An early 19th century mahogany-cased arch top mantel clock, the white painted 8'' circular convex dial with Roman numerals and signed Jefferson, Bruton Street, with glazed brass bezel, double fusee bell strike movement with pull repeat, the case with inlaid brass decoration, ebonised stringing, brass side handles above apertures with pierced brass side frets, stepped base with fluted ebonised border decoration and raised on four brass ball feet, 43 cm (h), with key and pendulum. Samuel Jefferson is recorded by Loomes at Bruton Street, Berkeley Square in 1811 though a person of the same name is listed 1809 to 1857 so there is likely a father & son working.
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A KHMER TYPE BRONZE ELEPHANT BELL ON STAND Cambodian, probably circa 12th-13th Century, green patina, attachment ring with a knob decorative element, upper section with inscription all along the surface, two ridges projecting outwards from the body, the lower section with four-lobed elements in the shape of pointed leaves and petals containing a pellet as clapper 17.5cm high x 14.5cm diam Condition: For a condition report or further images please email hello@hotlotz.com at least 48 hours prior to the closing date of the auction. This is an auction of preowned and antique items. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and you should expect general wear and tear commensurate with age and use. We strongly advise you to examine items before you bid. Condition reports are provided as a goodwill gesture and are our general assessment of damage and restoration. Whilst care is taken in their drafting, they are for guidance only. We will not be held responsible for oversights concerning damage or restoration.
A VIETNAMESE BRONZE TEMPLE BELL ON STAND Dong Son, green patina, folded attachment ring, the entire surface decorated with rope motifs, missing clapper 14cm high Condition: For a condition report or further images please email hello@hotlotz.com at least 48 hours prior to the closing date of the auction. This is an auction of preowned and antique items. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and you should expect general wear and tear commensurate with age and use. We strongly advise you to examine items before you bid. Condition reports are provided as a goodwill gesture and are our general assessment of damage and restoration. Whilst care is taken in their drafting, they are for guidance only. We will not be held responsible for oversights concerning damage or restoration.
A SET OF THREE BURMESE OR THAI GILT BRONZE BELLS The flared body with circular embossed bands, the finial decorated with double-volute motif, possibly a stylized version of the Makaras (Hindu water monster whose tails meet to form a finial) 16cm high Condition: Condition Report One bell is missing the clapper This is an auction of preowned and antique items. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and you should expect general wear and tear commensurate with age and use. We strongly advise you to examine items before you bid. Condition reports are provided as a goodwill gesture and are our general assessment of damage and restoration. Whilst care is taken in their drafting, they are for guidance only. We will not be held responsible for oversights concerning damage or restoration.
Prussian helmet from World War I, made of blackened leather. A Prussian eagle is visible on the forehead of the helmet, attached to the bell with rivets. Hardened leather. Interior with a leather lining tied with a strap. Remains of matting paint visible on the steel elements, as well as the bell skin with natural cracks. Untouched piece.General condition visible in the photos.
19th century gilt Ormolu figural mantel clock with a wooden base. James & Walter Marshall of Edinburgh. Detailed Ormolu body and lady figure. Has Enamel painted porcelain panels. White enamel dial with Roman Numerals, Comes with key and pendulum and bell movement. In a working condition. [Dome- damaged in transit] [Clock-38cm high]
008 Extracts from the Kirk-Session Records of Dunfermline (from AD 1640 to 1689 inclusive); od A Glimpse of the Ecclesiastical History of Dunfermline (for a period of Fifty years). Edited by E Henderson. Edinburgh” Printed by Fullarton & McNab; Sold by J Miller & Son, W Clark and D Campbell, Dunfermline; T G Stevenson, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, 1865) Brown limp cloth; original title on front cover; spine worn; signatutre of John Swan, Leslie, on fep [009] For A Web Begun. The Story of Dunfermline; By W T Barr [Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh: Tweeddale Court; London: 96 Great Russell Street, W C ; 1947. Green cloth; dw; this book was being remaindered in the 1980s, hence the good condition of the book today [010 ]Burgh Life in Dunfermline in the Olden Time. A Lecture By the Rev William Ross, Aberdour, Delivered in the Music Hall, Dunfermline, 8 Feb 1864, at the Request of the Literary Society of that Town [Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas, 1864]; speckled boards, black tape around spine; gilt title around spine (Probably all not original); Bookplate of Carnegie Public Library, Dunfermline, Reference Department [011] Dunfermline Sketches & Notes. By Robert Somerville [Dunfermline: Herbert T Macpherson, 1917]Illustrated Cream Boards; This copy has a bookplate of a Visit to Dunfermline of the American and Canadian Delegation of the Dry Goods Merchants, Thursday, 2nd June 1921 [012] Reminiscences of Dunfermline and Neighbourhood, Illustrative of Dunfermline Life Sixty Years Ago. By Alexander Stewart. With Chronological Appendix, 1064-1880. Edinburgh: Scott & Ferguson, and J Menzies & Co; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co 1886; Illustrated Blue Cloth Boards; title in gilt on front cover and spine; Presentation copy “To Mrs Alexander Elder, from her sincere friend, The Author, Nov 1886;” Bookplate of William Saunders, HYS BOOKE on front pastedown; Signature of William Saunders, Edinburgh, 25 Aug 1923, on title page [013] Royal Dunfermline: A Historical Guide to the City and its Antiquities; With an Account of the Carnegie Benefactions. A Richly Illustrated Souvenir Handbook. By Alan Reid and William Kirk. Dunfermline: A Romanes & Son, “Press” Office; 1906; Green Cloth, hardback [1st Edition] [ 013 A.] Ditto, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1907. Blue Cloth Presentation Copy, “To A W Bell, Esq., with the Publishers. Comp; iments” [013B.] Another copy of the 2nd Edition, dark blue cloth, with the following inserted at beginning of volume: Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds (A.U.). 81st A.M.C., Dunfermline, 21st - 24th May May 1907. With the Compliments of the Fifeshire District [013C]. Third Edition, Revised and Extended, Dec 1908; dark blue cloth [013 D]. New and Enlarged Edition [4th Edition], Oct 1922; Light Blue Cloth LOT 013E. 5th Edition, March 1934; light blue cloth, dw (torn); presentation copy, “To Margaret, with best wishes from B & J Fraser, July 1936” [014] Dunfermline Remembered Between The Wars. By Albert F Lindon. Self Published, 1980s. Printed by Dunfermline Press (A Romanes & Son Ltd), Pitreavie Business Park, Dunfermline; Illustrated Card Covers; stapled [015] Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline. By The Rev Peter Chalmers; William Blackwood snd Sons, Edinburgh and London; 2 vols, 1844 and 1859; Rebound in red cloth boards, with red leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; new eps; Genealogy at end of Vol 2 [016] Another copy of above, but Vol 1 only of 1844; thick heavy bespeckled boards, leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; slight damp staining to beginning of volume, but not affecting frontispiece print or title page [ 017] The Story an Ancient Craft in An Ancient Town; Card Covers, Pp 16; about weaving in Dunfermline; No Date, c 1920s. Printed by J McOwan, Printer, 10 High Street, Dunfermline [018] Poems and Songs. By the late Thomas Morrison, Merchant, Dunfermline. Privately Printed. Dunfermline: William Clark & Son, Journal Office , 1902; brown boards; design in gilt on front cover; leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; signature of F Hudson [ie Felix Hudson, clock and watchmaker in Dunfermline], Aug 1984. The Poems and Songs in this volume were contributed by Thomas Morrison (d 1879), merchant, Dunfermline, and appear to have been printed by the latter’s nephew, Thomas Morrison, Braddock, Pennsylvania [019] A Sketcher’s Notes to Illustrate A View of the Ruins of Dunfermline Abbey; Containing Some Incidents in the Life of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. Vol II [London: Printed at The Operative Jewish Converts’Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green; folio; blue cloth boards; gilt around front and rear covers; inscription of Mrs M Balfour from the Author, on fep; Volume I was published in 1855, with sketches of the Old Church of Dun, and had nothing to do with Dunfermline [020]Scottish Reprints. City Development. A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline, Trust, with An Introduction by Peter Green. Originally published in 1904 and written by Patrick Geddes, this Reprint is a Complete and Unabridged photolithographic facsimile of the first Edition, published by Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1973; Copyright Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 1973, for original text and Illustrations; and the Irish University Press for Introduction [021]. Selections from the Writings of William Stewart (Gavroche). Hardback Boards; Published by Robert Gibson & Sons (Glasgow) Limited; Printed by The Blackfriars Press Limited, Leicester, 1948 Stewart was born in Dunfermline on 8 July 1856, and died in Glasgow on 27 Aug 1947 aged 91. For over 25 years he was Secretary and Organiser of the Independent Labour Party in Scotland. He also published The Worker, a monthly Socialist Journal for Fife and Clackmannan from Bruce Street, Dunfermline, in 1898-1900 This copy has the signature of Douglas Young, 1948 on front paste-down
A mid 19th century rosewood cased, cut brass and mother of pearl marquetry inlaid portico clock, having a double domed beaded pediment above inlaid frieze supported by spiral turned Corinthian capped columns, the enamel dial showing Roman numerals, having an eight day movement striking on a bell, height 54cm
An imposing and heavy Rose marble, Pierre Sega Garniture of a Chimney Mantle clock and a pair of vases, the oval face of the clock having black Arabic numerals and marked A.F. Pontypool, the French polished brass movement numbered 33304 having an external **wheel and striking the hours ** on a bell, the case has a gilt metal frieze depicting birds perched on a flowering branch and is surmounted by a figure of a boy playing the pan-pipes to a lady. The clock was running at the time of lotting, measures 17 1/4'' wide x 4 3/4'' deep x 15 7/8'' high, the vases having circular plaques of birds measure 9 9/16'' high x 6 1/8'' wide, complete with key.
French - early Edwardian 8-day gilt metal and white marble clock garniture c1910, drum head case surmounted by an urn with cast side scrolls, supported by four pillars on a rectangular stepped plinth with recessed feet, white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, garland swags and gilt hands, with a sunburst pendulum and twin-train countwheel striking movement, striking the hours and half hours on a bell. With a pair of three light, two branch candelabra on scroll-cast branches. With key and pendulum.Dimensions: Height: 41cm Length/Width: 18cm Depth/Diameter: 11cm
French - 19th century 8-day library clock in a walnut veneered and ebonised case c1870, drum case on a decorative rectangular ogee plinth with a shaped base, enamel dial with Roman numerals, minute track and steel moon hands, countwheel striking movement, striking the hours and half hours on a bell. With pendulum. Dimensions: Height: 27cm Length/Width: 33cm Depth/Diameter: 15cm
the 4" ivorine dial with Arabic numerals and pierced gilt centre dial, on a brass eight day Japy Freres movement striking the half hours to a bell, stamped serial number 14541, the case with urn finial and lion mask handles to each side, with pendulum and key, height 44cm. *CR Later key, appears to wind and strike at time of cataloguing but functionality not guaranteed, loose mounts and general wear to the case.
the 8" painted dial on a brass eight day twin fusee movement striking to a bell, movement and pendulum both with matching engraved decoration, the lancet shaped case with boxwood and other inlays, brass lion mask ring handles and brass grilles to each side and splayed brass lion feet, with pendulum, lacking key, height 40cm. *CR Dial repainted and poorly finished, needs work, case with splits and repairs, lacking case and winding keys, movement appears to wind and strike but functionality not guaranteed and certainly would benefit from a service.
with rare oval 10 1/2" brass dial engraved with foliate scrolls and mounted 'sundial', signed C Clarke, brass two train movement striking to a bell, the hood with dentil cornice and fan inlay flanked by Corinthian columns above a canted corner trunk with arched door, paper label for T E Dodds Watchmakers of Newcastle on Tyne, with pendulum, two weights and winder, height 220cm. *CR Base possibly replaced in part, case French polished, fading to side, minor losses, old worm holes, surface wear to dial including scratches, movement clean and untested.
the 7 3/4" painted dial and backplate signed John Cording, Temple Bar, on an eight day two train movement striking to a bell, the domed case inlaid with stringing, pierced brass side grilles and lion mask ring handles on brass ball feet, with pendulum, winder and case key, height 39cm. *CR One foot loose, marks to case, wear to dial, needs servicing, over-wound but striking mechanism works.
A Chinese Porcelain Mug, 18th century, of bell shape, with strap handle and heart-shaped terminal, painted in famille rose enamels with figures in a garden landscape, 15cm high (a/f), together with an eggshell beaker painted with carp, a similar Japanese part teaset and a Staffordshire porcelain mug (one tray)
A Three-Piece William IV Silver Travelling Communion-Set, by Charles Reily and George Storer, London, 1834, each piece plain and engraved with the ‘IHS’ Christogram within sunburst, comprising a communion-cup, with gilt interior; a paten on spreading foot and a bell-shaped wine bottle with bayonet-mount which acts as the stem of the cup, in fitted conical burgundy leather-cover case, tooled with an inscription, the case 75mm high, weight of silver 3oz 10dwt, 98gr (3)The inscription reads ‘Presented to The Rev Leigh Spencer M.A. by the Teachers and Friends of the Long Marston & Wilston Sunday Schools Sept’r 30 1850’. Each piece marked as expected. There is some minor wear to the marks. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. There are some scuffs and tape marks to the case.
A George III Silver Two Handled Cup, Probably by John King, London, 1774, inverted bell-shaped and on spreading foot, with two leaf-capped scroll handles, later chased with foliage scrolls centring on each side a cartouche, one engraved with a crest below the Royal crown, perhaps a regimental badge, the vacant, 15.7cm high, 14oz 8dwt, 479grFully marked under base. The marks with some minor wear but still legible. There is overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. The wear is noticeable as a softening to the high points and to the engraving which is very soft. The cartouches have perhaps been erased and with some surface unevenness.
ARMAND GUILLAUMIN (1841-1927)Portrait d'André, fils de l'artiste signed 'Guillaumin' (upper right)pastel and pencil on paper42.5 x 33.9cm (16 3/4 x 13 3/8in).Executed circa 1903Footnotes:The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Guillaumin. This work will be included in the forthcoming Vol. II of the Armand Guillaumin catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri, Dominique Fabiani and Jacques de la Béraudière.ProvenanceGalerie Kleinmann, Paris, no. 745.Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 11 April 1962, lot 177.Edward Sackville-West Collection, 5th Baron Sackville, UK, no. 503 (acquired at the above sale).Eardley Knollys Collection, UK (by descent from the above in 1965).Mattei Radev Collection, UK (by descent from the above in 1991).Private collection, London (by descent from the above in 2009).The present work previously formed part of the Radev Collection, a prolific UK collection of more than 800 works of Impressionist & Modern Art. The collection was fostered by individuals associated with the Bloomsbury Group, a loose collective of artists, writers and philosophers who from the beginning of the twentieth century generated progressive and influential discourse on aesthetics, criticism, politics and sexuality. An offshoot of London's intellectual aristocracy, the group's shared ideals were in opposition to the bourgeois habits of Victorian life. Artists such as Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and writers such as Virginia Woolfe and E.M. Forster were among this cohort. A social group as well as a movement in thinking, the Bloomsbury Group's participants engaged in varied and complicated relationships which often transgressed British society's expectations of monogamy and heteronormativity. The Radev Collection was begun by the novelist and music critic Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville, in the late 1930s. His friend and sometimes lover Eardley Knollys then inherited the collection upon Sackville-West's sudden death from an asthma attack in 1965. Knollys was an artist and art dealer who collected and traded in works by artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Chaïm Soutine, whilst promoting and supporting his fellow emerging Modern British artists. Knollys was also a lover of Mattei Radev, an émigré who had escaped communist Bulgaria in 1950 by swimming to Turkey and stowing away in a cargo ship travelling from Istanbul to Glasgow. Radev became a fixture of London's artistic milieu, setting up a fashionable picture framing workshop in Fitzrovia with a loan from Knollys and becoming a keen collector of European and British Modern Art. Radev inherited the wider collection upon Knollys' passing in 1991.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)Étude pour 'Hommage à Paul Klee' (recto); Étude pour le portrait de Marie Bell (dans Phèdre) (verso) inscribed 'Herr Pa Klee L'épigone d'Athènes' (upper right) and further inscribed 'Hommage' (lower left); inscribed 'Marie Bell' (on the reverse)coloured felt-tip pen and black pencil on paper (recto); coloured felt-tip pen on paper (verso)65 x 50cm (25 9/16 x 19 11/16in).Executed circa 1962 (recto); executed circa 1960-1962 (verso)Footnotes:The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Annie Guédras.ProvenanceSéverin Wunderman Collection, Côte d'Azur; his sale, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 25 January 2011, lot 171.Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale).ExhibitedSapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition Jean Cocteau, Séverin Wunderman Collection, 19 April – 29 May 2005, no. 57 (later travelled to Tokyo, Kofu, Kobe and Morioka).The front of the present work is an homage to Jean Cocteau's friend Paul Klee, depicting him as a Modern dandy and labelling him as an epigone of Athens. The lively, outlandish motifs, such as the monkey-dog Klee walks and the fish flying by, comprise an unlikely foreground against the distant Acropolis. An enthusiast for the Classical world, Cocteau could here be revering the precision and spiritual force of Klee's compositions, many of which can be interpreted as Surreal and Abstract renditions of Arcadia. The reverse of the sheet depicts Marie Bell, a talented French actress who starred in a number of comedic and tragic roles across theatre and cinema. This drawing was likely executed as a study for a series of posters Cocteau made of Bell in the 1960s, showcasing her performance in Phèdre, Jean Racine's adaptation of the original Roman tragedy Phaedra by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.The present work previously formed part of the illustrious collection of Séverin Wunderman, the famous luxury watch manufacturer, art collector and philanthropist, renowned for developing Gucci Timepieces into a powerful global brand. Perhaps the most notable of his international residences was Chateau Montfort, a 16th century hunting lodge on the Côte d'Azur, which he painstakingly restored, renovated and decorated. A particularly exotic homage to Cocteau existed in the form of a suite in which the entire sitting area and bedroom were covered floor to ceiling in Cocteau works. Chateau Montfort hosted a number of flamboyant events that were fixtures in the Côte d'Azur social calendar, including The White Party and The Tintin Party. Wunderman, who was considered to be the world's largest Cocteau collector before he passed away in 2008, established a museum of Cocteau's work in Menton that was adorned with works from his private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Theft, fraud & corruption.- Vieira (Antonio) Arte de furtar, espelho de enganos, theatro de verdades, mostrador de horas minguadas, gazua geral dos reynos de Portugal, engraved portrait frontispiece by G.F.L. Debrie (dated 1745), title printed in red and black, some staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, antique style mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with double red morocco labels, rubbed at extremities, lower cover with several small dents,[Azevedo-Samodães 3508; Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 921-922; Innocêncio I, 292 & XXII, 434; Leite Companhia de Jesus no Brasil IX, p.322; Pinto de Mattos 562; Rodrigues 2523; Soares I, 527 & 679], Amsterdam [?but Lisbon], Martinho Schagen [?but João Baptista Lerzo], 1744; and a 19th century London edition of the same (text in Portuguese), small 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ 'curious and amusing treatise on the noble art of thieving in all kinds, private, official, civil and military. Its anecdotes are racy...' (Bell, Portuguese Literature, p.265). Although the title gives Vieira as the author, it is now likely that it was in fact the controversial Jesuit Father Manuel da Costa. Our copy corresponds to Roger Bismut's C2. Provenance: J.G. Mazziotti Salema Garção (modern armorial bookplate).
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Goetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand: A Tragedy. Translated from the German of Goethé...by Walter Scott, first edition, second issue with cancel title with the translator's name correctly printed, half-title, light foxing and browning, occasional light marginal damp-staining, handsomely bound in contemporary marbled calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked, covers very lightly rubbed, for J. Bell, 1799 § [Boothby (Sir Brooke)] Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope, first edition, frontispiece and 2 stipple-engraved plates after Fuseli and Joshua Reynolds, 3 vignette illustrations, tail-pieces, errata slip laid-down to final leaf of text, lacking half-title, frontispiece starting to work loose at foot, light offsetting, some foxing, occasional light soiling, endpapers soiled and working loose, hinges strengthened, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, old covers rubbed, marbled endpapers, W. Bulmer & Co., 1796, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 18th century poetry, v.s. (12)
‘Poetry from Oxford in Wartime’ edited by William Bell. 1945 First Edition. The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Featuring poetry from; Drummond Allison, Ian Bancroft, William Bell, Peter Bentley, Raymond Chapman, Ian Davie, Anthony de Hogton, Roger Lancelyn Green, Paul Haeffner, W. J. Harvey, John Hawke-Genn, John Heath-Stubbs, Brian Hutton, Gerard Irvine, J. D. James, Francis King, Philip Larkin, David Luke, Christopher Middleton, Roy Porter, Philip Rawson, Guy Simmons, Michael Walls & David Wright. In original dust jacket, some small tears to dust jacket. This book features the first collection of Philip Larkin poems in book form, scarce with only around 500 copies originally printed.
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