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Lot 232
A pair of early 20th century Austrian two handled vases with printed and infilled wild flower decoration on a cream coloured ground together with a Copeland Spode "Italian" pattern blue and white printed candlestick, a figure of a balloon seller in the Doulton style and two Staffordshire style spill vases with applied figures of a huntsman and Red Riding Hood
Lot 237
Follower of Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c. 1465/75-before 1538), "A Pair of Nude Male Figures Supporting Inkwells", probably mid-16th c., bronze statuettes with russet alloys, chestnut patinas, and black lacquers, heights 6 1/2 in., on variegated black marble plinths. Provenance: Collection of a Gentleman, purchased 1968 from Manheim Antique Galleries (in B.H. Latrobe`s Louisiana State Bank Building), corner of Royal and Conti Streets, New Orleans. Note: Severo di Domenico Calzetta, known from the city of his birth and death as Severo da Ravenna, where he was enrolled as a Master in 1496 (though his principal works were executed in Padua, from 1500 to 1511), is an exceptional artist who was particularly celebrated in the writings of the Paduan humanist Pomponio Gaurico—especially in his treatise De Sculptura (1504)—but was subsequently forgotten, and only "rediscovered" in the 20th century. Over the last fifty years Severo has been acknowledged as one of the most inventive and prolific of all Renaissance bronzecasters: something approaching 200 casts, of at least 35 or 40 different small bronze designs, have been recognized as issuing from his shop. Even within such an enormous oeuvre, the present figures may well represent a yet-unidentified model: their closest counterparts are apparently the three similarly sized and posed Male Nudes on the topmost of the six figural registers of a colossal Bronze Candlestick in the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco (61.35), in which trios of similar and larger figures (with upraised arms) support the successive platforms and of which the Female Nudes on the bottom tier are also idiosyncratic variants of Severo`s Cleopatra. The possibility that these remarkably handsome figures may in fact derive from such a source, is reinforced (first) by their highly unusual preservation in the form of an exact pair, probably confirming their derivation from just such a multi-figured utensil; and (second) by the fact that their absolutely standard Severan inkwells—life casts from a real seashell, such as that of the galeodea echinophora of Linnaeus—are here present in the form of aftercasts (implying their replication from other, identical specimens closer to the natural models). These shell-inkwells are each attached to their figures` backs by two early screws: one above their shoulders, and with a second, running diagonally (and most unusually) into the backs of their heads. References: Anthony F. Radcliffe, "Replicas, Copies and Counterfeits of Early Italian Bronzes," Apollo 1986, pp. 184-185, fig. 4 (for the San Francisco Candlestick); Richard E. Stone, "Severo Calzetta da Ravenna and the indirectly cast bronze," Burlington Magazine, vol. 48 (Dec. 2006), pp. 810-819; Dylan Smith, "I bronzi di Severo da Ravenna: un approccio tecnologico per la cronologia," in L`Industria Artistica del Bronzo del Rinascimento, M. Ceriano e V. Avery, eds., Verona, 2008, pp.49-80 (esp. p. 77, note 75, on the Candlestick again). We are particularly grateful to Dr. Charles Avery for calling that artifact to our attention (private communication).
Lot 127
Two 1930s dressing table sets, the first a Maling Rosine pattern part dressing table set comprising rectangular tray, a pair of candlesticks and a powder bowl and cover, printed marks and a Wedgewood & Co (sic) part dressing table set comprising oval tray, hair pin dish, powder bowl and cover and a candlestick all decorated in low relief with yellow flowers against a green ground, printed marks (qty)
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