Porcelain

An Incredible and Quite Rare Pair Of Sevres Porcelain Cobalt-Blue Ground Vases Adélaïde, 2eme Grandeur; 1843-1849, green printed S.49 lozenge for 1849 to the underside of each socle,...

This is a spectacular 17-piece tea service serving four, made by New Hall around the year 1810. The service consists of a teapot with cover on a stand, a sucrier with cover, a milk j...

Rare petite antique French "Charles Filed Haviland" Limoges porcelain oyster plate, circa 1890s. Unusual size and in striking colors of deep golds, violet & umber. .

Antique 19th Century French porcelain potpourri vases, adorned with ormolu mounts in the Sèvres style. Each vase boasts two graceful handles shaped like cherubs, adorned with delicat...

Antique late 19th Century pair of A Berlin KPM porcelain vases with covers, showcasing exquisite craftsmanship. Marked with a underglaze blue scepter and a crowned orb above "KPM" in...

An English porcelain potpourri vessel with gold gilt god-like heads and lion paw feet, Empire design, by Crown Derby, circa early-19th century, England. Red makers' mark date range c...

Decorate a dining table or shelving with this antique porcelain service set of 32 pieces. Crafted in France circa 1880 by Gien, each plate and dish features a large peacock, and is s...

Antique French "Jules Etienne" porcelain unusually shaped oyster plate, circa 1890's. This oyster plate has the depth of a shallow bowl, and it is shaped in an elegant oval rather th...

Antique 19th Century French Samson porcelain lidded vases feature intricate ormolu bronze mounts gracing both base and lid. The lids are crowned with cherub-shaped finials, adorned w...

Antique 19th Century French Serres porcelain pair of lidded vases, exude elegance with their ornate ormolu mounts. Delicately adorned with graceful acanthus leaf handles, each vase f...

Wonderful 18th to 19th century antique Imari plate with scalloped rim. Hand painted with central blue medallion, surrounded vibrant orange, crimson, blue, and green patterns. Unmarke...

Very Stylish Pair of German Meissen Glazed Porcelain Parrots of exceptional quality, last quarter of the Nineteenth Century. Each naturalistically modelled and perched on tree stum...

Antique German porcelain oyster plate, circa 1880-1890. A handsome shaped oyster plate hand painted pink and taupe on a white background.

Gilt Porcelaine de Paris Openwork Coupe Centerpiece to be placed centrally on the table, for fruit or flowers. Empire period, French, 19th century center basket with reticulated rim,...

This is a stunning tea service made by Spode in about 1810, consisting of a large teapot with cover, a milk jug, a sucrier with cover, a slop bowl, a saucer dish and 4 teacups with s...

Magnificent in scale and adorned with opulent detailing were created in 1876 and bear the signature of A. Carrier Hammer, these monumental baluster vases stand at an impressive heigh...

A fine pair of Meissen porcelain pot pourri and cover, c. 1870. Modelled in Marcolini Period style, each pot pourri having pierced shoulders, supported upon three angular feet, with ...

Set of 5 dessert plates and cups and large rectangular serving or sandwich platter was made of fine porcelain by Coalport China Company in England. It is hand decorated with Indian ...

White porcelain jelly mould with detail carvings, raised centre, some straining on parts of mould due to age, stamped Shelley England Circa: 1910-1925 Material: Porcelain Count...

This is a beautiful plate made by Coalport around the year 1820. The plate is decorated in white with a simple gilt rim, darting puce and gilt vines, and a wonderful hand painted bou...

A pair of gilt bronze and royal blue porcelain ewers, 19th century, Napoleon III period. A pair of gilt bronze and royal blue porcelain ewers, gold enamelled with a hand-painted gal...

An exceptional Barr Flight Barr Worcester porcelain platter c.1804-1813 made for the Cookesfamily of Bentley, Worcestershire, Hand Painted with their family crest and motto, DEO REGI...

Very Stylish German Meissen Glazed Porcelain Parrot of exceptional quality, last quarter of the Nineteenth Century. Naturalistically modelled and perched on a tree stump above a roc...

This is a porcelain coffee can or cup by Machin with a very good Chinoiserie pattern and dating to very early in the 19th century, late Georgian period. This coffee can has nominall...

This is a stunning and very rare pair of vases made by Coalport in around 1845. The vases have rich gilding in the Persian Revival style, combined with very English floral reserves o...

The clock and the pedestal were designed by Leuteritz using old forms in the Rococo style: The clock case rises on a rock base with gold heightened rocailles, richly decorated with d...

Paris porcelain gilt chinoiserie cup. French footed coffee can with richly painted and gilt chinoiserie figures within gilt arcade on brown ground w...

This is a stunning dessert service made by Minton probably around the year 1830, in their "second period". The service consists of a high footed centre piece, two square dishes, two ...

Circa 1800-1830 pair of porcelain soup plates, Blue Canton, Chinese export. Octagonal form. One with minor rim chip, the other with a few chips; both with hairlines. 9" dia. Whiteha...

Circa 1830 Blue Canton gravy boat, Chinese export porcelain. Helmet form; loop handle. Light blue color. Interesting glaze & kiln flaws. 7" x 4.5" x 4" h. Whitehall Antiques is a fa...

Set of 3 cups and 3 saucers by Guerin &Co was made of fine, semi-transparent bone china in Limoges, France. The set is hand decorated in Victorian style with ornamental blue and brown thistle flowers motifs on white background and gold trim on cups handles. The pieces are marked with green underglaze factory marks "Limoges W.G.&Co France" that date back to 1891-1900 and red decorator overglaze marks "Wm...

This is a beautiful "true trio" consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer, made by Spode in about 1815. It is decorated with pattern 2234 with a striking lavender or periwinkle blue border and finely painted flower sprays. In the late 18th and early 19th Century a "true trio" is how cups and saucers were sold; as you would never drink tea and coffee at the same time, why invest in an extra saucer? Josiah Spode was the great pioneer among the Georgian potters in England. Around the year 1800 he perfected the bone china recipe that has been used by everyone ever since, and he was also the leading potter behind the technique of transferware, making it possible for English potters to replace the import of Chinese china that had come to an end around that time, with their own. This was fundamental to a thriving industry that would last for about 150 years and provide half the world with their tableware. This set is made in the famous "London" shape, which was brought out by Spode in 1812 and was quickly copied by all other makers. It then remained the most popular shape for about 10 years. The set is potted in fine white porcelain - by the year 1810 Spode had perfected his recipe for bone china and it became beautifully smooth, white, thin and translucent. All three items are marked with the red hand painted SPODE mark and the pattern number 2234. CONDITION REPORT The set is in excellent antique condition without any damage, repairs or crazing. There is some minimal wear as visible in the pictures...

This is a beautifully hand-painted English coffee can, from the late George III period, of the very early 19th century, circa 1805. This coffee can is nominally straight sided with ...

Large 19th Century Japanese Imari charger, having wonderful gilded and bold colouring, depicting hand painted classical motifs, blossom trees, exotic flowers and birds. Including a b...

A set of four (4) early Minton porcelain plates, unusually decorated with a red bat-print of Oriental flowers and bamboo branches, overpainted with colorful enamels and complemented ...

Antique English Watteau Flow Blue Stoneware Footed Tureen with Courting Scene C1870 Measures - 6.75"H x 11"W x 10"D

Each bottle shape with attached square bronze base. Decorated with a powder blue with gilt highlights and famille rose fan and lozenge vignettes.

Excellent Meissen porcelain group of the 19th century. Very large depiction of the allegory of agriculture grouped around an apple tree: in the foreground an elderly man chopping wood...

Pair of empire vases "Views of Versailles" French, in porcelain from the 19th century. 19th century polychrome and gilded decoration, with the central reserve at the center with t...

This is a beautiful square dessert dish made by Hicks & Meigh in about 1820. The dish has a deep cobalt blue ground, lavish gilding and panels with beautiful hand painted flowers. ...

Antique French Limoges porcelain magenta & gold oyster plate, signed "Charles Field Haviland," circa 1880s. This wave pattern antique plate is vividly hand-painted in magenta with go...

Pair of decorative plates in Limoges porcelain, 19th century, Napoleon III period. A pair of Limoges porcelain decorative plates with ducks in flight, signed, 19th century, Napoleon...

This is a gorgeous dessert serving dish, or "shell dish", made by Spode in about 1810, which was the Regency era. The dish has a beautiful Neoclassical pattern of gilt details on an ...

Cup and saucer set by Haviland & Cie is decorated in Aesthetic style, combining elements of 3 different patterns. Meadow Visitors butterflies, placed between Bracquemond style sprays of pink roses and blue cornflowers, are accentuated with grey and gold medallions in abstract design. The butterflies and roses are decorated with raised enamel accents, and the butterfly shaped handle is outlined with delicate gold veins, tracing the wing pattern. The cup is 2.12" tall and 3.5" wide at the rim; the saucer is 5.65" in diameter. Set uses butterfly handled blank that was in production for relatively short time; factory decorated pieces are rather rare due to limited supply and fragility of the cups. This set is marked with the blue donut-shaped decorator mark, used in 1879-1889, on both cup and saucer, and underglaze green manufacturer marks: H&C on the cup, dating it 1876-1879, and H&C/L on the saucer, dating it 1876-1889. Examples of similar decorations, utilizing abstract border designs instead of medallions on china with Meadow Visitors decor, can be seen in Haviland China...

Large Old Paris Porcelain Water Jug, 19th Century. 19th century water jug, Charles X period, in Old Paris porcelain. H: 35cm, W: 24cm, D: 15cm

A particularly pleasing and restrained form of decoration for this period, which allows the beauty of the porcelain to be clearly seen. Nantgarw porcelain is particularly fine, and ...

Magot of exceptional size with tilting head, tongue and hands. Material made entirely of porcelain, with the exception of the "biscuit" hands. What are magots? The word magot comes from the French: barbary ape. They are male or female figures with oriental features. Usually the material used for the representation was painted or decorated porcelain. The subject depicted, in a good-natured and pleasant way, is Pu-Tai. The Chinese god of happiness and abundance. It is said that they brought good luck because, thanks to their head, tongue and jointed hands, they were able to warn earthquakes. They arrived in Europe between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century thanks to the first connections between European merchants (Venetian in particular) and Chinese. In the following decades, they became a status symbol to be displayed in aristocratic homes. They found fertile ground in Europe thanks to the fashion for the exotic that developed in the Old Continent during the first decades of the eighteenth century. This fashion can be found in various objects of the time, not only in the Magot, see the toilet objects and lacquered furnishings decorated with the famous chinoiseries. In a few years, thanks to the increased demand, our factories also began working to satisfy this new form of collecting. From the German ones: Meissen, Dresden, Rudolstadt; to the French ones: Saint Claude Samson and Chantilly, to the Italian ones. True masterpieces were created throughout Northern Italy. The Piedmontese ones, made of papier-mâché, were then unusual. Authenticity: Completely intact to the naked eye and the infrared lamp...

Behold the regal allure of history with this magnificent Porcelaine de Paris plate adorned with the Imperial Austrian Eagle motif, hailing from the 19th century Napoleon III era. Cra...

Antique porcelain sculpture from KPM depicting Orpheus and Eurydice after a model by Wilhelm Christian Meyer.

This set of 13 Aesthetic Movement dessert plates with matching serving compote, were made by Davenport ca. 1890's and feature hand decorated ferns surrounding the molded floral relie...

Small inkwell crafted in porcelain, the paunch and lid decorated with a frieze of polychromatic floral motives highlighted with gold. The lid topped by a pine cone finial features a ...

This is a colourful teacup and saucer made by Flight Barr & Barr around the year 1815. The set is decorated with a bright Imari design in the Regency taste. This teacup would have f...

Large decorative porcelain dish, Hand-painted, 19th century, Napoleon III period. Large decorative porcelain dish, hand-painted decoration of a duck in flight, 19th century, Napoleo...

Beautiful Chinese antique famille rose celadon canton plate with hand painted butterflies, birds and flower decoration i polychrome colors. H: ...

This is an extremely rare Belleek cabaret set for two, or "tête-à-tête", made in the Erne series brought out in the 1890s. The items carry the 2nd Black Mark, used between 1891 and 1926. The set consists of a teapot, a milk jug, a sugar bowl, two teacups and saucers, and a large matching tray. This set is very fine and with its restrained cream-white colour it would make a wonderful wedding gift! If you ever thought Belleek fine china looks, sounds and feels unique, you are right. There is a back story to this extraordinarily fine Irish eggshell porcelain, which has an unusually high amount of "frit" and therefore is thinner and finer than any other china. Pottery in Belleek (in the now Northern-Irish area of Fermanagh) had started in 1849 with John Caldwell Bloomfield, who was a wealthy land owner. During the Irish famine he realised that unless he would find a way for his tenants to make a profit off the land, they would starve. Agriculture had become impossible due to the agricultural diseases. This caused millions to starve and more millions to leave. As an amateur mineralogist, John Caldwell Bloomfield realised that his land had exactly the right mineral deposits to be used as clay for porcelain. He involved several investors and scientists and after many years of research, trial, error, the building of a railway line to import coal from England, and building a factory, the Belleek pottery resulted, employing the local people and soon producing the finest china made with clay from the Belleek area. What had started as a way to fend off famine among the local tenants had became a story of incredible success by the 1880s as Queen Victoria fell in love with the fine white china and the many homely, slightly bizarre but nature-loving designs; this was different from English tradition, yet it was very much to the taste of the British who had developed a real love for home-made fine china since it was introduced in the late 18th Century. Belleek not only brought out many tea services, but started a new tradition of intricately woven porcelain baskets. Soon the English nobility started to place big orders and the pottery is still flourishing today and selling its wares the world over, while in England most potteries have long disappeared. Belleek made many cabaret services, often called breakfast services or "tête-à-tête" services; these were used to carry breakfast tea up to the bedroom. Queen Victoria bought one in the Echinus style during a visit to the factory in the 1860s, and ever since Belleek's cabaret services have been in great demand. Nowadays there are very few of these left and it is rare to find a full service like this. The Erne series was named after the river right besides the Belleek factory. This river forms the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with the factory on the Northern Irish end of the bridge at Belleek. The pattern seems to be a play on the baskets and nets of the fishermen who once fished the abundant trout and salmon on the river Erne and the lake that belongs to it. The items carry the second Black Mark, which was used between 1891 and 1926, however the very fine quality of the porcelain indicates that most pieces of the set are more likely to be from the 1890s than from the 20th Century. You will see that the shade of cob lustre is different on each item; this is normal for Belleek tea sets...

Large decorative dish from the Limoges Porcelain Factory. Hand-painted decorative platter from the Limoges porcelain factory, France, 19th century, Napoleon III period. h: 6cm, w: 5...

A Derby Porcelain Cache Pot c.1815. Of circular form, flared rim with slightly tapered sides, the front decorated with a finely painted by John Brewer with the scene of a man on hors...

Large decorative dish from the Limoges Porcelain Factory. Hand-painted decorative platter from the Limoges porcelain factory, France, 19th century, Napoleon III period. h: 6cm, w: 5...