A Pair of Worcester Porcelain Warwick Fruit Coolers/Ice Pails

A Pair of 19th century Japanese Kutani Porcelain baluster Vases with Nishikigoi (koi) Motif. Each of baluster form with a flared ruffled mouth, beautifully decorated with red coy fis...

A Pair of antique German KPM porcelain plaques depicting "Aligira and Tirian" Marked with 'K.P.M' Sceptre Mark with the letters 'SZ', with size marks 915-255, marked with Royal Vien...

A Fine Pair of 19th Century German Meissen Porcelain Vases Painted with group and bird scenes. Heavily decorated on both sides of the each vase Germany, Circa 19th Century S...

A Pair of 19th Century Vienna Hand Painted Porcelain Portrait Plates Depicting Two Renaissance Women Austria, Circa 1890 Unmarke...

These lovely pair of Sèvres style porcelain vases exhibit finely detailed scenes to the front and back. The front of each vase with hand painted scenes of a mother and her children...

A Pair of 19th Century Meissen Porcelain two-tier dessert dishes with Gilt Bronze Dimensions: Height: 13", Width: 9" Signed with 19th century Meissen double sword mark Excel...

A Flight, Barr And Barr Worcester 'Warwick' Vase, Circa 1815-20. Decorated with a gilt gadrooned rim, gilt twisted double vine stem and leaf handles, and gilded floral and scroll dec...

A magnificent Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester ice pail, liner and cover, circa 1820-30 Of campana shape on a square foot, the classical style handles with gilt rams' head terminals, ...

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...

Pair of cobalt blue Worcester fruit coolers, England, circa 1780.

An early 19th century pair of porcelain ice-pails with gilt leaf decorated borders, part of a dessert service, comprising 20 plates, 3 shell dishes, 3 circul...

A fine pair of Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester Porcelain Vases c.1820. Of superb quality, each with bands of applied white ‘pearls’ and with a panel painted with views of 'Malvern Ch...