Set of Ten French Porcelain Plates, Nast, circa 1810

Painted grapes on a vine. Marked on the reverse with Copeland Spode mark along with the retail mark.

Harlequin-border with Provincial figures in indigenous dress.

The painting attributed to Anton Bouillemier.

Artist William Mussell (1828-1906) specializing in botanical in the ornithological compositions in the Barbotine time style in Minton from 1870-1900. He also excelled in the painting...

Set of 12 English porcelain plates, Coalbrookdale, circa 1850.

Set of 12 English porcelain botanical plates. Impressed Worcester with crown.

Set of ten French creamware military plates. Charming individually painted luncheon or dessert plates with military scenes from the time of Napoleon I...

Beautiful set of six porcelain plates, comprising two plates decorated in the center with golden branches on a gros bleu background, and adorned on the border with four bouquets of polychrome flowers in flowery oval gilt cartouches, and four plates decorated in the center with a bouquet of polychrome flowers on a white background and on the border with three birds in landscapes placed in flowery oval gilt cartouches on a gros bleu background. The Sèvres factory of soft-paste porcelain was created, about 1738 at Vincennes by bankers and financiers with the aim of making true or “hard-paste” porcelain, like Meissen did. In 1753 Louis XV, became a major shareholder and the manufactory was transferred to Sèvres, closer to Versailles and the château de Bellevue, acquired by the Marquise de Pompadour. The Marquise took a personal interest in Sèvres activities, and encouraged production. In 1759, Louis XV bought out the other shareholders and Sèvres became the exclusive property of the France Crown. From then, the manufactory mark was a crossed Ls (the royal monogram...

Set of ten white and gilt French Empire plates. Set of ten Empire white and gilt plates with under-glaze red markings for L. Ernie 61 Rue du Bac., France, early 1800. Diameter: 9.25...

Set of ten white and gilt French Empire plates. Set of ten Empire white and gilt plates with under-glaze red markings for L. Ernie 61 Rue du Bac., France, early 1800. Diameter: 9.2...

Set of ten English fish plates. Ten hand painted and gilt plates with uniquely painted images of ten different series of fish in their habitats bordered with hand-gilt netting and beaded border; each with name of fish on reverse: Trout, Perch, Barbel, Roach, Samlet, Salmon Trout, Chub, Brook Trout...

Set of ten pink bird plates. Ten pink rimmed and floral banded chinoiserie style dinner plates centering on a pair of exotic colored pheasants in a landscape...