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An Art Deco period champagne cooler from France circa 1930. The elegant wine bucket is made of nickel plated brass with bakelite handle. The tall body is embellished with a series of...

Pair of Wedgwood Majolica cache pots or wine coolers with strong Majolica colors of blue, yellow, green and brown. A grape and wine theme design decorated with clusters of grapes, grape vines and bearded Bacchus busts...

Pair Footed Fruit Coolers, about 1810-20 Stône, Coquerel, and Legros D’Anisy, Paris (active 1808–49) Porcelain, partially transfer printed in sepia and green and gilded Each, 13 1/2 in. high x 10 in. wide x 7 1/2 in. deep Signed and inscribed (on underside of one top and one base, with printed mark): STÔNE / COQUEREL / ET / LE GROS / PARIS / PAR BREVET D’INVENTION: Manufre de Décors sur Porcelaine Faience; variously inscribed with decorators’ initial in green and brown (on underside of one top and one base): M; variously inscribed with incised mark (on underside of one liner and both bottoms): 3; inscribed (in blue script, on the inside of one liner): 615 The Parisian firm of Stône, Coquerel, and Legros d'Anisy is distinguished for the important role that it played in the introduction of transfer-printed decoration on fine china in France. Although the process had been known and used in Great Britain since the eighteenth century, it was, according to Régine de Plinval de Guillebon in her book, Porcelain of Paris 1770–1850 (New York: Walker and Company, 1972), not until 1802 that Potter, Blancheron, Constant, Neppel, Cadet de Vaux & Denuelle took out a patent in France for transfer-printing on earthenware, and it was only on February 26, 1808, that John Hurford Stône, his brother-in-law, Athanase Marie Martin Coquerel, and Francois Antoine Legros d'Anisy not only took out a patent for transfer-printing on china, but also established a Stône, Coquerel, and d'Anisy partnership for the manufacture of transfer-printed ceramics. Their address from 1808 until 1818 was at 9, rue de Cadran, Paris. Prior to this, Stône and Coquerel had been partners at a creamware factory in Creil, France, and Legros d’Anisy had worked at the Sèvres factory, where he had apparently developed the transfer-printing technique for which his own firm became well known. “The process,” notes de Guillebon, was “based upon removing from the engraving a ‘pull’ made on a specially coated filter-paper, which was pressed onto the object to be decorated; this object itself was covered with a film. Firing took...

Each decorated with a central band of slanted acanthus leaves with beaded borders, flanked with fearsome lion mask handles, the base and rim with similar beaded borders.

The Following Item we are offering is a Rare Magnificent Heavy Impressive Antique English Silver Plate Large Handled Ice Bucket, Possibly Sheffield. Remar...

Charming Mid-Century Italian Modern ice bucket resembling both a bell pepper and an acorn with silver plate exterior and neon green plastic interior. Features a heavily textured, s...

Designed as a companion piece to Zelouf & Bell’s Champagne Cart, the Serpent Champagne Cooler in hedge green bird’s-eye maple features a graphic marquetry serpent motif inlaid in figured muted grey-green ripple sycamore...