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Old master study , probably depicting Charles I in profile, oil on panel, Depicting feast within buildings and lanscaped backdrop97 BY 80CM

A quantity of mainly figurative and portrait prints and engravings, subjects including American figures George Washington, Zachary Taylor, Winfield Hancock, John Tyler, Henry Clay, Thomas Florence, Andrew Johnson and others; a group of Old Master subjects including works after Wouwermans, Durer, Piotor Regius, Berghem, Stothard; A pugilist print of Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphreys, after C.R. Ryley, and others.(qty) B2

*Trench Art; a First World War brass 18-pounder shell-case in the form of a miniature coal scuttle; naieve rose and leaf engraving with Maltese Cross design to the top; signed '165690 P. CARMAN - 59.DIV. SIG, RE - BEF FRANCE' (Percy Carman (1881-1962) was a 35-year-old self-employed master blacksmith living at 5 Chapel Street, Ely, when he was called up in 1916) (19cm) 

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954); a signed limited edition lithograph, 1927, on Chine Volant, 'Danseuse Reflétée dans la Glace' (D-490), signed and numbered 18/50 lower right, approx 20 x 27cm, framed and glazed. (D)Provenance: Private collection North West. Halcyon Gallery, London. Messrs. Christies Old Master Modern and Contemporary Prints Sale, London July 3rd 2002, Lot 216.Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.ukThere is some minor rippling to the paper, a 1cm crease to the left hand side of the figure, but the vendor has kept the picture as was when purchased, and overall is in good condition.

A fine late Victorian boxwood and ebonised Staunton pattern chess set, probably by F. H. Ayres, late 19th century, one rook and one knight on each side stamped with a red crown, the Kings 8.5cm high; presented in a rectangular mahogany case, 9cm high, 18cm wide To be sold with a Chess player's pocket-book by James Mortimer dated 1888 The 'Staunton Pattern' chessmen were first patented in 1849, and the design is usually credited to journalist and entrepreneur Nathaniel Cooke. Occasionally it is attributed to John Jaques (see previous page), whose company was the first of many manufacturers to produce and retail Staunton sets. The design was named after Howard Staunton, a world famous English chess master at the time, whose important endorsement was mentioned in the Morning Herald when Staunton sets first appeared on the market: 'A new set of Chessmen has recently appeared under the auspices of Mr. STAUNTON, who, observing their manifest superiority over the old figures in ordinary use, not only as works of art, but in the more practical necessities of convenience, has vouchsafed the guarantee of his name and recommendation.' The iconic, streamlined design, which was easier to produce than the more ornate ivory models from before, soon became the standard and is still synonymous with the game of chess.

17th century Old Master, sanguine chalk on paper, study of a horse, unsigned, bears the stamp of The Witt Collection verso, sheet size 8.5" x 11.5", framed Creases, foxing and discolouration

18th century Old Master School, sanguine chalk drawings, Classical cherubs, unsigned, sheet size, 10.5" x 16", unframed Fold marks and several light watermarks on the edge

A late Victorian leather single draw telescope:, unsigned the main tube with remains of leather cover and flags of nations, the shade with personalised inscription' August 1896 To Captain George W Rayner from his old Master E J****r Looper 'Sunrise' RYS', 60 cm extended.

Miscellaneous prints onto glass or porcelain, each after an Old Master, hand tinted, 14cm x 10cm. (4)

Pair of 17th Century style Old Master copy, still life studies of vases of flowers, oils on canvas. 70 x 50cm approx. (2)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: One has a very large tear through it. The other has a smaller tear, therefore, loss to paintwork, especially on the one with the larger tear.

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600–1670)Flowers in a Lapis-Lazuli Vase on a Marble Top with a Conch Shell and a Monarch ButterflyBodycolor on vellumSheet size: 17 5/8 x 12 3/4 in. (44.8 x 32.4cm)PROVENANCE:Private Collection, Genoa, Italy.Silvano Lodi Gallery , Milan, Italy. Private Collection, Milan, Italy.Koller Auktionen AG, Zurich, sale of September 18, 2015, lot 3063.Acquired directly from the above sale.Private Collection, New York, New York.LITERATURE:Gerardo Casale, "Le Note del Colore" in New Old Master Paintings, Galleria Silvano Lodi, Milan, 2012, pp. 108-113 (illustrated).

AFTER ANTHONY VAN DYCK, AN 18TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS COPY OF AN OLD MASTER depicting the Infant Christ of John the Baptist 223.5cm high 128cm wide mounted in a gilt frame.

Circle of Ferdinand Pautrot (1832-1874) - a pair of 19th century French bronze game birds in the manner of Pautrot. Realistically modelled as if being 'hung', both with legs extended and in the manner of birds seen in Old Master paintings. One probably a grouse (37cm long) and the other likely a Snipe (35cm long). The Snipe with one loosely pinned wing, both with holes to the flat backs to allow them to be mounted. 

* Prints and engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 300 prints and engravings, 18th & 19th century, including British and foreign topographical views, including examples by Buck, Roberts, Linschoten, Bartlett, Sparrow and Nash, genre scenes, coaching, gambling and 'old master' etchings and engravings, various sizes and condition, three framed and glazed (Qty: approx. 300)

17th century, Italian Old Master, sanguine on paper - A Hippocampus, in glazed gilt frame, 18cm x 25cm

Continental School, 17th century Old Master pen and ink drawing on paper - Station of The Cross, in glazed frame, 33.5cm x 25cm

Selection of early 20th century American Gorham sterling silver Hunt Club pattern flatware with engraved initial, comprising 8 salad forks, 8 dinner forks, 16 teaspoons, 8 gumbo soup spoons, 1 butter spreader, 1 master butter knife, 3 table/serving spoons, 1 sugar spoon, 1 serving spoon, 1 serving spoon, 1 gravy ladle, 1 large jelly server, 8 iced tea spoons and 2 knives. All marked Gorham Sterling Pat 1930. Together with 6 Plymouth pattern Pat 1911 Bouillon spoons, 12 Buttercup pattern Old style pickle forks, a group of other American sterling silver items, including two commemorative spoons, and six miscellaneous white metal/plated serving pieces. Approximately 99ozs weighable silver. 83 sterling silver pieces in total.

William Gray (19th century) Scottish landscape with fisherman, signed and dated (18) 96, watercolour, provenance: Old Master Gallery; together with British school (19th century) Lakeland Landscape, bears erroneous signature to Copley Fielding

PAINTED PORTRAIT MINIATURES (four) and one other, three depicting young women in period clothing, painted on ivory slips, an oval porcelain example of a young boy along with a print study of a young boy and rabbit after the Old Master original, in various wood and metal frames

Dutch School Old Master. Oil on panel. “Shepherd Playing a Flute”. Original bill of sale and Christies Provenance.Measures 21cm x 28cm.Condition Report – Very good condition.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL. A FORTIFIED TOWN WITH SHEPHERDS IN THE FOREGROUND, GOUACHE. 15.5 x 21cms.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL. AN ITALIANATE CLASSICAL RIVER SCENE WITH FOREGROUND FISHERFOLK, OIL ON CANVAS. 30 x 45cms.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL A RIVERSCENE WITH FOREGROUND FIGURES AND CATTLE, OIL ON PANEL IN A CARVED GILTWOOD FRAME. 42 x52cms.

NO RESERVE Old master prints.- Goltzius (Hendrik) [The wedding of Cupid and Psyche], two plates only (of three, lacking central print), after Bartholomeus Spranger, engravings on laid papers, one with armorial watermark, each image approx. 400 x 285 mm. (15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in), both trimmed, one lacking text, several repaired tears, handling creases, surface dirt and browning, unframed, [1587]; together with ten other old master prints, including an engraving after Cornelis Troost of Proposition de mariage aux parents de Sarotte, by Jan Punt, 1754, trimmed without letters, an allegorical engraving by François Chauveau, Cornelis Visscher's Hurdy-Gurdy player, a young violinist and other urchins stand before a doorway, after Ostade, and another after Jean Brachenmacher, and others similar, engravings, all unframed, 16th to 18th century (12)

COOPER, Thomas (c.1517 Oxford-1594), Master of Magdalen College School...English Theologian, Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae, London 1584, title page with colophon, annotations etc., marbled edges and end papers, old rebind in 'burr' calf with black title. small Fo. (320 x 225mm) plus WALKER, John, 'A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary', 4th Ed. Johnson et al. London 1806. full calf. Hornyhold b/p. 4to. (280 x 225mm) and a further 2nd Ed. of the same title 1797. rebound in green cloth. 4to. all with Eric Gerald Stanley b/ps (3)

An early 20th century oak connoisseur's Old Master diptych altarpiece, printed in polychrome and picked out in gilt, gilt slip, ebonised rectangular frame, 45cm x 40cm overall, c. 1920

Books - Auction Sale Catalogues - Books: Sotheby & Co, The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Vaduz Liechtenstein, Collected by the Late Arpad Plesch, three-volume set: Parts 1-3, June 1975-March 1976, colour frontispieces, b/w illustrations, celadon boards, each with loosely inserted prices and buyers' names, 4to, (3); Sotheby's, Catalogue of Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents [...], Volume I: Tuesday, 13th March, 1979, pictorial green card wrappers, 8vo; Sotheby's and Christie's Old Master Pictures and Prints, Impressionist and later Art, various; furniture and works of art; etc

* Milner (Isaac, 1750-1820). Autograph letter describing experiments to identify the cause of Oxidisation of Lead, Deanery (Carlisle), 9 September, 1813, 4pp., window-mounted on modern album sheets, a few small stains, 4to, together with: Seeley (Harry Govier, 1839-1909). Autograph letter to an unnamed recipient attacking Hugh Poyntz Malet's pronouncements on the Nebular Hypothesis theory in his book "The Beginings", published in 1878, 26 September 1879, 4 pp., old folds, 8vo, plus Harding (Reginald Tuffley, 1870-1917). Autograph letter on how to construct a bichromate battery for producing electric light, Rugby School, 20 May 1884, 6 pp., a few crude sketches, some light soiling and splits along folds, 8vo, with three other manuscripts: An autograph letter from Austrian emigre and auctioneer Alexander Cassano, 11 May 1808 in which he pleads against transportation to the colonies for letting his auction rooms in Piccadilly to a debating society; an archive of 28 autograph letters written mostly by statesman Lord Hartington to Manchester merchant William Rayner Wood on political meetings and elections for appointing Officers for the County of Lancashire (1850's-60's) and a manuscript deposition from plaintiff Elizabeth Wakefield against defendant Mary Ross for trespass and causing wilful damage to her house in Handsworth, West Midlands, circa 1828 (Qty: 6)NOTESThe first letter from Isaac Milner, mathematician and Dean of Carlisle, describes his chemical experiments to investigate whether water caused the oxidisation of lead, and discovered that it was in fact air, and describes experiments to produce a tincture of sulphur to identify lead in other substances, including wine; the second letter from Harry Seeley attacks Malet's rejection of Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis, "He mistakes the tools of the scientific man for science itself, and denies the tools to those who can use them, because he does not know or understand or appreciate the results which have thereby been obtained. Among such tools is the nebular hypothesis... Such writings of Mr. Malet's seems unwise, because it presents to the public the little one-sided knowledge which is dangerous and thereby tends to prevent people who believe in him from believing in the teachings of scientific men."; the third letter is from Reginald Harding, aged 13, writing at his father's behest to a Mr Hamel, detailing how to construct a bichromate battery in a long-neck bottle, with illustrations, and recommends the use of vacuum bulbs to produce electric light. The Rugby School notepaper has the name E.A. Scott (Edward Ashley Scott, Harding's house master) who perhaps assisted the young pupil with this information.

Tofani (Annamaria Petrioli), Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi, Inventario, Disegni esposti, 2 volumes, & Disegni di figura, I, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1986-87 & 1991 respectively, numerous monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust wrappers, 4to/VG, together with Birke (Veronika and Kertesz, Janine), Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Generalverzeichnis Band I, Vienna: Bohlau Verlag, 1992, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust wrapper, thick 4to, VG, plus Haverkamp-Begemann (Egbert, Lawder, Standish D., and Talbot, Charles W.). Drawings from the Clark Art Institute, 2 volumes, Newhaven and London: Yale University Press, 1964, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, original quarter cloth, with publisher's slipcase, square 4to, and others related, on Old Master drawings, collections, including: Christian Muller, Kunstsammlung Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, Katalog der Zeichnungen, Teil 2A, Die Zeichnungen von Hans Holbein dem Jungeren und Ambrosius Holbein, 1996, Frits Lugt, Bibliotheque Nationale, Inventaire General des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord, 1936, Musée du Louvre, Inventaire General des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord, 2 volumes, 1949 (worn), & Maitres des Anciens Pays-Bas, 1968, Louis demonts, Musee de Louvre, Inventaire General des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord, Ecoles allemande et Suisse, 2 volumes, 1937-38, Emmanuel Starcky, Musee de Louvre, Inventaire General des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord, Ecoles allemande des Anciens Pays-Bas... Supplement aux inventaires publies par Frits Lugt et Louis Demonts, 2 volumes, 1988, etc., mostly original cloth (but including several paperbound titles), all 4to (Qty: 33)NOTESEx libris Michael Jaffé (1923–1997).

DICKENS, CHARLES, The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale: complete in one volume, The First 'Separate' edition as originally this title formed parts of 'Master Humphrey's Clock', this accounts for the page numbering irregularities (e.g p 2-38, A7-49, etc) original olive-green boards faded to a brownish hue

Herman van Swanevelt (1603-1655), Classical landscape, Old Master engraving, 14.5 x 20cm, unframed

Cornelis Pietrsz Bega (1631-1664), Man resting, Old Master etching, 7 x 5cm, mounted but unframed

Enea Vito (1525-1567), Allegorical figures with goat, Old Master engraving, 9 x 10cm, unframed

LIMITED EDITION & CLASSICAL OLD MASTER PRINTS - a quantity including JOHN WEISS gilt framed oilographs of dogs (191/1000), 34 x 45cms and (240/950) 39 x 57cms

English Provincial School, 18th Century-Portrait of Black John, jester, full-length standing,:-oil on canvas, 103 x 62cm* Note. Black John, said to be Jester to J.Arscott of Tetcott [of hunting fame]. Arscott [1718-1788] was the last man in England to keep a professional jester and, on his death, left the Tetcott property, where he was buried, to the Molesworths. Black John was so attached to his master that he built a shelter close to the church at Tetcott and there, with an old hound as his sole companion, he grieved away the remainder of his life and died of a broken heart.

Alison Elliott, contemporary, Scorpion, signed and dated 2008, oil on linen, 122 x 183cm, showing jockey Kieren Fallon riding Scorpion in 2005. Shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2008 and first exhibited with Society of equestrian artists at Palace House Newmarket. Alison is a rising artist renowned for her portraits of animals and her striking oversized equine studies, which combine a traditional old master technique and an acute eye for detail with a contemporary monochrome background. These impressive works sell in the tens of thousands and she is represented by Jonathan Cooper Fine Art

A folio of 17th & 18th century Old Master and other engravings, French School (fourth-quarter 17th century), after Jean Lepautre (1618-1682), Baroque Auricular Ewer with Apples, the sides with Classical figures, [Paris, n.d., c. 1675], copperplate etching, 24cm x 17cm, connoisseur's mount; another, Urn Ornamented with Figures, Swags and a Medallion, Supported by Cherubs, [Paris: Jean II Le Blond (c. 1635-1709), n.d., c. 1675], copperplate etching, 28cm x 20cm, mounted en suite; James Gillray (1756-1815), by and after, caricature, Patriots amusing themselves;_or_ Swedes practising at a Post, [London]: Hannah Humphrey, April 19th 1792, monochrome etching, numbered 74 within the platemark, 26cm x 34.5cm; Edward Bell (late 18th century), by, [...] Portrait of Captain George Westcott, who fell on Board [...] the Majestic [...] in the ever memorable Victory of the Nile [...] 1798; [...] Inscribed to [...] Admiral Lord Nelson [...] London: Published by George Riley, May 12, 1790, mezzotint engraving, 27.2cm x 22.6cm, trimmed and mounted; Continental School (early 19th century), a regiment of Russian Cossacks in a Town Square, two-page aquatint, 51cm x 67cm, Provenance: Koenigl. Palais Bibliothek, stamped, Deutsche Heeresbücheret Berlin, stamped; Rinaldo in the Garden of Armida, fan design, printed in polychrome on silk, early 20th century, 25cm x 38.5cm; 19th century French portrait etchings, after Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788), (2); Portraits of the British and Their Allies, [London]: Published by R. Bowyer, June 1, 1816, copperplate engraving, 46cm x 32cm; Holbein; named-view and topographical engravings, various; (collection)

An interesting portfolio of 18th and 19th century Old Master prints and engravings, including Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718), after Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Bologna? 1666], etching, 34.5cm x 51cm; Captain William Baillie (1723-1810): after Gerrit Dou, A Sleeping Woman Being Provoked by Two Men with Tobacco Pipes, [1774], mezzotint, 34.5cm x 25.5cm, cropped with loss of lettering and publication details, &, after Jan van Wyck(1652-1702), James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, [1774], mezzotint, 35cm x 42cm, cropped with loss of all lettering and publication details, (2); William Dickinson, by, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, [London 1773], mezzotint, 41cm x 32.5cm, cropped with loss of all lettering and publication details; Simon François Ravenet (1706- c. 1764), after Richard Dalton (1715-1791), Servus cultellum acuens et auscultans, [London 1745], etching and engraving, 33cm x 37.5cm, cropped with some loss of lettering and publication details; others, including further Old Masters, anatomical studies, portraits, architecture, antiquities; etc., [collection]

Old Masters.- Reitlinger (Henry Scipio) Old Master Drawings: A Handbook for Amateurs and Collectors, 72 plates, uncut, original cloth-backed boards, faded and worn, loss to upper portion of spine, extremities worn, 1922 § Tietze (Hans) European Master Drawings in the United States, illustrations, original cloth rather stained and marked, rubbed, 1947; and c.135 others, old masters, drawing, v.s. (c.140)

In the manner of John Vardy, Study of a Windmill, watercolour, oval, 21cm x 16cm; Traditional Gypsy Caravan, watercolour, 14cm x 21cm, ; a 19th century Old Master style sketch of elderly gentleman; a contemporary watercolour of a gypsy caravan (3)

Various Hogarth frames, 33cm x 27cm ,etc. and various Old Master prints. (a quantity)

19thC English School. Landscape with clouds gathering, watercolour, 9cm x 17cm, Old Master print of children. (2)

CHARLOTTE OF MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ: (1744-1818) Queen Consort of the United Kingdom 1761-1818. Wife of King George III. A.L.S., Charlotte, one page, 8vo, Windsor, 25th February 1811, to the Earl of Courtown. The Queen acknowledges receipt of the communication from her correspondent delivering news of 'the Death of Poor Lrd. Cardigan' and asks the Earl to convey her condolences to Lady Cardigan upon her loss, concluding 'I beg you to Believe that in His Death I regret a very good and Excellent Man'. With blank integral leaf. Accompanied by the original envelope wrapper addressed in the Queen's hand and bearing a red wax seal (cracked and the wrapper with numerous large tears and some areas of paper loss). Some minor foxing, otherwise VG James Stopford (1765-1835) 3rd Earl of Courtown. Anglo-Irish Peer and Politician who served as Treasurer of the Household 1793-1806, 1807-12. James Brudenell (1725-1811) 5th Earl of Cardigan. British Courtier and Politician, Master of the Robes 1760-91, Keeper of the Privy Purse 1773-1812 and Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle 1791-1811. The Earl died at the age of 85 in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, on 24th February 1811. The 76-year-old Earl of Cardigan took the 32-year-old Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave to be his second wife in 1791. The Countess served as Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1793-1807.

A BOX OF ASSORTED MODERN QUARTZ POCKET WATCHES, various case designs including prints of Old Master paintings, locomotive and architecture themed (parcel)

Seven leather bound and other Dickens works, Bleak House, The Pickwick Club, Edwin Drood, David Copperfield, Master Humphries Clock, Pickwick Papers, and The Old Curiosity Shop

A Pair of Victorian oil on canvas paintings fitted with gilt frames together with an old framed print after Sir Joshua Reynolds titled "Master Philip Yorke"

After Abrahams Cooper (RA 1787-1868) Master of the old Surrey and Burstow hounds, mounted on his horse, together with a print after Munning

Michael Leopold Lukas Willmann (1630-1706), 'The Madonna in Glory,' with the Genealogy of Christ, Etching, 335x195mm, Mounted and framed Provenance: Christies, Lot 203, 9 Dec. 2015, Old Master Prints

A 19thC religious print of figures and putti, after an old Master, 22cm x 16cm.

Five bottles of Whisky including a 75cl bottle of Dimple Haig, Bell's Royal Reserve, Dunhill Old Master and two others.

Large Old Master Style Painting of Nun with Crucifix. Appears to be unsigned. Oil on Canvas.Size: 58 x 41 in.Unframed.

17th C. Old Master Drawing, Anatomical Study of Bones. Sanguine/paper. Appears to be unsigned. Sight Size: 8.25 x 8.25 in. Overall Size: 14.75 x 18.75 in. Framed behind glass.

Old Master Allegorical Sketch on paper. Appears to be unsigned, has not been examined out of frame. Sight Size: 8.5 x 11 in. Overall Size: 17 x 21.75 in. Framed behind glass.

The Balvenie Single Barrel 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Speyside, Scotland 1994 The Balvenie Malt Master selects only those casks which have the essential characteristics of The Balvenie Single Barrel, particularly honey, vanilla and oaky notes. Each bottling forms a limited edition of no more than 350 hand-numbered bottles - so each bottle is unique and unrepeatable.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL. AN ITALIANATE CLASSICAL RIVER SCENE WITH FOREGROUND FISHER FOLK, OIL ON CANVAS. 30 x 45cms.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL. A FORTIFIED TOWN WITH SHEPHERDS IN THE FOREGROUND, GOUACHE. 15.5 x 21cms.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL. PORTRAIT OF A SAINT, OIL ON CANVAS LAID ON PANEL. 23 x 20cms.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL A RIVERSCENE WITH FOREGROUND FIGURES AND CATTLE, OIL ON PANEL IN A CARVED GILTWOOD FRAME. 42 x52cms.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL. AN ALLEGORICAL SCENE WITH FIGURES ON A ROCKY COAST, OIL ON PANEL, UNFRAMED. 62 x 54cms.

OLD MASTER SCHOOL. A PAIR OF OVAL STILL LIFES OF FRUIT WITH EXOTIC BIRDS, OIL ON PANEL IN CONFORMING GILT FRAMES. 28 x 35cms. (2)