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11	Click image to enlarge	An extremely rare and important Coloured Chelsea acanthus leaf moulded Teapot and Cover, of globular shape crisply moulded all over with spreading acanthus leaves and also forming the spout, supported on six feet, with faux bamboo handle, painted all over with brightly coloured individual specimens of flowers including: a snakeshead fritillary, a carnation, anemones, hairbells and plantagenista, together with butterflies, an ant and several caterpillars, the cover similarly moulded and painted with insects and flowers, applied with brightly coloured leaves and berrylike fruit. Circa 1744-49 more>
12	Click image to enlarge	A very fine Chelsea oval platter of the smallest size of Warren Hastings type, beautifully painted with very detailed and accomplished sprays of European flowers, including a tulip, rose, dianthus, scarlet pimpernel and clover, together with an insect in flight, surrounded by four scroll moulded panels each edged in puce, painted by Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale, showing the following scenes: the first with a reclining billy goat with black markings to its coat with a dancing kid in the background, the second with a cow, rook and owl in conversation, the third with the monkey and the fox and the fourth with the dog and the wolf. All scenes are framed with the characteristic green to the autumnal colour of deciduous trees, before mountains and flocks of birds in flight overhead, the wavy edge with brown line rim. Circa 1755 more>
13	Click image to enlarge	An extremely rare and highly important Chelsea Zoomorphic Tureen and Cover in the form of a Duck, the circular stand on which it stands adorned with marsh plants, modelled swimming vigorously, the lower part of the tureen formed as the breast and wings, on one side the webbed foot dips into water weed, applied at the front and sides with leaves curling upward, the cover formed as the upper part of the duck, its grinning head with bill slightly to one side, together with a very rare circular stand, expertly and crisply moulded in the form of a basket base over which are draped brightly coloured specimens of marsh plants, including the celery-like King Cups leaves and the species Water Lily together with other marsh plants. Both Circa 1755 more>
14	Click image to enlarge	A rare and early Chelsea Silver shaped Dish, of typical fluted oval shape, with wavy rim and shell thumbpieces at either end, painted by one of the finest hands at Chelsea with very detailed sprays of colourful European flowers, including a divergent tulip, a rose, a chrysanthemum and hyssop, surrounded by smaller equally detailed sprigs of alpine flowers, together with a yellow and blue spotted hairy caterpillar and a butterfly in flight. Circa 1749 more>
15	Click image to enlarge	A rare pair of Bow white fledglings perched on a mound of rocks with foliage surrounding the base. Circa 1752     more>
16	Click image to enlarge	A very rare Bow figure of a saltbox player, attributed by the late Raymond Yarborough as John Beard, delicately modelled as the celebrated tenor of the period, seated wearing an unbuttoned coat, loose chemise and frilled collar, his discernable features fully visible looking to one side, about to break into song, beneath a feathered beret, holding a saltbox on which he plays with a marrow-bone, his slender gartered legs angled across the irregularly moulded base. Circa 1755 more>
17	Click image to enlarge	A massive and very rare Bow Shell centrepiece, the whole of the quadripartite levelled support applied and encrusted with shells and corals all in vivid bright colours. The shells are backed onto simulated seaweeds and support on each of the four levels a scallop shell, the interiors of which are painted with sprays of carnations, poppies and honeysuckle, around which fly insects, enclosed within a stylised floral border in the famille verte palette within a single iron red line rim, the exteriors washed over in puce carmine, surmounted by a similar circular shell for spice or ginger. Circa 1755 more>
18	Click image to enlarge	A highly important First Period Dr. Wall Worcester Teapot and Cover decorated in the London atelier of James Giles. The Form of the Teapot. Of large Pear shape inspired by the Sèvres form, with double intertwined looped handle with triple palmette upper and lower terminals, the graceful reeded spout with delicately scrolled rim and similar palmette base, both the handle and the spout enriched with thickly applied proud diminishing gilt spots and feuille de choux ornament to the terminals. The slightly domed cover applied with an open flower and double leaf finial. Height: 65⁄8 ins (17 cms) Mark: crossed swords and 9 in underglazed blue to the underside of base more>
19	Click image to enlarge	A fine early Worcester Cabbage Leaf moulded dish, formed as two Cos lettuce leaves entwined, painted in delicate  pastel shades of green, yellow and puce with the 'Valentine' pattern, showing a pair of the doves of Venus perched on the quiver and arrows of Cupid, to their left a garlanded bread fruit tree and a pair of flaming hearts on the altar of the Greek God of love Hyman, a love bird flies across above the scene over a flowering oriental bush, all before the distant mountains on Tenian Island. Circa 1758-60 more>
20	Click image to enlarge	A very rare Bow Shell Sweetmeat Dish, the graceful deep scallop shell painted on the interior with sprigs and sprays of kakiemon flowers and grasses, in tones of yellow and red, together with some slight sprigs of green, supported on three large conch shaped shells applied in between with further smaller shells, including cockles, whelks and other specimens, at the front sits a live small crab waving its pincers. Circa 1752 more>