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Tuesday, July 12 2011

Two Day Sale of Fine Art, Antiques and Collectables

Viewing Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, Monday 10am-7pm immediately prior to sale. Open on mornings of sale (Tuesday and Wednesday) from 8.30am until 10am for viewing. Sale starts promptly at 10am each day. Please remember that if you want to leave a commission bid or bid by telephone we need all instructions by Monday 6.30pm before sale.

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Lot 1 SOLD FOR: £ 880

A rare late 18th/early 19th Century Staffordshire pottery group decorated in "Prattware" colours of a cow, a farmer and two lambs, on rectangular base, the whole sponged in black, blue, red and buff, 6ins x 3.5ins x 5.75ins high (unmarked - one horn restored and neck and back with extensive crack)

Guide Price: £800-1000

Lot 2 SOLD FOR: £ 190

An early 19th Century Staffordshire pottery "Tithe Pig" group depicting a parson and a couple holding a baby with animals and eggs to foreground, 6.75ins high (circa 1820 - leafage chipped and slight flaking to enamel) Provenance: Peppercorn Antiques, Wisteria Cottage, Hennock, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 0EU, purchased 21st November 1990, and The Canterbury Auction Galleries - Auction 22nd September 2009, Lot 36

Guide Price: £200-300

Lot 3 SOLD FOR: £ 180

A 19th Century Staffordshire pottery "Tithe Pig" spill vase group, 8.25ins high (top section extensively restored), a Staffordshire pottery figure of a cherub holding a basket of flowers, 5.75ins high, and a Staffordshire pottery castle pattern spill vase, 8ins high

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 4 SOLD FOR: £ 260

A 19th Century Staffordshire pottery group of a seated couple, 6.25ins high, one other similar group, 6ins high, and four other Staffordshire pottery figures, various

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 5 SOLD FOR: £ 120

A pair of 19th Century Staffordshire pottery figures of a ram and a Highland gentleman, and a sheep and a Highland lass, 8.25ins high

Guide Price: £80-120

Lot 6 SOLD FOR: £ 640

A 19th Century Sunderland lustre pottery baluster shaped jug made to commemorate the wreck of the Schooner "Susan" on 4th March 1841, and the loss of John Apleton, the jug printed with a view of the Schooner "Susan" and printed four line verse and with handwritten oval front panel within pink lustre borders, 9.25ins high, front panel worded "John Apleton, Aged 19 - 1841, Belonged to the Schooner Susan lost March 4th, My kind Mother often told me that I had a Soul to Save, Shall I suffer sloth to hold me when I am Hastening to the grave - William B. Cole - Master, Much Liked"

Guide Price: £200-300

Lot 7 SOLD FOR: £ 420

A 19th Century Staffordshire pottery baluster shaped jug printed in red with a corpulent gentleman sitting down to a joint of beef and worded "British Slavery" and with verse "Ah! This cursed Ministry they'll ruin us with cursd Taxes!, Why Lounds they're making slaves of us all, and starving us to Death", and also printed in black with two flowers, 5.75ins high (unmarked)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 8 SOLD FOR: £ 190

An early 19th Century silver lustre glazed pottery bulbous jug decorated with two birds and trailing flowers with anthemion pattern border, 4.75ins high Provenance: John Howard at Heritage, 6 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire - purchased - Olympia 13th November 2008

Guide Price: £120-160

Lot 9 SOLD FOR: £ 270

A Moorcroft pottery baluster shaped vase decorated with "Clematis" pattern on a blue, green and brown toned ground, 8.5ins high (impressed mark, painted signature in green and printed paper Royal Warrant label to base)

Guide Price: £300-400

Lot 10 SOLD FOR: £ 180

A Moorcroft pottery bulbous ginger jar and cover decorated with "Clematis" pattern on a blue ground, 6.25ins high (impressed factory mark, facsimile signature and printed paper Royal Warrant label to base)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 11 SOLD FOR: £ 230

A Moorcroft pottery circular shallow bowl of bulbous form, decorated with "Plum" pattern on a blue ground, 12ins diameter x 3.75ins high (impressed mark to base, painter's signature in blue and remnants of printed paper Royal Warrant label)

Guide Price: £250-300

Lot 12 SOLD FOR: £ 240

A Moorcroft pottery baluster shaped vase decorated with "Plum" pattern on a dark blue ground, 8ins high (impressed mark and painted signature in blue to base)

Guide Price: £175-250

Lot 13 SOLD FOR: £ 480

A Moorcroft pottery bulbous three legged bowl decorated with "Pomegranate" pattern, 5.25ins diameter x 4ins high (impressed mark and painted signature in green to base)

Guide Price: £250-350

Lot 14 SOLD FOR: £ 280

A Moorcroft pottery circular tazza with Tudric pewter base decorated with "Pomegranate" pattern on a blue green ground, 8.25ins diameter x 3.25ins high (impressed 'Tudric Moorcroft' and no. 01531 to base of pewter)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 15 SOLD FOR: £ 190

A Moorcroft pottery circular bowl decorated with "Pomegranate" pattern on a dark blue ground, 7.5ins diameter x 3.5ins high (impressed mark and painted initials W.M. in green to base)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 16 SOLD FOR: £ 280

A Moorcroft pottery bulbous vase of squat form decorated with "Pomegranate" pattern on a dark blue ground, 5.25ins high (impressed mark and painted signature in blue to base)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 17 SOLD FOR: £ 230

A Moorcroft pottery bulbous vase with slender neck decorated with "Pomegranate" pattern on a blue and green mottled ground, 6ins high (impressed mark and painted initials in green to base) and a similar sugar bowl, 2.75ins high (unmarked)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 18 SOLD FOR: £ 240

A Moorcroft pottery circular plate decorated with "Pomegranate" pattern on a mottled blue and green ground, 7.25ins diameter (impressed mark and painted initials in blue to base) and a ditto cream jug decorated with flowers on a red and blue ground, 3.25ins high (impressed mark to base)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 19 SOLD FOR: £ 200

Two Moorcroft pottery circular bowls, each decorated with "Hibiscus" pattern on a royal blue ground, 5.75ins diameter x 2ins high, and 3.25ins diameter x 1.25ins high, and a ditto vase decorated with a "Hibiscus and Iris" pattern on a green toned ground, 3.75ins high (all with impressed marks and printed paper Royal Warrant labels to base)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 20 SOLD FOR: £ 120

A pair of Moorcroft pottery pillar candlesticks decorated with "Hibiscus" pattern on a yellow and green glazed ground, 3.5ins high (impressed mark and printed paper Royal Warrant label to base)

Guide Price: £120-160

Lot 21

Two modern Moorcroft pottery circular plates, each decorated with "Anemone" pattern on a dark blue ground, each 10.25ins diameter (impressed mark and painted initials W.M. in green to base of each)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 22 SOLD FOR: £ 150

A modern Moorcroft pottery bulbous ginger jar and cover decorated with "Anemone" pattern on a dark blue ground, 6.25ins high, and a ditto cylindrical jardiniere, 5ins diameter x 5.25ins high (each with printed marks and painted initials W.M. in green to base and with Moorcroft paper label)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 23 SOLD FOR: £ 280

A set of six modern Moorcroft pottery egg cups decorated with "Spring flower" pattern on a dark blue ground, each 2ins high (impressed mark in green to base and dated 2004) in fitted case, and a ditto "Spitalfields Temple Mills 1991" circular plate, decorated with fruit and flowers on a mottled green ground, 8.75ins diameter, impressed mark and painted initials W.M. in green to base) in [fitted] box

Guide Price: £120-160

Lot 24 SOLD FOR: £ 120

A MacIntyre Moorcroft pottery cup and saucer decorated with floral garlands and ribbons on a white ground (brown printed mark and painted initials WM in green to base), and an early Moorcroft pottery Flamminian ware red glazed coffee can and saucer and matching cream jug (impressed mark and date 1914 to saucer and cream jug)

Guide Price: £120-160

Lot 25 SOLD FOR: £ 210

A pair of Moorcroft pottery "Flambe" glazed bulbous vases, 2.5ins high (impressed mark to bases) and wooden stands for same

Guide Price: £120-160

Lot 26 SOLD FOR: £ 150

A Moorcroft white glazed "Natural Pottery" bulbous vase, 9.5ins high (impressed mark and incised signature to base)

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 27 SOLD FOR: £ 240

Five Moorcroft pottery circular dishes decorated with various flowers within green and blue grounds, each 4.5ins diameter (impressed marks to bases and mostly bearing remnants of labels "W. Moorcroft, Potters to the Late Queen Mary")

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 28 SOLD FOR: £ 210

A Royal Doulton "Blue Children" pottery baluster shaped vase decorated with a young woman in a winter landscape with gilt rim, 17.75ins high (green printed mark to base and No. L889)

Guide Price: £200-300

Lot 29

A Royal Doulton "Blue Children" pottery cylindrical vase with bulbous neck and flared rim decorated with two young children looking into a hole in a tree, with gilt rim and footrim, 10.5ins high (green printed mark to base, impressed L7788 - rim restored in several places)

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 30

A Royal Doulton "Blue Children" pottery tapered vase with bulbous base decorated with a child picking flowers within gilt footrim, 10.25ins high (green printed mark to base - rim extensively restored)

Guide Price: £70-100

Lot 31

A Royal Doulton "Blue Children" pottery bulbous jardiniere, the exterior decorated with three small children huddled together in a wooded landscape, 10ins diameter x 9.25ins high (printed mark in green to base - base with hairline crack and small flake chip to rim)

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 32 SOLD FOR: £ 170

A Royal Doulton blue and white pottery bulbous jug decorated with central band of children looking over a wall within stylised swag and floral borders and gilt rim, 6.75ins high (blue printed mark to base and No. 12/11 - thought to date circa 1904)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 33 SOLD FOR: £ 780

A Royal Doulton porcelain figure of "Jack Point" designed by C.J. Noke - Standing figure of a Minstrel in heraldic dress, 16.25ins high (green printed mark to base - thought to be HN99 - introduced 1918 and withdrawn 1938)

Guide Price: £800-1200

Lot 34 SOLD FOR: £ 140

A Royal Doulton bone china figure - "Roseanna", 8.5ins high, a ditto figure - "Harriet", 7.5ins high (HN 3177), and seven other Royal Doulton bone china figures, various

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 35 SOLD FOR: £ 70

Three Royal Doulton bone china figures - "Bo Peep" 5ins high (HN 1811), "Valerie" 5ins high (HN 2107), and "The Old Balloon Seller" 7.75ins high (HN 1315)

Guide Price: £60-80

Lot 36 SOLD FOR: £ 270

A Royal Doulton pottery two handled loving cup to commemorate the Coronation of Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, 2nd June 1953, 10.5ins high, No. 458 of 1000 (brown printed marks to base and complete with original Certificate)

Guide Price: £300-400

Lot 37 SOLD FOR: £ 160

Two Doulton Lambeth stoneware tankards commemorating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, one worded "Thames Ditton Diamond Jubilee Fete 1897", 4.5ins high (impressed marks to base), two Copeland Spode pottery green and white beakers commemorating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 4.25ins high (printed and impressed marks to base) and a selection of other royal commemorative items various

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 38 SOLD FOR: £ 70

A Royal Doulton stoneware cylindrical jardiniere with shaped rim, moulded in relief with anthemion on a brown mottled ground, and flower heads on a blue ground, the rim decorated with brown and green glaze, 9.5ins wide x 8ins high (impressed mark and No. 1224 to base)

Guide Price: £80-120

Lot 39 SOLD FOR: £ 210

A pair of Royal Doulton stoneware "Slaters Patent" baluster shaped vases with green and gilt decorated rims, 9ins high (impressed marks and No. 7585 to base), a ditto smaller vase, 8ins high (impressed mark and No. 8041 to base), three other pieces of Doulton, and a Poole pottery vase, 8.5ins high

Guide Price: £120-160

Lot 40 SOLD FOR: £ 190

A Doulton Lambeth stoneware model in the form of a sleeping child, 5.5ins x 3ins high (impressed mark to base - with firing crack)

Guide Price: £80-120

Lot 41 SOLD FOR: £ 100

A Doulton Siliconware tobacco jar and cover, applied in relief with stylised flowers, 5.5ins high (impressed mark and date 1881 to base), three other pieces of Doulton Siliconware comprising - jug 5.5ins high, fern pot, 4ins high, and a "Moon Flask", 10.5ins high (latter unmarked)

Guide Price: £80-120

Lot 42

A pair of Royal Doulton Lambeth grey glazed stoneware squirrel pattern bookends on rectangular bases, 6.75ins high (with impressed mark to bases, No. 1188 and Assistant's initials of Florrie Jones - one with small flake chip to tail)

Guide Price: £300-400

Lot 43

A Carter Stabler Adams Ltd., Poole pottery slop pail and liner designed by E.E. Strickland and decorated by Eileen Pragnel with farmyard animals, 12ins high (impressed and painted designer and painter's marks to base - liner damaged)

Guide Price: £150-200

Lot 44 SOLD FOR: £ 100

A Carltonware pottery "Rouge Royale" bulbous ginger jar and cover, 7.5ins high (black printed mark and paper mark to base), a Continental porcelain hen on nest pattern oval bowl and cover, 7ins x 6ins x 7.25ins high, and a selection of other decorative china various

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 45

A Clarice Cliff Fantasque Bizarre pottery rock pattern posy holder decorated with green bands to base, 2.5ins high (incomplete black printed marks to base)

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 46 SOLD FOR: £ 190

A 19th/early 20th Century dark brown glazed moulded stoneware lion's mask (for use as a water spout), 9.75ins high (slightly chipped and damaged)

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 47 SOLD FOR: £ 110

A modern slipware pottery charger decorated with apple tree and worded "Comfort me with love for I am sick of apples", 16ins diameter, three ditto smaller chargers, each 12ins diameter, a Mary Wondrausch slipware pottery charger, 12.75ins diameter, and three smaller pottery plates

Guide Price: £120-160

Lot 48 SOLD FOR: £ 130

A 20th Century studio pottery slab built vase with bands of impressed ornament, 6.75ins high (impressed and incised mark LH)

Guide Price: £80-120

Lot 49 SOLD FOR: £ 160

A 1960s Rooke pottery "Moon Flask" pattern vase decorated with blue and brown glaze, 13.5ins high (vase with impressed mark to base)

Guide Price: £100-150

Lot 50 SOLD FOR: £ 60

A Victorian treacle glazed "Barge Ware" tea kettle and stand, 9.25ins high (chipped), four Royal Doulton pottery character jugs - "Mr Pickwick" 6ins high, "Sairey Gamp" 6.25ins high, "Auld Mac Bang Went Saxpence" 6.5ins high, and "Old Charley" 5.75ins high, two Doulton "Toby" jugs and a pair of Doulton candlesticks, various

Guide Price: £80-120