Earthenware Decorative Objects

A superb set of three 19th-Century French faience lidded apothecary or pharmacy jars. These fine jars are hand painted with fish, foliage, a garland of flowers and bow, and Latin med...

French Desvres faience jardinière cachepot painted with flowers, coat of arms and a farmer, circa 1900.

A brilliant turquoise Art Deco pottery jardinière made by the French faiencerie Longwy circa 1920. The jardiniere was part of a special line for the Atelier Primavera, the in-house design studio in the Paris department store Au Printemps.⁠ The atelier, created in 1912, aimed to provide affordable modern French design to middle-class consumers. It was the first time a Parisian magasin developed its own line of products. Primavera contracted production to craftsmen, designers, and manufactories, hence Longwy’s association with the studio. Primavera flourished in the Art Deco period, and Longwy’s Art Deco...

A stylish Burmantofts Faience art pottery vase decorated in ox blood red glazes and dating from around 1890. The earthenware flask shaped vase stands on a wide round foot rim with a ...

Elegant and rare Majolica stork with a bamboo vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1890. The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels an...

This Wedgwood creamware charger was made in 18th century England circa 1785. The border is decorated with a traditional neoclassical design of iron-red flower heads connected by midn...

Large Faience Vase Art Nouveau Royal Dux Circa 1900. Chesnut bogues and leaves. Pink flowers. Height / 21.7 inches.     

Majolica pink butterfly wall pocket signed Fives Lille, circa 1900.

Rare find, Salamander Faience Vase, designed by Eva Jancke-Björk, BO Fajans Gefle, Sweden, 1920s The faience vase was decorated with an orange-red lizard against the beige background...

A French Majolica vase from the second half of the 19th century, with cherubs and floral décor. Born at the end of France's last Emperor Napoleon III's reign, this exquisite vase fea...

A beautiful pair of Wabi Sabi style Mid-Century Modern ceramic spherical vases by Strehla. Handmade in Germany circa the 1950s. The larger of the two measures 16 cm (6.29 in) in he...

An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires deep reflection and requires transparency. Clemen...

This lovely Delft plate was hand painted in Bristol*, England, circa 1750-1760. The decoration extends from the center onto the border, covering the entire plate. It features a chino...

This elegant antique faience planter was created in Holland, circa 1880. Round in shape with bowed movement, the cachepot stands on small shell...

Large pair of hand painted Dutch Delft vases. Painted on the vases are birds, butterflies and florals in vivid colors of cobalt blue, green, yellow and pink on a white background. Th...

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This rare and stunning Art Deco Egyptian Faience Glaze Vase Signed Leon Volkmar for Durant Kilns originates from the United States, C.1922. This piece features a timeless composition...

French Majolica cat with mandolin pitcher with blue ribbon, circa 1890.

19th century Majolica chesnut handled jardinière signed Onnaing. This jardinière is inspired by the Art Nouveau and the Naturalism movement of the end of 19th century.

This fabulous Delft jar is painted with traditional deep cobalt blue on a tin-glazed ground. The jar has six panels, which alternate between flowers in a basket and ferns with scroll...

French pair of Majolica jardinières with flowers signed EG Edouard Gilles, circa 1880. Measures: Height 7 inches, diameter 11.5 inches.

Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery factory was loc...

This is a very good quality Earthenware Japanese Satsuma vase, beautifully hand decorated and from the Meiji period, circa 1875. The vase has a he...

Molded with light ribbing, the covers domed with inverted acorn knops, and painted with leaping stag in quatrefoil cartouche, alternating with bird on a fence with flowering tree nea...

A wonderful Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897) Korean pottery bowl - perhaps a monk's Chawan tea bowl. The work features a beautiful white glaze, wonderful organic shape, engaging design and...

Large Palissy fishs wall platter on a blue background with bugs, butterfly, lizard, crawfish, shells, leaves as ferns. The School of Paris is composed by makers as Victor Barbizet, F...

French Majolica pheasant tureen from Caugant, circa 1950.

Rozenburg earthenware vase, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1894 The depiction on the vase is a drapery in green with curved gold-yellow ribbons and floral de...

A Majolica glazed spill vase from the Staffordshire pottery region of England, circa 1860. The vase is molded as a woman’s hand holding a vessel formed of cattails or bullrush plants...

Oversized Mid-Century Modernist glazed ceramic gurgling fish water jug / pitcher. Manufactured by Vallauris, France, 1950s Eye-catching hand painted brown, orange and blue-green large Majolica ceramic vase, fish glug jug...

English shell edge pearlware grape leaf condiment dish on three hemispheric feet. Stamped on the underside: T England, circa 1820.

Modernist majolica bud vase features a complex sculptural shape with 5 stepped cylinders; minimal form of the piece is accentuated by the monochroma...

Minton Majolica fruit bowl, 12-ins. Dia., formed as a blind latticework basket with a turquoise interior, with a daisy chain molded rim, supported ...

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...

Unusual vase with complex, slightly textured glaze features applied relief in shape of abstract flowers and leaves. Top and bottom parts of the vase are decorated with delicate gree...

Decorate a tabletop with this colorful, antique Majolica planter. Sculpted in France circa 1860, the ceramic vase stands on three bracket feet over a round and bombe body topped with...

A nice 19th century French Confit pot with a rare colour glaze being yellow and green.

An authentic 19th-Century Italian confit pot or jar. This pot is full of character, hand crafted and painted with two charming handles, known as 'ears.' These jars were used for stor...

This elegant pair of Wedgwood creamware baskets and stands has arcaded openwork along the borders. The pair was made at the Wedgwood Etruria factory in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshir...

Extra large French earthenware pot early 20th century XL earthenware preserving confit 'gres' pot. Early 20th century handcrafted and glazed. Great d...

The older brother of Clément Massier, Delphin Honoré Massier had inherited his share of the family ceramics business upon the death of their father Jacques in 1871, establishing the ...

Antique Victorian English Majolica footed flower basket featuring a basket weave pattern with floral medallion and acanthus leaf design, footed base and double handle. Stoke on Tren...

Majolica Bowl hand-painted CIMA Perugia. ORIGIN Italy PERIOD Anni 80 MARK CIMA Perugia MATERIALS Maiolica smaltata and hand-painted DIMENSIONS Height: 9 cm Ø 20 cm CONDITIONS P...

Amphora, Czechoslovakia. Large and impressive Art Deco vase in faience. Motif of exotic birds. Hexagonal shape. Hand painted. Circa 1930s. Model number 15407 Marked. Perfect conditio...

Pair of very large and impressive late 19th century Sarregumines majolica pottery vases - classical urn shape with coiled double headed snake / serpent handles, brown and white multi...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Grueby Faience Co. Marking(s); notes: signed Materials: glazed earthenware Dimensions (H, W, D): 11.25″h, 5.5″dia Additional Information: The vase was ...

Large Majolica pink butterfly wall pocket signed Fives Lille, circa 1900.

We try not to use the term "museum quality" often but in the case of his particular work, it is more than apt. A simply breathtaking piece by famed American ceramicist Beatrice Wo...

Unusual twin vase features abstract modernist decor on the front side in beige-brown color that was applied in sgraffito technique and then tinted. The reverse side of the vase is a...

French Chinoiserie Faience vase. Purple, blue, green and yellow baluster vase with gilding and diapering in the chinoiserie style with bugs and butt...

Mado Jolain is renown French Ceramist active in the 1950s. The present vase is made of earthenware enameled creamy. The decor is an abstraction in tones of black and blue. She is con...

Rare Majolica Orchid Jardiniere attributed to Delphin Massier, circa 1890. Measures: W / 17 inches , H / 8.3 inches. The Massier family are known f...

A large and impressive Dutch Delft jar of octagonal shape with fluted sides, mark for Johannes Van Duijn, De Porceleyne Schotel Factory, 1764 - 1773, Delft, Holland, the Netherlands....

Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950. High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, lemon, starfish, shells, crab, oyster. Nautical style. Measure: 9.3 diameter.  

This vintage figural candlestick by Giovanni Desimone Italy is a unique and eye-catching piece of decorative art. DeSimone was a renowned Italian ceramicist and designer who worked in the mid-20th century, known for his whimsical and colorful ceramic sculptures...

Large Rare 19th Century French Majolica Flowers Box . 12 inches Lenght.

This stunning Christian Dior Paris amphora-shaped ceramic vase is a beautiful accent piece for any room. The piece was crafted in France circa 1980 for the Dior Interior Collection. ...

A lovely dish in faience designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsberg Studio, it´s 25.5 x 19,5 cm (10.2" x 7.8"). It´s in excellent condition. It is marked with the Stig Lindberg charact...