An excellent Art Deco patinated bronze dancing figurine standing on a green veined polished marble base. Signed in the cast M Le Verrier.
Max le Verrier (1891-1973) A French sculptor best known for his elegant figurines and lamps. Whether depicting dancers or panthers, Max depicted his pieces in the Art Deco Style. He studied Art in Geneva before serving as a French pilot in WW1 and was shot down and imprisoned as a POW by the Germans. He opened his own studio in Paris in 1918 and was at his most prolific during the 1920s and 30s. He fled the occupation in WW2 returning in 1944 to Paris where he lived and worked until his death in 1973.
Size: 15(w) x 19.7(h)cm. marble base 9 (w) x 9(d)cm
A wonderful 8 3’4″ Art Nouveau Cylinder Vase from the Barnstaple, North Devon pottery CH Brannam. In a deep blue background glaze with white / black stylised flower forms. Factory marked to the base.
Excellent overall condition with just a small glaze chip on the top rim as shown in the image montage.
Provenance: The David Coachworth and Peter Myers Collection, Woolley & Wallis 2021.
A superb studio handblown Paradiso 6″ Sphere Glass Vase by the godfather of British art glass blowing, Peter Layton. Exquisitely drawn glass in hues of purple blue, green, pink, red and clear. Signed and dated to the base.
Provenance: The Kate & Jon Catleugh Collection, Woolley & Wallis 2021.
Kate (1931-2021) and Jon (1920-2009) were notable collectors at the heart of the British arts and crafts and contemporary craft scene from when they met in the 1960s until their respective deaths. Jon had a particular passion and interest in the arts and crafts movement becoming an acknowledged expert in William De Morgan. Kates personal tastes were more wide ranging and contemporary, but always of the highest quality of artisan craftsmanship whether the material be wood, glass, pottery or metal.
Peter Layton (1937 -) Born in Prague, but forced to flee as war broke out in Europe, his family settled in Bradford where he grew up. He originally studied Ceramics but a teaching post at the University of Iowa in 1965 was to change his life and it’s here that he developed his passion for handblown studio glass art. On returning to the UK in 1968 he established a small studio in the Highlands of Scotland where he developed his skills and his reputation as one of the founders of British Studio Glass Art. In 1976 London called and he established the London Glassblowing Studio he still owns today, where he also nurtures the talents of up and coming glass artists. Courted ever since by major art Institutions, commercial and private buyers he is considered to be one of the finest glass blowing artists in the world, his work held in various prestigious museums in the UK, Europe and America
An excellent art nouveau plate by Frederick Braddon for the C H Brannam pottery in Devon. 10 3/4″ diameter, slip decorated with three radiating flowers in blue, green and brown on a green background. Fully signed and dated to the rear.
Excellent condition to the upper surface and the base, just a tiny chip evident to the underside of the rim, as photographed in the image montage below.
Size: 27.5(dia) x 2.5(h) cm
£ 150, previously £ 225 (price reduction Oct 2024)
An excellent early Pilkington’s Lancastrian Lustre Vase by Charles Cundall. 10″ tall of shouldered form, painted with a frieze of fruiting grape vines in a gold and ruby lustre. Impressed factory marks, painted artist cipher and date code.
Excellent condition with no known faults or professional repairs.
Established by the Pilkington family in 1892 adjacent to the canal at Clifford Junction, Manchester. Initially known for its tile output the business expanded rapidly under the management of William Burton, formerly a chemist at J. Wedgewood’s. An ardent follower of the Arts & Crafts principles he recruited a formidable team of the leading designers, potters and artists around him. Experimentation with complex glazes led to the introduction in 1906 of what has become their most famous and desirable range, the high end Lancastrian Lustre Ware, named after the county of Lancashire, production of which continued until 1938. The company was granted a Royal warrant by King George V in 1913 and their wares were hence known as Pilkington’s Royal Lancastrian pottery.
Today it’s a number of their skilled artists who developed an international reputation whose work is most highly prized. Most notable amongst them are Gordon Forsyth, Richard Joyce, William S Mycock, Charles Cundall and Gladys Rodgers, each marking their work with their own distinctive initials.
A superb example of a Stonware Square Dish by John Maltby, one of the UK’s best potters. features a sloped raised rim in tenmoku, the inner dish painted in resist to the well with John’s traditional cross pattern motif in iron red, blue and oatmeal colour glazes. Painted Maltby signature to the rear.
Provenance: The Kate & Jon Catleugh Collection, Woolley & Wallis 2021. Kate (1931-2021) and Jon (1920-2009) were notable collectors at the heart of the British arts and crafts and contemporary craft scene from when they met in the 1960s until their respective deaths. Jon had a particular passion and interest in the arts and crafts movement becoming an acknowledged expert in William De Morgan. Kates personal tastes were more wide ranging and contemporary, but always of the highest quality of artisan craftsmanship whether the material be wood, glass, pottery or metal.
John Maltby (1936-2020) a distinguished UK studio potter and sculptor. He studied at Leicester College of Art and Goldsmith’s College, London. After a period of teaching art he visited Bernard Leach and on his advice joined Bernard’s son David in 1962 as his apprentice for two years. He set up his own pottery in 1964 at Stoneshill near Crediton. His work is much sought after and is exhibited worldwide.
A William Moorcroft 2 3/4″ tall Pomegranate Vase in dark blue background glaze. Excellent condition with no apparent faults or repairs and marked in the usual form to the base.
A superb example of the large Newlyn, Cornwall made Troika Double Bass Vase of typical moulded and decorated rough textured form with geometric shapes in shades of green, blue and shades of brown. Signed to the base with the artist mark for Louise Jenks.
Rare to market solid glazed oak Corner Display/ Storage Cabinet from the ex Acorn Industries (Acornman) trained craftsman Andrew ‘ Butterflyman’ Conning who established his own workshop in 1983.
Constructed in two sections which slot together, the upper section is glazed with two fixed wooden shelves and locking door. The lower section is a storage cupboard with twin field panel doors with brass fittings, again with two inner wooden shelves. Andrew’s beautiful butterfly signature is carved in relied to the upper section.
Superb condition, wonderful medium colour.
Great value for a Yorkshire Crittters Oak craftsman’s piece.
A lovely 4’1″ handmade solid ash Sideboard by the ‘Yorkshire Critters’ craftsman and former ‘Eagleman’ Albert Jeffray employee, Graham ‘Swanman’ Duncalf, of Bagby near Thirsk. Twin drawers above a large twin doored cupboard with internal shelf below with fielded panels all over. Wooden knob handles, plinth style base, carved swan signature to the front lower right.
Finished in a lighter golden colour, excellent original condition and great value for a ‘Yorkshire Critters’ piece.
An excellent Textured Glass Cylindrical Bark Vase, pattern number 9690 in the rare indigo colour, designed by Geoffrey Baxter for the renowned British glass manufacturer Whitefriars.
A wonderful 6 3/4″ Textured Glass Nail Head Vase, pattern number 9683 in the rare cinnamon colour, designed by Geoffrey Baxter for the renowned British glass manufacturer Whitefriars.
