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A family group of medals to include WW I bronze memorial plaque, naming Ernest Augustus George Edwards, WW I War medal, 31412. PTE. E.A.G. EDWARDS, Victorian scholool attendance, E. Edwards, British War and Victory duo, 5011. PTE. T.W. EDWARDS, Victorian Long Service in the Volunteer Force, No.2686. SERGT. T.EDWARDS. 19TH MIDX R.V.C. and a Victorian Rifle Competition medal. (7)Also include in this lot is a letter from the War Office stating that Pte. Edwards is missing in action, dated May 1918, with further research from the Soissons Memorial.
NOËL-JULES GIRAUD bronze - nineteenth century sculpture study of a figure stomping wine grapes wearing only vine leaves on a circular base, signed, 55cms high Provenance: Estate of Helen Zienkiewicz Deceased (1926-2016) late wife of Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz CBE FREng, FRS (1921 - 2009) acclaimed Polish-British mathematician & civil engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olgierd_Zienkiewicz
AN UNUSUAL LUSTROUS METALLIC VASE believed bronze Chinese, with narrow neck, no markings, 21.5cms high Provenance: Estate of Helen Zienkiewicz Deceased (1926-2016) late wife of Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz CBE FREng, FRS (1921 - 2009) acclaimed Polish-British mathematician & civil engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olgierd_Zienkiewicz
EMILIO TRISTAN limited edition (3/9) bronze sculpture - contemporary study of a nude lady reclining on a cushion on a veined grey marble base, 54 x 26cms & 40cms high Provenance: Estate of Helen Zienkiewicz Deceased (1926-2016) late wife of Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz CBE FREng, FRS (1921 - 2009) acclaimed Polish-British mathematician & civil engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olgierd_Zienkiewicz
Alan Boom Boom Minter signed 16x12 colourized montage photo. British former professional boxer competed from 1972 to 1981. He held the undisputed middleweight title in 1980, having previously held the British middleweight from 1975 to 1976, and the European middleweight title twice between 1977 and 1979. As an amateur, Minter won a bronze medal in the light-middleweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95.
*Archbishops of York, Ecberht (732/4- 766), irregular base silver (or bronze) sceat imitating the silver issue struck during the reign of Eadberht of Northumbria (737-758), obv., ecgberht, mitred figure with crosses, rev., crude eotberehtvs, plain central cross, 0.84g (cf. N. 192; cf. S. 852 and 872), fine to very fine
The Tetrarchy, bronze folles (8), of Constantius I (2, one pierced), Galerius (2), Severus II, and Maxentius (3); miscellaneous bronze coins (121), mainly late 3rd to 4th centuries, including radiates, nummi etc.; together with cast copies (8) including Paduans of Caligula and Otho, fair to fine, some better (137)
British Colonial: bronze penny tokens of Australia (2), J.W. Buxton, Stationery Store and Ladies Warehouse, Brisbane, and Annand Smith & Co, Family Grocers, Melbourne; with Ceylon, George Steuart & Co, Wekande Mills; South Africa, J.W. Irwin, Cape Town; unofficial 19th century farthings of Woolwich and Pimlico (Bell pp. 40 and 82) and George IV, regal penny, 1825, fine to very fine (7)
Isle of Man, proof pounds, 1978, in silver and virenium, by Pobjoy Mint, each encased; proof crown, 1970; with non-gold proof sets of Bahamas, 1973, Canada, 1967 (3), Gambia, 1966, cased; Mexico, 25 pesos, 1968 (2); modern silver medals of Greenwich Observatory (3), Becket, Churchill, Wren, and the Moon Landing; and bronze medal of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1847, all mint state (lot)
Italy, Venice, Cristoforo Moro (Doge, 1462-71), bronze medal by Antonello della Moneta, 41.55mm (Hill 411), twice pierced and obverse gilt (as a cap badge), early cast; with bronze medals of Cardinal Granvelle by Melone, 42mm (Attwood 985), pierced, traces of gilding; and Margaret of Austria, signed PPR (Attwood 847), contemporary cast but worn (3)
Italy, Florence, Ferdinand I de’ Medici (Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1587-1609), bronze restitution medal by Giovanni Zanobio Weber (1737-1806), draped bust right, rev., the equestrian statue of Ferdinand by Giambologna in the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in Florence (erected in 1608), 48mm (cf. BDM VI 403), extremely fine with brown patina
South Germany, Mars, oval bronze plaquette, 2nd half of 16th century, Mars standing, bare-chested, holding shield and sword beneath two trees, his cuirass on the ground 65.2mm x 48.3mm (Bange (1923) 5808 and pl. 25 for example in lead), pierced, very fine contemporary cast. Ex Luc Smolderen collection. The iconography of this plaquette type in relation to an early 17th century lead plaquette of Pluto and Cerberus is discussed by Banfield, E., “Antike Götter in Blei”, in Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Jahresbericht 2011, pp. 111-120.
Italy, probably Venetian, The Pietà, bronze-gilt pax, late 15th- early 16th century, the Virgin holding Christ’s Body in front of the Cross flanked by the spear and the holy sponge and cast separately to the architectural frame with cherubs surmounting the columns and another within the pediment; the Pietà 65 x 49mm and with lug on reverse for fitment within the frame; the frame itself 156mm x 88mm (cf. Kress 294 and fig. 283 for Pietà and Scaglia XIV, 3 for frame; cf. Molinier 435; Morgenroth 325-6; Bange (1923) pl. 3, 7131), very fine and with original stand attached to the reverse
Italy, The Marriage of the Virgin, bronze plaquette, after Raphael’s painting, 86mm x 114mm, probably 17th century, very fine, with old red wax adhering to the back; The Coronation of the Virgin, gilt metal plaquette, after the bronze by the Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs (in the Ca d’Oro), 85mm x 109mm, sometime cleaned, also probably 17th century, extremely fine (2)
Italy, uniface bronze plaque of the Emperor Domitian, attributed to Soldani, 88mm, extremely fine; copper repoussé oval plaquette of Cato (?),61mm x 48mm; oval bronze plaquette of The Rape of Proserpine, 82mm x 68mm; oval bronze plaquette of an allegorical figure, after Belli, 38mm x 30mm; oval bronze plaquette of the Madonna and Child with Putti, 95mm x 75mm (Bange (1923) pl. 24, 5706), old casts, mainly very fine (5)
Italy, large bronze plaques of The Adoration of the Shepherds (inscribed parm invent), 190mm x 141mm, cleaned; and The Ascension, 208mm x 174mm; oval plaquette of The Deposition, 145mm x 133mm, pierced, all later casts; together with a pair (?) of rectangular bronze plaques of The Risen Christ, 137mm x 93mm; and St. Roch of Montpellier, 146mm x 97mm, 17th century or later, traces of mounting, cleaned and lacquered, very fine (5). The two last mentioned plaquettes appear to relate to each other in terms of style and fabric, if not in exact size. St Roch (San Roque) is shown as a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago with an angel tending his plague-ridden leg and with a dog bringing him sustenance (he is the patron saint of dogs and was invoked by sufferers of the plague).
Italy, Attributed to François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), Bacchanalian Scene of Two Putti, bronze plaquette, two putti as infant fauns seated between trees and amidst musical instruments, one crowning the other with a floral wreath, 114mm x 194mm (cf. Weber 1013-15 var.), brown patina, small mount mark on reverse but extremely fine and a very high quality contemporary cast. Duquesnoy, born in Brussels, did much work as a Baroque sculptor in Rome and is especially noted for his putti and fauns as depicted on the present plaquette and on the following lot. Ex Baldwin’s Auction 81, 1 May 2013, lot 3310.
Netherlandish, a series of religious rectangular bronze plaquettes, circa 1600 or later, comprising Ecce Homo, Immaculate Conception, St. Jerome, Mary Magdalene, St. Didactus (Diego of Alcalà) and St. Peter, mainly 102 x 72mm (cf. Weber [Spanish school] 1039, 1040, 1041.2, 1041.4, 1041.12 and 1043), mainly very fine, the St. Jerome and St. Peter with brown patinas, all with suspension loops (6). For the St. Jerome and St. Peter (here illustrated) see Ashmolean catalogue, vol III, 505 and 506 where the attribution of this well-known series of plaquettes is made to the Netherlands, often for export to Spain.
Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) Third Portrait of Kitty signed 'Epstein' bronze 49.5cm high. Born 27 August 1926 to Epstein's wife Kathleen Garman, Kitty features in two further busts by her father in addition to the present example (First Portrait of Kitty, 1944, and Second Portrait of Kitty, 1947). Kitty married artist Lucian Freud in 1948, a marriage which did not last long, but resulted in two daughters.
Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) The Horse Fair at le Folguet, Brittany, circa 1876 initialled bas relief bronze 15.5cm x 36cm. Better known for his illustrations, Caldecott also produced a small number of bronzes. A bronze of this subject was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876 and the V&A hold a terracotta version.
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