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Click here to subscribeVinyl - Soul / Motown Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her. Rare and Unique UK 1967 - 2 x one sided Motown Records Test Pressing Vinyl albums. Both are the earliest 1G / EG mother stampers, making them one of the first 300 copies to be pressed (UK 1967, Stereo Test Pressing, Motown STML 11072), Both Vinyl are EX / EX+
Full title: A rare Dutch Delft blue and white warming bowl with the arms of the Austrian von Zinzendorf family, late 17th C.Description: L.: 27 cm - H.: 12,5 cmÊ The arms are those of the Austrian von Zinzendorf family, and date from 1637. The actual command however, was placed much later. A possible reason may have been the anticipated birth of the most famous member of the family, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, in 1700. Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf (26 May 1700 - 9 May 1760) was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christian mission pioneer and a major figure of 18th century protestantism.Based on other known pieces from the service, we attribute it to Adrianus Kocx, the 'De Grieksche A' workshop, Delft, 1687-1701. Ê Ref.:- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, object number BK-1962-54, for a tea caddy from the von Zinzendorf command. (link available on our website)- Christie's, Amsterdam, May 30, 2001, lot 433, for a small chamberpot from the von Zinzendorf command. (link available on our website)- Lempertz, Cologne, Nov. 18, 2016, lot 457, for a small vase from the von Zinzendorf command. (link available on our website)Condition reports and additional images:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Reports are published on request, on our website www.rm-auctions.com. High resolution images, further detailed images and natural daylight images, when requested, will be made available on our website www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Full title: Alexandre Raymond, 1924: Vieilles Fa•ences turques en Asie-Mineure et a ConstantinopleDescription: Dim.: 51 x 37 cm (the cover)Ê Imperial folio (360 x 490 mm). Half cloth, boards with illustrated lithogr. title, inside covers and flaps with ornamental decoration printed in gold, green and blue. 12 pp. 40 lithogr. plates in colour, including 4 which are double-page. The first part was long considered lost.Ê Raymond's fine series of plates, which depict ceramics employed in architectural decoration and ceramic artefacts, deals mostly with in situ Iznik and Kütahya ceramics.Ê Ref.: - Sotheby's, London, Oct. 14, 2003, lot 402, for the second volume, where the catalogue note states 'Part 1 was never published. (link available on our website)- Sotheby's, London, Nov. 15, 2011, for a set including both volumes. (link available on our website)- Christie's, London, Sep. 21, 2005, for a set including both volumes, where the catalogue note states 'Sets of the French edition of parts I and II are rare at auction: no copies of either part I alone or parts I and II together are recorded by ABPC since 1975 and only two copies of part II are listed. (link available on our website)Condition reports and additional images:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Reports are published on request, on our website www.rm-auctions.com. High resolution images, further detailed images and natural daylight images, when requested, will be made available on our website www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Full title: A very rare Dutch Delft petit feu and dorŽ 'Louis XIV' dish, 1st half 18th C.Description: Dia.: 18,5 cmÊ Marked AR on the base, probably for Adriaan Rijsselbergh, the 'De Grieksche A' workshop, Delft, 1701-1735.Ê Provenance: - A Dutch private collection.- With a label on the base for Collection Vecht, Amsterdam.Condition reports and additional images:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Reports are published on request, on our website www.rm-auctions.com. High resolution images, further detailed images and natural daylight images, when requested, will be made available on our website www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Full title: A pair of rare Dutch Delft blue and white plate stands, 18th C.Description: Dia.: 24,5 cm - H.: 6 cmCondition reports and additional images:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Reports are published on request, on our website www.rm-auctions.com. High resolution images, further detailed images and natural daylight images, when requested, will be made available on our website www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Full title: A rare German stoneware bellarmine jug with royalist medallions, Westerwald, late 17th C.Description: H.: 33,5 cmÊ The medallion inscribed Wilhelmus III DG MAG. BRIT. FRANT. ET HIB. REX.Ê Ref.: The text is copied from an engraving by Peter Schenck, dated between 1689 and 1702. See: Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 603047. (link available on our website)Condition reports and additional images:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Reports are published on request, on our website www.rm-auctions.com. High resolution images, further detailed images and natural daylight images, when requested, will be made available on our website www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Full title: A rare polychrome Dutch Delft figure of a butcher's lady stuffing sausages, 18th C.Description: H.: 9 cmCondition reports and additional images:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Reports are published on request, on our website www.rm-auctions.com. High resolution images, further detailed images and natural daylight images, when requested, will be made available on our website www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
EDMUND ASHFIELD (fl. 1669-1673) A PORTRAIT OF CHARLES II wearing armour and a lace jabot, bust-length in a feigned oval, pastels, 26cm x 22cm, apparently retaining the original carved giltwood and gesso frame, and the companion portrait of a lady, possibly identified as Queen Catherine of Braganza (2)Provenance: From an old Dorset collection and almost certainly with the family from the 18th century or earlierThis rare pair of pastels made by Ashfield - “a gentleman well descended” shortly after the Restoration of the monarchy represent an important addition to the artist’s oeuvre. The distinctive Sunderland frames are almost certainly by the artist’s wife, Mary, who is recorded as a frame maker.
A MARBLE HEAD OF A MONK probably Roman Republic, 1st century, later carved in the medieval period, turned slightly to sinister, with bald head, deep-set eyes and heavy brows, lacking nose, the tonsure carved later, perhaps 6th-10th century); on a later copper shaft set into a square marble plinth, 27cm highProvenance: John (Jack) H.A. Quitter (b.1941) and by descent. Private collection, Gloucestershire.This exceptionally rare depiction of an early medieval monk appears to have been carved using a Roman marble head, most likely dating from the early part of the 1st century. It may be compared to a Roman marble head of a German, his hair tied in a Suebian knot, from Somzée, Belgium, datable to 1st/2nd century in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.John Quitter was a speech writer for Henry Kissinger with a life-long interest in the arts, he served on the Council of the Royal Society of Sculpture.
A rare pair of Spode vases c.1815-20, the pear-shaped forms painted in pattern 1166 with colourful flower arrangements on a blue and gilt scale ground, raising to pierced necks formed of stiff leaves with scroll handles issuing from rams' head masks, raised on circular feet moulded with formal foliate motifs, iron red factory mark and pattern numbers, some cracking, one neck restored, 27cm. (2) Cf. Leonard Whirter, Spode, pl.214 for a vase of the same shape.
A rare Jacobite wine glass c.1760-80, the round funnel bowl enamelled with a polychrome portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, raised on a double series opaque twist stem, 15.3cm. This glass bears marked similarities to a set of six commissioned c.1775 by Thomas Erskine, later 9th Earl of Kellie, who was a member of a group of aristocratic Jacobites who continued to celebrate Bonnie Prince Charlie's birthday until his death in 1788.
A rare Jacobite wine glass c.1745-55, engraved with the motto 'Turno Tempus Erit' above a rose spray, raised on an inverted baluster airtwist stem and a folded foot, 17cm. The phrase Turno Tempus Erit is probably borrowed from Virgil, and roughly translates to mean 'The time will come'; perhaps an insinuation that the Hanoverian victory at the Battle of Culloden could be short-lived.
A rare pair of Nantgarw miniature cabinet cups c.1818-20, each finely painted with a display of flowers including rose, tulip, poppy, narcissus and convolvulus, on a white ground beneath a delicate beaded border, the twin handles modelled with mythical bird masks, each raised on a low circular foot, 7.5cm. (2) Paper label for the Sir David John KCMG Collection.
A rare English delftware King of Prussia plate c.1757-60, painted in blue with a head and shoulders portrait of Frederick II of Prussia between the letters KP, 22.2cm. Cf. Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection, Vol. II, D56 for a similar King of Prussia plate. Also this saleroom, 17th June 2020, lot 124 for a near identical example.
A rare Buckley Pottery desk stand 1st half 19th century, the marbled rectangular form surmounted with two pineapple moulded barrel vases, the sides with looped decoration in treacle and cream slip, 21.3cm. Cf. Buckley Pottery, the Craft and History of the Buckley Potters, Mostyn Art Gallery, p4, top right for a similar stand.
A rare English enamel wine funnel c.1770, painted in a bright blue with a bird perched on a fruiting grapevine, and with further sprays of flower and fruit, the gilt metal mounted circular base detachable, minor damages and restoration, 11.5cm. Cf. The Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection, Volume III, pl.13 no.292 for a similar example.
A rare Lambeth delftware Royal plate c.1704-10, painted with a central portrait roundel of Queen Anne within a 'Star and Garter' border in red, green and blue, a few filled rim chips, 22.5cm. Paper label for Alistair Sampson Antiques. Cf. F H Garner and Michael Archer, English Delft,ware, pl.66C for the same 'Star and Garter' design on a plate from 1712.
A rare pair of massive Cork (Irish) bottle decanters dated 1761, of double magnum size, the straight-sided octagonal forms each engraved 'ABm Devonsher 1761', the necks with string rims, with concave bases, 34.5cm. (2) Abraham Devonsher was a banker and MP for Rathcormac. He commissioned the building of Kilshannig House in Rathcormac in the 1760s, where these bottles of exceptional size would no doubt have been used. He died without issue in 1783.
A rare Worcester slop bowl c.1756, finely pencilled in black with two figures bowing before enclosed buildings in a mountainous Oriental landscape, the further with pine trees on a rocky mountain, the interior rim with a spearhead border, incised line mark, 13.6cm dia. This design is based on an original Chinese pattern in encre de Chine. Cf. Woolley and Wallis, Fine Porcelain and Pottery, 15th September 2015, lot 321 for a coffee cup in the same pattern.
A rare South Staffordshire enamel commemorative patch box c.1815, painted with a large bull chained to a post titled 'Loans' and 'Subsidies', beside two armed soldiers beneath fingerposts inscribed 'Amsterdam' and 'Berlin', above the bull titled 'John Bull', raised on a moulded lilac base, restored, 4.2cm across.
A rare London delftware teapot stand c.1720, painted in blue with a Chinese figure seated between ornamental fences beneath trailing wisteria, the rim within a continuous foliate border, raised on three shaped feet, 12.6cm dia. Cf. John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, p.115 for similar examples. Paper label for the Louis L Lipski Collection, No. 870.
Seven drinking glasses c.1750-1820, including a rare Jacobite drawn trumpet glass engraved with a carnation and moth and raised on a double knopped airtwist stem, a large glass with a bell bowl raised on a plain stem and folded foot, a small wine engraved with a bird and flower, another with a band of polished circles, a spiral-moulded mead glass, a pair of small glasses on facet stems, a pair of small salts raised on lemon squeezer bases, and a small moulded two-handled glass, and a cut glass jug, 18.8cm max. (13)
A rare Derby teapot and cover c.1757-59, the baluster body with a moulded spout, painted with colourful moths in flight above Oriental flowering plants, the domed cover with a floral finial, and a large Derby sauceboat, moulded with scrolls and painted with flowers, some damages, 21cm max. (3) The teapot formerly with Bob Williams.
A rare Wedgwood black basalt seal c.1777, depicting a rattlesnake coiled beneath a banner inscribed 'Don't Tread On Me', impressed 'Wedgwood', 2.1cm. This medallion was made for Wedgwood to distribute among his pro-American friends and was based on a motif designed by Benjamin Franklin for colonial propaganda. In a letter to Thomas Bentley, dated 8th August 1777, Wedgwood wrote, "I think it will be best to keep such unchristian articles for private trade"; no doubt acutely aware of the potential issues production of such an article by a potter beloved of the Royal family.
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