Creamware Sculptures

This ferocious lion radiates vitality. Its tortoiseshell-glazed surface shimmers with green, brown, and manganese hues that flow over the creamware body. The lion’s expression is com...

Creamware, which is earthenware with a lead glaze over a pale body that results in a pleasing cream color, are beautiful decorative accessories that can be paired with just about any...

A beautiful conical display of a cluster of apples, this pair of Italian creamware topiaries is from the 1900s. Known in Italy as terraglia inglese, ...

English Pottery Tortoise-shell Creamware Figure of St. George Fighting the Dragon, Staffordshire, Possibly modelled by Enoch and Ralph Wood, Late 18th Century. The earthenware figure depicts St. George and the Dragon. St. George is on horseback with a spear in hand in green and yellow glazes as is the dragon. The base and horse in a mottled tortoise-shell brown glaze. The saint is wearing full armour and modelled seated astride his rearing horse, the dragon writhing on the ground beneath, on an oval rocky mound base. The figure is after a 17th century Francesco Fanelli (active 1608–1661) bronze, about 1635-see below. Provenance: Heisel Collection (Paper label) Dimensions: 11 1/4 inches high x 9 inches wide x 5 1/2 inches deep See: A Passion for Pottery: Further Selections from The Henry H. Weldon Collection, Peter Williams and Pat Halfpenny, Page 307, #209 for a pearlware example which is very similarly modelled attributed to Ralph Wood. Reference: The Holburne Museum has a very similar Fanelli figure The figure group is inspired by the bronze made by Fanelli c1580-1661, an artist who worked in England during King Charles 1 reign. Records show that small bronzes like these stood on the windowsills of important rooms in Whitehall Palace...

Staffordshire pearlware pair of large candlestick figure groups, Liberty & Matrimony & "The Flute Player", Probably by Enoch Wood or Ralph Wood Jr., circa 1790-1810 Each pearlware figural group depicts a young man and woman on a moss-covered rock with a stream cascading down between them. One group depicts a young man holding a large birdcage on his right knee with his female companion holding a bird from the cage on her left hand. In her other hand, she holds a posy of flowers. On the base, a lamb drinks from the stream, while a swan sits nearby. The other figure depicts a shepherd with a pipe to his mouth and his dog sitting by his legs while his female companion listens to his playing by his side. A sheep and a goat lie at their feet. Dimensions: Bird seller...

Provenance: Deaccessioned from Colonial Williamsburg G1997-203. Harry H Coon Collection #21 A fine antique Staffordshire pottery fox head stirrup cup. Deaccessioned from Colonial W...

I have always wanted one of these. I'm thrilled to have found it. This Leeds Pottery stallion has a wonderful face with beautiful eyes. Large creamware enamel-painted horses are rare. Leeds made the largest of the creamware horses. Our horse is 16.75 inches tall x 14.75" long. A similar example can be seen in Leeds Museums and Art Galleries (Temple Newsam House) and was featured in an exhibition during an exhibition that ran from June 1- October 30, 2005, in "The Leeds Pottery 1770 1881". Condition: Excellent with light craquelure in the glaze Price: $9,600 Our horse is cream-colored with an orange harness and a full bushy brown tail. The figure is finely modeled: he stands proudly with his head slightly turned to the right, wearing a halter, the lead line laid across his back. His tail was neatly applied, swinging onto one hind leg. The top of the base is a mottled green within a molded stiff-leaf border glazed in manganese. On his belly and underneath the bottom are two unglazed patches where the model was held up during the firing process. Dealers in equestrian feed, medicine, and tack used large pottery horses in their display windows, like those seen here, to draw in customers. Examples can be found in the Leeds City Museum, the Yorkshire Museum, and the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The original Leeds Pottery factory closed around 1849-50. These prominent figures of horses were made for window displays in saddlers and tack stores, for dealers trading in horse equipment...

A fine antique Staffordshire pottery fox head stirrup cup. Deaccessioned from Colonial Williamsburg. Made circa 1790. Molded in the style of Ralph Wood, thi...

We are pleased to offer this pair of very early Staffordshire figures, made in England circa 1800, these naive figures were deaccessioned f...

A late 18th century small creamware figure of a fox pressed out in a mold and hollow on the inside in the 18th century creamware style. Made in England, circa 1790. We can see the br...

WHY WE LOVE IT: Sometimes, the smallest thing gives you the most pleasure. We are pleased to offer this creamware figure of a young man. Made in 18th century England at some point, he became part of the collection of Colonial Williamsburg and was recently deaccessioned. He is beautifully decorated with the oxide glazes used in England on many 18th-century creamware items. Standing at rest, he wears a green jacket, ochre-colored pants...

Staffordshire Pottery creamware figure which features a ram, recumbent on an oval base. Decorated 'in the round' - decoration to front and reverse. Open bottomed.