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White Ceramics Win!

An Exhibition and Sale: Inspired by Blanc de Chine – The Anthony Collection of White Porcelain, Stockspring Antiques, 114 Kensington Church St, London W8, 7th – 14th June 2017

Mennecy pot-pourri and cover, c. 1750-55

There is something alluring about white porcelain where the only decoration is moulded or applied giving the pieces a sculptural quality and one can quite understand why collectors such as Thelma Chrysler Foy and Mrs Charles Allen Jnr were drawn to it.

St Cloud cups and saucers, left c. 1720-40; right c. 1730-50

Now this exciting collection of more than one hundred and ten pieces of porcelain – Chinese, French, Italian, English and Meissen – dating from c1640 – c1795 gives collectors a great chance to acquire fine examples of this genre.

Meissen coffee pot and cover, c. 1725-30

Garnered over a period of around twenty years the Anthony Collection reveals the influence of Chinese blanc de Chine on European porcelain factories and how these factories then created shapes that were European in origin. It is a fascinating visual feast.

Bow sucriers, c. 1752-54

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Fit for an 18th century dining table!

Four Private Collections – including a collection of ceramic handled cutlery, Stockspring Antiques, 114 Kensington Church St, London W8, 27th March – 4th April 2017

A boxed set of Worcester knives and forks c. 1758-60, in a ray skin covered standing box lined with crimson silk velvet and silver braid with twelve pairs of knives and forks, English steel blades of scimitar shape and three pronged forks with silver ferrules.

This exhibition comprises ceramics from four different private collections and includes Japanese and Worcester porcelains and a group of cane handles.  Of special note is the collection of more than seventy pieces of ceramic handled cutlery.  The majority of these are French and English but there are some interesting examples of Chinese and Continental porcelain too. They provide an exciting and fascinating guide to not only the changes in ceramic handle shapes but also the development and dating of the silver and steel fittings during the course of the 18th century.

A Bow knife and fork, painted in polychrome with the crest of Moses (Luis) Mendes, c. 1756, a merchant in the City of London.

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Chelsea Porcelain

 Sir Hans Sloane’s Plants On Chelsea Porcelain – A Loan Exhibition, Stockspring Antiques, 114 Kensington Church St, London W8, 2nd – 16th June 2015

Corallodendron: A Chelsea plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Corallodendron flower, leaves, floret, seed pod and seeds, and two butterflies. c. 1753-56 Mark: red anchor over 34, Diam: 24.5 cm Private Collection

Corallodendron:
A Chelsea plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Corallodendron flower, leaves, floret, seed pod and seeds, and two butterflies.
c. 1753-56
Mark: red anchor over 34, Diam: 24.5 cm
Private Collection

This exhibition celebrates the physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane who was a great patron of the Chelsea Physic Garden. The garden was a great centre of botanical research at a time when ships returning to London from Asia, Africa and the New World were bringing many unknown plants back with them. Sloane, himself, collected plants and animals and studied botany.

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. VIII;

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. VIII;

The chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 was Philip Miller who in 1731 published the Gardener’s Dictionary and later Figures of Plants, which showed the new plants in illustrations by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Ehret was the botanical artist of the time and had also provided illustrations for other books, including Plantae Selectae by Trew and Phytanthoza Iconographia by Weinmann.

Dodecatheon meadia: A plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Dodecatheon Meadia, two seed heads, an immature seed head and three flying insects. c. 1755-57 Mark: red anchor, Diam: 21.6 cm Private Collection

Dodecatheon meadia:
A plate with a wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a Dodecatheon Meadia, two seed heads, an immature seed head and three flying insects.
c. 1755-57
Mark: red anchor, Diam: 21.6 cm
Private Collection

These and other published works were the source for the wonderful botanical decoration found on Chelsea porcelain in the 1750s and which are known as Sir Hans Sloane plants. This special exhibition, thanks to the loans from museums and private collections, brings together over seventy pieces of Chelsea porcelain which are shown alongside images of their source engravings.

 

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. XII;

Trew C. J., Plantae Selectae, dec. I, Tab. XII;

The exhibition is accompanied by a highly detailed hardback catalogue (£30 + postage) by Sally Kevill-Davies and is the fruit of her research into identifying the plants found on Chelsea porcelain. Thanks are due to the Cadogan Estate for their sponsorship of it.

 

Opening Times:

Weekdays: 10 -5.30pm, Saturdays: 10 – 4pm. Sundays: Closed.

 

 

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