19th Century English Porcelain Armorial Fruit Cooler with Yellow Band

Pair of 19th century English Derby Fruit Coolers with Lids & Liners, ca. 1815.    

Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Platter with Strawberry Pattern, 19th Century

19th Century English Derby Porcelain Tureen with lid.

Pair of large Coalport Porcelain plates with gilt rim and accents, floral decoration in blues, reds, and greens. 19th century England. Price i...

Set of Early 19th Century English Derby Porcelain Dessert Service. 18 plates, 7 shaped dishes, 1 sauce tureen with lid and underplate.

Pair of 19th century Paris Porcelain cachepots with yellow ground & floral decoration.

A magnificent and rare Barr, Flight & Barr Porcelain Fruit Cooler c.1804-1813. Superbly decorated with a continuous deep orange ground band and heavily gilded, highly detailed rams head handles, greek key motif to header and a crowned deer armorial crest to the front and reverse. The fruit cooler is one of the rarest and most coveted tableware pieces amongst antique porcelain. This example is even more valuable with its original liner and lid. Impressed mark to underside. The first record of ice cream in Britain is 1671 on the menu of a feast for the Knights of the Garter held in St. George's Hall at Windsor Castle. At this time it was considered such an exclusive dish that it appeared only on the king's table. The earliest printed recipe appeared in Mrs Eale's Receipts, a work on confectionary which was published in London, 1718. It was not until the second half of the 18th century that ices became more readily available from confectioner's shops, and these pails were commonly found on upper class homes' sideboards to be used for a dessert of ice cream with cut fruit. If ice alone is used to fill the cover and the bucket, the ice cream melts very quickly. Although there is nothing recorded in literature, it is almost certain that a little salt was sprinkled on the ice. Porcelain is the ideal material for ice cream pails...

Wonderful matching pair of hand-painted fruit coolers with original fitted inserts. Shell handles and subtle blue, green and gold hand-painted decoration ...

Set of Three Early 19th Century English Samson Porcelain Armorial Plates Each plate depicts its own unique crest surrounded by a floral design. Marked on the bottoms with an Asian...

A garniture of Minton or Coalport vases, circa 1830, in the C18 Meissen style with appliqué handmade ceramic flowers encrusted all-over.  

Of fine quality, the service with blue decorated borders with gilt floral decoration. Consisting of 9 luncheon plates 9 1/4", 11 dessert plates 7" diameter, 2 large leaf shaped serv...

19th century English Copeland porcelain serving tray, the two handled tray with a cobalt border featuring stylized spears adorned with gilt foli...