7-26 June 1982, Galen Place, London, p. 48, cat. No. 17.
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 41.
The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue for the International Exhibition 1862...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Vase Vessel Ceramic Centerpiece Ornament Aquamarine Majolica Flower Holder Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
Large majolic vase in green aquamarine color, glazed in polychrome, characterized by the elegant presence of naturalistic ornamental motifs that enhance its forms beautifully. Its po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Majolica
19th Century Majolica Oyster Plate Wasmuel
Located in Austin, TX
19th-century Majolica oyster plate Wasmuel, the wells are divided by blues lines, and red stars. One minor chip on the back.
Reference / Page 48 "Oysters plates" of J. Karnitz.
Category
1880s Belgian Victorian Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Important French Majolica Vase from the Cévennes 'France' Early 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Important French Majolica vase from the Cévennes (France) early 20th Century
Anduze pots are an artisanal specialty of the Cevennes, a cultural region and mountain range in south-central France, located southeast of the Massif Central. It is a local pottery tradition that had enjoyed great success since the end of the 18th century. An Anduze vase needs three distinctive elements: shape, decorations and colours. These peculiarities are specific to it, and only pottery that contains all of its elements is qualified as Anduze. The other models produced in Anduze do not qualify as such if one of these features is missing.
The origins of the Anduze vases are the subject of numerous local legends according to which they were inspired by the Italian-style vases of the Medici or that they adorned the parks of the Palace of Versailles at the time of the Sun King. In reality, the Anduze vase was born in the second half of the 17th century century. It is the result of the different craft traditions of the potters of Provence and Languedoc. Its development is linked to that of the production of citrus fruits which must be kept indoors in winter so as not to freeze and therefore could not be planted directly in the ground. The fashion for the orange grove contributed to the development of the fashion for the horticultural ornamental vase.
The first Anduze vase model that can be perfectly identified and dated dates back to 1728 and is the work of the Gautier family of potters, present in the city of Anduze since the 16th century. However, the success of this model was mainly due to the Boisset family's manufacturing boom at the end of the 18th century. The Boisset family, born and trained in the art of Anduze pottery...
Category
20th Century French Modern Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Barbotine Majolica Glazed Asparagus Sauce Boat
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
An interesting and unusual French Majolica barbotine asparagus 'Saucière' on a shaped, attached stand. The body of the 'boat' is formed from a bunch of purple-tipped asparagus spears, swathed in green and mustard yellow leaves, while two delicately bent creamy white spears form the handle. A spray of bright green overlapping leaves ring the pedestal base where the boat meets the stand. The boat is attached to the underplate, which has a border in a creamy yellow basket weave pattern edged by a scalloped turquoise rim. This sauce boat...
Category
19th Century French Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Majolica
19th Century Italian Majolica Charger
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th century hand painted Italian charger featuring three cherubs interacting with another lying on a bed of wheat stalks under a scenic skyscape. Beau...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Majolica Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Antique and Vintage Majolica Platters, Pottery and Other Furniture and Decor
The popularity of Victorian majolica, the gaily colored, metallic-oxide-glazed earthenware, has ebbed and flowed for more than a century. Right now, antique and vintage majolica plates, pitchers, decorative objects and other pieces appear to be having a moment — again.
Starting in the 1850s, people in the U.S. and the U.K. embraced these affordable housewares with unusual polychrome palettes (turquoise and pink) and whimsical forms (candlesticks shaped like dolphins). By the 1870s, majolica was being mass-produced for an ever-expanding middle class in countries like England, France, Sweden, Hungary and Portugal. Majolica was Art for Everyman. Its popularity coincided with interest in exotic Japonisme and scientific studies by the likes of Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin and John James Audobon.
Despite a similarity in name, Victorian majolica is significantly different in subject matter and form from its Italian forebear, Renaissance maiolica. That earlier earthenware bore gaily painted religious and mythological scenes, and unlike majolica, with its lively contours, was not molded or three dimensional.
What was the attraction of majolica for the 19th-century collector? “Imagine what it looked like in a Victorian interior, with dark woods, heavy drapes and upholstered chairs and sofas,” says Susan Weber, founder of the Bard Graduate Center in New York. “Majolica is robust and extremely tactile. With its naturalistic shapes, colorful glazes and often humorous themes, it appealed to the growing consumer society.”
In England, manufacturers like Minton began to produce decorative, relief-molded majolica tiles for the interiors of taverns, train stations, even the famous Queen’s Dairy at Frogmore, on the grounds of Windsor Castle. In 19th-century France, Sèvres and smaller ceramics firms began to reinterpret the snake-decorated platters made by Bernard Palissy, a 16th-century self-taught French potter. The result was a type of majolica called Palissy ware, which, like the originals, was festooned with odd creatures (lobsters, lizards and snakes) modeled by hand.
The late Moroccan-born, Paris-based decorator Alberto Pinto often placed Palissy ware in his clients’ living rooms, posing individual pieces on brackets against a background of stamped, gilded leather. Pinto, in turn, influenced such contemporary decorators as Harry Heissmann of New York. After 1900, people got swept up in the romanticism of Art Nouveau and ceased buying majolica. The 1970s saw a revival of interest, and in 1982, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York, organized “English Majolica,” an exhibition featuring 75 examples from Minton, Wedgwood and George Jones, among other makers.
On 1stDibs, find antique and vintage majolica tea sets, vases, candlesticks, tureens and other furniture and decorative objects.
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