American Furniture & Decorative Arts

343. 
     

     Historic Blue Transfer-decorated Staffordshire Pottery Saucer and
     Plate, Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, England, 1819-46, a saucer
     and small plate both depicting Commodore MacDonnough’s Victory,
     with floral pattern border, impressed maker’s mark on bottom, (minor
     imperfections), saucer ht. 1 1/8, dia. 5 3/4, 6 1/2 in.
     $400-800

     
     


344. 
     

     Six Blue Transfer-decorated Staffordshire Pottery Cup Plates,
     England, early 19th century, two depicting Castle Garden, New York,
     by Enoch Wood & Sons, one with a shell border, one depicting the
     “Landing of LaFayette at Castle Garden,” one with a “Winter View at
     Pittsfield, Mass.,” and one depicting figures in a cottage playing cards,
     all by Clews, one showing a couple in a landscape strolling before a
     manor, (imperfections), dia. 4 1/8-4 5/8 in.
     $400-600

     
     


345. 
     

     Blue Transfer-decorated Staffordshire Pottery Plate Depicting the
     Ship Cadmus, Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, England, early 19th
     century, with floral border, (minor wear), dia. 9 1/4 in.

     
     

Literature: See American Historical Views on Staffordshire China, by
Ellouise Baker Larsen, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1939, p.

236. 
     

     Larson notes that this view “bears closer resemblance to the real
     Cadmus as painted by Anton Roux than any other of Wood’s views.”
     $300-500

     
     


237. 
     

     Scenic Blue Transfer-decorated Staffordshire Platter and
     Reticulated Footed Bowl, England, early 19th century, oblong platter
     made by Clews depicting gentlemen fishing from the shore on a river
     with fortress in the background; an oblong bowl with reticulated rim,
     foliate handles and feet, the interior depicting a gentleman and cows
     beside a small waterfall with buildings in the background, floral border
     decorated exterior, (crack to bowl), platter 11 3/4 x 15 1/4; bowl ht. 4,
     wd. 7, lg. 11 1/2 in.
     $200-300

     
     

347.

Two Blue and White Blue Willow Pattern Staffordshire Pottery

Platters, early 19th century, oblong pearlware platters, 15 x 19, 14 1/4

x 18 1/4 in.

$200-400

348.

Blue Transfer-decorated Staffordshire Pottery Plate, Enoch Wood

& Sons, Burslem, England, 1819-46, depicting Moulin sur la Marne a

Charenton, titled on the reverse, showing men on the bank of a river

before a bridge and mill; impressed “Wood” on base, dia. 9 1/8 in.

Note: The view, while not American, is notable in that for many years

collectors of transferware erroneously associated it with being on the

estate of the Marquise De Lafayette.

$200-250

349.

Pair of Blue and White Staffordshire Blue Willow Pattern Platters,

England, early 19th century, oblong pearlware platters, (minor chip on

one), 17 1/2 x 14 in.

$200-400

350.

Flow Blue Decorated “States” Plate, England, early 19th century

decorated with a rayed center with ribbon banner inscribed “DECUS

ET TUTAMEN AB ILLO” (a glory and the defense of it), bordered with a

chain with fifteen printed states names, (wear), dia. 8 3/4 in.

$300-500

350A.

Four Blue Transfer-decorated Staffordshire Pottery Dinner Plates,

England, early 19th century, a Clews Coronation pattern plate with a

still life of fruit, vase of flowers, and a bird, with grapevine border; one

with “PINE ORCHARD HOUSE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS” design by

Enoch Wood & Sons; a plate depicting “Commodore John Paul Jones

Capturing the Serapis...,” by Rowland and Marsellus Company; and a

flow blue plate in the Shanghai pattern by W.H. Grindley & Co., each

with maker’s backstamp, (imperfections), dia. 10 in.

$200-250

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