Ï’Andrew Varah (1944-2012), Umbrella Men, a surrealist three door gentleman's wardrobe, designed in 1989, each hinged door modelled as a gentleman's knee-length overcoat and boots, the central figure with a peg leg, hanging on a clothes hanger, each with an umbrella, the handle forming the door-handle of the wardrobe, internally fitted with two low drawers, low foot bar, mixed exotic veneers, comprising: Brazilian rosewood, pressure dyed tabu, satinwood, oak and burr oak, metal door furniture, stamped to metal furniture AV and paper label to reverse of each cabinet, 207cm high, 201cm wide, 42.5cm deep Provenance: Woolley & Wallis, 20th April 2016, lot 1499; Lamberty Art & Design, selected items from the storages.Varah produced around five variations of the Umbrella Men wardrobe between 1987 and 2003, each example is unique. The surrealist-inspired design is inlaid with various veneers, and the gentlemen's umbrella handles act as door handles.See Betty Norbury, Furniture for the 21st Century, Stobart Davies Ltd., for an example illustrated in the chapter on Andrew Varah. See also David Linley Star Pieces, The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture, Thames & Hudson, page 212 for another example of an Umbrella Man wardrobe illustrated. Ï’ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
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Postcards, period albums - P2 sentimental and greetings cards, RP Bamforth police card, 1905 (1), P2-P4 - song cards, cats, railway locomotive silver prints, some postcard size, most modern, topographicial UK, some RP including Doncaster trolley bus (1), other Doncaster interest, silver print of De Dion Bouton 1902 Type K1 8CV with Sheffield registration ET33, circa 1903-1905, RP The Mile Cross pub, Aylsham, Norfolk (1), French 10-part composite of Cuirassiers, with loose motoring and railway silver prints, various loose postcards and cabinet cards, and some modern, with two empty albums (qty)
Gordon Russell workshops, an English brown oak longcase clock/regulator, the trunk with hexagonal column supports, the hood with pagoda top, enclosing a circular silvered dial engraved with foliate decoration and The Russell Workshops, Broadway, Worcs., with Whittington/Westminster chimes, striking on eight bells, with silent/chime selector, dead beat escapement, striking the hours on a tubular gong with maintaining power, design number 27 by Gordon Russell, foreman Edgar Turner, cabinet maker F Shilton, metal worker A Fry, the timber used English brown oak, 1810/27, 205cm high CONDITION REPORT: Condition Report Lot 569Case is in very good condition, light colour oak.The movement is complete, the chiming is out of sync but both Westminster and Whittington strike on the bells a little unevenly. The gong appears not to work.Originally purchased from the London Antique Trade over thirty years ago.
Beaverman (Colin Almack), a beech framed display cabinet on outswept legs with carved signature, 152cm x 46cm x 91cm high CONDITION REPORT: ARR Artist's Resale Right may apply to the sale of this lot, incurring an additional fee. For further information please ask Chorley's or visit www.dacs.org.uk
A pair of Minton cabinet plates date codes for 1876, the wells painted outside the factory by James Rouse Junior, with Highland scenes, one of a ghillie smoking a pipe beside a stream with two dogs, the other of a girl carrying a fawn across a stream with other deer around, signed 'J Rouse Jnr Derby', within reticulated rims finely painted with panels of fruit and flowers reserved on a green ground, impressed marks, 23.6cm. (2)
A 19th Century French ebonised and gilt metal mounted pier cabinet:, veneered in scarlet tortoiseshell and inlaid with a marquetry of cut brass in foliate scroll designs, the frieze with applied paterae and husk decorated mouldings, enclosed by a domed glazed panel door, within foliate surround flanked by stiles headed with shell, scroll and floral foliate ornament, on a shaped plinth base, 81cm (2ft 8in) wide, 103.5cm (3ft 4 3/4in) high.
A 19th Century black lacquer and gilt chinoiserie hanging corner cabinet:, with shaped and shelved cresting, the interior with serpentine fixed shelves, enclosed by a door decorated with Chinese figures in a pagoda garden landscape flanked by stiles with scrolling foliage, 55cm (1ft 9 1/2in) across, 116cm (3ft 9 3/4in) high.
A mid 18th Century oak bureau cabinet:, the upper part with a moulded cornice, enclosed by a pair of fielded panel doors with twin candle slides below, the lower part having a sloping hinged fall enclosing a graduated fitted interior with small drawers and pigeon holes about a central enclosed cupboard, flanked by half column concealed compartments, containing four long graduated drawers below, on bracket feet, 105.5cm (3ft 5 1/2in) wide, 190.5cm (5ft 3in) high.
A 19th century mahogany standing corner display cabinet,: the upper part with a moulded cornice, having serpentine fronted shelves enclosed by a pair of lattice glazed astragal panel doors between canted angles, the lower part enclosed by a pair of doors on a plinth base, 115cm (3ft 9in) across 216cm (7ft 1in) high.
An Edwardian mahogany and inlaid cabinet bureau:, crossbanded in satinwood, bordered with boxwood and ebony lines, the superstructure with a pierced brass three quarter gallery, triple glazed panels to the back and sloping hinged fall enclosing a fitted interior with pigeon holes and tooled leather inset writing surface, flanked by open shelves to the sides with scrolling floral stem decoration to the fronts, containing two long drawers and cupboard below, enclosed by a pair of doors on plinth bases, 98cm (3ft 2 1/2in) wide.
INDENTURES.An indenture dated 8th October 1868, between William Izard of Victoria Park, Middlesex, Cabinet Maker, a member of the 109th Starr Bowkett Benefit Building Society & Isaac Sykes, Joseph Bradley, & others in the purchase of a piece of land in Victoria Park, Middlesex. The second indenture, dated 1834 between the Right Honourable Windham Henry Wyndham, Earl of Dunraven & Thomas Cullis of Southern Down in Glamorgan.
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