BRITISH CERAMICS

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Venus and Iris,A Pair of Maidens Representing Two of the Four Elements,Water and Air, Worcester, circa 1870, one as a

scantily clad young woman standing on the crest of waves, the other as a young woman upholding her billowing wrap flanked by rocks, 39cm and 40cm high respectively Similar figures are illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis.

Provenance: The Thornton Collection Part 1, Tennants, 29 March 2007, lot 155.

£180 - 250

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The Mother, after Raffaele Monti, for the Ceramic and Crystal Palace Art Union, 1874,

pedestal bust, as a veiled mother cuddling her child beneath a diaphanous veil, on a concave sided circular plinth impressed Crystal

Palace Art Union, the bust with incised R Monti signature and 1871, stamped Ceramic and Crystal Palace Art Union, Copeland 074, 38cm high

This pedestal bust is illustrated in

Copeland (Robert) Parian Copeland’s

Statuary Porcelain, page 218, entry and photo B.52. This bust is companion to The Bride.

£800 - 1200

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The Bather Surprised, after Sir Thomas Brock, 1868, standing

leaning on the cleft of a tree stump, wearing a green tinted tunic mantle, on a canted rectangular plinth, on the

reverse incised T Brock sc London

1868, impressed crown and wheel mark, 64.5cm high

£500 - 800

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A High Relief Moulded Jug, The Death of Wellington, Alcock,

circa 1854, of bell shape, with laurel leaf moulded rim, twig handle and moulded on both sides with the same group attending the ailing war hero, 27cm high

Provenance: The Thornton Collection Part 1, Tennants, 29 March 2007, lot 190.

£200 - 300

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The Reclining Venus, unknown factory, circa 1870, holding a shell

in her left hand and gazing onto sea rocks, 27.5cm high

Provenance: The Thornton Collection Part I, Tennants, 29 March 2007, lot 132.

£200 - 300

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Love Restraining Wath,William Beattie, Shape 252, Minton,

impressed Minton, year code for 1852, 42.5cm high

A somewhat similar figure (though with an asymmetrical naturalistic base) is illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, page 69. This figure was shown by Minton at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Provenance: The Thornton Collection, Part 1, Tennants, 29 March 2007, lot 60.

£250 - 350

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A Pair Renaissance Revival Ewers, for the Crystal Palace Art Union, Copeland, circa 1875,of

pedestal ovoid shape with leaf and berry swept handles, fronted by a winged caryatid, flying spout, the main frieze with scrolling foliage, serpents and birds, on a domed foot,

each impressed Copeland Crystal Palace Art Union, 33.5cm high; One

Single Example, 34.5cm high; and

A Parian Prince of Wales Jug, unknown factory, possibly Copeland, late 19th century,

similar in shape to the preceding, with maiden handle and frontally applied with a putto, 35cm high (4)

£200 - 300

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A Parcel Gilt and Partly Tinted Figure of a Classical Beauty at her Toilet, after W C Marshall, Copeland, dated 1861, the young

figure seated on a stool admiring herself in a mirror, impressed

Copeland, Crystal Palace Art Union, W C Marshall RA Sculpt Pub January 1st 1861, 40cm high

Provenance: The Thornton Collection Part 1, Tennants, 29 March 2007, lot 216.

£150 - 200

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