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Period: 18th Century
Period: 1860s
Period: 1750s
George III Sterling Silver Creamer by Peter & Ann Bateman
By Peter and Ann Bateman
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
A George III period, sterling silver creamer with a monogrammed crest and beaded rim by Peter & Ann Bateman of the famed Bateman silversmithing family. This rather lovely creamer sit...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
'La Lanterne p'tit mi', Original Vintage 18th Century Theatre Poster by J Cheret
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'La Lanterne p'tit mi', Original Vintage 18th Century Theatre Poster by J Cheret
Original Vintage poster from 1890, this poster has been backed onto linen fo...
Category
18th Century French Victorian Antique Australia
Materials
Paper
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
George III Sterling Salt Cellar by Peter & Ann Bateman
By Peter and Ann Bateman
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
A George III period sterling silver salt cellar with a gilt wash interior and hand-chased details by two members of the famed English silversmithing family, Peter & Ann Bateman. An e...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
One Blue and White Dish, Yongzheng Period, Qing Dynasty Ex Sotheby's
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
One Blue and White Dish, Yongzheng Period, Qing Dynasty
Painted figures on bridge in landscape
Diameter: 11.5cm Height: 2cm
Provenance: Made in Imperial China Porcelain from the C...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Australia
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Delft plate witha couple leaving a church. Wincanton/London England C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A dinner-plate, painted in the delft style with a couple leacing a church, or perhaps a house. Wincanton pottery, or perhaps London.
English Delftware is considered to be one of the...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
Miniature Salt Glaze Jug, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming, small jug in salt-glazed earthenware. Plain: just the way we like it.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Coffee Cup, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of Chinese export form with loop handle; the body imaginatively painted in a bright ‘early blue’ underglaze with pine, rock and bamboo after the Chinese. Yellow tinged body; clear gl...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Magnum Decanter, England C1790 with Later Etched Masonic Decoration
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A magnum decanter, made plain in Georgian times. Later etched for brandy, and decorated with Masonic symbols, in imitation of early wheel-cut engraving...
Category
Late 18th Century British Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Blown Glass
Pair of Fluted Dessert Plates, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Each of shallow circular form with scalloped rim and painted in the Kakiemon two Quail pattern with a pair of partridges standing between a flowering prunus and a kikyo bush amidst f...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Dish, Worcester, circa 1770
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A dessert dish, in the shape of a shell, and decorated in the Sevres manner.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Delft plate - Ship in sail off the coast. Glasgow C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A dinner-plate, painted in the delft style, with a ship coming to land; bunches of grapes around the edge.
See Michael Archer, Delftwarem m233 no B258 for a similar example, which h...
Category
Mid-18th Century Scottish Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
A Superb Terracotta Lion, French 18th century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A superb terracotta lion, French 18th century
Height: 70 cm Width: 38 cm Depth: 82 cm.
Provenance: Private Australian Collection acquired in 1990s.
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Australia
Materials
Terracotta
George III Sterling Silver Ladle by Thomas & William Chawner
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
This sterling silver ladle was made in London by silversmiths Thomas & William Chawner. The crisp hallmarks on the piece date its manufacture to 1767, very early in the reign of Geor...
Category
18th Century British Georgian Antique Australia
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
Dated Pearlware Teapot with Ship, English, 1792
By Leeds Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine documentary teapot, probably made to record a marriage between a sailor and his lass. Pearlware, enamelled with a square-rigged schooner.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
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
George III Sterling Silver Chamber Stick
By Henry Chawner
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
A wonderful George III period chamber stick in sterling silver by Henry Chawner of London. An elegant scrolled handle is mounted to an octagonal base underneath a column with reeded ...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
A Fine Pair of Carved Limewood and Gilt Torcheres, Italian Circa 1780
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A very fine pair of carved limewood and gilt torcheres, Italian circa 1780
Height: 112 cm Diameter: 25cm
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Category
18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Hardwood
Large Dish or tureen stand, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine tureen stand, typically painted with flowers and insects in the style of Meissen. A large and impressive piece.
Stilt marks and ground footrim.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
John Gould - Pteruthius Erythropterus from 'The Birds of Asia' C. 1850
By John Gould
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Pteruthius Erythropterus - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured
size 54 cm X 37 cm
excellent Condition
FREE SHIPPING
This remarkable ornithology lithograph with hand-finished colour is from the esteemed John Gould’s Birds...
Category
Late 18th Century Australia
Materials
Lithograph
A Modern Shuihuzhuan / Narita no Shinzo 近世水滸伝
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Toyokuni III
A Modern Shuihuzhuan / Narita no Shinzo 近世水滸伝
Tattoo
Size: Oban 36 x 25 cm
文久2年（1862）
Category
1860s Australia
Materials
Woodcut
Cradle with Infant, Bovey Tracey, circa 1790
By Bovey Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine example in creamware of an infant swaddled and lying in its crib.
These miniature representations served various purposes:
Decorative objects: Miniature models of infa...
Category
Late 18th Century English Primitive Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
Tea bowl and Saucer, Chelsea, circa 1752
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From early in the red anchor period, a fluted tea bowl and saucer, exquisitely painted with flowers and insects.
Category
1750s English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Waste Bowl, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual waste bowl (sometimes called a slop bowl) in soft-paste porcelain, decorated with typical Chelsea sprigs and bunches of flowers.
One of the most...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
George III Sterling Silver Creamer by Robert Hennell I
By Robert Hennell
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
A small, George III period, sterling silver creamer by London silversmith Robert Hennel I, with period monogram. The creamer features an intricate monogram under the lip which is lik...
Category
18th Century British George III Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
A Figured Walnut Veneered Prie-dieu, Italian Circa 1700
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Figured Walnut Veneered Prie-dieu, Italian Circa 1700
The walnut prie-dieu with canted corners and panelled with burred walnut, the moulded plank top giving way to a single frieze...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Australia
Materials
Hardwood
A Lion, passant gardant, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lion, seated on its haunches, one paw up. Perhaps a heraldic reference; although the stump does not appear in heraldry, it is required in order to keep the paw in position during f...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Commemorative Jug: George II. Worcester, circa 1759
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual print, sometimes seen on mugs; exceptionally rare to find it on a jug. King George II died in 1760, and so any Worcester commemoratives of him are scarce. The print commem...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
A Finely Carved Italian Sienna and Cararra Marble Urn, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A highly decorative and finely carved Sienna and Cararra marble urn in two sections, Italian 18th century
Height: 85 cm Diameter: 73 cm
Provenance: Private Australian Collection ac...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Marble
Pair of Bird Plates, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of scalloped dessert plates, painted with bunches and sprays of flowers, with attractive naturalistic birds arranged around the outside.
Red anchor mark.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Salt Glaze Sauce Boat, Barley-Corn Pattern, English, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An excellent example of the popular Barleycorn pattern, crisply moulded in panels to the sides, with graceful sprigs. Salt-glaze particularly suits this sort of fine relief.
Excel...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
A Modern Shuihuzhuan / THE GANGSTER TOMIGORO 近世水滸伝 競力富五郎
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Toyokuni III
A Modern Shuihuzhuan / THE GANGSTER TOMIGORO 近世水滸伝 競力富五郎
Tattoo
Size: Oban 36 x 25 cm
文久2年（1862）
Category
1860s Australia
Materials
Woodcut
Ersari Turkomen Very Rare small main carpet circa 1860 short term reduction
Located in WYNNUM, QLD
Acquired from a Viennese collector’s estate
The Ersari tribe of the wider Turkomen nation living in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran are one of the weaving tribes better known and understood by scholars. The Tekke Turkomen’s woven materials are perhaps best known in the West, followed by the Yomud, Salor and Ersaris. A Salor main carpet, 30% larger and about 40 years older than this piece recently sold in Austria for over $50,000, such is the scholarly , collection, and investment zeal found around the world . We are making this piece available at a short term steep discount to conincide with out launch on 1st Dibs .
These and other kindred tribes produce rugs, bags, Amalysks (bridal bags) and Engsis (Tent doors...
Category
1860s Turkestan Antique Australia
Materials
Wool
Coffee Can: Merian's Opossum, Nymphenburg, C1790
By Nymphenburg Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A good example of the fine painting produced at this factory. This example with an African possum and a feline, after the engraving by George Buffons.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Pearlware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pearlware bust of Sir Isaac Newton, by Enoch Wood. The oak pedestal adds dignity to an attractive rendering of this great man of science. A handwrit...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Pearlware
Saltglaze Pounce Pot, English, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming pounce pot, or sander, in sale-glazed earthenware. Unusually good condition. These were used to sprinkle pounce on writing paper; pounce was powd...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Figure of a ram, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Derby was able to produce exceptional work, as this figure of a recument ram attests. Skillfully sculpted, moulded and potted, there is something about the expression produced by the...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Bowl & Saucer, Chelsea, circa 1752
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An octagonal tea bowl and matching saucer, decorated with Chelsea's usual beautiful flower painting.
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 painting, and the results have always been highly prized by collectors.
Chelsea porcelain is highly collectible and has a reputation for being of exceptional quality. It is often considered to be among the finest examples of English porcelain...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 12 Plates, Aesop Fables, Wedgwood, circa 1860
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A set of 12 plates in creamware, in the Spanish shape. Each is hand-painted with an illustration from one of Æsop’s fables, and carries a title painted o...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Romantic Antique Australia
Materials
Creamware
Kitty Clive Figure
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of Bow's theatrical figures.
The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot, the Fine Lady, introduced, with The Fine Gentleman, into David Garrick...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
George III Sterling Silver Tea Strainer by Peter & Ann Bateman
By Peter and Ann Bateman
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
This very simple sterling silver tea-strainer was manufactured in London by Peter & Ann Bateman of the famed Bateman family. The strainer is very simple in its construction and featu...
Category
18th Century British Georgian Antique Australia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Teapot Stand, "Milkmaids" Pattern, Worcester, circa 1760
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Hexagonal teapot stand, with transfer print decoration of The Milkmaids.
From an engraving by Richard Hancock, one the best and most important of the en...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Majolica Sweetmeat Stand, Wedgwood, circa 1865
By Minton
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A brightly coloured majolica sweetmeat dish in the form of a bucolic young man leaning on a basket.
Minton majolica is a type of ceramic ware that was produced by the Minton pottery in the 19th century. It was created in response to the growing popularity of Italian Renaissance maiolica...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Majolica
Seal in the Form of a Lion, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A porcelain seal in for the form of a seated lion. With original gold mount, loop, and semi-precious stone: which has not been engraved.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Baluster Vase, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of bow’s output, with a smooth, silky glaze. Painted after the Kakiemon with a phoenix, butterfly and various plants after the Japanese; with reserved panels featuri...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
A Nun, perhaps a theatrical figure. England, probably Plymouth, circa 1750
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An interesting soft-paste porcelain figure of a Dominican Nun, perhaps the theatrical figure Heloise.
Although the Nun appears in various versions in European and English porcelain,...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century, American 'Coin Silver' Coffee Pot Attributed to Nathaniel Helme
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
This rather elegant coffee pot was likely made in the United States during the second half of the 18th Century. Prior to restoration work in 2022 the underside of the pot had remnants of a hallmark 'NH', allowing us to attribute the piece to early American silversmith Nathaniel Helme who was working in South Kingston, Rhode Island between 1761 and 1789. The piece stands on a square footing and has a timber handle...
Category
18th Century American Antique Australia
Materials
Silver
Early Bow Porcelain Pickle Dish, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In the early ‘mushroom grey’ body, probably made by hand; decorated with some very good flower painting.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero 2007.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
A Dutch Brass Pestle, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Dutch Brass Pestle, 18th Century
initialled I.L. and dated 1776 to the body, together with a turned wooden stand, convex impression to the base of the urn. Home decor, Interior de...
Category
18th Century Dutch Antique Australia
Materials
Brass
Tall coffee pot in pearlware, House & Fence decoration. C1790
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine and large - enormous - coffee or chocolate pot in pearlware, with “House & Fence” decoration, in imitation of a Chinese original.
It is thought that these oversixed pots wer...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
Tankard with Printed Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug, in baluster form, decorated with early transfer prints of pheasants and two sheep. Transfer printing on bow porcelain is very rare.
Prov: Taylor Coll; Winifred Williams,...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Prattware Teapot, Dated 1792
By Swinton Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A documentary teapot, in pearl ware with Pratt ware colors under glaze. Dated and inscribed for Sarah Jackson. Attributed to the Swinton Pottery.
Category
1790s English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Pearlware
Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Harlequin and Columbine Dancing, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the best: Harlequin & Columbine Dancing, after the Meissen figure, from the series of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Delft plate with a woman passing a monument. England C1745.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Tin-glazed earthenware, decorated with a woman in a landscape. Known as a monument plate, after the monument surmounted by a vase.
Prov: Troy Chappell c...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
Near Pair of Baluster Shape Vases, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baluster shaped vase in soft paste porcelain with early gilt line decoration. Superb flower painting.
The shapes are very close, and the gilding is slightly more elaborate on the se...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Kakiemon Decoration Chelsea, circa 1752
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large octagonal tea-bowl, decorated in the Japanese style.
“The decoration is effective and pleasing, but does not seem to have been very frequently employed” – McKenna.
Pro...
Category
1750s English Anglo-Japanese Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Lions. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive pair of lions, in the white; possibly based on a Chinese original.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Edward Bourne, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Portrait Medallion of Edward Bourne, bricklayer at the Wedgwood factory. A bricklayer was kept on staff in order to maintain the kilns.
This was modelled by Hackwood as an excercise...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Sauce Boat, Fringed Tree Pattern, Worcester, circa 1755
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual shape with an uncommon painted pattern: Fringed Tree. The combination is scarce.
Workman’s mark.
In the 18th century, sauce boats were a common serving vessel used ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
