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Click here to subscribeA quantity of silver plate including flatware, coffee pot, a pair of wine coasters, a toast rack, boxed coffee bean coffee spoons, a boxed set of silver-coloured metal coffee spoons (perhaps from Australia as lyre bird, koala bear, emu, kangaroo ends), a silver beaded butter knife, etc. (1 box)
A Victorian Calamander Dressing Case by Asprey the interior lined with dark blue leather,containing twelve hobnail cut glass vanity bottles. Hallmarked London 1859, 36cm wide, 17.5cm high, 27cm deep Each of the silver fittings bear the maker's mark of Abraham Brownett and John Rose, and are hallmarked London 1859. The larger lids also have the stamp of 'Asprey-166 Bond Street'. An embossed leather panel on the inside of the lid displays the gold tooled marker's mark of 'ASPREY. MANUFACTURER TO HER MAJESTY. 166 BOND ST W'.
A Pair of George III Mahogany Hall Chairs in the Manner of Chippendale the pierced scroll backs centred by painted armorial cartouches, the dished and shaped seats supported by cabriole legs terminating in scroll toes, one chair later inscribed to the reverse 'Home, Sweet Home, 30 Hill Street London' and with the dates 1785 and 1858, corresponding to the term of the leased London residence of Lord and Lady Brownlow, 48cm wide, 95cm high, 44cm deep These elegant hall chairs bear the patriotic inscription `Home! Sweet Home! from Sigismond Thalberg's 1857 composition that was much favoured at President Abraham Lincoln's White House and derived from the words of John Payne's 1823 opera, "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home" The inscription was added in 1858 to the back of the chairs which belonged to the Hon. John William Spencer Home-Cust, later 2nd Earl Brownlow (d. 1867). The chairs, with their rich ribbon-fretted backs displaying the Cust family crest on an azure blue shield, had served in the hall of his Mayfair home since 1785, when they were commissioned by Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow (d. 1808). Their backs derive in particular from a 1759 `Hall Chair' pattern used in the Third Edition of the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale's,Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, (1762)
A COMPOSITE PAIR OF ART NOUVEAU MARJORELLE STYLE BRASS LAMPS, the swan neck arms issuing from an open heart shaped base with acanthus leaf terminal and fitted with mottled yellow and orange glass shades, shades bear "Daum Nancy France" marks, shades 5 3/4" high, lamps 16" and 17" high overall
Pair of Beswick china seated white overgilded spaniels numbered 1378-6, a 19th Century Staffordshire pottery seated red and white spaniel with separate front legs on a plinth stand and a Majolica type pottery jug in the form of a growling bear. (4) CONDITION REPORT: Beswick dogs - crazing only Spaniel - chips all over, nose, ear, base etc. Cracks in places. Bear - lost teeth, chip to handle, foot come off, crazing.
A vintage silver-plush teddy bear with glass eyes, stitched nose and mouth, articulated head and limbs, growl-box and felt pads, 37 cm high (a/f), to/w another teddy with glass eyes, stitched nose and mouth and articulated head and arms, wearing a tie with silver and base-metal badges, 35 cm and a small teddy bear (3)
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