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Lot 234
BOX CONTAINING VARIOUS MILITARIA to include, scratch built wooden Anchor, Cross, Heart design on a plinth with what appear to be maple leaves around base, nicely varnished, WW1 era shell case, marked Magdeburg, 1912, possibly German with Trench art design applied “Souvenir 1918”, silver coloured plated? Square tray, possibly for cards etc, with Military Badge/emblem applied, a small Green coloured, hard leather construction with leather band and maker mark applied to inside Crown top letters not readable. Also a small EPNS Goblet presented to William Duns Esq MC(Military Cross) Ipswich Ministry of Labour & National Service January 1948
Lot 1141
A Victorian walnut double wardrobe and dressing chest, by Blair and Kemp, Horncastle, the wardrobe with outswept pediment over a pair of carved and mirror set doors, the doors opening to reveal hanging hooks over a pair of deep drawers raised on a plinth base, 219.5cm high, 130cm wide, 52cm deep, the dressing chest with a central swing frame mirror with carved pediment and two domed side mirrors, the super structure incorporating four small drawers, over two short, two long drawers raised on a plinth base, 177cm high, 108cm wide, 46.5cm deep.
Lot 21
JOSEF HOFFMANN (Brtnice, Czech Republic, 1870 - Vienna, 1956).Jugendstil side cabinet, ca. 1900.Mahogany wood.Measurements: 113 x 31 x 26 cm.An auxiliary piece of furniture in the Jugendstil style, Central European modernism, made of mahogany wood and characterised by the clean lines and the play of geometric volumes typical of Jugendstil, which is combined with a vertical structure, based on closed and open spaces, which is common to the whole of Europe at this time. The base appears open, raised on two stipe legs with horizontal carved grooves, with a closed moulded base, like a plinth, and a shelf at mid-height. The central area is occupied by a closed cupboard with a translucent dark glass door, moulded with an irregular organic-looking irregular finish. Finally, above the cupboard is an open shelf with a barred base and truncated pyramid-shaped finials to match the legs.An architect and industrial designer, Josef Hoffmann studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he was a pupil of Carl Freiherr von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner, whose theories of functional, modern architecture would profoundly influence his work. He won the Prix de Rome in 1895, and the following year he joined Wagner's office, collaborating with Olbrich on some projects for the Metropolitan. He established his own office in 1898, and taught at the School of Decorative Arts in Vienna between 1899 and 1936. He was also a founding member of the Viennese Secession. In 1900 he travelled to London, where he came into contact with the English school and discovered Mackintosh. On his return, he set up a workshop for the production of objects based on designs by artists of the Secession, and thus the Wiener Werkstätte was born, a workshop which had a great influence on 20th-century industrial design. By 1903, production began on an international scale. In the course of his life, Hoffmann produced a variety of projects for buildings and furnishings, and exhibited his creations all over the world. He is currently represented in the MAK and the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the Metropolitan and MoMA in New York, the Brohan in Berlin, the Courtauld Institute in London and the Victoria & Albert in London, among many others.
Lot 72
BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM) AND LADY BENTHAMA late George III mahogany pedestal drawing table 'made by the hands of the famous engineer Brunel', the hinged and adjustable rectangular top with boxwood lined rosewood crossbanding and ebonised rounded edges, frieze drawer fitted for drawing implements with label pasted inside inscribed 'This table was made by the hands of the famous engineer Brunel and was given by him to Lady Bentham, the wife of Sir Samuel Bentham by whom Brunel was educated [and in a different hand] Afterwards bequeathed by Lady Bentham to the Revd. Richard Norris Russell'), on a turned and twisted reed carved column with gadroon carved ring base, tripartite plinth raised on brass casters, c.1830Footnotes:'THIS TABLE WAS MADE BY THE HANDS OF THE FAMOUS ENGINEER BRUNEL AND WAS GIVEN BY HIM TO LADY BENTHAM'.Mary Sophia Fordyce, Lady Bentham (c.1765-1858) was a British botanist, scientist and author. She was daughter of the chemist George Fordyce, mother of the botanist George Bentham, and married the naval architect and mechanical engineer Samuel Bentham (1757-1831) in 1796, having known him and his brother Jeremy Bentham from a young age. It is becoming recognised how important a role Mary Bentham played not only in the writings and career of her husband, but also as all-round polymath and educator, one of her amanuenses being the young John Stuart Mill, who stayed with the Benthams for a year whilst they lived in France from 1814 to 1823, and on whom Mary seems to have exerted considerable influence. 'Mary Fordyce was clearly a clever and capable woman: according to her son, the botanist George Bentham, she 'had from an early age been accustomed to take a part in her father's writings' (Catherine Pease-Watkin, 'The Influence of Mary Bentham on John Stuart Mil', research article in the Journal of Bentham Studies, 1 January 2006). She published extensively on her husband's work and ideas in numerous journals, especially the Mechanics Magazine between 1844 and 1853, where over 130 articles appeared relating to Samuel Bentham. She also published in Quarterly Papers on Engineering, 1847-1848, including 'Paper on the First Introduction of Steam Engines into Naval Arsenals and Machinery set in motion thereby'; 'Enumeration of the Principal Inventions of the Late Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, K.S.G.'; 'On the Mode of Forming Foundations Under Water and on Bad Ground...'; 'Outline of a Plan... for The Improvement of the River Medway and the Port and Arsenal of Chatham'. She also contributed her own articles, papers and letters to The Journal of the Society of Arts, The Gardener's Chronicle, The United Services Journal, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal and the Builder. Samuel Bentham, in his capacity as Inspector General of Naval Work at Portsmouth, came into contact with Marc Isambard Brunel around the time of his marriage to Mary. He was on the verge of manufacturing blocks for wood-working machines from his own designs when Brunel showed him his drawings, which Bentham immediately recognised as being superior. He recommended their adoption to the Admiralty and Brunel was commissioned to build and install them. By 1806, the year of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's birth, the 43 machines were in production and the method continued to be used for nearly 150 years. The young I.K. Brunel soon showed that he had inherited his parents' mechanical and artistic skills, and under their tutorship he also showed a talent for draughtsmanship and an aptitude with tools. He attended schools in Chelsea and Hove, before being sent to France to study first at the College of Caen in Normandy, and then at the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris. He also spent a year as an apprentice in the workshop of the leading clockmaker Bréguet, after which the sixteen-year old Brunel returned to England, a year before the Benthams, to complete his apprenticeship with his father. Together they worked on a bewildering range of projects, including designs for a new rotary printing press, a copying machine, a system for making decorative packaging with tin-foil, paddle steamers, a mill for boring cannon, and two suspension bridges. Marc already had a sawmill in London, and Isambard assisted him in designing another for Trinidad. Both the Benthams and I.K. Brunel spent the remainder of their lives in London, Samuel dying in 1831, Mary in 1858, and Brunel a year later. The table is likely to have been made in the 1830s.Provenance: According to the note fixed inside the drawer, the table was made by I.K. Brunel and presented to Mary Sophia Bentham. On her death in 1858 it was bequeathed to the Rev. Richard Norris Russell and then to his brother, who owned a hotel in Lyme Regis. On his death the business, and the furniture, were left to his hotel manager, and from her it passed down to her granddaughter, Thelma K. Embury, whose letter included in the lot confirms the Russell provenance.In 1970 the existence of 'a pedestal writing table made by Brunel' became known to the Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, M.H. Brown, whose letter is also included in the lot. He then brought it to the attention of Cynthia, Lady Gladwyn, wife of the British ambassador to Paris, noted diarist and host to politicians. A great-granddaughter of I.K. Brunel, she had given a lecture at the Institution on the name Isambard and its origins, and the table was duly sold to her in 1971 with Brown as intermediary, thus returning it to the family over 120 years later. It is being sold on behalf of the granddaughter of Lady Gladwyn.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 55
The Highland Light Infantry, 9th Battalion, The Glasgow Highlanders, Officer's Full Dress Dirk Belt c.1908-1914,A very fine and rare example, of black leather faced with dark blue velvet and overlaid with 18mm gold thistle pattern lace. The rectangular gilt plate with a silver and gilt metal mount, Thistle star, crowned laurels and St. Andrew, title scrolls, 'The Glasgow Highlanders' and '9th Bn. H.l.I.', silver Sphinx with plain plinth, retailed by 'Wm. Anderson & Son Edinburgh'. Very fine. (1)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 3099
A Set of Sixteen Royal Hampshire Pewter Figures, each depicting a British 1944 soldier, on a wood plinth and in original box; a Set of Eleven Royal Hampshire Pewter Models, of war time RAF aeroplanes, each on a wood plinth and in original box (27)Condition report: Two have some damage, most in original condition
Lot 3209
A Pair of Mid-20th Century Baule Male and Female Diviner Figures, Ivory Coast, each standing naked on a shallow plinth base, with elaborate coiffure and scarifications to the face and torso, the male with long twisted beard, 64cm and 61cmCondition report: The male with a fine split through the left shoulder blade, the female with chips to both ears, hair tip, left thumb and right nipple, with repairs to both calves.
Lot 3214
A Tabwa Shrine Figure, D.R.C., as a female, standing with braided coiffure to form a handle, one side of the body hollowed out to take offerings, on bent legs, 37cm; a 20th Century African Wood Figure Group, carved in the colonial style with two woman pounding maize, one with a baby strapped to her back, on a rectangular plinth, 47cm (2)Condition report: 1 - Large split to right side of head, with chips around the mouth and various parts of the body, and a further split to the buttocks.2 - Nice patina
Lot 3215
A Luba Skeleton Figure, D.R.C., carved from a single piece of wood and covered in cream pigment, standing on a shallow circular plinth, 40cm; a Kumu Female Figure, D.R.C., with chevron carved forehead, hunched shoulders and concave stomach, standing on bent legs, 25cm; a Zande Small Ancestor Figure, D.R.C., the fan shaped head inset with metal stud eyes, the slender body with angular arms on waisted legs and flat feet, 30cm (3)Condition report: 1 - Split to head and base2 - Split to lower part of body.3 - Repair to left foot.
Lot 3227
A 20th Century Yombe Maternity Figure, D.R.C., of dark stained wood, kneeling naked, with scarifications to her back, wearing a beaded belt and holding her baby in front of her, on a square plinth, 44cmCondition report: Crack running through the skull, some worm damage, splits and cracks to plinth
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