British and Continental Ceramics

Three Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester eggcups, early 19th century, two with large circular foot and horizontal rib to the body, the first painted in Japan colours with flowers, the second in blue and gilt with a band of stylized flowers, impressed mark to base, the third with smaller foot and bowl painted and gilt with bellflowers, each 5cm high (some restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester candlestick, early 19th century, of cylindrical column shape painted with a viola flower within a gilt oval frame against a ground of gilt urns, foliate scrollwork and bellflowers, the gilt handle modelled as a serpent, impressed and puce painted marks to base with title ‘SIMPLEX-MUNDITIIS’, height 8.3cm. Provenance: The Flight Collection.

Three Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester topographical named view plates, early 19th century, each with gilt gadrooned rim, the first depicting Windsor Castle within a gilt edged claret rim, the second Keswick Lake surrounded by six butterflies and insects within a gilt edged claret rim, the third Muckross Abbey – Killarney within a gilt edged cobalt blue rim, puce printed, painted and impressed marks to bases, all 22cm diameter, together with a similar Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester claret ground topographical square dish (restored). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester breakfast cup and saucer, early 19th century, painted with panels of peasants and rural scenes within gilt scroll frames against a pale blue ground beneath gilt rims, puce printed and impressed marks to bases, diameter of saucer 17.6cm, together with a similarly painted Flight, Barr & Barr teacup and saucer with gilt weed ground and gilt gadrooned rim, and a small group of other Flight & Barr Worcester, including a coffee can painted in sepia with a waterside view against a gilt overlaid apricot ground, height 6cm, a celadon green ground coffee cup and saucer with gilt ‘TF’ monogram and a pair of Bute shape ring handled teacups and saucers painted and gilt with oak leaves and acorns against a pale orange ground around panels enclosing gilt monograms, various incised and impressed marks (minor faults). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester vase, circa 1815-20, painted with a titled scene from Sir Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake, against a gilt weed ground between beaded borders, raised on gilt paw feet and a trefoil base, black script marks to base, height 9cm (restored), together with a small group of similar Flight Barr Worcester vases, including a pair with cobalt blue ground painted with floral panels, two painted with flowers, a black ground example painted with pink and white roses, raised on four gilt paw feet, height 9cm, and a cylindrical example with gilt bird head and ring handles, height 8.5cm, also a diminutive planter with gilt mask handles and paw feet, height 8.8cm (faults, losses and restoration throughout). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A set of four Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester named view topographical plates, early 19th century, painted with central views of The Gate Tower at Warwick Castle, Rolleston Hall, Guy’s Cliff and Ludlow Castle, within gilt edged cobalt blue rims, impressed marks and puce script titles to bases, diameter 24cm, together with a pair of Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester named view green ground topographical plates, titled  Rivaux Abbey, Yorkshire and Leigh near Southend, within gilt gadrooned rims, puce printed and impressed marks to bases, diameter 22cm (minor faults). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A pair of Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Etruscan shape teacups and saucers and matching slop bowl, early 19th century, painted with cobalt blue leaves to the rim overlaid and edged with gilding, diameter of bowl 17cm, together with a small group of other Flight & Barr Worcester wares decorated in cobalt blue and gilding, comprising a coffee can and two saucers with stylized bellflowers and anthemion and two teacups and three saucers with foliate banding, various impressed marks (minor faults). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

Three Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester square shaped dishes, early 19th century, each with gilt lined gadrooned rim painted with various scattered flowers, sprigs and bouquets, impressed and puce printed marks to bases, all 23.5cm square, together with a group of similarly painted Flight & Barr Worcester, including four plates, diameter 22cm, an oval dish with pink roses, length 28.5cm, two matching plates and an unusual Flight, Barr & Barr oval dish painted in Sèvres style, pseudo blue painted Sèvres mark to base, length 27.5cm (faults and restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

Seven Barr Worcester teacups and saucers, late 18th/early 19th century, including one gilt with an overlapping zig-zag pattern, one painted in brown and gilt with a fruiting vine design and one gilt with leaves against an iron red scale ground, incised ‘B’ mark to bases, together with a pair of Chamberlains Worcester teacups and saucers decorated in cobalt blue and gilt with a stiff leaf pattern, pattern No. 126, diameter of saucers 13.5cm (minor faults). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester slop bowl, early 19th century, the cobalt blue exterior overlaid with a gilt scale pattern and reserved with a mixed range of shaped panels painted with butterflies, insects and exotic or fancy birds, impressed mark to base, diameter 16.5cm, a matched pair of Barr, Flight & Barr blue scale ground plates painted with variously shaped floral panels, one with printed and impressed mark, the other a script and incised mark, diameter 23.8cm, and a small group of other Worcester wares, including a Music pattern plate, diameter 22cm, a Royal Lily pattern oval dish, length 28cm, and a pair of plates in the Marchioness of Huntley pattern, diameter 21cm, various marks to bases (faults and restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A mixed group of Flight & Barr Worcester cups and saucers, early 19th century, mostly with gadrooned rim, including three gilt overlaid orange ground teacups and saucers, three teacups and two saucers gilt with a seaweed pattern, two trios and two matching saucers gilt with a band of fruiting vine above a pink ground, a pink ground coffee cup and saucer gilt with a band of foliate scrollwork and a coffee cup and saucer with painted and gilt foliate decoration in iron red and pink, various impressed marks (some faults and repairs). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester teacup and saucer, early 19th century, painted in blue monochrome with Dresden style flowers beneath a gilt dentil rim, impressed marks to bases, diameter of saucer 15cm, together with a small group of similarly painted Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester wares, comprising two shell shaped dishes and two plates, 21cm and 24cm diameter, and a group of Flight & Barr Worcester painted with scattered pink roses, including a square shaped dish with moulded gadrooned rim, 23.5cm square, a shell shaped dish and two plates, diameter 22cm, various impressed and puce printed marks to bases (faults and restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A mixed group of Flight & Barr Worcester tablewares, late 18th/early 19th century, including two ring handled teacups, a pair of saucers with gadrooned rims, a plate and another saucer with green and puce oeil-de-perdrix decoration beneath gilt banding, two ring handled teacups, a coffee can, a saucer and a saucer dish with a brown and gilt foliate scrolling band, an Etruscan teacup and saucer and saucer dish with gilt oak leaves and acorns against a celadon ground and a can and saucer with a gilt fruiting vine band above a green ground, various impressed, incised and printed marks to bases (faults and restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A matched Barr Worcester and Flight Barr Worcester Japan pattern part service, early 19th century, painted and gilt with dense chinoiserie flowers and fences within gilt overlaid cobalt blue borders, comprising teapot, cover and stand, nine coffee cans with ring handles, four teacups with ring handles, an Etruscan shape teacup with angular handle, seven saucers, diameter 14cm, a two-handled chocolate cup and cover with two stands, boat-shaped two-handled sugar bowl, length 18cm, circular bowl, diameter 17cm, two plates, diameter 20.8cm, and two single handled circular dishes, together with a small group of wares decorated in similar patterns, comprising a two-handled chocolate cup, cover and stand and three plates, various incised, impressed, printed and painted marks (faults and restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A small pair of Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester saucer dishes, early 19th century, later painted, in the style of George Davis, with exotic birds within yellow rims edged with gilt gadrooned moulding, impressed marks to bases, diameter 16cm (minor restoration), together with a Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester inkwell, of circular shape raised on three paw feet and a trefoil base, gilt overall with patterned foliate scrollwork, impressed mark to base, height 7.8cm (faults), and a Barr Worcester two-handled chocolate cup painted in sepia with an oval view of a cottage against a green band beneath a gilt key fret rim (faults). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A Flight & Barr Worcester sucrier and milk jug, early 19th century, of circular bulbous shape with scroll handles, painted with pink and red flowers against a pale lemon ground band between gilt banding, height of sucrier 13cm, height of jug 11.5cm, together with two Barr Worcester slop bowls, the first gilt with anthemion above an apricot ground gilt with a vermicular pattern, the second with gilt and cobalt blue leaves against an apricot ground, incised mark to bases, both 17cm diameter, and a pink ground Barr Worcester circular bowl gilt with a band of fruiting vine beneath a gilt gadrooned rim, diameter 19cm (minor restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A set of six Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester botanical cabinet plates, early 19th century, each painted with a titled botanical specimen to the centre within a pale blue or apple green ground rim edged in gilding beneath gadrooned moulding, puce printed and painted marks to bases, diameter 22.5cm (restoration), together with a group of similar Flight & Barr cabinet plates, including two with named botanical specimens within gilt rims and framing, two other floral painted plates, a green ground oval dish, length 31cm, and two single-handled green ground dishes, various impressed and printed marks (faults, repairs and restoration throughout). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

A mixed group of Flight & Barr Worcester tableware’s, early 19th century, including a gadrooned rim plate painted with strawberries, diameter 26cm, two gilt gadrooned rim plates, the first painted and gilt with bellflowers to the rim, the second with scattered blue, pink and gilt floral stems, diameter of both 25cm, a green rimmed plate painted in sepia with hops, diameter 27cm, a pair of plates painted in iron red and gilt with floral and berried sprigs, diameter 22.5cm, two oval dishes, length 29cm, and a diamond shaped dish painted and gilt with vine leaves, length 29.5cm, various impressed and printed marks (some faults and restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.

An unfinished Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester plate from the William IV service, circa 1830, with a central vacant cartouche and six smaller to the rim against an underglaze cobalt blue ground, within a gadrooned rim, with later gilt overlaid decoration, impressed mark to base, diameter 22cm, together with a Flight & Barr Worcester plate painted and gilt with a border of oak leaves and acorns to the black ground rim, unusual black painted mark to base, diameter 22.5cm, two other Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester plates painted with peasant figures, impressed and puce printed marks to bases, largest 22.3cm diameter, and a set of four Barr Worcester plates painted with botanical subjects within gilt key fret type rims, incised ‘B’ mark to bases, diameter 20.8cm (faults and restoration). Provenance: The Flight Collection.