Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
27 March 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/914
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    40 A WorcrEstER Bown, with Cover and double handles, finely painted with festoons and sprays of old English flowers in colours, within gilt panels reserved, on a scale blue ground, the cover with flowers knop, 54%. diam., seal mark 2 41 A Fine Dersy CABARET, decorated with Cupids in puce, by Askew, within circular and oval panels, enclosed by gilt and white stripe borders, ,or to use the words of the old catalogues, “ enamel’d in compartments with rose coloured Cupids, richly finished with fine burnished gold stripes,” comprising : a plateau, tea-pot and cover, milk jug, sugar basin and cover, and a saucer, all marked in blue with a crown and D 42 A VERY FINE DERBY CABARET beautifully painted by Boreman, with landscapes, river scenes, cattle and figure subjects, within ‘pearly’ beaded borders, on a canary-yellow ground, comprising: a plateau, tea-pot and cover, sugar basin and cover, milk jug, and a cup and saucer, each piece marked with crown, batons and D in puce 8 *%: This cabaret is not only of brilliant quality, but is in perfect state. [See ILLUSTRATION. ] CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN anp POTTERY. 43 A Sévres double-handled Cup, Cover and Stand painted with baskets of fruit and flowers by the younger Le Bel, on a bark blue ground; and a fine porcelain Snuff Mull in the form of a mouse 4 44 A pair of Meissen Plates, from the well-known service, with Dutch views, with shaded blue borders and panels of flowers enclosing views of Amsterdam with inscriptions at the backs, 94in. diam.; and a helmet Jug with Kakiemon design, 6 in., mark wm blue 3 45 YZurion. A nude Figure of a seated satyr leaning on a white vase, on a green and brown rockwork base, 8 in., mark in blue; and a white Ansbach Figure of Mercury, finely modelled, 9 i., impressed mark 2