Group of English and continental porcelain, 19th century, co...

Estimate

£40 - £60

Group of English and continental porcelain, 19th century, comprising a garniture of three Coalbrookdale-style flower encrusted baluster vases, circa 1830, a Berlin-style figural double salt surmounted with a putti, painted with Watteauesque figures in landscape, a German porcelain group modelled with putti, emblematic from the senses, on a rocky flower encrusted base, a continental white porcelain figure of a putto vintner with leaf-shaped wheelbarrow, blue V mark, a Limoges porcelain small footed tazza decorated with bouquets and a Crown Staffordshire blue scale ground inkwell and cover, painted with exotic birds in landscape within dual cartouches (some damages and repairs) (8) 

Provenance:  Hicks Beach Estate.  The majority of pieces in this collection originate from Williamstrip, Coln St Aldwyn, family seat from 1788 to 2008 and thereafter Mill House, Coln St Aldwyn.  Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, succeeded his father as 9th Baronet of Beverston in 1854.  He became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1864 and served twice as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902.  In 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount St Aldwyn and in 1915 became the first Earl St Aldwyn.