{"title":"European Porcelain \u0026 Ceramics","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"1750-s-porcelain-chinese-export-armorial-plate-with-deer-dogs-coat-of-arms","title":"1750's Chinese export armorial plate, coat of arms","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArmorial porcelain occupies a strange spot in 18th century trade — a European family would send their coat of arms to Canton via the East India Company, and Chinese painters, often without any real understanding of European heraldry, would copy it onto porcelain as faithfully as they could manage from a printed or drawn source thousands of miles away. This plate carries exactly that kind of commission: a coat of arms centred on three animals, most likely deer given the heraldic tradition, above a Latin motto, rendered with the careful but occasionally slightly \"off\" precision typical of a design copied without full context for what it meant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePink and purple enamel flower bouquets fill out the rest of the decoration, and the scalloped rim is trimmed with gilt spearheads, a border style common enough on mid-18th century export services.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommissioning an armorial service wasn't cheap or quick — it meant sending your family's coat of arms across the world to be copied by hand, then waiting months or years for the finished pieces to make the return journey, so it was a mark of real wealth and standing to have one made at all. The specific family behind this particular coat of arms isn't identified, but whoever they were, they were clearly in a position to commission exactly this kind of bespoke, made-to-order service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Some wear to gilt; hairline crack and two small chips.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035552534861,"sku":"1883","price":360.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_2315-PhotoRoom_95626b78-e53d-46c0-91ca-94c295cecf02.webp?v=1780945513"},{"product_id":"1820-s-meissen-porcelain-scalloped-rim-plate-with-decoration-of-bird-insects-and-flowers","title":"1820's Meissen plate, bird, insects and flowers","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeissen's naturalist painters worked from close observation rather than stylised botanical convention, and this plate shows that discipline clearly: hand-painted flowers, insects, and a large bird as the central subject, each rendered with enough accuracy to identify the species rather than reading as generic decoration. That level of botanical and ornithological precision was a real specialism of the factory's output through the early 19th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scalloped rim is gilded throughout, framing the painted centre without competing with it, and the underside carries Meissen's underglaze blue crossed swords mark, the factory's standard mark since the early 18th century. Dinner plates like this were as much a display of the owner's taste and means as they were functional tableware, meant to be looked at as closely as they were used.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Some wear to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035552731469,"sku":"3064","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/6-IMG_0416-Photoroom.png?v=1780945519"},{"product_id":"1820-s-spode-porcelain-famille-rose-creamware-large-barrel-scent-jar-pattern-3184","title":"Georgian Spode pearlware potpourri jar, Famille Rose","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"ship\" border pattern gets its name from Spode pattern 3067, which paired the same border design with a Chinese harbour scene, and the firm went on to reuse that same border across more than fifty different central patterns, Chinoiserie and floral alike, this jar's Famille Rose peony design being one of them. That kind of interchangeable design system was standard practice at Spode, letting a single successful border pair with whatever central motif a customer wanted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe barrel-shaped body has two curving handles and a flat interior lid, hand-painted in polychrome enamel, reddish-pink, orange, blue and green, over the pearlware body. The design was first outlined, then filled in by an enameller, a two-stage process typical of the period's finer decorative work. It's marked underneath with the black printed \"SPODE\" stamp and pattern number 3184.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Some small losses to enamelling; crack to lid; signs of repair to handles and to inner rim; the outer lid is absent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035552829773,"sku":"3273","price":420.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/86-20240310_231617-Photoroom_da422e4b-e8d2-4b78-936b-f63d4dc9cb98.webp?v=1780945520"},{"product_id":"1880-s-franz-anton-mehlem-for-royal-bonn-blush-aesthetic-pair-of-vases","title":"Franz Anton Mehlem Royal Bonn parrot vase pair","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFranz Anton Mehlem ran his Bonn factory through the same wave of Japanese-influenced Aesthetic Movement taste that reshaped so much British decorative porcelain in the late 1800's, and this pair shows the German side of that same conversation. Each two-handled bottle vase carries a blush ivory neck and base around a cream baluster body worked in shot colour, gilt clouds drifting across the surface and gold-dusted handles finishing the shape. One side of each vase carries a hand-painted polychrome parrot perched among tree branches and foliage; the reverse carries butterflies, and the surrounding panels are worked with high-relief gilding rather than flat gold, giving the decoration real texture under the glaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe design's debt to Royal Worcester's own Aesthetic Movement output is fairly clear, this kind of cross-pollination was common between European factories chasing the same fashionable Japanese-influenced market during the 1880's, with ideas moving freely between British and Continental workshops rather than staying confined within national lines. Both vases carry the impressed circular Franz Anton Mehlem Royal Bonn mark to the base, along with the painted red pattern number 1882 and shape number 22, giving the pair a level of documentation that puts firm numbers behind what would otherwise be a fairly broad stylistic attribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Some crazing and scuffing to gilt appropriate to age; one vase has a chip to foot and firing defect where one handle attaches to the body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035554074957,"sku":"3283","price":275.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/167-20240310_234152-Photoroom_2e62cca9-b563-4449-9349-2969f75f6835.webp?v=1780945532"},{"product_id":"1890-s-wilhelm-schiller-sohn-pottery-ewer-in-islamic-style","title":"Wilhelm Schiller \u0026 Sohn Islamic-style ewer, 1890's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIslamic decorative motifs found their way into a surprising amount of European ceramics through the 1800's, part of the same broad Orientalist fascination that also brought Japanese pattern into Western workshops, though the two influences rarely got confused with each other since Islamic arabesque and Japanese asymmetry read so differently on the surface. This baluster ewer takes the arabesque route fully: polychrome cloisonné-style scrollwork worked across a gilt ground, the kind of dense, repeating geometric pattern that Islamic decorative art built its reputation on centuries before European factories started borrowing it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe piece forms part of a three-piece set alongside a matching vase and a second ewer, all produced by Wilhelm Schiller \u0026amp; Sohn in the same Islamic style and sharing the moulded WS\u0026amp;S mark, though this particular ewer carries its own impressed shape number, 6443, distinguishing it within the group. Dated to the 1890's, the set reflects a period when Bohemian potteries were producing decorative ware in a wide range of borrowed international styles, Islamic, Japanese, Mannerist, sometimes within the same factory's output across a single decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Some wear to cloisonné and markings on base; hairline crack and chip to base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035555221837,"sku":"3242","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/3-IMG_0658-Photoroom.jpg?v=1780945547"},{"product_id":"victorian-1890-s-wilhelm-schiller-sohn-twin-handled-pottery-vase-in-islamic-style","title":"Wilhelm Schiller \u0026 Sohn Islamic-style vase, 1890's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis twin-handled vase is the third piece in a matching set alongside the two Islamic-style ewers, sharing the same polychrome cloisonné arabesque decoration across a gilt ground, the dense, repeating geometric pattern Islamic decorative art has relied on for centuries before European Orientalist fashion picked it up in the 1800's. The vase form gives the pattern more surface to work across than either ewer, wrapping the arabesque scrollwork around a fuller baluster body between the two handles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe piece carries the same moulded WS\u0026amp;S mark as its companions, with its own impressed shape number, 2436, setting it apart within the group. Dated to the 1890's, the set as a whole reflects the range Bohemian potteries were working in during this period, producing decorative ware across borrowed international styles, Islamic, Japanese, Mannerist, often within a single factory's output across just a few years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Some wear to cloisonné and markings on base; chips on base, handle and rim, repair to second handle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035555451213,"sku":"3082","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/12-IMG_0667-Photoroom_a6912500-229d-4b37-a08a-61a366828b95.webp?v=1780945548"},{"product_id":"victorian-wilhelm-schiller-sohn-pottery-baluster-ewer-in-islamic-style","title":"Wilhelm Schiller \u0026 Sohn Bohemian arabesque ewer","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis baluster ewer is the second of a matching three-piece set alongside its companion vase and fellow ewer, all sharing the same polychrome cloisonné arabesque decoration worked across a gilt ground, the dense, repeating geometric pattern Islamic decorative art has relied on for centuries before European Orientalist fashion picked it up through the 1800's. Where the vase spreads the pattern across a fuller twin-handled body, this ewer's narrower baluster form gives the arabesque scrollwork a tighter, more vertical read, the same decorative language adapted to a different silhouette.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe piece carries the moulded WS\u0026amp;S mark shared across the set, along with its own impressed shape number, 6443. Made in Bohemia and dated to the 1890's, it reflects the same period of wide-ranging borrowed international styles, Islamic, Japanese, Mannerist, that Bohemian potteries like Wilhelm Schiller \u0026amp; Sohn worked through during this stretch of the century, sometimes within a single factory's output across just a few years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Some wear to cloisonné and markings on base; chips to rim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035555483981,"sku":"3243","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/25-IMG_0680-Photoroom_90b6a6d4-d717-4a0f-8822-13143f7d459e.webp?v=1780945549"},{"product_id":"1894-royal-worcester-irishman-figurine-by-james-hadley-in-blush-porcelain-countries-of-the-world-series","title":"James Hadley Royal Worcester Irishman figure, 1894","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Hadley's \"Countries of the World\" series set out to do in porcelain what world's fairs and exhibition catalogues were doing at the time: present a cast of national figures for a Victorian drawing room audience curious about the wider world without leaving the house. This figure represents Ireland, dated 1894 and modelled in the blush ivory porcelain Hadley favoured for the series, a warmer, softer finish than standard white glaze that suited figures built for character rather than formality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe costume detail is what makes the piece: a worn vest, knee breeches tucked into knit socks, sturdy brogues, and a pipe tucked into the hatband, the kind of specific, lived-in detailing that made Hadley the standout modeller of his generation at Royal Worcester. The figure carries a firm date of 1894, placing it well within his most prolific period there, a few years before he left to set up his own studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition, minor loss to gilt and restoration to base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035555516749,"sku":"1078","price":290.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Royal-Worcester-x7822Countries-Worldx7822-James-Hadley-full-4o-720_10-PhotoRoom_1735e0e6-84be-46d7-a32e-38f7e80d4185.webp?v=1780945550"},{"product_id":"1900-s-daisy-makeig-jones-for-wedgwood-porcelain-double-gourd-celestial-dragon-vase","title":"Daisy Makeig-Jones Wedgwood Celestial Dragon vase, 1910's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaisy Makeig-Jones built her reputation at Wedgwood on exactly this kind of fantastical, densely worked design, mottled pearl grounds populated by dragons, flames, and imagined creatures that had little precedent in the factory's more restrained neoclassical output up to that point. This double gourd-shaped vase, dated to the 1910's, carries her Celestial Dragon motif across a mottled blue pearl ground, the dragon worked in bold gilding against the mottled surface, flame motifs threading through the composition around it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe double gourd form itself borrows from a much older Chinese ceramic tradition, a shape built from two stacked spheres of differing size, and pairing that traditional silhouette with Makeig-Jones's distinctly fantastical dragon imagery makes for an interesting collision of restraint and excess in a single object. A continuous gilded band runs along both the top rim and the base, framing the central design without competing with it. Fairyland Lustre and related dragon-pattern pieces by Makeig-Jones remain some of the most actively collected Wedgwood work from the twentieth century, prized specifically for the imaginative range she brought to a factory better known for its classical restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Light wear to gilding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035556041037,"sku":"2874","price":765.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/2874-Photoroom_42d00532-24d3-466a-a5f2-9a0b2769ca2d.webp?v=1780945554"},{"product_id":"1920-s-royal-worcester-porcelain-jack-stanley-hand-painted-cabinet-plate","title":"Jack Stanley Royal Worcester cabinet plate, autumn flowers","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJack Stanley began his apprenticeship at Royal Worcester at just fourteen, in 1918, training under Ernest Phillips before going on to specialise in landscapes, florals, and genre scenes across a career at the factory that ran until 1933. This plate falls within that working period, dated to the 1920's and the George V era, and carries a hand-painted central medallion depicting a large bouquet of autumn flowers, worked in polychrome enamel against an ivory cream body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wide green band surrounding the medallion carries raised paste gilding in scrollwork, a technique using real gold built up in relief rather than applied flat, giving the border genuine texture alongside its colour. Royal Worcester began letting its artists sign individual pieces around 1900, a practice that turned painters like Stanley into named, collectable figures in their own right rather than anonymous factory hands, and this plate carries that signature, tying the piece directly to a documented artist working at the factory during its most celebrated hand-painting decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035556925773,"sku":"A4184","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/3-IMG_8213_jpg-Photoroom_707ad98b-2d68-4dab-ab30-47b29f988495.webp?v=1780945562"},{"product_id":"19th-century-coalport-porcelain-double-handed-vase-with-gallant-scene","title":"Coalport porcelain pilgrim flask, gallant scene","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePilgrim flasks take their form from a genuinely old and practical shape, flattened, round-bodied vessels originally designed to be carried on a strap or cord for travellers and pilgrims, easy to sling over a shoulder without sloshing or catching on anything. By the time Coalport was producing decorative versions in the 1800's, the practical function had long since given way to purely ornamental use, though the distinctive flattened silhouette and twin handles remained as a nod to the original form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis flask carries two scenes worked in puce under a yellow ground, an unusual and fairly striking colour combination on its own: figures fishing on one side, and a gallant courtship scene, in the same tradition of romanticised rural leisure that shows up across so much European decorative porcelain of the period, on the other. Coalport built a strong reputation through the 1800's for exactly this kind of confident, detailed painted work on traditional forms, and a piece carrying two distinct narrative scenes rather than a single repeated motif gets more visual mileage out of the shape than most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Some wear to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035561152845,"sku":"3080","price":475.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/3-IMG_0624-Photoroom.webp?v=1780945598"},{"product_id":"19th-century-german-porcelain-basket-weave-vase-with-rose-garlands-and-cherubs","title":"German porcelain basket weave vase, roses and cherubs","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBasket weave porcelain took its name literally, a moulded surface texture meant to mimic actual woven wicker, and German factories used it through the 1800's as a base for exactly the kind of dense floral application seen on this piece: pink and yellow roses worked in relief across the body, with sprawling vines and leaves filling the space between them rather than sitting as isolated, tidy sprigs. The gadrooned borders, a repeated ribbed or fluted edge detail, add a bit of formal structure against the more organic, overgrown quality of the floral work itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo cherubs sit on opposing sides of the vase, a common enough addition to German centrepiece porcelain of the period, though the pairing with a basket weave ground rather than a smoother classical body gives this piece a slightly more rustic, garden-like character than the more formal cherub-and-urn combinations typical of the century. Raised on a pedestal foot, the vase reads clearly as a centrepiece rather than a functional flower vase, built to hold visual attention on its own rather than to be filled and used.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarked to base with blue S mark with impressed number 264.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent condition. Some wear to gilt; tiny nibbles to foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035562004813,"sku":"3282","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/149-20240310_233530-Photoroom.jpg?v=1780945608"},{"product_id":"19th-century-royal-vienna-porcelain-romantic-couple-figurine","title":"Austrian \"Royal Vienna\" porcelain redcoat couple figure","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beehive mark that gives \"Royal Vienna\" porcelain its name outlived the factory that first used it by decades. The original Vienna Porcelain Manufactory shut its doors in 1864, but the mark itself stayed in circulation, picked up by a run of later Austrian and Bohemian workshops keen to trade on the associations of the imperial name, which is why so much of what's sold as \"Royal Vienna\" today actually dates to the back half of the century rather than to the manufactory's own working years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis figure shows a British redcoat officer bidding farewell to his sweetheart, one hand resting against her cheek in the kind of tender, slightly theatrical gesture that Victorian-era decorative porcelain leaned on heavily, a small frozen melodrama meant to be read at a glance. The modelling and hand-painting are detailed enough to hold up to that kind of close reading, and the piece carries the Viennese beehive mark on its base, tying it to that wider later-century tradition rather than to the original eighteenth-century factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Minor damage to lady's right hand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035563151693,"sku":"3087","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/1-IMG_0781-Photoroom.webp?v=1780945617"},{"product_id":"a-belcari-capodimonte-figurine-of-a-young-woman-holding-a-flower-basket","title":"A. 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So a piece marked this way today is generally understood as being in the Capodimonte tradition rather than from the original eighteenth-century factory itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis figure shows an Edwardian-style young woman holding an ornate flower basket, finished in a cream body with gilt accents and pale pink flowers, mounted on a round wooden base, a fairly typical presentation choice for later twentieth-century decorative Italian porcelain meant to sit directly on a shelf without additional display hardware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat vintage condition. Some very light wear to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035569017165,"sku":"1925","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/1-20220916_232506-PhotoRoom.webp?v=1780945645"},{"product_id":"19th-century-meissen-porcelain-cabinet-plate-with-gallant-scene-and-green-border","title":"Meissen cabinet plate, gallant scene, green border","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeissen's gallant scenes, small groupings of figures in courtship or leisurely rural conversation, drew heavily on the same Fragonard-adjacent romantic tradition that shows up across so much European decorative porcelain of the period, though Meissen's own version of the genre predates most of its imitators by decades. This plate carries three figures set in a rural landscape, framed by an emerald green mosaic-pattern border worked with small polychrome flowering stems, the whole thing finished with a wavy gilt edge that keeps the busier border from overwhelming the central scene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe base carries the painted blue crossed swords mark alongside impressed numbers and a letter, U 1 19.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Small black mark on rim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035569279309,"sku":"2901","price":185.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_006_20240124_154636.jpg?v=1780945648"},{"product_id":"19th-century-rauenstein-chinoiserie-porcelain-5-sided-bowl-red-and-gilt-scrolls","title":"Rauenstein Chinoiserie porcelain bowl, five-sided","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRauenstein was one of the older German porcelain factories, established in the 18th century in Thuringia, and this bowl shows the firm still working comfortably within Chinoiserie decoration well into the 19th century. Cream scrolls sit against a red ground, a bold colour choice for a Chinoiserie piece, most of which lean toward blue and white or softer pastel palettes rather than this kind of saturated contrast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe five-sided form itself is a bit unusual, most bowls of this type stick to a round or oval shape, so the faceted body gives the piece a slightly architectural quality beyond the decoration alone. Gilding runs across the whole surface in a dotted pattern, adding texture on top of the painted scrollwork rather than being confined to a plain border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Light wear to gilt along the rim appropriate for age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035571441997,"sku":"2610","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/s-l1600_ebc7e436-d6bc-43be-a7cb-79572b310a69.webp?v=1780945668"},{"product_id":"art-deco-wilton-ware-centrepiece-two-handled-oblong-bowl-ag-harley-jones-gold-and-cobalt-blue-chinoiserie-5008","title":"Wilton Ware Art Deco Chinoiserie centrepiece bowl","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bowl uses gold on cobalt blue rather than the more common white-and-blue palette of most Chinoiserie decoration, giving it a real richness that suits its Art Deco context. The scene is properly detailed: a pagoda rises above a lake, sampan boats and a bridge worked in below, a large flowering tree, and the moon rising in the distance, all painted in gold against the mottled blue ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe oblong, fluted body sits on a pedestal base with two relief-moulded, gilded handles, and the rim is trimmed with a geometric and floral border, punctuated by medallions depicting chrysanthemum flowers. Made by A. G. Harley Jones, model 5008, and marked with the gold circular Wilton Ware stamp to the base, it's a solid example of how 1920's decorative pottery leaned into Orientalist themes as part of the wider Art Deco aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition. Some light wear to gilding commensurate with age; one spot where the underglaze blue is pale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035572982093,"sku":"2121","price":260.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/https_3A_2F_2Fi.etsystatic.com_2F29579960_2Fr_2Fil_2F118961_2F4648257198_2Fil_fullxfull.4648257198_aay2_73ae99cf-764a-4525-801c-26b19004daf3.webp?v=1780945675"},{"product_id":"austro-hungarian-art-nouveau-bohemian-floral-blush-twin-handled-porcelain-vase","title":"Bohemian Art Nouveau twin-handled vase, blush ivory","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Austro-Hungarian Empire's porcelain regions, spanning Germany, Austria, and Bohemia, all worked in overlapping decorative traditions through the late 1800's, which makes an unmarked or lightly attributed piece like this one difficult to pin to a single factory with confidence, though the blush ivory ground and hand-painted floral and fruit spray are consistent with the broader Bohemian output of the period. This twin-handled vase carries that spray of flowers and fruit against the warm ivory ground, the kind of naturalistic botanical subject Art Nouveau porcelain leaned on across the region regardless of which specific workshop produced any given piece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDated to the 1890's and marked with a shape number that reads as either 540 or 640, the numbering slightly unclear, the piece sits within Bohemia's most active decorative porcelain decades, when demand for exactly this kind of confidently painted, softly toned ware was running high across Central Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition. 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A boy stands on a rocky rocaille base holding two large stylised shells, one on each side, functioning as a double vase rather than a purely decorative figure, the kind of hybrid object Wahliss's workshop turned out with real confidence during this period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bisque finish, unglazed and matte rather than the high gloss most porcelain aims for, gives the piece a softer, almost sculptural surface, which suits the pale palette of blush green, orange and pink picked out with gilt accents. Bisque was a more demanding technique than glazed porcelain, since any flaw stayed visible with nowhere to hide under a glossy coat, and Wahliss's workshop built part of its reputation on getting it right consistently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035573244237,"sku":"2607","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/s-l1600_281_29_33cc0ab1-bfae-469d-8ef4-bf9cced9bb7c.webp?v=1780945678"},{"product_id":"art-nouveau-austro-hungarian-ernst-wahliss-porcelain-amphora-figural-compote-centrepiece-lamp-nautical-scene","title":"Ernst Wahliss Amphora figural compote centrepiece","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's something quietly theatrical about this one. A boy stands with his trousers rolled up, hat on, satchel slung over his shoulder, caught mid-adventure rather than posed for a portrait, sea shells scattered at his feet as if he's just wandered up from the shoreline. Ernst Wahliss's Amphora workshop had a real gift for this kind of small narrative moment, and it shows here right down to the compote bowl beside him, its rim lined with children's faces peering out at whoever's looking back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMounted on a brass embossed base, the whole piece reads less like tableware and more like a tiny stage set, the sort of thing that turns a sideboard or console table into something worth a second look rather than just somewhere to put a vase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigns of restoration only on the boy figure; otherwise the piece is in excellent condition. The boy is missing his left hand, both legs are glued together, the neck is restored, and he is fixed to the tree with glue. 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Staffordshire and Liverpool potteries responded quickly with commemorative wares, and this gravy boat is a good example of that response: Britannia shown mourning at a tomb, flanked by a globe and weeping angels, printed in black beneath the inscription \"TO THE MEMORY OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePuce lustre banding runs across the piece, a colour and technique commonly paired with mourning wares of this exact period, adding a soft metallic sheen to what's otherwise a fairly sombre design. The maker isn't confirmed, though the style points to either a Staffordshire or Liverpool workshop, both centres that were producing this kind of rapid-turnaround commemorative pottery in the years around 1817. A mourning-themed gravy boat is a slightly unusual object to have carried this kind of imagery, since so much surviving commemorative ware of this type takes the form of jugs or plates rather than table serving pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntique restorations, wear to lustre border, yellowing to body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035578388813,"sku":"1488","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_1377-PhotoRoom.jpg?v=1780945729"},{"product_id":"victorian-staffordshire-pottery-copper-lustreware-flatback-mantle-spaniel-dog","title":"Victorian Staffordshire copper lustreware spaniel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStaffordshire spaniels are one of those objects that got worse as they got more popular. Early examples, like this one, were modelled fully in the round, back included, meant to be seen from any angle on a mantelpiece where you'd actually walk past both sides of it. As demand grew through the century, potteries started pressing the backs flat to speed up production and cut cost, since a customer buying a pair for either end of a mantel would only ever see the fronts. Collectors now use exactly that detail, rounded back versus flat, as a rough way to sort earlier pieces from later, cheaper runs, which makes this one the better side of that divide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dog sits against a cream, lead-glazed earthenware body with copper lustre picking out the coat, yellow glass eyes, and a collar with a chain lead looping around the body, a decorative flourish with no practical function beyond looking suitably devoted. Pieces like this were Victorian working-class parlour staples long before they became the kind of thing dealers fight over at fairs, which is a fairly satisfying reversal of fortune for what was originally a budget mantel ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition. Some superficial nicks to glazing from the original manufacturing process; light crazing; hairline crack near the tail; small chip to the underside of the paw.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035579011405,"sku":"1411","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_1801-PhotoRoom_392c2287-3b50-4485-a6f0-d45c948bf5f8.webp?v=1780945731"},{"product_id":"19th-century-german-porcelain-matching-figurines-regency-gentleman-and-lady-with-flower-garland","title":"German porcelain pair, Regency gentleman and lady","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBy the late 1800's, German porcelain factories were still turning out Regency-dressed couples decades after the actual Regency had ended in Britain, the same habit that kept Georgian-dress figures like Sitzendorf's flower girl pairs on the shelves long past their period. There's a reliable market logic to it: a well-dressed couple from a slightly earlier, slightly more mannered age reads as decorative rather than dated, and factories kept the formula running for as long as it sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis pair sticks to the type closely. The gentleman and lady are worked in polychrome enamel, mostly green, blue and brown, with the lady's dress hand-painted in a pink floral pattern and a flower garland held between the two figures, presumably standing in for whatever courtship gesture the modeller had in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eVery good antique condition. 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The woman, dressed in eighteenth-century style costume, scatters seed with one hand while gathering her skirt into an improvised pouch with the other, and her companion rests against a spade beside her, both set on naturalistic bases finished with gilt highlights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach figure carries Schoop's impressed signature along with individual design numbers, 7812 for the woman and 7813 for the man, plus separate secondary numbers (6 and 2 respectively), the kind of detailed mark-keeping that makes attributing and dating pieces like this considerably more straightforward than most unmarked Continental figural work. The pair is dated to between 1892 and 1904, placing it within the working years Schoop and Bloch's studio overlapped, and a couple this specifically marked and matched is the harder thing to find intact than either figure would be alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. 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A young woman stands in Primavera-style dress, cradling a papyrus-gathering basket, her robes picked out with gilt that catches the light differently depending on where you're standing, the kind of detail that rewards actually walking around the piece rather than viewing it from one fixed angle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe factory itself started life in 1860 as Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur, founded by Eduard Eichler in what was then Duchov, Bohemia, and the abbreviated \"Royal Dux\" name that collectors use today only came later, once the factory's reputation had outgrown its full title. This figure carries the factory's pink triangle mark on the underside along with the model number 2077, dating it to around 1900, right in the period when Royal Dux was producing some of its most confident figural work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition, minor paint marks on arms, some minor loss to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035580453197,"sku":"1097","price":260.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_3896-PhotoRoom.jpg?v=1780945745"},{"product_id":"royal-worcester-james-hadley-down-and-out-porcelain-menu-holder-figurine-of-the-toff","title":"Royal Worcester James Hadley \"The Toff\" menu holder","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eJames Hadley spent decades as Royal Worcester's chief modeller before setting up his own studio, and pieces bearing his hand are collected specifically for that reason rather than for the Worcester name alone. This one is \"The Toff,\" part of a set of six known as the \"Down and Outs Menu Men,\" figures cast as down-and-out characters from Victorian street life and put to a practical use: each wore a small tabard slung over the shoulders like a sandwich board, printed with a choice of three main courses on the front and three puddings down the back, and stood on the tables of London's better hotels and restaurants doing the job a printed menu card does today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt's an odd bit of dining history to hold in your hand, a set of characters designed to be looked at while you decided what to eat rather than admired for their own sake, which perhaps explains why so few have survived in any complete state. This figure carries an impressed Royal Worcester back stamp along with the Victorian diamond-shaped dating lozenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eExcellent antique condition, restoration to hat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035580715341,"sku":"1234","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_3100-PhotoRoom_b9981f9b-047d-4941-9673-018eedfec9c4.webp?v=1780945746"},{"product_id":"victorian-george-jones-stone-crescent-japanese-azaleas-faience-tall-vase","title":"George Jones Stone Crescent faience vase, azaleas","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Jones \u0026amp; Sons ran Stone Crescent as one of its higher-end majolica-adjacent faience lines through the late 1800's, aimed at a market that wanted the depth and colour of Victorian majolica without quite so much of its heavier, more overtly naturalistic look. This tall vase carries an orange azalea pattern rendered in the Japanese-influenced style that swept through British decorative arts in the wake of Japan's reopening to Western trade, a fashion that touched everything from wallpaper to porcelain and gave English potteries an entirely new visual vocabulary to borrow from.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vase's form carries its own character: a fluted neck opening outward above a body finished in rich blue and gilt, with offset handles set asymmetrically rather than mirrored, a deliberately unbalanced touch that owes more to Japanese design principles than to the strict symmetry Victorian decorative ware usually leaned on. Dated to the 1890's and made by George Jones \u0026amp; Sons in England, it sits at the point where Aesthetic Movement taste for Japanese pattern had fully worked its way into mainstream British pottery production rather than remaining a niche interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Minor wear to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035581927757,"sku":"3068","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/4-IMG_0468-Photoroom.png?v=1780945761"},{"product_id":"art-deco-pair-red-flambe-porcelain-urns-charles-noke-for-royal-doulton","title":"Charles Noke Royal Doulton Flambé urn pair, 1920's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlambé glazing has a long history behind it, developed by Chinese potters as early as the eleventh century, using copper oxide fired in a reducing atmosphere to produce the deep, unpredictable reds the technique is known for, no two results ever coming out quite the same. Royal Doulton adopted the process in 1908, and this pair of baluster urns, designed by Charles Noke and dated to the 1920's, shows the technique at a mature stage in the factory's hands: a rich red ground wrapping each vase in a continuous landscape scene of timber-framed cottages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Noke served as Royal Doulton's art director through much of this period and was central to developing and refining the factory's flambé range into a signature line rather than a novelty technique, and a matched pair like this, both showing the same landscape scene rather than variant decoration, is harder to find than either piece would be alone. The Art Deco dating places the pair within the same decade that streamlined, geometric aesthetics were reshaping most decorative arts, though the cottage landscape and flambé glazing here lean more toward the picturesque than anything geometric, a reminder that Royal Doulton kept working in its established decorative language even while the wider design world was moving elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. 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The pair sits well within the workshop's broader habit of pairing figural sculpture with a subtle functional element, in this case two small spill vases and a scalloped tray worked in behind and beneath the scene, though the figures themselves are clearly the focus rather than an afterthought attached to a container.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe piece is hand-painted throughout, with green trim picked out against cream costume and touches of red at the shoes, dated to between 1910 and 1918, right at the tail end of Wahliss's most active Art Nouveau period and overlapping with the years leading into the First World War, after which Austro-Hungarian porcelain production changed considerably as the empire itself came apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition; some wear to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035588776269,"sku":"2930","price":185.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_000_20240124_184759_f15f6c59-cbc2-4bb8-a2a2-acec67003fb7.webp?v=1780945850"},{"product_id":"art-nouveau-royal-dux-porcelain-maiden-leaning-on-shell-vide-poche","title":"Royal Dux Art Nouveau maiden on shell figurine, 1900's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyal Dux built figures like this one to work as sculpture first and function second, and this maiden seated on a shell is a clear example: the small dish formed by the shell is a practical afterthought, useful for catching keys or coins, but the piece is really built around the figure itself, worked in the flowing, organic lines Art Nouveau brought to porcelain figural work through the early 1900's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe enamelling is finely applied throughout and picked out with brushed gold highlights, while the shell's interior carries a lustre glaze finished to suggest the natural iridescence of real mother-of-pearl, a standout detail alongside the gilding. The base carries Royal Dux's pink triangle mark alongside the impressed model number 818, tying the figure to a documented run within the factory's output and dating it to the early 1900's, right as Art Nouveau was reshaping how Bohemian workshops approached figural porcelain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. 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A piece marked this way today sits within that broader, well-regarded Royal Vienna tradition, one that spans generations of skilled workshops rather than a single maker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis figure, modelled around the 1890's, shows a young woman as a water carrier, holding her jar in a pose that leans closer to Neoclassical restraint than to Art Nouveau's looser, more organic lines, even though it was produced during the same decades that Art Nouveau was reshaping decorative porcelain elsewhere in Austria and Germany. That overlap is fairly common for the period: factories across the region were often working in several stylistic registers at once, rather than switching wholesale from one movement to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition; neck has been professionally restored, inconspicuous crack on the base, small chips to paint on the base and on the toe of the shoe, restoration of the hem of the dress. Otherwise, the paint and gilding have been preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035590119757,"sku":"1660","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_000_20220802_203554-PhotoRoom_cd3c149a-5bd1-412e-adbd-7e5f4af7d3d7.webp?v=1780945861"},{"product_id":"art-nouveau-royal-worcester-porcelain-blush-jardiniere-cache-pot","title":"Royal Worcester blush jardinière, Art Nouveau leaf design","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyal Worcester's blush ivory finish, the same warm-toned glaze James Hadley favoured for his figural work, shows up here on a purely botanical subject rather than a figure: three leaf-shaped handles curl from base to rim, each one gilt-accented and integrated into the body rather than applied as a separate afterthought. The overall palette stays soft throughout, browns, yellows, and greens worked in pastel rather than saturated tones, which suits the leaf motif better than a bolder colour scheme would.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three-handle arrangement gives the piece a real sculptural quality for something that's ultimately a functional planter, the kind of jardinière built to hold visual interest even before anything's been planted in it. Art Nouveau's organic, plant-derived design language runs through the whole piece, unsurprising given the movement drew so heavily on botanical form to begin with, and a leaf-shaped handle is about as literal an expression of that as porcelain decoration gets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Minor loss to gilt, wear commensurate with age, chip to one leaf, repair and small chip to rim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035590414669,"sku":"4052","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/1-IMG_6422_jpg-Photoroom_d71f7211-1f07-48ab-8db7-b7d59fe617e3.webp?v=1780945865"},{"product_id":"art-nouveau-turn-wein-porcelain-figurine-of-young-woman-allegory-of-geography","title":"Ernst Wahliss Art Nouveau \"Geography\" allegorical figure","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnst Wahliss's Turn-Vienna workshop had a habit of updating much older visual conventions rather than discarding them, and this figure is a clean example of that instinct at work. Allegorical figures personifying abstract subjects, sciences, virtues, seasons, as women is a tradition that predates Art Nouveau by centuries, stretching back through Neoclassicism and beyond. This one represents Geography in the expected way, book in hand, resting against a globe, but rendered in the flowing lines and bisque finish that place it firmly at the turn of the century rather than in straight revival territory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gilt detailing is worked with real precision, picking out edges and accents against the matte bisque body rather than covering broad areas, typical of Wahliss's approach: restraint in the glazing choice, more confidence in the gilding. Allegorical figures like this tend to be collected as part of a themed set representing several disciplines, so a Geography figure often ends up being the piece that starts a grouping rather than completes one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. 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This twin-handled vase carries raised Mannerist-style foliate motifs across a cream and ivory ground, finished with teal-green banding at the rim, neck, and base and amber-toned scrollwork running through the handles and body, with daemon faces worked into the base itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMannerism itself was a sixteenth-century Italian movement, prized for stretching classical proportion and ornament into something more exaggerated and theatrical than the balanced Renaissance style it followed. German and Bohemian factories revived that vocabulary through the 1800's, and this vase's scrolling acanthus and daemon faces sit squarely within that tradition, reaching back three centuries for a decorative language rather than inventing a new one. The piece carries the maker's mark WS\u0026amp;S alongside mould number 2113, dating it to around 1880, a period when historicist revival styles like this one were still very much in demand across Continental Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Small chips to base and neck rim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035591856461,"sku":"2886","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/2886-Photoroom.jpg?v=1780945881"},{"product_id":"art-nouveau-bohemian-two-handled-single-flower-porcelain-vase-decorated-with-roses","title":"Bohemian Art Nouveau single-stem vase, roses","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSingle-flower vases, sometimes called bud vases, were built around restraint rather than abundance, designed to hold one bloom rather than a full arrangement, which put more pressure on the vessel itself to carry visual interest rather than leaning on the flowers to do it. This one earns that attention: a flat baluster body finished in burnt sienna and cream, a fluted top, and two ornate handles trimmed in gilt, with a central band of pink and pale yellow roses picking up the piece's only real colour accent against the warmer ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMade in Czechoslovakia and dated to the 1920's, the vase sits at an interesting point in Bohemian porcelain history, produced just after the region had become newly independent, still working from the same deep well of skilled craftsmanship and decorative tradition that had defined Bohemian porcelain for well over a century under Austro-Hungarian rule, now under a different flag entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Some scuffing commensurate with age, hairline crack to lower body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035593003341,"sku":"1908","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/2-20220909_211544-PhotoRoom_2ba7ac92-64e1-4056-834f-53d0fdaf757f.webp?v=1780945892"},{"product_id":"edwardian-royal-crown-derby-porcelain-shell-shaped-butter-or-caviar-serving-dishes","title":"Royal Crown Derby shell butter\/caviar dishes, pair","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese serving dishes take a shell form rather than a plain round or oval bowl, fluted edges and decorative moulding carrying the theme through, with looping scroll handles on either side. Royal Crown Derby's decoration sits within that shape: a white ground bordered in cobalt blue, gilded throughout, and hand-painted with floral garlands and bouquets in pink, yellow and blue polychrome enamel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe backstamp used here was in production between 1891 and 1921, narrowing the dating to c. 1910's within that window, and the pattern is numbered 4998, a useful reference if you're ever trying to track down matching pieces from the same run. Given the size and the shell form, these work well for butter, scallops, or caviar, small enough for a single portion without looking sparse on the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035601424717,"sku":"4094","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/1-IMG_7291-Photoroom_f81e675a-f44a-4a5a-8f48-2372b1b9da22.webp?v=1780945975"},{"product_id":"edwardian-royal-doulton-rosalind-porcelain-cabinet-plate-shakespeare-series-ware-1912-1928","title":"Royal Doulton \"Rosalind\" Shakespeare series plate","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyal Doulton's Series Ware ran through dozens of themed collections between the Edwardian period and the interwar years, each built around a different literary, historical, or decorative subject transferred onto standard blank ware rather than modelled from scratch. The Shakespeare series, produced from 1912 to 1928, worked through the playwright's best-known characters one plate at a time, and this one carries Rosalind, the disguised heroine of As You Like It, set in the forest of Arden where most of her half of the play actually takes place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe palette leans into that woodland setting: a pale yellow and blue ground behind Rosalind herself, painted in warmer earthy reds and greens that read as distinctly separate from the background rather than blending into it, a fairly deliberate way of keeping the figure legible against a decorative rather than purely naturalistic scene. Cabinet plates like this one were made to be displayed rather than used, and a Shakespeare series plate identified to a specific character and production window tends to appeal as much to Doulton collectors working through the full set as to anyone drawn to the subject on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Some crazing and yellowing commensurate with age; 2 cm crack near the rim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035601457485,"sku":"1973","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/https_253A_252F_252Fi.etsystatic.com_252F29579960_252Fr_252Fil_252Fedfaaa_252F4540670000_252Fil_fullxfull.4540670000_q5bp.jpg?v=1780945975"},{"product_id":"french-1870-s-louis-philippe-limoges-bisque-porcelain-figural-pair","title":"French Limoges bisque pair, Louis Philippe style, 1870's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the 1870's, Louis Philippe's reign had been over for decades, but the style that carried his name, restrained neoclassical lines with a slightly more sentimental edge than what came before it, was still being referenced by French porcelain workshops looking to evoke an earlier, more settled era. This pair, marked LP to the base and produced in Limoges bisque, follows that lead: a young couple dressed in detailed, colourful period costume, both wearing expressions that read as pensive rather than posed, almost mournful, which is an unusual choice for what's otherwise a fairly conventional decorative subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBisque porcelain, left unglazed after firing, changes how a face reads. Without a glossy surface to catch and scatter light, the modelling comes through more directly, which likely explains why the sculptor chose that quieter, more melancholic expression over the brighter, more theatrical look common to glazed figural pairs of the period. The LP mark to the base most likely references the Louis Philippe style itself, a clear signal to the buyer of exactly which decorative tradition they're looking at, even without a documented individual workshop behind it. Plenty of French decorative pairs from this period were made this way, style-marked rather than maker-marked, which puts this piece in good company rather than in any gap in its record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoung woman: several cracks and small chips to base; crack to underside of skirt; hairline crack to skirt crease; small black mark on neck; repair to head bow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung man: small chips to rim of base; tiny discolouration on right sock; chip to left side of jacket edge; missing index finger on right hand; small black marks on inner sleeve; tiny chip to pocket corner; hairline cracking to elbow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035605553485,"sku":"3410","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Photoroom_023_20240504_134326_9a3560c4-4900-4c30-964e-4524d37c445a.webp?v=1780946020"},{"product_id":"french-19th-century-onion-shaped-blue-porcelain-vase-of-cherub-riding-sea-monster","title":"French onion-shaped flask, cherub and sea monster, 1870's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEn grisaille painting, worked entirely in shades of grey or a single muted colour to imitate relief carving, was a technique French porcelain painters used specifically to create the illusion of sculptural depth on a flat surface, and this flask carries two such scenes within gilt reserves: a cherub riding what reads as either a dolphin or a more fantastical sea monster on one side, with a musical trophy, an arrangement of instruments bundled together as a decorative motif, on the reverse. Whether the creature was meant to be strictly mythological or simply a dramatic stand-in for a dolphin is left ambiguous, which is rather in keeping with the playful spirit of the scene itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe onion-shaped body sits against a powder-blue ground finished with a floral garland running around it, a French decorative combination that reads as considerably softer and more restrained than the bolder, more saturated palettes typical of German or Bohemian porcelain from the same decades. Dated to the 1870's, the piece falls within the Third French Republic's early years, a period when French porcelain continued leaning on eighteenth-century decorative references, cherubs, grisaille technique, gilt reserves, rather than adopting anything distinctly new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Light scratches to body and wear to gilt (especially around rim) appropriate to age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035605717325,"sku":"2922","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_013_20240124_181950_0ca4bddf-a86c-4236-a8f4-6f8582186bc1.webp?v=1780946024"},{"product_id":"george-iii-first-period-worcester-chinoiserie-blue-and-white-porcelain-dragon-bowl","title":"First Period Worcester dragon bowl, blue and white","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst Period Worcester refers specifically to the factory's earliest production era, roughly 1751 to 1783, before later ownership changes and stylistic shifts reshaped the business, and this bowl carries the transfer-printed dragon design typical of that window. The Chinoiserie dragon is worked entirely in underglaze blue, transfer printed rather than hand painted, with real clarity to the linework despite the age of the piece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe base carries an underglaze mark, uncommon enough to potentially represent a workman's individual mark rather than a standard factory stamp, alongside a cursive \"W\" in blue and a \"C5\" mark in purple. Small firing pits are visible near the edge on the front, evidence of the imperfect kiln conditions early Worcester production sometimes worked with, and traces of a gilt edge remain along the perimeter. The dragon pattern itself is one rarely encountered, worth knowing for anyone specifically collecting Worcester's early Chinoiserie designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Some grey speckles and few firing pockmarks to the glaze; wear to the gilt rim; two chips to the foot of the plate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035607257421,"sku":"3269","price":480.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/220-20240309_165911-Photoroom_6e8b8eb2-7dbb-42f6-85d3-e2dba1405a59.webp?v=1780946042"},{"product_id":"george-iii-spode-porcelain-sky-blue-cylindrical-miniature-spill-vase-matchpot","title":"Georgian Spode sky blue cylindrical spill vase, floral","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpode's cylindrical spill vases offered a simpler canvas than the trumpet or urn-shaped versions the factory also produced, and this one uses that plainer form to let a single decorative element carry the whole piece: a hand-painted floral spray set within a gilt-bordered cartouche, framed against a sky blue ground rather than surrounded by additional pattern work. The restraint suits the miniature scale, a smaller vase has less room to hold a busier design without it reading as cluttered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpode built its reputation across a wide range of decorative approaches during the Georgian period, from bold Imari and Orientalist-inspired patterns through to quieter, single-motif work like this one, and that range says as much about the factory's commercial reach as any individual pattern does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. 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This one leans hard into decoration rather than restraint: a deep red ground carrying a gold scrolling motif drawn from Middle Eastern, specifically Moroccan, ornamental tradition, the kind of Orientalist borrowing that ran through English decorative arts well before Japonisme became the more fashionable version of the same instinct later in the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Some wear to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035609026893,"sku":"3188","price":380.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/106-IMG_1986-Photoroom.jpg?v=1780946061"},{"product_id":"george-iii-spode-porcelain-imari-urn-shaped-spill-vase","title":"Georgian Spode Imari urn-shaped spill vase, pattern 539","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImari patterns take their name from the Japanese port through which the ware was originally exported, and by the early 1800's English factories, Spode chief among them, had thoroughly absorbed the look: cobalt blue and burnt orange worked together with rich gilding, a palette combination distinctive enough that \"Imari\" has become shorthand for it regardless of where a piece was actually made. This urn-shaped vase carries the pattern across ornamental borders top and bottom, with a single blossoming flower placed on the body, restrained compared to some of the more densely patterned Imari-style pieces Spode also produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Some wear to gilt; hairline crack to neck.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035609092429,"sku":"3185","price":380.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/69-IMG_1949-Photoroom_63ba69ab-74d4-457d-aa55-cb200efe7d50.webp?v=1780946062"},{"product_id":"georgian-mason-s-ironstone-pot-pourri-vase-incense-burner-in-fence-japan-design","title":"Mason's Ironstone Fence Japan pot pourri vase, 1840's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fence Japan\" belongs to a family of English ironstone patterns loosely inspired by Japanese Imari ware, though the pattern names rarely make much literal sense, \"Fence Japan\" refers to a fenced-garden motif rather than anything actually depicting Japan itself, a naming convention that was more about signalling an exotic, fashionable aesthetic than describing the scene with any precision. This lidded vase carries the pattern in its full form: mazarine blue and burnt orange enamels worked with hand-painted gilding across a baluster body, mask head handles on each side, and a pierced lid topped with a small knob, the piercing allowing scent to escape if the piece was used as intended, for pot pourri or burning incense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMason's built ironstone's reputation on exactly this kind of decorative confidence, dense pattern work on a durable body, and a piece surviving with its pierced lid intact is worth noting on its own, since lids like this one tend to be the first casualty of decades of handling. Dated to the 1840's, the vase carries both a specific function and a specific decorative pattern, giving it more to offer a collector than a purely ornamental piece from the same period might.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Some wear to gilt and paint; restoration to lid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035611648333,"sku":"3200","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/39-IMG_2306-Photoroom_b4532137-55ff-49e8-a3b5-903c5fa4d4ef.webp?v=1780946095"},{"product_id":"georgian-pair-mason-s-ironstone-pottery-double-handled-baluster-octagonal-vases","title":"Mason's Ironstone Georgian octagonal vase pair","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMason's patented ironstone in 1813, marketing it as a tougher, more affordable alternative to fine porcelain, and this pair shows the pattern the factory built much of its early reputation on: an octagonal baluster body finished in cobalt blue, hand-painted flowers and foliage worked in bold green and burnt orange, and gilt scrollwork threading through the composition. The folded loop handles on each side are a small but telling detail, decorative rather than strictly structural, since ironstone rarely needed the reinforcement porcelain sometimes did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Georgian dating places this pair right at the start of Mason's commercial success, ironstone having only just been patented within the same broad period, so a piece from this window sits closer to the technique's origins than most of what later reached the market under the same name. A matched pair surviving together in the same pattern is generally the harder find, since ironstone's real durability meant plenty of individual pieces outlasted their partners through decades of separate handling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Wear appropriate to age and use; hairline internal crack; wear to gilt and paint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035611877709,"sku":"3170","price":235.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Photoroom_006_20240309_205905_16ee91c5-4dc8-4b6b-a66f-d4a23b340dd2.webp?v=1780946096"},{"product_id":"georgian-staffordshire-blue-and-white-transferware-tchiurluk-ottoman-dinner-plate","title":"Georgian Staffordshire \"Tchiurluk\" transferware plate","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue and white transferware series depicting scenes from the Ottoman Empire had real appeal in early 19th century Britain, tied to a broader public fascination with the East that also fed into Egyptian and Chinoiserie revival trends of the same period. This plate carries the \"Tchiurluk\" pattern, part of that Ottoman Empire series, the titled view printed in blue at the centre and framed by the series' typical border of flowers, scrolls and incense burners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe service is attributed to John and William Ridgway, whose Cauldon Place works in Stoke-on-Trent operated through roughly this period, producing printed wares alongside the finer porcelain the firm is often better remembered for. Series like this worked almost like a set of illustrated postcards for a household that would never actually travel to see the places depicted, each plate offering a different named view within the same consistent decorative border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Wear appropriate to age and use; small brown dot on plate; minor discolouration on back side.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035617317197,"sku":"3199","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/27-IMG_2293-Photoroom_954187b5-19b7-4350-b16a-44b2df62e050.webp?v=1780946100"},{"product_id":"german-1890-s-thuringian-porcelain-figurine-of-woman-peeling-potatoes","title":"E. \u0026 A. Müller Thuringian figurine, woman peeling potatoes","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDomestic scenes like this one sat apart from the shepherdesses and Georgian dandies that dominated most German figural porcelain of the period. A woman peels potatoes with a young girl beside her, an ordinary household chore rather than the pastoral fantasy or courtship narrative decorative figures usually leaned on, aimed at a middle-class parlour market that more often preferred its domesticity softened by costume or scenery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe piece was made by Porzellanfabrik E. \u0026amp; A. Müller, a Thuringian factory operating through the same decades that produced most of the region's pastoral and genre work, and this figure carries the same careful detailing and enamelling the factory was known for. A quieter subject than the courting couples and pastoral pairs that fill most German porcelain shelves, it's the kind of piece that stands out precisely because it isn't trying to charm anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Few of the flower petals are chipped.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035621970253,"sku":"3426","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Photoroom_016_20240506_173346_a9bd64ab-e5c0-4576-9338-4891459e594b.webp?v=1780946103"},{"product_id":"german-porcelain-matching-figurines-georgian-gentleman-and-lady-on-gilded-bases","title":"German porcelain pair, Georgian gentleman and lady, 1930's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the 1930's, the Georgian-costume pair had become one of German porcelain's most durable formulas, a subject so reliably popular that factories kept producing it for the better part of a century after the actual Georgian period ended. This pair follows that pattern closely: a dandy leaning against a tree stump, his companion holding a large yellow fan, both worked in bright red, pink and blue enamel and set on matching scalloped, gilded bases.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe colour palette here runs bolder than the softer, more pastel-leaning Georgian pairs typical of the earlier decades, which fits with the piece's later date; German decorative porcelain through the 1920's and 30's tended toward brighter, more saturated enamelling generally, a shift that shows up clearly in a pair like this even while the subject matter itself stayed firmly rooted in the previous century's fashions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat vintage condition. Tiny nibbles to the top of the lady's fan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035629015373,"sku":"2010","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_000_20221104_225436-PhotoRoom_1ec5d983-8343-426c-9c7d-37669fda29a5.webp?v=1780946108"},{"product_id":"german-porcelain-sitzendorf-figurine-of-georgian-peasant-girl-with-tambourine-and-sheep-at-her-feet","title":"Sitzendorf Georgian revival peasant girl figurine, 1910's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSitzendorf leaned on Georgian pastoral subjects for decades after the actual Georgian era ended, an idealised rustic scene, comfortable and a little wistful, that kept selling long after the fashions it depicted had gone out of use. This figure sticks close to the formula. A young peasant girl holds a tambourine, a sheep settled at her feet, standing against a moulded base worked with floral bouquets, scrolls and gilt, backed by a tree trunk support that keeps the figure stable while reading as part of the pastoral scenery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe palette leans heavily on emerald green and pale yellow, with the skirt hand-painted in blue, purple and orange florals against the more restrained ruffled collar and headscarf, a fair amount of colour packed into a single figure without it tipping into clutter. Made in Thuringia and dated to the 1910's, the piece belongs to the domestic, pastoral genre-figure tradition Sitzendorf built its reputation on, one that stayed decades removed from the period it depicts, which was always rather the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Tiny fleabite to one flower petal; sheep missing one ear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035632554317,"sku":"1538","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_001_20220316_204051-PhotoRoom.webp?v=1780946109"},{"product_id":"hadley-s-worcester-faience-jardini-re-late-19th-century","title":"Hadley's Worcester faience jardinière, pattern 197","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Hadley set up his own factory after leaving Royal Worcester, and pieces bearing the Hadley's Worcester mark, rather than Royal Worcester itself, come from that later, independent chapter of his career rather than his earlier decades as the bigger factory's chief modeller. This jardinière shows the faience side of his output: moulded panels in deep teal relief, each framed with peach and ochre architectural detail and holding a hand-painted sepia floral spray against a shaded ground, the kind of layered, confidently coloured decoration Hadley's independent workshop leaned into.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe shaped feet and raised borders give the piece real architectural presence for its size, restrained enough to sit comfortably in a cabinet but sturdy enough not to read as a delicate trinket. It's marked to the base \"Hadley's Worcester England Faience,\" pattern 197\/2, and a plant pot with this much going on rather undersells its actual job, which is understandable, since most jardinières are designed to disappear behind whatever's growing out of them, and this one clearly wasn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition overall. There is minor wear to the raised gilt decoration, consistent with age. No cracks or repairs. The interior is clean, and the colours remain strong throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035642876237,"sku":"4663","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/302-IMG_3004_jpg-Photoroom_d7c762ab-6812-4936-9cdf-48b37c2ab912.webp?v=1780946116"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/collections\/p4.jpg?v=1780946681","url":"https:\/\/ritasbazaar.co.uk\/collections\/european-porcelain-ceramics.oembed?page=7","provider":"Rita’s Bazaar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}