FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
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Rare Pair of Very finely painted with ‘inselstil’ vignettes of birds, flowers and insects, the first with a yellow canary perched on a chrysanthemum bloom above a marsh, the second with a green woodpecker perched upon a gnarled stump of portugese laurel, each surrounded by an undulating garland of European flowers, including: dianthus, roses, convovulous, divergent tulips, heartsease, hollyhocks, lilies, species daffodil and scarlet pimpernel, within brown line rims. Circa 1755. |
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An important and massive Pair of Probably Eastern French Faience models of seated lions, the male and female each seated, confronting, guardant, and looking to one side, the terracotta animals carefully formed with great sculptural work to the manes, ears and snarling faces, the tin glazed bodies picked out in blue and manganese to incorporate the highly detailed features, on rectangular bases. Circa: 1770
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A Highly Important and Extremely Fine and Rare Chelsea Peach-shaped Cup and Stand, each piece formed with the outline of an asymmetrical peach with a cut stalk, superbly decorated in the kakiemon palette with the ‘Lady in a Pavilion’ pattern, in tones of very light sea green, red and yellow and blue details, showing a court lady walking out on a verandah underneath a tasselled canopy with two birds flying from domed cages. Circa 1749-52. |
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An extremely rare and highly important early Chelsea Sauceboat, the rococo silver shaped form modelled in the white as an upturned fluted Conch-like shell, supported on a triangular platform encrusted with small shells, coral and seaweed, with scrolled coral handle. Circa 1745-49 The incised triangle period. |
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Another extremely rare and highly unusual Bow small Vase or perhaps a Tea Canister, of slender baluster form, painted in colours with several agitated birds, surrounded by smaller floral sprigs, the domed cover with further flowers, the reverse painted with insects in flight, brown line rims to both pieces. Circa 1758-60. |
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An extremely rare and highly unusual Bow Small Vase or perhaps a Tea canister, of slender baluster form, painted in colours with water birds including a swan and a crane amongst bull rushes and other puce and green vegetation, surrounded by small sprigs of flowers, the domed cover with similar floral sprigs. Circa 1758-60. |
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An extremely Rare and Important Pair of Bow Vases and Covers, of very elegant and slender baluster form, beautifully decorated in the imari style with large sprays of flowering prunus and tree peonies, issuing from gnarled holed stumps beside a hatched fence, the stems, branches and fence in a light tone of underglaze blue, enriched in gold, the flowers in either red with gold highlights or gold with red embellishments, below a thick border of formal hatched diaper alternating with single stylised red flowerheads, the base with a formal arched floral border, the domed covers with pointed knop finials and further flowering peonies and similar diaper borders. Circa 1749-1752.
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