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Lot 508
A PAIR OF 18TH CENTURY STYLE FIGURED WALNUT MIRROR VENEERED AND INLAID DEMI-LUNE CABINETS, crossbanded and line inlaid in boxwood and ebony, having a two door cupboard, the interior fitted with three bow fronted pull slides, on short square splayed legs, 20th century, 77cm high x 122cm wide x 61cm deep. See illustration
Lot 535B
AN ART DECO FIGURED WALNUT BOW FRONTED BEDROOM SUITE, comprising a lady's triple bow fronted three door wardrobe, the interior fitted with drawers and hanging compartments, 61cm wide; a gentleman's two door wardrobe, 37cm wide; a kneehole dressing table with shaped oval mirror, 42cm wide; a pair of single bedsteads with head and foot panel ends and a bedside cabinet, all with faux-ivory and tortoiseshell effect bar handles
Lot 156
Enameled Gold Order of the Society of the Cincinnati, Designed by Major Pierre L`Enfant and Construction Attributed to Duval & Fran... ""Enameled Gold Order of the Society of the Cincinnati, Designed by Major Pierre L`Enfant and Construction Attributed to Duval & Francastle, Paris, 1784. One of only 140 original eagles designed and conceived by Major Pierre L`Enfant for the inaugural members of the Society of the Cincinnati, the nation`s oldest patriotic organization. The Society was founded in 1783 by officers of the Continental Army and their French counterparts who served together in the American Revolution. This particular eagle is believed to have belonged to Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-born hero of the Revolution and Chief Engineer of West Point. In 1783, Kosciuszko was appointed Brigadier General and initiated into the Order by General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. Gold insignia with eagle and wreath motif, both sides with head and tail feathers having white and black enamel, red enamel eyes, distinct eyebrows and black beaks. Obverse oval medallion showing Cincinnatus receiving a sword from two senators, originally with blue enamel sky and green enamel grass within inscription OMNIA. REINQT. SERVAT. REMPB. (He Forsook All Things to Serve the Republic), but now mostly lacking. Reverse medallion showing Cincinnatus with sun and palisade behind, originally with blue sky and green field enameling within inscription in black on white ground VIRT. PRAEM. SOCI. CIN. RUM. INST. A. D. 1783 (a Prize for Virtue - Society of the Cincinnati Instituted 1783), also mostly lacking. The wreath at top and lower crossed branches likewise originally decorated with green enamel and red berries, with double oval loop suspension ring. Without original blue and white ribbon and bow.Provenance: Inherited by the consignor through direct descent of Stevens Thompson Mason (1760-1803), a U.S. Senator from Virginia, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Armistead (1760-1825), who were personally acquainted with Kosciuszko. According to family history, Kosciuszko was awarded the eagle, which he then gifted to Mary Elizabeth Armistead, for whom he had great affection. It has been passed down in the Mason family ever since. Kosciuszko biographer, Casimir Kajencki, references a documented meeting between Stevens Thomson Mason and Kosciuszko at the latter`s apartment on Third Street South in Philadelphia over the winter of 1797-1798 (Thaddeus Kosciuszko: Military Engineer of the American Revolution, El Paso, Tex.: Southwest Polonia Press, 1998, pp. 202-203).Thaddeus Kosciuszko (1746-1817), to his friend Mary Elizabeth Armistead Mason (1760-1825), to her grandsonStevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843), to his sisterCatherine Armistead Mason (Rowland) (1818-1884), to her sonJohn Thomson Mason (1844-1901), to his sonStevens Thomson Mason (1880-1950), to his daughterAdelaide Houghton Mason (b. 1918), by descent to the present ownerStarting Price: $20000
Lot 201
A platinum and rock crystal manual wind open face pocket watch Lacloche Freres, London, circa 1925, with silvered dial having applied baton hour markers and outer applied dot minute divisions, moon hands, platinum bezel set within rock crystal case with platinum band and bow, cabochon set winding crown, together with fitted Lacloche Freres box, dial signed, 41mm
Lot 357
Simone Cantarini, called il Pesarese (Italian, 1612-1648), Scene from Ariosto`s "Orlando Furioso" (canto 22), with Bradamante and Ruggiero, Finding an Abandoned Woman by the Wayside, red chalk, 20 x 26cm (8 x 10in). Provenance: Colonel Henry Stephen Olivier. The prominent collection mark is that of Colonel Henry Stephen Olivier (1796-1866) of Potterne Manor, Wiltshire (F. Lugt, Supplement, Marques de Collections, The Hague, 1956, p. 193, no. 1373). He began collecting with his purchase in Paris of a folder of drawings, subsequently building on this foundation with his return to England. His interests focused mainly on the Italian and Dutch Schools. Dr. Paul Taylor, of the Photo Library, the Warburg Institute, London, has kindly identified the subject, which is taken from Ariosto`s Orlando furioso, Canto 22, verses 36-44. The helmeted warrior in the centre of the composition, who stops in alarm at the sight of a naked young woman lying beside the road, is Bradamante, while behind him is his guide Ruggiero. In the sky above the woman, Cupid breaks his bow to indicate the woman`s history of star-crossed lovers. Ruggiero and Bradamante come across the woman, much troubled in her demeanour ("molto era nel viso mesta"), as they leave the forest near the Abbey at Vallombrosa. The young men comfort her and the kindly Ruggiero resolves to offer her help. An earlier study for the same composition, less pleasingly composed and not as elaborate, is in the Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart, where the subject is not identified (inv. II/ 310; Simone Cantarini detto il Pesarese, 1612-1648, exh. cat. by A. Emiliani, et al., exh. cat. Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, and Accademia di Belle Arti, p. 295, no II 82). In the Stuttgart drawing, Bradamante stands in the centre of the design, rather than more pleasingly here, in the right-hand half of the composition, in the midst of his two companions. In the present drawing, Cantarini is seen at the height of his powers as a draughtsman, adapting Guido Reni`s elegant style of red chalk drawing, with its echoes of sixteenth-century Emilian draughtsmen, such as Parmigianino, into an easier, more graceful manner. On stylistic grounds, it must date, from the second half of the 1630s, at the time of many of Cantarini`s best-known etchings.
Lot 561
`Giuseppe Fiorini Roma 1923`, a cello in cloth casing, the original brown varnish showing a craquelure on the scroll, the back 75cm (29.5 inch), the overall length 125cm (49 inch), together with an un-named nickel mounted bow, all in a `W.E.Hill & Sons London` cloth case. Giuseppe Fiorini (1861-1934), a famous maker, is recorded as having made 500 violins, 10 violas, and 10 `cellos up to year 1926
Lot 622
`Heylin, Cornhill, London`, an early George III flintlock blunderbuss, circa 1760, the two-stage turned barrel belled at the muzzle and signed at the breech, the signed lock with a raised border repeated on the hammer, figured full stock with chequered grip through the hand, brass butt-plate and trigger-guard with acorn shaped finial and later ramrod, Tower proof marks. Joseph Heylin was made free of the Gunmakers` Company in 1757 and was elected Master in 1777. He is recorded as a gunmaker and stone-bow maker at 48 Cornhill between 1757 and 1779, and he died in 1801
Lot 341
Sermons. A bound volume of ten various sermons against immorality, 1697-99, some with half-titles, all pubs. ads. at rear, contents generally in clean conditon, contemp. blind-ruled calf, rubbed and some marks, 8vo. A collection of sermons mostly addressed to the Society for the Reformation of Manners in London, which had been established in 1691 with the aim of suppressing immorality and lewdness, especially prostitution. The contents are: John Sharp, A Sermon About the Government of the Thoughts, 4th ed., 1698, Samuel Wesley, A Sermon Concerning Reformation of Manners, Preach’d at St. James’s Church, Westminster, Feb. 13 ..., 1698, Samuel Bradford, A Sermon Preach’d at the Church of St. Mary Le Bow, Octob. 4. 1697, John Hancock, A Sermon Preach’d at the Church of St. Mary Le Bow, December 26. 1698, pub. 1699, Daniel Chadwick, A Sermon Preach’d at the Church of St. Mary in Nottingham ... July 6th, 1698, Thomas Jekill, A Sermon Preach’d at St. Mary-le-Bow, June 27. 1698, pub. 1698, Edward Fowler, A Sermon Preach’d at the Church of St. Mary le Bow, June 26. 1699, pub. 1699, Lilly Butler, A Sermon Preach’d at St. Mary-le-Bow, April 5. 1697, pub. 1697, Josiah Woodward, The Duty of Compassion to the Souls of Others, in Endeavouring their Reformation ... Preach’d December 28th 1696, 2nd ed., 1698, and William Hayley, A Sermon Preach’d at the Church of St. Mary le Bow Monday Oct. 3, 1698, pub. 1699. (1).
Lot 4
A FINE POLISHED IRON FENDER DESIGNED BY ERNEST GIMSON AND MADE BY ALFRED BUCKNELL of bow fronted form with alternate spatulate and narrow divisions^ 19cm h^ 126cm w^ c1903 Provenance: Mentor Gimson (1851-1925) thence by descent to the present vendor. A set of fire irons designed by Ernest Gimson for Stoneywell Cottage shown in situ in an early photograph illustrated in Gimson and the Barnsleys by Mary Greensted^ Stroud 1991^ fig 107.` ++General light surface rust but complete^ undamaged^ no restoration and not refinished
Lot 104
A BOW MODEL OF A BUNTING the plumage painted in tones of puce^ blue and pale yellow^ preening and perched on a stump sprigged with flowers and vivid green foliage^ on low mound^ 9.5cm h^ c1758-60 A similar example^ with its companion^ is illustrated Freeman (G) and A Gabszewicz^ Bow Porcelain^ 1982^ No 268. ++Lacking one end of the branch on which the bird is perched. Flat chip under the tail feathers^ some typical chipping of the encrusted flowers and leaves but an otherwise good example of this Bow model^ free from restoration
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