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JADEITE FIGURAL LAMPof a woman playing a triangular lute, on a wooden plinth; along with a pair of African maracas

Stratocaster guitar in need of restoration; together with a small five course bowl back lute

Circle of Sir Peter Lely (British, 1618-1680) Portrait of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, in a silver dress and blue cloak, holding a lute oil on canvas 30 x 19cm (12 x 7in) Provenance: From a Norfolk country house Old Christie's stencil DG 987.

Miscellaneous collectables, including a miniature tortoiseshell lute

Quantity of Nao by Lladro porcelain figure groups to include young girl playing violin, two clowns playing lute and a dancer (4)

Gold-coloured pendant of circular pierced design, set with seedpearls and peridots (one peridot missing) and a gold-coloured brooch modelled as a lute, set with colourless paste, engraved 'Nancy' and marked '9ct' (2)

A miniature tortoiseshell and mother of pearl guitar, 12cm long, a similar miniature lute, together with a wind up musical lute, 24cm long

COLOURFUL 1960's PRINTdepicting a medieval minstrel playing a lute with a Coronation and cathedral in the background, 55.5cm x 44cm

A Staffordshire porcellanous figure of a girl holding a guitar, possibly Lloyd of Shelton, 18.5cm high; a Staffordshire pottery figure of a Turk playing a lute, 21.5cm high; a similar figure of a girl holding a guitar sitting beside a tree, 17.5cm high; and a similar figure of a girl holding a flag, 22.5cm high (4)

A Victorian embossed silver card case, Henry Matthews, Chester 1899, the front with rustic scene of two young ladies and a lute player, the reverse with raised rococo scrolls surrounding a parkland scene with peacocks, lined with watered silk and with an ivory leaf for notes, 4 x 3in. (10 x 7.5cm.), gross weight 3.5 tr.oz. * Condition: Some loss to fine detail through polishing. Closes crisply. Marks slightly rubbed but still legible. Some water staining to green silk interior and edges of leather borders slightly worn, but overall good. Ivory leaf discoloured to ends but has no splits or other damage.

Cookery Receipts. A manuscript cookery receipts book, circa 1830, written in a very neat hand including recipes for Portugal cakes, gum balls, potting tongues, almond cream, birch wine, to pot hare, a quaking pudding, to preserve pippins, to make wiggs, to make blood puddings, Lady Corbet's pancakes, to collar veal, 'to pickle colleflowers', ragu of oysters, apricot gum, etc., 112 pp. plus index, together with a second matching volume containing 14 pp. medical receipts, the remaining leaves blank, including receipts for rheumatism, snail cordial, purge for worms, saline draught, an electuary for the jaundice, for the biting of a mad dog, soap pills, lute drops, a diet drink, etc., contemporary half roan, some edge wear, 4to, plus a partially completed 20th-century manuscript cookery receipts book containing recipes for cakes and puddings (3)

A Lladro figure formed as a girl playing the lute, height 21cm. Condition - very good, appears damage/repair free, minor wear only.

A Derby figural twin branch candelabra (lacking sconces), 18th century, modelled as a shepherdess with lute and sheep beneath a floral bocage (24cm high) and another Derby 18th century figure emblematic of the seasons (12.5cm high) (a.f) (2).

Twelve-string guitar lute with a switch-back neck, in a hard case with velvet lining

Three Lladro figures, Lady with Cart, Lady with Lute and Cherub (3)

A German guitar lute, circa 1900, stamped 'Oest M. Sch. 2710', with scalloped fretboard.

An early 19th century French gilt bronze figural mantel clock. Surmounted with a maiden playing a lute. Raised on a spreading plinth adorned with masks, birds and baskets of fruit with flower swags and supported on bracket feet. Housing an eight day silk suspension cylinder movement striking half hourly on a bell. Dial and works signed Schafer, Paris, 46cm high. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Case in good order. Dial tarnished. Sold with key and pendulum. Running.

A 19th Century Bristol blue glass flask decorated with a lady playing a lute, in polychrome enamels

Gilt spelter figure of a lute player, on oval onyx base, unsigned, 23cm.

Short-necked lute (robab, rabab), Afghanistan, 19th century. Body and neck carved from a single piece of mulberry wood. Lower chamber of the body covered in goatskin; upper chamber covered by the end of the fingerboard. Bone and mother-of-pearl inlay. Twelve sympathetic strings pass under the five playing strings and two drones. The instrument has four gut frets and is played with a wooden plectrum. The robab is considered the national instrument of Afghanistan.

A Continental silver pair of musical cherubs figurines, stamped 830, one playing a lute, the other a mandolin, height 6.5 cm and a similar figure of a cockerel, weight combined 3.5 oz, (3).

Group of four Indian bronze figures of Krishna playing a lute, two musicians and another of Kirshna playing a flute. (4)

A cold painted Art Deco style figure of a gentleman playing a lute, height 24cm and a further Art Deco style figure of a young woman, height 23cm (2).

A 19th Century African Large Calabash Gourd, naively carved in the Coptic manner with religious iconography, probably depicting the apostles (old woven string repairs to the body), 43.5 cm high, together with a West African N'goni (Plucked Lute), with goatskin body and wood neck, 94.5 cm long (2)Gourd - Rich patination. Old woven string repairs to cracks in the body. Scattered small old worm holes. N'goni - Overall in good condition.

Lladro - Large and Impressive Figure ' Romance Harlequin ' with Lute and Ballerina. Model No 4813, Issued In 1972 - 1981. Height 17.5 Inches. Condition Report - Finger Tips of Right Hand Missing to Harlequin Figure, Otherwise Mint.

A plaster model of a young girl playing the lute, 49cm tall

A stone figure of a putto playing a lute, sitting on a sphere

A very rare pair of Lowestoft white glazed figures circa 1770 crisply modelled as musicians in contemporary dress and dancing pose mounted on four footed bases, the male figure holds a triangle and the female a mandolin or lute, height of male 7 1/2 ins, condition: restoration to both figures, A similar male figure on a flatter base from the Watney collection was sold by Bonhams in 1999 (see Pt 1 of the Watney collection lot 213) For a discussion on the attribution of these figures on four footed bases, see Godden Lowestoft Porcelain P and Pt II of the NCM catalogue nos; 119 122, See also English Porcelain Figures of the 18th Century by Arthur Lane (p,129 footnote 4) which notes that on analysis some of these figures were found to be highly phosphatic, The consensus seems to be that these figures are Lowestoft and were made a decade or so before the enamelled and white figures occasionally found with flatter bases, (2)

An Italian silvered bronze figure of a lute player, signed to the base Antonio Pandiani (approx 107cm)

A Samson Chelsea porcelain figure of a woman playing a lute, 14cm high, a pair of French bisque figures, on integral stands, and further 19thC porcelain figures, (9).

A 19th century cased harp/lute

A pair of carved wooden angels possibly Flemish, one playing a lute, the other holding a tablet (a/f) 21cm and two carved cherub mask block mounts 16cm

A pair of 19th/early 20thC continental oil on canvas, one a gentleman playing a lute the other a lady making posies, one indistinctly signed possibly J Manatonio, 32 x 18cm

A large cast bronze figure of a girl holding a lute, after the model by H Moreau, on marble base

A large Lladró figure of a harlequin playing a lute, height 47cm (af). CONDITION REPORT Breaks to fingers on both hands, break to top arm and to neck of lute.

19th C jet brooch with hand painted gentleman playing a lute and selection of jet jewellery including earrings, brooches etc.

A Tribal Wood Lute, 90cms long

After Edouard Bisson (1856-1939) French. A Girl with a Lute, Autotype, 19" x 14".

Briton Riviere, R.A. (British, 1840-1920):Study of a lion, oil on canvas, H 30 x W 40 cm. Note: The present picture is likely to be a preparatory study for the artist's large 1874 Royal Academy exhibit of Apollo Playing the Lute, presently in the Bury Art Museum. The painting closely illustrates lines spoken by the chorus in the play 'Alcestis' by Euripides: 'Apollo's self, Deigned to become a shepherd in thine halls, And tune his lays along the woodland slopes, Whereat entranced the spotted lynxes came, To mingle with thine flocks; from Othry's glen, Trooped tawny lions; e'en the dappled faun, Forth from the shelter of her pinewood haunts, Tripped to the music of the Sun-God's lyre'. The picture caught the attention of the young Gerard Manley Hopkins who discussed it in his journal.

A bronze figure, female seated on pedestal playing lute; three brass graduated jam pans and brass hot water can

A 20th century lute, 8 strings, in fitted case, 56cm.

An Italian oval painted porcelain brooch, depicting a lady playing the lute, in a gilt meta frame, a 19th century carved ivory brooch depicting deer and fawn and a glass cameo in a gilt metal frame (3).

Pair of Meissen style porcelain figure groups, boy with a birdcage and girl with a wreath; and boy with sickle and girl with a lute, underglazed blue crosshatch mark, 16cm, minor damage and repair; another pair of figures, yellow painted, damage and repair; and a Meissen style porcelain figure, 'The Rose', restored. (5)

A quantity of various toby and character jugs including an example advertising Charrington's Toby Ale, Kelsborough example in the form of a lute player, Midwinter example of Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island, etc

Two Lladro clowns, one playing the saxophone & one playing the violin and a Nao figurine in clown costume with a lute

Continental School (20th century), Oil on canvas, Reclining female nude with attendants, one playing a lute, Unsigned, 79cm x 122cm, Unframed

Two rare majolica figures, one modeled as a man playing a hurdy-gurdy the other as a man playing a lute, both wearing traditional Tyrolian dress and standing on a stepped circular bases. Unmarked, attributed to Joseph Holdcroft c1870.  Measures 26cms high.

A clear cut glass bell shaped scent bottle, globular faceted prismatic stopper, silver collar, Birmingham 1926, 13cm; a modern silver mounted address book, the embossed cover with lute player and ladies in 17th century dress, within a summer garden, scolling foliate border, vacant shield shaped cartouche, 14cm x 11cm, London 1991, boxed; a similar silver mounted prayer book, Sheffield 1998, boxed (3)

A Continental porcelain figure, of a negro musician, seated in a chair holding a lute, brightly glazed and picked out in gilt, impressed mark 1068, 16.5cm high, c.1900; others, similar (4)

A Nao porcelain figure of a seated clown with lute; together with two other Nao figures (boxed) (3)

A pair of Derby figures, male musician and female reading music, polychrome. Height 17 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The female figure has a loss to the tip of the little finger and forefinger. There are minor small chips to the floral encrustations around the base. The male figure has a chip to the front corner of the tricorn hat. There is a partial loss to the ribbon of his ponytail. The left hand arm has been broken at the elbow and glued. The lute is missing the tuning pegs. There are very minor losses to the floral encrustations to the base.

GLADYS SPAWFORTH, (British, early 20th Century, Arts and Crafts stained glass artist), a group of four leaded, stained glass panels, 'Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans', martyr and saint 1431. 63 x 50cm. 'St. George and the Dragon', circular, 39cm diameter and two similar: a lute playing angel and a king's head, 20cm diameter and 19cm diameter. Together with a fascinating sketchbook belonging to the artist, featuring all manner of armorial sketches, portraits, text and studies, some in watercolours and a box of printed armorial bearings, various.Gladys Spawforth worked at the Lowndes and Drury Studios which were formed by Mary Lowndes, who was an active member of the Women's Sufferage Movement and Alfred John Drury who taught at the Royal College of Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1900s alongside Christopher Whall, one of the leading members of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Originally sited at 35 Park Walk, Chelsea before moving to Lettice Street, Fulham, where the new premises became know as 'The Glass House' and studios were rented to stained glass artists who paid for the services of Lowndes and Drury from their commission fees. Lowndes and Drury closed in 1987 and many of their records are held in the V&A archive of art and design. These examples of her work provenanced direct to her descendent family.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: The stained glass panels appear in good original condition, some wear but the glass appearing good. Detailed condition report on request. The sketchbook is in poor condition, although appearing complete, the spine is virtually broken.

A German lute guitarOf typical construction. 102 cm long. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally good condition, expected wear, two tuning keys replaced, slight scuffs.

A LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE GROUP, CIRCA 1762 modelled by Johann Christian Wilhelm Beyer (1725-1796) as a shepherd and shepherdess playing a flute and a lute respectively watched by a putto from the top of a ruined arch, a dolphin spouting water to the side and a goat between them, all on a rocky and grassy base, underglaze blue crowned CC mark 27.5cm high, some restoration For a comparable example see Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1997, p.447, no.15

A pair of Royal Worcester figures of the Italian Musicians date codes for 1920, he with a flageolet, she playing the lute, wearing costumes in deep blue edged in gilt, some restoration, printed marks, 31.5cm. (2)

Five Lladro figures - to include dancing maiden, girl playing lute, boy and girl praying, kneeling girl and boy playing lute with girl sitting beside

Mid 20th century bowl back lute in the manner of rosetti, 100cm long

An eight-stringed lute, pair of replica Scrimshaw tusks, miniature brass Matthew Norman carriage clock, boxed Edinburgh crystal golf-prize set, etc.

LUTE, with decorative mother of pearl inlays, 55cm L.

Dutch silver wager cup, of conventional form, bearing import marks, 13cm and a Continental white metal model of a lute, (2).