Renaissance Revival Delft and Faience

Huge oval serving platter from Gien with cobalt blue background for hand painted grotesque decorations inspired by fifteenth-century Italy. The motifs in yellow, white and brown high...

Charming hanging plate from Gien with cobalt blue background for hand painted grotesque decorations inspired by fifteenth-century Italy. The motifs in yellow, white and brown highlig...

Elegant vase is round in shape and stands on a circular base with cobalt blue background for hand painted grotesque decorations inspired by fifteenth-century Italy. The motifs in yel...

Handpainted Dutch Delft (Delftware -earthenware) Large blue and white cabinet collectors plate - wall plaque Depicting a hand painted portrait...

Italian Cantagalli polychrome majolica vase, late 19th century During the 19th century Renaissance-Revival period the Cantagalli Majolica and ce...

Cylindrical waisted body with bust figure within a cartouche.

Cantagalli Armorial Vase, Ulisse Cantagalli (1839-1901) During the 19th century Renaissance-Revival period the Cantagalli Maiolica and Ceramic Fac...

Pair of 20th century Renaissance Revival style Italian Maiolica wall brackets, two hand-modeled, hand painted earthenware grotesques depicting wolf heads masks with Fine polychrome decoration. They are a Crestoni Ceramiche work, a Central Italy manufacture located in Civita Castellana, near Rome and date back to circa 1930. They are a model signed on the back with monogram GF by Giulio Francesconi ( Viareggio-1894- Civita Castellana 1970) an Italian sculptor who started working in France, in Oissel manufacture, in Normandie, and came back to Italy in 1920 to create sculptures and models for Crestoni ceramiche. A very impressive pair of Italian ceramic ligorical masks, wolf head wall corbels, two Majolica brackets depicting masks with a smiling open-mouthed expression and a Fine polychrome decoration. Ready to be hanged, this pair of antique wall brackets...

Vivid emerald green French faïence ceramic platter, circa 1850. Faïence is one of the oldest techniques used in ceramics; the discovery of faience...

A late 19th century French Gien Istoriato Renaissance Revival faience charger, circa 1880. The factory mark is in the back of the charger.

Pair of highly-decorative hand-painted faience two-handled vases in the Italian style by the French manufacturer Gien. The vases feature a cobalt blue ("fond bleu") ground decorated...