Pair of Derby Porcelain Yellow Fruit Coolers with Liners and Covers

The Ridgway porcelain coolers are decorated in pattern #1173. They have a circular body raised on three dolphin feet and trefoil base and painted with flo...

18th century Chelsea Porcelain Trompe L'oeil Leaf Dish with Fruit, Brown Anchor, circa 1758-60 The trompe L'oeil porcelain Chelsea ...

Chinese Export Porcelain European-subject oval dish, European Figures of Huntsmen & Hound, Circa 1765-85 The Chinese Export porcelain dish is painted in "famille-rose" enamels w...

First Period Worcester pair of porcelain basket weave leaf dishes, circa 1758-1760. The first period Worcester porcelain dishes with mou...

The Chelsea porcelain dishes, after the Meissen, are of an unusual deep octagonal form and are very well painted with a central composition of different fruit and vegetables. One inc...

Chinese Export Famille Verte openwork dishes, A Pair, Kangxi, Circa 1700 The circular Chinese Export porcelain dishes with openwork cash border...

Pair Footed Fruit Coolers, about 1810-20 Stône, Coquerel, and Legros D’Anisy, Paris (active 1808–49) Porcelain, partially transfer printed in sepia and green and gilded Each, 13 1/2 in. high x 10 in. wide x 7 1/2 in. deep Signed and inscribed (on underside of one top and one base, with printed mark): STÔNE / COQUEREL / ET / LE GROS / PARIS / PAR BREVET D’INVENTION: Manufre de Décors sur Porcelaine Faience; variously inscribed with decorators’ initial in green and brown (on underside of one top and one base): M; variously inscribed with incised mark (on underside of one liner and both bottoms): 3; inscribed (in blue script, on the inside of one liner): 615 The Parisian firm of Stône, Coquerel, and Legros d'Anisy is distinguished for the important role that it played in the introduction of transfer-printed decoration on fine china in France. Although the process had been known and used in Great Britain since the eighteenth century, it was, according to Régine de Plinval de Guillebon in her book, Porcelain of Paris 1770–1850 (New York: Walker and Company, 1972), not until 1802 that Potter, Blancheron, Constant, Neppel, Cadet de Vaux & Denuelle took out a patent in France for transfer-printing on earthenware, and it was only on February 26, 1808, that John Hurford Stône, his brother-in-law, Athanase Marie Martin Coquerel, and Francois Antoine Legros d'Anisy not only took out a patent for transfer-printing on china, but also established a Stône, Coquerel, and d'Anisy partnership for the manufacture of transfer-printed ceramics. Their address from 1808 until 1818 was at 9, rue de Cadran, Paris. Prior to this, Stône and Coquerel had been partners at a creamware factory in Creil, France, and Legros d’Anisy had worked at the Sèvres factory, where he had apparently developed the transfer-printing technique for which his own firm became well known. “The process,” notes de Guillebon, was “based upon removing from the engraving a ‘pull’ made on a specially coated filter-paper, which was pressed onto the object to be decorated; this object itself was covered with a film. Firing took...

Pre 1900s porcelain ceramic oyster plate in crisp white, brown and gold. Beautiful serving piece with 5 inventions for serving oysters. Each divot is decorated a an oyster (or muscle...

Pair of 19th century English Derby Fruit Coolers with Lids & Liners, ca. 1815.    

A lovely round white ceramic bread or fruit bowl from Spain. Created from ceramic, this Trompe L'Oeil basket is woven to appear like a wicker basket. It has a small hole in the botto...

This antique cheese server or dome is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from the United States and dates to approximately 1880 and done i...

Large Majolica fruits centerpiece, signed Sarreguemines, circa 1920.