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Rare Moonlit Blue pattern Moorcroft footed bowl with silver-plated foot, c1922. Courtesy of www.decotomodern.co.uk. Aubrey Beardsley illustration from ‘Lysistrata Haranguing The Athenian Women’, adapted by Poole c1970s. Courtesy of Aubrey Beardsley illustration, adapted by Poole www.pooleroom.co.uk. Pottery c1970s. Courtesy of www.pooleroom.co.uk.

Art Nouveau & British Ceramics by Roland Head

he Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century led to a dramatic increase in urban migration Tand a new type of architecture and design. Such sweeping changes inevitably affected the designers and artists of the period and it was out of this change that was born. Art Nouveau represented a new style of visual arts that was determinedly modern yet drew on a wide range of sources for its inspiration. In time, this new style was to make a memorable contribution to British design, as I will illustrate.

A New Movement use of lines, which became known as whiplash. This was named The Art Nouveau movement was born in the early 1890s. after an embroidery by German artist Hermann Obrist and became Although it is a style most associated with Continental designers, a feature of many Art Nouveau designs. It was combined to great one of the first, definitive exponents of this new style was British. effect with other common motifs such as plants, flowers and the In 1893, a new journal, The Studio, was published. Included in its female form. first edition were some drawings by one Aubrey Beardsley, a young English illustrator. Among the published drawings was an Art Nouveau & The illustration Beardsley had produced for Oscar Wilde’s play, Despite being home to several individuals who were important to Salome. It's now considered one of the first definitive examples of the development of the Art Nouveau movement, British potteries the Art Nouveau style and it had terrific impact on publication, were reluctant to adopt the Art Nouveau style as comprehensively catapulting Beardsley to the centre of the world in as some of their Continental counterparts. Europe and North America. Those that did embrace the Art Nouveau movement usually did so Almost at the same time - but without knowing Beardsley or his with a portion of their output. Notable examples work - a Belgian architect named Victor Horta completed the included Minton’s Secessionist Ware, early Moorcroft and design and interior decoration of a house in Brussels. The house Hancock’s Morris Ware. was designed not only in the style that was to become Art Nouveau, but also as a ‘total work of art’ - a complete, artistically Minton consistent environment. The idea was that all elements of the Minton was perhaps the first major British pottery to engage with interior of a property should relate. This was a concept that was the Art Nouveau movement. Most significant was the work of also embraced by the architectural and design work of Scottish Léon Solon, a young designer whose father and grandfather had designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whose most noted work also worked at Minton. By 1896, Solon’s work had featured in took place during the Art Nouveau period - and who like The Studio and he had pioneered the use of slip trailing at Minton, Beardsley, featured successfully in The Studio. a technique in which he specialised. Recurring themes in Léon Solon's work in the late 1890s were the The Art Nouveau Style female form, flowers and peacocks - all of which leant themselves The concept of Art Nouveau encompassed a broad range of styles well to Art Nouveau designs. Secessionist Ware was the logical and influences, including obvious candidates such as , conclusion to this work and Solon designed the range jointly with French and the English Style - epitomised by the Arts fellow Minton designer John Wadsworth. Secessionist Ware was and Crafts movement. However, perhaps the most prevalent launched in 1902 and was unmistakeably Art Nouveau in style. It theme in much Art Nouveau design was nature. Certainly, the was also priced relatively modestly at the time and was a clear naturalistic aspects of Art Nouveau had the greatest influence on example of just how mainstream the Art Nouveau movement had British ceramic design. One of the most consistent and recog- become by its second decade. Secessionist Ware shapes were nisable design devices of Art Nouveau was the swirling, sinuous, decorated with flowing, naturalistic, slip-trailed designs and were

ANTIQUES INFO - July/August 09 Ceramics boldly coloured with majolica glazes. These were applied with a techniques and creative themes, and fits clearly into the same deliberate lack of precision and allowed to overlap and merge in genre as its better-known compatriots. places, giving the wares a distinctive appearance. The range was a Designed by George Cartlidge, Morris Ware was perhaps intended moderate success and survived, despite Minton's financial to be a direct competitor to the Moorcroft of the time. It certainly problems, until 1914. bears close comparison in terms of quality, decorating techniques and design themes. Morris Ware was decorated using the same William Moorcroft combination of bold, hand-painted colours and slip trailing as No discussion of raised slip decoration and early twentieth century Moorcroft’s wares and Cartlidge’s patterns used similar organic pottery would be complete without a mention of William themes - such as thistles, with long, flowing stems. Moorcroft. Moorcroft was another creative leader in the use of this technique and although not an unconditional fan of the Art Buying Art Nouveau Ceramics Nouveau movement, nonetheless incorporated many aspects of it Fans of the Art Nouveau movement will probably not restrict into his work. Indeed, his sinuous, flowing Florian Ware designs themselves to ceramics. , silver and furniture all offer varied were identifiably influenced by the Art Nouveau style, as were and complimentary opportunities and the concept of a ‘total work some of his later floral and plant-based designs, all of which of art’ was after all one of the key tenets of the Art Nouveau utilised the same techniques of strongly coloured hand painting movement. Why restrict yourself to just ceramics? and raised slip decoration. From a British art pottery perspective, wares such as Secessionist Along with Minton’s Léon Solon, credit must be given to William Ware and early Moorcroft provide a good quality collecting oppor- Moorcroft for bringing Art Nouveau to the mainstream of the tunity to suit a range of pockets. British art pottery market.

Morris Ware While rarer and less well known than Minton and Moorcroft, Hancock & Sons’ Morris Ware range utilised many of the same

Early Pomegranate pattern Morrisware urn-shaped with Moorcroft vase, c1916. Courtesy of Pomegranate pattern Moorcroft ink- purple flowers on blue ground, www.decotomodern.co.uk. well and desk calendar, c1914-16. c1918-26. Courtesy of Morrisware vase with red flowers on Courtesy of www.decotomodern.co.uk. www.gazelles.co.uk. mustard ground, signed by George Cartlidge c1918-26. Courtesy of www.gazelles.co.uk.

Aubrey Beardsley illustration from Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’, as published Aubrey Beardsley illustration from in 1893 in the first edition of The Morrisware vase with purple flowers Oscar Wilde's ‘Salome’, adapted by Studio magazine. Adapted by Poole on mustard ground, signed by Morrisware vase with purple flowers Poole Pottery c1970s. Courtesy of Pottery c1970s. Courtesy of George Cartlidge c1918-26. on green ground, c1918-26. Courtesy www.pooleroom.co.uk. www.pooleroom.co.uk. Courtesy of www.gazelles.co.uk. of www.gazelles.co.uk. ANTIQUES INFO - July/August 09 Ceramics 13 18

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1 Art Nouveau tiles, panel of Royal Dux Art six tube-lined 6in tiles, Nouveau vase, shaped rim 9 applied with a figure of a Royal Dux (Bohemia) Art twenty four 3in border tiles, reclining maiden in green Nouveau bowl, sea-shell on a mahogany frame. Halls Fine Doulton Lambeth ware vase robes, 14.5in wide. Andrew stem embellished with flowers, Art, Shrewsbury. Sep 03. HP: Goldscheider terracotta fig- by Eliza Simmance, with Art Hartley, Ilkley. Feb 00. HP: lady on edge of shell another £840. ABP: £988. ural table lamp, after a model Nouveau tube-lined decor- £580. ABP: £682. by F Gross, Art Nouveau standing, 46cm high, applied/ ation of three tulips against a maiden, holding yellow glass imp’d pink triangle pad mark 14 castellated jewelled border, 19 on her shoulders, & No.914. Marilyn Swain, mottled green ground, 17.75in. Greek figure mark, 33in high. Grantham. May 05. HP: Gorringes, Lewes. Oct 08. Andrew Hartley, Ilkley. Aug £1,150. ABP: £1,352. HP: £900. ABP: £1,058. 05. HP: £3,700. ABP: £4,352.

Doulton Lambeth vase by Eliza Simmance, flared rim, incised and tube Brantjes, Purmerend pottery lined with Art Nouveau style vase, c1900, ovoid flowers, green mottled ground, 2 10 form, decorated with Art 10.75in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Pair of R. Doulton baluster Nouveau stylised lilies, , by Eliza Simmance, Oct 06. HP: £780. ABP: £917. Pair of Royal Dux Art Salvini Brevettato Italia early painted mark and numbered Art Nouveau floral6 designs, Nouveau style baluster vases, 20thC pottery vase, painted 510, 26cm. Sworders, triangular flowerheads in applied pink mark, impressed in an Art Nouveau style with Stansted Mountfitchet. Apr blue, green & ochre, 18.5in. marks 824 & 825, 43cm high. the crowned head of a female 06. HP: £580. ABP: £682. Gorringes, Lewes. Mar 05. Wintertons Ltd, Lichfield. May bedecked with jewels amongst HP: £1,100. ABP: £1,293. 02. HP: £1,400. ABP: £1,646. flowers, blue background, 7in high. Tring Market Auctions, 15 20 Herts. Mar 05. HP: £880. ABP: £1,035.

Images are in descending Royal Dux Art Nouveau hammer price order. The centrepiece modelled as two price range is indicated at scantily dressed maidens the start of each section. beside lily pad dishes, No. 3 694, 13in. Gorringes, Lewes. Feb 01. HP: £750. ABP: £882.

16 Reissner & Kessel Art 11 Nouveau7 vase, c1900, printed Della Robia terracotta vase, mark and impressed ‘740,7’ bottle form, bulbous rim, neck 55cm high. (damage) L’art Francais terracotta and body incised and painted Richard Winterton, Burton on figure, as an Art Nouveau with Art Nouveau lily heads Trent, Staffs. Sep 01. HP: maiden, belted dress, signed on turquoise ground, incised A Foretay, squared base £1,000. ABP: £1,176. Pecs Art Nouveau Doulton Lambeth Eliza ‘D.R. 735’, 13.75in high. Simmance vase, ‘Art Union inscribed ‘Musica’, 27in Andrew Hartley, Ilkley. Jun tapering cylindrical vase, high, impressed mark. cased with 3 bronzed of London’, splayed rim, 05. HP: £1,200. ABP: £1,411. inverted neck and ovoid body, Hartleys, Ilkley. Jun 07. HP: stylistic flowers over a blue £560. ABP: £658. Eosin glaze, form 5569, incised floral Art Nouveau 4.25in high. Tring Market design and beaded banding, Auctions, Herts. Mar 05. HP: blue ground, 16in high. £860. ABP: £1,011. Gorringes, Bexhill. May 04. HP: £620. ABP: £729. 21

8 Pair of Royal Dux porcelain 12 vases, moulded4 in high relief with Art Nouveau maidens in Royal Vienna Wahliss bisque figure, Art Nouveau lady in 17 pale green robes amongst Royal Dux Art Nouveau gold tunic holding a cornu- Pair of Rainfordware Art large pink flowerheads on a influenced bowl formed as a copia of grapes, moulded Nouveau glazed stoneware cream ground, 13.5in high, lover embracing his lady as base, 25in high. Hartleys, jardinieres, possibly retailed Macintyre pottery vase, ovoid pink triangle mark. Andrew she rises from a pool, reverse Ilkley. Jun 06. HP: £1,000. by Liberty & Co, moulded form, tube lined and painted Hartley, Ilkley. Oct 05. HP: signed ‘Hampel,’ base No. ABP: £1,176. circular bowls, convex octa- with Art Nouveau style tulips £1,200. ABP: £1,411. 1119 and pink triangle mark, gonal columns, square bases, in blue and red on a salmon 11.5in wide, 13in high. Tring unmarked 32in. Gorringes, and gilded ground, c1910, Market Auctions, Herts. Mar Lewes. Sep 04. HP: £850. 7in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Oct 04. HP: £560. ABP: £658. ABP: £999. 06. HP: £620. ABP: £729. ANTIQUES INFO - July/August 09 Ceramics

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32 27 Matched pair of Rorstrand 37 Pair of Minton Seccessionist pottery vases, inverted square Pair of lamps Walter Moorcroft pottery ware vases of trumpet form, baluster form, domed lids, Royal Doulton Art Nouveau decorated in Art Nouveau vase, designed by Emma slip trailed with green and painted with blue Art Nouveau stoneware vase, designed by manner with slender columns Bossons, tube lined/painted yellow art nouveau scrolling style foliage, white ground, Eliza Simmance, incised and flower bases, 17in high, in crimson and blue, white on a red ground, 10in high. 23in high, printed marks initials, No. 969 & impressed stamped 2083. Ewbank, ground with Art Nouveau Andrew Hartley, Ilkley. Jun incl. ‘Dessin Alf Wallander’. marks, 38cm. Sworders, Send, Surrey. Dec 06. HP: stylised seed heads, signed 05. HP: £560. ABP: £658. Hartleys, Ilkley. Apr 08. HP: Stansted Mountfitchet. Sep £340. ABP: £399. and inscribed Trial, 0-1-02, £400. ABP: £470. 07. HP: £260. ABP: £305. c2001, imp’d factory marks, 33 14.5in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. 23 28 Aug 08. HP: £290. ABP: £341.

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Art Nouveau Minton majolica Pair of Royal Doulton stone- jug, moulded leaf and floral ware vases in Art Nouveau decoration, trefoil form Royal Doulton jug, basin and style, 18.25in. Louis Taylor, chamberpot, printed in Art pewter lid, impressed mark to Royal Dux Art Nouveau Minton pottery Art Nouveau Stoke on Trent. Mar 06. HP: Nouveau style with The Six base, initialled NP? Locke & figure, a semi-nude female vase, printed mark ‘Minton £390. ABP: £458. Swans from Grimm’s fairy England, Leamington Spa. snake charmer (restored), Ltd’, and ‘No 34’, impressed tales in green and yellow, jug Mar 08. HP: £520. ABP: £611. 9.5in high. Dee, Atkinson & mark and numbers, 14.5in 14in. Gorringes, Lewes. Jun Harrison, Driffield. Nov 05. high. Fellows & Sons, 24 03. HP: £280. ABP: £329. HP: £330. ABP: £388. Hockley, Birmingham. Jul 03. HP: £240. ABP: £282.

Prices quoted are actual 29 hammer prices (HP) and the Approximate Buyer’s Price. Moorcroft Macintyre salad Minton seccessionist pottery (ABP) Includes an average bowl, bellied form, EPNS 39 premium of 15% + VAT. moulded rim, tube lined with vase, moulded with peach Art 34 Nouveau flowers, turquoise Pair of Royal Dux figural Art Nouveau foliage in gold, Macintyre Aurelian ware tyg, ground, scrolling leaves to vases, square tapering form, green/blue ground, spreading tapering form painted and base, c1905, 18in high. foliate loop handles, moulded foot, 10.5in wide, and a pair printed with Art Nouveau Andrew Hartley, Ilkley. Dec in relief with an art nouveau 44 of servers to match, c1910. flowers in tones of red, blue 04. HP: £370. ABP: £435. maiden, typical colours, pink Andrew Hartley, Ilkley. Oct and gold, 5.25in high. patch mark, 12in high. 05. HP: £480. ABP: £564. Hartleys, Ilkley. Oct 06. HP: 30 Hartleys, Ilkley. Oct 08. HP: £310. ABP: £364. £280. ABP: £329.

40 25 Early Moorcroft pottery vase, Minton Secessionist Art Moorcroft bowl, Pomegranate, decorated in blue and pale 35 Nouveau twin-handled vase, green, stylised floral design in blues and mauve, marked two-handled in Art Nouveau Royal Doulton stoneware in the ‘Art Nouveau’ manner, to underside Minton, printed style, design against a dark jardiniere, green streaked moulded/slip trailed border, factory No 8, 24.5cm high. blue ground, c1920, painted ground, tube lined decoration Pair of Burleigh ware Art 4in high, base painted ‘W.M. Gorringes, Bexhill. Dec 05. signature, 6.5in. Gorringes, of tulips and flowerheads in Nouveau vases. Black Des’ in script, c1900. HP: £240. ABP: £282. Lewes. Dec 04. HP: £450. Art Nouveau style, blue Country Auctions, Dudley. Canterbury Auction ABP: £529. glazed border, 34cm high. Sep 05. HP: £270. ABP: £317. Galleries, Kent. Oct 05. HP: Rosebery’s, London. Mar 05. 26 £360. ABP: £423. HP: £300. ABP: £352.

41 36 45 31 Pair of Royal Dux porcelain Large Doulton Burslem fruit vases, squared ovoid form, bowl, decorated in under- moulded mask to rim, Pair of glaze blue, painted/printed Modern Moorcroft Art moulded with Art Nouveau figures of maidens in the Art Art Nouveau stylised flowers Pair Art Nouveau amphora Nouveau style pottery vase, maidens and river landscape Nouveau style, gilt decorated in yellow and green, gilded bottle vases, moulded with marked Moorcroft, Stoke on 11.75in high, pink triangle lilac bases, 16in high. Tring green pedestal foot, 14in. trailing laburnum, gilded rim, Trent, England, incised SP, mark. Hartleys, Ilkley. Jun Market Auctions, Herts. Nov Gorringes, Lewes. Feb 09. 21.25in. Gorringes, Lewes. 10in. Denhams, Warnham. 07. HP: £230. ABP: £270. 02. HP: £400. ABP: £470. HP: £360. ABP: £423. Apr 08. HP: £300. ABP: £352. Oct 03. HP: £260. ABP: £305. ANTIQUES INFO - July/August 09 Ceramics

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Art Nouveau Doulton Lambeth vase, slip-cast panels, girl 64 walking beside a duck and a Austrian pottery vase, c1900, girl within woodland setting, twin handled, body streamed Macintyre pottery vase, Royal Dux porcelain fruit 8.75in. Gorringes, Lewes. with blue, yellow and amber tapering form with blue loop dish, Art Nouveau style, as a Apr 05. HP: £200. ABP: £235. and inset with art nouveau handles, painted with Art maiden seated on a shell, silver scrolls, stamped 3108, Nouveau style flower heads 11in high, pink triangle Art Nouveau Royal Dux 16cm. Sworders, Stansted in iron red, blue and gilt, mark. Hartleys, Ilkley. Dec porcelain centrepiece, as a Mountfitchet. Apr 06. HP: 6.5in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. 06. HP: £220. ABP: £258. water nymph seated on a £200. ABP: £235. Dec 08. HP: £180. tiered lotus, 16.5in. ABP: £211. 60 47 Gorringes, Lewes. Jul 08. HP: £220. ABP: £258. 55 Rozenburg jardiniere, with polychrome enamelled roses in the Art 65 Nouveau style against a Art Nouveau period stone- white ground, printed heron ware jug, yellow glaze with mark and impressed W361B, 3 applied scrolling roundels, 51 (small rim chip), 9in dia. glazed in shades of blue and green, base incised ‘Made Continental pottery jardiniere, Gorringes, Lewes. Oct 05. for Liberty & Co’, 6.75in square form tube lined and HP: £200. ABP: £235. 19thC Continental art high. Tring Market Auctions, Ernst Wahliss, porcelain Art incised with Art Nouveau nouveau terracotta bust of Herts. Mar 05. HP: £190. Nouveau figural bowl, c1900, maiden’s head in profile and Auriels, stamped Cologne, ABP: £223. base modelled with two small 22.75in high. Andrew foliate banding, deep green children at water’s edge Hartley, Ilkley. Aug 00. HP: ground, impressed mark ‘JVS 61 surrounded by foliage, bowl £220. ABP: £258. Gesetzlichgeschutzt 3194’, moulded with stylised foliate 6in wide. Hartleys, Ilkley. 56 design and children’s Oct 08. HP: £210. ABP: £247. Late 19thC Minton pottery portraits, naturalistic pastel Art Nouveau influence jardi- tones, monogram ‘EW’ Prices quoted are actual within factory shield mark, hammer prices (HP) and the niere, turquoise blue ground, Made in Austria, to under- Approximate Buyer’s Price. decorated with flower heads (ABP) Includes an average and running tendril border, side, 36cm high. Rosebery’s, premium of 15% + VAT. Rd. No. 616446, Minton Ltd London. Mar 08. HP: £170. mark, 14in high x 16in dia. Royal Dux porcelain dish, as ABP: £199. 48 Diamond Mills & Co, an Art Nouveau maiden Felixstowe. Mar 06. HP: surmounting a shell, wearing £200. ABP: £235. pink dress and holding a 66 water jug, 8.25in wide, pink Frank Butler, early 20thC triangle mark. Hartleys, Royal Doulton earthenware Ilkley. Feb 08. HP: £190. vase, cylindrical tapering ABP: £223. form, decorated in the Art Nouveau manner, reserved 57 52 62 panels of cobalt blue and Twelve pottery tiles, late white flowers, conforming Moorcroft vase in Chinese 19thC, a pair by Wedgwood blue/mottled green ground, style, red monochrome with raised moulded flower impressed marks, monogram, Pair of Royal Dux figural ground, with Art Nouveau decoration, impressed 29cm. Locke & England, vases, semi-nude girls in Art style roundels, produced for Portland vase mark and Leamington Spa. Sep 07. Nouveau-style, each standing Art Nouveau framed Conti- Liberty & Co, 21cm high. painted No. ‘4003 A’, a pair HP: £220. ABP: £258. beside tree-stem, pad marks, nental bisque porcelain of printed Minton tiles, five Hobbs Parker, Ashford. Jan shapes 2215 and 2216, 14in. plaque of nymphs in a river, 05. HP: £200. ABP: £235. small Pilkington tiles, largest 49 Gorringes, Lewes. Oct 06. 11.5in. Gorringes, Lewes. Mar 20 x 20cm and three Art HP: £200. ABP: £235. 01. HP: £180. ABP: £211. Nouveau tiles. (12) Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet. Apr 05. HP: £160. ABP: £188. 67

53 63 58 Art Nouveau Doulton 321 Minton Secessionist Amphora Art Nouveau Lambeth vase, slip-cast ovoid Pair of Royal Doulton stone- jardiniere, sprig-moulded porcelain figure of a lady, in body tube-lined with ware baluster vases in the Two Art Nouveau Cauldron with stylised foliage in Art classical dress, looking into woodland and brightly Art Nouveau style. Richard platters. Great Western Nouveau style, c1910, 10.5in an urn, 19.25in, some faults. enamelled, 8in. Gorringes, Winterton Auctioneers, Auctions, Glasgow. Feb 06. dia. Gorringes, Lewes. Oct Gorringes, Lewes. Apr 08. Lewes. Apr 05. HP: £200. Burton on Trent, Staffs. Oct HP: £160. ABP: £188. 02. HP: £180. ABP: £211. HP: £220. ABP: £258. ABP: £235. 02. HP: £200. ABP: £235. 42 ANTIQUES INFO - July/August 09 Ceramics

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72 76 68 Turn Vienna porcelain table centre piece, oval bowl with Pair of Art Nouveau pottery pierced border surmounted Austrian Art Nouveau green Art Nouveau vase, French vases, tapering form, fancy by an Art Nouveau maiden glazed ewer, lion handle, early 20thC, near cylindrical loop handles, moulded with Art Nouveau Royal Dux opposite a water baby, both relief moulded Bacchus mask form, moulded with stylised flowers, green/blue ground, porcelain vase, sinuous holding a fishing net caught and painted foliage, 9in. trees and foliage, impressed 12in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. organic shape with handles with a further water baby on Gorringes, Lewes. Mar 03. ‘MF’ monogram and ‘Nancy’ Aug 06. HP: £95. ABP: £111. moulded base, printed green HP: £65. ABP: £76. to base, height 14.5cm. and relief of maiden, mottled mark, No.4380, 18in wide Rosebery’s, London. Dec 05. blue and white glaze, applied overall. Hartleys, Ilkley. Apr HP: £150. ABP: £176. factory mark and numerals 5146, 29cm high. Rosebery’s, 08. HP: £80. ABP: £94. London. Mar 05. HP: £120. ABP: £141.

69 73 77 82 87 Pair of Continental Art Royal Doulton Art Nouveau Nouveau vases. Gorringes, Bexhill. Oct 05. HP: £65. style vase, c1912, decorated Pair of Baron of Barnstaple ABP: £76. with stylised yellow chrysan- Art pottery Art Nouveau themums on blue stems, Continental Art Nouveau Nine early 20thC Art vases, with three spiralling impressed marks, 23cm high. 88 pottery vase, squat form, Nouveau tiles, moulded in handles, sgraffito decoration Cheffins, Cambridge. Feb 05. elongated neck, moulded low relief and glazed with a of scrolling flowers, green HP: £90. ABP: £105. with stylized organic foliage purple iris and green foliage, and cream ground, incised and exotic maiden in relief, 6in square. Golding Young & marks, 10in. Gorringes, 56cm high, indistinctly Co, Grantham. Feb 06. HP: Lewes. Sep 08. HP: £80. signed to reverse. Rosebery’s, £120. ABP: £141. ABP: £94. London. Mar 05. HP: £130. 83 ABP: £152. 74 Continental Art Nouveau 70 78 ceramic basket, c1900, white body and handle moulded with stylised foliate design, Plaue Art Nouveau porcelain impressed makers mark to dish in the form of a maiden underside, height 19cm on a lilypad, 10cm high max. overall. Rosebery’s, London. Boldon Auction Galleries, Mettlach ‘Art Nouveau’ stein, Mar 06. HP: £50. ABP: £58. Tyne & Wear. Sep 05. HP: and another, each approx 7.5in high. Sworders, £80. ABP: £94. 89 Stansted Mountfitchet. Apr Art Nouveau stoneware vase, 01. HP: £75. ABP: £88. crystalline glaze overlaid Royal Dux porcelain vase, with silver coloured metal baluster form with applied scrolling thistle decoration, semi nude Art Nouveau 14cm high. Charterhouse maiden in flowing pale green Auctioneers, Sherborne. Apr robes flanked by a cherub, 79 Art Nouveau salad bowl, 07. HP: £130. ABP: £152. rim moulded with lilac tube-lined stylised green flowers, bracket feet, pink Art Nouveau Sarreguemines foliage on a mustard ground, triangle mark, 21in high. plated mount, with a pair of jardiniere, No. 223, dated 84 71 Hartleys, Ilkley. Oct 08. HP: 1884. (some restoration) EPNS salad servers with £110. ABP: £129. Gorringes, Bexhill. Oct 05. matching ceramic handles. Royal Doulton tobacco 75 HP: £80. ABP: £94. (3) Dee, Atkinson & with Art Nouveau motifs. Harrison, Driffield. Jul 04. Great Western Auctions, HP: £45. ABP: £52. Glasgow. Sep 08. HP: £75. ABP: £88.

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Rudolstadt porcelain tall two Pair of Art Nouveau 80 handled vase, printed in amphora chimney ornaments, colours with an Art Nouveau with blue and gilded coronets Macintyre Aurelian ware jug, style bouquet of flowers on a and sinuous spandrels gilded tapering form with squared shaded ivory ground, gilt and blue jewelled painted loop handle, blue printed Continental majolica art rims, printed shield marks, with vineous decoration, with Art Nouveau flowers Continental porcelain Art nouveau style jardiniere on 18in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. 11.5in. Gorringes, Lewes. Jul within gilded banding, 6.5in Nouveau centrepiece. stand, modern. Rosebery’s, Aug 08. HP: £130. 08. HP: £100. ABP: £117. high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Oct 06. Gorringes, Bexhill. Oct 05. London. May 06. HP: £45. ABP: £152. HP: £80. ABP: £94. HP: £70. ABP: £82. ABP: £52. ANTIQUES INFO - July/August 09 43 ANTIQUES INFO - January/February 06 00 ANTIQUES INFO - January/February 06 00 ANTIQUES INFO - January/February 06 00