Earthenware Delft and Faience

Add a touch of French charm to your interior with this set of five antique Delft wall tiles. Hand-painted in France circa 1890, each ceramic tile features a unique scenic vignette re...

Paire of faience lamps representing blue parrots standing on a tree stump. The base is in gilt terracotta, looking like a gilt bronze mount. Work of the 1970s, old electric system fu...

Dress a console or vanity with this charming antique French faience box shaped as a fleur-de-lys. Crafted in France in the early 20th century circa 1920 and attributed to Alcide Chau...

This elegant pair of large antique 19th century Moustiers faience vases, executed circa 1870 in the Neoclassical (Louis XVI Revival) style, reflects the distinguished tin-glazed cera...

A rare pair of vintage Dutch Delft faience dragon candlesticks in cobalt blue and white, circa 1930. Marked "Delft" on reverse. They display beautifully, hand painted in the form of ...

A pair of 18th-century Dutch Delftware plates in blue and white tin-glazed earthenware. Each plate depicts a gallant garden scene with an elegantly dressed couple and a small dog sea...

Quimper Pottery, France 20th century. An unusual "Damgan" region figural Faience pottery dish. Likely an oyster or clam dish with scalloped rim. Marked to verso.

A rare early 18th century Dutch Delftware barbers dish (scheerkom), decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with stylized floral motifs. In the center of the round well is an ablooming f...

Late 17th-Century German Faience Buckelplatte, Frankfurt or Hanau A blue and white German faience Buckelplatte (a lobed charger with raised, scalloped sections) dating from the late...

18th century French blue and white faience footed bowl with handles.

This tall, antique "Aiguiere" (ewer) was sculpted in Rouen, France, circa 1860. This delicate, ornate ceramic pitcher has one large handle, a sloped spout, four feet and an elegant s...

Charming Art Nouveau coffee set in Lunéville faience, dating from the early 20th century, signed underneath the base. This delicate set includes two coffee cups with their saucers, ...

Early 19th century Delftware plate with polychrome decoration of cartouche depicting a oriental landscape, adorned and surrounded by flowers with foliate scrolls in yellow, blue, gre...

Dutch Delft blue and white tin-glazed earthenware dish, raised on a foot ring, with a circular, gently rising wall and a sloping lobed (accollade-shaped) rim. Painted in underglaze ...

Bring classic European charm to a buffet, console, or dining-room display with this elegant antique French faience ewer, crafted in France circa 1880. Hand-painted in traditional cob...

Hand-painted in blue and white at the Three Bells Factory in the Netherlands circa 1830–1840, this complete five-piece Dutch Delft garniture is decorated in deep cobalt blue with son...

A charming pair of hand-painted faience wall platters from the famed Henriot Quimper pottery in Brittany, France. Each elongated scalloped-edge platter is richly decorated with a col...

A Henriot Quimper French faience hand painted decorative plate, depicting a Breton woman in traditional dress standing beside a well with a wate...

Decorate a kitchen wall or a shelf with this important antique platter. Created by Porquier Beau in Quimper, France circa 1895, the large hand-painted ceramic plate depict a traditio...

18th-19th century polychrome delft platter.

Large red, green and black glazed dish, decorated with motifs of birds, flowers and leaves. A unique piece handmade in red ceramic from La Bisbal, signed Béatriz Garrigo. The cerami...

Fantastic elf or "Nisse" as it is called in Danish, with a beer barrel. The "Nisse" used to live in every farmhouse and you had to threat him nicely and ma...

A late 18th century French faience plate with hand-painted decoration entitled Les Sans Culottes 1790. This is a faience patriotique plate, a type of tin-glazed earthenware produced ...

We present you this city landscape made of hand painted faience tiles. The whole is closed in an oak frame.

Crafted in Rouen, France circa 1890, and oval in shape, the antique planter stands on scrolled feet over a scalloped apron; it features elegant s...

At over two feet in diameter, this stunning majolica platter or charger, is particularly large. The painted scene painted was taken from a ceiling fresco known as the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne...

This antique eighteenth-century Dutch Delftware wall plaque is made of tin-glazed earthenware, also known as Delft faience. The shaped ceramic plaque is painted in blue, green, yellow, iron-red and manganese. Its raised, self-framing border is outlined in blue and decorated with continuous scrolling ornament against a green ground. The centre is painted with an elaborate symmetrical fantasy ornament composed of three winged masks, volutes, foliage, shell motifs and scale-patterned fields. The central mask supports a two-handled vase filled with flowers, with a bird in flight above the bouquet. The plaque is pierced at the top for suspension and was made specifically for wall display. The composition belongs to the broader tradition of French-inspired grotesque ornament that circulated in the Dutch Republic through prints by designers such as Jean Bérain and Daniel Marot. By the mid-eighteenth century, Delft painters had adapted this ornamental vocabulary freely, combining masks, scrolls and fantastical forms into highly decorative compositions. Delftware wall plaques held a distinct place within eighteenth-century Dutch interiors. In contemporary household inventories, they were sometimes recorded as porceleine schilderijen, or “porcelain paintings”, reflecting their function as ceramic counterparts to paintings on panel, canvas or copper. During the eighteenth century, Delft potters increasingly produced plaques in moulds with shaped outlines and raised borders, creating complete, self-framed decorative objects. With its unusual grotesque decoration, strong polychrome palette and pronounced shaped border, this antique Delft plaque...

Glazed Faience dish, Majolica, it has been made in France in the 19th century, with earthenware in relief, decorations of flowers, and insects in the colors blue red and yellow.

Italian Creamware Trompe l’Oeil Duck Tureens, Pair, Nove di Bassano Circa 1786–1802 Nove di Bassano, Veneto, Italy. Pasquale Antonibon factory, period of Giovanni Maria Baccin. Each of these two soup tureens is modeled as a duck at rest upon a low oval mound base, the body divided horizontally so that the upper half, with the head and neck, lifts away as the cover and seats into the lower basin. The modeling is naturalistic throughout, the plumage and the curve of the bill worked in crisp relief, and the pair are left entirely undecorated so that nothing competes with the sculpture. They are made in terraglia, the refined cream-colored earthenware developed in Italy in emulation of the Queen’s Ware perfected by Josiah Wedgwood in Staffordshire. Terraglia all’inglese reached the Veneto in 1780, when Carlo Vicentini del Giglio introduced it at Vicenza, and Giovanni Maria Baccin took up its manufacture at Nove from 1786, working calcium and magnesium carbonate and silica into the plastic clay; gypsum quarried at Asiago gave the body its characteristic ivory tone, which the lustrous clear glaze here carries across the whole surface. Tureens in the form of birds, animals and fruit belong to a European fashion for the trompe l’oeil table...

Coppia Di Piatti In Maiolica italiana XVIII secolo Con Decoro Al Garofano Manifattura Ferniani Faenza dipinti in policromia, nei toni del blu, bruno, giallo, rosso, arancio e verde. ...

Huge pair of stunning faience figurines of walking and roaring lions Manufactory: France (Lorraine) / St. Cle´ment Pottery (Gallé) Signed (underglazed) Please note: Emile Galle´ and his father Charles...

18th-century Marseille faience plate, France, circa 1770. The plate is hand-painted in polychrome enamels with scattered floral sprays and leafy branches, a decoration closely associ...

This pair of Delftware recumbent cow figurines, dating to the late 18th century, exemplifies the Dutch tradition of molded earthenware crafted in the city of Delft. They are cast 'af...

Dutch Delftware blue and white models of slippers or shoes. Patterned with hand-painted flowers, the heel washed in manganese. In the 18th century, miniature ceramic shoes were a di...

This charming antique Quimper fan-form vase was crafted in Brittany, France, in the late 19th century and is signed PBx on the foot for Porquier-Beau. Shaped like an open hand fan wi...

Bring color and Breton charm to a kitchen, hallway, or dining room with this striking pair of antique faience wall vases, crafted in Brittany circa 1895 by the celebrated Porquier-Be...

This is a wonderful example of Shutz Cilli manufacture in the late 19Th, century. This Faience Marine Life Plater by Schutz Cilli is from the Aesthetic Movement late 19Th c. This i...

A charming Dutch Delft ginger jar of lobed form, with chinoiserie design in polychrome tin glazed enamels, 18th century, Holland. The ginger jar (missing its lid), of globular fo...

Celebrate Spanish artistry and tradition with this vibrant 19th century tile frieze. Crafted in Spain circa 1890, the set consists of hand-painted faience tiles mounted within a simp...

Decorate a shelf, buffet, or kitchen counter with this elegant antique faience “Aiguière” from Rouen, France, circa 1960. Crafted in the traditional Norman style, the sculptural cera...

Dutch Delft Porceleyne Fles jugs, 1899-1903 Two Delft Porceleyne Fles jugs with in medallion painted scenes and floral decoration. The sailing boat is from the year U = 1899 and p...

Dutch Delft blue and white tin-glazed earthenware posset pot and cover, late 18th c., having lid with rounded finial, over tapered body with dual arched handles, decorated with peaco...

Decorate a mantel or table with this colorful pair of antique faience vases. Crafted in Brittany, France, circa 1960, each vase stands on a round base, and dressed with large side ha...

Enhance your kitchen wall or shelf with this rare and charming antique egg holder with carrying basket. Created in Normandy France circa 1910, this exquisite faience egg server is a ...

Enhance a shelf, dining table, or kitchen island with this important antique Quimper blue and white Porquier Beau platter. Crafted in France circa 1895...

This vibrant antique ceramic platter was crafted in Brittany, France, circa 1920, and exemplifies the lively spirit of Quimper faïence. Oval in shape with a scalloped rim, the tin-glazed earthenware piece is hand-painted with an elaborate Breton scene depicting villagers in traditional costume gathered in joyous celebration, dancing, conversing, and playing music in a lush countryside setting. Their colorful garments and expressive gestures convey the warmth and festivity of rural life in turn-of-the-century France. The central tableau is framed by a richly textured cobalt blue border adorned with hand-painted floral and foliate motifs in golden ochre and soft cream tones, echoing the decorative language of Quimper’s celebrated ceramic tradition. The back shows signs of age and wear appropriate to its period, and the piece is unsigned but consistent with works produced by Henriot or HB Quimper workshops. Antique Quimper pottery...

Group of 5 small Dutch Delft polychrome 'Peacock' plates, De Klaauw factory, second half 18th century. These polychrome Delft plates, are fine ...

The tin glaze earthenware Charger decorated in red and gold in the "adrian van Pijnacker" Delft doré tradition, with an insect between flowering peoniesrockwork. Sign on the back in ...

Polychrome Delftware Wall Plaque with Bird and Flower Basket Delft, circa 1750 This antique eighteenth-century Dutch Delftware wall plaque is made of tin-glazed earthenware and painted in blue, green, yellow, iron-red and manganese. The lozenge-shaped plaque has a raised, self-framing border and is pierced at the top with two holes for suspension. The centre is painted with an exotic bird perched among flowering branches rising from a rectangular basket. The flowers and foliage are enclosed within a shaped cartouche outlined in yellow and green scrollwork. Large stylised flower heads interrupt the surrounding blue diaper-patterned ground, while the outer border is decorated with continuous scrolling ornament in blue, yellow and iron-red. The combination of an exotic bird, abundant flowers and geometric patterning reflects the continuing influence of Chinese and Japanese porcelain on mid-eighteenth-century Delftware. Delft painters did not simply reproduce Asian designs, but combined individual motifs with European cartouches, scrollwork and shaped borders to create new decorative compositions. Wall plaques of this type were produced specifically for display. In contemporary household inventories they were sometimes described as porceleine schilderijen, or “porcelain paintings”, reflecting their role as ceramic counterparts to framed paintings. By the eighteenth century, Delft potters increasingly formed plaques in moulds with pronounced outlines and integrated decorative borders, creating complete, self-framed objects for the interior. With its strong polychrome palette, lively bird and flower decoration and compact 26 cm format, this shaped Delft plaque...

Rare early 18th century Blue Delftware platter with Chinese kraak style decoration of a duck in a marsh landscape with peonies and clouds in a centre hexagonal medallion. On the side...

Cartouche-shaped with a lady standing beside a fence on a terrace amongst blossom sprays and peonies with an acrobatic bird and insect flying overhead. The border in moulded relief w...

Decorate a kitchen wall or a shelf with this elegant antique decorative vase. Created in Quimper, France circa 1890, the bagpipe shell-form ceramic vase with a bow at the pediment, i...

Delft vase with nice proportions

Set of 18th century Delft plate. Six from a series. One bowl of different form.

A Delft tin-glazed earthenware rectangular salad bowl painted in underglaze cobalt blue. The interior decorated with a landscape vignette depicting a gentleman standing on a terrace ...

A Dutch Delft blue and white charger with chinoiserie decor of birds and insects, dating to circa 1720-1740. The central field is painted in cobalt blue with a bird beside flowering...

Hispano-Moresque Lustreware Charger with a “Pardalot” Bird Manises, late 17th or early 18th century Tin-glazed earthenware, decorated in copper lustre with a large central bird surr...

A rare tin-glazed earthenware charger from Delft, hand-painted in cobalt blue. The central motif depicts a nude Venus, allegorical of Dame Fortuna, poised with one foot upon a globe ...

Pair antique 18th century Delft Chinoiserie soup bowls in the Chinese Export style circa 1750. Each decorated with hand painted basket of flowers in blue and white. Octagonal shape w...

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