PORCELAIN ENGLISH

Liverpool, Pennington's factory, blue and white punchbowl, 18th century, 25.5cm diameter

English porcelain charger, possibly Chamberlain, Worcester, unmarked, late 18th century, with unidentified crest in enamel colours, 50cm diameter

Four matching tea-bowls and saucers, with chinoiserie landscape decoration in underglaze blue, First Period Worcester

One of four matching plates, with chinoiserie landscape decoration in underglaze blue, First Period Worcester

Newhall porcelain creamer, Pattern N 177, late 18th century

Newhall porcelain creamer, unmarked, late 18th century

One of a pair of late Regency bone-china dishes from a dessert service, English, possibly Coalport

First-period Worcester porcelain slop bowl, circa 1770

A number of mid 18th-century Derby rococo-style soft-paste porcelain figures painted in polychrome enamels and gilt-enriched, including a pair of musicians, arcadian gardeners and shepherdess and "The Welch Taylor and his wife" based on the Meissen original, known as "Count Brühl's Tailor", modelled by Johan Joachim Kaendler, in 1737

An extremely rare, possibly unique, Chelsea porcalain "silver shape" ewer and basin painted with polychrome floral sprays with raised honey-gilded enrichment, red anchor mark, circa 1757.  The model continued to be used during the gold-anchor period, but this red-anchor example answers very well the description of a ewer and basin sold in the factory sale in 1757, the catalogue of which is given by F. Severne McKenna in his Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares, 1951.  The raised gilding is described as "chased", a silversmithing term not unlikely to be used by the owner of the factory, Nicholas Sprimont, who was himself a noted silversmith.  I purchased this in the early 1970s from a dealer friend whose father had bought it at The Lowther Castle sale of 1947, and sold it to one of my best local customers 

A fine set of Derby white biscuit porcelain figures representing the seasons, by Pierre Stephan, a French modeller who worked at the Derby porcelain works from 1770 to 1774

A first-period Worcester porcelain mug commemorating the success of Admiral Edward Boscawen at the Battle of Louisburg in 1758

A fine mid 18th-century Derby porcelain of an arcadian shepherd in the high rococo style

Three mid 18th-century sparrow-beaked creamers, that on the left made at Caughley, the other two from Dr Wall's Worcester factory

A fine first-period Worcester teapot, enamelled in the Japanese style, 1770s

A first-period Worcester "whorl" or Queen Charlotte's pattern coffee cup and saucer

What was even in the 1970s a remarkably complete first-period Worcester porcelain tea and coffee service of 41 pieces, having fan-shaped and round panels painted with exotic birds and insects in polychrome enamels, reserved on a mazarine blue ground and gilt-enriched.  It was one of the items I displayed for sale on my first day selling at the world-famous Portobello market in London, where I was to share a stand with my friend Bill Brown, the well-known antique cutlery and flatware specialist, for the next year or so, driving down from Carlisle through the night each Friday to open at the crack of dawn. Not surprisingly, it created considerable interest, sold that day, but not before helping to attract a good future clientele. Those were happy days!