A very fine Regency rosewood twin pedestal chess table and accompanying carved ivory chess set in the single fitted drawer. The canted gaming top with penwork decoration has a checkered centre board with each square decorated with a flower head and under a wide border of acanthus scrolls and with two panels decorated with Classical farming scenes. The plain frieze is edged with bobbin turned moulding above double baluster supports over a swan neck plinth with further bobbin moulds and raised on squat bun feet, 74.5cm high, 71cm wide, king pieces 12.5cm. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Chess set intact, red king with a chip to the crown, white king finial re glued, red bishop with a rough patch to one side of the reeded column otherwise all pieces in good condition. The table is in overall very good condition. With expected marks and wear. Penwork top has survived remarkably well. Structurally sound. The loop handle to the original key is broken but still functioning.
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A late Victorian/Edwardian elm and beech comb back Windsor chair The pierced splat back flanked by scrolling arms and bobbin turned uprights, the dished seat raised on four turned supports united by a double 'H' stretcher. CONDITION REPORT: Lot 868: Light scratches and marks, very small chip to edge of seat.
A group of 19th century embroidery and lace including deep borders embroidered with flowers and palms of fine Ayrshire cut work and self embroidered border, two girl's dresses, a nightdress and other items of handstitched broderie anglaise, lengths of black bobbin lace, other black lace and a veilcondition report not avialbe
An Oak Side Cabinet; composed from a small Georgian hanging cabinet to the upper section, with shaped and fielded panelled door flanked by pilasters, 63.5cm wide 25.5cm deep 75cm high, the lower associated section fitted with a drawer on bobbin turned supports, 64.5cm wide 171cm high overall.
Ernest Gimson yew rush-seated chair made by Edward Gardiner with two pointed finials to the bobbin uprights, having two tiers of bobbin spindles on similar supports and cross stretchers (similar chair in the Arts & Crafts collection at The Wilson Museum, Cheltenham) This chair was commissioned in the 1920's by Arthur Edward Harvey (1896-1978), architect and industrial designer who trained at The Royal College of Art, The Slade School and Royal Academy School. As head of the school of Industrial Design at Birmingham School of Art, he was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (London) for his contribution to his improvement of design schemes in the 1920's. Harvey also designed silver for Hukin & Heath and other silversmiths and worked with Hugh Casson on The Royal Palace, Baghdad. A copy of an original leaflet from Edward Gardiner's workshop is available for viewing
Ernest Gimson yew rush-seated chair made by Edward Gardiner with two pointed finials to the bobbin uprights, having bobbin spindle back on similar supports and cross stretchers (similar chair in the Arts & Crafts collection at The Wilson Museum, Cheltenham) This chair was commissioned in the 1920's by Arthur Edward Harvey (1896-1978), architect and industrial designer who trained at The Royal College of Art, The Slade School and Royal Academy School. As head of the school of Industrial Design at Birmingham School of Art, he was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (London) for his contribution to his improvement of design schemes in the 1920's. Harvey also designed silver for Hukin & Heath and other silversmiths and worked with Hugh Casson on The Royal Palace, Baghdad. A copy of an original leaflet from Edward Gardiner's workshop is available for viewing. An original black and white photograph showing the chair and lot 12 details the original cost at 53/6
Ernest Gimson yew rush-seated armchair made by Edward Gardiner with two pointed finials to the bobbin uprights, having bobbin spindle back on similar supports and cross stretchers (similar chair in the Arts & Crafts collection at The Wilson Museum, Cheltenham) This chair was commissioned in the 1920's by Arthur Edward Harvey (1896-1978), architect and industrial designer who trained at The Royal College of Art, The Slade School and Royal Academy School. As head of the school of Industrial Design at Birmingham School of Art, he was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (London) for his contribution to his improvement of design schemes in the 1920's. Harvey also designed silver for Hukin & Heath and other silversmiths and worked with Hugh Casson on The Royal Palace, Baghdad. A copy of an original leaflet from Edward Gardiner's workshop is available for viewing. An original black and white photograph showing the chair and previous lot 11 details the original cost at 73/6
Ernest Gimson yew rush-seated stool made by Edward Gardiner on bobbin turned supports and cross stretchers This stool was commissioned in the 1920's by Arthur Edward Harvey (1896-1978), architect and industrial designer who trained at The Royal College of Art, The Slade School and Royal Academy School. As head of the school of Industrial Design at Birmingham School of Art, he was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (London) for his contribution to his improvement of design schemes in the 1920's. Harvey also designed silver for Hukin & Heath and other silversmiths and worked with Hugh Casson on The Royal Palace, Baghdad. A copy of an original leaflet from Edward Gardiner's workshop is available for viewing.
A very rare Caughley pounce pot, circa 1780-90, of distinctive 'Bobbin' form with bulbous centre and spreading rim and foot, dished top pierced with several holes, printed in blue with floral sprigs and hexagonal cell borders, the unglazed base unmarked, 9.5cm high (with drilled hole to the base, possibly 'spiked' by the factory) *See Halls sale October 8th, lot 173 where a similar example sold for £3100.
§ Peter Rees Roberts (British, 1923-1998) A Panorama of vignettes of Cambridge oil on panel comprising of two equal sized panels 145 x 540cm (57 x 211in) Provenance: Commissioned for Lloyds Bank, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, in the 1970s. During the 1970s and 1980s Rees Roberts executed murals for several shipping companies including the Norwegian Viking and Cunard lines. He completed murals for Williams & Glyn's Bank in the City, for Lloyds Banks in Cambridge and Farnham, and for hospitals in Ealing and Guildford Peter Rees Roberts was known in particular for his mural works and for his career as a freelance national press artist in the 1950s. He studied drawing and illustration at Wimbledon School of Art from 1939 to 1941. After being medically rejected for war service, be began to study mural painting under Professor Ernest Tristram at the Royal College of Art, which had transferred to Ambleside for the duration of the war. His paintings from the Ambleside years continued the tradition of earlier Royal College mural painting students such as Evelyn Dunbar and Cyril Mahoney. Like Dunbar, Rees Roberts painted scenes of workers in rural industries, his 1942 tempera panels of The Bobbin Mill at Ambleside being his most ambitious and successful work at the RCA. Stanley Spencer was a strong mural painting influence at the time, but Rees Roberts said that he was more affected by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. His large painting of a gasworks, also from his time at Ambleside, is a stylised composition of men and machinery that has echoes of films such as Metropolis or Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. While at Ambleside, Rees Roberts met Ursula McCannell, another Royal College student, and they married in 1945. Shortly before their meeting, Ursula had made a stone head of a handsome man with strong aquiline features - rather prophetically it could almost be a portrait of him. Rees Roberts in turn painted a tempera panel of Ursula in the style of Raphael, a particularly beautiful portrait that marked his feelings for her. After a holiday at Mousehole in Cornwall, they settled in Farnham near Ursula's parents and Peter taught for a while alongside Otway at the Farnham School of Art. After the war, Rees Roberts exhibited at several London galleries including the Modern Art Gallery, the Leger, the Redfern and the New English Art Club. He began to paint more in oils and his pictures, often of Cornish fishermen, became darker and more in tune with the neo- romantic mood of the time. His 1945 self-portrait, The Painter in Mousehole, has a brooding intensity that is reminiscent of the heroic men in Ursula McCannell's early paintings of the Spanish Civil War. The 1948 Picasso exhibition in London made a strong impact on Rees Roberts and his style moved closer to that of his contemporariesRobert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. These Cubist-inspired, densely abstracted figurative paintings of the late 1940s gradually became simpler, with an increasingly brighter palette. Through the 1950s and early 1960s Rees Roberts exhibited at the Royal Academy and regularly with the London Group, Unframed. Colours are good. Two holes at the top drilled for fixing.

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