Stunning Art Deco onyx and rock crystal necklace
Price: £250Sowerby Blue Glass Footed Bowl, 1930s/1940s
Price: £25The Sowerby family came from the North West of England near Carlisle and settled in Gateshead in the late eighteenth century. The firm Sowerby Glassworks is known from 1807 onwards and continued production until 1972, concentrating on pressed glass. Catalogues of their wares still exist and they produced pieces in a wide variety of styles and shapes which retain their popularity today.
Set of three Wade Bramble Pattern teaware items, 1950s
Price: £25Wade Ceramics Ltd was a manufacturer of porcelain and earthenware, headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Founded in 1867, it was run by various members of the Wade family until the death of George Anthony Wade in 1987 after which there was a succession of management buyouts. Despite substantial investment in 2009, the firm eventually went into administration in 2022. Wade produced a wide variety of ceramics, including the well known Wade Whimsies animal figurines. A pair of Art Deco green glazed ‘salts’ are also included in this sale. The ‘Bramble’ design was created in the 1950s and a wide variety of tea service shapes were produced in the pattern. Collectors today can attempt to assemble examples from the whole of the range, towards which these three pieces might provide some assistance.
Sowerby Amber Glass Centrepiece circa 1930
Price: £75The Sowerby family came from the North West of England near Carlisle and settled in Gateshead in the late eighteenth century. The firm Sowerby Glassworks is known from 1807 onwards and continued production until 1972, concentrating on pressed glass. Catalogues of their wares still exist and they produced pieces in a wide variety of styles and shapes which retain their popularity today.
The centrpiece figurine, which was intended as a flower holder or ‘frog’, is rather unusual; normally the figures are female but the style of the modelling is identical. Similar designs to the bowl can be found in a 1936 catalogue but versions of it even appear in another catalogue from 1882. Many centrepiece/bowl combinations are found and some of them are not always original. This may possibly be the case here but if so the ‘match’ is extremely pleasing to the eye and the two elements set one another off perfectly to produce a striking example of Art Deco decorative design.
Davidson Glass Topaz Briar Table Centrepiece, 1930s
Price: £45George Davidson founded the Teams Flint Glass Works in 1867, which later became known as George Davidson & Co. In the 1880s the company began producing pressed glass tableware in a variety of shapes and by the 1920s their designs began to reflect the new Art Deco trends. The firm continued production until the 1980s, closing in 1987. Some of their catalogues still exist and one from the early 1930s shows a piece very similar to this one (see image 11). The colour is known as ‘Topaz Briar’ and the swirling effects resemble other pieces in their ‘cloud glass’ range, a pattern for which the firm was famous.
The colourings and small size of this piece make it an unusual find amongst the Davidson wares which can be seen today and the presence of all three elements (perfect and complete) make it a desirable addition to a collection of twentieth century pressed glass.
Large Shelley Harmony Ware Vase glazed in blue and grey, 1930s
Price: £75Shelley 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. Joseph’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 shapes, the plain ovoid form being typical and reflecting the Art Deco styles of the period, but this example is exceptionally large with a more unusual range of colourings.
Pair of Oriental Style green glazed Sylvac Jars and Covers, circa 1960
Price: £95‘SylvaC’ (the name was written with a capital ‘C’ after registration of the trademark in 1938) was a trade name of Shaw and Copestake, a company formed by Mr. William Shaw and a Mr. Copestake around 1900. Mr. Copestake sold his shares to a Mr. Richard Hull after about six months of business and this partnership continued until Mr. Hull’s death in 1935. He was succeeded by his son, Mr. Richard Hull junior. In the following year, the business became a limited company. Various mergers and acquisitions followed and in the 1950s new premises were built and production expanded considerably continuing until the early 1980s when changing markets and increased competition forced the company into liquidation.
Sylvac were known for imaginative glazed wares, particularly animals, but this design with its reminiscences of the Orient in both form and decoration is rather more unusual and particularly pleasing. These jars were produced in a variety of colours but the combination here of green and black, loosely recalling Chinese ‘Famille Noire’, is probably the most successful.
Cherry amber Bakelite necklace 1920s
Price: £125Art Deco beaded bag with celluloid frame
Price: £25Art Deco Scottish agate necklace
Price: £125Art Nouveau comb with coral fish and pearls
Price: £45Art Deco Whitby Jet Necklace
Price: £50Large Art Deco swirl Bakelite buckle
Price: £35Pair of alabaster bookends, 20th century
Price: £85Stunning long Art Deco necklace with cherry amber beads
Price: £250Art Deco Scottish agate panel bracelet, 1930s
Price: £95Shelley Harmony Ware Drip Glaze Watercress Bowl and Stand, 1930s
Price: £35Pair of Art Deco chrome wall sconces
Price: £50Magnificent Edwardian Paste Necklace and Pendant
Price: £85Art Deco crystal and gilt metal Necklace
Price: £45Stunning Art Deco Murano glass necklace
Price: £75Art Deco Statement Necklace with a Demon Head Plaque, 1920s
Price: £65Art Deco style Antelope brooch 1940s
Price: £20Clarice Cliff Celtic Harvest Centrepiece Bowl, marked, 1930s
Price: £35
Pair of Royal Dux Secessionist Style Vases, 1930s
Price: £250
Rare Ditmar Urbach Art Deco Pitcher, Czech 1930s
Price: £250Cylindrical Vase, Herman Kähler, HAK, blue glazed stoneware, 1950s
Price: £250