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Banbury Cross Series. The Banbury Cross Series, prepared for children by Grace Rhys, 12 volumes (complete), London: J.M. Dent, 1894-95, illustrations by R. Anning Bell, R. Heighway, V. & E. Holden, H. Isabel Adams, Charles Robinson, H. Granville Fell, Alice M. Mitchell, Sidney H. Heath and others, light toning to decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, cloth ties, some fading to extremities, slight bowing to covers, contained in original cloth box, gilt illustration to hinged lid (light soiling and a few marks), small 8voQty: (12)NOTESA charming set of illustrated fairy tales, rarely found complete in the original box, comprising Jack the Giant-Killer and Beauty and the Beast, The History of Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, The Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington and his Cat (2nd edition, November 1895), Little Red Riding Hood & the History of Tom Thumb, The House that Jack Built & Other Nursery Rhymes, Blue Beard and Puss in Boots, Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, Banbury Cross & Other Nursery Rhymes, Fireside Stories, The Fairy Gifts and Tom Hickathrift, Aesop's Fables, The History of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Two early 20th century oak carved wall mirrors, length of largest example 58cm, and a copper oil lamp with cranberry coloured shade, height 60cm (3).Additional InformationThe circular mirror with splits and the back board is loose, the mirror plate is missing. Splitting to the oval mirror also. General wear. The shade with chipping to the rim and colour loss.
A Victorian walnut framed dome top footstool with beaded top, diameter 27cm, together with an early 20th century oak framed aneroid barometer, height 56cm, a cast metal twin handled oil lamp with detachable reservoir, height 30cm, and an oak plant stand, diameter 22cm (4).Additional InformationThe stool with numerous losses and general wear throughout. The plant stand with numerous areas of loss and wear, minor knocks and losses to the oil lamp.
A 19th century Chinese Canton vase converted to a table lamp painted with stylised figures and birds and panelled decoration, height 35cm, and a Vienna porcelain vase converted to a table lamp.Additional InformationGeneral wear, rubbing to the gilding on the Vienna example. The lamp has been converted to a lamp so we are unable to see the top rim. The Chinese example with breaks and old repairs throughout. It has also been drilled at the bottom.
A RARE AND UNUSUAL LACQUERED WOOD EXPORT CIGAR DISPENSER Japan, late 19th century Of octagonal shape, carved from several separate pieces attached together in the form of a pagoda on four feet with a turned revolving finial and four revolving doors lacquered in red and gold takamaki-e with Tekkai Sennin exhaling his anima, Shaen reading a book under a firefly lamp, Chinnan Sennin floating over waves on a large sedge hat, and Urashima Taro on the back of a turtle, all on a black ground. The backs of the doors with brass and wood fittings for three cigars and decorated with gold takamaki-e of butterflies and flowers on a nashiji ground. The rest of the body and pedestal decorated with floral sprays, blossoming branches, and birds, with one drawer, probably for matches, with nashiji on the interior. Gilt metal fittings to the drawer as well as the corners and edges. Cigar dispensers such as this one were popular in Europe during the 19th century but as cigar smoking was much rarer in Japan during this time, it is very likely that this piece was made for export. HEIGHT 38.5 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear to the lacquer and metal mountings, expected surface wear, one metal fitting missing. Provenance: German private collection.

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