Stylized ceramic elephant by Professor Max Laeuger with his stamped and incised hallmarks, depicting a charming elephant in white glaze with blue and green details over a crackle glaze, very much in the style of Jugendstil and Secessionist works of art.
Measures 5 1/4" in width, 5" high, and 4" deep.
German and Austrian ceramic artisans of the era were known for their sometimes simple, bright, and whimsical forms, in contrast to earlier design elements that were opulent and florid...
Set of nine(9) German "Waechtersbach" marked earthenware creamy color reticulated border plates with large floral design in the center, ca. 1900-1907, 7/8" high, 8 7/8" diameter. Marked "Waechtersbach Germany" "Dec:2204" in blue, plus impressed marks on the bottom. There are few glaze crazing on the surface, no damages or restorations.
Green flambé glazed miniature stoneware vase or perfume bottle, Art Nouveau design with engraved silver overlay, c 1900. Unmarked, probably German. Height "3½/ 9 cm. Condition: the end of one sprig replaced with silver colour, as shown on photo.
Six little fruit plates and a dish. German Majolica, c 1900, unmarked, with palmettos in light blue surrounding a relief-moulded twig of leaves and apples. The colours are lighter on the dish and three of the plates than on the rest. Diam: "6¼/ 16 cm and "9 1/2/ 24 cm. Condition: wear to the outer rim on two of the plates.
A very rare caneware basketweave tureen with a lid featuring 3 little biddies hatching from their eggs by William Schiller and Sons. In very good antique condition, this item was actually used in its earlier days. Worth noting is that some of the original pale blue color still remains on the eggshells. Designed and potted by W. Schiller & Son of Czechoslovakia, the basket of chicks sits on matching underplate. Dates circa 1850, it measures about 7 inches high...
This porcelain demitasse cup and saucer was produced in Germany by Nymphenburg in the 1890s. The saucer has a diameter of 4 ½ inches and is 1 inch deep. The cup is 2 ¼ inches high. The porcelain is fine, white, hard paste. There is a hand painted scene on the front of the cup with colorful exotic birds. The saucer has little insects scattered about. There is lacy gold trim around the rims of each piece.
CONDITION: Excellent, first quality
This porcelain tea cup and saucer was produced in Germany by the Ambrosius Lamm Dresden Studio in the 1880s. Both pieces are signed with the hand painted lamb marking. The saucer measures 5 5/8 inches in diameter. The cup is 2 1/2 inches tall with a diameter of 3 7/8 inches. The cup features a split branch handle and rococo pedestal base. The ground color is sky blue. The exterior of the cup has a hand painted panoramic scene. Children are playing in the woods...
An attractive German stoneware pouring jug, Westerwald, ca. 1780-1820 AD.
Jug with cobalt glaze of floral motifs, original pewter lid with owners initials, no stamps.
Size: 30,5 cm tall.
Condition: Choice, intact with no repairs. Closed hairline at one side of the body.
Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan Hummeltoft (1958-2020), Birkerød, Denmark...
A fayence pap boat or invalid feeder, tin glazed. With ribbed sides and rustic decoration of flowers in blue, yellow and green. Southern Germany, probably Schrezheim. Length "8 / 20 and height "2 ¾ / 7 cm. Condition: some wear to the spout (cf. pics).
Antique 18th century 1775 ,German Hanau blue and white Armorial Jug
(Enghalskrug) with a plaited handle, a horizontally ribbed neck with a
baluster body with an elaborate Coat-of-Arms incorporating three
armorial oval shields surmounted by a winged head of an angle wearing
a Bishop's Mitre flanked with the Initials: “FF” “EA”, where the
Coat-of-Arms is surrounded by tied palmettes with the date 1775
beneath...
A German Westerwaid Saltglaze Tankard.
Decorated with a band of incised scrolling decoration, between bands of applied diamond prunts. Pewter lid. Westerwald C1700. Height without pewter lid; 5 7/8″ (15.0 cm). Condition: excellent
A lovely salt-glazed brown ceramic Jug with full pewter mount, Germany, 18th. century AD.
A gem of a German brown glazed jug with twisted, rilled corpus and a finely made pewter lid and mount over handle and footring. Rare jug engraved in 1787 on lid, probably somehwt earlier manifacture around 1770s.
Size: 31 cm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine for this type, no cracks or hairlines, no repairs and a finely preserved lid.
Ex...
A German Faience Stein. Decorated in polychrome with a central cartouche of a bird on a manganese ground. Pewter lid incised No 9, F G M. Berlin C1750/60. Height excluding pewter lid; 6 1/2″ (16.7 cm). Condition; excellent, small chip to inside rim. Pewter cover bent
A Westerwald Tankard, Humpen.
Decorated with a band of applied florets
between raised diamond shapes.
Westerwald, Germany E18thC.
Height; 7″ (17.7 cm).
Condition; excellent, only small chips to the scroll terminal.
A superb quality Early German salt-glazed stoneware pottery tankard, Raeren, Germany, ca. 1800s type.
Greyware with brown saltglaze and a ribbed decoration on the body.
Pewter lid. Stamped on the inside of the lid with makersmarks, dated 1830.
Size: 21,8 cm.
Condition: Choice for type, completely intact with micro ding to the body, no repair or damage...
A German Saltglaze Bellamine.
With crisply moulded mask and applied flower roundel.
Germany E17thC.
Height; 8 1/8" (20.5 cm).
Condition; chip to inside of lip otherwise excellent.
With a very good glaze surface.
A superb 'Bartmanns Krug', Germany, Rhineland, probably Cologne, 16th.-early 17th. century AD.
Exceptional quality 'tigerskin' glazing, nice details and typical of the later renaissance German wine or beer jugs.
Size: 20,5 cm. tall and 14-15 cm. wide.
Condition: Extremely fine for type, no repairs.
Ex. Old Danish Estate collection.
A very nice and intact bellarmine jug or Bartmannskrug as they are called in Europe, c. 1660-1680.
A fearsome head on the neck of a bearded man with fangs as teeth. Below is a floral medallion. Fine Tiger-glaze ware piece...