An early Vincennes Gobelet Calabre and saucer

1745-48

Unmarked

This is a rare example of the earliest period at Vincennes when the influence derived from Meissen prototypes

A Pair of Bohemian "Terra Sigillata" octagonal Vases

Made in Striegau, Silesia, (now Strzegom in Poland) between 1620-60

30 cm. High

1600-1660

Provenance: Swedish Private Collection

A Guerhard et Dihl biscuit porcelain group of La Fileuse or La Fontaine By Lemire
1781-89

Impressed mark ‘Mfre de Mgr le duc d’Angoulême à Paris
16 ½ inches, (42 cm) high, 12 inches, (30.5 cm) wide

In the years just prior to the French Revolution the sculptor Lemire provided models for some exceptional biscuit groups that rivalled and arguably excelled those produced at Sèvres.

Charles Gabriel Sauvage, called, Lemire 1741-1827, also worked and Lunéville and Niderviller

See: Régine Plinval de Guillebon, ‘La Manufacture de Porcelaline de Guerhard at Dihl dite du duc d’Angoulême, French Porcelian Society, IV, 1988, p.19

Reverse of above

A Meissen Böttger porcelain two-handled beaker and saucer by Ignatz Preissler

painted in 'schwartzlot' with scenes taken from engravings of the War of the Spanish Succession

Circa 1720

The beaker: 8.2 cm high; the saucer: 12.8 cm diam.

A German Hafner ware Cistern

19.10 cm high

First half of the sixteenth century

Examples of this rare slipware technique are found in excavations in southern Germany

Nuremburg stoneware miniature model of a stove

16.9 cm high

Circa 1600

Although rare other examples of stove models are known, they were presumably intended as trade samples

A facetted glass painted in gold and black schwarzlot by Ignaz Preissler, Kronstadt.

Circa 1730

With peasants dancing to music in a landscape, with bands of baroque scrollwork.

A drawing of La feuille à l’envers

By Pierre-Etienne Falconet (falconet fils) after the Sèvres biscuit sculpture by his father the sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet

This was the study used for the engraving of 1763

Chantilly 'seau à bouteille' with green dragon handles

boldly painted in kakiemon style with a squirrel amongst vines, bamboo and flowers

Iron-red hunting horn mark, pierced through the base

Circa 1735

20.5 cm wide, 13.6 cm high

A Sèvres water jug and basin (Pot à eau à la Romaine)

Interlaced ‘L’s mark in blue
letter-date CC for 1780
Painter’s mark nq
gilder’s mark 2000 for François Vincent le jeune

Jug 9 ½ Inches, 24cm high

Basin 14 ½ Inches, 37cm wide

An English delft ‘Fecundity Dish’

Moulded after the French dishes after Palissy of the early 17th century

England

Circa 1660

A Vincennes figure of a recumbent child, ‘Enfant Dormant’

A beautifully modelled rare figure Traditionally said to after a model by Il Fiamingo

Circa 1752

Ary de Milde teapot

Circa 1690-1705
5 ¾ inches, 14.5 cm wide
Impressed ‘ARY.DE.MILDE.’ running fox mark

A redware teapot made in Holland in imitation of the Yixing wares imported from China.

A rare Meissen gold-mounted thimble case

Painted with flower sprays and containing the original gold-mounted bone thimble

Circa 1750

3.1 cm high

Bőttger porcelain teabowl and saucer Decorated in iron red in Augsburg by Abraham Seuter The porcelain circa 1720 The decoration circa 1730

A Chelsea silver-shaped dish Painted with a river-scape and flowers 1750-52

A ‘Marcolini’ Meissen cup and saucer

painted with naturalistic birds in gild and beaded roundels

Underglaze- blue crossed swords mark

Diam. of saucer 13 cm

A large English creamware plaque depicting Mars in a chariot drawn by lions and trumpeted by Fame.

Inscribed on the back ‘MARS THE GOD OF WAR’ England

England

1790-1800

Charles Gouyn’s factory
St. James’s
A ‘Girl-in-a-Swing’ Scent bottle “L’heure du berger fidèle”

Circa 1755-60
3.1 inches, (8.0 cm) high

A Chantilly Pot à fard enamelled with children over a tin glaze

Silver décharge for 1732-38

This is notable as the silver mark dates this to the earliest years of the Chantilly factory which received its ‘privilege’ to make porcelain in 1735

1735-38

A Dutch Delft Tazza
SVE 4 ½ mark for Samuel van Eenhorn of ‘De Grieksche A’ factory
1678-86

18.8 cm diameter

Crown is that of a prince in German heraldry.

A rectangular flask with the same monogram in the Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, and presumably from the same commission, is illustrated ‘Delftware’, by H.-P. Fourest, no. 17. It is suggested here that it is perhaps for William of Orange but Fr

Another view of the above

Pair of Naples ‘Real Fabrica’ Vases (Brochetta)

Crowned RF marks in iron-red

With rococo moulded leaf decoration picked out in green

The use of rococo ornament was short lived at Real Fabbrica factory before they embraced neo-classicism

15.5cm high

Circa 1775

An early Doccia cup

painted with a ribboned bouquet of flowers and insects above a band of gold

Circa 1745

7.2 cm high

A Doccia cup and saucer with gilt chinoiseries

Circa 1750

This style of chinoiserie derives from Meissen, it is painted over a red flux with extensive ciselure in the gold

A pair of Italian models of recumbent lions

Circa 1770

10.3 cm long

This model is sometimes attributed to Doccia although a more plausible attribution would be to the Venetian factory of Cozzi due to the colour of the paste

A Doccia two-handled ecuelle

painted in underglaze-blue with floral meanders

Circa 1750

16.5 cm wide

An early Doccia yellow-ground beaker

Circa 1750

A pair of Vienna cups and saucers finely painted with battle scenes

Circa 1765

One of a pair of bow lobed and fluted quail-pattern dishes

Circa 1755-60

9.33 inches (23.7cm) diameter

A Sèvres assiette à godrons
Interlaced ‘L’s mark and Date letter K for 1763

Indistinct painters mark perhaps for François le Vavasseur

Painted with flowers reserved on a gold vermiculé, bleu lapis ground

From the service given to Gertrude, Duchess of Bedford, following the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris in 1763

Most of this service remains at Woburn Abbey

A Meissen sugar box and cover painted with figures and buildings by a river.
Circa 1740

A St Cloud white egg cup
Circa 1730

3 ¼ Inches (8.1 cm) high

Chinese porcelain teapot Decorated with exotic birds in London

circa 1758

A Caltagirone maiolica flask 30.6 cm. High Early 18th century Condition: top section of the neck made up.

Two Meissen Bőttger porcelain teabowls decorated in Schwarzlot By Abraham Seuter

The porcelain circa 1720-25 the decoration circa 1730