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Lot 233
A Josiah Loring (1775 - 1840) Terrestrial Globe, Loring`s Terrestrial Globe, containing all the late discoveries and geographical improvements, as well as the tracks of the most celebrated circumnavigators. Compiled from Smith`s New England Globe, with additions and improvements by Annin and Smith. Revised by Russell Park, 1846. Manufactured by Gilman Joslin Boston, Boston, 1846. Globe covered with 12 copper-engraved paper gores with original full and outline hand coloring. Diameter of the globe: 12 inches. Overall diameter: 18 inches. Overall height: 19 inches. Original four-legged map stand with mahogany horizon ring (with printed astronomical and zodiac data), maple stretchers, brass meridian, and brass hour pointer at top. Diameter: 19 in. Approximately. Note Condition: Areas of surface scratches and losses to Antarctica. See photo.
Lot 209
PENDULE en bronze ciselé et doré, le mouvement, inscrit dans une borne à décor de feuilles d’acanthe et rinceaux feuillagés et flanqué d’un globe céleste posé sur des nuées, est surmonté d’une femme tenant une corne d’abondance. Elle est assise sur la borne à côté d’une aiguière, ses pieds reposant sur un tabouret. Cadran annulaire émaillé blanc, base rectangulaire à décor d’amours portant une corbeille de fruits. Vers 1820 (petits manques). Haut. 42 - Larg. 29 cm
Lot 1068
A collection of walking sticks and canes, 19th and 20th century, of various origins, the first: of hand carved wood with a wine barrel-form handle unscrewing to reveal a corkscrew, with brass mount inscribed ``John Walker - 17 Old Court Mansion - Kensington, W8 - 9th May 1929`` (35.25``); the second: marked ``Brigg London``, the carved dog`s head handle with a hinged mouth (36.25``); the third: with telescope handle (36``); the fourth: of inlaid wood with handle carved as a man`s head with a tall pointed cap (35.5``); the fifth: the handle a globe with world map (35``); the sixth: with partial label printed ``Kenya``, the carved handle depicting an elephant and two giraffe`s heads (37``); the seventh: with carved lion`s head handle (31``); the eighth: of carved hickory with twist shaft (36.5``); the ninth: of pigskin-covered wood with brass mounts (35``); the tenth: of spiral-carved hardwood with brass mounts (42``); the eleventh: with leather tag stamped ``Whistle Creek - The Walking Stick Company, of carved hickory (37.25``); the twelfth: of black-painted metal with woven straw handle (34``), 12 pcs
Lot 108
A framed Continental tile map of the world, 19th century, consisting of twelve tiles, depicting the globe in two circles, one showing the Arctic and the Americas, the other showing Africa, Asia and Europe, overall with Latin inscription, decorated in blue and yellow and with figural Romayne panels, cartouches supported by grapes and fruits, cherubs flying against cloudy skies and ships sailing on the seas, in moulded ebonised wooden frame, each tile 25 cm square, width of map 98 cm, width framed 110 cm. Provenance: Retailed by Mallets.
Lot 242
Pendule dite squelette en bronze ciselé et doré, à mouvement apparent, elle présente un cercle émaillé à chiffres romains pour les heures et les minutes, elle est ornée de guirlandes de pampres de vigne et de vases, et présente un balancier en forme de soleil. Les montants fuselés et cannelés à la partie inférieure reposent sur une base ronde ajourée d`une étoile et ciselée d`entrelacs à perles et des petits patins. Socle à degrés en marbre Turquin mouluré de forme carrée. Style Directoire. H. 38 cm, diam. Inférieur : 16,5 cm (globe recollé)
Lot 39
A Victorian silver mounted cut glass claret jug by Horace Woodward, Birmingham 1874, with a grape and leaf finial, a stock handle, the shoulder pierced embossed with grapes and leaves, flanking a shield, engraved with a camel crest, on a globe and shaft cut glass body, 29cm (11 1/2in) high. The crest of AMPHLET of Hadsor, Worcs., DERBY, GOLDFINCH of Kent, and HOVEL.
Lot 10
Koloman MOSER (1868-1918) & LOETZ Globe sphérique en verre ambré à décor de filets rouges ondés et d`ornements ovoïdes en verre bleu violet iridescent sur base dorée. Haut. 14 cm - Diam. 14 cm Globe sphérique en verre jaune ambré à décor d`une résille spirale formée de filets de verre blanc entrecroisés de cordonnets de verre blanc. Haut. 18,5 cm - Diam. 18 cm
Lot 54
John Hogan (1800-1858) Bust of Francis Sylvester Mahony ("Fr. Prout") Marble, 50cm high (19.75") Made in Rome 1846 and signed Hogan Provenance, by descent in the family of the subject Literature "John Hogan, Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome" (Irish Academic Press, 1982) where it is listed as No. 58 in the Catalogue Raisonné. Mahony wrote a description of Hogan's studio in Rome in the spring of 1847 which mentions his own portrait bust. "The locale which forms this sculptor's workshop (once tenanted by Canova) presents just now what may be termed a sort of Hibernian Valhalla…the bust of Father Mathew looks forth redolent of Christian philanthropy: on the same shelf is seen the mirthful brow of Father Prout…the late venerable Mr Beamish of Cork as well as his meritorious partner William Crawford, both models to any mercantile community, have their representations here, with several Murphies from that city." The bust was made before May 1847 so it is unlikely to have been this bust for which Mahony sat for Hogan in November 1847 as Turpin writes. The date is therefore likely to be 1846 rather than 1848. Turpin notes the low relief carvings on either side of the base. On one side an open chest with rolls of parchment and an antique lamp - an illusion to the 'discovery' of Fr Prout's literary remains in a chest - and on the other a book, a wine bottle, a chalice and a classical flask - apt symbols of Mahony's life. Francis Sylvester Mahony (Fr Proust) (1804-1866) "A very singular person, of whom the world tells a thousand and one tales, you know, but of whom I shall speak as I find him, because the utmost kindness and warmheartedness have characterised his whole bearing towards us….a most accomplished scholar and vibrating all over with learned associations and vivid combinations of fancy and experience - having seen all the ends of the earth and the men thereof, and possessing the art of talk and quotation to an amusing degree." Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 10th October 1848 Francis Mahony was born in Cork on 31st December 1804, the son of Martin Mahony a woollen merchant. He went to Clongowes in 1815, to the Jesuit college of St. Acheul at Amiens in 1819 and then to Paris as a Jesuit novice. From 1823-1825 he studied in Rome. He was "brilliant but intractable and ill-disciplined". Eventually he was told that he was not suitable for ordination as a Jesuit. Returning to Ireland still intent on ordination he was made Prefect of Studies at Clongowes and then Master of Rhetoric. Then disaster struck. He took a party of boys on an outing to have dinner in Maynooth. The boys got drunk and returned to Clongowes on turf-cutters' carts after midnight. Mahony resigned his post. He went abroad, continued his studies and was eventually ordained, but not as a Jesuit, in 1832. He served bravely in Cork during the Cholera epidemic of 1832 but again fell out with his superiors. After two years he went to London, gave up life as a priest and began the career in journalism for which he is remembered. His relations with the Church have continued to be uncertain. A friend wrote after his death that "he might have had a cardinal's hat but for that which is imputed to him as his one great fault - conviviality" Mahony loved the sociable, literary world of London. He wrote for Fraser's Magazine under the pseudonym of "Father Prout", allegedly the parish priest of Watergrasshill, near Cork. The editor William Maginn, Thomas Crofton Croker, the antiquarian and collector of Irish fairy stories and Daniel Maclise, the artist, were other Cork-born contributors. Mahony's writing shows him to have been a classical scholar, linguist and wit. He described himself as "an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt." As a joke he alleged that Thomas Moore, then at the height of his success, was just a plagiarist, merely translating from French, Greek or Latin poems or other "originals" which Francis supplied. The Bells of Shandon - for long included in the Oxford Book of English Verse - was written as the supposed original of Moore's Evening Bells - a St Petersburg Air. Many of these articles were collected as The Reliques of Father Prout. From 1837 he wrote for Charles Dickens's Bentley's Miscellany from Italy. His contributions were collected and published in 1847 as Facts and Figures from Italy by Don Jeremy Savonarola - another pseudonym - with a brief foreword by Dickens. Mahony settled finally in Paris where for eight years he was the correspondent of The Globe and where he died in 1866. He is buried at Shandon in Cork. One of his obituarists wrote "Indeed Francis Mahony… was no common man, either in genius or expression. Many elements met in him, as in a mayonnaise, to make a piquant mixture. He was a Jesuit and a humourist; a priest and a Bohemian; a scholar and a journalist; a wag and a song-writer; a Cork man familiar to everyone in Rome, a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic well known in the convivial clubs of London."
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