An important Meissen silver-gilt-mounted tankard with Saxon crossed swords and AR monogram in gilt carouches, circa 1725-30Finely painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting figures and children around two fountains, with another figure suspended on drapery from rockwork above, within an elaborate gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre, forming a balcony on each side with two figures seated below a multi-tier pagoda roof, each with a gilt and lustre banner displaying crossed swords and an eagle, respectively, the reverse with two branches of indianische Blumen flanking the handle, similar decorated with flowers, formal gilt floral border to rim, the silver gilt mounts, each marked for Elias Adam, Augsburg, 1729-33, applied with four classical profile medallions against chased bands of strapwork, the top of the cover with a quatrefoil medallion depicting a seated figure and a crocodile, emblematic of Africa, within a similar strapwork border, the thumbpiece with two lion's head terminals, 20.2cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Property from the collection of the Hon. Evelena Rothschild and the Behrens Family, sold at Christie's London, 4 July 2017, lot 157The banners on the sides of the cartouche on this tankard bear the Electoral crossed swords of Saxony and the Polish Eagle, respectively, suggest - together with the exceptional quality of the decoration - that it may have been made for a member of the court or as a gift from the Elector.Similar fine silver-gilt covers are on a chinoiserie tankard in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2008), no. 164); another in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (U. Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt (1996), no. 108; another in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (inv. no. C.995-1919, with Augsburg mark for 1737-39 and maker's mark for J.E. Heuglin); as well as another from this collection, sold in these Rooms, 2 July 2019, lot 16.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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AUTOGRAPHS: A large accumulation of closely clipped signed pieces by a wide variety of Victorian individuals, mainly British and most associated with Scotland, the vast majority removed from the conclusion of letters, featuring political leaders, nobility, scientists & explorers, jurists, industrialists, military and naval leaders (many of whom served in the Crimean War), artists, writers, musicians and other famous men, and some women, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., William Muir, Henry James Sumner Maine, Richard Vary Campbell, John Marshall Lang, Henry Drummond, William Edward Forster, William McOnie, Rawson W. Rawson, Walter Bentley, Patrick Colquhoun (founder of the first regular preventive police force in England, the Thames River Police), Lyon Playfair, Thomas Sutherland (founder of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation - HSBC), Edward William Watkin (made a failed attempt to dig a channel tunnel under the English Channel to connect his railway empire with France), Henry Edward Landor Thuillier (responsible for the first printing of postage stamps to be valid throughout India, 1854), Thomas Somerville, William Fife, Andrew Dalgleish(government agent during the Great Game; murdered), James Grant Wilson(served as a Colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War), James Heywood, Richard Paul Amphlett, Kuno Meyer, Donald Currie, Bennet Burleigh (Scottish-born pirate & Confederate spy), Henry Calderwood, James John Cooper Wyld (map publisher), Charles Eyre (Archbishop of Glasgow), John Tulloch, Henry Fawcett, Charles Pearson(promoted London's Metropolitan Railway, the first underground railway in the world which led to the development of the London Underground network), Robert Murdoch Smith, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Leon Say, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, William Henry Flower, Douglas Galton, Thomas McCall Anderson, John Kirk (Scottish physician & companion to David Livingstone), George Birdwood, Morell Mackenzie, Arthur Mitchell (Scottish physician & specialist in mental illness), Ralph Copeland (Astronomer Royal for Scotland), Archibald Geikie, Hector Cameron, Joseph Thomson (explorer; rare), John Bennet Lawes (agricultural scientist, a pioneer of chemical fertilizer), George Husband Baird MacLeod (surgeon to Queen Victoria when in Scotland), William Macewen (pioneer in modern brain surgery), Allen Young, Joseph Whitworth, Andrew Douglas Maclagan (toxicologist), James Risdon Bennett, George Buchanan, Howard Craufurd Elphinstone (Victoria Cross winner for his actions at the Siege of Sebastopol in 1855 during the Crimean War), James Edward Alexander (driving force behind the placement of Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment), George Henry Richards, William Houston Stewart, Claude Buckle, General Mark Kerr, Charles Shadwell (Commander-in-Chief, China Station 1871-74), Thomas Montagu Steele, William Codrington, Edward Selby Smyth, John Dalrymple-Hay (commanded HMS Victory from 1854), Charles Beresford, Garnet Wolseley, Edward Bruce Hamley, Alexander Armstrong (naval surgeon & explorer), George Willis, Lintorn Simmons, Walter Besant, Friedrich Max Muller, William T. Stead (died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic), Thomas Hughes, Jerome K. Jerome, John Everett Millais, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, David Murray, Frank Dicksee, John MacWhirter, James Hedderwick, Samuel Ferguson, Grant Allen, Charles Reade, Algernon Borthwick, Herbert Oakeley, Douglas Sladen, William Black, William Howard Russell, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, John Strang, George Alexander Macfarren, Samuel Smiles, Andrew Lang, Samuel Neil, Colin Hunter, James Gowans, Gerard Baldwin Brown, Thomas Mayne Reid, R. M. Ballantyne, Charles Rogers, Edward Russell, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur James Balfour, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Gladstone, Charles Dilke, John Bright, Joseph Chamberlain, George Curzon, Earl of Shaftesbury, Robert Cochran-Patrick, William Jacks, James Caird, Rutherford Alcock (the first British diplomatic representative to live in Japan), Edward Colebrooke, Francis Sandford, Frank Lockwood, Arthur Hayter, George Trevelyan, Alexander Asher, Madge Kendal, J. L. Toole, Charles Wyndham, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Justin McCarthy, G. A. Henty, Alexander Mackenzie, Francis Galton, Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Thompson, Joseph Dalton Hooker and many, many others. The majority of the pieces bear small numbers in an unidentified hand to the corners. A few of the signatures are slightly faded and with some other minor faults, generally G, 469
STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet Dictator. Leader of the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party 1922-52. Rare World War II time letter, being a T.L.S., `I. St[alin]´, in green pencil, to the head of a T.L., three pages typed only to front, folio, Moscow, 6th December 1944, in Cyrillic. The letter bears at the heading “Copy nº 2 - TOP Secret”, and is entitled `To the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union - Tovarish Stalin I. V.´ The secret military document is sent to Stalin by Chief Marshal of Artillery N. Voronov, and refers to artillery Corps ready to join the military front in December 1944, with the German troops retreating and Russian troops close to Budapest, and states in part `I return from a duty journey to Minsk Artillery Camp, where I have checked the combat readiness of the 6th Breakthrough Artillery Corps. The Corps is ready to be sent, according to your decision, to tovarish Zhukov.´ further reporting in detail `First - The headquarters of the 6th artillery corps, 14th and 29th breakthrough artillery divisions have been formed. Second - Preparatory combat activities and artillery live fire exercises were conducted in my presence by divisions of the Corps. Officers starting from the battery commander and above had served in the Patriotic War. Battery and division commanders joined the Corps after graduating from the Higher Officer Artillery School. Most of the platoon commanders came from military schools… There is up to 30% of the Red Army personnel called into the Army from Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. Much attention has been paid to the training of the headquarters, reconnaissance and communications equipment. Third - Most of the military equipment received is new, and only one part comes from base repairs. Everything has been tested and prepared for battle…. Fifth - Such a powerful artillery Corps was created in a very short period. It is imperative to commit corps to the first battle in an organized way, giving them enough time to be prepared for the battle upon arrival at the battlefront…´ Accompanied by a second Top Secret report attached, three pages, folio, also issued by Vorontsov and addressed to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union Tovarish Stalin I. V, dated 22nd November 1944. This one unsigned by Stalin. The report relates to reinforcement of the Bielorussian front divisions, and stating in part `In order to fulfil your task, it will be necessary to allocate - 1) 2,026 officers, 33,910 non-commissioned officers and Red Army men. - 2) 704 units of 76-mm cannons, 1,408 units of 122-mm howitzers. - 3) 1,700 truck tractors and 7,186 motor vehicles….Fourth - I suggest that the task should be fulfilled by 5th May in the following order..´. It is curious to read that Vorontsov´s deadline to achieve the task was the 5th of May 1945, and couldn´t expect that three days before Berlin would fall and Russian troops would raise the Soviet flag on the Reichstag. Both sets of three pages bear to the front page a red pencil annotation, “Ad Acta” and are countersigned at the conclusion by Chief of affairs Pavlov. The second bears to the verso the signatures of Major Yermolaev and Lieutenant Pavlov, certifying that a third copie of the secret report was destroyed on 22nd December 1944. G, 2 Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974) Marshal of the Soviet Union. Zhukov served in World War One and WWII. The most decorated General officer in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia.
NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. An excellent L.S., Nap, one page, 4to, Palais des Tuileries, 30th January 1808, in French. The attractive document, with gilt edges, being a Royal decree, number 180, containing four articles. The pages bear very attractive watermarks, showing the profile portrait image of Napoleon, Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and to the blank integral leaf a crowned large eagle watermark. Napoleon orders `Article 1º - Two military Divisions will be created in our Kingdom of Italy; Article 2º - The first military Division will contain the Adriatic, Piave and the Basso...´ Ordering before concluding that the Ministers of war and Treasury of the Kingdom of Italy execute the present decree orders. With blank integral leaf. About EX
A coconut basket and five other pieces, the carved coconut basket with geometric decoration, 12cm, a coquilla nut circular box containing dominos, 4.5cm, a similar egg, 7cm, a similar thimble case with thimble, 3.5cm, a vegetable ivory egg containing twin reels and needle case, 5cm, and a bug bear, 8cm. (6) From a connoisseur's collection
After David Willaume, a Victorian cast silver-gilt cream jug, by Robert Garrard, London 1877, shell form, the scroll handle with scales and a grotesque mask, the front with a cherub mask below the spout, the body supported by a reclining mythical animal on a raised oval foot with a foliate border, height 9.5cm, approx. weight 4.2oz. See Hartop, Christopher The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760: from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection London 1996, p. 288 for a silver gilt example marked by David Willaume II, London 1721-22. A number of similar cream jugs are recorded, most of which are unmarked, but all those which are bear the maker s mark of David Willaume II. A similar jug was sold in these rooms, 29 October 2019, lot 505.
A collection of five silver page markers, comprising: one with a Trusty Servant finial, by F. J. Ross, Chester 1920, one with a bear and axe finial, Birmingham 1927, one with a baby finial, Birmingham 1926, one modelled as a hand, by Crisford and Norris, Birmingham 1904, and a Dutch one with two figures, approx. weight 0.7oz. (5)
A mixed lot of silver items, various dates and makers, comprising: a box and cover by Theo Fennell, the cover with a teddy bear, a modern snuff box, a vesta case and chain, a lighter, a pill box, a miniature guitar, an Egyptian paper knife, a silver-mounted tortoiseshell magnifying glass, a Victorian caster, plus other items including two watches and a carved cameo, approx. weighable 5.50z. (qty) Provenance: The late Greta Morrison, widow of Bryan Morrison.
A collection of Royal Copenhagen including Faun with Bear (648), Scottie dog (3162), Faun on stump (1738), two oval dishes (2377), a rectangular pin tray and Bing & Grondhal figures of a faun and a sparrow CONDITION REPORT: Faun/bear - small flat chip to underside of fauns cloven hoof. Fawn - small chip to back or ear rim.Scottie dog - restoration to tip of one ear.Oval dish with bird - restored rim chips.Sparrow - hair crack up side from base.
An Anglo-Chinese rosewood bureau bookcase, probably Canton, 19th Century, the moulded swan neck pediment above a moulded frieze applied with husk festooned paterae above two glazed doors, the fall over four graduated long drawers on turned feet (doors originally with mirror panels), 230cm high x 100cm wide x 55cm deep/Provenance: Formerly in the ownership of Captain James Wood RN/Note: This piece of Chinese export furniture is likely to have been made for the English market. The undersides of the small bureau drawers bear Chinese characters which denote where each one should be placed. The rosewood used resembles Huanghuali but has not been tested. The metalwork including handles may have been applied on arrival in England. Our thanks to Colin Forshaw for his help in cataloguing this lot/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Lot 384This is in generally sound condition, the glass isn't cracked, the exterior is faded but no bad splits to wood. There have been a number of little restorations which although tidy are fairly obvious if you look for them. The leather writing surface is split along the fold. The main cosmetic issue is that this desk should have bracket feet but it has had these ebonised peg feet put on. The gilt to the handles is worn with use. Small pieces of cross banding missing at side of bookcase, lower dentil cornice moulding split at return and some dentil moulding missing.
Two carved antler-handled walking sticks, early 20th century, the first, finely scrimshawed with hunting scenes, a house, sun, moon, stars, a fisherman on a bridge, rabbit, birds and an owl, inscribed 'The Death of the Fox' and initialled and dated 'R.D. 1850',88cm long,the other, carved with a bear above a stag and hind, now on an ebonised shaft, 91cm long (2)
A pair of Chinese export porcelain oval armorial plates, early 19th century, each centred with the coat of arms of the Honourable East India Company, the rims with geometric leaf-and-tongue detail,27cm wide (2)The present examples bear decorative similarities to known pieces said to have been commissioned for the East India Company's president at Madras, one of which can be found in the V&A, No 335J-1898.Literature: Clare Le Corbeiller, 'China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974, p.120. Condition report: Both with some surface wear, scratches and rubbing to paintwork, pitting and firing imperfections.
William Samuel Howitt (c.1765-1822)Dogs attacking a bearSigned l.r., watercolour19 x 25cm, unframedCondition report: Paper discoloured with scattered foxing throughout. Two small tears at edges in top right quarter. A small rip out of the lower left corner. Pin hole top left corner. In this same corner there is also a very small worn circle in the paper verso, possibly from blu tak or similar. Scattered surface dirt throughout. A diagonal crease running across the sheet, which is not hugely visible from the front due to the painting. Verso there are two small pieces of tape attached to the top of the sheet and some notes made in pencil.
A German pewter mounted stoneware 'Hunting' stein: decorated in polychrome enamels on applied reliefs depicting an equestrian figure, stags, a bear, a standing huntsman and dogs, the pewter cover with ball thumbpiece and touch mark for Doblen, Saxony, Annaberg/Dippoldiswalde, late 17th century 23cm.
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