The Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Collection of Antique

The Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Collection of Antique

The Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge
Collection
of
Antique Pottery
Autumn 2015
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Cover: A Large & Rare Staffordshire
Pearlware Double Deer Park
Spill Vase Group,
Circa 1820-30.
Dimensions: 10 inches high x 15 inches wide
x 5 inches deep
Provenance:
With Oliver-Sutton Antiques, London (old paper label)
Reference:
Staffordshire figures, 1780-1840, Animals, Animal
Performers, Dandies & Murder, Volume 3, Myrna Schkolne, Page 67, Figure 119.2 (maker
presently unidentified).
People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures: Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835, Myrna Schkolne, Page
211, for a similar group from the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.
(NY8182-2)
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc.
PO Box 55
Maryknoll, NY 10545
212-308-2022
[email protected]
www.vandekar.com
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A Large & Rare Staffordshire Pearlware
Double Removable Deer Park Spill Vase Group,
Enoch Wood,
Circa 1820-30.
This remarkable and rare large group is particularly rare with
the deer being removable being placed into insets on the oval
base.
Dimensions: 12 1/4 inches high x 16 3/4 inches x 5 inches
deep; The removable stag: 8 inches high x 5 3/4 inches
wide x 3 inches deep; Removable doe: 6 1/2 inches high x
5 1/2 inches x 3 inches deep.
Provenance: Alistair Samson, London (Old sales label where it is called Walton).
Reference: People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures: Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835, Myrna
Schkolne, Page 211, for a similar group from the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge, UK.
(NY8182-1)
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A Large Oval English Pottery Pearlware Dish with Pansy Decoration,
High-temperature Underglaze Colours,
Circa 1830.
The pearlware dish with a large dramatic central design of a stylized Pansy with two large
yellow and blue flower heads on a brown stem with large green leaves.
Diameter: 13 1/2 inches wide x 10 1/4 inches deep x 1 3/4 inches.
Reference:
Colonial and Post Colonial Ceramics, Pottery Presentation, Fall 2014, Patricia Samford,
(Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum,
Maryland Historical Trust/ Maryland Dept. of Planning), Page 20, bottom illustration for
identical "embossed" rim.
(NY8186)
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Selection of Pottery Tankards
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A Pair and a Single
Yellow-banded Openwork
Creamware Dessert Dishes,
Probably Spode,
Circa 1800-10.
Diameter: 7 1/4 inches
(NY8139)
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A Garniture of Five British Pale Blue Pearlware Vases,
Possibly John Wood, Brownfield,
Circa 1790
Each of inverted bell form, the blue slip field applied with sprigged ribbon-tied fringed
drapery swags alternating with flowerhead medallions and bellflower husk pendants, beneath a rouletted black slip-filled checkered border and above engine-turned white vertical ribbing. Mr. Rickard has suggested John Wood as an attribution. Brownfield referred to this colour as "Sky Blue."
Heights 8 ¾, 9 ¼ and 10 ¼ inches.
Literature: For a discussion regarding this garniture set and an illustration of the same
set, see Jonathan Rickard, Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939, p. 2, fig. 10.
(VM98198)
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A Pair of English Pottery Pearlware Figures of Two Pastoral Couples,
A Bird Seller and Companion and a Shepherd & Shepherdess,
After Ralph Wood,
By Enoch Wood or Ralph Wood Jr.,
Circa 1790-1810.
Dimensions: Bird Seller & companion: 12 inches x 7 inches wide x 4 3/4 inches deep;
Shepherd & Shepherdess: 10 1/2 inches x 7 inches wide x 4 3/4 inches deep.
Reference: See Winterthur Museum for a similar group with the bird cage. (Object #
2002.0030.057.002)
(NY8116A)
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An Antique Staffordshire Pottery Figure Group
known as Persuasion,
The "Patriotic Group" Pot Bank.
Circa 1815-20
This figure is one of the best decorative and appealing pieces produced in the Staffordshire
potteries in the early 19th century. This is one of the rarer examples with the yellow
plaque with the misspelt word Perswation. An example bearing the word Perswation in a
little yellow tablet on the base like this one is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge (see Schkolne, p.64).
Dimensions: 8 inches high x 7 1/2 inches x 5 1/8 inches
Provenance: D. M. & P Manheim, New York (label)
Reference: Holding the Past, The William Herbert and Nancy Hunt Collection of Early English
Pottery Figures, Myrna Schkolne, Page 115, #87.
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(NY8090)
A Staffordshire Pearlware
Figure Group of Sheep,
Attributed to Enoch Wood,
Circa 1830.
Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches high x 8
inches wide x 4 3/4 inches deep.
Provenance: Oliver-Sutton Antiques,
London.
Reference: Holding the Past, The William Herbert and Nancy Hunt Collection
of Early English Pottery Figures, Myrna
Schkolne, Page 165, #149 attributed to
Enoch Wood.
A Large Staffordshire
Pearlware Triple Spill Vase
with Shepherd and Sheep,
Attributed to John Dale,
Circa 1820-30.
Dimensions: 7 3/4 inch high x 9 3/4 inches
wide x 5 inches deep.
Reference: Holding the Past, The William Herbert and Nancy Hunt Collection of Early English Pottery Figures, Myrna Schkolne, Page
145.
(NY8182-4)
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(NY8182-3)
An Early Large Staffordshire
Figure of Diana,
Circa 1820-30.
Dimensions:
12 inches high x 2 1/2 inch square
Reference: See English Earthenware Figures: 1740-1840, Pat Halfpenny, Page
225, for a figure in similar pose and
dress design. That figure is marked
Walton and Page 198 for similar
Enoch Wood figure.
(NY8116C)
An Early Staffordshire Figure of a
Lady Hunter with Hawk,
Represents Air,
Circa 1825
Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches x 4 3/4 inches
wide x 3 1/4 inches
Marks: Impressed 19.
Reference: People, Passions, Pastimes and
Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-35, Myrna Schkolne, Page 262, for a similar figure.
(NY8116B)
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An English Plain Creamware Rococo
Shell-form Soup Tureen and Cover,
Circa 1775
Mark: Scratched no 16. to interior of lid and
base of tureen
Dimensions: 9 inches high x 14 1/2 inches
long x 7 1/4 inches wide
(NY8050)
Two Pairs of English Plain Creamware Soup Plates, Circa 1775-90.
Diameter: 10 inch diameter x 1 3/4 inch depth.
Marks: One impressed K.
(NY8194)
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A Charming Shaped English Creamware Botanical Creamware Dish,
Circa 1800
The circular moulded openwork dish is painted with scattered sprigs of flowers.
The shaped rim is painted with a band of blue enamel. There are a series of eight
sections of pierced work, each surrounded by undecorated moulded floral swags.
The pierced work has heart, diamond and oval openings with some outlined in blue
enamel and some in green.
Diameter: 7 1/2 inches
(NY8085)
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A Rare Creamware
Loving Cup,
Circa 1790.
Dimensions:
6 3/4 inches high x 8 3/4 inches
x 6 inches deep.
(NY8071)
A Large Pearlware
Loving Cup,
Circa 1820.
The foot is painted with a repeating looping band of flowering grape vines between
two thin blue lines The inner
border has a blue ground
band with a fossil pattern and
the centre of the cup is painted with the initials E.A.
Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches
high x 9 inches wide x 6
inches deep.
(NY8027)
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A Pair of Staffordshire Saltglaze Stoneware Chargers,
Circa 1755-65.
The salt glazed dishes are decorated with a border pattern known as the seed of Barleycorn pattern. The border has been found on a plate sherd from the Nins site, Deerfield.
Diameter: 13 inches
Reference: White salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles, Diana Edwards and Rodney
Hampson, Page 141, Colour Plate 122 for an illustration. On page 185, Fig. 144 the
border pattern is illustrated from sherds excavated on the Foley site, Fenton, Staffordshire which was owned by Thomas Barker. Sherds of this pattern have also been
found at Kenmore, the Georgian home built by George Washington's sister, Betty
Washington Lewis, and her husband, Fielding Lewis. (http://kenmore.org/wordpress/?
p=277)
(NY8051)
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A Wonderful English Greenware Basket & Stand,
Brameld, Yorkshire,
Circa 1820.
The green-glazed openwork basket and stand are decorated in the form of large oak leaves.
The basket sides are formed by large oak leaves emerging from the flat bottom, touching
in the center then overlapping at the top to form the rim. The stand is moulded with
overlapping leaves to form the base.
Dimensions: 5 1/4 inches high x 10 1/4 inches wide x 8 inches deep
(NY7998)
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A Remarkable Massive English Lead Glazed
Creamware Pottery Punch Pot and Cover,
Circa 1765-75.
Dimensions: Length: 16 1/2 inches x height 10 1/2 inches x depth 10 inches.
The Victoria & Albert Museum writes on their web site-Punch pots were an invention of the mid18th century, which followed exactly the form of contemporary Staffordshire teapots.... The main
ingredients of punch are spirits, sugar, nutmeg, spices and water. It can be assumed that punch
pots were invented as a more refined means of dealing with this hot alcoholic beverage.
(NY7858)
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A Charming Prattware Plaque of Lions,
Circa 1800.
The plaque is relief moulded with two recumbent lions and painted in underglaze
with floral branches, molded border.
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches
(NY7396)
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A Large English
Feather-edge
Creamware Dish,
Circa 1785-1800
Diameter: 14 inches
Reference: See Creamware and
Pearlware Re-examined, edited by
Tom Wolford & Roger Massey,
Creamware from Archaeologically
Excavated Assemblages in London:
An overview, page 243, #11 for a
plate with a similar rim.
(NY8136)
A Massive English
Feather-edged
Cream-
ware Dish,
Circa 1785-1800.
The massive plain creamware
dish is decorated on the border with a moulded feather
edge.
Dimensions:
17 3/4 inches x 21 5/8 inches
(NY 8205)
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An English Pottery
Creamware Blue Enamel
Shell-edge Dessert Service,
Neale & Co.
Circa 1776-84.
The seventeen piece service consists
of the following pieces:-Ten plates,
Pair of sauce tureens and covers A
footed shell-shaped dish, A diamondshaped dish An Oval Dish , A tall
Tazza, A low Tazza
(NY7788)
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A Large Portuguese Pottery Duck Tureen,
Royal China Works, Real Fabrica da Louca Factory, Lisbon,
(Rato Factory- Fabrica do Rato),
Late 18th-Early 19th century.
Dimensions: 10 inches high x 8 inches depth x 13 1/2 inches long.
Faience Portuguesa Saculos XVIII - XIX, Arthur de Sandao, Page 223, Fig 224 for illustration of marked faience duck tureen but with the same distinctive-form base from
the Royal China Works, Real Fabrica da Louca Factory in Lisbon better known as
the Rato Factory (Fabrica do Rato)
(NY7906)
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