Earthenware Ceramics

Pablo Picasso tile 'Little bearded Face' created in 1968 December, 1969 January, red earthenware clay, square sized 17 cm x 17 cm. printed and numbe...

Decorative leaf shaped bowl Ffaience by Stig Lindberg Sweden,circa 1950. Very good condition.Yellow and white color. An artistic jack-of- all trades ,Stig Lindberg was accomplished...

Small Palissy platter with fish, shells, butterfly and plants, circa 1880 signed Thomas Sergent.

Elegant white and blue jar made with the authentic Talavera technique. Master artisan, Cesar Torres portraits the colonial art of Mexico. The Talavera is not just a simple painted ceramic: its exquisite decoration is the product of a delicate process of alchemy that translates into fine enamels. In Puebla, Mexico few people still produce using Talavera with the ancestral techniques. One of those few is Cesar Torres, Don Cesar...

French Majolica rooster pitcher Keller and Guerin Saint Clement, circa 1900. Original older model. Height / 12.8 inches.

Majolica plate two parakeets on a blue background with oranges signed Salins, circa 1890.    

A fine, very large, 18th century English creamware pottery charger or wall plate. With a raised feather edge border. Simply a great antique English pottery...

Large, vibrant French Provincial hand painted faience wall decoration in the shape of a cover, rocaille et décor à la corne pattern. A double cornucopia filled with flowers, flying i...

A large dish in faience designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsberg Studio, it´s 30 x 19,5 cm (12" x 7.8"). It´s in excellent condition except from a minor un-glazed spot from the produ...

Beautiful, large French Provincial style faience covered box profusely decorated with vibrant bouquets of flowers against a marvelous craquelure background. The cover topped with fiv...

Decorate a kitchen wall or a breakfast room with this large antique majolica plate. Sculpted in France circa 1880 in the manner of Longchamp, the colorful porcelain platter is decora...

I offer for sale an extremely decorative and fun element to set your table. Made in Italy between the 70s and 80s, this Jug is part of a successful series that included numerous tabl...

Menton French Majolica (Barbotine) Trompe L'oeil Wall Plaque on a turquoise ground with oranges molded in high relief, circa 1880, with impressed mark for Eugene Perret-Gentil, diame...

Elegant white and blue sink lavabo made with the Talavera technique. Artist, Cesar Torres portraits the colonial art of Mexico. The Talavera is not just a simple painted ceramic: its exquisite decoration is the product of a delicate process of alchemy that translates into fine enamels. In Puebla, Mexico few people still produce using Talavera with the ancestral techniques. One of those few is Cesar Torres, Don Cesar...

French Majolica Asparagus Platter circa 1890.

This is a good early decorative large earthenware pottery dinner plates made by Zachariah Boyle of Hanley and Stoke, England, circa 1825. The plate ...

French Faience oyster signed plate Saint Clement, circa 1890. Rustic, Country style.

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

A large charger plate made of Redware pottery, all hand decorated in the Sgraffito Slip Decorated technique, with a stylized floral pattern. Thi...

French Majolica leaves & grapes plate Onnaing, circa 1900.

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

French Faience oyster signed plate Saint Clement, circa 1890. Rustic, Country style.

Set of midcentury multi color ceramic fish Plates and Platters as Wall Decoration A cool collection of eleven european glazed ceramic, porcela...

Tom has painted and drawn all his life, and loves working in ceramics, which he finds a very expressive and tactile medium. He particularly like making plates, as they look fantastic hanging on walls as pictures, as well as displayed on tables and shelves. They are also functional, and an integral part of a good meal - one of the best and most important things in life. Animals and ??sea creatures on ceramics are part of a long tradition, and were a particular favourite of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Tom sees...

19th Century Majolica napkin Trompe l'oeil box or basket/tureen with an egg on the handle signed Sarreguemines.      

Pablo Picasso Profil de Jacqueline (A.R. 457), 1962 Edition Picasso Terre de faïence rouge et décor à la couverte gravé au couteau et patiné noir. Rouge et noir Haut. 3,5 cm – Diam. ...

Modernist majolica bowl or ashtray features distinct white, yellow, and orange leaf decor in the middle of the bowl with white and teal rim decor. Significant part of the bowl is le...

Denmark 'Flamestone' coffee or tea pot, creamer, and sugar by Jens H. Quistgaard for Dansk designs, circa 1958-1964. Features the Flamestone signature slate, almost brown glazed-ear...

Majolica plate two parakeets with oranges Salins, circa 1890.  

Charming set of 6 French porcelain plates. Each plate depicts a different mushroom variety. Varieties include: Pratensis, Amanita, Marasmius, Boletus, Cortinarius and Cantharelius. L...

A lovely set of 10 Art Nouveau majolica plates, made by Villeroy & Boch. Colorful pattern with water lilies. The plates date from circa 190...

Majolica oyster plate with different flowers on each shells, circa 1900 signed Longchamp.  

Very large albarello with polychrome decoration called “al tacchiolo” of foliage with stylized flowers. Marked under the base: “N°20 Pesaro, 18th century. Fabbrica Casali Callegari ...

Handmade stoneware lectern manufactured at the workshop of Apparatu in Barcelona. Different clay bodys are mixed with natural fibers like corn, straw, or heather straw. The pieces ar...

The engraved and brush painted ceramic plate, Visage Gris (Grey Face) is one the most iconic pieces created by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, France. It is said "all portraits are self portraits". In this work, we see Picasso's wistfulness, vulnerability and humor set within a beautiful image representing both the sun and the moon, the masculine and the feminine. Picasso mastery of form, image, composition and subtle color is evident in a work that resonates transcendence. Created in 1953, Pablo Picasso ceramic Visage Gris (Grey Face), 1953 A.R. 206 is a Madoura white earthenware clay, knife engraved under partial brushed glaze with decoration in engobes (green, black, white) from the edition of 500. This work is stamped with the 'Madoura PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO’ pottery stamps on the reverse. Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 5/8in (31.4 x 38.3 x 4.1cm). Madoura was an artisan workshop created by Georges and Suzanne Ramie which collaborated with Picasso in the fabrication and hand painting of the works. Pablo Picasso designed 633 different ceramic editions between 1947 and 1971 at the Madoura workshop, with a number of variants and unique pieces resulting from these initial works. He began by creating simple, utilitarian objects such as plates and bowls, but later produced more complex forms, including pitchers and vases — their handles occasionally shaped to form facial features, or anatomical parts of his animal subjects. Picasso remains one of the highest-grossing artists at auction today, and the range of his ceramics means it's possible to find both a good investment and a beautiful object. Visage Gris is among the most important. A Short Biography follows: Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art world and to many is THE artist of the 20th century. He is famous for his role in pioneering Cubism with Georges Braque and for his melancholy Blue Period pieces. Original signed Picasso lithographs and prints are a sure investment. Madoura Picasso ceramics are highly collectible in their own right. As one of the most influential Modern artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is renowned as a legendary artistic master to this day. Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along. The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his early works, which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture. Picasso was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered. He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain – all in the years 1899 to 1904. Before he struck upon Cubism, Picasso went through a prodigious number of styles – realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. These distinguished styles are apparent in the unique original works as well as Picasso ceramics, lithographs, linocuts, and etchings that he created later in his life. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and is characterized by a predominantly blue palette and focuses on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes. This was when he also produced his first sculptures. The most poignant work of the style, La Vie (1903), currently located in Cleveland’s Museum of Art, was created in memory of his childhood friend, the Spanish poet Carlos Casagemas, who had committed suicide. The painting started as a self-portrait, but Picasso’s features became those of his lost friend. The composition is stilted, the space compressed, the gestures stiff, and the tones predominantly blue. The Rose Period began around 1904 when Picasso’s palette brightened and is dominated by pinks and beiges, light blues, and roses. His subjects are saltimbanques (circus people), harlequins, and clowns, all of whom seem to be mute and strangely inactive. One of the premier works of this period is Family of Saltimbanques (1905), currently in Washington, D.C. at the National Gallery, which portrays a group of circus workers who appear alienated and incapable of communicating with each other, set in a one-dimensional space. In 1905, Picasso went briefly to Holland, and on his return to Paris, his works took on a classical aura with large male and female figures seen frontally or in distinct profile, as in early Greek art. One of the best examples of this style is in the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY, La Toilette (1906). Several pieces in this new, classical style were purchased by Gertrude Stein (the art patron and writer) and her brother, Leo Stein. With his groundbreaking 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon...

Eye-catching Majolica glazed ceramic trompe l'oeil plate attributed to Vallauris. France, 1960s. This large plate has a black background and a colorful trompe l'oeil decoration comp...

Elegant white and blue plate made with the Talavera technique. Artist, Cesar Torres portraits the colonial art of Mexico. The Talavera is not just a simple painted ceramic: its exquisite decoration is the product of a delicate process of alchemy that translates into fine enamels. In Puebla, Mexico few people still produce using Talavera with the ancestral techniques. One of those few is Cesar Torres, Don Cesar learned his art in the workshop of the Uriarte family, an excellent workshop where his grandfather worked. In his creations he uses the black and white mud that is obtained from the nearby hills of Loreto and Guadalupe, and colors of mineral origin that he creates in his workshop with recipes from his grandfather. All the pieces are modeled in a traditional way and go through a production process that usually takes from one to two months, between drying, burning, and painting. Being surrounded by a living tradition, Cesar Torres Jr., learned from his father since childhood. Architect by profession, Cesar Jr. has come to revolutionize and modernize with new designs and ideas of the current world, nevertheless always respecting the tradition of the processes and materials that make Talavera a Creole art...

Large Majolica Ceramic Pitcher. Decorated with a pattern of apples. With very bright colors. Most likely a production from the Belgian brand Nimy. The pitcher is in good condition. ...

French faience fish head plate signed Henriot Quimper, circa 1940.  

This is a rare Creamware pottery Chestnut Basket made by the SPODE factory, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, in the late Georgian, Regency period...

French Majolica grape leaves plate Onnaing, circa 1900.

Early Arabe / Mudejar style tile with geometric decoration, made late 15th century.

19th Century green Majolica tureen with stand signed Sarreguemines Majolica, circa 1870 With grapes leaves. Height / 7.5", diameter / 8 inches.  

Stunning Art Nouveau/ Arts & Crafts tile panel from the superb firm, Craven Dunnill, & Co., Ltd, Jackfield Salop, England, circa 1905, in a bright celadon. This quantity original jug...

French Majolica grape leaves plate Onnaing, circa 1900.

Rare majolica jar with lid is decorated with bright, multicolored abstract birds and flowers motifs in sgraffito technique, that were hand-painted over the lines. The handles, the r...

This exquisite jardinière was manufactured by the celebrated English company Minton, who are famous for their ceramics. It was designed by Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-1867), an Italian-born sculptor who worked in London in the latter part of his career. His most famous work is the bronze sculpture of Richard the Lionheart...

FAPG 20247D John Bennett (1840-1907), New York Plaque with pink and blue phlox, circa 1881-1882 Earthenware, painted and glazed Measures: 14 7/8 in. diameter, 1 13/16 in. high Signed and inscribed (on the back): J B[monogram] ENNETT / E 24 NY. / MC [or] CM If the Herter Brothers was the most distinguished and successful cabinet making and decorating firm in New York in the 1870s-1880s, the transplanted Englishman John Bennett was probably the most gifted ceramicist working in New York in the Aesthetic period. (Bennett was included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark exhibition, In pursuit of beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, in 1986–87, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen’s chapter, “Aesthetic Forms in Ceramics and Glass,” pp. 216–19, significantly informs this essay). Born in England, the son of a potter who worked in the Staffordshire district, Bennett came under the influence of John Sparkes, head of London’s Lambeth School of Art. Soon thereafter, he was hired by Henry Doulton of the eponymous firm to teach artisans there the new art of underglaze faience decoration, which was part of a revival of the sixteenth-century interest in hand-painted ceramics. A number of Bennett’s works for Doulton were shown in the Doulton display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and the considerable success enjoyed by Bennett and Doulton from an American audience undoubtedly played an important role in Bennett’s decision to leave Doulton and England and set up shop in New York in 1877. By the next year, he had already established a studio in New York, where he produced his own pottery in the tradition of the Arts & Crafts innovators, William Morris and William De Morgan, and also taught classes at the new Society of Decorative Art to the growing band of women who had taken up china painting, both professionally and avocationally. Bennett’s pottery developed a very serious following among students and collectors, and was offered for sale at such leading retail establishments as Tiffany & Company in New York. Typically, his work was brilliantly colored, with carefully drawn naturalistic flowers against a monochromatic background. Bennett’s fully developed American work, particularly pieces of larger scale, is exceedingly rare, as he worked in New York only from 1877 to 1883, in which year he withdrew to a farm in rural West Orange, New Jersey, where his production continued on a limited basis. He remained listed as a ceramicist there until 1889. While in New York City, Bennett maintained a studio at 412 East 24th Street. The present charger, boldly featuring pink and blue phlox, is signed by Bennett, and is inscribed “E 24 NY,” indicating its manufacture during Bennett’s time in New York. Although it is not dated, this piece is closely related stylistically to various dated pieces from 1881–82, which would place its production toward the end of Bennett’s New York years. Although we do not know whether Bennett worked out of this 24th Street studio from the outset, he was indeed working there by 1879 when he made (and signed, inscribed, and dated) a charger with white and red flowers now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, which specifically points to “412 East 24 / NY” (acc. no. 1998.317). Additionally, the U.S. Census of 1880 lists Bennett as a ceramicist located at that same address, married to Mary Bennett with whom he had had six children. There are several other examples from Bennett’s time in New York City, which also give his studio address on East 24th Street, including a covered jar in cadmium yellow with indigo and green flowers made in 1881; an undated footed vase with lilac...

Picasso's Cavalier et Cheval (Ramie A.R. 138) epitomizes the artist’s innovative approach to ceramics, transforming utilitarian forms into extraordinary works of art. Crafted in 1952...

A set of six cups and saucers featuring the Wild Turkey - Flying brown and white transfer-ware pattern by the celebrated English pottery firm, Johnson Brothers. With authentic mid...

Majolica oyster plate with different flowers on each shells, circa 1900 signed Longchamp.  

A fine and quality antique French Majolica plate with a pheasant set within a wooded landscape signed Hippolyte Choisy le Roi and dating ...

This is a bowl by Clarice Cliff in the "Hydrangea" pattern, circa 1933. The Hydrangea pattern is a "Bizarre" pattern, produced in 1933. It is hand, in the green colour-way, with flo...

French Majolica plate with a purple butterfly on the center surrounded by fruits, circa 1890.

French Majolica grape leaves plate Onnaing, circa 1900.

This is a good Art Pottery Vase, with three angular handles, all hand modelled using the Sgraffito method, with Fish decoration, hand made by C H Brannam's...

This antique authentic Satsuma teacup and saucer set is signed, but the artist has not been identified and was made in Japan in circa 1900 in the Anglo-...

Set of four colorful French majolica asparagus plates attributed to Orchies. Each plate features six amethyst-colored molded asparagus spears resting on a leaf on a plate with turquo...