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Lot 246
THREE DECORATIVE BALLS ( ONE MADE OF BONE SEGMENTS ) TOGETHER WITH THREE DECORATIVE BELLS ( CERAMIC AND GLASS ) TOGETHER WITH TWO VICTORIAN / EDWARDIAN GINGER BEER BOTTLES - ONE IMPRESSED MARK, TUNBRIDGE & CO. READING, THE OTHER IMPRESSED WITH INTERESTING " TRADE MARK " ASHBY`S STAINES BREWERY LTD. AND A SMALL COFFEE POT, POSSIBLY GREEN & CO. ( 9 ITEMS )
Lot 341
Lord Alington of Crichel. Napier George Henry Sturt, the 3rd Baron Alington of Crichel, was born in 1896 and succeeded to the title in 1919. In 1928 he married Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper, and their only child, Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt, was born the following year. Along with the Sitwells, Lord Alington was a founder member of the Magnasco Society, which was formed in London in the 1920s by a group of elite connoisseurs to revive the Baroque style. With its theatrical fantasy it offered an alternative to the pre-war simple elegance and the post-war Art Deco modernism. The Magnasco Society organised exhibitions of seventeenth-century art and, through aficionados including Cecil Beaton and Lord Gerald Wellesley, became synonymous with a neo-Baroque interior style fashionable for that decade. In 1940, Lord Alington was commissioned as an RAFVR officer and posted to Cairo in July, where he died of pneumonia two months later. As he died without male issue, the title of Baron Alington of Crichel became extinct on his death. A Massive Chinese Mottled-Grey Jade Carving of a Recumbent Water Buffalo. Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century, 29.5cm. Carved from an enormous grey-green boulder dappled with darker more vivid and with paler mottling. The beast lies on its side with its head turned to the left which is resting on a front leg. The face has a pleasing contented expression with well defined eyes and nose, and with the horns curling around the neck. The coat is carved with loosely fitting skin through which the ribs and vertebrae are visible. The finely incised tail is thrown over massive haunches; the hooves are all well defined. Provenance: The Hon. Mrs Mary Anna Marten OBE (1929-2010), Crichel House, Dorset. Purchased prior to 1953. Exhibited: Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, May-June 1975, Victoria and Albert Museum, catalogue no.396, where it is described as Ming dynasty. Catalogue note: For other massive jade carvings of water buffaloes, cf. Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, May-June 1975, Victoria and Albert Museum, no.395 and 397, the latter from the collection of Somerset de Chair. In the introduction to chapter XIX, Large Animal, Ming and Ch’ing Periods, they are discussed as being: ‘among the most ambitious and monumental examples of jade ever worked in China; and perhaps all of them once had their place in the pavilions and various palaces in Peking.’ See also J C S Lin, The Immortal Stone, Chinese jades from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century, pp.48-50.
Lot 343
An Important Chinese Imperial Jade Five-Dragon Brushwasher. Ming/Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century, 37.5cm, (weight 12kg approx), with a superb contemporary hardwood stand. This massive jade brushwasher is of monumental size. The body is well hollowed and deeply carved with five scaly sinuous five-clawed dragons, which writhe partially hidden beneath layers of ruyi-shaped cloud scrolls. Their heads with long moustaches, emerging at the rim beside two flaming pearls of wisdom. The base of the bowl fringed with breaking waves becomes a whorl, which diminishes to the centre. The stone is of a pale grey-green celadon colour. The stand is carved with a whorl, waves and cloud scrolls, which elegantly complement the washer. Provenance: The 3rd Baron Alington of Crichel (1896-1940), the Hon. Mrs Mary Anna Marten OBE (1929-2010), Crichel House, Dorset. Exhibited:Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, May-June 1975, Victoria and Albert Museum, catalogue no.356, described in the exhibition catalogue as 17th century. Illustrated : J P Palmer, Jade, London 1967, pl 21 & 22. Catalogue note: The subject of this extraordinary washer creates a most auspicious Imperial work of art and illustrates the dragon’s ability to create clouds, wind and rain, elements of great importance to an agricultural economy. Furthermore, the dragon symbolizes the Emperor, and the number five represents the five blessings (wufu) of old age, wealth, health, virtue and peaceful death. The base formed as a whirlpool of water symbolizes the basic element in Chinese cosmology-the water that becomes the symbol of full life. The earliest example of this form is the celebrated Jade Jar of Dushan, (Dushan Dayu Hai), one of the Wonders of the Mongol court, which weighs 3.5 tons and was used as a wine vessel. It is believed to have been commissioned by Khubilai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty for use following his military victories, and can hold 1.5 tons of wine. This extraordinary vessel, now kept in the Beihai Park in Beijing, was the earliest large-scale jade carving in China and marked a milestone in the development of jade working. For a similar five-dragon brushwasher, cf. L Yang and E Capon, Translucent World, Chinese Jade from the Forbidden City, p.202. For a smaller dragon brushwasher with a similar whirlpool base, carved with three dragons, cf. Christie’s Hong Kong, Important Chinese Jades from the Personal Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Part II, 27 November 2007, lot 1504; also, see Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Yuanmingyuan, The Garden of Absolute Clarity, 9 October 2007, lot 1335 for a white jade dragon washer; see also S C Nott, Chinese Jade, pl.C1, and another, with a six character Qianlong mark, is in the Hermitage Museum collection. Estimate: Refer department.
Lot 119
A late 19th/early 20th century rose wood, box wood strung and marquetry inlaind envelope card table, the quartered top opening to reveal a green baize lined and gilt bordered playing surface with counter pockets and having a single drawer with 2 drop loop handles and decorative back plates, raised on square tapering legs with cross stretchered galleried under tier and brown ceramic castors (As viewed some damage/repair to under tier gallery. Approx 55cms square)
Lot 198
A quantity of small and miniature ceramic items including a Crown Staffordshire floral group; a Hammersely and Co cup and saucer decorated with roses; a small pair of Paragon china vases with floral decoration; a miniature stoneware plant pot and stand, the pot with embossed vine and leaf decoration; a small model of a pair of rabbits, a mouse, a grasshopper, some hippos etc
Lot 168
AN UNUSUAL 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY CARD TABLE BOOKSTAND, the rectangular three section top folding out to provide playing surface with turned end supports, the base with a book trough and baluster turned stretcher on outswept square legs with ceramic castors. C1900. 32" Wide x 16" Deep x 37" High.
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