Copeland Parianware Bust of Princess Alexandra, 1863

A very fine pair of late 19th century, opulent gilded brass fire chenets in the rococo taste. Depicting seated baby fawns holding candles within fancy scrolls. Highly decorative exa...

Fine quality pair of circular floral needlework pictures. These pictures depict bouquets of English flowers. They are mounted and framed in their or...

A fine pair of early 19th century ormolu candlesticks decorated with crisp, engine-turning throughout and retaining the original sconces. Unusually with weighted bases, possibly indi...

A good quality pair of bronze and ormolu candlesticks with ormolu socles on decorated brionze bases supporting tapered ringed columns with bronze winged putti and ormolu sconces with...

A very fine antique Coalport parian bust of the Prince of Wales sculpted by John Rose and dated 1863. Probably made to commemorate the forthcoming marriage of Albert Edward Prince...

A refined and classically elegant 19th-century Parian ware bust of Clytie, sculpted by Charles Delpech and produced by Copeland for the Art Union of London in 1868. Rendered in fine...

These bronze figures show Edward, Prince of Wales, standing in a nonchalant pose with one leg crossed over the other, a cigar in his left hand, his hat at his feet and a shotgun slung over his right arm. The elegant Princess of Wales is depicted skating, with feathers in her hat, and wearing a fur-trimmed coat and muff as the wind catches her three-quarter length skirt. Each stamped Elkington & Co Founders and G 1870. English, dated 1870. Provenance: Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Gleichen. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Gleichen, was the son of Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Feodore of Leiningen, half-sister to Queen Victoria. He ran away from school to England in 1848 and was sponsored to enter the Royal Navy by Queen Victoria. In 1854 he attained the rank of Lieutenant after serving as mate on the flagship Cumberland, where his future brother-in-law was captain and his future father-in-law was admiral. In 1866 he retired from the navy and trained with the British sculptor William Theed. As a sculptor, he carried out several portrait commissions for Queen Victoria including a statuette of Prince Alfred, her second son, and another of Prince Albert Victor...

A small parianware figurative sculpture of the Borghese Gladiator by porcelain makers Hertwig & Co. Raised on an integral rectangular base, this decorative sculpture is a stunning f...