Gladstone Home Rule Interest: An Oval Terracotta Wall Plaque, by A George, circa 1898, worked in relief with Gladstone seated in a church yard wearing a tam o'shanter, sculpting a headstone with inscription In Memoriam Home.Rule Bill Murdered in the House of Lords 8 Sept 1898 Resurgant, within a fruiting laurel raised ribbon tied frame with thistle surmount, stamped A George, also incised on the reverse Made in England by A George, 32.5cm by 29.5cm

Guide Price: £300-400

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Wellington & Peel Interest: A Dixon Phillips & Co, Sunderland Pottery Circular Plate, circa 1840-50, circular, with pearlware glaze, the broad rim applied with eight florets in vivid colouring, around a central puce printed reserve depicting Wellington & Peel dancing the polka (and titled), impressed mark and anchor device, 18.5cm diameter

Guide Price: £500-700

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Queen Victoria Interest: A Stephen Green, Imperial Pottery, Lambeth Two-Tone Salt Glaze Commemorative Sceptre Flask, circa 1840, realistically modelled with crown surmount over the Royal shield, on the reverse with VR initials, impressed Stephen Green Imperial Potteries Lambeth, 23cm high

Guide Price: £350-450

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An English Pottery Slip Decorated Baking Dish, 19th century, with a combed cream blue and black allover design, indistinct impressed mark Harwood, Old Clarence Pottery, Stockton, 40cm wide; and Another Very Similar, unmarked, incised 16, 42cm wide (2)

This Stockton pottery was founded by Thomas Harwood.

Guide Price: £80-120

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A Parian Figure of a Water Nymph, after John Thomas, Minton 1861, impressed MINTON, year cypher and T, 79cm high

A similar figure is illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary and Busts, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, fig.125, page 82. The original stone statue was exhibited at the 1861 RA as Nymph: Property of HM The Queen, is now in the Royal Dairy at Frogmore, shown at the International Exhibition 1862.

Guide Price: £500-800

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A Pair of Enamelled and Gilded Parian Porcelain Figures of Classical Maidens, circa 1860, one standing holding a vase, the other draping a robe behind her back, with turquoise enamel details heightened in gilt, on concave sided circular integral plinths, 36cm and 37cm high respectively

Guide Price: £180-250

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A Parian Classical Group, J&T Bevington, Hanley, circa 1865-77, as a young mother wearing diaphanous toga and hair net, playing with a child at her feet flanked by a table with a jewellery box, on a concave sided oval plinth stamped J&TB and 404, 39cm high

Guide Price: £120-180

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A Parian Porcelain Figure of Musidora, after William Theed, Copeland 1867, for the Ceramic and Crystal Palace Art Union 1866, impressed marks and title, 44cm high This is the companion figure to Malempré's shepherd boy, and is based on the marble statue
executed in 1866 for the Prince of Wales, exhibited at the 1866 RA, and placed in Marlborough House, London. Musidora is a water nymph featured in James Thompson's The Seasons (1730) who was loved by Damon, a young swane. From a copse he sees her bathing and writes the following lines in sand on the river bank: Bathe on, my fair, - yet unbeheld save by the second I, of a fateful love; I go to guard thy haunt, to keep from thy recess each vagrant foot and each licentious eye

For a similar figure see The Parian Phenomenon, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, page 153, illus 518

Guide Price: £200-300

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A Parian Porcelain Mythological Group, circa 1860, as a semi-nude classical maiden seated on the back of a male lion, a Bacchic infant at her feet playing with a serpent, a fox and lamb close by, on an oval base, apparently unmarked, 36cm high, beneath a glass dome on an ebonised plinth, 46cm high overall

Guide Price: £120-180

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A Minton Parian Figure of Sir Robert Peel, 1858, standing beside a cloth draped pillar on which is placed books and scrolls, holding his coat lapel with his left hand and gazing slightly to sinister, incised ermine mark and year cypher for 1858, 47.5cm high

Guide Price: £1000-1500

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