Leeds Pottery

This rare and beautifully modeled creamware soup tureen was made by Leeds Pottery around 1780. It features a domed lid topped with a loop finial adorned with applied flowers and foli...

English Pottery Shell-edge Creamware Plate, Circa 1775-85 The creamware pottery plate has a shaped undulating scalloped rim molded with the design known as shell edge. The color i...

Brutalist Art Pottery, Studio Ceramic by Brenda Williams. Northern California artist. Dramatic form, technique, wonderful glaze and color.  

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 ...

Large Staffordshire figure of Benjamin Franklin, Named Franklin on base, mid-19th century This Staffordshire figure of Benjamin Franklin has a white base with the words Franklin mol...

A Large Creamware reticulated basket and under tray, English, Circa 18th Century. Absolutely Beautiful! Provenance: The John Howard Collection....

Great California Design studio pottery ram figurine sculpture by Frank Matranga and dates from the 1960's. Wonderful design and form. Has glaze accents....

Great sample of the well known Austrian artist, Erna Kopriva. She was assistant of Joseph Hoffman and worked at Wiener Werkstatte . Similar pieces are now...

A wonderful stoneware pottery model of a Monkey designed by Knud Khyn for Royal Copenhagen. Knud Khyn (1880-1969) was a Danish sculptor and painter. He was an important, long-term...

English Creamware Pottery Cauliflower Coffee Pot and Cover, Staffordshire, Circa 1760-70 The lead-glazed earthenware creamware "cauliflower" coffeepot and over has a pear-shaped bo...

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...

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