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Click here to subscribeAn early 20th Century Royal Worcester cabinet plate decorated by Richard Seabright, the central reserve with hand painted peaches and red grapes against a dark blue ground with pale pink cartouche panels and gilt jewelling, the foot with similar decoration, puce mark with date code for 1911 and manufactured for H.G Stephenson Ltd, Manchester, diameter 22cm, A/F
Worcester, Charles Somerset, Marquess of (1660 - 98). Autograph manuscript in ink: A Short Account of my Voyage into France Anno 1673 . 118 pp., small 4to., 18th c. calf gilt, with old red morocco label on verso of upper cover reading " A Short Account of the Marquis of Worcester's Voyages into France Anno 1673" (rubbed, joints cracking, small loss to final leaf). Inscribed on Raglan bookplate "from Lady Mary Farquhar", and bookplate "C.S.B." at end (Charlotte Sophia Beaufort, wife of the sixth duke, and mother of Lady Mary). A charming, youthful account of travels through France, with descriptions of the towns and cities, beginning on 6th May, "I went from Chiswick upon the Thames, with my Father in his Coach to Whitehall where having kissed his Majesty hand & had his blessing as Godfather, I came to Rochester in another Coach…accompanied by Mr. Frederick Howard 2nd sonn to the Earle of Carlisle with his Governour Monsieur Roux, my owne Company being a Governour Dr. Edward Chamberlaine a Tutor Mr. Henry Watkins a Valet de Chambre & a Footman." In Paris he is greatly impressed by the Louvre, "ye infinat quantity of huge plate, Rich Hangings…curious cabinets, costly Pictures antient & modern Statues… The observatorie…seated upon high ground for ye use of ye Royal Academy for observing of ye starres & promoting Experimentall Knowledge…" and the menagerie at Versailles, with descriptions of the birds and animals, including an elephant. Charles Somerset later attended Christ Church, Oxford, became a Colonel in the militia, and served as a Deputy Lieutenant and M.P. for Monmouthshire. Dr. Edward Chamberlayne (1616 - 1703) was the author of Angliae Notitia or The Present State of England, 1669, and one of the original Fellows of The Royal Society. See illustration
A quantity of ceramics including a blue and white butter dish and cover, Portmerion Meridian milk jug and two cups with another Portmeirion floral milk jug, various Queen's Green Solanware green rimmed plates, servers and platters, a miniature tagine dish and cover, a Gerz, West Germany tankard decorated with knights, two Emma Bridgwater mugs, Royal Worcester Mappin and Webb plates with green floral patterned borders, a decorative serving bowl decorated with sprays of flowers and a Clee Pottery trinket dish
A quantity of commemorative armorial plates including two marked with the emblem 'Heart in hand' blue and gilt rims, kite marks to base, two plates marked with emblems and the words 'disce pati suffer', maroon and gilt rims, a Chaimberlains plate marked with an axe emblem and the words 'altera merces' and a Royal porcelain works Flight Barr & Barr, Worcester plate marked 'sapere aude' (7)
A selection of china and glassware including Royal Worcester, Royal Albert, a Karl Ens china rose, a set of six green glass wine glasses, two coloured glass poesey vases, a Bourne Denby floral hand painted bowl, and a Hughes Longport floral meat platter together with a pair of wooden poesy vases
A Royal Worcester Empress part dessert service, comprising three footed shaped comports and a tall comport, each printed and painted with spring flowers on a blush ivory ground, raised and pierced gilt leafy scroll borders, bold gilt acanthus leaf bases, 21.5cm wide, printed crown and circle mark, date code for 1898, 1896, 1901, shape no.1426
A Royal Worcester candlesnuffer, Nun, in habit and wimple clutching a prayer book, 9.5cm high, printed crown and circle mark in puce, date code for 1926; another, Monk, holding a prayer book, coloured in flesh tones and brown, 13cm high, printed crown and circle mark in puce, date code for 1941
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