A Stick Spatter Peasrlware Dish, Circa 1835

A Stick Spatter Peasrlware Dish, Circa 1835   « Less

A Pair of English Pottery Pebbled (encrusted) Bough Pots, Wood Family, Circa 1780-1800 The bough pots with fixed pierced top with a blue band around the upper rim and  More »

A Pair of English Pottery Pebbled (encrusted) Bough Pots, Wood Family, Circa 1780-1800 The bough pots with fixed pierced top with a blue band around the upper rim and the front panel with a pebbled or encrusted finish. ;The finish was created by applying small chips of crushed clay. Dimensions: 7 3/4 inches x 3 3/4 inches deep x 4 inches high Reference: Mocha and Related dipped wares, 1770-1939, Jonathan Rickard, ;page 119, #figure 184 for a single bough pot with very similar shape and decoration. ;It is marked with the impressed letters BW possibly for Birch & Whitehead of Shelton (circa 1796) or Breeze & Wilson of Hanley, Circa 1800-1817.   « Less

A Fine Chinese Export Porcelain Tea Service with Unusual Iron-red Scale Decoration, Circa 1750-65 The service spectacularly decorated with a smart coral scale ground with  More »

A Fine Chinese Export Porcelain Tea Service with Unusual Iron-red Scale Decoration, Circa 1750-65 The service spectacularly decorated with a smart coral scale ground with panels of puce flowers. The service comprising of eleven saucers, teapot and cover, bowl, covered teapoy (caddy), covered milk jug, four tea bowls, six handled cups, covered bowl, a spoon tray. Height of teapot 5 inches (12.7 cm).   « Less

A Rare English Wedgwood Creamware Soup Plate made for the German Market, Circa 1775. The plate depicts an Imperial German Navy Frigate with a yellow tinted German  More »

A Rare English Wedgwood Creamware Soup Plate made for the German Market, Circa 1775. The plate depicts an Imperial German Navy Frigate with a yellow tinted German Imperial Standard, inscribed below "LCBCC" and on the rim "FMDB." Diameter: 9 1/2 inches (24cm) Mark: Wedgwood   « Less

A Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Dishes, Brown Anchor, Circa 1758-60 The dishes are of an unusual deep octagonal form and are very well painted with a central composition of  More »

A Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Dishes, Brown Anchor, Circa 1758-60 The dishes are of an unusual deep octagonal form and are very well painted with a central composition of different fruit and vegetables. ;One includes a large capped mushroom, carrots and turnips. ;The other dish has a peach, carrots and large mushroom and gooseberries. ;Each with scattered vegetables and leaves to the rim. ;The border with red/brown line. Dimensions: Length: 7 3/5 inches; Depth: 7 1/10 inches; Height: 2 1/10 inches Mark: each with small brown anchor. Provenance: The Antique Porcelain Company, London ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;Emil Mosbacher, Jr. Collection. Greenwich, Connecticut   « Less

A First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue-Ground Exotic Bird decorated Cake Plate, Circa 1770. The saucer dish form is decorated with a wet blue ground. ;The central  More »

A First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue-Ground Exotic Bird decorated Cake Plate, Circa 1770. The saucer dish form is decorated with a wet blue ground. ;The central circular reserve is painted with two exotic birds standing on green grass and with a tall flowering plant rising above them from behind. ;Surrounding the reserve is a circular thin gilt band from which issues twenty one gilt arches with tapering supports in a very distinctive design. Diameter: 7 inches. Mark: Underglaze blue crescent. Reference: The Catalogue of The Frank LLoyd Collection of Worcester Porcelain of The Wall Period, ;R.A. Hobson, page 296 for description and plate 63, #296 for illustration of a teacup and saucer from a very similar service with slight differences in the gilding..   « Less

A First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue-Scale Kidney-Shaped Dish, Circa 1770. The kidney-shaped dish has a blue scale ground with four large shaped white panels and four  More »

A First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue-Scale Kidney-Shaped Dish, Circa 1770. The kidney-shaped dish has a blue scale ground with four large shaped white panels and four smaller vase-shaped panels on the rim, all finely painted with flowers. ;The vase-form panels have a single flower, while the larger panels are painted with an assortment of flowers, each has a distinctive long stemed flower to each side. ;In the central well is another panel of kidney-shape similarly painted with flowers. ;Each panel is bordered with fine gilding of rococo form. Length: 10 inches x width: 7 1/2 inches Mark: Underglaze blue fret mark Reference: Worcester Porcelain, 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero & John Sandon, page 262, #310, for a kidney-shaped dish.   « Less

A Porcelain Figure of a Grape Vendor, Circa 1755 The figure is modelled as a youth holding a bunch of grapes in one hand and a basket of fruit in the other. ;He is  More »

A Porcelain Figure of a Grape Vendor, Circa 1755 The figure is modelled as a youth holding a bunch of grapes in one hand and a basket of fruit in the other. ;He is seated upon a scroll and ruffled base. Height: 5 3/8 inches Reference: Bradshaw, Peter. "18th Century English Porcelain Figures: 1745-1795". The Antique Collectors'' Club, England, UK. 1981. Colour Plate S illustrates a figure in similar position; Plate 140 shows a female fruit seller. Watney, Bernard. "Longton Hall Porcelain". Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square, London, England, UK. 1942. Plate 37A illustrates a ''flower-seller'' in a similar positioning.   « Less

A Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Reticulated Circular Dishes, Gold Anchor Period, Circa 1760. The dishes in white with a simple gilt band at the rim are decorated with a  More »

A Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Reticulated Circular Dishes, Gold Anchor Period, Circa 1760. The dishes in white with a simple gilt band at the rim are decorated with a bouquet of painted flowers with other flowers scattered in the central well. Diameter: 7 1/2 inches Mark: Small Gold anchor. Reference: Chelsea Porcelain, The Gold Anchor Wares, F. Severne Mackenna, plate 7, #12 for a dish with similar painting.   « Less

A Spode Porcelain Dessert Service, Circa 1833-1847. The service has a yellow green ground with a small central white reserve with gilt surround. ;The ground is covered  More »

A Spode Porcelain Dessert Service, Circa 1833-1847. The service has a yellow green ground with a small central white reserve with gilt surround. ;The ground is covered with a garland of well painted flowers and fruit. The service consists of the following pieces: 9 plates (diameter 9 in.) 2 shell-shaped dishes 2 smaller lozenge-shaped dishes 1 large lozenge-shaped dishes 1 tazza Marked Spode Feldspar Porcelain & Late Spodes Feldspar Porcelain within Copeland & Garrett Pattern no. 4725 Reference: Spode-Copeland-Spode: The Works and its People 1770-1970, Page 35, Colour plate 3 for a plate with the same shape. ;   « Less