Antiques Roadshow UK Series 11 Episode 1 Liverpool, Merseyside

[Music] for this first program in our new series of the Antiques Roadshow we've come to the banks of the River Mersey and the city of Liverpool the city of Penny Lane of the Beatles and some of our finest entertainers but it was of course the river itself it was the Mersey that brought this city great prosperity in the 19th and early 20th centuries Liverpool takes its name from the mythical live--i bird the two of whom seem rather precariously perched on top of the Royal Live a building overlooking what was once one of the busiest ports in Europe and one that played a very important part in many industries especially the pottery trade they shipped from here locally made tin glazed earthenware known as Liverpool Delft and for over 50 years good quality porcelain appropriately the finest public collection of Liverpool in Britain is in the city's museum but many mysteries about its origins still remain for the simple reason that the Liverpool Potter's didn't mark what they produced and the porcelain in particular is sometimes confused with Worcester it's certainly true to say that many pieces attributed to Worcester were made in Liverpool and vice-versa as you can see we've attracted a very large crowd here to some George's Hall in the centre of the city surely one of the finest buildings ever to have housed an Antiques Roadshow and among our experts in this first program many familiar faces from past series on pottery and porcelain for instance there's David batty John Sandin and also a welcome newcomer to the show terrence locust two other well-known roadshow regulars are hilary kay and erik knowles and casting his cactus eye over the furniture this week christopher Paris 1660s all that I feel like an introduction is necessary to your friend here so what do you what do you call him call him Sammy Sammy yes Sammy at first class I mean whenever I see anybody holding a buncha like this I must admit my first thought goes to George Formby but in this situation I think he he's got more of a look of Viv Richards the cricketer about him doesn't say well you know the history of it don't you like me to tell I'm here to listen well apparently he's a replica of a lovely minstrel in the Caribbean at the turn of the century and that is the story behind he's modeled on a true man yes yes well I can I can say all I can really add to that is that the fact that is obviously they've evolved from the Venetian blackamoors that were popular during the 17th century and obviously is more of a sort of a Christy Minstrels hype isn't it I know that that they were coming over to to Britain certain in the last quarter of the 19th century but this chap I think started off life not in America not in the Caribbean and not not in this country I think it's not life in Austria I think so but I'll be frank we I'm it's too heavy for me to leave but I did manage a sneak preview just before we put him on and I couldn't see any marks and than anything whatsoever but he's very very reminiscent of the word that was made by the Gold Scheider Factory and there were a certain number of this type of object also made by the Royal Docks Factory as well his the actual technique is quite clever because what they've done they've used on the topic they've used sort of majolica glazes to which were popular in from around about the a teenage about 1870s 1880s and they've got this very sort of nice sort of matte effect I can see that the small repairs on a because if you look very carefully I'm afraid that when I was a young woman trying to remove the banjo to watch it well we think that's lever today when they can so on fingers but the Victorians did it here when they stitched his finger stone yes in lemarchal oh they did it well he could be earning a fortune today with the crowds that we've got outside I mean have you given any thought to what really we need to little box well I don't really put the pen is it what do you what do you think is worth I really haven't any idea no idea I've never looked at him from a monetary point of view I just kept him because I loved him and I have no idea well I would suspect it would be around the 1500 Carl in fact it's only partly the remains of a complete Australia if it sounded beginning here you'll see out of the 26 old plates that the first few are missing actually I got this if somebody was passing by a building sites and as they're passing by the first three pictures of plates have been torn out to Kimberley fire on the demolition site would take on the first three I'll eat and he jumped on that and got that I bought it off this did he actually have no idea of what he was doing oh I hadn't even looked in the demolition person no it's just you just using it just to Kindle the fire severe and only well it's a great sadness because the value and the pressure of books like that saw that they are actually complete but it's very nice that you do you did rescue it because otherwise the whole thing would have gone the actual process is that the plates the views are etched where the line is drawn to a copper plate with a sharp needle and the actual line is bitten a tenacity so the actual small lines here are all edging and the darknet toe is equity was at which was a press has developed in the 18th century which allowed one to fill in the shadows between the etched lines and the drawn lines and all the coloring is by hand and what usually happened was that when the set have been printed they were given two teams of young girls who would actually be responsible for applying an individual color somebody would do the blues somebody would do the brands and possibly there was a kind of head girl at the end of the queue who would then make one or two touches and changes to bring the whole thing together the value of the particular piece I don't think it's immensely valuable but each individual plate must be worth some kind of 50 pounds so you've got about 20 on there so that's over a thousand pounds but it is a great chain to say that the first through the first few are missing and it would have been worth considerably more if it had got its original boards and the covers and the first is the first few plate well even stucked in a pile like this from the quality of the porcelain I'm sure these are all going to be my sling plates well I look at them can you tell me anything about them yourself not very much really I have had the majority of them given to me some of them as long as 30 years ago and and a couple of them I applied myself about 20 years ago were there about plates like these were mason made as parts of big dinner services I'm sure they would all originally had been quite large yes and they're all in a way copies there in the style of a mixture of Chinese and oriental themes but these were designed at Meissen in the 18th century and the factory continued making the designs for very long period in the Chinese style yeah they all got the poison device and clearly the mice and Mark of the cross swords which we find from the beginning of the 18th century when the factory first started up they used the arms of sacristy in the factory back stamp of the swords and dating from the mark is very difficult in ricin because they did use the same mark over a long period I see these nice clear large marks with the curved swords indicates that there are quite late days as we think of myself there me from the end of the last century and possibly into the beginning of this but at that time the quality of the factors were was very fine indeed the execution of these is really superb I like the coloring as well that's very that's like that there were so different in their way but they live together because they're from the same that's right yes plates like these are now becoming very collectible indeed these straightforward service plates tend to be worth in excess of about a hundred pounds each and the more colorful one is quite a bit more than that like this that's really quite splendid with the chickens and birds that one looks a little bit earlier yes this is fairly unclear mark but I should've been that's probably of eighteen twenty eighteen thirty days yes but lovely quality decoration yes I have actually two of those but a pair of them yes a pair like that's mr. Bassman did I suppose they're going to be five or six hundred pounds for a nice pair like that really is nice yes it is a bit I don't think I've ever seen anything even like it no it is my son again and again the cost swords marks but in our Nouveau style Art Nouveau from 1900 the Meissen factory didn't make a great deal of Art Nouveau but what they did was splendid designs they employed lead leading artist of the period to create wonderful patterns for them and the flow of the design is their traditional underglaze blue painting it's the same as the other Chinese style pieces but brought up to date in the 1900s and that's a rare plate now I suppose a good iron if oh my someplace is going to be 400 pounds so you've got interesting a necessity the collection here lucky to see them all yeah thank you thank you thank you very much I have the faintest idea what that's wheedle people to really wants me to play it's not a fossil but it's called petra birth very very peculiar when were you buying mr. big vipers what you haven't got curiously enough for any of the movable ones there they made them where you press something here and the jaw moves something down which is great fun oh yes now I begin to see we've got traces of the original wooden yeah it's it's a true bird's nest then there's been solidified in mind you'd never find another one I've never ever seen anything like it before I've no idea what these worth have all these do you wanna think about it at all it's just incredible isn't it this is an absolutely exquisite dress isn't a family one yes it's my great grandmother's wedding dress this is round about 1840 I think absolutely typical of that yes period the style with the tight waist and the dipping bodice it would be war and I think was a criminal in or something it would indeed within the curdling but what I think is so lovely about it is that the silk is in fact a beautiful condition it has been an awfully soft some combination of lilac and mushroom beautiful these Detailers lovely lovely buttons which are purely decorative in fact because the dress I'm hooks down the back they're covered with crochet I think don't you it's a needle up it is more embroidery rather than crochet yes and I think another detail that's so lovely on this is the way instead of just a straight forward seen all the seams have been piped have a lovely blessing and I believe you brought a lovely shawl as a shawl I think it was worn at the same time the same period that's very Liza Paisley shawl co-chair Bailey same part of the world and I think I think this would might be just slightly earlier in dates than the wedding really dating probably from the 18th the aging for yes yes these are certainly much more sought-after now than they later Paul overpay so they yes and absolutely and again this seems to be in perfect condition and if we look at the back completely unfading it's almost the same pattern on the back that's right is completely completely untrained has kept its color yes this is unusual have you ever thought about the value of these things I haven't no I didn't know how you could write well the thing is that a costume of this date and in this condition is quite rare is it and if it were coming up at option one would expect it to certainly fetch a thousand pounds which properties address itself really and I would think again a shawl like this would now fetch about five four hundred pounds of there yes now textiles and costumes have come very much you know into the collecting area a few years ago perhaps you might do something else to page 3 page 3 codes the interesting thing about postcards is actually the type of cards that you could show to your made ones that are really valuable because everybody had to know very few people would put together a collection like this really showing for the time and it was what 1917 they're pretty naughty drawings they're not as if they're photographs but I mean really to to to be seeing all this in 1917 was a bit strong wasn't it tell me how you got hold of them well I've done a job for a lady and she paid me those cuts he's thought like they were a bit nervous he liked that take a seat she wanted to get rid of it she's a bit embarrassed to have them it washes well if the job was worth less than three thousand pounds he done alright because this is worth three thousand pounds so you've got over 300 cards there on average worth ten pounds each with the job worth less than 3000 well I think you've done all right there the Stanley Reid are very well known artists has got paintings in the National Gallery he's got paintings in the leaving Southport and so D'Amato painted that is painted every Lord mental level group forever you know as long as healing is is that now what is Widow gave me this which is simply because I went to went to see her few times to cheer losing when I just thought they were just struggling it's so fresh it's a marvelous portrait and it's kind of thrown on it's just painted with great bravura it's just painted with great confidence that he's put down a brushstroke and and the brushstroke means something it's biased approvingly confident the children [Music] five of those well they're different there of course Susie Cooper everybody knows about Susie but they're still very good crown work spells them about 1935 these assaults about going you know she's still working on she's 84 and still very nice to finally be gone I'm disappointed nothing on this cresting or top rail matches the other parts of the chair we've looked at you've got a flower head Geass molding I love the initials a marriage chair WD t and EB with WT on that brother sweep it appear snitch there on too hot this isn't that wonderful just two little hearts hanging and the date 1 676 1676 that to me looks as though I'm sure it's original carving an old 17th century wood I'm not convinced it belonged to that chair oh he presumably always thought it has its room so I think this is why one has to step back to analyzing used to start with let me just turn it round see if there's anything we can spot if I just angle it like that right well two things come to mind immediately the metal straps they don't look very old at all no now that could be either because the top was added comparatively recently or it could have just have been a strength phone so that doesn't really confirm or deny what we're looking at them what is interesting is the color of the wood up here very very light color under the Polish where it's worn away there's absolutely no wear and tear no undercutting here where it's been carved out very very flat indeed I'd really do feel by looking at that that this top is probably from another chair of exactly the same period Oh and somebody's added into this new chair contemporary chair very very difficult issue but I just don't like the coloring if you look at this I just move it slightly you can see and if you run your finger along there you can just feel yes that only unevenness that's a lovely sign that is adzing it's not really done with a plane I'm done with an ad so you chipped away to give that rather nice amazing rippled surface which is typical of the construction of the 17th century chairs somewhat crude compared with the coloring very very creams but remember it's only a joiners chair and in fact accrued stage of manufacture Humphrey made chair so it presents a problem it's a lovely chair nice condition nice patination but a made-up piece surprises certain people are now making this sort of chair modern reproductions of fantastic quality and if it was an original chair I'm a modern reproduction it could easily cost you three thousand pounds to buy good look but I'm frayed being an original chair with a slight bit of gorging over say between top and back it might be worth 800 pounds possibly a thousand still not a bad price but not that much modern copy I'm surviving that it should be less than their modern coverage so it's quite often the case part resist [Music] sorry to say he's not very old again it's sort of 1930s literally just going to squirt the powder too but color pools every series of the Antiques Roadshow produces a large volume of letters from you our audience and one of the questions you most frequently asked is how do our experts arrive at the figures they give as valuations well the first thing to say is that that can never be a precise science it's an estimate an expert estimate on what a particular item might fetch at auction however many of the people who come to an Antiques Roadshow are not particularly interested in auction prices since they've no intention of selling what they want is evaluation for insurance purposes and that has to be a higher figure since it must guarantee the actual cost of replacement so there are two valuations really option prices and evaluation for insurance as I'm sure you know it's a form watch obviously in the shape of the ball it's Swiss and accommodated around 1910 it's decorated in particularly blue pink translucent enamel over a machine turned grant that I hasten to add is silver and not gold things that stand out from other normal all watches are the fact that you wind it by turning the bezel and of course the hand setting is by depressing this little pin and also turning the bezel some lesser quality ones have a normal watch to my pointer on them these rose diamonds here are particularly pretty and most unusual okay normally there is just a loop straight onto the chain at the top the chain itself is decorated in the same pink enamel with little bands of white and all-in-all a charming piece the market at the moment would obviously prefer this to be in gold and if it were in build it would be really well over twice as much as a silver one I was told it was platinum is it not well I'll be quite frank and say that I'm not able to get into it at this stage if it were platinum and it would be lovely if it was if it were platinum I would put a value on it in the region of two and a half to three thousand pounds if it's silver which at this stage I feel it might be I would say between about seven and nine hundred so that's hope you also get better it's by John Dolby of York who painted in the middle of the 19th century he was active between 1848 eighteen mid 1850s the exact birth dates are not known there seem to be a family of door B painters but the actual connection between them is actually not established it shows a hunting scene and some bear falls by the horses but can you you say you have another painting a pair to it is that right well it's very similar to this one only there's a Maine horse going in the opposite direction front of the wall just a symbol yes and the other hunters and the diskens yes and what about the history of the paintings how did they come into have you had them for a long time or two being in the family well I've had them for about 36 years it was no friend of the families who died and his old housekeeper asked me to go to the house and choose anything I wanted of his belongings you know as a memento and I've always liked these pictures so I chose the pictures and some a wedge where plates and an old grandfather clock from house grandfather clock and another little pain and I wanted to give us something Jordan take anything I did give her five pounds you know as a spot of it yes because it makes you feel slightly better about the whole thing yes it's very nice well it's a it's a pity you didn't bring the other one in because it was nice to actually have seen that he is not a fantastically important artist but he is a well-known sporting painting artist there's a certain influence of Henry orchid who was a very well-known English artist the beginning of the 19th century and there's I think a little bit of the same type of painting as possibly of Haring quite a tight quality there carefully and quite meticulously done and I would have thought that the valley was something between fifteen to twenty thousand for the pair [Music] yes very nice thank you very much but I came down here for the pleasure overs it's been a great pleasure life's full of mysteries for me especially on this program and one of the mysteries that I've that we've got here which is eluded me for years and I'm I'm quite happy to admit it is this this mark at the top this M II which is quite obviously a sort of a foundry mark but goodness knows who it is I've known there's bound to be somebody watching who knows nothing no doubt they'll write in but anyway the other point at the bottom it we've got here the word muster shots which is sort of German word for registered copyright so that's what lends me to think that that they started life in Germany the other point is another thing I've actually mentioned it they look like bronze but they're actually cast a cast on yeah cast on let's turn them around cast iron and actually given us an Apache nation to represent give the resemblance of Ron's easy at first glance to say oh these must be the work of Alphonse Mooka it's easy to say that it's another thing to prove it but they are very much in the manner of Alphonse mu ker who was a post wrist and sculptor working at the turn of the century who was patronized by the great Sarah Bernhardt and he has this very very distinctive style when people talk about Art Nouveau it can get very confusing first of all they confuse aren't niveau with on deco and then there are certain aspects partner though which completely alien to one another what we're looking at here is what I would call this sort of very sort of French poster as opposed to the more severe style that you get from Glasgow and Vienna very French very much drawing from nature I mean you've only got to look at the composition of these sort of dream maidens holding aloft I mean this this lady here looks like she's sort of out of a Waterhouse painting sort of a a diaphanous climbeth but I think the actual that their value is very much in their sort of artistic appeal they're rare objects they're not the sort of thing that turns up regularly certainly the first that have turned up on a roadshow in the sort of eight years I've been doing it and I don't know they're very difficult to put a value whenever you ever you know I do know it's not that we should first time we've actually that knee won't see them or write anything about them well I think you would have no problem realizing in the region of around a thousand possible I mean they are so it's not as a care or II as a parent as a but you know it's it's always difficult and in turn you one cannot be 100% and when it comes to own an object which I've got though immediate precedent what a novel locking mechanism this is push open and here a little rocking couch that's rather rare did you see that full no I've never said it well the guy have it's typical for it ingenious Regency early Victorian typing lots and catches they started putting on I love that here of course we have the precursor to the wardrobe as we see it today the gentleman's wardrobe worpress were these sliding shelves I suppose it's probably the by the middle of a century when they started to have coat hangers and they would all of these would be pulled out thrown away burnt on the fire or perhaps even use a little phrase or something and then coat hangers will be put into hanger main man's jacket up and down like that sometimes and thank heavens it hasn't happened to this all of these drawers are taken out and put back in with no linings so that our full dress or coat can hang all the way down luckily and the charm about this is an absolutely original untouched that condition the color of this is absolutely magnificent we just shut the door that how does that that locks it does yes when you closed out that will hold that one keeps it firm then you can just lock it away yeah but the color of this is quite extraordinary mahogany you should probably know yeah flame figured mahogany you may have heard that expression used flame figure mahogany is from the the top of the tree if you imagine my hand is the tree bright tree trunk yes and here the branches coming out yeah at this stage the tussle between the branches and the trunk trunk wanted to go up on the branches wanted to go out yeah you get this wonderful cut of mahogany it's got the crutch or curl of the tree yeah and it's used to the best effect I've seen for a long time on this particular wardrobe I can't resist us look in here though here we've got some of the nicest little gilt metal hanging hooks I've ever seen little acorn finial to put your jacket over all gilt with water gilt brass very very nice quality and this interesting enough machine cap screw so it's a very early part of machinery yeah with the end just chopped off because it wouldn't actually go in the wooden support which is quite an unusual thing but typical of the quality of this type of Regency work to date something like this is quite difficult it's early 19th century to be more specific it could be as late perhaps as the Regency period 18 10 or 20 or even phase 1830 difficult to actually pin down exactly if you thought about how much this were no idea we have a valuation which is something like 20 years old which was about a thousand pounds about a thousand pounds oh well that's quite an imaginative valuation then 20 years ago because quite often the prices can jump dramatically over that period I think something like this today it'll certainly be worth 3,000 pounds and that could just be a little bit conservative you got size color and period and original state what a wonderful thing to bring on the road here yes thank you thank you very much this is a wonderful thing very flashy you can see here did you see those white star yes yes well that's distinctive of the back of our factory oh I see yeah in the same way that this one here which is the most and emile Fiore one which is worth considerably less I should say has not only the same white star canes but all said how do you see those those green arrow yes that's another distinctive feature back row so you have to know these little tricks to know what identify them it's in cataloguing term it's called upset muslin you see was it simulate masculine they're all individual pieces of glass they're placed on a base and then another a molten glass is then poured on top and then then it smooths over yours has a very slight bruise here which you can see yes but that can either be taken out it relatively very small cost and would not affect the value at all okay now we come to the question of the value don't be yes select I just tell you I think that one being more standard practice is worth about $200 this one so we want to get I wouldn't like to have no idea I think it's probably it because of the rarity the subject matter is certainly worth in excess one thousand dollars the cost as much as fifteen hundred pleased do surprise me surprised we just grabbed this man on a show that's Davenport yes and a very unusual one that blew my 1819 yes eighty ten twenty sprig dog hunting scene lots of people did it that particular ones nice big nose it's been used for what licorice licorice licorice story that goes out on the family this is well this is what what in North East Lancashire we call a sugar pot yeah or a sugar cop cuz when you move into your new house you're not gonna neighbors next door I said can I have a for a cup of sugar I see you presented with that you say it's quite a standard trick well I know he's caught article and Antony and I believe the name of the picture is called spring but I can't tell you any more than that yes but he's the son of a Victorian landscape painter and so he's always known as junior any junior and unlike his father he signs with a monogram yeah which has received which is the Jian of the a together and again unlike his father he was caught up in the new revolution and he went to France like so many of his generation in the 1880s to study under blast Buster in the pass and painted very beautiful realist oil panties and then came back to London and in the 1890s his oil paintings changed more to this the female figure nude figure in the landscape all females in the landscape and really this is this painting is 1899 but here were at the almost at the end of his oil painting career he then went on to paint the most beautiful watercolors and really I think probably gave up oil painting altogether but we can see the whole joy of light which is the influence of the French Impressionists and the whole play of golden lights and the flowers and everything I think it's very beautiful I've always loved this as I say I've grown up with it all my life and I've come to love it very much but you've had it you've had a restored relatively recent never had anything done to it at all we've never had anything done it's never been cleaned or restored well it's preserved most beautiful thank you and I don't know whether you look where the value comes in to a few or not they're not really for for me it's it's always nice to know I suppose what one should insure it for something like that well it's it is difficult but I think it's you know a fabulous work and I would have thought somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000 pounds and no expectation made a happy family thank you this is lovely little cannon this obviously been used as the starting gun for a yacht club or something like that but I should tell you now that it didn't originally start out life as that in fact it's it started out as a considerably as an offensive weapon and that little ones like this and then a swivels because if I pull this pin out the bag I can actually lift this up and down and this mounting on here would either be put in the front of a small naval launch or stuck on the gunnel of a ship and when you had borders or something like trying to swarm over the gunnel you could pick it up like that put your match into the vent and they would be a large charge of shots would be fired into them and it would be considerably more effective than just firing one or two solid balls and the carriage is Victorian and I would say something like about 1860 odd but the tube is about 1800 to 1820 and it's rather interesting in that it's made out of gun metal which is a form of brass it's a copper zinc alloy yeah most of these are actually made in iron and cast iron and probably this was made for a sort of merchant ship it's not it's not a naval piece because there are no naval markings on it worried to be a naval piece they would have the Kings cipher on there but it probably made for a merchant ship or an East Indiaman or something like that just largely as an anti-personnel weapon do you have the other one to it I suspect there probably is another and then normally I'll put out in pairs they it was given to my father in about 1930 by a retired sea captain and the house it came from had this one and another one each side of the front door I don't know what happened to the other one oh that's a real shame in terms of value this would easily make a thousand pounds the boat option probably would not say so the pair unfortunately which doesn't exist anymore would be somewhere around about three to four thousand pounds opening up we've got a lovely multi-state cross mounted in gold set with his lovely four tablecloth diamonds little tiny rubies at the top you know and up all the crowns and a very nice memorial inscription on the back died they were all ghosts 1821 lovely piece of jewelry melting gold it's a nice commemorative piece it was just a sort thing that will be brought today by any collector but the special thing about this is the actual inscriptions on the box itself so in this particular respect the box is probably worth as much as the piece itself now the the nice thing here is that you've got all the provenance the inscription on the Box reads in remembrance of the persecution sufferings and death of Caroline of Brunswick the injured Queen of England it's a piece of English history and it's a lovely piece to have if my memory serves me correct Caroline was the wife of Joseph force who came to the throne realm by 1818 in 1820 so she must have died round about this particular time at that time she'd actually left him and gone back to it II understand and came back and was actually shot out of the coronation I'm sure he must have done a bit of research on this yourself how far did you get with it well I got the monist full story right up to the time she set out of it the abbey and then when he was crowned king they opened the doors and said god save the king and she was very disappointed she's not making cream but what a lovely piece of history were not for the role connections and the problems that you have and it's always difficult problems well here you've got a chattering nurse it's a sort of piece that I've just said to you at auction today would certainly make two to three thousand but you know with that sort of province and the history that you've got it would certainly at least I think trouble that's all the money and ev2 collectors got together I'm sure that there be a battle rod have it what what do you think this is that's an object what's the T part definitely you think it's definitely a teapot I do I wish I could be so daft about why do y you socialize the teapot well my mother-in-law told me when she died she was 86 and she's been dead about 14 to 15 years and she said when she was a little girl that they used to use it as a tea pot and she said they father used to say to her don't sit on that chair over there and I put this teapot straight and she said that little C it's a snake charging for you and she says to me I really used to think it was a snake because the head of it seemed to be and she said we really used it all the time as a tea / iso 200 didn't get the program I said that because it's not entirely clear whether in fact these were tea pots or whether they were punch pots oh we were simply doing it tonight no I mean would serve the function very well for a teapot and in fact you've got a small hole but of course punch was served hot so so because you know it's history you think it's got a bit of age to yes well when my mother Lord gave it to me she said to me look after it now coz she said it's over 200 years old she said it was very old when I was a little girl she said because she said my granny used to have this even before us on the 3rd well she was a bit far back that really doesn't it when she was 86 well we get told this I think is as a story more than anything else people say well it belonged to my grandma yeah they add it all up together and I arrived at sort of two or three hundred years and we almost always have to discount the story and it's got muddled in the family in this particular case it's more than true this is actually a very ancient pot indeed oh it's Staffordshire wheeldin and it was probably made about 1740 to 1750 so several hundred years old it's been made of a soft pottery which has been thrown on a wheel in fact you can see ridges on the inside where the Potters hand has drawn it up it's not a molded one having done that I think this these are often called an engine turning because they invented a process of putting a pot onto an eccentric lathe yeah turn patterns on it this one I think is more simple I think he's left it on the wheel held at all here and simply produce those lines by going down oh yes and these of course are then molded separately and stuck on yes and they look a little uncomfortable as if they might have come from another pot which indeed they might have done yeah it's then glazed with lead glazes and these colors have come from a Chinese tradition they've come through the sort of tang pottery through the egg and spinach spinach glazes of the 17th century and here they are appearing on an 18th century it's rather attractive the coloring I'm liking I do something wonderful I do I like the coloring very much have you thought about selling it oh no too much just to sell it no well like that's marvelous it's nice to have somebody who really look I do I really love it but it is is something which is of some value I mean of you any idea what it's worth I haven't any idea cuz my mother-in-law gave it you think it might be worth several hundred pounds I don't care I don't think so you wouldn't thought so so even if I told you it was worth six or eight hundred pounds would be really short Oh what right so if I told you it was worth fifteen hundred pounds oh you're kidding out well I am kidding us it's actually worth about five to six thousand missions absolutely it's exactly what the market is desperate for I don't think I've ever seen such a large good one well what a wonderful way to start our new series of the Antiques Roadshow we've seen some wonderful things here today very high quality pictures a superb piece of jewelry and even that Liverpool porcelain that I was talking about at the beginning of the program but I think the one thing that we will remember more than anything else about our day in Liverpool will be the people themselves first of all very large numbers of them over 5,000 people we've seen today that makes this one of our highest ever attendances but also whenever there are large crowds like that it inevitably means that people have to hang about a bit they have to wait before they see the experts and they've done that without complaint and with great good humour so our warmest thanks to the people of Mercy side and we hope that you and they will join us next week when we take the red show to Northwest London so until then from all of us here in Liverpool [Music] the subsidies over fourteen thousand five [Music]

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow UK, Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow Series 11, Liverpool, Merseyside, Hugh Scully, BBC, BBC 1, Rare antiques, VHS, 50fps

Id: esJ4Y3s2pAo

Length: 43min 47sec (2627 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 13 2018

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