French, not signed, circa 1900s. Good condition, not chips.
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Antique Barber Shaving Bowl French Faience Floral Yellow Flowers Ceramic. Small chips as these were utilitarian primarily and decorative secondary. A barber’s bowl was once an essential tool for a barber shaving his customers. It has a shallow basin with a broad rim. A semicircular opening in the rim allows […]
French Hand Painted Antique Plates. W La Liberte Faience Rare Vintage Plates.
A faience figurine of a lady reading a book made by one of the French faience makers in the 18th century. It is hand painted very simply and elegantly. The figure has good detail as can be expected from a quality maker of this period. The piece is in good […]
Here is a beautiful antique French Faience cabinet plate made by the Sarreguemine Majolica factory in the east of France. The makers mark places this plate to have been made around 1890. The back of the plate calls this series “Marines”, I call it’Moored at Low Tide’ since you see […]
Antique French Blue Faience Plate – Fruit Basket c. The plate measures 8 5/8 inches in diameter. No cracks but there are a few rim chips that are pictured. Also, there are a couple of rough spots on the back from the firing process.
Antique Old Strasbourg Handpainted Faience Plate c. The handpainted front is beautiful but the back of the plate tells us its story. Please review the photos of the back and note the kiln marks and proclivity of the the glaze demonstrating old world technique. It measures 9 in diameter and […]
A Henriot Quimper hand painted faience plate with two men in traditional Breton dress playing musical instruments. One is playing the bagpipe and the other a small flute. The plate has wide scalloped rim with sectioned border that is decorated with flowers and the Quimper crest. The plate is in […]