Rare Vintage Porcelain Enamel
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 SWASTIKA BRAND Wheat Flour Mill 1940s Rare Old vintage porcelain enamel sign  US $149.99
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 CROWN WATCHES Vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign Very Rare US $299.99
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 VINTAGE TENNENTS BEER DEALERS TRADE MARK Porcelain Enamel Sign C1940S RARE US $499.00
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 Vintage Doublesided With Flenge Horlicks Porcelain Enamel Sign c1920s Rare old US $599.00
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 Rare Vintage Lipton Tea Porcelain Enamel Sign US $225.00
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 Rare Vintage Estrela Batteries Porcelain Enamel Sign Board Unique Shape US $100.00
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 Rare Vintage Vertical Firestone Tyre Ad Porcelain Enamel Sign Board US $450.00
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 Rare Vintage Brooke Bond Tea Ad Porcelain Enamel Ad Sign Board US $600.00
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel ASVAN TONIC Board from India 1930 Very Rare US $750.00
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 PARKER STARMIX 7 SERIES ENGLAND VINTAGE Porcelain Enamel Sign RARE US $299.00
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 Rare Vintage Esso Elephant Kerosene Porcelain Enamel Sign Board US $330.00
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 IMPERMO CEMENT Vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign RARE 1940 US $499.00
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 Rare Vintage Double Sided Stanes Tea Coffee Porcelain Enamel Sign Board US $125.00
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 Rare Vintage Osram Bulb Light GEC Porcelain Enamel Ad Sign Board US $300.00
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 Rare Vintage Ferraina Roll Firm Porcelain Enamel Sign US $600.00
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 Rare Vintage Bayer Cafiaspirin Porcelain Enamel Sign Board Germany US $600.00
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 Rare Vintage Liptons Tea T Cutout Double Sided Porcelain Enamel Sign Board US $750.00
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 VINTAGE DUNLOP Doublesided Porcelain Enamel Sign CIRCA 1940 RARE MINT CONDITION US $999.00
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 Rare Vintage Philips Dry Shaver PHILISHAVE Porcelain Enamel Ad Sign Board US $450.00
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 VINTAGE Porcelain Enamel Sign of BURMAH SHELL OIL STORAGE SMALL SIZE VERY RARE US $349.00
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 ESSO ELEPHANT KEROSENE VINTAGE PORCELAIN ENAMEL SIGN C1940 RARE MINT CONDITION US $499.99
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 EMESS MILITARY SERVICE MS SWISS WATCHES VINTAGE PORCELAIN ENAMEL SIGN RARE OLD US $599.99
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 MURFY RADIO VINTAGE AUTHORISED DEALERS Porcelain Enamel Sign 1940s Very Rare US $999.99
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel B Tex Sign Board from India 1930 Very Rare US $55.00
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel Big Size Round Sign Board from India 1930 Rare US $440.00
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel Perfect Spects Sign Board from India 1930 Rare US $275.00
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 THE STATESMAN Daily Newspaper Tabloid vintage 1950s porcelain enamel sign Rare US $149.99
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel Vinolia Soap Sign Board from England 1930 Very Rare US $1,100.00
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 L D VELVETS vintage Embossed porcelain enamel sign 1930s Rare Fashion Clothing US $149.99
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel KASABIN Syrup Sign Board from India 1930 Very Rare US $750.00
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel HEXAMAR Sign Board from India 1930 rare US $55.00
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel ESSO NO Smoking sign Board from India 1930 Rare US $330.00
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 NEW INDIA ASSURANCE vintage Set of 3 Insurance porcelain enamel sign s Rare Old US $149.99
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 Rare PYREX MEDICINE PILLS vintage Abstract Art porcelain enamel sign Old Chemist US $149.99
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel FEUERHAND Sign Boards from Germany 1930 Vary rare US $150.00
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 Museum Rare INDIAN LION World Wide Fund Nature vintage porcelain enamel sign LEO US $16,999.99
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 TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER BY AIR MAIL vintage 1950s porcelain enamel sign Rare US $1,499.99
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 RALEIGH CYCLES vintage 1940s Bicycle Dealers 2sided porcelain enamel sign Rare US $199.99
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 USHA DESK CEILING ELECTRIC FANS vintage 1940s Rare porcelain enamel sign Old US $249.99
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 Old Vintage Porcelain Enamel Shoes Sign Board from India 1930 Very Rare US $175.00
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 Rare Antique Vintage NOS Porcelain Enamel Sprinkler Fire Police Alarm Sign CLEAN US $99.99
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 Rare VINTAGE PORCELAIN ENAMEL Penton Sportcycles MOTORCYCLES SIGN Motocross US $2,299.99
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 Antqe Vintage Porcelain Enamel Adv Sign Rare BENTEX WATCHES CLOCKS STRAPS US $115.00
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 Rare Vintage ILFORD FILMS Papers Porcelain Enamel Sign US $325.00
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 Rare Vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign Bamboo Brand Paper US $300.00
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 Rare Vintage Sunlight Soap Ad Porcelain Enamel Sign Board US $425.00
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 VINTAGE TEXACO MOTOR OIL OLD Porcelain Enamel Sign 1920 RARE US $799.00
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 VINTAGE ALLSOPPS BEER PORCELAIN ENAMEL SIGN 1940s RARE KING GEORGE VI GRAPHICS US $2,222.00
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 JOHN EXSHAWS BRANDIES VINTAGE Porcelain Enamel Sign circa 1940 very Rare sign US $1,299.00
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 VINTAGE KODAK FILM DIECUT ORIGINAL PORCELAIN ENAMEL SIGN C1930S RARE QUALITY US $1,500.00
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 Vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign DANGER 33000 VOLTS Rare US $49.00
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 Rare Vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign of Everready Battery US $300.00
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 Rare Vintage Tiger Brand Shoes Footwear Porcelain Enamel Sign Board US $250.00
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 UPCC Vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign Very Rare US $299.99
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 Vintage LIPTON TEA PORCELAIN Enamel Sign c1940S RARE US $399.00
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 ORNAMENTS SHOP SIGN VINTAGE Porcelain Enamel Sign Rare US $249.00
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 ASSOCIATED SPARES VINTAGE Porcelain Enamel Sign Rare US $199.00
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 VINTAGE FAVRE LEUBA WATCH PORCELAIN ENAMEL SIGN Very Rare MEDIUM SIZE SIGN1940S US $499.00
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 PHILIPS Bulb vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign 1940s Germany Very Rare US $499.00
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 Rare Vintage Porcelain Enamel Sign For Lipton Tea Girl US $225.00
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Table Lamps by Moonlight
When we think of Japanese porcelain, we quite often think of brightly coloured Imari, but not all Japanese Imari was brightly coloured.
One famous early 19th century porcelain maker at Seto, in Japans Aichi Prefecture, decorated his porcelain in a very distinctive sapphire blue, with typical naturalistic, Zen influenced subjects, such as grasses overhung by pines, weathered rock formations with willows and wind blown trees.
"Seto" itself refers to both the city and the style of ceramics that originated there. Seto is also one of Japan's famous “six old kilns”. Porcelain came to Seto rather late. It first appeared in the beginning of the 19th century when Kato Tamikichi returned to Seto from Kyushu Island and successfully fired cobalt blue-decorated porcelain, Tamikichi is, in fact, regarded as "the father of porcelain" in the Seto region.
The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co illustrate a fine Seto, “Moon Flask”, lamp, decorated in Seto’s beautiful sapphire blue.
A 19th century, Japanese porcelain, Seto Imari, moon-flask lamp.
The flask sensitively painted with a Japanese naturalistic subject of a gnarled pine growing from steep mountain side, or, natural Bonsai.
The painted subject in the distinctive, Seto Imari, sapphire blue enamel.
The flask sides, base, and neck painted with a ground of a tightly curled meander of tendril and flower heads.
The neck of the flask with applied, white, dragon grips.
The oval lamp on a custom made, oval, gilt wood stand.
The lamp cap of gold plated bronze.
Circa 1880 Overall height (including shade) 20" / 51cm
However, to see the larger picture, we need to look across the long history of Japanese art and design, to see some of the many influences, both internal and external which have contributed to today’s recognizable “Japanese design”.
Until Admiral Perry’s opening of Japan to the West (1854) with its both positive and negative results, Japanese art and design was almost unknown to the Western world. Perry’s encounter with Japan opened the flood gates to an East / West exchange of ideas, rarely seen before. It was within a decade that Japanese design concepts arrived in the West.
Two outstanding names will serve to illustrate this influence on Western art. James Whistler, the great American / British painter of the mid to late 19th century. He was one of the first westerners to be influenced by the artistic tradition of Japan and he developed a rather aesthetic response to living, he particularly admired the Japanese artistic attitude to not distinguishing between fine and decorative art. His appreciation of this led Whistler to a wide range of artistic pursuits, heavily influenced by his newfound “art of Japan”.
The second example is the master of French impressionism, Claude Monet. We do not know if the famous story of Monet’s discovery of Japanese art is true, or anecdotal! But legend has it that Monet has fled to Amsterdam to escape the 1871 Prussian siege of Paris. There, or, so the story goes, he observed some Japanese block prints being used in a food shop as wrapping paper, he could not believe what he was seeing, so impressed was he, that he purchased all available, . The purchase changed his life — and the history of Western art.
Monet was never shy about his fascination with Japan and its art and 1876, five years after that visit to the Dutch food shop, he painted “La Japonaise”, showing his first wife Camille in a kimono against a background decorated with uchiwa (Japanese paper fans). At Giverny, where he moved in 1883 at age 42, he built a Japanese bridge over a Japanese pond in a Japanese garden, and he spent the rest of his life painting that private paradise — and especially its water lilies.
Not only Western art was influenced by Japan, but, interiors, fashion and all forms of art, style and design. This exchange of ideas was two way, with Weston design concepts being used in Japan. Perhaps for that reason Impressionism caught on early in Japan and still remains highly popular. This exchange of ideas was seen, particularly in the porcelain produced by the great Japanese ceramics kilns, with its one thousand year old tradition.
Japanese porcelain and pottery, until the opening of Japan to the West, was both traditional and highly aesthetic, understood, only by, the then, insular and very conservative, Japanese society. The overriding concept was to hold to the rigidly, proscribed forms.
This highly aesthetic style was not understood by a Western audience and it soon became apparent that changes needed to be made for a Western export market to succeed. By example, the Western market is very familiar with Japanese “Imari” porcelain, with its’ bright pallet of colours, primarily based on iron red and underglaze cobalt blue, this always forms the basic Imari pallet, which can then have a range of additional colours added.
This popular Japanese porcelain is called “Imari” due to the fact that it was exported by its various makers through the port of “Imari”. These bright patterns were primarily developed for a Western market and were, in fact, based on the patterns of traditional kimono brocaded textiles.
The West’s love of Japanese art and design has never faulted and continues to evolve.
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table lamp lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and vintage lamps on view.
Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.
For more information you are invited to visit their web site at
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About the Author
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery,with his commercial experience spaning a period of 40 years,including as a valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.
