Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, March 16 2010
Spring Auction of Fine Art and Antiques
Lot 1 SOLD FOR: £ 2300
A Royal Worcester"Blush Ivory" porcelain spherical two handled vase with moulded neck and conical lip with textured and gilt decoration, the front enamelled in colours by John Stinton with three Highland cattle in a misty landscape, the reverse enamelled in colours with a landscape, 12ins high (puce printed mark to base and shape No. 1109 - date code for 1911 - gilt decoration slightly rubbed and marked in places)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Lot 2 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A Worcester blue and white porcelain leaf pattern pickle dish decorated with floral sprigs and with crudely moulded leaf pattern back, 3.5ins x 3.5ins (crescent mark in blue to base - circa 1768)
Guide Price: £100-150
A Worcester blue and white porcelain leaf pattern pickle dish decorated with floral sprigs and with crudely moulded leaf pattern back, 3.5ins x 3.5ins (crescent mark in blue to base - circa 1768 - two chips to rim)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 4 SOLD FOR: £ 380
A Minton majolica table centre modelled in the form of a circular basket supported by three putti, on shaped base, 11ins diameter x 11.5ins high (impressed factory mark to base with mould No. 784 and date code for 1874 - one figure cracked and the other two figures with heads broken off and restuck)
Guide Price: £400-600
A Minton majolica"Tower" jug, the exterior moulded in relief with figures dancing and with rustic pattern handle, the pewter mounted rim and domed cover with Jester finial, 13ins high (impressed mark to base, shape No. 1231 and date code for 1870)
Guide Price: £200-300
A Minton white and green celadon glazed porcelain table centre modelled in the form of an oval shell pattern bowl supported by a mer-cherub, on oval moulded base, 8ins x 5.5ins x 7.25ins high (impressed mark to base and No. 1386 - date code for 1873)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 7 SOLD FOR: £ 120
A Minton porcelain white glazed and gilt decorated ornament modelled in the form of a cherub astride a dolphin, on turquoise glazed oval base with shell moulded edge, 5ins high (puce printed mark to base), and a Royal Worcester cream glazed porcelain shell on dolphin pattern dish, on oval moulded base, 4.75ins high (green printed mark to base and date code for 1903)
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 8 SOLD FOR: £ 500
A pair of Derby porcelain figures of a lady and a gentleman, the lady holding a basket of flowers, the gentleman dressed for hunting with a dog by his side, on white and gilt rococo pattern bases, 6ins high, and one other pair of Derby porcelain figures of a lady and a gentleman, the lady holding a basket of grapes, the gentleman holding a sheaf of wheat, on white, gilt and turquoise decorated rococo pattern bases, 6ins high (latter two with restoration to necks)
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 9 SOLD FOR: £ 290
A Moore Bros white glazed porcelain table centre modelled in the form of a circular bowl with shaped and gilt decorated rim, the exterior moulded and decorated in colours with floral and leaf encrustations, on three putti pattern supports and triangular gilt decorated base, shaped and moulded with scroll and cartouche ornament, 9.5ins diameter x 9ins high (green printed mark to base and impressed"Moore" and No. 420)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 10 SOLD FOR: £ 220
A Moore Bros white glazed and turquoise decorated porcelain cherub and ball pattern posy vase decorated with floral encrustations, on oval base with gilt and black"Greek Key" ornament to edge, 7ins wide x 7ins high (impressed"Moore" to base)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 11 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A Copeland white and turquoise glazed and gilt decorated three branch candelabra with leaf encrusted sconces and branches supported by a cherub, on circular stepped base, 16ins high (impressed mark to back)
Guide Price: £100-150
A 19th Century Staffordshire porcelain dessert service, enamelled in colours with floral sprays within shaped and gilt decorated borders on a white ground, comprising - twenty-four 9ins plates (four with cracks and chips), two oval two handled dishes, 12ins x 8.5ins, two rectangular two handled dishes, 11ins x 8.5ins, and four one handled oval dishes, 9.5ins x 9ins (wear to gilding on some)
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 13 SOLD FOR: £ 1900
A pair of 19th Century Staffordshire pottery standing figures of spaniels decorated with red splash ornament and with gilt collars, on rectangular pink glazed bases, moulded and decorated with leaves, 9.5ins high (see A & N Harding
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 14 SOLD FOR: £ 300
Two 19th Century Staffordshire pottery cow creamers with milkmaids, one with pink and black sponged decoration, 5.25ins high (cover and horns chipped), the other with black and brown sponge decoration, 5.75ins high (lacking cover)
Guide Price: £300-350
Lot 15 SOLD FOR: £ 340
A 19th Century Staffordshire pottery figure of a standing black and white cow, with tree stump behind, on oval base, 6ins high (chip to horns, legs cracked, chip to stump)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 16 SOLD FOR: £ 160
Two 19th Century Staffordshire pottery figures of"Tam O
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 17 SOLD FOR: £ 240
A late 18th Century creamware spherical teapot with bead mounts, leaf capped spout and twin reeded scroll handle, the body painted in puce with floral sprays, the cover with moulded flower pattern finial, 4.5ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
An early 19th Century Staffordshire pearlware cylindrical tankard, the exterior finely painted with the heads of thirty-one men on a brown ground and within yellow rims, the scroll handle with lozenge ornament, 4.75ins high (indistinct painter
Guide Price: £250-300
A Beswick pottery"Connoisseur Series" figure -"Bedouin Arab on Horse", 10ins high (black printed mark and impressed No. 2275 to base - with sword and wooden stand for same)
Guide Price: £700-1000
A Beswick pottery"Connoisseur Series" figure -"Arab Horse", 8.5ins high (black printed mark and impressed No. 2269 to base - with wooden stand for same)
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 21 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A Beswick pottery figure of an North American Indian warrior on a skewbald horse, 8.5ins high (black printed mark to base)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 22 SOLD FOR: £ 300
Three Royal Crown Derby bone china"Elements" figures by P. Hardy - Two of"Air", 7.5ins high, and"Fire", 7ins high (all with red printed mark to base and date code for 1970)
Guide Price: £300-350
A Royal Doulton pottery figure -"The Broken Lance", 8.5ins high (HN2041)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 24 SOLD FOR: £ 210
A Moorcroft pottery oval vase with dimpled sides decorated in blue and green glaze, 8.5ins high (impressed mark and impressed"W. Moorcroft" signature to base - circa 1945-1949)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 25 SOLD FOR: £ 400
A Moorcroft pottery bulbous vase with cylindrical neck, tube lined and decorated in red, green, purple, yellow and blue with a"Clematis" design, on a green ground with a blue footrim, 7.5ins high (impressed signature and painted signature of "Walter Moorcroft" to base - circa 1945-1949)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 25A SOLD FOR: £ 460
A Moorcroft pottery vase of tapered form, tube lined and decorated in red, blue and green with a"Anemone" design on a green/blue ground, 10.5ins high (impressed mark and painted"WM" to base - circa 1918-1929)
Guide Price: £400-500
Lot 26 SOLD FOR: £ 220
A Clarice Cliff "Bizarre" pottery"Blue Crocus" clog pattern vase, 5.5ins overall x 3ins high (black printed mark to base - some wear to paint)
Guide Price: £120-160
A Thomas Smith & Co stoneware baluster shaped ewer incised in the manner of Hannah Barlow with a recumbent lion and lioness and leaf sprigs decorated in blue on a buff ground, the shoulder and base moulded with beaded bosses, scroll handle, on circular footrim, 11.75ins high (with impressed mark for T. Smith & Co, Old Kent Road, London to base - two hairline cracks to neck and small chip to rim)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 28 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A Stephen Green of Lambert small stoneware character jug moulded with the head of a man, 3ins high (impressed mark in shaped cartouche to base), and one other stoneware miniature character jug moulded in relief with a double face and worded"Marriage Day" and"After Marriage", 2ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 29 SOLD FOR: £ 1550
A large earthenware tea kettle by Michael Cardew, the spherical body decorated in brown glaze, with pale slip lunette ornament within bands, and with string bound metal folding handle, 11ins high (impressed"MC" and"WP" in monogram for Winchcombe Pottery to inside of lid, footrim and base)
Guide Price: £400-600
A Studio pottery stoneware bulbous jug decorated in cream glaze with moulded branch motif to either side, 7.5ins high (impressed maker
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 31 SOLD FOR: £ 230
A Japanese"Satsuma" pottery tea service enamelled in colours and decorated in gilt with figures on a terrace by pavilions and with Mount Vesuvius, comprising - teapot, two handled sugar basin and cover, milk jug, six cups and six saucers, all contained in fitted box, 21ins x 16ins x 5.5ins high
Guide Price: £250-350
A 19th Century Japanese Kutani wine ewer of bulbous form and with flared neck, enamelled in colours with figures in a landscape within shaped panels, the borders with all-over floral and butterfly pattern, with snake pattern handle and bird pattern spout, on circular footrim, 11ins high (rim restored)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 33 SOLD FOR: £ 400
A 19th Century Chinese porcelain miniature tea service, decorated in blue, red and gilt with shield shaped cartouche, drapes and ribbon ornament within floral swags, comprising - rectangular tea caddy and cover, 3.75ins high, four circular tea bowls, 1.5in high, seven saucers, 4ins diameter, three small cups, 2ins high, milk jug, 3.5ins high, and circular bowl, 3.5ins diameter
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 34 SOLD FOR: £ 160
A Chinese porcelain cylindrical four tier box and cover, the whole enamelled in colours with butterflies, the cover with gilt rim, 5ins diameter x 5.5ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 35 SOLD FOR: £ 90
An early 20th Century Chinese porcelain cylindrical box and cover enamelled in colours with various figures, and in black with character marks, 4ins diameter x 5ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Three Chinese porcelain bowls each enamelled in red, green, yellow, pink and blue with a dragon and exotic bird above a band of waves, the rims with square scrolls, 5ins diameter x 2.25ins high (each bears six character Guangxu mark in iron red - two cracked, one with chip to footrim)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 37 SOLD FOR: £ 940
A set of six Chinese porcelain "Famille Rose" bowls enamelled in colours with Buddhist emblems, above a band of scroll work, the rims with square scrolls, the interiors decorated in iron red with circular cartouche and bats, 6.5ins diameter x 3ins high (each bears six character Guangxu mark in iron red)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 38 SOLD FOR: £ 400
An 18th Century Chinese porcelain rectangular meat plate with shaped rim, enamelled in colours in the"Famille Rose" manner with three floral sprays within pink scale and turquoise flower pattern borders, 16.5ins x 13.5ins (with hairline crack and chip to rim), and a Chinese porcelain circular bowl, the exterior decorated in gilt with floral and scroll ornament on a royal blue ground, 12ins diameter x 5ins high (gilding badly rubbed - both Qianlong period)
Guide Price: £200-300
A late 18th/early 19th Century Chinese porcelain circular saucer shaped dish, the centre enamelled in colours and decorated in gilt with figures on a terrace with a red carp and fish pattern border, the rims decorated with dragons, birds, sheep, butterflies and deer in a landscape, 10ins diameter (cracked), a Chinese porcelain plate enamelled in colours in the"Famille Rose" manner with sprays of flowers, 9.25ins diameter, and a Chinese porcelain charger with shaped rim, similarly enamelled with flowers and bamboo shoots, the rim decorated with floral sprays and butterflies, 13.75ins diameter (cracked and with chips to rim)
Guide Price: £250-350
Lot 40 SOLD FOR: £ 2200
A Chinese porcelain rectangular plaque, enamelled in green, blue, yellow and red with three sages in a landscape, 15ins x 10ins, in stained wood frame
Guide Price: £200-300
A pair of early 20th Century Chinese porcelain hexagonal bulbous lantern covers with flared rims, the bodies with circular and pierced panels enamelled in colours with floral sprays within yellow borders enamelled in colours with trailing floral ornament and animals heads within similarly decorated blue borders, 11.5ins high (one with hairline crack and some restoration to base)
Guide Price: £300-400
A pair of Chinese porcelain bottle shaped rose water sprinklers with later gilt metal mounts, decorated in blue with scrolls and manuscripts within circular borders and on a cafe-au-lait ground, the necks with engine turned mounts and pineapple finials, and on plain circular footrims, 9ins high (Kanxi period - one with crack to body)
Guide Price: £700-1000
Lot 43 SOLD FOR: £ 580
A 19th Century Meissen porcelain figure of a young woman in 18th Century dress asleep in a chair, on shaped brick pattern base, 7.25ins high (crossed swords marks in underglazed blue to base, impressed No. 43 and incised E.58 - circa 1870)
Guide Price: £600-800
Lot 44 SOLD FOR: £ 920
Two French earthenware flying storks by Delphin Massier of Vallauris, painted in colours, 25ins high (tip of beak chipped) and 18.5ins high (tip of beak chipped and legs damaged - with black painted mark to reverse)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 46 SOLD FOR: £ 7200
Four William de Morgan pottery"Galleon" tiles decorated in red lustre with a Tudor galleon, an Egyptian galley, a Viking longship and a Phoenician galley, each 8ins square (designed circa 1890 - with minor flake chips to rim), mounted in stained wood table, on square chamfered legs, 17.5ins square x 19ins high
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 49 SOLD FOR: £ 360
A Moorcroft pottery circular tobacco jar and cover, the bulbous body tube lined and decorated in yellows and blues with a"Poppy" design, 4ins high (brown printed mark for James MacIntyre & Co, and with painted green initials"WM")
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 50 SOLD FOR: £ 260
A Doulton Lambeth silicon ware tobacco jar and cover modelled in the form of an owl and decorated in turquoise, blue and cream on a buff ground, 7.75ins high (impressed mark to cover and base)
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 51 SOLD FOR: £ 130
A 19th Century German porcelain tobacco jar and cover modelled in the form of a standing Turkish bearded soldier wearing a green and black cap, white sash to his brown jacket and green trousers, on naturalistic base, 12.5ins high (possibly by Conta & Bohme - cover extensively restored and some restoration to base, sword loose)
Guide Price: £100-150
