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Lot 1327
A rare Jack Chalker ( British Born 1918 ) bronze bust study of a child being raised on a large wooden plinth. Bearing notation to the base for the Royal Bath & West Show exhibit No 67 Jack Chalker, who has died aged 96, was a British artist who drew and painted the atrocities he witnessed as a prisoner of war on the Burma-Siam Railway, also known as the “Death Railway”.Made famous by Pierre Boulle’s book (and David Lean’s film) The Bridge on the River Kwai, the railway is now a byword for war crimes. More than 12,000 Allied prisoners perished during its construction, along with at least 90,000 Asian labourers On Chalker’s release in 1945 he joined the Australian Army HQ in Bangkok as a war artist; some of his work was used in evidence at the Tokyo war trials. On his return to England he resumed his studies, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1951.For more than a decade after his repatriation he could not sleep properly. Nor could he look at his drawings and paintings: it would take 40 years for him to take his works out of the box in which they were stored.In 1950, after teaching History of Art at Cheltenham Ladies’ College he became principal of Falmouth College of Art and, in 1957, principal of West of England College of Art, where he remained until his retirement in the mid-1980 Measures: 88cms high x 122cms wide x 9cms deep.
Lot 837
A Victorian satin birch clothes press by W. Bertrum of London, the top with a moulded cornice above two panelled doors, enclosing mahogany sliding trays, the base with two short and three panelled doors, with turned wood handles, on a plinth, stamped to top drawer W. Bertrum, 100 Dean Street, Soho W, 224cm high, 125cm wide.rovenance: Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire.
Lot 582
A Victorian figured mahogany secretaire chiffonier, having raised shelf back, decorated foliate scrolls, the secretaire drawer opening to reveal a pigeon-hole interior, shelf below enclosed by a pair of arched panelled doors, flanked by ring turned columns. raised on a platform plinth, 80cm wide
Lot 584
A 19th Century Flemish style carved oak bookcase on cupboard, profusely decorated with foliate scrolls, masks and panels of dead game, the upper adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of glazed panelled doors, raised on scrolled lion passant supports, two short drawers and cupboards below, on inverted breakfront plinth terminating in bun feet, 135cm wide x 250cm high
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