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Lot 24
A Minton majolica large triton conch shell vase - jug. The large conch shell with seaweed swags having the mythical triton supporting and lifting the shell from a plinth base modelled as rough seas, Impressed Minton mark for 1883 to underside. Measures 36cms tall ( Loss to top, chip to foot of base )
Lot 185
A small George III oak longcase clock, the brass eight day movement with four turned pillars, with anchor escapement and striking on a bell, the 9in dial with subsidiary seconds and date dials, with Roman numerals, and signed 'ROBINSON LONDON', the case inlaid with mahogany banding, parquetry stringing and with marquetry panels, with a broken swan neck pediment above quarter pilasters, a shaped trunk door and a moulded plinth, 188.7cm.
Lot 197
A walnut and marquetry longcase clock, the brass eight day movement by Henry Jones, with recoil anchor escapement, with five turned and knopped pillars, with an outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 10in dial with gilt cast cherub and scrolling leaf spandrels, with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, the matted centre with an engraved date aperture, subsidiary seconds dial and ringed winding holes, signed 'Henry Jones in the Temple', the dome top inlaid with flowers above a pair of giltwood urn finials, and a fret carved frieze, with a pair of columns, the trunk with seaweed borders and panels of floral marquetry with a bird, a pair of mermen and an urn of flowers, with a glass lenticle, above a conforming plinth and flattened bun feet, late 17th century but case and movement probably associated, 228.5cm high. Henry Jones is an important maker who is listed in Brian Loomes' Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born to William Jones at Boulder, Hampshire in 1634. He was apprenticed to Edward East in August 1654 gaining his Freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in July 1663. Jones is thought to have initially worked as journeyman to Edward East before setting up on his own in the Inner Temple, London by 1672. In 1675 he is recorded as 'in Inner Temple Lane' prior to being appointed as an Assistant of the Clockmakers' Company the following year. Henry Jones was subsequently made a Warden in 1687 and finally served as Master of the Company in 1691. Amongst his many apprentices were Francis Robinson (freed 1707) and two of his sons, Henry (freed April 1678) and William (not freed). In 1692 Jones gave the Clockmakers' Company £100 'for the use of the poor'; he died in 1694 leaving his workshop in the hands of his widow, Hannah, who is known to have supplied clocks signed in her name.
Lot 199
A William and Mary walnut and marquetry longcase clock by John Knibb of Oxford, the brass eight day movement of light construction with seven ring turned and knopped pillars and recoil anchor escapement, with fine winged nut regulation suspension above the back cock, with bolt and shutter maintaining power, the outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 11in latched dial with gilt cast cherub mask spandrels, with a silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals, the matted centre with engraved calendar aperture and subsidiary seconds dial and applied with a shaped signature plaque inscribed 'JOHN KNIBB OXON', the case with a domed caddy top inlaid with flowers and shells, with giltwood ball finials above a fret carved frieze and spiral pilasters to the formerly rising hood, the trunk door inset with a lenticle and decorated with three shaped panels of finely drawn bird, flower and putti marquetry, all on an ebony ground and within a walnut border, the crossbanded plinth with similar decoration, the sides divided into shaped panels by stringing, on bun feet, 210cm high, together with a first edition copy of the 'Knibb Family Clockmakers' by Ronald A. Lee, no.550 of 1,000 printed. (2) John Knibb was born c.1650 and was apprenticed to Joseph Knibb his older brother in St Clements in c.1664. After a year the business moved to the south side of Holywell Street. When Joseph moved to London in 1670, John took over the Oxford business gaining the Freedom of the city in 1673. John became a very important figure in Oxford twice becoming Mayor in 1698-99 and 1710-11. He continued in business until 1722. The signature plaque on this lot compares very closely to a dial featured in Ronald Lee, The Knibb Family Clockmakers, p.111, pl.114. Certain elements of the movement with its fine plates and butterfly nut regulation on the top of the suspension spring are typical features of John Knibb.
Lot 201
A fine William and Mary walnut longcase clock by William Clement, the brass movement of one month duration with five latched turned and finned pillars, with recoil anchor escapement and an outside countwheel and strike to bell, the 9 13/16in dial with gilt cast winged cherub spandrels, with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, with a matted centre with a date aperture and a central finely floral engraved boss, signed 'Gulielmus Clement Londini Fecit' to the lower edge of the dial, in an architectural case, with a moulded pediment above spiral twist columns with gilt brass Corinthian columns, above a quarter veneered trunk door and a conforming stepped plinth base, 202.7cm high. William Clement is listed in Brian Loomes' The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain, and is noted as a very important clockmaker and one of the leading London clockmakers of the late 17th century. Born at Rotherhithe, he initially made anchors for the local shipbuilders. He turned to clockmaking when he moved to Southwark and eventually became Master of the London Clockmakers Company in 1694, having become a member in 1677. Clement was one of the earliest makers to apply the anchor escapement to clockwork, thus making the long pendulum practicable. See British Museum no. 1958,1006.2058 for a wall clock by Clement with a very similar hood to this present lot.
Lot 507
A pair of Regency cut glass and ormolu twin-light candelabra, each with a fir cone finial, above a canopy, hung with drops and lustres, with a baluster stem, and leaf scroll arms terminating in winged putti, on a circular stepped plinth and square base with serrated edges, 42cm high, 36cm wide. (2)
Lot 533
After the antique. A pair of Italian bronze Grand Tour equestrian groups of the Quirinale Castor and Pollux, depicting horse tamers, each on an alabaster and marble plinth, late 19th century, 18.5cm high. (2) The original marble sculptures were discovered in the Baths of Constantine and were erected in the Piazza del Quirinale in 1588.
Lot 546
After the antique. A mid-19th century Italian Siena marble Grand Tour model of a Roman lamp, the body in the form of an Egyptian winged female Pharaoh figure, the lid with a sleeping bust of a lady with an owl, with a detachable griffin handle, the base with female masks, the rosso antico marble plinth with inset classical panels, 39.7cm high. See Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1984, Vol. II, p.131, fig.287, for a similar oil lamp signed 'B. Boschetti', in giallo antico, in the Museum Mario Praz, Rome.
Lot 579
λ A 19th century French turned and carved ivory bust of Voltaire, on a fluted plinth, 11.5cm high, a miniature Austrian cold painted bronze group of a dog with a game bird, a novelty miniature Austrian cold painted bronze figure of a pug dog, wearing a sandwich board and a pair of lion and lioness finials on turned wood plinths. (2)
Lot 591
Arthur George Walker (1861-1936). An early 20th century bronze 'The Thorn', of a female nude, standing on a rocky outcrop, on a turned green marble plinth, signed with monogram 'AGW', 54.1cm high. 'The Thorn' was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1903. See M.H. Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today, p.102.
Lot 32
Pair of 19th Century hobnail cut glass urn shaped vases with everted rims, tapering body on a circular, stepped base and square plinth, together with a matching circular bowl with star cut base. Unmarked. Vases, 24cm, bowl diameter approx. 28cm. (3)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: Scratches and wear to base of both urn shaped vases, tiny chip to two areas near the corner of the base on one of the vases, the bowl also has a chip underneath everted rim area.
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