Decorative Art

Anthony du Boulay (1929-2022) was well known as an expert on Chinese ceramics, although his interests were more wide ranging.

The first months of this year have featured a string of wide-ranging ceramics groups offered at auction

A broad mix of English and Continental pottery and porcelain was on offer in the latest dedicated ceramics sale held by Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury, a fair slice of it contributed by single-owner collections.

At his best Mark V Marshall can give his one-time employer Robert Wallace Martin a run for his money

The Adam Partridge (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Macclesfield on March 2 included a tazza from an important historical Sèvres service.

Estimated at just £50-80, a rare Staffordshire figure group sold online for £3000 at Clarke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Semley, Dorset, on February 10.

An exceptional piece of Regency porcelain emerged for sale at Hannams (23% buyer’s premium) in Selborne, Hampshire, on February 21-24.

Chipped to both elements, a Spode cup and saucer made for use on White Star liners sold online for £6000 at Richard Winterton (22% buyer’s premium).

The most ambitious of all of the George Tinworth (1843-1913) mouse groups is the 10in (25cm) high clock case

On May 16 Sworders is offering the first tranche of a fine collection of Doulton Lambeth ceramics.

The potter George Cartlidge, who worked for Sherwin & Cotton in Hanley for close to 30 years, is best known as the designer of Arts & Crafts Morris Ware.

This pair of English Regency bronze candlesticks in Egyptian revival taste sold for £1800 at Laidlaw (20% buyer’s premium).

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an exhibition in the Cotswolds to mark 150 years since the inauguration of the Martin Brothers pottery

The first of the Troika ‘Love’ plaques was made by Benny Sirota as a present for his mother.

The Weekly Antiques Sale at Gorringe’s on February 27 included this fine Poole Pottery charger.

Since the days of Magna Carta, it was thought the best way to avoid a fraudulent measure was to have a verified ‘standard’ against which all others could be judged.

A once neglected aspect of the silver market received a showpiece sale in February. ATG reports on the Stewart collection of Anglo-Indian silver from the Raj period.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online.

Albert Amor’s latest catalogue opens with a mustard pot. Dating to c.1753-54, the pot and cover of baluster shaped ‘silver’ form is offered for £4800.

The quasi-medieval silver and glass ‘claret bottle’ designed by Charles Robert Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft is one of the great pieces of the Arts & Crafts movement. Ashbee mentions it in his 1909 book Modern English Silver, saying: “The shape is taken from an Elizabethan sack-bottle found when digging the foundations of [my home] the Magpie and Stump in Chelsea.”