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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1750s
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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sugar Sifter, Mennecy, circa 1760
By Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pierced ladle, probably intended as a sifter as part of a dessert service. The flower painting is particularly fine.
Category

Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

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

Early Cream Boat, Worcester, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A small, early boat of rare oval form, the more usual being the hexagonal. Appealingly naïve polychrome decoration of the period, possibly done outside the factory at one of the enamelling works. The early Worcester...
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

Wedding Plate in cremware, Wedgwood C1786
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A creamware plate, with transfer printed decoration. From a service probably ordered to commemorate the wedding of John Peter and Ann Du Port, of Guernsey. The plate is of plain cre...
Category

Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Creamware

John Gould - Tetrao urogallus from 'Birds of Great Britain' C. 1850
By John Gould
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Tetrao urogallus (Western capercaillie) also known as the Eurasian capercaillie, wood grouse, heather cock, cock-of-the-woods, or simply capercaillie is a heavy member of the grouse family and the largest of all extant grouse species. John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm Good Condition This remarkable ornithology lithograph with hand-finished colour is from the esteemed John Gould’s "Birds of Great Britain...
Category

Late 18th Century Australia

Materials

Lithograph

Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish man and wife, in the white. He wears an open coat, waistcoat, breeches and tricorn hat, and plays a hurdy-gurdy. She wears a sleeved dress, long apron and linen cap and carri...
Category

1740s 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

Spoon Tray, Decorated by James Hammett O'neale, Bow, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From a Bow service with decoration attributed to the painter Jeffryes Hammett O'Neale, probably in the London workshop of James Giles. The tray with shallow rim and shaped outline wi...
Category

Mid-18th Century English Romantic Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

Tea Canister, Hop Trellis Pattern, Worcester, C1780
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In soft paste porcelain, French shape, decorated with a variation of the scarce and popular Hops and Trellis pattern. Prov. Lady Humphries collection....
Category

Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

Black Basalt Cream Pail with Ladle, Turner, C1800
By John Turner
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delightful cream pail in black basalt, decorated with Poor Maria and Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther. The associated makes it very special indeed.
Category

Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Stoneware

John Gould - Trogon Personatus from 'Birds of Great Britain' C. 1862
By John Gould
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Trogon Personatus - John Gould lithograph with hand-colored size 54 cm X 36 cm This remarkable ornithology lithograph with hand-finished color i...
Category

Early 18th Century Australia

Materials

Lithograph

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

Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
Category

Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982). Toper is an old English word for a drunk. Annulet Mark. Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
Category

Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

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

Plate with Coiled Phoenix, Chelsea, C1754
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine plate, damasked with Gotzkowsky erhaben Blumen. Decorated after the Japanese with peonies and a coiled phoenix to the centre, using the Kakiemo...
Category

Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

Figure of a Nun, Perhaps Heloise, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic example of early bow porcelain. The figure is of a Dominican Nun, and is based on a continental model, probably Meissen. Bow produced a number of apparently religious...
Category

Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

Seal, I Still Hope, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delightul porcelain seal, depicting a young lady, seated on a mound. It is painted with the motto J'ESPRE ENCORE, or I Still Hope. No doubt this was intended as a gift, to be given...
Category

Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fashionably dressed gentleman, almost certainly the actor David Garrick: he wears a white frockcoat, pink waistcoat and red breeches, all with embroide...
Category

Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Porcelain

Pair of Triton Candlesticks. Palmer C1780.
By Palmer
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An exceptionally rare pair of Triton candlesticks, in black basalt with gold lustre. The design is copied from Wedgwood, who took it from Sir Willi...
Category

Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia

Materials

Stoneware

Salt Glaze Sauce Boat, Mosaic Pattern, English, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In salt-glazed stoneware, crisply moulded with the Mosaic pattern. The beginnings of the Rococo movement can be seen in the fronds overlaying the more staid mosaic.
Category

Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia

Materials

Stoneware

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

Kangaroo - Australia - Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon C. 1820
By Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Located in BRUCE, ACT
This originally hand-colored engraving is from Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon's Oeuvres complètes de Buffon. Nouvelle édition annotée et pr...
Category

Early 18th Century Australia

Materials

Engraving

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

John Gould - Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch from 'The Birds of Asia' c.1850
By John Gould
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition FREE SHIPPING Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia...
Category

Late 18th Century Australia

Materials

Lithograph

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