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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Teapot, with Naive Shepherdess, Wedgwood C1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A text-book example of Rhodes Studio decoration on a Wedgwood creamware blank. The shepherdess leans slightly, as though tipsy; typical of this studio. Prov: Kantar Collection. Exh...
Category

English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Prattware English Pottery Cradle with a Sleeping Child
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine antique Georgian English Prattware pottery cradle containing a sleeping child dating from around 1800. The cradle sits raised on two rockers a...
Category

English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Cizhou Jar, Terracotta and Brown Slip, XIVth Century, China
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Cizhou jar, Terracotta decorated with brown slip of stylized patterns on a cream background, XIVth Century, China. Measures : Diameter 43 cm, Height 6...
Category

Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Terracotta

Oenocho, Wedgwood, C1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A splendid miniature oenochoe in creamware, decorated to simulate porphyry. Much of the original gilding still remains; all too often gilding from this period has worn off, or has be...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Petite Neolithic Terracotta Pot with Brown Geometric Décor and Flaring Neck
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Neolithic Chinese terracotta pottery from 4000-3000 BC, with lateral handles and brown painted geometric décor. Born in China during the Neolithic pe...
Category

Chinese Prehistoric Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

18th Century Tin Glazed Dutch Delft Pottery Blue and White Vase or Jar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine 18th century Dutch Delft pottery vase or jar. Of typical vasiform shape with medium and deep blue Chinoiserie landscape decoration, dot border to the top rim, and swag...
Category

Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Delft

18th Century Italian Majolica Faience Pottery Putto Framed Tiles
Located in Bradenton, FL
Wonderful rare 18th century Italian Faience Maiolica framed tiles. Bright, vivid and colorful framed tiles depicting a chubby putto or cherub sitting on a branch petting the head of ...
Category

Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Staffordshire Pearlware Model of a Stag
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Staffordshire Pearlware model of a stag seated on a waisted green-washed rectangular base. From the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller. Circa ...
Category

British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

17th Century Islamic Iznik Ceramic Pottery Kendi Jug
Located in Vero Beach, FL
17th century Islamic Iznik ceramic pottery Kendi jug This rare and precious antique Kendi jug is probably from the 17th century and it is excep...
Category

Turkish Islamic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Pair of Staffordshire Pearlware Models of a Stag and Hind
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Pair of Staffordshire Pearlware models of a stag and hind, each spotted deer modeled recumbent on a grassy mound. From the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller...
Category

British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

English Creamware Pottery Green Glazed Teapot and Cover, Swinton, Yorkshire
Located in Downingtown, PA
English creamware pottery green glazed teapot and cover, Swinton, Yorkshire, circa 1770 The barrel-form creamware teapot is decorated with a dipped green glaze over an impr...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1785
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Polished basalt, decorated with Victoria, Goddess of Victory, in her chariot; possibly after a Roman model such as the wall paintings at Herculaneum. T...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Early 17th Century Ottoman Empire Iznik Pottery Dish
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
An Iznik pottery dish made in the first half of the 17th century and decorated with chrysanthemums and tulips. The rim features the rock and wave pattern. Under the direction of O...
Category

Turkish Islamic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

18th-Century Mocha Pottery Mug with Ochre Slip Ground
Located in Downingtown, PA
Mocha pottery mug with ochre slip ground, circa 1790-1810   The cylindrical mug with a flared foot has an ochre-colored slip ground with a wide white band at the rim with a nar...
Category

English Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Fine 18th c Dutch Polychrome Painted Delft Charger
Located in valatie, NY
A fine 18th c Dutch Polychrome painted delft charger, decorated with vibrantly colored stylized tulips and flowers painted in manganese, green, yellow...
Category

Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Delft

French Bernard Palissy Figural Majolica Plaque, 16th-17th Century
By Bernard Palissy
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very rare antique French, Bernard Palissy or School of Bernard Palissy attributed majolica figural plaque with classical figures moulded in relief. The lightly potted earthenware p...
Category

French Majolica Pottery Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Majolica, Pottery, Earthenware

Spanish Faience Charger with Leaping Stag, Talavera, circa 1780-1800
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spanish Faience charger with leaping stag, Talavera, circa 1780-1800 The large deep tin-glazed earthenware dish is painted with a large figure of a s...
Category

Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Han Dynasty Glazed Hill Jar
Located in Dallas, TX
Han earthenware celadon glazed hill jar The hill jar represents the five scared mountains which is the path between the earth and paradise. The scared mounta...
Category

Chinese Han Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Terracotta

Dutch Rare Delft Faience Polychrome Lady in Landscape Pottery Dish
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very Fine and rare early 18th century antique Dutch delft faience polychrome pottery dish of shallow rounded form hand painted with a period figure of a lady carrying a parasol, early 20th century. The large earthenware dish is hand painted with a central scene of a lady wearing a tall bonnet in a landscape with a building in the background painted in tones of red, puce, green and blue set within a yellow painted decorative border...
Category

Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

18th-Century English Plain Creamware Hot Water Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique English plain Creamware hot water plate, Circa 1785-1800 This is a rare survivor in creamware. A great form with openwork center and scroll h...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Late 17th-Early 18th Century Italian Majolica Bowl
Located in Hudson, NY
This good sized bowl is a great example of the majolica wares produced in Italy throughout the 15th, 16th, 17, and 18th centuries. Humble and simple but highly decorative and enterta...
Category

Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Majolica

Fine 18th C Dutch Polychrome Painted Delft Charger
Located in valatie, NY
A Fine 18th c Dutch polychrome painted Delft charger, decorated with vibrantly colored stylized tulips and flowers painted in manganese, green, yellow...
Category

Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Delft

Kangxi Blue & White Chinese Porcelain Jar w/ One Hundred Treasures Motif, c 1750
Located in Miami, FL
A very lovely Kangxi Chinese porcelain ginger jar with hand-painted, blue overglaze decoration with "one hundred treasures" motif. Jar has original p...
Category

Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Porcelain

Creamware Portrait of Shakespeare, Wedgwood, circa 1785
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A style of portrait previously unknown, this extraordinarily deep bust of Shakespeare is in creamware, with a cold painted background. William Sha...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

Dutch Delft Set of Six Dinner Plates with Plants and Ribbon
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch delft set of six dinner plates with plants and ribbon The charming set of six Dutch delft plates are painted with scattered green and orange plant...
Category

Dutch Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic, Delft, Pottery

Black Basalt Teapot, Turner, circa 1805
By Turner Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine teapot with D-shape handle and a peculiar finial in the form of a widow without her barrel & cruze. The finial confirms the Turner attribution.
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Pale Blue Jasperware Bowl, Wedgwood, circa 1790
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In solid slate blue jasper, with inlaid foot; decorated with numerous reliefs typical of the period. Engine turned decoration and lapidary polished interior. Exhibited: Wedgwood, Ma...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

18th Century German Pewter Mounted Faience Stein Initialed "WM"
Located in valatie, NY
An 18th century German Pewter Mounted Faience Stein Initialed "WM", circa 1790. The stein has a tin glazed finish over a white glaze and is painted with ...
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Faience

Salt-Glazed Stoneware Sweetmeat Dishes in the Form of Vine Leaves, a Pair
Located in Downingtown, PA
Salt-glazed stoneware sweetmeat dishes in the form of vine leaves, a pair, circa 1745-1765   The Staffordshire salt glaze stoneware...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Large Antique English Staffordshire or Prattware Pottery Model of a Cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A late 18th or early 19th century English Prattware baby's cradle in a rare large size. Decorated with an overall basket weave pattern and a yello...
Category

English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Blue and White Pearlware 18th century Coffeepot, 1785
Located in Downingtown, PA
Blue and white pearlware 18th century coffeepot, Circa 1785 The Staffordshire chinoiserie pearlware coffeepot is painted in underglaze blue with ...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pearlware, Pottery

Savona Italian Tin Glazed Polychrome Painted Pottery Syrup Jar
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An antique Italian hand painted Savona tin glazed syrup jar inscribed AQUA DE PIANTAGNE dating from the early 18th century, the rounded earthenware jar stand...
Category

Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Creamware Pottery Sailor's Farewell and Chinoiserie Punch Bowl
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creamware Pottery sailor's farewell punch bowl with Chinoiserie Scenes on Reverse, Late 18th Century The large polychrome creamware bowl has a scene to one side depicting a sailor's farewell. The officer, with a sword in a scabbard to his right hip, stands with arms crossed and his female companion looks away from him as she holds a parasol in her hand. In the background in a Royal Navy frigate at anchor and a sailor in a longboat rowing towards him. To the reverse side is a charming chinoiserie scene of two women and a young boy watching...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Oval Teapot in Black Basalt, Turner, circa 1790
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An excellent black basalt teapot, with engine turned decoration and widow finial. Most unusually, this example is marked.
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Pair of Brown Stoneware Cats
Located in Essex, MA
Each with cute expressions seated on a plinth base. Provenance, Manheim Antiques. Drue Heinz.
Category

European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Shield-Shaped Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1773
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A shield-shaped vase, decorated to resemble porphyry, and highlighted with gilding. Marked for Wedgwood & Bentley.
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

18th Century German Faience Polychrome Pewter-Mounted Tankard in Columnar Form
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This 9.25" faience pewter-mounted tankard from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century is cylindrical in form with a handle mounted in pewter. The place of origin is probably Nurnberg, G...
Category

German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pewter

Bristol Delftware Set of Six Polychrome Chinoiserie Scalloped Plates, 1760
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wonderful set of six Bristol delftware polychrome Chinoiserie scalloped plates, Redbank Back Factory, Circa 1760 The plates have a most appealing, br...
Category

Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Delft

Antique English Figural Staffordshire or Prattware Pottery Cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A good rare Prattware pottery model of a baby's cradle. Decorated with orange and blue intersecting circles throughout the body and embellished ye...
Category

English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Puce-Colored Creamware Shell-Edge Neale and Co Set of Ten Plates
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Neale & Co. puce-colored shell-edge plates are each decorated in a purple transfer with figures in the foreground amongst a landscape of Classic ruins. The rims, also with a feathered puce (purple) border, are highlighted with unusually strong remnants of the original gilding. Each is impressed with the Neale & Co. mark on the reverse. Marks: The impressed Neale & Co. mark was only used between 1778 and 1795. Reference: Neale Pottery & Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors 1763-1820, Diana Edwards, page 126, #100 for a large stand...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Nils Thorsson Scandinavian Marselis Ceramic Bowl for Royal Copenaghen, 1950s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Scandinavian ceramic “Marselis” ashtray bowl series designed by Danish artist Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenaghen, 1950s. Please note that the litem is original of the period and t...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Ceramic

Wedgwood Creamware Soup Plate with German Ship Decoration.
Located in Downingtown, PA
The ship is flying the flag of the last German Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Francis II , Circa 1775-1790. The rare Wedgwood creamware plate...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

18th C. Dutch Decorated English Creamware Plate, Onse Live Vrouw Tot Kevelaar
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch-decorated English Creamware Plate, Onse Live Vrouw Tot Kevelaar (Our Lady to Kevelaar), Circa 1765-1785. Dimensions: 10 inch diameter x 1 inch high. Kevelaer is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is the largest Catholic pilgrimage location within north-western Europe. More than 1 million pilgrims, mostly from Germany and the Netherlands, visit Kevelaer every year to honour the Virgin Mary. The population in 2015 was 28,311. History Kevelaer is a center of veneration and pilgrimage to Our Lady, Comforter of the Afflicted (also known as Our Lady of Consolation. According to tradition, a merchant praying in front of a cross in a field, heard a voice that told him: "Here thou shalt build me a chapel." His wife dreamt of a little chapel with a Madonna that someone had previously advised her to purchase, In 1642 a copperplate engraving, representing Our Lady of Luxembourg, was installed in a sanctuary erected the same year. It is one of the best visited Catholic pilgrimage locations in north-western Europe. The Gnadenkapelle [Chapel of Grace] has drawn pilgrims to the Lower Rhine Region from all over the world for more than 360 years. Pope John Paul II...
Category

Dutch Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware, Pottery

Proskau Faience Tromp L'oeil Jug in the Form of a Parrot, circa 1770
Located in Downingtown, PA
Proskau Faience Jug in the form of a Parrot, circa 1770. The tromp l"oeil tin-glazed earthenware jug is in the form of a parrot with a removable head...
Category

Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Faience

Pair of Chinese Han Dynasty Black Pottery Amphorae
Located in New York, NY
Frontal view of black pottery Amphora with two handles and mouth with two angular spouts. Round metal decoration applied around the body and handles. Original patina with natural min...
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Tragic Couple Antony and Cleopatra, Creamware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1780
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, in enamelled creamware. After a model by Ralph and Enoch Wood, and quite likely made by this important partnership. The figur...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Creamware Armorial Dish, Possibly Melbourne, Scottish Arms of Grant
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creamware armorial dish, Possibly Melbourne, Arms of grant, circa 1800. The large dish with a puce band on the border and a central coat of arms and a crest to the upper borde...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Creamware

Jasperware Perfume Bottle, William Adams, circa 1790
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In cobalt jasper, decorated with Androcles and the lion and Demeter, Goddess of the harvest; Aphrodite to the other side. Original bright cut silver ...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Two Ancient Khmer Tribal Urns / Amphoras
Located in New York, NY
Two ancient tribal urns / amphora / pottery / vases / pitchers / ceramics from the ancient khmer region (present day cambodia).
Category

Cambodian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Clay

Large French Provincial Pottery Urn / Vase / Pitcher, 18th Century
Located in New York, NY
A timeless, Classic French 18th century provincial pottery / ceramic urn or pitcher with beautiful, natural time worn patina and a stunning form featuring three dramatic handles and ...
Category

French French Provincial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery

18th Century Shell-Edge Creamware Sauce Tureen Puce-Decorated by Neale & Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
The large 18th century Neale & Co. creamware sauce tureen, cover, stand and ladle are each decorated in puce transfer with figures amongst classical ruins. The rims also with a painted shell-edge puce border highlighted with the strong remnants of original gilding. Dimensions: 7 inches high x 10 1/2 inches wide x 7 1/4 inches; The under dish...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery, Creamware

Dated Pearlware Teapot with Ship, English, 1792
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine documentary teapot, probably made to record a marriage between a sailor and his lass. Pearlware, enamelled with a square-rigged schooner.  
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

Prattware Teapot, Dated 1792
By Swinton Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A documentary teapot, in pearl ware with Pratt ware colors under glaze. Dated and inscribed for Sarah Jackson. Attributed to the Swinton Pottery.
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pearlware

Salt Glaze Sauce Boat, Mosaic Pattern, English, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In salt-glazed stoneware, crisply moulded with the Mosaic pattern. The beginnings of the Rococo movement can be seen in the fronds overlaying the more staid mosaic.
Category

English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Saltglaze "King of Prussia" Plate, English, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A salt-glaze plate, probably made about the time of Frederick the Great's successes in the Seven Years War and his convention with England in 1756 against France and her Allies.  ...
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Stoneware

Large Bust of the Pieta, Ralph Wood Jr, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large and impressive bust, taken from Michelangelo’s Pietà. Creamware, modelled and made by Ralph Wood, with enamelling.
Category

English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Earthenware

Pearlware Figure of Aphrodite & Eros, 'Venus and Cupid' Figure, circa 1790
Located in Downingtown, PA
Great Pearlware Figure of Aphrodite & Eros, 'Venus and Cupid' Figure attributed to Neale & Co, circa 1790. The large pearlware early English pearl...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pottery, Pearlware

18th-Century English Pottery Pebbled Pearlware Bough Pots, Wood Family
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
The pair of bough pots, attributed to the Ralph Wood Pottery, have a fixed pierced top with a blue band around the upper rim and the front panel wit...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Pottery

Materials

Pearlware, Pottery

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