19th Century Ceramics

This group of sponge ware pitchers are in good condition with a minor hair line in the pitcher to the right. This size pitcher were used for cream or milk on the table or in the pant...

From Italy, this imposing antique hand painted Majolica luster glazed ceramic pottery urn shaped vase with serpent like handles is over two feet hi...

Pair of 7.875" diameter round porcelain plates with over all design in bright, bold colors known as the "tobacco leaf" pattern. Central leaf shape reserve containing script monogram ...

A Pair of 19th Century French Gilt Bronze & Cobalt Blue Sevres Style Jeweled Vases Circa 1880 Origin: France Height: 10" Width: 6" Depth: 6" ...

Rare English Majolica pitcher in brilliant blue. Interior is pale rose. Marked "England" in raised script. Excellent condition, some old crazing to bottom. No chips.

North Vietnamese textured terra cotta pots that were used as food vessels. Each pot varies in size and texture. Sizes range from 7" diameter x 6" height to 7" diameter x 9" height. W...

French Majolica plate with a purple butterfly on the center surrounded by fruits, circa 1890.

Elegant large Victorian Majolica pitcher inspired by the Japon decorated with flowers, a large fan, a flag on pastel tones, end of the 19th century / England.

A decorative pair of Japanese 19th century Imari porcelain vases of good proportions, decorated throughout with red and blue glazes o...

French ceramic barbotine asparagus dish of vibrant pastel colors with handles. Asparagus were high praised in the 1800s making their presentation import...

This is an exceptional and rare 19th century Etruscan shell and seaweed decorated lidded offers an addition to any significant and important collecti...

Antique Moroccan ceramic footed vase from Fez. Moorish style handcrafted vase adorned with fine filigree silver nickel work, with two handles...

A very finely hand painted French barbotine ceramic jardinière Napoleon III period. France, circa 1870.

A ceramic tea bowl decorated with autumn grasses with signed and sealed tomobako. Painter and designer, Kamisaka Sekka (Japan, 1866-1942) has been one ...

This pair of antique English dishes show a fabulous bird's eye view of an elephant in an imaginary Asian setting. Two figures ride an Indian el...

A stunning and rare antique Italian Maiolica pottery triple gourd vase hand-painted with classical stylised figurative and scroll designs in typical ...

Small Portuguese Palissy plate or charger with green grasses, coiled snake and moths. Signed: Jose A. Cunha, Caldas, Rainha, Portugal.

Antique two face pearlware cup or bowl.

Elegant 19th century French Majolica pair of vases attributed to Fives Lille. The vases are shaped like walls decorated on the front with kingfishers on branches, on the base mushro...

A very good quality 19th century Meissen porcelain group, depicting a cupid in trouble, crossed swords to the base.

19th century Italian faience pitcher decorated with bird on a fence and a tree on the other side.

A pair of antique two-light gilt bronze wall sconces each mounting a Sevres cabinet plate, one painted with Louis XVI , the other with Marie Anto...

A Paris Porcelain hand-painted jewellery box in the Sèvres style with cartouches of a medieval tavern scene and country scenes. The box is heavily gilt...

A stunning Art Nouveau French twin handled earthenware vase by Clement Massier decorated with brown, yellowand blue streaked glazes. The vase has an impressed CLEMENT MASSIER GOLFE JUAN.

The puzzle jug consisting of a handle with pierced yellow painted decoration above and below the band of three spouts, floral painting on each side with int...

Large English Majolica begonia leaf decorated with strawberries and cherries, circa 1890.

Three Meissen figures. Two sweet meat dishes and a figure. Measures: 10" L x 7" W x 6.5" H.

A beautiful late 19th Biscuit Group entitled "Le Nid" Modeled as two children fast asleep atop an upholstered armchair. Signed Croisy on the base. Croisy was a pupil of Tous...

A rare and unusual antique Chinese Yixing teapot of squat rounded form with loop handle and short spout with the top formed like a plate ...

19th century Spanish green glazed ceramic Moorish style amphora on a three legged wrought iron pedestal. Iron pedestal height is 79 cm.

Late 19th century German pug dog. Heavy terracotta with brown carmel color glaze. Seated, with the head turned, in active pose. Good confirmation and details of the face, ears, coil...

The arms on this Chinese Export armorial plate were made for the Cuban noble Marquis de Almendares Ignacio Herrera. The plate is finely ...

This delicately hand-painted Meiji-period Kutani-ware bowl is ornamented with lion-shaped handles on the bowl and lid, and is decorated in orange and gold with panels depicting floral arrangements, surrounded by scrolling borders. On the base is the "Dai Nippon...

A set of three, late 19th century. Italian Majolica plates / chargers. Decorated with armorial crests of three different designs. Very good dra...

Antique B&G (Bing & Grondahl) Rare biscuit figure. Measures: 20 cm. x 11 cm. 1st. factory quality, in perfect condition. Marked, late 19th century.

A decorative pair of 19th century Chinese famile rose vases depicting various Chinese scenes and various birds and foliage, each vase decorated with a single gilded raised dragon, st...

Early 19th century pair of ceramic incense burners in the form of parrots perched on a stone in green glaze, circa 1800.

This set of 12 Doulton Burslem plates dates from the 1890s and are decorated in the Aesthetic Movement style. Each plate is uniquely hand painted...

A pair of Minton figures of flowers sellers in the form of a youth and a girl in 18 century costume, each seated between two large baskets of very fine flowers, on gilt scrolled base...

A French Art Nouveau covered porcelain jar designed by Georges De Feure and manufactured by Dufraisseix & Abbot, Limoges, for Art Nouveau Bing. In the manner of de Feure’s renowned t...

A trio of Oriental style English vases, on a blue background, hand painted with embossed chinoiseries style urns and flowers in the Mason style.

This splendid antique dessert service is impressive both for its beautiful design and its prestigious maker, Royal Crown Derby Porcelain, which was appointed the official royal porcelain manufacturer to Queen Victoria of England...

A garniture of three Coalport vases, each finely painted with scenes of bouquet of flowers, on apple green and gilt background.

French large crown with roses in high relief, circa 1890. Highly decorative pieces, very heavy. Numerous chips previously repaints.  

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...

An antique German porcelain figure seated crossed-leg, "Nodder", dressed in an elaborately hand-painted robe, with his head, hands, and tongue moving, German porcelain by Dresden. Ve...

19th century ceramic fish strainer.

We are pleased to offer this Derby cabinet plate with an exceptionally finely painted fox hunting scene attributed to William Cotton. What is so remarkable about the painting is that Cotton captured the energy and excitement of the hunt. One can almost hear the barking of the hounds and the sound of the horse's hooves as it gallops ahead. The early morning sky overhead has a patch of blue...

A superb antique relief moulded Continental Maiolica dish or plaque relief moulded with a side profile portrait of a figure wearing a military helmet and with the words DUX D'URBINUS...

A very amusing late 19th century terracotta group, in the manner of 'Goldscheider' of three young black boys sitting on a wall.

An unusual late 19th century Vienna porcelain mounted giltwood centre table, the central plaque depicting a fisherman in a boat with nymphs coming out of the waves.

A fine antique green glazed art pottery handled ewer with incised stylized floral designs picked out in black glazes with incised line designs around the body of the ewer. With mould...

An unusual trio of jardinière and cache-pots, in the Sevres style, hand-painted with love scenes after Watteau on one side whilst the other side is decorated with flower panels. Each...

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...

Victorian Minton Majolica pigeon pie tureen with wickerwork design. Supported by three realistically modelled grey fantailed pigeons roosting...

Portuguese palissy plate or charger with three salamander figures and on beetle. Signed: # 8 M. Mafra, Caldas, Portugal.

The Elf or "Nisse" as they are called in Denmark, used to live in every farmhouse, and you had to treat them nice to make them stay. Later on they became associated with Christmas an...

Two English pottery decanters in a tantalus inspired wicker basket from the mid 19th century. Born in England during the Victorian period, this pair o...