18th Century and Earlier Ceramics

This finely decorated Qing-period rose medallion or rose mandarin bowl is beautifully hand-painted with four vignettes depicting courtly scenes.

Hand-Painted ceramic jug with lead lid, dated from 1762, initials G. and R. and signed at the bottom, with scenes of windmills and a house.

Largest collection of Portuguese tiles in the world 18th Century Portuguese " Saint Antony " Measures: 266 cm x 126 cm Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th c...

18th century Continental, most likely French, Faience Earthenware Serving Bowl with fluted sides; hand painted vignette of a chinoiserie character with an umbrella flanked by images...

Early Arista y cuenca tiles made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers, probably made between 1550 and 1575. Also separately available, please reach out t...

Set of beautiful moulded tiles made of earthenware. Featuring flowerheads and foliage, this set of antiques creates a universe on its own.

Decorated with a chinoiserie scene of a man sitting on rocks within a landscape. Surrounded by a triple-circle center and an interlocking arc and trefoil border. The rim with 27 flut...

(4) Four Portuguese Tiles 17th Century (1630/1680) Very Rare Collectible each tile 14cm x 14cm total: 28cm x 28cm Original, unrestored Ready to hang on the wall The old Portugue...

A celadon stemmed dish with underglaze deep blue decoration from Sukhothai (a former Kingdom in nowadays central Thailand) circa 14th-16th century. The pedestal dish was a typical ceramic output from Sawankhalok region, likely one of the kilns in Sri Sachanalai that thrived during 14th-15th century. Sukhothai ceramics made a large portion of export from Asia during that period due to the political policy in Ming Dynasty that banned the ocean faring (the so called Ming Gap). This stemmed dish, likely an export item, was modeled in a Classic Chinese form. The under-glaze deep blue decorations depicting the scrolling vines and flowers, as well as the archaic band around the base, are also reminiscent to the designs found in blue and white porcelain in Ming dynasty. The piece shows a fine crackles and age wear on the dish surface, an indication of appropriate patina. Under the reddish slip paint of the base, the gray paste can be discerned in small area, which is also a characteristic of the Thai celadon...

(4) Four Portuguese Tiles 17th Century (1630/1680) Very Rare Collectible each tile 14cm x 14cm total: 28cm x 28cm Original, unrestored Ready to hang on the wall The old Portugue...

Dutch Delft Kolf Tile. An early Dutch delft blue and white golf tile - hand painted with a Kolf scene depicting a pair of Colf/ Kolf players. The blue image is on an off white backgr...

This is a very fine hard paste porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer by New Hall, dating to the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1785. Both pieces have 24 vertical flutes. Both pie...

Largest collection of Portuguese tiles in the world 18th century Portuguese " Azulejos " River Scene" Measures: 200cm x 083cm 84 tiles Important Note: this panel is with the tiles...

Two large French Faience dishes and two smaller from the city of Strasbourg in hand painted floral decoration. They are approximately from around...

(4) Four Portuguese Tiles 17th Century (1630/1680) Very Rare Collectible each tile 14cm x 14cm total: 28cm x 28cm Original, unrestored Ready to hang on the wall The old Portugue...

(4) Four Portuguese Tiles 17th Century (1630/1680) Very Rare Collectible each tile 14cm x 14cm total: 28cm x 28cm Original, unrestored Ready to hang on the wall The old Portugue...

This is a very good hard paste porcelain early Coffee Can or cup with a loop handle, hand decorated in the Royal Lily pattern by Worcester during the Barr p...

Chinese plate, 18th century Measures: H. 2 Dia. 23 cm H. 0.7 Dia. 9 in.

Late eighteenth century Chinese Export Porcelain handleless tea bowl and saucer referred to as "Chinese Imari". Hand decorated in iron red, underg...

A Fine 19th Century Hand-painted Sevres Porcelain Cabinet Plate & Saucer Circa 1770 Origin: France Plate Depth: 10" Width: 10" He...

18th Century Spanish Ceramic Plate with Architectural Scene

This is a hard paste porcelain waste or slop bowl by New Hall in a hand painted Chinoiserie figure pattern number 20, dating to the late 18th century, Circa 1790. The bowl is well...

Interesting collection of three Persian glazed ceramic plates with polychrome decoration. Very old, 18th century or earlier. Rather good condition, some chips and a small repa...

Set of three large Italian Majolica plaques. Each of them painted with a different scenery. Italy, 18th century. Dimensions: Plaque with grouping Il...

An exceptional antique Chinese Qianlong porcelain plate decorated in underglaze blue and overpainted in red and green glazes with light gilding with...

Acquareccia plate Patanazzi workshop Urbino, last quarter of the 16th century It measures diameter 17.12 in; foot diameter 11.53 in; height 1.88 in (43.5 cm; 29.3 cm; 4.8 cm). Weight State of conservation: wear and a few small minimal detachments of enamel, chipping on the raised areas, peeling of enamel at the brim on the back. This large, shallow basin is equipped with a wide and convex well. It is umbonate with a contoured center. The brim, short and flat, is enclosed in a double rounded and barely raised edge. The basin has a flat base without rims; it has a slightly concave center in correspondence to the well. The shape takes inspiration from the basins associated with the metal forged amphora pourers that traditionally adorned the credenza. These were used from the Middle Ages to wash hands during banquets. Two or three people washed their hands in the same basin and it was considered an honor to wash one’s hands with an illustrious person. The decoration is arranged in concentric bands with, in the center of the umbo, an unidentified shield on a blue background: an oval banded in gold with a blue head, a gold star and a field with a burning pitcher. Rings of faux pods separate the center from a series of grotesque motifs of small birds and masks. These go around the basin and are, in fact, faithfully repeated on the brim. The main decoration develops inside the flounce of the basin, which sees alternating symmetrical figures of winged harpies and chimeras. The ornamentation, outlined in orange, green and blue, stands out against the white enamel background. This decorative style, defined since the Renaissance as “grottesche” or “raffaellesche”, refers to the decorations introduced after the discovery of the paintings of the Domus Aurea towards the end of the fifteenth century. The discovery of Nero's palace, buried inside Colle Oppio by damnatio memoriae, occurred by chance when a young Roman, in 1480, fell into a large crack which had opened in the ground on the hill, thus finding himself in a cave with walls covered with painted figures. The great artists present in the papal city, including Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Raffaello, immediately visited these caves. The decorations found there soon became a decorative subject of immense success: the term grotesque , with the meaning of “unusual,” “caricatured,” or “monstrous,” was later commented by Vasari in 1550 as “una spezie di pittura licenziose e ridicole molto”( “a very licentious and ridiculous kind of painting”). The decorations “a grottesche” also widely circulated in ceramic factories, through the use of engravings, variously interpreted according to the creativity of the artists or the requests of the client. Our basin is reflected in similar artifacts produced at the end of the sixteenth century by the factories of the Urbino district. See the series of basins preserved in the main French museums, among which the closest in morphology is that of the Campana collection of the Louvre (Inv. OA1496); this however has a more complex figure decoration, while the decoration of our specimen is sober and with a watercolor style. The style, sure in its execution, approaches decorative results still close to the works produced around the middle of the sixteenth century by the Fontana workshop. The decoration is closely linked to their taste, which later finds its natural outlet, through the work of Antonio, also in the Patanazzi workshop. Studies show the contiguity between the two workshops due to the kinship and collaboration between the masters Orazio Fontana and Antonio Patanazzi, both trained in the workshop of Guido Fontana il Durantino. It is therefore almost natural that their works, often created according to similar typologies and under the aegis of the same commissions, are not always easily distinguishable, so much so that the presence of historiated or “grottesche” works by Orazio is documented and preserved in Antonio Patanazzi's workshop. Given that the studies have always emphasized the collaboration between several hands in the context of the shops, it is known that the most ancient “grottesche” works thus far known, can be dated from 1560, when the Fontana shop created the so-called Servizio Spagnolo (Spanish Service) and how, from that moment on, this ornamentation became one of the most requested by high-ranking clients. We remember the works created for the Granduchi di Toscana, when Flaminio Fontana along with his uncle Orazio supplied ceramics to Florence, and, later, other commissions of considerable importance: those for the service of the Duchi d’Este or for the Messina Farmacia of Roccavaldina, associated with the Patanazzi workshop when, now after 1580, Antonio Patanazzi began to sign his own work. Thus, in our basin, the presence of masks hanging from garlands, a theme of more ancient memory, is associated in the work with more advanced stylistic motifs, such as the hatching of the chimeras and harpies. These are found here on the front with the wings painted in two ornate ways. In addition, the theme of the birds on the edge completes the decoration along the thin brim and can be seen as representing an early style typical of the Urbino district during a period of activity and collaboration between the two workshops. Later, a more “doll-like” decorative choice, typical of the end of the century and the beginning of the seventeenth century, characterized the period of the Patanazzi workshop under the direction of Francesco. Bibliography: Philippe Morel, Il funzionamento simbolico e la critica delle grottesche nella seconda metà del Cinquecento, in: Marcello Fagiolo, (a cura di), Roma e...

Rare 17th Century Dutch Delft Polychrome Majolica Tile, Provenance Magnificent 17th century Dutch Delft majolica tile with polychrome decoration. It features a robust huntsman in th...

These sets of Delft Dutch plates would be a lovely addition to a dining room or would make beautiful decorations displayed on a wall or resting on a buffe...

A very good Porcelain Coffee Can with a ring handle, hand decorated with an orange and gilt pattern by Worcester during the Barr period, fully marked to...

With domed cover with gilt lemon finial on a conforming base with two handles.

This is a hard paste porcelain coffee can & saucer duo by New Hall, hand decorated with their Chinese figure pattern number 421, dating to the English George 3rd...

Beautiful vase in Chamotte ceramic in blue glazed finish made for Rörstrand, the vases were made from the 1930 - 1960's - beautiful piece and in very good vintage condition

A wonderful 18th century Nevers polychrome plate featuring a bird emerging from its cage.

Early Arista y cuenca tiles made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers, probably made between 1550 and 1575. I have four of them available, please reach o...

Early Arista y cuenca tiles made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers, probably made between 1550 and 1575. I have four of them available, please reach o...

A stylish pair antique South Italian Sicilian maiolica pottery shoe shaped flask dating from the 18th century. The handmade earthenware flask is modelled as a healed shoe in a clog f...

Coffee pot Antonio Maria Coppellotti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1740 High fire polychrome maiolica It measures: 7.87 in x 6,49 x 5.11 (20 cm x 16,5 x 13); weight 1.23 lb (561 g) ...

An early Meissen porcelain teapot made circa 1715, decorated by a Dutch hausmaler circa 1730-1740. The teapot is decorated in a Kakiemon pa...

Early Arista / border tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575. Catalogue: La Azulejería Toledana a Través ...

Rare pair of 18th Century Dutch Delft Chargers, stylized blue and white floral decoration with yellow rims. 13.74” diam, 2” h.

Maiolica plate (tondino) Urbino district, Casteldurante or Pesaro, 1533-1555 It measures: diam. 7.48 in (19 cm), foot diam. 2.75 in (7 cm), height 1.0...

This is a good, very early, rare blue and white coffee cup in the "Boy on a Buffalo" pattern, probably from the factory of Josiah Spode, stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, made...

18th C Chinese Export Famille rose tea pot, in the French taste, of typical form the drum shape with twisted strap handles, and straight angled s...

Very interesting 18th century Spanish ceramic wine or oil storage jar with wonderful olive green glaze with raised leaf and floral design ...

Early Arista y cuenca tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575.

Stoneware bowl, enameled; Made in syria Circa 15th and Earlier. Green and Yellow colors. Hand painted Pottery.

Germany Frechen Circa 1620 – 1650 Bellarmine or Bartmann jug with a flower medallion. A salt-glazed and iron-engobed bellarmine with a narrow neck, sphe...

This is an antique piece produced in Tuscany at the end of the 18th Century following the Rustic style. The expression of the antique craftmenships of the Tuscany artisans is well s...

A beautiful antique covered tureen in the shape of a cauliflower. This piece is very old but shows very little signs of wear for its age. This trompe l'oeil ceramic dish is in the shape of a large cauliflower in green and white. The lid or the top shows the vegetable lying on its side with tight white florets and ribbed leaves painted in shades of green. A small notch at one end is for resting the matching white ceramic ladle...

Assortment of dishes Lombard manufacture 1770 – 1780 Circa Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). Two large dishes: diameter 14.76 in (37.5 cm); weight 4.5...

A very fine antique Chinese Qing large porcelain cylindrical mug hand painted with floral designs and probably dating from the latter 18th or possibly even early 19th century. The mu...

Very nicely painted dish with Cuckoo in the house Period: Kangxi⁠-Yongzheng Country of origin: China⁠ The lower half of the design is well known in Holland as the “cuckoo in the hou...

Antique Dutch delft ceramic tile - hand crafted - hand painted cobalt blue glaze - unsigned - Holland / Netherlands - 17th century. Contained in a professional contemporary metal ...

This is a late 18th century porcelain Tea Cup and Saucer in pattern 128 by the Derby factory, Circa 1795. This is a rare Derby pattern that we have not come across or seen previou...

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...

A very fine and rare German Nurenberg Delft style moon flask hand painted with a figure by Andreas Kordenbusch dated 1726. The lightly and finely potted earthenware flask stands rais...

18th century polychrome earthenware shoe slippery A Dutch earthenware shoe slippery, dated circa 1750, The Netherlands in beautiful polychrome colors, blue, purple, orange, green, ...

18th century Chinese Export Famille rose tureen with lid & underplate.

A large and highly impressive antique salt glazed Bellarmine dating from the 17th or early 18th century. The stoneware Bellarmine stands on a narro...

This is a pair of English creamware dishes from the 18th century, created around 1780. The plates display a lovely chinoiserie scene in the Meissen style, with women selecting access...