Pair of large blue enamel Faberge style gold earrings set with garnets
Estimate: £100 – 150Elegant Modernist pendant 1970s
Price: £15Art Glass Doorstop with Starburst and Bubble designs, perhaps British, late C20th
Price: £45Large Scottish agate specimen brooch 1910
Price: £65Carved Chinese brown jade necklace
Price: £501950s souvenir doll
Price: £25Japanese Fukagawa Imari Vase of Sake Bottle Form circa 1880
Price: £180Art Deco Czech glass bracelet
Price: £65Victorian marquetry miniature table top games table
Price: £75Pair of alabaster bookends, 20th century
Price: £85Wedding Cake style glass bead necklace, Venetian 1930s
Price: £25Victorian silver bracelet set with garnets 1900
Price: £25Beautiful Chinese carnelian silver bracelet
Price: £65Burmese jade sautoir necklace
Price: £35Victorian necklace and bracelet suite 1900
Price: £250Tall onyx covered caddy
Price: £45Art Deco Royal Academy hip flask, Troika Pewter
Price: £25Chinese Rice Grain Plate decorated in underglaze blue, iron red and gold, circa 1900
Price: £45A Pair of Royal Doulton Ewers, marked, early C20th
Price: £150Pair of Royal Doulton Spill Vases with gilt decoration, 1920s
Price: £180Unusual 1950s puka shell and coral necklace
Price: £30Two Ketsuzan Kiln plates from the Poetic Visions of Japan Series, Japan 1988
Price: £40Art Deco Davidson purple cloud glass bowl on stand 1930s
Price: £35Large Victorian ladies belt buckle, late C19th
Price: £50Persian Red Lacquer Box in the form of a Pumpkin, 19th century
Price: £30Beautiful trinket box in the shape of a bound book, onyx and brass, Austria 1950s
Price: £35Japanese Imari Dish with a lobed edge circa 1880
Price: £125Art Deco Czech glass necklace with enamel and glass stones, 1930s
Price: £35Georgian small glass scent bottle in a fitted Etui case circa 1800
Price: £50Victorian silver mounted Scottish carnelian agate cloak pin circa 1880
Price: £95Victorian Bronze Chamber Candlestick in the form of a Griffin, late C19th
Price: £40Victorian guilloche enamel and marcasite ring
Price: £50Two Sets of Serving Cutlery made by Haddad Jezzin Cutlery, Beirut, Lebanon 1960s
Price: £45Two long infinity strands of cultured pearls
Price: £50Chinese cord bracelet with jade stones carved as fish
Price: £15Lot of two Victorian glass hat pins
Price: £20A Complementary Pair of Gilt Metal Art Nouveau style picture frames, 20th Century
Price: £65Chinese Glass Snuff Bottle with interior enamel painted decoration, signed, 20th Century
Price: £15Fun job lot of 4 pieces of vintage jewellery
Price: £20Long Art Deco pinchbeck watch chain with two pendants
Price: £75Art Deco Burmese dragon head necklace
Price: £55Two lacquer bird brooches 1980s
Price: £15A set of three Brass Lizards, Peerage Brass, England 1930s
Price: £45Art 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).
Large Art Deco swirl Bakelite buckle
Price: £35Art Deco Whitby Jet Necklace
Price: £55Very unusual Taxco figural ring, Taxco, c1980
Price: £45Art Nouveau comb with coral fish and pearls
Price: £40Pair of Alhambrian Ware English Majolica Vases with raised decoration circa 1880
Price: £30Art Deco necklace with French Jet and paste stations
Price: £25Large Cinnabar and filigree silver brooch, 1930s
Price: £55Taxco bracelet with Aztec mask motif, 1940s
Price: £85Pair of Dorset Fossil limestone goblets in presentation box
Price: £35Tigers Eye long necklace 1970s
Price: £50Art Deco Long Mille Fiore bead necklace
Price: £60Long Murano Glass Necklace 1970s
Price: £30Balinese Portrait Bust of a Male Head, early C20th
Price: £30Murano Art Glass Dish, 1960s
Price: £35An Octagonal Brass Tray with a roundel of an elephant, probably Persian early C20th
Price: £50Modern twist on classic gate link bracelet
Price: £25Heavy silver curb collar necklace, Mexico 1970s
Price: £150Operculum shell demi parure
Price: £50An operculum is a calcareous structure created by many sea snails that serves as a little “trapdoor” to safely close them inside their shell. When, say, the tide goes out, stranding a sea snail too far from the water, the gastropod can draw itself deep into its shell and pull the operculum closed behind it.
Jade roundel bead necklace
Price: £35Lovely Bakelite bloom pendant on chain
Price: £20Art Deco rock crystal bead necklace
Price: £35Art 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.
Round pendant set with turquoise, Mexico, c1970, the chain later.
Price: £45English silver filigree floral necklace
Price: £25A gilt metal and onyx figure of a Cherub holding a Globe 1960s
Price: £25Czech Egyptian Revival Necklace with glass mounts and drops, Edwardian circa 1910
Price: £120Two American Polychrome Enamel Bracelets decorated with Kabuki Masks, 1980s
Price: £20Scottish silver ring inset with a Chalcedony stone, 1950s
Price: £40Italian silver Cuff Bangle with chainmail decoration, modern
Price: £30West German Ceramic Vase, Marei, 1970s
Price: £45While not stamped with a maker's mark, vases of this type are attributed to the West German Ceramics factory Marei which produced pieces from 1949 to 2016. Marei was the commonly used abbreviation for the firm's name which was Majolikafabrik Rheinbach Jean Fuss and Sohn. The pieces are distinguished by the use of a reddish clay but this was sometimes more brown or dark brown depending on the suppliers used. Marks are usually impressed into the base although these are often just pattern numbers, as here. Many pieces are unmarked and some are stamped 'MADE IN GERMANY' or 'W.GERMANY'. The pattern number here is '7104'and is found on similar pieces with the same shape but different decoration. This vase was probably made in the 1970s and is typical of the striking designs the firm produced.
Chinese Reverse Painted Glass Globe depicting deities and attendants, Modern
Price: £40Unusual Victorian style earrings
Price: £20Japanese Arita Jardiniere decorated with flowers and two tassels, Meiji period, circa 1900
Price: £350Chinese Cloisonné Bowl with a wavy edge, 20th Century
Price: £40Art Deco Chinese Export silver Buckle later converted to a Necklace
Price: £100Victorian Indian paste pendant
Price: £100Pair of Victorian marcasite and silver earrings
Price: £50East German Ceramic Vase, VEB Haldensleben, 1950s
Price: £35The factory mark, a shallow dish superimposed over the letter 'H' inside a circle, is that of the East German pottery VEB Haldensleben. VEB stands for 'Volkseigener Betrieb', meaning a people-owned enterprise and used in relationship to the state owned workplaces in the GDR. Haldensleben is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and a ceramics factory was created there in 1945 with the nationalization of the Carstens Uffrecht plant that followed the division of Germany at the end of WWII. Halsdenleben focused primarily on the manufacture of vases. Its output tended to be of superior quality and employed more restrained glazes than those used by its West German counterparts. Upon the reunifucation of Germany in 1990, the factory was returned to its original owners, the Carstens family. The pattern number here is found on other pieces with the same shape but the abstract decoration used is quite individual and evocative of 1950s and early 1960s designs.
A Set of Six Blue and White Willow Pattern Coasters English Ironstone 1980s
Price: £30These coasters formed part of their range. The decoration employs the transfer pattern technique developed in England in the mid eighteenth century and a staple of nineteenth century productions. Printed designs were 'transferred' to the ceramic surface allowing the production of extensive services in a matching pattern. The Chinese derived 'Willow Pattern' design seems to have been first used around 1790 and was probably designed by Thomas Minton for Spode. All the versions contain similar elements besides the pagodas and landscape scenes most notably the three figures on a bridge and a pair of flying swallows. In order to promote sales, various stories were invented based on elements of the design. These coasters are an amusing recollection of times past and highly practical in addition.
Charming pair of silver piglet earrings
Price: £25Very unusual banded carnelian panel bracelet
Price: £30Chinese cloisonne bangle with raised enamel decoration circa 1900
Price: £40Chinese Sancai Glaze Model of a Horse in the Tang Dynasty Style, 20th Century
Price: £40The Braves and the Fair Men of Letters and Women of Fame of Old China circa 1900
Price: £75Each of the ten characters are described in a double page spread, the right hand containing texts in both Chinese and English and the left hand with hand coloured illustrations on silk , delicately rendered. The book 'works' from right to left and the reverses of the pages are left blank. At each end are fabric covered boards, the front board with a pasted paper inscription in Chinese with a small red seal mark. Other examples are finished with boards in wood, but these are, perhaps, not original or a more deluxe version of the volume.
The illustrations are in excellent condition with the colours still bright. The yellow finish to the paper is original and perhaps intended to give an 'antique' effect. Each of the end boards are very slightly scuffed at the borders. The pages, including the title page and the two end papers, suffer from varying degrees of 'worm hole' perforation. There are also various tears. A selection of illustrations can be seen above and further images (and a more detailed condition report) are, of course, available on request. But these condition issues should not necessarily detract from the charm of the item which is an Englishman's attempt to capture some of the folk lore of China, a land which attracted such popular interest during the Victorian period.
Kenton Clock Radio Hong Kong 1970s
Price: £35A Brannam Bowl, Barum ware, Terracotta and Glaze, marked C.H.Brannam, circa 1900
Estimate: £30 – 40Egyptian Revival scarab ring, 1930s
Price: £40A Matched Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Bottle form Vases circa 1900
Price: £15Art Deco Scottish moss agate ring
Price: £75Art Deco chalcedony brooch or pendant
Price: £35Exceptional Paste necklace 1940s
Price: £15Art Deco Scottish bloodstone brooch
Price: £15Graduated set of Three Chinese Blue and White Ginger Jars and Covers, 20th Century
Price: £20Although of relatively recent manufacture, the quality of these pieces continues the Chinese ceramic productions of the late nineteenth century and together they form an attractive decorative ensemble for the contemporary interior.
Doulton and Slaters Patent Jardiniere circa 1890
Price: £750The Doulton factory began production in 1815, first at Vauxhall and later moving to Lambeth. In 1882 it opened an additional factory at Burslem, Stoke on Trent in the centre of the English pottery. Known at first mainly for utilitarian works it began to develop decorative wares more extensively in the 1860s and soon gained a reputation for its distinctive designs. As the mark indicates, this piece was made at the Lambeth factory and the absence of ‘England’ in the Doulton mark, which has the typical design of interlocking ‘D’ at its centre, indicates that it dates to before 1891. The decorative technique, employing impressed designs was known as ‘Chine’ ware and protected by the patent ‘Doulton and Slaters Patent’ which is clearly marked underneath. Pieces of linen, lace, net or other fabrics were pressed onto the unfired soft clay shortly after potting, leaving a corresponding pattern behind. This piece has elaborately modelled lotus strands in addition as well as gilt flower heads, an unusual combination which does not seem to often occur. On the base are found stamped numbers and letters which should indicate the pattern number and artist decorator but it has not been possible to identify these accurately. Dating though is confirmed and this was clearly a deluxe item amongst the range of pieces produced at that time.