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Lot 713
An early 19th century white stoneware bust, of the writer Matthew Prior, height 8ins, together with two Grand Tour pieces, a krater vase in Greek black-figure style, height 8.5ins, and a terracotta ewer or oinochoe with a bronzed finish, height 9insCondition Report: Firecracks at top of socle base - the others OK
Lot 578
A mid 19th century Louis XV style French ormolu mounted kingwood, tulipwood and parquetry inlaid bureau plat, the top inset with gilt-tooled green leather panel, with a wide reeded and fluted border, three short drawers in the frieze and three short dummy drawers verso, on angular cabriole legs, applied with female bust and foliage angle-plates, on paw and foliate sabots, with moulding, swing handles and lockplates 79 x 182 x 90cm (31 x 71 x 35in) Provenance: Mawley Hall, Shropshire
Lot 370
John De Vaere (1755-1830), two white marble portrait busts, of a girl and boy, both signed to one side of the base, one dated 1798 31.50cm (12in) Other Notes: According to the National Portrait Gallery, John de Vaere was born in France and settled in England some time prior to 1786 when he enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy Schools. The following year he departed for Rome, where his talents earned him the Pope's Silver Medal for Sculpture and a place as assistant to the English Neo-classical sculptor, John Flaxman. Upon his return to England in 1790, he worked for Josiah Wedgewood until his death in 1795. A bust of Louis-Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg by De Vaere is in the V & A Collection.
Lot 390
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus). Opera quae exstant omnia: a Justo Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata. Editio quarta, atque ab ultima Lipsi manu, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1652, bound with: Tacitus (Cornelius), Opera quae exstant, Justo Lipsio postremum recensita, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1648, 2 works in 1 volume, mild toning, intermittent light spotting and dust-soiling, Seneca with half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of Lipsius, architectonic title-page with medallion portraits and 2 full-page engravings (bust of Seneca and the dying Seneca in his bath), all after Peter Paul Rubens by Cornelis Galle the Younger, vignette at p. xxiv, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, initial blank loose, marginal repair to C6, minor printing flaw to 3Q5, small spill-burn in 3Y6, Tacitus with title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, final blank (3H8) present), browning towards rear, marginal worming to final 3 quires (3F-3H), contemporary vellum, spine defective, a few small perforations through front board and text up to quire [superscript 2]C, folio in 6s (37.8 x 24 cm), together with: Tacitus (Cornelius), Opera quae exstant, a Justo Lipsio postremum recensita, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1648, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, final blank (3H8) present, toning, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary mottled calf gilt, worn, folio in 6s (39.4 x 24.8 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Titlepages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard), 30-32 for the three engraved plates by Rubens. Lipsius's edition of Seneca was first printed in 1605, with the plates redesigned for the second edition of 1615.
Lot 194
An early 18thC bronze medal commemorating John Milton, by Jean Dassier, c1733, obverse bust of Milton, reverse Adam & Eve in front of the tree of apples, etc., together with a George IV bronze medal commemorating John Earl of Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, 1827, designed by C Voigt, obverse bust of Eldon, reverse legend in twelve lines. (2)
Lot 154
Marionette modelled as an Eastern gentleman enriched in gilding, dressed in an elaborate sequinned and jewelled outfit, 75cm high approx, a brass wall-mounted lamp, a white marble figure of Venus reclining scantily draped, a plaster bust of a woman holding a yellow basket and a sculpture in simulated wood inscribed 'Mephistophel'
Lot 89
A late 19th century carved opal cameo pendant possibly by Wilhelm Schmidt, depicting a bust portrait of a classical maiden in an open-work carved surround, decorated with rubies, rose diamonds and enamel, suspended from a sapphire, ruby , emerald, diamond and enamel surmount. Schmidt, who refined the technique of carving opals in the late 19th century never signed his work
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