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Click here to subscribeAn early to mid-20th century Japanese ' saucy ' bronze ashtray. The ashtray in the form of a Japanese Geisha girl in reclining pose. The underside revealing the bare bottom of the figure. Loosely in the manner of similar items by Bergman. Measures approx; 13cm. From the estate of Peter Wyngarde.
NO RESERVE Trade Catalogues.- British Association for the Advancement of Science. Portfolio of Lithographic Drawings of the Principle Articles of Manufacture at the Birmingham Exposition 1849, decorative title printed in gold, 34 lithographed plates, some tinted, tissue guards, title trimmed to border at fore-edge and reinforced, foxing to a few plates, contemporary half calf, Birmingham, 1849 § Elkington & Co., Manufacturers of Electro Plate, Birmingham. Universal Exhibition Vienna 1873. Illustrations of Art Manufactures in the Precious Metals..., lithographed decorative title printed in colours and gold, photographic portrait and 14 plates, interleaved, later library half roan, original glazed decorative wrappers bound in, Birmingham, 1873 § Christofle & Cie. Tarif-Album des Ornemens en Bronze Galvanique pour Décoration de Meubles, Ébénisterie, Marberie, Tapisserie, Serrurerie. etc., trade catalogue, letterpress price list with strips of new prices pasted in, 63 plates mounted on stubs, ink stamp of Herbert S.Taylor & Co. of Berners St. London at head of title and plates, light spotting or soiling, original cloth, rather crudely rebacked, Paris, [c.1900], all rubbed; and 6 others, designs for silver, some trade catalogues, including a German pattern book of engraved and lithographed designs, v.s. (9)⁂ The Birmingham Exposition of Manufactures of 1849 was a precursor to the Great Exhibition of 1851. In 1842 the Parisian jeweller Charles Christofle bought the electroplating patent from Henry and George Richards Elkington and built a large factory in Paris to produce such goods.
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