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Lot 25
Italian school; 17th century."Penitent Magdalene".Gilded bronze.It shows wear and tear.Measurements: 11 x 7 cm.While the Eastern Christianity honours specially Mary Magdalene for her closeness to Jesus, considering her "equal to the apostles", in the West it was developed, based on her identification with other women of the Gospels, the idea that before meeting Jesus she had dedicated herself to prostitution. Hence the later legend that she spent the rest of her life as a penitent in the desert, mortifying her flesh. In art, she was most often depicted in this way, especially in the 17th century, a time when Catholic societies were particularly fascinated by the lives of mystics and saints who lived in solitude in the wilderness, dedicated to prayer and penance. The theme of the Magdalen also offered the possibility of depicting a beautiful woman showing parts of her anatomy that were then considered taboo, such as her feet and breasts, but respecting decorum in that she is mortified flesh expressing repentance for her past sins.Given the size of this panel, it is likely that it was intended for private devotion. It is worked using the 'schiacciato' technique, a system of modelling in sculptural relief used by the Romans and perfected in the 15th century by Donatello, which consists of proportionally reducing the size of the relief according to the depth to be represented. This sculptural technique makes it possible to create a bas-relief with a minimal variation (sometimes referred to in millimetres) with respect to the background. To give the viewer the illusion of depth, the gradual decrease in the depth of the thickness is complemented by the rigorous application of the laws of perspective, which enhances the visual effect.
Lot 736
Collection of Vintage Glassware, comprising pale green glass ladies dressing table set of tray, two lidded powder pot/trinket pots, a ring holder and two candlesticks. Together with an Art Deco style fruit dish and six small matching fruit dishes in pink glass. Also, a bronze carnival ware opaque glass footed bowl with fluted edge, and a 1950s cake plate, square form with peach bakelite top and chrome base.
Lot 59
Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844)Golden Eagle with bronze winged pigeon, signed "Sarah Smith" and dated 1806, watercolour, 46 x 55 cmLit. Jackson, Christine: "Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds" ,Watercolour Drawings by Sarah Stone in Public and Private Institutions - "Private Collection A" no.16 (pg 131)See also page 30 paragraph 3 where this work is referred to. Provenance: From the Estate of Patrick Dockar-Drysdale
Lot 65
Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844)A bronze winged pigeon perched upon a rock, signed "Sarah Smith", watercolour, 32 x 28.5cmLit. Jackson, Christine " Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds", Watercolour Drawings by Sarah Stone in Public and Private Institutions - "Private Collection A" no.11 (pg 131).The specimen for this work was collected in Adventure Bay, Van Dieman's Land, January 1777, on Cook's third voyage 1776-80. The pigeon is also painted under the eagle's foot in Lot 59 (this information courtesy of the above work) Provenance: From the Estate of Patrick Dockar-Drysdale
Lot 169
A pair of 19th century 'Grand Tour' miniature gilt bronze and simulated marble carved alabaster miniature baths, on rouge marble basesthe baths of rounded tapering rectangular form, with applied lions mask and ring mounts to the sides, on four paw feet, the plinths of stepped rectangular form, 8cm high, 11cm wide, 4.5cm deep (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 213
Guy Taplin (British, born 1939)Owl with Worm signed, titled, dated, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'OWL/GUY TAPLIN/1998/PE/2/12' (to underside)bronze with a light brown and light grey patina18.5cm (7 5/16in) wideThis 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
Lot 217
Guy Taplin (British, born 1939)Miniature preening curlew signed, titled and numbered 'PREENING/ CURLEW/ Guy Taplin 12/25 P.E.' (on underside)bronze11.9 x 7.8cm (4 11/16 x 3 1/16in).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
Lot 218
Guy Taplin (British, born 1939)Miniature egret; and Miniature preening egretthe former signed with initials and numbered 'G.T. 10/25' (on the base); and the latter signed with initials and numbered 'G.T. 6/25' (on the base) two of a set, cold painted bronze 14.5 x 10.6cm (5 11/16 x 4 3/16in). and 14.5 x 8.4cm (5 11/16 x 3 5/16in). (2)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
Lot 99
A Royal George Model Cannon And Related PublicationThe First Dated 1840The first of bronze and of tapering multi-stage form with raised mouldings, the second reinforce engraved 'Relic of Royal George Sunk 1782 - Raised 1840'; the second a copy of A Narrative of The Loss of The Royal George ...', (bound in the wood of the wreck), 8th edition, Portsea, 1847 (2)15 cm. barrel Footnotes:H.M.S. Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. At the time of her launch in 1756 she was the largest warship in the world and saw service during the Seven Years War. She sank at Portsmouth in 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives, one of the most serious maritime losses in British waters. A fund was established by Lloyd's Coffee House to provide aid to widows and children of the sailors lost in the sinking, which was the foundation of what would become the Lloyd's Patriotic FundFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 55
Four: Private J. H. J. Mills, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (18460 Pte. J. H. J. Mills, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (18460 Pte. J. H. J. Mills. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal; together with two Regimental prize medals, the first a large bronze medallion, 58mm, the reverse engraved ‘Pte. J. Mills’; the second an Army Rifle Association silver medallion ‘For Skill with the Rifle’, the reverse engraved ‘Pte. J. H. J. Mills’; together with an Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry cap badge, very fine (4) £60-£80 --- James Hubert John Mills, a native of Witney, Oxfordshire, attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 September 1915. He later transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and was discharged to the Army Reserve on 16 April 1919. He died at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, in 1978.
Lot 779
German Second World War S.A. Sports Badges. 3 SA Sports badges, the first a 2nd type in silver, all finish remaining, this an award example numbered 39497, maker marked Berg & Nolte AG; the second a 2nd type in bronze, all finish remaining, this an awarded example numbered 915044, maker marked Fechler; the third a 3rd type in bronze, all finish remaining, unnumbered, with unusual maker of Petz.u.Lorenz, good condition (3) £100-£140
Lot 628
Pair: Attributed to Staff Sergeant Fong Chun-Hung, Hong Kong Civil Aid Service Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., post 1968 reverse, unnamed as issued, in Royal Mint case of issue; Hong Kong S.A.R. Civil Aid Service Long Service Medal, 4th Class in bronze, for 15 years’ service, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine Pair: Fireman H. Bradshaw Defence Medal; Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Fireman Henry Bradshaw); together with the recipient’s riband bars, good very fine Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with 3 Additional Award Bars (Frank H. Davies); together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid medal with additional dated bars for 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932; three Red Cross Service badges in gilt metal and enamel by J. R. Gaunt, London, comprising County of Glamorgan Red Cross badge (06776 F. H. Davies); Red Cross ‘For Service’ badge (20259); and Red Cross 10 Year Service Badge (8162 F. H. Davies); together with single cloth epaulette with three red cross rank ‘pips’, and Red Cross Glamorgan 13, brass shoulder title, with retaining pins and back plate, minor enamel chipping to second Red Cross badge otherwise better than very fine Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, with 2 Additional Award Bars (20263 Corpl. W. Williams. Aberdare Divn. Aberdare. 1938) good very fine (lot) £60-£80 --- Fong Chun-Hung served in the Hong Kong Civil Aid Service, Cadet Training Section. The Hong Kong S.A.R. Civil Aid Service Medal was instituted in 1997, and is awarded to officers and members of the Civil Aid Service with long and exemplary service. It comes in four classes. Sold together with a photocopy letter of attribution from Frontier Medals and Collectables, of Hong Kong, stating that the medals were purchased directly from the recipient. Frank H. Davies served as Secretary of the Cardiff West Branch of the Glamorgan British Red Cross. William Williams was born 30 November 1899, and was employed in 1939 as a coal hewer, residing at 42 Bute Street, Aberdare.
Lot 788
German Third Reich Mixed Tinnies. 10 tinnies all with their original tinny type fixing pins. Unidentified tinny eagle over a German helmet in plastic; Strength Through Joy small bronze tinny 1939 in plastic; 25 year Rhineland Youth tinny; Strength Through Joy Ski Day 1938; Gautag Westfalen Dortmund 1936; Strength Through Joy Rhein-main in plastic; Cassel 1935 Day; Day of German Work 1935; Oldenburg 1934; Winter Help Work Gau-Essen 1937, generally good condition (10) £120-£160
Lot 386
Pair: Private T. S. Hicks, Royal Army Ordnance Corps British War Medal 1914-20 (034441 Pte. T. S. Hicks. A.O.C.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (034441 Pte. T. S. Hicks. R.A.O.C.) very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Thomas Solomon Hicks was born at Crawley, Oxfordshire, in 1879. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 21 January 1920. Sold together with a Lucas-Tooth Boys Training Fund Medal for Efficiency, bronze, unnamed; a privately made aluminium alloy identity disk bracelet (T. Hicks. C.E. 034441 A.O.C.); and various R.A.O.C. cap badges; shoulder titles; and uniform buttons.
Lot 703
Ireland, Free State, General Service Medal 1917-21, non-combatant’s type without Bar, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the President of Ireland to Matthew Ryan for Active Service in East & Mid Limerick Brigades, I.R.A., 1917-21’, lacking integral top riband bar; together with a silver Irish prize medal, the obverse featuring the coats of arms of the four Provinces, with shamrocks around, the reverse with ‘I.A.G.A.’ at top, and shamrock wreath around, unnamed, with top silver brooch bar, good very fine (2) £140-£180
Lot 646
An unattributed D.S.O. mounted group of six miniature dress medals Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, reverse of suspension stamped ‘silver’; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Panama, Medal of Solidarity 1917-18, mounted as worn on a Spink & Son pin and housed in a Spink & Son carrying case, good very fine An unattributed mounted pair of miniature dress medals Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen; King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, mounted as worn, good very fine Jubilee 1897, bronze, mounted as worn, good very fine (9) £140-£180
Lot 655
Evening Chronicle Medal of Honour, bronze-gilt and enamel cross by Fattorini & Sons, the reverse embossed ‘Gloops Club Member of Honour awarded to...’, unnamed, complete with enamelled top suspension brooch inscribed ‘For Achievement’; together with 22nd Regiment Order of Merit 1820, bronze, disc only, unnamed, the second with heavy edge bruising, fine, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £50-£70
Lot 778
German Second World War S.A. Sports Badges. 2 very nice condition SA Sports badges, the first 1st type in silver in absolutely mint condition, an award piece with the individual number of the awardee 34399 with the rare maker of Bonner; the second in bronze, superb condition all bronze finish remaining, this is an awarded example with the award number 147149 stamped into the reverse side, also with the unusual maker of Bonner, very good condition (2) £80-£100
Lot 397
Four: Sub-Lieutenant K. R. Tremlett, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later Somerset Constabulary, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s card identity disc ‘K R Tremlett Sub Lt CoE RNVR’; and St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engrave ‘A130095 Kenneth R. Tremlett’, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 10 October 1944: ‘For bravery, skill, and devotion to duty in H.M. Ships ... Balfour ... in anti-U-boat operations. M.I.D. London Gazette 19 December 1944: ‘For gallantry and skill in anti-U-boat operations in H.M. Ships Balfour ...’ Kenneth Rainey Tremlett, a native of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was born on 9 November 1917 and joined the Somerset Constabulary on 12 April 1937. He served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches for his services in H.M.S. Balfour on anti-U-Boat operations in 1944. He returned to the Somerset Constabulary following the cessation of hostilities, and was employed at C.I.D. Headquarters. He resigned at his own request on 11 April 1962. Sold together with the recipient’s Identity card; Admiralty Letter on the occasion of his release from Naval Service, dated 11 February 1946; Somerset Constabulary Letter, on the occasion of his resignation, dated 11 April 1962; and various newspaper cuttings and other ephemera, including a photograph of the recipient; the recipient’s riband bar; and three British Legion badges.
Lot 64
Five: Sergeant W. A. J. Tasker, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (4772 Pte. W. Tasker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (5376574 Sjt. W. A. J. Tasker. 4-Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) nearly very fine and better (5) £60-£80 --- Sold together with two Territorial Army Rifle Association Prize Medals, one silver and one bronze, both named to the 4th Battalion, O.B.L.I.; and a group photograph.
Lot 438
Three: Senior Aircraftsman I. J. Henderson, Royal Air Force General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (SAC I J Henderson (Q8216959) RAF); Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (SAC I J Henderson (Q8216959) RAF); Kuwait, Liberation of Kuwait 1991, 4th Grade, bronze and enamel, in case of issue complete with riband bar, British awards in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) £160-£200
Lot 696
Bronze Cross, with ring suspension, 66mm, the obverse featuring the shields of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in centre, ‘Humphrey Cup’ engraved on top arm, ‘1901’ on left arm, ‘C. J. S. Green’ on right arm, ‘Score 187’ on bottom arm, the reverse plain, of two piece construction, with dark blue riband and top bronze brooch bar, in R. S. Rowell, Oxford,’ fitted leather case, nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- Charles James Salkeld Green, D.S.O., M.C., was born on 27 March 1880, and was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He was member of the Shooting VIII at Harrow, 1898-99, and of the Oxford University Shooting VIII, 1900-02, being President of the Oxford University Small Bore Club. He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1904. Green served with the 7th Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 March 1915, was given command of the Battalion on 1 July 1916, and was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 7 September 1917. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 4 June 1917), the Military Cross (London Gazette 3 June 1916), and the Belgian Croix de Guerre; and was four times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 1 January 1916, 25 May 1917, 24 December 1917, and 25 May 1918). He subsequently served as an Assistant Solicitor at the Inland Revenue.
Lot 626
Coast Life Saving Corps Long Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Andrew Cargill) together with Royal Life Saving Society bronze medal (June 1937), R.L.S.S. Award of Merit, ‘silver’ (1945), R.L.S.S. Bronze Cross (July 1947), these all named and dated as shown, and six various hallmarked swimming prize medals, all but one named, including ‘The Macdonald Glasgow Shield 1934’, ‘Portland Cup 1939’, and ‘Strathmore Cup 1939’, the first extremely fine, others very fine or better (10) £180-£220
Lot 46
Five: Corporal F. G. Powell, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was an Olympic triallist for the 400 metres in 1920 1914-15 Star (15845 L.Cpl. F. G. Powell. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (15845 Cpl. F. G. Powell. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Inspr. F. G. Powell) the last unofficially re-named, generally very fine and better (lot) £120-£160 --- Frederick G. Powell attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 September 1915. A member of the Wycombe Phoenix Harriers Athletics Club, he participated in the Olympic Trial Test for the 400 metres in May 1920, but was placed third. Sold together with several athletic and sports medals, silver fob medal for athletics engraved to reverse (’C’ Company 8th O.B.L.I.); shooting prize medal, this unnamed; Large bronze medal for the Irish Command Sports Association 1919 (2nd O.B.L.I.) and (100 Yards Relay Race 1st Sergt. F. G. Powell); Three Berkshire Amateur Athletic Association bronze fob medals, one unnamed,two engraved (1920 1 Mile Relay Champion - 2nd) and (1920 440 Yds. Champion - 3rd - F. G. Powell); Buckinghamshire A.A.A., hallmarked silver and enamel prize medal, unnamed; Amateur Athletic Association Olympic Triallist bronze medal (Olympic Trials - 1920 - F. G. Powell); Bucks. Constabulary Athletic Sports medal, 12 August 1922, One mile Relay Race (Open) 3rd, this unnamed; Bucks Constabulary Athletic Sports 12 August 1922, large heavy un-hallmarked but marked silver (40g) sports medal, Tug of War (Open) 1st, this unnamed.
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