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Period: 18th Century
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
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
Bowl with Chinoiserie Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of Bow porcelain, decorated in ‘wet’ famille rose colours; featuring a peony, a bird on a branch, and another in flight. Sacred Scrolls to the interior.
A superb ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot in the White, Prunus Decorated, Bow, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Drum-shape teapot with applied double-prunus decoration, in imitation of the Chinese. Pots of this form and date are rare, and this example is unusual in the quality of its body and ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot, Stag Hunt Pattern, China, circa 1740, Decorated in London by Giles
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chinese export porcelain teapot with underglaze blue decoration; decorated for the London market in the James Giles workshop with the S...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie 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
Jasperware Portrait Medallion, Marc Antony, Wedgwood, circa 1778
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important early portrait medallion of Marc Antony in plain white jasper, probably predating the invention of the ‘dip’ process, which is why it i...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Bell-Shaped Mug, Transfer Printed with Masonic Emblems, Worcester, circa 1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lovely baluster-shaped mug, decorated with Masonic transfer prints. The shape delightful, the decoration full of interest.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
Tragic Couple Antony and Cleopatra, Creamware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1780
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, in enamelled creamware. After a model by Ralph and Enoch Wood, and quite likely made by this important partnership.
The figur...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Creamware
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Richard Chaffers of Liverpool, circa 1760
By Richard Chaffers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A porcelain tea bowl and saucer from one of the Liverpool makers, painted with a chinoiserie scene. The use of the white porcelain to form the shin...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Cauldron Salt Cellar, in the White, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A cauldron-shaped salt: a direct copy of a contemporary (Georgian) silver shape in soft-paste porcelain.
Provenance: Taylor collection.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical 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
Coffee Can: Blue and White "Stork & Banana Tree". Bow Porcelain C1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the Stork & Banana Tree pattern.
Provenance Taylor Collection; Sutherland Collection.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
Tea Bowl Painted with Butterflies, Chinese, Dutch Decorated, circa 1740
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Finely potted porcelain tea bowl, with superb Dutch decoration, after the Dutch naturalist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian.
The porcelain i...
Category
Mid-18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie 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
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
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Man at the Window" Bow Porcelain, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Painted in under-glaze blue with a pattern possibly depicting a reluctant bride.
Provenance Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
Coffee Can, Polychrome "Strutting Bird", Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can from the bow porcelain factory, naively painted with the ‘Strutting Bird’ pattern.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Garniture, Jabberwocky Pattern, Worcester, circa 1765
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An assembled set of three vases in the scarce Jabberwocky pattern, on a scale blue background.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Saltglaze "King of Prussia" Plate, English, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A salt-glaze plate, probably made about the time of Frederick the Great's successes in the Seven Years War and his convention with England in 1756 against France and her Allies.
...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Bocage Candlesticks, Putti and Goats. Bow 1766
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare, possibly unique, pair of candlesticks in the form of putti, representing The Four Seasons. This is the pair pictured in Stonor’s book (#94); we’ve b...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
Large Tankard, Worcester, circa 1770, Later Decorated
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large 18th century tankard, redecorated in the 19th century with a scene of hare coursing.
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
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
Jasperware Perfume Bottle, William Adams, circa 1790
By William Adams
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In cobalt jasper, decorated with Androcles and the lion and Demeter, Goddess of the harvest; Aphrodite to the other side. Original bright cut silver ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Ribbon Landscape", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Roderick Jellicoe.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Japanese Flower Paintings by Yanagisawa Kien, circa 18th Century
By Yanagisawa Kien
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Pair of antique Japanese Nagasaki School paintings by Yanagisawa Kien (1704-1758), depicting classical ikebana flower arrangements. Each painted on silk in mineral pigments and beari...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Australia
Materials
Silk
18th Century Japanese Kano School Landscape Screen
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Japanese Kano school screen with pine tree, camellias, cherry blossom and Chinese figures in the landscape, circa 18th century.
Materials: Pigmen...
Category
18th Century Japanese Antique Australia
Materials
Silver Leaf
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
Rare Antique Statue of a Chinese Child Performing Tai Chi
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Rare Japanese antique statue of a Chinese child performing Tai chi capturing the pose in motion. Middle Edo period, circa 1750. Made from polychrome on carved ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Australia
Materials
Cypress
Imari Pattern double-handled boat, Lady in a Pavillion pattern. Chelsea C1750
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Double-handled boat in soft-paste porcelain, decorated with the Lady in a Pavillion pattern, the design and palette both after the Japanese examples of the period. Figure decoration ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Spoon Tray, Hancock's Ruins, Worcester, circa 1765
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of elongated hexagonal form, decorated with classical ruins, after Hancock.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Porcelain
Large Bust of the Pieta, Ralph Wood Jr, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large and impressive bust, taken from Michelangelo’s Pietà. Creamware, modelled and made by Ralph Wood, with enamelling.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Earthenware
Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen by Kano Chikanobu
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Late 17th century Kano school peony landscape screens. One of a pair of screens signed: Hogan Josen Fujiwara Chikanobu Hitsu - Kano Chikanobu (Shushin) ...
Category
Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Australia
Materials
Gold Leaf
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
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
Antique Japanese Statue of Dakini Ten
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Rare and highly unusual antique Japanese statue of the esoteric deity 'Dakini Ten,' a Buddhist goddess who was associated with the agricultural...
Category
1770s Japanese Antique Australia
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Pair of Antique Japanese Paintings of Karashishi, Edo Period, 18th Century
Located in Prahran, Victoria
A rare pair of antique Japanese Karashishi paintings in a landscape of rocks and peony flowers on gold leaf ground in fine handmade frames, Edo period, early 18th century. The Karash...
Category
Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Australia
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen by Kano Chikanobu "Shushin"
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Late 17th century Kano school peony landscape screens. Both screens signed: Hogan Josen Fujiwara Chikanobu Hitsu - Kano Chikanobu (Shushin) (1660 - 1728...
Category
Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Australia
Materials
Gold Leaf
Homer's Iliad. Five C18th Classical engravings 1780
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Scenes from Homer
5 Copper-line engravings by the French engraver Pierre Foudrinier. Laid 18th century paper.
230mm By 170mm (platemark)
250mm by 200mm (sheet)
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Australia
Materials
Engraving
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Tiberius Augustus, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine large self-framing portrait medallion of the Emperor Tiberius Augustus, second emperor of Rome.
Unmarked, as were many of these medallions.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Stoneware
18th Century French Abusson Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A luxurious 18th century Aubusson tapestry, depicting a rural landscape in which three shepherds watch helplessly as one of their lambs is carried off by an opportunistic wolf. Hand-...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Australia
Materials
Wool, Silk
Georgian Decanter Sugarloaf Shape, Engraved, England, circa 1780
By Bohemia Crystal
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine sugar-loaf shaped decanter, engraved for Hock, a name for any German white wine at the time.
Category
1780s British Neoclassical Antique Australia
Materials
Blown Glass
