15th Jun, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
20th Century Design
151
An Arts and Crafts Silver Mounted Ruskin Pottery Pedestal Bowl, the silver mounts by A.E. Jones, Birmingham 1929, the high-fired duck egg blue Ruskin Pottery bowl with green speckling, impressed RUSKIN ENGLAND,
16cm diameter
This lot is after the original celadon and silver mounted bowl which was the Property of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (c. 1450 – 1532). The Longquan celadon bowl was set with English mounts, the bowl dating to c. 1500, the silver mounts 1500 – 1530. It is one of the earliest surviving medieval pieces of its type brought to England soon after its manufacture. William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (d.1532) presented the bowl to New College, Oxford, of which he was then Warden.
Sold for £2,200
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Water damage to the inside. Wear to he planishing and top hallmark. Wear from cleaning and polishing. See extra images.
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Auction: 20th Century Design, 15th Jun, 2024
On offer in the June 20th Century Design Sale will be the Michael Claxton Collection, an extraordinary collection of over 350 pieces of British pottery put together between 1974 and 2024, the majority of which were purchased directly from the potters. Potters represented in the collection include David Leach, Richard Batterham, David Roberts, Philip Marston, and Jim Malone.
The sale will also include a good private collection of furniture by Stanley Webb Davies, a fine large Lancastrian Lustre Vase by Gordon Forsyth for Pilkington's Tile & Pottery Co, and a good range of Mouseman and the Yorkshire Critters furniture and furnishings.
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