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Lot 671
A 19th century mahogany microscope slide cabinet, the glazed door over twenty one drawers with labelling flanking the central numbered knobs, of the over two hundred and twenty slides within two drawers with paper mounted slides prepared by EW, Smith, Beck and Beck, Bourgogne, Enock and others, the cabinet 30cm (11.75 in) high The lock and key escutcheon is missing from the glazed door
Lot 672
A collection of microscope slides and a slide cabinet. The pine slide cabinet with 12 trays each of 12 slides (144 slides). Makers include Darleston, Norman, Topping, Watson and Wheeler. 18 x 21 x 20 cm approx. Complete with lock and key; together with a collection of approximately 250 microscope slides housed in 5 slide boxes. A mahagony slide box with 24 slides by Dancer, Suter, Topping and Wheeler. A pine box with 24 slides by Cole, Norman, Suter, Topping and Watson. A pine slide box with 36 slides by Darleston, Norman, Topping and Wheeler. Two further pine slide boxes containing a variety of slides including chick embryology. Provenance: Dr A Whyte, Cambridge
Lot 708
A carved mahogany bombe linen press to a design by Thomas Chippendale, circa 1900, with stepped top with canted sides and applied stiff leaf and floral carved mouldings, slides to the interior, the base of bombé form, set to the top with two short and one long drawer cast brass swan neck handles, the base centred below with stylized foliate motif, to the canted front corners richly carved with rocaille and acanthus leaf carving, leading to similarly shaped bracket feet to each side.172½ x 145 x 66cm (67 x 57 x 26in). Literature: Footnotes:The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, Plate CXXXI. Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Volume II (1990 edition), p. 74. H.H. Mulliner The Decorative Arts in England (1923), Fig. 14. Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 (1986), p. 164 This unusual cabinet conforms almost exactly to an ambitious rococo design in Thomas Chippendale's celebrated publication, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director of 1754 (figure 1). The Director is composed of a large collection of, as Chippendale said, "the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern taste." The modern taste refers to the anglicised version of the forms and styles of France which strongly influenced Chippendale's work at this date and has been called "for the most part an Anglicisation of the rocaille". This taste is revealed in the design of Lot 708, with the swelling bombe form of the base and the exceptional fine quality of the intricately designed carving to the feet, an interpretation in wood of the fine chased gilt bronze work of French metal-workers. The Director represented an unparalleled undertaking in the publication of furniture designs, with the first and second editions constituting 160 plates of superb engravings. The work exerted a powerful influence on contemporary style that was felt as far afield as the Prussian Court and Lisbon and which established Chippendale as an inspired and innovative designer. A third edition, somewhat expanded, was to follow in a series of weekly publications in 1762. In the year of publication of the first edition, in which the design related to the present cabinet appears, Chippendale moved to spacious premises in St. Martin's Lane and began to provide furniture to a range of fashionable clients and nobility, including the Dukes of Beaufort, Portland, Norfolk and Hamilton, and the Earls of Northumberland and Chesterfield. Evidence of repairs around the hinges, otherwise in very untouched condition
Lot 726
A Regency bronze mounted mahogany and ebonised cabinet, circa 1810, in the manner of George Oakley, each crossbanded in mahogany, inlaid with ebony stringing and an anthemion moulded ebony band to the border repeated to the frieze and door panel, flanked by monopodiae with lion paw feet to an inverted breakfront plinth base 92 x 79½ x 51cm (36 x 31 x 20in) Provenance: T G Blackwell Collection, Langham Hall, Norfolk Other Notes: This cabinet bears the distinctive lion mask pilasters that relate to the work of the Regency cabinet-maker George Oakley (1773-1840). With an extensive premises in Bond Street and the City, Oakley undertook commissions for a wide and distinguished circle of patrons, including the Prince Regent, for whom he worked at Carlton House. A pioneer of 'Buhl' inlay, Oakley established himself as one of the most original and innovative designers of the period, and his showrooms in Bond Street became a Mecca for fashionable society. Oakley was commissioned by Charles Madryll Cheere to furnish Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire, where much of the furniture bears similar classical revival elements to Lot 726. Some slight warping in the door panel and the loss of a corner moulding, slight movement in the banding to one side, otherwise considered to be sound and a good colour
Lot 784
A Victorian figured ash pedestal desk, stamped Taylor & Sons, New Bond Street, London, of serpentine outline with green leather lined top, fitted nine drawers and a kneehole cupboard, open columns and on a plinth base 66 x 140 x 70cm (26 x 55 x 27in) Literature: Benjamin Taylor & Sons are recorded in the Dictionary of English Furniture Makers (p. 874) at various addresses in London including King William's Street and Dover Street. They were active from about 1805 - 1873 and listed as Cabinet Makers, Upholsterers, Chair-makers and Undertakers Some scratches to the leather, replaced columns, otherwise the veneers are good
Lot 539
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. THREE RARE CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS OF PTE JOHN FORD OF THE 4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1909, WHO RODE INTO THE 'VALLEY OF DEATH' AT BALACLAVA, 25 OCTOBER 1854 in 4th Hussars uniform and probably photographed contemporaneously with his reciting Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade at the Colchester Hippodrome, albumen prints laid on card with embossed photographer's credit J J Avery London, c1880 Private John (a.k.a. James) Ford (1833-1911) ++++
Lot 645
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS, C1905-70 many British coastal and other towns and villages including Skegness, Liverpool, Southend, London, Dartmoor, Isle of Man street scenes, churches, Franco British Exhibition 1908, foreign including France, greetings, children, comic and art, postally used and unused, and a quantity of Victorian cabinet photographs and later snapshot photographs (3700 approx)
Lot 646
AN ALBUM OF POSTCARDS, C1908-35 Leicester including Aylestone, real photographic (5), Market Harborough, Cambridge, London including suburbs, monuments, street scenes, Spalding, Rugby, Dublin, Kilkenny, Scotland, Franco-British Exhibition, Canada and dogs and cats, mainly postally used (to Leicester) (approx 267) and a Victorian photograph album containing mainly cartes de visite and cabinet portraits (2) ++++
Lot 781
A REGENCY SATINWOOD AND CROSSBANDED COLLECTOR'S CABINET, C1820 with lidded top, the doors to the front enclosing four graduated drawers, brass handles, 33cm h ++In good condition with some minor restorations, the drawers and top compartment later fitted for coins or medals. Old shrinkage crack in lid
Lot 836
A PAIR OF ENGLISH BRASS ROUND SHOWROOM CABINETS, EARLY 2OTH C with pair of curved glass sliding door, 27.5cm h, 91cm diam ++Complete and structurally sound, of high quality and seldom offered, requiring some cosmetic restoration. One one cabinet the glass sliding doors lacking the brass/bronze angled handles. The wooden base scorch in one place
Lot 102
TWO VICTORIAN EARTHENWARE LOVING CUPS, C1870 AND DATED 1873 the interior with a frog, coloured black or sepia transfer prints, those to the reverse of apple pickers or The Real Cabinet of Friendship Justice & Equity, the smaller cup incised and painted in brown William and Ann Bosworth 1873, 13 and 18cm h ++Both in fine condition
Lot 26
A COPELAND CABINET PLATE, C1890 finely painted by S Alcock, signed, with a classical maiden reserved in a jewelled and raised gilt cobalt border, the footrim also gilt, 23.5cm diam, impressed Y 13, green printed mark and gilt printed Copeland's Jewelled Porcelain, red painted N ++of superb quality and in very fine condition, no rubbing, wear, other damage or restoration
Lot 27
A SAMPSON HANCOCK CABINET CUP AND SAUCER, C1890 with raised gilt decoration by John Winfield on a cobalt ground, saucer 14cm diam, red painted mark and J.W. 12 Comparative literature: Blackwood (R) and C Head, Old Crown Derby China Works the King Street Factory 1849-1935, 2003, pp196-7. ++In fine condition, no damage or restoration
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