A new arrival to the Perfect Pieces Troika pottery sale section is a super Troika pottery marmalade shaped vase decorated by the popular Avril Bennet.
The Troika Marmalade vase is a popular Troika pottery shape – partly due to it’s mixture of textured and smooth finish, it’s size makes it easily place-able in any home and its affordability to collectors.
This example has geometric designs on all four sides finished with a dark blue glazed rounded top. It has been decorated by Avril Bennet who worked at Troika when they had a factory in Newlyn in Cornwall. She was there from 1973 to 1979. Click here for further photographs of this Troika vase.
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The latest addition to the Perfect Pieces Troika pottery section is this very bright and colourful Troika pottery small wheel vase:
This vase has been decorated with a bright blue base with the abstract decoration picked out in contrasting colours. It has been decorated by the well-known Marilyn Pascoe who worked at the pottery when they were originally based in St Ives and moved with them to Newlyn in Cornwall, England.
This piece is from the Newyln period of Troika and can be dated c1970-1974.
It has interesting patterns on both sides – one side features and abstract face and the other a stick man! Click here to view further photographs of this superb vase.
To view our full selection of Troika Pottery for sale…Click here
If you’ve got a piece of pottery you’ve discovered and are interested in finding out more about it then you’re probably wondering how to do it! Well, here are a few options to help you get started:
- You could try having a looking through the Perfect Pieces Online Pottery Marks Guide – click here;
- If you have no luck there then have a look through some of the books available:
We’ve found these to be quite comprehensive and very worthwhile.
- If you’re still none the wiser then try contacting your local auction house. These will often have valuation days where you can take your item along and have someone look over it, they may be able to help.
If you do manage to find out what you’re looking for then that’s great – let us know how you did it & if you have any tips for our other readers.
I’ve just been drawn to this article in the Daily Mail published on the 28th January 2010:
Elderly couple discover vase used as umbrella stands is a 270-year-old Chinese masterpiece worth £500,000
It would appear – according to the newspaper report – that this couple were given this large and imposing vase as a present around 50 years ago and it was currently being used as an umbrella stand in the spare bedroom.
Spotted during a routine valuation it is said to have a crack and a few spots of emulsion paint on it. However, considering its age – believed to be from around 1740 it hasn’t fared too badly!
After some research it is said to be called a Chinese lantern vase with mainly under-glaze blue decoration.
This vase has now been catalogued by the auction house, Duke’s Auctioneers, for sale on the 11th February 2010. It will be interesting to see what it realises.
Click here to visit Duke’s Auctioneers website
In a few weeks it will be Valentine’s Day, 14th February 2010, so to all you Romeo’s out there here are a few gift ideas from Perfect Pieces!
An Egg Cup Made For Two! Troika pottery
Serenade Your Loved One! Royal Doulton Symphony Figurine
A tankard fit for any beer guzzling other half! Denby Pottery
Looking for a lady called Sarah? Look no further - Wade Mabel Lucie Attwell figurine Sarah
If you like the look of any of these pieces simply click on the picture for further information. Alternatively, visit our website and have a look around at the pieces we currently have for sale:
Click here to view more items on Perfect Pieces
Just to keep you all up to date on what’s happening on the Perfect Pieces website I’d thought I’d let you know that we are no longer offering a Pottery Valuation & Appraisal service.
Over the years that we’ve offered this service we’ve had a lot of demand for a mixture of items we were able to help with and quite alot of enquiries about pieces that didn’t really fit into out field. The combination of filtering out what we could help with, the time required to do the valuations, and the time responding to people who weren’t willing to pay the very small fee for the service (£6.95), we came to the conclusion it was taking too much of our time up!
I’ve updated our website and have included details of how you might go about finding further information about pieces yourself – you’ll find it’s not a quick andnecessarily easy process!
If you have any comments or suggestions for our other readers on how they can go about sourcing information and values for their items then do drop us a line and we can always add it to the Perfect Pieces website.
If you’re looking for something to snazz up your kitchen but be functional at the same time then why not take a look at T G Green’s Cornish Ware range?
Originating from Church Gresley the blue banded range created by the T G Green pottery is recognisable anywhere. Take a look at the two pieces illustrated below. These two storage jars are sturdy, practical and will easily fit into anyones kitchen today.
The style is still being produced and can be found in a range of colours and styles.
Click here to view our current selection of old Cornish Ware
Starting this Friday, 22nd January 2010, is the Shepton Mallet IACF International Antique & Collectors Fair at the Royal Bath & West showground.
This three-day antique fair can hold up to 600 stalls and is often regarded as one of the West County’s premier antique events. It opens on Friday 22nd January 2010 at 1pm when admission is £10. Over the weekend admission is reduced to £5 each day.
If you do visit this antique fair, do let us know what you thought – Was it busy with buyers? Were there lots of stallholders? What was the quality like of the stock on offer – did you buy anything?! Also, don’t forget to tell us about the facilities – the parking, toilets & food.
Remember – it’s always wise to check that these type of events are still scheduled to go ahead, especially considering the current weather conditions!
Click here to visit the organiser’s website
Shelley Pottery pieces can often offer a timeless elegance sometimes overlooked.
This super Shelley pottery vase has been decorated with three bands of green with pattern detail to the top band. This vase is very much like an elephants foot or onion in shape – a long stem with bulb at the bottom!
On it’s base it has the black printed Shelley England pottery mark dating it c1925 to 1945.
Click here to view further details on this Shelley vase
Remember…all Shelley pieces currently include FREE UK postage and packaging!
The February 2010 edition of the popular Collect it magazine is out now.
This month’s edition features a whole range of articles covering glass, ceramics to new and vintage items along with a Masterclass article about starting a new collection. It also has the usual brief round-up of some auction results and includes an Event Calendar for Antique Fairs and Auctions for the month.
The popular Jargon Buster written by Roland Head is here again this month covering F – Facets, Fakes, Forgeries and Flambe. Always an interesting read.
Collect it is a monthly magazine currently priced at £3.25. It aims itself at collectors of all sorts from vintage collectables to brand spanking new collectables.
If you want to find out more about the Collect it magazine then visit their website here:
Collect It Magazine