Keep an eye out for some exciting new exhibitors at the Spring 2022 Fair, dealers in wide-ranging specialities from traditional porcelain and fine glass, to antiquities, early sculpture and objects. We also welcome several who focus on 20th century design and unusual decorative antiques. Let us introduce you…
Andrew Muir Decorative Arts & Design Ltd offers a wide array of 20th century fine and decorative arts. Andrew is also one of the UK’s foremost dealers in Clarice Cliff, Moorcroft and 20th Century Ceramics, and is a member of LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers. Among works he is bringing to the fair are a superb pair of Minton wall chargers (57cm) dating to around 1875. They were made by Minton at the Kensington Gore art studio (behind the V&A) although the artist who painted them is unknown as records were lost in a fire. The chargers were retailed by Thomas Goode of London and retain all their original labels. Andrew adds: “They are as good an example of decorative Minton chargers that I have seen in my 33 years of dealing. In their world they are very good and unique to date, as far as I’m aware.” He also brings a fabulous modern piece, Tropical Blueberries Vase (c.2007), by one of the UK’s leading contemporary ceramicists, Kate Malone (the original expert potter alongside Keith Brymer Jones in Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throw Down). Find Andrew Muir at Stand A29
Minton chargers circa 1875
Apollo Galleries specialise in a wide range of quality Ancient Art and Antiquities from all over the world, including China, India, the Near East, and Egypt. They also sell Roman, Greek, Viking and Medieval works. Their focus is on decorative items, weaponry and jewellery. One of the works they will being to the Fair is a Roman North African Slipware Amphoriskos or redware jug, dating to around 300-400 AD. Its rounded body has applied decoration including a youthful Bacchus drinking from a wine cup, and four palm fronds. This type of high-quality pottery was made of fine clay in central Tunisia. Although fine red slip ware, the so-called ‘Arrentine’ ware, was first produced in Italy, by the 3rd century AD African red slip ware had overtaken it in popularity as tableware in the Roman Empire. Find Apollo Galleries at stand E20.
fine North African redware jug, Roman, circa 300-400 AD
Finntage Interiors specialise in mid-century arts and crafts and Art Deco furniture, as well as other decorative objects. In particular they have an interest in 20th century Finnish designers and pieces. Among their stock are these special 1950s G Plan Siesta armchairs, pleasingly reupholstered in a luxurious white boucle fabric. You’ll discover Finntage Interiors at Stand E26.
G Plan Siesta armchairs of the 1950s, sumptuously reupholstered in white boucle fabric for today’s interiors
Ground One Six is run by Yannis Dimitrousis who has a penchant for the post-war era and the glamorous Hollywood Regency-influenced designers of the 1970s and 1980s. He also has a broad selection of other 20th century design gems, as well as antique pieces. Yannis established his business in North London in 2015, having trained at Christie’s after a decade in the luxury fashion industry. Among his favourite designers are Guy Lefevre, Børge Mogensen, Maison Jansen and Maison Charles. Items coming to the fair include a very elegant pair of 1970s tessellated tortoiseshell lamps on chrome pedestal bases with beautiful pyramid lampshades lined in yellow stripes, together creating an exotic Art Deco feel; also a pair of 1960s leather and wood armchairs very much in the style of Børge Mogensen’s popular Spanish chairs; and a captivating oil-on-canvas of hyper-realistic wolves by Eric Scott (British 1945-2005). Dave Stewart, of the UK pop group Eurythmics, bought many of Scott’s works and in 1985 commissioned Scott to paint the cover for their album Revenge. Eric Scott also created the animation for the Eurythmics’ award winning album Shame. Ground One Six is at Stand A30.
French 1970s lamps
Oil painting of Wolves by Eric Stott (1945-2005)
Ian White, although exhibiting for the first time under his own name, is well known to regular fair visitors, as he worked for many years alongside veteran dealer in early furniture, textiles and sculpture, Joanna Booth. Ian is welcomed to the Fair, and he brings a captivating collection of sculpture and objects from the Romanesque to the Renaissance. Collectors and decorators alike will be delighted by his displays. In his Wunderkammer of curiosities at the Spring fair, you will find a medieval illuminated manuscript c. 1470, an early carved oak Madonna from Northern France circa 1300, a 1920’s collection of rare beetles in a display case, and a lovely 17th century French Portrait of a Young Aristocrat in a Louis XIII period carved and gilded frame. Discover Ian White at Stand E12.
C17th French portrait of a young aristocrat
Kingham Decorative is a young business with an enthusiasm for all things decorative. They will bring a wide variety of decorative antiques including garden urns and decoration, alongside some fun examples of vintage music and advertising posters. Expect to find industrial lights alongside large gilded picture frames, examples of antique taxidermy mingling with traditional furniture, along with mirrors and vintage prints. Find Charlie Kingham at Stand A31.
A pair of vintage marble garden urns (and friend!)
Philip Carrol Antiques specialises in English, Chinese, Japanese and European fine ceramics and works of art. Trading since 1983, and based in Yorkshire, Philip is a busy fair-exhibiting member of both the BADA and LAPADA trade associations. His broad range of stock is sure to impress. A few highlights coming to the Fair include a charming figurative Meissen porcelain group, c. 1870, titled ‘The Broken Bridge’; a pair of Meiji Period Japanese cloisonné vases by Hayashi Kihyoe, circa 1900; a splendid Japanese bronze okimono of an elephant with tigers by Omori Mitsumoto (Kogetsu) Saku, Meiji Period; a fine Wedgwood ‘Three Colour’ jasper vase and cover in neo-classical taste, c. 1880, and one of our own favourites, a pair of c. 1900 Chinese porcelain cockerels. Philip Carrol Antiques is at Stand B26.
Chinese ceramic cockerels circa 1900
