Late 19th Century Ceramics

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...

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

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...

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...

19th century blue glaze stoneware covered jar. Originally used as a humidor to store tobacco. Raised design in cobalt glaze depicting a hunting retriever dog.

This is a group of three sponge ware vegetable bowls all in mint condition. The pair of bowls are 8.5" long x 6" wide. The third bowl is 6.5" wide x 9" long. These three bowls are so...

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...

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 beautiful pair of antique Chinese blue and white porcelain white slip-decorated garden seats. Very finely decorated with raised white slip-decorated floral decoration and open porc...

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.

Christopher Dresser designed for the Ault Pottery in the 1890's, taking a lot of inspiration from middle eastern designs, in particular, Persia, of which this an example of a Persian oil...

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...

Amusing pair of Victorian Majolica pickles pitchers signed dated with the English mark June 7th 1871.

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

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...

Set of Four Majolica Monkey Graduated Pitchers, 8 to 10.5 ins., English, c. 1880. Book reference: Marilyn G. Karmason and Joan B. Stake, Majolica: A Complete History and Illustrate...

Pair of 19th century Royal Worcester Eastern water carriers.    

English figure in stoneware after Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist," 1870s. Charming figurine of character from "Oliver Twist." Mea...

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...

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

19th century, French clock In the Chinoiserie style. An 8 day pendulum movement that bell strikes on the hour and half hour. Chinese porcelain body in the Kang His style by Samson. T...

B&G / Bing & Grondahl Bisque figure after Thorvaldsen, circa 1870. In good condition. Stamped: B & G Eneret (indistinct) Measures: 19 x 15.5 cm.

5483 Large Ruby Lustre William De Morgan Charger decorated with a Central Cenatour with a Border of Dancing Putti Light scratches and some glaze irregularities Similar Designs Illust...

Aqua Majolica plate with a peacock signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th...

5412 Ruby Lustre Charger by William De Morgan decorated with a Single Dolphin With a good, strong lustre, there is professional restoration to a crack to the rim 36.5cm wide, 5.5cm d...

Decorated with lotus branches and leaves , red enameled lotus base decoration

Six late 19th century hand painted Persian tiles with Islamic Script. Siliceous paste painted in polychromy under transparent colorless glaze...

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...

Majolica strawberries plate signed Sarreguemines Majolica, circa 1870.  

Beautiful set of four majolica ceramic plates for serving asparagus. The plates have a special shape and are decorated with bright colours. The plates are not marked, maker unknown, ...

George Jones Majolica strawberry server with separate cream and sugar, English, 1879. Naturalistically molded strawberries, strawberry...