Acorn - Scandinavian Antiques & Accessories of Distinction Delft and Faience

A charming antique French faience Quimper double inkwell and pen tray desk set, circa 1900. This gorgeous inkwell is hand painted with a traditional Breton man surrounded by bagpipes...

A fine antique 18th century Dutch Delft pottery tile. Depicting a mermaid in the ocean wringing a snake with her hands. Simply a wonderful Dutch Delft tile! Date: 18th Cent...

Italian Cantagalli polychrome majolica vase, late 19th century During the 19th century Renaissance-Revival period the Cantagalli Majolica and ce...

A fine, very large, 18th century English creamware pottery charger or wall plate. With a raised feather edge border. Simply a great antique English pottery...

Turkish polychrome hand painted ceramic Kutahya decorative hanging Plate. Kütahya is famous for its kiln products, such as tiles and pottery, which...

Dutch Delft blue and white plate with a 'Chinoiserie' decoration of a landscape with a fence, flowering peony and willows. Good condition: light chipping and some usual wear to the...

A Henriot Quimper French faience hand painted decorative plate, depicting a a pair of musicians, one with a pipe and one with a traditional binioù, or bagpipe.. Blue foliate border w...

A 19th Century Majolica glazed ceramic begonia leaf plate by Griffen Smith & Hill. A nicely textured Etruscan majolica plate with overlapping green...

Antique Dutch Delft polychrome tiles - set of 2. These are two attractive Dutch (Netherlands), Delft ceramic wall tiles, which we date to the l...

A French faience plate with a farmer in the costume with flowers signed Henriot Quimper, circa 1950. Colorful yellow border and blue lines.  

A fine and charming pair of Austrian 19th century polychromed majolica hanging wall sculptures of an elderly couple peeking through a window, probably by Friedrich Goldscheider (Goldscheider'sche Porzellan-Manufactur und Majolica-Fabrik.) Each wall sculpture depicting an elderly man wearing glasses and a traditional cap with his arms extended forward as if it was reading a book or a newspaper. The other depicting an elderly lady, also peeking through a window, wearing a laced cap with a bow tie and shawl over her shoulders, her arms are also extended forward as if it was reading a book or a newspaper. The male figure stamped on the back "78 - II ." The lady figure stamped on the back "37 - 79." Vienna, circa 1890-1900. Man's height: 16 1/2 inches (41.9 cm.) Man's width: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm.) Depth: 8 1/2 inches (21.6 cm.) Lady's height: 15 1/2 inches (39.4 cm.) Lady's width: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm.) Lady's depth: 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm.) Goldscheider Manufactory and Majolica Factory (German: Goldscheider'sche Porzellan-Manufactur und Majolica-Fabrik, (now) Goldscheider Keramik) is an Austrian ceramic manufactory. In 1885, Friedrich Goldscheider came from the small Bohemian city of Pilsen to Vienna and founded the Goldscheider Manufactory and Majolica Factory. It became one of the most influential ceramic manufactories of terracotta, faience and bronze objects in Austria with subsidiaries in Paris, Leipzig and Florence. For over half a century Goldscheider created masterpieces of historical revivalism, Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) and Art Deco. Famous artists such as Josef Lorenzl, Stefan Dakon, Ida Meisinger and the two perhaps best known Austrian ceramic artists Michael Powolny and Vally Wieselthier worked for Goldscheider. Several of the artists who worked for Goldscheider also worked for other Viennese studios, such as Augarten, Keramos or for the German brands Rosenthal and Meissen. The Goldscheider family emigrated in 1938 to United Kingdom and USA. Walter Goldscheider startet a new factory in Trenton, New Jersey and returned to Vienna in 1950. Marcel Goldscheider went to Stoke-on-Trent and produced figurative ceramics for Myott and opened his own studio in the 1950s in Hanley. Both brothers died in the early 1960s. More than 10,000 different models were created over a period of three generations. Since the very beginning many of these won first prizes and gold medals at innumerable world fairs, exhibitions and trade fairs. Goldscheider figures...

French Faience Plate Henriot Quimper Circa 1900. Breton with a flute. 8 inches diameter.