2nd Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
20th Century Design
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A Middlesbrough Pottery Temperance Pledge Plaque, with gilt and puce frame border, inscribed OUR TEMPERANCE PLEDGE We agree that we will not use intoxicating Liquors as a beverage nor traffic in them, that we will not provide them as articles of entertainment, nor for persons in our employment, and that in all suitable ways we will discountenance their use. THOMAS COOKE, ELIZABETH COOKE, & MARY JANE COOKE, Dec 11th 1840., impressed factory mark MIDDLESBRO' POTTERY, red painted 1850,
25cm square (damaged)
1851 census the Cooke family are living at 125 Bridge Street, Middlesbrough, Thomas Cooke born around 1808 in Tunstall, Staffordshire and is listed as an Earthenware Fireman. Wife Elizabeth Cooke born in Co. Durham, Durham and daughter Mary Jane Cooke born in Hilton.
Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £150
Hairline cracks to bottom right corner of text. Damage to the right corner.
Auction: 20th Century Design, 2nd Mar, 2024
A selection of good, early pieces of Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson furniture will be coming up in the 20th Century Design Sale on 2nd March, including a circa 1929 Monk's Chair from Ampleforth Abbey, two circa 1930s Monk's Chairs from the Horlicks family, and a circa 1930s Partner's Desk. These will be joined by a strong offering of modern Mouseman. A further good example of Arts and Crafts furniture comes in the form of a very finely made Cotswold School Dressing Mirror.
Amongst the ceramics in the sale will be the Dr John C. Yule Collection of Linthorpe and Middlesbrough Pottery, a Private Collection of Dennis Chinaworks Pottery, a good example of Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian, and a Private Collection of Studio Pottery including pots by Richard Batterham.
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Thursday 29th February - Friday 1st March 10am-4pm, and the morning of the sale from 8am
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