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Click here to subscribeLate Victorian Period 18ct Gold Excellent Quality Three Stone Ruby and Diamond Set Ring, gypsy setting, hallmarked London 1900; attractive and pleasing dress ring, the rubies and diamond of top colour and clarity - check photo to confirm - the central diamond flanked by two natural rubies of excellent colour; ring size L; all aspects of condition excellent
18ct Gold Attractive and Top Quality Single Stone Set Dress Ring. Full hallmark for 18ct. The round brilliant cut diamond of top colour and clarity. Estimated diamond colour G. Estimated clarity VVS2. Diamond weight 0.60pts. Ring size O-P. All aspects of condition excellent including shank and setting.
A Contemporary Designed 18ct White Gold Superb Quality 3 Stone Diamond Set Dress Ring with attractive diamond shoulders set with a wonderful crisp diamonds/shank of top colour and clarity. Estimated diamonds 0.40 pts. Ring size L-M. All aspects of condition excellent including shank and setting.
Beswick Beatrix Potter Figures five (5) in total. 1. Mrs Rabbit small size, umbrella moulded to dress. BP 2A. 2. Mrs Flopsy Bunny, light blue dress, BP 3B. 3. Peter Rabbit, 1st version, small size, deep blue jacket. BP 2A. 4. Peter Rabbit, small size,pale blue jacket. BP 2A. 5. Hunca Munca, BP 2A. All figures first quality, mint condition.
Platinum Set Superb Quality 3 Stone Sapphire and Diamond Set Dress Ring - marked 950 platinum. The central blue natural corundum sapphire of stunning colour. Natural flanked by two modern round brilliant cut diamonds of top colour / clarity. Estimated 0.80 pts. Ring size M. Comes with CGL gem lab report dated 24.11.2018. Cornflower blue sapphire natural corundum, no indication of heating. Weight of sapphire 1.32 cts. Measurements 7.89 x 5.71 x 3.42. Report number 201811124202. Low estimate. All aspects of condition mint.
Stunning 18ct White Gold Orange Sapphire and Diamond Dress Ring of Top Quality In All Aspects. c.1940's / 1950's. The Rare Central Natural Orange Sapphire of Wonderful Colour / Clarity - Top Grade. Est Weight 2.50 cts. The Baguette and Round Brilliant Diamonds Also Top Grade. Est Diamond Weight 1.40 cts, Est Colour G - H, Great Sparkle, Est Clarity VSI, Ring Size - O. All Aspects of Condition Are Excellent, Provenance - From a Lady's Private Collection. Low Estimate for This Quality. Please See Photo.
A Contemporary Designed 18ct White Gold - Stunning and Top Quality Diamond Set Dress Ring of Large and Impressive Proportions. Marked 18ct. Set with 55 Princess Cut Diamonds and 16 Round Brilliant Cut Diamonds to Borders. Est Diamond Weight 5.25 cts, Est Clarity G - White. Est Clarity VVSI-2. Weight of Shank 25.7 grams - Heavy. Ring Size N - O. All Aspects of Condition Is Excellent, Includes Shank and Setting. 20.4 grams.
A pair of 19th century Jean Gille, Paris bisque porcelain figures, of a boy and a girl in 18th century dress, 20cm high, together with another pair of bisque figures of a lady and gentleman, incised number 1486 to base, and a bisque figure mounted vase modelled as a sedan chair carried by two cherubs
A late 19th Century Wedgwood Jasperware scent file with classical figures in white to the blue ground beneath the silver hallmarked screw cap, marks rubbed, height 6.5cm, together with a miniature Venetian glass scent bottle, possibly Franchini Bigaglia and a small compressed ovoid example transfer printed with figures in period dress. (3)
A pair of 19th Century Dutch Delft vase and covers each decorated in blue and white with a cartouche panel of a lady in 18th Century dress, one walking along a shoreline, the second harvesting apples, both within moulded scroll borders with painted decoration to the reverse, the covers with painted scenes beneath bird finials, both painted W 928 737, height 38cm, both S/D.
[BARBIER (GEORGE)]Costume design for an elegant female in a twenties 'Empire-style' dress, perhaps for the 'Napoleon à Malmaison' performance, at La Folie-Begère, ink, watercolour and gouache, pencil sketch of a headdress, and annotations in the margins, ink note and stamp on verso, light toning at extreme edges, mounted, framed, and glazed, image 265 x 245mm., [c.1925]For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - IRELANDVolume of culinary recipes, titled 'Rosconnel – February 25 1755/ Receipts and Cookery', including 236 numbered receipts in several hands, with a further 26 pages of unnumbered receipts, such as 'A Friday Pudding', 'To make a Runnet', 'Dutch Beef, The Right Receipt', 'To Dry Cherrys in Bunches', 'To make Hartshorn Flumery', 'To dress Snails', 'Leg of mutton a la Daube', 'Pigeons in night gowns', 'Sauce for Wild Fowl', 'To Brew and distill Whiskey', 'To make a Devonshire Squab' , 'Portable Soop', 'The famous Sally Lunn's Breakfast Cakes' ('...by the time you have made three or four your hand will be in...'), interspersed with a handful of household tips ('A glue for China' and instructions on how to make a mushroom bed), many of the later receipts attributed ('Lady Johnson', 'Mrs Hamilton'), with indices, outer pages with 11 pages of notes in Latin and other notes written in pencil with a few caricatures and crossings out, c.146 pages, ink faded, spotting, staining, water damage and signs of use, contemporary vellum, worn, dry and stained, some cracking at joints, 4to (205 x 160mm.), 1755 onwardsFootnotes:'THE FAMOUS SALLY LUNN'S BREAKFAST CAKES': One of the first mentions of the famous Sally Lunn bun comes in 1776 in a poem about Dublin by the Irish poet William Preston and the first recorded mention of the bun in Bath, where it originated, is in Captain Philip Thicknesse's 1780 guidebook to taking the waters at Bath. The recipe became enormously popular and the Sally Lunn bun can still be sampled at Bath's eponymous tea shop.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOKHousekeeping and recipe book, titled 'Receipt Book' in ink on front board, containing culinary and medicinal receipts in several hands, many acknowledging their source, including 'To make the Alsom Wine; Lady Chandois's Receipt', 'Mrs Willis's Receipt to make a green Agl that is good for sprains and bruises', 'An oatmeal pudding... We make it with little better than new milk & do not put in the full quantity of butter', 'To preserve a pumpkin, Lady Guildford', another from 'Lord Kiladaire's cook', 'To dress a calves head like Turtle, Lady Skipwith', 'Spinnage Toasts', 'Girdler's Seed Cake', 'My little boys cake' and 'To make the best sausages in the world', interspersed with medicinal recipes such as 'Gout cordial', 'Mrs Pyms Receipt to destroy bugs', one annotated 'Mrs Madden's little boys life saved... he had all the worst simptoms'; plus some 29 pages of inventories dating from 1732 to 1793, pertaining to stocks of 'kitching things taken by Simper at Woodberry' ('...10 hand candlesticks... 5 high candlesticks... 4 coffee pots 3 of them mine... 1 chocolate pot mine (the old one put in store rooms)... cheese toaster... shaving pot', pewter (for best '3 Large Dishes engrav'd with a large crest...'), and other items 'for the use of servants...', including '3 Boyling pots... 5 spits... 1 lark spit... 1 pair of waffle tongs... 2 Drudging Box's... 1 pepper box... 1 coxcomb cutter...'; inventories and charts relating to household linen and weaving ('...2 Fine Bird's Eye Table Cloths... 4 small layovers very old... 6 long Huckaback Towels... 39 pillow cases...'), endpapers with notes of suppliers ('J Bruckner Shoe maker 32 King Street Portman Squ... Mrs Greenfull on Great Russell Street next door by the Boor Inn sells fans thred & tape etc... Glapes magnesia to be bought at Mr Davis's Bookseller in Piccadilly'), some entries inverted, other receipts stuck or pinned in, some loose, c.180 leaves [c.50 blank], some browning and spotting, worm holes affecting six leaves, contemporary stiff vellum, bowing and stained, 4to (230 x 180mm.), 1726 and laterFootnotes:'DAMASK COSTS 14 A SQUARE YD – NAPKINS 3D EACH... IT IS BETTER TO HAVE A TABLE CLOTH & NAPKINS WOVE AT THE SAME TIME AND THE PATTERN MUST BE THE SAME AS THE LOOM IS SET FOR': the daughter of the house practices good household economy. Whilst there is no ownership inscription in this volume, it appears to have been in the possession of the daughter of a wealthy, well-connected family (one of the inventories is of her father's plate). Her receipts come from a plethora of illustrious names, Lady Skipwith, Lord Kildare and Lady Chandos, to name but three, and she manages the linen and plate for a house in the country, Woodberry, and in town at Henrietta Street. The culinary receipts are a mixture of the fanciful designed to impress ('To dress a calves head like a turtle') and the domestic ('My little boys cake'). In addition there are several pages of inventories in various hands ranging in date from 1726 to the end of the century, meticulous record keeping accounting for every item. Whilst the best linen was of the fine Irish sort, she oversaw the weaving, presumably locally, of everyday material, noting 'Lockhit – Weaver – Donnington near Newbury – Berks – send the thread in March...'. From these pages we also know the names of the family's servants and their favoured suppliers, notably a Mr Bruckner, shoe maker of 32 King Street, who advertised himself in the later years of the eighteenth century as fine shoe-maker to her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia but, according to the London Gazette succumbed to bankruptcy in 1807.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOKBook of culinary receipts written in several late seventeenth and eighteenth century hands many with attractive calligraphic headings, including recipes for 'Marmalade of Rasberrys or Currants', 'To Preserve Garlick', 'Plum Paste', 'To make Mushrooms' ('...The Goosberrys will be as white as sugar & your barberrys of a Fine Red... box them up for a very Gentell Sweet Meat...'), 'Cleare Cakes', 'Orange Chipes', 'To Make Chocolat', 'Shrewsbury Jumballs', 'Dutch Biskett', 'A Good Plum Cake', 'Spirit of Oranges', 'Guniper Water' ('...And this water is good for old and weak stomacks its good for the wind in the stomack and other parts of the body...'), 'Benjamine Water', 'Syrup of Poppies' ('This is a good cordial to cause sleep...'), 'Raspberry or Gilliflower Wine', 'Hedghogg Pudding', 'To make Liverings', 'Stump Pye', 'To dress a codes Head', 'Oyster Loafes', 'Gravey to keep', 'To pickle sparrowgrass', later recipes written in a close hand with more medicinal remedies ('Oyle of Charity', 'For the Kings Evil & to Sweeten the Blood', 'Wound drink'), includes eight pages headed 'Bills of Fares', listing ideas for first and second courses, illustrated with two diagrams of dishes within decorative borders suggesting how they should be laid on the table, two tables awaiting completion, one later recipe tipped in, possible ownership inscription 'Ths [?] Hayes Esq' on final leaf, 167 leaves, mostly written on recto only, each leaf with watermarked either 'Pro Patria Maid of Dort' or 'VI', 13 blank leaves at end, browning, spotting, seventeenth century panelled calf, scuffed, rebacked, losses at corners, folio (315 x 195mm.), late seventeenth to mid eighteenth centuryFootnotes:'THIS IS PROPER FOR A SECOND COURSE SIDE DISH OR MIDDLE DISH FOR SUPPER': an attractive mostly culinary recipe book, including a set of menus and decorative table plans suggesting how to serve the dishes à la française. It was in the early eighteenth century that English cookery books began including table plans as well as 'bills of fare' in their pages, influenced possibly by seventeenth-century French writers such as François Massialot and Nicolas de Bonnefons. According to Fiona Lucraft in her paper 'The Fine Art of Eighteenth-Century Table Layouts' (The Meal: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2001, ed. Harlam Walker, p.167-73), the first English cookery book to depict how a table should be laid à la française seems to be Henry Howard's England's Newest Way of 1708. The popularity of this more formal table plan increased and by 1747, 'when Hannah Glasse declared in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy that she thought it an impertinence 'to direct a Lady how to set out her Table' she chose to stand out from the crowd of eighteenth-century cookery writers who clearly believed it was pertinent.' (Lucraft, p.165). The decorative borders in our book may also be a nod to Martha Bradley's The British Housewife of 1756 which included a 'decorative edging on the page which adds to the attractive design and seems very feminine in comparison to the strict linear arrangement of previous layouts' (Lacroft, p.171). In our volume, as was common practice, there are two courses comprising savoury and sweet dishes on the table together, with three sizes of plates relating to the type of dish being served demonstrating symmetry and a clear hierarchy of recipes, the lesser ones being placed at the corners. Our first course has a centrepiece dish of 'Beef Royall' surrounded by dishes such as a 'Lamb Pye' and 'Sheeps Tongues a la Mode', the second course comprising 'Tartes and Custards', 'Ducks and Geese', and 'Hartichokes'. A great pie or a sallamagundy could be a suitable addition, and our book contains a receipe for 'A Salamgundy' comprising chicken, rabbit and veal ('...this is proper for a second course side dish or middle dish for supper...'). Several of our recipes helpfully indicate where they should be placed on the table ('a genteel side dish' or 'serve it for a pretty side dish to your Ladyships Table') and how they should be presented to best effect ('Garnish with horse raddish, pickles barberries and shred lemon'), and are written in a clear, friendly style (in one recipe, for example, the writer apologises for repeating an instruction, saying 'I forgott I told you before...').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JEAN-MARIE PIGALLE, (FRENCH 1792-1857) A pair of patinated bronzes, models of Jean-Baptiste Racine and Jean de la Fontaine, seated with full wigs and 18th Century dress and attire, the former portrayed with books at his feet, the latter with a fruiting grapevine rising behind him and at his feet, the square section plinths with relief cast profile portrait busts in roundels of Horace and Aesop, 55cm high and 52.5cm high respectively, (2) Provenance: Formerly the property of Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount, Norwich, GCMG, DSO, British Ambassador to France (1944-47), 1890-1954 and Lady Diana Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich; thence by descent
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