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M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
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In Celebration of Spring:
FLOWER & LEAF MOLDED PORCELAIN
in 18th Century England
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Among the most charming 18th century English porcelains were the naturalistically modeled forms - intricately shaped after various flora and fauna, rocks, and shells. Leaf-shaped dishes were perhaps the earliest of the naturalistic porcelains – an influence attributed to the contemporary leaf-shaped dishes of Japan. Overlapping leaf-forms were made by Meissen as early as the 1730’s, and from c1750, interpreted by most English manufactories. Leaf-molded forms eventually grew to include not just dishes – which would have been part of a dessert service – but every manner of porcelain, including sauce and butter boats, salts, pickle dishes, sweetmeat dishes, and tureens. The molding and application of flora also play a large role in early English porcelain. The first examples included white-glazed porcelains - after the Chinese Dehua wares (blanc-de-chine) - modeled with molded applied prunus sprigs. The use of flowers was not simply decorative, but often served to strengthen the porcelain, as the delicate joints of lattice chestnut baskets, whose open-work sides were precisely hand-cut with a knife. On some very rare occasions, the Chinese actually copied the English and European models, both in hard, and in soft paste. When found in soft paste, the copies are somewhat confusing and difficult to discern from the English versions. Although it is impossible to show the range of flower and leaf molding in its entirety in this catalog, we present a brief depiction from our inventory – both available, and a few examples from our past stock. |
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LEAF & FLOWER MOLDED PORCELAIN
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England, c1765-70 As a geranium leaf, further molded with a fruiting grape vine and insects with a pseudo Oriental character mark
SOLD
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Worcester Blue & White Leaf-Shaped Butter Boat “Butter Boat Mansfield” England c1760, x Painter’s Mark
SOLD
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Caughley Blue & White Leaf Butter Boat "Pleasure Boat" (Fisherman) England, c1780-90
SOLD
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Bow Porcelain Unusual Leaf-Molded Dish England, c1765-70 the verso with a pseudo Oriental character mark
SOLD
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Rare Bow Porcelain Vine-Leaf Sauce Boat England, c1760 / Provenance: Duke and Duchess of Windsor SOLD
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First
Period
Worcester "Blind Earl"Blue & White
Sweetmeat Dish Of typical form with molded twig handle, the scalloped rim moulded with two rosebuds,
the leaves, buds and handle painted or picked out in
underglaze blue alongside four insects SOLD
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England, c1752-60 In the Chinese “Fujien blanc de chine” style, sprigged in relief with flowering prunus SOLD
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Pair of Bow Leaf-Molded Dessert Dishes England, c1765 Each of leaf form and further molded and painted with fruiting grape vines and insects SOLD
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First Period Worcester White Porcelain Teapot England, c1758-60 Very few Worcester wares were left in the white. SOLD
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England, c1760-65 With delicate lattice molding, each side with molded blue leaves, fruit and flora
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First Period Worcester Leaf Vine Pickle Dish England, c1770 SOLD
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Bow Porcelain Blue & White Pickle Dish England, 1765-70 SOLD |
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First Period Worcester Blue & White Leaf Dish England, c1770 Molded as two overlapping cabbage leaves SOLD
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First Period Worcester Yellow Ground Leaf Dish England, c1760 Molded as two overlapping cabbage leaves SOLD
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Pair of First Period Worcester Circular Dessert Baskets England, c1770-75 In the Pinecone pattern with applied exterior flowerheads
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Richard Chaffers Molded Sauceboat, Liverpool England, c1760 SOLD
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England, c1765-1770 The body with strap and leafy molding
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England, c1755-57
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CHINESE COPIES of ENGLISH PORCELAIN
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Rare Qianlong Soft Paste Porcelain Pickle Dish China, c1755-65, Based on a Vauxhall Soft Paste Original As a sycamore leaf raised on three peg feet
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Chinese Export Famille Rose Jug After the English and European Examples Qianlong, China, c1765
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