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Lot 40
ALAN DAVIE (1920-2014)Magic Fountain No.5Oil on canvas, 152 x 183cmSigned, inscribed and dated 1986 versoGimpel Fils label and Hillsboro Gallery label versoAlan Davie 1920-2014), was an archetypal free spirit, a painter but also, recognising no boundaries, a jazz musician (piano, and later the tenor saxophone, among other instruments), jewellery designer, poet and keen glider pilot. He was born in Grangemouth in the Forth Valley. His father, a schoolteacher, was a keen amateur artist and when the young Alan showed real flair it was agreed he should attend art school, which he did, in Edinburgh. But WWII had broken out by the time he graduated and he spent the next five years in the Royal Artillery. In the post-war years, having resumed his artistic calling, a visit to Italy with his wife, ceramicist Janet Gaul, was decisive in shaping his artistic approach. He bonded with the work of pre- and early Renaissance painters because it was more innocent and unfettered than the high Renaissance and then, when Peggy Guggenheim introduced him to the pre-abstract work of Jackson Pollock in Venice, the shackles were truly broken. Incidentally, Guggenheim bought his paintings and Pollock became an admirer of his work before his untimely death. Davie consistently found approval beyond the confines of the UK art world.As with improvised music, art made spontaneously, without pre-planning, allowed him to connect, he felt, with a wealth of ancient myths and mysticism. He drew freely on motifs and symbols from many cultures, including Celtic mythology, Australian Aboriginal art and Navajo Indian art. He became associated with the St Ives artists when he and Janet bought a house near Land’s End (though they lived mainly near Hertford, also spending time on St Lucia in the Caribbean). Much of all this feeds into the free-wheeling, sexually charged symbolism of Magic Fountain #5, a witty perpetuum mobile of ripe, flowing vulvate and phallic forms, playing with the linked ideas of ocean, vessels, water, fruit, fecundity and sensuality.Aidan Dunne, 2019
Lot 189
Four small Continental porcelain plaques, 19th century, of KPM type, all oval and painted with the portraits of young ladues, one playing an organ, another in medieval dress, the others with elaborate 18th century hairstyles, in gilt metal frames, and a circular enamel plaque painted with Harlequin and Columbine in a later wooden frame, 10.3cm max. (5)
Lot 251
Three English porcelain figures of dogs, 1st half 19th century, one of a poodle seated with three puppies sleeping and playing on a scrolled rococo base, another formed as an inkwell, with a dog recumbent and suckling a single pup, the other of a hound chained and seated on a grassy base, 12.5cm max. (3) Provenance: a private collection from Hampshire.
Lot 291
Two rare Derby white-glazed figures, c.1760, one of a mother holding her baby, part of the Tithe Pig group, raised on a circular pad base applied with flowers and leaves, the other of a musician, seated on a rocky stump and playing the violin, incised W mark to the latter, some damages, 16.8cm max. (2)
Lot 359
A Chelsea-Derby vase, c.1765, painted with a lady standing above her sleeping companion leaning against a barrel, the reverse with a young girl seated and playing the hurdy-gurdy, reserved on a powder blue ground, the tall scrolled handles issuing from satyr mask handles, damages to the handles, 32.8cm.
Lot 100
Brighton Evening Argus press photographs, gelatin silver prints, Marty Feldman - playing football, 1963, cricket, 1970, Prime Ministers Thatcher, Heath and Douglas-Hume at Macmillan's funeral, 1987, Jeffery Archer, highly commended in Ilford Awards, 1987, Bernard Bresslaw playing cricket, 1963, in passe-partout mounts, 10in x 8in (G-VG)
Lot 156
Union Cases, 1-157, common, G, Littlefield Parsons & Co, Mary & Her Little Lamb, Nursery Rhyme, circa 1861, 76mm x 64mm, Ambrotype, ninth-plate, seated gentleman, tinted and gilded; 1-171, common, G, Littlefield Parsons & Co, Catching Butterflies, circa 1860, 65mm x 55mm, ninth-plate; 1-48, Common, G-VG, small crack, Littlefield, Parsons & Co, Children Playing with Toys, before 1857, 75mm x 118mm, 2 Ambrotypes, ninth-plate, (1) child, (2) teenage boy with peaked cap
Lot 512
Andrew Macara (B. 1944) Oil on canvas painting of children playing on the beach at sunset. Signed lower right. Christie's label verso. Mixed Exhibitions Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London. W H Pattersons, 19 Albemarle Street, London - New English Art Club mixed exhibitions Red Rag Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold International Art Fair, Olympia, 20th Century Art Fair Bath Contemporary Art Fair. Sight Size: 13.25 x 15.25 in. Overall Size: 18.25 x 20.25 in.
Lot 45
Little boy sitting in footie PJ's is playing with a lap full of puppies, Momma Dog looking on - Lladro number 01005456.Sweet cuddly scene of the boy child cuddling and playing with puppies and proud mom canine is watching over. Marks on underside. Retired 2004 Spanish Name: Mis Amigos. Artist: Antonio RamosIssued: 1988Dimensions: 5"HManufacturer: LladroCountry of Origin: Spain Condition: Good
Lot 469
Glazed white porcelain, a stylized model of a schoolgirl playing leapfrog with her mother. Stamped to base ROYAL DOULTON, with additional artist and series information. Artist: Douglas V. TootleIssued: 1998Dimensions: 8.5"H x 5.5"WManufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: England Condition: Overall good condition
Lot 472
Hand painted figurines of children with animals.Figurine of a girl with red hair ribbions feeding three white geese. Neutettau backstamp. Marked 5245 to bottom base. Size: 6.25"H. Girl with a doll in hand and a white goose. Gerold Porzelian backstamp. Marked 6894 to bottom base. Size: 7.25"H. Girl in light blue dress chasing a sheep. Marked 10316 to bottom base. Size: 6.75"H. Boy playing flute to four yellow chicks. Gerold Porzelian backstamp. Marked 5244 to bottom base. Size: 6.75"H. Girl in light pink and light blue dress hugging a white deer. Marked 2022S to bottom base. Size: 5.5"H. Issued: 20th CenturyDimensions: Tallest: 7.25"HCountry of Origin: Germany Condition: Girl with 3 white geese broken finger to right hand. Minor crazing. Boy with flute broken pinky to right hand and chip to left sleeve
Lot 102
WW1 Australian Army Military Medal group to Lance Corporal James Andrews, 27th Battalion A.I.F. Military Medal G.V.R. impressed named 5551 PTE J.S. ANDREWS. 27/AUST:INF: & British War Medal impressed named 5551 PTE. J.S. ANDREWS. 27-BN. A.I.F. Some scratches and minor edge bumps, generally good overall.James ‘Jim’ Silas Andrews was born 6/5/1897 in Burra, South Australia. Served 3 years Militia, B Coy, 79th Battery before enlisting 18/11/1915, 15th Reinforcements, 27th Bn. Served France, wounded 12/4/1917 & 28/3/1918. Repeated offences in service & at home, including receiving 56 days Field Punishment No.2 as a result of General Court Martial 13/5/1918. A lover of professional ladies, as can be seen by his charge sheet and medical history. Recommended for Military Medal 19/6/1918, confirmed 11/7/1918. His citation stating:‘During the whole of the operations south of Morlancourt near Albert on the night 10-11/6/18 this man especially distinguished himself by running from the Bn O.P. to Bn H.Q. very often under extremely heavy shell fire to deliver the reports from the observers. He showed an utter disregard for personal safety’. Signed Major General Rosenthal, Commander 2nd Australian Division.Returned to Australia 18/12/1918. Medically discharged 28/3/1919 – ‘Accident playing football’. Died ‘illness’ Keswick Military Hospital, Adelaide 8/2/1921. Buried Wester Terrace A.I.F. Cemetery Adelaide, Row 5, Grave 10.
Lot 226
"I can imagine at her age a tall blonde uncle being very menacing, cant you?", Daphne du Maurier: (1907 - 1989) British Author, T.L.S. Mena, 29th August 1956, 'Bing', two pages, to Maureen Baker-Munton, ('Dearest Maureen') an interesting letter regarding her grandchildren, trusts and travel. Of her grandaughter Marie-Therese de Zulueta, 'she is terribly friendly with me, and we have a fearful routes of her coming to my room in the mornings, and playing while I dress and do letter, much to the spoiling of the letters!' (Christian Browning) 'Kits is good with them, and sweeps Poo up in his arms and says "Hullo, me worship" in broad Cornish, which delights her. I can imagine at her age a tall blonde uncle being very menacing, cant you? He is so jam-along and un-snobby with the nurse, and they both have sups in the T.V. room watching some awful honky programme; it's so unlike my memory of my Etonian cousins when I was a child, and I remember our nurse-maid playing hide-and-seek with us once and our tall cousin George of 17 saying "Who's playing?' and on being told Doris, the nursemaid, said "Oh, I dont think I'll play" and wandering off! Times have changed'. Daphne continues 'I have sold the new book The Scapegoat to the Ladies Home Journal for the highest price ever paid - 166,000 dollars - as a serial before it's published as a book, and this will be Trust No 4 entirely for Kits... It now remains to somehow boost up Tessa's Trust, which isn't so big as the others, and I shall feel my duty is done. Still have nothing for my old age, though!'. 'I do so want a holiday abroad myself, as I haven't stirred from Mena (except to you, and that Dartmoor week) since last October. If Moper does'nt go to Australia, I'll suggest he comes away somewhere with me, but the trouble is he does'nt care about "abroad" and always feels ill, it's so damping! I'd adore to fly to Venice and motor about Italy, but I dont believe he'd want to, you know, he'd rather stooge down here in endless routes. I love working routes here, and summer, but do get very stale if I never get away'.'Moper' was Daphne's pet name for her husband Sir Frederick Browning.(All rights are reserved by The Chichester Partnership and no written materials may be reproduced in part or in full without the express prior written permission of The Chichester Partnership c/o Curtis Brown Group Ltd)
Lot 23
Interesting collection of informal Royal Family photographs - including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother in country attire at a picnic with Daphne du Maurier, Prince Charles and Princess Anne playing on the Royal Yacht Britannia and The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh aboard Sir Frederick Browning's yacht Fanny Rosa, along with Royal ephemera including a Special Pass for the Rehearsal of the Coronation Ceremony, luggage label for the Royal Household, Programmes for the Royal Household Social Club and Trooping the Colour. Along with a signed black and white photograph of Prince Philip.
Lot 62
"Bare your teeth in a smile...", Daphne du Maurier: (1907 - 1989) British Author, typescript letter, Kilmarth Par Cornwall, 1st January 1975, one page, to Mr & Mrs Baker-Muntons' Westmoreland Terrier ('Mr Wibby. Care of Mrs Baker-Munton') an amusing letter where Daphne gives voice to her Westmoreland Terrier 'Moray the Mensa' and imparts advice to Mr Wibby. 'I thank you for the dog towel you kindly sent me to wipe my paws when soiled with the shingle on Par Beach. One error. You should have inscribed the towel with a crossword puzzle that I might have solved while my paws were being dried. Perhaps some other time. A hint to the wise. If you feel like being kissed by Mrs Maureen, you only have to roll over on your back, wave your paws in the air, bare your teeth in a smile, and she wont be able to resist you. Best to do this when the telly is playing soft music by some classical composer'. Together with a signed Christmas card, 'Bing', 1977 and a colour photograph of Daphne with one of her Westies. (All rights are reserved by The Chichester Partnership and no written materials may be reproduced in part or in full without the express prior written permission of The Chichester Partnership c/o Curtis Brown Group Ltd)
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