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Lot 182
A George V silver tea caddy of oval form (by Thomas Bradbury & Son, London 1910), together with a modern silver buckle in the Art Nouveau manner by David A Bowles, a silver cigarette box, silver egg cup, together with a plated wine coaster, tea caddy 12 cm, buckle, tea caddy and egg cup approx 9.24 oz weighable silver
Lot 185
A George V silver hip flask (by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1921), the removable base with gilt-washed interior as cup, 13 cm high, total weight approx 7 oz CONDITION REPORTS No visable signs of any dents, splits or damage though there is surface scratching though out conducive to age and use, the top appears to work and shuts tight, see images for futher details. No dents or dings, minor scratches to the surface conducive with age and use. To one edge there is a slight dark line which may possibly be a repair though might alos be part of the original construction as this solder line is continued at the top of the shoulder - see images. There is a very small light surface dent on the same side - see images.
Lot 15
A Wedgwood "Colorado" part dinner, tea and coffee service comprising two oval serving plates, two oval serving bowls, sauce plate and stand, two lidded tureens, twelve dinner plates, twelve side plates, eleven bowls, sandwich plate, coffee pot, teapot, milk jug and saucer, twelve tea plates, six coffee cans and saucers and five teacups and saucers CONDITION REPORTS Mainly in good condition though with some signs of wear and tear condusive with age and use including scratching to the square dish both to the gilding and the transfer, one tea cup with chip to the gilded rim, some saucers with scratching to the guilding particuarly to the central band see example, wear to the gilt banding on some bowls, and dark crazing to one, several plates with wear to the gilding and light scratching again conducive with day to day use, smaller oval plater with crazing,
Lot 17
A collection of china wares to include a Herend floral and insect decorated oval dish, a 19th Century blue and white decorated oval dish, a Royal Chelsea china gilt decorated cup and saucer, a Delft cow creamer, a transfer decorated jug, approx 39.5 cm high and a Wedgwood "Ferrara" bowl, together with a cut glass vase and a circa 1900 bronze patinated urn
Lot 34
ALBERT AYLER TRIO - SPIRITUAL UNITY SIGNED COPY (ESP 1002). Fantastic to see super rarity, with the back of the sleeve seemingly signed in blue marker pen by drummer Sonny Murray. Includes booklet by Paul Haines which has a coffee cup stain (Jazz writers!) to the reverse. Disc is glossy Ex with scuffs and light marks which should not affect playback, sleeve is VG+ with shelf wear. Mono, Esp-Disk, ESP 1002, 1965.
Lot 2114
3rd millennium BC. A mixed group of ten bronze seals with various shapes and designs, including five accompanied by typed and signed notes by the late W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which state: (T-152) 'Stamp Seal of Bronze, 37 x 33 x 13mm. This has the shape of what is depicted: apparently some kind of fish with a big eye. The face is flat and compartmented. The back is also flat and bears a loop handle of strip metal. This comes from west central Asia and dates to c. 2300-2000 B.C. There is incrustation on the surface which could be removed. The edges are a little worn and damaged in places, but generally it is in good condition.'; (U-455) 'Stamp Seal of Bronze, 34 x 34 x 15mm. This is round, with flat face and flat back, on which is mounted a handle of inverted V-shape. The design, which is both compartmented and open-work, consists of a Greek cross with a simple cross within it, the whole surrounded by a plain band. This comes from west central Asia and dates to c. 2300-2000 B.C. The outer rim is bent over a little, but generally the seal is in good condition.'; (U-397) 'Stamp Seal of Bronze, 33 x 37 x 17mm. This bears the shape of the animal depicted, with compartmented face and flat back, on which is mounted a handle of inverted V-shape. The design shows a standing monster, a quadruped with raised wings and head a little down. The outer edges of the wings and hind quarters are notched. This comes from west central Asia and dates to c. 2300-2000 B.C. It is a rare type, but the wings are bent backwards and the edges are worn down in part. The surface is largely covered with incrustation, which could be removed.'; (U-356) 'Stamp Seal of Bronze, 33 x 32 x 15mm. This is round, with flat face and flat back, on which is mounted a handle of inverted V-shape. The design, which is both compartmented and open-work, consists of a central circle joined to a plain outer band by seven bloom-like motifs: a single stem with superimposed cup. This comes from west central Asia and dates to c. 2300-2000 B.C. It is a nice example of its kind, being in very good condition save for the slightest denting of the rim.'; (W-18) 'Stamp Seal of Translucent Whitish Stone with Orange Veins, 34 x 34 x 12mm. This is a hemisphere, pierced for suspension. The design on the round flat face consists of a circle of four items enclosing two smaller items of the same kind, all six being drilled. This comes from Sumer, northern Mesopotamia or south-west Iran and dates to c. 3000-2800 B.C. It is in fair condition.' 166 grams total, 25-45mm (1-1 3/4"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; collection numbers U-356, U-455, U-65, U-396, T-337, T-334, T-152, V-281, N-34, W-18, academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s. [10] Fine condition.
Lot 265
2550-2400 BC. An agate(?) cylinder seal, accompanied by a scholarly note, which states: 'The seal image is divided by two horizontal lines into two registers of equal height. Above: A woman seated on a chair, facing right, wearing a sleeveless fringed robe, with horizontal stripes up to the hips, from there with vertical stripes. Behind the woman, in whose left raised hand one has to imagine a cup not shown here, there are one, in front of her two female attendants, wearing bead necklaces. Facing the woman is a seated man, in the same posture as the woman, one male attendant in front of him, two behind him, the latter slapping his robe over his left shoulder like a toga. To the right of this is a tall table charged with food. Below: The seated woman with the three female attendants like above. Facing her a seated man also like above, but only with one male attendant before, lastly a second seated man, facing right, between two male attendants. The eyes of all figures are oversized, the men are bald, while the women differ from them by a hood-like hairstyle and distinguishably smaller noses. The parallel seal BM 121544 (London) from the Royal Cemetery in Ur (Abraham's home), which bears as inscription the name of the well-known Queen Pu-ab?, suggests that the people sitting here were members of the royal family.'; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. Cf. a parallel seal BM 121544 (London) from the Royal Cemetery in Ur (Abraham's home), which bears as inscription the name of the well-known Queen Pu-ab?, suggests that the people sitting here were members of the royal family; for the seal mentioned above and two other similar ones, from the same cemetery; cf. Wiseman, D. J. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals I. Uruk - Early Dynastic Periods, London, 1962, p.29, pl.25, fig.a-c; and Aruz, J. (ed.), Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, exhibition catalogue, New York, New Haven, London, 2003, p.109-110.19.8 grams, 30mm (1"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent; accompanied by a copy of a scholarly note, report number 152084.Very fine condition.
Lot 2687
10th century AD. A flat-section bronze bifacial plaque depicting a standing female in profile in pleated skirt and headdress, holding a drinking horn in her extended hands, pierced lug to the reverse, with suspension loop. Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Graber, Uppsala, 1940, fig.92, items 8,10. 3.1 grams, 35mm (1 1/2"). Property of a professional collector; acquired before 1990. Representations of female figures holding drinking horns have often been referred to as Valkyries. Although it is impossible to verify this identification securely, it is highly tempting to make the connection between Valkyries and serving of a magical drink in myths. Drinking horns, popular in modern pictures of Vikings, were probably used only during special occasions, such as greeting important guests, celebrations or seasonal holidays. They were closely connected to the aristocracy, not only by virtue of their material value, but also as a result of their social and ritual roles. As M.J. Enright points out, it is probable that Germanic tribes adapted the concept of the military group, which played an important role in strengthening the bond between a king/chief and warriors from Celts in the age of Roman expansion. In a Germanic environment, this concept was slightly modified, and the serving of a drink by a noble/spiritual woman under the supervision of king/chief was viewed as a cultic act to strengthen the bond in that specific group, with the god Woden (Odin) as a patron (see Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age"). In later sources, especially the Icelandic Eddas, we can find several examples of goddesses serving or preparing a drink. Hel is waiting for Balder with mead in her realm of death, the giantess Gunnloð is the guardian of the magic mead (later stolen by Odin) or Freyr's bride-to-be Gerð serving a drink to Skirnir as an act of welcome and also reconciliation. The connection between a giantess and a magic drink is strong, as the goddess Freya asks another giantess, Hyndlja, to serve a magic beer to her protégée Ottar. We can also find a reference to a minor goddess Beyla, servant of god Freyr, whose name can be a reference to a 'bee' thus connecting her to preparation of an 'ordinary mead'. In Asgard (the realm of the gods) goddesses Sif and Freya served the drink as an act of peace and conciliation, but it had no magical attributes. Women with drinking horns are also depicted on the famous Gotland picture stones either greeting a rider on a horse, approaching a bounded figure in a snake (?) pit (possibly Gunnarr or Ragnar Lodbrok) or serving a drink to a hero (possibly Sigurd"). The connection with rider scenes is one of the main reasons for identifying them as Valkyries, the servants of Odin choosing the one who will die on a battlefield and go to Valhalla. It is possible that we observe the same ritual 'bonding' between fallen warrior and his king, Odin. An alternative identification for these female figures might be lesser deities. As R.Simek pointed out, the majority of small female figures have no drinking horn, but are richly adorned, and most likely represent minor fertility goddesses. These goddesses are named in the Eddas as servants of Frigg and Freya, but originate in the much older tradition of the so-called matrones, known from the late Roman period. Whether fertility goddess or Valkyrie, the image of a noble 'lady with a drinking horn' had a special meaning developed through centuries, making it one of the most distinctive and mysterious features of Viking culture. Fine condition.
Lot 304
14th-10th century BC. A sheet-silver chalice with flared foot, narrow stem, flared mouth; carinated band beneath the rim and repoussé guilloche decoration; frieze depicting four vines with crossed stocks extending to scrolled ends with detailed leaves and bunches of grapes; below the vines and between them four human figures comprising: a half-height crouching(?) male facing left with filet to the brow, fringed cloak, cup in the raised right hand; a seated male facing right with chalice in the right hand, low table by his foot with bowl and cup(?); seated male facing left with mantle to the left shoulder and fringed robe, holding on his lap a curved implement (pruning sickle?); the stem with tiered meander pattern. See Amiet, P., Art of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1977; Aruz, J., Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York, 2003; Black, J. and Green, A., Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, Austin, 2014.216 grams, 12.5cm (5"). From the private collection of a North West London lady; previously with a central London gallery; formerly acquired before 1990. The guilloche border is a prominent feature of many cultures of Mesopotamia and the wider region, found for example on chlorite chalices, cups and other vessels of the Early Dynastic Period (Aruz, items 231, 232, 237 and others) and in repoussé goldwork (Aruz, item 271"). The figural scenes of drinking beneath the vines with their burden of leaves and bunches of grapes are suggestive of the chalice's use as a vessel for the distribution of wine fermented from the grapes depicted in those scenes. Alcohol was routinely used in religious ceremonies as a libation (or possibly for lustration), while fermented drinks based on grapes and dates were available (Black & Green, 2014, p.28"). The figure shown with a reaping hook or sickle suggests that the maker or owner of the chalice was familiar with the cultivation and harvesting of grapes in order to produce wine. Fine condition; fragmentary.
Lot 3079
Pleistocene, circa 20000-12000 BP. A group of two woolly rhinoceros teeth Coelodonta antiquitati; one from the upper jaw and one from the lower mandible. See Hillson, Simon, Teeth, CUP, 1986, pp.86-88. 224 grams total, 56mm each (2 1/4"). From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill; collected between 1930 and 1960; from the 'Brown Bank' area, off Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK. [2, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 321
2nd millennium BC. A silver waisted vessel with flared base and trumpet-shaped mouth, incised guilloche band to the centre above a frieze of three advancing ibexes each with hatched detailing to the neck and flanks, two crescent horns, slender legs with indications of musculature; to the underside, a raised rim and central rosette motif. See Amiet, P., Art of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1977; Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron. Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988.39 grams, 10.5cm (4 1/4"). From the private collection of a North West London lady; previously with a central London gallery; formerly acquired before 1990. The repoussé rosette within a ring on the underside of the base has parallels in the art of Marlik and Elam, specifically the bitumen-backed silver roundels from Haft Tepe and elsewhere with 'lotus-flower' motifs executed in the same repoussé technique (Muscarella, p.227"). The form of a sheet silver cup or vessel with flared ends is found on many items produced in the Marlik cultural area (Amiet, items 534, 536, 538) although the decoration is more often executed in repoussé than engraved. A video of this lot can be viewed on Timeline Auctions website. Fine condition, rim chipped.
Lot 1400
1st century BC-1st century AD. Three bronze containers for domestic use: a small weighing plate, a drinking cup embossed with concentric lines, and a ring pan with concentric grooves in relief. Cf. Boucher S., and Tassinari S., Bronzes Antiques I, Inscriptions, Statuaire, Vaisselle, Paris, 1976; see Grocock, C., and Grainger S. in Apicius: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and English Translation, Devon, 2006, for discussion on their use. 313 grams total, 81-13.7cm (3 1/4 - 5 1/2"). Ex important Dutch collection; acquired on the European art market in the 1970s. Dishes and other domestic containers of similar type were used in the Graeco-Roman world for centuries, and are widely described in the Apicius book of recipes. [3] Fine condition.
Lot 1524
10th-12th century AD. A sheet-bronze miniature offering cup with flared foot, lotus-leaf band to the lower body and scrolled acanthus leaves above; traces of tinning to the surface. 34.3 grams, 61mm (2 1/2"). Property of a Leeds, UK collector; acquired by gift from his grandfather in the late 1980s-early 1990s. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 1565
1st millennium BC. A bronze cup comprising an elliptical-section bowl with collar and rounded rim, conical spike to the underside, small loop handle and lion-head stub to the opposite side. 790 grams, 15.5cm (6"). From an important central London collection formed since the mid 1960s; thence by descent. [No Reserve] Very fine condition.
Lot 1703
5th-7th century AD. An Arab-Sassanian nicolo intaglio gemstone with marriage scene, set into a later gold finger ring with hoop composed of conjoined bulbs, cup bezel with granules to the shoulders. Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 464, for type. 10.87 grams, 25mm overall, 19.33mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.73, Japan 20) (1"). Property of a Suffolk collector; formerly acquired on the European art market in the 1990s. Very fine condition.
Lot 114
A quantity of Carlton Ware predominantly in the yellow colourway with floral decoration, to include two toastracks, a tea pot in the foxglove pattern, height approximately 12cm, small baskets, a small laddle spoon, a comport with water lily pattern, diameter 28.5cm (30+)condition noteorange lustre cup and saucer minor glazing flaw, saucer, small milk jug crazed and stained, knife crazed and stained, another knife and spoon af, otherwise very dusty and dirty
Lot 178
A quantity of English teaware, including part sets by Wilkinson, Foley china, a Royal Doulton Minden Hors D' Oeuvre dish, cheese dish and cover and other items (40+)condition note There are over 50 items, condition is mixed, some very badly damaged and repaired (see photos), two coffee cans have hairline cracks, most gilt is rubbed.Foley china yellow trio saucer af, bread and butter plate and cup ok. Red flower pattern two saucers, two side plates, bread and butter and one cup, all gilt rubbedWe offer postage in house within UK
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