FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
Exhibition
1 - 10
11 - 20
21 - 32
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A
very rare and Large Early Derby Shell Sweetmeat Stand or Punch Bowl,
the exceptionally well formed scalloped shell upended and resting on
a rockwork base applied with seaweed and encrusted with many smaller
shells and nautiluses.
Circa
1755-60. Height: Three
Patch Marks to the underside of the base.
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A
rare Bow scalloped-shaped Sweetmeat Stand, decorated in the Kakiemon
palette with the ‘Two Quail’ Pattern.
Circa
1755 Length:
4 ins This shell would appear to have been cast from life, this is a very rare feature within the Bow manufactory.
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A
rare early Bow figure of Columbine, modelled about to bow with a
flourish of the hat whilst beginning a Chacoon dance, her right hand
at her head, her left holding the slapstick, wearing a straw
coloured hat with puce lining, her bodice beautifully ‘pyed’ in
bright colours, her yellow dress with deep purple stylised markings,
her green shoes with
pink bows, on a low mound base with applied flowers and leaves. Circa
1755. Height:
6ins. (15cms.) No Marks.
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An
extremely rare pair of Bow Boxes and Covers in the form of Chicks,
highly naturalistically modelled and picked out in tones of brown
and puce and red to resemble feathers, the upper part of the box
forming the head and wings of the chicks and the lower forming the
body and legs, one chick with its head turned towards its wing, the
other with head held aloft, the features of the head delicately
coloured, cere and eyes in tones of brown and red.
Circa
1756-58. Length:
3 ½ ins. (9cms.) Marks: numeral 2 in brown to the underside of one base.
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A
very rare Early Worcester Bell shaped Tankard, the slender baluster
form with beautifully turned scotia foot, the elegantly scrolled
handle with pointed thumbrest and kicked lower terminal, the tankard
exceptionally well painted in the Chinese famille rose style with a
cock pheasant with exotic plumage perched high up on a holed blue
rock which issues flowering peonies and prunus, a hen bird peeps
from behind a rock, the everted rim decorated with a border of
hatched green diaper alternating with single prunus flowers.
Circa
1753-54. Height:
3 ½ ins. (9cms.) Marks:
single incised line to the underside of the base. Provenance: Dr. Paul B. Riley Collection.
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An
extremely rare and very important Worcester ‘Dutch’ jug, of
globular form with straight-sided cylindrical neck, moulded all over
in crisp relief with cabbage leaves, beautifully painted by James
Rogers with a host of different birds, including: partridges,
kingfisher and doves before a river landscape, beautifully framed
underneath with an elaborate purple rococo scrolled device, the rim
of the neck moulded in relief and picked in colours with small
cabbage leaves on a shagreen ground framed on either side with
purple scrolls, the double scrolled handle with a sprig of scarlet
pimpernel and further scrolled flourishes.
Circa
1757. Height: 10 ¼ ins. (26cms.)
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An
extremely Rare Pair of Large Worcester Partridge
Sauce Tureens and Covers, both the Hen and the Cock bird very
naturalistically modelled seated on nests, coloured with a very
close attention to the detail of the colours of the English
Partridge. The head, body, wings and tail together with the sieved
clay border forming the cover, the base modelled with basket weave
into which is interwoven ears or corn, feathers and bits of grass.
On the edge of the end of each cover below the tail is an aperture
for a sauce ladle.
Circa
1755-58. Height:
4 ¾ ins. (12cms.) Length:
7ins. (18cms.) No Marks.
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Highly Important early Worcester circular Tureen and Cover, the
tureen base with twin bifurcated foliate handles at either side each
applied with tiny florettes, the ogival slightly domed cover applied
with a similar finial. Superbly painted, probably by the hand of
James Rogers, in underglaze blue with doves and crested birds in
parkland amongst trees and before a distant landscape, the cover
painted with cranes of differing sizes in flight.
Circa
1756. Diameter
excluding handles: 9ins. Mark:
Workman’s mark ‘TF’ in underglaze blue to the base and inside
the cover. Provenance: The Bridge House Collection of Worcester Porcelain.
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A
Pair of First Period Dr. Wall Worcester Dessert Plates, of lobed
shape, beautifully decorated in the London atelier of James Giles
with a single exotic birds between bushes, one fruiting, surrounded
by sprigs and sprays of European flowers, gilt line rims (2)
Circa
1770. Diameter:
9ins. (23.5cms.) Provenance: Rous Lench, Sir Anthony Tuke and a Noble English Collection.
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30 An Extremely rare and important London Decorated Chinese Teapot and Cover, of globular shape with loop handle, decorated in the style of the Duesbury workshop, with exotic birds including peacocks and peahens and other exotic birds many taken directly from the Ladies Amusement by Sayer, the cover with similar birds in flight. Circa
1760. Height:
4 ¾ ins. (12cms.) No
Marks. Provenance:
Private
English Collection. 31 Circa
1760. Diameter:
5ins. (12.5cms.) No
Marks.
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A
Good First Period Dr. Wall Worcester Chestnut Basket or Cream Bason,
Cover and Stand, the brightly coloured twin handled basket moulded
with segments and picked out in the usual way with pink and yellow
florets, the reticulated cover with similar decoration and similar
branch handle, the stand with similar decoration.
Circa:
1765-1768. Width
of the Stand: 9 5/8 ins (24.5cms.) Marks: Roman Numeral marks in underglaze blue to the underside of the base and the inside of the cover. |