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...

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...

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...

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...

SET OF SIX AESTHETIC WEDGWOOD MARIGOLD PLATES, 8.5” Hard to Find Set of SIX MARIGOLD Pattern plates, 8.5”, with black transfer designs and scarlet decorative centers in each flower. C.1887. The plates are 8.5 inches in diameter. The plates are in good condition but have slight wear. Two have tiny chips. The pattern has a black transfer design of stylized marigold design with cerise highlights in the center of the flowers...

STUNNING WEDGWOOD MAJOLICA TILE, 8" Square,PASSION FLOWER & VINE I consider this one of the most beautiful tiles I have ever seen. The coloring is perfect, the moulding and botanical design is botanically impeccable. The background is a deep lustre brown with iridescent highlights. The passion flower has a cerulean center of feathery rich blue stamens, plus the yellow pistils and the very white petals. The vine also includes tendrils and five point leaves as well as two buds...

A RICH BLUE FRENCH PORCELAIN VASE IN BOTTLE FORM, c1900, probably made by Sevres. This elegant porcelain vase is marked Delvaux, 18, Rue Royale, Paris. La boutique Delvaux au 18, rue royale - Paris was founded in the 1880s with Clement Massier with the intention of selling contemporary art objects : decorated glass, pottery, services. Haviland, Limoges, was probably the principal provider...

FIVE CLASSICAL MUSICIANS TILES BY WEDGWOOD FIVE WEDGWOOD TILES, c. 1880s, RARE CLASSICAL MUSICIANS SERIES. Backs say Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Etruria. 6" x 6". Great condition for their age with slight signs of use/wear...

BOCH FRERES OIVOID VASE WITH RICH BLUE GLAZE. I love the Boch vases that have a simple form and pure color glazes. The glaze is a rich blue, with slight crackle under the surface, very much related to the blue of a Lachenal vase, but with a smaller amount of crackle. The rich blue glaze, very much related to the blue of a Lachenal vase, but with a smaller amount of crackle. This ovoid vase is approx. 7" tall, 4.5" diam. at the base, and approx. 6.5" across the widest part of the vase.

Large Aesthetic Polychrome INDUS Fruit Bowl, 1885. This had to find INDUS Fruit Bowl or Serving Bowl, measures 4-1/8" tall and 11-5/8" across the handles. The INDUS pattern was first introduced by Ridgway in 1877. The design is an exotic Oriental scene with birds and bamboo, as well as distant pagodas - all showing Chinese and Japanese influences. The multi-motif pattern varies between different pieces of the service. It has a floral border with birds. The pattern shows lush tropical foli...

BROWNHILL AESTHETIC JUG WITH JAPANESQUE VERTICAL DECORATION IN TURQUOISE This pitcher became one of the icons of the Aesthetic Movement ceramics, because of the masterly English adaptation of Japanese style and has appeared in a number of books and catalogues. The jug is approx. 8.5” high and 4” diameter. The turquoise figural handle is a branch from which the blossoms extend gracefully. The vertical raised and turquoise painted lines suggest that the jug is slender. The white ...

AESTHETIC MINTON POMEGRANATE PLATE, 10' diam, w. gilding, retailed by Davis Collamore, New York, c. 1880 This handsome asymmetrical design of ripe pomegranates on branches is a transfer in rust red, with hand painted deeper rust red, and gilded flowers and pomegranate seeds. The background of very light cream (in contrast to the white bone china or porcelain shown on the back) is scattered with tiny spokes in wheels with an enameled gilded spot on the end of each spoke. The marking indic...