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Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

CHINOISERIE STYLE

Emerging in the 17th century, chinoiserie appropriated the aesthetics and imagery of popular East Asian design for European-made versions. Reflecting the exoticization of China, Japan and other countries in this era, the word directly translates from French to “Chinese-esque,” which reveals its shortcomings as a style of furniture and decor that often stereotypically and reductively mimics Asian culture rather than showcasing and paying tribute to its artistic traditions.

The enthusiastically decorative chinoiserie style was propelled by influential tastemakers including French King Louis XIV, whose Trianon de Porcelaine in 1670 was inspired by Chinese architecture. Expanded trade between the East and West led to a demand for porcelain, lacquer objects, silk and other goods, which further informed the fanciful furniture being crafted in Europe.

Artisans working in the chinoiserie style used materials and elements like pagoda shapes, bamboo, lacquer surfaces, bird and flower motifs and other interpretations of Asian design on pieces that were frequently set against vibrant wallcoverings. This whimsical approach yielded chinoiserie furniture that boasted dramatic flourishes drawing on the natural world and reflected the dominance of Rococo during the 18th century.

As chinoiserie was shaped by approximations of Asian design by European creators, it had regional variations, such as Chinese Chippendale in England where cabinets, chairs and tea tables had wooden fretwork designs and “japanned” surfaces intended to resemble lacquer work that was created in East Asia. In North America, furniture makers in Boston and New York integrated chinoiserie-painted scenes into Queen Anne furniture.

Antique chinoiserie furniture has continued to be fashionable, from its popularity with decorators of the Hollywood Regency era — James Mont, Tommi Parzinger, William Haines and Samuel Marx favored the style — to contemporary interior designers, although it brings with it a complex history.

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Style: Chinoiserie
English Delft Charger
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good quality 18th C English blue and white Delft charger depicting cottages on a river.
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1760s English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Ceramic

Delft Jug in Faïence, White and Blue, 18eme Century by Adrian Pynacker Signed
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This pot is in Faïence, in white and blue. They has been made in Netherlands, in the 18th century. they are Delft pieces. The creator is Adrian Pynacker, it is signed with his mark "...
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Faience

Delft - 18th century Chinoiserie Plate
Located in DELFT, NL
Dutch Delft Chinoiserie plate depicting, in a Chinese landscape with a man in a boat, sailing past a house while bird in the air is overlooking the scene. Beautiful chinoiserie trace...
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft "De Witte Starre" - 18th century Dragonfly Plate
Located in DELFT, NL
Dutch Delft Chinoiserie plate depicting a large dragonfly, in a Chinese garden, sitting on a rock. All within a shaped octagonal border. The rim in brond and the wide border with a s...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Blue and White Delft Charger hand Painted 18th Century Netherlands Circa 1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This pair of mid-18th-century Dutch Delft chargers is handpainted in several shades of cobalt blue. The viewer is drawn to the lovely scene in the center of each charger, which shows...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Delft - Pair of blue floral Delfware plates - 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Good pair of 18th century Dutch Delft Blue plates decorated with a geometrical arrangement of a central flower, adorned with foliage scrolls. The borders richly adorned with similar ...
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Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - Blue and white chinoiserie plate - 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Blue Delft chinoiserie plate depicting a shrubbery, and a blossoming peony behind a fence. The borders with 3 flower sprigs. Condition: some scratching and wear. Some chipping to ...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - Blue and white chinoiserie plate - 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Mid 18th century Blue Delftware plate with chinoiserie decoration of a fisherman and a pagode. Qianlong style brown rim Unmarked Good antique condition; some small chipping and usu...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - 18th century 'Mille Fleurs' Plate
Located in DELFT, NL
Dutch Delft Chinoiserie plate with a 'Mille Fleurs' decoration of flower buds and flower sprays. Good condition: light chipping and some usual wear to the rim.
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft polychrome plate depicting a landscape with ships - 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
18th century Delftware plate with polychrome decoration of a central cartouche depicting a landscape with a castle and ships. unmarked but of amazing beauty. Good quality of pain...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - Blue and white plate with rare geometric decoration - 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Blue Delft blue and white plate with a rare geometric decoration of a central 6 lobbed star. Condition: some usual wear, minor chipping to the rim. Unmarked, mid half 18th century
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Adriaan Rijsselberg, Grieckse A - Delft green 'Four Hearts Dish' - early 18th c
Located in DELFT, NL
A large Delft earthenware dish with "Four Hearts" pattern, the four heart-shaped cartouches between stylized pine cones on a mottled green ground with blue lined palmettes, the medal...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Dutch Delft Dish Pancake Plate Lightning Pattern De Paeuw 'The Peacock' C-1730
By De Paeuw
Located in Katonah, NY
This extraordinary Dutch Delft pancake plate was made in the early 18th century. Beautifully hand-painted, it features bold zigzag lighting bolts, Bliksemborden, which seem to flash across the plate. Between the lightning bolts, we see clouds painted...
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Delft "De Witte Starre" - 18th century Dragonfly large Plate
Located in DELFT, NL
Dutch Delft Chinoiserie charger depicting a large dragonfly, in a Chinese garden, sitting on a rock. All within a shaped octagonal border. The rim in brown and the wide border with a...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Blue and White Delft Charger Hand Painted Liverpool England 18th Century Ca.1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This blue and white Delft charger was hand-painted in Liverpool, England, during the mid-18th century, around 1760. The design features simple yet elegant decoration, showcasing flow...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Peace on Earth Christmas Plate from Royal Delft, 1922, Hand-Painted
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
An extraordinary piece of history, this Delft blue earthenware plate, crafted by the prestigious De Porceleyne Fles, also known as Royal Delft for Christmas or "Kerstmis" 1922, bears...
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1920s Dutch Vintage Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Set of 4 Blue & White Delft Plates Hand Painted English Delftware 18th Century
Located in Katonah, NY
These exquisite hand-painted Delftware dishes, made in Bristol, England, circa 1760 and inspired by Chinese blue and white porcelain, are a perfect example of the mid-18th-century En...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Delft - talking plate 'Ziet wat hier van agteren staat' - late 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Delft talking plate with on the front the words: "Ziet wat hier van agteren staat" (See what is written on my back) And on the backside: "Bidt voor gij eeten gaat" (Pray before you s...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Faience, Delft

Blue and White Delft Mantle Jar Hand-Painted 18th Century Netherlands Circa 1780
Located in Katonah, NY
A blue and white Dutch Delft mantle jar hand-painted in exquisite deep cobalt blue. We see a peacock in a garden filled with flowers and ferns. The cover is similarly decorated and...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Delft - Polychrome Chinoiserie Charger
Located in DELFT, NL
Delft Polychrome Delftware platter with fine chinoiserie decoration of a central depiction of a blossoming peony against a fence. Unmarked Fair condition; some chipping professional...
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - Chinoiserie dish with floral basket, second half 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Mid 18th century Blue Delftware platter with Daniel Marot style decoration of a shield amidst flowers and foliage scrolls within a dodecagoon. Beautiful border decoration in rich bl...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - floral chrysanthemum plate by "The Porceleyne Bijl' - Late 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
18th century Delftware plate with floral decoration of a central chrysanthemum. Border adorned with 3 foliage scrolls. Yellow rim. Inspired by Chinese Qianlong porcelain. marked: P...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Large Antique Dutch Delft Faience Floral Pitcher Jug Ewer
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb large antique 19th-Century Delft faience cobalt blue and white floral pitcher by Boch Freres Keramis, a well-known Belgian maker. Signed on th...
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Late 19th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft, Faience

Delft - Chinoiserie dish with floral basket, second half 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Mid 18th century Blue Delftware platter with Chinoiserie decoration of a flowering basket amidst floral sprigs Beautiful border decoration of rich foliage, flowers and scrollwork. Un...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Lambeth London - English Delftware Chinoiserie Plate, mid 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
English delft polychrome charger having a Chinese figure in Oriental landscape, painted in polychrome colors of yellow, red green and blue. Attributed to the Lambeth High Street pott...
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Mid-18th Century British Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Faience

Delft - Chinoiserie style Charger by De Claauw, mid 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Mid 18th century Blue Delftware charger with Chinoiserie decor of 'precious gifts'. Marked 'De Claauw' Mid 18th century Good quality of painting Good ...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - Chinoiserie style Charger by De Claauw, mid 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Mid 18th century Blue Delftware plate with chinoiserie decoration of a blosseming peonies and other flowers behind a fence amidst shrubbery. Qianlong st...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

De Grieksche A - 18th century Delft plate with scaloped rim
Located in DELFT, NL
Mid 18th century Blue Delftware plate with scalloped rim. Marked Jacobus Halder Adriaensz., eigenaar De Grieksche A, 1765-1768 Good quality of painting...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - Pair of neoclassical chinoiserie plates - Late 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Excellent pair of late 18th century Delftware plates with fine decoration of a flowering basket Border adorned with foliage scrolls. unmarked
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Blue and White Dutch Delft Lidded Jar in Chinoiserie, Early 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
An Early Dutch Delftware lidded jar with chinoiserie decoration. Origine: Delft, The Netherlands Date: Early 18th century Workshop: Unknown. A genuine blue and white lidded j...
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Ceramic, Delft, Faience

Delft - Pair of neoclassical empire plates - ca 1800
Located in DELFT, NL
Good pair of early 19th century Dutch Delft plates decorated with Empire flower vases. Border adorned with stylized cartouches unmarked Some chippi...
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Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Delft - 18th century set of 5 polychrome Chinoiserie Plates
Located in DELFT, NL
Set of five mid 18th century Delftware plates with chinoiserie decoration of a pagode. Unmarked. Condition: some chipping and wear to the rim
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Important 17th Century Delft Chinoiserie Three Piece Garniture
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
An important 17th century Delft chinoiserie three-piece garniture The Netherlands, Delft. Last quarter of the 17th century An important and rare Delft garniture of three pieces. The shape and decoration are inspired on the Chinese Transitional porcelain...
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Late 17th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Ceramic, Faience

Moustiers - 18th century Chinoiserie Plate
Located in DELFT, NL
Moustiers faience Chinoiserie plate Good condition: light chipping and some usual wear to the rim.
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Early 18th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Dutch Delft Charger Hand Painted Polychrome Colors 18th Century Holland C-1780
Located in Katonah, NY
This antique Dutch Delft charger is hand painted in a vibrant array of polychrome hues, including cobalt blue, green, yellow, iron red, ochre, and manganese purple. We see a beautifu...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Delftware Plate with a Parrot, mid 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
A polychrome charger with a parrot perched on a ring in the center, with interesting asymmetrical landscape elements showing a basis in early 18th century design. The spareness of th...
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Mid-18th Century British Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Faience

18th century Dutch Delft Lidded Vase with Birds
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
The Netherlands Delft First half of the 18th century Workshop unknown A blue and white Dutch Delft vase with a lid with chinoiserie decoration in Kangxi style with birds in a flora...
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Ceramic, Faience

Delft - Pair of floral plates by "The Claauw' - Late 18th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Pair 18th century Delftware plates with floral decoration. Border adorned with foliage scrolls. marked: Lambertus Sanderus, De Klaauw, 1763-1806. Condition: some scratching and w...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Delft, Faience

Pair Antique Blue and White Delft Chargers Made by "The Axe" circa 1780
Located in Katonah, NY
We are pleased to offer this pair of Dutch Delft blue and white chargers decorated in the center with an image of a delicate vase filled with chrysanthemums and peonies. The design in the center of the charger is derived from Chinese decoration, where auspicious flowers were put in bamboo baskets as attractive interior decorative elements. The border of the charger is adorned with four floral panels, which alternate with four cobalt blue panels with fish-net patterns. The edge of each charger is painted with orange slip...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Pair Of European 18th Century Blue & White Glazed Chargers
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Pair of blue and white chargers with central exotic bird, dragonflies, flowering shrubs surrounded by ferns, leaves and scrolls. The border decorated with repetitive and alternating ...
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18th Century European Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Blue and White Delft Charger Early 18th Century Netherlands Circa 1720
Located in Katonah, NY
We are pleased to offer this early 18th-century Dutch Delft charger painted in cobalt blue with a scene showing a lady seated in a garden. The border is decorated with linked concen...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

19th Century Delft Polychrome Faience Vase
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century delft faience polychrome painted vase with round body and narrow neck ending in an open bulb. Beautifully decorated in blue, orange, brown and green with large medalli...
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19th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Faience

18th Century Delft Chinoiserie Charger
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a good example of a mid-18th century Delft charger in a chinoiserie hand-painted pattern. The pottery is hand-painted in a traditional blue and white chinoiserie scene featur...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Faience

Delft Polychrome Charger
Located in Greenwich, CT
Finely painted Delft charger depicting an imaginary Japanese landscape set with a weeping cherry tree and a tea house, with a lovely use of mustard, teal and red.
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1760s English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Ceramic

17th Century Delft Blue & White Charger
Located in Dallas, TX
17th century delft blue & white charger is a timeless interpretation of the Japanese porcelains that were so popular in Europe, replicated by the master ceramicists in the Delft region of Holland, and most experts agree, equivalent in quality to the Oriental artworks...
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Mid-17th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Ceramic

Vase Delftware Dutch Blue and White
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Unusual decoration blending a European pastoral landscape with Chinoiserie ornamentation. Suitable for everyday use. The tapering body decorated with a European lady and a gentlem...
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18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Berlin Faience Black Chinoiserie Covered Urn
Located in New York, NY
Of ginger jar shape with outscrolled handles, surmounted by a pierced lid with knob-form finial; decorated with Court figures in a pagoda riverscape.
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1840s German Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Faience

Plate Delftware, English Small Stylised Floral Spray London, Blue and White
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Decorated with a stylised fern surrounded by a double-circle petal shaped border and an arc border around the rim. Decorated in blue on blue glaze. In original condition. Probably Lo...
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18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Early 18th Century Pair Of Delft Vases
Located in Basildon, GB
Early 18th Century Pair Of Delft Vases, of octagonal baluster form with "garlic" necks, painted in blue with Chinoiserie figures in landscape within leaf, scroll and panel borders, D...
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Delft

Chinoiserie Dutch Delft Polychrome Faience Lobed Jar, 18th Century, Holland
Located in Austin, TX
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...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware, Faience

Dish Charger Delftware English London Blue White Fisherman
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Charming chinoiserie landscape scene depicting the European interpretation of pastoral life in China and the exotic landscape. Rim-to-rim decoration with a chinoiserie scene of a ...
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18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Dish, delftware, English, Liverpool, blue white butterfly 35cm 13 3/4" c1760
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Delightfully painted in soft tones of blue conveying the lightness and charm of Chinoiserie. Painted with a chinoiserie landscape scene of a large peony growing behind a fence wit...
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18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Plate delftware Dutch blue white yellow diameter 23cm 9" Chinoiserie landscape
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Bold fluid decoration with abundant imagery associated with early Dutch pieces. Profusely painted with a chinoiserie garden scene with bold foliage and sprays. The rim painted wi...
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18th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Plates pair delftware English Liverpool blue white chinoiserie tall lady
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Delightful pair of chinoiserie plates evoking how exotic the East appeared to Europe and a sense of wonder it portrayed. Painted with a chinoiserie scene of a tall lady standing i...
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18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Plate Delft Liverpool Blue White Soldier Bridge, Europe Chinoiserie
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Unusual decoration blending European and Chinoiserie styles. Decorated with a chinoiserie scene of a soldier crossing a bridge with European houses on either side with Chinese plants...
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18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Delft Pitcher 'Chinoiserie' decor, late 17th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Dutch Delftware pouring jug with soft blue decoration of a chinoiserie landscape with persons. The neck with two stylised flowers above a lambrequin border at the neck, the handle wi...
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Late 17th Century Dutch Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Pewter

Salt Cellar Faience French Octagonal Blue Red Green White
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A charming piece of history for the dining table. The inside with an elegant, central floral spray and a floral border. the base decorated with blue lines and a bottom border of s...
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18th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Faience

Plate delft London Chinoiserie landscape blue white pottery diameter 22.5cm 9"
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare early example of European chinoiserie decoration showing how minimal the decoration was similar to abstraction. Painted with a chinoiserie landscape scene with a fence and ga...
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18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Delft and Faience

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Earthenware

Chinoiserie delft and faience for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Chinoiserie delft and faience for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Mid-20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage Delft and faience created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, decorative objects, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, earthenware and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinoiserie delft and faience made in a specific country, there are Europe, Netherlands, and England pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original delft and faience, popular names associated with this style include Delft, Boch Freres Keramis, De Metalen Pot (The Metal Pot), and The Axe. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for delft and faience differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $225 and tops out at $36,000 while the average work can sell for $1,553.

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