Ancient Peruvian pottery, small jar with animal decoration

Three views of an Ancient Peruvian pot 8 inches high made in dark brown clay with monkey like creature at base of spout and incorporated into curved over handle.

English mochaware mustard pot 1830-50

English mochaware  mustard pot c1830 with 'seaweed' designs on pale blue band.


Mocha decorated pottery was made in England between  c1770 and c1930. It is a utilitarian earthenware, slip-decorated, lathe-turned, and in addition to coloured slip bands on white and buff-coloured bodies is sometimes adorned with geological markings. An unknown potter discovered that by dripping a coloured acidic solution into a wet alkaline slip on a pot body the colour would instantly spread into dendritic/seaweed markings. Mocha is highly valued and collected in America where it was exported in the 19th century.

Chinese 18th century tankard

This is an 18th century Chinese porcelain tankard, about 6" high,  painted in polychrome, of the Qianlong period 1736 - 1795. It was made for export, probably for the English market,  for drinking beer.

Scottish jug c1860 - 1870

Chinese coffee cup

Chinese 18th century porcelain  coffee cup, of the Qianlong period 1736 - 1795.  Painted in grisaille with European decoration, the European style figures probably taken from an earlier engraving.