British and Continental Ceramics

A mixed group of small English porcelain animals, 19th century, including a Staffordshire lion wearing a crown recumbent on a gilt lined shaped base, height 8.5cm, a Chamberlains Worcester deer with gilt antlers on a dry blue glazed mound base, height 7.5cm, a graduated pair of Staffordshire deer before bocage with gilt details, two Staffordshire sheep, two Staffordshire dogs with iron red patches and a diminutive model of a recumbent goat being ridden by a child, together with a Continental porcelain Meissen style model of a canary, height 9cm, a small Continental porcelain dog, height 7.3cm, and a cat on a circular base, iron red painted anchor mark, height 8cm (faults and restoration).

A rare Staffordshire porcelain diminutive model of a zebra, 19th century, with shredded clay mane, standing on an oval mound base with gilt line detail, height 8cm.

A mixed group of English and Continental porcelain, 18th, 19th and 20th century, including a Lowestoft leaf shaped butter boat painted in underglaze blue, length 7cm, a Samson Meissen style white glazed model of recumbent dog, length 13cm, a Worcester floral painted teabowl and saucer, a Kakiemon style Chelsea cup and saucer with raised anchor mark, a Meissen cabinet cup painted with a man hunting boar, a Royal Worcester saucer painted with a pheasant and a Locke & Co Worcester vase painted by Lewis, signed, with a peacock, height 8.3cm, together with a pottery shell and two small glass beakers (faults and restoration throughout).

A Dillwyn & Co. Ladies of Llangollen pattern blue printed plate, early 19th century, impressed Prince of Wales feather mark to reverse, diameter 25.3cm, a small group of other blue printed wares, including a Wedgwood plate in The Return of the Mayflower pattern and a Wedgwood Cowman dish, and a group of other pottery and porcelain, including a Dresden pierced rim cabinet plate, diameter 23.8cm, a posy vase modelled as three putti supporting a cornucopia, a copper lustre decorated goblet depicting 'Hope' and 'Faith', height 11cm, a similar Fell pottery nursery plate inscribed 'Peter', diameter 12.5cm, and a rectangular framed panel depicting deer on the edge of a wood, framed dimensions 45cm by 24.5cm.

A Wedgwood Navy Florentine pattern part coffee service, comprising coffee pot and cover, two-handled sucrier and cover, jug and six coffee cans and saucers.

A Measham Bargeware teapot and cover, late 19th century, typically brown glazed and sprigged with flowers, fruit and birds around a plaque inscribed 'HAVE A CUP WITH ME', the domed cover with teapot finial, height 35cm, together with a pair of Staffordshire pottery spaniels, height 31.5cm, a Minton Eglantine pattern platter, length 54cm, and a gilt metal mounted Continental porcelain planter of oblong shape formed of overlapping pink edged petals, length 34cm (faults).

A mixed group of English porcelain cabinet cups and saucers, 19th and 20th century, including a Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester example with oeil-de-perdrix pattern in puce and green within gilt framing, a two-handled Japan pattern cup with gilt handles, height 6.5cm, Aynsley, Coalport, Davenport and Minton (some faults).

A Fulham Pottery two-handled planter, 1930s, designed by William John Marriner in the style of Constance Spry, with matt cream glaze, impressed marks to base, length 42cm.

A small group of Meissen tablewares, 19th century, painted with floral bouquets and scattered sprigs within gilt edged moulded neu-Ozier borders, comprising two shallow circular dishes, 30cm diameter, one shallow circular dish, 25.5cm diameter, an oblong dish, 29cm long, and a two-handled oval dish, length 35cm (faults and repairs).

A silver mounted mottled tiger glaze stoneware jug, circa 1600, the bulbous body on a small flared foot beneath the narrow cylindrical neck, the mounted rim with a band of scrolling foliage, with a loop handle, height 18cm (minor faults).

A large Continental porcelain Sèvres style circular tray, late 19th/early 20th century, the bleu celeste ground painted with a central half length portrait of King Louis XVI of France within gilt framing, surrounded by six smaller head and shoulder portraits of lady's of the French court, within gilt foliate scrollwork framing, pseudo blue painted interlaced L's mark to base, diameter 50cm (wear to gilding, some restoration to footrim).

A pearlware blue printed two-handled sauce tureen and cover with integral stand, early 19th century, with a figural chinoiserie landscape view of opium smokers, height 16.5cm, a similar lobed dish, printed with a basket of flowers, length 26.5cm, a Staffordshire figure group titled 'Death of Nelson', height 20cm, a pair of Staffordshire figures modelled as a man and woman holding fruit, height 18cm, a Staffordshire spill vase group modelled with two deer, and a small group of other pottery, including a Dutch Delft plate, diameter 23.3cm, and a graduated pair of Wedgwood floral decorated jugs (minor faults).

A large Jérôme Massier style jardiniere and stand, early 20th century, glazed in turquoise shaded to brown, the stand with three satyr around a central column relief moulded with fruiting vine, raised on a stepped circular base and supporting a circular top, the jardiniere with high relief child satyr handles backed by fruit and flowers, unmarked, overall height 139cm (faults).

A Swansea porcelain London shape part service, circa 1820, painted in the manner of Pollard, with wild flowers and fruit beneath a foliate scroll gilt rim border heightened with green enamelled flowerheads and dots, comprising seven teacups, six coffee cups, eighteen saucers, a circular pot with gilt lion's head and ring handles, height 10cm, one plate 25.8cm diameter, and six plates 20.8cm diameter, one of the six plates with impressed 'SWANSEA' mark (faults).

A pair of Staffordshire pottery greyhounds, late 19th century, modelled standing on naturalistic oval bases with dead hares at their feet, height 17.5cm, together with a similar smaller example, height 15cm, a Staffordshire green ground porcelain inkstand moulded with gilt detailed branch apertures, length 34.8cm, with two matched inkwells, and a Coalbrookdale vase and stopper, height 11cm (faults).

A pair of Derby porcelain figures, late 18th century, modelled as a huntsman with a shotgun and a maiden holding ears of wheat, both on scroll moulded bases picked out in enamels and gilding, height 19cm (faults).

An unusual Italian maiolica circular dish, late 19th/early 20th century, painted in Arts & Crafts style, the central concave well with a Cupid talking to a frog perched on top of a toadstool, the wide rim with water nymphs swimming amidst fish and other marine creatures, unmarked, diameter 26.5cm.

A Sunderland lustre bowl, late 19th century, probably Ball Brothers, printed and coloured with various scenes and verse within pink lustre framing, including a ship in sail titled 'Brig', Masonic emblems, Sailors Farewell and The Flag That's Braved A Thousand Years..., the last scene marked 'Dixon Phillips & Co Sunderland', diameter 23cm (minor faults). Note: despite being marked Dixon Phillips, this bowl was probably made at either Ball Brothers (or possibly Scott's) using an older copper plate purchased after Dixon Phillips closed in 1865.

An Ashtead Potters Ancient Order of Froth Blowers advertising mug, 1920s, brown glazed with moulded detail, the interior inscribed in black 'MODERATION', black printed and painted marks to base, height 12cm (minor faults). Note: the Froth Blowers were set up in the 1920s and were dedicated to the drinking of beer. They were a fun organisation which raised money for charity but they had disappeared by the end of the Second World War.