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Dessert Dish, Worcester, circa 1770
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A dessert dish, in the shape of a shell, and decorated in the Sevres manner.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre.
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Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Lions. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive pair of lions, in the white; possibly based on a Chinese original.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$17,000 / set
Pair of figures: Jupiter and Juno, or Zeus and Hera. Bow Porcelain C1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
She stands barefoot, wearing a long-sleeved robe in white, deep pink and washed pale yellow and partly edged with gold; a red and gilt-topped sceptre in her right hand, an outsize pe...
Category
Antique 1750s English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish man and wife, in the white. He wears an open coat, waistcoat, breeches and tricorn hat, and plays a hurdy-gurdy. She wears a sleeved dress, long apron and linen cap and carri...
Category
Antique 1740s English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$12,950 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$14,700 Sale Price
30% Off
Garniture of Three Spill Vases, Painted by Lark Pratt, Minton, circa 1860
By Minton
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Set of three spill vases, or Match Pots, decorated in the Gothic Revival manner, with reserves showing finely detailed landscapes. The painting by Lark Pratt, who was working for Min...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Gothic Revival Garniture
Materials
Porcelain
Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Il Dottore from the Commedia dell’Arte, in the white.
He stands in an histrionic pose against a tree stump and wears a high brimmed hat (presumably a black academic bonnet), long-buttoned coat over frilled cuffs, falling jabeaux, breeches, boots and a cloak; his right hand on hip, his left arm and hand raised. Slightly grey-white porcelain; even, unctuous glaze. Straw translucency. Underside wiped; air hole at centre. Square hole at rear for mount. Measure: H 6.3 in (16 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection, from Stockspring Antiques, London, 1998. The Miss G...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$7,000 Sale Price
30% Off
Pale Blue Jasperware Bowl, Wedgwood, circa 1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In solid slate blue jasper, with inlaid foot; decorated with numerous reliefs typical of the period. Engine turned decoration and lapidary polished interior.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Ma...
Category
Antique 1790s English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$10,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Figure, Mercury, Bow Porcelain, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
He wears a winged helmet and sandals, a loosely draped pink, white, and yellow washed cloak over a short tunic, and leans arrogantly against bales, his message sack over his left sho...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$8,400 Sale Price
30% Off
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Polished basalt, decorated with Victoria, Goddess of Victory, in her chariot; possibly after a Roman model such as the wall paintings at Herculaneum. T...
Category
Antique 1780s English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Covered Vase, Famille Rose Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A vase and cover, decorated with peonies &c in the Famille Rose style. Incised R mark group.
Prov Taylor Collection; Simon Spero; Joseph Handley.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Vases
Materials
Porcelain
$3,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Harlequin and Columbine Dancing, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the best: Harlequin & Columbine Dancing, after the Meissen figure, from the series of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Figure: Running Girl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small figure of a young woman wearing a puce-sprigged white skirt, lifted slightly with her left hand, pale pink jacket with typical Bow opaque blue collar and cuffs.
We've called...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Jasperware Portrait Medallion, Marc Antony, Wedgwood, circa 1778
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important early portrait medallion of Marc Antony in plain white jasper, probably predating the invention of the ‘dip’ process, which is why it i...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$8,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Campana Vase, Gilt and Bronzed, Wedgwood, 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusually large example of a scarce form of decoration. The vase is bronzed and gilded, in imitation of Japanese bronzes of the period.
Category
Antique 1870s English Neoclassical Revival Garniture
Materials
Stoneware
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Shield-Shaped Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1773
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A shield-shaped vase, decorated to resemble porphyry, and highlighted with gilding.
Marked for Wedgwood & Bentley.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Yellow Ground Vases, Chamberlain Worcester, circa 1805
By Chamberlains Worcester
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare pair of yellow-ground vases or jardinières, with reserves of exquisite flower-painting or a quality seen only during this period.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Pattern 1166 Spill Vase
By Spode
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A spill vase in bone china, decorated with pattern 1166.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Garniture
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
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
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.
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Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Arts and Crafts Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
$1,275 Sale Price
25% Off
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
$9,600 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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
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
$4,060 Sale Price
30% Off
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
$4,690 Sale Price
30% Off
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
$4,900 Sale Price
30% Off
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
$5,250 Sale Price
30% Off
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
$4,760 Sale Price
30% Off
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
$25,000