Fine Flight & Barr Worcester Porcelain Teacup & Saucer, circa 1800

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 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...

A very fine Flight Barr and Barr Worcester Porcelain tea cup and saucer c.1815. Finely decorated with panels of flowers by Samuel Astles...

A Flight, Barr And Barr Worcester 'Warwick' Vase, Circa 1815-20. Decorated with a gilt gadrooned rim, gilt twisted double vine stem and leaf handles, and gilded floral and scroll dec...

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...

This is a a good early tea cup and saucer duo, hand decorated with a leaf and gilt intertwining pattern by Worcester during the Barr / Barr, Flight and Barr period, fully marked to ...

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

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...

This is a good early Coffee Can or cup with a ring handle, hand decorated with a leaf and gilt intertwining pattern by Worcester during the Barr, Flight and Barr period, fully marked to the base and dating to circa 1807-1813. The piece is well potted with nominally parallel sides and a ring handle. The pattern is hand painted with an intertwining Meander pattern of brown leaves and gilding with additional gilding to the outer handle. Similar coffee cans are illustrated in the book A Compendium of British Cups by Michael Berthoud . The base has a scratched "B" to the base indicating it was potted in the Worcester Barr...

A very good Porcelain Coffee Can with a ring handle, hand decorated with an orange and gilt pattern by Worcester during the Barr period, fully marked to...

Flight Barr & Barr Porcelain Cabinet Cup & Saucer Attr: Thomas Baxter, circa 1815 One side decorated with a scene of Mettingham Castle - The home of the late Sir John de Norwich in ...