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May Art & Antiques Auction — Cordy's

Auction House:Cordy'sNumber of lots recorded:731
Sale Title:May Art & Antiques AuctionLots with images:129
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:548
Date:22-May-2012
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A Chinese carved giltwood panel, intricately worked to display sages, swordsmen and equestrian warriors in a wooded landscape beneath temple hallways and arches. 42 x 3 x 5 cm
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A large Chinese bronze vessel of archaic style, squat ovoid shape with handles issuing from low on the shoulder and similar ones in low relief, all with captured rings, the entire surface of the vessel is detailed in relief with patterns incorporating stylised beasts and Taotie masks. Height 34.5 cm
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A massive Chinese bronze Ding of circular shape, swelling at the base in three sections and raised on three short tapering legs, the body decorated in low relief with stiff leaf patterns, stylised mythical beasts and braided borders, two large loop handles issue from the rim and are decorated with chi dragons. Diameter 45 cm, height 58 cm
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A Shelley 'Vogue' Art Deco bone china cup, saucer and plate set, the cup with a triangular handle decorated in yolk yellow, the interior with a sunburst pattern in yellow and black. Pattern No. 11742.
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A Carlton Ware ‘Rouge Royal’ New Mikado pattern dish, oval shape with gilded handles to either side. Width 26.5 cm
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A Royal Copenhagen porcelain figure of a recumbent Shetland Collie dog. Length 28 cm
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A Victorian Staffordshire figured spill vase modelled as a woman standing with summer flowers gathered in the folds of her dress beside a wheat sheath which forms a vase. Height 36 cm
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A Lladro figurine of an elegant young woman in a blue and pink ball gown. 18.5 cmx320.
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A Royal Copenhagen porcelain vase, ovoid shape, painted with blue and white tulips and white moths on a graduated pale blue ground, circa 1951. Height 22 cm
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A Victorian Wedgwood dark blue jasperware jardiniere, classical grapevine swags to lion and ring masks, various figures below, impressed mark. Diameter 21 cm, height 18.5 cm
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Two Wedgwood dark blue jasperware pieces, a teapot and candlestick, classical figured decoration, impressed marks.
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A Wedgwood Keith Murray five piece drinks set, straw glaze, the jug and four mugs of matching ovoid form with three incised bands to base of each.
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A rare Bretby Aulsebrook's (N.Z.) biscuit plate, the oval plate with frilled rim in banded majolica glaze, red, tan and green, set with three biscuits with matt unglazed finish variously shaped and embossed 'Aulsebrook's Milk Arrowroot Christchurch', 'A. & Co. Superwine Ch Ch N.Z.)', etc., impressed marks to base of plate. 25 x 21 cm
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A Royal Doulton ‘Maori Art’ coffee can, saucer and plate, traditionally decorated with a wide band of kowhaiwhai decoration in red/brown and black on white ground, gilt rims, printed marks, the diameter of can 8.2 cm
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A pair of impressive large Doulton stoneware baluster vases, the rim and shoulder with sculpted Art Nouveau floral and scroll decoration, the necks with green and pale marbled glaze effects, the body conforming in blue/green, blue glaze to the inside of the everted top rims, impressed marks and incised initials for Florrie Jones. Fine marks to base of one. Height 47 cm
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An Edwardian Royal Doulton bone china blue, white and gold Iris pattern baluster vase. Height 11 cm Together with a similar baluster jug decorated with a rose pattern (pewter lid missing).
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A Royal Doulton Sung glazed flambe vase of cylindrical form with 'sponged' yellow patches to the top, 6.5 x 13 cm
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An early fine quality Royal Doulton bone china cylinder vase beautifully painted with a group of four goats in a mountainous landscape signed 'H. Allen'. Height 24 cm
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A Doulton Burslem vase, spherical form, hand painted with Windsor Castle, blue and white, 10 x 10 cm
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A Doulton Slaters stoneware baluster vase, tubeline floral decoration in the Art Nouveau manner, the main body section with blue and brown glaze effects on a fine snakeskin type ground, blue ground base with further conforming florals, impressed marks and incised initials ‘E.P’. Height 30.5 cm
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A Royal Doulton two handled vase, cylindrical shape with flaring foot and mouth, two gilded loop handles issue from the sides, decorated with day lilies on an apple green ground, the design highlighted with gilt outline. Height 20.5 cm
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An early Royal Doulton figurine: 'Sweet and Twenty' HN1298, the figure of a young girl who sits upon a sofa holding an open fan, a bonnet on the seat beside her. In predominant red and purple colourway. Width 18 cm
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A William Moorcroft large squat baluster vase in the Pansy pattern, blue, red and purple coloured flowers with green, blue and yellow highlighted leaves on rich cobalt blue ground, impressed marks and full signature in green. Height 21.3 cm
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A William Moorcroft bowl in the Claremont pattern, signature and impressed mark to base. 15 x 8.5 cm
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A William Moorcroft vase, bulbous form in the Claremont pattern, signature and impressed marks to base. 8 x 9.5 cm
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A decorative Royal Worcester marine sculpture ‘Spanish Hogfish’ and ‘Sergeant Major’ designed and modelled by R. Van Ruyckevelt Painted in polychrome and on fitted wood stand. Height overall 30 cm
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A small Royal Worcester marine sculpture 'Spade Fish', designed and modelled by R. Van Ruyckevelt. Height 13 cm
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A Royal Worcester teacup and saucer painted with fruit, signed J. Read and richly gilded.
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A Royal Worcester toothpick holder painted with fruit signed Roberts. Height 6 cm
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Two small Royal Worcester Toby jugs, both with bright orange coats and black broad rimmed hats. Height 9 cm, circa 1952.
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A large Royal Worcester ‘blank’ plate painted with fruit, signed ‘Bryan Cox of Worcester’. Diameter 27 cm
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A large Royal Worcester ‘blank’ dinner plate painted with fruit, signed ‘Bryan Cox of Worcester’. Diameter 27 cm
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A circa 1950 Royal Worcester plate painted with apples signed ‘Price’, the pale green fluted border richly gilded. Diameter 27 cm
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A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester botanical plate with a shaped pink and gold border. Together with a Victorian Davenport plate with a gilded, decorated border. Diameter 23 cm
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Two Victorian period Grainger’s Worcester dessert plates with floral decoration, shaped and gilded borders. Diameters approx. 23 cm, date marks circa 1897.
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An unusual Royal Worcester square shaped shallow dish painted with pink flamingos, signed ‘W. Powell’. Width 24 cm, date marks circa 1912.
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Three miniature Royal Worcester coffee cups and saucers painted with fruit, signed Freeman and Hale, the interiors richly gilded, date marks circa 1926 and 1950.
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A Georgian period Chamberlain’s Worcester circular plate with polychrome Chinese decoration of a fence pattern. Diameter 23.5 cm, printed marks circa 1815.
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A small fine quality Hadley's Worcester baluster vase, beautifully modelled and painted with roses. Height 18.5 cm, date marks circa 1911.
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A small Royal Worcester cup and saucer painted with fruit, signed Moseley and Ayrton, date marks circa 1926.
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A fine quality Royal Worcester circular footed bowl painted with roses signed 'M. Hunt' and richly gilded. Diameter 18 cm, date marks circa 1935.
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A miniature Royal Worcester peach bloom lidded circular box with a floral painting. Diameter 3.3 cm, date marks circa 1918.
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A miniature Royal Worcester peach bloom basket. Length 4.3 cm Together with a Royal Worcester thimble painted with a bird and a small Aynsley lidded oval box.
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A fine quality Hadley's Worcester two-handled baluster lidded vase, modelled, gilded and beautifully painted with Sweet Peas, signed 'C. White'. Height 34 cm, date marks circa 1908.
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A Victorian tall Royal Worcester lidded ewer vase, the restrained heavy gilding in Arts & Crafts inspired flowering vine decoration to the ovoid body, peach ground, long open scrolling handles, stepped pedestal base, the domed cover with spike finial, professional repair, printed marks for 1896 and shape #1481. Height 38.5 cm
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Two pieces of Locke Worcester, a jug decorated in pine cone pattern, and a vase embossed with florals in traditional apricot and deep cream colourway. Height 115 and 12.5 cm
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Two Locke Worcester jugs, embossed with blackberry vines, the rims picked out in gold, in traditional peach and deep cream colourway. Heights 10 cmand 12 cm
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A Locke Worcester oval dish, the interior hand painted with a branch of apples, signed Bach, the exterior in traditional apricot and deep cream colourway. 6 x 12.5 cm
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A Locke Worcester bowl, embossed with leaves, the rim embellished with gold in traditional apricot and deep cream colourway. 14 x 6.5 cm
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A Locke Worcester china biscuit barrel, moulded with daffodils and leaves, with silver plated rim and hinged lid, activated by tilting the handle.
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Two Locke Worcester pieces, a candlestick and a shell shape dish in traditional apricot and deep cream colourway. Repair to candlestick.
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A circa 1902 Locke Worcester porcelain bowl of oval shape moulded with basket weave detail highlighted with gilt. Width 23 cm
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A Victorian period Royal Worcester cornucopia vase in peach bloom colours with gilded borders. Length 23 cm, date marks circa 1894.
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A pair of miniature Royal Worcester blanks painted with fruit by Bryan Cox of Worcester. Diameter 8 cm, signed.
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Three Georgian porcelain hand painted plates in the Chelsea manner, each painted in polychrome with exotic birds upon a rocky outcrop within a foliate and fruit border, butterfly highlights, shaped gilded rims, two with major damage.
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An Aynsley Orchard Gold 15 piece coffee set, includes pot, six cups and saucers, sugar and cream, traditionally decorated with hand coloured fruit, berry and leaf designs, ornate gilt enrichments.
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A Coalport two-handled lidded urn vase painted with fruit signed N. Lear. Height 18 cm
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An English Caverswall china coffee can and saucer painted with fruit, signed ‘R. Shufflebottom’.
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An Edwardian period Royal Crown Derby Imari oval dish dated 1904. Width 28 cm Together with a Derby Imari cup and saucer dated 1917.
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A Copeland’s Spode Old Concord ‘Tea for Two’ tea set with blue polka dots and floral decoration.
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A Belleek posy vase in the form of a swan, traditional colourway of white and lemon, together with a tree trunk vase decorated with shamrocks, both with green mark.
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Three modern Belleek porcelain jugs, a seashell jug with coral handle, the other two in traditional impressed natural decoration, white with lemon, all with green mark, heights 11 cm, 10 cm, 7 cm
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Two modern Belleek porcelain cups and saucers, a seashell cup with coral handle on large flat oversized saucer, together with a tea bowl on saucer both in impressed natural decoration, white and lemon, both with green mark.
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A Royal Doulton jardiniere stand in the Watteau pattern, blue and white. Diameter 26 cm, height 55 cm, some damage.
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A large Royal Doulton jardiniere, in the Blue Children Series, crazed. Diameter 35 cm
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A Royal Bayreuth teapot in the Red Poppy pattern together with a matching pair of cups and saucers, some damage to teapot.
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Two Royal Bayreuth figural jugs, one a large black curly haired dog, the other a smaller blue hound. Height 13.5 cmmmand 10 cm
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A pair of Royal Bayreuth jugs in the form of a goat’s head. Height 10 cm
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Two Royal Bayreuth figural jugs, one in the form of a snail with a leaf as the handle, the other a large tomato with the branch and leaves as handle and rim. Height 7 cmand 12 cm
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Five small Royal Bayreuth vases, two decorated with a sailing dinghy, one with gleaners, also with a silver rim and two small two handled vases both with silver rims. one decorated with a woman, the other with a gentleman.
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Five small Royal Bayreuth vases decorated with a dancing couple, black on white ground with gilt embellishments to rims and handles.
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Four small Royal Bayreuth vases decorated with a pair of birds sitting on a basket of fruit, black on a white ground with gilt embellishments to handles and rims.
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Five small Royal Bayreuth vases decorated with children playing, one a Sunbonnet Babies vase, all with silver rims.
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Eight small pieces of Royal Bayreuth decorated with Dutch characters, vases, jugs, trinket boxes.
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Five pieces of Royal Bayreuth in the fishing pattern, includes a teapot, small rose bowl, large jug and two small vases, professional restoration to the jug.
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Seven pieces of Royal Bayreuth, small vases in varying shapes and patterns, some restoration.
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Seven pieces of Royal Bayreuth decorated with a boy taking care of turkeys, small teapot, trinket box and vases, some repairs.
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Two Royal Bayreuth pieces, decorated with a steamship surrounded by smaller boats, a teapot and a small dish.
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Three pieces of Royal Bayreuth, small vases decorated with sailing dinghies, one with a silver rim.
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Five pieces of Royal Bayreuth, small vases in the ‘Prattware’ manner, one small vase with a silver rim.
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Four Royal Bayreuth pieces decorated with Dutch children playing, three small vases with silver rims and one dish.
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Seven pieces of Royal Bayreuth, includes plates, a bell and vases in the ‘Goose Girl’ pattern.
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Three small Royal Bayreuth vases, two of children in winter scenes, both with silver rims, the third with ‘Jack and Jill tumbling down the hill’.
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Five pieces of Royal Bayreuth, three small green vases, a blue and white vase and one featuring three characters by firelight.
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Five pieces of Royal Bayreuth, includes small jugs, vases and a trinket box decorated with yachts on a lake with trees in the foreground on a pink and yellow ground.
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A Royal Bayreuth teapot together with a small jug and vase decorated with a farmer sizing and surrounded by hens.
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A Royal Bayreuth teapot with a small jug and vase decorated with farmer and hens.
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Four pieces of Royal Bayreuth including a lidded bowl, jug and vases decorated with a farmer and hens.
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Four pieces of Royal Bayreuth including a miniature cheese wedge, vases and a plate, decorated with a farmer and hens.
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Nine pieces of Royal Bayreuth in the Sunbonnet Babies pattern, includes a small jug and bowl, two cups and five saucers.
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Six pieces of Royal Bayreuth, small vases and a bowl in the Sunbonnet Babies pattern.
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A pair of Royal Bayreuth tall chamber sticks, decorated with a farmer scything and surrounded by hens. Height 13 cm
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Four small Royal Bayreuth vases, three with silver rims, two with Dutch scenes, one a goose girl, the other Gleaners.
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Eight small Royal Bayreuth vases, decorated with two young woman feeding sheep, three with silver rims.
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Four pieces of Royal Bayreuth decorated with Highland cattle, includes a bell, vase and two dishes.
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Six pieces of Royal Bayreuth, small vases and a dish in various patterns, including a miniature urn with cattle, goats, etc., some damage.
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Four Royal Bayreuth vases in the black face sheep pattern including a miniature watering can, restoration to one vase.
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Four small Royal Bayreuth vases, featuring hunting and fishing scenes.
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Five Royal Bayreuth nursery rhyme pieces, includes a ‘Jack in the Beanstalk’ bowl, ‘Little Bo Peep’ vase, ‘Little Jack Horner’, etc.
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Five small ‘Little Jack Horner pieces, two decorated with the minstrels, three with romantic couples.
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