Longton Hall porcelain leaf shaped dish
with green branch handle, painted with colourful exotic birds in a landscape.
c.1760
L. 8¼ inches

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Longton Hall porcelain saucer dish.
Painted by 'The Castle Painter' with a turreted castle on an island, with a church tower within a fenced enclosure and a sailing ship on the left, brown line rim.
c.1756-58
Diam. 8 inches
This style of decoration is traditionally attributed to John Hayfield who is listed as a painter at the factory in an agreement in 1755.
Provenance:-
Tryhorn Collection.
F.R.Briggs Collection.

Longton Hall porcelain coffee cup
with loop handle, finely painted in underglaze blue with Chinese pagodas with willow trees on islands.
c.1758
Ht. 2.5 inches
Painters numerals on base

Longton Hall porcelain tea bowl and saucer
painted in underglaze blue with a tree with islands and a boat.
c.1756-58
Diam. 5¾ inches
Painters mark on base
Matching fragments to this saucer were found on the factory site and are illustrated in 'Excavations at the Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory', Bernard Watney. Post Mediaeval Archaeology, Vol. 27, 1993.pl. 6, p. 73

A rare Longton Hall tankard with double scroll handle.
Printed with the arms of the 'Fitzstephen' family, with the motto 'OMNIA VENCIT ASSIDUITAS' . The engraving probably by Jeremiah Evans.
c.1758
Ht. 5 inches
Provenance:- Norman Stretton Collection.
Knowles Boney Collection, exhibited Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, 1963, cat. No. 418.
Exhibited in the NCS Staffordshire Porcelain 1740-1851, 1979 catalogue no. A34.
Digging for Early Porcelain, 1998 no. 57.
Illustrated by Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelains, pl.79a