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AN EMPIRE CLOCK WITH MUSIC BOX 1830s Wood, brass, glass, blackened and gilded 60 x 47 x 17,5 cm Marked on clockwork on back: "A. Olbrich in Wien" A table clock with a music box and chime on the quarter hour.The enamel dial features guilloché brass in the center, Arabic numerals, steel hands and a date dial. Black varnished case with gilt elements, adorned with allegoric statues along the sides – flute and lute players.The front base is decorated with a gilded relief featuring classic figures of antiquity playing musical instruments.
Three Chinese figures of scholars, the two smaller in porcelain and the taller earthenware, the smallest holding pipa (lute) and wearing robed decorated with shou character and with peach to his left, height 14.8cm, the two smaller figures af. Additional InformationThe seated figure with damage and loss to the lute to both of his hands, there was another peach or similar item which has now been lost, the other standing porcelain figure has now lost his right hand, the taller figure with numerous chips to the glaze and is heavily crazed throughout, further general surface wear, rubbing to painted detail where applicable etc, some manufacturing imperfections, pitting, etc.
An 18th Century hand-painted and ivory fan, the sticks and guards pierced and gilded, the hand-painted leaf depicting figures in the grounds of an estate or palace, with a seated lady holding a lute, the border with gilt scrolls, painter verso with a simple, idyllic rural scene, remnants of feathered edge present, L. 27cms.
A Pair Of Late 19th Century Chelsea Style Bocage Musician Figures Each in polychrome enamel, decorated and modelled standing atop a raised rococo style base with gilt accents throughout. Each with gold anchor mark to bottom centre, each 10 inches high. Some minor nibbles to leaves, damage to neck of lute on female figure. Please see accompanying image
A Pair Of Late 19th Century Chelsea Style Bocage Musician Figures Each in polychrome enamel, decorated and modelled standing atop a raised rococo style base with gilt accents throughout. Each with gold anchor mark to bottom centre, each 10 inches high. Some minor nibbles to leaves, damage to neck of lute on female figure. Please see accompanying image
A mid 19th century Meissen porcelain figure group, of a young lady playing a lute and a young man singing, both in 18th century dress, with tree stump to the back ground and on a naturalistic base with a sheep, blue crossed swords mark, scratched mark '520' and stamped mark '101' to base, 26cm high
A Pair Of Late 19th Century Chelsea Style Bocage Musician Figures Each in polychrome enamel, decorated and modelled standing atop a raised rococo style base with gilt accents throughout. Each with gold anchor mark to bottom centre, each 10 inches high. Some minor nibbles to leaves, damage to neck of lute on female figure. Please see accompanying image
A selection of early 20th Century German figurines to include a Unterweissbach figure group depicting a courting couple with playing a lute (no. 8284B), a Dresden figurine of a Georgian couple playing a harp and violin (no. 369), a Meissen figurine of a lady sitting in a chair in a lace dress and a Sitzendorf figurine of a girl with a cat and two ducklings. Tallest measures 19cm high by 16cm wide.
Three similar Meissen porcelain figures or figure groups to include; pair figures in 18th Century dress leaning on wicker baskets, blue crossed sword marks to bases, 26cm approx. Together with a large figure group of an amorous young couple reclining in a garden with dog and lute at their feet, blue crossed sword marks, 31cm long approx. (B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: The male figure of the pair - the head has been off and glued back on, otherwise appears basically in good condition, minor wear commensurate with age. The female of the pair is holding something in her hand which is lost and her braces at the rear lack one section.Large group lacks the head of the lute and some minor frits.
A Victorian black lacquered and mother of pearl inlaid papier-mache three fold fire screen, decorated with a church at night with punt in river in foreground, together with a matching wall bracket and two Victorian painted and lacquered papier-mache plates, another smaller decorated with a temple in mother of pearl, a handled plate decorated with Middle Eastern lute player and another dish with Rococo style handle (one missing)
A pair of George III satinwood and painted card tables, circa 1800, each hinged D-shaped top with Greek key border, opening to baize inset playing surface, above a frieze decorated with a snaking vine pattern and centred with a moulded tablet decorated with a tied ribbon, lute and horn motif, on turned and reeded tapering legs, surmounted by patera terminals, each 74cm high, 92cm wide, 45cm deep Provenance: Private Collection, London For a related pair of satinwood card tables displaying a similar scheme of painted decoration see Christie’s, Important English Furniture & Carpets, 24th November 2005, Lot 116, (£19,200).
A George III satinwood, tulipwood and marquetry serpentine commode, circa 1770, in the manner of John Cobb, the shaped top decorated with tied ribbon and floral marquetry, above a pair of doors each decorated with a flowing urn, one side panel deorated with a lute and sheet music, the other with a basket and scythe, on outswept bracket feet, 80cm high, 91cm wide, 47cm deep Provenance: Private Collection, Eaton Square, London since 1960 and thence by descent.For a related marquetry commode attributed to John Cobb, see Christie’s London, Important English Furniture, 27th November 2003, Lot 90. See also Christie’s London, 500 Years Decorative Arts Europe, 9th June 2011, Lot 339 (£18,750) for a further related example.This commode is conceived in the George III French/antique manner of the late 1760s. Its 'vase' ornament harmonised with the 'Etruscan' style that was introduced by architects such as Robert Adam (d. 1792) to the fashionable bedroom apartment of the period.
A Pair Of Late 19th Century Chelsea Style Bocage Musician Figures Each in polychrome enamel, decorated and modelled standing atop a raised rococo style base with gilt accents throughout. Each with gold anchor mark to bottom centre, each 10 inches high. Some minor nibbles to leaves, damage to neck of lute on female figure. Please see accompanying image
AFTER ROSSO FIORENTINO ANGEL PLAYING THE LUTE oil on canvas, 38 x 44.5cm++Repaired hole beneath left elbow, support lined, the varnish somewhat uneven, good quality carved and gilded frame with label of Chapman Bros (Chelsea) Ltd. Consigned by executors and long in that local private ownership

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