Jessie Macgregor (British, 1847-1919) Lych gate and garden of the Wesley School in summer, August 1906 both signed lower left "Jessie Macgregor" watercolour, 17 x 23cm and 22 x 28cm (2) Jessie Macgregor (1847–1919) was a British painter. She first studied art at the drawing academy in Liverpool run by her grandfather Andrew Hunt. Her parents went to live in London and she began to study painting there, becoming a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools where her teachers were Lord Leighton, Philip Hermogenes Calderon, RA (1833-1898), and John Pettie, RA (1839-1893) Jessie Macgregor won a Gold Medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in 1887 - the second woman to do so after Louisa Starr's Gold Medal in 1867 and the last woman to do so until 1909. Jessie Macgregor exhibited paintings at the Chicago World Exposition in 1893, and her painting "In the Reign of Terror" was included in the 1905 book "Women Painters of the World". Colours are good.
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, RA (British, 1833-1898) Female Nude standing holding a lily - A Study for Love and Beauty - Romance of the Rose pencil 25 x 16cm (10 x 6in). Provenance: Acquired by the vendor’s late father at Sotheby’s, London, sale 29 October 1964, lot 296 (Edward Burne-Jones, A Female Nude Standing Holding a Lily, pencil, 9¾in x 6½in). Literature: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, paper, 42.5 x 29.2cm leaf, pub. 1896. Kelmscott Press, on display at the William Morris Gallery, London. “Le Roman de la Rose” influenced many other writers over the centuries. In the 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer translated sections of it into Middle English as “The Romaunt of the Rose”. Edward Burne-Jones’ illustrations for William Morris’ beautiful 19th century edition of the works of Chaucer show several episodes from this version. One of Burne-Jones’ sketches for the book is in the Fitzwilliam [1050.37], depicting ‘Fair Idleness and the lusty folk in the garden’.
James Pollard (British, 1792-1867) The story of a bay thoroughbred and his adventures - Being examined by prospective buyers outside a coaching inn; Escaping by jumping a gate out of a corral; Galloping through a rose garden and greenhouse, pursued by gardeners; Befriending a local donkey three signed and dated indistinctly “J Pollard 1850” oil on paper laid onto canvas (4) 20 x 27cm (8 x 11in). Provenance: Private collection, UK
A Coalbrookdale ‘Serpent and Grapes’ pattern cast iron garden seat, grey and white painted, with timber slatts, the ends cast with dog head armrests above entwining serpent supports 77 x 158 x 66cm (30 x 62 x 26in). Literature: A Coalbrookdale ‘Serpent and Grapes’ pattern cast (design no 17597) is number 9 in the Coalbrookdale 1875 Castings catalogue, section 111, page 249. The Coalbrookdale Company was founded in 1709 in the village of Coalbrook. By the 1750s it was the largest iron casting company in the country. From building the world’s first cast iron bridge to pots, pans, drainpipes and of course garden furniture, by the Great Exhibition of 1851 it was employing over 3,000 men and producing 2,000 tons of cast iron a week. In 1849, the company was awarded a gold medal at the Society of Arts for its casting designs. Most of the garden furniture was made between 1850 and 1900. The company produced an extensive range of garden seats and tables which remain very popular today. The 1875 catalogue noted, “The increasing use of iron garden seats has led to the introduction of a number of new designs. For this country wooden seats are generally preferred to iron, and are more suitable, and in most of the newer patterns the staves are fitted in an iron frame, thus forming the entire seat….” The Serpent and Grape design was the second oldest design registered in the Public Record Office in 1844. The 1875 catalogue offered the seat from 3ft to 10ft long and in permutations of painted or bronze finish, oak or iron seat and back.
WORLD WAR II OFFICER'S PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM the inside front cover attributed to John Bally, R.A.F, M.E. Forces 1941 - 1945, featuring photographs taken at the Church of the Nativity, Mosque of Omar, Cyrenaica, Benghazi, Sinai Desert, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Garden of Gethsemane, etc, with annotated descriptions and dates; the front cover with a 'Certificate of Pilgrimage' related to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, dated 14th September 1944, all contained within a wooden bound album, the front cover with a pictorial depiction of 'The Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem', 28cm long; together with a Royal Air Force Service and Release Book for John Batty (2)
Freddie Mercury From The Magic Tour 1986, comes with folder of drawings. All four inflatables of the band were released at Wembley with one leaving the stadium and later being found in a garden after an appeal on Radio 1. Comes with a fan. NOTE: Paint has faded and cracked, split seam which will require high frequency welding to repair and part of lower leg is missing
Brian May From The Magic Tour 1986, All four inflatables of the band were released at Wembley with one leaving the stadium and later being found in a garden after an appeal on Radio 1. Comes with a fan. NOTE: Seam known to be split will require high frequency welding to repair, remainder of condition unknown
Two mahogany cased Sikes' Hydrometers Dring and Fage, London, and T. O. Blake, London, late 19th century Each with calibrated brass float, bone Fahrenheit scale mercury thermometer and nine circular brass weights, the first signed Dring & Fage, LONDON to the side of the float scale, with additional block-shaped weight and in blue velvet lined mahogany box with caddy moulded lid inset with an bone plaque inscribed SIKE'S HYDROMETER, DRING & FAGE, 145 STRAND, LONDON, MAKERS TO THE REVENUE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM & COLONIES , 22.8cm (9ins wide); the second complete with cylindrical glass vessel and magnifying glass in red velvet-lined mahogany box inset with plaque engraved SIKE'S HYDROMETER, T. O. BLAKE, 57 HATTON-GARDEN, LONDON. E.C. to lid, 13.5cm (5.25ins) wide; together with respective copies of SIKE'S TABLES, the first leather bound, published by Dring and Fage, London 1866; the second published by H.M. Stationary Office, London 1816, (4). The firm of Dring and Fage are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from several addresses in London from 1798 until well in to the 20th century. T. O. Blake appears not to be recorded in the usual sources.
A fine Queen Anne green japanned eight-day longcase clock with moonphase Thomas Martin, London, early 18th century The five finned pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with subsidiary seconds dial and shaped herringbone border engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers, Arabic five minutes to outer track and signed Tho. Martin, London to lower edge, with pierced steel hands and Indian mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles within herringbone engraved border, the arch centred with a penny moon aperture and pierced steel hand within applied ring calibrated for the lunar month flanked by dolphin cast mounts beneath a conforming herringbone border, the case with large giltwood urn finials to the tall ogee superstructure over wide break-arch pediment fronted by a deep foliate scroll pierced blind fret frieze above columns flanking the gilt foliate spray decorated hood door, the sides with rectangular glazed apertures and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards to the rear, the trunk with floral trail decorated throat moulding over rectangular door decorated in raised polychrome and gilt with pagodas and figures within an oriental landscape centred with a brass-edged lenticle and bordered by further gilt foliate scroll borders, the sides painted with full-sized flowering branches and Ho-Ho birds, the conforming plinth base adorned with cranes before a garden pavilion to front and with moulded double skirt applied with squab feet, (unrestored, wear and losses to decoration), 255cm (100.5ins) high excluding top finial; 273cm (107ins) high overall. Thomas Martin (II) is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in around 1678 and apprenticed in May 1692 to Jeremiah Martin until 1699 (but not freed). He worked from Fleet Street, London and was the victim of the theft of a number of watches in September 1723; the culprits were subsequently apprehended and sentenced to transportation.
A very rare patinated brass noon sundial Unsigned, probably late 18th century The angled gnomen set at 51 degrees applied to a rectangular plate with rounded ends engraved with a sector for the hours XI - I with arrow half hour markers and principal quarter divisions further sub-divided, 15cm (6ins) long by 6.3cm (2.5in) approx. wide. The current lot appears to be a very rare form of garden sundial purpose made only to indicate one hour each side of noon. The most likely reason why such a dial was made was to allow the time of a mechanical clock to be set against the Sun's Zenith at noon with the assistance of an equation of time table. This would suggest that the current lot may have been specifically supplied as an accessory alongside a clock (and equation table) to a client who had no other means of telling the time.
A fine English patinated brass garden sundial with equation of time Unsigned, early 19th century The 11.75 inch circular plate fitted with angled gnomen set at 51 degrees and centred with an eight-point compass rose with stylised leafy scroll decoration to segments annotated N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, SE, ESE S, SSW, SW, WSW, W, WNW and NW within the inner track, the middle band with equation of time table incorporating annual calendar within chapter ring with engraved inner border and Roman numerals IIII-XII-VIII with tied lozenge half hour markers and inscribed with the motto SIC FLUIT VITA between the IIII and VIII numerals, the outer track divided into thirtieths denoting two minute intervals, 28.8cm (11.75ins) diameter. The general design and features such as the annotations to the equation of time scale and tied asterisk half hour markers seen on the current lot can be directly compared to an example by Whitehurst and Son of Derby (dated 1812) currently in the Derby Museums collection. The provision of an equation of time table allows mean time to be calculated from solar time provided by the sundial - this allows the time on a clock or watch to be set from the dial with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
A French engraved gilt brass miniature carriage timepiece with painted enamel panels Indistinctly signed, late 19th century The eight-day movement with replaced platform lever escapement and rectangular enamel dial panel incorporating circular white Gothic Roman numeral chapter disc and blued steel hands within polychrome painted field decorated with figures within a picturesque garden landscape to lower margin, the miniature corniche type foliate scroll engraved case inset with further riverscape painted panels to sides and rear, the top with hinged handle over bevel glazed escapement viewing aperture, 7.6cm (3ins) high to hilt of handle.
CHINESE MING STYLE CENSER of small circular bombe form, in red and blue and on tripod feet, the exteriors decorated with three boys dancing in a garden with a bridge and fence, the boys' tunics in underglaze copper red and the rest in underglaze blue, all freely drawn, the outer lip with three-leaf motif within single and double rings and the inner lip a loose key-fret pattern within single rings, the interior largely unglazed, as is part of the base, which is encircled with a double blue ring, the heap and piled effect is clear in several places
A good and large New Hall punchbowl c.1790, decorated in the Mandarin palette with pattern 425 also known as the Boy at the Window pattern, the exterior with the protagonist gazing out at three other Chinese figures in a garden, repeated three times with alternating pink scale panels, the interior with a boy with a butterfly and two Chinese ladies within an elaborate border of flowers, cell diaper, birds, butterflies and scroll motifs, painted pattern number to the base, 25cm dia.
A small and rare creamware teapot and cover c.1770-80, perhaps Derby, the globular form printed in black with a pair of chinoiserie figures in a garden setting, the reverse with a multi-storeyed pagoda on an island, some restoration, 17.5cm. (2) The subject is copied from a Pillement engraving published in the Ladies Amusement.
A pair of 19th Century cast iron half-fluted campana form garden urns, each with beaded rim above floral scrolls and mask pattern handles, raised on fluted socle bases, 28 1/4 x 23in. (72 x 58cms) wide. PROVENANCE The Sikes Family, Chauntry House, Newark. Then by marriage in 1862 to the Wallis family and thence by descent.
A pair of 19th Century cast lead garden urns, each decorated with a frieze of classical figures above wreath and floral decorated base, standing on composition plinth, 28 x 21in. (71 x 53cms) diameter. PROVENANCE The Sikes Family, Chauntry House, Newark. Then by marriage in 1862 to the Wallis family and thence by descent.
A Gem type Garden air gun, with 19 3/4in. 9mm. octagonal barrel with T-bar latch, fitted groove sight thumb piece, under lever action, the barrel stamped with crowned ELG mark, complete with stained wood stock and steel butt cap, 36 1/2in. long overall. NB The successful buyer of this lot will need an R.F.D. certificate or the appropriate Section 1 Firearm Permit with correct variations.
A Gem "The Jubilee" .22cal. Combination Garden gun, two stage round and octagonal 17 3/4in. barrel, bearing proof marks, the top lever latch with groove sight thumb piece and under lever action, replacement stock with steel butt cap, the side with a cylinder stamped with initials C & A above the sliding button, serial no. 517233, with a breech fitted with later hinged cartridge extractor, 34 1/2in. long overall. NB The successful buyer of this lot will need an R.F.D. certificate or the appropriate Section 1 Firearm Permit with correct variations.
A Gem type, Garden air gun, with two stage round and octagonal 17 3/4in. 9mm. barrel, the top latch with groove sight thumb piece, under lever action, no. 18946, stained wood stock and steel butt cap (spring now detached), 34in. long overall. NB The successful buyer of this lot will need an R.F.D. certificate or the appropriate Section 1 Firearm Permit with correct variations.
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