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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1750s
Late 18th Century Original Vintage French Poster, 'Fernand Calment & Co'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French poster, 'Fernand Calment & Co', 1896 bicycle poster
Year:
1896
Dimensions:
118 x 77 cm
Condition:
Good
Format:
Linen backed.
Category
Late 18th Century French International Style Antique Australia
Materials
Paper
Rum Kettle, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A n excellent rum kettle in black basalt, with engine-turned decoration and applied swags. The lion finial sits well under teh tri-arc handle.
Rum kettle were used to serve hot wate...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Shield-Shaped Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1773
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A shield-shaped vase, decorated to resemble porphyry, and highlighted with gilding.
Marked for Wedgwood & Bentley.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Figure representing Matrimony, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive allegorical figure of Matrimony, reprsented by a woman in her best clothing, holding a cage.
The Bow Porcelain factory was the first English porcelain producer; these ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Hot Milk Jug, Engine-Turned Jasperware. Wedgwood, C1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Superb and exceptionally rare small jug in tricolour engine-turned diceware.
This is very early jasperware, made when "cherokee clay" was still being used. This clay, sourced from America, contained kaolin, the ingredient that makes porcelain translucent.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Universe, Roche Foundation, 2023.
Engine turning, also known as guilloche, is a decorative technique that was commonly used on eighteenth-century pottery. The process involved cutting intricate, repetitive patterns into a metal or ceramic surface using a machine known as a rose engine...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Tea Bowl & Saucer, Peacock Decoration, Chelsea, circa 1765
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A tea-bowl and saucer from Chelsea's Gold Anchor period. Richly decorated in purple, pink and green then lavishly gilded, the gilding being chased as well. It is possible the decorat...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair of Spanish Carlos II Carved Giltwood Wall Sconces, 17th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Pair of Spanish Carlos II Carved Giltwood Wall Sconces, 17th Century
Provenance:
Private Collection of Jose Maria del Rey, September 2011.
Description:
Each with a floral moun...
Category
17th Century Spanish Antique Australia
Materials
Wood
Tea Bowl Painted with Butterflies, Chinese, Dutch Decorated, circa 1740
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Finely potted porcelain tea bowl, with superb Dutch decoration, after the Dutch naturalist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian.
The porcelain i...
Category
Mid-18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
A Chinese Sancai Tripod Jar, Tang Dynasty Ex Sotheby's
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Chinese Sancai Tripod Jar, Tang Dynasty
The globular body is supported on three claw feet and is covered in a splashed-glaze of amber, green and cream color, which stops short of ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
English Delft Campana Vase, C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare, large vase in a classical shape, decorated with figures in a landscape. Large pieces of delftware are not often found.
See CIRC 43-1963 in the V&A for a similar example.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
An Italian Walnut Octagonal Library Table, 17th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Italian Walnut Octagonal Library Table, 17th Century
A small Italian walnut library table with moulded octagonal top and hollow rounded dentil cornice over a panelled square frie...
Category
17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Australia
Materials
Walnut
Italianate Landscape, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after Claude le Lorrain
By (after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Sepia mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822) After Claude Gellee ('Claude Lorrain') (1600-82).
From 'Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints after ...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Australia
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
Newcastle Light Baluster, England C1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic Newcastle light baluster, perhaps the finest of all the English shapes; certainly the finest of its period. The glass is light and well-balanced, a pleasure to hold or to s...
Category
Mid-18th Century British Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Blown Glass
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1800
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum.
The shape is taken from the Greek Hydria...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Teapot in the White, Prunus Decorated, Bow, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Drum-shape teapot with applied double-prunus decoration, in imitation of the Chinese. Pots of this form and date are rare, and this example is unusual in the quality of its body and glaze and the lavishly applied prunus decoration.
Ceramics bills from the Porcelain Company, [Bow] November 1749, among Lord Bute...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Ecuelle, or Soup Bowl, Wedgwood, C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Covered bowl, perhaps for soup, in black basalt with ‘Etruscan’ encaustic painting.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Breakfast Cup & Saucer, Saint Cloud, circa 1725
By Saint Cloud
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A most attractive and unusual pattern on this early example of French porcelain. While suggests a coffee cup to modern eyes, the decoration of tea plants in flower definitely says th...
Category
Early 18th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Large Antique Hungarian Dough Bowl – Hand-Carved Bowl, Early 1900s
Located in BRIGHTON, AU
This large antique Hungarian dough bowl, is a striking example of early 20th-century rural craftsmanship. Hand-carved from solid wood around the early 1900s, the bowl measures just u...
Category
Early 18th Century Hungarian Primitive Antique Australia
Materials
Wood
A Spanish Carlos II Walnut Sidetable, 17th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Spanish Carlos II Walnut Sidetable, 17th Century
Provenance: Private South Australian Collection.
Description:
The plank top over a single panelled frieze drawer of four moulded ...
Category
17th Century Spanish Antique Australia
Materials
Walnut
Les Bergers Romains, landscape with Roman ruins, 18th century engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Les Bergers Romains
Copper-line engraving by Jean Jacques Leveau (1729-1786) after Pierre Mettay (1728-1759). C1755.
Proof, before lettering. Laid, watermarked paper.
A landscap...
Category
18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Coffee Pot, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1767
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Coffee pot, circa 1765-69: Coffee pot and cover of silver form with domed cover; the body of the pot and dome of the cover pineapple moulded between rims painted in blue with cell an...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
George II Sterling Silver Coffee Pot with Timber Handle
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
This tall George II period sterling silver coffee pot is decorated with elegant floral repousse details and features a blonde timber handle. To the side ...
Category
Mid-18th Century British George II Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Basalt Portrait Medallion, William of Orange, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of William of Orange. The mixed-vase mark dates this example firmly in the 1780s. Wedgwood produced a number of co...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
A Late 18th Century Oval Painting
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Late 18th Century Oval Painting
Girl with a cat, original oil on canvas in gilt-wood frame.
Height 68 cm Width 58 cm Depth: 5cm
Provenance: Private ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Romantic Antique Australia
Materials
Canvas
Different Profils Pour Les Bordures, Roubo French cabinetmaking design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Different Profils Pour Les Bordures de Glaces avec leurs Ornements'
French copper-line engraving by Michelinot after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked pa...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
18th C. French Louis XVI Secretaire with Marquetry
Located in PERTH, WA
This impeccable antique French Secretaire comes with its original key and has stunning ribboned and fleur adornments with iconography typical of the Louis XVI style. Internally, a secret compartment is hidden beneath the lower cabinetry drawers and a gilt stamped, bordeaux leather desk pad...
Category
18th Century Antique Australia
Materials
Wood
Chocolate Pot, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of full-bellied pear-shape with large sparrow-beak lip set slightly below the top rim of the body in front of a triangle of circular pouring holes and at the right angle to the strap...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Engraved Warmbrunn wine glass with gilt rim. Silesia C1720.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A gorgeous conical wine glass with elaborate engraving encompassing a monogram below a crown, and a gilt rim.
Warmbrunn glass, also known as Warmbrunner glass, refers to a type of ...
Category
Early 18th Century German Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Blown Glass
A Chinese Deep Brown Glazed Footed Bowl, 15th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Chinese Deep Brown Glazed Footed Bowl, 15th Century
Provenance: The Collection of Dr. John Yu AC
Dimension: Height: 7.3 cm. Dimension: 15.5 cm
Dr. Yu was the Founding Chair of V...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Ming Antique Australia
Materials
Terracotta
XVIIIc Antique Venetian Silver Candle Sticks c1770's, by Domenego Bertoli "D.B."
Located in MELBOURNE, AU
Finds such as these Venetian Silver Candlesticks are incredibly rare, that truly deserve a museum display.
It’s a fascinating piece of the XVIII century history,
originating f...
Category
1770s Italian Antique Australia
Materials
Silver
Georgian Toby Jug - Wood C1785
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine early toby jug, from the Wood family of potters. Traditional form, seated and holding a foaming jug of beer, dressed in clothing of the day.
Toby jugs originated in the mid 18th century in Staffordshire. The name perhaps comes from Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth night; although I think both the jug and Sir Toby got their names from the song "The Brown Jug...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Australia
Materials
Pottery
Encaustic Painted Cup and Saucer in Black Basalt, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Black basalt, with rope handle and encaustic decoration of lines & anthemion, in imitation of early Greek pottery. Early encaustic examples are rar...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Dessert Plate with Fancy Bird, Chelsea Gold Anchor, circa 1765
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fabulous dessert plate, molded with swirling leaves highlighted with blue and gilt; the centre with a fabulous bird and insects.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair of Early Louis XV Walnut Fauteuils A La Reine, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Pair of Early Louis XV Walnut Fauteuils A La Reine, 18th Century
With square back and yoke arch top rail, the exposed hand rests carved with leaves, on scroll supports to serpenti...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Australia
Materials
Walnut
Punch Pot in the Famille Rose Style, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1757
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large tea-pot, or perhaps a punch pot, of globular form with loop handle. Painted in a vibrant wet palette after the Chinese. A most attractive example, of...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Figure, Mercury, Bow Porcelain, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
He wears a winged helmet and sandals, a loosely draped pink, white, and yellow washed cloak over a short tunic, and leans arrogantly against bales, his message sack over his left sho...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Garniture, Jabberwocky Pattern, Worcester, circa 1765
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An assembled set of three vases in the scarce Jabberwocky pattern, on a scale blue background.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Punch Powl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rather splendid punch bowl from the Bow Porcelain Factory, enameled with flowers and insects in the Famille Rose style. A good size, at almost nine inches in diameter.
Famille R...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative Basket, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pierced basket standing on a well-formed rococo base. Perhaps for potpourri, although the internal decoration suggests another use. We think probably oranges, chestnuts, etc.
Pr...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinoiserie Delft plates. England C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of plates painted with a pagoda in a garden after a contemporary Chinese model.
English Delftware is considered to be one of the most important forms of English ceramic produ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
Plate Disheveled Birds, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1767
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of silver shape with lobed and gilt dentil edge; the well with a landscape of exotic birds enameled in a brilliant palette all on a festoon of dense green-black foliage, the rim with insects and exotic butterflies.
The bird painter...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Miniature libation cup, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, C1700
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chinese porcelain libation cups of this period represent a fascinating aspect of Chinese ceramic art and cultural history. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) was renowned for its porcelain...
Category
Late 17th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Large Dish, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large platter, probably once associated with tureen. Beautiful flower painting, possible done outside the factory at the Giles studio in London, or perhaps at the Chelsea studio by a painter who had previously worked there. The tulip, heartease, and others look very Giles.
One of the most distinctive features of Chelsea porcelain is its intricate floral painting, which often featured detailed, lifelike renditions of flowers and other botanical subjects. The factory employed skilled artists who were trained in the art of flower...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Shell Sweetmeat Stand, Bow Porcelain, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Three-tiered stand for sweetmeats, in the form of shells and coral, and enameled with flowers; it is rare to find these in such good condition. Probably from a large dessert service.
These stands were popular in the Georgian period and were made by most of the porcelain factories. Many were modelled by a man named Tebo, who went from factory to factory creating these stands. He appears to have used real shells...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Creamware
Teapot, Red Coat Pattern, China, circa 1740, Decorated in London by Giles
By James Giles
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A superb example of Chinese porcelain, redecorated for the English market in London, probably in the Giles studio. ‘Man in a red coat’ pattern with gilded rock strata.
Unusually, ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Tall Beaker, Decorated with Prunus, Dehua, C1680
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A striking beaker, in Dehua’s luscious porcelain. An unsually bright white for Dehua, which is very attractive.
A tall beaker, of pleasing shape, with simple decoration of Prunus....
Category
Late 17th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Black basalt figure of Bacchus. Wedgwood C1780.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exceptionally rare early figure of Bacchus in black basalt. The mixed-case mark places this figure between 1780 and 1785.
He is portrayed in typical style, his head garlanded with grapes and with a wine cup to his lips.
Bacchus, also known as Dionysus in Greek mythology, is the enigmatic god of wine, fertility, and ritual madness. He symbolizes freedom, ecstasy, and the blurring of societal norms through his rituals and festivities. Bacchus is often depicted in myths as a deity who challenges the status quo, promoting an atmosphere where conventional rules do not apply, and his followers are liberated from their everyday constraints.
Born from Zeus and the mortal Semele, Bacchus is unique among gods, bridging the divide between the divine and the human. His followers included the wild and ecstatic maenads, female devotees who often reached states of divine frenzy, and the satyrs, mischievous half-man, half-goat beings. The worship of Bacchus was marked by theatrical processions, dances, and plays, reflecting his patronage of the theater and the dramatic arts.
Bacchus’s mythology...
Category
1780s English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Saltglaze plate, from a service for King George III, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A mosaic pattern plate in saltglaze earthenware, with a an early transfer-print of the Royal Arms used during this period. This coat of arms was used by both George II and George III...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Ribbon Landscape", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Roderick Jellicoe.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Edo Period XVIIc Iron Sword Tsuba (Guard). Bamboo & Frogs.
Located in MELBOURNE, AU
This intriguing article is a Tsuba,
a Japanese sword guard that forms part of the sword's mounting.
It is positioned between the blade and the grip to protect the user's hands.
Da...
Category
Early 1600s Japanese Antique Australia
Oval Teapot in Black Basalt, Turner, circa 1790
By John Turner
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An excellent black basalt teapot, with engine turned decoration and widow finial. Most unusually, this example is marked.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Teapot, Stag Hunt Pattern, China, circa 1740, Decorated in London by Giles
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chinese export porcelain teapot with underglaze blue decoration; decorated for the London market in the James Giles workshop with the S...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
French pipe organ design, late 18th century engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Elevation Geometralle d'Un Buffet D'Orgue d'Une Nouvelle Decoration'
Copper-line engraving. C1770.
380mm by 420mm (platemark) 460mm by 560mm (sheet)
From Roubo's 'L'Art du Menui...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
XVIIIc AquaForte Print "Chiesa di San Marco", Rome signed by Agapito Franzetti
Located in MELBOURNE, AU
XVIII century (circa 1790) AquaForte (etching) Print
"Chiesa di San Marco" (San Marco Church in Rome)
Signed by Agapito Franzetti
Measurements (including frame): 31cm x 30cm
Meas...
Category
1790s Italian Antique Australia
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Desirable Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Painted in under-glaze blue with the Desirable Residence pattern, featuring telegraph poles, and unusual feature for this period.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques Melbourne...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Sauce Boat, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of silver form; oval, double lipped, and with scroll handle with stylized mask to each side. The interior painted in blue underglaze with a songbird on a branch, a peony and an inner...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Tankard with Famille Rose Decoration, Bow C5145
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baluster-shaped tankard, decorated with a pattern taken form the Chinese, in the famille rose-verte palette. It is amusing to note how the house on a hill in the original has been me...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver cap with chain, surmounted by a wonderfully wrought squirrel.
Note the way the beads hav...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
