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Lot 915
A fine 19th century French champlevé enamel mantle clock, concave 65mm. gilt bronze circular dial with eight day striked movement, Arabic numeral chapter markers bearing centralised polychrome enamel roundel, with blue steel hands beneath a circular bevelled glazed door, champlevé enamels decorate the exteriors, held in a case of Persian architectural design, the roof with four corner disc and knop finials with centralised champlevé dome surmounted by disc and knop finial, stepped base with toupie supports, 12in. (30.5cm.) high.
Lot 600
A Japanese parquetry & marquetry work gentleman's compendium, Meiji period (1868-1912), in the form of a tall house with arched roof, the exterior in full brick effect marquetry work, with marquetry and parquetry windows to the front and sides, the recessed upper floor containing a central watch stand drawer flanked by smaller drawers, the larger lower section hinged to the centre, with chequer interior and various drawers and sliding doors in geometric parquetry work, the base with full width drawer, 16½in. (42cm.) high, containing a miniature carved wooden book with 'VA' monogram, dated 1904. (2)* Condition: Original surface and condition. Three 'bricks' missing from left side of front panel and four small losses to veneer around lower drawer. Tiny chip to veneer to lower edge on one side. Small piece of veneer missing from one of top drawers to left of watch stand. One edge piece from top of right hand door detached. Good overall.
Lot 410
A good quality Edwardian inlaid and marquetry mahogany glazed breakfront display cabinet, the ogee moulded and dentil inlaid cornice over a figured mahogany frieze with swagged floral and foliate marquetry, the five panel astragal glazed door and convex side glasses with boxwood strung lower panels, enclosing a pale green watered silk interior with glass shelves, raised on six turned tapered supports with inlaid faux-fluting, 50½ x 16in. (128.25 x 40.5cm.), 74in. (188cm.) high.
Lot 373
An 18th century Spanish walnut two door cupboard, the flared moulded cornice over a pair of cruciform and multi-rectangular panelled doors with substantial wrought iron slide lock and spade escutcheon, enclosing a two shelf interior, within six panel sides, on Spanish reeded feet, 42½ x 20¾in. (108 x 52.75cm.), 60¼in. (154.5cm.) high.
Lot 984
A monumental 17th-18th century Spanish walnut door, probably walnut, with applied panels and wrought iron rivet heads, floral and lozenge style mounts and decorative escutcheon, handle and knocker, with central upper inset door with wrought iron slide lock and strap hinges, circular opening to lower corner to allow entry and exit by cats, 78 x 55in. (198 x 139.5cm.).
Lot 914
An early 19th century eight day mahogany longcase clock by Thomas Logan of Dorchester, c.1820, with bell strike movement, the signed 12in. circular enamel Roman dial with engraved and gilded hands, subsidiary seconds at noon and arched date aperture, flanked by brass mounted turned columns below the arched cornice, the cross banded and ebony strung door over a deep ebony strung base on shaped bracket feet, 85in. (216cm.) high.
Lot 919
A late Victorian oak eight day longcase clock by Maple & Co., with twin train gong strike movement, the matted gilt brass arched dial with silvered Roman chapter ring, subsidiary seconds dial at noon and Strike/Silent to arch, signed 'Maple & Co. Ltd. London', with gilt brass scroll spandrels, the case with swan neck pediment over a blind fret frieze, supported on twin gilt brass mounted and stop fluted columns, over a trunk with serpentine arched door and conforming brass mounted pilasters, on a fielded panelled base with wavy plinth, 91½in. (232.5cm.) high.
Lot 741A
A Chinese carved hardwood table top display cabinet, early 20th century, in the form of a crescent moon, with side hinged bevelled glass door enclosing an interior with two 'hanging' shelves on pierced gilt brass brackets, a third similar shelf to the exterior with carved and pierced wooden brackets, conforming surmount, on a carved four-toed dragon support to a plinth base with incuse sides, 25¼in. (64cm.) high, 14½in. (37cm.) wide.* Condition: Two teeth missing from dragon's mouth. No other damage to carving. Glass original and in good condition. Some wear and scratching to polish to edges of base and some rubs and scratches to polish on edges elsewhere. Otherwise good condition overall.
Lot 909
An 18th century oak 30 hour longcase clock by Jno. Ramsbottom, c.1770, the 13in. circular Roman brass dial with foliate engraving, signed, date dial at six, pierced steel hands, the hood flanked by turned columns beneath a swan neck pediment, the trunk with serpentine top door over an ogee moulded base, 83¼in. (211.5cm.) high.
Lot 378
A good quality George III mahogany bureau, the sloped front falling open on to lopers revealing a central door with barber pole strung border and centralised marquetry star design with a fluted secret pull out drawer to each side flanked by long drawers above three reserves each with a single drawer, the body bearing fluted pilaster sides with narrow top drawer having lopers to sides above three graduated drawers, brass handles on pierced backplates, bracket supports, 41½h x 36w x 21d in. (105.4 x 91.4 x 53.3cm.).
Lot 108
A Regency rosewood and parcel gilt side cabinet The rectangular black fossil marble top above a lobed frieze and a later bowed central door with brass grille and backed by pleated silk enclosing three shelves and three later fitted boxes, flanked by a pair of cupboard doors with brass grilles and backed by pleated silk each enclosing two adjustable shelves, above a lotus leaf carved moulding and spirally turned gilt and ebonised feet, with restorations, 123cm wide, 41cm deep, 101cm high. NB: Requires a CITES license if exported outside the EU
Lot 175
A small 18th century Chinese-Export bureau on an associated English mahogany stand The rectangular top above a crossbanded fall with reading rest enclosing a central cupboard door enclosing a shelf, flanked by applied split baluster 'secret drawers' and two further drawers to each side, above a pair of undulating moulded drawers with swing paktong carrying handles to the sides, the rectangular moulded stand with square chamfered legs, 57cm wide, 35cm deep, 97cm high.
Lot 179
An early 19th century Dutch carved oak bureau cabinet The arched pediment inset with carved leaves and branches above a fluted frieze and a pair of panelled doors carved with stylised leaf mouldings, flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters enclosing two shelves, a carved tasselled draped frieze flanked by six short drawers to each side, above a leaf carved moulded and shaped fall enclosing a central cupboard door flanked by six shaped drawers and a further six stepped drawers, above three long graduated drawers flanked by fluted and swagged angles above a guilloche apron and outswept fluted feet, with metal label to interior of drawers 'LK 994', previously painted, 136 cm wide, 56cm deep, 238cm high. Provenance: Sir Roger Fray Greenwood Ormrod, PC (1911-1992) the British Lord Chief Justice of Appeal. Thence by decent and purchased by the current owner.
Lot 21
A William and Mary kingwood oyster veneered and rosewood cabinet on stand The upper part with a moulded overhanging cornice and cushion frieze drawer above a pair of geometric inlaid doors enclosing an interior of ten various drawers around a central cupboard door enclosing five various small drawers, the stand with a long frieze drawer, on six later square section broken scroll legs joined by shaped stretchers uniting to support a radiating kingwood oyster veneered oval inlaid platform, on turned bun feet, with various old handwritten labels to the interior of the drawers and inscribed '1799', '1802', 'Jovis' and another 'Leverton Papers, to be Kept', 124.5cm wide, 52cm deep, 172cm high. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 13.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}The cabinet offered here forms part of a small number of known cabinets which share certain similarities. Two have been published: notably an escritoire from the collection of the architect Basil Ionides with apparently a notably similar arrangement of kingwood oyster veneer roundels and spandrels (Country Life, August 11, 1950). This escritoire was referred to by Christopher Gilbert as a ‘highly important kingwood fall-front cabinet inscribed 'Thomas Pistor, Ludgate Hill, London, formerly owned by the Hon. Basil Ionides, which unfortunately remains untraced’, see C.Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds 1996, p.44. A similarly veneered kingwood cabinet 'in two stages' forms part of the Noel Terry collection at Fairfax House, York and is illustrated in P.Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture & Clocks, York 1987, p.39, catalogued as c.1690-95 and acquired by Noel Terry from Mallett in 1935.It is possible that the class as a whole has a common maker (based on Christopher Gilbert's comments, possibly Thomas Pistor, for further information on this cabinetmaker see lot 27). There are similarities between different examples not only in the use of the veneers, but also in the details of the mouldings and other points of construction. The name 'Kingwood' does not appear in British sources until 1770 before which it was probably referred to as princes wood although the exact Botanical species has not been identified other than being a species of Dalbergia, see A.Bowett, Woods in British Furniture Making 1400-1900, Wetherby 2012, p.104.Bowett notes that kingwood had generally gone out of fashion by around 1730 but was re-introduced, very possibly by the French émigré cabinetmakers in London during the 1770’s. Kingwood was amongst the most expensive woods generally used by cabinet-makers at the time, and its use is invariably associated with furniture of high quality. NB: Requires a CITES license if exported outside the EU
Lot 27
A William & Mary kingwood oyster veneered cabinet on chest attributed to Thomas PistorThe upper part with a moulded overhanging cornice and a cushion frieze drawer above a pair of cupboard doors inlaid with concentric circles and enclosing a fitted interior of eleven various drawers, the housing for two of the larger top drawers concealing sliding compartments with small removable lidded boxes, around a central cupboard door with a sliding panel and concealed box compartment within the door, the door enclosing four further small short drawers, the lower part with two short and two long drawers, on later bun feet, the sides similarly decorated with oyster veneers, 119cm wide, 51cm deep, 180.5cm high The attribution to the London cabinet-maker Thomas Pistor is based on a group of pieces identified and previously with W.R Harvey including two kingwood cabinets and a desk to which the cabinet offered here is clearly part of the same group.There were in fact two cabinet-makers called Thomas Pistor, father and son, working for a period at the same time but at different premises. One or both are known to have made furniture of quality for Levens Hall although the group of kingwood pieces that correspond to the cabinet offered here do not relate directly to the Levens Hall furniture.From the 4-18 August 1950 Country Life ran a series of articles featuring what was then the recently rebuilt Buxted Park, a house reconstructed by the architect Basil Ionides following a serious fire and in one of the illustrations a kingwood escritoire is visible. Subsequently Christopher Gilbert commented in The Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.44 that a “highly important kingwood fall-front cabinet inscribed ‘Thomas Pistor, Ludgate Hill, London’, formerly owned by the Hon. Basil Ionides, unfortunately remains untraced. It was amongst the Buxted Park furniture at Sotheby’s, 25 September 1963, lot 168 (withdrawn)…”. The whereabouts of this escritoire remain unknown and further details of how the pieces was marked remain uncertain.There was in fact no Sotheby’s sale on this date. A somewhat later sale of the Ionides’ property was held by Sotheby’s, 1 November 1963, in which lot 168 was described as “A William and Mary olivewood secretaire cabinet in richly figured parquetry…”. although no trade label is mentioned. It is nonetheless possible that this is the piece referred to by Christopher Gilbert. Gilbert was amongst the first generation of furniture historians to have begun compiling archives of stamped and labelled furniture leading to the publication of both The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers and Marked London Furniture 1660-1840 (1996). The Buxted cabinets appearance could well have meant that his attention was drawn to it by the furniture department at Sotheby’s while processing the Ionides property.The overall profile and proportions of the Buxted escritoire conforms to that of the cabinet offered here and the W.R Harvey cabinets as does the pattern of oysters visible on the frieze drawer, and there is a strikingly similar large radiating circular pattern. It is undoubtedly the same maker responsible for the cabinet offered here and for the two W.R Harvey cabinets, one of which is a near pair to the above cabinet. The two cabinets share virtually identical dimensions, profile of the mouldings at the cornice, waist and base. The size and layout of all of the drawers are identical and in both cabinets secret drawers can be found in the underside of the internal door and above the two top internal drawers and the use of veneers is near identical on both pieces. The interiors of both are furnished with two large drawers above and below the central door, three smaller drawers either side, and a small drawer immediately below the door. The veneers on the drawers are again almost identical, the chest sections have dovetails that appear to have been cut by the same hand. The internal door locks appear the same and most strikingly of all, the stylised numbers on the backs of the internal drawers and the corresponding divides were seemingly done by the same hand presumably in the same workshop.
Lot 30
A George III mahogany kneehole bureau dressing table, attributed to Thomas Chippendale The rectangular moulded top above a flame figured frieze drawer enclosing seven divisions above a recessed kneehole with panelled door enclosing a shaped shelf, flanked by three short drawers to each side, on ogee bracket feet, with laminated blocks behind the feet and a thin red wash, 97cm wide, 57cm deep, 80cm high. Provenance: The late Hon. Mrs. B. Bruce (1921-2012) wife of the late Hon. Bernard Bruce, the only son of Victor Alexander Bruce 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine and of Culross Abbey House by his second marriage. Considered to be one of the earliest classical buildings in Scotland Culross Abbey House is the dower house to Broomhall, the seat of the 11th Earl of Elgin. See Country Life, Culross Abbey House, Fife : The home of the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, 16 May 1957, pp 981-983. This lot may be closely compared with a George III mahogany 'buroe' table by Thomas Chippendale supplied to Ninian Home for Paxton House, Berwickshire, at a cost of £6.12s. It recently appeared on the market at Christies, London, 14 May 2003, lot 140 (realised £77,675 including premium). It can also be seen illustrated in C.Claxton Stevens & S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, p.108. Another version of the same item, but without the entre-lac moulded border was made for the Buff Bedroom at Paxton House, presumably also by Chippendale (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, fig.417) and is illustrated alongside the aforementioned Paxton bureau, together with a design for a bureau dressing table from the Director (1754) PL.XLI (figs 415 & 416). A George III mahogany kneehole possibly by Thomas Chippendale was sold Christies, London 22 January 2009, lot 29 which can be closely compared with the above lot having a part-fitted mahogany lined frieze drawer, laminated corner blocks behind the feet.
Lot 57
A George III carved mahogany bureau cabinet attributed to Thomas Bradshaw The pierced broken swan-neck acanthus and egg and dart carved and moulded pediment above a leaf and bellflower carved frieze and a pair of Gothic arched astragal glazed doors enclosing two adjustable shelves, the lower part with a sloping fall enclosing a panelled door flanked by triple cluster column 'secret drawers' and six pigeonholes with pierced fret arcading, above two short and three long graduated drawers and a wreathed base moulding, on acanthus carved ogee bracket feet, 107cm wide, 57cm deep, 264cm high. The distinctive pierced cornice is a feature often used by the cabinet-maker Thomas Bradshaw. A bureau bookcase by Bradshaw with this type of cornice is illustrated in C.Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, p.119, pl.150. Bradshaw is listed as working at St.Paul’s Churchyard 1754-75 and subscribed to Chippendale’s 1754 Director. He was declared bankrupt in 1772, (see G.Beard & C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, p.99). A Bradshaw display cabinet of circa 1760 and formerly with Freshfords Antiques with pierced swan-neck fret pediment has comparable acanthus carved glazing bars, a more unusual feature. See Sotheby's, Important English Furniture, 30 June 2004 for a George III mahogany linen press, circa 1760, attributed to Thomas Bradshaw. A very similar unattributed bureau-cabinet, formerly with Hotspur, was sold Christie's, Important English Furniture, 6 July 2000, lot 150. A secretaire bookcase with pierced cornice, almost certainly attributable to Bradshaw and formerly with French & Co., New York, is illustrated in F.Lewis Hinckley, Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years, 1988, p.138, Ill.212. Two further unattributed but similar examples can be noted in C. Claxton Stevens & S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, pp.192 & 197, the one illustrated on p.192 has a comparable wreathed moulding, whilst both have ogee bracket feet as seen in the above lot (although this example has more sophisticated feet) rather than the blind fret bracket foot which is often seen in Bradshaw pieces.
Lot 72
An eleven-piece set of 19th century gilt bronze door furniture in a later glazed case in the neo-classical style Comprising of a one large and nine small door handles and a matching covered escutcheon plate, mounted within a rectangular mahogany veneered glazed case, 26.5cm wide, 12.5cm deep, 38cm high.
Lot 467
A mahogany long case clock,with an arched brass dial and silvered chapter ring to the centre, inscribed 'John Moore, Warminster', with an eight-day movement and subsidiary seconds dial, the hood with fluted columns with Corinthian capitals, with a conch shell inlaid trunk door,dial 11½ in235cm high
Lot 562
A Victorian walnut crossbanded and inlaid serpentine-fronted credenza side cabinet, a central cupboard with shaped door inlaid with a basket of flowers, flanked on either side by glazed doors and all with ormolu mounts, and on a platform base with short ebonised feet, 184cm wide118cm high50cm deep
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