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Click here to subscribeA French Sappers sword with brass fish scale handle, steel blade and brass and textile panel scabbard, 67cm long Condition Report: Lot 845: Wear and small losses to fabric panels. End of scabbard looks to have faint solder marks indicating a small repair. A couple of small nicks to edge of blade and some light surface corrosion.
A 19th Century Chinese export lacquer sewing box, the inner cover with landscape decoration and fitted with tray, compartments and a few ivory sewing tools, 39cm wide/see illustration Condition Report: Lot 60: Cover and sides worn in patches, some chips and losses to lacquer particularly at corners and edges. Inner cover landscape panel basically good although cracks to lacquer at edges. Splits to carcass by hinges and hinges look replaced in an amateur way. Locks broken / missing, no key. Drawer under has adjustable flap with landscape decoration, this has come loose but the lacquer is fair. Overall in need of some attention.
A 19th Century oval gold locket, (unmarked), with engine turned decoration to the covers, containing a mother-of-pearl panel decorated with hair sprays, initials in gilt and dated in gilt August 1832 and a painted porcelain panel depicting a cherub, inscribed verso 'painted by W Corden Augt 1832'
An 18th Century oak chest of small proportions, the hinged cover above a triple panel front with drawer below, 63.5cm wide Condition Report: Condition - Hinged cover split and later repaired, also pitted and scratched. Escutcheon plate later, front stained and with water damage, both sides pitted, lock missing to drawer and old worm holes.
A Chinese lacquer cabinet, of four long panel doors above three short drawers, each applied with giltwood carving on a red ground within a black border, 147cm wide Condition Report: Grecian key moulding later painted, panel sides body split, black and gold lacquer panels re-painted, very crude wooden block locks, interior varnished
A 19th Century mahogany secretaire bookcase, the top section with astragal glazed doors above a lower section with drop-down top drawer to reveal fitted desk interior, with panel doors beneath revealing two short and three long drawers, 108cm wide/Provenance : Bevington Hall, Salford Priors near Evesham
Attributed to Isaac Colonia (circa 1611-1663)/Portrait of a Lady/wearing a deep ruff collar and lace cap/oil on panel, 64cm x 50cm/Provenance: Bonhams Knightsbridge, 09/01/2007 Lot 334/see illustration Condition Report: Restorations. Large splits to left and right verticals, right one restored more extensively. The other with large area of restoration around shoulder and scratches across body. See further images.
Follower of Sir Peter Lely/Portrait of a Lady/a posy in her right hand/oil on panel, 42cm x 32.5cm/Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire/see illustration Condition Report: This picture is painted on an oak panel and is late 17th century, I don't believe it to be by Lely but it is of that period. From a private collection in Wiltshire. There are no obvious signs of restoration and it looks good under UV light
Chinese secretaire cabinet of very shallow section when closed, the fall front panel decorated with battle scene and border of bamboo leaves, the compartmented interior lacquered black with gilding and with a red velvet scriber, standing on a stretchered base with gilded paw feet (h 116cm w 56cm d 49cm) (one key in office)
Early 19th Century mahogany longcase clock, the square hood with swan neck pediment and blind fretwork decoration above a shaped panel door and plinth base with bracket supports, the painted dial with Arabic and Roman numerals with subsidiary seconds, the two train movement striking on a bell
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