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Majolica Green-Glazed Geranium Plate, Hope & Carter, English, ca. 1870s
Located in Banner Elk, NC
English majolica green-glazed 9.13-inch plate, with relief molded geranium plants and blossoms and a shaped rim by the English firm Hope & Carter, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, ca. 1870s....
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Walnut Cocktail Bar with Hand-Carved Dragooned Edge on Cabriole Feet, ca. 1920
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Early 20th Century Edwardian Burl Walnut Cocktail Bar with Hand-Carved, Dragooned Edge and Mirrored shelves on cabriole legs. Made in England in the Early 20th Century, this bar cabi...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Edwardian Dry Bars
Materials
Walnut
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate on a Brown Ground, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate, English, ca. 1870, the relief molded dish with a central green-glazed maple leaf with ferns on a brown ground, the rim banded in yel...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate on a Brown Ground, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate, English, ca. 1870, the relief molded dish with a central green-glazed maple leaf with ferns on a brown ground, the rim banded in yellow ocher, the reverse glazed in green and brown tortoiseshell mottling, with painted design number to the thumbprint reserve, '2584,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Plate, 'large maple leaf with ferns round' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books partially preserved in the Wedgwood Archives, Victoria and Albert Museum, and reprinted in Cluett.
BOOK REFERENCES :
Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS 1861-1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998, p. 270. (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 269--270).
Nicholas M. Dawes, MAJOLICA. New York: Crown Publishers, 199, p. 121, Figure 211.
Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 75.
Leslie Bockol, VICTORIAN MAJOLICA. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1996, p. 79.
Jeffrey B. Snyder...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate on a Brown Ground, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate, English, ca. 1870, the relief molded dish with a central green-glazed maple leaf with ferns on a brown ground, the rim banded in yellow ocher, the reverse glazed in green and brown tortoiseshell mottling, with painted design number to the thumbprint reserve, '2584,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Plate, 'large maple leaf with ferns round' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books partially preserved in the Wedgwood Archives, Victoria and Albert Museum, and reprinted in Cluett.
BOOK REFERENCES :
Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS 1861-1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998, p. 270. (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 269--270).
Nicholas M. Dawes, MAJOLICA. New York: Crown Publishers, 199, p. 121, Figure 211.
Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 75.
Leslie Bockol, VICTORIAN MAJOLICA. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1996, p. 79.
Jeffrey B. Snyder...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate on a Brown Ground, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate, English, ca. 1870, the relief molded dish with a central green-glazed maple leaf with ferns on a brown ground, the rim banded in yellow ocher, the reverse glazed in green and brown tortoiseshell mottling, with painted design number to the thumbprint reserve, '2584,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Plate, 'large maple leaf with ferns round' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books partially preserved in the Wedgwood Archives, Victoria and Albert Museum, and reprinted in Cluett.
BOOK REFERENCES :
Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS 1861-1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998, p. 270. (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 269--270).
Nicholas M. Dawes, MAJOLICA. New York: Crown Publishers, 199, p. 121, Figure 211.
Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 75.
Leslie Bockol, VICTORIAN MAJOLICA. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1996, p. 79.
Jeffrey B. Snyder...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate on a Brown Ground, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate, English, ca. 1870, the relief molded dish with a central green-glazed maple leaf with ferns on a brown ground, the rim banded in yellow ocher, the reverse glazed in green and brown tortoiseshell mottling, with painted design number to the thumbprint reserve, '2584,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Plate, 'large maple leaf with ferns round' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books partially preserved in the Wedgwood Archives, Victoria and Albert Museum, and reprinted in Cluett.
BOOK REFERENCES :
Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS 1861-1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998, p. 270. (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 269--270).
Nicholas M. Dawes, MAJOLICA. New York: Crown Publishers, 199, p. 121, Figure 211.
Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 75.
Leslie Bockol, VICTORIAN MAJOLICA. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1996, p. 79.
Jeffrey B. Snyder...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Mid-Century Modern Teak Two-Tone Side Table, English, ca. 1960
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Mid-Century Modern Side Table or Lamp table constructed of two different colors of teak, a drop-down drawer, with a beautiful and unusual center pull, English, ca. 1960
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Teak
A George Jones Majolica 'Lotus' Flower Plate, English, ca. 1869
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Lotus Plate, naturalistically molded as overlapping lily pads and lotus leaves, with a central relief-molded pink and yellow lotus flower on turquoise-glazed wa...
Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica 'Lotus' Flower Plate, English, ca. 1869
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Lotus Plate, naturalistically molded as overlapping lily pads and lotus leaves, with a central relief-molded pink and yellow lotus flower on turquoise-glazed wa...
Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Wedgwood Majolica Stork and Dragonfly Reticulated Plate, English, Dated 1869
By Wedgwood
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Wedgwood Majolica 9-in Plate, the center with a relief-molded stork, waterlilies, cattails, and pink-tinged blossoms, and a single dragonfly, the cavetto with a relief-molded and y...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Georgian Mahogany Bachelors Chest with Satinwood Inlay, English, ca. 1830
Located in Banner Elk, NC
An Exceptionally Beautiful Bachelor's Chest constructed in mahogany, the central door inlaid with an urn, the drawers and door inlaid with an urn and fans, with satinwood stringing a...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Georgian Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
Iconic Mid-Century Modern 'Rocket' Display Cabinet, English, 1935
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Iconic Mid-Century Modern "Rocket" Display cabinet/Vitrine. Figured walnut with six graduated tubular-shaped columns on each side representing a rocket launch and the doors glazed se...
Category
Vintage 1930s English Mid-Century Modern Vitrines
Materials
Walnut
A Large Joseph Holdcroft Rustic Jug, Twigs and Branches with Birds, ca. 1875
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Large Holdcroft Rustic Pitcher with applied birds on either side and relief molded wheat sheaves with all-over twigs and branches, with interlocked branch handle, English, ca. 1875...
Category
Antique 19th Century Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Minton Majolica Neoclassical Jardiniere with Laurel Wreaths, English, ca. 1868
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Jardiniere, the urn-form body with applied laurel wreath handles tied with pink ribbon bows on a turquoise ground, the shoulder and rim molded with neoclassical bor...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Fielding Majolica Garden Seat with Cranes on Cobalt Blue, English, ca. 1880
By Simon Fielding
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Majolica Garden Seat by Simon Fielding, of cylinder-shape with a pair of relief molded storks in marsh to either side, with mottled top forming the seat, English, ca. 1880.
LITERAT...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Wedgwood Majolica Dragon Jug, Designed by Hughes Protât and Dated 1878
By Wedgwood
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Majolica Dragon Jug designed by Hugues Protât (French, 1835-1871) for Wedgwood, the ovoid-form jug glazed in cobalt blue with a brightly glazed drago...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Joseph Holdcroft Majolica Cobalt Blue-Glazed Fish Plate, English, ca. 1880
By Joseph Holdcroft
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Joseph Holdcroft Majolica Plate, the center with a relief-molded fish and floral on a deep cobalt blue ground, with a Moresque-style ornamental circular band glazed in brown and oc...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Wedgwood Majolica Red Lobster Plate on Cobalt Ground, English, Dated 1882
By Wedgwood
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Wedgwood Majolica Lobster Plate, with the central figure of a red-glazed lobster on sea greens on a cobalt blue ground, and with relief molded...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Chestnut Pitcher, Leaves and Blossoms, English, ca. 1869
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Baluster-Form Pitcher, the body with relief-molded chestnut leaves and blossoms on a deep pink-glazed ground, the handle formed with two branches tied with pi...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Game Tureen with a Quail and Her Chicks, English, 1874
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Game Tureen, the base with relief molded rabbits among ferns and grasses on both sides, with oak leaves, acorns, and ivy encircling all around the mossy branc...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica 'Europe' Centerpiece, Stag, Doe and Rabbit, English, 1872
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica 'EUROPE' centerpiece compote, English, 1872, the shaped bowl supported by an oak tree, with a standing stag, reclining doe, and a rabbit, the reverse with Bri...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Centerpieces
Materials
Majolica
A Minton Majolica Teapot, Gourd-Form with Mushroom Lid, English, Dated 1861
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Novelty Teapot formed as a yellow-glazed gourd with blossoms on raised leaves and blossom, surmounted by a lid naturalistically molde...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Kingfisher on Lily Pad Luncheon Tray, English, ca. 1875
By George Jones & Sons
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Kingfisher on Lily Pad Luncheon Tray, the trefoil dish naturalistically molded as a lily pad and blossoms with cattails, with a colorfully glazed model of a k...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Majolica Grape-Form Wine Jug by Brown-Westhead, Moore, English, ca. 1876
By Brown-Westhead & Moore
Located in Banner Elk, NC
T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. Majolica Wine Jug is molded as bunches of purple-glazed grapes with grape leaves and vines on a raised base of crisscrossed branches and branch hand...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Rooster Teapot, English, ca. 1872
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Rooster (Cockerel) teapot, English, ca. 1872, naturalistically modeled as a running cockerel, the tail feathers forming the handle, the open beak forming the ...
Category
Antique 1870s English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Candlestick Stand with Acorns and Oak Leaves, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Candlestick Stand on a rustic brown ground, the stand with a comb design and raised candle snuffer receptacle, with relief molded g...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Thomas Sergent Palissy Ware Majolica Wall Pocket with Snake, French, ca. 1875
By Thomas Sargent
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Highly Rare Thomas Sergent Palissy Ware Majolica Trompe-l'oeil Wall Pocket, naturalistically molded as an oak tree, with green-glazed leaves and acorns, a fledgling blackbird in ne...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Minton Majolica Dead Game Pie Tureen, Cover, and Liner, English, Dated 1859
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Game Pie Tureen, Cover, and Liner, the base molded as a wicker basket with green glazed oak leaves and banded branch handles on raised feet, the cover with high rel...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate 'Malachite, ' English, Dated 1873
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton majolica six-well oyster plate glazed in simulated malachite, the reverse with impressed and molded marks: 'MINTON,' and Minton Date Cypher for 1873, molded British Registry L...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Malachite
Minton Majolica Seafood Plate with Fish and Shells, English, Dated 1873
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica seafood plate with fish and shells, English, dated 1873, the scalloped center glazed in turquoise, bordered with naturalistically glazed and relief molded fish and sc...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Seafood Plate with Fish and Shells, English, Dated 1873
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica seafood plate with fish and shells, English, dated 1873, the scalloped center glazed in turquoise, bordered with naturalistically glazed and relief molded fish and sc...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Sarreguemines Majolica Smoking Stand, Drunk Street Musician and Dog, ca. 1880
By Sarreguemines
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Sarreguemines Majolica Smoking Stand, molded and applied with an artiste de rue with his dog, and holding a wine bottle with an overturned wine glass below; the humidor formed as a c...
Category
Antique 1880s French Belle Époque Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1870
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Minton Majolica Ale Jug with Five Revelers in Medieval Dress, dated 1862
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
An Early Minton Majolica 'Tavern' Ale Jug, formed as a tapering medieval flagon, the figures molded in high relief and applied, depicting a man and woman dancing, a seated figure wit...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A BWM Majolica Jug Depicting 'The Fox and the Grapers' Aesop's Fable, ca. 1876
By Brown-Westhead & Moore
Located in Banner Elk, NC
T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. Majolica Jug Depicting 'The Fox and the Grapes from Aesop's Fables, with a molded and applied fox to each side and glazed in deep cobalt blue, the to...
Category
Antique 1870s English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Victoria Pottery Majolica Cobalt Basketweave Sardine Box, English, ca. 1883
By Victoria Pottery Company
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Rare Victoria Pottery Company Majolica Sardine Box with five sardines on green glazed lotus pads and other foliage, trimmed in yellow bamboo with green shoots, the body and integra...
Category
Antique 1880s English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Still Life Oil on Canvas with Grapes and Corn by Giuseppe Falchetti, ca. 1875
By Giuseppe Falchetti
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Giuseppe Falchetti (Italian, 1843-1918). Nineteenth Century Oil-on-Canvas Still Life with Grapes and Ears of Corn, Signed Lower Left, 'G Falchetti,' the gilded frame with intricate ...
Category
Antique 1870s Italian Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Still Life with Lemons and Pewter, Oil on Canvas, Signed Paul F. Wilson, 24 x 30
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Still Life with Lemons and Pewter, Oil on Canvas, Signed Paul F. Wilson,
signed lower right 'Paul F Wilson.' The frame with display plaque, 'LEMONS Paul F. Wilson.'
PAINTING SIZE:...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
A Large Trompe L'oeil Still Life with Violin, Oil on Board After William Harnett
Located in Banner Elk, NC
After William Michael Harnett (1848 - 1892 American), late twentieth century.
In a rustic cerused oak frame.
PAINTING SIZE: 37 x 24 inches / 93 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 44 x 32 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century American Victorian Paintings
Materials
Masonite
A Mahogany Revolving Bookcase with Satinwood Inlay, English, ca. 1900
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Mahogany Revolving Bookcase, the figured mahogany top with satinwood banding, with Chippendale-style fretwork side panels, on a revolving tripod base, English, ca. 1900.
Category
Antique Early 1900s English Edwardian Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
A New Milo Baughman-Style Parsons Chair in Designer Cheetah Velvet
By Milo Baughman
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A New Milo Baughman-style Parsons Chair Upholstered in High-End Designer Cheetah Velvet. Our chairs are handcrafted and upholstered from new materials and new fabric by the best craf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Poplar
A George Jones Majolica Pineapples on Basketweave Plate, English, ca. 1863
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Dessert Plate, with relief-molded pineapples and swirling green-glazed leaves, the center with yellow ocher-glazed simulated basketweave, the reverse impresse...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1871
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Tureen with Recumbent Doe, English, ca. 1875
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Game Pie Tureen, the cover formed as a domed rustic mound with green glazed ferns and grasses, surmounted by a naturalistically molded and glazed recumbent do...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Large Wedgwood Majolica Fish Heads Mussel Server, English, Dated 1878
By Wedgwood
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Large Wedgwood Majolica Oyster or Mussel Server, the lobed dish molded with twelve fish head-shaped wells glazed in green, with a central dipping well, the reverse with impressed m...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Server with Mounted Thrush, English, ca. 1872
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Tray, the shaped dish with relief-molded leaves and ferns, with branches laden with orange blossoms, surmounted with a single naturalistically molded and glaz...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1870
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1871
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in green and brown mottled leopard spots, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center well glazed...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica Pineapples on Basketweave Plate, English, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Dessert Plate, with relief-molded pineapples and swirling green-glazed leaves, the center with yellow ocher-glazed simulated basketweave, English, ca. 1870. ...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Minton Majolica Stag's Head Small Taza in Cobalt Blue, English, ca. 1868
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Small Tazza formed as a shallow bowl supported by a horn and naturalistic stag's head, with green stylized leaves, the oval base glazed in cobalt, with gadrooned ed...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Large George Jones Majolica Cheese Bell with Daisys, Bees and Fence, ca. 1878
By George Jones & Sons
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Large George Jones Majolica Cheese Bell and Stand, rendered as a beautiful summer's day, the domed lid and stand with a rustic fence and relief-molded daisies, wheat sheaves, and g...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A George Jones Majolica 'Palissy Vase' with Snake Handle, English, ca. 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Highly Important George Jones Majolica 'Palissy Vase,' molded as an obovoid-form ewer, the rustic bark ground with molded green-glazed leaves and ferns,...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Palissy Ware Majolica Jardinière, Bird's Nest and Snake, School of Paris, 1880
By Thomas Sargent
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Palissy Ware Majolica Jardinière, modelled as a rectangular rustic wooden trough with simulated wooden staves and branches, with ferns and green-glazed foliage, bullrushes, and toa...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
An Empire Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Commode, Marble Top, French, ca. 1820
Located in Banner Elk, NC
An Empire Commode in figured mahogany with a Belgian black fossilized marble top above a frieze drawer and three uniform drawers flanked by two squared columns, each with ormolu moun...
Category
Antique 1820s French Empire Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Ormolu
George Jones Majolica Cobalt-Ground 'Doves Jardinière' English, circa 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A George Jones Majolica Centerpiece Jardinière, the cobalt glazed shaped bowl supported by two naturalistically molded and glazed doves, with ribbon-wrapped garlands and trimmed in yellow ocher, on a rustic mound with green-glazed leaves and ferns forming the base; the reverse with molded and applied blue cartouche pad, 'GJ' monogram, and 'STOKE-on-TRENT.' Design number 2225 for the entry, 'Dove Jardinière,' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books preserved in the Victorian and Albert Museum, Wedgwood Collection, and reprinted in V. Bergesen.*
The design is documented in the Karmason Library of the Majolica International Society, Number KL001257 with the designation 'Rare.'
We have been among the preeminent specialists in fine English majolica for over thirty years.
BOOK REFERENCES:
-Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 202 (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 201-205).
-Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Volume Two, p. 246, FIG. 18.21.
-CHRISTIE'S London, 19TH CENTURY BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL CERAMICS...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Strawberry Server Mounted by a Bird, English, circa 1870
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Strawberry Server, ca. 1870, the trefoil dish naturalistically moldelled with blossoming strawberry plants and ferns on a turquoise and rustic ground, surmounte...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Dish, Tortoiseshell Mottling, Green Leaves on Turquoise
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Dish, the center with tortoiseshell mottling, bordered with green-glazed acanthus leaves on a turquoise-glazed ground, the inner and outer border rims glazed in...
Category
Antique 1870s English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Plate, Tortoiseshell Mottling, Green Leaves on Turquoise
By George Jones
Located in Banner Elk, NC
George Jones Majolica Dish, the center with tortoiseshell mottling, bordered with green-glazed acanthus leaves on a turquoise-glazed ground, the inner and outer border rims glazed in...
Category
Antique 1870s English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Wine Ewer Designed by Hugues Protât, English, circa 1875
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Wine Ewer Designed by Hugues Protât (active 1835-90), English, ca. 1875, the body molded as a wine barrel with grape vines to the center, surmounted by four Bacchanalian cherubs, with a Renaissance-style shaped and scrolled spout; the entire piece from the pedestal to the spout is entwined with purple-glazed grapes and green leaves with tendrils, the handle formed by overlapping vines; the reverse with impressed marks, 'MINTONS' and design number '900,' which corresponds to 'Barrel Jug with Cupids (M)' as recorded in the Minton Majolica Ornamental Shape and Design books and partially reprinted in Bergesen.
BOOK REFERENCES:
Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 181. Minton Ornamental Shapes (i.e., design numbers) listed in Appendix D, pp. 180-182.
Joan Jones, MINTON: THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1993, p. 348.
Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, Volume Two, fig. 12.63. Full-page color photo of this actual piece. The author incorrectly dates the production of this example as 1863, but as it is impressed 'MINTONS,' it would have to be later than 1873 when the 'S' was added Minton.
Victoria Cecil, MINTON MAJOLICA, Jeremy Cooper Ltd., Exhibition 7-26 June 1982, Galen Place, London, p. 48, cat. No. 17.
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 41.
The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue for the International Exhibition 1862...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
