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Click here to subscribeA Moore Bros porcelain mantel clock, late 19th Century, the dial with Roman numerals within a naturalistic circular case encrusted with flowering cactus, flanked by two seated children playing musical instruments, on an oval base with gilt decoration, impressed and printed factory marks, height approx 24.5cm (minor faults).
A good Victorian Walnut Games Box, with ebonised rims, lifting lid and opening front enclosing fitted chess pieces, cribbage scoreboard, dice, counters and draughts pieces, and with further lift-out trays below fitted with playing cards and counters, racing game below with lead horses and fences etc, ebonised gavel, dice cup etc, 12 ½” wide (ILLUSTRATED INSIDE FRONT COVER)
a 17th Century Small Woven Tapestry Picture, worked in gold, cream, green and blue threads, with couched metal purl and crimped steel, bullion threads, fluffy chenille threads and moss work, applied with seed pearls and glass beads, depicting King Charles II and Queen Henrietta playing out the roles of Esther before Ahasuerus with attendants and animals in a later glazed ebonised and gilt frame, 47cm by 44cm See illustration
carlo Ferranti (1840-1908) Italian “Memories", lady playing a piano, young gentleman singing nearby and a seated cardinal in the foreground signed, also inscribed on an old label verso "Purchased at Christie's sale 8th June 1925, 10 Guineas, lot 68", oil on canvas, 56cm by 41.5cm provenance: With the Cooling Galleries Ltd, 92 New Bond Street, London
a Large Pair of Japanese Imari Ovoid Vases, Meiji period (1868-1912), the flared necks painted on the inner rim with four panels of stylised foliage, the main bodies with four scroll edged panels depicting shi-shi dogs playing with brocaded balls in peony filled gardens, alternating with sea dragons emerging from crashing waves with fen-huang birds overhead, each with raised red lacquer shoulder collars, the bases with lappet panels, 91.5cm and 92cm high respectively See illustration
Persian School mid-late 20th century- Portrait of a dancing woman, full-length; gouache on black paper, signed and one other portrait of a woman playing a musical instrument, a pair, 69x24cm, each: together with a collection of 20th century, oil and reproduction studies after various hands, (a lot)
John Nixon circa 1750-1818- "A Sketch in the Louvre Gallery, Paris"; pencil with touches of watercolour, signed with initials, extensively inscribed and dated 1814 in pencil, 12.5x17.5cm: together with a group of five pencil and wash drawings of mid 19th century Victorian life, depicting washer women, children playing, the reading lesson, lovers and a coach and horses, all mounted in clip frames, 15x9.5cm (largest), (6)
A pair of musical monkeys, fur covered, card and tin plate clockwork action playing cymbals and drum, 7" high, a "Farm Milk" drinking bear, fur covered and tinplate clockwork action, 5 1/2" high, and a fishing bear tin plate, part fur and cloth covered, clockwork action, 5 3/4" high, all clockwork AF, P-F (4)
Victorian playing cards: one pack for playing ‘The Queen’, (the full complement of 33 cards with instruction sheet), together with another Victorian pack, probably for Snap, with cartoon figures and captions such as ‘Death or Victory’, ‘Away with Melancholy’ etc, (48 cards in twelve groups of four). (81)
A Dutch Silver Circular Bowl, repousse with four panels of putti playing with floral festoons, before a temple, against a diamond pierced ground, below an undulating rim cast with a rose and leaf band, raised on four mask and scroll feet, stamped with a crown 800, 19 cm diameter, 13.5 cm high, 632 grams.
An extremely rare South Atlantic Medal awarded to Private R. W. Steward, Falkland Islands Defence Force, one of only 35 members of his unit to receive the Medal, most of whom were engaged alongside the Royal Marines at Government House on the night of 1-2 April 1982 south Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Pte. R. W. Stewart, F.I.D.F.), good very fine £2000-2500 Called out by Governor Rex Hunt on 1 April 1982, a little over 30 members of the Falkland Islands Defence Force reported to Government House at 7.30 p.m. Allocated to assorted duties by their C.O., Major Phil Summers, among them the defence of key points in Stanley such as the radio and power stations, ‘most of them really thought they were going out to die that evening’. This, then, the opening chapter of a memorable evening, the F.I.D.F. men all the while under the overall command of Major Mike Norman, R.M., who had but 57 Marines and 11 sailors from Naval Party 8901 at his immediate disposal. however, not long after his combined R.M., R.N. and F.I.D.F. force had been deployed, Norman was alerted by sounds of gunfire at the R.M. barracks located at Moody Brook - luckily unmanned but nonetheless stormed in the darkness by Argentinian Commandos using phosphorous grenades - as a result of which he decided to recall his force to the defence of Government House, where, in a spirited action against an elite team of Commandos under Lieutenant-Commander Giachino, he and his men held out until 9.30 a.m., inflicting three casualties, one of them, Giachino, later dying of his wounds. on their surrender, the British were disarmed and herded on to the nearby playing fields, enemy footage of them face down on the ground famously being released to the media at large. Unlike their comrades from the R.M., who were flown out to Uruguay, most of the F.I.D.F. men remained under house arrest for the duration of the War. stewart was among those presented to Governor Alan Huckle on the 25th Anniversary of the invasion, and, in common with his fellow 1982 veterans, received a special commemorative badge; see assorted websites for further information, including a photograph of Stewart meeting Governor Huckle. £2000-£2500
A fine Regency period mahogany and brass musical and quarter chiming bracket clock By Barrauds of London the enamelled dial with Roman chapters signed Barrauds, Cornhill, London and numbered '867', the arch with subsidiary dials for chime/silent and six tune selections, the similarly signed three train fusee and chain movement with anchor escapement, chiming the quarters on ten bells and playing one of six tunes at every hour on thirteen bells, the backplate and the pendulum bordered by foliate engraving, the pagoda top case with ball finials, fish scale fretted frieze above two similarly fretted door panels, the arched and glazed front between brass strung canted uprights flanked by twin pull-cords and leaf cast carrying handles, the skirted brass bound apron on brass ball feet 35cm wide, 65cm high, 25cm deep Literature: see Cedric Jagger, Paul Philip Barraud Antiquarian Horological Society 1968, and the supplement of 1979.
An unusual George I period walnut bureau-bookcase, incorporating an automaton musical clock movement by Christopher Pinchbeck the upper portion with broken pediment and pierced brass fretwork incorporating musical trophies amongst exotic birds and foliage, enclosing painted dial signed CHRISTOPHER PINCHBECK, LONDON, the triple train movement with anchor escapement, the brass chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, pendulum and calendar apertures, subsidiary seconds and tune dials, painted with a lady and her lover to the arch, the lady playing the harp and the gentleman singing from a music sheet, with a glazed arched door above a pair of bevelled plate glass doors enclosing a cupboard, above a long drawer, the associated base with fall front enclosing drawers and pigeonholes above two long drawers on squared cabriole legs 92cm wide, 233cm high, 85cm deep Note: The musical elements of this clock are now missing.
An early 20th century Syrian walnut and inlaid games table profusely inlaid throughout with chequer banding, geometric motifs and mother of pearl decoration, the foldover swivel top revealing a central baize playing surface with a compartmental surround, the baize surface folding back to reveal a backgammon board with thirty-two counters, below are arched aprons, the whole raised on square cabriole legs 90cm wide, 82cm high, 47cm deep
Peter Brannan (born 1926) - “Playing on the Ice” - Panoramic winter scene with children playing on ice and houses to background, board 9ins x 17.5ins, signed in full and dated ‘69, in gilt moulded frame with cloth covered slip Provenance : Exhibited at the Trafford Gallery, 119 Mount Street, London W1, 1969, No. 10 in small catalogue, and copy of receipt dated 11th June 1969 at a purchase price of 52.10s. by Mr E.W. Bridger, 13 Portland Road, London W11
Early 19th Century English School - Half length portrait of a young woman with auburn hair wearing a cream Empire line dress, seated playing a harp, canvas 31ins x 26ins, unsigned, in contemporary deep gilt moulded frame (frame later overpainted) Note : Thought to be a member of the Mackeson Family from Hythe, Kent
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