Lot 135 , A Royal Crown Derby yellow ground vase and cover and five other items, largest 26cm diameter
A Royal Crown Derby yellow ground vase and cover and five other items, the vase painted with reserves of rose sprays, heightened in turquoise and gilt, other items to include a pair of Volkstedt Derby-style 'Mansion House Dwarves', a Sevres style floral-decorated yellow ground shaped square dish on pierced ormolu base, a Staffordshire candle holder modelled as two birds perched in a leafy tree, etc. and a Chinese export famille verte punch bowl (faults and repairs) largest 26cm diameter
Estimate £100-150
Dwarf with green hat has a break across the front of the hat and chips around the edge plus chips to sleeve and other extremities, has also been broken through the base of the tree trunk and the square base.
Other dwarf in good condition
Birds in a tree group with losses to branches and bocage plus tips of feathers and wings, old firing cracks to base
Chinese bowl - heavily restored with signs of the old restoration showing through the inside and through the base
Crown Derby vase - one handle has been broken through and restuck otherwise good
Yellow bowl with large crack running through the body of the bowl.
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Sold for £260