The group of thirteen miniature dress medals attributed to Rear-Admiral Sir Rowland C. Jerram, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) Knight Commander’s 2nd type badges, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Justice’s badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, the miniatures all loose, having previously been mounted court-style for display in a glazed display case, good very fine (13) £120-£160 --- K.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1945. D.S.O. London Gazette 22 January 1920: ‘For distinguished service on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet.’ Sir Rowland Christopher Jerram entered the Royal Navy in 1907 and served during the Great War on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet in H.M. Ships Iron Duke, Lion, and Queen Elizabeth. He served during the inter-War years as Secretary to Admirals of the Fleet, and subsequently the during the Second World War in H.M.S. Cleopatra, and then on Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Staff. He retired in 1945.
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The mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals worn by Brigadier J. P. Girvan, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., V.D., 15th Canadian Infantry Battalion, the most decorated officer of the 15th (48th Highlanders of Canada) Infantry Battalion in the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 2nd type badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with Second Award Bar and integral top ribbon bar; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R., mounted as worn, very fine (12) £200-£300 --- Also entitled to Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration, G.V.R. C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946: ‘Brigadier J. P. Girvan, D.S.O., M.C., V.D., Canadian Army.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 1 February 1919: Maj. (A./Lt.-Col.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., 15th Bn., Can. Inf., 1st C. Ont. R. ‘For conspicuous gallantry opposite Cherisy on 1st September, 1918. He commanded his battalion with the greatest skill and ability, pushing resolutely forward in face of extreme machine-gun fire, and after a personal reconnaissance continuing his advance and capturing and consolidating a position some 6,000 yards in front of the jumping-off line. His courage and leadership were admirable.’ D.S.O. Second Award Bar London Gazette 8 March 1919; citation published 4 October 1919: Maj. (A./Lt.-Col.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., 15th Bn., Can. Inf., 1st C. Ont. R. ‘For marked gallantry and ability in the attack on Canal du Nord on 27th September, 1918. Crossing the canal on light bridges, and the River Agache by planks, under heavy machine-gun and sniping fire, he pushed on. He personally attacked and captured an enemy machine gun, shooting the gunner and turning the gun on the enemy. He went on and assisted in capturing Chapel Corner and the village of Marquion, and then gained his final objectives. His courage and dash were a fine example to his command.’ M.C. London Gazette 18 October 1917; citation published 7 March 1918: Capt. (A./Maj.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., Canadian Inf. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Throughout an attack he led his company with the greatest skill and courage, continually going forward into our own barrage at great personal risk in order to check men who were advancing too fast. He directed his men amidst the fiercest shelling, and it was due to his gallant personal example that hostile counter-attacks were fruitless. His reports were invaluable, and it was largely due to him that the enemy were held back from the captured ground.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 16 March 1916. French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 1 May 1917. John ‘Jack’ Pollands Girvan was born born on 28 November 1887, at Kingarth, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. In 1907, he became a clerk in the Civil Service. He was a fine athlete, winning numerous championships as a member of the Argonaut rowing club. He belonged to an active militia when he attested on 14 September 1914, at Valcartier, Quebec. During the Great War, he married Nursing Sister Jean Elizabeth Sword. Girvan sailed on 3 October 1914, with the first contingent, arriving in England on 16 October 1916. On 4 February 1915, the 15th Battalion battalion paraded in light marching order for ‘Inspection & Review’ by H.M. the Kin, followed by the March Past, at North Larkhill camp. The following week, they boarded S.S. Mount Temple, at Avonmouth, on 12 February 1915. After a very rough voyage with high seas, they arrived at St Nazaire, in France, on 15 February 1915. Two days later, they arrived at Hazebrouck in Belgium, moving into billets at Caestre the next day and into billets in Armentieres on 23 February 1915. The 15th Battalion entered the trenches for the first time on 24 February 1915, suffering their first casualty on the night of the 27th. They entered the trenches at Rue Petillon, on 6 March 1915, pulling out three days later. In April 1915, the Canadians moved to the Ypres area and took part in the battle of Kitchener’s Wood (Second Battle of Ypres). The 15th Battalion held the line against the German chlorine gas attack, but suffered heavy casualties. The battalion was at the apex of the Canadian position on 24 April. The 15th Battalion suffered the heaviest casualties of any Canadian unit, with over 647 casualties, being hit by the heaviest of the gas, and was overrun by the Germans. Girvan’s No. 1 Company, was on the extreme right flank of the Battalion’s three forward companies and was very lucky to have survived. In the battle of Festubert, on 15 May 1915, the battalion again suffered heavy casualties. Girvan was promoted to be Sergeant, in the field, ‘A’ Company, 15th Battalion, on 11 June 1915. He was appointed to Temporary Commission, and posted to 15th Battalion on 26 September 1915; granted 5 days leave, 17 October 1915; granted 7 days leave, 5 January 1916; to be Captain, 27 April 1916; granted leave of absence from 25 May to 2 June 1916. On 3 June 1916 the Battalion conducted the first Canadian counter-attack of the war against Observatory Ridge, in opening stages of the battle of Mount Sorrel, again suffering heavy casualties. Now a Major commanding No. 3 Company, he was wounded during the battle of Flers–Courcelette on 24 September 1916, by a bullet wound which penetrated his right chest at the sternum, and travelled down and lodged in abdominal muscle. He was admitted to 2nd Red Cross Hospital, Rouen, on 27 September 1916, and to Yorkhill War Hospital, Glasgow, on 1 October 1916. He was discharged on 18 October 1916, but was declared unfit for service for three months and granted leave to Canada, 21 October 1916 to 21 January 1917. Girvan returned to England in late March of 1917, and was appointed Acting Major on 28 April 1917. Then, awarded the Croix du Guerre, on 1 May 1917. Here he spent several months in Bramshott Camp, Hampshire, where his future wife Jean Sword was undergoing training at the camp hospital, and they undoubtedly spent some time together. Girvan returned back to France where, on 30 July 1917, he was indemnified for loss of kit. He was in command of No. 1 Company leading the forward assault of the 15th Battalion during the battle of Hill 70, and was awarded the Military Cross for this action in which the 15th Battalion assaulted and captured Puits 14 and Bois Hugo as part of the Canadian Corps assault on Hill 70 near Lens, France. The battalion was in the first wave of the assault on the Corps’ exposed and vital left flank. Having secured all their objectives on the morning of 15 August 1917, the battalion defended its position for a day and half against numerous German counter attacks until it was relieved and withdrawn from the line. Girvan was struck off the strength of the 15th Battalion to attend a Command Officers Course at Aldershot on 27 June 1918 for 8 weeks, and during this time married Nursing Sister Jean Sword. Girvan, now second in command of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, proceeded overseas to the 15th Battalion, from Witley, on 20 August 1918. For the third time, he landed in France, on 23 August 1918, and rejoined his unit on 26 August. With the Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Bent severely wounded, Girvan took command as the Acting Commanding Officer. Upon the C.O.’s return, several times Girvan acted as C.O. while the commander was away. On 30 August 1918, he narrowly escaped death when the Battalion H.Q. dugout took a direct hit from a German artillery shell. Gir...
The mounted group of four miniature dress medals worn by Nursing Sister J. E. Girvan (née Sword), Canadian Army Medical Corps, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Girvan, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., V.D., Commanding the 15th (48th Highlanders of Canada) Battalion Canadian Infantry Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, mounted as worn, together with an unidentified miniature (nursing cape badge?) silver-gilt and enamelled badge, GR cypher, with motto ‘Ducit Amor Patriæ’, the reverse stamped ‘Wanless Sterling’, mounted on brooch pin, good very fine (5) £60-£80 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 21 June 1918: ‘Miss Jean Elizabeth Sword, Nursing Sister, Can. Nursing Service, No. 12 Can. Gen. Hospl., Bramshott, Hants.’ On 24 October 1916, Nursing Sister Jean Elizabeth Sword returned to England from No. 2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Treport, France. On 3 November 1916, she was posted to Canada, where, during the following three months it is presumed she and Major John P. Girvan came to know one another. Jean returned to England, before John, on 2 February 1917. Nursing Sister Sword had acted as a blood donor on 22 April 1918, but due to general weakness and an irregular heartbeat, she was hospitalised following the transfusion until 26 April, and then granted sick furlough until 6 May 1918. She married Major John P. Girvan, M.C., 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, in London on 6 July 1918, whilst he was attending a Command Officers Course at Aldershot and shortly before he returned to France to take command of his battalion, going on to win the D.S.O. and Bar. Sold with copied research including Marriage Certificate dated 6 July 1918; Buckingham Palace Telegram and War Office letter concerning award of the Royal red Cross; two photographs of Nursing Sister Sword in nursing uniform, one with R.R.C. medal ribbon; a news cutting announcing the death of their elder son, John Maybin Girvan, late Captain and Adjutant, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, who jumped into Normandy before the landings, was wounded and taken prisoner, continued his profession as a mining engineer after the war until killed instantly by a falling rock at El Aguilar, Argentina, where he was superintendent of a mine; and a letter of condolence from the High Commissioner for Canada, London, upon the death of her husband in 1961. For the recipient’s husband’s medals and his related miniature awards, see Lots 80 and 551. For the recipient’s related full sized awards, see Lot 103.
A pair of miniature dress medals attributed to Captain H. A. Egerton Crimea, no clasp, 12mm; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, 14mm, silver, gold and enamel, bearing suspended from a composite riband bearing two full-size but copy clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol, contained within an oval glass-fronted case, 155mm x 135mm, good very fine (2) £80-£100 --- A paper with details of the recipient is pasted on to the back of the case. Some of the details: ‘Hugh Aldersey Egerton, born 7th February 1834, died 5th October 1913, Capain, South Australian Kapurda Rifle Volunteer Force 25th February 1860’.
An unattributed R.R.C. and Order of St. John group of six miniature dress medals Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted for wear with all the medals suspended from lady’s bow ribands, and housed in a glazed display frame, good very fine (6) £140-£180
A Framed Display of Dress Miniatures of the various Jubilee Medals awarded by Queen Victoria Comprising Jubilee 1887, silver; Jubilee 1887, with clasp 1897, silver; Jubilee 1887, Metropolitan Police, bronze; Jubilee 1887, City of London Police, bronze; Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze; Jubilee 1897, silver; Jubilee 1897, bronze; Jubilee 1897, Mayors and Provosts, silver; Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze; Jubilee 1897, City of London Police, bronze; Jubilee 1897, Police Ambulance Service, bronze; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze; Jubilee 1897, London County Council Metropolitan Fire Brigade, bronze; Visit to Ireland 1900, bronze, with integral top shamrock riband bar, all attractively mounted in a glazed display frame, nearly extremely fine (14) £300-£400
A Framed Display of Dress Miniatures of the various Coronation Medals awarded by King Edward VII Comprising Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1902, bronze; Coronation 1902, Mayors and Provosts, silver; Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, silver; Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze; Coronation 1902, City of London Police, silver; Coronation 1902, City of London Police, bronze; Coronation 1902, Police Ambulance Service, silver; Coronation 1902, Police Ambulance Service, bronze; Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, silver; Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze; Coronation 1902, London County Council Metropolitan Fire Brigade, silver; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver; Visit to Scotland 1903, silver, with integral top thistle riband bar; Visit to Ireland 1903, bronze, with integral top shamrock riband bar, all attractively mounted in a glazed display frame, nearly extremely fine (15) £300-£400
A Framed Display of Dress Miniatures of the various Coronation and Jubilee Medals awarded by King George V Comprising Coronation 1911; Coronation 1911, with Delhi clasp; Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police; Coronation 1911, City of London Police; Coronation 1911, County and Borough Police; Coronation 1911, Police Ambulance Service; Coronation 1911, London Fire Brigade; Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Fire Brigade; Coronation 1911, Royal Irish Constabulary; Coronation 1911, Scottish Police; Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade; Coronation 1911, St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps; Coronation 1911, Royal Parks; Visit to Ireland 1911; Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935 (2), all in silver, all attractively mounted in a glazed display frame, nearly extremely fine (17) £300-£400
A mounted group of fifteen miniature dress medals Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom, Order of the Renaissance, with first class rosette on riband; Order of the Star of Jordan, with first class rosette on riband; Order of Independence, with first class rosette on riband; Medal for the Battle of Karama 1968; Silver Jubilee Medal 1977; Saudi Arabia, Order of Abdul Aziz Al Saud, with first class rosette on riband; Morroco, Kingdom, Order of El Mohammed I, with first class rosette on riband; Iran, Empire, Order of Pahlavi, with first class rosette on riband; Spain, Kingdom, Order of Naval Merit, with first class rosette on riband; Malaysia, Federation, Order of the Defender of the Realm; Ethiopia, Empire, Order of the Queen of Sheba, with first class rosette on riband; China, Republic, Order of the Brilliant Star, with first class rosette on riband; Mexico, Republic, Order of the Aztec Eagle, with first class rosette on riband; Austria, Second Republic, Order of Merit, with first class rosette on riband; France, Fifth Republic, National Order of Merit, with first class rosette on riband, the miniatures all collectively silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, mounted court-style for wear, generally nearly extremely fine (15) £600-£800
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, G.C.M.G., Knight Grand Cross, set of insignia comprising sash badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, 110mm x 72mm excluding suspension ring, and breast star, silver and silver-gilt with gold and enamel appliqué centre, reverse with gold pin for wearing, complete with full dress sash in its Garrard & Co. Ltd. fitted case of issue, the case a little scuffed, a small enamel chip to St Michael’s abdomen on sash badge, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £2,000-£2,400
The Royal Victorian Order, G.C.V.O., Knight Grand Cross, set of insignia, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, reverse officially numbered ‘493’; and breast star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘493’, with gold pin for wearing, with full dress sash and wearing instruction card, in its Collingwood & Co. matching number fitted case of issue, the case a little scuffed, otherwise extremely fine (2) £1,200-£1,600
German Second World War Driving Licences and Other Documents. Comprising 4 Army and Luftwaffe driving licences all with individual photographs, all are of the same double folded and sometimes triple folded linen type, Gefreiter in a Panzer Jager unit; Luftwaffe recipient in bomber squadron, officer the image shows the wearing of a uniform, hatless, pilots badge at breast; A rare driving licence to a member of Regiment General Goring 5th Battalion with photograph in uniform; Army driver in uniform, hatless; together with a Truppen Ausweis ausweis double sided printed card in Infantry Regiment 64, an empty folder for a Kriegsmarine ausweis, civilian employee for the armed forces as a film projectionist. Pass with photograph in civil dress with added paper pass with identical image, 2 individual items. All the paperwork has an English translation written with each piece, reasonable condition £80-£100
German Second World War Third Reich Documents. A well service used SS soldbuch with photograph of the owner in civil dress wearing the Hitler Youth membership lapel pin and police lapel pin to his jacket, it would appear that he is of German extraction, possibly coming from the Sudentenland and served with the police weapons school and was a late entrant into the SS in February 1945. Police Service pass, served as a combat policeman possibly in the Great War being awarded the Iron Cross Second Class, Police Long Service Medal Third Class and Front Fighters Medal 1914-18, accompanied by a small linen ausweis for Paul Forster, a Hauptwachtmeister for the Gendarmerie. Shooting book For target practice with the GEW98 pistol and light machine gun, a Transport Brigade Speer, German issued passport issue to a Dutchman in January 1945, photograph in civil dress with good clear stamp of Transport Korps Speer. Pre war shooting books, 4 books in total within one folder for a member of Infantry Regiment 16. A Soldatenbund ausweis (Old Comrades) for a veteran soldier with photograph wearing officers uniform. Military pass dated 1923 for a member of the Reichwehr. Lohnbuch being the wages book and two service IDs with photographs in civil dress for a Reich worker and member of a Luftwaffe Flak Regiment, cover loose from main body. All with English translations, reasonable condition (lot) £120-£160
German Second World War Wehrpass and Soldbuchs. An Army wehrpass to Walter Berger, photograph in civil dress, served from 1944 to 1945, very few entries. Army soldbuch, photograph of an unidentified Grenadier, large pass photograph wearing uniform, hatless, served in Grenadier Battalion 79 and 87, very few details, no awards. Luftwaffe soldbuch, served from 1941, no photograph served with a Flieger Regiment from 1941 to 1943, no further details, some entries, served briefly with Regiment Hermann Goring in Holland, no awards. Army driver’s licence, double folded linen type, no photograph, dated 1942. Armed Forces Catholic prayer book, generally good condition (5) £40-£50
Follower of Frans Pourbus the Younger Portrait of a noblewoman, said to be Helena de Sonzogni, standing three-quarter length, in a white, floral and gold decorated dress, beside a table, before a red curtaininscribed 'HELENA / FILIA SPECTABILIS / D[O]NI IVLIJ DE SONZONIO / VXOR / INTEGER[MI] D[O]NI IOSEPH / DE MALVETIJS / 1615' (upper left) and charged with a coat of arms of the Malvezzi of Verona impaling the Sonzogni, surmounted with a coronetoil on canvas117.5 x 84cmProvenance:According to a label on the reverse, Frederick, 4th Marquess of Londonderry (1805-1872) by 1858, whose wife, Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte Jocelyn (1813-1884) was widow of Richard, 6th Viscount Powerscourt (1815-1844), Her son, Mervyn, 7th Viscount Powerscourt (1836-1904),By descent at Powerscourt House, County Wicklow, Ireland, when sold with the house and some contents to Ralph Slazenger in 1961,At Powerscourt until their sale on the premises, Christie's, 24th and 25th September 1984, lot 4, as 'Follower of Frans Pourbus'Literature:Mervyn, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, A Description and History of Powerscourt, 1903, p. 26, as in the Library as 'Coello', where said to be from the Bernal collection (see Note).According to the Powerscourt guide in 1903 (see Literature) this portrait came from the collection of Ralph Bernal, sold at Christie's, London, on 5th March-30th April 1855. Though it is recorded that the 4th Marquess of Londonderry (see Provenance) was buying paintings at that sale, the catalogue description for lot 898 (8th day of sale) which is the only possible candidate, does not quite correspond with the present portrait; further, lot 898 in the Bernal sale is recorded as having been purchased by a Francis Barchard Esq., and not by Lord Londonderry, as are other lots in the sale. It would seem probable, therefore, that the 7th Viscount Powerscourt in his guide of 1903 assumed his stepfather had purchased this portrait at the 1855 Bernal sale. The sitter in the present portrait is presumably a daughter of Giulio de Sonzogni. Her family, Sonzogni, originated in Zogno in the Brembana Valley in Lombardy. According to the inscription, the sitter married Giuseppe Malvezzi, a member of an ancient noble family from Verona. However, the painter of this picture has reversed the arms as the husband should occupy the dexter side of the shield and the wife, the sinister. From the date and the style of the portrait, it can perhaps be assumed that it was painted in Mantua by a resident artist influenced by Frans Pourbus the Younger who had been court painter to the Gonzaga family there from 1600 to 1609. From this we can presume the sitter was herself at the Gonzaga court in Mantua, where she almost certainly would have met her husband from nearby Verona.We are grateful to Dr Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Senior Research Scholar at Centro de Humanidades, Zurich & Lisbon, and Alan Chamberlain for their assistance with this catalogue entry.The painting is executed in oil on a canvas support which has been lined. The lining canvas is very fine compared to the original support and is now starting to fail along the edges with small tears forming. Overall, the canvas tension is adequate and the picture is in plane. The paint layers are stable and secure. Despite being lined, areas of impasto are crisp and well defined. There are a few old losses located in the dress. Small areas of overpaint are scattered across the surface and are reasonably matched to the original. The varnish is yellowed and dull with a layer of surface dirt present.Framed 132 x 98.5cm
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Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789) Portrait of Gaspard de Péleran (d. 1747 Smyrna [Izmir], Turkey), bust-length, wearing a navy blue coat with gold embroidered trim and white stock, circa 1738enamel on copper, oval4.5 x 3.8cmProvenance: By repute Italian family of noble descent, Biel, Switzerland, until circa 1980; Private collectionBest known for his delicate pastel drawings, Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789) initially studied miniature and enamel painting in his native Geneva, producing his first dated work in enamel in 1722, before turning his attention to pastels. The present portrait is one of only approximately thirty known enamel miniatures by Liotard and thus a rare example of his mastery of the enamelling technique.The sitter, Gaspard de Péleran (d. 1747 Smyrna [Izmir], Turkey) was a diplomat and French consul in Smyrna between 1731 and his death in 1747. He was the son of Pierre Armand de Péleran, French consul in Aleppo, and his wife Anne Victoire Fornetti (b. Constantinople 1667-1747), daughter of Jean-Baptiste Fornetti (1618-1694) drogman – the official interpreter of the Ambassador at the Constantinople French legation. A red and black chalk drawing of this sitter by Liotard is at the Louvre (see illustration below), which shows him lounging on a Turkish divan and wearing a similar coat as seen in the present miniature, with an identical distinctive design of gold lace. This drawing along with its pendant of his wife, Marie Boyer (1710-1786), whom he had married in 1732, are amongst 30 drawings that Liotard executed during his stay in Turkey between 1738 and 1742.In 1738, Liotard embarked on an expedition to Constantinople upon the invitation of William, Lord Ponsonby, later 2nd Earl of Bessborough and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. They sailed from Naples on 3rd April 1738 and having passed by a number of Mediterranean islands, they stopped to spend a few weeks in Smyrna (today’s Izmir). It was almost certainly here, that Liotard would have encountered Gaspard de Péleran, who was the French consul there at the time, and who also appears to be Liotard’s first known sitter upon his arrival in the Ottoman lands. Following his stay in Smyrna, Liotard finally arrived at Constantinople in August 1738, where he settled for four years and painted numerous diplomats, wealthy merchants and locals. Intrigued by the native dress, Liotard himself adopted the custom of dressing as a Turk and grew a luxuriant beard, which earned him the nickname ‘The Turkish Painter’. Amongst his sitters in Constantinople was John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721-1770) whose likeness Liotard captured both in pastel and in enamel. Alongside the present miniature of Péleran, the portrait of the Marquess of Granby is the only other known enamel from Liotard’s Turkish period.The present lot is being sold with a letter of authentication from the late Prof. Dr Marcel Roethlisberger, author of Liotard’s catalogue raisonné, published in 2008. Having examined this miniature in person in 2019, Prof. Dr Roethlisberger confirmed the attribution to Liotard and dated it to circa 1738, quite reasonably imagining it, like the Louvre drawing, was done whilst Liotard had stopped in Smyrna en route for Constantinople. If not actually painted in Smyrna, Roethlisberger postulated that it might have been done in Constantinople during Liotard’s time there as Péleran would not only at times have gone there from Smyrna to consult with his Ambassador to the Ottoman court, but almost certainly would have visited his widowed mother who died there, in the city where she was born, in 1747, five years after Liotard had left.Framed 4.8 x 4.1cm. Examined out of frame. Little surface dirt under glass. Good condition overall. Some scuffing to the reverse of the frame.
Alessandro Cittadini (1820-1877) Portrait miniature of a young lady, bust-length, in a blue dresssigned and dated 'Cittadini 58' (lower right)watercolour on ivory6 x 4.5cmThis item is offered for sale in accordance with the Ivory Act 2018 and has been assigned an exemption certificate Ref. No. 89R3GR6Y.
Y Piaget: a rectangular dress watch model 9057, manual wind movement, black rectangular dial with applied gold baton hour markers, gold sword hands, white metal bezel, on a signed Piaget black strap, possibly crocodile, with Piaget clasp marked 750, no box and papersDimensions:Case: 25mm excluding crownNote: Note: Please be aware that this lot contains material which may be subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside the EU, due to CITES regulations. Please note it is the buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information visit https://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/
Three dress rings comprising a 9ct rose gold ring with oval bezel set opal, size M, an 18ct gold three-stone diamond ring in a platinum mount, size M (lacking one stone) and a Continental silver (935) ring with central red stone of lozenge shape, in a border of claw set red stones, together with a gold plated necklace, a cameo brooch, a gold plated tie clip and a modern open face fob watch on a gold plated chain. CONDITION REPORT: There is one stone missing from the three-stone ring, as stated. The opal needs polishing, there are blues and greens, predominantly blues, but it is very dull to the top and it does need repolishing.
SWAROVSKI; a quantity of boxed jewellery to include white metal crystal pendant, white metal and pink crystal necklace with chain drops, a cased white metal necklace with multicolour stone ball pendant, a three-strand multicolour freshwater pearl necklace, a silver oval brooch with hardstone centre, a white metal crystal ring, a silver bangle, a vintage Christian Dior diamanté necklace and drop earring set, and a yellow metal ladies' Gucci dress watch.
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