MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will auction English pottery from the private collection of George and Mickey Deike of West Virginia over two years, beginning with the May 6 sale of 18th and 19th century English and Continental ceramics. LiveAuctioneers.com will facilitate Internet live bidding.

The Deikes have collected since the 1960s and specialized in peafowl-decorated wares. In 2005 they published Feathers and Foliage – The Life and Times of the Pearlware Peafowl. This auction includes pieces illustrated in their book.

The collection also includes creamware, pearlware and prattware decoration on shell- and feather-molded articles, engine-turned stonewares and mochawares.

Among the most important items being auctioned is a large harvest jug, finely painted with a stylized rural landscape, dated 1800. Many other jugs of similar form, and either inscribed, initialed and/or painted with peafowl in branches are being offered. In addition to the useful wares being auctioned, the Deike collection includes a selection of 18th century and early 19th century creamware animal figures including a Ralph Wood stag and a doe; a squirrel; and several Bovey pottery animals and others with swirling agate glazes.

This auction also includes a large array of Flow Blue ironstone wares from the collection of Joyce and the late Greg Prus of Connecticut. The Pruses collected many unusual forms from the Davenport factory in the Amoy pattern; as well as items made at the J. & G. Alcock factory in the Scinde pattern. Another private collection is more wide-ranging, offering items in La Belle Chine pattern made in Wheeling, W.Va., and others.

Two large dinner services round out the select offerings, one, a pottery service in Spode’s Blue Tower pattern, from the late 19th century; the other, an English porcelain service in a Famille Rose palette Chinoiserie pattern. There is a small and select offering of English porcelain and Asian ceramics as well.

Prior to the auction, Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will hold its first ceramics seminar May 4-5, 2014. Attendees will hear speakers George and Mickey Deike discussing their collection in “Searching for Peafowl”; independent scholar Jonathan Rickard, on “British Pottery & American Tastes in the 18th and 19th Centuries”; Angelika Kuettner, assistant curator of ceramics, Colonial Williamsburg, on “Asian Fusion: Chinese Style with an English Flair”; and Ronald Fuchs of the Reeves Center, Washington & Lee University, presenting “An Introduction to Chinese Export Porcelain.”

Seminar attendees will participate in a hands-on discovery session. May 5, attendees visit the rich ceramics collection at the Reeves Center on private tours, and then return to the Evans’ auction house for a series of object discussions with ceramics specialist Jill Fenichell, accompanied by light appetizers and drink.

The auction start time is 9:30 am Eastern. For further information call 540-434 3939 or email info@jeffreysevans.com.

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

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