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Ceramics 1 Ceramics pairs & their values Here are 96 images of pairs of ceramics, in high to low order, from the very top end of 6 the market. The price range is £25,000 to £2,000 hammer. There are more than 2,300 ceramic pairs on our website ranging down to just £5. In the space available I will Pair of Chamberlain shell pursue two of the more important themes in these pages. In addition I will analyse painted ice pails, covers and liners, c1810. Bonham’s, about a dozen other lots worthy of comment. The reader may wish also to follow their Bath. Jun 03. HP: £16,000. own interests. I hope the discussion here will point up the importance of examining the Pair of Famille Rose Hawks, ABP: £18,820. detail rather than simply browsing these pages. 25.3cm high. Phillips, Understanding the high esteem placed on pairs is very important. Only the most Scotland. Jun 00. HP: spectacular of single items are occasionally more important. Their investment potential £25,000. ABP: £29,406. is usually sound. Take the pair of early nineteenth century Mason’s Patent Ironstone 7 China vases at 41. At 22in high they are extraordinarily rare and surely destined to grace the hallway of some grand mansion. My own recent purchases are more modest, 2 Pair of Chinese moulded a pair of Chinese blue and white nineteenth century spoons and a fine pair of French yellow ‘mallow flower’ faience Longwy knife rests. The point is that these are highly collectible and selling will dishes, marks and period of never be a problem. My advice is to avoid buying most of the time and save your zonzheng. Sotheby’s, Billingshurst. Sep 99. HP: money for those occasions when something very special comes along. Worthwhile buys £14,000. ABP: £16,467. are by their nature uncommon, if not rare. First period Worcester pair Analysis of gugglets, c1753-55, blue Animalia feature seventeen times in our 96 examples. Check out the Chinese hawks at painted in ‘The Lange 1, the Derby wild boars at 5 and the Chelsea pheasants at 8. This is the top end of the Lijzen’ pattern, 24cm, one market and expect to find all of the major manufacturers and categories represented in with rim chips. Bristol these pages. Chinese porcelain always figures at the upper end of the market and our Auction Rooms, Bristol. Jul 8 second example can be found at 22. Pairs of Staffordshire animals will always be well 03. HP: £24,000. ABP: £28,230. represented. See the pair of lions at 21, leopards at 26 and rabbits at 32, making sure Pair of Chelsea porcelain that you don’t miss the pair of Bow lions at 30. On page 44 are two further examples 3 models of Chinese pheasants, of Chinese pairs at 47 and 55. There are more Staffordshire leopards at 63 and a prob. decorated in workshop pearlware John Walton unicorn and lion pair at 86. Readers should also check out 9, of William Duesbury, red where carp have been integrated into the design of a pair of French ewers, 12 where anchor marks, c1750-52, mythological creatures support a pair of Flight, Barr and Barr candlesticks, 48 where 21cm high. (damaged) Bearne’s, Exeter. Jul 03. HP: swans decorate a pair of majolica ewers and 81, a pair of Cantonese figural candlesticks Pair of Mintons pate sur pate £14,000. ABP: £16,467. modelled as elephants. Both humans and animals appear together at 50, a pair of plaques, signed L. Solon Meissen figures by J J Kaendler. Readers will also find animal decoration in these (18(80), 17 x 15cm, period pages, most noticeably with Japanese carp decorating Moorcroft vases at 4, or H gilt Florentine frames. Stinton highland cattle on Royal Worcester at 62. Don’t miss either, the animals Richard Winterton, Burton decorating Italian maiolica alberello drug jars at 87. The human form can be followed on Trent, Staffs. Sep 01. HP: from the pair of Meissen pagoda figures at 10, through 14, 25, 31, 37, 45, 54, 65, 71, £20,000. ABP: £23,525. 9 72, 78, 90 to the fine pair of Royal Dux Moorish water carriers at 96. See also the Pair of gilt bronze mounted George Jones majolica candlesticks at 51. Rarest of all are probably the pair of basalt 4 porcelain vases, probably figures of Lord Rodney and Admiral Hood at 14. Black basalt pairs of figures from the French, late 19thC, formed late eighteenth/early nineteenth century usually top out at about £4,000 hammer and go as two carp, 17in high. down from there. £9,000 could well be an auction record for basalt. Readers may Sworders, Stansted follow any theme they wish. In the space left I am going to draw attention to as many Mountfitchet. Mar 01. HP: important aspects of the market that I can cover. Check out the Minton paté sur paté at £12,600. ABP: £14,820. 3. Incidentally if by Louis Solon then the sky is the limit. Another high flying name is 10 Nantgarw. The uninspiring pair of plates at 13, estimated in the hundreds because of their condition fetched an astonishing £9,400 at Canterbury Auction Galleries in 2003, Pair of early Moorcroft this certainly a record for a Nantgarw pair at auction. Now check out the Mintons Art florian vases with Japanese Pottery chargers at 11. Hand painted art pottery is in fashion. Add the semi-erotic nudity carp amidst underwater Pair of Meissen pagoda and don’t be surprised at the £11,100 hammer. Never underestimate English delft. See foliage, 11.75in. Gorringes, figures, gilded details, 29. I thought of bidding. The estimate I remember was about £1,200-1,500. I knew this Lewes. Oct 99. HP: £19,000. crossed swords and incised ABP: £22,348. marks, 2nd half 19thC, would be exceeded so debated whether to go to £3,000. Then I realised that this would 31.5cm high. Woolley & never be enough and sure enough, they reached nearly £6,000. They must be a sound 5 Wallis, Salisbury. Jun 00. investment. Where would you ever find another pair? I did not expect the Morrisware HP: £12,200. ABP: £14,350. biscuit jars to go to nearly £5,000 (See 40) which is nearer to Moorcroft prices. The most I have seen paid for a pair of tube lined Morrisware vases was just over £1,500 at Rare pair of Derby models of Sotheby’s in 2005. Never underestimate Mason’s. The pair of early lidded vases at 41 wild boars, bases applied are quite spectacular at 22in and nearly £5,000. They could sell on for more. The pair with flowers and with 11 of Fremington vases at 85 are well above the usual price. However, they are very enamelled details, c1755, Pair of Minton's art pottery special and nothing so good has appeared in the market to my knowledge. The pair of 16.5cm wide, bases with chargers painted with semi Royal Dux vases by Hampel at 94 are superb, bringing both humour and narrative to collectors stencilled marks erotic subjects, signed by W the ceramics art, a considerable feat. These reached near the very top end of Royal Dux ‘Bt. at Dr. Wake Smarts Sale, S Coleman, each depicting a prices. Perhaps they deserve to push nearer to £3,000 as do the Moorish water carriers April 1895, Lot 103, Chelsea nude maiden, 17in dia. at 96. Finally cornucopia wall pockets are expensive and I have seen them go to at least China’. Woolley & Wallis, Tring Market Auctions, Salisbury. May 01. HP: Herts. May 04. HP: £11,100. £4,000-5,000. These fetched quite a modest price at £2,000 hammer so may have £19,000. ABP: £22,348. ABP: £13,056. potential. The buyer certainly didn’t over pay! John Ainsley ANTIQUES INFO - July/August 07 Ceramics 12 24 37 18 Pair of 20thC Chinese porce- Pair of still life painted porcelain plaques, by Le Bel. lain bowls, exteriors enam- 31 Pair of Worcester Flight, elled in Famille Rose manner Hamptons, Godalming. Apr Barr & Barr candlesticks, with geese and flowers, 5in 03. HP: £5,500. ABP: £6,469. Pair of Minton majolica c1820, 6.5in high. Sotheby’s, dia, 2.75in high, 6 character 25 Pair of late 19thC Austrian sweetmeat stands c1870, Billingshurst. Jan 01. HP: mark in underglaze blue to cold painted terracotta modelled as 3 agate deco- £10,500. ABP: £12,350. base. Canterbury Auction figures, Arab warrior and rated shells issuing from Galleries, Kent. Feb 06. HP: 13 female companion. bearded masks surmounted £7,600. ABP: £8,939. Gorringes, Lewes. Jun 00. by a cherub, 11.75in high. HP: £4,800. ABP: £5,646. Sotheby’s, Billingshurst. Jul 99. HP: £4,200. ABP: £4,940. Pair of Nantgarw porcelain oval plates, prob. by Thomas Pair of very large Meissen 38 Pardoe, 10 x 14.25in, c1820. 19 figures of a gallant and his 32 Canterbury Auction lady, mid 19thC. Hamptons, Pair of Barr, Flight and Barr Galleries, Kent. Aug 03. HP: Godalming. Jul 00. HP: Pair of mid 19thC Stafford- jardinieres, c1810. Sotheby’s, £9,400. ABP: £11,056. £5,200. ABP: £6,116. shire rabbits, 22cm wide. London. Jul 02. HP: £6,800. Cheffins, Cambridge. Feb 02. 14 ABP: £7,998. 26 HP: £4,700. ABP: £5,528. Pair of 19thC Minton vases. Hamptons, Marlborough. Nov 99. HP: £4,200. ABP: £4,940. Pair of antique Staffordshire 20 pottery leopards. Stride & 33 Pair of black basalt figures Son, Chichester.
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