PORCELAIN & CERAMICS

A fabulously modelled Royal Dux porcelain cockatoo c1970. Of good size the figure is naturalistically coloured and sits upon a forked branch. Royal Dux reached a peak of excellence between the two wars and have managed to survive the communist era to still be in production today.

A wonderful ceramic lidded vase decorated with stylised camelias. Coco Chanel introduced the camelia as a design motif into the French fashion world in the early twenties. The piece is marked with a blue double M initial and is dated 1925.

A French Art Deco vase c1920. A wonderful form and beautiful glaze.

A tall Poole Floriana vase with underglaze mark and painters mark. A perfect example of the post war renaissance in British design.

A Poole pottery two handled Blue Bird vase c1930.

A sensational Chamberlain's Worcester dish c1840. A Viscount's crest surrounded by handpainted bunches of flowers on a green ground with gilded decoration. Impressed "Chamberlains" mark and painted in green "Chamberlains worcester"

A Coalport plate c1820. Coalport emloyed superb painters and this plate is a great example of the quality of their work at this period.

A large Spode harvest jug of rare size c1820.

In brilliant condition this charming lidded Rockingham tea caddy has an unusual orange base with gilded scrolls and enamelled posies of flowers. Underglaze brown mark of a griffen and "Rockingham Works Brameld Manufacturer to the King". Both lid and body in perfect condition, no rubbing to either gilding or enamelling.

A Derby plate painted by Robert Brewer c 1800. A beautifully executed early Derby plate with a gilt scrolled rim surrounding a painted scene of Peter's Stone in Derbyshire. The piece has the puce Derby mark and in puce "Peters Stone Wardlow, Derbyshire". Robert Brewer joined Derby in 1797.