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Lot 987
An Edwardian inlaid mahogany hanging cabinet, rectangular, being satinwood banded, boxwood and ebony strung and with glazed door enclosing shelves. Width 51 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The cabinet is in first class condition with no damage, no repairs and no restoration. It could be used in its current condition without the need for any work at all.
Lot 196
A Victorian miniature blue and white dinner service, transfer printed, 43 pieces. CONDITION REPORT: All items are in very good condition with the exception of the following: The tureen stand has 5 glaze chips to the top side of the piece and 4 to the underside. The largest of the graduated ashettes has a chip to the underside edge and one further chip through the glaze through the centre, there are also several glaze chips to the top side of the piece. Both sauce boats have a tiny glaze nibble to the lip but this is barely significant. Other than the damage mentioned all other pieces in the service are really in first class condition and have clearly seen very little use. We can see no evidence of any restoration or any hairlines cracks on any of the pieces.
Lot 312
A Royal Albert Lavender Rose tea set, teapot, 6 cups, 6 saucers and 6 plates. CONDITION REPORT: The teapot has a small inside top edge under rim chip. Other than this all pieces are in first class condition with no damage, no repairs and no restoration. The gilding is in generally very good order. The tea set has clearly seen little use.
Lot 669
A collectors' doll, Mandy by Rubert 1992 of The Doll Artworks. Height approximately 66 cm. CONDITION REPORT: This doll is in first class condition with no damage, no repairs and no restoration. We cannot see any evidence of any hairline cracks and both the dress and bonnet are also in very good condition.
Lot 101
2006 National Football Museum Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony programme. Signed on the first page by members of the 2006 Selection Panel - Gordon Taylor, Sir Alex Ferguson, Howard Kendall, Alan Ball, Jimmy Armfield, Bobby Charlton, Tom Finney, Jack Charlton, Bryan Robson and Colin Bell. Signed on the inside spread by Alan Ball. Further signed inside by 2006 inductees Liam Brady, Alan Hansen, Roger Hunt, Martin Peters.Exceptionally rare collection of autographs on one fabulous piece. Good condition. All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
Lot 110
Emlyn Hughes autographed book. Hardback edition of Emlyn Hughes - A Tribute to Crazy Horse by Phil Thompson. 2006, published by Tempus. Signed on the first blank page by Liverpool legends Graeme Souness, Phil Neal and Phil Thompson. Good condition. All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
Lot 116
Liverpool legends autographed book. Paperback edition of Anfield Voices. 1998, published by Tempus. Signed on the first page by Liverpool legends Jimmy Case, Phil Thompson and Emlyn Hughes. Good condition. All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
Lot 165
Kevin Keegan signed Reluctant Messiah paperback book. Signed on inside title page. English former football player and manager. He played for several clubs including Liverpool and Hamburger SV. He went on to manage Newcastle United, Fulham and Manchester City, winning promotion as champions in his first full season at all three clubs. He also managed the England national team. Good condition. All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
Lot 45
Cricket legends signed cover. Gary Sobers, Colin Cowdrey, Don Bradman and Bob Taylor signed 1973 County Cricket British Post Office first day cover with Dundee postmark and the set of three stamps. Good condition. All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
Lot 569
Cliff Thorburn signed photo. 16 x 12 inches, 30 x 40 cms high quality colour montage photograph signed by snooker player Cliff Thorburn, aka The Grinder, the first player to make a 147 break in the World Championships. Good condition. All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
Lot 173
SELECTION, inc. advert card for Lorillard Red Cross Plug Tobacco; Doncaster Panthers 1972/3 Basketball fixture lists (Nos. 1-9); hardback edition of Royal Progress - A Pageant of Regal Travel (pub. By Shell-Mex & BP for 1953 Coronation Year); ten first editions of collecting magazines, inc. Card Times, Cigarette Card Monthly, The Card Scene, Nostalgia, Steam World etc., VG to EX, 21
Lot 747
WAYFARER, Supplements, b/w photos (210 x 160mm), Railway, inc. GWR engines named South Wales Borderers and King Edward VIII, LMS anti-gas train, LMS Coronation (first streamlined locomotive), royal train driver showing his OBE to stationmaster, jubilee excursion of old Flying Scot, Coronation Scot arriving in America etc., with typed annotation laid down to reverse (as issued), G, 11 (Illustration page 8)
Lot 748
WAYFARER, Supplements, b/w photos (210 x 160mm), Entertainment, Paderewski leaving for Paris after making his first talkie, Sir Seymour & Lady Hicks (Ellaline Terriss) leaving for South Africa, George Arliss, Dame Laura Knight & Bertram Mills at Hyde Park Coaching Meet, Gracie Fields singing outside to workmen at The Prince of Wales theatre after laying foundation stone and leaving for tour of US, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Cicely Courtneidge, Charles Laughton etc., with typed annotation laid down to reverse (as issued), G, 19 (Illustration page 8)
Lot 735
WAYFARER, Supplements, b/w photos (210 x 160mm), inc. Jean Batten (airwoman), Discovery II off to Antarctic, women pilots first air display at Romford Aerodrome, Endeavour I arriving in Gosport, Scott & Guthrie (winners of the Portsmouth-Johannesburg Air Race) etc., with typed annotation laid down to reverse (as issued), G, 9
Lot 432
Bradford Rudge (British, 1805-1885) A herdsman with cattle and a sheepdog preparing to cross a river signed lower right "B Rudge" watercolour 18 x 31cm (7 x 12in) Other Notes: Bradford Rudge taught the brilliantly talented Fraser brothers to paint - a family of artists who produced wonderful watercolours of the Ouse valley. Rudge was born in 1813, probably the son of a Birmingham artist who taught at Rugby School. He moved to Bedford in 1837 and became the first drawing master at Bedford Grammar School. The Frasers were among his pupils - their father was a retired army surgeon who moved to Bedford from Edinburgh, because the Harpur Trust at Bedford paid for the education of his seven sons. A little discolouration to the sky but otherwise fine.
Lot 450
§ Pierre de Clausade (French, 1910-1976) Au large de L' Ile-de-Sein (Off the coast of the Island of Sein) signed lower left "Pierre de Clausade" oil on canvas 59 x 72cm (23 x 28in) Exhibited: Pierre de Clausade Exhibition, May 1954 (inscribed to the reverse) Other Notes: The Île de Sein is a French island in the Atlantic Ocean, off Finistère, eight kilometres from the Pointe du Raz (raz meaning "water current"), from which it is separated by the Raz de Sein. Its Breton name is Enez Sun. The island, with its neighbouring islets, forms the commune of Île-de-Sein in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Lying on the sea routes going south from the English Channel, Sein is well known for the dangers of its waters, the Chaussée de Sein, a vast zone of reefs stretching more than 30 miles from east to west, requiring numerous lighthouses, beacons, and buoys. In the past, it was also known for its wreckers. Pierre de Clousade's first exhibition was at the 1941 Paris Salon where he was awarded a Silver medal. He then began exhibiting regularly at the Societe des Beaux Arts. In 1945, he was accepted as a member of the Salon d´Hiver and with the continued success of his Salon exhibitions, Clausade began receiving invitations to exhibit worldwide. His use of light and cloudscapes is much admired and sought after with their images of solitude and beauty. In January, 1953 he was awarded the Medaille d’ Argent by the jury of the Paris Salon. Unlined canvas. paint layer is stable and secure. A little surface dirt present. Areas of retouching, mainly located in the sea and saild of boat. Appearance is good. Frame is in good condition.
Lot 497
Sarah Biffen (British, 1784-1850) Portrait of Miss Ada Lovelace, three-quarter length signed lower centre "by Sarah Biffen without ... 1842" sepia watercolour on buff paper, oval 22 x 17cm (9 x 7in) Other Notes: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was a British mathematician and writer who is considered to be the first computer programmer, due to her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. She was the daughter of poet Lord Byron - the only child he had with his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke, Baroness Wentworth. She was raised by her mother after her parents separated and Lord Byron left England, dying when his daughter was eight years old. She married Lord William King in 1835; King was made Earl of Lovelace in 1838, and Ada thus became Lady Lovelace. Due to her heritage, she became somewhat famous in society and often appeared at Court and high society events, but she had a brilliant mind and was interested in the sciences and mathematics from an early age. She became close acquaintances with Mary Somerville, a Scottish science writer and polymath (at a time when females were discouraged from working in scientific fields), and it was Mary who introduced her to Charles Babbage. Babbage dubbed her "The Enchantress of Numbers". She met him in 1833 when he had been building his Analytical Engine - a machine designed to make automatic calculations. Using her own ideas, Ada created a punch card system to make the Engine function and their partnership is generally regarded as the foundation of the computation systems of the future.
Lot 498
Walter Langley, RI (British, 1852-1922) Towards the Sea signed lower right "W Langley" watercolour 17 x 12cm (7 x 5in) Provenance: From the collection of Simon Hilton, Cambridge Other Notes: Born in Birmingham, Walter Langley is generally dubbed the pioneer of the Newlyn School, as he was the first of the Newlyn School artists to settle in the village, setting up his studio in 1882. Like many of his fellow Newlyn artists, he had spent time in Brittany before discovering Cornwall, and some of his early Cornish works feature local models wearing the picturesque Breton costume. Langley started his artistic career at the age of fifteen, when he was apprenticed to a Birmingham lithographer. At twenty-one, having completed his apprenticeship, he won a scholarship to South Kensington, where he studied design. Langley returned to Birmingham to continue as a lithographer, but spent his spare time painting and soon gave up lithography to concentrate on this aspect of his work. Although Langley was an accomplished painter in oils, he mainly painted in watercolour, often on a large scale. Using this demanding and difficult medium, he portrayed scenes of everyday life in a small fishing village, highlighting the hardships and tragedies that were commonplace during that period. Langley remained based in West Cornwall throughout his career, and died in Penzance in March 1922. A little loss of colour.
Lot 514
Attributed to Tilly Kettle (British, 1735-1786) Portrait of a Gentleman in a red jacket, buff waistcoat and white stock, possibly a member of the FitzGerald family oil on canvas 82 x 66cm (32 x 26in) Provenance: From an Irish country house Other Notes: Tilly Kettle was born in London, the son of a coach painter, in a family that had been members of the Brewers' Company of freemen for five generations. He studied drawing with William Shipley in the Strand and first entered professional portraiture in the 1750s. Kettle's first series of portraits appeared in the 1760s. His first surviving painting is a self-portrait from 1760, with his first exhibit with (A. Graves, 1907) the Free Society of Artists in 1761. In 1762, he worked at restoring Robert Streater's ceiling paintings in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, and painted Francis Yarborough, a doctor of Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1763. He painted many members of the family of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. In 1764-5, he was active in London and continued exhibiting at the Society of Artists Unlined canvas. Canvas patch on reverse is mending an old damage. Age craquelure across the surface of the paint layer - in some areas the paint is slightly raised. Old losses to sitter's face have been retouched. Retouching at lower right corner covering old damage. Varnish is even and glossy. Frame is in good condition.
Lot 528
Thomas Jones Barker (British, 1815-1882) Portrait of Miss Chisholm of Stirches House, Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, on her grey Highland pony 'Punch', with her black retriever beside her signed lower left "Thos. Jones Barker" oil on canvas 120 x 85cm (47 x 33in) Other Notes: Stirches House, Hawick, was built by the Chisholm family in 1503. It is now a care home for the elderly. The family also owned Chisholm House in the Scottish borders which was built in 1752 and is set in an estate of nearly 200 acres. It was once the seat of the head of the southern branch of Clan Chisholm but went out of the family possession in the early part of the 20th Century. Thomas Jones Barker is known as a portrait and military history painter. His first work to be exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts was a scene from the Napoleonic Wars. He went on to paint, from the battlefields, the Franco Prussian War of 1870. He was a prolific portrait painter, in particular of Scottish famillies, but was also commissioned to paint Queen Victoria. His work can be found in public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery. Unlined canvas. A few canvas patches on the reverse of the bottom half of canvas, mending old damages. Canvas is slightly slack, stretcher bar marks starting to show, most notably horizontally across middle of painting. A few undulations to the canvas. paint layer is stable. Areas of retouching, including to the sitter's face and dress. Varnish is glossy and even. Losses to decoration moulding on frame. Unlined. Two old repaired tears. Old gilt frame has chips and losses.
Lot 539
Robert Alexander Hillingford (British, 1828-1904) A Cavalier on a chestnut horse being ambushed by Roundheads signed lower left "R A Hillingford" oil on canvas 44 x 59cm (17 x 23in) Provenance: From a Suffolk country house Other Notes: Robert Hillingford was famous for his historical and genre scenes. He was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years, beginning in 1841. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He then travelled to Munich, Rome, Florence and Naples, where he married and worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. One painting from this period entitled, The Last Evening of the Carnival, was exhibited at St. Petersburg in 1859. He returned to London in 1864 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1866; it was at this time that he began to work on historical subjects, especially of the Napoleonic Wars. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, British Institution and at other galleries. While he was attracted to costume pieces such as, An incident in the early life of Louis XIV and During the wanderings of Charles Edward Stuart, he also painted some contemporary military scenes, including his 1901 RA painting South Africa, 1901 - The Dawn of Peace. Lined canvas. Paint layer is in stable condition. Areas of retouching which are well matched to the original. Frame is in good condition.
Lot 574
Henry Bright (British, 1814-1873) A sketch of the Pytchley Hunt before Belvoir Castle inscribed with title "Sketch of the Pytchley Hunt" lower centre watercolour 30 x 62cm (12 x 24in) Other Notes: Henry Bright painted in various locations in England, Scotland, Wales and the Continent, working in oils, watercolour, chalk and pencil. During a few of these sketching expeditions he was accompanied by J M W Turner, with whom he had struck up a friendship. Bright's work was also highly regarded by John Ruskin. Bright's first major exhibition was at the British Institution, London in 1836. He became a member of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1839, where he exhibited until 1844. Some browning and loss of colour. Unde glass and vaious old tears can be seen - bottom right-hand corner, left-hand corner and through the pencil inscription.
Lot 598
Pierre-Jules Mene, (French, 1810-1879), 'Ecossais Montrant un Renard a son Chien' and 'Valet de Chiens Tenant deux Griffons Ecossais', a pair of patinated bronze figures depicting a Scottish huntsman lifting a dead fox and a Ghillie with his deerhounds, signed in the bronze (2) 50cm (20in) Literature: Illustrated in the catalgoue raisonne p34 illustration 21, and page 35 illustration 22, Michel Poletti, 2007 P J Mene lived and worked in Paris. He was one of the pioneer animaliere or animal sculptors of the 19th Century. He was largely self taught, spending many hours sketching in the Jardin des Plantes. He was one of the most prolific sculptors of his time with the reputation of producing high quality work. He was awarded the Cross Legion d'Honneur for his contribution to art in 1861 and First Class Medals at the London Exhibitions of 1855 and 1861. Despite his reputation, he declined all offers of large public works and specialised in small bronzes. His work was influenced by the artists Carle Vennet and Landseer, which can be seen particularly in these Scottish pieces. 'Ecossais Montrant un Renard a son Chien' was orginally cast in 1861 and 'Valet de Chiens' in 1864.
Lot 607
Four bronze standing figures and a polished lizard, the smallest of the first depicting Hercules with a club on his shoulder and wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, 14.5cm (5.75 in); that of the Madonna and child parcel gilt; Orpheus with his lute standing on an oak base; the tallest of Athena holding a shield, 21.5cm (8.5 in) high; the lizard 16cm (6.25 in) wide (5)
Lot 618
An English marble figure, 'Maidenhood' by Edgar George Papworth Jnr. (1832-1927), the female standing water carrier signed 'E.G. Papworth Sc. London 1875' and entitled 'Maidenhood' to the base 103 x 36cm (40 x 14in) Exhibited: Edgar John Papworth is thought to have started his studies in his father's studio - Edgar George Papworth Senior was also a sculptor. In 1848 he entered the Royal Academy Schools and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1852. Papworth Junior's work, largely portraiture and genre subjects, was well received and around 1860, several of his sculptures were reproduced by Copeland in Parian ware (a form of statuary porcelain). These included: 'The Young Emigrant', 'The Young Shrimper', 'Maidenhood' and 'Beatrice'. Between 1861 and 1891, Papworth Junior divided his time between London and Manchester. His figure of a 'Startled Nymph', commissioned by Joseph Neeld MP (1789-1856) of Grittleton House, was one of the exhibits at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Neeld, whose fortune was derived from the highly successful silversmith Philip Rundell (1746-1827), was one of the young sculptor's important early patrons. Papworth Junior's other commissions for Neeld included a statue in plaster of his grandfather, Edward Hodges Baily for Grittleton House. Papworth Junior executed a significant number of portraits - (he showed more than fifty at the Royal Academy between 1852-82). These include a bust of Samuel Stretton (1831-1920), the first of three generations of doctors to be based in Kidderminster, and a posthumous bust of William Murdoch (1754-1839) who worked with Matthew Boulton and James Watt and developed the latter's ‘sun-and-planet motion’ which improved the performance of steam engines. Murdoch also experimented with compressed air, and invented gas lighting. (The Murdoch bust is part of Birmingham Museum's Trust collections). After 1901, Papworth Junior retired, possibly because his work had lost favour (he is not mentioned in Marion Spielmann's 'British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today', 1901). He died in 1927 at Bexleyheath where he had been living since about 1911.
Lot 654
Solar Transcripts', a presentation volume of 'Talbotypes' by George Wilson Bridges to Admiral Sir William Parker 'Malta 9th May 1851', the volume cover and one of the loose photographs bearing Bridges boar crest over B, each of the presented photographs inscribed in ink by Bridges who describes himself in the presentation as 'A Decayed Traveller', page 19 showing Admiral Parker aboard Hibernia and the British Fleet arriving at the Porta Reale, Palermo on 16th February 1848, three loose photographs inscribed 'Aboard Hibernia', number 40 from the album missing but accompanied by fifteen loose photographs by Bridges, three priced verso at 3/6 in ink and thus dating to about 1852, another three by Calvert Richard Jones of Malta dated 1846 at the beginning of Bridges time photgraphing in the Mediterranean (57) Other Notes: George Wilson Bridges (1788-1863) The present album of calotypes, or Talbotypes, owes itself to succession of chance occasions which befell George Wilson Bridges. In 1834, when he was Rector of the Parish of St Ann's in Jamaica, his wife left him for England taking with her a son called Henry, and to join a daughter already living there. Later that year he crossed the Atlantic to find his estranged wife and recover his daughter. He then returned to his parish with that daughter, becoming a single parent looking after four daughters and a son, William. Tragically on New Year's Day 1837, he witnessed the four daughters drown in a boating accident. He retreated to the edge of Rice Lake, Peterborough, Upper Canada, where he built Wolf Tower as a home for William and himself. From 1842, William became a lynch pin in the story, as an illness lead his father to take him to England. William subsequently went to school at Maisemore, near Gloucester where his father had become Rector. William made friends with another William attending the school who was the son of Lord Valletort, third Earl of Mount Edgcombe and his wife Caroline Augusta (nee Feilding). Lady Caroline was half sister to William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) and through that connection Bridges became intrigued by the nascent art of photography. In 1846, William joined the Royal Navy. He was to become Captain William Wilson Somerset Bridges RN (1831-1889), but as a 15 year old joined the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, the 'Hibernia', stationed off Lisbon. The father followed the son to the Mediterranean via Paris. While in Paris he acquired a camera from Charles Chevalier (1804-59). De Montford and Glasgow universities hold some twenty three letters written by Bridges to WHFT between his leaving Portsmouth on HMS Superb in 1846 and his return from the Mediterranean to Cheltenham in 1852. Most record his struggles to master Talbot's calotype process introduced to the public in 1841. Bridges was to take some 1700 photographs during this period. On arrival in Malta at some time between February and the end of March 1846, he met up with the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones who was to teach him the rudiments of photography as pioneered by William Henry Fox Talbot. Jones had officiated at the wedding of Fox Talbot's wealthy cousin, Christopher (Kit) Rice Mansel Talbot, to Lady Charlotte Butler. Bridges' first letter from Malta to Fox Talbot records the death of Lady Charlotte, passing sympathy to the family over her loss. Subsequent letters record his difficulties of transferring the calotype negatives successfully and clearly as images onto paper prior to fixing them. In April of 1846, Christopher Talbot returned to his home at Margam Castle in Wales via the toe of Italy. He played a major role in the development of ironworks, the cause of the railways to arrive in south Wales and the diversion of the river Afan to the east of Aberavon, which created a new port where transport and industry met. This port was named Port Talbot after him. Calvert Jones travelled with Talbot on his journey through Italy but left memoranda on Talbotype photography for Bridges to work from. 1846 was also quite a year for Admiral Sir William Parker Bt (1781-1866) whose flagship, Hibernia, William Bridges had joined. Sir William was briefly first Naval Lord during this year but retired, due to ill health, to his command of the Mediterranean Fleet in July of 1846. Also in 1846, he was given command of the Channel Fleet because of his knowledge of Portuguese affairs, hence Hibernia being stationed off Lisbon when both Williams joined her. William Bridges served on both Hibernia and a surveying ship called Volage during the three years after joining up in 1846. His father's watchful eye followed his peregrinations. Photographs were taken on board the Hibernia, as well as points in the Mediterranean where it and the Volage docked. The circumstances which led to the inscribed presentation volume of forty calotypes to Sir William Parker in 1851 can only be guessed at, but must relate to William Bridges' service with him. One wonders whether George Bridges gave similarly bound 'Solar Transcript's' bearing his crested B cypher but signed from a 'Decayed Traveller' to other dignitaries as well when he came across them during this period of travelling the Mediterranean. It is known that he presented photographs to King Otto of Greece and King Ferdinand II of The Two Sicilies, but were they bound and inscribed thus?
Lot 708
A carved mahogany bombe linen press to a design by Thomas Chippendale, circa 1900, with stepped top with canted sides and applied stiff leaf and floral carved mouldings, slides to the interior, the base of bombé form, set to the top with two short and one long drawer cast brass swan neck handles, the base centred below with stylized foliate motif, to the canted front corners richly carved with rocaille and acanthus leaf carving, leading to similarly shaped bracket feet to each side.172½ x 145 x 66cm (67 x 57 x 26in). Literature: Footnotes:The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, Plate CXXXI. Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Volume II (1990 edition), p. 74. H.H. Mulliner The Decorative Arts in England (1923), Fig. 14. Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 (1986), p. 164 This unusual cabinet conforms almost exactly to an ambitious rococo design in Thomas Chippendale's celebrated publication, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director of 1754 (figure 1). The Director is composed of a large collection of, as Chippendale said, "the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern taste." The modern taste refers to the anglicised version of the forms and styles of France which strongly influenced Chippendale's work at this date and has been called "for the most part an Anglicisation of the rocaille". This taste is revealed in the design of Lot 708, with the swelling bombe form of the base and the exceptional fine quality of the intricately designed carving to the feet, an interpretation in wood of the fine chased gilt bronze work of French metal-workers. The Director represented an unparalleled undertaking in the publication of furniture designs, with the first and second editions constituting 160 plates of superb engravings. The work exerted a powerful influence on contemporary style that was felt as far afield as the Prussian Court and Lisbon and which established Chippendale as an inspired and innovative designer. A third edition, somewhat expanded, was to follow in a series of weekly publications in 1762. In the year of publication of the first edition, in which the design related to the present cabinet appears, Chippendale moved to spacious premises in St. Martin's Lane and began to provide furniture to a range of fashionable clients and nobility, including the Dukes of Beaufort, Portland, Norfolk and Hamilton, and the Earls of Northumberland and Chesterfield. Evidence of repairs around the hinges, otherwise in very untouched condition
Lot 85
A pair of diamond and bi-coloured 18ct gold earstuds together with two further pairs of 18ct gold earrings, the first designed as a polished and ropetwist circle enclosing a field of millegrain and pavé set round brilliant cut diamonds, London import hallmarks 1989, diameter 1.5cm; the second pair designed as textured convex squares, Edinburgh common control mark and Italian assay mark, signed Biffi, width 1.3cm; the third pair with two short tapered ribbons of bi-coloured gold, London hallmarks 2005, length 2cm; all with post and clip fittings, gross weight 23.08g (3)
Lot 1
A 19th century Davenport part dinner service together with three Mason's wares. the first printed and painted with pattern number 27 of a crane standing by a zigzag fence in a garden, comprising: a soup tureen, cover, stand and ladle, a dished bowl, two sauce tureens, covers and stands, five soup plates and eight dinner plates, the two bowls and a tazza by Mason's decorated in similar colours (27) (D) The soup tureen has a small nick from the foot rim. One sauce tureen has a chip onthe underside of its foot and one stand has been broken and is glued together. The early 19th century Mason's comport has a chip to its foot and a crack where the stem joins the dish
Lot 106
Three antique intaglio set rings, the first with a carved cornelian portrait bust, possibly of a Roman emperor, with ribboned laurel wreath and prominant nose, in a Georgian pinch collet and reeded closed back mount with tapered shank, size approximately F; the second with a small circular carved cornelian of a bearded man set between two oval cabochon lapis lazulis, all in pinched collet closed back setting with bifurcated shoulders and fluted shank, size N; the third oval, of moulded light purple glass with a scantily draped full length female figure, in a tiered collet mount with ropetwist shank, size O (3)
Lot 120
A fox head stick pin together with another depicting a bird taking flight, the first with a textured fox's mask above a hunting horn, in yellow precious metal, period fitted case; the second with a diaper shaped plaque with cast and engraved image of a bird rising from a branch among reeds, pierced gallery, also of unmarked yellow precious metal, repair to pin (2)
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