Derby Porcelain Potpourri Circa 1800-20 and Other Antique Porcelain
Item Details
A collection of antique porcelain. The featured piece was made during the Regency period by Derby and has Imari decoration with the use of desirable green enamels as well as iron red and underglaze cobalt blue and required the labor of both painters and gilders. This potpourri has a pierced top with a molded grapes applied as well as a grape molded finial on the top. The sides are embellished with gilded satyrs above four paw feet on a pedestal. The piece has the painted crown mark in iron red dating it to between 1800-20. The other pieces in the contained in the collection are a pair of Paris porcelain cornucopia shaped wall pockets with hand painted flowers and burnished gilding on a hard paste porcelain body circa 1840-60. A pierced Chinese planter accompanies the collection. The square porcelain flowerpot with underglaze blue decoration was likely produced between 1890-1910.
Condition
- wear to the gilding and restoration to the potpourri lid and one Paris porcelain wall pocket; glaze skinning on the Chinese porcelain.
Dimensions
- measures the rectangular planter.
Item #
17STA022-220
