A Private Collection of Arts and Crafts Silver, including examples by leading makers such as Omar Ramsden and Charles Robert Ashbee, will be offered in the 20th Century Design Sale at Tennants Auctioneers on 13th June. Notable pieces in the collection include an Arts and Crafts Silver-Mounted Rectangular Cigarette Box, made by Omar Ramsden in 1938 (estimate: £1,000-1,500 all figures exclude buyer’s premium), an Arts and Crafts Silver Mounted Ruskin Pottery Pedestal Bowl (estimate: £1,500-2,500), and an Arts and Crafts Silver and Enamel Cigarette Box made by Charles Fleetwood Varley for Liberty & Co., which is decorated with a beautifully rendered enamelled scene of a river landscape. The sale will also include a good Collection of Pewter, including Tudric and WMF.
A Moorcroft Moonlit Blue Pattern Landscape Vase, measuring an impressive 38.5cm high and made to display on the Moorcroft stand in the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, will be offered with an estimate of £3,000-5,000. It is thought to be one of the four vases displayed in the alcoves recessed into the architectural stand, which held a prominent position in the Palace of Industry. The vase is being sold by a collector of note and is signed ‘W Moorcroft British Empire Exhibition’ to the base. Other rare pieces of Moorcroft in the collection include a rare flambé Eventide Landscape Pattern Vase made circa 1925 (estimate: £1,000-1,500), and a diminutive vase in a very unusual Narcissus or Daffodil pattern made in the 1920s (estimate: £500-800).
Studio pottery is well represented with a Large Stoneware Serving Bowl made circa 1955 by Lucie Rie, one of the most accomplished and celebrated studio potters, known for her extraordinarily fine pots, bottles and bowls (estimate: £2,000-3,000). A small collection of Japanese pottery will also be included in the sale, with a Stoneware Plate by Shōji Hamada, the influential Japanese potter who helped Bernard Leach establish his studio in St. Ives (estimate: £400-600). Amongst the glass in the sale are good French pieces by leading makers, including a classic Art Deco Opalescent, Clear and Frosted Glass Rampillon Vase by René Lalique (estimate: £500-800), and a high-quality Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Enamelled Cameo Square Section Vase measuring just 9cm high (estimate: £300-500).
Finally, amongst the furniture in the sale, is a collection of furniture by Stewart Linford, a bespoke furniture maker from High Wycombe. High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire has a long-standing tradition of furniture making, particularly chair making, and the finely-made pieces on offer in this sale include a Mahogany and Sycamore Gothic Strawberry Hill Carousel Bookcase (estimate: £400-600).
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