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![2 boxes. Mostly art and collecting. Academic studies on British Pewter, Chinese Jade [in slip case], Master Pieces in art ser](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee5d9351-8575-47b9-a982-ad3a00edb489/1f425d79-ad1d-4c4e-b71d-ad3a00fde92f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 147
The Angler’s Guide to the Irish Free State. Compiled by the Department of Lands and Fisheries. Illustrated with four folding maps and a large linen-backed map of Ireland. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1937. Small 8vo. 1st edition. Original green cloth, title in black on upper cover and along spine. V.g. Rare first ed. The large folding Ordnance Survey map depicts rivers, lakes, and fishery districts. Railways shown in black. Irish-speaking districts are coloured yellow.
Lot 161
Bernard Scale. An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of The Kingdom of Ireland. Published London. 1776 “And may be had of the Author at his House in Dublin”. First edition. 37 hand coloured maps, comprising general maps of Ireland, Leinster, Ulster, Connaught, and Munster and 32 maps of the counties. First hand coloured Atlas of Ireland & extremely rare. Fine contemporary calf. Spine professionally rebacked. Irish armorial book plate. A remarkably clean copy.
Lot 220
The Catholic Bulletin various parts: July 1916; Oct 1916; Jan 1917; Christmas 1917; Jan 1918; March 1918; April 1918 – all of the above parts have a chapters on ‘Events in 1916’ with original rare photos, the only Journal to carry same. Five other pts, no 1, 1930, no 4 1932; no 12 1933; Christmas nu 1935; 1936 no 10. The articles concerning 1916 are all very important contemporary accounts. (12)
Lot 23
WEST, Mrs. Frederic. A Summer Visit to Ireland in 1846. Illustrated with aquatints and woodcuts. London: Bentley, 1847. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Professional paper restoration to a few margins where there were faint traces of old worming. Good copy. Rare. Teresa Cornwallis West was interested in the ordinary people, landscape, antiquities, folklore, agriculture, politics, the effects of the famine on the poor and the relief work. The author states that the purpose of her visit to Ireland during the Irish famine was "The public sympathies are at last awakened towards Ireland. My object in travelling through it was to satisfy myself of its actual condition ... and to exhort my English countrymen to go and do likewise". During her three week visit, partly conducted by rail, she visits Wicklow, Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Cork, and Limerick, returning via Offaly and Kildare: "I was glad to leave behind the poverty and sharp-facedness of Tipperary, and enter County Cork. However, the scenery was bleak enough passing the Kilworth Hills. Fermoy, on the Blackwater, is the nicest and cleanest town in the country ... ." She shows a favourable disposition towards the native Irish, gives a detailed description of the national schools, comments freely on hotels and quotes extensively from Duffy's 'Ballad Poetry of Ireland', also with references to Bartlett, Hall, Petrie and Moore. At Bray she notices potatoes "beginning to fail." She travelled with her husband and they stayed at Shanganagh Castle, the seat of Sir George Cockburn and at Lough Fea the seat of John Shirley. "Ardee is a neat town. We stopped and changed horses at the Shirley Arms, near the tower of an old castle which projects into the street. When Edward Bruce landed in Antrim, in the spring of 1315, with his Scottish followers, they savagely burned the Church of the Carmelite Friary here, filled with women and children, who had taken refuge within its walls."
Lot 308
The Reverend John Moore history-flora file. Folder of material relating to, including the Flora of Connemara and Burren and 1968 letter from Lisdoonvarna hotel re Burren botany, rare list flora of Burren collected by Keane’s hotel; Battle of Clontarf by Ryan. 1938 plus material on Irish flora.
Lot 392
Peter Francis, Irish Delfware, L.2000, 4to dj mint. NMi, Irish Decorative Arts, 1990. Irish Weaving; Ways of Old; Rich and Rare, Irish Dress; Ireland’s Earthen Houses; Pottery in Ireland through the ages. Michael Ryan, RIA, Native Pottery in Early Historic Ireland, 1973; M. Herity, RIA, Irish Decorated Neolithic Pottery, 1982. (9)
Lot 406
TRENCH, W. Steuart. Realities of Irish Life. With illustrations by the author's son, J. Townsend Trench. With large coloured, folding map of Ireland, 'Topographical and Historical', canvas-backed. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. 8vo. Second edition. Publisher's gilt decorated cloth. V.g. Rare with map. The author was Land Agent in Ireland to the Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Bath and Lord Digby during the Famine, and he gives us an on-the-spot account of the 'Big House' in counties Monaghan and Kerry. "Trench is a sharp observer of the social scene - and though through his mid-nineteenth-century eyes he was unable to see the rights of the common man - he had some good ideas. He saw the subdivision of already small holdings was disastrous. A five-acre farmer left his patch in equal divisions between his sons … Ireland was an important place in the mid-nineteenth century. The people - even the landlords and their agents - believed their little spot of earth was the centre of the world". Patrick Kavanagh.
Lot 41
T J Westropp bound copy of 6 Tours or guides in Ireland, rebound by him as one vol Jan 1895 and with his bookplate and mss notes variously in each by him: 1. Wakeman, Tourist Guide to Ireland, 424 pps; 2. Handbook to St Patrick’s, Rev A. Leeper, 1878, 74pps. 3. Christchurch Inscriptions, Rev J. Finlayson, 1978, 112pps. 4. Meredith’s St Mary’s Cathedral, 3rd ed, McKern, pp64..signed copy from author to Westropp. 5. Guys handbook … south of Ireland, Cork etc, 1890, 88 pps. 6. Guys Handbook no 2, Killarney, 88pps. Rare, indeed unique collection brought together by one of Ireland’s leading antiquarians and annotated and bound by him. (1 vol with 6 pts).
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Lot 513
[Gonne, Maud] The Coming of Lugh. A Celtic Wonder-Tale retold by Ella Young. Illustrated by Maud Gonne. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 1909. Post 8vo. 4 leaves of colour illustrations. Slate blue pictorial wrappers, lettered in silver. Fine copy. Very rare. Illustrated with four exquisite coloured illustrations by Maud Gonne, and dedicated to her son Seaghan (Sean MacBride).
Lot 435
A rare maiolica figure of a huntsman Urbino c.1560-70, resting one hand on the back of his dog's neck, a bird of prey perched on his gloved left hand, standing beside a low vase and raised on a pad base decorated with foliate scrolls, some damages, 37.5cm. Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020).
Lot 446
A rare Meissen hausmaler bowl c.1720-25, painted with a kneeling African figure holding out a bowl to a woman in Chinese robes, the reverse with two Chinese scholars discussing an unfurled scroll, between flowering plants, the bowl's interior with a child holding a bird on a stick beside a watchful parent, cracked, 16.5cm. Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). Cf. Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissner Porzellanmalerei und ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, 2108, Vol 2. P.112, pl. 82 for the design, which is taken from a print by Abraham II Drewntwett. The designs also appear in the Schultz Codex, no.68a.
Lot 448
A rare Meissen Böttger stoneware teapot and cover c.1710-13, the flattened globular form sprigged with a spray of flowering prunus to each side, the flat cover with applied leaves, the handle and spout with polished facets, with further polishing to the rim, footrim and cover's edge, the cover broken and restuck, 14.5cm across. (2) Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). This shape is a direct copy of Chinese Yixing stoneware and is listed in the 1711 Meissen inventory as 'niedrige runde TheeKrügel mit erhabenen Blumen', (low round small teapot with raised flowers).
Lot 449
A very rare Meissen blue and white dish c.1720-25, the well painted with an eight-petalled lotus design, each panel containing a flowering plant stem, the rim with six floral panels between unusual pierced sections, an 8cm restored rim section, 25.7cm. Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). Gift of Oliver Impey. This previously unrecorded shape bears close similarities to Chinese porcelain and undoubtedly takes its influence from Oriental pieces in the collection of Augustus the Strong. Cf. Johann Friedrich Böttger zum 300. Geburtstag, pls.I73 - I76 for examples of early Meissen reticulation attributed to Johann Jacob Irminger.
Lot 450
A rare Böttger stoneware hexagonal teapot and cover c.1710-15, the tapered hexagonal form moulded with a different flowering Oriental plant to each panel, glazed black to the interior, with ribbed handle and delicate faceted spout, 15cm across. (2) Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). Cf. Sotheby's, 14th May 1998, lot 82 for a lacquered version of the same shape. The form is recorded in the inventory of the Meissen manufactory of 3rd August 1711, and nine such Böttger stoneware examples (hexagonal teapots with raised flowers) were recorded in the 1719 inventory of the Dresden warehouse, as well as two black-lacquered examples (Claus Boltz, Steinzeug und Porzellan der Böttgerperiode - Die Inventare und die Ostermesse des Jahres 1719, Keramos 167/168 (2000), p. 128, and one Böttger stoneware example was listed in J.F. Böttger's quarters following his death the same year. The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records eight '6. paßigte TheéPotgen, mit erhabenen Blumen, Deckeln, Henckel und Schnautze, 4. Zoll hoch, 5. Zoll in Diam: No. 207' [six-sided teapots, with raised flowers, covers, handles and spouts, 4 zoll high, 5 zoll in diam.], though one was subsequently listed as missing (Claus Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und TurmzimmerInventar 1769, Keramos 153 (1996), p. 106). Ernst Zimmermann (Erfindung und Frühzeit des Meissner Porzellans (1908), p. 137) noted that the Dresden Collection included pieces such as the present lot that had cracked in the firing and been lined with a black glaze so that they would not leak, and that sometimes specks of glaze were also visible on the outside. Similar examples were sold from the Saxon Royal Collections, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 7-8 October 1919, lot 5, and 12-14 October 1920, lot 72. A teapot of the same shape with lacquered and gilt decoration was sold by Sothebys London, 14 July 1998, lot 82.
Lot 454
A rare and early Chelsea hexagonal teapot and cover c.1750-52, painted to one side with the Flaming Tortoise pattern, the eponymous creature beneath gnarled pine branches, a stork in flight above the spout, the reverse with a large stork beside flowering branches, the cover broken and restuck, 17cm across. (2) Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). Bernard Watney, Puttick and Simpson, 11th December 1962. The 1755 sale catalogue for Chelsea records this pattern as 'Flaming Tortoise', although the creature is actually a Japanese minogame - a mythical water creature. Cf. Ayres, Impey and Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, p.281.
Lot 470
A rare Derby coffee pot and cover c.1760, of unusual tapering lozenge shape, painted with butterflies and moths in flight above flower sprays including rose, tulip and heartsease, with faceted spout and angular handle, the cover of domed square section with similar floral decoration, damages, 19cm. (2) Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). Gift of Bob Williams.
Lot 475
A rare and early Chelsea hexagonal teapot and cover c.1750-52, unusually decorated in famille rose enamels with colourful birds perched on flowering branches, the shoulder and cover's rim with flowerhead panels between cash diaper borders, some chipping to the spout, the cover possibly associated, 18cm. (2) Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). Cf. Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, p.61, pl.48 for a teapot of the same shape with Kakiemon decoration.
Lot 479
A rare pair of Bow miniature figures of Asia and Europe c.1760-65, the former modelled as a Classical maiden holding an urn, the other of Minerva in battle dress, resting one hand on a shield decorated with a red cross, both raised on tall pierced bases with gilt and enamel detailing, damages, 13.8cm max. (2)
Lot 486
A rare matched pair of white-glazed Bow figures of street musicians c.1752, he standing and playing the hurdy-gurdy, wearing a tricorn hat, his companion modelled as a Flemish woman with a baby, wearing traditional peasant dress, the infant slung around her neck in a small crib, all raised on low chamfered square bases, some restoration to his hat, 15.3cm max. (2) Cf. Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures, p.72, pl.31 and pl.32. Provenance: the Davies Collection.
Lot 517
A rare Worcester blue and white coffee cup and saucer c.1758-60, painted with the Heron on a Floral Spray pattern, each piece with a single bird standing on one leg atop a large lotus leaf and flanked by flowering branches, within a blue scroll and flowerhead border, workmen's marks, 11.5cm. (2) Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire.
Lot 521
A rare Worcester blue and white trio c.1756, comprising a teabowl, coffee cup and saucer, the coffee cup with wishbone handle, all painted with the Bamboo Root pattern, with tall bamboo spikes and scrolling roots beside flowering chrysanthemum, workman's marks, 12cm. (3) Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. The saucer with a paper label for the Watney Collection.
Lot 522
A rare Worcester blue and white trio c.1770, comprising a straight-sided can or small mug, a teabowl and saucer, all painted with the Gilliflower pattern, the central flower spray within smaller scattered springs and unusual moulded beaded borders, open crescent marks, 12cm. (3) Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. The can with a paper label for the Langmead Collection, No. 320.
Lot 538
A rare Worcester blue and white coffee cup c.1760-65, painted with the Blue Valentine pattern with two dogs in the foreground and others behind, the reverse with a long-tailed bird in flight above a heart pierced by arrows, and a Chinese porcelain teabowl painted with the same arrangement of dogs, the teabowl broken and restuck, a small filled footrim chip to the cup, 7.3cm max. (2) Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire.
Lot 540
A rare Worcester Scratch Cross blue and white coffee cup c.1754, the rounded form with everted rim, painted with the Bamboo Peony pattern, with large flowering branches beneath leafy bamboo spikes, workman's mark, 5.7cm. Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. Paper label for the Watney Collection.
Lot 542
A rare Worcester blue and white teabowl and saucer c.1757-60, printed with the Two Swan Precipice pattern, two swans swimming in the forefront of a waterside landscape, a small cluster of buildings suspended on a rocky precipice above them, 11.8cm. (2) Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. Paper labels for the Watney Collection.
Lot 547
An early Worcester blue and white coffee cup c.1753, the fluted form painted with the Prunus Branch Bird pattern, a similar rare fluted saucer with floral sprays akin to the Inverted Floral pattern, and a strap-moulded coffee cup painted with the Fisherman and Willow pattern, workman's marks, 12cm max. (3) Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. The first coffee cup with paper labels for the Zorensky Collection and the Watney Collection.
Lot 549
A rare Worcester blue and white mug c.1765, the straight-sided form printed to two sides with the second version of the Cabbage Rose Sprays pattern, 8.5cm. Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. The Zorensky Collection, no. Y.805. Cf. Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain, IIC.12A, which describes at the time of publication just one other recorded example of this version.
Lot 552
A rare Worcester blue and white coffee can c.1768-70, painted with two love birds perched on a branch of flowering prunus above peony branches and rockwork, the handle with small comma details around, a small chip to the inside rim, 6.2cm. Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. Bonhams, The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain Part II, 23rd February 2005, lot 336. Philips, The Watney Collection, Part I, 22nd September 1999, lot 174. The decoration on this can is believed to be unique and it is possible it was produced to match or replace a Chinese example.
Lot 566
A rare Worcester blue and white teabowl and saucer c.1785, of generous size, decorated in the Trellis Lily pattern with a formal arrangement of stylized blooms within panels, open crescent marks, 12.3cm. (2) Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. The Zorensky Collection, No. Y.623. The Trellis Lily pattern bears a strong resemblance to the Royal Lily, but is complete in itself without the gilding. Very few examples are recorded.
Lot 571
A large and rare Worcester coffee cup c.1760, painted with the Solid Fence Pavilion pattern, a zigzag fence leading to a tall pavilion beneath a gnarled pine tree, the interior with a narrow trellis border, open crescent mark, 7.3cm. Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. Paper label for the Zorensky Collection, No. Y57. Cf. Branyan, French and Sandon, Blue and White Worcester Porcelain, No. I.D.10, where they discuss the possibility that this pattern and shape derived from a Longton Hall precedent.
Lot 572
A rare Worcester blue and white teabowl c.1758, painted with the Diagonal Rock Island pattern, a Chinese figure standing with his back to a small hut beside a slanted rock and pine tree, the interior with a formal scroll border, workman's mark, 7.8cm dia. Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire.
Lot 573
A rare Worcester blue and white saucer c.1758-60, painted with the Anemone pattern, a single bloom within a wide floral moulded band, within a lambrequin border, workman's mark, 11.8cm. Provenance: a private collection in Wiltshire. Paper label for the Thistle Collection, K8. This design is a rare variation on the Chrysanthemum pattern which bears the same moulding and border design.
Lot 576
A very rare Worcester blue and white mug c.1760-65, the slightly tapering form printed with la Dame Chinoise design, an attendant holding a tall parasol over the head of a Chinese lady with another attendant beside, flanked by a tall vase of flowers and a gnarled willow tree, cracked, 12.2cm. This pattern appears at Worcester in overglaze enamels (see Cyril Cook, The Life and Work of Robert Hancock, no.26) and is known on Derby and Bow porcelain. However, this appears to be the only recorded example of the pattern in underglaze blue at Worcester.
Lot 577
A rare Worcester blue and white guglet c.1760-65, the pear-shaped body rising to a slender neck with bulbous knop and flared rim, painted with the Arabesque Panel Landscapes pattern, with shaped panels of Chinese figures in island settings reserved on a powder blue ground, blue square seal mark and open crescent mark, some damages, 29cm. Provenance: The Godden Reference Collection W19; The Zorensky Collection Y.614; J W Goldsmith Collection. Illustrated: Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain, I.B.25, at which point it was the only recorded example of this pattern.
Lot 586
A rare Plymouth blue and white bowl cover c.1770, of ogee shape, painted in a dark blue with a spray of flowering peony, the rim with a band of trellis, two rim cracks and a small chip, 12.5cm. Cf. Victoria & Albert Museum, Accession No. 414:723-1885 for a bowl from the Schreiber Collection which may have had a cover of this type. Such bowls are direct copies of a Chinese design.Provenance: the David Birley Collection.
Lot 592
A rare William Reid (Liverpool) blue and white small plate or stand c.1756-61, the shallow circular form painted with a Chinese lady seated with a fan beneath a fringed tree beside a table set for tea, the rim with a panelled trellis border, 10.8cm. Illustrated: Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain, p.76, pl.3.157. Exhibited: Phillips, Liverpool Exhibition, 1997. Provenance: the Bernard Watney Collection.
Lot 600
A very rare William Reid (Liverpool) blue and white trencher salt c.1756-61, the waisted oval form gadrooned to the rim and foot, painted with a pagoda landscape to two sides, the interior with a flying insect within a simple loop border, a little chipping, 9.4cm across. Illustrated: Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain, p.73, pl.3.149. Exhibited: Northern Ceramic Society, Liverpool, 1993. Phillips, Liverpool Exhibition, 1997. Paper label for the Davies Collection.
Lot 169
A large and rare commemorative creamware punchbowl dated 1793, the exterior printed in black with a scene of Neptune and Amphitrite and small scenes of traders in harbours, inscribed 'Success to the Mines and Fishery in Cornwall', the interior with 'Cornubia echoes while her pillars shines, Success to fish, tin and copper mines. if those withheld, she casts a baleful sound, and all gay Albion is dismay'd around' above the initials JH and 1793, two rim cracks, 33cm dia.Provenance: from the collection of Edward and Jill Croft-Murray. Jill Croft-Murray (née Whitford Hawkey) was descended from Joseph Hawkey of Cornwall, for whom this bowl is believed to have been made.
Lot 180
A rare Ralph Wood pearlware figure of John Milton c.1790-1800, standing beside a pillar moulded with scenes from Paradise Lost, leaning on a stack of books resting on the top, his left knee slightly bent and head looking down to his right, decorated in green, blue, black and manganese glazes, raised on a flat shaped base, repairs to both hands, 29.5cm. This apparently unrecorded figure differs to the models produced at Derby and by later Staffordshire manufacturers, but may well still have been a companion figure to one of Shakespeare.
Lot 19
A rare enamelled wine glass c.1765, possibly by Anthony Taylor, the round funnel bowl enamelled in white and yellow with Masonic symbols, raised on a double series opaque twist stem above a conical foot, 15.2cm. Provenance: the collection of the late Terence C Woodfield. The proceeds from this lot will be donated to charity. Cf. Simon Cottle, 'The Other Beilbys: British Enamelled Glass of the Eighteenth Century', Apollo, October 1986, pp.315-327 for a discussion of this style of decoration and the work of Anthony Taylor in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Lot 20
A rare small waisted beaker or dram glass c.1765, enamelled in white and yellow edged in red with Masonic symbols and a foliate border, 7.9cm. Provenance: the collection of the late Terence C Woodfield. The proceeds from this lot will be donated to charity. Illustrated: Apollo, October 1986, Simon Cottle, The Other Beilbys: British Enamelled Glass of the 18th Century, p.323, fig. 17. Cf. James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys, p.113, fig.65 for a similar glass in the Corning Museum.
Lot 21
A rare Beilby beaker or tumbler c.1765, enamelled in white with an insect and auricula about the inscription 'And the Coal Trade', 9.6cm. Provenance: the collection of the late Terence C Woodfield. Previously the Peter Lazarus collection, no. P3. The proceeds from this lot will be donated to charity. Exhibited: Ashmolean Museum, 8th September - 21st October 1979. Also, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, The Lazarus Collection of Drinking Glasses, 31st January - 30th September 1981, and on loan until 14th November 1986. Illustrated: James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey, p.97, pl.59.
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