Auction alert: Troika

An online studio pottery auction is currently underway. The sale, Troika subtitled, “A remarkable single-owner collection of Troika Pottery”, ends on 23^rd July 2023 at 6pm.

We’ve covered Troika on our blog in the past, we’re longstanding fans of the pottery. This sale includes many rare and special pieces (such as the Aztec face masks) by artists such as Alison Brigden, Penny Black and Avril Bennet. There are 47 lots in total, we’ve highlighted just a few of them below.

Absentee and live bids can be placed via the Elstob & Elstob website at no additional charge. However, there’s a buyer’s premium of 25% (ex. VAT).

Elstob & Elstob’s sales are also available to bid on via the following online platforms (please note the additional charges on top of the buyer’s premium):

The Saleroom – 4.95% (plus VAT) surcharge
Invaluable – 5% (plus VAT) surcharge
Live Auctioneers – 5% (plus VAT) surcharge
EasyLiveAuction – 3% (plus VAT) surcharge or the option of a flat fee of £3.00

Lot 2004: PENNY BLACK FOR TROIKA POTTERY, AN AZTEC DOUBLE SIDED FACE MASK

Decorated in shades of brown, blue, white and green, painted mark. 25.5cm high, 19cm wide. Tiny fleck of paint loss but in otherwise good condition without chips, cracks or restoration.
Estimate: £300 – £400

Lot 2009: A TROIKA POTTERY DRUM BOWL

Decorated with a geometric pattern in shades of blue and brown, painted marks. 16cm diameter. No chips, cracks or restoration. In very good condition.
Estimate: £40 – £60

Lot 2029: ALISON BRIGDEN FOR TROIKA, A CORNISH TIN MINE LAMP BASE

Decorated with a green, blue and brown glaze, painted marks. 21cm high. No chips, cracks or restoration. In excellent condition.
Estimate: £300 – £500

Lot 2034: ALISON BRIGDEN FOR TROIKA POTTERY, A CHIMNEY VASE

Decorated in shades of blue and brown, painted marks. 19cm high. No chips, cracks or restoration. In excellent condition.
Estimate: £150 – £250

Lot 2035: TWO TROIKA POTTERY ASHTRAYS

The first white-glazed by Anne Lewis, the second brown-glazed by Avril Bennett. (2) 12cm square. No chips, cracks or restoration. In excellent condition.
Estimate: £100 – £150

Lot 2040: A TROIKA AZTEC DOUBLE SIDED FACE MASK

Decorator’s mark indistinct (possibly Annette Walters), decorated in shades of blue, green, brown and white, painted marks. 25.5cm high, 19cm wide. No chips, cracks or restoration. In excellent condition.
Estimate: £300 – £400

Lot 2043: ANNE JONES FOR TROIKA POTTERY, A LARGE FOOTED CUBE PLANTER

Decorated in shades of blue, brown and white, painted marks. 17.5cm high, 14cm wide. No chips, cracks or restoration. In excellent condition.
Estimate: £100 – £150

Winter Two Day Fine Art & Antiques Auction

The Winter Two Day Fine Art & Antiques Auction will be held by The Great Western Auctions Ltd Friday 9^th Dec 2022, from 10am.

431 lots will be up for sale; to include furniture, rugs & 20^th century design , ceramics, ethnic art , silver,  coins , whisky & wine. Christmas is coming up, so we’ve included a few items here that would make great presents.

Great Western charges a buyer’s premium of 28.8% (inc. VAT). The auction house offers an in-house postage & packaging service for appropriate items. Each request is assessed on an individual basis to determine the best method of dispatch and relevant costs.

Bid live via EasyLiveAuction (a 3% surcharge of the hammer price or a £3 flat fee in addition to the standard buyer’s premium will be payable) or The Saleroom (a 5% surcharge + VAT of the hammer price in addition to the standard buyer’s premium will be payable).

Lot 2037: AN E GOYARD PARIS LEATHER AND WOOD BOUND STEAMER TRUNK
with all-over printed design, leather edges and wooden ribs held by bronzed metal mounts, brass hinged handles to either end, metal casters to underside and original label to interior below tray, 35cm high x 103cm wide x 56cm deep
Estimate: £300 – £500

Lot 2042: AN EARLY 20^TH CENTURY LIBERTY OF LONDON STYLE LEATHER HIPPOPOTAMUS FOOTSTOOL
with glass eyes, 32cm high x 59cm long x 26cm deep
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2044: A 19/20^TH CENTURY TEAK SHIPS CABIN WASH STAND
with three asymmetrical cabinet doors over fall front ceramic wash basin, 172cm high x 54cm wide x 32cm deep
Estimate: £100 – £200

Lot 2102: A MID 20^TH CENTURY MARIO BELLINI NEST OF FOUR STACKING TABLES
moulded from mustard coloured fibreglass with marks cast into underside, 26cm high x 52cm wide x 52cm deep
Estimate: £100 – £200

Lot 2119: A MID 20^TH CENTURY FABIO LENCI FOR GUZZINI ‘FOCUS’ ARC LAMP
with opaque spherical shade suspended from chrome arc support terminating in white painted weighted base, 239cm high
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2156: A LOUISE JINKS FOR TROIKA POTTERY WHEEL VASE
with incised and relief decoration, in shades of brown, cream and green, signed to base, 16.5cm high
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2491: AN EARLY 17^TH CENTURY NORWEGIAN SILVER SPOON
with a plain fig-shaped bowl, with engraved decoration, the wrythen stem with punched decoration, with a ball-knop finial, maker’s mark AR?, 13cm, 25gms / 0.8toz
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 2680: QUINTA DO NOVAL PORT VINTAGE 1978
Warre’s port vintage 1983, Taylor’s port vintage 1987, Graham’s port vintage 1977 and Gonzalez Byass & Co port vintage 1970 (6)
Estimate: £200 – £300

Lot 2689: MOUTAI KWEICHOW 2012 BAIJU 50CL
In a presentation case with two glasses, Wu Liang Ye Baijiu 500ml (2)
Estimate: £300 – £400

Lot 2690: RENAUDIN BOLLINGER EXTRA QUALITY EXTRA DRY 1952 CHAMPAGNE
By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II
Estimate: £200 – £300

Auction alert: Antiques, Collectables & General sale including jewellery

Eastbourne Auction will shortly be holding their Antiques, Collectables & General including jewellery sale. The online only auction starts on Wednesday 7^th September 2022 from 10am. A humongous 2,454 lots will be available over the 3-day event.

There are a few of our regular favourites up for grabs; Troika studio pottery, Whitefriars studio glass and quite a few lots of various light elm Ercol furniture. One of my favourite items is the unusual Bernard Rooke vase.

The buyer’s premium stands at 30% inc. VAT (with a minimum of £2.40 per lot). Bidding is also available via The Saleroom and EasyLiveAuction. Please check each website’s additional charges.

We can arrange packing and / or shipping on your behalf for smaller non fragile items. We will email you a quote detailing the shipping method, and will ship when you have approved and paid for this service… For fragile and larger items we recommend Mailboxes Tunbridge Wells.

Lot 2: Troika St Ives Pottery cube vase
Hand painted with circles, 8cm high
Estimate: £50 – £100

Lot 5: Geoffrey Baxter for Whitefriars bamboo glass vase
In indigo or pewter, 20.5cm high
Estimate: £80 – £150

Lot 15: Laurence Stephen Lowry – ‘Level crossing with train’
Pencil signed print in colour, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, published by Patrick Searle 1973, mounted, framed and glazed, 59cm x 48cm excluding the mount and frame
Estimate: £1,000 – £2,000

Lot 27: Oiva Toikka for Iittala, Finnish glass bird paperweight
Paper label and signed to the base, 14cm in length
Estimate: £30 – £50

Lot 55: Square silver plated mirrored cake stand
Relief decorated with grapes on a vine, housed in a painted wood box with brass handles, the stand 14cm H x 46cm W x 46cm D
Estimate: £40 – £80

Lot 121: Bottle of Napoleon Sempe Armagnac
Housed in a Baccarat decanter
Estimate: £40 – £80

Lot 169: Bernard Rooke, studio pottery vase
Decorated in relief with fossils, impressed mark around the footrim, 13.5cm high
Estimate: £30 – £50

Lot 246: Soholm, Danish mid century style wall plaque
Enamelled with flowers, impressed marks to the reverse, 33.5cm x 33cm
Estimate: £30 – £50

Lot 377: After Eric Ravilious – British Pavilion brochure 1939
Woodcut engraving in colour, mounted, framed and glazed, 20.5cm x 13.5cm excluding the mount and frame
Estimate: £50 – £100

Lot 627: Eight vintage Homepride Spillers figures
10.5cm high
Estimate: £20 – £40

Lot 791: Set of six Ercol ash and light elm stacking chairs
74cm high
Estimate: £200 – £400

Lot 909: Scandinavian mid century design plaque
Hand painted with a female and stylised birds, signed F Ruth, 37cm x 25cm
Estimate: £30 – £50

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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