British Pottery

English majolica large begonia leaf oval platter, circa 1880. Oval 1/2" deep foot rim. Lilac, brown, green & blue. Handsome; rare size. Note glaze bubbles near one side point. 16.25"...

This is a cup & saucer set in the rarely seen, hand painted "Pine Grove" Pattern by the renowned Art Deco designer Clarice Cliff. This piece dates to the late Bizarre period, Circa 1935. The Pine Grove Pattern was Newport pattern 6449, having boldly drawn black, blue and green fir trees with orange/red trunks, the whole design then covered in thin grey, blue & green bands. This pattern is rarely seen but has the distinctive "Clarice" look of the early Bizarre pieces. The cup has the Bizarre black printed stamp on the base and the saucer has the Wilkinson's honey-glaze mark, all fully documented in the book ; Clarice Cliff The Bizarre Affair, written by Leonard Griffin and Louis K. and Susan Pear Meisel...

This is a rare Mason's ironstone miniature Teapot in the rare Plaid Japan gilded pattern, which we date to circa 1820. Miniature or toy items of Masons...

A stylish Burmantofts Faience art pottery wall plaque with rampant lions by Joseph Walmsley and dating from the latter 19th century. The circular plaque is hand painted with six ramp...

This is a Georgian set of six matching Mason's ironstone plates, all in the Oriental Pheasant pattern and dating to the earliest period between 1813-1820. Sets of early plates in this pattern are rare. The plates are decorated in the chinoiserie "Oriental Pheasant" pattern, which is a very distinctive pattern with very colourful border decoration. The pattern is very richly hand painted, over-glaze in brilliant enamels of black, cobalt blue, burnt orange, green, yellow and puce in varying shades, over a blue transfer printed...

England, circa 1830. An early nineteenth century matched pair of pearlware cow creamers, the first with black and red patches and the other purple and red, both mounted on a grassy ...

Pair of diminutive red Staffordshire Spaniels, circa 1860, Each one exceptionally painted with expressive faces.

This is a good Jasperware stoneware small Blue and white vase, made by Wedgwood, England and dating to the 19th Century. The vase has a classical baluster shape tapering into the n...

Lovely shaped grey ceramic vase made by Wedgwood. Designed by Keith Murray Makers marks and facsimile signature on base 2 tiny hairline cracks to the rim.( shown in the images ) ...

A rare and impressive antique Staffordshire pottery bull-baiting figure group by Obadiah Sherratt and dating from around 1820. The pottery group stands raised on a rectangular shaped...

George Jones Majolica Sardine box on a turquoise-blue ground, English, ca. 1870, the box molded with green acanthus leaves, with matching underplate, the lid molded and applied with ...

A Very Stylish Identical Pair of English Royal Doulton Lambeth English Moulded Salt-Glaze Stoneware Pottery Ewers of compact proportions. Each of bulbous form with wavy flared rim ...

Rare complete set of antique Mason's Ashworth Ironstone Chinoiserie pattern hand enameled and transfer decorated plates in excellent condition England, 1862-1880 Vibrant, joyful colo...

English Creamware Engine-Turned Mug, Blue Slip & Green Rouletted Bands, 1815 This cylindrical pint mug is decorated entirely on the lathe, its white creamware body cut with four bro...

Victorian Majolica “Three-Legged Sailor” Teapot, Attributed to William Brownfield & Sons, c. 1880 Dimensions: 9" H × 7" W × 5" D This rare and engaging Victorian majolica teapot...

Wedgwood Creamware Egg Cup Stand with Salt and Six Egg Cups, Circa 1800–1820 The oval creamware egg stand, of shallow tray form with a raised rim, is centered with a raised open ova...

A Staffordshire pottery hen on a basket covered tureen, England, circa 1890 The hand painted bisque hen sits on her eggs in a glossy Sienna brown basket weave oval base. The hen sho...

English Creamware Cow Creamer and Cover Staffordshire, circa 1775–1780 Glazed earthenware This whimsical yet functional vessel exemplifies the charm of 18th-century Staffordshire po...

A pair of fine large English round garden urns or planter pots of terracotta, approximately 17 1/2 inches in diameter, featuring a stylized Classical rolled edge to the rim and scrol...

An exceptionally rare Doulton Lambeth Impasto pair of bottle vases marked Arrabian by F M Collins (Mrs Vale) dated 1879. F M Collins was a Faience Depart...

These are a matching PAIR of Ironstone pottery mugs made by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, Staffordshire, England and is decorated in the Chinese Scroll Pattern, fully stamped an...

This is a good stone China (Ironstone pottery) Small Dish or Bowl / Saucer, hand painted in the tobacco leaf pattern, number 2061, made by the Spode factory in the early 19th century...

A Staffordshire pottery hen on a basket covered tureen, England, circa 1890 The hand painted hen sits on her eggs in a yellow ochre basket weave oval base. The hen shows a gray and ...

English Pearlware Blue Slip Teapot & Cover, Engine-Turned Fluting, Acorn Finial English, probably Staffordshire or Yorkshire, Circa 1790 This English pearlware teapot of restrained neoclassical form has a straight-sided cylindrical, or drum-shaped, body covered in a light blue slip ground, its broad upper section unadorned save for the decorative band encircling the shoulder: a checkered band of rouletting inlaid with dark brown slip, flanked by fine raised turned fillets. The lower section is distinguished by a broad band of closely spaced vertical fluting, cut on the engine-turning lathe through the blue slip to expose the pale body beneath, the flutes stopping in a neat scalloped edge against the blue above and below. The fluting is a crisp textural counterpoint to the smooth blue-slipped upper body and a quality of workmanship that speaks to the more refined end of English earthenware production of the period. Engine-turning was carried out before firing, while the clay was leather-hard, on a lathe whose cams rocked the revolving pot against a fixed cutting tool, so that a repeated pattern could be cut with mechanical regularity; where the pot had first been dipped or banded in colored slip, as here, the cut revealed the contrasting color of the body. It is a characteristic feature of the more accomplished Staffordshire and Yorkshire manufactories, among them the Leeds Pottery. The domed cover, with its broad stepped rim, repeats the engine-turned reeding in a concentric ring at the crown and is surmounted by a finely modeled applied finial in the form of a white pearlware acorn in its textured cup, resting upon naturalistic oak leaves with a twig and an empty acorn cup beside it, a motif of considerable delicacy widely employed in English ceramics of the 1780s and 1790s. The curved spout, in uncolored pearlware, is press-molded at its base with leafage in low relief, and the reeded loop handle ends in press-molded foliate terminals at both its upper and lower junctions, reinforcing the neoclassical character of the design. The flat glazed base shows the blue-green pooling characteristic of the pearlware glaze. Dimensions: Height: 6½ inches (16.5 cm) Width, handle to spout: 8½ inches (21.6 cm) Depth: 4¾ inches (12.1 cm) Marks: Unmarked. Provenance: Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Condition: Good condition, with a chip to the tip of the spout, visible in the photographs. References: T. A. Lockett and P. A. Halfpenny, eds., Creamware and Pearlware, Stoke-on-Trent: City Museum and Art Gallery, 1986. Donald Towner, Creamware, London: Faber & Faber, 1978. Peter Walton, Creamware and Other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Bradford and London: Manningham Press, 1976, p. 246, pls. 1071–1072. Geoffrey A. Godden, British Pottery: An Illustrated Guide, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1974. Philip Miller and Michael Berthoud, An Anthology of British Teapots, Broseley, Shropshire: Micawber Publications, 1985. Donald Carpentier and Jonathan Rickard, “Slip Decoration in the Age of Industrialization,” Ceramics in America 2001, Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2001, pp. 115–134. Jonathan Rickard and Donald Carpentier, “The Little Engine That Could: Adaptation of the Engine-Turning Lathe in the Pottery Industry,” Ceramics in America 2004, Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2004, pp. 78–99. Bonhams, London, 18 May 2011, lot 96: a Leeds pearlware...

Engine-Turned Elegance: Staffordshire Redware Coffee Pot by Myatt, Circa 1790-1810 A substantial and finely crafted Staffordshire redware coffee pot of ovoid form, produced by the M...

Lovely shaped and good size cream / pale yellow ceramic vase made by Wedgwood. Designed by Keith Murray Makers marks and facsimile signature on base Tiny imperfection to the rim o...

Wedgwood Creamware Hummingbird & Flowers Plates, Pattern No. 7961, Set of Three Etruria, Staffordshire, Dated 1868 This set of three Wedgwood creamware plates...

Regency Revival: Herculaneum Neo-Classical Greek Pattern Printed Dish ________________________________________ This is an impressive English Trans...

This is a beautiful wall plaque of a classical figure made from black basalt, probably by Josiah Wedgwood, circa 1860 It is oval in shaped with beautifully moulded detail. The maker...

Victorian Staffordshire Cow & Milkmaid Group, Circa 1860 A charming and narrative Victorian Staffordshire pottery figure group, dating from circa 1860. This model captures a classi...

A studio ceramic bowl made by Dame Lucie Rie (1902-1995) circa 1950s. The bowl, iconic in the repertoires of the celebrated British potter has an organic form, elegantly posed with s...

Etruria, Staffordshire, circa 1925, turned Wedgwood shape no. 317, stoneware with crimson Jasper dip ground, decorated with sprigged white Jasper bas-relief depictions of muses and A...

Antique 18th century Wedgwood creamware Rococo sea shell form dish with feathered edge and rising on three small snail feet. Measures 8 7/8" x 8" x 1 3/4". Good condition - wear and ...

A delightful and scarce Watcombe Torquay Aesthetic Movement art pottery novelty sauce boat modelled as a frog pulling a shell dating between 1880 and 1890. Probably made for Liberty ...

A fine vintage Santa Claus character jug or decorative mug by the English pottery firm, Royal Doulton.

Rare early pair of antique Mason's Ashworth Ironstone Chinoiserie pattern hand enameled and transfer decorated large dinner plates 19th Century Vibrant, joyful colors of orange, mul...

A large Moorcroft Pottery big poppy vase. Walter Moorcroft era. The base bears impressed marks and a blue glaze script Walter Moorcroft signature. ...

This is a hand-painted Mason's ironstone side plate, in the Table and Flower pot gilded pattern, from their earliest George 3rd period, circa 1818.  This plate is well painted in the Chinoiserie pattern called the Table and Flower Pot pattern...

Charming Utility: A Swansea Pearlware Prattware Covered Tea Caddy Box, c. 1800-1820 This is an exceptional example of an early 19th-century Pearlware Tea Caddy Box, distinguished by...

Antique Advertising Ironstone 'Margarine' Slab, England, circa 1920's. An advertising piece used by grocers to display Golden Fleece Marg...

This is a beautiful plate in the Japanese inspired Kakiemon pattern number 2117, produced by the Copeland - Late Spode factory and made of earthenware potte...

Staffordshire Pearlware bocage pack of red spaniel puppies or sheep- A rare whimsical grouping of three seated red and white animals under a tree on an oval naturalistic base.      

Spode Greek Pattern Blue Printed Pearlware Oval Tazza, Neoclassical This oval footed tazza is of pearlware printed in underglaze blue in Spode's Greek ...

Decorative three-piece Rubens Ware art pottery garniture set by J. Hancock & Sons of Stoke-on-Trent, England, circa 1930s. The aptly named 'Pomegranate', comprising a hand-paint...

This is a large Earthenware ( pottery) Plate in the Melbourne Pattern, made by Gildea & Walker in 1881 as a testament to the Aesthetic Movement. The Aesthetic Movement was a lat...

Pair of Diminutive Antique Staffordshire black & white seated Spaniels, C. 1860s England, Circa 1860s A good pair of antique black and white Staffordshire...

This is a good stone China (Ironstone) Desert Plate, hand painted in the tobacco leaf pattern, number 2061, made by the Copeland (Spode) factory in the 19th century, English Victoria...

This is a cup & saucer duo in the hand painted "Ravel" Pattern by the renowned Art Deco designer Clarice Cliff. This piece dates to the Art Deco period Circa 1936. The Ravel pattern was first introduced in 1929 and was one of Clarice's most popular designs. The pattern shows "Cubist" flowers and leaves in jade green and orange. The pieces are potted in the "Athens" shape Both pieces have the the Clarice Cliff, Wilkinson's England Lithograph marks in black, dating them to circa 1936, all fully documented in the book ; Clarice Cliff The Bizarre Affair, written by Leonard Griffin and Louis K. and Susan Pear Meisel...

This is a good example of a very early 19th century Pearlware Chestnut Basket in the "Blue Willow" transfer pattern. Creamware was invented during the second half of the 18th century and reached its height of popularity c.1810. Chestnut baskets were common serving pieces in 18th and 19th century households. Period antique Chestnut basket...

This is a good early pair of Mason's Ironstone pottery Side or Tea plates, hand painted in the very decorative Basket Japan pattern, produced by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, St...

Greek Revival Dining: Set of 10 Spode "Phliasian Horseman" Soup Plates (c. 1806–1820) A fine set of 10 early 19th-century blue and white transfer-printed pottery soup plates by Spo...

This mochaware mug was made to hold a quart of beer or lager. It was made in England circa 1870-1880. The dark mochaware "trees" are applied by hand (see below for the details of the...

English Pearlware Blue Slip Coffee Pot & Cover, Staffordshire or Yorkshire Circa 1790 This handsome English pearlware coffee pot and cover, of ba...

This rare Spode drabware rectangular tray was made for slices of bread or small breakfast rolls. Made in England by Spode circa 1825, it has a deep, rich color. The carrying handle i...

This is a lovely set of blue and white Victorian style Royal Worcester Palissy pottery .There are nine bone dishes having a kidney shape. They depict the English Avon scenes from 179...

Early 19th c Gaudy Welch Personalised Commemorative Birthday Mug. "George Taylor Born August 23 1839." The term "Gaudy Welsh" refers to the style of brightly colored, heavily decorat...

Rare antique Mason's Ashworth's Ironstone Chinoiserie pattern hand enameled and transfer decorated footed compote serving dish England, 1862-1880 Vibrant, joyful colors of orange, m...

This is a beautiful plate in the Bow Pot pattern, produced by the Spode factory and made of a type of earthenware pottery called Pearl-ware, in the early 19th century, circa 1820. ...

This art pottery teacup and saucer set was done by the Moorcroft Pottery company of England in circa 1925 in their 'Pomegranate' pattern. Each duo is done in the Moorcroft signature ...

This is a fine Ironstone pottery Desert Plate made by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, Staffordshire, England and beautifully decorated in the Small Vase, flower & Rock Pattern, fully stamped and dating to the earliest period of Mason's Ironstone production, circa 1815. This design is one of Mason's very decorative chinoiserie patterns called the Small Vase, Flowers and Rock pattern, with a bamboo stem border and rich hand gilding. This Imari inspired pattern is illustrated on Page 110 of a Guide to Mason's Patent Ironstone Patterns, circa 1813-1848, produced by The Mason's Collectors Club. This plate has probably the earliest impressed mark stating " Patent Ironstone China" in a circle, dating it to the early 19th century, Georgian period, circa 1815. Overall a very early Masons Plate...