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Lot 20
Garden Sculpture:A rare Bromsgrove Guild composition stone statue of Pan early 20th century 232cm.; 91½ins high The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts was established in 1894 by Walter Gilbert who took over a foundry in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. It was first involved with decorative ironwork, but the business soon expanded into a great many other fields. By 1900 Gilbert had gone into partnership with a Mr McCandlish and had taken over further premises in the town which housed bronze and lead foundries, as well as wood and stone carving studios. By 1908 they had established an outlet in London, and as a result of their most famous commission, the iron and bronze gates outside Buckingham Palace, they were issued with a Royal Warrant appointing them metal workers to Edward VII (an honour repeated two years later under George V). Unlike the majority of other contemporary English manufacturers of garden ornaments most of the Guild~s figurative subjects were modelled in the popular styles of the day. In 1921 the Guild became a limited company, but by this date some of the members had left to start companies of their own. However the Guild continued to produce a variety of garden ornaments for many years finally closing in 1966. As well as making garden ornament in lead, the company also produced a range of ornament in composition stone. This figure of Pan appears in their 1908 Catalogue of garden ornament as No 1 and was one of their most popular models. Literature: John Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, pp.313-316.
Lot 40
Garden Sculpture:Ernst Eisenmeyer Abstract figure Sheet copper Unique 1963 370cm.; 146ins high Born in 1920, Ernst Eisenmayer was the eldest son of Austro-Hungarian Jewish parents. He tried to escape Vienna after the Anschluss; the annexation of Austria by Hitler in March 1938. As Eisenmayer recounts in A Strange Haircut - an autobiographical account about leaving Austria written in 2008 - on his second attempt he was caught on the French border, transported to Saarbrücken prison and from there to Dachau Concentration Camp. Through his younger brother Paul, who arrived in Britain by Kindertransport in 1939, his brother~s guardian Professor J. L. Brierley acted as Eisenmayer~s sponsor securing him his trainee post and hence his release from Dachau. As such he was possibly one of the last prisoners to have been released from Dachau prior to the war. Following his arrival in England he was subsequently imprisoned in five different British Internment camps, including Onchan on the Isle of Man, where he produced sculpture for exhibitions and wrote for the camp newspaper. His drawing |Violinist at Onchan| was later published as a motif of a postage stamp of the Isle of Man. He later worked as a toolmaker and from 1944 he exhibited for the first time in an exhibition on Austrian art in exile before studying from 1946-47 at the Camberwell College of Arts. His paintings and graphic work of the 1940s and 1950s explore the cityscapes and inhabitants of war-time and post-war London; at which time he became friendly with Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) and his friendship with Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) who he first met at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. In 1962 Eisenmayer turned to sculpture with a series of carved serpentine and stone heads which were first shown at the Mercury Gallery in 1963. Developed from his earlier representations of the brutal features of a camp guard in Dachau and working in hard, textured stone, the heads explore themes of the conqueror and the hostage. Eisenmayer~s welded, carved and cast sculptures of the 1960s and 1970s, produced during the continuing climate of the Cold War, investigate the potentialities for individual and group personages to withstand the pressure of external forces and to act as markers of resistance, particularly in an uncertain age of nuclear capability. In this sense Eisenmayer~s works act as witness to some of the most tragic events of the twentieth-century, alongside capturing the excitement of post-war reconstruction, and overlooked aspects of modernity. This figure dates to this period and was constructed by Eisenmayer himself at Elizabeth Frink~s studio in Chelsea in 1963, then installed in the grounds of the house ~Long Wall~ belonging to and designed by the well-known architect Leslie Gooday, where it has remained until the present day. In the 1970s Eisenmayer was commissioned to undertake a number of large public sculptures including The Family Group for the Nottingham Carlton Forum and the complex steel and bronze sculpture for the British Pavilion at Expo~ 70 in Osaka, Japan. Eisenmayer~s work has recently undergone a revival of interest. Some of his works were exhibited in 2009 at the London Jewish Museum of Art as part of the exhibition |Forced Journeys, Artists in Exile in Britain 1933-45|. This was followed by a major retrospective exhibition of his work |Art beyond Exile| at the Sayle Gallery, Douglas, Isle of Man, followed by The Austrian Cultural Forum, London, both in 2012. Recipient of the Medal of Honour from the City of Vienna in recognition of his artistic work, Ernst Eisenmayer has exhibited in the UK, Austria, France, Italy, Israel, Japan, Slovenia, and the USA. He currently resides in Vienna. Photo captions; Eisenmayer constructing the figure at Elizabeth Frink~s studio in 1963~~ taken from the catalogue ~About the Dignity of Man~ - Ernst Eisenmayer - Life and Work - exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Vienna 2002. Eisenmayer maintained a long friendship with the architect Leslie Gooday. This shows him standing beside the sculpture in the garden of ~Long Wall~ in 1997, over 30 years after he had made it.
Lot 559
Sculpture:Ivor Roberts-Jones RA (1913-1996) Monumental bust of Sir Winston Churchill Bronze Stamped 1/6 Estate IR-J 2015 86½cm; 34ins high by 130cm; 51ins wide Bronze edition 1/6 cast directly from the plaster taken from the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square. The casting process supervised by the sculptor Nigel Boonham FRBS, Past President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors, on behalf of the Trustees of the Ivor Roberts-Jones Estate. Bronze marked ~1/6 Estate IR-J 2015~ Ivor Roberts-Jones, RA (2 November 1913 - 9 December 1996). He was born in Oswestry, where one of his works, |The Borderland Farmer|, stands in the town centre. He studied at Oswestry School and Worksop College before attending Goldsmiths College, London and the Royal Academy of Arts. During the Second World War he served in the Burma Campaign. Roberts-Jones was a founder member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors in 1953 and was head of the sculpture department at Goldsmith~s College of Art from 1964-1978. He established his reputation for portrait sculpture including commissions for Yehudi Menuhin and George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy, as well as over life size figures including Field Marshall Viscount slim of Burma and Field Marshall Viscount Alanbrooke both of which stand in Whitehall. In 1971 he was commissioned to produce the full-length statue of Winston Churchill which now stands in Parliament Square, London, which is, without doubt , his most famous work. He later indicated that the pose of the statue had been largely inspired by the famous photograph of a grim-faced and sorrowful Churchill inspecting the smouldering bomb wreckage of the chamber of his beloved House of Commons on the morning of 11th May 1941. Ivor Roberts-Jones ~portrays him as the wartime leader at the time of the Normandy Landings and the return of the Allies to Europe. Consequently the figure exudes total confidence: facing the Houses of Parliament, their greatest servant in modern times is portrayed as a giant at the height of his powers~1. After the statue was unveiled in 1973 it ~provided a much needed breakthrough in post-War portraiture~1, subsequently the statue has rightly achieved iconic status. In 1987 the statue appeared in party political broadcasts for the Conservative party, thanks to Mrs Thatcher~s intense admiration for and identification with Churchill. It subsequently featured in Simon Schama~s award winning History of Britain broadcast on BBC1 in 20002 and again five years later in Andrew Marr~s History of Modern Britain. Perhaps the apogee of the statue~s status within the British imagination came on 27th July 2012, when it was prominently featured in the ~Happy and Glorious~ section of Danny Boyle~s Isles of Wonder film, broadcast during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. In 1995 Ivor Roberts-Jones was commissioned by the Czech government to make another cast of the Churchill figure to stand in the recently renamed Winston Churchill Square in Prague. Ivor replied that his original mould for his figure in Parliament Square had disintegrated., and he doubted very much whether Parliament would allow him to make a cast from the statue himself. He did produce a clay maquette for a new Churchill head, but died a couple of months after sending it to the Meridian foundry. After further negotiation, his widow, Monica Roberts-Jones gave her permission for a copy to be made of the statue in Parliament Square, somewhat swayed by the fact that this proposal had the support of Lady Thatcher and the Czech President Vaclav Havel. With the British Foreign Office and the Royal Parks Agency also giving their project their blessing, permission was given and an up-coming portrait sculptor, Nigel Boonham was given the task of supervising the making of a cast from the Churchill statue in Parliament Square. It is from the plaster cast of the head and shoulders made at this time, that this bronze was cast. The Trustees of the Ivor Roberts-Jones Estate have kindly given permission for a limited edition of only 6 bronze casts to be made from the plaster of the head and shoulders of the Churchill figure of which this is number 1. No other casts will be authorised and as such this represents a unique opportunity to acquire an enduring sculpture of Churchill, voted as the greatest ever Briton. The successful bidder will receive a hard back copy of | Abstraction and Reality| The sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones, by Jonathan Black and Sara Ayres in which the statue is extensively discussed and illustrated. Literature: Ivor Roberts-Jones - The Journey to Harlech, 1 Dr Peter Cannon-Brookes, (National Museum of Wales, 1983), p.57 Abstraction and Reality; The sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones, by Jonathan Black and Sara Ayres, Philip Wilson 2013
Lot 559
*EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY CAST BRONZE DOG FORM NUT CRACKER, 10 ½" (26.6cm) long, AND VARIOUS ITEMS, including, METAL TRINKET BOX, ART DECO LEATHER COIN PURSE, TWO CARVED BONE ITEMS, SOVEREIGN SCALES, TRAVEL IRON, NEUTRON WIRELESS CRYSTAL, COMPASS, GENT'S SOLO WRIST WATCH, LADY'S GOLD PLATED WRIST WATCH, ENAMELLED LAMB BROOCH, DRESS STUDS, ENAMELLED BADGES, A PARKER DUOFOLD FOUNTAIN PEN WITH 14K GOLD NIB AND A CONWAY STEWART NO.286 FOUNTAIN PEN WITH 14K GOLD NIB
Lot 1425
Mid-19th century mantel clock with French eight day movement, silk suspension and outside count wheel striking on a bell, silvered dial with Roman numerals in a gilt metal mounted marble case surmounted with a model of a bronze saddled horse, the gilt metal mounts depicting a cornucopia of flowers and flanked by shells with foliate scroll borders, on scroll feet (key and pendulum present), 44cm overall height (Removed from Heath House, Little Braxted)
Lot 221
Victorian and other bronze coins, 3d bits and American Revolution Bicentennial medals, etc; six bags of assorted English silver and nickel currency and crowns, etc; Millennium medal and coin; brilliant uncirculated 1986 collection; and other presentation uncirculated English and American coins
Lot 233
South African and International Exhibition Kimberley 1892 medal; The Millenary of Tamworth Castle 913-1913 medal; Warwickshire Agricultural Society Honorary Medal; a large grey metal medal marked PORT ROYAL 1692 with rose and crown emblem (diameter 7.3cm); a French War Ministry Prize Medal, and three other bronze French prize medals
Lot 237
Three medals - Comite Republicain du Commerce et de L'Industrie/A The City of London International and Commercial Association bronze medal in fitted circular presentation case; Grocers' Bakers' & Confectioners' Exhibition Newcastle on Tyne 1899 medal in presentation case; and an International Exhibition 1862 medal
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