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Porcelain For Sale
Creator: Bow Porcelain
Creator: KPM Porcelain
Coffee Pot, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1767
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Coffee pot, circa 1765-69: Coffee pot and cover of silver form with domed cover; the body of the pot and dome of the cover pineapple moulded between rims painted in blue with cell an...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Sauce Boat, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of silver form; oval, double lipped, and with scroll handle with stylized mask to each side. The interior painted in blue underglaze with a songbird on a branch, a peony and an inner...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot in the Famille Rose Style, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small pot with loop handle, curved spout and domed cover with ball finial, the body painted after the Famille rose with chrysanthemum, flowers and leaves, all from mauve rocks on gre...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure of Boy or Putto on C-Scroll Base, Georgian circa 1760
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful little figure of a boy or putto made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1760.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft...
Category
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Cup, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of Chinese export form with loop handle; the body imaginatively painted in a bright ‘early blue’ underglaze with pine, rock and bamboo after the Chinese. Yellow tinged body; clear gl...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre.
...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Punch Pot in the Famille Rose Style, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1757
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large tea-pot, or perhaps a punch pot, of globular form with loop handle. Painted in a vibrant wet palette after the Chinese. A most attractive example, of...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-cebtury Bow Porcelain Chinoiserie Tankard
Located in Downingtown, PA
Bow porcelain Chinoiserie tankard,
Bow, London,
1760-1765.
The unusually painted polychrome Bow porcelain tankard depicts Chinoiserie figure...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure: Running Girl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small figure of a young woman wearing a puce-sprigged white skirt, lifted slightly with her left hand, pale pink jacket with typical Bow opaque blue collar and cuffs.
We've called...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A KPM Porcelain Plaque After The Painting By Sir Anthony van Dyck, Circa 1890
By KPM Porcelain, Anthony van Dyck
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A KPM Porcelain Plaque Depicting The Three Eldest Children of Charles I, After The Painting By Sir Anthony van Dyck.
German, Circa 1890.
The...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Plaque of a 19th Century German Market by KPM
Located in London, GB
The 1844 summer market in the town of Lengerich, in the western German province of Westphalia, is the subject of this antique KPM porcelain plaque...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Wonderful Late 19th-Early 20th Berlin K.P.M. Porcelain Rectangular Plaque
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful late 19th-early 20th Berlin K.P.M. porcelain rectangular plaque
Painted landscape scene with two women and their children playing, the background with two men, one playing an instrument.
Impressed K.P.M and scepter marks, in the original frame.
KPM is an acronym for Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, which translates to “Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin.” The company was founded in 1763 by Frederick II of Prussia, who bought the factory from its previous owner, Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, in the wake of its bankruptcy. Frederick II greatly admired the factory’s “white gold,” a type of porcelain so fine and translucent that it closely mirrored the high-quality porcelain made in China. He invested large sums of money into the company and granted it the use of the royal scepter...
Category
Late 19th Century German Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Pair of Sauce Boats, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pair of Sauceboats, circa 1752-1755:
Of flat hexagonal form with waved top and scroll handle, painted after the Chinese in blue with the ‘desirable residence pattern’ of a building...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bowl with Chinoiserie Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of Bow porcelain, decorated in ‘wet’ famille rose colours; featuring a peony, a bird on a branch, and another in flight. Sacred Scrolls to the interior.
A superb ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Plate, circa 1755-1760: Octagonal plate, the decoration after an oriental original (possibly from the region now modern Bhutan), with four robed ladies walking through a stylized lan...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century KPM Berlin Service Téte á Téte
Located in Berlin, DE
Absolutely rare KPM Berlin tête á tête service decor relief decor.
Porcelain, enamel decoration, gilding.
The trellises on the upper edge on salmon colored ground, the rocaille...
Category
19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique German KPM porcelain panel of Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Located in London, GB
The image of Judith with the Head of Holofernes was a powerful source of inspiration for many of great European artists, and was captured superbly in August Riedel...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Teapot in the White, Prunus Decorated, Bow, circa 1749
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Drum-shape teapot with applied double-prunus decoration, in imitation of the Chinese. Pots of this form and date are rare, and this example is unusual in the quality of its body and ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Bocage Candlesticks, Putti and Goats. Bow 1766
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare, possibly unique, pair of candlesticks in the form of putti, representing The Four Seasons. This is the pair pictured in Stonor’s book (#94); we’ve b...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Spoon Tray, Decorated by James Hammett O'neale, Bow, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From a Bow service with decoration attributed to the painter Jeffryes Hammett O'Neale, probably in the London workshop of James Giles. The tray with shallow rim and shaped outline wi...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Romantic Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1759
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Plate, circa 1758-1760:
Small octagonal plate, the well printed in blue underglaze with La Dame Chinoise (also called the Promenade Chinoise) showing a tall oriental lady with tw...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Flowers and Insects", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with flowers and insects. Painter’s mark 16 and a distinctive way of painting insects.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Christie’s.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
'Oriental Girl' German KPM Porcelain Plaque
Located in London, GB
Orientalist style works became very popular in the 19th Century, and the tradition continued into the early 20th Century, when this fine porcelain plaque was produced. Manufactured by famed German firm KPM, the plaque was retailed in New York by Gilman Collamore & Co., who imported high-end works of porcelain and glass. The plaque still bears the retailer's label to the reverse reading 'Gilman Collamore & Co, Union Sq. NY'.
The plaque is rectangular in shape, and portrays a young girl, swathed in rich, red draped clothing, reaching upward to give food to a white dove perched on a wire. The girl, her hair bound up in the Orientalist fashion, wears an armband as well as hoop earrings. The interior in which the scene is set is hung with luxurious textiles and decorated with gilt detailing.
The plaque is housed in a giltwood frame and is marked to the reverse with the sceptre mark of KPM porcelain, together with the retailer's label. The reverse also bears a written inscription reading 'Orientalisches Mädchen / L. Sturm', the title translating to 'Oriental girl...
Category
Early 20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
Tankard with Famille Rose Decoration, Bow C5145
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baluster-shaped tankard, decorated with a pattern taken form the Chinese, in the famille rose-verte palette. It is amusing to note how the house on a hill in the original has been me...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century KPM porcelain plaque of the Battle of Corinth
Located in London, GB
19th Century KPM porcelain plaque of the Battle of Corinth
German, 19th Century
Frame: Height 37.5cm, width 44cm, depth 5cm
Plaque: H...
Category
Late 19th Century German Classical Roman Antique Porcelain
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
Lovely Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted German K.P.M. Porcelain Desk
Located in New York, NY
A lovely late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted German K.P.M. porcelain desk
Decorated all-over with porcelain plaques painted with scenes of courting couples, the upper section with a central cupboard door mounted with a square plaque and nine surrounding drawers, the lower section with shaped top inset with three frieze drawers, each of the corners with a male figure emerging from a scrolled volute, above four tapering fluted and floral-painted porcelain legs with four putti...
Category
Late 19th Century German Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Very Fine KPM Porcelain Plaque of a Young Woman, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very fine KPM porcelain plaque of a young woman in a giltwood frame.
German, circa 1890.
This fine KPM plaque is superbly painted with a portrait bust of a young woman holdi...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
Baluster Mug, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug of baluster form with flared base and grooved strap-handle with heart-shaped termination. The face of the mug painted after the Kakiemon with the two Quail pattern. The reve...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
KPM White & Gold Round Tureen with Hand Painted Floral Decoration Molded Relief
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Sometimes it's nice to have a classic round soup tureen and this one made by KPM is a perfect example. The molded round body is embellished with detailed hand-painted polychrome flor...
Category
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Knife and Fork, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unsually early set of handles with original steel tines and blade. Pistol grip form moulded with acanthus scrolls, leaves and swags and painted with indianische Blumen in a Kakiem...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a large residence in a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Watney Collection.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chestnut Basket, Two Quail Pattern, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A ‘spectacle basket’, probably for oranges, with Kakiemon decoration to the interior, featuring the Two Quail pattern.
Provenance: Taylor Collection
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Soup Tureen, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Oval tureen and cover, decorated after the Kakiemon in the two quail pattern; the crabstock handles and masks are interesting features. The tureen has had a rather unhappy life, appa...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Baluster Vase, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of bow’s output, with a smooth, silky glaze. Painted after the Kakiemon with a phoenix, butterfly and various plants after the Japanese; with reserved panels featuri...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chocolate Pot, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of full-bellied pear-shape with large sparrow-beak lip set slightly below the top rim of the body in front of a triangle of circular pouring holes and at the right angle to the strap...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Cup and Saucer, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Low tea cup with clip handle with matching saucer, decorated after the Kakiemon with the two quail pattern. An unusual form with scarce decoration.
Prov...
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Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Polychrome "Strutting Bird", Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can from the bow porcelain factory, naively painted with the ‘Strutting Bird’ pattern.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Swans & Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Decorated with an under-glaze blue print of a Chinese landscape, featuring a man at the window of a pagoda, admiring swans on the lake.
Bow didn't produce very much in the way of ...
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Bamboo and Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with Bamboo and a pagoda. Underglaze B mark.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Sutherland; Aubrey Toppin; Charles Dyson.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Covered Vase, Famille Rose Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A vase and cover, decorated with peonies &c in the Famille Rose style. Incised R mark group.
Prov Taylor Collection; Simon Spero; Joseph Handley.
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Very fine and large KPM porcelain plaque of The Three Fates
Located in London, GB
Very fine and large KPM porcelain plaque of The Three Fates
German, c.1908
Frame: height 90cm, width 77cm, depth 9cm
Plaques: height 53cm, width 43cm, ...
Category
Early 20th Century German Classical Greek Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Pair of Fluted Dessert Plates, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Each of shallow circular form with scalloped rim and painted in the Kakiemon two Quail pattern with a pair of partridges standing between a flowering prunus and a kikyo bush amidst f...
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Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fashionably dressed gentleman, almost certainly the actor David Garrick: he wears a white frockcoat, pink waistcoat and red breeches, all with embroide...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Lions. Bow Porcelain C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive pair of lions, in the white; possibly based on a Chinese original.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative Basket, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pierced basket standing on a well-formed rococo base. Perhaps for potpourri, although the internal decoration suggests another use. We think probably oranges, chestnuts, etc.
Pr...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982).
Toper is an old English word for a drunk.
Annulet Mark.
Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Ribbon Landscape", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Roderick Jellicoe.
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure 'Scapino, ' from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Scappino, or Scapin, a zany (zanni) character from the commedia dell'arte: a buffoon, schemer and scoundrel, and the title character in Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin, first staged in 1671. The Bow figure shows him standing to right against a tree stump, right leg forward; right arm concealed in a tabarro (cape), and a mask in his left hand. He wears a white doublet, gilt frogged in the Hungarian manner, neck ruff, pale yellow-washed breeches above buckled shoes; a pouch on a red-brown strap and a dagger in a scabbard at the waist. Low square plinth base washed in typical pale Bow ‘lettuce’ green. No discernible translucency. H. 5.0 in (12.6 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero London, 2008; the Faith and Dewayne Perry Collection.
The Scapino figure was presumably based on the Meissen modelled 1743-45 by Peter Reinicke, assisted by Käendler, and from the series produced for Johann Adlf II, Duke of Weissenfels, after an engraving by Francois Joullain (1662-1753) for Riccobin’s Historie du Théatre Italien, 1728. The modelling and features of the Bow figure suggest the work of the ‘Muses Modeller’, and the pallete, gilding and detail are also those of the muses modeller figures. This figure illustrated Bradshaw, 1992, as circa 1753, Plate 10 (A12), p.64.
Scapino is depicted musically in William...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Scholar's Rock" Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with a Scholar’s Rock and associated items.
Prov. Taylor Collection; Stockspring Antiques.
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Shell Sweetmeat Stand, Bow Porcelain, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Three-tiered stand for sweetmeats, in the form of shells and coral, and enameled with flowers; it is rare to find these in such good condition. Probably from a large dessert service.
These stands were popular in the Georgian period and were made by most of the porcelain factories. Many were modelled by a man named Tebo, who went from factory to factory creating these stands. He appears to have used real shells...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of figures: Jupiter and Juno, or Zeus and Hera. Bow Porcelain C1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
She stands barefoot, wearing a long-sleeved robe in white, deep pink and washed pale yellow and partly edged with gold; a red and gilt-topped sceptre in her right hand, an outsize pe...
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1750s English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Kitty Clive Figure
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of Bow's theatrical figures.
The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot, the Fine Lady, introduced, with The Fine Gentleman, into David Garrick...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Il Dottore from the Commedia dell’Arte, in the white.
He stands in an histrionic pose against a tree stump and wears a high brimmed hat (presumably a black academic bonnet), long-buttoned coat over frilled cuffs, falling jabeaux, breeches, boots and a cloak; his right hand on hip, his left arm and hand raised. Slightly grey-white porcelain; even, unctuous glaze. Straw translucency. Underside wiped; air hole at centre. Square hole at rear for mount. Measure: H 6.3 in (16 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection, from Stockspring Antiques, London, 1998. The Miss G...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Desirable Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Painted in under-glaze blue with the Desirable Residence pattern, featuring telegraph poles, and unusual feature for this period.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques Melbourne...
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Banana Trees", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with banana trees in a landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Parkside Antiques.
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique and Vintage Porcelain Dinner Plates, Platters and Serveware for Sale
Today you’re likely to bring out your antique and vintage porcelain in order to dress up your dining table for a special meal.
Porcelain, a durable and nonporous kind of pottery made from clay and stone, was first made in China and spread across the world owing to the trade routes to the Far East established by Dutch and Portuguese merchants. Given its origin, English speakers called porcelain “fine china,” an expression you still might hear today. "Fine" indeed — for over a thousand years, it has been a highly sought-after material.
Meissen Porcelain, one of the first factories to create real porcelain outside Asia, popularized figurine centerpieces during the 18th century in Germany, while works by Capodimonte, a porcelain factory in Italy, are synonymous with flowers and notoriously hard to come by. Modern porcelain houses such as Maison Fragile of Limoges, France — long a hub of private porcelain manufacturing — keep the city’s long tradition alive while collaborating with venturesome contemporary artists such as illustrator Jean-Michel Tixier.
Porcelain is not totally clumsy-guest-proof, but it is surprisingly durable and easy to clean. Its low permeability and hardness have rendered porcelain wares a staple in kitchens and dining rooms as well as a common material for bathroom sinks and dental veneers. While it is tempting to store your porcelain behind closed glass cabinet doors and reserve it only for display, your porcelain dinner plates and serving platters can safely weather the “dangers” of the dining room and be used during meals.
Add different textures and colors to your table with dinner plates and pitchers of ceramic and silver or a porcelain lidded tureen, a serving dish with side handles that is often used for soups. Although porcelain and ceramic are both made in a kiln, porcelain is made with more refined clay and is stronger than ceramic because it is denser.
On 1stDibs, browse an expansive collection of antique and vintage porcelain made in a variety of styles, including Regency, Scandinavian modern and other examples produced during the mid-century era, plus Rococo, which found its inspiration in nature and saw potters crafting animal figurines and integrating organic motifs such as floral patterns in their work.
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