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Collectors Get Cracking on 350-Lots of Ceramics...

19th January 2020

Lawrences’ auctions of Decorative Arts and Ceramics will often comprise lots from all around the world spanning many centuries. The Winter auction commenced with Decorative Arts. Highlights included £2750 for a Heal’s limed oak cupboard that combined practicality with striking economy of design;£2620 for a 1929 Lalique car mascot entitled `Longchamp` of a horse’s head in frosted glass; £3620 for a large Theodore Deck vase and £1560 for a William de Morgan bowl decorated by Frederick Passenger.

From the European ceramics section, a late 18th Century Worcester basket with cover and stand from the Fountance Collection made £2370; an amusing group of sixteen Meissen- and Meissen-style `monkey band` figurines made £2000; and a set of eleven Sevres style coffee cans with twelve saucers made £3000.

From the Oriental and Asian selection, there were strong prices for two sumptuous volumes of Chinese watercolours comprising flowers, birds, fish, insects and figures that made £4250 (66 images in total); a celadon jade mounted silver box from the Harvey-Kelly collection that made £3000; a group of nine jade items, including a near white jade pendant of a boy upon a fish, that made £4000; four porcelain plaques, possibly Republic period, each 26 x 39cm, that made £4750 and a Chinese bowl, Ming style, that led the section and took £10,600.

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“Congratulations on what looked like a very successful sale ! You never mentioned that you did the auctioneering as well ... talk about doing the whole job ... see it into the building, find out what it is, decide if it’s for the Fine Art sale or the General Sale, lot it and describe it accordingly, and then sell it ... that really does count as seeing the job through from start to finish! Whilst the job isn’t over yet, it really is a case of so far, so good ... some items have sold for sums that exceeded our expectations, with one item in particular fetching a truly remarkable sum, so we’re very happy indeed... we’ve noted how accurate the guide prices are ... and how gratifying it is when the bidding goes sailing past the guide ! I found the whole week to be both gripping entertainment and pleasingly rewarding financially. Please accept my sincerest congratulations for a job well done, and we’ll look forward to the October and November Sales with bated breath ...”

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