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Lot 2116
A bronze statuette of a stag, shown standing on an integral plinth with short tail, recessed eyes, the stumps of the horns remaining, 8.4cm high, mounted on a wood base with a label on the underside of the base reading, ‘Stag, Gallo-Roman, Le Viel, Paris 1938 £1.4 Valued 1971 £25’.Provenance: From the collection of the late Elizabeth Attridge 1934-2018. Collected from 1980's onwards. Acquired at Bonhams, London 27 April 2006, Lot 281, part lot.Ex Dunbar Sloane Auctioneers, Wellington, New Zealand..
Lot 2117
Etruscan bronze situla handle composed of a central double ring with a scalloped shell above and below, flanked on either side by a hippalectryon, with the foreparts of a horse and the hind quarters of a cockerel, 9.5cm diam.Provenance: From the collection of the late Elizabeth Attridge 1934-2018. Collected from 1980's onwards.Acquired at Bonhams, London 14 May 2003, Lot 288..
Lot 2121
A Roman bronze handle with two confronting ducks drinking from a central bowl, the curved handle formed from aquatic plants from which the ducks emerge, circa 1st - 3rd Century A.D., 21cm wide and a Roman/Medieval handle formed from a zoomorphic creature with ridged back, the remaining handle emerging from its mouth with a bell-shaped terminal, 22cm long (2)Provenance: From the collection of the late Elizabeth Attridge 1934-2018. Collected from 1980's onwards..
Lot 2122
Parthian bronze openwork buckle, of a horned quadruped with elaborate mane and long notched horns, set within a rectangular frame with recesses around the frame and on the snout, mane and eye, traces of iridescence remaining in the recesses on the eye and snout, a raised leaf-shaped notch for attachment beneath the snout, circa 2nd - 3rd Century A.D., 6cm wide, on a Perspex stand,Provenance: From the collection of the late Elizabeth Attridge 1934-2018. Collected from 1980's onwards.Acquired at Bonhams, London 14 May 2003, Lot 544. .
Lot 74
Bernard Meadows (British, 1915-2005) Cockerel signed and numbered to the underside, 'Meadows 2/6' bronze maquette 29 x 21cm (11 x 8in) Provenance: Whitechapel Gallery, London, 'Pictures For Schools', 1954, where purchased by Hertfordshire County Council for Bowmansgreen Primary School, London. Other Notes: Bernard Meadows began his artistic career at the Norwich School of Art, later going on to study at the Royal College of Art and the Courtauld Institute. He became Henry Moore's assistant in 1936 and had a close relationship with the artist throughout his life. The present lot was most probably created in the years following Meadows' increased international recognition, gained in the wake of exhibiting his work at the Venice Biennale alongside a new generation of British sculptors, including Anthony Caro and Lynn Chadwick. Herbert Read coined this group of artists as the 'Geometry of Fear' School, and it was Meadows' work which perhaps most closely reflected this description. The expressive sculptural qualities of the present lot, executed in pitted bronze, embodied the artist's own mindset on humanity in the post-war era. The cockerel was a subject Meadows returned to consistently throughout the 1950s. Some works were heavily abstracted, their beaks open as though screaming in pain. This iconography was something Meadows elaborated on in some detail, noting 'I look upon birds and crabs as human substitutes, they are vehicles, expressing my feelings about human beings. To use non-human figures is for me at the present time less inhibiting; one is less conscious of what has gone before and is more free to take liberties with the form and to make direct statements than with the human figure'. Another much larger version of 'The Cockerel' remains on display at Bowmansgreen Primary School, London, and a similar maquette forms part of the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Scotland.
Lot 123
§ Georg Ehrlich, ARA (Austrian, 1897-1966) Two Sisters, c.1944 signed and dated 'Georg Ehrlich 1945 - 1946' and 'IN LOVING MEMORY / OF MIRA / LILLY BETTINA GEORG' bronze on a marble plinth sculpture, 79cm (31in) high, total height including plinth, 125cm (49in) high Georg Ehrlich sold his existing memorial cast of 'Two Sisters' (1944) to Essendon Primary School, Welwyn Garden City in 1947 as part of the Hertfordshire schools' initiative. It was originally cast as a private memorial, most likely to Ehrlich's daughters. Ehrlich's work can be found in the Tate Gallery, British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His work, 'The Young Lovers', stands in the garden at St Paul's Cathedral. He also produced bronze busts of both Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH and Sir Peter Pears, CBE.
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