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Period: 18th Century
Pale Blue Jasperware Bowl, Wedgwood, circa 1790
By Wedgwood
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
1790s English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Navette, with Ladle, Wedgwood, C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An extraordinary navette, or cream boat, in black basalt with encaustic decoration. Complete with matching ladle: a rare find indeed.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Vue de la Ville et du Lac de Geneve, Switzerland, copper-line engraving, c1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French copper-line engraving depicting the Town and Lake of Geneva, Switzerland.
Claude-Louis Chatelet was a distinguished French painter, draftsman an...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
L'Hostel de Chevreuse, French town house in Paris, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Hostel de Chevreuse'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings an...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
George III Miniature Twin Fusee Mantel Clock, Hunter London, circa 1790
By William Hunter
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An exceptionally rare George III miniature twin fusee mantel clock, circa 1790. The mahogany break arch case with brass sound frets to the sides and detailed decoration to the front of the case, with decorative fern patterned swept feet and top carry handle.
The rear winding movement of diminutive proportions, with pull repeat, and profusely engraved backplate with swags of flowers and the Prince of Wales feathers in a central cartouche, currently converted from verge to anchor escapement. The white painted arched dial inscribed with the name of the maker, Hunter, London. This probably represents Thomas & William Hunter...
Category
18th Century British George III Antique Australia
Materials
Brass
Botanical Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine octagonal plate painted in the botanical style; possibly the yellow gloriosa climbing lily.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Robyn Robb 2003.
Filled edge chips.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
'Vue des Montagnes du Val-Travers, Neuchatel, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Vue des Montagnes du Val-Travers, d'ou aperçoit le Lac de Neuchatel'
French copper-line engraving by Duparc after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'Th...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
View of Greenwich from Deptford Yard, Thames, London, C18th English aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'View of Greenwich from Deptford Yard, Thames, London'
Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington.
Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine St...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
French Grande Sonnerie Pendule D'officier Alarm Clock, Le Roi, 18th Century
By Le Roi
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine French ormolu grande sonnerie pendule d'officier with alarm, Le Roi & Fils, late 18th century.
The ormolu case profusely decorated with flora...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Australia
Materials
Ormolu
Viliers Costret, French chateau, architectural plan, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Viliers Costret'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and citi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
Vue d'un Village près de la Ville de Berne, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Vue d'un Village près de la Ville de Berne'
French copper-line engraving by Masquelier after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland illust...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
II. e Vue d'un passage du Mont St Gothard, Switzerland, engraving, 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'II.e Vue d'un passage du Mont St Gothard'
French copper-line engraving by Duparc after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794).
From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland illustrated'...
Category
1780s Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
San Benedetto Con Altri Nanti, religious engraving after Veronese, circa 1700
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Religious copper-line engraving by CM after Francesco Petrucci after (Paolo Caliari) Veronese. Depicts Saint Benedict and other holy figures.
Paolo Vero...
Category
Early 1700s Old Masters Australia
Materials
Engraving
Conway, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Conway'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland'...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Armorial Tea Cup and Saucer from the Ludlow Service, Bristol, circa 1777
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A Rococo cup and saucer, elaborately decorated with the arms of Ludlow, for Daniel Ludlow of Campden.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
Mezzotint, Etching, Engraving
Peach varieties, fruit engraving with later hand-colouring, circa 1770
By HL Duhamel Du Monceau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Peaches, Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring, from Duhamel du Monceau’s 'Traité des Arbres Fruitiers', circa 1770.
Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was one of outstanding ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Champignon de la France, a French antique mushroom engraving, 1791
By Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'L'Agaric Piedfu'
A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Gardens of the Chateau Rueil, Paris, France, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Prosp. horti Auraicorum Pomorum a Ruel'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gard...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
Durham. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Durham'
Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland', published by G...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Duff House, Bamffshire, Scotland. Cordinier C18th landscape engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
‘Duff House, the Seat of the Earl of Fife, in Bamffshire’
Engraving by P Mazell After C Cordiner,
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Sco...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Thisbe and Pyramus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical Myth engraving, 1768
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by Nicolas de Launay after Charles Monnet (1732-1808).
Thisbe, finding the dead body of Pyramus, throws herself on a sword.
Fro...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Grand Cricket Match at Lord's Ground, Marylebone, sport engraving, 1793
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Title : 'Grand Cricket Match, played in Lord's Ground Mary-le-bone, on June 20th and following day between the Earl's of Winchelsea and darnley for 1000 Guineas.'
Publication line ...
Category
1790s Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Tower at Luton, Bedfordshire. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Remains of the Tower at Luton, Bedfordshire'
Engraving by MA Rooker after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, S...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
'La Legere Rapide "New Home", Original Vintage Sewing Poster, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'La Legere Rapide "New Home" - Standard' original vintage poster, circa 1895
Original vintage poster advertising a sewing machine, this poster has been lin...
Category
18th Century French Art Deco Antique Australia
Materials
Paper
Knife and Fork, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unsually early set of handles with original steel tines and blade. Pistol grip form moulded with acanthus scrolls, leaves and swags and painted with indianische Blumen in a Kakiem...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian Decanter Indian Club Shape, Bohemia, circa 1770
By Bohemia Crystal
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An Indian Club shaped decanter, decorated with wheel-cut interlocking circles and spire finial. Very much in the English style.
Category
1770s German Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Cut Glass
Chateau Valeri, French chateau, garden estate plan, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chateau Valeri'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, gardens, buildings and citie...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
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
Georgian Drum Head Clock with Verge Escapement Signed Wray, London, 18th Century
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An 18th century walnut cylindrical cased mantel timepiece, signed Wray of London, the 6ins diameter white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, to ...
Category
Late 18th Century British Georgian Antique Australia
Materials
Brass
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 the original designs of Claude le Lorrain...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Australia
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving, Etching
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 the original designs of Claude le Lorrain...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Australia
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching, Engraving
Conical form Teapot, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual shape, which looks impractical and yet the lid is surprisingly stable when the pot is tilted. The usual superb flower painting for this period.
See McKenna, Red Anchor ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Rococo design for a gate, German mid 18th century etching
By Joseph Baumann
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rococo design for a gate, etching, by Joseph Baumann (active 1740-1760), circa 1750.
Published by Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756).
Similar works ar...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
'Anatomie' - Parts of the Stomach, French medical anatomy engraving, c1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Anatomie - XIX Parties de le estomac'
French late 18th century copper-line engraving.
From Denis Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, 'Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des scie...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
Ivy Bridge near Plymouth, Devon. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ivy Bridge near Plymouth'
Engraving by F Chesham after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Irelan...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Castle of Irrois in Champagne, French architecture, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Prosp. du Chasteau de Irrois en Champagne'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, g...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Diogenes the Cynic, Greek philosopher. C18th Grand Tour Roman bust engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Diogene Cinico'
Copper-line engraving by Pazzi after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768).
From 'Musei Capitolini' a series of engravings showing the sculpture of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
240mm by 170mm (platemark)
420mm by 270mm (sheet)
Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher...
Category
Mid-18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Shells, French 18th century natural history marine sea shell engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute.
Henry Redoute was the bro...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Scholar's Rock" Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with a Scholar’s Rock and associated items.
Prov. Taylor Collection; Stockspring Antiques.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Chestnut Basket, Two Quail Pattern, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A ‘spectacle basket’, probably for oranges, with Kakiemon decoration to the interior, featuring the Two Quail pattern.
Provenance: Taylor Collection
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, diarist, portrait engraving, 1787
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'James Boswell Esq of Auchinleck'
Copper-line engraving from 'The European Magazine'.
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740 - 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in...
Category
Late 18th Century Victorian 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
George II, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
By Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George II'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George II (1683-1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Leneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. He was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain, and was famous for his numerous conflicts with his father and, subsequently, with his son. As king, he exercised little control over policy in his early reign, the government instead being controlled by Great Britain's de facto first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole...
Category
Late 18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
Cup and Saucer, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Low tea cup with clip handle with matching saucer, decorated after the Kakiemon with the two quail pattern. An unusual form with scarce decoration.
Prov...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian Natural Pearl and Diamond Necklet
Located in Brisbane, QLD
This exquisite handmade Georgian necklet features 56 natural pearls and 116 diamond chips set in silver topped rolled gold. The piece dates to England circa 1770 when pearls were a s...
Category
1770s English Georgian Antique Australia
Materials
Diamond, Natural Pearl
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
