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Lot 152
A Foley Intarsio ceramic model of a longcase clock, designed by Frederick Rhead, colour-decorated with an Art Nouveau lady in profile, blowing dandelions, inscribed 'Prithee Whats O'Clock', printed marks and number 3116, height 34.5 cm.Condition report:The swan neck pediment has been restored professionallyThe movement has been replaced with a battery movement but the dial has been retained
Lot 55
William John Leech RHA ROI (1881-1968)Self Portrait with Window and TableOil on board, 50 x 38cm (19¾ x 15'')SignedProvenance: Taylor Label on back. Listed as No.5 “Self-portrait with window and table” in the list compiled by Leo Smith of paintings by W.J.Leech in his studio at Clandon, 5 September 1968, for Greenwood & Loryman. Accountants, London for death duty purposes by the Dawson Gallery, 4 Dawson St., Dublin 2.When William (Bill) Leech, with his wife May Botterell, moved out of London to live at West Clandon, near Guildford in Surrey, in 1958, Leech was already in his late 70’s. Moving into his newly built studio, in the garden, gave him renewed energy to paint and his subject matter was mainly his garden and his self-portraits. These “Self-portraits” depict Leech wearing his black hat, to cover his white and balding head, looking searchingly out towards the viewer, sitting posed in front of his ‘Aloes’ series, painted in the 30’s. He is questioning his life’s work as a painter.In this “Self-portrait” Leech is not wearing his debonair black hat, but captures himself in his casual jacket and open neck shirt, framed by the lighted window onto the garden. Always aware compositionally, he sits to the right, with the edge of the table forming a strong diagonal towards the upright metal bar of the window. Clothes draped casually over the edge of the chair to the left and the green ceramic vase with its darker green plant, all create his studio environment.Leech’s searching expression is now more haunted, with a hint of despair, perhaps reflecting on his long life as a painter, during which he did not achieve the promise of his early success. When he wrote to Leo Smith, of the Dawson Gallery in 1966, he recognized this failure; “You see not much success really but you cannot be a recluse all your life as I have been and have worldly success. I had an idea when young, that if the work was good enough it would sell in the end. The end is the word……”This is one of the last “Self-portraits” Leech painted and it maintains all the dexterity and skill the painter possessed. When his second wife May died on 10th July 1963, aged eighty-three years, Leech was a very lonely man and 5 years later on 16th July 1968 at age eighty-eight, after being diagnosed as terminally ill, Leech fell from the railway bridge at West Clandon onto the tracks below.Dr Denise FerranAugust 2021
Lot 83
A Derby chocolate cup and cover, circa 1790-95Of tapering bucket shape with entwined handles, the low domed cover with a ring finial, probably painted by James Banford with 'Meditation', a seated classical lady reading from a scroll, a vase and a container of more scrolls at her side, the reverse with 'Near Breadsall Derbyshire', the bright blue ground gilt with circles and stars, within richly gilded borders, 13.2cm high, crown, crossed batons, D mark, pattern 335 and titles in blue (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceFoden CollectionAlison Rose CollectionTwinight Collection Illustrated by Margaret Foden, James Banford Ceramic Artist, Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide, November 1968, cover illustration. For closely related decoration attributed to Banford, see the coffee can illustrated by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (2002), colour pl.13.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
Lot 80
A Chamberlain Worcester punchbowl, circa 1810Painted with three large gilt-edged panels of sporting dogs, two lithe greyhounds chasing a hare, a fox hound with her four pups and two pointers in a landscape, reserved on a grey marbled ground, a wide band of gilt trailing vine below the rim, repeated below the inside rim, surrounding a central bunch of purple grapes, 32cm diam, puce script markFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's sale, 2 November 1998, lot 173Twinight CollectionThe panels are taken from The Rev. W D Daniel's Rural Sports, published in 1802. The two pointers are named in the source print as 'Pluto and Juno'. Reportedly when the artist drew the pair, belonging to a Colonel Thornton, 'as a proof of (their) steadiness as pointers, they kept their point when Mr Gilpin took the sketch...upwards of one hour and a quarter.' See lot 18 in this sale for another example of hunting dogs copied from Daniel.A painter at Derby has used the same print of a foxhound and her puppies with a similar gilt vine border to decorate a cylindrical mug, see J C Holdaway, The Influence of 18th Century Naturalists in Ceramic Decoration, ECC Trans. Vol 12, Part 1, pl.6c.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
Lot 565
LATE 19TH CENTURY DOULTON LAMBETH BISCUIT BARREL WITH SILVER PLATED MOUNTS, stoneware with impressed factory mark and date 1883 to base, 17cm high excluding handle, an oak twin handled example with ceramic liner, a Locke & Co Worcester honey pot with silver plated lid and stand, and a chrome plated Edinburgh souvenir caddy spoon (4)
Lot 204
A John Adams & Co parian ware portrait bust of the Duke of Wellington, c1851, in uniform wearing sash and orders, including that of the Golden Fleece, on socle, 36cm high, impressed ADAMS Adams exhibited his bust of Wellington at the Great Exhibition, 1851. Jewitt (Ceramic Art of Great Britain) observed Adams' parian ware busts were "...remarkable for their truthfulness and artistic treatment." Handling marks and dirt, apparently very good condition, no restoration detected
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