8th-5th century BC. A very large bronze brooch comprising a square-section bow with two coils attached to a round-section arm with spiral ribbing to the head, bulbous collar, s-curved catch and discoid plaque to the foot. Cf. Hattatt, R. Ancient and Romano-British Brooches, Sherborne, 1982, item 197. 172 grams, 25.5cm (10"). Formerly in the Chris Rudd collection, Norfolk, UK; formed since the 1970s; collection number E1; formerly in the Fabulous Fibulas collection, Southern UK; formed in the 1980s and 1990s. Chris Rudd has collected ancient coins and antiquities since the 1940s. As an amateur archaeologist he found many himself at Badbury Rings, Dorset, 1952-53. He also dug at Hod Hill with Professor Sir Ian Richmond and at Wroxeter with Dame Kathleen Kenyon and Dr Graham Webster. Today he is best known as a Celtic coin dealer. His catalogues have been described as ‘an important research source’ by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and ‘treasure houses of delight’ by Dr Anne Ross. Coins and artefacts associated with Chris Rudd – as a collector, dealer and valuer – can be seen in The British Museum and other museums. This collection was formed since the 1970s. Fine condition, repaired.
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Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC. A carved marble(?) columnar idol with transverse slot to each face. Cf. Pottier, M. H., Matériel funéraire de la Bactriane méridonale de L' Age du Bronze, Mémoire, Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 36, p.16, pl.V, nos.34-5 for two virtually identical lingams called 'masses d'arme', and p.43, pl.XXXV, nos.292-3 for similar yoni; also, Schmidt, E. F., Tepe Hissar Excavations, 1931, The Museum Journal, XXIII, no.4, 1933, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, pl.CXXXVI. 6.3 kg, 19.3cm (7 1/2"). Property of a North London gentleman; previously with Pars Gallery, London, W1; in the 1990s. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
A CHINESE BRONZE CENSER AND COVER, QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY The rectangular censer with tapering sides, raised on four lion-mask feet, the sides chased with peony blooms, the removable lid pierced with two Ruji-shaped apertures surmounted by a Fu-dog finial, tarnishing, age wear, handles lacking18,5cm high by 14cm wide
Sydney Alex Kumalo (South African 1935-1988) THE KNEELING WOMAN signed bronze on wooden base height: 37cm excluding base This particular work was created in 1965 soon after Kumalo left his teaching career to focus on his own practice full-time. The artist's early works focus heavily on the human form, particularly the female figure. Egon Guenther cast various works for Kumalo, including this sculpture which Guenther titled Tree Trunk Woman (Kneeling Figure). Guenther produced only four bronzes from an edition of ten through the Vignali Foundry in Pretoria. Grosvenor Gallery used a different title - Classical Kneeling Figure - when this sculpture was exhibited at a two-man exhibition of Kumalo and Skotnes at the Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1966. Fiorini and Carney produced a further five un-numbered casts for this exhibition of which this is one. Kumalo’s 2018 retrospective at the Norval Foundation pushed his work into the spotlight once again, helping to maintain the value of his work. Nicol, M. 1999. “Sydney Kumalo” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Human and Rousseau .p.451 Powell, I. n.d. “Sydney Kumalo” Accessed January 20, 2020. http://revisions. co.za/biographies/sydney-kumalo/#.XilQjGgzaUk Norval Foundation. 2018. “Re-discovery and memory” Accessed January 21, 2020. https://www.norvalfoundation.org/re-discovery-and-memoryDr Gavin Watkins
A FRENCH BRONZE STATUE OF A NUDE WOMAN, AFTER I. PRADIER Seated in relaxed pose on a hide thrown over a rocky outcrop, her smiling face gazing upwards, her hair adorned with vines, an overturned kvevris at her feet and an empty kylix in her right hand, a down-gazing cherub standing beside her, signed I. Pradier, raised on a confirming marble base37cm high excluding base
BRONZE CEREMONIAL VESSEL, CAMEROON A large fish with its mouth wide open held aloft by a half figure of a man cut off at the waist; details appear in the scales of the fish, the linear qualities of the fin tail and around the wide mouth, and the features of the human face, the two rest on a small oval base with open ends and curled sides which acts as a base to steady the sculpture but could also suggest a boat with a fisherman bringing home a fantastic catch, brass/bronze cast using the lost wax technique 1.42 kg, 31cm high PROVENANCEClayton Holliday CollectionFor the Stephan Welz & Co October 2019 auction, Clayton Holliday provided a biography “In his own words” for the catalogue as Stephan Welz & Co was auctioning his silver. For this sale we are concerned with a few of his African art pieces. As a trained archaeologist with a Fine Arts degree and 17 years of museum experience, in the Mandela Bay Museum (then George VI), Holliday understood the importance of collecting data and hence provided detailed provenances and dates for the pieces, recordings he knew were essential for both present and future histories, he knew too that memory is fallible, so he wrote the relevant facts on small labels which he attached to each piece. Many were acquired in the late 50s when he was working in Zambia, while it was still Northern Rhodesia and predates the independence Zambia in 1964. For one piece he provided more in curled sheets of paper rolled into the body of the bronze Ceremonial Vessel (Lot 422). It was not acquired in the field but at an antique market in 2016 and lacked collecting or any other data so Holliday set out to find out the object’s identity, place of origin, date and possible meaning. The previous owner had cleaned it with Brasso and removed the patina so there was little to be learnt from the surface. Initially Holliday thought the vessel was Asante from Ghana as “cast and decorated examples come from the region and were made in the lost wax technique. The fish motive is used in gold weights and a fish balancing on the head is also well known … I believe it was used as a ritual drinking vessel.” A colleague, Basil Brady, then sent photographs and texts to three individuals who were experienced in bronzes from Africa. One replied that it came from Cameroun and that it is very old. In May 2017 Moustapha (from Cameroun) examined the bronze carefully and concluded that “this brass vase came from west Cameroun next to Ngombe Tikar (Baukine District), from the Merima a small tribe, who used the vase during the initiation of the new in the tribe to grant the king Meriam more power and good luck. It is very old”.
7 various makes of lorries by Tekno etc. An 1950's style Scania Vabis forward control 3 axle chassis cab and de-mountable scrap container in red and yellow livery of Hoeben Metalen BV. Scania R500 V8 forward control 4 axle chassis cab red, silver and yellow livery of Hoeben Metalen BV. Scania P230 2 axle box van in the metallic bronze and white livery of Schenker. Also a Conrad Volvo FH16 forward control 3 axle box van with a 4 axle drawbar trailer in white and red unbranded livery. Also 2 South American examples -Scania 141 forward control 2 axle tractor unit in orange with a 3 axle refer in white/blue snow drop livery. A Mercedes-Benz forward control 3 axle tractor unit with a 2 axle dropside trailer in yellow and orange with timber load. Together with a repainted Danish Tekno Scania normal control tractor unit in deep blue and red. GC-VGC minor issues to tractor unit. £70-100
4 Dinky Toys. Jaguar E Type 2+2 (131). Example in metallic bronze with pale blue interior. A Mini Clubman (178) also in metallic bronze with black interior. An Alfa Romeo 33 Tipo Le Mans (210) in fluorescent red and black, RN36. Plus a Routemaster Bus (289) in red London Transport livery, with ESSO adverts to sides. All in plastic window boxes (1) and blister packs (3), minor wear. Vehicles Mint. £70-90
2 French Dinky Toys. A Volkswagen Karmann Ghia (24M) in red with black roof, ridged spun wheels and white tyres. Plus a Renault Floride (543). An example in metallic bronze with spun wheels and white replacement tyres. Both boxed, Renault box a reproduction. Vehicles QGC-VGC some chipping mainly to Renault. £50-70
10 cap badges, including 7th H, Coldstream Gds, plated Welsh Gds puggaree, R Sussex, WM PO Rifles, WM HAC grenade, E Sussex Constab and large button, etc; 2 officers bronze Essex collars facing right, etc; 5 lapels including WWI War Munition Volunteer, ARP HM London 1936, etc; sundry other badges, buttons, etc. Average GC
A scarce French steel barrelled percussion blunderbuss with elliptical muzzle, converted from flintlock of c 1800, 29” overall, 2 stage barrel 14”, the octagonal breech engraved and lightly gilt with floral designs; plain rounded lock with double line border; walnut fullstock with cheek piece, floral carved apron around breech tang, and with interesting safety catch set into a steel plate behind the lock; the bronze mounts include butt plate tang and trigger guard bow chiselled with foliage and urn, the trigger guard with scrolled grip and acorn finial. GWO & C, the stock quite crisp apart from traces of minor splits in the fore end, (no ramrod). Plate 8 and front cover
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