Ceramic and Bronze figure of a Blue Tit, Albany Worcester, late C20th
| Current Bid: | £15.00 |
| Bid Increment: | £1.00 |
| Next Min Bid: | £16.00 |
| Buyer’s Premium: | £3.60 |
| Total Amount: | £18.60 |
| Number of Bids: | 2 |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Highest Bidder: | User 1359 |
| Auction Start: | 08/03/24 23:50:00 UTC |
| Auction Ending: | 24/03/24 20:18:00 UTC |
| Auction Finished : | 24/03/24 20:18:09 UTC |
LOT NUMBER 10
Ceramic and Bronze figure of a Blue Tit, Albany Worcester, late C20th
A superbly modelled polychrome ceramic figure of a Blue Tit hanging from a gnarled twig well worked in bronze, the base stamped 'Albany England'. Albany Worcester was launched in 1973 by David Palmer, Bill Nichols & David Lovegrove, who all previously worked at the Royal Worcester Porcelain factory. Their pieces, distinguished for their quality and detail, rapidly became popular and Harrods and the Queen's jeweller Asprey became customers. Sales grew to be global and some of their china and bronze pieces were even reputed to have been bought as wedding presents for the Prince and Princess of Wales. But the firm, which had just two full-time employees at the end, started to decline in the late 1980s and sales figures fell even further when the factory, which was then based in Lowesmoor, suffered a serious fire in 1995. There was something of a revival after this but fashions had changed and it proved to be short lived with the company closing in 2005. This piece is truly a sculpture in miniature and well deserves the protective dome in which it now stands. A reminiscence of a past era, perhaps, but surely deserving of a place in a contemporary interior.| Size: | Ht 5.5cm (bird) 12cm (with dome cover); base diam 10.5cm |
| Weight: | 15gm (bird) 160gm (overall) |
| Date: | Late C20th |
| Condition: | Very good condition |
| Estimate: | £20 – 30 |
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