BRITISH CERAMICS

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A Nantgarw Porcelain Soup Bowl, possibly from the Brace

Service, 1820, of quatrelobed form, the border moulded in relief with C scrolls, flowers and ribbon bows, and with five fruit, flower and bird vignettes around a central spray including red rose, blue bindweed, and a yellow/purple tulip, probably London decorated, perhaps in the Bradley workshop, within a gilt dentil rim, 20.6cm diameter See illustration

A square dish from this so-called Brace Service was presented to the Rt Hon William Brace PC and is illustrated in John (WD) Nantgarw Porcelain, pl.31b.

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A Pair of Busts,Winter and Spring, from the Four Seasons, after Owen Hale, circa 1881, both

as pretty young women with upward gaze to dexter,Winter decorated with laurel leaves, Spring with flowers, on fluted swept rectangular cushion moulded bases, both incised Owen Hale Sc,Winter dated 1881, Spring with impressed mark 76, 43.5cm and 45cm high respectively

£400 - 600

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Penelophon The Beggar Maid, after William Brodie, circa 1869,

a large figure of a young woman in ragged clothes standing by a tree stump on a circular base with title,

incised W Brodie RSA Sc Edinr 1867,

also impressed factory mark, 68cm high

£180 - 250

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Daphne, after Marshall Wood,

Copeland, 1862, the nude classical beauty standing full length and gazing downwards, standing beside a laurel tree, circular base, impressed

Pub 1862 Copeland, 57cm high

A similar figure is illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, page 172.

Provenance: The Thornton Collection Part III, Tennants, 22 November 2007, lot 154.

£200 - 300

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Dancing Girl Reposing, after William Calder Marshall, for the Art Union of London, 1848,

standing and gazing to dexter holding a tambourine by a garland covered tree stump, shaped circular base,

incised Marshall Fect Cheverton Sculp, impressed Copeland, and frontally impressed Art Union of London 1848, 45cm high

This model is recorded in Copeland

(Robert) Parian Copeland’s Statuary

Porcelain, page 136, photo and entry S.38. Marshall was awarded £500 for this design by the Art Union of London. The marble version was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1848.

£200 - 300

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Lion in Love, after J B Klagmann, Shape 412, Minton, circa 1850-

65, modelled as a nude maiden seated on a male lion, impressed Minton, indistinct year mark, 40cm

high; and Europa and Bull, Shape 415, Minton, circa 1863, as a nude

classical goddess on the back of a bull garlanded with flowers, impressed mark and year mark for 1863, 41.5cm high (2)

£400 - 600

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Queen Victoria Interest:A Rare Princess Victoria Pearlware Pottery Child’s Plate, circa 1831,

circular, the borders moulded with a monkey, three running dogs, a cat, and cupids in a horse-drawn chariot, within black string lines, centrally printed in black with a half length portrait of the young princess against a curtain drape, inscribed Princess Victoria, 17.5cm diameter

£2000 - 3000

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A Pair of Staffordshire Pottery Cat and Kitten Groups, 19th

century, the mother cats seated on their haunches with tiger coats and blue collars, green eyes, with recumbent kittens at their sides, on oval bases, 18cm high

£700 - 900

A dessert plate from the Brace Service was sold at Sotheby’s, lot 196, 6 October 2005

£1000 - 15000

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A Garniture of Three Coalport Encrusted Floral Porcelain Vases,

circa 1840, each of baluster shape with midnight blue glaze enriched with gilt scrolls, with pairs of scrolling handles, an each applied to the front and back with diverse brightly coloured flowerheads, 20cm and 22cm high

£150 - 250

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Wilberforce & Slavery Interest:A Staffordshire Blue Tinted Stoneware Wilberforce

Cenotaph, circa 1834, as a fluted pillar with domed surmount with sphere finial, on a rectangular socle with a panel on each side with

inscription In Memory of W Wilberforce Esq The Enemy of Slavery and The Friend of Man / Born August 24th 1759 / An Act Passed August 28th 1833 Provides for the Entire Extinction of Colonial Slavery from the 1st August 1834 , on a five-step

base, 33cm high

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