The Wedgwood jasperware pot pourri urns and covers which led Brightwells’ sale when they went to the trade at £1750.

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The ceramics highlight was an elegant pair of 19th century Wedgwood jasperware pot pourri urns with pierced covers. Decorated with white Grecian figures, the eye-catching vases would originally have been made for the hall or drawing room of a grand house and were an impressive 16in (41cm) high. They sold to the trade at £1750 despite slight damage to one jar.

Consigned from the same private Stourbridge source as the urns was a flow-blue decorated, Copeland late Spode, 19th century dinner service.

With an abundant decoration of ruined castles and an acorn border, it was unusually complete with 50 various plates, a massive soup tureen, four tureens and covers and a sauce tureen. Given that flo blue is a favourite with Americans, it will probably eventually find its way across the Atlantic having been bought by the UK trade at £920.

Other notable entries included an Indian tiger skin which made £1000 and a Persian steel bow damascened in gold and black. Expected to fetch £100-150, this decorative provincial oddity discovered at a local clearance was contested on the telephone by several bidders and secured by a specialist dealer at £1500.

One of the biggest surprises for the auctioneer was the bidding on a brightly enamelled, famille verte, two-handled oval dish. This turned out to be an 18th century Chinese vessel and was bought by the trade at £1350.

A large 21in (53cm) 1930s French chrome 'Jaz' shop advertising alarm clock, reputedly made for the 1936 Paris Exhibition, sold to a London buyer at £430.