19th Century Ceramics

A rare and unusual Elton Ware Arts and large pottery mottoware tyg bearing the words AULD LANG SYNE made by Sir Edmund Elton (British, 1846-1920) and da...

A fine Doulton Lambeth beaker commemorating Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee by renowned artists Elizabeth Atkins and Eleanor Tosen and dating from 1897. The stoneware beaker is of s...

An unusual Art Nouveau Burmantofts Faience vase decorated with a frieze of pink glazed flowers dating from around 1895. The vase stands on a narrow round base with bulbous shaped body with a pinched neck and bowl shaped top. The vase is finely decorated with pink flowers on trailing stems below abstract green foliage set...

Doulton stoneware jar and cover in form of an owl, Marked for Mark V. Marshall, Dated 1883. A striking tobacco jar and cover in the form of an owl with diamond pattern designs acoss the body and eyes like daisy's. Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches high (19.05cm) high See Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts, "What a Hoot Newsletter, July 16,2022By Louise Irvine, "A Parliament of Owls In Victorian times, owls were popular as functional items for gentlemen’s studies, including tobacco jars, match holders, jugs and lamps. Doulton artist, Mark V. Marshall, created stylized stoneware jars with swivel heads referencing the owl’s uncanny ability to rotate its head to 270 degrees left or right. Marshall worked originally with the Martin Brothers who made several owl jars as part of their range of anthropomorphic birds. Robert Wallace Martin’s character birds with removable heads in turn inspired British studio potters, Andrew Hull and David Burnham Smith." Mark V. Marshall (1842-1913) Mark V. Marshall: Defining the Original ......Marshall, like George Tinworth, trained at the Lambeth School of Art. From there, he went on to work at a local stonemasons yard. Here, he carved decorations for neo-gothic churches. For a brief period, he worked for the Martin Brothers, art potters whose London workshop represented the changes from Victorian to more modern ceramics. They specialized in eccentric designs and were known for their famous birds. These early experiences shaped Marshall’s taste for weird and wonderful Doulton designs, like his reptiles and dragons which circle his vases, and the grotesque masks which embellish his jugs. It was during this period that his unique style of fantastic animals, sometimes half hidden in foliage, established a pattern of decorative art for him. Indeed, many of his pieces bring to mind the medieval cathedral builders and their stone and wooden carvings of imaginary animals and caricatures of people. His work includes one example where a strange dragon-like creature climbs around the vase with its young ones hiding in the foliage. Doulton Marshall joined Doulton in 1874, and he brought his very personal style with him. His early vases (and there are many of them) tend to have fanciful animals sculpted in high relief perhaps hiding amongst the leaves. But he was influenced by the recent discoveries made at the time – eg by Charles Darwin, who had published his “Origin of the Species” in 1859. He, too, was fascinated by the relationship between animals and humans. He produced items showing animals dressed as humans, such as the two fully-dressed rabbits facing opposite ways on opposite sides of a container in his “The Waning of the Honeymoon”. He also drew on literature, notably Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. He produced stoneware pieces inspired by Tenniel’s illustration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass...

A rare and elegant Doulton Lambeth art pottery ewer decorated with a continuous landscape with a stag and deer by renowned artist Hannah B Barlow and dating fro...

A stunning Arts & Crafts Doulton Lambeth Faience hand painted vase with flowering clematis by renowned artist Edith Jane Gillman and dating fro...

A rare Arts & Crafts earthenware Persian style dish hand painted with a swan and chrysanthemum flowers by Charles Passenger for William De Morgan (English, 1839-1914) dating from aro...

5295 Tall and Early Martin Brothers Spoonwarmer modelled with a Dragon-Like Creature with a wide mouth and scaly skin Restoration to the extremities 20.5cm high Dated 1880

5262 Robert Wallace Martin for the Martin Brothers. A comical reptilian Spoonwarmer with Goggley eyes holding a shield. Restoration to the shield and curtain below Dated 188...

A pair of large Arts & Crafts vases hand-painted by Clarissa Ault circa 1890. This pair of Arts & Crafts pottery vases were hand-painted by Clarissa Ault, daughter of English cera...

5320 Very Early and Scarce Pair of Martin Brothers Vases. Decorated in entwined Spade shaped stylised Leaves in a Cobalt Blue Glaze 27.5cm high Dated 1876.

5229 William De Morgan Very Large (9”) Tile decorated with a Persian design This is the largest sized Tile that William De Morgan produced Comm...