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A good Bow mug Circa 1755,

Bell-shaped grooved looped handle decorated with an imari pattern of flowering prunus sprays and hollow rocks in an underglazed blue, red enamel and gold, a diaper border around the rim reserved with flowerheads, Bow factory Circa 1748-74 the production output was high producing a large variety of wares from decorative items such as figures, to utilitarian tableware mainly painted in underglazed blue decoration, the porcelain was thickly potted with a greyish appearance and is distinct from other factories, workman's mark below handle, 12cms high.

Condition - excellent condition, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £790.00 More Images Stock No; 1039

Two Bow Figures of Putti, Circa 1770,

Each standing holding a basket of flowers garlanded with flowers and leaves, on mound bases, Bow factory Circa 1748-74 the production output was high producing a large variety of wares from decorative items such as figures, to utilitarian tableware mainly painted in underglazed blue decoration , the porcelain was thickly potted with a greyish appearance and is distinct from other factories, 14cms high.

Condition - minor losses to bocage flowers and garland.

GBP £365.00 More Images Stock No; 1038

A Lowestoft patty pan Circa 1765-70,

Painted inside the base with butterflies, trailing flower sprays and two minute insects around the sides below a berry border, the exterior painted with two smaller flower sprays,this small Suffolk factory started production about 1747 and ended around 1799, producing soft-paste porcelains with bone-ash; for the first ten years decoration was confined to underglaze blue painted wares, usually in chinoiserie patterns, output was mainly utilitarian wares and mainly catering for the local markets. Lowestoft porcelain is now becoming highly sought after by collectors world wide and fine examples are rare.
10.0 cms
Provenance Billie Pain Collection no; 235

Condition - good minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £470.00 More Images Stock No; 1037

A Lowestoft basket Circa 1775-85,

Of oval shape, with pierced basket work sides applied with florets at the intersections, the entwined handles applied with flowers and buds at the terminals, printed in blue with the 'pinecone' pattern, the border painted with flowers and scroll work, this small Suffolk factory started production about 1747 and ended around 1799, producing soft-paste porcelains with bone-ash; for the first ten years decoration was confined to underglaze blue painted wares, usually in chinoiserie patterns, output was mainly utilitarian wares and mainly catering for the local markets. Lowestoft porcelain is now becoming highly sought after by collectors world wide and fine examples are rare. 23.7cms

Condition good minor sanding commonly found on lowestoft. No restoration or repair

GBP £ 1,580 More Images Stock No; 1036

A Worcester polychrome teabowl, Circa 1770-75,

Painted with a 'mandarin' and companion seated before a window, reverse with a woman and child, flanked by two vignettes of birds perched on branches within scroll cartouches upon a cell pattern ground. The oriental decorations of landscapes gradually started giving way to more formal Chinese patterns, many were inspired from Chinese export or 'mandarin' porcelain, it may also be possible that these very fine painted wares may have been made as a replacements for damaged Chinese export wares. The quality of these Worcester examples are extremely fine and would have been painted by a highly skilled worker, 7.0cms.

Condition - excellent condition, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP SOLD More Images Stock No; 1035

A Worcester sauceboat Circa 1770-80,

A good blue and white strap flute sauceboat relief-moulded painted and printed, the interior with floral painted decoration with flowering branch with open and closed flower heads and leafs the main panels painted with floral sprays, flower heads below the spout with printed panel along the top edge and the inner spout edge, handle with thumb rest with painted decoration, open crescent mark, 19cms long.

Condition - minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £410.00 More Images Stock No; 1034

A Worcester coffee cup Circa 1770,

A fine painted coffee cup with floral designs covering all the way round the exterior, decorated with three individual flowering plants and two small flower each side of the grooved loop handle, inner rim decorated in red, 7cms high.

Condition - good minor wear, No restoration or repair

A Worcester coffee cup Circa 1770,

Painted with a Chinese family scene, reverse with a Chinese lady standing alongside two potted plants, decoration to inner rim.
6 cms

Condition - good minor wear, No restoration or repair

GBP £ 150.00 More Images Stock No;1032

A Worcester patty pan Circa 1758,

The bare tree and speared bird, painted with a figure within an Oriental landscape with hut, below a diaper husk and scroll border,
10.5 cms diameter, workman's mark

Condition - good minor wear, No restoration or repair

GBP £650.00 More Images Stock No; 1031

A Liverpool Coffee Cup Circa 1770,

A fine Seth pennington, painted with oriental figures picking fruit frm a tree,the reverse with an oriental gentleman also picking fruit ,6.5cms high.

Condition - good minor wear, No restoration or repair

GBP £230.00 More Images Stock No; 1030

A Seth Pennington Teapot and cover, Circa 1780,

Of globular form with a grooved handle, cover with a pointed finial,painted in bright enamels with two chinese figures standing either side of an iron red tree,17.5cms
Provenace Dudley Westropp Collection.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP SOLD

A Worcester Mug, Circa 1762-65,

Of slightly tapering cylindrical shape with a grooved loop handle, painted with the 'Walk in the Garden' pattern of a chinese boy with a 'speared bird'standing beside a' Long Eliza',figure holding a Rui sceptre, reverse two birds in the branches of a bare tree, 14.6cms high.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £1.390 More Images Stock No; 1029 SOLD

A Very Rare Worcester Spittoon ,Circa 1785,

With a globular body and a wide everted rim, body painted in blue with a previously unrecorded design of fruit and flower sprays the exterior of the rim with 'Tte Spittoon Sprays'pattern (ll.C.3), 11cms,high,disguised numeral mark.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £890.00More Images Stock No; 1028

A Derby figure Circa 1770,

An attractive and brightly coloured in a pink and gilded dress figure of the sailers lass modelled standing in a saucy pose beckoning her lover,on an ornate scroll moulded and pierced base with flowering tree, incised No 316, 26cms high.

Condition - good minor losses and wear to bocage, No restoration or repair

GBP £590.00 More Images Stock No; 1027

A Rare Early Bow Saucer, Circa 1750-52,

A rare and early Bow saucer of quatrelobed shape, enamelled in Meissen style with formal floral sprays in puce, blue, green and yellow, the rim picked out in brown, this saucer is of great importance and was made in the first years of production, Bow factory Circa 1748-74 the production output was high producing a large variety of wares from decorative items such as figures, to utilitarian tableware mainly painted in underglazed blue decoration, the porcelain was thickly potted with a greyish appearance and is distinct from other factories, 12.8cms.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear, slight shape fault on firing. No restoration or repair

Provenance Dudley Westropp Collection. More Images Stock No; 1026

GBP £490.00

A Good Worcester Sauceboat, Circa 1765,

Thinly potted helmet shape ,crispy moulded with scroll-bordered panels reserved on a basketwork ground,with a smaller panel below the spout, painted in blue with the' man with a Bomb'pattern, the chinese figure flanked by a rockwork and a willow tree, the reverse with a fisherman, painted sprays to the interior,19.6cms, long, crescent mark.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £890.00 More Images Stock No; 1025

A Worcester 'Bouquets' Cabbage Leaf Jug Circa 1775

A good relief-moulded cabbage leaf jug, printed in underglaze blue with one of the popular series known as' The Bouquets'. with a scrolling handle and mask-head spout, these moulded jugs appear mid- to late period Worcester blue and white porcelain and found in various sizes also similar jugs were made at other factories in the 18th century such as Caughley, printed crescent mark to base, 20.5cm heigh.

See- Godden's guide to English blue & white porcelain page 410 for a similar relief-moulded mask-head jug.

Condition- good minor nicks and wear to spout.No restoration or repair

GBP £390.00.More Images Stock No; 1024

A Worcester Teapot and Cover Circa 1765,

Polychrome globular teapot decorated with the 'Chinese Family'pattern, the cover with chinese figures,spout with flower sprays,
Great quantities of Chinese porcelain were being imported into Britain around this period as demand was high. The design and colours were exciting and interesting to the general public that had never seen a Chinese man, this teapot shows Chinese family seen and would have represented a sence of social history to the untraveld British public, factories in Britian had to adapt to compete and started to design oriental styles of there own, 15cms.

Condition - minor wear chip to cover edge. No restoration or repair

GBP £430.00 More Images Stock No; 1023

A good Worcester Teapot and Cover, Circa 1768-70,

Globular shape with a flower finial,painted in bright enamals with the 'Conjurer'pattern, the conjurer standing before a tall stand upon which a vase of flowers rests, watched by a portly chinese gentleman seated at a table, another gentleman behind him,underglaze blue borders and gilded rims,15cms.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear, very minor chip to spout and flower finial. No restoration or repair

Provenance Dudley Westropp Collection.

GPB £850.00 More Images Stock No; 1022

A good Worcester Teapot and Cover Circa 1770,

Cover with flower finial, painted in Japan style in underglaze blue, iron red, green and gold with a prunus sprig and japanese flowers and foliage, Chinese and Japanese styles played an inportant part in the way that English wares were decorated, this teapot is no exception painted in a Japanese imari style, it could have been copied directly from Japanese porcelain , ( the square or fret mark, painted in underglaze blue ),14cms.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear, very minor chip to spout and flower finial. No restoration or repair

GBP £790.00 More Images Stock No; 1021

A Lowestoft 'Dolphin Ewer' creamboat Circa 1770-75,

Shell-shaped with a plain loop handle,low pedestal foot, painted in blue with flower sprigs, loop and dot border inside the rim, this small Suffolk factory started production about 1747 and ended around 1799, producing soft-paste porcelians with bone-ash; for the first ten years decoration was confined to underglaze blue painted wares, usually in chinoiserie patterns, output was mainly utilitarian wares and mainly catering for the local markets. Lowestoft porcelain is now becoming highly sought after by collectors world wide and fine examples are rare.10cms wide,
Provenance The Billie Pain Collection, no. 226.

Condition - good minor sanding commonly fould on lowestoft porcelain. No restoration or repair

GBP £690.00 More Images Stock No; 1020

A Worcester Teabowl and saucer Circa 1765,

Painted in blue with the 'CannonBall' pattern,chinese building trees on an island river landscape, saucer 12cms,crescent marks.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £230.00 More Images Stock No; 1019

A Worcester pickle dish Circa 1757-60,

In the shape of a scallop shell, painted in blue with the 'TwoPeony Rock Bird'pattern, 8.6cms high,workman's mark of an lH cipher.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

Provenance The Billie Paine Collection, no; 216

GBP £690.00 More Images Stock No; 1018

A Rare Liverpool Teabowl and Saucer Circa 1760-62,

Attributed toChaffers, transfer printed in black with 'The courted Shepherdess', the reverse of the teabowl with a chinoiserie figure holding a bird, printed examples of these prints also occur on Longton Hall and William Reid porcelain. 11.7cms

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear, minor firing fault to print on cup and saucer. No restoration or repair

Provenance The Billie Pain Collection No272.

More Images Stock No; 1017 SOLD

A Worcester Dessert Plate, Circa 1765-70,

Of scalloped shape, decorated in the workshop of James Giles,with a large colourful flower spray and smaller sprigs, the rims gilt, 20.7cms diam.

James Giles (1718-1780) was a decorator of Worcester, Derby, Bow and Chelsea porcelain and also glass, who created gilt and enamelled objects such as decanters, drinking-glasses, perfume bottles and rosewater sprinklers, for a rococo and neoclassical market.

Producing work similar to the enamelling done by the later Ralph and William Beilby of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he maintained a showroom in fashionable Cockspur Street in London, enjoying the patronage of royalty and affluent clients including Clive of India, the Duke of Northumberland, Princess Amelia (the second daughter of George II), Thomas Pitt, the Duke of Marlborough, the painter George Stubbs and Horace Walpole.

Condition - good minor chipping around edge and minor rubbing to gilt. No restoration or repair

SOLD Stock No; 1016

Worcester Pine cone plate Circa 1770-5.

A good dark blue underglaze printed plate with the ' pine cone' design shaped edge and raised foot rim, the 'Pine Cone' pattern was popular and many utilitarian items were made printed crescent mark 24.cm,

For other examples of items printed in underglaze blue 'Pine Cone' design See- Godden's guide to English blue & white porcelain page 402,403.

Condition -very good chip to foot rim minor nick to edge,. No restoration or repair

GBP £135.00. More Images Stock No; 1015

A Worcester Fluted Teabowl and Saucer, Circa 1770.

The 'Scarlet Japan' pattern, painted and gilt, attractivley decorated and well painted in bright colours.The 'Scarlet Japan' pattern, derived from Chinese porcelain utilising Japanese motifs. There are many variations of this popular design which stayed in production for at least twenty-five years; from the middle 1760s until the late 1780s. Over this period there were many changes to the standard pattern, and also to the shades of orange, (Teabowl and Saucer with the square or fret mark, painted in underglazed blue to base) ( see example).

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £365.00 More Images Stock No; 1014

A Worcester Teabowl and Saucer Circa 1780,

Painted in blue 'Imortelle', teabowl and saucer of ribbed form with plain rims, saucer 10.5cms, crescent mark.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

Provenance Klaber & Klaber, (Label on Saucer)

GBP £310.00 More Images Stock No; 1013

A Worcester Dessert Plate, Circa 1765-70,

Painted with flower sprays, of scalloped shape decorated in the workshops of James Giles, the rim gilt 20.7cms, diam.

James Giles (1718-1780) was a decorator of Worcester, Derby, Bow and Chelsea porcelain and also glass, who created gilt and enamelled objects such as decanters, drinking-glasses, perfume bottles and rosewater sprinklers, for a rococo and neoclassical market.

Producing work similar to the enamelling done by the later Ralph and William Beilby of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he maintained a showroom in fashionable Cockspur Street in London, enjoying the patronage of royalty and affluent clients including Clive of India, the Duke of Northumberland, Princess Amelia (the second daughter of George II), Thomas Pitt, the Duke of Marlborough, the painter George Stubbs and Horace Walpole.

Condition - good minor chipping around edge and minor rubbing to gilt. No restoration or repair

SOLD Stock No; 1012

A Caughley egg drainer, Circa 1785,

With the' fisherman' pattern, handle moulded with stiff leaf, 8cms diam.

Condition - good conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £195.00 More Images Stock No; 1011

An interesting and large porcelain meatplate, Circa 1825,

Attributed to Miles Mason with the Chinese pattern, 'Two men on a bridge', 49.5 cms diameter.

Condition - good conditon, minor wear, slight shape fault on firing. No restoration or repair

GPB £365.00 More Images Stock No; 1010

A Worcester Bowl, Circa 1770,

Painted with the 'Precipice' pattern, of plain thrown form, well decorated on all sides, 20.7cms, open crescent mark.

Condition - good conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP £365.00 More Images Stock No;1009

Rare Worcester Chocolate Cup and Saucer, Circa 1780,

With grooved strap handle, painted in underglaze blue in 'Chantilly' style with flower and sprigs, rims picked out in orchre, saucer 14.8cms, hunting horn marks,This rare pattern no.I.E.52,'The Shantilly Sprig' is discussed by Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain.

Condition - excellent conditon, very minor wear to rims. No restoration or repair

GBP £285.00. ( two available ) More Images Stock No; 1008a

A small dish from the Cau Mau shipwreck Circa 1725,

With a rock decorated border, decorated with a coastal scene, near distance with trees and boats, middle showing 2 pan boats and a small rock island, far with coastline, buildings and five birds in flight, 11cms.
Provenance Cau Mau Shipwreck sank around 1725. The items were retrieved by underwater Vietnamese archaeologists and sold at Sotherbys Amsterdam.

Condition - brown base glaze loss and wear salt water, No restoration or repair

GBP £85.00 More Images Stock No; 1007a

A small dish from the Cau Mau shipwreck (c.1725)

With flower to the centre with two circular rings, four quarter floral designs and floral border.
11cms

Provenance Cau Mau Shipwreck sank around 1725. The items were retrieved by underwater Vietnamese archaeologists and sold at Sotherbys Amsterdam.

Condition - brown base glaze loss and wear salt water, No restoration or repair

GBP £90.00 More Images Stock No; 1006a

A Seth Pennington pickle dish, Circa 1780-95,

Of deep scallop shell form on three peg feet, printed in dark blue with a peony, fence and willow tree design, below a rose sprig, the border edged with blue dashes, 10.8cms.

Condition - minor wear. No restoration or repair

Provenance The Billy Paine Collection lot no; 279, for other examples of this shape see Bernard Watney, Liverpool Pocelain, figs, 433-435

GBP £265.00 More Images Stock No; 1005

A fine and rare export plate with grisaille decoration of the Crucifiction of Christ, leaf and decorated with elaborate floral garland border, highlighted in gilt.
23 cms

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear, very minor rim chip to underside edge and does not show from the front. No restoration or repair

For similar grisaille decorated Chinese export plates see, Howard and Ayers, China for the West, 1978.

GBP £ SOLD More Images Stock No; 1001

A Chinese porcelain export plate,Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795) Circa 1745,

A fine and rare export plate with grisaille decoration of the Resurrection of Christ, leaf and decorated with elaborate floral garland border, highlighted in gilt.
23 cms

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

Literature, a similar plate is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, 1978, Plate 312, p. 319.

GBP £1,100. More Images Stock No; 1002

A finely painted Hadley Ewer, painted with blackberries, leaves and flowers, with guilding to the handle top and base.

James Hadley and son had a porcelain factory in Worcester between 1896-1905, producing fine quality porcelain in competition with the Royal Worcester Porcelain factory. Hadley items are rare, due to the fact that the factory was open for a short period of time. Painters mark number 4, attributes work to Jenny Lander. Printed mark Hadley to the base. 11.5 cms from base to the top of handle.

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

GBP SOLD

A Worcester high-footed sauceboat Circa 1753-4

Crisply moulded with with two C-scroll cartouches below a scrolling rim, painted to one side with a vignette of a 'Lond Eliza' figure holding a fan, the other side with a figure crossing a bridge, the interior with a flower spray below a border of Buddhist emblems and further flower sprigs, 20 cms.

(A similar sauceboat was sold from the Barbara Leake collection at a leading London auction house, for a similar shape see Godden's guide to English blue & white porcelain page 144, plt 161)

Condition - some minor firing cracks to rim and foot and some wear to enamels No restoration or repair

GBP £1,450 More Images Stock No; 1003

A Lowestoft sauceboat Circa 1765

Moulded strap-fluted ground reserved with cartouches edged with leafy sprays and flowers, painted in blue with Chinese scenes depicting a figure fishing from a sampan by an island with a building, small sprigs around the footrim, a diaper border reserved with flowerheads inside the rim, a spray inside the base, 18.2cm long, Lowestoft started production about 1747 and ended around 1799, producing soft-paste porcelians with bone-ash; for the first ten years decoration was confined to underglaze blue painted wares, usually in chinoiserie patterns, output was mainly utilitarian wares and mainly catering for the local markets. Lowestoft porcelain is now becoming highly sought after by collectors world wide and fine examples are rare,

Condition - excellent conditon, minor wear. No restoration or repair

Provenance: The Barbara Leake collection, also See- Godden's guide to English blue & white porcelain page 290 plt 356 for a similar relief-moulded sauceboat

GBP SOLD More Images Stock No; 1004

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