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Click here to subscribeA late 19th Century Minton hand-painted porcelain twelve piece desert service Each decorated with roses, on a lime green ground with gilt border, impressed unmarked and date code for May 1881. CONDITION REPORT: Light/wear marks and scratches to tops, two plates with large crack to body, one with chip to rim.
An elegant Edwardian marquetry inlaid mahogany tall display cabinet Featuring a bowed centre section, the upper section with lined interior and fixed shelves, enclosed by glazed panels and two doors, the base section featuring superior quality marquetry panels and two cupboard doors, raised on square tapered feet, the whole decorated throughout with chequered boxwood and ebony banding, width approx 137cm. (illustrated) CONDITION REPORT: Minor crazing to veneer, bottom door with minor crack, light wear marks/scratches to side - see images 191cm hign, 134cm wide, 47cm deep
An Edwardian silver set of four novelty menu holders Realistically modelled as owl heads, with enamel eyes and engraved detail, to circular bases, cased, height 2.7cm, by Sampson Mordan & Co Ltd., Chester 1907 (4) (illustrated) CONDITION REPORT: Scuffs and wear marks to case, hinge slightly loose, menu holders in good overall condition, with light scratches but good.
A Rolex 17 Rubis Panerai 3646 wristwatch Originally produced for the German and Italian navy circa 1941-1943, with 'Volcano' dome and deep blue face with yellow dial, marked FAB. Suisse, Rolex 17 Rubis to movement and Brevet to crown, length from lug to lug 5.5cm NB: This is a very rare watch and was only produced for a small period of time, please check online for full information regarding this watch. CONDITION REPORT: The watch was consigned by a gentleman who was clearing his late fathers house and discovered the watch in a drawer. Light scratches to glass, crown is difficult to tighten up, threads slightly worn, wear marks to outer case, appears to be working when report was given, light scratches to back panel. The thread on the crown is loose, the watch case back is stamped Rolex, see image.
TODD THELMA: (1906-1935) American Actress, famous for her roles in various comedy films alongside The Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton and others. Rare vintage fountain pen ink signature and inscription ('To Arta - with sincerest wishes from Thelma Todd') on an 8vo page removed from an autograph album. Also signed in fountain pen ink by the actress Betty Compson. With two magazine photographs neatly affixed alongside the signatures. A slightly irregularly clipped piece individually signed by Johnny Weissmuller and Lupe Velez is affixed to the verso alongside three magazine photographs. Some very light staining, only very slightly affecting the signatures, G
GABLE CLARK: (1901-1960) American Actor, Academy Award winner. Early, vintage fountain pen ink signature and inscription on an 8vo page removed from an autograph album. Also signed in fountain pen ink by the actress Joan Bennett. With two magazine photographs neatly affixed alongside the signatures. Some very light staining, not affecting the signatures, G
PADEREWSKI I. J.: (1860-1941) Polish Pianist & Composer, Prime Minister of Poland, 1919. Vintage signed 11 x 17 photograph of Paderewski in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by (John) Furley Lewis. Signed by Paderewski with his name alone in fountain pen ink to the lower photographer's mount. Also signed in pencil by Furley Lewis to the lower mount and with an additional inscription in his hand, 'To my dear friend, Alfred Henry, in grateful appreciation of his own music, this portrait of the maestro', and dated 1914 in his hand. Some light wrinkling and scuffing to the image and some creasing and minor staining to the photographer's mount. G
A PAIR OF ENGLISH PEARLWARE SQUARE LIGHT BLUE GROUND DISHES with serpentine edges, centrally decorated with a mill building and with leaf decoration around 19.5cm wide together with a Ridgway buff stoneware flower pot and stand and with mask decoration, an English porcelain cylindrical sugar bowl and cover, a sauce dish etc. (9)
A GEORGE III LIGHT BLUE PAINTED PINE CORNER CUPBOARD with dentil cornice, blind fretwork decoration above the arching twin panelled doors enclosing shaped shelves within, flanked by fluted pilaster columns to either side and further blind fretwork decoration to the canted corners, all above a pair of panelled doors beneath enclosing a further shaped shelf within and standing on a conforming plinth base approximately 107cm wide x 198cm high
A RUSSIAN ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD ARAPET, 19TH CENTURYthe Theotokos is depicted wearing an omophorion covered with clouds, symbolizing the Higher World, the usual representation of the Holy Trinity on her head and shoulders is replaced by the three heads with haloes around them, the Christ Child is depicted wearing a light omophorion, both of his hands are resting on the Virgin Mother`s chest, images of the Guardian Angel and Saint Alice are placed on the left and the right borders. Egg tempera, gold leaf and gesso on wood panel. Two insert splints on the back (both missing). 31 x 27 cm (12 1/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
A COMPLETE SET OF ZHAR PTITSA ARTISTIC JOURNAL, 1921-26ZHAR-PTITSA [JAR PTITZA], Paris, Berlin: Izdatel`stvo `Russkoye Iskusstvo`, August 1921 - January 1926. Sizes vary, largest issue No 14: 4to (325 x 250 mm). A complete set of fourteen published issues in 13 parts (all published). Illustrated throughout, including copious color plates mounted on leaves with printed captions. Wrappers restored, some replaced (back cover of Issue No 1; front cover of Issue No 3). Some pages restored, some replaced with facsimile copies (first two pages of Issue No 1; a page featuring Shukhaev`s Bathers in Issue No 6; two pages with color plates featuring the works by Bakst and Kustodiev in Issue No 9). Some issues also trimmed.FIRST EDITIONS. A COMPLETE SET IN THE THE ORIGINAL PARTS. Zhar Ptistsa was extremely influential in its day, containing contributions from such luminaries such as Somov, Benois, Grigoriev, Bakst, Goncharova, Bilibin, Shukhaev, and all the the members of the Mir Iskusstva, or "World of Art Group". As Fekula noted, Zhar Ptitsa is 'perhaps the most famous of post-revolutionary art journals, whose contributors threw new light on the development of Russian art at the beginning of the twentieth century.' Likewise, Vengerov stated about the journal, 'Even separate issues of the magazine, let alone complete sets of its issues, are a great bibliographic rarity.' A complete set is an invaluable reference tool. Fekula 5742; Vengerov, Staraia Russkaia Kniga, 105.
THE DESIGNS OF LEON BAKST FOR THE SLEEPING PRINCESS. RARE EDITION WITH PICASSO LITHOGRAPH, 1923Andre Levinson et al., THE DESIGNS OF LEON BAKST for the Sleeping Princess.. A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault. Music by Tchaikovsky.. London: Benn Brothers Limited, 1923. Artist: Leon [Lev Samoilovich] Bakst (1866-1924). Text in English. Elephant Folio (15-1/2 x 11-1/2). Original blue linen cloth covered boards, vellum spine embossed in gilt. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. WITH FULL PAGE LITHOGRAPH OF BAKST BY PABLO PICASSO . 54 color plates with tissue guards and 2 other color plates tipped in of illustrations by Bakst. Limited Edition. 1000 copies only were printed, of which 500 were for the USA. This being copy number 392. Faint library stamps; some darkening to covers and spine with light wear to corners.THIS LOT IS BEING SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE.
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