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![Ireland, John (as Lord), Second coinage, Halfpence (2), both type Ib, Dublin, Adam, adam o[ –– ], 0.66g/5h, Norman, [ ––– ] o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8571202a-1d8e-4517-bdc5-aeb000ae36fc/15567b3b-0931-47d3-9c9e-af3400d6571e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 75
Harold I (1035-1040), Penny, Jewel Cross type, Lincoln, Mathan Balluc, nadan ballvc o lin, 1.12g/12h (Talvio L1b; Smart p.444; SCBI Stockholm 312; Mossop –; BEH –; N 802; S 1163). Flan creased, otherwise better than very fine and dark toned; the moneyer’s name very unusual and rare £1,200-£1,500 --- Veronica Smart discusses this moneyer (Matathan Balluc) in her article ‘Osulf Thein and others: Double Moneyers’ names on the Late Anglo-Saxon Coinage’ in SiLASC, presenting two possible interpretations for this figure’s byname. One, rather amusing, possibility is that the epithet relates to the OE bealluc or ‘testicle’. Alternatively, the byname may derive from the Celtic balach or ‘boy’. Smart viewed the latter as the more likely, given the Irish origin of the moneyer’s initial name, although that is not to say that Matathan’s contemporaries would have recognised its cosmopolitan origin.
![Sir John Pope-Hennessy, 1888 [struck 1890], a bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, bust right, rev. seated female figure of Mauritius](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8571202a-1d8e-4517-bdc5-aeb000ae36fc/09fd5b8f-475f-4fcb-b2dc-af3400da35a5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 869
Sir John Pope-Hennessy, 1888 [struck 1890], a bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, bust right, rev. seated female figure of Mauritius waving to a departing steamer, arms of Mauritius at left, 69mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.91; Coll. R. Marx 26; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.271, 75; BDM V, 232; BHM 3360; E 1746). Extremely fine £90-£120 --- Sir John Pope-Hennessy, KCMG (1834-91), b Ballyhennessy, co Cork; educ. Queen’s College, Dublin; MP for King’s County, 1859-65; Governor of Labuan 1867-71; Governor of the Gold Coast 1872-3; Governor of the Bahamas 1873-4; Governor of Barbados and the Windward Islands 1875-6; Governor of Hong Kong 1877-83; Governor of Mauritius 1883-9; MP for North Kilkenny 1890-1
Lot 896
FRANCE, The French Youth to Michel Chevreul on his 100th Birthday, 1886, a bronze trial striking of the obv. of the medal by L.-O. Roty, bust right with wavy hair, 69mm (Maier 93; Roty Compagnonnage p.89; Coll. R. Marx 14; PBE 840; CGMP p.359; BDM V, 231; Baxter 32; Gaz. Num. 1897, p.135, 12; cf. DNW 49, 879). Extremely fine; foundry markings on the back £40-£60
Lot 900
FRANCE, Association Française Pour l’Avancement des Sciences, 1890, a silver award medal by L.-O. Roty, female seated under tree reading a book, plaque below named (Mme L. Grove), rev. figures of France and Science in greeting, the latter blessing an industrial town, 68mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.88; Coll. R. Marx 25; PBE 834; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl.47, 165; BDM V, 232; Gaz. Num. 1897, p.140, 28; cf. DNW 47, 851). About extremely fine and toned, rare £90-£120
Lot 901
FRANCE, Association Française Pour l’Avancement des Sciences, 1890, a plated bronze award medal by L.-O. Roty, named (Louis Bernheim, 1896), 45mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.88; Coll. R. Marx 25; PBE 834; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl.47, 165; BDM V, 232; Gaz. Num. 1897, p.140, 28; cf. DNW M2, 2467); Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, a bronze medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, 32mm, and a uniface plated bronze medal by I.L. Blanchot, 28mm; Préparation Militaire, 1911, a bronze medal by P. Grandhomme for the Ministre de la Guerre, 50mm (BDM VII, 389; V & A Exh. Cat. 1998, 1; cf. DNW 193, 1240); Force Adresse, c. 1915, a plated bronze medal by R. Lamourdedieu for Le Petit Journal, 36mm; together with other base metal medals (6), by Contaux, F. Vernon, H. Dropsy, Matteï, A. Dubois and H. Dubois [11]. Very fine and better; one in case of issue £80-£100 --- Louis Bernheim, CB (1861-1931), Belgian career soldier and general; b. Brussels; taught at the Royal Military Academy, Brussels; commanded the 3rd brigade during the siege of Antwerp, September 1914, and served throughout World War I; promoted to Major-General and later Lieutenant-General; appointed Inspector-General of Infantry, 1919; retired 1926
Lot 923
FRANCE, Jeanne d’Arc, 1936, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse, bust left, rev. robed females offering sword to winged angel, tree at left, 96mm (cf. DNW 257, 611). About extremely fine, rare; in original green card box by Henri Teterger, 248 rue de Rivoli, Paris [this somewhat stained] £90-£120
Lot 475
A selection of hardback books, primarily relating to marine ecology and biology, titles including: An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, by G. O. Sars, volumes 1-8; The Marine Fauna and Flora of the Cullercoats District, volumes I and II; Kingdom of the Octopus, by Frank W. Lane; Zoo-geography of the Sea, by Sven Ekman; Marine Ecology, by Hilary B. Moore; and others, contained across two boxes.
Lot 100
A SMALL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ITEMS MEIJI OR LATER, 20TH CENTURY Comprising: a bronze model of a minogame, the carapace of the legendary turtle inlaid with silver-coloured wires; a double-gourd sake bottle with decoration rendered in white slip, and a circular cloisonne box and cover decorated with a ho-o bird amongst auspicious symbols, 17cm max. (4)
Lot 14
A JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY The well decorated with a central panel enclosing two large ho-o, the long-tailed birds on a rocky outcrop framed by large flowers and leafy tendrils; all within a border of further blooms and auspicious symbols; the reverse with karakusa scrolls and a six-characters Chenghua mark; a paper label for Christie's 20 June 1998, lot 793, and another for Spink & Son, 18.7cm. Provenance: from a British private collection, formed 1970-2003. See the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, access. no.L09.13.17 for an ai Kakiemon dish in the Macdonald collection painted with the same scene in the centre.
Lot 161
A JAPANESE EXPORT GILT AND BLACK LACQUER CABINET EDO PERIOD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY Of rectangular form with a flat top, the pictorial-style cabinet with two hinged doors to the front decorated with an extensive landscape, with temples and pavilions nestled in the hills; the right door painted with buildings reminiscent of Kiyomizudera and Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto; the sides with depictions of flowering peonies and bamboo; all rendered in gold and silver hiramaki-e on the black roiro lacquer ground; the front doors decorated to the inside with two pairs of cranes, and opening to reveal eight drawers of various sizes and two smaller doors with lockplates; the drawers embellished with further birds, flowers, and pavilions in landscapes; the back with a paper label for 'Curtiss & Sons, Ltd. Depositories: Comdr A. E. Johnstone (?), no.112'; with a built-in stand and raised again on an associated European stand with chinoiserie decoration, 149cm high overall, the cabinet 88.5cm x 102cm x 53.5cm. (2) Cf. O Impey & C Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer (1580-1850), pp.130-34 where comparable cabinets are illustrated and discussed. The label at the back refers to Curtiss & Sons, a storehouse opened in the 1860s and first located in Portsmouth, UK, before expanding to the rest of the country. Portsmouth is home to the Royal Navy and the word 'Comdr' is a shortened version of Commander. Commander Johnstone may thus have been a member of the Royal Navy.
Lot 18
A LARGE JAPANESE IMARI CHARGER EDO PERIOD, C.1700 Typically decorated in gilt, underglaze blue, red and black enamels, the well painted with the shochikubai (the Three Friends of Winter), the branches of prunus, bamboo and pine issuing from a large tripod vessel, the cavetto and rim with a band of flowering peonies and two large ho-o birds in flight, the underside with flowering sprays, 53.4cm. See the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, access. no.7333-1860 for a comparable dish previously in the collection of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony.
Lot 228
OHARA KOSON (1877-1945) MEIJI OR TAISHO, 20TH CENTURY Two Japanese woodblock prints, one entitled 'Roaring Tiger over the Crescent Moon', signed Koson and with a red seal mark; the other entitled 'Wild Boar', the wild swine lying in the snow before leafless trees, the sky behind a graduated orange colour, signed; both o-tanzaku, both approx. 34cm x 19cm. (2) Provenance: from the private collection of a British artist, formed in the 1990s.
Lot 303
PLEASE NOTE THE ESTIMATE SHOULD READ £500-800A STUDY COLLECTION OF FOUR JAPANESE POLYCHROME ITEMSEDO AND LATER, 17TH CENTURY AND LATERComprising: two rectangular dishes, one in Kakiemon style with two dragons, peonies, pine and prunus, the other with floral sprays and formal patterns; the third dish in the shape of two leaves, with a band of cash and kintsugi gold lacquer repairs; the fourth in the shape of a partially-opened fan, with cherry blossoms and geometric patterns, a six-character Chenghua mark underneath; all decorated with polychrome enamels, 17.1cm max. (4)Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford.Cf. The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection, p.109, no.0858, and p.35, o.270 for a dish related to the one moulded with two leaves. Also, see the Gardiner Museum, access. no.T15.2.44 for another example in the Macdonald collection.
Lot 306
A JAPANESE NABESHIMA BLUE AND WHITE DISH EDO PERIOD, C.1700-20 With an everted rim, decorated with a bamboo basket containing chrysanthemum, leafy sprays and fruits, the cover falling to one side, the reverse painted with three beribboned clusters of shippo-tsunagi (cash), with a combed foot, 20cm. Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. According to Oliver Impey's archive, this is a 'v.good' example, and 'shards of this pattern have been found at the O Kawashi kiln site'.
Lot 334
PLEASE NOTE THE ESTIMATE SHOULD READ £500-800A RARE JAPANESE 'NAGASAKI' LACQUER CASKET EDO PERIOD, C.1730The bow-fronted pictorial-style box decorated in mother of pearl and gold hiramaki-e with flowers and birds in flight, the lid with a rectangular panel enclosing a European scene, the image depicting a man in prayer leaning against a sarcophagus, with a skull and putti crying to the side, the compartmentalised interior lined in green velvet, 36.7cm X 22.5cm x 31.5cm; together with a rectangular pictorial chest with a single drawer, c.1640-90, painted with many figures in mountainous river landscapes, the interior decorated in nashiji with an inner compartment and drawer, 23.5cm x 43cm x 24.7cm. (3)Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford.Cf. O Impey & C Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer (1580-1850), no.307 a & b, where this very piece is illustrated and discussed.
Lot 355
KAWANABE KYOSAI (1831-89) MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY Three Japanese kakemono (hanging scroll paintings), ink and colour on paper, all mounted on board as panels of a byobu (screen); one depicting a Shinto procession with two men carrying a tree on a float; another with three children playing, a banner painted with a samurai above them; the third with a man cursing a seagull flying away with his fish supper; each signed with a red seal mark reading Beiju-o in (Seal of the old man of rice juice), one signed Seisei Kyosai, the other two Kyosai, each approx. 173cm x 63cm. (3) Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. Cf. S Koto, Kyosai: The Israel Goldman Collection,pp.74-75 no.26, for another Kyosai painting with the same Seisei Kyosai signature and seal.
Lot 36
A JAPANESE KUTANI MODEL OF A TAKARABUNE (TREASURE SHIP) MEIJI OR LATER, 20TH CENTURY Laden with sacred objects including Daikoku's mallet, the sail painted with a large ho-o bird, the decoration rendered in bright polychrome enamels and gilt; together with a rectangular dish with flowers and scrolling tendrils, in a tomobako wood box, 26.7cm and 18.2cm respectively. (3) PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
Lot 48
A LARGE JAPANESE SATSUMA RECTANGULAR TRAY MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY Intricately decorated in enamels and gilt, the moulded well painted with an elaborate scene of butterflies fluttering next to flowering chrysanthemum and peony, a kingfisher perched amongst the blooms; a fisherman holding a net and a basket visible in the background and a couple of deer on a hill behind, the cavetto painted with a ribbon embellished with brocade patterns, Buddhist emblems and other formal designs including ho-o birds, the back left undecorated, 48.9cm x 36cm x 6cm.
Lot 80
A JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE BY OTA KICHISABURO MEIJI ERA, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY The rectangular-section body decorated with two colourful doves perched on a flowering prunus tree, the reverse with further branches on the deep midnight-blue ground; the shoulder with a complex design of lappets enclosing flowers and other formal designs, a band of geometric patterns above the foot and to the neck, the base with an impressed mark reading O Kichi for Ota Kichisaburo, 15.2cm.
Lot 46
Tobacciana - Three albums of early 20th century cigarette packet fronts:The first one to include: Players, Gold Leaf, Bachelor, Walters, W. D. & H. O. Wills, Capstan, The Passing Cloud, Embassy, Wild Woodbine, Wings, Craven, Piccadilly, Gerards, Abdulla, Rhodian, Waverly, Churchmans, Winchester, Grads, State Express, Kensitas, Martins, Clifton, Du Maurier, John Woods, Walton, Charter, The Greys, Spinet, Morris's De Reszke, Egyptian Cigarette Manufactory, Macdonalds, Curzon, M. Melachrino & Co, Dobies, Lucky Strike, Marcovitch, Old Gold, Phillip Morris, Sweet Caporal, Chesterfield, Camel, Bronx, Dunhill, Macdonalds and Balto. All held within a black album.The second album to include: Craven, Murrays, Astorias, Players, State Express, Abdulla, Passing Cloud, Sweet Caporal, Fifth Avenue, Roy Campbell, Meriel, Churchmans, Escudo, Royalty, Joh Woods, Planters, The Greys, Tobacco Bloom, Peerage, Dobies, Martins, Piccadilly, Sobraine, Crayol, Senior Service, Sunripe, Wills, Du Maurier, Tenner, Sweet Afton, Spinet, Royston, Capstan, Star, Corktips, Leisures, J. Wix & Sons, Lucky Choise, Golden Corss, Players, Pibroek, Charter, Moorgate, Grads, Ardath, Yanx, Bucktrouts, Country Life, Ark Royal Clifotn, Dimitrino & Co, Ching & Co, Wings, Three Lions, Benson & Hedges, Kenilworth, Gill Bros, Buckingham, Balkan Sobranie, Mills, The Albany, Sterling, Plane, Rhodian, Rothmans, White Eagle and Airman.Third album to include: Hills, Villa Rica, Bastos, Craven, Dmasco, Winston, Parker, Arizona, Celtique, Almos, Richmond, Churchmans, Colorado, Ova, Capstan, Roxy, Aida, Sheik, Dunhill, Wild Woodbine, Continental, Mustang, Topten, Parliament, Cresta, La Favorite, Ideales, Egee, State Express, 100 Players, Hellas, Kenilworth, Austria, Viceroy, Airman, Paramount, Carmen, Royale, Nazionali, Old mar, Klubowe, Champion, Marina, Senior Service, Memphis, Caballero, Zefir, Balto, Armada, Raydex, Pilot, Colombo, Bali, Edelweiss, Richmond Gem, Astor, Raleigh, Waverley, Filtra, Laurens, Nil, Rothmans, Popularne, Full Speed, Turf, Bar One, Spud, Fleet-Wing, Kapitan, Opal, Gladstone, A.S, Regent, Gloria, Visa, Orienta, Texas, Sopanae, Amiral, Jaycee, Piast, Davros, Week-End, Darcy, Bill, Lucky Strike, Brunette, Fresco, Macedonia, Punceps and Yser.
Lot 35
An 18ct gold, ruby and enamel dome flower ring. The ring having a floral motif made up of six round cut claw set ruby to emulate petals surrounded by five green enamelled leaves on etched design shoulders on a tapered shank. Central bezel set stone missing & some wear to enamel. Pink stones measure approx 2 x 2 x 1.3mm. Weighs approx 4.3g. Size O.
Lot 13
THREE RINGS, the first set with three circular cut colourless cubic zirconia, each claw set within a yellow gold, pinched shoulders leading onto a polished band, hallmarked 9ct Sheffield, ring size O, the second set with a rectangular cut amethyst, each of the four claws are set with a small diamond, to a polished band, hallmarked 9ct gold Birmingham, the third a rose gold tone ring set with an oval shell cameo depicting a lady in profile, collet set to a polished yellow metal band, stamp mark rubbed, approximate gross weight 6.6 grams (condition report: the cameo has some wear, general light wear to the rings)
Lot 314
SIX ROYAL DOULTON FIGURINES, comprising 'Clarissa' HN2345 (extensive crazing and cracked), 'Patricia' HN2715 (small scratches on back of skirt, three tiny black dots under the glaze on front of skirt), 'Maytime' HN2113 (tiny pit mark on back of skirt, tiny scratch on eyebrow), 'Top o The Hill' HN1834, 'Invitation' HN2170, height 14.5cm, 'Bedtime Story' HN 2059, height 13cm (6) (Condition report: obvious signs of damage mentioned in description)
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