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Lot 351
An early 19th Century bronze table oil lamp probably by Hancock & Rickson, the urn shaped reservoir with a shaped dummy spout supported by a figure of a mythical beast with bold floral and leaf capped body, leaf scroll column and bold leaf scroll circular base, and with conforming patent burner, 16ins high (circa 1830 - apparently unmarked)
Lot 366
Dimietre Chiparus (1888-1950 - Rumanian) - Good enamelled, gilt bronze and carved ivory figure - "The Chained Dancer" - The figure with arms out-stretched wearing an Art Deco style dress and headpiece, on veined onyx tapered base, 12.25ins high (signed "Chiparus" to base - lacking chain to hands, ivory cracked to left knee and shin, and rear of right leg)
Lot 231
An exceptional Sobei Kinkozan vase, c.1890, of square section, shouldered ovoid form, finely enamelled and gilt with silver-dotted panels of a festival cart painted with a tiger, a samurai in court costume, a hanging basket with a puppy eyeing a butterfly and a bijin by a rivulet on a mirror black ground, the shoulders with clouds on cafe-au-lait, black Kinkozan sei zo, minute glaze chip to one shoulder, 25cm. Everything about this vase sets it apart from Kinkozan`s normal oeuvre: the shape (derived from a Chinese Ming bronze) the black and brown grounds, the use of silver (now tarnished but revivable) the subject matter, the amount of space accorded the decoration, the nonchalant signature and lack of impressed mark, all these point to a special commission. The tiger is a zodiac animal and, on the twelve-year cycle, came round in 1890, a perfect fit stylistically for this vase. A vase of similar form and also with hanging baskets probably by the same hand is illustrated in Meiji Ceramics, Gisela Jahn, n.d., pl 91. For a similar puppy see Satsuma, Louis Lawrence, 1991, p. 174, and the hanging basket
Lot 325
Frederick Edward McWilliam (1902-1992), UNDERCOVER GIRL 1978 bronze, signed McW 1/5, 25cm. Provenance: Ashford Hall, Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire The vendor recalls her father purchasing the bronze from the Waddington Galleries. Exhibited: Belfast, Ulster Museum, F.E. McWilliam, April - May 1981, no. 151, another cast: this exhibition travelled to Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, May - June 1981; and Cork, Crawford Municipal Gallery, July - August 1981
Lot 394
Four novelty walking canes comprising an Edwardian malacca cane with carved ivory knop depicting a scantily clad female, 34.25in (87cm) long, an Edwardian Oriental bamboo cane carved with a warrior attacking a fierce snake with a club, 34.5in (87.5cm) long, an African carved hardwood stick with stylised head, 33in (84cm) long, and an ebonised mahogany cane with cast bronze knop depicting the bust of a black man in a ribboned cap, 36.5in (92.5cm) long (4).
Lot 55
Macdonald, Lt. Roderick William The medals and journals of Lieutenant Roderick William Macdonald, Royal Navy, who went missing from the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Courageous on 15 February 1937 H.M.S. Ramilles Prize Medal, 26mm., silver, reverse inscribed, ‘H.M.S. Ramillies inter part Marathon Race Nov. 1930 3rd Prize Mid. R. W. McDonald’, in Phillips, Aldershot case of issue; Naval Prize Medal, 32mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1931, obverse inscribed, ‘1st B.S. Med. Fleet 1931’, reverse inscribed, ‘H.M.S. Ramillies Marathon Winners’; H.M.S. Excellent Sports Medal, 32mm., bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Inter-Block Marathon 1933’; Malta Amateur Athletic Association Medal, 51mm., silvered bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘1935 One Mile 1st Lieut. Macdonald’, in Phillips, Aldershot case of issue; Sports Medal, 40mm., silvered bronze, obverse inscribed, ‘1st B.S. 1935 3 Mile 1st’, very fine and better; Journals Recipient’s journals as a Midshipman, volume 1, for the period 1929-30, volume 2, for the period 1930-31-32, each volume of 170+ pages and inserts, drawings, sketches, watercolours, together with a day by day account of his duties and other activities. During this period, Macdonald was serving abo rd H.M. Ships Ramillies, Eagle, Glorious and Vanquisher; Commission A framed commission document appointing him Sub-Lieutenant, dated 25 October 1933; Photographs Four naval group photographs and one of the recipient and his brother; and a H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth cap tally; Annesley, James The trial in ejectment (at large) between Campbell Craig, lessee of James Annesley Esq. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, et al., 1744. Folio, contemporary half calf gilt, worn, boards loose, first 3 leaves loose, repair to outer edge of last leaf, small hole affecting single word in text, title page torn and repaired, copy of the Daily Post Friday January 27th 1744 bound in; Drummond, William The works of... Edinburgh, 1711. 4to, portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, lacking lower board, upper board loose (qty) Note: Lieutenant Roderick (Rory) William Macdonald was the younger son of Major Donald Ramsay Macdonald, D.S.O., M.C., Royal Field Artillery. Included in this lot is a newspaper cutting in which Admiral Sir William Fisher wrote: ‘Anyone who has known Rory Macdonald, however slightly, will have felt a bitter pang to hear of his premature end on service in the Fleet Air Arm. But those, like myself, who had been in the same ship with him (and he was my flag lieutenant for a period) know that the Navy has suffered a really grievous loss. In all sincerity I believe that we officers and men of H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth that in him we had the most exceptional young officer of his time. Personally I have never known a better. Added to a most attractive appearance and manner, he had all the solid qualities of character that are most admired in our Service. Humour, gaiety, vivid and radiant there was, continually breaking through a strict sense of duty, while a quiet manner of authority yet sympathy - very rare in an officer of his age - evoke little short of devotion in the men under him. He was outstanding in all forms of sport, but chiefly as a long distance runner. It is very hard to lose Rory Macdonald. ....’ On a Memorial to Major Donald Ramsay Macdonald, D.S.O., M.C., R.F.A., and his two sons, the inscription for Lieutenant Roderick William Macdonald, Royal Navy, reads - ‘who was missing from H.M.S. Courageous west of Alexandria on 15th February 1937, aged 24’.
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