18th Century and Earlier Ceramics

18th century Chinese Export Famille rose tureen with lid & underplate.

An exceptionally rare pair of Triton candlesticks, in black basalt with gold lustre. The design is copied from Wedgwood, who took it from Sir Willi...

Maiolica flower pot “a mezzaluna” decorated with trompe l’oeil Pasquale Rubati Factory Milan, 1770 circa It measures: 4.7 in (cm 12) X 5 in (...

Blue and white lobed dish with landscape. Northern Netherlands, 1650-1680. Dimensions: diameter 21,5 cm / 8.46 in. The blue and white lobed dish is composed of sixteen small lobe...

Blue and white charger with a bird on a branch. Harlingen, 1775-1800 Raamstraat pottery. painter: Pieter Ruurds The charger has a slightly raised flange and is painted in blue ...

Water cistern, table fountain on earthenware pedestal decorated with lambrequins and lions in blue camaieu. Lateral grip in the shape of a lion's head. Earthenware from Rouen or Lill...

This is a rare porcelain desert dish or chestnut basket made by the Chelsea-Derby factory during the 18th Century, circa 1770. This pierced, reticulated Desert Dish or Chestnut Ba...

Blue and white charger with a shepherd in a landscape Delft, 1670-1700 The charger has a wide-spreading flange and is painted in blue with a shepherd in a water landscape. He we...

The mainly square-shaped stands have indented corners and a raised center section with rim and four small flowers. The stands are painted in polychrome with a combination of flowers,...

Blue and white chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1650-1680 Dimensions: diameter 33,5 cm / 13.18 in. The blue and white lobed dish is composed of twenty-seven double lobes. The cur...

This is a hard paste porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer by New Hall, dating to the turn of the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1800. Both pieces are decorated over-glaze with ...

Blue and white dish with a putto. The Netherlands, 1660-1700 The blue and white dish has a wide, spreading flange, and is painted in the centre with a walking, flute-playing putt...

This is a very good early Chinese Teapot and matching cover from the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period ( 1662 to 1722) which we date to Circa 1710. The teapot has a globular form on a sho...

Blue and white lobed dish with landscape. Northern Netherlands, 1640-1660. Dimensions: diameter 29,1 cm / 11.41 in. The blue and white dish is composed of twenty-seven double lob...

The dish has a wide, slightly raised rim and is painted in blue in the centre with a Dutch water landscape within a polygonal yellow band. The well and border are painted in polychro...

Blue and white landscape dish. Makkum, 1775-1800 Tichelaar pottery. painter: Douwe Klases Hofstra [attributed to] The dish has a wide and raised flange and is painted in blue wi...

An extremely rare pair of Chinese export porcelain ‘Table Bay’ or 'Cape of Good Hope' dishes Qianlong period, mid-18th century Measure: Diameter. 23.8 ...

Set of beautiful moulded tiles made of earthenware. Featuring flowerheads and foliage, this set of antiques creates a universe on its own.

Polychrome lobed dish with peacock in landscape. Delft, circa 1690. Dimensions: diameter 34,9 cm / 13.74 in. The polychrome lobed dish is composed of nine wide lobes and is pain...

Italian Maiolica Crespina a Compendiario style, Central Italy, Late 17th century This Crispina has a convex shape on the front and a concave shape on the back, resting on a small ...

Blue and white landscape dish. Makkum, 1775-1800 Tichelaar pottery. painter: Douwe Klases Hofstra [attributed to] The dish has a wide and raised flange and is painted in blue w...

Pair of Chinese plates with floral motifs from the Compagnie des Indes dating from the 18th century. It is decorated in the centre with a flower...

Chinoiserie lobed dish in blue and purple. Delft, circa 1680 Dimensions: diameter 34,5 cm / 13.58 in. The lobed dish is composed of nine, wide lobes and is painted in the centre...

Purple and yellow majolica charger with a beggar The Netherlands, 1675-1700 The charger has a wide-spreading rim and is painted mainly in purple with some yellow accents. A beggar...

Large blue and white chinoiserie dish. The Netherlands, 1675-1700. The blue and white dish has a wide-spreading flange and is painted in the centre with a sitting Chinese figure i...

Sick cup Pasquale Rubati Manufacture Milan, Circa 1770 - 1780 Maiolica decorated in polychrome “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) It measures: h 2.36 x 7.4 x 7.87 (h 6 x 19 x 20 cm) ...

Maiolica sugar bowl Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 3.54 x 4.52 x 3.54 in (9 x 11,5 x 9 cm) Weight: 0.394 lb (0.179 kg) State of conservation: small and slight chips on the edges. The small sugar bowl has a swollen and ribbed body resting on a flat base. The cap-shaped lid follows the rib of the container and is topped with a small knob in the shape of a two-colored fruit. The sugar bowl is painted “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) with the characteristic floral motif of bunches and isolated semis. An example which closely corresponds to this one is kept at the Civic Museum in Lodi (G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137). This decorative style represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and later introduced by Antonio Ferretti to Italy. The production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple. The Ferretti family started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces starting from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59). In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory. In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, was able to commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables, both with or without contour lines, as well as in purple or green monochrome. After efforts to introduce more industrial production techniques to the sector succeeded, even the Ferretti manufacture, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, started heading towards decline despite its attempts to adapt production to neoclassical tastes. In 1796 the Napoleonic battle for the conquest of the Lodi bridge over the Adda definitively compromised the furnaces. Production resumed, albeit in a rather stunted manner, until Antonio's death on 29 December 1810. (M. L. Gelmini, pp. 28-30, 38, 43 sgg., 130-136 (for Simpliciano); pp. 31 sgg., 45-47, 142-192 (for Antonio). Bibliography G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi Milano e Pavia Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137; C. Baroni, Storia delle ceramiche nel Lodigiano, in Archivio storico per la città e i comuni del circondario e della diocesi di Lodi, XXXIV (1915), pp. 118, 124, 142; XXXV (1916), pp. 5-8; C. Baroni, La maiolica antica di Lodi, in Archivio storico lombardo, LVIII (1931), pp. 453-455; L. Ciboldi, La maiolica lodigiana, in Archivio storico lodigiano, LXXX (1953), pp. 25 sgg.; S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, pp. 17 sgg.; A. Novasconi - S. Ferrari - S. Corvi, La ceramica lodigiana, Lodi 1964, ad Indicem; Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia (catal.), Milano 1964, p. 17; O. Ferrari - G. Scavizzi, Maioliche italiane del Seicento e del Settecento, Milano 1965, pp. 26 sgg.; G. C. Sciolla, Lodi. Museo civico, Bologna 1977, pp. 69-85 passim; G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981; M. Vitali, in Storia dell'arte ceramica...

Blue and white lobed dish with fruit still life. Northern Netherlands, 1650-1680 Dimensions: Diameter 22,9 cm / 9.01 in. The blue and white lobed dish is composed of sixteen smal...

Set of 4 18th Century Chinese Export Imari Porcelain Chargers in 2 sizes. (smaller pair has some repairs) 15? Diameter / 12.5? Diameter.  

This exquisite Wedgwood sauceboat is crafted of tricolor jasperware, one of the firm's rarest creations. The sauceboat's classic form displays a be...

Blue and white plate with a chinoiserie landscape with two sitting Chinese figures, within a double circle. The back of the plate is painted with the number 5, and the foot rim is pi...

On offer is a rare Ko-seto (old seto) stoneware ewer from Kamakura period (12-14th century) Japan. The exceptionally heavily potted ewer is made of stoneware. The main body was likely hand-coiled with individually built handle, sprout and wheel-made neck and mouth assembled. It takes the basic form from the contemporary Chinese ewer...

Large & Very Fine Chinese Export Punch Bowl, with Painted & Gilt decoration in the Mandarin palette. Jingdezhen region, China ca. 1780.

Blue and white chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1650-1680 Dimensions: diameter 33,5 cm / 13.18 in. The blue and white lobed dish is composed of twenty-s...

Large Chinese ceramic plate. Swatow, Ming Dynasty.

Coffee assortment with “barbotine” decoration Manufacture of Pasquale Rubati or Felice Clerici Milan, 1770- 1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). ...

Polychrome chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1680-1690 The lobed dish is composed of nine wide lobes around a nine-fold centre and is painted with a chinoiserie decor in purple, yellow and green. Two Chinese figures in an eastern landscape are depicted in the centre, one of them carries a banner. The landscape is framed within lines and a white band. The border is decorated with a continuous landscape with two reclining and two standing Chinese figures. A lobed dish of the same shape and design in purple, blue and green is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts holds a variant in blue and yellow. In the same museum are three lobed dishes, each with twenty-seven double lobes with chinoiserie landscapes in the same colour scheme of purple, yellow and green. In the second half of the seventeenth century many lobed dishes were painted with Chinese motifs, mostly landscapes with Chinese figures. The vast majority are in blue. Two- or multi-coloured chinoiserie decorations were very fashionable during a short period of time, predominantly in the 1680s. In addition to lobed dishes, they also appear on wine jugs, beer mugs, butter pots, covered spiced-wine bowls and dishes. Some of this Delftware is still wrongly attributed to a factory in the German town of Frankfurt, and sometimes it is even considered to be English. An excavated chinoiserie butter pot in purple, green and yellow, found in a cesspit in the grounds of the Porcelain Bottle factory, proves otherwise. A beer mug with the portrait of the Dutch prince Willem III...

A set of two peacock design Delft plates, and two larger Delft dishes. All hand-painted with "peacock" pattern. 2 plates marked "De Porceleyne Claeuw" Dimensions: diameter of 9" / 23cm each plate. 2 dishes are also marked, one for "De Porceleyne Claeuw" (Porcelain Claw) and the other one marked 'De drie...

Large Blue and white charger with landscape The Netherlands, circa 1660 The charger has a wide, spreading flange and is painted in b...

Blue and yellow bowl with putto Delft, circa 1690. The wide and flat bowl has a turned rim and is painted in blue with yellow accents. A dancin...

Composition of 16 tiles with angel Portugal 18th century. Composition made in the late 20th century.

A large Chinese Export Famille Rose charger with pink lotus and other flowers. Painted in bright vivid colors of blues, reds and yellow accents.

A rare and stunning example of neo-classical decoration on an ordinary househuld object: a teapot. The decoration is restrained yet lively, and makes excellent use of classical figur...

Polychrome dish with a village view The Netherlands, 1675-1725. The dish has a spreading, slightly raised flange and is painted in blue, purple and yellow with a simplified villag...

Polychrome lobed dish with peacock and tulips. Delft, circa 1690. Dimensions: diameter 33,5 cm / 13.18 in. The polychrome lobed dish is composed of twenty-seven double lobes and ...

Blue and white dish with windmill. Delft, 1700-1750 The dish has a raised flange and is painted in blue with a windmill between two sponged tr...

Purple and yellow chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1680-1700 Dimensions: diameter 34,5 cm / 13.58 in. The lobed dish is composed of eight wide l...

An Italian Baroque Castelli albarllo, also known as a pharmacy or drug jar. It held 'Benedict Laxat' listed as far back as Aristotle as a medication used in by midwives. Beautifully decorated with buildings in landscapes in the free, almost impressionistic style typical of Castelli Maiolica...

Rare Two Cut Out Plates. Chinese, 17th century in cloisonné enamelled metal, decorated with floral motifs with a reserve in the center with an oriental landscape representing fig...

Chinese Export American market, blue & white 'star' boarder armorial platters China for American Market, Circa 1790s A rare and unique example of...

Elegant circa 1790 Nanking Chinese porcelain hand painted blue and white tureen in excellent condition, no repairs.

Blue and white dish with bird on a double ring Delft or Western-Netherlands, 1700-1750 Blue and white dish with a wide-spreading flange, painted in the centre with a bird on a double ring with leafy garlands. The decor on the flange is made up of a small band of scrolls and stylized leaves, framed within lines. The well halfway to the rim is left unpainted. Three stilt marks, which are characteristic for majolica, are visible in the centre. Dimensions: Diameter 31,5 cm / 12.40 in. The decor of a parrot on a ring is a well-known motif on plates and dishes...

Blue and white lobed dish with shepherd. Northern Netherlands, 1650-1680. Dimensions: diameter 33,5 cm / 13.18 in. The blue and white dish is composed of twenty-seven double lo...

A 6 antique earthenware tiles set evoking a delicate sun-shaped figure surrounded by abstract shapes. A beautiful decorative set that can be used on a chimney or a wall - one of many...

Antique set of two 19th century Spanish hand painted glazed ceramic patterned tiles with white frame Dimension do not include frame.

Lobed dish with purple and yellow chinoiserie landscape Delft, 1680-1700 Dimensions: diameter 22 cm / 8.66 in. The lobed dish is composed of ...

Blue and white marriage plate. Delft, dated 1759 The marriage plate is painted in blue with a crowned shield between two laurel wreaths. The shield i...

This is an early porcelain trio comprising a vertically fluted coffee can, tea cup and saucer, all in a hand painted and gilded pattern, which we attri...