British and Continental Ceramics

A Continental porcelain bust of the French statesman and historian Adolphe Thiers, modelled after Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, circa 1900, the naturalistically painted head and shoulders bust raised on a pseudo marble socle base of stepped square shape, underglaze blue mark to base, height 39cm.

A Quadrifoglio Italian pottery planter vase, late 1950s, painted by Milvia with a stylish girl holding a parasol walking along a beach, painted marks to base with four leaf clover/flower mark, height 18.5cm, a pair of Italian pottery planters painted with a harlequin pattern, height 12.5cm, another Italian pottery vase, height 20cm, and a pair of studio pottery figures modelled as a nun and priest, impressed seal mark to base edge of each, height 18cm.

Sixteen Beswick Beatrix Potter's figures each with mark BP-3b, comprising two Duchess with Pie, Simpkin, Ginger, Pickles, Susan, Mrs Tiggy Winkle, The Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, Tabitha Twitchit and Miss Moppet, Lady Mouse, Pigling Bland, Cousin Ribby, Mrs Flopsy Bunny, Mr Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten and Chippy Hackee, together with two Beswick Beatrix Potter's figures with gold oval mark BP-2, comprising Hunca Munca and Miss Moppet.

Eleven Beswick Beatrix Potter's figures, each with mark BP-3a, comprising two Ribby, Goody Tiptoes, Amiable Guinea-Pig, Sally Henny Penny, Mrs Tittlemouse, Tabitha Twitchit, Johnny Town-Mouse, Tommy Brock, Samuel Whiskers and Pig-Wig, two signature mark examples, BP-4, two with mark BP-3b, including Pickles, and sixteen Royal Albert Beatrix Potter figures.

Fourteen Beswick Beatrix Potter figures with mark BP-3c, comprising Lady Mouse, two Jeremy Fisher, Old Mr Brown, Cousin Ribby, Jemima Puddleduck, Little Pig Robinson Spying, Aunt Pettitoes, Timmy Willie, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail, Old Mr Pricklepin, Tommy Brock, Tom Thumb and Cottontail, together with thirteen Beswick Beatrix Potter's figures with mark BP-3b.

Thirty-two Beswick Beatrix Potter's figures, each with mark BP-3b, including Thomasina Tittlemouse, Tailor of Gloucester, Little Black Rabbit, Pickles, Mr Alderman Ptolemy, Sir Isaac Newton, Diggory Diggory Delvet, Cecily Parsley and Mrs Rabbit.

A mixed group of collectable figures and models, including a Shelley China Club limited edition figure of Lillibet, height 14.5cm, five Royal Doulton Brambly Hedge figures, three Bunnykins, two Royal Doulton Winnie The Pooh, a Beswick model of Pooh, a Beswick model of Rupert the Bear, a Wade Paddington Bear, a Royal Worcester Granny Snow candle snuffer, a Beswick Peter Scott Pochard duck, a Beswick four piece cat band and three Goebel Hummel models (minor faults).

A Moorcroft Pottery plate mounted Pomegranate pattern inkwell, circa 1920, of flattened circular shape, indistinct impressed marks and green painted initials to base, diameter 11.5cm, together with a Moorcroft Pottery Pomegranate pattern preserve pot with Tudric pewter Liberty cover, impressed marks to base, height 9cm (faults).

An early Moorcroft Pottery bowl, circa 1915, of circular shape decorated in shades of blue and green Florian with a floral medallion to the base interior beneath a band of flowers and foliage to the inner rim, a matching floral band to the exterior rim, impressed marks with shape number and green painted signature to base, diameter 21cm (faults).

Three pieces of Moorcroft Pottery, 1940s and later, comprising a circular pot and cover decorated in the Leaf and Berry pattern against a blue ground, impressed marks to base with facsimile signature and applied paper label, diameter 16cm (restored), a Clematis pattern circular footed bowl with blue ground, applied paper label to base, diameter 14.3cm, and a Clematis pattern green ground vase, impressed marks to base, height 12.5cm.

Three pieces of Moorcroft Pottery, mid 20th century, comprising an Orchid pattern green ground plate, diameter 22cm, a small circular Orchid pattern green ground bowl, diameter 8cm, and a shaded yellow to green ground Clematis pattern mug, height 10cm, various impressed marks to bases and green painted initials to plate.

An Italian maiolica albarello, late 17th/18th century, probably Bassano, of waisted shape on a circular foot, inscribed in blue 'Conf Violaru' (Syrup of Violets) between floral garlands and foliate detail in blue and manganese, height 19cm.

An Italian maiolica albarello, 18th century, probably Bassano, of waisted shape on a circular foot, with manganese Gothic script inscribed label between blue foliate scroll bands, height 18cm.

An Italian maiolica albarello, probably Savona, 18th century, the waisted body raised on a circular foot, inscribed in manganese 'Unguen Althe' (Unguentum Althaeae - a salve made from the marshmallow plant) between floral bands in yellow and blue, height 17.5cm.

A German faience pewter mounted stein, 18th century, painted in blue and manganese with a rearing horse within a quatrefoil blue frame against a manganese ground, the pewter tappit lid with ball shaped thumbpiece, indistinct painted mark to base, height 21cm.

A Paris Porcelain centrepiece base, 19th century, converted to a lamp base, modelled as three kneeling gilt putti around a central gilt column, raised on a stepped white glazed circular base, fitted with a gilt metal collar and wooden support, height to top of fitting 23cm, together with four pieces of Wedgwood Jasperware, comprising a green dip biscuit barrel with plated mounts and cover, a small dark blue dip Portland Vase, height 9.8cm, a dark blue dip rectangular vesta and cover, length 8.5cm, and a small pale blue oval plaque, length 4.3cm, various impressed marks, and a Staffordshire porcelain candle snuffer in the form of a house, height 5.5cm (some faults).

A Meissen chamberstick, late 19th/early 20th century, of waisted cylindrical shape with ring handle and foliate thumbpiece, painted with flowers and insects within gilt banded edges, blue painted crossed swords mark to base with incised and impressed numerals, height 6cm, together with a similar Meissen cream jug, height 6.5cm, and two Meissen trembleuse saucers painted with Deutsche blumen, diameter 18.5cm (minor faults).

Sixteen Wade Official International Collectors Club figures, including Daddy Bear, Mummy Bear, Baby Bear and Goldilocks, each dated 1996, two membership special dogs, three pantomime figures, each from 1997, and the 1998 Toy Soldier, together with two Wade Tetley Tea Folk items, comprising a money bank and a teapot and cover, each boxed.

An extensive Davenport Imari Japan pattern part dinner service, post 1879, pattern Nos. 1983 and 2093, comprising twenty-three soup plates, 26cm diameter, thirty-three salad plates, 22cm diameter, forty-six dinner plates, 25cm diameter, twenty scalloped rim dessert plates, 24cm diameter, one comport, two low stands, one sauce tureen with a cover and two stands, four oval vegetable tureens and three covers, a tree and well meat dish (riveted), an oval platter, 52.5cm long (riveted), two oval platters, 43cm long, one oval platter, 38.5cm long, two oval platters, 32.5cm long, three oval platters, 27cm long, soup tureen, cover and stand and a two-handled oval footed open serving dish, red printed, painted and impressed marks to bases (some faults).