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Click here to subscribeA PAIR OF BRONZE LIONS OF RECENT MANUFACTURE Both portrayed sejant each 125cm high, 146cm long, 65cm wide Condition Report: Modern and therefore showing little signs of wear through use. Both with some abrasions to noses. Typical casting flaws.Please see additional images Condition Report Disclaimer
A SET OF FOUR BRONZE 'VERSAILLES' VASESAFTER THE VERSAILLES DESIGN BY CLAUDE BALLIN, 20TH CENTURYEach approximately 92cms high, 71cms wide Claude Ballin (1615-1678), designed this vase in the Classical manner with bands of greek key, oak leaves and acorns and distinctive addorsed Janus head handles and boar masks. Between 1660-1680 vases to this design were cast in bronze for the terrace of Versailles. In the latter part of the 19th century their design was copied, with Napoleon III's permission, by the 4th Marquess of Hentford for his estate the Chateau de Bagatelle. Condition Report: Overall with some pitting and the casting with some slightly coarse finishing.Patination variously in black, verdigris and a pale colour.Some casting seams visible.Some small splits.One marked- 'LI' or '17'Please see the additional photographs for a visual reference of condition for these vases.Condition Report Disclaimer
AN ITALIAN WALNUT AND EBONISED 'MEDAL CABINET'LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY The drawers fronted by bronze medallions depicting Roman Emperors and Empresses58cm high, 105cm wide, 32cm deep Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. Various old chips, splits and losses (see images). Later backboard. Two vacant holes to the top from where finials previously sat. One drawer seized closed. Side handles are old replacements, one is lacking its loop. The handles and escutcheons and cherub/scroll mounts to the drawers are old replacements. Lock plates appear original. One lock plate is lacking. No key present, all locks are open. Some evidence of old worm. Brass mount to the central door is a later addition. Some later tacks have been used to help secure the medals. There are some small old holes to the drawer fronts from where the medals were previously fixed in a slightly different position. The medals bear the expected knocks, rubbing and wear. One medal has small hole adjacent to the face. Vacant holes to the underside from where feet previously sat. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
A 'GRAND TOUR' BRONZE BRAZIER OF ATHENIENNE FORMCIRCA 1840-1860In The Manner Of Chiurazzi & Fils, Naplesapproximately 91cm high, top 43cm diameterCondition Report: some wear from handling, use and cleaning. Upper margin- top rim with some rubbing and one petal incomplete. Rubbing and surface wear to fawn/satyr stands. Mid-section stretcher with old reattachment repairs.Condition Report Disclaimer
λ ANGELA CONNER (BORN 1935), BRONZE FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF 'JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER'CONTEMPORARYThe bronze figure standing, wearing a top hat, a cloak on his shoulder and a walking caneSigned and dated indistinctly '200'34cm high Provenance: The Private Collection of Sir David and Lady Scholey Angela Conner, in her early life, was a sculpture assistant to Barbara Hepworth. After leaving Hepworth, Conner became known for large mobile sculptures as well as portrait work including commissions for Lucien Freud, H R H Prince of Wales and Elisabeth Frink.
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A BRONZE FIGURE OF MERCURY LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURYThe figure with his foot on a rock, beside bulrushes, a caduceus on the naturalistic base, on a black slate plinth32cm highProvenance: The Private Collection of Sir David and Lady Scholey Condition Report: The bronze has two pins that slot into the slate base, scratches to the base. Two visible scratches to the right thigh and the lower drapery. Condition Report Disclaimer
ALFRED DRURY (1856-1944), A PAIR OF BRONZE FEMALE FIGURES OF DRAMA AND LITERATURECIRCA 1900-1908Modelled as opposing forms, one holding a mask emblematic of theatre and the dramatic arts, inscribed 'A Drury 08', with remnants of loan label to the City of Bradford Corporation Art Gallery, 25cm high, the other a book possibly emblematic of literature and a wreath, inscribed 'A Drury', both on green marble bases.24cm highProvenance: The Private Collection of Sir David and Lady Scholey (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury was part of the New Sculpture Movement opposing the prevailing 'frozen' neoclassical style of sculpture with naturalistic realism. Training at the Oxford School of Art and the National Art Training School (now the Royal Academy), Drury then learnt from the French Masters including Dalou in Paris before returning to England in 1885 when he first exhibited at the Royal Academy. Drury was commissioned to make numerous public works including the figure of Prince Albert above the Main Entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum, circa 1909 and allegorical bronzes for Vauxhall Bridge, London in 1905. In 1901 Spielmann wrote in British Sculpture and the Sculptors of Today 'Drury is among the most personal of our sculptors, always in search of the graceful, the tender, the placid and the harmonious'. To date these figures would seem to be unrecorded in Drury's raisonné. Some of his work, such as a set of terracotta spandrels for a coachmaker in Hammersmith, have been lost or destroyed. It is possible that this pair, a common thematic approach in his work with opposing female figures emblematic of virtues or the arts, were for a commission now lost.Condition Report: Both with dark green patina but with some rubbing to extremities - hammer, robes, elbows etc.Some loss, perhaps indicative of slightly clumsy handling.Theatre with broken and repaired base and with later plaster around screwThe other with replaced nut.Condition Report Disclaimer
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A BRONZE GROUP OF A SATYR WITH THE INFANT BACCHUS LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURYThe figures holding vines and a cymbal beside a vine covered tree stump, a pan flute and cloak63cm high Provenance: The Private Collection of Sir David and Lady Scholey. Condition Report: Overall the dark brown patination scratched and worn revealing Verdigris. Lacking the plinth. Lacking a cymbal to one hand. A screw hole to each corner of the rectangular base. Two notches cut to the front edge of the base.Condition Report Disclaimer
A Copy of a German Close Combat Clasp in Bronze, the reverse with wide horizontal flat pin, magnetic backing plate, with a maker's mark FFL in three circles and FEC. W.E. PEEKHAUS/ BERLIN for the designer; a German E-Boat War Badge, Second Type, the solid back marked FEC.W.E.PEEKHAUS BERLIN/AUSF.SCHWERIN BERLIN 68, with vertical needle shape pin, possibly a copy. (2)
A Nepalese Bronze Phurba (Ritual Dagger), with crescent shape blade, the haft and pommel cast as deities; also, a small African wood figure of a kneeling woman, a pair of North American Indian buckskin moccasins with straw-work decoration, a clay rasp in the form of a lizard, a quantity of Indonesian shell and boars tusk jewellery
A 19th Century Bronze Signal Cannon, the 45cm triple ringed barrel with swollen muzzle, cylindrical trunnions, rounded cascabel and globular knob with a vacant screw hole, mounted on a stepped oak carriage - af, overall length of barrel 53cm, length of barrel from muzzle to touch hole 42cm, diameter of bore 4cm, overall length 80cm, height 36cm,. Verdegris patina. Carriage is lacking three wheels and has some rot and loss.
A First World War Trio, comprising 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, awarded to S4-109423 PTE.J.JACKSON. A.S.C., with a brass ON WAR SERVICE 1915 badge; a Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medal 1897, bronze, in case of issue; also, two RAMC marcasite sweetheart brooches, two cap badges and a small quantity of coins.
A Collection of Forty Two Horticultural Medals, including four Sir Joseph Banks Royal Horticultural Society bronze examples dated 1884, 1885, 1903 and 1904, two cased, fifteen boxed white metal Affiliated Societies Medals to the National Chrysanthemum Society and four unboxed examples, two bronze Prize Medals to the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society etc.
A Collection of Six 19th Century Horticultural Medals, comprising:- two bronze Royal Botanical Society of London 1839 medals after Wyon, one dated 1853, the other dated 1890 and set with a later suspender mount; a Royal Horticultural Society bronze medal after Wyon for the Royal Mint 1836; a Royal Horticultural Society large bronze medal, the obverse with two classical maidens adorning a statue with fruit, SOC. HORT. LOND. INST. 7 MART 1804, the reverse with a greenhouse below ALIENIS MENSIBUS AESTAS.; a silver coloured metal pendant medallion to the Waverley Pansy Society 1885; a silver coloured metal medal for the Royal Wordsley Root Show 1876 (6)
A German Third Reich Army Paratrooper's Badge, the eagle with traces of silvering, the reverse with gilt vertical round needle pin and C clasp, the back of the wreath later scratched II/1 8Kp E.M. (possibly a copy) . The surface of the diving eagle has worn to a bronze-coloured finish with faint traces of silver. The gilt surface of the wreath and Heer eagle is pitted and worn. The two bosses which secure the eagle to the wreath are rounded and have a verdigris finish, as does the barrel hinge of the clasp.
A German Third Reich Luftwaffe Bronze Class Bomber Clasp by Funke & Brüninghaus, in zinc alloy with a bronzed finish, the central panel with a magnetic bomb attached by a rivet, the reverse with magnetic horozontal sword shape pin and maker's moulded mark F & B.L.. Wear to the bronzed finish and some orange rust spotting to the bomb.
James Webb (British, 1825-1895)'Near Bala, North Wales' signed lower left 'James Webb /1877-78' also signed and inscribed with title to the reverse oil on canvas 75 x 121cmFootnote: Provenance: Christie's, London, 13th November 2003, lot 179, when acquired by the present ownerCONDITIONOil on canvas which has been lined. The canvas is in plane with good tension. The paint layer is in a good condition overall. There is a network of vertical cracks across the painting which are stable. There is a large scratch in the paint layer at the upper right corner. The varnish is even and semi-matte. The original gilding on the frame has been covered with bronze paint and some of the corner sections are loose.
Three Chinese small bronze and gilt bronze Buddhist figures, in Wei Dynasty style,12cm, 10cm and 7cm high (3)Provenance: The Roger Moss collectionCondition report: All with slight corrosion and pitting, bronze buddha with extensive verdigris patination and with corrosion to left shoulder, gilt figures both with significant rubbing - see pics The Chinese Buddhist statuary and associated collection was acquired by C Roger Moss OBE in Hong Kong during the period 1980 to 2003. All items were officially exported from Hong Kong by shippers and handlers recommended and approved by the Mass Transit Railway Corporation of Hong Kong on 10th May 2003, with full documentation. Itemised inspection certificates - dated 24th February, 16th and 23rd April and 7th May 2003 (report No 0254/03) by J & H Surveying Co Ltd, Marine Surveyors - number and detail the items exported. A copy is available at Cheffins’ offices. The shipment arrived in Felixstowe, UK on 29th May 2003 and was received for transhipment by Redfern International Logistics of Leeds, recorded in their sales invoice no. IDSI2926, which details fees paid for the appropriate Sea Import Customs and Sea Import Documentation. The dating of Chinese sculpture is notoriously difficult and all such references in this catalogue are based entirely upon style and should not be relied on as a statement of fact. Regarding the stone carvings in the Moss Collection, these lots may only be bought and sold within the UK/EU. Buyers wishing to export items should make the appropriate checks before bidding. The auctioneers cannot be held responsible for any future liabilities associated with authentication or for export outside of the UK/EU.
A West Tibetan fragmentary bronze figure of the four armed deity Chenrezig, 16th/17th century,standing holding a lotus, on a metal stand, 12cm highProvenance: The Roger Moss collectionCondition report: Denting to fingers, one hand missing, one arm at elbow missing, feet missing, and various knocks and wear The Chinese Buddhist statuary and associated collection was acquired by C Roger Moss OBE in Hong Kong during the period 1980 to 2003. All items were officially exported from Hong Kong by shippers and handlers recommended and approved by the Mass Transit Railway Corporation of Hong Kong on 10th May 2003, with full documentation. Itemised inspection certificates - dated 24th February, 16th and 23rd April and 7th May 2003 (report No 0254/03) by J & H Surveying Co Ltd, Marine Surveyors - number and detail the items exported. A copy is available at Cheffins’ offices. The shipment arrived in Felixstowe, UK on 29th May 2003 and was received for transhipment by Redfern International Logistics of Leeds, recorded in their sales invoice no. IDSI2926, which details fees paid for the appropriate Sea Import Customs and Sea Import Documentation. The dating of Chinese sculpture is notoriously difficult and all such references in this catalogue are based entirely upon style and should not be relied on as a statement of fact. 1980??2003????C Roger Moss OBE?????????????????? ???????????????2003?5?10?????????????????????????????????????-??????J?H Surveying Co Ltd?2003?2?24??4?16??23??5?7???????0254/03??????????????????????Cheffins???????????????2003?5?29????????????????Redfern International Logistics????????????- IDSI2926??????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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