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English Shell-edge Creamware Pottery Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
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...
Category
Antique 1770s English George III Pottery
Materials
Ceramic, Creamware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti "Pesci" Porcelain Plates, Set of Six Plates with School of Fish
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti "Pesci" Porcelain Plates,
Set of Six Plates with Schools of Fish,
Circa 1970s
Each of the six different designs depicts a school of similar fish swimming across th...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
English Pottery Pearlware Blue Chinoiserie Large Shell-edged Dish
By Leeds Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pearlware Blue Chinoiserie Large Shell-edged Dish,
China House Pattern Variation,
Probably Staffordshire,
Circa 1810
The pearlware dish, with a molded shell-edge, is painted...
Category
Antique 1780s English Georgian Platters and Serveware
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
English Pottery Pearlware Blue and White Oval Dish with Chinoiserie Decoration
By Leeds Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pottery Pearlware Blue and White Oval Dish with Chinoiserie Decoration,
Shell-edged Border
Possibly Leeds,
Circa 1790.
The large oval 18th-century shell-edge pearlware blue ...
Category
Antique 1780s English Georgian Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Fornasetti Tray-Juggler with Spinning Plates, Atelier Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Tray
Juggler with Spinning Plates,
Atelier Fornasetti,
Dated 2017, N 16
The black circular tray is printed with a pattern of Themes & Variation numbered 193. It depi...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Metal
Chinese Export Porcelain American Market Soup Tureen, Cover and Stand
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain American Market Soup Tureen and Cover and Stand,
Circa 1780.
The Chinese Export porcelain bombe-form soup tureen, cover and...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Soup Tureens
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Pronk La Dame au Parasol Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Pronk La Dame au Parasol Plate
Circa 1740
This Chinese Export Porcelain Plate, Circa 1740, is decorated after a design by Cor...
Category
Antique 1740s Chinese Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
American Etruscan Majolica Teapot in the Form of a Cauliflower
Located in Downingtown, PA
American Etruscan Majolica Teapot in the form of a Cauliflower,
Early Majolica-type body,
Circa 1860
The green molded tromp L'oeil teapot is des...
Category
Antique 1860s American American Craftsman Pottery
Materials
Majolica
Chinese Porcelain Famille Verte Large "Flower Basket" Dish, Kangxi Period
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese porcelain Famille Verte large "flower basket" dish,
Kangxi Period
The Chinese Export porcelain large dish is painted in “famille verte” enamels with a central medallion o...
Category
Antique Early 1700s Chinese Chinese Export Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Recipe Plate, Vero-Pig Piccadilly, Made for Fleming Joffe
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti recipe plate,
Vero-Pig piccadilly,
Made for Fleming Joffe,
Silkscreen and transfer,
Early 1960s.
This rare Piero Forna...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Bristol Delftware Unusual Star Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Bristol delftware plate has a charming whimsical design with sponged manganese and a central star design containing a chinoiserie fence.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Delft, Faience
Piero Fornasetti Oval Dish with Gilt Pipe and Tobacco Motif
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Piero Fornasetti Pip motif oval dish is painted on a dark blue ground with a gilt design of two pipes entwined with tobacco leaves and tied together with a central ribbon.
Ref...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
Dutch Delft Oval Blue & White Architectural Plaque, Three Porcelain Ash-Barrel
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Oval Blue & White Plaque,
Pieter Gerritsz Kam, (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) factory), or his widow Maria van der Kloot,
Circa 1700-1710
...
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Dutch Queen Anne Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft, Faience
Dutch Delft Set of Six Dinner Plates with Plants and Ribbon
By Delft
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch delft set of six dinner plates with plants and ribbon
The charming set of six Dutch delft plates are painted with scattered green and orange plant...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Pottery
Proskau Faience Tromp L'oeil Jug in the Form of a Parrot, circa 1770
By Proskau
Located in Downingtown, PA
Proskau Faience Jug in the form of a Parrot,
circa 1770.
The tromp l"oeil tin-glazed earthenware jug is in the form of a parrot with a removable head...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Georgian Pottery
Materials
Faience
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astronomici Plate, #4 in Series
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Astronomici means Astronomics. This is a rare pattern in black and white with gold highlights.
Mark: A moon and sun within a circle with smiling faces with scattered stars and th...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Majolica Shell-Form Spoon Warmer, Circa 1872
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Majolica shell-form spoon warmer,
circa 1872.
The warmer is naturalistically modeled as a large shell in sky blue and amaranth.
Marks: Script in red M2954 and M below also...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Piero Fornasetti Six Porcelain Gilt Seashell Plates, Conchyliorum Pattern, 1950s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti porcelain gilt seashell porcelain plates,
Conchyliorum pattern,
Set of six plates,
circa 1950s.
The set of plates with a gilt ground and each beautifully decorated ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Double Cypher Dinner Plate, Dutch Market
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Double Crest Marriage Dinner Plate,
Probably the Dutch Market,
Circa 1755-60
The attractive Chinese Export crested armorial marriage plate has a central design with shields, each with a different gilt cyphers, flanked by angels blowing horns with above a crown. The inner well with a gilt chain design and the border rim painted with four flower groupings.
This type of design was made to celebrate a wedding.
Dimensions: 9 inch diameter x 1 inch high
Reference: China For the West, David Howard and John Ayers, Volume Two, Page 398, #396, for a plate with shield...
Category
Antique 1750s Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Outstanding Molded Painted Pearlware Teapot & Cover, Possibly Wilson
Located in Downingtown, PA
Outstanding Molded Painted Botanical Pearlware Teapot & Cover,
Possibly Robert Wilson,
Circa 1795
A fabulous molded and painted teapot decorated ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Tea Sets
Materials
Pottery
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 Unusual English pottery footed tray is pearlware and is printed wi...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Georgian Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Bristol Delftware Set of Six Polychrome Chinoiserie Scalloped Plates, 1760
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wonderful set of six Bristol delftware polychrome Chinoiserie scalloped plates,
Redbank Back Factory,
Circa 1760
The plates have a most appealing, br...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Dinner Plates
Materials
Delft
English Creamware Whieldon-type Gray Tortoiseshell Plate
By Thomas Whieldon Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Creamware Whieldon-type Gray Tortoiseshell Plate,
Circa 1765-75
This color is unsual. The plates are more a tortoise-shell coloration.
The ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Plate, Beautiful Soup, Made for Fleming Joffe
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Fleming Joffe Porcelain recipe plate,
Beautiful Soup,
1960s.
This rare Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate is from a series of fourteen made for the Fleming Joffe company in New York City. It depicts an improbable and amusing recipe with an image of a toad.
Diameter: 10 1/4 inches x 1 inch high.
The Fleming Joffe company was a small leather goods...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
18th-Century Derby Porcelain Figure Emblematic of Africa
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large Derby Porcelain Figure of Africa,
From a series known as the "Four Quarters".
Circa 1765
The large figure, emblematic of Africa, is depic...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Georgian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Shell-Edged Large Prattware Oval Dish Painted with an Urn of Flowers
Located in Downingtown, PA
Shell-edge prattware oval dish painted with an urn of flowers,
1800-1820
The large oval deep dish has a shaped border in blue with a painted blue shell-edge design. The central well is painted with a large yellow urn...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Platters and Serveware
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
Georgian Blue Glass Finger Bowls- a Set of Six
Located in Downingtown, PA
Great Color!
Set of six late Georgian blue glass finger bowls,
circa 1830-1830,
A set of blue lead glass finger bowls from the Regency period...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Glass
Materials
Glass
Staffordshire Pearlware Pottery Surface Agate Teapot with Acorn Finial
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Staffordshire Pearlware Teapot and Cover with Inlaid Agate Surface and Acorn Finial,
Attributed to the Ralph Wedgwood,
circa 1795.
The squat oval p...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Georgian Pottery
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
Wedgwood Neo-classical Large Cachepots and Stands, A Pair, Late 18th Century
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Neo-classical Large Cachepots and Stands,
A Pair,
Late 18th Century
The pair of circular Wedgwood pottery cache pots and underdish have a series of concave reeded panels in...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Tall Ship Ceramic Coasters with Box, Velieri Pattern
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Tall Ship Ceramic Coasters with Original Box,
Velieri Pattern,
1950s-1960s.
The complete set of eight Piero Fornasetti coasters each depict Spanish Galleons...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Porcelain Covered Famille Rose Two-handled Pots
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Covered Famille Rose Two-handled Pots,
Circa 1775
The unusual pair of Chinese Export porcelain circular two-handled pots and covers are painted in famille r...
Category
Antique 1770s Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Creamware 18th-century Feather-edged Large Plates- Set of Ten
By Leeds Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th-century English Feather-edge Plain Creamware Large Plates,
Set of Ten,
Circa 1770's
The large circular dinner plates are plain undecorated creamware with a molded feather edge....
Category
Antique 1770s Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Chinese Export Porcelain Covered Rose Mandarin Cider Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Mandarin Cider Jug and Cover
Circa 1810-25
The large Chinese Export porcelain cider jug and cover have two different circular scenes to each side borde...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Pitchers
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Staffordshire Creamware Cauliflower Creamer
By William Greatbatch
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th-century Staffordshire Creamware Cauliflower Creamer Jug,
Probably by William Greatbach/ Josiah Wedgwood
Lead-glazed earthenware,
Circa 1765
The creamware creamer jug has a bal...
Category
Antique 1760s English Georgian Tableware
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Armorial Tankard
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Armorial Tankard,
Circa 1780
The stunning Chinese Export porcelain armorial tankard is circular with a taper towards the foot. There is a coat of arm...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Saltglaze Teapot with portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia and the Prussia
Located in Downingtown, PA
Saltglaze Teapot with portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia and the Prussian Eagle,
Circa 1760
The ermine ground teapot has an enamelled portra...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English George II Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Michael Graves Little Dripper Porcelain Filter Drip Coffeemaker
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in Downingtown, PA
Little Dripper Porcelain Filter Drip Coffeemaker,
Designed by Michael Graves,
Manufactured by Swid Powell,
Dated 1987.
The complete set, with original instruction booklet, included ...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Teapot and Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Teapot and Cover,
Circa 1740-50
The circular globular teapot is unusually painted to either side of the spou...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Palloni, Hot Air Balloon Complete Set of Coasters
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Palloni, Hot Air Balloon.
Complete Set of Coasters,
1955-60
The Piero Fornasetti ceramic coasters are a complete set of eight. They each depict a different...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Porcelain Tobacco Leaf Shaped Dish with Puce Scroll
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Pseudo Tobacco Leaf Shaped Dish,
Circa 1765
The Chinese Export porcelain shaped dish. The leaf-shaped dish is in a rare ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Blue and White Porcelain After Maria Sybille Merian
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain blue and white porcelain plates,
After Maria Sybille Merian,
Pronk Workshop Design,
Dutch Market,
Circa 1740-45
A pair of blue and white plates with a design after Maria Sybille Merian, probably from the Pronk workshop. The Chinese export underglaze blue porcelain...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Yellow Pottery Nautilus Sea Shell Sauce Tureen, Cover & Stand
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Nautilus sauce Tureen, cover & stand with Rare Yellow Color,
Circa 1790
The Wedgwood pearlware pottery sauce tureen, cover & stand is paint...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
First Period Worcester Pair of Porcelain Basket Weave Leaf Dishes
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Downingtown, PA
First Period Worcester pair of porcelain basket weave leaf dishes,
circa 1758-1760.
The First Period Worcester porcelain dishes with moulde...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Plate, Sezioni Di Frutta, #6
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Plate, Sezioni Di Frutta, #6
1960s.
The stunning Piero Fornasetti Pottery Plate depicts a cut red pepper from the Sezioni Di Frutta...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Pottery
English Pottery Game Tureen, 19th Century
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery game tureen,
19th century
The oval game tureen and cover has painted molded mother bird and chick to the center of each side and large molded tulips to each side. Scattered across the body and cover are other molded flowers and leaves naturalistically.
Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches height x 11 1/4 inches width x 8 3/4 inches
Game pie dishes became popular in the 1800s during Napoleon's blockade of British ports. Flour became scarce, game pie dishes resembling pie crust came into their own and have remained popular ever since. William Jesse in his 1844 biography of Beau Brummel...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Serving Pieces
Materials
Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates, A Pair Decorated with Sea Shells and Anemones
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates,
decorated with sea anemones, urchins and shells,
#7 & #12 from Conchiglie Pattern,
Circa 1960-1970s.
The Fornasetti plates are dec...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Newcastle Prattware Pottery Model of a Horse, St. Anthony Pottery, Newcastle
By Saint Anthony Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
Newcastle Prattware Pottery model of a horse,
St. Anthony Pottery, Newcastle upon Tyne,
circa 1800-1820.
The fun, folky horse has a cropped tail s...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Animal Sculptures
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Ceramic Plates, Set of Six
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Plates, set of six
The plates each depict a different selection of stringed instruments including gu...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
1950's Vintage Libbey Bar Glasses, Curio Line Designed by Freda Diamond
By Libbey Glass Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Libbey bar glasses, (23 pieces)
Curio Line designed by Freda Diamond,
Early 1950s.
The charming set of twenty three pieces of barware each d...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Glass
English Pottery Spatterware Plates- A Set of Four
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pottery Green Sponged Spatterware Set of Four Plates,
1st Half of 19th Century
The Sponged Spatterware plates are attractively decorated with a green seaweed border with a b...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Folk Art Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Faience Tromp L'oeil Jug in the Form of a Parrot, Proskau Poland
By Proskau
Located in Downingtown, PA
Proskau Faience Tompe L'oeil Jug in the form of a Parrot,
Circa 1770.
The European tin-glazed earthenware tromp l'oeil jug is in the form of a parrot with a removable head forming...
Category
Antique 1770s Georgian Delft and Faience
Materials
Faience
Chinese Export Large Underglaze Blue & White Porcelain Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Large Underglaze Blue & White Porcelain Dish,
Circa 1770
The large attractive Chinese Export Blue and White Porcelain dish is unusually painted with a rare design. T...
Category
Antique 1770s Chinese Chinese Export Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Italian-Market Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Dish, Marchesi di Sorbello Arms
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Coat-of-Arms on this Chinese Export armorial are for the Marchesi di Sorbello from a service ordered by Uguccione III Bourbon del Monte, 12th Marquis Regent of Sorbello (1737-1816).
He was the son of Guiseppe I (1690-1747) a successful and important diplomat for the King of Sardinia...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Period Spode Neo-classical Greek Pattern Blue Dessert Dishes- a Pair
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Regency Spode neo-Classical Greek pattern blue rectangular dessert dishes,
Four figures in battle,
Early 19th century
The Spode Greek pattern pott...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Puce-Colored Creamware Shell-Edge Neale and Co Set of Ten Plates
By Neale & Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Neale & Co. puce-colored shell-edge plates are each decorated in a purple transfer with figures in the foreground amongst a landscape of Classic ruins. The rims, also with a feathered puce (purple) border, are highlighted with unusually strong remnants of the original gilding. Each is impressed with the Neale & Co. mark on the reverse.
Marks: The impressed Neale & Co. mark was only used between 1778 and 1795.
Reference: Neale Pottery & Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors 1763-1820, Diana Edwards, page 126, #100 for a large stand...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware
Regency Regency Ridgway Porcelain Fruit Coolers, Covers and Liners
By Ridgway Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Regency Ridgway porcelain coolers are decorated in pattern #1173. They have a circular body raised on three dolphin feet and trefoil base and painted ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Serving Pieces
Materials
Porcelain
Miles Mason Porcelain Chinoiserie Plates with the Boy and Buffalo Pattern
By Miles Mason Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
English porcelain pair of Chinoiserie plates with the boy and buffalo pattern,
Probably Miles Mason, circa 1805
The beautiful rare English porcelain Bone China plates depict a pattern found on Chinese Export porcelain and were most likely made as replacements. The pattern depicts a boy on a buffalo in a Chinese landscape with polychrome colors particularly green. A band of orange ribbon is painted around the rim.
See the attached photos of a Chinese famille rose prototype with the same design from circa 1760.
Diameter: 8 3/4 inches x 1 1/4 inches high
Reference: Silk Roads, China Ships...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Meissen Miniature Turquoise-Ground Botanical Teapot and Cover
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
Meissen miniature Turquoise-ground teapot and cover,
1735-40
The Meissen porcelain miniature teapot has a turquoise ground with a shaped cartouche ...
Category
Antique 1730s German Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Dutch Delft Shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome Plaque
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome plaque,
Circa 1730-40
The shaped plaque has a raised molded border decorated with a series of alternating painted panels of flowers and Chinese auspicious objects. The central scene is painted with a slightly off-center table with a vase filled with flowers and a large parrot perched on the branches. Several flying bugs can be seen around the flowers. To the left is a gardener with two watering pots at his feet. The whole in a puce, yellow and green palette. The top is surmounted with a blue shell pierced with a suspension hole. The exterior rim of the plaque in blue.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches high x 9 3/4 inches x 1/2 inch depth.
Provenance: B.F. Edwards Collection...
Category
Antique 1730s Dutch Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Delft, Faience
