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A Catalogue of Antique English Creamware & Pearlware

from

Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc.

New York

Summer 2014

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A Rare Painted Creamware Mug of the Henry and the Name of its Captain or Owner John Fornear,

Circa 1800.

The creamware mug has three hand painted scenes- the image of a named ship, called Henry, the name John For-

near and a painting of a ruined abbey.

The name John Fornear was born in Sunderland in 1756, was married in Tynemouth in 1786, and died in 1827,

and is buried in Tynemouth Priory.

Dimensions: The mug stands 5½ high x 4 ½ inches deep x 6 ½ inches tall.

NY7957 Price: $3,500.00

Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc.

PO Box 55

Maryknoll, NY 10545

Tel: 212-308-2022

Email: info@vandekar.com

Web: www.vandekar.com:

Index:

Creamware: 1-13

Mocha-14

Pearlware: 15-21

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A Rare Large Creamware Orange Basket & Cover,

Wedgwood,

Circa 1790.

Pierced Chestnut or Orange Basket. A domed pierced circular footed basket with pierced lid, crowned by a typi-

cal rose knop.

Dimensions: 8 inches high x 8 1/2 inches wide.

NY7944 Price: $8,000.00

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An English Pottery Creamware Guglet,

Circa 1785.

The guglet or water bottle has a lovely creamy colour and elegant form with a slightly flaring neck.

Dimensions: Height: 9 3/4 inches x Diameter: 6 inches.

NY7775 Price: $1,800.00

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An English Creamware Mug,

Circa 1785

An English creamware pottery mug with a machine

-turned body, featuring a twisted strap handle con-

nected to the body of the mug with a flower and

leaf terminal. Repair to handle.

Dimensions: 3 1/2 inches high x 4 inches wide with

handle

NY7780 Price: $950.00

A Pair of Wedgwood Plain Creamware Plates,

Circa 1800.

Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches

Marks: Impressed WEDGWOOD and one with impressed 10, the other B & 7.

NY7929 Price: $750 pair.

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A Selection of shell-edged creamware

A Set of Ten Wedgwood

Creamware Green

Shell-edged Plates,

Circa 1780-1800.

The moulded creamware plates with

rococo-inspired asymmetrical, undu-

lating scalloped rim with impressed

curved lines and underglaze colour-

ing in green.

Mark: Some with Impressed WEDG-

WOOD

Diameter: 7 3/4 inches.

NY7935 Price: $2,000.00 for ten.

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A Rare English Pottery Creamware Dessert Service,

Neale & Co.

Circa 1776-84.

The seventeen piece dessert service has a plain cream coloured body with a bright deep blue feathered rim.

The seventeen piece service consists of the following pieces:-

Ten plates (diameter: 8 1/2 inches)

Pair of sauce tureen and covers (height: 6 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches length x 5 1/2 inches wide)

Footed shell-shaped dish (diameter 9 1/2 inches)

Diamond-shaped dish (9 inches x 11 inches)

Oval Dish (10 3/4 inches x 5 3/4 inches x 2 inches tall)

Tall Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 7 inches x 4 1/4 inches tall)

Low Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 8 inches x 3 inches tall)

NY7788 Price: $11,000.00 for Seventeen pieces

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A Rare Large Wedgwood

Plain Creamware

Vegetable Tureen and Cover,

Circa 1785-1800.

Dimensions: 12 inches high.

NY7951

Price: $2,250.00

A Large Creamware Armorial Dish,

Possibly Melbourne, Arms of Grant,

Circa 1800.

Dimensions: 13-3/4 inches across by 10-3/4 inches wide.

Reference: See Creamware & Pearlware: The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society. An Exhibition on Show 18

May- 7 September 1986, The Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery. Edited T.A. Lockett and P.A. Halfpenny. Page 75,

#53 for a plate dated 1780. The authors suggest that the plate in the exhibition has been associated with the Melbourne

group .

NY7949 Price: $2,200.00

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A Large Wedgwood Oval Handled

Creamware Basket,

Circa 1790-1800.

The oval basket has a wicker-type design with

the top rim with a twist rope border. The tall

looped handle is of a twisted rope design.

Dimensions: 8 inches high x 10 1/4 length x 8 1/4

inches in depth

NY7947 Price: $2,800.00

A Silver-form Octagonal Creamware

Whieldon Plate,

Circa 1765-75.

A lovely tortoise-shell coloured creamware

plate with a strong raised molded gadroon

rim.

Dimensions: 8 3/4 inch diameter

NY7920 Price: $600.00

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An 18th Century Culinary

Creamware Mold with

Rhinoceros.

One of the rarest molds in existence, showing a rhi-

noceros in the wild.

Dimensions: 7 7/8 inches by 5 3/4 inches

Provenance: Collection of Glenna Fitzgerald, No.

82. Fitzgerald was a collector who had the largest

collection of white molds in the world.

NY7921 Price: $1,800.00

A Rare English 18th Century Three Tier

Pierced Culinary Curds Mold,

Possible Leeds,

The mold is of triple stepped oval form, with basal

waved mouldings, each tier pierced with stylised

roundels, surmounted by a fish.

Dimensions: 4 1/2 inches in height x 8 1/4 inches in length x 6 1/2 inches in depth.

Pierced creamware moulds such as this was for making moulded curds, 'hatted kits' and Italian creams.

NY7922 Price: $1,800.00

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An English Pottery Creamware Plate

of an American Ship,

Circa 1785-1800.

The circular plate with a slight well is deco-

rated with a black and white print of port-

side view of an American ship flying the

Stars and Stripes. The border decorated

with six printed flowering stems.

Diameter: 10 inches

NY7888 Price: $950.00

A Rare Wedgwood Creamware

Soup Plate

made for the German Market,

Circa 1790.

The plate depicts an Imperial Ger-

man Navy Frigate with a yellow tint-

ed German Imperial Standard, in-

scribed below "LCBCC" probably the

owners initials and on the rim

"FMDCB."

Diameter: 9 1/2 inches (24cm)

Reference: The Metropolitan Muse-

um of Art, for a pair of soup plates

from the same service.

NY6058 Price: $2,200.00

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An English Creamware Polychrome Teapot and Cover,

Circa 1785-90.

NY7855 Price: $900.00

A Rare Possibly Unique English

Creamware Teapot & Cover

decorated with the Rev'd John

Wesley and his Followers,

Circa 1785-90.

The portrait around Wesley include: T.

Hanby, P. Jaco, W. Thompson, I. Hamp-

son, J. Hall, T. Hanson, J. Hall, I. Shaw,

I. Goodwin, R. Costendine, T. Taylor, I.

Mason, I. Allen, I. Powsen, I. Murlan, C.

Hopper

Dimensions: 6 1/2 “high x 8 1/4 “ wide

NY7814 Price: $5,500.00

An English Creamware Teapot,

David Rhodes Workshop

Circa 1775-85.

Dimensions: Height: 5 inches x length: 7 inches x depth: 4 inches

NY7799 Price: $1,900.00

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A Rare Large Creamware Tea Caddy with

moulded Fable Decoration,

The Fables of John Gay,

The Gardener and the Hog,

Derbyshire,

Circa 1765.

The rectangular plain creamware canister has an identical

moulded panel to each side with a depiction of a scene

from Mr. John Gay's Fable (1726), The Gardener and the

Hog .

Height: 6 inches x 4 inches wide x 2 1/2 inches deep.

Gay was a poet and dramatist, friend of Pope and Swift.

Gay is remembered for his play The Beggar's Opera

(1728).

NY7776A Price: $5,500.00

A Set of Three Wedgwood

Scallop Shell Dishes,

Circa 1829

The plain creamware dishes are

each moulded in the form of a

scallop shell.

Marks: impressed WEDG-

WOOD and impressed AJ

Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches x 6

inches width x 1 1/4 inch

height

NY7615 Price: $1,400.00

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An English Creamware Sauce Tureen, Cover and Ladle

on Fixed Stand,

Circa 1790.

Dimensions: 6 1/2 height x 8 inches length x 5 inches (height to

top of ladle; 6 inches)

Mark: Numeral 1400 in brown script.

NY7871 Price: $1,800.00

An English Creamware

Fruit Basket and Stand,

John T. Morton,

1930's

Dimensions:

Tureen, Cover & Stand: Length

12 3/4 inches x 7 inches x 8 1/2

inches

Tureen: 11 1/4 inches x 7 inches

x depth: 7 1/4 inches

The lovely creamware basket was made by one of the best of the 20th centu-

ry makers, John T. Morton at Leeds. Morton made the finest pieces for col-

lectors and made a number of presentation pieces for the royal family includ-

ing a covered fruit basket for King George V and Queen Mary on the occasion

of their silver Jubilee in 1935 which incorporated very similar design ele-

ments to this covered basket. A Rococo open-work casket made for King

George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 has the same bird finial as this tu-

reen.

NY7918 Price: $3,500.00

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MOCHA

A Charming British Pottery Light

Blue Mocha Bowl,

Circa 1800.

Dimensions: 7 3/4 inches diameter x 3 1/4

inch height

NY7917

Price: $1,250.00

An English Staffordshire Pottery Mocha Mustard Pot & Cover,

Circa 1790-1800.

Dimensions: 3 3/4 inches Height.

NY7930 Price: $1,250.00

A French Mocha Covered Sugar Pot,

Circa 1800-20.

NY7919 Price: $2,500.00

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A Garniture of Three

Pottery

Flower Vases

and Covers,

Circa 1810-20

The vases with unusual

pierced covers have a drab

brown ground with bands

of flowers at the rim and

belly. To each side is a

puce print of ladies and

children.

Dimensions:

Largest: 7 inches high x 4

3/4 inches deep Smaller: 5

1/2 inches high x depth of 4

3/8

NY7854 Price: $4,900.00

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A Pair of English Creamware Elephants,

Early 19th century.

The absolutely charming elephants, each of the same mould, stand on a crimped-sided green coloured base, the sides looking

like a band of bamboo. The elephants are in mottled browns with their trunks facing upward and touching their right ears.

The underside of the figure is hollow with a rich cream colour.

Dimensions: Height: 4 inches x length 5 1/2 inches x Depth 2 1/4 inches.

Reference:

A Passion for Pottery, The Henry Weldon Collection, Peter Williams & Pat

Halfpenny, for pair of elephant figures identical to these, Page 355, # 725, a

& b.

Right is another model with very similar features to these elephants which is

in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Provenance: Frank Partridge (by ca.

1923) ; Florence Bates Carter (until 1944; to MMA)

NY7849 Price: $11,000.00

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A Pair of English Pottery Figures

of Venus & Neptune,

Ralph Wood, Burslem, Staffordshire,

Circa 1785-95.

Dimensions: Height: 11 1/3 inches

The press-moulded lead-glazed earthenware fig-

ures depict Venus & Neptune each on a rectangu-

lar gilded plinth. The decoration is painted in col-

oured glazes.

Reference: The Henry Weldon Collection: English

Pottery 1650-1800, Lesley B. Grisby, Page 457-8

#292 for a Venus.

The author mentions an invoice of 16 November 1783

for a sale by Ralph Wood (then in partnership with

Enoch Wood) to Thomas and John Wedgwood includ-

ing 6 Venuses purple lining followed by 6 Neptunes

Do. Lower on the same invoice is an entry for 1 Pair

of Neptune & Venus Gilt.... . (Wedgwood Archives)

NY7835A Price: $5,500.00

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A Rare English Pottery Figure

of a Panther,

Circa 1825.

The figure is modeled with its head turned to-

wards the rear and with tail curled onto back

on naturalistic green and gray base.

Dimensions: 5 1/2 I” high x 5 1/2 “ in length.

NY7941 Price: $3,500.00

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A Large English Pearlware Peafowl

Tankard,

Circa 1800.

The tankard of circular form with straight

sides has a wide double-grooved strap-firm

handle with an orange stripe. The tankard

is painted with green sponged leafy tree

and branches containing a bold and colour-

ful stylized peacock flanked by peahens.

Two tiny pinholes have been created in the

interior base probably as drain holes.

Dimensions: Height: 5 inches x 6 1/4

length.

Provenance: Personal Collection of George

& Mickey Deike.

Reference:

Feathers and Foliage, George & Mickey

Deike, Page 58, fig 5.9 & p268 fig 8.20.

NY7927 Price: $3,500.00

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A Large English Pearlware Peafowl Plate,

Circa 1795-1810.

Dimensions: Diameter: 10 inches.

Mark: underside impressed with * mark.

Provenance: The Collection of George & Mickey Deike.

Reference: Feathers and Foliage, George & Mickey Deike, Page 56, fig 5.8.

NY7928 Price: $1,350.00