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Click here to subscribeBeano (1948) 326-351. Complete year in bound volume (issued fortnightly). No 326 last Big Eggo cover, No 327 First Biffo The Bear cover by Dudley Watkins. Peter The Penguin begins, the last Beano artwork by Reg Carter. The Christmas issue has over 20 Beano characters on the cover [fn-/vfn] (26)
A collection of 23 assorted boxed Lilliput Lane cottage ornaments, to include Pennine View, Wishing Well & Flower Bells, River Meadow Manor, Flock to the Manger, Huddersfield Railway Station, and Britain's Heritage etc. (23)Condition report: NO obvious damage. Full list: Farmers Life for Me, Flying Scotsman, Apple a Day, Wishing Well, River Meadow Manor, Naked Man, Pennine View, Flock to Manger, 3 Pints Brewery, Xmas Feast, Yule Tide Shambles, Britains Heritage, Beach Bear Inn, Glad Tidings, Britains Heritage, Xmas Tipple, Arithmetic School House, Christmas at Bagsmith Cottage, The Vintner, Nothing Corner, Brother Dawl, Granny’s Summer House
John Harrold (born 1947) - Ink on acetate - Original four panel drawing for a Rupert Bear annual story - "Rupert Spots a Blaze", with watercolour under drawings by Doris Campbell, signed upper right and inscribed "Best wishes", 7.75ins x 8ins, mounted with the printed annual page, framed and glazed
AN IMPORTANT GILT AND LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF A RAKANJapan, 17th – early 18th century, early Edo period (1615-1868)The graceful, long-waisted figure is shown seated in padmasana, his richly decorated monastic robe worn around his torso, draped over both shoulders and falling in graceful folds below the legs as if draped over an edge, a kesa covering the left shoulder, the neck creased and the slender face well cast with crisp features set in a contemplative expression.HEIGHT 70 cmCondition: Traces of use and old wear as expected, some touchups, age cracks and losses. Generally in very good condition, commensurate with age, and better than most lacquered and gilt wood statues of this size and period. Provenance: Ancient French Private Collection “F”. Thence by descent within the same family. A copy of an image showing the living room of the family mansion, with the present figure as a centerpiece, dating from c. 1900, is accompanying this lot.Rakan, also known as Luohan in Chinese or Arhat in Sanskrit, is the 'Destroyer of the Passions'. They vary in numbers between 16 and 108 and were depicted in Japanese art from the 8th century onwards.As Buddha’s apostles, Arhats were first mentioned as sixteen in the Mahayanavataraka which was translated into Chinese in AD 437 and later also into Japanese. A full transcript of these sixteen names was given in AD 653 by the pilgrim monk Xuan Zang with the additional two that were probably adopted by the end of the 10th century, these being the Arhats who tamed the Dragon and the Tiger representing Eastern and Western directions respectively.There are only few surviving examples of gilt-lacquer figures of Arhats dating to the early Edo period, making the present statue exceptionally rare. The superb carving and imposing style is related to that of two gilt-bronze figures of Luohan dated to the Chinese Song dynasty and sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 October 1991, lot 1668. Another related Chinese figure of a Luohan is illustrated by Hajek, Chinesische Kunst in Tschechoslowakischen Museen, Prague, 1954, no. 115. All of these figures - Japanese and Chinese - share a similarity in the fluid execution of the drapery and the almost portrait-like naturalism of the facial features.The discovery of some forty clay figures of Luohan at the Lingyan Temple in China, dated to the Song period, but of smaller size, is recorded by Wenwu 1994:3, pages 76-82. In their animated gestures, quality of portraiture and the treatment of the fluid folds of drapery at the front, they also bear resemblance to the present figure.Auction comparison:Compare with a closely related bronze figure of a Luohan from the Song Dynasty, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 November 2016, lot 3233 (sold for 34,140,000 HKD - c. 3.5 million EUR). Also compare with a smaller wood head of an Arhat, Japan, Edo period, which has lost all of the lacquer and gilding, from the collection of Yves St. Laurent, sold at Sotheby’s Paris, Pierre Berge: From one Home to Another, October 30th 2018, lot 33 (sold for 20,000 EUR).
AN AMUSING IVORY OKIMONO OF A VEGETABLE SELLERJapan, Meiji period (1868-1912)The street vendor carrying heavy baskets full of beets, turnips, radishes, and lotus roots attached to a pole, an expression of pure exhaustion on his face, the bent pole also indicating that his load is too heavy to bear. Furthermore, it appears as if the street vendor made a miscalculation as the baskets on the back are lower than those in the front and about to crush a turnip below on the ground.HEIGHT 16.8 cmCondition: The inlaid signature tablet has been lost and replaced with a square mother-of-pearl plaque, otherwise in excellent condition with only few minor traces of wear.Provenance: British collection.
A collection of sixty Spectrum cassette games. Software Houses to include ByteBack, Bulldog, Kixx, Encore, Zeppelin, Summit. Titles to include Silkworm, Power Play, Yogi Bear, Tomcat and many more. This Lot with Lots 18 & 22 contains 180 different titles between the three Lots. To be sold on behalf of Monkey World.
A ROYAL CROWN DERBY LIMITED EDITION IMARI HONEY BEAR PAPERWEIGHT, boxed with paperwork, and numbered 224 from an edition of 250, together with another Royal Crown Derby bear (2) Condition Report : both in good condition, no issues Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL Approximately sixty-three cards, comprising real photographic views of the Leeds Illuminated [Tram] Car, Coronation 1911; Ye Olde Five Gables, Shakespeare Hostelrie, Stratford-on-Avon; and Market Place, Ripon; with printed views of Foregate Street, Worcester; High Street and Long Street, Wotton-under-Edge; Villa Road, Handsworth; The Black Bear Inn, Tewkesbury; Ranelagh Street, Liverpool; Market Place, Nottingham (publ. by Court, Nottingham, undivided back); High Street, Tewkesbury; Castle Street, Northwich; Corporation Street, Birmingham; Holderness Road, Hull; Butcher Row, Coventry (publ. by Burdett, Coventry); Dale Road, Matlock Bridge; and others, (loose).
Salah Abdel Kerim (Egypt, 1925-1988)Pharaonic Symbol mixed media on carton, framedsigned in Arabic (lower left)37 x 92cm (14 9/16 x 36 1/4in).Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a private collection, CairoNote: The present work is likely a preparatory painting for a sculptural frieze'We could argue that the ancient Egyptians were positively constrained by their hieroglyphic system of writing to express abstract qualities in a physical way. Against such an interpretation, it is important to bear in mind that language is not simply the vehicle of expression of a given mentality, it actually is that mentality giving expression to itself. The very structures of language are the articulation of the mentality. We should be wary of thinking that the ancient Egyptian mind was 'really' like ours, but was constrained by the hieroglyphic script. Rather, the hieroglyphic script was the medium most appropriate for the articulation of the ancient Egyptian mentality. Far from being crude, it reflected richly symbolic modes of conceiving and relating to both the physical and the psychic spheres of existence. It has already become apparent that these two spheres were not experienced as separated from each other—as we today tend to experience them. It is now necessary to go further, and seriously consider the idea that psychic attributes were indeed experienced as 'situated' in various parts of the body. The pictorial character of the hieroglyphic form of writing made possible a quite effortless translation of this experience into the written word. For the hieroglyphic script, because it was pictorial, had not yet created a division between concrete and abstract, between 'outer' and 'inner.' And it had not done so just because the ancient Egyptian mentality had not done so.'― Jeremy Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience of the SacredThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Various Dolls Houses and Teddy Bears Collectors Reference Books, Dolls Houses The Collector's Guide by Douet, La Petite Cantiniere, Collecting Dolls House and Miniatures by Earnshaw, Dolls House by Jackson, Classic Dolls House by Eaton, Dolls House and Dollhouse Miniatures by O'Brien, Family Dolls House by Antrim, Dolls House Furniture by Towner, The Vivien Green Dolls House Collection, Family Dolls Houses and English Dolls Houses all three by Greene, The Ultimate Dolls House Book by Eaton, Dolls Houses A Personal Choice by Latham, History of Dolls House by Jacobs, Antique Miniature Furniture by Toller, Bliss Toys and Dolls Houses by Whitton, The Queen's Dolls House by Lambton, Toys Dolls Automata Marks and Labels by White, Teddy Bears A Celebration by Hillier, Peter Bull's book of Teddy Bears, Teddy Bear Lover Catalog by Menten, Teddy Bear Catalog by Bialosky, A Hug of Teddy Bears by Bull, Dean's Rag Book The First 100 Years by Miller, The Magic of Merrythought by Axe, The Book of the Teddy Bear by Hutchings, The Little Book of Celebrity Bears, Bear Care and Traditional Bears, all three by Cockrill, International Antique Toy and Doll Show Programmes for the 6th 1985 and 7th 1986 (4) , Millers Soft Toys Collector's Guide and Pageant of Toys by Miller, F-VG (35)
A German Hermann Teddy original, West Germany, vintage teddy bear c1960/70s with glass eyes, vertical stitched snout, jointed head, arms and legs, golden mohair finish, height 38cm, together with a smaller pre-war teddy bear, unmarked, glass eyes, vertical stitched snout, mohair finish, jointed limbs, stitched paws and toes, height 21cm (2). CONDITION REPORT Hermann - good conditionSmaller teddy - a little threadbare in places, playworn
A group of early 19th century Victorian earthenwarecomprising Spode blue and white, various patterns including a Langs Lijsen plate, 21cm diameter; Zeus and Chariot plate, 25cm diameter; a 'Death of the Bear' pattern plate from the Indian Sporting Series (chipped) 25cm diameter, further blue and white and a collection of Spode polychrome ironstone etc (qty)
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