Leeds Pottery Furniture

A stylish and scarce Art Deco Royal Doulton cup and saucer decorated in a harvest pattern by renowned Welsh artist Sir Frank William Brangwyn (Belgia...

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...

A set of three of midcentury French vintner woven baskets with demijohn wine bottles. This set of French vintner wicker-woven baskets, each conta...

18th century English creamware baskets and plates A set of 2 oval open woven baskets on an oval dish with open basket weave pattern rims and handles of a thin twisted pattern, decor...

Italian glazed ceramic fruit basket figure sculpture. This polychrome compote is handmade with the greatest attention to detail, to a degree that ...

Made in England in the early 19th century, circa 1815, these Wedgwood dessert or salad dishes are a beautiful and sophisticated set. The combination o...

Antique silver bowl small fruit basket with relief, openwork decorative object hallmarked sterling silver oval bon bon dish bowl intricate cut out ...

An impressive and seldom Nigerian large basket garment and cover, with dyed patterned band. Those baskets where used to preserve grains. Tall colorful handwoven lidded basket from ...

Blue pottery by Piero Fornasetti Italy, 1960 Perfect condiction.

English Creamware Whieldon-type Gray Tortoiseshell Plate, Circa 1765-75 The octagonal shaped plate is covered to the front and back with a very plea...

Set of Seven Continental Creamware Openwork Dessert Plates The basketweave creamware plates have an openwork reeded border with a gilt rim. The basketweave becomes tighter as it r...

19th Century Nest of Three Nantucket Lightship Baskets, circa 1880, a graduated set of three round, open baskets having cane weave on rattan staves, a carved swing handle with an elongated ovoid lozenge end connected to tin ears that extend down inside the weave for about a quarter length of a stave, and hardwood bottom plate, likely maple, that is slightly convex and scribed with three concentric rings, The baskets are not signed but are clearly all made by the same hand. The style of the handle with a lozenge end is very similar to that carved by Charles Ray, Capt. Thomas James, William Appleton and circle aboard the South Shoals Lightship, and continued in a more exaggerated manner ashore by A.D. Williams, Ferdinand Sylvaro and especially Mitchy Ray. The handle here has a more slender and elegant profile more akin to the work of Capt. James, suggesting that this nest was likely made by a sailor serving aboard the lightship during James' tenure. All three baskets remain in very good, strong condition, and enjoy a deep patina nicely darkened with age. Unlike most nests which really seem to be more of an assemblage gathered together after the fact, these three baskets nest together nicely with a uniform gradation in size, a feature exemplified by the perfect graduated profile of their handles. This nest was in the personal collection of noted Nantucket folk art...