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A Catalogue of Antique English Creamware & Pearlware
from
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc.
New York
Summer 2014
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A Rare Painted Creamware Mug of the Henry and the Name of its Captain or Owner John Fornear,
Circa 1800.
The creamware mug has three hand painted scenes- the image of a named ship, called Henry, the name John For-
near and a painting of a ruined abbey.
The name John Fornear was born in Sunderland in 1756, was married in Tynemouth in 1786, and died in 1827,
and is buried in Tynemouth Priory.
Dimensions: The mug stands 5½ high x 4 ½ inches deep x 6 ½ inches tall.
NY7957 Price: $3,500.00
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc.
PO Box 55
Maryknoll, NY 10545
Tel: 212-308-2022
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.vandekar.com:
Index:
Creamware: 1-13
Mocha-14
Pearlware: 15-21
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A Rare Large Creamware Orange Basket & Cover,
Wedgwood,
Circa 1790.
Pierced Chestnut or Orange Basket. A domed pierced circular footed basket with pierced lid, crowned by a typi-
cal rose knop.
Dimensions: 8 inches high x 8 1/2 inches wide.
NY7944 Price: $8,000.00
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An English Pottery Creamware Guglet,
Circa 1785.
The guglet or water bottle has a lovely creamy colour and elegant form with a slightly flaring neck.
Dimensions: Height: 9 3/4 inches x Diameter: 6 inches.
NY7775 Price: $1,800.00
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An English Creamware Mug,
Circa 1785
An English creamware pottery mug with a machine
-turned body, featuring a twisted strap handle con-
nected to the body of the mug with a flower and
leaf terminal. Repair to handle.
Dimensions: 3 1/2 inches high x 4 inches wide with
handle
NY7780 Price: $950.00
A Pair of Wedgwood Plain Creamware Plates,
Circa 1800.
Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches
Marks: Impressed WEDGWOOD and one with impressed 10, the other B & 7.
NY7929 Price: $750 pair.
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A Selection of shell-edged creamware
A Set of Ten Wedgwood
Creamware Green
Shell-edged Plates,
Circa 1780-1800.
The moulded creamware plates with
rococo-inspired asymmetrical, undu-
lating scalloped rim with impressed
curved lines and underglaze colour-
ing in green.
Mark: Some with Impressed WEDG-
WOOD
Diameter: 7 3/4 inches.
NY7935 Price: $2,000.00 for ten.
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A Rare English Pottery Creamware Dessert Service,
Neale & Co.
Circa 1776-84.
The seventeen piece dessert service has a plain cream coloured body with a bright deep blue feathered rim.
The seventeen piece service consists of the following pieces:-
Ten plates (diameter: 8 1/2 inches)
Pair of sauce tureen and covers (height: 6 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches length x 5 1/2 inches wide)
Footed shell-shaped dish (diameter 9 1/2 inches)
Diamond-shaped dish (9 inches x 11 inches)
Oval Dish (10 3/4 inches x 5 3/4 inches x 2 inches tall)
Tall Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 7 inches x 4 1/4 inches tall)
Low Tazza ( 10 1/2 inches x 8 inches x 3 inches tall)
NY7788 Price: $11,000.00 for Seventeen pieces
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A Rare Large Wedgwood
Plain Creamware
Vegetable Tureen and Cover,
Circa 1785-1800.
Dimensions: 12 inches high.
NY7951
Price: $2,250.00
A Large Creamware Armorial Dish,
Possibly Melbourne, Arms of Grant,
Circa 1800.
Dimensions: 13-3/4 inches across by 10-3/4 inches wide.
Reference: See Creamware & Pearlware: The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society. An Exhibition on Show 18
May- 7 September 1986, The Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery. Edited T.A. Lockett and P.A. Halfpenny. Page 75,
#53 for a plate dated 1780. The authors suggest that the plate in the exhibition has been associated with the Melbourne
group .
NY7949 Price: $2,200.00
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A Large Wedgwood Oval Handled
Creamware Basket,
Circa 1790-1800.
The oval basket has a wicker-type design with
the top rim with a twist rope border. The tall
looped handle is of a twisted rope design.
Dimensions: 8 inches high x 10 1/4 length x 8 1/4
inches in depth
NY7947 Price: $2,800.00
A Silver-form Octagonal Creamware
Whieldon Plate,
Circa 1765-75.
A lovely tortoise-shell coloured creamware
plate with a strong raised molded gadroon
rim.
Dimensions: 8 3/4 inch diameter
NY7920 Price: $600.00
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An 18th Century Culinary
Creamware Mold with
Rhinoceros.
One of the rarest molds in existence, showing a rhi-
noceros in the wild.
Dimensions: 7 7/8 inches by 5 3/4 inches
Provenance: Collection of Glenna Fitzgerald, No.
82. Fitzgerald was a collector who had the largest
collection of white molds in the world.
NY7921 Price: $1,800.00
A Rare English 18th Century Three Tier
Pierced Culinary Curds Mold,
Possible Leeds,
The mold is of triple stepped oval form, with basal
waved mouldings, each tier pierced with stylised
roundels, surmounted by a fish.
Dimensions: 4 1/2 inches in height x 8 1/4 inches in length x 6 1/2 inches in depth.
Pierced creamware moulds such as this was for making moulded curds, 'hatted kits' and Italian creams.
NY7922 Price: $1,800.00
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An English Pottery Creamware Plate
of an American Ship,
Circa 1785-1800.
The circular plate with a slight well is deco-
rated with a black and white print of port-
side view of an American ship flying the
Stars and Stripes. The border decorated
with six printed flowering stems.
Diameter: 10 inches
NY7888 Price: $950.00
A Rare Wedgwood Creamware
Soup Plate
made for the German Market,
Circa 1790.
The plate depicts an Imperial Ger-
man Navy Frigate with a yellow tint-
ed German Imperial Standard, in-
scribed below "LCBCC" probably the
owners initials and on the rim
"FMDCB."
Diameter: 9 1/2 inches (24cm)
Reference: The Metropolitan Muse-
um of Art, for a pair of soup plates
from the same service.
NY6058 Price: $2,200.00
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An English Creamware Polychrome Teapot and Cover,
Circa 1785-90.
NY7855 Price: $900.00
A Rare Possibly Unique English
Creamware Teapot & Cover
decorated with the Rev'd John
Wesley and his Followers,
Circa 1785-90.
The portrait around Wesley include: T.
Hanby, P. Jaco, W. Thompson, I. Hamp-
son, J. Hall, T. Hanson, J. Hall, I. Shaw,
I. Goodwin, R. Costendine, T. Taylor, I.
Mason, I. Allen, I. Powsen, I. Murlan, C.
Hopper
Dimensions: 6 1/2 “high x 8 1/4 “ wide
NY7814 Price: $5,500.00
An English Creamware Teapot,
David Rhodes Workshop
Circa 1775-85.
Dimensions: Height: 5 inches x length: 7 inches x depth: 4 inches
NY7799 Price: $1,900.00
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A Rare Large Creamware Tea Caddy with
moulded Fable Decoration,
The Fables of John Gay,
The Gardener and the Hog,
Derbyshire,
Circa 1765.
The rectangular plain creamware canister has an identical
moulded panel to each side with a depiction of a scene
from Mr. John Gay's Fable (1726), The Gardener and the
Hog .
Height: 6 inches x 4 inches wide x 2 1/2 inches deep.
Gay was a poet and dramatist, friend of Pope and Swift.
Gay is remembered for his play The Beggar's Opera
(1728).
NY7776A Price: $5,500.00
A Set of Three Wedgwood
Scallop Shell Dishes,
Circa 1829
The plain creamware dishes are
each moulded in the form of a
scallop shell.
Marks: impressed WEDG-
WOOD and impressed AJ
Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches x 6
inches width x 1 1/4 inch
height
NY7615 Price: $1,400.00
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An English Creamware Sauce Tureen, Cover and Ladle
on Fixed Stand,
Circa 1790.
Dimensions: 6 1/2 height x 8 inches length x 5 inches (height to
top of ladle; 6 inches)
Mark: Numeral 1400 in brown script.
NY7871 Price: $1,800.00
An English Creamware
Fruit Basket and Stand,
John T. Morton,
1930's
Dimensions:
Tureen, Cover & Stand: Length
12 3/4 inches x 7 inches x 8 1/2
inches
Tureen: 11 1/4 inches x 7 inches
x depth: 7 1/4 inches
The lovely creamware basket was made by one of the best of the 20th centu-
ry makers, John T. Morton at Leeds. Morton made the finest pieces for col-
lectors and made a number of presentation pieces for the royal family includ-
ing a covered fruit basket for King George V and Queen Mary on the occasion
of their silver Jubilee in 1935 which incorporated very similar design ele-
ments to this covered basket. A Rococo open-work casket made for King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 has the same bird finial as this tu-
reen.
NY7918 Price: $3,500.00
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MOCHA
A Charming British Pottery Light
Blue Mocha Bowl,
Circa 1800.
Dimensions: 7 3/4 inches diameter x 3 1/4
inch height
NY7917
Price: $1,250.00
An English Staffordshire Pottery Mocha Mustard Pot & Cover,
Circa 1790-1800.
Dimensions: 3 3/4 inches Height.
NY7930 Price: $1,250.00
A French Mocha Covered Sugar Pot,
Circa 1800-20.
NY7919 Price: $2,500.00
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A Garniture of Three
Pottery
Flower Vases
and Covers,
Circa 1810-20
The vases with unusual
pierced covers have a drab
brown ground with bands
of flowers at the rim and
belly. To each side is a
puce print of ladies and
children.
Dimensions:
Largest: 7 inches high x 4
3/4 inches deep Smaller: 5
1/2 inches high x depth of 4
3/8
NY7854 Price: $4,900.00
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A Pair of English Creamware Elephants,
Early 19th century.
The absolutely charming elephants, each of the same mould, stand on a crimped-sided green coloured base, the sides looking
like a band of bamboo. The elephants are in mottled browns with their trunks facing upward and touching their right ears.
The underside of the figure is hollow with a rich cream colour.
Dimensions: Height: 4 inches x length 5 1/2 inches x Depth 2 1/4 inches.
Reference:
A Passion for Pottery, The Henry Weldon Collection, Peter Williams & Pat
Halfpenny, for pair of elephant figures identical to these, Page 355, # 725, a
& b.
Right is another model with very similar features to these elephants which is
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Provenance: Frank Partridge (by ca.
1923) ; Florence Bates Carter (until 1944; to MMA)
NY7849 Price: $11,000.00
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A Pair of English Pottery Figures
of Venus & Neptune,
Ralph Wood, Burslem, Staffordshire,
Circa 1785-95.
Dimensions: Height: 11 1/3 inches
The press-moulded lead-glazed earthenware fig-
ures depict Venus & Neptune each on a rectangu-
lar gilded plinth. The decoration is painted in col-
oured glazes.
Reference: The Henry Weldon Collection: English
Pottery 1650-1800, Lesley B. Grisby, Page 457-8
#292 for a Venus.
The author mentions an invoice of 16 November 1783
for a sale by Ralph Wood (then in partnership with
Enoch Wood) to Thomas and John Wedgwood includ-
ing 6 Venuses purple lining followed by 6 Neptunes
Do. Lower on the same invoice is an entry for 1 Pair
of Neptune & Venus Gilt.... . (Wedgwood Archives)
NY7835A Price: $5,500.00
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A Rare English Pottery Figure
of a Panther,
Circa 1825.
The figure is modeled with its head turned to-
wards the rear and with tail curled onto back
on naturalistic green and gray base.
Dimensions: 5 1/2 I” high x 5 1/2 “ in length.
NY7941 Price: $3,500.00
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A Large English Pearlware Peafowl
Tankard,
Circa 1800.
The tankard of circular form with straight
sides has a wide double-grooved strap-firm
handle with an orange stripe. The tankard
is painted with green sponged leafy tree
and branches containing a bold and colour-
ful stylized peacock flanked by peahens.
Two tiny pinholes have been created in the
interior base probably as drain holes.
Dimensions: Height: 5 inches x 6 1/4
length.
Provenance: Personal Collection of George
& Mickey Deike.
Reference:
Feathers and Foliage, George & Mickey
Deike, Page 58, fig 5.9 & p268 fig 8.20.
NY7927 Price: $3,500.00
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A Large English Pearlware Peafowl Plate,
Circa 1795-1810.
Dimensions: Diameter: 10 inches.
Mark: underside impressed with * mark.
Provenance: The Collection of George & Mickey Deike.
Reference: Feathers and Foliage, George & Mickey Deike, Page 56, fig 5.8.
NY7928 Price: $1,350.00