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Two boxes of sundry china and glassware to include a Royal Creamware chestnut basket and plate together with a similar lidded vase, a gilt framed circular wall clock in the Rococo style, a Hobbycraft mantel clock, various drinking glasses etc together with a box containing assorted metalwares to include cutlery, candlestick, a pair of modern table lamps, an early 20th Century coloured glass and brass oil lamp etc
A selection of silver hallmarked dressing table items. The lot to include a repousse decorated silver comb (hallmarked Birmingham 1905), shoe horn with silver handle (hallmarked Birmingham 1894), dressing table pot (hallmarked London 1901), the pot with a pierced lid to the top (hallmarked Birmingham 1908) and a candlestick (filled, hallmarked Birmingham 1923). Lids weight 13.8g.
A group of five Scandinavian decorative glass items by various artists and factories to include an Orrefors oval glass vase with etched image of young girl in nightdress and etched moon and stars verso, 11 x 17cm, a single Johansfors of Sweden candlestick to circular base, height 23cm, a Kostaboda squat baluster vase, pale pink ground with white dot decoration with Kostaboda Sweden label, height 11.5cm, a Kosta V. Lindsterno decorative glass form with etched figure in period costume, and a footed bowl, circular clear glass to an opaque mask head stand, to spreading circular base, initialled to the base MMA (5).
Nicholas Condy (1793-1857)Interior of an Irish Inn at BallyboylebooOil on canvas 47 x 63.5cm (18½ x 25”)SignedExhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1843, No. 415Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1843, Condy’s recently rediscovered depiction of an Antrim interior populated by twenty very different individuals and with a rich variety of objects on display is an invaluable portrayal of Ulster country life in the middle of the nineteenth century. Although he described the picture as Interior of an Irish Cottage at Ballyboyleboo, what is shown is an inn, tavern or shebeen, making it a rare early depiction of an Irish public house. In contrast, however, to the small body of work showing Irish pubs by artists such as Charles Henry Cook, Erskine Nicol and Nathaniel Grogan, which invariably feature the Catholic Irish peasantry in stereotyped attitudes often verging on the caricature – here the clientele seems distinctly more mixed in terms of class and confession with a noticeably military flavour. The primary interaction in the painting is between the doubly amputated figure standing on the right in smart but sober attire and the seated black man at left who has suffered the loss of just one foot and who leans back in his chair as he raises a toast. This is an extraordinarily rare image of racial equality in an Irish genre scene of this date. Where black figures appear at all in Irish painting of the period it is invariably as marginal, often servile, subsidiary figures as, for example, in Erskine Nicol’s The 16th, 17th (St Patrick’s Day), and 18th March (National Gallery of Ireland). It seems likely that equality – or at least the superficial appearance of equality – has been gained through shared endeavour on the battlefield, and that the seated black man is a veteran toasting his former commanding officer. Certainly the deportment and dress of the man standing, very comfortably it must be said, on his double prosthetic limbs, suggests his elevated social position. The gathering includes both army and naval elements. An advertising bill on the right seeks able seamen, while the format of Condy’s signature, ‘Lt. Condy bf 43rd regt’ reminds us that he had begun his career as an army officer, serving in the Peninsular War, and retiring on half-pay at Christmas 1818. Continuing the military theme, a bust of the Duke of Wellington looks down from a shelf at upper left in the somewhat indecorous company of candlestick and brass kettle (and with a canoodling couple directly beneath his gaze). Prints of naval victories adorn the walls while to the side of the chimney hangs a toleware candle box and pair of bellows. A drunken sailor has passed out under the table his clay pipe and glass lying smashed in front of him while a serving woman brings more refreshments to those at table – a punch bowl, small glasses for toasting and pipes. Music is provided by a fiddler in the background.Claudia Kinmonth notes that Condy’s Ulster subjects ‘convey a real sense of how poor people’s homes in Antrim may well have been in the 1840s’ (Claudia Kinmonth, Irish Rural Interiors in Art (2006) p. 94). However, he also mixes Irish and English elements within his work, sometimes reusing still-life motifs or even whole figurative groups with which he was pleased. On the shelf to the left, the silver-plated vessel with a pouring spout and a handle on the side was used for serving hot chocolate, a delicacy unlikely to be widely available in Irish pubs of the 1840s, and indeed it, and other elements of the composition, appear again in Estate Workers in a Kitchen Interior (Mount Edgcumbe House). Similarly, a small work in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, repeats almost verbatim the seated man shown here smoking a pipe. This is clearly a reduction from the present work, rather than the other way round, as the man’s motivation for turning round and looking upwards is lost when the figure is shown in isolation and removed from its context.Condy’s composition is artfully created and rather than the mere ‘slice-of-life’ recording of an interior and the objects within it, he offers knowing and witty allusions to the art of the past and also perhaps to that of his contemporaries. He relishes the chance to paint textures as different as scaly fish, metal, glass and ceramics and to record the differing way that light falls on each. The beautifully painted still-life in the lower right corner consisting of earthenware jug, crutch and broom resting on a barrel offers a deliberate reference to the art of David Teniers who time and again places a similar grouping of objects with a prominent diagonal formed by a brush or similar object to lead the eye into the composition. Similarly the still-life of fish may reference Teniers’s ‘well-kept kitchen compositions’ (‘de welvoorziene keuken’). The quotation of Teniers would have been recognised widely, as the seventeenth-century Flemish artist was synonymous with ‘low-life’ genre scenes such as this and his work was avidly collected and frequently engraved.Even more fundamental as a source of inspiration, however, was the phenomenally successful career of David Wilkie who applied the compositional dynamics of Teniers to modern-life subjects. Like Wilkie, Condy here deliberately echoes Teniers earthy ‘old master tonalities’ and shows a similar ‘delight in details and in rough irregular surfaces’ (David Solkin, Painting out of the Ordinary, Yale University Press, 2008, p. 12). Wilkie had also introduced a black soldier into his famous Chelsea Pensioners (Apsley House). Unlike Cushendall, the subject of another Ulster work by the artist, there is no townland in Antrim called Ballyboyleboo. It seems to be an Anglicization – exaggerating the Irishness of the name – of Ballyboley. In the rich account of life in Ulster of a couple of decades earlier written by John Gamble (published as Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Brendán Mac Suibhne, Dublin, 2011, p. 280, n. 4), Gamble records how he stopped ‘at a lone public house between Larne and Ballymena’ and enjoyed a session in which tall stories were narrated. Mac Suibhne suggests that this may be ‘the premises now call the Ballyboley Inn’. An earlier building on this site may also be the setting for Condy’s work, though an older inn only a few miles distant at The Battery is also a possible candidate.
Four pieces of Continental pottery, comprising a Quimper tall candlestick of baluster form, painted in yellow and green with flowers and horizontal bands, height 33cm, a large circular bowl, painted in blue with a man o' war, diameter 51cm, a faience dish and a faience tureen base (faults).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A 19th century French gilt-bronze and champleve enamel figural candlestick, the stem modelled as a Classical cherub holding a dove in one hand and the single light in the other, with blue floral enamel details to the sconce and a glass drip pan, raised on a circular base with winged paw feet, 22 cm high
Lot consisting of a standing watch with movement (not tested for functioning), spinning wheel, hand candlestick and a telephone. The Netherlands / Italy, including Firenze and Rotterdam, including Bellucci & Galli and C.A. Stout, 20th century, hallmarks: various hallmarks - traces of use. 81 grams, 925/1000 and 835/1000.
A collection of Victorian and later white metal and silver jewellery, a silver 10mm wide gate link bracelet with padlock fastener, Birmingham 1978; three unmarked Victorian style white metal brooches; a modern 42cm matching silver graduated leaf design necklace and bracelet, Birmingham import mark, makers mark RA; a silver 7mm wide two row flat S link necklace, 40-45cm and matching bracelet; other chain necklaces; two nickel guard chains; crystal marquise shaped pendant; pair of 9ct on silver chain link cufflinks, a silver 10cm candlestick, filled base.
America: The Third Century The complete portfolio of thirteen prints comprising William H. Bailey (American 1930-2020), Still Life with Eggs, Candlestick and Bowl, collotype; James Brooks (American 1906-1992), Concord, silkscreen; Christo (Bulgarian 1935-2020), Texas Mastaba, lithograph with silkscreen and collage on chipboard; Allan D'Arcangelo (American 1930-1998), Beginning, lithograph with silkscreen and embossing; Roy Lichtenstein (American 1923-1997), Bicentennial Print, lithograph with silkscreen; Constantino Nivola (Italian 1911-1988), City, lithograph with silkscreen; Robert Andrew Parker (American b.1927), Sunrise, lithograph; Robert Rauschenberg (American 1925-2008), Deposit, silkscreen with hand colour; James Rosenquist (American 1933-2017), Miles, silkscreen with airbrush; Edward Ruscha (American b.1937), America Whistles, lithograph; Raymond Saunders (American b.1934), Duck Out of Water, lithograph with silkscreen and collage; Ben Schonzeit (American b.1942), Yankee Flam, collotype; and Velox Ward (American 1901-1994), The Home My Daddy Built, collotype Thirteen, each signed by the artist and numbered 83/200, with title and colophon pages, loose (as issued) within the original portfolio box Each 76.3 x 56.3 (sheet); 80.9 x 60.5cm (box) Provenance: Adi Gallery, San Francisco, where purchased by the present private collector, August 1976
A mixed group of various ornaments and other items to include a Meissen porcelain hexagonal candlestick, 9cm diameter, 13cm high, decorated with flower heads, a miniature Worcester porcelain vase, two royal commemorative tankards, further items inluding a Vapo-Cresolene in original but tatty boxThe Meissen candlestick with minor chips and very slight losses to the flowerheads, otherwise in good condition, the Worcester vase with minor marks to the surface, otherwise good condition, further items as found.
A collection of metalware to include silver plated serving dishes, a silver plated salver, a copper flagon, a pewter candlestick, a pewter candlestick, a pair of binoculars in a leather case by Ross London and further itemsSilver tarnished and with some surface dents and scratches; leather strap on case of binoculars with some wear
A pair of silver dwarf Victorian doric column candlesticks, 12.5cm high, together with an early Victorian silver plated tea set comprising teapot, milk jug and slop bowl with engraved styalized decoration, the teapot 23cm high (5)One candlestick with cracks and damages to the base, silver plate very worn on tea set, third finial on teapot loose
Leuchterengel, süddeutsch, Ende 18./frühes 19. Jh., Holz vollplastisch geschnitzt, polychrom gefasst, Fassung aus der Zeit, Fuß und Flügel best., berieben, H. 32 cmCandlestick angel, South German, late 18th/early 19th century, wood carved in three dimensions, polychrome painted, painting from the time, foot and wings damaged, rubbed, H. 32 cm
Umfangreiches Kaffee- und Speiseservice, Rosenthal classic rose, Form Sanssouci, Dekor Höroldt Arkadien, cremefarbenes Porzellan, reliefiert und reich vergoldet, jedes Teil mit bunter Höroldt-Szene, Kaffeekanne, Teekanne, Zuckerdose, Milchkännchen, 6 Teetassen, 15 Kaffeetassen, 20 Unterteller, 15 Kuchenteller, Stövchen, 6 Eierbecher, Butterdose, Deckeldose, runde Kuchenplatte, Königskuchenplatte, 12 flache Essteller, 12 Suppentassen mit Untertassen, Suppenterrine, Ragoutschüssel, 2 Beilagenschüsseln, vier versch. Vorlegeplatten, Vase, Kerzenleuchter, kaum benutztextensive coffee- and Dinner set, Rosenthal classic rose, shape Sanssouci, decor Hoeroldt Arcadia, cream-colored porcelain, sculptured and richly gilt, each part with colorful Hoeroldt-scenes, coffee pot, tea pot, sugar bowl, milk jug, 6 tea cups, 15 coffee cups, 20saucers, 15 cake plates, 12 soup bowls with saucers, warmer, 6 egg cups, butter dish, lid box, round cake plate, king cake plate, 12 flat dinner plates, 12 soup bowls with saucers, Soup tureen , ragout bowl, 2 side dish bowls, four different serving platters, vase, candlestick, barely used

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