Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 190
SUSIE COOPER (1902-1995); from various factories, a Crown Works Burslem Kestrel design part tea service to include small teapot, sugar bowl, milk jug, three small plates and two cups, geometric leaf design cream ground with orange and black decoration, a Gray's Pottery Hanley coffee service, coffee pot, six cups, five saucers, four small plates, and milk jug in the 'Moon and Mountain' pattern, no.7960, a rectangular cake plate in 'Art Deco Cubism' pattern and a toast rack, pattern no.E/450. CONDITION REPORT There is an applied white substance over the black ground as is visible in the picture, unfortunately we cannot determine if scraped off the black would remain or if this would take body paint with itLid with hairline crack both items extensively crazed, Further extensive crazing throughout this lot one of the coffee cans with two chips to rim, another coffee can cracked through, one with small chip to rim, one with a noticeable loss to the overglaze, another similar to handle, one saucer cracked, further fritting and dirt, cream jug with noticeable paint loss to the black overglaze, further minor lossesThe octagonal dish with hairline crack, large chip and further cracks another with noticeable fritting and firing imperfections, another with noticeable paint lossescream and orange decorated service, cream jug with chip to spout, All items extensively crazed, rubbing to decoration and heavy dust and dirtThe coffee set and sandwich set both have crackle to the exposed pottery. There is paint loss in multiple places on the overpainted pottery and various items show signs of cracking. Some chips. There is deterioration and flaking to the paint.
