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Period: 19th Century
Pastoral Group/Handkuss 'The Hand-kiss'
Located in Lantau, HK
Meissen, hard-paste porcelain, circa 1738-1740.
The Artist
The Meissen manufactory near the city of Dresden was founded by Augustus II (1670-1733), King of Poland and Electoral of Saxony, in 1710. It was the first factory in Europe to succeed in making white hard-paste porcelain. The early years of the Meissen production were focused on creating copies of Chinese porcelain. It was only when Kaendler began to work at Meissen in 1731 that the manufactory would break free from the influence of Asia and produce porcelain of true European character.
The Painting
A sculptor by training, Kaendler took over the direction of the manufactory in 1733. He is considered the key figure in the development of Meissen and the individual behind the transformation of the factory’s porcelain during the 18th century. Kaendler demonstrated his artistic ability by creating a variety of porcelain groups including the Italian Commedia dell’Arte, Pastoral and Crinoline groups, and Cris de Paris, which were met with widespread acclaim and made Meissen famous throughout all of Europe. Soon these porcelain figures would be used extensively alongside vases and other ornaments to decorate interiors.
Provenance
The themes of fête galante, pastoral idylls and masquerade themes, created by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), and then developed further by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), depicting amorous scenes with dancers, women and shepherds engaged in frivolous pursuits, spread all over Europe during the first half of the 18th century. This is due to the French engraver Gabriel Huquier (1695-1747), who dedicated himself to images and engravings after Francois Boucher and Juste-Aurele Meissonnier (1695-1750), who fostered the concept of Rococo style, that brought about the new trend in decorative arts.
In 1738, Kaendler introduced one of his figures in pastoral costume with the Handkuss (Hand-kiss) scene under a tree. For the shepherd lovers’ scene, the German sculptor drew his inspiration from Boucher and Watteau. Since the 1730s, the Meissen manufactory has been providing Watteau’s engravings...
Category
Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
3 Aynsley Porcelain Plates with Green Borders and Paintings of British Castles
By John Aynsley
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A set of three late Victorian Aynsley bone china wall plates with a light green border centered with hand painted images of Arundel Castle in England...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
15-Piece Old Paris Dagoty Hand-Painted Botanical Peach and Gold Dessert Set
By Dagoty
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Simple and elegant, this set of Ancienne Maison Dagoty, Edourd Honore, botanical plates and serving pieces showcase the beauty and precision of the hand-painted flower specimens. The...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large porcelain vase- English Mason's mark in the form of a Ewer, 19th Century
Located in Houston, TX
Masons ewer with a scrolled handle, very finely painted
With flowers and exotic birds, and on the other side it is painted
With four Asian figures and a garden scene.
A pair of ch...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Ironstone
Antique English Porcelain Tobacco Jar
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English porcelain tobacco jar.
Category
English Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
French Hand Painted Porcelain Carriage with Marie Antoinette
Located in Pembroke, MA
French Paris porcelain figural group depicting Marie Antoinette borne in her carriage with small dog following. Carriage has removable top cover. Beautifully-painted detailing, and v...
Category
French Rococo Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Ormolu and Sèvres-style porcelain three-piece garniture suite
By Henri Picard
Located in London, GB
Ormolu and Sèvres-style porcelain three-piece garniture suite
French, Late 19th Century
Vases: height 44cm, width 21cm, depth 16cm
Urn: 38cm, width 33cm, depth 29cm
Attributed to Pi...
Category
French Rococo Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Ormolu
George Jones Majolica Tureen with Wicker Base
By George Jones
Located in Dallas, TX
Wicker base and mackerel and bed of leaves and ferns, 15", professional lid rim repair
Category
English Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Antique 19th Century Japanese Imari Porcelain Plates, circa 1890's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique 19th century Japanese Imari porcelain plates, circa 1890's.
Category
Japanese Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Trimph Der Venus Royal Vienna Platter Framed Signed and W Bee Hive Marking
By Berger Pinh
Located in Manhasset, NY
A Vienna style porcelain burgundy-ground tray, 'triumph Der Venus' late 19th century, blue beehive mark, signed bergère Pinh. The oblong octagonal tray painted with Venus rising from the sea...
Category
German Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Sevres Porcelain Cabinet Plates : Scenes Gallants
Located in Montreal, QC
This pair are painted with lovers in a romantic and rustic landscape. There are two Scenes Gallantes: dancing in one, resting by a fountain in the other,...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Four porcelain miniature boxes, 19th Century.
Located in Aalsgaarde, DK
Four porcelain miniature boxes, 19th Century.
Mesurements:
H. 4-5 Dia. 7-9 cm.
H. 1.5-1.9 Dia. 2.7-3.5 in.
Category
Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
French Porcelaine and Bronze Inkstand, Marks of Samson, 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French Porcelaine and bronze inkstand. Marks of Samson, 19th century.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century French Porcelain Fishing Scenes Wall Plates Signed Francis
Located in Dallas, TX
These elegant decorative plates were crafted in Paris, France, circa 1870. The hand painted platters with scalloped edges, depict two beach scenes on the coast of Brittany; each wall...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samson Porcelaine Center Mounted in Louis XV Style Bronze
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Samson Porcelaine center
mounted in Louis XV style bronze
Late 19th century
Decorated with country scenes.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Rococo Style Bisque Porcelain Female Figures
Located in London, GB
Pair of Rococo style bisque porcelain female figures
French, late 19th century
One figure: Height 19cm, width 14cm, depth 10cm
Other figure: Height...
Category
French Rococo Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Sèvres Covereldose Tabatiere 19th Century, Watteau Painting
Located in Berlin, DE
Extremely rare Tabatiere probably Sèvres, France, early 19th century.
Illustration of a landscape with fishermen in pure-pur painting which stretches throughout the body of the can....
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Sevres Style Stands
Located in London, GB
A fine 19th century sky blue sevres style stands with four different scenes and engraving all around the top and the base.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Polychrome Porcelain and Gilded Bronze French Perfume Burner
Located in IT
Refined polychrome porcelain perfume burner, in the shape of potiche, painted with refined geometric decorations in gold on a light magenta red background and splendid bouquet of flo...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century French Limoges Painted Porcelain Cows Wall Platters
By Limoges
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall or a shelf with this large and colorful pair of antique platters. Crafted in Limoges France by Haviland circa 1880 and signed, each hand painted porcelain plate is ov...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century English Porcelain China Service
Located in Dallas, TX
Of fine quality, the service with blue decorated borders with gilt floral decoration. Consisting of 9 luncheon plates 9 1/4", 11 dessert plates 7" diameter, 2 large leaf shaped serv...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
"The Ages of Love" after Thorvaldsen, Denmark probably 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Biscuit porcelain plaque with relief depiction of "The Love Ages" after Bertel Thorvaldsen.
Category
Danish Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Japanese Imari Charger, circa 1880. 21.5" (55cm)
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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...
Category
Japanese Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Figural Group with a Musician Playing the Drums
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A lovely 19th century German Meissen porcelain figural group of a standing lady appealing to a standing gentleman and a musician sitting by their feet playing the drums.
Late 19th century.
Blue Meissen crossed sword...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Gorgeous Figurines Group Six Gardeners, Tall Tree by Acier, circa 1870
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen gorgeous figurine group of stunning appearance.
There are six gardeners - flanked by a tall tree - visible.
MANUFACTORY: MEISSEN (M939)
DATING: THIRD QUARTER OF 19TH...
Category
German Rococo Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Ashworth Polychrome Huge Dinner Service "Aesthetic Movement" 1880's
Located in Great Barrington, MA
An extensive and creatively decorated, hand painted Ironstone dinner service with "Chinoiserie" enamel decoration, highlighted in gold. This s...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Ironstone, Porcelain
Set of Six Paris Porcelain Fruit Plates with Hand-Painted Scenes of Animals
Located in Pembroke, MA
Set of six Paris porcelain scalloped plates with hand-painted scenes of birds and animals set in fanciful or pastoral environments, some with castles....
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Pair of Sevres Style Napoleonic Painted Porcelain Chargers
Located in London, GB
A large pair of Sevres style Napoleonic painted porcelain chargers
French, 19th century
Measures: 2cm high x 45cm in diameter, frames 51cm diameter
Excellently painted and finely crafted, these unusually grand Sevres style painted porcelain chargers are adorned with scenes of French military victories. The first charger, marked 'Bataille de Wagram, 7 Juillet 1809' is after a painting by Horace Vernet of Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, a decisive yet costly victory for the French allied forced over the Austrian army, and the second, after a painting by Francois Bouchot, depicts the Battle of Zurich (the charger is marked 'Bataille de Zurich 25 Septembre 1799') an earlier battle in which the Republican French army led by André Masséna triumphed over an Austrian and Russian force in Switzerland in 1799.
The works are each clasped with a gilt tooled border, and larger pink rose pompadour...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Antique English Mason's Ironstone Platters
Located in New Orleans, LA
These platters have scalloped sides and square ends. The colors remain quite strong and are very pleasing to the eye.
Category
English Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Ironstone
Pair Of Viennese Imperial Porcelain Glass Coolers, Cobalt And Gold, Dating 1811
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare pair of elegant oval porcelain vessels on offset, fluted feet, with bulging, raised walls, fluted, indented straight opening rim with ten crenellated-like cut-out small segments...
Category
Austrian Empire Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Small Austrian Porcelain Vase from the 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Small Austrian porcelain vase from the 19th century.
Ancient porcelain vase entirely hand painted and gilt with gold from the XIX century of ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Paris Porcelain Floral Ewer and Basin
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Paris porcelain ewer; (finial repaired) and matching basin, having brightly painted flowers to both; some rubbing to the ewer.
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Celadon Lamp 19th Century with Bronze Mounts
Located in New Orleans, LA
This beautiful lamp was first a vase and then mounted on bronze to serve as a lamp. The origin is Chinese, but the lamp came from England.
Category
Chinese Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Brown and Blue Porcelain Lamps, Japanese Style, Late 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of baluster shape brown and blue porcelain lamps. Decoration of Japanese style figures in a cartouche framed with vegetals and flowers with deep blue and gold highlights.
Mounte...
Category
Japonisme Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Vase Signed Sèvres, Painted by Lucat, France
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Porcelain and gilt bronze vase signed Sèvres, painted by Lucat, France, late 19th century.
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Meiji Falcon
Located in Dallas, TX
Japanese Meiji period porcelain green and blue colorful Falcon. Circa 1890.
Category
Japanese Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large 19th Century Sevres Vase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A beautiful French 'Sèvres' porcelain two handle vase, depicting a classical scene of a young maiden playing music with cherubs around her. Set in a dark blue back ground and gilded...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bayeux Porcelain Pair of Lamps, Canton Style, 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of Bayeux porcelain lamps on a white background with a polychromatic decoration in the Chinese Canton style porcelain. On one side, a scene with Chinese dignitaries on a cartouc...
Category
Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Japonisme Style Porcelaine Planter Signed L'Escalier de Cristal 19th C
Located in Paris, FR
Exquisite square planter in the Japonisme style. The whole planter is structured on bamboo-style edges.
Each face is decorated with flowers and leaves on a vivid blue background/ Ea...
Category
French Japonisme Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century English Minton "Florentine" Porcelain Compotes and Plater
By Minton
Located in LEGNY, FR
Beautiful 19th century English Minton Porcelain set of two compotes and a platter.
"Florentine" model.
The base of a compote has been damage.
Chimera, medicis and flowers decor...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Mid-19th Century Old Paris Vases
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair of antique mid-19th century Old Paris vases. From a Louisiana estate. These are beautiful and boast unusual, strong colors.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Kangxi Period Porcelain and Doré Bronze-Mounted Centerpiece
Located in New York, NY
A fine antique Chinese "Powder Blue" porcelain, mounted with very fine antique French transitional Louis XV/ Louis XVI style ormolu mounts. The porcelain Chinese Kangxi period, circa...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Orientalist Royal Worcester Porcelain Figures of Water Carriers
Located in London, GB
These two refined Orientalist figures represent a male and female in Eastern dress, each holding a ceramic water jug. The pair was modelled by British ceramic designer James Hadley, ...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Antique German Dresden Porcelain Conch Shell & Cherub Centerpieces, Ca 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique German Dresden porcelain hand-painted shell centerpieces, Circa 1890's.
Conch shell motif with winged cherubs and flowers.
Category
German Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Onyx, Porcelain, Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonnè Sevres Center, Neoclassical Style
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Onyx, porcelain, gilt bronze and cloisonnè Sevres center. Neoclassical Style. France late 19th century.
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Meiji period, Japanese Imari charger.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decoration late 19th Century, Meiji period Japanese Imari porcelain charger, depicting Prunus blossom to the ground, two fans one with a mythical bird the other with Cranes in...
Category
Japanese Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Pair Antique French Jacob Petit, Chinosseri Decorated, Two Handled Cov
By Jacob Petit
Located in New York, NY
A Very unusual and fine pair of antique vases by French Jacob Petit. Chinosseri decorated, with covers and delicately crafted handles. Each vase ...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of rectangular porcelain plates with antique scenes, early 19th century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of rectangular plates in porcelain representing antique scenes on cartouches with languished odalisques and nymphs and surrounded by putti in greyness. First frame in the medieval style and gold color; second one in celestial blue, reminding the color created by the chemist...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 19th C Copeland porcelain hand painted fruit and flower cabinet plate
Located in Central England, GB
This superb early 19th century porcelain cabinet plate is very finely hand painted with a rich central display of exotic fruit and foliage over a white ground boardered with a delica...
Category
English William IV Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Nantgarw Porcelain Shell Shaped Dish, c1820
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
A Nantgarw Porcelain Shell Shaped Dish, c1820
Welsh porcelain is amongst the most highly regarded of all early 19th century porcelains. The colour and decoration is always of the hi...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Nantgarw Porcelain Coffee Can and Saucer, c1820
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Nantgarw Porcelain Coffee Can and Saucer, c1820
Additional information:
Date : c1820
Period : George III - William IV
Marks : none
Origin : Nantgarw, Wale...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Paris Porcelain Vase
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Paris porcelain urn with swan’s head handles; beautifully painted frolicking cupids to the front, and matte and burnished framed musical motifs to the back. Some rubbing consistent...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Worcester Porcelain Flower Holder in the Japanese Style
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century early example of Worcester porcelain flower holder in the Japanese style, circa 1879.
Inspired by the Japanese style, Worce...
Category
English Anglo-Japanese Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Porcelain "Veilleuse" or Tea Warmer Night Light, Circa 1895.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Porcelain "Veilleuse" or Tea Warmer Night Light, Circa 1895.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Lovers and Cage, Glazed Porcelain, After Meissen Models, circa 1800
Located in Madrid, ES
Courtesans and cage. Glazed porcelain. Model Johann Joachim
Enameled porcelain figurine with base resembling rocks and a couple of lovers dressed in the manner of the 18th century, with the boy extending his left hand towards a large bird cage. The piece is very similar to figures entitled "Lovers with cage" made by Du Paquier...
Category
European Other Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
An exquisite and rare early 19t C Spode cabinet cup and saucer circa 1830
Located in Central England, GB
An exquisite and rare early 19t C Spode cabinet cup and saucer.
This beautiful and richly decorated Spode cabinet cup and saucer were made at this high quality English porcelain fact...
Category
English William IV Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
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...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Elegant Pair of Japanese Style Dishes, France, Circa 1875
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of 18th century soft-paste porcelain dishes finely decorated in the 19th century with medallions representing Japanese theatre characters dressed in traditional costumes, beautiful gold-embossed ornament on a polychrome background.
These dishes are to be linked with the production of the Sèvres Manufacture.
The Manufacture de Sèvres, factory of soft-paste porcelain, was founded in 1738 at Vincennes by bankers and financiers hoping to discover the secret of making hard-paste porcelain, used in Meissen at the time. In 1753, King of France Louis XV became the main shareholder of the factory, transferring it to Sèvres, closer to Versailles and the castle of Bellevue, owned by la Marquise de Pompadour, very interested by Sèvres’ research and supportive of the works. In 1759, the King became the sole shareholder of the Manufacture, making it the property of the French Crown. From this day on, the Sèvres artworks were marked with the royal seal, two intertwined “L’s”, as well as a letter indicating the year of creation. The period between 1756 and 1779 represents the most prosperous years for the factory. To support Sèvres, Louis XV made sumptuous orders offered as diplomatic presents. The main artists at the time, such as painters Boucher and Bachelier or sculptors Falconet and Boizot, worked for the factory. Research on the making of hard-paste porcelain kept going and succeeded after 1769. From this year, Sèvres successfully produced both soft-paste and hard-paste porcelain. It is also during this period that the most beautiful and singular colors were invented: bleu lapis in 1752, bleu celeste in 1753, green in 1756, famous pink in 1757 and royal blue in 1763. The most significant pieces are ornamented with scenes inspired by engravings from famous painters (Boucher) and ornamentalists. They are also decorated with garlands, bunches of flowers, trophies, gildings… The fine quality of Sèvres’ production covers a large range of statuettes (Falconet’s threatening Love), full services (Rambouillet’s service is presented to Marie-Antoinette in 1788), as well as utilitarian or ornamental items. The role played by haberdashers in the production’s development is essential. They originated trends around Sèvres-designed products, such as Daguerre who decorated his most precious furniture with porcelain...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
