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Lot 371
A 19th Century Pewter Tobacco Pot, of oval form, the pull-off cover with an applied recumbent dog finial, to a corrugated body, with mask and ring side handles and lead insert, width 5 ¼" 372. A 19th Century Bronzed Spelter Head and Shoulders Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte in uniform, and raised on a tapering square section alabaster base, height 7 ½"
Lot 881
A 19th Century gilt metal, coral and pink paste set posy holder of pierced scrolling design, the front inset with an oval coral cameo carved as the bust of a lady with flowers in her hair, the other three sides with gilt metal flowerheads, each centre inset with a pink paste, above a turned mother-of-pearl handle fitted with a ring and chain, length approx 15cm.
Lot 886
A 19th Century gilt metal posy holder of looped and foliate form with textured decoration, set with four circular black glass plaques each with a superimposed metallic cameo of classical bust portraits beneath four carbuncle garnets, fitted with a pin and chain above a turned mother-of-pearl handle fitted with a ring and chain, length approx 14cm.
Lot 202
DUTCH SCHOOL, 17th century (?) A bust-length portrait of a lady wearing a lace headdress and ruff, the reverse with various labels, oil on panel, 151/2" x 111/2", in a red-stained "tortoiseshell" and ripple-moulded frame. Provenance: Lieutenant Colonel Sir Michael Peto, Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. The reverse of the panel with an E. Stacy-Marks Ltd label bearing his name and the date "10th March 1961".
Lot 436
ALEXANDER MUNRO RA: A white marble bust of Kenneth James Matheson (Second Baronet of Lochalsh) looking slightly to dexter and wearing a shirt with a lace collar and tassels, on a marble socle, 20" high. Provenance: Alexander Matheson, later Sir Alexander Matheson, and thence by descent to the vendors. Exhibited: Inverness Museum and Art Gallery from 1994 until August 2008 The Birmingham City Art Gallery, January - March 1992 - "Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and the Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914". According to Rupert Gunnis in "Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851": "Alexander Munro's father was a stonemason employed on the Duke of Sutherland's property in Scotland and his artistic abilities were brought to the notice of Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, wife of the Second Duke, who assisted in his education". In 1848 she brought the young man to London and introduced him to Sir Charles Barry, who employed him on the sculpted works intended for the Houses of Parliament which were then under construction. Munro soon turned to portrait- sculpture and produced a number of busts. According to Redgrave his works were of "true genius and feeling and graceful and spirited". It is as a sculptor of children, however, that he is celebrated and Rupert Gunnis refers to a number of groups including "the Matheson children" (1861). Alexander Munro is regarded as a pre-Raphaelite sculptor. He met Rossetti at the Royal Academy, who confided in Munro about his secret signing of the pre- Raphaelite brotherhood. His work embodies the ideals of the pre-Raphaelites combining formal purism that harks back to early Italian Renaissance models with the realism of Holman Hunt and Millais. Between 1852 and 1858 he lived with another pre-Raphaelite, Arthur Hughes. Kenneth Matheson (1854-1920) was the eldest son of Alexander Matheson, who returned from a successful business career in China to become a leading Scottish landowner and MP for Inverness Burghs. In 1882 he became First Baronet of Lochalsh. Kenneth and Mary (see lot 437) were his children by his second wife, Lavinia Mary Stapleton, who died tragically by drowning in Loch Duich on her way to church in 1855. They were brought up by their Great Aunt until their father remarried in 1860, apparently the year in which this bust and lot 437 were executed. See lot 437
Lot 437
ALEXANDER MUNRO RA: A white marble bust of Mary Isabella Matheson glancing downwards and slightly to sinister, on a circular socle, 18" high. Provenance: Sir Alexander Matheson, later Sir Alexander Matheson and thence by descent to the vendors. Exhibited: Inverness Museum and Art Gallery from 1994 until August 2008 The Birmingham City Art Gallery, January - March 1992 - "Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and the Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914". See footnote to lot 436.
Lot 545
Medallion: Australia, Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition 1888, silver medal, crowned veiled bust of Victoria, left, rev. legend and Southern Cross within wreath, 51mm, in case of issue, named on edge to Blacklock and McArthur. Extremely fine. . Together with another medallion - France, Exposition Universelle Internationale 1900, bronze medal by Chaplain, 64mm, very fine. (2)
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