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Forty-seven assorted intaglios and cameos etc, including a carved hardstone intaglio carved with heads in the classical manner, a carved hardstone intaglio depicting Hope, two bees and two carved scarabs, together with a collection of miniature paintings, probably Indian and painted on ivory, including five landscapes and groups, four butterflies, the interior of a palatial building and ten portraits
Henri Josep Francois, Baron de Triqueti (1804-74), a Dieppe ivory and dark patinated bronze, Ariadne/Cleopatra, an asp around her arm, seated in an Egyptian Revival chair, with eagles to angles, paw feet, rouge marble platform, ebonised base, signed to her head band, H De Triqueti, 1859The original statue is situated in the Courtyard of Statues (Cortile delle Statue), Vatican and was acquired by Pope Julius II (1503-1513) in 1512. It was believed to be of Cleopatra, who killed herself with the bite of an asp, however Ennio Quirino Visconti recognised the statue as being of Ariadne, in the 1700's.Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos of Crete who, after having helped Theseus overcome the Minotaur and escape the Labyrinth, was abandoned by the ungrateful man as she lay sleeping on the island of Naxos; she was re-awakened by the arrival of Dionysus, who married her. The Vatican sculpture is a copy of a 2nd century B.C. original from the school of Pergamon
A Royal Worcester pedestal ovoid vase, made for Clarke's Cricklite Lamps, printed and painted with stylised flowers and foliage, on a blush ivory ground, with masks to shoulders, pierced neck, fluted base, canted square base, 59.5cm high, printed marked, date code for 1898, shape no.1410Provenance;- By direct descent from Samuel Clarke inventor of Cricklite
A 19th century sailor's folk art midshipman's dirk, 12cm blade by Edward Barnes & Sons, Sheffield, the ivory 'scrimshaw' hilt inscribed A Gift from W.E.T. HMS Iris to his Brother R.E.T., Auckland 1858, leather scabbard, 24cm long overall Launched in 1840, H.M.S Iris was a 26-gun sixth rate frigate initially engaged with the West Africa Squadron in supressing the slave trade, before moving to the East Indies Station and operating in Borneo. As the first flagship of the Australia Station between 1859 and 1861, she participated in the First Taranaki War.
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