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Click here to subscribeA Victorian musical photograph album, with linen hinged floral chromo. leaves, the movement with one piece comb and pinned cylinder, stamped leather gilt, containing contemporary and early 20th c cartes de visites and cabinet portraits, one signed by Angela Ryder Haggard, key Generally very good condition and working order
An Edwardian mahogany and broken line inlaid smoker's cabinet, the fitted interior enclosed by a pair of glazed doors, applied with silver tablet engraved Presented to Mr Harry Ibbotson by the staff of L.C. Dept of Newton, Chambers & Co Ld on his retirement after 52 years service with the company Dec 31 1936 and a walnut barrel shaped tobacco jar and cover (2) Good condition
A pair of Spode bone china spill vases, c1820, painted in sepia monochrome with cottages in landscapes, rims gilt, 11.5cm h, painted mark and pattern number 382 and a contemporary Paris Empire gilt cabinet cup and saucer, gilt B S Paria (4) One vase chipped, the other with minor descending hairline crack. Rim of cup chipped in two places. Saucer undamaged
A Continental porcelain coffee can, c1800, painted in brown monochrome with lovers pursued by Cupid reserved on a bright orange ground, 64mm h and a German porcelain egg shaped cabinet cup, late 19th c, painted with scene and flowers on a blue and pink ground (2) Coffee can chipped with descending crack, handle broken off in one piece and re-attached with pin and staple. Later cup chipped
A Davenport gilt ground dessert plate, c1880, painted with four landscapes in circular frames linked by festoons, 23cm diam, red printed mark, three cobalt and gilt ground dessert plates, including a French cabinet plate with gilt cypher of Louis Phillippe and a later English porcelain cartouche shaped Japan pattern dressing table tray (5) Good condition
20th century walnut display cabinet in the Dutch taste, with two astragal glazed doors, on squat cabriole legs, 198cm x 112cm x 46cm Condition ReportSurface scratches and marks, scuffs and knocks tot he wood. Appears to be a few old repairs to the veneer in places. Some splits to the veneer, areas of fading and discolouration, general wear and tear.
Derby cabinet vase and cover, urn form with twin handles, gilt borders, 16cm; and another Derby vase, pedestal form with applied griffin handles, painted floral panels, 22cm (both with old restoration)Qty: 2Condition report:The taller has a completely rebuilt foot and base area, both handles have also been rebuilt. The smaller has a rebuilt lid, and a hair line crack, and also has some work done around the base area.
A pietra dura panel,late 17th century, Florentine, possibly by the Grand Ducal workshops, depicting towers in a Tuscan landscape,17.5cm wide23cm highProvenance: The Estate of Sir Jack and Lady Baer.Literature: A Massinelli, 'Hardstones (The Gilbert Collection)', pp.41-43, p.47.Similar examples, fitted in a cabinet on stand and a casket respectively, are known in the Gilbert Collection; Anna Maria Massinelli in 'Hardstones', draws comparisons between these and a series in a cabinet formerly at Villa Poggio Imperiale, the documentation for which dates back to 1691. She remarks that this style of decoration is 'typical of the burgeoning late seventeenth-century taste for landscapes'.Condition ReportLater gilt frame with minor wear. Please see additional photos for reference to condition.Examined out of the frame. The panel is set into a later wooden frame, suggesting that is unstable. A small piece of the limestone border is loose, but sits into place quite snugly and is held in place when within the giltwood frame. Cracks to borders and image, including a 7cm crack to the top right corner of the image. Some scratches and surface wear. Dirt, discolouration and patination. Approx. 0.8cm loss to bottom left corner. Small area of loss to bottom right corner.
A painted and parcel-gilt cabinet on stand,probably 20th century, the cabinet decorated with portraits of Sir John Leake and his wife, and inscribed to commemorate the Battle of Málaga, 1704, on scrolled supports united by stretchers terminating on peg feet,114cm wide60cm deep104cm highCondition ReportJoints tight, solid and sound. Splits to top, doors, base and sides. Chips, knocks and losses to paintwork. Modern and crude alterations and additions to interior. Probably constructed using old materials, given that some timbers and metalware show signs of age. Overall a little distressed in appearance, but structurally sound.
A Napoleon III ebony and ormolu-mounted boulle-inlaid cabinet,c.1870, French, by Mathieu Befort (1816-1880), the doors decorated with musical trophies, weapons, garden tools and masks, the central panel set with a figure emblematic of Autumn, stamped to the carcass 'Befort Jeune',187cm wide50cm deep171cm high Condition ReportIn need of extensive restoration, losses to the brass and tortoiseshell elements knock and losses to the ebonised veneers and other damages. Solid bronze mounts appear largely present.
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