Caughley porcelain sells for £8,000 at Halls Fine Art’s Christmas auction

The second day of the sale of the Halls Fine Art’s Christmas auction on Thursday featured a quality collection of Caughley porcelain from a London collector which came home to Shropshire to be sold and made more than £8,000.

Stars of the collection, which including many rare pieces, was a three pint Caughley porcelain porter mug, circa 1780, transfer-printed with the ‘La Promenade Chinoise’ pattern, accompanied by the secondary print ‘La Peche’, which sold for £1,000.

Other notable prices from the collection were £700 for a rare ‘Thorny Rose’ baluster mask-head jug, £550 for a very rare ‘Gooseberry / Fruit Sprays’ ecuelle and cover, £500 for a ‘Strap-Fluted Floral’ sauceboat, £440 for a 1790 Chamberlain-decorated Caughley monogrammed mug and £420 for an unusual ‘Apple and Damsons’ finger bowl or pot.

“There were some really good prices for the rare pieces which were hotly contested,” said Caroline Dennard, Halls Fine Art’s ceramics specialist. “Halls Fine Art has developed a strong reputation for selling Caughley and other notable consignments of 18th century English porcelain.”

Pieces in the collection were made by Ambrose Gallimore and Thomas Turner who produced some of the finest English porcelain in the 18th century at Caughley, near Broseley from around 1775-’99.

The ceramics section also included a collection of 15 Troika vases, consigned by the widow of a late Shropshire collector, which sold for nearly £1,800.

Pic: The three pint Caughley porcelain porter mug, circa 1780 which sold for £1000