Our 1st May General Sale catalogue is now live. The sale features 340 lots with everything from 17th century, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian and modern furniture; to ceramics, clocks, mirrors, oil paintings and watercolours, costume jewellery and watches, walking sticks, collectables, sporting memorabilia and so much more. There's bound to be something to suit all tastes…
The upcoming 22nd of May Fine Art and Collectors Sale has an unusual theme running through most of the categories the sale. We've being noticing an unusual number of animals across hundreds of lots, and in this sale we have everything from silver owl topped spoons, pigeons and Canada Geese to panthers, dancing pigs, and…
A firm favourite in the sale room, our jewellery section offers that something special, and something for all tastes and budgets. From esteemed brand names like Tiffany and Rolex to classic jewellery you could see ladies from the Victorian, Elizabethan and other eras wearing to formal dinners. It's always exciting to see what catches the…
The Royal Worcester porcelain factory is the oldest, continuously operating, English porcelain factory still in production today. Their impeccable craftsmanship and tailored design produces fine bone china collections of iconic British luxury tableware. The creation of beautiful porcelain items had being ongoing in Asia for centuries before and through trade the British public began to…
Donald McIntyre was born in Leeds in 1923 but spent his childhood in northwest Scotland in the small town of Garelochhead. The surrounding dramatic landscape and a local group of artists that he encountered influenced him throughout his career, guiding him in developing a palette and painterly approach similar to that of the Scottish colourist…
An icon of French glass making, Lalique is inextricably linked to the Art Nouveau era with its organic sensibilities and Art Deco’s stylised geometric elements. René Lalique: hair ornament and brooch - Enamel, glass, and topaz hair ornament and brooch by René Lalique, 1900; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The creator, René Lalique,…
The History of Chinese ceramics shows a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and this pottery is one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. There are two primary categories of Chinese ceramics, low-temperature-fired pottery or táo (陶, about 950–1200 ℃) and high-temperature-fired porcelain or cí (瓷, about 1250–1400 ℃). Chinese ceramics…
It was during Henry VII’s reign that the very first gold Sovereign was created on 28th October 1489. Though this wasn’t the first gold coin to be minted in Britain, as they had been in circulation for hundreds of years, it was the most valuable and largest of its time. Sold for £320 at Anthemion…
Established in 1965, the ceramic Groggs began with the potter John Hughes in his humble garden shed. From this makeshift studio came an army of weird and wonderful ceramic creations – mythical creatures from Welsh legend, small animal caricatures and ashtrays, along with the now unmistakable popular clay rugby figures which would become the template…
The treasures that are Nantgarw and Swansea porcelain are renowned throughout the world of ceramic collectors for its’ beauty and its’ rarity. Founded in Swansea in 1764, the Cambrian Pottery found success by imitating the high-quality pottery made fashionable by Josiah Wedgwood in Staffordshire. This Welsh Nantgarw porcelain production started in the 19th Century in…
