Pair of Victorian Staffordshire Spill Vases, circa 1875

Modelled in high relief with eagle attacking a dragon emerging from waves. Marked KGL.

Depicting cranes.

With vine and grapes molded in high relief.

Painted pattern numbers 3/233 in red or black.

Imari style with panels of foliage on a white ground alternating with panels on an underglaze blue ground with florets and flowers in a vase. The covers similarly decorated and with ...

With inner white layer and all-over gilt highlights depicting grapes on a vine.

Fantastic quality pair of antique Victorian spill vases having quality hand painted landscape scenes to the front and a red hand painted back with gold gilded borders wonderful shape...

Pair of reproduction Staffordshire style porcelain mantel vases by Chelsea House, Port Royal, in the shape of black and white King Charles Spaniels with gold chain leashes.    

This is a set of three little spill vases made by an unknown Staffordshire maker in circa 1820, which was the Regency era. Two of the vases are cobalt blue, one is salmon, and all three have beautiful gilding and hand painted flowers. Spill vases were used for match sticks to kindle the fire. Match sticks in 1820 weren't what they are today: they were short hand-cut sticks of wood and came in bundles. Everyone had a "spill vase" on the mantle piece or on a little side table next to the fire, so that the fire could be kindled at any moment. In the early 19th century there were at some point 300 potteries in Staffordshire, and artists would move from pottery to pottery, attracted by competitive wages. Unless items are clearly marked, it is often difficult to identify them and I have not been able to clearly identify these three spill vases as everyone made them. The two cobalt blue vases are clearly from the same maker; the salmon colored one is slightly shorter and different in shape, but basically the same. All have nicely shaped rims and three charming lion's claws as feet. There is beautiful gilding and stunning hand painted flowers in the reserves. Condition report: All vases have some wear; one of the cobalt blue vases had a foot broken and restuck (this is stable and not very visible when in position) and the salmon vase...

Pair of Spode spill vases, circa 1820. Cobalt blue and gilt with finely painted scenic panels, both depicting Cathedral City views. Marked to bases 'Durham/Spode' and 'The Cathedral ...

A scarce and early railway interest English Staffordshire flat back pottery spill vase with a seated couple with dog and with an evolved example of Stephenson’s Rocket dating from the 19th century. The hollow made earthenware spill vase portrays a seated couple in Scottish dress...

A rare and unusual antique English Staffordshire spill vase modeled as a dog saving a drowning boy and dating from the mid 19th century. The spill vase stands on an oval shaped base and portrays a large dog lifting a boy from a river abstractly created with a blue painted rough cast edge. The dog stands raised on a bank painted with floral sprigs and the dog has a black and white painted body with painted features with the spill vase as a tall standing trunk...