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Click here to subscribeA pair of Japanese bronze oviform vases with waisted necks, decorated with three gilt halos and a key pattern border around the rim. The ovoid bodies decorated in hirazogan and iroye takazogan with swallow tailed birds in flight and roosting on trees and shrubs amidst scattered rocks, mid Meiji era, height 17.7cm. Condition Report: Good condition, minor surface scratches - No bases.
A 1920's Pierre Le Faguays cold painted and gilt bronze figure "Dancer With Thyrsus" signed to the stepped marble base, further signed signed Etling, Paris as retailer. Full height 28cm. (See illustration) Condition Report: Some very minor surface scratches. There is some patina in a few places. No repair, small amount of loss of patina, no damage, generally good condition.
A Japanese iron kettle (Tetsubin) decorated in hirazogan with wild flowers and grasses on a chiselled ground, emulating bark or rough stone, the mottled bronze cover with a central knob and signed on the inner side in sosho script Shuryudo zo, Meiji period, height excluding swing handle 13.5cm. Condition Report: The cover looks dissimilar.
Winston Churchill medal by Lowzentile - £30 to £50 Medal depicting Winston Churchill. Cast in multiple numbers. The medallists name “Lowzentile”- can’t find anything out about him. Re-cast 20 years after the war in 1965. Churchill gave 3 speeches in 1945- fight them on the beaches, blood sweat. I.e. This medal is 2nd of speeches (words marked on it). Cast in Bronze, the 1965 issues are in gold.
George Knapton (British, 1698-1778) Portrait of Miss Lucinda Holt of Redgrave (1719-1792), half-length, in white, wearing a blue rosette, blue ribbons in her hair, pearl earrings and a pink shawl signed lower left "Knapton / pxt. 1750" oil on canvas, a painted oval, in a carved and giltwood frame , 75 x 62 cmProvenance: By descent within the family of the sitter at Redgrave Hall, Suffolk. Lucinda Holt married Thomas Wilson (see Lot 815) , a Barrister of Gray's Inn, and Chief Justice of Dominica, in 1752; Lucinda Holt was the heiress of her brother, Thomas at Redgrave Hall.Lined canvas. Paint layer is stable and secure. Very uneven and yellowed varnish - caught in texture of paint and becoming matte in areas. Sections of frame has bronze paint over gilding. Surface dirt present.
Rosa Bonheur (1822-99), a bronze figure of a bull, the beast walking across a rectangular base rounded at the narrow ends, signed, 27cm (10.75 in) wide Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) was a French animalière and sculptor. Her best known paintings, Ploughing in the Nivernais and the Horse Fair, hang in the Musée d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, respectively. Bonheur had failed her apprenticeship as a seamstress so her father, himself an artist, agreed to take her on as his apprentice. The realism she achieved in her art was borne from many years study of animals, including studying the anatomy of animals in the abattoirs of Paris and carrying out dissections at the Paris veterinary school. Her work was well known in England through the dealer Ernest Gambart and much admired by Queen Victoria. Bonheur was a member of the New Woman movement; a feminist movement of the late 19th century and was famous for wearing men's trousers, having at one point been given a permit by the police to wear them whilst working in the slaughterhouses. Bonheur loved depicting bulls and made several sculptures, the largest of which in Fontainebleau was melted down by the Nazi's in 1941. In 1857, Edouard Louis Dubufe, painted her portrait with a bull, symbolic of her work as an animalière.
A 19th century bronze inkwell and cover, the latter surmounted by the infant Hercules kneeling on the skin of the Nemean lion while tackling a serpent in each hand, the cylindrical sides of the well cast in relief with scenes from the hero's tasks above three paw feet resting on red and black mottled marble circular plinth, 20cm (8 in) high (2)
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