Catalogue of Antique British Pottery Fall 2013

Bri sh An que Po ery Catalogue Fall 2013

Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc. 1

Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc. Tel: 212-308-2022 Email: info@vandekar.com

Web: www.vandekar.com

PO Box 55, Maryknoll, NY 10545 Please enjoy this selec on from our Bri sh po ery collec on including saltglaze, creamware, pearlware, pra ware and other examples of 18th and 19th century earthenware including an important 17th century Del ware Vase on the last page.

Do feel free to call with any enquiries.

Above: A Fine & Rare Staordshire Salt-glazed Enameled Silver-shaped Sauceboat,

Price: $8,500.00

Circa 1755-60; Length 7 1/8 inches.

Front Cover: A Stunning Staordshire Salt-glazed Enameled Openwork Dish, Circa 1765-75; Diameter 10 3/8 inches. Provenance: The Hackman Collec on.

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Price: $5,000.00

A Fine Pair of English Salt-glazed Polychrome Cornucopia Wall Pockets, Circa 1750.

The pair of English salt-glazed cornucopia wall pockets are press-moulded in relief with two images of Flora facing inwards holding a cornucopia of flowers all within a scroll cartouche on a ground of frui ng, trailing ivy and flowering plants. The top rims are pierced.

In Roman mythology, Flora was a goddess of flowers and the season of spring.

Dimensions: 11Âź inches high x 8 1/4 inches wide x 3 1/2 deep.

See: The Illustrated Guide to Staordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware, Arnold R. Moun ord, Illustra on 156 illustrates the same pocket with the descrip on, A cast wall cornucopia with a bust of Plenty in relief set in a scroll panel. In the Thomas & John Wedgwood crate-book there is a record of them having sold 10 corna Copiaes for 34p in September 1770.

Price: $8,500.00 3

An English Salt-glazed Stoneware Teapot & Cover, Circa 1740-50.

A lozenge-shaped salt-glazed stoneware teapot with highly unusual pressed details in the concentric shell and geometric panels. The lid is topped by a lizard finial. The highly decorated spout echoes the geometric designs on the body - this is a highly unusual detail.

Reference: White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the Bri sh Isles. Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson.

1. Similar four-sided master mold, Fig. 67, page 82; 2. Lozenge-shaped teapot, similar handle, Colour Plate 61, p. 93; 3. Molded salt-glaze piece from a porringer with the concentric shell detail, Fig.. 240, page 237.

The Earle Collec on of Early Staordshire Po ery. Major Cyril Earle, T.D. 1. Lozenge-shaped teapot wit shell detail, similar handle, and geometric designs on body and spout.

2. Figure 82, page 44.

Price: $6,500.00

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A Rare Staordshire Enameled Salt-glazed Diamond-shaped Teapot & Cover, Circa 1765.

The rare enameled salt-glazed stoneware teapot and cover is of diamond-form with a molded crabstock handle and scrolled foliate spout with polychrome shingled roof border with paneled floral sides in the Chinese famille rose style.

Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches in length.

Provenance: Harry A. Root Jr. Collec on.

Reference: A Passion for Po ery: Further Selec ons From The Henry H. Weldon Collec on, Page 114-5, for three baskets da ng from circa 1765, each decorated with famille rose type flower and plant decora on similar to that on our teapot.

Price: $5,750.00 5

A Staordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware Press-moulded Plate, Circa 1755.

The Staordshire salt-glazed press-molded white stoneware plate has a scalloped rim with basket weave border surrounding fruit, the center also with basket weave and diapering trimmed in scrollwork.

Dimensions: Diameter 8 1/8 inches.

Provenance: Kay and Richard Barre Collec on & Gwen Smith Collec on.

Reference: A similar plate in the Colonial Williamsburg Collec on is illustrated in Creamware and Pearlware Re-examined edited by Tom Walford and Roger Massey, in an ar cle by Diane Edwards, The Influence of Saltglazed Stoneware on Creamware Design, Page 159, #30. Ms. Edwards describes orders placed by the London merchant Thomas Abernathy (located at New Hermitage Street, Wapping) to Josiah Wedgwood in 1763.

She suggests that the order for 24 Nu pa ern are possibly like this plate in our collec on.

Price: $1,950.00

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A Staordshire Salt-glazed Openwork Basket, Circa 1750-60.

The Staordshire salt-glazed stoneware basket has a twisted bail handle and scalloped rim with pierced sides.

Dimensions: Diameter 9 inches.

Reference: White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the Bri sh Isles, Diane Edwards and Rodney Hampson, page 119, Colour plate 92 for a openwork basket with Li ler's blue dip (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref # 1929:138). The unusual shape of the pieced sides is the same as our basket. On page 85, fig 90, a bucket and ladle is illustrated (A.H. Church collec on, 1929.102.103). The twist and design of the handle is iden cal to the one on our basket.

Price: $3,900.00

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A Staordshire Tortoise-shell Creamware Model of a Cat, Circa 1770.

The Staordshire press-moulded figure depicts a seated cat decorated in sponged underglaze oxide colors with the eye picked out in brown slip.

Dimensions: 5 3/8 inches height.

Provenance: Klee Collec on.

Reference: English Po ery: Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, The Henry H. Weldon Collec on, Leslie B. Grigsby, page 335, #190.

Price: $4,750.00

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A Large English Whieldon-type Creamware Dish, Circa 1765-75.

The large circular deep dish with a shaped border is decorated overall in gray, green and yellow underglaze oxides. The border with moulded panels imita ng snake skin.

Diameter: 13 3/4 inches.

Price: $4,500.00

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An English Unglazed Redware Coffee Pot and Cover, Staffordshire, Circa 1760.

The unglazed redware bodied coffee pot is finely decorated with applied flowers and bands of scrollwork to each side. The spout and handle s ll with rococo influences.

Dimensions: Height: 8 3/8 inches.

Reference: The Henry H. Weldon Collec on, English Po ery, 1650-1800, page 61, #4a for similar coffee pot.

Price: $2,500.00

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A Rare Wedgwood Creamware Soup Plate made for the German Market, Circa 1790.

The plate depicts an Imperial German Navy Frigate with a yellow nted German Imperial Standard, inscribed below "LCBCC,� probably the owners ini als, and on the rim "FMDCB." Diameter: 9 1/2 inches.

Mark: Wedgwood impressed (faint) Reference: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for a pair of soup plates from the same service from The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1965 Accession Number: 65.222.2, .3 Price: $2,200.00

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An English Creamware Soup Plate decorated with a Frigate Flying The Red Ensign, Probably Wedgwood, Circa 1785-1800.

The creamware soup plate is printed with a two-masted ship. The sea, hull and flag are enhanced with coloured enamels. The border with six printed black and white flowering stems.

Diameter: 9 3/4 inches.

Price: $1,250.00

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A Rare English Creamware Teapot Inscribed with Prayers of Grace, Circa 1780.

The plain creamware teapot is unusually decorated with a panel on each side containing a hand-wri en prayer for Grace within leafy surrounds in iron-red and black.

Be Present at our table lord/Be here as every where Ador'd/ These Creatures bless, & grant that we / May feast in Paradise with thee.

We thank thee Lord for this our food/ But more because of Jesus’ Blood/ Let manna to our foods, be given/ The bread of Life sent down from heaven.

The First prayer is a ributed to John Cennick (12 December 1718 – 4 July 1755) who was an early Methodist and Moravian evangelist and hymn writer. The second has been called a Children's grace .

Dimensions: Height 5 inches x 8 inches x length x 4 1/2 depth.

Price: $3,800.00

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An English Po ery Creamware Dessert Service, Neale & Co., Circa 1776-84.

The seventeen piece dessert service has a plain cream coloured body with a bright deep blue feathered rim.

The seventeen piece service consists of the following pieces:-

Ten plates (diameter: 8 1/2 inches) Pair of sauce tureen and covers (height: 6 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches length x 5 1/2 inches wide) Footed shell-shaped dish (diameter 9 1/2 inches) Diamond-shaped dish (9 inches x 11 inches) Oval Dish (10 3/4 inches x 5 3/4 inches x 2 inches tall) Tall Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 7 inches x 4 1/4 inches tall) Low Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 8 inches x 3 inches tall) Price: $11,000.00

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A Set of Three Wedgwood Scallop Shell Dishes, Circa 1829.

The plain creamware dishes are each moulded in the form of a scallop shell.

Marks: impressed WEDGWOOD and impressed AJ Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches x 6 inches width x 1 1/4 inch height.

Price: $1,950.00

A West Pans Li ler's Blue Earthenware Leaf Dish, Circa 1770.

The Li ler's Blue decorated earthenware dish has a moulded leaf shaped border with gilding to rim.

Dimensions: length 9 5/8 inches.

Provenance: E.N. Stre on Collec on.

Price: $2,500.00

A Pair of English 18th Century Creamware Candles cks, Possibly Leeds, Circa 1780-90.

The short candles cks have a central reeded column rising from a stepped square base with beading around the top rim of the base and the edge of the candle socket.

Dimensions: 7 inches high x 3 1/4 inch square base.

Reference: The Leeds Po ery: 1770-1881, John D. GriďŹƒn, Vol. I, page 128 for two s cks of similar propor ons, #110 & #111 Price: $1,500.00

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English Creamware Sauce Tureen, Cover and Stand with the Original Ladle, Probably John Turner, Circa 1785-90.

A creamware sauce tureen with cover, stand and original ladle. The lid features a undula ng surface topped by a flower finial. The tureen has scrolled handles and a scallop detail across the body. Most unusual is the finely rendered puce-coloured feathering that decorates each piece, including the bowl and handle of the tureen. The hand-painted feathering highlights the curves of this lovely piece.

Dimensions: Overall 5 5/8 high, 8 inches long, 6 inches wide.

Price: $3,500.00

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A Elegant English Creamware Sauce Tureen With Cover and Stand, Circa 1800-1810.

Dimensions: Stand: 1 1/8 inches high, 8 3/4 inches long, 7 inches wide.

Tureen: 6 1/4 inches high, 8 3/4 inches long, 4 1/2 inches wide.

Overall: 6 7/8 inches high, 8 3/4 inches long, 7 inches wide.

Marks: Tureen and stand stamped WEDGEWOOD. Lid features a "V" scratched in the underside.

Price: $1,850.00

An English Creamware Mug, Circa 1785.

An English creamware po ery mug with a machine-turned body, featuring a twisted strap handle connected to the body of the mug with a flower and leaf terminal.

Dimensions: 3 1/2 inches high x 4 inches wide with handle.

Price: $950.00

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An English Po ery Fox-head S rrup Cup, Circa 1785-1800.

A realis cally painted hollow s rrup cup in the form of a vixen.

Dimensions: Length: 4 3/4 inches x 3 3/4 inches to p of ear.

Price: $4,000.00

Reference: S rrup cups, used tradi onally for toasts to the hunt a er the riders were mounted, had no need for a foot. The vessels represented the animals involved in the sport with foxes' and dogs' heads being most common, although hares and stags were also made. They were strongly influenced by the Greek and Roman Rhytons of an quity that were being brought back from the Grand Tour.

A Charming Primi ve Creamware S rrup Cup, Circa 1800.

The hound-head s rrup is of an unusual decora on of large splotches producing a charming, folky look.

Dimensions: length: 4 3/4 inches x width: 3 3/4 inches x height: 2 3/4 inches.

Price: $3,500.00 18

A Set of Ten English Po ery Creamware Plates, Neale & Company, Circa 1780-85.

The plates are each decorated in puce transfer with figures amongst classic ruins. The rims also with a feathered puce border highlighted with the strong remnants of the original gilding.

Dimensions: Diameter: 8 5/8 inches.

Marks: The impressed NEALE & Co. mark was only used between 1778 and 1795.

Reference: Neale Po ery & Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors 1763-1820, Diana Edwards, page 126, #100 for a large stand from the same service from the Division of Ceramics & Glass, Na onal Museum of American History, Smithsonian Ins tu on, Washington, D.C. acc no. 65.48.

The author writes on page 133 that shell-edged wares and other enameled rim-decorated wares in turquoise, puce or black, o en embellished with a central transfer-printed panel, cons tuted a sizable por on of the decora on on creamware...

Price: $450 each

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An Unusual English Creamware Footed Tazza, Spode, Circa 1800.

The oval footed basket has a flared foot and decorated with a feathered design. The rim with reeded loops termina ng in a band of basket weave.

Dimensions: Length: 10 1/4 inches x 8 3/4 inches x 3 inches high.

Mark: Impressed SPODE Price: $750.00

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A Rare Armorial Creamware Basket and Stand, Circa 1785-1800.

The openwork basket and stand bordered in brown is decorated with the arms of Sparke of Gunthorpe Hall, Norfolk.

The crest is for the Right Reverent Bowyer Edward Sparke who was born in 1759. He became Dean of Bristol, Bishop of Chester, between 1810-12, and Bishop of Ely between 1812-30...

Price: $2,000.00

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A Pair of English Po ery Pebbled Bough Pots, Circa 1800.

The bough pots with fixed pierced top with a blue band around the upper rim and the front panel with a pebbled, or encrusted, finish. This unique finish was created by applying small chips of crushed clay.

Dimensions: 7 3/4 inches x 3 3/4 inches deep x 4 inches high.

Reference: Mocha and Related dipped wares, 1770-1939, Jonathan Rickard, page 119, #figure 184 for a single bough pot with very similar shape and decora on. It is marked with the impressed le ers BW possibly for Birch & Whitehead of Shelton (circa 1796) or Breeze & Wilson of Hanley, Circa 1800-1817.

A single example is also to be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum's Ceramics Collec on.

Price: $3,900.00

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An English Po ery Racing Horse, Probably St. Anthony Po ery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Circa 1800-10.

The brown mo led horse stands all square with a yellow saddle blanket and a halter on a green mo led base.

Label: D.M. & P Manheim Dimensions: Length: 7 1/2 x Height: 6 1/2 inches.

Price: $6,500.00

A Rare Pearlware Horse, Portobello, Edinburgh, Circa 1800-10.

The horse with a cropped tail and mahogany coat and white hocks stands on a flat green mo led base. The horse wears a green bordered saddle blanket.

Dimensions: Length: 7 inches x 5 3/4 inches.

Price: $6,500.00

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A Massive Leeds Pearlware Horse, Circa 1820-1830.

The stallion is standing with its head to the right wearing a halter, the lead line lying across its back, on a canted rectangular base, the top green within a molded wreath border and glazed in claret, the sides molded with s ff-leaf ps similarly decorated.

Leeds Po ery horses were tradi onally made for shop display by dealers trading in horse equipment, foodstuffs and medicines. They were made only in Pearlware. Most examples are now in public collec ons including York Museum and Leeds City Museum.

Dimensions: 16¾ in. high; 14¾ in. long overall.

Reference: A similar example can be seen in Leeds Museums and Art Galleries (Temple Newsam House) UK (LMG 144828) and was featured in an exhibi on there during a exhibi on which ran June 1- October 30, 2005 in The Leeds Po ery 1770 - 1881.

Another is at The Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland (GLS 314039).

See Griselda Lewis, A Collector's History of English Po ery, p. 123. also John and Griselda Lewis, Pra Ware, 1780-1840, 1984, p. 65. and Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840, 1991, p. 126.

Price: $40,000.00

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Two English Pearlware Po ery Equestrian Group of William III, Enoch Wood/ Wood Family, Circa 1790-1800.

The top figure is in Roman dress, the horse with front legs on a rocky support, on an acanthus leaf moulded architectural plinth. The figure wearing a laurel wreath crown has a green drape around his shoulder and he wears an orange and yellow tunic, blue pantaloons and black riding boots open at the toes. He sits astride a rearing horse si ng on a saddle cloth, his legs hanging free. In his right hand he holds a small rolled scroll, his le hand rests on his le thigh.

The second figure has a laurel leaf crown, but is clad in a green tunic with a blue drape around his shoulders.

On his feet, he wears sandals.

Why does William III look like Julius Caesar in all the statues? William led his forces to victory at the Siege of Namur, Spanish Netherlands in 1695, the recapture of Namur has been called the most important event in the Nine Years' War. A medal was struck commemora ng the event with the medal showing William III on horseback in Roman dress, a commander's baton in his right hand. The fla ering "Caesar theme" was then adopted for statues.

Dimensions: Height 15 3/4 inches, width 9 1/2 inches.

Reference: English Ceramics: The Francis and Emory Cocke Collec on, Donald C. Pierce p 44, #36 for a similar base.

The Henry H. Weldon Collec on of English Po ery, 1650-1800, Leslie B. Grigsby, page 424, # 263, for a leadglazed earthenware example and a discussion of the model where she writes that, "Few examples of this monumental figure survive".

Price: Top figure: $15,000.00 Bo om figure: $10,000.00

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A Pair of Large Pearlware Po ery S rrup Cups, Circa 1800.

Dimensions: Length: 6 1/2 inches x 5 inches high.

S rrup cups, used tradi onally for toasts to the hunt a er the riders were mounted, had no need for a foot.

The vessels represented the animals involved in the sport with foxes' and dogs' heads being most common, although hares and stags were also made. It is rare to find a pair of s rrup cups that have survived as a pair; the size of the cups is also remarkable.

Reference: The Henry H. Weldon Collec on, English Po ery 1650-1800 by Leslie B. Grigsby, 1990, pg. 350-1 for discussion and photos of other examples of lead glaze s rrup cups.

Price: $5,500.00

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A Large Pra ware Mug Depic ng Admiral George Rodney, Circa 1790-1800.

Length: 6 1/2 inches 'He never let slip an opportunity to bring opponents to acon, or being himself in the thickest of the fight' John Knox Laughton on Admiral Rodney.

George Rodney was one of the leading Bri sh admirals in the eighteenth century and during a long and illustrious career achieved considerable success against the French and Spanish in the Seven Years War as well as the American War of Independence.

Price: $3,750.00

A Charming Pra ware Teapot Decorated with Orange Flowers, Circa 1810-20.

A folky, fresh po ery teapot decorated with flowers.

Price: $1,500.00

A Charming Pra ware Plaque of Lions, Circa 1800.

The plaque is relief moulded with two recumbent lions and painted in underglaze with floral branches, molded border.

Dimensions: 8 3/4 inches x 10 1/2 inches.

Price: $4,600.00

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A Pra ware Model of a Primi ve Church, Inscribed with the names Joseph & Mary Wright, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, Circa 1840.

Dimensions: Height: 7 inches; Depth: 4 3/4 inches; length: 5 1/2 inches.

This form is unusual in that money boxes have an open slot on the back roof. In this case there is no opening for coins. A very similar chapel was in the collec on of Alistair Sampson and Jonathan Horne with very similar colours catalogued as Mexborough. In their 2008 Exhibi on Catalogue pp38-39 fig J they men on that the local Wesleyan Chapel in Mexborough, which is s ll standing, has its doors at the front and it is thought this was used as a model for the Yorkshire money boxes.

Primi ve Methodism was a major movement in English Methodism from about 1810 un l the Methodist Union in 1932.

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A Vine & Scale Pa ern Pra ware Jug, Circa 1820.

The jug is decorated has a moulded design of grapes and grape leaves surrounding the shoulder with a raised fish-scale design below in typical Pra colours. The rim with an underglaze blue line and a large leaf in blue below the spout.

Dimensions: Height: 6 inches; Length: 7 1/2 inches.

Reference: Pra Ware, John & Griselda Lewis, page 214 for an example.

Price: $1,900.00

A Pair of Unusual Oval Pra ware Dishes, Circa 1810-20.

A charming pair of Pra ware oval blue feather-edged dishes painted with floral bouquets.

Length: 14 1/4 inches x 10 3/4 inches.

Price: $3,500.00 31

A Pair of Rare English Po ery Pearlware Sailor Figures, Circa 1820.

A lovely pair of figure groups depic ng a sailor res ng on his sea trunk, a mug of ale in one hand and his le hand raised to his chin as his appears in deep thought. At his feet is a walking s ck and a bag.

Length: 7 1/4 inches.

Price: $5,500.00

A Large English Po ery Pearlware Coee Pot & Cover, Circa 1820-25.

The pot is decorated with a beau ful band of large flowers and leaves- the leaves in blue and orange. The large domed cover sits within a well at the top of the pot. The finial is raised into a blue flower Dimensions: Height: 11 inches x Length: 11 1/2 inches.

Price: $1,350.00

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A Set of Twelve Spode Pearlware Plates with Grape Decora on, Pa ern 3057 Circa 1820.

Each plate is decorated with vibrantly colored clusters of grapes, leaves and tendrils.

Diameter: 9 3/4 inches.

Price: $5,500.00

Wedgwood Pearlware Harbour Shipping Set, Circa 1830.

A Set of 12 plates (8 1/2 inches diameter) .

Price: $2,500.00 A Set of 8 plates ( 9 1/2 inches diameter) .

Price: $1,500.00 Large Dish Price:

$950.00

Reference: Illustrated Staordshire Blue, W.L. Li le, plate 73.

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A Pair of Large English Davenport Green Feather-edged Dishes, Circa 1800.

The large oval dishes are moulded with a feathered edge in green glaze.

Dimensions: 16 3/4 inches x 13 inches.

Price: $2,000.00

One of A Pair of Spode China Double Peacock Pa ern Baskets, (Pa ern # 2118) Circa 1810-15.

The double handled footed baskets are decorated with a pa ern known as the "double peacock" pa ern, a pa ern found on Chinese Export in the 1760's and 70's.

Dimensions: Length: 11 3/4 inches x 2 3/4 inches high x 7 1/4 inches width.

Price: $1,500.00 the pair

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A Large English Pearlware Yellow-Ground Napoleonic Jug, Dated 1813.

The jug has the names, William & Sarah Cooper and the date 1813 below under the spout. The jug has a yellow ground with a white ground around the neck with two silver lustre bands encircling the neck on the outside and on the interior.

Below the inscrip on, in an oval white panel is a poem encircled by flowers and below a jug of beer tled Old Toby's Jug. The poem reads: Fill your cups and banish grief/ Laugh and worldly care despise/ Sorrow ne'er will bring relief/ Joy from drinking will rise/ So pour this full and sup it up/ And call for more to fill your cup.

To one side is a large printed panel tled "JOHN BULL and his COMPANION/ Challenging BONAPARTE and his rela on". The scene depicts John Bull in a red jacket, a large seated lion behind with a ship in the background facing a European Officer in a blue jacket with a devil to the far le . Each have word bubbles issuing from their mouths.

To the other side is another panel tled One of the 71st taking a French Officer prisoner in Portugal.

The scene depicts a soldier in kilt with red jacket holding a long rifle to the chest of a French officer in blue jacket who holds out his hand offering his valuables which include a watch.

Dimensions: Height: 8 inches. Length: 9 inches, Depth: 7 inches.

Price: $6,500.00

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A Pair of English Po ery Smear-glazed Stoneware Obelisks, Chetham & Woolley, Lane End, Longton.

Circa 1800.

Each obelisk painted with fruit within blue lines, each side of the square base with a moulded oval medallion edged in pink, three with applied mythological scenes and one painted in colours with a riverside pastoral landscape.

Height: 8 5/8 inches.

Reference: Chetham & Woolley were manufacturers of earthenwares at Lane End, Longton, c. 1796 to November 1809, when Ann Chetham con nued the works.

Price: $5,500.00

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A Fine Pair of Staordshire Po ery Lions, Circa 1820.

These charming lions are in a striking deep red with gray manes, each with a paw raised on a yellow globe: one under the right paw, one under the le . The rectangular hollow bases have applied crenulated shields around the base edged in blue. The lions' tails are curled onto their backs and each has a slightly open mouth with the tongue protruding.

Dimensions: Height: 5 1/2 inches x 6 inches length x 5 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Each has a DP & M. Manheim label on the base.

Reference: English Earthenware Figures, 1740-1840, Pat Halfpenny, page 196, illustra on 53 for one with very similar colouring but dierent base.

Price: $6,500.00

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A Massive English Blue & White Jug, Circa 1820-40.

The massive jug is printed in a Willow-pa ern, with two iden cal oval views of fenced garden, pavilion, willow trees, and birds in flight.

Dimensions: 13 3/4 wide x 12 1/2 inches high.

Price: $3,750.00 38

A Large Pair of Staffordshire Figures of Antony and Cleopatra, Possibly by Enoch Wood or Enoch Wood and Caldwell.

Early 19th Century.

Each reclining on rocky ground angled to resemble a recamier, he wearing a cuirass in pla num, she a yellowlined gown painted with sca ered purple flowers, a bright green asp entwined as a bracelet on her upper arm about to bite her breast.

Dimensions: 12 1/8 inches long.

Seymour Howard, in Thomas Jefferson's Art Gallery for Mon cello, The Art Bulle n 59.4 (December 1977 men ons that Thomas Jefferson acquired a small marble copy of the "Cleopatra", as he first knew it, which was a gi from James Bowdoin, in 1805 for the sculpture gallery he planned at Mon cello but which was never realized and it remains in Jefferson's hallway. By 1816, Jefferson was declaring that his "Cleopatra" was Ariadne as it was discovered that the figure which had o en been called Cleopatra was, in fact, a copy of the Sleeping Ariadne, housed in the Va can Museums in Va can City which is a Roman Hadrianic copy of a Hellenis c sculpture of the Pergamene school of the 2nd century BCE. Price: $7,500.00 39

A Pair of English North Country Treacle-Glazed Po ery Lions, Probably Yorkshire, Circa 1820-40.

Each lion is glazed in treacle brown. Each has a fine moulded mane and open mouth, showing sharp teeth.

The right front paw rests on a ball, reminiscent of the D' Medici lions. The tail swishes forward over the right flank; all upon a rectangular, stepped base.

Dimensions: 11 inches x height: 8 inches x depth: 5 inches.

Price: $4,500.00

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A Pair of English Po ery Greenware Wall Pockets, Probably Copeland, Circa 1860.

The cornucopia-form wall green-glazed pockets are moulded with a strong swirling reed design with leaf bands to rim and centre.

Dimensions: Height: 8 3/4 inches x width: 6 1/4 inches.

Price: $2,250.00

A Rare Pair of English Earthenware Patented Boot Drying Lasts, Circa 1860.

The boots naturalis cally depicted with printed shoe laces and floral design on the toes.

Around the top is the inscrip on-

Her Majes es Royal Le ers Patent/ Health Comfort/Patent Boot Drying & Warming Last.

In the top is a hole into which was poured hot water.

Dimensions: Height: 9 inches x 8 1/2 inches length x 2 1/4 inches width.

Reference: A similar single boot can be found in the Museum of London's Collec on.

Price: $2,500.00

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An English Aesthe c Movement Wedgwood Garden Seat, Designed by Thomas Allen, Circa 1880.

The unusual earthenware body is of hexagonal shape and transfer printed in a deep blue with neo-classical style Greek Muses and floral borders.

Marks: Impressed but obscured.

Dimensions: 17 3/8 inches high x 11 3/4 diameter.

Price: $2,500.00 42

A Rare Large London Del ware Vase, Circa 1670-1675 Dimensions: Height: 12 inches.

The large London del ware ovoid vase is painted in blue in Chinese style with birds and insects, including a dragonfly, amid flower bouquets.

Robert Aronson, one of the authorita ve experts on nglazed earthenware has wri en to me as follows: The en re group of objects that were considered to be Frankfurt faience through the early 1990's is now accepted as being Dutch 1660-80. It is indeed the type/group of objects like the vase that you are showing. I have gone head to head with Jonathan (Horne) over this in the past and he assumed some pieces to be English, while I thought they were Dutch. Although this vase at first glance looks Dutch, there are some oddi es; the shape and par cularly the very narrow and rimmed foot (the Longridge vase, doesn't have that edge on the foot – that looks more like the Dutch vases) and the watery-ness of the paintwork. These two points considered I would tend towards English, rather than Dutch.

Inspired by Chinese blue and white porcelain of the Ming dynasty, the decora on on the present vase is dis nguished by its large scale, the richness of the flowers, the delicacy of the shading, the whimsical dragonflies, bu erflies and birds.

Reference: Jonathan Horne, A Collec on of Early English Po ery, Part XIX, London, March 1999, no. 555. Horne points out that the dis nctly detailed pain ng is also found on several pieces including four posset pots da ng 1674 to 1678 (Lipski collec on, #’s 899, 903, 907, & 908), a mug 1674 (Lipski 776) and a scroll salt dated 1675 (Lipski 1538).

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