A set of six Royal Crown Derby Imari pattern decorated cabinet plates, diameter 26.5cm, two smaller examples, a further shaped circular pair and a tea cup with saucer, pattern number 1128 (12). CONDITION REPORT: The shaped circular pair with areas of rubbing to the gilt, one with partially rubbed mark, the set of six dinner plates and two smaller examples appear to be in good condition, none of the items with obvious traces of damage or restoration, majority with surface dirt to underneath, some with traces of old stickers. First quality
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A Minton 'Buckingham' pattern decorated dinner and tea set comprising fifteen dinner plates, nineteen tea plates, thirteen side plates, seven shallow soup bowls, six twin handled soup bowls, nineteen saucers, thirteen cups, a cream jug, a sucrier, two gravy boats with saucers, two tureens with covers, two oval dishes, a large oval meat platter and a crescent shaped side plate (some pieces second quality). CONDITION REPORT: The sucrier has got a chip to the edge of main body, some rubbing and areas of rubbing to the gilding, minor surface wear, otherwise no visible damage to other pieces.
A Royal Crown Derby white gilt heightened porcelain tea set comprising a pair of teapots, a hot water pot, four spare lids, set of four sugar bowls, four sandwich serving plates, eight cups, thirty-one saucers and thirty-five side plates, also a set of twenty-four Spode tea cups.The Royal Crown Derby set is bearing a crowned Arabic emblem identical to the one on the service made for King Faisal II of Iraq for use on board of the royal yacht 'Queen Aliya', dated 1957. King Faisal II was assassinated in 1958 and the service was never delivered. CONDITION REPORT: No crown mark on the Spode. Red Derby has marks with crowns. Teapots: one lid has been broken and visibly glued (af), both teapots with small internal hairlines possibly present from manufacture, otherwise some rubbing to the gilt particularly to handles and rims, minor abrasions and wear to the glaze. Four of the cups ok, three with hairlines of varying degrees and one with small chips to rim; the four loose lids are ok; three of the bowls are ok, one chipped to rim.
A Paragon part tea set green transfer decorated with wreaths including two large sugar bowls, cups and plates, a large Shelley spunware jug, height 25.5cm, and a miniature Old Willow pattern decorated four setting tea set, also a set of three variously coloured 'handkerchief' bowls, a hallmarked silver rimmed Art Deco style green glass vase and another.
A Plant Tuscan china part tea set comprising teacups and saucers, sandwich and side plates, bowl and cream jug, also a Longton Pottery plate. CONDITION REPORT: Cost to post to a UK mainland address £22.50 plus VAT (large box). Cost to post to Madrid DHl Worldwide £144 plus VAT or DHL Economy £49 plus VAT. We recommend viewing this in person as we are unable to provide a condition report.
A mid to late 19th century porcelain Ridgeways tea set comprising a teapot, cups and saucers (some af), a cream jug, a sugar bowl, a sucrier and two plates, also four various part tea sets comprising paragon floral decorated side plates, Alfred Meakin dessert bowls and Heathcote 'Rosslyn' dessert bowls and plates. CONDITION REPORT: 13 of the 20 cups with major issues including lost handles, chips and hairlines. All with extensive wear to the decoration, nibbles, staining, etc. 6 of the 10 saucers with similar wear as the cups. Cream jug is in relatively OK condition. The base of the sugar bowl has hairlines most of the way round, rubbing, etc. Bowl is cracked. Teapot has a large hairline from the base up to side and with further hairlines, chips and hairlines to spout. Plates relatively OK.
A large collection of various predominantly ceramic miniatures to include Spode cups and saucers, Caverswall sugar bowl and cream jug, a Bemma crested ware tea set with tray, glass paperweights, two ship in bottles, a Blake floral decorated vase, Royal Doulton character jugs and boxed 'Christine' figure, also a Victorian glass vase, a German stein, an Indian brass vase, a Mason's 'Mandalay' vase and bell, etc.
A early 20th century ebony vanity set comprising dressing table tidy, clothes brush, shoe horn, ring stand, etc., monogrammed with the initial J; a M. Bros silver topped cut glass bottle; a Paragon china part tea service ; linen; Noritake pin dish ; Abalone shell;a reproduction metal Songbird cage; etc qty
A Portmeirion pottery part dinner tea and coffee service, decorated in the Botanic Garden pattern, some seconds, comprising tray, two circular dishes, four bowls, pasta jar, lasagne dish, fifteen dinner, nine dessert, six soup and side plates, four cereal bowls, nine fruit bowls, water and milk jugs, salt and pepper, teapot, coffee pot, cream jug, sucrier, preserve pot, butter dish, and six cups, together with a Holly & Ivy fruit set.
Silver three piece bachelor's tea set, overall decorated with repousse scroll work, Birmingham, 1927, maker's mark: Joseph Gloster. 14 Troy ozs approx. (3)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: Rather tarnished to the interior of items. some scratches in places as expected. Hallmarks legible but slightly rubbed. Teapot handle slightly loose.
An important and previously unrecorded American porcelain teapot attributed to John Bartlam (Cain Hoy, South Carolina), c.1765-69, printed in underglaze blue, one side with two cranes beneath a tall palm tree beside figures in a sampan and a solitary figure in another boat, the reverse with a version of the Man on the Bridge pattern, the eponymous structure linking small islands in a Chinese pagoda landscape, the cover lacking, the handle broken off and restuck, 9cm (3 1/2 inches) high, 17.5cm (5 inches) across. This teapot has only recently been identified as a piece of early American porcelain, believed to be part of a matched tea service that reached England in in the late 1760s or 1770s. It is only the seventh recorded piece of John Bartlam's porcelain and relates to a group of wares sold at auction in 2002. Among that group were four teabowls which were found to match sherds excavated at Bartlam's factory site in Cain Hoy, South Carolina. Two of the teabowls were sold to American museums by private treaty, another to a private collector by the same method, and the fourth was sold at Christie's, New York, on 25th January 2013, lot 179; being bought by a dealer on behalf of a private collector in the US. Alongside the teabowls in 2002 were sold two saucers, which have since been reclassified as Bartlam and both sold by private treaty to separate American collectors. The design on these saucers matches exactly that on one side of the teapot. More details of one of the saucers can be found in Steven Goss's new publication British Blue and White Saucers 1745-1795. Although the pattern on the saucers is not the same as that of the teabowls (known as the Bartlam on the Wando pattern), there are a number of significant similarities. The teabowls feature an unusual palmetto as part of one of the printed landscape vignettes, a device which is echoed to the interior and not known on any recorded piece of English blue and white porcelain of this era. The Salbas Palmetto is not a tree native to China or the Far East, whose designs Western potters were used to copying and adapting, but it is the state tree of South Carolina. It features more predominantly on the two saucers and the teapot, towering above two cranes standing at the water's edge. In Chinese Art, cranes are commonly depicted alongside pine trees as a common birthday motif and a wish of long-life and happiness (cf. Terese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, p.180). However, as Sandhill Cranes are native to South Carolina then it is likely that the engraver of this print was used to witnessing such birds standing beneath palmetto on the banks of the Wando and adapted a Chinese design accordingly. The Man on the Bridge pattern on the reverse of the teapot is known at several English factories including Bow, Isleworth and (at a later date) New Hall. The pattern here most closely resembles that of the London factories and, given the skill of the engraver, it is likely that Bartlam had employed an English decorator who had previously worked for one of these concerns. Little is known of John Bartlam before he travelled to America. The UK Register of Duties Paid of Apprentice's Indentures, 1710-1811 has a record of a payment made on 30th May 1761 when one Simon Chawner is apprenticed to John Bartlam, Potter of Lane Delph, Staffordshire. Lane Delph was one of the principal areas of the ceramics industry and Bartlam would have been one of a growing number producing creamware, pearlware and other earthenwares. He left England around 1763, possibly in some debt, to settle in South Carolina and set up business as a potter, establishing himself first in Cain Hoy around 1765. The move was a canny one - South Carolina was at the time one of the wealthiest and most fashionable, with residents vying to have the latest and finest ceramics shipped over from England. South Carolina was also part of the lucrative kaolin belt, which shipped Cherokee clay by the ton over to potters in the UK, including Josiah Wedgwood. In a letter to his partner, Thomas Bentley, in May 1767 Wedgwood writes, "I am informed they have the Cherok[ee clay] to a Pottwork at Charles Town"; the potter in question undoubtedly being John Bartlam. The proximity of a supply of kaolin, the wealthy local clientele and his clear entrepreneurial spirit meant it was inevitable that Bartlam tried his hand at making porcelain to rival that being imported from England at great expense. It is almost certain that he had help from someone with knowledge of the porcelain industry, perhaps a fellow Brit from one of the London factories, since not only is the Bartlam body extremely close to several of the London concerns, the decoration also bears similarities to some established patterns at both Bow and Isleworth. As early as 1766, Josiah Wedgwood writes again (this time to his patron Sir William Meredith), "[we] have at this time among us an agent hiring a number of our hands for establishing new Pottworks in South Carolina: having one of our insolvent Master Potters there to conduct them". By 1768 it appears that once again Bartlam was having some financial difficulties and, based on a newspaper advertisement of the time, was looking to relocate his manufactory to Charlestown itself. This he seems to have achieved by the end of 1770, but the Charleston pottery failed and closed in 1772. Bartlam relocated further inland to Camden, backed by a man called Joseph Kershaw, and continued to produce pottery there until his death in 1781. Further Reading Cinda K Baldwin, A Great and Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina, pp.8-9 for an account of Bartlam's financial backers and various concerns. Steven Goss, British Blue and White Saucers 1745-1795, pp.244-245 for a discussion on a John Bartlam saucer in the same pattern. Robert Hunter, "John Bartlam: America's First Porcelain Manufacturer", Ceramics in America, The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, 2007, pp. 193-195. Stanley South "John Bartlam's Porcelain at Cain Hoy, 1765-1770", Ceramics in America, The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, 2007, pp. 196-202. Lisa R. Hudgins, "John Bartlam's Porcelain at Cain Hoy, A Closer Look", Ceramics in America, The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, 2007, pp. 203-208. J. Victor Owen, "Geochemistry of High-Fired Bartlam Ceramics", Ceramics in America, The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, 2007, pp. 209-219. Robert Hunter, "A newly discovered eighteenth-century American porcelain teabowl", The Magazine Antiques, January/February 2011, pp. 254-257.
A 19th century Chinese three piece silver tea set, each marked with makers mark of Wang HingEach piece of lobed form with embossed birds and floral decoration and with faux bamboo fittings. The teapot 23 cm wide. (3) CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, finials slightly loose, some general wear. Approximately 34.5 troy ounces.
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