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Click here to subscribeJohn Challis signed and inscribed 10x8 colour photograph pictured during his time playing Boyce in the popular British series Only Fools and Horses. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Star Wars, Jennifer Cresswell, Paul Blake and one other multi-signed 10x8 colour photograph pictured during their time playing in the Star Wars Film. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Red Dwarf, Chloe Annett signed 10x8 colour photograph. Annett is well known for playing Kristine Kochanski in Red Dwarf. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Dame Barbara Windsor signed 6x4 photograph. Windsor was an English actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Glynis Johns signed album page. Johns is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture Mary Poppins. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Ben Murphy signed and double mounted 11x14 colour photograph pictured during his time playing Kid Curry in the ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Two leaves from an early Psalter-Hours, with numerous penwork drolleries of a hanged man, a cow chased by a dog playing a musical instrument and others, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Flanders, or perhaps Rhineland, third quarter of the thirteenth century] Two leaves, each with single column of 20 lines in an angular early gothic bookhand, 2-line initials in blue or gold with contrasting penwork, the leaf with modern foliation '34' in upper outer corner with a large initial 'I' (opening 'Iuste iudex ...', see below) formed from a youthful David holding a sword and standing within a green tower topped with a gold parapet, a red and green dragon biting at the foot of the tower, and another penwork dragon used as a line-filler, other geometric line-fillers in colours and gold, this leaf somewhat stained in centre, discoloured and cockled, trimmed at top removing top of parapet and at innermost edge removing part of tail of dragon; and the leaf with modern foliation '202' with penwork scene of a man being hung in the upper margin, with a figure each side drawing up ropes as he dangles from a scaffold, a cow with a bell around its neck being chased by a dog, as the cow plays a musical instrument (perhaps a hirtenschalmei, a shepherd's shawm, as often played by rustics in medieval art), and three other bird-headed drolleries, one of whom plays a similar instrument, two contemporary repairs, and similar trimming at head removing the top of the hanging scene; both overall fair and presentable condition, 177 by 134mm. Provenance:1. Produced as a lavish commission for a nun (one of the collects of another leaf mentioning 'our abbess'), most probably in Flanders or the Rhineland (with previous attempts at localisation including England, eastern France and lower Lorraine). The opulent level of decoration has been taken to suggest that the original owner of the book may have been royal.2. Broken and widely dispersed in the 1960s, with leaves in the collection of Carl Richartz, Amsterdam by 1966. A part of this dispersal was undertaken by Folio Fine Art, with leaves initially appearing there in their cat. 43 in February 1967, and the leaf foliated '202' here has an erased inscription on its reverse recording their stock number 'MS 2617', and a price: '£10.10. 0'. Alan Thomas and Maggs also sold leaves in this decade (see P. Kidd, The McCarthy Collection, II, 2019, no. 20, and the list of known leaves in Sotheby's, 7 July 2015, lot 13, not including these here).3. These leaves acquired from a UK private collector in 2006 (leaf foliated '202') and from a North American private collector in 2019 (leaf foliated '34'). Text:The two leaves here contain part of the Athanasian Creed (leaf foliated '202') and prayers, including one to Christ 'Iuste iudex ihesu Christe rex regum et domine ...' (leaf foliated '34').
David Harping in a historiated initial on a leaf from a Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England (perhaps Oxford), c. 1250] Single leaf, with a large initial 'B' ('Beatus vir...', the opening of the Psalms), in orange-red with white circles picked out in its body, enclosing David seated on a blue edged plinth, dressed in green robes and playing his harp, all on blue and thick gold grounds, with foliate extensions on same gold grounds extending into margins, the gold around the initial and its extensions pounced at edges, 2-line initials in alternate red or blue with contrasting penwork, one-line initials in alternate red or blue, red rubrics, double column of 48 lines in a professional university bookhand, small spots, tape adhering to edge of reverse from last mounting, else bright and outstanding condition, 197 by 140mm. Provenance:1. From a fine English Bible, sold in Sotheby's, 7 December 1931, lot 24.2. Otto Ege (1888-1951), self-proclaimed 'biblioclast', and in his possession since the 1930s and perhaps from his personal collection, with leaves issued in his Fifty Original Leaves portfolio, as no. 13 (see S. Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, p. 120, his HL 13), with further leaves emerging in Sotheby's, 25 April 1983, lot 25 (10 leaves), and again 26 November 1985, lot 46b (another 10 text leaves, there erroneously recorded as French), and Maggs, cat. 1319, no. 69.3. Daniel Meyer Friedenberg (1923-2011): his pencil marks on reverse, recording this as his 'Zion 14'. Acquired by Roger Martin in Friedenberg's sale: New England Auction Company, Danbury, CT, 22 August 2014, lot 50. Illumination:As Sotheby's noted in 1983, the decoration of the parent manuscript has 'much in common with the W. de Brailes style'.
Miniature of Pope St. Gregory's vision, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Angers, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France (Angers), late fifteenth century] Single leaf, with a large miniature enclosing the saint celebrating Mass as a vision of Christ as the Man of Sorrows supported by an attendant appears on the altar before him, as he holds up the host and reads from an open book on the altar next to his papal crown, all within a rich gothic interior with followers behind and a city visible through the window, all within a red arch-topped frame, above a 2-line initial in liquid gold on burgundy grounds and 2 lines of text (this and what follows containing the Seven Prayers of St. Gregory on the Passion of the Lord), full border of acanthus leaves and other foliage on dull gold grounds enclosing a butterfly, a four-legged drollery animal and two monkeys in the bas-de-page playing the bagpipes and a shepherd's shawm, verso with six one- and 2-line initials as before and 14 lines of text, small spots and stains, occasional smudge, corner once folded in, else good condition, 150 by 105mm. From a Book of Hours, made for a young woman who lived in the region of Angers in the late fifteenth century. That sold Sotheby's, 5 December 1995, lot 52 (already imperfect) and dispersed soon after. This leaf acquired in the North American trade in 2018.
A large Meissen group, second half 19th centuryAfter the 18th century model by M.V. Acier, in the round, depicting a gentleman holding a violin and a lady next to him holding a cup and a scroll, a flower basket at her feet, the reverse with a girl playing the lute on a high rockwork base embraced by a boy lower down on the base, below them a putto playing a tambourine seated on a goat being fed by another putto, a third putto holding a dove to the gentleman's right, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork, 35cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, indistinct incised marks (some restoration)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A set of five Meissen figures allegorical of The Senses, 1973-83After the models by J.C. Schönheit from 1772, each depicting a seated lady with their respective attributes of the Senses, four seated by a small table and one playing the spinet, on rectangular bases with a curved front and gilt-edged moulded borders, 12.2cm to 14.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers 70660-70664, impressed numerals and date codes, various painters' numbers (5)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThe figures were originally modelled by Schönheit in 1772; see S. & T. Bergmann, Meissen Figures - Model Numbers A1 - Z99 (2014), nos. 258-262.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of Meissen figural candlesticks, late 19th centuryModelled by E.A. Leuteritz after the models by J.J. Kaendler, depicting a shepherdess playing the recorder with a recumbent sheep at her feet, and a shepherd playing bagpipes with a recumbent dog at his feet, respectively, each with a leafy tree at the rear surmounted by a foliate drip-tray and sconce, on high scrollwork bases, decorated overall in underglaze-blue and gilding with flesh tones, 35cm high, crossed swords marks and 64. in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers F 155 and F 156, impressed numerals (minor chips) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Italian biscuit porcelain figure of a shepherd, late 18th centuryDressed in classical draperies and holding his hands up as if playing a flute, a dog seated at his feet, a classical pedestal beside him, on a rockwork base, 26.5cm high (restoration to dog and extremities)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Meissen group of Harlequin and Columbine, mid 18th centuryModelled by J.J. Kaendler, both seated, he wearing a mask, a tunic decorated with a pink-ground and playing cards on one side and a colourful diamond pattern on the other, holding a sausage in this raised left hand and a feathered hat in his right hand on her knee, she wearing a small pink tricorn hat, yellow bodice with blue bow and a floral skirt, holding a slapstick in her raised right hand, the base applied with leaves, branches and flowers, 15.8cm high, faint crossed swords mark in blue (his head and left hand restuck, her right wrist restored)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainKaendler's Taxa from 1740-48 states: '1 Groupgen aus 2 Figuren bestehend, da ein Arlequin neben einem Frauenzimmer sizt, solche zu caressi, die ihn mit der Pritzsche schlägt, 8 Thlr.' [1 group consisting of 2 figures, a harlequin sitting next to a woman, trying to embrace her, she hitting him with a slapstick] (see R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (1966), no. 868).Another example from the collection of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, is illustrated in R. Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten (2001), no. 22. Further examples are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, and the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, illustrated in Dr Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (1972), vol. I, pp.298-301.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Meissen Bacchanalian group, late 19th centuryAfter the model by M.V. Acier of 1770-72, a satyr squeezing grapes into a goblet held by a reclining nymph, attended by two fauns playing horn and pipes, a leafy tree at the rear, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork, 22.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number D63., impressed 144, painter's numeral 38 in black (minor restoration)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Sèvres covered ewer and basin (Pot à l'eau à la Romaine et jatte à feuille de choux), circa 1777Based on a model first designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis in 1751, the ewer of hard-paste porcelain, painted by Louis-Gabriel Chulot with elaborate floral wreaths of different varieties including roses, poppies and cornflowers, on either side, the front with turtle doves flanking a wicker basket with a musette de coeur, a straw hat and letters, one entitled 'Pastor Fido' all set between moulded stylised leaf shapes heightened in gilding, the shell-shaped cover with a flower wreath enclosing a single rose, the large scrolling handle brought forth from gilt bulrushes surrounding the base of the handle, the basin of soft-paste porcelain painted by François-Marie Barrat with floral wreaths and swags between the moulded sways picked out in gilding, the ewer: 26cm high, the basin: 36.5cm wide, the basin: interlaced LL monogram enclosing dated letter 'Z' over painters mark FB all in mauve colour, the ewer: crowned interlaced LL mark and painters mark of a quaver (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 11 November 2000, lot 40;Christie's New York, 24 October 2012, lot 156; Private European Collection;Property from the Collection of Dr. Johannes Ralph LafrenzThe writing on the letter on the ewer, 'Pastor Fido' likely refers to popular pastoral tragicomedy Pastor Fido by Giovanni Battista Guarini, first published in 1590. The play was to have its first performance in 1584 at the court of Vincenzo Gonzaga, who had intended to mount a production of the play as part of the festivities around his marriage to Leonora de'Medici, but remained unfinished until 1585, when it was performed in its completed version in honour of the marriage of the Duke of Savoy and Catharine of Austria. After its initial publication, Guarini revised the play many times, and it appeared in over a hundred editions following its first publication. It became one of the most famous plays of the 17th century, and inspired numerous composers including Monteverdi, Alessandro Grandi and Heinrich Schütz. Sonatas playing on themes from Il Pastor Fido for the instrument musette de coeur, depicted on the ewer, were long published as Vivaldi's opus 13. They were however secretly composed by a man called Nicholas Chédeville. The music was published in 1737 by Jean-Noël Marchand through a secret agreement with Chédeville to publish a collection of Chédeville's compositions under Vivaldi's name. Chédeville supplied the funding and received the profits, all of which was documented in a notarial act by Marchand in 1749. The work includes six sonatas for musette, Vielle à roue, recorder, flute, oboe or violin, and basso continuo (documented by Federico Maria Sardelli, Vivaldi's music for flute and recorder (2007), pp.76 ff. ) According to some, Chédeville was the most famous musette player France ever had. He was born in 1705 into a family of musicians and took up a post in the prestigious royal oboe consortium Les Grands Hautbois, where he stayed until a few years before his death in 1782. Notwithstanding his self-pronounced title as 'musette layer to the King', Chédeville was plagued by financial difficulties eventually leading to his bankruptcy shortly before his death in 1782. He however seems to have been successful in keeping up appearances at the French Court and taught the musette to Princess Victoire from about 1750. He became a popular teacher among the aristocracy, eventually attaining the title of maître de musette de Mesdames de France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Meissen group of Scaramouche and Columbine, circa 1741Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, Scaramouche wearing a black hat, pale pink tunic patterned with playing cards and blue breeches, embracing Columbine holding a birdcage and wearing an iron-red bodice with black stomacher, yellow and black striped skirt and a white apron with stylised flowers, a leafy tree to the side, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 17.5cm high, faint traces of crossed swords mark in blue (chips and restoration to the leaves)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThe group is recorded in Kaendler's Taxa:'Groupgen von 2 Figuren, bestehend, so einander umarmen, das Frauenzimmer aber hält in der lincken Hand einen Vogelgebauer' [group made up of 2 figures, embracing each other, the woman however holding a birdcage in her left arm].Further examples are in the Porcelain Collections, Dresden (illustrated in R. Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten (2001), no. 18), the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel (illustrated in Dr Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (1972), vol. I, pp. 284-287), the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (illustrated in Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked (2001), no. 82, fig. 298), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, amongst others. Another example was sold in these rooms, 3 December 2020, lot 86.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BRUSSELS TAPESTRY PANEL EARLY 17TH CENTURY depicting one of the Muses: Terpsichore, flanked by music playing putti, one with a tambourine, the other playing a flute, mounted on a stretcher 54.3 x 150cm Provenance A Private European Collection. Acquired from Mayorcas Ltd, 38 Jermyn Street, St James's, London, 31st August 1976 for £750.
A SILKWORK AND METAL THREAD PICTURE PROBABLY GERMAN OR DUTCH, 18TH CENTURY worked in coloured silks, depicting a courting couple dancing, with a young lady playing a mandolin, on a silk backing 46.5 x 51.5cm Provenance A Private European Collection. Acquired from Sotheby's Amsterdam, European Collections, 16th December 2003, lot 979 for 947 Euros incl. premium.
A Copeland Late Spode tricolour jug, relief-moulded with children playing drum and triangle, floral borders on blue ground, 13cm; a Copeland buff stoneware jug, relief-moulded floral and foliage design centre band, circular and geometric design borders above and below, 14cm; a relief-moulded jug commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar, unmarked, 21cm; and other relief-moulded jugs, unmarked.
A Victorian papier-mâché mother-of-pearl inlaid box, containing a collection of bone spillikins and playing cards, 5.5cm x 17cm; an ebony ring tree with small silver plaque, 9.5cm; an Eastern Telegraph Company Ltd wooden paper turner, 1892 calendar to handlem part map of the world on paddle, 33cm; mauchline-type boxes; and other treen items.
A French musical box cigarette dispenser, circa 1930s, modelled as a man with a top hat, on a mahogany plinth, with a wooden sprung mechanism, internally with a music box playing 'Valencia Marcheta', with manufacturers label to the underneath, 13cm square, 18cm highCondition report: Some minor rubbing to the decorateion. Appears in working order. Music box operational.
A Meissen porcelain figural group of the drunken Silenus, 19th century, supported by Bacchus and slumped on a donkey being fed grapes by a maiden relaxing on the ground, and a putto playing with its tail, incised 2724 to base, and blue crossed swords mark, 21cm high, approx 20cm wideCondition report: donkey's tail entirely broken off and end missinglosses to flowers and petals in basket and garlands etcitem broken off and missing from Bacchus's handmaiden's fingers broken and missingdonkey's right ear missingSilenus hand poorly glued back onmaiden's toe missingputto's fingers missingchips and dinks
A Meissen porcelain figural group, depicting a young boy and girl playing the pipe, seated on a tree stump on circular naturalistic base, blue crossed swords mark to base, 14cm high, 12.5cm wideCondition report: large chip to hatchip to tree stumpall foliage chipped and having losseschip to base
2 octagonal porcelain dishes with birds in a landscape with trees and richly decorated rim of butterflies, waves, flowers and other symbols, China Kangxi period, 22 cm diameter (edge flakes) and 2 dishes with two philosophers in the middle playing a game of Mahjong and a watching fisherman in a mountainous landscape and a richly decorated edge of everyday scenes buvissers on the waterfront, children playing, China Kangxi period, 21.5 cm diameter (damaged)
7 porcelain cups and saucers, China17th and 18th century, bumelk and blood with a decor of a man riding an ox with a cow on a rope behind it, floral decor with cartouches and mark on the bottom, dancing fools divided into cartouches with parchment scrolls in between, Capuchin decor with various flowers, blue monochrome decor and gold decorated flowers, colorful decor of 2 ladies with 2 playing children and a child with umbrella together with an ox in a mountain landscape (damaged)
2 boxes very diverse incl. wooden figurines, squeeze bottle, Chinese guards, 2 display cabinets with taxidermy and carvings, wayang puppets, Wedgwood Jasperware, old photo album, cocktail sticks, Indian knife in sheathed sheath, machete, bone playing card box, brass miniature cannon/signal cannons miscellaneous
A musical table clock, George II (1726-1760), ebonised wood case with engraved and gilt bronze mounts, matt, polished, painted and silvered brass dial with Roman and Arabic black numerals and polychrome painting "Flowers", painted upper arch "Family scene playing music in the countryside" with movement of four arms that play string instruments, eight-day autonomy, plays music on the hour for about thirty seconds, six different songs playing on eight-bell chime with fifteen hammers, music and chime silencer, song and hour repetition on demand separately, verge escapement, month calendar., English, mechanism requiring maintenance, case with faults and minor defects, traces of wood insects, silk with minor faults, circa 1750, marked GEO[RG]e. GRAHAM - LONDON on the dial.Dim. - 59 x 36,5 x 25 cm
A GROUP OF MODERN TABLE LAMPS, CLOCKS, FIGURES, CANDLE HOLDERS etc, comprising of a Juliana ornamental clock having putti and lights, height 86.5cm, a clock held by elephants, height 27cm, a twin burner oil lamp, height 48cm, a chrome metal single burner oil lamp, height 58cm, a pair of large hurricane style lamps, outdoor candle holders, height 71cm, a table lamp in the form of a fairy, having decorative leaded light type glass wings, height 40cm, a table lamp of a seated girl playing the violin (bow missing), height 47cm, a figure of a man holding tankard aloft (arm re-glued), height 62cm, decorative bowl having water nymph and two geese and a flower rising out of it, height 60cm, etc (14)
A 19TH CENTURY SWISS INLAID ROSEWOOD MUSIC BOX, playing twelve airs on a thirteen inch brass cylinder and six bells. 31cm high by 70cm wide by 38cm deepThe absence of a Condition Report does not imply that a lot is without imperfections. Please note carefully the exclusion of liability for the condition of lots contained in the Conditions of Sale.All of the teeth are present and intact. It appears to be working to some degree although the stop switch does not appear to be functioning.
A POLYCHROME ENAMELLED FU LU SHOU GROUP Modelled around a naturalistic tree trunk table playing Go 25cm wide x 35cm high Condition: Minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use, one section of the hat has been re-stuck and another section of the hat is detached and in need of repair, one deer's horn has been broken
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