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.
Department Auctions
Top Lots

The Best Awards

Albarello Siria, Damasco, inizio secolo XV
€ 218.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Teiera Venezia, Manifattura Vezzi, 1725 circa
€ 118.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Coppa Faenza, Baldassarre Manara, 1535 ca.
€ 90.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Coppa Urbino, maestro della cerchia di Nicola da Urbino, 1535 ca.
€ 60.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Deruta, bottega di Giacomo Mancini (detto “El Frate”), prima metà del sec. XVI
€ 60.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Servizio da tavola “Flora Danica” per 12 persone Danimarca, manifattur [..]
€ 50.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Deruta, prima metà del sec. XVI
€ 43.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Urbino, bottega di Guido di Merlino, 1542
€ 42.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Importante coppia di alzate in porcellana, manifattura Imperiale. Russ [..]
€ 40.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Grande piatto da parata a stampo Savona, marca stemma di Savona, XVIII [..]
€ 40.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Grande piatto da parata a stampo Savona, marca stemma di Savona, XVII [..]
€ 37.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Coppa Urbino, maestro della cerchia di Nicola da Urbino o Xanto Avel [..]
€ 37.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Grande bacile Urbino, bottega dei Fontana, 1570 ca.
€ 36.350,00
Amount including auction fees

Rarissimo ed importante gruppo Meissen, 1740-1745 circa Modello di J. J. Kaendler, 1740-1741
€ 35.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Meissen, 1725 circa Pittura probabilmente di Johann Christoph Horn (1692-1760)
€ 35.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Rara e unica zuccheriera con stemma Cavalli Venezia, Manifattura Cozzi [..]
€ 35.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Servizio da tavola Indian Basket Green Ungheria, Manifattura Herend, s [..]
€ 30.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Rarissima figurina Venezia, Manifattura di Hewelcke, 1761-1763
€ 28.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Parte di servizio da tavola “Perlservice” Nymphenburg, attorno alla me [..]
€ 28.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Rara tazza da puerpera Nove, Manifattura Antonibon, 1762-1768
€ 28.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Francesco Grue (1618-1673) Incontro tra Ciro e Lisandro, 1643
€ 27.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Albarello Napoli, Fabbrica Reale aragonese di Napoli , seconda metà de [..]
€ 27.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Servizio da tavola della principessa russa Vera Dolgorukij Doccia, Ma [..]
€ 27.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Albarello Castelli, bottega Pompei circa 1555-1565
€ 26.350,00
Amount including auction fees

Coppia di monumentali vasi Francia, seconda metà del XIX secolo
€ 26.350,00
Amount including auction fees

PIatto Deruta, bottega di Giacomo Mancini (detto “El Frate”), prima me [..]
€ 25.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Crespina Montelupo, inizio del XVII secolo
€ 25.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Importante e ricco servizio da tavola in porcellana di Meissen a decor [..]
€ 23.225,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Urbino, bottega dei Fontana, 1560-70 ca
€ 22.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Deruta, prima metà del sec. XVI
€ 22.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Albarello Toscana (Siena ?), bottega della fine del XV secolo
€ 22.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto ovale “trutera” Lodi, Manifattura Antonio Ferretti, 1760 circa
€ 22.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Servizio da tavola Hermès 'Marqueterie de pierres dures d'Orient et d’ [..]
€ 22.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Venezia, bottega di Mastro Domenego, 1560- 70
€ 21.350,00
Amount including auction fees

Rarissima figurina Nymphenburg, 1760 circa Modello di Franz Anton Bust [..]
€ 21.350,00
Amount including auction fees

Raro servizio da tavola “Cornucopia” Ungheria, Manifattura Herend, 196 [..]
€ 22.200,00
Amount including auction fees

Coppa Faenza, 1541
€ 20.725,00
Amount including auction fees

Eccezionale servizio da tavola Germania, Manifattura “Nymphenburg”, 19 [..]
€ 20.725,00
Amount including auction fees

VassoioGrande bacile Savona, fine XVII- inizio XVIII secolo
€ 20.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Servizio da tavola Hermès Tucano Limoges, verso la fine del XX secolo
€ 20.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Servizio da tavola Meissen, seconda metà del XX secolo
€ 20.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Rarissimo versatoio con coperchio Meissen, 1722-1725 Pittura probabilm [..]
€ 19.475,00
Amount including auction fees

Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-1775) Dama dell'Ordine del Carlino
€ 18.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Grande ed importante servizio di piatti in porcellana ungherese a deco [..]
€ 18.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Rarissima figurina bruciaprofumi Meissen, 1710-1720 circa
€ 18.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Albarello Pesaro (?), bottega pesarese della seconda metà del XV secol [..]
€ 18.225,00
Amount including auction fees

Busto di Scipione Napoli, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1780 circa Model [..]
€ 18.225,00
Amount including auction fees

Eccezionale coppia di sculture Parigi, Manifattura Samson, fine del XI [..]
€ 18.225,00
Amount including auction fees

Piatto Urbino, bottega di Guido di Merlino, probabilmente Francesco Du [..]
€ 17.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Coppia di albarelli Savona, bottega del XVIII secolo
€ 17.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:58:43 +0000
La Clementina by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
On March 28, 2024, Cambi Auction House's appointment dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century Paintings returns with numerous new works of art. Among the most important works [..]
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:18:12 +0000
Alessandro Arseni: a life devoted to Philately
Alessandro Arseni has devoted his entire life to philatelic study and research, especially on the world of nineteenth-century mail and the Risorgimento. A dedication and [..]
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:31:53 +0000
Vincenzo Coronelli: Friar, cosmographer and argonaut of La Serenissima Republic of Venice
The event dedicated to "Antique and Rare Books, Antique Prints, Views and Maps" is approaching. On Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the prestigious venue of Castello Mackenzie [..]
Contacts
Enrico Caviglia

Enrico Caviglia

Senior Specialist
Erica Di Caro

Erica Di Caro

Assistant