British and Continental Ceramics

Two Kevin Francis limited edition figures, comprising Essence of June, modelled by Andy Moss, a special release for the Kevin Francis Guild Open Day, 2000, No. 23 from an edition of 200, and Chantelle, modelled by Ray Noble, No. 126 from an edition of 150, both boxed.

A group of twenty Kevin Francis Face Pots, including Bruce the Koala, Nellie the Elephant, Queen Elizabeth II, Cupid, two Santa, Buddy Holly and Tony Blair, with certificates.

Ten Kevin Francis Guild Issue mini figures, including Thin Man, Gin Woman, Drunken Sal, Snuff Taker and Abigail, together with two mini Kevin Francis promotional release Clarice Cliff Toby jugs, a Votes For Women figure, three small Royal Doulton figures, and a Royal Doulton figure The Potter, HN1493, with six boxes.

Three Kevin Francis limited edition figures, each modelled by Andy Moss, comprising Brief Encounter, No. 227 of 500, Pan for Collect It! magazine, No. 150 of 500, and Charlotte Rhead, No. 209 of 950, with certificate, each boxed, together with a Kevin Francis limited edition Toby jug Little Clarice, No. 713 of 2500.

Nine Royal Copenhagen animal models, comprising Siamese cat, No. 3281, height 20cm, seal, fox looking up, four dogs and two mice, together with a Lladro resting horse, No. 1203, a Lladro Afghan Hound, No. 1069, and a Royal Copenhagen pin dish modelled as a lily pad surmounted by a frog.

A group of Staffordshire pottery figures, late 19th century, including Tom King on horseback, a large spill vase of a huntsman with black dog, height 46cm, The Lion Slayer, height 44cm, Wallace, two Robin Hood groups and a large holy water stoup, height 47cm, together with three white glazed Staffordshire dogs with gilt details (faults and restoration throughout).

A group of Staffordshire pottery figures, late 19th century, including a watch holder with a male and female musician beneath, height 31cm, General French on horseback, height 31cm, a pair of figures with donkeys titled 'Beesums' and 'Sand', two Little Red Riding Hood, Dick Turpin and an arbour group of Romeo and Juliet, together with a pair of white glazed Staffordshire dogs, height 35cm, and a Staffordshire pottery three bottle decanter stand with figural handle, height 22cm (faults and restoration throughout).

A Villeroy & Boch Amapola pattern part service, comprising two tureens and covers, sauceboat and stand, eleven plates 26.5cm diameter, ten plates 21cm diameter, eight soup plates, four dessert bowls, four cereal bowls, eleven tea plates 16.8cm diameter, seven mugs, six cups and saucers, large jug, small jug, seven ramekins, salt and pepper, sugar bowl and cover and a pair of candlesticks, together with a French faience tureen and cover with naturalistic pear knop, length 24cm (some faults).

Nine Royal Doulton figures, comprising Summer, HN2086, Cissie, HN1809, Nicole, HN3421, Daffy Down Dilly, HN1712, Miss Demure, HN1402, Bride, HN3285, Innocence, HN3730, Esmeralda, HN2168, and Bo-Peep, HN1811 (minor faults).

Two large Royal Doulton character jugs, comprising Merlin and Rip Van Winkle, two Royal Doulton Dickens Ware plates, a similar Gnomes series ware plate, five Crown Staffordshire figures, including Mr Mantalini, a Brameld Don Quixote pattern blue printed tureen and cover, and two other pieces.

A Royal Doulton stoneware vase, 1920s, decorated by Vera Huggins, signed to base, with a band of fruit and flowers against a predominantly blue glazed ground, impressed and incised marks to base, height 24cm, together with a small group of Doulton harvest stonewares, including a silver mounted jug typically sprigged with toping figures, height 21.5cm, and two Wedgwood green jasper dip jugs (some faults).

A Limoges porcelain part dessert service, first half 20th century, painted with flowers within pierced gilt edged rims, comprising a centrepiece, four tazza and eleven plates, various indistinct incised and painted marks, diameter of plates 22.5cm (some faults).

A Ridgways pottery child's toy dinner service, first half 20th century, decorated with scattered blue flowers on brown leafy stems, including a soup tureen and cover, two sauce tureens with covers, stands and ladles, two vegetable tureens and covers, a two-handled oval bowl, graduated platters, soup, dinner and dessert plates, together with a mixed group of other miniature and small ceramics and glass, including a set of bisque figures of child musicians wearing lace clothing, various crested ware and some miniature glass tablewares, including a pair of candlesticks, height 5.5cm (faults).

A Staffordshire pearlware figure, probably Enoch Wood, early 19th century, modelled as Cleopatra or Ariadne reclining on rockwork, a serpent coiled around her left arm, raised on a rectangular pseudo marbled base, unmarked, length 31.5cm (minor faults). Note: This model is taken from a statue in the Courtyard of Statues (Cortile delle Statue) at the Vatican. Because the statue has a bracelet in the form of a serpent it was believed to represent Cleopatra, but in the 1700s Ennio Quirino Visconti recognised the original statue as depicting Ariadne.

A Wedgwood three colour jasperware rectangular plaque, 19th century, sprigged in white with the Blind Man's Buff child figures, originally designed by John Flaxman junior in 1782, against a pale blue jasper ground and within a green jasper border, any marks obscured by the frame, total dimensions including frame 36.5cm by 19.5cm.

A Continental porcelain English Regency style large bowl, 20th century, painted to the base interior with a basket of flowers on a ledge within a canted corner gilt rectangular frame against a green glazed ground overlaid in gilt with fruiting vine, flowers and scrolling foliage, the green glazed exterior with a gilt band of fruiting vine, unmarked, diameter 33cm.

A Westerwald German stoneware pewter lidded stein, late 18th century, the grey body incised with a blue washed trellis panel between stylized flowers flanked by flowers on scrolling foliage, the rim and foot with blue dash detail, the pewter cover marked 'I.H.C.', height 20.5cm (cover loose), together with two Mettlach stoneware steins (minor faults).

A Wedgwood dark blue jasper dip four piece tea service, early 20th century, typically sprigged in white with Classical figures and motifs, comprising teapot and cover, hot water pot with plated cover, jug and sugar bowl, impressed marks to bases.

A Lucie Rie and Hans Coper studio pottery plate, mid 20th century, with brown manganese glaze and fine incised line to the rim edge, impressed seal marks to base, diameter 18.5cm (small chips to rim edge).