It is with great
pleasure that we introduce you to our collection of porcelain entitled
Sculptural Splendour. Many of the pieces have been chosen with the clear
theme of the modeller’s art and his representation of natural imagery.
It is a triumph of Nature’s zest that is captured and tooled by man’s
imagination and enhanced to create both anthropomorphic
and fantastical forms, redolent of an age of peace, prosperity, and
plenty during the eighteenth century. These forms are in turn loaded
with symbols of love and desire to be strewn across tables and pleasure
domes of the wealthy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to
startling effect.
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2006 - The Elegance of Porcelain (View Online)
We
are delighted to present our 2006 catalogue 'The Elegance of Porcelain'.
We feel particularly fortunate this year to have brought together such
varied rare examples of some of the finest eighteenth and nineteenth
century English and Continental porcelain, that we have handled for many
years. Many of the pieces come from private English collections not seen
on the open market within living memory.
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2005 - Royal Splendour (View Online)
We
are delighted to present our 2005 Exhibition ‘Royal Splendour’. The
fourteen pieces in the catalogue have been chosen to illustrate the
richness, grandeur and height of style within the early period of each of
the four represented European and English manufactories.
The
Exhibition starts and centres on the Royal Armorial Chafing dish, cover
and stand, this remarkable object was evidently made by
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2004 - Splendour of a Golden Age (View Online)
We
are simply delighted to present our Autumn selling Exhibition ‘Splendour
of a Golden Age’ which includes some of the finest early English
porcelain, from three English private collections, to be seen on the open
market in recent years. The Exhibition is entirely born out of the
Ceramics Fair for it was last year in 2003 that we renewed our
acquaintance with Dr. Paul B. Riley, when we Exhibited our collection of
early blue and white English porcelain. To many of you the name of Dr.
Riley is synonymous with the world of collecting and more especially with
his continuing researches into the production at the Chelsea manufactory.
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contact us.
2004 - Splendour in the Grass (View Online)
We are delighted to
present our Exhibition catalogue for 2004 entitled ‘Splendour in the
Grass’. It is conceived as a homage to man’s continued interest in all
things natural, an ephemeral array of beasts, birds and flowers,
immortalised within porcelain but still regarded as
symbols of the fragility of life captured and frozen for a single moment
by the artists and modellers for our contemplation. Man has held
a fascination for the natural world since the dawn of time for we are a
single part of the wealth of the living planet and take our place
within the ranks of creation itself. We ourselves spring from the grass
and will eventually take our place back there within the living fabric
of our planet Earth. The Exhibition charts the representation of birds,
beasts and flowers within the story of porcelain itself from the
beginning of the eighteenth century.
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2003 - A Private Collection of Early Eighteenth Century English Blue and White Porcelain
This very select private
collection of early Blue and White predominantly Worcester porcelain has
come to us from beyond our shores and has been diligently built up from
its conception in the mid 1960s, from the act of buying a single Lowestoft
pickle leaf, through careful and considered choices and an emphasis on
quality to the addition, in later years, of its more important and
splendid items of the Worcester factory’s early production. It was the
aesthetic appeal and the importance of the artistic traditions together
with a keen interest in the social history of the eighteenth century,
which led the collector to the fine porcelain fashioned in this country in
the mid eighteenth century.
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