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Lot 735
Byzantine Style Carved Ivory Lidded Pyxis18th-19th century AD. A carved dyed ivory lidded vessel with figural scenes to the body; the lid domed with ten equidistant rectangular recesses, each with five drilled holes, surmounted by a ball and expanding-arm cross, each arm similarly pierced; the body tubular with concentric circles to the underside, and recess above for the lid; to the surface a figural frieze depicting two winged and robed angels adoring an expanding-arm cross on a column, and a nimbate and enthroned figure of Mary, her headdress supported by winged putti above the arms. 106 grams, 10 cm (4"). Silk collection, London, UK; formed in the 1950s. [No Reserve] Fine condition.Starting Price: £5
Lot 24
*Boxed games. An unusual educational toy containing two wooden-backed pictorial panels bearing printed illustrations by Marguerite Davis, produced by Judge Baker Foundation, Chicago, 1918, complete with forty small wooden tiles, contained in original wooden box with brass clasps, together with a c.1920s Mah Jong set, the pieces constructed of ivory and bamboo, contained in original sliding-lid box with contemp. rule book, plus a wooden sliding-lid box containing three card decks, and a similarly boxed game of Nain Jaune, with numerous tokens and orig. instruction sheet in French. (4)
Lot 65
The Speaking Picture Book, Imitating the Cries of Animals. An Amusement for the Little Ones` Eyes and Ears, n.p., c.1890, eight full-page chromo. illusts., with related poems and vigns., many tears (with some loss) and crude marginal strengthening, each page with corresponding `pull` to activate a sound effect (two not working), each pull with orig. turned ivory finial (often lacking), orig. pictorial red cloth, rubbed and soiled, upper joint crudely repaired, oblong 4to. The sounds produced are that of the cock, the donkey, the goat, ducks, the cat, sheep, the cow and the horse. Haining calls this `the pi?ce de rŽsistance of any collection of moveables` and adds that very few complete and fine copies have `survived youthful hands` (Haining, Moveable Books, pp.136/7). Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)
Lot 99
*Biblical. Moses striking the Rock, publish`d by M. Gamble, according to the late Act, 1740, folding paper fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching showing Moses in the centre standing by a rock from which a stream of water issues, while various figures and animals drink or draw water from it, mounted on pierced ivory sticks (one with v. sl. damage), with carved guardsticks, 27.5cm (10.5ins), contained in 18th c. embossed paper-covered cardboard fan box with pull-off lid. Schreiber Collection 20, p.6. (1)
Lot 105
*Cartography. The Ladies Travelling Fann, of England and Wales; Exhibiting all the Principal Roads, Rivers, Market & Post Towns; with their distances from London, Pubd Sepr. 13; 1788, by T. Balster, folding paper fan, the obverse with hand-coloured etching of the southern part of England, the verso with hand-coloured etching of `North Part of England and Wales. Continued from the other Side`, both sides with title cartouche and winged figures, and with References to the Counties, one or two small expert repairs, mounted on alternating pairs of pierced ivory and wooden sticks, ivory guardsticks with pierced and carved floral decoration, 24cm (9.5ins), mounted in perspex display case. Schreiber Collection, 193 & 194, p.96 (two fan leaves, unmounted). A rare example of cartographic ephemera, and a form of travelling map, unusually, intended for ladies rather than gentlemen, presumably to facilitate conversation about places visited or to be visited. (1)
Lot 112
*Conversation. Fanology, or the Ladies Conversation Fan, Invented by Mr. Charles Francis Badini, and Published March 18th, 1797, as the Act directs, by the Proprietor, Robert Clarke, Fan Maker, No. 26, Strand, London, folding paper fan, the obverse of the leaf with hand-coloured engraving in stipple and line, with a putto in the centre, flanked by `Directions for the Conversation Fan` and `Second Method of the Conversation Fan`, the verso engraved with `Familiar Questions with their respective answers`, one or two early neat repairs, mounted on alternating pairs of ivory sticks pierced and carved with putti, and pierced sandalwood sticks (two replaced), the guardsticks of encrusted steel with gilt, 25.5cm (10ins), contained in the base of a mid-19th century fan box inscribed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber underneath the base, with her catalogue no. 38. 1374 and brief catalogue description. Provenance: Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Exhibited: The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, 1976, catalogue number 107; Fan Makers` Hall, 1980, catalogue number 34. Literature: Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Fans and Fan leaves, pp.147-8 (before two of the outer sandalwood sticks were replaced); N. Armstrong, The Book of Fans, 1979, p.13. Schreiber Collection 63, p.13 (uncoloured copy). A fascinating aid to facilitate social interaction and correct etiquette between ladies: `This Fan Improves the Friendship & sets forth a Plan; For Ladies to Chit, Chat, & hold the tongue`. The fan enabled conversation across a room via semaphore, so that by holding the fan in a certain position - horizontally by the ends for example, or placing the fan against the breast - a letter of the alphabet would be indicated and so whole words and sentences could be spelt out. On the verso are shortcuts to asking familiar questions and a choice of answers. (1)
Lot 114
*Courting. La Ruse d`Amour, French, c.1800, folding paper fan, the leaf stipple-engraved in grey and red with a young lady in an empire line dress pursued by a retinue of putti issuing from a thatched beehive, from behind which emerges the lady`s suitor, titled to lower margin, outlines highlighted in contemp. silver paint (tarnished), remains of a few sequins, the wooden sticks lacquered red and with an ivory filet on the guardsticks, 24cm (9.5ins). (1)
Lot 140
*Peninsular War. Dia Dos de Mayo de 1808, en Madrid. Asesinan los franceses a los Patriotas en el Prado, [London, Behrmann & Collmann, 1808], folding paper fan, the leaf with a hand-coloured etching on the obverse depicting the massacre of the Spanish by the French in Madrid on 2nd May 1808, verso ornamented with cartouches, birds, and foliate sprays in gilt and colours, mounted on pierced ivory sticks, 25.5cm (10ins). Schreiber Collection 41, p.72 (unmounted). Printed in England for the Spanish market as anti-French propaganda. Examples are held in The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and The Fan Museum, Greenwich. (1)
Lot 141
A collection of fourteen items of early 20th century costume jewellery including a micromosaic brooch in a gilt square frame depicting a castle ruin, another in a gilt oval frame depicting a peasant girl in costume, ivory stag brooch, another similar, bone cameo, black beaded mourning watch chain, malachite brooch and matching studs and four others .
Lot 653
An early 20th century Japanese black lacquered wall plaque with carved ivory woman and seal mark carved in ivory to lower right, 39.5 x 27cm, a Japanese lacquered press with panel set with carved ivory dragon, 30.5 x 25cm, a pair of gilt decorated papier mâché plates, and a Chinese pierced wooden quatrilobed wall panel (5).
Lot 62
A late 19th century hand painted fan depicting St Peters Basilica Rome and with pierced ivory sticks (af). CONDITION REPORT: one of the end sticks has been broken and is detached form the paper. There is a large tear to the paper through the right hand side of the central oval vignette depicting St Peters Basilica, there are further creases and small tears and two small areas to the reverse of the fan which show signs of old repair with tape to previous tears.
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