Tin-glazed
Pottery: all hand-painted
French and German Faience, Dutch Delft and Italian Maiolica
On
the sideboard below is a mixture of the three types...
some are keepers while others are for sale.
The dealers' dilemna is deciding which is which!
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French Faience
Some examples of our "keepers" in 19th-century French
faience...
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On the left is a footed dish from Desvres, in the Rouen decor
of Normadie... one of Tom's favorites.
The bowl in the center is from Nevers, further south,
and features a wonderful grotesque from the baroque
period.
On the right is a plate from Lille, in France's province of
Nord,
near Brussels... home of our French friends, the Dubois.
Some recent additions...
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A wall pocket
for cut flowers, from Lille (left);
a rare and extremely delicate 17th century plate
from Nevers (center),
which I couldn't bring myself to sell!
And a platter with boar-hunt scene (right), which has been attributed
to Germany,
but, may be French, possibly Rouen. I need to do more
studying on German faience.
(I took these photos at night, so they are not as clear as they
should be.)
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17th
Century German Faience
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A
matced pair of lobed fruit bowls from Frankfurt,
supposedly for sale. We'll see... !
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Find of the year!
17th Century Italian Maiolica
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A wonderful albarello (wet drug jar) for rose water, authenticated
by Sothebys.
No way, will we sell this one!
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19th C Delft Polychrome
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An early
19th century, polychrome Delft plaque
which is quite rare and special.
I'm going further back in time these days.
We have just begun buying some 18th C polychrome Delft as well...
but, that is for sale.
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French "Gres" - a kind of glazed
stoneware pottery
An
early 19th C Pilgrim's Flask
This was another item that Tom wanted to keep.
So, I hid it for a while and gave it to him as a gift at Christmas.
This ceramics learning and collecting is getting pretty serious!
One of these years, I hope to learn more about 16-17th-century
Rhenish (Rheinland) stoneware pottery, from the region where
I lived in Bonn. When I do, I hope to find a
wonderful Bellarmine face jug... and a piece of Westerwald
salt-glaze pottery may follow.
Here
are examples of each of them:
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Bellarmines
on the left; Westerwald on the right.
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