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Lot 1027
A pair of 19th Century bronze girandole wall mirrors:, with cartouche mask and pierced acanthus scroll crestings and surrounds, having twin scroll candle branches and with lion masks in cartouche reserves below, inset with rectangular bevelled plates, 81cm (2ft 8in) x 42cm (1ft 4 1/2in) extending candle branches.
Lot 450
THERE WILL BE NO ONLINE BIDDING FOR THIS LOTThis is a premium lot. In order to bid on this lot, please contact the auction house to obtain and complete a registration form, and provide the necessary deposit. This is the only way bids will be accepted on this lot.An important and extremely rare archaic bronze tripod water vessel and cover (Ying) Late Western Zhou, 1100-771BC The shouldered ribbed body supported by three short legs, each cast with a taotie mask, with prominent curled horns, eyes and flared nostrils matching the three-dimensional well-defined taotie mask of the ribbed handle, the spout cast in the form of a leaping tiger its stylised tail scrolling upwards where it meets the body, the domed cover with a dynamic crouched tiger bearing its teeth with elaborate scrolled whiskers, terminating in a spiralling scrollwork pattern continued on the main body of the vessel, the inside of the cover finely cast with a four-character pictogram, covered overall with a malachite green encrustation, all raised on an Imperial Qing Dynasty Zitan trefoil stand, with stylised archaistic scrollwork and taotie-mask inspired bracket feet, 13.75ins (35cm) long x 10.25ins (26cm) high, with stand 12.25ins (32cm) high overall Provenance: Capt. Harry L. Evans, RM, (1831-1883) and thence by descent to the present owner. Captain Evans was part of the Royal Marine contingent serving aboard H.M.S. James Wyatt in 1854, and took part in the capture of Canton in 1857 and the subsequent expedition to White Cloud (Baiyun) Mountains. He was slightly wounded in the attack upon the Pei-ho forts in 1859 and was present at the capture of the Taku Forts in 1860. Later that year, he was also involved in the capture of the Summer Palace, Pekin. Note: Oxford Authentication Ltd Thermoluminescence report available, Sample No: C117m45, dated the 13th November 2017. Weight 4.25kg
Lot 451
THERE WILL BE NO ONLINE BIDDING FOR THIS LOTThis is a premium lot. In order to bid on this lot, please contact the auction house to obtain and complete a registration form, and provide the necessary deposit. This is the only way bids will be accepted on this lot.A Chinese archaistic bronze wine vessel (Zun) in the Shang Dynasty style, of cylindrical form with four heavy notched flanges on the sides, boldly cast around the slightly bulging waist with two taotie masks with rounded eyes, the splayed foot decorated with further taotie masks, upright horns and hooked jaws above the foot ring, the flaring neck with four upright blades filled with upward-looking kui dragons, all reserved on a dense leiwen ground, the surface with an olive-green patina with light malachite, azurite and ferrous encrustation, an inscription to the interior of the vessel, 9.75ins (25cm) diameter x 13ins (32.8cm) highProvenance: Capt. Harry L. Evans, RM, (1831-1883) and thence by descent to the present owner. Captain Evans was part of the Royal Marine contingent serving aboard H.M.S. James Wyatt in 1854, and took part in the capture of Canton in 1857 and the subsequent expedition to White Cloud (Baiyun) Mountains. He was slightly wounded in the attack upon the Pei-ho forts in 1859 and was present at the capture of the Taku Forts in 1860. Later that year, he was also involved in the capture of the Summer Palace, Pekin.Note: Weight 5.5kg
Lot 452
THERE WILL BE NO ONLINE BIDDING FOR THIS LOTThis is a premium lot. In order to bid on this lot, please contact the auction house to obtain and complete a registration form, and provide the necessary deposit. This is the only way bids will be accepted on this lot.A large Chinese bronze 'elephant' censer and cover of tripod form cast with elephant handles and feet, the trappings set with paste 'jewels', the pierced domed cover set with a sleeping elephant supporting a basket filled with 'cash', psyche and auspicious objects, all reserved against a classic lotus scroll ground in high-relief, 13ins (33cm) high (apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in relief to the base - Qing Dynasty, 17th/18th Century) Provenance: Capt. Harry L. Evans, R.M., (1831-1883) and thence by descent to the present owner. Note: A similar bronze censer also bearing a Xuande mark, was sold at Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, lot 340, 19th March 2013 for $8125.00.
Lot 453
THERE WILL BE NO ONLINE BIDDING FOR THIS LOTThis is a premium lot. In order to bid on this lot, please contact the auction house to obtain and complete a registration form, and provide the necessary deposit. This is the only way bids will be accepted on this lot.A large Chinese bronze 'elephant' censer and cover of tripod form cast with elephant handles and feet, the pierced domed cover set with a recumbent elephant supporting a basket filled with 'cash', sychee, ruji sceptre and peaches, all reserved against a classic lotus scroll ground in high-relief incorporating four stylised chilong, 14.5ins (37cm) high (Qing Dynasty - 17th/18th Century) Provenance: Capt. Harry L.Evans, R.M., (1831-1883) and thence by descent to the present owner.
Lot 468
A Japanese brown patinated bronze two handled hexagonal urn and cover, the pierced cover with dragon pattern finial (piece broken off), the panelled body cast with exotic birds and flowering bunches within scroll and fan pattern borders, on shaped legs and supported by a standing figure of a Samurai, his right foot holding down an attacking figure on rectangular base, and four conforming cast feet with scroll toes, 15ins (38.2cm) x 12ins (30.5cm) x 52ins (132cm) high, (Meiji - With some damage)
Lot 470
A fine Japanese brown patinated bronze figure by Kuroi Komin (died 1941) - Textured bronze figure of an eagle with outswept wings and gilt bronze eyes, standing on a rocky outcrop, 35.25ins (89.5cm) high x 30ins (76cm) wing span, on rocky base (three small figures of birds missing) (Taisho Showa period)
Lot 653
Helene Sibeud (19th/20th Century French) - Dark green and gilt patinated bronze electric table lamp in the "Art Nouveau" manner, naturalistically modelled as a young woman standing beneath a leafy branch, with shaped base, 20.25ins high, signed on base Note: This lamp will need to be professionally rewired to meet current regulations
Lot 655
Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) - Dark green patinated bronze figure - "Comedy and Tragedy" - Standing naked male figure wearing the mask of Pathos and holding the mask of Comedy in his hands, on narrow circular bronze base, 13ins high (apparently unsigned), mounted on turned and octagonal verde antico marble pedestal, mounted on turned ebonised plinth, 18ins high overall Provenance: From the collection of the Late Lionel Fielden, formerly of Villa Le-Pavernule, Florence, Italy, who set up the BBC in India
Lot 696
A Nigerian bronze copy of a Benin circular stool, the seat cast with various utensils, bold snake pattern centre column and circular base carved with masks and animals, 15ins diameter x 15ins high Note: Thought to be a copy of a stool made in the reign of Oba Eresonye (circa 1750) from the National Museum, Benin City, Nigeria
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