1820s Ceramics

Germany, 1825 Ceramic bowl from Stettiner. Measures: H 10 x Ø 34 cm.

The larger Georgian plate is an English Davenport stone china meat platter, with bamboo and peony blue and white transfer pattern, dating to circa 1...

Germany, 1825 Ceramic hanging bowl from Stettiner. Measures: Ø 22 cm D 3 cm.

Highly exceptional and extremely rare Qing Dynasty Famille Rose Mandarin Polychrome Enameled Plate 10-in, ca. 1820. The scene with six figures on a barge at water's edge among stacke...

Chinese Export Famille rose square dish, the well profusely decorated with fruit and floral sprays, butterflies, and a single multi-colored and gilded pheasant, the cavetto with a single gilt band, the shaped rim with two opposite panels with a tasseled sword among fruit and floral sprays, the linked Chinese characters forming a cartouche enclosing a silkworm, a butterfly, and a fruiting cherry...

Chinese Export Famille Rose Square Dish, the well profusely decorated with fruit and floral sprays, butterflies, and a single multi-colored and gilded pheasant, the cavetto with a single gilt band, the shaped rim with two opposite panels with a tasseled sword among fruit and floral sprays, the linked Chinese characters forming a cartouche enclosing a silkworm, a butterfly, and a fruiting cherry...

A 19th century blue and white Staffordshire pottery platter depicting the original Massachusetts General Hospital building in Boston designed in 1818 by Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844) and home of the world's first Ether Dome. The platter is entitled "Hospital Boston" part of the Beauties of America series produced by John and William Ridgway. The neoclassical Federal period building is shown with a horse drawn carriage striding by and a ship anchored nearby, within a border of flowers within reserves. History of MGH (Source: The Russell Museum at MGH website): In 1810, the United States could boast of only two general hospitals, the Pennsylvania Hospital (founded in 1756) and the New York Hospital (founded in 1791). Locally, the marine hospital in Charlestown tended to the needs of sailors and the Boston Dispensary addressed the ambulatory care of paupers, but no New England facility in the early nineteenth century provided round the clock medical care to members of the general public. Rev. John Bartlett, Chaplain of the Almshouse in Boston, dreamed of establishing such a hospital, which would make state-of-the-art medical care available to the physically or mentally ill while affording improved opportunities for practical medical education. He joined with like-minded doctors and leading citizens to organize a fundraising campaign. Dr. James Jackson...

This is an exceptionally beautiful blue and white pearlware plate made in Staffordshire in about 1820. The plate has intriguing images of transfer prin...

Walton pottery bocage figure, c. 1820. Modelled as a young boy gathering fruit, in a large basket. He stands bare footed, on a grassy mound base, before a flowering bocage. Decorated...

Swansea pottery Pearlware cow creamer, circa 1820. The typically modelled cow, painted with blue and red spots, and standing upon a moulded grassy mound base. Having the original co...

Sunderland pottery ‘Frog’ mug, Southwick, or Scott’s Pottery, circa 1820. Printed to one side, in black, and hand colored, with ‘An East View of the New Bridg...

Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Mandarin Shell-Form Shrimp Dish, also known as a nappie or dessert dish, circa 1820, the shaped bowl with vividly enameled glazes and detailed gilding, ...