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Click here to subscribeDANIEL RIDGWAY KNIGHT (American 1839-1924)Gathering FlowersWatercolor on paper14.5in. x 10.25in.Signed and inscribed Paris lower leftBorn and trained in Philadelphia Daniel Ridgway Knight studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France where his fellow classmates included Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir. Following the Civil War he settled permanently in France where his impressionistic paintings of peasant figures in rural landscape settings earned him great acclaim.Provenance: Private Collection NebraskaRoughton Galleries Dallas TXacquired from the above by the present owner
English regional: Hansen A.N., Oxford Goldsmiths before 1800; Ridgway M.H., Chester Silver 1727-1837; A Directory of York Goldsmiths, Silversmiths & associated Craftsmen; York-Assay Office & Silversmiths 1766-1858; Kent T., Barnstaple Silver and its Makers; Norwich Silver in the Collection of Norwich Castle Museum and George Wicks, Royal Goldsmith, (6).
A child's late Victorian Ridgway part tea/dinner service, Maiden Hair Fern pattern in green, twelve 4 1/2" plates, six 3 3/4" plates, six 3" plates, six soup plates, six meat plates (various sizes), two gravy boats on stands, a pair of small covered tureens, a pair of medium covered tureens, one large soup tureen on stand with ladle, two vegetable dishes, two butter dishes together with a teapot, four cups, milk jug and sugar bowl in blue, all c.1880 (58)
A Staffordshire Inkstand caricature portrait bust of John Ridgway, 19th century, modelled wearing a green shirt and white. tie with gilded highlights and with curled brown hair 3.5" high. John Ridgway, the powerful Industrialist was Potter to Queen Victoria and first Mayor of Handley and as such was a local celebrity. The Rhead brothers in their book Staffordshire Pots and Potters relate that 'Certain members of the Ridgway family bought up all the ink pots they could meet with, and destroyed them because they were good caricatures' therefore few of these examples have survived.
HOLGATE (DAVID) NEW HALL AND ITS IMITATORS, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, 1971; Shinn (Charles and Dorrie) Victorian Parian China, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, 1971; Cushion (John P.) Animals In Pottery And Porcelain, cloth, dustwrapper, small 4to, 1974; Smith (Alan) Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, 1970; Godden (Geoffrey A.) Ridgway Porcelains, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, 1972; Godden (Geoffrey A.) Mason's Patent Ironstone China, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, 1971; Rice (D. G.) Rockingham Pottery And Porcelain, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, 1971; Jenyns (Soame) Later Chinese Porcelain, cloth, 8vo, 1951 (8).
Field (William). New Guide. An Historical and Descriptive Account of Leamington and Warwick, to which are added, Short Notices of the Towns, Villages, &c. Within the Circuit of Ten Miles, Abridged from a Larger Work, pub. Warwick, 1817, folding eng. map frontis., folding eng. map, ex-lib. copy with library bookplate, 20th c. qtr. morocco, 12mo, together with Ridgway (Rev. James), The Gem of Thorney Island; or, Historical Associations Connected with Westminster Abbey, 1860, tinted litho frontis., errata leaf present, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other topography related, mostly orig. cloth, many in d.j.s (3 shelves)
A selection of English porcelain tea wares, comprising; a Ridgway ‘London’ shape trio, painted pattern number 527 (saucer cracked), two other ‘London’ shape teacups, a Samuel Alcock coffee cup and saucer, painted pattern number 5695, and a Ridgway coffee cup and saucer, painted pattern number 5/265 (small crack to cup), various dates, first half 19th century.
A Ridgway porcelain part dessert service, printed in pale-green with a central vignette of fruit, within fruiting vine borders, the gilt-line rims moulded with flowerheads, comprising; a shaped-oval two-handled serving dish, two shaped-square two-handled serving dishes, and five plates, painted iron-red pattern number ‘2019’, circa 1835 (minor wear).
House of Commons. Select Committee. Report together with minutes of evidence and accounts from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the cause of the high price of gold bullion Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 8 June 1810. London: Johnson 1810. 8vo. later half calf marbled boards by Maclehose of Glasgow part of previous owner's signature torn from the upper edge of the title-page; A Digest of the evidence of the Bank Charter taken before the Committee of 1832. London: Ridgway 1833. 8vo. later half calf marbled boards by Maclehose of Glasgow; Mills Richard Horner. The principles of currency and banking. London: Groombridge 1853. First edition 8vo. original cloth; Shaw W.A. The history of currency 1252 to 1894. London: Wilson 1896 second edition 8vo large folding table original cloth and 3 others. (7).
A large 19th century blue printed ashet, with bold flower spray in a basket to the well, 52cm wide; and a quantity of other 19th century blue printed wares with oriental patterns, comprising; a large ashet depicting figures in a landscape, 52cm wide; another smaller ashet, Copeland & Garrett, 42cm wide; a 'Willow' pattern tureen and cover, 28cm wide; a 'Chinoiserie' Ruins' pattern twin-handled oval dish, Davenport, 28cm wide; three shell-form bowls; two 'Eastern Port' pattern soup plates, Ridgway; a 'Mausoleum of Kausim Solemanee at Chunar Gur' meat plate; five 'Chinese Landscape' series soup bowls, each with a gadrooned edge; another soup bowl; and four side plates also with gadrooned edge; a soup bowl; and three side plates (25)
An early 19th Century Derby porcelain coffee can and saucer enamelled in colours and decorated in gilt in the “Imari” manner with “Witches” pattern (red painted mark), a 19th Century Staffordshire porcelain tea cup and saucer enamelled in colours and decorated in gilt in the “Imari” manner with flowers and leaves within royal blue and gilt borders (possibly Ridgway - pattern No. 435), and two other Staffordshire porcelain tea cups and saucers decorated in the “Imari” manner
A John & William Ridgway Oxford and Cambridge College series soup plate, printed in blue with Pembroke Hall, Cambridge within the usual octagonal frame and border of flowers with goat and cherub vignettes, diameter 25cm, printed mark, circa 1820-30. See Coysh & Henrywood 1, page 280, for a similar soup plate
Three blue-printed soup plates: an Angus Seats series soup plate attributed to Ridgway, diameter 23.5cm, unmarked; a Spode Lattice Scroll pattern soup plate, diameter 24cm, printed framed upper-case mark; and a British Marine series soup plate, diameter 26cm, printed title mark (crack in rim); generally between 1815 and 1830. See Coysh & Henrywood 2, page 15, for a similar Angus Seats series soup plate; Drakard & Holdway P803 for the Lattice Scroll pattern on a dinner plate; and FOB32 for a similar British Marine soup plate
A British Scenery series meat dish, attributed to Ridgway, printed in blue with the Village Fishermen scene within the usual flower and leaf border, length 43cm, printed series title mark, circa 1820-30. See FOB35 for a similar dish; the central scene is very similar to the Handley Village Fishermen pattern which can be seen in Coysh 1/170.
Two Dutch shape blue-printed jugs: a Castle pattern jug with an ornate moulded handle, printed with a version of the Spode pattern and border, height 20.5cm, unmarked, circa 1820-30 (crack near handle); and a William Ridgway, Son & Co. Humphreys Clock series jug with simple strap handle and strainer behind the spout, printed with a picnic scene and the usual geometric and scroll border, height 18cm, printed title mark with makers initials, circa 1838-48 (cover missing, riveted repair at top of handle) See Coysh & Henrywood 1, page 182, for a plate from the Humphreys Clock series; also the same volume, page 73, for information on the Castle pattern and its makers, with Clews a possibility for the jug in this lot #70-100 58. A Buffalo pattern presentation jug dated 1794, with outward flaring neck and ovoid shape body moulded with two bands of leaves, scroll-moulded handle, and ochre rim, printed in blue with a version of the Buffalo pattern on either side and a typical chinoiserie border around the neck and inside the rim, with blue feather edging outside the rim, the neck painted underglaze in blue with the name Thos. Compere, the front with the date 1794, height 22cm, unmarked (sections of body and handle glued)
Various small or toy blue-printed wares: comprising a small Davenport stone china tea plate with a dragons pattern; a Minton Dresden Flowers pattern toy stand; a Ridgway Humphreys Clock series toy plate; a toy plate with an unidentified romantic scene (no border); a miniature plate with a transitional period pattern featuring fishermen hauling nets: and a Kenelworth Priory pattern toy plate from the Minton Miniature series; various dates See FOB73 for the transitional fishermen pattern on a trefoil dessert dish but with a different border
THREE 19TH-CENTURY POTTERY ASHETS or meat plates comprising: an Amherst Japan pattern stone china example, printed and overpainted in Imari colours, blue printed scroll mark verso, impressed number 18, 48cm, (19in) wide (rim chip); A pearlware example decorated in Net pattern with a hexagonal cellular central scroll cartouches of chinoiserie waterside pavilions reserved on a floral field, within diapered border with further scroll cartouches, 42cm, (16.5in) wide (rim chip), and a third with two-handled vase of flowers within six niches with baskets of flowers and floral sprays, the diagonally-pinstriped border with scattered leaves, flowers and scrolls, 43cm, (17in) (3) *** For a plate with printed design matching the second example, by Job Ridgway, see Coysh, A. W., and Henrywood, R. K., The Dictionary of Blue & White Printed Pottery, 1780-1880, Vol 1, p.259.
A Ridgway porcelain part tea and coffee service, comprising: two bread and butter plates, a milk jug, sugar basin and cover, waste bowl, twelve tea cups, six coffee cups and twelve saucers, each piece painted with a panel of garden flowers on a gold decorated cream and deep blue ground, Pattern No. 2/5423, circa 1840, some damage. * Produced for Josh Green & Sons. 11 St Pauls Church Yard, London.
A John & William Ridgway 'Christ Church, Oxford' pattern dinner plate from the Oxford and Cambridge College series, printed in blue with the titled view within an octagonal frame and the usual border with cherub vignettes, 25cm diameter, printed mark, circa 1815-30 (chip on footrim) See Coysh & Henrywood 1, page 84, for a similar plate