Antique Porcelain: Royal Crown Derby, Staffordshire, Royal Worcester, Bohemian, Royal Doulton Porcelain, Ceramics and Pottery
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED GLASS INKWELL, LINER AND BOX, French, circa 1890, the square form with rounded shoulders and hobnail-cut base, mounted with two silver-gilt pierced scroll bands connected on the front and reverse by a winged female and each side with [...]

ANTIQUE PORCELAIN SERVICES: Mason’s ironstone Dessert Service, mid-19th Century, Spode New Stone part Dinner Service, English porcelain Tea Service
A Mason’s ironstone Dessert Service, mid-19th Century, each piece printed and enameled with a pair of comical birds amongst flowers growing from pierced rockwork within complex
floral and diaper border, comprising: large Comport, two Sauce Tureens, Covers and [...]

ANTIQUE PORCELAIN FIGURES: Derby Figures, Bow Figure, Staffordshire Figures
A rare Bow Figure of a Thames
waterman, 1753—55, standing in
brown-trimmed yellow cap and coat over
floral waistcoat, his head turned to
sinister, his left arm outstretched before
a tree-stump, on a floral painted base,
cap chipped, left hand restored, 20cm.;
Until the construction of Westminster Bridge in 1750 the only two means [...]

Antique Porcelain Pots, Pastille Burners and Pot-Pourri
As late AS the middle of the nineteenth Century, open sewers were still running through London and in The Great Stink’ of 1858, Parliament was obliged to rise, due to the smell from the Thames, which was practically a flood of untreated efficient. There was a certain amount of [...]

Antique Porcelain Table Wares & Dinner Services: Coalport, Davenport, Royal Crown Derby, Minton, Rockingham.
This is a section devoted to the items which are used at table, with the exception of plates. The odds and ends of services that survived the violent hands of the under-the-stairs staff were offen kept for decoration and the tureens and [...]

Antique Porcelain Tea and Coffee Services and Sets
The damage problem that dinner services suffer from applies also to lea and coffee services  incomplete sets are of little use unless of a very fine quality and highlydecorative. Since the teapot was the most complex article In a set and receivd the most use, it is most [...]

Antique Porcelain Vases: Minton Vases, Moore, Rockingham, Spode, Swansea and Royal Worcester Vase
Antique Minton Porcelain Vase 1871.
A good pair of vases with brightly enamelled birds. The blue ground is rather too dark resulting in an unfortunate drab appearance; a brighter blue or other colour could raise the price. The handles and borders gilt.
Impressed name and [...]

Antique Porcelain Vases: Brownfield, Coalport, Copeland, Royal Crown Derby, Grainger and Co Vases.
Antique porcelain vases were usually made purely for decoration and not to hold flowers. The price is now governed by the quality and decorative value. and, as always. by the  factory. There are quirks in this section as in the others. The Minton [...]

Antique Porcelain Decorative Plates
Plates have always been found a useful base for displays of ; proficiency and have therefore becn frcquently used for decorative rather than utilitarian purposes.
Although single plates from rare or highly decorated eighteenth Century services can justify a single lot at auction, only plates from a few special services or faetones of [...]

Antique Porcelain Jugs, Mugs and Ewers
The material for the body was by no means fixed and one design can be found in soft earthenware, stoneware and parian; in fact, it is occasionally difficult to decide between the last two, the body looking like a fine stoneware or a proto-parian body. Those illustrated on p. 146 [...]