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Lot 1116B
Henri Marc Of Paris French Second Empire Figural Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock, with a Movement by Japy Freres. It has a Porcelain White Dial with Henri Marc Names and the Movement Is impressed with Henri Marc. It has a 8 Day Bell Striking Movement with Outside Count Wheel, and Silk Suspension that Strikes on Half and Full Hour, Counting the Hours. It Comes with Pendulum and Key. Full Working Order. c.1860`s.
Lot 587
A large Chinese bronze charger, circular, decorated with carp, dragons and scrollwork. Diameter 22 ins. CONDITION REPORT: This lot is in generally good condition with no particular damage, no repairs and no restoration. There are slight rough areas around the lip and the odd small dent but no significant problems. Our photographs should show the extent of these minor problems.
Lot 689
A 1950's small bronze modernist nic-nac bowl, designed by Walter Bosse for Herta Baler, Vienna. CONDITION REPORT: Width 90 mm,height 66 mm, depth 64 mm. The lot is in generally very good condition with no significant damage. There are minor surface scratches as one would expect but no real problems.
Lot 720
Gill Brown, a bronze sculpture, swans, limited edition with certificate dated 2008, 4/12. Original purchase price £1200. CONDITION REPORT: The length of the base is 9 inches by 3 inches. The length of the sculpture is slightly longer than this at approximately 10 inches. The maximum height including the base is 8 inches.
Lot 42
A pair of 19th Century (circa 1830) patinated bronze and ormolu mounted Candlesticks, the gilded drip pans above a circular stem and finely cast triform stand modelled as leaves and shells etc., each on triform platform base, 19th Century and later adapted to lamps, together with pleated Shades, height of Candlesticks (not including shades or light fittings) 27cm
Lot 45
A large 19th Century patinated Bronze Sculpture Figure "Mercury", in standing nude pose, he rests with his left leg upon a gust of wind issuing from a cherubic head, the upper section signed Jean De Bologne, the whole raised upon circular black marble plinth base with a repousse decorated continuous band of cherubs playing instruments in Bacchanalian revelry above, (small fracture to one finger of raised right hand, the main section of the torch held in left hand now away and minor chipping to extremities of circular black marble plinth base), total height 73cm
Lot 56
A large Italianate Classical style patinated Bronze Sculpture, possibly Bacchus or Dionysus (God of the Grape Harvest, Wine Making, Wine, Ritual Madness, Religious Ecstasy, Fertility and Theatre), raised on rectangular black veined white marble plinth base, no foundry mark visible, probably 19th Century, total height including plinth 55cm, length of marble base 48cm
Lot 75A
An extremely fine and rare "Le Venus Noire" Josephine Baker Car Mascot by A Renevey, circa 1926, signed bronze case in exquisite detail by Petitjean and Capdevielle and created by the famous Sculptor A Renevey in 1926, the bangles and ostrich feather skirt with gilded finish, Note: Josephine Baker 1906-1975 was born in St Louis, Missouri, she left school early for the stage and was performing professionally at the age of 13, she performed on Broadway in 1922 ("Shuffle Along") and was a star by 1924 ("Chocolate Dandies"), in 1925 she went to Paris and became famous for her performances in the Revue Negre on the stage of The Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, she danced practically naked causing a sensation in Parisien Society. She later perfomred in the Folies Bergere and during the 1926/27 Season was still performing the ever popular "Banana Dance", 16cm high
Lot 224
A FINE PAIR OF GERMAN GILT-BRONZE ROWEL-SPURS, SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY the heel-bands cast with bands of cabling along the upper and lower borders, framing recessed vacant panels pierced for small pins, with figure-of-eight terminals carrying pairs of hooks for attaching straps, one retaining its original buckle, and fitted with star-shaped rowels on faceted down-curved necks (one hook, one buckle and one rowel-pin all missing) 14.6 cm; 5¾ in (2)
Lot 229
AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF BOHEMIAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY PAUL POSER IN PRAG, CIRCA 1725 with long barrels each signed in full on the sighting rib, lightly swamped towards the muzzle, decorated over its length with finely chiselled and engraved small designs of scrollwork involving an urn of acanthus leaves in relief behind the rib, the breeches each formed as a raised chiselled cartouche supported by a pair of opposing grotesque profile masks and framing two gold-lined maker`s stamps in the Madrid style (Neue Støckel 8080, 8081), gold-lined vent, silver fore-sight and the barrel tangs engraved respectively with opposing Harpies, flat locks decorated en suite with the barrels, with bevelled stepped edges, signed between the arms of the steel-springs, finely chiselled in low relief, the greater part of the chiselled decoration arranged within pounced matted recessed panels, each involving a trophy-of-war involving a Turkish captive, the figure of Victory at the rear, the cock with a cherub seated within a flourish of scrollwork issuant from a monster`s mouth and the pan with a demon mask cut in relief, figured walnut full stocks finely carved with delicate relief mouldings, including scrollwork patterns about the barrel tangs and ramrod-pipes, the latter each centring on a demon mask, inlaid over their respective lengths with scrolling designs of silver wire tendrils carrying engraved small flowerheads, the butts each inlaid with an expanded pattern suspending both a demon mask plaque and small warrior bust medallion (one warrior medallion missing), full silver mounts cast and chased in low relief, en suite with the barrels and locks, comprising spurred pommels decorated with elaborate rollwerk cartouches filled with pairs of warriors all`antica , probably Heroes from Bohemian history, the figures differing between the two pistols, one pair bearing shields charged, respectively, with the Lion of Bohemia and the Eagle of Moravia, the other pair including one figure displaying a severed Turkish trophy head, with bevelled stepped solid side-plates decorated with a landscape vignette involving the mounted figures of a Turk and a soldier of the Empire in combat before a town and an encampment, trigger-guards each centring on the figure of Diana, the finial involving a grotesque mask, faceted baluster ramrod-pipes, the rearward pipe decorated with a demon mask, oval escutcheons involving demon masks and elaborate pierced frameworks surmounted by a ducal crown, putti supporters and figural trophies-of-war, and fitted with moulded horn fore-end caps (ramrods missing) 54 cm; 21¼ in (2) Paul Ignazius Poser (1) (born 1646) is ranked among the leading gunmakers in Prague in the early 18th century and his works are represented in the most important ancestral gunrooms in Southern Germany and Central Europe. These include a pair of fowling-pieces and a breech-loading rifled carbine in the collections of the Princes von und zu Liechtenstein in Schloss Vaduz, the latter made for a member of the Royal House of Savoy (inv. nos. 3871, 3885, 4102). A pair of holster pistols by Paul Poser are in the former Imperial Collection in Vienna (WS.A1691), see Schedelmann 1972, pp. 226-7. Another pair, closely comparable with the present pistols, were made by Poser for Philipp, Prince von Lobkowicz, circa 1731: sold Christie`s, 9th December 1988, lot 215. Poser`s death date is recorded as 1730 in Der Neue Støckel but the pistols made for Prince Lobkowicz could not pre-date 1731. The distinguished treatment of the barrels, the locks and the mounts is possibly the work of the Franz Matzenkopf (circa 1705-1776), a celebrated chiseller of iron, silver and bronze who supplied Poser and other Prague gunmakers. Matzenkopf was producing coin dies for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg by 1727; he left Prague to take up his appointment as coin and medal die-cutter to the Salzburg court in 1738. See Hayward 1963, pp.125-7
Lot 252
A FINE PAIR OF BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY LEOPOLD BECHER, CIRCA 1730 with sighted barrels lightly swamped towards the muzzles, signed on the ribs, the respective breeches decorated with opposing classical warrior busts chiselled in low relief within pounced recessed cartouches, together with maker`s stamps lined in gilt-copper in the Madrid style and set within raised shaped panels at the rear (Neue Støckel 38, together with a second unrecorded stamp, a dog), the barrel tangs engraved correspondingly with a further opposing pair of classical warrior busts, with bevelled locks chiselled in low relief, principally within a series of recessed panels, each decorated with a recumbent figure within a trophy-of-war and with a boar`s head hunting trophy at the rear, figured walnut full stocks carved in low relief over their lengths, decorated with complex interlaced scrollwork mouldings about the barrel tangs and behind the ramrod-pipes, full gilt-bronze mounts finely cast in relief, comprising spurred pommels decorated with figural trophies-of-war en suite with the locks, also involving pairs of demon masks and each with demon mask cap cast prominently in relief, solid side-plates decorated with landscape vignettes involving combatant horsemen in early 18th century dress, trigger-guards centring on cartouches filled with warrior busts, pairs of faceted ramrod-pipes, one pair carrying its original ramrod with gilt-bronze cap (the other ramrod associated), and escutcheons formed as rollwerk cartouches each filled with the figure of Diana the Huntress 52.1 cm; 20½ in (2) Leopold Becher, active circa 1725-50, ranks foremost among the Carlsbad school of makers of luxurious firearms and his works equal those of the best gunmakers in Vienna and Prague within the second quarter of the 18th century. In 1726 Becher was appointed court gunmaker to General Prince Johann Georg Christian Lobkowicz at Schloss Raudnitz (Roudnice). Firearms by Leopold Becher are today represented in the former Imperial Collection in Vienna, in the Danish Royal Collection and in the majority of the surviving princely and noble gunrooms of Central Europe. The inventory of the former Pfalz-Zweibrücken Gewehrkammer lists eleven pieces by Becher. See Hayward Vol 1 1963, pp.129-131; also see Schedelmann 1972, p. 220 for a listing of known works, colour plate XXIV.
Lot 255
A RARE SOUTH GERMAN HEAVY BRONZE WALLGUN (DOPPELHAKEN ), DATED 1525, PROBABLY NUREMBURG 2.4cm calibre, the barrel cast in five stages with four characteristically narrow roped girdles, the forward four stages with raised scalloped edges, the muzzle and the forward section rounded, the muzzle flared slightly and with standing fore-sight, the rearward sections octagonal and widening progressively towards a short rectangular beech, cast with a large hook-like recoil-stop impaled by a transverse bolt and incised with an unusual numbering device on the right-hand side, probably that of the bronze founder , the penultimate rearward section decorated at its base with an engraved band of scale ornament arranged in triangular groups bordering a raised roped girdle at the breech, cast in relief with a shield quartered with a coarsely incised coat-of-arms and with the date "1525" also in relief on a stippled scroll above, the breech with bevelled leading edges, a further engraved scale pattern below a slotted back-sight projecting from a roped moulded base, the vent with integral pan on the right (pivot cover missing), and the underside with two lugs also carrying transverse bolts for mounting a stock: with later heavy wooden stock well-reconstructed in early 16th century style, with bevelled upper edges, the sides strongly bevelled forward of the recoil-stop, faceted behind the breech and with tapering separate tiller bound by an iron band 145.4 cm; 57¼ in barrel, 214.6 cm 84½ in overall Hakenbüchsen of this large size are correctly known as doppelhäken and were intended to be fired from a stand or tripod carriage and served by two men as a piece of light artillery. An example with closely comparable characteristics is preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg (W 3000); this piece is most probably from the same foundry as the present example and is cast with the arms of Kressenstein. See Essenwein, Graz 1969, vol.1 p.114 and vol.2 pl. B. VII, fig.e. Another closely comparable example was previously privately sold from Schloss Langenburg and is now in a Bavarian private collection. The high quality of the casting in each case is in keeping with the leading Nuremburg bronze cannon foundries of the period. Each of the comparable examples is on its original wooden beam-shaped stock. The example formerly in Schloss Langenburg is also cut with a similarly improvised numbering device on the recoil-stop. This form of numbering system was evidently in common use in Southern Germany in the early 16th century; similar markings appear on a tally slate in a woodcut of a tavern scene by Erhard Schön of Nuremberg, circa 1530: see Trömner 2009. A conventionally sized hakenbüse of comparable form is marked in a similar manner on its hook and is in the historic town armoury of Hasselt in the Netherlands: see Kempers 1983, No.9, p.60, marking reproduced p. 77. Five bronze doppelhäken comparable with the present example are included in a finely drawn and coloured illustration in the near-contemporary Zeugbuch der vorderösterreichischen Lande (Folio 107), in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: see Schedelmann 1972, colour frontispiece, pl.1. The stock for the present barrel is closely modelled on authentic examples, probably those in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Lot 258
A GERMAN BRONZE SALUTING CANNON, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with heavy multi-stage barrel cast with raised fillets and astragals, a pair of rectangular lifting handles, a pair of trunnions, and button cascable engaging the elevating screw (the lateral locking- pin for the screw missing): on its original iron-mounted wooden carriage, retaining some original dark green painted finish, with iron-shod spoked cambered wheels, and with matching painted limber 61 cm; 24 in barrel (2)
Lot 284
A 13-BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, GERMAN OR LIÈGEOIS, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with two-stage barrel formed with sighting flat, the rear section shaped to form alternate flat planes decorated with chiselled leaf terminals, cut with polygroove rifled bore, fitted with engraved gilt-bronze fore-sight and the tang grooved for sighting, bronze lock with strongly bevelled edges and beadwork patterns engraved about both the outer and the subsidiary borders, the cock and the steel engraved en suite, figured walnut full stock carved with a series of relief mouldings embellished in part with leaf ornament, full gilt-bronze mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate and the trigger-guard decorated with acanthus leaf ornament, the side-plate decorated with a pierced design of scrolls and acanthus leaves, three ramrod-pipes decorated with faceted mouldings, the escutcheon en suite with the butt-plate, and original bronze-capped wooden ramrod (the fore-end with small cracks on one side towards the muzzle) 108 cm; 42½ in barrel
Lot 321
A FINE FRENCH BRONZE MOUNTAIN HOWITZER," L`ACCUEIL", OBUSIER DE 12CM VALÉE, MODÈLE 1828, STRASBOURG, DATED 23 FEV. 1850, ON ITS ORIGINAL CARRIAGE with smooth-bore barrel cast with raised flat muzzle ring and base ring each grooved for sighting, cast with the individual name of the gun, "L`Accueil", on a stippled scroll towards the muzzle, with foundry mark between the trunnions, a cursive "C", the ends of the trunnions marked with the weight "101K" and "No.2" respectively, with the motto of the Second Republic, "Liberte Egalite Fraternite" surmounting the cipher of the Republic towards the base, recessed broad vent field, the base ring cast with a pair of stippled panels, one marked "Strasbourg" and other "23 Fev. 1850", with button cascable, and in fine condition throughout : on its original regulation grey-painted wooden carriage, "modèle de montagne", for pack transport, with two-piece trail bedded for a quoin only and with no provision for fitting a limber pintle, with lightly cambered iron-shod spoked wheels, together with its original elevating quoin and combined brush staff and ramrod stamped with the calibre designation "12" (two pins for a cap-square and other small carriage mounts missing) 95 cm; 37½ in barrel This gun was intended to fire a 4kg. explosive round. The Système Valée was developed by Sylvian-Charles, comte Valée, as an improvement on the Gribeauval ordnance system and was adopted in 1828. Further examples, each also individually named, are preserved in the Musée de l`Armée, Paris. Surviving carriages are understandably rare; this example, constructed for the Mountain Howitzer and distinct from a field carriage, is possibly now unique. Though then obsolete, the present gun and its carriage were almost certainly a trophy of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Lot 343
A FINE STILETTO WITH CAST AND CHASED GILT-BRONZE HILT, CIRCA 1820-40 with tapering blade of triangular section moulded at the forte, gilt-bronze hilt cast and chased with rococo revival designs in low relief, comprising cross-piece formed as the fore-quarters of a gaping lion with a rococo bow above, and the grip formed of a vertical openwork arrangement comprising a warrior spearing a serpent, the latter set upon by a salamander, and retaining much early polish and gilding 15.5 cm; 6 1/8 in blade Provenance Robin Wigington, Stratford-upon-Avon
Lot 363
A EUROPEAN BRONZE MACE HEAD, 13TH/15TH CENTURY in excavated condition, formed of five low pyramidal nodules each interrupted by three vertically arranged nodules, short neck pierced with a single hole, on a later wooden haft 5.5 cm; 2 1/8 in head See Nicolle 1988, p. 317 and p. 520 figs. 861 a-d. Mace heads of this form have been discovered over a very broad area from the United Kingdom to Russia.
Lot 364
A EUROPEAN BRONZE MACE HEAD IN 13TH/15TH CENTURY STYLE AND A COSH, 19TH CENTURY the first formed of a series of pyramidal nodules, the front with a grotesque mask, on a wooden haft; and the second with bronze head, haft of twisted sinew, with a plaited thong the first: 7 cm; 2 3/4 in head (2)
Lot 432
A FINELY CONSTRUCTED GERMAN MODEL FIELD GUN AND LIMBER, 19TH CENTURY with bronze barrel formed in five tapering stages divided by raised astragal mouldings, swelling at the muzzle, a pair of plain moulded lifting handles, globose cascabel, and a pair of trunnions, on its iron-clad wooden field carriage fitted with a pair of spoked, cambered iron-shod wheels, and elevating device formed of a sliding wedge operated by a crank, complete with its matching limber 28.5 cm; 11 1/4 in barrel 1.5 cm; 5/8 in bore (2) Provenance Schloss Goppelsbach, sold Christie`s Amsterdam 29 June 2005, lot 520
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