‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Pandit Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru) (1889-1964), freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India; The Eyes of India, Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Indian, 1917-1984), the only female Prime Minister of IndiaEyes of India is signed and dated 1952Resin; plaster51cm high; 17cm high (4)With a framed photograph of Brilliant and Nehru with the bust, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
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‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Pandit Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru) (1889-1964), freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India; Mohamed Ali Currim Chagla (Indian, 1900-1981), jurist, diplomat, and Cabinet Minister who served as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court; Unknown SikhOne signedResin and two plasters37cm high; 57cm high; 51cm high (5)With a framed photograph of Brilliant and Nehru with the bust, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)The Last OutcrySignedBronze67cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)This depicts a shofar, the ram's horn used on Yom Kippur to call to God for forgiveness, it also in the past was an alarm to warn the people of danger and if some had gone astray it would call them back to righteousness. Brilliant said the indents in a shofar would normally number 3-5 but wanted 6 to represent the 6 million killed in the holocaust. She used the hand of Rabi Levine from the Moscow Synagogue as a model for the hand after he suggested the shofar as a symbol of the tradegy of the holocaust.
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Ever Living - The ArmSigned and dated 195*Bronze93cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)This sculpture is a powerful symbol of the holocaust with each of the six candles representing a million Jews killed in the gas chambers. The hand was inspired by Fredda seeing the hand of a child protruding from the rubble in Warsaw in 1946, the devastation of the city so great that the remains of victims still remained in the rubble.
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)The Young AtlasSignedBronze 52cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)Brilliant states 'The Young Atlas ... holds up the world, the heavy burden of humanity. Youth bears the burden of age ..The past is eternally borne by the now into the future'.
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Terry Thomas (1911-1990), comedian and actorSigned and dated indistinctlyBronze48cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)Fredda's husband made a film with Thomas and notes that in his private life he was an intellectual - a serious, cultured person, never using a joke in personal conversations and states that she has captured the Terry who is the one in reality, not the professional comedian~.
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)The Last OutcrySignedBronze67cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)This depicts a shofar, the ram~s horn used on Yom Kippur to call to God for forgiveness, it also in the past was an alarm to warn the people of danger and if some had gone astray it would call them back to righteousness. Brilliant said the indents in a shofar would normally number 3-5 but wanted 6 to represent the 6 million killed in the holocaust. She used the hand of Rabi Levine from the Moscow Synagogue as a model for the hand after he suggested the shofar as a symbol of the tradegy of the holocaust.
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Mahatma Gandhi (Indian, 1869-1948), activist and leader of the Indian independence movement against British colonial ruleSigned and dated 1964Plaster and resin93cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950), the first Deputy Prime Minister of India, and founding father of the Republic of IndiaSigned and dated 1956Bronze 68cm high (3)With a framed photograph of Brilliant with the large version of this scultpure, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963), the first President of India; Pandit Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru) (1889-1964), freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India, half bodyBoth signed, one dated 1952 and one dated 1949Both plaster58cm high; 77cm high (4)With a framed photograph of Brilliant with the bust, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Mahatma Gandhi (Indian, 1869-1948), activist and leader of the Indian independence movement against British colonial ruleSigned and dated 1964Bronze94.5cm high (3)With a framed photograph of the bronze version in Tavistock Square, London, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)The Right Honourable The Lord Elwyn-Jones CH, PC (Welsh, 1909-1989), barrister and Labour politician and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1974-79, Attorney General for England and Wales 1964-70, Shadow Lord Chancellor 1983-1989Signed and dated 1977Bronze64cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)Brilliant describes how despite knowing Elwyn-Jones and his wife, the artist Pearl ~Polly~ Binder, well, she found depicting his ~inner self more difficult to explore, due not only to his being an introvert, but also due to his not wanting to share his inner thoughts. This was contrary to his external behaviour; thereby, the work was made more complex for me, yet the result was more interesting~.
A Second World War Cloth Insignia to 505 L. of C. District, Chittagong, printed in red on a black field; five Badges, a bronze First Mounted Rifles, Canada cap badge, bronze Royal Military Academy cap badge, Royal Military College cap badge, East Lancashire Regiment bimetal cap badge and an enamelled ARP Co-operative Whole Sale badge with pin fixing (6)
A Collection of Twenty Two British Light Infantry Cap and Collar Badges, in bronze, brass, white metal and bimetal, including DLI, HLI, Cornwall LI, KSLI, Royal Marines LI etc., loosely mounted on a display card; also, thirty four similar cap badges to British regiments and corps including the Queen's Own Hussars, 13th Hussars, 20th Hussars, Artist's Rifles, Royal Horse Guards, Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Sussex Regiment etc, all loosely mounted on two display cards (56)
A Collection of Forty Six British Military Cap and Collar Badges, including 10th Royal Hussars, 5th Lancers, 12th Lancers, South Wales Borderers, Welsh Guards,8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, two Coldstream Guards puggaree badges, in brass, bronze, bimetal and white metal, loosely mounted on three display cards
A Collection of Forty Nine British Military Cap and Collar Badges, including a pair of officer's bronze collar badges to the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, a pair of collar badges to the Inns of Court OTC, Labour Corps, Royal Flying Corps, REME, Royal Corps of Signals, ANZAC and Commonwealth, also, a 1914 On War Service lapel badge and a Royal Corps of Signals enamel sweetheart brooch, all loosely mounted on three display cards (51)
A 19th Century Bronze Desk Top Signal Cannon, with 23cm barrel on a flat sided carriage and four spoked wheels, 23cm; a 19th Century Dutch Desk Top Signal Cannon Barrel, with flared muzzle, cylindrical trunnions centred by two raised scrolls, 21cm (2). 1 - Barrel has a filled crack to left of touch hole with numerous areas of bruising; 2 - Rough finish to muzzle and touch hole, bruising throughout
A First World War No 2 Dress Uniform to Captain Arthur Keightley Smith (1886-1942), Royal Garrison Artillery, comprising a tunic with bronze collar badges, brass buttons and cuff rank pips, with corduroy breeches and Sam Browne, together with his green morocco travelling dressing case with fittings, a sheepskin lined cuff band and an associated peaked cap with Northumberland Fusiliers badge Footnote:- After the war Arthur moved to Malaya to manage Trong Rubber Estates Ltd., Trong, Perak. There he joined the Perak Local Defence Corps and served as a Corporal. On 12 February 1942 during the evacuation of Singapore he boarded the requisitioned Chinese-owned vessel H.M.S. Giang Bee with his wife Eva Mildred (Peggie), however the vessel was sunk in the Banka Straits off the Java coast by Japanese destroyers on 13 February 1942 and both were among the various casualties lost at sea. There is a tablet in honour of Arthur in the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, North Yorkshire where his father Revd Reginald Keightley Smith was the first vicar.
A German Third Reich U-Boat War Badge, variation of the first type, in pot metal, bears traces of gilding, the reverse with vertical needle pin; a German Third Reich U-Boat Clasp, bronze clasp, in pot metal and bearing traces of gilt, the reverse with horizontal sword shape pin and faintly marked ENTWURF/???? and AUSF/SCHWERIN/ BERLIN (2). War badge has had the deck gun knocked off. Metal is discoloured. Clasp - the reverse is quite pitted making it difficult to make out the maker's mark.
A Collection of Eleven German Third Reich Badges, comprising two first pattern German Police visor cap badges in brass; two SA 1939 pattern visor cap eagles; three die stamped nickel plated NSDAP 1927 pattern kepi eagles (first pattern) - one with original triangular brown cloth backing; another example in bronze; a similar early issue example in pressed white metal; a cockade and oak leaf wreath; and an Old Comrades white metal breast eagle (11)
A Japanese Shinto Katana, the 69cm steel blade with faint undulating hamon, one piece copper habaki with diagonally burred decoration, the iron tsuba faintly worked with animals, the braid bound same hilt with parcel gilt bronze chrysanthemum menuki, the iron fuchi and kashira decorated with animals, with black lacquer saya, 95cm. Black patching and pitting to blade, with small nicks to the edge. Unable to remove hilt fittings to view tang due to orange rusting of the tang. The fuchi and kashira also have some orange rusting. The saya is split, with loss of lacquer to the sides.
A Japanese Shinto Aikuchi, the 18cm steel blade with bevelled back edge, unsigned tang, plain iron tsuba, one piece silver habaki, with silver tendril inlaid iron fuchi and shakira, blue braid bound same hilt with bronze menuki modelled as a wasp, with red lacquer saya decorated with black maple leaves and set with a pair of bronze kogai with shakudo decoration, 34cm. Black patching to blade, tang is rusty and unsigned. Rust pitting to tsuba, fuchi and kashira. Saya is split along both edges.
A Japanese Shinto Wakizashi, the 30cm blade with billowing hamon, unsigned tang, one piece silver habaki with diagonally burred decoration, the green braid bound same hilt with shakudo bronze fittings of two menuki, each modelled as two hares, the fuchi and kashira decorated with horses and the mokko shaped tsuba decorated with a crayfish on a wave engraved ground, the black lacquer saya set with a shakudo bronze kazuka decorated with three lion dogs.. Tang unsigned. Blade with areas of grey patching and spidering. The tip has a tiny chip and there is a tiny crack to the left side. The blade of the kozuka is signed, with black patching to the surface. The lacquer to the side of the kozuka aperture has some flaking, otherwise the saya is in good condition. The bronze fittings are of good quality.
An 18th Century Bronze Shot Measure, of pocket watch form, the arched suspension loop forming the hinge and opening to reveal a domed container with central dispensing hole, 5cm; a 19th Century Leather Shot Flask, of canted rectangular form, the brass charger stamped Sykes and with sprung clip (2)
A Family Group of Medals:- a pair to Lt.Col. G.C. Stawell, Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles, comprising a Delhi Durbar 1911 in silver and an Indian Volunteer Forces Officer's Decoration, GRI, the reverse engraved LT.COL. G.C. STAWELL U.B VOL. RFLS. in case of issue; an OBE Breast Badge, Civil, 1st Type, hallmarked for London 1919, attributed to Rodolph de Salis Stawell, M.B., F.R.C.S., in case of issue; also, two Trinity Hall Boat Club Prize Medallions for 1892 and 1893 in cases of issue, a Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1918 in card box of issue, a King's Badge in card box of issue, a cased bronze medal, an OBE sweetheart brooch, a boxed Queen Mary's Needlework Guild Membership Badge and an enamel fob medallion (11)
The Henderson Family of Aberdeen, a large collection of medals, research and ephemera, comprising:- two presentation medallions in bronze and silver to Arthur Edward Henderson 1893 and 1912; a First World War group of five medals awarded to Captain Walter Lewis Henderson 15th Lancers I.A.R.O., comprising 1914-15 Star (un-named), British War Medal, Victory Medal, General Service Medal 1918-62 with clasp S.PERSIA and MID oak leaf, and Volunteer Long Service Medal named CAPT.W.L.HENDERSON, 18 RANGOON BN., I.D.F., with numerous documents and related letters and a gold and black japanned tin travelling deed box, the cover inscribed in white W.L.HENDERSON, RANGOON, the stitched leather outer case with remains of Orient Lines, Cabin label; a silver London & Middlesex Archaeological Society medallion to Theodore Arthur Newsam Henderson, 1955, who was a Sub-Officer in the London Auxiliary Fire Service 1939-45,(his wife served with the British Red Cross), together with his NFS cap badge, dog tags, Defence Medal and hand painted presentation watercolour to N.F.S. 'B' Company Overseas etc; also relating to 74719 Flight Lieutenant J.A.M.Henderson RAF No.257 Squadron, a dedication album, newspaper cuttings, a piece of relic aircraft metal, photocopies of service records, photographs etc; and a folder of research material for compiling a Family Tree (qty)
A pair of Victorian patinated and parcel gilt bronze and marble mounted models of urns on plinths in Neoclassical taste, circa 1880, the twin handled circular section bodies above waisted and fluted socles, on bowfronted plinths cast with pilasters, 27cm high, 20cm wide overall Provenance: from Ellen Berenson, 988 Lexington Avenue, New York, November 1996
A pair of Regency parcel gilt and patinated bronze candlesticks, circa 1815, the floral cast drip pans above engine milled urn sockets resting on three eagle monopodia, on triform bases, 17.5cm high; and a gilt bronze candlestick in 18th century style, fitted as a table lamp, 38cm high overall including electrical fitment
ϒA Victorian mahogany and brass bound curiosities box and contents, the box mid 19th century, the collection various dates, the two tier interior with fitted compartments, containing various souvenirs including four oil lamps, possibly Roman, two Egyptian Ushabti figures, a pair of 19th century tortoiseshell rimmed spectacles, two carved mother-of-pearl souvenirs from the Holy Land depicting the Nativity, a Japanese Meiji period bronze model of a tortoise, two carved and tinted bone native American souvenir totems, and various other items; the box itself 13cm high, 40.5cm wide, 30cm deep ϒ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
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