{"title":"Victorian","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"1830-s-old-paris-porcelain-large-gilded-milk-jug-carafe-jean-pierre-feuillet","title":"Vieux Paris gilded milk jug, Jean-Pierre Feuillet","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVieux Paris — literally \"Old Paris\" — is the catch-all name given to fine porcelain made by the numerous small workshops operating in and around the city in the decades either side of 1800, most of them producing wares good enough to rival the grander state factories without ever bothering to establish a lasting brand name of their own. This milk jug follows a shape and colour palette that had real currency across Europe at the time: a ribbed baluster body alternating white porcelain with gilded stripes, sitting on a stepped pedestal foot, a combination popular enough that comparable examples were produced by both Royal Vienna and Sèvres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe handle carries applied, moulded acanthus leaf decoration, a classical motif entirely in keeping with the Empire style the whole piece leans into. It's attributed to Jean-Pierre Feuillet, active as a decorator between 1814 and 1834, though the base itself is unmarked — Feuillet worked as an independent painter-decorator rather than a factory owner, which was common practice at the time and part of why so much fine Vieux Paris porcelain went unsigned despite the quality of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Firing and gilding defect to handle; small pockmark to gilding on the foot; some wear to gilding appropriate to age and use; fleabite to edge of foot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035552993613,"sku":"3265","price":235.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/307-20240309_200946-Photoroom_b5ccf4ec-e1ba-4e48-8976-e9eb5aec30b3.webp?v=1780945522"},{"product_id":"french-empire-old-paris-porcelain-set-of-3-gilded-side-dessert-plates-jean-pierre-feuillet","title":"Vieux Paris gilded dessert plates, Jean-Pierre Feuillet","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis set of three plates follows the same ribbed, gilt-striped design that made this particular Vieux Paris pattern so widely copied across Europe at the turn of the 19th century — alternating bands of plain white porcelain and gold, a simple enough formula that both Royal Vienna and Sèvres produced comparable versions of their own. The restraint of the pattern is really what makes it work: no painted scenes or heavy ornament competing for attention, just the contrast between bare porcelain and gilding doing all the visual work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey're attributed to Jean-Pierre Feuillet, a decorator active between 1814 and 1834, though the bases carry no maker's mark — Feuillet worked independently as a painter-decorator rather than running his own factory, which was a common enough arrangement at the time and explains why so much fine Vieux Paris porcelain from this period survives unsigned despite its quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Some wear to gilt appropriate to age and use; small firing defect to reverse of one plate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035553124685,"sku":"3266","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/441-20240310_114710-Photoroom_9b6103cb-0b75-4443-93eb-0c53af948b2c.webp?v=1780945522"},{"product_id":"1840-s-pottery-copper-lustreware-small-wine-jug-with-bacchus-mask-and-floral-sprays","title":"Early Victorian copper lustre wine jug, Bacchus mask","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopper lustreware got its metallic sheen from a genuinely clever bit of chemistry — a thin film of copper oxide applied over the glaze and fired in a low-oxygen kiln, tricking the surface into a warm, coppery iridescence without using any actual precious metal. This jug puts that finish to decorative use around a round baluster body on a pedestal foot, with hand-painted red and yellow flower sprays and green foliage set against a royal blue ground band, the moulded relief giving the whole scene a bit of dimension rather than sitting flat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe spout is shaped as a Bacchus mask, a nod to the god of wine that turns a purely functional part of the jug into its most characterful feature — a small joke that would have been entirely obvious to anyone actually using it to pour wine. Novelty spouts like this were fairly common on jugs meant for a specific drink, matching the vessel's decoration to its intended contents rather than leaving the two unrelated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Small fleabites and chips along the edge of the foot; wear to the tip of the spout; some wear to painted flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035553157453,"sku":"1445","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_1264-PhotoRoom.jpg?v=1780945525"},{"product_id":"1890-s-hanau-silver-karl-kurz-silberwarenfabrik-crescent-bonbon-basket-trinket-dish","title":"German silver crescent trinket dish, Hanau, 1890's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHanau built a real reputation as a centre for German silverware through the late 19th century, and pieces made there were regularly exported to Britain, where they had to clear a separate import assay before being legally sold as silver. This dish shows exactly that process: made by Karl Kurz Silberwarenfabrik and hallmarked for Hanau in the 1890's, then imported by Samuel Boyce Landeck and fully assayed for Chester in 1902, giving it two distinct sets of marks rather than one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe crescent form is embossed all over with a dense foliate and scroll design, and the centre carries a gallant scene, a courting couple shown as farmers rather than the more common aristocratic pairing, a nice bit of variation on a fairly standard decorative theme of the period. The shape and small scale suit either a ring dish or general trinket use on a dressing table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035554894157,"sku":"3042","price":129.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Photoroom_20240223_144123_609989f0-1b6c-49c6-871b-c39fa43c596f.webp?v=1780945543"},{"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":"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-das-gro-e-fass-im-heidelberger-tun-cast-iron-souvenir-plate","title":"19th century cast iron souvenir plate, Great Heidelberg Tun","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Great Heidelberg Tun, contained within the cellars of Heidelberg Castle, held a staggering capacity when it was built in 1751, over 220,000 litres, big enough that it's had a small platform built on top for dancing, which gives some sense of the scale visitors would have encountered on a Grand Tour stop. This plate commemorates that landmark directly, the wine vat itself worked into the centre of the design, inscribed \"Das Große Fass im Heidelberger\" across the front.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wide border carries high-relief fruiting grapevines, a fitting decorative choice given the subject, and the whole thing is cast in iron rather than the porcelain or glass more commonly used for souvenir wares of this kind, giving it real weight and a slightly industrial character that suits the sheer physical scale of the object it's commemorating. Grand Tour souvenirs like this were bought specifically to prove a traveller had actually stood in front of whatever landmark they depicted, a 19th century equivalent of a well-chosen postcard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition. Tarnishing commensurate with age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035561382221,"sku":"2757","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/26-20231214_012259-PhotoRoom_0441c6da-cd79-4b95-931b-70a5b66c19c5.jpg?v=1780945600"},{"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-meissen-porcelain-pair-of-small-floral-saucers-with-gilt-scalloped-rims","title":"Meissen 19th century floral saucer pair, gilt rims","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeissen has spent nearly three centuries as one of Europe's benchmark porcelain names, and this small pair carries the hallmarks of that reputation in miniature: fine hand-painted floral work against a crisp white ground, finished with a gilt band running around each scalloped rim. Each saucer carries its own floral design, individual rather than identical, the kind of small variation Meissen painters used to keep even a matched set from feeling mechanically repeated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePieces this size were almost always made as part of a larger tea or coffee service, and the vast majority of those services have long since been broken up and scattered across different collections over the decades. A pair surviving together, rather than as single orphaned saucers, is the harder find, and makes a neat addition on its own even without the rest of the set behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Minor wear to gilt and paint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035562529101,"sku":"3204","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/96-IMG_2363-Photoroom_5f96e22c-d369-41a0-99d3-558f7f524580.webp?v=1780945610"},{"product_id":"19th-century-neoclassical-imported-hanau-silver-miniature-table-dresser-ring-trinket-box","title":"Neoclassical Hanau silver miniature table box","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis small silver box takes the form of a table in miniature, standing on four hoof feet with a hinged top that lifts to reveal a gilt interior underneath. The lid is embossed with scrolling foliage framing a classical garden scene of women at leisure, done in the Neoclassical taste that German silversmiths in Hanau were particularly known for reproducing throughout the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eHanau built its reputation on close imitation of earlier French and English silver styles, and pieces made there were regularly exported and stamped with British import marks once they reached London — this one carries a full London hallmark for 1899, along with the mark of the importer, John George Smith, who brought it into the country. It's a reminder that \"Victorian silver\" often had a longer, more international route to the dressing table than the hallmark alone suggests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Edge of lid is bent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035562692941,"sku":"3044","price":270.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Photoroom_011_20240223_144826_8cbc0b98-889b-49f4-99b5-720dd1f3b034.webp?v=1780945613"},{"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":"victorian-mahogany-sarcophagus-shape-2-section-small-tea-caddy","title":"Victorian mahogany sarcophagus tea caddy, c. 1860's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis small mahogany tea caddy takes the sarcophagus form that had already been fashionable for decades by the time it was made in England around the 1860's, a shape borrowed loosely from Egyptian Revival taste and applied to just about every box-like object the Victorians could get their hands on. The domed lid carries a gadrooned border along the top, and the whole thing sits up on four squat bun feet, giving a fairly small object more visual weight than its size would suggest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside, two separate sections kept different grades of tea apart — practical, since tea was expensive enough in the earlier part of the century to be locked away, though by the 1860's that habit had more to do with tradition than actual necessity. It's a good example of how a purely functional object could still be treated as something worth a bit of ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Wear inside and to liner appropriate to age and use; no internal lids; losses to corners; lid doesn't sit flush; some cracking to the exterior veneer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035563675981,"sku":"3173","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/29-IMG_1737-Photoroom.webp?v=1780945621"},{"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":"american-19th-century-p-l-krider-pair-of-large-gilt-silver-table-salts-with-ram-horn-handles-and-palmettes","title":"19th century American Egyptian Revival silver gilt table salts","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Lewis Krider ran a genuinely significant Philadelphia silversmithing operation through the mid-19th century, working in coin silver, a slightly lower fineness standard than sterling that was common in American silver before the industry largely standardised on 925 later in the century. This pair of table salts carries his work in a distinctly Egyptian Revival mode, with palmette engraving covering the inverted baluster bodies, a motif borrowed from ancient Egyptian architecture and decorative art that had a genuine surge of popularity through the 1860's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe handles are shaped as ram horns, curling outward from each side rather than sitting as a plain loop, which gives the pieces a sculptural quality beyond most table salts of the period. Both interiors are gold-washed, a practical as well as decorative choice, since gilding resists the corrosive effect salt has on plain silver far better than leaving the interior untreated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. One pot has a shallow indent and a small ding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035569574221,"sku":"2289","price":235.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/s-l1600_2828_29_34fc4df7-8197-4110-abd7-8363ee772e40.webp?v=1780945649"},{"product_id":"19th-century-biedermeier-german-kpm-miniature-porcelain-bowl-trinket-dish-with-portrait-of-lady","title":"KPM porcelain dish, lady in feathered hat","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKPM, short for Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, the Royal Prussian porcelain works in Berlin, built a lasting reputation for portrait painting on porcelain that held its own against the more famous French and Austrian houses. This small, shallow dish carries exactly that kind of work: a young woman in a feathered hat, painted with real attention to expression and dress rather than reduced to a decorative figure, set against a maroon-brown ground that gives the portrait real depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition, no chips or cracks. Some light scuffing along the rim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035570950477,"sku":"1592","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/ChatGPT_Image_Aug_3_2026_08_37_27_PM.png?v=1785785865"},{"product_id":"19th-century-german-biedermeier-kpm-miniature-porcelain-bowl-trinket-dish-with-portrait-of-lady-in-feather-hat","title":"KPM porcelain dish, lady in plumed beret","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis dish takes an interesting costume reference: the sitter wears a large plumed beret styled after Louis XIV or Restoration fashion, a deliberately historical costume choice rather than contemporary dress. KPM painters often worked from earlier portraiture and costume prints for exactly this kind of piece, giving 19th century buyers a taste of aristocratic French fashion filtered through German porcelain painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe background is gilded, catching light around the figure rather than letting her sit against a flat, receding backdrop, and it changes the whole feel of the portrait compared to a plainer ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition, no chips or cracks. Scuffing to gilt commensurate with age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035571179853,"sku":"1593","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/ChatGPT_Image_Aug_3_2026_08_50_43_PM.png?v=1785786658"},{"product_id":"19th-century-german-kpm-square-miniature-porcelain-bowl-pin-trinket-dish-with-portrait-of-lady-in-feather-plume-hat","title":"Square KPM porcelain dish, feathered plume hat","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKPM produced a whole strand of these costume portraits through the 19th century, painting sitters in fashions from a century or more earlier rather than dressing them in contemporary style. This wasn't meant as historical accuracy so much as a kind of decorative fantasy, cabinet portraits designed to look elegant and slightly aristocratic rather than to depict anyone specific. This dish follows exactly that convention: a lady shown in profile, in a large feathered hat styled after Louis XIV or Restoration dress, painted against a dark ground that throws the paler tones of her face and costume into contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat antique condition, no chips or cracks. Scuffing to rim and some tiny scuffed spots inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035571212621,"sku":"1591","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/ChatGPT_Image_Aug_3_2026_09_18_11_PM.png?v=1785788570"},{"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":"antique-black-forest-gothic-revival-wood-keepsake-box-with-floral-carving-germany-c-1890s","title":"Black Forest Gothic Revival wood keepsake box, c. 1890's","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis wood keepsake box was carved in Germany's Black Forest region around the 1890's, shaped in the casket form typical of the period, with a domed hinged lid that gives it a bit more presence than a flat-topped box would manage. The entire surface has been worked into a rippled, wavy texture, so that even the plain background never quite sits still — and against that, bold foliate and floral carving climbs across the lid and sides with real depth to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eBlack Forest carving developed into its own recognizable school in the nineteenth century, prized for exactly this kind of naturalistic, high-relief work — carvers who'd trained on bears and stags turned the same skill toward smaller domestic pieces like this one. It's the sort of object that rewards actually running a hand over it, which is more than you can say for most Victorian keepsake boxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eBoxes like this were made to hold jewellery, letters, and small mementoes, and this one still does that job well — equally suited to a desk, a dressing table, or simply on display where the carving can be appreciated up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eVery good antique condition. Some nicks and light scuffing in keeping with age and gentle use, with the carving remaining crisp and the box presenting beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035574030669,"sku":"3694","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/s-l1600_2822_29-Photoroom_e79e77cf-aab6-4eab-8855-047c28d587ef.webp?v=1780945689"},{"product_id":"antique-continental-silver-gilt-brooch-set-with-4-rows-of-mediterranean-coral-beads","title":"19th century German silver gilt coral bow brooch","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMediterranean coral has been worked into jewellery since antiquity, but the salmon-pink shade seen here was a particular favourite of 19th century Continental jewellers, prized for a warmth of colour that gold and silver alone couldn't provide. This brooch puts sixty-three individual coral beads to work across four rows — three of sixteen, one of fifteen — each strand threaded onto wire and soldered securely at both sides, an arrangement that takes real patience to get even, let alone symmetrical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcept it isn't symmetrical, deliberately: the whole thing is built as an asymmetric bow shape, a design choice that gives it more movement than a mirrored, formal bow would manage. The silver gilt setting is marked 830, a Continental silver standard rarely seen on British-made pieces, which combined with the coral work points to a probable German origin, dating to around the 1890's. The original C-clasp on the reverse is a small but useful detail for confirming the piece hasn't been altered since it was made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Wear to gilt; the pin is a bit uneven; some of the coral beads have tiny holes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035576783181,"sku":"3107","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/102-20240216_232731-Photoroom_e01988b4-e793-4cb8-8e66-7a6dca302c83.jpg?v=1780945708"},{"product_id":"rare-doulton-lambeth-aesthetic-movement-stoneware-teapot-with-sterling-silver-mounts-birmingham-1880","title":"Doulton Lambeth Aesthetic teapot, silver mounts","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDoulton Lambeth's stoneware production in this period was doing something genuinely different from the factory's earlier, more purely functional output — this teapot's body is moulded with applied beading and stylised foliate motifs set within diamond panels, glazed in cobalt blue, olive green and ochre, the kind of naturalistic, textured colour scheme the Aesthetic Movement favoured over the brighter, more literal decoration of earlier Victorian ceramics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe sterling silver mounts on the spout and hinged lid are by John Grinsell \u0026amp; Sons, fully hallmarked for Birmingham, 1880, and the domed ceramic lid picks up the same floral decoration as the body, tying the whole design together rather than treating the lid as a separate afterthought. Pairing stoneware with silver mounts like this reflects a wider late 19th century impulse to treat even everyday objects — teapots, jugs, tankards — as worth genuine artistic attention rather than purely functional design, which says something about Victorian ambition: even the humble teapot wasn't safe from a bit of high-minded artistry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDoulton Lambeth pieces from this period sit at the crossover between the Aesthetic Movement and the early Arts and Crafts movement, which makes them a reasonable point of interest for collectors working across either category rather than strictly one or the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSigns of previous damage and repair where the spout meets the body. The handle has been repaired. Minor wear to gilt and enamel consistent with age and use. Presents well with vibrant glazes and finely preserved detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035576815949,"sku":"3738","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/s-l1600_2820_29-Photoroom_b0eeafb1-6508-47ca-988b-56445c0ac517.webp?v=1780945709"},{"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. Small chip to the underside of the boy's base; small crack to girl's base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035579076941,"sku":"2009","price":60.0,"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_252Fed55ec_252F4604720729_252Fil_fullxfull.4604720729_1lsa.jpg?v=1780945734"},{"product_id":"antique-large-limoges-enamel-email-d-art-portrait-of-lady-swivel-brooch-signed-gh","title":"Victorian Limoges Email d'Art portrait brooch, signed GH","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimoges enamelling is one of those techniques where the difficulty is entirely invisible in the finished object — each colour needs its own trip through the kiln, sometimes a dozen firings or more, with every layer risking cracking or ruining the work underneath it. Whoever \"GH\" was, they clearly had the patience for it: the portrait here is a courtly lady in profile, dressed in 18th century costume, luminous blues against a black enamel ground, her gown picked out with pink roses and the kind of restrained gilding that makes you wonder how many failed attempts came before this one survived the kiln intact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictorian taste had a genuine soft spot for exactly this kind of thing — costume portraits looking back a century, borrowed nostalgia dressed up as jewellery — and the mount plays along nicely, a copper and brass swivel frame engraved with beading and a twisted rope border, letting the portrait turn rather than sitting fixed and staring. The reverse carries a C-clasp, a style phased out by the 1910's, plus the original safety chain, both handy for placing the piece in time even without a hallmark to lean on. It's the sort of brooch that rewards being picked up and turned in the hand rather than only glanced at from across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Small chip to base of portrait; the top and bottom of the inner frame are a bit depressed; small chip to enamel on reverse; tiny dings to frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035579928909,"sku":"3119","price":430.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/30-20240222_052221-Photoroom_01d82a08-a8e1-4f70-acde-271aa96912a2.webp?v=1780945741"},{"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":"royal-worcester-porcelain-tea-cup-and-saucers-1891-1902","title":"Royal Worcester tea cup and two saucers, 1891-1902","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA nice little Royal Worcester set for anyone who takes their tea with a bit of period flourish. This set brings together pieces from slightly different years rather than a single matched production run — the cup is model 1471, dated 1891, while the two saucers are model 1196, dated 1902, a gap of over a decade that was fairly normal practice for a factory continuously producing similar shapes and glazes across a long stretch of time. All three share the same satin blush glaze, shifting gently from apricot to creamy white, moulded with bamboo-style ribs that give the porcelain a botanical, faintly Japanese-influenced feel typical of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe cup has a scalloped rim, a gilt handle, and brown botanical transfer decoration under raised gilt detailing, while the saucers carry the bamboo ribbing straight through, radiating out from the centre in a fairly precise, symmetrical pattern. It's genuinely thin, translucent porcelain — hold a piece up to the light and you can see it — the kind of crisp modelling Royal Worcester was known for through its late Victorian and Edwardian output.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eVery good antique condition overall. There is a tiny chip to the base of the cup, light wear to the gilding, and minor firing or glaze imperfections to the saucers. The porcelain remains bright and attractive, with no cracks or visible repairs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035580748109,"sku":"4647","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/102-IMG_2802-Photoroom_92a65f4c-b477-4491-8b96-b37be6360e94.webp?v=1780945749"},{"product_id":"antique-victorian-silver-plated-three-piece-tea-set-rococo-revival-and-aestheticism-c-1880s","title":"Victorian silver plated tea set, Rococo Revival","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis three-piece set, teapot, two-handled sugar bowl, and milk jug, brings together two decorative movements that don't usually turn up on the same piece: Rococo Revival's dense, curling ornament and Aestheticism's cleaner, more considered forms. Each piece is hand-chased with scrollwork, stylised foliage, and geometric borders, giving the surfaces real texture without tipping fully into the busier extremes Rococo Revival can sometimes reach for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe teapot leads with a curving spout, a cast handle finished with a shell motif, and a hinged lid topped with a turned walnut finial, wood against metal being a small but effective bit of material contrast. The sugar bowl and jug pick up the same visual language, twin handles on the sugar, a flared spout on the jug, so the set reads as a coherent trio rather than three separately designed pieces pushed together. All three carry two vacant cartouches each, left blank for a monogram or inscription, which makes the whole set a solid choice as a gift, ready to be made personal before it changes hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeapot: 17 cm tall, 27 cm spout to handle, 12.5 cm wide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSugar bowl: 13 cm tall, 20 cm handle to handle, 11 cm wide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMilk jug: 11 cm tall, 15.5 cm spout to handle, 8 cm wide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Interiors are exceptionally clean and the engravings remain crisp and detailed. Minor wear to the silver plating consistent with gentle use and age. 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It's described as a rustic style, and the deep, uneven texture of the moulding does suit that description, giving the jug more of a hand-worked, organic feel than a piece with cleaner, more geometric decoration would have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Chips to rim; crazing; two chips to handle; small chip to bottom of base; hairline crack to rim main handle; small cracks to the interior of the handle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035582452045,"sku":"1412","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_1790-PhotoRoom_5bc4a8a5-b1b7-4889-8215-f28131cccf9e.jpg?v=1780945765"},{"product_id":"art-nouveau-wilhelm-schiller-and-sons-majolica-pottery-double-handed-vase","title":"Wilhelm Schiller \u0026 Son majolica vase, daemon faces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilhelm Schiller \u0026amp; Son ran their Bohemian pottery through the last decades of the 1800's, producing majolica work that leaned into historicist revival styles rather than the newer decorative movements gaining ground elsewhere in Europe at the time. 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. 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This necklace carries two full strands of round, faceted garnets doing exactly that, roughly 150 carats of stone across the piece as a whole, deep and consistent enough in colour that the sheer volume of it reads as the main event rather than any single stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe clasp is where the piece shows its hand stylistically: worked in 14ct\/585 gold with textured foliate engraving that leans toward Aesthetic Movement and Arts \u0026amp; Crafts taste, a slightly different sensibility to the more architectural, symmetrical lines usually associated with Belle Époque design proper — evidence that jewellers of the period borrowed across movements rather than sticking rigidly to one school. It's a small detail, easy to miss on a necklace built around two strands of deep red stone, but worth noticing if you like your antique jewellery to have a bit of stylistic argument going on beneath the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Tiny nibbles along facets of garnets appropriate to age and wear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035593625933,"sku":"3349","price":330.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/141-20240223_231539-Photoroom_c0c997ea-9ee0-433e-8fda-da3418dc7123.webp?v=1780945898"},{"product_id":"rare-carl-tielsch-co-hard-paste-porcelain-coffee-pot-rococo-revival-floral-decoration-with-gilding-circa-1850s","title":"Carl Tielsch coffee pot, Rococo Revival gilding","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarl Tielsch \u0026amp; Co's mid-19th century Rococo Revival output looked back deliberately to Sèvres and Meissen porcelain from a century earlier, borrowing the ornate, floral vocabulary of 18th century French decorative style and translating it into new production for a market with real appetite for that kind of historical reference. This coffee pot is built on an eight-lobed baluster form, a shape that gave decorators multiple distinct panels to work across rather than one continuous surface, with deeply moulded floral and foliate motifs worked around the spout, handle, lid and foot, all picked out in gilding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe colour scheme stays fairly restrained against the density of the moulding — pure white glaze with delicate pink washes, letting the gilt work carry most of the visual richness rather than competing with a busier palette. Pieces like this were made with genuine dual purpose in mind: functional enough for actual coffee service, decorative enough to sit out on display between uses, which was rather the point of investing this much decorative effort into a piece of everyday tableware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Minor rubbing to the gilding consistent with age. No cracks, chips, or repairs. The blue eagle and \"C.T.\" mark are clearly visible on the base. The body displays several minor firing-related pinholes formed during manufacture; these small imperfections are stable, confined to the surface, and do not affect use or overall presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035593920845,"sku":"B1225","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/5-20250406_031313-Photoroom.jpg?v=1780945904"},{"product_id":"large-victorian-sterling-silver-sugar-tongs-with-pierced-ropework-arms-and-shell-terminals","title":"Large Victorian sterling silver sugar tongs, ropework arms","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSugar tongs like these emerged once sugar shifted from an expensive, tightly guarded luxury to something regularly served at the table, and Georgian and Victorian silversmiths spent decades finding new ways to make a basically simple tool interesting. These are bright-cut all over, floral and foliate detail cut directly into the silver so it catches light rather than sitting flat, with the arms pierced in a ropework pattern and each terminal finished as a shell. The whole design has a flowing, organic quality that gets close enough to Art Nouveau you'd be forgiven for guessing it a decade too early.\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":54035597427021,"sku":"3464","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Photoroom_013_20240507_204503_8cd893b8-8a0f-4653-8a80-9229ab932731.webp?v=1780945934"},{"product_id":"antique-anglo-indian-carved-sandalwood-cigarette-holder-dispensing-box","title":"Anglo-Indian carved sandalwood cigarette box, Kashmir","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Anglo-Indian sandalwood cigarette box, carved and hinged, made in Kashmir in the late 19th century — the kind of dense, all-over carving that took real patience to produce, and that made Kashmiri work recognisable at a glance across the export trade. Srinagar workshops were known for exactly this style: leaf and floral patterns carved so closely together that barely any plain wood shows through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpen it up and the construction turns out to be as clever as the decoration — three separate hinged compartments, built to hold 48 cigarettes between them, so the box functions properly rather than just looking the part. The exterior carries the same attention outward, with flora and fauna carved across every visible surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSandalwood carving became one of Kashmir's most recognised export crafts under British colonial trade, with pieces like this made specifically for buyers back in Europe.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. 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This one carries the reference through multiple layers of cutting: hob nail work across the shoulder, a slice-cut neck, a spiral facet cut stopper, and a star cut base, each technique adding a different kind of light-catching texture rather than repeating the same pattern throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two cordial glasses continue the theme. Their bulbous lower bowls are faceted to resemble a thistle bract, the fluted middle sections suggest an unopened bloom, and etched thistle motifs finish the design across the flared bowl above. The silver plated stand pulls the whole set together, its fluted openwork handle topped with ball decoration, engraved with a flowering thistle pattern, and raised on four cast thistle feet, so the botanical reference runs consistently through decanter, glasses and stand alike rather than being confined to one piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Wear to silvering on the stand; stopper has repairs to neck, large sideways chip to top and small chip to base; fleabites to base of decanter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035605258573,"sku":"2778","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/263-IMG_6680-PhotoRoom_6083042e-1e42-43e9-83dd-ad978e6525ea.webp?v=1780946016"},{"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. 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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. 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This large group shows a farmer and his wife at harvest, sheaves of wheat gathered at their feet, he holding a sickle and she a basket, both dressed in costume meant to read as recognisably Albanian to a Victorian eye rather than as an exact rendering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scale of the piece is worth noting on its own; large pearlware groups like this one took considerably more skill and kiln space to produce successfully than the smaller cottage figures that make up most of the category, and survival rates for pieces this size tend to be lower given the added risk of firing and handling damage over a century and a half. The polychrome enamelling, worked in russet red, orange and green, holds up well against that scale, giving the group enough colour to read clearly from a distance rather than only rewarding close inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. 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This one takes the form of a dog's head, worked in brown glazed terracotta with enough sculptural detail in the ears and muzzle to read as a specific breed rather than a generic canine shape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernard Bloch ran a Bohemian pottery firm known for exactly this kind of figural output alongside more conventional tableware, catering to a market that wanted its everyday objects to have a bit of personality rather than staying purely functional. As a humidor, the lidded head form would have kept tobacco reasonably fresh while sitting out as a visible piece rather than something tucked away in a drawer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. Light scuffing and scratches to base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035666600269,"sku":"2869","price":240.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_006_20240123_225714_3cbda31d-f68a-41b0-aff4-8e009ff3e07b.webp?v=1780946194"},{"product_id":"late-victorian-mahogany-apothecary-box-medicine-chest-with-bottles","title":"Victorian mahogany apothecary box with medicine bottles","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA late Victorian apothecary box, mahogany, square, with a hinged flat top. Chests like this were fixtures of well-run Victorian households and doctors' surgeries alike, built to keep the era's tinctures, powders, and treatments organised and close at hand — remedies that would look distinctly alarming on a modern bathroom shelf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEight of the original bottles survive, several in stained glass. Coloured glass wasn't decorative flourish; it protected light-sensitive contents, though it does make for a handsome row along the shelf. The mahogany has darkened with age into something richer than any polish could manage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqually at home as a display piece or genuine storage, it carries a slice of 19th-century medicine along with it — a period when apothecary and alchemist weren't always easy to tell apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eGood antique condition. Losses to veneer at the lower front corner; marks to the lid; visible gaping to front panel; cracks to base; hairline cracks to lid sides; some general scratches to the exterior; wear to bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035667386701,"sku":"2651","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/1-IMG_1271-PhotoRoom_facbe963-2096-4bdd-b069-a8dcc8c8589b.webp?v=1780946201"},{"product_id":"mid-victorian-set-of-english-minton-porcelain-white-and-pink-oyster-plates","title":"Minton porcelain oyster plates, set of six, pink","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOyster plates emerged as a Victorian dining specialism once oysters shifted from cheap, widely eaten shellfish into something closer to a luxury item, a status oysters hadn't always held. Each plate here is moulded with six individual wells for the shells themselves, alongside a central well for sauce and a larger one for lemon segments or crackers, a fully considered piece of tableware rather than a general-purpose plate pressed into oyster service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe glaze runs a pale cream, accented with pink, small pink flowers surrounding the central well, restrained enough that the moulded form does most of the visual work rather than the decoration competing with it. A full set of six surviving together is worth noting, since oyster plates from this period are frequently found singly or in broken sets, having been more heavily used and more easily damaged than standard flat dinnerware.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood overall antique condition. Plate 1 - loss to paint hairline crack and tiny chip on rim. Plate 2 - loss to paint, hairline crack and small chips on rim. Plate 3 - loss to paint and hairline crack on rim. Plate 4 - large crack. Plate 5 - signs of restoration on crack, tiny chip to rim. Plate 6 -hairline crack and restoration to rim, small black mark on back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035670991181,"sku":"3443","price":520.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/Photoroom_040_20240506_233020-Photoroom_281_29_bce25337-c880-4617-a21a-e0814b741c94.webp?v=1780946223"},{"product_id":"mid-victorian-sterling-silver-fish-server-set-embossed-with-renaissance-sea-monsters","title":"Victorian silver fish server set, sea monsters","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenaissance dolphins get depicted with a strange, almost dragon-like character that modern viewers don't expect. Sixteenth and seventeenth century artists drew on classical sources rather than actual marine biology, giving dolphins scaled bodies, sharp teeth and coiled tails closer to sea monsters than anything you'd find swimming today. This fish server set brings that older visual tradition back for a Victorian audience, embossing shells and those same fantastical dolphin-monsters across the sterling silver handles of both fork and knife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe knife's blade is silver plate, pierced and engraved with Poseidon riding one of the creatures, turning a functional serving piece into a genuine narrative scene. Fish servers as a category only really became common once Victorian dining etiquette demanded specific cutlery for specific courses, and a set this heavily decorated suggests it was made to be noticed at the table rather than simply used and put away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Small dent on knife handle, minor wear to silver.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035671515469,"sku":"3563","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_6773-Photoroom_04617d7d-019f-480b-ba6e-3cb43f88db34.webp?v=1780946231"},{"product_id":"pair-early-19th-century-porcelain-meissen-style-continental-wall-plaques-romantic-scenes-with-lovers","title":"Continental porcelain plaques, romantic forest scenes","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRococo painting on porcelain plaques like these leaned heavily on stock romantic and pastoral themes, and this pair follows that convention closely: courting couples set within a forest clearing, the kind of secluded, slightly conspiratorial romantic scene that Continental porcelain painters returned to again and again through the early 19th century. Both pieces are oval, worked in the Meissen style rather than attributed directly to the Meissen factory itself, a distinction worth being clear about given how often the style was reproduced by other Continental workshops.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach plaque carries impressed numbers on the reverse, \"49\" and \"03,\" which most likely relate to a workshop's internal model or mould reference system rather than a factory mark in the usual sense. Without a confirmed factory attribution, they're best treated as good examples of the wider Meissen-influenced Rococo tradition rather than pieces from a specific named maker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent antique condition. Some wear to gilt; small part of branch broken on one plaque; broken chip on back side of second plaque.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035673579853,"sku":"2861","price":425.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/2861-Photoroom_a7256ac1-6190-4473-830f-7df70bbc7fd6.webp?v=1780946259"},{"product_id":"pair-of-porcelain-19th-century-meissen-oval-table-salt-boats","title":"Meissen porcelain salt boats, reeded feet","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeissen built its reputation on precision as much as decoration, and these salts show that discipline even in an object as small and functional as tableware salt. Each stands on four reeded column feet, holding an oval open bowl above, floral decoration worked across the body and finished with gilding to the rim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalt cellars like this were a standard fixture of formal 18th and 19th century dining, and having them as a matched pair rather than a single piece is a real advantage for anyone setting a table properly rather than displaying a single salt on its own. The reeded feet do more than support the bowl visually, giving the piece extra height so the salt itself sits at a comfortable level for a serving spoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne salt has two damaged legs, the other salt has one damaged leg. Please see all photos, as they form part of the description.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035673841997,"sku":"1397","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/s-l1600_2810_29-PhotoRoom.webp?v=1780946259"},{"product_id":"pair-of-victorian-pottery-copper-lustreware-moulded-jugs-pitchers-with-religious-scenes-and-snake-handles","title":"Pair Victorian copper lustreware jugs, snake handles","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSnake-form handles turn up across a fair range of Victorian pottery, generally chosen for the coiling shape's practicality as much as any deeper symbolism — a curled snake naturally forms an ergonomic grip in a way a straight handle doesn't. These jugs take the form further than most, with high-relief scales and painted eyes giving each snake real presence rather than treating it as a purely functional afterthought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relief decoration on the bodies pairs an unusual choice of subject with the copper lustre finish: one side shows Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus, the other Jesus preaching, both scenes moulded rather than painted, so the imagery has genuine dimension to it. Green scrolling is worked into the lustre glaze as an additional layer of decoration, a colour combination that sits a little outside copper lustreware's usual palette of golds and coppers alone. Pairs of jugs surviving together with matching decoration are harder to come by than single examples, since the two rarely stayed together through generations of handling and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good antique condition. One pitcher has a small chip to spout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035675218253,"sku":"1437","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/IMG_1401-PhotoRoom_85106387-0012-4c1a-aa45-00e42768271a.webp?v=1780946278"},{"product_id":"rococo-german-dresden-porcelain-double-open-bonbon-salt-cellar-girl-with-baskets","title":"Dresden porcelain bonbon\/salt dish, girl with baskets","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young girl sits between two open baskets on this dish, holding a posy of flowers in one hand, the whole scene moulded and hand-painted with the kind of detail Dresden porcelain built its reputation on through the 19th century. She's dressed in period costume, a laced bodice, ruffled sleeves, and a hat with a turned-up brim decorated with flowers, with bright orange shoes providing a sharp bit of colour against the otherwise softer palette.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe baskets themselves carry small floral sprays against white porcelain, trimmed with gold, and their open form makes them functional as small dishes, suited to sweetmeats, bonbons, or salt depending on what a household needed at the table. Figural sweetmeat dishes like this were a popular Rococo Revival format, treating a practical serving object as an opportunity for real sculptural storytelling rather than a plain container.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood antique condition. Left foot chipped; some wear to gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rita's Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035678265677,"sku":"2921","price":130.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/4191\/4957\/files\/PhotoRoom_013_20240124_181634_37b5c1a1-978b-417e-92f9-f30ecc9077d6.webp?v=1780946307"}],"url":"https:\/\/ritasbazaar.co.uk\/collections\/victorian.oembed?page=7","provider":"Rita’s Bazaar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}