Victoria - Porcelain

Item Ships From: Victoria

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...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

A Lion, passant gardant, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750

$6,000

Tea Canister, Hop Trellis Pattern, Worcester, C1780

By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

In soft paste porcelain, French shape, decorated with a variation of the scarce and popular Hops and Trellis pattern. Prov. Lady Humphries collection....

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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Tea Canister, Hop Trellis Pattern, Worcester, C1780

$2,400 Sale Price

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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...

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1740s English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748

$12,950 Sale Price / set

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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.

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Seal in the Form of a Lion, Chelsea, circa 1755

$2,900

Sauce Boat, Fringed Tree Pattern, Worcester, circa 1755

By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

An unusual shape with an uncommon painted pattern: Fringed Tree. The combination is scarce. Workman’s mark. In the 18th century, sauce boats were a common serving vessel used ...

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Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Sauce Boat, Fringed Tree Pattern, Worcester, circa 1755

$2,000 / 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...

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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752

$7,000 Sale Price

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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.

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Large Tankard, Worcester, circa 1770, Later Decorated

$2,400 Sale Price

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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...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Early Cream Boat, Worcester, circa 1753

$8,500

Sauce Boat, Double-Handled, Worcester, circa 1756

By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

A double-handled sauce boat, moulded with leaves and shells, probably after a silver example. A delightful example of restrained rococo design.

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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Sauce Boat, Double-Handled, Worcester, circa 1756

$2,500

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.

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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Sugar Sifter, Mennecy, circa 1760

$2,000 Sale Price

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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. ...

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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756

$5,000

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...

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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758

$10,500 Sale Price

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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.

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Winter, from the Four Seasons, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750

$2,000

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...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Commemorative Jug: George II. Worcester, circa 1759

$9,000

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.

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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Dessert Plate with Fancy Bird, Chelsea Gold Anchor, circa 1765

$1,700

Coffee Can: Merian's Opossum, Nymphenburg, C1790

By Nymphenburg Porcelain

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

A good example of the fine painting produced at this factory. This example with an African possum and a feline, after the engraving by George Buffons.

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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Coffee Can: Merian's Opossum, Nymphenburg, C1790

$1,000

Teapot Stand, "Milkmaids" Pattern, Worcester, circa 1760

By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

Hexagonal teapot stand, with transfer print decoration of The Milkmaids. From an engraving by Richard Hancock, one the best and most important of the en...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Teapot Stand, "Milkmaids" Pattern, Worcester, circa 1760

$1,400

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...

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Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Baluster Vase, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748

$1,750 Sale Price

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Dated Crowther Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, 1770

By Bow Porcelain

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

The so-called ‘Crowther Plate’ dated January 1770: Octagonal, painted in blue underglaze with the monogram ‘RC’ in a floral cartouche and with elaborate scroll, pendant and cell a...

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1770s English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Dated Crowther Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, 1770

$15,000

Plate with Coiled Phoenix, Chelsea, C1754

By Chelsea Porcelain

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

A very fine plate, damasked with Gotzkowsky erhaben Blumen. Decorated after the Japanese with peonies and a coiled phoenix to the centre, using the Kakiemo...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Plate with Coiled Phoenix, Chelsea, C1754

$1,160 Sale Price

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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...

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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Seal, I Still Hope, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760

$1,300

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.

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1750s English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Tea bowl and Saucer, Chelsea, circa 1752

$3,920 Sale Price

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Pair of Bird Plates, Chelsea, circa 1755

By Chelsea Porcelain

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

A pair of scalloped dessert plates, painted with bunches and sprays of flowers, with attractive naturalistic birds arranged around the outside. Red anchor mark.

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Pair of Bird Plates, Chelsea, circa 1755

$1,500 Sale Price / set

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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.

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Early Bow Porcelain Pickle Dish, circa 1748

$8,500

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...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748

$4,690 Sale Price

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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...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751

$4,900 Sale Price

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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...

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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751

$14,500

Knife and Fork, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749

By Bow Porcelain

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

An unsually early set of handles with original steel tines and blade. Pistol grip form moulded with acanthus scrolls, leaves and swags and painted with indianische Blumen in a Kakiem...

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Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Knife and Fork, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749

$2,200 / set

Coffee Cup, Kakiemon Decoration, Plymouth, circa 1769

By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

Coffee cup in hard-paste porcelain, decorated with Kakiemon painting. The fruits of the Plymouth factory are perhaps the first examples of hard-paste porc...

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Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Coffee Cup, Kakiemon Decoration, Plymouth, circa 1769

$1,360 Sale Price

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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...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria - Porcelain

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Porcelain

Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751

$5,250 Sale Price

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Saucer Dish, "Milkmaids" Pattern with Double Rebus, Worcester, circa 1757

By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

Transfer print decoration of The Milkmaids. The engraving carries marks for three important people, and is very rare. The double-anchor represent the Holdship brothers, Richard...

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