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Katherine Scott R.A. A bust of George V signed: K. SCOTT bronze dark green patina h.71cm. Lady Kathleen Scott wife of 'Scott of the Antarctic' was descended from Scottish Royal family on her father's side and Phanariot aristocracy on her mother's. Orphaned at the age of eight her sense of independence motivated her to reject a teaching career and become a sculptor. She first attended the Slade School and then moved to the Academie Colarossi in Paris where she shared a flat with the designer Eileen Gray. At this time she also met Rodin who became a close friend and mentor. His influence on her early style can be seen in the fluidity of her statuettes which are now all in private collections. Predominantly Scott's output was in her portrait work for eminent male contemporaries. Perhaps her most famous work is of Captain Scott himself whom she married in 1908: a bronze bust which stands in Waterloo and was completed in 1915 two years after his death. Other sitters included four Prime Ministers: Herbert Asquith David Lloyd George Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. In her memoirs Self-Portrait of an Artist (1949) she recounts on the 5th of March 1935 the sitting with king George for this bust. In another entry on the 11th of March she describes her frustration at having nearly completed the work. She felt that the likeness was not being quite perfect because there was "something fierce looking which the King is not". Her career reached its zenith in the inter war years. In this period she had six major exhibitions regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy became an associate member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts (1923) and was awarded a bronze medal at the salon of the Societe des Artisites Francais (1925). W
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A work table 'Globus Nahtischen' Vienna circa 1835 mahogany ebonised banding bone and gilt-bronze mounted the globe shaped body with an ebonised equator enclosing a fitted interior on outward curved splayed legs surmounted by female terms and with claw endings joined by a galleried undertier on a concave sided tripartite base h. 95cm diam. 42cm Literature G. Himmelheber Biedermeier Mobel London 1973 ill. 13. M. Jourdain Regency Furniture London 1965 p. 71. H. Kreisel Die Kunst des Deutschen Mobels Munchen 1986 p. 95 and ill. IV. These globe-shaped worktables with interpenetrating hemi-spheres and fitted interior illustrate a very high degree of mastery and are extremely rare. Frederich Paulick executed a design for a similar table in Carl Schmidt's drawing school in Vienna circa 1825 which is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer Zopf- und Biedermeier Mobel. Katalog der Mobelsammlung des Munchner Stadtmuseums Munchen 1991 p. 17 ill. 8. Interestingly these treasures of the Austrian Biedermeier era derive from the patented 1806 designs for globe writing tables by the London cabinet-maker George Remington which were subsequently produced by the celebrated firm of Morgan & Sanders. Several examples are also illustrated by Prof. Rainer Haaf in Das Suddeutsche Biedermeier Hamburg 1991 p. 293 ill. 616-619. Related tables were sold in: Sotheby's New Bond Street 8 December 1995 lot 386; Sotheby's Amsterdam 16th & 17th November 1999 lot 185; Sothebys Amsterdam 15 December 2004 lot 234 W
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H Journet and Co. Centennial exhibition Philadelphia 1876 A very fine centre piece French circa 1870 gilt-bronze and 'blue turquin marble of circular form cast with putti signed H. Journet et Cie Cie des Onyx 24 Bd des Italiens h.41cm. w.50cm. This model was exhibited at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. It was engraved for The Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition Industrial Art by Prof Walter Smith. W
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Other Properties Lewis Veron & Co A pair of twin branch colza candelabra Philadelphia circa 1830 patinated and gilt bronze 47cm. high 45cm. wide; 1ft. 6.5in. 1ft. 5.75in. French born Veron had a ÔFancy hardware etc store’ on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. In 1829 Veron was contracted by President Andrew Jackson to furnish the East Room of the White House. The present pair share similarities with a set of three Argand lamps by Thomas Messenger and Son Birmingham retailed by Baldwin Gardiner New York that are in the collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art. A further pair of related lamps by the same firm sold Sotheby's London 10 November 1995 lot 11. W
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A fine commode a vantaux Paris circa 1880 after a model by Benemann and Stockel mahogany and gilt-bronze with a white marble top h.96cm. w.183cm. d.64cm. The original commode to the model was made for Marie-Antoinette' s bedroom at Fontainebleau and is now the Louvre. It was slightly altered so that it and a late commode could be moved into the Salon des Jeux. W
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A rare French Empire mahogany musical travelling games compendium, the lock plate signed 'Biennais', the case with gilt brass neo-classical inlay, mother of pearl and ebony detail, fitted with a pair of gilt bronze dolphin handles, raised on scroll and lion's paw supports, the case opening via a concealed catch to reveal a fitted interior, the compendium comprising table top bagatelle, draughts and chess, the chess men carved in ivory as figures in medieval dress, 35cm (13 3/4in)
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A late 19th century bronze of the Angel Israfel, the winged figure reaching skyward, a stringed instrument under one arm, standing upon a glass sphere, mounted on a flared coromandel veneered plinth, with a plaque inscribed 'The Angel Israfel whose heart strings are a lute and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures', 91cm (35 3/4in) high
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