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Click here to subscribeA GEORGE I WALNUT CABINET ON CHEST, the pediment above a cushion moulded frieze drawer, double cupboard door under with feathered banding enclosing an arrangement of thirteen drawers and central cupboard which opens to reveal a further four drawers, the lower section fitted with two short and two graduated long drawers supported on bracket feet with wooden castors, width 118cm x depth 50cm x height 177cm
A French ebony and rosewood scarlet tortoiseshell veneered 'Boulle' marquetry liqueur cabinet, Vervelle aine Rue Nve Montmorency No. 1 Place de la Bourse, circa 1870, in late 17th century style, rectangular with rising hinged top and front enclosing a fitted interior with four fruiting vine etched square glass decanters and nine matching liqueur glasses, on a moulded base and bracket feet, 34cm wide x 26cm deep x 25.5cm high, with key, lacking seven original glasses.
WORLD WAR ONE GROUP OF THREE AND GOLD TRIBUTE MEDAL 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and 9ct gold Tribute Medal of Alfreton Urban District PS-2691 PTE C B FURMSTON R FUS [2 LIEUT C B FURMSTON on pair, S C/LT C B FURMSTON M.G.C. FROM THE PEOPLE OF ALFRETON on last], Memorial Scroll and an extensive collection of 19th and early 20th c Furmston and Newman family correspondence, cartes de visite, cabinet and other photographs, real photographic and other postcards of Blackwell, Alfreton and Derbyshire, many relating to the life and ministry of Lieutenant Furmston's father the Revd Samuel Charles Furmston (1849-1916) Vicar of Blackwell, Derbyshire (several 100s)Lieutenant Clement Barrington Fumston, born 1894, killed in action at Arras, April 9,1917.++++
A FINE ENGLISH EMBROIDERED MINIATURE OF CHARLES I, LONDON, C1660-70 silk and metal thread, based on the 1641 engraving by Wencelas Hollar, inscribed Deus Meus Est Rupes Meaa Psal: 18, 13 x 10.8cm, embossed copper gilt frameThis spectacular example of English Restoration needlework of the highest quality is one of small group of portraits of the king by the same unknown professional hand. All are closely based on Hollar's well known engraving of Charles I wearing the ribbon of the Order of the Garter. Such is the fidelity with which the portrait is rendered that it justifies the description of a 'cabinet miniature', one intended for display in a cabinet or on a table.The quotation from Psalm 18 (v 2-3) is King David's invoking God's protection from his enemies. An identical example is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. It was acquired from Percival D Griffiths in 1938. Two are in the Victoria & Albert Museum and another is in the Wallace Collection, London.Nevinson (see below) considers this select group, of which the present example is hitherto unrecorded, date from the first few years of the reign of Charles II. As such they represent some of the earliest evidence of the cult of the 'Martyr King'. In several respects they relate to the miniatures incorporated as centrepieces in embroidered bindings, such as that on a copy of the Eikon Basilike (1649) although none of these can be dated with certainty to the Commonwealth. Nor is there a particular reason to link them to the Broderers Company and although metal thread and purl wire is seen on some bindings of the period, as it is hard on the hands and the professional embroideress, whether working in her small workshop or domestically, would have certainly used silk in preference, or wool for tent stitch on canvas, with metal braid reserved for borders or edges, as here.The embroidered portraits of Charles I at his trial (in a hat) are technically different featuring brick stitch, for example on the King's cloak. They date from later in the 17th century. See Nevinson (J L) The Embroidered Miniature Portraits of Charles I, 'Apollo', October 1965, pp 310-313.
A VICTORIAN WALNUT DESK, C1840 with panelled front and fitted nine drawers, 73cm h; 68 x 114cm, engraved pictorial paper trade label of GEORGE BEVAN CABINET MAKER UPHOLSTERER... OUNDLE++Showing signs of use with old blackened marks and scratches, one side with shrinkage crack, the other faded and with horizontal scratches. Locks and handles all present and original, label inkstained
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