Lot 163
English Creamware Four-Tier Centrepiece, probably Leeds, late 18th century
Lot 163 Details
English Creamware Four-Tier Centrepiece, probably Leeds, late 18th century
in four sections, each with five shell-form dishes interspersed with moulded leaves, shells and coral on scroll supports, below a Venus and Cupid figural finial, all on a rockwork base with springs and shrubs
some restoration
height 29.5" — 75 cm.
Estimate $1,500-$2,000
Literature:
Bernard Rackham and Herbert Read illustrate a similar centrepiece from the Embleton Collection in English Pottery, Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century, plate CVI, fig. 192