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Period: 18th Century
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
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
Chinoiserie Cane Handle, St Cloud, circa 1740
By Saint Cloud
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare cane handle, with underglaze blue Chinoiserie decoration. Excellent condition and unusual decoration make this a rather special piece.
Category
Mid-18th Century French Chinoiserie 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
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
Caernarfon Castle, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Caernarvon Castle'
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, ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
North East View of Pembroke, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'North East View of Pembroke'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) and William Angus after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
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
Pair of Sauce Boats, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pair of Sauceboats, circa 1752-1755:
Of flat hexagonal form with waved top and scroll handle, painted after the Chinese in blue with the ‘desirable residence pattern’ of a building...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Newstead Priory, Nottinghamshire. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Newsted Priory, Nottinghamshire'
Engraving by W Walker And W Angus After Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Sc...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Chess Piece King, Wedgwood, circa 1800
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A white jasper King from the Flaxman chess set.
Unmarked, which is not unusual for chess pieces of this period.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
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
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
Queen's Gate, at Caernarfon, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Queen's Gate, at Caernarvon'
Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) and William Angus after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select ...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Coffee Cup, Kakiemon Decoration, Plymouth, circa 1769
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Coffee cup in hard-paste porcelain, decorated with Kakiemon painting. The fruits of the Plymouth factory are perhaps the first examples of hard-paste porc...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Newstead in Nottinghamshire. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Newstead in Nottinghamshire, the Seat of Lord Byron'
Engraving by Thomas Malton after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views i...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Bamboo and Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with Bamboo and a pagoda. Underglaze B mark.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Sutherland; Aubrey Toppin; Charles Dyson.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Tortoise Shell Travel Clock, Fusee Movement, with Oak Travel Case, circa 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An ultra rare Georgian miniature tortoiseshell bracket timepiece travel clock, caddy top with white metal swing handle and flame finials, the 7cm square brass dial with silvered chap...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Australia
Materials
Tortoise Shell
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
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
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
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
Galileo, late 18th century science astronomy portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Galileo Galilei (1564- 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution....
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Villa di Castel Pulci del Signor Marchese Riccardi, Italy, engraving, 1744
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with etching by Marco Antonio Corsi after a drawing by Giuseppe Zocchi (Italian, 1711/17–1767).
From 'Vedute delle ville, e d'altri luoghi d...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Banana Trees", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with banana trees in a landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Parkside Antiques.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
The New Bridge, On The River Dee, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The New Bridge, On The River Dee, Near Chirk Castle'
Engraving by Peter Mazell After Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Middleham Castle, Yorkshire. Paul Sandby C18th English landscape engraving
By Paul Sandby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Part of Middleham Castle, NW Riding, Yorkshire'
Engraving by T Woodyer after Paul Sandby (1731-1809).
From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
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
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
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
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
Castle and Town of Tanlay, French architecture, mid 17th century engraving
By Matthaeus Merian
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Prosp du Chasteau et Bourg de Tanlay'
Copper-line engraving by Matthaeus Merian.
From 'Topographia Galliae', a fine series of engravings of 17th-century French landscapes, garden...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Australia
Materials
Engraving
Procne and Tereus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, French Classical engraving, 1768
By Binet after Charles Monnet (1732-1808)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving by De Longueil after JM Moreau the Younger.
Depiction of Philomela and Procne showing the severed head of Itys to his father Tereus.
From 'Les Metamorphoses d...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
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
Leaf-Shape Dish, Chelsea, circa 1760
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, a serving dish, in the form of a leaf in a basket...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
George I, King of England, royalty portrait engraving, circa 1780
By Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'George I'
Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan.
Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher.
George I (1660-1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire...
Category
Late 18th Century Renaissance Australia
Materials
Engraving
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
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
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
Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Il Dottore from the Commedia dell’Arte, in the white.
He stands in an histrionic pose against a tree stump and wears a high brimmed hat (presumably a black academic bonnet), long-buttoned coat over frilled cuffs, falling jabeaux, breeches, boots and a cloak; his right hand on hip, his left arm and hand raised. Slightly grey-white porcelain; even, unctuous glaze. Straw translucency. Underside wiped; air hole at centre. Square hole at rear for mount. Measure: H 6.3 in (16 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection, from Stockspring Antiques, London, 1998. The Miss G...
Category
Late 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
German folk dancing, set of six engravings, circa 1720
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A series of six German engravings of couples dancing. Published by Josef Friderick Leopold in Bavaria.
260mm by 165mm (platemark)
Category
Early 18th Century Romantic Australia
Materials
Etching
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
Soup Plate with Hans Sloane Type Painting, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An octagonal soup-plate, decorated in the Hans Sloane style with morning glory, or convolvulus, to give its proper name.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Japanese Painting of Red and White Peonies on a Gold Leaf Ground
Located in Prahran, Victoria
This beautiful stylized depiction of red and white peonies once adorned a traditional four panel screen. Now it sits within its handmade frame, ready to grace your walls. The peony i...
Category
18th Century Japanese Antique Australia
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of figures: Jupiter and Juno, or Zeus and Hera. Bow Porcelain C1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
She stands barefoot, wearing a long-sleeved robe in white, deep pink and washed pale yellow and partly edged with gold; a red and gilt-topped sceptre in her right hand, an outsize pe...
Category
1750s English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Cherub Candlestick, in the White, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This example illustrated Tilley 1957, Pl. LXVII, #203 who, p.127, also draws attention to the similarity of the modelling of the figure and the Bow Mongolian busts, and their similar...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
Double-Handled Sauce Boat, Chantilly, circa 1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A double-handled sauce boat, with simple cobalt decoration.
Category
Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
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
Figure 'Scapino, ' from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Scappino, or Scapin, a zany (zanni) character from the commedia dell'arte: a buffoon, schemer and scoundrel, and the title character in Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin, first staged in 1671. The Bow figure shows him standing to right against a tree stump, right leg forward; right arm concealed in a tabarro (cape), and a mask in his left hand. He wears a white doublet, gilt frogged in the Hungarian manner, neck ruff, pale yellow-washed breeches above buckled shoes; a pouch on a red-brown strap and a dagger in a scabbard at the waist. Low square plinth base washed in typical pale Bow ‘lettuce’ green. No discernible translucency. H. 5.0 in (12.6 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero London, 2008; the Faith and Dewayne Perry Collection.
The Scapino figure was presumably based on the Meissen modelled 1743-45 by Peter Reinicke, assisted by Käendler, and from the series produced for Johann Adlf II, Duke of Weissenfels, after an engraving by Francois Joullain (1662-1753) for Riccobin’s Historie du Théatre Italien, 1728. The modelling and features of the Bow figure suggest the work of the ‘Muses Modeller’, and the pallete, gilding and detail are also those of the muses modeller figures. This figure illustrated Bradshaw, 1992, as circa 1753, Plate 10 (A12), p.64.
Scapino is depicted musically in William...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
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