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SILVER BRUSH AND COMB SET

A Chinese ceramic brush pot, famille vert decoration (chips to rim) height 14cmchips to rim interior, chip underfoot, staining/wear to glaze 

A silver plated oval entree dish, a plated double handled basket, a silver backed mirror, brush x 2 with cherubs in relief

A cased 3 piece silver brush and mirror set

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BOWFRONT CHEST OF FOUR LONG GRADUATED DRAWERS,with brass ring handles with pull out brushing slide on out swept feet. 92cm wide, 86cm high, 54cm deepCondition Report: Very good conditionSome old surface marks to top All handles and clock plates present Brush slide in good condition See images

FRANCIS WHEATLEY RA (1747-1801)The Ploughman: ‘And leaves the world to darkness and to me’Oil on canvas, 154.9 x 215.9 cmSigned ‘F. Wheatley pinxt’ and dated ‘1793’Provenance: The artist’s sale at his house at 14 Fitzroy Square, London, conducted by Mr James Christie, 13 January 1795 (lot 55, sold for £17 10s. 0d); James Daniell Esquire, his sale. Christie’s, London 25 February 1809, lot 83 as ‘The Plowman (sic), from Gray’s Elegy, landscape in the style of Gainsborough’ Christie’s 13 May 1960 (lot 39); Montagu Bernard 1969; Private collection, England, until sold Bonham’s London, 10 December 2003 (lot 15) where acquired by the family of the present ownerExhibited: London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1793, number 114 where entitled Ploughing Literature: The Diary of Joseph Farington RA (ed. Garlick and Mcintyre, Yale University Press, 1978, volume II, p. 291), under 13 January 1795: ‘Wheatley’s drawings and pictures were sold today. The pictures sold low. A large picture of Plough Horses in a frame which cost 20 Guineas [i.e. £21.00 when exhibited at the Royal Academy] sold for £17.10’;Sale Catalogue: A catalogue of all the Capital Pictures, Valuable Drawings and other curious articles, the property of FRANCIS WHEATLEY, Esq., RA at his house Situate, No. 14, on the West Side of RUSSELL PLACE, FITZROY SQUARE Which will be sold at Auction by MR CHRISTIE, On the premises, On Tuesday, 13 January, 1795, At Twelve o’clock;Mary Webster Francis Wheatley (Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art / Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), illustrated page 104; Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, number no. 107, page 150, and also text pages 201 and 206.Famous in an Irish context for the modern ‘history paintings’ including the large work showing the Volunteers at College Green, Francis Wheatley was born in London in 1747, and died in the same city in 1801. He was initially self-taught, but subsequently trained at Shipley’s Academy. He won prizes for drawing at the Society of Artists in 1762-3, and was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools aged 22 in 1769. He worked as an assistant to the Royal Academician John Hamilton Mortimer in painting the Saloon ceiling at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, in 1771-1773. From 1778 onwards he exhibited regularly at the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy, being made as associate in 1790 and a full member the following year.Wheatley seems to have been incompetent with money, and was frequently in debt, despite numerous commissions. He moved from London to Dublin to escape his debtors (and with somebody else’s wife). Working here from 1779 to 1783, he painted numerous highly accomplished paintings. As the painter of suave portraits, accomplished landscapes and depictions of Irish rural life, Wheatley has an importance for art in Ireland far greater than the relative brevity of his visit might suggest; he contributed to Thomas Milton’s topographical enterprise, involved himself in the voguish pursuit of antiquarianism and, later, was among the artists involved in James Woodmason’s attempt to encourage Irish history painting. (William Laffan, in Art and Architecture of Ireland, Vol. 2, 503)His masterpiece of these years is the remarkable The Irish House of Commons, 1780, now in the City Art Gallery, Leeds, which depicts a vast series of faithful portraits of all the members of Grattan’s Parliament in the chamber of the Irish House of Commons.Wheatley was a versatile painter, executing straightforward portraits, conversation pieces, genre paintings and theatrical illustrations. He seems to have taken a particular interest in the depiction of rural life particularly from the 1780s onwards, and executed such pictures as ‘The Industrious Cottager’, ‘The Return from Market’ and ‘Evening, a Farmyard’. The present painting is the culmination of this series and was painted in 1793. About this date the artist began to suffer from a debilitating attack of gout, which ultimately left him virtually unable to hold a paint brush. The last few years of his life saw a distressing descent into poverty, though he was frequently helped by his fellow Royal Academicians.Wheatley at his best shows a remarkably fluidity and freedom of expression in his oil paintings, though his drawings are much more tightly controlled. Along with George Morland, he is the most accomplished English painter of the ‘rural scene’. His range, though, is much wider than that of Morland, and some of his conversation pieces rank with those of his friend and fellow-academician Johann Zoffany.As Christie's catalogue of the collection of James Daniell in 1809 points out, the present painting has profound literary overtones. It is described there as ‘from Gray’s Elegy’ with the ‘landscape in the style of Gainsborough’. The opening lines of Thomas Gray’s (1716-1771) masterpiece, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard set the tone for the picture:The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.The poem is the literary precursor of, and counterpoint to, the English artistic movement at the end of the eighteenth century which moved away from the ‘grand manner’ of Reynolds and his followers to depict the attractions of rural life and domestic genre in a sympathetic manner. Picking up on a tradition pioneered by George Stubbs, the paintings of Morland, Wheatley and James Ward are, in their gentle way, revolutionary. They rely on acute observation of, and empathy with, the ‘virtuous poor’ and evoke the simplicity and stoicism of their way of life which was unimaginable in British painting of a generation earlier. While many of the images of these paintings are obviously ‘moral’ in their intent, they are not hectoring or cloying as so much Victorian ‘sentimental’ painting would become. Instead, works such as this prefigure the quiet depiction of rural labour of later French artists such as Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton. The subject matter is treated as ‘picturesque’, in the sense that it is worthy of being rendered in oil on canvas, but it is not mawkish or theatrical. Here, for almost the first time in British art, we have a dispassionate depiction of the activities of the rural agricultural workers, as Gray put it in his poem ‘the short and simple annals of the poor’. Wheatley’s treatment of the plough-team is entirely sympathetic and the grandeur of the conception and the very large size of the canvas contrasts with the modesty of the subject matter to query assumption of hierarchy and privilege.Condition Report: Good presentable condition Restored, relined canvas, ready to hangSee additional images

Small Chinese brush pot, 6.5cm, with stand.

Cased silver engine-turned brush set, Birmingham 1957.

Silver and tortoiseshell brush set with two toilet jars, Birmingham 1937/38, silver strainer, caddy spoon and child's brush.

Georgian mahogany and line inlaid bow front chest having brush slide above four long graduated drawers on splayed bracket feet, 86.5cm by 91cm by 52cm.

Georgian burr walnut and line inlaid chest having brush slide above three long graduated drawers on shaped bracket feet, 78cm by 83.5cm by 43cm.

Hornby Superquick H&M Lima Tri-ang Airfix 00 Gauge Track Buildings and various Accessories and Transformers, various items of Track by Peco Hornby Tri-ang and Lima, Points (9), Straights (30+ including converter track), Curves (25+), Hornby operating Lifting Bridge (lack motor unit), Modern Signal Box, R396 Supersound Generator (boxed), bag of Inclined Piers, T/H Wheel cleaning brush, wooden Signal Gantry, large coloured card Power House toy (card brittle, some damage), Superquick buildings including Station, Shops, Houses (6), Hong Kong plastic Christmas Chuch with clockwork mechanical music and light (battery compartment rusty), Faller kitbuilt two storey Factory and Loading Bay and Single storey Factory, H&M Safety Minor and Fleischmann Controllers, Airfix factory made plastic Army Tank Transporter and Tank, Scout Car and Field Gun and four other vehicles by various makers, Corgi Simon Snorkel, Fencing and other lineside accessories, together with old Cycle Dynamo, two old motors and other electrical pieces P-VG, boxes F (qty in 3 boxes),

Britains 1:32 Scale Farm Machinery, a boxed collection many of the boxes P, Power Farm, 9343 Maschio powered harrow, 9341 Vicon towed vari-spreader, 9558 Vicon vari-spreader, 9547 horse drum irrigator, 9561 yard scraper and buck rake, 9569 post hole digger, 9574 front loader system, 9540 manure spreader, 9554 eight furrow plough, 9559 yard brush, 9412 log sled, 9539 disc mower, 9553 mini trailer, 9546 ploughs, 9547 front mounted cultivator, 9548 Flexcoil coil packer and wheat boxed 9536 cultivator, F-E, boxes P-F, (17)

Good collection of Tri-ang 00 Gauge Super 4 Track including 3rd Radius Curves, Straights (16), Double Straights (6), 1/4 Straights (5), Long Straights (3), Converter Track, nine in trade box and one used piece, 1st Radius Curves (27), Half (5), 2nd Rad (7), Half (7), 3rd Rad (6), R/H Point (5, one boxed), L/H (6, four boxed), Y Point (2, both boxed), various Hydraulic and standard Buffer Stops (18), Power Clips (3), two boxes R4567 Inclined Piers, T/H wheel cleaning brush, track is generally VG, some straights with rusty fishplates, rest mostly excellent (100+ pieces of track, qty)

A Collection of Various Treen To Comprise Carved Wooden Box, Crumb Brush and Tray, Leather Cased Gentleman's Traveling Set, Novelty Toothpick Set with Mouse Head Finials, Dominoes Set etc Together with Two Canadian Ducks

Set of six Mappin & Webb silver coffee spoons in orignal fitted case, silver owl bookmark, silver backed hand brush and one silver teaspoon

Continental white metal beaker (stamped 830), silver bell shaped ring box and one other silver container, silver backed brush and set of six silver handled butter knives in case

Chinese blue and white brush pot, 19th/20th century, painted with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl, 17cm highGood condition, no chips or cracks

Chinese jadeite brush washer, with lotus shaped bowl, tree and monkey carved decorationThis is modern and in good condition

Late 19th/early 20th century Chinese black stoneware squat circular vase with applied pewter decoration of scrolling dragons and vases of flowers, impressed mark Shanghai, China, 9cm high; a cylindrical brush pot with calligraphic inscription, painted seals and painted four character Zhuanshu Qianlong mark to base, 11cm high and two other vases.  (4). Updated Condition Report:Brush Pot - No visible chips. Faint traces of gilding to rim. Glaze impurities. Two very fine slightly discoloured scratches to body. Four very small firing cracks to rim of base. Another very fine crack to the edge of the foot rim, could be a firing crack but possibly a hairline crack. As images.Black pot - Oxidisation and some wear to rim. Some small knocks to foot rim. Stoneware body ok.Imari :- Firing crack to base. No cover glaze defects to interior.Small pot - V discoloured crazing. Porous. small chip to base.

Large Chinese mottled brown and green stone brush washer pierced and carved in the form of a Pixiu, 19.5cm high.

Pair of early 20th century weighted silver squat candlesticks, Chester 1907, maker's mark R.P., 11.5cm high, a cased set of six silver teaspoons, a Mappin & Webb, Sheffield rectangular silver-mounted picture frame, 15.8cm x 12cm approx. and a silver-mounted dressing table brush (5) 

A selection of silver items, including: a silver jug by William Neale & Son Ltd; a caster by Mappin & Webb; a small jug by Reid & Sons; a hand mirror, a hand brush; and a comb.

An Art Nouveau silver-mounted hand mirror with floral decoration, Birmingham 1906; two silver christening cups, one with engraved initials; an Art Nouveau silver-backed hand brush; a silver spill vase; and other items.

A silver-backed and polychrome enamel hand mirror, matching hand brush and clothes brush, Birmingham 1937; together with a cut-glass hip flask with silver cover and pull-out cup engraved with initials.

Leather hat box, another hat box, three various small leather collar and brush boxes etc.

Chinese blue and white tea bowl and saucer, pair of miniature tea bowls, a cylindrical spill vase, Canton rice bowl and cover, similar bowl and two ginger jarsVarious damages. Please see further photographs. Brush pot in good condition

Pair of silver handled glove stretchers, a crumb brush, various other small items of silver and silver handled ware, plated egg coddler, three trinket boxes and a two handled pedestal trophy cup and sundries

*SONIA G CHEEK BRUSH LOTUS SET SAIKOHO GOAT MADE IN JAPAN NEW LIMITED EDITION

*VINTAGE EBONY VANITY SET IN PURPLE VELVET LINED BOX COMB TONGS BRUSH MIRROR

Two vintage 1970s Basil Brush talking soft plush toys comprising a Wendy Boston made example in a red outfit (talking mechanism AF) and a glove puppet wearing a tweed jacket. The pull string on the tail activates the talking mechanism. Each measuring approx 40cm.

Basil Brush - Wendy Boston - Hasbro - 7 items to include 29cm Basil Brush light 1974. 30cm soft hand puppet by Wendy Boston. 38cm soft toy by Wendy Boston and similar. One item of note is a numbered photograph #232 of Petula Clark and Basil Brush from November 3rd 1979 on The Basil Brush Show. Items appear to be in excellent condition. (This does not constitute a guarantee).

Corgi Original Omnibus - Six boxed diecast model Blackpool trams from Corgi OO. Lot includes OM44006 Blackpool Brush Tram 'Royal Mail'; #44006 Brush Railcoach 'Hot Ice'; OM44003 Brush Railcoach 'Sandcastle Centre' and similar. Models appear Mint housed in Fair Plus - Good dusty window boxes with some slight shrinkage to some, plus general storage related imperfections. (6) (This does not constitute a guarantee)

Corgi Original Omnibus - Six boxed diecast model Blackpool trams from Corgi OO. Lot includes #43504 Blackpool Balloon Tram 'Illuminations Special'; #44002 Brush Railcoach 'Current Livery' #43507 Balloon Tram 'No.707 Empire Pools' and similar. Models appear Mint housed in Fair Plus - Good dusty window boxes with some slight shrinkage to some, plus general storage related imperfections. (6) (This does not constitute a guarantee)

Golden Bear - Hasbro - A collection of 21 x modern TV related soft toys including Basil Brush, The Clangers, Bagpuss, Moomins and others. They all appear in Mint condition with their tags still on and have been kept in zip lock bags so no odours. (This does not constitute a guarantee)

A Chinese peach shaped brush washer

A Chinese brush pot decorated with children and other figures, six character mark to base

A collection of wooden items to include mirror and brush set, trays etc.

MIXED LOT: CASED DACORA CAMERA, GENTS VANITY BRUSH SET, TRAVELLING RAZOR SET AND FURTHER JESSOPS LIGHT METER

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF BOXED CANTEENS AND CUTLERY SETS, MATHEMATICAL ITEMS, FLASK AND VANITY SET, to include two wooden cased full canteens, the first comprising six ivorine handle table knives, forks and an assortment of soup and dessert spoons, the second wooden canteen comprising six ivorine handled table knives, tea spoons, variously designed forks, together with two cased 'EPNS' bread fork and butter knives, many more sets of cutlery, etc, with three cased mathematical sets including compasses, a stainless steel flask and a vanity case within a zipped vanity brush, some items AF

A pair of George V silver and enamel mounted glass scent bottles, 73mm and a small mounted brush, London, 1926.

A George V silver and two colour enamel mounted blue enamel mirror and brush set, including a scent bottle, (a.f.).

Some silk underwear, other materials and brush set

Miscellany comprising: AC Electric Loco hollow cast letter E, still with much, original blue paint present; Brass Makers Plate, The Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd Loughborough England. Measures 11.5in diameter; a rectangular alloy plate Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co Ltd, London & Chippenham measuring approximately 13in x 4in; a BR Mk 2 TPO Coach Plate, BR Derby Lot No 30795 dated 1969; a couple of Rail Clips, one to commemorate the opening of the High Speed Link at St Pancras by HM The Queen 6th November 2007; a pair of plain white rectangular plates with vinyl double arrow applied, measuring 11.75in x 8in. (8 items)

GWR Grease Container with integral brush holder containing original wooden handled brush. Stamped on rim GWR Signal Dept Wolverhampton. Nicely restored, still retains a small amount of grease.

Miscellany comprising: BR double arrow Tail Lamp; Diesel 4 aperture Gauge Panel; CI D type Wagonplate 358892 32 Ton Shildon 1976 Lot No 3882; EWS Cap; Enamel Signal Plate 751; a couple of Brush plates; Diesel Lighting Switch Panel; qty 3 Signal Box Lever Plates; a couple of reproduction diesel workplates. (13 items)

BALUSTER VASES, a pair, Chinese blue and white decorated with floral ground and phoenix on carved stands, along with two ginger jars and three other pieces of blue and white including and octagonal brush pot. (7)

MELA MUTER (POLISH 1876-1967)Portrait of a Boy with Geraniums,oil on canvas80 x 60 cm (31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.)framed dimensions: 102 x 82 cm (40 1/8 x 32 1/4 in.)export stamp on versoPROVENANCEGalerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (label on stretcher)LOT NOTESMela Muter was the first widely recognized Polish painter of Jewish descent. Muter spent most of her life in Paris, where she gained popularity as a portraitist, known for her brave brush strokes and bright colors influenced by post-impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh. Following Muter's death in 1967 a retrospective of her works was shown at Galerie Gmurzynska in Cologne, at Petite Palais, Geneva and in Galarie Alber ler in Paris and later in 1994 The National Museum of Warsaw organized a retrospective of her work. Muter was features in Polish Women Artists and Avant-Garde: Voices of Freedom at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC in 1991.

A GROUP OF TWO CONTEMPORARY WORKS ON PAPER, 20TH CENTURY ARTISTScomprising a) 20TH CENTURY ARTIST, Nude Bathers, charcoal and pastel on paper, 30.5 x 46 cm (12 x 18 1/8 in.), unframed, signed lower rightb) 20TH CENTURY ARTIST, Boxing Match, 1928, ink and brush on paper, mounted on thick paper, 47 x 33 cm (18 1/2 x 13 in.), matte dimensions: 56 x 41.5 cm (22 x 16 3/8 in.), signed and dated upper right

White jade brush holder - Weight: 118 g - Region: Chine - Sizes: H=25mm L=80mm - Condition: at first sight - good condition - no restoration - no repair

"blanc-bleu" porcelain brush pot decorated with dragons - Weight: 490 g - Region: Chine - Sizes: H 100 mm D 105 mm - Condition: at first sight - good condition - no restoration - no repair

Glazed stoneware brush holder - Weight: 460 g - Region: Chine - Sizes: L 164 mm - Condition: at first sight - good condition - no restoration - no repair

Brush bowl in peach agate - Weight: 93 g - Region: Chine - Sizes: H=65mm L= 55mm - Condition: at first sight - good condition - no restoration - no repair

Pair of Chinese porcelain brush rinsers Qing period - Weight: 1.89 kg - Region: Chine - Sizes: 1 rince pinceau= H= 70mm L=190mm - Condition: at first sight - good condition - no restoration - no repair

Brush holder in "blanc-bleu" Chinese porcelain Qing period - Weight: 468 g - Region: Chine - Sizes: H 125 mm D 87 mm - Condition: at first sight - good condition - no restoration - no repair

An Arts & Crafts Copper Fireside Companion Set, comprising shovel, poker, tongs and brush, on a beaten tapering column, the circular base cast with leaves, 46.5cm highIn good overall condition. Missing one tuft of bristles.

Doll's trunk, with inner level and exterior bamboo strapping, with an antique doll's shawl, oriental jacket, brush bag, money purse and two doll stands (7)Generally good

Two Steiff items, comprising an Okapi with button eyes and brush main, and a Lucki in felt outfit, together with a small wooden Mobeltransport truck (3)Nose of Lucki flattened. Age to both. 

A silver backed mirror and brush, Reynolds Angels decoration, Birmingham 1913

An agate and silver set baby rattle, Birmingham 1910, lacking one bell, a silver posy holder, a white metal pencil, lacking pusher, a Royal Artillery brooch, a silver thimble and a small wooden brush