Andrew Hull is a freelance artist, designer and sculptor, who has worked in the industry for the past 19 years. Andrew has worked on a wide range of subjects and created several successful ranges for retail and collectors worldwide. The ranges have varied from wildlife to fantasy and caricatured characters. Andrew attended Loughborough College of …
RESULTS OF OUR FIRST ANTIQUES, RARE POTTERY & FINE ART AUCTION Our first Fine Art Auction was held on Saturday 10th March 2018, the Saleroom was packed despite the cold and rain and there was an electric atmosphere in the Saleroom! The star of the sale was without a doubt the spectacular 3.9 carat diamond …
‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Diamonds are a ‘girl’s’ best friend! Ladies, don’t miss out on the opportunity to own one of these gorgeous pieces. They will be up for sale in the first Antiques, Rare Pottery & Fine Art Auction to be held on Saturday, March 10th, 2018. Spectacular 4.5 carat single stone diamond …
To the west of Tunstall lies the mines ‘Talk- o’th Hill’ and this was where James Whewall grew up in his youth. He became a choir master for the Wesleyan chapel and there he founded a juvenile choir for competiting in local singing competitions. James Whewall choir took first prize. Talke juvenile choir went from …
KOBE DOLLS Kobe Dolls are the name given to mechanical wooden dolls unique to Kobe, Japan. They were once as well-known as the port itself. The Kobe Dolls were produced from the mid-Meiji era (ca. 1890) until about 1920, and sold at souvenir shops on Motomachi Shopping Street and near Nunobiki Waterfall where tourists gathered. …
SHELLEY POTTERY Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was earlier known as Wileman & Co. which had also traded as The Foley Potteries. The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862 and remained a Shelley family business until 1966 when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries. In 1881 Joseph …
We are currently looking for the right person for the role of Head Porter If you are organised with good attention to detail, confident working on your own initiative with previous auction house experience then we could have the career for you. Candidates should have good computer, numerical and verbal skills but most importantly, good people …
On Saturday 13th Jan we held the first auction of the year with 1100 of the most eclectic selection of lots to date! The first one hundred plus lots consisted of despatch returned goods, unclaimed items and catalogue returned lots, some of which were, to add a sense of eager anticipation, still in sealed boxes! This …
WH GOSS Goss crested china is typically in the form of small white glazed porcelain models, made from 1858 to 1939, carrying the coat of arms of the place where they were sold as souvenirs, thus being a form of heraldic china. Other factories, including Carlton, Shelley and Arcadian, also made souvenir ware but Goss is still …
APEDALE HALL was a manor house near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, it was rebuilt in 1826 by the Heathcote family in the Elizabethan style by Richard Edensor Heathcote. The building was demolished in 1934, due to subsidence from the coal mines underneath. Richard Edensor Heathcote (1780 – 1850) was a British Industrialist. Born the son of Sir John Edensor Heathcote …
TOYS A toy is an item that is used in play. Playing with toys can be an enjoyable means of training young children for life in society. Different materials like wood, clay, paper, and plastic are used to make toys. Many items are designed to serve as toys, but goods produced for other purposes can also be …
The Antiques, Rare Pottery & Fine Art Auction on 11th and 12th of November created quite a stir amongst collectors due to the interesting and eclectic range of lots on offer. 1600 lots went under the hammer over the weekend kicking off with 700 lots of pottery and ceramics. The sale commenced with tea and dinnerware with …
Harry Tittensor Harry Tittensor was born in Burslem on 20th April 1887, the son of Jarvis Tittensor and Hannah Cliffe. On 25th May 1912 he married May Wright, daughter of Elijah Wright at Burslem Parish Church. The marriage certificate describes him as a designer of Newport House, Burslem. He was apprenticed at Doulton & Co …
ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER JUGS We have received a consignment of large Royal Doulton Character Jugs from the series ‘Great Military Leaders’ and ‘First World War Military Leaders’. We are sure that any Character Jug collector would be interested in these limited edition jugs that were issued in 2005 and 2007. Designed by Caroline Dadd and …
BORDER FINE ARTS Border Fine Arts was founded in 1974 by John Hammond in an eighteenth-century farmhouse, Middleholm near Langholm. Carefully researched, highly detailed, realistic, and accurately painted wildlife figurines and countryside scenes were created, for which demand grew from a very receptive market place. The workforce grew to keep pace with the orders that were placed …
PATE-SUR-PATE Pâte-sur-pâte is a French term which means “paste on paste”. It is a method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of white slip (liquid clay) with a brush. The development of pâte-sur-pâte dates back to 1850 in France, at the Sevres …
Royal Doulton is famous for the lustrous red glaze known as flambe. Inspired by Oriental glazes, Doulton’s flambe made it’s debut at the St Louis exhibition of 1904. Flambe is a distinctive glaze which consists of a rich, deep-red glaze with streaks of purple and turquoise. The effect results from a method of firing that …
Reg Johnson Studio Potter Mr Johnson has been described as a “larger than life character,” and this can be seen by the wonderful items that he created. Reginald Johnson was born in October 1909. He became a student at Burslem College of Art at the age of 12, where he studied under Gordon Forsythe and …
Originally founded by furniture maker, John Wade in 1810, Wade produced products for the textile and wool spinning industry, as well as manufacturing bottles for the beer breweries in Staffordshire. Wade Ceramics was originally made up of a number of different companies founded by various members of the Wade family, and was only united …
Poole Pottery was based in Poole, Dorset, England. Founded in 1873 on Poole quayside, it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory operations away from the quay in 1999. Production continued at the new site in Sopers Lane until its closure in 2006. Historical products from Poole Pottery are displayed in the …
Charlotte Rhead was born in October 1885 in Burslem. Charlotte Rhead was an English ceramics designer who was active in the 1920’s and in the 1930’s in the Potteries area of Staffordshire. Charlotte Rhead was born into an artistic family. Her father, Frederick Alfred Rhead began his career as an apprentice at Mintons where he …
Princess Badoura HN2081 was a post WWII version of an earlier figure from C.1925, originally designed by Harry Tittensor (an in-house artist), A.E. Stanton and F Van Allen Phillips for the Wembley Exhibition of 1924. The series of what became Prestige Figures were all re-introduced post war. Existing large scale figures in new colourways post …
The Morris Abbot Beswick Collection Morris Abbot was born in Norfolk in 1942. After attending Old Buckingham Hall and Gresham School, he joined the family farming business, Abbot Bros. His family recall that his passion for Beswick started in the late 1960s. They have fond memories of visits to Sheringham, Norfolk, where his daughters sat …
This rare Reginald Mitchell Toby Jug will be a highlight of our next Fine Art Sale, to be held on 24th September 2016. This rare jug has the famous Clarice Cliff name associated with it as she was working at the Wilkinson factory during the 1940’s. We have managed to locate another jug which has …
Some interesting Moorcroft pieces have come into our March 10th Fine Arts Sale. Some lovely Flambe vases and items by Walter Moorcroft together with large Poppy vases by William Moorcroft. Do You Have any Moorcroft Pottery to Sell ? Please Contact Us Now. Walter Moorcroft flambe vase decorated in the Anemone design, height 15.5cm Walter …
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