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A single owner collection of Naval Miniature Portraits. (Lots 981 - 1028) Walter Stephens Lethbridge [1771-1831]-A miniature portrait of Rear-Admiral Abraham Mills Hawkins, RN:-head and shoulders, in naval uniform, sky backgroundsigned, inscribed and dated 1813 on the backingon ivory, oval 6.9cm, in a yellow metal frame.
James Leakey [1775-1865]-A miniature portrait of a young Midshipman,:-head and shoulders with brown eyes, wearing a dark blue coat, white waistcoat, frilled cravat and ribbon necktie, sky background, on ivory, oval 6.5cm, in a yellow metal frame with hair plait reverse.*Provenance. Bonhams Fine Portrait Miniatures, November 2012.
Circa 100 AD A very rare hand forged iron pugio with a wide blade flaring at the end where the handle would have met the blade. The long tang once inserted into either a wooden, ivory, bone, or bronze handle. This is a rare and beautiful object, due to its iron content, the majority of these were lost to oxidation. The pugio was the famous dagger that was used slay Julius Caesar on the infamous Ides of March in 44 BC. The pugio was the standard military sidearm of the Roman legionary. Although arms and weaponry were stored collectively within a century, they belonged to the soldier individually. For similar see: Bishop, M.C. & Coulston, J.C.N. Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome, London, 1993. Size: L:265mm / W:54mm ; 115g. Provenance: Property of a gentleman from Vienna; from his private collection formed since 1970.
A 19th century Chinese carved ivory brise fan, the twenty-one inner sticks and two guards featuring a central oval containing figures and trees, surrounded by figures amongst willow, pavilions and prunus, the tips featuring hermit crabs and shells beneath individual figures, the guards carved with dragons, guard length 19cm Condition Report: There are some old metal pinned repairs to both guards where they have both been cracked and repaired in at least two places (one guard and one stick with multiple pinned repairs and associated old ivory patched repairs and the other guard with one pinned repair visible). Areas of old discoloured glue are visible to repaired areas. Some slight and relatively minor losses to pierced fretwork to the sticks, the ribbon may perhaps be a later replacement, it has certainly been reattached to one guard, The quality of the carving is intricate, it is a very decoraative example and has been well executed.
Two Japanese ivory okimono, a stone mounted carved ivory model of an elephant and a carp, late 19th/early 20th century, the first okimono carved as a standing woman holding a flower, on a lotus shaped base, the second as three small figures climbing pierced rockwork, the elephant standing foresquare on a variegated stone plinth base, the miniature carp naturalistically carved, the first 13.5cm high
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