Gold Leaf Platters and Serveware

Coalport (Attributed) - 'Pansy' - Antique ceramic single handled botanical serving platter with apple green borders and gilded decoration - featuring a hand painted floral specimen t...

COALPORT (Attributed) - 'Fuchsia' - Antique ceramic twin handled botanical serving platter with apple green borders and gilded decoration - featuring a hand painted floral specimen t...

This is the large German porcelain platter from Rosenthal, designed 1979 by Bjørn Wiinbladh, Denmark for the company’s 100-years anniversary. It comes in the yellow color scale, hand...

Coalport (Attributed) - 'English Hawthorn' - Antique ceramic single handled botanical serving platter with apple green borders and gilded decoration - featuring a hand painted floral...

COALPORT (Attributed) - 'Geranium' - Antique ceramic twin handled botanical serving platter with apple green borders and gilded decoration - featuring a hand painted floral specimen ...

COALPORT (Attributed) - 'Lungwort' - Antique ceramic single handled botanical serving platter with apple green borders and gilded decoration - featuring a hand painted floral specime...

Gorgeous large Mid-Century Modern Murano glass centerpiece with aventurine gold and silver flecks attributed to Dino Martens and Aureliano Toso, Italy, 1960s. Handblown smoked black ...

Set of four porcelain oyster plate by Marx Gutherz of Austria. The plate is square in shape and features six wells, decorated in pink, with floral design in each of the corners, and ...

Set of eight vintage Japanese stoneware dishes, in the shape of bamboo with gilded interior. Each piece sold individually. Please ...

Géode Round Plate by Matthieu Gicquel Dimensions: D 32 x W 36 x H 3 cm. Materials: Optical glass and gold leaf. Weight: 7 kg. Each piece is numbered. Please contact us. Praise for the moment Light shines through the glass. Details are revealed one by one: here a light bubble rises, there a changing reflection. To seek to understand Matthieu Gicquel’s glass art - because what we’re really talking about here is touching the senses of the material, of the work - is first and foremost to follow the path mapped out by Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows. For him, «[...] we forget what is invisible to us, we regard as non-existent what cannot be seen»; yet the creator’s entire will lies in this need to reveal to us what seems absent, to give substance to the mystery from a material so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Two words-concepts of Japanese origin-form the original basis of Matthieu Gicquel’s artistic philosophy: wabi-sabi and Yûgen. The first is the powerful idea that beauty is to be found in the banal, the everyday, the vile. To the European eye, at first glance, it seems hard to grasp: what beauty is there in a chipped bowl...

Géode Rectangular Plate by Matthieu Gicquel Dimensions: D 21 x W 46 x H 3 cm. Materials: Optical glass and gold leaf. Weight: 7 kg. Each piece is numbered. Please contact us. Praise for the moment Light shines through the glass. Details are revealed one by one: here a light bubble rises, there a changing reflection. To seek to understand Matthieu Gicquel’s glass art - because what we’re really talking about here is touching the senses of the material, of the work - is first and foremost to follow the path mapped out by Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows. For him, «[...] we forget what is invisible to us, we regard as non-existent what cannot be seen»; yet the creator’s entire will lies in this need to reveal to us what seems absent, to give substance to the mystery from a material so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Two words-concepts of Japanese origin-form the original basis of Matthieu Gicquel’s artistic philosophy: wabi-sabi and Yûgen. The first is the powerful idea that beauty is to be found in the banal, the everyday, the vile. To the European eye, at first glance, it seems hard to grasp: what beauty is there in a chipped bowl...

Géode Square Plate by Matthieu Gicquel Dimensions: D 29 x W 29 x H 3 cm. Materials: Optical glass and gold leaf. Weight: 6 kg. Each piece is numbered. Please contact us. Praise for the moment Light shines through the glass. Details are revealed one by one: here a light bubble rises, there a changing reflection. To seek to understand Matthieu Gicquel’s glass art - because what we’re really talking about here is touching the senses of the material, of the work - is first and foremost to follow the path mapped out by Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows. For him, «[...] we forget what is invisible to us, we regard as non-existent what cannot be seen»; yet the creator’s entire will lies in this need to reveal to us what seems absent, to give substance to the mystery from a material so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Two words-concepts of Japanese origin-form the original basis of Matthieu Gicquel’s artistic philosophy: wabi-sabi and Yûgen. The first is the powerful idea that beauty is to be found in the banal, the everyday, the vile. To the European eye, at first glance, it seems hard to grasp: what beauty is there in a chipped bowl...