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A Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Figures "The Imperial Shepherds", gold anchor marks, circa 1765, he stands wearing floral attire and outholding his right arm, holding a hoe in his left hand, a dog at his feet, she holds a basket of flowers in her upheld apron, a posy of flowers in her left, a sheep at her feet, against encrusted flowering shrubs from rococo scroll bases, enriched in gilt throughout, male figure with impressed R, 33.5cm by 31cm high respectively Both bearing original Christie's collection labels H J Joel Collection 17 April 1980 19
Guide Price: £700-1000
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A Pair of Chelsea Chamber Candlesticks, circa 1755-58, each with a shallow leaf form pan with frilled edge, red line rim, painted with a pair of cherries, a moth and two insects, with spurred C shape handle to the bud nozzle, 14cm long, 4.5cm high (one cracked and formerly riveted)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
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A Longton Hall Cabbage Leaf Sauceboat, circa 1755, with double branch moulded handles, the interior painted with a flower spray and insect, the exterior picked out in puce and bright green, 20cm
Guide Price: £300-400
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A Staffordshire Salt Glaze Pottery Two-Division Tea Caddy, circa 1750, of double domed rectangular section, impressed with "domino" motifs and with central arched handle flanked by nozzles with brass bucket covers, 12cm high
Guide Price: £200-300
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An English Blue and White Delft Wall-Pocket, London, probably Lambeth, circa 1750, of half round double cup form, with hole for suspension pierced through the upper back plate (prior to glazing), the frontal upper register painted with a chinoiserie scene of a Manchu boy with long sleeves dancing by a fence before a huge midgie beneath overhanging crag, a stalagmite repeat pattern to the lower cup and with acorn terminal, 19cm high A similarly shaped wall-pocket (but which has a variant landscape and a stalagmite repeat upper border) is illustrated in Archer (Michael) Delftware, pg.375, i.23.The use of Chinese children at play - Wa Wa - are often seen on Chinese Kangxi blue and white porcelains, and were probably the inspiration for this design.
Guide Price: £400-600
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A Tin Glaze Wine Bin Label for Bucellas, London (possibly Mortlake, Sanders), circa 1760-70, of pentagonal shape, the arched top pierced for suspension, inscribed BUCELLAS in manganese-purple, 14cm wide, 8cm high; and A Wedgwood Pottery Wine Bin Label, circa 1780-1800, similarly shaped to the preceding, part glazed and with overglaze inscription (now deteriorated) possibly MONTPELIER, impressed WEDGWOOD, 14.5cm wide, 7.8cm high (2) Once wine could be stored in bottles, bins made of brick and stone were built in cellars for the purpose of storage, and tin glaze examples such as this were popular because they could resist damp. Bucelas (historically known as Bucellas) is a Portuguese wine, once described as Portuguese Hock from a region just north of Lisbon. Historically a white wine, during the Elizabethan age it was popular amongst the English as a fortified wine. Wine historians consider that this wine was likely the same 'charneco' wine mentioned by William Shakespeare in the play Henry VI Part II (with Charneco being a local village in the Bucelas region).
Guide Price: £100-200
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A Tin Glaze Drug Jar, probably London, circa 1750, cylindrical, one side with strapwork cartouche inscribed PHILON:LON., surmounted by a shell flanked by two winged putto, below a cupid's head flanked by floral swags and with a tassel, 9.8cm high
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An English Tin Glaze Drug Jar, probably London, circa 1750, of ovoid form, on one side only with a strapwork cartouche inscribed E:LENITIU:, surmounted by a shell flanked by two winged putti, cupid's head below flanked by flower swags, 19.1cm high E LENITIU is electuarium lenitivun, an electuary with mild purgative action. It was made from senna, tamarind pulp, prunes, polypody rhizome, liquorice and other ingredients.
Guide Price: £250-350
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An Austrian Polychrome Painted Terracotta Model of a Seated Pug, circa 1910, wearing a frilled blue night cap tied with a pink ribbon, with amber and black glass eyes, 40cm high This is one of a pair - Mr Pug usually sports a hat and bow tie.
Guide Price: £500-700
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A Pair of Dresden Flower Encrusted Porcelain Bottle Vases, circa 1900, each painted with a couple in a woodland vignette after Watteau, amongst diverse detailed applied flowerheads and undulating leafy tendrils, the covers with encrusted flowerhead finials, DF monogram in underglaze blue, and DRESDEN overglaze, 33.5cm high (losses)
Guide Price: £120-180
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