Black Basalt Hot Milk Jug with Engine-Turned Decoration, Mayer, C1790

Cyclicrical tea canister in engine-turned black basalt, with raised decoration. Unmarked, but the quality and finial clinch the attribution.

A most attractive and unusual teapot in black basalt, moulded with basket-weave decoration and interlocking arches. Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Universe, Roche Foundat...

A most attractive vase in Rosso Antico, decorated in black basalt with Arabesque on a dimpled ground. The colour of early Rosso is quite different to the 19th century orange body.

Black basalt, with rope handle and encaustic decoration of lines & anthemion, in imitation of early Greek pottery. Early encaustic examples are rar...

An extraordinary navette, or cream boat, in black basalt with encaustic decoration. Complete with matching ladle: a rare find indeed.

Superb and exceptionally rare small jug in tricolour engine-turned diceware. This is very early jasperware, made when "cherokee clay" was still being used. This clay, sourced from America, contained kaolin, the ingredient that makes porcelain translucent. Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Universe, Roche Foundation, 2023. Engine turning, also known as guilloche, is a decorative technique that was commonly used on eighteenth-century pottery. The process involved cutting intricate, repetitive patterns into a metal or ceramic surface using a machine known as a rose engine...

This is a good black basalt Teapot and cover lid, which we attribute to a Staffordshire Potteries, English maker, circa 1825. The teapot is wel...

Ceramic Milk Jug Dimensions: Diameter 15cm x height 21cm Materials: Ceramic. Anthracite stoneware clay. Pigment. Technique: Hand-crafted. Glazed. Bic...

Italian Mid-Century Modern blue cylindrical ceramic jug with colored decoration, 1960s Blue cylindrical ceramic jug, with colored abstract decoration. ...

This elegant inkwell set by Wedgwood & Bentley is crafted of black basalt, one of Wedgwood’s finest inventions. The set is comprised of two canisters, both held within an intriguing double stand. One is designed to hold ink and features a top with slots for quills or pens, and the other is a powder Shaker with a shell-ornamented lid. Black basalt refers to the fine-grained stoneware that Josiah Wedgwood, inspired by the hard, natural stone known as Egyptian basalt...

Polychrome chinoiserie wine jug. Delft, circa 1680 The polychrome wine jug has an ovoid and turned body on a low spreading foot, a conical neck with spout and a handle with a scroll finish. The jug is painted in blue, purple and green with a continuous chinoiserie landscape with three Chinese figures. Bands with rectangular ornaments between double circles are applied on the shoulder and just above the foot. The neck is painted with a double leaf motif. The handle is decorated with stripes and scroll ornaments. Dimensions: height 23 cm / 9.05 in. Multi-coloured chinoiserie landscapes on Delftware were only made for a short period of time, roughly between about 1680 and 1690. Most of the decors have been applied on dishes, lobed dishes, butter pots...

A beautiful Wedgwood basalt bowl in the acanthus pattern, dated 2012, in gold, on the base, and impressed WEDGWOOD MADE IN ENGLAND. This bowl was ...