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Lot 244A
A Collection of old and vintage fashion items to include a pair of Liberty of London retro curtains, Hand woven African style dress, Victorian Bead work tapestry piece, Feathered shawl, White fur shawl, Fur hand warmer, Metro Leisure wear Ltd ladies velvet corset top and a lot of old and vintage material
Lot 151
Two Victorian silver mounted walking canes, 19th century cased set of sewing and manicure implements, some with bone handles, various collectable pin badges, dress brooches, silver mounted brooch, various souvenir teaspoons, some silver, pair 19th century binoculars, cigarette cards, coins, playing cards and miscellanea in two boxes Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Lot 153
Four paintings of officials, religious figures, and tradespeople Tanjore, circa 1800-10gouache and gold on paper, black margin rules, white outer borders 380 x 290 mm.(4)Footnotes:The subjects depicted are:An official and his wife, holding a musical instrument.A religious devotee, perhaps a Muslim, or perhaps a soothsayer, wearing brightly-coloured clothes, and his wife, holding utensils.A soldier carrying a spear, and his wife.A weaver and his wife, holding a distaff for winding thread.The religious devotee and his wife, in almost identical poses and dress, were the subjects of a Tanjore painting sold in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 30th April 2019, lot 180. The same figures appear once again in a painting in the V&A, dated circa 1780-90 (illustrated in M. Archer, Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period, London 1992, opp. p. 21; see pp. 47-49), where the contemporary British inscription refers to the male figure as A Tadwan or Malabar fortune-teller.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: PP This lot is owned by a private individual. The right of return enjoyed by EU customers is not applicable.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 172
An English officer, Captain Lyons of the Bengal Infantry, seated smoking a hookah, watching nautch girls performing, with a retinue of Indian musicians and servants Calcutta, by an Indian artist, after an original painting of 1801 by Captain Crockatt of the Bengal Engineers, circa 1810-12gouache on paper 380 x 530 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceGeneral Sir George Nugent, 1st Bt. (1757-1849), Commander-in-Chief, India, 1811-13, & Maria, Lady Nugent.Thence by descent via the Nugents to the current owners.PublishedA. L. Cohen (ed.), Lady Nugent's East India Journal, Oxford 2014, pl. 4.A close copy by an Indian artist working in Calcutta of an original painting, dated 1801, by Captain Crockett, an Engineers officer, now in the British Museum (1946,0624.4). The inscription on the reverse of this painting reads: Drawn by Capt Crockatt Engineers Bengal Establishment 1801 - The officer represented is Captain Lyons - Infantry Bengal Establishment.As a depiction of the lives of East India Company officers and their relations with Indians, this painting must rank alongside the well-known depictions of, for instance, John Wombwell smoking a hookah (Lucknow, 1790), William Fullarton (Murshidabad or Patna, 1760), Zoffany's painting of the Impey family with Indian musicians, the Delhi painting of Sir David Ochterlony, or Colonel Polier watching a nautch, by Tilly Kettle. or in a more female context, the two paintings of Lady Impey with her Calcutta household (illustrated in W. Dalrymple (ed.), Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, London 2019, p. 49; or in S. C. Welch, Room For Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, New York 1978, p. 23, fig. 3).Despite the British presence, and the British artist of the original, it is the group of Indians who are the main focus, in all their variety: from the senior servants with their silver chauris, the presumably middle-ranking under-butlers, such as the figure on the left who stands demurely with his arms folded across his stomach; the female figures with their green robes; the musicians; and the sepoy cradling his musket lurking in the doorway at the back.Lady Nugent, at least, seems to have felt a similar fascination on her arrival in Calcutta and afterwards, impressed by the numbers of servants (even for someone who was, unlike us, used to having servants), their varied livery, and their manner towards the English. On visiting General Hewett's house in January 1812, she noted:We found Sepoy Grenadier Sentinels at the gate; they are fine looking men, and I like their dress extremely - it has a very military appearance. The yard in front of the house was filled with servants [...] The footmen are called Kitmatgars - we dress ours in white, with scarlet sashes, or rather white and scarlet mixed or twisted together - scarlet bands to their turbans - and silver crescents in front - this dress is really very pretty. [This livery can be seen in lot 173, Lady Nugent in her palanquin]. The servants were all drawn up in order, and when we got out of the carriage they all made salaams down to the ground. The whole of the party attended us into the house - the inferiors arranging themselves in the hall, the superiors attending us up to the drawing room. (Cohen, p. 37).Once they had started on their tour up-country, she recorded that 'Sir George and I could not help laughing at the number of our attendants; we were surrounded by silver stick men and kitmagars, the soubadar or native officer of the escort was at a distance, and the havildar, or sergeant, waited a small distance behind him' (Cohen, p. 74) - this on the bank of a river in the middle of nowhere.She was also struck by the importance in Indian society of the hookah, 'which are indeed an extraordinary sort of things'. Early on she commented that 'neither Sir George nor myself find the smell very disagreeable, or insupportable [...] 'I have, however, set my face against young men smoking, as it is in reality an odious custom.' Not long after this, she tried it herself, at the suggestion of another English woman. 'I tried to smoke it, as she assured me it was only a composition of spices, but I did it awkwardly, swallowing the smoke, and the consequence was I coughed all night'. (Cohen, pp. 48, 54).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: PP This lot is owned by a private individual. The right of return enjoyed by EU customers is not applicable.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 173
Maria, Lady Nugent carried in a palanquin, accompanied by twenty-four bearers and attendants Company School, Calcutta, April 1812watercolour on paper, black and yellow outer borders 455 x 955 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceGeneral Sir George Nugent, 1st Bt. (1757-1849), Commander-in-Chief, India, 1811-13, & Maria, Lady Nugent.Thence by descent via the Nugents to the current owners.PublishedA. L. Cohen (ed.), Lady Nugent's East India Journal, Oxford 2014, pl. 6 and cover.This large painting can be seen as emblematic of British female life in India in the 18th Century, and (in company with what she wrote about it) of the British becoming used to the strangeness of daily life in India. In its composition (the wide landscape format, the low horizon with few or no features) and its palette, it might be regarded as a precursor to the sort of paintings depicting the servants of the British produced in Calcutta around thirty years later by Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya. Remarkably, it is almost certainly the one referred to by Lady Nugent in her journal entry for 24th April 1812:Went out in the evening, in a tonjon, for the first time - the cavalcade was very curious - twenty-four men attended me - I mean to have a drawing of this procession, so I will not describe it. A tonjon is a small curricle body, carried on the shoulders of four men, and I could not help thinking I looked like a successful candidate at an election [...] Very unwell in the evening. (Cohen, op. cit. p. 59).She seems to refer to the same episode in a section of a letter dated 25th April, to Lady Temple (Cohen, p. 364):You would have laughed if you could have seen me going out yesterday. I have a little carriage called a Tonjon. It is a sort of Curricle Body fixed upon Poles and carried upon men's Shoulders and I had no less than 23 men attending me - 8 to carry the Tonjon, a Surdar Bearer and his mate to direct them, four men carrying silver sticks before me and calling out my Titles and condescension in treating the World with my appearance [...] Then a man carrying a Chatta, a large umbrella with Fringe and silver ornaments. Another man with a sabre in his sash called a Jemendar and 7 Hircarhas or Messengers. The use of these last I can't understand.The servants and their dress are also referred to directly in another passage, recording a visit to General Hewett's house in Calcutta, in January 1812:The footmen are called Kitmatgars - we dress ours in white, with scarlet sashes, or rather white and scarlet mixed or twisted together - scarlet bands to their turbans - and silver crescents in front - this dress is really very pretty.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: PP This lot is owned by a private individual. The right of return enjoyed by EU customers is not applicable.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 47
An Umayyad gold half-Dinar from the reign of Umar II (AD 717-720) probably Damascus, dated AH 100/ AD 718-719with three lines of inscription in kufic surrounded by a band of inscription in kufic to each side, no mint, good extremely fine and rare. 16 mm. approx.; 2.13 g.Footnotes:See Stephen Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins, Santa Rosa, 2011, no. 132A and Giulio Bernardi, Arabic Gold Coins Corpus, Trieste, 2010, no. 45. Inscriptions: the basmalah; a form of the shahadah and a shorter version of Qur'an, sura IX (al-tawbah), part of verse 33 with the added, 'Muhammad, the Messenger of God'. 'Umar ibn Abd'l al- Aziz was a learned and serious caliph and surrounded himself with great scholars. Under his rule he was responsible for strict reforms concerning alcohol, dress rules and fair dispensation of Zakat. He was also a great social reformer preventing state officials from business practices, use of unpaid labour and land reform. He was regarded as a true Muslim ruler, in contrast to many of his predecessors. Traditionally 'Umar was recognized as an authentic caliph, while other Umayyad rulers were viewed as kings.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 79
A porcelain plaque painted with a portrait of the Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) after Franz Winterhalter (1805-73), she sits with a pink cushion at her back, white roses in the bodice of her full lace dress and at the back of her brown hair, impressed marks, 18 x 13cm (7 x 5 in) The original portrait painted in 1854 resides in the Russell-Cotes Gallery, Bournemouth
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