AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE VASE, POSSIBLY LIVERPOOL of waisted cylindrical shape, painted in cobalt with a two storied house on a rocky island before `cannon balls`, 10cm h, c1770 An unusual form in English pottery or porcelain, a contemporary James Pennington, Liverpool porcelain vase of the same form and similar size, with blue chinoiserie decoration, is illustrated Hillis (M), Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804, 2011, plt 4.120. ++In good condition with typical but minor flaking around the rim only, free from major cracks, no restoration and a scarce form
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TWO ENGLISH DELFTWARE FLOWER BRICKS, POSSIBLY LIVERPOOL attractively painted in cobalt with landscapes with houses and trees, figures in a punt to the ends, the top pierced with three rows of holes centred by a cruciform aperture, 12cm w, c1760 ++One with minor hairline crack descending from the top in one side and typical small spots of flaking on the right angles, the other with minor descending hairline crack, probably a firing crack in one end and extending across the underside, localised damage to the foot rim, really only visible on one corner when viewed normally, typical minor flaking n the angles,m both good examples, no restoration
Two delftware printed tiles 18th century, probably Liverpool and printed by Sadler, one in blue with a figure walking his dog before farm buildings, the other in manganese with ducks swimming in a municipal river, both within octagonal panels with elaborate edges, one in a wooden frame, minor damages, 13cm. (2) Cf. Anthony Ray, English Delftware Tiles, col. pl. G, no.619 for the border used on similar scenes.
A good delftware blue and white basket, probably Liverpool, decorated with a stylized flowerhead, each of the eight petals painted with a lotus bloom on a dense scroll ground, the openwork rim formed as a series of interlocking circles, c.1760-70, 22cm. Cf. John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, p.190 for dishes of a similar design.
FOUR LIVERPOOL DELFTWARE TILES, PRINTED PROBABLY BY GUY GREEN, comprising a pair of theatrical tiles with MRS ABBINGTON In The Character of Estifania and Mrs Barry In The Character of ATHENAIS, the two others printed in black and painted in green enamel with a muse with a lyre or a ewer, all 12.5 x 12.5cm, c1777-80 and c1770-80 ++Mrs Abbington - broken in two and professionally restored. Ewer tile - slightly chipped around the corners. Muse with a lyre tile - slightly pitted, lower right corner chipped
ELEVEN LIVERPOOL DELFTWARE TILES, PRINTED BY JOHN SADLER, SADLER & GREEN OR BY GREEN ALONE, all in black with various rococo framed scenes including five with '88' border, 12.5 x 12.5cm, c1778-80 The subjects include Shepherd Lovers with a Dog, The Sailor's Departure and The Sailor's Return ++One broken and with loss another chipped on one side
A Delftware blue and white circular plaque, probably Liverpool, painted with a Welsh armorial, possibly for the Wynn family, and bearing the motto 'Quod Tibi Hoc Alteri', mounted and framed, c.1740, the plaque cut from the well of a plate or dish, 13cm. The tendency for younger sons of Welsh families to pursue careers as merchants in Liverpool in the mid 18th century indicates an area of manufacture.
Four English delft plates, comprising; a Liverpool plate, painted with two jungle fowl within a landscape of flowering Oriental shrubs, 22.5cm diameter (cracked), a Bristol bianco-sopra-bianco plate, the centre painted with Oriental flowering shrubs and bamboo issuing from rockwork within a white pinecone and flowerhead border, 25cm diameter (cracked), a small chinoiserie plate, painted with a pagoda and ships in a landscape, 20.5cm diameter (restored rim chip), and a London delft geometric pattern plate, 23cm diameter (small rim chips), various dates, second half 18th century, all with collection labels for Stewart Collection. See Michael Archer, Delftware, (1997), for the Liverpool plate, p.177 B.124 and the London plate, p.200 B.184.
Two sets of Liverpool delftware tiles, transfer-printed by John Sadler of Liverpool, set of six Aesop's Fables, mounted in single ebonised frame (13.75 x 19in.-one damaged; ex Hodgkin Collection), and set of four similar tiles, scenes from rural life, mounted in giltwood frame (11.75in. square), all printed in black, circa 1770
a Group of Three Rare Sadler & Green (Liverpool) Printed Delftware Tiles, circa 1760, comprising: a huntsmen cajoling hounds to pursue a distant stag; a stag drinking as another is pursued in the background; a stag attacked by lion as huntsmen pass by in the distance, one in wood frame (chips to edges of other two), one 12.5cm square the others 13cm square (3)
a Group of Eight Blue and White Delftware Tiles, Dutch and English, 17th and 18th centuries, comprising: Actaeon transformed to a stag as Diana's nymphs splash him from their pool and his dog looks round in astonishment; a troop of deer and other animals emerge from Noah's ark; a Hippocervus (stag headed sea creature); two tiles with single stags; and two English tiles depicting goats within a barbed panel (Liverpool?), 12.5cm to 13cm (damage to corners of three tiles) (8)
A group of English delftwares, mid 18th century, comprising; a Bristol polychrome soup plate, painted with a lady holding a fan beneath a tree; a Dublin blue and white octagonal plate painted with the Chinese Flower-bowl pattern; a polychrome plate, probably Bristol, painted with flowers and a rock, notched rim; two rectangular blue and white flower bricks, painted with figures in a chinoiserie landscape and flower and diaper panels; a Liverpool tile, circa 1770, printed in black with The Fowler and the Ring Dove from Aesop's fables; a tile painted in manganese with a man and dog; a small white ointment pot; also a delftware marble, painted with flowerheads; and a `clobbered' bottle, some damage and restoration, (10)
A pair of delft flower bricks probably Liverpool, 1750-65 each painted to one side with a Chinese figure in a garden beneath a sun with long rays, to the other side an arrangement of rocks and plants, repeating rocky outcrops to each end, the tops pierced with twenty-six small holes around a larger central hole 16cm., 6.25in. long some damage (2) A similarly decorated brick and pair of vases are illustrated by L.Grigsby, The Longbridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, p.413.
Two English delft blue and white globular bottle vases. CIRCA 1760, PROBABLY LIVERPOOL. Each painted with two flowersprays and trailing foliage, the slender neck with geometric and floral decoration beneath pan-topped rims painted with a diaper-pattern band. 9s in. (24.8 cm.) high (2). Cf. Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-glazed Earthenware of The British Isles (Norwich, 1997), p. 275, E.17..
A Liverpool Delftware flower brick, the sides freely painted in cobalt with flowering plants, the top pierced with twenty-eight holes flanking a cross shaped hole, 16cm w, Liverpool c1760 A similar example but in the 'Fazackerly' palette is illustrated, Archer (Michael), Delftware A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, p368, I.12. Some nibbling of the upturned rim and light flaking around the angles. A minor descending hairline crack in each of the longer sides, the foot rim with a small chip in three places but this is not particularly noticeable
A THIRD QUARTER 18TH-CENTURY SADLER & GREEN (LIVERPOOL) BLACK TRANSFER-PRINTED DELFTWARE TILE depicting a shepherd and shepherdess, she seated upon a grassy bank, before a thatched cottage with smoking chimney, in a foliate scroll-edged surround, 12.5cm, (5in) square (in thee pieces, re-stuck)

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