A pair of Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester Porcelain Pastille Burners

A magnificent and rare Barr, Flight & Barr Porcelain Fruit Cooler c.1804-1813. Superbly decorated with a continuous deep orange ground band and heavily gilded, highly detailed rams head handles, greek key motif to header and a crowned deer armorial crest to the front and reverse. The fruit cooler is one of the rarest and most coveted tableware pieces amongst antique porcelain. This example is even more valuable with its original liner and lid. Impressed mark to underside. The first record of ice cream in Britain is 1671 on the menu of a feast for the Knights of the Garter held in St. George's Hall at Windsor Castle. At this time it was considered such an exclusive dish that it appeared only on the king's table. The earliest printed recipe appeared in Mrs Eale's Receipts, a work on confectionary which was published in London, 1718. It was not until the second half of the 18th century that ices became more readily available from confectioner's shops, and these pails were commonly found on upper class homes' sideboards to be used for a dessert of ice cream with cut fruit. If ice alone is used to fill the cover and the bucket, the ice cream melts very quickly. Although there is nothing recorded in literature, it is almost certain that a little salt was sprinkled on the ice. Porcelain is the ideal material for ice cream pails...

An exceptional Barr Flight Barr Worcester porcelain platter c.1804-1813 made for the Cookesfamily of Bentley, Worcestershire, Hand Painted with their family crest and motto, DEO REGI...

A fine Flight and Barr Worcester feather-painted teacup and saucer, circa 1800. Finely painted with a selection of colourful feathers scattered on th...

A fine pair of Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester Porcelain Vases c.1820. Of superb quality, each with bands of applied white ‘pearls’ and with a panel painted with views of 'Malvern Ch...

A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain vase c.1825-1835. Of inverted bell shape, decorated with afinely painted panel of flowers by Samuel Astles with raised and tooled gilding, f...

A superb and rare Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester porcelain cabinet cup and stand, c.1815. With twin gilded handles, broad everted rim and a band of white applied pearls below the ri...

A pair of early transferware English porcelain saucers, made by the Worcester Porcelain Factory during the Barr, Flight & Barr period, 1807-1813. The late 18th and early 19th cent...

A pair of early transferware English porcelain teacups and saucers, made by the Worcester Porcelain Factory during the Barr, Flight & Barr ...

This is a set of six Barr Flight Barr Worcester dishes that were hand-painted in Worcester, England, around 1805. Each dish has a diameter of 8.15 inches. They're in very good condit...

Flight & Barr Worcester Botanical Porcelain plate, circa 1792-1800 The Flight & Barr porcelain dessert plate has a simple purple flower to the center with a gilt line surround. The wide, shaped rim is finely painted with three different alternating flowers- a yellow rose, a red carnation, and a pink double-headed plant with a gilded rim. Measure: Diameter: 7 3...

An early Worcester Flight & Barr bright yellow beaker with gilding and a finely painted sepia scene of a landscape. The scene, possibly painted by John Pennington, shows two figures ...

This is a spectacular set of eight plates made by Barr Flight & Barr between 1811 and 1813. They are made in one of the many versions of the "Imari Fence" or "Japan" pattern. Barr...