Creamware Armorial Dish, Possibly Melbourne, Scottish Arms of Grant

Creamware dish with polychrome botanical decoration, Circa 1790 The large circular creamware pottery dish with a blue shell edge with painted floral sprays. Dimensions: 14 1/4 inch diameter x 2 inches. Provenance: Montaine Collection, With Jerome Blum.

Massive English Creamware Pottery Yellow & Botanical Basin, John Shorthose, Shorthose & Heath, 1795-1815 The massive English creamware deep basin has a plain creamware center w...

Shell-edge prattware oval dish painted with an urn of flowers, 1800-1820 The oval deep dish has a shaped border in blue with a painted blue shell-edge design. The central well is painted with a large yellow urn...

Chinese Export armorial porcelain dish, Arms of Pole, circa 1745 The Chinese export armorial porcelain dish is painted with pane...

Herculaneum Neo-classical large Greek pattern blue printed dish, Early-19th century The Herculaneum pottery underglaze blue central pattern shows ase...

Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Dish, Pseudo Continental Arms, Motto- "His Ornari Aut Mori", After a Meissen Porcelain Original Service, Circa 1760 The Chinese Export armorial porcelain oval dish with overall Bianco Supra Bianco has a central Rococo armorial coat of arms centered with three garlands with the motto "His Ornari Aut Mori" below. The armorial surrounded by scattered flowers and four shaped gilt bordered panels on the shoulder with two bouquets of famille rose flowers and two of fruit. The motto translates as To be adorned with these, or to die, referring to the three wreaths in the coat of arms, woven of olive, laurel and oak leaves. The three leaves representing sapientia, doctrina ac rei militaris peritia, "wisdom, learning and military expertise." The reverse with a bamboo band with fruit and flowers with scattered flowers to the top, bottom, and each side. The gilt rim on the border now rubbed. Dimensions: 16 1/2-inch-wide x 13 3/4 inches deep x 1 1/4 inches high Reference: The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, David. S. Howard, 132-133, for a strainer & Dish from the same service. Howard says this is from a Chinese Export service that is a direct copy of an original Meissen porcelain service...

A very Fine and rare early 18th century antique Dutch delft faience polychrome pottery dish of shallow rounded form hand painted with a period figure of a lady carrying a parasol, early 20th century. The large earthenware dish is hand painted with a central scene of a lady wearing a tall bonnet in a landscape with a building in the background painted in tones of red, puce, green and blue set within a yellow painted decorative border...

This is a very decorative serving dish or platter, made by Mason's Ironstone, Lane Delph, England in a very colourful floral pattern, dating to the late Georgian English Regency peri...

French Samson armorial shrimp dish, the rim has a gilded edge with a wide floral and foliage border around the perimeter. Below this is a gilded spear design. The central shield ...

Large Platter "A Winter View of Pittsfield Mass", C1825. The long white meeting house (Congregational Church) Bullfinch, architect, was built in 1794 and called First Church. It was ...

A collection of six Etruscan Majolica shell and seaweed pitchers, five in the typical shell and sea weed pattern, one in a variation of the pattern i...

Vintage decorative platter (circa 1970s) by Albert Thiry. An oatmeal-coloured glaze provides the backdrop for a colourful flower motif and foliage in the recess of the platter. These...