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Click here to subscribeA Ridgway porcelain part tea service, circa 1830, decorated with blue lattice panels and scattered flowers, comprising a teapot and cover and stand, the cover with floral finial, a two handled sucrier and cover and eight teacups and saucers, painted pattern No. '2/2698' in iron red to bases (minor faults).
A Staffordshire pottery part toy tea service, decorated in pink with 'Vignette' pattern, comprising two cake plates, tea pot, sugar bowl and cover, milk jug, slop bowl and six cups and saucers (faults), together with a Ridgway pink maiden-hair-fern pattern part toy tea service (faults), and a small collection of toy tea wares (faults).
A pair of mid-19th Century John Ridgway & Co porcelain cabinet plates, each painted and gilded with the Westhead crest above a banner inscribed with the motto 'Ora et Labora', within a scroll gilt rim with angular blue banding against a claret ground, overlaid in gilt, printed factory mark to bases.
A Bust of Christopher Columbus, Robinson & Leadbeater, circa 1892, with concentrated forward gaze, on a swept circular base, impressed "R&L", 26cm high; A Bust of William Shakespeare, W H Goss, first published August 1876, inscribed "Copied from the monument erected by Shakespeare's family in the church at Stratford-on-Avon", printed bird mark and "Copyright as Act directs, W H Goss, Stoke-on-Trent, August 1876", 18.5cm high; and A Bust of Handel, after W Theede (from Roubillacs original), J Ridgway, Bates & Co, circa 1858, gazing to dexter, on a titled base, impressed factory mark, 20.3cm high (3) See illustration A similar bust of Columbus is illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary & Busts, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, fig.742, pg.229. A similar bust of Handel is illustrated on pg.240, fig.799.
Venus and Cupid, for The Art Union of London 1858, J Ridgway, Bates & Co, the nude goddess of Love embraces an arrow-wielding Cupid, on a rocky shaped oval base, impressed "Art Union of London 1858", impressed "J Ridgway Bates & Co" and "J Gibson RA Sculpt", 48cm See illustration John Gibson (1790-1866) born in Conway and trained in Liverpool. Moved to London in 1817 and then went on to Italy where he spent the rest of his life. In common with Rauch he was a pupil of both Canova and Thorwaldsen. Canova gave him a place in his studio, offered financial assistance and recommended him to his first patron. From 1840 he persuaded many of his patrons to accept his works in polychrome, finding his authority for this in the practice of the ancient Greeks.
An early Victorian John Ridgway porcelain tea service, pattern no 3556/2, painted with floral bouquets, the border of gilt fruiting vine cartouches within flowerhead and dot design on a pale grey ground comprising: A sugar bowl and cover, A milk jug, A slop bowl, Twelve tea cups, Twelve coffee cups, Twelve saucers, two bread and butter plates
Sweet (Robert). The Botanical Cultivator, or Instructions for the Management and Propagation of the Plants Cultivated in the Hothouses, Greenhouses, and Borders, in the Gardens of Great Britain, Ridgway, 1821,. bookplt. to front pastedown, contemp. half sheep, rubbed, 12mo, together with Smith (Sir James Edward), The English Flora, 5 vols. in 6 (vols 1-4 2nd eds.), 1828-33, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, 8vo (7)
A John Ridgway porcelain part dessert service, printed in puce with vignettes of fruit and scattered sprigs of fruiting vine, comprising; a pair of sauce tureens, covers and stands, two shaped oval serving dishes, another oval serving dish and fourteen plates, iron-red painted pattern no. 2020, circa 1835 See Geoffrey A. Godden, The Illustrated Guide to Ridgway Porcelains (1972), pl. 71 for similar shapes.
A selection of Staffordshire blue and white printed pottery, comprising; a Davenport shaped oval pedestal bowl printed with the Tudor Mansion pattern, 27.5cm in length (crack); an oval bowl printed in blue and painted in iron-red with stylised flowers, 26.5cm in length (stained); two soup plates, one Ridgway example from the Angus Seats series and two plates including one with the Netley Abbey pattern, first quarter 19th century; and a pair of Pratts Native Scenery candle sticks, 15cm high, printed marks, mid 19th century
Collection of pottery jugs, to include a Wedgwood terracotta coloured jug, impressed mark to base, 15.5cm high, W. Ridgway, Son, & Co., with moulded scenes of a medieval joust and a band of grapevine decoration, impressed mark to base, 18cm high, W. B. Cobridge 'Ivy' pattern jug, with moulded decoration, 19.5cm high, and others, a/f
Oakleigh, Thomas. The Oakleigh Shooting Code. London: James Ridgway and sons, 1836. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy from author to the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine [inscribed on half-title and title in ink by author], original boards, paper label, some cracking to hinges, bookplate, a fine copy of this rare volume
A Limoges plate, of octagonal form painted to the well with humming birds and orchids, within moulded and gilt border, signed M. Holloway, 11" wide, a Derby porcelain plate, painted with stylised birds and foliage within gilt line rim, 9?" dia., a Ridgway earthenware soup plate, printed in blue and polychrome painted with birds, tree and flowers, 9?" dia. (3).
Five volumes of Silver Interest, including: Ridgway, Maurice - Chester Silver Early Times - 1726 and Chester Silver 1727-1837; Hennell, Percy - Hennell Silver Salts 1736-1876, dustwrapper; Pamphlet reprinted from the Connoisseur - The Hennells, A Continuity of Craftsmanship, 1973; Culme, John - Nineteenth Century Silver, Country Life Books, 1977 (5)
AN ENGLISH, PROBABLY RIDGWAY TURQUOISE CUP AND SAUCER, well painted with reserve panels of classical English scenes, including castles, an Aynsley blue ground cup and saucer and an English white ground, possibly Minton, cup and saucer with painted rose sprays and gilt wriggle work and turquoise border, a green and floral cup and saucer and one other cup and saucer, retailed by Alfred Dunn of Birmingham (5)
A graduated set of four Uncle Tom's Cabin jugs, relief-moulded in buff earthenware with blue interiors, heights 21.5 to 14cm, unmarked, circa 1855-80 (one cracked) This slavery-related design, based on the Harriet Beecher Stowe book, was originally published by Ridgway & Abington in January 1853
Four Ridgway relief-moulded stoneware jugs: a Pan jug in glazed blue, height 25cm; a Linenfold jug in green, height 24.5cm; a jug with vertical flutes in white, height 23cm; and a "Bulrush" jug in green with metal lid, height 19cm, various marks See Henrywood 1/41, 1/49 and 1/56 for three of these designs
A John Ridgway eighteen piece porcelain dessert service each piece painted to the centre with a vignette of a river or lake scene within apple green borders decorated with pink flowers gilt leaves and tendrils and pierced strapwork devices comprising a twin-handled comport 23.5cm high 33cm across two smaller comports 14cm high 22.5cm diameter two oval footed dishes 31cm wide two rectangular footed dishes 29cm wide and eleven plates 22.5cm diameter impressed mark CB painted iron red pattern number 3/9680 circa 1845 some pieces damaged (18)
A John and William Ridgway part dessert service each piece painted to the centre with flower bouquets within green banded borders decorated with gilt dots and a gadroon moulded edge comprising a lozenge shaped footed comport 39cm across four lozenge shaped twin handled dishes 29cm across a pair of sauce tureens and covers with integral stands 21.5cm across four single handled lozenge shaped dishes 21cm across four square twin handled dishes 27cm across and nineteen twin handled dessert plates puce and iron red pattern no.1174 circa 1820 all with slight wear to gilding (some damage) (34)
Two brown glazed pearlware jugs, transfer printed in yellow with Chinese scenes, 11.5cm h; a J & W Ridgway drabware jug, sprigged in brown with classical figures, impressed 228 on a moulded pad mark; a pearlware miniature Toby jug, painted in bright enamels, c1820; a Herculaneum earthenware French Scenery pattern dessert plate; a Brameld stone china India pattern soup plate, all early-mid 19th c (7) ++ In generally excellent condition