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Lot 1320
A VIENNA ENAMELLED GLASS BEAKER19th centuryDecorated with a pair of love birds on a perch above an amber stained cartouche inscribed in gilt `Unzertrennlich' ( Unseparable), on a cog-wheel cut base, 10.8cm highShallow chip to outer rim directly above the birds, approx. 3mm. by 4mm. Nick to inner rim. Some wear to gilding
Lot 594
A REGENCY STYLE GILT-BRASS MOUNTED CUT GLASS HANGING LIGHT20th CenturyWith pierced fruiting vine frieze supporting three light fitments, 39cm diameter Condition report: Tarnishing and general dirt commensurate with use and age. The gilt colour of the frieze is inconsistent wtih other elements of the hanging light. There is a small bent gap in the frieze where the hanging cross bars join in one areas. Elements have probably been contrived together. With require rewiring prior to electrical use and PAT testing.
Lot 1563
A Continental Art Deco gilt blue glass box and cover, decorated with leaves, height 11cm, together with an Art Deco hallmarked silver mounted cut glass scent bottle and stopper and two modern scent bottles and stoppers, (4).Additional InformationThe blue glass box and cover with some rubbing to the gilding and two chips to the glass at the base, the hallmarks to the silver collar are rubbed and with some small nicks to the glass of the Art Deco clear glass example here and there.
Lot 1566
A quantity of assorted cut glass ware including a cased set of four Royal Doulton tumblers, four Royal Brierley wine glasses, assorted grapefruit dishes, etc.Additional InformationThere are too many pieces in this lot to give an accurate condition report however we have had a good look over the lot and there are no obvious faults.
Lot 364
Three boxes of assorted items to include; coloured glass vases, large cut glass centre bowls and vase, coloured glass scent bottles, hardstone eggs, cruet set, bird design glass figures, intaglio robin, clear glass cylindrical canister with lid, various drinking vessels; tumblers, Preludio lead crystal and Piazza boxed champagne flutes, boxed Stuart crystal and Edinburgh crystal whisky tumblers, miniature longcase clock, Royal Worcester Evesham design placemats, wooden writing box with floral inlay containing dressing table items, cased set of landscape placemats, various cased sets of cutlery etc. (3)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 389
Three trays of modern cut glass and moulded glass good quality drinking glasses to include: whisky tumblers, brandy balloons, wine glasses, sherry glasses, two whisky tumblers engraved 'Wetherbys', one engraved with a heraldic shield and 'Pontarddulais 1928-2003', together with two cut and moulded glass trifle/fruit bowls. (36)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 10
Berthold Lubetkin and Margaret LubetkinUnique sofa, designed for the Penthouse flat, Highpoint Two, Highgate, London, 1936-1938Norwegian yew, sandblasted pine, Cowhide, leather, chromium-plated metal. 77 x 196 x 80 cmFootnotes:ProvenanceBerthold Lubetkin, Penthouse flat, Highpoint Two, Highgate, LondonThence by descentBonhams, London, New Bond Street, 'Important Design', 21 November 2018, lot 169Acquired from the above by the present ownerLiteratureLionel Brett, The Things We See Houses - No. 2, Houses, Middlesex, 1947, p. 49 for the armchairs and daybed'Tall Order', The Architects' Journal, June 1985, illustrated p. 55John Allan, Berthold Lubetkin: Architecture and the tradition of progress, London, 2016, illustrated pp. 303, 305, 307, 562The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Collections, https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1458096/-armchair-berthold-lubetkin, (accessed September 2021) for the armchairHighpoint by Nick Wright'There are only four kinds of artistic activity: fine art, music, poetry and ornamental pastry cooking, of which architecture is a minor branch.' So began Berthold Lubetkin's speech to the Art Worker's Guild in 1932. Over a fifty-year career he baked many fine pastries.His origins are opaque. A passport showing his birthplace as Warsaw in 1903 was false. He was born in Georgia, a colonial outpost of Tsarist Russia, in 1901. During the Russian revolution he enrolled as a student at the Stroganov School of Applied Art. He studied carpet design in Berlin, architecture in Warsaw, concrete construction in Paris under August Perret, though achieved few if any formal qualifications. Nonetheless, he worked on the Soviet Pavilion in the Paris Exposition of 1925 and, in partnership, with Jean Ginsburg whose bona fide degree facilitated planning permission, had built an apartment block on Rue de Versailles by the age of 30.Arriving in Britain with two passports, no family or verifiable CV, he was free to become the architect of his own identity. His nationality was International, his faith communism, the denomination Modernism. The penguin pool he designed for Regent Park Zoo became instantly emblematic of the movement. More commissions came; suburban houses in Plumstead, a beach house in Aldwyck, a bungalow cut into the chalk hills of Whipsnade. Then, following the Tottenham factory designed for Gestetner Ltd, he designed Highpoint. 'Nothing,' he said, 'is too good for the ordinary person' and Highpoint is the physical embodiment of that ideal. New materials, concrete, glass, and steel were presumed impervious to the elements, the elemental design to fashion. Although undeniably 'an achievement of the first rank' to quote Le Corbusier, Highpoint now appears very much of its time. Rather than housing the workers of an office equipment manufacturer the apartments were sold to private individuals whilst the white-washed concrete appears an homage to white liner modernism, new in Britain but rehearsed the decade prior on the Mediterranean coast and already rust streaked.It is the adjacent Highpoint II which appears the more prescient, bridging as it does the stark modernity of its elder sibling on one side with Georgian Highgate on the other. Indeed, it's startling to realise that what one takes to be a low linear building shares a roofline with its high-rise neighbour and this dual aspect continues throughout. The choice of Staffordshire blue brick nods to the Victorian engineers such as Brunel whom Lubetkin admired. The glass bricks of the stair wells were contemporary. Then there are the caryatids. Classical figures cast at the British Museum support the modernist portico, these draped ladies passed water though pipes cast within but remain a source of debate. Are they 'pastry decoration'? Are they a recreation of the figures on a childhood home? Or are they the earliest post-modern joke, an acknowledgement that a function of architecture is to entertain? In 1951 Lubetkin wrote 'for too long modern architectural solutions were regarded in terms of abstract principles, with formal expression left to itself as a functional resultant. The principles of composition, the emotional impact of the visual, were brushed aside as irrelevant. Yet this is the very material with which the architect operates.' Alessandro Mendini said much the same fifty years after Highpoint's construction.Preeminent among the residents of Highpoint II was Lubetkin himself who had designed the penthouse for his family and the apartment displays the same meld of old and new. A vaulted ceiling recalls the breakfast room at John Soane's Pitzhanger, suspended from it was a mobile made and installed by Alexander Calder. Expansive glass affords views of London, in the free space below was a suite of furniture designed in the vernacular style of Lubetkin's native Georgia.John Allen writes of Lubetkin: 'No longer content merely to revere the grand tradition of architects who design their own furniture – Aalto, Le Corbusier, Mies, Rietveld – he now steps up to join it. The low chairs and sofa were unique pieces of soft sculpture made personally by Lubetkin and his wife Margaret from hand chosen lengths of Norwegian yew and cow hide from Argentina.' Such a quest seems indulgent but careful selection of the timber is necessary to the design. The rear posts all require the same curvature, even the knots are regularly spaced to create symmetrical aprons and, as with the building for which they were designed, the traditional and avant-guard coexist; fitted into the rustic frames are airfoil sections adjusted via engine-turned bosses.These pieces of furniture are of real architectural significance - evidenced by the Victoria and Albert Museum's acquisition of the third chair. They were designed by the architect responsible for much of Britain's post-war social housing and the Finsbury Health Centre, effectively the first hospital for the NHS. They drew on his early life in Georgia yet sit well in his home on top of Britain's preeminent modernist building. Indeed, so attached was Lubetkin to the furniture that on leaving Highpoint in 1955 the suite went with him. Images of the farm cottage to which he relocated show sofa and chair wedged beside the hearth. Then when he retired to a terraced Georgian house in Bristol the pieces again accompanied him. Throughout a transient life it was as though this suite represented home more than any building. Perhaps home had always been Georgia.Bonhams wishes to thank Nick Wright, co-author, Cut and Shut: The History of Creative Salvage, London, 2012.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 42
Loetz (Austrian), a large ‘Rusticana’ glass jardinière lacking metal foot, c.1900, ground out pontil,The green glass with wavy rim, moulded with small dimples and exhibiting an iridescent sheen,21.5 cm high, 24 cm wideThere is a broad cut band around the circumferance of the base in keeping with having originally had a metal mount/foot - which it now lacks. Some bubbles and inclusions in the glass from the making process. Some general wear. Wear to the interior. Underside of base with a few nicks and quite heavy wear.
Lot 54
Daum (French Est. 1879), a double-overlay cameo and fire-polished glass vase,c.1900, wheel cut Daum Nancy with Cross of Lorraine,The opalescent body overlaid with orange and green and acid-etched with flowers with applied, raised centres, on slender stems, the base and neck with martelé finish, fire-polished,29.2 cm highA few scuffs and abrasions and light natural wear. Some tiny bubbles in the glass and on the surface, but this is how it was made. Natural wear to base with tiny abrasions on the edge.
Lot 351
A SET OF THREE GEORGE III CRESCENT WINE LABELS with bright-cut borders; "PORT", "MADEIRA" & "CLARET" by Hester Bateman, London 1785-90 (maker's mark and lion passant only), two other George III crescent wine labels, a plated "SHERRY" label and a plated clip-on moustache guard for a glass or cup; the latter 2.6" (6.5 cms) wide; 1.3 oz weighable silver (7)
Lot 165
MISCELLANEOUS SMALL SILVER:- A George V mounted cut-glass, domed circular inkwell, an Edwardian sugar caster, initialled and dated "1909", a bonbon dish, a pepper caster, a late Victorian part-fluted tea caddy, a cream jug, a late Victorian embossed scent flask (in original fitted case) and a Continental snuff box, initialled "JL"; the latter 3.1" (8 cms) long; 22.7 oz weighable silver (8)
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