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Click here to subscribeCOMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, ART MEDALS, The Franco-British Exhibition and Olympic Games, London 1908, Rectangular Silvered-bronze Plaquette with arched top, by Charles Pillet, Britannia rocky promontory, reaches out for Marianne, rev Peace with flags seated before distant exhibition panorama, 69mm x 57mm (BDM IV, 538). Extremely fine. This is the only medallic piece to depict the Olympic stadium. See also lot 3846.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Jean-Louis de Nogaret de la Valette, duc d’Eperon (1554-1642), Captain General, Admiral of France, Cast Bronze Medal, 1607, by G Dupré, draped and armoured bust of de la Valette, to right, rev lion watched by a fox, in a wooded landscape, turns to a figure of Fury, standing right, 54mm (BMC [Jones] II, 22; Kress 557; Mazerolle 656). A high quality secondary cast from a pierced original.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Papal Medals, Innocent XII (1691-1700), Copper Medals (2), The Curia Innocenziana on the Montecitorio, Bronze Annual Medal, Year 4 (1694), rev façade of the Palazzo, 36mm (Linc 1551); Jubilee, 1699, rev angel, 36mm (Linc 1568). Attractive well-struck and extremely fine, the second with die crack. (2)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Papal Medals, Peter (757-767), Cast Restitutional Bronze Medal, said to be in the style of Girolamo Paladino (active 17th Century), bust right, S PETRVS AP I PON M, rev keys below papal mitre, 41mm, seemingly of significant age (Linc -; Hall -); another, similar, unidentified but possibly Gregory VI or X. Both very fine, first pierced. (2)
BRITISH COINS, George VI (1936-1952), Proof Set, 1950, Cupro-nickel Halfcrown, Florin, Shilling (2), Sixpence, Bronze Penny, Halfpenny, Farthing, and Nickel-brass Threepence, in original red card case (S PS17); another Proof Cupro-nickel Florin, 1950 (S 4107). Brilliant, some discolouration, otherwise almost as struck. (10)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Ippolito II d’Este (1509-1572), Cardinal, Cast Copper Medal, by Gianfederigo Bonzagna, 44mm (Arm I, 222, 4; Att I, 962), a modern cast; Dante, Iron Medal, 50mm; Cecilia Gonzaga (1426-1451), Cast Lead Medal, 84mm (Pollard 20; Kress 17); Lodovica, daughter of Giovanni Tornbuoni, patinated uniface Copper Medal, bust left, 79mm (cf Kress 297 obverse); Giovanni Mirandola, uniface Bronze Medal, after Fiorentino, 80mm (Kress 277), re-engraved with erroneous legend; Catelano Casali, Cast Bronze Medal, by Sperandio, 65mm (Arm I 67, 15), a late cast; Germany, Willhelm Löffelholz zu Kolberg (1501-1554), Silvered Copper Medal, 36mm (Wurzb:5244); Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon, Cast Debased Silver Medal, 40mm, a late cast; France, Francis I by Benvenuto Celloni, cast in Base Metal or Lead, 42mm; and a Louis XIV, Denier Tournoi, Paris 1649. Generally fine to about very fine. (10)
WORLD COINS, South Africa, George VI (1936-1952), Proof Set, 1945, Silver Halfcrown, Florin, Shilling, Sixpence and Threepence, Bronze Penny, Halfpenny and Farthing, in original white card and wood case (KM PS 17). Brilliant with some colourful toning, almost as struck and rare, only 150 sets issued. (8)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Ermes Flavio de Bonis (c.1460-1514), formerly known as Lysippus the Younger, Bronze Portrait Medal of Giovanni Alvise Toscani (1450-c.1478), bust left, IONNES ALOISIVS TVSCANVS AVDIT ARCAM, rev Pallas standing on dolphin, looking left and holding a snake-entwined staff, L-P to either side, QVID NON PALLAS in exergue, 33.5mm (Pollard, Bargello 176; Hill, Corpus 808; Armand II, 28, 14; Pfisterer A.18). Good fine, an original cast with light brown patina.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Turkey (Medals illustrative of both Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them), Ottoman Empire / Russia / Britain, Crimean War, Fall of Sebastopol, 1855, Bronze Medal, by Messrs Pinches, scales within wreath and rays above a trophy of flags, view of the siege within, rev eagle on thunderbolt above the Malakoff fort, THE MALAKOFF TAKEN BY THE FRENCH, 50mm (BHM 2573). Extremely fine, rare.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, St Luke the Evangelist, Gilt-bronze Roundel in exceptionally high relief, late 17th Century, possibly French, the Bishop / Saint seated reading from a large bible resting against his left thigh, wearing a mitre, his crozier to left, square and round column beyond, approx 65mm, in 19th Century turned oak frame. Very fine, minor casting flaws. Probably North Italian though the style perhaps Suzan dit Rey (d. 1715).
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, International Exhibitions and Sport, Franco-British Exhibition and Olympic Games, London, Bronze Plaquette, 1908, by Charles Pillet, Britannia extends a welcoming hand to Gallia, rev Peace seated with trophies, the Olympic Stadium in panorama beyond, 70.5mm x 50.5mm. A little spotted, nearly extremely fine. This is the only medallic piece to depict the Olympic Stadium. See also lot 3794.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Exploration, Sweden, Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897), the Discovery of the Bodies of Andrée, Nils Strindberg (1872-1897) and Knut Frænkel (1870-1897) of the Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897, Bronze Medal, 1930, by Alfred Ohlson, conjoined busts of Andrée, Strindberg and Frænkel right, rev overhead map of Spitzbergen, Svalbard and Kvitoya, on which the path of the expedition is delineated, 56mm. Extremely fine and rare. The Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. Andrée had proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada which, with luck, would pass straight over the North Pole. It was not to be and all three perished. The medal commemorates the discovery of their remains.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Papal Medals, Cast Bronze Medals (4), Clemente, Bishop of Mende (1483-1504), uniface, c.1494-1499 (cf Hill, Corpus 843; Arm II, 109, 2; Kress 230; Pollard 262); Paul II (1464-1471), 1465, rev the Tribune of St Peter, 33mm (cf Linc 363); Sixtus IV (1471-1484), rev Sts Francis and Anthony with the Pope, 40mm (Linc 386-87); Alexander VI (1492-1503), rev the papal coronation, 42mm (Linc 47); and a struck Medal, rev the closing of the holy door, 44mm (Linc 412). Generally very fine and better, third pierced, all later casts or strikes. (5)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Egypt, Fuad (1918-1937), 10th International Postal Congress, Cairo, 1934, Bronze Medal, by P Minassian, bust left in uniform and fez, rev figure seated by rocky pyramid, above figures encircle the globe, 70mm. Choice, virtually mint state. The obverse copied from Percy Metcalfe’s medal for Fuad’s visit to England in 1927.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, ART MEDALS, Art Deco, Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs, 1925, Octagonal Bronze Medal, by Pierre Turin (1891-1968), semi-naked female figure seated in clouds, rev legend in tablet against floral background, EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS DECORATIFS ET INDUSTRIELS MODERNES PARIS 1925, 59mm. Small areas of gum on reverse, extremely fine. It was from this exhibition that the expression “Art Deco” was to emerge from ARTS DECORATIFS.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Exploration, Marine, France, Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842), polar explorer, explorer, cartographer and botanist, Monument to his Achievements, Bronze Medal, 1844, by E A Oudiné, head left, rev view of the monument in Paris, MORT SUR LE CHEMIN DE FER DE PARIS A VERSAILLES, 68.5mm (MH 199). Extremely fine, scarce. d’Urville circumnavigated the globe three times between 1822 and 1840. He surveyed New Zealand and New Guinea and his expedition to Antarctica and Australasia in two ships, the Astrolabe and Zélée, charted much of the north east of the Antarctic Peninsula. d’Urville, his wife and only child were killed in France’s first railway accident, at Versailles on 8 May 1842.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand I (1503-1564), his desire to recapture the Danube from the Ottoman Turks, Cast Bronze Medal, 1551, by Leone Leoni, bust right in decorated armour, wearing Order of the Golden Fleece, rev the Danube reclines amidst rushes, IN SPEM PRISCI HONORIS, beaded border to both sides, 72mm (Att 36; Arm II, 236). About very fine, a later cast.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, ART MEDALS, Art Deco, “Aviation”, Bronze Plaque, 1930, by Raymond Delamarre (1890-1986), issued by the Ministère de l’Air, naked woman is carried in flight with three large birds, AD EXCELSA PER EXCELSUM, rev engraved presentation inscription, “RALLYE & MEETING D’VIATION DE NIMES 31 MAI – 1er JUIN 1947”, 51mm x 70mm. About extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Greece, Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936), Prime Minister, Pair of Silver Medals, one gilt, facing bust, rev crown in the angles of cross, 27mm, one with suspension loop; and Pair of Bronze Medals, one gilt, facing bust, rev Nike holds garland, 27mm, suspension loops and rings (Spink Auction 5, 403). Generally very fine. (4)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, ART MEDALS, “Syrie”, Bronze Medal, by Aleth Guzman-Nageotte (1904-1978), produced for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Française, c.1934, a Crusader knight on rearing horse before a walled castle, rev the veiled figure of Syria reclines under a waxing moon, a faun at her side, edge stamped and numbered 26, 85.5mm. Extremely fine. Aleth Guzman-Nageotte won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1929 for her medal work in 1908. She initially studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon and then Paris, working with Ovid Yencesse and later Patey and Dammann.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584), Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, Cast Gilt-bronze Medal, 1601-1610, bust left wearing cassock and biretta, B CAR BORROMEVS CARD ARCHIEP MEDI, rev lamb on altar, SOLA GAVDET HVMILITATE DEVS, 49mm (Att 199; Arm II, 263, 5; Bargello 821; V&T Bardini 46). Very fine with even patina, a later cast taken from a chased example.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Aviation, USA, Charles Lindberg (1902-1974), First Solo Trans-Atlantic Flight, New York to Paris, the “Lone Eagle” Heavy Silver Tribute Medal, 1927, by Charles Louis Hinton (1869-1950) for the Medallic Art Company (New York), bust three-quarters right in academic gown, rev the Spirit of St Louis flies above rising sun, between eagle’s wings, 70mm. Struck with matt surface, extremely fine and scarce in silver. The “Fine Silver” medal was originally sold for $5.50 and whilst the cheaper bronze examples are quite common, the silver examples are now scarce.
BRITISH COINS, A Collection of Farthings (39), James I, ‘Harrington’; Charles I (2), ‘Richmond’ and ‘Rose’; Charles II; James II, tin; William & Mary; William III; Anne, poor copy; George I; George II (4); George III (3); George IV (2); William IV; Victoria, copper (2), bronze (4); and later (14); 17th Century Tokens (8), including Cheshunt, heart-shaped (ex Judson, poor), and 18th Century Token Halfpennies (5), and a Lead Swan Token. Varied state, mostly fair or fine. (53)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, International Exhibitions and Sport, France / USA, The Universal International Exposition and Olympic Games, St Louis, 1904, Bronze Plaquette, by Louis-Alexandre Bottée (1852-1941), Genius pilots la République in the ship of Progress towards the Exhibition, rev legend by tree, anvil and hammer, SECTION INDUSTRIELLE FRANÇAISE…, 74mm x 61mm. Good very fine, bruise to one corner, scarce.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, André Henri Lavrillier (1885-1958), The War Memorial, Nice, designed by Alfred-Auguste Janniot (1889-1969), Bronze Medal, 1928, classical warrior brandishes sword alongside roaring lion, rev the Memorial showing two of Janniot’s reliefs, 72mm, in card case of issue. About extremely fine. This medal, which shows the bold, geometric lines of the Art Déco style, commemorates the unveiling of the Nice War Memorial in January 1928. Lavrillier was working from a design provided by Janniot who sculpted the reliefs on the memorial, two of which can be seen on the medal’s reverse. Lavrillier studied under his father, an engraver, and under Chaplain and Bourdelle. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1914 and was later made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Besides medals, he designed a number of coins.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Admiral George Anson (1697-1762) and Admiral Sir Peter Warren (1703-1752), Defeat of the French off Cape Finisterre, Bronze / Pinchbeck Medal, 1747, half-length figures vis-à-vis, each holding batons, BY THE COVRAGE OF ARMIRAL ANSON & WARREN, the fleets stand off against each other, town on shoreline beyond, THE FRENCH FLEET DESTROYD MAY 4 1747, 36.5mm (MI plates (only) CLXXI, 7); Eimer -; MH 346, cast of BM specimen). Good fine and exceedingly rare.
Jerome Connor (1874-1943) SEAN bronze on green marble base signed at base; titled on label beneath base 7½ x 4in. (19.05 x 10.16cm) Collection of George and Maura McClelland The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.139 (illustrated) Dimensions of base: 5 by 3.5 by 3.5ins. Height inclusive of base: 12.5in."One of the most powerful sculptures [in the McClelland Collection] is a small bronze portrait by the Kerry born artist Jerome Connor. The piece, Sean, is a portrait of one of the sculptor's favourite models when he worked in America, and has all the hallmarks of Connor's practice: an alert pose and the deliberate asymmetry that makes the likeness convincing. Connor's work [had] an added appeal for the McClellands as his homeplace, Annascaul, on the Dingle peninsula in Co. Kerry, is close to Maura McClelland's family home." (2) (2) Ibid., p.124 P
Markey Robinson (1918-1999) COUPLE bronze; (no. 3 from an edition of 4) signed and numbered at base 9 x 6 x 3in. (22.86 x 15.24 x 7. Collection of George and Maura McClelland The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.139 (illustrated) This work - also known as 'Man and Woman' - was also created in terracotta. P
Dame Lucie Rie (1902-1995) PORCELAIN BOTTLE, c.1960 porcelain coated with manganese impressed with artist's initials at base 10 x 5in. (25.40 x 12.70cm) Collection of George and Maura McClelland In the The Hunter Gatherer publication Henry Pim, lecturer in ceramics at Dublin's NCAD, wrote on the McClelland Ceramics and Glass collection and describes the present work thus:"One of my favourites in the collection is a beautiful ceramic bowl by Lucie Rie. Thrown on the potters' wheel, it is decorated with a pale yellow glaze and has a glossy bronze-coloured rim. Rie was something of a glaze wizard and developed wonderful surface treatments for her ceramics at a time when many potters took the view that pots should be brown. Arriving in London as a refugee from Austria at the start of the Second World War, Rie set up her studio there. She brought with her, a feeling for Modernism which made her work stand out in contrast to that of her English counterparts." (1) Rie studied pottery from 1922 under Michael Powolny at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule school of arts and crafts. Three years later she set up her first studio in Vienna in 1925 and exhibited the same year at the Paris International Exhibition. She won a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition (the exhibition for which Pablo Picasso painted Guernica) in 1937. In 1938, she fled Austria and emigrated to England separated from her husband Hans Rie around this time. During the war and in subsequent years, she eked out a living making ceramic buttons and jewellery some of which are displayed at London's Victoria and Albert Museum along with the reconstruction of her entire 18 Albion Mews studio where she was based for 50 years. Rie taught at Camberwell College of Arts from 1960 until 1972. She ceased making pottery in 1990 after suffering a series of strokes and died in London aged 93. Her pottery is exhibited globally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the York Art Gallery in the UK, and Paisley Museum in Scotland. (1) Henry Pim in The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.144 P
John Henry Foley RA RHA (1818-1874) INO AND BACCHUS, 1851 bronze on black marble base signed and dated lower left 19½ x 13 x 9½in. (49.53 x 33.02 Dimensions of base: 22 by 11 by 1in.In 1834 sixteen-year old John Henry Foley left his native Dublin for London, following in the footsteps of his elder brother Edward, already established at the sculpture workshop of the celebrated Mr Behnes. He enrolled in the school of the Royal Academy and quickly won a studentship for ten years with The Death of Abel. This piece and Innocence were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839 to great acclaim and Foley's talent was recognised by the influential Art Journal. The following year Ino and Bacchus was exhibited, to even greater acclaim. In both subject matter and style it is a neo-classical piece. That is to say it imitates the art of ancient Greece and Rome. The infant Bacchus lies on his back, smiling, reaching for the bunch of grapes dangled above him by the bare-breasted Ino who lies, smiling, at his side and leans over him. Ino and Bacchus marked a turning point in the career of the twenty-two year old from Montgomery Street, Dublin (Now Foley Street, just north of Talbot Street.) and launched him upon a career-path that led to the heart of Victorian society and major commissions for projects across the imperial globe from Galway to Calcutta. A plaster-cast of the model can be found in the permanent collection of the Royal Dublin Society.For an extended note on this lot see www.whytes.ie P
Dame Lucie Rie (Austrian/British 1902-1995) FOOTED BOWL, c.1980 yellow glazed porcelain with manganese rim impressed with artist's initials at base 4½ x 6¾in. (11.43 x 17.15cm) Collection of George and Maura McClelland The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.146 (illustrated) In the The Hunter Gatherer publication Henry Pim, lecturer in ceramics at Dublin's NCAD, wrote on the McClelland Ceramics and Glass collection and describes the present work thus:"One of my favourites in the collection is a beautiful ceramic bowl by Lucie Rie. Thrown on the potters' wheel, it is decorated with a pale yellow glaze and has a glossy bronze-coloured rim. Rie was something of a glaze wizard and developed wonderful surface treatments for her ceramics at a time when many potters took the view that pots should be brown. Arriving in London as a refugee from Austria at the start of the Second World War, Rie set up her studio there. She brought with her, a feeling for Modernism which made her work stand out in contrast to that of her English counterparts." (1) Rie studied pottery from 1922 under Michael Powolny at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule school of arts and crafts. Three years later she set up her first studio in Vienna in 1925 and exhibited the same year at the Paris International Exhibition. She won a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition (the exhibition for which Pablo Picasso painted Guernica) in 1937. In 1938, she fled Austria and emigrated to England separated from her husband Hans Rie around this time. During the war and in subsequent years, she eked out a living making ceramic buttons and jewellery some of which are displayed at London's Victoria and Albert Museum along with the reconstruction of her entire 18 Albion Mews studio where she was based for 50 years. Rie taught at Camberwell College of Arts from 1960 until 1972. She ceased making pottery in 1990 after suffering a series of strokes and died in London aged 93. Her pottery is exhibited globally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the York Art Gallery in the UK, and Paisley Museum in Scotland. (1) Henry Pim in The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.144 L
Frederick Edward McWilliam RA HRUA (1909-1992) THE JUDO PLAYERS bronze; (no. 1 from an edition of 5) signed with initials and numbered at base 22 x 16 x 9in. (55.88 x 40.64 x Bonham's, 16 July 1992, lot 180;Collection of George and Maura McClelland The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.116 (full page illustration) P
A Pair of 19th Century Empire Style Gilt Bronze & Champlevé Candelabra in the manner of F. Barbedienne. The baluster stems and flared circular bases enriched with enamelled decoration on a yellow ground, with a collar of fanned leaves below three scrolling candle branches surrounding an elevated Egyptianesque sphinx finial. The bases raised on three griffin monopods, 18 ins (46 cms) in height.
Three Bronze Animals by Milo: A Wild Cat descending a rocky outcrop, signed Milo with 'Fondeurs Bords de Seine' foundry stamp, mounted on a black marble plinth 11 ins (28 cms) in height. And a polar bear stamped A1269 and rhinoceros stamped A1270, both sat on white veined black marble block plinths with cast medallions JB DEPOSEE Bronze Garanti Paris to the backs, 9 ins (23 cms) in height.
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Candelabra. Each having nine candle lights raised on scrolling foliate arms above a decorative stem festooned in flowers and laurel garlands hung from rams' head mounts. The candle sockets having slot-on moulded glass candle cups. Standing on breakfront D-ended plinth bases 25 ins (64 cms) in height.
A 19th Century French Marquetry Secrètaire Cabinet with decorative gilt bronze mounts. The piece in two sections clad in diagonally grained rosewood inlaid with sprays of flowers & foliage. The upper section having a gallery railed top above two glazed doors enclosing display shelves. The lower section housing three drawers on cabriole legs; the top drawer having a fall front opening to reveal a fitted interior of drawers and an inset velvet writing surface. 72¾ ins (185 cms) high, 33 ins (84 cms) wide, 16½ ins (42 cms) deep.
A Neo-Gothic Cast Bronze Casket, A 16th Century Style Bronze Table Bell, A Pewter Desk Tray, and a Flat Round Cast Metal Box. The casket of rectangular form decorated with figures in tracery arches and raised on bracket feet, 2¼ ins (6 cms) high, 5½ ins (14 cms) long, 3 ins (7.5 cms) wide. The table bell intricately cast with classical figures beneath pendant lamps and bands of ornamentation, with a cluster of ropes forming the handle, 7 ins (18 cms) in height. The bronze-patinated pewter tray cast with an Austrian man's head overlooking landscape with stags in distance and branch form border sprouting clumps of fir cones and acorns, 8 ins x 4½ ins (20 cms x 12 cms). The lidded roundel pot with black patination cast to simulate black basalt with Madonna della Sedia to the lid and concentric bands of engine turned decoration to the base, 3½ ins (9 cms) in diameter.
A Large Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze mounted Jardiniere of shouldered oval form on a fluted pedestal foot. The dark rich blue glazed body enhanced by intricately cast gilt bands and swagged in garlands of fruiting vine around the shoulders and foliate scroll handles either side, 9¼ ins (23.5 cms) high, 16 ins x 9 ins (41 cm x 23 cms).
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