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Click here to subscribeA Fine Quality Miniature English Bracket Clock of typical form, with an arched engraved brass dial 'Tempus Fugit'. The case decorated in ivory coloured lacquer with Chinese figures picked out in gilt work and coloured enamels, with brass carrying handle. Maker Canham, London, circa 1920's. Overall height 8.5". In perfect working order.
Collection of Porcelain and Pottery, comprising: Duchess China tea set comprising seven cups, saucers and side plates, a milk jug and sugar bowl; together with a small Coalport figure 'Thank You' measures 5'' tall; Burleigh Jug numbered 4801 with a squirrel handle; an Ivory Ware Hancock's jug numbered 7938H; and two Wedgwood Silver Jubilee items, a pin dish and trinket box.
Victorian Period Hand Painted Portrait Miniature on Ivory - Of A Miss Carter - Daughter of Doctor Carter of Kennington Asford, Who Married John Monnins of Ringwood, Buried at Ringwood 1838 - 1860. Mounted Within a Gilt on Silver Oval Frame at a Later Period. Hallmark for Birmingham 1932. Size - Height 3.5 Inches - 8.75 cms & Width 2.5 Inches - 6.25 cms. Miniature - Excellent Condition, Leather Case Good, Silver Frame Tarnished.
1930's Excellent Quality Oval Shaped Hand Painted Portrait Miniature on Ivory of a Young Lady In Period Dress. Framed within Gilt on White Metal Oval Shaped Mount, With Leather Carrying Case, Velvet Interior. Size 2.75 Inches - 6.90 cm High & 2.25 Inches - 5.65 cms Wide. Excellent Condition .
MINIATUR-DOMINOSPIELWohl Nordrussland, Mitte 18. Jh.Elfenbein mit graviertem und gefärbtem Dekor in Form von geometrischen Reserven und stilisierten Blüten. Rechteckige Schatulle mit Schiebedeckel, darin Domino-Spielsteine.8 x 2,2 x 2cm.3 Steine fehlen.Arbeiten mit vergleichbarem Dekor abgebildet bei: Irina Ukhanova. North-Russian Bone-Carving Ivory 17th-19th Centuries. Sankt Petersburg, 2005. S. 85 und 63/62.
ZWEI GESCHNITZTE FLUSSPFERDZÄHNEKongo, Anfang 20. Jh.Mit umlaufendem figürlichem Reliefdekor mit Darstellungen des afrikanischen Lebens, die Figuren teils koloniale Siedler in westlicher Kleidung. Der eine Zahn endend in Form einer sitzenden Frau mit Kind.L 30,5 bzw. 32 cm.Risse.Ein ähnlicher Zahn abgebildet bei: Rychard H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery. S. 317, Abbildung 482.
HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, Life Member’s Pass, ivory, bowman and rifleman standing, rev. legend, named (Honble. Gerald Walsh, 1895) ink script below (W. Mackinnon Col, Sec. N.R.A.), 45mm, 9.30g (W 1508). Extremely fine, rare; pierced for suspension £90-£120 --- Gerald Walsh (1864-1925), son of Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, and Lady Katherine Emily Mary Somerset; General Inspector, Local Government Board; lived at Melton Mowbray. Col. William Mackinnon (†1899), Hythe School of Musketry, first secretary of the National Rifle Association 1890-8. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
A group of 12 Tickets and Passes awarded to Lord Cheylesmore who, as Herbert Eaton, was a pioneer collector of war medals and decorations in the 1860s and 1870s and later Chairman of the National Rifle Association: HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, stained red ivory, standing archer and rifleman, rev. pass everywhere, named (Lord Cheylesmore), also signed by C.R. Crosse, Lt. Col., Sec. N.R.A., 42mm, 6.76g; HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, Council, stained red ivory, back signed (C.R. Crosse, Lt. Col., Sec. N.R.A.), 43mm, 8.51g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1898, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, lion passant guardant, back painted 1898, 50 x 42mm, 7.44g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1899, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, monogram on cruciform arrangement, back with no.28 and painted 1899, 50mm, 11.16g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1900, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, Welsh plumes at centre of cross, back with no.10 and painted 1900, 65 x 62mm, 9.92g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1902, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, crowned E VII R monogram on shamrock-shaped cross, back with no.21 and painted 1902, 62mm, 12.70g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1903, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, central star surrounded by Garter, back with no.14, 40mm, 6.03g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Military Tournament, 1904, Patron’s Box, uniface stained lozenge-shaped bone, crowned monogram, back with no.15 and painted 1904, 62 x 45mm, 9.59g; LONDON, Islington, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1905, Patron’s Box, uniface stained bone, sailing ship, back with no.11 and painted 1905, 53mm, 10.21g; LONDON, Kensington Olympia, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1907, Reception Committee, star-shaped bone, back named (4, Major-General Lord Cheylesmore, C.V.O.), 38mm, 1.80g; LONDON, Kensington Olympia, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1909, Reception Committee, lozenge-shaped bone, back named (21, Major-General Lord Cheylesmore, C.V.O.), 39 x 35mm, 5.03g; LONDON, Kensington Olympia, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, 1910, Reception Committee, shield-shaped bone, back named (21, Major General Lord Cheylesmore, C.V.O.), 46 x 37mm, 4.42g [12]. First very fine, second fine and with chip to bottom, both pierced for suspension, others extremely fine and with original cords for wear £200-£400 --- Major-General Herbert Francis Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore, GBE, KCMG, KCVO (1848-1925), youngest son of Henry Eaton, 1st Baron (1816-91), who was head of the family firm, William Eaton & Sons, china silk brokers, and MP for Coventry 1865-87. Henry Eaton, a significant art collector who acquired a large tranche of paintings from the studio sale of Sir Edwin Landseer in 1874, owned that artist’s Monarch of the Glen, now in the National Galleries of Scotland; at the Christie’s sale of Henry Eaton’s paintings in 1892 it realised £7,245, which remained the highest price paid for a work by Landseer for over 70 years. Herbert Eaton was educated at Eton, where he rowed in Warre’s House Four and shot for the Ashburton Shield in 1866. In 1868 he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, for whose 1st battalion he rowed in the 1877 Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. In 1884 he was given command of the National Rifle Association camp, then still at Wimbledon Common, and oversaw its move to Bisley, close to the Guards camp at Pirbright, in 1889-90. When his father inherited the baronetcy in 1887 he had to give up his parliamentary seat and Herbert, who stood for it in the ensuing by-election, failed to win it by a mere 16 votes. By 1891 he was in command of the Grenadier’s 2nd battalion which, according to an account in Vanity Fair, he had “just brought back from a well-deserved, if enforced, holiday in Bermuda” to which it had been sent following ‘an act of insubordination’. Herbert used his time in Bermuda well, meeting and later marrying an American heiress, Elizabeth Richardson French (1861-1945). Appointed Major-General in 1899, Cheylesmore succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his surviving brother in July 1902, taking his seat in the House of Lords, for whom he shot against the House of Commons in their annual marksmanship competition. He became an alderman of Westminster City Council and served as Mayor of Westminster 1905-6, subsequently becoming chairman of London County Council in April 1912, the year after he and his wife had purchased Cooper’s Hill, Runnymede. At the outbreak of the Great War Cheylesmore was appointed commandant of the School of Musketry at Bisley, which was to train over 14,000 officers, NCOs and civilians during the conflict. At the same time he presided over several courts-martial, most notably that of the German spy Carl Hans Lody, aka Charles Inglis, whose movements in Scotland and Ireland in the first two months of the War had attracted the attention of MI5. In his trial, at the end of October 1914, Lody did not attempt to deny that he was a German spy. His bearing in court was widely praised by the press and police, but nevertheless he was convicted and sentenced to death after a 3-day hearing. Four days later, on 6 November 1914, Lody was shot at dawn by a firing squad at the Tower of London in the first execution there for 167 years. Cheylesmore was honoured with the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1925, but died a few weeks later, on 29 July 1925, at Englefield Green Hospital, Berkshire, as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash, being the first peer of the realm to suffer such a fate in Britain. He is buried in a mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery and commemorated by a monument by Sir Edwin Lutyens in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. His phenomenally important collection of military and naval medals, which included no fewer than seven VCs and over 150 Naval General Service medals, which had been on public display in 23 display cases at the United Services Museum in Whitehall since Cheylesmore’s term as Mayor of Westminster, was sold over three days in July 1930. According to the cataloguer Douglas Glendining, the collection was largely formed prior to 1880, when the well-known private catalogue of it was produced. Cheylesmore certainly availed himself of the opportunity of acquiring pieces from the collections of his contemporaries, including Colonel Murray, Lawson Whalley and Edward Hyde Greg, dispersed in the 1870s and early 1880s; doubtless many others were, as Mr Glendining wrote, bought by Cheylesmore to save them from an untimely end in the melting pot. Lt-Col Charles Robert Crosse, CMG, MVO (1851-1921), Royal West Kent Regt, secretary of the National Rifle Association 1898-1920. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Covent Garden, Royal Italian Opera, ivory (2), both 1863, legend around, named (C. & T. Lucas Esqs.), revs. date above Box 80, 1, Box 80, 2, both signed by J. Parsons, both 37mm, 4.52g, 4.15g (W 161; D & W 15/179) [2]. Very fine, second with small indentation in centre, very rare; both pierced for suspension £400-£500 --- Charles Thomas Lucas, Bt (1820-95) and Sir Thomas Lucas (1822-1902), brothers, b London; C.T. Lucas commenced business as a building contractor in Norwich in the early 1840s and was soon joined by his brother in a venture entitled Lucas Bros in Lowestoft. Involved in much construction work in Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, as well as throughout East Anglia, they were the principal contractors for rebuilding the Covent Garden Theatre under the architect, E.M. Barry, after it was destroyed by fire in 1856. They, and 13 other subscribers, acquired the lease after jointly subscribing some £80,000. Building began in September 1857 and was completed on 8 May 1858 the following year, with much of the joinery completed in Lowestoft and shipped to London by sea. The Covent Garden contract cemented the company’s reputation in the metropolis with the establishment of a factory in Belvedere road, Lambeth, and Lucas Bros subsequently built Cannon Street and Charing Cross stations, the Langham Hotel and the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond, the Royal Albert Hall and the Floral Hall in Covent Garden, to name but a few. In 1874 the brothers invited the Beaconsfield-based railway, gas and water contractor Sir John Aird, Bt (1833-1911), to join them and the result was three different but allied companies; between them they were involved in many railway contracts throughout England and Scotland and would have constructed the line from Suakin to Berber, but the cessation of the Egyptian conflict in 1886 caused the cancellation of that government contract. Charles Lucas died at his home, Warnham Court, near Horsham, which he acquired in 1866. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Covent Garden, Royal Italian Opera, ivory, 1878, legend around, named (C. Lucas Esq), revs. date above Every Night, Stall 216, signed by E. Hall, 36mm, 3.95g (cf. W 162; D & W 16/181). Fine to very fine, very rare; pierced for suspension £150-£200 --- See footnote to previous Lot. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Harley Street, Quartett Society, ivory, honour to beethoven quartett society around 41, rev. sr, 37mm, 4.38g (W –; cf. Baldwin 61, 513). Very fine, rare £140-£180 --- The Quartett Society was founded in 1845 by Thomas Alsager (1779-1846), co-owner of The Times. Based at the Beethoven Rooms, 76 Harley street, the first ever performance of a complete cycle of Beethoven quartets was performed over a period of two months from mid-April to mid-June and repeated each year from 1846 to 1851. Sold with further background information. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Harley Street, Quartett Society, ivory, honour to beethoven quartett society around 44, rev. sr, 37mm, 3.96g (W –; cf. Baldwin 61, 513). Good fine, rare £100-£140 --- See footnote to previous Lot. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Harley Street, Quartett Society, ivory, honour to beethoven quartett society around 46, rev. sr, 37mm, 3.83g (W –; cf. Baldwin 61, 513). Very fine, rare £140-£180 --- See footnote to Lot 585. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 1839, ivory, opera above date, signature of P.-F. Laporte in centre, rev. Box 2, 1, un-named, 40mm, 5.19g (W –; cf. D & W 29/316; cf. T. Millett FPL 2006, 110). Signature very feint, otherwise very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension £240-£300 --- Pierre-François Laporte (1799-1841), actor and theatrical impresario, made his debut at Drury Lane in November 1826 and joined His Majesty’s Theatre in 1827, actively managing the facility for most of the next 13 years. It is thought that very few ivory tickets survive bearing his signature. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, ivory, legend above 1846/0, signed by C. Nugent, rev. named (Honble. R. Curzon, Stall 115), 39mm, 6.41g (W 335). Very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension £300-£360 --- Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810-73), traveller, diplomat and author, active in the Near East; son of Hon. Robert Curzon and Harriet Anne Bishopp, 13th Baroness Zouche; b London; educ. Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford; MP for Clitheroe 1831-2; entered the diplomatic service and travelled to Palestine 1833; served as the British attaché at Constantinople; visited numerous monasteries and the 1830s and 1840s, rescuing several rare books and manuscripts, including the Bulgarian Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, loaned and later donated to the British Museum; returned to England 1844 and succeeded to the barony 1870; DL of Sussex; d at his country seat, Parham (W. Sussex). Sold with much further background information. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, ivory, legend above 1858, rev. named (M.C. Jolle Esqr.), 37mm, 4.06g (W 342; cf. D & W 30/328). Very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension £240-£300 --- Provenance: DNW Auction 64, 14 December 2004, lot 1074. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Piccadilly, Royal Academy Antique School, ivory, legend around 1768, rev. named (M.I. Dovaston, Admitted 1st Term of 3 Years 27th Jany. 1903, Renewed 2nd Term of 2 Years 30th Jany. 1906), 50mm, 10.38g (W 1034; D & W 63/141). Extremely fine and very rare £200-£260 --- Margaret Isabel Dovaston (1884-1954), artist, Ealing and Acton; b Wandsworth, eldest child of Adolphus Dovaston, an architect; educ. at home in Ealing, later at Ealing School of Art and the South Kensington School of Art under its founder, Arthur Stockdale Cope, RA; won a scholarship to the RA Schools, 1903, winning silver medals in 1904, 1905 and 1907; exhibited at the RA 1908 and 1910; extensive exhibition of oil paintings and watercolours at Walker’s Gallery, London, 1910, and the Royal Society of British Artists, 1910-13; founding member of the Ealing Art Guild (later Ealing Arts Club), 1910; commercial and war artist for publications including Deeds that Thrill the Empire; produced the famous night-time watercolour of troops from the East Surrey Regt taking Étappe 60 (Hill 60) in April 1915, when three VCs were won, which was displayed at the regimental museum until destroyed by fire six years ago; moved to Acton 1925, and created many historical genre paintings of 18th and early 19th century figures in Georgian costume, marketed by her agent, Mitchell’s of Duke street, St James’s; during World War II she served as an ARP warden. Sold with further background information. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, Piccadilly, Royal Academy Schools, ivory, legend around 1768, rev. named (F.B. Nightingale, School of Architecture, Admitted 26th July 1910), 49mm, 14.15g (W 1033-4; cf. DNW M14, 1220). Extremely fine and very rare £200-£260 --- Frederick Bayliss Nightingale (1888-1959); studied at the Royal College of Art under Prof. Arthur Beresford Pite, to whom he was articled; assistant to Pite’s brother, William Alfred Pite, as clerk of works at King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, and later to Sir Edwin Lutyens; joined the Army 1914, demobilised 1920 as a senior assistant to the War Graves Commission; entered into partnership with George Kennedy, 1920-39, specialising in country house work, including the conversion of Gordonstoun from a house and lodgings to a school in 1934; joined Royal Engineers 1939 and served in Egypt and then at the War Office, badly injured in an air raid 1942; architectural adviser with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1946-52. Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
LONDON, The Strand, Lyceum [Theatre], Royal Italian Opera [House], stained red ivory, legend above name (C. Russell Esqr.), rev. legend (Saturdays 1856, Stall 77), signed by J. Parsons, 39mm, 4.86g (W –; D & W –). About very fine, extremely rare; pierced for suspension and worthy of further research £200-£260 --- Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions
Middlesex (Rural), Brentford, Luke Ivory, Farthing, 1.06g/6h (N 9096; BW. 16); John Moore, Farthings, 1651 (6), 1.16g/6h (N 9086; BW. 19), 1.08g/6h (N 9087; BW. 19), 1.24g/6h, 1.00g/6h (both N 9088; BW. 19), 1.21g/6h (N 9088 obv./9089 rev.; BW. 19), 1.12g/6h (N 9089; BW. 19); Edward Swift, Halfpenny, 1668, 2.05g/12h (N 9097; BW. 21) [8]. Second very fine, fourth good fine, others in varied state £70-£90 --- Provenance: N *9086 and 9087 SCMB April 1967, bt Seaby April 1968; N 9088 at 1.24g and 9088/9089 bt Paramount January 1976; N 9088 at 1.00g R.S. Honick Collection, bt April 1980; N 9089 T.F.E. Squibb Collection, bt October 1971; N 9096 with Seaby 1963, bt Seaby April 1968; N 9097 bt June 1976
A 19th century Royal Worcester porcelain two section toast rack, foliate spray painted and with gilt highlights, puce print and impressed mark to the base, width 11cm, together with a blush ivory basket moulded cream jug and sugar bowl No.1881 and a bamboo moulded porcelain spill vase and a leaf moulded cream jug (5).
Finely painted portrait miniature. Portrait of a mature Victorian ladyWatercolour on ivory in glazed, ebonised rectangular frame.7.5 x 6cmProvenance: From the Estate of Michael TretheweyCondition report: Some marks to the brown background, but the the very fine details of the face and hair are unaffected.
Portrait MiniatureA portrait on ivory by an amateur hand of a gentleman in black coat and white cravatEarly 19th century8.5x6.5cmMounted in an ebonised frameTogether with another much finer portrait (much fading) on ivory of a similar gentleman with a lock of hair7.5x6cm With an unmounted miniature portrait of a Mr John Lee with some family geneology to the reverse
Portrait MiniatureA finely painted portrait on ivory of a gentleman in black coat and white cravatEarly 19th century5.5x4.5cmMounted in an ebonised frameCondition report: There are two tiny areas of paint loss, one on his lapel, the other to the left of his chin, these can be seen in the photo. No other areas of note to the miniature. The frame and glass need cleaning and the velvet backing needs re-gluing.
Portrait miniatureAn early 19th century portrait of a gentleman in profile, wearing a cravat and blue coat.Watercolour on card heightened in white.8.2x6.7cmMounted in a glazed, ebonised wooden frameTogether with another miniature of a similar gentleman on ivory in an ebonised frame, 4.5x6cm.
Portrait miniaturesThree portraits of 19th century ladiesThe first, on ivory, of a Mrs W Thorn, by 'her affectionate niece Kate Salaman Sept 1845'8x6.5cm mounted within a gilt and wooden frameThe second of an elegantly dressed, fair lady with ringlets, mid 1800s, 8x6.5cm, in an ebonised wooden.The third portrait, of a dark haired lady in a white lace trimmed dress, early 1800s, on ivory 8x6cm, in an ornate gilt frame.
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