Late 19th Century Ceramics

A pair of small English Staffordshire 'Alhambrian ware' vases.

Though undocumented (to our knowledge) this beautiful ceramic carafe bears all the hallmarks of Christopher Dresser's innovative work.

Set of Four Majolica Monkey Graduated Pitchers, 8 to 10.5 ins., English, c. 1880. Book reference: Marilyn G. Karmason and Joan B. Stake, Majolica:...

Tennis-themed Lemonade Jug. A rare "Denby" pottery tennis themed lemonade jug. The tennis ceramic has an applied panel decorated, in relief, with two crossed lawn tennis rackets, three balls and a lawn tennis net...

An Imari charger, 17 1/2" dia. Wonderful movement in the decoration from the swirling panels to the doves in the blossoming branches of a tree; centered by a leaf star with rosette c...

Beautiful porcelain planter decorated with imari. On this flowerpot, the background is blue, there are reserves in which appear a dragon and a bird surrounded by red flowers. The upp...

Pair of George Jones Majolica Cornucopia Vases, English, circa 1875, each modeled as a white wicker ground cornucopia, with trailing green glazed leafy vines and simulated mossy twig...

Portuguese Majolica ewer in the manner of Palissy Portuguese, c. 1865-87 Measures: Height 37cm, diameter 26cm This beautiful green ewer and bowl set...

Pair of 19th century oriental Satsuma vases were hand-painted on the finest Japanese porcelain then set on cast bronze bases for the ultimate in Oriental Opulence! An intricate "pie ...

A beautifully crafted large ceramic bowl as a centerpiece by Okumura Shozan (1842-1905) in the Kyo-yaki (kyoto ware) style. A Classic ovoid form with flatly...

Royal Copenhagen, biscuit sculpture after Berthel Thorvaldsen. Portrait of Berthel Thorvaldsen. Approx. 1870s. Marked. First factory quality. In excellent condition, burning cra...

Sarreguemines, Majolica large character jug. Smallest of the three types made, France, circa 1880. For over 28 years we have been among the Nation’s pre...

A rare 19th century French earthenware cake or baking from Soufflenheim in the Alsace region, circa 1880s. In the shape of a lobster or crayfish, this Alsatian mold symbolizes fertil...

This large blue and white bowl is covered with wonderful ornaments in the fashionable Japonism taste of the 1880's and 1890's. The earthenware bowl carries as a makers mark an impres...

Glazed red and white faience. Another example, presented at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, in 1898, and numbered 4060, was shown with three other vases: Hercules ...

This Victorian ironstone mold was once used to mold several different food items such as jellies, aspic, meat and puddings into beautiful shapes se...

This set of antique oyster or seafood plates are signed by an unknown maker, and presumed to have originated from France and date to approximately 1880 and done in the period Victori...

Two quite rare earthenware sculptural decorative plates in barbotine, dated 1880, handcrafted in Clermont Ferrand, central part of France, by Charles ...

"Japon" Imari service, produced in 1876 by the Creil & Montereau pottery, shows the great success of Japonism in tableware production, like the Bracquemo...

19th Century Majolica Mallard Duck Plate Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1890. The manufacture of Choisy le Roi was one of the most important manufacture at the end of 19th ...

An impressive, large Doulton Lambeth vase made ca. 1885-1900 by Mark V. Marshall, assisted by Florrie Jones. Mark V. Marshall’s vase fuses and contrasts Medieval Gothic art with Belle Epoque Art...

Ceramic vase signed Ernst Wahliss, Vienna, Art Nouveau period, circa 1890.

Set of 6 Majolica Knife Rests signed HB Choisy Le Roi circa 1890.  

A nicely decorated Japanese Meiji Period Imari charger, late 19th century, Japan. The porcelain charger featuring a design of a hoho bird, or phoenix, per...

1880s stone China platter.

A large Japanese porcelain platter decorated with over glaze enamels featuring three ladies in the garden among the rock grottoes, a cherry tree in blossom, a half-hidden banana tree and peonies. The ladies were pictured as holding various item, a fly...

Charming Majolica pink clog with a bird Delphin Massier circa 1890. H / 3.5 inches , L / 7 inches. The Massier family produced different pieces with birds in a very creative style in...

Late 19th century Gaudy Welsh "Burma" pattern cup & saucer. An exceptional example. Distinctive scalloped borders & rare pate sur pate floret decorated narrow cobalt panels. Saucer m...

FAPG 20247D John Bennett (1840-1907), New York Plaque with pink and blue phlox, circa 1881-1882 Earthenware, painted and glazed Measures: 14 7/8 in. diameter, 1 13/16 in. high Signed and inscribed (on the back): J B[monogram] ENNETT / E 24 NY. / MC [or] CM If the Herter Brothers was the most distinguished and successful cabinet making and decorating firm in New York in the 1870s-1880s, the transplanted Englishman John Bennett was probably the most gifted ceramicist working in New York in the Aesthetic period. (Bennett was included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark exhibition, In pursuit of beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, in 1986–87, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen’s chapter, “Aesthetic Forms in Ceramics and Glass,” pp. 216–19, significantly informs this essay). Born in England, the son of a potter who worked in the Staffordshire district, Bennett came under the influence of John Sparkes, head of London’s Lambeth School of Art. Soon thereafter, he was hired by Henry Doulton of the eponymous firm to teach artisans there the new art of underglaze faience decoration, which was part of a revival of the sixteenth-century interest in hand-painted ceramics. A number of Bennett’s works for Doulton were shown in the Doulton display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and the considerable success enjoyed by Bennett and Doulton from an American audience undoubtedly played an important role in Bennett’s decision to leave Doulton and England and set up shop in New York in 1877. By the next year, he had already established a studio in New York, where he produced his own pottery in the tradition of the Arts & Crafts innovators, William Morris and William De Morgan, and also taught classes at the new Society of Decorative Art to the growing band of women who had taken up china painting, both professionally and avocationally. Bennett’s pottery developed a very serious following among students and collectors, and was offered for sale at such leading retail establishments as Tiffany & Company in New York. Typically, his work was brilliantly colored, with carefully drawn naturalistic flowers against a monochromatic background. Bennett’s fully developed American work, particularly pieces of larger scale, is exceedingly rare, as he worked in New York only from 1877 to 1883, in which year he withdrew to a farm in rural West Orange, New Jersey, where his production continued on a limited basis. He remained listed as a ceramicist there until 1889. While in New York City, Bennett maintained a studio at 412 East 24th Street. The present charger, boldly featuring pink and blue phlox, is signed by Bennett, and is inscribed “E 24 NY,” indicating its manufacture during Bennett’s time in New York. Although it is not dated, this piece is closely related stylistically to various dated pieces from 1881–82, which would place its production toward the end of Bennett’s New York years. Although we do not know whether Bennett worked out of this 24th Street studio from the outset, he was indeed working there by 1879 when he made (and signed, inscribed, and dated) a charger with white and red flowers now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, which specifically points to “412 East 24 / NY” (acc. no. 1998.317). Additionally, the U.S. Census of 1880 lists Bennett as a ceramicist located at that same address, married to Mary Bennett with whom he had had six children. There are several other examples from Bennett’s time in New York City, which also give his studio address on East 24th Street, including a covered jar in cadmium yellow with indigo and green flowers made in 1881; an undated footed vase with lilac...

A beautiful antique signed on the back with the mark HK, a shepherdess and a shepherd herding goats and sheep from the end of the 19th century It is damaged in a few places (see photo)

Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates made by the Manufacture of Creil and Montereau...

Unusual 19th century majolica asparagus plates with large green cabbages leaves on a yellow background (usually on blue background), very colorful plates made by the Manufacture of Creil and Montereau...

Set of 4 small jars with lid for pharmacy-herbalist's shop in white ceramic with cobalt blue inscriptions, to contain Juniper, Willow, Gentian, Brown seaweed of neoclassical taste wi...

Royal Copenhagen relief by Thorvaldsen, 'day', biscuit. Late 1800s. Diameter: 26 cm. In perfect condition. 1st. factory quality.

This is an antique cheese wheel dish. An English, ceramic decorative butter tray, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1870. Appealing colour and decorative motif, with a cool, ta...

This delicately hand-painted Meiji-period Kutani-ware bowl is ornamented with lion-shaped handles on the bowl and lid, and is decorated in orange and gold with panels depicting floral arrangements, surrounded by scrolling borders. On the base is the "Dai Nippon...

A pair of large Victorian hand painted Minton China Works in Stoke-upon-Trent, England, English tiles based on Scott's popular Waverly Novels, designed ...

Emile Gallé for St. Clement, Nancy. Antique bowl with a handle on three feet in hand painted faience with a coat of arms. 1870s-1880s. Measures: 15.5 x 5 cm. In excellent condition.

Ipsen's, Denmark. Large terracotta wall plaque with motif after Thorvaldsen, 1890s. Measures: 51 x 27.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

Emile Gallé for St. Clement, Nancy. Antique bowl with a handle on three feet in hand painted faience with frogs, 1870s-1980s. Measures: 15.5 x 5 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.

Pair of glazed ceramic vases. France, late 19th century.

Antique B&G (Bing & Grondahl) Rare biscuit figure. Measures: 20 cm. x 11 cm. 1st. factory quality, in perfect condition. Marked, late 19th century.

B&G / Bing Grondahl Bisque figure after Thorvaldsen, circa 1870. In good condition. Stamped: B G Eneret (indistinct) Measures: 19 x 15.5 cm.

This is a pair of antique side plates. An English, ceramic decorative cake plate or saucer, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Cha...

Hang this fausse pair of uniquely large, colorful Majolica plates on your kitchen wall or display them on a shelf. Sculpted in France circa 1880 in the manner of Longchamp, and hand ...

Set of six Paris porcelain scalloped plates with hand-painted scenes of birds and animals set in fanciful or pastoral environments, some with castles....

A lovely set of 2 antique ceramic barbobine serving bowls. The bowls are very decorative. They are both in good condition. No chips and no hairlines. Dimensions: 11 (h) x 22 x 20 ...

Pair of porcelain potiches with polychrome decoration depicting flowering branches, peonies and birds. Taken in bud.

Late 19th century Staffordshire lions.

ceramic cachepot, art nouveau work, Austria circa 1900

Set of six faux porphyry mugs. Six unique hand cast majolica nautical cups/mugs in faux porphyry glaze with celadon blue interior wash and contrasting “rope” trim. Markings for Calta...

Celadon-colored collector's plate featuring an illustration by Gustave Léonce, depicting a sleeping duck. The edges of the plate are scalloped with a woven effect border. Discover th...

EMILE GALLÉ (1846-1904) "Jar". French Art Nouveau, Signed in glass paste. Embossed decoration in shades of pink, yellow and brown with flowers. Application in silver. Signed. He...

The Elf or "Nisse" as they are called in Denmark, used to live in every farmhouse, and you had to treat them nice to make them stay. Later on they became associated with Christmas an...

Decorate a wall or a shelf with this elegant set of antique plates. Crafted in England circa 1880, each painted platter features vine, leaf and grape motifs in high relief throughout...

IItalian Maiolica “La Bella” Istoriato Lustered Red Water Jug 19th Century A finely decorated Italian maiolica water jug, richly painted in the “La Bella...

19th century French hand made and hand painted large fine ceramic bathroom plate with a special soap place marked by GIEN. Very good condition with no restorations. France, circa 1880.

A decorative pair of 19th century Chinese famile rose vases depicting various Chinese scenes and various birds and foliage, each vase decorated with a single gilded raised dragon, st...

Royal Worcester ewer, with winged dragon handle, painted with flowers and leaves against an ivory ground. Dimensions: Height 6 inches Width 5.5...

Three large and medium sized French crockery platters. Handmade and vintage Dimensions left to right - main image 12.75" D x 2.50" deep 15" D x...