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Lot 162
A Persian runner, the navy field decorated with palmettes and flowerheads A Persian runner, the navy field decorated with palmettes and flowerheads, within ultramarine borders and crimson guard stripes, approximately 292 x 77cm, together with a Qum rug, the navy field decorated profusely with an overall design of meandering foliage, approximately 195 x 200cm
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* RUTH STAGE NEAC (BRITISH b 1969), BROOKLYN HEIGHTS (AND THE TWIN TOWERS) egg tempera on gesso board, signed with initials 92cm x 90cm (36 1/5 x 35 2/5 inches) Framed In the artists words: I did the painting in 95 or 96 (not totally sure) after my first visit to New York .Most of the other paintings in the series were from the World Trade Center so quite historical. We stayed in Brooklyn for the first few days and Brooklyn Heights was the first fabulous view as we walked towards the city. Note: Widely regarded as one of the UK's most brilliant landscape artists. In 2013 Ruth Stage won the £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers UK art prize. Her painting was in competition against over 1000 other artists. Stage uses the ancient painting technique egg tempera, where egg yolk is mixed in with pigment to achieve a richness of colour and long lasting stability. The five judges overseeing the prize were British artist Ken Howard, The Spectator art critic Andrew Lambirth, former Lynn Painter-Staines winner Antony Williams, Tate Britain fellow Andrew Wilton and British artist Nina Murdoch. The award is one of many awards achieved by Ruth Stage which include the runner up prize in the 2006 LPS and winner of the M&G Young Artist Of The Year at The ROYAL ACADEMY Summer Exhibition (1996). Corporate and Public Collections include: Artburthnot Latham & Co, A.T. Kearney, Border Television, Charing Cross Hospital, Chevron UK, Durham University, Hiscox PLC, HSBC, Jo Hambro Investment Management, M&G Group, Nat West Bank, Pearl Assurance, The Professional Football Association.
Lot 162
A World War II British Empire Medal group to Quartermaster Angus William Dewar MacDonald, R102229, comprising B.E.M, 1939-45 star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star, Burma Star and War Medal, served aboard Ellerman Liner City of Cairo; sold with a collection P.O.W. photographs from Milag Nord camp, other photographs, letters and ephemera including Record Office dockets, passes, discharge documents, newspaper cuttings, BBC receipts for MacDonald reading 'Ordeal' - a 60 minute adaptation of the story, dated May 1954; and a copy of GIBSON (C), THE SHIP WITH FIVE NAMES, where MacDonald's experiences are recorded. The City of Cairo left Bombay bound for home on October 2nd 1942. On November 6th she was torpedoed by a submarine and MacDonald took command of lifeboat 4 which sank while entering the water after a second torpedo struck the ship and MacDonald swam to lifeboat 1. After 36 days adrift 51 of the original survivors died leaving three, MacDonald, Diana Jarman and Jack Edmead who were picked up by the German runner Rhakotis. However, on New Years day 1943 the Rhakotis was attacked by HMS Scylla and sunk. MacDonald was picked up by U-410 and spent the remainder of the war at Milag.
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