ENGLISH CERAMIC FIGURAL ARTICLES, LOT OF FOUR, comprising a yellowware bird-form whistle with dripped blue glaze, and three banks including a red- and green-painted apple lacking stem and two brown-glazed yellowware examples including a house and a dog curled onto an ovoid base. Together with a Bristol slip tobacco jar with painted metal cover featuring relief polychrome hand-painted Royal coat of arms. Five pieces total. 19th century. Jar 8 1/4" HOA.
Provenance: From a Virginia private collection.
Banks: Sotheby's, 9/1999, lot 254 (partial) (retain auction labels).
Ex-collection of Wallace James Grant-Davidson, Wales, United Kingdom (retain collection labels).
Catalogue Note: The banks are from the collection of W.J. Grant-Davidson. Mr. Grant-Davidson was a historian and lifetime collector of eighteenth and nineteenth century British porcelain and ceramics. Following his death in 1999, Sotheby's auctioned his extensive collection which included pieces of Whieldon, redware, stoneware, Pratt-type wares, delftware, Staffordshire and Sunderland lustreware as well as creamware. He was the author of the article Early Swansea Pottery, 1764 - 1810 and the book The Pottery of South Wales. Dog and apple bank undamaged, except apple having some scattered wear to enamel decoration; jar undamaged, except possibly repainted; bird with flake to beak and some paint touch-ups to base; house having chip to chimney.