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Item Ships From: Australia
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Midcentury Decorative Ceramic by Osvaldo Gualdo Dolci, 1950s
By Gualdo Dolci
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Incredible ceramic by Osvaldo Gualdo Dolci from, Italy, 1950s.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Gio Ponti Italian Silver Plated Champagne Buckets for Fratelli Calderoni, 1950s
By Gio Ponti, Calderoni
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Beautiful champagne buckets by Gio Ponti design for the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Italy, 1950
very rare pieces both signed.
Silver plated.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay Bowl Black by Trent Jansen
By Trent Jansen
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen
The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a
foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity.
In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters.
Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonization. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail
attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001).
The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Aluminum
Mongrammed RR Landscape Coffee Can, Chamberlain Worcester, circa 1810
By Chamberlains Worcester
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive coffee can, painted with a very fine landscape, and marked with the initials RR.
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Bincentenary Wine Cooler, Wedgwood, circa 1950
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Two handled vase in creamware, with moonstone glaze and platinum lustre decoration. Designed by Louise Powell for the bicentenary of Wedgwood’s birth.
...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Bitossi Aldo Londi Female Figure Bowl, Italy, circa 1960
By Aldo Londi, Bitossi
Located in Pymble, NSW
A large deep bowl decorated in matt glazes of yellows and ochres with three clothed female figures, in excellent condition. A rare early piece with a Danish shop's label to the base.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Egyptian Sphinxes in Rosso with Black, Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of winged, seated sphinxes in rosso with black decoration.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Universe, Roche Foundation, 2023.
The Egyptian winged sphinx is a variat...
Category
Early 19th Century English Egyptian Revival Antique Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stoneware
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Roberto Rigon Italy Bull, circa 1970
By Roberto Rigon
Located in Pymble, NSW
An exceptional Roberto Rigon bull in 'Smalto Sasso' [glazed stone] with yellow, red and green lines. Base is marked RR. Pieces with painted or tube-lined geometric patterns are rare.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Guido Gambone 1950s Charger, Italy
By Guido Gambone
Located in Pymble, NSW
A large deep charger by Guido Gambone from the late 1950s with a purple/brown glaze. Decorated with a central medallion of a head in profile and shell like reserves around the ground...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
Bitossi Aldo Londi Fish Pattern Lamp Base Italy, circa 1968
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Pymble, NSW
An Aldo Londi designed large rectangular lamp base with 5 medallions on the front blue panel, each decorated with an incised double fish motif under a crackled fritte glaze...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Bagni Ceramiche Red and Black Vase Alvino Bagni Italy, circa 1970
By Alvino Bagni, Bagni Ceramiche
Located in Pymble, NSW
A bottle shaped vase with a ring neck, reminiscent of an 18th century glass decanter, in black with a red swirl pattern glaze. With its original Raymor label.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
Mid-Century Modern Italian Geisha Sculpture in Green Murano Glass, 1960s
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Murano green Geisha in Murano glass in a vivid green color.
In style Mid century Modern from Italy Murano 1960s.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid-Century Modern Italian Ashtray in Black Murano Glass, 1960s
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Murano ashtray in gray/black glass.
Has a little chip on the bottom but still a beautiful pieces.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Ruscha Large Bull, West Germany
By Ruscha
Located in Pymble, NSW
A rare 1960s Ruscha large bull with the 'Vulkano' glaze, unmarked, West Germany. The glaze was devised by Otto Gerharz in 1959. A very appealing and tactile...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Zaccagnini Pharaoh's Head Italy, circa 1955
By Urbano Zaccagnini, Ugo Zaccagnini
Located in Pymble, NSW
A brilliant Pharaoh's head with bright metallic glazes of silver and gold mounted on a black finished wooden base. Marked with a 'Z' on the base. Of large size this is an imposing de...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
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...
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Mid-18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Antique Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century Modern Italian Black and Purple Murano Glass Candle Holders, 1960s
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Beautiful set of two thick Murano glass candle holders in black purple reflections colors.
Both still in perfect condition.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Pair of Yellow Ground Vases, Chamberlain Worcester, circa 1805
By Chamberlains Worcester
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare pair of yellow-ground vases or jardinières, with reserves of exquisite flower-painting or a quality seen only during this period.
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Gourd Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1905
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare example of Wedgwood’s excursion into Art Nouveau, in the form of a gourd shaped vase decorated with butterflies, designed by Courtney Lindsay in 1901.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Ma...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Nouveau Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware
Marcello Fantoni Italy 1955 Bottle Vase Still Life
By Marcello Fantoni
Located in Pymble, NSW
A beautiful and unusual large bottle shaped vase by the Italian master potter Marcello Fantoni. Decorated with a continuous still life table top setting with coffee pot, bowl of grap...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Creamware
Troika Leslie Illsley Double Base Lamp Base, England, circa 1974
By Troika Art Pottery
Located in Pymble, NSW
A large double base lamp base, slip cast, designed by Lesley Illsley and decorated by Eleanor Winning. Winning was at Troika as a decorator from April 1974...
Category
1970s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Bitossi Aldo Londi Cylinder Vase Purple Motifs, Italy, circa 1970
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Pymble, NSW
A large cylindrical vase with shaped top and the brown manganese body is decorated with purple acid resist circular motifs. Designed by Aldo Londi for Bitossi.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Alvino Bagni Italy Sea Garden Vase, circa 1960
By Alvino Bagni, Bagni Ceramiche
Located in Pymble, NSW
A large Alvino Bagni designed sea-green glazed vase with pierced top and wedge shaped fluting to the sides. Painted mark to the base.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
Japanese Bizen Pottery Mizusashi with Mottled Glaze and Black Lacquer Lid
By Fujiwara Rakuzan
Located in Prahran, Victoria
This elegant water jar for tea ceremony (Mizusashi), from the Okayama prefecture of Japan features striking mottled tones of grey and rust which are the result of charcoal ash staini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Australia - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery, Lacquer
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