A pair of Chinese blue and white moon flasks, 19th century, each painted with birds amid flowers and rock work, the neck applied with a pair of foliate handles, one flask with apocryphal Kangxi four character mark to base, 30cm high, small glaze losses and firing cracks***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
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A flask, 800/1000 silver, enamelled and polychrome decoration "Jason swearing allegiance to Medea" and "Medea's Escape after poisoning Glauce", cover surmounted by Keshi pearl with two enamel sculptures "Kneeling figure" and "Dragon", Austrian, 19th C. (late), minor enamel defects, other minor defects, Ludwig Politzer maker's mark, without Portuguese marks pursuant to Decreto-Lei 120/2017, of 15 September - art. 2, no. 2, subparagraph c), Dim. - 10 cm; Peso - 138,7 g.
A WW1 brown leather case, containing a Royal Army Chaplain's Department portable field communion set, by Blunt and Wray. The fitted case, dated 1916 with broad arrow stamped accessories, to include a chalice, wafer dish, wine flask, Pyx, embroidered linens, service bible, trench art Crucifixes and a further smaller communion set. Attributed to the Reverend Andrew James Campbell, attached to the HLI. The case contains a silver mounted horn beaker decorated with a cross bearing his initials, and a photograph. Case size 40cm x 27cm x 12cm.
Percussion cap pistol with 190mm long barrel. Bore approx. 16mm. English Proof marks. Action will move but will not hold at either full or half cock. Lock maker marked "Turvey" and barrel marked "London". Complete with ramrod. Brass fittings with Grotesques mask to butt. Overall length 315mm. Together with a 3 lb leather shot flask. NOTE: Section 58 (2) No licence required in the UK. (2)
A BAG OF ASSORTED ITEMS, to include a hip flask, a wooden handled cigar cutter, a silver cigar cutter with an engine turned design, hallmarked Birmingham, fitted with a suspension ring, a letter opener fitted with a mother of pearl handle and additional pull out fruit knife, an open face pocket watch on an articulated snake albert chain, a 'Cartier' wristwatch, signed to the case back 'Cartier 2301' fitted with a bracelet and folding clasp, a white metal fringe necklace fitted with a spring clasp stamped 925, a plaited necklace fitted with a spring clasp, stamped 'Korea', two commemorative coins, and a silver open face pocket watch, manual wind, round white dial, Roman numerals, within an engine turned case, inside case back hallmarked 'Dennison' Birmingham etc
TWO BOXES AND LOOSE BASKETS, METALWARES, CERAMICS, GLASS AND PICTURES, to include a brass bell in the form of a buoy, a copper kettle, a wicker doll's cradle length 43cm x height 24cm x width 20cm, a wicker hamper, basket and bread basket, six horse brasses, a pewter flask, a marigold carnival glass bowl diameter 12cm, a butter dish in plated stand, three soda syphons, four framed pictures, etc (2 boxes + loose) (sd)
Ca. 100-300 AD.An olive-green free-blown glass flask featuring a spherical body on a concave base with a pontil scar, a short cylindrical neck, and a round folded rim. Some weathering and incrustation occur throughout the bottle and the outside shows a beautiful iridescence.Size: L:85mm / W:60mm ; 50gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A beautiful glass flask with a globular body, a flaring cylindrical neck, and a wide mouth with a slightly everted rim. Good condition. While glass-making had been practiced for centuries, the Romans invented the glassblowing technique in the 1st century BC, which revolutionized this craft. Roman glassmakers reached incredible artistic heights with both free-blown vessels and mould-blown forms and decorations. Flasks such as this one were used in Roman times to serve liquids and archaeological excavations show that they had an Empire-wide distribution (see Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books). To find out more about glass objects in the Roman world, Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.Size: L:50mm / W:40mm ; 21gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A Roman glass flask featuring a bulbous body, gently tapering to a base, a long, tubular neck, and a wide mouth with everted rim. Beautiful flecks of iridescence can be seen all over the body. Glass was a major manufacturing industry in the Roman Empire, especially after the invention of glassblowing in the middle of the first century BC, when glass became used for a variety of purposes including vessels, jewellery and construction materials such as glass or tiles. Roman glassmaking reached the farthest corners of the Empire and flourished until about 400 AD, when the Roman Empire started to disintegrate, finally falling in the late 5th century AD. Size: L:60mm / W:30mm ; 14gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A beautiful glass flask with a globular body, a flaring cylindrical neck, and a wide mouth with a slightly everted rim. Good condition. While glass-making had been practiced for centuries, the Romans invented the glassblowing technique in the 1st century BC, which revolutionized this craft. Roman glassmakers reached incredible artistic heights with both free-blown vessels and mould-blown forms and decorations. Flasks such as this one were used in Roman times to serve liquids and archaeological excavations show that they had an Empire-wide distribution (see Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books). To find out more about glass objects in the Roman world, Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.Size: L:45mm / W:40mm ; 7.7gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A free-blown glass flask of a dome-shaped body, concave base with a pontil mark, tubular neck with everted rim. Some weathering and incrustation occur throughout the bottle; the outside shows a beautiful iridescence.Size: L:50mm / W:45mm ; 12gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-200 AD.A lovely flask blown in pale blue glass with a globular body, concave base, and a wide, funnel-shaped neck with a rounded rim. To find out more about glass objects in the Roman world, see Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.Size: L:40mm / W:40mm ; 18gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-400 AD.A nice spherical blue glass flask with very attractive iridescence, a folded rim, long tubular neck and a globular body with a concave base. Intact. Glass was a major manufacturing industry in the Roman Empire, especially after the invention of glassblowing in the middle of the first century BC, when glass became used for a variety of purposes including vessels, jewellery and construction materials such as glass or tiles. Roman glassmaking reached the farthest corners of the Empire and flourished until about 400 AD, when the Roman Empire started to disintegrate, finally falling in the late 5th century AD.Size: L:150mm / W:100mm ; 135gProvenance: Ex collection PR, southern Germany, approx. 1970 - mid 1990s.
Ca. 1-400 AD.A free-blown clear glass flask featuring a spherical body on a concave base with a pontil scar, a funnel-shaped neck with a thin rim. Some weathering and incrustation occur throughout the bottle; the outside shows a beautiful iridescence.Size: L:125mm / W:90mm ; 75gProvenance: From a private collection in southern Germany WF, Munich. In Germany before 2000.
Ca. 1-400 AD.A clear glass flask featuring a spherical body with a concave base, and a constricted funnel-shaped neck with a folded rim. Some weathering and incrustation occur throughout the bottle; the outside shows a beautiful iridescence.Size: L:135mm / W:85mm ; 50gProvenance: From a private collection in southern Germany WF, Munich. In Germany before 2000.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A free-blown glass flask of a conical-shaped body, concave base with a pontil mark, tubular neck with everted rim. Some weathering and incrustation occur throughout the bottle; the outside shows a beautiful iridescence.Size: L:80mm / W:60mm ; 37gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-200 AD.A free-blown glass flask of a conical-shaped body, concave base with a pontil mark, tubular neck with everted rim. By the 1st century AD, the technique of glass-blowing had revolutionised the art of glass-making, allowing for the production of small medicine, incense, and perfume containers in new forms. These glass vessels are found frequently at Hellenistic and Roman sites, and the liquids which filled them (perfumes, oils, medicines) would have been gathered from all corners of the expansive Roman Empire. To find out more about glass objects in the Roman world, see Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.Size: L:90mm / W:50mm ; 39gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A glass flask with a tubular neck and bulbous-shaped lower body with a broad shoulder and a concave base. Some weathering and incrustation occur throughout the bottle; the outside shows a beautiful iridescence.Size: L:65mm / W:60mm ; 26gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A free-blown glass flask featuring a piriform lower body on a concave base with a pontil scar, a flaring neck, and an everted rim. While glass-making had been practiced for centuries, the Romans invented the glassblowing technique in the 1st century BC, which revolutionized this craft. Roman glassmakers reached incredible artistic heights with both free-blown vessels and mould-blown forms and decorations. By the Late Roman period (4th-5th century AD), good quality glass tableware such as this one was relatively uncommon and could have been used as a showpiece and perhaps even as an indicator of social standing or wealth within the Late Roman household, especially when displayed in the public area of the house.Size: L:75mm / W:50mm ; 20gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 400-500AD or later.A bronze statuette of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara standing against a backplate with a band of five-petaled flowers, surrounded by a border of radiating spikes with Triratna finials. The Bodhisattva wears a simple monastic robe covering his lower body, leaving him bare-chested. His right hand is raised in Abhaya mudra, and his left hand holds a flask. He is heavily adorned with jewellery and his head with neatly pulled hair is topped with a tall crown. Avalokiteshvara - 'the god who's looking down at the world' is one of the most important Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, personifying compassion. This deity vowed to liberate all creatures from pain and suffering. This item comes with a custom-made stand.Size: L:160mm / W:120mm ; 585gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 200-300 AD.A beautiful yellowish flask comprising a rounded globular body, concave base with a pontil scar, a short straight neck, and a wide flaring, outward flexed rim. Glass was a major manufacturing industry in the Roman Empire, especially after the invention of glassblowing in the middle of the first century BC, when glass became used for a variety of purposes including vessels, jewellery and construction materials such as glass or tiles. Roman glassmaking reached the farthest corners of the Empire and flourished until about 400 AD, when the Roman Empire started to disintegrate, finally falling in the late 5th century AD.Size: L:65mm / W:40mm ; 7.5gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 100-300 AD.A finely blown ampulla flask of aqua-coloured glass. The vessel features a flat, spherical body, a long cylindrical neck slightly constricted at the base. While glass-making had been practiced for centuries, the Romans invented the glassblowing technique in the 1st century BC, which revolutionised this craft. Roman glassmakers reached incredible artistic heights with both free-blown vessels and mould-blown forms and decorations.Size: L:55mm / W:35mm ; 10gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
A Chinese famille rose jar moulded in relief and painted with figures in shaped panels against a turquoise ground, four character mark to base; together with a Qajar style pottery vase, painted with birds, snakes, carnations and other flowers against a white ground; and a Deruta style Italian maiolica twin-handled vase, 20th century, of flask form, painted with portrait roundels and with goat's mask handles. 21cm, 29.5cm and 31.5cm (3)
19th century percussion box lock pocket pistol, having a 4cm turn-off steel barrel, the brass frame engraved Forest with Oxford and trophy of arms to the opposing side, having a sliding safety and walnut slab sided grips, housed in fitted mahogany case with a copper flask and F. Joyce & Co. tin, w.19, d.10, h.3cm. Pistol is complete, but brass frame is coming away from the walnut stock, the hammer does not hold on either full or half cock.Tin in case is empty.
Calderwood of Dublin, a pair of 19th century percussion pocket pistols, each having an 8cm sighted octagonal barrel engraved to the top flat Dublin DU 3579 and DU 3580 respectively with captive ramrods below, each foliate engraved frame signed to the inner side and with further engraved dolphin hammers and trigger guard, the finely chequered walnut bag shaped grips with vacant white metal cartouches, housed in an oak case with various accessories to include powder flask and bullet mould etc., w.31, d.20, h.6cm.Pistol 3579 only holds at half cock, otherwise action of both is good.Appear all original with no apparent damage.With remains of trade to case, but we think possibly associated and not original case.Please note that the ivory finials to the case compartments have been removed prior to sale.
A Victorian oak pistol case, having a green felt lined interior containing various eccoutrements to include a copper powder flask, spanner and oil bottle etc., w.32, d.21, h.6cm. Case is comprised of oak and other elements.Trade label has been removed from the lid.Interior is worn.Contents are associated.
A mid 19th Century Staffordshire pottery flatback figure group, Miss Nightingale, circa 1855, modelled as Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910) standing wearing a vale and holding a flask, an officer seated to her right with left arm in a sling, titled plinth, 26cm high. Note: an identical example resides in The National Trust Collection at Attingham Park, Shropshire. Provenance: The Harry Ryans Collection
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