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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1750s
Coffee Cup with Famille Rose decoration, Bow Porcelain, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A direct copy of a Chinese shape, decorated with chinoiserie painting of typical motifs in the famille rose palette.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Cup and Saucer Laughing Buddha, or Pu Tai. Worcester, circa 1762
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Bell-shaped coffee cup with wish-bone handle, and saucer, decorated with the Put Tai or Laughing Buddha pattern.
This class of decoration on Worcester is like to have been perform...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Covered Vase, Famille Rose Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A vase and cover, decorated with peonies &c in the Famille Rose style. Incised R mark group.
Prov Taylor Collection; Simon Spero; Joseph Handley.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Plan et Elevation d'une Alcove, Roubo French design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Plan et Elevation d'une Alcove'
French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper.
From Roubo's 'L'Art du Menuisie...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Figure: Running Girl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small figure of a young woman wearing a puce-sprigged white skirt, lifted slightly with her left hand, pale pink jacket with typical Bow opaque blue collar and cuffs.
We've called...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Different Profils Des Cimaisses, Roubo French cabinetmaking design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Different Profils Des Cimaisses et Des Plainthes'
French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper.
From Roubo's ...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Maniere de Disposer La Menuiserie, Roubo French cabinetmaking design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Maniere de Disposer La Menuiserie pour Recevoir La Sculpture'
French copper-line engraving by Berthault after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked paper.
F...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Whieldonware Teapot, England, C1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming, tiny, one-cup teapot in creamware with crabstock handle and spout, and ‘Whieldonware’ decoration. Teapots of this size date from the time each person was given his own po...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
John Flamsteed, astronomer, 18th century portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Flamsteed'
Copper-line engraving by Joseph Baker after T Gibson. 1790.
John Flamsteed FRS (1646 - 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued ov...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Australia
Materials
Engraving
French Neoclassical Design for Candlesticks, engraving after Delafosse
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. C1768.
Delafosse was a French decorative designer, engraver and architect. Apprenticed for a time to a sculptor, by 1767 he styled himself an 'architect and professor of design'. He published the first volume of his most important work, 'Nouvelle Iconologie Historique' in 1768, containing 110 plates of his designs for furniture, decorative arts and architectural...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1759
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Plate, circa 1758-1760:
Small octagonal plate, the well printed in blue underglaze with La Dame Chinoise (also called the Promenade Chinoise) showing a tall oriental lady with tw...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Shooting. English engraving by Woollett after George Stubbs, 1799
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Shooting - Plate II', engraving from George Stubb's famous set of four shooting engravings.
Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring by William...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Teapot in Blanc De Chine, Worcester, circa 1760
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A blanc de chine teapot, with moulded decoration of a fishing scene – considerably rarer than the more common flowers.
Barrel shaped “blanc de chine' teapot with ridged loop handl...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Jasperware Perfume Bottle, William Adams, circa 1790
By William Adams
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
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Coffee Can Blue and White "Peony & Bamboo" Bow Porcelain, circa 1754
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with peonies and bamboo. The painting links with the William Pether 1754 jug.
The decoration is taken directly from Chinese examples, and was intended to compete with Chinese imports.
Peonies and bamboo are both commonly depicted in Chinese porcelain decoration. Peonies, also known as the "king of flowers," are often depicted in Chinese art as a symbol of wealth, nobility, and good fortune. Bamboo, on the other hand, is a symbol of integrity, resilience, and longevity. Together, peonies and bamboo are often used to symbolize the harmonious balance between wealth and integrity.
Chinese porcelain with peony...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Basket-Weave Teapot in Black Basalt, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A most attractive and unusual teapot in black basalt, moulded with basket-weave decoration and interlocking arches.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Campi Phlegraei - View of a section of a part of the cone of Astruni, Italy
By Pietro Fabris
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Campi Phlegraei - View of a section of a part of the cone of Astruni taken at the entrance of this volcano
Copper-line engraving with gouache. 1776.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Pencilled with Boy on a Buffalo, Worcester, circa 1755
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine tea-bowl and saucer, with a pencilled decoration of the pattern Boy on a Buffalo, after the Chinese.
The porcelain is eggshell-thin, something Worcester did for only a...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Basalt Cider Mug with Sheffield Plate Rim, Wedgwood, circa 1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An excellent cider mug with oak leaf decoration, and a silver rim, most likely Sheffield plate.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Coffee Cup and Saucer in the White, Chelsea, circa 1750
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lovely little cup and saucer, decorated with prunus blossom. Cups with this form of handle are rare, but documented.
Raised anchor mark to saucer.
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 lid.
Decorated with Venus and Cupid, as allegories of Night - the one shedding poppies,...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Libation Cup, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, C1650
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Blanc de Chine cup of a shape copying earlier cups which were carved from 16th century rhinoceros horns.
Lucious Dehua porcelain, moulded and heavi...
Category
Mid-17th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a large residence in a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Watney Collection.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Creamware Portrait of Shakespeare, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
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
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Flowers and Insects", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with flowers and insects. Painter’s mark 16 and a distinctive way of painting insects.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Christie’s.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Swans & Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Decorated with an under-glaze blue print of a Chinese landscape, featuring a man at the window of a pagoda, admiring swans on the lake.
Bow didn't produce very much in the way of ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
George III Sterling Creamer by Peter & Ann Bateman
By Peter and Ann Bateman
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
A George III period sterling silver creamer with floral repousse design to the body above a square base by Peter & Ann Bateman. To the centre of the creamer under the spout is a blan...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Pair of Famille Rose & Prunus Plates, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine pair of plates with raised decoration of prunus, and painted with a famille rose pattern.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre.
...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Encaustic Painted Teapot in Black Basalt, Wedgwood C1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare and stunning example of neo-classical decoration on an ordinary househuld object: a teapot. The decoration is restrained yet lively, and makes excellent use of classical figur...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Bowl with Chinoiserie Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of Bow porcelain, decorated in ‘wet’ famille rose colours; featuring a peony, a bird on a branch, and another in flight. Sacred Scrolls to the interior.
A superb ...
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 and dipper.
Decorated with Cupid playing the lyre, and Cupid singing. The God of L...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Butter Boat, Two Peony Rockbird Pattern, Worcester, circa 1755
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A particularly successful dish, formed in the shape of a leaf, and decorated with underglaze blue painting after the Chinese.
The Two Peony Rockbird pattern is a traditional Chine...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Plate, circa 1755-1760: Octagonal plate, the decoration after an oriental original (possibly from the region now modern Bhutan), with four robed ladies walking through a stylized lan...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Les Cabinets D'Histoire Naturelle, Roubo French cabinetmaking design engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Differentes Sortes D'Armoires Pour Les Cabinets D'Histoire Naturelle'
French copper-line engraving by Pelletier after Andre Jacob Roubo (1739–1791). 18th century laid watermarked p...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Pierced Tea Bowl, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, C1635
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is a stunning antique Blanc de Chine double walled tea bowl! This elegant piece is perfect for collectors and enthusiasts for antique china...
Category
Mid-17th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot in the Famille Rose Style, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small pot with loop handle, curved spout and domed cover with ball finial, the body painted after the Famille rose with chrysanthemum, flowers and leaves, all from mauve rocks on gre...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Richard Chaffers of Liverpool, circa 1760
By Richard Chaffers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A porcelain tea bowl and saucer from one of the Liverpool makers, painted with a chinoiserie scene. The use of the white porcelain to form the shin...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Oenocho, Wedgwood, C1770
By Wedgwood
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
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Creamware
Miniature Salt Glaze teapot, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, one-cup teapot in undecorated salt-glazed earthenware. The size reflects the early custom of a pot to each tea drinker.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Soup Tureen, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Oval tureen and cover, decorated after the Kakiemon in the two quail pattern; the crabstock handles and masks are interesting features. The tureen has had a rather unhappy life, appa...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Cabbage Dish, "The Magician" Pattern, Worcester, circa 1758
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early dish in the form of two cabbage leaves, with the polychrome decoration known as ‘The Magician’. A cheerful, colourful pattern, well drawn and with an amusing name.
The bord...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Encaustic Painted Ecuelle, Wedgwood, circa 1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In black basalt, decorated with encaustic painting.
An écuelle is a French word that refers to a shallow dish or bowl, typically made of metal or ceramic, and used for serving food. Écuelle is also the French word for a small, shallow saucer used for serving soup. In English, an écuelle might be referred to as a soup plate or a soup saucer...
Category
1780s English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Famille Rose Tea Bowl & Saucer, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delicate tea-bowl and saucer, decorated after the Chinese in the Famille Rose palette. This style of painting, known as 'wet enamelling', is very attractive but quite scarce in Bow...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Cup & Saucer, Saint Cloud, circa 1730
By Saint Cloud
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Both cup and saucer with moulded reeding and decorated in underglaze blue with scrolled lambrequin borders.
Saint Cloud porcelain is a type of soft-paste porcelain produced in the French town of Saint Cloud from the late 17th century to the mid-18th century. It was one of the earliest European attempts to produce porcelain and is known for its delicate, pale blue-gray glaze and simple, elegant designs.
The history of Saint Cloud porcelain can be traced back to the late 17th century when a group of Flemish potters settled in the town of Saint Cloud, which was then a royal estate...
Category
Early 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Oval Dish, Chantilly, circa 1770
By Chantilly
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Underplate from a tureen or similar; decorated with simple cobalt decoration.
The history of Chantilly porcelain can be traced back to around 17...
Category
Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot, with Naive Shepherdess, Wedgwood C1770
By Wedgwood
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
Late 18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Creamware
Masinissa, King of Nubia, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Massinissa re de' Numidi'
Copper-line engraving by Carlo Gregori after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image.
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici.
Illustration of an ancient marble bust...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Cross-Legged Man", Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the cross-legged man pattern. An early and unusual shape for this scarce pattern.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Robyn Robb.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Dated Crowther Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, 1770
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The so-called ‘Crowther Plate’ dated January 1770:
Octagonal, painted in blue underglaze with the monogram ‘RC’ in a floral cartouche and with elaborate scroll, pendant and cell a...
Category
1770s English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Polychrome "Strutting Bird", Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can from the bow porcelain factory, naively painted with the ‘Strutting Bird’ pattern.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
William Woollett, engraver, late 18th century artist portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
William Woollett, Engraver
Proof before letters. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi after Thomas Hearne, 1795. Wove paper.
William Woollett (1735-85) was an important English 18th cen...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching
18th Century Swedish Primitive Pine Folk Chair – Sculptural Armchair
Located in BRIGHTON, AU
A rare and sculptural example of late 18th-century Swedish folk furniture, this handcrafted armchair is made from solid pine and exudes the warmth, honesty, and elegance associated w...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Australia
Materials
Pine
Sparrow-Beaked Jug, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1763
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A small pear-shaped milk jug, with a transfer-printed outline, filled with wet enamels, in the Chinese Mating Chickens pattern; the rear with symbols of pomegranate, leaves and censer.
Prov: Taylor Collection; John Wilson Antiques 2008.
Catalogue Entry:
Of small pear shape on a high footrim; sparrow...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Black Basalt Tea Canister with Applied Decoration, Mayer, C1790
By Elijah Mayer Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cyclicrical tea canister in engine-turned black basalt, with raised decoration. Unmarked, but the quality and finial clinch the attribution.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Alexandria, Egypt, copper-line engraving by Cornelius de Bruyn , 1690
By Cornelius de Bruyn
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Alexandria'
A view of Pompey's Pillar with Alexandria in the background. Cornelis de Bruijn was a Dutch artist and traveler. He is best known for his drawings of the ruins of Perse...
Category
Late 17th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Etching, Engraving
Polychrome Mug Tea Ceremony, Worcester, circa 1754
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Scratch cross type mug, decorated with the tea ceremony pattern.
Incised line to base near handle.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Baluster-Form Saltglaze Teapot, Decorated with Faulous Beasts, England, C1745
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In salt-glazed stoneware, crisply moulded with fabulous beasts and birds.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Thamas Kouli-Kan, Roy de Perse, 1742 (Nader Shah), portrait engraving, 1742
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French 18th century engraving, published in Paris, of the Emperor of Persia, Tahmasp Quli Khan (c.1688-1747), also known as Nader Shah.
150mm by 100mm (platemark)
170mm by 120mm (sh...
Category
Mid-18th Century French School Australia
Materials
Engraving
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Circular plate, the well outlined and transfer printed in black/brown outline and filled-in with 'wet' enamels all with Chinese figures in a garden and a child playing with an excite...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
