British Antique Porcelain: Spring Catalogue 2015

British Antique Porcelain Spring Catalogue 2015

Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc. www.vandekar.com info@vandekar.com 212-308-2022 1

Two Derby Porcelain Plates Decorated with Maritime Subjects, Above-A Calm On Cover- Weighing Anchor

By George Robertson, Duesbury & Kean, Circa 1797-1800.

Diameter: 9 inches.

Ref: NY8010A/B 2

A Pair of Derby Porcelain Fruit Coolers, Liners and Covers, Circa 1790.

The coolers and covers with a distinctive wide band of yellow ground at the border with the edge with a zig-zag gilt line. The white and gold handle is in the form of a twisted loop with the terminal and loop painted with gilt dots. The handles in parcel-gilt in a shell scroll shape.

Height: 9 1/2 inches x 9 1/2 inches at handles.

Mark: on each cooler a puce crown and D below.

Derby Porcelain Pieces In The Grand Manner, D.A. Hoyte and G.I. Pendred, Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide, August 1977, p58, pl.2 2 for illustration of an ice cooler in this exact same form. The ice cooler was sold as lot 4 in the Anthony Hoyle Collection of Derby Porcelain at Neale on May 1st, 2003.

Ref: NY8011

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A Fine Derby Porcelain Salmon Plate of The Elder Scented Iris, Painted by John Brewer, Circa 1815.

Diameter: 8 7/8 inches.

Mark: crown, crossed batons, and D mark in red, numerals 4 & 13 in yellow & green inside foot rim.

John Brewer, (1764-1816), John was the elder of two brothers who both worked at Derby. Their parents were both artists and from 1762-1767 had studios in London at Rupert Street. Brewer started working at Derby in 1795. He was a talented watercolourist and had never applied his art to porcelain painting. At Derby, he painted a variety of subject matters including plant and flower painting.

Ref: NY4723D 4

A Very Large Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain Botanical Specimen Oval Dish, Circa 1815.

The large dish is painted on the centre with a large yellow and purple iris with green leaves, the rim with a broad band of vermiculated gilding.

Dimensions: 16 inches wide x 12 1/2 inches deep.

Mark: Painted Chamberlain’s / Worcester in red script.

Ref: NY8062

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A First Period Worcester Porcelain Deep Dish in the Bishop Sumner Pattern, Circa 1775.

The shaped deep circular dish has a design of a Chinese Famille verte pattern of the Kangxi period known as Bishop Sumner Pattern. Decorated in bright enamels with a narrow border and inner panels of flowers, birds and animals. The central panel illustrates a mythical creature and a flying dragon in a landscape.

Diameter: 9 1/2 inches x 2 inches high.

Mark: Painted gilt open crescent.

Ref: NY08109A

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A Rare Pair of Flight Worcester Porcelain Dishes in the Bishop Sumner Pattern, Circa 1783-1792.

The shaped dish with a design of a Chinese Famille verte pattern of the Kangxi period. Decorated in bright enamels with a narrow border and inner panels of flowers, birds and animals. The central panel illustrates a mythical creature and a flying dragon in a landscape.

Mark: Flight in puce

Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790: The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero & John Sandon, Page 182, #192 for a sauce tureen and stand in this pattern also with gilt crescent. The authors write ...It is an exciting pattern which must have given great pride to the Worcester factory, for the gold crescent mark was used on virtually every piece, presumably in order that their efforts would not be mistaken for real Chinese porcelain.

(Ref: NY8109B)

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A Large English Porcelain Goblet, Attributed to Chamberlain’s Worcester, Grisaille Painting by Humphrey Chamberlain, Circa 1800-1815.

Height: 7 inches.

The grisaille panel appears to be inspired by the Angelia Kauffman painting of the figure of Design.

Design is part of a set of the four 'Elements of Art' represented by female allegories of Invention, Composition, Design and Colour which were commissioned by the Royal Academy in 1778 to decorate the ceiling of the Academy's new Council Chamber in Somerset House.

(Ref: NY8112)

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A Large Chamberlain’sWorcester Porcelain Armorial Jug, The Marital Arms of Lucy and Forster, Circa 1810-20.

Dimensions: Height 8 1/2 inches.

Mark: painted marks Chamberlains / Worcester in red script

The Marital Arms of Lucy and Forster The armorial bearings are those of the family of Lucy impaled with those of the family of Forster.

These armorial bearings denote the marshalling of a marital coat showing on the dexter (the heraldic right on the left as you view the piece) the arms of the husband and on the sinister (the heraldic left on the right as you view it) the arms of the wife.

(Ref: NY7836B)

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A Pair of Large Chamberlain’s Worcester Porcelain Botanical Dishes, Circa 1815-20.

The service is gadroon-edged with a gilt and white design with alternating moulded shell and fleur de lis panels. Each piece is finely painted with a single specimennamed on reverse-Double Stock Gilleflowers & Red Hawthorn.

Dimensions: 11 3/4 inches x 9 inches.

Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852, Geoffrey A. Godden, page 126, #152 for a centrepiece with similar border.

Ref: NY7806

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A Rare Chamberlain’s Worcester Yellow Ground Porcelain Bough Pot, Circa 1805.

Height: 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm), width 8 inches (20 cm).

Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852, Geoffrey Godden, page 270, #344 for bough pot of same form with printed decoration.

Ref: NY7096

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A Bow Underglaze Blue Porcelain Baluster Mug, Circa 1760-70.

The bell-shaped mug with loop handle is painted in an underglaze blue with flowering shrubs below a lattice border.

Dimensions: 5 3/4 inches x 6 inches wide x 4 1/2 inches.

Ref: NY8067

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A Pair of Bow Porcelain Trompe L'oeil Leaf Dishes, Circa 1765.

The moulded and painted trompe l'oeil dishes are in the form of a vine leaf and are painted with vine leaves, grapes and insects in underglaze blue. Minor frits to rim.

Dimensions: 8 1/4 inches in length x 6 1/4 inches.

Bow Porcelain, Gabszewicz & Freeman, p.78, Pl. 110 for variation of this pattern.

Ref: NY8066

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A Pair of First Period Worcester Underglaze Blue Porcelain Hundred Antiques Pattern Heart-shaped Dishes, Circa 1770-80.

The design depicts Worcester's painters interpretation of Buddhist Emblems (Happy Omens) and Precious Objects, sometimes referred to as the Eight Treasures, among flowerheads and lotus scrolls, presumably copied from an unknown Chinese Qianlong original (a similar Qianlong original resides in the Victoria & Albert Museum). The pattern was introduced at Worcester around 1768, made until 1785.

Dimensions: 11 inches wide x 8 inches.

Mark: painted cartouche and seven-character marks in underglaze blue

Worcester Porcelain, The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero and John Sandon, p. 434, Pl. 579.

Ref: NY8064

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A First Period Worcester Porcelain Underglaze Blue Cabbage Leaf Floral Jug, Circa 1755-60.

Dimensions: Height 8 1/4 inches x 7 1/2 inches wide x 6 inches.

Mark: Two painted workman's mark in underglaze blue.

Worcester Blue & White Porcelain, 1751-1790, Branyan, French and Sandon (1989), I.E.21, page 247.

The authors remark that the pattern is uncommon.

Ref: NY8063

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A First Period Worcester Underglaze Blue Blind Earl Leaf Sweetmeat Dish, Circa 1765-75.

Dimensions: 6 inches x 5 1/2 inches.

Worcester Porcelain, Zorensky Collection, p. 458, #623 for an identical example.

Ref: NY7997

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A Pair of Large First Period Worcester Underglaze Blue Porcelain Cornucopia Wall Pockets, Circa 1756-58.

Dimensions: 12 inches long x 6 1/4 inches wide x 3 1/4 inches deep.

Worcester Blue & White Porcelain 1751-1790, Lawrence Branyan, Neal French, John Sandon, page 246, I.E.20 for illustration of this pattern called The Cornucopia Prunus which is considered uncommon.

Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection, Simon Spero, Pages 170-171, #201, for a pair of wall pockets of the same form.

Ref: NY7721 17

A Set of Six First Period Worcester Porcelain Dinner Plates Decorated in the Phoenix Pattern, Circa 1765-70.

The form of the plate was taken from Meissen porcelain although the pattern itself is not found on Meissen. The design has adapted a number of Japanese motifs to create a rich Kakiemon pattern so typical of Worcester.

Diameter: 8 3/4 inches.

Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790: The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero & John Sandon, Page 249, colour illustration 298, for discussion of the pattern. The authors point out that the form of the plate was taken from Meissen porcelain although the pattern is not found on Meissen.

The design has adapted a number of Japanese motifs to create a rich Kakiemon pattern so typical of Worcester. A variation is found on dessert plates where the Phoenix's wings are more open. They write,

The Phoenix pattern is one of the most intricate of Worcester's oriental designs and would have been very costly to produce. It generally only occurs on the best thin porcelain and is always carefully and exactly painted.

Ref: NY8025 18

A Set of Six Chelsea Derby Porcelain Dessert Plates, Circa 1765.

The plates are painted with a thin, spirally fluted, mazarine border accented with gilt highlights from which hang floral swags. In the center is a floral bouquet panel surrounded by a mazarine blue border with ornate gilt highlights of dentil work, fish scales and flowerheads. The fish-scale gilding is as fine as any found on British porcelain.

Diameter: 8 5/16 inches (21.2 cm).

An example of a similarly shaped plate can be found in Derby Porcelain 1750-1798, Gilbert Bradley,

Page 151.

Ref: VM98002

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A Rare Porcelain Plate decorated in Ireland, Marked Donovan, Dublin, Circa 1805.

This dessert plate is finely painted with a botanical scene in the style of Chelsea Red Anchor period Hans Sloane porcelain, most likely made as replacement pieces for an original Chelsea service. It is painted with plums on the vine with green leaves and a large dragonfly to one side. The rim has a brown-edged petal shaped form. Donovan took porcelain in the white to decorate in his workshop in Dublin.

Dimensions: 8 in diameter (20.3 cm).

James Donovan, Poolbeg Street, George's Quay, Dublin, Ireland circa 1770-1829.

James Donovan (& Son) decorated English porcelain and pottery. The last entry in local directories is for the year 1829. They were a leading Irish retailer, nicknamed The Emperor of China.. The V & A Museum, for a porcelain dish, Museum number:3896-1901, Gallery location: Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case I, shelf 2 with the same mark.

Ref: NY7210

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A Set of Six Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi Wedgwood Plates, Variations on a Geometric Theme, Circa 1971.

The plates, one set of only 200 made, are of bone china with vertical bands of patterns which include stripes, zigzags and circular patterns in red, black and gold. The effect of a complex, multi-sectioned surface of diagonal, zigzag and circular patterns was achieved with the screen-printing rather than the traditional painting on ceramics. The plates each has a pink felt slip cover.

Wedgwood collaborated with the artist in this venture to produce a limited edition of 200 sets of fine bone china plates with decoration designed by Paolozzi. The project extends the artist’s own interest in print techniques and the production of variations of the same theme, and the effects of different forms of printing on an image. There is a set in The Victoria & Albert Museum in London which were given by the artist as well as The Wedgwood Museum and The National Museum of Scotland. A set was in the Collection of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret.

Professor Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE FRA (1924-2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist. Largely a surrealist, Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1960s by producing a range of striking screenprints - the medium which he used for the design of these plates. His works best know to the public include the mosaic patterned walls of the Tottenham Court Road tube station and the 'Piscator' sculpture outside Euston Station.

Ref: NY7987 21

Price List Cover:

$3,750.00

Page 2

$3,750.00

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$12,500.00

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$2,200.00

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$3,200.00

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$5,500.00

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$3,750.00

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$4,500.00

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$5,800.00

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