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Click here to subscribeAn impressive large Victorian mahogany twin pedestal partners desk having gilt tooled green leather writing skiver over pedestals, each with banks of drawers and plinth bases. The backs with cupboard doors and shelves within. Dismantles into 3 pieces for ease of movement. Measures 78cms high x 152cms wide x 90cms depth / kneehole space is 62cms high x 75cms wide
A 17th century Commonwealth oak block fronted chest of drawers. The bank of four drawers having carved geometric panels. Two small over two large drawers beneath with later brass acorn drop finial handles. Raised on a carved later plinth base but retains the original bracket feet. Measures 95cms high x 100cms wide x 57cms depth
A good 17th century ( date carved 1631 with monogram ) carved oak Italian Cassone having a plain two plank hinged top over carved detailed frieze with three arched panels and columns sides being embellished with further carved detail. The inside of the hinged top dated with monogram. Raised on flared plinth with stile legs. Iron lock complete with working lock and key. Measures 70cms high x 126cms wide x 57cms depth
An Original Cannonball salvaged in 1934 from the wreck of the British 32-gun Frigate H.M.S. Lutine, mounted on a wooden plinth made from timber the same ship. The Lutine sunk off the Dutch coast on 9 October 1799, carrying a large shipment of gold, and the ship’s famous ‘Lutine Bell’, salvaged in 1858, still hangs in the rostrum of the underwriter’s room in Lloyd’s of London, and still tolls to this day on ceremonial occasions or in remembrance of major disasters, comprising: Cast iron cannonball or round shot, 110mm diameter, 5.20kg, in good condition, resting upon separate dark wood plinth, bearing the small plaque ‘Cannon Ball salved from H.M.S. “Lutine”, sunk in 1799. Mounted on “Lutine” wood’. Light surface corrosion to cannonball from salvage, but otherwise in good condition, minor splitting and old nail-holes to wooden plinth [collection only] (2)
A 19th century mahogany chest of drawers, the top over a cushion fronted secret drawer, two deep drawers flanking two short drawers and three long drawers on plinth base, h. 123 cm, w. 122 cm, d. 58 cm CONDITION REPORT: Splitting to top. Piece of moulding missing from edge of top. Possible later plinth. General wear and tear.
An early 19th century oak floor standing corner cupboard, the dental cornice over two Roman arch paneled doors above two cupboard doors on plinth base, h. 211 cm, w. 115 cm CONDITION REPORT: Three dental's missing. Two lengths of moulding missing. Bottom of back boards replaced. General wear and tear.
A 19th century mahogany partners desk by M. Willson of 68 Great Queen Street, having an olive green tooled leather insert to top over a row of three drawers, the knee hole flanked by cupboard and three drawers all mirrored to the other side on plinth base, h. 78 cm, w. 167 cm, d. 107 cm CONDITION REPORT: Three knobs missing. Some marks, scuffs and scratches to surface. Plinth loose on one pedestal. General wear and tear. Three pieces of moulding missing
Joseph Parkinson (b 1853) A PAIR OF VICTORIAN MARBLE LIONS, SECOND HALF 19TH C on rectangular base, inscribed J PARKINSON LINCOLN, black painted moulded stone plinths, 88cm h overall; 59 x 130cm Provenance: Believed originally to have been in the grounds of a substantial Victorian house in Nottingham Park from whence removed in the 1960s. The hitherto unnoticed sculptor is here identified as the Nottingham Stonemason Joseph Parkinson. Born at Burgh le Marsh, Lincolnshire something of his career can be deduced from consecutive censuses. In the first, that of 1861 the eight-year old son of a carpenter is recorded as living with his parents and four siblings. By 1871 he had left home to work as a "Groom (Servant)" at nearby Frisby. Sometime between then and the next census in 1881 he was presumably apprenticed to, or at least had some rudimentary practical experience in a mason's yard, perhaps in Lincoln for from that date until the census of 1911 his trade is that of Stonemason, probably initially working as a journeyman firstly at Birmingham and in 1891 Chapel Allerton, before settling in Nottingham. In the censuses of 1901 and 1911 he and his family are living at 13 Derwent St in the Meadows. Since the lions are inscribed Lincoln they were presumably executed early in his career, perhaps as a demonstration of his aptitude, akin to a cabinet maker's 'apprentice piece'. The properties of the sandstone on which Nottingham is built make it ideal for working. Over five hundred caves are recorded in the city but the most interesting are the 19th century underground follies of Nottingham Lace Manufacturer Thomas Herbert and his cousin William Herbert, created from the 1850s to the 1870s. As originally conceived the scheme for an unusual picturesque Summerhouse-Cave at the end of Thomas Herbert's sloping garden on the edge of the fashionable Park Estate soon expanded to became a grotto and with it the romantic notion of a hermit's cave followed by several tableaux of ancient lore and long dead heroes. Herbert's eccentricity reached its apotheosis in the 'Lions Den', which soon became Nottingham's most celebrated cave. Herbert's cave carvings are all the more strange, fantastical, sometimes comical, because he employed stone and marble masons, rather than professional sculptors, artisans instead of artists. The Nottingham Stonemason William Jennison is known to have worked for Herbert, his carvings including full length figures of Wesley and Lord Brougham. The startling similarity between the form and scale of the present lions and Herbert's bizarre, terrifying beasts in their gloomy underground den, suggest the same mason may well have been responsible.++ s. Extensive old damage and losses made up with composition at various periods, flaking and more recent breaks, under many layers of now peeling and chipped white paint, one plinth broken in two
An unboxed Corgi Toys '1902 State Landau' model, attached to plastic base mounted on a wooden plinth, the latter with an adhesive label attached bearing the wording 'Corgi 1902 State Landau Presented by the Daily Express', all surmounted by a substantial plastic display cover A letter and original envelope with the item state that the model was sent to the first hundred winners of a Daily Express Silver Jubilee competition. The letter further informs that the item is signed by 'Corgi's chief designer' although evidence of a signature has not been discovered. Generally G/G+.
F Berlingieri (Italian, 19th Century) Putti cooking; Procession of putti led by a lady riding a lion; Putti racing in chariots pulled by antelope; and Putti erecting a stone plinth all signed lower right "F Berlingieri" oil on paper laid to board (4) 36 x 93cm (14 x 36in) All four panels are quite fragile, the surface is bubbling, the paper is torn on the right-hand side, and the old gilt frames are splitting. Stuck down. The paintings are executed on thick paper which have been mounted onto board. The adhesion is poor and there are numerous air bubbles an undulations. There are small losses to the paper support around the edges. The paintings suffer from differing degrees of wear and loss although overall the paint layers are stable. The paintings all have an uneven varnish coating leading to varying gloss across the surface. The frames have areas of loss to the gilded surface.
A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid library table in the manner of Gillows, unusually designed in two halves, each with a leather lined top inlaid overall with panels of scroll and strapwork cut brass, and with eight mahogany lined frieze drawers, two each to the front and back and two shallow drawers to each end, the front and back with pleated green fabric concave doors, on an ormolu mounted gadroon moulded plinth, with bold scrolling cabriole legs with lion's paw feet 84 x 214 x 138cm (33 x 83 x 54in) Provenance: High House, Westacre, Norfolk. The table is believed to have been made for the library extension between 1824-1829 Literature: Stuart ( E.S) Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, page 289, plate 306 Lot . 21 Christie's Hackwood Park sale, 20, 21 & 22nd April 1998 The Hackwood Park Library Table is of very similar design and proportion, supplied by Gillow of Oxford Street, London, in 1813 to William Powlett (1782-1850), the second Baron Bolton, for Hackwood Park. With the exception of the corner columns, the boulle cut brass inlays, drawer arrangement and incurved pleated doors follow the design of the Hackwood table. A library table with similar design features was sold at Christie's sale in London on 18th May 2017, Lot 577 Other Notes: Gillows of Lancaster and London were one of the great furniture and cabinet makers of the late 18th Century and 19th century. Founded in 1730 by Robert Gillow, the company remained in business until 1938 - albeit having merged with Waring of Liverpool in 1897. Gillows' designs were never worked up to a finished state or formally published. Instead they retained Estimate Sketch Books containing some 20,000 sketches used for the firm's private records or for customer's confidential perusal. The Gillows archive from 1731-1932 contains under 200 volumes of records. The company attracted commissions from a wide social spectrum: from tradesmen to the aristocracy and a wide range of products: from altarpieces and coffins to sideboards and chairs. Their furniture is collected and displayed in public collections and houses including; Erddig, Wrexham: Kingston Lacy, Dorset; and Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. Country house condition with losses of inlays and mouldings as well as wear to the leather
Decorative Ceramics - a Yardley's Old English Lavender advertisement figural group of three young ladies gathering baskets of lavender; a 19th century hand painted dish; a late 19th/early 20th century centre piece, decorated in flowers and berries, the putti caryatids on a plinth base; graduated set of three decorative cream jugs, relief moulded with Neo Classical swags and cherubs (6)
A Regency mahogany cross banded sideboard in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster, with breakfront and rounded corners, single frieze drawer and bowed cupboard to each pedestal, width 153 cm. NOTE - This sideboard corresponds to a Gillows design, see Lindsay Boynton, plate 83 sideboard table 1787 (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The sideboard is in structurally good order with no significant cabinetwork issues. All minor problems are of a cosmetic nature. The polish finish to the piece is of French polish variety which is showing some surface scratches. The top is flat with no warping. There are two stress fractures to the right hand side and a small veneer loss to the rear right hand corner. All cross banding is present. The frieze is in good condition all round with no losses. The edge moulding is complete. The left hand side panel has a small timber loss to the top edge just underneath the moulding. The side is flat but there are some stress fractures to the timbers. None of these are open. The right hand side is in generally good order. Both doors close as they should. Both locks are present we have a key. Both door panels have polish scratches and slight stress fractures to the centres of the veneers but again these are very minor. The left hand door has minor stress fractures to the outer frame. The right hand door similarly has stress fractures to the timber at the bottom left hand corner. The drawer runs smoothly and is in good condition. The plinth moulding is a little marked and dirty. Both cupboards have the original locks and plates. The hinges appear to be original also. The backboards are all original. The doors are not warped and close and lock as they should.
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