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Lot 19
Irma Stern (South African, 1894-1966)Watussi Chief's Wife, 1946 signed and dated 'Irma Stern 1946' (upper left); signed and inscribed 'Irma Stern Cape Town' (on the reverse), signed, titled and inscribed 'Watussi Chief's Wife Irma Stern The Firs Chapel Road Rosebank Cape Town' (on the stretcher), signed 'Irma Stern' (on the reverse of the frame)oil on canvas in original Zanzibar frame63.2 x 50.5cm (24 7/8 x 19 7/8in).Footnotes:Provenance:Acquired from exhibition in Paris in 1947;Donated as a wedding gift to the current owner's parents, 1949;A private US collection.Exhibited:Paris, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Irma Stern: Peintures d'Afrique, Oct 1947, no. 15.War prevented Stern from travelling further overseas, so in the artist made two trips to the Belgian Congo, one in 1942 and a further trip in 1946.Her first trip was a great success and she returned with over two hundred works and also published her book 'Congo', she exhibited these works in Johannesburg in the following year and these included her noted portraits of the Tutsi King and Queen. In a letter to Richard Feldman she states:'My plans are to go up to Elisabethville by rail - truck my car - then get a chauffeur there - and motor for three days - then the road stops - and I can rail my car for 12 hours then I arrive at Albertville. I shall want to paint the Watussi ....'Her 1946 excursion was very different in that she contracted malaria and more importantly in the four years that had passed political change had taken place, here was resentment at the Belgian colonial government and the population were restless. Stern discussed this with her friend Mona Berman:'It was a hoodoo trip. The last time in the Congo everything went on oiled wheels. This time everything that could go wrong went wrong.....It is all quite a different world as to what I had in mind from former time - ... The Congo this time has a creeping horror for me'That being said she returned with fourteen finished canvasses and many charcoal studies. The above work is one of two portraits of Tutsi (Watussi) aristocracy that were completed by Stern on this second trip and then exhibited in Paris in 1947. The nobility were portrayed as being tall descendants from Nilotic ancestry, exceptionally beautiful and noble in bearing. In his preface to the catalogue Jean Cassou, Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne praised the artist and stated that she had captured:'An expression of Africa by an African'To Stern the Tutsi were a fascinating group, the elite with their aristocratic demeanour were subjects she wished to paint most fervently. She said: 'I am expecting a Watussi lady in tomorrow. They are grand – they do not walk or work – they are nobility.'The Tutsi are the second tribe in Rwanda and Burundi with the Hutu being the largest, but traditionally the Tutsi had held greater economic and governmental power. In 1994, following the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundi presidents there was a mass genocide of Tutsis, with between seven hundred thousand to one million being slaughtered. Also murdered in this killing spree were many Tutsi aristocracy and the Queen Rosalie Gicanda.The above work is enclosed in a 'Zanzibar frame'. The artist reserved these special frames for her finest works. In a letter to the current owner the artist states:'the frame of the picture is hand carved old Arab framing - taken off an antique Zanzibar - door. The picture was painted off center. I hope you are enjoying both. With best of wishes for the season'.Bibliography:Berman, M, 'Remembering Irma', Cape Town, 2003.Cassou, Jean, 'Irma Stern, peintures, Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1947.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 205
A group of glazed pottery funerary furnitureMing DynastyComprising: a pair of green glazed two-door cabinets, 25.1cm high, 15.5cm wide, 6.5cm deep; and three storage chests with moulded fitments, largest 13.5cm high, 15cm wide, 10.5cm deep (damages).(5).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 206
A group of glazed pottery funerary furnitureMing DynastyComprising: a table with rectangular top on four circular-section splayed supports and joined by stretchers, 12cm high, 25.5cm wide, 16.5cm deep; a pair of green glazed two-door cabinets raised on bracket feet, 19cm high, 13.5cm wide, 7cm deep; and a storage chest with moulded fitments, 12cm high, 14cm wide, 9.5cm deep.(4).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 75
A hongmu compact display stand19th/early 20th centuryThe rectangular top above a selection of asymetrically arranged staged open shelving all complete with key-fret galleries, a single cupboard door to one side with a carved panel of bamboo and fruiting vines and a lower drawer to the other with carved panel of fruiting vine over a moulded shaped apron.114.5cm high, 80cm wide, 30cm deep.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 83
A hongmu faux-bamboo tall display cabinet on stand19th centuryThe top with central crest and side panels carved and pierced with entwined bamboo above glazed sides and door opening to reveal a selection of asymetrically arranged staged open shelving on a separate base section with a waist and splayed apron each carved and pierced with further bamboo on cabriole supports joined by a further three stages of display shelving. 209cm high, 82cm wide, 38cm deep.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 157
A Walter Carter (Harrod's Ltd) Manchester flame mahogany compactum, outswept cornice with diamond banding, single door cupboard over four short and three graduated long drawers, brass hoop handles flanked by oval mirrored doors enclosing hanging space, spreading bracket feet. 194.5cm high x 203cm wide x 58cm deep.
Lot 309
A late George III satinwood and purplewood line-inlaid waterfall bookcase of small proportionsCirca 1795, with two shelves above one cedar-lined drawer, over an oval panelled door inset with later pleated material, on brass cappings and castors, 62cm wide x 27cm deep x 113cm high, (24in wide x 10 1/2in deep x 44in high)Footnotes:Purchased:Anthony Preston Antiques Ltd., Gloucestershire, 4th February 2008.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lots denoted with a 'TP' 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 330
A good late 18th century feather banded mahogany stick barometersigned B.Molinaru, Plymouththe broken architectural pediment centred by a turned brass urn finial over an opening glazed hood door and visible tube terminating in a turned cistern cover, the signed silvered scale with alcohol thermometer and manual vernier reading against seven weather predictions, 97cms highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' 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 354
A Queen Anne walnut and featherbanded bureau with an unusual concealed drawerOf small proportions, the fall enclosing six pigeon holes, six drawers and one door, above lopers and a concealed elm veneered drawer, over two short and two long graduated drawers, 73cm wide x 52cm deep x 101cm high, (28 1/2in wide x 20in deep x 39 1/2in high)Footnotes:Purchased:Church Street Galleries Limited, London, W8, on 10 February 1970, lot 6766. A copy of the invoice is available upon request.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' 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 355
A William and Mary kingwood or 'princeswood', rosewood and oyster veneered escritoirein the manner of Thomas PistorCirca 1690, with radiating veneered roundels, lunettes and spandrels, the ovolo frieze drawer above a fall enclosing ten drawers, eight pigeon holes and four secret drawers, encompassing a central door, enclosing three drawers, over two short and two long drawers, on later squat bun feet, 112cm wide x 52cm deep x 161cm high, (44in wide x 20in deep x 63in high)Footnotes:Certain aspects of the radiating and oyster veneering on the offered lot mirror those which appear on a kingwood escritoire inscribed: 'Mr Thomas Pistor, Ludgate Hill, London', formerly housed at Buxted Park, East Sussex. This escritoire is visible in a photograph of the drawing room at Buxted Park that formed part of a 1950 article in Country Life magazine. Such oyster veneering is also the dominant characteristic on two kingwood cabinets-on-chests offered by W.R. Harvey and Co. Antiques, as well as on another cabinet which featured in a sale last year at The Pedestal, Moor Park. The shared elements between these aforementioned examples and the present lot are; the waved oyster pattern on the frieze drawers; radiating circular, lunette, spandrel and 'heart-shaped' veneers; along with comparable cornice and waist mouldings.Although two people called Thomas Pistor, evidently father and son, were cabinet makers, it is only documented that one of these worked at The Cabinet, Ludgate Hill from 1694 until 1711. However it seems highly likely that one or perhaps both individuals produced furniture before 1694 as well.LiteratureC. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, 1996, Leeds, p. 44. Country Life, 11 August, 1950.G. Savill & S. Stratton, The Pedestal, Moor Park, 14 March 2017, footnote for lot 27.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP YTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' 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.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 423
A French late 19th/early 20th century gilt bronze mounted rosewood bijouterie tableOf shaped form, with floral and acanthus mounts and scrolled foliate-entwined chutes, the glazed door enclosing a later shelf, 60cm wide x 42cm deep x 90cm high, (23 1/2in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 35in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP YTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' 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.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 292
A French late 19th/early 20th century gilt bronze mounted kingwood vitrine attributed to Francois Linke (1855-1946)The moulded marble top above a ribbon-tied floral garland mounted frieze centred by a pair of addorsed bacchic satyrs and a young bacchus reclining on a vine leaf stretcher, over a bevelled glass inset door with a gilt bronze plaque below depicting a classical maiden burning incense at an athenienne, within a ribbon-tied floral and berried acanthus surround issuing scrolled flowers and foliage, enclosing a mirrored interior and glass shelves, 66cm wide x 39cm deep x 147cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 15in deep x 57 1/2in high)Footnotes:The offered lot is undoubtedly an example of the hugely impressive oeuvre of Francois Linke and represents a typical amalgamation of various designs he executed for comparable vitrines, to which he allocated the index numbers 38, 230 and 1122. However the present model appears most similar to Linke's index number 38 design. A virtually identical vitrine, also following index 38, sold Christie's, London, 17 March 2011, 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, lot 391.Francois LinkeLinke was born in Bohemia, but moved to Paris where he established his business circa 1880 at 170, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and from 1900 onwards he opened a showroom at 26, Place Vendôme. Linke made a huge impact at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, at which he presented vigorous reinterpretations of the Rococo style. He was ultimately honoured with a Gold medal and his success acquired wealthy patrons from across the world. He was admired so much in France that he was even awarded the 'Croix de la Légion d'Honneur' by 1906.LiteratureChristopher Payne, François Linke (1855-1946), The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, 2003.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' 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 299
A late 19th century gilt brass mounted mahogany chiming mantel clock and bracketthe movement numbered 234 to the backplateof rectangular form, the swept and hipped caddy top with pineapple finial and four pineapple finials to the corners, the front with arched door flanked by twin reeded Corinthian columns on moulded plinth base and lobed bun feet, the arched brass dial with 7'' silvered Roman chapter ring with outer five minute Arabic track, the arch with three subsidiaries for Chime on eight bells and Westminster, Slow/Fast, and Silent/Chime, the brass triple fusee movement with anchor escapement chiming on a nest of 8 graduated bells and striking on a gong with pendulum and winder, the bracket with undulating rectangular platform top on knopped and trellis pierced scrolling support, with pendulum, winder and case key, the clock 66cm high, the bracket 29cm high (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' 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
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