Cute Victorian porcelain baby's dish decorated with a very pretty transfer illustration of the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill". The decoration is sweetly sentimental. The rim is gilt "Baby". The bottom is marked "Germany".

Origin: Germany, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no chips or cracks, light wear to gilding and transfer. Size: 5-1/8" diameter; 1-1/4" high.

Pretty late Victorian porcelain child's plate featuring a colorful transfer design of a milkmaid flanked by dachsunds and a little boy. The scene is entitled "This is the maiden all forlorn." The back of the plate is marked "Germany".

Origin: Germany, ca. 1900. Condition: excellnt, no chips or cracks, bright colors, extremely light wear to original gilding. Size: 7" diameter.

Pretty late Victorian porcelain child's cup. One side has a polychrome transfer image of a playful dog, while the other shows another dog with a blue ribbon around his neck. The rim and handle are decorated with gilt bands. Porcelain cups such as these were prized by Victorian children. The bottom is marked "Germany".

Origin: Germany, ca 1900. Condition: excellent, no chips or cracks, light wear to gilding at rim. Size: 2-3/16" tall.

Terrific figural porcelain creamer in the form of a lobster. This example has very nice painted details--note how the paint fades from red to pink to white at the edges of the claws. The bottom is stamped with the blue mark.

Origin: Germany, circa 1919. Condition: excellent, only a few tiny paint scrapes; no chips or cracks. Size: 4" high, 5" across.

Lovely handpainted Meissen porcelain inkstand featuring a tray with separate inkwell and sander. All three parts are decorated with a rich blue background punctuated with gilt-edged reserves. Each of the reserves is decorated with a delicately hand-painted Watteau "pastoral loves" scenes--seven different scenes in all. The bottoms of all pieces are marked with the crossed-swords mark in blue. Each mark has a single scratched hash mark. The tray also has the incised number "36" and another incised mark (illegible).

Origin: Meissen, Germany, circa 1880. Condition: the set is very lovely and has a nice appearance; all pieces show expected wear to the gilding along rims; the tray has some surface scratching in the center from rubbing against the bottoms of the inkwell and sander; the knob on top of the inkwell's lid has been broken off and the original piece reglued (I would recommend having the knob more expertly repaired) and there is a flake on the underside of the lid; the inkwell doesn't appear to have ever had a liner; the sander has a small flake on the underside of the rim. Size: tray, 7-1/2" x 11" x 1-1/2" high; inkwell, 4-1/4" diameter, 4" high; sander, 3-3/4" diameter, 3" high.

Porcelain beaker decorated in transfer and polychrome enamels with scenes from St. Louis, Missouri. The scenes include Eads Bridge, Municipal Courts Building, and Union Station. These glasses were made in Bohemia and Germany from the 1890's until World War I. We are also offering similar glasses featuring Boston, Cincinnati, and Mackinac Island. The bottom is marked "Made In Germany".

Origin: Germany, 1891-1918. Condition: near mint, with very slight wear to the gilded edges. Size: 3-3/4" tall.

Porcelain beaker decorated in transfer and polychrome enamels with scenes from Boston. The scenes include Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill Monument, and Old State House. These glasses were made in Bohemia and Germany from the 1890's until World War I. We are also offering similar glasses featuring Mackinac Island, St. Louis and Cincinnati.

Origin: Bohemia, 1891-1918. Condition: near mint, with very slight wear to the gilded edges. Size: 3-3/4" tall.

These porcelain inkwells were made as an advertising novelties for Carter's Ink in 1914. This example has nicely painted details and crisp modelling. The bottom is marked "Made In Germany." Excellent condition. 3.75" tall.

Porcelain decanter in the shape of a bellhop, complete with his ring of keys, decorated with overglaze red, black and pink enamels. The bottom is marked "Germany" and also has a decorator's mark.

Origin: Germany, ca. 1920. Condition: Light glaze crazing; a small chip on the cap and three small flakes at the bottom edge are visible in the photos (all could be easily repaired). Size: 9-1/2" tall.

Porcelain plate by Carl Schumann, ca. 1918, in a variation of the "Dresden Flowers" pattern. The scalloped border is reticulated and has a gilt rim. Origin: Bavaria. Size: 11" diameter. Condition: Mint.

Porcelain plate by Carl Schumann, ca. 1918, in a variation of the "Dresden Flowers" pattern. The scalloped border is reticulated and has a gilt rim. Origin: Bavaria. Size: 11" diameter. Condition: Mint.