Description
A Group of Decorative 19th Century Ceramics: A Set of Four early 19th century John & William Ridgway opaque china dishes printed in pale blue with ‘Portland Basket’ pattern and clobbered in apple green enamel with moulded gadrooning to the scalloped borders and handles each side, 9½” (24 cm) wide (one handle A/F). A Victorian hard-paste porcelain demi-lune ‘pocket’ on pedestal foot, having a shaped back plate pierced with scrolling sprays of bell flowers edged on gilding and encrusted with flowers; the flat fronted receptacle delicately painted with a glass jar of flowers to the front and encrusted with blooms to the borders, standing on a flared quadriform pedestal (one foot A/F)with apple-green glaze edged in gilding. A small Victorian trinket jar & lid moulded with fruiting vine glazed pale green and enriched with gilding on a puce glazed ground, 3” (7.5 cm) high. And an Art Nouveau slipware spill vase of cylindrical form relief moulded with a nymph holding aloft a lotus flower on a marbled green & ivory ground 4¾” (12 cm) in height.