500 Years of European Ceramics

An Italian incised slipware jug, probably Veneto, perhaps Paduan, circa 1500Of globular form with pinched spout and strap handle, decorated with f...

A Pesaro maiolica istoriato tazza, circa 1540Decorated with a mythological scene of Sinon being taken as a captive in front of the Trojans amidst ...

A large Dutch Delftware charger, early 18th centuryDecorated with abstracted floral motifs of vegetation and seeds in Islamic style, the blue bord...

An extremely rare early Meissen teapot and cover, circa 1715-20Of globular form with a moulded band around the everted rim, applied with a crisply...

Four Meissen teabowls and saucers, circa 1722-24Painted in enamels and gilding with chinoiserie landscape vignettes, each depicting a single figur...

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723The saucer painted with a military scene of figures on horseback within a gilt scrollwork quatrelobe carto...

A rare early Meissen octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1723The box painted with a continuous polychrome landscape scene of rocky mountains, tre...

A very rare Meissen Imari dish, circa 1725-30The fluted dish with a scalloped rim, painted in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with flowering ...

A Meissen plate, circa 1740Painted in Famille verte style with a phoenix and butterflies above peonies and other flowers, within a brocade band wi...

A pair of Meissen lobed teabowls and saucers, circa 1730-35Of quatrelobe shape, each decorated with panels of Böttger lustre embellished with gilt...

A Meissen plate, circa 1740-45Painted with the Schmetterlings pattern of a butterfly perched on a branch of indianische Blumen, the well with a bo...

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723-24Each painted with a chinoiserie scene within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and...

A Meissen circular dish, circa 1735-40Painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Gelber Löwe' pattern, brown-edged rim, 25.6cm diam., crossed swords mark...

A very rare Meissen ovoid jug, circa 1735The ribbed body applied with a strap handle, painted in Kakiemon style with a dragon perched on bamboo op...

Six Meissen teabowls and saucers, a waste bowl and an associated shaped oval dish, circa 1735Each painted in Kakiemon style with flowering branche...

A rare cased set of Meissen Hausmaler double-handled beakers and saucers, circa 1740-50Decorated in Augsburg in finely tooled gilding over an unde...

Two Meissen small bowls, mid 18th centuryEach decorated in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with three panels of Oriental flowers by a fence, ...

A large Meissen bowl, circa 1735Painted in Kakiemon style with flowering branches issuing from stylised rockwork and another flower sprig and an i...

Two large Meissen ornithological dishes, mid 18th centuryEach moulded with the 'Neubrandstein' pattern of spirally-moulded rims with alternating f...

Four Meissen plates, circa 1740-50Moulded with the 'Gotzkowsky-Relief' pattern and painted with scattered Holzschnittblumen, two with gilt rims of...

Four Meissen plates, circa 1740-50Each moulded with flowers and painted with sprays of Holzschnittblumen, two also with scattered insects, gilt cr...

A Meissen chocolate pot and cover, circa 1760Painted with flower sprays and scattered flower sprigs, gilt-edged rims, the cover applied with a ros...

Two Meissen cups and two saucers, circa 1745Each painted with a landscape or Kauffahrtei scene within a gilt scrollwork cartouche, surrounded by s...

A Meissen 'Cris de Paris' figure of an oyster seller, circa 1755Modelled by Peter Reinicke, holding a basket with oysters on his left arm and carr...

A later-decorated large Meissen 'Cris de Paris' figure of a map seller, the porcelain circa 1750Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, holding...

A later-decorated Meissen 'Cris de Paris' figure of a poultry cook, the porcelain circa 1755Modelled by P. Reinicke, plucking a chicken standing b...

A Meissen figure of a putto with a caged hen, circa 1760; together with a Meissen figure of a lady at a spinet emblematic of 'hearing', late 19th ...

A Meissen chocolate beaker and saucer, circa 1760Of quatrelobe form, each decorated with yellow-ground panels reserved with flower sprays, alterna...

Two Meissen ornithological cups and saucers, circa 1775, together with a Meissen miniature model of a turkey, mid 18th centuryEach painted with a ...

Two Marcolini Meissen teacups and saucers, late 18th centuryThe first painted with three putti amidst clouds within a purple scale-ground border e...

A Meissen waste bowl, circa 1755-60Each side decorated with a European landscape scene surrounded by polychrome scrollwork cartouche interspersed ...

A Meissen later-decorated figure of a gentleman with a hound, the porcelain circa 1760Modelled by J.F. Eberlein with the gentleman seated on scrol...

A Meissen group of two men and a lady, circa 1770Modelled by M. Acier and J.C. Schönheit as pair to another group with a galant scene, depicting a...

A Nymphenburg white figure of Anselmo, circa 1760Modelled by F.A. Bustelli, standing leaning on a stick, hunched forward slightly, bringing his le...

A Nymphenburg white figure of Donna Martina, circa 1760Modelled by F.A. Bustelli, wearing a fur-lined cape over her laced chemise, holding up her ...

A Frankenthal group of a boy and girl at table, circa 1765-70Both seated at a table and wearing elegant clothing decorated with green flower spray...

An extremely rare Italian porcelain figure of a Magus, probably Rome, factory of Filippo Cuccumos, circa 1770Possibly depicting Caspar, as a beard...

A rare Vezzi teapot and cover, circa 1725The body lobed and moulded with a circular panel on each side painted with a green and gilt flower motif,...

A group of Cozzi wares, circa 1770-90Comprising: a cup and saucer painted with underglaze-blue scalloped lines to imitate a lobed shape, two bouil...

A Capodimonte figure of a man holding a box, circa 1750-55Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, wearing a black hat, a white jacket and manganese waistcoat...

A Capodimonte sugar bowl and cover, circa 1750Probably painted by Giovanni Caselli with landscape vignettes of buildings and foliage, the cover si...

A Sèvres ecuelle, cover and stand (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'ovale'), dated 1771Of the fourth size, each painted by Jean-Charles Sioux (...

A group of ten Vincennes/Sèvres white plates (assiette à bouquets), together with three oval white dishes and an oval white sugar bowl and cover, ...

A Sèvres part tea service, dated 1768Each painted by Denis Levé with floral swags below a blue ground with a gilt scrollwork border, the covers wi...

A large Sèvres blue-ground milk jug (pot à lait 'à trois pieds'), circa 1775Of the first size, reserved with a lobed gilt-edged panel against the ...

A Saint-Cloud silver-gilt mounted snuff box in the shape of a dog, circa 1740Decorated in polychrome colours and heightened in gilding with chinoi...

A Sèvres large part dinner service, circa 1792-93Decorated with a gilt radial motif with blue and gilt dots within a gilt-edged blue-ground circul...

A Sèvres hard-paste porcelain black-ground plate (assiette unie), circa 1802The well painted with a wreath of flowers and fruit outlined in gildin...

An important Sèvres Royal Presentation part tea and coffee service commemorating King George III's recovery from illness, circa 1789Of hard and so...

A very rare Sèvres footed bowl (coupe à bouillon hémisphérique) and stand, circa 1804The coupe painted with gilt-edged medallions of grisaille sce...

A Sèvres plate with the arms of the Barton family, circa 1814, together with a replacement plateDecorated with the arms of the Barton family and i...

A Sèvres blue-ground portrait cup and saucer (tasse à chocolat AB et soucoupe), dated 1825-27Painted with the portrait of François I, King of Fran...

A Sèvres hard-paste dessert plate from the 'Service fond bleu figures en brun', circa 1808Painted by Pierre-André Le Guay, with two classical figu...

A Sèvres 'Coupe Réticulée', made for the Comte de Paris, circa 1845Modelled by Hyacinthe Régnier, the bowl with reticulated double-walled Asian mo...

A pair of Paris porcelain neo-classical vases, 19th centuryEach painted with animals on gilt pedestals on one side and flower and fruit baskets wi...

A Sèvres footed bowl (coupe 'Chenavard'), dated 1847Decorated with interlacing low-relief patterns of strapwork and foliage in lilac and yellow on...

A large porcelain charger, attributed to Albert-Louis and Edouard-Alexandre Dammouse, circa 1880-1890Decorated with two-tone underglaze-blue colou...

A set of four German porcelain plaques painted in the Thallmaier workshop, late 19th centuryEach after painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo depic...

A Meissen group of the apple pickers, early 20th centuryAfter the model by J.J. Kaendler, depicting a boy in a tree picking apples, a ladder leani...

Two Meissen groups of children, late 19th centuryAfter the 18th century models, each in the round with five children on a rockwork base edged with...