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1	Click image to enlarge	An important Chantilly Kakiemon Teapot and Cover, of compressed globular form, with faceted spout and crabstock handle issuing applied brightly coloured flowering prunus in raised relief, decorated in the Kakiemon palette with the ‘Two Quail’ pattern showing a blue quail and a red quail standing in a Chinese garden with flowering oriental plants, the slightly domed cover with flower finial. Circa 1735-40 more>
2	Click image to enlarge	A rare pair of Chantilly Pomegranate Boxes and Covers, of oval shape and each moulded in the form of a bursting fruit, coloured in yellow and red, the seeds inside detailed in tones of iron red and turquoise, each twig handle with lower leaf terminal, the covers with cherry and leaf finials. Circa 1745 more>
3	Click image to enlarge	A highly important Sèvres plate from the Duchess of Manchester service, an assiette à palmes, of indented lobed shape, painted with a spray of fruit and European flowers by Taillandier, including: peaches, a rose, hyacinth, honeysuckle, convolvulous and damsons, the border with three panels of further flowers framed in cislée gilding with palm leaves, laurels that are tied in bows at the top of each panel and linked with garlands of flowers, reserved on a turquoise ground. Date Letter ee for 1782 more>
4	Click  image to enlarge	A fine Meissen bowl, of delicate shape with slightly everted rim, beautifully painted with a large butterfly and insects, including: a May bug and an ichnumen, beneath a gold lambrequin border. The interior painted with a spray of forget-me-nots, tulip and a rose. The maybug design taken from a print after Hofnägel. Circa 1735-40 more>
5	Click  image to enlarge Click  image to enlarge	An extremely rare and highly important pair of Meissen ormolu-mounted models of Jays, modelled to the left and right with their speckled heads slightly turned, with typical naturalistic plumage consisting of reddish brown necks, grey feathered backs, white and black wing tips and blue dashed side feathers, perched upon gnarled stumps which issue green oak leaves, on scrolling foliage ormolu bases. Circa 1745       more>
6	Click  image to enlarge	An extremely rare and fine early Meissen Boettger porcelain pagoda figure, very crisply moulded as a seated laughing chinaman, wearing a creased gown, his chest exposed and his right hand resting upon his knee, the gown beautifully coloured with purple fringed yellow tassles suspended from red scrolls and braided at the edge in gold, his face, chest and a very rare back fringe, painted with naturalistic colours and flesh tints. Circa 1725 more>
7	Click  image to enlarge	A very rare Early Doccia Teapot, of lobed baluster silver shape, the ridged handle looped and kicked upper terminal, the graceful spout applied at the base with acanthus ornament, the domed double ogival lobed cover with baluster knopped finial. Circa 1745 more>
8	Click image to enlarge	A very rare Tournai bust of an Unknown Man wearing an order, the three quarter bust figure beautifully modeled looking to one side, with cherubic features and windblown curled hair, he wears a loosely tied cravat, a billowing cloak, and over the buttoned chemise hangs a sash with an order clipped to the base. Circa 1766 more>
9	Click  image to enlarge	An extremely rare Tournai Figural Bust of Venus, modelled, probably by Joseph Willems, the goddess wearing diaphanous free flowing silken clothing in the classical style, bearing one breast, her head angled to one side wearing a single large pearl drop at her forehead beneath an arched hair ornament, her hair very neatly coiffed and with a double en queue wrapped in lengths of cloth, she wears a triple strand of pearls at the throat and a further pearl ornament hangs at her breast, supported on a pedestal base moulded at the front with a palm leaf, with contemporary gilt metal mounts. Circa 1766 more>
10	Click image to enlarge	An extremely rare and important white Chelsea Coffee or Chocolate Jug, very crisply moulded with acanthus or strawberry leaves extending to the left around the baluster shaped vessel and forming the spout as a lip, supported on six leaf terminals, the faux bamboo handle tied with ribbon in three places, the double ogival cover similarly moulded with acanthus or strawberry leaves, with lobed quadripartite double ogival knopped finial. Circa 1745-49 more>