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Click here to subscribeA Royal Doulton porcelain plaque by Leslie Johnson, oval, painted with a woman playing a lute, a young child holding roses, in a formal garden, framed, signed Leslie Johnson, entitled to the reverse Memories of The Past 1919, 43 x 32.5cm. (frame) plaque 22.5cm. long Literature Gregg Whittecar & Arron Rimpley Royal Doulton A Legacy of Excellence 1871-1945, Schiffer, page 154 for a comparable plaque.
A late 18th Century Mauchline ware pen and ink large format playing card/counter box of rectangular form, the lid with a pen and ink panel of a dog chasing a hare within a red sponge work ground and acorn and leaf border, the sides with conforming decoration, full length wooden hinge, internal dot work lid interior, the lower section with removable sliding lid box flanked by four divisions for packs of cards, 21 x 12.2 x 9cm
A pair of Meissen figures of a shepherd and shepherdess, he playing with a pipe leaning on a tree stump wearing a green hat with a yellow jacket with a dog to the base; she wearing a pink flowered hat holding a flower in her right hand, wearing a laced bodice and floral decorated underskirt on a floral base with an ewe, both 15.5cm (6 in) (2) (D) 15½cm (6in) He has lost a finger and the end of the pipe that he is playing. There is also a chip to his hat She has lost four fingers. Both have chips to the applied foliage
A pair of mid-18th century Bow white glazed figures of Kitty Clive and Henry Woodward in their roles as a 'Fine Lady' and a 'Fine Gentleman' in Garrick's farce, 'Lethe', 26cm (10.25 in) and 27cm (10.5 in) high respectively (2) (D) Literature: See Gabsewicz, 'Bow Porcelain', plates 186 and 187 Other Notes: Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was an actress and original member of David Garrick’s theatre company. She liked to play comedic roles and was regarded as one of the finest comedienne's of her time. She also played tragic roles, once playing the part of Hamlet, and sang the oratorios of her friend Handel. Henry Woodward (1714-1777) was a Shakespearian actor who joined Garrick's company in 1748. He worked alongside Kitty Clive as her comic opposite. He also wrote plays - his pantomime, Queen Mab, had a highly successful run in Drury Lane. Her hat is chipped. His left leg is currently off but present. It appears that the bottom half of the figure has been broken at some point and glued together from the waist down
An early 19th century Chinese painted fan with Regency alterations, the paper leaf painted on one side with ivory headed children playing while two ladies hold a bird with real feathers, a quail at their feet, the reverse painted with an island, the brown lacquer sticks with raised gilt decoration, the guards ending in tortoiseshell, the sticks in ivory about the hinge pin with rosette enamelled heads
An early 19th century horn cased Swiss key wound musical box, the rectangular lid moulded with bowl of flowers roundel, the movement playing on a comb divided into fourteen sections each with five teeth, the box 9.5cm (3.75 in) wide Literature: For an illustration of a similar comb and mechanism stamped H C, see David Tallis 'Musical Boxes', illustration opposite page 48
A 19th Century Swiss musical box by Nicole Frères, playing twelve airs on a 33.5cm cylinder, the keywind movement and song sheet numbered '37331' and bearing makers' name, the twelve airs including 'Auld lang Syne', 'Blue Bells of Scotland' and 'Willie We Have Missed You', the rosewood lid with inlaid foliate spray, total width of case approx 55cm.
A George III silver oval pin dish, later embossed with a country scene of a man playing a pipe accompanied by a girl, London 1804, maker's mark rubbed, length approx 12.3cm, four Chinese silver dishes, each inset with a coin, a pair of .800 silver dishes, each inset with a coin, another similar dish and a butter shell.
A Chinese blue and white porcelain brush pot (bitong), mark of Chenghua but Kangxi period, of cylindrical form, finely painted with a continuous scene of poets and attendants indulging in scholarly pursuits, including a group seated at a table playing weiqu, others seated whilst one plays the lute, and another two figures and attendant watching a scholar writing on a rock, all within a fenced garden with banana plants, rocks and clouds, underglaze blue six character mark of Chenghua to base, height approx 15.1cm, diameter approx 17.9cm. Note: for a similarly decorated bitong see page 280-281 of Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections by Sir Michael Butler and Professor Wang Qingzheng, 2006.
A Chinese blue and white porcelain circular dish, mark of Chenghua but Kangxi period, the centre finely painted with a dancer and five female musicians playing for a seated female dignitary with a fan bearer behind, the rim filled with a continuous landscape of four further maidens in an ornamental garden of rocks, banana plants and willow, the reverse with two broad island vignettes, underglaze blue six character mark within double ring to base, diameter approx 34cm.
Sterling and Sterling mounted wares, comprising; a beaker of tapering cylindrical form, a Book of Common Prayer, a Gorham clock, the case front decorated with a scrolling border and a set of four bridge pencils, the terminals decorated with playing card suit motifs, cased and a foreign book marker, pierced with foliate decoration, (5).Provenance; The Estate of Fleur Cowles
A pierced metal and enamel gaming dish, hand painted with playing cards (13cm), a 19th century painted wooden box depicting a lady praying at a shrine, a back scratcher, a miniature tortoiseshell mandolin, a pewter mounted pottery inkwell, a leather blackjack of small proportions and sundry, (qty).Provenance; The Estate of Fleur Cowles
COLLECTION OF SINGLE ACE JOKER AND OTHER SINGLE PLAYING CARDS FROM NUMEROUS PACK, STORED IN FIVE RING BINDER ALBUMS, predominantly mid 20th Century and onwards and many nationalities, sub-divided into pictorial backs, advert backs, Jokers x 2 albums, aces and odds, mainly standard size cards, over 2200 cards in total
LATE 19TH CENTURY "SYMPHONION GERMANY" TABLE TOP 12" DISK MUSICAL BOX in walnut wood and burr walnut wood case the hinged lid with photographic image of cherubs playing musical instruments in a garden sitting behind glass the action (working) with two steel combs and stamped with makers logo featuring a harp the case standing on turned fat and having end carrying handles and original winding handle, 18 1/2" (47 cm) wide together with a COLLECTION OF RELATED DISKS APPROX 55 IN TOTAL
FOURTEEN PACKETS OF SMOKING PLAYING CARDS including a leather bound pack 'with compliments from B. Morris & Sons Ltd., London'; FOUR CIGARS: King Six (x2) and 'Bull Dog' Imperials (x2); ten EMPTY PACKETS OF CIGARETTES including 'Fribourg & Treyer' and 'The Three Castles'; eleven CIGARETTES AND TOBACCO METAL DRINKS COASTERS; 'Players No 6' brown LEATHER WALLET; three Bond note pads; two 'Man Pipes' PIPE RESTS and a 'Nelson Tipped' KEY RING
ITALIAN LATE 19 CENTURY WHALE GODDIED TWELVE STRING MANDOLIN having mother of pearl and abalone finger board, the front with mother of pearl edging and an inner border inlaid with foliate scrolls, the swatch board decorated with engraved mother of pearl and abalone depicting a maiden playing a mandolin, cherubic figure beside her (same losses) the lack of the body carved with deep sharp edged flutes, 26 1/2" (67.31 cm) long overall
A gouache of a lady and a gentleman, playing erhu, inscribed by a European three times EPN, 18 x 25cm, a man smoking a pipe, seated behind a stall of lamb offal, titled above, 29 x 20cm, another of a girl dressing her hair in a window flanked by trees, 26.5 x 26cm, and a Chinnery-style drawing of a samurai, 24 x 14.5cm
A Royal Doulton pottery "Blue Children" baluster shaped vase transfer printed in blue with a young lady playing a guitar within an open landscape within gilt borders, 14.5ins high (printed mark in blue to base and impressed No. 7421), and ditto bulbous jardiniere decorated with three children beneath a tree, 10ins diameter x 9.25ins high (blue printed mark to base - rim with small flake chip and hairline crack to underside)
Armando Angelo Gentilini (1909-1981) - Oil painting - Celebration party scene with two children, one playing a trumpet, canvas 24ins x 30ins, indistinctly signed and fully signed to rear of canvas, in modern gilt moulded and swept frame Provenance: Omell Galleries, 40 Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, London, W1X 3FD
A set of six Edward VII silver circular buttons embossed with a shoulder length profile of a young girl, each 1in diameter, by E.J Trevitt, Chester, 1902, in black leather fitted case and six smaller buttons embossed with a figure playing a string instrument, each .625ins diameter, by Sydney & Co, Birmingham 1902
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