The 12 Days of Christmas / Decorative Arts, M. Ford Creech Antiques & Fine Arts, Memphis, TN

THE 12 Days of Christmas / Decorative Arts

Christmas is only days away.

Here's the song we're singing....

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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a golden deer beneath a lotus 'tree'....
Yongzheng Chinese Export Famille Rose Plate China, 1722-35 Very finely painted in one of the earliest famille rose palettes, combining the Imari iron red and underglaze blue with famille rose, heightened with gilt, the center with a golden deer on a grassy mound beside blooming lotus with a grasshopper, lingzhi and grasses blue round with bright yellow and puce chrysanthemum flowerheads and fine gilt scrolls 8.75” Diameter SOLD

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 2 crested entrées...
Pair of George III Silver Covered Entree Dishes - Robert Garrard London, 1816 The two covered entrées dishes of quite heavy gauge silver, each rectangular everted diagonal gadrooned rim beneath flattened dome cover with twist-off ring handle and engraved with 2 elephant trunks centering a 5-petaled rose 12” Long / 134 oz. silver (67 oz. each) ...and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree. SOLD

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 3 glasses gleaming....
George I Pedestal (Silesian) Stem Wine, c1725 George II Engraved Airtwist Ale Glass, c1750 George II Baluster Wine, c1740 Very early 18th century English drinking glasses were quite heavy. As the glasses became internationally popular, a large tax was levied upon glass products by weight in 1746 - and additionally thereafter - usually to support a war. Among the most beautiful results of glassmakers' attempts to make glass both lighter and more decorative was to lighten the stems by poking holes in them - first occurring as airtwist stems. English lead glass cooled slowly, enabling the spirals to be turned with absolute precision. ...2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, four long-tailed rabbits....
Qianlong Blue & White Quatrefoil Cup & Saucer China, c1750 Both the handled cup and saucer with four applied long-tailed rabbits viewing flowering lotus blooms and buds with sinuous tendrils and dots Saucer, 5" Wide SOLD ...3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 5 silver salts....
Set of Five French Silver Salts - Odiot Paris, France, 1826-38 Of heavy gauge silver by the leading French silversmith, Odiot - silversmith to Napoleon and the royalty of Europe - each of the *five silver salts* a with round body and beaded rim, set on 3 cabriole legs ending in hoof feet, bearing an original coat of arms surmounted by the coronet of a marquis Marks: fully marked verso with ODIOT A PARIS, lantern in lozenge and .950 standard mark 1.5" H x 2.5" W / 11.9 oz. ...4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 6 dining dishes....

Fine Set of Six Chinese Export Mandarin Dinner Plates Qianlong c.1755-60 Depicting a Chinese family on a fenced garden terrace, a lady watching from the doorway, before an island riverscape, within a gilt and grisaille spear head border, the rim with grisaille and iron-red cell diapering, reserved within shaped vignettes of grisaille, puce and rust birds on branches and flora 8-7/8" Diameter	Good Set of Six Chinese Export Deep Soup Plates "Cormorant & Magpie", Probably Swedish Market, c1750 Painted with two cormorants, one in flight, protecting their young from the intruding magpie, each in gilt and iron red, the rim with a gilt leafy trailing vine border. "The” Cormorant and Magpie”, a theme emanating from the Ming Dynasty, depicts the cormorants defending an unseen nest from the invading magpie. 9" Diameter
...5 silver salts 4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 7 candles burning....
Pair of George II Bell Metal Candlesticks - England, c1740 Pair of French Brass Candlesticks - France, c1820 George III Old Sheffield Plate Wax Jack - England, 1810-20 - Sold Pair Victorian Early Georgian Style Silver Tapersticks - Thomas Bradbury, London, 1898 - Sold ...6 dining dishes 5 silver salts 4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 8 tying tassels...
Imported Italian Silk and Cotton Tassels ...7 candles burning 6 dining dishes 5 silver salts 4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 9 pretty petals....
Pair of Fukien (Fujian) Lotus Form Bowls China, 18th Century Each molded bowl of lotus form with nine *overlapping petals* and a central bloom, the exterior petals with slightly curved combing, beneath a grey-white finely crackled glaze 2”H x 5”W ...8 tying tassels 7 candles burning 6 dining dishes 5 silver salts 4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 10 brilliant boxes....
*Front Row:* William IV Silver Vinaigrette, Thomas Shaw, Birmingham, 1834 - SOLD George III Silver Vinaigrette, Thomas Newbold, Birmingham, 1824 - SOLD George IV Diminutive Silver-Gilt Vinaigrette, Thomas Shaw, Birmingham, 1824, with sponge - SOLD French Silver Snuff Box, .950 Fine Silver. EB, Paris, c1850 - SOLD William IV Silver Snuff Box, T. Eley, London, 1834 - SOLD George III Silver Vinaigrette, Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham 1803 - SOLD *Back Row:* George IV Silver Snuff Box, Joseph Willmore, Birmingham, 1825 - SOLD Danish Silver & Gilt Hovedvansaeg, 19^th Century, with lower inscribed & dated lidded compartment - SOLD Scandinavian Silver & Parcel Gilt Hovedvansaeg, Denmark, 1780-1820, Maker’s Mark NH George IV Irish Silver Snuff Box, M.F. in rectangular punch, Dublin, 1822 - SOLD ...9 pretty petals 8 tying tassels 7 candles burning 6 dining dishes 5 silver salts 4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a dish from 11th King of Poland....
Chinese Famille Verte Dish, Johanneum Mark Collection of Augustus the Strong of Saxony China, Kangxi, 1662-1722 Famille verte enamels on a café au lait ground, the center with a flowering prunus beside rocks on a grassy mound, the flat rim with scattered flora and insects; formerly in the collection of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, the 11th King of Poland Mark: a hare mark and Johanneum number 'N+16Z' over I 8.25” Diameter *SOLD* ...10 brilliant boxes 9 pretty petals 8 tying tassels 7 candles burning 6 dining dishes 5 silver salts 4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree.

*On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 12 forks a-feasting....*
Fine Set of 12 Victorian Silver Dognose (Wavy-End) Dessert Forks George Adams (Chawner & Co.), London, 1878 A complete set of **twelve dognose forks*, of heavy gauge, each engraved to the upside with a Gothic M Dognose or wavy-end forks in this style were first introduced into England about 1703,* and were quickly replaced by the Hanoverian style. Early 18th century dognose dessert forks are extremely rare, even as single examples. George Adams was considered one of the most important spoon makers of the 19th century. 6-7/8” Long / 17.5 oz. ..dish from 11th King of Poland 10 brilliant boxes 9 pretty petals 8 tying tassels 7 candles burning 6 dining dishes 5 silver salts 4 long-tailed rabbits 3 glasses gleaming 2 crested entrées and a golden deer beneath a lotus tree. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!