Porcelain and Ceramics

Cambi auction house organises regularly auctions of fine ceramics and porcelain, Italian majolica and pottery of European and Middle Eastern production, sales that are of great interest to our customers.
Auctions of porcelain, ceramics and majolica are aimed to offer unique occasions to the most meticulous collectors of fine ceramics, both of Italian and international production.  

Cambi’s sales are rare opportunities for collectors, enthusiasts, antiquities dealers and lovers of all things beauty who participate in our auctions to purchase rare works of the highest quality and aesthetics. 

In the monographic catalogues of majolica and porcelain auctions, large spaces are reserved to ceramics produced from the Fifteenth century to the end of the Nineteenth century, as well as porcelain and majolica made by the most important Italian and European manufacturers. Quality and aesthetics are the guidelines of our auction catalogues, two characteristics that fuel the desire to select for our customers the best and rarest pieces that the market can offer. In addition to the monographic catalogues, ancient majolica and collectible porcelain are also included in the antiques and fine art catalogues, with the scope to offer real opportunities to our customers to acquire rare works of excellent quality, perfect to enrich and enhance art collections.  

The catalogues of the porcelain and ceramics auctions are extremely heterogeneous collections able to satisfy the most demanding tastes: from the coffee cup to the large decorative vase, from the surtout to the precious snuffbox, glass coolers, plates, finely decorated antique albarelli, fine mugs and cups, up to large assortments of precious ceramics and majolica, objects of art and crafts that represent an important testimony of the taste and customs of the time.

Among the best results obtained in the majolica auctions organised by Cambi Auction House are the sale of a Syrian albarello from the Fifteenth century, sold for € 218.850, a Faenza cup by Baldassarre Manara from the first half of the sixteenth century sold for € 90.000 and a dish of Deruta from Giacomo Mancini's workshop, sold for € 60.000.
Among the many porcelains we remember the rare white porcelain figurine of the eighteenth-century Venetian factory Hewelcke sold for € 28.750 and the “Flora Danica” table service for twelve people, which found a new owner for € 50.000.

Collectors or owners of majolica or porcelain artworks, both individual pieces and whole art collections, may contact our Auction House in order to obtain free and non-binding valuations for the artworks in their possession.

Our experts are available, by appointment, in many Italian cities on the occasion of the valuation days. Selling majolica and porcelain at auction with Cambi Casa d’Aste is easy, fast and profitable.
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Coppia di vasi da parata con coperchi. Parigi, Manifattura di Sèvres ( [..]

Porcellana e bronzo. Marca: assente. Altezza totale cm 40,5. Conservaz [..]
€ 466.100,00
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Albarello Siria, Damasco, inizio secolo XV

Maiolica, altezza cm 31,7.Sbeccature e ampia caduta di smalto in prossimità della spallaDi forma cilindrica leggermente rastremato nella zona m [..]
€ 218.850,00
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Teiera Venezia, Manifattura Vezzi, 1725 circa

Porcellana. Marca: “Ven.a” in rosso; lettera “N” incisa. Altezza cm 12 [..]
€ 118.850,00
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Coppa Faenza, Baldassarre Manara, 1535 ca.

Maiolica Diametro cm 24,8 buona conservazione; minime connessioni al b [..]
€ 90.100,00
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Orologio da tavolo Napoli, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1775 circa

Porcellana, bronzo e metallo dorato. Marca: assente. Dimensioni: altez [..]
€ 81.350,00
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Coppa Urbino, maestro della cerchia di Nicola da Urbino, 1535 ca.

Maiolica Diametro cm 28 Una connessione e minime scheggiature al bordo [..]
€ 60.100,00
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Piatto Deruta, bottega di Giacomo Mancini (detto “El Frate”), prima metà del sec. XVI

Maiolica Diametro cm 41 Una rottura e una incrinatura Provenienza: collezione privata
€ 60.100,00
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Servizio da tavola “Flora Danica” per 12 persone Danimarca, manifattur [..]

Porcellana policroma. Marca: “onde” in blu sotto vernice; “Royal Copen [..]
€ 50.100,00
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Piatto Deruta, prima metà del sec. XVI

Maiolica Diametro cm 39 Una incrinatura e piccole scheggiature Proven [..]
€ 43.850,00
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Piatto Urbino, bottega di Guido di Merlino, 1542

Maiolica Diametro cm 26,5 Alcune connessioni Provenienza: collezione p [..]
€ 42.600,00
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Importante coppia di alzate in porcellana, manifattura Imperiale. Russ [..]

decorata con riserve in blu, basi triangolari con festoni sormontate d [..]
€ 40.100,00
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Grande piatto da parata a stampo Savona, marca stemma di Savona, XVIII [..]

Maiolica a gran fuoco in policromia, tesa con figure fantastiche a ril [..]
€ 40.100,00
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Grande piatto da parata a stampo Savona, marca stemma di Savona, XVII [..]

Maiolica a gran fuoco in monocromia, decoro a figure fantastiche con t [..]
€ 37.600,00
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Coppa Urbino, maestro della cerchia di Nicola da Urbino o Xanto Avel [..]

Maiolica a gran fuoco, diametro cm 28,8Modesta lacuna al bordo e felat [..]
€ 37.600,00
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Grande bacile Urbino, bottega dei Fontana, 1570 ca.

Maiolica Diametro 44 Buono stato di conservazione Provenienza: collez [..]
€ 36.350,00
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Rarissimo ed importante gruppo Meissen, 1740-1745 circa Modello di J. J. Kaendler, 1740-1741

Porcellana. Marca: spade in blu sotto la base. Altezza cm 17,5. Ampi restauriIl gruppo rappresenta “l’amante impetuoso”. Una pastorella seduta in négl [..]
€ 35.100,00
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Piatto Meissen, 1725 circa Pittura probabilmente di Johann Christoph Horn (1692-1760)

Porcellana. Marca: pseudo marche cinesi in blu. Diametro cm 24. Conservazione: ottima; insignificanti usure alla policromia Il piatto è decorato in m [..]
€ 35.100,00
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Rara e unica zuccheriera con stemma Cavalli Venezia, Manifattura Cozzi [..]

Porcellana policroma e dorata. Marca: ancora in rosso, con due cicale [..]
€ 35.100,00
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Servizio da tavola Indian Basket Green Ungheria, Manifattura Herend, s [..]

Porcellana. Marca: stemma Herend Hungary, Handpainted, numeri diversi [..]
€ 30.100,00
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Rarissima figurina Venezia, Manifattura di Hewelcke, 1761-1763

Porcellana bianca. Marca: “V” in rilievo su fronte della base. Altezza cm 20. Braccio destro riattaccato, mignolo mano destra e punta dello zoccolo si [..]
€ 28.850,00
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Parte di servizio da tavola “Perlservice” Nymphenburg, attorno alla me [..]

Porcella. Marca: “Nymphenburg” sormontato dallo stemma bavarese corona [..]
€ 28.850,00
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Rara tazza da puerpera Nove, Manifattura Antonibon, 1762-1768

Porcellana policroma e dorata. Marca: assente. Dimensioni: diametro pi [..]
€ 28.850,00
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Francesco Grue (1618-1673) Incontro tra Ciro e Lisandro, 1643

importante piatto in maiolica policroma con raffigurazione della scena [..]
€ 27.600,00
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Albarello Napoli, Fabbrica Reale aragonese di Napoli , seconda metà de [..]

Maiolica a gran fuoco, altezza cm 31,1Buono stato di conservazione. “A [..]
€ 27.600,00
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Servizio da tavola della principessa russa Vera Dolgorukij Doccia, Ma [..]

Porcellana. Marca: Ginori in verde; Decorazione eseguita da Richard-Gi [..]
€ 27.600,00
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Albarello Castelli, bottega Pompei circa 1555-1565

Maiolica a gran fuoco, altezza cm 19Buono stato di conservazione
€ 26.350,00
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Coppia di monumentali vasi Francia, seconda metà del XIX secolo

Porcellana. Marca: apocrifa di Sèvres con due “L” i [..]
€ 26.350,00
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Tre piatti dalla fornitura reale “Vues pittoresques de l’Europe” Sèvre [..]

Porcellana. Marca: “X" coronato con giglio, “Sèvres” “27” rispettivame [..]
€ 26.980,00
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PIatto Deruta, bottega di Giacomo Mancini (detto “El Frate”), prima me [..]

Maiolica Diametro cm 40,5 Una rottura e una incrinatura Provenienza: [..]
€ 25.100,00
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Crespina Montelupo, inizio del XVII secolo

Maiolica policroma. Altezza cm 5,5 circa; diametro cm 25,6. Ottimo sta [..]
€ 25.100,00
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Enrico Caviglia

Enrico Caviglia

Senior Specialist
Erica Di Caro

Erica Di Caro

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