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Staffordshire

Rowlandson’s comic characters in ceramics style
20 March 2023Estimated 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.

Pick of the week: Huge jug from 1835 bigs up London china dealer
09 January 2023This monumental and documentary Staffordshire blue and white transfer printed jug sold for $4800 (£4000) as part of Bonhams Skinner’s sale of British pottery and porcelain that ran online from Marlborough, Massachusetts, in the last days of 2022.

Stiff competition at Suffolk sales indicates strength of Staffordshire pottery market
09 January 2023Collectors of Staffordshire have noted a number of higher prices of late and further evidence of a more active market came when a pair of Victorian Staffordshire flatback figures was offered by Lacy, Scott & Knight (22.5% buyer’s premium).

Dealer solves Staffordshire figure crime mystery
28 November 2022Dealer Damon Revans-Turner of RTS Antiques in Liverpool has put a name and story to a rare Staffordshire figure that has hitherto evaded attribution.

Leopard bites back at unlucky hunter
29 August 2022Hot on the heels of Christie’s offering a collection of more than 80 18th century Battersea and Bilston enamels formed by interwar connoisseur Nellie Ionides (part of the May 27 auction of items from the estate of Lord and Lady Swaythling), Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) featured a smaller selection of similar wares across two sales in the summer.

Victory parade in figure form
29 August 2022The Crimean War inspired many Staffordshire flatback figures - including this rare model made to mark the end of the conflict in 1856.

Staffordshire pottery: Creators fired up by their beliefs
20 June 2022Grisly figures burning at the stake reflected religious background of Staffordshire potters

Support for the monarchy still strong as commemorative items bring demand at auction
30 May 2022Special look at the cross-over market for coronation and commemorative items

Pick of the week: ‘The talk of the Staffordshire community’
11 April 2022As a general rule prices for most pairs of Staffordshire dogs, the quintessential Victorian fireside ornament, have dipped markedly in the past generation.

North America: Old school lessons in English ceramics
14 February 2022Traditional collecting fields still have an attraction when estimates are realistic, as proved by 18th century porcelain and pottery auctioned in the US

5 Questions: pottery dealer John Howard
07 February 2022Here we speak to dealer John Howard who specialises in British pottery.

Boxers fight their way to the top price level
10 January 2022Rarely do 19th century Staffordshire figures feature among the top-selling lots at auction these days but two bare-fist boxing champions did just that.

Facts and figures: a collection formed with the "eye of a man who loved and knew his subject"
29 November 2021Amassed by the headmaster of one of Britain’s finest public schools, the Silk collection of Staffordshire portrait figures provides a fillip to an overlooked market

Napoleonic porcelain now commands serious levels of auction power
15 November 2021While the kilns at Sèvres languished during the Revolution, Napoleon recognised the value of a national porcelain factory and used it as an extension of his power.

Squirrels surprise in Stamford
15 November 2021At a recent sale at Stamford Auction Rooms (20% buyer’s premium) in Lincolnshire this pair of mid-19th century Staffordshire red squirrels sold for a surprise £2000.

Pottery packing a punch
08 November 2021A pair of early 19th century Staffordshire pearlware figures modelled after bare-knuckle boxers Tom Cribb and Tom Molineaux who fought for a ‘world title’ of sorts is estimated at £3000-5000 in Tennants’ Autumn Fine Sale on November 13 in Leyburn.

Superb collection of British commemorative ceramics comes to auction
23 August 2021The Robin Simpson (1940-2020) collection of British commemorative ceramics comes for sale next month.

Collectors wise to owl rarity
12 July 2021Back in 1990, following a famous and much-repeated Henry Sandon valuation on BBC Antiques Roadshow, a late 17th century slipware owl jug and cover was acquired by the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent for £22,000.

Belting Belk Gambrell ceramics selection
12 July 2021European ceramics from renowned US collector come to the New York rostrum.

Toasting a toby jug auction record as Admiral Rodney jug brings buoyant demand
11 January 2021Bonhams has set a new record for a toby jug with this c.1785 Admiral Lord Rodney jug.

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