Leeds Pottery Figurative Sculptures

Creamware Pottery sailor's farewell punch bowl with Chinoiserie Scenes on Reverse, Late 18th Century The large polychrome creamware bowl has a scene to one side depicting a sailor's farewell. The officer, with a sword in a scabbard to his right hip, stands with arms crossed and his female companion looks away from him as she holds a parasol in her hand. In the background in a Royal Navy frigate at anchor and a sailor in a longboat rowing towards him. To the reverse side is a charming chinoiserie scene of two women and a young boy watching...

English Creamware Pottery Teapot and Cover with Rare Fish Scale Design Origin: Probably Leeds, Yorkshire Date: Circa 1770s Description: This creamware teapot and cover exhibit a ...

Early design, whimsical! A bird-form teapot with winged lid, Monmouth Pottery, via Pine Stoneware or Western Stoneware Company in Monmouth, Illinois....

Staffordshire Pottery porcellaneous stirrup cup which features a fox head, stood directly on the ground, no base. Dull gilt base line. Decorated 'in the round' - decoration to front ...

English creamware pottery green glazed teapot and cover, Swinton, Yorkshire, circa 1770 The barrel-form creamware teapot is decorated with a dipped green glaze over an impr...

English Creamware Gray Tortoiseshell Lead Glaze Pottery Teapot and Cover, Whieldon Type, Circa 1765. The creamware teapot and cover, of small circular f...

This is a rare Creamware pottery Chestnut Basket made by the SPODE factory, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, in the late Georgian, Regency period...

Antique German porcelain group of Venus with Cupid by Meissen German, c. 1750 Height 20.5cm, width 11cm, depth 12cm This charming Meissen porce...

Exceptional unique marked / signed masterwork artisan hand carved art pottery by British ceramic / clay / stoneware master-craft artist Maggie Barnes, circa 1987. This piece represen...

Exceptional marked / signed masterwork clay pottery by British artist Maggie Barnes, circa 1983. This is a relatively early work by the Artist and just extraordinary. Sculpted in dar...

Blue pottery by Piero Fornasetti Italy, 1960 Perfect condiction.

Exceptionally rare early figure of Bacchus in black basalt. The mixed-case mark places this figure between 1780 and 1785. He is portrayed in typical style, his head garlanded with grapes and with a wine cup to his lips. Bacchus, also known as Dionysus in Greek mythology, is the enigmatic god of wine, fertility, and ritual madness. He symbolizes freedom, ecstasy, and the blurring of societal norms through his rituals and festivities. Bacchus is often depicted in myths as a deity who challenges the status quo, promoting an atmosphere where conventional rules do not apply, and his followers are liberated from their everyday constraints. Born from Zeus and the mortal Semele, Bacchus is unique among gods, bridging the divide between the divine and the human. His followers included the wild and ecstatic maenads, female devotees who often reached states of divine frenzy, and the satyrs, mischievous half-man, half-goat beings. The worship of Bacchus was marked by theatrical processions, dances, and plays, reflecting his patronage of the theater and the dramatic arts. Bacchus’s mythology...