PAIRPOINT SILVERPLATE BASKET WITH HANDLE DECORATED W PASSION FLOWERS A visual feast for the moment! More details coming very soon!
Square basket with decorative border, pierced gallery and an entwined handle with decorative passion flowers and vines on the sides.
COPELAND AESTHETIC BLUE & WHITE TRANSFERWARE WITH CRANES, c. 1878.
This transferware design features palm or bamboo trees on a small island, with cranes or herons with fish in its beak. A butterfly hovers near the rim. The blue transfer on white is less common than the creamware with polychrome transfer. The design is open and flowing and does not compete with food served upon it. The pattern is numbered D9875. The pattern is multimotif, with different arrangements of the key elements, ...click for details
AESTHETIC COPELAND PRIMROSE PLATTER W. LUSTRE, 1881
The pattern, PRIMROSE, was introduced BY W.T. Copeland in 1881. The Aesthetic Movement design has a black printed transfer of a stylized central exotic flower radiating in arches like a pinwheel star from the center and decorated with Acanthus leaves all around the edge. The central star is made up of small primrose blossoms as well as a border with tiny primroses. Each petal is hand painted in shades of blue, pink, magenta or pale ochre ...click for details
AESTHETIC PLATTER, INDIAN EMPRESS, DESIGNED BY BRUCE TALBERT WITH ALLOVER DESIGN OF BIRDS IN TREES
Brown-Westhead-Moore & Company introduced the INDIAN EMPRESS pattern in 1875. Bruce Talbert was an architect and designer, best known for his furniture and textiles. He was the designer of this wonderful complex design. Look carefully to see the number of birds hiding in the branches! The rich cobalt blue design is on a white background. Imagine this design as a Japanese textile, ...click for details
AESTHETIC POLYCHROME TRANSFERWARE PLATTER,BAMBOO & ALMOND BLOSSOMS
This Japanesque platter has stems of bamboo on the left hand side while the major focus is a large branch of pink almond blossoms with the incongruity of young almonds maturing alongside the blossoms. The platter is approx. 16” in length and is in excellent condition. Another incongruity is the pattern name, BRAMBLE, which does not relate to either bamboo or almond blossoms! The maker was H & C. Date of manufacture ...click for details
AESTHETIC ENAMELED LAMP WITH BRONZE BASE, WITH BRONZE BASE. MAKER: JULES VIEILLARD. BRONZE BASE. The enameling is Persian Iznik style.
A little over 8.5 inches in height and 4.25 inches in diam. This vase is handsomely enameled in the Persian or Iznik style. The varying bands of design include many foliate designs in rich colors including turquoise blue, cobalt blue, green, rust red and white. If you look carefully, you will find the playful black and white faces of men with beards, ...click for details
MERIDEN AESTHETIC MIXED METALS LAMP BASE AND GLASS SHADE.
This rare Aesthetic Meriden cylindrical lamp base has a bronze base with incised or carved floral design. The cylinder itself is probably Britannia metal and has received a matte black finish. They lamp cylinder is decorate with gilded applied flowers and leaves. The bronze rim over the top is like a mushroom cap, with geometric designs. The lamp has all its original fittings, although I am not an expert whether the glass funnel or ...click for details
