Georgian Pottery

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...

This is a rare Mason's ironstone miniature Teapot in the rare Plaid Japan gilded pattern, which we date to circa 1820. Miniature or toy items of Masons...

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...

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 ...

These are a matching PAIR of Ironstone pottery mugs made by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, Staffordshire, England and is decorated in the Chinese Scroll Pattern, fully stamped an...

Engine-Turned Elegance: Staffordshire Redware Coffee Pot by Myatt, Circa 1790-1810 A substantial and finely crafted Staffordshire redware coffee pot of ovoid form, produced by the M...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is a good early pair of Mason's Ironstone pottery Side or Tea plates, hand painted in the very decorative Basket Japan pattern, produced by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, St...

Staffordshire Pearlware bocage pack of red spaniel puppies or sheep- A rare whimsical grouping of three seated red and white animals under a tree on an oval naturalistic base.      

Whieldon-Type Creamware Tortoiseshell Teapot, Grape Vine Relief, Crabstock Circa 1765–1775 The Staffordshire Whieldon-type creamware teapot is of globular form, the body sprig-molde...

This is a good Desert Plate, hand painted in the rare and very decorative Gilded Leaves & Wheels pattern, produced by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, ...

This handsome pair of green-glazed earthenware dishes is molded in the form of overlapping vine leaves, a large leaf laid over two smaller ones, with deeply serrated edges, crisply m...

English Pearlware Blue Slip Coffee Pot & Cover, Staffordshire or Yorkshire Circa 1790 This handsome English pearlware coffee pot and cover, of ba...

Rare Creamware Fish Scale Teapot and Cover, Attributed to Leeds, Yorkshire This rare and distinctive creamware teapot, attributed to the Leeds Pottery in Yorkshire, has a cylindric...

This is a rare Creamware pottery Chestnut Basket made by the SPODE factory, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, in the late Georgian, Regency period...

This is a beautiful pair of deep plates or Soup Bowls in the blue and white Rome or Tiber Pattern, produced by the Spode factory and made of a type of earthenware pottery called Pear...

Pearlware Blue and White Chinoiserie Shell-Edge Oval Dish, Probably Leeds Circa 1790 This large oval pearlware dish is painted in underglaze blue with a lively chinoiserie scene, a ...

Conchological Rarity: Wedgwood Pearlware Nautilus Sauce Tureen & Stand, Circa 1790 A superb and rare late 18th-century Wedgwood pearlware sauce tureen, cover, and stand, brilliantly...

Charming Utility: A Swansea Pearlware Prattware Covered Tea Caddy Box, c. 1800-1820 This is an exceptional example of an early 19th-century Pearlware Tea Caddy Box, distinguished by...

This is a very rare shaped early small Jug or pitcher, hand painted in the Fence Japan gilded pattern, made by Mason's Ironstone, Lane Delph, England and dating to circa 1813-1820. This jug is hand potted in a very rare shape with a loop handle and a pouring spout to the rim. The pattern is hand painted in the Fence Japan pattern, with hand gilded highlights as illustrated on page 89 of a guide to Mason's patent ironstone patterns, circa 1813-1848, published by The Mason's Collectors' Club. This jug is unmarked to the base, as was often the case in this period but it is definitely made by Mason's Ironstone with a similar jug illustrated on page 188 of Geoffrey Godden's guide to Masons China...

Yorkshire Elegance: Rare Green Glazed Creamware Teapot Swinton, Circa 1770 A superb late 18th-century English creamware teapot and cover, produced by the Swinton Pottery (the prec...

This is a finely hand painted PAIR of early Stone China (Ironstone) Side or Desert Plates, which date to the George 111 period, circa 1815. Made by the DAVENPORT factory of Longport,...

Naturalistic Whimsy: Rare Staffordshire Creamware "Cauliflower" Tea Caddy (c. 1760) An exceptional mid-18th-century Staffordshire creamware tea caddy (or tea canister), brilliantly ...

English Creamware Chinoiserie Teapot and Cover with Pierced Gallery This English creamware teapot and cover is of globular form on a spreading foot, ...

Neale & Co. Creamware Set of Ten Plates, Puce Feather Edge, Classical Ruins Circa 1780–1785 Each plate is circular with a shaped rim molded with a feather edge, the molded barbs picked out in puce enamel in short radiating strokes and the edge itself gilded, with unusually strong remnants of the original gilding surviving. The well is transfer-printed in puce with a classical capriccio: a ruined arch on Corinthian columns, overgrown with foliage and carrying a broken entablature, stands before a crenellated wall pierced with arched openings, with a colonnade and a second arch beyond and a distant church spire below a hill. The foreground is strewn with fallen column drums, capitals and blocks of masonry, among which two small figures rest at the right. The reverse of each plate is impressed Neale & Co. and carries an old collector's paper label inscribed in ink Neale & Co. 1778–1788, Chaffers page 704; two plates also retain the blue and silver foil retailer's label of Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston. Dimensions: Diameter: 8 3/4 inches (22.2 cm) Height: 1 inch (2.5 cm) Marks: Impressed Neale & Co. on the reverse of each plate, a mark used between 1778 and 1795. Provenance: Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston (retailer's label) Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Condition: Good antique condition. The gilding to the rims is rubbed, as is usual on creamware of this age, but strong remnants remain. References: Diana Edwards, Neale Pottery and Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors 1763–1820 (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1987), p. 126, no. 100, for a large stand...

Staffordshire Prattware Bacchus and Pan Figural Jug, Wood Family, Circa 1800 Staffordshire, circa 1800 Over thirteen inches of pure Georgian theater: the celebrated Bacchus and Pan...

 English Pearlware Blue and White Six-Compartment Tray, Angry Lion Pattern Circa 1815–20 This unusual pearlware tray offers six chances to admire one of the great rarities of Engli...

Yellow Slip-Ground Pearlware Mug with Reserved Heart Circa 1800 This cylindrical pearlware mug is dipped in a warm yellow slip ground between green-glaz...

Political Ceramics: Saltglaze Teapot Commemorating Frederick the Great English, Circa 1760 This historically significant globular teapot stands as a...

English Pearlware Encrusted Pebbled Bough Pots, Pair, Impressed BW, Circa 1800 Circa 1795–1810 This pair of English pearlware bough pots is decorated with a rare encrusted or "pebbl...

Antique 18th century Wedgwood creamware Rococo sea shell form dish with feathered edge and rising on three small snail feet. Measures 8 7/8" x 8" x 1 3/4". Good condition - wear and ...

Autumnal Amber: A Set of Four Nested Pearlware Dishes This charming set of four graduated and nested pearlware serving dishes represents a sophisticated fusion of decorative fashion...

Creamware knife rests, Italian, Circa 1810-1820    The two rests are of similar form with a raised scroll terminal to each end. One with pierced stylized f...

A rare antique English creamware pottery octagonal plate of Whieldon-type dating from around 1750. The lightly and finely potted plate has a deep round central reserve with a raised ...

19th century late Georgian blue spode hot chocolate cup with cover and saucer, decorated with gilt highlights, and embossed white floral motif on a ...

This is a good stone China (Ironstone) coffee can made by the SPODE factory in the early 19th Century, circa 1820. The coffee can is well potted with cylindrical shape and a loop handle with the distinctive Spode kink to it. The piece is beautifully decorated with hand painted enamels in the chinoiserie Kakiemon style, pattern number 2117. It has the Spode Stone China blue printed...

A fine antique Staffordshire pottery Toby Jug. In the form of a seated, smiling man holding a jug. The man's tricorn hat serves as a lid, and an inte...

Antique English Pearlware Blue-Ground Slop Bowl, Staffordshire, Circa 1790 Staffordshire or Yorkshire, circa 1790 This deep hemispherical pearlware slop bowl is dressed on the exter...

Monumental Staffordshire Pearlware Figure: "Ceres" (Goddess of Plenty) on Marbled Plinth (c. 1815) A magnificent, museum-quality Staffordshire pearlware figure of exceptional scale, standing over 20 inches tall. Modeled circa 1815, this figure depicts Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, often serving as the allegorical representation of "Plenty" or "Summer." The figure is modeled with classical grace, wearing a striking canary-yellow toga draped over a lilac tunic patterned with delicate black floral sprigs. She holds her traditional attributes: in her right hand, a large cornucopia...

A rare and impressive antique Staffordshire pottery bull-baiting figure group by Obadiah Sherratt and dating from around 1820. The pottery group stands raised on a rectangular shaped...

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...

This is a good black basalt Teapot and cover lid, which we attribute to a Staffordshire Potteries, English maker, circa 1825. The teapot is wel...

Whieldon-Type Creamware Gray Tortoiseshell Octagonal Plate, Circa 1765–1775 This octagonal creamware plate is glazed, front and back, in a softly mottled gray tortoiseshell glaze, t...

Massive English Salt-Glazed Stoneware Charger Attributed to William Greatbatch (1735–1813) Staffordshire, England, c. 1762–1770 This impressive 17-...

This is a very good early Mason's Ironstone pottery desert plate in the distinctive cabbage leaf form, large sprays pattern, produced by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, Staffordsh...

This is a rare Mason's ironstone miniature Teapot in the bold Fence Japan gilded pattern, which we date to circa 1820. Miniature or toy items of Masons ...

"Clouded Perfection": 18th Century English Creamware Whieldon-type Tea Bowl & Saucer A superb example of mid-18th century English pottery, this Creamware Tea Bowl and Saucer displays the distinctive "clouded" or "tortoiseshell" glazing technique associated with Thomas Whieldon and his contemporaries in Staffordshire and Yorkshire. The set features a refined cream-colored earthenware body, decorated with sponged or applied metal oxides—specifically manganese for rich browns and copper for vibrant green splashes—creating a marbled, organic surface pattern. A defining feature of this particular model is the delicate band of molded pearl beading (relief dots) that encircles the exterior rim of the cup and frames the central well of the saucer, adding a tactile and geometric contrast to the fluid glaze. Provenance: Jonathan Horne...

This is a very rare Mason's ironstone miniature Coffee Pot in the Gold Rose Japan gilded pattern, which we date to circa 1820. Miniature or toy items of Masons ironstone are hard to...

A fine antique 18th century pottery tile. In terra cotta. Depicting what appears to be a Native American Indian archer in a grass skirt wit...

This is a good stone China (Ironstone) Pen Tray or Box with lid, made by the SPODE factory in the early 19th Century, circa 1810. This piece comprises a base and a lid both made fro...

A good rare Prattware pottery model of a baby's cradle. Decorated with orange and blue intersecting circles throughout the body and embellished ye...

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...

This is a very good Ironstone pottery small side plate, made by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, Staffordshire, England and are decorated in the He...

This is a very good teapot stand in the fence, rock and gold flower pattern made by Mason's Ironstone in the early 19th century Georgian period, circa 18...

Gilded Botany: A Pair of Neale Creamware Oval Dishes Circa 1785-90 This elegant pair of English Creamware oval serving dishes is attributed to the renowned Neale & Co. (or Neale & W...

Creamware Punch Bowl, Sailor Jack on a Cruise and Chinoiserie Scenes, Circa 1785 England, Staffordshire or Yorkshire Circa 1780–1790 A large creamware punch bowl of deep rounded for...

Staffordshire Pearlware Chinoiserie Coffee Pot, Blue and White, Circa 1785 Circa 1785 This tall, elegant pearlware coffee pot is painted in underglaze blue with a chinoiserie landsc...