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LOT OF COLLECTABLES including a pair of 1930's East Asian style pottery bookends, one modelled with a seated female, the other a kneeling man peering around a dragon screen - one signed 'H.Lingero' to base 19cm high; vintage cow bells; Chinese painted wooden fruit bowl and porcelain dragon plate; corkscrew; carved wooden male bust possibly of a young Chinese man, signed 'Fr Eemmens' ? to side of base 18.5cm high; lantern and metal hanging rod
A carved mahogany bombe linen press to a design by Thomas Chippendale, circa 1900, with stepped top with canted sides and applied stiff leaf and floral carved mouldings, slides to the interior, the base of bombé form, set to the top with two short and one long drawer cast brass swan neck handles, the base centred below with stylized foliate motif, to the canted front corners richly carved with rocaille and acanthus leaf carving, leading to similarly shaped bracket feet to each side.172½ x 145 x 66cm (67 x 57 x 26in). Literature: Footnotes:The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, Plate CXXXI. Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Volume II (1990 edition), p. 74. H.H. Mulliner The Decorative Arts in England (1923), Fig. 14. Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 (1986), p. 164 This unusual cabinet conforms almost exactly to an ambitious rococo design in Thomas Chippendale's celebrated publication, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director of 1754 (figure 1). The Director is composed of a large collection of, as Chippendale said, "the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern taste." The modern taste refers to the anglicised version of the forms and styles of France which strongly influenced Chippendale's work at this date and has been called "for the most part an Anglicisation of the rocaille". This taste is revealed in the design of Lot 708, with the swelling bombe form of the base and the exceptional fine quality of the intricately designed carving to the feet, an interpretation in wood of the fine chased gilt bronze work of French metal-workers. The Director represented an unparalleled undertaking in the publication of furniture designs, with the first and second editions constituting 160 plates of superb engravings. The work exerted a powerful influence on contemporary style that was felt as far afield as the Prussian Court and Lisbon and which established Chippendale as an inspired and innovative designer. A third edition, somewhat expanded, was to follow in a series of weekly publications in 1762. In the year of publication of the first edition, in which the design related to the present cabinet appears, Chippendale moved to spacious premises in St. Martin's Lane and began to provide furniture to a range of fashionable clients and nobility, including the Dukes of Beaufort, Portland, Norfolk and Hamilton, and the Earls of Northumberland and Chesterfield. Evidence of repairs around the hinges, otherwise in very untouched condition
CHINA. THE ALBUM OF MRS MARY MILLICENT O'BRIEN-BUTLER, NEE WEATHERSTON, C1888-1905 filled with invitations to balls, clubs, programmes, church services, menus, shipping memorabilia, visiting cards of many of the consular staff of foreign nations, telegrams, family memorabilia and a photograph (half plate albumen print) of her wedding at Chinkiang, contemporary half maroon morocco (c 31 x 25cm) worn, wanting spine (190 approx) Provenance: Pierce Essex O'Brien-Butler (1858-1954) and his wife Mary Millicent Weatherston (1877-1960). P E O'Brien-Butler was educated in Germany, appointed a student interpreter with Her Britannic Majesty's Consular Service in China in 1880 and promoted Pro-Consul at Tainan, Taiwan in 1888, a post he held until 1893. In 1902 he was promoted Consul at Wenchow serving in 1906 at Amoy [Xiamen] before his appointment as Consul General in 1908 at Chengtu [Chengdu], moving in 1909 to Yunnan-Fu [Kunming] and in 1913 to Mukden [Shenyang]. He was appointed High Commissioner for Siberia in 1919 taking up residence in Valdivostok. His wife Mary Millicent Weatherston was born in Hankow. The present album also records the first few years of the life of their first child Ida, who was born on 22 July 1901 at Kiungchow [Qiongzhou]. An interesting album that vividly illustrates the frenetic social life those in the consular service enjoyed in China at the end of the 19th c. The many events included the Funeral services at the British Episcopal Church in Foochow [Fuzhou] for Queen Victoria and President William McKinley in February and September 1901. In August 1900 a thanksgiving service was held at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai for the deliverance of the minsters and other residents in Peking during the Boxer uprising. A barrister fluent in several languages, the album contains a letter that O'Brien-Butler has transcribed from the Chinese General and Viceroy at Foochow in which he writes "The Anglo-Chinese intercourse is so intimate and his honour is so kind and just that their [Excellencies] can not easily forget him" ++++
A 19th century Chinese export bowl of good size, typically decorated with figural scenes (a/f) together with various other Chinese export tea bowls etc Condition Report / Extra Information Large bowl - heavily restored, hence 'a/f' in the description. Plate - chips to outer rim. Three saucers - all with rim chips/ Three matching bowls - all with rim chips. Pair of odd bowls - ok.
A small circular Chinese silver dressing table pot with lid, decorated with bamboo leaves, diameter 5.5cm, a larger example decorated with dragons around the pot and on the lid, diameter 9cm, both with marks probably Wing Nam, and a Chinese silver backed hand brush decorated with etched and relief dragons, also a silver plated circular hand mirror decorated with a dragon, weighable silver approx 7ozt. CONDITION REPORT: Brush: needs reattaching to the silver mounts (lost one nail and is loose). Small box: generally good condition, a few mild dints. Bigger box: several areas of mishapings, staining, all with rubbing and tarnish. Mirror: heavily rubbed to the raised points, restored (mirror plate reglued to silver mounting). Postage within UK would cost £15 + VAT.
An 18th century blue and white Chinese small teapot with arched panel decoration of figures before a balustrade, a similar example with fluting decorated with landscapes, a Japanese blue and white medicine pot with insert, a blue and white plate, and a cloisonné teapot decorated with gold and other fish (5). CONDITION REPORT: The figural teapot has nibbles around the spout, crack right across the base and slightly at the sides, firing cracks above the spout, nibbles to lid, the similar landscape teapot has a firing crack to base, nibbles to spout, and to inner side of lid, medicine pot has nibbles to handle and spout, very minor nicks to cloisonné teapot, inner rim of lid a bit misshapen.
A small group of mixed ceramics comprising a boxed Spode octagonal pierced plate, commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the creation of Fine Bone China, limited edition 650/2000, with certificate of authenticity, a boxed Royal Worcester "Imari Flowers" pattern cabinet cup and saucer, and a boxed circular pin dish and a Coalport transfer decorated and gilt heightened basket, diameter 22cm, also two boxed Chinese egg shell transfer decorated dishes (6).
A LATE 17TH CENTURY CHINESE KANGXI PERIOD KRAAK STYLE SHIPWRECK PORCELAIN PLATE, painted to its centre with a shaped panel of an insect and foliage, the panel enclosed by panels of cell-grounds, banners, trigrams and wan swastikas, the underside rim with meandering foliage, the base with an artemisia mark, 8.4in diameter.
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