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Carved Italian upholstered couch and chair c1930 Item # 4375 Click HERE to inquire about this item Channel upholstered sofa and chair. This sofa and chair are of good quality, and were clearly built to last. They were fairly expensive when purchased new. The heavy carving was actually rough cut by machine, and then finished by hand. C1930 This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Antique Majolica pottery bowl Julius Strnact c1900 Item # 4452 Click HERE to inquire about this item Antique Majolica pottery bowl. It was made in Germany about 1900. The mark is that of Julius Strnact (that is the correct spelling), a minor pottery manufacturer. Strnact established his factory in Bohemia 1882, and closed at the start of WW I. Majolica is a soft-paste ceramic with a brilliant tin-based glaze. It originated in England about 1880 as an imitation of maiolica, the magnificent pottery of the Italian renaissance. It was immediately popular, and production spread to factories in the United States, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and other central European countries. Majolica is a popular collectible today. The most expensive examples were produced by the Minton and Wedgwood factories in England This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Capo Dimonte porcelain man Item # 4463 Click HERE to inquire about this item Capo Dimonte porcelain depicting a man sharpening a knife at his grinding wheel to repair a boot. The Capodimonte factory was established in Naples in 1743 by Prince Charles of Bourbon, relocated to Buen Retiro (near Madrid) in 1759 when Charles became King Charles III of Spain, and finally relocated again to Italy near Florence in 1816. Until that time, Capodimonte ceramics, encompassing tableware and decorative statues/figurines, were considered very fine quality, but since then, they have been produced in varying degrees of quality; political upheavals, lost porcelain molds, and incompetent stewardships have taken their toll. To complicate matters, because the mark has never been legally protected, other Italian factories produced very good copies with impunity This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Capo Dimonte porcelain woman Item # 4464 Click HERE to inquire about this item Capo Dimonte porcelain depicting a peasant woman wheeling a wine keg and jugs (and having a bit of difficulty!) The Capodimonte factory was established in Naples in 1743 by Prince Charles of Bourbon, relocated to Buen Retiro (near Madrid) in 1759 when Charles became King Charles III of Spain, and finally relocated again to Italy near Florence in 1816. Until that time, Capodimonte ceramics, encompassing tableware and decorative statues/figurines, were considered very fine quality, but since then, they have been produced in varying degrees of quality; political upheavals, lost porcelain molds, and incompetent stewardships have taken their toll. To complicate matters, because the mark has never been legally protected, other Italian factories produced very good copies with impunity This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Japanese hand painted tea set Gemchina Item # 4498 Click HERE to inquire about this item Japanese tea set. It was made in Satsuma, a province in the southern part of Kyushu. The decoration is Kyoto-style, meaning it was made in a workshop in one of the busy trade centers such as Kyoto, Yokohama, or Osaka, for export to the West. The set was made about 1930. The raised-dot designs are called moriage; the images of a lady appearing in the bottom of the cups are called halophanes. Both these features are typical of 20th century Satsuma pottery. Earlier 19th century pieces are decorated in delicately drawn, exquisite detail on a finely crackled surface. Later on, as foreign demand for this pottery increased, the decoration became bolder, darker, and more abstract. Japanese tea sets are usually made in odd numbers, because they are considered luckier than even numbers. This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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