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Lot 104
A late 19th century Dresden twin handled chocolate cup, cover and saucer of quatrefoil form, decorated with alternating reserves of couple in a landscape and floral sprays on a pink, ivory and gilded ground, together with a Dresden cabinet cup with twin head serpent handle on three paw feet with conforming saucer.
Lot 14
A Victorian burr walnut mercury stick barometer. Negretti and Zambra, London, circa 1880. The arched bevel-glazed canted ivory vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and signed NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON to upper margin above trunk with vernier adjustment square to throat over applied bevel-glazed mercury Fahrenheit and Centigrade scale thermometer, the circular base with domed cistern cover, 92cm (36ins) high. The firm of Negretti and Zambra are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as being established in 1850 when a partnership between Enrico Negretti and Joseph Zambra was formed. The firm became one of the most prolific makers of scientific instruments and continued trading well into the 20th century.
Lot 85
A fine French Louis Philippe rosewood and marquetry mantel clock with calendar and alarm Taveau Freres, Paris, mid 19th century The eight-day countwheel bell striking movement with fine beat adjustment to pendulum crutch and take-off for the calendar work set beneath, the circular white enamel Roman numeral dial signed Taveau Freres to centre, with fine gilt ÔarrowÕ hands and blued steel alarm setting hand within a gilt brass engine-turned convex glazed bezel, the rectangular plinth-form case with figural surmount cast as cupid kneeling whilst holding pan pipes above fascia with fine brass, mother of pearl and ivory butterfly inhabited marquetry decorated panel infill around dial, over rectangular glazed aperture enclosing silvered subsidiary day-of-the-week and date-of-the-month dials, the sides divided into panels with brass double line borders, on cavetto moulded skirt base fronted with a scallop-shell centred foliate scroll inlaid panel, with rounded angles and on shallow squab feet, 48cm (19ins) high; with a later well made rosewood wall bracket with rectangular platform with single curved support, 19cm (17.5ins) high, the clock and wall bracket 67cm (22.5ins) high overall.
Lot 1
Cantonese export red and white figural ivory part chess se t, circa 1870 on bone stems, most pieces with damage, red king and two red pawns missing, king height 12cm; a small sizered and white bone chess set with turned king and queen, horse head knight and castellated rook, king height 6.9cm; a largersimilar chess set with broken white king, bishop and a missing white pawn, king height 8.5cm; also sixteen white and fifteen red bone draughts pieces , diameter 3cm (4 sets)
Lot 600
Japanese hardwood shibayama kazari-dana cabinet , Meiji period, of sliding and hinged doors, open shelves and drawers, decorated with carved leaf scroll friezes and panels applied with modelled gilt lacquer, ivory and shell of birds, butterflies, flowers, foliage, and an ikebana study, on its stand with convex legs and a carved floral apron, width 98cm, height 159cm.
Lot 240
Selection of pocket watch movements including an ultra-thin engraved movement, possibly Cartier, no. 1308, 38mm, lever movement with pivoted detent, part ivory movement (a.f), Quaiffe pinwheel lever movement, A. Nicole chronograph movement, Gontard a Paris fifteen day cylinder movement, Birch free sprung lever, French lever and various others (10)
Lot 748
Interesting and rare two day marine chronometer of Australian interest, with Earnshaw type balance, the 3" silvered dial signed James Murray, Royal Exchange, London, no. 640 with subsidiary seconds dial, within the original mahogany brass bound hinged case inset with an ivory tablet inscribed Murray, 640, with brass side carrying handles (winding key). This chronometer is sold with copies of official papers detailing its H.M.S. service history. Notably, it was used on board H.M.S Fly (1842-1846) when this ship was deployed surveying the coast of Australia. The lot is also accompanied by a table exhibiting the rates of the chronometers on board H.M.S. Fly during this period. This instrument saw a long active service having been used on board twenty different ships over a period of one hundred and two years. It was finally returned to its owner, after loan to the Admiralty, in 1944. The maker James Murray received several awards for the accuracy of his chronometers and is mentioned in Tony Mercer - Chronometer Makers of the World, `This distinguished Artist who has had the honour of producing the best instrument ever known is a native of Moffat in Dumfries`
Lot 772
Rare early ebonised and ivory inlaid Italian night timepiece, the fusee verge movement signed Geo. Pietro Callin, Genoa, with circular plate and turned pillars, the 14" x 11" painted copper dial depicting Chronos and Death despatching the hours, also pierced with an arched aperture displaying the hours moving past the quarters, over a single drawer, within an architectural breakfront case with carved corbels, surmounted by a broken arched cornice with central foliate inlaid ivory panel, 30.75" high, with winder
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