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Lot 230
A rare Elizabeth I leaded bronze mortar, late 16th century, by an unidentified foundry, possibly of NorwichWith flared rim, and cast three times with a medallion of Elizabeth I within a border or laurel, and with small pierced lug handle, height 10.5cm (4⅛in), rim diameter 12.5cm (4 15/16in)Footnotes:ProvenanceEx Michael Finlay collection. IllustratedSee Michael Finlay, English Decorated Bronze Mortars and their Makers (2010), p. 3, p. 88 (no. 158) and pp. 88-90 where the author speculates that this mortar may have been made to commemorate Elizabeth I's visit to Norwich in 1578. Another mortar of this type, with single lug handle, but without the laurel border to the portrait medallions, is in the collection of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The medallion of Elizabeth I follows the type produced in the 1580s and 1590s.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 231
A large James I/Charles I leaded bronze mortar, dated 1625, by William Clibury (fl. 1605-1642) of Wellington, ShropshireCast with four lug handles, two of round section, two of rectangular-section, and cast to the waist with the initials 'H', 'W' and 'M', all surrounded by foliage, above a pair of decorative cords, height 18.7cm (7⅜n), rim diameter 23cm (9 1/16in)Footnotes:IllustratedSee Michael Finlay, English Decorated Bronze Mortars and their Makers (2010), p. 111, No. 210.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 233
A Commonwealth leaded bronze mortar, circa 1650, made at the 'London unidentified' foundryWith moulded rim and twin lug handles, cast to the waist six times with the arms of the Commonwealth of England as used between 1649 and 1654, height 12cm (4¾in), rim diameter 17.6cm (6 11/16in)Footnotes:LiteratureSee Michael Finlay, English Decorated Bronze Mortars and their Makers (2010), p. 74 and No. 104 for a very similar mortar in the collection of the Welcome Trust.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 237
A mid-17th century bronze skillet, circa 1650, by Thomas Palmer (fl.1641-70) of Canterbury, KentThe handle cast near its attachment with a stylised foliate motif, and with the name 'THO PALMAR', an open brace below the handle, the short, worn legs of 'D'-section, flat on their inner faces, ribbed on their outer faces, bowl height 8.5cm (3 3/16in), bowl diameter 13cm (5in)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 238
A late 17th/early 18th century leaded bronze skillet, by John Fathers I (d. 1688) or John Fathers II (d. 1749)With slightly moulded rim, the bowl raised on three splayed 'D'-section legs, the handle cast with the words 'PRAIES GOD FOR ALL', the very tip of the handle cast with the initials 'IF' bisected by a horizontal arrow, bowl height 12.9cm (5 1/16in), bowl diameter 17cm (6 11/16in)Footnotes:LiteratureSee R. Butler & C. Green, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & their Founders 1350-1830, Exhibition Catalogue (2003), pp. 49-64 for more information on the graduated set of 'motto' skillets produced by the Fathers foundry.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 291
An exceptional and rare 14th century bronze-alloy 'dragon' knop spoon, circa 1350Probably Edward III (1327-77), English At the distal end of the stem a stylized dragon or snake, formed by striking with a die, and a stamped fleur-de-lys within a diamond to the end of the stem near the round pointed-end bowl, length 17cm (6 11/16in), bowl width 5.1cm (2in)Footnotes:LiteratureRonald F. Homer, Five Centuries of Base Metal Spoons (1975), p. 18, illustrates a detail of a 'dragon' terminal, which may be this spoon.Illustrated and discussed in an article by David Moulson, The Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, Vol. 25, 2020, p. 112-113. The author notes a fleur-de-lys mark could be misinterpreted as French. However, French metalware specialist, Phillip Boucaude, suggests that few, if any, latten spoons were manufactured in France. The fleur-de-lys has formed part of England's Royal Arms since the reign of Edward III, to denote the claim of the English monarchy over France. As this spoon dates from this period, when there was a thriving industry in England producing latten spoons, it is therefore possible the spoon is English. There are examples of latten spoons with fleur-de-lys marks from the 16th and 17th centuries which are of undoubted English manufacture.See the Victoria & Albert Museum collection for two round bowled latten spoons, from the same period, similarly stamped with a dragon to the end of the stem (M45 & M47-1928). See also silver spoons, with pointed round bowls, from the 'Rouen Hoard', discovered in 1865 and buried before 1330.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 292
An exceptionally rare 14th century bronze-alloy spoon, circa 1350Probably Edward III (1327-1377), EnglishHaving a flattened stem with a fleur-de-lys stamped to the end, and a small round bowl with pointed end, length 16.8cm (6⅝in), bowl width 4.6cm (1¾in)Footnotes:ProvenanceEx Peter Hornsby Collection. Purchased from Robin Bellamy, Peter Hornsby, Grosvenor House, London, June 1984.LiteratureIllustrated and discussed in an article by David Moulson, The Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, Vol. 25, 2020, p. 112-113. See Lot 291.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 297
A rare 13th century bronze-alloy plain cone knop spoonWith a long slender diamond-shaped stem and mandolin-shaped bowl, no marks, length 17.8cm, (7in)Footnotes:ProvenanceEx Christopher A. Peal Collection. Sold Sotheby's, London, part Lot 55.LiteratureIllustrated Connoisseur April 1970, C. A. Peal, 'English Knopped Latten Spoons Part One', fig. 1a.See also Ronald Homer, Five Centuries of Base Metal Spoons (1975), p.19 for a very similar example. The author refers to the knop as a 'proto-acorn' and dates the spoon to '13th century or earlier'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 69
A Victorian cast bronze spoon, circa 1863The stem of unusual hour-glass form decorated with a plumed coronet and floral-filled cornucopia, registration mark to rear of stem, length 20.3cm (8in)Footnotes:The registration mark is listed in the National Archives for 30 January 1863, by a Mr John Buckley, Hockley Hill, Birmingham,For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 1302
Pierre Lenoir (B.1879 France) - Cast bronze panel of a nude seated girl trying on jewellery, 9 x 5cm, together with further embossed cast panels of children all of good quality, a kewpie brass door knocker, a cherub door knocker, a seated metal Chinese character and further hard wood page turner with overlaid painted decoration of two rats (11)
Lot 324
A Victorian ormolu ink stand, the central wafer box applied with a bust of a Shakespeare and flanked by cut glass wells, width 17.5in. depth 9in. height 6in.CONDITION: Overall with a slightly matted appearance rubbed down to the base bronze at the raised extremities, the lid of the wafer box may be a later replacement certainly has a differing finish to the rest of the piece, otherwise minor oxidisation spotting but overall fair to good condition.
Lot 476
A group of Ancient Greek pottery vessels, Attic and Apulia, 4th-5th century BC, most with old collection labels, the Apulian dish with central flower motif, 18cm diameter, a similar small krater, 9cm wide, five other vessels and a Cypriot bronze age ewer, 13cm Provenance - A. T. Arber-CookeCONDITION: Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Antiquities and Asian works of art, principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with local archaeological digs undertaken by the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.
Lot 184
An early 20th century French Louis XVI style parquetry semanier, with marble top and seven ormolu mounted drawers, on scroll feet, width 80cm, depth 44cm, height 135cmCONDITION: Pinkish marble top in good order, overall colour a good rich mid to light toffee tone, a number of small losses of veneer particularly to the interspaces between the drawers, the drawers have original handles and never hand locks, mounts dulled down to a flat bronze tone.
Lot 45a
Coins & Medallions, Great Britain & World, a William IV Penny, 1831, no initials on trunc., F with residue on surface, Crown, 1887, F+, Shilling, 1900, NVF, an Ethiopian Menelik II Birr, 1887, F, a Victorian silver 'International Inventions Exhibition, 1885' medallion, a Uruguay bronze medallion commemorating the inaugaration of the Cerro de Montevideo lighthouse, NVF, a 1911 Delhi Durbar silver medallion, a George III style Half Guinea base metal gaming token and a Mail Coach Halfpenny token
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