British and Continental Ceramics

Twelve Beswick Beatrix Potter figures, comprising Tailor of Gloucester (chipped ears), Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddleduck Made a Feather Nest, Cousin Ribby, Samuel Whiskers, Mrs Rabbit, The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe Knitting and Mrs Tittlemouse, all mark BP-3b, Squirrel Nutkin, Foxy Whiskered Gentleman and Old Mr Brown, mark BP-3c, and Timmy Willie Fetching Milk, mark BP-10a, together with two Royal Albert examples.

"The Monty Python Foot, a crackle glazed pottery foot with multicoloured big toe, applied with a presentation plaque to the top inscribed ""The Monty Python Foot, Donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer, May 2005"", otherwise unmarked, height 19cm. Note: A number of these feet were commissioned from a model maker who worked for Monty Python. The foot is based on Cupid's foot in the painting 'An Allegory with Venus and Cupid' by Italian painter Agnolo Bronzino, which hangs in the National Gallery, London. Terry Gilliam saw this painting and was inspired to immortalise the foot on television."

A Louis Desmant French pottery vase, circa 1920, from the Bayeux Tapestry series, painted with opposing figures between crescent shaped handles, incised mark to base, height 16.5cm.

A pair of Paris porcelain vases or scent bottles and stoppers, circa 1840, of flattened circular shape, painted with country folk and animals opposing floral arrangements, both within moulded gilt framing against a green ground overlaid with gilt scrollwork, incised numerals to bases, height 18.5cm (minor faults), together with a Paris porcelain green ground pastille burner and cover, unmarked, height 24cm (cover extensively repaired).

Three Royal Worcester figures modelled by Doughty, comprising India, June and Burmah, together with two Royal Doulton figures, Royal Governor's Cook, HN2233, and Buttercup, HN2309, a Paragon figure Lady Evelyn, and a small group of other ceramics, including three Staffordshire dogs and three pearlware plates with basketweave moulded and pierced rims, diameter 18cm (some faults).

A Continental faience pottery pilgrim flask, circa 1900, of flattened shape, painted to one side with a large sun with central face, to the other a standing male figure, flanked by blue edged handles, unmarked, length 17cm.

Two Zsolnay Pecs Isnik style pottery vases, early 20th century, the first of double gourd shape with pierced convex detail, height 12cm, the second of bulbous shape, height 6.5cm, blue printed, impressed and painted marks to bases, together with two Austrian majolica relief moulded chargers, the first decorated with heron, 31.5cm diameter, the second Bacchanalian putti, 31cm diameter, impressed marks to bases (minor faults).

A Royal Doulton Burslem Artwares limited edition flambé glazed Year of the Pig model, dated 2007, No. 82 of 150, BA78, height 14.5cm, boxed with certificate.

A group of Mason's Mandalay pattern tablewares, including teapot and cover, six teacups and saucers, four plates, two photograph frames, two vases, four jugs, quartz timepiece, triangular shaped dish and a chamberstick.

A Crown Ducal Orange Tree pattern part service, comprising teapot, cover and stand, hot water pot and cover, square plate, milk jug, sugar bowl, preserve pot with integral stand and cover, four division toast rack, four teacups, five saucers, six tea plates and one egg cup (minor faults).

A Doulton Lambeth Slater's Patent stoneware jardiniere, late 19th century, the brown glazed body decorated with flowers against a textured ground between blue foliate banding, crimped rim, impressed marks to base, height 17.5cm, together with a Doulton Lambeth Natural Foliage stoneware vase, decorated by Emily Partington, monogrammed, height 26cm (minor faults).

A mixed group of pottery and porcelain, mostly 20th century, including a Royal Dux figure of a standing female holding a fan, height 23cm, a Rye Pottery Canterbury Tales equestrian figure, a small assortment of Shelley tablewares including an Attwell Baby's Plate, a Carlton Ware ashtray decorated with playing cards, mixed Art Deco tablewares, a Cantagalli dish and a Staffordshire dog and pup group raised on a blue glazed base (minor faults).

An Art Deco Gustavsberg lustre pottery circular bowl, designed by Josef Ekberg, monogrammed, gilt to the interior with a stylized foliate monogram against a lemon yellow ground, the exterior with mottled green glaze beneath four gilt merlon type protrusions to the rim, gilt printed and painted marks to base with numerals '1928', diameter 27cm.

A Dresden porcelain framed girandole wall mirror, late 19th/early 20th century, of waisted rectangular shape, typically moulded with scrolls picked out in pink and turquoise enamels and heavily encrusted with high relief pink and yellow roses, flanked by two cherubs and surmounted by a female head and shoulders bust, the girandole fitting with three scroll arms, wooden backing, length 65cm (faults).

An unusual Macintyre Moorcroft Pottery Florian type jug, circa 1904-13, decorated in blue with vertical stems of foliate decoration beneath blue banding to the neck, blue glazed handle, brown printed factory mark to base and green painted signature, height 28cm (faults).

A Meissen figure group allegorical of agriculture, late 19th century, depicting the goddess Ceres holding a sheaf of wheat, accompanied by three putti, one asleep, one with a tilling machine, the other with a basket of flowers on his head, raised on a naturalistic rocky base with gilt enriched scroll moulded detail, underglaze blue crossed swords mark to base and incised 'D 3', height 18cm (faults).

A Limoges Sèvres style gilt metal mounted inkstand, early 20th century, the porcelain body of bombe shape painted with pink roses, the gilt metal top fitted with two inkwells with acanthus leaf hinged lids, a stamp holder and five pen apertures, length 19.5cm, together with a pair of clear cut glass lustres hung with prismatic drops, height 18cm, and a Hukin & Heath plate mounted cut glass spirit barrel and stopper (faults and repairs).

A Berlin porcelain double salt, early 20th century, modelled as a putto standing between two oval shaped baskets painted with birds raised on a gilt enriched scroll moulded base, underglaze blue mark to base, height 12.5cm, together with a small group of other Continental porcelain figures, including two Volkstedt muses, a pair of Paris figures depicting a gallant and his female companion who is holding a bird cage, height 24cm, and two small bisque figures, together with a Royal Doulton Janet figural table lamp and the figure Mendicant, HN1365, and two Staffordshire pieces (faults and restoration).

A group of Royal Albert Old Country Roses pattern tablewares, comprising teapot and cover, coffee pot and cover, two tier cakestand, cup with biscuit saucer, eight teacups and one saucer, two coffee cups, jug, preserve pot (lacking cover), three egg cups, pepper and a pair of stub candlesticks.