Earthenware Pottery

English majolica large begonia leaf oval platter, circa 1880. Oval 1/2" deep foot rim. Lilac, brown, green & blue. Handsome; rare size. Note glaze bubbles near one side point. 16.25"...

Spanish Andalusian Olive Oil Handled Jar in Terracotta _______________________________________________________________________ Hand-made terracotta preserving pot or jar with handles...

Spanish Handcrafted Rustic Water Jar with Plug, Terracotta Hand-made terracotta single handled water jar with cork lid, Spain 1930s-1940s. Traditional Spanish large terracotta jar or...

Handmade terracotta preserving pot or jar with handles from Segovia, Spain, 1930s Two traditional Spanish ceramic 'orza'. Unglazed exterior with handles at both sides and green and ...

These are sold separately. Please refer to which piece you are interested in at purchase. Early 20th c Majolica bowls from Guatemala. Great colors. Diameter varies from about 5.5 inc...

This authentic 19th-century French glazed terracotta mixing bowl is a wonderful example of traditional country pottery, prized today for its warm character and timeless decorative ap...

A large and beautiful antique Provençal terracotta confit pot, glazed in a stunning deep green. Featuring two side handles, this pot would have originally served a very utilitarian purpose in a French kitchen, stored in a stone-lined larder or outhouse to keep all...

English Plain Creamware Pounce Shaker or Sugar Castor, George III This English creamware pounce shaker is of baluster form, the lower body closely reeded and swelling to a plain sho...

Spanish Terracotta Erotic Pitcher Man Phallic Design, Spain, 1960s. Handcrafted glazed terracotta ceramic phallic pitcher features a jug form as a m...

This is a cup & saucer set in the rarely seen, hand painted "Pine Grove" Pattern by the renowned Art Deco designer Clarice Cliff. This piece dates to the late Bizarre period, Circa 1935. The Pine Grove Pattern was Newport pattern 6449, having boldly drawn black, blue and green fir trees with orange/red trunks, the whole design then covered in thin grey, blue & green bands. This pattern is rarely seen but has the distinctive "Clarice" look of the early Bizarre pieces. The cup has the Bizarre black printed stamp on the base and the saucer has the Wilkinson's honey-glaze mark, all fully documented in the book ; Clarice Cliff The Bizarre Affair, written by Leonard Griffin and Louis K. and Susan Pear Meisel...

A monumental and beautifully rustic 19th-century antique French earthenware water pitcher (cruche). Sourced from the South of France, this large artisanal vessel showcases an excepti...

Wedgwood Pearlware Neoclassical Cachepots and Stands, A Pair (Late 18th Century) This handsome Pair of Wedgwood Cachepots and Underdishes, dating from the Late 18th Century, repre...

A very unusual and charming earthenware 'Chevrette' cruche, or water pitcher, beautifully hand painted with fantastical animal imagery in vivid blue and white. Commonly used for tran...

Set of glazed ceramic radish salt wall container, vase & pink onion salt shaker Beautiful set of Majolica ceramic radishes wall salt container and vase ...

A 19th Century French green glazed pottery jug with ovoid form, short flared neck and looped handles. Beautiful rustic patina, minor glaze loss, chipped bottom. Known as a conscience...

For your consideration, a vintage pottery cookie jar / safekeeping in mice or mouse shape. One of a kind, not mass produced. Great quality. Unmarked. Dimensions: 7.5" H x 7.25" D x...

Grueby Faience St George and the Dragon Tile circa 1905. Vibrantly colored glazed earthenware circa 1905. Lovely period example.

A matched set of earthenware drinks coasters by Roger Capron with incised and coloured decoration depicting trees and fishes. Stamped signatures to the reverse Vallauris, Fran...

Eye-catching Majolica ceramic white and green strawberry shaped tureen. Manufactured by Bordalo Pinheiro, Portugal, 1960s. This cute tureen has a very realistic design with leaves on the top. A leaf shaped serving plate and a small serving spoon complete the set. This highly decorative serving piece will be a nice addition to any kitchen or dining table. It will be a cool choice used as sauce tureen. Excellent condition. On sale as a set of three pieces, strawberry tureen...

Andalusian Hand-made terracotta two-handled water jar, Spain, 1880s-1930s. Traditional spanish terracotta jar / pitcher. Unglazed exterior and interior with handles at both sides. Us...

Victorian Majolica “Three-Legged Sailor” Teapot, Attributed to William Brownfield & Sons, c. 1880 Dimensions: 9" H × 7" W × 5" D This rare and engaging Victorian majolica teapot...

- Handbuilt terracotta side tables, stool for bedroom or living room - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda...

- Handbuilt white side tables, stool for bedroom or living room - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - slip applied with natural pigments as whitewash with water ...

George Jones Majolica Sardine box on a turquoise-blue ground, English, ca. 1870, the box molded with green acanthus leaves, with matching underplate, the lid molded and applied with ...

- Handbuilt freckles terracotta jar - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Aïcha. Approximate measurements: ...

English Creamware Engine-Turned Mug, Blue Slip & Green Rouletted Bands, 1815 This cylindrical pint mug is decorated entirely on the lathe, its white creamware body cut with four bro...

English Majolica Fish Head Oyster Plate in the Style of Mintons or George Jones This striking English majolica oyster plate, created in the style of the celebrated Victorian potteri...

A lovely antique French majolica floral plate, circa 1890. This beautiful French country style plate has hand painted pink flowers and leaves on a ligh...

Wedgwood Creamware Egg Cup Stand with Salt and Six Egg Cups, Circa 1800–1820 The oval creamware egg stand, of shallow tray form with a raised rim, is centered with a raised open ova...

English Creamware Quintal Finger Vase 20th Century This English creamware quintal vase—also known as a finger or tulip vase—takes the classic fan-shape...

18th-Century Staffordshire Creamware Cauliflower Milk Jug and Cover Circa 1765 This Staffordshire creamware milk jug and cover is molded in the form of a cauliflower and dates from ...

- Handbuilt terracotta small side table, stool for bedroom or living room - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter ...

English Creamware Cow Creamer and Cover Staffordshire, circa 1775–1780 Glazed earthenware This whimsical yet functional vessel exemplifies the charm of 18th-century Staffordshire po...

Mid 18th century Delft urn of peacock feathers blue & white plate, Dutch. Ochre rim sets off the design well. A design favorite of Dutch factori...

Art Nouveau Majolica glazed large Vase Whit Sarreguemines stamp. Majolica is a type of earthenware, decorated with colored lead glazes. The base retains a factory stamp. Looks si...

A trompe l’oeil cheese platter by Faiences et Poteries Provençales, Vallauris, France, circa 1950s. Made by the Faiences et Poteries Provençales studio, a prominent producer of art...

From The Cantagalli Pottery in Florence, Italy, a set of six hand painted reticulated earthenware plates, showing the Crowing Rooster mark used in the early 20th Century. Beautiful...

A superb 19th-century Provençal terracotta water cruche, with spout and handle, and glazed in traditional green. This beautiful vessel would have been used to transport water to work...

Regency Revival: Herculaneum Neo-Classical Greek Pattern Printed Dish ________________________________________ This is an impressive English Trans...

This distinctive mid-20th-century ceramic saucepan was created by French ceramist Robert Picault in Vallauris around 1960. The rounded vessel is fitted with a generous sculptural han...

This Plate is a Majolica plate made in the Sarreguemines Manufacture. This glazed Faience, is in yellow and green color. It has been done in the 19th century.

Standout example of a Rockingham brown glazed earthenware pitcher with a dog or hound handle. Probably manufactured in Bennington Vermont.

A large charger plate made of Redware pottery, all hand decorated in the Sgraffito Slip Decorated technique, with a stylized floral pattern. Thi...

A Dutch milk jug in the shape of a monkey, Tichelaar Makkum, ca 1890-1900 A milk jug in the shape of a monkey on his head as a lid, a nightcap with a Dutch saying written on the mon...

Circa 1780 pair of Delft yellow rim blue & white soup plates, Dutch. Floral design with yellow edge. The rim border has 4 pairs of florets interspersed with dragonflies. Good conditi...

Nature’s Jewel: A Set of Three Victorian Wedgwood Hummingbird & Flowers Plates This enchanting set of three Wedgwood creamware plates exempli...

This charming French terracotta water jug dates from the 19th century and beautifully illustrates the rustic pottery traditions of southern France. Hand-thrown in earthenware and fin...

A charming terracotta 'Confit pot' with two side handles, glazed internally and full of character thanks to its authentic, time-worn patina. Once used in a southern French kitchen fo...

This charming French provincial pottery pitcher dates from the late 19th-century and beautifully captures the rustic elegance of traditional country ceramics. Hand-thrown in earthenw...

This early 20th century African Zulu beer pot, traditionally known as an ukamba, is a striking example of indigenous South African ceramic craftsmanship. Hand-built using traditional...

This delightful set of three authentic and rare French confit pots dates from the 19th century and beautifully represents the rustic pottery traditions of Southwest France. Hand-thro...

English Pearlware Blue Slip Teapot & Cover, Engine-Turned Fluting, Acorn Finial English, probably Staffordshire or Yorkshire, Circa 1790 This English pearlware teapot of restrained neoclassical form has a straight-sided cylindrical, or drum-shaped, body covered in a light blue slip ground, its broad upper section unadorned save for the decorative band encircling the shoulder: a checkered band of rouletting inlaid with dark brown slip, flanked by fine raised turned fillets. The lower section is distinguished by a broad band of closely spaced vertical fluting, cut on the engine-turning lathe through the blue slip to expose the pale body beneath, the flutes stopping in a neat scalloped edge against the blue above and below. The fluting is a crisp textural counterpoint to the smooth blue-slipped upper body and a quality of workmanship that speaks to the more refined end of English earthenware production of the period. Engine-turning was carried out before firing, while the clay was leather-hard, on a lathe whose cams rocked the revolving pot against a fixed cutting tool, so that a repeated pattern could be cut with mechanical regularity; where the pot had first been dipped or banded in colored slip, as here, the cut revealed the contrasting color of the body. It is a characteristic feature of the more accomplished Staffordshire and Yorkshire manufactories, among them the Leeds Pottery. The domed cover, with its broad stepped rim, repeats the engine-turned reeding in a concentric ring at the crown and is surmounted by a finely modeled applied finial in the form of a white pearlware acorn in its textured cup, resting upon naturalistic oak leaves with a twig and an empty acorn cup beside it, a motif of considerable delicacy widely employed in English ceramics of the 1780s and 1790s. The curved spout, in uncolored pearlware, is press-molded at its base with leafage in low relief, and the reeded loop handle ends in press-molded foliate terminals at both its upper and lower junctions, reinforcing the neoclassical character of the design. The flat glazed base shows the blue-green pooling characteristic of the pearlware glaze. Dimensions: Height: 6½ inches (16.5 cm) Width, handle to spout: 8½ inches (21.6 cm) Depth: 4¾ inches (12.1 cm) Marks: Unmarked. Provenance: Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Condition: Good condition, with a chip to the tip of the spout, visible in the photographs. References: T. A. Lockett and P. A. Halfpenny, eds., Creamware and Pearlware, Stoke-on-Trent: City Museum and Art Gallery, 1986. Donald Towner, Creamware, London: Faber & Faber, 1978. Peter Walton, Creamware and Other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Bradford and London: Manningham Press, 1976, p. 246, pls. 1071–1072. Geoffrey A. Godden, British Pottery: An Illustrated Guide, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1974. Philip Miller and Michael Berthoud, An Anthology of British Teapots, Broseley, Shropshire: Micawber Publications, 1985. Donald Carpentier and Jonathan Rickard, “Slip Decoration in the Age of Industrialization,” Ceramics in America 2001, Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2001, pp. 115–134. Jonathan Rickard and Donald Carpentier, “The Little Engine That Could: Adaptation of the Engine-Turning Lathe in the Pottery Industry,” Ceramics in America 2004, Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2004, pp. 78–99. Bonhams, London, 18 May 2011, lot 96: a Leeds pearlware...

Mid-late 18th century Delft blue & white floral charger in the Chinese taste, Dutch. Paneled border, after 17th century Kraak porcelain from China. The Dutch had the most important c...

These are a beautiful pair of French Faience dinner plates with pierced rims, made by the Luneville K&G factory and dating to the late 19th century, circa 1895. These large circular earthenware pottery plates are well potted with pierced reticulated rims. Both plates are hand painted over a printed outline, with a similar bold floral pattern in different shades of Pink, blue, green and yellow enamels. Both plates have the the black printed Luneville, K&G factory mark on the base, dating them to the late 19th century, circa 1895. Overall a very decorative matching pair of French Faience plates.

Spode Greek Pattern Blue Printed Pearlware Oval Tazza, Neoclassical This oval footed tazza is of pearlware printed in underglaze blue in Spode's Greek ...

A fine Majolica vegetable tower or topiary, attributable to the ceramic artisans of Este, Italy, featuring a naturalistic relief of vegetables upon...

A fine vintage Santa Claus character jug or decorative mug by the English pottery firm, Royal Doulton.

Rural Charm: Whieldon-Type Creamware Cow Creamer Whieldon-Type Creamware Cow Creamer and Cover Circa 1770 This delightful and historically important piece is an 18th-century cow cr...

This is an antique Italian ceramic jug, likely from the Montelupo Fiorentino factory, dating to around the late 19th century with the coat-of-arms of the Medici Grand Dukes flanked b...

Mid-18th century Delft shaped large "Orange Tree" pattern charger, Dutch. Blue & white. Chippendale silver pattern shaped rim form. Floral spray out of a naturalistic tea tree trunk ...