1840s Porcelain

A rare Derby porcelain ‘Nodding’ figure, circa 1840. Modelled after the Meissen original, as ‘Joseph Frölich’, stood, with his thumbs in his braces. His detachable head, with a bras...

This is a huge porter mug made by Coalport in about 1845. The mug has a white ground and beautiful flowers painted by the famous painter Thomas Dixon, and i...

Sixteen Minton Porcelain Botanical Specimen Flower Plates, Minton Pattern A 1361, Circa 1846 Each plate is finely painted with a different botanic...

This is a small charming semi china serving platter made by an unknown Staffordshire factory probably around 1840. It has a blue on white transfe...

French Sevres portrait plate of a beautiful lady with a white hat and a pink scarf. The borders of this Sevres plate are very unusual as they hav...

This is an extremely rare dessert service made by Chamberlain & Company (Worcester) between 1840 and 1851. Robert Chamberlain started his own porcelain company in 1791, initially mainly decorating other factories' blanks, but then increasingly producing his own distinctive hard-paste porcelain. The company became very successful, but ultimately couldn't compete with the Barr & Flight factory and merged with them in 1840. The company was called Chamberlain & Company for the next decade or so, after which it ended up in the hands of Richard Binns and William Kerr, who modernised the factory and ultimately created the famous Royal Worcester factory in the 1860s. This dessert service was most probably made for the US market. It is a pattern that was popular in the 18th century, called "Blind Earl...

Pair of KPM soup plates with gold rim and flower decoration on the wavy rim and overturned flower basket motif in the well. On the underside brick-red KPM imperial orb mark, penny ma...

A coffee set in the pattern designed for Louis Phillipe for the castles of Saint-Cloud and Compiègne. Decorated with rosettes and friezes of palmettes in gold on an agate blue backg...

Antique English porcelain jug or pitcher, circa 1840. Came out of a private collection in England and shows no prior repairs or cracks.

A pair of Minton Parian figures depicting "Ariadne" after Dannecker, 1847 and "Una and the Lion", John Bell, sculptor, 1847. These two figures are date marked 1873, as shown in the p...