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Regency Period Spode Neo-classical Greek Pattern Blue Dessert Dishes- a Pair
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Regency Spode neo-Classical Greek pattern blue rectangular dessert dishes,
Four figures in battle,
Early 19th century
The Spode Greek pattern pott...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Puce-Colored Creamware Shell-Edge Neale and Co Set of Ten Plates
By Neale
Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Neale & Co. puce-colored shell-edge plates are each decorated in a purple transfer with figures in the foreground amongst a landscape of Classic ruins. The rims, also with a feathered puce (purple) border, are highlighted with unusually strong remnants of the original gilding. Each is impressed with the Neale & Co. mark on the reverse.
Marks: The impressed Neale & Co. mark was only used between 1778 and 1795.
Reference: Neale Pottery & Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors 1763-1820, Diana Edwards, page 126, #100 for a large stand...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware
British Sailor
s Woolwork of Three Royal Navy Ships, Circa 1885
Located in Downingtown, PA
British sailor's woolwork of three royal navy ships
Circa 1885
The British sailor woolwork depicts an unusual scene of three different types of Royal Navy Ships which are all flying the White...
Category
Antique 1880s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
Regency Regency Ridgway Porcelain Fruit Coolers, Covers and Liners
By Ridgway Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Regency Ridgway porcelain coolers are decorated in pattern #1173. They have a circular body raised on three dolphin feet and trefoil base and painted ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Serving Pieces
Materials
Porcelain
Miles Mason Porcelain Chinoiserie Plates with the Boy and Buffalo Pattern
By Miles Mason Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
English porcelain pair of Chinoiserie plates with the boy and buffalo pattern,
Probably Miles Mason, circa 1805
The beautiful rare English porcelain Bone China plates depict a pattern found on Chinese Export porcelain and were most likely made as replacements. The pattern depicts a boy on a buffalo in a Chinese landscape with polychrome colors particularly green. A band of orange ribbon is painted around the rim.
See the attached photos of a Chinese famille rose prototype with the same design from circa 1760.
Diameter: 8 3/4 inches x 1 1/4 inches high
Reference: Silk Roads, China Ships...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Meissen Miniature Turquoise-Ground Botanical Teapot and Cover
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
Meissen miniature Turquoise-ground teapot and cover,
1735-40
The Meissen porcelain miniature teapot has a turquoise ground with a shaped cartouche ...
Category
Antique 1730s German Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Sailor
s Woolwork of a Battleship with White Ensign
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Sailor's Woolwork of a Battleship,
Circa 1865-75.
The sailor's woolie depicts a starboard side view of a second rate battleship flying the White ensign under sail. White se...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
English Pearlware Blue Slip Pottery Mocha Mug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Blue Ground Pottery Mocha Mug
Late 18th Century
The blue ground slip tankard with a white handle with leaf terminals has two bands of molded checkerboard black and white ba...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
Antique Engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe by Saverio Manetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe,
by Saverio Manetti
Circa 1776
A fine hand colored engraving of a Tuscan Magpie by the Italian artist Saverio Manetti. Manetti drew his work predominantly from real specimens. The work was one of the largest ornithology undertakings to that point in time.
Dimensions: 25 inches high x 22 inches wide x 1 1/4 inches deep. (frame); (63.5cm high x 55.88cm). 18 x 14 in. (sheet)
Reference: Wikipedia
Manetti was born in Brozzi to Giovanni Bernardo and Maria Teresa Nesiscolt of Prague. His early studies were in Florence and later at Pisa where he studied botany under Pier Antonio Micheli. He graduated in medicine in 1745 and worked in Florence. In 1758 he joined the National Medical College where he studied anatomy under Antonio Cocchi (1695–1758), conducting the autopsy of Cocchi.
Manetti was Professor of Botany of the "Società Botanica Fiorentina", a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Fellow of the Royal Society, learned societies in Göttingen and Montpellier, an Accademico dell'Istituto di Bologna and he maintained scientific contacts with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and with the main scientific circles of the second half of the 18th century.
He was supervisor of the Orto Botanico di Firenze in Florence from 1749 to 1782 succeeding to Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti and Secretary of the Accademia dei Georgofili. With remarkable organizational effort, he secured the publication of Storia naturale degli uccelli, Natural History of the birds, a monumental work in five volumes illustrated with 600 hand-coloured engravings based on watercolor paintings.
The book was commissioned by Maria Luisa, Grand duchess of Tuscany and the first volume was dedicated to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo. The third volume was dedicated to Ferdinando di Brobone and the fourth to Giorgio Nassau Clavering. The engravings were made by Tuscan abbot and engraver Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni who had studied under British engraver Robert Strange...
Category
Antique 1770s Italian Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
English Porcelain Patch Box with Irish References, ""Forget Not Erin" Motto
By Coalport Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
"Forget Not Erin": A Coalport Porcelain Jewel
Golden Blooms and Patriotism: An Antique London-Decorated Patch Box
This spectacular antique English porcelain patch box, circa 1820, is...
Category
Antique 1820s English Regency Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Set of Graduated Famille Rose Tankards
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain set of graduated famille rose mugs or tankards,
Circa 1780
The Chinese Export porcelain tankards or mugs are...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Eduardo Paolozzi
s "After Newton", Rosenthal Porcelain Dish
By Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in Downingtown, PA
Eduardo Paolozzi's dish made by Rosenthal depicts "After Newton" is an image of the large sculpture by Paolozzi. Paolozzi follows William Blake's 1795 print, Newton, in illustrating ...
Category
Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Liverpool Herculaneum Yellow-Banded Openwork Creamware Dessert Dishes
By Herculaneum Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Liverpool creamware openwork dishes were made at the Herculaneum factory. The charming dishes have an outer band of openwork attached to a bask...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Pottery
Materials
Pottery, Creamware
Piero Fornasetti Astrological Zodiac Plate, Cancer, Gli Zodiaci Farmacope
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Astrological Zodiac Porcelain Plate-for the Zodiac sign Cancer,
Gli Zodiaci Farmacopei, No 8,
Especially made for Crinos By...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes
Variations Plate, Motiv 34
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate,
Motiv 34,
Soap Bubbles,
The 1980s
The Rosenthal porcelain plate with the design by Piero Fornasetti is based...
Category
Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
William Roscoe Botanical Large Print of Tropical Plant
Located in Downingtown, PA
William Roscoe Botanical Large Print,
Curcuma Aeruginosa,
Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae,
1828
From a set of four -sold individually.
A spectacularly large and beautifu...
Category
Antique 1820s English Regency Prints
Materials
Paper
Chinese Export Porcelain Turquoise Pair of Cats
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Cats with Turquoise Glaze
This striking pair of Chinese porcelain figures, dating from the Early 20th Century, depicts two domesticated cats posed a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$1,250 / set
French Faience Octagonal Fluted Bird Decorated Vases and covers , Geo Martel
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Faience Chinoiserie Octagonal Fluted Vases and Covers with Bird Decoration,
Geo Martel,
Circa 1907
The Chinoiserie octagonal vases and covers have the same painted decoratio...
Category
Early 20th Century French Georgian Vases
Materials
Faience
French Majolica Large Urns- A Pair
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Majolica Large Urns,
A Pair,
Circa 1870-90
The pair of French large majolica flower urns are each raised on four leaf-shaped feet. The urns are of ...
Category
Antique 1870s French Arts and Crafts Urns
Materials
Majolica
$7,500 / set
Piero Fornasetti Neo-classical Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate,
Cammei or Cameo,
Circa 1950s-60s
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate, named Cammei on the reverse, meaning Cameo, has a gro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate,
Cammei or Cameo,
Circa 1950s-60s
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate, named Cammei on the reverse, meaning Cameo, has a gro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Capricorn Zodiac Porcelain Plate, The Zodiac Pharmacopoeia
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Capricorn Zodiaci Porcelain Plate,
Made for Crinos,
#9 in Series,
Titled "Gli Zodiaci Farmacopei", The Zodiac Pharmacopoeia.
1960...
Category
Vintage 1960s English Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Antique French Madam Knipp Engraving of Pigeon
Located in Downingtown, PA
Madam Knipp engraving of pigeon,
From Les pigeons par Madame Knip, ne´e Pauline de Courcelles ; le texte par C.J. Themminck,
Paris France,
1809-1811.
A remarkable large engraving of a pigeon- The Colombe Ramier or Columba Cenea or Wood Pigeon floating within a gilt frame and white matte and with UV Tru-view Clear UV Glass.
From a large collection of framed...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Sailor
s Woolwork of The British Ship Gold Finder on her voyage to Australia
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork Nautical Picture,
Inscribed:The British Ship Gold Finder on her voyage to Melbourn, August 2, 1864. Worked by T.J. Francis,
Circa 1864
This sailor's woolwork depicts aportside view of the the Gold Finder. The Gold Finder was a 3-masted iron ship built in 1863 by J. Laing of Sunderland. There is a detailed inscription below including the maker's name- T.J. Francis.
A notice in the Liverpool Mercury on Tuesday May 3, 1853......This ship is expected to sail very fast, has all her passenger arrangements on a novel and peculiar plan, affording an amount of light and ventilation such as no other passenger ship ever possessed. The ships bell has recently been acquired by the Merseyside Maritime Museum. It seems though that the ship's description involved a degree of hyperbole as she was in fact laid down as a coal ship and converted to passenger accommodation later to meet the demand for the Gold Rush in Australia.
Dimensions: Framed: 28 3/10 inches high x 31 inches wide (72cm x 79 cm).
The Australian gold rush started after Edward Hargraves found the precious metal in New South Wales in 1851. He was not the first to discover gold but is credited with launching the stampede when thousands tried their luck at unearthing wealth - and some succeeded. Hargraves (1816-1891), a former hotelier and cattle farmer, played a small part in the California gold rush of 1849. He didn't get rich but met people who knew about gold and where it could be found - they pointed out similarities between California and New South Wales. Hargraves headed back to Australia to test these theories and stake a claim for a Government reward for the discovery of viable gold fields. Despite initial setbacks, he organised fellow prospectors in the quest for gold which was successful. Hargraves was granted massive rewards of more than pounds 12,000 and later a pension of pounds 250 a year.
He was born in Gosport, Hampshire, the son of an army officer, and educated at Lewes and Brighton Grammar School. Hargraves joined the merchant navy before arriving at Sydney in 1832 and marrying Eliza Mackie four years later.
Publicity about the gold rush prompted many migrants to sail from Liverpool to seek their fortunes - the first licence was issued in Victoria on 21 September 1851. Australia's population boomed as the emigrants...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
1969 Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate, Virgo, Made for Corisia
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate,
Virgo,
Made for Corisia in 1969 #6 in series.
The plate in black and gold depicts the astrological si...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
English Pottery Covered Jug and Cover with Orange Foliate Scroll Designs
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pottery covered jug and cover with orange foliate scroll designs,
circa 1820.
The covered jug and cover with scrolling foliate decoration in orange with black outline. The interior...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Pitchers
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Sailor
s Woolwork of Royal Navy Five-Masted Ship under Steam, Minotaur Class
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Five-masted Ship under Steam,
HMS Minotaur or HMS Agincourt,
Minotaur Class Broadside Ironclad,
circa 1880
The sailor's woolie depicts a portsi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
Creamware Finger or Quintal Vase
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creamware finger or quintal Vase,
19th century,
The English pottery creamware finger or quintal vases The five-fingered flower vase has a molded desig...
Category
Antique 19th Century Georgian Vases
Materials
Creamware
Modernist Krenit Black and Aqua Green Enamel Bowl
By Herbert Krenchel
Located in Downingtown, PA
Modernist Black & Aqua Green Enamel Krenit Bowl,
by Herbert Krenchel for Torben Ørskov & Co.,
Enameled Steel,
Designed 1953
This 1950-60s Moderist bowl, the 'Krenit' bowl, was ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Enamel, Steel
Modernist Krenit Bowl in Black Steel and Robins-Egg Blue Enamel Interior
By Herbert Krenchel
Located in Downingtown, PA
Modernist Krenit Bowl in Black Steel and Robins-egg- Blue Enamel interior
by Herbert Krenchel for Torben Ørskov & Co.,,
Enameled Steel,
Designed 1953
This 1950-60's Modernist b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Baskets
Materials
Enamel, Cut Steel
Modernist Kranit Bowl in Black Steel and Red Enamel, by Herbert Krenchel
By Herbert Krenchel
Located in Downingtown, PA
Modernist Kranit Bowl in Black Steel and Red Enamel,
by Herbert Krenchel for Torben Ørskov & Co.,
Enameled Steel,
Designed 1953
This 1950-60s Moderist bowl, the 'Krenit' bowl, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Enamel, Cut Steel
Modernist Krenit Bowl in Black Steel and Robins-egg- Blue Enamel Interior
By Herbert Krenchel
Located in Downingtown, PA
Modernist Krenit Bowl in Black Steel and Robins-egg- Blue Enamel interior
by Herbert Krenchel for Torben Ørskov & Co.,
Enameled Steel,
Designed 1953
This 1950-60's Modernist bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Enamel, Cut Steel
Chinese Export Porcelain Small Canton Famille Rose Elephant Candlestick
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain small canton famille rose elephant modeled as a candlestick,
circa 1860
The standing Chinese Export porcelain elephant with its trunk up is painted in an iron-red with gilt decoration. On its back is a vase-shaped candle holder rising from the raised saddle painted with a band of green leaves. Below the urn is a long saddle cloth hanging...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Export Candlesticks
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Period Flight
Barr Worcester Botanical Porcelain Plate
By Flight
Barr Worcester
Located in Downingtown, PA
Flight & Barr Worcester Botanical Porcelain plate,
circa 1792-1800
The Flight & Barr porcelain dessert plate has a simple purple flower to the center with a gilt line surround. The wide, shaped rim is finely painted with three different alternating flowers- a yellow rose, a red carnation, and a pink double-headed plant with a gilded rim.
Measure: Diameter: 7 3...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Regency Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Neo-Classical Greek Pattern Blue Openwork Dessert Plates
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode neo-classical Greek pattern blue openwork dessert plates,
Ceres with a Priestess,
Four plates (4)
Early 19th century
From a large collection of Greek pattern Spode- more pi...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
18th-Century English Pottery Pebbled Pearlware Bough Pots, Wood Family
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
The pair of bough pots, attributed to the Ralph Wood Pottery, have a fixed pierced top with a blue band around the upper rim and the front panel wit...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Planters and Jardinieres
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Tapio Wirkkala Mid-Century Glass Footed Bowl, Inari Pattern
By Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Downingtown, PA
Tapio Wirkkala glass footed bowl,
Inari,
Model number 3543.
Impressive cut and blown-molded footed bowl cast in clear glass by Finnish artist and designer, Tapio Wirkkala. Mode...
Category
Late 20th Century Finnish Mid-Century Modern Glass
Materials
Glass
18th-century Johann Weinmann Engravings of Grapes, Set of Four
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in Downingtown, PA
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes,
Set of Four,
Circa 1740
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes, each engraved by Seuter (S to the lower ri...
Category
Antique 1740s German Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
Siegmund Schütz Modernist Ceramic Bowl for KPM Berlin
By Siegmund Schütz 1
Located in Downingtown, PA
Siegmund Schütz modernist bowl for KPM Berlin,
"Flowerboat" or "Floweships",
1950s
This Siegmund Schütz Modernist Bowl, known as a flowerboat (Blumenschiff), is of a most unus...
Category
Vintage 1950s European Mid-Century Modern Planters, Cachepots and Jardin...
Materials
Porcelain
English Creamware Pottery Green Glazed Teapot and Cover, Swinton, Yorkshire
Located in Downingtown, PA
English creamware pottery green glazed teapot and cover,
Swinton, Yorkshire,
circa 1770
The barrel-form creamware teapot is decorated with a dipped green glaze over an impr...
Category
Antique 1770s English Georgian Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Creamware Pottery Sailor
s Farewell and Chinoiserie Punch Bowl
Located in Downingtown, PA
Creamware Pottery sailor's farewell punch bowl with Chinoiserie Scenes on Reverse,
Late 18th Century
The large polychrome creamware bowl has a scene to one side depicting a sailor's farewell. The officer, with a sword in a scabbard to his right hip, stands with arms crossed and his female companion looks away from him as she holds a parasol in her hand. In the background in a Royal Navy frigate at anchor and a sailor in a longboat rowing towards him.
To the reverse side is a charming chinoiserie scene of two women and a young boy watching...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Serving Bowls
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Large Port Scene Painting of a View of Valletta Harbour, Malta
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large Port scene painting of a view of Valletta Harbour, Malta,
Oil on canvas,
Mid-19th century.
The massive painting was made from the upper gardens...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Maltese Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paint
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Cook Plates-Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam Du Pont
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Cook Plates,
Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam A La Du Pont,
Made for Fleming Joffe,
Silkscreen & Transfer,
1960s-early 70s.
These two Piero Fornasetti porcelain plates are from a series made for the Fleming Joffe hide company in New York City. These were originally given as a pair to clients in a box with a cardboard box with a faux hide covering. It is very rare to find two plates staying together like these.
Included with the two plates is the paper separator and the original Thank you card...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Special Commission Large Iznik Plaque, 1950s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Rare Vintage Piero Fornasetti Special Commission Large Iznik Plaque,
1950's.
Piero Fornasetti coloured panel designed for the Hilton in Istanbul features Iznik pottery vessels a...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Spanish Catalan Faience Rabbit Hunting Tile Picture
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spanish Catalan Faience Hunting Subject Tile Picture
Late 18th Century
The framed picture depicts a huntsman firing his gun at a hare with his dog before him in a landscape with a h...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Spanish Country Decorative Art
Materials
Faience
18th Century English Delftware Blue
White Sweetmeat Dish, Probably London
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Delftware blue & white sweetmeat dish,
London,
Possibly Lambeth High Street, William Griffith's pottery.
Circa 1750-60
The rare undergl...
Category
Antique 1760s English Georgian Platters and Serveware
Materials
Delft, Faience
18th-century English Creamware Whieldon-type Tortoiseshell Tea Bowl
Saucer
By Thomas Whieldon Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Creamware Whieldon-type Tortoiseshell Tea Bowl & Saucer,
The 18th-century creamware tea bowl and saucer are decorated in tortoise-shell and green glazes. The exterior of the bowl has a band of molded pearls as does the saucer around the central well where the tea bowl sits.
Provenance: Jonathan Horne...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Pottery
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Capricorn Astrological Sign - Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Zodiac Paperweight
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Pebble Capricorn Zodiac Paperweight,
Titled Capricornus for the Astrological Sign Capricorn,
Circa 1960
The oval ceramic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Ceramic
Piero Fornasetti Red Strumenti Musicali Music Metal Bookends
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti 'Strumenti Musicali' Bookends 🎶
This striking pair of Piero Fornasetti L-shaped metal bookends, dating from circa 1960, features ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Metal
$1,000 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Cook Plate, Coquille Crocodile, Fleming Joffe
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain recipe Cook plate,
Coquille Crocodile,
Made for Fleming Joffe- Limited Private Edition,
1970's
Piero Fornasetti was commissio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Watercolor of a Sampan on Paper, circa 1800
Located in Downingtown, PA
The large Chinese watercolor on European paper depicts a starboard view of a two-master sailing ship with one man sailing the vessel while two passengers can clearly be seen inside t...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings
Materials
Paper
18th century Engravings of Fish by Marcus Bloch- A Pair
By Marcus Elieser Bloch
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Engravings of Fish by Marcus Bloch,
A pair,
circa 1780.
A fine pair of prints of fish by Marcus Bloch with decoupage frame.
Dimensions: 13 3/4 inches x 20 inches wide....
Category
Antique 18th Century German Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
18th-century Chinese Export Porcelain Large Famille Rose Cachepot
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Cachepot,
Circa 1750-60
The very large Chinese Export porcelain cachepot is of cylindrical form with an ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and ...
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Glass Tumblers, Spaghetti String by Color Craft, A Sewt of Eight
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pretty & Functional!
Vintage glass tumblers, spaghetti string pattern,
Color craft, Indianapolis, In.,
A set of eight.
The set of Color Craft lemon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Glass
Regency Large Coalport Porcelain Dessert Service-Thirty Nine Pieces
By Coalport Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
Magnificent Coalport 'Famille Rose' Inspired Dessert Service
English, Late Regency/William IV Period,
Circa 1820-1835
This superb forty-one-piece dessert service is a testament to the artistic and technical achievements of the celebrated John Rose Coalport factory, one of England's premier porcelain manufacturers. Representing the pinnacle of the opulent and eclectic taste that defined the late Regency era, the service is distinguished by its fine feldspathic porcelain body, its elegant and varied shapes, and its brilliantly colored, intricate decoration.
Description and Design
The design is a masterful blend of influences, centered around a vibrant floral pattern inspired by Chinese Export famille rose porcelain. Each piece features a swirling composition of pink and yellow flowers, accented by a distinctive and fashionable aqua blue.
This central motif is framed by a wide, complex border on a beautifully crimped rim. The border alternates between two luxurious patterns: one panel features a rich mazarine blue ground with reverse flower-heads overlaid with a fine gilt "cracked ice" pattern—a classic Chinoiserie motif. The other panel consists of an intricate diaper pattern on a vibrant yellow ground, punctuated by further floral sprays. The lavish use of gold throughout unifies the design and would have created a dazzling effect in the candlelight of a formal 19th-century dining room.
Historical Background & Context 🧐
The Dessert Course as Theater: In the grand homes of Regency England, the dessert course was the culinary and decorative climax of the meal. It was an opportunity for the host to display their wealth and sophisticated taste, and a large, highly decorated porcelain service like this was the ultimate status symbol.
John Rose's Coalport Factory: By the 1820s, the Coalport factory in Shropshire, under the ambitious leadership of John Rose, was a dominant force in the British porcelain industry, competing directly with Spode and Worcester. Coalport was renowned for its technically superb porcelain and its often flamboyant, richly gilded Rococo Revival designs. This service, with its confident blend of Chinese-inspired motifs and exuberant English styling, is a hallmark of the factory's finest work from this period.
Attribution: While the service is unmarked, which was common for dessert wares of the period, the pattern is confidently attributed to John Rose's Coalport factory. The attribution is based on an identical marked tea service and is confirmed by references in Geoffrey Godden's definitive Encyclopedia of British Porcelain Manufacturers.
Components and Condition
The service comprises a remarkable forty-one pieces:
One Tazza (Centerpiece)
Two Sauce Tureens, Covers, and Stands
Four Oval Dishes
Four Shell-Shaped Dishes
Five Rectangular Dishes...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Ironstone Vase and Cover, Morley Ashworth Ironstone
By Ashworth Ironstone
Located in Downingtown, PA
Morley Ashworth English Ironstone Vase & Cover
This exquisite English Ironstone Vase & Cover, dating from circa 1855-62, showcases the artistry...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Vases
Materials
Ironstone
$2,000 Sale Price
51% Off
Regency Herculaneum Neo-Classical Greek Pattern Blue Printed Dish
By Herculaneum Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
Herculaneum neo-Classical Greek Pattern blue printed dish,
Early-19th century
The Herculaneum pottery underglaze blue central pattern shows a s...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Fleming Joffe Plate-Vero Pig Piccadilly
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Fleming Joffe Porcelain Recipe Plate,
Vero-Pig Piccadilly,
With Original "Hide" Box,
1960s.
This rare Piero Fornasetti porcelain p...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Botanical Large Print After Joseph Nigg, from the Ateliers Lithographiques Mourl
By Joseph Nigg
Located in Downingtown, PA
Botanical Print after the painting of the Austrian painter, Joseph Nigg, (1782-1863)
Artist: Joseph Nigg (1782-1863)
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 39 3/4 inches high x 31 i...
Category
Vintage 1940s Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
Painting of Farmyard Scene with chickens, Oil on Canvas, Signed L.J. Cruise
Located in Downingtown, PA
Farmyard Scene with Chickens,
Medium: Oil on canvas,
Signed: L.J. Cruise, 1911, Criuise (1861-1945), Berks County, Pennsylvania
Dimensions: Frame: 35 inches high x 55 31/2 inches wide; sight: 29 inches high x 48 3/4 inches wide
This oil painting by Bucks County artist Louis J. Cruise depicts a farmyard scene. A chicken emerges from a farm building, with eight other chickens and a cockerel below. All of the birds are either standing or pecking on the straw pile, as are three other small birds. To the back right of the painting is a wood fence, beyond which is a grass field and woods. The painting is framed in a wide gilt frame.
Cruise was a prolific artist who painted a variety of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. He was a member of the Bucks County Academy of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Sketch...
Category
Early 20th Century American American Classical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
