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A Burmese 'shan' style gilt bronze figure of standing, crowned and jeweled Buddha, 18th/19th century The figure dressed in uttarasanga with hands cast in Abhaya Mudra (symbolising peaceful intentions and peace-making), raised upon a stepped plinth, the face traditionally carved in the Burmese manner, with arched eyebrows, narrowed eyes and elongated ears, the head surmounted by large Ushnisha, The (shan) migrated from the Yunnan area in China, and their population has now spread across Vietnam, Burma and Thailand. The earliest shan depiction of Buddha dates back to the 16th/17th century and early examples are similarly modelled on raised lotus plinth bases, such as this example. H51cm.
*Val Barry (1937-2018) four stoneware vessels: of narrow slab built profile with angular rims, one under crawling green and buff glaze, one bronze and one with black speckles on ivory, the largest decorated with arbitrary pale green, white and grey staining, impressed personal seals, 18 - 29 cm high.
A bronze standing figure of Cecil Rhodes, signed and dated 'Vernon March 1901', 24cm high, together with a biography 'Rhodes, A Life', signed by the author J G McDonald (2) Vernon March (1891-1930) is most famous for his designs for war memorials, including the National War Memorial of Ottawa, Canada, one in Capetown, South Africa and another in Derry, Ireland.
A pair of gilt bronze and porcelain cassolettes, attributed to a design by Matthew Boulton, each with lappet cast handles, ram's head marks, with swags to the ovoid bodies, raised on stepped plinths, 19.5cm high (2) For a similar pair with Blue John bodies, see Nicholas Goodison, 'Matthew Boulton, Ormolu', London 2002, pl. 277 and 278, and a design in Boulton's pattern book vol 1. p.171.
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