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Persian Market Porcelain Platter Portrait Nasr al din Shah Qajar 20th C
By Gardner Porcelain Factory
Located in Melbourne, AU
A large platter, bearing commemorative portraits of Naser al din Shah Qajar, painted in cobalt and parcel gilt.
This beautiful portrait platter was purc...
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1950s Japanese Late Victorian Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Huge Kaneaki Fujimori Collection Art Glass Platter Kato Kogei Japan, 1985
By Kato Kogei, Fujimori
Located in Melbourne, AU
Just wow! A huge, gorgeously colourful Kaneaki Fujimori platter.
This will display equally well standing, hanging or flat (we prefer it flat because this emphasises the generous size).
We love the shocking white of the background which makes the colours pop. We love the smooth gloss of the glass. We love the slightly off-kilter and ovoid shape. It’s a total winner!
Kaneaki Fujimori for Kato Kogei 1980s - a classic piece of Japanese postmodern Art Glass. Signature etched to base and original sticker also attached.
Red, Green, Yellow and Black are swirled through clear glass, over a milky-white background.
Delicious and punchy. Not for the faint-hearted decorator. This piece is loud and assertive. Delightful and fun, with extravagant size and a glossy smooth finish to reflect light and attract the eye.
There are some natural flaws which we’ve tried to illustrate in images. These include numerous small bubbles, mots and blemishes. The images are an example, with match-head for scale.
Comes with a lucite stand to raise the plate a little higher off surfaces if desired.
Kaneaki Fujimori is one of Japan’s preeminent artists and designers of the 20th century.
Fujimori was born in Japan in 1935, graduating college in 1956. He majored in oil painting. He travelled to the US and worked in Chicago, Illinois, as a designer for a major ceramics firm.
He returned to Japan in 1963, and became a freelance designer for various companies in Nagoya.
At age 19, he had won the national art award (for painting) in Japan. Many other awards followed through the 1980s.
At the time of the production of this work, he was the director of Kato Kogai, a ceramics and glassware company which was a major supplier to the international market during the 1980s.
Reference to his work can be found in the book ‘1950s Then and Now’ by Richard Horn, a publication from the 1980s which compares original 1950s design with new 1980s design done in the 1950s style. He is most well known outside Japan for his lively 1980s ceramics...
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1980s Japanese Post-Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Art Glass
Earl's Coronet, in Silver-Gilt with Ermine and Velvet, Hunt & Roskell, 1911
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An Earl’s Coronet, in silver-gilt, by Hunt & Roskell: the firm formerly known as Storr & Mortimer, a direct line to Paul Storr. Made in 1911, no doubt for...
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Early 20th Century British Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Sterling Silver
First Edition Portland Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1793
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
NOTE: We do not keep this in the showroom. Please let us know if you're visiting and would like to see it.
Rarely does a first edition Portland vase...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Pottery
Trophy Plate, Wedgwood, circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Trophy plates were a particularly Victorian development at Wedgwood, taking the use of classical ornament to its absolute limit. Over 2,000 individual sprigs were made, applied, and ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Revival Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Oversized wine glass with airtwist stem, for the Coronation of Edward VIII 1937
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Lead crystal wine glass, with airtwist & coloured thread stem. Made for the coronation of Edward VIII; a coronation that did not happen.
Ed...
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Early 20th Century British Neoclassical Revival Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Blown Glass
Pale Blue Jasperware Bowl, Wedgwood, circa 1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In solid slate blue jasper, with inlaid foot; decorated with numerous reliefs typical of the period. Engine turned decoration and lapidary polished interior.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Ma...
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1790s English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Figure Faun with Flute, Wedgwood, circa 1870
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
After the antique “Piping Faun” now in the Louvre Museum; the result of it being bought by Napoleon from the Borghese collection.
The "Piping Faun" is...
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1870s English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large vase in black basalt, with restrained neoclassical decoration taken from examples in The Hamilton Collection, now in The British Museum...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Fairyland Lustre Bowl, Argus Pheasant, Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fairyland lustre footed bowl, in bone china. An attractive shape; decorated with the striking Argus pheasant pattern.
Teh pattern features decorative depictions of the Argus pheasan...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth and an older man, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum. It is unusual to find ...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Austrian Empire Neoclassical Sterling Silver and Steel Cutlery Set 1830s
Located in Melbourne, AU
An impressive set of twelve early nineteenth century Neoclassical knives and forks with Austrian Empire sterling silver handles and original early 19th century steel blades. Original...
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1830s Austrian Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Sterling Silver, Steel
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...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
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 ...
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Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Portland Vase, Northwood, Wedgwood, circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the finest copies of The Portland Vase that Wedgwood produced, in many ways rivalling the First Edition itself.
Decorated by Thomas Lovatt, then cut, polished and shaded by John Northwood in his glass engraving studio. Although 30 copies were intended, the work was so exacting and arduous that in the end only thirteen were finished.
The mirrored stand, which is included, is later and I think dates from the late 20th century. Of all the stands designed for the Portland Vase, this is the best I've seen.
The original Portland vase, dating from around 200AD and made of cameo glass, is considered one of the most important examples of classical design and is noted for its intricate relief sculptures, which depict classical figures and scenes from Greek mythology - exactly what, though, we're not sure.
The original Wedgwood Portland Vase...
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1880s English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Black Basalt Reclining Figures, Cleopatra and Lucretia, Neale circa 1780
By Neale & Co.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, rare pair of figures in black basalt from the Neale Manufactory. The Neale pottery was founded in 1778 and ran until around 1792. They made very fine wares, and were on good terms with Wedgwood, with whom they combined shipments to the continent.
For two similar figures marked for Neale & Co. see Diana Edwards, Black Basalt, Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers, Suffolk, 1994, p. 208, figs. 313 & 314.
Cleopatra and Lucretia are two women from different time periods and historical contexts, but are linked by their importance in Roman history, as well as by their tragic ends.
Cleopatra was a famous queen of ancient Egypt, who ruled from 51-30 BC. She was the last pharaoh of Egypt and is remembered for her intelligence, beauty, and political savvy. Cleopatra was involved in a romantic relationship with the Roman general and statesman, Julius Caesar, and later with the Roman general and politician, Mark Antony...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Swagged Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A particularly successful vase in black basalt, with simple, classical deocration or swags and berries & leaves. This vase comes from the Wedgwood & Bentley period, during which the ...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Polished basalt, decorated with Victoria, Goddess of Victory, in her chariot; possibly after a Roman model such as the wall paintings at Herculaneum. T...
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1780s English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Inlaid Black Basalt Jug & Stand, Wedgwood, circa 1860
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An ale jug and matching tray, in black basalt with inlaid coloured decoration; a style known as Henri Deux. This stylle is a revival of an 18th century technique, in which designs ar...
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Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Clear Bubble Glass Decanter Signed Julio Santos 1970s Hand Blown Brutalist
Located in Melbourne, AU
Australian-Portuguese glass artist Julio Santos was an expert in his craft. This decanter is a lovely example of his work. Signed 'J. Santos' to the base ...
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1980s Australian Brutalist Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Art Glass
Pair of Black Glass Sphinxes, Molineaux & Webb, circa 1875
By Molineaux & Webb
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of sphinxes in black glass. Little is known of this Manchester glassworks, but they had a very successful line in neoclassical pieces of which these are a fine example.
Category
1870s English Neoclassical Revival Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Glass
Fairyland Lustre Bowl, Geisha Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An octagonal fairyland lustre bowl, decorated with Geisha pattern, one of the best loved of Daisy Makeig-Jones’ designs.
Probably the best of Wedgwood's female designers, Daisy wa...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Australian Bicentenary Bowl, Wedgwood, circa 1988. Number 10 of 50 Made
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In Royal Blue dip; a colour normally reserved for Coronation commemoratives. One of only fifty made; made to mark the bicentenary of the found...
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1980s English Neoclassical Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Polychrome Goat & Bee Jug, Chelsea, circa 1748
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the most iconic of all the Chelsea shapes, the Goat & Bee jug. This is the item that, more than any other, has been chosen for the front cover of scholarly works on Chelsea, o...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Mantle Clock in Black Jasper Dip, by Bert Bentley, Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine mantle clock in black jasper dip, decorated by Bert Bentley with Sacrifice to the front. To one side, Polymnia; to the other, an unidentified female ...
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Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
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.
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Earthenware
Fairyland Plate - Roc Centre. Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A full-sized plate in bone china, with typical elaborate painted decoration known as Fairyland Lustre.
The Fairyland Lustre line was developed during a time when there was a strong...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Portland Vase. Barnard Edition (Bert Bentley). Wedgwood C1925
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In the early 1920s, Wedgwood decided to produce an exceptional edition of the Portland Vase, and Harry Barnard embarked on 3-4 years of experiments, which resulted in this superb and...
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Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Pottery
Fairyland Lustre Plaque 'Picnic' by River, Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Daisy Makeig-Jones, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Daisy Makeig Jones’ description relates this to Völuspá, a poem from the Poetic Edda, which is a collection of Old Norse poems. In Völuspá, it is said that the dwarves were created by the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda, and that they were condemned to live underground. The Light Elves are also mentioned in the poem as being allowed to live in the realm of Alfheim, which is a place of beauty and light.
In Norse mythology...
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1920s English Art Deco Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
A set of port glasses, etched and engraved, Lobmeyr C1880
By J. & L. Lobmeyr Company
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A set of six port or sherry glasses, brilliantly engraved with Birds & Branches pattern, after 18th century examples.
In the late 18th century, Lobmeyr played a significant role in ...
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Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Revival Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Blown Glass
Tea Cup and Saucer Nantgarw Porcelain, circa 1815
By Moses Webster, Nantgarw Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare tea cup and saucer in Nantgarw’s superb soft-paste porcelain. Each piece is gilded and decorated in one of the London workshops with superb f...
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1810s Welsh Regency Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Pair miniature campana vases in black basalt, Wedgwood, circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A good pair of miniature campana-shaped vases, in black basalt. Finding these with their lids, and with the delicate handles intact, is rare; a pair, even more so.
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Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Glass Loving Cup, for the Coronation of George V and Queen Mary 1911
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Lead crystal Loving cup, Coronation of George V and Queen Mary, June 22nd, 1911.
Made for the retailer Thomas Goode. A traditional threepenny bit is set in the hollow stem, a nice ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Neoclassical Revival Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Blown Glass
Ecuelle, or Soup Bowl, Wedgwood, C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Covered bowl, perhaps for soup, in black basalt with ‘Etruscan’ encaustic painting.
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
English Delft Campana Vase, C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare, large vase in a classical shape, decorated with figures in a landscape. Large pieces of delftware are not often found.
See CIRC 43-1963 in the V&A for a similar example.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Earthenware
Figure representing Matrimony, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive allegorical figure of Matrimony, reprsented by a woman in her best clothing, holding a cage.
The Bow Porcelain factory was the first English porcelain producer; these ...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
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 glaze and the lavishly applied prunus decoration.
Ceramics bills from the Porcelain Company, [Bow] November 1749, among Lord Bute...
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
French Chinoiserie Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Edo Imari Potpourri Vase and Cover
Located in Melbourne, AU
This large pot-pourri or covered vase stands over 20 inches tall and about 15 inches wide across the handles - very substantial. It closely resembles an original early Edo pot-pourri...
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Bronze
Wheel-Cut ewer, Stourbridge, C1860
By Stourbridge England
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classically-shaped ewer, with wheel-cut engraving showing a cocoa plant and a dragon fly.
Stourbridge glass refers to glassware produced in the town of Stourbridge, located in the...
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Mid-19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Blown Glass
Set of Candelabra and Candelholders, Silver and Gold Plated by Gorham
By Gorham Manufacturing Company
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A magnificent gilt table set, consisting of two three-branch candelabra, and four single candlesticks. The candelabra can be converted to large single sticks by removing the arm. The...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate, Silver Plate
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1800
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum.
The shape is taken from the Greek Hydria...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Franco Bucci Coffee Service ACR Arte Ceramica Romana, 1973
By Franco Bucci
Located in Melbourne, AU
Franco Bucci coffee service for six with coffee pot, cups, saucers, sugar and creamer.
We love this service for its bold, elegant, robust Italian design, typical of the 1970s. Curvacious, chunky, innovative, attractive, lovely to use and to hold - it's got it all.
Bucci designed ceramics for high quality manufacture. During the 1970s, he produced this 'budget' household crockery service for mass production which proved very popular. This set can be viewed in the Bucci archive, listed as item 805.
It was produced serially by Arte Ceramica...
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1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Ceramic
Newcastle Light Baluster, England C1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic Newcastle light baluster, perhaps the finest of all the English shapes; certainly the finest of its period. The glass is light and well-balanced, a pleasure to hold or to s...
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Mid-18th Century British Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Blown Glass
Trophy Plate, Wedgwood, circa 1900
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Trophy plates were a particularly Victorian development at Wedgwood, taking the use of classical ornament to its absolute limit. Over 2,000 individual sprigs were made, applied, and undercut to produce this plate. Only the best decorators made these, beginning with Thomas Lovatt in the late 19th century - this is an example of his work.
The central relief depicts Bellerophon with Pegasus. Bellerophon was a noble hero of Corinth, known for his strength and bravery. He was the son of Glaucus and the grandson of Sisyphus, though some myths suggest he was actually the son of Poseidon. Bellerophon was a skilled warrior and sought to accomplish great deeds.
Pegasus was a magnificent, winged horse born from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa...
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Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Revival Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Hot Milk Jug, Engine-Turned Jasperware. Wedgwood, C1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Superb and exceptionally rare small jug in tricolour engine-turned diceware.
This is very early jasperware, made when "cherokee clay" was still being used. This clay, sourced from America, contained kaolin, the ingredient that makes porcelain translucent.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Universe, Roche Foundation, 2023.
Engine turning, also known as guilloche, is a decorative technique that was commonly used on eighteenth-century pottery. The process involved cutting intricate, repetitive patterns into a metal or ceramic surface using a machine known as a rose engine...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Rum Kettle, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A n excellent rum kettle in black basalt, with engine-turned decoration and applied swags. The lion finial sits well under teh tri-arc handle.
Rum kettle were used to serve hot wate...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
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.
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Flame Fairyland Lustre Vase: Tree Serpent
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A tall, well-proportioned vase in Flame Fairyland Lustre, decorated with Tree Serpent pattern and Imps on a Bridge (pattern Z5360).
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Univers...
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1920s English Art Deco Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Breakfast Cup & Saucer, Saint Cloud, circa 1725
By Saint Cloud
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A most attractive and unusual pattern on this early example of French porcelain. While suggests a coffee cup to modern eyes, the decoration of tea plants in flower definitely says th...
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Early 18th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Anniversary Vase, Wedgwood, 1930
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Some fifty of these vases were made in 1930 to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Josiah Wedgwood. The inscription reads: CC post natum conditorem anno viget ars Etruriae red...
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1930s English Neoclassical Revival Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Pottery
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...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Punch Powl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rather splendid punch bowl from the Bow Porcelain Factory, enameled with flowers and insects in the Famille Rose style. A good size, at almost nine inches in diameter.
Famille R...
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Small Teapot in Caneware with Spaniel Finial. Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unglazed caneware teapot of depressed oval shape, with arabesque decoration and a spaniel finial.
Wedgwood caneware is a type of pottery that w...
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1820s English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
Punch Pot in the Famille Rose Style, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1757
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large tea-pot, or perhaps a punch pot, of globular form with loop handle. Painted in a vibrant wet palette after the Chinese. A most attractive example, of...
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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian Toby Jug - Wood C1785
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine early toby jug, from the Wood family of potters. Traditional form, seated and holding a foaming jug of beer, dressed in clothing of the day.
Toby jugs originated in the mid 18th century in Staffordshire. The name perhaps comes from Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth night; although I think both the jug and Sir Toby got their names from the song "The Brown Jug...
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Late 18th Century British George III Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Pottery
Tea Bowl & Saucer, Peacock Decoration, Chelsea, circa 1765
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A tea-bowl and saucer from Chelsea's Gold Anchor period. Richly decorated in purple, pink and green then lavishly gilded, the gilding being chased as well. It is possible the decorat...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Porcelain
Oval Teapot in Black Basalt, Turner, circa 1790
By John Turner
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An excellent black basalt teapot, with engine turned decoration and widow finial. Most unusually, this example is marked.
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass in Melbourne
Materials
Stoneware
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The arbiter of good taste, who has curated a collection for 1stDibs Auctions, invites 1stDibs inside her family’s Hamptons barn for a firsthand look at her welcoming style.
Handmade with Lab-Grade Glass, This Decanter Holds Your Favorite Cocktail Concoctions
Artist Simone Crestani conjures the fascination you remember from Chemistry 101.