The Andrew Morris Collection of Important Worcester and other Porcelain

The Andrew Morris Collection of Important Worcester and other Porcelain

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The Andrew Morris Collection of Important

Worcester and other Porcelain

As our inaugural fine auction at our new Hawthorn saleroom, we are delighted to present The Andrew Morris Collection of Important Worcester and other Porcelain in two parts.

Andrew Morris, has dedicated the last thirty four years to carefully curating a porcelain collection with a specialized focus on Worcester factory porcelain produced between 1851-1900, namely Kerr and Binns period (1852-1862) and 19th century and early 20th century Worcester Royal porcelain company period (1862- 2009). The collection concentrates on a handful of celebrated Worcester artists, namely Thomas Bott Senior and his son Thomas John Bott, George Owen, Josiah Rushton and brothers Thomas Scott and James Callowhill.

A collection of this type is rare on the international market, as it features a handful of exhibition pieces created for the Great Exhibitions from 1851- 1937. The fairs were designed to showcase the best examples of arts and industry, providing each exhibitor an opportunity to unveil innovations and advancements with fierce competition between nations to excel and to achieve the prestigious awards and medals of the fair. Pieces made for the Great Exhibitions were of the highest quality, and in porcelain showcased important changes in glazing, design and decoration.

Within the Morris collection are several exhibition pieces decorated by Thomas Bott senior (1829-1870), who inspired by ‘Limoges enamel’ on copper developed the application and decoration of 'Limoges enamel' on porcelain, lots 30, 47 and 48 are examples of this stunning technique.

Lot 30, a Kerr and Binns polychrome enamel decorated chalice was exhibited at the London International Exhibition of Industry and Art, 1862, and is accompanied by an original rendering of the display with the chalice from the Art Journal Illustrated catalogue of the International Exhibition together with J. Waring’s Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862, a treasure for any discerning collector or institution.

A point of difference from his distinctive ‘Limoges Enamel’ work, Lot 13, from the renowned ‘Shakespeare’ Service, is jointly decorated by Thomas Bott Senior and Luke Wells, using Irish Clay and gold for the 1853 Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition, specifically to promote the Worcester porcelain factory to the Irish market. After opening the Dublin exhibition, Queen Victoria was so impressed by the service she requested a private inspection of it.

In addition to these rare exhibition pieces, The Morris collection also holds rare examples of works by other artists such as George Owen and Josiah Rushton.

Highlights from the auction include lot 4, a superb Persian pattern vase and cover by George Owen, intricately decorated with hand cut incisions and lot 40, a pair of large and impressive vases with covers, painted with classical scenes by Josiah Rushton.

We are honoured to be presenting this special collection to the public market.

chiara curcio

head of decorative arts, design & interiors

The Golden Age of Worcester Porcelain

The Worcester porcelain factory has had many iterations during its long and rich evolution. Founded in 1751 by 15 shareholders, the company changed hands and respectively its trading name various times over the next century.

In 1852, Richard William Binns and William Henry Kerr take over management of what was then known as the Chamberlain & Co. porcelain works after a detrimental fire which required an extensive restoration and rebuild of the company in the 1850’s. With this rejuvenation of the company and machinery in tow, together with the Great Exhibitions flourishing worldwide showcasing technical and design innovation, this led to the perfect opportunity for Kerr & Binns (1852-1862) to showcase exciting new innovations to the world. This burst of creative innovation extended into the early period of the Worcester Royal porcelain company period (1862- 2009).

This innovation was encouraged and enabled by The Worcester Government school of design opening to allow apprentices to study a wide variety of subject matter including anatomy, botany, still life and ornamentation. Binns is credited with selecting talented apprentices from the school who transformed the decoration department, most notably James Hadley, James Callowhill, Josiah Rushton and George Owen.

Three extremely significant figures to emerge during this period from the factory are The Bott family and George Owen.

Thomas Bott (1829-1870) and his son Thomas John Bott (1859-1932) are recognised for their adept application of Limoges style enamelling onto porcelain. Inspired by Limoges enamels on copper, Thomas Bott (1829-1870) developed the application and decoration of Limoges type enamel on porcelain, exhibiting in both the Paris Exhibition Universelle of 1855 and the London exhibition of 1862. During the height of the Renaissance revival this 15th century enamel technique became very popular. Bott Senior worked at the factory from 1853 until his premature death in 1870, credited to his technique of licking his brush to form a fine point, exposing him to lead poisoning. Bott junior carrying on his fathers legacy working exclusively at the factory from 1873 until the middle 1880s, and thereafter working by contract for various factories. Father and son produced extremely fine scenes in enamel, an incredible accomplishment as the technique regarding patience and precision. 'Limoges Enamel' is a complicated process, not dissimilar to pâte-sur-pâte where the enamel is applied slowly in stages, application over application, layer by layer resulting in a raised decoration, which was often highly detailed, comparable in execution of detail to a miniature painting. A number of these wares were made specifically for the great international exhibitions.

George Owen (1845-1912) created wonderfully intricate pierced porcelain vessels for the Worcester factory and developed this technique without requiring a pattern, executed entirely by hand. This delicate decoration simulated a netted honeycomb effect, emulating Japanese ivory carving of the 19th century.

Owen was protective over his technique, and how he produced these works is still unknown, refusing to even share his spectacular craft with his son, who worked with his father casting vases with extremely thin walls.

He operated predominately alone and in secret with tools of his own design, never sharing his method with fellow decorators, it has been said Owen protected his secret craft so closely that not even the factory director was permitted to enter his studio until all his tools had been securely hidden.

It is understood that Owen would take a slightly damp vase (referred to as a green vase), incising small rows of holes perfectly executed by hand, with incredible regularity and accuracy sans pattern. These incisions would be made to the interior and exterior of the vase periodically, then allowing for the vase to dry before alternating with another damp piece, adopting the use of wet boxes which would keep each vase moist. This rotation of vases allowed Owen to incise a small number of holes into one before it would dry and become brittle and go back in the wet box.

Owen was celebrated for his attention to detail, with some porcelain vessels pierced with thousands of incisions, and larger pieces created slowly over a period of months. Due to painstakingly slow duration to finish these pieces, if they did not collapse or distort upon firing; a limited number survived leaving a few still on the market today. Owen’s work rightly remains amongst the most valuable porcelain ever produced by the Royal Worcester works.

chiara curcio

head of decorative arts, design & interiors

1

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

Dated 1886, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Rectangular, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with a lightly-draped female figure amidst clouds as a personification of ‘Night’, inscribed and signed ‘”Night.” / Ink & enamelled by T.J. Bott 1886’ to the reverse, mounted in an antique ebonised and gilt frame

23 x 13cm (visible dimensions)

$1,500-2,000

2 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED HANDLED PLATE

Dated 1873, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas John Bott

Circular with a pair of upturned loop handles extending from beneath the raised sides, cobalt blue ground with gilt handles, rim, and anthemion border, the centre finely decorated in white enamel with Hermes carrying a maiden in flight, signed with initials NW underside, presumably the gilder’s, together with impressed and printed factory marks 28cm wide across the handles

$500-700

3 A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED VASES

Date cipher for 1879, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas John Bott

Each of flattened baluster shape on a square foot with a pair of gilt Classical busts to the shoulders, cobalt blue ground with gilt details, the bodies decorated in white enamel, the front of each with a gilt-framed Classical portrait, respectively of Julius Caesar and his wife Calpurnia, the reverse sides with a Classical design centred on a winged cherub, painted and printed factory marks underside including initials ‘CN’, presumably the gilder’s 22cm high

$2,000-3,000

GEORGE OWEN

Shape 871, date cipher for 1919

In Persian manner, the domed and finialled cover resting atop the everted mouth to the slender waisted neck above the globular body on a spreading foot, a pair of scroll handles from the neck to shoulders, the cover and neck pierced to Persian-inspired designs, the body with a graduated honeycomb design with a band of broader design at mid-height, ivory-glazed with fine gilt decoration throughout, incised signature ‘G.

A SUPERB ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN RETICULATED VASE AND COVER BY

Owen’ underside together with a gilt printed factory mark with shape number 23cm high $20,000-30,000

5 A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES

Dated 1863, the decoration attributed to Josiah Rushton

Of baluster shape on a circular foot, the pair of handles to the shoulders each modelled as a seated putto on a bracket, pink-glazed with gilt and turquoise details, each body with four gilt-framed reserves, those to the front decorated respectively with a Classical merman and a mermaid amidst reeds, those to the reverse with a dragon in water, the other reserves foliate, both with a printed factory mark with date underside

29cm high

other notes

Similarities between the style and execution of the decoration of these vases and signed examples by Josiah Rushton support the attribution

$1,200-1,800

6 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN EWER STAND

1860s, the decoration by Josiah Rushton

Circular on a raised foot, the well recessed within moulded borders, the inner borders richly decorated in Renaissance Revival manner with scrolling foliage and Classical portrait medallions in coloured enamels on the gilt ground, the main border with three cartouches decorated with mythological figures and beasts, the outermost border and underside in blue with gilt details, signed underside ‘J. Rushton Pinxt.’ together with the impressed factory mark 4.5cm high, 30.5cm diameter

$1,800-2,600

7 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘COUNTESS OF DUDLEY’ SERVICE COVERED SUGAR BOWL

Dated 1865, the decoration by Thomas Scott Callowhill and James Callowhill, the jewelling and gilding by Samuel Ranford

Cup-shaped on three gilt lion’s paw feet with a finialled raised cover, the bowl with three oval giltground reserves decorated in coloured enamels with profile portraits of Classical women, the bowl and cover otherwise decorated throughout with graduated turquoise jewelling against the finely-jewelled gilt ground, white-jewelled borders to the cover, rim, reserves, and underside, the underside of one foot signed ‘T. & J. CALLOWHILL’, a printed factory mark to the underside of cover with date ‘65’

11cm high

other notes

This sucrier is believed to be a prototype or trial piece for the exquisite tea service commissioned by the City of Worcester Corporation and presented to Lady Georgina Elizabeth Moncrieffe upon her marriage to William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley in late 1865, later exhibited to great acclaim at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

At the request of the Earl, who sat as a director on the Royal Worcester board, a duplicate set was made for public exhibition at the factory, where it remains on display at the Museum of Royal Worcester.

$5,000-7,000

8 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘COUNTESS OF DUDLEY’ CUP

Dated 1875, the decoration by Thomas Scott Callowhill and James Callowhill, gilding by Samuel Ranford

With a delicate loop handle and raised on three gilt lion’s paw feet, the exterior with three oval gilt-ground reserves decorated in coloured enamels with profile portraits of Classical women, otherwise decorated throughout with graduated turquoise jewelling against the finely-jewelled gilt ground, white-jewelled borders to the interior and exterior of the rim, reserves, handle, and underside, the underside of one foot signed with the initials of the Callowhill brothers (in compendium), another with Ranford’s initials, the printed factory to the underside of the bowl in raised gold with date ‘75’ 6.5cm high

other notes

A duplicate of the cups made for the exquisite tea service commissioned by the City of Worcester Corporation and presented to Lady Georgina Elizabeth Moncrieffe upon her marriage to William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley in late 1865, later exhibited to acclaim at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

At the request of the Earl, who sat as a director on the Royal Worcester board, a duplicate set was made for public exhibition at the factory, where it remains on display at the Museum of Royal Worcester.

$700-900

9 A LARGE ROYAL WORCESTER VASE

Date cipher for 1883

Of baluster shape on a circular foot with knopped stem, a pair an inward-scrolling handles to the shoulders, turquoise ground with gilt handles and mouldings, the front decorated with a scene of a Classical couple courting, the reverse with a coastal landscape, printed factory mark underside 39cm high

other notes

Harry Frost, formerly of the Museum of Royal Worcester, has previously suggested Thomas Scott Callowhill as a possible attribution for the decoration.

$1,200-2,000

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

Circa 1880, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Oval, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with ‘La Jeunesse et l’Amour’ after William Bouguereau within a rustic arbour-like border in raised gilding, signed ‘T.J. BOTT.’ within the drapery lower right, mounted in an antique oval gilt frame (the reverse of the plaque presently concealed but said to be unmarked as to manufacture)

24.5cm x 15cm (plaque overall, including edges concealed within the present frame)

$3,000-4,000

11

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED CHARGER

Dated 1878 and 1887, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Circular, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with a bust-length portrait of a woman, ‘Louisa’, after Charles Paul Alphonse Bellay, signed and dated at the lower edge ‘T.J. Bott 1878’, inscribed and further signed ‘”Louisa” after Ch. Bellay. / T.J. Bott JR 1878’ to the underside together with impressed and printed factory marks, the printed mark with date letter Y (for 1887), mounted in an antique ebonised and gilt frame, apparently original to the charger

41cm diameter, 53cm diameter framed

other notes

The discrepancy between Bott’s dating of his work in his signatures and the printed factory mark seems to indicate that the charger remained with the factory for about nine years after Bott’s work on it before the printed mark was applied, the latter presumably added in readiness for the sale of the piece.

$1,200-2,000

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED EXHIBITION EWER AND STAND

Dated 1866 and 1867, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

The ewer of Classical baluster shape on a circular foot, modelled with a Neptune mask beneath the spout and a handle in the form of a winged melusine holding a dove to her chest, cobalt blue ground with gilt handle, mouldings, and details, the gilding by Josiah Davis, the body finely decorated all round in white enamel with Classical figures in various scenes, the shoulder and foot with Classical portrait medallions and dolphins; the stand circular on a raised foot, its well accommodating the foot of the ewer within moulded borders decorated with cartouches and fields of mythological figures battling sea creatures and other Classical designs, the ewer and stand both signed ‘T. Bott’, the signatures respectively dated 1867 and 1866, the stand also with printed factory mark dated 1866

The ewer 30cm high, the stand 4.5cm high, 31cm diameter

provenance

Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882-1948), thence by descent

exhibitions

The Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867

literature

The Art Journal Illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1867, Virtue & Co., London and New York

$10,000-20,000

13

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE ‘SHAKESPEARE SERVICE’

1853, the reserves decorated by Thomas Bott, Snr, and Luke Wells

Circular, the white-glazed well with a gilt roundel to the centre enclosing Classical figures within a field of flower heads and a fine dentelle edge, the speckled gilt-ground border in Renaissance Revival manner with chimeras and winged putti heads in relief in white biscuit flanking oval reserves, one with a portrait of Shakespeare by Bott and two decorated en brunaille by Wells with the muses Thalia and Melpomene, printed uncrowned circular factory mark underside

Accompanied by a copy of an illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Dublin, 1853) commissioned by W.H. Kerr to accompany the exhibition of the service in Dublin. 24.8cm diameter

provenance

The service acquired by Sir Arthur Guinness (18401915); later dispersed upon sale in the 1890s

The present lot with Venners Antiques, New Cavendish Street, London

The Jeanne Zorensky Collection of British Ceramics, Bonhams, Oxford, 19 March, 2013, lot 121

exhibitions

The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853 (the service exhibited)

other notes

Made (using Irish clay and gold) for the 1853 Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition, specifically to promote the Worcester porcelain factory’s wares to the Irish market a year after the Irishmen W.H. Kerr and R.W. Binns acquired the business, Binns regarded the ‘Shakespeare service’ as the finest product of their ownership. When the service was offered for sale in the 1890s, he purchased a portion of it for the museum he had established dedicated to the history of the Worcester porcelain.

After opening the Dublin exhibition, Queen Victoria was so impressed by the service she requested a private inspection of it.

$3,000-4,000 14

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE AND COVER

Mid-1860s, the reserves decorated by Thomas Bott, Snr

Of flattened bottle form on a moulded spreading circular foot, the wavy everted rim and slender neck above a pair of gilt Classical winged busts to the shoulders, pink ground with gilt mouth and details, the front of the body with a large gilt-framed raised roundel decorated with a figure of a winged Classical muse amidst clouds, that to the reverse with an arrangement of musical instruments and foliage suspended on a tied ribbon, the finial of the gilt and pink stopper modelled as a seated putto, the vase signed ‘T. Bott’ underside together with a printed factory mark 34.5cm high

other notes

Potentially Exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle (given circa date and very early signature)

$6,000-7,000

14

15 A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1862, decorated by Josiah Rushton and James and Thomas Scott Callowhill

Of flattened baluster shape on a square foot with a pair of bronze-painted Classical busts to the shoulders, the neck, foot, and relief details in pink, green, and gold, the front modelled in low relief with strapwork and foliage and an angel-crested double frame enclosing portraits of Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife Bianca Cappello by Rushton, the reverse similarly modelled, its frame enclosing the initials of the portrait subjects flanking a roundel decorated with a crest, printed red shield factory mark with date underside together with a monogram device of the three decorators’ initials conjoined

21.5cm high

other notes

The attribution of the portraits to Rushton has previously been confirmed by Henry Sandon.

$1,000-2,000

16 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLATE

Mid-1860s, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Circular, cobalt blue ground with gilt borders and rim, the plain centre with a gilt anthemion border, the low raised sides decorated in white enamel with erotes in medallions between fields of foliage framing grotesque masks, two impressed factory marks underside together with the gilder’s signature ‘RS’, probably for Samuel Ranford 26cm diameter

other notes

A Worcester plate with near-identical decoration was exhibited at the 1862 London International Exhibition, illustrated in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862 (London, 1862), p. 257.

$3,000-5,000

17 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLATE

Mid-1860s, the enamel decoration firmly attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Circular, cobalt blue ground, the centre finely decorated in white enamel with a personification of ‘Day’ after Bertel Thorvaldsen, otherwise plain, mounted in an antique oval gilt frame, impressed factory marks underside

25.5cm diameter

$1,500-2,000

18

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN COVERED VASES

Circa 1860, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Each of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of gilt satyr masks to the shoulders, with a domed and finialled cover, white-glazed with fine raised gilt details, the front of each decorated with a gilt cartouche enclosing a portrait respectively of Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife Bianca Cappello, the reverse of both with a crest, printed green shield factory marks underside Each 17.5cm high

$500-800

19

A LARGE ROYAL WORCESTER CHARGER

Dated 1877, the decoration attributed to Thomas John Bott

Earthenware, circular on a foot ring with original holes for hanging or mounting, decorated in cobalt blue and white enamel with a portrait of John More on a gilt ground, the subject identified with an inscription in enamel towards the rim centre right, impressed and printed marks underside

36cm diameter

other notes

According to Wendy Cook, formerly of the Museum of Royal Worcester, this is one of a series of late 1870s earthenware plates decorated with figure subjects and portraits she has seen and believes were specially created as single examples for display in the Worcester Royal Porcelain Company’s show rooms (private communication with vendor).

Sir John More (circa 1451-1530) was an English lawyer and judge, and the father of Sir Thomas More. $400-600

20

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLATE

Dated 1883, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Circular on a pronounced footring with four original holes for mounting or hanging, cobalt blue ground with a gilt rim, finely decorated in white enamel with three flying putti above raised gilt foliage, signed underside ‘T.J. Bott. Worcester. 1883’, without a factory mark

20.5cm diameter

$1,000-2,000

21 AN EARLY KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED CUP ON FOOT

Dated 1854, the enamelled decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

The tall bell-shaped bowl on a short circular pedestal foot, the exterior cobalt blue ground with gilt interior, rim, and foot, the front with a gilt-framed circular cartouche finely decorated en brunaille with Leda and the swan, the exterior otherwise decorated in white enamel and gilt details with Classical male figures supporting the cartouche and foliage centred on a mask to the reverse, the interior of the rim with a Vitruvian scroll border in matt gold, an underglaze incised inscription underside (faint) ‘R W Binns 1854 Painted by T Bott’

10.5cm high

other notes

Dating to the year after Bott joined the Kerr & Binns factory, a very early piece in his oeuvre of ‘Limoges enamel’ which Kerr & Binns did exhibit at various exhibitions

The fineness of the work and the absence of a factory mark suggests the cup was made for exhibition, perhaps at the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle. $4,000-5,000

22

AN ENGLISH PORCELAIN PLATE, DECORATED BY THOMAS BAXTER, Jnr

Early 19th century, probably Worcester or Coalport The well decorated by Baxter en rosaille with Venus in her chariot drawn by doves after Raphael Sanzio, signed ‘T. BAXTER’ lower left, the border giltdecorated with a repeating design of foliage within C scrolls, unmarked as to manufacture 23.5cm diameter

$1,000-2,000

23

A WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

The decoration by James Callowhill, 1850s, apparently on an earlier body

Of broad baluster shape on a square foot with a pair of foliate scrolling handles between the shoulders and rim, the body with gilt-ground borders framing the ‘Council of the Gods’ after Raphael to the front and Zeus’s eagle on a mount to the reverse, signed by Callowhill to one side, the neck and foot pink ground with gilt rim, handles, mouldings, and other details, impressed Flight, Barr, & Barr mark underside together with a further signature by the decorator, ‘J. Callowhill, Painter’

36cm high

other notes

The crowned FBB mark impressed to the underside, a mark that went out of use after the merger in that year of the Flight and Barr and Chamberlain’s Worcester businesses, suggests that the body was manufactured no later than that date and then remained in stock as an undecorated blank throughout the Grainger period to at last be taken up and decorated by Callowhill who joined the firm in 1853 following its acquisition by Richard Binns and William Kerr in 1852.

$2,500-3,500

24

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1868, decorated by Thomas Scott Callowhill and James Callowhill

Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of winged putti heads to the shoulders and a pair of small foliate loops at the base of the body, in a rich sea green ground with rim, masks, loops, and foot, the front decorated in enamels en rosaille with scrolling foliage centred on a Classical mask, the reverse and the neck with conforming decoration at reduced scale, signed underside ‘JTS Callowhill (the initials in compendium) together with the printed factory mark 24.5cm high $500-800

25

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN PIERCED VASE BY GEORGE OWEN

Date cipher for 1912

Globular on a footring, the rim of the mouth beaded, the body pierced to a complicated interlaced design at mid-height between bands of gilt foliate decoration, the lower band interrupted to one side to accommodate a gilt inscription ‘D.B.S. / 1913’, incised signature ‘G. Owen’ underside together with a printed factory mark

7.5 cm high

$2,000-3,000

26

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN PIERCED SPECIMEN VASE BY GEORGE OWEN

Shape G789, date cipher for 1908, the floral decoration by Harry Chair

Globular with a tall slender flaring neck and spreading foot, a beaded collar and pendant to the base of the neck, the upper part of the body pierced, ivory-glazed with gilt details throughout, the painted floral swags around the body signed by Chair to one side, a gilt inscription ‘A.J.C. 18.1.08’ to the lower part of the body, printed factory mark underside

13cm high

$1,500-2,500

27 A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN FIGURES, ‘JOY’ AND ‘SORROW’

Class 2 shape nos 57 and 58, dated 1925

Each modelled as a half-draped Classical female figure standing on a moulded low base, one holding a dove to her chin, the other mourning a dead dove in her hand, the skin and hair glazed in ivory, the drapery, doves, and bases gilt, printed factory marks underside

25cm and 24.5cm high

$500-700

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A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN VASES

Dated 1862, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

Each of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of satyr masks to the shoulders, in a soft blue ground with gilt rim, masks, and foot, the front of each decorated in monochrome enamels with a scene of a putto driving a chariot drawn respectively by panthers and goats, the reverse and the neck with Classical foliate designs, each signed by Bott with initials underside together with the printed red shield factory mark incorporating the date mark

Each 15.5cm high

$700-1,000

29

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER COVERED POT POURRI VASES

Shape 519, circa 1875 (date ciphers indistinct), the reserves attributed to Josiah Rushton

Each ovoid on a square foot with a pierced cover and a pair of handles to the shoulders modelled as entwined serpents, blue ground with gilt details, the front of each body with a gilt-framed reserve decorated with a shoulder-length portrait of a maiden, the reverse sides with gilt sprays of foliage, printed factory marks underside

28cm high

$4,000-6,000

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN ENAMEL DECORATED EXHIBITION CHALICE

Dated 1862, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

The tapering cup-shaped body on a knopped stem and circular foot, the ground cobalt-glazed with foliate motifs in white ‘Limoges Enamel’ and gilt details throughout, the body decorated all round with figures of Apostles finely rendered in coloured enamels on a gilt ground within arched panels, the foot decorated in conforming manner with figures of winged cherubim within quatrefoils, signed by Bott underside with conjoined initials together with the printed red shield factory mark incorporating the date mark ‘62’

23.5cm high

exhibitions

London International Exhibition of Industry and Art, 1862

literature

The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862 (London, 1862), p. 257 (illustrated, within a group)

J.B. Waring, Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 (London, 1863), plate 141, with accompanying letterpress (originals of both of which accompany this lot)

other notes

Wendy Cook, formerly of the Museum of Royal Worcester, previously identified Samuel Ranford as the gilder.

$15,000-20,000

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A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN HANDLED PLATE

Dated 1857, the decoration by Josiah Rushton Circular with a pair of upturned loop handles extending from beneath the raised sides, white ground with gilt borders, the centre plain, the border decorated with scrolling foliage between opposed gilt-framed portraits of Raphael and van Dyck to the front and rear and smaller gilt-framed Classical masks to the sides, signed by Rushton with conjoined initials underside within the printed red shield factory mark

28cm wide across the handles

provenance

Charles Wentworth Wass (1822-1905), according to the fragmentary note to him from Richard William Binns pasted to the underside

other notes

Binns’s letter preserved in three fragments to the underside, dated 6 July, 1897 from Diglis House, Worcester, reads:

‘Dear Mr Wass

The patera you allude to was painted by Josiah Rushton a pupil / of Bott’s and a charming figure painter / he left us many years ago to take / up portrait painting in oils.

I remain / yours faithfully / RW Binns’

Charles Wass, an engraver and art dealer, was a keen collector of fine porcelain with particular interest in collecting specimens from important and notable services. As with the present lot, he preserved details of provenance and related information with labels stuck to undersides.

$2,000-3,000

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES

Shape 401, dated 1876

Each of egg shape raised on three gilt scrolling feet, each body divided with turquoise and gilt borders into three upright panels, the front panel decorated in eighteenth century French manner with a flying putto, the others with vignettes of various objects and flowers, one of the principal panels signed PL or LP (the letters conjoined), printed factory marks underside

17.5cm high

$3,000-4,000

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A LARGE ROYAL WORCESTER PAINTED CHARGER

Dated 1879, the decoration attributed to Thomas Scott Callowhill

Earthenware, circular on a foot ring with original holes for hanging or mounting, painted with ‘Ophelia’ after Jean Baptiste Bertrand on a gilt-ground field of fleur-de-lis within a border of turquoise-glazed trailing foliage weaving through a gilt meander design, impressed and printed marks underside including impressed number ‘N5’ 36.5cm diameter

other notes

According to Wendy Cook, formerly of the Museum of Royal Worcester, this is one of a series of late 1870s earthenware plates decorated with figure subjects and portraits she has seen and believes were specially created as single examples for display in the Worcester Royal Porcelain Company’s show rooms (private communication with vendor).

$2,000-3,000

34 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1862, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of satyr masks to the shoulders, in a pale lilac blue ground with gilt rim, masks, and foot, the front decorated with a profile portrait head of a Classical woman, the reverse and the neck with foliate designs, signed underside ‘Bott 62’ (now barely visible) together with the printed factory mark 15.5cm high

$500-700

Class 2 shape nos 53 and 54, one dated 1865 ‘Before the wind’ and ‘Against the wind’, each modelled as a country maiden standing on a rockwork circular base, the hair gilt, otherwise glazed naturalistically in various colours, printed factory marks underside 27cm and 25cm high $500-700

1840s

Oval and convex, decorated in enamels with Leda embracing the swan, inscribed to the reverse ‘G. Grainger / Worcester’, the frame marked 9ct 6cm high, 4.5cm wide, 18g in total $300-500

Shape no. 447, dated 1877

In Italian rococo manner, the apparently original thick bevelled oval plate within a moulded frame with a putto head crest and scrolls and foliage all around, ground in various bright pastel colours and with gilt details, printed factory mark to the reverse 44cm high, 31cm wide $500-700

35 A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN FIGURES

37 A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN WALL MIRROR

36 A GRAINGER’S WORCESTER PORCELAIN GOLD-FRAMED BROOCH

A ROYAL WORCESTER PILGRIM VASE

Shape 163, circa 1865, the decoration attributed to Thomas Scott Callowhill

The waisted neck flanked by inverted dolphin loop handles above the flattened circular body on a rectangular foot, both sides of the body decorated with pink-bordered roundels decorated en brunaille, one side with a allegorical personification of a ‘Sculpture’ as a seated Classical female nude, the other with a scene of a Classical female sculptress at work attended by a winged putto, the body otherwise ivory with gilt details

27.5cm high, 19.5cm wide

other notes

The attribution to Callowhill was made by Henry Sandon circa 1990.

$600-800

39 AN IMPRESSIVE ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN BANQUET OIL LAMP

Shape 1354, dated cipher for 1893 Of Classical torchère form, the etched cranberry glass shade enclosing the Hinks & Son brass burner in a vase-shaped bowl atop a baluster stem raised on a triangular base on hoof feet, modelled with various grotesque masks, foliage, and other Classical motifs, matt glazed in ivory with the moulded decoration in terra cotta and brown, gilt details throughout, printed factory marks underside 88cm high including shade (but excluding the chimney)

$4,000-6,000

A PAIR OF LARGE ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN COVERED VASES

Shape 520, dated 1871–2, the reserves decorated by Josiah Rushton

Each of broad baluster shape on a square foot with a moulded and finialled cover and a pair of foliate scrolling handles to the shoulders extending down to the base of the body, pink ground with gilt details, the front of each body with a large gilt-framed reserve decorated with a Classical scene of woman in an interior with a young attendant, one signed 'J. Rushton 1872' lower right, the reverse sides with foliage in gold, both with a printed factory marks with date '71' underside

41cm high

other notes

Josiah Rushton (born 1836) was recruited as an apprentice at The Worcester Government school of design in 1853 alongside James Callowhill, Samuel Randford, and Luke Wells.

He was employed at the factory until 1871 working as a decorator, specializing in fine figure subjects and is the greatest portrait painter from the Worcester factory. He also known to paint portraits on canvas, one of which was submitted to The Royal Academy in 1880.

His pieces are rare to market.

$30,000-40,000

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

Dated 1888, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Rectangular, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with ‘Le jeune veuve’ after Jean-Baptiste Greuze, signed ‘T.J. BOTT. 1888.’ at the edge of the head drapery lower right, mounted in an antique carved and gilt frame (the reverse of the plaque presently concealed)

24 x 19cm (approx.)

$2,000-3,000

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN EWER AND STAND

Dated 1875, the decoration attributed to Eduard Béjot

The ewer of Classical baluster shape on a circular foot, modelled with a Neptune mask beneath the spout and a handle in the form of a melusine holding a dove to her chest, decorated throughout with Renaissance Revival designs and motifs, the body with a blue and white band between red-brown bands above and below, with paté-sur-paté decoration to the neck, roundels to the body, and the foot; the stand circular on a raised foot, its well accommodating the foot of the ewer, its decoration conforming with the ewer, each with a printed factory mark with date underside

The ewer 30cm high, the stand 5cm high, 29.5cm diameter

other notes

Wendy Cook, formerly of the Museum of Royal Worcester, suggested the attribution to Béjot.

$800-1,200

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A PAIR OF LARGE ROYAL WORCESTER

PORCELAIN FIGURES

Class 2 shape nos 99 and 100, dated 1868

Each modelled as a Classical figure in robes standing on a low circular base, the male figure as a hunter with a hare slung over his back, the female figure as a fisherwoman with a net and fish, glazed in ivory with tints to drapery and attributes and finer decoration and gilt details to smaller areas, impressed and printed factory marks underside

42cm and 41cm high

$1,500-2,500

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER

PORCELAIN VASES

1860s, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Each of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of ring ‘handles’ to the shoulders, with raised jewelling to the front borders, sides, and reverse, pale blue ground with gilt details, the front of each decorated with a portrait respectively of Henry VIII and Ann of Cleves within a large reserve with gilt fleur-de-lis ground, the reverse of each with a different monochrome vignette of various attributes entwined with foliage, a rare underglaze blue printed factory mark underside

Each 16.5cm high

$500-700

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED HANDLED DISH

Dated 1862, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Circular with a pair of upturned loop handles extending from beneath the raised sides to join the rim, cobalt blue ground with gilt handles, rim, and stylised foliate border, the centre finely decorated in white enamel to a design after Raphael of a winged putto holding a trident and standing on a raft drawn across sea by a pair of dolphins, impressed and printed factory marks with date underside 19.5cm wide across the handles

$700-1,000

46

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

First half 1880s, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Rectangular, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with ‘La mandolinata’ after Conrad Kiesel, signed ‘Thos. J. Bott’ lower right, the reverse unmarked, mounted in an antique ebonised and gilt frame

15.5

$1,000-2,000

WORCESTER ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED EXHIBITION VASE ON PEDESTAL

Dated 1865, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott

The vase of baluster shape on a circular foot with a knopped stem, a pair of inward-scrolling handles to the shoulders, standing on a circular plinth with a stepped base, all cobalt blue ground with enamelled Classical motifs and gilt details throughout, the front of the body with a gilt-framed scene finely rendered in white enamel of Hermes (Mercury) educating Eros (Cupid) attended by an allegorical winged female figure, the reverse enamelled with a caduceus within a laurel wreath, the body, foot, and pedestal made in separate parts, the undersides of the foot and pedestal signed by Bott and with printed factory marks dated ‘65’

55cm high

exhibitions

The Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867

literature

The Art Journal Illustrated catalogue of the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1867, Virtue & Co., London and New York, page 57

R.W. Binns, Catalogue of a Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Museum at the Royal Porcelain Works (Worcester, 1882), illustrated facing p. 162, engraving titled 'Exhibited 1867'

$22,000-25,000

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Illustration of two vases exhibited at The Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867

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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE KERR & BINNS WORCESTER ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’

DECORATED EXHIBITION CHARGER

Dated 1855 and 1857, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

Circular, cobalt blue ground with gilt borders and rim, the gilding attributed to Josiah Davis, the centre with a scene finely rendered in white enamel of a Classical female nude female attended by a flying muse and erotes, the border with alternating giltframed cartouches decorated with erotes and masks framed by foliage, signed underside ‘T. Bott, 1857.’ and again with his initials within the printed factory shield mark, this also dated ‘55’

46cm diameter

provenance

Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Selected Contents of Vaux Hill: The Collection of Robert and Barbara Safford, 25 September, 2013, lot 74 (miscatalogued as a Meissen-style charger)

exhibitions

Art Treasures of Great Britain, Manchester, 1857

literature

R.W. Binns, Catalogue of a Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Museum at the Royal Porcelain Works (Worcester, 1882), illustrated facing p. 149, engraving titled ‘Enamels at the Manchester Exhibition, 1857’

other notes

The central decoration attributed to an allegorical scene of the Suppliants from the Tragedies of Aeschylus, see Heritage Auctions, Texas, June 10 2018, Lot 61332

$15,000-25,000

Enamels at the Manchester Exhibition, 1857

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER COVERED

POT POURRI VASES

Shape 519, 1870s (date ciphers indistinct), the reserves by Josiah Rushton

Each ovoid on a square foot with a pierced cover and a pair of handles to the shoulders modelled as entwined serpents, turquoise ground with gilt details, the front of each body with a gilt-framed reserve, one decorated with ‘Saskia with a Red Flower’ after Rembrandt, the other with ‘A portrait of Helena Fourment’ after Rubens, each signed JR (conjoined) lower left, the reverse sides with an arrangement of a hat, feathers, and foliage in gold, the undersides respectively incised ‘Rembrandt’ and ‘Rubens’ and with printed factory marks 28cm high

other notes

The portraits on which the reserves are based, respectively of Rembrandt’s and Rubens’s wives, are now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, and the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.

$3,000-5,000

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A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED VASES

Late 1850s, the enamel decoration almost certainly by Thomas Bott Snr

Each of baluster shape on a circular foot with a pair a inward-scrolling handles to the shoulders, all cobalt blue ground with enamelled Classical motifs and yellow-enamelled (formerly gilt) details throughout, the front of each body with a cartouche decorated in white enamel with a Classical allegorical female figure, the reverse sides enamelled with a Classical mask within a scrolling foliage 32.5cm high

Dated 1883, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Rectangular, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with ‘Lorelei’ after Wilhelm Kray, signed ‘T.J. Bott / 1883.’ lower right, mounted in an antique gilt frame (the reverse of the plaque presently concealed) 26 x 20cm (approx.) $5,000-7,000

Class 2 shape nos 66 and 67, mid-1860s

Each modelled as a Classical maiden in long robes standing on a low circular base, the skin and hair in green, otherwise white, each with impressed title to the base, impressed factory marks underside 41cm and 40cm high $1,000-2,000

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

52

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER TINTED PARIAN FIGURES, ‘L’ALLEGRO’ AND ‘IL PENSEROSO’

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53 A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED EXHIBITION QUALITY CHALICE AND COVER

Dated 1858, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

The tapering cup-shaped body on a baluster stem and circular foot, the cover with a domed and finialled centre, cobalt ground with enamelled motifs and gilt details throughout, the body decorated all round with a gilt arcade enclosing figures of male saints finely rendered in white enamel, signed by Bott underside with conjoined initials above the printed red shield factory mark incorporating the date mark ‘58’ 27.5cm high

$10,000-15,000

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DECORATED EXHIBITION QUALITY CHALICE AND COVER

Dated 1867, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

The tapering cup-shaped body on a knopped stem and circular foot, the cover with a domed and finialled centre, cobalt blue ground with enamelled motifs and gilt details throughout, the body decorated all round with a gilt arcade enclosing female figures personifying Classical virtues, each identified, finely rendered in white enamel, signed and dated by Bott underside 30cm high

other notes

Potentially Exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle (given date and very early signature) $10,000-15,000

ROYAL WORCESTER ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’

A BERLIN PORCELAIN PLAQUE

Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (KPM), circa 1895, painted by Carl Meinelt Oval, painted in colours with ‘Daphne’ after Hubert von Herkomer, signed ‘Meinelt’ lower right, impressed KPM and sceptre mark to the reverse with the letter F, also with the original paper label, mounted in an antique carved and gilt frame 34 x 28cms, oval $10,000-12,000

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLATE

Dated 1883, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Circular on a pronounced foot rim with four original holes for mounting or hanging, cobalt blue ground with a gilt rim, the centre and lower half finely decorated in white enamel with a putto within billowing drapery riding on a dolphin, signed ‘T.J. Bott’ lower right, inscribed by the artist underside ‘To Mrs T.S. Ruddle, with T.J. Bott’s compliments. Septr. 1883.’, without a factory mark 20.5cm diameter

$1,500-2,500

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

Dated 1883, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Rectangular, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with a bust-length portrait of woman in profile to the left, signed ‘Thos. J. Bott. / Worcester. 1883.’ to the reverse, mounted in an antique ebonised and gilt frame

20 x 15.5 cm (including edges concealed by the present oval mount)

$2,000-3,000

58

A ROYAL WORCESTER MAJOLICA FIGURE OF A LIGHTLY-DRAPED CLASSICAL MAIDEN

Last quarter 19th century

Modelled standing on a rockwork base with arms raised and encircling drapery, on a low waisted plinth, unusually glazed with the figure in matt terracotta and the drapery and base in various colours with gilt details, impressed factory mark underside 42.5cm high

59

A PAIR OF LARGE ROYAL WORCESTER

PORCELAIN CHARGERS

One dated 1879, the enamel decoration by Arthur Handley

Each circular on a foot ring with original holes for mounting, each decorated with a portrait of a young woman on the textured gilt ground, signed by Handley lower right, impressed factory marks underside, one also with printed mark with date code 30.5cm diameter

$700-900

60

A FLIGHT, BARR & BARR WORCESTER

PORCELAIN PAINTED PLAQUE

Circa 1830, painted by Enoch Doe

Rectangular, painted in colours with ‘Oberon and Titania’ after Henry Howard, inscribed by the artist to the reverse ‘Oberon and Titania / From the Picture by H. Howard, R.A.’ and signed ‘E. Doe, Worcester’, mounted in an antique gilt frame

15 x 13cm

$1,000-2,000

61

A FLIGHT, BARR & BARR WORCESTER

PORCELAIN PAINTED PLATE

Circa 1830, painted by Enoch Doe

Circular, the well painted in colours with ‘Cupid and the Nymph’ after William Hilton, Jnr, within a burgundy and gilt border, inscribed by the artist and signed underside ‘Cupid and the Nymph / E. Doe.

Worcester’ and with an impressed factory mark 22cm diameter

$800-1,200

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

Early 1870s, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Oval and convex, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with a scene of a young fisherman and siren embracing, signed ‘TJ Bott.’ lower right, mounted in an antique sanded and gilt frame (the reverse of the plaque presently concealed but believed to be unmarked as to manufacture)

20 x 15 cms, oval

other notes

Possibly inspired by Lord Frederic Leighton’s 1858 painting ‘The Fisherman and the Syren’.

$600-800

63

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMELS’-DECORATED VASE

Dated 1877, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Of elegant baluster shape on a circular foot with a pair of restrained handles to the shoulder and sides, cobalt blue ground with gilt borders throughout, the front with a gilt-framed cartouche finely decorated in white enamel with a winged muse amidst clouds, signed and dated ‘T.J.B. 77.’ lower right, the reverse with a winged putto as a sculptor, impressed number 13 underside without a factory mark 23.5cm high

other notes

While the vase lacks any mark indicating its maker, Bott’s dating of his decoration of it places it within his period at the Worcester factory.

$600-800

64

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN TAZZA

Dated 1859, the enamel decoration by Josiah Rushton

Of Classical kylix form, turquoise ground with gilt handles and borders to the rim and foot, the centre decorated with a portrait of Anne de Pisseleu d’Heilly, Duchesse d’Étampes, on a fine gilt ground within a laurel frame, signed by Rushton underside within the printed red shield factory mark 9cm high, 20cm across the handles

provenance

Geoffrey Godden (‘Godden Reference Collection’ label with annotation ‘9/77’ underside)

exhibitions

‘Royal Worcester 1852–1901’ (Royal Worcester Summer Exhibition), Worcester House, London, 8 June–30 September, 1961, no. 91

$300-500

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLATE

Dated 1877, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Circular, cobalt blue ground, the centre finely decorated in white enamel with the ‘Triumph of Galatea’ after Carlo Maratta, otherwise plain, titled by the artist underside and signed ‘T.J. Bott Jun. 1877.’ together with the impressed factory mark 26cm diameter

$500-700

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLAQUE

Dated 1878, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Oval, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with Venus emerging from the shell, signed ‘TJBott. 1878.’ (the three initials in compendium), mounted in an antique gilt frame with velvet-lined slip, the reverse unmarked as to manufacture 27.5 x 22.5cm, oval

$600-800

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN FIGURES

Shape nos 2649 and 2650, dated 1913 and 1917

Each modelled as a Classical female figure in long robes standing on a low moulded circular base, one holding a face mirror, the other pulling up a mask from her eyes, the skin and hair glazed in ivory, the drapery, attributes, and bases gilt, impressed and printed factory marks underside

Each 28cm high $1,500-2,500

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68

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN COVERED VASES

Dated 1862, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Each of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of satyr masks to the shoulders, with a domed and finialled cover, cobalt blue ground with gilt rim, masks, and foot, the front of each decorated with a gilt cartouche enclosing a portrait respectively of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Cosimo de’ Medici, the reverse of both with a crest, printed factory marks underside

18.5cm high

$600-800

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Shape no. 112, dated 1862

Ovoid with a waisted neck, a pair of studded handles to the sides modelled as tied and tasselled ribbons, pink ground with turquoise handles and gilt details throughout, a gilt-framed oval reserve to one side decorated with a bust-length portrait of a gentleman, inscribed underside ‘H. Bibbs / 1862’, presumably identifying the sitter, together with printed factory mark

19cm high

$700-900

70

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN BREAKFAST TRAY

Circa 1860, the decoration attributed to Josiah Rushton

Of lozenge-shaped outline with raised sides modelled with tied ribbons at the ends, white ground and decorated in French rococo manner with a gilt foliate border enclosing a scene of a couple courting in a garden watched by another woman, unmarked as to manufacture

4.5cm high at the ribbons, 40.5 wide, 31.5cm deep

other notes

A differently decorated tray of identical form was exhibited in Royal Worcester’s 1961 London exhibition of Victorian Worcester (‘Royal Worcester 1852-1901’, Worcester House, London, 8 June-30 September, 1961, illustrated on the title page of the exhibition handbook), $400-600

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A ROYAL WORCESTER MODEL OF THE ‘WARWICK VASE’

Shape 14, date cipher for 1903

The cobalt-glazed exterior richly embellished with gilt details throughout, the interior white with gilt bands inside the rim, printed factory mark underside 24.5cm high, 38cm wide

$4,000-5,000

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

RETICULATED VASE BY GEORGE OWEN

Shape 2256, circa 1912

Of ovoid baluster shape with an octagonal mouth and pair of raised loop handles to the shoulder, the body pierced with a graduated honeycomb design with a band of more complicated design at mid-height, moulded decoration to the should and circular foot, ivory ground with fine gilt decoration throughout, incised signature ‘G. Owen’ underside together with a gilt printed factory mark with shape number 16.5cm high

$18,000-22,000

RETICULATED VASE BY

GEORGE OWEN

Shape 2256, date cipher for 1908

Of ovoid baluster shape with an octagonal mouth and pair of raised loop handles to the shoulder, the body pierced with a graduated honeycomb design with a band of more complicated design at mid-height, moulded decoration to the should and circular foot, ivory ground with fine gilt decoration throughout, incised signature and date ‘G. Owen 1907’ underside together with a gilt printed factory mark with shape number 16.5cm high

$15,000-20,000

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

74

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN

‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED

EWER STAND

Dated 1857, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr

Circular on a raised foot, the well recessed within moulded borders, cobalt blue ground with gilt decoration, the main border finely decorated in white enamel with Classical foliage centred on grotesque masks, signed by Bott with initials within the printed red shield factory mark underside

4.5cm high, 30.5cm diameter

$700-1,000

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A MATCHED PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN PATÉ-SUR-PATÉ VASES

Circa 1870

Of identical form and decoration, of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of ring ‘handles’ to the shoulders and studded borders the front, sides, and reverse, glazed pale celadon green with white and gilt details, the front with a patésur-paté Classical profile portrait of a man with a lyre, the reverse with another of a man in a plumed helmet, unmarked as to manufacture

Each 17cm high

$500-700

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A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN

‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED HANDLED PLATE

Dated 1858, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Circular with a pair of upturned loop handles extending from beneath the raised sides, cobalt blue ground with gilt handles, rim, and stylised foliate border, the centre finely decorated in white enamel with two desporting putti, one holding a tambourine, printed red shield factory mark incorporating the date mark ‘58’ underside 29cm wide across the handles $400-600

77 A ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED VASE

Circa 1890, possibly a Minton blank, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Of circular flask shape with a pair of handles between the mouth and shoulders, the mouth and foot of matching bilobed outline, cobalt blue ground with gilt handles, rim, and foot, the front with a gilt-framed cartouche finely decorated in white enamel with a winged putto driving a chariot drawn by a pair of panthers, signed ‘T.J. Bott’ lower right, the reverse with a portrait of Raphael Sanzio in an oval cartouche supported by a pair of flying putti, inscribed 31 twice underside without a factory mark 25cm high $400-600

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLATE

Dated 1878, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Circular, cobalt blue ground with a plain white rim, finely decorated in white enamel with the mounted St George vanquishing the dragon after William Wyon, inscribed and signed underside ‘St George, after W. Wyon. / T.J. Bott. 1878’ together with two impressed factory marks 25.5cm diameter

other notes

William Wyon (1795-1851) was chief engraver at the Royal Mint from 1828 until his death. The decoration on the present lot reproduces his design for a private medal commissioned by Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert, in 1844, the subject apparently intended to allude to Albert’s passionate commitment to advancing the arts in England. $500-700

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

MATCHED PART TEA SERVICE

Mid-1870-mid-1880s, the decoration attributed to Josiah Rushton and David Bates

A tea pot, cream jug, small cup, and two small plates or dishes, all of delicate proportions, the vessels each standing on three gilt paw feet, all white ground with jewelled borders throughout, the pot decorated each side with a gilt-framed portrait of a young woman surrounded by garlands and swags of flowers, the other pieces conformingly decorated, each with one portrait, one of the plates signed by Rushton with conjoined initials underside, all but the cup with printed factory marks underside, mostly rubbed and with date codes lost but the unsigned plate dated 1885 The teapot 14cm high, the plates 14cm diameter $400-600

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN

FIGURES

Shape nos 1440 and 1441, dated 1920 and 1928

Each modelled as a Classical Bacchic reveller in robes standing against a tree stump on a low circular rockwork base, the male figure with a sceptre across his shoulders, the female figure dancing while holding a tambourine aloft, the skin and hair glazed in ivory, the drapery, attributes, and bases gilt, impressed and printed factory marks underside 25cm and 24cm high $600-800

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A ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’-DECORATED PORCELAIN VASE

Attributed to Kerr & Binns Worcester, circa 1860, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

A bottle-shaped ewer on a low foot with a loop handle modelled as knotted rope, cobalt blue ground with a gilt details, the shoulder decorated all round in white enamel with scrolls of foliage centred on a profile portrait of a man of the Renaissance on a gilt-speckled ground, an enamelled border of imbricated stiff leaves below the rim, unmarked as to manufacture 21cm high

$100-200

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A ROYAL DUX PORCELAIN BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN

Shape no. 295, late 19th / early 20th century

Modelled in a lace-trimmed hat and clothes on a stylised mossy earth base, glazed in natural colours with gilt highlights, applied pink triangle and impressed factory marks underside 49.5cm high

$600-900

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A ROYAL DUX PORCELAIN BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN

Shape no. 294, late 19th / early 20th century

Modelled in a lace-trimmed hat and clothes on a stylised earth base, glazed in natural colours with gilt highlights, applied pink triangle and impressed factory marks underside

48cm high

$600-800

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A PAIR OF COPELAND PORCELAIN PLATES

Circa 1881, the enamel decoration by Arthur Handley

Each circular with raised fluted sides, each decorated with the head of a Classical maiden in profile, one adorned with fruiting grape vine, the other with flowers and ears of wheat, on a textured gilt ground, one signed by Hadley lower left, printed factory marks underside, one also inscribed with the title ‘Ophelia’ 21cm diameter

$200-300

85

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1857, the decoration attributed to Josiah Rushton

Of baluster shape on a circular foot, cobalt blue ground with gilt highlights to the lightly-moulded decorative details, the front the front of the body with a gilt-framed cartouche decorated with eighteenth century-style scene of a courting couple in a landscape, the reverse with gilt foliate decoration, printed red shield factory mark underside incorporating the date mark ‘57’

29cm high

$300-400

86

TWO SIMILAR KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN RHYTON-SHAPED VASES

Shape no. 23, one dated 1858

Each with a flaring mouth rising from a horse’s head terminal, one on a moulded rectangular base, the other on an elliptical base, both ivory ground with gilt borders, printed design registration marks underside, one also with red shield mark incorporating the date Each 8cm high, 12.5cm and 11.5cm wide

$200-300

87

87

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN COVERED VASE

Dated 1859, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of satyr masks to the shoulders, with a domed and finialled cover, white ground with gilt rim, masks, and foot, the front decorated with stylised honeysuckle framing a Classical profile portrait within a gilt cartouche, the reverse and neck with similar foliate decoration, the cover conforming, printed red shield factory mark underside

18.5cm high

$300-500

88

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED BOWL

Dated 1853, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Circular on a spreading foot, a pair of satyr masks to the sides, cobalt blue ground with gilt rim, masks, and foot, decorated to the front in white enamel and gold with a putto riding a dolphin, the reverse with a Classical grotesque mask, printed factory mark underside 8cm high, 11.5cm wide across the masks

$200-300

89

TWO SIMILARLY-DECORATED KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN HANDLED CUPS OF MATCHING FORM

Dated 1853 and 1858, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Of the same Classical skyphos form and size, both exteriors cobalt blue ground with gilt rims, handles, and feet, one decorated to the front and reverse with oval cartouches decorated en grisaille with the head of Classical figures in profile on a pink ground, the cartouches framed and linked with gilt laurel wreaths and swags, the interior ivory, the other cup decorated to a similar design but with the heads in white enamel on the cobalt ground, its interior cobalt, printed factory marks underside

Each 7,5cm high, 11.5cm wide across the handles

$200-300

90

A MATCHED PAIR OF COALPORT PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED SCENT BOTTLES

Circa 1890, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas John Bott

Of identical form and decoration, of broad flattened bottle shape, cobalt blue ground with gilt rim and foot, the front and reverse decorated in white enamel with the heads of male Classical figures within gilt borders and laurel wreaths, pre-1891 printed factory marks underside, one with an associated gilt metal snuff bottle spatula cap

Each 8cm high (excluding the associated cap)

$200-300

92

91

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’

DECORATED VASES

Dated 1858 and 1859, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Each beaker-shaped with an everted rim and waisted foot, cobalt blue ground with gilt borders to the rim and foot, the front of each with a gilt wreath enclosing respectively the head of Diana and Minerva in profile finely rendered in white enamel, printed factory marks underside

Each 10.5cm high

$300-500

92

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN PLATE

Dated 1880, the decoration by Thomas John Bott Circular with a gilt rim, the centre decorated with a bust-length portrait of a woman, ‘Pascuccia’, after Charles Paul Alphonse Bellay, signed lower left, inscribed with title underside together with impressed and printed factory marks

25.5cm diameter

$200-300

93

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED PLATE

Dated 1883, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Circular on a pronounced footring with four original holes for mounting or hanging, cobalt blue ground with a gilt rim, the centre finely decorated in white enamel with a partially draped Classical maiden seated amidst clouds, signed ‘T.J. Bott’ lower right, titled and further signed underside ‘”Phoebe.”

T.J. Bott. Worcester. 1883’, without a factory mark

20.5cm diameter

$500-700

94

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN PLATE

Dated 1882, the decoration attributed to Josiah Rushton

Circular, the well decorated with a young shepherdess in a landscape after William-Adolphe Bouguereau within the gilt-decorated white ground border, impressed and printed factory marks underside

23.5cm diameter

$300-500

95

A WORCESTER PORCELAIN POT POURRI JAR AND A STAND IN NEAR-MATCHING DECORATION

The stand circa 1860, the jar dated 1862, the decoration attributed to Josiah Rushton

The cylindrical jar standing on three winged mask feet, its domed cover pierced, ivory ground with gilt borders, the body divided into compartments with gilt Classical columns, each compartment decorated with a partly undraped Classical female figure, the stand of shaped triangular outline with raised sides standing on three paw feet, decorated with the same three figures as on the jar but with gilt decoration to a different design, printed factory marks underside

The jar 14cm high, the stand 4.5cm, 22.5cm wide

96

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN COVERED VASE

Dated 1862, the decoration attributed to James Callowhill and Thomas Scott Callowhill Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, with a conforming domed cover, white ground with the moulded decoration in various bright colours and with gilt details, the fluted neck above a pair of horned masks to the shoulders and a band of Classical decoration in relief to the body centred on a putto mask to the front and reverse, printed red shield factory mark underside

21cm high

$200-300

97

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN FIGURES, LIBERTY & CAPTIVITY

Class 2 shape no. 116 & 117, dated 1880s & 1903

Each modelled as a Classical female figure in long robes standing on a low circular base and holding a bird aloft, the skin and hair glazed in ivory, the drapery and bases with coloured decoration and gilt details, impressed and printed factory marks underside (the shape numbers erroneously printed as 116)

42cm and 37cm high

$200-300

98

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN FIGURES OF PUTTI

Class 6 shape 541, circa 1880

Each modelled as a putto resting full-length on the back of a dolphin, ivory-glazed with naturalistic colours to heads and drapery, unmarked as to

10.5cm high, 19cm wide

99

A MATCHED KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN TEA BOWL AND SAUCER

Circa 1860

Each circular on a spreading foot with a pair of satyr masks to the sides, white-glazed with gilt rim, masks, and foot, the bowl decorated to the front with a prospect of Malvern, as identified by the inscription underside, the saucer with opposed roundels contained Classical profile portraits linked with gilt husk swags, unmarked

The teabowl 6.5cm high, the saucer 13.5cm wide across the masks

other notes

The bowl is of identical design at reduced size as lot 88 in the present auction, which bears a Kerr & Binns printed mark dated 1853.

$200-300

100

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN GOBLET

Shape no. 139, mid-1880s

The bowl modelled as a stylised flowerhead with a bird to one side on a clustered foliate stem and circular foot, the bowl white ground with red veins, the bird and stem gilt, printed factory mark underside

19cm high

$100-200

101

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN MODEL OF A COURT SHOE

Shape no. 439, dated 1879

White ground with moulded floral and foliate decoration in gold and coloured enamels and pink highlights, printed factory mark underside

7cm high, 15cm wide

$200-300

101

102

A LATE GEORGIAN PAINTED PORCELAIN PLAQUE

Circa 1820, possibly Worcester

Rectangular, painted in colours with a risqué scene of a maiden bathing in a woodland pool watched from a distance by a man, unsigned and unmarked as to manufacture, mounted in an antique gilt frame 15.5 x 13cm

other notes

John Sandon has previously suggested a possible connection with Thomas Baxter’s later period at Worcester (private correspondence with the vendor).

$400-600

103

AN UNUSUAL KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN PLATE ON FEET

Dated 1853, the decoration attributed to Luke Wells, Snr

Of barbed circular outline raised on three silvered supports modelled as sea-gryphons couchant, their tails meeting at the centre of the underside, the well decorated with a courting couple in a landscape after or in the manner of Jean-Antoine Watteau within alternating pink, white and gilt borders, printed factory mark underside 4.5cm high, 24.5cm diameter

$200-300

104

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN PLATE

1870s, decorated by Robert Perling

Circular, the well decorated with a scene of stags rutting, probably after Edwin Landseer, within the gilt-decorated green-ground border, signed ‘Perling’ underside together with the impressed factory mark 23.5cm diameter

$200-300

105

A PAIR

OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES

Circa 1860

Probably matched, with slight variations in height and decoration, each bottle-shaped with a waisted neck, cobalt ground with gilt rim and foot, the front of each with a gilt-framed oval reserve decorated with a landscape, one with St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, the other with a river landscape with a bridge, the reserves surrounded by gilt foliage, the first inscribed underside ‘St Michael’s Mount’ together with the faint remains of printed factory mark 17cm and 16.5cm high

$300-400

107

106

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1897

Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of satyr masks to the shoulders, white ground with cobalt and gilt masks and foot, the front decorated with a scene in eighteenth century manner of a courting couple in a landscape, the reverse with a vignette of flowers, printed factory marks underside 15cm high

$200-300

107

A PAIR OF MINTON TINTED PARIAN FIGURES, ‘PSYCHE’ AND ‘PANDORA’

Dated 1873 and 1874, after Albert-Ernest

Carrier-Belleuse

Each modelled standing against a tree stump, half-draped and holding their respective attributes, the skin and foliage in white, drapery in terra cotta, and stumps and bases in brown, impressed factory marks underside including ‘Mintons’ on one and date marks on both

Each 43cm high

literature

Illustrated, possibly this pair, in Paul Atterbury (ed.), The Parian Phenomenon: A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary & Busts (1989) $300-500

108

A COPELAND PARIAN WARE PEDESTAL

Circa 1860

In Neo-Classical manner, the circular moulded top and foot framing a continuous frieze in relief of putti engaged in various Bacchanalian pursuits, lightly clear-glazed, impressed mark underside 20.5cm high, the top 18cm in diameter

$250-350

109

A COPELAND PARIAN WARE PEDESTAL

Circa 1860

In Neo-Classical manner, the circular moulded top and foot framing a continuous frieze in relief of putti engaged in various Bacchanalian pursuits, impressed mark underside

21.5cm high, the top 18.5cm in diameter

$250-350

110

A COPELAND PARIAN WARE MODEL OF THE ‘WARWICK VASE’

1870s

White with gilt details throughout, impressed factory marks underside

11cm high, 14cm wide

$100-200

114

111

A LATE VICTORIAN WARDLE & Co. MAJOLICA PEDESTAL

1890s

In Victorian Classical manner, the circular top above the square body modelled with gryphons to its corners flanking other motifs to its sides, glazed in pink and white, impressed mark to the interior

38cm high

$200-300

112

A LIMOGES PORCELAIN BUST OF A MAIDEN, ‘ESPERANTE’

Henri Ardant et Cie, circa 1870, after Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

Modelled with a ribbon and flower in the hair and a low décolletage, on a moulded circular socle, white bisque porcelain with natural tints and coloured details and socle, impressed ‘A. CARRIER’ to the reverse and with impressed HA et Cie factory mark underside

38cm high

$400-600

113

A GROUP OF SIMILARLY-DECORATED KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN

Two dated 1858, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

A small tazza generally of Classical kylix form with a broad circular plinth base, a lower footed dish of similar form with handles modelled with serpent terminals, and a covered rouge pot, the lower dish glazed in ivory, the others in white, all with gilt borders, the centres of the dishes and cover of the pot with gilt-framed roundels decorated en brunaille with the heads of Classical figures in profile on a blue ground, the lower dish and pot with printed factory marks underside

9cm high (tazza), 18cm wide (footed dish)

$300-400

114

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1858, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of gilt satyr masks to the shoulders, white ground with fine raised gilt details, the front of decorated with a gilt cartouche enclosing a portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici, the reverse with a crest, printed black shield factory mark underside incorporating the date mark

15cm high

$200-300

112

115

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1858, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of gilt satyr masks to the shoulders, white ground with fine raised gilt details, the front of decorated with a gilt-framed cartouche enclosing a portrait of the poetess Felicia Hemans, identified both in an inscription in the gilt frame below and in a gilt vignette to the reverse, printed black shield factory mark underside incorporating the date mark 15cm high

$200-300

116

A ROBINSON & LEADBEATER PARIAN BUST OF A MAIDEN, ‘SPRING’

1870s

Modelled in Classical manner, the hair elaborately plaited and coiled, on a moulded circular socle 36cm high, 20.5cm wide, 16cm deep

literature

Illustrated and identified as model B67 on folio 107 of an 1880s photographic record or catalogue of Robinson & Leadbeater’s Parian ware held by the Winterthur Museum Library, Delaware.

$200-300

117

TWO ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED

PORCELAIN PLATES

Both Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co., circa 1890, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott

Both circular, one with a pierced border modelled as a wavy ribbon, turquoise-glazed with gilt details, the centre decorated in blue and white enamel with a flying putto, the other with a moulded ivory ground and gilt border around the turquoise-glazed well decorated to the centre with a large flying putto, both signed by Bott within each putto’s drapery lower right, printed registration marks underside both without factory marks

Each 23cm diameter

$300-400

118

A PORCELAIN BUST OF A MAIDEN, ‘LESBIE’

Circa 1880, possibly Royal Worcester

Modelled loosely in Classical manner, the figure wearing a cowl and low-shouldered garment with a ribbon and flowers in her hair and a bird resting on her shoulder, on a moulded circular socle, white ground with coloured hair and necklace and tints to the face, impressed ‘Lesbie’ to the reverse, unmarked 20.5cm high

$300-400

119

TWO KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED VASES

Both dated 1855, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

A baluster-shaped vase and a small vase with masks to the sides, both cobalt blue ground with gilt borders, each decorated to the front in white enamel with the head of a female Classical figure within laurel wreaths, the larger vase with Minerva, printed factory marks underside

14cm and 8.5cm high

$200-300

117

120

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN VASES

Circa 1860, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Each of baluster shape with a flaring mouth, white ground with gilt borders to the rim, shoulder, and foot, the front of each with a gilt-framed oval cartouche decorated en grisaille with the head of a Classical female figure in profile on a pink ground, one identified as Corinna, printed factory marks underside

Each 13.5cm high

$200-300

121

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1855, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Beaker-shaped with an everted rim and waisted foot, white ground with gilt borders to the rim and foot, the front decorated with a portrait of William Shakespeare within a gilt and red strapwork cartouche, the reverse with a gilt strapwork device, printed factory mark underside

10.5cm high

$200-300

122

A COALPORT PORCELAIN VASE

Late 19th /early 20th century, the enamel decoration by Thomas

John Bott

Of baluster shape with a pair of inward-scrolling handles to the shoulders, yellow ground with gilt decoration throughout, the front with a gilt-framed portrait of a woman in blue and white enamels, indistinctly signed by Bott with initials lower right, a design of a ewer, arrows, and foliage in raised gilding to the reverse, impressed, printed, and inscribed marks underside including pattern number V.5939 21cm high

$200-300

123

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN PLAQUE

Dated 1862, painted by Albert Hill

Rectangular, painted in colours with ‘The Age of Innocence’ after Joshua Reynolds, signed and dated ‘A. HILL 1862’ lower right, mounted in an antique bird’s eye maple frame (the reverse of the plaque presently concealed but said to have an impressed factory mark)

25 x 25cm (approx.)

$300-500

124

A PAIR OF ROYAL DUX PORCELAIN FIGURES

Shape nos 884 and 885, late 19th / early 20th century

Each modelled as a Classical figure in robes standing on a low circular base, the male figure with a basket on his shoulder and holding fruit, the female figure holding an amphora at her shoulder, glazed in natural colours with gilt details to smaller areas, applied pink triangle and impressed factory marks underside 45cm and 44cm high

$100-200

125

A LARGE ROYAL DUX FIGURE GROUP OF A YOUNG COUPLE

Early 1920s

Glazed earthenware, a rustic couple modelled standing in period dress, in pastel colours with gilt highlights, impressed numbers underside 12946 / 42 68cm high

literature

Jaroslava Dvoráková, Porcelánová Manufaktura

Royal Dux Bohemia, a.s: 150 let ve službách krehkosti a krásy (2003), illustrated on the front cover

$300-400

126

A ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASE

Dated 1863, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, a pair of ring ‘handles’ to the shoulders with raised jewel borders to the front, sides, and reverse, glazed white with lilac and turquoise borders and gilt details, the front of decorated with a profile of Zeus in blue and white enamel on the gilt ground, the reverse with a dolphin, printed factory printed factory mark underside

16.5cm high

$200-300

127

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES

Dated 1858, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Each beaker-shaped with an everted rim and waisted foot, pink ground with white and gilt borders to the rim and foot, the front of each with a gilt-framed oval reserve decorated with an arrange of objects and foliage suspended on a ribbon, printed factory marks underside

Each 10.5cm high

$100-200

128

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN VASE

Circa 1860, the decoration by James Callowhill Of baluster shape on a square foot with tall loop handles to the shoulders and sides, white ground with coloured enamel and gilt decoration throughout, the front with a gilt-framed portrait of Anthony van Dyck surrounded by scrolling foliage, a conforming foliate design to the reverse, signed by Callowhill with initials to the inner surface of one handle, unmarked as to manufacture

18cm high

$200-300

129

A TORQUAY TERRACOTTA Co. BUST OF A WOMAN

Circa 1876, after T.A. Bickerton

Modelled loosely in Classical manner, the hair dressed and with a shawl around the shoulders and chest, mounted on a separate moulded circular socle, all terracotta coloured, the bust impressed to the reverse ‘T.A. Bickerton. Scr London. 1876.’, the socle impressed ‘Torquay’ underside

32cm high

$200-300

130

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES

Circa 1860

Each of tapering shape with a waisted neck and spreading foot, a pair of masks below the shoulders, cobalt blue ground with white ground mouth and gilt rim, masks, and foot, the front of each with a gilt-framed oval reserve decorated with a portrait of a young girl, one with a dog, printed factory marks underside

Each 13cm high $100-200

131

A KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN ‘LIMOGES ENAMEL’ DECORATED DISH

Dated 1857, the enamel decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

Of square outline with sloping sides pierced to a stylised wave design, cobalt blue ground with gilding throughout, the centre decorated in white enamel with a bust-length portrait of Dante Alighieri, printed factory mark underside

2cm high, 10.5cm wide and deep $100-200

135

132

A WORCESTER PORCELAIN POT POURRI VASE AND A SPILL VASE

The first circa 1860, decorated by Josiah Rushton, the other dated 1867

The pot pourri vase of covered bowl form on a tall stem with broad foot, white ground with coloured enamel and gilt decoration, the exterior of bowl with three Classical portrait medallions each signed by Rushton with initials, the foot with conforming medallions of Classical chimerae, printed factory mark to the underside of the cover; the cup-shaped spill vase on three paw feet decorated to the front with a gilt cartouche inscribed ‘Presented to Mr C.D. Messiter Augt 20/67 Worcester’ supported by a putto and surrounded by flowers, unmarked but a known Royal Worcester shape

The pot pourri vase 18cm high, the spill vase 10.5cm high $300-500

133

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES, AND ANOTHER MATCHING

All dated 1858, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

All of the same form and size, each beaker-shaped with an everted rim and waisted foot, white ground with gilt borders to the rim and foot, the front of each with an oval cartouche decorated en grisaille with the head of a Classical figure in profile on a gilt ground, the pair with female heads in opposed directions, the other with a male head, the cartouches framed with blue and white and gilt wreaths of foliage and ribbons, printed factory marks underside all Each 10.5cm high $200-300

134

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN VASES, AND ANOTHER VERY SIMILAR

The pair dated 1858, the decoration attributed to Thomas Bott, Snr

All of the same form and size, each beaker-shaped with an everted rim and waisted foot, white ground with gilt borders to the rim and foot, the front of each of the pair with a gilt-framed oval cartouche decorated en grisaille with the head of a Classical female figure in profile on a pink ground, identified respectively as Penelope and Flora, the other very similarly decorated but with different gilt borders at the neck and around the cartouche, this containing an unidentified male head, the pair with printed factory marks underside

Each 10.5cm high $200-300

135

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER

PORCELAIN FIGURES

Shape nos 2659 and 2660, dated 1917 and 1918

Each modelled as a Classical female figure in long robes standing on a low shaped base, one holding a lyre, the other a tambourine, the skin and hair ivory ground, the drapery and bases gilt, the drapery also with coloured tints, printed factory marks underside

Each 35cm high $200-300

137 part

136

A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS WORCESTER

PORCELAIN PARIAN WARE VASES

Early 1860s

Each of flattened bottle shape on a spreading elliptical foot, one retaining its conforming domed covered, white with gilt details, each with a fluted neck above a pair of horned masks to the shoulders and a band of Classical decoration in relief to the body centred on a putto mask to the front and reverse, unmarked as to manufacture

Each 18cm high (21.5cm including cover)

other notes

Of identical form to lot 96 in the present auction, which bears a Kerr & Binns factory mark dated 1862. $300-400

137

A

GROUP OF THREE GRAINGER’S WORCESTER RETICULATED

PORCELAIN STANDS

Variously last quarter 19th century

A circular pedestal of Classical architectural form, pierced throughout other than the centre of the top, ivory ground with coloured and gilt mouldings, together with two egg cup stands of identical design, shape number 348, but with minor differences in glazing and decoration, printed factory marks underside all

The pedestal 9cm high, the egg cup stands 11.5cm diameter $200-300

138

A GROUP OF FIVE ANTIQUE

PORCELAIN PEDESTALS

Various 19th century periods and makers including Copeland and Minton

All of Classical architectural form in various designs and sizes, three in white Parian ware, that by Copeland with gilt details and that by Robinson & Leadbeater inscribed in gold ‘Victoria 1837-1897’, one by Wedgwood or Adams in blue and white jasper ware, and a French example with coloured enamel and gilt decoration, the Copeland and Minton pedestals with impressed marks underside

The tallest 16.5cm high $300-400

Important Jewels Auction 16.04.2024

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image: A Magnificent Emerald Cut Diamond Ring, 8.15 carats, F colour, VS1 clarity. $200,000-300,000

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address: Westpac Banking Corporation

150 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia

bsb: 033–364

account no: 942956

collection of lots

Purchased lots must be collected no later than two days after the auction; otherwise lots shall be moved to storage at the Buyer’s expense (see below). Lots are at the Buyer’s risk from the fall of the hammer. It is strongly advised that overseas and interstate purchasers and absentee bidders make their arrangements with Leonard Joel in advance of the Sale. Charges are outlined below and are quoted in Australian dollars.

removal and storage

Any lots not collected within two days after the auction, may be stored or resold at the Buyer’s expense.

removal charges

Each lot: $55

storage charges

Each lot: $33 per day

protection of movable cultural heritage act 1986 (pmch act)

Buyers should be aware of the PMCH Act which protects Australia’s heritage of movable cultural objects and supports foreign countries’ right to protect their heritage of movable cultural objects. The PMCH Act regulates the export of nationally significant heritage objects, it is not intended to restrict normal and legitimate trade in cultural property, and does not affect an individual’s right to own or sell objects, within Australia. The PMCH Act was enacted in response to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. It is the responsibility of the Buyer to ensure that the export of any lots purchased are not subject to, or in breach of, this Act.

Information about the PMCH Act, the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Regulations 1987 and the 1970 UNESCO Convention, can be found on the Department of the Environ-

ment, Water, Heritage and the Arts website at: www.environment.gov.au/heritage/movable/index

exporting significant australian cultural heritage

The export of Australia’s significant cultural heritage is regulated under the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986 (PMCH Act.) It is not intended to restrict normal and legitimate trade in cultural property and does not affect an individual’s right to own or sell within Australia. The PMCH Act implements a system of export permits for certain heritage objects defined as ‘Australian protected objects’. More information is available on the Department of the Environment, Water Heritage and the Arts’ website: www.arts.gov.au/movable_heritage

Enquiries can be made to the Cultural Property Section at the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, T: 02 6274 1810 E: movable.heritage@environment.gov.au

cites regulations

It is the buyer’s sole responsibility to comply with all export and import regulations relating to your purchases and also to obtain any relevant export and/or import licences. The refusal of any import or export licences, any delay in obtaining such licences or any limitation on your ability to export a lot shall not permit the cancellation of the sale. Please note that all lots marked with the symbol * are subject to CITES regulations when exporting these items outside of Australia. Information about these regulations may be found at www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/tradeuse/cites/index.html or may be requested from:

The Director

International Wildlife Trade Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

GPO Box 787

CANBERRA ACT 2601

leonard home delivery

Purchases can be delivered to your door via Leonard Home Delivery. Please note this service is available in Melbourne (Select suburbs) only and is not available for Sydney auction purchases. For any enquiries about this service please contact delivery@ leonardjoel.com.au

recommended carriers

For recommended carriers please refer to our website.

partners:

Our Specialists

chairman & head of important collections

John Albrecht, BA LLB MBA

chief executive officer

Marie McCarthy

fine art

Georgina Lewis, Acting Head of Art

Amanda North, Specialist

Hannah Ryan, Specialist

Brooke Hyrons, Administrator and Registrar

decorative arts

Chiara Curcio BA, Head of Department

David Parsons, Head of Private Estates and Valuations, Decorative Arts Specialist

Trevor Fleming BA, Consultant, Japanese Art

Carl Wantrup, Consultant, Asian Art

Natasha Berlizova, Administrator

sydney

Ronan Sulich, Senior Adviser

Madeleine Norton BFA, BComm, MLitt, Head of Decorative Arts & Art

Ella Nail, Office Manager & Administrator

important jewels

Hamish Sharma, Head of Department, Sydney

Lauren Boustridge BSc, AJP, GG (GIA), Senior Specialist

fine jewels & timepieces

Rebecca Sheahan, Head of Department, Melbourne

Patricia Kontos F.G.A.A., Senior Jewellery Specialist

Indigo Keane, Luxury Specialist & Jewellery Manager

Isabella Macciolli, Jewellery Assistant

Leila Bakhache, Luxury and Jewellery Assistant

Echo Liu, Administrator

Bethany McGougan, Consultant & Senior Auctioneer

Henrietta Maiyah, Consultant

modern design

Rebecca Stormont, Specialist

Kyle Walker, Assistant

luxury

Indigo Keane, Specialist

Leila Bakhache, Assistant

Echo Liu, Administrator

prints

Hannah Ryan, Art Specialist

furniture

April Chandler, Manager

Angus McGougan, Assistant

Shawn Mitchell , Interiors Consultant

jewellery

Isabella Macciolli, Assistant

art salon

Noelle Martin, Manager

Millie Lewis, Assistant

objects & collectables

Dominic Kavanagh MFA, Manager

Kieran Grogan Carpenter, Assistant

valuations

David Parsons, Head of Private Estates and Valuations, Decorative Arts Specialist

Troy McKenzie, Queensland Representative Specialist

Anthony Hurl, South Australia Representative Specialist

John Brans, Western Australia Representative Specialist

accounts

Michelle Draper, Account Manager

Karishma Sareen, Accounts Assistant

client services

Kim Clarke, Client Services Manager

Amelia Lewis, Client Services Liaison

Richard Grieve, Client Services Liaison

operations & logistics

Anthony Riepsamen, Manager

Chris Salaoras, Logistics Assistant

marketing & communications

Blanka Nemeth, Senior Marketing, Media, & Communications Manager

Lucy Lewis, Database & Marketing Coordinator

photography

Paolo Cappelli, Senior Photographer & Videographer

Adam Obradovic, Photographer & Videographer

graphic design

Maria Rossi

melbourne

1A Oxley Road, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 (03) 9826 4333

sydney

The Bond, 36-40 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW 2025 (02) 9362 9045

brisbane

201 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064 0412 997 080

adelaide 429 Pulteney Street, Adelaide SA 5000 0419 838 841

perth 0412 385 555

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