Henri Guillaume Schlesinger (French, 1814-1893)The Five Sensesa set of five, one signed 'H. Schlesinger' (lower right)oil on canvaseach 115.5 x 89.5cm (45 1/2 x 35 1/4in).(5)Footnotes:From our research, it would appear likely that the provenance is as follows: ProvenanceAcquired at the 1865 Salon by Emperor Napoleon III (25,000 francs).The Empress Eugénie, Paris.Sir Richard Wallace, Château de Bagatelle, Paris, 1871.Sir Richard Wallace Collection, Sudbourne Hall, Suffolk.Lady Wallace, London, her bequest to Sir John Murray Scott, 1897.His sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 1913, lot 82.Bought at the above sale by Jones Brother's, London (50 gns.).Mr John McCormack.His sale, 1945.Acquired at the above by Mr and Mrs Doheny, Los Angeles.Bernard and Joyce Matthews, Great Witchingham Hall, Norwich.ExhibitedParis, Salon, 1865, no. 1946, as Les cinq sens.Paris, Exposition Universelle, no. 87, as Les cinq sens.London, Bethnal Green branch of the South Kensington museum, Sir Richard Wallace's Loan Exhibition, June 1872-1875, nos. 330-334 (lent by Sir Richard Wallace).Ipswich, Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Fine Art Club. First Loan Exhibition, June-August 1880, nos. 13, 19, 25, 40, 44 (on loan from Sir Richard Wallace's Sudbourn Hall Collection of Modern Paintings').Literature'Le Salon de 1865', Revue contemporaine, 1865, vol. 80, p. 551.'Salon de 1865', Revue artistique et littéraire, 1865, vol. 9, p. 58.'Salon de 1865', La Semaine des familles: revue universelle hebdomadaire, 1865, p. 572.Nicolas François Louis Besson, Annales Franc-Comtoises, vol. 4, p. 369.'Beaux-Arts. Les Allemands-Bavière-Prusse etc.', Revue Moderne, 1867, vol. 42, p. 178.'Salon de 1865', Almanach de la littérature du théatre et des beaux-arts, 1866, p. 69.'Sir Richard Wallace collection at the Bethnal Green Museum-III', The Building news, 26 July 1872, p. 56.Marius Chaumelin , L'art contemporain, Paris, 1873, p. 21.'Souvenir d'un directeur des Beux-Arts', L'Artiste, vol I, 1884, p. 9. Philippe de Chennevières, Souvenirs d'un directeur des beaux-arts, Paris, 1885, vol. 2, p. 4.Théophile Thoré, Les Salons: Salons de 1864-1868, Paris, 1893, p. 168.'Necrologie', Bulletin des musées, 1893, p. 158.John Ingamells, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, London, 1985, vol. II p. 305.Catherine Granger, L'Empereur et les Arts: la liste civile de Napoléon III, Paris, 2005, p. 189 (as location unknown).Mary Ann Bonino, The Doheny Mansion: A Biography of a Home, Los Angeles, 2008, pp. 107 and 117. Born in Frankfurt, Henri Schlesinger studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna before moving to France where he resided until the end of his life. In Paris he exhibited regularly and successfully at the Salon between 1840 and 1890: this secured him a good success and visibility. He was awarded a bronze medal in 1840 and a silver medal in 1847, and he received the Legion d'Honneur in 1866.At the Salon of 1865, Schlesinger exhibited this set of five canvases, Les Cinq Sens which was then acquired by Napoléon III for his private collection for the conspicuous sum of 25,000 francs. The set was very well-received by the public and the acquisition by the Emperor received a lot of attention by the press of the time, which commented largely on the impressive display of the works which appeared framed all together and on the large sum paid for it (fig 1): 'One of the canvases in front of which the public most willingly stops is the panel composed of several compartments, in which Mr. Schlesinger has represented the Five Senses ... it reigns in all this composition a spirit and a verve of remarkable execution, and the young girls who represent the Five Senses are so harmonious, so elegant and so fresh, that we return with pleasure to this canvas, a sort of oasis amid the mediocrities of the Salon' (translated from 'Salon de 1865', La Semaine des familles: revue universelle hebdomadaire, 1865, p. 572.) In the present series of oils, two elegant and charming models are illustrating the five senses. The set was acquired by Bernard and Joyce Matthews to decorate Great Witchingham Hall, Norwich, possibly in the 1960s.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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NAVY – BONHAM FAMILYPapers of Admiral Charles Wright Bonham (1817-1910), his sons Captain Thomas Parry Bonham (1873-1916) and Lt. Col. Charles Barnard Bonham, D.S.O. (1871-1943) of the Royal Engineers, and his grandson Lieutenant Henry Thomas Robert Bonham (1904-1940), comprising: 'Journal of a Passage/ from/ Hong-Kong to England in/ 1846./ In H.M. Steam Sloop Vixen/ by/ Lieut. C.W. Bonham', daily entries include notes on the weather and the wildlife ('...the ship was very uneasy and rolled very heavily...we have not seen a sail in a run of about three thousand miles... several albatross in sight... exchanged colours with an American ship...'), with stops at Cape Town, St. Helena ('...much sickness... the church is pretty, so is the governors house...'), and Ascension Island ('...the greatest heaps of cinders & lava... fever, madness, dirt, drunkenness & desolation...'), with two landscape profiles drawn in pencil, 37 pages, green cloth, 4to (230 x 178mm.), March to June and November to December 1846; with various family documents including some twenty commissions dating from 1840 to 1926 (one signed 'Edward R & I', C.W. Bonham's certificate on retirement in 1878 signed 'Hood'), reports and passing out certificates from the Royal Naval College, certificates of service, letters of appointment, C.B. Bonham's certificate awarding him the D.S.O. in 1918 (signed 'George R.I.'), various awards, pocket account books 1895-1909, press cuttings etc.; a collection of medals and ribbons belonging to C.B. Bonham including two for shooting and one for football, his Altipiani medal, 1918 and empty box for the D.S.O.; c.30 photographs of the family, school teams, ships' crews and various vessels; circular oak snuff box with inset silver roundel engraved 'Captn Bonham HMS Victory 1860', with painted inscription inside ('Turned from/ a floor timber/ of/ HMS Victory/ built 1765'), diameter 107mm.; further miscellaneous papers including printed maps, menus, Christmas cards etc.; contained in a metal trunk bearing the painted name 'Lt. Col. C. B. Bonham' (quantity)Footnotes:AN ARCHIVE REPRESENTING THREE GENERATIONS OF DISTINGUISHED NAVAL SERVICE.These papers reveal the story of a family who gave their lives to the armed forces. Admiral Charles Wright Bonham enjoyed a long and successful career in the Navy. His younger son, Thomas Parry Bonham was one of the navy's brightest prospects, passing first in the 1885 naval examinations with, according to a notice included in the lot, 'more than one hundred marks in excess of the highest number on record'. He specialised in torpedo work and, during the Great War, took command of the mine-laying squadron and became inspector of mine-sweeping vessels. In early 1916 he was appointed captain of the Black Prince, which sank in action at the Battle of Jutland on 1 June that year with the loss of all hands. Admiral Bonham's elder son, Charles Barnard Bonham graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, joined the Royal Engineers and, for his war service, was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. and the Italian Croce de Guerra. His grandsons also entered the Navy and were both killed in the Second World War. Henry Thomas Robert Bonham died from wounds received in action aboard HMS Fleetwood in June 1940. His brother Walter (see lot 149) saw action at the Battle of the River Plate and at Dunkirk before being killed in 1943.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A small group of various antique and vintage curios, to include a British War medal awarded to F.32089 R. Wands A.C.1 Royal Navy Air Service; two uninscribed silver and rose gold medals attached to Albert chain; Queen Elizabeth II Coronation medal; silver locket, marked sterling; Pekingese dog brooch, marked silver; Committee badge with central thistle decoration 1949-50; Lily , Poodle and hunting brooches; silver sovereign holder; Trench art bullet bi-plane; unusual brass lock or clasp fashion as a dog.
O.B.E - League of Mercy and King George V silver Jubilee medals, silver gilt O.B.E medal by Garrard & Co Ltd, London, 1929, comes in fitted case; League of Mercy1898 enamel medal marked silver, together with dress version, comes in fitted case; King George V silver Jubilee medal with attached ladies bow, comes in original card box.
Channel Island sporting interest - A unique cylindrical box / container with inset 9ct gold Muratti football medal to the screw off cover, the circular medal with pierced Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney coat of arms to the centre, the perimeter reads ' Channel Islands Football Cup ', height of box 2¾in. (7cm.).
A rummage tray of various antique and vintage collectables, to include silver cutlery, comprising of sugar tongs; fiddle pattern table spoon; caddy spoon; enamel spoons etc, silver fob medal; silver charm bracelets; various penknives; novelty nut thimble holder with Stanhope; States of Guernsey Liberation medals, hatpins etc. (large quantity)
Channel Islands football interest - a rare Guernsey Football Association patch - Belgrave Wanderers Football Club Jackson Team 1932-33 photograph and medals, to include a silver Jackson League medal awarded to R. Morton 1932-33 (front row left on photograph); together with three other medals; and a silver Old English pattern spoon, engraved to terminal 'T.I. 1950 S/H R. Morton Winner', 7in. (18cm.) long, gross weight of spoon and silver medals 2.4 tr.oz. (7)
Christmas Island interest - Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal - Awarded to Tom Pearson Cromwell, * Born in 1909, Cromwell joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1932. After serving as a cadet for seven years, he was assigned to New Zealand, before being appointed district officer of Christmas Island, a remote Indian Ocean island which was administratively part of the British controlled Straits Settlements. In March of 1942, after the fall of Malaya and Singapore to the Japanese, he was taken prisoner by mutinying garrison troops, until the arrival of a Japanese invasion force at the end of the month. Interned for the rest of the war at first on Christmas Island and later in a series of locations in Indonesia and Malaya, he and other Christmas Island internees ended the war in Makassar, Sulawesi Island. ** Provenance: By family descent. Accompanying the medal is a photocopy of a newspaper article with the headline "Bradford Adviser to Chinese in Paradise Island", dated Thursday, 16 July 1953.
Warlord comics - bronze & Modern Age (DC Thomson, 1976-1986) weekly (107), Three comics with original free gifts - #232 Medal folder; #338 Hand grenade pendant; #339 Pistol Key-ring, various dates through a Decade, to include five dated 1976, five dated 1977, 23 dated 1979 etc, off white paper, some with pencil or pen marks to front cover, spotting, corner creases etc. *Attic find not graded.
including a horn whistle fashioned as a wild boar; a miniature looking glass; a desk seal; a Black Forest bear bookmark; a bone trump marker; a clam shell purse; a music box; an agate pill box; a steel printing block; an Honour and Glory medal; an antique screwdriver; a FALCON 3-Draw Pocket Telescope; a collection of antique / vintage marbles; a pair of cased opera glasses; a Stitz stereo viewer; a glass scent bottle; a stone tobacco jar; an alligator / crocodile effect box; a conch shell light etc. (quantity)
A collection of fantasy Channel Islands German Occupation tokens etc, comprising "BROT" bread token; St Peter Port Free Milk one pint; Guernsey International Red Cross parcel, various others (12); together with Occupation newspaper, dated May 15, 1945; a Cruft's Dog Show medal - Won By Halford Mills, Carriages 98; a mounted coin; and a Parker Duofold pen with 9ct gold nib.
Guernsey military interest - World War One Royal Irish Regiment medal trio and memorial / death penny named to 3196 Pte George Dimmer (Guernsey), together with original 'Killed in Action' letter, dating 27.9.1916, stating that 3196 Private George Dimmer was killed in action third September 1916; photocopy of Thiepval Memorial paperwork ' 3196 "D" Coy, 6th Bn., Royal Irish Regiment who died age 21 on 03 September 1916, Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Dimmer, of 2, Arculon Farm Cottage Arrive, Guernsey, Channel Islands.'; silver Fiddle pattern Royal Guernsey Militia shooting prize spoon, 1914, inscribed, WON BY PTE. G. DIMMER III. (6)
Channel Islands German Occupation interest - a large quantity of Red Cross letters and ephemera relating to the Mahy and Dimmer families (Guernsey), to include fourteen Red Cross letters & two envelopes; six various Identity cards; three Ration books; an Ausweis 'Gathering Seaweed' permit, named Roy Frederick Mahy; L'Ancresse Golf Club receipts, dated 1949/50; a Flowers receipt book, Masonic Annual Festival 1958 paperwork and medal; together with various other Guernsey related ephemera, Army photographs and a Soldiers Service and Pay Book, named Richard Morton, Army No. 1546802. (large quantity)
Military and Guernsey interest - Rummage tray of collectables, To include a 1813-1939 Iron Cross; Irish Fusiliers shoulder title; The Wiltshire Regiment cap badge; vintage Guernsey Elizabeth College cap and cap badge; Guernsey football patches and silver Jackson Cup medals; various cap badges and Liberation medals; Girl Guide badges; medallions; lucky horseshoe; silver Poultry Club winning medal dated 1896; stamps; cufflinks; Guernsey Caves De Bordeaux token; silver mounted brush and comb set etc. (large quantity)
Royal Mint coinage - A collection of Uncirculated and Proof sets etc, comprising of a boxed Executive Proof Collection 2006; leather cased 2005 United Kingdom Proof set; United Kingdom Royal Shield of Arms & Emblems of Britain sets; 1994 & 1995 Brilliant Uncirculated sets; The Queen's Golden Jubilee commemorative medal, together with various loose coinage. (quantity)
The Aesthetic Movement - a Victorian silver shield shaped presentation medal, inscribed Exhibition of Paintings on China, Howell & James Studio Prize, Awarded to Miss May Dixey, 1882, to verso with a crowned sunflower, 6cm over loop, Birmingham 1882, cased; silver miniature trophy cups, various dates and makers (4)
MARGARET WINSLER (1868-1944). A set of ten small red crayon sketches of cattle, mounted on a scroll (signed & inscribed lower margin; 19” x 26” over-all. (w.a.f. – in need of conservation). PLEASE NOTE: Since photographing this lot, the green paper backing has split in half top-to-bottom).Note: Margaret Winsler studied at the Dover School of Art & created designs for the Naval General Service Medal & Good Shooting Medal mainly working in sculpture, she exhibited at the Royal Academy & was commissioned to design the Hastings War Memorial.
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