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Click here to subscribeA Bow figure of a musician: wearing a plumed hat, blue jacket and floral breeches, playing a flageolet and tabor, on bocage tree stump base with gilt scrollwork, circa 1760, 19 cm [some restoration].* Note. With its lady companion, the pair of figures are commonly known as the 'Idyllic Musicians'; cf. Peter Bradshaw 'Bow Porcelain Figures' page 147/ B103.
A Frankfurt blue and white delftware vase: of globular form with octagonal lower section, painted in Chinese Transitional style with figures in a continuous lake landscape panel including an equestrian figure with a bow and arrow and another holding a banner, early 18th century, 30 cm high [minor damage and repair].
A lady's Edwardian rosewood and marquetry writing table:, of bowed breakfront outline, bordered with boxwood lines and decorated with foliate scroll designs, heightened in ivory, the shelved and mirrored superstructure with a shaped ledge cresting, fitted with four small drawers, the top inset with a panel of tooled leather, having a central bow-fronted shaped apron drawer flanked by two small drawers to either side, on square tapered legs headed with ribbon tied pendant husk ornament, terminating in castors, 91.5cm (3ft) wide.
A late 18th/early 19th Century Dutch walnut and floral marquetry bow-fronted standing corner display cabinet:, bordered with boxwood lines, having a swan neck broken pediment centred by an open cartouche and with urn finials and a simulated dentil cornice, the interior with fixed serpentine fronted shelves enclosed by a glazed panel door, the cupboard below enclosed by a panel door decorated with birds on a basket of flowers and foliage, on short fluted square tapered legs, 88cm (2ft 10 1/2in) across, 190cm (6ft 2 3/4in) high.
An Edwardian mahogany and inlaid sideboard:, of serpentine fronted outline, crossbanded in satinwood, bordered with boxwood and ebony lines, the brass galleried superstructure with X-frame lattice panels centred by paterae and with reeded urn finials on turned baluster uprights, the base with a moulded edge and simulated fluted frieze, containing three central serpentine fronted drawers flanked by a bow fronted drawer and enclosed cupboard to either side, one being fitted with a cellarette drawer, on square tapered legs, terminating in spade feet, 199cm (6ft 6 1/4in) long.
A quantity of reference books relating to porcelain including The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Sullivan Foundation, Bow Porcelain, A Collector's History of British Porcelain, Creamware for the American Market, Langley Mill Pottery, Lady Ludlow Collection of English Porcelain, Spode, Copeland, Newhall, etc.
A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN FIGURAL GROUP COURT OF A RURAL CONSTABLE (SUD STANOVOGO), GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, LATE 19TH CENTURY realistically modelled, standing around a table with a green cloth, the judge formally dressed with a white shirt and a black bow-tie, seated on a wooden chair upholstered in purple, the official in a brown overcoat holding his black cap behind him, leaning over the table towards with accused in a simple white shirt and a beige overcoat, documents, a quill and inkstands standing on the table, a bag beside it, on shaped base imitating the floor, red overglazed Gardner factory mark, impressed factory mark and numerals 69 and 0 under base; overall height: 13.5 cm (5 1/4 in.) LOT NOTESLots 276-328 in this auction come from the estate of a prominent New York collector of European heritage. After purchasing his first Gardner figurine more than 20 years ago, he developed an interest in Russian porcelain figures, and amassed a formidable collection over the next two decades, paying particular attention to quality of craftsmanship and authenticity.
Roman Republican silver denarius of L.Calpurnius Piso L.f. Ln. Frugi, 90 B.C., Sear 235var., obverse:- Laureate head of Apollo right, bow behind, reverse:- Horseman, naked galloping right, holding palm branch and whip, legend:- L.PISO FRVG[I], control mark below CXXVI [VI ligulate?], obverse off centre, light marks obverse, good metal, VF
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