1820s Pottery

The larger Georgian plate is an English Davenport stone china meat platter, with bamboo and peony blue and white transfer pattern, dating to circa 1...

A good and highly collectable antique mocha ware earthenware pottery bowl the body decorated with a band with black slip border and a white slip gro...

A scarce antique English, possibly Yorkshire or Sunderland lustre pearlware pottery cream jug decorated with the words FORGET ME NOT dating from arou...

Made circa 1825, this pair of eye-catching dishes features a lovely orange lotus blossom at the center and six pink and orange lotus blossoms decorating the border. Each blossom sit...

We have had for over 30-years a natural propensity to find old rustic French pottery and the larger the better. Generally, our shop will have dozens of very old French glazed terracotta pottery, in the typical mustard or green color palettes and all will be listed on 1stdibs. The vase, vessel or jar shown here is roughly between 150-200 years old and probably comes from Southwestern France. Someone has made a repair to the top at some point in its life and it is rather amateur. Our intention is to improve upon it as soon as we get a free minute. This antique French terracotta pot...

This is a very charming and rare pearlware shell dish made by Wedgwood in circa 1820. The dish has a beautiful beige ground and is painted with a bird in iron red. Wedgwood is one...

This is a fabulous Spode tazza made in New Fayence china in 1829, which was the Regency era. It has a beautiful green ground with a transfer printed Chinoi...

This is a beautiful Spode plate made between 1812 and 1833. The plate is made of stone china and is decorated with a beautiful pink "Japan" pattern. I have a series of these Chinoiserie plates available. If you can't find them in my shop, please contact me as I may not have put them up yet and I am happy to offer them together with a discount. Blue on white decorations were done in East Asia for many centuries, and were made popular in the West by the Dutch Delftware potters in the 17th century. In about 1800, the famous Spode factory in Staffordshire created a transfer printing process that could mass produce beautifully decorated blue and white wares, making this a very common and desired choice of tableware for the two centuries to come. Potters all over Britain quickly started to make use of this new technology and copied the famous Spode patterns. Once the blue on white transfers had caught on, Spode started to print in colour; mostly printing in one colour (in this case: brown) and then filling in the other colours by hand. This way, they could offer wonderfully colourful dinner services at a much lower cost, as they needed only a skilled engraver for the plate that provided the outline of the image, and the transferring and colouring could be done by less skilled people. These were often women and apprenticed teenage children. This pattern is a copy of an 18th century Chinese example and consists of beautifully shaped Asian flowers, printed on top of the glaze in brown and then hand coloured in pink and beige. The pattern is intricate and the various flowers are repeated but each one is unique; it is worth looking very carefully. This plate is made of stone china, which was Spode's recipe for very strong pottery with a high percentage of Cornish rock, which gives it he beautiful greyish hue. The plate carries the printed SPODE Stone China...

This is a beautiful Spode plate made around 1824. The plate is made of creamware and is decorated with the famous "Tumbledown Dick" pattern on a brown ...

A mochaware mug made in England, circa 1820. The mug is made of pearl-glazed creamware. The decoration has dramatic black, light blue, and orange bands of slip, which are cut through...

A handsome antique Mochaware quart mug or tankard that is wider at the bottom and slightly tapers as it goes up. Made in England, circa 1820, this mug was decorated with slip in broa...

French antique pottery jug with a small spout and two handles in a most unusual color. The extremely dark green is exquisite and the only such exam...