Saleroom sees sale of vases at £3,300

A pair of vases discovered at a charity antiques valuation day sold for £3,300 at auction in Shrewsbury.

The Moorcroft for Macintyre Florian Ware vases were included in a £100,000 auction of antique furniture, ceramics and works of art at Halls's Welsh Bridge saleroom in Shrewsbury.

They had been taken to an antiques valuation event at Peterstone Court Country House Restaurant and Spa, in Llanhamlach, in aid of Powys Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association.

Other top selling lots included an early Victorian mahogany pull-out dining table which sold for £5,200 to the London trade and a Victorian mahogany mirror back serving table, from the same Shropshire property, which was bought for £3,700 by a Mid Wales bidder.

Elsewhere in the saleroom, a William and Mary ebonised bracket clock by Benjamin Merriman, of London, made £4,000.

A 16-lot private collection of Wedgwood lustre ware pieces from a vendor from the Shrewsbury area sold above estimate for £3,270, while a Coalport composite blue bat wing tea service made £800 and an art nouveau lead cased head study of a young girl sold for £780.

Halls's fine art director Jeremy Lamond added: "A carved teak teabox, made as a special gift for Gracie Fields when she paid a visit to Burma to entertain British troops during the Second World War, sold to a Shrewsbury bidder for £130."