There are 79736 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeThree collectable toys, to include a Schuco tinplate clockwork toy of a violin playing clown, with key, one foot impressed "Schuco Patent", the other "Made in Germany", together with an early plastic or celluloid Pluto toy dog, having hinged jaw with magnet and with attached magnetic dog toy and plastic bone. Also a drum form music box, with serpentine brass crank handle to play tune and applied paper labels of a piano playing girl to base and boy to top. (3)
A Satsuma dishJapan, Meiji period (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryOf rounded form standing on a short footring, decorated with various coloured enamels and gold, with a large square panel depicting a garden scene with a lake and mountainous landscape in the background, to the front two ladies playing musical instruments for the amusement of two young children, surrounded by light orange border with gold wave pattern, the whole on a blue ground with scrolling flowers, signed to the baseDiam. 18.5 cm. CONDITION REPORT Appears to be in overall good condition, with very minor wear to the gilding.
Sadji (Sha Qi, Sha Yinnian) (1914-2005), A still life with flowers and carrots, oil on canvas, dated 1945Dim.: 111 x 91,5 cm (the frame) Dim.: 98,5 x 78,5 (the painting) Provenance: A private collection, Belgium Sha Qi is known by many names: Born Sha Yinnian in the village of Sha, part of Yinxian County in Zhejiang, China (1932), he would also be dubbed Sad Ji in his European travels, and eventually called the Eastern Van Gogh by the end of his career. The intense beauty and tragedy that permeated his life and artwork was recognized during his early years, neglected in his later years, then fortunately rediscovered before his final days; so his prolific body of work continues to gain praise and excite the world of art today. Sha Qi studied painting first at the Shanghai Arts School, then the Central University of China. His studies were interrupted, though, when Japanese armies invaded China. Sha Qi was not one to sit quietly by, and was arrested in 1933 after years of petitioning and demonstrations along with other Shanghai students. He spent a full year imprisoned by Kuomintang authorities, but after release he took a job at the Art Department of Central University in Nanjing. He worked then alongside his cousin and friend, Sha Menghai, who would go on to be a master calligrapher. It was at this same time Xu Beihong came into his life. Then Director of the Art Department, later to become President of Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) and the Chinese Artists’ Association, Xu turned out to be a crucial guide and friend to Sha Qi, recognizing his talent and passion in art and spending the rest of their years together teaching, mentoring, promoting and protecting Sha. It was Xu that introduced Sha to the Belgium Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where he would learn Western painting under Professor A. Bastien (who also taught famous Chinese painter Wu Zuoren, 1908-1997). With his excellent teachers, Sha Qi quickly found his way as an artist. In 1939, his grades in sketching, oil painting and sculpture classes won him a Golden Medal in Fine Arts. He held many solo shows in Brussels, and in 1940 he was showing alongside Pablo Picasso at Atriome. His painting titled “Girl Playing Flute” was purchased by the Royal Family of Belgium in 1942. During these years of study in Europe, Sha’s style developed from academically notable to stylistic, as exhibited in his painting “Studio at Royal Academy of Fine Arts”, one of the first to be accented by expressive brushstrokes that would soon become trademark of his work in Belgium. By the time he moved back to China in 1946, ‘Sad Ji’ was a well known and beloved artist in Europe. At first Sha went right to work alongside his friend Xu to restore art education in their war-torn country, accepting a high-level position as professor at Beiping Special School of Art (later to grow into the Central Academy of Fine Arts). Unfortunately, he was not able to maintain the position when he fell very ill. It would seem the impact of war and prison, plus the emotional blow of his wife leaving him with their only son, pushed Sha over the edge. He was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, and the disease took a heavy toll on him. When word spread of his illness, Xu and Premier Zhou Enlai, in honor of his contributions to his country, made arrangements for the government to support Sha through a life-time monthly stipend. In a desperate state, with only his elderly mother to care for him, Sha’s ex-wife did eventually return their son, Tianxing, to live with him; and this was a great comfort to Sha in these long years of illness. After his friend, Xu, died in 1953, Sha seemed forgotten by his country and art community at large. Tianxing claims his father never stopped creating art during this time, though; often turning to old newspaper or wood, and using ash from cooking pots as paint. He would mostly hand out these pieces as gifts to neighbors, though anyone receiving his art during this time likely viewed him as nothing more than a madman, and would probably have burned or thrown away such works without understanding the value. Sha’s old cousin and friend, Sha Menghai, the famed calligrapher, restored some of Sha Qi’s earlier Belgium works which had been donated in 1978 to the Zhejiang Provincial Museum where Menghai held position as Director. Later, Cousin Menghai would organize a major show with these and more of Sha’s works, exhibiting 50 pieces in a solo show (1983) that would travel to Shanghai, Beijing, and Hangzhou, where the China Art Museum would keep 3 paintings. The show served to remind the art world of this forgotten talent, and also gave Sha encouragement to create again. Sha was invited to join the Shanghai Cultural-Historical Research Society in 1984, and the following year he showed his works throughout China and picked up the brushes again to create a new landscape series. His final works are now recognized as his most successful, “striking for their bold use of colors and the unusual spontaneity of strokes,” artist Yan Shanchun proclaimed. In the last few years of his life, Sha Qi was too sick to understand that his fame was steadily spreading. When he passed away in 2005, he left behind a large and growing crowd of admirers, students, a loving son, and a sizeable body of work that clearly tells the story of an artist’s changing and maturing approach to a range of subjects as wide as life itself, from portraits to still lifes, animals to landscapes, reflecting all that could imaginably be reflected in art- including high abstraction in his latest works. Though much of his work is now recognized and preserved, we have yet to see what lingering artwork may still be revealed as the provenance of his life’s work continues to come to light, piece by piece. (source: Tobin Reese)We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A Japanese lotus-shaped Kakiemon bowl with playing boys, Edo, 17th C. H.: 9 cm - Dia.: 18,5 cm See also: Ayers & Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, plate 116, for a related example. We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A fine Chinese famille rose plaque with playing boys, seal mark, 19th C. Dim.: 38 x 25,5 cm We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A rare Chinese carved ivory group of two boys playing football, 1st half 20th C. H.: 23,5 cm - L.: 20,5 cm We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A Chinese blue and white ginger jar with playing boys, Kangxi H.: 20,5 cm We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A Chinese carved ivory group of Buddhist lions playing with a ball, 19/20th C. L.: 28 cm - H.: 16,5 cm We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A pair of Chinese famille rose vases with playing boys, Qianlong mark, Republic, 20th C. H.: 22 cm We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Three Chinese famille rose and verte vases and a 'hundred boys' dish with playing boys, 19/20th C. Dia.: 33,5 cm (the dish)H.: 53,5 cm (the bronze-mounted famille verte vase) We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A Chinese famille rose box and cover with playing boys, Lin Zhi Cheng Xiang mark, Republic, 20th C. H.: 17 cm - Dia.: 26 cm We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A Chinese doucai tea bowl with playing boys, Yongzheng mark, 19/20th C. H.: 3 cm - Dia.: 6,5 cm We have more lots available exclusively on our website www.rm-auctions.com! Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
MARX HARPO: (1888-1964) American Film Comedian, one of the Marx Brothers. A good, original pen and ink self caricature drawn, signed and inscribed by Marx on a small oblong 8vo sheet of paper, the hastily sketched image depicting Marx seated in a full length profile pose playing his harp. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink alongside the drawing. Some light creasing and age wear and some minor traces of former mounting to the verso. Together with Noel Coward (1899-1973) English Playwright, Actor and Composer, Academy Award winner. Vintage signed sepia 4 x 4.5 magazine photograph of Coward in a close-up profile pose. Signed in bold fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area at the head of the image. Neatly mounted. Also including Gracie Fields (1898-1979) English Actress & Entertainer. Vintage bold blue fountain pen ink signature and inscription on a slightly irregularly trimmed oblong 12mo piece. With some traces of former mounting to the verso. G to about VG, 3
ST. DENIS RUTH: (1879-1968) American Modern Dance Pioneer. A.L.S., Ruth St. Denis, to the verso of a postcard, the sepia image depicting St. Denis in a full-length dance pose, St. John's Wood, n.d. (12th October 1909), to Clifford Bax. St. Denis enquires of her correspondent, 'Did I ever answer your letter? We are just now leaving for America and have come across your letter.' With very minor age wear. Together with a small selection of signed pieces and A.Ls.S., by various actors and actresses comprising Cecil Raleigh (A.L.S., in part, 'I was at the Avenue on Friday, and I thought your performance excellent - you will find my views in "To Day" on Wednesday. I certainly shall keep you in my eye for melodrama' to Florence Farr, n.d.), Henry Neville, Marie Bancroft, Yvonne Arnaud and May Hunt-Helmsley (A.L.S., in part, '"An Old Jew" is to come off, and "Caste" is to be produced with all speed - I'm given "Polly"… playing all night and looking after the house, is almost as much as I can attend with… I am, under these circumstances, most reluctantly compelled to come to the conclusion that it would be better for us both that I should not play on this occasion. You see the danger is, that with two things at look after, and being done at the same time, ones allegiance is divided… to risk giving an indifferent performance to Mrs. Bancroft's old part would be unwise. Believe me I am most anxious to play "Juliet" and before, too, such an audience. But so it is…', 21st January 1894). Four are neatly corner mounted to 4to pages bearing neat ink calligraphic biographies in the hand of a collector to the verso. G to VG, 6 Clifford Bax (1886-1962) English Writer, Playwright, Poet, Lyricist and Hymn Writer. Florence Farr (1860-1917) British Actress, Composer and Director, leader of the occult order, The Golden Dawn, and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw.
ARMSTRONG LOUIS: (1901-1971) American Jazz Trumpeter. Vintage signed postcard photograph, the image depicting Armstrong standing in a half-length pose playing his trumpet, in a publicity shot for Brunswick Records. Signed with his name alone to the lower border. Further signed to the verso by members of his band, comprising Bob McCracken, Trummy Young, Cozy Cole, Avrell Shaw and Velma Middleton. Dated Munich December 1952 in the hand of a collector. With minor age wear. VG
Steve Carell 10x8 signed colour photo of the actor Steve Carell shown in his roll from Evan almighty. Steven John Carell is an American actor, comedian, producer, writer and director. Carell is known for playing a variety of characters, including Michael Scott on the American version of The Office (2005-2013), on which he also worked as an occasional producer, writer and director. Good Condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
7x5 signed B/W photo by the actor Anthony Hopkins. Sir Philip Anthony Tony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh film, stage, and television actor. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, playing Richard the Lionheart. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who would direct five Hopkins films, called him the greatest actor of his generation. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
10x8 signed B/W photo by Barbara Windsor and Bernard Cribbins. Dame Barbara Windsor, DBE (born 6 August 1937) is an English actor, known for her appearances in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She joined the cast of EastEnders in 1994 and won the 1999 British Soap Award for Best Actress. She left the show in September 2010, before returning for four episodes between September 2013 and January 2016. Her character's final scenes were broadcast in May 2016. Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE (born 29 December 1928) is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over seventy years. He came to prominence in films of the 1960s and has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid-1950s. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
10x8 signed colour photo of the actress Barbara Windsor. Dame Barbara Windsor, DBE (born 6 August 1937) is an English actor, known for her appearances in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She joined the cast of EastEnders in 1994 and won the 1999 British Soap Award for Best Actress. She left the show in September 2010, before returning for four episodes between September 2013 and January 2016. Her character's final scenes were broadcast in May 2016. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Voyage to the Gambia.- Holmes (Sir Robert, naval officer, c. 1622-92) Autograph Letter signed to Sir William Batten, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, folio, "St Hellens Roads", Frigate Henrietta, 8th January 1660/61, complaining about the surgeon who has failed to come aboard on the voyage to Gambia, "The Chirugeon that was to hav gon along with me this voyage hath faind himselfe sicke and is left behinde, whether he were really sick or not I cannot tell, I have sent you heere his letter Concerning his chest which wee finde to be hardly provided for 6 months according to the Kings alowance... wee should be furnished for 10 months... I shall desire that the Chirugion might be... severly punished... it had much better to have knockt meen in ye heade at hom. then to let them dy lik doggs for want of small remedies...", folds, browned.⁂ Holmes commanded the Henrietta, "intended for a voyage to Guinea to search for a 'mountain of gold' which Rupert had learned of in the 1650s. Holmes would also command a squadron containing four other ships, with orders to assist the new Royal African Company's trade in the region. He sailed from Portsmouth on 25 January 1661, reaching the Gambia on 4 March. On 18 March he forced the surrender of the Dutch fort of St Andreas, and after an unsuccessful attempt to find the legendary store of gold, he returned to the Downs on 28 July. The cruise made a loss and brought a storm of diplomatic protest from the Dutch... ." - Oxford DNB.Pepys wrote, "he seems to be very well acquainted with the King's mind and with all the several factions at court ... being a cunning fellow, and one (by his own confession to me) that can put on two several faces and look his enemies in the face with as much love as his friends. But good God, what an age is this, that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation." - Pepys, 2.169
Pair of porcelain framed plaques and an oval panel mounted as a tray, probably Sevres, the plaques painted with portraits of two ladies, the tray painted with cherubs playing music within the clouds, fitted within London silver 1885 dated mount, 19th century, (3) the tray measures 32cm wide Condition report: No damage or restoration. There is some wear to the gilding of the panel fitted into the tray. The face edges of the portraits cannot be inspected due to the way they are mounted.
Loading...
