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BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS Monday 2 November 2015 Knightsbridge, London BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS GLASS | Knightsbridge, London Monday 2 November 2015 22841 BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS Monday 2 November 2015 at 10.30am and 2.30pm Knightsbridge, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Friday 30 October +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Glass Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm 9am – 4.30pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax John Sandon +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Saturday 31 October To bid via the internet please +44 (0) 20 7468 8244 11am – 3pm visit bonhams.com [email protected] Please see page 2 for bidder Sunday 1 November information including after-sale 11am – 3pm Please note that telephone British Ceramics collection and shipment bidding is only available on Fergus Gambon SALE NUMBER lots with the low estimate in +44 (0) 20 7468 8245 IMPORTANT INFORMATION 22841 excess of £500. Bids should be [email protected] The United States Government submitted no later than 4pm on has banned the import of ivory CATALOGUE the day prior to the sale. New European Ceramics into the USA. Lots containing £25.00 bidders must also provide proof Sophie von der Goltz ivory are indicated by the symbol of identity when submitting bids. +44 (0) 20 7468 8349 Ф printed beside the lot number Failure to do this may result in [email protected] in this catalogue. your bid not being processed. General Enquiries LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS [email protected] AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE [email protected] Please email [email protected] with ‘live bidding’ in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Gordon McFarlan, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. SALE INFORMATION BIDS COLLECTION & STORAGE CITES REGULATIONS RUBY AND JADEITE: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 AFTER SALE Please be aware that all Lots Please note that as a result +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax All lots will be subject to transfer marked with the symbol Y are of recent legislation ruby and [email protected] and storage charges if they are subject to CITES requlations jadeite gemstones of Burmese www.bonhams.com not collected within the period when exporting these items (Myanmar) origin may not be outlined below. outside the EU. The regulations imported into the US. Rubies and PAYMENTS may be found at www.ukcites. jadeite of non-Burmese origin Buyers All sold lots will remain in the gov.uk or may be requested from: require certification before import +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Collections department at into the US. Items affected are +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Knightsbridge until 5.30pm UK CITES Management Authority marked with a symbol ≈ Monday 23 November 2015. Zone 117 Sellers Temple Quay House W These lots will be removed Payment of sale proceeds Sold lots not collected by this 2 The Square to Bonhams Park Royal after +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 time will be returned to the Temple Quay the sale. Please read the sale +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax department. Storage charges BRISTOL BS1 6EB information page for more details. may apply. VALUATIONS, TAXATION IMPORTANT NOTICE VAT REFUNDS ON EXPORTS AND HERITAGE PAYMENT IN ADVANCE A surcharge of 2% is applicable FROM THE EU +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 when using Mastercard, Visa and To submit a claim for refund of +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax to ascertain amount due by: overseas debit cards. VAT HMRC require lots to be [email protected] cash, cheque with banker’s exported from the EU within card, credit card, bank draft or The following symbol is used strict deadlines. CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS traveller’s cheque. to denote that VAT is due on To obtain any Bonhams the hammer price and buyer’s For lots on which Import VAT catalogue or to take out an PAYMENT AT TIME premium has been charged; marked in annual subscription: OF COLLECTION the catalogue with a * or Ω, lots Subscriptions Department By credit card / debit card † VAT 20% on hammer price must be exported within 30 days +44 (0) 1666 502200 and buyer’s premium of Bonhams’ receipt of payment +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax and within 3 months of the sale [email protected] * VAT on imported items at date. For all other lots export a preferential rate of 5% on must take place within 3 months SHIPPING hammer price and the prevailing of the sale date. For information and estimates rate on buyer’s premium on domestic and international For further VAT information shipping as well as export please contact: licenses please contact Bonhams [email protected] Shipping Department on: +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] CONTENTS Lots Page Part 1 GLASS AND PAPERWEIGHTS 1-61 5 Commencing at 10.30am European Glass 1-12 6 British Glass 13-37 12 19th Century Glass 38-49 27 Paperweights 50-61 34 Part 2 BRITISH CERAMICS 62-276 39 Delftware 62-68 40 Other pottery 69-78 44 Wedgwood 79-84 49 Chinese porcelain decorated in England 85-87 51 Chelsea, Bow & other Early porcelain 88-106 52 Worcester 107-122 60 Liverpool porcelain 123-128 66 Lowestoft, Isleworth & Caughley 129-145 69 Derby & Other makers 146-156 76 The Rowland Williams Collection 157-244 81 Derby 157-169 82 Other Billingsley-Related Porcelain 170-177 87 Swansea pottery 178-192 90 Swansea Porcelain 193-198 97 Nantgarw 199-244 99 Other Properties Welsh Ceramics from other owners 245-256 120 19th century British ceramics 257-268 125 Royal Worcester 269-275 130 Part 3 EUROPEAN CERAMICS 276-404 133 Commencing at 2.30pm Italian Ceramics & Other European Pottery 276-293 134 18th Century Meissen 294-333 140 Other German & Austrian Porcelain 334-361 154 Sèvres & Other French Porcelain 362-380 164 19th Century & Decorative Porcelain 381-398 170 Russian Porcelain 399-404 178 Part 1 GLASS & PAPERWEIGHTS Lots 1-61 1 1 A VENETIAN FILIGRANA WINE GOBLET, SECOND HALF 16TH Provenance CENTURY A British private collection With vetro a retorti decoration, the pear shaped bowl sloping gently inwards to a narrow opening at the neck, decorated with spiralling For a slightly taller example of related form also in filigrana glass see bands of white latticinio cable alternating with narrow white threads, Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste the hollow knop at the stem with similar decoration between clear Coburg (1994), p.222, fig. 192. collars, the spreading foot with a fold-over base rim also in vetro a retorti, 15.1cm high £4,000 - 5,000 €5,400 - 6,800 US$6,100 - 7,600 6 | BONHAMS 2 3 2 3 A FAÇON DE VENISE WINGED OR SERPENT-STEM WINE A FAÇON DE VENISE ‘WINGED’ WINE FLUTE, 17TH CENTURY GLASS, 17TH CENTURY With a tall conical bowl, the hollow inverted baluster stem between With a very delicate octagonal or eight-sided bowl on a merese, the mereses applied with two looped and pincered wings in deep blue and elaborate stem formed from an entwined rod containing a blue and clear glass, on a wide plain conical foot, 18cm high white twist, with finely pincered ‘wings’ on either side, raised on a plain section at the base above a wide conical folded foot, 18.7cm high £1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 £3,500 - 4,500 US$2,300 - 3,000 €4,800 - 6,100 US$5,300 - 6,800 A similar flute was sold by Christies in Amsterdam, 26 March 2013, lot 13. A related glass at Veste Coburg is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Provenance Theuerkauff-Liederwald (1994), p.312, fig.301. For an identical stem A British private collection on a bell-shaped flute see Hubert Vreeken, Glas in het Amsterdams Historisch Museum, p.120, fig.73. A very similar glass containing both blue and red threads is in the British Museum, illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.87, fig.141. BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS | 7 4 5 4 A VENETIAN OR FAÇON DE VENISE WINE GLASS, LATE 16TH CENTURY With a conical clear crystallo bowl on a collar above a fine filigrana double knop stem and spreading foot set with very fine spiral threads, 12.9cm high £2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,800 US$3,800 - 5,300 Provenance A British private collection 5 A SPANISH FAÇON DE VENISE WINE GLASS, LATE 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY Probably Catalonia, of pale amber or straw coloured metal, with a plain conical bowl on a hollow inverted baluster stem and a folded foot, 14cm high £500 - 700 €680 - 950 US$760 - 1,100 A very similar glass in the Instituto Amatller de Arte Hispanico in Barcelona is illustrated by Alice Wilson Frothingham, Spanish Glass (1963), pl.39a.