Baroque Delft and Faience

A Montelupo Maiolica dish featuring an Arlecchino decor in the shades of ochre, yellow, blue, green, and black. The shallow, circular form is decora...

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...

2 Dutch Delft blue and White tiles Depicting figures in a landscape Origin Netherland second half 17th century Condition: Good not glued Delftware or Delft pottery is also known as ...

Germany Ansbach 18th century A set of 16 blue and white, with manganese tint, tiles with decorations of animals and figures. Very fine painting and much detail in the animals and fi...

Hispano-Moresque Lustreware Charger with a Pardalot Bird Manises, late 17th or early 18th century This Spanish lustreware charger is decorated in warm copper tones with a stylised p...

Large 17th Century Delft dish Chinoiserie blue and white Delftware Charger Material: Delft, earthenware, pottery. Design: Ming Dynasty Wanli style Chinoiserie Style: Ming, William an...

The Netherlands Circa 1625 – 1650 A finely painted blue and white Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a Carnation. A highly unusual tile, as in this period, most tiles are still...

Large tin-glazed earthenware lebrillo/ basin, form Triana, Seville, Spain 19th century Central design of a dog within in colorful background in yellow, turquoise, manganese and blue.

The Netherlands Gouda Workshop of W. J. Oliviers Verswaen (De Swaen) Circa 1625 - 1650 A polychrome Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a starling identifiable by its spotted bo...

The Netherlands Circa 1640 – 1670 A finely painted blue and white Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a Mermaid holding a torch. Sea creatures were quite popular in the 17th cen...

The Netherlands Gouda Workshop of W. J. Oliviers Verswaen (De Swaen) Circa 1625 - 1650 A polychrome Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a flying bird, probably a parrot. This t...

A fine antique Delft Chinoiserie charger or serving platter. In tin glazed blue and white Dutch Delft pottery. The center with blue underglaze decoration of a tree with other flora...

The Netherlands Circa 1640 - 1660 A Spanish galley on a Dutch tile, painted in cobalt blue, but why? Isn't he a bit far from home? Well, not everything is as it seems. This tile was...

17th century Hispano-Moresque lusterware bowl or charger with a central 'Pardelot' bird. This large dish is an example of the production of one of the most important ceramic centres...

Late 19th century Hispano-Moresque lustreware platter, 16th-century style A decorative Hispano-Moresque style lustreware platter produced in the late 19th century, inspired by 16th-c...

This is a small Meissen masterpiece of craftsmanship: the fine porcelain is designed with floral and natural scenes, rich in detail. A piece for refined collectors or useful to star...

The Netherlands Circa 1660 - 1680 A blue and white Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a fishing boat. These boats sailed near the coast of the North Sea and on the Zuiderzee. S...

17th - 18th century Dutch Delft Tiles - set of 4 Oak framed blue and white tiles. Depicting seacreatures, sea monster, fish Design: In the manner of Royal Delft, AK Dutch Delftware Style, Antique, Baroque, Louis XIV, 17th century / 18th century Description: a set of 4 Dutch Delft blue and white tiles oak framed . A painting on Delft Tiles composed 6 tiles. It is fully handpaited and depicting seacreatures. All tiles are framed in oak. Colors: Camaieu blue...

Late 19th century Hispano-Moresque lustreware platter, 16th-century style A decorative Hispano-Moresque style lustreware platter produced in the late 19th century, inspired by 16th-c...

This is a small masterpiece of craftsmanship: The fine porcelain is designed with floral and natural scenes, rich in detail. A piece for refined collectors or useful to start a coll...

The Netherlands Circa 1640 – 1670 A finely painted blue and white Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a Merman. Sea creatures where quite popular in the 17th century, supporting...

The Netherlands Gouda Workshop of W. J. Oliviers Verswaen (De Swaen) Circa 1625 - 1650 A polychrome Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a predator bird sitting on a tree trunk, ...

The Netherlands Circa 1630 – 1660 A finely painted blue and white Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) ship. This ship is sailing in very...

A wonderful antique Soupière et son Couvercle en Faience (French faience Tureen and Cover). Dating to the early 18th century, this very rare form is decorated in the Moustiers sty...

18th Century polychrome Delft oil and vinegar stand in Imari flower decorations.

Elegant pair of Meissen vases on stand with child figures. The vases are decorated with mythological scenes on the surface. Marked on the foot. ...

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...

2 Dutch Delft blue and White tiles Depicting figures in a landscape Origin Netherland second half 17th century Condition: Good not glued Delftware or Delft pottery is also known as ...

A fine antique Delft figural tureen or box. In the form of a polychrome female duck with rich red, yellow, and purple plumage. The top half of the d...

A fine antique Dutch Delft pottery tile. Depicting a cupid or angel in profile. Simply a wonderful antique tile! Date: 18th Century Overall Condition: It is in overall fair, as-...

This is a small masterpiece of craftsmanship: the fine porcelain is designed with floral and natural scenes, rich in detail. A piece for refined collectors or useful to start a coll...

A Savona alzatina or crespina, dish on stand, with blue decor. On the front a heraldic coat of arms with a lion adorned with crown and putto. In the background elaborate architecture...

Dutch Delftware beer jug with bright blue decoration of flower buds and foliage springs. With later pewter lid and foot rim.

The Netherlands Circa 1630 – 1650 A finely painted blue and white Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of the milkman, carrying two buckets of milk with a yoke on his shoulders. The...

A fine antique 18th century Dutch Delft pottery tile. With a chamber scene depicting a man and a woman with bare breasts together in a bedroom. Perhaps spouses or lovers. Simply a wonderful antique Dutch Delft tile...

A fine antique 18th century Dutch Delft plate. Depicting a garden in the foreground & a main in a landscape scene in the background. Surrounded by stylized floral sprigs and a dots & cross hatch decorated rim. Simply a wonderful antique Chinoiserie decorated Delft plate! Date: 18th century Overall Condition: It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition. Condition Details: There are two small chips to the plate's rim, wear and fritting to the entirety of the plate's rim and footrim, and some very light rubbing to the glaze in the bowl. Otherwise, there are some fine & light surface scratches and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age. Marks: There is an antique label...

This is a small masterpiece of craftsmanship: the fine porcelain is designed with floral and natural scenes, rich in detail. A piece for refined collectors or useful to start a coll...

17th Century Dutch Delft Snuff / Patch Box, decorated scrolls flowers and a possible scene of the Nativity. Base is white with crown and makers mark.

A fine antique 18th century Dutch Delft pottery tile. With a scene depicting Jesus Christ carrying a large cross under one of his arms. Simply a wonderful antique Delft pottery...

A fine antique Dutch Delft pottery tile. Depicting a tugboat towing a large two-mast sailboat behind it set in a harbor scene. Simply a wonderful antique Dutch Delft tile...

A fine antique 18th century Dutch Delft pottery tile. With the Biblical scene of Christ with a group of children from Matthew 19:14 in manganese decoration. The scene depicts the story from Matthew in which the disciples of Jesus attempt to stop small children from approaching him for a prayer. He rebukes them, and says "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these". Simply a wonderful religious antique Delft pottery...

A pair of fine antique Dutch Delft plates. Each depicting a woman in classical Chinese garb gesturing towards an extravagant potted plant atop a table. The rim of each is decorated...

A fine 18th century Dutch Delft pottery tile in manganese. With a scene depicting the Binding of Isaac - the famous Biblical story from the book o...

The Netherlands Amsterdam Circa 1625 – 1650 A blue and white Dutch tile with a decoration of a Dutch soldier from the period of the 80 Years War. This soldier could be a member of t...

Royal Delft vintage handpainted Dutch Delftware - earthenware Style: Baroque, Vintage, Antique, Rustic Large blue and white cabinet plate - wall plaque Depicting Girl with the pearl ...

The Netherlands Rotterdam Circa 1720 - 1740 An unusually fine painted religious 'open air' tile with deep shades of blue and a shining glaze, decorated with the story of the lost sheep...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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

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...

This is a small masterpiece of craftsmanship: the fine porcelain is designed with floral and natural scenes, rich in detail. A piece for refined collectors or useful to start a coll...

A good, signed, antique Dutch delft wall plaque with shaped edge in lozenge form. It depicts an early canal scene with bridge (and town in the bac...

Large 17th Century Delft dish Chinoiserie blue and white Delftware Charger Material: Delft, earthenware, pottery. Design: Ming Dynasty, Wanli style, Chinoiserie Style: Ming, William ...

An alzatina or crespina, dish on stand. Depicting 'Prudentia'; holding a snake and a mirror in her hands. Italy, 18th century. Dimensions: diam. 23 cm. Good condition: chipping ...

This Dutch Delft tobacco jar is of ovoid form, painted in blue and white on a tin-glazed earthenware body. The front bears a large shaped cartouche inscribed "BRASILLE" in capital le...

Dutch Delft polychrome plate with lively polychrome decoration of a central vase on a stand filled with flowers flanked by two little insects. Very orn...

Majolica apothecary jug. Savona manufacture, second half 17th century. In monochrome majolica, ovoid body with a high cylindrical neck that opens into a large mouth with an everted...

This 9.25" faience pewter-mounted tankard from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century is cylindrical in form with a handle mounted in pewter. The place of origin is probably Nurnberg, G...