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Swagged Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A particularly successful vase in black basalt, with simple, classical deocration or swags and berries & leaves. This vase comes from the Wedgwood & Bentley period, during which the ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Fairyland Lustre Bowl, Argus Pheasant, Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Daisy Makeig-Jones, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fairyland lustre footed bowl, in bone china. An attractive shape; decorated with the striking Argus pheasant pattern.
Teh pattern features decorative depictions of the Argus pheasan...
Category
Vintage 1920s English Art Deco Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Double Opaque Twist Wine Glasses, England C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lovely pair of double-spiral opaque twist stem wine glasses, with basal moulding and a conical foot. Finely engraved with the clssic "Fruiting Vine".
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century British Neoclassical Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Wheel-Cut ewer, Stourbridge, C1860
By Stourbridge England
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classically-shaped ewer, with wheel-cut engraving showing a cocoa plant and a dragon fly.
Stourbridge glass refers to glassware produced in the town of Stourbridge, located in the...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
Polychrome Goat & Bee Jug, Chelsea, circa 1748
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the most iconic of all the Chelsea shapes, the Goat & Bee jug. This is the item that, more than any other, has been chosen for the front cover of scholarly works on Chelsea, o...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
La Nourrice - Porcelain figure of breast feeding, Liverpool, circa 1759
By Richard Chaffers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important soft-paste porcelain figure of a nurse feeding a swaddled infant. Probably by Richard Chaffers; and taken from the Chelsea version, which in turn was from the potter Ber...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure representing Matrimony, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive allegorical figure of Matrimony, reprsented by a woman in her best clothing, holding a cage.
The Bow Porcelain factory was the first English porcelain producer; these ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Newcastle Light Baluster, England C1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic Newcastle light baluster, perhaps the finest of all the English shapes; certainly the finest of its period. The glass is light and well-balanced, a pleasure to hold or to s...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century British Neoclassical Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
A set of port glasses, etched and engraved, Lobmeyr C1880
By J. & L. Lobmeyr Company
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A set of six port or sherry glasses, brilliantly engraved with Birds & Branches pattern, after 18th century examples.
In the late 18th century, Lobmeyr played a significant role in ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Revival Tableware
Materials
Blown Glass
A Lion, passant gardant, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lion, seated on its haunches, one paw up. Perhaps a heraldic reference; although the stump does not appear in heraldry, it is required in order to keep the paw in position during f...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Trophy Plate, Wedgwood, circa 1900
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Trophy plates were a particularly Victorian development at Wedgwood, taking the use of classical ornament to its absolute limit. Over 2,000 individual sprigs were made, applied, and undercut to produce this plate. Only the best decorators made these, beginning with Thomas Lovatt in the late 19th century - this is an example of his work.
The central relief depicts Bellerophon with Pegasus. Bellerophon was a noble hero of Corinth, known for his strength and bravery. He was the son of Glaucus and the grandson of Sisyphus, though some myths suggest he was actually the son of Poseidon. Bellerophon was a skilled warrior and sought to accomplish great deeds.
Pegasus was a magnificent, winged horse born from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Revival Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Cat holding a mouse, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An engaging cat, holding a mouse in its paw, while a second mouse escapes into a cheese.
These small 'toys' are scarce, being easily lost. They were largely hand made, and so were n...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair miniature campana vases in black basalt, Wedgwood, circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A good pair of miniature campana-shaped vases, in black basalt. Finding these with their lids, and with the delicate handles intact, is rare; a pair, even more so.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Inlaid Black Basalt Jug & Stand, Wedgwood, circa 1860
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An ale jug and matching tray, in black basalt with inlaid coloured decoration; a style known as Henri Deux. This stylle is a revival of an 18th century technique, in which designs ar...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Autumn, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From a series of figures representing The Four Seasons, Autumn is shown as a young man squeezing grapes into a cup, symbolic of harvest time, and recalling classical representations ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Saltglaze plate, from a service for King George III, English, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A mosaic pattern plate in saltglaze earthenware, with a an early transfer-print of the Royal Arms used during this period. This coat of arms was used by both George II and George III...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Georgian Toby Jug - Wood C1785
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine early toby jug, from the Wood family of potters. Traditional form, seated and holding a foaming jug of beer, dressed in clothing of the day.
Toby jugs originated in the mid 18th century in Staffordshire. The name perhaps comes from Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth night; although I think both the jug and Sir Toby got their names from the song "The Brown Jug...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century British George III Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Rum Kettle, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A n excellent rum kettle in black basalt, with engine-turned decoration and applied swags. The lion finial sits well under teh tri-arc handle.
Rum kettle were used to serve hot wate...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Tea Bowl & Saucer, Peacock Decoration, Chelsea, circa 1765
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A tea-bowl and saucer from Chelsea's Gold Anchor period. Richly decorated in purple, pink and green then lavishly gilded, the gilding being chased as well. It is possible the decorat...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can with Famille Rose decoration, Bow Porcelain, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A coffee can, decorated with chinoiserie painting of typical motifs in the famille rose palette.
Bow was the first of the English porcelain manufacturers, and produced some excellen...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bell-shaped Cup & Saucer, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A bell-shaped cup & saucer with twig handle from Chelsea's classic Red Anchor period. It's a shape that combines the symmetry of the neoclassical with the naturalistic forms of the r...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Anniversary Vase, Wedgwood, 1930
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Some fifty of these vases were made in 1930 to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Josiah Wedgwood. The inscription reads: CC post natum conditorem anno viget ars Etruriae red...
Category
Vintage 1930s English Neoclassical Revival Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Tea Bowl & Saucer with Insects. Worcester, Giles, circa 1760
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall, James Giles
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Tea bowl and saucer, in remarkably fine porcelain; decorated in London at the Giles workshop, with typical butterflies, caterpillars and plants.
James Giles was a British ceramic pa...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of a ram, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Derby was able to produce exceptional work, as this figure of a recument ram attests. Skillfully sculpted, moulded and potted, there is something about the expression produced by the...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Animal Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Huge cider mug, Wedgwood, circa 1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An oversized cider mug, in black basalt, with a Sheffield Plate rim. Probably not intended for use, but as an advertising gimmick; being intended to be put in the window of a tavern....
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large vase in black basalt, with restrained neoclassical decoration taken from examples in The Hamilton Collection, now in The British Museum...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Fairyland Plate - Roc Centre. Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Daisy Makeig-Jones, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A full-sized plate in bone china, with typical elaborate painted decoration known as Fairyland Lustre.
The Fairyland Lustre line was developed during a time when there was a strong...
Category
Vintage 1920s English Art Deco Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Sevres Teapot, Thomas Martin Randall Decoration, circa 1835
By Thomas Martin Randall, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A teapot from early Sevres production (around 1780), obtained as a blank, and decorated in Thomas Martin Randall's workshop in the Sevres style. I addition to his skill in painting, ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Black basalt figure of Bacchus. Wedgwood C1780.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exceptionally rare early figure of Bacchus in black basalt. The mixed-case mark places this figure between 1780 and 1785.
He is portrayed in typical style, his head garlanded with grapes and with a wine cup to his lips.
Bacchus, also known as Dionysus in Greek mythology, is the enigmatic god of wine, fertility, and ritual madness. He symbolizes freedom, ecstasy, and the blurring of societal norms through his rituals and festivities. Bacchus is often depicted in myths as a deity who challenges the status quo, promoting an atmosphere where conventional rules do not apply, and his followers are liberated from their everyday constraints.
Born from Zeus and the mortal Semele, Bacchus is unique among gods, bridging the divide between the divine and the human. His followers included the wild and ecstatic maenads, female devotees who often reached states of divine frenzy, and the satyrs, mischievous half-man, half-goat beings. The worship of Bacchus was marked by theatrical processions, dances, and plays, reflecting his patronage of the theater and the dramatic arts.
Bacchus’s mythology...
Category
Antique 1780s English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Oversized wine glass with airtwist stem, for the Coronation of Edward VIII 1937
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Lead crystal wine glass, with airtwist & coloured thread stem. Made for the coronation of Edward VIII; a coronation that did not happen.
Ed...
Category
Early 20th Century British Neoclassical Revival Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
Cup & Saucer decorated with bluebells. Nantgarw C1815.
By Nantgarw China Works
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A particularly pleasing and restrained form of decoration for this period, which allows the beauty of the porcelain to be clearly seen.
Nantgarw porcelain is particularly fine, and ...
Category
Antique 1810s Welsh Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Glass Loving Cup, for the Coronation of George V and Queen Mary 1911
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Lead crystal Loving cup, Coronation of George V and Queen Mary, June 22nd, 1911.
Made for the retailer Thomas Goode. A traditional threepenny bit is set in the hollow stem, a nice ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Neoclassical Revival Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
Neoclassical tea canister in sterling silver. Elkington 1929.
By Elkington & Co.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A splendid tea canister the neoclassical style, by Elkington, one of the best of teh English silversmiths of the period. The work is deep, crisp and detailed, and the item is in exce...
Category
Early 20th Century British Neoclassical Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Rosso Antico Candlesticks, Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare pair of bell shaped candlesticks in rosso antico, with black decoration of ‘Boys at Play’.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Set of six monogrammed JSP rummers (wine glasses), England, C1830
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A set of six rummers, or wine glasses, beautifully engraved with leaves and branches and a monogram which seems to read JSP.
A rummer is a driking glass with a wide bowl, a short st...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
Large Dish or tureen stand, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine tureen stand, typically painted with flowers and insects in the style of Meissen. A large and impressive piece.
Stilt marks and ground footrim.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Campana Vase, Victoriaware Wedgwood, circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A campana vase in white & gilt Victoriaware. Very French in style, the decoration being a copy of Sevres. It works surprisingly well on the neoclassical shape.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
English Delft Campana Vase, C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare, large vase in a classical shape, decorated with figures in a landscape. Large pieces of delftware are not often found.
See CIRC 43-1963 in the V&A for a similar example.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Set of Candelabra and Candelholders, Silver and Gold Plated by Gorham
By Gorham Manufacturing Company
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A magnificent gilt table set, consisting of two three-branch candelabra, and four single candlesticks. The candelabra can be converted to large single sticks by removing the arm. The...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Neoclassical Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate, Silver Plate
Jasperware Perfume Bottle, William Adams, circa 1790
By William Adams
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In cobalt jasper, decorated with Androcles and the lion and Demeter, Goddess of the harvest; Aphrodite to the other side. Original bright cut silver ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Miniature libation cup, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, C1700
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chinese porcelain libation cups of this period represent a fascinating aspect of Chinese ceramic art and cultural history. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) was renowned for its porcelain...
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Delft plate with a woman passing a monument. England C1745.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Tin-glazed earthenware, decorated with a woman in a landscape. Known as a monument plate, after the monument surmounted by a vase.
Prov: Troy Chappell c...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Delft plate - Ship in sail off the coast. Glasgow C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A dinner-plate, painted in the delft style, with a ship coming to land; bunches of grapes around the edge.
See Michael Archer, Delftwarem m233 no B258 for a similar example, which h...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Scottish Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Delft plate witha couple leaving a church. Wincanton/London England C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A dinner-plate, painted in the delft style with a couple leacing a church, or perhaps a house. Wincanton pottery, or perhaps London.
English Delftware is considered to be one of the...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Pair of Chinoiserie Delft plates. England C1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of plates painted with a pagoda in a garden after a contemporary Chinese model.
English Delftware is considered to be one of the most important forms of English ceramic produ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Tall coffee pot in pearlware, House & Fence decoration. C1790
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine and large - enormous - coffee or chocolate pot in pearlware, with “House & Fence” decoration, in imitation of a Chinese original.
It is thought that these oversixed pots wer...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Anglo-Irish Prussian-shaped Decanter, C1820
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine and useful decanter, Prussian shape, of blown glass with prism cutting typical of the period; along with fluting and lens cutting. There can be no doubt this is the original s...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Neoclassical Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Pair of Flaxman Ewers in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1830.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the iconic early wedgwood pieces, the pair of ewers Sacred to Neptune & Sacred to Bacchus was designed by Flaxman in the 1780s for Josiah Wedgwood. They have remained popular ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Wheel-Cut water jug, Stourbridge, C1870
By Stourbridge England
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lovely water jug with spherical body, suitably etched and engraved with water lillies and other aquatic plants.
Stourbridge glass refers to glassware produced in the town of Stourbridge, located in the West Midlands...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
Engraved Warmbrunn wine glass with gilt rim. Silesia C1720.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A gorgeous conical wine glass with elaborate engraving encompassing a monogram below a crown, and a gilt rim.
Warmbrunn glass, also known as Warmbrunner glass, refers to a type of ...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century German Neoclassical Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
A Nun, perhaps a theatrical figure. England, probably Plymouth, circa 1750
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An interesting soft-paste porcelain figure of a Dominican Nun, perhaps the theatrical figure Heloise.
Although the Nun appears in various versions in European and English porcelain,...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Wheel-Cut glass whisky carafe, Stourbridge, C1860
By Thomas Webb & Sons
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A carafe of pleasing shape & proportions, with elaborate wheel-cut decoration of thistles and thorns. Possibly intended for whisky - or at least the water to be added to it; but it c...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
Portland Vase. Barnard Edition (Bert Bentley). Wedgwood C1925
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In the early 1920s, Wedgwood decided to produce an exceptional edition of the Portland Vase, and Harry Barnard embarked on 3-4 years of experiments, which resulted in this superb and...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Bacchantes in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1860.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Perhaps the most complex work in black basalt undertaken on any scale by Wedgwood, the Bacchantes, are adapted from sculptures by Clodion. A large and impressive pair, ful of vigour ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Wheel-Cut glass Claret Jug, Stourbridge, C1850
By Thomas Webb & Sons
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The height of English glass cutting, and a perfect example of the Victorian early neo-classical revival.
Decorated with two Roman solidiers in a chariot drawn by two horses to the f...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Crystal Serveware
Materials
Blown Glass
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth and an older man, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum. It is unusual to find ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Whieldonware Teapot, England, C1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A charming, tiny, one-cup teapot in creamware with crabstock handle and spout, and ‘Whieldonware’ decoration. Teapots of this size date from the time each person was given his own po...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Pottery
Materials
Earthenware
Oval Teapot in Black Basalt, Turner, circa 1790
By John Turner
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An excellent black basalt teapot, with engine turned decoration and widow finial. Most unusually, this example is marked.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Earl's Coronet, in Silver-Gilt with Ermine and Velvet, Hunt & Roskell, 1911
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An Earl’s Coronet, in silver-gilt, by Hunt & Roskell: the firm formerly known as Storr & Mortimer, a direct line to Paul Storr. Made in 1911, no doubt for...
Category
Early 20th Century British Neoclassical Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sauce Boat, Fringed Tree Pattern, Worcester, circa 1755
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual shape with an uncommon painted pattern: Fringed Tree. The combination is scarce.
Workman’s mark.
In the 18th century, sauce boats were a common serving vessel used ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
