THE PROPERTY of MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN 360 East 55Th Street New
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THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN 360 East 55th Street New York, New York 10022 Ceramics Living Room Contents ofBreakfront 1. 'SEVRES' PORCELAIN PART TEA SERVICE 19th Century With floral panels reserved on a cobalt-blue ground; comprising: a teapot and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, a milk jug, four teacups and four saucers; crowned N marks and date numeral 60, painter's markjt, and various incised marks. Height ofteapot: 6 1/16 inches (11 pieces) (N0 collection number) 2. LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ACTOR, SAID TO BE DAVID GARRICK Circa 1755-60 Standing by a pedestal with his right hand on a book. Height: 7 3/8 inches (CI74) 3. DERBY PORCELAIN FIGURE OF JAMES QUIN AS 'SIR JOHN FALSTAFF' Circa 1775 Wearing a shield on his left arm and holding a sword with a metal blade in his right hand (restored; some chips and cracks). Height: 9 1/2 inches (No collection number) 4 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Living Room (continued) Contents ofBreakfront (continued) 4. DERBY PORCELAIN FIGURE OF JAMES QUIN AS 'SIR JOHN FALSTAFF' Circa 1765 Similar to the preceding, but smaller, (chips to hat brim). Height: 7 7/8 (C4) 5. DERBY PORCELAIN FIGURE OF DAVID GARRICK· AS 'TANCRED' Circa 1765 Wearing a fur-tasseled red hat and fur-lined cape, his right hand touching his diaphragm. Height: 8 3/4 inches (C255) 6. DERBY PORCELAIN WHITE FIGURE OF KITTY CLIVE Circa 1751-55 Wearing a ruffled hat and panniered dress, carrying a small spaniel under her right arm, and standing on a lobed base molded with a stem offlowers, (minor chips). Height: 9 1/4 inches (No collection number) 5 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Livin2 Room (continued) Contents ofBreakfront (continued) 7. PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN WHITE FIGURES OF HENRY WOODWARD AND KITTY CLIVE Circa 1755 He in the role of 'The Fine Gentleman' from Lethe, wearing a large tricorn, his hands thrusting out the front ofhis tufted waistcoat, and standing before a column on a tessellated chamfered rectangular base; and she in the role of 'The Fine Lady' from Lethe, wearing a ruffled cap (chipped) and panniered dress, carrying a spaniel under her right arm and standing on a flat rectangular base; (some chips). Heights: 10 1/2 and 10 1/8 inches (C19 and C20) 8. PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN WHITE FIGURES OF ACTORS AS TURKS Circa 1752 The gentleman wearing a fur-edged turban (plumes restored) and a fur-lined cape, and holding the pommel ofhis sword (missing), the actress wearing a veiled headdress and fringed pantaloons under her fur-lined cape, and each standing on a square base. Heights: 7 15/16 and 8 3/8 inches (C12 and C13) 9. STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE CHILD'S PLATE Circa 1835 Printed and enameled with PAUL PRY within a rim molded with brown~spotted dogs, a monkey and trainer, and yellow paterae, painter's mark in brown. Diameter: 5 9/16 inches (No collection number) 6 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Living Room (continued) Contents ofBreakfront (continued) 10. LIVERPOOL PORCELAIN JUG Philip Christian's Factory, circa 1770-75 Naturalistically painted around the swelling body with a scene from The Maid ofthe Mill, depicting a lady in the window ofa timbered cottage observing a youth and another man before a mill waving to two ladies by a thatched shed, signed RF on four sacks, the spout molded with scrolls, the reverse with an S-scroll handle, (cracked). Height: 9 5/8 inches (C214) 11. ST. CLOUD PORCELAIN OCTAGONAL KNIFE HANDLE -'7) \ rf""" Circa 1740-50 \\y">J Painted in iron-red, yellow, blue and green with chinoiserie figures and buildings; mounted with a steel blade. Length ofhandle: 3 1/4 inches Length overall: 7 1/2 inches (No collection number) Above the North Door 12. LIVERPOOL DELFT TRANSFER-PRINTED TILE Circa 1758-61 Printed in black by J Sadler, Liverpool, signed, with Mlle. Camargo dancing; framed. Square: 5 inches (C108) 7 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Living Room (continued) Above the North Door (continued) 13. PRATTWARE OVAL PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF MRS. SARAH SIDDONS Circa 1790 Molded with a profile portrait ofthe actress, and colored in blue, brown and yellow within a molded self-frame, (repaired). Height: 8 1/16 inches (CI67) 14. COALPORT PORCELAIN NOTCHED SQUARE SOUP PLATE Circa 1805 En suite with numbers 29 and 30, and decorated in gold with a ground offoliate motifs reserved in the center with a roundel painted with Mr. Kemble as Cato, (two chips, one issuing a hair crack, and a central star crack beneath), the reverse inscribed in iron red. Width: 9 inches (CI59) 15. LIVERPOOL DELFT TRANSFER-PRINTED TILE Circa 1775 Printed in black with 'MRS. MATTOCKS as PRIN~ CATHERINE' within a trelliswork border interrupted with trophies, (some rim chips). Square: 5 inches (C83) 8 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Livin~ Room (continued) Above the North Door (continued) 16. LIVERPOOL DELFT TRANSFER-PRINTED TILE Circa 1775 Printed in black with MR. MOODY as SIMON in Harlequin's Invasion within the same border as the preceding, (some rim chips). Square: 5 inches Ex: Hodgkin Collection (C84) On the Mantelpiece 17. PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLES Circa 1700 Each ofteardrop shape and painted with panels ofa figure seated below a pavilion alternating with vases and vessels below a tall neck with lappet devices. Height: 10 1/4 inches (No collection number) 18. PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN PEACH-SHAPED DISHES Circa 1753 Each painted in a Kakiemon palette with an iron-red phoenix in flight above a Chinese pheasant perched on a rock before a flowering peony, the rim (one chipped) with an iron-red and gilt flowering vine border, small red anchor marks. Length: 7 3/4 inches (No collection number) 9 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Living Room (continued) 19. COLORED BISCUIT FIGURE OF RACHEL Probably George Jones, circa 1875-80 Possibly Mlle. Rachel Felix as 'Phedre', wearing a gilt dotted robe and a red-lined tan cloak bordered with gilt palmettes, and standing on a circular base inscribed RACHEL, GJmonogram mark on a blue applied oval pad. Height: 15 1/8 inches (C109) Left Hanging Shelf 20. CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER PORCELAIN ORANGE-GROUND CYLINDRICAL MUG Circa 1805 The ground patterned with gilt stars and dots and reserved with a gilt-edged octagonal panel printed in black with a bust-length profile portrait ofWilliam Henry. West Betty as a young man in an open lace-collared shirt, (rim restored). Height: 3 1/2 inches (C267) 21. CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND CYLINDRICAL MUG Circa 1805 Reserved on the front with a gilt-edged octagonal panel printed in black with a portrait ofWilliam Henry West Betty above a cluster oftheatrical trophies, (small hair crack). Height: 4 1/2 inches (C247) 10 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Living Room (continued) Left Hanging Shelf(continued) 22. ENGLISH PORCELAIN FIGURAL GROUP OF CHARLES E. HORN AS 'CASPAR' IN DER FREISCHUTZ Circa 1825-1840 The bearded man making a sweeping gesture. and standing before a recumbent white whippet on a bright blue rectangular base. Height: 8 7/8 inches (CI77) 23. STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURE OF BILLY WATERS Circa 1825 The negro fiddler wearing a blue jacket and patched trousers revealing one peg leg, playing his violin and standing on a rectangular brown base. Height: 8 1/8 inches (CI12) 24. DERBY PORCELAIN SMALL FIGURE OF BILLY WATERS Circa 1821-25 Modeled by Edward Keys, in a similar pose and costume to the preceding,(bow missing), but standing on a gilt-edged circular base inscribed BILLY WATERS, crowned crossed batons and D mark and numeral 33 in iron-red. Height: 3 3/4 inches (C209) 11 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Liyin~ Room (continued) Left Han~in~ Shelf(continued) 25. STAFFORDSHIRE PORCELAIN FIGURE OF T.D. RICE AS 'nM CROW' Circa 1840 The black man wearing a black-spotted pink jacket and yellow breeches, seated c a a stump above a gilt-banded circular base. Height: 43/4 inches (C56) 26" DERBY PORCELAIN FJ"GURE OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI AS THE ~CLo.'VN'IN ~fOTHER GOOSE Circa 1825-30 With red triangles on his cheeks, and wearing a colorful costume with pale green short breeches, his ~s out stretched and holding a letter in hi~, right hand, standing against a marbleized pedestal on a green-topped and gilt edged rectangular base, (small chips). Height: 5 1/16 inches (CI51) 27. ENGLISH WHITE BISCUIT FIGURE, POSSIBLY OF MRS. SARAH SIDDONS Circa 1835 Modeled with her head turned to the left and scowling, wearing a lace-edged dress, the skirt ofwhich she lifts in her left hand, and standing on an open scroll-molded base, (small chips). Height: 5 7/8 inches (Cl) 12 THE PROPERTY OF MRS. ROBIN CRAVEN Ceramics Living Room (continued) Left Hanging Shelf(continued) 28. ENGLISH WHITE BISCUIT FIGURE OF A LADY Circa 1835 Wearing a mobcap and apron, her pudgy face with an expression ofdisapproval, and her palms raised in rejection, standing on an open scroll-molded base, (some chips). Height: 5 5/16 inches (C2) 29. PAIR OF COALPORT PORCELAIN NOTCHED SQUARE PLATES Circa 1805 En suite with numbers 14 and 30, from a 'harlequin' service, the gold-patterned ground reserved with a central roundel depicting on one Mr. Pope as Oronoko and on the other Mr. Smith as Alexander the Great, (some wear), the reverse inscribed in iron-red. Widths: 8 3/8 and 8 1/4 inches (C146 and C143) Right Hanging Shelf 30.