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Lot 542
A silver mounted strut frame, to take a WWI trio and death plaque, London 1922, a similar brass mounted stand, a similar birds eye maple frame, a medal cabinet, and three books (7) Condition report Report by RB: The silver strut frame generally good, although a little loose, the strut hinge worn, now needing a bit of TLC. The brass mounted stand, generally good, the metalware very dirty and the silk type fabric very worn and dirty. The birds eye maple frame generally good, although needs a backing. The medal case/cabinet generally good just dirty.
Lot 719
A Victorian burr walnut piano top davenport, with a rise and fall back, 58 cm wide See illustration Condition report Report by RB Pretty much in a market fresh condition, some fading, to the top and the sides, the blue leather and gilt tooled inset is in original. but slightly faded and stained condition, which is actually quite pleasing, there is a button release to open the top flap revealing a stationary cabinet, one of the handles is missing to the drawers from the interior, as is an inkwell. General knocks, wear and tear, commensurate with age.
Lot 686
A Louis XVI style painted chest, of three graduated long drawers, decorated flowers and foliage, 111 cm wide, a similar dressing chest, bed end, two marble top bedside cupboards, and a side cabinet, a mirror and an armchair (8) Condition report Condition report Report by GH The total width of the headboard is 162 cm. Report by RB The chest of drawers: rubbing, wear and tear etc to the paint, front left leg (as you look at it) is missing its metal mounts on the foot, general scratches. The two bedside cupboards (not a pair): both with marble tops, one with a cane work front is badly broken, general wear, knocks and rubbing. The bed end: nothing else with this (i.e. no rails or end), general wear, knocks and rubbing. The dressing table has a three plate mirror, not currently attached, the shaped glass top is broken. Overall, quite a smart thing originally, but has been used and enjoyed over sometime, would now benefit from a clean tidy up. It has been in storage for about ten years.
Lot 685
A 19th century rosewood side cabinet, with boxwood stringing, the central section having a frieze drawer above a door with a grill panel, flanked by concave sided shelves, 129 cm wide See illustration Condition report Report by GH From a London client's residence in Park Lane and Grosvenor Square. Very faint bowing to the top. Has undergone lots of restoration. The fabric behind the door has been replaced, the gilding has been freshened, and the finish has had work. The handles on the frieze drawer appear to be original and are in good condition. Structurally in good condition, with some old scratches and nicks commensurate with age. Overall presents well in good restored condition with no obvious major defects.
Lot 619
A late Victorian/Edwardian collector's cabinet. having twelve drawers, enclosed by a glazed door, with a Watkins & Doncaster Cabinet Manufacturers & Naturalists ivorine plaque, 52 cm wide See illustration Condition report Report by RB The top has been refinished at some point, not professionally, and now has numerous scratches to it. The door front is mahogany, unlike the rest of it, which is stained to look like mahogany, has the ivorine plaque to it, all the drawers have a glass lift out top to them, with homemade dividers to some of them. No key. The plinth base has general wear commensurate with age and attack by vacuum cleaners.
Lot 102
An Ercol honey coloured oak cocktail cabinet, the top having round corners, over a lockable fall front, enclosing an illuminated, mirror backed and laminate finished interior, over a compartmented frieze drawer and a pair of lockable base doors with partially recessed wooden handles, on Shepherd casters 45''h 32''w LSB
Lot 375
A modern figured yew wood finished breakfront display cabinet, having a dentil moulded cornice and rope carved borders, the superstructure comprising an open shelf, over a fall front cocktail cabinet and two glazed panelled doors, the base with four in-line drawers and doors, raised on bracket feet 75''h 64''w CB
Lot 325
Edward Patry (British, 1856-1940) Portrait of Francis Barring Bt 1740-1810, inscribed en verso 'Sir Francis Baring, Study for picture in the Payal Exchange painted by Edward Patry', signed lower left and dated 1927 oil on canvas, unframed, 127 x 81 cm Baring, Sir Francis, first baronet (1740-1810), merchant and merchant banker, was born at Larkbear, Exeter, on 18 April 1740, third of the four surviving sons and one daughter of John Baring (1697-1748) and his wife, Elizabeth Baring daughter of John Vowler, a prosperous Exeter 'grocer' who dealt largely in sugar, spices, teas, and coffee. Despite being partially deaf from an early age, in 1762 Francis Baring established the London merchant house of Barings. He emerged as a powerful merchant banker and by the mid-1790s reckoned that his concerns had been 'more extensive and upon a larger scale than any merchant in this or any other country'. Baring's father, the son of a Lutheran pastor, emigrated from Bremen in 1717 and settled at Exeter, where he became a leading textile merchant and manufacturer, and a landowner; other than the bishop and the recorder, apparently he alone in Exeter kept a carriage. His premature death in 1748 resulted in Francis, aged eight, being brought up and strongly influenced by his mother. Her sound business head doubled her firm's worth and in 1762 she extended the business to London. Notwithstanding these private reverses, the City of London quickly recognized Baring's special qualities and in 1771 the Royal Exchange Assurance, a giant public business, appointed him to its court. He underpinned his directorship, which continued until 1780, with a holding of £820 in the company's stock, no mean sum when his assets totalled £13,000. This appointment was important to hold; for the first time he was marked out from the throng of merchants populating the courts and alleys of the City. The partnership capital grew steadily from £20,000 in 1777 to £70,000 in 1790, and to £400,000 in 1804. Baring came to contribute the major share, providing 12 per cent in 1777, 40 per cent in 1790, and 54 per cent in 1804. Annual profits rose to £40,000 in the 1790s and peaked, untypically, at over £200,000 in 1802; they were calculated after payment to partners at 4 per cent interest, sometimes 5 per cent, on their capital. Baring's share of the profits increased steadily from a quarter in the mid-1760s to a half from 1777 and to three-quarters from 1801. His total wealth, business as well as private, rose accordingly, from almost £5000 in 1763, to £64,000 in 1790, and to £500,000 in 1804. Hope & Co. of Amsterdam, the most powerful merchant bank in Europe's leading financial centre, was Baring's most valuable connection. Their association is said to have begun in the 1760s, when Hopes passed Baring some bills to negotiate and ended up 'exceedingly struck with the transaction which bespoke not only great zeal and activity, but what was still more important … either good credit or great resources … From that day Baring became one of their principal friends'. The link was consolidated in other ways, in particular through the marriage in 1796 of Pierre César Labouchère Hope family a leading figure at Hopes, to Baring's third daughter, Dorothy. Baring's work from 1782 as an adviser on commercial matters to cabinet ministers propelled him from relative obscurity to the inner circles of British political life, underlining how in these early years his influence was entirely disproportionate to the resources he commanded. The catalyst for this advancement was his Devon connections. His brother John was elected to parliament as a member for Exeter in 1776; more importantly, in 1780 his sister, Elizabeth, married another MP and fellow Devonian, John Dunning. A rich and influential lawyer, Dunning was allied to Lord Shelburne, a powerful whig politician who held progressive views on political economy and whose borough of Calne Dunning represented in parliament. In July 1782, following Shelburne's promotion to prime minister and Dunning's appointment as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Baring fulfilled the new prime minister's need 'to have recourse from time to time to mercantile advice'. Baring, by instinct a whig, became Shelburne's confidential adviser on commerce, or his 'handy City man', according to a discontented William Cobbett. Baring's ideas on political economy and commerce were well ahead of his time; in 1799 he rightly defended the Bank of England's decision (in 1797) to suspend specie payments as both correct and inevitable, in the face of hostile opposition from many of his peers. Baring was not nearly as close to the tory leader William Pitt, who followed Lansdowne as prime minister and who held office almost continuously until Baring's retirement from active business. Their views were far apart, and on Pitt's death Baring was quick to stress their lack of concurrence 'on any great political question for above 20 years, our political opinions and principles being different' (The Times, 6 Feb 1806). In particular he disagreed with Pitt's policy for the seemingly endless continuation of a wasteful war; they also suffered differences over government policy towards the East India Company. Baring's personal influence in government waned but his expert advice, always fairly delivered, continued to be provided on such matters as trade with Turkey, the importance of Gibraltar, and the funding of the national debt. As part of Pitt's cleansing of abuse from public office, in 1784 he appointed Baring a commissioner charged with investigating fees, gratuities, and prerequisites for holding certain offices. Britain's European allies needed funds and came to Baring who, with Hopes, now organized some of the first marketings of foreign bonds in London. Believing fervently that 'it may be desirable not to have the subject to discuss with our own Ministers, as you know very well how ignorant they are of foreign finance', in 1801 he dispatched P. C. Labouchere of Hopes and his son George to negotiate a loan to the court of Lisbon. The resulting 'Portuguese diamond loan' of 13 million guilders was shared between Barings and Hopes on the usual 25:75 basis. Baring died on 11 September 1810 at Lee and was buried in the family vault at Stratton, Micheldever, on 20 September. He was survived by five sons and five daughters. His eldest son, Thomas, succeeded to the baronetcy and country estates; Thomas's son Francis was to enter political life and in 1866 was created Baron Northbrook. His second son, Alexander, succeeded him as senior partner and was later created Baron Ashburton for his political services. The third son, Henry, was also a partner, albeit an unremarkable one, while the other surviving sons, George and William, never rose to prominence. After Baring's death tributes included one from Lord Lansdowne, son of his political friend, who reckoned Baring was a 'prince of merchants'. Another political ally, Lord Erskine, wrote: 'he was unquestionably the first merchant in Europe; first in knowledge and talents and first in character and opulence'.
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