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Lot 260
early 17th Century Italian School/Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy/bust portrait, the bearded sitter facing left, wearing a white ruff and gilded armour/oil on playing card (nine of spades), 8cm x 5.75cm (3.25" x 2.25")/in a gilt brass oval frame with ribbon tie surmount and rope border/see illustration
Lot 644
‘Keate - Cut by Bryan the Pastrycook of Eton. 1845’, a fruitwood bust of Dr John Keate (1773-1852), he wears a Napoleonic tricorn hat, the robes of a Doctor of Divinity and sports vigorous sideburns, 8cm (3in) high Dr Keate was headmaster of Eton from 1809-34. He introduced discipline to the college with the use of the birch but was well respected for his kind heart. Sadly, Bryan the pastry cook, is more obscure
Lot 194
A William and Mary pewter lidded porringer by Samuel Lawrence, the ears with dolphin supporters, one missing its tip, touch to reverse (MPM 2863a), the interior with a cast relief medallion with a bust of William III with a crown and orb, the lid with cast relief decoration with busts of William and Mary, with a crown above flanked by angels, the centre with a circle framing HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, to WM monograms and royal arms, the whole with three applied knops of a crown with cherub supporters, one replaced, c.1689 - 1694, 4in (10cm) h, 10.5in (26.5cm) wide overall. For similar see The Worshipful Company of Pewterers, Supplementary Catalogue, p.65 & 73.
Lot 389
After Gaetano Merchi (1747-1823). A terracotta bust of Medeleine Guimard, wearing a tunic with roses and vines in her hair, inscribed `Merchi 1779`, on a turned socle, 27.75in (70.4cm) h. Some restoration. Madeleine Guimard was the illegitimate daughter of an inspector in a Paris cloth factory. At the age of fifteen she became a member of the Corps de Ballet at the Comedie Francais. She made her debut in 1762 and in the following year was designated as premier danseuse noble. Sadly, in her early years, she caught smallpox, which left her face badly scarred, but it did not detract from her attraction for men. Her lovers included the valet de chambre to Louis XV and the Prince de Soubise. He gave her a pension but when his family became short of money she had to give it up. In 1789 she married the choreographer and poet Despreaux and retired to a house above Montmartre where she had a long and happy married life. She was lively, vivacious and an excellent mime and excelled in naive shepherd girl roles which delighted her audiences. She died in 1816.
Lot 5
A turned hardwood desk seal, with turned pillars and bands to a silver mounted colourless glass tablet, the seal engraved with the bust of a gentleman, 73mm in length, together with an amethyst desk seal, with a tapered amethyst column to a silver banded mount, a circular concave base, and a raised coat of arms and motto (2) This seal matrix is a reverse-cut achievement of arms for Surbiton Borough Council, using the frequently encountered motto CONSILIO ET ANIMIS [By wisdom and courage]
Lot 885
A bronze bust of Hori Ngakapa Te Whanaunga, 3.75in (9.5cm) on an amboyna veneered plinth, printed label to reverse, 7.25in (18.5cm) h. Hori Ngakapa Te Whanaunga was the warrior chief who was one of the leaders in the attack on the British escourt at Martin`s Farm, Great South Road, 17th July 1863.
Lot 59
William III Crown 1696, OCTAVO, 1st bust, VG (reverse weaker); Two Crown-Size Foreign Silver Coins: Naples and Sicily 120 grana 1859, Chile 1 peso 1876 (both with edge bumps and surface marks) AVF to VF; and A Large (70mm) Commemorative Bronze Medal, "500th Anniversary Birth of Gutenberg" in CofI, as issued (4)
Lot 125
Seven Crowns, William III 1696 OCTAVO 1st bust, metal flaws both sides and rev. centre worn otherwise AFine; 1819 LIX surface marks, hairlines Fair; 1890 surface marks, e/ks Fine; 1935 contact marks AEF; two 1951 UNC; 1953 AEF; and A Maria Theresa Restrike Thaler 1780X, rev. die flaws, toned VF/AVF, all in a quality Coin Library album in very good condition
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