Conestoga Auctions, a division of the Hess Auction Group in Manheim, Pa., is excited to feature items from the estate of Michael E. Ford, of Coopersburg, Pa., on Friday, Aug. 30. Ford had a love for early 19th century china, particularly spatterware and Leeds soft paste china, but he also collected quality examples of stoneware, country furniture, and functional woodenware material. The stoneware category includes a rare A.J. Buttler three-gallon jug decorated with a standing deer design and stamped A.J. Buttler, Manufacturer New Brunswick, N.J. It stands 15 inches high and is in very good condition. Highlights among the over 100 lots of spatterware is a yellow thistle pattern covered, footed sugar bowl, paneled form with open handles and double-sided decoration with red flower and green leaves. There are also two three-color festoon pattern childs-size cups and saucers, one set having green drape with yellow and red swags and the other having red drape with yellow and green swags. A third cup and saucer set of the three-color festoon pattern is full-size having the red drape with yellow and green swags. Another is a rare yellow and blue rainbow spatter tulip pattern waste bowl with a red and blue flower with green leaves. Fords ceramic collection includes 66 lots of Leeds soft paste china, several footstools and other woodenwares, an 1841 Berks County jacquard coverlet, three Northampton County watercolor and ink frakturs, and furniture including several one-drawer stands and tables. Rounding out the auction are numerous iron garden statues from another consignment and artwork from others. One lot of note is a Cowden & Wilcox three-gallon crock with prancing deer decoration, an E.W. Redfield oil-on-canvas painting, a Ben Austrian landscape painting, and a Benjamin Witman tall case clock. The C&W crock is stamped Cowden & Wilcox, Harrisburg, PA, bulbous form with lug handles, and cobalt decoration of an eight-point buck. It has one upper rim chip and came from a local consignor. The Benjamin Witman tall case clock is marked on the dial Made in Reading 1795 and is pictured in Berks County Tall-Case Clocks 1750 to 1850, by Richard and Rosemarie Machmer, #29. The E. W. Redfields (1869-1965) signed painting of a farmstead scene along a meandering brook, mostly likely a Bucks County farm, is an oil-on-canvas mounted on a board in a modern frame. Redfield was a popular American impressionist landscape painter and belonged to the art colony in New Hope, Pa. The Ben Austrian (1870-1921) painting depicts an ethereal summer landscape with a view into an open vista. Signed lower right Ben Austrian 1919 and titled on the reverse A Glimpse into Another World, it is pictured in the biography Ben Austrian, Artist by Geoffrey D. Austrian, pg. 105. It is in a later frame and is ex. Lester Breininger collection. The live auction will be held on Friday, Aug. 30, beggining at 9 a.m. A preview will be on Thursday, Aug. 29, from 1 to 5 p.m. Live bidding will be available through Live Auctioneers and HiBid. To learn more, visit www.hessauctiongroup.com.