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Click here to subscribeAn 18th century oak six plank coffer, 88 cm wide, an Eastern brass planter, with elephant mask handles, and a cast iron stick stand (3) Condition report Report by GHNo obvious worm. Top is completely off its hinges. Generally cracked and worn with age related scratches, dents etc. Top latch no longer present for lock. Generally parting at the joints.
Burmantofts Faience glazed pottery, baluster shaped, jardiniere with relief scroll and foliate decoration on a matching pedestal. Impressed marks. CONDITION REPORT: Burmantofts jardiniere - crazing but no obvious damage. Floral planter very poor conditon losses and cracks. Stick stand crack to base and up through body.
Bound issues of The Central African Planter, Vol.1 No.1- no.12, 1895/1896; together with a quantity of other related ephemera, including 'Handbook to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland', 1960; 'The Life & Explorations of Dr Livingstone', 1887, and printed materials relating to Rhodesia and Central Africa (one box)
PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY INDO-BURMESE CARVED HARDWOOD, PEDESTAL PLANTERS, overall copiously carved and pierced with flower heads and foliate designs, the circular planters on baluster turned stems with triform bases, standing on scrolled feet. 91cm high x 65. (2) CONDITION REPORT: Both have been long term stored and are very grubby and dusty, one particularly with damage to the edge of the planter, some pieces available. Restoration and polishing required.
AN INDO-BURMESE CARVED HARDWOOD PLANTER, the circular top carved and pierced with foliate designs around a circular well, the pedestal base mounted with four entwined, carved dragons on a circular base with four lion mask mounts. 48 x 95 high. CONDITION REPORT: One of the dragon mounts is detached, overall very dry with some losses and damage in places.
INDIAN WHITE SILVER SPICE BOX AND INDIAN WHITE METAL PLANTERthe box in six sections, the central finial modelled as an exotic bird which unscrews to allow the six lids to open, each lid with a mythical creature, the body of the box with elephants, on four feet, 15cm wide; the planter with figural decoration in relief, 17.5cm diameter (2)
A 20th Century Chinese cylindrical stick stand decorated with prunus blossom, together with a Chinese rectangular planter decorated with bats amongst blossom and a Japanese Satsuma ware globular vase table lamp CONDITION REPORTS The stick stand has a long crack emanating from the rim. Various light scratches throughout, general signs of wear and tear. Rectangular planter has chips to the rim, light scratches throughout including one very large chip to the rim. The lamp has a long crack all the way through the body towards the bottom half, crazed, scratched, various general signs of wear throughout
AN EDWARDIAN PRESENTATION TRAY of oval form, with raised scroll and shell border and plain handles, the centre chased with flowers and scrolls, engraved with a presentation inscription "Presented by the Planters Association of Ceylon to Mrs E.H.L. Thomas (Miss Geraldine Blake) in appreciation of the artistic skills displayed and generously given in the designing and execution of the Ceylon Contingent Memorial, Kandy", by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1909, 26" long (handle to handle), (c.91oz). See illustration The tray marks an important moment in the history of the Boer War and of the contribution made by a patriotic group of soldiers from Ceylon. The fine memorial created to mark this history is also one of the finest bronze war memorials to have been created by a female artist at the turn of the nineteenth century. Unveiled in 1907, the 'Ceylon contingent memorial' is a large and impressive work by Geraldine Blake, a successful sculptor who was one of very few female artists to obtain a commission to create a work on this scale. Depicting a trooper of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry giving the signal 'enemy in sight', the sculpture is full of life and movement, with the soldier in full uniform holding a rifle above his head. Geraldine Blake, who became Geraldine Thomas at her marriage, was the sister-in-law of Lt Arthur H Thomas, one of the soldiers who died in action and is consequently commemorated on the memorial. Commissioned by A.H. Thomas' father to remember his son and fallen comrades, the choice of Geraldine Blake will have been a fitting family collaboration. The 'Ceylon contingent' were a locally raised unit of Ceylon volunteers drawn largely from the local white planter community. A 129 strong contingent travelled to fight in South Africa as a sign of their patriotic ardour and loyalty to the Queen and Empire. Described in the pages of the Daily Telegraph as 'lithe, clean-cut fellows and their 'mounts' are the hardy and wonderful Burma ponies'. Originally sited along the Lakeside Esplanade in Kandy the memorial became something of a focal point for nationalist sentiment in post-independence Sri Lanka in the 1960s. To protect the memorial it was removed from its plinth and relocated within the confines of the Sri Lankan Army barracks at Kandy where it remains.
A leather cased Meerschaum pipe with a heavily carved bowl depicting a bearded gentleman, with silver collar and amber mouthpiece (af), a carved ivory cheroot holder, approx length 21cm, a boxed carved bone hand fan, one other hand fan and two carved abalone shells on Oriental rosewood carved bases, also a gilt and bronzed planter with applied cherubs, approx height 25cm (7). CONDITION REPORT Letter from vendor attesting to the age of the ivory pieces in this lot available upon request.
A pair of Napoleon III ormolu mounted boulle scarlet tortoiseshell brass inlaid rectangular jardiniere stands, each with the remains of a galvanized rectangular lift out planter within a pierced gallery over a flared lip and shaped apron, each on four well shaped ebonised cabriole legs with ormolu mounts terminating in a scroll foot, 72cm wide, 79cm high, 43.5cm deep (2) (at fault)
CERAMICS & GLASS - a boxed 4 glass snuff bottles in a 'Great Wall & Panda Set' (one lid a/f), a boxed Chinese Zodiac set of miniature cups, a Chinese ceramic planter, 2 Italian Alabaster lidded pots, a Royal Copenhagen Chicken, a Lladro goose, dog and cat along with a Royal Crown Derby Penelope figure.
[POLAR EXPLORATION - FRANK WILD & ERNEST SHACKLETON]. A WHITE LINEN TABLE CLOTH bearing over forty-two embroidered autographs (presumably over hand-written base signatures), including those of Frank Wild and fellow Antarctic explorers Leonard Hussey (meteorologist), Dr Alexander Macklin (surgeon and dog minder) and Dr James McIlroy (surgeon), some dated, 79.5cm x 166cm. Note 1: John Robert Francis ('Frank') Wild, CBE, RNVR, FRGS (1873-1939) was a member of Robert Falcon Scott's 1901 crew, serving as an able seaman on the 'Discovery'. He accompanied Shackleton on the Nimrod Expedition of 1908-09, crossing the Ross Barrier and Beardmore Glacier to come within a record-breaking 97 miles of the South Pole. In 1911 he joined Douglas Mawson's 'Aurora' expedition, before serving as Shackleton's second-in-command on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-16. He again joined Shackleton as his deputy on the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, of 1921-22, assuming command of the 'Quest' following Shackleton's death. In recognition of his efforts and achievements he was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars. He also had three Antarctic landmarks named after him: Cape Wild, Mount Wild and Point Wild. Note 2: This table cloth almost certainly belonged to Frank Wild. Among the other signatures upon it is that of Granville Altman, a tea planter whose widow, Vera, married Wild in 1917. His daughter, Valor Granville Altman, has also signed the cloth. From 1916 Wild served as a Royal Navy transport officer at Archangel, Russia, before settling in British Nyasaland to farm with Dr James McIlroy. A number of the other signatures also have a South African connection (Transvaal and Zululand) and at least four are signed in cyrillic. The variation in dates (1916-28) and places, together with the portable nature of the item, suggests that this functioned effectively as decorative 'autograph book' for a widely-travelled man.
Attributed to Pierre Joseph Landry (American/Louisiana, 1770-1843), early 19th c., floral relief-carved powder horn, wood plug carved with a moon face, rawhide lanyard, l. 11 1/2 in. Provenance: Gaspar Cusachs, entrepreneur, historian and collector, (1855-1929); The Gaspar Cusachs Collection, loaned to the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA (c. 1909-2016). Note: Pierre Joseph Landry immigrated to Louisiana from France at the age of 15. After serving under General Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, he became a successful sugar planter until he contracted a tubercular infection at the age of 63. During his illness, Landry began carving wood sculptures, which often included wildlife, biblical subjects, and historical figures. This carved powder horn, attributed to Landry, features various elements related to Landry’s style, notably the moonfaced wood plug and carved floral decoration. Ref.: “Pierre Joseph Landry.” http://www.knowla.org/entry/1290/&view=summary. Accessed Oct. 28, 2016.
American Classical Walnut Bookcase, mid-19th c., stepped ogee molded cornice, pair of paneled glazed doors, original shelf interior, ogee bracket feet, h. 93 in., w. 64 in., d. 22 in., en suite with preceding lot Provenance: "Bonnie Burn" House, Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, LA, owned by planter, jurist, Louisiana legislator and Confederate Captain James Gilliam Kilbourne (Mississippi/Louisiana, 1828-1893); descended in the family; Nan Dennard Kilbourne, East Feliciana Parish, LA.
Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (French/Louisiana, 1801-1888), "Félicie Aime, Mme. Alfred Roman (1825-1859)", oil on canvas, unsigned, 36 1/2 in. x 29 1/4 in., framed. Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter. Note: Félicie Aime, the daughter of prominent sugar planter, Valcour Aime, spent her childhood on the plantation officially known as St. James Plantation and widely referred to as “Le Petit Versailles” for its lavishness. The Aime, Fortier, and Roman families were intricately linked through multiple marriages, intertwining the family tree branches, and amassing many properties along the Mississippi River, including Elmwood, Felicity, Oak Alley, and Cabahanoce Plantations. Louisiana artists would often travel to plantation owners’ homes to paint portraits of multiple family members on site. Many of Félicie Aime’s family members, including her father, Valcour Aime, her mother, Josephine Roman Aime, her sister, Félicité, and her cousins, Robert and Jeanne Roman (whose portraits were sold in these rooms in Nov. 2012) had likenesses painted by Amans in the late 1830s.Félicie married her cousin, Alfred Roman (1824-1892) in 1849 in St. James Parish, Louisiana. She died in Paris in 1859, and her portrait was passed down in her sister, Félicité’s family. In 19th century portraits, girls and young women were often depicted in impeccable white gowns, whether indoors or with an outdoor background; the current lot has an almost identical pose and double-puffed sleeve, off-the-shoulder dress as Amans’ portrait of Clara Mazureau from 1838. In both paintings, Amans’ remarkable brushwork detailing the facial features, hair, and dress of the sitter is beautifully offset by a brilliant blue sky and a low horizon landscape.
American Classical Walnut Bookcase, c. 1840-1850, ogee cornice, paneled glazed doors, original shelf interior, ogee bracket feet, h. 92 1/2 in., w. 64 in., d. 20 1/2 in Provenance: "Bonnie Burn" House, Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, LA, owned by planter, jurist, Louisiana legislator and Confederate Captain James Gilliam Kilbourne (Mississippi/Louisiana, 1828-1893); descended in the family; Nan Dennard Kilbourne, East Feliciana Parish, LA.
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