British and Continental Ceramics

A collection of eighteen pottery and porcelain reference books, including The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, Major Cyril Earle, T.D., Old Dutch Pottery and Tiles, Elisabeth Neurdenburg and Bernard Rackham, No. 11 of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper, bound in pigskin and signed, The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain, Bernard Rackham, parts one and two, Pratt Ware, J & G Lewis, Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles, A J. Cross, and Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, Morley-Fletcher and McIlroy, together with four reference auction catalogues, including The Watney Collection parts one, two and three. Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A collection of twenty-six pottery and porcelain reference books, including The Yorkshire Potteries, John D. Griffin, The Don Pottery 1801-1893, John D. Griffin, London Delftware, Frank Britton, Staffordshire Blue, W.L. Little, and William De Morgan Tiles, Jon Catleugh, together with the reference books Carriage Clocks, Allix and Bonnert, and The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals, Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe, and a small group of pottery and porcelain auction catalogues. Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A collection of twenty pottery and porcelain reference books, including Delftware, Michael Archer, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, English Delft Pottery, Major R.G. Mundy, Astbury, Whieldon and Ralph Wood Figures & Toby Jugs, Captain R.K. Price, The Leeds Pottery 1770-1881, John D. Griffin, Vols one and two, and Bow Porcelain On-glaze Prints and their Sources, Gordon & Sue Guy-Jones. Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

Twelve pottery and porcelain reference books, including Delftware The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Michael Archer, hardback with cardboard sleeve, Dutch Floral Tiles in the Golden Age and Their Botanical Prints, Ella B. Schaap, The Soft Porcelain of Sevres, Edouard Garnier, Irish Delftware an Illustrated History, Peter Francis, and British Delft at Williamsburg, John C. Austin. Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A large Doulton Lambeth stoneware vase, dated 1883, decorated by Florence Barlow, monogrammed, with opposing birds on branches against a textured ground, flanked by stylized foliate panels within beaded borders, incised and impressed marks to base, height 47cm (faults and repairs).

A Worcester hexagonal teapot stand, circa 1765, decorated in blue and gilt with a central flower within patterned framing, diameter 15.3cm.

A Worcester spoon tray, circa 1765, of lobed hexagonal shape gilt with stylized foliage between cobalt blue sections, length 15.7cm.

A Moorcroft Pottery limited edition Swan pattern globular vase, designed by Sally Tuffin, No. 1 of 350, impressed and painted marks to base, height 17cm.

A pair of Rosenthal Versace Medusa pattern candlesticks, late 20th century, gilt printed marks to bases, height 21cm, with original boxes and candles.

An Aynsley bone china cased set of six coffee cups and saucers, with six enamelled silver coffee spoons, the service gilt with foliage above a burgundy ground, the spoons with orange red enamelled bowls and handles, Birmingham 1961, the case lining marked for Garrard & Co. Ltd.

A Mason's Mandarin pattern part service, comprising six teacups, saucers and tea plates, jug, small dish, one two-handled bowl, salt and pepper and a large circular fruit bowl, diameter 26.5cm.

A Jonathan Chiswell Jones studio pottery lustreware jug, decorated with fish amongst weeds against a blue ground, painted initials and number '8329' below the handle, height 20cm.

A Rossmore studio pottery large circular bowl, circa 1990, by Etain Hickey, decorated with geometric patterns, impressed and painted marks to base, diameter 36.5cm, together with a two-handled stoneware studio pottery jar and cover, probably John Ablitt, impressed seal mark, height 18cm.

A Rörstrand stoneware freeform vase, 1960s, by Carl Harry Stalhane, covered in a crystalline type blue/green glaze, incised marks to base, height 22cm.

A J. & G. Morten stoneware studio pottery tureen and cover, the cover modelled with a cat amongst five pigeons, above the blue glazed base, blue painted marks to underside of cover, diameter 22.5cm (chip to one beak).

A pair of Continental porcelain Dresden type two-handled vases and covers, late 19th/early 20th century, the U-shaped bodies painted with opposing grey birds within gilt framing against a powdered blue ground, the lower bodies with gilt enriched stiff leaf moulding, raised on circular feet, the similarly decorated domed covers painted with insects, underglaze blue marks to bases, height 37cm.

A German porcelain stein, modelled as the head of Otto von Bismarck, the hinged lid in the form of a pickelhaube helmet, printed marks to base, height 17cm (repaired), together with a German porcelain stein with lithophane base, inscribed 'Feldwebel Kurt Danner', decorated with a list of company reservist members beneath the pewter lid, height 24cm.

A Doulton Lambeth stoneware jug, dated 1882, decorated by Hannah Barlow, monogrammed, with deer between foliate borders glazed in shades of green, impressed and incised marks to base, height 23.5cm (large chip to rim), together with a similar Doulton Lambeth jug, dated 1880, decorated by Hannah Barlow, monogrammed, with horses, height 23.5cm (faults and losses).

A very large tin-glazed earthenware two-handled potpourri jar and cover, probably 19th century, painted in shades of blue, one side depicting figures ice skating, the other side with a farmer and his wife shearing sheep, the pierced shoulders with floral lappet panels, flanked by elaborate twisted and spiral handles painted with blue splodges, the domed pierced cover painted with sailing boats, unmarked, height 31cm (minor faults).