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Royal Worcester Pr Cornucopia Posy Vases

$138 USDRoyal Worcester Pr Cornucopia Posy Vases

Home Decor:Ceramics:Royal Worcester
A pair of Royal Worcester cornucopia posy vases in perfect condition, the purity of the fine eggshell quality bone china allowed to take prominence and show the fine crisp modelling to the detail. Both pieces marked to base in green backstamp from the 1950'2 and pattern 3212. Each 3" high.
Royal Doulton Sweet pea & Roses Cup & Saucer

$69 USD Offers ConsideredRoyal Doulton Sweet pea & Roses Cup & Saucer

Home Decor:Ceramics:Royal Doulton:Sweet Pea
A pretty vintage bone china cup and saucer made by Royal Doulton, both pieces with green fluted rims and decorated with a charming profusion of summer flowers including, my favourite, a lilac blue sweet pea bloom. This is not by any means among the 'important' class of ceramics, at least not yet at this age , but is a delightful addition to a collection of early 20thC ceramics which will become more appreciated as the years go by. Size: Cup 1.75" high. Saucer 5" diameter. Condition: Good ...
Ridgway Miniature Sauce Boat  Blue & White Transfer Humphrey's Clock C1890

$120 USDRidgway Miniature Sauce Boat Blue & White Transfer Humphrey's Clock C1890

Home Decor:Ceramics:Ridgway:Miniatures:Dolls' China:Humphrey's Clock:Blue & White Transferware
A delightful child's miniature version of a sauce boat from the second half of the 19thC, moulded in relief with overlapping leaves and decorated under the glaze with a blue transfer print of the Humphrey's Clock pattern inspired by series of stories published as a weekly periodical, written and edited by the famous Victorian writer, Charles Dickens. Now unmarked as some vandal has scratched out the pattern name from the base. Very Good condition, with no cracks, chips or restoration. There is a ...
Italian Biscuit Porcelain Piping Shepherd Signed Sculpture Vintage

$640 USDItalian Biscuit Porcelain Piping Shepherd Signed Sculpture Vintage

Home Decor:Ceramics:Porcelain:Italian Triade:Benacchio
A beautiful piece of vintage Italian porcelain from the 1970's, modelled as a carefree young boy, striding barefoot as he plays his pipe. The delicacy and detail is extraordinary and the piece is full of movement. The youth wears a loose jacket and shirt, his trousers are rolled to the knee. The sculpture is signed by Benacchio and fully marked with impressed maker chop for the Triade of the three founding ceramicists Perdomello Benacchio and Basso. Size: 12" high Condition: Very fine with no ...
Spode Trade Winds Cream Soup Bowl & Stand

$114 USDSpode Trade Winds Cream Soup Bowl & Stand

Home Decor:Ceramics:Spode
A fine Spode twin handle soup bowl with stand in the Fine Stone China body, both pieces gilded to the rims and decorated with the special Trade Winds pattern with red engravings of two historical sailing brigs, including 'Cygnet of Salem', built in 1822, and the Barque 'Free Trader' . The pieces have gilded rims (and handles) and are in fine condition. Denis Emery drew out the design following extensive research with Spode's Design Director, Harold Holdway. They studied historical sailing ships ...
Spode Trade Winds Bowl -  Olive of Newbury

$80 USD Offers ConsideredSpode Trade Winds Bowl - Olive of Newbury

Home Decor:Ceramics:Spode
A good vintage Spode Trade Winds bowl with a gilded rim and decorated to both sides with red prints of historical named sailing ships Olive of Newbury and a second brig. Fully marked to base. Size: 2.5" high x 4.5" diameter. Condition: Fine: no damage.
Antique Toy Cabinet Piece Porcelain Cat C1840

$90 USDAntique Toy Cabinet Piece Porcelain Cat C1840

Home Decor:Ceramics:Antique:Staffordshire
This is a sweet little porcelain cat from the 19thC, designed as a toy for adults to be exhibited from a cabinet, modelled recumbent on an oval green base and painted with the most charming eyes and expression. A delightful cabinet piece. Size: 1" (2.5cm) high x 1.5" (4cm). Condition: Very good: No chips or cracks or restoration.
Antique Vauxhall Tea Pot Artist-Collector Postcards Pack 10

$28 USDAntique Vauxhall Tea Pot Artist-Collector Postcards Pack 10

Home Decor:Ceramics:Postcards
18thc Antique Ceramic series: Vauxhall porcelain teapot, decorated with the Man on the Bridge pattern in imari palette C1757. Quality high gloss card. 4.5" x 5.5" Pack of 10 cards and envelopes
Boxer Dog & Puppies Pottery Quartet Large Size

$150 USDBoxer Dog & Puppies Pottery Quartet Large Size

Home Decor:Ceramics:Boxer Dog Family:Collectors Items
A fine pottery Boxer dog with her three babies, one appears to be a teenager and the other two twins. All four are in fine condition with no chips or cracks. A small slight glaze crackle to mother's lower right front leg. Size: Mother dog 8.25" tall to top of her head x 7.5" nose to tail
Carn Art Pottery Sunflower & Bark Vase

$170 USDCarn Art Pottery Sunflower & Bark Vase

Home Decor:Ceramics:Carn Pottery:John Beusmans:Sunflower Vase:Art Pottery
From the Carn art pottery of potter John Beusmans, started at Nancledra in Cornwall in the 1970's, this splendid and large art work typically displays the potter's color palette, drawing inspiration from the Cornish landscape and playing with perspective, so that the pot surprises the eye from every angle. This is a large and heavy piece of work 10" high in excellent condition.
Vintage Sterling Silver Pepperette,  London 1928

$145 USDVintage Sterling Silver Pepperette, London 1928

Home Decor:Accessories:Silver:Pepperette
An attractive and elegant solid silver George V period pepper pot of rectangular shape on a double stepped foot and with canted corners, The cover has triple stepping to the pierced top surface and a finely wrought finial. Fully hallmarked to base for Walker & Hall, London 1928. Size: 3" high. Condition: Very good indeed with no dings.
C18th Liverpool Coffee Pot Artist-Collector Postcards Pack 10

$28 USDC18th Liverpool Coffee Pot Artist-Collector Postcards Pack 10

Home Decor:Accessories
18thc Antique Ceramic series: Liverpool porcelain coffee pot Quality high gloss card. 4.5" x 5.5" Pack of 10 cards and envelopes
C18th Limehouse Pickle Dish Artist-Collector Postcards Pack 10

$28 USDC18th Limehouse Pickle Dish Artist-Collector Postcards Pack 10

Home Decor:Ceramics:Postcards
18thc Antique Ceramic series: Limehouse porcelain pickle dish C1746 Quality high gloss card. 4.5" x 5.5" Pack of 10 cards and envelopes
Vintage Spode Trade Winds Plate Setting- Named Ships

$185 USDVintage Spode Trade Winds Plate Setting- Named Ships

Home Decor:Ceramics:Spode
A fine set of three graduated Spode plates in the Fine Stone China body, the pieces gilded to the rims and decorated with the special Trade Winds pattern with red engravings of historical shops built in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Various versions were produced: pattern W128 used on this set, was introduced in 1960 The pattern is discontinued and the Fine Stone body is no longer produced The side plate is 6" diameter, decorated with a Brig from 1820; the cheese plate is 8 ...
Vintage Hibiscus Silver Plate Jam Pot, Cradle & Spoon

$85 USDVintage Hibiscus Silver Plate Jam Pot, Cradle & Spoon

Home Decor:Ceramics:Jam Pot & Cradle:Hibiscus
A charming vintage pottery jam pot modeled in high relief as two hibiscus blooms with their foliage, beautifully painted to the delicate pink petals, with golden centres. The pot sits in its own custom-made cradle, mounted on four scroll feet, with a swing handle and comes complete with its original fluted cover, with button finial, and its jam spoon which has a twig handle. It's a very pleasing piece, the silver plate with mellowed age and the pot has only one chip to a leaf tip. 4.75" to top ...
Vintage Arthur Wood Pottery The Garden Wall Pottery Jug 1930's

$145 USDVintage Arthur Wood Pottery The Garden Wall Pottery Jug 1930's

Home Decor:Ceramics:Arthur Wood:The Garden Wall:Hollyhocks
A fabulous design for this 1930's jug modelled as the Garden Wall against which a riot of flowers are in bloom against the peachy ground glaze, with bright blowsy hollyhocks reaching up to the flared rim which is incised into a sunburst. Flowers bloom along the handle strap. Fully marked to base. Size: 8.5" high to top of handle Condition: Excellent: no chips, no cracks, no restoration.
Victorian Pyramid Sam Clarke Food Warmer Late 19th Social History Kitchenalia

$90 USDVictorian Pyramid Sam Clarke Food Warmer Late 19th Social History Kitchenalia

Home Decor:Ceramics:Antique:Sam Clarke Pyramid:Kitchenalia:Fairy
A nice clean example of a Victorian Sam Clarke's Pyramid Food Warmer, designed to be used with Pyramid Fairy night lights for heating milk or baby food. This one carries a US patent. It is No 2, three quarter pint and is priced at 5/- (five old British shillings). Grandly titled, (and in several places too!)'Samuel Clarke's Pyramid Food Warmer': the food warmer was in common use throughout the 19th century. This one dates from the end of the Victorian period and would have been part of a ...
Mappin & Webb Silver Plate Breakfast Set for Four & Original Spoons

$145 USDMappin & Webb Silver Plate Breakfast Set for Four & Original Spoons

Home Decor:Metalware:Breakfast Set:Mappin & Webb
An unusual design and a remarkable set for an elegant and impressive vintage breakfast table. The tray stands on four bun shape feet and holds the four egg-cups around a central stem and handle. Inset into the raised base of the centre stem are shaped slots in which the spoons stand, ready for use. The set is in splendid condition with no significant damage or dings, a tiny nick in the foot of one eggcup as shown in image #7. The base of the stand fully marked, the spoons also marked for Mappin ...
Mintons Pottery Teddy Bears 'Down to the Woods' Artist Hand painted plate 1907

$120 USDMintons Pottery Teddy Bears 'Down to the Woods' Artist Hand painted plate 1907

Home Decor:Ceramics:Mintons Pottery:Teddy Bears
A charming Mintons plate hand painted with the delightful colourful scene of teddy bears on a day's outing. The teddy bear policeman directs the traffic as a large, lilac colour motor car approaches the pedestrian teddies. To the rear a signpost points the way 'Down to the Woods.' The whole happy scene is surrounded by Minton's Vandyke printed pattern border with a lustred rim and hand gilded accents. Fully marked to base with impressed Mintons mark, date code for 1907, registration lozenge for ...
Mintons Pottery Teddy Bears Story-Time 'Adventures' Artist Hand Painted plate 1907

$120 USDMintons Pottery Teddy Bears Story-Time 'Adventures' Artist Hand Painted plate 1907

Home Decor:Ceramics:Mintons Pottery:Teddy Bears
A charming Mintons pottery plate hand painted with the colourful family scene of Mother teddy bear surrounded by her children, her youngest perched on her knee, as she read to them from a storybook 'Adventures'. The whole happy scene is surrounded by Minton's Vandyke printed pattern border with a lustred rim and hand gilded accents. The artist initials JA in cursive script are painted to the inner rim. Fully marked to base with impressed Mintons mark, date code for 1907, registration lozenge for ...
Wade Teapot Newcastle Bridges 1960's

$156 USDWade Teapot Newcastle Bridges 1960's

Home Decor:Ceramics
A good teapot made by Wade and commissioned by the tea merchants Ringtons, which company also had a long association with another Newcastle company, Maling. The hexagonal teapot is decorated with six panels of famous bridges: The New Tyne Bridge - Newcastle, The Humber Bridge, Royal Tweed Bridge - Berwick, Wearmouth Bridge - Sunderland, and High Level & Swing Bridges - Newcastle Transporter Bridge. Size: 6" high to top of finial x 9" across handle to spout. Condition: Very good, with no chips, ...
Wardle Pottery Dovecote Lantern Candle Holder C1917-30

$145 USDWardle Pottery Dovecote Lantern Candle Holder C1917-30

Home Decor:Ceramics:Wardle Pottery:Lantern:Dovecote:Garden Table Light
A handsome pottery lantern of large size from the Wardle Pottery, lushly glazed in a rich raspberry. The lantern is modelled as a dovecote with shingled dome roof, and the panelled walls are incised with diamond lattice to filter the light from the candle which would be held in the integral interior holder. Fully marked to base plus Registration mark No. 659858 relating to 1917. Size: 9" to tip of handle Condition: Very fine, no damage and no restoration.
Price Bros Scaredy Cat Staffordshire Pottery 1930's

$80 USDPrice Bros Scaredy Cat Staffordshire Pottery 1930's

Home Decor:Ceramics:Price Brothers:Cat:Animalier
An amusing pottery Scaredy Cat from the Staffordshire potteries, well modelled with a fun expression and glazed with the characteristic muted green of the Price works. The cat is 5.25" tall to the tip of his startled tail and he is in fine condition.
Dudson Stoneware Sprigged Teapot

$130 USDDudson Stoneware Sprigged Teapot

Home Decor
A fine early 20thC glazed stoneware teapot from the Staffordshire Dudson works, the shoulder and base bowl of the pot moulded with continuous ogee banding. The pot has a jasper green glaze and decorated with relief sprigging of classical figures, the spout with acanthus and the cover has a button-shape knop. Impressed mark to inside cover and footrim of base. Size: 4.5" high x 7.5" across handle to spout Condition: Very good, with no damage.
"How now Brown Cow" Vintage Signed Art Pottery Unique Sculpture

$650 USD"How now Brown Cow" Vintage Signed Art Pottery Unique Sculpture

Home Decor:Ceramics:How Now Brown Cow
Here's the winner in the Bovine Beauty Contest! This adorable cow was potted by noted English potter Annie Parker Smith, who was working in the Seventies and Eighties, producing a superb small range of unique pottery animal sculptures and I think this is easily the most dazzling. The beautiful and gentle cow lies quietly and at peace, garlanded with flowers and lustred pearls, her tail lazily flicking against her haunch, while two blue birds like kookaburras, are perched without fear - one on ...
Hand Carved Meerschaum Egg Scrolled Floral

$80 USDHand Carved Meerschaum Egg Scrolled Floral

Home Decor:Meerschaum:Eggs
A very unusual and collectible carved Meerschaum egg, crisply carved in relief with an intricate design of scroll panels interposed with larger flower heads, dating around 1900, possibly earlier. The egg is pierced at the top and could be threaded for hanging. 2.5" and fine condition.
 
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