19th Century Porcelain

Danish Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Jug with Ormolu Gilt Silver Lid and Hand-Painted Neoclassical Motives in Sepia. The porcelain jug is signed with the classic 3 blue waves, represent...

A rare pair of Coalport porcelain cache pots c.1802-1805. Each cache pot, painted in the London studio of Thomas Baxter most probably by Thomas Baxter junior, ‘en grisaille’ with cla...

This is a fabulous antique French Sevres porcelain Cobalt Blue ormolu mounted casket, Circa 1880 in date. The shaped hinged cover decorated with a...

This Chinese ceramic plate is dominated by a blue-grey glaze and features wonderful hand painted blue strokes. Once used as an every day plate it is now a great example of Chinese ce...

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 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...

A large Derby Porcelain Campana Vase decorated by John Brewer c.1810 - Duesbury & Kean period. Each side of the vase finely painted with a roundel, one with a seascape and the other ...

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

A Very Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame. The plaque has an impressed KPM sceptre mark to the reverse with impressed number 315_255 and a letter H. A paper label for the studio of 'Franz Xavier Thallmaier, Mucnich'. This fine KPM plaque is superbly painted with a portrait bust of a young woman holding a music scroll and a laurel branch, possibly representing St. Cecilia. The plaque is set in a giltwood frame. Franz Xaver Thallmaier (1890-1910) established in Munich in 1890 one of the most prominent and successful porcelain painting studios in Germany. He employed a number of talented porcelain painters specialising in portraits and genre scenes after artists such as Joseph Stieler, Wilhelm Kray...

A ring of stunning cobalt blue frames the center of the courting scenes on this lovely eight piece set of painted porcelain plates. The reticulated basketweave edges are highlighted with gilt touches throughout, as well as additional gilt around the cobalt rings...

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...

Mintons (English, 1793-2005), circa 1830. A very fine quality antique porcelain waste bowl decorated in a rust ground and heavy gilding. A large pagoda is painted to one side of the ...

A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain vase c.1825-1835. Of inverted bell shape, decorated with afinely painted panel of flowers by Samuel Astles with raised and tooled gilding, f...

An Imari pattern Royal Worcester dessert plate with gold gilt. Circa 1890s, England. Five available.

Two particularly beautiful antique French Old Paris porcelain vases. Richly decorated with gold and blue decorations and beautiful hand-painted flower bouquets in the center of each ...

Ancient pair of fine porcelain vases, handmade and polychrome decorated with bucolic scenes and gilded edges, from Italy, 19th century, each measuring w 20 x h 29 x d 20 cm

Spode (English, founded 1770), circa 1820. An extremely fine quality and rare personal tea service in rust and gold. The surfaces are decorated in an imari style pallet - laurel leaf...

A teacup and saucer with milk jug in the “melted snow” shape with double drop handles, pale yellow ground with rich gilt and cobalt blue acanthus pattern and finely painted flower re...

Each piece painted in underglaze-blue and heightened in gilding with an exotic bird perched upon peony branches, comprising: an oval soup tureen, cover and two stands, an 18" oval platter, six 13" oval platters, a 23.5" fish platter, a 21.5" fish platter, four vegetable dishes and covers, two two-handled sauce tureens, covers and stands, a similar smaller sauce tureen, cover and stand, two butter dishes and one cover, two cake stands (one as is), four leaf-shaped dishes, a pierced berry dish, a rectangular stand, two pairs of figural double salts, a shell-shaped pickle dish, a pair of reticulated sweetmeat...

A superb early 19th century Empire period water pitcher in Porcelain de Paris and finely embellished with gilt in a striking, hand-painted design of flowers, leaves and other decorat...

Pair of Chinese rose medallion plates, the rim with stylized flowers in a light turquoise color , interior features alternating panels sep...

This is a stunning plate made by John Rose at Coalport between 1805 and 1815. The plate is decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and has beautifully hand painted flowers and fruits, an...

A two-handled leaf shaped dish with white melted snow border on a periwinkle ground, and a beautifully painted bouquet of pink and white roses in the centre There are several other ...

Imari scalloped plate with fan design, very high-quality. Circa 1890s, China.

Chinese Rose Medallion Porcelain Punch Bowl, hand-painted with figures, birds, flowers, and butterflies. Dealer: S138XX

Antique 19th Century German Meissen Porcelain Lady, Circa 1880's.

Exceptional Meissen porcelain genre group: Young mother seated on a magnificent Louis XVI-style armchair, her left foot set down on a low stool, a boy lying on his stomach on her left thigh, his white shirt slipped up to reveal his bare buttocks, which the mother has probably just struck with the cane in her left hand, to her right a girl in a dress and hat decorated with feathers, clasping her mother's arm so that she can no longer strike the boy. The group is based on an oval pedestal with gold heightened frieze decoration on the sides. Particularly elaborate, detailed design and staffage. This model was based on drawings by Johann Eleazar Zeissig, known as 'Schenau' (1737-1806). Designed by JOHANN CARL SCHÖNHEIT (1730 - 1805) in 1788 started working as an apprentice in the Meissen factory in 1741 and has been in a responsible position since 1768. For more than 20 years, Schönheit was an employee of both J.J. Kändler as well as from M.V. Acier, who entered the Meissen factory in 1762. After Kändler's death in 1775, Schönheit was head of the model department until 1794. Design of the model in 1788 Manufactory: Meissen Germany Dating: made around 1840 Material: white porcelain, glossy finish Technique: handmade porcelain, finest hand painting Dimensions: height: 25,5 cm / 10.03 in width: 18,0 cm / 7.08 in depth: 16,0 cm / 6.29 in Marks: Blue Meissen crossed sword mark Model number: I 66 / former's number 35 / painter Da.. Bibliography: Thomas & Sabine Bergmann, Meissen Artist's - Figures / Erlangen Germany 2014, Model numbers A1 - Z99, page 31...

The attractive set of 19th-century small, shaped, hand-painted Satsuma pin trays is a collection of delicate and ornate pieces that showcase the artistry of Satsuma ware from the Mei...

A pair of Chamberlain Worcester armorial dessert tureens and covers from the Admiral Yeo service c.1815-1820, each of twin-handled semi-reeded campana form on spreading foot, painted and enriched in gilding with the crest, motto and Badge of the Order of the Bath of Admiral Sir James Yeo, the borders richly painted in an Imari palette with flowering shrubs within oval cartouches reserved on royal blue ground gilt with stylised ornament, the gently domed cover with gilded pineapple finial and gilt highlighted acanthus leaf decoration within conforming border, puce script mark to underside of each cover, ‘Chamberlains Regent...

A Meissen Porcelain vase, this lovely piece features a deep blue body with scrolled snake handles with acanthus termini. The base is gadrooned and fluted with Fine classical detailin...

A potpourri vase with double cover, pale yellow/beige ground with apple green details, Rococo shape with fruit finial and scroll handles and foot; a flower reserve on one side and a ...

A Garniture of Minton Porcelain Vases decorated by Thomas Steele c1830. Each vase of 'Elgin' shape, finely decorated with a well executed panel of flowers on a marble table by Thomas...

Meissen Porcelain, Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with Love Bird C1870, SUPREME A Meissen porcelain figure from the Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with a Love Bi...

Entitled 'The banquet of Belsazar' a large fine quality Vienna porcelain charger, having a burgundy boarder with scrolling gilded decoration.

A solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover, a milk jug and a small cup and saucer, in “melted snow” shape, the cup with double drop handle, with deep cobalt blue ground, r...

Beautiful antique Old Paris porcelain (Porcelaine de Paris) coffee service. Handpainted with bouquet of flowers and finished with gold decorations. T...

This Chinese ceramic plate is dominated by a blue-grey glaze and features wonderful hand painted blue strokes. Once used as an every day plate it...

Antique 19th Century German Meissen Porcelain Lady with Flowers, Circa 1880's.

A very good quality late 19th Century Japanese Imari porcelain, hand painted charger depicting a six fold screen with a men on horse back in a rural mountainous setting. Fans, floral...

Entertain in style with this 78 piece of elegant cobalt blue and white porcelain china made in England or France possibly in the 1840s or 1850s w...

A very elegant antique 19th century KPM porcelain hand-painted & gilded lidded bowl/tureen, decorated with birds & butterflies, 1840-1895. This very handsome lidded tureen made by th...

A rare Staffordshire blue and white transfer ware bowl in great condition. England, circa 1820s.

19th Century Haviland & Co. Limoges Portrait Plate of Anne of Austria, Queen of France H&Co., France, 1888–1896 Signed lower right 'E. Furlaud', inscribed  'Anne d' Autriche' Retaile...

Antique French "Haviland & Co." Limoges Porcelain Turkey Pattern Oyster Plate with Hand-Painted Sea Life, Circa 1890.

This is a fabulous decorative antique Sevres bisque porcelain bust of Marie Antoinette dating from Circa 1880 and bearing the blue painted inte...

This pair of Paris porcelain neoclassical style vases from the early 1800s have stunning details and rich coloration. Old Paris porcelain, or Vieux Paris, is the term given to the elaborate hard-paste porcelain products created in Paris from the mid-1700s through the late 1800s. Vieux Paris is a generic term, as there were more than 30 factories that produced porcelain during this period. Sometimes these factories would sell “blank”, unpainted pieces to outside artisans, so it is quite possible to see identically shaped pieces with different paint styles. Because of this, a fair majority of Vieux Paris is unattributed – meaning there are typically no production marks. The trumpet necks of these vases are a lustrous gilded porcelain, flanked on two sides by bright white stylized sphinx busts with acanthus leaf headpieces. The slightly obovate bodies are painted in a matte azure color. This color, known as “Bleu de France”, has been a staple of the heraldry of the French monarchy since the 12th century. The body of each vase is where most of the minute details can be found. Situated on either side and slightly below the base of the sphinxes are gilt cherubs. Each vase has its own unique set of cherubs, depicting different activities. One vase has a cherub with butterfly on a string, while the one on the opposite side is holding a pair of trumpets. The other vase has a cherub flying with a wreath, while the one on the opposite side is holding a pair of torches. Even though the figures are very small in stature, you can still see the details of their faces. Beneath the cherubs are large bisque...

A superb early 19th century Empire period wash basin (with saucer) and tall pitcher, beautifully crafted from Old Paris Porcelain and featuring a very striking hand-painted polychrom...

This is an boldly decorated sucrier with cover made by Rathbone in about 1825 and decorated in the famous pattern 1088, which was a pattern done by a factory often called the "Blue V...

Japanese Dish or Charger, made in Japan at the beginning of the 19th century. With beautiful colors in red blue and white. The Item is in good condition.

Gardener couple consisting of two individual figures. The female gardener wears rural rococo clothing: a dress with elaborate floral decoration and pinne...

A very charming, naively modelled & hand painted figure of a tiger shown partially seated atop a rocaille base decorated with applied foliage & teal accents. Provenance: the underside retaining the retail decal for noted British ceramics specialist & BADA member, John Howard Antiques.

Circa 1870, by Minton, England. A gorgeous example of English porcelain, this monumental vase is a Victorian Aesthetic movement tour de force. Majolica by Minton is known for its del...

Antique KPM Berlin potpourri vases with Watteau scenes around 1830, 64 cm Painted on both sides. Rich naturalistic flower painting and hunting scene in an idyllic landscape. Porcel...

This is a beautiful antique Italian Capodimonte porcelain casket, late 19th Century in date. The box and cover are superbly decorated in relief with classical scenes, and there are...

From the Qing Dynasty, this Chinese ceramic plate is dominated by a blue-grey glaze and features wonderful hand painted blue strokes. Once used as an every day plate it is now a grea...

An exquisite pair of antique white 'Porcelaine de Paris' teacups and saucers, intricately hand- painted with gilt decoration throughout. Dating from the early 19th century, the cups ...

A set of three 19th Century French Sèvres fine gilded porcelain cups and saucers with tall scrolled handles. Hand-painted floral decoration. Sèvres mark to underside with red Château...

A large basket with a Persian-inspired moulded Alma border in black on a bright pink ground, a moulded swan-head handle in white, gilt and pale green, pierced ends and a beautiful pa...