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Tea Bowl and Saucer, Stork Pattern, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Teabowl and saucer, circa 1749-1752:
Finely potted circular bowl and large saucer painted in blue underglaze with the ‘Banana, Stork (Crane) and Fence’ pattern of a banana tree growing through a rock, a fretted fence and an exotic stork. Even glaze with some bluing. Green straw translucency. Base glazed.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; John Wilson Antiques...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Cradle with Infant, Bovey Tracey, circa 1790
By Bovey Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine example in creamware of an infant swaddled and lying in its crib.
These miniature representations served various purposes:
Decorative objects: Miniature models of infa...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Primitive Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
Coffee Cup, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of Chinese export form with loop handle; the body imaginatively painted in a bright ‘early blue’ underglaze with pine, rock and bamboo after the Chinese. Yellow tinged body; clear gl...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Encaustic Painted Basalt Ovoid Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1810
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exceptional ovoid vase in black basalt, with encaustic painting to both sides after the Greek.
The love-bird finial is particularly fine.
Category
Antique Early 1800s English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Figure Faun with Flute, Wedgwood, circa 1870
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
After the antique “Piping Faun” now in the Louvre Museum; the result of it being bought by Napoleon from the Borghese collection.
The "Piping Faun" is...
Category
Antique 1870s English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Salt Glaze Sauce Boat, Mosaic Pattern, English, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In salt-glazed stoneware, crisply moulded with the Mosaic pattern. The beginnings of the Rococo movement can be seen in the fronds overlaying the more staid mosaic.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Large Tankard, Worcester, circa 1770, Later Decorated
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large 18th century tankard, redecorated in the 19th century with a scene of hare coursing.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Baluster Vase, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of bow’s output, with a smooth, silky glaze. Painted after the Kakiemon with a phoenix, butterfly and various plants after the Japanese; with reserved panels featuri...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Knife and Fork, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unsually early set of handles with original steel tines and blade. Pistol grip form moulded with acanthus scrolls, leaves and swags and painted with indianische Blumen in a Kakiem...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Baluster Mug, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug of baluster form with flared base and grooved strap-handle with heart-shaped termination. The face of the mug painted after the Kakiemon with the two Quail pattern. The reve...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Soup Tureen, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Oval tureen and cover, decorated after the Kakiemon in the two quail pattern; the crabstock handles and masks are interesting features. The tureen has had a rather unhappy life, appa...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Plates, Roses and Tulips, Nantgarw, circa 1815
By Nantgarw Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine pair of plates in the incomparable Nantgarw body; decorated in London with naturalistic sprays of flowers.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Welsh Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Bird Plates, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of scalloped dessert plates, painted with bunches and sprays of flowers, with attractive naturalistic birds arranged around the outside.
Red anchor mark.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bincentenary Wine Cooler, Wedgwood, circa 1950
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Two handled vase in creamware, with moonstone glaze and platinum lustre decoration. Designed by Louise Powell for the bicentenary of Wedgwood’s birth.
...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Arts and Crafts Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Spoon Tray, Hancock's Ruins, Worcester, circa 1765
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of elongated hexagonal form, decorated with classical ruins, after Hancock.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Leaf-Shape Dish, Chelsea, circa 1760
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baluster shaped vase in soft paste porcelain, with early gilt line decoration. Superb flower painting.
The shapes are very close, a serving dish, in the form of a leaf in a basket...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Near Pair of Baluster Shape Vases, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baluster shaped vase in soft paste porcelain with early gilt line decoration. Superb flower painting.
The shapes are very close, and the gilding is slightly more elaborate on the se...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Creamware Portrait of Shakespeare, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A style of portrait previously unknown, this extraordinarily deep bust of Shakespeare is in creamware, with a cold painted background.
William Sha...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Garniture, Jabberwocky Pattern, Worcester, circa 1765
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An assembled set of three vases in the scarce Jabberwocky pattern, on a scale blue background.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Cherub Candlestick, in the White, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This example illustrated Tilley 1957, Pl. LXVII, #203 who, p.127, also draws attention to the similarity of the modelling of the figure and the Bow Mongolian busts, and their similar...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Bowl Painted with Butterflies, Chinese, Dutch Decorated, circa 1740
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Finely potted porcelain tea bowl, with superb Dutch decoration, after the Dutch naturalist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian.
The porcelain i...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Saltglaze "King of Prussia" Plate, English, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A salt-glaze plate, probably made about the time of Frederick the Great's successes in the Seven Years War and his convention with England in 1756 against France and her Allies.
...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Black Glass Sphinxes, Molineaux & Webb, circa 1875
By Molineaux & Webb
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of sphinxes in black glass. Little is known of this Manchester glassworks, but they had a very successful line in neoclassical pieces of which these are a fine example.
Category
Antique 1870s English Neoclassical Revival Glass
Materials
Glass
Tankard with Printed Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug, in baluster form, decorated with early transfer prints of pheasants and two sheep. Transfer printing on bow porcelain is very rare.
Prov: Taylor Coll; Winifred Williams,...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bowl with Chinoiserie Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of Bow porcelain, decorated in ‘wet’ famille rose colours; featuring a peony, a bird on a branch, and another in flight. Sacred Scrolls to the interior.
A superb ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot, Stag Hunt Pattern, China, circa 1740, Decorated in London by Giles
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chinese export porcelain teapot with underglaze blue decoration; decorated for the London market in the James Giles workshop with the S...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative Basket, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pierced basket standing on a well-formed rococo base. Perhaps for potpourri, although the internal decoration suggests another use. We think probably oranges, chestnuts, etc.
Pr...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982).
Toper is an old English word for a drunk.
Annulet Mark.
Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Early Bow Porcelain Pickle Dish, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In the early ‘mushroom grey’ body, probably made by hand; decorated with some very good flower painting.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero 2007.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a large residence in a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Watney Collection.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Flowers and Insects", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with flowers and insects. Painter’s mark 16 and a distinctive way of painting insects.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Christie’s.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Ribbon Landscape", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Roderick Jellicoe.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Banana Trees", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with banana trees in a landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Parkside Antiques.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Cup, Kakiemon Decoration, Plymouth, circa 1769
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Coffee cup in hard-paste porcelain, decorated with Kakiemon painting. The fruits of the Plymouth factory are perhaps the first examples of hard-paste porc...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Desirable Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Painted in under-glaze blue with the Desirable Residence pattern, featuring telegraph poles, and unusual feature for this period.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques Melbourne...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Scholar's Rock" Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with a Scholar’s Rock and associated items.
Prov. Taylor Collection; Stockspring Antiques.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can: Blue and White "Stork & Banana Tree". Bow Porcelain C1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the Stork & Banana Tree pattern.
Provenance Taylor Collection; Sutherland Collection.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Swans & Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Decorated with an under-glaze blue print of a Chinese landscape, featuring a man at the window of a pagoda, admiring swans on the lake.
Bow didn't produce very much in the way of ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Polychrome "Strutting Bird", Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can from the bow porcelain factory, naively painted with the ‘Strutting Bird’ pattern.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Cross-Legged Man", Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the cross-legged man pattern. An early and unusual shape for this scarce pattern.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Robyn Robb.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Man at the Window" Bow Porcelain, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Painted in under-glaze blue with a pattern possibly depicting a reluctant bride.
Provenance Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Bamboo and Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with Bamboo and a pagoda. Underglaze B mark.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Sutherland; Aubrey Toppin; Charles Dyson.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Shell Sweetmeat Stand, Bow Porcelain, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Three-tiered stand for sweetmeats, in the form of shells and coral, and enameled with flowers; it is rare to find these in such good condition. Probably from a large dessert service.
These stands were popular in the Georgian period and were made by most of the porcelain factories. Many were modelled by a man named Tebo, who went from factory to factory creating these stands. He appears to have used real shells...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Decorative Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Kakiemon Decoration Chelsea, circa 1752
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large octagonal tea-bowl, decorated in the Japanese style.
“The decoration is effective and pleasing, but does not seem to have been very frequently employed” – McKenna.
Pro...
Category
Antique 1750s English Anglo-Japanese Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Kitty Clive Figure
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of Bow's theatrical figures.
The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot, the Fine Lady, introduced, with The Fine Gentleman, into David Garrick...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
