* ANGUS MCEWAN RWS RGI RSW, A REFLECTIVE MOMENT pastel on paper 100cm x 37cm Mounted, framed and under glass. Note: Angus McEwan was born in 1963 in Dundee, Scotland. Angus studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College Art in Dundee, graduating in Fine Art and a Post Graduate Diploma in the same discipline. Angus was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (1995) and in 2012 the Royal Watercolour Society. In 2005 he was recognized as an Associate of the International Guild of Realism USA. He is also an associate member of the AWS and NWS in the USA. Angus has been Finalist three times of the ''International Artist Magazine'' and won first place in the John Blockley Prize in the RI open exhibition. Angus has also won second prize in the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (2007) in London and the International Prize ''Marche d'Acqua'' Fabriano, Italy in 2012. In 2013 Angus won Bronze Award, at the Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial, in China. He was recently awarded the May Marshall Brown award at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW), Edinburgh, 2015 and was elected RGI in May 2016. Many galleries display McEwan's works, including Ok Harris Gallery in New York and Quanhua Gallery, Shanghai. Recently highlighted in Shenzhen Biennale and the Qingdao Hall of Watercolor. He has exhibited in Fabriano, Italy in the ''Marche d'Acqua'' International Award, as special guest and Vicenza, Italy, where he had a solo show in the ''Artbox''. McEwan was one of the 23 finalists in Narbonne, France at the Concours Mondial de l'Aquarelle 2014 1st World Watercolour Competition. Angus also exhibited at the World Watermedia Exposition, Thailand and Myro Gallery, Greece. He also participated in the Second International Watercolour Exhibit in Thessaloniki, Greece. In the UK McEwan exhibits with Thompson's Gallery (London) and The Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh). Notable collectors include: Dundee Art Galleries and Museums; The Qatar Royal Family; the Royal Scottish Academy Collection; Ernst & Young, Glasgow; Scottish Enterprise; Scottish Equitable; Historic Scotland; Perth Royal Infirmary.
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A small group of 18th century New Hall porcelain comprising a set of three floral decorated teacups with one matching, a coffee can, a saucer, a teapot, length 19cm, and a baluster coffee pot (restored, majority of items restored) (8). CONDITION REPORT: The coffee pot has been extensively restored, mainly to upper part and handle, the cover crudely restored and with major losses, the teapot with chips to rim of the cover and fritting/chips to the tip of the finial, extensive pitting around the top rim and numerous firing imperfections, chip to edge of the base, majority of other items with hairline cracks, some stained, coffee can with underglaze imperfection, the saucer with chip to the inside rim of the base, all with general surface wear commensurate with age.
NO RESERVE Irish Parliament. Acts and Statutes..., black letter, foxed and browned, some edges frayed and chipped, some damp-staining affecting margins, some repaired at end, ex-library copy with ink stamps on title and fly-leaf, manuscript index on fly-leaf, repaired, ink inscription on front free endpaper to the effect that this collection was compiled from Sir John Magill of Gill Hall, Dromore, Co. Down, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, folio, 1692-97.⁂ 28 separate Acts, including: "An Act for the Confirmation of Articles, Made at the Surrender of the City of Limerick"; "An Act for Granting an Additional Duty on Tobacco" etc.
Davis (C.H.) edit. Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding ..., Washington; Govt. Printing Office, 1876, quarto, plates and maps as called for, original cloth gilt; Blake (E. Vale), Arctic Experiences: containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on the Ice-Floe, A History of the Polaris Expedition ..., New York; Harper, 1874, frontis, map, text illustrations, original cloth; Healy (M.A., Capt.), Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884, Washington; Govt. Printing Office, 1889, quarto, thirty nine plates only, no charts present, recent quarter cloth (3)
Dickens (Charles) The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844], first edition with Smith's issue points present but with second state vignette title, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt (a little wear to head and tail of spine); idem, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas Time, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, first edition, majority of Smith's issue points, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt; idem, Pictures From Italy, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, first edition, all of Smith's issue points present, original blue cloth (wear to head of spine) (3)
Charles I (1625-49). Gold Half Unite or Double Crown of ten shillings, 1643, Oxford mint, crowned bust of king left to edge of coin, mark of value X behind head, cross on crown breaks pellet and linear circles, Latin legend and outer pellet border surrounding, legend commences lower left, CAROLVS. D: G: M: BR: FR: ET. HI: REX., Rev. Latin legend on ruled scroll leading continuously into Latin Declaration in three lines, date below, three Oxford plumes above, EXVRGAT. DEVS. DISSIPENTVR. INIMICI. RELIG. PROT./ LEG. ANGL. / .LIBER. PAR., weight 4.45g (Schneider 332; Brooker 858; Beresford-Jones dies III/5; N.2395; S.2742; Fr.260; KM.248.1). Lightly toned, some flat spots in highest points of striking, otherwise an attractive piece, good very fine and very rare. Ex Glendining, 13th March 1975, lot 103. Ex Property of a Lady, Spink Coin Auction 168, 15th April 2004, lot 166. Ex Dr Andrew Wayne, Triton Auction IX, Classical Numismatic Group, 9th January 2006, lot 2295. Ex Ian Gordon Collection, Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 90, 23 May 2012, lot 2585. Ex Property of a gentleman, Mark Rasmussen Numismatist, Summer 2015, fixed price list 27, item C103. The abbreviated obverse legend translates as "Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland. The abbreviated reverse Declaration translates as "The religion of the Protestants, the Laws of England, the Liberty of Parliament". The outer reverse legend translates as "Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered". This gold Double Crown of Ten Shillings or Half-Unite was struck at the Oxford Mint where Charles I had moved his capital from London after the Battle of Edgehill to the Royalist Universities of the City of Oxford, where he made a state entrance on 29th October 1642. The King lived at Christ Church, with the Queen installed at Merton; the Royalist Parliament met in the Upper Schools and Great Convocation House; the Privy Council at Oriel; and the Mint worked at New Inn Hall from the 3rd January 1642/3.
NINTEENTH CENTURY BLUE AND WHITE PEARLWARE POTTERY SMALL TEAPOT AND COVER, of globular form with slightly domed cover, painted with floral sprigs, 3 ¾" (9.5cm) high, unmarked, bad chip to inner rim on cover, and small chip to outer edge, together with TWO OTHER TEAPOTS, one with chip to edge of cover, THREE JUGS, including a Royal Worcester example with cover, and a NEW HALL 'BOUMIER WARE' pink lustre pottery sugar bowl, various marks, (7)
Four various early 19thC English porcelain coffee cans, c.1805 one New Hall pattern no. 623, decorated with a border pattern of white flowers on a blue ground, a Grainger's Worcester coffee can decorated with red flowers and gilt leaves, another coffee can with gilt, blue and red border pattern, and the fourth can decorated with palm leaves on a red seaweed ground. (4)
Churchill (Winston) Two photographs of Winston Churchill's arrival in Durban in 1899, after his captivity in Pretoria, with envelope addressed ''R.C. ?Larten'' of the African Boating Company Ltd, with wax seal and post mark for Natal 1900, and accompanying note, headed Heath House, sent by Lillian, Duchess of Marlborough thanking him for the photographs. Lillian, by 1900 Lady William Beresford, was Churchill's aunt. The photographs show Churchill arriving on a boat into Durban (likely the Rennie liner Induna) and in front of the crowd which gathered to welcome him. According to a Natal Mercury article, dated 25th Dec. 1899, ''They cheered him, and crowded round to shake hands and congratulate him, and, finally, would not be content till he had favoured them with a speech, crowding round him near the African Boating Company's offices, and hemming him in.'' This location would explain the source of the photograph being a representative of the Company. The picture of Churchill at the docks has a partial company sign on the building behind him, reading ''...Y LTD.'' likely then the Company warehouse. Churchill made two impromptu speeches that day, the second on the steps of the Town Hall. Churchill's dramatic escape from Pretoria was the springboard from which he entered Commons and history. Included with the photographs and letter is research on Heath House with an accompanying letter from Sir Mark Prescott who lives in the new Heath House (the old one having been demolished in 1973) which was the trainer's house in Lady Beresford's time.
Dickens, Charles Nicholas Nickleby. Chapman and Hall, 1839. 8vo, half calf; frontis. and 39 plates. First edition, mixed issue. With 'visiter' corrected to 'sister' p.123 line 17 but 'latter' for 'letter' (160.43); 'flys' for 'flies' (245.10); 'visiters' for 'visitors' (272.2) 'incontestible' for 'incontestable' (297.22), and 'suprise' not 'surprise' (586.24). Frontis. and first four plates bear Chapman and Hall imprint at foot. idem. The Cricket on the Heart. Bradbury and Evans, 1846. 8vo, org. red decorative cloth, frontis. and additional title, illus. to text as called for. Second state advertisements with ''New Edition of Oliver Twist'' and 11 lines of copy (''No. I. of'' on separate line). with three others.Nickleby binding rubbed and bumped with short split upper joint at head of spine, slight loss corner of list of plates, plates spotted as not uncommon but very good. Cricket with slight loss head and foot of spine else very good.
Boyle, Robert Hydrostatical Paradoxes Made out by New Experiments (For the most part Physical and Easie). Oxford: Printed by William Hall, for Richard Davis, 1666. 8vo, full calf, speckled edges; title printed in red and black, 3 plates folded to throw clear. First edition. Boyle was one of the most important scientists of his era and a founder member of the Royal Society. Boyle was a firm believer in experiment and often used critique of others work (in this case Pascal's) to present his own ingenious experiments. An important work on fluid dynamics. Binding worn with cracking to upper hinge, board detached by held on by spine, lower hinge cracking, first plate with small tear, slightly affecting image, otherwise a good copy.
A collection of eight 19th century vellum patents, Henry Lea for 'Improvements in looms for weaving, dated February 17th 1866, another to Henri de Simencourt of Corbyn's Hall for the 'Improvements in reverberatory and other furnaces', another for Charles Vero for the 'Improvements in the manufacture of hats and other coverings for the head...', another to William Henry Stokes of Birmingham for the 'Improvements in apparatus for signalling on railway trains', another to Clemet Sharp for the 'A new or improved manufacture of ships thimbles and other metallic fittings...', many retaining wax seals - some seals damaged, some mouse damage (as found)
Two late 18th/early 19th century New Hall porcelain teapots, covers and stands, both painted with floral sprays, the first in puce and green with pattern no. 241 to bases, and the second in gold and blue with pattern no. 213 to bases, length of each teapot approx 25cm. CONDITION REPORT: The gold and blue teapot with firing crack to spout interior, two further presumably small firing flaws to upper section of handle joint and another to foot rim, rubbing to gilt on both pieces, surface scratches to dish, surface pitting, kiln dirt and other general wear present, the puce and green teapot with apparent glazing error to teapot rim interior, thin firing crack to upper section of spout joint and two handle joint lower section, further very minor presumed firing crack to rim rear section, otherwise some surface pitting, kiln dirt, various manufacturing imperfections, general light surface wear.
A late 18th/early 19th century New Hall porcelain teapot and cover with painted pink and red border above floral sprays and with pattern no. 94H to base, length approx 25cm, and a Flight Barr & Barr Worcester teapot, cover and saucer painted with purple floral sprays and gilt detail, with IV to teapot foot rim but otherwise unmarked. CONDITION REPORT: New Hall teapot with firing crack to inner rim interior, further minor firing crack, kiln dirt, manufacturing imperfections including to rim front left section, surface pitting, the Worcester with rubbing to the gilt work, small firing flaw to cover inner rim, teapot with surface pitting, manufacturing imperfections, some kiln dirt, some rubbing to the painted decoration, particularly to the lower section, saucer with similar wear to previously described, some surface scratches.
Essex & East Anglia.- Buckley (Reginald, husband of Helen Buckley, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, fl. 1928-72) Diary of cycling tours and holidays in Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Norfolk 1928-29, 2 vol., autograph manuscript, 370pp., lined throughout, original limp morocco, vol. I small tear at tail of spine, sm. 4to, 1928-29; and 2 others, 2 juvenile diaries of tours to Switzerland, sm. 4to (4).⁂ The diary of a young man living on the outskirts of London who spends his free time cycling through the Roding Valley, St Albans and Cambridge, and taking holidays in Thetford, the Brecklands and Norfolk. Buckley is an astute observer of the countryside as it transitions from the inter war period to the modern age. He cycles long distances, noting old manor houses, such as Guisnes Hall, falling into decay and the ever increasing building of new houses swallowing up the countryside. Also mentions the death of the conductor Henry Riding, "the sudden tragedy overwhelmed me... a Worshipful Master, and worshipping pupil..."; W. &.C French Ltd, a civil engineering company based at Buckhurst Hill in south-west Essex.[Essex]. "Had an evening ride to Loughton, Epping, North Weald and the Talbot where I turned left to North Weald Church and Weald Hall. This was unoccupied, Mr. Tabor having sold out and left the district, as all those in the vicinity that can do are doing, to obtain relief from the incessant droning of aeoplanes from the nearby aerodrome, and the ever twinkling lights on the wireless poles, not to mention the influx of hordes of undesirable men attached to the two concerns. I walked round the house and deserted gardens, everything very neglected and gone back to Nature."
Folding maps. A collection of thirteen maps, 19th & early 20th century, including Betts (John), Betts's new Map of India, Birmah, The Punjab and parts of Afganistan, circa 1860, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 750 x 640 mm, cloth endpapers, contained in publisher's cloth slipcase with printed label to upper board, together with Hall (Sidney), Surrey [and] Sussex, published Chapman & Hall, circa 1850, two engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, bound in publisher's cloth gilt boards, with Ordnance Survey,, Five maps, published Edward Stanford, [1830 or later], five engraved maps (of the environs of Bath, Basingstoke & Hungerford, Salisbury, Shaftesbury and Yeovil), each sectionalised and laid on paper, each with contemporary outline colouring, each approximately 625 x 720 mm, marbled endpapers and each contained in publisher's cloth slipcase with printed label to upper board with added manuscript title, plus four early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps of Gloucestershire and one other similar, various sizes and condition (13)
*Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). A group of four typed letters signed, 'T.S. Eliot', Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square, London, WC1, 9 June to 21 July 1943, to Mrs [Dorothy] Dudley Short, concerning her intention to organise a poetry recital at the Wigmore Hall, on behalf of the Arts and Letters Sectional Committee of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, for Aid to China, the first letter agreeing with the general principle but saying 'I don't think, however, that the Wigmore Hall is particularly good for poetry readings. It is too big', and concluding later, 'I should be very imprudent if I consented to read my poems without knowing what other authors are to be invited to speak and who are likely to accept', the second weighing up the pros and cons of the Wigmore Hall and the Aeolian Hall and suggesting poets are chosen from a younger generation, 'Those amongst whom I was included at the Aeolian Hall were all poets whose reputations had been made twenty years or more ago. I think there might be more general interest now in a reading drawn from the works of the younger men of whom Stephen Spender, Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice are the available elders', referring to some of the poets she mentions that are not likely to be available, 'Aldous Huxley and W.H. Auden are in America and Harold Monroe has been dead for some years. I do not think that it would be easy to induce Siegfried Sassoon to come up from the country for anything of this kind. You might do best to get in touch with Stephen Spender who, incidentally, has the advantage of taking a sympathetic interest in Chinese affairs', Short's pencil notes at foot of letter, the third letter (not on Faber letterhead) apologising that he has been away on holiday in the New Forest and wanting to clear up some of the details of the readings, with one sentence added in holograph, a little soiled lower left, the fourth letter saying that everything seems satisfactory and hoping that the Chinese Ambassador and Lord David Cecil will accept, suggesting also that it 'seems to me rather a pity to issue a circular of the meeting until you can give them names of all the poets taking part but perhaps there is a special reason for this. As for how long each poet should hold the floor, that depends partly on how many poets there are altogether. When you have got all the poets I think the time should be divided up evenly between them and alphabetical order is probably the least invidious', and concluding 'When the time limit is fixed, people should be asked at least to time themselves conscientiously beforehand so that they will not over-run', Short's pencil notes upper right, all somewhat creased and a little frayed at edges with minor marks, pin holes to upper left corners, each one page, 4to Dorothy (Field) Dudley Short was the author of children's books, poems, reviews and books and articles of Sikhism and theosophy. She was married to the caricaturist Norman Dudley Short. She was reporter for The Times Educational Supplement, 1923-27; an activist and later local and national officer of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, 1930-1950s. The poetry recital did go ahead at the Wigmore Hall on 14 September 1943. Dorothy Dudley Short edited an anthology of the poems read, on behalf of the Arts and Letters Sectional Committee of the National Council of Women of Great Britain. This was published as Poet's Choice in 1945. The authors represented were Clifford Bax, Edmund Blunden, T.S. Eliot, S.I. Hsiung, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Kathleen Raine, Ann Ridler, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Dorothy Wellesley and George Yeh. See also lots 882-886 and 891 & 892. (4)
65 Asian art books, mainly on Chinese and Korean art, incl. a number of rare works Full list:Ê Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics from The British Museum, London, National Museum of History Republic of ChinaChinese Bronzes, P. Hamlyn, CameoLes bronzes chinois, T. DexelBronzes archaïques chinois Archaic Chinese Bronzes, Musée Cernuschi, V. ElisseeffChinese Art from the Collection of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of SwedenSeltene Kunstobjekte aus ältesten une alten Kulturen China und Thailand, Galerie Zacke WienCorpo e Anima – Body and Soul, Renzo Freschi oriental ArtThe Mount Trust Collection of Chinese ArtChinese Ceramics at Lotherton Hall, Leeds, H. SutcliffeCollecting Chinese Art: Interpretation and Display, Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No. 20, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, S. PiersonPathways to the Afterlife: Early Chinese Art from the Sze Hong Collection, Denver Art Museum University of Hawaii Press The Chinese Collection selected works from the Norton Museum of ArtHandbook of the Oriental Collection, Birmingham Museum of ArtChinese Connoisseurship: the Ko Ku Yao Lun: The Essential Criteria of Antiquities, Sir Percival David The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, Vol. 2, Chinese and Korean Pottery and Porcelain, J. AyersThe Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, Hansford, Vol. 1: Chinese, Central Asian and Luristan Bronzes and Chinese Jades and Sculptures, The Arts Council of Great BritainOriginal Intentions, Essays on Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation in the Arts of China, Pearce & SteuberChinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, B. Laufer, TuttleChinese Paintings, Textiles, Snuff Bottles, Ceramics and Works of Art, 14-15 may 1979Ten Thousand things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art, A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1998, Bollingen Series XXXV, 46 PrincetonExploring China’s Past: New discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art, Whitfield & Wang, SaffronGilded Splendor: Treasures of China’s Liao Empire (907-1125)The Han Dynasty, M. Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens, RizzoliChina: a History in Art, B. Smith & Wan-go Weng, Gemini SmithChina at the Court of the Emperors: Unknown Masterpieces, Han tradition to Tang Elegance (25-907)The Chinese Collector through the Centuries, TuttleThe Murals of Li Hsien’s Tomb of T’Ang Dynasty, Shensi Provincial Museum, Wenwu Press, Peking 1974 (ENG + FR)La Collection Guérinet, Art chinois Indo-chinois, JaponaisChinese paintings, Textiles, Snuff Bottles, Ceramics and Works of Art, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, Salenumber 4223, New York A Chinese calligraphy albumMasterpieces of Chinese Painting in the National Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, TaipeiChinese painting, William CohnOpgegraven schatten uit de volksrepubliek China, RijksmuseumThe Minor Arts of China IV, Spink and Son Ltd, April 1989Chinese ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, Michael SullivanEight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, The Collection of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of ArtMuseum Für Ostasiatische Kunst Berlin, Ausgewählte Werke Ostasiatischer Kunst, Berlin- DahlemThe Mustard Seed Garden Manual Of Painting, Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan, translated from the Chinese and edited by Mai-mai Sze The Sculpture of Thailand, Theodore Bowie, M.C. Subhadradis Diskul, A.B. GriswoldChinese and Japanese Sculpture, 7 November 2002 – 15 November 2002, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd, Oriental ArtHandbook to the Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities, William WatsonThe Art of Sourtheast Asia, Temples and Sculpture, Louis Frédéric, Translated from the French by Arnold RosinPrestige du Passé Chine, Texte de Joachim Hildebrand, Diffussion J. Lazarus (FR)Treasures From the Shang and a Selection of Ritual Objects, Gisèle Croës, New York March 2001The Arts of China to AD 900, William WatsonMeisterwerke Chinesischer Malerei, Werner SpeiserArt du Tibet, La Collection des Musées Royeux d’Art et d’Histoire Bruxelles, Miriam LambrechtTibetan-Lamaist Art, Henri Kamer Galerie Inc, text by Carin BurrowsArt Lamaïque, Art Des Dieux, Jacques van GoidsenhovenJades Chinois, pierres d’immortalité, Musée Cernuschi, du 26 septembre 1997 au 4 janvier 1998Radiant Stones, Archaic Chinese Jades, Myrna Myers (water damage)Chinese and Annamese Ceramics, A. JosephDragons & Lotus Blossoms, Stevenson, Wood, Birmingham Museum of ArtCeramic Traditions of South-East Asia, Guy, OxfordThe Ceramics of South-East Asia – Their Dating and Identification, Roxanna M. BrownVietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, Stevenson & Guy, Art Media ResourcesKorean masterpieces of the Chosôn dynasty, Powerhouse Publishing, Queensland Art GalleryThe Ceramic Art of Korea, Faber & FaberKorean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeThe Arts of Korea, Thames & Hudson, C. Kim W.-Y. KimKorean Pottery & Porcelain of the Yi Period, Faber&Faber, G. St. G. M. GompertzCorean Pottery, W. B. Honey, Faber&FaberHandbook of Korean Art Earthenware and Celadon, Youngsook Pak & Roderick WhitfieldHandbook of Korean Art White Porcelain and Punch’ông ware, Jae-yeol KimTwo Thousands years of Oriental Ceramics, Thames & Hudson ------ Please request condition reports by e-mail on info@rm-auctions.com. 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''The New Church Fan'': An Early 18th Century Printed Fan, the double paper leaf mounted on plain pale wooden sticks. Published ''with the APPROBATION of the LORD BISHOP of LONDON'', the centre of the fan shows ''Exodus Chapter XX'' and features The Lord's Prayer to the left and other catholic texts. The borders feature crowns. The leaf is marked ''Entered at Stationer's Hall by The Proprietor May 1st 1716. Guard length 9.75 inches or 24.5cm. Together with an 18th century sea green card fan tubeQuite dirty, and some brown staining all along the top border and on most folds. Loss of some paper to the left on the guard panel.
A Mid-19th Century Bone Fan, the monture pierced and carved, the printed and hand coloured double paper leaf showing amusing scenes from a foxhunt. The depiction is entitled ''Hunting Family'' and the Participants are named. The Huntbach family are shown as arriving for the event, joining in with the chase, and returning to Oak Hall. The verso is plain. Guard length 11.75 inches or 30cm. Together with a card fan box covered in pale pink silk, a label adhered to the lid interior for the ''Royal Fan Mounter J. S. Gregg, New Bond Street, LondonClean with good colour. The upper guard may have been re-glued on the overlap at some previous point but the monture is sound. The box is tired and some damage has resulted in deformity.
POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL Approximately 200 cards, including real photographic views of New Street, Birmingham; The Round Tower, Edgehill; Lime Street, Liverpool; Ancient Crosses and Market Place, Sandbach; Entrance to Village from South, Tatworth; Hanging Chapel, Langport; Clock Tower, Leicester; Cambridge Crescent, Harrogate; and the Town Hall, Kendal; with views of London Road, Leicester; Taplow Village; Bold Street, Fleetwood; Sea Road, Abergele; Water Street, Liverpool; Flag Street, Hawkshead; Northgate Street, Gloucester; Wythburn Church; Carnegie Library and Town Hall, Walsall; Bridge Street, Peterborough; High Street, Ledbury; Church Street, Liverpool; Church Street, Tewkesbury; Porch House, Potterne; High Street, Whitchurch (Shrops.); Forster Square, Bradford; Main Street, Abergele; and others, (album).
POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL & OTHER Approximately 162 cards, including real photographic views of George Hotel, Woodford; Hurst Road, Bexley; Vicarage, Bexley; High Street, Bromley (publ. By Daniell Bros. of Lewisham); High Street, Bexley (two different); City Hall & Law Courts, Cardiff; Parkwood Road, Boscombe Park; Mountsfield Park, Hither Green (by Perkins of Lewisham); Royal Observatory, Greenwich (by Perkins); The Town Hall, Croydon; New Sea Wall, Roker; Barnes Park, Sunderland; a Grey Torpedo Cars [Devon] charabanc; and individual and group portraits; with views of High Street, Yarm; The Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea; Town Hall, Yarm-on-Tees; Yarm-on-Tees from Railway Station; Bridgen Village (publ. By Winter of Bexley); and others, (album).
A RARE CARVED MAORI LARGE MODEL CANOE (WAKA), 19TH CENTURY formed of a hiwi carved from a single piece of wood, fitted above on each side with rauawa, each carved with traditional masks flanked by linear panels and beadwork designs (cracks, small chips, carved tauihu or taurapa (incomplete, the other missing), the interior retaining a carved turu and a further carved cylindrical support, retaining some original ochre striping, with a small Maori paddle, of different scale 205.5 cm; 80 7/8 in long Provenance Worden Hall, Lancashire A private English collection Described as follows in the Worden Hall Inventory: 'Ancient Things'.......'War Canoe, New Zealand. They are designated by particular names such as Marutubai a slaying or devouring fire T Townley Esq.' Sold together with a copy of this entry in the typed manuscript entitled 'Catalogue of Sir William ffarington Kt. 1768 with such additions as have from time to time been suplemented [sic] to 1870 by Mary Hannah ffarington. Mid-19th century ledger begun at both ends; the above titles at one end after an incomplete index, followed by a list of paintings, and extracts from the Official Account of Cook's Third Voyage'.
AN ENGLISH OR FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET, CIRCA 1560 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb pierced at its apex with a later hole to receive a spike on which to mount a funerary crest, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common dome-headed pivots, the forward-sloping visor formed beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit with an inward-turned step, pierced at its front with eight small circular ventilation-holes and fitted at its right side with a baluster-ended lifting-peg that also serves as the pull to release a spring-catch that engages a hole in the lower bevor, the latter cut with a notch to accommodate the lifting-peg of the visor, fitted at the right of the chin with a further spring-catch (lacking its pull-release) to engage a hole in the lower edge of the upper bevor, and pierced at the right its neck with a hole to attach a swivel-hook to engage a pierced stud projecting from the front of the skull, the lower edges of both the skull and lower bevor flanged outwards to receive missing gorget-plates, the helmet decorated to either side of its comb and at the upper edge of its upper bevor with recessed bands, and at the upper edges of its visor and upper bevor respectively with partial and full turns, roped in the latter case, the whole covered with grey funerary paint now in part corroded and flaking 31.0 cm; 12¼ in Provenance Sir William ffarington, Worden Hall, Lancashire A private English collection The helmet owes its survival to having been suspended over an English tomb as part of an heraldic achievement. It at one time formed part of the collection assembled at Worden Hall, Lancashire, by Sir William ffarington (c. 1704-81) after 1765. It is unlikely to have formed a part of the Hall's indigenous armoury which was sequestered by Parliament in 1643 (ffarington 1856, p. 93), although it is said that a helmet - very likely the present lot - together with other pieces, did service as a funerary achievement that was eventually removed from the ffarington Chapel in Leyland Church in 1816 (De Cosson & Burgess 1881, p. 591). An 18th century inventory of the collection is preserved in New Zealand while three of the 19th century are preserved in private hands in England. The collection was sold by a local auctioneer in 1948. Two late 16th century jacks of plate and an associated pair of plate-sleeves from the same collection were sold in these rooms, 7th December 2016, lots 511-13. Literature S. M. ffarington, The ffarington Papers, Chetham Society, 1856, p. 93. A. de Cosson & W. Burgess, "Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail", Archaeological Journal, Vol. XXXVII, 1881, p. 591.
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Local Interest, Politics - [John Doyle (Irish Caricaturist, 1797 - 1868)], by, Scene from the II:nd (sic) act of A New Farce called A "County Meeting", monogrammed HB within the plate, Published by T. McLean, London [n.d., February 1830], hand-coloured lithograph, 27.5cm x 36cmThe petitioners Sir Henry FitzHerbert, 3rd Baronet of Tissington Hall and Edward Chandos-Pole of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire, beseech the then Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington following unrest in the countryside to institute 'County Meetings' - in this case presumably in Derby - to improve communications so that grievances could be addressed. The Duke unguardedly referred to one of these meetings as 'a farce' providing gambit for the cartoon. Later that year the Duke's Tory administration fell.
Hunting - Sidney Hall (1788 - 1831), after Charles Oakden (fl. 1825 - 1830), A New Map of the Country round Leicester, Melton Mowbray & Loughborough, Exhibiting the direct and crofs (sic) Roads, Woods and Fox Coverts, Rivers, Canals, Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Parks and Seats of the Nobility & Gentry [...], Published by C. Oakden, Leicester 1830, and sold by James Wyld, Geographer, London, fifteen-fold map laid on canvas for the pocket, 43cm x 47cm (unfolded)
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Miscellaneous - The Topographer [...], A Variety of Original Articles, Illustrative of the Local History and Antiquities of England, 1789 - 1791, four-volume set, J. Robson, London 1789 - 1791, illustrated throughout with full-page engravings, contemporary quarter-calf and buckram boards, gilt lettered title labels, gilt-embossed armorial book labels: Ralph Sneyd (1793 - 1870, of Keele Hall, Staffordshire, High Sheriff of the county in 1844), 8vo; Chamberlayne (John), Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia [...], two-parts bound as one, S. Birt [...], London 1755, 20th century brown buckram, bookplate: Bath Municipal Reference Library, 8vo; de Levis (M.), L'Angleterre, Au Commencement du Dix-Neuvième Siècle, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Paris 1814, contemporary English binding: calf spine with gilt lettered red morocco title label, card boards as issued, 8vo; Debrett's Correct Peerage [...], two-volume set, F.C. and J. Rivington [...], London 1817, contemporary boards and papered spines, Plain Armorial bookplates: Henry Birkbeck, large 12mo; Brydson (Thomas), A Summary View of Heraldry in Reference to the Usages of Chivalry and the general economy of the Feudal System [...], Mundell & Son, Edinburgh, Messrs. Nicol, Egerton, Edwards, Faulder, London 1795, hand-coloured emblematic frontispiece, contemporary calf (rubbed, disbound), 8vo; Fairbarin's Crests [...], two-volume set: Text & Plates, Bickers & Son, London, contemporary green cloth, bookplate to each pastedown: Presented to the Institute of British Carriage Manufacturers by John Philipson, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1882, 4to; Strutt (Joseph), The Sport and Pastimes of the People of England [...], Illustrated by One Hundred and Forty Engravings [...], A New Edition [...] by William Hone, Thomas Tegg, London 1845, contemporary cloth 8vo; Watkins's Biographical Dictionary, 1827, contemporary calf boards, later 20th century spine, thick 8vo; Lynch (Bohun), A History of Caricature, Faber and Gwyer, London 1926, Art Deco printed boards and buckram spine, paper title label, Golden Age Armorial bookplate: Robert, Marquess of Crewe, 4to; etc
Henry Stacy Marks RA (1829-1898)A MARABOU STORK;A STORK;A pair, both signed l.r., oil on canvas138 x 68cm;and another pair,A CRESTED CRANE;A STORKBoth signed l.r., oil on canvas86 x 46cm (4)Provenance: The Tim Wonnacott Collection.Henry Stacey Marks developed a definite theme later in his career depicting birds and ornithologists as well as landscapes. His principal patron was Hugh Grosvenor, First Duke of Westminster, working on the decorations at Eaton Hall between 1874 and 1880 including twelve panels of birds for the drawing room. In 1888, the Fine Art Society planned an exhibition on birds encouraging him to paint his most famous painting 'A Select Committee 1891' which is now in the Walker Art Gallery. His subjects often included Adjutant Storks and he visited the London Zoo regularly to observe them. His diploma work 'Science is measurement' depicted a scientist with measuring instruments before the skeleton of an adjutant stork and he acquired from a taxidermist a specimen to use in the preparation of the painting. It is possible that these paintings were included in the Grosvenor commission for Eaton Hall because the sale of surplus contents from the Alfred Waterhouse-designed buildings undertaken by local Cheshire auctioneers, Messrs. Swettenhams, in 1960 included works by Marks before the Waterhouse structure was largely demolished retaining only the chapel and outbuildings.See Lady Beaverbrook pasted labels verso.Provenance: Marcia Anastasia Cristoforides, 1909-1994 married Canadian financier Sir James Hamet Dunn and following his death in 1956 became the beneficiary of his large estate. One of the late baronet's closest friends was fellow Canadian Max Aitken, first Baron Beaverbrook, who ultimately in 1963, aged 84, married the 53-year old Lady Dunn, who following Lord Beaverbrook's death the following year, became one of Canada's most prominent philanthropists. At the time of her death in 1994, when these paintings by H S Marks were at her home in New Brunswick, it was calculated that she had donated over 300 million dollars to support education, cultural undertakings and wildlife preservation, which may be one of the reasons that Lady Beaverbrook enjoyed these paintings in her Nova Scotia home.The Tim Wonnacott Collection.
![Significant mid-19th century illustrated M/ss guide to Waterford HarbourCo. Waterford: [Bolton (Charles Newport)] Folio Volum](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c31b6c73-f51a-4a24-b9c4-a99700bb5c44/79b932b6-92f5-4b15-8450-a99d00ba34fc/468x382.jpg)
Significant mid-19th century illustrated M/ss guide to Waterford HarbourCo. Waterford: [Bolton (Charles Newport)] Folio Volume, 32 x 21 cm, bound in half calf with marbled boards (rubbed) and endpapers. Bookplate of C. Newport Bolton. "Waterford Harbour" printed on upper board in gold lettering on red label. Undated, but the preface mentions "the completion of the South Wales Railway to New Milford", and as the port was so named in November 1859, and the SWR amalgamated with the Great Western in 1863, the MS must have been compiled between those years. It was intended to be published as a guide for travellers, but the text ends abruptly at the bottom of f 67 and was apparently never completed. Several news cuttings on the history of the area are pasted in.Illustrated with 22 drawings in pen or pencil (many full-page), 5 lithographs and 2 photographs, featuring views and monuments on the River Suir and its estuary, including Dunmore Harbour, Duncannon Fort, Dunbrody Abbey, Fethard Castle, Loftus Hall, Tintern Abbey, and Ballyhack. Several of the drawings are reproductions of sketches done by the author for Hall's Ireland and Hore's Wexford, but most are original; the lithographs are taken from the author's Sketches on the River Suir.Charles Newport Bolton of Brook Lodge, Faithlegg, Co. Waterford (1816-1884) was a local landowner, historian and artist. His thirteen Sketches at Killarney and Glengariff were published in 1847 to raise funds "for the benefit of the distressed Irish", and his Sketches on the River Suir (1857) were published in aid of victims of the Indian Mutiny. He also sketched many British landscapes and antiquities. See Irish Genealogist, VII, no. 4 (1989), pp 632-3. As an Album & M/ss., w.a.f. (1)
A.W.N. Pugin for Alton Towers. A 'pair' of heavy gilt bronze fire dogs modelled as lions triumphant, c. 1840-50, each figure holding a scroll inscribed with the the Earl of Shrewsbury's family armorial motto 'Prest d'Accomplir' height 19in.Provenance: Commissioned by John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, 16th Earl of Waterford (1791–1852) from A.W.N. Pugin for Alton Towers, Staffordshire. In 1831, the Talbots' principal residence in Heythrop burned down. The 16th earl then came to live at Alton permanently, employing the renowned gothic revival architect Augustus Pugin to design a new entrance hall, banqueting hall and various other rooms, renaming the property Alton Towers. A surviving stone fireplace, designed by Pugin, in the Dining Hall of Alton Towers is carved with a triumphant and lion and the motto 'Prest d'Accomplir' in identical Gothicised script to these firedogs.In November 1918 the 20th Earl of Shrewsbury decided to sell off the majority of the Alton Towers estate and contents by auction. The countess continued to live on the estate for another two years after the earl died in 1921.
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