There are 79736 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe20th century AD. A brass teapot and lid comprising a barrel-shaped body with curved spout and hinged handle formed as opposed dragon-heads; engraved scenes to the sides of children playing and a figure reclining on a leaf, incised text and chop seal; maker's mark to the underside; discoid lid with incised flowers, discoid handle. 671 grams, 15.5cm (6). Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 1996. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Swiss musical box playing 10 airs on a 38cm barrel and single piece comb in rosewood veneered box with Picard-Lion tune sheet, case length 74cm. *See clocks and watches proviso. Condition report: NB the comb is in two parts not one; the mechanism runs to unwound and changes airs; we have not removed the damper bar to inspect the comb although there aren't any noticeable gaps in the music to indicate missing teeth. It is stamped 13 10243 at either end of the barrel. The air indicator needle generally remains static. The case has worm holes and the feet are mising; the printed decoration has some losses. All clocks and watches are sold without warranty. Comments regarding the going condition of clocks and watches relate to their state at the time of cataloguing and those comments may no-longer be correct at the time of sale or delivery. Buyers should assume that all lots will require servicing to be useable and reliable. Clocks and watches are not tested for accuracy, duration or water tightness.
A 19th century silhouette cut out, formed as lots of circles forming a diamond with each having a different scene to include children playing, acrobats, hunts men with hounds or on horseback, wild and domestic animals and birds to include ostrich, kangaroos, camels, deer, porcupine, chickens etc, af, 8.5ins x 13ins
A collection of Geographical playing cards entitled 'Geographical Snip Snap Or, a description of the Grand Divisions of Europe' late 19th century with three cards for each European country: one with may, the other with costume for the respective country and the other with description of the country's manufactures and produce. With directions, with later case, (40) Dimensions: 9 x 4.5cmCondition reportEach country complete with three playing cards. The first outer card giving instructions with some wear.
GAMES, selection of card games in packs, inc. Counties of England, Popular People, Fairy Tale Families, Bobs Your Uncle, Whot, Pinocchio, I Commit, Beggar my Neighbour, Belisha, Dartex, Happy Families, Snap; many playing cards, Kelloggs, Wills, Hall, Park Drive etc., mainly in original boxes or wrappers, duplication, not checked for completeness, FR to EX, 100*
WILLIAM POWELL FRITH (1819-1909) Boys boxing, a study for the 'Squires Boxing Lesson', sepia, ink and pencil, inscribed verso with a list of contemporary artists including Frith, 15 x 18cm; and another - Women playing cards, a study for the 'Squires Boxing Lesson', inscribed 'Vicar of Wakefield', sepia, ink and pencil, 15 x 18cm, each mounted but unframed (2) The above two studies for William Powell Frith's painting 'The Squires Boxing Lesson of 1860'. The scene is taken from William Goldsmith's, Vicar of Wakefield. The painting is in Manchester City Art Gallery
100 Book of Hours, - Use of Rome, with numerous other devotional texts Use of Rome, with numerous other devotional texts, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c .1460] 313 leaves (including 9 leaves added at end in sixteenth century, and plus two paper endleaves at front and back), too tightly bound too collate, but wanting approximately 7 text leaves (see below), single column, 18 lines in two sizes of a fine and regular Burgundian lettre bâtarde with ornamental penwork cadels, red rubrics, Calendar leaves (24 in total) in gold, blue and red, with every leaf in this part of text opening with a 3-line initial KL in blue or pink with foliate infill on bright gold grounds and a single decorated border panel of single-line foliage ending in coloured flowerheads and gold bezants, every line of Calendar beginning with a gold initial on burgundy and blue grounds, main text with same initials (often several per page) from one to 4-lines in height, the larger accompanied by single border panels (approximately 250 of these), eleven leaves with similar borders which extend down outer edge and halfway across top and bottom margins, thirteen leaves with 5-line illuminated initials with full-borders of acanthus leaves and other foliage (including realistic studies of sprigs of hazelnuts) enclosing drolleries, animals, birds and a bear and a monkey playing chess , thirty-eight historiated initials enclosing portraits of saints by a follower of William Vrelant , initial on fol.47v smudged, slight wear and thumbing to edges in places, occasional offsetting, sections of borders of fols.122 and 305 cut away, remnants of sale ticket once pasted to front endleaf, marks showing original leaves at each end once pastedowns in earlier binding, else in bright and sparkling condition on excellent parchment with wide and clean margins, 175mm. by 121mm., seventeenth-century French mottled calf with floral gilt spine in six compartments, spine restored, marbled endleaves, in fleece-lined brown morocco box with gilt title by the Lakeside Press, Chicago Provenance: (1) Almost certainly written and illuminated in Bruges for a married couple who were close to the family of the Burgundian dukes: with prayers in both masculine and feminine forms, and in some cases asking for blessings for famulos tuos and servos tuos ( your servants , fols.254r-255v). The Bruges saint, Basil (who had a chapel dedicated to him on the central square in the city, which abutted up against the ancestral comital residence) is highlighted in gold on 3 April in the Calendar, and there are other local saints, such as Omer, Bertin, and Bavo in the Litany. The presence of SS. Iodocus or Josse (after whom Philip the Good named his second son, the boy sadly dying only days after birth in 1432) and Louis (patron of the French royal family and their descendants) points towards the Burgundian court, and this impression is confirmed by the inclusion of Anselm s meditation on chastity on fols.268r-76r and a series of the saints commemorated in the last part of the book. Anselm s text also appears in the prayer book of Philip the Bold, the first Valois duke of Burgundy (Brussels, Bibl. Royale MS.10392), and among the saints here are Adrian, Gregory, Claud, Bernadino (canonised in 1450), Anne and Barbara, who were added to Philip the Bold s book when it was later enlarged for the personal use of his grandson, Philip the Good (see S. Panayotova and N. Morgan, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge Colleges , I, 2009, for Fitzwilliam, MS 3-1954). There are no arms or heraldic devices in the book, and it would appear that the original owners were trusted (but perhaps not noble) servants of the Burgundian court. It may even have been a commission by a member of the ducal household for these recipients. (2) Within a few decades, the volume would appear to have been in the hands of an owner from the house of Luxembourg (whose title passed to the Burgundian dukes in 1467), and it was then that the last gathering was added with a suffrage to St. Peter of Luxembourg (fol.306r), and a prayer in French for one to whom God has entrusted rule of a kingdom but who has children (fol.308r). This owner presumably added the prayer to St Edmund of England in a fifteenth-century hand before the calendar, most probably in response to either the marriage in 1464 of Edward IV of England to Elizabeth Woodville, daughter from the second marriage of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, or the marriage of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York in 1468. Edward IV was briefly exiled in 1470 and took refuge in Flanders with the celebrated bibliophile Louis de Gruuthuse ( c .1422-92) whose house in Bruges stills stands and is the site of a museum. It is more than likely that the owners of this book met the English king during his sojourn there. (3) H.R.H. Frederick Augustus, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), the rebellious sixth son of George III who secretly married Lady Augusta Murray in Rome in 1793, clandestinely renewing these vows in St. George's, Hanover Square (a few metres from our rooms) later that year, and continuing to live together despite the king s disapproval and parliamentary annulment of the union: his printed bookplate inside front cover. The book was catalogued by T.J. Pettigrew ( Bibliotheca Sussexiana , I:1, 1827, no.136, pp.cxci-cxcii, beautifully written … on thin vellum … there are various beautiful little miniatures of saints dispersed throughout the volume ), when in the library of Kensington Palace. (4) Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire antiquarian and book collector; his sale, Sotheby's, 23 April 1891, lot 1394. A late thirteenth-century Bible from the Bibliotheca Sussexiana also passed to him, re-appearing in Sotheby s, 2 December 1986, lot 38. (5) Alfred Higgins F.S.A. (d.1902), antiquarian and collector; his sale, Sotheby's, 2 May 1904, lot 91, thence Quaritch, cat.237 (1905), no.337, and then Hiersemann, cat.330 (1906), no.31. (6) Isabelle Corwith Cramer (1861-1954), the second wife of Ambrose Cramer of Chicago: her inscription on label on book box and loose paper note recording gift of book in 1920 to her daughter, Isabelle Ryerson. (7) Christies, 2 June 2010, lot 207, for £32,450. Text: The Burgundian court in the fifteenth century was the scene of opulence, art patronage and conspicuous consumption of wealth on a scale never seen before or perhaps after. Breathtakingly large sums were regularly spent on single illuminated volumes, and Phillip the Good added 600 such books to the ducal library during his reign, as well as commissioning tapestries, jewellery and other artworks. He funded lavish tournaments, banquets and other forms of entertainment, founded the Burgundian school of music and sent no less than Jan van Eyk to Portugal in 1428 to paint an accurate portrait of Princess Isabella in advance of his betrothal to her. Any artwork produced in this environment is a testament to this abundance of wealth and power, and this book would appear to have belonged to a couple at the very centre of this world. It is a highly individual volume, with many more texts than are usually found in a Book of Hours. It comprises a Calendar (fol.2v); the Hours of the Passion (fol.15r, with matins wanting end and compline wanting opening); the Hours of the Cross (fol.32r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol.39r, wanting terce, and prime wanting end); the Mass of the Virgin (fol.43r); Gospel Readings (fol.47v); the Hours of Virgin secundum usum romanum (fol.52r), with matins (fol.52r), lauds (fol.70r), prime fol.81r), terce (fol.85r), sext (fol.89r), none (fol.93r), vespers (fol.97r), and compline (fol.104r); the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin (fol.108r), followed by prayers of compassion to the Virgin at the seven hours (A. Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels .........
ATTRIBUTED TO L.S. LOWRY PEN AND BLUE INK DRAWINGS ON BOTH SIDES OF TWO POSTCARDS Figures at a bar and a figure playing a guitar Signed with initials and dated, 'L.S.L. (19)'59 ANOTHER CARD depicting a table and chairs and verso a fireplace and a cup and saucer, AND A FOURTH CARD depicting a large house and titled 'Poutney House' and inscribed verso "4 postcard drawings by L.S. Lowry (artist Manchester) around Barton Bridge and Bridge Office Offic and Old Barton Road. 1959 he had a drink with us, he asked for tea because he said he detested coffee, very serious"
A Trija Company Multi-Head Golf Club America circa 1935, owned and used by Lady Astor, the steel shaft in its original canvas holdall, along with a detachable chipper putter head stamped 'Lady Astor', a Mashie -Niblick head and a driver - Midiron head, the set being the Regulation model along with the additional leather pouch for balls, tees and extra head and the paper booklet entitled 'Now Play Better Golf with Trija', 88cm high Owned by Nancy, Lady Astor. A Trija company multi-head American golf club, owned and used by Nancy Lady Astor, the steel shaft in its original canvas holdall, along with a detachable chipper putter head stamped 'Lady Astor', a Mashie-Niblick head and a driver - Midiron head, the set being the Regulation model along with the additional leather belt pouch for balls, tees and extra head and the paper booklet titled 'Now Play Better Golf with Trija' Note: The club was gifted to Mr Edward Lee by Lady Astor at the time of his leaving her service when he was asked as to which of her possessions he would like he chose the club as it reminded him of Lady Astor's regular trips to the Downs to practise playing golf Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Ch (May 19th 1879- May 2nd 1964), was the wife of Waldorf Astor, Second Viscount Astor, and was the first woman to serve as a member of the British House of Commons. Nancy Astor was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne on May 19th, 1879 in Danville, Virginia. Lady Astor's parliamentary career was the most public stage of her life, where she was an object of both love and hatred, her presence almost immediately gained attention both as a woman and someone who did not follow the rules. Winston Churchill told her 'A woman being in parliament was like one intruding on him in the bathroom' to which she retorted 'You're not handsome enough to have such fears'. This was one in a series of repartee between the two, such as Lady Astor to Churchill 'If you were my husband I would put Arsenic in your coffee, Churchill', 'Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it'. After 1956 she became increasingly isolated and alone. Nancy Astor died in 1964 at her daughter's home at Grinsthorpe in Lincolnshire.
A Pair of Bronze Dancing Figures France circa 1700, depicting musicians and dancers in the Antique manner. One wears a feathered headdress and is playing castanets. The other is playing the tambourine. Both figures are positioned contraposto and retain a majority of their original lacquer. Mounted on late 18th century blocks of rouge griotte marble, 10cm wide, 25cm high
A Combination Backgammon, Chess & Writing Table England circa 2008, of traditional form with a removable top, the tric trac table is veneered throughout with polished shagreen, the reversible top is leather on one side and rotates to reveal a card playing surface, inside, the backgammon board is held by a brass clip, when released, the board rotates to create the chess board, the drawers for the playing pieces released via a hidden button under the end rail, 114cm wide, 74cm high, 60cm deep
Loading...
