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Derby Square Dish, Camden Service, William Billingsley Roses on Green, 1795
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare square dish from the famous "Earl of Camden" service made by the Derby Porcelain Company in 1795. The service was painted with typical English roses by William Billingsley, one of Britain's most famous painters, and responsible for exactly this type of rose painting on British porcelain.
There are more items available in this pattern, see separate listings. To keep these items together we'd be happy to offer a discount on multiple purchases - please ask!
The Derby Porcelain Company, later called Royal Crown Derby, is currently the oldest British porcelain factory still in production. The Derby pottery was one of the most prominent potteries right from the start of English porcelain production in the mid 1700s to today, and the factory went through many iterations. In the 1820s, it was called "Bloor Derby" as it came under the ownership of Robert Bloor; this factory later closed but its legacy was continued under the ownership of a group of employees, and later this was merged into a new factory called Royal Crown Derby, which is still in operation today and still carries forward some of the oldest patterns that have made it famous over the centuries.
William Billingsley was a brilliant but notoriously difficult man who left behind a trail of debts, broken hearts and mystery - but he was also one of the most important people in the history British porcelain. Billingsley revolutionised the way British decorators painted flowers; he added a freedom and artistry that now singles out British flower painting, and he created a new technique for painting roses, which you can see in this design. Billingsley worked at Derby, Worcester and Mansfield. He also set up his own potteries in Pinxton and Nantgarw and created some of the best porcelain ever made, but racking up great debts, before running off in the dead of night and ending his days at Coalport painting flowers.
Items painted by William Billingsley are rare and very much in demand - together with Thomas Baxter's work they are probably among the most desired pieces of British porcelain.
The Earl of Camden service was a huge service ordered by Lady Camden in 1795. It had to be produced under great, and unrealistic, time pressure and was notoriously late, much to Lady Camden's chagrin. She wanted the service to be produced by only the best artisans and therefore William Billingsley was tasked with painting all items - but it is thought that when it was clear the deadline was impossible to make, he enlisted the help of John Brewer for some of the last items, such as the ice pails. This plate shows the typical "Billingsley" roses: a beautiful naturally flowing garland of English roses interspersed with buds, trailing around a crisp gilt ribbon. The way the roses link into each other, the way each individual one is completely different, the light effects achieved by rubbing out some of the pink paint, and the very fine buds and foliage all point to these being from Billingsley's hand.
This dish came together with a plate that bears labels that point to a rich provenance: the Doris Wheatley Collection, the Daniel Collection, Derek Gardner...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italy Mid-18th Century Richard Ginori Porcelain Dish with Japan Landscape
Located in Brescia, IT
This Richard Ginori (an Italian factory in Doccia) dish is very elegant and it has a drawing not easy to find; for this reason it is an interesting piece to collect. Wonderful sense ...
Category
Italian Japonisme Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Caughley Salopian English Porcelain Shapes Plates or Dishes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of English porcelain shaped bowls or dishes.
By Caughley.
In a heart-form or shield shape.
Decorated throughout with painted cobalt blue and gilt floral devices....
Category
Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Set of Graduated Famille Rose Tankards
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain set of graduated famille rose mugs or tankards,
Circa 1780
The Chinese Export porcelain tankards or mugs are...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-Century Derby Porcelain Yellow-Ground Botanical Dish, Pattern #216
Located in Downingtown, PA
Derby Porcelain Yellow-ground Botanical Dish,
Pattern #216,
circa 1795
The Derby Porcelain oval dish has a yellow-ground border with a central wel...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large English Porcelain Covered Sugar Bowl, Worcester, Circa 1770
Located in New York, NY
Painted with a roundel of fruits and butterflies within a "Lord Henry Tynne" type border and an elaborately gilt blue band at the rim.
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meissen Compote in Openwork Porcelain, Museum Quality
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Antique Meissen compote in openwork porcelain with hand-painted flowers, insects and gold decoration.
Marcolini period 1774-1814.
Museum quality.
M...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen - figurine of a Bacchant by Kaendler, 1740
Located in DELFT, NL
Early Meissen figurine of a bacchant eating from a grapes, as an allegory of autumn.
Model by Joachim Kaendler.
unmarked, ca 1740-60.
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Chinese Export Porcelain Pair of Court Maiden Candlesticks
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain pair of maiden candlesticks,
circa 1760-1775
A pair of large Chinese Export figures of standing maidens holding ...
Category
Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Dish with Flower Basket & Butterfly
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Famille rose porcelain dish with flower basket & butterfly,
circa 1765
The Chinese Export famille rose porcelain dish is painted in enamels with a central wicker flower basket overflowing with fruit and flowers and above is a large butterfly. On the other three sides are grouping of fruit or flowers. The inner well is surrounded by gilt chain band. The outer border has four panels with flowers and fruit within a gilt rococo scroll...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Early Wedgwood Neoclassical Creamware Dessert Dishes Made circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A set of four early Wedgwood creamware Neoclassical dessert dishes made circa 1780.
Sir William Hamilton’s Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman an...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Creamware
Bow Pair of Porcelain Figures, Arlecchino and Columbina, Rococo ca 1758
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful pair of figures of Arlecchino and Columbina, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1758. These figures formed part of a series of the Commedia dell'Arte, a very popular series of theatrical figures that served as decoration at the dinner table in the 18th Century.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft paste porcelain, and most probably the very first to use bone ash, which later got perfected by Josiah Spode to what is now the universally used "bone china". Bow was the main competitor of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, but where Chelsea made very fine slipcast porcelain, Bow made a different soft paste porcelain that tended to be softer and could be pressed into moulds. Bow served a larger public generally at lower prices. The factory was only in operation between 1743 and 1774, after which the tradition got incorporated into some of the later famous potteries such as Worcester and Derby.
These figures were used to adorn the dinner table when dessert was served; groups of figures served to express something about the host, the guests, or to direct the conversation. The Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, a comical form of masked theatre, was very popular in those days and Bow copied many figures of the German Meissen series that were brought out in the decades before.
This pair dates from about 1758, which was at the height of Bow's ability to make beautiful figurines often copied from Chelsea or Meissen. The pair is modelled after a Meissen pair by Kaendler. The porcelain is translucent with a beautiful milky glaze - Bow was probably the first pottery using bone in its porcelain recipe. Arlecchino (Harlequin) is playing the bagpipes, dressed in an odd costume of mismatched chintz and playing cards and wearing a funny black trumpet...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Sèvres French Porcelain Hand Painted Teacup and Saucer with Bird Scenes, 1791
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and rare Sèvres Porcelain cabinet teacup and saucer each hand painted with birds within a landscape in coloured enamels and set...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italy 18th Century Italy Richard Ginori Doccia Pair of Porcelain Sauce Bowls
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an elegant pair of porcelain sauce bowls with floral drawings in red and blue.
It is beautiful for a table dressing or to collect.
The production of this well known Italian...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Early Derby Porcelain Cup & Saucer Rare Pattern 128 Puce Crown Marks, circa 1795
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a late 18th century porcelain Tea Cup and Saucer in pattern 128 by the Derby factory, Circa 1795.
This is a rare Derby pattern that we have not come across or seen previou...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Worcester Porcelain Deep Plate, Aesop Fable Horse and Donkey, ca 1780
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare deep plate made by Worcester around 1780. The plate has a basket weave rim and a very charming image of the Aesop fable of the horse and the donkey in the centre....
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italy Richard Ginori Mid-18th Century Porcelain Soup Bowl Red Blue Decor
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a beautiful piece made in Italy by Richard Ginori in the late 18th Century. The elegant and iconic handmade decor in red and blue is called ‘Co...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair 18th Century Blue and White Gilded New Hall Dishes England Circa 1790
By New Hall
Located in Katonah, NY
The New Hall China Manufactory made this pair of late 18th-century blue and white gilded dishes in Stoke-On-Trent, England, circa 1790.
On the border, the deep blue has exceptional ...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Frankenthal Porcelain Bowl with Hand Painted Fruit & Nut Decor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine antique 18th century porcelain bowl.
By Frankenthal during the Carl Theodor period.
With a group of polychrome enamel decorated fruit and nuts to the bowl, floral s...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Figure of Neptune and Dolphin on a Shell, ca 1785
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning porcelain figure of Neptune with a dolphin standing on a sea shell, made by Derby around the year 1785. The figure is in beautiful original condition.
We have one other Neptune figure from 1765, please see separate listing.
The Derby Porcelain factory has its roots in the late 1740s, when Andrew Planché, a Walloon Huguenot refugee, started making simple porcelain toys shaped like animals in his back yard. In 1756 Staffordshire enameller...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Famille Rose Armorial Bowl- Pringle of Whytbank- "Spero et Progredior" c.1765
Located in New York, NY
This family descended from Whitsun in Berwickshire and Alexander Pringle of Whytbank. A full service was supposed to have been made for Patrick Pringle who was one of four sons of Al...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Louis XVI Paris Porcelain Urns with Landscapes, circa 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine pair of Paris porcelain vases on pedestal bases, featuring landscape scenes within acid-etched gilt borders. The body of each vase with a green ground, above and below with gi...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Paint, Porcelain
Bloor Derby Pair of Porcelain Figures, Stag and Doe, circa 1765-1820
By Bloor Derby, Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a very charming pair of porcelain figures of a stag and a doe, probably cast by Derby in about 1760 and decorated by Bloor Derby in 1820. The figures are a simple white porce...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large 17th Century Colonial Japanese Porcelain VOC Charger
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain VOC dish.
Arita, late 17th century
Measure: Diameter 32.1 cm
These dishes, ordered by the VOC during the second half of the 17th century, were copied after the popular Chinese Wanli ‘Kraak’ porcelain...
Category
Japanese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italy Richard Ginori 1750 Porcelain Bowl
Located in Brescia, IT
Richard Ginori 1750 porcelain bowl with floral orange and blue decor handmade
This amazing Richard Ginori porcelain bowl is painted with a floral decor in orange and blue.
A beautif...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure representing Matrimony, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive allegorical figure of Matrimony, reprsented by a woman in her best clothing, holding a cage.
The Bow Porcelain factory was the first English porcelain producer; these ...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th century German Meissen painted porcelain model of a Grey Partridge
Located in Dublin, IE
A fine 18th century Meissen painted porcelain model of a Grey Partridge, standing in a leafy copse, with paint blue crossed swords mark to unglazed base and incised model number '57'...
Category
German Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier 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 figures si...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
French Porcelain Monteith, Sevres, circa 1760
Located in New York, NY
Painters mark of Pierre-Joseph Rosset.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Mid-18th Century Porcelain Cup with Dish White Blue and Gold
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a small masterpiece of craftsmanship: The fine porcelain is designed with floral and natural scenes, rich in detail.
A piece for refined collectors or useful to start a coll...
Category
Austrian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italy Richard Ginori Mid-18th Century Porcelain Hand Painted Tulip Decor Bowl
Located in Brescia, IT
Richard Ginori mid-18th century porcelain hand painted with Tulip Decor bowl.
This is a beautiful antique piece of this Italian production, handmade in 1...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italy Richard Ginori Mid-18th Century Pink Porcelain Covered Cup with Landscapes
Located in Brescia, IT
Italian Richard Ginori mid-18th century porcelain covered cup or little covered sauce tureen painted with landscapes in fuchsia color
This beautiful covered cup it was hand painte...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure of Juno with Eagle 'Jupiter', Rococo Ca 1765
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and impressive large figure of Juno with an eagle, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1765. This figure formed part of a series of the Four Elements, with...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Sevres Biscuit Porcelain Figure 'De La Fontaine' from 'Les Grands Hommes, 1784
Located in Essex, MA
A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) BISCUIT FIGURE OF 'JEAN DE LA FONTAINE' FROM THE SERIES OF 'LES GRANDS HOMMES'
circa 1784, INCISED L R 7 TO BASE AT FRONT
Modelled by Pierre Julien (1731-180...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
German Meissen 'Marcolini' Porcelain Tea and Coffee Service, circa 1790
Located in New York, NY
Comprising coffee pot, tea pot, covered cream jug, covered sugar, ten tea cups, six coffee cups, 16 saucers.
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Meissen Figurine of a Lady
Located in Basildon, GB
A good 18th Century Meissen Figurine of a Lady, circa 1740, modelled by Peter Reinecke wearing a hat with a ribbon, floral dress and holding a bouquet of flowers and standing on a fl...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Oval Dish, Camden Service, William Billingsley Roses on Green, 1795 (2)
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare oval lobed dish from the famous "Earl of Camden" service made by the Derby Porcelain Company in 1795. The service was painted with typical English roses by William Billingsley, one of Britain's most famous painters, and responsible for exactly this type of rose painting on British porcelain.
There are more items available in this pattern, see separate listings. To keep these items together we'd be happy to offer a discount on multiple purchases - please ask!
The Derby Porcelain Company, later called Royal Crown Derby, is currently the oldest British porcelain factory still in production. The Derby pottery was one of the most prominent potteries right from the start of English porcelain production in the mid 1700s to today, and the factory went through many iterations. In the 1820s, it was called "Bloor Derby" as it came under the ownership of Robert Bloor; this factory later closed but its legacy was continued under the ownership of a group of employees, and later this was merged into a new factory called Royal Crown Derby, which is still in operation today and still carries forward some of the oldest patterns that have made it famous over the centuries.
William Billingsley was a brilliant but notoriously difficult man who left behind a trail of debts, broken hearts and mystery - but he was also one of the most important people in the history British porcelain. Billingsley revolutionised the way British decorators painted flowers; he added a freedom and artistry that now singles out British flower painting, and he created a new technique for painting roses, which you can see in this design. Billingsley worked at Derby, Worcester and Mansfield. He also set up his own potteries in Pinxton and Nantgarw and created some of the best porcelain ever made, but racking up great debts, before running off in the dead of night and ending his days at Coalport painting flowers.
Items painted by William Billingsley are rare and very much in demand - together with Thomas Baxter's work they are probably among the most desired pieces of British porcelain.
The Earl of Camden service was a huge service ordered by Lady Camden in 1795. It had to be produced under great, and unrealistic, time pressure and was notoriously late, much to Lady Camden's chagrin. She wanted the service to be produced by only the best artisans and therefore William Billingsley was tasked with painting all items - but it is thought that when it was clear the deadline was impossible to make, he enlisted the help of John Brewer for some of the last items, such as the ice pails. This plate shows the typical "Billingsley" roses: a beautiful naturally flowing garland of English roses interspersed with buds, trailing around a crisp gilt ribbon. The way the roses link into each other, the way each individual one is completely different, the light effects achieved by rubbing out some of the pink paint, and the very fine buds and foliage all point to these being from Billingsley's hand.
This dish came together with a plate that bears labels that point to a rich provenance: the Doris Wheatley Collection, the Daniel Collection, Derek Gardner...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century First Period Worcester Porcelain Rococo Botanical Blue-Scale Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
The 18th Century First Period Worcester porcelain botanical kidney-shaped dish has a blue-scale ground with four large shaped panels and four smaller vase-shaped panels on the rim, all finely painted with flowers.
The vase-form panels each have a single flower while the larger panels are painted with an assortment of flowers, each has a distinctive long stemmed flower...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Circa 1680 Chinese Export Porcelain Family Rice Bowl
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1680 porcelain family rice bowl, Chinese export to SE Asia. Early Qing Dynasty. Underglaze blue esoteric Buddhist symbol (Vajrayana, Mantroyana, etc.) traditions. Symbols is Sa...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Frankenthal Porcelain Bowl with Hand Painted Fruit Decoration
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine antique 18th century porcelain bowl.
By Frankenthal during the Carl Theodor period.
With a group of polychrome enamel decorated fruit to the bowl, floral sprays to ...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 18th C Chantilly French Porcelain Bowl in a Clobbered Blue Sprig Pattern
By Chantilly
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Chantilly French porcelain low bowl.
Decorated in an underglaze blue sprig pattern with additional cold painted iron-red leaves and ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chelsea Porcelain Damasked or Molded Octagonal Plate with Butterfly
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English porcelain plate.
By the Chelsea Porcelain Factory.
Likely made in the 1750s during Chelsea's Red Anchor Period...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italy Richard Ginori 18th Century Porcelain Sauce Terrin Floral Drawings
Located in Brescia, IT
This elegant sauce terrin was handmade by the well known Italian factory Doccia, in the circa 1750. The Doccia products are pieces to collect. This sauce terrin with floral drawings...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chelsea Plate, Feather Moulded with Flowers, Red Anchor Mark, ca 1755
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful plate made by Chelsea in circa 1755, which is known as the "Red Anchor" period of the factory.
Chelsea was one of the very early adopters of porcelain in the British china industry. Founded in 1744 the Chelsea pottery was for about 40 years the leading maker of fine chinaware, excelling in their sense of style, perfection and constant innovation and inspiring many following generations of china makers.
The company was started by French silversmith Nicholas Sprimont and you can see the influence of the French style of silverware...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century, Lowestoft English Porcelain Trinket Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
18th century, English porcelain trinket box hand decorated in polychrome glazes and inscribed: "A Trifle from Lowestoft 1795".
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure of Boy 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
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Worcester Tea Saucer
Located in Toledo, OH
18th century Worcester tea saucer in a Chinese design with a seated woman and child in front of urns filled with flowers and fruit, and a tea set in front. 5" diameter. Marked on the...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
1662-1722 Chinese Associated Pair of Blue & White Porcelain Plates
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
1662-1722 associated pair of blue & white porcelain plates, Chinese. Kangxi period. Molded bodies with lotus petal reserves. The 8-flute molded sides surround a reserve of flowering ...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Derby Porcelain Vase with May Blossom Decoration
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
Derby Porcelain Shaped Vase with May Blossom Decoration,
circa 1770-1775
The four-sided shaped Baluster vase and cover with square-shaped neck and foot is designed with a design of multiple applied tightly packed May blossoms or Mayflowers (Schneeballen) with yellow stamen and a tint of aqua blue to the edge of each flower while the ground behind has a light purple wash creating a stunning effect after the Meissen Schneeballen...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
France Mid-18th Century Porcelain Soup Bowl Flowers and Fruits Drawings
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an antique porcelain piece made in Strasburgo, France in the mid-18th century.
The beauty of the drawings let understand the high level of the French manufacture.
It was lo...
Category
French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Orphaned Coffee Cup, Famille Rose Peony, circa 1755
Located in London, GB
This is a very charming orphaned coffee cup made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1755. The cup is decorated in a Chinese "famille rose" peony pattern. This cup would have been part of a large tea service, and the tiny size shows how expensive coffee was in the 18th Century.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft paste porcelain, and most probably the very first to use bone ash, which later got perfected by Josiah Spode to what is now the universally used "bone china". Bow was the main competitor of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, but where Chelsea made very fine slipcast porcelain, Bow made a different soft paste porcelain that tended to be softer and could be pressed into moulds. Bow served a larger public generally at lower prices. The factory was only in operation between 1743 and 1774, after which the tradition got incorporated into some of the later famous potteries such as Worcester and Derby.
The cup is unmarked, which is normal for Bow items of this era.
Condition report the cup is in excellent condition without any damage or repairs. There are various glazing imperfections, which are quite normal for porcelain of this era.
Antique British porcelain...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Early 18th Century Meissen Oval Wall Beveled Mirror Pair of Cherubs, Germany
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Fine German Meissen porcelain beveled wall mirror with a pair of figural cherubs. Finely modelled as an elegant 18th century piece of art, hand painted white porcelain china with cob...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French Late 18th Century Paris Porcelain Cachepots with Floral Décor
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of French Louis XVI period Paris porcelain cachepots from the late 18th century, with hand-painted floral décor and gilt accents. Created in France during the short reign of K...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique 18th Century Imperial Vienna Porcelain Sauce or Gravy Boats
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of 18th century Viennese "Wiener" porcelain two handled sauceboats from the Maria Theresa period.
With polychrome 'Streublumen' decoration throughout and an Osier rim ...
Category
Austrian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Octagonal Porcelain Tray from China for Export
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Octagonal porcelain tray from China for export. Decorated in blue and white, with buildings and river landscape, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795).
The center of the alley is...
Category
Chinese Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Octagonal Chinese Porcelain Serving Dish
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Porcelain dish from China for export. Decorated in blue and white, with a river landscape, plant motifs and flowers, in the center there is a pagoda and two figures crossing a bridge...
Category
Chinese Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century First Period Worcester Porcelain Coffee Can and Saucer
Located in Downingtown, PA
First Period Worcester porcelain coffee can and saucer,
This design is closely related to the Lord Henry Thynne and Earl Dalhousie patterns.
circa 1772-1775
The fluted Worcester por...
Category
Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of German Chinoiserie Porcelain Figures of Seated "Nodders"
Located in Essex, MA
Each with articulated heads, tongues and hands. Marked on reverse with a blue crossed X mark. Depicted as a seated man and woman in a variety of colors.
Category
German Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
