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Lot 1374
Romano-British, Enamelled bronze cockerel brooch, 2nd cent. AD, moulded in the round, body decorated with red, blue and yellow cells forming the wings, bird with a wavy comb on its head and a curved tail with loop (Mills RB 145; Hattatt 167). Very fine, a superb example, complete with pin Provenance: Found in N.E. Lincolnshire
Lot 1375
Romano-British, Enamelled bronze running dog plate brooch, 2nd cent. AD, extended mouth and upturned tail, body with a long single cell with green enamel, orange eye, complete except for pin (Mills RC 133; Hattatt 1188). Very fine with green patina, scarce Provenance: Found in N.E. Lincolnshire
Lot 1377
Romano-British, Bronze figure of Mercury, 2nd-3rd cents. AD, naked with a cloak over his left arm, holding caduceus and purse, petasos on his head,torc of coiled gold wire loosely tied around his neck, both feet missing, 5.2cm. About very fine with simplistic features and a heavy green patina Provenance: Found in N.E. Lincolnshire
Lot 1380
Anglo-Saxon, Tinned bronze pyramid mount from a sword, 7th cent., each side decorated with incised triangles, 15mm at base, 7mm high (Mills AS 276); two bronze pins, both decorated with ring and dot design; two gilded wrist clasps; two pieces from a bronze girdle hanger [7]. Fine Provenance: Found in N.E. Lincolnshire
Lot 1388
Medieval, Gilt-brass horse pendants (4), all 11th-14th cents., one decorated with a castle, one with a head surrounded by a dragon; pendant holder of globular form with three suspension arms protruding, two with acorn pendants, and an openwork bronze censor top; head of Christ and two belt mounts, one with a crowned head [9]. Mostly fine or better Provenance: Found in N.E. Lincolnshire
Lot 1392
Medieval, Bronze seal matrices (3), all, 13th-14th cents., central devices including eagle and rabbit, four leaf clover, cooking pot and pelican in piety, inscription for latter sum pelicanus dei, this intact with suspension loop; lead examples (2), one pointed oval with fleur de lis, other with a star [5]. Fine to very fine
Lot 416
`Great War Memorial Medallion` a bronze medallion by Alfred Briscoe Drury, Minerva tending to a fallen warrior, the reverse with a soldier and a sailor with arms reversed, standing heads bowed by an un-named plaque signed A Drury RA 8cm. diam. These medals were commissioned for the department store Derry & Toms, of High Street Kensington.
Lot 417
`Queen Mary` a bronze medallion by Gilbert Bayes, for the maiden voyage 1936, struck by the Royal Mint, starboard view of the ship with leaping dolphins in the sea, the reverse with New York skyline inside the old Bargate arch at Southampton, in green leather case, 7cm. diam. Literature L Brown British Historical Medals Volume III, London 1995 no.4282
Lot 421
A Bromsgrove Guild bronze medallic roundel, by Walter Henry Gilbert (1871-1946), a diaphanous maiden, perhaps Peace, enthroned and holding a palm branch, her headdress and robe supported by Putti, set in alabaster plinth, and a uniface bronze medallic roundel of the Nativity inscribed Bromsgrove Guild 7.6cm. diam. Walter Gilbert was a cousin of Sir Alfred Gilbert. He founded the Bromsgrove Guild in November 1898 on the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement. Literature Annette Carruthers & Mary Greensted Simplicity or Splendour, Cheltenham Museum, page 126 catalogue number 103 for an identical roundel.
Lot 423
`George Frederick Watts (1871-1959)` a uniface cast bronze portrait medallion, by Theodore Spicer Simpson, dated 1904, facing right with head slightly turned, the rim inscribed and dated, cast artists signature 12cm. diam. This medal is extremely rare, Spicer Simpson also made an undated and slightly less rare medal which is illustrated in his posthumously published A Collection of Characters - Reminiscences of Theodore Spicer-Simpson. Literature International Exhibition of Contemporary Medals, 1910 American Numismatic Society, New York, catalogue page 319-322 for an example illustrated
Lot 424
Sir Alfred Gilbert RA, MVO, DCL (1854-1934) A bronze bust of George Frederick Watts, signed in the bronze A Gilbert ARA Sc 17cm. high Literature Richard Dorment Alfred Gilbert, Yale page 93 plate 50 for the full size bronze, 1888 in the Tate collection Richard Dorment Alfred Gilbert Royal Academy of Arts 1986 catalogue, catalogue number 25 for the original cast. The bust of George Frederick Watts was commissioned by Mary Watts in a letter dated 1888. Watts, held in high professional esteem by Gilbert, sat some 18 times for the two foot high bust held in the Tate Gallery collection. The bust was also produced in this smaller version. Watts described the beauty of the realistic draped clothing which rebuffed the bathing-towel folds of modern sculpture. It is recorded that Sir Alfred Gilbert refused payment for the bust, and in return received a portrait of himself painted by Watts.
Lot 425
Sir Alfred Gilbert RA, MVO, DCL (1854-1934) a rare dark bronze patinated circular portrait medallion of Matthew Ridley Corbet ARA, his bearded head to left wearing an open shirt, in octagonal wood frame, indistinct signature and date 1881 bronze 10.5cm. diam. Literature Richard Dorment Alfred Gilbert, Yale page 37 plate 15 Richard Dorment Alfred Gilbert Royal Academy of Arts 1986 catalogue, catalogue number 38 page 132. this medallion was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886. Philip Attwood Artistic Circles, The Medal in Britain 1880-1918, page 8 for a reference to this medallion. Mark Jones The Art of the Medal, London 1977, page 138 illustration no.373. This medalic portrait is one of the first sculptural pieces by Alfred Gilbert. The landscape painter Matthew Ridley Corbet (1850-1902), had moved to Rome in 1880 to be a pupil of Giovanni Costa and by January 1881 had a studio `just above Gilbert`s studio`. The plaster for this medal is now in the British Museum. Two examples of this bronze are known, this and a second in the collection of the Musee d`Orsay, Paris.
Lot 427
Sir Alfred Gilbert RA, MVO, DCL (1854-1934) `Victory` a bronze sculpture on a black veined spherical onyx base, with waisted bronze socle base unsigned 20cm.high Literature Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy catalogue, page 108 for an illustration of the Jubilee Memorial of Queen Victoria, the original version of this figure is situated on the orb in her left hand. Richard Dorment, Alfred Gilbert Royal Academy of Arts, 1986 page 129 catalogue number 34 for an example of this figure. Dorment explains that this figure was produced in several sizes in both bronze and silver and was a favourite present Gilbert gave to friends.
Lot 433
A fine jade and bronze hand mirror by The Countess Feodora Gleichen, modelled with a female offering up two green enamelled snakes, before scrolling supports, the mirror frame set with moonstones and inscribed `Dico Sempre Verita Vecchia Ia E Belta` `Of Age and Beauty I Speak Ever Truth` unsigned 47cm. long Literature The Studio Volume 13, 1898 page 264 an identical example with turned ivory handle illustrated. This example was illustrated at the Dutch Gallery exhibition of the Society of Medallists alongside work by Alfred Drury and Charles Ricketts. The Countess Gleichen won a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelles, 1900 for a bronze and jade hand mirror.
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