All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : English : Pre 1800 item #642762 (stock #jg107)
A superb and tall Newcastle light baluster (NLB) wine glass or goblet with marriage or anniversary significance. The flared bell bowl has a trapped tear in the deep bottom. The stem features a shoulder angular knop above a slim inverted baluster knop, then a plain stem section leading to a basal ball knop above a conical foot with rough, snapped pontil.

What makes this a marriage type glass is the superb Dutch engraving, which depicts a couple toasting each other...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1260845 (stock #TBD00159)
An underglaze blue with overglaze orange and gilt Chinese export plate with plants flowering out of rocks in the center. On the border the panels of flowering branches alternate with stylized trellises. The edge is brown. The back is plain with an unglazed foot rim. This style of decoration is from the first half of the 18th century. 9 1/8 inch (22.5 cm) diameter.

Condition; no chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Jewelry : Pre 1800 item #1180645 (stock #SR2044)

Unusual 15K gold memorial ring depicting an urn in hair paint, surrounded by alternating rose diamonds and amethysts. The enameled band reads "John Jenkins died 20 Feb 1780". The back of the ring is engraved "In loving one sincerely there is great merit".

Condition: excellent
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #416695 (stock #p942)
A lovely Chaffers Liverpool bowl, decorated with peonies issuing from hollow rockwork, a red bird on a branch. and an insect to the reverse. Chaffers, even more so than the more common Liverpool factories, has seen a substantial and lightning growth in interest and value, especially for items in good condition. This piece is in overall excellent condition, with no chips, cracks, or restoration, although the interior has a rubbed flower, as is often the case...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1260837 (stock #TBD00156)
An interesting blue and white hand pained porcelain plate of two scholars(?) greeting each other and a boy carrying a load in front of water with a rising moon in the far distance. There is an elaborate border including scholar’s roles on the side of the well between the rim and the center and at the outside of the rim leaf and flower border. I suspect that there is a very good version of this scene that was the model for this quickly done one that has a kind of folk art charm...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #611227 (stock #zp659)
A beautiful Chaffers coffee can decorated with Chinese figures. Grooved loop handle. 2 1/2 inches tall, 2 3/8 inch diameter.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1449894 (stock #TBD00419)
A pair of oversize porcelain plates made and decorated in China around 1790 for export to the West. Brightly colored carmine flowers with touches of blue and yellow and green leaves cover most of the surface of the plates. The edges are glazed brown. 10 ¼ inch (26 cm) diameter.

Condition: one with a couple of very minor chips on the edge and a spider crack visible on the bottom, but not on the face...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1449893 (stock #TBD00418)
Hand painted with extensive flowers a pair of porcelain soup plates made in China and decorated for the Western market about 1790. The flowers are carmine with touches of blue and yellow and different shades of green for the leaves. The edges of the plates are glazed brown. Diameter 8 7/8 inches (22. 5 cm) and 1 3/8 inches (3 cm) tall.

Condition is excellent with only minor stack wear on one...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : German : Pre 1800 item #627630 (stock #ag248)
An absolutely wonderful and highly amusing engraved baluster glass, actually a goblet, of soda metal. The round funnel bowl, which has a beaded base, is engraved with two rabbits carrying a dog in a sedan chair...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : German : Pre 1800 item #1261850 (stock #g1351)
A large Saxon (German) hunting glass with a thistle bowl, beautifully engraved with a castle, a mounted horseman, 4 dogs, and two geese and with a facet cut lower section. The stem is facet cut with a large facet cut stepped angular knop. Folded foot.

Despite what it might seem in the poor photos, the glass is in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks, clouding, or restoration. The height is 8 1/4", with a bowl diameter of 3 1/8" and a foot diameter of 3 5/8".

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Jewelry : Pre 1800 item #1449783
C 1760 Rare Chelsea seal of a harlequin boy in black face mask with a metal ring at the top. The colors are magnificent. The seal evokes the Commedia dell'Arte, an early form of popular comedic masked theater originating in Italy and popular in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century. The harlequin alone is rare; a harlequin in blackface, rarer still...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : German : Pre 1800 item #1198784 (stock #jg158)
An elaborate large German wine goblet, the round funnel bowl cut and etched with two winged figures clasping hands over an orb. The inscription on the reverse of the glass reads, in Old German: "unser freundschaft sol bestehn bis wir mit der welt vergehn", which translates to "our friendship shall remain until we leave this world". The beautifully cut stem is of the teared inverted baluster type...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : German : Pre 1800 item #748407 (stock #jg130)
A superb and beautifully engraved German glass wine goblet of friendship or marriage significance and extremely large size. The capacious pointed round funnel bowl is elaborately decorated with crowned hearts below clasped hands...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1479108
Rare matching set of 8 Bengal Tiger pattern porcelain plates. English, late 18th century. Diameter, 9 3/8 inches. Good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1449897 (stock #TBD00420)
A pair of large Chinese made and decorated porcelain serving plates for the Western market circa 1790. Good flowers painted in a complex design covering most of the surface. The square edge appears to be gilded with something more like bronzing powder than fire gilding. 11 1/8 inches (28.5 cm) diameter.

Condition: one with minor rim chips, minor stacking wear and some black firing spots. The other with a fairly significant rim chip and associated hairline.

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : French : Pre 1800 item #533007 (stock #ag221)
An impressive and charming green-tinged very large champagne flute with a conical bowl above a bladed knop, all surmounting a hollow baluster knop. Soda glass with scattered bubbles, as expected.

7 3/4 " tall.

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #810533 (stock #p1096)
This is a superb, early, and rare Chinese libation cup. The paste itself appears to date from around 1735, while the decoration is most likely from around 1775.

The outside has applied polychrome lotus roots and flowers...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1260836 (stock #TBD00155)
A underglaze blue hand painted blue and white export plate depicting three sprigs of flowers enclosed in a lobed border with fleur- de-lis and on the outer border a loosely painted fence. The outer edge is painted brown. Given the vague Western references in the decoration the plate is probably after 1750. 8 7/8th inches (22.5 cm) diameter.

Condition: No chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs. Very minor stacking wear. Minor firing flaws.

The influence of Meissen and perhaps other European...