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Chinese Export Porcelain Underglaze Blue Dish of Censor with Flowers
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Underglaze Blue Dish,
Circa 1775
The well-painted Chinese Export porcelain dish is painted in superb underglaze blue with a central large double censor, the...
Category
Antique 1770s Chinese Chinese Export Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain American Market Chocolate Pot and Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Chocolate Pot and Cover,
American Market,
Circa 17 85-95
The Chinese Export porcelain chocolate pot and domed cover is painted to each side with an en grisa...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Dish with Coat of Arms with Elephant
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Dish,
Pseudo Continental Arms,
Motto: "Pura Placet Piteas",
After a Meissen Porcelain Original Service,
Cir...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Dish with European Coat of Arms
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Dish,
Pseudo Continental Arms,
Motto- "His Ornari Aut Mori",
After a Meissen Porcelain Original Service,
Circa 1760
The Chinese Export armorial porcelain oval dish with overall Bianco Supra Bianco has a central Rococo armorial coat of arms centered with three garlands with the motto "His Ornari Aut Mori" below. The armorial surrounded by scattered flowers and four shaped gilt bordered panels on the shoulder with two bouquets of famille rose flowers and two of fruit.
The motto translates as To be adorned with these, or to die, referring to the three wreaths in the coat of arms, woven of olive, laurel and oak leaves. The three leaves representing sapientia, doctrina ac rei militaris peritia, "wisdom, learning and military expertise."
The reverse with a bamboo band with fruit and flowers with scattered flowers to the top, bottom, and each side.
The gilt rim on the border now rubbed.
Dimensions: 16 1/2-inch-wide x 13 3/4 inches deep x 1 1/4 inches high
Reference: The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, David. S. Howard, 132-133, for a strainer & Dish from the same service. Howard says this is from a Chinese Export service that is a direct copy of an original Meissen porcelain service...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Export Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Porcelain Botanical Specimen Dish with a Spiderwort Plant after W. Curtis
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode Porcelain Botanical Specimen Dish,
Spiderwort,
Circa 1810-20
The botanical is after William Curtis's The Botanical Magazine illustrated by James Sowerby.
The Spode porcelain ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Porcelain Botanical Specimen Dishes- A Pair. After William Curtis
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode Porcelain Botanical Named Specimen Dishes,
After William Curtis,
A Pair,
Circa 1810-20
A superb pair of Spode porcelain botanical dishes with a gilt border and to each end a r...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Regency Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Spode Porcelain Botanical Specimen Dish
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode Porcelain Botanical Specimen Dish,
Bulbocodium vernum, commonly called Spring Meadow Saffron,
After William Curtis
Circa 1810-20
The botanical is after William Curtis's The B...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
English Creamware Large Shaped Chinoiserie Dishes
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creamware Large Dishes with Chinoiserie Decoration,
Circa 1775-85.
The large creamware dishes have a shaped rim with a slightly molded raised rim. The center has a Chinoiserie desi...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Chinoiserie Platters and Serveware
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Italian Racehorse Champions Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Italian Racehorse Champions Plates,
Great Italian Equestrian Champions,
"Grandi Campioni Italian Del Galoppo,
Circa 1950's.
The plates, numbered consecutively from ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bohemian Art Deco Tango Set of Six Glasses
Located in Downingtown, PA
Bohemian Art Deco Tango Set of Six Glasses,
Loetz or Harrach,
1920s
The set of six glasses is in the form of a red tulip with a black shaped stem
Dime...
Category
Vintage 1920s Art Deco Barware
Materials
Glass
Carole Harman Ceramic Dishes Painted with Fish, Arctic Char & Ouananiche Salmon
By Carole Moses Harman
Located in Downingtown, PA
For the Fisherman in your family!
Carole Moses Harman ceramic dishes painted with fish,
Arctic Char & Ouananiche Salmon
Dated June 1987.
Two large pottery dishes hand painted with...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Organic Modern Platters and Serveware
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Tapio Wirkkala Mid-Century Modernist "Pallas" Art Glass Vase
By Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Downingtown, PA
Tapio Wirkkala Mid-Century Modernist "Pallas" art glass vase,
1984-95
From a collection of Wirkkala glass vessels-ask for details.
Impressive Mid-Century still-molded vase cast ...
Category
Late 20th Century Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Chinese Export Porcelain Deep Dish with "JA" Cypher
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Deep Dish with "JA" Cypher,
American Market,
Circa 1785
The Chinese Export porcelain dish is of an unusual shaped oval deep small basin. The rim has a gree...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Green Shell-Edged Nested Oak Leaf Design Small Dishes
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of green shell-edged nested oak leaf design small dishes.
The very unusual circular pearl ware dishes with a spectacular oak leaf design within a g...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Mason's Ironstone Japan Pattern Vases, a Pair
By Mason's Ironstone
Located in Downingtown, PA
Mason's ironstone Japan pattern pair of vases,
circa 1830-1840.
The vases are decorated in an imari palette with scroll handles highlighted in tu...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English William IV Vases
Materials
Ironstone
18th C. Dutch Decorated English Creamware Plate, Onse Live Vrouw Tot Kevelaar
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch-decorated English Creamware Plate,
Onse Live Vrouw Tot Kevelaar (Our Lady to Kevelaar),
Circa 1765-1785.
Dimensions: 10 inch diameter x 1 inch high.
Kevelaer is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is the largest Catholic pilgrimage location within north-western Europe. More than 1 million pilgrims, mostly from Germany and the Netherlands, visit Kevelaer every year to honour the Virgin Mary. The population in 2015 was 28,311.
History
Kevelaer is a center of veneration and pilgrimage to Our Lady, Comforter of the Afflicted (also known as Our Lady of Consolation. According to tradition, a merchant praying in front of a cross in a field, heard a voice that told him: "Here thou shalt build me a chapel." His wife dreamt of a little chapel with a Madonna that someone had previously advised her to purchase,
In 1642 a copperplate engraving, representing Our Lady of Luxembourg, was installed in a sanctuary erected the same year. It is one of the best visited Catholic pilgrimage locations in north-western Europe. The Gnadenkapelle [Chapel of Grace] has drawn pilgrims to the Lower Rhine Region from all over the world for more than 360 years. Pope John Paul II...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Georgian Pottery
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
English Engine-turned Creamware Tankard
Located in Downingtown, PA
English creamware tankard,
circa 1810-1820.
The creamware tankard is decorated with a series of moulded engine-turned honeycomb designs separated w...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Barware
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Modernist Silvered Horse Knife Rests-Set of Twelve
Located in Downingtown, PA
Modernist silvered horse knife rests-set of twelve,
20th Century
(NY9205/IRR)
The twelve cast solid silvered plate horses are depicted in full ga...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #286
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #286,
The Binoculars,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the f...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #14
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #14,
The Keyhole,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts a keyhole...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
American Sandwich Glass Footed Compote
By Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
Located in Downingtown, PA
American sandwich glass lobed compote
Mid-19th century
The circular glass footed compote with twelve lobes forming an undulating rim. The upper bow...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American American Classical Glass
Materials
Glass
17th-Century German Faience Blue & White Chinoiserie Trumpet-Neck Botttle Vase
Located in Downingtown, PA
17th century Frankfurt German Faience Blue & White chinoiserie Trumpet-neck Bottle Vase,
circa 1680-90.
The vase is decorated in underglaze blue and white with a chinoiserie landscape with a Chinese figure with banana plants...
Category
Antique Late 17th Century German William and Mary Bottles
Materials
Delft
English Porcelain Chinoiserie Imari Teapot
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Porcelain Chinoiserie Imari Teapot
19th Century
The bullet-shaped porcelain teapot is painted with an unusual design with a Chin...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Chinoiserie Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Tea Bowl & Saucer with Initials MJ
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Tea Bowl & Saucer
Initials MJ,
American Market,
Circa 1785
The Chinese Export porcelain large tea bowl and saucer are pa...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
Blue and White Floral Pottery Covered Pil and Cover, Vera Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
Blue and white floral pottery covered pil and cover,
Vera pottery,
circa 1900-1930.
The cylindrical pail with exterior knob handles has a reeded lowe...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Newspaper Plate, Daily Express
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti porcelain newspaper plate,
Daily Express,
Giornali (Newspapers)
Late 1950s.
(NY8534B)
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate depicts the front page of the Daily Express from Saturday, February 11, 1956, with the main headline reading "Now, Shiver and Shake", regarding cold temperatures in Europe. Another amusing headline is "Marilyn charming says Vivien", referring to Vivien Leigh, Sir Laurence Oliver's wife on meeting Marilyn Monroe.
Dimensions: 10 1/4 inches diameter x 1/2 inch height. (26.04 cm)
Mark: Marked with a black rectangle, the classic Fornasetti hand...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate,
After Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
Number 12,
Circa 1960's.
The pottery plates are after Giuseppe Arc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates,
After Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
Set of Nine,
Circa 1970s.
The plates are after Giuseppe Arc...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #15
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti porcelain themes & variation plate #15,
The Hand,
Barnaba Fornasetti, Fornasetti Studio.
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation patt...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Dutch Delft Dore Chinoiserie Teapot & Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Dore Chinoiserie teapot & cover,
Early 18th Century.
The circular Dutch Delft Dore large teapot is painted in with Chinoiserie scenes w...
Category
Antique Early 1700s Dutch Queen Anne Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft, Faience
Antique Derby Porcelain Botanical Salmon-Ground Plate, French Marigold
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique Derby Porcelain Botanical Salmon-ground Plate,
French Marigold,
by John Brewer,
Circa 1815.
The Derby porcelain plate is boldly painte...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Creil Fine Creamware Dish
By Creil et Montereau
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creil Faience Fine Creamware Dish,
Circa 1800-20
This charming French creamware dish is decorated with a molded design of bullrushes encircling the dish. The crisp design display...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Regency Ceramics
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Spode New Stone China Dinner Service Eighty Four Pieces, Pattern #3504
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode New Stone China Dinner Service- Eighty Four Pieces,
Pattern #3504,
Circa 1820
The service is decorated in an Imari pattern in iron red light and...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Ironstone
Fornasetti Surrealist Themes & Variations Plate, #18, Fornasetti, "Circles"
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #18,
Circles,
Atelier Fornasetti
With original box.
The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts a de...
Category
Early 2000s Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
German Faience 'Tin-Glazed Earthenware' Pewter-Mounted Tankard, Thuringia
Located in Downingtown, PA
German Faience Pewter-mounted Tankard,
Probably Thuringia,
circa 1750
A tin-glazed earthenware tankard with polychrome decoration and pewter cover. The tankard depicts a Turkish horseman with a saber held high over his head with trees and rockwork to either side painted in unusual colors.
The inside of the pewter cover with stamped touchmark of a hand-held pair of scales below initials CM. On top of the cover are the initials JAS over 1798.
Dimensions: 7 inches high (with cover 9 1/2 inches) x 4 inches x 6 1/2 inches
Reference:
Catherine Sawinski, the Assistant Curator of Earlier European Art at the Milwaukee Art...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century German Georgian Barware
Materials
Faience
Chinese Export Porcelain Blue Enamel Plate Made for the American Market
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export Porcelain blue enamel plate made for the American Market,
circa 1785.
The small Chinese Export American-market plate has a central roundel in brown depicting an, ...
Category
Antique 1780s Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Derby Porcelain Salmon Ground Plate, An Annual Lavetera, by John Brewer
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique Derby Porcelain Botanical Salmon-ground Plate,
Annual Lavetera,
by John Brewer,
Circa 1815.
The Derby porcelain plate is boldly p...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
