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Click here to subscribeA Diverse Collection of Butterflies Moths and Insects, circa 1900, contained within a stained pine eight drawer collectors cabinet with turned mushroom handles, each drawer with a glass protecting panel containing a varied collection of British and Continental Butterflies and moths, also a small collection of worldwide insects to include Scorpion, Beetles, Crickets etc, 46cm by 27cm by 56cm
A Ten Drawer Mahogany Butterfly and Moth Collectors Cabinet by J J Hill and Sons, London NW10, circa 1920 containing a varied collection of both Butterflies and Moths native to Canada, Switzerland, Britain, Uganda, Malaysia, and South America, enclosed within glass panel protected mahogany drawers with turned mushroom handles, the cabinet with a removable front panel on two dowels and lock to the top, 50.5cm by 46cm by 70.5cm, maker's circular label to the base
Ersari Turkmen jollar (trapping or decorative panel), south west Turkmenistan, late 19th century, 17in. X 4ft. 10in. 43cm. X 1.47m. All over dyrnak guls on an earlthy red field; a panel of star motifs to each side; within a narrow panelled main border. Lustrous wool, glowing palette including a soft yellow and a bottle green; soft handle.
Daghestan white field dated prayer rug, north east Caucasus, late 19th century, 4ft. 8in. X 3ft. 1in. 1.42m. X 0.94m. Overall wear with corrosion to dark brown. Minor losses to ends. Fabric tape each end verso. All over stylized flowering plants within a lattice, with ivory 'hand' panels above the mihrab woven twice with the date 1318 (AH) [1900 AD) and a third in the left hand panel 1329 (?) (AH) [1911 AD]. Note the two tiny birds in each corner of the light red main border at the lower end. Cf. Bennett, I. Oriental Rugs, Vol. 1. Caucasian pp. 320-323 for similar white ground examples and where various dated examples are also cited. A further white ground lattice design example is illustrated p. 253, pl. 327.
Veramin runner, north west Persia, woven with date 1338 (AH) [1919 AD] at the top end left side with ivory inscription panel to the right side, 8ft. 8in. X 3ft. 2in. 2.64m. X 0.97m. Surface mark to lower right corner; some wear in places. Note the pair of hilarious chicks in the lower part of the dark brown field.
Four Khanta quilts, west Bengal, east India, second half 20th century comprising: light green quilt printed trellised flowerheads; orange printed cotton back, 90in. X 61in. 229cm. X 155cm.; check design quilt in shades of pale blue with light red floral printed back, 87i. n X 55in. 221cm. X 140cm.; light purple quilt with embroidered details and bright blue panel one end with printed check reverse, 86in. X 55in. 219cm. X 140cm.; Turquoise printed floral quilt with random floral printed patches, ochre and white floral printed back, 84in. X 52in. 214cm. X 132cm. (4)
Bernard Lens (British 1682-1740), Allegory of the infant Christ and John the Baptist reclining under a fruiting grapevine with attendant cherubs and lamb, signed with monogram and dated 1723, gouache on parchment pasted to oak panel, in glazed giltwood frame 17.5 x 24.5cm. Provenance: By decent from the artist through the Lens family to the present owner Mr Bernard Clarke-Lens.
Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-1878), "Sunset On The River Oise," river landscape with figure fishing in a punt, signed 'Daubigny,' oil on wooden panel, 37cm x 65cm, in giltwood and gesso frame, hand-inscribed labels verso (see online images), Provenance: Present owner's late husband inherited the painting in 1963 from an aunt, it has been in the same family since this date.
A late 19th century Italian Sorrento ware souvenir cockade fan: the paper leaf with printed floral panels and bordered with lace edging, the handle inset with an oval mirror panel, 37cm. long, together with a Continental mother-of-pearl fan with painted cartouches of dancing figures and musical trophies with applied sequin decoration, 24cm. long.
An Edwardian cream silk and lace dress:, the V- shaped neck with silk rosettes and tassel trim, long sleeves with pace panel cuffs and silt tassels over a skirt section with panelled front embellished with matching trim, also together with a matching cream silk and lace bonnet and a pair of white long sleeve evening gloves, (small holes and tears).
Two 19th century oak Arts and Crafts panel each of leaf and berry design, 48.5cm x 35.5cm along with three 19th century oak frame mirrors of small proportions and a single cartouche and flower carved panel (6)A collection of oak furniture carved by Edwin Ridgeway. Born in Ashley, Cheshire in 1858 of farming stock and grew up at Lower House Farm, Mobberley and then Brookside Farm, Ashley. The then Lady Egerton, whilst Ridgeway was still a boy, employed teachers for the young of Rostherne at the local school, in order to help them possibly gain a trade when they grew up. The girls were taught needlework, and the boys wood carving. Young Edwin took to wood carving as a natural, and was eventually to be asked to go to Manchester Art College as a wood carving instructor.
Two oval white metal foliate engraved lockets; a white metal bar brooch; an oval foliate and bird decorated white metal brooch; an ebonised brooch with painted portrait panel; two agate mounted brooches; a filigree work and enamel white and yellow metal bracelet; a yellow metal coin set brooch; a bar brooch; two others etc.
Kammer & Reinhardt 115/A bisque head character doll, German circa 1910, with weighted brown glass eyes, painted feather eyebrows and closed mouth, brown wig and on a good fully jointed wood and composition toddler body, wearing a pink dress with white panel and bonnet, (hairline crack to left side of face), 20” (51cm) tall.
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