Royal Doulton

Doulton designs consigned by a descendant demonstrate the ceramicist’s great glaze achievement

Noke’s portrait of a humiliated child was one of the very first models from the Royal Doulton HN series

Estimated at £200-300 but sold for £4200 at Charterhouse (25% buyer’s premium) in Sherborne, Dorset, were two design books from the Royal Doulton workshop floor.

Teacher turned designer was part of the Royal Doulton team creating some of the first HN figures

The Arabian Knights model of Princess Badoura is best known as the largest figure from the Royal Doulton HN series.

A recent weekly sale at Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Lewes included an English porcelain rarity: a blue and white Cannon Ball pattern beaker and cover.

Royal Doulton design was produced on response to popular demand for eastern-style ceramics

A rare version of Eric Ravilious' Child’s Handkerchief print and a scarcely seen Doulton figure emerged in North Yorkshire

Among the most desirable Royal Doulton HN series models are the Harry Tittensor (1887-1942) creations based on the Arabian Knights story.

Designed by George Tinworth, c.1885, this Doulton Lambeth spill vase commemorates the first transatlantic phone call between the UK and the US.

A rare Royal Doulton prototype model of a ‘Boy on a Tortoise’ found in a modest house in Rickmansworth has sold for an impressive £18,000.

Agnete Hoy (1914-2000) brought her own distinctive style to the ailing Doulton Lambeth factory, reviving the traditional decorative methods of earlier artists to make contemporary stonewares from 1952 until the studio closed in 1957.

The Royal Doulton figure Guy Fawkes designed by Charles Noke was issued as HN98 from 1918.

A small 8in cast bronze relief or architectural element c.1900 designed by Art Nouveau and Art Deco master René Lalique was offered in Florida.

In the early years of the HN collection in the 1920s several companies commissioned Doulton figures to advertise their products.

Works by the Doulton dominate the two-day British Ceramics and Pottery Auction at Lion and Unicorn in Hollywood, Florida.

Anthropomorphic bird jars are typically associated with the work of the Martin Brothers in Southall, London.

The salt-glazed portrait jug of Nelson by Doulton & Watts of Lambeth is considered the first character jug made by Doulton

The most eagerly contested lot in a recent sale at Potteries Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) was a Doulton stoneware Isobath inkwell.

Not to be confused with the modern limited edition toby jugs of the same name, the Royal Doulton figure Spook is among the most desirable models in all the HN series.