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Lot 208
Simpson, Charles 'Leicestershire and its Hunts', John Lane, pub. The Bodley Head Limited, 1926, beige cloth boards with green embossed lettering, ink dedication to first page, uncut edges; together with a copy of Lionel Edwards' 'A Sketchbook of Leicestershire', pub. Eyre and Spottiswoode 1935, blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. -2
Lot 323
WILLIAM LEWIN (d. 1795); a series of four Illustrations for the first edition of the 'Birds of Great Britain with their Eggs', comprising Black Throated Diver plate no. 229, Winter Gull plate no. 210, Black Head Gull plate no. 212, and Arctic Gull plate no. 207, each 9" (22cms) x 7" (17cms).
Lot 191
TWO ENAMELLED WHITE METAL BROOCHES, the first circular, pierced and enamelled as a stylised flowerhead, pin fastener to reverse, indistinct silver marks, marked CV. 5cm(d) 16grams; the second rounded oblong brooch with enamelled foliate designs and open centre, indistinct marks to reverse (probably Edinburgh). 5.2cm(w) 9grams CONDITION: Generally good apart from partially unreadable marks.
Lot 461
TWO 19TH CENTURY INDIAN BRASS BETEL NUT CUTTERS, the first of figural/zoomorphic form with hatched and foliate decoration. 20cm(L), the second with punch decoration and slender handles. 13cm(L) CONDITION: Generally good, some tarnishing and pitting to blades, the figural cutter with losses to blade edge.
Lot 490
A GROUP OF FOUR CHINESE RICE PAPER WATERCOLOURS the first depicting ceremonial accoutrements, within a silk card mount, moulded frame, under glass. 16.5cm x 25.5cm; two botanical studies, each with butterfly, in blue mounts, ebonised frames, under glass. 17cm x 27cm; a botanical study, inscribed to margin 'selected and purchased by C Copland Lamqus painter China Street Canton, in a moulded frame, under glass. 42cm x 37cm CONDITION: The first in good condition, the remainder each with faults, rips, staining, worm damage etc.
Lot 613
*Frank Waddington (1897-1952) TWO STREET SCENES, oil on board, the first signed and dated 46 lower left in a moulded frame. 44.5cm x 37cm; the second entitled 'Piccadilly Circus' to hand written label verso, unsigned, in a reeded and painted frame, under glass. 25cm x 36cm CONDITION: Some marks to frames but generally good condition.
Lot 135
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO FANELLI (1577-AFTER 1642), BRONZE FIGURE REPRESENTING THE AMERICAS, ANGLO-ITALIAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY modelled seated on a caiman atop a rock, rectangular base (partially lacking) 12cm high For a figure attributed to Fanelli representing Africa, see Christie's, London, 6 December 1988, lot 189. These models are probably from a set of the four Continents. For a virtuoso bronze bust of Charles I, see Victoria & Albert Museum No. A.3-1999. Francesco Fanelli, 'the one eyed Italian', came to London in the early 1630s from Genoa. By 1635 he was employed by Charles I and in 1640 he signed himself as Sculptor to the King of Great Britain. He appears to be the first to manufacture such bronzes in England. (http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O11798/king-charles-i-bust-francesco-fanelli/ - accessed 07.10.2015)
Lot 156
TWO PAIRS OF GEORGE II SILVER TEA TONGS OR NIPS, MAKER'S MARKS APPARENTLY TW AND W.O (probably for WILLIAM OVERTON), LONDON, CIRCA 1745 the first engraved with the initials DD, approximately 12.5cm long; and three pairs of sugar tongs, one bright-cut, Hester Bateman, London, circa 1780, one plain Fiddle pattern, engraved with the initials AA, Thomas Hoare, London,1806, the last King's pattern, John Walton, Newcastle, 1840 Tongs of the pattern of the first items in this lot have long been catalogued as sugar nips and more recently as tea tongs. Eileen Goodway, at a recent Silver Society meeting in London, however, has suggested that they were employed as snuffers to extinguish the flames of tea kettle burners.
Lot 201
A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER 'CAQUESSEITAO' AQUAMANILES, J.D. SCHLEISSNER & SOEHNE, HANAU, LATE 19TH CENTURY in Renaissance style, the mythological birds with dragon heads, scaly tails and necks and bodies with classical scenes below a lidded aperture, their massive talons resting on naturalistic circular mounds above a guilloche border, pseudo marks only 41cm high, 5000gr (160oz) The Portuguese mythological 'Caquesseitao', or 'ancestor of the devil', was first recorded by the celebrated explorer Fernao Mendes Pinto (c. 1509-1583). It was probably a fruit bat that he saw, but his extraordinary description developed a recurrent theme found in Portuguese and Indo-Portuguese works of art of a dragon-headed fantastical bird, often formed as a water pouring aquamanile.
Lot 22
A BELLEEK 'SHAMROCK' PATTERN BASKET, LATE 19TH CENTURY trefoil shape, corded rim applied with three bunches of flowers above openwork sides and three strand base, impressed on two banners BELLEEK / CO FERMANAGH, 12.5cm wide; together with a small Belleek shell bowl, late 19th century, moulded with shells and coral, first period black mark, 8cm wide (2)
Lot 311
THREE VICTORIAN SILVER GOBLETS the first bright-cut engraved with foliate strapwork and wrigglework borders, crested, monogrammed JAK and dated June 23rd 1864 for the Christening of John Augustus Kempthorne (Bishop of Lichfield, d.1946), beaded rim and knopped stem, gilt interior, Alexander Macrae, London, 1864, 14cm high, the second with plain bowl, knopped pedestal and spreading base with beaded borders, Elkington & Co., London, 1873, 15cm high and the third with trophy inscription surrounded by ferny engraving, Johnson, Walker & Tolhurst, London, 1877, 14cm high 465gr (14oz) (3)
Lot 5
A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GLAZIER, GARDNER PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, 1830s-1840s wearing a white apron, tall boots, blue striped trousers and top hat, his coat originally white but later overpainted in blue, holding a wooden frame with sheets of glass in one hand and a ball of putty under his other arm, naturalistic base with gilt rim, with impressed factory mark, St. George and the number 8 and inscribed Nr.2/10, 18.5cm Provenance: Phillips, Bond Street, 18 September 1996, lot 123A Gardner first introduced the Glazier model in the 1820s, perhaps as an addition to the popular street vendors from the Volshebnyi fonar (Magic Lantern) series. Although more commonly seen with a blue enamelled coat, the figure was also produced in a variety of colour-ways, such as a black coat (see Sotheby's, London, 26 May 2004, lot 361) or buff coat and trousers (see Sotheby's, New York, 12 April 2011, lot 378). For further comparable figures, see E. Ivanova, The Gardner Factory: Porcelain in Russia, 18th-19th Centuries, St. Petersburg, 2003, p.104.
Lot 78
A CHINESE NUT BEAD AND ROSE QUARTZ MANDARIN OFFICAL'S NECKLACE, CHAO ZHU, CIRCA 1850 interspersed with larger malachite beads, three jinian of rose quartz beads with amethyst pendants with kingfisher feather filigree mounts, the double gourd malachite fotou bead at the back suspending an oval rock crystal bead framed in kingfisher filigree mounts with a rock crystal pendant, with the original (by repute) leather box, decorated with central character, flowers and butterflies, box and necklace with family labels describing the reputed provenance 117cm long, box 22cm diameter Provenance: by repute Governor Yeh Ming-ch'en (1807-1859), according to MS label, worn by the Governor at his capture; acquired circa 1858 by Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (1824-1901); thence by family descent. Lots 78-92 This group of Chinese artefacts has descended in the present owner's family from their ancestor, Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (1824-1901). Arthur Hood began his career in the Royal Navy in 1836 and gained considerable experience before being promoted in November 1854 to command the brig, HMS Acorn. By May 1856 he and his vessel were in China under Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour (1802-1887), commander-in-chief of the East Indies and China Station. In June of 1857 HMS Acorn was involved in the destruction of the fleet of Chinese junks in the Battle of Fatshan Creek (see lot 90) and later in the attack on Canton. It is from this period that Hood acquired the pieces comprising this collection. A MS note, probably written in the latter part of the 19th Century, attached to lot 78 explains how it came into Hood's possession: 'Official Necklace of Yeh Governor of Canton, China. He was wearing this when captured by Commander Arthur W.A. Hood R.N (In conjunction with [Astley] Cooper Key in his palace. Yeh was a first class Mandarin. Commander Hood commanded H.M.S. ''Acorn'' - and lay for 9 months in the Canton River waiting opportunity to achieve capture of city and its Governor. When the moment arrived the 2 officers with seamen landed, and marched through the city and crowds of Chinese to the palace, captured the Governor, placed him in his own sedan chair, and carried him back to our boats and so on board H.M.S. ''Acorn'' . . .' The arrest of Governor Yeh (otherwise High Commissioner Yeh Ming-ch'en) was precipitated by his own actions, which in turn appear to have had the full backing of Peking. Although the Treaty of Nanking had been signed between Great Britain and the Emperor in 1842, thus bringing to an end the First Opium War, the Chinese felt that the accord was unfair. This led to sporadic and increasingly violent unrest. Matters finally erupted when in 1856 Yeh, then in the throes of supressing an uprising of Chinese rebels and ordering thousands of executions, seized a Hong Kong (British) registered ship and its crew. The registration had expired, a fact well known to the British (and the French) who nevertheless used the incident as an excuse to send for their fleets. The action sparked the Second Opium War (1856-1860). However much the British may have been the aggressors, the general opinion of Governor Yeh was vividly expressed by Sir John Francis Davis, former Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, when on 28 February 1858 he wrote to the Editor of The Times in London (2 March 1857, p. 9f): 'The Belial [i.e. worthless] art of making ''the worse appear the better reason'' has been rather unluckily applied to exciting our sympathies in favour of the savage Bedlamite [i.e. lunatic] Governor Yeh, the butcher of 70,000 of his own countrymen, and the bidder at 30 dollars each (5£,) for the heads of ours. The truculent Tartars had never a more hideous representative, and I believe that not but Milton himself ever made the devil appear at all interesting.'Additional Images (Illustrative only, not included in the lot):Gouache portrait of Ye Mingchen, painted in a Chinese artist's studio in Canton, circa 1856Governor Yeh, London Illustrated Times, 27 February 1858Watercolour portrait of Arthur William Acland Hood at age 14, by William Derby (1786-1847), to be sold on 24 February 2016, Harry Moore-Gwyn, British & Continental Pictures at 25 Blythe Road, London.
Lot 372
Handley Page H.P.42-1 Hannibal G-AAGX, An extensively flown flying scale model of this famous Imperial Airways airliner, the wood airframe covered in corrugated aluminium and fabric skin as in the original 1930 construction, the 232cm long fuselage with glazed pilots cockpit, cabin windows with curtains, port entrance door, the registration in black, Imperial Airways and Hannibal in deep blue as on the original aircraft, on strut reinforced rubber tyred main under-carriage and moveable tail wheel, the detatchable upper and lower mainplanes united by struts and fitted with engine nacelles and dummy Bristol Jupiter XI radial engines concealing the four running glow-plug model power units, with four-blade 30.5cm diameter mahogany propellers, the tail unit fins, rudders and planes wire braced, the upper centre section of the main planes with access panel for radio controls, the upper main planes with Handley Page slots, all flying control surfaces fully operational when connected to radio control unit, 437cm w/span. Some old repairs to original fabric. Historical Note - Original taxiing trials with Hannibal began in October 1930, first flight with Tom Harry England, and Cordes at the controls was made on 14.11.30 after much testing and some modification Hannibal entered service with Imperial airways in 1931. In 1939 this aircraft was based at Cairo and on 1 March 1940 after 12000hrs and 1,000,000 route miles flown she disappeared without trace over the Gulf of Oman on scheduled flight from Jask to Sharjah
Lot 197
“First U.K. Aerial Post” A rare original franked stamped postcard dated September 1911: carried in the inaugural service printed inscribed “For Conveyance by Aeroplane from London to Windsor” and further manuscript in ink by the sender “Flying must be the coolest job this weather I think I envy this postcard the flight!”, sent to E. Bullivant Esq, The Thatched House, Moulsford, dated 8/9/1911: together with a contemporary set of three Edwardian Progressive Whist illuminated score-cards with aeroplane imagery, complete with cord-attached pencils c1908 (4)
Lot 184
“The London Aerodrome Hendon First Annual Dinner 1914”: A rare original celebration signed Menu for the First Annual Dinner March 2nd 1914, folio-format, covers with tipped-in polychrome plate illustration by Cyrus Cuneo depicting the Aerial Derby frontis, and with autographed signatures of dignitaries, and personalities including Lord Lonsdale, W. Joynson-Hicks, Claude Grahame-White, Edward Stonor, Julian W. Orde, G. St.G Thomas, Arthur duCros, E.A. Seymour, H.C.L. Holden, R.A.S. Paget, Thomas Willey, H. G. Wells Esq inter alia, photo-illustrated with aerodrome & course-map and further colour-plate illustration by C. Cuneo, cord-bound card covers
Lot 445
Two Chinese armorial plates, one Kangxi c.1720 and painted with the arms of Carter of St Columb in Cornwall, the cavetto with simple landscape panels reserved on a gilt and red diaper border, the other Qianlong c.1748 and decorated with the arms of King of Rockingham within a gilt spearhead border, 23cm. (2) The first service was perhaps made for the Rt Hon Thomas Carter, Master of the Rolls and a Privy Councillor who married in 1719, while the second service is believed to have been made for Robert King around the time that he was elevated to the Irish peerage as Baron Kingsborough. Provenance: from the estate of the late Peter James Rankin.
Lot 288
A pair of Chamberlain's armorial dishes from a dessert service c.1820, the wells painted with the arms of the Clifford-Constable family within gadrooned borders of three floral panels reserved on a claret ground, impressed and painted marks, 26.5cm. (2) The armorial on the dish is of Constable quartering Clifford, Martin, Blount and Aston; impaling Chichester quartering Raleigh and Pownell for the marriage of Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, 3rd baronet of North Ferriby, Yorkshire to his first cousin, Marianne Chichester of Calverleigh Court, Devon on 28th September 1827.
Lot 251
Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples pub. Cassell & Company, 1956 - 1958, in four vols., all first editions and in dust wrappers, together with seven vols of Winston Churchill's War Speeches, all in dust wrappers to include three first editions, 'The Dawn of Liberation', 'Victory' and 'Secret Session Speeches', and Winston Churchill, The Second World War pub. Cassell & Co, 1948 - 1954, in six vols, all first editions and in dust wrappers (17)
Lot 237
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples pub. Cassell & Company Ltd, 1956 - 1958, first editions, each in non price-clipped dust wrappers, together with a copy of Woods, Artillery of Words - The Writings of Sir Winston Churchill pub. Leo Cooper, 1992, first edition, in non price-clipped dust wrapper (5)
Lot 285
Percy Bate, The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, their associates and successors pub. George Bell & Sons, 1899, with illustrations together with six other books to include; Modern Masterpieces of British Art pub. The Amalgamated Press Ltd, with full page coloured illustrations; The Art Annual, The Life & Work of Sir Leighton and The Life & Work of Sir J. Millais pub.1884, with numerous illustrations; The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, vol 1. no. 1 and vol 1. no. 2; Crow, William Morris Designer pub. The Studio, 1934; and Graham Reynolds, Painters of the Victorian Scene, pub. Batsford, 1953, first edition (7)
Lot 253
Eleven New Naturalists all pub. Collins and in dust wrappers to include; British Thrushes pub. 1978, first edition; British Mammals pub. 1960, second edition; Birds and Men pub. 1951, first edition; London's Natural History pub. 1946 reprint; Trees, Wood and Man pub. 1956, first edition; The Yellow Wagtail pub. 1950, first edition; The Badger pub. 1962, second edition; The Peak District pub. 1962, first edition; Wild Orchids of Britain pub. 1951, first edition; Britain's Structure and Scenery pub. 1967, sixth edition and Flowers of the Coast pub. 1962 reprint (11)
Lot 258
Ian Fleming. You Only Live Twice pub. Jonathan Cape, 1964, first edition in a dust wrapper together with another copy, second imp., with dust wrapper; On Her Majesty's Secret Service pub. Jonathan Cape, 1963, first edition, with dust wrapper, and The Spy Who Loved Me, pub. Jonathan Cape, 1964, sixth imp., dust wrapper (4)
Lot 231
Quantity of novels, autobiographies, and books relating to history etc., all with dust wrappers and some first editions to include Bernard Cornwell. Anthony Horowitz, Alistair MacLean together with Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl pub. Viking 2001, first edition, signed by the author on the title page
Lot 322
A George III sampler worked in green thread on coarse ground with alphabet, numbers and verse "The Rose" "Sophie Wood in the year of Our Lord 1814" 31cms x 31cms together with another George III sampler worked in coloured thread on coarse ground with numbers, alphabet and stylised floral band, by Maria (1792) 32cms x 24cms ++First sampler with holes and wear, the other with faded text
Lot 218
Collection of ten plays bound together in one book, performed at various theatres but predominately The Theatre Royal, Convent Garden, with various dates the plays were first performed (1818-1834), to include Auld Lang Syne, a musical drama in three acts first performed on Thursday, March 12, 1818, together with similar bound copy containing eight plays, sketches etc to include Shakespeare Tragedy of King Lear printed J. Tabby, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1820 (2)
Lot 248
A Victorian novelty silver gilt mounted cut glass double scent bottle/fob watch,unmarked c.1865, of typical form with two sprung covers, one with double opening, the first to reveal a Swiss fob watch, with dial signed 'Bennett London', the gold chased dial with black Roman numerals, stamped no. '12201' and '11' to cover, and the second below to reveal a shallow compartment with access to wind up the watch,overall 14cm long, the watch 2.7cm diameter, with a key
Lot 19
A 19th century American silver Gorham 'Fontainebleau' pattern flatware service,designed by F Antoine Heller, c.1885,each engraved 'Wise' verso,comprising:12 table forks,12 table knives,12 dessert forks,12 dessert knives,11 dessert spoons,6 serving spoons,16 teaspoons,12 cake forks,a sauce ladle,a cake slice, anda jam spoon,90oz weighable silver excluding knivesBorn in France in 1845, F Antoine Heller was greatly influenced by the Beaux Arts movement. He worked for Tiffany & Co. in the late 1870s after he moved to America, and was suggested to have helped design the celebrated Olympian pattern. Shortly afterwards he moved to Gorhams. Fountainebleau was his first design for them, depicting characters from the court of Francis I.
Lot 255
A collection of silver vesta cases,comprising:a mounted George III ‘cartwheel’ Penny, and a plain circular example,Birmingham 1910,both 4.25cm diameter,two with applied agate,the first with a thistle,by J Cook & Son, Birmingham 1912,3.5cm long,the second with a heart,by John Rose, Birmingham 1905,4.75cm long,one applied with a West Highland Terrier,Chester 1896, 4.75cm long,a modern example modelled as a hound,5.25cm long, andtwo agate and silverplate examples (8)
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