GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A George III pony skin domed rectangular trunk, hinged cover, outlined throughout with brass studwork and initialled IB above a heart, iron carryi...

A George III toleware circular spice box, brass finial, gilt banded borders outlined in red, hinged cover enclosing segmental compartments, 6cm di...

A George III yew novelty box, as a book, inlaid with lozenges and outlined with boxwood stringing, the spine as the cover, 21cm wide, c.1810

A George IV mahogany miniature pedestal centre table, circular tilting top, turned column, circular base, bun feet, 22cm high, 23.5cm diam, c.1830

A George IV yew book stand or carrier, turned end supports, the base inlaid with chequered banding, bun feet, 39cm wide, c.1830

A Goliath silver plated 'pocket' watch, 8.5cm white enamel dial inscribed M M & Co Patent, painted with Roman numerals and the subsidiary seconds ...

A Gothic Revival tryptych icon, the central panel painted in the high medieval taste in colourful polychrome with the Angel Gabriel heralding the ...

A graduated set of three Egyptian Grand Tour 'toleware' models of a pyramids, engraved and gilt with hieroglyphs and traditional figures, the larg...

A Grand Tour bronze model, of a female caryatid, 11cm high, 19th century

A Grand Tour bronze rhyton, cast after the antique as the head of a deer, gadrooned and beaded rim, 14cm long, early 19th century

A Grand Tour ovoid Attic vase, painted in the Ancient Greek manner with figures, 31cm high, 19th century

A Grand Tour plaster intaglio cast, as the Minotaur with two of his Athenian sacrificial maidens, moulded within a cylindrical pot and push-on cov...

A Grand Tour type rectangular plaster relief plaque, depicting the sleeping Bacchus bound by putti, 12cm X 16.5cm, framed

A Greek 'Grand Tour' terracotta mask, the bearded face open-mouthed, 14cm long, marked to verso, 19th/early 20th century

A Japanese satsuma table lamp, modelled as figures onboard a ship, wooden base, 23cm wide, mid-20th century

A large Black Forest table thermometer, carved as a deer atop a rocky outcrop, another at rest below, mercury thermometer, 36cm high, c.1900

A large early 20th century mahogany perpetual desk calendar, sarcophagus cresting above three glazed apertures displaying month, date and day, tur...

A large early Victorian mahogany artist's box, by R Ackermann, Regent Street, London, hinged cover with paper label to verso, enclosing an arrange...

A large Persian brass baluster candlestick, cylindrical sconce, lightly chased and engraved with stylised leaves, broad spreading base, 24.5cm hig...

A late 18th/early 19th century Colonial hardwood and ivory table cabinet, probably Indo-Portuguese, hinged cover inlaid with acorns, above a pair ...

A late 19th century Continental ivory carving, of a St Bernard dog, he stands, carrying a barrel, rounded rectangular base, 7.5cm wide, c.1900

A late 19th century ebonised pocket watch box, hinged cover with a rosewood shield cartouche strung in gilt brass and with further stringing to si...

A late 19th century fruitwood novelty tea caddy, as an apple, hinged cover, brass escutcheon, 10cm high, c.1890

A late 19th century novelty oak figural pilaster, carved with a bald gentleman wearing a bow tie, 40cm high; another, similar, 36.5cm high (2)

A late Victorian ebony presentation mallet, turned head applied with a white metal shield shaped cartouche, knopped stem, 27.5cm high, c.1900

A late Victorian glass beer tankard, painted in the manner of Mary Gregory with a dandy walking in a parkland, sporting a boater, monocle and walk...

A late Victorian novelty zoomorphic desk paper clip, as a sprung frog, inset with an opaque green glass cabachon, shaped rectangular mahogany shie...

A late Victorian/Edwardian brass counter bell, push button, reeded dome, skirted base, 12.5cm high, c.1900

A Limoges type enamel roundel, decorated in polychrome with a titled portrait of Franciscus Petrarca, after the laureate profile of Petrarch by Al...

A Middle Eastern silver damascened copper shaped circular plate, decorated with Arabic script and leafy scrolls, 24.5cm diam, 19th century; a Cair...

A near pair of George III morocco leather bowed rectangular work boxes, hinged covers, brass lion paw feet, 14.5cm wide, c.1800

A North European giltwood carving, of a female saint, 28.5cm long, 18th/19th century

A novelty late Victorian three-section coin-operated diorama, painted with three genre panels showing the master chastising his sneering hound wit...

An early 20th century novelty seaside paper diorama, with a gentleman in a boater making inquiries at the Sea Ticket booth, the whole a layered ap...

A novelty rectangular combination document box/'in' tray, the push cover and sides applied with a map of Brunswick and Magdeburg after Willem and ...

A pair of 18th century giltwood and stucco rectangular panels, each moulded and applied with a Classical muse, 21.5cm x 23.5cm

A pair of 18th century Spanish brass candlesticks, cylindrical sconces, knopped stems, dished bun shaped bases, 24cm high, c.1750

A pair of 19th century grey granite vases, carved with roses, acanthus capped columns, spreading circular bases, square plinths, 42cm high

A pair of 19th century novelty and comic candlesticks, as Fred Archer, the horseracing jockey and his patron Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmout...

A pair of 19th century oval elm panels, carved in relief with classical figures, 44.5cm high, 31cm wide

A pair of Dutch brass heemskerk candlesticks, cylindrical sconces, broad drip pans, knopped stems, domed circular bases, 18cm high

A pair of early 20th century giltwood and gesso oval looking glasses, pierced fruiting vine borders, 33cm high, c.1920

A pair of Flemish oak figures, carved as a merchant and his wife, rectangular bases carved with lunettes, 38cm high, c.1880

A pair of George III mahogany and card hand screens, the large rounded rectangular banners printed with Hogarthian caricatures, gilt lined border,...

A pair of Gothic Revival gilt brass candlesticks, profusely cast with tracery, square bases with acanthus to angles, 23cm high, c.1850

A pair of large 18th century iron dividers, 72cm long, c.1750

A pair of parcel-gilt and painted softwood obelisks, 36cm high

A pair of plaster intaglio arrangements, each tablet of Grand Tour design, gilt frames, 37.5cm x 28.5cm

A pair of post-Regency bronze tripod pricket candlesticks, cast as lamps in the Roman taste, lion paw supports, triform bases, bun feet, 10.5cm hi...

A pair of Victorian panel cut glass mallet decanters and stoppers, 28cm high, c.1860

A pietra dura rectangular desk weight, inlaid with egg shaped reserves of lapis lazuli, malachite and other specimen stones, 19.5cm wide

A Pitcairn Island carved fish, stamped Parkin Christian, A Souvenir, Pitcairn Island, turned column, rectangular base, 34.5cm long, early 20th cen...

A post-Medieval stone finial, fluted dome above acanthus angles, 21cm wide

A post-Regency brass rectangular inkstand, central circular wafer box flanked by a pair of square cut glass wells, oen recess, vine branch handles...

A Regency dark patinated bronze inkwell, cast as a swan, with neck craned to wing, naturalistically chased, shaped base, 11.5cm wide, c.1820

A Russian Orthodox icon, painted with a saint, 11cm X 8.5cm, c.1900

A slip-cast model, of a Chinese temple lion, oval base, 35cm wide

A South European mother of pearl pilgrim's pendant, carved with the Virgin Mary and inscribed B CA TARINA, 6.5cm diam

A treen novelty table lamp, as a barrel, turned column, transverse section base, 24cm high, mid-20th century

A Turkish terracotta vessel and cover, applied with filigree and coloured glass stones, the interior with reticulated compartment, 15cm high; a Ve...