A Meissen KPM teapot and cover, circa 1725-30Each side finely painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting two figures flanked by flower, within an elaborate gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and iron-red scale-ground panels and edged with iron-red and purple scroll- and strapwork, the body, spout and handle further painted with indianische Blumen and insects, the eagle spout and the scroll handle embellished in gilding, the domed cover with a continuous chinoiserie scene above iron-red lines between gilt bands, 12.5cm high, K.P.M. and crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt 39. to both (very minor chips) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a New York Private CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Medieval Gold Ring Circa, 15th century AD. Gold, 8.1 grams. 21mm x 8mm. A stunning example of medieval jewellery, A stirrup-shaped ring detailed with scale / petal like decoration in moulded relief. The band widens slightly at the bezel which has two sunken settings, one has retained its original sapphire, the other is missing. The other setting would have housed a stone likely to have been a Ruby or Emerald. Ref: For similar rings see, C.C. Oman. Victoria & Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings, 1930. plate. 10-11. Recorded as treasure and disclaimed. PAS: BUC-FD7547. Ring size: UK J.
A Worcester porcelain sugar bowl, circa 1780, with painted floral reserves within a blue scale ground, blue seal mark, height 7cm, diameter 15cm.Provenance:Michael Trethewey. A Gentleman of Taste.We are delighted to be selling in this sale and over forthcoming sales, items from the estate of the collector Michael Trethewey. Michael had an unerring eye for quality. He was a frequent visitor to these auction rooms, an elegantly dressed, unassuming man who bought well and had a singular passion for old-school antiques.Condition report: We could see no restoration. See images for the various issues. They include a glaze crack that does not penetrate the body, rim nibbles and an anomalous arching patch where the glaze hasn't taken properly
A Booth's earthenware large bowl, decorated in the Worcester style with birds and foliage on a scale blue ground, diameter 28.5cm, together with a similar box and a pair of Victorian vases (4).Provenance:Michael Trethewey. A Gentleman of Taste.We are delighted to be selling in this sale and over forthcoming sales, items from the estate of the collector Michael Trethewey. Michael had an unerring eye for quality. He was a frequent visitor to these auction rooms, an elegantly dressed, unassuming man who bought well and had a singular passion for old-school antiques.
A pair of early 20th Century Royal Doulton Lambeth stoneware vases of inverted baluster form, decorated with bands of foliate swags picked out in blue and green enamel with a salt glazed scale ground between, the pair mounted with flared silver hallmarked collars, Chester 1903, height 16.5cm.
Edward McGuire (1932-1986)Barn OwlOil on board, 30 x 22cm (11¾ x 8¾'')Signed with initials and dated (19)'85; also signed, inscribed and dated 1985 versoEdward McGuire’s paintings are unmistakable for their slightly uncanny, surreal quality. Their dreamlike character emerges, almost paradoxically, from the sense of heightened reality he achieves in his portrait and still life subjects. The latter consisted chiefly of taxidermal birds, particularly owls, and occasionally dead game birds.McGuire was a son of the charismatic Senator Edward McGuire, a high profile sportsman and at the time owner of Brown Thomas. Despite fragile health in his early years, the young Edward grew up to be a sports enthusiast himself. Half-hearted efforts to guide him towards the family business never gained traction. He studied art history, then painting, in Florence and Rome – with a subsequent spell at the Slade in London, where he came into contact with Lucian Freud. Freud and a good friend of his, the Irish painter Patrick Swift, were by far the most important influences on McGuire’s painting.Like Freud, he combined an often bohemian lifestyle with a focused commitment to his work and, again like Freud, he was a slow, painstaking worker: to complete four paintings a year was a good average, he reckoned. Many consider him to be the best Irish portrait painter yet. He had an affinity for poetry and poets (many, including Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Michael Longley, Michael Hartnett and Paul Durcan feature in his impressive roll-call of subjects). But it’s fair to say his heart was in his bird paintings.He was just 20 when he met the Natural History Museum’s venerable taxidermist and acquired three birds from him, an owl, a lapwing and a duck. That same owl is probably the bird in this and several other paintings. “I am not a genius…” McGuire wrote, “I know my limitations and that is why I lay so much stress on the technical side.” He painted with reference to his own colour dictionary and tonal scale, compiled over a ten-year period and, he noted, regardless of subject, each painting was for him a precise construction and an exploration of colour and tonal values.Aidan Dunne, October 2021
Alexandra Wejchert RHA (1921-1995)UntitledBronze, 84cm high including base (33'')Alexandra Wejchert trained as an architect in her native Poland before moving to Ireland in 1965. Wejchert’s large-scale sculptural works in innovative materials including coloured perspex, plexiglass and neon became emblematic of the new spirit of progress in 1970s Ireland. Wejchert also worked very successfully in metal, her giant stainless-steel piece outside the former Allied Irish Bank Centre in Ballsbridge and her golden wall-relief in the Irish Life Building in Lower Abbey Street are two standout works.She also received many major commissions from businesses and institutions including the Bank of Ireland; University College Dublin, and Trinity College Dublin.
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)CavanaghAubusson wool tapestry, 382 x 386cm (150½ x 152'')Signed and dated (19)'74Unique Produced by Tabard Freres & Soeurs, France No:2031 (label verso)Provenance: Privately commissioned from the artist for Setanta House, DublinTapestry art was having somewhat of a renaissance in the twentieth century, becoming a medium, which was increasingly attractive to progressive modernist artists. French artist Jean Lucrat had pioneered this approach in tapestry design some years earlier, developing a technique, which prioritised the material as the guiding principle for the design rather than an attempt to make the tapestry conform to the characteristics of the painted image. Le Brocquy was drawn to Lucrat's example, whereby he could create very detailed and colour coded templates that the weavers would follow with exact precision. He rejected the painted cartoon in favour of a full-scale linear design. This allowed him to directly indicate each transition of colour and tone in the woven fabric.He had already collaborated on numerous occasions with the workshop of Tabard Frères et Soeurs in the Aubusson region. In 1973 he resumed working on a new series based on the themes and imagery of The Táin. This resulted in the Cúchulainn tapestries, which emerged in various iterations over the following decades. The Milles Tetes (Thousand Heads) series is a distinctive example of both Le Brocquy's sustained interest in representing the human head and the visual effect of inverting colour and tone. This work is a unique piece, commissioned for a private client, which draws on the similar design tropes of the series.The stylized heads arranged in rows, suggestive of some massing force, are distinctive, drawn with their own features and characteristics. Yet through their repeated presence across the woven surface, they blend into one another to create 'a mass of human presence' (Dorothy Walker, Louis Le Brocquy, Dublin, 1981, p.51). The dark austerity of the Tain's illustrations are replaced here by vibrant colours. The shift in tone from bold primary colours in the centre to paler hues creates a dramatic effect.In this work, Le Brocquy was able to explore the interdependence of form, colour and narrative content on a monumental scale. It is an extremely expressive work in which he has layered the colours, to exemplify the full spectrum. The background shifts from black to varying degrees of grey and white, which is then layered with primary colour tones. These move across the tapestry from paler hues in arrangement of blue, green, yellow and red. The longer you observe it, the more visually receptive it becomes. As Le Brocquy remarked on this effect on the human eye, "Further to the emotional character of single and interrelated colour, lies the magic of colour inversion. Staring fixedly at a colour or colours, the saturated eye - shifting to a white surface - precisely inverts those colours both in hue and tonally. A retinal 'memory' emerges inverted, an entirely new perception as contrary as night from day". (Le Brocquy, 'Artist 's Note', exhibition catalogue Louis le Brocquy, Seven Tapestries 1948-1955Dublin: Dawson Gallery; Belfast: Ulster Museum 1967)Niamh Corcoran, November 2021
Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (Brussels 1631-1681 Paris)The Madonna and Child with angels oil on canvas132 x 190cm (51 15/16 x 74 13/16in).unframedFootnotes:According to Guillet de Saint-Georges, Philippe painted a 'Vierge élevée dans les nues et au-dessous le martyre de sainte Agathe' for the church of Saint-Merry in Paris. However, this latter altarpiece is no longer in place and its current whereabouts is unknown.The present painting, which has been cut down, is related to the upper section of the preparatory drawing given to Philippe de Champaigne now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 19869, see fig. 1), presumably made in preparation for the commission for Saint-Merry. The Louvre sketch has also, on occasion, been attributed to Philippe's nephew, Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (see: N. Sainte Fare Garnot, Cahiers du dessin français no. 11, Champaigne and his workshop, 2000).The present work was painted by Jean-Baptiste but using his uncle's earlier drawing. It is known that Jean-Baptiste often helped his uncle, particularly on large-scale religious commissions, such as the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha for Saint-Merry. The face of the Virgin, for example, can be compared to the figure of Aurore in Jean-Baptiste's La Nuit e L'Aurore now in the Louvre (inv. no. RF 1986 62) originally painted for the apartments of the Grand Dauphin at the Tuileries palace.It is very likely that the present painting was cut down to half of the original composition of the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha as the angel, lower left, is flying downwards, out of the picture, with a laurel crown in hand ready to place on the head of Saint Agatha.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
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[AP] A SOUTH INDIAN ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURYof broad construction, formed of a faceted tapering gutter-shaped main plate chiselled with a scale design over the upper portion with foliage behind, embossed with a small ellipse enclosed by foliage over the wrist, hinged inner plate en suite with the outer, with pierced edges for a lining and a mail hand-defence34.0 cm; 13 3/8 inProperty from the Anthony Dove Collection (1938-2021)Part proceeds to benefit Westminster Abbey
TWO OTTOMAN SHORTSWORDS (YATAGHAN), THE FIRST DATED 1236 AH (CIRCA 1820/1), PROBABLY ALGERIAthe first with slightly curved single-edged blade of watered steel, silver-encased hilt extending over the forte and the back-edge, the former formed of a pair of scalloped panels and the latter with a brief inscription, a single grip-scale rising to a small eared pommel (the other missing), decorated throughout with foliage and palmettes in brass and niello all within a niello framework, in its wooden scabbard encased in chased silver decorated with trophies-of-arms, mosques and a ship within a framework of elaborate scrolls and with the date at the top, with a small loop for a tassel; the second with slightly curved single-edged blade struck with an onion shaped mark enclosed by two decorative panels on one face and a further decorative panel on the other (rubbed), silver hilt formed of a pair of grip-scales rising to an eared pommel (back-strap missing, losses), decorated over its surface with nielloed rondels including a six-point star, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with two iron mounts bound with leather near the throatthe first: 62.5 cm; 24 ¾ in blade(2)The silver hilt on the first example is unusual and apparently unrecorded elsewhere. The form of the hilt and the plain leather scabbards of this group are characteristic of Algerian manufacture.
Smaller scale Royal Canadian Mounted Police SAE 30mm scale in original box with exact copy by AHI, and various Heyde style copies, wargaming style and other small scale figures including semi-flats, flats and unpainted (Condition Good-Fair, some damage, two horses and four riders missing) (64)
Britains Miniature Gardening sixteen flower beds, one mound, sundial, pergola, rustic arch, pond with nymph and water lily, twenty-seven cork lawn pieces, two low stone pillars, two vases, six conifers, short balustrade, two piece rockery steps, corner rockery piece, hose reel, lawnmower, fifteen paving pieces, one hundred and sixty-five flowers and a larger scale Garden Gnome (Condition Good, some damage) 1936 (266 approx.)
Andrea 1/32 scale Wild West Concord Stage Coach with four-horse team, driver, two guards, four passengers, three pieces of luggage and a saddle, HIGHLY DETAILED, under attack by Indians, in a fitted glass case (Condition fair, chassis has come apart into components, some other damage, all parts present, possibly repairable)
Seven plastic Models or Groups on plinths, 54mm scale with four glass domes (one not fitted): Attending to wounded 1776, Lucknow 1858, Waterloo 1815 (Damaged), 17th Lancer 1854 (Damaged), Indian Officer 1900 (horse tail loose), Sudan Campaign 1884 and Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima, HIGHLY DETAILED (Condition Very Good) (18)
Metal Models in 54mm in original packaging with a few larger, various periods by New Hope Design, Tradition, Drumbeat, Scale Link, Imrie Rislie, Andrea, Sarum, Rose, Cheshire Volunteers, Mountford, Ensign, Alan Caton and others (Condition unpainted, not necessarily complete, packaging Fair) (95 approx.)
Airfix 54mm scale Model Figure Kits in origina lindividual boxes and packets, twenty-eight mounted and twenty-one on foot, eight six figure kits, one twelve figure kit, four Almark ten figure kits and an Italieri Commando Car kit, with seven figures already assembled (Condition Excellent, boxes Excellent -Very Good, a few Good or plastic cracked or torn, some damage to completed figures) (157 approx. contained in two cartons)
Collection of Loose Dinky toys Military vehicles models, including, 670 Armoured car, 641 army 1 ton cargo truck, 688 field artillery tractor, 622 10 Ton army truck, 623 army wagon, 660 thornycroft mighty antar, with 18 more modern dinky models, three corgi toys models, plus blue box toys 1/6 scale figure “British Royal Marine” appears to be complete, all models are in fair to good play worn condition, (26 items)
Two 1:18 scale Auto art diecast boxed models, Jaguar E-type 73523 and Jaguar XK-SS 73510, e-type has been on display, is dusty and could do with a deep clean other than that it is excellent condition, xk is In near mint sealed condition, boxes are both in excellent condition with edge/age wear and small creases xk plastic window on box has come loose. (2 items)
Collection of Jaguar Diecast models, including, boxed Tekno “E type” 927 red body, corgi toys models, 02901 grey body, 02902 green body, 01802 brown body, 02702 dark green body, VA08803, 02701 maroon body, 02903 gold body, 01805 gold body, va08607,two 01804 racing green body, 03001 grey body, 97680 30th an set, csca05002 Concorde models,E-type red body, dinky toys, DY-1 racing green body, DY-18 red body, DY-18 yellow body, DY001/c black body, Auto art models, 53601 black body, 53572 red body, 53501 racing green body, 53632 red body, lledo, Va08600 and va08801, Vitesse, 25004 red body and 25003 green body, two 1:87 scale keyrings, Minichamps 400130461, Solido 1096, plus three other boxed models, two static models on wooden bases, with reproduction Corgi toys 440 Ford Cortina, models appear to have been displayed (dusty), range from very good to near mint condition, boxes are in fair to very good condition, (37 items)
Quantity of Mixed 1:43 scale diecast car models, including, Revell Metal BMW v12, heritage classics, L005 Triumph tr3a, 015 austin Healey 3000, L057c triumph tr3, L042 porsche 911r 1969, L020 austin healey 3000, 016 porsche 911 1964, heritage formula 1, 201 ligier Renault, 204 benetton ford b194, 203 williams Renault, 192 lotus mugen 107c, mclaren-peugeot mp4/9, 190 ferrari 412 t1, 207 tyrrell Yamaha 022, 194B sauber c13 tissot, 196a Jordan 194 sasol, Vitesse L151 morgan plus 4, with heller Land rover model kit, all models are in near mint condition, boxes range from good to excellent condition, have edge/age wear some with tears, (18 items)
Collection of Brumm 1:43 scale racing/track boxed die-cast models, including, mobrr 231, mobrr 35, mobrr 221, mobrr 192, mobrr 209, mobrr 190, mobrr 149, mobrr 161, mobrr 127, mobrr 98, mobrr 147, mobrr 124, mobrr 36, mobrr 240, mobrr 188, mobrr 109, mobrr 229, mobrr 196, mobrr 71, mobrr 230, mobrr 72, all models are in near mint to excellent boxed condition, boxes have edge/age wear, (20 items)
Six Burago 1:24 scale boxed die-cast models, with, Cod.0572 Ferrari GTO, Cod.6501 Ferrari F310, Cod.0513 Ford AC cobra 427, Cod.1507 Ferrari Testa Rossa, Cod.1502 jaguar XK120, Cod.1524 Chevrolet corvette, models are in near mint boxed condition, boxes have edge/age wear some plastic has yellowed, (6 items)
Quantity of Burago Mixed scale Diecast boxed model cars, including 1:18 scale, Cod.3036 ferrari 456GT, Cod.3018 jaguar e coupe, Cod.3028 lamborghini diablo, Cod. 3051 porsche 356B, Revell 48822 330 P4, 48824 ford GT-40, shell classico ferrarai 312p, road tough Shelby cobra loose, BBurago 1:24 scale, Cod.1510 ferrari 250 GTO, Cod.6108 williams FW14, Cod.0506 ferrari 250, Cod. 6102 benetton ford, Cod. 0522 Mercedes-benz 300sl, Cod.1506 ferrari 250 Lm, Cod.1511 ferrari 275, boxes have edge/age wear some have yellowed, models are in near mint boxed condition, (15 items)
Quantity of Mixed Die-cast boxed/unboxed models, including dinky toys, corgi and more, with mixed scale and ages, loose and boxed, dinky toys, police box, taxi, Hudson sedan, shell aviation services, Lagonda, 163 bristol 450, triumph, seaplane, 735 gloster javelin, 738 Dh 110 sea vixen, 721 junkers ju with plastic top, transfers and instructions, Dinky Kit metal 1023 and 1008, boxed unchecked, Conrad 1:50 scale Liebherr 991 with polystyrene packing, Rio, itala 24/40, itala 23/49 pechino, fiat 60 cv, Thomas flyer, Polisill FX4 B.R.M Marlboro P.160 in plastic shell, Brumm, 72 mercedes, 148 jaguar, 73 blitzen benz, Five loose vintage style racing models, scabax boeing 747 cathay pacific, two triang minic tinplate cars, Corgi toys, boxed aviation archive 47302, smiths karrier shop, oxford OB coach, juniors fire engine, empty box of 288 with bag of spare wheel inside, vintage glory of steam, 80302 and 80303, showmans range 24801, Victoria r038 hummer, 7 loose models, lledo rw models, oxford, hot wheels, solido and two planes, plus clockwork Chinese tinplate motorcyclist, boxed clockwork tinplate “blue bird” with key, boxed friction tin fifties inc thunderbird boxed, models range from fair to near mint boxed, boxes range from fair to excellent condition, ( a lot)
Mixed Military related Plastic models kits and 1/6 scale Figure, including kits by, Tamiya 1/35 scale, U.S Medium tank M3 lee Mk1, U.S Tank M41 walker bulldog, British Army Saladin Mk2 armoured car, U.S Light tank M3 “stuart”, Bandai 1/48 scale, U.S M4A1 Sherman, U.S M4A3 Sherman, PanzerKampfwagen V Panther-G, British infantry Tank Mk2, 1/35 ussr tank model kit, 1:25 supermarine paper model kit, with 1/6 scale boxed Elite Brigade WW2 Japanese infantry man, all kits appear to be complete but unchecked, figure is in near mint boxed condition,(11 items)
Selection of boxed diecast model aircraft, including, collection armour 1:48 scale Spitfire and F4U Corsair, Corgi aviation archive 1:72 scale, AA32801, AA32501, 49104, plus three diecast model cars, models are in near mint condition, all appear to have been displayed (dusty), boxes are in fair to good condition all have edge/age wear some tears and creases, (8 items)
Little Legion Naval Landing Party supply wagon with two horses, two seated sailors and three piece load in original box, Fusilier Royal Marines in No.1 dress with mounted Officer, and by other makers Naval Officers, Musicians and 50mm scale Naval deck mounted Maxim with crew (Condition Excellent, box Good) (30)
Unpainted Models in metal 54mm scale by Sarum, Tradition, Border Miniatures, Ensign and BMSS, with eighty approx. smaller figures, a quantity of spare parts, some small scale Bierut buildings by Verlinden, two kits, two pictures and a quantity of dowel (Condition Unpainted) (160 approx. not including spare parts)
Timpo plastic Wild West Jail Wagon Stage Coach, two Mexicans, empty box for set 44055, Britains Prairie Schooner with four horse team (horse bent, some traces missing) five Deetail Indians and by other makers, two Western Buildings (one door loose) and a large scale rifle rack (Condition Very Good-Fair, one sign damaged, box Good) (24)
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