Pair of Chinese Cantonese Famille Rose Plates decorated in a mille fleur design, 19th Century
Price: £75Chinese Red Lacquer Box and Cover circa 1880
Price: £150Taxco charm bracelet, makers mark Castelan, 1950s
Price: £95Antqiue Scottish agate specimen brooch/pendant
Price: £50Rare Ditmar Urbach Art Deco Pitcher, Czech 1930s
Price: £250Flash Lustre Glaze Futurist Cruet Set 1960s
Price: £20English dripware pottery covered biscuit jar, 1930s
Price: £20American Art Deco silver and marcasite brooch
Price: £75Pair of Dorset Fossil limestone goblets in presentation box
Price: £35An Art Deco Style Globe with a flying Aeroplane labelled, Government of India Copywright 2008
Price: £25Japanese Art Deco silver gilt brooch
Price: £50Mottled blue Bakelite buckle in the shape of an airplane
Price: £501960s modernist style brooch
Price: £15Large floral brooch set with marcasite stones
Price: £20Lovely swirl design paste brooch
Price: £10Pair of Taxco Mexican silver earrings, c1980
Price: £75American 1980s statement necklace with intaglio pendants
Price: £55PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS FREE UK SHIPPING ON THIS ITEM. For international buyers the shipping cost will be reduced by the UK shipping cost, so don't worry if you are outside the UK, you still receive this benefit!
Japanese Fukagawa Imari Bowl, signed, circa 1880
Price: £380The Fukagawa kilns produced the best quality Imari items made in Japan in the late nineteenth century for export to the West. Their history starts with Ezaiemon Fukagawa who in 1856 became head of his family's porcelain business and in 1875 founded Koransha (The Company of the Scented Orchid) in Arita, Japan, to produce tableware for export. In 1894 the modern Fukagawa company was founded by Chuji Fukagawa, with the Fukagawa trade mark of Mount Fuji and a stream, as its trade mark. Dating here is within the Meiji period (1868 - 1912) probably around 1880. This conforms with the script mark used as opposed to the later symbol design.
French carved coral portrait ring c.1880
Price: £75An Arts and Crafts small Brass serving Tray, English early twentieth century
Price: £402 figural brooches
Price: £10Fairing Figurine - The last in bed to put out the light, German, early Twentieth Century
Price: £25The various figures were made in white glazed porcelain with coloured decoration. The compositions were sculptural and often accompanied by an inscription, as here. Many models are known. Two typical examples are 'Returning from the Ball' and 'Twelve Months after Marriage' but the most common example is represented here 'The last in bed to put out the light'. A couple are seen climbing into a covered bed at the foot of which stands a candle in a holder. These candles are usually broken off, most likely because of simple damage over the years but it has been suggested that this was done deliberately for good luck.
Some of the fairing figurines are marked, as here. In comparison with the previous Lot 4, this example has a glazed circular mark which reads 'Made in Germany'. These marks appear on the later productions of the Conta factory and indicate a dating here to shortly before the First World War. This is consistent with the rather 'brassy' looking gilding used which is typical of ceramic production generally post 1900.
It is interesting to compare Lots 4 and 5 and to see how consistent the manufacture was throughout the period. Only the glazed base with its circular mark and the type of gilt decoration separate this example from its earlier companion.
Fairings have been collectors' items for many years now and still hold a naif charm which makes them appealing display items, with a history of their own.
Large Art Deco swirl Bakelite buckle
Price: £351950s souvenir doll
Price: £25Japanese Imari Vase of Water Dropper Form, Meiji Period, circa 1900
Price: £20Edwardian Scottish agate panel bracelet
Price: £50Art Deco Statement Necklace with a Demon Head Plaque, 1920s
Price: £85Art Nouveau necklace with a gilt metal Plaque,1920s
Price: £125Art Deco crystal and gilt metal Necklace
Price: £75Lot of two Victorian glass hat pins
Price: £20Set of ring and earrings with obsidian mask motif, Mexico, 1950s
Price: £45Persian Gouache Painting depicting a Dignitary and Attendants, framed, nineteenth century
Price: £754 Chinese Imperial Jindezhen Porcelain Decorative Plates 1985-87
Price: £100Murano Art Glass Dish, 1960s
Price: £35Italian onyx decorative urn and egg on stand
Price: £40Italian decorative duck marble and alabaster
Price: £30Scottish agate necklace in different colours
Price: £25Art Deco glass bead necklace
Price: £25An Octagonal Brass Tray with a roundel of an elephant, probably Persian early C20th
Price: £50Burmese jade sautoir necklace
Price: £35Japanese Arita Jardiniere decorated with flowers and two tassels, Meiji period, circa 1900
Price: £350Art Deco 4 strand necklace with Mother of Pearl and Amber Bakelite Beads 1920s
Price: £60Agate and silver cuff bracelet
Price: £150Art Deco Amber Glass Necklace
Price: £40Stunning blue paste Demi Parure, 1950s
Price: £100Fairing Figurine - The last in bed to put out the light, German, late Nineteenth Century
Price: £25The various figures were made in white glazed porcelain with coloured decoration. The compositions were sculptural and often accompanied by an inscription, as here. Many models are known. Two typical examples are 'Returning from the Ball' and 'Twelve Months after Marriage' but the most common example is represented here 'The last in bed to put out the light'. A couple are seen climbing into a covered bed at the foot of which stands a candle in a holder. These candles are usually broken off, most likely because of simple damage over the years but it has been suggested that this was done deliberately for good luck.
Some of the fairing figurines are marked, as here. The impressed number '2851' comes from the first series of figures produced by the Conta factory with numbers ranging from 2850 to 2899. The earlier examples do not have the shield mark found on most of the pieces which indicates an earlier dating here, more towards the middle of the nineteenth century.
Fairings have been collectors' items for many years now and still hold a naif charm which makes them appealing display items, with a history of their own.
Victorian silver bracelet set with garnets 1900
Price: £25A gilt metal and onyx figure of a Cherub holding a Globe 1960s
Price: £25Taxco bracelet with Aztec mask motif, 1940s
Price: £85Two necklaces, Japanese mother of pearl 1940s
Price: £15Victorian Chinoiserie chatelaine note pad
Price: £85Victorian Vulcanite Bangle
Price: £130Stunning long Edwardian rock crystal necklace
Price: £100A Matched Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Bottle form Vases circa 1900
Price: £15A Complementary Pair of Gilt Metal Art Nouveau style picture frames, 20th Century
Price: £65Pair of Royal Doulton Spill Vases with gilt decoration, 1920s
Price: £180Lot of 2 vintage Chinese miniature cork groups
Price: £10Pair of Japanese Imari Plates, Meiji Period circa 1880
Price: £150Edwardian Silver Albert watch chain with fob etc
Price: £60Edwardian opal and silver cuff links
Price: £80Three Chinese Canton Enamel Dishes, Nineteenth Century
Price: £45Jakob Bengal Art Deco galalith and metal necklace
Price: £25Oriental Lacquer Box in the form of a Duck
Price: £25Stunning 1950s paste necklace
Price: £25Beautiful large floral Bakelite buckle
Price: £50Vintage Persian enamel and silver brooch
Price: £10Modernist silver floral brooch 1930s
Price: £40Large 1950s Brooch
Price: £10Brass and Enamel Campaign Serving Set, Made in British India mark, 1920s
Price: £45Art Deco Scottish agate necklace
Price: £120Art Deco Scottish agate panel bracelet, 1930s
Price: £125A set of three Millefiori Glass Paperweights, possibly Italian Murano, late C20th
Price: £75This set is sold with matching contemporary illuminated stands which enhance the decorative effect considerably and provide a modest light display installation for the home (see illustrations 5 and 6).
Heavy silver curb collar necklace, Mexico 1970s
Price: £150Original by Robert enamel bracelet and earrings 1950s
Price: £60Incredible Hobe Demi Parure comprising Earrings and a Brooch, signed, 1950s
Price: £250Copper and enamel earrings and bracelet
Price: £30Art Deco Scottish moss agate ring
Price: £75An Arts and Crafts small Brass Tray, English early twentieth century
Price: £40A Pair of Art Deco Pressed Glass Trophy Form Vases, Davidson, 1930s
Price: £45Two Ketsuzan Kiln plates from the Poetic Visions of Japan Series, Japan 1988
Price: £40Very unusual banded carnelian panel bracelet
Price: £30Unusual floral spray brooch 1960s
Price: £10Golden Amber Webb Glass Vase, marked, 1950s
Price: £45Thomas Webb began his glass career in 1829, when he became a partner in the Wordsley Glassworks. Various career changes followed and in 1859 he was joined by his sons Thomas Wilkes Webb and Charles Webb and began trading as Thomas Webb & Sons based in Stourbridge. The firm was run by various family members until mergers started to occur in the early twentieth century and Sven Fogelberg, previously from Swedish glassworks Kosta, became manager in 1932. Production continued with more mergers in the 1960s and 1970s until the firm closed in 1990. This vase was made by Thomas Webb during the 1950s as part of their 'Gay Glass' range in a design called 'Old English Bull's Eye' and has the typical 'Webb England' mark to the base.
Detailed miniature porcelain plaque
Price: £10Georgian small glass scent bottle in a fitted Etui case circa 1800
Price: £50Art Deco Galalith jewellery Necklace and Pendant with Coral Red plaques, 1930s
Price: £50Galalith is a a synthetic plastic made out of the interaction of casein and formaldehyde and was introduced to the fashion world by Coco Chanel in 1926. The commercial name is derived from the Ancient Greek words 'gala' (milk) and 'lithos' (stone).
Silver Brooch in the form of a Butterfly, Taxco 1940s
Price: £50Japanese Imari Dish with a lobed edge circa 1880
Price: £125Art Deco cufflinks and studs in fitted box
Price: £651950s Ocean Themed Earrings
Price: £45A Pair of Royal Doulton Ewers, marked, early C20th
Price: £150Chinese Soapstone Brushwasher decorated with flowering Lotus, early 20th Century
Price: £45Beautiful small daguerreotype in a frame c. 1850
Price: £25Round pendant set with turquoise, Mexico, c1970, the chain later.
Price: £45Art Pottery Vase with Geometric Motifs, C20th
Price: £45The style of decoration suggests Art Nouveau designs but there are no obvious parallels. Continental manufacture seems likely, perhaps France or Germany.