Painted Porcelain

A very beautiful Chinese porcelain baluster-shaped jar with lid and knob, painted in underglaze blue crackle with hand-painted cobalt blue and white decorations depicting a two-horne...

Herend pink Chinese Bouquet, two small bowls with wickerwork in hand-painted porcelain. Largest measuring D 11.5 cm. x H 5.0 cm. Mid-20th century. In ex...

A pair of porcelain urns from the empire period, probably Russian. Painted with flowers and gilded.

Completely handmade porcelain bowl with a hands-free naturalistic painted Easter bunny figure with grey spots in country style. The bunny is sitting in th...

This is a set of eight Schumann porcelain salad plates. They depict a white background with a hand painted bouquet of flowers in the center. Also the trellis porcelain rim is adorned...

Beautiful hand decorated, Art Nouveau enameled glass trinket, or jewelry box. This is a gorgeous piece by Legras, makes a lovely gift to oneself or others. Measures: 4 1/8" Diameter x 3 1/4" Height Legras Art Glass...

In very nice used condition, circa 1900. Beautiful Art Nouveau glazed porcelain tableau framed by Oak. Handles with brass details. A whole is in a beautiful state!. No cracks or ...

A Meissen Porcelain Greek Mythology’s Muse figurine playing the Lute. She can be Erato, the muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry and mimic imitation. It depicts a lady dr...

A fine antique neoclassical porcelain serving tray. By Coalport. Painted en grisaille with classical medallions reserved against a gilt-vermicule ground. The border having a sa...

A beautiful porcelain Art Deco coffee or tea cup and saucer, Germany, circa 1960s. Design and colors include: white, terracotta, black and gold - with an elaborate bird design in a r...

Porcelain vase with cover (urn) of oval shape, finely painted, depicting a female by the seaside on one side, and a wooded landscape with deer on opposite side. 20 by 16 1/4 by 8 in...

European porcelain maker. Porcelain figure. Seated dachshund. 1930s / 40s. Measures: 23 x 17 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

This is one of a series of animal bowls designed for Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory by Hella Jongerius. The large bowl with a rabbit adorned in a blue floral pattern is the perfec...

There is something about blue and white which goes with breakfast. This small assembled service will lighten your morning. It comprises: Eight tea cups and saucers (2 sizes) Four ...

A Monumental Meissen Porcelain Figural Group of Apollo and the Nine Muses on Mount Parnassus. Comprised of sixteen interlocking parts. Apollo standing holding a lyre and with Pegasus besides a tree, atop a rocky outcrop detailed with foliage and waterfalls above nine goddesses: Calliope, seated and shown writing, representing eloquence and epic poetry. Clio, seated with an open book and blowing a trumpet, representing history. Erato, seated and holding a kithara, representing science and the arts Euterpe, seated and holding a flute, representing music. Melpomene, seated holding a knife and with one hand to her head, representing tragedy. Thalia, seated and holding aloft mask, representing comedy and idyllic poetry. Urania, seated with telescope and globe, representing astronomy and astrology, Polyhymnia, standing with one hand raised and holding a book, representing sacred poetry. Terpsichore, standing, representing dance. Each piece exceptionally finely detailed and painted. The base portions with rocaille edges. On a later black polished wooden base. Multiple blue crossed swords marks. Each piece titled to underside. German, Circa 1880. Mount Parnassus, is a spur of the Pindus Mountains in central Greece and was sacred to the ancient Greeks and in mythology to Apollo, the god of music and poetry and of the Sun and light. Mount Parnassus the mythical centre of poetry, music, and learning in ancient Greece was a popular theme in Barqoue and Rococo art, often substitutable with Athena’s arrival at Mount Helicon from the fifth book of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, where she asks the Muses to show her the new spring which gushed forth from the spot where Pegasus “with his hoof of horn opened the earth” (V, 250-260). Here, the mountain, formed from rugged rock cliffs, culminates in a plateau on which the youthful Apollo stands and plays the lyre. The Castalian spring flows from beneath Pegasus’ hoof, representing the source of inspiration and attracting the nine muses, who embody the arts and inspire creation through song, music, and dance. Mount Parnassus was created at the Meissen porcelain manufactory as a table centrepiece and an earlier version, apparently with only five muses, is listed in the inventory of the pastry shop of the Meissen manufactory manager and cabinet minister Heinrich Graf Brühl in 1753. The storage in the pastry shop of approximately 3,000 objects and dishes, including many individual parts for centrepieces, is related to their function as table decorations, replacing decorations previously made by the confectioner from perishable materials such as sugar or wax. The purpose of this table decoration was as a feast for the eyes to accompany the feast of the banquet. The sculptural figurines often depicted a particular theme, with characters drawn from theatre and opera, from classical mythology or pastoral idylls. Allegories and mythological themes, such as the glorification of fine arts, were also popular. Stylistically, Mount Parnassus fits Kändler’s style of the 1740s, and was sold by Brühl in 1762 to Frederick the Great of Prussia who used mythology as a means of self-expression and had already ordered individual figures of Apollo and the Muses as table decorations in 1744. Today it is in the Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt (inv. no. M.L. 41). There is another version of Mount Parnassus, from the collection of Prince Alexander Dolgorukoff, in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. The present version dates to the second half of the nineteenth century when there was a great revival of Kändler rococo figurines which were reissued and a “Second Rococo”. Another nineteenth century example is in the collection of the Museo Francesco Borgogna, Italy (inv. 1906, XIII, 19-20). These nineteenth century versions were made by the Meissen factory using Kändler's period models. It is recorded that a new version of Mount Parnassus, dating to the 1880s, was part of the Royal Porcelain collection in Dresden: 'In the porcelain collection there is a new version from the 1880s based on the old models, the largest group of this genre, the Parnassus, which shows the named muses all around on the lower part of the rock, each practising their own art, while on the top there is Apollo with the lyre and next to it the Castalian spring rises from the hoofbeat of Pegasus. Each figure is executed individually with its rocky background, and all the pieces are then fitted together, as we have already seen in his earlier, larger compositions. The rock pieces are finished off like a pedestal at the bottom with Rococo ornaments.' (Jean Louis Sponsel, Kabinettstücke der Meissner Porzellan-manufaktur von Johann Joachim Kändler, Leipzig, 1900, pp. 203-204). Kunst und kunsthandwerk; monatsschrift herausgegeben vom Österreichischen museum fuer kunst und industrie, Vienna, 1894, v.7 pt.1, p.133. Kari Berling, Das Meißner Porzellan und seine Geschichte. Leipzig 1900, S. 99, 187-200. Helmuth Gröger, Johann Joachim Kaendler. Dresden, 1956. Peter W Meister, Franz Adrian Dreier, Figürliche Keramik aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Kat Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt. Frankfurt 1964, Nr. 90. Rainer Rückert, Meißener Porzellan, 1710-1810. Kat. Ausst. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München. München 1966. Stefan Bursche, Tafelzier des Barock. München 1974, Abb. 300. "Tafelaufsatz, Der Parnass", Auswahlkatalog, Museum für Kunsthandwerk (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1987, pp. 86-87. Alfred Ziffer, ‘Meissener Porzellanplastik für fürstliches Interieur und Zeremoniell’, Keramos, Issue 241/242, pp. 29–52. MEISSEN The production of Meissen porcelain began in 1710 at the manufactory at Meissen...

Meissen Coffee and Tea Service, Consisting of 48 Parts: 1 lidded coffee pot, 1 lidded teapot, 2 milk jugs, 2 sugar bowls, 12 cups, 12 saucers, 12 dessert plates, 1 oblong tray, 1 ser...

A superb and stylish Aesthetic Movement Minton porcelain cabinet plate decorated with birds, flowering hawthorn and other designs attributed t...

A very good Porcelain Coffee Can with a ring handle, hand decorated with an orange and gilt pattern by Worcester during the Barr period, fully marked to...

Antique Meissen figure in hand-painted porcelain. Boy playing the flute. Marcolini period 1774-1814. Measures: 20 x 9 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Bavaria, Germany. A set of twelve porcelain plat...

Decorate a table or a console with this colorful vintage porcelain vase. Created in China circa 1960, the large vessel with flared rim and tapered body, is decorated with lizard and ...

A very large and unusual 19th century French Louis XVI style dore bronze mounted Sevres cobalt blue ground box signed Sarat. This box is truly a masterpiece. Sevres boxes...

A large & rare Spode Porcelain Square Tray from a Cabaret Set decorated in pattern 1166 c.1820. One of the most sumptuous designs produced by Spode.  Pattern 1166 was first recorded ...

Large Chinese hand painted porcelain jardinière urn and charger Porcelain is decorated with beautiful scenes of cranes, birds, flowers and acanthus leaves. Colors are green, red, ...

A fine pair of 18th century Sèvres soft paste porcelain Bottle Coolers (Seaux à bouteille). The Etruscan shaped coolers, each with two loop handles, finely decorated with a turquoise...

A gorgeous pair of 19th-Century Japanese Imari porcelain vases. These fine vases have a lovely shape and hand painted floral design in the traditional Imari...

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...

Art Deco Figurine of 'Mata Hari' by Capodimonte / Naples Porcelain Company Italy, circa 1925 An exceptional work, displaying grace and movement, subtly hand- painted. The seductive turban and gold earring wearing dancer draped in a White and Iron-Red Moon and Star motif garment, on a tasseled pillow. Hence our Mata Hari, attribution/suggestion. The name Mata Hari, is a Malay expression for the sun. Literally meaning “eye of the day"/ dawn of the day' This exquisite figure, depicts the The dancer (Mata Hari ?) as the sun-wearing the moon and stars. Marked with the variation Blue underglaze Crown & N. In remarkable well cared for condition, some minor wear to the gilt. The figurine stands...

This is a stunning dessert service made by H&R Daniel in 1824. The set consists of a large centre piece comport, two sauce comports (without covers), four large rectangular dishes, f...

Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985) for Rosenthal Studio-linie. A set of five demitasse cups with saucers. Modernist retro design. 1980’s. Marked. Perfect condition. Cup: Height 7.0 cm x Dia...

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica lunch plate in hand-painted porcelain with flowers and gold decoration. Model: 20/3572 Dating: 1963 Latin name. In perfect condition. First factory qua...

Pate-sur-pate porcelain table lamp with bronze mount. The art of porcelain relief decoration is masterfully demonstrated in this important and beautiful table lamp. The cameo-like...

A Pair of 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Figures of a Man and Woman in 18th C. Attire. This pair of figures depicts a man and woman in 18th-century pastoral attire, each standing on a gilt-accented rocaille base. The woman wears a cream-colored tricorn hat with a floral accent, a fitted blue bodice with detailed buttons and ruffled cuffs, and a flowing skirt with a delicate purple floral pattern. She holds a white cloth in one hand while raising the other in an expressive gesture. Her finely painted features, softly curled hair, and light blue shoes...

This set of KPM porcelain dessert plates are exceptional as they feature interesting and more unusual fruit subjects. The plates have the name of the fruit subject painted on the rev...

A very good quality French Sevres porcelain comport, having wonderful gilded ormolu scrolling foliate mounts, with cherubs seated , the cobalt blue ground porcelain with inset hand p...

This teacup and saucer set was made by the renowned Paragon fine bone china factory of England in approximately 1960. The set is done with a robin egg blue ground with a large flowered pattern on the inside of the cup which is replicated on the saucer. The cup is done with a wide square mouth...

A pair of famille verte porcelain plates, the left made in China during the Kangxi period (r. 1662–1722) and the right a copy by Meissen made circa 1740. Chinese porcelain has alw...

An incredible and truly monumental 19th century Meissen Porcelain Covered urn emblematic of autumn. This is one of the most incredible and sp...

An important pair of Meissen Porcelain Groups depicting "Alexander The Great Concurring India". Modeled with Alexander the great's three warriors/soldiers riding on caparisoned eleph...

This is a hand painted blue and white Chinese porcelain plate, dating to the second half of the 18th century, circa 1770, the Qing Qianlong dynasty. This very good condition of this...

Beautiful hand painted Limoges porcelain candy dish, trinket, or jewelry box. This gorgeous French jewelry box is adorned with traditional decor...

This is a Mason's bone china porcelain Desert Plate in a hand painted pattern called; Central Spray Mixed Border. The plate has a "Cabbage ...

A matched solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover, a sucrier with cover, a milk jug and a matched trio consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer. With pink ground...

An elegant Limoges porcelain plate, beautifully executed by the esteemed Paroutaud Frères (B & P), operating in Limoges, France, during the early 20th century. This plate exemplifies...

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Bing & Grøndahl Blue Fluted. Two antique deep p...

A Japanese Imari porcelain plate from the 19th century, with hand-painted blue and white floral, foliage and butterfly décor. Created in Japan during the 19th century, this Imari porcelain plate features a delicate blue and white décor...

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica demitasse cup with saucer. in porcelain. Hand-painted. Model: 20/3618. Dating: 1980-1984. First factory quality. Perfect condition. Marked. Cup: D 6.5 c...

Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Plain. Three deep plates in porcelain. Model: 1/165 Dating: 1954 One plate in first quality. Two in third quality. In perfect condition. Marked. Dimensio...

A rare Minton Art Deco porcelain figurine titled Pierette designed by Fred Cooke and dating from around 1930. This delightful standing figurine stands moun...

This hard to find ensemble consists of a uniquely configured 18th century Georgian night cupboard circa 1770, and a six piece Victorian Mason's Ironstone toiletry set for washing and toiletry needs, circa 1835. The washstand conveniently accommodates all of the pieces from the Mason's set in their appropriate compartments as if it was specifically made for the grouping (see images). The Georgian washstand...

Antique Wien vase in hand-painted porcelain. Classic motifs and gold decoration on a dark blue background. Late 19th century. Measures: 21 x 10 cm. In e...

The set of eight hand-painted flower design porcelain dishes was manufactured by Richard Ginori in the historical headquarter of Doccia (Tuscany, Italy), one of the most important an...

An exceptionally fine quality early Edwardian signed Austrian Royal Vienna cabinet shallow dish plate of circular outline. Last quarter of the nineteenth century. Unsigned but firmly...

Decorate a wall or a shelf with this colorful antique wall platters. Crafted in France circa 1950, and made of porcelain, these mid-century Limoges style wall plates exemplify the ex...

Masterly porcelain plate. According to the previous owner, the plate was given to a servant as a gift of honor. The artistic execution is masterly and unparalleled. According to the ...

Wonderful Porcelain Coffee cup and saucer "Sirenas peinadas con coral and hormiga" by Salvador Dalí. The famous surrealist artist created this model in 1977 with mermaids, red vivid corals and small ants on a white background. Each piece has a gold rim on the edges giving a very luxurious aspect. Limited edition made of German porcelain produced by the Manufactory Schirnding...

This is a beautiful pair of Spode hand painted, artist signed "Sevres Green" porcelain vases with gilded graceful handles rising above the opening. Painted on both front and reverse ...

A Pair Of Meissen Porcelain Mythological Figural groups, of 'Neptune and Thetis' and 'The Triumphal Procession of Amphitrite'. 'Neptune and Thetis' modelled with the god of the sea ...

Stunning and quite rare Hand Painted English Porcelain Coalport Pair of Cabinet or Wall Plates Still Life of Fruits, hand decorated by renowned English Artist Frederick H Chivers, of...

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica. Lunch plate in hand-painted porcelain with flowers and gold decoration. Painted outside the factory. Dating: 1949 Latin and Danish names. In excellen...