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Six: Captain (Engineer) G. T. Sullivan, H.M.S. Marlborough, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (Mte. G. T. Sullivan. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt. G. T. Sullivan. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, generally very fine and better (6) £180-£220 --- Provenance: Oliver Stirling Lee Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004. The dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Marlborough was launched on 24 October 1912 and was part of the 1st Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland. George Thomas Sullivan was born in Plymouth on 7 June 1889 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Artificer in September 1905. In November 1914, however, while serving aboard H.M.S. Lion, he became one of the first ratings ever to be appointed Mate (E.), R.N., and shortly afterwards joined the battleship H.M.S. Marlborough. He was serving in her at the Battle of Jutland, when she was hit by a torpedo that caused a 70 ft. long by 20 ft. deep hole but still maintained her position in the battle line throughout, her gunfire inflicting considerable damage on at least two enemy capital ships. Sullivan ended the Great War as an Engineer Lieutenant aboard the Agincourt and gained further advancement to Commander (E.) prior to his retirement at the end of 1937. Recalled shortly before the advent of hostilities in 1939, he was employed for the remainder of the War by the Admiralty’s Department of Naval Ordnance at Vickers Armstrong’s Elswick Yard, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was placed back on the Retired List in the rank of Captain (E.), R.N., in 1945-46.

‘They were under the impression we were going to lie in our ditch, shoot the enemy from a distance and they would run away. But I believe we caught the enemy on the hop that day and we had to take the fight to them... I decided the best way to attack was a full-frontal assault. It was my decision to fix bayonets and assault their position.’ (Corporal M. R. Byles, 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales Royal Regiment) The exceptional Iraq ‘Battle of Danny Boy’ M.C. group of six awarded to Corporal M. R. Byles, 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, who was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry on 14 May 2004 when he dismounted his Warrior armoured vehicle and led a full frontal assault with automatic fire, grenades and fixed bayonets to clear an enemy trench system – a comrade of Johnson Beharry, whose Victoria Cross was awarded for bravery during the same extraordinarily action-packed tour, Byles is extensively mentioned in Beharry’s memoir ‘Barefoot Soldier’ and also in Richard Holmes’s compelling account of this renowned 7 month deployment ‘Dusty Warriors’ Military Cross, E.II.R., reverse inscribed ‘24836752 Cpl M. R. Byles, PWRR, 2005’; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24836752 Pte M R Byles R Hamps); N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Former Yugoslavia; Iraq 2003-11, no clasp (24836752 M R Byles PWRR); Jubilee 2002, unnamed as issued; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994 (24836752 Pte M R Byles PWRR) good very fine and better (6) £14,000-£18,000 --- M.C. London Gazette 18 March 2005. The following is extracted from the official recommendation submitted by Lieutenant B. U. Plenge (Officer Commanding, 9 Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment): ‘Report on the actions taken by Corporal Byles on the 14 May 2004 at Danny Boy Permanent Vehicle Check Point: On the afternoon of 14 May 2004 Corporal Byles was travelling in the back of Warrior 30 with Private Beggs. The call sign had been crashed out in response to a mortar attack on camp and subsequent ambush on light call signs from 1st Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. As W30 arrived on the scene to the north of Danny Boy, and to the west of the dual carriageway, Lieutenant Plenge gave the signal to debus and a quick steer to another friendly dismounted call sign (Lance-Corporal Wood, and Privates Rush and Tatawaki). Almost immediately they began to come under sporadic small arms and RPG fire. Corporal Byles was then quick to identify the enemy positions that posed the biggest threat. He issued Battle orders to the section and they broke down into fire-teams. He assessed that the best way to assault the positions was full frontal. This was due to the ground and also to minimise the threat of Blue on Blue [‘friendly fire’] from heavy call signs by remaining clearly visible to them. They then crossed the open ground using fire-team fire and movement. Approximately 10 metres from the position, the order, “Pairs assault” was given by Corporal Byles. At this point the section split with Lance-Corporal Wood assaulting one half and Corporal Byles the other. Bayonets were fixed and grenades and automatic fire was used to clear the 20m long trench position. There were several enemy on the position and 4 Prisoners of War were captured. Almost immediately the trench came under fire from a depth position, previously unseen to the south. The Prisoners of War had to be controlled quickly due to the numbers involved (5 soldiers/4 prisoners) and the pressure of the situation. They were therefore treated roughly as some still resisted, and all were bound with plasicuffs. Corporal Byles then organised a full re-org on the position despite being under effective enemy fire from 5 enemy in depth. He began to engage the enemy and killed 2. A further 1 was killed by chain gun from a Warrior call sign, and the other 2 played dead and were subsequently captured. After a few moments W22, commanded by Sergeant Broome, arrived on the position. At this point Corporl Byles and Private Beggs left the rest of the section to rejoin the other dismounts from his Platoon. They then assisted on the re-org conducted by W33A. Throughout the whole contact Corporal Byles showed immense professionalism under pressure. He showed bravery in the face of the enemy and strong leadership qualities in leading a dangerous assault against a larger enemy position. He is certainly a credit to his Platoon, Company and Cap badge and it is my belief that he should be recognised as such.’ Mark Richard Byles was born in Portsmouth in 1970. Having joined the British Army, he transferred to the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment in June 2003 and was deployed with an advance party of his unit to Iraq in early April 2004. His battalion’s seven month tour of Iraq in 2004, during Operation Telic 4, would be a highly notable deployment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Matt Maer, during which a number of very high profile and dangerous events took place; the Battle of ‘Danny Boy’ and the ‘Siege of CIMIC House’ (CIMIC House was the HQ of British led Civil Military Co-operation) most significant amongst them. In addition, the battalion conducted Operation Waterloo, clearing insurgents from Al Amarah. Large numbers of gallantry awards were won, including Private Johnson Beharry’s Victoria Cross. During that tour, the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment Battlegroup faced the most constant period of conflict of any British Army unit since the Korean War. 1 Mechanised Brigade, within which the Battalion served, fired more small arms ammunition in those six months than the British Army as a whole did in thirty years in Northern Ireland. This Battlegroup in Maysan Province faced over one hundred contacts in one day alone and close to 900 over the duration of the tour. Every member of the Battalion on this operation was in some form of contact. To quote the Commanding Officer, ‘That in itself made it a tour like no other’. Into the crucible Stationed at Camp Abu Naji, Al-Amarah, Iraq, for the duration of the tour, the battalion’s role was to police Maysan Province, of which Al-Amarah is the capital, assisting the Iraq Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) maintain law and order. In implementing this, the earlier operations in Kosovo were intended to serve as a model: a combination of foot patrols, Land Rover patrols and Vehicle Check Points, or VCPs. However, the battalion assumed command of the Province from 1 Light Infantry on Sunday 18 April just as a major backlash against coalition forces by the Mahdi Army loyal to Muqtadar Al-Sadr was getting underway. The situation deteriorated rapidly, with repeated violent attacks in Al Amarah itself and the repelling of an attack on a joint PWRR / Light Infantry patrol in the nearby town of Majar Al Kabir. Corporal Byles’ role whilst in theatre was that of dismount commander - commanding troops following their deployment out of the back of a Warrior tracked armoured vehicle - in C Company. His comrade in C Company, Private Sewell remembered being faced with the reality on the ground soon after arrival: ‘We were deploying on what we believed to be a peace keeping operation. That idea lasted approximately 24 hours. On arriving at the base location, C Company, along with B Company 1 Light Infantry were deployed to the city to deal with an incident that turned from bad to worse in a short space of time... The contact was a definitely a planned ambush on the coalition force callsigns [callsign denoting a group of soldiers] as they moved through the location at that time. Unluckily for the enemy, I d...

Modern and Garden Sculpture: Gerald MooreTotem headCiment fondu on associated capital plinth140cm highPart of the Late Dr Gerald Moore Collection of Paintings and Sculpture

ALLEN & GINTER, printed album, General Government & State Capital Buildings, creasing to cover, G

60 plus Railway Related Books. Publishers include MP, David & Charles, Bradford Barton, Capital Transport, Salamander, BLP etc. Titles include - London Mainline War Damage, More Southern Steam On Shed, Steam Colour Portfolio Southern Region, Scottish Railways Two Decades of Transition. Branch Lines: Seaton & Sidmouth and Horsham. North London Line, Brighton To Worthing, London Underground Steam. Rails To Sheffield Park, Diesels On The Southern, Steam Trails; The Withered Arm. Railway Walks. Atlas Of The World's Railways. Plus Road Vehicles of The GWR etc. Many with dust jackets where applicable. Most GC-VGC. £40-60

Approximately 50 Bus and Commercial Vehicles related books. Publishers including- Capital Transport, TPC, Venture, Ian Allan, MP etc. Titles include- Buses in Britain, British & Trolleybus Systems 'Brighton Hove & District & Southdown'. King Alfred Motor Services. Streets of Brighton. The Heyday of: Maidstone & District, Midlands, Classic Bus. Plus Glory Days: Southdown, Devon General, East Kent, Birmingham City Transport, Wallace Arnold etc. Tillingbourne Bus Story. An Olympic Summer. 11x Bus Annuals/Bus Year Books. LT Service Vehicles, Robert Walker 'Haulage' Ltd. British Lorries 1945-1983, etc. Many with dust jackets where applicable. Most GC-VGC. £40-60

30 Plus Transport Books. Most railway with a few bus related. Published by Strathwood, OPC, Pendragon, Pen & Sword, Ian Allan, Capital etc. Titles include:- Looking Back At- Deltics, Warships and Class 40's. Slam Doors On The Southern, Kings & Castles Of The GWR. Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered II @ III. Steam Trails Through Leicestershire & Rutland. London Midland Steam Twilight. Lancs & Yorks Railway Locomotives. Buses By Design etc. GC-Mint, all with dust jackets where applicable £50-70

A PAIR OF SMALL GREEN AND AUBERGINE YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' SAUCER-DISHESGuangxu six-character marks and of the periodEach dish finely enamelled to the interior with a green and aubergine five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst billowing flame-clouds, the exteriors decorated with flying cranes and wispy clouds, all on a yellow ground. 14.5cm (5 3/4in) diam. (2).Footnotes:清光緒 黃地素三彩雙龍戲珠紋盤一對青花「大清光緒年製」楷書款Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887-1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Margaretha d'Austria Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894–1986).來源：佛朗西斯高·瑪利亞，塔里安利·得·馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968）及馬加烈特·奧地利-托斯卡納女大公，塔里安利·得·馬基奧女侯爵（1894-1986）伉儷收藏Marchese Taliani was a distinguished Italian diplomat who lived through major historical upheavals of the first half of the 20th century, events whose impact affect all to this day. His first diplomatic appointment was to Berlin in 1912; followed by Constantinople in 1913, where during the First World War he negotiated an agreement for the protection of Italian citizens and interests in the (soon to be partitioned) Ottoman Empire. From 1916 to 1919 he served in St Petersburg, and under the privilege of diplomatic immunity was in a unique position to observe and chronicle first-hand the October Revolution, its day by day development, the subsequent fall of Tsarist Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Republic; from 1919 he served in Rome as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; with later assignments to London (1921 - 1923) and again to Constantinople (1924–1928), this time as the Republic of Turkey; from 1929 - 1930 he was in Rome as Head of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; in 1932 he was appointed Italian Ambassador to the Netherlands; in 1938 he was appointed Ambassador to China, where he remained until 1946; and his last diplomatic appointment was in 1951 as Ambassador to Spain until 1952.Sent to China in 1938 as Ambassador to the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, he became an acute - and far from humourless, despite the hardships of everyday life - front line eye-witness of the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Japanese forces captured the capital and attacked Shanghai. When Mussolini recognised Wang Jingwei's Japanese puppet government, Taliani presented his credentials to him. On 8 September 1943, having refused to swear allegiance to the Italian Social Republic (Republic of Salò), he and his wife, the Archduchess Margaretha d'Austria Toscana (1894-1986), were arrested and interned by the Japanese in a concentration camp near Shanghai, where they remained for two years until the end of the war. After the end of hostilities, the new government of Alcide De Gasperi reconfirmed him as Ambassador to China until 1946.Marchese Taliani published three books: Pietrogrado 1917, Milan, 1935; È Morto in Cina, Milan, 1949; and Dopoguerra a Shanghai, Milan, 1958.A related yellow-ground dragon saucer-dish with a very similar motif, but Daoguang seal mark and of the period, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Hong Kong, 1983, p.78, no.61.See a similar pair of yellow-ground green and aubergine enamelled 'dragon' dishes, Guangxu six-characters marks and of the period, which were sold at Bonhams London, 13 May, lot 113.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A SET OF THREE FAMILLE ROSE PLATESQianlong seal marks, Republic PeriodEach enamelled with sparrows amidst bamboo and peony, butterflies, chrysanthemums and prunus, all within a blue border of beaded pendants. 25.7cm (10 1/8in) diam. (3).Footnotes:民國 粉彩花卉紋盤 一組三件礬紅「大清乾隆年製」篆書款Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887-1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Margaretha d'Austria Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894–1986).來源： 佛朗西斯高·瑪利亞，塔里安利·得·馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968）及馬加烈特·奧地利-托斯卡納女大公，塔里安利·得·馬基奧女侯爵（1894-1986）伉儷收藏Marchese Taliani was a distinguished Italian diplomat who lived through major historical upheavals of the first half of the 20th century, events whose impact affect all to this day. His first diplomatic appointment was to Berlin in 1912; followed by Constantinople in 1913, where during the First World War he negotiated an agreement for the protection of Italian citizens and interests in the (soon to be partitioned) Ottoman Empire. From 1916 to 1919 he served in St Petersburg, and under the privilege of diplomatic immunity was in a unique position to observe and chronicle first-hand the October Revolution, its day by day development, the subsequent fall of Tsarist Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Republic; from 1919 he served in Rome as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; with later assignments to London (1921 - 1923) and again to Constantinople (1924–1928), this time as the Republic of Turkey; from 1929 - 1930 he was in Rome as Head of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; in 1932 he was appointed Italian Ambassador to the Netherlands; in 1938 he was appointed Ambassador to China, where he remained until 1946; and his last diplomatic appointment was in 1951 as Ambassador to Spain until 1952.Sent to China in 1938 as Ambassador to the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, he became an acute - and far from humourless, despite the hardships of everyday life - front line eye-witness of the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Japanese forces captured the capital and attacked Shanghai. When Mussolini recognised Wang Jingwei's Japanese puppet government, Taliani presented his credentials to him. On 8 September 1943, having refused to swear allegiance to the Italian Social Republic (Republic of Salò), he and his wife, the Archduchess Margaretha d'Austria Toscana (1894-1986), were arrested and interned by the Japanese in a concentration camp near Shanghai, where they remained for two years until the end of the war. After the end of hostilities, the new government of Alcide De Gasperi reconfirmed him as Ambassador to China until 1946.Marchese Taliani published three books: Pietrogrado 1917, Milan, 1935; È Morto in Cina, Milan, 1949; and Dopoguerra a Shanghai, Milan, 1958.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AN EXTREMELY RARE EMBROIDERED SILK BLUE-GROUND 'DRAGON' RANK BADGEKangxiFinely embroidered in rich couched-gold thread with a central commanding front-facing four-clawed dragon striding in pursuit of a flaming pearl amidst flames and formal four-fold ruyi cloud scrolls, all on a deep midnight-blue satin silk ground, mounted. 38cm (15in) x 37cm (14 1/2in).Footnotes:清康熙 藍地刺繡金龍紋方補Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth, London, purchased in the early 1980's.來源：倫敦Linda Wrigglesworth，購於二十世紀八十年代初No identical example appears to have been published in public collections. Fully embroidered in fine couched-gold thread with a bold powerful front-facing dragon, highly-detailed with large eyes and flowing mane between its horns, the present badge is a rare example dating to the Kangxi reign. The badge shows the prosperous era of the Kangxi emperor's reign using the finest gold thread of the highest quality. In addition, a fine blue thread defines the dragon's scale with original selvedge and border intact. Square badges decorated with a front-facing four-clawed dragon such as the present example were typically reserved for Imperial dukes of the fourth rank. Rank badges decorated with dragons identified members of the Imperial family and princes of the first to eighth ranks. The first four ranks were solely granted to direct male-line descendants of the emperor. The highest six ranks enjoyed the 'Eight Privileges', gifts of the emperor, which included jade books, sets of seals for correspondence, precious stones on the mandarin hat crests, dragon robes and Imperial porcelain wares; see T.A.Wilson, On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius, Boston Ma, 2002, pp.69 and 315. The 'Eight Privileges' entitled the prince to participate in state councils and share the spoils of war. However, the prince was also bound to reside in the capital and render service to the Imperial court.Two badges were normally attached to the costume, respectively to the back and front, which was was split to allow the garment to be buttoned up at the front. The badge system was first introduced in 1391 during the Ming period and continued onto the Qing dynasty, the styles changed according to the taste of the time; see L.Wrigglesworth and G.Dickinson, The Imperial Wardrobe, London, 1990, pp.120-142.Stylistically, the present dragon closely compares with the writhing dragons featured with prominent heads if compared to their bodies, highly-defined round cheeks and flowing mane and whiskers, which decorate the yellow-ground Imperial robe, dated to the early Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum. Costumes and Accessories of the Qing Court, Shanghai, 2006, no.23. See also the dragons within the roundels decorating a blue-ground silk robe, Kangxi, also in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in ibid., no.10, and the dragons decorating a blue-ground man's formal court coat, illustrated by J.Vollmer, Silks for Thrones and Altars. Silk for Thrones and Altars: Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the Liao Through the Qing, Berkeley, 2004, pp.48-49, no.20.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DEER' VASEEarly 18th centuryOf elongated ovoid form surmounted by a short flaring neck and flaring rim, finely painted on the body in vivid tones of cobalt-blue with a scene of a deer and fawn beneath a large gnarled pine tree, two birds flying above, all amidst a mountainous landscape, wood stand. 19cm (7 1/2in) high. (2).Footnotes:十八世紀早期 青花松鹿獻瑞圖瓶Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887 - 1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Margaretha d'Austria Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894–1986).According to Marchese Taliani De Marchio's handwritten inventory, the vase was received as a gift in 1943.來源：意大利王室總督、聖莫里斯和拉撒路勳章司令及皮尤斯九世勳章司令、佛朗西斯高·瑪利亞，塔里安利·德·馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968），及馬加烈特·奧地利-托斯卡納女大公、塔里安利·得·馬基奧女侯爵（1894-1986）伉儷收藏依據塔里安利·得·馬基奧女侯爵的清單手稿，該拍品於1943年作為禮物贈予此家族。Marchese Taliani was a distinguished Italian diplomat who lived through major historical upheavals of the first half of the 20th century, events whose impact affect all to this day. His first diplomatic appointment was to Berlin in 1912; followed by Constantinople in 1913, where during the First World War he negotiated an agreement for the protection of Italian citizens and interests in the (soon to be partitioned) Ottoman Empire. From 1916 to 1919 he served in St Petersburg, and under the privilege of diplomatic immunity was in a unique position to observe and chronicle first-hand the October Revolution, its day by day development, the subsequent fall of Tsarist Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Republic; from 1919 he served in Rome as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; with later assignments to London (1921 - 1923) and again to Constantinople (1924–1928), this time as the Republic of Turkey; from 1929 - 1930 he was in Rome as Head of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; in 1932 he was appointed Italian Ambassador to the Netherlands; in 1938 he was appointed Ambassador to China, where he remained until 1946; and his last diplomatic appointment was in 1951 as Ambassador to Spain until 1952.Sent to China in 1938 as Ambassador to the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, he became an acute - and far from humourless, despite the hardships of everyday life - front line eye-witness of the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Japanese forces captured the capital and attacked Shanghai. When Mussolini recognised Wang Jingwei's Japanese puppet government, Taliani presented his credentials to him. On 8 September 1943, having refused to swear allegiance to the Italian Social Republic (Republic of Salò), he and his wife, the Archduchess Margaretha d'Austria Toscana (1894-1986), were arrested and interned by the Japanese in a concentration camp near Shanghai, where they remained for two years until the end of the war. After the end of hostilities, the new government of Alcide De Gasperi reconfirmed him as Ambassador to China until 1946.Marchese Taliani published three books: Pietrogrado 1917, Milan, 1935; È Morto in Cina, Milan, 1949; and Dopoguerra a Shanghai, Milan, 1958.The Chinese word for deer (lu 鹿), sounds like the word for emolument or an official salary (lu 祿), thus deer are symbolic of the rank and wealth that are associated with such a salary. The word for deer is also a homophone for 'road' and for 'six'. Thus two deer suggest two auspicious phrases: Lulu shunli, 'May all roads be smooth', and Liuliu dashun, 'May everything be smooth sailing'.See a related blue and white 'deer' vase, Qianlong mark and of the period, with similar motif but of different shape, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11 April 2008, lot 2830.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1802A hanshibon-size book, volume 3, from the three volume set of Ehon Azuma Asobi (A Picture Book of the Amusement in the Eastern Capital) depicting subjects associated with seasons in Edo, some pictures accompanied with kyoka poems, consisting of eight double-page and two single-page colour illustrations, publisher's colophon missing, unsigned, each illustration with a later handwritten Dutch inscription in black ink along the top margin.26.5cm x 17.5cm (10 7/16in x 6 7/16in).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GULate Shang DynastyThe tall vessel crisply cast with a flared mouth and pedestal foot, the central section decorated in relief with a band enclosing two taotie masks between narrow bowstring borders and two narrow bands of circles, the upper band below a further bowstring band, the foot cast with a pictogram within a shaped cartouche, the smooth mottled-green patina with scattered cuprite encrustations. 25.7cm (10in) high.Footnotes:商晚期 青銅饕餮紋觚The inscription reads 亞獏父丁 'Yamo fuding [made as sacrifice to] ancestor Fuding of Yamo family'Provenance: Liang Shangchun (active 1930-1940s)Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), New YorkStephen Junkunc III (d.1978), IllinoisChristie's New York, 21 September 1995, lot 294An important European private collectionPublished and Illustrated: Liang Shangchun, Yanku jijin tulu (Illustrated Catalogue of Archaic Bronzes in Yanku Collection), Beijing, 1944, fig.1.51R.W.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Cambridge, 1987, p.303, fig.49.12The Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Yinzhou jinwen jicheng (A Compendium of the Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions), Beijing, 1984-94, no.7231T.Wang and Y.Liu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, p.234Z.F. Wu, Shangzhou qingtong ji mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Corpus of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang & Zhou Dynasties, Shanghai, 2016, vol.24, p.131, pl.13217來源：梁上椿舊藏紐約亞瑟・M.賽克勒（1913-1987年）舊藏伊利諾伊州史蒂芬・瓊肯三世（1978年逝）舊藏紐約佳士得，1995年9月21日，拍品編號294歐洲重要私人收藏出版著錄：梁上椿，《巖窟吉金圖錄》，北京，1944年，圖版1.51R.W.Bagley，《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections》，英國劍橋，1987年，頁303，圖版49.12中國社會科學院考古研究所，《殷周金文集成》，北京，1984-94年，編號7231汪濤，劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，頁234吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，上海，2016年，卷24，頁131，圖版13217Remarkable for its tall, elegant shape and complex high-relief decoration with leiwen spirals, this gu is an outstanding example of the late Shang dynasty.Gu vessels were used as sacrificial wine receptacles and were among the most important objects used in State rituals during the late Shang dynasty. Although reference to the name gu is frequently found in early ritual texts, it became associated with the present vessel type in the catalogues of antiquities produced by Song dynasty scholars (960-1279). The shape appears to have originated in pottery production of the Neolithic period, which came in various sizes and shapes. The bronze version, however, probably emerged in the Erligang period (c.1510-1460 BC) and became popular during the Yinxu period (1250-1192 BC), when it became an important component of ritual vessels. While gu vessels produced during the early phases of the Shang dynasty were short and stout, decorated with simple taotie designs merely suggested by eyes amidst linear decoration, the refinement of shape and ornamentation took place towards the later phases of the Shang dynasty, as bronze-casting technique gained in skill and experience. By the time that the Shang capital moved from Zhengzhou to Anyang in Henan Province, gu vessels depicted more detailed taotie designs, which were often complemented with new animal shapes. While retaining some early features of the Erligang phase of the Shang dynasty, notably the sturdy trumpet-shaped body, the finely-detailed and lively taotie masks depicted with bulging eyes on the frieze convey a distinctive sculptural appearance and point to a casting finesse more typical of the later phases of the Shang dynasty. A number of comparable examples of gu vessels dating to the late Shang period have been excavated in Henan, Shanxi, Hubei and Anhui Provinces. Compare with a related bronze gu vessel, 13th-11th century, displaying a similarly-shaped body and taotie decoration on the frieze, illustrated by Wang Tao, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 2009, p.39, no.13. See also another archaic bronze gu vessel, Late Shang Dynasty, from the collection of Mr and Mrs Kress, Finland, illustrated by P.K.M.Kwok, Dialogue with the Ancients. 100 Bronzes of the Shang, Zhou, and Han Dynasties. The Shen Zhai Collection, Singapore, 2018, pp.222-223, no.42C.another bronze gu vessel, 13th century BC, illustrated by R.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington DC, 1987, pp.258-9, no.40. A related bronze gu vessel, late Shang dynasty, was sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2010, lot 1472.觚，為盛酒之禮器，是商周宗廟祭祀的代表器之一。此種器型始見於新石器時代陶器，商早期二里崗上層出土了現存最早的青銅觚，至商晚期逐漸盛行，殷墟有大量出土。商早期的青銅觚矮而寬，紋飾簡單，之後器型不斷變細加高，頸部腹部逐漸收束，兩者直徑趨於一致，裝飾紋樣也益發繁複。本器侈口，長頸，中腹微鼓，圈足外撇，足底直緣。腹飾獸面紋，獸眼鼓脹凸出，上下飾連珠紋帶，是商晚期的典型器物。類似商晚期的例子於河南、山西、湖北和安徽等地多有出土。對比一件公元前十三至十一世紀青銅觚，器型及紋飾與本例相似，收錄於汪濤著，... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large gold-splashed bronze tripod incense burner, dingXuande six-character mark, 17th/18th centuryThe incense burner of compressed bombé form, cast with two upright handles, decorated on the exterior with scattered and irregular gold splashes, the base with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark. 26cm (10 2/8in) diam.Footnotes:十七/十八世紀 銅灑金沖天耳爐「大明宣德年製」楷書款Provenance: Christie's Paris, 9 June 2015, lot 220 An important European private collection來源：巴黎佳士得，2015年6月9日，拍品編號220歐洲重要私人收藏The form of the present incense burner is likely inspired by one of the most classic bronze shapes produced during the Xuande period (1426-1437). These shapes in turn were drawn from the range of objects depicted in the 'Illustrations of Antiquities in the Xuanhe Hall', Xuanhe Xuanhe bogutu, and other antiquarian texts; while some others were modelled on fine specimens of ceramics of the Northern Song period (960-1127).Vessels modelled after archaic shapes, such as the present example, were designated for use in the sacrificial altars located outside of the capital, at Imperial ancestral temples and within court palaces; however, they were also presented to princely households and meritorious officials. Incense burners were also used by the literati to decorate the tables and shelves in their studio and burn fragrant incense for creating a contemplative atmosphere. For a Xuande mark and period tripod incense burner see P.Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes. The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collection, Saint Louis, 2008, p.137, no.38. A gold-splashed incense burner, 18th century, of similar shape to the present example but slightly smaller in size, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2019, lot 3658.口沿微侈，收頸，鼓腹，底近平，下承三乳足。口沿上起一對雙沖耳，稍稍外傾，耳孔半圓。爐底有減地陽文「大明宣德年製」六字楷書款。宣德三年，明宣宗敕令工部及禮部等官員利用暹羅貢銅鑄造鼎彝之事；這批宣德爐形制參考《宣和博古圖錄》等史籍，以及宋代名窯瓷器之款式，開後世銅爐先河。本器應為參照宣德爐最為經典的器型之一仿製而成。形如本例的沖天耳爐，端莊中正，常見於內壇郊社宗廟祭祀之用，亦用於賞賜皇親國戚和功臣顯貴。而沿襲宋人情趣、將焚香尊為「文人四事」之一的歷代文人雅士，則將為祭拜之用的香爐帶入書齋雅集，於氤氳之境得閒逸之情。參考一例明宣德沖耳爐，見P.Hu著，《Later Chinese Bronzes. The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collection》，聖路易，2008年，頁137，編號38。另見一例十八世紀銅灑金沖天耳爐，形似本例，售於香港蘇富比，2019年10月8日，拍品編號3658。For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, YULate Shang Dynasty, 13th-12th century BCThe deep rounded sides crisply cast in high relief with four large taotie masks separated by vertical notched flanges, separating confronted birds on the pedestal foot, the pairs of similar birds below the everted rim divided by small animal masks, all reserved on leiwen bands, with a mottled milky-green patina and some buff earth encrustation, the base cast with two pictograms reading Jiran 己冉. 25.5cm (10in) diam.Footnotes:商晚期 青銅饕餮紋己冉盂Provenance: Kaikodo, New York, Autumn 2001A European private collectionChristie's New York, 21 September 2004, lot 153An important European private collectionPublished: Kaikodo Journal, New York, Autumn 2001, no.52, pp.184-185 and 332-335.來源：美國紐約古董商懷古堂，2001年秋歐洲私人舊藏紐約佳士得，2004年9月21日，拍品編號153歐洲重要私人收藏出版著錄：《懷古堂圖錄》，紐約，2001年秋，編號52，頁184-185及332-335This vessel has an inscription cast in the interior with two characters reading Jiran 己冉, which relates to the powerful clan for which the vessel was produced. The present piece is notable and rare for its exceptionally large size, the swelling volume and the crisp decoration of taotie masks beneath a band of bovine heads interspersed in relief amidst kui dragons.Archaic bronze food vessels, yu are among the most highly prized and technically sophisticated objects manufactured in Bronze Age China. Reserved for use by the most powerful families of the time, they carried offerings of grain and vegetables presented to the ancestors during the performance of elaborate rituals and were often accompanied in burials by tripod vessels, ding. The role of these elaborate bronze vessels was fundamental in ensuring the continuity of family lines, as it was believed that ancestors were active participants in the life of their living offspring, which they could positively influence if provided with continuous nourishment.The extant number of skilfully-made vessels in ancient China testifies to a highly-organised bronze casting industry at the time. Hundreds of men were employed in mining, smelting and transporting metal from mining areas to the capital and the workshops. In addition, the large quantities of material required and the many stages involved in the casting process depended upon subdividing the tasks among a large number of workmen. No single craftsman contributed to every stage in the production of a particular vessels. Workshops were therefore large in size and specialised mould-makers, casters and finishers were required to make the vessels; see J.Rawson, 'Bronze Metal Circulation in China' in Antiquity, vol.91, issue 357, 2017, pp.674-687.Yu vessels were popular during the late Shang dynasty, particularly during the Yinxu period (circa 13th-11th centuries BC). The physical form of the yu, consisting of a round body rising from a splayed foot, may have derived from a pottery prototype. Unlike the food vessels gui that were prevalent during the succeeding Western Zhou dynasty, yu do not have ring handles. Oracle-bone inscriptions dating to the Shang dynasty depict the yu vessel as a pictograph depicting a food container with a hand holding a spoon, and according to research, this vessel was used specifically for making offering of grains and vegetables, and was often paired with the tripod ding vessels storing cooked meat of various kinds.Bronze vessels dating to the Shang dynasty were often cast with pictograms, such as the present example. These symbols included birds, weapons or humanoid figures, and usually referred to the names of either the aristocratic owners who commissioned the vessels, or the ancestors to whom the vessel was dedicated.The three basic designs employed on the present vessel, comprising alternating bands decorated with taotie and kui dragons interspersed with bovine heads, are often found on vessels belonging to the highest-ranking members of society, dating to the later phases of the Shang dynasty. The tomb of Fu Hao (d.circa 1200 BC), favourite consort of the Shang emperor Wu Ding, for example, yielded a bronze yu vessel decorated with similar schemes to the present example, and is illustrated by J.So, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington DC, 1987, p.499, fig.96.5. A related bronze yu vessel, Shang dynasty, formerly in the collection of Dr.A.F. Philips, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2011, lot 14.器內鑄「己冉」二字銘文。己應為日名，冉則為族徽文字，表明器主所在的族氏。盂為青銅禮器中的盛食器，多見侈口深腹圈足，有獸首耳或附耳，少量無耳，器形似簋而大。中英文世界對此類器物定名不一，此處沿用盂的叫法。「盂」字自甲骨文起就以像形造字，形似一手持勺於食物容器之上。學者研究認為，盂一般用於存放黍稷等穀物和蔬菜，常與盛放肉類的鼎搭配使用。盂最早出現於商晚期前段，流行於西周，春秋時期尚有所見。此例直口寬唇無耳，屬商晚期典型器型。深腹，近底內斂，下有高圈足外撇。頸部與圈足均飾相對變形夔紋，腹部主體紋飾為饕餮紋，怒目圓睜，與頸部中心的高浮雕牛首相輔相成。整體紋飾以雷紋填底，多層次的淺浮雕線條勁利，渾然天成。本例的獨特紋飾，即器身交替出現的饕餮和夔紋飾帶，以及中心的浮雕牛首裝飾，常見於商代晚期高級貴族之用具。商王武丁之寵... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A PAIR OF MEDIEVAL CARVED SANDSTONE CORBELS, each carved with female faces, one with a column capital the other with stylised flowers. 19ins and 21ins long.

A pair of large carved, stripped cedar columns, of ionic order, each 279cm highProvenance: Previously from a Private CollectionCondition Report: Marks, scuffs, scratches and abrasions consistent with age and useLosses to both: One column with chips and losses to the base of the carved column where it meets the plinth. The other column with a chip approx 50cm up from base of carved column, and elsewhere, and where where it meets the plinth, more extensive damage and to the plinth base. One capital detached.Scuffing, cracks, chips and losses to the plinth bases.Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition Condition Report Disclaimer

Louis Philip Joseph (Duke d'Orleans). Description des principales Pierres Gravees du Cabinet de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, Premier Prints du Sang, 2 volumes, Paris: Chez M. l'Abbe de la Chau & M. l'Abbe Le Blond, 1780-84 (colophon vol. 2: 1785), engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece to volume 1, half-title to volume 2, vignette to titles, 177 engraved plates of 179 (repaired closed tear to first plate in volume 2, also without the 7 Spintrian figures appearing in extremely rare editions), several engraved vignettes, bookplate of Patricia A. Milne-Henderson to upper pastedowns, near contemporary quarter red morocco, gilt monogram at foot of spines comprising two capital Gs (2nd inverted) with crown above at foot of spines, cloth sides, slight wear at foot of spines, folioQty: (2)Provenance: Patricia Milne-Henderson (1935-2018), art historian.NOTESCohen 542-543. This work was written by Abbot Géraud de la Chau, librarian of the cabinet of engraved stones of the Duke of Orleans, and Abbot Gaspard Michel, known as Le Blond, deputy librarian of the Mazarin college. It forms a catalogue of the impressive collection of antique engraved stones kept by Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1747-1793), later sold to Catherine II of Russia.

Lunardi (Vincenzo). An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England, in a series of letters to his guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, written under the impressions of the various events that affected the undertaking, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the Author: and sold at the Pantheon, 1784, half-title, with autograph signature in brown ink of the author Vincent Lunardi, stipple engraved portrait of the author by Bartolozzi after Richard Cosway, 2 folding engraved plates, publisher's advertisement to verso of final leaf, early 19th-century ownership stamp of John Clifton to verso of front endpaper, marbled endpapers, with later bookplate of Sir T. Talbot L. Scarisbrick, Bt., to front pastedown, all edges gilt, near-contemporary red full morocco gilt, spine lettered in gilt Lunardi's Voyage, and with capital letter A at head, very slightly rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Talbot Clifton (1819-1882) of Lytham Hall, Lytham, Lancashire, M.P. for North Lancashire, High Sherrif of Lancashire, and Justice of the Peace; Sir Thomas Talbot Leyland Scarisbrick (1874-1933), 1st Baronet, Mayor of Southport, 1902-03, Justice of the Peace, and M.P. for South Dorset, 1906-10. Italian Diplomat Vincenzo Lunardi (1759-1806) made the first British ascent in a hydrogen balloon on 15 September 1784.

A French gilt bronze mounted, ebonised and inlaid portico clock, c1840, the brass dial with breguet hands and subsidiary seconds dial, having bell striking movement with outside count wheel, the columns with milled capital and base, on stepped plinth and bun feet, 47cm h Much encrusted with dirt and oily / nicotine / dust, no pendulum

GERMANY -- (SOLIGNAC, P.J. de la PIMPIE de, or D.-F. de MERVEILLEUX). Amusemens des eaux de Schwalsbach, des bains de Wisbaden et de Schlangenbad. Avec deux relations curieuses; l'une de la Nouvelle Jerusalem; et l'autre d'une partie de la Tartarie Independante. Liège, Everard Kints, 1739. (8), 320 pp. W. ti-p. in red and black w. a woodcut vign., 4 fold. engr. plates (a map of Bad Schwalbach, a map and a fortification plan of "Nouvelle Jerusalem" (= Mannheim), and a view of "Mont Payen" (= Heidelberg)). Cont. cf. w. dec. gilt back & red label. (Lge-fold. plate a bit browned on fold, a few small stains in places). NOTE:Second edition of a daring French satire of the German court of the Elector Palatine Karl Philipp (1661-1742), who moved the Palatinate's capital from Heidelberg (here Mont Payen) to the new city of Mannheim (here New Jerusalem) in 1720. The first edition appeared in 1738. As the title suggests, the story revolves around the mineral baths of Langen-Schwalbach (now Bad Schwalbach, near Wiesbaden), where members of the court took cures and enjoyed themselves, but it is mostly concerned with anecdotes about food, drink and pretty girls, though it also discusses matters of war, exotic lands, religion and freemasonry. The book is generally credited to the Frenchmen David François de Merveilleux (1665?-1748) or Pierre Joseph de La Pimpie de Solignac (1687-1773).

JAPAN -- KAEMPFER, E. Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'Empire du Japon. Et trad. en François de J-G. Scheuchzer. The Hague, P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1732. 3 vols. (4), lxx, (2), 312; (6), 416; (4), 379, (17) pp. W. engr. front. & 13 fold. maps/plans (w. a few small tears). 12°. Fine cont. cf. w. richly dec. gilt backs, sides ruled in gilt, brown labels & red edges. (Slightly browned/foxed in places, else a fine set). NOTE:Engelbrecht Kämpfer (1651-1716), German traveller and physician, became secretary to the embassy which Charles XI. sent through Russia and Persia in 1683. In 1684 he arrived in Isfahan, then the Persian capital. In 1685 he joined the fleet of the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) in the Persian Gulf as chief surgeon. After seeing something of Arabia and India, he arrived in Batavia in 1689 where he studied Javanese natural history. In May 1690 he set out for Japan as physician to the embassy sent yearly to that country by the Dutch. He stayed two years in Japan and elicited much valuable information. At his death the unpublished mss. were purchased by Sir Hans Sloane, and conveyed to England. Among them was his History of Japan, translated from the ms. by J.G. Scheuchzer and published at London in 1727. The original German version has never been published. - First French edition appeared in 1729, this is the second 12°-edition (first 1731). - Cordier 417; Landwehr, VOC, 533 (ed. H. Uytwerf).

Two pairs of similar Victorian silver pillar candlesticks, with corinthian columns, on square stepped loaded bases, Sheffield 1893, 23.5cm high, and London 1895, 22.5cm high (4)Condition report: One pair with inscribed bases 'From Major C.T.E Metcalfe' and other Officers. Some dented corners to the bases of this pair and one with loose iron base insert.The larger pair with only minor wear to the decoration and small knocks to the capital corners below the sconce on one.

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION: 1- Guthrie, W: A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World. Dublin, J Exshaw, 1794. With 24 of 25 mostly folding Maps (lacking the map of Ireland). Cont. full calf; rubbed; a couple of maps with edges frayed; the frontis map with tear to margin; 2- Neale, F A: Narrative of a Residence at the Capital of the Kingdom of Siam. Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. With a frontis, Map, 2 plates Plus text illustrations (as listed). Original embossed boards; spine faded; 3- Volney, M: Travels Through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785. Volume 2 only of 2. Robinson, 1787, 1st. edn. With a folding plan Plus 2 folding plates. Cont. full calf rubbed; 4- Bell, J: Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to Various Parts of Asia. Dublin, 1764, with a folding map. 387pp. Cont. full calf; upper cover detached; 5- Macmillan: Four years in the white north. Boston, Medici Soc. 1925; 6- Kent, Rockwell: N by E. NY, Literary Guild, 1930; Plus: 10 others similar. (16)

Approximately one hundred and ninety 78 records with Parlophone, Decca, Melodisc, Capital, Esquire, etc, including blues, jazz, ragtime, swing, including Woody Herman and the New Third Herd, Earl Hines & his orchestra, Lonnie Johnson, Artie Shaw and his strings, comedy, classical, Stan Freberg, Danny Kaye, Humphrey Littleton and his Band, Louis Armstrong, Glen Miller, also a group of small size Nicole Records.Provenance: The Norman Roland Collection of Mechanical Music.

A SET OF FOUR BRONZE-INSET BLACK LACQUER 'CALLIGRAPHIC' PANELSMid Qing DynastyEach panel inlaid with bronze characters, narrating a section of Ban Gu's Preface to the Two Capitals Rhapsody, all within stylised angular scrollwork borders and mounted frames with key-frets outlined in gilt, set with gilt-bronze fittings at the top.Each 65.7cm (25 7/8in) high. (4).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清中期 黑漆嵌銅片「兩都賦」掛屏Ban Gu (32-92 AD) was an historian, stateman and poet. He is best known for compiling the Book of Han, the second of China's twenty-four dynastic histories, after Sima Qian's Shiji. Ban Gu was also a poet who mainly wrote in the fu rhapsody form, a literary form that was part poetry and part prose. The inscription on the present lot is the preface to his rhapsody. It reads:...之，蓋奏御者千有餘篇，而後大漢之文章，炳焉... 舊式，國家之遺美，不可闕也。臣竊或以抒下情...同見海內清平，朝廷無事，京師宮室，浚城隍，而起苑囿，以備制度。節兩都賦壹鼎。The fu describes the palaces of the Western Capital Chang'an (modern Xi'an) and the Eastern Capital Luoyang, and the activities of the Court during rituals, banquets, dances, and Imperial hunts. It is a praise of the glory of the Han dynasty and its courtiers and ministers, and can be interpreted to represent the glorification of China's ancient part.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE GOLD-HANDLED BRONZE SCHOLAR'S KNIFEWarring States Period The slightly curved thin blade narrowed to a short handle, with a thick gold oval-shaped loop attached to the end, the blade and handle both encrusted with malachite, box.17.4cm (6 7/8in) long. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國 鎦金環首青銅書刀Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2008, no.6出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2008年，編號6A very similar bronze knife dating from the Spring and Autumn period, excavated in 1977 from Gaozhuang M18, Fengxiang (site of a Qin capital), and now in the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Institute, is discussed by J.Portal, The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army, London, 2007, p.64, no.30, fig.54, where it is noted that knives of this kind were used by officials for scraping off mistakes made when writing on wood or bamboo slips, as shown by the detail from a terracotta official, fig.53, no.24, of such a knife hanging from the belt. For such knives in bronze with gold handles, Warring States period, see The Art of the Warring States Period, Osaka, 1991, p.101, no.144; and Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Da Quan (Bronze volume), Hong Kong, 1994, p.271, no.976.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A BRONZE POURING VESSEL, YITang DynastyThe shallow vessel standing on a short spreading foot rising to gently rounded sides and a waisted everted mouth with a shallow plain spout at one side, the surface with a dark patina and malachite encrustations.21.5cm (8 1/2in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價唐 銅匜Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2006, no.13.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2006年，編號13A similar silver-gilt vessel unearthed from Hejiacun, Xi'an, in 1970, and now in the collection of the Shaanxi Historical Museum, is illustrated in Treasures of Chang'an: Capital of the Silk Road, Hong Kong, 1993, pp.134-135, no.42. See also another example illustrated in Tin-Bronze of China, Izumi, 1999, no.135.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TWO PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF A GROOM AND A COURT LADYTang DynastyThe groom modelled with hands positioned as if holding reins, dressed in a long loose robe secured at the waist with a sash, 39cm (15 3/8in) high; the lady standing gracefully in the fashionable demeanour with hands brought in front of her chest, wearing long robes, her head modelled with plump cheeks and hair tied in two side knots, 32.5cm (12 6/8in) high.(2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價唐 陶仕女俑 及馬夫立俑 一組兩件Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: R.Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2002, no.39 (the groom)展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2002年，編號39（馬夫立俑）The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.C101r89 dated 26 July 2001, is consistent with the dating of this lot. (the groom)Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測結果（2001年7月26日，編號C101r89）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。（馬夫立俑）For a related figure of a groom unearthed in Sanyuan County in 1985, see Treasures of Chang'an: Capital of the Silk Road, Hong Kong, 1993, pp.150-151, no.50. See another example illustrated by Feng Hejun, Collections of the Palace Museum: Pottery Figures, Beijing, 2007, no.131.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

* GERARD M BURNS, RED COAT IN THE CITY (GLASGOW) oil on canvas, signed 60cm x 60cm Framed. Note: The typical gallery price for a Gerard Burns 60 x 60cm painting is £3500. Note 2: Gerard Burns is one of Scotland's best known and most successful living artists. He trained at Glasgow School of Art and achieved UK wide acclaim as Winner of the Daily Mail ''Not the Turner'' Competition in 2003 with a £20,000 first prize. His many private collectors include The Malaysian Royal Family, Ewan McGregor, Sir Tom Hunter and numerous celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, sport and politics. Exhibiting Galleries include: Thompson's Gallery, London; Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Eton; Richmond Hill Gallery, Loch Gallery, Toronto; Robertson's Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh. Works in Corporate Collections include: Aberdeen Asset Management New York and Aberdeen, RBS Scotland, Standard Charter Bank, West Coast Capital, Accenture, Dublin, Stagecoach Group, Norwood Club, New York. National Public Collections include: Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow; Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow; Burns Museum Alloway, Ayr; Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Portraits of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, and author Denise Mina entered into the permanent collection at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2015). The Scottish Parliament (''The Rowan'' hung in the former First Minister Alex Salmond's office for the duration of his tenure and Portrait of Margo McDonald entered into the permanent collection and installed at the Scottish Parliament in Sept 2016). Glasgow Caledonian University Portrait of Chancellor Professor Yunus installed 2016, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow. Portrait of former President Frank Dunn installed April 2016. Recent portraits include Judy Murray, Nicola Surgeon (First Minister, Scotland), Neil Lennon, Kirsty Wark, Alan Cumming, Billy Connolly, Elaine C Smith, Doddie Weir & Sir Brian and Lady Soutar.

London Tram & Trolleybus Conductor's METROPOLITAN STAGE CARRIAGE BADGE T 17720. Equivalent to PSV licence badges, these were issued from 1935-1962 for electric traction in the capital. In good, ex-use condition. [1]

Capital Transport BOOK 'THE LONDON LT' by Ken Blacker, the definitive history of this classic London bus class. Published in 2010 and quickly out of print, this book is now seldom seen. This copy is as new. [1]

Trio of Capital Transport BOOKS by Ken Blacker comprising the definitive histories of the RT (The Story of a London Bus), (2nd edition 1980), 'The London ST' (2012) and 'The London T Types' (2015). All are in as-new condition. [3]

Louis Seize chest of drawersabout 1800Louis Seize Kommode. Um 1800. Nadelholz, furniert mit verschiedenen Hölzern (Esche, Ahorn, Ebenholz). 3 Schübe. Bandintarsien. Platte zusätzlich mit oval intarsiertem Medaillon. An den Ecken Viertel-Säulen mit profiliertem Kapitell. 76 x 103 x 54 cm. Originaler Erhaltungszustand mit originalen Schlössern. Louis Seize chest of drawersabout 1800Louis Seize chest of drawers. Around 1800. Softwood, veneered with different types of wood (ash, maple, ebony). 3 drawers. Ribbon inlays. The plate with an additional oval inlaid medallion. Quarter columns with a profiled capital at the corners. 76 x 103 x 54 cm. Original condition with original locks.

Classical figure - female bathing raised on an ionic capital base, 150 cm in height

Two fluted plaster work columns, one with ionic capital, 240 cm and 230 cm

A Victorian style black painted wrought iron and brass three-quarter size bedstead, having twin iron side rails (lacking one turned brass capital)

WHISKY OF 1990 Blended Scotch Whisky Bottled by Whyte & Mackay to commemorate Glasgow as the Culture Capital of Europe in 1990. 75cl, 40% volume.

Hasegawa Sadanobu (Japanese 1809-1879): 'Autumn Scene at K�dai-ji Temple', woodblock print from the 'Famous Places in the Capital' series c.1870/71, 18cm x 25cmClick here to view further images, condition reports, sale times & delivery costs for this lot.

A pair of Continental limestone columns, 20th century, each carved with an Ionic voluted capital above a fluted shaft, waisted socle and square base, 237cm high, the capital 45cm squareBidders from the UK and outside of the European Union should be aware that additional import charges may applyCondition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches, scuffs, abrasions consistent with age and use. The condition of the columns overall appears to be good. There are, however, some small damages on the base of one of the column shafts. Also one of the capitals has a restoration to the scrolling element Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition Condition Report Disclaimer

A French emaille enamel decorated twin handled urn, late 19th century, attributed to E. Paris & Cie, Paris, of ovoid form with knopped rim, each handle above a lion's mask, 49cm high, 54cm wideBidders from the UK and outside of the European Union should be aware that additional import charges may applyThe highly renowned firm of Charles-Emile Paris specialised in the manufacture of crystal glass, enamelled and mosaic embellished products. The crystal making and enamelling firm was founded in 1827 or1829 at rue de Bercy by his father, Jean-Alexandre Paris, who was the jeweller goldsmith of the Palais Royal. In 1867 Charles-Emile Paris left the Parisian site due to the new law forbidding the emission of industrial smoke in the capital, and founded a new factory at Le Bourget (Seine) at the site of a Louis XV hunting lodge. The new plant was destroyed during the war of 1870 and ruined Charles-Emile Paris; he had to sell the land in order to rebuild the factory on the leased site. The business was successful and the number of employees grew steadily and subsequently a retail shop was opened at rue de Paradis in the 10th arrondissement of Paris in 1876It was a dynamic and innovative firm, which ensured its success. Among the most notable and prestigious of its achievements was the supply of enamels (1847) for the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides, decorative mosaic enamels at the Casino de Monte-Carlo (1879), and winning a number of highly prestigious awards at the Paris International Exhibitions in 1867, 1878 and 1889 in various categories. Charles-Emile Paris also specialised in making elegant enamelled cast iron urns and jardinieres for the display of plants in conservatories. A near pair of these were sold at Dreweatts, The Spirit of the Country House, 4th November 2020, lot 304 for £9,500

BIBLIA LATINA.[Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch, in part for Anton Koberger, not after 1480]. First edition Latin Bible with the Glossa Ordinaria, 4 volumes, a composite set, imperial folio, bindings vary, but with Hebrews bound at the end of the New Testament, and quires containing I Corinthians 8-15 reversed in binding with Romans XV-I Corinthians VII, with contemporary note in red directing the reader 8 leaves forward or back. 1210 (of 1211, without final blank) leaves. Initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, initial B opening Psalms in vol. II with a painted miniature of David playing the harp, illuminated in silver (oxidized) and gold, initials in vol. IV in red and blue, occasional light dampstaining, upper blank margin of first leaf cropped, damp affecting first and final upper corners of volume I without loss of text, small wormtracks in final quires of vol. II affecting some letters, small wormholes in vol. IV touching some letters. Not uniformly bound: vols. I, III in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, (lacking clasps), later spine labels and oval onlay with gilt arms of Marie-Augusta de Sulzbach; vol. II: contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vellum MS pastedowns and quire-guards, leather index tabs, traces of chain staple (darkened, somewhat worn, wormed); vol. IV in early 16th-century pigskin over wooden boards, roll-tooled (lacking clasps) (4)

A large vintage 20th century Philips 1:24000000 scale school colour map of the world having wooden bars to the top and bottom. Map contains capital and significant cities, air routes, maps of the Arctic and Antarctic and more. Measures 120cm x 175cm

John Major and Chris Patten signed FDC featuring images of Big Ben the English Capital Landmark and also the Eifel Tower the French Capital Landmark. Signed Full Set. Postmark 06. 04. 04. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

A silver gilt coloured and steel backed photo frame from Tehran City Council to Iskander Mizra, circa 1950s, the top with Republic of Pakistan flags set with circular cut emeralds and eight cut diamonds above a twin headed bull Corinthian capital, taken from the audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes at Persepolis, above porcelain painted portraits of President Iskander Mirza and his wife Begum Nahid Iskander Mirza, the base with additional ancient Persian iconography from the city of Persepolis, including winged lion guards with human heads, and a civic building behind a lion standing above a key to the centre, above inscription in Farsi, 25cm (9 3/4in) high Condition Report: One emerald missing from the flagTwo pieces of silver gilt missing from either side of the borderLosses and wear to the portraits, possibly from cleaning Some of the silver gilt lifting from the backingStands wellLight scratches and wear commensurate with age and useCondition Report Disclaimer

A quantity of Liverpool FC 2005-06 Season football programmes comprising Premier League: Everton home and away, Middlesbrough home and away, West Bromwich Albion home and away, Newcastle United home and away, Arsenal home and away, Birmingham City home and away, Wigan Athletic home and away, Charlton Athletic home and away, Chelsea home and away, Bolton Wanderers home and away, Manchester City home and away, Manchester United home and away, Tottenham Hotspur home and away, Aston Villa home and away, Portsmouth home and away, West Ham United home and away, Fulham home and away, Sunderland home and away, Blackburn Rovers home and away, FA Cup: Portsmouth away, Manchester United home, Luton Town away, Birmingham City away, Chelsea Semi Final (x2), Final vs West Ham United (x2), League Cup: Crystal Palace away, Champions League: Chelsea home (x2) and away, Real Betis home (x2), Anderlecht home (x3), FBK Kaunas home (x2), Total Network Solutions home (x2), CSKA Sofia (x2), Benfica home (x2), pre-season/other: 17th Anniversary of Hillsborough pamphlet, Monaco Super Cup vs PFC CSKA Moscow, Wrexham away, FA Youth Cup Final, Liverpool European Capital of Culture 1986 FA Cup Final 'Replay' (approx 70 programmes in total). CONDITION REPORT Some light wear, but generally good condition.

KARL MAX CAPITAL IN THREE VOLUMES (VARIOUS EDITIONS) - FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE MOSCOW VOLUME 1 - 1961 VOLUME 2 - 1957 VOLUME 3 - 1962

C. 2nd-1st millennium BC. A spectacular ram-shaped bronze oil lamp. The ramp stands foursquare, looking forward. Large, curved horns, project from its head. On its back is a large filling hole with an out-turned rim and the remains of a hinge for the lid. The ram's long legs terminate in carefully modelled feet. A length cylindrical spout with an upturned end juts out from its chest. Bactra was the Greek name for the area of modern Balkh, in what is now northern Afghanistan and Margiana was the Greek name for the Persian satrapy of Margu, the capital of which was Merv, in today's Turkmenistan. This civilisation was contemporary with the European Bronze Age, and was characterised by monumental architecture, social complexity and extremely distinctive cultural artefacts that vanish from the record a few centuries after they first appear. Trade appears to have been important, as Bactrian artefacts appear all over the Persian Gulf as well as in the Iranian Plateau and the Indus Valley. Excellent condition; beautiful patina. Provenance: Important London collection of Ancient art; formed in 1970s then passed by descent. Size: L:205mm / W:240mm ; 1.6kg

Ca. 618-906 AD. Tang Dynasty. A finely moulded Tang Dynasty terracotta figurine of a female court attendant, depicted standing in an attentive manner wearing a long dress, with a light coloured top. Her hands are hidden in long sleeves. She is wearing the traditional Tang Dynasty court attire, known as ruqun. Her facial features consists of thin, slightly arched eyebrows, narrow eyes and a pointed nose all outlined in black pigment. Light reddish-pink pigment has been applied on her cheeks and her small mouth has been painted in red pigment. Her hair is neatly combed into a coiffure consisting of a high topknot. The Tang dynasty was largely a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule, until the An Lushan Rebellion and the decline of central authority in the later half of the dynasty. Grave goods were an important status symbol in ancient China, so the affluent and important would be accompanied in their travels through the afterlife with numerous depictions of people, items and animals. Such terracotta figures were made for the service and entertainment of the owner, ensuring that their journey in the underworld was a happy one. Terracotta tomb attendants seemed to have first appeared during the Western Han Dynasty. However, it is during Tang China that the cultural tradition of displaying wealth in elite tombs reached its peak, with an increased production of terracotta statuettes. The Tang Dynasty was a thrilling time in Chinese history, when trade flourished along the Silk Routes and unified China was the richest country on earth. Chang'an (now Xi'an) was the Tang capital, and it was one of the most cosmopolitan cities on earth, filled with foreigners who had travelled to China to trade; the influence of foreigners and talented native Chinese, combined with the economic prosperity brought on by trade and the new religion from India, Buddhism, created a powerful cultural milieu where poetry and other forms of art flourished. Provenance: From the private collection of D. Ruskin, Oxfordshire; formerly in a British collection formed in the 1990s on the UK / International art markets. Size: L:350mm / W:90mm ; 1.3kg

Ca. 618 to 906 AD. Tang Dynasty. Pair of terracotta female musician figures. One is playing a drum, the other one is playing the flute. Both are depicted in kneeling position, wearing long light coloured covering robes covering their legs and a red shawl around the shoulders. The hair is neatly combed into a coiffure consisting of a high topknot. The faces are covered with white pigment, on which thin, slightly arched eyebrows, narrow eyes and pointed nose have been outlined in black pigment, the small mouth has been painted in red pigment. The highest-rated musicians at the Tang court performed seated, while the lower ranks played standing and were also treated less well in other respects. The Tang dynasty was largely a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule, until the An Lushan Rebellion and the decline of central authority in the later half of the dynasty. Grave goods were an important status symbol in ancient China, so the affluent and important would be accompanied in their travels through the afterlife with numerous depictions of people, items and animals. Such terracotta figures were made for the service and entertainment of the owner, ensuring that their journey in the underworld was a happy one. Terracotta tomb attendants seemed to have first appeared during the Western Han Dynasty. However, it is during Tang China that the cultural tradition of displaying wealth in elite tombs reached its peak, with an increased production of terracotta statuettes. The Tang Dynasty was a thrilling time in Chinese history, when trade flourished along the Silk Routes and unified China was the richest country on earth. Chang'an (now Xi'an) was the Tang capital, and it was one of the most cosmopolitan cities on earth, filled with foreigners who had travelled to China to trade; the influence of foreigners and talented native Chinese, combined with the economic prosperity brought on by trade and the new religion from India, Buddhism, created a powerful cultural milieu where poetry and other forms of art flourished. Provenance: From the private collection of D. Ruskin, Oxfordshire; formerly in a British collection formed in the 1990s on the UK / International art markets. Size: L:Set of 2: 225mm / W:115mm ; 1.8kg

C. AD 618 and 907. Tang Dynasty. A delicate Tang Dynasty pair of female dancer figures. Both wearing long flowing gowns with the hands uncovered. One dress is a deep orange, whilst the waist sash which separates the skirt from the bodice is of light colour. The other one is dressed in a light green, whilst the waist sash which separates the skirt from the bodice is of red colour. Their upper body are slightly bend to the side, with one arm up in the air, indicating motion. The dancers are carefully modelled, with the hair done up, pink cheeks, red pursed lips, delicate brows and smiling eyes. Dance as an art form reached its peak in China during the Tang Dynasty, which is now known as the golden age of Chinese music and dance. Indeed, during this time The Great Music Bureau was created as a means through with to train musicians and dancers for the imperial court. Such terracotta figures were made for the service and entertainment of the owner, ensuring that their journey in the underworld was a happy one. Terracotta tomb attendants seemed to have first appeared during the Western Han Dynasty. However, it is during Tang China that the cultural tradition of displaying wealth in elite tombs reached its peak, with an increased production of terracotta statuettes. The Tang Dynasty was a thrilling time in Chinese history, when trade flourished along the Silk Routes and unified China was the richest country on earth. Chang'an (now Xi'an) was the Tang capital, and it was one of the most cosmopolitan cities on earth, filled with foreigners who had travelled to China to trade; the influence of foreigners and talented native Chinese, combined with the economic prosperity brought on by trade and the new religion from India, Buddhism, created a powerful cultural milieu where poetry and other forms of art flourished. Provenance: Private collection of an Oxford professional, formed in the 1970s-1990s on the UK art market. Size: L:Set of 2: 275 - 285mm / W:130mm ; 1.8kg

Victorian/Edwardian grouping to Admiral Arthur Archibald Campbell Galloway RN (1855-1918), the grouping consists of the Admirals Midshipman’s Coatee worn around 1870, and a large quantity of papers, both official and personal, held in two tin trunks bearing his initials, Admiral Galloway was born on 30th June 1855, the son of Arthur Galloway of the Indian Civil Service who was Magistrate of Delhi and was killed on 11th May 1857 during the Indian Mutiny, he was the grandson of Major General Sir Archibald Galloway KCB (whose uniform and ephemera are also in this auction) and the Grandnephew of Sir Colin Campbell, who fought with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular and Waterloo, and Vice Admiral Sir Patrick Campbell a distinguished naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars, Arthur Galloway joined the Royal Navy in 1869 aged 14 as Naval Cadet at HMS Britannia the training ship at Dartmouth, in 1874 he was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal for jumping overboard to save the life of a drowning stoker, in 1877 he was promoted Lieutenant and was Gunnery Lieutenant on HMS Invincible in 1882 during the Egyptian Campaign/bombardment of Alexandria, in 1885 he was again commended for his actions in jumping overboard to save a man who had fallen from aloft, in 1887 he was promoted First & Gunnery Lieutenant on HMS Cordelia and in 1890-91 on HMS Lapwing carried out operations in relation to the loss of HMS Serpent off the coast of Spain, with the rank of Commander as Captain of HMS Daphne 1896-98 on the China Station he carried out diplomatic missions in China, Kamchatka and the Philippine Islands during the rebellion of 1897, in 1901-02 he was Captain commanding HMS Tribune and carried out diplomatic work in Venezuela ( Ban Righ incident) and Columbia where he was involved in saving the city of Colon from destruction by arranging negotiations between the opposing forces during the Thousand Days War (Columbian Civil War), in Jamaica assisted in stopping rioting in April 1901, 1903-1906 Captain of HMS Revenge and HMS Swiftsure in Channel Fleet, 1906 he was appointed Aide de Camp to King Edward VII, he was Officer in Command of Sheerness Gunnery School July-Dec. 1906 and Commodore in Command of the Royal Naval Barracks Portsmouth where he had to deal with the aftermath of a mutiny by Stokers under training, in December 1907 Galloway was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and then to Vice Admiral in March 1913, in June of the same year he was placed on the Retired List at his own request and was advanced to the rank of Admiral on the same list in June 1916, in all, Arthur Galloway served on 29 ships, he passed away on the 12th February 1918,The Midshipman’s Coatee is in blue cloth, shortened to the front with tails to the rear, black silk frogging in horizontal lines to the front with gilt Queen Victoria Crown Royal Naval officers buttons to the front, rear and cuffs, the traditional badge of rank of a white patch of cloth with a gold button and a twist of white cord is on each side of the coat collar, the coatee is lined with white silk, it has suffered from mothing over the years but is still a scarce item.The tin trunks contain a remarkable archive of information for anyone with an interest in the Royal Navy of the Victorian and Edwardian era and includes the following,Galloway’s Royal Naval Officers CommissionsA large quantity of letters, many from well known figures of the day including Admiral Sir ‘Jackie’ Fisher, Robert Baden Powell, and Dame ‘Aggie’ Weston Many signed letters from Admirals of the period including Neville, Farquar, Boothby, Stokes, Custance, Holland, and othersOfficial Letters and Memos Service Records, including names of ships and time period served,Collection of Commanding Officers ReportsCertificate of Nomination as a Naval Cadet from Admiralty, dated 18/12/1868Progress Reports on Cadet Galloway Exam papersLetters of Appointment to various ships throughout his career from Midshipman to Captain There are more detailed collections of papers for various incidents and missions that occurred throughout Galloway’s career, these include:-Collection of papers re mission to repatriate the crew of a United States Schooner ‘Golden Fleece’ Documentation re the Philippines Revolution 1897Documentation regarding ‘Ban Righ’ incident in Venezuela 1901 Documentation relating to the Columbian Civil War in 1901 Papers regarding a riot/mutiny by stokers under training at the Royal Naval Barracks Portsmouth in 1906 Confidential memo regarding ‘ operations against submarine boats, March 1904’Folder entitled ‘Tactical Exercises Sailing Orders marked ‘Secret’ for Strategic Exercises , August 1904Temporary Memorandum No.13 Combined Fleet Exercises dated 5/8/1904Temp. Memo No.3 Combined Fleet Exercises 1904-Battle ExercisesTemp Orders for Peace Manoeuvres 1904Folder entitled ‘Naval Manoeuvres 1910’ Naval Signal sheets form 1320c copies of messages from HMS Bachante to HMS King AlfredHMS Swiftsure Gunlayers test October 1905, Shifting TargetsTimes for Gunnery Drills, Gunnery School SheernessGunnery memos folder, Group B Naval Manoeuvres 1910 including Booklet entitled ‘The Fighting Power of the Capital Ship’ by Admiral Sir Reginald Custance 1910, marked ‘Private and Confidential’Proposed programme for Towing Trials/Coaling at Sea, HMS Swiftsure and MFA Torridge, April 1906Orders for ‘Wireless Experiment’, HMS Swiftsure dated 12/01/1906Sailing Orders for HMS Swiftsure dated 11/01/1906Sailing Orders for HMS Juno dated 11/01/1906Sailing Orders for HMS Albermarle dated 24/04/1906Sailing Orders for HMS Revenge dated 03/11/1904Programme for joint Exercise by Navy and Army on ‘Submarine Mining Operations-Portsmouth Friday 22nd August 1879’Exercise Programme for ‘Naval Attack on Coast Defence for 22nd August’Report on giving up Command of 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Home Fleet, dated 04/01/1911Essay entitled ‘Remarks on Modern Naval Tactics, dated 17/12/1910There are also many official letters from the Admiralty, foreign Consuls, and other organisations including one from the German Charge d’ Affairs re money raised by the crew of HMS Daphne for the families of sailors drowned when the Imperial German Gunboat Iltis was lost in a Typhoon in 1896A portrait photograph of Arthur Galloway with the rank of Captain in dress uniform on the bridge of HMS Revenge, dated 12th June 1904. 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A Leitz Petrological Microscope VI M, Slides & Books, A Collection of items belonging to Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff; Petrological microscope signed to the front ‘ E. Leitz WetzlarNo. 190394 Armstrong College’, on cast iron black enamelled stand with plano-concave mirror, nickel plated polariser with condenser, body tube with slide in/out analyser, rotating stage with engraved scale, in case with lenses and accessories; a large card case containing geological and petrological microscope slides; with four books; Optical Mineralogy, Rogers & Kerr Printed 1942; Minerals and the microscope, H. G. Smith, printed 1919; Minerals and the microscope, H. G. Smith, printed 1933; The polarising Microscope, A. F. Hallimond, printed 1953 Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

A Fine Lyell Medal, The Lyell medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal. This medal is awarded based on one Earth Scientist's exceptional contribution of research to the scientific community. It is named after Charles Lyell the Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining Earth's history. this example is engraved around the edge SERGEI IVANOVICH TOMKEIEFF, 1966 THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, in the original leather-covered presentation case.Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

Two early wooden crystal models, English, 19th century, unsigned but engraved 31 and 41, both made of boxwood the largest 6cm long Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

Russian Geological Articles and Map, Belonging to Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff; several Geological articles and booklets in Russian and a large (65x62cm) Russian Geological map dated 1933 Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

A Collection of Geological Maps, belonging to Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff including a large geological map of Scotland in a blue book titled 'Published with Govermnet Authority, Geological Map of Scotland By Sir Archibald Geikie S.Sc LL.D F.R.S, dated 1910, made of 24 plates on canvas backing; a Geological map of Arran dated 1910; Ordanance Survey Drift Edition Geological map dated 1909 reprinted 1956 with another three of Scotland, Barnsley; Geological Maps of Great Britain in two parts prepared by The Geological Survey dated 1948, a Geological Map of the British Islands based on the work of the Geological Survey dated 1939, and others, a lot Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

A Large Archive of Lecture Models, notes, Diagrams and Research, Belonging to Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff, including models used in lectures, hand drawn geological sections, lecture notes, books and letters to publishers and correspondence between other university geological departments, a lot Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

A Large collection of Books on Geology & Mineralogy, including: Tomkeieff, Dictionary of Petrology, including an unpublished version in Russian with publishers letter; The Weathering of Natural Building Stones; Memoires of the Geological Survey, Scotland, 1924; Memoires of the Geological Survey, Scotland, 1931; Lindgren, Mineral Deposits; Seeley W Mudd, Industrial Minerals & Rocks, 1949; Edward Hull, On Building & Ornamental Stones; F.C. Philips, An Introduction to Crystallography; W.H. Brass & W.L.Bragg, The Crystalline State; Bunn, Chemical Crystallography; Daly, Igneous Rocks and the Depts of the Earth; Jenkins & White, Fundamentals of Optics, along with many geology Journals and offprints and others (a Lot)Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College. He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous). He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76 

A large late 19th century Meissen figural group of children playing on and around a See Saw, construed of a plank across a fallen column with ionic capital, before a classical female bust upon a pedestal, crossed sword marks, incised G32, 28cm.Condition report: Drumstick broken off. The girl missing half of her right index finger. some small chips to flowers in the basket. Small losses to tree stump at the rear.