A Catalogue of Antique English Creamware and Pearlware: Summer 2014

A Catalogue of Antique English Creamware & Pearlware from Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc. New York

Summer 2014

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A Rare Painted Creamware Mug of the Henry and the Name of its Captain or Owner John Fornear, Circa 1800.

The creamware mug has three hand painted scenes- the image of a named ship, called Henry, the name John Fornear and a painting of a ruined abbey.

The name John Fornear was born in Sunderland in 1756, was married in Tynemouth in 1786, and died in 1827, and is buried in Tynemouth Priory.

Dimensions: The mug stands 5½ high x 4 ½ inches deep x 6 ½ inches tall.

NY7957

Price: $3,500.00

Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc.

Index:

PO Box 55 Maryknoll, NY 10545

Creamware: 1-13

Tel: 212-308-2022

Mocha-14

Email: info@vandekar.com

Pearlware: 15-21

Web: www.vandekar.com: 2

A Rare Large Creamware Orange Basket & Cover, Wedgwood, Circa 1790.

Pierced Chestnut or Orange Basket. A domed pierced circular footed basket with pierced lid, crowned by a typical rose knop.

Dimensions: 8 inches high x 8 1/2 inches wide.

NY7944

Price: $8,000.00

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An English Pottery Creamware Guglet, Circa 1785.

The guglet or water bottle has a lovely creamy colour and elegant form with a slightly flaring neck.

Dimensions: Height: 9 3/4 inches x Diameter: 6 inches.

NY7775

Price: $1,800.00 4

An English Creamware Mug, Circa 1785 An English creamware pottery mug with a machine -turned body, featuring a twisted strap handle connected to the body of the mug with a flower and leaf terminal. Repair to handle.

Dimensions: 3 1/2 inches high x 4 inches wide with handle

NY7780

Price: $950.00

A Pair of Wedgwood Plain Creamware Plates, Circa 1800.

Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches

Marks: Impressed WEDGWOOD and one with impressed 10, the other B & 7.

NY7929

Price: $750 pair.

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A Selection of shell-edged creamware

A Set of Ten Wedgwood Creamware Green Shell-edged Plates, Circa 1780-1800.

The moulded creamware plates with rococo-inspired asymmetrical, undulating scalloped rim with impressed curved lines and underglaze colouring in green.

Mark: Some with Impressed WEDGWOOD

Diameter: 7 3/4 inches.

NY7935

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Price: $2,000.00 for ten.

A Rare English Pottery Creamware Dessert Service, Neale & Co. Circa 1776-84.

The seventeen piece dessert service has a plain cream coloured body with a bright deep blue feathered rim.

The seventeen piece service consists of the following pieces:Ten plates (diameter: 8 1/2 inches) Pair of sauce tureen and covers (height: 6 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches length x 5 1/2 inches wide) Footed shell-shaped dish (diameter 9 1/2 inches) Diamond-shaped dish (9 inches x 11 inches) Oval Dish (10 3/4 inches x 5 3/4 inches x 2 inches tall) Tall Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 7 inches x 4 1/4 inches tall) Low Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 8 inches x 3 inches tall)

NY7788

Price: $11,000.00 for Seventeen pieces

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A Rare Large Wedgwood Plain Creamware Vegetable Tureen and Cover, Circa 1785-1800.

Dimensions: 12 inches high.

NY7951

Price: $2,250.00

A Large Creamware Armorial Dish, Possibly Melbourne, Arms of Grant, Circa 1800.

Dimensions: 13-3/4 inches across by 10-3/4 inches wide.

Reference: See Creamware & Pearlware: The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society. An Exhibition on Show 18 May- 7 September 1986, The Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery. Edited T.A. Lockett and P.A. Halfpenny. Page 75, #53 for a plate dated 1780. The authors suggest that the plate in the exhibition has been associated with the Melbourne group .

NY7949

Price: $2,200.00 8

A Large Wedgwood Oval Handled Creamware Basket, Circa 1790-1800.

The oval basket has a wicker-type design with the top rim with a twist rope border. The tall looped handle is of a twisted rope design.

Dimensions: 8 inches high x 10 1/4 length x 8 1/4 inches in depth NY7947

A Silver-form Octagonal Creamware Whieldon Plate, Circa 1765-75.

A lovely tortoise-shell coloured creamware plate with a strong raised molded gadroon rim.

Dimensions: 8 3/4 inch diameter

NY7920

Price: $600.00

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Price: $2,800.00

An 18th Century Culinary Creamware Mold with Rhinoceros.

One of the rarest molds in existence, showing a rhinoceros in the wild.

Dimensions: 7 7/8 inches by 5 3/4 inches

Provenance: Collection of Glenna Fitzgerald, No. 82. Fitzgerald was a collector who had the largest collection of white molds in the world.

NY7921

Price: $1,800.00

A Rare English 18th Century Three Tier Pierced Culinary Curds Mold, Possible Leeds,

The mold is of triple stepped oval form, with basal waved mouldings, each tier pierced with stylised roundels, surmounted by a fish.

Dimensions: 4 1/2 inches in height x 8 1/4 inches in length x 6 1/2 inches in depth.

Pierced creamware moulds such as this was for making moulded curds, 'hatted kits' and Italian creams.

NY7922

Price: $1,800.00 10

An English Pottery Creamware Plate of an American Ship, Circa 1785-1800.

The circular plate with a slight well is decorated with a black and white print of portside view of an American ship flying the Stars and Stripes. The border decorated with six printed flowering stems.

Diameter: 10 inches

NY7888

Price: $950.00

A Rare Wedgwood Creamware Soup Plate made for the German Market, Circa 1790.

The plate depicts an Imperial German Navy Frigate with a yellow tinted German Imperial Standard, inscribed below "LCBCC" probably the owners initials and on the rim "FMDCB."

Diameter: 9 1/2 inches (24cm)

Reference: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for a pair of soup plates from the same service.

NY6058 11

Price: $2,200.00

An English Creamware Polychrome Teapot and Cover, Circa 1785-90.

NY7855

Price: $900.00

A Rare Possibly Unique English Creamware Teapot & Cover decorated with the Rev'd John Wesley and his Followers, Circa 1785-90.

The portrait around Wesley include: T. Hanby, P. Jaco, W. Thompson, I. Hampson, J. Hall, T. Hanson, J. Hall, I. Shaw, I. Goodwin, R. Costendine, T. Taylor, I. Mason, I. Allen, I. Powsen, I. Murlan, C. Hopper

Dimensions: 6 1/2 “high x 8 1/4 “ wide

NY7814

Price: $5,500.00

An English Creamware Teapot, David Rhodes Workshop Circa 1775-85.

Dimensions: Height: 5 inches x length: 7 inches x depth: 4 inches

NY7799

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Price: $1,900.00

A Rare Large Creamware Tea Caddy with moulded Fable Decoration, The Fables of John Gay, The Gardener and the Hog, Derbyshire, Circa 1765.

The rectangular plain creamware canister has an identical moulded panel to each side with a depiction of a scene from Mr. John Gay's Fable (1726), The Gardener and the Hog .

Height: 6 inches x 4 inches wide x 2 1/2 inches deep.

Gay was a poet and dramatist, friend of Pope and Swift.

Gay is remembered for his play The Beggar's Opera (1728).

NY7776A

Price: $5,500.00

A Set of Three Wedgwood Scallop Shell Dishes, Circa 1829 The plain creamware dishes are each moulded in the form of a scallop shell.

Marks: impressed WEDGWOOD and impressed AJ

Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches x 6 inches width x 1 1/4 inch height NY7615

Price: $1,400.00

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An English Creamware Sauce Tureen, Cover and Ladle on Fixed Stand, Circa 1790.

Dimensions: 6 1/2 height x 8 inches length x 5 inches (height to top of ladle; 6 inches)

Mark: Numeral 1400 in brown script.

NY7871

An English Creamware Fruit Basket and Stand, John T. Morton, 1930's Dimensions: Tureen, Cover & Stand: Length 12 3/4 inches x 7 inches x 8 1/2 inches Tureen: 11 1/4 inches x 7 inches x depth: 7 1/4 inches

The lovely creamware basket was made by one of the best of the 20th century makers, John T. Morton at Leeds. Morton made the finest pieces for collectors and made a number of presentation pieces for the royal family including a covered fruit basket for King George V and Queen Mary on the occasion of their silver Jubilee in 1935 which incorporated very similar design elements to this covered basket. A Rococo open-work casket made for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 has the same bird finial as this tureen.

NY7918

Price: $3,500.00

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Price: $1,800.00

MOCHA A Charming British Pottery Light Blue Mocha Bowl, Circa 1800.

Dimensions: 7 3/4 inches diameter x 3 1/4 inch height NY7917 Price: $1,250.00

An English Staffordshire Pottery Mocha Mustard Pot & Cover, Circa 1790-1800.

Dimensions: 3 3/4 inches Height.

NY7930

Price: $1,250.00

A French Mocha Covered Sugar Pot, Circa 1800-20.

NY7919

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Price: $2,500.00

A Garniture

of Three Pottery

Flower Vases and Covers, Circa 1810-20 The vases with unusual pierced covers have a drab brown ground with bands of flowers at the rim and belly. To each side is a puce print of ladies and children.

Dimensions: Largest: 7 inches high x 4 3/4 inches deep Smaller: 5 1/2 inches high x depth of 4 3/8 NY7854

Price: $4,900.00 16

A Pair of English Creamware Elephants, Early 19th century.

The absolutely charming elephants, each of the same mould, stand on a crimped-sided green coloured base, the sides looking like a band of bamboo. The elephants are in mottled browns with their trunks facing upward and touching their right ears.

The underside of the figure is hollow with a rich cream colour.

Dimensions: Height: 4 inches x length 5 1/2 inches x Depth 2 1/4 inches.

Reference: A Passion for Pottery, The Henry Weldon Collection, Peter Williams & Pat Halfpenny, for pair of elephant figures identical to these, Page 355, # 725, a & b.

Right is another model with very similar features to these elephants which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Provenance: Frank Partridge (by ca.

1923) ; Florence Bates Carter (until 1944; to MMA)

NY7849

Price: $11,000.00

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A Pair of English Pottery Figures of Venus & Neptune, Ralph Wood, Burslem, Staffordshire, Circa 1785-95.

Dimensions: Height: 11 1/3 inches

The press-moulded lead-glazed earthenware figures depict Venus & Neptune each on a rectangular gilded plinth. The decoration is painted in coloured glazes.

Reference: The Henry Weldon Collection: English Pottery 1650-1800, Lesley B. Grisby, Page 457-8 #292 for a Venus.

The author mentions an invoice of 16 November 1783 for a sale by Ralph Wood (then in partnership with Enoch Wood) to Thomas and John Wedgwood including 6 Venuses purple lining followed by 6 Neptunes Do. Lower on the same invoice is an entry for 1 Pair of Neptune & Venus Gilt.... . (Wedgwood Archives)

NY7835A

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Price: $5,500.00

A Rare English Pottery Figure of

a Panther, Circa 1825.

The figure is modeled with its head turned towards the rear and with tail curled onto back naturalistic green and gray base.

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Dimensions: 5 1/2 I� high x 5 1/2 “ in length.

NY7941

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Price: $3,500.00

A Large English Pearlware Peafowl Tankard, Circa 1800.

The tankard of circular form with straight sides has a wide double-grooved strap-firm handle with an orange stripe. The tankard is painted with green sponged leafy tree and branches containing a bold and colourful stylized peacock flanked by peahens.

Two tiny pinholes have been created in the interior base probably as drain holes.

Dimensions: Height: 5 inches x 6 1/4 length.

Provenance: Personal Collection of George & Mickey Deike.

Reference: Feathers and Foliage, George & Mickey Deike, Page 58, fig 5.9 & p268 fig 8.20.

NY7927 Price: $3,500.00

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A Large English Pearlware Peafowl Plate, Circa 1795-1810.

Dimensions: Diameter: 10 inches.

Mark: underside impressed with * mark.

Provenance: The Collection of George & Mickey Deike.

Reference: Feathers and Foliage, George & Mickey Deike, Page 56, fig 5.8.

NY7928

Price: $1,350.00

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