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Click here to subscribeA pair of Restauration gilt bronze seven light candelabra, circa 1830, each with a raised central socket cast with stylised foliage, above six further scrolling arms, descending to reeded and acanthus baluster stems and conforming triform bases, 77cm high, 35cm wide Please note: the date of this lot should read circa 1830 and later and not as in the printed catalogue
JOHN COLTRANE COLLECTION - LPs. Ace bundle of 21 x LPs. Titles include Dakar (PR 7280, Ex/VG), Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (SMJ-6149, Ex/Ex, no OBI), Black Pearls (SL 10124, Ex/VG+), The Cats (OJC-079, Ex/VG+), Expression, Kulu Se Mama, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Sun Ship, Selflessness Featuring My Favourite Things, The John Coltrane Quartet Plays, Blue Train, Crescent, Impressions, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Africa/Brass, Coltrane, More Lasting Than Bronze and Settin' The Pace. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.
World - mixed coinage and banknotes to include U.S. Olympic coin collection 1983 (N.B. cased with Certificate of Authenticity), Jersey silver proof £1 coin 'Bicentenary of The Battle of Jersey' 1981 (N.B. cased with Certificate of Authenticity) Proof seven coin set 1981, Guernsey proof six coin set 1981, G.B. uncirculated flatpack x 7, bronze and cupro-nickel issues, a small quantity of English uncirculated banknotes, bronze and cupro-nickel issues and others (qty)
A pair of late 16th Century bronze and wrought iron andirons: the scroll legs centred by lion masks, flanked by a founder's mark and town mark for Malines, the detachable columns of balusters, balls and blades engraved with the arms and crest of the Fust family in the County of Gloustershire, 56cm high.*Note Richard Fust, b.1568, his 2nd wife Catharine, daughter of Giles Huereblock of Ghent, possibly brought as part of her dowry, Ghent being only thirty miles from Malines.* Note Kuile, Onno ter 1986. Koper & Brons, Rijksmuseum, p.194
Thomas Pyke, Bridgwater, a large four pint skillet: the handle cast T.P.B.WATER IX, raised on three peg feet, 48cm long.*Note graduated skillets from I to V are well known but this is probably the only recorded IX at present. Thomas Pyke C1742-1830, a major West Country brass-founder, gun and bell founder, twice Mayor of Bridgwater, banker and was declared bankrupt in 1815. *Note Ref. Butler & Green, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders, 1350-1830, Pub 2003,pp 86-88.
A late 16th/early 17th Century mortar: with two loop handles and two square handles, cast four times with a the initial 'I', attributed to William Brend, (fl 1586-1634), Norwich, 11cm high, 18cm wide.* Note Ref; Finlay, English Decorated Bronze Mortars and Their Makers, Pub 2010. p87. no155.
A very small mid 17th Century bronze skillet: on tapering legs with hoof feet, the handle cast 'Tho Palmar' with open brace below, 21.5cm long.*Note Thomas Palmar, bell and pot founder, Canterbury 1641-1670. This is the smallest skillet recorded from this foundry. See Butler & Green. English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders 1350-1830 (2003) pp 83-4
A mid to late 17th Century bronze cauldron: from the Sturton foundry, South Petherton, Somerset, with single girdle band , angular loop handles on three feet, cast with the foundry mark and founder's mark P, previously unrecorded, possibly for Philippa Sturton, wife of Thomas Sturton I (married 1642).*Note Ref. Butler & Green, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders, 1350-1830, Pub 2003, p100
A rare graduated set of five 17th Century motto skillets: cast at The Fathers' Foundry, Montacute, Somerset, the second smallest, cast 'PITY THE PORE 1684' is the only dated example, the date referring to the extreme cold of that winter when the Thames froze and supported the Frost Fair.*Note Ref. Butler & Green, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders 1350-1830, Pub 2003,pp59-63.
A 16th Century small bronze cauldron: with raised banded decoration and angular loop handles raised on three peg feet, probably from the Whirligig Lane Foundry, Taunton, 16.5cm high, 25.5cm wide.*Note Ref. Butler & Green, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders 1350-1830, Pub 2003, p.165. No.171,
An early 17th Century mortar: cast 'Ieames Butlar made em' with a band of overlapping hoops with crosses and fleur-de-lis.12cm. high 14cm diameter. James Butler is recorded c1604-1633 probably in Bishops Stortford.*Note Ref; Finlay, English Decorated Bronze Mortars and Their Makers, Pub 2010, p43. no51.
Clemant Tosear I & II, Salisbury, a large skillet: the handle cast with maker's name, with historic blacksmith's repair, 49.5cm long.* Note. The Tosears were bell and pot founders (c.1679-1717) and were famously bad at casting their skillets with serviceable legs. Blacksmiths found ingenious ways of rectifying this problem, as with this example.*Note Ref. Butler & Green, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders, 1350-1830, Pub 2003,pp122-124.
An important and massive 15th Century bronze cauldron: with founder's mark, a saltire cross, triple girdle bands, angular loop handles to the sides and retaining all full length of legs, 48cm high, 50cm wide.*Note Ref. Butler & Green, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders 1350-1830, Pub 2003, pp.142, No.145
A French marble and bronze mantel clock , late 19th century, the circular enamel dial set with Roman numerals and inscribed 'Mottu Freres Paris', the case surmounted by a putto riding a mountain goat, with scrolling grape and vine decoration, on a shaped base with bun feet, dial 9cm diameter 48cm high Provenance: Upper Swell Farm, Gloucestershire.
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