A Regency mahogany bowfronted cistern tube stick barometer. Barrauds, London, early 19th century. With cavetto moulded caddy upstand above glazed rectangular silvered vernier register, annotated and calibrated in inches, with mercury Fahrenheit thermometer and signed Barrauds, LONDON to upper right corner, the trunk with ivory vernier adjustment disc and ebony line inset edges above ebonised urn-shaped cistern cover to the rectangular base with ebony line inlaid canted angles and cavetto moulded underside, 99cm high. Paul Philip Barraud is recorded in Baillie G.H Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working 1796-1820, he, in partnership with W. Howells and G. Jamison, was charged with making Mudge’s marine timekeepers. The firm was continued by his sons becoming Barraud and Lund in 1839.
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Follower of John Linnell 1792-1882, Portrait Miniature- Portrait of Helen Rose O`Connell 1825-1909, (grand-daughter of Captain William Bligh) seated half-length, a cockatiel perched on her hand, in an extensive landscape; watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, with inscription verso, 12x9cm. Provenance: Helen Rose O`Connell 1825-1909, thence by decent to the present owner (the portrait of Rose) Note: The sitter holding an exotic cockatiel in her right hand, presumably a reference to her grand-father`s connection with the southern colonies: In 1787 aged 33, Captain Bligh was given command of `The Bounty`, a three year old merchant ship, his mission was to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies. In April 1789 the famous mutiny took place, led by Fletcher Christian. An extract taken from Bligh`s logbook. Entry for 28th April - `Just before Sunrise Mr Christian and the Master at Arms… came into my cabin while I was fast asleep, and seizing me tyed my hands with a Cord & threatened instant death if I made the least noise. I however called sufficiently loud to alarm the Officers, who found themselves equally secured by centinels at their doors… Mr Christian had a Cutlass & the others were armed with Musquets & bayonets. I was now carried on deck in my Shirt in torture with a severe bandage round my wrists behind my back, where I found no man to rescue me…` In 1805, Bligh was sent to New South Wales as Governor, but his oppressive manner contributed to an uprising, in Sydney in 1808 - the Rum Rebellion - he had attempted to end the use of rum as a form of currency. .
English School, Portrait miniature, early 19th century- portrait of a a young girl, seated full length on a stool, wearing a red dress and blue sash, holding a basket of flowers; held to be Frances Anne Bligh(1820-1863) Captain William Bligh`s grand-daughter, Provenance: Frances Anne Bligh 1820-1863, by whom given to her sister Mary Jane Nutting, and thence by descent to the present owner, 19x14cm: English provincial school, early 19th century, Portrait Miniature- Portrait of Elizabeth Nutting, circa 1800, half-length, in a landscape; watercolour on ivory, provenance: by descent in the sitters family to the present owner, Note: Fifteen years after the Bounty mutiny, he was appointed governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps, resulting in the so-called Rum-Rebellion, Bligh had six children and died in Bond street, London 1817
Bruno Zach- The Cigarette Girl, a black patinated bronze and ivory full length standing figure of a young lady smoking a cigarette, wearing trousers, jacket, and high heeled shoes, signed, and signed with monogram, on an oval faux marble base, height overall 72 cm, (top part of ivory hair bow detached).
An 18th century ivory and brass screw barrel microscope c.1730, the screw barrel with ivory adjustable focus and turned removable handle, with brass plate and slide holder, complete with eight bone specimen slides with mica glass apertures mainly containing plants and eight numbered lenses, point tweezers and other storage containers, with threaded bone containers and bone covers, pointer and a pair of foldable brass and metal pointers, unmarked but similar in design to Edmund Scarlett early 18th century examples, all contained in stained shark skin rectangular box, box dimension length 18.5cm, height 4.5cm, depth 6cm (illustrated).
A 19th century Continental Anglo-Indian table top cabinet, having an elaborately carved and pierced three-quarter gallery with applied carved ivory crest, above the twin doors elaborately inlaid in multi woods, bone, mother of pearl and abalone, enclosing a single shelf, flanked on either side by canted corners and side panels each elaborately inlaid with bone to depict scrolling foliage and exotic birds, the whole raised on a plinth base, width 78cm (illustrated).
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