Rococo Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

A very beautiful old special silver children's rattle, Made in England around the turn of the century 1900 With a piece of red coral on it, A ...

Meissen Porcelain, Pair of “Neu-Ozier” Molded Plates 19th Century A fine pair of Meissen porcelain plates in the “Neu-Ozier” molded style, dating to the 19th century. Each plate fea...

Pair of exceptional quality antique English “Old Sheffield Plate” three-light rococo style candelabra with central snuffer flame finial which is removable to reveal a center candle. The rococo bobeches are original and removable and the candelabra can be converted to one Five-light Candelabrum or the three light branches can be removed to make a lovely pair of single Candlesticks...

Pair of Dresden Porcelain Cherub Table Mirrors c.1900 A fine and highly decorative pair of German porcelain easel mirrors in the Dresden manner, dating to circa 1900. Beautifully ...

Very nice pair of 19th century Old Sheffield wine coolers in the Rococo taste, each raised on four well detailed double rocaille feet.

Antique 18th century Vienna porcelain round charger platter with floral decoration. Hand painted with bouquets and scattered sprig in vibrant colors on a white ground. Nicely shaped ...

The item for sale is a beautiful, ornamental rococo cake shovel or fish server. It was made in 1841 according to the hallmark and owned by the K+K Monarc...

An early-20th century French hand-painted plate by T & V, Limoges, France. Plates' design is beautiful fuchsia-purple and pink mum flowers and green leaves, finished with a gold gilt...

A sparkling ice bucket, still equipped with its specific perforated spoon for ice, certainly made in Europe, between the 60s and 70s. Although it is a mid-twentieth century ice bucke...

20th century Bavaria Jaegers coffee cup and sauces cobalt blue/gold.

Beautiful hand painted porcelain candleholder by Limoges. The prominent white and burgundy tones are very pleasing to the eye as are the exquisite details including gold trims with accentuating floral designs. Very good condition, no cracks or chips. Bears the well known Limoges mark...

An 18th-century Dutch Delft tin-glazed earthenware milking group, modeled as a standing cow with a seated milker at its side, decorated with cold-painted pigments applied after firin...

Queen Marie-Antoinette appointed Saint-Clément as a Royal Supplier for her Petit Trianon at Versailles. Here is an 18th-century Saint-Clément hand-painted creamware...

European Rococo silver teapot, 19th century. Dutch-form: Bellied bowl and hinged and domed cover with vasiform finial. Double-scroll handle has leaf-cap with cherub head terminal. Sp...

Embodying the spirit of a Royal Oak tree, the pattern "Royal Oak" was introduced by Gorham in the year 1904. This design features acorns, rococo swirls, and a large oak leaf surround...

Dutch Delftware blue and yellow model of a slipper or shoe. Patterned with hand-painted flowers, the heel washed in yellow. In the 18th century, miniature ceramic shoes were a disti...

A beautiful white porcelain German centerpiece plateau, in the Rococo design style, by Rosenthal, circa mid-20th century, Germany. Piece is white p...

18th Century French Faience Chinoiserie Footed Tray, Marseille, Leroy Manufactory, Knafel Collection Circa 17309 This Marseille faience footed tray, of the form known in French as a...

This antique German porcelain coffee pot was made by the Furstenberg Works factory in circa 1760 in the period Rococo style. This coffee pot is d...

A large ceramic saucer (42 cm high), hand-decorated in the celebrated Levantino style, one of the most characteristic historical decorations in the tradition of Albisola and Savona. ...

A fine, antique faience figural sweetmeat stand marked for Veuve Perrin. Five sweetmeat cups rest on figural Intertwined branches and are supported by ...

Sterling silver Kirk & Sons candleholders signed & S Kirk & Sons sterling silver bowl. Repousse pattern in pristine condition. Measures: Sterling silver candleholders - 4.5 x 4 St...

Absolutely rare example from 1846 Sevres France The front features a romantic pastoral scene with figures dressed in 18th-century attire, set in an outdoor landscape. This style is o...

Maiolica sugar bowl Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 3.54 x 4.52 x 3.54 in (9 x 11,5 x 9 cm) Weight: 0.394 lb (0.179 kg) State of conservation: small and slight chips on the edges. The small sugar bowl has a swollen and ribbed body resting on a flat base. The cap-shaped lid follows the rib of the container and is topped with a small knob in the shape of a two-colored fruit. The sugar bowl is painted “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) with the characteristic floral motif of bunches and isolated semis. An example which closely corresponds to this one is kept at the Civic Museum in Lodi (G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137). This decorative style represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and later introduced by Antonio Ferretti to Italy. The production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple. The Ferretti family started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces starting from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59). In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory. In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, was able to commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables, both with or without contour lines, as well as in purple or green monochrome. After efforts to introduce more industrial production techniques to the sector succeeded, even the Ferretti manufacture, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, started heading towards decline despite its attempts to adapt production to neoclassical tastes. In 1796 the Napoleonic battle for the conquest of the Lodi bridge over the Adda definitively compromised the furnaces. Production resumed, albeit in a rather stunted manner, until Antonio's death on 29 December 1810. (M. L. Gelmini, pp. 28-30, 38, 43 sgg., 130-136 (for Simpliciano); pp. 31 sgg., 45-47, 142-192 (for Antonio). Bibliography G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi Milano e Pavia Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137; C. Baroni, Storia delle ceramiche nel Lodigiano, in Archivio storico per la città e i comuni del circondario e della diocesi di Lodi, XXXIV (1915), pp. 118, 124, 142; XXXV (1916), pp. 5-8; C. Baroni, La maiolica antica di Lodi, in Archivio storico lombardo, LVIII (1931), pp. 453-455; L. Ciboldi, La maiolica lodigiana, in Archivio storico lodigiano, LXXX (1953), pp. 25 sgg.; S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, pp. 17 sgg.; A. Novasconi - S. Ferrari - S. Corvi, La ceramica lodigiana, Lodi 1964, ad Indicem; Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia (catal.), Milano 1964, p. 17; O. Ferrari - G. Scavizzi, Maioliche italiane del Seicento e del Settecento, Milano 1965, pp. 26 sgg.; G. C. Sciolla, Lodi. Museo civico, Bologna 1977, pp. 69-85 passim; G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981; M. Vitali, in Storia dell'arte ceramica...

Very charming French 18th Century hand blown wine glass in emerald green and gold leaf decorations. The glass is notched at the stem and features a scene with a house with trees, flo...

Absolutely rare example from 1846 Sevres France The front features a romantic pastoral scene with figures dressed in 18th-century attire, set in an outdoor landscape. This style is o...

Rare, excellent porcelain group from the time of design: A youthful Bacchus with a nymph and putti gathered around a large wine barrel: The Bacchan, draped in a leopard-skin cloth, s...

A fine 18th c Dutch Polychrome painted delft charger, decorated with vibrantly colored stylized tulips and flowers painted in manganese, green, yellow...

Set of 10 cups & saucers "Duke of Gloucester" pattern, by Mottahedeh, late 20th century. Made for Colonial Williamsburg's special Reserve Collection, copyright 1992. Hand painted & g...

A fine Dutch Delft polychrome earthenware butter dish with domed cover, decorated in the Japanese Kakiemon style. The round form is painted with birds among flowering branches, execu...

Pair of glass coolers Felice Clerici or Pasquale Rubati Factory Milan, 1745-1788 Circa Majolica polychrome decorated "a piccolo fuoco" (third fire) Dimensions of each: 5.9 in in hei...

Antique early 19th century Italian Ginori a Doccia porcelain soup plates with flower decoration, circa 1815. Each bowl hand painted with vibrant bouquets and sprig on a bright white ...

A very fine antique 18th century porcelain bowl. By Frankenthal during the Carl Theodor period. With a group of polychrome enamel decorated fruit and nuts to the bowl, floral sprays to the border, and a gilt edged, molded rim. Simply a wonderful, well preserved bowl! Date: 18th century Overall condition: It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition.The foot rim has a large...

Magnificient and exceptional centrepiece in white majolica with polychromes flowers and branches produced around 1740 - 1770 by the ancient Pasquale Antonibon Manufacture based in N...

Delft 'petit feu' polychrome recumbent cow. The cow is painted with a powdered pale iron-red hide, a black forelock, eyes, eyebrows, tail and hooves, an iron-red mouth. It is wearing...

Big dish. France, Rouen, Manufactory of Jean-Baptiste Guillibaud, around 1730. Majolica. Brand: "Gb" linked in italics, in blue. Diameter 44 cm. Conservation: flaking recomposed in o...

Two maiolica flower pots Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) The...

Set of three Dutch Delftware faience chinoiserie plates, mid-18th century. Each plate is hand-painted in cobalt blue on a white tin-glazed ground, reflecting the strong influence of ...

This blue and white charger was hand painted at De Porcelene Bijl* "The Axe" circa 1770. The center of the charger is filled with a lovely flowering plant. We see flowers in full blo...

Early Meissen figurine of a bacchant eating from a grapes, as an allegory of autumn. Model by Joachim Kaendler. unmarked, ca 1740-60.

An English pink porcelain cigarette holder, in the Rococo style, by Arthur Bowker for Staffordshire, circa early-20th century, England. Piece is pink porcelain, oval, with a floral c...

A fine pair of antique Meissen Dulong Variant plates. By the Royal Meissen Porcelain Manufactory. Decorated with Deutsche Blumen floral sprays to the center and sides including ros...

Beautiful porcelain dish for your trinkets, candy, or whatever you like. White finish on the outside, gold-tinted rim, and pink flowers on the inside. Very delicate, beautiful, and f...

A very fine quality set of 12 antique sterling silver tea, coffee or dessert spoons attributed to Christofle, circa 1890-1930. Stunning design and craftsmanship. The handles have sophisticated Art Nouveau Pattern different decor, flowers, vine leaves, bunch of grapes, foliage, decor dahlias. The mark “925” on the bowl confirms that it’s sterling silver (.925 purity). The handle shows ornate floral and foliate engraving, typical of early 20th-century American or European silver flatware. The pattern style — squared edges with raised floral decoration — closely resembles Art Nouveau to early Art Deco transitional designs (roughly 1890s–1930s). The spoon shape (slightly deep oval bowl, short handle relative to bowl size) suggests a bouillon or cream soup spoon, not a teaspoon. Presented in its original box by Prestigious silversmith: A La Gerbe...

Hand painted circa 1780, this eye-catching blue and white Delft charger is hand painted in shades of cobalt blue with black accents. ...

Direct from a private mansion in Paris, a magnificent a 296 piece, 19th century, sterling silver and gold plated sterling silver flatware...

Metropolitan Museum Reproduction Rococo-Style Silver plated Candlesticks by Gorham, Based on 1759 Design by Myer Myers. Maker: These ...

A magnificent floral reticulated fruit platter. The platter is perforated and reticulated around the edges. Shipping & Location This item is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We ...

This large Meissen porcelain leaf dish has the movement, delicacy, and natural charm that make 18th century Meissen so desirable. The molded leaf form gives the piece a lively silh...

Meissen most lovely Gardener couple clad in Rococo garments. Size: Height 17.5 cm (= 6.88 inches) Width of base 12.8 cm (= 5.03 inches) Depth of base 10.0 cm (= 3.93 inches) Manufactory: Meissen Hallmarked: Blue Meissen Sword Mark (underglazed) First quality  Model number B 28 / painter's number 31 / former's number 144 Dating: Made circa 1870 (Meissen Sword Mark with Pommels on Hilts) Material: Porcelain, glossy finish, multicolored painted Technique: Handmade porcelain Style: Rococo, designed by Michael Victor ACIER (1736-1799) / modelled 1766-68 Specifications: Meissen Gardener...

Oval-shaped silver tray by Georg Roth & Co. embossed with a Napoleonic scene German, Late 19th Century Height 3cm, width 57.5cm, depth 47.5cm, weight 1.87kg This superb piece o...

A large antique porcelain courting plate in pink with gold accents. This piece was created by Hutschenreuther and depicts the stages of a courting couple. There are 14 individual sce...

Exceptional Meissen porcelain group: On rock pedestal fixed with large rocailles in the foreground sitting musician with tricorn, frock coat over wide sh...

Two 18th century delft earthenware vases signed VB (Pieter van den Briel 't Fortuyn, 1753-1759) In original condition, no restorations as you can see on the photo's. VB mark : Van ...

A fine antique Nymphenburg porcelain figurine. Entitled "Der Gestörte Schlummer", which translates to English as "The Disturbed Slumber". After the 18th Century Frankenthal Porcelain model modeled by Johann Friedrich Lück. Depicting a sleeping gallant attended to (and being awakened by) two maidens. The gallant is sleeping on patches of grass that are supported by a stylized Rococo rocaille base. Simply a wonderful antique Nymphenburg figurine...

A pair of Dutch Delftware blue and white models of slippers or shoes. Each as a heeled slipper with pointed toe. In the 18th century, miniature ceramic shoes were a distinctive fea...

Berlin KPM pedestal vaulted vase. It is hand painted on the front with a scene of Kronprinzepalais building redesigned by Johann Heinrich Strack for Prince Frederick William of Pruss...

Hallmarked in London in 1741 by Gabriel Sleath, this striking, George II, Antique Sterling Silver Coffee Pot, features flat chased decoration below the rim, an engraved armorial to o...

Shuttle sauce boat Felice Clerici or Pasquale Rubati Factory Milan, 1745-1788 Circa Majolica polychrome decorated "a piccolo fuoco" (third fire) It measures: 2.56 in in height x 6....

An antique tea set and a silver-plated teapot that is beautifully designed and created are suitable for elegant serving. With lid pressed, cast and chased, gold gilding on the inside...