1. Worcester porcelain hexagonal frill vase
with pierced domed cover with applied flowers and rose finial, the vase with female mask handles with shell head dresses, the shoulders with six pierced trellis cartouches with moulded frames picked out in gold and puce, above the shell frills the sides are applied with leaves and flowers growing from woody branches and painted with sprays of flowers and insects.
c.1770
Ht.15¼ inches
This vase is unusual in that the applied flowers and leaves around the body appear to be growing from woody branches. Usually, flowers are applied in trailing garlands with ribbons tied in bows.

2. Very rare Longton Hall porcelain coffee can
with a twigged stalk handle in the form of a branch with coloured leaves at the bud terminals, painted in enamels by the 'Castle Painter' with a ruined archway with a houses and tall trees, the reverse with an obelisk and a house in a landscape.
c.1755
Ht. 2½ 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.

3. Rare Chelsea porcelain cream jug
of squat circular form with an upturned robin spout and a flowering branch handle after Meissen, picked out in enamels and painted with a colourful spray of flowers accompanied by smaller flower and leaf sprigs with a brown line rim.
c.1755
L. 4¼ inches
Red Anchor mark
This jug appears to be unrecorded.

4. Longton Hall porcelain saucer dish.
Painted with two birds, one with open wings perched on branches in a grassy landscape with birds in flight above.
c.1756-58
Diam. 8 inches
Provenance:-
Frank Arnold Collection.
Tryhorn Collection.

5. Very rare early Worcester creamboat.
Of reeded shape with flared rim and scroll moulded handle. Painted in the famille verte style with chrysanthemums and daisies growing from stylised rocks, the reverse with a flowering prunus branch, the interior with a green diaper panelled border and peony spray in the base.
c.1753-54
L. 5.2 inches
The only other recorded polychrome creamboat of this shape is in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection.

5a Very rare Worcester coffee cup and saucer
painted with birds on a yellow scale ground.
c.1768-70
Coffee cups decorated with yellow scale are particularly rare

6. An extremely fine Worcester tea pot
superbly decorated in the atelier of James Giles with a long tailed parakeet perched in fruiting branches with a peach, pear, plum, cherries and grapes, the reverse painted with a variety of other summer fruits, the spout with scroll and arrow gilding with a gilded dog-tooth border on the rim.
c.1765
Ht. 5.6 inches

6a A fine Worcester porcelain spoon tray
of hexagonal shape with alternating underglaze gilded blue panels and four larger panels panted with colourful flowers and an oval central panel all beneath a gilt dog tooth border.
c.1765
L. 6¼ inches
Blue square seal mark to base and panted accession number in red for Colonial Williamsburg.
Provenance: The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg.

6b Worcester porcelain spoon tray
of lobed hexagonal shape with rococo panels painted with flowers reserved on a scale blue ground.
c.1768-70
L. 6 inches

6c Longton Hall porcelain coffee cup
with large handle with a kick terminal, painted in enamel colours with a flowering peony with a fence and green rocks.
c.1758
Ht. 2.6 inches

7. Longton Hall porcelain coffee cup and saucer
with large scroll handle, painted in bright colours with two geese standing near a rock beneath a flowering shrub. The 'Goose' pattern.
c.1758-60
Diam. 4 5/8 inches
The Goose pattern is derived from Chinese porcelain.
Provenance:- Tryhorn Collection.

8. Very rare Worcester porcelain flared feather moulded coffee can,
finely painted with European figures in the Meissen style standing on the banks of an estuary with a tree and houses on the right, a church with other buildings and a sailing ship is depicted on the left of the scene, flanked either side by floral sprays which are also painted on the interior.
c.1755-56
Ht. 2½ inches
Provenance:- Tryhorn Colletion.
A coffee can with this pattern is Illustrated by John Sandon in the 'Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain' page 147

9. Worcester porcelain coffee cup,
a small moulded cup with a 'strap fluted' ground with two reserved cartouches painted in famille verte colours with a bird on a flowering branch, the reverse with a songbird on a flowering branch, a green diaper border with reserved panels of half-flowerheads, with a moulded scroll handle.
c.1755
Ht. 2 inches

9a. An extremely rare St James`s (Girl in a Swing)
faceted creamboat with angular handle. Painted with two sprays of flowers and leaves, and smaller sprays and sprigs. Handle painted in puce and with an elaborate running scroll in puce. Charles Gouyn's factory
c.1750
L.5inches
A larger sauceboat of the same shape and decoration is in the V&A collection.
The main output of the factory was figures and scen bottles, teawares being especially rare, only about sixteen surviving pieces are known, nine of which are in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

10. Very rare Bow centrepiece
moulded with colourful shells, coral and seaweed with three birds nests containing eggs beneath a central pillar mounted with an open shell dish shell. Around the base are six shaped appertures to hold the shell moulded stirrup cups with spiral stems, the interiors painted in the famille rose style with peonies and a cross hatched border.
c.1753-55
Ht.
A similar centrepiece with a different centre shell is illustrated by by Anton Gabszewicz in 'Bow Porcelain' Geoffrey Freeman Collection no.16. Another by Patricia Begg and Barry Taylor in 'A Treasury of Bow Porcelain' no.18

10a Very rare pair of Bow porcelain lions
standing before flowering trees on flat glazed bases moulded with scrolls picked out in puce and applied with leaves and florets.
c.1760
Ht. 4 inches
It appears that the only other recorded models of these lions, but without trees are illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz in Bow Porcelain, Geoffrey Freeman collection plate 262

11. Rare Vauxhall porcelain sparrow beak cream jug
painted in underglaze blue with a man on a bridge between two rocky vegetated islands.
c.1755-57
Ht. 3 inches

12. Longton Hall porcelain sparrow beak jug
with distinctive angular handle, painted in underglaze blue with the 'Crossed Fence' pattern with a fence, hut and plants.
c.1755-58
Ht. 3 inches

13. Rare Worcester butter cooler and cover
pierced with multiple small holes, raised on four fleur de lys feet, moulded in imitation of a wood pail with banding top and bottom with lug handles, the cover applied with a fruit spray finial, painted in blue with 'The Buttertub Spray' pattern, comprising floral sprays, the cover also with two insects.
c.1760
L. 5¾ inches
A similar butter cooler without holes is illustrated by Branyan, French and Sandon in Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790 plate I.E.40

14. An extremely rare Worcester porcelain hexagonal vase and cover
painted in underglaze blue with the 'Mobbing Birds' and 'Courting Birds' pattern, with birds in a landscape and other birds perched in trees and in flight.
c.1758
Matching workman's marks on base and cover.
Ht. 15.6 inches
This style of bird decoration is thought to be the work of James Rogers and is discussed by Hugh Tait in a paper in 'The Connoisseur' 1963.
For a version of the pattern see Worcester Blue and White Porcelain. Branyan, French and Sandon I.C.26 & I.C.28

15. Longton Hall coffee can decorated by the `Castle` painter
with angular handle, decorated in underglaze blue with a castellated building flying banners in a landscape with a church and a sailing ship in the distance.
c.1755
Ht. 2½ 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.

16. An extremely rare Longton Hall porcelain coffee cup
with twig and bud handle, painted in underglaze blue with a flowering plant and a moth.
c.1755
Ht. 2.4 inches
Provenance:-
Rouse Lench Collection.
Tryhorn Collection.

17. An unrecorded William Reid Liverpool documentary dated inkwell.
of cylindrical shape with a raised central opening and four smaller holes around the shoulder for quills, Inscribed on the side 'I M 1762' in underglaze blue with a small heart between the letters, the reverse painted with a house with a smoking chimney alongside a tree in a landscape, the shoulder with a double border of diaper panels and feathered decoration.
1762
William Reid's 'Liverpool China Manufactory' on Brownlow Hill went bankrupt in 1761, production was continued in 1762 by the assignees probably under the management of William Ball (when this inkwell was made) until the factory was taken over be James Pennington in 1763.
Diam. 3 inches.
Only a handful of dated Liverpool inkwells are recorded. Decoration of this type on porcelain, of a house with the smoking chimney is most unusual and normally only found on delftware.

18. Set of Bow figures of The Rustic Seasons.
Well modelled in the white, Spring and Summer wearing broad-brimmed hats, Spring with flowers and Summer with sheathes of corn, Autumn as a man seated and squeezing grapes into a bowl, Winter wearing a hooded coat and warming his hands over a brazier, all on plain mound bases
c.1755
Ht. 5½ inches

19. An extremely rare Chelsea raised anchor period porcelain model of a sphinx
dressed in scantily draped robes revealing her breast, the lioness's body with a fitted tasselled cover laying on a rectangular base.
c.1749-52
L.6 inches
Provenance:
L. A. Harrison, sale Sotheby's 28th May 1937, lot 46.
Sotheby's 29th June 1965, lot 115.
Rous Lench Collection, sale Christies 30th May 1990, lot 349.
American private collection.