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Lot 17
A George IV mahogany side cabinet, circa 1825, in the manner of Gillows, the rectangular top with three quarter gallery above a pair of blind frieze drawers and a cupboard doors enclosing a fitted interior with shelves and drawers including a lined cellaret drawer, 109cm high, 114cm wide, 45cm deep Provenance: Hambrook House, Gloucestershire The Property of Graeme Alexander and Scott Carlton
Lot 197
Ï’ A set of six Regency rosewood and gilt metal mounted dining chairs, circa 1815, attributed to Gillows, with bar back with gilt metal mounted anthemion ornament to the centre above two horizontal splats framing bell-flowers, with cane seat and sabre legs Very similar designs for dining chairs are illustrated and described in Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster & London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors Club, Vol. I. See page 215 (plate 192) for a chair from a set of nine that were supplied to Lord Cornwallis with similar detailing and page 216 (plate 193) for the original pattern of the chair taken from the Cabinet makers' General Sketch Book, 1810. Ï’ indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Lot 36
A flame mahogany extending dining table in William IV style, late 20th/early 21st century, probably retailed by Theodore Alexander, after the pattern by Robert Jupe, the top on capstan action and eight additional leaf insertions, 75cm high, 158cm diameter (un-extended), 214cm diameter (extended), together with the bespoke cabinet for the additional leaves, of mitre shape and baize lined, 115cm high Provenance: Hambrook House, Gloucestershire The Property of Graeme Alexander and Scott Carlton See Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996, pages 283-286 for a number of extending dining tables by Robert Jupe. Robert Jupe was first granted his patent for a circular extending dining table with segmented top in March 1835. The originals were designed not only to extend to a larger circle but by inserting a few of the additional leaves the table could be made into an oval or oblong table. The first such tables were produced by the firm of John Johnstone of New Bond Street (subsequently Johnstone & Jeanes).
Lot 620
A Chinese hardwood side/drinks cabinet, hinged D-shaped top enclosing a pair of horizontal panel doors, opening to reveal a fitted interior with trellis gallery, drinking vessel receptacles and a mirrored fall front, above a further pair of panel doors flanked by two further pairs of doors, carved throughout with figures in blossoming pagoda landscapes, guardian lion capped paw feet, 108cm high
Lot 654
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood TLS dated 26/6/1935. was a senior British Conservative politician who served in various Cabinet posts in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 618
Herbert Morrison TLS dated 2/3/1951. (3 January 1888 - 6 March 1965) was a British Labour politician who held a variety of senior positions in the Cabinet. During the inter-war period, he was Minister of Transport during the 1929-1931 Labour Government, then, after losing his seat in Parliament in 1931, became Leader of the London County Council in the 1930s. Returning to the Commons in 1935, he was defeated by Clement Attlee in the Labour leadership election that year, but later acted as Home Secretary in the wartime coalition. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 229
* McClean (Francis Kennedy, 1876-1955). A group of 26 autograph letters, mostly signed F.K. McClean, various places including London, India, Australia and Tahiti, circa 1901-08 and some undated, including 17 letters to his friend Bill [William N.], mostly from India, circa 1900-02, while working as a civil engineer in the Indian Public Works Department [1898-1902], one undated letter from The Grand Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand, mentioning that he had been up to Perth and called at the Observatory and ‘At Sydney I had no peace as the local star gazers got up a special meeting and I had to get with my hind legs and talk’, but generally writing about family and friends and some of his working life in India and one undated letter written from the Royal Aero Club announcing his engagement to Aileen Wale, plus 2 letters to his father from London and Bombay, plus 7 letters to his mother, mostly undated but circa 1900s, and written between Aden and Australia, giving details of his travels plus general family chit chat, the longest letter written at Tahiti, 5 January 1908, giving diary details of his travels, a total of approximately 90 pages, mostly 8vo, plus a typed copy of the Tahiti letter, a typed extract from a letter to Professor Turner about coconut hooking and turtle turning, and a cabinet card of McClean with studio stamp of George Glanville to mount verso (Qty: approx. 30)NOTESLieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis Kennedy McClean was a British civil engineer and pioneer aviator. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Aero Club and one of the founders of naval aviation and amateur flying. Through his astronomer father’s influence (Frank McClean) he was an enthusiastic amateur astronomer with a special interest in solar eclipses. He was a volunteer assistant on the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse expedition to Palma, Majorca. In 1908 he flew with Wilbur Wright at Le Mans, and in 1909 began a cooperation with the Short Brothers to develop heavier-than-air aviation in Britain.
Lot 331
Reynolds (Joshua). A Catalogue of Portraits, Fancy Pictures, Studies and Sketches, by the late Sir Joshua Reynolds ... which will be sold by Auction by Mr. Greenwood, by Order of the Executors, at the Great Room, Saville-Rowe, on Thursday, 14th April, and Two following Days, at 12 o'Clock, 1st edition, [London: no publisher, 1796], bound with: ibid., A Catalogue of the First Part of the Cabinet of Ancient Drawings, which belonged to Sir Joshua Reynolds Deceased ... consisting of a Most Valuable and Chosen Collection of the Works of Michel-Angelo, Raffaelle, Coreggio, Titiano, etc., and of all the Great Masters, their Contemporaries and their Immediate Followers, down to the three Caracci and their Scholars. Together with One Hundred and Forty One Drawings by Rubens, Vandyck, and Rembrandt; which, by Order of the Executors, will be sold at the Prices marked in this Catalogue, by A. C. de Poggi, at his Room, No. 91, New Bond-Street, on Monday, May 26, 1794, and to continue till all the Drawings are sold, 1st edition, London: T. Burton, [1794], 2 works in 1 volume, 11 [1] pp., xxiv 54 [2] pp. (retaining half-title and errata leaf), extra-illustrated with mezzotint proof portrait to front, slight toning, a few faint spots, 19th-century tan calf gilt by Hayday, 8vo (20.4 x 12.6 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) William Twopeny (1797-1873), lawyer and amateur draughtsman and printmaker (gilt bookplate). 2) Sir George William Agnew, 2nd Baronet (1852-1941), Liberal politician and art dealer (engraved bookplate). 3) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). ESTC T161858 (four copies world-wide) & T30282 (seven copies world-wide).
Lot 213
* Augustus (Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, 1771-1851, King of Hanover and 5th son of George III). Autograph letter signed, 'Ernest', Strelitz, 5 October 1813, to General Stewart (Charles, 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, 1778-1854), Adjutant General to Wellington, British Minister to Prussia', explaining that he had been 'hurried off so quickly from Poplitz that I had not an opportunity of seeing you previous to my departure, for your noble Colleague the Ambassador to the Autocrat informed me that he expected Tyrrwhit ... I could not attend, I therefore thought it the wisest thing to be off ... I saw the King of Prussia with whom I had a full hours conversation ... I am happy to see he sees things just as we do, he spoke to me in terms so handsome of England and of the P[rince] that I have written most fully to him ... I trust you will not lose an opportunity to express to Castlereagh all the excellent qualities of that most respectable Monarch ... I have the satisfaction of seeing a column of Bennigsen's ... I had the pleasure also of shaking heads with my old companion in arms Blücher...', 3 pages, marked 'Private' at head, some browning, slight damage to top edge with the loss of a few words, archival tissue repairs, 4to, together with a further group of 12 autograph letters signed from Ernest Augustus to Sir Charles William Flint (1777-1832) Private Secretary 1808-1815, to the Duke of Wellington, Berlin (10) and Kew (2), 10 January 1828 to 16 February 1830, writing to Flint to whom he always appeals 'when in a Dilemma', concerning the poltical situation in Great Britain, on the fall of Goderich's ministry (January 1828), he contemplates with disfavour 'Ld Wellesley', Wellington's elder brother, 'being the Prime Minister, he is not capable from his Habits of Life, & besides being so decided ... advocate of Catholic Emancipation would be the worst possible Choice in my opinion', 'God grant that Wellington may ... not admit false friends into the Cabinet', with much interesting comment on the candidates for the various posts, the known frictions between them, and their values of the country, a total of 45 pages, light remains of tabs or guards on blank portions of final pages, 8vo (Qty: 13)NOTESErnest became deputy elector of Hanover in 1813. More detailed information on the individual letters is available on request.
Lot 353
Lustreware ginger jar and cover. The jar depicting 'Mariners compass' approx 15 cms h, together with a Lancaster & Sandland compass pin dish, together with a Grays pottery lustreware cabinet plate, depicting comical figures in a garden setting, plate nr A8651, approx 27 cms d and a pair of Grays Pottery 'Riverboat' pin dishes. (3)
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