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An early 19th century Swansea Cambrian pottery pearlware mug , with  cabbage leaf moulding and decorated with a blue transfer print of the Italian pattern . 11cm highRepaired chip on top edge and a chip to the base .

A pair of pottery meat plates attributed to the Cambrian Pottery: of oval form and transfer printed in blue in the Mandarin pattern, 42cm long, together with another either Cambrian or Spode oval meat plate, printed in blue in the Boy on a Buffalo pattern, 52cm long, [3]

Numerous collection of Swansea, South Wales tokens including: beehive 1832 2 off, James Cowley 3 pence bowling saloon John Voss Draper halfpenny 1796, The Cambrian Pottery by L W Dillwyn, penny 1813 Victoria token, John Jones Drapery 28 Castle St (known as Swansea farthing 1840- 1866) bed and breakfast (industrial copper company) token 1811 for use in Bristol, Swansea and London, penny token 1811 for use in Bristol and South Wales (industrial) South Wales farthing (pro bono publico) 1793 - Condition: fine - VF

A pearlware cup and saucer, circa 1800, rare impressed mark 'Dillwyn Cambrian Pottery Swansea', together with a pearlware sponge decorated salt, circa 1840 and two gaudy Welsh jugs, probably Swansea, the largest 19.5cm. (4).Condition report: The saucer glued and rivetted, one jug with two small chips to rim of the foot both with general wear.

A Cambrian pottery cup and saucer, over painted with a vase type pattern together with other pottery cups and saucers, some Welsh examples.

TWO JUGS INCLUDING RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN EARTHENWARE POLITICAL SATIRE JUG of bulbous form with loop handle, in canary-yellow ground with red enamel transfer and inscriptions ridiculing Napoleon, around the collar 'Bonaparte dethron'd April 1st 1814', the body with various characters with bubble speech including Napoleon Bonaparte exclaiming 'O cursed ambition what hast thou brought me to now', the Devil appearing from a fire beckoning Napoleon, 'Hithy to me, come come along thou hast been a most dutiful child' and two figures talking with one asking 'Where is he going to?' the other replying with deliberate illegible script, circa 1815, 13.5cms high; together with a blue and white transfer Swansea jug 'Poultney Bridge' (2) Provenance: private collection Swansea, illustrated page 106 Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw' (1942), polychrome version British Museum, please see 'Swansea Commemorative Pottery' by Helen Hallesey for a thorough explanation of the social history behind the decoration Comments: repaired, staples

ASSORTED 19TH CENTURY POTTERY including RARE WILLIAM IV DATED POTTERY JUG, dated 1835 and with initials 'WEJ', painted with wild flowers and wild strawberries in bright pink, yellow, green and blue enamels with black highlights, 21cms high, CAMBRIAN POTTERY SUPPER DISH & MATCHED COVER, former with fruiting vine border, latter with named botanical spray of 'long-spiked Indigo', 34cm long, and a Cambrian jug, 11cms high, and Staffordshire lustre fluted jug, 13cms high, two blue painted dinner plates 24cms diameter and ASSORTED ANTIQUE CERAMICS including pair of German Llanelly Hospital souvenir plates, German Welsh costumes / scenery plate, set of six bird-printed coffee cups, sundry saucers, jug ETC. Comments: William IV jug - base stained, crazing, spout rim worn, spout cracked. Cambrian dish and cover - Supper dish chipped and stained, jug enamels both worn, Cambrian jug restored spout, one plate chipped

A large 19th century pearlware jug, printed in blue with a scene of shepherdess and sheep, piping shepherd, country house, and various floral printed borders, height 22.5cm, together with a smaller example, height 14cm, attributed to Cambrian Pottery Swansea. Note: See illustration of shards of pattern in 'Minerva - The Journal of Swansea History' Vol XII on page 39. A copy of this publication is included with the lot (3).

A group of ceramic reference books. To include: Swansea's Cambrian Pottery (Tanner) I & II, Hollins Blue and White (Holdaway), Welsh Ceramics in Context I & II (Gray), Glamorgan Pottery (Hallesy) (6) Condition: some wear from use.  Provenance: Ex-Kentish Collection. 

A very rare creamware 'Welshman' Toby jug, circa 1790The portly gentleman seated with a goat beneath his legs, his head turned to one side, holding a foaming jug with both hands, wearing a mottled green coat, light blue waistcoat and brown breeches, shoes and hat, 26.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoWhile the idea of a Welshman mounted on a goat may just be an attempt at bawdy humour, in his catalogue in 1922, Capt. Price first suggested that this curious jug was meant to represent Sir Watkin William Wynn, celebrated Master of the Cycle Club and one of the most notorious Welshmen of his day. Sadly, there is no evidence to support this claim.Welsh regiments have had a goat as their mascot since the 18th century. The tradition goes back to the American War of Independence in 1775 when a wild goat wandered onto the battlefield at Bunker Hill and ended up leading the Welsh regimental Colours off the battlefield. A decade or so later the goat mascot supports this 'Welsh Country Gentleman', to give this jug its alternative name.Only two other creamware examples are recorded, one in the Bute Collection, Christie's 8 July 1996, lot 53, and the other exhibited by Jonathan Horne in 2003. Four pearlware examples are known. One was in the Bute Collection, lot 52 and one in the Price Collection, Astbury, Whieldon and Ralph Wood Figures and Toby Jugs (1922), pl.XLVI, fig.34. An example in the Christopher Bibby Collection was sold by Christie's 6 October 1970, lot 9 and another from the Sir Harold Mackintosh Collection was sold by Bonhams on 5 June 2019, lot 113. Most early authors have stated that this is not a product of the Wood family and it is quite different to the Midshipman family by Jacob Marsh. Among other possible creamware and pearlware makers it is worth considering the Cambrian Pottery in Swansea. Some underglaze blue sprigs noted on Swansea pearlware have similarities to those used on the Welshman jugs.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three Welsh pottery jugs to include; Llanelly pottery 'Milan' pattern octagonal jug impressed 'South Wales Pottery', 30cm high approx, a Swansea 'Cymro' stone china sprigged pouch shaped jug, 18cm high approx and a Cambrian pearlware oriental transfer printed blue ground jug, 13cm high approx. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT) Milan jug very dirty and crazed but no obvious damage. Sprig jug has appearing restoration to the spout, very dirty. Pearlware jug has firing cracks generally and star crack to base.

Swansea Cambrian Pottery 'Mignonette' design blue and white transfer printed sucrier or bowl, 16cm diameter approx. Together with an Ynysmeudwy Pottery blue and white transfer printed razor or toothbrush box and cover with floral decoration. 19.5cm long approx. (2)(B.P. 21% + VAT) Bowl is cracked, box has chip to finial. Otherwise no obvious damage.

TWO POTTERY MUGS & ONE BEAKER FROM SIR LESLIE JOSEPH'S COLLECTION comprising (1) large Cambrian 'Boy with Whip' transfer mug, 14cms high, (2) Sunderland pink lustre 'Crimea' frog surprise mug, 13cms high, and a Royal Doulton beaker designed by Sir Frank Brangwyn Provenance: The M Daley Collection, daughter of Sir Leslie Joseph, Sir Leslie Joseph Collection label to base Comments: chip to foot of largest

LATE 18TH CENTURY CAMBRIAN POTTERY BOWL decorated in underglazed blue swags and floral tiles to the border interior, centre with inscription 'Come Fill The Bowl', circa 1788, 25cms diam Provenance: The M Daley Collection, daughter of Sir Leslie Joseph, Sir Leslie Joseph Collection label to base Comments: broken in three main pieces, crack circling the body, restoration feasible in our opinion, rare early Welsh pottery

A RARE PAIR OF SWANSEA EARTHENWARE FIGURES OF ANTHONY & CLEOPATRA circa 1791, attributed to G. Bentley of Cambrian Pottery, both modelled in recumbent pose, Anthony in armour, Cleopatra in flowing robes, the asp coiled around her arm, on integral naturalistic bases, painted in pink, green, blue, yellow, Indian red, brown, black and silver -grey enamels, 31cms Auctioneer's Note: similar models in yellow-ware and black basalt pairs are recorded and have appeared on the auction market including at Sotheby's Leslie Joseph Collection in 1992, also a black basalt pair at Bonhams in 2003, reference to the existence of these enamelled variations are on Page 54 a (plate XIV/c)and 52 of Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw' Provenance: The collection of Gwyneth and Ieuan Evans, Powys Comments: old repairs eg. to Cleopatra's shoulder / wrist and Anthony's arm, other minor damage, losses, please examine, exceptionally rare and early documentary Welsh pottery

A RARE PAIR OF SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PUTTI in the form of swag wearing flower pickers and their baskets and with single flower in other hand to outstretched arm, standing on square bases, aside floral bocage, enamel decorated over the glaze, circa 1790, 11.5cms high Provenance: private collection London Comments: restoration to both outstretched arms, other damage commensurate with age

A RARE LLANELLY COW CREAMER in the familiar Swansea style with tail as loop handle and standing over a grassy platform base, decorated in iron red and purple lustre, 15.75cms long Provenance: west Wales estate Auctioneer's Note: believed to be Llanelly and produced from the mould of a Swansea cow-creamer resulting in a slightly smaller version to Swansea Cambrian / Glamorgan (please see Page 107 of Llanelly Pottery by Robert Pugh and Gareth Hughes) Comments: restored cover and horns

CAMBRIAN POTTERY 'COWS CROSSING STREAM' PLATTER, TUREEN & LADLE in blue and white transfer, the large twin-handled tureen 38cms wide and approx 30cms high, together with a 'Ladies of Llangollen' meat platter Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms

A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY WELSH TEA CUPS & SAUCERS including Llanelly, Ynysmeudwy, Glamorgan Pottery and Cambrian, (approximately 16 in total)Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms

EIGHT VARIOUS WELSH POTTERY MUGS including Ynysmeudwy 'Benthall' stoneware mug with label to the underside, Swansea Cambrian etc (8) Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms

AN UNUSAL PAINTED SWANSEA WICKER BORDER PLATE circa 1820-1830 in typical lime green and purple border, the interior unusually painted with a full scene of shepherd and dog in a landscape with cottage, attributed to Swansea Cambrian, 20cms diam Provenance: from the collection of Gwyneth and the late Ieuan Evans Condition Report: believed professionally restored to a high standard Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms The rim of the plate has been restored from the 3 o’clock to 4 o’clock mark. There are small enamel chips and paint loss to the edge of the image.

BLUE & WHITE POTTERY PUNCH POT & COVER POSSIBLY UNRECORDED SWANSEA CAMBRIAN circa 1800, of bellied form with straight tapering spout, curvaceous neck, ear-shaped loop handle, Chinoiserie transfer decorated with two fishermen and exotic buildings, the rim of the neck detailed in brown, typical of Swansea in in particular Thomas Pardoe, concentric circles to base, 22cms high, 34cms from spout to handle Provenance: from the collection of Gwyneth and the late Ieuan Evans Auctioneer's Note: possibly unrecorded, attributed to Swansea / Pardoe with the characteristic 'chocolate rim' Condition Report: large chip to back of neck, repaired chip and flake to spout, firing cracks including star to base Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms

COLLECTION OF NINETEEN VARIOUS SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PLATES (19) Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms

COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE WELSH POTTERY JUGS, including a trio of Glamorgan pottery, graduated trio of 'Birds' transfer decorated examples, also noted early Cambrian Chinese-style jug, Ynysmeudwy ETC (23) Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms

VARIOUS FLOW-BLUE BLUE DECORATED WELSH POTTERY including Ynysmeudwy 'Rio' coffee-pot, Cambrian 'Lazuli' patterned toilet-jug and matching sponge-bowl and cover, three plates etc (10)Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms Regarding the tall jugs, the tall white one has a chip along the spout, no other issues. The shorter darker jug looks good, no problems. The large teapot has a chip on the spout, the finial has been restored, there are hairline cracks and restoration to the base. There is also a star-shaped hairline crack on the inside base. The small cream jug looks good, no issues. The sponge bowl looks good, slight crazing on the inside at the centre. The large blue plate has a chip around the rim and lots of surface scratches. The small blue plate has restoration to the rim and again lots of surface scratches. The large green plate has surface scratches to the centre otherwise good. Finally, the pair of blue plates, both have surface scratches, little edge wear, kiln dust blisters but no chips or cracks.

ASSORTED WELSH BLUE & WHITE TRANSFER POTTERY including Ynysmeudwy and Swansea Cambrian, bowls ETC (6)Comments: please view in person to examine condition on all pottery lots, viewing by appointment at Cardiff salerooms

Young, William Weston. British Birds, An album of 41 fine watercolour drawings of birds, each 163mm x 257mm approx.., mounted in frame, most captioned in pencil on mount, lacking free-endpapers, nineteenth century calf, the upper cover blocked in gilt 'William Weston Young. British Birds. Neath 1804', expertly rebacked by Bayntun of Bath, c.1940, 4to A RARE SERIES OF ORNITHOLOGICAL WATERCOLOURS FROM AN ARTIST WHO WORKED AT THE CAMBRIAN POTTERY. William Weston Young was born in Bristol on 20 April 1776 into a devout Quaker family, the third son of Edward Young, a Bristolian merchant and Sarah (Sally) Young (née Weston). William led a diverse and entreprenuerial life, but an early bankruptcy forced him into paid employment. On 23 January 1803, Young and his wife Elizabeth moved to new lodgings in Swansea, Glamorganshire. Here he gained employment under fellow Quaker, Lewis Weston Dillwyn, as a 'draftsman' at Dillwyn's Cambrian Pottery, where he remained until August 1806 on a salary of £75 per annum. The watercolours in the present lot would seem to date from this period. Dillwyn and Young, both in their mid-twenties, struck up a close friendship due to their common interest in natural history. Many of Young's painted wares feature accurately depicted flora and fauna as well as the taxonomic names of the illustrated species. Collections of this pottery can be seen at the V&A Museum, South Kensington, The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. In 1814, and now recovered from his debts, Young became the major investor in the Nantgarw Pottery established by William Billingsley and Samuel Walker. When the pair left the struggling business in 1820, Young assumed full control, and managed the debts through careful marketing and sale of remaining stock. Young's experience of firing ceramics, together with his familiarity with the region as a local surveyor and his amateur interests in geology enabled him to conceive of a heat-proof, blast-furnace brick, using silica found in large deposits at the head of the Neath Valley. His profit share from the Dinas Firebrick Works was ultimately a very modest pension, and William Weston Young died in relative poverty in Lower Mitton, Kidderminster on 5 March 1847. PROVENANCE: Loosely inserted are three ALS and a carbon typed copy from the bookseller J. Kyrle Fletcher to the purchaser F. E. Andrews, relating the discovery of the album. The first, dated 13 February 1935 notes, 'Mr William Weston Young made the drawing for Mr Dillwyn's valuable work on British Confervae and a series of drawings of British Birds now in the possession of Mr Yarrell'. The correspondence relates that the bookseller traced the descendants of Yarrell and acquired the volume, which was sold to Andrews in 1941, thence offered here by descent.

Cambrian Pottery Swansea and South Wales copper penny token 1813 together with an Associated Irish Miners Arms copper halfpenny 1789

APRIL 1814 NAPOLEON DE-THRONED A Cambrian pearlware jug, c.1814, printed in black and hand-coloured with a continuous cartoon of characters including Bonaparte each with speech bubbles, signed in the print 'Engraved J. Brindley', the neck inscribed 'Bonaparte Dethron'd April 1st 1814', restoration to the rim, 13.3cm. The Allies entered Paris on 31st March 1814 and whilst Napoleon did not abdicate until 6th April, clearly potters could not resist the temptation of declaring April Fool's Day that of his downfall. Cf. David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, pls. 712a, b and c.

1814 PEACE OF PARIS A Cambrian (Dillwyn & Co) yellow ground pearlware jug, c.1814, printed in red with a continuous cartoon of characters and speech bubbles, the neck inscribed 'Peace' and 'Plenty', indistinctly signed in the print, restoration to the spout and a body crack, 14cm. Cf. David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, pls. 716a and b and 717.

A Cambrian Pottery sepia printed Shell pattern creamware dish or stand, Swansea, c1802, 25.5cm l, a creamware plate printed in black with a frigate and emblems, c1790 and three blue printed earthenware botanical dishes (5) Swansea dish with three small filled rim chips but acceptable. Plate - small chip on rim at 2 o'clock. Three blue and white dishes a/f

SWANSEA PEARLWARE COMPORT STAND FROM THE 'NELSON SERVICE' BY THOMAS PARDOE circa 1802, marquise shaped, border decorated in deep blue reserve with gilded florettes and with repeated gilt decoration, the interior with centred iron red and gilt Garter Star, impressed SWANSEA to base, 28cms Provenance: from the collection of Gwyneth and the late Ieuan Evans Auctioneer's Note: Nelson was awarded the freedom of Swansea after a visit in 1802 when he visited the Cambrian Pottery factory and where he is believed to have met Thomas Pardoe. Nelson later wrote to Haynes, Dillwyn and Co. 'Gentlemen, I should be very happy to receive your pottery...'. (Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw'). This item is from the service known as 'The Nelson Service' but confusingly it bears the Garter Star when Nelson was not a Knight of the Garter. This motif is associated with the work of Thomas Pardoe. Condition Report: restored

A RARE SWANSEA PEARLWARE CASSOLETTE elevated by three tall tapering legs with moulding and lion-head terminals, over a triangular base, finely painted below the rim with a band of black monochrome flowers by Thomas Pardoe, the remainder in slate-blue, circa 1806-1807, 24.9cm high Provenance: private collection London, illustrated by Jonathan Gray 'The Cambrian Company' (Fig 6.84) and similar model in Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw' (XVII) Auctioneer's Note: The blue ground to the base was intended to be lustre decorated, the cover would have been reversible to double as a cover and candle-holder. Likely to have been been sold in The Cambrian Warehouse or at the dispersal sales conducted by Christie's in 1808 Condition Report: hairlines to rim but overall excellent considering age

19th Century Tokens, CARMARTHENSHIRE, Carmarthen, William Griffiths & Co, Pennies, 1812 (2), 20.68g/12h (W 1301), 20.31g/12h (W 1302), William Moss, Penny, 1813, 19.38g/12h (W 1307, overstruck on a Bristol issue of Samuel Guppy); GLAMORGANSHIRE, Neath, Hopkin Rees and David Morgan, Sixpence, 1.80g/12h (D 16); Swansea, L.W. Dillwyn, Timothy and John Bevington [Cambrian Pottery], Penny, 1813, 19.37g/12h (W 1337a), Swansea [and Morriston], Nantrhyd-y-vilas Air Furnace Co, Penny, 1813, 17.88g/6h (W 1333); MONMOUTHSHIRE, Tredegar, Tredegar Iron Co, Penny, 1812, 26.71g/12h (W 1340); together with other Pennies (5), Halfpence (4), of Flint, Llanidloes, Landore and Swansea [16]. W 1301, 1302 and 1340 very fine, others described fine, remainder in varied state £120-£150

GROUP OF 19TH CENTURY SWANSEA POTTERY IN THE WEDGWOOD STYLE comprising Glamorgan green glazed leaf-form moulded dish, 25.5cms, Baker Bevans & Irwin green glazed moulded plate, 20.5cms diam, Cambrian pottery green glazed leaf-moulded tureen and stand, 17cms high Baker Bevans & Irwin sprigged jug, 15cms high and another sprigged jug, 19cms high, pair of creamware plates with chocolate and turquoise enamelled border, 25cms diam (8) Provenance: deceased estate, consigned via our Carmarthen office Condition Report: leaf form dish restored at tip, loop handle of tureen cover restored, please enquire

A GROUP OF VARIOUS EARLY SWANSEA CAMBRIAN / GLAMORGAN POTTERY TEAWARE comprising matching cup, saucer and bowl in the 'Fitzhugh' pattern, 'Boy on the Buffalo' coffee-can, 'Deer in Landscape' bowl, 'Chinoiserie Palm' coffee can, painted floral coffee can and saucer, Glamorgan blue and white coffee-can (9) Provenance: deceased estate, consigned via our Carmarthen office Condition Report: no apparent problems, please enquire further

A CAMBRIAN SWANSEA POTTERY JUG OF TAPERING FORM with blue marine-life and shells transfer and inscribed 'Mrs Thomas Morgan, Roll-turner, Old Castle', 18.25cms high Provenance: deceased estate, consigned via our Carmarthen office, typed note from previous owner referring to research around Mrs Morgan, of 'Vittoria Street (now Heol Siloh)...listed in the 1881 census...died 1888 aged 55' Auctioneer's Note: a roll-turner probably refers to Mrs Morgan's occupation at the Old Castle Iron and Tin Plate Co which was located at the site of Carnwyllion Castle near Llanelly Condition Report: no problems except localised crazing and browning, good example of an interesting industrial-historic jug

A SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY TRANSFER DECORATED CHESTNUT BASKET and matching transfer plate, the basket of oval footed form with undulating border and nine graduated circular vents to each side, the twin handles of feather form and with a series of moulded feathers around the body, the interior with green transfer of bird in flight over a swan with foliage, 27cms long, plate 20cms and impressed horseshoe mark for DILLWYN & CO SWANSEA (2) Provenance: deceased estate, consigned via our Carmarthen office Condition Report: no apparent problems

FIVE CAMBRIAN POTTERY TEAPOTS WITH VARIOUS TRANSFERS including blue and white 'Women with Baskets', puce transfer 'Mignonette', pink 'Archery', black transfer with two Oriental views, transfer filled Chinoiserie (5) Provenance: deceased estate, consigned via our Carmarthen office Condition Report: restored spout (black transfer), loose knop (archery), localised crazing, possibly small chips elsewhere but not of significance, please enquire

19th Century Swansea Cambrian pottery cow creamer having pink lustre decoration standing on a naturalistic green base, unmarked. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Missing its lid or cover, some fritting to the ears and paint losses in places.

SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY COW CREAMER, iron red and pink lustre splashed decoration with black detail on green oval base, 18.5cms long Condition Report: well coloured, lacks cover, one horn old break, other truncated during manufacture (glazed over). Firing crack to rear leg and udder.

A large blue printed pearlware toast jug decorated with flowers and butterflies, circa 1820, with pierced strainer and lid, height 23cm, together with an unusual Cambrian pottery Swansea pearlware tea box and cover with dividers, printed with the Rampant Fern pattern, together with three further blue and white pearlware transfer printed jugs (5).Condition report: Toast jug has a chip to cover and staining to interior and spout.Tea box has repaired cracks and all feet are lacking.The large 'Semi-china' jug has a substantial crack.The next largest jug is generally stained and the remaining jug has a slight hairline to the strainer.

Five Cambrian pottery Swansea jugs, variously transfer printed and painted, circa 1830, the largest height 20cm.Condition report: Lot 1138All free of chips and cracks. The smallest blue jug with stained patch to foot and rubbed glaze to handle. The green and red jug with restored thumb scroll, otherwise crazing and wear commensurate with age.

EARLY 19th CENTURY, PROBABLY CAMBRIAN POTTERY, SWANSEA, SOUTH WALES, TEA BOWL AND SAUCER, transfer printed in underglaxze blue with chinoserie panels with figures, also an ODD SAUCER OF SIMILAR AGE, transfer printed in underglaze blye with Willow pattern variant, star crack to the base (3)

A late 18th century pottery bowl (possibly Swansea Cambrian), transfer decorated in the 'two Chinese fisherman' pattern, blue 'L' mark and a central incised circle to underside (star crack to base and some surface scratching and discolouration etc. commensurate with age), together with related ephemera identifying this factory and pattern etc. (bowl 21.75cm diameter)

TWO SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PLATES being a dessert plate transfer decorated with shells in sepia within ochre rim, circa 1805, 20.5cms diam and a Dillwyn & Co notched plate decorated with a pagoda in underglaze blue, 22.5cms diam Provenance: deceased estate west Wales, both illustrated in Morton Nance 'Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw (Pl. XLV - E and XI - A) Condition Report: no apparent problems, both very good examples

A RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY CALENDAR TILE of rectangular form, transfer printed for the year 1824 within a chocolate rim, two drill holes flanking date, 12.5 x 18cms Provenance: deceased estate west Wales, similar at Swansea Museum Condition Report: no apparent problems other than wear to enamel on rim

ASSORTED SWANSEA CAMBRIAN BLUE & WHITE TRANSFER POTTERY including a large Swansea Cambrian pottery 'Monopteros' platter and 'Bridge of Lucano' food-warmer, the platter of notched oval form, blue and white transfer of travellers in a landscape and colonnade beyond, the scene surrounded by exotic fruit-plants and trees, impressed 18, 48.5cms high; the food warmer / chafing dish of circular form with cavity base, spout and twin-handles, transfer with rural landscape featuring drover on bridge, 30cms diam, together with pair of Monopteros plates, a Bridge of Lucano plate, 26cms diam, pair of 'Cows Crossing a Stream' plates, three 'Castled Gatehouse' plates, and two Chinoiserie plates, all plates 25cms diam (12 items) Provenance: deceased estate west Wales Auctioneer's Note: the Monopteros transfer is after a 1705 drawing by Thomas Daniell RA (1749 - 184) titled 'Remains of an Ancient Building near Firoz Shah's Cotilla, Delhi' from the book 'Oriental Scenery; Twenty Four Views In Hindoostan'. The pattern was also used by Staffordshire potters including Rogers Condition Report: platter has a very good dark transfer impression, no apparent problems, this is a very good example of the Monopteros pattern on the larger size platter. The chafing dish has prominent rim chip, other small chips, localised crazing and browning, no notable damage to plates other than small discrete chips and browning / crazing

A SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY TRANSFER JUG IN THE SWISS VILLA PATTERN with dedication to CATHARINE PEARCE St. AGNESS 1833, of large bulbous form with ear-shaped handle, the black and grey transfer featuring figures at a lakeside Alpine villa and with flower borders and handle, 19.25cms high Provenance: deceased estate west Wales Auctioneer's Note: Catharine Pearce was born 1812, near St Agnes and the jug would have been commissioned to mark her 21st birthday Condition Report: no apparent problems other than extremely faint star-hairline to base, transfer not worn, super example of a 'named' Swansea jugLater Note: unsure of 21st birthday but certainly there is a record of Catharine Pearce in St Agnes during this period, as extracted online:from storical records and family trees - MyHeritage Catharine Pearce was born on month day 1827, at birth place, to William Pearce and Catherine Pearce (born Harper).William was born on August 14 1791, in Lansallos, Cornwall, England.Catherine was born in March 1788, in St Agnes near Truro, Cornwall, England.Catharine had 4 siblings: Elizabeth Pearce and 3 other siblings.Catharine lived in 1851, at address.She lived in 1871, at address.Catharine passed away in Before 1881, at age 53

A SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY COW CREAMER with tail as loop handle, standing on a moulded oval base, base painted as grass, cow decorated simply in red and blue circa 1830, 18cms long Provenance: deceased estate west Wales Condition Report: tail, cover and horns restored

A RARE PAIR OF SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PUTTI in the form of swag wearing flower pickers and their baskets and with single flower in other hand to outstretched arm, standing on square bases, aside floral bocage, enamel decorated over the glaze, circa 1790, one with painted mark '53', 11.5cms high Provenance: deceased estate west Wales Condition Report: restoration to one at base and basket, the second appears to be unrestored, examination by prospective purchasers recommended

TRANSFER PRINTED SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PART SERVICE IN THE LONGBRIDGE PATTERN comprising pair of shaped oval serving dishes, 27cms and six small fluted plates, 18cms diam, the transfer in the rarer brown print rather than blue, impressed SWANSEA in four items, circa 1800 Provenance: private collection, Gwent Condition Report: one dish has thumbnail rim chip on outside of body under rim, one plate star crack (stable), no other apparent damage, transfer not worn

POSSIBLY CAMBRIAN POTTERY RURAL LOVERS TRANSFER MUG of cylindrical form with ear-shaped handle, blue transfer depiction of woodchopper and milk maid with dog and cows in a landscape after the Thomas Gainsborough engraving 'The Rural Lovers', under a wide tessellated and garland border, 15.3cms high x 10.5cms diam Provenance: deceased estate west Wales, Ill. 4.27 'Welsh Ceramics in Context' (Royal Institute of South Wales, 2003), version at the County of Swansea Reserve Collection Condition Report: crazing at base only, transfer in fresh condition

A SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY JUG WITH MARINE LIFE TRANSFER of ovoid form with scroll handle, printed in red with scenes of seaweed and shells under a similarly printed collar, design after an engraving by Thomas Baxter or James Brindley, circa 1810, 17cms high Provenance: deceased estate west Wales, similar sold at Sotheby's Leslie Joseph Collection auction, 1992 (Lot 923), see also Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw' Condition Report: hairline from small chip at foot, nibbles to footSeveral chips to inside of foot ring, hairline crack to foot, spout restored.

A RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN EARTHENWARE POLITICAL SATIRE JUG of bulbous form with loop handle, in canary-yellow ground with red enamel transfer and inscriptions ridiculing Napoleon, around the collar 'Bonaparte dethron'd April 1st 1814', the body with various characters with bubble speech including Napoleon Bonaparte exclaiming 'O cursed ambition what hast thou brought me to now', the Devil appearing from a fire beckoning Napoleon, 'Hithy to me, come come along thou hast been a most dutiful child' and two figures talking with one asking 'Where is he going to?' the other replying with deliberate illegible script, circa 1815, 13.5cms high Provenance: deceased estate west Wales, illustrated page 106 Morton Nance 'The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw' (1942), polychrome version British Museum, please see 'Swansea Commemorative Pottery' by Helen Hallesey for a thorough explanation of the social history behind the decoration Condition Report: restored at spout, light tight crazing, small nick to inside of rim

A RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PEARLWARE VISUAL ILLUSION MUG of cylindrical form with ear-shaped handle, transfer printed in black with silhouettes of George III, Caroline, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, formed deceptively from the outlines of an urn supporting the crown, and from the outlines of a pair of entwined serpents, inscribed 'A New Puzzle of Portraits Striking Likenefses of the King & Queen of England and the late King & Queen of France', engraving attributed to Thomas Rothwell, circa 1795, 9.25cms Provenance: deceased estate west Wales, illustration 3.9 'Welsh Ceramics in Context II' (Royal Institute of South Wales 2005), please also see 'Swansea Commemorative Pottery' by Helen Hallesey for a thorough explanation of the social history behind this image Auctioneer's Note: The Mysterious Urn was copied from a print drawn for the Loyalists of the guillotined Louis XVI and Queen Antoinette (1783). The disguised portraits intending to deceive revolutionaries that they were supporters of the ancien regime. Condition Report: body restored

PAIR OF RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY CANDLESTICKS & PLATE circular based of columnar form, in the 'Lazuli' transfer with pattern back-stamp to one, 22.5cms high, together with Lazuli plate, 26cms diam. Provenance: deceased estate west Wales, same mould shown in Morton Nance for Etruscan ware (LXXIV), probably part of a dressing-table set Condition Report: differences in transfer colour and crispness of moulding, localised crazing and browning

19th Century Welsh Cambrian pottery 'Monopteros' pattern oval shaped meat dish, with impressed no. 14. 37cm across approx. Together with a 19th Century Welsh Ynysmeudwy pottery oval shaped meat plate with transfer printed Woodbine decoration, 40cm across approx and a 19th Century South Wales pottery 'Damask' border blue and white transfer printed meat plate, with printed and impressed marks to the base. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT) Monopteros plate has a filled chip, the Ynysmeudwy plate is discoloured overall with some crazing and the South Wales pottery dish has some discolouring.

A large collection of pottery cow creamers together with a plate rackIncluding a 'Whieldon' type example, a Yorkshire Prattware group of a cow with a male attendant, 14.5cm, and a pair of bocage groups, three Cambrian pottery creamers with lustre decoration, two with sponged decoration, one with a milkmaid at work, three with patched decoration and five others various, including three with printed blue 'Willow' pattern' (18)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A near pair of large painted Cambrian pottery creamware chargers, circa 1780, one decorated with an oriental building, the other with a floral spray. Diameter 34.5 and 33.5cm respectively.Condition report: Charger with oriental building - two areas of restoration to the rim (1 o'clock and 5 o'clock position) and a chip (9 o'clock position). Four scratches (concentrated to the upper right quadrant) and generally, crazing. Charger with floral spray - small loss to rim and generally rubbing (plate hanger use). Generally crazing.