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Click here to subscribeA pair of French bronze candelabra, late 19th century, in the manner of Ferdinand Barbedienne, each set with a crane finial and five scrolling branches suspending chains, above a spreading Ionic-style column and raised on three anthemion-decorated hoof supports, on a shaped black marble base, 80cm high (2) Provenance: Upper Swell Farm, Gloucestershire.
Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal KCVO RAA (1863-1931), 'Salome', bronze, base signed 'B Mackennal London' and inscribed with title, the base with two entwined snakes, 29cm high Born in Melbourne, Australia, Mackennal came to England in 1882. He studied in London and Paris, spending five years in the latter city and coming under the influence of French Symbolism and Romanticism. He spent the rest of his life working in London, though he frequently visited Australia and sculpted the portraits of many famous Australians of the early 20th century. He became a proponent of 'The New School of British Sculpture', exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1886, and was elected ARA in 1909 and RA in 1922. He was the first Australian artist to be knighted (1921). Apart from his heads and busts, Mackennal sculpted portrait reliefs and also the profiles of King George V used for coins, medals and postage stamps. His bronzes include a number of statuettes in the Symbolist manner, the most famous of which was Circe (honourable mention at the Salon of 1893) and ‘She sitteth on a Seat in the High Places of the City’. Examples of his work are in public collections: UK - Eton College, Royal Opera House, St Pauls Cathedral, Tate Gallery, London, Windsor Castle, Australia - University of Melbourne (Victoria) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney).
Henriette Descat (French, 19th century) , bronze, a bust of a bearded gentleman dressed in a fur-lined coat and wearing the Legion d'Honneur, raised on an integral waisted plinth, bearing a signature and a Thiebaut Brothers Paris foundry mark, 78cm high Provenance: Upper Swell Farm, Gloucestershire.
A WW1 group of three to Gunner O Wallace 3/F.A.BDE. A.I.F. and associated ephemera AVM., BWM., 1914-15 Star, AIF bronze badge 'Return From Active Service', Photographs, Australian passport, Painters union member card, various letters re employment, birth certificate, previous discharge from Royal Scots in 1902, AIF pay book and other items; Four cased bronze medals from Heriot Watt College to his son ref. engineering; a pair to 237619 Sapper D M Smith RE., BWM and AVM.medals, and cap badge (Qty: qty)Condition report: Personal viewing only
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