Auction alert: Lady Elizabeth Hart Collection and The Wallace Collection of Oriental Art

An extensive Midwinter Riviera pattern table service

This week, we’re featuring the Three Day Fine Art and Antique Auction, including the Lady Elizabeth Hart Collection and The Wallace Collection of Oriental Art. The sale will take place at Bamfords Auctioneers & Valuers‘ head office, their auction house in Derby, which lies 10 minutes off the M1 on the Nottingham side of the city. The sale dates & times will be as follows:

  • 5th May 2022 from 10am
  • 6th May 2022 from 10am
  • 9th May 2022 from 10am

There’ll be a massive 1,724 lots going under the hammer across the three days. After trawling and trawling through the lots, we stumbled across some unexpected items. Tucked away within the more ‘fancy’ antiques – after the silver and jewellery and before the large collection of European and Far Eastern art we found the following few mid 20th century gems. We can’t believe the low estimate on the Midwinter Riviera set!

Bamfords charges a buyers’ premium of 24.75% plus VAT on the hammer price of each lot.

Live online bidding is available for all our auctions via www.easyliveauction.com or www.the-saleroom.com.  The charge for using these services is 3.6% of the hammer price or a flat fee of £3 with no further premium being charged for EasyLiveAuction and 5.5% of the hammer price (plus VAT where chargeable) for The Saleroom.

Bamfords can offer postage on items of a small and non-fragile nature, our minimum charge is £19.50 for Royal Mail Special Delivery service. Please be aware that we cannot offer postage of jewellery, weapons, ceramics or paintings & pictures and we do not offer postage internationally.

An extensive Midwinter Riviera pattern table service

Lot 359: An extensive Midwinter Riviera pattern table service
Designed by Hugh Casson inc dinner plates, salad pates, coffee pot, tea pot, milk jug, sugar bowl, cups, saucers, side plates, etc, printed marks, qty.
Estimate: £30 – £40

A large Troika Double Bass vase

Lot 363: A large Troika Double Bass vase
Estimate: £150 – £200
Designed by Sue Bladen, in relief with geometrical motifs, in earth tones and blue, 36cm high, painted mark, monogrammed. Hairline fractures to top of vase

A Troika Chimney vase

Lot 364: A Troika Chimney vase
Decorated with an arrangement of granular and smooth geometric and scraffito motifs, glazed in blue, brown and ochre, 20cm high, painted monogrammed HK, marks in black, c.1970
Estimate: £100 – £150

A Troika slab sided vase

Lot 365: A Troika slab sided vase
Decorated with geometric and scraffito motifs, glazed in mottled shades of sea green, brown and ochre, 17.5cm, painted marks, monogrammed, c.1970
Estimate: £100 – £150

A Troika Wheel vase

Lot 366: A Troika Wheel vase
Designed by Linda Taylor, incised with motif, 12cm high, painted marks, monogrammed; a square ashtray, 12.5cm high; a similar vase, 12cm high (3)
Estimate: £100 – £150

A Denby Tigo Ware Florence vase

Lot 367: A Denby Tigo Ware Florence vase
Designed by Tibor Reich, in black and white, 38 cm high, printed mark, c.1956. Slight crack through base
Estimate: £150 – £200

Auction alert: Antiques, Collectables, Paintings & Prints

Vintage Midwinter 'Zambesi' pattern pottery

Hello, and welcome to week 3 of our auction alerts. Today, we’re looking at the Antiques, Collectables, Paintings & Prints sale run by Claydon Auctioneers who are based in Buckingham.

The auction takes place on 4 August 2021, from 9am. We’ve chosen to highlight a few of the lots from the first day of a 3-day sale.

Below, we’ll be showing you a trio of vintage pottery and another three of vintage glass.

Susie Cooper 'Diablo' pattern coffee service designed for Wedgwood

Lot 256: A quantity of retro Susie Cooper coffee wares in the pattern Diablo, designed for Wedgwood. Comprising coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and six cups and saucers.

Vintage Midwinter 'Zambesi' pattern pottery

Lot 259: A quantity of retro Midwinter dinner wares in the pattern Zambesi, comprising plates, serving plates, dishes etc.

Vintage Denby 'Chevron' pattern pottery

Lot 261: A quantity of Denby wares in the pattern Chevron, to include jugs, teapot, pans, mugs, etc.

Villeroy & Boch 'Nek' red cased glass vase

Lot 292: A modern Villeroy & Boch Nek Polish glass bottle vase, red with white interior, the base stamped with maker’s name, standing 18″ tall

Large orange cased glass Murano vase

Lot 311: 1960s/ 70s retro Murano large orange glass vase. In the manner of Carlo Moretti. Approx 16″ high

Brown vintage Whitefriars bark glass vase, designed by Geoffrey Baxter + Brama blue glass textured vase by Davidson

Lot 331: A Whitefriars brown bark glass vase, designed by Geoffrey Baxter. Approx 6″ high Together with a Brama blue glass textured vase by Davidson. Approx 8 1/2″ high

Salad Ware

Vintage Midwinter Salad Ware plate designed by Terence Conran | H is for Home

It’s very surprising that in our ten years of trading as H is for Home (and in the vintage ‘hobby years’ prior to that), we’ve never actually bought a piece of Terence Conran designed ‘Salad Ware’. Well, as of this morning, those days are over.

Detail from a vintage Midwinter Salad Ware plate designed by Terence Conran | H is for Home

Here’s our lovely new plate with its classic vintage 1950s design of fruit and vegetables.

Detail from a vintage Midwinter Salad Ware plate designed by Terence Conran | H is for Home

We love the shapes and colours… and its pared back simplicity. We even like the radish-shaped back stamp detail. It still looks modern today – imagine the impact it made over 60 years ago.

Base detail from a vintage Midwinter Salad Ware plate designed by Terence Conran | H is for Home

We might just have to stroke this piece a while before selling. Well, the house walls are newly painted, there’s a small space available… and it did come with hanging hooks!

Charity Vintage: Midwinter Chequers

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Vintage Midwinter Chequers tea cups & saucers for sale by Wigan & Leigh Hospice on eBay for Charity(end 26 Apr, 2015 14:54:15 BST)

Midwinter Chequers was designed by the famous Sir Terence Conran in the 1950s. You don’t often come across examples of the pattern for sale on eBay, but when you do, it almost always sells. A lidded butter dish recently sold for £80 and a platter a whopping £101!

These cups & saucers are being sold by Wigan & Leigh Hospice* in 3 separate lots; a pair of saucers, a cup & saucer and another cup & saucer. They’re all described as in ‘good’ condition. The saucers have a starting bid of £19.99 and the cups & saucers £24.99 each.

*Wigan & Leigh Hospice aims to provide specialist palliative care services on as broad a basis as possible and at the highest quality achievable in both the hospice and the community, thereby aiming to enhance the quality of life of individuals with a life-threatening illness.