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Lot 750
MOST ORNATE DARK MAHOGANY EDWARDIAN BEDROOM SUITE OF DRESSING TABLE FITTED LARGE RECTANGULAR BEVEL EDGED MIRROR, FITTED SIDE AND BASE DRAWERS. A FINE DOUBLE MIRRORED DOOR WARDROBE HEAVILY CARVED FRONT, THE CENTRAL PORTION FITTED RECESSED INNER BEVEL EDGED MIRROR WITH TWO SHORT AND THREE LONG DRAWERS BELOW. A MATCHING CARVED BEDSIDE CABINET AND A TOILET/WASH TABLE WITH MOTTLED BROWN MARBLE TOP AND INSET TO THE OVER MANTEL WITH BEVEL EDGED MIRROR. SINGLE DRAWER AND DOUBLE CUPBOARD BELOW.
Lot 107
A set of three Chinese Export padouk chairs, circa 1735, after a design by Giles Grendey, each pierced and shaped back with an acanthus and shell carved top rail and a central vase splat, above a leather inset seat, on shell carved cabriole legs and claw on ball feet at the front, each 101cm high, 57cm wide, 56cm deep These chairs represent a fascinating early example of hardwood furniture of Cantonese manufacture made to an English design. As Carl Crossman explains in his The China Trade, this furniture may have been made to special order, perhaps for a member of the British East India Company posted in China or on Macao, another company outpost. The fact that furniture of this type and early date is a rarity, is supported by the Company's ledgers which only lists a few dozen pieces per year during the 1720's and 1730's. The current chairs also very likely formed part of a larger set. Other side chairs of this model have previously been sold: Christie's, New York, 21 October 1999, lot 174 (a single, $32,200); Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 4 April 1970, lot 149 (a single). In more recent times, a closely related single armchair was sold Christie’s New York, Two Distinguished American Collections, 4-5th March 2014, lot 520 (20,000). Other similar examples are illustrated in C.L. Crossman, op.cit., Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1991, pp. 231 and 233, pl. 83-85. The chair pattern directly copies an English prototype of the same date which can be attributed to the workshop of cabinet-maker Giles Grendey. A walnut armchair related to this design from the Percival Griffiths Collection, is illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture From Charles II to George II, 1929, p.149, fig. 95, later sold from the collection of Frank Crozer Knowles, Christie's New York, 22 October 1988, lot 243 ($220,000). For further related examples of Chinese Export chairs made to English designs and a discussion thereof, including a set of chairs made for Matthew Decker, a Director of the East India Company (1713-1743), see Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740, Antique Collectors Club, 2009, pages 47-50. Please note: These chairs possibly incorporate Huang huali (wood).
Lot 250
A Japanese carved hardwood display cabinet, 19th century, with blind fretwork throughout, the top section carved with a stylised dragon cresting to each side, above two glazed doors opening to two shaped shelves to each side, above two short drawers fronted by stylised dragon face carvings, the shaped apron carved with a dragon mask, stylised wind scrolls and foliate scrolls, on outswept legs terminating in scrolling claw feet, joined by a rectangular under tier, 184cm high, 114cm wide, 53cm deep
Lot 3131
W Watson Prepared Microscope Slides in 22 drawer mahogany cabinet, most drawers contain 18 slides one empty, slides have makers label and hand written identification label, with glazed door with plaque 'W Watson & Sons 313 High Holborn'; together with a W Watson Stereo Microscope black lacquered finish in mahogany case (2)
Lot 3163
Apothecary Chest in mahogany cabinet with top section having opening doors each containing six bottles, revealing a section with five bottles and five drawer; lower section has a single drawer with booklet 'Companion to the Medicine Chest dated 1830 and a print Valley House ... residence of Dr Jackson' 12x13 1/2x7'', 30x35x18cm
Lot 3164
Apothecary Chest mahogany with brass fitting, two doors each with 6 glass bottles in front of main cabinet containing four bottles and two drawers; back opening panel reveals space for four more bottles but contains two; many bottles labelled 'J B Kirton Chemists &c, Hull' 9x10 1/2x7'', 22x27x18cm
Lot 245
A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER COBALT GROUND CABINET PLATES, WITH RAISED GILT DECORATION, 27CM D, GILT PRINTED MARK AND FIFTEEN VARIOUS OTHER ROYAL CROWN DERBY, AVES, ROYAL PINXTON ROSES, MIKADO AND JAPAN / IMARI PATTERN PLATES AND DISHES, INCLUDING A SET OF FOUR EARLIER BLOOR DERBY GADROONED PLATES WITH COBALT AND GILT BORDER, PRINTED OR PAINTED MARKS
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