Tin-glazed Earthenwares: Faience, Delft and Delftware. Spring 2017
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc. 212-308-2022 info@vandekar.com vandekar.com 1
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Catalan Tile Picture Containing Twelve Tin-glazed Earthenware Pictures of Trades, 18th century. Framed group of twelve Catalan tiles (Catalan Rajola), each depicting a different trade. They include a furniture maker, basket maker, leather worker, hunter, wait person serving wine, lady using a cormorant to fish, a man working with yarn, and three different musicians.
An example of a similar tile of a musician can be found in the Musician Municipal History Museum, Barcelona.
Dimensions: Each tile- 5 1/4 inches x 5 1/4 inches. Frame: 17 7/8 inches high x 32 1/2 inches x 2 inches deep (NY8488)
Price: $5500.00
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Northern French Blue & White Tin-glazed Earthenware Footed Basin or Jardinière, Probably Lille, Mid-18th Century. The interior with a Chinoiserie garden scene with ducks and geese in with flowering plants growing out of rockwork and an tall urn and jardinière with plants. The interior sides of the basin with distinctive patterns. Crazing conserved to back wall. Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches x 18 1/2 inches x 12 inches (NY8054)
Price: $6500.00 3
Dutch Tin-glazed Earthenware Tile Picture of a Cat, Makkum, 20th century The tile picture depicts a cat seated on its hind-quarters with its tail curled through its legs looking forward. In the background are a series of clouds and in the foreground a church with steeple. Dimensions: 19 inches x 13 1/2 inches x 1 1/4 inches deep (NY8255)
Price: $1500.00 4
Italian Majolica Polychrome Master Salt In the Form of A Lady, Ariano Irpino, Campania region of Italy Mid-18th Century. The salt is in the form of a female figure in traditional costume holding a large basket with a large S in the centre. The basket is supported on a scrolled support column. This form is a typical example of tin-glazed earthenware from the Ariano Irpino region of Italy. Dimensions: Height: 7 1/2 inches (NY4983)
Price: $2500.00 5
Charming French Faience Trompe L'oeil Dish with Apples & Pears, 19th century. The lobed dish is decorated with a pink band on the border and flowers. The pears and apples arranged on the plate are decorated with naturalistic colors of yellows and oranges. Diameter: 10 1/2 inches (NY8183-1)
Price: $3500.00
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Very Large French Faience Moustier Shallow Basin, Edme Samson et Cie, Paris, Circa 1885. A massive tin-glazed faience earthenware basin with a lobed edge depicts American Indians & Grotesques amongst exotic and mythical beasts and birds after the ClĂŠrissy workshop at Moustier.
Dimensions: Diameter 17 12 inches x 2 1/2 inches deep.
The V & A has a soup bowl by Edme Samson et cie after French faience which they date 1889.
(NY7613)
Price: $3000.00 7
Liverpool Delftware Blue & White Spiral Wall Pockets, Circa 1750. The pair of blue and white Liverpool Delftware pockets with a cornucopia shape with the upper section with moulded florets on a "cracked ice" ground.
Dimensions: 8 inches high (NY8447)
Price: $4500.00
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Liverpool Delftware Fazackerley Cornucopia Wall Pockets, Circa 1760. The pair of beautifully coloured 18th-century Fazackerley polychrome moulded wall pockets are decorated with birds, the birds face each other as they are perched on a flowering tree branch. Each bird is painted in greens, browns, manganese and yellow. The shaped rim has a central conch shell with a flowerhead with two large green leaves to the side. Literature: Delftware: In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Michael Archer, Page 313 figure reference I.17. Dimensions: 7 3/4 inches high x 5 3/4 wide x 3 inches deep (NY8280)
Price: $5800.00 9
English Bristol Delftware Plate, Circa 1740-50. The Bristol Delftware plate is decorated very whimsically with sponged manganese and a central star design containing a Chinoiserie fence.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches x 1 1/4 inches (NY8269)
Price: $900.00
Dutch Delft Plate with Profile Portrait of William V of Orange, Late 18th Century. The charming Dutch Delft plate shows a portrait of the left profile of Prince William V of Orange Dimensions: 8 3/4 inches x 1 inch high (NY8182-3)
Price: $450.00
English Delftware Plate, William & Abigail Griffith, Lambeth, Circa 1760. Diameter: 7 3/8 inches Reference: Delftware: The tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles, Michael Archer, P107, colour plate 57, B,35 for a plate with a similar designed border and central flower head but in green, orange and manganese. (NY8035)
Price: $550.00 10
Pair of English Underglaze Blue Delftware Plates decorated with Lotus, Probably London, Circa 1760. The pair of plates are decorated in underglaze blue with the central well painted with a lotus plant growing in a pond surrounded by trees and plants. The border is ornately decorated with alternating circular diaper and fence work. Diameter: 9 inches (VM98142)
Price: $1250.00
A Large English Delftware Dish with Heron, Probably London, Circa 1740-50. Diameter: 13 1/2 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 223, # 14.14 for another crested heron described as perhaps London. (VM 98166)
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Price: $1250.00
Six Dutch Delft Underglaze Blue Peacock Plates, The Three Bells (De Drie Klokken) Factory, Circa 1760 The rare surviving set of six plates brightly painted in the Peacock pattern with a central display of flowers and fruit arranged to look like a peacock's tail. The border with alternating panels and the rim in yellow. Diameter: 9 inches (VM98138)
Price: $5500.00
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Dutch Delft Garniture of Five Vases and Covers, Mid-18th Century. The Dutch Delft garniture consists of three covered vases, each of faceted ovoid form, with a dog-form knop and a pair of covered beaker-form vases, each with dog-form knop. It is unusual to find covers on all five pieces.
The vases bearing partial printed collection labels Etienne DeLaun..., Amsterdam (Etienne Delaunoy was an Amsterdam based dealer, selling only high range Delftware) and the numeral 4 to the undersides.
Dimensions: Height of ovoid vase 15 inches, Depth: 8 inches
(NY8020)
Price: $15000.00
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Large Polychrome Dutch Delft Peacock Dish, De Blompot factory, Circa 1760. Mark: BP in red script. BP mark is that of the De Blompot factory, (The Flowerpot), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dimensions: 13 1/2 inches diameter (NY7910)
Price: $1500.00 14
Antique London Delftware Openwork Basket, Vauxhall Cross, Circa 1755. The Vauxhall delftware openwork bowl is painted with the lotus-pattern, the central flower below radiating petal-shaped panels. The openwork surrounded by a continuous looping dart band. Tiny frit to inner rim invisibly repaired. Dimensions: 8 1/2 inch diameter x 2 1/4 inch height Traditionally this design is given to Dublin and Liverpool potters among others, in part due to the existence of openwork baskets in this pattern. However, excavations at Vauxhall Cross revealed fragments from similar basketwork, and are discussed by Dennis Cockell, Some Finds of Pottery at Vauxhall Cross, London, E.C.C.Transactions, Vol. 9, Pt. II, pl. 134. (NY7830)
Price: $2500.00 15
Large London Delftware Chinoiserie Dish, Circa 1760-80. Diameter: 13 1/2 inches
Reference: London Delftware, Frank Britton,, Page 159, # 154 and colour plate K, page 89 for a similar plate.
(VM98126)
English Large Delftware Dish Decorated with a Cockerel, Probably London, Circa 1730. Diameter: 13 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 225, #14.22 for an identical dish.
(VM98127)
Price: $1500.00
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Price: $1200.00
Large English Underglaze Blue Delftware Dish with Figures, London, Circa 1770. Diameter: 13 3/4 inches Reference: London Delftware, Frank Britton, Page 161, #158 for illustration of a plate with the same design. The author discusses the discovery of the print source for this design...originally drawn by Francois de Cuvillies, who died in 1768, study of the large volume of his works in the Victoria and Albert Museum indicated that they were almost certainly engraved by Lespilliez posthumously c. 1770.
(VM98170)
Price: $3000.00 17
English Delftware Underglaze Blue Deep Basin, Probably Lambeth, London, Circa 1740. The deep basin painted with a Chinoiserie scene of two islands in a riverscape. Chinoiserie-styled figures, trees and rocks are found in the rim-to-rim decoration. This basin form is exceptionally rare.
Diameter: 10 inches x 2 inches
Reference: Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Michael Archer. Page 254, Figure 30. A Shallow Bowl probably London (Lambeth) mid-eighteenth century. Dimensions of the comparative piece are 8 11/16 inches x 2 inches. (VM98157)
Price: $1300.00 18
Large Unusual London Delftware Dish, Circa 1760. The dish painted in pale colours of green, yellow manganese and blue depicts a large urn filled with blue flowers. A shallow bowl sits behind also with a large similar flower. The border with four designs, two of a flower in a vase and the other two of a small flower. Diameter: 13 1/4 inches (VM98172)
English Delftware Underglaze Blue Chinoiserie Dish, Probably Liverpool, Circa 1760. Diameter: 12 inches.
Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 196, #12.48. In the entry for 12.47, a polychrome example, the author writes, “The subject is explained by W.H. Edmunds in Pointers and clues to the Subjects of Chinese & Japanese Art (London 1934). Yao, last but one of the Rulers of China ascended the throne in 2356 BC and reigned for ninety eight years! He debarred his unworthy son from heirship and appointed Shun, a Paragon of Filial Piety, to succeed, giving him his two daughters in marriage. Shun is said to have been nursed as a child by the Dragon Queen of Long Hou�.
(VM98156)
Price: $1500.00
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Price: $1500.00
English Delftware Underglaze Blue Chinoiserie Dish, Liverpool, Circa 1760. The dish is painted in the central well with a Chinoiserie garden scene of a zig-zag garden fence with plants and bamboo growing nearby. The rim has scattered large flower heads.
Dimensions: 13 5/8 inches
Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 192, #12.31 (VM98161)
Price: $1100.00 20
Large English Polychrome Delftware Dish, Bristol, Circa 1740-50. The large dish is painted in the central well with a Chinoiserie design of rockwork and an ornate tall Chinese building with a bird on a branch and zig-zag fencing below. The border with an alternating red and blue diaper ground and blue-bordered cartouches with flowering plants. Diameter: 13 1/4 inches (VM98168)
Price: $1250.00
Large English Underglaze Blue and Manganese Delftware Dish, Probably Bristol, Circa 1760-70. The dish is painted with an underglaze blue and a manganese cracked ice ground on the border. The central well depicts a Chinese building under a weeping tree. The border with the cracked ice ground separating four blue rimmed cartouches of buildings and a weeping tree. Diameter: 13 1/4 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 199 #12.56/12.57/ 12.58 for several similar examples described as probably Bristol.
(VM98169) 21
Price: $950.00
Pair of English Delftware Chinoiserie Plates, Bristol, Probably Temple Back Factory, Circa 1760. The pair of plates depict an oriental lady holding a fan beneath a tree with a butterfly off to her left. The border a band of trellis diaper alternating with four large reserves holding stylized branches.
Diameter: 8 3/4 inches
Reference: British Delft at Williamsburg, John Austin, page 174, #308 (in blue) & 309 (predominately in Manganese) for dishes with the same decoration and border design.
(NY7882)
Price: $800.00
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Large English Delftware Dish Decorated with Birds, Bristol, Circa 1740. The polychrome dish is painted with predominately iron-red and some green and blue depicting two birds in a stylized garden. The border a scrolling leafy band in iron-red with some green and blue leaves. Diameter: 13 1/4 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 189, # 12.20 for a plate with very similar border. (VM98128) Price: $1300.00 23
Large English Delftware Dish Decorated with a Peacock, Bristol, Circa 1760. Diameter: 13 1/4 inches Reference: Three Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol - The Story of Bristol Pottery and Porcelain (www.kalendar.demon.co.uk/delfbrg.htm for a similar dish) (VM98129)
Price: $1250.00
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English Delftware Underglaze Blue Dish with Swan, Possibly Bristol, Circa 1740 The underglaze blue dish is painted in the central well within a circular roundel with a swan sitting on water and a peacock up in a nearby tree. The roundel is banded by a distinctive castellated design. The border has alternating panels of a stylized plant and a flowerhead within diaper. Diameter: 10 1/4 inches (VM98132)
Price: $1700.00
Large English Delftware Dish decorated with Buildings, Probably Bristol, Circa 1760-70. The underglaze dish is decorated with a rim-to-rim scene of several buildings in a landscape, the central three story building with smoke emanating from its chimney.
Diameter: 12 1/4 inches (VM98147)
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Price: $1000.00
English Delftware Underglaze Blue Dish decorated with Unusual Buildings, Probably Bristol, Circa 1740.
The delftware dish is decorated in underglaze blue outline and wash with a rim to rim scene of a grouping of buildings around a small tree-topped hill with ships off to the left side and groupings of birds above. In the foreground are a fence and tree stumps. Diameter: 10 1/2 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 287, #18.35 for a similar scene with the same type of decoration in the foreground. (VM98149)
Price: $1500.00 26
Pair of English Delftware Polychrome Chinoiserie Plates Decorated with Parrot, Lambeth High Street, Circa 1760. The plates decorated in bright colours of yellow, red, blue and green depict a parrot perched on a rockwork outcrop surrounded by foliage. Diameter: 8 3/4 inches
Reference: British Delft at Williamsburg, John Austin, Page 178, #323.
London Delftware, Frank Britton, page 159, #155 where the author mentions that a sherd of this pattern is illustrated in Garner, ECC Trans 1937, pl. XIV (f) (page 57).
(VM98137)
Price: $1200.00
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English Delftware Plate in the Minosa Pattern, Probably Wincanton, Circa 1740 The underglaze blue plate has a central plant within a triple circular panel with three wild plants growing out to the rim with stylized insects in between. Diameter: 9 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection by Frank Britton, Page 305, figure 19.49 for a dish with similar decoration and Shape I body. (VM98155) Price: $550.00
Pair of Dutch Delft Polychrome Plates, Circa 1760. Diameter: 9 inches (VM98144)
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Massive Dutch Delft Imari Vase & Cover, Circa 1870 The massive tin-glazed earthenware vase is of hexagonal reeded form decorated in an Imari palette with each panel decorated with alternating scenes of birds amongst trees and rockwork and panels of plants separated with stylized leaf shaped designs. The cover is surmounted with a large lion on its hind legs holding a shaped shield. Dimensions: 44 1/2 high x 23 inches wide (NY7279) Price: $19000.00
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Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plate, Circa 1700-20. The pancake-shaped plate is decorated with two Chinese figures in a garden landscape with red fence and pagoda in the background. Diameter: 8 7/8 inches Mark: Grieksche A in red Reference: Dutch Majolica & Delftware from the Edwin van Drecht Collection, Frits Scholten, Page 140, #121 for a dish similarly painted. (VM98146)
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Dutch Delft Pillow form Fluted Dish, Circa 1680. The circular small dish has a raised circular center then an inner border of fluted design with the other rim also fluted with twenty nine individual flutes each painted with a single flower-head. Diameter: 9 7/8 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 53, #3.6 where a white dish of very similar form is called continental or London. (VM98148) Price: $750.00 31
Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plates, Circa 1760. Diameter: 7 3/4 inches
Provenance: Private Pennsylvania Collection; with Gary Atkins. (VM98154)
Price: $1,250.00
Dutch Delft Large Dish with Tree Plant Pattern, The Porcelain Ax. Circa 1750. Diameter: 13 /12 inches Marks: in underglaze blue V and an ax.
(VM98163)
Price: $750.00
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Large Polychrome Dutch Delft Dish, Circa 1760
The dish depict a distinctive green coloured bamboo plant to the centre with ferns to the side and behind with three similar ferns on the border.
Diameter: 13 inches (VM98167)
Price: $1250.00
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