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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Very Fine Pewter Ecuelle or Lidded Porringer, 18th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Very fine Pewter Ecuelle or lidded porringer, 18th century, continental, possibly swiss or north eastern France. Profusely decorated lid with stylized fruits and flowers, scroll shap...
Category
Swiss International Style Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pewter
Paul Stor 1799 Antique Twelve Sterling Silver Plates
By Paul Storr
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive set of 12 antique Georgian English sterling silver plates made by Paul Storr; an addition to our range of collectable dining silverware
This magnificent set of 12 antique George III sterling silver plates has a plain circular form.
The raised border is embellished with an impressive bright cut engraved crest of an arm in armour embowed, holding in the hand a scythe in bend Dexter.
Each antique plate is ornamented with a fine and impressive gadroon decorated border to the rim.
The circular well of each plate is plain and unembellished.
The underside of each plate retains the silversmith’s centre punch mark.
These exceptional Georgian plates were crafted by one of the most famous and revered London silversmiths Paul Storr.
The surface of each plate has a fine color and patination.
Patination or patina is a subtle coloration or tarnish which forms on the surface of some metals, produced by oxidation or other chemical processes. A good patina proffers an aesthetically pleasing look.
Condition
These antique silver Paul Storr...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
$45,796 / set
18th Century Delft Dutch Faience Chinoiserie Floral Plate
By Delft
Located in Pearland, TX
A beautiful antique 18th-Century Dutch Delft faience chinoiserie flower garden plate. This lovely plate has hand painted flowers, fence, and a decorative floral and foliate border in...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft, Faience
Warwick Cruet, George I Period, Antique Sterling Silver, London 1726 Bamford
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1726 by Thomas Bamford I, this magnificent, George I, Antique Sterling Silver Warwick Cruet, comprises two oil bottles, two pepper pots and a sugar caster, all fitted to a scroll detailed frame which stands on four cast shell...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Blue and White Delft Plate or Dish Chinoiserie Scene Made 17th Century Ca. 1690
Located in Katonah, NY
Made in the Netherlands in the late 17th century, circa 1690, this extraordinary Delft charger is hand-painted in shades of cobalt blue. ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
Blue and White Garden Pattern Tea Set c 1725, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng Reign
Located in seoul, KR
The saucer set depicts botanical garden, motifs rich in symbolism within east asian culture. Each teabowl depicts scenes, characters and situations are richly depicted inside the sma...
Category
Vietnamese Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Antique George II Silver Basket 1745 Georgian Swing Handle Cake Basket
Located in London, GB
A magnificent Antique George II Sterling Silver Swing Handled Basket with an oval form standing on four shaped feet with bacchanalian faces at the capital of each foot. The Basket has an ornate chased floral & scroll pattern border and an elegant pierced design on the sides. The interior base of this 18th century Silver Basket...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
$9,730 Sale Price
20% Off
Dutch Delft Plate with a Deer, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
City: Delft
Workshop: Unknown
Date: second half of the 18th century
A blue and white Dutch Delft plate with the decoration of a deer in a garden...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Pair 18th Century French Creamware Lions Hand Painted Circa 1790
Located in Katonah, NY
This rare and charming pair of 18th-century French creamware lions was made circa 1790.
Each lion reclines atop a tall rectangular base decorated with rich cobalt-blue swags, bright yellow tassels, and vivid green trim.
The forms are bold and expressive. The lions' open mouths are painted in soft pink, and their manes are rendered in vibrant yellow and lined with dark brown, lending them an animated, almost theatrical presence.
The lions rest on what appear to be stylized, draped cushions, adding a sense of comfort and reality.
Their wide-eyed expressions and exaggerated features give the pair a whimsical character that blends elegance with humor—a hallmark of late 18th-century French design.
Unmarked but unmistakably French in style, these figures make a striking decorative statement. Whether placed on a mantel or console, they command attention and offer a playful counterpoint to more serious classical forms.
Dimensions: 6.5 inches tall x 6.75 inches long x 4.5 inches wide
Condition: Excellent
Price: $2,300
Decoration: Painted in yellow, cobalt, green, pink, and brown with molded drapery and tassel detail
Material: Creamware pottery
Style: French Neoclassical with Folk Art elements
Origin: France
Date: Circa 1790
Key Features
- Rare pair of large 18th-century creamware lion figures
- Expressive hand-painted decoration with bold color contrasts
- Tall bases decorated with molded and painted swags and tassels
- French origin, circa 1790
- Whimsical and animated expressions add charm and visual interest
Background of creamware
Creamware is the name given to a type of earthenware pottery initially made from white clays from Dorset and Devonshire combined with an amount of calcined flint.
Creamware was first produced in England sometime before 1740. Foremost among the pioneers of creamware in the Staffordshire Potteries was Thomas Whieldon. The young Josiah Wedgwood partnered with Thomas Whieldon from 1754 to 1759. When Wedgwood left to set up his own business, he immediately directed his efforts to developing creamware.
Around the same time, in the mid-18th century, French potters developed their creamware known in France as "Faience Fine...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Creamware
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...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware, Delft, Faience
Wonderful Large Tuscan Round Plate (Siena) from the 18th Century
By Europa
Located in Madrid, ES
Wonderful Large Tuscan Round Plate (Siena) from the 18th Century
decorated with a battle scene.
Marked Siena with the date 1527 on the wing.
Italian majolica. .
Diameter: 45 cm.
good...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Majolica
English Delftware Blue & White Sauce Boat, London
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Delftware Blue & White Sauce Boat,
London,
Circa 1790
The English blue and white delftware silver-form sauce boat, with long curved spout and a crabstock handle, is decorat...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Pottery
George III Period Antique Sterling Silver Lidded Tankard, Newcastle, 1772
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Newcastle in 1772 by David Crawford, this handsome, George III period, Antique sterling silver tankard, has a tucked in shape, and a domed top.
...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
18th-century Staffordshire Creamware Cauliflower Creamer
By William Greatbatch
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th-century Staffordshire Creamware Cauliflower Creamer Jug,
Probably by William Greatbach/ Josiah Wedgwood
Lead-glazed earthenware,
Circa 1765
The creamware creamer jug has a bal...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Framed Antique 17th-Century Dutch Delft Floral Aigrette Tile
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb antique Dutch Delft hand painted floral aigrette decorative tile in a custom oak frame made in the city of Haarlem, circa 1650. This lovely tile depicts a floral and feather...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
English Delft - Blue and white plate - 18th century
By Delft
Located in DELFT, NL
A beautiful English Delftware plate, hand-painted in rich cobalt blue, featuring a Chinoiserie-inspired landscape with a floral border. I cannot help thinking that I am seeing the ta...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware, Delft, Faience
Five Unusual Delft Blue and White Plates, circa 1750
Located in New York, NY
Factory mark of De Porceleyne Bijl Factory. Each painted with scenes of peasants drinking or dancing in a village setting.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
Rouen, Wyvern Platter "à la guivre", France 18th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb Rouen wyvern platter ("à la Guivre"), 18th century France. Exquisite and rare museum quality piece. Decorations of a parrot carrying a branch, butterflies, an aquatic landscape and an Asian wyvern dragon.
These dragons are different from those found in European fairy tales and films. In China, they're in the arts, zodiac signs and festivals ("Dragon Dance" at Chinese New Year). They embody power, perseverance... Linked to the sky and water, they have meteorological powers, such as making it rain. So they often live in tumultuous rivers, at the bottom of oceans... hence the lake over which this dragon "flies". What's more, this earthenware dragon...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Old Sheffield Silver Plated Tray George III 1780s
Located in London, GB
This is a superb antique English Old Sheffield Silver Plate tray Circa 1780 in date.
This rectangular Old Shefield tray features a deep set, decorative gadrooned border with elegant...
Category
George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique George I Octagonal Silver Coffee Pot 1719 18th Century Early Georgian
Located in London, GB
An elegant Antique George I Solid Silver Coffee Pot in a traditional Tapered Octagonal shape width an Octagonal Domed Lid. The early Georgian C...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
$8,340 Sale Price
20% Off
DINNER SET Antique Chinese Porcelain 18C Kangxi/Yongzheng Period Blue White
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this fantastic and large dinner set. It consists of several dishes of various size, 3 tureens, two underplatters and two salt cellars.
All painted with a high qualit...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$8,487 Sale Price
20% Off
Delft - Blue and white chinoiserie plate - 18th century
By Delft
Located in DELFT, NL
Mid 18th century Blue Delftware plate with chinoiserie inspired decoration comprising flowers and insects.
Condition: some scratching and wear. Some chipping to the rim.
Unmarked...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
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...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
18th Century French Copper Pan
Located in Round Top, TX
A very handsome mid-18th century Copper Pan from the Provence region of France. Beautifully crafted from heavy gauge copper with brass handles.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Copper
Han Dynasty Earthenware Cocoon Jar
Located in Dallas, TX
Chinese Han Dynasty earthenware cocoon jar
Cocoon jars or Cocoon-shaped jars are funerary pottery vessels in China, belonging to the period of...
Category
Chinese Han Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
1500s Elizabethan Sterling Silver Communion Chalice and Paten
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique Elizabethan English sterling silver communion chalice and paten; an addition to our diverse religious silverware collection.
This exceptional two piece antique Elizabethan sterling silver communion set consists of a chalice and paten/diskos.
The chalice has a cylindrical tapering shaped form onto a plain knapped pedestal and spreading circular foot.
The body of this sterling silver communion cup...
Category
English Elizabethan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Delft - Wanli style 'Kraak' Charger - 17th century
By Delft
Located in DELFT, NL
Very good late 17th century Blue Delftware dish with a Wanli Style "Kraak' decoration of a bird on a blossoming branch amidst blossoming peonies and insects.
Border with alternatin...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware, Delft, Faience
Blue and White Delft Chargers Theeboom Pattern made by "The Claw" circa 1770
By De Klaauw
Located in Katonah, NY
This pair of Dutch Delft chargers in the "Theeboom" pattern shows a tea plant with a fan-shaped bouquet of leaves and flowers.
The deep cobalt blue is fabulous!
This is one of the ...
Category
Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
English Creamware Pottery Teapot with Rare Fish Scale Design, Yorkshire
By Yorkshire Potteries
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Creamware Pottery Teapot and Cover with Rare Fish Scale Design
Origin: Probably Leeds, Yorkshire
Date: Circa 1770s
Description: This creamware teapot and cover exhibit a ...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
18th Century Spanish, Hand-Painted Glazed Ceramic Plate from Triana
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Spanish hand-painted glazed ceramic plate from Triana.
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Imari Porcelain Plate or Bowl Qing Kangxi Mark and period, Ca 1700
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain plate or bowl from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722, fully marked to the base with the Kangxi period Artemisia Leaf mark within a double blue ring.
The plate is of dinner plate size, finely potted with a carefully cut base rim and a lovely rich glassy, white glaze with a light blue tinge.
The plate is carefully hand painted in a free flowing style, characteristic of the period, in varying shades of a clear cobalt blue, iron red and gold. The central well is decorated in the Imari style with flowering peonies, asters and other flowers and grasses, with a small insect flying above the flowers, all within two sets of concentric blue circles. The outer rim is richly decorated with flower sprigs and leaves, all within an outer blue circle.
The base of the plate has a recognized and documented hand painted Kangxi symbol of an Artemisia Leaf, within a double blue ring. See Page 168 of "How to Identify Old Chinese Porcelain" by Willoughby Hodgson and published by Forgotten Books. A Kangxi plate...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$828 Sale Price
33% Off
Delft - Pair of blue floral Delfware platters - 18th century
By Delft
Located in DELFT, NL
Good pair of 18th century Dutch Delft Blue dishes decorated with a beautiful central flower arrangement of a tulip and a peony and foliage. The borders richly adorned with foliage sc...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware, Faience, Delft
17th-Century German Faience Blue & White Chinoiserie Trumpet-Neck Botttle Vase
Located in Downingtown, PA
17th century Frankfurt German Faience Blue & White chinoiserie Trumpet-neck Bottle Vase,
circa 1680-90.
The vase is decorated in underglaze blue and white with a chinoiserie landscape with a Chinese figure with banana plants...
Category
German William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
Pair Antique Georgian Sterling Silver Pint Beer Mugs / Tankards 1780
Located in London, GB
A pair of excellent Antique George III Solid Silver Pint Mugs in a classic Georgian style. The Tankards each stand on a spread pedestal foot and each has a gilded interior. Both Mugs have a small crest engraved opposite the handle. These Mugs have a lovely patina commensurate with age.
Made in London, England in 1780 by Thomas Whipham...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
$3,947 Sale Price
20% Off
Matching Pair of Large Antique Brightly Polished Pewter Chargers
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
2 great highly polished pewter chargers. Measure: (18 inches).
English, late 18th century
The same ownership inscription on the front rim of both of them.
Rubbed touch marks on th...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pewter
18th Century Spanish Valencian Manises Lusterware Ceramic Plate
Located in Marbella, ES
Glazed ceramics with lustre-painted decoration
This is glazed ware, i.e. it is glazed with a white enamel bath, very pure in the best examples, which is f...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Kangxi Amsterdam Bont Porcelain Bowl Chinese Polychrome Landscape
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely made 18th century Kangxi Amsterdam Bont porcelain bowl.
A very nicely made 18th century Kangxi Amsterdam Bont porcelain bowl.
We take a look at Amsterdams Bont porcelain from China. A relatively unknown niche of Chinese porcelain from ca 1680-1740 that was partly decorated in Europe. Because mainstream Chinese collectors have yet to discover the historical significance of these wares they are relatively easy to find in Holland. While also being highly interesting and of often super quality and with an amazing array of decorations. Amsterdams Bont is a name given to porcelain partly decorated in the Netherlands (most likely in cities like Delft, Haarlem, Makkum). Because Amsterdam was at this moment in time the trade centre of the western world and also of the porcelain trade a lot of this over enamelling was probably commissioned by Amsterdam merchants, to reap higher profits on otherwise boring Chinese wares. The name Amsterdam Bont probably derives from the fact that these type of decorated ware was sold by Amsterdam Merchants. Amsterdam Bont consists of either blanc or under glaze blue decorated Chinese porcelain of basic quality, that was later enhanced with red and sometimes other colours in the Netherlands. It must not be mistaken for other type of Chinese & Japanese blanc wares decorated in Europe. Those we simply call European Decorated Chinese porcelain...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$509 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Rococo German Painted and Gilt Wine Cooler in the Form of a Swan
Located in Troy, NY
Extraordinary wine-cooler in the form of a beautifully sculpted, gilt and polychromed Swan of impressive stature, makes certainly the conversation-piece of the party. The white paint...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Tin
George III Period Antique Sterling Silver Tankard, London 1774 John King
By John King
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1774 by John King, this wonderful, George III period, Antique Sterling Silver Tankard, is of traditional straig...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Maria Theresa Austria-Habsburg 1780 Silver Coin Letter Opener
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Maria Theresa Austria-Habsburg 1780 Silver Coin Letter Opener
The coin is orignal and authentic minted 1780, the blade of the letter opener is sterling silver and hallmarked later a...
Category
Austrian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Derby Porcelain Georgian Rare Hand Painted Dish
By Derby
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual Georgian Derby Porcelain dish finely hand painted colored enamels dating from around 1790. The oval shaped dish has a raised scalloped rim and is hand painted with...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Georgian Cast Silver Candlesticks, London 1757 by John Cafe
By John Cafe
Located in Cornwall, GB
A very good pair of George III cast silver table candlesticks of shell and scroll decoration to a square shaped base. The stem with a circular knop and a fluted rectangular knop. Rop...
Category
British George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Delft 'Peacock' chargers by 'De Metale Pot', Pieter Paree - 18th century
By Delft
Located in DELFT, NL
Pair of two Dutch Delft blue and white 'Peacock' plate, 18th century, with ochre rim, the center decorated in cobalt with an vase containing an arrangement of peacock feathers and fl...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware, Delft, Faience
18th Century Portuguese "Azulejos" Panel "Battle Scene"
Located in Madrid, ES
Largest collection of Portuguese tiles in the world
18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " Panel "Battle Scene"
126cm x 140cm
330 tiles
Important note: This panel is with the tiles ...
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Portuguese Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Kangxi period Porcelain Plate Kakiemon-Imari decoration, Qing Ca 1690
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain Plate from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722.
The plate is finely potted with a carefully cut base rim and a lovely rich...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$583 Sale Price
59% Off
18th Century Blue and White Delft Bottle Inscribed 'Boy' Hand-Painted Circa 1750
By Delft
Located in Katonah, NY
This blue and white English Delftware bottle, made circa 1750-1760, has a tall, narrow neck with a slightly flared rim on a distinctive globular body. The decoration is the word "BOY" framed by blue dashes.
It is hand-painted in blue, done in a freehand, fluid style that includes typical irregularities in the paint.
Historically, 18th-century English Delftware is known for its freehand, fluid decoration, characterized by minor irregularities that evoke an authentic folk art quality.
The rustic and uneven glaze is also characteristic of this pottery.
The bottle has a utilitarian feel, featuring four protruding lugs on the sides.
Its modest yet charming form, rounded shape, and understated ornamentation reflect the everyday aesthetic of mid-18th-century Delftware production.
Delftware jugs were often created for public houses, and "Boy" might reference part of a pub name, a local drinking song, or a common toast.
Just as likely, given England's strong maritime traditions, this could refer to a sailor's drinking vessel.
In naval and military slang, "Boy" was often used to refer to young sailors or recruits.
This hand-painted inscription adds a personal touch, making this bottle a unique and engaging example of antique Delftware...
Category
French Country Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Faience, Delft
Spanish Azulejo Arabe / Mudejar Tile - Arista y Cuenca - 15th century
Located in DELFT, NL
Early Arabe / Mudejar style tile with geometric decoration, made late 15th century.
Category
Spanish Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware
Chinese Porcelain Large deep Plate Blue & White, Qing late Kangxi circa 1720
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful hand painted blue and white Chinese porcelain large diameter deep plate or charger, dating to the first half of the 18th century, circa 1720, Qing dynasty, either...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$917 Sale Price
26% Off
Blue and White Dutch Delft Five Piece Garniture Hand Painted 18th Century C-1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This exquisite blue and white Delft five-piece garniture from mid-18th century Holland, circa 1760, is a masterpiece. The hand-painted panels on the front and back of each jar are de...
Category
Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
First Edition Portland Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1793
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
NOTE: We do not keep this in the showroom. Please let us know if you're visiting and would like to see it.
Rarely does a first edition Portland vase...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
Antique George II Chased Lidded Cup & Cover / Lidded Trophy, 1749
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Antique Georgian solid Silver Lidded Cup covered in ornate floral chased designs. The Trophy has a shaped cartouche on the one side fille...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
$6,616 Sale Price
20% Off
Early English Georgian Period Hester Bateman Sterling Silver Baby Spoon
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful Hester Bateman George III period baby spoon with very fine scroll decoration and wonderful period engraved initials S. M. on the back.
Rare, early highly collectible piece...
Category
British George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian Maiolica Ancient Sugar Bowl, Lodi, 1770-1780
Located in Milano, IT
Maiolica sugar bowl
Antonio Ferretti Manufacture
Lodi, Circa 1770-1780
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire).
It measures 3.54 x 4.52 x 3.54 in (9 x 11,5 x 9 cm)
Weight: 0.394 lb (0.179 kg)
State of conservation: small and slight chips on the edges.
The small sugar bowl has a swollen and ribbed body resting on a flat base. The cap-shaped lid follows the rib of the container and is topped with a small knob in the shape of a two-colored fruit.
The sugar bowl is painted “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) with the characteristic floral motif of bunches and isolated semis.
An example which closely corresponds to this one is kept at the Civic Museum in Lodi (G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137).
This decorative style represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and later introduced by Antonio Ferretti to Italy. The production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple.
The Ferretti family started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725.
The forefather Simpliciano started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces starting from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59).
In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory.
In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, was able to commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables, both with or without contour lines, as well as in purple or green monochrome. After efforts to introduce more industrial production techniques to the sector succeeded, even the Ferretti manufacture, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, started heading towards decline despite its attempts to adapt production to neoclassical tastes.
In 1796 the Napoleonic battle for the conquest of the Lodi bridge over the Adda definitively compromised the furnaces. Production resumed, albeit in a rather stunted manner, until Antonio's death on 29 December 1810. (M. L. Gelmini, pp. 28-30, 38, 43 sgg., 130-136 (for Simpliciano); pp. 31 sgg., 45-47, 142-192 (for Antonio).
Bibliography
G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi Milano e Pavia Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137;
C. Baroni, Storia delle ceramiche nel Lodigiano, in Archivio storico per la città e i comuni del circondario e della diocesi di Lodi, XXXIV (1915), pp. 118, 124, 142; XXXV (1916), pp. 5-8;
C. Baroni, La maiolica antica di Lodi, in Archivio storico lombardo, LVIII (1931), pp. 453-455;
L. Ciboldi, La maiolica lodigiana, in Archivio storico lodigiano, LXXX (1953), pp. 25 sgg.;
S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, pp. 17 sgg.;
A. Novasconi - S. Ferrari - S. Corvi, La ceramica lodigiana, Lodi 1964, ad Indicem; Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia (catal.), Milano 1964, p. 17;
O. Ferrari - G. Scavizzi, Maioliche italiane del Seicento e del Settecento, Milano 1965, pp. 26 sgg.;
G. C. Sciolla, Lodi. Museo civico, Bologna 1977, pp. 69-85 passim; G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981;
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