Gilt Porcelain

A large and unusual 19th century French Sevres style gilt bronze mounted oval shaped centerpiece. The cobalt Blue ground painted with a scene of seven ladies sitting in an interior engaging in embroidery. The reverse painted with a landscape scene with houses by a lake...

Wonderful matching pair of hand-painted fruit coolers with original fitted inserts. Shell handles and subtle blue, green and gold hand-painted decoration ...

This is an extraordinary example of "Aesthetic Movement" decoration, finely rendered on black glazed porcelain. The well detailed and beautifully painted subject, depicts a hunter wi...

A very decorative pair of gilded porcelain vases manufactured by Dresden in the early part of this century to simulate fine Old Paris vases. The scenic painting different on all four...

Pair of Paris Porcelain hand painted urns with fluted bodies, putti holding ribbons and gilded details.

A large Paris porcelain vase of good quality, almost two feet in height. The body with painted figural and landscape vignettes on opposing sides, contained by acid-etched gilt border...

Vienna porcelain hand-painted circular charger portraying Mary, Queen of Scots being told of her impending execution, within a rectangular gilt beaded frame and dark green ground sur...

A fine pair of Paris porcelain vases, designed in campana form with the front featuring circular vignettes with landscape scenes, on the reverse are framed musical trophies created t...

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...

This very finely painted set of Old Paris vases is perfect to decorate a mantel or large server. The painting all by the same hand is done in the chinoiserie style and of the best qu...

Empire Paris Porcelain sauce boat ; bearutiful 19th century production enhanced with fine gold, decorated with hand-painted polychromatic flowers, antique-style masks on the sides, a...

A perfect set of 12 Lenox covered ramekins ready for creme brulee, chocolate mousse or pate. Desserts, first course, these create a lovely presentation with simple and elegant ivory ...

An Excellent Late 19th century Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mounted Kingwood and Ebonized Wood Center Table. The rectangular shaped table with nine individual turquoise ...

Two handled Meissen heavily gilded charger or tray with pink rose painted flower in center and raised gold flower and leaf decoration on interior panels as well as rim and handles. C...

A fine old or antique Chinese export porcelain teapot. Decorated throughout with faded gilding and raised figural floral devices ...

A set of six dinner plates, bearing commemorative portraits of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. The whole hand-painted with a traditional pattern of leaves, flowers...

A covered serving dish, bearing two commemorative portraits of Naser al din Shah Qajar, on each side. Each portrait slightly different. The whole is hand-pa...

A large platter, bearing a single, central commemorative portrait of Naser al din Shah Qajar, the portrait facing slightly to the left (see companion platte...

Six Dresden reticulated painted Watteau scenic cabinet plates by Carl Thieme, each one exquisitely painted and gilt with a different garden scene. ...

Look at the exquisite intricate openwork on this Grainger and Company Worcester vase or ewer. The reticulation on this vase is masterfully executed by an expert. This vase would be a wonderful addition to any English porcelain collection...

Chinese Export Porcelain rose mandarin shell-form shrimp dish, also known as a Nappie or dessert dish, circa 1820, the shaped bowl with vividly enameled glazes and detailed gilding, ...

Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Mandarin Shell-Form Shrimp Dish, also known as a nappie or dessert dish, circa 1820, the shaped bowl with vividly enameled glazes and detailed gilding, ...

A marvelous Louis XVI period Sèvres Porcelain complete tea service, with date letter for 1782. Decorated with landscapes on a dark blue ‘beau bleu’ ground with elaborate gilt decoration. Comprising of six cups and saucers, a milk jug, teapot and sugar bowl and cover. With painter’s mark for Edme-François Bouillat (active 1758-1810) and gilder’s mark for Jean-Pierre Boulanger (pere) (active 1754-1784). France, circa 1782 Sèvres tea services...

Dieudonné Kinable Enamel Dial Attributed to Dubuisson (1731-1815) Exceptional Porcelain Lyre Mantel Clock from the Royal Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory Paris, late Louis XVI period, circa 1785-1790 Height 62 cm; width 26 cm; depth 16 cm The round enamel dial, signed “Kinable”, indicates the hours in Roman numerals, the fifteen-minute intervals in Arabic numerals, the annual calendar and the signs of the Zodiac, by means of four hands, two of which are made of pierced gilt bronze, the two others in blued steel. The magnificent lyre-shaped case is made of “bleu nouveau” Sèvres porcelain and finely chased and gilt bronze. The bezel is made up of a gilt bronze twisted rope; the pendulum is adorned with brilliant-cut paste stones; the body of the lyre is adorned with gilt bronze beading and with laurel leaf and seed motifs, with two rosettes issuing floral and foliate swags. The clock is surmounted by a mask with radiating sunrays. The spreading foot is decorated with beading and twisted rope motifs and a leafy garland. The en-suite decorated oval base is raised upon four flattened ball feet. The Royal Sèvres Porcelain Factory produced the lyre clock model as of 1785. Four colours were offered: turquoise, green, pink and bleu nouveau. These exceptional clocks were made for the connoisseurs of the time. Louis XVI had a similar clock in his Salon des jeux in Versailles; its dial bore the signature of the clockmaker Courieult (this is almost certainly the example illustrated in P. Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1999, p. 41). Kinable, however, was the clockmaker who purchased the greatest number of lyre cases from the factory, and he developed the model in the late 18th century. Among the porcelain lyre clocks signed by this brilliant horologer, one example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Band I, Munich, 1986, p. 252, fig. 4.6.26). A second such clock is in the Royal British Collection (see C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy & its Timekeepers 1300-1900, 1983, p. 130, fig. 176). Bibliography: M. Gay and A. Lemaire, “Les pendules lyre”, in Bulletin de l’Association nationale des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d’Horlogerie ancienne, Winter 1993, n° 68, p. 5-40. Dieudonné Kinable (active circa 1785-1810) One of the most important Parisian clockmakers of the late 18th century. His shop was located at n° 131 Palais Royal. He purchased a great number of lyre-type porcelain clock cases...