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Click here to subscribeA JAPANESE IVORY OKIMONO MEIJI 1868-1912 Depicting Seiobo, the Queen Mother of the West, wearing an elaborate headdress and draped in a long billowing sash, holding a fan, a child attendant by her side presenting her with a peach, the base with a three character mark, 6.1cm. Provenance: formerly in an English private collection.
A Japanese Ivory Okimono of a Daikon Seller A Japanese Ivory Okimono of a Daikon Seller, the figure stands in a short rustic robe carrying a bundle of daikon wrapped in a straw mat on one shoulder and dangling a further group of daikon from his left hand, his pipe and tobacco pouch hang from his sash, signed Hokei, height 20.5cms, Meiji Period ; with wood stand
18th century AD. A hand-painted miniature scene depicting a nobleman with sash and spurs leading an ibex with halter and pendant to the neck, with panels of calligraphic text above and below; mounted in a card frame with waxed paper cover. 51 grams, 35.5 x 28cm in mount, image: 22.5 x 14cm (14 x 11 in mount"). Acquired on the London art market before 1995.
After Sidney S Wilson Framed print Little girl sitting in a cream dress with pink sash and pink bow in her hair, signed in margin lower right "Sidney S Wilson" and another framed print Four coloured engravings, "The Empress Marie Therese", "Lady Jane Grey", "Christina of Pisa" and "Valentine of Milan" and a Baxter print of two Spanish ladies (7)
*Coatee. A rare Victorian Coatee of a Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief below the rank of General Officer circa 1850, the scarlet coatee with five pairs of gilt staff buttons to the front breast, gold embroidered collar and cuffs, cuff-slashed and horizontal skirt lashes as for a Major General, white kerseymere skirt-lining and turnbacks, the oakleaf skirt ornaments in gold embroidery on blue backing, together with a Victorian officer's belt, of red and gold bullion with brass buckle and white metal VR cypher beneath crown, together with a crimson sash, two pairs of brass spurs stamped 'Maxwell', another belt with brass buckle 'Unattached', plus gilt metal tassles etc. Provenance, by family descent. In the East India Company, there were three presidencies, each with its own Governor-General or Governor, and Commander-in-Chief, all of who boasted a Military Secretary, the latter mostly below the rank of General Officer, who wore the same uniform as their British Army counterparts, the vendor's family was related to that of the Earl of Dalhousie, Governor-General from 1843-56, and to those of Arbuthnott and Ramsey, members of both of which were listed as being in Bengal in 1849, and it seems likely that the coatee came into the possession of the current owner by descent from an officer who had served in India. ( a carton)
A TURKISH LADY Gujarat, Western India, 19th century reverse painting on glass, the woman depicted wearing a pink tunic and blue sash, a tiara in her hair, framed 50 x 35cm Reverse glass painting was a technique first seen in China. During the 18th century, paintings made for the Indian market started to be produced, and by the 19th century, Indian artists near the trading posts of Cutch had also begun to paint on glass. Condition: Slight damage and losses to paint, mostly around edges
Field Marshal Lord Methuen’s Scots Guards Officer’s State Shoulder Sash. A rare Victorian example of gold and crimson woven material with two large basket worked tassels. Bullion remains bright minor service wear. GC Provenance: the Methuen Estate. In 1902 the State Waist Sash was introduced for use by the Foot Guard Regiments.
Foot Guards Officer’s State Sash, Slings and Sword-knot. A good post-1902 sash by Edward Smith, 5 Boyle St. Gold and crimson net with patent sprung clip. Fringe tassels with gold and crimson worked heads. Red leather lining tooled with Prince of Wales’s plumes and maker’s label. VGC ... a set of sword-slings in red leather with “Bias-&-Stand” lace ... a gold cord sword-knot with acorn finial. GC.
Large pottery figure of Her Majesty the Queen taking the salute at Trooping the Colour by Coalport This impressive limited edition model depicts Her Majesty wearing scarlet Guards tunic, with state waist sash mounted upon her faithful charger Burmese, He stands placid as the Queen takes the salute. Complete with riding crop and wooden base. The latter with details “Trooping the Colour” issued in celebration of Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee 1952-2002. VGC Colours remain bright Overall Height 13 inches. The accompanying certificate states that this is number 433 of 450. Retains original large fitted cardboard transit box.
Coldstream Guards Pre Great War Drum Major’s sash. A very rare example of dark blue melton cloth, edged with Foot Guards pattern lace. To the centre a large King’s Crown, surmounts the Regimental device of The Order of the Garter. Below this can be found Battle Honours of the Regiment, the last being Modder River”. The sash is backed with red leather and terminates with twist wire tassels. Complete with both miniature drum sticks. Some minor age wear and slight dulling to bullion.
Infantry Officer’s Victorian Levée Dress Waist Belt and Sash. A very fine example. Narrow belt of gold-laced crimson leather, the lace with a crimson central stripe. Superb gilt clasp with ornate loops, the outer circle with laurel leaf decoration, the inner element mounted with Royal Crest in white metal. Complete with its sword-slings. VGC ... a gold and crimson striped shoulder-sash, the fringe tassels with worked gold and crimson heads. VGC. (2 items)
Two WWI medals relating to Edwin Christy, the British War medal and a Merchant Navy medal, an early 20th century military style wristwatch on leather strap, a cased pair of spectacles, a leather cased masonic sash relating to the same man, Brother E.Christie, also a pair of gloves, a Victorian textile brooch and a ceramic Dutch entity detector, all to a green military style box. CONDITION REPORT Was found to be working on winding but cannot guarantee long term. "C.C" printed on dial.
AFTER THOMAS GIBSON (c.1680-1751) PORTRAIT OF ROBERT WALPOLE, 1st EARL OF ORFORD (1676-1745), PRIME MINISTER Standing, long half length, wearing a brown coat with Garter Star and blue sash, an Earl's coronet to his right, bears inscription T Gibson Pinx, oil on canvas 33 x 24.5cm. ++ Lined; retouching over many old damages; carved wood frame with losses
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS BUNEL (1552-c.1599) PORTRAIT OF KING HENRY IV OF FRANCE (1553-1610) Standing, long half length, wearing a blue-grey tunic with gold brocade, matching plumed hat, riff collar and sash, inscribed upper right: Henricus. 4 D. G. Rex Francorum/ Et Navare. Aetatis-suae.40/ 1591, oil on canvas 97 x 71cm Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset; Crewkerne, Lawrences, 21st April, 2005, lot 1364; Private Collection, Staffordshire ++ Lined; retouching; small loss at lower edge centre and upper left corner
MANNER OF CHRISTOFANO ALLORI (1577-1621) PORTRAIT OF A CONDOTTIERE, TRADITIONALLY SAID TO DEPICT NICCOLO DA TOLENTINO (c.1350-1435) Standing, long half length, wearing black armour and a red sash, holding a baton, a helmet to his right, bears inscription NICOL DA TOLE upper right, oil on canvas 120.5 x 99.5cm. ++ Lined; replaced stretchers; associated retouching, in a French Empire frame
A good Japanese five compartment lacquered inro decorated with samurai beneath trees and clouds, pink coral bead and two part ivory toggle terminal, shibayama decorated with an elephant, inro case 8.5cm x 6cm, signed Kakosai 可交斎, 19th Century The inro is a container made up of tiers. Japanese men used them because the traditional Japanese garment, the kimono, had no pockets. From the late 1500s onwards, Japanese men wore the inro suspended from their sash by a silk cord and a netsuke (toggle). They originally used it to hold their seal and ink or a supply of medicines. However, it rapidly became a costly fashion accessory of little or no practical use. Most inro are rectangular with gently curving sides. Lacquer was most commonly used in the manufacture of inro since it was highly suitable for storing medicines. Lacquer is the sap from the tree Rhus verniciflua that grows mainly in East Asia. After processing, it is applied in many thin layers to a base material. The craft of lacquering, as well as making inro bodies, is highly complex, time-consuming and expensive. On this example, the gold lacquer is inlaid with fishes in shell, horn and stained ivory in a style typical of the late 1800s. From the 1700s onwards, many artists signed the inro they made. This example is signed Kakosai, who is known to have worked in the late 1800s.
The Francis Johnston-Speaker Clock A highly important and monumental mahogany Longcase Clock, crested with a scallop shell and flanked with figure and hound to one side, and a cherub with a medici lion, on a leaf wreath moulded arch and trellis panel, applied with the Johnston Coat of Arms and motto reading "Nunquam Non Paratus" above a later brass and steel dial, signed J. Waugh & Son, Dublin, with Roman and Arabic numerals on the chapter ring, a subsidiary dial for seconds, two key squares, date aperture and two smaller dials for chimes, the musical mechanism playing a brass pinned barrel, and fifteen graduating steel bells, flanked to either side with a cluster column, headed with ornate stylized Doric capitals, each with a hanging wreath and deep carved side trellis panels, all above a brass inlaid door with serpentine top and a centre aperture with glazed panel inside a leaf carved moulded frame with fleur-de-lis finial, flanked with canted corners and carved female caryatids, on a conforming acanthus leaf moulded canted plinth, and a stepped moulded base, 9'9" x 44" (297cms x 112cms). (1) J. Waugh & Son Dublin The Irish Houses of Parliament Speaker's Clock James Waugh was a member of a well-known family of clock makers. He worked in Armagh from 1785 until 1805 when he moved to Dublin. He produced an 'astronomical' clock for use in Armagh Observatory, circa 1793., and assisted Robert Hogg in making an astronomical quadrant with a 35 inch radius (Hogg was later an assistant astronomer at Armagh). In Dublin he produced clocks from 157 James Street under the name 'Waugh & Sons' as well as 'James Waugh' (this latter nomenclature was in operation between 1805 and 1815). From 1820 until 1824 he operated from 24 James Street and, in 1825, moved to 40 Aungier Street. In 1826 a final move took him to 42 Aungier Street. He is known to have made the works for a Longcase Clock 9 feet 8 inches high, by 3 feet 8 inches wide that was in the Irish Houses of Parliament**. Francis Johnston of Kilmore*** MRIA (1760 - 1829) was the second son of William Johnston of Armagh. On the death of his older brother, Richard Johnston of Kilmore (1759 - 1806), without issue, Francis became the head of his family and entitled to the undifferenced Arms, as displayed on the superstructure of the Clock****. The Parliament House was sold in 1803 to the Bank of Ireland for £40,000. The conversion into the Bank's headquarters was started the following year and completed in 1811. Francis Johnston was the architect of the alterations. Between 1807 and 1814 Richard Stewart executed the carvings in the Chapel Royal at Dublin Castle, which had been designed by Francis Johnston and the unusual shape of the shield for the Johnston Coat of Arms, which was added to the Speaker's Clock, is identical in form, to those for the Viceroys of Ireland which Stewart carved in the Chapel Royal, Dublin. A carillon, or musical clock. The mechanism has 15 bells and 30 hammers playing airs, self-chiming and speed control playing every three hours. The seatboard is 7 inches tall, 4-6 deep, 1/2 thick, 13 inches long and 13 inches square. The Bell 0 4 1/2 hammer spring 4 1/2 long, weights. The Gong 14lb strike 18 movement 7 x 5 2 1/2" deep. Movement dead beat escapement with maintaining power, 18" square dial movement measures 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" deep. Heavy cast metal pendulum bob in 2 parts. Secured, with 4 screws wooden pendulum rod, 5 pillar movement motion work drive wheel to carillon 0 3 1/2, 96 teeth 16 pins. The minute wheel, which has an 8 leaves movement does not sit on the seat board but hangs from it. It is secured with 4 bolts 3 weight of lead with pulley enclosed. The gong 18-20 strike 20 - 25 carillon 30. The carillon bell (sea board, 28 long 12 deep 1 1/2 thick) long: the hammer spring 10 inches largest 6- 1 1/2 Frame rough iron bushed with manganese brass, 15 bells 30 hammers driving or drum, wheel. 0 6 3/4 thick 6 spokes with 72 teeth. Wooden barrel winding arbour 3/8 in square. Bevel to great wheel. Drives cylinder wheel 1st cam wheel 72 teeth 0 3 1/2 brass pinion 14 leaves 0 3 3/4. It has a gathering pallet with no tail. The 2nd wheel 56 teeth 0 2 1/4, pinion 8 leaves 1/2 0. the 3rd warning wheel 48 teeth 0 2 1/8 pinion 8 leaves 1/2 0. The fly or governor 8 leaves 0 1/2. The distance of the great wheel between shoulders in 6 1/2 inches. All others are 4 3/4 inches except the fly pinion. The cylinder is 16 in long and the wheel is 0 3 1/4, 72 teeth, 0 5 in excluding pinion. The largest bell is 0 6 in. The smallest is 1 3/4 in. The bells are stamped R. Wells Albourne of Wiltshire, who is listed in Bells of England, by Tom Ingram, published by David Charles, 1954. * * The first Astronomer of the Observatory, Reverend Dr. J.A. Hamilton, was appointed in July 1790, and as an endowment for the Astronomer, Primate Robinson gave twenty acres of land and the estate of Derrynaught. Several instruments, including a Ramsden transit instrument and meridian circle, a Troughton equatorial telescope and three clocks, were ordered at the Primate's expense. However, owing to the Primate's death before receipt of all the instruments, the two Ramsden instruments never came to Armagh, Compensating for the non arrival of the Ramsden transit instrument an Armagh watchmaker, Mr. James Waugh, constructed one, and observations with it commenced in July 1793 (Stuart 1819). Some results with this instrument were published in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy (Hamilton 1810). * **Watch and Clockmakers in Ireland. by William Galland Stuart, Dublin 2000 (published with a grant from the Heritage Council). * ***Kilmore House, Richhill, County Armagh (Johnston IFR) a 3 story Georgian block, given 2 curvilinear Jacobean-style gables and mullioned oriels, between which 3 bays of the original elevation remain as they always were, complete with the astragals in the sash windows; the adjoining elevation also remained Georgian. The interior was also remodelled, presumably at the same time: the hall has a screen of tapering wooden piers, incorporating the stairs, which have a handrail of carved wood panelling. The dining room has a Victorian Gothic chimney piece of marble. Seat of the Johnstons of whom Francis Johnston, the architect, was a younger son, (from page 174 of "A Guide to Irish Country Houses" by Mark Bence-Jones, published by Constable, London 1978 revised edition 1988, 2nd revised edition 1990). * ****Arms of Johnston of Kilmore, Armagh: Argent a saltire sable in base a heart ensigned with an imperial crown proper on a chief gules three cushions or: Motto: Nunquam Non Paratus ("Never Unprepared"), Crest: an arm in armour embowed, the hand grasping a sword all proper charged with a spur rowel gules.
Attributed to Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1750 - 1812) A fine half length Portrait of the Duke of Hesse, wearing a powdered wig, a blue sash and various orders, within a feigned oval, in a fine giltwood frame, swagged with acanthus leaves, surmounted by a crown, and with swagged apron, approx. 86cms x 67cms (34" x 26 1/2"). (1) Provenance: Mecklenberg - Strelitz (see label on verso). * Frederick Landgrave of Hesse, was born in Cassel in 1720, he married Princess Mary daughter of King George II of England, and they had four children. In 1741 he was made Knight of the Garter. He ruled as Landgrave of Hessel - Cassel from 1760 - 1785. He married secondly in 1773 to Phillipe, daughter of Friederich Willhelm of Brandenburg - Schwedt, and had no children. His main residence was the Castle at Schloss Rempenheim, where he died on 31st October 1785 at Weissenstein.
A Wedgwood sage jasper ware portrait plaque Viscount Horatio Nelson: modelled after the original by John de Vaere, in profile, shortly after losing his right arm, wearing naval uniform and the star and sash of a Knight of Bath, impressed upper case mark, partially obscured, late 18th or early 19th century, oval 11 cm high, mounted in a velvet mounted hinged display case with an oak and acorn carved fruit wood frame.
[ALEXANDER I]: (1777-1825) Emperor of Russia 1801-25. An unusual document of Alexander I, unsigned, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., in French. The printed document being an announcement, stating “Alexander I – Emperor of all Russias - Decorated with the Grand-Eagle Cross of the Legion d´Honneur – Born 23rd December 1777”. Accompanied by the original envelope, hand written, in Cyrillic, `To His Highness, the Beloved Landgrave Hesse-Darmstadt. Our friendly and Amiable Relation´. Bearing a red wax seal in very fine condition, with the crowned double headed eagle oath. VG £200-300 Alexander I was awarded with the Grand-Eagle Cross of the Legion d´Honneur in July 1807. The treaty of Tilsit was signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I, 9th July 1807. Several weel-known paintings have reproduced that day with Emperor Alexander I wearing the ceremonial red sash of the Legion d´Honneur. Louis I (1753-1830) Grand Duke of Hesse. Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, as Louis X, later first Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.
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