We specialize in items with a British accent from antiques to fun typically English pieces. We love Shelley, Royal Doulton, knife rests, open salts, Dunoon mugs,victoriana, estate jewelry, teapots, teacups, ANYTHING for the tea table and anything BrillianT!
This carpet ball or carpet bowl is over 100 years old and is of original glazed hard fired clay. The design is an interesting one of white and pink or red plaid. Plaid was a favorite of Queen Victoria. The carpet ball is about 3.5 inches in diameter. It is quite heavy. The condition is very good. It has been used, and has a superficial flaw that looks to have been a manufacturing flaw. There are the usual tiny circle dents where the ball has been hit hard. Carpet balls were developed during the ...click for details
This is an antique green jasperware or jasper ware three leaf clover or club shaped dish made by Dudson of Hanley, Staffordshire, England 1900-1920 with applied white jasper angels, cherubs or putti. The pin dish or nut dish measures 4.5 inches high and wide and is in excellent, mint condition with no chips or cracks. Those little guys are so cute! Shipping in the US by USPS priority insured is $7.90.
This is a rare and absolutely fabulous antique victorian porcelain drainer dish with under bowl made by Copelands China Spode works Staffordshire England in the 1890s. The set is 2 inches high and 7.5 in diameter. It is part of a larger wash set and originally had a lid. Many of the pieces of the set didn't survive the trip home from England. Sigh...The drainer dish and under bowl has a gorgeous mottled blue ground on white with butterflies and flowers. They are all heavily trimmed in gold a ...click for details
This is a very different Chelsea or Grandmother's Ware teacup and saucer made by an unidentified pottery in the Staffordshire region of England between 1850-1870s. The victorian pattern is called Blue Sprig or Chelsea Sprig but has been overpainted and then glazed and fired with a copper luster on the sprig decoration. Very unusual. The pretty cup and saucer set is of white molded ironstone and the cup measures 2.75 inches high by 3.25 inches in diameter and the saucer is 5.5 inches in diam ...click for details
This is an antique 7 inch in diameter ironstone plate made in Staffordshire, England by one of several manufacturers between 1860-1880s in the Chelsea Grape or Grandmother's pattern with molded swags and blue grape sprigs and copper luster. The plate is in very good ++ condition with no chips or cracks. There is a bit of mineral deposits or kiln dust from the manufacturing process which is perfectly normal for the date of manufacture. A wonderful victorian survival and very collectible. Ship ...click for details
This is an antique ironstone blue on white transfer or transferware dinner plate in the Denmark pattern made by Thomas Furnival, Furnival's Ltd. Staffordshire, England 1905-1913. The pattern was actually made until 1968 but the mark dates it to the earlier period. The 10 inch in diameter ironstone plate is in very good +++ condition with no chips or cracks and only minor use marks. An older example of a popular pattern. Shipping in the US by USPS priority insured.
This is a fabulous blue transfer ware ironstone 8 inch in diameter romantic Staffordshire plate with the title Landscape made by Midwinter in Staffordshire, England 1910-1920. The plate is seen on page 314 of Petra Williams' Staffordshire Cup Plates And Early Victorian China Vol I. The plates is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks with some crazing consistent with age. Fabulous and so collectible. Shipping in the US by USPS priority insured in $11.40.
This is mottoware or motto ware pottery teapot made by Watcombe Torquay, Devon England. The motto or saying is Duee Av Zum Tay with the traditional flower design and it was made 1890-1900 and is unmarked as many Watcombe pieces were during that time. The teapot measures 4 inches high by 5 inches in diameter and is in very good +++ condition with no chips or cracks, but there are places where the paint was smeared underglaze during manufacture and general age consistent crazing. The photo of the ...click for details
This is a Royal Doulton, Lambeth England tobacco jar with original lid made by in 1901-1907 in the Silicon line of matte stoneware with applied rosettes and the pattern X-5387. The pattern was used with different color combinations from 1895-1902 but the Royal Doulton mark with the Royal added only started in 1901 after recognition from Queen Victoria. The tobacco jar measures 5.5 inches high by 4.5 in diameter and is in very good +++ condition with only one minor part of a rosette missing. A w ...click for details
This is a wonderful Wedgwood, England antique jasper or jasperware biscuit jar, biscuit barrel, cracker jar or cookie jar made from 1891-1898. The biscuit jar is of dark blue jasperware dip with classical design called Sacrifice Figures and silverplated fittings with a fancy finial and engraved floral design lid marked EPNS J D and CO, Ltd. J1326. The biscuit jar measures 5 inches in diameter by 8.25 inches high with handle 6 inches high without the handle. The marks are WEDGWOOD and ENGLAND wit ...click for details
