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A Staffordshire Figure The Highlanders Watch Holder
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The Highlanders is a very popular Staffordshire figure, almost too popular. Every beginning collector is familiar with it and has at one time or another had it as part of their collection. There is a very good reason for this, it is charming! What makes this one different though, is that it is a watch holder. Men would place their pocketwatches inside the circle in the Staffordshire figures. This circle is not deep and makes me curious. The figures are beautifully dressed, the man with a pink cape and a rust colored dog. The girl has a green shawl and a rust colored sash there is a violin with her. The hats are tall pink and blue plumes. Flatback, although the shawl has been painted onto the back. An altogether wonderful piece of Staffordshire. condition excellent and they are 13 1/2" tall.
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A Pair of Staffordshire Spill Vases
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What a wonderful pair of Staffordshire spill vases this is. Full of color, early out of the mold, and wearing detailed and colorful costumes. These are what are known as flatback figures, and were meant to decorate a victorian mantle holding flowers. Girls in peasant dress are carrying yellow baskets ,each has a rabbit in it. Wearing pink hats and a green and rust colored dress which go beautifully with the inside of the spill which is rust. 11" tall and just perfect. There is a tiny bite to the nose of one but I think it is under the glaze. At any rate for the age they are they look very good, C 1840. A gold band decorates the bottom of the figure.
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Set of Four Hand Painted French Porcelain Plates
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Pre 1900 item# 336641
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This set of French hand painted porcelain plates is one of the most beautiful I have seen. Colorful and gilded with scalloped rims and raised gilded decoration for accent. Colorfully painted birds, phesants, are rendered in shades of deep pink, rust browns, yellow, blue, green, all set on a white ground. The background is a landscape design and each plate is unique with its subject in its own colorful pose. These plates are 9", there is an impressed mark at the bottom but I cannot make it out. I am consertavely dating them C 1900 and the plates are perfect without chips or scratches.
These are really sensational and just in time for your Holiday table or to decorate a Dining Room Wall.
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Creamware Transfer Printed Bowl Sailors Prayer 18thCent
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Pre 1800 item# 335046
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A rare 18th century Creamware black transfer printed bowl C 1760 with 3 bucolic scenes on the front. Lovers are talking, resting, and in company of a dog pledging their love. Dressed in 18th century fine clothing. Inside the bowl is printed within a cartouche:
From rocks and sands
and every ill
May God preserve
The Sailor still.
The bowl stands 3 1/2' and is 5 1/2" wide. the condition is excellent, there is a very slight hairline at 2 o'clock and a small chip to the rim at 10 o'clock. This is acceptable and I mention it only for accuracy. Transfer printed Creamware of this quality is rare and is usually in the hands of museums and a few collectors.
this is folk art at its best, and the sailor's prayer appears on later pottery on mugs, and tankards. Bowls are early and this is part of the history of England's naval power and its history.
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English Creamware 18th Century Transfer Printed Bowl
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Pre 1800 item# 334655
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What a pleasure it is for me to list this 18th century English Creamware Transfer printed bowl. I love these rare sentimental early English pieces of Creamware. This is really a museum quality piece and i use that description sparingly. The bowl is transfer printed on four sides. One transfer depicts people in a boat obviously going towards a ship. The reverse is printed with 3 women in 18th century dress, celebrating or seeing them off. Another transfer reads;
My love is fix'd
I cannot range
I like my Choice
Too well to change.
The other side reads;
Long may we live,
Happy may we be
Bleft with content,
and from misfortunes free.
I have had these verses rarely and never both on one piece. They are in the Old English spelling. I have seen them on mugs and teapots. The center of the bowl shows the points of a compass so it was obviously made for a sailor or to commerate service in the Royal Navy. The condition is excellent, the piece dates about 1760, and there is a hairline to the right inside the bowl. this is acceptable considering the age and rarity of this very special piece.
there are always things that dealers like to keep for themselves and this is one of those. By the way, the bowl stands 3 1/2" and is 6 1/2" wide.
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A delft plate C 1740 Liverpool
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Pre 1800 item# 311027
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For the lovers of delft and I am one, this is the best delft plate I have seen in a long time. The plate is blue and white and has an octagonal border which is very pretty. The plate is C 1740 and probably Liverpool. The delft plate is detailed with a bowl of flowers, oriental emblems including rhinoceros horn cups with ribbons. this oriental influence is correct for the period. The back of the plate is decorated with three simple scrolls.
The delft plate is 9" and the condition is excellent. No chips or crackling, no restoration. I show close ups of two very minor flakes on 2 of the octagonal sides. But considering its age, I have to say this is acceptable.
See Archer, pg 178 B1274 for a similar plate.
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Creil Montereau Mocha Seaweed Creamware Mug Rare
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Pre 1800 item# 309401
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This is a wonderful Creil mocha creamware mug in a seaweed decoration. the decoration is brown and looks wonderful against the warmth of the creamware. The Creil factory was founded about 1784 for the manufacture of English style earthenware. It was the first French pottery to use transfer printing . Porcelain was never made there, only pottery. Marks are either stamped in the paste as in this mug or were stenciled.
This Creil mocha mug is 2 3/4" tall and 2 1/2" wide. There is a flake to the rim as I show in the pictures. Otherwise the decoration is clear and very nice. This little mocha mug dates about 1810 and is a real treat. Some of the pictures are dark, the lighter ones are more the real color.
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Seaweed Mocha Creamware Mug, Rare
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This is one of the nicest and clearest mocha creamware mugs I've seen in a long time. Light blue, deeper blue and black bands and decoration on a creamware mug. the mug stands 3 1/2" tall and is perfect despite its age which is considerable. It dates 1820 and is unmarked as most mocha is. The name comes from the mocha stone or moss agate which the design resembles.
Mocha decoration is made by the potters using a mixture called "tea" that was put onto the slip while still damp. this caused the color to spread out like tree like fronds that contrasted with the white earthenware. An acidic solution formed patterns like tree,fern, shrub and seaweed. On some mocha pieces black rings were added as in this one.
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