Ceramics

Andrew Morris spent over 30 years putting together a collection focusing on the Worcester porcelain of the Kerr and Binns and Royal Worcester periods and Leonard Joel (25% buyer’s premium) offered it at auction in Melbourne, Australia, over two days on March 25-26.

Deceased estates and collectors selling up mean items collected in the late 20th century reappear at auction.

Our selection of lots from 13 upcoming auctions

Doulton washroom elements provide surprise as final items from extensive collection come to auction

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

This large rectangular earthenware trough, measuring 20in (21cm) across the handles, is part of the range of flower containers made by the Fulham Pottery for the society florist Constance Spry (1886-1960) from the mid-1930s to the 1950s.

The Clarice Cliff, Art Deco & Design auction at Woolley & Wallis (26% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury on March 20 included this rare 10in (25cm) vase, shape no 375, decorated in the Archaic pattern mirroring a capital design from a temple in Luxor.

Three-hundred lot sale of the Art Deco classic shows signs of the market returning to 1990s boom time

“He stored everything like Russian dolls, everything packed away into something else."

Part two of the Creed Collection, a group of top Plymouth and Bristol pieces amassed by a British couple over 25 years, is on offer at London dealership Albert Amor.

Ceramics historian cited this item to show how two types of decoration were used in combination

A Parisian sale titled Pablo Picasso and his Friends staged at Piasa in France on February 15 included a series of artworks to which the great man had contributed in some way.

Buyers descend on the late George Withers collection in Somerset

London porcelain dealer Rod Jellicoe died on February 4 aged 70.