English Hexagon Dome Lid Nickel Silver and Copper Coal Hod with Liner. C. 1840

English polished steel and nickel silver footman trivet with a pierced floral top, pierced gingerbread border skirt, interior wrought iron bars for hold...

English polished steel and nickel silver fire fender with pierced gallery, hand chased medallions, bead work, and surrounded molded edges, Early 19th Century.

English brass navette form coal hod with centered chased handle, two hinged lids revealing original tin lined interior, flanking unicorn and lion crest, and resting on an oval base w...

English Regency mahogany and satinwood wine cellarette with original fitted brass liner, checkered ebony and satinwood inlays, embossed brass foliage side panels, original gilt circu...

English polished steel and nickel silver footman trivet with open horizontal slats, decorative circular pierced skirt, interior wrought iron bars for ho...

English tole coal hod with floral gilt stenciling, scrolled wrought iron handles, and original wheels. Coal hod has the original Tin removable insert.

19th century French copper pot with lid. Beautiful 19th century French Provincial copper cooking pot with original lid. This French piece has not b...

An English oval oak planter from the late 19th century with brass braces and liner. Used as a wine cooler or a planter, this oval piece, strengthened with horizontal brass braces who...

English Coalport Imari Champaign Cooler with Lid and Paw Feet, ca. 1810

Flowers or Champagne? Or Both? George III Brass Bound Mahogany Wine Cooler or Cellaret, Third-quarter of 18th century The George III brass-bound mahogany wine cooler or cellar...

Pair Footed Fruit Coolers, about 1810-20 Stône, Coquerel, and Legros D’Anisy, Paris (active 1808–49) Porcelain, partially transfer printed in sepia and green and gilded Each, 13 1/2 in. high x 10 in. wide x 7 1/2 in. deep Signed and inscribed (on underside of one top and one base, with printed mark): STÔNE / COQUEREL / ET / LE GROS / PARIS / PAR BREVET D’INVENTION: Manufre de Décors sur Porcelaine Faience; variously inscribed with decorators’ initial in green and brown (on underside of one top and one base): M; variously inscribed with incised mark (on underside of one liner and both bottoms): 3; inscribed (in blue script, on the inside of one liner): 615 The Parisian firm of Stône, Coquerel, and Legros d'Anisy is distinguished for the important role that it played in the introduction of transfer-printed decoration on fine china in France. Although the process had been known and used in Great Britain since the eighteenth century, it was, according to Régine de Plinval de Guillebon in her book, Porcelain of Paris 1770–1850 (New York: Walker and Company, 1972), not until 1802 that Potter, Blancheron, Constant, Neppel, Cadet de Vaux & Denuelle took out a patent in France for transfer-printing on earthenware, and it was only on February 26, 1808, that John Hurford Stône, his brother-in-law, Athanase Marie Martin Coquerel, and Francois Antoine Legros d'Anisy not only took out a patent for transfer-printing on china, but also established a Stône, Coquerel, and d'Anisy partnership for the manufacture of transfer-printed ceramics. Their address from 1808 until 1818 was at 9, rue de Cadran, Paris. Prior to this, Stône and Coquerel had been partners at a creamware factory in Creil, France, and Legros d’Anisy had worked at the Sèvres factory, where he had apparently developed the transfer-printing technique for which his own firm became well known. “The process,” notes de Guillebon, was “based upon removing from the engraving a ‘pull’ made on a specially coated filter-paper, which was pressed onto the object to be decorated; this object itself was covered with a film. Firing took...

An English mahogany copper lined wine caddy from the mid-19th century, with carved spandrels and casters. Created in England during the third quarter of the 19th century, this wine c...