A Great War Group of Three to Company Serjeant Major A. Pearce, DCM, Welsh Guards, 1914-15 Star (6. C.S.Mjr. A. Pearce. W.Gds.) British War and Victory Medals (6 W.O.2. A. Pearce. W. Gds.), M.I.D. (L.G.28th May 1918), mounted for wearing Company Serjeant Major Alfred Pearce, DCM, Regimental No. 6 , Welsh Guards, late 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Distinguished Conduct Medal Citation. 6 C./S./M. A. Pearce, 1st Bn. W. Gds. (Bristol) (LG 3 Sept 1919) ‘He has served as company serjeant-major since August 1915, in the field, and has always shown the greatest keenness and devotion to duty. On the 25th February, 1918 at Roeux he displayed the greatest gallantry and initiative in taking forward under cover of darkness a Lewis gun into No Man’s Land, and at dawn opening fire on an enemy machine gun which had been causing great annoyance to our working parties. His fire was so heavy and accurate that the enemy were forced to relinquish their post and retire over the open, five of them being shot whilst doing so’, The Army Rifle Association-Roberts Cup (Corpl. A. Pearce, 3rd Bn. Grenadier Gds), enamel and silver-gilt, 1912 clasp. The Dewar Trophy, bronze medal. Princess Mary Christmas 1914 Tin, paper label to base, inscribed in ink ‘No 6, C.S.M. Pearce. DCM, Guards Depot’
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Barbara Worth (1925-2010), ten sculptures. This collection of the work of the late Barbara Worth has been consigned for sale by her executors following her death in January 2010. It comprises 10 pieces in various styles from different stages of her career, supported by her own notes of exhibitions, lists of sculpture, photographs, press cuttings, letters and other information about her career. She was born as Barbara Wigglesworth in London in 1925 and never married, adopting the professional name of Barbara Worth. After the War she worked as a Youth Leader until taking up a place at London University and obtained a Diploma in Social Studies 1948-1952. She went to Canada 1953 -57 travelling and working in TV and Radio as well as in the Probation Service in Vancouver. She travelled extensively around the world before returning to the UK in 1958. Then she pursued her artistic training at the City & Guilds School (1958-9, Sculpture and Modelling); Hammersmith College of Art (1959-62, Sculpture and Modelling); Chelsea School of Art (1960-62, Drawing), before returning to Canada in 1962. More courses followed at the University of British Columbia (1963-4 Bachelor of Education) and Seattle University (1964, Summer School in Bronze Casting). She was sculpting and exhibiting in Canada in this period, mainly in Vancouver. She returned to London in 1964 where she remained for the rest of her life, combining increasing success with her sculpture, exhibiting at some well know galleries alongside Moore and Epstein, and taking a wide variety of jobs to support her artistic career through the 1960s - 1980s. In later life she turned increasingly to painting in watercolour and pastels, drawing inspiration from her passion for music which was reflected in her earlier abstract sculptures, and busts and drawings of well known orchestral conductors. There are a number of lists typed by the artist of her work and places exhibited, with photographs taken at the time of some of them. There is also some copy correspondence about specific commissions. The pieces offered here are: Chinese Man, on a wood base, 35cm high overall (1963?). The Parting,on a wood base, 33.5cm high overall (exhibited 49th annual exhibition of Northwest artists, Seattle, 1963). Abstract bronze, on marble base, 22.5cm long overall (1960s?). Winged Victory, bronze, 25.5cm high, and a plaster copy 1960s? Eskimo Hunter, on a wood base, 35cm high overall (1967?). Head of Girl (1970s?). Plaque of Debbie (1972?). Bronze bust of an unidentified Norwegian man, on wood base, 37cm high overall (1970s). Bust of Rudolph Kempe, on wood base, 42.5cm high overall (1974). Barbara Worth exhibited only two works with the Society of Women Artists both in 1978, no. 543 Prof. Denis Gabor, bronze (£750) and no. 544, Aram Khatchaturian, bronze (£1000)
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A 17/18TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD PANELLED VARGUENO, fitted with an arrangement of 12 variant size drawers on fluted form with ivory knob handles, with matching top and side bended decoration and bronze handles, the stand with fretwork frieze raised on bobbin turned and tied supports, 39" wide, 51" high.
A 19th century Chinese bronze censer decorated with foliate and butterfly motifs, standing on four supports, 11cm high; a Chinese blue painted moon flask with twin ruyi sceptre handles, decorated to each side with a mountainous landscape, bears a four character Kangxi mark to the base, 25cm high (2)
A group of 19th century Asian metalworks including: a Chinese enamel and metal bowl with stylised flower borders, 27cm wide, 20cm high; a Chinese white metal tea caddy with foliate incised sides, 12cm wide, 17cm high; an Indian bronze urn with a frieze of deities, 20cm wide, 23cm high; a Indian vase of foliate design, 19cm high; and a group of other Asian wares (qty)
A Japanese totai tree bark porcelain vase and cover, Meiji Period of squat ovoid form, decorated with birds and flowers, 19cm high; a pair of Japanese cloisonne enamel vases, each with a stylised floral design, 18cm high; a pair of Japanese cloisonne vases of cockerels on a blue ground, 8.5cm high; a small Japanese cloisonne enamel vase with prunus design on a green ground, 6cm high; two Japanese bronze standing carp, 21.5cm high; and a small Japanese circular dish with a floral design, 11.5cm diameter (damages) (9)
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