A fine Queen Anne silver-gilt cup and cover, Pierre Platel, London 1712. of urn-form, on a circular foot with gadroon detailed border, the lower body applied with strapwork, the scroll handles with leaf grips and pendant husk decoration, the circular cover with gadrooned rim and similarly applied with strapwork surmounted by a knop finial, one side engraved with mirror cipher within baroque cartouche, the other with a later elaborate coat of arms and similar cartouche (2), 30.5cm high, 100oz/rHeraldry: The arms are those of Theophilus Fairfax Johnson, J.P. D.L. of Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, Lincs. and his wife nee Millicent Anne Moore. He served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1847 and died 1853, The arms are quartered 1. Johnson, 2. Tyson, 3. De Vesci, 4. Fitzjohn, 5. Redhead, 6. Atkirke, 7. St Martin, 8. Downes, 9. Johnson of Pinchbeck, 10. Ogle, 11. Pinchbeck, 12. Bertram, 13. Ambler, 14. Sybsey, 15. Lessington, 16. Thorpe. The escutcheon of Moore is in pretence. Provenance: Christie’s New York, 16th April 1999, Important English Silver from a New England Collection, lot 220. S. J. Shrubsole, The arms are those of Theophilus Fairfax Johnson, J.P. D.L. of Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, Lincs. and his wife nee Millicent Anne Moore. He served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1847 and died 1853, The arms are quartered 1. Johnson, 2. Tyson, 3. De Vesci, 4. Fitzjohn, 5. Redhead, 6. Atkirke, 7. St Martin, 8. Downes, 9. Johnson of Pinchbeck, 10. Ogle, 11. Pinchbeck, 12. Bertram, 13. Ambler, 14. Sybsey, 15. Lessington, 16. Thorpe. The escutcheon of Moore is in pretence, . Provenance: Christie's New York, 16th April 1999, Important English Silver from a New England Collection, lot 220. S. J. Shrubsole
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A rare example of the signature of Major Walter Wingfield the inventor of lawn tennis, in the form of an autographed manuscript letter in ink dated May 23rd 1905, framed & glazed, the lot also including tipped to the backboard an envelope postmarked January 14th 1899 addressed to Herbert V Oppenheimer, Queens Bench, Horn & Francis, 2 Berkeley Street from Major Walter Wingfield, The Royal Body Guard, 100 Buckingham Palace Road; and an example of Major Wingfield's visiting card, titled Royal Body Guard and addressed 33 St Georges Square (3) Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833-1912) was the inventor of lawn tennis in 1874 which he called Sphairistikè after the Greek for "ball games". Wingfield was living at Nantclwyd Hall, Llanelidan, in north Wales, when he patented the new sport. He also was the author of the first book of the game The Major's Game of Lawn Tennis. His honours include the Royal Body Guard and Captain, First Dragoon Guards. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997.
A CHELSEA DERBY PORCELAIN RIBBED COFFEE CUP painted in polychrome enamels with swags of flowers, marked in gilt, a Paris porcelain tea bowl and saucer painted with a vignette within gilt swag borders, pseudo Chelsea Derby mark, three Spode cups including pattern no.2842, a New Hall cup pattern no.1865 and another cup (7)
A New Hall porcelain oval dish, circa 1810, printed in gold with a view of a stately house by a river with figures fishing in the foreground, within a mazarine blue ground rim gilt with foliage, red painted mark to base 'Warburtons Patent' beneath a crown and pattern No. 888, length approx 17cm.
A set of eight Victorian EPNS compressed circular salts, embossed with flowers, on three feet, 75cm diam, by Martin, Hall & Co; a quantity of Victorian Queen's pattern flatware, including a pair of grape shears. ++The salts in fine practically 'as new' condition, the flatware also in fine condition
RIDER HAGGARD (H) - MR MEESON'S WILL, first edition, first issue with 'Johnson' for 'Johnstone' in line one of p284, Catalogue of Books dated October 1888 at the end, engraved frontispiece and illustrations, original scarlet pictorial cloth, London: Spencer Blackett, 1888; - Maiwa's Revenge, first edition, with General List of Works dated June 1888 at the end, original black and red cloth, London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1888; - Allan Quatermain, new edition, 1888, all with engraved bookplate of JP Cheesment Severn of Penybont Hall (3). ++++
HUXLEY (ALDOUS) - POINT COUNTER POINT, first edition, orange cloth gilt, dust jacket [tear and soiled] with publisher's advert. bookmark, London: Chatto & Windus, 1928; miscellaneous books, including Jacques Saurin - Sermons. d l'Ecriture Sainte, new edition, vol I [only], ownership signature of J C Severn of Penybont Hall and inscribed in his hand on the ffe "Purchased at Paris the day that the Emperor Louis Nap'n was shot in the Champs Elysee", calf, Lausanne, 1761; trade catalogue - Jas Shoolbred & Co's General Price List March 1912; and about thirty-three others (38 approx). ++++
A collection of late 18th/early 19th Century porcelain, includes a wrythen Chamberlains teapot, painted purple and gilt floral sprigs, 7" high, a Chamberlains wrythen coffee can, a New Hall coffee can, a Barr Worcester tea bowl and saucer, a Barr Worcester coffee can and a Worcester wrythen coffee cup (7)
A carved and stained wood hall table, the formica top to a leaf carved edge on scroll trestle supports centred a ribbon tied shield with fleur-de-lys to a base central stretcher, the underside with brass trade label for 'Flint & Horner Co Inc, New York', 30.5in (77.5cm) h, 76in (193cm) w, 28in (71cm) d.
JEFFERY G HARRISON, 2 ttls: ESTUARY SAGA, 1952, 1st edn, orig cl d/w, PASTURES NEW, 1954, 1st edn, orig cl, soiled, + URSULA VENABLES: TEMPESTUOUS EDEN: 1952, 1ST edn, James Fisher’s copy with his signature of half ttl, orig cl + F FRASER DARLING: 3 ttls, ISLAND FARM, 1943, 1st edn, orig cl worn, ISLAND YEARS, 1944, reprint, orig cl d/w, PELICAN IN THE WILDERNESS, 1956, 1st edn, ex lib, + EDMUND SELOUS: 2 ttls, BIRD WATCHING, 1901, Haddon Hall Library, lls stained, orig pict cl gt worn, BIRD LIFE GLIMPSES, Ill G E Lodge, 1905, 1st edn, orig pict cl + WATKIN WATKINS: THE BIRDS OF TENNYSON, Ill G E Lodge, 1903, 1st edn, orig cl (9)
Clifford Eric Martin Hall R.O.I., N.S. (1904-1973) "Nude" Signed, also inscribed on the artist's original label verso with the title, the original price (25 guineas) and the artist's address, oil on board, 22cm by 13cm Born in London, a portrait and landscape painter in oils and watercolours. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools 1925-1928 and Paris, exhibiting at the R.A., Royal Portrait Society, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Paris Salon and in the provinces.
Arthur A. Friedenson (1872-1955) "A Bit of Holland" Signed, also inscribed with the title and the artist's name in the artist's own hand verso, oil on panel, 27cm by 17.5cm, unframed The artist was born in Leeds and studied at the Leeds School of Art, the Académie Julian and the Antwerp Academy. He lived at Staithes, became a member of that colony, painted the Yorkshire coastline. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1889 and also showed at the New English Art Club. He also painted in the Thames Valley and Dorset. His painting entitled Runswick Bay exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907 was purchased under the Chantrey Bequest. He was represented at the Tate Gallery, at Leeds Art Gallery, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Lister Park Bradford and other public collections in Yorkshire. He died at Wareham in Dorset in 1955. See illustration
A New Hall porcelain circular dish, circa 1820, transfer printed with a central circular panel depicting three children playing with a spinning top, after Adam Buck, within a blue rim overlaid in gilt with vines and filled with four oval vignettes, each decorated with a different fruit, pattern No. '1277' painted in iron red to base, and bearing paper label inscribed 'Old English, New Hall, Adam Buck', diameter approx 21cm (minor wear).
Jean-Baptiste Valadie b.1933- Seated female nude; etching printed in colours, signed, numbered and dated indistinctly in pencil, 29x39cm: After Mariette Lydis 1890-1970- "Dominique"; reproduction printed in colours, signed within the plate, 37x27cm: Hanfstaengl, publ- "Die Zukunft", after Herbert von Herkomer; colour reproduction print, signed and dated 1905 within the plate, bears additional printed facimile signature, 27x18cm: After Howard Elcock- "New York Dance Hall" and "'Tis Woman's Whole Existence"; hand-coloured reproduction prints: 29x44cm., ea: After Barbara Wood- "Tea Time"; colour reproduction print, signed and numbered 641/750 in pencil: together with a colour reproduction print of a garden subject, signed and titled in pencil, two contemporary paintings on silk and a contemporary Egyptian painting on papyrus, (10) (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
A Caughley tea bowl and saucer, blue painted with pine trees, fishing boats and dwellings, a New Hall tea bowl painted with two children by a thatched well, a first period Worcester tea bowl, Fisherman and Cormorant pattern, together with three other 18th Century English porcelain tea bowls and two coffee cups (9)
A New Hall tea bowl and saucer, painted with stylized flora in black, a New Hall saucer bat printed with a mother and child within a gilt and diamond dot border, a tea bowl bat printed with figures in a romantic garden setting, together with two 18th Century English blue and white tea bowls (6)
Patrick Fisher 1930-1987, English, continental European Easter procession through the streets of a town, oil on canvas, signed verso, ProvENANCE: From the Derek Sorrell Collection. Purchased from Peter Hall, nephew and executor to Patrick Fisher. Patrick Fisher studied at Colchester School of Art and after returning from an Art Scholarship in Spain in the mid 1950's devoted himself to painting. His paintings are all local subjects to the Harwich area including Marinescapes and rural scenes. Examples of his work can be found in Private collections in New York, South Africa, France and Spain. h: 31.50 x w: 21 in.

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