A vintage Queen Anne bone china tea set, white with a gold teardrop border and gilt rims, marked pattern B173 as a product of Ridgway Potteries Ltd. It has 4 cups, 4 saucers, 4 side plates, a milk jug, a sugar bowl and a serving plate, 15 pieces in all. A lovely vintagecore or modern vintage set for afternoon tea.

Made in England, c.1950s-60s.

Queen Anne was a Staffordshire bone china brand, here marked as a product of Ridgway Potteries Ltd.

Good vintage condition with minor wear and no chips or cracks.

A pretty Hammersley fine bone china teapot in the much-loved Victorian Violets pattern, with sprays of purple violets all round, gilt-lined rims, a gilt-trimmed spout and handle, and its matching lid. Green Hammersley crown mark to the base: "Bone China, Hammersley, Made in England, Victorian Violets".

Hammersley & Co was founded in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1887, and Victorian Violets went on to become one of its best-loved patterns.

Good vintage condition, no chips or cracks.

Approximately 15cm high including the lid. Made in England, mid-century. Perfect for afternoon tea, a cottagecore dresser or a grandmillennial tea party.

A part tea service made by Broadhurst Ironstone to mark the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, all in blue and white: teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl, four cups and twelve side plates, six with Westminster Abbey and six with a Highland castle and loch scene with a stag. The teapot stands 19cm tall and the plates are approximately 17cm across. Made in England, a good grandmillennial blue and white set.

Every piece is printed underneath with the name of a different royal residence, Windsor Castle on the teapot, Holyrood on the jug and Hampton Court on the sugar bowl, so no two pieces match.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

A set of six coffee cups, a milk jug and a lidded sugar bowl from Royal Tuscan's fine bone china range, in a bold brown, tan and black geometric pattern on white. Cups stand 5cm tall.

Royal Tuscan only gained its "Royal" name after Wedgwood took over the historic Staffordshire firm in 1967.

Good condition overall with light wear; the sugar bowl's lid has a repaired hairline crack, visible near the finial.

Made in England, 1970s. Great MCM style for a retro coffee table.

A pretty matching set from Wedgwood - two rimmed bowls and six plates, each decorated with a woven basket of pansies and flowers in teal, green and purple, with a double teal line rim and a scalloped fluted edge. The bowls measure 25cm and the plates 21cm.

Josiah Wedgwood made creamware so successfully that Queen Charlotte let him name it Queen's Ware back in 1765.

Good condition with minor wear.

Made in England, c.1950s-60s. A lovely grandmillennial table setting.

This is a pretty five-piece Aynsley bone china tea set — a cream jug, an open sugar bowl, and three cups, all in the same soft sage-green banded pattern with gilt foliate swags around the body and gold trim to the rims and handles. No saucers with this set, just the cups themselves. The backstamp on the base reads "Aynsley, England, Bone China" beneath the company's crown mark, a style Aynsley used mainly through the 1930s to 1950s, with the pattern hand-numbered 8155 in black. Aynsley has been making bone china in Longton, Staffordshire since 1775, one of the longest-running names in English china, and was granted a Royal Warrant by Queen Elizabeth II in 1955.

Overall good condition with the gentle gilt wear you'd expect from age and use, but one of the three cups has a small crack running down from the rim, visible in the photos, so that one's best suited to display rather than everyday use. The jug and sugar bowl and the other two cups are sound with no chips or cracks.

A large antique blue and white meat platter in the Willow pattern, marked 'Iron Stone China', made in Staffordshire around 1820-1835. 40 x 33cm.

The Willow pattern was invented in England in the late 1700s, not China, and the 'legend' of the eloping lovers turned into doves was largely made up to help sell it.

Wear consistent with age and use; please see the photos for detail.

Antique, English, c.1820-1835. A handsome piece for a farmhouse dresser or a blue and white wall display.

A Royal Doulton Denton Ware wash jug and bowl set, complete with its wrought iron display stand. Decorated with a stork among blue and purple flowers in bright colours on a white ground, with a floral border at the rim of the jug. The jug stands 27cm tall and the bowl measures 39cm across. Made in England, circa 1925 to 1935. A striking cottagecore piece for a country bathroom, bedroom or hallway.

Doulton became Royal Doulton in 1901, when King Edward VII granted the company a royal warrant.

Good vintage condition, with fine crazing to the glaze and some light wear to the gilt on the handle and rim.

Coalport bone china coffee cans and saucers from the Royal Ballet Contemporary range, made for the Royal Opera House shop at Covent Garden. Abstract watercolour-style glaze in purple, lilac and blue, with a silhouetted leaping dancer on each cup. Set of 4 cups and 4 saucers; saucers 12cm across.

Coalport traces its roots back to the 1750s, and this range was a genuine Royal Opera House collaboration rather than an everyday tea set.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Made in England, 2006. A lovely modern vintage set for a ballet lover.

A Palissy Pottery kitchen storage canister in the Atlanta pattern. 13.5cm tall.

Palissy Pottery of Longton took its name from Bernard Palissy, the 16th-century French potter famous for his lifelike lizards and snakes.

Good vintage condition with minor wear.

English, 1970s. Retro kitchen charm.

A striking pair of 3D sculpted collector's plates from The Bradford Exchange's 'Morning Jewels' series, with Lena Liu's hummingbird and floral designs raised in relief against a soft blue crackle-effect border with gilt trim and jewelled accents. Rose-Coloured Dawn (first issue, 1999) and Crimson Blush (third issue, 2000), each 17cm wide, individually numbered on the base and fitted with a brass ring for wall display.

Lena Liu trained as a microbiologist before turning to wildlife art, and hummingbirds - the only birds that can fly backwards - became one of her signature subjects.

Good condition, no chips or cracks, with light surface marks to the reverse only.

1999-2000. A pretty pair for a grandmillennial or cottagecore wall.

A pretty set of six Wood & Sons 'Enoch Wood's English Scenery' plates, five in blue and one in soft pink for contrast. Each shows a country cottage scene with grazing cattle, framed by a wide rose and leaf border. 15cm across.

Enoch Wood was a real Burslem potter nicknamed "the Father of the Potteries", though this design was made decades later by his descendants' firm as a tribute.

Good condition with just minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Made in England, 1920s-30s. Lovely for a cottagecore tea table or a plate wall.

A pretty mid-century coffee set in Bing & Grøndahl's Hazelnut pattern, known in Denmark as Hasselnød. Sprays of soft sepia-brown hazel leaves are hung with little gold hazelnuts, with tiny gold nut sprigs scattered over every piece, a warm sand-coloured band and fine gold lines around the rims and handles.

The set includes a coffee pot with lid, a cream jug, a two-handled lidded sugar bowl, four coffee cups and six saucers (two spares). These are B&G's classic shapes, the same pot, jug, sugar bowl and cup forms used for their famous Seagull service. Each piece carries the green three-towers "B&G Kjøbenhavn" mark.

Country of origin: Denmark. Age: c.1950s.

Bing & Grøndahl was founded in 1853, and in 1895 it made the world's very first Christmas plate, starting a tradition collectors still follow today.

Good vintage condition with just minor wear, no chips or cracks, and a little light grey marking to the unglazed foot rims from years of use.

A beautiful bit of Scandi mid-century style for a grandmillennial or modern vintage table.

A Gibsons England teapot from their gilt floral "Georgian" range - a black and gold floral pattern over a cream ground, sitting above a fully gadrooned band of bright gold gilt, with matching gilt spout, handle and lid finial. Pattern number marked to the underside of the lid. 25cm wide, 14cm tall.

Gibson & Sons of Burslem spent nearly a century making little else but teapots, and became one of the best-known names for gilded teaware on ordinary British breakfast tables.

Good condition, with fine crazing to the glaze throughout (normal for its age) and just light wear to the gilt; no chips or cracks.

Made in Staffordshire, England, circa 1930s-50s. A bit of Hollywood Regency sparkle for the tea table.

A pretty little Sadler teapot in cream with a lovely spray of gold gilt roses and foliage to one side, and gilt trim to the spout, handle and lid. Marked on the base with the Sadler crown backstamp and a hand-painted pattern number. Stands 14cm tall.

Sadler is best known for the humble Brown Betty, but the same Burslem factory also turned out real novelty pieces - including a teapot shaped like a tank in 1947.

Good condition with minor wear - fine crazing to the glaze throughout, typical for its age, and light staining to the unglazed foot rim, but no chips or cracks.

Made in Staffordshire, England, 1940s. A sweet grandmillennial teapot for one or two.

A lovely antique Victorian jug in deep cobalt blue with crisp white relief - acanthus leaves, flowers and scrollwork within moulded panels, a rope-twist band around the neck and a tall scroll handle. Stands 23cm tall.

The raised acanthus and floral relief on jugs like this drew on the classical revival that swept Victorian design after the Pompeii excavations.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Victorian, c.1880s, English. A handsome grandmillennial piece for a dresser or as a flower jug.

A dainty crested china tea set brought home as a Blackpool souvenir - teapot, two jugs, a lidded sugar bowl and three cups and saucers, all on a matching tray, each piece carrying the town's coat of arms in colour and gilt. Marked Anglo Heraldic Co, Stoke-on-Trent.

Blackpool took "Progress" as its motto - the word under the crest here - when it became a county borough in 1904.

Good condition with minor wear and light gilt rubbing; the smaller jug's crest is a touch more faded than the rest. The teapot has a hairline crack as shown in the photo.

Made in Stoke-on-Trent, England, vintage. A sweet seaside grandmacore display.

A cheerful little breakfast piece - this vintage ceramic toast rack has a jam or marmalade well built into each end, with a hand-painted green basketweave border and a relief panel of cherries, blackberries and pineapple. Made in Japan, with the green backstamp inside one of the wells.

Good condition with minor wear consistent with age, no chips or cracks.

Toast racks are a distinctly British invention, designed to stop steam turning toast soft - so it's nice to find one made purely for export, all the way from Japan.

19cm long.

A pretty little Hammersley dish moulded as a fluted shell, with sprays of lily of the valley in soft green and white and a fine gold rim running right down to the point. Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Lily of the valley is the traditional French May Day flower, given each spring as a token of good luck.

An antique blue and white oval meat platter in the Willow pattern, marked 'Iron Stone China', made in Staffordshire around 1840-1860. 40 x 33cm.

Ironstone was patented by Charles James Mason in 1813 as a tough, cheap alternative to porcelain - perfect for everyday serving dishes like this one.

Wear consistent with age and use; please see the photos for detail.

Antique, English, c.1840-1860. Lovely on a farmhouse dresser or in a blue and white wall display.

A cheerful vintage Italian majolica fruit basket by Cantagalli of Florence, signed Cantagalli to the base. The wavy, scalloped rim has a rich brown drip glaze, and the cream interior is decorated with a bold fruit design: a green pear, an orange, a yellow pear and a cluster of red cherries among green leaves. A woven cane handle arches over the top, threaded through two holes in the rim. Measures 24cm wide.

The Cantagalli factory in Florence ran from 1878 until 1985, and its famous cockerel trademark is a pun on the family name.

In good vintage condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks. There is a fine firing line across the unglazed base, and the cane handle is firmly in place.

Made in Italy, vintage, exact age uncertain. Lovely as a little fruit basket on the table or as an Italian farmhouse-style display piece.

A lovely antique Victorian cobalt blue jug with crisp white relief flowers and scrollwork, divided into panels by raised columns, with a rope-twist band at the neck and a tall scroll handle. 18cm tall.

Cobalt was one of the few pigments that could survive the high firing needed for this deep blue, which is why Victorian potteries chasing Wedgwood's relief ware used it so much.

Good condition with minor wear consistent with age, no chips or cracks.

Victorian, English. Lovely as a flower jug on a grandmillennial dresser.

A lovely little English porcelain plate, hand painted at the centre with a tulip, a full pink rose and mixed garden flowers, framed by a deep cobalt blue border and gilt scrolling foliage on a moulded, scalloped rim. Unmarked, as much English porcelain of the 1830s was. 15cm across, dating from around 1830 to 1840. Proper Hollywood Regency drama for a dresser or a wall group.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks, just a little light rubbing to the gilding.

Cobalt was the costliest colour in a Georgian pottery — the only blue that survived the heat of the glaze firing — which is why it was saved for the grandest pieces.

A 24 piece tea set in Bavarian porcelain, banded in rich cobalt blue with painted peaches, plums, cherries and grapes, with moulded beaded rims and gilt edges. There are four cups, eight saucers, eight side plates, two cake plates, a milk jug and a sugar bowl. The octagonal shapes and strong colour give it a real art deco look on a table. Marked ME Bavaria to the base. Made in Germany in the 1930s.

Bavaria became Germany's porcelain heartland because the Fichtelgebirge hills gave the factories both the china clay and the firewood, so dozens of potteries grew up within a few miles of one another.

Good condition with only minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Three Paragon fine bone china teacups from the Six World Famous Roses series - Rendezvous, Virgo and Mme Ch Sauvage - each with its own big blowsy rose, a gilded scroll handle and a bright gold pedestal foot. Backstamped by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen and signed for rose grower Harry Wheatcroft. Cups only, no saucers. 8cm tall, 11.5cm across including the handle.

Harry Wheatcroft was as famous as his roses - mutton-chop whiskers, very loud suits, and the grower who brought 'Peace' into British gardens.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks; a little rubbing to the gilt on the handles.

Made in England, 1950s-60s. Grandmillennial at its best.

A classic Wedgwood coffee pot in the ever-popular blue and white Willow pattern, printed with the familiar pagoda, bridge, willow tree and pair of birds, with a matching patterned lid and a blue border inside the handle. Backstamped "Willow / Wedgwood / Etruria England" to the base. Stands 20cm tall.

The Willow pattern's tragic tale of two doomed lovers turned into a pair of doves is a well-loved bit of chinoiserie storytelling - though it was actually dreamt up by English potters, not borrowed from an old Chinese legend at all.

Good condition, minor wear only, no chips or cracks.

Made in England, mid-20th century, c.1950s-60s. Perfect for a blue and white collection or a farmhouse-style kitchen dresser.

A small antique Willow pattern platter by Charles J. Case of the Fulham Pottery, marked 'Stone Ware' and C.J.C., c.1855-1865. 21 x 26cm.

The Fulham Pottery was founded by John Dwight in 1672 and is often called the birthplace of English stoneware.

Wear consistent with age and use; please see the photos for detail.

Antique, English, c.1855-1865. A lovely piece for a blue and white collection.

An antique Mason's ironstone dinner plate with a lively blue, orange and yellow chinoiserie floral spray in a blue-bordered central medallion, scattered flowerheads around the scalloped rim and a fine green edge line. Backstamped with the Mason's crown and "Patent Ironstone China". 26cm across.

The Mason family patented ironstone in 1813 - sturdy enough for daily dining yet pretty enough to rival the Chinese porcelain it imitated.

Good condition with just minor wear consistent with age, no chips or cracks.

Victorian/Edwardian, English. A cheerful grandmillennial wall or dresser plate.

A pretty antique Victorian side plate from George Grainger's China Works in Worcester, c.1870-1889. The centre has a generous bouquet of pink cabbage roses and mixed garden flowers, framed by green and buff stippled rococo scroll cartouches, with moulded gilt lug handles and a wavy gilt rim. Printed Geo. Grainger China Works Worcester mark to the back. 14cm across.

Grainger's was Worcester's 'other' porcelain factory for nearly 90 years before Royal Worcester bought it in 1889.

Good antique condition with just light wear and no chips or cracks; a few tiny kiln specks to the underside from the original firing.

Antique, English, c.1870-1889. Lovely on a grandmillennial dresser.

A large oval serving platter in Lord Nelson Pottery's Camelot pattern, with a bold blue diamond design. 33 x 26cm.

Lord Nelson Pottery was the trading name of Elijah Cotton Ltd of Hanley, better known for its colourful chintz wares.

Good vintage condition with minor wear.

English, 1970s. A retro serving dish with plenty of 70s charm.

A generously sized vintage bowl, 27cm wide, with a moulded scroll and scalloped rim shaded in soft apricot-orange that fades into cream. Inside is a spray of flowers: a green cabbage rose, deep pink roses, a white wild rose and small lilac blooms. Unmarked apart from a handwritten number on the base; the style is consistent with English earthenware of the early to mid 20th century.

Soft shaded edges like this were often sprayed on with an airbrush in the Staffordshire potteries from the 1920s.

Good vintage condition with minor wear: fine crazing to the glaze, a few small dark specks in the glaze and light wear to the rim line. No chips or cracks.

English, early to mid 20th century. Lovely in a cottagecore or grandmillennial kitchen.

An antique jug and basin, both moulded as scalloped shells, finished in a soft mother-of-pearl lustre with a blush-pink edge and gilt trim. The jug has a curling dragon-head handle.

Basin 45 x 37cm, jug 27cm tall. Unmarked, c.1880-1910.

The iridescent shimmer comes from a wash of bismuth oxide fired onto the glaze, the same trick once used to give fake pearls their glow.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

A striking piece for a bathroom or bedroom with a whimsigoth or coastal grandmother feel.

A hand-painted Georgian porcelain plate, around 1800–1815, with a spray of pink roses and honeysuckle at the centre and eight little flower sprigs scattered round the well. The border is a cobalt blue feather chain with a fine iron-red swag looping through it, and a gilt line to the edge. No factory backstamp, just the pattern number 208 painted in red on the base. 21.5cm across. Lovely cottagecore look on a dresser or in a plate rack.

Good honest condition for its age with light wear, though there is a hairline running across the well, visible from the back — sound to handle, but one for display rather than dinner.

That number on the base was a pattern book reference, so a customer could walk back into the china shop years later and order matching pieces just by quoting it.

A pretty dip-blue jasperware-style jug with crisp white relief — a classical scene of a woman and child by an urn, with a trailing ivy band round the neck and a ribbed loop handle. Stands 17cm tall. Good condition with just minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Wedgwood invented the jasperware dipping technique back in 1774, after thousands of trial firings to get that soft matte blue just right — the look proved so popular that potteries have been echoing it ever since.

A small ribbed china mug printed with the New Pier at Morecambe, its promenade busy with visitors in their Sunday best, finished with a gilt "A Present from Morecambe" in flowing script on the reverse. The scene has the soft, stippled look of bat-printing rather than ordinary sharp-edged transfer work. Stands 7cm tall, dating to around 1900. Good overall, with a fine hairline crack near the rim and some rubbing to the gilt edge consistent with its age.

Bat printing used soft gelatine "bats" instead of paper transfers, letting potters lift much finer, softer detail from the engraved copper plate than standard transfer-printing allowed.

A Wedgwood Willow pattern serving platter, marked 'Willow' of Etruria & Barlaston, from around the 1950s. 32 x 26cm.

Wedgwood moved from Josiah's original Etruria works to a new factory at Barlaston in 1940, which is why the backstamp names both.

Good vintage condition with minor wear.

English, c.1950s. A classic farmhouse-style serving dish.

A pretty bone china bowl from Chapmans of Longton, decorated with a rust-red transfer print of chrysanthemum branches and finished with a gilt scalloped rim. The body has a swirled, fluted shape with a small side handle. Good condition with just minor wear, no chips or cracks. Measures 15cm wide. Dates from around the 1920s-30s, judging by the "Made in England" backstamp - Chapmans was established in Longton, Staffordshire in 1916, originally trading under the name "Standard China," and the firm eventually became part of the Royal Doulton group decades later. Would work well as a sugar bowl for a tea set, or simply as a stand-alone trinket or serving dish.

A genuinely special find - a large flow blue meat platter in Minton's "Passion Flower" pattern, marked "M & Co." on the base, the printed mark Minton used between 1841 and 1873. It has a softly scalloped rim, a lightly moulded panel to the centre of the well, and bold blue blooms with fringed centres (which give the pattern its name) trailing across the white ground. A generous 53 x 44cm across, properly made for carving a joint at the table.

Minton is one of the great names in English pottery, founded in Stoke-on-Trent in 1793, and later provided the tiled floors for the Houses of Parliament.

There's a chip to the rim edge with some staining, and a fine crack running through the moulded centre panel - a shame on a piece this scarce, so do look closely through the photos. Priced well down from what a perfect example of this documented Minton pattern would fetch, purely to reflect the chip and crack.

Coalport takes its name from the canal and river port built on the Severn to ship coal from the Shropshire coalfields, and the pottery works itself was founded right there in 1795.

A handsome antique Coalport mug, hand-painted and inscribed 'William Dutton, 1851' in gilt alongside a rural riverside scene - a boat, church, cottage and a man fishing on the bank. The reverse carries a pretty spray of wild strawberries. An old dealer's label to the base reads 'Coalport Canal Mug c1851'. Stands 10cm tall. Good antique condition with just some surface grime from age, no chips or cracks.

A well-proportioned Watcombe Pottery motto ware jug from Torquay, Devon, standing 16cm tall. The cream body is banded in deep red-brown at the rim, spout and handle, with a row of hand-painted cobalt dots below the neck and a hand-painted cottage scene — thatched roof, chimney smoke and trees — wrapped around the front. The reverse carries the well-known motto "No road is long with good company", hand-lettered in the same red-brown glaze.

Watcombe Pottery began in 1869 near Torquay, after fine red terracotta clay was discovered on the grounds of Watcombe House. From 1901 onward it became one of the leading makers of Devon's motto ware, turning out these inscribed souvenir pieces for holidaymakers right up until the pottery closed in 1962 — this jug likely dates from the 1930s–1950s, during the peak of that production. Good condition overall, with a small chip to the spout and light crazing to the glaze consistent with age. The base carries the impressed Watcombe mark.

A pretty pierced-rim souvenir plate reading "A Present from Blackpool", with a lightly hand-tinted transfer print of the Tower and Central Promenade, and gilt highlights round the open fretwork border. Marked Germany on the base, roughly 17cm across. Good condition with minor wear consistent with its age, no chips or cracks.

Souvenirs like this were made in Germany especially for the British seaside trade, sold in resort gift shops well before the picture postcard took over as the holiday keepsake of choice. A proper coastal grandmother piece for a shelf or windowsill.

A full hunting display in one go. Six Royal Grafton bone china plates from The Famous Herring Hunting Scenes series, after John Frederick Herring Senior - red-coated huntsmen in top hats taking the hedges across open country. Each is set into a turned dark wood frame with a gilt inner slip, and they come in their original Van Hygan & Smythe Heritage Collection boxes. Alongside is a large Wren fine bone china oval meat plate with huntsmen on bay and grey horses, a pack of hounds, little galloping riders around the scalloped rim and a gilt edge. Plate frames 26cm wide each, platter 42cm wide. Late 20th century.

Herring started out driving and painting stagecoaches on the London to York road, and ended up as Animal Painter to the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria's mother.

Good condition with minor wear and light rubbing to the gilt slip on the frames in places.

A pretty little Royal Worcester sugar bowl, decorated with trailing purple flowers and soft green leaves, with fine lilac line and scroll borders running round the inside and out. Footed round shape, 9cm. The green crown mark on the base dates it to around 1910.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks - just a little fine crazing to the glaze underneath.

The "51" inside that crown mark stands for 1751, the year the Worcester factory was founded, and the ring of dots around it is a date code, with one dot added every year.

Perfect eclectic grandma styling on a dresser, or out with a tea tray.

A boxed set of four Vista Alegre porcelain mugs in the 'Fado' design, each with a different continuous single-line illustration of Portuguese fado life: a fortune teller at a table, a guitarist and singer, a seated figure, and a woman with her washing and a swallow overhead. Designed by Catarina Pestana and made in Portugal. A contemporary piece, a modern vintage, eclectic gift or collector's set.

Designer Catarina Pestana trained at Portugal's National Society of Fine Arts and graduated in Communication Design from Chelsea College of Art in London.

Excellent condition, the mugs unused and still in their original box, though the box itself is a little worn and creased from storage.

A small milk/cream jug in Royal Doulton's 'Countess' pattern — pale pink ground with a dark green swagged garland border and a jewel-effect medallion picked out in green, gilt and rust-orange, styled to look like a piece of jewellery to match the pattern's aristocratic name. Backstamped with the Royal Doulton mark and registration number 523785, which dates the pattern's design to 1908; the Countess range then stayed in production for decades afterwards as part of full tea and dinner services, so this jug could date anywhere from the early 1900s through to the mid-20th century. Stands 9cm tall. Good condition with minor wear consistent with age, though there is a small chip to the rim.

An antique Victorian Wedgwood comport, octagonal, on a raised pedestal foot. It is decorated in the Imari palette, with rust-red and black flowers on a white ground, a rust-red diaper border and gilt scrollwork down the stem to a matching octagonal foot. It has the printed Wedgwood Portland vase mark and the painted pattern number X1566.

23cm wide. Made in England, c.1880-1900.

The red and gilt Imari palette copies Japanese export porcelain shipped from the port of Imari, a look English potteries spent decades trying to match.

Good antique condition, with minor wear to the gilding, no chips or cracks, and a small dark firing blemish on the rim border.

A good piece for an afternoon tea table, with a grandmillennial or old-world feel.

A good-sized Edwardian bowl in Wood & Sons' 'Manilla' pattern - rich cobalt blue, rust orange and gilt scrollwork in the classic Imari palette, framing a plain white well. Semi-porcelain, marked Wood & Sons England to the base. 23cm across, made around 1907-1910.

Fine crazing runs across the glaze and there's some staining to the well, but no chips or cracks.

'Semi-porcelain' was the term Staffordshire potteries used to market a finer, harder earthenware body without claiming the cost or status of true porcelain.

A lovely Victorian/Edwardian blue and white plate, 19cm across, scattered all over with tiny feathery blue floral sprigs and bordered in rich cobalt with a gilt wave-line and neat scalloped white reserve panels. Good condition with just minor wear, no chips or cracks.

The gilding was applied by hand as a dull paste and burnished with an agate stone after firing, which is why it still catches the light well over a century on.

A sweet little hand-thrown mustard pot from Broadway Pottery, glazed turquoise with a dark hand-painted zigzag and dot pattern, and a slot in the lid for a small spoon. Stands 6cm tall, with the maker's name incised into the red earthenware base.

Condition is good with just minor wear, no chips or cracks.

The pottery takes its name from Broadway itself, the Worcestershire village often nicknamed the "Show Village of England" for its honey-coloured Cotswold stone houses.

An antique four-piece part tea set from New Hall of Staffordshire, decorated in the maker's "Yellow Shell" pattern, number 1045 - each piece hand-painted with a golden scallop shell surrounded by iron-red flowers, blue accents and trailing green seaweed fronds, inside a repeating rust-orange border. The set comprises two handleless tea bowls, one handled cup and a slop bowl (the widest piece at 14cm). The double-circle "New Hall" script mark on the base places it in the Georgian/Regency era, roughly 1810-1820.

The slop bowl held used tea leaves and dregs during a Georgian tea service - a practical piece that's often missing from surviving sets today. The pattern is recorded in Geoffrey Godden's reference book on New Hall porcelain.

Hairline cracks are present, as shown in the photos, with no other chips or damage.

Made in Staffordshire, England, circa 1810-20. A genuine bit of antiquarian tea-table history for a collector or a period dresser.

A small Victorian coffee can, c.1880s-1900s, with a ribbed body, hand-painted with a spray of blue flowers, gilt leaf sprigs and bold rust-toned brushwork foliage, finished with a gilt rim. Good condition with light wear to the gilt rim, no chips or cracks. Stands 7cm tall, no saucer.

Coffee cans were made with straight sides rather than a curved teacup shape, so the drink held its heat for longer against a warming stand.

Four antique French faience plates from Digoin & Sarreguemines, each with a different scene from the story of Joan of Arc in black transfer print, captioned in French, inside a blue floral border. The scenes run from Jeanne before the judges at Rouen to her death in 1431. Each plate is marked Digoin & Sarreguemines on the back.

Each plate measures 16cm across. Made in France, early 20th century.

The French call these assiettes parlantes, "talking plates", because each one tells its part of the story in pictures and words.

Good condition for their age, with fine crazing to the glaze and some light age staining, and one plate has a small chip to the underside of the rim, shown in the photos.

A good set for a French country kitchen dresser or a wall display, or for a collector of historical French faience.

An antique jewel of a cup - hand-painted porcelain in soft green shading to white, with sprays of white daisies and golden centres, and a shimmering lustre panel brushed with gold grasses. The scalloped rim and panel borders are trimmed in raised gilt "jewelling". Stands 6cm tall; cup only, no saucer.

The raised gold beading is piped on as a thick paste and fired separately, so it stands proud of the glaze like tiny beads.

Good condition with minor wear to the gilt, no chips or cracks.

Made in Japan, early 20th century (c.1900s-1920s). A pretty grandmillennial cabinet piece.

A moulded green lettuce leaf plate with raised, hand-coloured tomatoes, from Carlton Ware's early Salad Ware range. It has the crown and swallow W&R backstamp and Rd No 721179, which dates it to 1926. A lovely farmhouse-style piece for a dresser or a summer table. 20.5cm across.

Good antique condition, with light crazing to the base and minor wear consistent with age.

Carlton Ware launched its Salad Ware in 1925 and it caught on so quickly that rival potteries were soon making their own versions.

A collection of five Royal Doulton character jugs, each marked with the Royal Doulton backstamp and its name on the base: The Falconer, The Gardener, Bacchus, Don Quixote and The Viking.

Beautifully detailed faces and strong colours - the Falconer has his bird perched as the handle, Bacchus wears his crown of grapes, and the Viking and Don Quixote come in full helmets.

Royal Doulton's character jugs were introduced by designer Charles Noke in 1934, and they've been one of the most collected lines in British pottery ever since.

Mixed dates from the 1950s to the 1990s. All in good vintage condition with clear maker's marks, except for a tiny chip on the Falconer (shown in the photos).

A lovely early Carlton Ware piece from their much-loved Lettuce & Tomato salad ware range - a moulded green cabbage leaf plate with three hand-applied tomatoes, marked W&R Stoke-on-Trent, Carlton Ware, Made in England. Good condition with minor wear; some fine crazing to the glaze on the reverse, typical of a piece this age. 21cm across.

This lettuce and tomato pattern was one of the very first designs in Carlton Ware's Salad Ware range when it launched in the mid-1920s, and it proved so popular that rival potteries were soon copying it.

Hand-thrown pottery jug in deep cobalt blue, with a reactive glaze that breaks into a frosted, crystalline texture where it pools near the rim. Nice weight, with a pulled handle and a shaped pouring spout. Unglazed footring shows the pale stoneware body underneath, with a small impressed mark on the base that isn't clear enough to make out - no maker identified. Measures 13cm tall.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Reactive glazes rely on unpredictable chemistry in the kiln, so no two jugs like this one ever glaze quite the same way.

A lovely deep bowl in antique Carlton Ware, rich cobalt blue with gilding inside and out. The outside has a wide gilt band of flowers framing chinoiserie panels of pagodas, boats, birds and a full moon, and the inside has a gilt pagoda scene. It stands on a short foot rim and has a gilt rim, with a very art deco feel. Made by Wiltshaw & Robinson at the Carlton Works, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and carrying their crown backstamp used before 1926. Measures approx. 20cm across. Dates from around 1920–25.

This Kang Hsi-inspired chinoiserie style was a hallmark of Carlton Ware's most creative period in the 1920s, under chief designer Enoch Boulton.

Good condition with minor wear.

A green stoneware storage jar from Hornsea Pottery's Heirloom range, with the signature turned wood lid. Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Designed by John Clappison in 1966, this range was such a hit that within a year it took over Hornsea's entire production capacity.

Stands 12cm tall, 1970s-80s.

A charming hand-painted ceramic teapot shaped like stacked apples with pink blooms and green leaves, on a basket-weave body with a blue and white diamond detail. Signed Susan Winget on the base and made by Certified International. 18cm tall.

Susan Winget is an American folk artist whose whimsical farmhouse designs have become very collectable.

Good condition with minor wear.

Made in Thailand, late 20th century. A cheerful cottagecore teapot for display or use.

A small antique Regency serving platter in the blue and white Willow pattern, made in Staffordshire around 1800-1825, with a lovely heavy patina. 25 x 20cm.

Early Willow pieces like this were printed from hand-engraved copper plates, so each factory's version differs slightly in the bridge, the figures and the birds.

Heavy patina and wear consistent with age; please see the photos for detail.

Antique, English, c.1800-1825. Perfect for a blue and white dresser display.

A hand-painted Imari-pattern trio — teacup, saucer and matching side plate — in rust-red, cobalt and green, with a gilt greek-key border and gilt rim. Backstamped Diamond China, made by the Blyth Porcelain Company, England. Good condition with minor wear consistent with its age, no chips or cracks.

Diamond China was the trade name of the Blyth Porcelain Company of Longton, Staffordshire, later renamed A.T. Finney & Sons.

Plate measures 18cm across.

A cream-ground coffee pot and matching milk jug, decorated with a bold rust-orange and black stylised leaf band and a fine gilt line to the rims. Kun-Lun backstamp reading "Made in China". Coffee pot 23cm tall.

Kun-Lun was a Chinese export brand sold widely in the West in the 1970s, its punchy patterns tapping into the decade's taste for warm, earthy colours.

Good condition with minor wear consistent with age, no chips or cracks.

Made in China, 1970s. Great 70s MCM style.

Two hand-painted plates from Rhodes, made by Seva Keramik and finished with 24K gold. One has a pair of exotic birds among carnations and tulips, the other a blue vase spilling with flowers, both on white with deep cobalt and gold borders. Each is 19cm across, dates from around the 1980s, and has a hanger already fitted on the back.

The floral plate is in good condition with only minor wear; the bird plate has a small chip to the rim, which barely shows once it's hanging.

The flower-and-bird style copies 16th century Iznik pottery, which Victorian collectors wrongly believed came from Rhodes - and the name stuck.

An antique Victorian sauce ladle in the blue and white Chatsworth pattern by Keeling & Co, trading as 'Late Mayers' from the Dale Hall Works, Longport, Staffordshire. A soft floral spray sits inside the bowl with a gilt line to the rim, and the handle has its own brushed streaks of blue and gilt. 20cm long.

Flow blue gets its soft, hazy edge because the cobalt was made to bleed slightly into the glaze during firing.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Made in Staffordshire, England, c.1890s. A lovely antiquarian piece for a blue and white collector.

A big vintage Scheurich Rumtopf from West Germany in a rich glossy red, with "Rumtopf" and cherries, plums and apples raised in relief around the body. It has its original lid and two side handles, with the mould number 204-28 and W. Germany on the base. 30cm tall.

A Rumtopf is filled layer by layer through the summer as each fruit ripens, topped up with rum and sugar, then opened at Christmas.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Made in West Germany, 1960s-70s. A cheerful MCM piece for a kitchen dresser.

Adams Royal Ivory Titian Ware, made in Staffordshire, England in the 1920s. Six plates and a matching serving platter in the fruit design, with lemons, grapes and berries in yellow, green, blue and red on a soft ivory ground, a good fit for a farmhouse-style or french country table. Plates measure 25cm, platter 34 x 27cm.

Adams have been potting in Staffordshire since 1657, and named their Titian Ware after the Venetian painter for its warm, rich colours.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks, though there is fine crazing to the glaze throughout, as you'd expect from ware of this age.

A 16-piece Susie Cooper coffee set in the Fragrance pattern, C.485: six coffee cups, eight saucers, a cream jug and an open sugar bowl. Each piece has a soft pink rose with blue and violet flowers, a scatter of tiny dots and a grey-green fern-leaf border around the rims. Each piece has the Susie Cooper signature backstamp with the star mark, "Bone China England Fragrance C.485".

Susie Cooper started her own pottery in 1929 at just 27, and in 1950 she bought the Jason China works in Longton so she could make bone china like this.

In good vintage condition with only minor wear and no chips or cracks. A couple of tiny kiln specks under the glaze on a base are from when it was made.

Made in England in bone china, c.1953-66. A pretty set for a grandmillennial or cottagecore table.

A blue and white Georgian teacup and saucer made by Hilditch & Son of Lane End, Staffordshire, between 1822 and 1830. The transfer-printed scene shows a chinoiserie figure in a wide hat carrying a tray, with a smaller attendant figure beside him, set among flowering branches and framed by a border of white blossoms. Both pieces carry the H&S heart-shaped wreath mark.

Hilditch & Son only traded for around eight years, and most of their output left the factory unmarked, so a piece stamped with their wreath mark is much harder to find than the many attributed examples.

Good condition for its age, with light surface crazing and gentle staining consistent with genuine wear, no chips or cracks.

The saucer measures 14cm across. Made in England, circa 1822-30. A nice small piece of antique Staffordshire for a blue and white collection or a granny chic dresser.

A king size Royal Worcester porcelain egg coddler in the "A Skippety Tale" pattern, decorated all round with a grey rabbit holding a carrot, a hedgehog, a mouse on an apple, a butterfly and wildflowers. It has the original chrome screw lid with ring handle. 10cm tall. Works just as well as a little pot on a kitchen windowsill or dressing table.

Royal Worcester has made egg coddlers since the 1890s, and collectors now hunt down the many patterns made over the years.

Good condition with minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Made in England, c.1970s-80s. A charming cottagecore or burrowcore piece.

A lovely matching pair from Beswick's "Zorba" range - a coffee pot and hot water jug in glossy mission-brown glaze, both with their original lids. Each has the same tapered shape with a band of raised geometric relief around the base and the impressed Beswick England mark underneath (pattern numbers 2229 and 2211). The coffee pot stands about 22cm high and the hot water jug about 19cm.

Zorba was designed by Graham Tongue, better known for Beswick's animal figures - single pots turn up often, but a matching pair with both lids is a nicer find.

Excellent condition throughout.

Made in England, late 1960s-early 1970s. Proper MCM / 70s back-to-nature style for a retro kitchen.

A large hand-painted bowl in the Thai Benjarong style, with raised enamel flowers on a deep red ground, bands of gilded Arabic calligraphy, a pearly lustre glaze and a scalloped gilt rim. Marked Al-Abeer on the base - made in Thailand for the Middle Eastern market. 21cm across.

Benjarong means "five colours" in Thai, and the technique was once reserved for the royal court of Siam.

Good condition with only minor wear, no chips or cracks.

Made in Thailand, late 20th century (around the 1980s-90s). A rich, eclectic expat aunt piece for a sideboard or display cabinet.

A pretty pair of Wedgwood blue jasperware pin dishes, each with a raised white classical scene to the centre - one framed by a fluted rim, the other by a trailing grapevine border. Each 11cm across.

Jasperware was developed by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s, inspired by ancient Roman cameo glass, with the white figures adapted from antique gems and reliefs.

Good condition with just minor wear; each has a small fleck to the underside near the maker's mark, otherwise no chips or cracks.

Made in England, mid-to-late 20th century (1960s). A grand tour touch for a dressing table.

Made by Crown Staffordshire Porcelain Co Ltd at the Minerva Works in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent — a firm founded in 1889 by brothers Thomas Allen and Spencer Green, whose intertwined-script mark was designed to echo the far grander Crown Derby name of the day. This jug carries the earlier style of Crown Staffordshire backstamp, used before "Estd 1801" and "Fine Bone China" were added to the wording in the 1930s, placing it in the early decades of the twentieth century, most likely 1906–1920s. Measuring 7cm wide, it's decorated with a repeating rust-red floral sprig pattern beneath a double gilt band, with further gilt picking out the rim and handle. Good condition with minor wear consistent with age, including some light gilt rubbing to the rim and gentle staining to the footrim; no chips or cracks.

Early Victorian porcelain teacup, c.1840s. Moulded shell-and-scroll rim picked out in cobalt blue and gilt, a trailing gold clover vine around the body and a curled C-scroll handle - a proper clovercore piece for a dresser shelf, or for a candle, rings and odds and ends. Unmarked, as much English porcelain of this date is. Good condition, no chips or cracks; the gilding has rubbed along the rim with age.

Cups like this were sold by the dozen as part of a full tea service, which is why so many now turn up on their own.

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Octagonal jug in the classic Imari palette of cobalt blue, iron red and gold, with a moulded serpent handle picked out in red and green. Stands 16cm tall. The base carries the Victoria Ironstone royal arms mark, a decorative range made from around the 1990s in the style of Victorian Mason's ironstone.

Good condition with only minor wear, no chips or cracks.

The snake or "hydra" handle was a Mason's signature from the 1810s and has been copied ever since, outliving the pottery that invented it.

A small English porcelain cream jug in the classic "helmet" shape, popular for cream and sauce jugs through the Georgian and Regency periods — the pointed spout and rounded body were said to resemble a Grecian soldier's helmet, giving the style its name. Hand-painted with a basket of flowers in pink, red, blue and green enamels, beneath a red diaper-trellis border and a fine iron-red dentil edge. No maker's mark is present, just a small hand-painted pattern number to the base, consistent with early 19th century production. 15cm wide. There is an old hairline crack running through the base and into the handle, visible in the photos; otherwise good with just minor wear.

A medium antique Regency oval serving platter in the blue and white Willow pattern, made in Staffordshire around 1810-1830. 27 x 22cm.

Early Willow pieces were printed from hand-engraved copper plates, so each factory's version has its own little differences in the bridge, figures and birds.

Wear consistent with age and use; please see the photos for detail.

Antique, English, c.1810-1830. Lovely on a farmhouse dresser.