Recent Buys

Now that my husband Noel and I are located in the far west of Cornwall we do not have so many places to shop for pots so we take advantage of any trips "up-country" to hunt for fresh treasures.  Visiting family in January we collected a recent auction purchase from Nantwich and found three other pieces in Newark...a celebrated centre of the antiques trade.  The auction piece was a "first" for us as a form - a Worcester potted meat tub. Dating from c.1775, it is painted with the Mansfield pattern and has an open-crescent mark as shown.

The most interesting piece from Newark was a tea cannister printed with the fence pattern - probably Worcester but we have not yet found it in any book.  Can anyone confirm this attribution?  There is some pooling of the bluish glaze to the base and an incised circle, as well as a small filled-crescent mark.  The date is probably around 1770.

We await another auction next week where we have our sights on some unusual, though damaged, items so we'll keep you posted!