Davenport Creamware Shaped Tray with Botanical Specimen, a Purple Coherent

Wedgwood Creamware Specimen Plate with Iris Plant, 1862. The creamware Wedgwood pottery plate is painted in the central well with four Iris plants- two open and two closed- on their...

English Creamware Large Teapot with Puce Flower Painted Decoration, circa 1770 The Staffordshire Globular teapot is painted with large puce-colored f...

This is a rare and early stone China (Ironstone) mug which dates to the George 111 period, circa 1815 made by the Davenport factory of Longport, Staffordshire Potteries, England. The mug is straight sided similar to a coffee can and has a loop handle with an upper thumb rest. The pattern is number "659", which is one of Davenport's very few chinoiserie patterns. The bold pattern features striking polychrome enamels of rocks and different flowers all in the Chinoiserie style, hand painted over-glaze in different colours over an under-glaze blue printed outline. The pattern is embellished with good hand gilding. There is also a deep border pattern to the inside rim which replicates the outer mug pattern with sprigs of hand painted flowers. The mark on the base of the mug is Godden's 1183, a blue printed DAVENPORT STONE CHINA...

A style of portrait previously unknown, this extraordinarily deep bust of Shakespeare is in creamware, with a cold painted background. William Sha...