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Lot 8
BOOK TRADE & BANKINGWarrant signed by George II ('George R'), granting permission to John Baskett ('Our Printer') and Robert Gosling ('...of our City of London, Bookseller...') to search the records and make transcriptions from the archives of the Tower of London, the Houses of Parliament, the libraries of St James's and Westminster and the Paper Office and Parliamentary archives for their '...compleat Collection of all the Acts of Parliament from Magna Charta to this present time, together with the preambles to all the Statutes... six large Volumes in Folio...', two pages on a bifolium, papered seal, dust-staining and small tears, folio (304 x 190mm.), 'Our Court at Kensington', 4 November 1726; with an album of printed and manuscript ephemera relating to the Gosling family including tradesmen's receipts ('Jno. Hinckes Tinn Man At ye Lamp & Crown in Fleet Street', 'William Nelson oylman', 'Samuel Price Shoe Maker', 'James Ward Cheesemonger'), tax and rent receipts, annuity certificates and other receipts pertaining to Sir Francis Gosling, 1760's, insurance certificate for John Pyle from the Sun Fire-Office, his will, printed cheques from Mssrs Goslings & Sharpe, 1760's, etc., c.53 leaves, several leaves excised, dust-staining and marks, original calf, worn, remains of old labels, upper and lower boards detached, lacking spine, folio (266 x 220mm.), eighteenth-century; with indenture appointing Sir Francis Gosling and John Pyle executors of the will of John Walsh of the parish of St Mary le Strand, one sheet of vellum, papered seal and duty stamps, folio (370 x 435mm.), London, 10 March 1766Footnotes:The recipient of the Royal warrant, John Baskett (1664/5-1742) was the King's Printer and became infamous as the publisher of the 'Vinegar Bible'. The present warrant relates to his printing of 'The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to the seventh year of King George the Second inclusive', printed in conjunction with stationer and bookseller Robert Gosling (1684-1741), of Middle Temple Gate. Gosling's son Francis, later Sir Francis Gosling (1719-1768), was apprenticed to his father and worked for him until around 1757. In 1742 he became a partner in a bank founded by Henry Pinckney which became known as Goslings Bank, trading at the sign of the Three Squirrels. In the second half of the eighteenth century the bank became Goslings and Sharpe and was one of the banks merged into Barclays Bank in 1896.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 193
□A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF SOUTH-EAST ASIAN OBJECTS, MOSTLY 12TH-16TH CENTURIES, comprising two Thai bronze limepots, a bronze figure of a horse, a bronze consort from a yab-yum group, a head from a hammer mace, an iron finial, three iron figurines, a small figural relief plaque, a terracotta figure of a deer and a bronze oil lamp, 21.5cm long and smaller, (12) Provenance: Collection of a deceased diplomat, thence by descent.
Lot 202
A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF ANCIENT SOUTH-EAST ASIAN BRONZE OBJECTS, 14TH CENTURY AND EARLIER, including three ritual ladles, a weighing balance, an oil lamp, an earring, a buckle, two hairpins and two small vessels, 30cm (length of longest ladle) and smaller, (approximately 24 pieces) Provenance: Collection of a deceased diplomat, thence by descent.
Lot 225
A BRONZE HANGING LAMP, JAVA, INDONESIA, 14TH / 15TH CENTURY, in the form of an elephant standing on a plinth surrounded by four oil reservoirs, each with twin wick spouts, two further reservoirs above, held by human figures, a floral parasol at the top with elaborate suspension loop, 36cm high (including remaining chain) Provenance: Collection of a deceased diplomat, thence by descent. For a similar lamp with a figure of Garuda in the Museum of Asiatic Art (now part of Rijksmuseum), Amsterdam, see Bernet Kempers 1959, pl.307. See also Lohuizen-De Leeuw 1984, pp.170-175, for examples in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart.
Lot 229
A Chinese longquan celadon vase, Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), the body applied with moulded meandering stems bearing peony blossoms above a band of upright petals, neck reduced and fitted as a lamp, vase 28cm high元 青釉龙泉缠枝牡丹纹瓶Condition Report: neck reduced and body with several firing faults revealing the orange unglazed body, two areas of cracks on the body and possibly on the glazeCondition Report Disclaimer
Lot 230
A Chinese Wucai vase, Shunzhi Period (1644-1661), in underglaze blue and painted with colourful enamels and iron-red with fruiting sprays of pomegranate and peaches and vases on stands, the base left unglazed, 27cm high, later wood standProvenance: The property of a lady清顺治 五彩花卉博古图罐拍品来源：英国私人女士收藏Condition Report: the vase rim with three chips approximately 2cm x 7mm, 1.2cm x 7mm and 1cm x 7mmtraces of old glue to the rim from lamp attachment the base drilled and hole now filledthe surface scratched throughout some wear to enamels especially iron-redCondition Report Disclaimer
Lot 234
A Chinese blue and white 'phoenix tail' vase, Kangxi, the body painted around the exterior with a continuous scene depicting a seated dignitary receiving an official, flanked by attendants and soldiers and set in an open pavilion, with plantain trees to the reverse, the flared neck with a dignitary beside a crane with two attendants, the reverse painted with pine tree and a large rock, base of foot with double underglaze blue circle, 44.6cm high Provenance: Sold by order of executors form a country house in West Sussex 清康熙 青花人物故事图凤尾尊拍品来源：英国西萨赛克斯郡私人大宅收藏Condition Report: the neck with hair crack measuring approximately 11cm longthree chips to rim measuring 5mmx 3mm, 1.1cm x 4mm, 8mm x 3mm and two smaller rim frits 5mmx 2.5mm and 3mm x 1mmglaze frit to edge of foot rim 7mmx 4mm and other very minor frits to foot rim edgeThe side of the vase with drill hole 5mm wide that does not go through to the inside (drilling must have been stopped half way through and then adapted as a lamp with top fittings) interiors rims dirty (where wooden circular lamp fitting was inserted)typical firing blemishes throughout Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 235
A Chinese blue and white gu-form vase, Kangxi, the body and neck painted in various shades of cobalt-blue around the exterior with a continuous scene depicting scholars in a mountainous river landscape with trees, birds and clouds and fishermen at work in the foreground, the central section painted with sprays of lotus pods, lotus flowers and peony, 44.9cm high Provenance: Sold by order of executors form a country house in West Sussex.清康熙 青花山水高士图花觚拍品来源：英国西萨赛克斯郡私人大宅收藏Condition Report: the rim with five glaze chips measuring approximately 1.2mm x 5mm, 10mm x 5mm, 8mmx 3mm, 7mmx 2mm and 6mm x 2mm and with other very minor frits or blemishes one small frit to edge of foot measuring 3mmx 2mm probably a glaze bubble and other very minor frits to foot rim interiors rims dirty (where wooden circular lamp fitting was inserted)otherwise good other than typical firing blemishesformally top mounted as a lamp Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 272
A Chinese famille rose 'Western Chamber' vase, qianlong, painted to one side with the scene from the Western Chamber, the other side with a landscape scene with pavilions, the base with a six-character qianlong mark in iron red, 39cm high, fitted as lamp清乾隆 "大清乾隆年制"粉彩开光珊瑚红地西厢记人物图瓶Condition Report: drilled to the base and neck restoredCondition Report Disclaimer
Lot 372
A large Chinese famille verte 'phoenix tail vase', yenyen, Kangxi period, decorated in enamels with magpies in the branches of a flowering prunus tree on a green ground, the heavily potted vase standing on a stepped foot with a waisted lower body rising to a rounded shoulder, apocryphal underglaze blue six-character apocryphal Chenghua mark within a double circle, neck reduced and mounted as an electric lamp with 19th century ormolu mount, 47.5cm highProvenance: Private UK collection. Described in an insurance valuation carried out by Peter Sparks of John Sparks Ltd., 2nd May, 1957清康熙 五彩繪喜鵲登梅圖紋款鳳尾尊，青花楷書「大明成化年製」寄託款來源：英國私人收藏。曾記錄于約翰斯帕克斯有限公司的保險評估單中，日期：1957年5月2日。保險評估人：彼得斯帕克斯。Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 649
A Chinese famille rose landscape rouleau vase, Republic period, painted with large panels of mountainous landscape scenes containing blossoming trees and fishing boats, decorated with smaller panels to the sides, all on a yellow foliage ground, the neck painted with lotus blooms on a lime green ground, the base drilled, 35.5 cm high民国 粉彩繪山水圖紋棒槌瓶the base is drilled, converted to a lamp.
Lot 729
Three Chinese opium pipes, two tobacco pipes, an opium lamp and a kris, 19th century/ Republic period, the opium pipes of wood, bamboo, with tortoise shell and metal mounts, each with a bowl, the opium lamp with glass cover, kris with sinuating blade and scabbard, also with a silver-mounted handle, 34cm - 56.5cm long. (9)十九世紀 / 民國 鴉片煙管、煙管、煙針、鴉片燈及匕首一組Please refer to department for condition report
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