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Lot 38
A 19th century miniature on ivory Depicting a young lady wearing a white dress with ringlets in her hair, housed in its original leather folding case. The miniature 7.5 cms wide. CONDITION REPORTS: Picture slipped in case, some paint loss and wear, scuffing to case, front and back each with old label stuck on.
Lot 66
Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) HOME WITH THE CATCH oil on canvas signed lower right 23 by 23.5in., 57.5 by 58.75cm. L Waddington Galleries, Dublin;Where purchased by the present owner`s father Four Ulster Painters`, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, September, 1947;`Four Ulster Painters`, Heals Mansard Gallery, London, May to June 1948, catalogue no. 36 (a joint exhibition with Daniel O`Neill, George Campbell and Neville Johnson);`Gerard Dillon, Art and Friendship Summer Loan Exhibition`, Adam`s, Dublin, 2-26 July 2013 (travelled to Ava Gallery, Clandeboye, 1-29 August 2013) catalogue no. 39 Gerard Dillon, Art and Friendship Summer Loan Exhibition`, Adam`s, Dublin, 2013, catalogue no. 39, p.41 (illustrated) Gerard Dillon was born in West Belfast in 1916 but spent much of his life in London where he earned a living as a painter and decorator. Many of his most popular, and important, paintings depict scenes of everyday life on the west coast of Ireland. He first visited the west in 1939 and became enchanted with the landscape and the people, making them the major theme of his work throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Home with the Catch is a western scene where a young family make their way through the village with their daily catch of fish. Fish were both a staple of their diet and a commodity that they could trade. Their clothing is recognisable as the traditional dress once common in Connemara and the Aran Islands. The woman`s red skirt and white woollen jumper along with the man`s baggy woollen trousers and waistcoat and their simple leather shoes, known as pampooties, locate this image in a particular time and place. Stylistically similar to Irish Peasant Children (c.1949), this work also resembles the young couple carrying fish depicted in Dillon`s textile work Gentle Breeze, which he hand stitched in 1952. Recalling his first experience of the western seaboard, Dillon wrote that the west was `a great strange land of wonder to the visitor from the red-brick city`.(1) Like many artists and writers before him, he held a romantic view of the west as both the locus of an authentic Irish culture and a `primitive` place, free from many of the restraints of wider Irish society. Writing in 1955, he claimed that Connemara is `the place for a painter` and eulogising about the variety of the rugged landscape, the quality of the light and the simplicity of daily life, concluded: `one could live here forever but being neither a fisherman nor farmer, but only a painter, I`m forced to come back to city life to sell work - and hope to save enough to come back to Connemara`.(2) Although Dillon recognised that he was an outsider in Connemara, during the period he spent living on Inishlacken in 1950, he adopted elements of traditional dress, travelled back and forth to the mainland in a currach and embraced the way of life wholeheartedly. As James White pointed out: `For a nationalist Catholic like Gerard Dillon, living in London and desperately wanted to belong to a Republican nation called Ireland ... Connemara with its remoteness, its delightful stonewall fields, mountains, lakes and seacoast and above all islands like Inishlacken where he could cut himself off for a spell and live in a tiny cottage, with no social life to speak of and a boat journey away from barracks, church or pub - all this gave him the feeling of having found a land free of all the restrictions of oppression which he had come to accept as being there to offend him`.(3) Dillon`s initial interest in painting the west and its inhabitants was sparked by Seán Keating`s illustrations for Playboy of the Western World. William Conor`s focus on the daily lives of working people in Ulster was another early influence. In Home with the Catch, Dillon brings these influences together to create an original vision of the west which combines romance and realism. Dr Riann CoulterApril 20141 Gerard Dillon, `The Artist Speaks`, Envoy, 4 February, 1951, p.39.2 Gerard Dillon, `Dear Tourist`, Ireland of the Welcomes, Bord Fáilte, Dublin, May/June, 1955, p.30.3 White, James, Gerard Dillon: An Illustrated Biography, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1994, p.10.
Lot 382
Assorted Victorian and later costume jewellery, silver jewellery and other items including decanter labels, a small gold and turquoise set propelling pencil, a micro mosaic pin, butterfly wing jewellery, a silver coloured metal and turquoise set posy holder, a cased set of dress studs and other items, all housed in a jewellery box
Lot 998
A sapphire and diamond cluster dress ring - Designed as seven oval-shape vari-coloured sapphire and brilliant-cut diamond clusters to the brilliant-cut diamond trifurcated shoulders and plain band - Estimated total diamond weight 0.75ct - Stamped 750 - Ring size L 1/2 - Weight approx 6.7gms. Condition Report: Good - With light surface scratches.
Lot 1034
A late Victorian 18ct gold opal and diamond dress ring - The oval and circular opal cabochons and old-cut diamonds to the decorative shoulders and plain band - Hallmarked Chester,1900 - Ring size N - Weight approx 3.9gms Condition Report: Good - Light surface scratches in keeping with wear - Diamonds lively and bright - Opals with a good play of colour.
Lot 1094
An 18ct gold ruby and diamond dress ring - The alternating circular-shape rubies and brilliant-cut diamonds to the openwork rope-twist shoulders and plain half-band - Hallmarked London - Ring size S - Weight approx 4.3gms Condition Report: Good to fair with light surface dents and scratches in keeping with wear - Slight rubbing to some facet edges
Lot 747
After S. Wale - George III and Oliver Cromwell, a pair of coloured engravings by Grainger and Noble respectively, a pair of coloured engravings - The Coronation Dress of Her most gracious Majesty Queen Adelaide and the most gracious Majesty William IV in his Coronation robes and a set of seven figural prints
Lot 1156
A sapphire and diamond dress ring - The graduated oval-shape sapphires with old-cut diamond double spacers to the plain band - Estimated total diamond weight 0.40ct - Tests a gold - Ring size O 1/2 - Weight approx 3.4gms Condition Report: Good to fair - With light surface scratches - Diamonds lively and bright - Sapphires possibly synthetic - With some surface abrasion.
Lot 353
A good mixed lot of costume, paste set, gilt metal and other jewellery and bijouterie, to include a dress ring set with emerald coloured paste, agate fob seal, shamrock bracelet set with malachite in white metal, mother of pearl and other brooches, Scottish silver brooch, rings, souvenir spoons, mourning brooches, studs and cufflinks etc.
Lot 61
WWI - the Diary of Grace^ Lady Denys Burton and her work at the YMCA at Rouen^ France^ in 1915. Written in a red morocco bound 4to sized book which also features a number of related postcards affixed to pages^ and related ephemera including letters to her^ newspaper clippings^ a c de v photograph of her as a small child^ her Red Cross and other badges and her service medal. Together with a further smaller diary. With full typed transcript. A remarkable and frank diary chronicling the activities of the wife of an Irish baronet who went to France in order to do whatever she could for the relief of the front line soldiers during WWI. The Diary begins with her departure to France in June 1915and continues through to the end of the following July and is extensive in its observation. The transcript indicates that the diary was written specifically for Lady Denys-Burton`s children. `..A Northamptonshire Yeomanry Tommy told me he had been about since November and having been six months in the trenches had had enough of it. He said he could not understand by Kitchener`s army were not set out to replace himself and others as he heard that Kitchener`s army were dying to come out...` `...I had a conversation with an 18th Hussar man who was off to the Front. He had been gassed and had been a month in the hospital...he was very interesting about the gas which he said was like a rising fog...` `...we made acquaintance with a nice Capt Dormer and Capt Carstairs...they both took a very gloomy view of the war and saw not end to it. Capt C [said] he had done nothing and that it was the French who were now entirely holding the German line. He said he had no guns and no ammunition and not enough men and that the French had every reason to be angry with us...` `...[a 2nd Dragoon Guardsman] told me about some battles when the fighting was desperate and his officer had the top of his head blown off...he himself was shot in the face by a shell with poison gas...it was full of many spies at the Front and some of the Germans dress themselves in our uniforms taken from the dead. He told that a company of Highlanders were suddenly seen coming towards them but as they were wearing their kilts the wrong way round then there was no doubt who they were...` `...a very nice Territorial RAMC ...said that in the trenches the Saxons did not at all dislike the English and that on one occasion the Germans and English were talking in quite a friendly way when the German trench was re-enforced and a Saxon called to one of the English men to keep his head down. Immediately before the English man could duck his head he was shot and the Saxon was also shot by one of his officers - on another occasion when one of his regiment saw a wounded German with a shattered thigh and went to bandage it up and immediately this was done the German shot the RAMC. The rest of his men were so angry they tore the German to pieces. Lady Grace Denys-Burton was the wife of Sir Francis Denys of Carlow^ Republic of Ireland.
Lot 395
India - Maharajah Ranjit Singh standing statue of the Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) of white marble. He is holding his sword with his left hand and with his right hand he is pointing upwards in a gesture of lecturing. Northern India^ probably Lahore^ circa end of 19th / early 20th c. The original block of marble has been broken and restored. Height 58 cm. Provenance: German private collection. The Maharaja`s dress and blind eye that he lost as the result of a smallpox infection mark him quickly. He is standing next to a tree trunk which gives the composition stability in a raffinate way. This work is rendered in a realistic and lifelike style and shows the ruler in a formal pose. The diminutive and sharp-featured Ranjit Singh is a very finely carved depiction.
Lot 218
? A LARGE PAIR OF IVORY THRONE FIGURES OF QIANLONG AND HIS CONSORT, the Emperor seated on a dragon throne and wearing a dragon robe and head-dress, the Empress seated on a phoenix throne and wearing a phoenix robe and head dress, each figure before a pierced screen with a Qianlong mark and further dragon and phoenix decoration, on stepped bases and wooden stands, late Qing/early Republic, 24"" high overall (2) Provenance: The Collection of the late Sonja, Lady McFadzean (1930-2013). THIS LOT IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE BIDDING. IF YOU WISH TO BID ON THIS LOT PLEASE CONTACT THE AUCTIONEERS.
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