About Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc.
Paul Vandekar is an antiques and design dealer who is the fourth generation in his family business. For the last 40 years, he has loved finding wonderful, inspiring objects from the 17th to the 20th-century for his clients who range from interior designers to museum curators to private collectors. Recognized as a leading specialist in a range of subjects such as antique English porcelain and pottery, Dutch Delft and English delftware as well as Mid Century Modern objects of the works of Piero Fornasetti and other 20th-century masters. Additionally, he carries the larges...Read More
Established in 19161stDibs seller since 2009
Associations
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America
Antiques Associations Members
Featured Pieces
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astrolabe Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti astrolabe plate,
Numbered #7 in Series
1960s-mid 1970s.
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate depicts an astrolabe in a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Large Pearlware Blue Printed Tray with The Angry Lion Pattern
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pearlware pottery blue printed tray,
The Angry Lion Pattern,
Circa 1815-20
The English pottery footed tray is pearlware and is printed with a rar...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Georgian Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Early 19th Century Creamware Knife Rests
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creamware knife rests,
Italian,
Circa 1810-1820
The two rests are of similar form with a raised scroll terminal to each end. One with pierced stylized f...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Georgian Pottery
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Fish Plates, Pesci pattern or Passage of Fish
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of rare Piero Fornasetti Fish Plates,
Pesci pattern or Passage of Fish,
Numbered # 2 & 3,
circa 1960s
The porcelain plates depict two diff...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Henry Clay Papier Mâché Lacquered Tray and Base
By Henry Clay
Located in Downingtown, PA
Burgundy papier mâché lacquered tray and base,
Impressed "Clay" for Henry Clay,
circa 1815
The burgundy-ground "papier mâché" lacquered tray...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Tray Tables
Materials
Other
English Pottery Model of Whieldon Creamware Tortoise-Shell Seated Lion
By Thomas Whieldon Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery model of a lion,
Whieldon-type creamware tortoise-shell glaze,
circa 1765-1785
The English pottery model of a seated lion with a Whieldon-type creamware tortoise-she...
Category
Antique 1860s Georgian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Paris Porcelain Botanical Vases, French, Mid-19th Century
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of Paris porcelain botanical vases,
Mid-19th century.
Each of the baluster form vases has a cylindrical neck and everted rim and is painted with ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Victorian Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Salmon Ground Plate, Marsh Hibiscus, after William Curtis
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique Derby Porcelain Botanical Salmon-ground Plate,
Marsh Hibiscus,
by John Brewer after Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, #882, 1806,
circa 1815.
The Derby Porcelain plate is superbly painted with a Marsh Hibiscus botanical specimen with richly gilded borders with swans and stylized flowerheads on a rich salmon ground.y gilded borders with swans and stylized flowerheads are on a rich salmon ground.
The flower is named on the reverse: "Marsh Hibiscus".
Diameter: 8 7/8 inches (22.5 cm)
Mark: crown, crossed batons, and D mark in red, numerals 4 & 13 in yellow & green inside foot rim.
John Brewer, (1764-1816)
John was the elder of two brothers who both worked at Derby. Their parents were both artists and from 1762-1767 had studios in London at Rupert Street. Brewer started working at Derby in 1795. He was a talented watercolorist and had never applied his art to porcelain painting. At Derby, he painted a variety of subject matters including plant and flower painting.
The Botanical Magazine is one of the oldest - and longest-published - of the British botanical...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
George Brookshaw Print of Pears from Pomona Britannica, Dated 1807
By George Brookshaw
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Brookshaw Print of Pears
from Natural History Art, Botanical, Fruit, Brookshaw, Pomona Britannica,
Plate LXXXV,
Dated 1807
The publ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Medallion Pair of Bough Pots & Covers
Located in Downingtown, PA
Rare Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Medallion Bough Pots & Covers,
Circa 1860.
The large Chinese Export porcelain square bough pots with a flaring foot and rim have panels on all fou...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Watercolors of Exotic Fruit on Pith Paper
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Chine trade watercolors are of fine quality and depict various exotic fruits including pineapples, lychees, finger citrus and orange amongst others. Now framed with a thin gilt f...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings
Materials
Paper
George Brookshaw Print of Two Varieties of Raspberries, One Yellow and One Red
By George Brookshaw
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Brookshaw print of two varieties of raspberries, one yellow and one red.
Plate IV,
from Natural History Art, Botanical, Fruit, Brookshaw, Po...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
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