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M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
www.mfordcreech.com
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"DELECTABLE DUSTABLES"
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In the antiques world, the various genre are usually divided into categories -
largely that of "Furniture", and "The Decorative Arts" -
the latter including varied further classifications as silver, ceramics, glassware and textiles, etc.
A great many of these 'decorative arts' are probably smaller than a breadbox,
and whilst providing their bits of usefulness - as storage, dining or such -
the decorative arts are often aimed at providing just pure tactile and sensual
"PLEASURE"!
Now these small pleasures are all-too-often referred to (with some disdain) as :
"...DUSTABLES..."!
Many purveyors of 'fine furniture' just do not wish to cover their glowing surfaces with small dust-catchers,
instead keeping their magnificent forms pristine so that the glorious early surfaces are displayed
without distraction -- or dust.
In fact, a 'timber man' might speak the phrase :
"Well, we just don’t do dustables".
However, as we are three ladies - "dust" is just a long-time familiar event.
So what's a little dust here and there?
Over time, I have repeatedly noted that these smaller "dustable delights"
embody a wonderful intricacy of craftsmanship and decoration
not generally encountered in larger furniture, et al...
....not to speak of the occasional whimsy and humor displayed....
Most are meant to be inspected up close and personal -
and speaking of personal - many might have a very personal story to tell.
So it is with great lightness of spirit that we present to you
fifteen of our "for-your-pleasure" recent acquisitions
of :
"DELECTABLE DUSTABLES”
(In Chronological Order of Their Creation)
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George II Silver Toilet Box & Cover
Charles Kandler, London, 1727
Jacobite Interest
Of very heavy gauge silver, the cover engraved coat of arms of Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, 1686-1777,
and his wife Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Blount;
the underside with a later crest (a demi-lion, in dexter paw a cross crosslet) and scratchweight 6=8 1/2.
Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686-1777) and lifelong Jacobite,
married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Blount, on 26 November 1727.
This box no doubt formed part of a toilet service which formed part of their wedding plate.
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England,
and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl.
The Duke of Norfolk is, moreover, Earl Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England
3.25” Diameter / 6.2 oz.
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George I Silver Marrow Scoop
London, 1725-6
Maker's Mark (?)S
8.25" Long / 1.5 oz. |
George II Irish Silver Marrow Scoop
Dublin, 1731-45
Maker's Mark Rubbed, Probably Henry Jago
The shaft engraved C*S
8.5" Long / 2 oz.
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George II Silver Large Hanoverian Soup Ladle
Elias Cachart, London, 1748
Of quite heavy gauge silver with long slender shaft,
the terminal with a period conjoined cypher monogram ML or MX
14.5" Long, The Bowl, 4" Wide / 9 oz.
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Early Worcester Blue & White Molded Teabowl & Saucer
"Fisherman and Willow Pavilion", c1755-60
Painted with a fisherman beneath a willow; workman's mark
Exhibited : London, 1986, The Paul Zeisler Collection of
English Blue & White Porcelain, Albert Amor,
bearing exhibition label (below)
5" Diameter, The Saucer
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George II Silver Sauceboat
William Shaw & William Preist, London, 1757
Crested : a stag's head couped at the neck, attired, the tongue hanging out
Of heavy gauge on wonderful wide spread shell feet
8" Long / 10.4 oz.
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Scarce Lowestoft "Island" Pattern Miniature (Toy) Teabowl & Saucer
England, c1762-65
Depicting a Chinese riverscape with pagodas, trees and sampans
within single line and "berry" borders;
saucer verso with a decorator's mark in underglaze blue
Ref : Spero, Simpson Collection of Eighteenth Century English Blue & White Miniature Porcelain
Teabowl, 1-5/8" High, Saucer, 3" Diameter
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Bow Porcelain Lobed & Moulded Geranium Leaf Dish
England, c1765-70
Painted in bright blue with fruiting grapevines and scattered insects
shaped feuille-de-choux rim,
the verso with pseudo Oriental character marks
9-7/8" Long
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George III Cast Silver Taperstick
Ebenezer Coker, London 1771
An exceptionally lovely example with baluster stem,
and shell and foliate stepped shaped base
6.25" High / 7.5oz.
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Rare Worcester "Scolopendrium" Pattern Bowl
England, c1772-1775
The five-lobed molded bowl in polychrome enamels with large spiraling scolopendrium
(hart's tongue fern) leaves, alternating, in typical Worcester factory style,
with floral sprigs, below a brown-line rim, on a high footrim;
said to be a copy of an earlier Chelsea example, but without the interspersed sprigging
Ref :
Worcester Porcelain in the Zorensky Collection, Sandon, p 194, Plate 209;
Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, Sandon, p. 305, for an example of the 1765 beaker and saucer
6" Diameter
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Good Pair George III Silver Hanoverian Shell-Bowl Sauce Ladles
Thomas Chawner, London, 1774-5
Crested : a cubit arm erect in armour, the hand grasping a dagger
Of heavy gauge silver with facet drop heels
7' long / 4.5 oz.
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George III Brass Tobacco Box & Pipe Carrier
England, c1790
Engraved with the figure of a "Beadle"
(recall Dickens's famous fictional constabulary beadle "Mr. Bumble")
and the name N HUNT and DOVER;
the interior with three compartments for a pipe, tobacco, and a rasp with grater
Ref : An almost identical box is pictured in The Brass Book, Schiffer, p.100
5.25" Long
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Rare George III Carved Lignum Vitae Silver-Mounted Tankard
Henry Nutting, London, 1805
Carved with a band of vertical rectangles over a plain band,
above a band of horizontal rectangles representing basket-weaving,
the ring-turned cover with carved thumb lift,
body rim, handle and handle thumb lift all silver mounted,
raised on three silver paw feet
7.5" High
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George III Scottish Provincial Engraved Silver Quaich
Charles Jamieson, Inverness, c1810
Having twin shaped lugs with upper surfaces engraved for a marriage :
AMG and PML,
raised on a plain collet marked footrim
Ref : Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 13 August 2014 :
"Inverness - a scarce Scottish provincial quaich, Charles Jamieson",
of identical form with engraved initials (traced)
5-5/8" Wide, Over Handles / 2-7/8" Diameter, The Bowl / 3.2 oz.
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17th Century Style Silver Traveling Folding Fork
Corelius Rietveld, Schoonhoven, 1888
19th Century Dutch Duty Marks
The finial cast as an armless female figure above the face of a bearded man,
the beard becoming the square tapering horizontally-ribbed shaft with folding fork
attaching to a fig-shaped engraved bowl
5" long / 1.5 oz.
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