1880s Ceramics

Majolica Plate Flowers & Dragonfly Choisy le Roi, circa 1880. Baby blue background with lily of the valley. 8 inches diameter.

Large 19th Century French Blue & White Japon Platter signed Creil Montereau. 13 inches diameter. This service is exposed in Giverny Claude Monet's house.

An antique ormolu-mounted Majolica twin handled planter or centre piece attributed to Wilhelm Schiller. The Majolica planter is of wide rounded form with a raised ornate rim and with...

Antique French majolica basket with flowers and butterfly, bug, and insect accents, circa 1880. No maker's mark. Some chips.

A stunning of pair of blue and white bronze-mounted lamps, wired for US, circa 1880. Total height with the shades / 22".

Majolica Plate Purple Lily & Butterfly Choisy le Roi, circa 1880. Baby blue background with lily of the valley. 8 inches.

A nice set of 3 Ceramic majolica plates. The plates have beautiful decorations with artichoke and asparagus. The plates are marked, but the mark is not know. It might be Kueller and ...

French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century. 13 Bottles available, sold separately. Different sizes.

Majolica strawberries plate Choisy le Roi, circa 1880. 13 plates available.

A lovely set of 2 antique majolica plates, made by the French brand Sarreguemines. This plates are both marked with blind marks on the back.

French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century. 13 bottles available, sold separately. Different sizes.

Rare aqua Majolica strawberries on a geometrical background signed Sarreguemines, circa 1880.

Majolica Plate Purple Flower & Butterfly Choisy le Roi, circa 1880. Baby blue background with lily of the valley. 8 inches diameter.

Majolica chestnut leaves plate Salins, circa 1880, on a pink background.

19th Century French Blue & White Pagoda Plate signed Creil et Montereau. 8.7 inches diameter.

Rare small Palissy platter with a fish, lizard, butterfly, ivy leaves attributed to Thomas Sergent.

Majolica plate birds with grapes signed Sarreguemines, circa 1880.

This antique Historism centerpiece / pedestal bowl is made of polychrom glazed majolica and features four cartouches decorated with high relief knight helmets and dragons. The manufa...

French Majolica asparagus platter Salins, circa 1880. Decorated with ferns.

An exceptional Renaissance Revival Maiolica tin-glazed plate painted with a side profile portrait of a lady within a decorative border with a line painted design to the base. The lig...

Majolica Sweet Pea Plate Choisy le Roi, circa 1880.

Unusual French Majolica asparagus oval platter Orchies, circa 1880. Decorated with asparagus and asparagus.

19th Century French blue & white chinoiserie platter Creil et Montereau. Model Pagoda. 12 inches.

Rare 19th century porcelain Palissy platter with fishs, eel, shells , crawfish and ivy leaves.

A good and finely decorated Aesthetic Movement stoneware jug decorated with fan shape and floral designs by John Pollard Seddon and dating from around 1880. The jug stands on a round...

Large unusual Austrian Majolica oyster plate, circa 1880.

19th Century French Blue & White Pagoda Plate signed Creil et Montereau. 9 inches diameter.

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...

19th Century French blue and white faience dinner plate signed "Francois" Sarreguemines.  

Majolica chestnut leaves plate Salins, circa 1880, on a pink background.

French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century. 13 bottles available, sold separately. Different sizes.

Rare Majolica turquoise aqua asparagus platter with fern signed Clairefontaine, circa 1880.

Majolica strawberries plate signed Sarreguemines, circa 1880.  

Large unusual Austrian Majolica oyster plate, circa 1880.

French Majolica green & yellow leaves plate circa 1880.

Majolica plate signed Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. Very rare large size 9.5 inches. 6 plates available.

French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century.  

Large 19th century French pottery vine pitcher with grapes. Pottery from Normandy.  

Porcelain Cache Pot Choisy Le Roi, circa 1880.

Rare B&G (Bing & Grondahl) large biscuit plate by Thorvaldsen, 1880s. In perfect condition, 1st. factory quality. Measures 29 cm.

Majolica leave shape plate , circa 1890.

Lovely and charming French Majolica plate with rabbits family eaten cabbage signed Choisy le Roi, circa 1880. (Plates made for Higgins and Seiter Ne...

Fine Majolica strawberries on yellow geometrical background signed Sarreguemines, circa 1880.

This is a very rare China tennis tea set by George Jones & Sons. The set comprises of a tea pot, three cups with saucers, a sugar bowl and a milk jug. E...

Palissy Ware Majolica Ewer, Portuguese, circa 1880 by Manuel Mafra, Caldas da Rainha. For over 28 years we have been among the Nation’s preeminent specialists in Fine antique Majolica. Book Reference: Marshall P. Katz, Portuguese Palissy Ware...

Gorgeous Majolica by Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica large pitcher in shell and seaweed pattern. This pitcher is an unusually sought after s...

French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century. 13 bottles available, sold separately. Different sizes.

A very unusual Aesthetic Movement biscuit fired Doulton Lambeth stoneware vase pigment hand-painted with stylized foliage and geometric designs by Minnie G Thompson...

French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century. 13 bottles available, sold separately. Different sizes.

French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century. 13 bottles available, sold separately. Different sizes.

Majolica flowers sweet peas plate signed Choisy le Roi, circa 1880.

Large unusual Austrian Majolica oyster plate, circa 1880.

Ott & Brewer Aesthetic Blanc de Chine Pitcher Trenton, New Jersey, circa 1880s An exquisite Ott & Brewer Aesthetic Blanc de Chine Pitcher, a remarkable example of 19th-century artis...

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...

Pair of 19th century oriental Satsuma vases were hand-painted on the finest Japanese porcelain then set on cast bronze bases for the ultimate in Oriental Opulence! An intricate "pie ...

Unusual French yellow Majolica moon plate with owl, star ,bat and bird, circa 1880.  

Rare pair of blue faience tiles Marine landscape painted France, 1880-1890 "E. Gallé Nancy" signed on the back Excellent condiction.

A rare 19th century French earthenware cake or baking from Soufflenheim in the Alsace region, circa 1880s. In the shape of a lobster or crayfish, this Alsatian mold symbolizes fertil...

A very unusual Aesthetic Movement art pottery silver mounted mug modeled in relief with thirteen grotesque faces and dating from around 1880. The finely...

A very stylish antique Doulton Lambeth art pottery jug decorated with floral and leaf designs by Emma Marriott and dating from circa 1885. The ...