Art Deco crystal and gilt metal Necklace
Price: £75
This is a very beautiful necklace with three strands of crystal beads suspended from gilt metal triangular plaques with an art deco style floral design ending in a cluster of three crystal beads in the form of stylised flower heads and a shell form crystal, all set on a gilt metal plaque with an openwork stylised floral design.
Cherry amber Bakelite necklace 1920s
Price: £150
This is a very beautiful necklace comprising bright and clear amber Bakelite beads. These necklaces are quite rare and the clear red colour is one of the most collectible.
Art Deco Scottish agate necklace
Price: £120
This is a very unusual necklace comprising carved stations of different Scottish agate stones, the stones are slightly graduated and are connected by gilt brass spring like connectors. With original screw clasp.
Art Nouveau comb with coral fish and pearls
Price: £40
This is a beautiful piece of Art Nouveau, a celluloid hair comb with an inset carving of a koi fish in coral and seed pearls. It is carved with swirls and incised with very fine designs.
Art Deco Whitby Jet Necklace
Price: £55
This is a beautiful necklace comprising a string of Whitby Jet beads in geometric shapes. The centre bead is a carved round bead, the surrounding beds are half rounds with flat round beads in between to give it that Art Deco look.
Large Art Deco swirl Bakelite buckle
Price: £35
This is a very unusual and rare Bakelite buckle in the swirl marbled design. It is in a very Art Deco shape with typical carved lines. It is a very large size and comes with its original store tag from Harlem-Adler & Co. in New York.
Pair of alabaster bookends, 20th century
Price: £85
This is a very beautiful set of bookends that are worked into shapes of books. What sets them apart is the different colours of alabaster used.
Art Deco Scottish agate panel bracelet, 1930s
Price: £125
This is a very unusual Scottish agate bracelet comprising bevelled panels with two beads around the central stone. The colour and shape are just perfect to show off how beautiful this type of agate is. This bracelet was originally on an elastic cord. It has now been restrung onto a steel wire with a fitted clasp which makes it both more durable and practical.
Pair of Art Deco chrome wall sconces
Price: £50
This is a stunning pair of Art Deco sconces in polished chrome. These hold candles and are in a very unusual Art Deco design. A not to be missed lot for Art Deco collectors!
Art Deco silver and enamel brooch
Price: £80
This is a very elegant brooch comprising silver, enamel and clear stones with bird and foliage motif in fitted box
Large Paste Stone Dress Clip marked A-F Paris, French 1930s
Price: £40
This is a gorgeous silver gilt metal and paste stone dress clip with clear and grey paste stones, all facetted, and set with faux pearls. It is signed 'A-F Paris', followed by 'Bte SGDG' which stands for 'brevete sans guaranties du government' (patented without government guarantee), see Image 6.
Art Deco Amber Glass Necklace
Price: £40
This is a lovely flapper style necklace, with amber glass faceted beads and round small beads, with long hanging tassel.
Art Deco necklace with faux amethyst drop
Price: £50
This is a very striking necklace comprising silver tone metal elements with glass bead stations and large purple glass drop.
Magnificent Edwardian Paste Necklace and Pendant
Price: £125
This is a wonderful long necklace comprising a long strand of connected paste stones set in silver gilt metal and joined with links, terminating in a large facetted stone surrounded by a border of small stones in a halo form design.
Copper necklace 1960s
Price: £20
This is an unusual copper necklace with baton stations.
Shelley Harmony Ware Drip Glaze Watercress Bowl and Stand, 1930s
Price: £55
A ceramic shallow bowl, pierced with holes to the centre and with three short feet and a matching dish or underplate, both decorated with various shades of green, brown, grey and light blue with ‘drip glaze’ effects, the bases glazed and the bowl with a transfer mark ‘Shelley England’, the mark on the plate blurred and indistinct. Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was originally known as Wileman & Co. which had also traded under the name ‘The Foley Potteries’. The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862, and it remained a Shelley family business until 1966, when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries. Josph’s son Percy employed first the designer Frederick Rhead then Walter Slater who had worked with Doulton. It was Walter Slater’s son, Eric, who initiated the ‘Harmony’ range in 1932, at first with a series of banded designs, and then with ‘drip ware’ patterns, an effect which he discovered by accident, which became enormously popular such that around twenty five painters were employed in their decoration. Besides vases, various items of tableware were produced in this style and these two pieces comprise a drainer bowl and stand, most likely for watercress or salad, following earlier English and Chinese designs, but possibly for fruit or berries. This ensemble is less commonly found but remains both decorative and practical.
Art Nouveau necklace with a gilt metal Plaque,1920s
Price: £125
This is a beautiful necklace featuring an Art Nouveau style plaque modelled with the head of female figure with gilt metal French jet drops and beads suspended from a necklace also with French jet beads and two gilt metal plaques all linked by gilt metal chain.
Art Deco Statement Necklace with a Demon Head Plaque, 1920s
Price: £85
This is an unusual necklace comprising pale blue opaque and clear glass drops, some mounted and with gilt chain links, terminating in a large gilt metal plaque modelled with the head of a gargoyle or demon.
Art Deco style Cuff Bracelet by Stellor, signed, Swiss 1960s
Price: £60
This is a very rare bracelet from the 1960s by the Swiss jewellery manufacturer Stellor, with full marks on the reverse, 'Stellor' and 'Swiss Made'. It is chrome plated with rose gold tone. This piece has been attributed to the French maker Le Farre, although is marked for Stellor (see images). Similar pieces were made by Le Farre but Stellor was probably emulating them here.
Art Deco convertible brooch dress clips
Price: £20
This is a lovely brooch that converts back to dress clips if desired, set with bright paste stones
English dripware pottery covered biscuit jar, 1930s
Price: £20
This is an unusual pottery biscuit jar, with metal mount, handle and cover, marked on the bottom S Made in England S. This might indicate Staffordshire as the region
Flash Lustre Glaze Futurist Cruet Set 1960s
Price: £20
This is a wonderful cruet set with salt and pepper and a condiment dish with spoon. Marked with a Crown V mark.
Clarice Cliff Celtic Harvest Centrepiece Bowl, marked, 1930s
Price: £35
A ceramic bowl with a bulbous, squat body and three ball like feet, the body with moulded decoration of wheat sheaves and fruit in brightly coloured enamels on a beige raffia style background, the rim with a chrome metal band, the base with transfer marks ‘Celtic Harvest’, ‘Clarice Cliff’ ‘Newport Pottery Co’ ‘England’.
Born in 1899, Clarice Cliff began with a varied career in apprentice roles in the North Staffordshire Potteries, at that time the major employers in the area of women. At the age of 17, she was working with the firm A.J.Wilkinson, owned by the Shorter family, and some of her designs began to appear in their pattern books soon after. In the late 1920s, she experimented with novel and bold designs termed ‘Bizarre Ware’ which met with unexpected success, much to the surprise of Wilkinson’s salesmen. A wide range of pieces in the style was then produced and named ‘Handpainted Bizarre’ by the managing director of Wilkinson’s, Colley Shorter. The ‘Crocus’ and ‘Conical’ ranges then followed and in 1930 Cliff was made Art Director of the firm, soon to be supervising a workforce of up to 1000 at the Newport Pottery. In 1940, she married Colley Shorter, after the death of his first wife, and her career came to an end, decorated pottery being prohibited during the second world war. Shorter died in 1963 and the following year Cliff sold the business to Midwinter Pottery. A recluse for many years, she died in 1972.
The ’Celtic Harvest’ range was typical of her work and comprised a wide variety of serving pieces all decorated in the same style. This Centrepiece bowl was probably intended for fruit and like all the other examples is fitted with a chrome metal rim. Dating is most likely to the 1930s.
Pair of Royal Dux Secessionist Style Vases, 1930s
Price: £250
A pair of ceramic vases of semi organic form, the body tapering towards the long slightly flaring neck and the sides with four applied loop handles, decorated with stylized floral designs on a grey/beige mottled ground, the base glazed and with a transfer mark of an acorn in a triangle with the letters ‘D’ ‘P’ ‘M’ and impressed numbers ‘11330’.
These vases form part of a group of ceramic items manufactured by a wide number of factories in the early C20th, including Mintons of England, and heavily influenced by the ‘Secessionist’ movement, in which contemporary artists deliberately broke away from traditional styles, which began in Austria in the late nineteenth century and soon spread to Germany and France. The organic forms of the Art Nouveau movement were a strong influence and can be seen here.
Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur, or the Dux Porcelain Manufactory, was started in 1860 by Eduard Eichler in what was then Duchov, Bohemia, later to become part of Czechoslovakia. Production continued until the beginning of the second world war and beyond. The factory started to imitate designs by Copenhagen, Worcester and Sevrés and their pieces achieved great popularity culminating in the company being rewarded with the Grand Prix prize at the world exhibition in St. Louis in 1904. Their output is now now generally referred to by the abbreviated name, ‘Royal Dux’. Some of their pieces were made in the ‘Secessionist’ style, with emphasis on organic forms, as here. There is a wide variety of Royal Dux marks and the one on these vases, an acorn in a triangle (the letters ‘D’, ‘P’, ‘M’ standing for “Duxer Porzellan-Manufaktur”) , indicates a dating after 1918 suggesting that they were made in the 1920s or 1930s but almost certainly before the beginning of the second world war.
Rare Ditmar Urbach Art Deco Pitcher, Czech 1930s
Price: £250
The Ditmar Brothers and the Urbach Brothers had merged what was left of their ceramics companies in 1910. Their primary facility was located in Teplitz-Turn, Czechoslovakia. From 1919 to 1938, they operated as Ditmar-Urbach A.G. and produced a large volume of decorative and functional ceramics, many employing forms and decoration typical of the Art Deco style. The form of this vase is unusual, being a double lipped pitcher with a loop handle, and the decoration employs zig zag, almost mountainous, designs in orange, yellow, purple and blue, which can also be found on other pieces from the factory and are typical of the styles of the era. The base is clearly marked ‘Ditmar Urbach’ ‘Made in Czechoslovakia’ which is not the case with all of the pieces made by the firm.
Cylindrical Vase, Herman Kähler, HAK, blue glazed stoneware, 1950s
Price: £250
A stoneware vase glazed in blue of upright cylindrical form, the base and neck concave with two ribbed bands, the foot unglazed and showing traces of the potting rings with incised marks ‘HAK’ and 22-118. Herman August Kähler was a Danish ceramic designer and manufacturer who ran the Kähler ceramic factory (Kählers Keramiske Værksted) in Næstved, Denmark which he took over from his Father with his brother in 1872, then running it himself from 1875 when he built a new factory on the town’s outskirts. Kähler was responsible for the introduction of a ruby red glaze which soon became extremely popular and the factory began to produce many well formed decorative pieces which enjoyed a wide reception and were exhibited at the Great Nordic Exhibition held in Copenhagen in 1888 and at the Exposition Universelle held the following year in Paris. Kähler died in 1917 but the firm continued, at first under the direction of his son Herman Hans Christian Kähler.
This vase was designed by Herman Kähler’s grandson Nils Kähler who took over the business with his brother in 1940. Nils Kähler had a special talent for following the design trends of the time. Even though he was enthusiastic himself about traditional wares, the new production was characterized by much simpler designs. He made designer objects such as ashtrays, vases, jugs and lamp bases for Le Klint lamps. Made of stoneware, these bases were fired in his preferred salt glaze or with the strong turquoise or warm golden colors. This vase, then, is a typical example of his work and probably dates to the 1950s.
Shelley Harmony Ware Vase glazed in blue, 1930s
Price: £85
A ceramic vase of plain ovoid form, the body slightly ribbed and painted with various shades of ‘spun’ decoration in blue, the base glazed and with a transfer mark ‘Shelley England’ and the impressed numbers ‘979’ presumably denoting the model number. Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was originally known as Wileman & Co. which had also traded under the name ‘The Foley Potteries’. The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862, and it remained a Shelley family business until 1966, when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries. Josph’s son Percy employed first the designer Frederick Rhead then Walter Slater who had worked with Doulton. It was Walter Slater’s son, Eric, who initiated the ‘Harmony’ range in 1932, at first with a series of banded designs as here and then with drip ware patterns which became enormously popular. Harmony ware was produced in a wide variety of colours and this auction includes three vases which well reflect the range.
Shelley Harmony Ware Drip Glaze Vase, 1930s
Price: £85
A ceramic vase of plain ovoid form, the body slightly ribbed and painted with various shades of green, brown and light blue with ‘drip glaze’ effects, the base glazed and with a transfer mark ‘Shelley England’ and the impressed numbers ‘985’ presumably denoting the model number. Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was originally known as Wileman & Co. which had also traded under the name ‘The Foley Potteries’. The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862, and it remained a Shelley family business until 1966, when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries. Josph’s son Percy employed first the designer Frederick Rhead then Walter Slater who had worked with Doulton. It was Walter Slater’s son, Eric, who initiated the ‘Harmony’ range in 1932, at first with a series of banded designs, and then with ‘drip ware’ patterns, an effect which he discovered by accident, which became enormously popular such that around twenty five painters were employed in their decoration. Harmony ware was produced in a wide variety of colours and this auction includes three vases which well reflect the range.
Shelley Harmony Ware Vase glazed in shades of orange, yellow and grey, 1930s
Price: £95
A ceramic vase the broad slightly conical body narrowing towards the wide bulbous neck, the surface slightly ribbed and painted with various shades of ‘spun’ decoration in shades of orange, yellow and grey, the base glazed yellow and with a transfer mark ‘Shelley England’ and the impressed numbers ‘990’ presumably denoting the model number. Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was originally known as Wileman & Co. which had also traded under the name ‘The Foley Potteries’. The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862, and it remained a Shelley family business until 1966, when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries. Josph’s son Percy employed first the designer Frederick Rhead then Walter Slater who had worked with Doulton. It was Walter Slater’s son, Eric, who initiated the ‘Harmony’ range in 1932, at first with a series of banded designs as here and then with drip ware patterns which became enormously popular. Harmony ware was produced in a wide variety of colours and this auction includes three vases examples which well reflect the range.