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Ceramics - Moorcroft, Oriental, Poole, Shorter, Spode, Staffordshire,
Shorter & Sons, Sunderland, Susie Cooper, Troika, & Worcester

673 Three Sancai glazed Chinese style animals. (3) - These pieces of stoneware consist of a dog, a camel and tiger. They are all decorated in yellow and green running glazes and are decorative pieces - possibly made to look old? The tiger on the rock is 5.5in long. The dog is seated on his haunches with long nose and is 4.5in. The camel is 5.5in high and is standing on an angled plinth. All are perfect. : £30-40 (Ceramics - Oriental)

702 A blue and white Chinese stoneware ovoid vase and cover possibly with later decoration. (8.5in) (2) - This is a perfect pot, apart from minor fricking to the rim. It has a flat lid and an ovoid body. It is decorated with hand-painted brushwork on a blue ground with added dragon and foliage in a bright and colourful manner. The base is decorated with green and brick red brushwork lines, and the shoulders have white scrolling on brick red band with green glazed edges. The lid is similarly glazed with burnished gilt rim and shows some kiln imperfections and has a small frick/chip. The stoneware is glazed to the interior. The indented base is painted with two blue lines around a square seal mark, which is hand painted. : £150-250 (Ceramics - Oriental)

745 A pair of nineteenth century Japanese vases on stands. (8.75in) (2) - This pair of vases has brass ball mounts to the rims, hung with tapering loop handles. They are similarly mounted on ormolu brass stands with pierced scrolled volute feet. The ormolu is very rubbed, but there are traces of gilding. The bases of the stands are impressed with foundry marks, but difficult to decipher. The vase bodies are ball form with hexagonal flared necks. They are enamelled in the satsuma style, with blossom foliage and gilding on grey ground. Each has two circular panels, one with purple and blue moonlit decoration, the other with two brightly coloured birds on a grey ground. Each of these two circular panels is framed by gilding. They are most unusual fine quality vases. Apart from crazing, they are in perfect condition. : £150-250 (Ceramics - Oriental)

895 A large pair of Chinese porcelain jars and covers. (19.75in) (4) - These are very decorative large jars of bulbous baluster form with domed lids having gilded pointed finials. They are each decorated with brightly coloured birds/parrots in blossom foliage in the famille rose palette. The shoulders have yellow scrolled lotus leaf type bands and friezes of yellow, green and blue flowers on black borders. They are not marked. One of the inner rims of the lids has a few pieces missing, but this is not visible when the lids are in place. Aside from the lid, the pieces are in perfect condition. : £100-150 (Ceramics - Oriental)

171 A relief moulded basket weave fruit jug; and a sgraffito basket vase. (2) - The basket vase almost looks like studio pottery. It has scalloped rim and arched handle. It is decorated with a sgraffito frieze, pink flowers and green leaves above geometric triangle band above a waved foot supported on a moulded oval base. It is hand decorated, and has incised Shorter & Sons Stoke on Trent marks, with a signature Menould, or could be Menouza? It has a hairline down one side. The other jug is in brown glaze of basket-weave moulded form with applied fruit decorated in polychrome on both sides of the pot. It has an applied naturalistic handle and a shaped spout. Apart from overall crazing, it is perfect, with printed Shorter marks. : £40-60 (Ceramics - Shorter & Son)

553 Two rectangular trough vases. (2) - The brown glazed pot is 13.5in long, and is made up of four joined balls beneath a flat rim raised on a rectangular rounded foot with applied roundel decoration. It is impressed with the number 694 and also has printed Shorter mark. It is overall crazed but otherwise perfect. The other vase is grey, and is supported on four scrolled feet with a scrolled panel body with shell style mouldings to either end. It has a yellow glazed interior with a grey glazed exterior. It is impressed with number 450 and has printed Shorter marks. It is 12.25in long and it is in perfect condition. : £40-60 (Ceramics - Shorter & Son)

630 A large red 1940s matt glazed vase. (12.5in) - This is a ribbed tapering baluster pot with applied leaf moulded handles to shoulders. It is in perfect condition and impressed with Shorter marks and number 648 as well as printed Shorter marks. It is decorated with a blood red glaze with spattered white surface finish on top. : £30-40 (Ceramics - Shorter & Son)

793 An eau-de-nil coloured elephant and basket vase; and a bowl moulded in relief with budgerigars. (2) - The elephant vase is glazed in matt green and is 7.5in across. It is modelled as a baby elephant seated with its trunk entwined around a barrel, with fluted sides. It is overall crazed and has Shorter England marks as well as printed marks. The body of the elephant on top of the matt green glaze has a silver spattered colour. The fruit bowl is decorated in pale polychrome colours with green leaves and pink flowers to relief moulded body. The two budgerigars have mottled blue, pink and mauve decoration. The interior of the bowl is a bit grubby. The bowl is overall crazed and has Shorter 309 impressed marks as well as Shorter printed marks. There are two small hairlines to the rim. : £40-60 (Ceramics - Shorter & Son)

894 A large relief moulded Maiolica style jug; and a tall matt glazed blossom jug. (2) - The large crabstock style jug is modelled as a tree trunk with crabstock handle embossed in relief with ivy style foliage with pink flowers on a purple ground. It has a green glazed interior and is a bit grubby but otherwise perfect, apart from overall crazing. There is one small glaze frick to the rim. It has printed Shorter & Sons marks with painted numbers/monograms. It is 7.5in high. The tall matt glazed jug is 10.25in high and has fluted neck and looped applied handle. The body of the pot is moulded in relief with blossom foliage decorated with pastel polychrome colours on a matt ground. It is overall crazed and has printed Shorter marks with impressed number 376. : £60-80 (Ceramics - Shorter & Son)

13 A boxed Spode octagonal floral cabinet plate. (9.75in) - A boxed Spode octagonal cabinet plate decorated with polychrome flowers and butterflies, the central panel framed by gilded borders and ribbed rims - painted monogram, printed marks. (9.75in) : £80-120 (Ceramics - Spode)

991 A boxed Spode floral cabinet plate. (9.25in) - A boxed hand painted Spode scalloped cabinet plate decorated with English roses by K Pickin, the central panel framed by gilt scrolled borders with raised bead enamelling - signed. (9.25in) : £100-150 (Ceramics - Spode)