british cerami c s
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A Staffordshire Salt Glaze Pottery Two-Division Tea Caddy,
circa 1750, of double domed rectangular section, impressed with “domino” motifs and with central arched handle flanked by nozzles with brass bucket covers, 12cm high
£200 - 300
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An Englis ✖h Blue and White Delft Wall-Pocket, London, probably Lambeth, circa 1750,of
half round double cup form, with hole for suspension pierced through the upper back plate (prior to glazing), the frontal upper register painted with a chinoiserie scene of a Manchu boy with long sleeves dancing by a fence before a huge midgie beneath overhanging crag, a stalagmite repeat pattern to the lower cup and with acorn terminal, 19cm high
A similarly shaped wall-pocket (but which has a variant landscape and a stalagmite repeat upper border) is illustrated in Archer (Michael) Delftware, pg.375, i.23.
The use of Chinese children at play - Wa Wa - are often seen on Chinese Kangxi blue and white porcelains, and were probably the inspiration for this design.
£400 - 600
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A Tin Glaze Wine Bin Label for Bucellas, London (possibly Mortlake, Sanders), circa 1760-
70, of pentagonal shape, the arched top pierced for suspension, inscribed BUCELLAS in manganese-purple, 14cm wide, 8cm high; and A
Wedgwood Pottery Wine Bin Label, circa 1780-1800, similarly
shaped to the preceding, part glazed and with overglaze inscription (now deteriorated) possibly MONTPELIER, impressed WEDGWOOD, 14.5cm wide, 7.8cm high (2)
Once wine could be stored in bottles, bins made of brick and stone were built in cellars for the purpose of storage, and tin glaze examples such as this were popular because they could resist damp. Bucelas (historically known as Bucellas) is a Portuguese wine, once described as Portuguese Hock from a region just north of Lisbon. Historically a white wine, during the Elizabethan age it was popular amongst the English as a fortified wine. Wine historians consider that this wine was likely the same ‘charneco’ wine mentioned by William Shakespeare in the play Henry VI Part II (with Charneco being a local village in the Bucelas region).
£100 - 200
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A Tin Glaze Drug Jar, probably London, circa 1750, cylindrical, one
side with strapwork cartouche inscribed PHILON:LON., surmounted by a shell flanked by two winged putto, below a cupid’s head flanked by floral swags and with a tassel, 9.8cm high
£200 - 300
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An English Tin Glaze Drug Jar, probably London, circa 1750,of
ovoid form, on one side only with a strapwork cartouche inscribed E:LENITIU:, surmounted by a shell flanked by two winged putti, cupid’s head below flanked by flower swags, 19.1cm high
E LENITIU is electuarium lenitivun, an electuary with mild purgative action. It was made from senna, tamarind pulp, prunes, polypody rhizome, liquorice and other ingredients.
£250 - 350
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