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Period: Mid-18th Century
Antique Georgian Newcastle Sterling Silver Coffee Pot
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George II Newcastle sterling silver coffee pot, an addition to our Georgian silver teaware collection.
This exceptional antique George II Newcastle sterling silver coffee pot has a baluster shaped form onto a circular domed spreading foot.
One side of the body of this 18th century coffee pot...
Category
English George II Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
18th Century Georgian Mahogany Open Wine Cooler
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality 18th Century, Georgian, Mahogany Oval Shaped Open Wine Cooler, Of Coopered Construction, With Original Brass Bound Decoration And Elegant Lions Mask Carrying Hand...
Category
English Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Mahogany
Miniature Salt Glaze teapot, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, one-cup teapot in undecorated salt-glazed earthenware. The size reflects the early custom of a pot to each tea drinker.
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stoneware
Large Antique Brightly Polished Pewter Chargers, 20 Inches Diameter. C.1750
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful highly polished pewter chargers. Measure: (20.5 inches).
English, mid 18th century. Most likely, London
Some showing traces of the touchmarks similar to hallmarks on silv...
Category
English Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pewter
Large Dutch Delft Charger with Decoration of Lady Fortune, Early 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
City: Delft
Workshop: De proceleyne Bijl (The porcelain Axe)
Date: circa 1730 - 1760
A fine blue and white plate with decoration of the Lady Fortune, holding a cornucopia, seate...
Category
Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Delft, 1725-1750 a Pair of Polychrome Stands for Butter Dishes
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
The mainly square-shaped stands have indented corners and a raised center section with rim and four small flowers. The stands are painted in polychrome with a combination of flowers,...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Tall Coffee Can with Prunus Decoration, Bow C1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A Blanc de Chine Coffee can with straight sides and simple loop handle, and with one finely detailed prunus spray and two smaller sprays.
An unusually ta...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Large Chinese Export Porcelain 'Table Bay' Cape of Good Hope Dish, C. 1740
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare large Chinese export porcelain 'Table Bay' dish
Qianlong period, circa 1735-1750
Diam. 27.5 cm
This version of the ‘Table Bay’ porcelain docu...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
English Sterling Silver 18th Century Desk Sander Hallmarked:-London, 1733
Located in York, GB
English sterling silver desk sander Made and used 289 years ago.
Full English hallmarks for London 1733.
With the maker`s mark - I.S for Joseph Smith I, who`s mark was registered w...
Category
English George II Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Large 18th-Century Derby Porcelain Figure Emblematic of Africa
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large Derby Porcelain Figure of Africa,
From a series known as the "Four Quarters".
Circa 1765
The large figure, emblematic of Africa, is depic...
Category
Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Thomas Whieldon Fenton Staffordshire Redware Oriental Molded Teapot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare English Staffordshire redware pottery teapot decorated with Oriental molded patterning by Thomas Whieldon, Fenton and dating circa 1760/70. The teapot is lightly and finely po...
Category
English George III Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Terracotta
Dutch Delft Plate with Dragon, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
City: Delft
Workshop: De Grieksche A
Owner: Jacob van der Kool
Date: 1722 - 1757
Plate with decoration of a dragon on a ground of vines.
Wonderful fine decoration inspired on the Chinese Kangxi...
Category
Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Large 18th Century Pewter Charger
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This large broad rimmed pewter charger measures 420 mm (16.5 inches) in diameter and stands 38 mm (1.5 inches) high. It is decorated on the rim with an engraved family crest, that of...
Category
English Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pewter
Delft Blue and White Armorial Majolica Dish, Harlingen, Dated 1744
By Delft
Located in ROSSUM, GE
Blue and white armorial dish. Harlingen, dated 1744
The dish has a wide raised flange and is painted in blue with a coat of arms and the year 1744. The depiction is framed within ...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
18th Century Swiss Silver Cream Jug
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Swiss silver cream jug; an addition to our 18th century silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Swiss silver cream jug has a plain pear shaped form.
The body of this antique silver jug is plain and unembellished with a shaped incurved upper rim.
This impressive example of antique teaware...
Category
Swiss Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Early Meissen Cherub Group Allegory Summer & Autumn, by J.J. Kaendler, C 1750
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen Porcelain Group From The Time Of Origin:
Two naked cupids and a ram on a rocaille rock, depicting the seasons of summer and autumn:
Summer bedded on a bundle of ears of cor...
Category
German Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Figure of Musician with Flageolet and Tabor, Rococo, Ca 1765
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful porcelain figure of a musician with a flageolet and tabor (fluit and drum), made by Derby around 1765, which was the Rococo era. The figure is one half of a pair ...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Early Meissen Round Group of Gardener Children, by J.J. Kaendler, 1763-1774
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen porcelain group from the time of origin:
Four children in festive, rural rococo clothing on a three-part rocaille base: on the central raised pedestal a girl with a basket o...
Category
German Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 6 Dutch Delft Plates with Flower Baskets, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
City: Delft
Workshop: Unknown
Date: circa 1720 - 1760
A wonderful set of no less than six Dutch Delft plates with a lovely decoration of a flower basket. With around the flower ...
Category
Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Dutch Delft Plate with Flower Basket, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
City: Delft
Workshop: De Grieksche A
Owner: Jan Theunisz Dextra
Date: 1758 - 1764.
Plate with decoration in iron red of a flower basket in a circle. Branches with flowe...
Category
Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Antique Pair of George II Silver Candlesticks by William Café
By William Cafe
Located in Braintree, GB
Antique pair of George II silver candlesticks
Maker: William Café
Made in England, London, 1758
Fully hallmarked.
Whether it's for dinner with friends or entertaining spirits...
Category
British George II Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
George III Baluster Shaped Sterling Silver Coffee Pot, London 1765
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1765 by William & James Priest, this handsome, George III, Antique Sterling Silver Coffee Pot, has a plain body and lid, a wooden scroll handle, and acanthus ...
Category
English George III Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Liverpool or Irish Delftware Massive Chinoiserie Blue & White Dish
By Dublin Delftware Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
Delftware Blue & White Chinoiserie dish,
Irish (Dublin) or Liverpool,
1745-65
The rectangular British Delftware underglaze Blue Dish with canted corners and of large size is pai...
Category
Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft, Faience
Set of 9 Dutch Delft Plates with Couples, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
City: Delft
Workshop: Unknown
Date: circa 1760 - 1780
A wonderful set of no less than nine Dutch Delft plates with a lovely decoration of a couple in a garden. Probably based on...
Category
Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
18th Century German Hammered Copper & Brass Bread Box, Kitchen Utensil
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful antique 18th century German bread box. Perfect for decoration in your old country kitchen. The piece is in good used vintage condition with patina and a view minor dents. S...
Category
German Brutalist Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass, Copper
Antique Sterling Silver Tea and Sugar Cadies
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive set of three antique Georgian English sterling silver sugar and tea caddies - boxed; an addition to our silver teaware collection
These magnificent, fine and impressive antique Georgian silver sugar and tea caddies each have an oblong shaped form.
The surface of each antiquecaddy is embellished with impressive embossed and chased scroll and foliate decoration incorporating a stylised animalistic mask to the upper portion.
The decoration to either side incorporates a scene depicting a woman arranging flowers, and the posterior surface bears a structure, all in the chinoiserie style.
The anterior surfaces these antique tea caddies incorporate scroll and leaf bordered cartouches, each displaying a contemporary engraved coat of arms.
The opposing scrolling lower portion of each caddy composes a shaped rim and foot.
These caddies are fitted with the original hinged cast silver covers, ornamented with further foliate and floral decoration and surmounted with impressive floral finials.
These Georgian silver tea caddies and sugar canister are fitted to the fine and impressive, original hinged wood and skin covered presentation casket, bearing the original velvet lined interior.
The presentation box is fitted with the original silver escutcheon and carrying handle, in addition to four bracket style feet emanating from the corners.
These magnificent silver boxes are the finest of their type you could hope to acquire.
Condition
These antique 18th century tea/sugar caddies are a magnificent gauge of silver, magnificent quality and in magnificent condition.
The cast, embossed and chased decoration is very sharp and the engraved ornamentation is very crisp; the definition of these details indicates these caddies have seen little or no use.
The original casket is distressed in keeping with age, however, remains in working condition.
Full hallmarks struck to the underside of the caddies are all very clear; the hallmarks are struck deeply due to the magnificent gauge of silver.
Reflections in photographs may detract from the true representation of these 18th century tea caddies.
Dimensions
Sugar Caddy...
Category
British Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Derby Pair of Candle Stick Figures, Bagpiper and Lady with Lute, Rococo, Ca 1765
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful pair of Derby porcelain candlestick figures of a bagpiper and a lady with lute, made between 1759 and 1769, which was the Rococo era. The pair is one of Derby's f...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Wood Antique Sterling Silver Sugar Caster
By Samuel Wood
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver sugar caster by Samuel Wood; an addition to our silver teaware collection
This exceptional and large a...
Category
English Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
18th Century Chinese Porcelain Dish Blue and White Hand Painted, Qing Qianlong
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand-painted Chinese porcelain Dish, dating to the middle of the 18th century, Qing, Qianlong period, circa 1750.
The dish is circular, well potted, with rib...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Two plates with the Coat of Arms of the Webster Barony, 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
City: Delft
Workshop: De Grieksche A
Owner: Jan Theunisz Dextra
Date: 1758 - 1764
A set of twee beautiful and fine armorial plates with the coat of arms and dragon head crest o...
Category
Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Chinese Porcelain Soup Plate Blue and White from The Blue Family, 18th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Nice plate of the Compagnie des Indes dating from the Qianlong period, XVIIIth century. Blue and white porcelain soup plate. On this plate are drawn in blue ink a set of plants or we...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Louis XV Faience Oval Charger
Located in Carmel, CA
This faience platter with bright floral motif and undulating edge is in very good condition. The hand painted design is beautifully executed with fine detail.
The tulips, roses, an...
Category
French Louis XV Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Faience
Blue and White Dutch Delft Tile with the Good Shepherd, Early 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
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...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Faience
Hanovarian Pattern George II Period Antique Sterling Silver Serving Spoon, 1731
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1731, this wonderful, George II, Antique Sterling Silver Basting Spoon, is in 'Hanoverian' pattern.
The basting spoon...
Category
English George II Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
An Opaque Twist Glass with Ribbed Bowl
Located in Steyning, West sussex
An opaque twist wine glass with ribbed bowl
England, circa 1760.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Ancient Italian Assortment Coffe Pot and Cups, Lodi, Circa 1765-1770
Located in Milano, IT
A coffee pot and two cups with saucers
Antonio Ferretti Manufacture
Lodi, Circa 1765-1770
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire).
They measure:
coffee pot: 9....
Category
Italian Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Maiolica
18th Century Italian Doccia Porcelain Dinner Service
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A dinner service comprising six dinner dishes and six soup dishes made by the Doccia Porcelain Manufactory, circa 1750.
Italy was the site of Europ...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Dutch Delft Polychrome Vase with Flowers and Birds, Mid 18th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Fine Dutch Delft vase with decoration is flowers and birds.
Origin: Delft, The Netherlands
Date: 1724 - 1764
Workshop: De Porceleyne Schotel (The Porcelain Dish)
By: Jan Pennis...
Category
Dutch Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Delft
Meissen ‘Puce Ground’ Porcelain Bowl, C. 1740
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
Meissen porcelain bowl, c. 1740. The puce ground bowl, finely painted to the front, with a shaped panel, contains a couple wearing 18th Century costume, seated in a rural landscape. ...
Category
German Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Delft Dish Hand-Painted 18th Century, England, Circa 1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This Delft blue and white dish was hand-painted in England in the 18th century circa 1760.
The painting is quite naive but eye-catching.
In the center, we see a large blue ground before three homes, each with a chimney.
To the left, we see a large peony, and to the right, a pine tree.
The wide border shows six flower buds on the vine, and along the edge are scrolling vines.
Dimensions: 9.25" diameter
Condition: Excellent
Price: $560
Background of English Delft:
The art of making Delft began in England in the Mid-1500s. An English delftware jug has been found in East Malling, Kent, with a silver mount hallmarked 1550, which is presumed to be the earliest date of English delftware manufacture. John Stow's Survey of London (1598) records the arrival in 1567 of two Antwerp potters, Jasper Andries and Jacob Jansen...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft
Stunning Rococo Pair of Antique Sterling Silver Tea Caddies, London, 1768
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1768 by Henry Bailey, this stunning pair of George III period, Antique Sterling Silver Tea Caddies, feature Rococo chasing throughout, vacant cartouches, and ...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
18th Century Qing Qianlong Chinese Porcelain Blue & White Shallow Bowl w Flowers
Located in Miami, FL
A lovely Chinese porcelain plate/ shallow bowl with hand-painted flowers in cobalt blue of Chinese plum blossoms, mallow, peach blossoms and chrys...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
George II Period Later Chased Antique Sterling Silver Tankard, London 1756
By John Langlands I & John Goodrick
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Newcastle in 1756, this attractive, George II, Antique Sterling Silver Tankard, has been later chased during the victoria...
Category
English George II Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
George II Rococo Design Sterling Silver Coffee Pot, London 1741 Gabriel Sleath
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1741 by Gabriel Sleath, this striking, George II, Antique Sterling Silver Coffee Pot, features flat chased decoration below the rim, an engraved armorial to o...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Engraved Plain Stem Wine Glass
Located in Steyning, West sussex
An engraved plain stem wine glass.
England, circa 1750.
Height: 15 cm (6").
Diameter: 7.5 cm (3").
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Rare Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain 'Table Bay' or 'Cape of Good Hope' Plates
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare pair of Chinese export porcelain ‘Table Bay’ or 'Cape of Good Hope' dishes
Qianlong period, mid-18th century
Measure: Diameter. 23.8 ...
Category
Chinese Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century English Delftware Blue & White Sweetmeat Dish, Probably London
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Delftware blue & white sweetmeat dish,
London,
Possibly Lambeth High Street, William Griffith's pottery.
Circa 1750-60
The rare undergl...
Category
English Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft, Faience
Silver Salt Box, Lizasoain, Spain, Madrid, 1768
Located in Madrid, ES
Salt or spice shaker. Silver. Lizasoain. Spain, Madrid, 1768.
With contrast markings.
Silver spice rack in its color with a frustoconical body, sinuou...
Category
Spanish Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
18th Century Dutch Delft Shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome Plaque
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome plaque,
Circa 1730-40
The shaped plaque has a raised molded border decorated with a series of alternating painted panels of flowers and Chinese auspicious objects. The central scene is painted with a slightly off-center table with a vase filled with flowers and a large parrot perched on the branches. Several flying bugs can be seen around the flowers. To the left is a gardener with two watering pots at his feet. The whole in a puce, yellow and green palette. The top is surmounted with a blue shell pierced with a suspension hole. The exterior rim of the plaque in blue.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches high x 9 3/4 inches x 1/2 inch depth.
Provenance: B.F. Edwards Collection...
Category
Dutch Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft, Faience
18th Century Meissen Miniature Turquoise-Ground Botanical Teapot and Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Meissen miniature Turquoise-ground teapot and cover,
1735-40
The Meissen porcelain miniature teapot has a turquoise ground with a shaped cartouche ...
Category
German Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Plate From India Company 18th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful small white porcelain plate decorated with different flowers such as petunias and phlox. Leaves seem to fly. A small plum is hidden on the back of the plate. We discover a work of extreme finesse. The lines are very fine and delicate.
The arrival of porcelain in Europe was linked to the development of shipping and international trade. Porcelain was very popular in Europe because of its lightness and durability. The importation from China is linked to the lack of mastery of this technique by the Europeans. The French, Dutch and British East India...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Dutch Delft Polychrome Shaped Plaques with Flower Baskets
By Delft
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Polychrome Shaped Plaques,
A Pair,
Mid-18th century
The shaped Dutch Delft plaques each depict an exuberant display of flowers in a...
Category
Dutch Georgian Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Delft, Faience
18th C. Meissen Hausmaler Decorated Bowl with High Relief Multi-Colored Flowers
Located in New York, NY
An Incredible and Rare 18th Century Meissen Hausmaler Decorated Bowl with High Relief Multi-Colored Flowers. Hand-carved with encrusted and relief f...
Category
German Louis XV Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Engraved Commemorative Surinam Plantation Glass, History of 18th Century Slavery
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A splendid commemorating glass with a fine engraving of a plantation house and coffee shrubs with a text reading: Het.Welvaaren.Van.De.Plantagie.Saxen (the prosperity of the Plantati...
Category
Surinamer Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Bow Pair of Porcelain Figures, Arlecchino and Columbina, Rococo ca 1758
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful pair of figures of Arlecchino and Columbina, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1758. These figures formed part of a series of the Commedia dell'Arte, a very popular series of theatrical figures that served as decoration at the dinner table in the 18th Century.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft paste porcelain, and most probably the very first to use bone ash, which later got perfected by Josiah Spode to what is now the universally used "bone china". Bow was the main competitor of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, but where Chelsea made very fine slipcast porcelain, Bow made a different soft paste porcelain that tended to be softer and could be pressed into moulds. Bow served a larger public generally at lower prices. The factory was only in operation between 1743 and 1774, after which the tradition got incorporated into some of the later famous potteries such as Worcester and Derby.
These figures were used to adorn the dinner table when dessert was served; groups of figures served to express something about the host, the guests, or to direct the conversation. The Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, a comical form of masked theatre, was very popular in those days and Bow copied many figures of the German Meissen series that were brought out in the decades before.
This pair dates from about 1758, which was at the height of Bow's ability to make beautiful figurines often copied from Chelsea or Meissen. The pair is modelled after a Meissen pair by Kaendler. The porcelain is translucent with a beautiful milky glaze - Bow was probably the first pottery using bone in its porcelain recipe. Arlecchino (Harlequin) is playing the bagpipes, dressed in an odd costume of mismatched chintz and playing cards and wearing a funny black trumpet...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Mid - 18th Century George III sterling silver dinner plate
Located in Braintree, GB
Antique Mid - 18th Century George III sterling silver dinner plate
Maker: Sebastian & James Crespell
Made in England, London, 1767
Fully Hallmarked.
The dinner plate is with raised sides, a shaped edge, and an applied gadroon border.
There is an engraved crest of a bird with an opened beak.
Sebastian and James Crespell were important 'largeworkers' and the leading plate makers of their day. They supplied George III's first royal silversmith Thomas Heming with much wrought plate, and after 1770 became the principal suppliers for Parker and Wakelin...
Category
British George III Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Pair of Lions. Bow Porcelain C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive pair of lions, in the white; possibly based on a Chinese original.
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Sterling Silver Soup Tureen Hammered Italian Venice Rococo
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Impressive Antique Georgian Italian Sterling Silver soup tureen
Style & period Rococo, Georgian, Antique, Italian, Venice
Design: Italian
The fine hand crafted hammered body stand on four scrolled acanthus leaf legs
The cover surmounted by a sculptural solid silver pomegranate...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
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