Gold Leaf Ceramics

CAPODIMONTE - Fine quality Italian provincial hand painted gilt ceramic cabinet cup and saucer - featuring alternating swirling bands of figures in relief ...

Three beautiful hand-painted decorative plates by Fornasetti Milano. These plates belong to the Astronomici series made ca. 1970. They feature intri...

Antique 'famille rose' (also referred to as 'rose medallion') porcelain plate - hand painted with a courtyard scene to the center - floral and foliate bor...

This stunning pair of Art Deco faience vases were commissioned for the 1927 Paris Exhibition and realized in France that year. They feature subtly tapered conical ceramic bodies in a...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Iconic ceramic "Buccheri" saucers with a small base (2 pieces); the “bucchero” is a type of black and shiny pottery, often fine and very light, produced by the Etruscans to make domestic furnishings and decorative objects; the "bucchero" was used in Etruria from the second quarter of the 7th century BC-the first half of the 5th century BC; the black monochrome integral is the most evident feature of this type of pottery and the coloring was obtained through a particular firing; the term "bucchero" comes from the Castilian "bùcaro", with which they defined some vases arrived from South America more or less in the same period of the first findings in Etruscan archaeological sites. In the "bucchero" is black both the mixture and the surface, which is shiny and compact. The color is not obtained by painting but thanks to a special firing process in the absence of oxygen, which prevents the chemical transformations of oxidation that make it take on the typical orange coloring to the iron ores contained in the clay. Our "Buccheri" saucers were made by Carlo Alberto Rossi (1903-1970) in his workshop in Via Savelli Della Porta in the historic center of Gubbio (Italy) and bear the artist's signature on the bottom; the laboratory "Buccheri Antonio...

Iconic ceramic vase "Bucchero"; the “bucchero” is a type of black and shiny pottery, often fine and very light, produced by the Etruscans to make domestic furnishings and decorative ...

This unique and highly collectable vintage Japanese Kutani pair of 24-karat gold-gilded lidded porcelain cups with the Hyakunin Isshu (“Hundred...

A most unusual silver and gold leaf cloisonné vase by Sukiku, 1981. The ovoid body decorated in abstract designs with wispy silver shapes and moriage gold leaf scattered over a m...

Hand drawing contemporary ceramic vase by the artist Antonio Cagianelli for the ceramist Giulio Gialletti in Deruta Italy. Antonio Cagianelli work on the Vanité for more than 20 year...

An exquisite handmade glazed ceramic vase from the Spanish manufacturer Casa Bohemia. Spain, 1960s. A highly decorative piece in a vibrant red glazed color with geometric decorations...