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Lot 128
A French Louis XVI style king wood, rosewood cross banded and brass mounted kneehole desk / bureau plat, the top with leather inset writing surface, five drawers and extendable tops on both sides below, raised on square tapering supports terminating in brass caps, W168cm plus 76cm extensions, D88cm, H77cm. C19th century.
Lot 248
AN EBONISED KNEEHOLE DESK, with central drawer flanked to each side by two graduating drawers, with carved decoration to each drawer, and carved decoration to each side, and raised on four barley twist legs, with a stretcher to each sides and the back, H 79cm x 113cm x 59cm Condition Report : Wear conducive to use, top quite badly scratched Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
Lot 1226
A rare Buckley Pottery desk stand 1st half 19th century, the marbled rectangular form surmounted with two pineapple moulded barrel vases, the sides with looped decoration in treacle and cream slip, 21.3cm. Cf. Buckley Pottery, the Craft and History of the Buckley Potters, Mostyn Art Gallery, p4, top right for a similar stand.
Lot 1425
A Paris porcelain cased desk set 19th century, decorated in the Sèvres style with panels of putti and birds reserved on a bleu celeste ground, with ormolu mounts of putti at various pursuits. Comprising: an inkstand, a pair of candlesticks, a letter opener and a seal, all within a velvet and silk lined box for Howell & James of Regent Street, 35cm overall. By repute, a gift from Queen Victoria.
Lot 612
A collection of three vintage 20th century desk top boxes / jewellery boxes. The collection comprising of a dome top box with hinged lid having twin perfume glass bottles, a rectangular jewellery box with mother of pearl inlaid decoration to the hinged lid opening to reveal jewellery compartments along with another rectangular lidded box. Condition: Good used condition, dome top box broken hinge. Measures 9 cm x 16 cm x 9 cm largest.
Lot 316
A lot comprising a guilloche enamel desk clock, a gilt metal and tortoise shell trinket box, a coromandel letter box with Wedgwood plaque, a portrait miniature of Queen Victoria, a silver lidded inkwell, two silver collared scent bottles, EPNS dwarf candlesticks etc Condition Report: one scent bottle is chipped to rim, trinket box is badly broken.
Lot 106
AN UNUSUAL SWISS DESK TIMPIECE IN THE FORM OF A BOOKUnsigned, early 20th centuryThe nickel-finish circular eight-day movement with lever escapement regulated by sprung bimetallic balance and stamped with serial number 18055 to the frosted gilt rear cover incorporating integral winding key, hand setting screw and regulation adjustment aperture, the rectangular 3.5 by 2.5 inch purple enamelled radial guilloche engine-turned dial applied with narrow silvered Arabic numeral chapter ring and painted with floral garland swag infill to upper and lower margins, with gilt moon hands set behind bevelled glass retained by a moulded gilt brass surround, the case modelled as a gilt tooled leather book inscribed LIVRE D'HEURES to spine and with decorative hinged pierced brass clasp (exterior mostly recovered).13cm (5.125ins) high, 11cm (4.25ins) wide, 4cm (1.5cm) deep.Condition Report: Movement is complete and in clean working condition with no signs of alteration or significant replacements. The gilt rear cover is lacking one of the three screws that retain the movement and dial in the case, the other two are non-matching, there is also some light spotting and wear to the gilt finish. The dial appears to be in fine condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 103
AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN GILT BRASS MINIATURE SKELETON TIMEPIECEH. Gloster, Coventry, dated 1864The single chain fusee movement with lever escapement regulated by sprung three-arm monometallic balance set beneath a fine foliate scroll decorated cock fitted with faceted diamond endstone positioned on the front of the movement above the dial and with engraved date AD 1864 to left hand margin the shaped fretwork frosted-gilt plates united by column-turned pillars at the top and sculpted block at the base, centred with a white enamel Roman numeral chapter ring over engraved signature H. Gloster, Coventry to lower section and raised on cavetto-shaped Siena marble base, with original oval-section glass dome cover resting on an ogee-moulded ebinised wood base with bun feet.The timepiece 12cm (4.75ins) high, 6cm (2.375ins) wide, 2.5cm (1ins) deep; the glass dome cover and base 7.5cm (19cm) high overall. The watchmaker H. Gloster of Coventry does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources. The current lot would appear to have been made by a watchmaker either perhaps as an apprentice piece or as one-off to demonstrate the application of watchmaking techniques to produce a small static desk timepiece.
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