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Lot 3543
An Edwardian satinwood display cabinet with three glazed doors, the central door with a painted oval panel depicting a young lady, the top with an oval painted panel depicting seated cherubs, painted with floral swags and foliage throughout, on square tapering legs, height 122cm, width 122cm, depth 34.5cm. Condition report: Crack to one glazed panel, small veneer chips to top at back, some surface scratches and varnish craquelure.
Lot 396
A European wooden and metal cartridge cabinet, 19th century, the hinged, pierced door with an oval central plaque depicting dead game, a powder horn and oak leaves, opening to reveal five compartments, height 53.5cm, width 34cm, depth 15cm. Condition report: The front is cast iron. The term cartridge cabinet was provided by out vendor, although it seems unlikely. No condition issues.
Lot 874
A Chinese hardwood cabinet, circa 1900, profusely inlaid with mother of pearl, with three frieze drawers decorated with floral sprays, landscapes and Chinese symbols, above a pair of cupboard doors carved with dragons flanking an open recess with a shelf, cupboard door and single drawer on bracket feet, height 127cm, width 152cm, depth 61cm. Condition report: Doors and drawers open properly. However, the cabinet is not secure, if the top is lifted the side falls off. Some woodworm. Veneer missing off top and also raised veneers. Some losses.
Lot 37
A pair of 19th Century Staffordshire Victorian novelty ceramic fairings / figurines to include one reading 'What have these met for?' featuring a lady and gentleman entering through a doorway, and the other reading 'All Over' depicting the lady and gentleman walking back out of the door. 9.5cm high 9cm wide.
Lot 1312
A Vienna-styled wall clock, oak case with opening glazed door flanked by turned decoration, surmounted by an architectural styled pediment, white chapter ring to the two-piece dial with Roman numerals, grid-iron style pendulum with bob marked R/A. Measures: 75cm high x 13cm wide x 17cm deep.
Lot 57
A FINE COORG GOLD-HILTED KNIFE (AYDA KATTI), THE POMMEL WITH AN INSCRIPTION FOR LING RAJENDER WADEER, RAJA OF COORG, DATED FOR 1808/10 with broad hatchet-shaped blade formed with a sharp curved inner edge, struck on one face with a gold-lined mark, the letters 'oC', knurled back-edged at the top, the forte widening and filed with a stepped moulding along the back-edge, recessed ricasso with elaborate stepped and bead-filed mouldings, hilt of characteristic form encased in sheet gold, the lower portion faceted at the base, thick pear-shaped pommel engraved with the inscription 'Lingra Jender Wadeer' within a circular linear frame enclosing the Raja's cypher and the date, the grip bound with plaited gold wire retained by four slender vertical gold fillets, with an early, probably original, black silk tassel 37.0 cm; 14 1/2 in blade Provenance The descendant family of Sir William Macnaghten Ling Rajender Wadeer, Raja Of Coorg was known for his warmth towards the English as the following account of 1815 shows: '………on my return from the Travancore country, I passed through the territories of the Raja of Coorg from whom I met with a very hospital reception. He is extremely fond of the English; assists them in every way in passing through his country and will not suffer them to pay for anything. He has built an elegant house at his capital, and furnished it entirely in European style for their accommodation…..He dresses frequently in the English style; and instead of indulging in luxury and dissipation, as Eastern princes are apt to do, he has made it his study to excel in all sorts of manly exercises. He is extremely fond of hunting…..rides elegantly and is perfect master of the use of the spear…..I have repeatedly seen him on horseback…..spear an orange thrown up in the air. I passed some days with him…..employed chiefly in the truly Royal sport of tyger and elephant hunting. On taking leave him he presented me among other things with a knife made at Coorg, and of remarkably well tempered steel….. being ornamented with gold…..is for men of the highest caste…..the Raja has brought the manufacture of swords and guns to great perfection…..he showed me a double-barrelled Joe Manton and an imitation of it made at Coorg…..they were so perfectly similar in every respect that I really could not tell them [apart].See Scots Magazine 1815 p. 207-8. Some years later Basil Hall recounted his somewhat impish sense of humour: '…..[the next day]…..on a signal given by the rajah a folding door was thrown open on one side of the court, and in stalked two immense royal tigers, held by several men on each side, by long but slight ropes attached to collars round the animals necks. These beasts…..allowed themselves to be led close to us. I confess I did not much like this degree of propinquity, and eyed the slender cordage with some professional anxiety…..the rajah and his son seemed quite unconcerned…..[he then] directed the men to let go the ropes and fall back…..we sat…..with…..nothing on earth to prevent their munching us all up…..' See Hall 1845 Sir William Hay Macnaghten, baronet (1793-1841) joined the Madras army as a cavalry cadet at which time he filled his hours learning Persian and Hindi, followed by Tamil, Telugu, Kanarese, and Marathi. He learned the art of diplomacy and gained a place in the Bengal civil service, his diligence and cleverness easily marked him out as one of the most distinguished students at the college of Fort William where he won every linguistic prize and medal on the college's books. His two monumental works, Principles and Precedents of Mohummudan Law (1825) and Principles and Precedents of Hindu Law (2 vols., 1828-9) were both significant and used as handbooks by generations of British-Indian judges. In 1831 Macnaghten's became secretary to the governor-general Lord William Bentinck and later Lord Auckland. The crisis on the north-western frontier was now looming and Macnaghten argued that the British should befriend Afghanistan to counter balance the Sikhs, believing that Ranjit Singh the erstwhile ally and aged ruler of the Punjab, could not live for much longer. Unfortunately his plans failed, the British position became untenable. Muhammad Akbar Khan claimed the British, particularly Macnaghten, were not to be trusted and summoned him to an exposed plain outside Kabul. Almost certainly aware that his fate was now sealed, Macnaghten attended the interview accompanied only by three officer's. On arrival they were seized and carried into the city to their deaths. Akbar Khan himself shot Macnaghten with a pistol given to him by the envoy the day before, whereupon angry city residents hacked his body to pieces and paraded his head and limbs in triumph. Days later, the entire garrison met a similar fate: retreating to Jalalabad, some 4000 soldiers and numerous camp followers were wiped out by freezing weather and snipers. Abridged from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed online September 2018.
Lot 173
A Chippendale revival mahogany corner cabinet on stand, possibly Irish, architectural pediment above a deep frieze and an astragal glazed door, flanked by reeded pilasters, shaped apron carved with acanthus, shaped stretchers with octagonal upstand, cabriole legs, fluted pad feet, 219cm high, 90cm wide, c.1890
Lot 67
A George III oak and mahogany longcase clock, the 28cm brass dial with silvered chapter ring inscribed Ashton, Ashburn (sic) Roman numerals, date aperture, 30-hour movement striking on a bell, the case with swan neck pediment, shaped rectangular door to waist centred by an oval shell patera, bracket feet, 207cm high, c.1800The signature is that of Samuel Ashton the younger born at Macclesfield 1828, apprenticed to father at Tideswell 1742-49, and moved to Ashbourne c. 1750, leaving his brother Aaron to succeed to their father's business at Tideswell. The two son,s Thomas and Martin, the former working from Tideswell and the latter in partnership with his father from 1791 and his successor until his own death in 1829 [Craven, M & Hughes, R G 'Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Derbyshire' (Mayfield 1998) 57-58.] Condition Report: Generally good. Dial and movement associated with case.
Lot 1119
A comprehensive Spode blue and white service, Spode's Italian, salt pig, spice jars, salt and pepper pots, toast rack, butter dish, honey pot, serving dishes, miniature Blue Room plates and saucers, door handles, jelly mould, cups and saucers, chargers, miniature cheese dish and candlestick, etc
Lot 3320
An Edwardian gentleman's mahogany smoking compendium, the pedestal with a moulded oversailing top above a slightly projecting frieze, the whole centred by a fielded and panelled door outlined in alternating boxwood and ebony, enclosing two shelves and a long drawer, plinth base, 51cm high, 32cm wide, c. 1905
Lot 389
A George III string inlaid mahogany longcase clock, the brass dial with a silvered chapter ring, Roman and Arabic numerals strike/silent, subsidiary seconds, date aperture, a plate inscribed John Mills, Montrose, the hood with a fretworked, swan neck pediment, Corinthian capital pillars, an arched door, quadrant pillars and box base, on bracket feet
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