British and Continental Ceramics

A collection of English porcelain cups and saucers, 19th century, including a Spode bute shaped teacup and saucer, both printed with rural scenes, a Chamberlains Worcester coffee can and saucer gilt with acorns above grey marbling, a topographical Derby teacup and saucer, a Davenport trio with simple floral sprays, a green ground Davenport teacup and saucer with gilt star and dot decoration, a gilt decorated Ridgway trio, pattern No. 5/1728, a Ridgway breakfast cup and saucer, a Ridgway blue ground trio and a Davenport cup and saucer, painted with fancy birds, various factory marks.

A Ridgway porcelain centrepiece, mid-19th century, the white glazed body decorated to the interior with flowers beneath the pierced gilt edged rim with foliate moulded handles, puce printed Royal arms mark to base with pattern No. 6409, diameter 33.5cm, together with an H. & R. Daniel shell pink ground centrepiece, circa 1825, first gadroon shape, painted with panels of fruit and flowers within gilt framing, painted pattern No. 3813, length 34cm (haircrack), and a small group of other English porcelain, including a Minton comport.

A Derby porcelain scent bottle or diminutive vase, circa 1820, the pear shaped body painted in puce with a landscape view of a cottage flanked by gilt cornucopia against a cobalt blue ground, red painted mark to base, height 8.8cm, together with a floral painted example, probably Coalport, height 7cm, and a landscape painted example with beaded detail to the neck, Ridgway, height 8cm.

A miniature porcelain vase or scent bottle, probably Spode, circa 1820-25, the compressed bulbous body decorated with chinoiserie figures beneath the ribbed neck, red painted pattern No. 3644, height 5cm, together with a Ridgway diminutive comport with ram's head handles, painted to the interior with a landscape, red painted pattern No. 3/749, height 6cm (restored), a Davenport egg cup and four Davenport menu holders or place settings.

A Derby porcelain plate, circa 1815, painted with a titled landscape view, 'In South Wales', within a rim of gilt foliate scrollwork, red painted factory mark and title to reverse, diameter 22.4cm, together with an unusual Derby plate, painted in Paris style, circa 1790-1800, purple painted factory mark to reverse, diameter 23.5cm.

A Davenport Longport porcelain cabinet plate, circa 1870, painted with titled view, 'Windermere Lake', within a gilt overlaid salmon pink frame and similarly gilt decorated pale grey rim, red printed and painted factory marks to reverse, pattern No. 1612, diameter 23.7cm, together with a small group of other similar wares, including a Coalport plate, painted and relief moulded with flowers and scrolls, diameter 22cm, and a Coalport Chelsea style plate, painted with an exotic bird, diameter 23.3cm (minor faults).

An unusual Ridgway & Abington Ninevah jug, circa 1851, the black ground body relief moulded with two Assyrian winged lamassu creatures and an entwined snake handle, picked out in pale orange, between geometric and foliate designs in white and red, the rim with cuneiform text, raised moulded diamond registration lozenge to base and impressed 'ALBA' , height 25cm (minor faults). Note: it is unusual to see this particular form of jug with enamelled colours.

A large Ridgway lavender blue ground jug, circa 1815-20, sprigged in white with a gryphon and cupid design amidst foliate scrollwork, flanking an urn beneath the mask spout, unmarked, height 17.3cm, together with a similar smaller example with gilt detail, height 13.2cm, and a Ridgway white china jug and cover with lavender blue sprigged decoration, marked '468' to base, height 19cm. Note: similar jugs are illustrated by R.K. Henrywood in 'An Illustrated Guide to British Jugs', p. 102, pls. 283 and 284.

A small group of Ridgway blue glazed pottery, 1830-40, enamelled and gilt with flowers and foliage, including a jug with pewter tappit lid, height 21cm, three plates and a snuffer tray, together with a group of other mostly Ridgway pottery, including a green stoneware potpourri and cover, a buff stoneware inkwell and a Minton Coalbrookdale thermometer stand (some faults and restoration).

A Davenport pottery botanical plate, mid-19th century, painted in blue with a titled specimen, 'Various-Leaved Sollya', within a pierced rim, impressed and painted marks to reverse, diameter 21.5cm, together with three pieces of Davenport blue printed pearlware and a small group of other pottery and stoneware, including a Ridgway Japan Flowers potpourri and cover and Ridgway stonewares (minor faults).

A collection of blue printed plates, mostly early 19th century, assorted patterns, including Davenport Villagers, Chinoiserie High Bridge and Bamboo and Peony, Spode Tiber, Castle and Sarcophagi and Sepulchres, and Ridgway Lacey House from the Angus Seats series, together with a meat platter in the Curling Pine pattern, length 46.8cm, various printed and impressed marks throughout.

A Jones & Walley green stoneware relief moulded jug, circa 1841, titled 'Good Samaritan', applied pad mark to base, height 18.3cm, together with a group of six other 19th century relief moulded stoneware jugs, mostly Ridgway, a small Ridgway chocolate brown ground two-handled stoneware vase, height 10.5cm, and a buff stoneware two-handled sucrier and cover (minor faults).

A Turner white feldspathic stoneware mug, circa 1800, sprigged with figures taking an archery lesson between chocolate brown ribbed bands, unmarked, height 10.5cm, together with three other pieces of stoneware, comprising a sleeping figure with a dog at his feet, a jug with bifurcated handle by Ridgway and a flower moulded cylindrical inkwell.

A Sussex pottery jar, dated 1906, of cylindrical form applied with a brown glazed shield inscribed 'D, LANGRIDGE OCTOBER 1906', flanked by sprigged high relief trailing vine against a marbled brown/cream ground, height 11cm.

A Sitzendorf porcelain Meissen style model of Cupid riding a dolphin, late 19th century, blowing a shell cornucopia and raised on an oval wave moulded base, underglaze blue mark to base, height 12cm, together with a Dresden model of a somersaulting Cupid.

A pair of Continental porcelain rectangular plaques, late 19th century, the first painted with a girl and a parrot eating fruit, the second with a young woman arranging flowers, 12cm x 9.5cm, both held within a gilt frame.

Sixteen Royal Doulton Winnie The Pooh collection figures, including Christopher Robin, Eeyore's Tail, Rabbit Reads The Plan, Tigger Signs The Rissolution and Piglet and The Balloon, together with three Bunnykins figures, two Royal Albert Beatrix Potter figures and a Royal Doulton Minnie Mouse.

A set of six Spode limited edition Great Explorers collectors' plates, boxed with certificates, a similar set of five, and other collectors' plates including nineteen Hans Christian Anderson examples by Royal Copenhagen, most boxed.

A Persian style Hispano Moresque lustre pottery vase, early 20th century, the globular body painted to one side with two peacocks beneath script, opposing foliate scrollwork, the flared trumpet neck flanked by flat handles, above the spreading circular foot, unmarked, height 38cm (fault).