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Click here to subscribeANCIENT COINS, Roman Republican, C MAMIL LIMETANVS CF, Denarius Serratus, Rome 82 BC, draped bust of Mercury right, rev Ulysses standing right holding staff, his dog Argus in field (Cr 362/1), toned, about very fine; together with L PAPI, Denarius Serratus, Rome 79 BC, head of Juno Sospita right, club behind, rev gryphons leaping right, shallow dish bearing fruit below (Cr 384/1), toned fine. (2).
ANCIENT COINS, Roman Republican, C CENSORIN, Denarius, Rome 88 BC, jugate heads of Numor Pompilius and Ancus Marcius, rev Desultor right wearing conical cap, a second horse along side his own, control mark spear-head below (Cr 346/1a); TI Q, Denarius, Rome 112-111 BC, bust of Hercules seen from behind, rev Desultor left, a rat below, DSS incuse on tablet (Cr 297/1a); AP CL T MANL Q VR, Denarius, Rome 111-110 BC, head of Roma right, rev Victory in triga (Cr 299/1a). Fine to very fine. (3).
Collection of Body Parts, 3. pairs porcelain legs, 2. pairs arms, 2. odd arms, head, bust & pair of arms on armature, 4. pairs of legs, 2. pairs of arms, 3. single arms a wig, plaster head with ceramic hands on armature a porcelain table lamp (base marked 16528, German), (large pair of legs AF, one hand AF) (12. items)
A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK MECHANISM, late 17th century, with 7 1/2in. flat plate engraved with scrollwork inhabited by a griffin against a dotted ground, enclosed wheel, cock spring with engraved fence depicting the portrait bust of the Green Man, cock decorated en suite with the plate (pan-cover missing).
Dutch School (early-mid 17th century) Portrait of a gentleman wearing a ruff bust length Oil on panel 29cm x 23.5cm Bears letter verso from the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie dated June 1954 which understands that the coat of arms is that of the family Versteegh of Versteeghen of which several members were town clerks of Arnheim.
Sir Jacob Epstein Portrait of Ian (Ossian) Bronze Signed verso 44cm highmm x 39cm wide Provenance: Sydney Box (d. 1980) Mote End London a film producer Baroness Muriel Gardiner (previous Mrs. Sidney Box) author of Odd Woman Out Purchased from her descendants by the present owner in 1993. Literature: J. Epstein Epstein: An Autobiography London 1955 p. 155. R. Buckle Jacob Epstein Sculptor London 1963 p. 275 pl. 597. E. P. and B. A. Schinman Jacob Epstein A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman Farleigh Dickinson University Press 1970 p. 100. E. Silber The sculpture of Epstein Oxford 1986 p. 191 no. 326. This portrait of Ian Horstein depicts Epsteins second grandson the son of his daughter Peggy Jean and Norman Hornstein and was conceived and cast in 1942. The only other known full bust of Ian with arms is in the Auckland City Art Gallery New Zealand.
Vera Birch (1899-1983) Self-portrait bust Bronze 33cm high (excluding wooden base) x 27cm widest point Provenance: Hamptons Great Dunmow 1991 Lot 298 from the property of the Hon. Mrs E. Tennant the sister of the artist Vera Benedicta Birch exhibited between 1934-1936. under the name of Veril Birch. She was the daughter of the 5th Viscount Gage and was also an author and friend of Virginia Woolf.
A commemorative jug dated 1853, printed in black on one side with the Farmer's Arms, on the reverse with the Farmer's Toast verse 'Let the Wealthy and Great ...', inside the base with a standing portrait of 'Wellington as Prime Minister', and beneath the base with a bust portrait with dates May 1 1769 and September 14 1852, the front painted with a monogram JA and date 1853, 20cm high, unmarked
English School (20th century) Portrait of a gentleman, bust length in court dress Oil on canvas 61cm x 45.5cm The sitter wears the neck badge and breast star of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the oval breast badge of a Knight Bachelor, and a group of 5 dress miniatures indicating that he may have spent his career as a policeman, possibly a county Chief Constable.
"Sir John Steell (1864-1891). A plaster portrait bust of Rev. Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), signed ‘J. STEELL SCULP.’ and dated 1846, 20.5in (52cm) h. Rev. Chalmers was a Scottish preacher and social reformer and there is a similar bust of Chalmers in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, see ‘The Concise Catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery’ compiled by Helen Smailes p.p.62-63."
Medal: Matthew BoultonÕs Trafalgar Medal 1805 in pewter (or white metal) by C. Kuchler uniformed bust of Lord Nelson left rev. view of the battle in progress 48mm. sometime pierced and plugged and now fitted in a silver frame (lacking lunettes) very fine for the issue and the frame engraved ÔGeorge Willson (sic) RevengeÕ in upright serifed caps George Wilson is confirmed as a Quarter-Gunner H.M.S. ÒRevengeÓ at Trafalgar where he was wounded and later received a grant of £10 from the Patriotic Fund for his injuries. Other brief details are sold with the lot.
A Royal Doulton stoneware commemorative jug for the centenary of the battle of Trafalgar moulded in relief with a central view of the battle and an oval panel of a bust profile of Admiral Lord Nelson within rope-twist borders above an oval panel inscribed LORD NELSON BORN - 1758. DIED - 1805 the neck bearing the legend ENGLAND-EXPECTS-THAT-EVERY-MAN-WILL-DO-HIS-DUTY applied with a rope-twist handle 20cm high impressed marks circa 1905
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