Shop The Twelve Days of Christmas on TheSaleroom.com
01 December 2023 Tis almost actually the season now. As you get ready to step into Christmas this is your friendly reminder to remember TheSaleroom.com when looking for that perfect gift for a loved one – or yourself.
Christmas is a-coming and if you don’t fancy relying on Santa to deliver all your toys, you might want to look to online auction. Estimated at £200-300, this post-war German Father Christmas sleigh candy or cracker holder is estimated at £200-300 at Special Auction Services’ Dolls & Teddy Bears Auction of December 6-7.
We are not suggesting that you pull a 12-days-of-Christmas and buy multiple birds or hire a troupe of leaping lords. But the below gives you a good sense of the mix of things that can be found at auction this festive season.
Historic needlepoint creations are a wonderful window into the past, and offer a snapshot of what young women particularly of the 17th-19th century got up to. Estimated at £700-900 is this George III sampler by a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Lord, who finished the work at Mrs Ventham’s Boarding School in 1802. It shows a milkmaid with farm animals, deer and a duckpond, familiar motifs from this school. It is offered at Wilkinson’s Auctioneers’ sale of December 2-3.
Is there a porcelain lover in your life? It doesn’t come with a pear tree, but Morphets of Harrogate offers this Meissen blanc de chine porcelain figure of a partridge designed by Willi Munch-Khe, c.1924-34, in its Fine Art and Antiques Auction of November 30 with an estimate of £100-150.
In the poem, the six geese are a-laying. In this pencil, pastel and wash picture by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-79), six Canadian Geese are looking at another two birds taking flight, perhaps from a pond. The picture is part of the Modern Art & Design sale at Mallams on December 6-7 where it has an estimate of £1000-2000.
It’s not quite nine ladies dancing, but you still get six on this large Continental porcelain figural group depicting dancing maidens. Estimated at £300-500 at Bonhams’ Discovery Online sale of December 4, it is probably from Naples and possibly depicts the moon goddess Seline among others.
Offered with a starting bid of £10, this pair of crystal turtledoves are part of the Star Wars & Swarovski timed online auction at Plymouth Auction Rooms, which ends on December 3.