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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

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