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Click here to subscribeEARLY 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY TABLE TOP COLLECTOR'S CABINET fitted with a number of trays, doubly pierced, with all felt, having turned ivory knobs, and brass swan neck carry handles. 37cm wide x 31cm high. Also contains a small collection of mainly British coins and tokens in silver and copper, particularly including group of Georgian and Victorian silver crowns and double florins.
A JAPANESE CARVED IVORY GROUP depicting a bearded immortal figure with gnarled stick, holding a gourd, with a young boy with basket at his feet. Carved wooden base. Figure 16cm high. CONDITION REPORT: Evident crack to small boy figure, larger figure is firmly fixed to base so no signature visible, minor edge frits and chips to robes in places and slight discolouring, the walking stick is in two sections.
AN UNUSUAL FRATERNAL SOCIETY IVORY GAVEL in the form of a pair of clasped hands, with turned ivory handle. Engraved: 'United Brothers, Instituted 15th August, 1793', with an opposing Armorial device depicting two hearts: 'Amor et Unitas'. 13.5cm long. CONDITION REPORT: Some discolouration but basically appearing good.
Early 18th century rectangular ivory snuff box, the cover carved with a portrait of John Churchill (1650-1722) above a trophy of arms-the First Duke of Marlborough 8.5cm X 5.5cmProvenance: purchased from Sandra Lipton, London, March 1996 Part of the Michael Shrubb (1934-2013) collection of snuff boxes. Michael Shrubb was a renowned ornithologist and author who investigated the effects of farming on British birds. He was born at Sidlesham near Chichester and in 1968 he moved to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales and later to Aberdovey on the Welsh coast. For many years he edited Welsh bird report and Welsh birds and in 2012 he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Welsh ornithological Society. He was a co-founder of the Sussex Ornithological Society and served as a council member of the RSPB and of The British Trust for Ornithology.
An unusual Burrwood flask of compressed circular, form the screw in top with ivory insert.. 11cm DiameterPart of the Michael Shrubb (1934-2013) collection of snuff boxes. Michael Shrubb was a renowned ornithologist and author who investigated the effects of farming on British birds. He was born at Sidlesham near Chichester and in 1968 he moved to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales and later to Aberdovey on the Welsh coast. For many years he edited Welsh bird report and Welsh birds and in 2012 he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Welsh ornithological Society. He was a co-founder of the Sussex Ornithological Society and served as a council member of the RSPB and of The British Trust for Ornithology.
An 18th century ivory octagonal snuff box with untested gilt metal mounts, the cover with a fine engraving of a ritual execution within a pin head border, over a vignette of an European couple and an outer border with exotic birds and dogs. The base with a coloured engraving of a native, bird and palm tree. 8.5cm X 5.5cmProvenance purchased from Donohoe, London Nov 1990Part of the Michael Shrubb (1934-2013) collection of snuff boxes. Michael Shrubb was a renowned ornithologist and author who investigated the effects of farming on British birds. He was born at Sidlesham near Chichester and in 1968 he moved to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales and later to Aberdovey on the Welsh coast. For many years he edited Welsh bird report and Welsh birds and in 2012 he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Welsh ornithological Society. He was a co-founder of the Sussex Ornithological Society and served as a council member of the RSPB and of The British Trust for Ornithology.
George V silver canteen of cutlery for twelve, comprising dinner forks, teaspoons, dessert spoons, grapefruit spoons, dessert forks, soup spoons, seven tablespoons, two sauce ladles and a soup ladle, (solid silver) 135oz, 4198g, eleven dinner knives, fifteen dessert knives and two carving knives all with steel blades and ivory handles, by A. E. Poston & Co. Ltd., Sheffield, 1933,
FIVE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI 1868-1912 Variously carved as a sarumawashi with a monkey on his shoulder, a Chinese boy, a man holding a mokugyo, another with a basket of fish, another a woman smoking a pipe, together with an ivory snuff bottle carved as a man holding a peach, one netsuke with a signature, 6.8cm. (6)
TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI 1868-1912 The first carved as a man holding bells, the details picked out in coloured lacquer, signed Yoshi, the other as a drunk man with a gourd over his shoulder, holding a fan before him, signed Masaharu in seal script, 5.4cm. (2) Provenance: formerly in an English private collection.Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.410 for a netsuke of a fisherman bearing the same Masaharu seal.
A CHINESE HARDWOOD TRAVELLING VANITY CHEST LATE QING DYNASTY The hinged top lifting to reveal a rectangular mirror, with two front compartments opening outwards and an arrangement of various sized drawers within, the exterior with loose ring handles and decorated with soapstone, ivory and mother of pearl, depicting figures engaged in various pursuits within garden landscapes with maple trees and rockwork, 21cm x 25.7cm x 34.3cm.
A JAPANESE WOOD AND IVORY OKIMONO MEIJI 1868-1912 Depicting a fisherman on a rocky outcrop surrounded by waves, the figure carved in ivory wearing a large hat and holding a net, the hardwood base with small mother of pearl inlays simulating sea foam and ivory shells and leaves, the base signed Munefusa in a rectangular ivory plaque, 33.7cm.
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