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A Dresden twin handled pedestal ogee vase and cover, encrusted with flowers and painted with classical figures, painted and impressed marks to base (32cm), together with German porcelain table centre, the oval central basket supported by four children, having flower encrusted decoration, hand painted floral sprays, blue printed PMP mark to base and signed R. Freihaus? (17 x 34 x 28cm).
LEEDS UTD / EAST GERMANY East German FA issue of "Fussball Woche" dated 5 May 1964, previewing the three tour matches Leeds Utd played against East Germany Olympic XI, SC Turbine Erfurt and Dynamo Dresden. Includes Leeds pen pictures and line up, team group picture and tour "spielprogramm". Generally Good
A DRESDEN PORCELAIN TEA POT in the form of a duck, stamped number 7985R, 25cm in length; a Chinese brass and enamelled box in the form of a duck, 28cm wide; a Crown Derby porcelain duck; a Chinese soapstone model of ducks, further model ducks and a victorian papier mache and mother of pearl inlaid tray
A 19th Century Meissen figure of a canary, bears blue crossed swords mark to underside, 9.5 cm high, together with a Dresden porcelain floral decorated box of bombe form, decorated with diamonds to the cover, containing a collection of nineteen flower head style counters and three others damaged
A scrapbook containing a hand-written account of a "Tour via Calais, Brussels and Berlin to St Petersburg and Moscow, returning by way of Berlin, Heringsdorf, Dresden .... Brussels and Calais to London, June and July 1899", by R W TWEEDIE, containing the hand written account together with various photographs, prints and hand drawn images, cloth board bound with tooled and gilded leather spine and corners
19th century Dresden porcelain solitaire tea service CONDITION REPORT: Jug, good condition. Very slight wear to gilding on handle. Cup, appears good condition. Saucer, appears good condition. Sugar, very slight wear to gilding on knop of lid, lid appears ok. Bowl appears in good condition. Tray, appears to be in good condition, slight wear to gilding. Teapot, lid badly broken and re-glued, knop is damaged, two pieces present, tiny chip on underneath of spout, slight wear to gilding on handle.
Pair of Helena Wolfsohn Dresden lidded vases, with hexagonal bodies painted with figures and floral subjects, underglaze blue AR marks to bases, mid 19th century (4) 34.5cm high Condition report: One lid has overall professional restoration. All other parts are free from damages or restoration. Minor gilt wear.
Pair of Large Dresden Campagna Shaped Pedestal Urns, in the Helena Wolfsohn style, each urn with two panels decorated with printed romantic scenes after Boucher, with two further opposing florally decorated panels on a pink ground; the square plinth reflects these panels; each panel is framed with gilt flourishes on a white ground; each 16 inches high overall; blue double cross marks to undersides (wear to most of gilt)
Letters Written by the Late Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chefterfield, To His Son, Philip Stanhope, Efq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together With Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects (sic), Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, From the Originals Now in Her Possession, fifth edition, J. Dodsley, London 1774, four-volume set, title-page with an engraved portrait of Lord Chesterfield by Joseph Collyer after full calf, the spine with raised banding and the compartments tooled and gilt with pimpernels, red and black leather title and volume labels, 8vo Provenance: Armorial/pictorial bookplate of Philip Lyttelton Gell [British editor of Oxford University Press] to front marbled pastedown of each volume; Sothebys, Hopton Hall, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 1989.
A KPM Berlin porcelain cabinet cup and saucer, 19th century, purple lustre with gilt scrolling foliage and the words 'Nimm's freundlich an', underglaze blue sceptre mark, 8.5cm high, together with a further German porcelain cabinet cup and saucer, probably Berlin, painted with a titled landscape scene of Holstein, unmarked and a Dresden/Meissen style box and cover, decorated in a basket weave form with flowers and small portrait and landscape vignettes, underglaze blue crossed swords marks, 22.5cm wide (6)
A pair of 19thC Potschapel Dresden cabinet plates, by Carl Thieme, each shaped outline partially pierced and broken by floral bouquets with gilt highlights, the centres hand painted with further flowers, predominantly in purple, green and yellow, on circular feet, blue cross and T marks beneath, 27cm wide.
A Third Reich aluminium Army belt buckle, by Hermann Aurich, Dresden, dated “38” (requires cleaning); 2 x 1939 War Merit Crosses, 2nd class with swords (one with minor corrosion, the other faded to grey metal); 25 pdr brass shell case, dated 1940; a clip of inert German rifle cartridges (one bullet missing, the clip rusty); 2 other cartridge cases; HMSO publication “The Australian Army at War, 1939-1944” and a WWII news sheet “The SSHHH” dated April 2nd 1945. Average GC
A Miscellaneous Collection of Single Lens Reflex Cameras, including Exakta RTL 1000 with 1.8/50 Meyer lens and leather case, Exakta Imagee Dresden with leather case and Carl Zeiss Pancolar 2/50 6618829 lens, Exakta Varex 11B with Jena 2/50 lens with leather case, Exakta VX 500 body with Alpex light meter and case, 2 x Exakta vintage with Carl Zeiss 1:2.8 lenses, one with leather case, Exakta II with Ludwig Meritar 2.9/50 lens and an Edixa Flex body, together with miscellaneous accessories including boxed view finders, cable release, Carl Zeiss Jena 2077, together with miscellaneous Carl Zeiss Jena lenses nr. 2029474 Tessar 1.:8, with fitting and filters, together with a quantity of new Thagee glass lenses. (8 cameras).
A Dresden part dessert service decorated with figural panels alternating with floral panels comprising eleven dessert plates, two shaped square bowls, a circular dish, and a candlestick, also a Hammersley part tea service, Queen Anne 13166 Chinse pattern comprising eleven plates, ten cups, twelve saucers, two sandwich plates, a jug and bowl, and a shaped square dish, also four Royal Crown Derby coffee cups and five saucers in Imari pattern 2451. CONDITION REPORT: Surface dirt throughout. Dresden: some rubbing to gilding and paint throughout commensurate with age and use, burn mark to candlestick. Hammersley: jug has crazing to glaze, some staining, one cup stained, one cup with a hairline and staining, one sandwich plate crazed to the glaze, a little wear to the pattern and guilding commensurate with usage and age. Crown Derby: one cup stained, wear to gilding and pattern throughout.
A RARE SAXON MUSKETEER'S POWDER-FLASK, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY formed in imitation of flattened cowhorn, of carved ebonised wood, carved with a Saxon spear bearer in contemporary dress on the outer face and bold scrolling foliage on the inner face, fitted with iron basal cap and nozzle, the latter fitted with spring cut-off and lever closure, long belt hook, and six loops for suspension 21.5 cm; 8 1/2 in long Provenance The former Saxon Electoral Armoury, Dresden Dresden Flasks of this type were carried by the Trabanten-Leib Garde of Christian II (r. 1591-1611). Another flask from this group was included in the sale of Highly Important Arms from the Saxon Royal Collections, Sotheby & Co. 23rd March 1970, lot 4.
A RARE ETCHED PARTISAN OF THE GUARD OF THE ELECTOR FRIEDRICH AUGUST I OF SAXONY, 'THE STRONG' (1670, 1694-1733), CIRCA 1694-7 with central blade of flattened-diamond section, broad base formed of a pair of flat notched flukes, etched at the base with a pattern of scrolling foliage on each side and surmounted on the respective faces with the crowned electoral arms and the initials 'CFA' for Churfürst Friedrich August, moulded collar, faceted socket and a pair of long straps, on a wooden haft painted with an inventory number 61.2 cm; 24? in head Provenance The Saxon Electoral Armoury, Dresden. Friedrich August I ruled as Elector of Saxony (1694-1733) and twice as King August II of Poland (1697-1704 and 1709-33). Similar partisans are preserved in the Wartburg (inv. no. 461) and the Wallace Collection, London (inv. Nos. A1002 & A1003). Another partisan from this group with the same notable style of etching is preserved in the Deutsches Historiches Museum, Berlin. See Müller and Kölling 1981, p. 311 no. 395.
A GERMAN ETCHED HALBERD FOR THE GUARD OF JOHANN GEORG, DUKE OF SAXONY (1585, ELECTOR 1611-1656) AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE BISHOPRIC OF MERSEBURG, DATED 1609 with tapering terminal spike of hollow-diamond section with a pair of lugs at the base, forward-leaning curved axe-blade, down-curved rear fluke formed with a pair of inward curled lugs, tapering sockets, and a pair of long straps, one stamped 'ML', probably the maker, etched with strapwork and leafy tendrils on a stippled ground over the lower portion of the spike and the centre of the head on each face, the axe with the arms of Saxony and the arms of the Bishopric of Merseburg on the respective faces, each within a strapwork cartouche with cross-hatched borders, above the date and beneath the abbreviated inscription 'S.V.M.C.' for the ducal device Scopus Vitae mihi Christus, the rear fluke with the abbreviated inscription 'H.G.H.Z.S' for Hans Georg Herzog zu Sachsen within a panel on a stippled ground, on a wooden haft with a green, purple, red and gold silk tassel 73.0 cm; 28 ¾ in head Provenance The former Saxon Electoral Armoury, Dresden Another example, dated 1611, is preserved in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. See Müller and Kölling 1990, no. 25. The Berlin example is etched with a similar inscription with the additional letters 'G.V.B.C.', reflecting his promotion to Elector that year. The Diocese of Merseburg was secularized in 1562 and its various properties and lands passed into the ownership of the Dukes of Saxony.
A GERMAN ETCHED HALBERD FOR THE GUARD OF JOHANN GEORG, DUKE OF SAXONY (1585, ELECTOR 1611-1656), DATED 1604 with tapering terminal spike, forward-leaning curved axe-blade formed with a pair of inward curled lugs, down-curved rear fluke formed with a pair of inward curled lugs, and a pair of long straps, one stamped 'ML', probably the maker, etched on each face with strapwork and leafy tendrils on a stippled ground over the lower portion of the spike extending down to the top of the straps, the axe with the arms of Saxony within a strapwork cartouche enriched with garlands of fruit, one side with the date, the rear fluke with the abbreviated inscription 'I.H.G.H.Z.S' for Johann Georg Herzog zu Sachsen within a panel on a stippled ground and the straps each with a lion mask rondel (small areas of wear), on an early wooden haft, probably its original (areas of worm, the base extended), retaining a portion of its leather trellis binding and an early green silk and silver thread tassel (losses), the haft painted with an inventory number 'Al481', applied with a brass inventory tag 'S.V.G.', and another tag 'L.64.14.39' 78.0 cm; 30 3/4 in head Provenance The former Saxon Electoral Armoury, Dresden Armerican Art Association, New York, 24 November 1928, lot 272 Stephen V. Grancsay (1897-1980), Curator of Arms and Armor, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Howard Ricketts, London Exhibited Brooklyn Museum 1933, cat. no. 316 Allentown Art Museum 1964, cat. no. 93 Johan Georg had a guard of twelve men and one captain from the time of his marriage in 1604, which was augmented to fifty men in Christmas that year. Half were armed with muskets and half with halberds. Another example, still preserved in Dresden, is illustrated Churfürstliche Guardie 2012-13, cat. No. 67.
A SAXON SLURBOW, BY JOHANN GEORG ERTTEL, DRESDEN, DATED 1753 with blued steel bow decorated with a gilt band top and bottom at each side, fitted with an early string, retained by gilt cords and with its green pom-poms, fruitwood tiller fitted with an additional bar above and with bone bolt channel (very light worm damage), engraved with the date ahead of the string-release, inlaid with engraved staghorn segmental lines and plaques including panels of rococo foliage inhabited by hounds on each side of the mechanism, a doe and a stag pursued by a hound in a rococo landscape on the left of the cheek-piece and further decorated panels on top including a scalloped hollow for the thumb, steel string-release, double set trigger, steel trigger-guard, and bone butt-plate engraved with the number '1', 'I. G. E.' and 'Ertell' 67.0 cm; 27? in This was converted for use as a slurbow in its early working life. Two gunmakers of this name, a father and son, are recorded circa 1700-63 and 1728-94 respectively. A number of firearms by them are preserved in the former Electoral gewehrkammer, Dresden, though neither is recorded as a crossbow maker. It is likely that this is the work of the father as the son is recorded in Amsterdam as both Burgher and Master the year the present bow was manufactured. See Schaal 1975.
A GERMAN ETCHED HALBERD FOR THE GUARD OF AUGUST (1589-1615), DUKE OF SAXONY AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE BISHOPRIC OF NAUMBURG, DATED 1614 with tapering terminal spike of hollow-diamond section and wasted at the base, concave axe-blade, down-curved rear fluke formed with a pair of inward curled lugs, and a pair of long straps, one stamped 'ML', probably the maker, etched on each face over the lower portion of the spike extending down to the centre of the head with strapwork and leafy tendrils on a stippled ground, the axe with the arms of Saxony on one face and the arms of the bishopric of Naumburg on the respective faces, each within a scrollwork frame above the date and beneath the abbreviated inscription 'F.S.C.V.' for the ducal device Fide Sed Cuide Vide, the rear fluke with the abbreviated inscription 'A.H.Z.S' for August Herzog zu Sachsen in a panel on each face, on an early wooden haft, with a silk tassel 66.0 cm; 26 in head Provenance The former Saxon Electoral Armoury, Dresden Halberds of this type were also carried by the Guard of Duke August's brother, Johan Georg I, Elector (1611-56). Another example, formerly in the Electoral Armoury, is preserved in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (inv. nr. S92). See Churfürstliche Guardie 2012-13, cat. No. 66.
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