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A Chinese Porcelain Mug, Qianlong, of barrel form with entwined strap handle, painted with a monogram in a shield over a rose spray15cm highAnother Mug, circa 1800, of cylindrical form, painted with a flower spray and scattered sprigs below a gilt, lattice and green border14cm highA Similar Rectangular Salt, with pheasants amongst foliage8cm wideAn Hexagonal Planter, painted with flowers and rockwork17cm high (4)Barrel mug - one long stapled crackSecond mug - small rim chip, some slight loss to the jewellingSalt - large chip to the under rimPlanter - large rim chip, lower half with some applied debris that should clean away
A large collection of decorative ceramics and glassware, to include a crown Dresden portrait plate of Marie Antoinette, a Wedgwood Marigold pattern plate, a Doulton Silicon ware planter, a large Kutani vase, a German porcelain candlestick, a Halcyon Days trinket box and others, Portmeirion etc.
A Portuguese pottery jardinière and stand, of round shape with pointed rim, stand of conical shape with flared top rim, both pieces decorated with flowers and foliage in blue and white colourway, jardinière signed underneath, stand unsigned. (Both pieces with damage, stand badly cracked and chipped; planter top chipped; both crazed, worn and scratched, with nibbles etc).
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Mr. G, H, Kearney. Volunteer) nearly extremely fine £300-£400 --- Whilst this medal is correct in all respects, it is unclear exactly where Kearney came under fire. The Directories place him around Meerut and the Etawah and Aligarh Districts at the time of the Mutiny but the medal rolls fail to mention him. It is known that small groups of resourceful Indigo Planters and other growers joined together roaming through these districts looking for safe haven. George Henry Kearney was born on 22 April 1829, at Nasirabad, son of James Kearney, Gunner, 3rd Company, 4th Battalion Bombay Artillery and his wife Ann. He had enlisted in 1808 stating he was a labourer from Tullakean, County Down, for a period of 7 years. He served for 24 years before joining the Bombay reserve corps 1st Company Artillery Invalids in 1832, with further reserve service in the Invalid Veteran Company to 11 November 1841. He was struck off for Europe on 1 October 1845, an impressive 37 years service albeit much in the reserves. Kearney's adult life from the Directories and Mofussil lists show him firstly living at Hauper, a sub-district of Meerut, from 1849 to 1854. In 1852 it is noted he bought seedlings from the Botanical Gardens of the North West Provinces showing he resided at Goojranwalla, now in modern day Pakistan. In 1859 he resided at Aligarh being the Officiating Superintendent of Roads confirmed by his payment of subscriptions to “The Engineer's Journal and Railway and Public Works Chronicle of India and the Colonies”. In 1862 he is listed as an Indigo Planter at Bholee Plantation, Etawah and also a committee member to promote the objects of the provincial exhibition. In 1875 he was the Assistant at the Muloye Indigo factory Aligarh. While Kearney states he was an Indigo planter, his later writings indicate he was equally at home with the growing of cotton and coffee. This was partly due to the 1859 Indigo Revolt. The growing of Indigo forced by planters on land rented by the local peasants, or Ryots, from the land owning Zamindars had a devastating effect on both planters and growers alike. With the Ryots growing no food for their families both growers and planters had to diversify into food and other commodities. In 1863 Kearney was brought before a committee with respect to “cotton” growing in the Doab and the lack of water being distributed to the growers. His solution was to place the revenue from the Ganges Canal into the hands of the Collector which the Zamindars, who did not attend, thought a very bad idea. A. O. Hume, Commissioner of the district, stated that Indigo growing in and around the Etawah and Aligarh districts had declined considerably in favour of cotton and other profitable commodities. Kearney was a regular contributor and member of the Asiatic Society with learned articles on such subjects as the “Mode of destroying the Cotton Bole Worm”. Other contributions were to the Magazine of Natural History with respect to Butterflies found at the Berkodee Coffee-Estates at Mysore and to the Bombay Natural History Society. Further he was a Correspondent of the Indian Museum. In 1860 he married Arabella Frances, aged 14, at Chunar the daughter of Charles Hurley, Assistant Apothecary to the 31st Regiment, stating that he was an Indigo Planter at Aligarh. He had two daughters namely Arabella Frances Hurley who became the Principal of St. John's School, Dalhousie, Punjab (died 1890) and Kathleen Antoinette Isabella. Kearney died on 2 July 1900, of hyperpyrexia and is buried at Agra Cantonment Cemetery.
A collection of five pieces of Wedgwood black and terracotta jasperware, comprising a planter, height 11cm (badly watermarked interior), a rectangular trinket box and cover, a circular footed bowl, diameter 20.5cm, a limited edition plate from the Egyptian Collection - Tutankhamun, diameter 22.3cm and a baluster jug, height 14.5cm, bowl and planter are seconds, generally dusty (5)
The unique and poignant Great War M.C., D.C.M., M.M. group of seven awarded to Sub-Lieutenant C. B. Wheeler, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, attached Royal Naval Division, who was twice wounded Later a member of the Federation of Malaya State Volunteer Force, he died of wounds at Singapore in February 1942, while serving as a recently appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps - or was a victim of the shocking Japanese atrocities Military Cross, G.V.R.; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (CZ-2224 P.O. C. B. Wheeler. Nelson Bn., R.N.V. R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (CZ-2224 A.L.S. C. B. Wheeler. Nelson Bn., R.N.V.R.); 1914-15 Star (CZ-2224 C. B. Wheeler, A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (S. Lt. C. B. Wheeler. R.N.V.R.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Malaya (Sgt. Colin B. Wheeler, M.C., D.C.M., M.M. F.M.S.V.F.), mounted court-style as worn, generally good very fine (7) £14,000-£18,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2013. The combination of M.C., D.C.M., M.M. is unique to the Royal Naval Division. M.C. London Gazette 15 February 1919: ‘On 27 September 1918 he was in charge of the section of two Stokes guns and was following his Battalion when the Battalion was suddenly held up by hostile machine gun fire. Taking a Lewis gun he crawled forward and cleared the enemy post thus helping the Infantry to obtain their objective. On 30 September 1918 at the Canal de L’Escaut, he again did good work causing considerable casualties to the enemy with a Lewis gun. Throughout the operations he showed conspicuous gallantry and able leadership.’ D.C.M. London Gazette 17 April 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He handled three trench mortars with marked ability, and greatly assisted in clearing up a difficult situation. He set a fine example throughout.’ M.M. London Gazette 26 March 1917. Colin Bain Wheeler was born on 6 July 1896, and enlisted in the Clyde Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman in November 1914. Posted to Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division in June 1915, he was embarked for the Dardanelles, but was wounded in Gallipoli on 13 July and admitted to hospital in Alexandria - a sojourn extended by a bout of scarlet fever. Rejoining his battalion at Mudros in January 1916, he was embarked for France in May, and was transferred to 189th Stokes Mortar Battery, R.N.D., in which capacity he won his M.M. as an Acting Leading Seaman. Douglas Jerrold’s history takes up the story: ‘Such was the situation half-an-hour after the attack, when Lt.-Colonel Monro, commanding the Hood Battalion, was wounded, and Lt.- Commander Asquith, who had gone forward on the heels of his old battalion in the slender disguise of staff learner studying the effects of the artillery barrage, took command. To his energy and enthusiasm the success of the 189th Brigade's operations on this occasion was largely due. Well before 8 a.m. on the 4th, Lt.-Commander Asquith had got the Hood Battalion back to their correct alignment, and although touch could not be gained with the Hawke Battalion (who had probably by now edged further to the left, assuming the attack to have failed on the right) the situation was no longer critical. Dawn saw us with a fair hold on all our objectives, but with an awkward gap in the first and second enemy lines, and a machine-gun post still obstructing the consolidation of the essential defensive flank. The history of the rest of the battle is soon told. Several attempts to subdue the two strong points and to close the gaps were made during the morning of the 4th, but without success. At 3.50 p.m., however, the enemy post on our left was rushed by the Nelson and Hawke after an effective bombardment from a Stokes gun, skilfully handled by Leading Seaman Wheeler, of the 189th L.T.M. Battery.’ Having then been advanced to Petty Officer and added the D.C.M. to his accolades for the above cited deeds, he was wounded on 24 April 1917 and evacuated home. Then in October of the same year, he joined an Officer Cadet Battalion in Ayrshire, from which he emerged as a newly commissioned Temporary Sub-Lieutenant in April 1918. Ordered back to France that August, when he joined Anson Battalion, Wheeler was detached for service in the 188th Light Trench Mortar Battery, R.N.D. in the following month, and won his third decoration for his good work with a Lewis gun a few days later - thereby winning the unique distinction of having won the M.C., D.C.M. and M.M. for services in the R.N.D. Demobilised in June 1919, he stated that he intended to take up employment as a tea planter and, true to his word, settled in Malaya. A long-served member of the Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, he was awarded the Efficiency Medal in June 1938 (The F.M.S. Government Gazette refers), but his subsequent part in the desperate struggle for Singapore in February 1942 appears to have been undertaken as a recently appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (London Gazette 31 March 1942 refers). By the latter date, however, he was dead, official records listing his demise as 14 February, the day before the surrender of the colony. Moreover, he is listed on the Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, a sure indication of a sorry end: ‘During the last hours of the battle of Singapore, wounded servicemen taken prisoner and civilians massacred by the Japanese were brought to the hospital in their hundreds. Many were already dead on arrival, many more succumbed later, and the number of fatalities was such that burial in a normal manner was impossible. Before the war an emergency water tank had been dug in the grounds of the hospital, and this was used as a grave. Some 300 civilians and 107 members of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth were buried in this collective grave ... A bronze panel, affixed to the memorial over the original grave, bears the inscription, ‘Beneath this Cross lie 107 British soldiers and 300 civilians of many races, victims of man’s inhumanity to man, who perished in captivity in February 1942. The soldiers are commemorated by name at Kranji War Cemetery.’ The exact nature of Wheeler’s end at the hands of the Japanese will probably never be known, but events at nearby Alexandra Hospital are worthy of mention in the current context. Sinister Twilight, by Noel Barber, takes up the story: ‘While this was happening, other Japanese troops were forcing all the patients to get out of the wards. The men who could not move were bayoneted. In the broiling heat, two hundred patients - together with a few R.A.M.C. personnel - were paraded in the grounds. All the patients were desperately ill. Some could barely hobble. Many collapsed. It made no difference. Herding them into groups of four or five, the Japanese roped them together with their hands behind their backs. They were then marched to the old servants’ quarters behind the hospital - a building consisting of several small rooms, ranging in size from nine feet by nine to ten by twelve. Between fifty and seventy patients were jammed into each room. Wedged together, it was impossible for them to sit down and it took several minutes for some patients to get their arms above their heads and make a little more room in this modern version of the Black Hole of Calcutta. There they were left for the night. Water was promised but none arrived - though those nearest the open windows could watch the Japanese soldiers sitting down on the grass, eating tinned fruit. From time to ti...
Five pieces of 19th century and later Chinese blue and white porcelain including 19th century Export ware shallow bowl, decorated with central panel of foliage surrounded by two further foliate borders, diameter 22.5cm, (af), a blue and white tea caddy, with carved hardwood lid, height 14cm, width 10.5cm, a blue and white baluster form vase, height 22cm, a small square lidded trinket box, 5.5 x 5.5cm, and a rectangular blue and white pierced planter, 23 x 16cm (5).
Assorted ornaments inc. Sylvac rabbit bowl 7" diameter, Hornsea Fauna Royal vase 9" high, Sylvac squirrel vase, Eastgate Withernea deer vase, Hornsea rabbit planter, Eastgate Withernsea rabbit vase, Poole vase, Wedgwood blue jasper heart shaped dish, St. Michael china cup and tortoiseshell musical box, working but damage to exterior

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