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Lot 543
A group of Chinese and Japanese porcelain, 18th and 19th century, comprising a famille rose plate, decorated with a family in a garden listening to one play a stringed instrument, 23cm, a small famille rose dish, decorated with four figures, 13.5cm, an underglaze blue dish, decorated with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl, a/f repaired, single cobalt blue ring mark to base, 16cm, two small Canton cups, 6 and 7.5cm, a small Japanese cup, decorated with flowers, 6.5cm, and a Japanese twin division rectangular brush or water pot with high sides, finely decorated with children playing games and floral sprays, gilt highlights, 9.8 by 8 by 5.3cm high. (7)
Lot 566
A 19th century porcelain centrepiece figural group, comprising five figures amongst rocks, with a woman playing a guitar above a couple, with a young girl to the front and a boy at the back, all swathed in garlands of bocage raised on a rococo base, with rocaille and shells, in puce and green, with gilded highlights, bears blue crossed swords mark to the base, 25 by 25 by 41cm high.
Lot 155
A mixed lot of silver comprising a silver milk jug, London, 1845 by Daniel & Charles Houle; a small mug, Birmingham, 1928 by William Suckling Ltd, an engraved silver twin pack playing card box modelled in the form of a Sedan Chair, London, 1899 by Samuel Jacob; a twin handled pot, London, 1908 (makers mark rubbed), a silver ladle, London, 1816 by Solomon Hougham, a twin handled bowl, Birmingham, 1936 (makers mark rubbed), a silver bowl, London, 1911 by Charles Thomas Fox, a silver toast rack, Birmingham, 1913 (unidentified makers mark) and a silver cased trinket box with lining. Aprrox 1300g. Also together with two silver lidded pots with blue glass liners, one with marks rubbed and the other London, 1861 by George fox and a silver plated bowl.
Lot 310
A 19th Century silk needlework study of "Lady feeding Eagle", together with a needlework study, signed M Harrison dated 1868 "Girl playing with a cat" CONDITION REPORTS Is in a chipped gilt frame with various considerable losses throughout. Scratched, poor condition. The actual silk work looks yellowed, some staining, rip to the left hand side - see images. Showing various general signs of wear and tear throughout. Measures 57.5 cms x 36.5 cms. Needlework study framed in slightly stained and yellowed condition. Some patches missing and evident, loose threads, patched, faded. Both items show various general signs of wear and tear throughout
Lot 14
Bestselling author Adele Parks is offering the winning bidder the opportunity to name a character in her next novel. Adele Parks published her first novel, 'Playing Away', in 2000; in the same year the Evening Standard identified her as one of London’s “20 Faces to Watch”. Adele has published 16 novels, all of which have been bestsellers. Her latest novel, 'The Stranger in My Home', was a Kindle number 1 bestseller for many weeks and was published in paperback February this year. Described by Jenny Colgan as "Twisty, unputdownable and utterly engrossing" it is currently being developed as a TV mini-series.
Lot 264
A late 19th Century Chinese ivory puzzle ball on stand, the 10cm diameter ball carved in high relief with dragons, the stand incoporating a small puzzle ball knop supported by a female figure playing a string instrument upon a horse with a flag bearer to her side, raised and fret carved cicular plinth, full height including ball 40cm, on a wooden standCondition Report: Appears generally good overall with no obvious detrimental damage or repair, inner puzzle balls not checked
Lot 18
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Two Bad Mice, first edition, first or second printing, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, occasional very light marking, ink gift inscription dated 1905 to half-title, original grey boards with mounted colour illustration, spine slightly faded and chipped at foot, small chip to head of spine, minor bumping to corners, still overall a very good and unusually sharp copy, [Linder p.424; Quinby 7], 16mo, 1904. ⁂ One of the most difficult titles in the series to find in first edition and good condition. The Tale of Two Bad Mice was jointly inspired by a pet mouse of Potter's and by Norman Warne's construction of a dollhouse for his niece. Potter adopted the mouse after it was caught in a trap and named in Hunca Munca. Hunca Munca turned out to be quite personable and proved a good drawing model for Potter, her cleanly habits even provided an inspiration for her fictional counterpart. Sadly Hunca Munca died after falling from a chandelier after playing with Potter.
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Lot 207
Waugh (Evelyn).- [Evelyn Waugh's telescopic ear trumpet], plated copper, stamped "English Made", a few dents, some rubbing, 280mm collapsed, 444mm. extended. ⁂ Accompanied with letters of provenance from Auberon Waugh: "I have sent you a disgusting object... you may be able to identify as a telescopic ear trumpet as used by my Father in his later years... it may be of some whimsical interest to an obsessive collector." In his later years Waugh enjoyed playing up to the image of the grumpy elderly man of letters and he would use the trumpet to great effect in cultivating this persona. His cousin Claud Cockburn recalled a time when Waugh used the trumpet to withering effect against Malcolm Muggeridge at the Foyle's Literary Luncheon: "Then the guest of honor rose to speak, with all the confidence of a man who had won much acclaim for wit wisdom, and polished oratory. The receiving end of the trumpet was trained upon him. He had been speaking for perhaps a minute when Evelyn, was seen to be unscrewing the thing from his head. He removed it from his ear, placed the great bulk on the table cloth in front of him, and sat gazing intently at his plate. The guest of honor could have dealt easily with some rude heckler. But the gesture with the trumpet utterly dismayed and discomfited him... He sat down after speaking for less than half the time allotted to him. As he did so, Evelyn picked up the trumpet and began adjusting it, once more to listening position." Provenance: Sotheby's, 18th December, 1995, lot 428, presented by Auberon Waugh.
Lot 328
Portsmouth to Madras.- Baldwin (John Timins, Captain, Madras Artillery, died at Sholopore, India, married Barbara Moore Campbell, third daughter of Archibald Campbell, of Melfort, Argyleshire, d. 1891, 1805-46) Journal kept by Captain J.T. Baldwin Madras Artillery during a vouage to India in the year 1835 [&] Original verses written on visiting home after a few years absence; Original verses on visiting Newgate after seven years Transportation; Extracts from the Lady Flora Gazette of Saturday 26th September 1835 etc., autograph manuscript, together 186pp., 6pp. Contents and Index, small pen and ink sketch of a prisoner in Newgate Gaol, full-page pencil drawing of a building in India (small tears and tipped-in with tape), both by J.T. Baldwin, typescript page of Contents inserted first p. soiled, 20th century ink inscription on front free endpaper, later endpapers, 20th century cloth, 4to, 1835-36. ⁂ A personable and lively diary of a long sea voyage from Portsmouth to Madras. Baldwin, a Scot travelled on the Lady Flora, captained by Robert Ford from Portsmouth in 1835. Amongst the other passengers was Charles Edward Faber (1807?-68), Madras Engineers. In the diary Faber lends Baldwin a poem, The Knights of St John (Oxford prize poem) by his brother, Frederick William Faber (1814-63), Church of England clergyman and Roman Catholic priest. Faber recounts the exploits of a friend, Sir John Campbell, "they reached Bombay in safety: and pitched their tents on the Esplanade, where they had arranged matters to their satisfaction; when they received notice from a Peon to quit; the ground being wanted for some particular occasion by Mr. Elphinstone [Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), administrator in India], the Governor. What did Campbell do but pen a note to the Govr. forthwith... and concluded by requesting permission to remain where they were... Mr. Elphinstone... expressing regret that they should have been molested; requested they would condescend to take up their quarters at Government House... begged they would occupy any part of the Esplanade they pleased." Faber went on to build a road up Singapore's second highest hill, renamed Mount Faber in his honour in 1845. Pastimes included playing music with the other passengers (Baldwin played the flute), creating a newspaper (which causes arguments), crosses the equator, topsail breaks etc. Includes an account of meeting a ship from New South Wales. "Monday 14th. Another week has passed finding us still in nearly the same place and the little wind we had yesterday has disappeared. About 11 0c we descried a sail... bearing down towards us... she proved to be the Mary from New South Wales to Calcutta... . Dickinson had arrived at Sydney and had been sent up to the penal settlement. It appears they now allow educated convicts to remain at Head Quarters. As long as he conducts himself properly, he will not be obliged to labour, altho' the Governor could oblige him to do so for three years if he chose."
Lot 457
Follower of George Chinnery (1774-1852) Fisherwoman with two young boys playing beside a Chinese junk, ships and mountains in the distance, point of the brush, watercolour, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, inscribed attributions to Chinnery verso, 195 x 300 mm. (7 3/4 x 11 3/4 in), some light browning to sheet, with residual adhesive from previous mount to each corner visible verso, laid onto paper support at edges, unframed Provenance: Sir John Clement Witt [L.2228b]; Thence by descent ⁂ While the composition, and at the first glance the general nature of the work, suggests Chinnery to be the draughtsman, the handling of line and execution of the figures would suggest that it is by the hand of another.
Lot 65
Playing Cards.- A set of 78 numbered playing cards, wood engraved and hand-coloured, each 90x58mm., housed in original hinged box, with pictorial onlay and gilt decorations, light wear to extremities, surface soiling to box lid, [c.1850]. ⁂ The cards depict tradesmen, soldiers, animals and a number of generic symbols and icons.
Lot 585
A Japanese ivory netsuke carved as an elephant standing four square and mounted with a throne style chair within which sits a youth dressed in Chinese costume and holding a uchiway style fan, five other youths stand around the elephants legs playing musical instruments, on oval base signed in elaborate cartouches Chikuyosai Tomochika and tensho seal reading Tomochika. Late Edo. Height 6cm.Another elephant and children subject by Tomochika is illustrated in George Lazarnick's "Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures." page 1149 Condition report: No condition issues.
Lot 831
A George Tinworth, Doulton Lambeth musician, the mouse stands playing a large horn on stepped square acanthus moulded base dated 1885, incised monogram, 11cm. (See illustration) Condition report: Condition report: One ear with large chips, the figure appears to have been broken from the base and neatly re-glued.
Lot 35
Terence P. Flanagan PRUA RHA (1929-2011)The Long Avenue, Lissadell, Co. Sligo (1960)Oil on board, 84 x 121.5cm (33 x 48'')Signed and dated 1960Exhibited: 'Painting and Sculpture by Ulster Artists', CEMA Gallery, Belfast, Spring1960; 'Paintings by T. P. Flanagan', Hendriks Gallery, DublinMarch 1964, Catalogue No.14.At the time this painting was painted, T. P. Flanagan was painting often in watercolours - he is generally regarded as the finest watercolourist of his generation working in Ireland - as can be seen clearly from his handling of oils in ‘The Long Avenue, Lissadell’. As a child he had often holidayed at Lissadell, with his aunts - he was virtually brought up by two maiden aunts - and thus he spent the ‘long’ summer holidays at Lissadell, where he had the run of the garden as well as the great library. It was in the library at Lissadell that W. B. Yeats’ epic poem, ‘In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz’, written in 1927, with its famous lines, ‘The light of evening, Lissadell, / Great windows open to the south, / Two girls in silk kimonos, both / Beautiful, one a gazelle…’ celebrates the House and is a threnody to a past age. Here, Flanagan’s aunt Elizabeth, who was a lacemaker, ran a school of needlework and lacemaking, while his other aunt, Katy, had a cottage nearby. Is it any wonder that their nephew would amuse himself in the house, browsing in its fine library - it is little wonder that he developed a literary turn of mind - and playing in the woods which he came to know intimately. Even as a child Flanagan admired Lissadell as a working estate (some three thousand acres) and was particularly impressed by the trees - sycamores, pines (of which he ‘liked the contours’ against the sky - something that he would dwell on in his art later) and others, things that would later play a dominant role in his paintings. Often, too, he bathed in the sea at the ‘water wall’ on the edge of the estate and it was near there that he painted one of his first watercolours, ‘Lissadell Shore’, in 1945. Overall, as he recalled, Lissadell ‘had an enormous effect on him’; it set, he said, his ‘visual parameters’ and also stimulated his writing of poetry that dominated much of his early thinking.1‘The Long Avenue, Lissadell’, epitomizes all this. Here the avenue is shown leading the eye back into the picture towards the sea, the recession of which is halted by the area of dark paint in the distance and the trees to the right which are shown en masse. It is a view that Flanagan painted on numerous occasions in these years and later, for he was greatly drawn to the house itself. But it is the watercolourist’s use of glazes’, especially in the sky and the foreground, that holds one’s attention as well as the similar treatment in the massing of the trees.(1) Flanagan, conversation with the author, 24 July 2008. Flanagan’s early poems remain unpublished, being largely juvenilia. Poems such as ‘On Arney Bridge’, ‘The Tale of Swans’ and ‘Lament for The Red-haired’, all written around 1945, are typical examples and they are concerned principally with romance, love and the landscape. They do, however, illustrate his early interests and involve issues that would later dominate much of his painting.Dr S.B. Kennedy March 2017
Lot 225
Collection of twelve signed books to include, PRATCHETT, Terry - Mort; GRISHAM, John - The Firm, and a further two titles, The Pelican Brief and The Rainmaker; MANSELL, Nigel - Mansell and Williams, The Challenge for the Championship; BARKER, Sue - Playing Tennis; WAUGH, Auberon - The Last Word; WOGAN, Terry - Wogan on Wogan; GELDOF, Bob - Is that it? and The Greatest Show on Earth Live Aid Programme, 1986, with signatures by Bob Geldof, Sting, Elvis Costello and The Style Council (10)
Lot 1251
Spanish white glazed porcelain plaque of a lady wearing robes, marked 'Casasus, Spain' verso, 30" high; after Kauffmann relief moulded Jasper plaque of the Three Graces and a cherub playing a harp, 8.5" x 13", framed (at fault); also a terracotta head of a Tibetan type character inscribed V and A verso, upon a black plinth, 17" high (3)
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