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Lot 69
A pair of Barr Flight and Barr Worcester plates, bat printed with shells under gilt bands, printed an impressed marks, 24cm diameter, together with four porcelain jugs including two Worcester style mask jugs (4). Barr, Flight and Barr plates both with gilt wear and light scratching, no chips, cracks or repair. Ribbon painted jug with heavy restoration, the other jugs in good condition.
Lot 71
A set of six Royal Worcester coffee cans and saucers decorated with gilt and scrolling, date code 1937, together with a group of 20th century Royal Crown Derby miniatures in the Imari pattern comprising two similar vases with crimped edge, a bulbous vase, and a cylindrical vase, all with red markings 1940 (one tray)
Lot 97
A group of 18th century Worcester porcelain in scale blue ground, floral painted comprising a tea bowl and saucer and two other saucers, various marks circa 1770 (4). One saucer with a very short hair ctack. No other chips or cracks and free from repair. Larger two saucers with some gilt wear.
Lot 27
A tray of 18th century and later English porcelain including Caughley teawares with wet blue and gilt borders, Worcester fluted saucer with polychrome sprigs and a Derby part tea and coffee set with wide periwinkle blue and gilt borders (one tray). Derby periwinkle blue service, teapot with cracks to the base. One teacup with a bad crack. Another teacup with a firing crack inside the base. All pieces crazed, some with heavy staining. Some light / medium gilt wear throughout.
Lot 218
WORLD WAR IPapers of Captain Duncan Warrand (1877-1946) of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, comprising:i) Series of some 72 letters and 8 postcards from Duncan Warrand, the majority to his sister Carrie ('Dearest C', 'D.C.'), three to his brother Redmond ('Dear Redmond'), long, detailed letters written from the trenches and latterly from his billet in Rouen, including one seven-page letter written on Christmas Day 1914, describing the famous truce ('...Later on Wednesday night there was much shouting and singing in the German lines... Last night no sniping took place... The Germans lit fires and just sang on. So some of our sergeants and men went up to their lines returning with boxes of cigars! They have no drink... The officer who spoke to our Sgt was an American German, recalled in the war, who was heartily sick of it. He said they would not fire today... it may be partly due to the thick mist which was surely sent by Providence to give us a peaceful Xmas... Our opponents are Saxons and Bavarians and have so far proved themselves gentlemen. About 11 o'clock this morning I went outside the lines and we were all busy mending wire entanglements... We were right out in the field and could see the Germans walking about just as we were... And how lovely it was this morning! The star in the East so bright & clear... picked a bit of ivy... off a tree to commemorate this extraordinary Xmas of peace in war... At this point Sgt Smith looked in to say that a large number of Germans were walking about on our left and talking freely with our men and what was to be done... Tall men in grey coats fraternising with the men... what Bishops & Clergy could not do, the troops have done for themselves...'); other letters much concerned with asking for supplies ('...Please send me a box of cigarettes as the ones here are 'orrid... 'Bromo'!... some soup tablets for dissolving in hot water... shirts, khaki hosetops, cardigans... safety matches... shortbread, plum pudding etc... everything to be packed in oiled canvas... candles are difficult to come by... Colgate toothpaste... I wonder if mince pies would travel in a tin box?... a bottle of Worcester Sauce...'); reporting on troop movements as far as the censor allows ('...seems no harm in saying we are now in Belgium and not far from (2 miles south) of Messines...') and on 18 December 1914 includes a drawing of their position ('...without mentioning any names...'); with vivid descriptions of the horrors of war ('...continued action throughout the night... The trenches are awful, knee deep in mud... higher up the road there is destruction on all sides, houses in ruin, large shell holes and broken trees... I saw a hand and arm today just outside, who knows what unfortunate man it belonged to...'); the constant threat of being fired upon ('...planted shells all around us... They made a horrid whizzy noise when they really mean business... One falling bullet just grazed my ear yesterday...'); conditions in the trenches ('...It has rained incessantly... the trenches are ghastly... this place is called 'The Piggeries'... we are nearly all crawling – it's disgusting but a fact...'); news of mutual friends ('...I hear Patrick Grant was shot in the jaw...'), family news and talk of home ('...I wish the dogs could come out here...'), suggesting '...you might keep these rotten letters... my collection of letters to you are the best diary I can keep...'; the majority with envelopes, c.230pp., dust-staining, some small tears and other signs of wear, mostly 8vo (210 x 134mm.), 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, British Expeditionary Force, Grand Hôtel de la Poste, Rouen, 6 January 1914 to 20 January 1917 ii) Five pocket diaries 1914-1918, containing intermittent entries in pen and ink on the weather and various engagements, accounts and other notes (2 April 1917 noting 'Brigadeer General F.J. de Gex Base Cdnt has died suddenly of heart failure while sitting in the lounge after lunch at the Hotel des Postes. A very good man.'; 26 March 1918 'The great German attack causes anxiety'; 11 November 1918 'Guns fired to announce armistice signed. Crowds begin at once... have to walk through Trafalgar Square. Pouring rain. Cheerful crowds...'), calf, worn, four c.150 x 95mm., one 100 x 70mm.; with another notebook including lists and brief entries for 11 August to 18 November 1914 regarding training, drills etc. iii) Various papers including: hand drawn and annotated map of the trenches south of the river Douve, depicting troop positions, annotated 'Issued in Trenches/ 1914. DW', purple, red and blue pencil, 200 x 320mm.; carbon copy of 'Standing Order re Trenches', 5 pages, lined paper torn from notebook, 8vo (196 x 145mm.), dated 23 January 1915; with various ephemera such as photographs including one of his sister Carrie, mimeographed concert programmes 1917-18, trench whistle engraved with Aldershot Stores/Aldershot/Patent on original? cord; two printed folding maps, linen backed, one of Belgium, depicting the area around Ypres, the other of St Yves with trench positions marked as of 14 November 1915, (440 x 575mm.), in an envelope annotated 'This is not the map I had in the trenches, but shows very clearly the position we held at Seaforth Farm', etc.Footnotes:'THIS EXTRAORDINARY XMAS OF PEACE IN WAR'.The men of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders were engaged in several important actions on the Western Front including the Battle of Messines in 1914, the second Battle of Ypres in 1915 and Passchendaele in 1917. These letters illustrate one soldier's experience in the trenches during 1914 into 1915 including the famous Christmas Truce of that year. They paint an evocative picture: '...On Wednesday we were shelled by 'Little Willie', a most elusive and persistent piece of small artillery... Then they sent about 25 large howitzer shells right over... a big hole in the ground about the size of a large dog basket... They are at it now, like continuous thunderclaps... The officers and men's dugouts are just little caves made into the sides of the trenches about 6ft by 5ft... The floor is covered in deep straw... One can see the Germans now and again moving about in their trenches at dawn and dusk. They snipe us and we snipe them... I have not changed my socks since Tuesday or had my shirt off... I hope they may run short of shells soon... When this poor country will recover goodness knows... I feel like a rabbit going to ground by day and walking about at night... Yesterday (17th) we were ordered to fire at the trenches ahead... By afternoon their guns replied... The noise was deafening... We lost only 3 men, all by rifle fire... I was plastered in mud from head to foot... We are standing by...'.Warrand returned to Rouen in the spring of 1915 to take up the duties of a staff officer, billeted in the Grand Hôtel de la Poste and later with a French widow and her family. Part of his duties involved sorting out the personal effects of those killed in action – in one of his final letters he reflects '...I often wonder if anything matters: foolish young souls pass through here full of spirits & then their belongings come back a few days afterwards – white label with blue stripe & that means they have done with life here...'. This collection has been retained in the family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 242
JOHN F. SMITH (b.1934) STILL LIFE OF FRUIT signed lower right, oil on board, framed (pair) 31cm high, 40cm wide FOOTNOTE: John Smith, was employed by Royal Worcester as a fruit painter between 1950 and 1971. During his many years there he produced a large quantity of painted porcelain pieces.
Lot 218
A Ralph Wood style Staffordshire bust of The Reverend John Wesley 1703-1791 painted in colours and bearing an inscribed panel to the reverse,'THE REVD/JOHN WESLEY.MA./DIED MAR 2. 1791/AGED 88/ENOCH WOOD SCULP/BURSLEM'. 31 cm high, attributed to William Kent; an 18th century Worcester attributed blue and white porcelain bowl, transfer printed with birds in branches. 11.2 cm diameter, and a Brown Westhead & Moore "Vernon's Patent" pottery wash set with shell decoration. (3)
Lot 229
A Berlin porcelain osier moulded pot and cover, 19th/20th century, with floral knop and painted with exotic birds and insect, blue sceptre mark, a Dresden cache pot, four pieces of porcelain 'Moss' ware, a 19th century child size bat printed sauce boat, three Cantigalli style tumblers and a Cantigalli side plate, an Italian porcelain panel after Botticelli 'Primavera', inscribed verso and with applied label for Pietro Chiurato, Roma, 33.5 x 15cm, a limited edition Royal Doulton 'Minton Archive Collection Monkey teapot, number 393/1793, two Royal Worcester blush ground dishes and a Hammersley & Co square dish retailed by Pitkin & Brooks, Chicago, 18.5cm dia
Lot 23
An interesting pair of Barr, Flight & Barr (Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester) porcelain candlesticks; each beautifully hand-gilded and decorated individually with a central vertical, rectangular vignette depicting a woodsman and a female with dark, barren surroundings, each with printed marks to underside and individually annotated 'Forth Goes the Woodman, Leaving unconcern'd the cheerful haunts of Man', - Cowper's Poems, the female decorated candlestick annotated to the underside 'Kate is Craze'd' - Cowper's Poems (each approx. 13cm high), the female decorated candlestick with 'pushed in' porcelain candleholder to interiorCondition Report: It should be noted that the candlestick with the female vignette unfortunately has had the wax pushed down too hard thereby breaking the circular interior candleholder within and pushing it down approx. 2cm further than it should. Also please note some rubbing to paintwork on red skirt, upon close inspection the Woodmen example has found to be broken and repaired (just above the second line of applied white spheres, above the base, there is a hairline crack to be found around this full circumference area leading to the obvious conclusion that the candlestick has had a full break and has been re-affixed)
Lot 279
A good late Regency period rosewood cased and brass-inlaid eight-day bracket clock; the gilded pineapple finial on a pagoda-style pediment above foliate carving and an eight-inch cream dial with Roman numerals and signed 'Martin Worcester, Wednesbury', the gilded movement with a twin fusee repeating mechanism, individually numbered to the back plate and striking on a gong, together with an early 19th century mahogany clock wall bracket having beaded edge and scrolling-shaped support below, the clock raised on four gilt-metal bun-style feet (the clock 50cm high to tip of pineapple finial x 29.25cm wide x 15cm deep not including convex glass, the bracket 41.5cm wide x 21cm deep); in good working order at time of cataloguing
Lot 264
A ROYAL WORCESTER SQUAT BALUSTER POT POURRI POT AND COVER hand painted with brambles by Kitty Blake, shape no H162, date mark for 1920, 13cm high, together with another Royal Worcester pot pourri pot and cover painted with roses (2) Condition Report: Rose decorated pot has damage to the lid.
Lot 277
A ROYAL WORCESTER FIGURE OF A MAN modelled in 18th/19th century dress, together with assorted continental figures including a white glazed cherub and cornucopia decorated with forget me nots, a cherub and stork double posy vase, white glazed figures etc (11) Condition Report: Most of the figures have damages and or restoration.
Lot 111
A good pair of Birmingham enamel plaques, circa 1755Of rectangular form, printed in puce and delicately coloured, one with a 'Macaw and Fruit', the long-tailed parrot perched on a stone ledge reaching to peck at fruit below, including peaches, currants and apples, the other with two long-tailed 'Pheasants' standing on a mound beside a river, with a Chinese pagoda in the distance, in original gilt metal frames, plaques 7.7cm x 9.5cm (2)Footnotes:The 'Macaw and Fruit' appears on a very similar plaque illustrated by Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels (1926), fig.54. Similar 'pheasants' in slightly different poses appear in The Ladies Amusement on pages 68 and 69, the prints signed 'R Hancock'. The pheasants group shown on page 68 of The Ladies Amusement also appears on Worcester porcelain, along with several versions of 'Parrot and Fruit'. It is therefore likely that Robert Hancock was responsible for engraving the present lot, and he is known to have provided engraved plates for early Birmingham enamellers.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 132
A Lund's Bristol pickle dish, circa 1749-51In the shape of a scallop shell, painted in blue with a stylised 'Long Eliza' pointing to one side, formal plants to either side, the rim with three diaper panels edged with scrollwork, two leaves and a shell motif at the base, 7.5cm high Footnotes:ProvenanceWatney Collection, Phillips sale, 1 November 2000, lot 918Simon Spero exhibition 2001, no.45John Alchin CollectionRelated dishes of the same size, shape and pattern are discussed by Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain (2018), pp.379-80. This lot is noted at p.380. These smaller sized pickle dishes are among the earliest wares made by Lund.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 133
A Worcester pickle dish, circa 1752-53Moulded in the form of a scallop shell, a band of chevrons around the footrim, enamelled in the centre with a formal rock and plants, three flower sprays and insects on the border, 8.3cm wideFootnotes:ProvenanceBillie Pain Collection, Bonhams sale, 26 November 2003, lot 105John Alchin CollectionThe use of a rock as the central motif also occurs on Limehouse pickle dishes painted in underglaze blue.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 134
A rare Worcester coffee can, circa 1753-54Of small size with fine moulded reeding and a seven-lobed rim, the scrolled handle with thumbrest, delicately painted in famille rose with a slender Chinese figure standing in a formal garden, his arms raised and holding a sword and a trailing flower sprig, the reverse with various flowers and rockwork, 5.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWatney Collection, Phillips sale, 1 November 2000, lot 923Simon Spero exhibition 2001, no.26John Alchin CollectionThinly potted and of small size, these little cans do not have saucers and mostly occur with relatively simple floral-sprig decoration, presumably because of the difficulty of painting on the ribbed surface. Only a small number are recorded with more elaborate figure decoration, where a particularly vivid and varied palette has been used. See also another ribbed cup from the Watney Collection, Phillips sale 10 May 2000, lot 554 which was painted with flowering prunus. The shape conforms to the 'ribb'd' cans listed in the London Warehouse price list circa 1755-56. A similar example from the John Alchin Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2020, lot 7.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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