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Click here to subscribeA large pair of early 20th Century Chinese Republic period Oriental porcelain figurines of Emperors / elders. One in a red robe with crowned hat holding a fan and the other in blue robe holding a calligraphy set. Both with imperial dragons to the robe and set to green porcelain plinth bases. Character marks stamped to undersides. Measures approx; 54cm tall. Some minor wear commensurate with age but no visible signs of major damage or restoration.
A Large Victorian Cabinet of Microscope Slides,The cabinet, 19th Century, constructed of French polished mahogany on plinth base, glazed door to front with lock and key, campaign-style handle to top, containing 23 drawers with 21 capable of holding 3 rows of 8 standard slides, each drawer with ebony pull with number in centre and porcelain labels to each side, containing many professionally prepared slides by makers including C M Topping, E Wheeler, Watson and others, covering various subjects, cabinet 44cm tall, 28cm wide. (approximately 520 slides) Slides of Particular Note: some good full insect slides, some very fine arranged Polycistina slides, hummingbird feather slides, some impressive deep mounted specimens, and a later collection of slides by Horace Dall
A Very Large Floor Standing Cabinet of Microscope Slides, and slides,The cabinet, English, c.1900, unsigned with two double glazed doors opening to reveal four banks of fifty drawers, each capable of holding four rows of thirteen slides, giving a total potential capacity of five thousand two hundred slides, each drawer with ceramic label and ebony pull, with locks and keys, a later removable plinth, dimensions (cm) 70 x 83 x 42 The cabinet currently holds approximately one thousand one hundred slides, the slides cover a large range of subjects by many different makers
A French Telegraph Morse Code Ticker Machine,French, c.1900, signed to the front of the clockwork ‘La Société Industrielle des Téléphones, Paris’, mahogany plinth supporting the heavy clockwork mechanism, with pair of electromagnetic coils connected to sprung inker, with six spoked tape real on single brass pillar, on turned feet, the base 37cm wide Footnote: La Société Industrielle des Téléphones (SIT) was created in December 1893 following the merger of the Menier cable and rubber factories and Société Générale des Téléphones.
A DC Bipolar Hand Cranked Generator,American (?), c.1880, unsigned, Polished mahogany plinth supports the cast iron body, with lacquered brass bearing supports to the internal rotor, sprung steel bushes to the rear to brass contacts, large winding handle with unusual gearing assembly, height 50cm
Miscellaneous medals, including WWI 1914-1918 George V medal awarded to 33834 Sjt Claud Jacob and The Great War for Civilisation awarded to Sjt Claud Jacob North N.R. The WWII Defence medal 1939-1945 and George VI medal (un-named), single sergeants cloth stripes, Northamptonshire Gibraltar Talavera cap badge, together with another WWI medal group including The Great War medal, 1914-15 Star 12879 PTE Rutter and the George V 1914-1918 medal Pte C.Rutter. This lot includes a Grenadier Guards brass motto mounted on an oak plinth, to commemorate The Grenadier Guards Broadcast October 1938.
A collection of 19th century items, including small early 19th century circular gold box, probably French, the cover centred with an enamel scene of a flaming amphora between a lamb and doves, with white and blue enamel border, the base with foliate decoration, 2.4cm wide, together with a late 18th century gold oval pendant mounted with a glazed compartment containing a plinth and urn (probably earlier) within a star and forget-me-not border, graduated pellet design to the border, 2.5cm high; an octagonal gold clasp white polychrome enamel decoration overall, 3.5cm wide, and a gold early 19th century square-form six-row clasp set with turquoise cabochons on matted ground, 2.5cm wide
After François Duquesnoy (Flemish, 1597-1643): A pair of patinated bronze busts of the Young Christ and the Virgin Maryprobably Roman School, 17th centurythe virgin with veiled head turned slightly to dexter, the young Christ with wavy haired head looking straight before him, both raised on veined marble plinth socle bases, 27cm high overall, the bronzes 16cm (2)Footnotes:Exhibited'Bronzes of the Renaissance', Chateau de Laarne, September-October 1967Models in terracotta for this pair of busts were in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Barberini in Rome. From them, Duquesnoy produced two pairs of casts in silver including one for Queen Henrietta Maria in London. Subsequent pairs cast in bronze were produced during the latter half of the 17th century.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A late 18th / early 19th century Italian carved white marble figure of the Antinous Belvedereprobably Roman, after the antiquethe nude male modelled in contraposto stance with head turned slightly to dexter, his right hand on his hip, drapery held loosely in the crook of his left arm, standing beside a stylised tree stump on oval base, the figure raised on a contemporary ebonised moulded rectangular plinth, the figure 51cm high, 71cm high overall including plinth Footnotes:The antique marble statue of Antinous Belvedere was first recorded in 1543 when it was purchased for one thousand ducats by Pope Paul III for the courtyard of Belvedere garden in the Vatican. By 1545 it was in the statue court, where it remained until 1797. Tentatively attributed to the 4th century Attica sculptor Praxiteles or a close follower it was reproduced in both marble and bronze for the Palace of Versailles in the 1680's by the Baroque sculptor Pierre I Le Gros (French, 1666-1719) and was later admired and praised by the influential German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) who wrote 'our Nature will not easily create a body as perfect as that of the Antinous admirandus'. Copies of the model were hugely popular in the 18th century appearing in the most prestigious collections of Europe as life-size editions or reductions in a variety of mediums such as the offered lot. In 1797 the Belvedere Antinous left Italy when it was ceded to the French as part of the Treaty of Tolentino, arriving in Paris with a triumphal procession a year later before being exhibited at the Musée Central des Arts. It was subsequently returned to Rome in 1816.Related LiteratureF. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, 'The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900', New Haven/London, 1982, pp. 141-143.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of silver jousting knightsGerman, probably Hanau, with import marks for Adolph Barsach Davis, London 1929The combatants depicted in full armour with articulated visors over sculpted ivory faces, both holding lances and seated on rampant rearing armoured horses, the canted rectangular base on each with silver-gilt ferns, frogs and lizards above a reticulated open-work foliate scroll plinth, height 31cm and 34cm, length 36cm, weight total 105oz. (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A silver twin handled trophy cup, inscribed "Surrey Walking Club Open London to Brighton Walk 1937 3rd Prize" with engraved swastika motif, by Cooper Bros & Sons Ltd., Sheffield 1937,16cm high, 9.5oz, on ebonised plinth.The Surrey Walking Club used the Swastika, an ancient symbol of luck and good fortune as its logo from 1899 until the late 1930's, and had no connection with the use of the same logo by any far right organisation.
A garniture of three 20th century Italian silver vases, each of flared and shaped form, the main body supported by a ring of ball supports, on oval plinth base, by Luigi Genazzi, Milan, largest 16.5cm high, 28oz overall. (3)Condition report: In good condition overall, some minor dings to the footrims.
Late Victorian mahogany veneered longcase clock with a swan's neck pediment and gilt paterae, break-arched hood door flanked by two turned columns with brass capitals, trunk with canted corners, short triple spire shaped door inlaid with contrasting octagonal veneer, plinth with shaped bracket feet and conforming inlay, 30-hour chain driven countwheel movement striking the hours on a bell (missing), 13-inch painted dial pinned directly to the movement, stamped matching brass hands and date hand, dial with re-painted roman numerals and art work to the arch and spandrels. Dial inscribed "Dickinson Skipton".
the swan neck pediment with pierced Gothic fretwork above a crenellated and arcaded frieze, over a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing shelves; the projecting base with a pair of circular panel doors outlined with bead moulding and enclosing shelves, on a plinth152cm wide, 285cm high, 61cm deepProvenance: Purchased Sotheby's, 19 November 2008, lot 233Footnote: Note: A similar secretaire bookcase attributed to William Brodie, formerly at Yester House, is illustrated in Francis Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, 1983, pl. 26. The Yester House example has the same distinctive pediment as the present lot, however some stylistic differences indicate an earlier date for the present lot and keeps it more consistent with the designs promoted by Chippendale and followers. It therefore seems likely that this cabinet would have been produced whilst William Brodie was still in partnership with his father.William Brodie, son and partner of Francis Brodie from 1767 and possibly as early as 1764, inherited the business in 1782. William pursued a less reputable life after his father's death and his demise was brought about on Ist October 1788 when he was hanged for his involvement in a robbery at the Excise Office. The very few items of documented furniture by him include a mahogany clothes press in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (see Bamford op. cit., pl. 27) and a suite of bookcases at Divinity Hall, Old College, Edinburgh.
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