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Item Ships From: Victoria
Pair of Ruby Lustre candlesticks. Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Daisy Makeig-Jones, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of candlesticks, in bone china with gilt dragons to a Ruby Lustre background.
Probably the best of Wedgwood's female designers, Daisy was an eccentric character, who pushed h...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Magnificent Japanese Kutani Vase with Camellia Design by Yoshiaki Yamada
Located in Prahran, Victoria
A remarkable, delicately hand-painted Kutani porcelain vase with a decoration of camellia blooms, with original paulownia storage box, signed, by Yoshiaki Yamada. Kutani ware has a long history dating back to the Edo period, over 350 years ago. It was featured in the 1873 World Exposition...
Category
20th Century Japanese Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery, Lacquer
$1,031 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid-Century Japanese Lacquer Vase by Masayo Koiwa
Located in Prahran, Victoria
An exhibition quality dry lacquered ikebana flower vase by Masayo Koiwa. This highly unusual organically shaped vase has a sculptural feel, it sensual curves are hand-carved and lacq...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Steel Screen by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Steel screen by Michael Gittings
One of a kind
Dimensions: D 30 x W 180 x H 200 cm
Materials: Mirror polished stainless steel, stainless steel, mirror finish.
About the screen: I...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$4,227 / item
Exceptional Japanese Shino Pottery Vase by Tamaoki Yasuo
By Tamaoki Yasuo
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Shino pottery vase in deep murasaki and white by contemporary Japanese ceramic artist Tamaoki Yasuo. The vase is an iconic representation of his style. I...
Category
20th Century Japanese Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Jasperware Buckle, Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Circa 1795
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A jasper medallion decorated with Aphrodite, set in cut steel as a buckle, probably by Matthew Boulton. Original box.
The Greek goddess Aphrodite is often depicted in ancient art with a dolphin. In mythology, dolphins were considered sacred to Aphrodite, and they were associated with love, beauty, and fertility. According to one legend, Aphrodite emerged from the sea on a shell-borne chariot drawn by dolphins, and the creatures were said to be her faithful servants. As a result, images of Aphrodite with dolphins became a popular motif in Greek art, appearing on vases, sculptures, and other decorative objects. The association between Aphrodite and dolphins has continued through the centuries, and the image of the goddess with a dolphin remains a popular symbol of love and beauty.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was an English manufacturer and entrepreneur who was best known for his contributions to the Industrial Revolution...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Cut Steel
Autumn, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From a series of figures representing The Four Seasons, Autumn is shown as a young man squeezing grapes into a cup, symbolic of harvest time, and recalling classical representations ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$25,000
Future Ruins Candle Holder by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Future Ruins Candle Holder by Michael Gittings
One of a Kind
Dimensions: D 15 x W 15 x H 35 cm
Materials: Stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Melbourne based designer Michael Gittings...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$1,083 / item
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 2 Future Ruins Planters by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 future ruins planters by Michael Gittings Studio
Dimensions: d 25 x w 25 x h 73 cm
Materials: stainless steel
Michael Gittings
Melbourne based designer Michael Gitting...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$12,997 / set
Portrait Medallion of Pitt the Elder, Wedgwood C1920
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine tricolour portrait medallion of the First Earl of Chatham (1708-1778), a Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years’ War.
Orna...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
$1,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Tree of Knowledge 1 Sculpture by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Tree of knowledge 1 sculpture by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: D 65 x W 65 x H 250 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gitt...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$20,626 / item
Victoriaware campana Vase in White with Gilt Decoration. Wedgwood C1880.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A campana vase in white & gilt Victoriaware. Victoriaware was a mixture of parian and creamware, used to create these extraordinary vases featuring Sevres-style decoration on classic...
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Other
Pair of Rosso Antico Candlesticks, Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare pair of bell shaped candlesticks in rosso antico, with black decoration of ‘Boys at Play’.
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Large Pair of Lidded Vases in cut glass, Bohemia, circa 1790
By Bohemia Crystal
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An outstanding pair of covered vases, or Deckelpokals, in blown glass with wheel-cur engraving. Bohemia at this time was the centre of elaborate but exceptionally fine glass cutting,...
Category
Late 18th Century German Baroque Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Cut Glass
Aegis Vase 450 by Lost Profile Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Aegis Vase 450 by Lost Profile Studio
Dimensions: ⌀ 20 x H 45 cm
Materials: Brass, White Glass
Finishes: Aged Brass (waxed) only
Notes: The brass...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
$4,973 / item
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
$1,275 Sale Price
25% Off
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$17,000 / set
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$14,700 Sale Price
30% Off
Cradle with Infant, Bovey Tracey, circa 1790
By Bovey Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine example in creamware of an infant swaddled and lying in its crib.
These miniature representations served various purposes:
Decorative objects: Miniature models of infa...
Category
Late 18th Century English Primitive Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Sea Lion, by John Skeaping. Wedgwood C1925.
By John Rattenbury Skeaping, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In creamware, with moonstone glaze. The mould sculpted by John Skeaping. Signed for both Wedgwood and Skeaping.
Skeaping was commissioned by Wedgwood to produce a series of animal s...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Creamware
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$12,950 Sale Price / set
30% Off
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Future Ruins Planter I by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Future Ruins planter I by Michael Gittings Studio
Dimensions: D 25 x W 25 x H 73 cm
Materials: stainless steel
Michael Gittings
Melbourne based desi...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$6,498 / item
Aegis Vase 350 by Lost Profile Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Aegis Vase 350 by Lost Profile Studio
Dimensions: ⌀ 15 x H 35 cm
Materials: Brass, White Glass
Finishes: Aged Brass (waxed) only
Notes: The brass...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
$4,029 / item
Candelabara Candle Holder by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Candelabara cande holder by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: d 60 x w 60 x h 60 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gittings imagines with his hands. Since est...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$1,385 / item
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$7,000 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Creamware
Large Candle Stick 2 by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Large candle stick 2 by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: d 35 x w 35 x h 35 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gittings imagines w...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$582 / item
Vase by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Vase by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: d 23 x w 23 x h 53 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel, Glass.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gittings imagines with his hands. Since establishing his...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$3,051 / item
Small Candle Stick 2 by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Small candle stick 2 by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: D 25 x W 25 x H 25 cm
Materials: stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gittings imagines with his hands. Since establ...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$454 / item
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Candelabara 2 Candle Holder by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Candelabara 2 cande holder by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 50 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gittings imagines with his hands. Since e...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$1,351 / item
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pearlware
Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre.
...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$10,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Winter, from the Four Seasons, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A personification of Winter, from The Four Seasons.
Unusually fine condition for a figure of this period.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait Medallions David Garrick & Sarah Siddons, Wedgwood, 19th Century
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A matched pair of portrait medallions showing the famous actors Mr Garrick (C1830) and Mrs Siddons, (circa 1880). Framed as a pair, they work well together.
David Garrick and Sarah Siddons...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
$900 Sale Price / set
35% Off
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$4,690 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$4,900 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
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 Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$5,250 Sale Price
30% Off
Future Ruins Planter II by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Future ruins planter II by Michael Gittings Studio
Dimensions: d 25 x w 25 x h 73 cm
Materials: stainless steel
Michael Gittings
Melbourne based des...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$6,498 / item
Jug for Water Vase by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Jug for water vase by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 46 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel, glass.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gittings imagine...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$3,505 / item
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