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Click here to subscribe(x) Great Britain1841 Two Pence BluePlate 4HH, imprimatur in a deep shade, good to very large margins and showing slight ivory head on the reverse. Fine. Only 22 stamps were removed from the imprimatur sheet. Specialised £16,000. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainLine Engraved Proofs and Trials"Rainbow" Colour Trials1d. State 2; in lilac-pink on white paper dipped in prussiate of potash, large even margins all round; fine and showing the distinct ivory head on the reverse. Specialised DP20a, £4,500. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
A 19thC Charles Hastilow style ivory chess set, one side stained red the other left natural, the kings and queens with jewelled crowns carved with fleur de lys motifs, surmounted by turned finials. The bishops as split mitres, the knights as horses, heads, the pawns with ball finials, all with concentric disc turned supports and domed bases, the rooks as stepped castellated towers, king 10 cm.
Eames (Elizabeth S.). Catalogue of Medieval Lead-Glazed Earthenware Tiles in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum, 2 vols., pub. British Museum, 1980, numerous b&w illusts., orig. black cloth gilt in d.j.s, 4to, VG, together with Hunt (John), Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols., pub. Irish University Press, 1974, b&w plts., orig. green cloth gilt in d.j.s, folio, plus Greenhill (F. A.), Incised Effigial Slabs, A Study of Engraved Stone Memorials in Latin Christendom, c. 1100 to c. 1700, 2 vols., 1st ed., Faber & Faber, 1976, b&w plts., orig. blue cloth gilt in very sl. frayed d.j.s, 4to, and Pringle (Denys), The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, A Corpus, 4 vols., 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 1993-2009, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s., 4to, VG, plus others on medieval church art and architecture, including R. W. Paul, Incised and Sepulchral Slabs of North-west Somersetshire, 1882, Madeline Harrison Caviness, The Windows of Christchurch Cathedral, Canterbury, 1981, Paul Williamson, Medieval Ivory Carvings, pub. V. & A., 2014, Robert Charles Hope, The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England, 1893, etc. (3 shelves)
A pair of shibayama whist counters, circa 1880, each ivory encased body lacquered with flowers and butterflies, the lifting tablets with quail, birds, pheasants and crickets, slight damage, 9.3cm One counter with section of ivory missing from face, some staining. The other counter with shibayama bird missing.
Early 19th century British school, a rectangular head and shoulder miniature portrait of a young lady in lace dress and blue stole, in the manner of Mrs Ann Mee, unsigned, oil on ivory panel, W. 8cm x H. 10.5cm. Provenance: Christies, South Kensington, 15th December, 2000, sale no. 8968, lot no. 71.
A 19th century French rosewood work table of cartouche form, the top inset with cut brass and mother of pearl panel depicting two figures in a foliate border and enclosing a compartmentalised interior, having jeweled ivory mounted covered wells, raised on leaf carved quadripartite base, bears Barda transfer.
SET OF CHINESE IVORY GAMING COUNTERS AND SHAKERS comprising twelve `natural` ivory and twelve red ivory, the pieces carved with figures and architectural landscape settings, the shakers each 6.5cm high, the counters each 3cm diameter The shakers look to be made in two joined sections, overall the pieces are in good condition, the red pieces show a few small nicks
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