Single-Owner Collections

A Bloor Derby part service, circa 1820-40, the light grey rims painted with pink and blue flowers on gilded leafy stems beneath the gilt enriched dentil edges, comprising a soup tureen and cover, two circular vegetable tureens and one cover, four sauce tureens with covers and stands, nine graduated oval platters in three sizes, eighteen soup plates, forty dinner plates and fifteen side plates, red printed circular factory mark to bases, diameter of dinner plates 26cm (some faults).

A pair of English porcelain oval tureens, covers and liners, probably Coalport, circa 1805, each painted with a border of pink roses and daisies between gilt banding, one liner divided, the other plain, unmarked, length 31cm, together with a set of eleven English porcelain soup plates and twelve dinner plates, decorated with scattered floral sprays within low relief floral moulded borders and blue edged rims (faults).

An English porcelain green ground part tea service, late 19th century, decorated with floral sprays beneath gilt rims, comprising teapot and cover, two handled sugar bowl and cover, milk jug, slop bowl, eleven teacups and twelve saucers, twelve tea plates and a pair of two handled square plates, block printed mark 'SWANSEA' and painted pattern number '6919' to bases.

A pair of Staffordshire porcelain three-tier stands, mid-19th century, each decorated with scattered floral sprigs and sprays within gilt enriched scroll rims, separated by baluster shaped sections and raised on shell, scroll and acanthus moulded feet, unmarked, height 53cm (faults to one), together with a similar navette shaped pierced porcelain basket and a Paris porcelain part service, comprising two stands, two pierced dishes and two plates (minor faults).

An Enoch Wood black basalt bust of George Whitfield, circa 1785, modelled wearing clerical clothing, raised on a socle base, impressed circular plaque to reverse inscribed 'The RevD George Whitfield, Died Sept 30 1770, Aged 56. Enoch Wood, Sculp. Burslem', height 31cm.

A rare Staffordshire salt glazed stoneware teapot and cover, circa 1760, the globular body with crabstock handle, spout and finial, enamelled to one side with a titled portrait of the King of Prussia, to the reverse a crowned eagle with the motto 'Semper Sublimis', against an ermine ground which extends across the base and cover, unmarked, height 9.5cm (restored). Note: a similar example was sold at Bonhams, London, 18th April 2012, Lot 26.

A Continental faience Toby jug, probably French, late 19th century, modelled seated holding a glass in his right hand and a jug in his left, wearing a green jacket and yellow trousers on a naturalistic base, blue painted 'FT' monogram to base, height 31cm (chip to side edge of base). Note: a similarly marked example was sold at Toovey's, 24th May 2006, Lot 1411.

A Wedgwood Queensware oval dish, dated 1856, painted by C.L. Waegeneer, signed, with a figural scene of a queen surrounded by members of the church and court with men representing the arts in the foreground, within an ochre geometric rim, impressed upper case marks to base, length 24.5cm.

A near pair of Dutch Delft vases, late 18th/early 19th century, each of high shouldered form, painted in blue with exotic birds flying and perched amidst flowering rockwork, one with a zig-zag fence, one painted '18' to base, heights 36cm and 35cm (minor faults).

A Dutch Delft vase, 18th/early 19th century, of high shouldered form, painted with panels of birds and flowers against a ground of dense flowers and foliage with other birds hidden amongst it, blue painted De Drie Vergulde Astonnekens mark to base, height 38.5cm (repair to neck rim). Note: the factory name translates as 'The Three Golden Ash Barrels'.

A large Dutch Delft Cashmere palette ribbed vase and cover, late 18th century, of octagonal shape, painted in chinoiserie style with an exotic bird perched on pierced rockwork by a fence with chrysanthemum and prunus, beneath other birds in flight, flanking an urn of flowers between floral and scroll filled lambrequin borders, the domed cover with spherical knop, unmarked but with paper 'loan' label to base, height 50cm (faults), together with a Delft blue painted ribbed gourd shaped vase, height 38cm (minor faults).

A pair of Dutch Delft chargers, mid to late 18th century, painted in blue with three figures promenading in a country landscape, a church in the distance, the trees and bushes with sponged foliage, blue painted '6' to base of one, diameters 34cm and 34.7cm (typical fritting).

A pair of Dutch Delft blue and white chargers, mid to late 18th century, both painted with three urns of flowers raised on a chinoiserie style display incorporating grotesque, shells and scrollwork, the rims with floral panels hung with floral and fruit garlands, unmarked, diameters 33cm and 33.4cm (fine haircrack to one).

A Continental faience Passover plate, early 20th century, polychrome painted with a basket of fruit flanked by two trees above Hebrew script, the rim with flowers and foliage spaced with further Hebrew script, unmarked, diameter 33.5cm, together with a faience plate painted with three jesters (badchen) above Hebrew text, unmarked, diameter 22cm.

An Italian maiolica jug of Cantagalli type, 19th century, typically painted with grotesques and scrollwork beneath a mask spout and bifurcated handle, 'William Ridout Collection' paper label to base, height 17cm (faults and repairs), together with a floral painted Delft plate and pair of plates with gilt enriched chinoiserie floral decoration (minor faults).

A Continental faience jug, probably Gmunden, Austria, dated '1760' but late 19th century, polychrome painted to one side with fish and a lobster, to the reverse three entwined fish, against a dense flowerhead ground between foliate and geometric borders, marked beneath the upper handle terminal 'G.1760' with 'TS' monogram, height 27.5cm (minor faults).

An unusual Dutch Delft tea caddy and cover, late 18th century, of rectangular section with canted corners and rounded shoulders, polychrome enamelled to each side with figures in a landscape setting against an iron red ground filled with famille rose chinoiserie style flowers and foliage around a circular portrait of a lady wearing a hat to each side, unmarked, height 16.5cm (faults and repairs). Note: a similar example was sold at Lyon & Turnbull, 8th May 2010, Lot 118.

A St. Louis concentric millefiori mushroom paperweight, circa 1850, the central tuft comprising seven rows of canes with a central star, surrounded by a spiralling coral pink and white latticino torsade above the star cut base, diameter 8cm (tiny chip to base edge, minor scratches). Note: an example of similar date was sold at Sotheby's, Olympia, as part of the Britiste Collection, 17th December 2003, Lot 232.

An unusual French flower paperweight, probably Baccarat, circa 1850, the pink open flower on a leafy stem with two buds on a spiralling latticino ground, diameter 7cm (bruise).