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A Collectors’ Paradise

‘A Collectors’ Paradise’, Brian Haughton Gallery, 15 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1, 30th June – Friday 7th July 2017

A Meissen porcelain dish by I Preissler, c 1725-1730 from CHRISTOPHE PERLES

This is a new feature for this busy period of the year when the Art World converges on London for the diverse exhibitions and auctions that make it such an exciting and desirable place to be in June. Taking part are London’s specialist dealers Brian Haughton and Robyn Robb and from Paris Christophe Perles and they will be offering fine examples of English and continental porcelain, pottery and faience.

A fine 18th century Worcester cup exquisitely painted with a Chinese figure holding a fringed parasol, c1752-53 from ROBYN ROBB

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A very rare Chelsea asparagus box and cover, c 1755, length 18cm, Red anchor mark and numeral 13 to the interior of the cover from BRIAN HAUGHTON GALLERY

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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A Ceramic Feast

Selling Exhibition: Private Collections and Noteworthy Acquisitions, Stockspring Antiques, 114 Kensington Church St, London W8, 16th – 21st November 2015

A Pair of Vauxhall Vases decorated by James Giles c. 1764-68

A Pair of Vauxhall Vases decorated by James Giles
c. 1764-68

One can understand why collectors eagerly await this annual selling exhibition of English, Continental and Oriental porcelain for there is always much to tempt them. This year delivers some great pieces of which I show a few.

A Mennecy Owl c. 1750-55

A Mennecy Owl
c. 1750-55

The opening words of the catalogue’s foreword offer a useful reminder as to why some of us collect: Collecting ceramics gives us intriguing windows into the past with each piece resonating with the life, times, hopes and aspirations of its original owner.

A Lefebvre Paris Portrait Plaque of Princess Charlotte c. 1818

A Lefebvre Paris Portrait Plaque of Princess Charlotte
c. 1818

 

A Chinese Ko-sometsuke Dish for the Japanese Market Tianqui, c. 1621-7

A Chinese Ko-sometsuke Dish for the Japanese Market
Tianqui, c. 1621-7

 

A Liverpool Delftware Charger after a Chinese Kangxi design c. 1760

A Liverpool Delftware Charger after a Chinese Kangxi design
c. 1760

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Derby Figure of Andromache Weeping over the Ashes of Hector c. 1780-85

A Derby Figure of Andromache Weeping over the Ashes of Hector
c. 1780-85

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The Stephen Hanscombe Porcelain Collection: James Giles and his Contemporary Decorators at Stockspring Antiques

The Stephen Hanscombe Porcelain Collection: James Giles and his Contemporary Decorators at Stockspring Antiques, 114 Kensington Church St, London W8, 10th – 21st June 2014

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 I was very privileged to know Stephen Hanscombe, who was one of the nicest people I have ever met and whose friendship I miss greatly.

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It is totally fitting that this selling exhibition of his well-known collection should be held at Stockspring Antiques as Stephen was heavily involved in three loan exhibitions there – James Giles, China and Glass Painter in 2005, The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators in 2008 and Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale in 2010.

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His ceramics formed the basis for each of them and he wrote the three scholarly catalogues. Readers of my blog will also recall that he was the organiser of the loan exhibition of James Giles last autumn at the Holburne Museum in Bath.

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Now you have the opportunity to acquire pieces of Chelsea, Worcester, Liverpool, Derby and Chinese porcelain decorated by James Giles, J. H. O’Neale and other decorators that he owned and which some of you will remember from the various exhibitions. There are over a hundred items and they exquisitely reflect the connoisseurship, style and taste of Stephen and will enhance any collection that becomes their new home.

 

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There is a fully illustrated complimentary catalogue available on request and it will also be viewable on line at www.antique-porcelain.co.uk

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 Opening times: Tuesday 10th June: 12am-8pm, Weekdays: 10am-5.30pm,

Saturday 14th: 10am -4pm, Saturday 21st: 10am-12.30pm,

Closed on Sundays.

 

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Antique Fairs in Chelsea – II

The Chelsea Antiques Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, London SW3, 19th – 23rd March.

 Thirty-two dealers from around the country are showing at this Fair, started in 1950, but re-launched last year.  There will also be a second Fair in September.

 The Fair for a second time is supporting the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and the Fair will be opened by a group of Chelsea Pensioners, led by Mike Shanahan, aged 67, who is a volunteer for the Charity.  He lost his right hearing and perforated his left ear in a bomb blast while he was serving in Northern Ireland in 1973.  By the way should you purchase a canine-related object at the Fair then a percentage of the sale price will go to the charity.

 NICHOLAS BAGSHAWE - Portrait of General Sir Thomas Bowser 1749-1833 by Thomas Hickey @ChelseaAntiquesFair-1

It is fitting therefore that this portrait of General Sir Thomas Bowser (1749-1833) by the Irish artist Thomas Hickey and shown by Nicholas Bagshawe Fine Art is among the Fair’s highlights.

 Others include these fine and very rare Meissen figures, modelled by Kändler and Meyer circa 1750, and mounted on gilt bronze stands adorned with French porcelain flowers and are among the porcelain items being shown by Jupiter Antiques.

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 Richard Midwinter Antiques offers this 17th century ebony-cased eight-day verge bracket clock.  It strikes the hours and quarters on six bells and I don’t know how many of you agree that the sound of clocks striking in a house is comforting, although sadly all I ever get to hear is my alarm clock!

Midwinter

 Some of you may have read my review of the new book on Baccarat last year, well now here is a chance to purchase a piece possibly made by that renowned firm. Richard Hoppé Fine Antiques brings a very stylish French Empire style cut crystal caviar bowl and cover with ormolu mounts.  Whether it was for bonbons or caviar is open to conjecture, but many may plump for the latter use due to the three gilded ormolu fish that support it.

Richard Hoppe Caviar Bowl

 

 

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A celebration of James Giles and Porcelain at the Holburne Museum

James Giles ‘Ingenious’ Painter of Porcelain, Until 10th November, The Holburne Museum, Bath

There are very many good reasons to visit Bath and certainly one of them is the Holburne Museum.  Lovers of 18th century porcelain would be wise to go as soon as possible to see the exhibition, in the Museum’s Ballroom Gallery, of Chinese and English porcelain, especially Worcester, decorated in the London workshop of James Giles (1718-1780).P1040758

The workshop was in business between 1743-1777 and Giles’s advert for it stated ‘This ingenious Artist copies the Pattern of any China with the utmost exactness, both with respect to the Design and Colours, either in the European or Chinese taste’. P1040764The exhibits come from three private collections; one is that of a great friend the late Stephen Hanscombe (1933-2013) who did much work on Giles, including two exhibitions at Stockspring Antiques where I had the great pleasure of working with him.

A ceramic feast not to be missed.P1040765

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