Earthenware Ceramics

A French Mid Century Majolica asparagus set, hand-panted in pink and light green. Serving cradle with asparagus stalks has a pierced bottom and rests on an rectangular platter with a...

A Minton Majolica Novelty Teapot formed as a yellow-glazed gourd with blossoms on raised leaves and blossom, surmounted by a lid naturalistically molde...

19th century Majolica Mallard Duck Plate Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th ...

An attractive and unusual vintage serving platter, embellished with a central divider of beautifully crafted and hand-painted garden vegetables. A raised, embossed and painted green ...

Vintage Jasba vase in blue drip glaze featuring the indented On close inspection the glaze includes flecks black and sea-blue which give greater depth to th...

Discover an exquisite piece of Aesthetic Movement French faïence: an asparagus dish by Keller & Guérin, St. Clément, circa 1890–1900, in the Art Nouveau style. This dish features a r...

A huge earthenware vase designed by Mette Doller at Höganäs Keramik in the 1950s. The vase is 44 cm (17,6") hign and about 20 cm (8") in diameter. The vase is in excellent condition ...

Serving bowl in the shape of a corn on the cob with a leaf. Underglaze mark. Nice addition to your table or just to display. Please see detailed pictur...

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...

Handmade stoneware table lectern manufactured at the workshop of Apparatu in Barcelona. Different clay bodys are mixed with natural fibers like corn, str...

Majolica Cockerel Spill Vase by Choisy-le-Roi, naturalistically modeled and glazed as a crowing rooster on a molded barnyard base, the rectangular va...

French Majolica leaves & grapes plate Onnaing, circa 1900.

Small 19th century Majolica Palissy wicker boat with a fish, very fine quality, the boat is decorated with leaves and moss.

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...

Two maiolica flower pots Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) The...

Rare small Palissy platter with frog, shells, butterfly and plants, circa 1880 signed Thomas Sergent.

A lovely Majolica pink glazed ceramic set of 12 pieces: four large plates, four small plates and four serving bowls. The set has a lovely pale pink color with details in white and ...

Majolica plate with hen & chicks signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th c...

19th Century green Majolica tureen with grapes. East of France. Measures: height / 6.5 diameter / 6" by 5"  

Maiolica plate (tondino) Urbino district, Casteldurante or Pesaro, 1533-1555 It measures: diam. 7.48 in (19 cm), foot diam. 2.75 in (7 cm), height 1.0...

Majolica plate with hen & chicks signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th c...

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...

English pottery pearlware botanical plates, circa 1840     The folky painted plates have a scalloped rim. In the center of each plate is a large...

Majolica plate with rooster signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th centu...

Majolica plate with hen and chicks signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important...

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...

Elegant 19th century French Majolica pair of vases attributed to Fives Lille. The vases are shaped like walls decorated on the front with kingfishers on branches, on the base mushro...

Masterly manufactured Jardiniere, of Ceramic/Majolica of the famous manufacture Saint Cloud in France. Made around 1900, this object is delightfully hand-painte...

A rare and beautiful wall relief featuring hand-painted flowers & women, designed by Birger Kaipiainen for Rörstrand and manufactured in Sweden in the 1950s. Kaipiainen spent only 4 ...

signed Jean Cocteau; inscribed original and incised Edition originale de Jean Cocteau/Atelier Madeline-Jolly (underneath) partially glazed white earthenware plate with engobe and inc...

Lovely German Majolica cat with her kitten plate, circa 1900.

19th century Italian faience pitcher decorated with bird on a fence and a tree on the other side.

Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates made by the Manufacture of Creil and Montereau...

German Faience pitcher/jug with hinged pewter lid and handle. Hand painted floral design, along with stag and dog, on white background. Top of lid is monogrammed. Has minor wear from...

Rare, unusual Mid-Century Modern catch all bowl was made by Bitossi in organic oval shape with asymmetric rim shape. The rim is outlined in graphic black border; the inner surfaces ...

Decorate a tabletop with this colorful, majolica basket composition. Crafted in France circa 1960, the centerpiece features a realistic assortment of fruits and vegetables in high re...

Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates...

Royal Copenhagen, six Baca faience tiles with patterned glaze in brown, blue and green. Model 869/3813. 1970s. In perfect condition. Marked. Fi...

Unique faience vase handmade by Danish artist Bode Willumsen in 1946 at workshop of Royal Copenhagen, Denmark. The vase is modelled with an amazing pierced motif of Adam and Eve in t...

Assortment of 4 dishes with braided rim Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). Measures: 14 x 10 in (35.5 x 25.5 cm); 12.2 x 8.39 in (31 x 21.3 cm); 10.4 x 9.65 in (26.5 x 24.5 cm); 10.8 x 9.61 in (27.5 x 24.4 cm). Weight: 4.4 lb (1.998 kg) State of conservation: some chips due to use on the edges and on the parts in relief. The four different dishes have a foot with a low lip from which extends a wide, flat, slanted rim resembling a basket weave. The small handles are painted green: they resemble wickerwork in the two oval dishes and take the form of a sinuous branch in the round ones. The third fire decoration is inspired by the naturalistic floral botanical patterns on the ceramics produced by the Hannong family in Strasbourg. Here the pattern is defined by the rapidity and subtlety of the brushstrokes and the result is particularly tasteful, characterized by compositional intelligence and pictorial expertise. A main corolla, either a wild or garden rose, is set slightly off center in each well. From this extends a thin stem holding a small secondary bud and there are small field florets dotting the composition to lend volume to the delicate bunch of flowers. On the brim, small polychrome flowers add color to the weave, accompanied by lanceolate leaves of a very intense green. There exist few and very rare examples for comparison with this morphology: a round plate - entirely consistent with those in question - has been dated to around 1775 (S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, tav. 200). Two other dishes with a basket rim, but with parallel striped brim decoration, were exhibited in the 1995 exhibition on Lodi ceramics; the attribution to the Lombard town near Milan is therefore almost exclusively derived from the decoration called "alla rosa contornata" or "alla vecchia Lodi" and constitutes one of the most popular decorations during the eighteenth century. (M. L. Gelmini, in Maioliche lodigiane del '700 (cat. mostra Lodi), Milano 1995, pp. 31 p. 162-163 nn. 181-182). This decorative choice 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 which Antonio Ferretti introduced in Italy. This 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 had started their Maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano had started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano had 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, could 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...

Coffee or tea sea set orange design, Spain, 1960s. Cool set of hand-painted glazed ceramic orange shaped tea, coffee or breakfast serving set fo...

Coffee or tea set of cups orange design, Spain, 1960s. Cool set of hand-painted orange glazed ceramic cups. Manufactured at the Mid-Century Modern Period. This set will be a nice...

Geroge Jones Majolica Strawberry basket, Pattern Number 3300, bearing the hallmark of an impressed Crescent and Initials, originating from circa 1880. This basket has four compartments: two larger ones for strawberries and two smaller ones for accompaniments like cream and sugar. Made by George Jones in England in the late 19th century, it features a vibrant palette of brown, green, and turquoise hues, with a design that intricately weaves together leaves and flowers of the strawberry plant, complemented by white and yellow accents. The basket is adorned with molded tree branch edges, and a large carry...

A Cool Pair of Green and Yellow Majolica Glazed Ceramic Corn On The Cob Plates. Portugal, 1950s-1960s. Perfect for the daily use of for decorative purposes. Excellent condition. On s...

Théodore Deck (1823-1891) Courtly Love Polychrome enamelled earthenware Pair of subjects representing two lovers in the Middle Ages Each signed below with the stamp “Th.Deck” Extr...

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 ...

Made in Florence, Italy, in 1960s - 1970s. This piece is made in earthenware, which was modeled, decorated, fired, hand-painted and fired again to glaze it with a semigloss finish. ...

This art deco lidded jar by Anna-Lisa Thomson for Upsala-Ekeby is bathed in a mesmerizing deep green glaze and floral relief decor. This model (number 2650) was only produced betwee...

Pablo Picasso’s Profil de Jacqueline (AR 309) is a striking example of the artist’s mastery of ceramic art, blending form and portraiture into a singular, elegant expression. Produce...

A scarce Burmantofts Faience Bacchanalian tile of rectangular form modelled in relief with figures with a goat set within a raised stepped edge and decorated in burgundy glazes. Inci...

A scarce Burmantofts Faience Bacchanalian tile of rectangular form modelled in relief with figures attending to a resting man set within a raised stepped edge and decorated in green ...

Minton Majolica centerpiece, naturalistically modeled as a pond bed with simulated water glazed in cyan blue, with green glazed lily pads and flowering pond lilies (lotus), and reeds glazed in various shades of green, with brown and ochre-glazed cattails molded in high relief to form the border, with a central lotus flower glazed in white and blue, concealing a solid brass original fitting for a candle, doubling as a receptacle for an (optional) additional tier which would have screwed into the fitting; the fitting is removable. Impressed marks to reverse: 'MINTON' and Minton date cypher for 1863; an impressed 'A' possibly for the designer, Thomas Allen...

Two large French Faience dishes and two smaller from the city of Strasbourg in hand painted floral decoration. They are approximately from around...

Very rare Majolica oyster basket server signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy Le roi, circa 1880. The handle is a branch who form a knot on the top, between the six yellow and purple oy...

Huge Vase in form of an amphora, by the well known manufacturer Bernhard Bloch from Bohemia. The beautiful emerging amphora shape is decorated with hand-cut décor all over the body...

A small leaf shaped bowl in faience designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsberg Studio with a lovely decor of leafs, it´s 12.5 x 8.5 cm (5" x 3.4"). It´s in excellent condition. It is m...

French faience oyster plate signed Fouillen Quimper, circa 1930.

Royal Copenhagen / aluminia confetti. Three salt/pepper shakers and three butter boards in glazed faience. Mid-20th century. Butter board diameter: 15 cm...

French faience blue and white fish platter signed Longwy, circa 1900. Measures: 21.5" L x 8.5" W x 1.5" H.

French faience oyster plate signed Fouillen Quimper, circa 1930.