18th Century Bowls and Baskets

An absolute top quality Kangxi plate. Superbly painted in Wucai style. Marked on the base with an incense burner. The first of this kind we have ever seen in our career. Additional ...

Kangxi Imari Porcelain Mug(Tankard), from the 1700s. A supper and rear antique from the Kangxi period. Height is 4 1/2", 3 1/2" in diameter, and 5" wide ...

A scarce Continental hammered copper wine cistern dating to the 18th century, with beautifully aged verdigris patina! The European antique having gadro...

A large and heavy hand-carved wooden dough bowl from 18th to early 19th century Sweden, showcasing the beauty of wabi-sabi through its raw texture, asymmetrical lines, and timeworn p...

Made from Circa 1750s; Chinese export creamer with "Nunquam Non-Paratus" motto over crest or coat of arms. Creamer measures approx. 3 3/4" tall x 6" from spout to handle. The Arm of...

A very nice example, with sublime colours and painting. Klapmuts in Famille Rose is something you don't see very often. Lovely and beautiful piece. Additional information: Material...

An 18th-century Chinese export porcelain plate showing the Judgment of Paris. The delicately painted figures derive from a painting by Jean Paul Rubens. Made during the Qianlong Reign, circa 1750, the plate shows the goddesses Venus, Minerva, and Juno on one side and Paris on the other side. Charged by Jupiter to pick the most beautiful of the three, Paris selects Venus and awards her the golden apple. The scene shows Rubens' version of idealized feminine beauty. The rim of the plate is decorated with a rose-red flower band. Dimensions: 9 inches diameter Condition: Excellent Price: $900 Background This dish was made exclusively for the European market based on the well-known Greek story from Homer, in which Paris, the son of the King of Troy, had to choose between several Goddesses to decide which one of them was the most beautiful. According to Greek and Roman mythology, picking Venus as the most beautiful of the three goddesses...

A very nice plate from the 18th century, with Amsterdam over-decoration of flowers and insects. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: China Period:...

A very nicely made piece of 18th century porcelain decorated with Flowers. Underglaze blue and overglaze other enamels done in Europe. This is an example of British overdecoration. ...

These Dutch pancake plates are adorned with a beautiful hand-painted scene in bold Imari colors of cobalt blue and iron red, enhanced by forest green and bright yellow, which replace...

This is an antique decorative bowl. A Japanese, bronze censer from the Edo period, dating to the 18th century, circa 1750. Pleasingly decorative dish with animal and scroll detail D...

A very nice and beautifully decorated pair of 2 Qing period dishes with a scene of flowers. The painting quality is very nice. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery ...

This is a large and exquisite lacquered wooden tray, with floral decoration and polychrome rural scene, on blue background. The curved shape of the tray, on the front and on the sid...

Interesting pieces with in Famille Rose Imari style. Fantastic scene of a water village landscape with flowers, fishermen, houses and trees. Condition dish 1 perfect, dish 2 and 3 ...

This exquisite piece is crafted with great care and beauty. It features a stunning dragon scene and is marked at the base. Cloisonné, the enameling technique employed in this piece,...

Round, curved plate (‘pancake’) with flattened bottom and raised edge. Decor: in the middle, one below the other, the text: ‘God granted / through Prussia’s power / his right again /...

A very nicely decorated Set of 2 dishes Flower scene with dragonfly also. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Decoration Type / Colour: Blue & White Region of Ori...

A pair (not identical match but from the same maker) peat or plate buckets. Mahogany and brass, outstanding construction, heavy and well made, with beautiful brass details. Made in E...

A very nice example with a lovely scene. Rather unusual. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Tea Bowls & Cups, Tea Drinking Color: Other Maker: Qianlong (17...

We were lucky enough and also proud to be able to buy this Chinese porcelain Famille Rose Large dish, decorated with the scene of the Yang Jia Jian Yanyi (generals of the Yang Family...

A very nicely made piece of 18th century porcelain decorated with a beautiful scene. Underglaze blue and overglaze other enamels done later in Europe. We have also added a picture of how a similar original Blue and white dish would have looked like. This is an example of British overdecoration.Provenance:Provenance: Doyle Sep 27, 2024 11:00 Boston Collects, Lot 1083 Six Chinese Porcelain Table Items 18th and 19th centuries Estate / Collection: Property of a Jamestown, Rhode Island Collector Often seen as ugly and black sheep of the porcelain world. British 1810-1820 Clobbered wares deserve better as they are historically very interesting. So lets call them George the IV or Regency Taste redecorated porcelain. And leave the clobbered behind us as it does no justice to what they are at all. Its not that because we live in a time were these super funky colours are out of taste that we should hate on these pieces. A short history! During the early 19th century, the Prince Regent (later King George IV) played a key role in cultivating a taste for the exotic Orient among the British elite, influencing interior design during the Regency era. His lavish projects, such as the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, epitomized this fascination. The Pavilion, with its blend of Indian, Chinese, and Gothic elements, became a symbol of the Prince’s extravagant taste. The interiors featured Chinese wallpaper, Indian textiles, and oriental furniture, reflecting the era’s growing interest in Chinoiserie and other oriental-inspired designs. This trend extended to the decorative arts, where clobbered Chinese porcelain—originally blue-and-white pieces—was reimagined with bright reds, golds, greens, and dragons to cater to the new European tastes. These colorful repainted pieces symbolized wealth, sophistication, and an affinity for the exotic, perfectly complementing the bold and opulent interiors of the time. The dragon, a powerful symbol in Chinese culture, was a recurring motif in these porcelain pieces, further aligning with the Regency’s romanticized view of the Orient. George IV’s penchant for luxury, eccentricity, and vibrant decoration influenced the wider aristocratic society, and clobbered porcelain...

Sharing with you this very nicely decorated set. What you see is a Jingdezhen made porcelain dish from around 1710-1730. Later decorated in Holland Additional information: Material:...

Maiolica sugar bowl Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 3.54 x 4.52 x 3.54 in (9 x 11,5 x 9 cm) Weight: 0.394 lb (0.179 kg) State of conservation: small and slight chips on the edges. The small sugar bowl has a swollen and ribbed body resting on a flat base. The cap-shaped lid follows the rib of the container and is topped with a small knob in the shape of a two-colored fruit. The sugar bowl is painted “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) with the characteristic floral motif of bunches and isolated semis. An example which closely corresponds to this one is kept at the Civic Museum in Lodi (G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137). This decorative style represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and later introduced by Antonio Ferretti to Italy. The production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple. The Ferretti family started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces starting from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59). In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory. In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, was able to commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables, both with or without contour lines, as well as in purple or green monochrome. After efforts to introduce more industrial production techniques to the sector succeeded, even the Ferretti manufacture, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, started heading towards decline despite its attempts to adapt production to neoclassical tastes. In 1796 the Napoleonic battle for the conquest of the Lodi bridge over the Adda definitively compromised the furnaces. Production resumed, albeit in a rather stunted manner, until Antonio's death on 29 December 1810. (M. L. Gelmini, pp. 28-30, 38, 43 sgg., 130-136 (for Simpliciano); pp. 31 sgg., 45-47, 142-192 (for Antonio). Bibliography G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi Milano e Pavia Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137; C. Baroni, Storia delle ceramiche nel Lodigiano, in Archivio storico per la città e i comuni del circondario e della diocesi di Lodi, XXXIV (1915), pp. 118, 124, 142; XXXV (1916), pp. 5-8; C. Baroni, La maiolica antica di Lodi, in Archivio storico lombardo, LVIII (1931), pp. 453-455; L. Ciboldi, La maiolica lodigiana, in Archivio storico lodigiano, LXXX (1953), pp. 25 sgg.; S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, pp. 17 sgg.; A. Novasconi - S. Ferrari - S. Corvi, La ceramica lodigiana, Lodi 1964, ad Indicem; Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia (catal.), Milano 1964, p. 17; O. Ferrari - G. Scavizzi, Maioliche italiane del Seicento e del Settecento, Milano 1965, pp. 26 sgg.; G. C. Sciolla, Lodi. Museo civico, Bologna 1977, pp. 69-85 passim; G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981; M. Vitali, in Storia dell'arte ceramica...

Chinese blue and white ‘Madame de Pompadour’ dish, Qianlong period (1736-95) Decorated with a central roundel of peony, chrysanthemum and pomegranate, the rim with floral sprays and ...

This 18th-century Chinese export blue and white porcelain dish was hand-painted in underglaze blue, circa 1780. The whimsical central scene depicts two stylized deer beneath a bloomi...

Neoclassical gilt decorated plate with puma. A Naples Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea white porcelain painted and gilt decorated saucer dish with puma confr...

Antique cup from 18th century China. A supper and rear antique from the Qianglong period. Measures: height is 2 1/2", 2 1/2" in diameter, and 3 1/4" wide ...

Rare antique English Yorkshire or Staffordshire creamware pierced basket with intricate reticulated body. Lovely color no damage or repairs.

Pitcher ‘cantaro’ from Calanda, Aragon-Zaragoza area of Spain. A rare piece from a Private collection, circa 1750. Other examples can be seen in the Museo de Zaragoza. With gorgeous...

A very nicely decorated dish in unusual palette, flowers in overglaze blue. Qianlong/Jiaqing. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Decoration Type / Colour: Polychr...

Pitcher ‘cantaros’ from Calanda, Aragon-Zaragoza area of Spain. A rare piece from a Private collection, circa 1890. Other examples can be seen in the Museo de Zaragoza. With gorgeou...

Large and Fabulous Japanese Charger in amazing colors. Visible in the border are two paradise birds and compartments of geometric designs. The centre with circles and flowers. Addi...

A Japanese Kakiemon-style bird-and-flower painting has been used here by a Dutch painter to decorate a Chinese porcelain blank. The grouping of a pair of magpies, plum blossoms, and ...

Possibly Vintage. Patina and character present. Handmade Fabric Basket. Vintage condition as pictured. Box H6 Dimensions. 6” W ; 6” D ; 2.25” H

Purple and green gilt porcelain tulip bowl. Nast manufacture hard paste French porcelain serving dish with botanical painted tulip specimen identified on the reverse with strong viridian green glaze interior border and Fine gilt filigree border. Red under-glaze markings for Nast Paris...

American, late 18th century/early 19th century wooden mortar and pestle. The urn shaped mortar with rich patina has a wonderful ...

A nice plate. Yongzheng - Qing Dynasty - Qing Period. Beutiful landscape scene. Condition 1 frit to the rim only. Size: 22.7x2.5CM DiameterxHeight Period 18th century

A very nicely decorated plate. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Color: Blue & White Region of Origin: China Maker: Qianlong (1735-1796) Period: 18th century Qin...

Decorated in various colours with a landscape scene. Typical plate for the period around 1720-1730 when the potter in Jingdezhen mastered all types of decorations and started combini...

This piece as a hot water serving charger, 18th century, Qing period. We all know the hot water dishes but a piece of this size is unique in the history of our company. The idea is t...

A very nicely made dish with a beautiful decoration. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Plates Region of Origin: Japan Period: 19th century, 18th century Ag...

Armorial Octagonal Plate, bearing the Arms of Sunnybanck, ca. 1755 Sunnybanck (Sonibanck) from Hasely Oxfordshire Condition some fritting/small chips to the rim and unstable star ...

A very nicely decorated set of 6 dishes in Blue and white with a lovely and high quality landscape scene. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: Chi...

Sharing this very nice edo or Meiji period, set of tea bowls in Ming style Marked at base Arita ware, also known as Arita-yaki, has its origins in 1616, when a Korean farmer, Yi Sa...

Lovely 18th century dish with a nice and high quality scene of Flowers. Additional information: Type: Plates Region of Origin: China Period: 18th c...

Edo Period Arita Japanese Porcelain Dish Arita Kanzan & Jittoku, ca 1700-1730. Oliver Impey - Porcelain for Palaces 403. Plate Blue-and-white, Arita c. 1700-30 Reitlinger gift 1978...

An exquisite nicely shaped and good sized Worcester plate with moon crest mark at base. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Plates Color: Blue & White Region...

A very nicely decorated Set of 5 dishes in Blue and white with a lovely and high quality floral scene Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: China E...

A very nicely decorated set of 11 dishes in Famille Rose with a lovely and high quality flower scene. Dating to circa 1740-1760 Unmarked at the base. Additional information: Mater...

of circular form with several molded levels and a smaller circular base, the walnut dish has great wear and patina and is stamped with different initials of the parishioner tasked to...

A wonderfull and high quality painted imari Charger with richly decorated landscape scene. Unusual large sized piece. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region o...

A very nicely decorated pair of plates with nice symbolism. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Plates Region of Origin: China Period: 18th century Qing (166...

Small bird plate. Hand-painted small dish / vide-poche with birds and insects in a landscape with soft gold rim. Underglaze blue crown marks for Ludwigsbur...

This is a pair of English creamware dishes from the 18th century, created around 1780. The plates display a lovely chinoiserie scene in the Meissen style, with women selecting access...

Pair of English Georgian brass-bound buckets, circa 1770. Buckets are well made, sturdy, and in excellent condition and completely original and intact. These handsome fine quality b...

Sharing with you this very nicely decorated plate. What you see is a Jingdezhen made porcelain dish from around 1720-1730. Later decorated with a Rare type of decoration in Red and G...

Porcelain decorated with Imari palette in Japan, Saucer dish. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Decoration Type / Colour: Imari Region of Origin: Japan Period: 1...

Lovely and unusual SET of 2 Chinese Porcelain dishes. Cafe au lait ground and famille verte colors. In very nice display condition. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pot...

An excellent and unusual serving dish for the Islamic market. Qianlong or Jiaqing in our opinion. A very nice and unusual decoration. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & ...

Exceptional Swedish birch burl Bowl ca 1750 It has an exquisite, silky smooth patina that can only be achieved through centuries of human touch. The almost mahogany depth in color ...