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Lot 198
French bronze effect spelter figural table lamp after Louis Moreau formed as a man astride a square plinth, semi-clad and holding a wreath in one hand and a frosted glass light in his other, signed below right foot 'Louis Moreau Salon Beaux-Art'. Stamp to rear 'Fabrication Francaise, made in France, Paris' with numbered label 'RdNo.708300'. 20cm (8in) wide, 19cm (7.5in) deep, 98cm (38.5in) high.Condition report: The lamp is in good condition with an even patina across the figure. The lamp has recently been rewired (see additional images).
Lot 25
Colin Ruffell (British 1939-) Still life with Oil Lamp, signed, oil on canvas.90cm x 60cm (35.5in x 23.5in)Footnote:Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.Condition report:The painting is in very good, original condition. There are one or two minor cracks across the paint surface. The painting is framed but not glazed. The original frame has some knocks and losses.
Lot 358
A Chinese agate figure of Guanyin, holding a ruyi sceptre, mounted on a carved gilt base, fitted for electricity with a brass twin light holder, silk shade with agate knop, the agate figure approximately 25cm high and overall height of lamp approximately 71cm high, 20th centuryProvenance: From the collection of the late Mrs Guri Scotford and by family descent 玛瑙观音拍品来源：Guri Scotford家族私人收藏Condition Report: the agate with fault line running through the centre of the figure and possibly may have been in two halves and with other natural flaws to agate and the agate figure mounted to giltwood base so unable to examine the bottom sectionCondition Report Disclaimer
Lot 452
A Chinese blue and white baluster vase, Kangxi, decorated with branches of prunus blossom against a 'cracked-ice' ground, 32cm high and a Chinese blue and white jar, Kangxi, painted with a continuous scene below mountains with a pavilion between tall trees, the vase 23cm high, not with metal mount adapted as a lamp (2) Provenance: Form the deceased estate of a Lady of Title 清康熙 青花冰梅纹瓶及青花山水图姜罐拍品来源：英国私人贵族女士收藏Condition Report: The baluster vase in good condition other than three glaze frits around foot rim and some light surface scratching The jar with neck reduced and with three chips around foot rim Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 507
A Chinese qianjiang-style cylindrical vase, late 19th century, finely painted with a woodcutter and fisherman in conversation on one side and signed Ren Huan Zhang on the reverse, mounted as a table lamp and shade, 27cm high excluding fittings and shadeProvenance: From the collection of Sir David and Lady Scholey. 晚清 任焕章作《桃源问答》图浅绛彩帽筒拍品来源：英国Scholey爵士及女爵伉俪私人收藏，David Scholey爵士为前英格兰国家银行总监及英国国家肖像画廊主席。Condition Report: Cracked and glued Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 587
An Ottoman tinned brass footed bowl, probably 17th century, the exterior with inscription 'al-Hajj Zakariya Sherbetiye',12.3cm diameter; a Persian brass bowl, possibly 13th/14th century, 18.3cm diameter; a Qajar pen case, mid-19th century, 23cm long; a late Tibetan style bracelet, perhaps Indian or Nepalese made after the 1950's exodus, 6.3cm wide; three miniature Savafid type blue and white glazed pottery vases, 18-19th century, 2.5cm high and smaller and a Safavid type glazed pottery lamp, 18-19th century, 12cm long (8) Provenance: The first part of the lot purchased by the late J.B. da Silva (1918-2003) from Bonham's, 29th March 1985, lot 168, for £60, and by family descent. No receipt but itemised in collection notes, where Mr da Silva says the footed bowl was shown to Michael Rogers at the British Museum who deciphered the inscription. Condition Report: An Ottoman tinned brass bowl with dent to rim and extensive wear The Persian bowl with inlet repair to base 2.5cm x 2.5cm and small hole to base and chips to rim and extensive wear throughout Qajar pen case with chips and loss of lacquer to surface one of the miniatures cracked and all with small chips and wearlamp with chips to underside and some loss and wear to glaze on surface Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 14
The Ryedale Ritual Bronzes. A unique assemblage of Roman ritual artefacts from Yorkshire.In May 2020, approximately 20 miles north of York, the Roman city of Eboracum, two friends Mark Didlick and James Spark unearthed an amazing assemblage of Roman bronze-work. Consisting of a large bust, a horse and rider figurine, a zoomorphic knife handle and a pendulum, this assemblage almost certainly represents a set of ritual equipment, buried as one deposit in the closing decades of the second century AD either at, or very close to, a rural temple or shrine site.BustThe 130mm high bronze bust, with its flamboyant hair and curly, forked beard appears to represent Marcus Aurelius. Emperor AD 161-180, philosopher and author, his reign followed those of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and his adoptive father, Antoninus Pius. He earned his place in Roman hearts as the last of the ‘Five Good Emperors’ whose consecutive rules oversaw a period of relative peace and prosperity in Rome. The bust is hollow, cast using the lost wax method and very finely modelled. Although the portrait is somewhat stylised, with large almond-shaped eyes, close similarities can be seen with some other depictions of the Emperor, notably the bronze equestrian statue of Aurelius in the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, and the full-length figure in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. The back of the head has a hinged plate which opens like a trap door to reveal the interior, possibly designed as such to allow the placement of a flaming lamp inside to bring life to the eyes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_Statue_of_Marcus_Aureliushttps://www.worldhistory.org/image/2406/marcus-aurelius-statue-ny-carlsberg-glyptotek/A similar head was found at Brackley, Northamptonshire in the 1970’s and now features on the homepage of the Portable Antiquities Scheme website. The head is hollow-cast and has cobalt blue glass inlaid into the eyes. The PAS record BERK-E24C84 states: ‘The small number of heads or busts cast in bronze and found in Britain share characteristics such as slanting eyes and the textured patterning of the hair identifies them as the products of a provincial Romano-British workshop. The Brackley head can be dated to the mid-late second century AD by its resemblance to images of Antonine emperors, especially Marcus Aurelius. It may perhaps be inappropriate to suggest that the head from Brackley represents the local rendering of an imperial portrait, but a profile image on a coin portrait of Marcus Aurelius might have been its inspirations.’ https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/252426Around 20 bronze heads/busts are known from Roman Britain, depicting various gods and emperors and they are thought to be mounts from the tops of sceptres. These sceptres would have been carried by priests and used for divination and the performance of rituals.Mars statuette.A cast bronze figurine of a rider on horseback, probably representing the God Mars. The horse and rider are well modelled, the horse harness with attached phalerae and reins clearly visible, though the latter are broken. Mars, wearing a helmet, short-sleeved tunic and pleated skirt, belted at the waist, sits astride the horse with his right arm raised to hold a spear. The left arm is held in front, bent at the elbow and the simple form of the forearm indicates it would have been held behind a shield, hidden from view. No traces of a shield were found in the hoard and it is possible that this was made from organic material. The horse has its right foreleg raised and the other legs have small pegs on the base of the hooves, indicating that the figurine would have been fixed into a plinth. It is often the case with votive deposits that figurines are interred without their bases or sometimes a pedestal is included with no accompanying figurine. 86.8mm high. 222g.Knife handle. A solid bronze knife handle in the form of a horse protome (the foreparts of a horse). The horse is well modelled with its front legs outstretched and head forward, as though leaping. PAS suggest that ‘The presence of the horse protome... might also be explained through its secondary use as a substitute votive for animal sacrifice.’ The symbolism may not end there, this may have been a knife using in rituals of animal sacrifice or divination through the examination of animal entrails.Pendulum/plumb bob. A large bronze conical plumb bob or pendulum measuring 72mm long, 40mm diameter and weighing 282g. The top is decorated with concentric circles and at the centre is a mushroom-shaped projection, which is pierced both vertically and horizontally for attachment to a line. Such items were an important tool for surveyors and architects and it has been suggested that this could be a votive offering relating to a new building project or the surveying of the landscape, More likely, however, is that the pendulum was used for the purposes of divination and predicting the future.The find was taken to York museum where it was recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference number: YORYM-870B0E. Under current legislation this find did not fulfil the criteria to qualify as ‘Treasure’ so the hoard was returned to the finders. https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1013510Other examples of similar ritual deposits from Roman Britain include.The Felmingham Hall Hoard: This hoard from Norfolk was discovered in 1844 and consisted of a large ceramic cauldron containing 19 bronze items. The contents included a sceptre heads depicting Jupiter and Minerva along with other figures of gods and animals, along with a ritual rattle used for divination purpose. This hoard has been interpreted as a symbolic ‘end of life’ votive deposit possibly signifying the closure of the shrine to which they belonged. A coin of Valerian inside the cauldron dates the hoard to the mid third century AD.https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1925-0610-1Willingham Fen Hoard: At Willingham Fen in 1857, another hoard of priestly regalia was found. This included horse and rider figurines, five broken sceptres, including handles and terminals, and a large bronze sceptre head depicting the emperor Antoninus Pius. These items were contained within a wooden box. It was suggested that the head of Antoninus was crafted after the Emperor was deified, justifying his presence atop a sceptre in a position usually reserved for the gods. https://www.jstor.org/stable/297703?seq=1The Ryedale bronzes offer a tantalising insight into the religious practices of Roman Britain in the 2nd century. The items themselves were obviously held in high esteem and from other examples of ritual hoards we can see that such deposits were not infrequent occurrences. We can theorise that these objects were the property of one priest, his tools of communication with the Gods, and were no longer needed in the mortal realm once the priest passed on. In his book Meditations Marcus Aurelius wrote ‘What we do now echoes in eternity.’ Famously paraphrased by General Maximus in the opening scenes of Gladiator, this still holds true today as the events around a rural shrine in Ryedale echo forward into the 21st century.(Text reproduced with from The Searcher magazine June 2021 issue pp.20-23).For further information see Esposito (2019) Performing the Sacra: Priestly Roles and Their Organisation in Roman Britain.
Lot 599
* Signaling Lamp. WWII period Royal Canadian Air Force signaling lamp, the handheld lamp with trigger handle, tilting mirror for morse code, the case stamped CAN.REF. No 5A/1320, and data plate stamped CANADA REF. No 5A/823, with cable and original plack painted wooden box with conforming data plate, manufactured by Sutton Horsley Co Ltd, Toronto, 20cm high x 31cm wide x 23.5cm wide, in remarkable condition showing very little useQty: (1)
Lot 440
* Signalling Lamp. WWI Daylight Electric Signalling Lamp by Arthur Lyon & Wrench Ltd, brass and black painted case with oval plaque for 'Lamp Electric Signalling Daylight Mark II. 1918 Made by Arthur Lyon & Wrench Ltd', retaining original glass and bulb, 90mm diameterQty: (1)NOTESUsed for short-range field communications.
Lot 30
A pair of Victorian silver dessert spoons by John Round & Son, together with a small silver cream jug, 6.6 ozt, a silver plated table oil lamp now converted for electricity with glass shade, a silver plated toast rack, four egg cups and a Lockhart's Cumberland Lever nickel plated pocket watch
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