Chargers
Larger than a dinner plate, chargers are largely decorative. Use them traditionally on the table under your dishes, or hang them on your wall for a striking installation.
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Pair of Large Dutch Delft Blue and White Plates, Axe Mark, Circa 1770
$2,100.00This beautiful pair of large Dutch Delft plates was hand painted in cobalt blue during the 18th century, circa 1770.
At the center of each plate, a long-tailed crane stands among flowering plants in a stylized garden.
The bird is surrounded by large blossoms, layered foliage, and delicate insects, creating a lively scene filled with finely observed detail.
A broad scalloped band encircles the central garden.
Each radiating panel is painted with feathery leaves and flowering stems, forming a crisp, rhythmic frame around the crane.
Beyond it, the wide border is filled with scrolling vines and shaded flowers arranged across the gently lobed surface.
The cobalt blue ranges from deep, saturated passages to soft washes and fine linear brushwork.
This tonal variation gives the flowers, foliage, and feathers depth while allowing the intricate decoration to remain clear against the fresh white tin glaze.
Measuring 13.5 inches in diameter, the plates have impressive scale and a strong decorative presence.
Displayed together, their matching forms and closely related hand-painted scenes create a beautiful sense of symmetry.
Each plate bears the Axe mark of De Porceleyne Bijl, one of the respected Delft pottery factories active during the 18th century.
Dimensions: 13.5 inches diameter
Condition: Excellent antique condition with tiny edge frits invisibly restored.
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Maker: De Porceleyne Bijl, known as The Axe
Origin: Delft, Netherlands
Date: Circa 1770 -
Antique Italian Porcelain Large Plate Hand-Painted Tulip Pattern, Doccia C-1760
$560.00This antique Italian porcelain plate was made at the Ginori Doccia manufactory near Florence in the mid-eighteenth century and represents one of the factory’s most admired decorative patterns.
Hand-painted circa 1760, in the celebrated porcellana antica modello Tulipano design, the composition centers on a boldly rendered tulip rising from an iron red base, surrounded by blue, yellow, green, and purple blossoms arranged with confident asymmetry.
The palette is distinctly Florentine, warmer and softer than its German or French contemporaries, and set against Doccia’s characteristic milk white tin-glazed surface.
The gently lobed rim, defined by a raised double outline, provides structure and restraint.
Evenly spaced tulip sprigs decorate the border, creating rhythm and balance while keeping the central bouquet dominant.
The scale at 13.25 inches gives the decoration room to breathe, reinforcing the plate’s decorative authority.
Antique Italian porcelain from Doccia is particularly admired for its unusual use of tin glaze on hard-paste porcelain. This technical choice gives the surface depth and warmth and allows iron red to glow with particular richness.
The Tulipano pattern was among the most favored designs produced at Doccia in the eighteenth century and appears on important documented forms in major museum collections.Dimensions: 13.25 inches diameter, 1.5 inches height
Condition: Excellent
Reference: Arthur Lane’s Italian Porcelain Plate 52A
Decoration: Hand-painted tulip and floral decoration in the porcellana antica modello Tulipano pattern
Material: Hard paste porcelain with tin-glazed surface
Style: 18th-century Italian decorative porcelain
Origin: Doccia, near Florence, Italy
Date: Mid 18th century
Notable Details:
• Strong iron red anchoring the central tulip composition
• Classic Doccia milk white tin glazed surface with warm tone
• Gently lobed rim with raised double outline
• Evenly spaced tulip sprigs forming a structured border
• Pattern associated with documented eighteenth-century Doccia examples -
Antique Dutch Delft Blue and White Large Charger Plate c 1800
$640.00This Dutch Delft blue and white charger presents a strong, balanced garden composition centered on a stylized vase rising from a dark cobalt ground.
The peony at right opens fully, its layered petals articulated in confident brushwork, while buds and feathery leaves create movement across the field.
Rockwork and foliage anchor the design, giving the scene weight and structure.
The cobalt is deep and saturated, shifting in tone where the brush passes more lightly over the tin-glazed surface.
The wide border frames the center with a repeating pattern of buds and scrolling leaves, painted with clarity and control.
At fourteen inches in diameter, the scale would give the piece presence on a wall.Dimensions: 14 inches in diameter
Condition: Excellent with small edge frits invisibly restored
Decoration: Hand-painted in cobalt blue with peonies, buds, foliage, and rockwork within a patterned border
Material: Tin glazed earthenware
Style: Dutch Delft
Origin: Netherlands
Date: Circa 1800
Background of Dutch Delft:
The technique of making Delft was first described in writing by Gerrit Paape in “The Delft Pottery Maker,” published in 1794 and dedicated to Lambertus Sanderus, owner of De Porceleyne Claeuw. Delft faience began in the seventeenth century, with much of the finest production centered in the city of Delft. Potters coated their wares in an opaque white tin glaze and applied decoration in cobalt before covering the surface with a clear glaze. This process gave depth to the blues and a smooth, luminous finish. By about 1650, technical skill had advanced significantly, ushering in the golden age of Delft production -
Dutch Delft Blue & White Large Plate Hand Painted Circa 1780
$900.00This Dutch Delft blue and white large plate was hand painted in the Netherlands circa 1780 and stands out for the strength and clarity of its radial design. At nearly fourteen inches in diameter, the scale allows the central floral rosette to command the surface with authority.
Radiating foliate scrolls and small blossoms fill the well in a disciplined, symmetrical arrangement. The pattern expands outward in measured intervals, creating movement without crowding. The border alternates stylized leaves with geometric panels, providing structure and contrast to the flowing interior decoration.
The brushwork is fluent and assured, with natural tonal variation where cobalt gathers and softens beneath the glaze. The blue remains clear against the warm tin-glazed ground, allowing the pattern to read distinctly across the full diameter.
The balance of symmetry, scale, and confident hand-painted brushwork gives the plate a strong and composed presence.
Dimensions: Diameter 13.75 inches
Condition: Excellent with small edge chips, invisibly restored
Decoration: Hand-painted blue and white floral and foliate design
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Style: Dutch Delft, late 18th century
Origin: Netherlands
Date: Circa 1780 -
Set of 3 Large Antique Dutch Delft Blue and White Peacock Chargers, c. 1800
$2,700.00This beautiful group of three large Dutch Delft chargers was hand-painted circa 1800 in the celebrated Peacock’s Feathers pattern, one of the most admired designs in traditional Dutch Delftware.
The decoration is particularly striking. At the center of each charger, an elegant vase filled with stylized flowers supports a magnificent fan-shaped arrangement of radiating peacock feathers.
The feathers spread dramatically across the white ground, creating a rich and beautifully balanced composition in deep cobalt blue.
Surrounding the central design are elaborate borders filled with bold floral cartouches, scrolling ornament, and intricate hand-painted details. The deep cobalt decoration contrasts beautifully with the white tin glaze, while a narrow yellow-painted rim provides a lively finishing touch.
The three chargers are closely coordinated, although each has subtle differences in its hand-painted decoration.
Displayed together, their generous size, rich blue-and-white coloring, and elaborate Peacock’s Feathers pattern create an impressive decorative arrangement, particularly when hung as a group on a wall.
Two chargers bear marks attributed to De Vergulde Bloempot (The Gilded Flowerpot), and the third bears a mark attributed to De Klaauw (The Claw), two established Delft pottery factories associated with the production of traditional Dutch tin-glazed earthenware.
Dimensions: Two chargers measure 13.5 inches in diameter; the third measures 14.25 inches in diameter.
Condition: Excellent, with minor edge frits to the yellow-painted rims invisibly restored.
Origin: Delft, Netherlands
Date: Circa 1800
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Decoration: Hand-painted Peacock’s Feathers pattern in cobalt blue with yellow-painted rims -
Pair Blue and White Large Hand Painted Dutch Delft Chargers The Axe c. 1780
$900.00This pair of large Dutch Delft chargers was hand-painted at the renowned De Porceleyne Bijl (The Axe) factory in Delft, circa 1780.
Each one measures 12.25 inches in diameter and is centered with a carefully balanced composition depicting a basket overflowing with flowers, rendered with assurance and clarity in rich cobalt blue.
The surrounding border alternates between scrolling floral sprays and diamond-patterned panels, creating a rhythmic frame that guides the eye across the surface.
Warm ochre-painted rims provide contrast against the white tin-glazed ground, lending definition and visual depth while neatly enclosing the decoration.
The pair remains in excellent condition and reflects the confident workmanship and refined decorative control associated with late 18th-century production at The Axe factory.
Dimensions: 12.25 inches diameter
Condition: Excellent
Decoration: Hand-painted floral basket with alternating border panels
Material: Delft tin-glazed earthenware
Style: Dutch Delftware
Origin: Netherlands, De Porceleyne Bijl (The Axe)
Date: Circa 1780
Notable Details:
Produced at De Porceleyne Bijl (The Axe), active 1637–1803
Strong cobalt blue painting on a white tin-glazed ground
Ochre-painted rims provide warmth and visual framing
Large-format plates traditionally called chargers
Well-matched pair with balanced decoration and excellent preservation -
Pair Blue & White Dutch Delft Chargers Hand Painted De Porceleyne Claeuw C. 1760
$2,400.00This pair of large blue and white Dutch Delft plates, traditionally made as chargers, is hand-painted and marked by De Porceleyne Claeuw (The Claw) and was made in the Netherlands circa 1760.Each charger measures 14 inches in diameter and features a central urn overflowing with flowers, surrounded by concentric borders of scrolling vines and blossoms.
The rich cobalt palette is complemented by lively brushwork with rhythmic energy.
The lobed and barbed edges are painted dark blue, framing the composition beautifully.
Impressive in both size and decoration, these chargers display the beauty and creativity associated with De Porceleyne Claeuw, one of Delft’s most celebrated factories.Dimensions: 14″ diameter
Condition: Excellent
Material: Delft tin-glazed earthenware
Origin: Netherlands
Date: Circa 1760 (De Porceleyne Claeuw active 1661–1840) -
Dutch Delft Blue and White Charger De Witte Starre Factory Circa 1770
$1,060.00This large Dutch Delft charger was hand-painted at the De Witte Starre factory in Delft circa 1770.
The cobalt blue decoration is arranged in concentric petal-shaped panels radiating from a central roundel.
Each panel is filled with abundant hand-painted floral motifs, including blossoming branches, tulips, and peonies.
The border continues the richly worked design with panels of flowers and patterned ornament.
The unusually dense cobalt decoration gives the charger exceptional presence while retaining the lively hand-painted character of 18th-century Dutch Delft.
The reverse bears the star mark of De Witte Starre, confirming its manufacture at the celebrated Delft factory.
Dimensions: 13.75″ diameter
Condition: Excellent. Minor glaze imperfections typical of 18th-century Delftware and small edge frits invisibly restored.
Decoration: Blue and white hand-painted floral panels arranged in a radial petal design
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Style: Dutch Delft with Chinoiserie influence
Origin: Delft, Netherlands
Date: Circa 1770
Background: De Witte Starre was founded in 1660 and remained in operation until 1804. -
Set of 3 Antique Blue and White Delft Plates Hand Painted Netherlands Ca. 1800
$1,180.00This set of three antique Delft plates was hand-painted in the Netherlands circa 1800.
Each plate measures approximately 9 inches in diameter and features a unique blue and white design painted in cobalt oxide under a clear glaze.
The central motifs include stylized beautiful floral arrangements and a pastoral scene with deer, all framed by floral borders.
The rims are finished with a warm yellow line, a traditional touch in late 18th- and early 19th-century Dutch faience.
These plates embody the Folk Art charm and decorative style that made Delftware prized throughout Europe.Dimensions: 9 inches in diameter
Condition: Excellent
Decoration: Hand-painted in blue with stylized flowers and landscape scenes
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware)
Style: Folk Art / Dutch Delft
Origin: Netherlands
Date: Circa 1800
Key Features
– Set of three antique Delft plates
– Hand-painted cobalt blue designs
– Yellow rim highlights
– Decorative floral and scenic motifs
– Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, circa 1800 -
Antique Delft Charger Hand Painted at De Vergulde Bloempot 18th Century Ca. 1740
$1,100.00This antique Dutch Delft charger plate was hand-painted in the first half of the 18th century at De Vergulde Bloempot, one of the most esteemed Delftware factories of the period.
It is marked on the reverse with the initials “B P,” identifying it as a work of this distinguished maker.
The charger features a lovely symmetrical composition of stylized tulips, scrolling foliage, and elaborate foliate elements arranged in a radiant pattern.
Painted in rich cobalt blue on a white tin-glazed ground, the decoration reflects the confident brushwork and refined aesthetic associated with high-end Delftware.
The charger is finished with a charming molded pie crust rim, which adds a tactile and visually arresting edge to the design.Marks: The “B P” mark in underglaze blue used in the 18th century at De Vergulde Bloempot
Dimensions: 13.75″ diameter x 2″ height
Condition: Excellent
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Antique Blue & White English Delftware Charger 18th Century Hand-Painted C. 1750
$740.00This Delft charger showcases a charming hand-painted chinoiserie scene featuring blooming trees, rocky formations, a cottage, and two fishermen in their boats on the water, with birds soaring in the sky above.
The design covers the entire plate without a separate border, a creative technique rarely seen in 18th-century English Delft pottery. The scene is painted in shades of cobalt blue against a traditional light blue glazed background.Marks: The reverse features a factory mark “12.” Such marks are commonly found on 18th-century English Delftware ceramics to indicate the size of an item for display in the factory showroom or to denote its price category.
Dimensions: 10.75″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with slight edge frits invisibly restored
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English Delft Blue and White Hand Painted Large Charger Bristol Circa 1760
$1,200.00This large blue and white English Delft charger was made in Bristol circa 1760 and is hand-painted with a wonderfully animated garden scene. Two songbirds perch on prominent rockwork beneath a willow tree. A butterfly hovers overhead. Flowering plants and a garden fence add to the scene.
The decoration has the freshness and spontaneity that make 18th-century English Delft so appealing. Broad, confident strokes of deep cobalt form the rockwork and songbirds, while finer brushwork describes the willow branches, flowers, foliage, fence, and butterfly. The contrast between the stronger central forms and the lighter, freely drawn details gives the scene remarkable movement and life.
A wide border of flowering vines encircles the charger. Painted with considerable freedom, the blossoms, leaves, and curling stems create a lively frame for the garden scene. Against the warm white tin-glazed ground, the cobalt ranges from pale washed blue to an intense inky blue.
At 14 inches in diameter, the charger has substantial scale and considerable decorative presence. Its blue and white palette and charming garden scene would bring the character of 18th-century English Delft to a room. The charger is also notable for its excellent condition. Only very small edge frits have been invisibly restored, an especially desirable state of preservation for a large English Delft charger dating to the mid-18th century.
Dimensions: 14 inches diameter
Condition: Excellent. Very small edge frits invisibly restored.
Decoration: Hand-painted in cobalt blue with songbirds, rockwork, willow tree, butterfly, flowers, garden fence, and floral border
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware, English Delftware
Style: Georgian, English Delft
Origin: Bristol, England
Date: Circa 1760
Reference: Alan Caiger-Smith, Tin-glazed Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware, Faber and Faber, 1973. -
Antique Dutch Delft with Countryside Scene Netherlands, Circa 1780
$300.00This hand-painted plate, made in the Netherlands around 1780, features the “Walking Man,” a decorative motif commonly found in 18th-century Dutch Delftware.
The image depicts a man in mid-stride, wearing a wide-brimmed Dutch-style hat and carrying a cane.
This motif reflects the Dutch appreciation for scenes of everyday life, capturing people engaged in daily activities.
On our plate, the Walking Man strolls past a garden depicted by just a few brightly colored flowers.
The border is decorated with a floral design painted in manganese purple and iron red.
The artist used traditional Dutch Delft polychrome colors, including iron red, blue, moss green, and manganese.
The plate is a lovely example of 18th c entury Delftware.Dimensions: 8.75″ diameter
Condition: Excellent
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Pair Antique Dutch Delft Blue and White Chargers Netherlands Circa 1780
$1,800.00This pair of Dutch Delft blue and white large plates draws its strength from the density and control of the hand-painted decoration, where a bold central flower anchors a tightly composed field of scrolling leaves and dotted ornament.
The design holds together with clarity, the cobalt varying from deep, almost inky tones to softer washes that give the surface movement without losing structure.
The border repeats the design in a more open rhythm, creating a measured transition to the rim.
The yellow edge, imitating gilt, frames the composition cleanly and adds a subtle warmth against the cool blue palette.
The plates reflect a late 18th-century Delft interpretation of earlier Chinese export porcelain, with an emphasis on the fullness of pattern and visual impact.Dimensions: 13.5″ diameter x 1.5″ height
Condition: Excellent with small edge frits invisibly restored
Decoration: Hand-painted blue and white floral center with scrolling vines and dotted ground, yellow edge
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Style: Delft, in the traditional 17th-century Delft style
Origin: Netherlands
Date: Circa 1780
Notable Details:
Strong, densely composed floral center
Varied cobalt tones create depth and movement
Yellow edge imitating gilded porcelain rims
Well-balanced border framing the central design
Attractive scale and presence as a matched pair -
Large English Salt Glaze Stoneware Charger Plate 18th Century Ca. 1765
$1,280.00This large English salt glaze stoneware plate, made circa 1765, shows the crisp molding and controlled geometry that define the Cartouche and Diaper pattern at its best.
The broad rim is worked in a tight lattice diaper, punctuated by raised cartouches that create a steady rhythm around the edge.
The surface has that characteristic salt-glaze skin, lightly pitted, with a soft sheen that catches the light evenly across the molded detail.
The body fires to a clean pale tone, reflecting the use of refined clay bodies developed in the mid-18th century.
The form is direct and confident. The wide rim frames the well cleanly, giving the plate strong presence on the table.
Pieces of this type were both practical and current in Colonial America, with archaeological examples of this exact pattern recovered in Williamsburg.
The connection to documented shipments of English stoneware to figures such as George Washington places this form firmly within the material culture of the period.
The appeal here rests in the clarity of the molding, the evenness of the glaze, and the scale. It is a piece that reads immediately, both as an object of use and as a record of a turning point in English ceramic production, when whiter-bodied salt glaze stoneware became widely desirable.Dimensions: 16.5″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with minimal original firing anomalies
Decoration: Cartouche and diaper molded rim
Material: Salt glaze stoneware
Style: Georgian Neoclassical
Origin: England
Date: Circa 1765 -
Blue and White Delft Charger 18th Century Netherlands Circa 1770
$580.00This lovely 18th-century Dutch Delft charger showcases hand-painted decoration in deep, dark blue.
We see ten panels of floral decoration filled with tulip bulbs and scrolling vines.Dimensions: 11.5″ diameter
Condition: Excellent
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Antique Blue and White Delft Charger 18th Century Netherlands Circa 1780
$680.00This elegant Dutch Delft blue and white charger was hand-painted in the Netherlands around 1770.
The center features delicate scrolling vines swirling around a beautiful flower.
Two tones of blue are used to make the large central flower stand out from the rest of the design.
The charger is shaped so that the flower at the center is slightly raised.
The wide border is decorated with six flower bulbs and scrolling vines,
Marks: the underside shows the mark of the 18th-century Delft factory, “The Axe.”Dimensions: 13.75″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with tiny edge frits invisibly restored
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Dutch Delft Blue and White Charger Hand Painted 18th Century Circa 1780
$1,200.00This lovely blue and white Delft charger was made in the Netherlands around 1780.
It was meticulously hand-painted in two shades of cobalt blue on a white tin-glazed surface.
The center of the charger portrays a beautiful garden scene, with a blooming orange tree and a garden fence.
The wide border of the charger showcases a repeating pattern of leaves, buds, and single flowers enclosed in ogival cartouches.Dimensions: 13.25″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with small edge frits invisibly restored
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Blue and White Dutch Delft Plate or Dish Netherlands Circa 1780
$330.00This 18th century blue and white Delft plate was hand painted circa 1780. The lively scene in the center features flowers, flower buds, and a polka-dotted vase. The border is decorated with 17 ogival panels, each showing a single flower. Along the edge is a band of geometric design. The elements work together to form a lovely piece of decorative art.
Dimensions: 9″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with small edge frits invisibly restored
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Blue and White Delft Charger Hand Painted Liverpool, England 18th Century Ca. 1760
$1,100.00This blue and white Delft charger was hand-painted in Liverpool, England, during the mid-18th century, around 1760. The design features simple yet elegant decoration, showcasing flowers in full bloom, along with leaves and rockwork.
The border is also decorated with similar floral motifs.
The entire scene is rendered in just two shades of underglaze blue, and the blue-painted edge—a characteristic of some 18th-century Liverpool Delft—gracefully frames the artwork.
The back of this Delftware charger is decorated with simple lines that suggest floral designs (see the last image)
Dimensions: 13.5″ diameter x 1.5″ height
Condition: Excellent, with slight edge frits invisibly restored; the edge blue retouched -
Blue and White English Delft Charger Hand Painted Mid 18th Century Circa 1760
$1,130.00This exquisite hand-painted Delft charger, made in Liverpool, England, circa 1760, captures a moment in time.The center of this Delftware charger features a hovering songbird, a large peony, and a pair of butterflies, creating a lovely garden scene.The scene flows onto the border, where two butterflies and three flower sprigs add to the charm.The entire scene is rendered in just two shades of underglaze blue, and the blue-painted edge—characteristic of some 18th-century Liverpool Delft—elegantly frames the artwork.Dimensions: 13.5″ diameter x 1.5″ heightCondition: Excellent, with slight edge frits invisibly restored; the edge blue retouched. -
Antique Dutch Delft Charger Hand Painted Polychrome Garden Scene C-1780
$480.00This antique Dutch Delft charger is hand-painted in a vibrant polychrome palette that immediately draws the eye to its rich cobalt blue rockwork, a bold foundation that intensifies the surrounding greens, ochres, iron red, and manganese purple.
At the center unfolds a stylized garden scene: a willow tree with a softly modeled purple trunk and drooping ochre leaves, a large white blossom accented in manganese, and curling foliage in lively green and red.
A purple garden fence with yellow posts outlined in red anchors the composition, while the brilliant blue rockwork provides contrast and depth, heightening the harmony of the entire design.
The composition reflects the decorative confidence of 18th-century Dutch Delft, where strong color relationships and fluid brushwork transform a simple garden motif into a scene of movement and vitality.
The cobalt is not merely decorative; it organizes the composition, balancing the lighter tones and giving the piece visual weight. The result is both lively and composed, with each element working in concert.
Dimensions: 14.25″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with small edge chips invisibly restored
Decoration: Hand-painted polychrome garden scene with willow tree and fence
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Style: Dutch Delft, 18th century
Origin: Netherlands
Date: 18th centuryNotable Details:
Vibrant polychrome palette including cobalt, manganese, iron red, and ochre
Central willow tree with distinctive purple trunk
Bold cobalt blue rockwork enhancing color harmony
Decorative border with scrolling green foliage and yellow roundels
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Blue and White Delft Charger Hand Painted at The Axe Holland Circa 1770
$1,260.00This blue and white charger was hand painted at De Porcelene Bijl “The Axe” circa 1770.
The center of the charger is filled with lovely flowering peonies.
We see flowers in full bloom intertwined with buds and leaves, displaying nature’s cycle of life and renewal.
The border has ten shaped panels, each enclosing a single flower, a bud, and leaves.
The pattern includes several shades of blue, giving it depth and visual interest.
The white edge of the charger is cut in a fabulous lobed pattern that complements the painted decoration. This white edge is accented by a thin blue line.
The design is dynamic and beautiful!
The underside of the charger shows the mark of De Porcelene Bijl “The Axe”.Dimensions: 12″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with small edge frits invisibly restored
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Blue and White Delft Charger Hand Painted 18th Century Netherlands Circa 1780
$1,160.00This beautiful blue and white hand painted charger was made in The Netherlands in the last quarter of the 18th century, circa 1780. It is decorated with an eye-catching floral design that encircles a central medallion. We see floral bands showing flowers and scrolling vines. The vibrant cobalt blue decoration draws your eye from the center outward.
Dimensions: 12.25″ diameter
Condition: Excellent with small edge frits invisibly restored
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Blue and White Delft Plate or Dish Chinoiserie Scene 17th Century C-1690
$640.00Made in the Netherlands in the late 17th century, circa 1690, this extraordinary Delft charger is hand-painted in shades of cobalt blue. The soft blue pigment gives the charger a subtle touch. The fascinating naive decoration is styled after Chinese Kraak porcelains made for export to Europe in the 16th century. In the center of the charger, we see a Chinese scholar seated in a garden. A pattern of scrolling vines encircles the central scene. The wide border is decorated with panels showing a seated scholar alternating with panels showing Asian-style floral decorations.
Dimensions: 10.25″ in diameter x 1.25″ tall
Condition: Excellent with slight edge frits invisibly restored
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Antique Delft Charger 18th Century Polychrome Colors Netherlands Circa 1770
$500.00This large 18th century Dutch Delft charger is a particularly beautiful example of Delft’s fascination with imagined Eastern landscapes, rendered with confidence, balance, and rich color. The broad central well is hand-painted with a finely composed chinoiserie scene in vibrant polychrome enamels, where warm iron red, soft yellow, green, purple, and deep cobalt blue are brought into harmony against the creamy white ground.
At the center, delicate pavilion-like houses with exotic, upturned roofs sit along a rocky shoreline, their architectural forms lending rhythm and structure to the scene. Behind them, gently rising mountains flow toward the water’s edge, while a single expressive tree anchors the composition, its red foliage spreading across the sky with an almost calligraphic grace. The painter’s confident brushwork gives the landscape a sense of movement and air, allowing the eye to travel naturally through foreground, middle distance, and horizon.
The wide rim enhances the charger’s decorative impact, bordered with a refined pattern of iron red darts set within crisp blue cross-hatching. This framing device not only heightens the color contrast but also emphasizes the charger’s generous scale, making it a striking display piece whether hung or placed on a stand. The combination of scale, lively polychrome decoration, and assured painting places this charger among the more engaging Delft chargers of the period.
Dimensions: 13.75 inches diameter, 1.75 inches tall
Condition: Excellent
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Style: Dutch Delft, Chinoiserie
Origin: The Netherlands
Date: Circa 1770 -
Antique Blue and White Delft Charger Hand Painted Netheralands Circa 1780
$460.00Hand painted circa 1780, this eye-catching blue and white Delft charger is hand painted in shades of cobalt blue with black accents. The artist has captured a vibrant garden scene transporting the viewer to a world of beauty. In the center, we see a pine tree, to one side, a sizeable blossoming peony, and on the other side, a budding peony, all framed by a garden fence that serves as a graceful boundary, enhancing the harmony and balance of the overall design. The border is decorated with four groups of leaves and a single peony bud.
Dimensions: 11.75″ in diameter x 1.75″ deep
Condition: Excellent with slight edge frits invisibly restored
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Wedgwood 18th Century Pierced Creamware with Painted Decoration England C-1785
$580.00This Wedgwood pierced creamware dish was made at the Wedgwood factory in Stoke-on-Trent, England, circa 1785. The elegant piercings are hand-made. The cavetto is decorated with a band of eye-catching red up-down squiggles. The edge of the plate is decorated with a thin band of brown slip. The overall effect is exquisite! This plate is one of my favorites.
On the underside is the impressed mark “WEDGWOOD.”
Dimensions: 9″ in diameter
Condition: Excellent
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Blue and White Dutch Delft Charger Netherlands Circa 1780 Chinoiserie Design
$700.00Made in the factory of “The Axe” circa 1780, this blue and white Delft charger shows a lovely chinoiserie garden scene hand-painted in cobalt blue.
In the center, we see a pine tree, a garden fence, and a large peony.
The border is decorated with a delicate scrolling vine.
The edge is painted with traditional ochre colored slip.
The charger’s underside has the “The Axe” mark in underglaze blue.Dimensions: 13.75″ in diameter x 2″ deep
Condition: Excellent with slight edge frits invisibly restored
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Two Chinese Imari Porcelain Chargers Hand-Painted Qianlong Era, Circa 1760
$3,700.00These two beautiful Chinese Imari chargers were hand-painted in the Qianlong era in the mid-18th century. Both chargers show floral designs painted in cobalt blue, iron-red, and gold. The charger showing the basket of flowers in the center is also colored with peach enamels. Each charger is a work of art.
#1 (the charger higher up in the first image):
This large Chinese Imari porcelain charger dates to the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, circa 1760. Finely potted with a lovely rich, glassy white glaze, the charger is hand-painted in a vivid Imari palette of orange-red, cobalt blue, and gold. We see chrysanthemums, lotus, and peony flowers in full bloom. The exquisite orange-red decoration is detailed and outlined in gold, which gives the design a luxurious look. On the underside, we see the artemisia leaf mark painted in underglaze blue within a traditional double ring. Typical of Chinese Imari ware in this period, the charger’s underside also bears a traditional sketch of two branches of plum blossoms.Dimensions: 14.15″ in diameter x 1.75″ in height.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $1,500
#2 (the charger lower down in the first image):
This large Chinese porcelain charger is hand-painted in the Imari style. It dates to the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, circa 1760. The charger has a vivid palette of iron-red, peach, underglaze cobalt blue, and gold. In the center, we see a basket overflowing with flowers: chrysanthemums, peonies, and plum tree flowers, all in full bloom. The decoration is beautifully gilded, which gives the design a luxurious touch. The broad rim of the dish is adorned with scrolling vines, flowers, and far-away waterside views. In Chinese tradition, peonies symbolize royalty, wealth, and honor, plum tree flowers symbolize endurance, and chrysanthemums symbolize abundance and long life. Typical of the Chinese Imari ware at that time, the back of the charger bears a sketch of two branches of plum blossoms. At the center, the reverse shows the lingzhi mark in underglaze blue inside a double blue circle.Dimensions: 13.75″ diameter x 1.5″ height.
Condition: Excellent
Price: $2,200
The price for the pair of chargers is $6,140.
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Hand Painted Chinese Export Porcelain Imari Charger, circa 1720–1730
$1,800.00This large Chinese export porcelain charger was hand painted in the early 18th century in the Chinese Imari palette of underglaze cobalt blue, iron-red and peach-colored enamels, and gilding.
What makes this charger beautiful is the way color, scale, movement, and variety are controlled across a large surface.
Almost the entire surface is decorated. The first thing that catches the eye is the deep cobalt blue. It is unusually strong and gives the charger its visual structure. The decoration is set against a cool bluish-white glaze, which gives the charger a luminous surface and strengthens the contrast of the cobalt, iron-red, peach, and gilding.
The iron-red, peach, and gilding warm the blue and add richness.The center is especially successful. The flower-filled basket is compact and richly colored, like a jewel at the center of the charger.
The border is also beautiful.
Across the broad rim, scrolling branches painted in strong cobalt blue connect large stylized flowers and fan-shaped floral reserves, while two lobed reserves frame detailed waterside landscape scenes.
The charger is filled with beautiful individual details, which come together to form a remarkable whole.The reverse is painted with two flowering prunus branches and bears an underglaze-blue lingzhi mark within a double circle.
This combination of reverse decoration, mark, and Imari-style painting is characteristic of Chinese export porcelain made during the early decades of the 18th century.
Chinese potters developed these richly colored wares in response to the popularity of Japanese Imari porcelain in Europe, creating their own distinctive interpretation for the Western market.
Origin: China
Date: Circa 1720–1730
Material: Porcelain
Marks: Underglaze-blue lingzhi mark within a double circle; flowering prunus branches on the reverse
Dimensions: 13.75″ diameter × 1.5″ high
Condition: Excellent, with very slight rubbing to the gilding -
Blue and White Delft Charger Made Netherlands circa 1770 Chinoiserie Decoration
$700.00This blue and white Dutch Delft charger shows a chinoiserie scene in a lovely naive style. The chinoiserie scene in the center of the charger includes three unique viewpoints. On one side, we see a flower and buds in a vase. On the other side, we see stacks of water with pagodas at the water’s edge. The third image is a pair of mountains sketched below the two scenes. Seeing the three viewpoints at the same time is exciting.
Dimensions: 13.5″ x 2.25″ height
Condition: Excellent with slight edge frits invisibly restored
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Large 18th Century Chinese Imari Porcelain Charger Qianlong Era Circa 1760
$1,500.00This large Chinese Imari porcelain charger dates to the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, circa 1760.
It is finely crafted with a beautiful, glossy white glaze and hand-painted in a vibrant Imari color palette of orange-red, cobalt blue, and gold.
The design features blooming chrysanthemums, lotus, and peony flowers
The exquisite orange-red decoration is detailed and outlined in gold, which gives the design a luxurious look.
On the underside, we see the artemisia leaf mark painted in underglaze blue within a traditional double ring.
Typical of Chinese Imari ware in this period, the charger’s underside also bears a traditional sketch of two branches of plum blossoms.
Dimensions: 14.15″ in diameter x 1.75″ in height
Condition: Very good with a single fine 2″glaze line on the back that doesn’t go through (the line is too fine to show in photography)
Price: $1,500
Background of Chinese Imari porcelains: In the late 17th century, Japanese potters in Arita first made export porcelains with elaborate gilt designs to cater to European consumers.
This category of brilliantly enameled porcelain, shipped from the port of Imari, was known as “Imari ware.”
From the early 18th century, Chinese artisans followed the Japanese example and manufactured similar Imari-style porcelain products, which connoisseurs identified as “Chinese Imari ware.” -
Blue and White Delft Charger Hand-Painted, Netherlands, 18th Century, Circa 1760
$945.00The entire surface of this beautiful blue and white Dutch Delft charger is covered in deep cobalt blue coloring. The center of the charger is filled with hand-painted peonies; while the wide border is painted with a net-like pattern of peonies, leaves, and scrolling vines. This charger was made in the Netherlands in the mid-18th century, circa 1760.
Dimensions: 12″ diameter
Condition: Excellent
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Large Antique Japanese Kutani Charger Red Ground Hand Painted Children at Play
$500.00This large, 18-inch-diameter Japanese Kutani porcelain charger is filled with finely painted scenes depicting the changing seasons, featuring children at play, birds, flowering trees, and a delicate waterside landscape, all set against a brilliant iron-red ground.
Made during the Meiji period in the late 19th century, the charger is organized around two large fan-shaped panels. The rounded fan shows young boys playing together in a landscape with pine trees, flowering plants, and distant mountains.
Their animated poses and brightly colored robes give the scene warmth and charm.
The folded fan above contains a delicate waterside landscape painted in soft tones of blue, green, and pink.
A traditional figure appears in the distance, while flowering trees and a simple wooden structure suggest the arrival of spring.
Across the rich red ground, twisting branches of white and pink plum blossoms connect the separate scenes.
Birds fly among the pine branches, and a magpie perches near the flowering tree.
The combination of snow, pine, plum blossoms, and the spring landscape creates a beautifully conceived progression through the seasons.
The outer border is painted with a dense blue geometric pattern interrupted by colorful shaped reserves of scrolling flowers and foliage. This carefully worked border gives the charger a strong frame and balances the open landscapes within.
The reverse is equally impressive, painted with three vigorous dragons circling the foot.
Characters on the underside convey the auspicious message “Wealth and Privilege, Forever Lasting.”
With its generous scale, brilliant color, and lively narrative painting, this splendid charger has exceptional presence.
Dimensions: 18 inches diameter x 2.8 inches deep
Material: Porcelain
Date: Late 19th century, Meiji period
Origin: Japan -
Blue and White Dutch Delft Charger, Early 18th Century c. 1710
$300.00This charger is a rare find from the early 18th century. Dating to circa 1710, it survives from an early period of Dutch blue and white Delft and is distinguished by an unusual naïve figural subject and a loosely painted concentric semicircle border, a combination seldom encountered in Dutch Delft.
A particularly close comparison is a Dutch faience dish in the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, made in Harlingen, Friesland, and dated 1680–1720. Like this charger, the museum dish centers on a naïvely painted figure and uses repeated arched motifs around the border. At 11.81 inches in diameter, it is also remarkably close in size.
A small seated figure occupies the center between a flowering branch and a striped flowerpot filled with large leaves and flowers. The figure and plants are painted with a direct, almost folk-art quality that gives the scene unusual personality and charm.
Around the border, repeated groups of loosely painted concentric semicircles continue the same direct, naïve character seen in the figure and plants. The clear cobalt blue is handled freely throughout, giving the entire charger an unusually spontaneous, folk-art quality.
The reverse is covered with a pale tin glaze, with small areas revealing the buff earthenware body beneath, consistent with traditional Dutch tin-glazed faience.
Dimensions: 11.25″ diameter
Condition: Goodwith some invisible restoration. There are scattered firing irregularities in the cobalt decoration, characteristic of the original manufacture.
Origin: The Netherlands
Date: Circa 1710
Material: Tin-glazed earthenware
Decoration: Hand painted in cobalt blue
Price: $300
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