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Four 19th century pottery cow creamers, including a Welsh Cambrian, Swansea type example with purple lustre decoration, Prattware sponge decorated example with sitting calf, and a treacle glazed cow with milkmaid, 20cm long (4)

An early Victorian Cambrian pottery transfer printed puzzle jug, 9" high and a Cambrian pink transfer printed jug, 7½" high.

Early 19th century Swansea Pottery Cambrian blue and white straight sided jug/tankard together with a Swansea porcelain pearlware straight sided tankard and a blue and white chinoiserie design two handled loving cup. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT) The two straight sided tankards have restoration.

A Victorian Staffordshire cow creamer and cover, brown sponged and black details, on an oval plinth, 12cm high, 16cm wide, and an early 19th Century cow creamer and cover, possibly Cambrian or South Wales pottery, pink lustre and iron red patches, on a green plinth, 14cm high, 19cm wide (2)

SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PEARLWARE CASSOLETTE circa 1806, elevated by three tall tapering square legs with moulded lions masks, over concave triangular base, undecorated frieze, reserved on blue ground, reversible cover, 29cms (h)Provenance: deceased estate Newport.Auctioneer's Notes: Cf. Jonathan Gray, The Cambrian Company, p. 151, pl. 6.16., and E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, (XVII).Comments: small chips to foot, nibbles to floral knop, candle nozzle deficient.

RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PEARLWARE CASSOLETTE circa 1806, elevated by three tall tapering square legs with moulded lion's masks, over concave triangular base, finely painted below the rim with a band of polychrome acanthus, anthemion and seaweed ornament, reserved on blue ground, reversible candle holder/cover, 28.8-31.5cms (h)Provenance: deceased estate Newport.Auctioneer's Notes: Cf. Jonathan Gray, The Cambrian Company, p. 151, pl. 6.16. and p. 128 pl. 5.26, and E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, (XVII), and Sothebys 14-16.5.92, Sir Leslie Joseph Collection, lot 782 where the decoration is attributed to Thomas Pardoe.Comments: small chips to foot, nibbles to floral knop, crack to candle nozzle.

SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY NAPOLEON JUG circa 1815, printed and coloured with caricatures with speech bubbles, beneath legend at neck "Bonaparte Dethron'd April 1st 1814", signed in the print 'engraved J. Brindley', 14cms (h)Provenance: deceased estate NewportAuctioneer's Note: the Allies entered Paris on 31st March 1814 and whilst Napoleon did not abdicate until 6th April, clearly potters could not resist the temptation of declaring April Fool's Day that of his downfall. Cf. David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, pls. 712a, b and c.; also Helen Hallesy, Swansea Commemorative Pottery, p. 120, pl. 12.3b.Comments: chips and wear on rim and spout

A pottery pearlware cow creamer, possibly Swansea Cambrian Ware, decorated with black and red markings, on a green glazed base, with cover, 17cm long (at fault) CONDITION REPORT:The creamer shows losses to both horns.  The cover shows chips to both the top and bottom edges and nibbles around the back opening.  There is a small flaked loss to the back right leg and a chip to the base.  The body shows the odd small firing pit and frit, and small glazing faults. 

1814 Napoleon’s Abdication: a Cambrian Pottery pearlware jug printed in black and decorated in colours with an extensive satire titled and dated around the neck, 134mm, restored.* Whilst the Allies entered Paris on 31st March 1814 Napoleon did not abdicate until 6th April however Cambrian Pottery in Swansea chose to commemorate the event as happening on April Fool’s Day.(commemorative, commemorating, naval, military, war, maritime).

Early C19th Cambrian Pottery cow creamer, the pink lustre and red enamel spotted animal standing on an oval green naturalistic base, H14cm L18cm

ANTIQUE WELSH POTTERY, 2 graduated Swansea Cambrian "Gaudy" jugs; also pair of mid-19th century Staffordshire pottery seated spaniels, 26cm height

A Cambrian pearlware yellow-glazed commemorative jug of Napoleonic interest, c.1814, printed in red with a continuous cartoon of characters including Napoleon Bonaparte each with speech bubbles, the neck inscribed 'Bonaparte Dethron'd April 1st 1814', 13.4cm.Provenance: the Martin Mortimer Collection.The Allies entered Paris on 31st March 1814 and whilst Napoleon did not abdicate until 6th April, clearly potters could not resist the temptation of declaring April Fool's Day that of his downfall. Cf. David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, pls. 712a, b and c.

FIVE 19TH C. WELSH POTTERY JUGS, comprising large Llanelly 'Panorama' pattern blue and white printed jug, 28cms (h), Glamorgan black printed jug, B.B.& I. mark and old P.E. Morris Collection label, 22cms (h), Cambrian octagoanl section jug, 22cms (h), silver lustre pearlware ju printed with quail, 14cms (h), Prattware jug titled ' Another Jug & then', 14cms (h), together with a Gibsons '50th Anniversary' / golden jubilee lustre teapot 6)Provnance: deceased estate Newport.Condition: viewing advised, jugs all with cracks/chips/restoration, one badly stained, Cracks and repairs evident, chips to base of blue and white jug, repairs evident to rims ojug along with ware to paint on handle Condition Report:The blue and white has base chips. The printed black has spout chips and hairline cracks. The octagonal has bad restoration and hairline cracks. The teapot has gilt wear. The two other small jugs have chips and cracks.

Two large pottery mugs. One pearlware circa 1810, willow pattern printed in blue, possibly Cambrian pottery, height 14cm, a blue glazed mug inscribed in gilt 'When This You See Remember Me.....Speak of Me as You Find', height 14cm, and a small porcelain vase, painted with flowers (3).The pearlware mug has a dull ring, but there is no obvious damage or repair, there is a small firing crack on the handle.The blue glazed mug has a little gilt wear on the handle. The vase has a small hairline on the neck and lacks a cover.

Ceramic Reference. [Welsh] Gray (Jonathan), The Cambrian Company: Swansea Pottery in London, 1806-1808, s.l., 2012, illustrated, dj, hb, 4to, Hallesy's Glamorgan Pottery, 1995, dj, hb, 4to, Coysh (A.W.) & Henrywood (R.K.), The Dictionary of Blue & White Pottery, 1780-1880, two-volume set, Antique Collectors' Club, 2001, illustrated, dustjackets over cloth, 4to, Henrywood (R.K.), Staffordshire Potters, 1781-1900, Antique Collectors' Club, 2002, dj over cloth, 4to, Hyland (Peter), The Herculaneum Pottery: Liverpool's Forgotten Glory, 2005, original wrappers, 4to, Ray (Anthony), Liverpool Printed Tiles, London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 1994, pictorial hardback, 4to, Sandon (John), The Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester Porcelain at Cheekwood, Antique Collectors' Club, 2008, illustrated, dj over black cloth, 4to, Spode, Copeland-Spode, journals, monographs, etc., (18)

A rare Nantgarw porcelain cabinet plate decorated by Thomas Pardoe, the porcelain c.1818-22, the decoration c.1821-23, painted with a landscape vignette of two exotic birds perched on tree branches to the centre, contained within a six lobed cartouche of gilt bands with iron red stylised flower surmounting each lobe and trios of gilt-highlighted leaves to the creases, on a turquoise and duck-egg blue caillouté ground with six ornamental reserves bordered in blue and gilt and containing further painted exotic birds in landscapes, the gilded rim with six large and six small lobes, old collector's label to underside, 21cm diameter  The present lot is being offered on behalf of a charity. Footnotes: Note: Thomas Pardoe (1770-1823) was one of the most versatile painters of pottery and porcelain in the late 18th and early 19th century in England and Wales.  Born in the parish of St. Alkmund in Derby, Pardoe was apprenticed to the Derby porcelain works at the age of 15, and by age 20 had moved to Swansea as a skilled artisan by request of George Haynes, owner of Cambrian Pottery.  Between 1802 and 1804 Pardoe was acting manager and chief painter.  Around 1809 Pardoe moved to Bristol, where he is recorded as having a decorating business.  While in Bristol, Pardoe acted as go-between in the development of a new venture of porcelain manufacture at Nantgarw, aiming to manufacture the finest porcelain available for the English market.  In 1821 Pardoe was invited by William Weston Young to work with him and decorate the large stock of porcelain that remained.  Pardoe’s Nantgarw painting was based on his standard repertoire, including Japanese-influenced ‘Imari’ styles, Chinese-influenced ‘famille rose’ styles, botanical decoration, naturalistic flower groups, and caillouté or ‘pebbled’ gilding.  Pardoe’s painting at Nantgarw was among his very finest, a reflection of his great admiration for the factory and the culmination of some thirty years of painting experience. The present lot is most likely a single-item commission rather than from a named service or registered pattern, and therefore bears a possibly unique decorative scheme in Pardoe's oeuvre. It bears no impressed mark, but this is not universal for Nantgarw porcelain, see below in the related literature for other examples. The turquoise caillouté ground is strongly reminiscent of Sèvres porcelain and illustrates the prevailing taste and demand for Sèvres porcelain among wealthy families and connoisseurs in London in the first decades of the nineteenth century.  Related Literature: Andrew Renton et. al., Thomas Pardoe 1770-1823, Nantgarw, 2023: Nantgarw China Works. Cf. N18 for a plate decorated by Thomas Pardoe in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, item number NMW A 31449, and N20 for a plate decorated by Thomas Pardoe in the Andrews Collection, Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw. The examples mentioned above share the six lobed cartouche with iron red stylised flowers, ornamental reserves painted with exotic birds, and caillouté ground found on the present lot. These unusually elaborate plates showcase the range of Pardoe's skills from figurative and landscape painting to East Asian motifs. The NMW example equally bears no impressed mark and yet is undoubtedly from Nantgarw and decorated by Thomas Pardoe. W. D. John, Nantgarw Porcelain, Newport, 1948: R. H. Johns Ltd. Cf. 53 D. for a small plate decorated in the Kildare S. Meager Collection decorated with similar ornamental reserves to the present lot, albeit containing single pink roses. See also 54. A for a small plate in the E. M. Bythway Collection with a similar treatment of a distant background of conventional mountains in pale bluish-grey colouring to the centre of the plate. We are grateful to Andrew Renton of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for confirming the attribution of the present lot based on inspection of photographs.Condition Report: Overall in good decorative order.  Some light scratches to the porcelain visible on the centre, some pitting present to the centre and border, some bubbling and tarnishing to the gilt lobed cartouche on the right side, some loss of gilding to the rim, some areas of surface dirt.  UV examination reveals a now-defunct postcode inscribed in UV-susceptible ink to the underside. 

A SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PRINTED WARE PITCHER, with a round cartouche of the heads of King George III and Queen Charlotte on both sides, a wreath of leaves surrounds the cartouche with the words 'Long May They Live', height 20cm (1) (Condition Report: crazing, nibbles on the base, signs of restoration near the handle and to the front of the jug)

Two trays of 19th century Welsh pottery, mainly Swansea to include: Cambrian jug, various pouch jugs, creamware jug, comport etc. (2) (B.P. 21% + VAT)

A Cambrian pottery Swansea blue and white comport. Printed with the cows crossing a stream pattern, width 30.5cm.A small chip on the underside of each handle, various light pitting and kiln debris, and a little wear on the foot.

A lustre pottery cow creamer and cover, probably Cambrian, with iron-red and pink lustre decoration, on a green mound base, 19.5cms long, 15cms high

A Cambrian pottery cow creamer and cover and a Staffordshire cow creamer and cover the first printed in black with flowers and foliage, circa 1830-40, 18cm [losses to horns] * paper label for B.& T.Thorn & Son, Budleigh Salterton; the second printed in blue with a Willow pattern, late 19th century, 18cm [damage to one led, chips to base] 2.

Mid 19th century Welsh Cambrian Pottery frog mug with transfer printed puce decoration. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Seven blue printed Staffordshire pottery meat dishes or platters, 19th century, including a Rogers Fallow Deer example, length 53.5cm, two Chetham and Robinson Parkland Scenery examples, length of largest 41.5cm, and a Cambrian Cows Crossing Stream example, length 38cm (some faults and restoration). Provenance: the property of Donald Church.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

A uniface medal 'Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge dated 1832, 6.5cm. A Cambrian Pottery, Swansea One penny Token. A Surgeon's Hall Penny. A small Victorian medal commemorating the laying of the first stone laying and opening of the Royal Exchange, 1844, and a selection of nine further medals (12) *Condition: Mixed first a little damaged, second and third good, fourth good, others mixed.

RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PEARLWARE VISUAL ILLUSION MUG, circa 1795, of cylindrical form with ear-shaped handle, transfer printed in black with silhouettes of George III, Caroline, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, formed deceptively from the outlines of an urn supporting the crown, and from the outlines of a pair of entwined serpents, inscribed 'A New Puzzle of Portraits Striking Likenefses of the King & Queen of England and the late King & Queen of France', engraving attributed to Thomas Rothwell, circa 1795Dimensions: 9.25cmsProvenance:private collection Surrey, illustration 3.9 'Welsh Ceramics in Context II' (Royal Institute of South Wales 2005), please also see 'Swansea Commemorative Pottery' by Helen Hallesey for a thorough explanation of the social history behind this imageAuctioneer's Note:The Mysterious Urn was copied from a print drawn for the Loyalists of the guillotined Louis XVI and Queen Antoinette (1783). The disguised portraits intending to deceive revolutionaries that they were supporters of the ancien regime.Condition Report:nicks to foot, small scrape to rim, localised crazing, sl. hairline

SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PEARLWARE DOCUMENTARY MUG floral painted with stippled body, non-stippled cartouche inscribed SARAH THOMAS 1822Dimensions: 9cms highProvenance:private collection Surrey, see Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw' page 81/84Condition Report:in good condition

Owen Bowen ROI, PRCam A (1873-1967)"Blakeney Harbour" Signed, oil on canvas, 27cm by 37cmProvenance: Headrow Gallery, Leeds Born in 1873 in Leeds, England, Owen Bowen was educated during at Leeds School of Art before working as a pottery designer and lithography apprentice. Although Bowen painted on the continent, he was mostly known for his impressionist still lifes and landscapes of Yorkshire. Bowen settled in Leeds and established his own school of painting there. Prior to his death in 1967, Bowen became president of the Royal Cambrian Academy and regularly exhibited his work there and throughout England. Several northern public galleries including Leeds, Liverpool, Rotherham, and Rochdale hold his work.

Owen Bowen ROI, PRCam A (1873-1967)"River Wharfe Wattle Syke" Signed, oil on canvas, 50cm by 60cmBorn in 1873 in Leeds, England, Bowen was educated during at Leeds School of Art before working as a pottery designer and lithography apprentice. Although Bowen painted on the continent, he was mostly known for his impressionist still lifes and landscapes of Yorkshire. Bowen settled in Leeds and established his own school of painting there. Prior to his death in 1967, Bowen became president of the Royal Cambrian Academy and regularly exhibited his work there and throughout England. Several northern public galleries including Leeds, Liverpool, Rotherham, and Rochdale hold his work.In an overall good and original state of preservation. Some surface dirt and discoloured varnish. Minor rubbing/abrasion to some edges. Large sized essentially horizontal cracquelure which remains stable at present mostly to sky. Slight push mark to the canvas, back to front within the cops of vegetation right-hand side of the river which has not presented any losses of paint or perforation to canvas. The canvas is visible in some areas by application of the paint especially the extremity of the lower edge and mostly within lower right-hand side of the river.

THREE WELSH ANTIQUE POTTERY DOCUMENTARY JUGS comprising (1) footed jug with curvaceous rim, moulded spot and handle, painted with flower sprays and named to W & E BARRETT, POLPARRO 1833', 17cms high (2) pearlware baluster jug with wide neck and beak spout, painted with sprig of berries and flowers, to the front, within a floral garland 'MR HOWELL HOWELL Robarston, 1798', 16cms high (3) Swansea Cambrian pottery transfer jug 'Mary Hockaday, 1831', 18cms highProvenance: private collection ###Comments: (1) sl. wear, sl losses (2) hairline, restoration (3) restoration

An early 19thC pearlware Long Bridge pattern blue and white meat platter, possibly Cambrian Pottery, 47cm x 36cm, and an Imari cabinet plate, 21cm diameter. (2)

An early 19th century Cambrian pottery cow creamer; chip to one horn and no cover.

A Cambrian pottery, Swansea pearlware puzzle jug. Circa 1820, blue printed with the Carnation pattern, height 19cm.

A Swansea cow creamer and cover, probably Cambrian Pottery, with pink-lustre and iron-red markings, green shaped oval base, c.1830

GROUP OF WELSH POTTERY, comprising Swansea Cambrian cabbage leaf moulded tankard. with tapering neck, blue transfer 'Floral Bouquet', 13cms high (ship to base rim); tea-cup and saucer in 'Chinoiserie Palm' (small chip to teacup), 'Longbridge' pattern tea-bowl (cracked) with matching sugar-basi; rare 'Deer in Landscape' cache pot (labels for well known Welsh ceramics collector Harold Davies) 9cms high (hairline); late 18th / early 19th Century pearlware plates, one with impressed mark 'Dillwyn Swansea', another with diamond mark, together with a green glazed earthenware leaf moulded dish and a Swansea 'Whampoa' oversized tankard, an 'Oriental Birds' plate, a Dillwyn platter ETC (17)Provenance: private collection PowysComments: please examine for condition.

ASSORTED 19TH CENTURY WELSH PRINTED POTTERY, including Llanelly Whampoa pattern jug, Llanelly Oriental pattern water bowl, two Cambrian Swiss Villa pattern bowls, Glamorgan Archers pattern rose bowl, Cambrian Woman with Baskets pattern water basin and milk jug, green printed Oriental views water jug, together with two Glamorgan feather edge oval platters (10)Comments: cracks, chips and staining to some

ASSORTED 19TH CENTURY WELSH & OTHER POTTERY & BONE CHINA, comprising mainly jugs, teapots, cups and saucers, and including Llanelly 'Prince Albert' moulded teapot and sucrier, Cambrian shells and flowers pattern jug, Glamorgan square baluster teapot (no lid), copper/pink lustre goblet, pink lustre 'Mariners' Arms/Success to Commerce' tankard named to 'Sarah', printed hunting copper lustre and polychrome jug, etc. (qty)Comments: mostly damaged/restored.

VARIOUS 19TH CENTURY WELSH POTTERY ITEMS including Swansea Dillwyn, Swansea Cambrian, Llanelly etcComments: please examine

19th century Swansea Cambrian pottery transfer printed rural scenes dish. 16cm diameter approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Possible repair to rim, some wear and discolouration

Ceramic reference books - Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Transferware and other Welsh examples, Tanner & Tanner 2005, 224 pages. Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Transferware II, Patterns and Borders, Tanner & Tanner, 2008, 220 pages. 30 x 20 cm. (2)Condition: excellent. T

SWANSEA POTTERY & CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN PLATES, comprising BB&I Castle Gate House plate, 26cm d., Dillwyn Cambrian Willow plate, 21cm d., Cambrian Fence & Peony plate 23cm d, and three German Onion pattern plates with pierced rims, 21cm d (6)Comments: four with pasted plate hangers

RARE SWANSEA PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL PLATE circa 1815-1817, circular non-moulded, the interior fully painted with a titled scene 'Ackworth School' within a solid gilt frame and with salmon pink band to the border rounded by solid gilt rim, impressed Swansea trident mark, 23cms diamProvenance:private collection Swansea, consigned via our Cardiff office, to accompany a 1942 letter from headmaster of Ackworth School to then owner Louis Goldstone of 21 Richardson Street, Swansea, this responding letter relates to a request from Mr Goldstone for information regarding former pupils with the surname BevingtonAuctioneer's Note:Founded in 1779, Ackworth School, near Pontefract is still in operation. It was originally a boarding school for Quaker children. Mr Goldstone would have been enquiring as to whether the plate was so decorated, as Timothy and John Bevington (the partners in Cambrian Pottery), were alumni of the school. T & J Bevington were also Quakers so it may have been likely. The headmaster's response in the letter was inconclusive.Condition Report:slight impact mark over and to right of main house, fresh decoration

AN IMPORTANT SWANSEA PEARLWARE CABARET SET circa 1805, comprising twin-handled oval tray, teapot and cover, sucrier and cover, slop bowl, milk jug, tea-cup and saucer, finely painted by William Weston Young with sepia landscapes of the Swansea area, including views of the Marino residence (Vivian family), Swansea Bay and Mumbles, reserved on a mottled chocolate ground and gilded by Thomas Pardoe, the teapot spout and handle bearing Pardoe's trademark gilt Garter StarDimensions: Tray 38cmsProvenance:private collection Swansea, loaned by vendor to Swansea Museum, Swansea Pottery Collectors' Exhibition 2006 (see the catalogue by Helen Hallesy), related set with similar views illustrated in 'The Cambrian Company' by Jonathan GrayCondition Report:tray repaired, bowl has hairline and sl. impact to interior, small chip repair to cover of sucrier, sml nicks elsewhere

A Sunderland pink lustre 'Crimea' frog mug and a Cambrian pottery frog mug: the first with a coloured print of British and French flags supported by soldiers and the motto 'May They Ever Be United', probably Moore Pottery, 12cm [hair crack]; the second with puce 'Ottoman' pattern transfer print, circa 1840-60, 7.5cm [hair crack] 2.

A GOOD SUBSTANTIAL SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY JUG in the 'Pulteney Bridge, Bath' transfer, circa 1805, 25cms highComments: in good condition without obvious fault, please examineProvenance: private collection Swansea

THREE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN JUGS including RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY CABBAGE LEAFTWO SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY JUGS blue and white transfers 'Bridge of Lucano' and 'Longbridge', 21cms / 19.5cms and MOULDED JUG 1802-1811, in blue transfer 'Precarious Chinaman' to one side and 'In Tenui Labor' featuring a llama/camel to other, 17cms high (3)Provenance: private collection Powys, (1) see P.128 'Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Transferware' (Polstead Press 2005)Comments: (1) extensively restored, chip to rim (2 & 3) repaired nicks to spout of one, small nick to inside rim of other jug

An early 19th century Swansea Cambrian pottery pearlware mug , with  cabbage leaf moulding and decorated with a blue transfer print of the Italian pattern . 11cm high Repaired chip on top edge and a chip to the base .

RARE PAIR OF SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PUTTI in the form of swag wearing flower pickers and their baskets and with single flower in other hand to outstretched arm, standing on square bases, aside floral bocage, enamel decorated over the glaze, circa 1790, 12.5cms highProvenance: private collection ConwyComments: damage and old repairs, most significantly is repair to one arm

SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PUNCH BOWL interior with 'Swans' transfer and with complex chinoiserie bands, brown painted rim, 27cms diamProvenance: private collection, see p.98 'Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Transferware'Comments: neither damaged nor restored, excellent

RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY TEA-BOWL & SAUCER circa 1800, of fluted form, transfer decorated in 'Smartly Dressed Shepherd', saucer 13cms diamProvenance: private collection PowysComments: very minor nicks only

POSSIBLY CAMBRIAN POTTERY RURAL LOVERS TRANSFER MUG of cylindrical form with ear-shaped handle, blue transfer depiction of woodchopper and milk maid with dog and cows in a landscape after the Thomas Gainsborough engraving 'The Rural Lovers', under a wide tessellated and garland border, 15.3cms high x 10.5cms diamProvenance: deceased estate west Wales, Ill. 4.27 'Welsh Ceramics in Context' (Royal Institute of South Wales, 2003), version at the County of Swansea Reserve CollectionComments: crazing at base only, transfer in fresh condition

Moorcroft - A Moorcroft Pottery vase of waisted form decorated in the Cambrian Blue pattern, approximately 13.5 cm (h).Condition Report: Appears in good condition, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restoration

An early 19th century Swansea Cambrian pottery pearlware mug , with  cabbage leaf moulding and decorated with a blue transfer print of the Italian pattern . 11cm highRepaired chip on top edge and a chip to the base .

A pair of pottery meat plates attributed to the Cambrian Pottery: of oval form and transfer printed in blue in the Mandarin pattern, 42cm long, together with another either Cambrian or Spode oval meat plate, printed in blue in the Boy on a Buffalo pattern, 52cm long, [3]

Numerous collection of Swansea, South Wales tokens including: beehive 1832 2 off, James Cowley 3 pence bowling saloon John Voss Draper halfpenny 1796, The Cambrian Pottery by L W Dillwyn, penny 1813 Victoria token, John Jones Drapery 28 Castle St (known as Swansea farthing 1840- 1866) bed and breakfast (industrial copper company) token 1811 for use in Bristol, Swansea and London, penny token 1811 for use in Bristol and South Wales (industrial) South Wales farthing (pro bono publico) 1793 - Condition: fine - VF

A pearlware cup and saucer, circa 1800, rare impressed mark 'Dillwyn Cambrian Pottery Swansea', together with a pearlware sponge decorated salt, circa 1840 and two gaudy Welsh jugs, probably Swansea, the largest 19.5cm. (4).Condition report: The saucer glued and rivetted, one jug with two small chips to rim of the foot both with general wear.

A Cambrian pottery cup and saucer, over painted with a vase type pattern together with other pottery cups and saucers, some Welsh examples.

TWO JUGS INCLUDING RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN EARTHENWARE POLITICAL SATIRE JUG of bulbous form with loop handle, in canary-yellow ground with red enamel transfer and inscriptions ridiculing Napoleon, around the collar 'Bonaparte dethron'd April 1st 1814', the body with various characters with bubble speech including Napoleon Bonaparte exclaiming 'O cursed ambition what hast thou brought me to now', the Devil appearing from a fire beckoning Napoleon, 'Hithy to me, come come along thou hast been a most dutiful child' and two figures talking with one asking 'Where is he going to?' the other replying with deliberate illegible script, circa 1815, 13.5cms high; together with a blue and white transfer Swansea jug 'Poultney Bridge' (2) Provenance: private collection Swansea, illustrated page 106 Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw' (1942), polychrome version British Museum, please see 'Swansea Commemorative Pottery' by Helen Hallesey for a thorough explanation of the social history behind the decoration Comments: repaired, staples

ASSORTED 19TH CENTURY POTTERY including RARE WILLIAM IV DATED POTTERY JUG, dated 1835 and with initials 'WEJ', painted with wild flowers and wild strawberries in bright pink, yellow, green and blue enamels with black highlights, 21cms high, CAMBRIAN POTTERY SUPPER DISH & MATCHED COVER, former with fruiting vine border, latter with named botanical spray of 'long-spiked Indigo', 34cm long, and a Cambrian jug, 11cms high, and Staffordshire lustre fluted jug, 13cms high, two blue painted dinner plates 24cms diameter and ASSORTED ANTIQUE CERAMICS including pair of German Llanelly Hospital souvenir plates, German Welsh costumes / scenery plate, set of six bird-printed coffee cups, sundry saucers, jug ETC. Comments: William IV jug - base stained, crazing, spout rim worn, spout cracked. Cambrian dish and cover - Supper dish chipped and stained, jug enamels both worn, Cambrian jug restored spout, one plate chipped

A large 19th century pearlware jug, printed in blue with a scene of shepherdess and sheep, piping shepherd, country house, and various floral printed borders, height 22.5cm, together with a smaller example, height 14cm, attributed to Cambrian Pottery Swansea. Note: See illustration of shards of pattern in 'Minerva - The Journal of Swansea History' Vol XII on page 39. A copy of this publication is included with the lot (3).

A group of ceramic reference books. To include: Swansea's Cambrian Pottery (Tanner) I & II, Hollins Blue and White (Holdaway), Welsh Ceramics in Context I & II (Gray), Glamorgan Pottery (Hallesy) (6) Condition: some wear from use.  Provenance: Ex-Kentish Collection.