2nd Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
Charles Vyse (1882-1971): "Market-day Boulogne - Vegetables" A Chelsea Pottery Figure, introduced in 1930, modelled as a seated female, wearing an orange and white headscarf, pattern dress and white apron, holding a cauliflower, with two baskets of vegetables, raised on a plinth, incised C.VYSE CHELSEA, labelled F.A.S (Fine Art Society) Boulogne Market, Vegetables C.Vyse 8,
24cm high on an ebonised base
Sold for £950
Estimated at £600 - £800
Crazed. Tiny nicks to the vegetables. Dirty and dusty.
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.
Viewing
Thursday 29th February - Friday 1st March 10am-4pm, and the morning of the sale from 8am
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