Fairfield County - Delft and Faience

From Creil et Montereau, a Provencal faïence rimmed soup plate in the Flora Muguet pattern, circa 1840-1876. Muguet or muguet-du-bois translates fro...

Delft Blue and White Baluster Vase, early 18th Century or possibly earlier, painted with blue foliage, in typical imitation of Chinese porcelain style.

Decorate a kitchen wall or a shelf with this elegant antique bowl. Created by Porquier Beau in Quimper, France circa 1880, the large hand-painted ceramic piece depicts two men and a ...

18th century polychrome French faience molded platter with scenes of gentry figures

A fine Liverpool delft (or delftware) charger (13 1/4") featuring a floral design to the center and around the circumference. Liverpool delft is tin...

A fine 18th c Dutch Polychrome painted delft charger, decorated with vibrantly colored stylized tulips and flowers. The sloped rim is painted with flowers and patterns. The center of...

A good faience from Henriot Quimper Butter dish with vivid color and typical from Brittany. Circa 1940. Dimensions are 9.25" diameter and 5" high. ...

Hispano-Moresque Lustreware Charger with a Pardalot Bird Manises, late 17th or early 18th century This Spanish lustreware charger is decorated in warm copper tones with a stylised p...

17th century Hispano-Moresque lusterware bowl or charger with a central 'Pardelot' bird. This large dish is an example of the production of one of the most important ceramic centres...

18th century hand painted Dutch delft platter- 14” diameter. Rich dark blue hand painted flower pattern.

A 19th century French faience shaving bowl, hand-painted with blue flowers. Hairline crack.

A fine Dutch Delft blue and white charger decorated in cobalt oxide on a tin-glazed earthenware body. The centre is painted with a stylised floral rosette surrounded by four symmetri...

A set of six, earthenware French faïence fruit plates, circa 1900. This set shows the branching fruit and leaves of peaches, oranges, apples, grapes, pea...

Polychrome Delftware Wall Plaque with Bird and Flower Basket Delft, circa 1750 This antique eighteenth-century Dutch Delftware wall plaque is made of tin-glazed earthenware and painted in blue, green, yellow, iron-red and manganese. The lozenge-shaped plaque has a raised, self-framing border and is pierced at the top with two holes for suspension. The centre is painted with an exotic bird perched among flowering branches rising from a rectangular basket. The flowers and foliage are enclosed within a shaped cartouche outlined in yellow and green scrollwork. Large stylised flower heads interrupt the surrounding blue diaper-patterned ground, while the outer border is decorated with continuous scrolling ornament in blue, yellow and iron-red. The combination of an exotic bird, abundant flowers and geometric patterning reflects the continuing influence of Chinese and Japanese porcelain on mid-eighteenth-century Delftware. Delft painters did not simply reproduce Asian designs, but combined individual motifs with European cartouches, scrollwork and shaped borders to create new decorative compositions. Wall plaques of this type were produced specifically for display. In contemporary household inventories they were sometimes described as porceleine schilderijen, or “porcelain paintings”, reflecting their role as ceramic counterparts to framed paintings. By the eighteenth century, Delft potters increasingly formed plaques in moulds with pronounced outlines and integrated decorative borders, creating complete, self-framed objects for the interior. With its strong polychrome palette, lively bird and flower decoration and compact 26 cm format, this shaped Delft plaque...

A good, signed, antique Dutch delft wall plaque with shaped edge in lozenge form. It depicts an early canal scene with bridge (and town in the bac...