Saturday 26 November 2016

Maling Lustre 'Old Ford Roses' Pattern 6225

Maling Pink Lustre 'Old Ford Roses' Ginger Jar - Pattern 6225 c1935

A lovely Maling ginger jar in the 'Old Ford' pattern of hand painted blue and red roses on a rose pink lustre ground - a striking 1930s design with gold overprinting used on 'best' wares. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Friday 25 November 2016

Wedgwood Green Glazed Majolica

Wedgwood Green Majolica 'Vine and Oak Leaf' Rectangular Dish c1870

A fine antique Wedgwood green glazed dish with moulded grape vines and oak leaves on a basket and cane weave background. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Thursday 24 November 2016

Burleigh Ware 'Strawberry' Biscuit Jar

Burleigh Ware Art Deco 'Strawberry' Biscuit Jar c1930

A lovely Burleigh Ware biscuit jar modelled and handpainted with strawberries, leaves and flowers. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Wednesday 23 November 2016

Royal Winton 'Eleanor' Chintz Teapot

Vintage Royal Winton 'Eleanor' Chintz Alban Teapot c1945

A lovely Royal Winton 'Eleanor' Alban shape teapot with sliding patented lid. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Early blue and white - 'Pashkov Palace, Moscow' Pattern

'Pashkov Palace, Moscow' Pattern Dinner Plate c1820

A rare dinner plate printed in medium blue with a view of the Pashkov Palace in Moscow built in 1784. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Tuesday 22 November 2016

Carlton Ware Lemon Preserve Pot

Carlton Ware Lemon Preserve Pot with Spoon c1930

A rare Carlton Ware preserve pot with original spoon - modelled as a lemon, hand painted and in excellent condition. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Royal Doulton 'Famous Ships - The Acorn' D5957

Royal Doulton 'Famous Ships - The Acorn' Side Plate D5957 c1938

A fine Royal Doulton hand painted side plate featuring the Acorn - one of 17 Famous Ships in this much sought after series. For more details visit Premier Antiques


Sunday 20 November 2016

Davenport 'Chinese Celtic' Clobbered Chinoiserie Pattern

Davenport 'Chinese Celtic' Chinoiserie Pattern Dessert Dish c1820

A fine example of a 'clobbered' tart or dessert dish, printed in medium blue with oriental figures in a garden landscape - overpainted or clobbered with coloured enamels. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Saturday 19 November 2016

Royal Winton 'Gera' Toast Rack

Royal Winton 'Gera' White Geranium Toast Rack c1935

A lovely Royal Winton 'Gera' toast rack with geranium leaves and flowers moulded at each end of the uprights. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Friday 18 November 2016

Burleigh Ware 'Narcissus' Finned Dish - Pattern 5677

Burleigh Ware Art Deco 'Narcissus' Finned Dish c1935

A large diamond shaped dish with fin handles and enamelled narcissus on a speckled green ground - a classic piece of Burleigh Ware in excellent condition. For more details visit my website Premier Antiques

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Beswick Art Deco Floral Pattern 7647

Beswick Ware Art Deco Zenith Jug - Floral Pattern 7647 c1930

A striking Beswick jug hand painted with blue and orange art deco flowers on a yellow ground. For more details visit my website Premier Antiques

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Hancock's Rubens Ware

Rubens Ware 'Pomegranate' Vase by F. X. Abraham c1930

A large Rubens Ware 'Pomegranate' vase designed by F. X. Abraham, art director at Hancock and Sons in the 20s and 30s. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Beswick Art Deco Leaf Basket

Large Beswick Ware Art Deco Leaf Basket Vase c1940

A large and impressive art deco vase modelled as overlapping leaves forming a circular basket shape with a satin matt glaze. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Monday 14 November 2016

Carlton Ware Oranges and Lemons

Carlton Ware 'Orange' Preserve Pot c1935

Two lovely Carlton Ware items modelled as citrus fruit and beautifully painted in bright fresh colours. Nice to find complete - the lemon squeezer base is particularly rare. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Carlton Ware Lemon Citrus Squeezer and Jug c1930

Davidson's Purple Slag Glass

Davidson's Purple Malachite Pressed Glass Chamberstick c1880

A very rare pressed glass chamberstick by George Davidson in purple slag or malachite - moulded Davidson 'lion' trademark and in excellent condition. For more details see Premier Antiques

Sunday 13 November 2016

Early Blue and White - Dillwyn and Co. of Swansea

Dillwyn and Co. of Swansea 'Drover' or 'Herdsman' Pattern Jug c1830

A rare Dillwyn and Co., Cambrian Pottery, Swansea 'Drover' (sometimes called 'Herdsman') pattern jug. Printed with a rural scene of a young man and his dog driving some cows towards farm buildings. In remarkable condition for its age. For more details visit Premier Antiques


Saturday 12 November 2016

Clarice Cliff Green 'Cowslip'

Clarice Cliff Bizarre Green 'Cowslip' Tea Plate c1933

A lovely 'Cowslip' tea plate decorated with stylised flowers and leaves against a section of green 'café-au-lait' stippling. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Carlton Ware Noire Royale 'Duck' Pattern

Carlton Ware 'Duck' Noire Royale Dish c1950

A lovely Carlton Ware dish beautifully painted with two mallard ducks flying over purple irises on a Noire Royale background. Striking colours and in excellent condition. For more details visit Premier Antiques


Friday 11 November 2016

Carlton Ware Pink Buttercup

Carlton Ware Pink Buttercup Footed Dish c1936

Both the yellow and pink ranges of Buttercup are much sought after by collectors, pink being the rarer colourway of the two as it was produced in smaller amounts from around 1936 to 1940. For a selection visit my website Premier Antiques

Carlton Ware Pink Buttercup Cup and Saucer c1938

Spode 'Jasmine' Pattern

Spode 'Jasmine' Pattern Serving Dish c1825 

A lovely Spode dessert dish with pierced scroll and shell handle and gadrooned border - printed in light to medium blue with an early version of the Jasmine pattern. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Thursday 10 November 2016

Carlton Ware Blackberry

Carlton Ware Blackberry Preserve Pot c1930

A rare Carlton Ware preserve pot modelled as a blackberry with stalk finial. Great colour and lovely condition. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Keeling and Co 'Daisy' Pattern

Keeling and Co 'Daisy' Pattern Teapot c1890

A lovely Victorian teapot printed and hand painted with a fine all over daisy chintz in cobalt blue, iron red and olive green. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Early Susie Cooper

Early Susie Cooper 1928-32

Two lovely early designs by Susie Cooper, both hand painted but very different in style and colour. For a selection of Gray's and Crown Work's pottery visit my website Premier Antiques

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Ashworth's Aesthetic Movement Tea Kettle

Ashworth's Aesthetic Movement Tea Kettle c1880

A rare Ashworth's aesthetic movement tea kettle embossed and hand painted with Japanese fans and cherry blossom on a dark green ground. A fantastic example of Victorian design and in excellent condition. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Clarice Cliff 'Honeydew' Lynton Muffin Dish

Clarice Cliff 'Honeydew' Lynton Muffin Dish c1936

A rare Lynton muffin dish with a lovely mushroom stalk finial - nicely painted with the Honeydew design. For more details visit Premier Antiques


Tuesday 8 November 2016

Antique Copeland Porcelain Cherub Comport

Victorian Copeland Porcelain 'Summer' Cherub Comport c1860

A beautifully modelled and hand painted Victorian Copeland comport - the cherub representing summer sits on a rock supporting a finely decorated dish. Over 150 years old and in remarkable, undamaged condition. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Shorter Strawberries 'Pompadour' Range

Shorter and Son 'Pompadour - Strawberry' Preserve Pot c1950

A lovely Shorter preserve pot, the larger of two sizes produced - pink basket weave moulded with strawberries and the finial with a bow in blue. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Monday 7 November 2016

Art Deco - Samford Ware

Hand Painted Samford Ware Blue Floral Art Deco Vase c1935

A superb Samford Ware flared vase by Samuel Ford & Co. of Burslem fl.1913-39. For more details visit Premier Antiques


Burleigh Ware Embossed Fruit Dish

Burleigh Ware Art Deco 'Fruit' Dish c1930

A lovely dish by Burleigh Ware with an embossed centre of hand painted fruit on a stippled blue and mauve background. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Sunday 6 November 2016

Davidson's Yellow Pearline Glass 'Quilted Pillow Sham' or Pattern 900

Davidson's Pearline 'Quilted Pillow Sham' Covered Butter Dish c1895

A rare and highly collectable 'Quilted Pillow Sham' or Pattern 900 oval covered dish in yellow pearline. Lovely opalescence and good depth of colour. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Carlton Ware Flower Candle Holder

Carlton Ware Flower Candle Holder c1939

A lovely Carlton Ware floral candle holder - good colours and in excellent condition. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Saturday 5 November 2016

Early Spode Italian pattern

Early Spode 'Italian' Dinner Plate c1820

Thought to be based on a sketch taken from a Claude Lorraine landscape belonging to Parham House,  Spode's Italian pattern was introduced around 1816 and has probably been the most successful pattern ever produced. This early dinner plate is in remarkable condition for its age. For more details visit my website Premier Antiques 

Thomas Webb Iridescent 'Bronze' Glass

Thomas Webb 'Bronze' Glass Iridescent Posy Vase c1885

A rare iridescent glass 'Bronze' vase by Thomas Webb. Similar to Richardson's 'brain' glass, this Webb's piece has a slightly different surface decoration with more striations. Cyril Manley's book 'Decorative Victorian Glass' describes and illustrates the differences very well. For more details and a selection of Bronze glass visit Premier Antiques

Shorter and Son 'Pompadour'

Shorter and Son 'Pompadour - Strawberry' Biscuit Jar c1950

A lovely Shorter biscuit jar (called a covered pannier in the old catalogues) - the colourful lid moulded with strawberries and a blue bow finial. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Friday 4 November 2016

Davidson's Yellow Pearline 'William and Mary'

Davidson's Yellow Pearline 'William and Mary' Oval Glass Dish c1905

Introduced by Davidson's in 1901 and given the registration number 413701, this was the last and perhaps the prettiest pearline design. For more details of this lovely dish visit my website Premier Antiques

Shorter 'Medina' Period Ware by Mabel Leigh

Shorter and Son 'Medina' Vase by Mabel Leigh c1935

A fine Mabel Leigh 'Medina' vase with sgraffito flowers hand enamelled in yellow, red and mauve on a pale ochre washed ground. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Thursday 3 November 2016

Burleigh Ware Art Deco Butterfly Finial Teapot

Burleigh Ware Art Deco Butterfly Finial Teapot c1930

A rare Burleigh Ware teapot with relief moulded cerise pink flowers - the cover with a cluster of flowers and a butterfly finial in yellow and blue. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Davidson's Yellow Pearline Glass 'Brideshead'

Davidson's Yellow Pearline Glass 'Brideshead' Milk Jug c1890

A lovely yellow Brideshead jug by Davidson, one of the first pearline designs registered in 1889, reg. no. 130643. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Wednesday 2 November 2016

Susie Cooper Studio Ware - Orchids Pattern M72

Susie Cooper Pottery 'Orchids' Pattern M72 Studio Ware Jug c1932

An early Susie Cooper studio ware 'Orchids' pattern M72 jug hand painted in underglaze enamel colours - often trial pieces which would later develop into lithographed designs. A fine example and quite a rarity. For more details visit my website Premier Antiques

Shorter 'Mendoza' after Mabel Leigh

Shorter and Son 'Mendoza' Period Ware Bowl c1939

A superb 'Mendoza' bowl in the Period Pottery style developed by Mabel Leigh in the early 30s - a complicated design influenced by old Italian wares. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Susie Cooper Gray's Pottery 'Moon and Mountains' Pattern 7960

Susie Cooper Gray's Pottery 'Moon and Mountains' Paris Jug c1928

A beautifully painted Gray's Pottery 'Moon & Mountains' jug - the bright enamels thickly and skilfully applied. One of the most striking of early Susie Cooper designs.
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Carlton Ware Art Deco Trefoil Dish

Carlton Ware Art Deco Trefoil Dish c1930

An unusual Carlton Ware hand painted art deco trefoil dish with stylised decoration in bright orange and contrasting black. For more details visit Premier Antiques