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Click here to subscribeA George IV silver snuff boxJoseph WillmoreBirmingham, 1827Of rectangular form, the cover decorated in high relief with scene depicting a Roman horseman handing a message to a seated figure, the engine turned sides to applied floral scroll borders, the base with initialled cartouche, 5.5 x 8.1cm, approx. weight 4.1ozt
A Regency silver wine funnelJohn Edward TerryLondon, 1820 The rounded body repousse decorated with fruiting vines, flowers and scroll motifs to a perforated base, engraved with bird crest to cartouche, the removable tapering spout with reeded banding to collar, approx. 14cm long, approx. weight 5.9oz Condition Report: Spout section marked with maker's mark, lion passant and duty mark.
A George III curve backed silver vinaigrette hallmarked for Thomas Barker of Hatton Garden, London 1810. Engraved circular design to top with 'RR' monogrammed in an oval cartouche. Floral engraved detail to back and gilded interior. Pierced work grill has damage to the hinge. Approx. 3cm x 2.2cm x .7cm.
Three cigarette cases. The lot to include a George VI hallmarked silver cigarette case. The case having an engine turned finish with Art Deco style border and monogrammed cartouche. Hallmarked for Birmingham, 1938. Makers mark A.R.H & Co for A R Horder & Co. Weight approx 156g. Measures approx 11cm x 8.5cm. An 800 silver cigarette case. Weight approx 108g. A continental metal cigarette case with niello design depicting the Taj Mahal. Weight approx 124g. Combined weight approx 388g.
Two Victorian hallmarked silver tea caddies. The lot to include a tea caddy with foliate and scrolled etched detailing and central vacant cartouche. Hallmarked for London,1896. Makers mark AC for Alexander Clark. A tea caddy with repousse floral design and pie crust rim. Hallmarked for Chester 1897. Makers mark CC attributed to Colen Hewer Cheshire. Combined weight approx 202.5g. Measures approx 9cm x 10cm / 6.5cm x 10cm.
A Victorian white metal combination vesta and sovereign case. The case having a scrolled etched design to the body and central vacant cartouche. The case having two hinged openings to reveal several compartments, one for a sovereign and one housing a toothpick. Unmarked. Surface tests indicate silver. Combined weight approx 50.5g. Measures approx 6cm x 3.5cm.
A collection hallmarked silver items with Edward VII and later items. The lot to include a sauce boat, marked Birmingham, 1930. A seal top tea spoon with Coronation mark to the bowl. Hallmarked for London 1953. A silver topped cut glass trinket dish. The silver top having a planished finish and central vacant cartouche. Hallmarked for Birmingham, 1906. Maker SB&SLd for S Blanckensee & Son Ltd. a reproduction of a Roman spoon, hallmarked for London 1977. A contemporary silver letter opener hallmarked for London 2001. Combined weight of silver approx 171g. Measures approx 8.5cm x 3.5cm (dish) / 14cm x 5cm (jug)
Six 1970's hallmarked silver goblets. The six goblets each standing on a circular stepped plinth base rising to a fluted stem supporting the gilded bowl. Each having an etched design with central vacant cartouche. Each pair having a Holmes, London box. The goblets in the style of Hester Bateman. Hallmarked for London 1973. Makers mark LGS for LGS London. Combined weight 529g. Measures approx 12cm x 6.2cm.
A George III hallmarked silver creamer. The creamer or jug having a circular plinth base rising to a bulbous form decorated with floral and foliate repousse design and having a central vacant cartouche. Hallmarked for London, 1778. Makers mark ASNA for Ann Smith & Nathaniel Appleton. Weight approx 81g.
A hallmarked silver Victorian cigarette case and two vesta cases. The cigarette case having scrolled foliate decoration with vacant cartouche. Hallmarked Birmingham 1889. Maker illegible 8cm. A vesta case decorated with ivy hallmarked Birmingham 1889 maker M&L, 4.8cm. A plain vesta case hallmarked Birmingham 1881 maker F.M, 5cm. Total weight 121g
A collection of eight hallmarked silver napkin rings. The lot to include a pair with etched scrolled design and central monogrammed cartouche. Hallmarked for Birmingham, 1908. Makers mark EET. A pair of D-shaped napkin rings with engine turned design and central monogrammed cartouche. Hallmarked for Birmingham, 1954. Makers mark B&Co. Combined weight approx 159g. Measures approx 4.5cm diameter / 4cm x 3cm.
A George V hallmarked silver double sovereign case with Victorian Albert chain. The case having an etched scrolled design to the body with central vacant cartouche. The case hallmarked for Chester, 1911. Makers mark SML for Samuel M Levi. The chain hallmarked for 1878. Combined weight approx 67g. Case measures approx 5.5cm x 2.5cm.
A Victorian hallmarked silver and tortoiseshell trinket jewellery box. The box having a repoussé decorated lid depicting two figures with blank cartouche and mounted swags and wreaths, to tortoiseshell body, raised upon hoof feet. Marked for Leuchars London. Partial hallmark GS Lion Passant S to lid. Weight approx 262g. Measures approx 13cm x 10cm. Tortoise shell base in situ but loose.
A Victorian hallmarked silver tankard and later dish. The Victorian tankard having a beaded border rising to an etched design to the body with central monogrammed cartouche and beaded rim with scrolled handle. Hallmarked for London, 1863. Makers mark CB for Charles Boyton. Stamped to base 'Kemp Bros, Union St Bristol.' The trinket dish inscribed 'The RNR Trophy for single handed cruisers presented by Captain A.L Franklin VRD.RNR 1965' Hallmarked for London, 1964. Makers mark RC. Combined weight approx 215g. Measures approx 9.5cm x 9cm / 8cm diameter.
Four Early 20th century hallmarked silver napkin rings. The lot to include a pair of George V hallmarked silver napkin rings having engine turned pattern. Hallmarked for Birmingham 1927. Makers mark J&C for Jones & Crompton. A George VI napkin ring with central cartouche inscribed 'Margaret' Hallmarked for Birmingham,1941. A further J&Co napkin ring hallmarked for Birmingham 1927. Combined weight approx 90g. Measures approx 4.5cm diameter x 3cm.
A Victorian hallmarked silver creamer. The cream jug standing on a circular plinth rising to a bulbous form with floral repousse design and central cartouche etched with armorial shield. Hallmarked for London, 1839. Makers mark IWWM J Wrangham & William Moulson. Weight approx 205g. Measures approx 15cm x 11cm x 8cm.
Hallmarked silver napkin rings and trophy. The lot to include a pair of Edward VII silver napkin rings with foliate repousse design and central monogrammed cartouche. Hallmarked for London, 1902. Makers mark GJDF for Josiah Williams & Co (George Maudsley Jackson & David Landsborough Fullerton). A hallmarked silver miniature trophy and further napkin ring. Combined weight approx 130g. Measures approx 5cm x 3.2cm/ 7cm x 5cm.
A George V cased hallmarked silver and ebony conductors baton. The baton having a silver pommel and collar decorated with an embossed scrolled design. The pommel having a central cartouche with inscription; 'Presented to A. Ernest Hill Esq by the Bristol 1st Exhibition Orchestra, Sept 1926.' Hallmarked for London, 1925. Makers mark partially legible. Weight approx (excluding case) 79g. Measures approx 52cm x 2cm.
Art Deco hallmarked silver three piece dressing set with silver bowl and spoons. The George V dressing set to include a mirror, hair brush and clothes brush AF. The Art Deco set each having an engine turned pattern and central vacant cartouche. Hallmarked for Birmingham 1929. Makers mark DMCo for Daniel Manufacturing Company. An vintage silver bowl with planished finish.Hallmarked for London,1988. Makers mark LC. Three silver tea spoons, hallmarked for Chester 1921. Makers mark HEB FEB for Barker Brothers (Herbert Edward Barker & Frank Ernest Barker). Combined weight approx 443g. Measures approx 23cm x 13.5cm / 11cm x 2.4cm.
A George V hallmarked silver cigarette box. The Georgian cigar box having an engine turned design to the exterior with engraved foliate design to the rim. The hinged lid having a central monogramed cartouche, opening to a gilded interior. Hallmarked for Chester, 1923. Makers mark AW for A Wilcox. Weight approx 627g. Measures approx 16cm x 9.5cm x 4.5cm.
A collection of Victorian and later hallmarked silver items. The lot to include an apostle spoon, christening cup and thimbles. The Victorian hallmarked silver apostle spoon hallmarked for London 1899. Makers mark partially rubbed, attributed to William Hutton & Sons Ltd. The AF Christening cup having repousse figurative design with central vacant cartouche. AF Handle has come away. Hallmarked for Birmingham, 1908. Makers mark B.J.K & Co for B J Keyzor & Co. Two hallmarked silver thimbles with one hallmarked for Chester, 1899. Makers mark CH for Charles Horner. Combined weight approx 75g. Measures approx 18cm x 5cm / 2cm x 1.7cm.
A Victorian four piece hallmarked silver mounted dressing table vanity set and two silver topped jars. The set comprising of two hair brushes, a clothes brush and hand mirror with two cut glass silver topped trinket jars. The vanity set having a foliate repoussé design with central vacant cartouche to each piece. Hallmarked for Birmingham, 1897. Makers mark HM for Henry Matthews. Two cut glass trinket jars both with hallmarked silver lids. The larger jar hallmarked for Birmingham, 1900. Makers mark CM for C C May & Sons (Charles May). The smaller being hallmarked for Birmingham, 1903.
A collection of Victorian and later hallmarked silver items. The lot to include a Victorian hallmarked silver knife and spoon set. Each having an etched floral and foliate design and monogrammed cartouche. Hallmarked for London, 1863 and 1864. Makers mark GA for Chawner & Co (George William Adams). A Victorian fish knife. Hallmarked for London, 1893. Makers mark JW HCW for Wakely & Wheeler (James Wakely & Frank Clarke Wheeler). Also to include a AF toast rack, hallmarked Birmingham 1931. Two napkin rings. Combined weight approx 185g. Measures approx 15.5cm x 3.2 cm (spoon) / 4cm diameter (napkin ring)
A Meissen silver-mounted Hausmaler pipe, circa 1725-30Painted probably by Elisabeth Wald in the Auffenwerth workshop in Augsburg in polychrome enamels and gilding, with a chinoiserie figure seated in front of a fence smoking a pipe, within a shaped gilt cartouche flanked by moulded, gilt-edged floral motifs and enclosed by painted scroll- and strapwork and a trellis panel to the base, mounted with a silver rim and hinged cover with pierced gallery, 7.7cm high; 6cm across (some restoration and minor wear to gilding)Footnotes:Provenance:Acquired in 1988Literature:H. Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain in Colour (1971), p. 98;D. Gage/M. Marsh, Tobacco Containers & Accessories (1988), no. 37;S. Fellner, Das lasterhafte Panazee (1992), no. III/43Exhibited:London, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, The Dorchester Hotel, Special Loan Exhibition, The British-American Tobacco Company Collection of Tobacco Containers & Accessories, 10-13 June 1988;Vienna, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, Die lasterhafte Panazee 500 Jahre Tabakkultur in Europa, 11 June-4 October 1992Two similarly decorated quadrangular sake bottles in the Residenzmuseum, Munich, attributed to Elisabeth Wald-Auffenwerth, are illustrated by S. Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, I (1971), ills. 358 and 359.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Vienna pale-yellow-ground part tête-à-tête with views of Italy, circa 1802Reserved with titled views of Italy within a tooled gilt cartouche, the rims with a tooled gilt foliate border, comprising: an oval tray, a hot water jug and cover, a milk jug and cover, an oval footed bowl, a cup and saucer, and another cup and saucer with similar decoration, the tray: 46.8cm long; the hot water jug: 12.8cm high, shield marks in underglaze-blue, impressed date numerals 802, 800, 801 and 99, various impressed painter's numerals, 'Bossierer' numeral for Anton Payer, collector's numerals 43.-48. in iron-red (some damage to the jugs and one saucer) (10)Footnotes:The views depicted are:The tray - Vue de la ville de FlorenceThe hot water jug - la Maison d'HoraceThe milk jug - Pont moderne de NarniThe cups - Maison de Campagne d'Adrien and Vue de la Rocca ImperialeThe saucers - Paysage sur le Garigliano and Vue de Castel RozetteThe two scenes on the matching cup and saucer with similar decoration (Vue de la Rocca Imperiale and Vue de Castel Rozette) are both based on engravings by Desprez and Chastelet illustrating 'Voyage Pittoresque ou déscription des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie' by St Non, published in Paris between 1781-85.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Marseille, Joseph Fauchier workshop, faience plate, circa 1750Painted with a central scene of an amorous couple in a European landscape in ochre, surrounded by a rococo cartouche in polychrome colours, 25.5cm diam.Footnotes:Provenance:Nicolier, Paris (paper label to the reverse); Acquired in June 1963;Charles Bourdet Collection, thence toCollection of Daniele Lasser, New York, NYSeveral pieces painted in similar style can be found in the Musée Vouland in Avignon, and a large table-installation was more recently presented with plates of this type in Marseille at the Château Borély, Musée des Arts décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Meissen gilt-metal-mounted shaped rectangular bombé casket with cover and tray, circa 1740-45Finely painted with panels depicting elegant figures in landscape settings, including - on the cover and base - by a river with gondolas and with a winter scene with ice skaters on the back, enclosed on the cover by gilt scrollwork and scale borders interspersed with moulded brackets with foliate scrolls, a similar moulded bracket at the front on a gilt trellis panel, the landscape scenes on the sides alternating with gilt trellis and scrollwork panels, the inside cover with an elaborate scene depicting a party seated at a table beneath trees including two gentlemen smoking pipes, the stand with a quatrelobe scene depicting a group playing 'blind man's buff' withing an elaborate trellis and scrollwork cartouche and gilt foliate and moulded borders, the reverse with sprigs of indianische Blumen, the stand: 16.7cm across; the casket: 13.3cm across, 6cm high, 9.5cm deep, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to stand, (the cover cleanly restuck and restored along breaks) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 October 1988, Lot 164;Acquired in the above saleA similarly-shaped stand painted with a battle scene is in the Dresden porcelain collection (inv. no. PE 5486).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Sèvres green-ground mustard pot and cover (moutardier), dated 1763Finely painted by P.-N. Pithou (l'aîné) with a loose bouquet of flowers within a gilt floral and foliate scrollwork cartouche, gilt dentil borders to the rims, the cover applied with a flower finial, 8.4cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter K and painter's mark for Pithou (l'aîné), incised SD (tiny chips to finial) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Probably from the service delivered to Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin, secrétaire d'Etat and côntroleur-général des Finances, on 1 May 1763;Most probably acquired by Peter, 5th Earl Cowper (d. 1836), for Panshanger, Hertfordshire, or by Thomas, 2nd Earl de Grey (d. 1859) for Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, and subsequently through de Grey's daughter to Panshanger, and at Panshanger until circa 1953, thence by descent;Anon. sale, Christie's London, 27 November 2012, lot 155The service delivered to M. Bertin in 1763 included four mustard pots and stands at a price of 60 livres each. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005, revised edition 2015), II, pp.357-359, no. 63-3, for a full discussion of the service.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Sèvres cup and saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe), dated 1782Of the first size, painted by Jean-Jacques Pierre (le jeune), with a pale green Taillandier ground with red and blue dots, reserved with gilt-edged heart-shaped cartouches enclosing sprays of pansies, the cup with a central cartouche of a flower and fruit still life, the rims with gilt scrollwork and pink borders, the saucer well with a rose spray surrounded by a gilt and pink border, the cup: 7.2cm high; the saucer: 14.9cm diam., interlaced LL monograms enclosing date marks EE and painter's mark for Pierre (le jeune), gilder's marks for Vincent (very minor wear) (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A French faience plate, possibly Montauban, early 19th centuryPainted in polychrome colours with a clock pointing at 2 'o clock, two playing cards, a fish and a cartouche enclosing a text in a rococo cartouche, 25cm diam.Footnotes:Provenance:With Nicolier, Paris (paper label to the reverse); With Chevet (paper label to reverse);Purchased in June 1963 (collectors label to the reverse);Charles Bourdet Collection, thence toCollection of Daniele Lasser, New York, NYThe text reads in the small cartouche at the base reads: 'ouvrez ouvrez la porte je m'avance au parloir. La colère m... transporte et je voudrais savoir où est la mère...qu'elle vienne me parler. Je veux voir ma maîtresse qui est dans ce lieu.'This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare silver-gilt-mounted Meissen tobacco jar and cover, circa 1735Of shaped quatrefoil section, painted with four European landscape scenes depicting figures and buildings in river and harbour settings, including one with a waterside palace, each within a linked, black-edged gilt scrollwork cartouche incorporating Böttger lustre to the sides, the slightly domed cover similarly decorated, 11cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised // inside footrim, silver-gilt rim with Paris discharge mark (une tete de Renard) for Louis Robin for 1735-8 (2)Footnotes:Provenance:With Winifred Williams, London;Acquired in 1988For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Meissen silver-mounted tobacco jar and cover, circa 1725-30Of cylindrical form moulded with two naturalistically-painted lion masks, each mounted with a gilt-metal hinged scroll handle, painted with two chinoiserie scenes, each within a quatrefoil gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red and purple scrollwork, the sides painted with sprigs of indianische Blumen, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the foot mounted with a silver-gilt rim with pierced foliate scrollwork, M.S. Rosenburg, Dresden, 1780, the domed cover similar decorated and surmounted by a finial in the form of a seated chinoiserie figure with gilt hat and purple- and iron-red-patterned robes, 19.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue inside cover (the jar restuck with restoration to repairs) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 15 May 1979, lot 78;Private Collection, Hamburg;With Partridge Fine Arts, London;Acquired in 1988Literature:Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz (1982), p. 91, no. 70Exhibited:Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz, 4 June-5 September 1982For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Fine & important French bronze 8 day clock garniture in the Orientalist style, circa 1880. The 8 day clock with a time and strike mechanism, is housed in a lavish bronze case heightened with silver gilt, to the top is an engraved 'Minaret' shaped finial and below a gallery of silvered and gilt bronze leaves. The silvered clock dial having black Arabic numerals, the center of the dial with a bas relief of palm trees and figures below the sun and a fort to the background. The front of the clock is shaped like a Mihrab (a niche in a mosque), to the base is another bas relief of an East Indian scene with gilded bronze figures holding muskets and spears, with an elephant and tiger, the clock raised on engraved cabriole feet. The clock garniture having twin side vases with handles, each having a fine cartouche with bas relief hunting figures. Every piece is standing on a wooden plinth. The original key is present. (3)
AN OTTOMAN SWORD (KILIG), TURKEY, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with broad curved blade formed with a long fuller chiselled with foliage at each end. double-edged point, some gold koftgari and traces of a cartouche on one side, border-engraved silver hilt including a pair of langets and quillons with faceted bud-shaped terminals, polished horn grip scales (repairs) rising to a rounded pommel, in its original leather-covered scabbard with large silver mounts chased with foliage, the locket and chape each struck with a mark (chape compressed at the base), and with two loops for suspension, 72.3 cm blade
A RARE 22 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET WITH LEFT-HAND LOCK, 18TH CENTURY with swamped sighted barrel retained by four cord bands, decorated with a band of gold foliage around the muzzle and at the breech, the latter fitted with standing back-sight, integral iron pan decorated en suite, pivot-cover, the action encased by a pair of iron plaques each decorated with punched border ornament (pricker missing), hardwood full stock, the butt impressed with recessed panels and painted with a scrollwork cartouche on each side, the right-hand side impressed with an arsenal number (small closed cracks) and original iron ramrod, 101 cm barrel ProvenanceRobin Wigington
A 16 BORE OTTOMAN GUN BARREL, TURKEY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY sligthly swamped, moulded at the muzzle and fitted with a bead fore-sight, encrusted with silver flowers within cartouche-shaped frames at each end (rubbed), a brief inscription towards the breech, and engraved tang with traces of silver (worn), 110.8 cm
A Waltham Riverside, late 19th century, 18ct gold half hunter fob watch, the engine turned case having blue Roman numerals and empty cartouche to the reverse, the white enamel dial having Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial, the movement numbered 1424100, case hallmarked Birmingham 1881, 41mm, 67.6 grams
An Early 19th Century Day's Patent Policeman's Breech Loading Under-hammer Percussion Walking Stick Gun, the 69cm twist steel barrel with pull-out ferrule, unscrewing at the breech, the top of the action stamped DAY'S PATENT JR, with percussion underhammer and folding trigger, the left side set with a brass cartouche stamped with a coat of arms and HUBBARD, NEWCASTLE, with curved walnut handle and screw-in stock extension, the underside set with a nickel escutcheon engraved "INSP. W.BECK. H DIV. LONDON", 88cm, 117cm including stock extension.Action works. Some pitting to metalwork and bruising to handle and stock.
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