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$795 USD Offers ConsideredLarge Antique French Faience Charger w/ Insects - Hand Painted - Tin Glazed - Plate - Platter
Pottery:Antique:Faience
A beautiful piece of Antique French Faience, hand pressed, and mold made sometime between the mid 19th C and early 20th C. The center is hand painted with an exuberant riot of blooms and a perky little bird, while two of the cartouches around the border display a pair of super insects... just wonderful... I always love insects as decorative elements. When I first saw this piece I wondered if it might possibly be Italian, but I have consulted with Walter Del Pellegrino, author of several books on ...
$195 USDEmbossed Earthenware Jug or Pitcher w/ Horse Head Thumb Rest - Arthur Wood & Son Ltd.
Pottery:By Maker:Arthur Wood & Son Ltd
A fine English pottery jug or pitcher with an unusual thumb rest in the form of a horses head. Embossed horses and riders gallop around the body of this interesting piece in a perpetual race, the action caught in a decorative frieze for us to admire. Condition is great, with no chips, cracks, hairlines, or repairs that I can see. There is some overall crazing as you might expect, and just a trace or minor staining, testament to the functional nature of this old piece. Measures 8 1/8" tall, and 7 ...
$125 USD Offers ConsideredVictorian Staffordshire Figurine - The Snuff Taker
Pottery:Antique:Figurines
This stout little fellow is indulging in a favorite habit of Victorian times, he's dipping snuff. I was surprised to learn, while researching this figurine, that the use of smokeless tobacco in the forms of snuff and chewing tobacco is on the rise among high schoolers here in the US, but I digress. "The Snuff Dipper", as he is known, has a proud and straightforward presence. He feels nice and solid in your hand, and sure packs a lot of personality into just a few inches. Condition is great. No ...
$150 USD Offers ConsideredLarge Wedgwood Reverse Jasper Ware Bowl - Sacrifice Figures - Jasperware
Pottery:By Maker:Wedgwood
A beautiful reverse jasperware Wedgwood bowl in white with blue figures. The decoration is referred to as the "Sacrifice Figures", described by Robin Reilly in "Wedgwood - The New Illustrated Dictionary" Condition is great, with no after market problems, only a bit of dirt on the bottom of the foot. The marks are as shown, with "78" being the year of production. Measures 7 3/4" in diameter, and 3 3/4" tall. Striking in this coloration, and a wonderful addition to a collection. A lovely piece.
$195 USD Offers ConsideredGrimwade's Quick Cooker - Pudding Mold - Transferware - Transfer Ware - Kitchen Utensils
Pottery:Vintage
You'll never need to wonder about this charming piece of culinary history, you can find out all about it by just looking at the pictures and reading what's written all over it's surfaces... inside and out. It worked by providing a central column through which steam could rise and heat the pudding at its center so it would cook... well... quicker, just like it's name, "Grimwade's Quick Cooker." Condition is grand, with no problems to report, and if it isn't the original string... well... it's ...
$265 USD Offers ConsideredLarge Royal Doulton Toby Character Jug / Pitcher - Early "John Barleycorn Old Lad"
Pottery:By Maker:Royal Doulton, Doulton Lambeth
A nice Royal Doulton character jug in fine condition. John Barleycorn, who is a symbol of whiskey, was the first of the Royal Doulton character jugs to be launched. Designed by Charles J. Poke, it was withdrawn from production in 1960. Condition is great with no problems to report. The mark is the Royal Doulton mark with an "A". This is an early version of the handle which has varied through the years, and the large size, approximately 7" tall. The words "John Barleycorn Old Lad" are embossed on ...
$1,350 USD Offers ConsideredLarge 19th C Mettlach Relief Pitcher / Stein w/ Figures Representing the Months & Seasons
Pottery:By Maker:Villeroy And Boch, Mettlach
This fabulous Mettlach Pitcher Stein is graced with relief decoration so intricate and charming that it took my breath away when I first laid eyes on it. Overflowing with seasonal motifs and references, the closer you look, the more you see. Outstanding. The blue band around the belly of this piece displays twelve figures in deep relief representing the months of the year with each performing a different seasonal activity, even Father Christmas makes an appearance under the applied handle. Above ...
$300 USD Offers ConsideredWedgwood Blue & White Transfer Basket W/ Handle - "Ferrara"
Pottery:By Maker:Wedgwood:Transferware:Transfer Ware
This wonderful basket is one piece of a small collection of Wedgwood blue and white transfer I was lucky enough to find recently. This piece is remarkable. The fragile, arching handle has survived the years intact, as well as the delicate, raised foot, amazing! The pattern is "Ferrara" with the characteristic ships being displayed only at the bottom of the bowl, the blue transfer being dark and intense, and there is the characteristic blue pooling of the pearlware glaze under the foot. Condition ...
$75 USD Offers ConsideredWedgwood Embossed Queen's Ware Edme Vase - White on Soft Blue
Pottery:By Maker:Wedgwood
A lovely, soft blue vase in the fluted 'Edme' shape by Wedgwood. The ribbed body rises out of a wreath encircled foot, and meets a finely detailed ring of grape vines fashioned in a creamy contrasting white. Timeless and classic. This type of pottery, originally called "Cream Ware", was renamed "Queen's Ware" after Queen Charlotte purchased a service. Condition is great, with no problems to report. Measures 6 1/2" tall, 3 15/16" top diameter, and the impressed mark "5 D 63" dates it's ...
$450 USD Offers ConsideredHuge Antique Yellowware Bowl w/ One White Stripe - Mid 19th C - Yellow Ware - Stoneware - Stone Ware
Pottery:Antique:Stoneware
I'm always impressed with these gorgeous hand potted Yellowware Bowls. They speak to the strength and skill of the maker who was able to pull the enormous amount of clay required for such a large piece. They are beautiful and functional, their simple form expressing the more modern concept of form following function. This bowl is a wonderful example, I think it is particularly beautiful with its one wide white stripe. It stands on a slightly raised foot which displays the deeply recessed bottom ...
$695 USD Offers ConsideredSuper Duper Ice Cream Set - Platters & Plates
Pottery:Vintage
With an Ice Cream Set as cheery as this, summer certainly can't be far behind, can it? Happy, happy, from the charming transfers of sliced Neapolitan ice cream... chocolate, strawberry, and a curious polka dotted green center flavor (could it be pistachio?), to the impressed scalloped border accented with a wavy black line and pale blue (slightly iridized in raking light) and orange. This is just one nifty looking way to enjoy America's favorite summer treat. If you've ever made ice cream in an ...
$300 USD Offers ConsideredStaffordshire Figure of Girl on Goat - 19th C - Figurine
Pottery:Antique:Figurines
This charming little figurine has a great deal of personality and detail. The goat makes me smile every time I look at him, with his goofy smile and garland. He is ridden by a girl who seems to have dropped her bouquet of flowers, but is still holding something, perhaps a crop. This winsome piece is nicely painted and decorated. Aside from the goats expression, I particularly like the flowers on the girls dress and the goats exceptionally long coat... very fetching. Condition is great, it is ...
$75 USD Offers ConsideredDiminutive Romantic Staffordshire Transferware Platter - 'Waverly' by Thomas Edwards - 1841
Pottery:By Maker:Thomas Edwards:Transfer Ware
A sweet little platter with a typical early to mid 19th C romantic design... two ladies and a gent out for a stroll, body of water with a castle on the distant shore, small boats, rustic bridge and gazebo whose roof curves up with an oriental flair... a lovely design with all the elements we've come to love, framed by a wide border, and presented in a beautiful light blue. The pattern is 'Waverly' by Thomas Edwards circa 1841, and the overall shape of this little piece couldn't be prettier. ...
$295 USD Offers Considered19th c American Stoneware Butter Tub - Crock
Pottery:Antique:Stoneware
This great old butter tub is a fine piece of American pottery, and what a treat to find one of these with such graphic stripes and lettering. This wonderful butter crock was probably used with cloth or paper tied around the top. Butter storage crocks often had lids, but I don't think this piece ever did. The top edge is glazed and there is no evidence of the significant wear you would expect to find from a lid had there been one. And there is no lip or groove commonly found on lidded examples. ...
$295 USD Offers ConsideredRoyal Doulton Salt Glazed Stoneware Jug / Pitcher Trimmed w/ Hallmarked Sterling Silver & Applied Decoration of Hunt Scenes, Hounds, Horses, Stag, & Windmill - English - British
Pottery:By Maker:Royal Doulton, Doulton Lambeth
A great little Royal Doulton jug, it's rim bound in hallmarked sterling silver. This pitcher is unusual in that most of these jugs were left plain, no silver rims. And I do believe the silver is part of the original manufacture; the pottery markings and silver hallmarks all seem to be of the same time period, and there is no evidence of the silver being a clever make-do repair. Condition is great. I have left the silver unpolished as some collectors prefer their items to be as found. However, I ...
$425 USD Offers Considered1882 Ridgways 'Derby' Pattern Cheese Dome & Dish - Ridgeways - Butterfly - Sardine
Pottery:By Maker:Ridgways
What a wonderfully bright and boldly decorated English cheese dish and dome. The 'Derby' pattern was originally a late 18th C design used by Crown Derby. This dish bears the 'Ridgways' mark, the pattern name of 'Old Derby', and an impressed '10/82', dating it's manufacture to October 1882. Lavishly decorated with butterflies, sardines, leaves, flowers, and oriental panels... just spectacular An impressive, substantial size, the dish is 9¾" in diameter, the cover is 7" in diameter, and the ...
$295 USD Offers Considered19th c Staffordshire Child's Pearlware Mug / Cup - 1820's - 1840's - Religious Motto
Pottery:Antique:Children's China
A charming old Staffordshire pearlware child's mug displaying the instructional transfer "Search the Scriptures," encircled by a flowered vining branch that also embraces a "Holy Bible" and a scroll entitled "Proverbs." The transfer is embellished with polychrome clobbering, the attached loop handle has a thumb rest, and the foot is delicately potted into a bulbous ring. Condition is excellent, with only some roughness on the lip where you would expect it, perhaps from some long ago little one ...
$275 USD Offers ConsideredDoulton Lambeth Salt Glazed Stoneware Jug / Pitcher w/ Applied Decoration of Hunt Scenes, Hounds, Horses, Stag, & Windmill - English - British
Pottery:By Maker:Royal Doulton, Doulton Lambeth
A fine English jug with applied figures. Around the plumpest part of the belly are a windmill, a tree, and three men sitting and smoking, drinking, and idly gazing off into the distance... perhaps watching the horses and hounds below, where a hunt races at full gallop, hounds and stag in a never ending circle of flight and pursuit. The deep red iron oxide glaze glows orangy brown on the yellow clay of the stoneware body, while it changes to a nice ochre where the dip covered the figural ...
$250 USD Offers Considered19th C Child's Transferware Plate w/ Angels - Transfer Ware - Staffordshire - Pearl Ware - Pearlware - Religious
Pottery:Antique:Children's China
Early children's china like this wonderful plate was often gifted to children who had been good; but endeavoring never to waste an opportunity for instruction, it also often displayed the alphabet, and moral or religious guidance. This lovely piece is bordered with wide scalloped rings of impressed daisies, and has a pearlware glaze. The crisp black transfer shows a child praying, watched over by two winged angels with harps, surrounded by puffy clouds. The 'eye of God' watches over all, and the ...
$195 USD Offers ConsideredEarly Wedgwood Blue & White Transfer Vase - "Chinese" - Transferware - Transfer Ware
Pottery:By Maker:Wedgwood
This lovely vase is one of a small collection of Wedgwood blue and white transfer I was lucky enough to find recently. The color is dark and assertive, contrasting dramatically with the white glaze. The pattern pictures ships, pagodas. palms, and other romantic elements. Oriental motifs were favorite subjects of early transferware, and this piece is labeled "Chinese" on the bottom. It is a pattern named "Chinese Baroque," and was introduced in the 1830's. There are discernible, impressed marks ...
$595 USD Offers Considered19th C Sunderland Luster Footed Transferware Punch Bowl - Staffordshire - Lustre : English - Punchbowl - Stag - Doe - Transfer Ware
Pottery:Antique:Sunderland
This is too fabulous... it has just about everything going for it. A wondrous Sunderland punch bowl with the most charming transfers of does and stags. The outside surface of the bowl displays four cartouches each with a transfer showing a bucolic view of these game animals. Between the scenes are striking foliate medallions with brightly colored leaves and flourishes. Inside the bowl is a large, grand transfer ringed by a rhythmic border of leaves and flourishes. The pale orange luster is ...
$110 USD Offers Considered19th C English Transfer Aesthetic Period Platter or Tray - Unusual Small Size - New Wharf Pottery Co. - Transferware - Transfer Ware
Pottery:By Maker:New Wharf Pottry Co
A lovely, and tiny rectangular transfer platter. The two asymmetric cartouches, typical of the late 19th C aesthetic design period in England, display a bird, looking a bit worried, and an idyllic farm scene with a thatched cottage. Outside the cartouches are other charming naturalistic designs typical of this period... I particularly like the bee and flowers. The mark indicates this piece was made at the New Wharf Pottery Co., started in 1877, when Thomas (known as T. F.), and his brother ...
$495 USD Offers ConsideredEarly 19th C Staffordshire Child's Pearlware Christening Mug / Cup - 1820's - 1840's - "MARY" - Children's
Pottery:Antique:Children's China
Lovely old Staffordshire Child's Christening Mug, personalized with the name "Mary" in a fancy font, surrounded with a wonderful wreath of decorative scroll work, flowers, and foliage, flanked by a pair of birds, and crowned with a tasseled cushion on which rests a bible. The pearlware glaze pools blue on the bottom, inside, and in the cracks around the applied simple loop handle. Condition is as good as it gets, clean and bright with some light overall crazing as shown. No chips, cracks, or ...
$95 USD Offers ConsideredEarly German Child's Cup w/ Laundry Day Design - Late 19th C - Early 20th C - Children's - Max Roesler, Rodach
Pottery:By Maker:Max Roesler, Rodach:Children's China
This little child's cup was produced by Max Roesler, Rodach, in Bavaria near the Thuringian Forest, better known today as Bad Rodach. The mark is the blue underglaze RMR over the shield with rose, the 'rose' being derived from Max Roesler's name. It is admittedly difficult to see on this example, but easily recognizable if you are familiar with it. The company Max Roesler, Rodach was officially registered on July 24, 1894, as producers and decorators of porcelain, stoneware, and other fine ...
$75 USD Offers ConsideredAustrian Amphora Footed Cup - Early 1900's - Austria - Turn Teplitz
Pottery:By Maker:Amphora
A sweet little piece of Austrian Amphora pottery circa 1915, The maker is likely Amphora Work Reissner, located in Turn-Teplitz. Very pretty, and typical of one type of Amphora pottery from this time, . This style of pottery was made well into the 1930's, but after 1918, it was generally marked 'Czechoslovakia', while this piece is marked 'Austria'. Condition is great, with no problems to report. It stands only 1 58" tall and measures 3 12" in diameter. A nice example, I particularly like the ...
$135 USD Offers ConsideredAntique Yellowware Bowl - Girl w/ Watering Can - Yellow Ware - Stoneware - Stone Ware
Pottery:Vintage
A charming American yellow ware bowl with a molded, repeat design of a girl with a watering can standing in front of a cottage. There is a series of finger holds molded into the bottom edge of the rim, and a mark impressed into the bottom, which I believe says USA, and a number, but I cannot quite make it out definitively. This sweet little bowl is in very good condition for a piece of stoneware this old. There is one place, about 1/4" where the glaze seems to have flaked off near one of the ...
$225 USD Offers ConsideredFrench Plate with Pierrots - Keller & Guerin Luneville France - 1900 - 1920
Pottery:By Maker:Keller & Guerin, Luneville
I've pondered this delightful antique plate for some time now and still am not sure of the significance of the three Pierrots who seem to be fleeing from a mysterious shadow-figure of a man with a fedora and a walking stick, one of them caught on a tree branch in his haste. Perhaps this is illustrating a French fable, as there definitely seems to be a narrative of some sort; I just don't know, but it is certainly a quintessentially French scene. Curious and mysterious, with more than a soupcon ...
$325 USD Offers ConsideredUnusual Pair of Hand Painted Square Pink Oyster Plates
Pottery:Antique:Oyster Plates
This lovely pair of porcelain oyster plates is unusual in shape; square just isn't what you comonnly see, and that's what attracted me to them immediately. Each plate has five naturally shaped oyster wells, a scallop shaped well, and two small peach colored petal shaped wells. The pink ground is textured to look like alligator skin, another unusual feature of this appealing pair. I particularly like the way the shells are disposed on the plate in a naturalistic, asymmetrical arrangement. ...
$60 USD Offers ConsideredAntique Royal Baby - Plate - Patented 1905 - Made in U.S.A. - Children's Dishes - Child's - Nursery Rhyme
Pottery:Antique:Children's China
Collectibles : China, Porcelain : Children's : Dishes : Child's : Nursery Rhyme This charming baby plate has a poem and illustrations on it's front, and a great deal of information about it's Patents and manufacture on the back. I'm not familiar with the poem about an old woman (can't fool me, she looks like a witch), but it reads: "Old woman, old woman whither so high? To sweep the cobwebs off of the sky" The illustration pictures the 'old woman' with her broom (I'm thinkin' 'witch' here... not ...
SOLDSOLD Peters & Reed Jardiniere or Bowl - American Art Pottery
Pottery:By Maker:Peters & Reed
This striking low jardiniere is a fine example of American pottery of the Arts & Crafts era. I believe it was made by Peters & Reed. Peters & Reed, one of many American potteries in Ohio, was founded in 1899 by John D. Peters and Adam Reed who changed the name to The Zane Pottery Company in 1921. Production continued until 1941 when the pottery was sold to Gonder Pottery. The early production from the Peters & Reed years is unsigned as this piece is. The glaze is thick and a mottled buff color ...
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