*Piola (Domenico, 1627-1703). Child with a mask frightening two small children with their mother, design for a lunette in pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over chalk block on laid paper, collector's stamp of Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (1867-1938), London to verso (Lugt 2813a), 16 x 29.1 cm (6.4 x 11.5 ins), mounted Provenance: Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (1867-1938). Sotheby's London, 27 March 1979, lot 136 (pencil note to verso of mount). Private Collection, Worcestershire. Literature: Tancred Borenius and Rudolf Wittkower, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by Sir Robert Mond, London 1937, number 168 (as School of Mola). A similar semi-circular drawing by Piola depicting a man with a hunting dog, was sold by Cambi Casa d'Aste, Genoa, Disegni Antichi, 29 October 2013, lot 10. The Genoese artist Domenico Piola was part of an artistic dynasty that dominated ceiling decoration and artistic production generally in Genoa for the whole of the second half of the 17th century. The studio, known as Casa Piola, included Piola's younger brother, his brother-in-law, his three sons, and his two sons-in-law. They guided large decorative projects with a series of drawings, from careful studies of details through compositional sketches to full-scale cartoons. The Piolas also supplied designs for sculptors and for craftsmen in wood, ceramics, and metalwork. Domenico Piola derived his mature style from Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's undulating figures, streamlined twisting draperies, and diagonal compositions. (1)
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*Camden Town Group. Street scene in London, with two fashionable women in a carriage, circa 1920, oil on wood panel, unsigned, 24 x 16.5 cm (9.5 x 6.5 ins) A small scale animated London street scene, possibly connected with the circle around Charles Ginner, Spencer Gore, Robert Bevan and Harold Gilman. (1)
*Attributed to Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566). Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Elizabeth and Saint Joseph, pen & brown ink and wash on laid paper, inscribed with title in French to verso and attributed to Francesco Mazzolo, Il Parmigianino(1503-1540), sheet size 41 x 29.3 cm (16.2 x 11.55 ins), mounted, inscribed in English to verso of mount 'Sothebys' 'Taddeo Zuccaro' and 'Other versions exist of this drawing' Provenance: Private Collection, Worcestershire, England. A fine large-scale drawing in ink and wash showing Zuccaro's ability to evoke spatial depth from the two-dimensional surface of the paper by means of light and dark tones, a skill developed from the example provided by Michelangelo. (1)
*Sedgeley (Peter, 1930-). Blue Scale, 1965, colour screenprint, printed by Kelpra Studio for Editions Alecto in an edition of 40, with their stamp to verso, signed and numbered 13/40 lower right, sheet size 48.3 x 48.3 cm (19 x 19 ins), together with King (Ronald, 1932), Pardoner (from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer), 1978, colour screenprint, published by Editions Alecto, with their stamp to verso, signed, titled and numbered 47 from the edition of 50 in pencil, sheet size 52.5 x 35.5 cm (20.7 x 14 ins) (2)
*Italian Maiolica Vases. An impressive pair of large-scale Italian majolica snake handled vases, later 19th century, with hand painted classical & biblical scenes (possibly including Noah & the Great Flood), and grotesque faces in relief to the sides beneath each snake handle, approximately 66cm (26ins) high, and 97cm (38ins) diameter, with some resoration Similar to work by the Cantagalli Pottery of Florence. In 1878, Ulisse Cantagalli (1839-1901) took over the family's factory in Florence and began to trade as Manifattura Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli, producing highly decorative Italian ceramics in the Renaissance maiolica style. The Cantagalli factory closed in 1985. Cantagalli marked his works with a cockerel symbol, but this is not visible on these examples. (2)Amendment: width is 14 inches (not 38)
*Attributed to John Constable (1776-1837). Figure by trees looking out over a landscape, & Stormy landscape with figure by trees, a pair of small-scale oil sketches on canvas laid down on wood panel, the second possibly signed J.C. in red to lower left corner, 11 x 14 cm (4.3 x 5.5 ins), later matching gilt frames, glazed Provenance: Private collection, London & Buckinghamshire, from whom inherited by the current owner. These two landscape views bring to mind the countryside near Dedham or Stoke by Nayland in Constable's native county of Suffolk. (2)
*French School. Landscape with two women resting outside a rustic Italian house, early 19th century, oil on card, unsigned, 24 x 27.5 cm (9.5 x 10.8 ins) 19th century gilt frame, with old printed label of Chas. G. Smithers, Picture Frame maker & Printseller, 95 Leadenhall Street, London to verso Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset, England. A fine neoclassical landscape study, most likely painted 'en plein air', or directly from nature, given the level of detail to be found in the sunlit and shadowed wall surfaces of the building. This work is thus stylistically connected to the French neoclassical landscape school of artists who travelled to Italy for inspiration in the early 19th century, such as Alexandre Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757-1841), whose typically small scale works were highly prized by Grand Tourists, Jules Coignet (1798-1860), and Francois-Marius Granet (1775-1849). See Asher Ethan Miller, The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013). (1)NB: Possibly relating to Eckersberg's "The so-called Raphael's Villa in the Garden of the Villa Borghese in Rome".
Herkomer (Hubert von, 1849-1914 ). An album of drawings and sketches by Herkomer, circa 1888-89, consisting of an etched invitation to a private view of Herkomer's pictures at 22b Ebury Street, Belgravia, April 6th, 7th & 8 to Miss C. Swan, an unfinished oil sketch on canvas of a head-and-shoulders figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a pencil sketch of an underwater warrior on horseback, indistinctly signed Kenneth, a handwritten invitation to a party from Professor Herkomer & Miss Griffiths to Miss Swan, dated April 13 1889, on paper headed Dyreham, Bushey, Herts., a photographic Christmas card from the Herkomers dated Xmas 1888, a library sketch of a soldier on horseback (probably by Herkomer), a printed bookplate for Alfred Marks, designed by H.S. Marks, a pen, brown ink and wash Christmas card entitled Lead Melting, signed with initials A.L.H., a profile study of a young woman in pencil, apparently by Herkomer, another small scale pencil study of a boy, ditto, a watercolour study of a dancing faun child, printed programme for the Sorceress, a romantic musical fragment composed by Hubert Herkomer, and a printed Christmas card from the Herkomers for 1889, all mounted on brown album leaves, various sizes (the illustration above measuring 16.5 x 12.7 cm (6.5 x 5 ins), all mounted on brown paper in the form of an album, folio (1)
Introvini, 88 George Street, Manchester, a George III inlaid figured mahogany wheel barometer, the broken swan-neck pediment over a dry/damp register, an arched silvered thermometer scale, an enamelled convex dial 8-day clock, a circular barometer register and a silvered signed level, 110 cm h o/aGood condition, slight cracks to veneer on case consistent with age, internal condition good
A George III mahogany apothecary box, the hinged top centred with a flush brass carrying handle engraved 'R. Knight Esq., M.P.', the interior fitted with glass bottles and drawer containing balance scale, weights and bottles, with Bramah lock, 25.5 x 9.5 x 23 cm highAll bottles with chips and one cracked and repaired, considerable staining to original polish and lining affected by chemicals
λA Victorian silver coffee pot, teapot and sugar bowl, by William Moulson, London 1851-2, tapering circular form, chased foliate scroll and fish scale decoration, the hinged covers with melon finials, the coffee pot with ivory insulators, the teapot with ebony insulators, approx. weight 60oz. (3)
A collection of twelve 1/18 scale cars comprising of Hotwheels - Ferrai F50; Ferrari FXX; Ferrari F40; Ferrari 612 Scaglietti; Maisto - Jaguar S-Type; McLaren F1; Maserati Spyder; Mercedes-Benz SLR Mclaren; Bburago - Murcielago; Maserati 3200 GT; Auto Art - Aston Martin DBR9; Ut Models - McMlaren F! GTR.
A collection of thirteen 1/18 scale cars comprising of Bburago - Ferrari GTO (1962); Ferrari F50 (1995); Murcielago; Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4; Lamborghina Gallardo; Hotwheels - Ferrari 612 Scaglietti; Maisto - Mercedes CLK-GTR; Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera; Mototrbox - Porche 959; Mondo Motors - Pagani; Universal Hobbies - Porsche 917; UT models - Porsche 911 GT1; Auto art - Bentley Speed 8.
A collection of ten 1/18 & 1/16 scale collectors cars comprising of 'Burago' Ferrari 348; 250 Le Mans (1965); Testa Rossa (1957); F40 (1987); F50, Bugatti (1934); Mercedes 300 SL (1954); Jaguar SS 100 (1937), together with a 'Hotwheels' Ferrari and a 'Polistil' Jaguar. (10), together with a Porche stereo CD player.
A 19th century patinated and lacquered brass Theodolitethe telescope with rack and pinion focusing, dust cap and level, located on the limb, with vertical full circle inset with a silvered scale with vernier, the 'V' frame supports mounted on vernier plate with level and silvered compass signed 'J. Halden & Co. London & Manchester', level and cross bubble, on four screw adjustment tripod support, in fitted mahogany case.
A large collection of Airfix and other kits including a Revell Ducati 916 SP, a Revell Honda RC211V, a Revell Rolls Royce Phantom 1, a Revell Austin Healey 100, boxed helicopter kits by Revell, Italeri, Airfix, Hobby Boss, and more, boxed Airfix model aircraft kits, a collection of boxed plastic kits including German and British World War 2, boxed Hasegawa aircraft kits, a boxed Airfix Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were Rabbit van and a boxed Airfix 1/72 scale Stratos 4 spaceship
A collection of vintage Subbuteo table soccer 00 scale players, consisting of fifteen boxed teams of various colours including Brazil, Leeds, Fulham, Tottenham, Liverpool, Newcastle and Wolverhampton in all gold, a boxed Subbuteo table soccer 'Continental Display' edition, a 'Fivesides' edition, boxed goals, boxed flags and related paperwork. Some players damaged.
American Classical Fancy-Painted Grecian Sofa, early 19th c., New York, outscrolled arms centered by tablet splats, old rush seat, saber legs on spherule feet; the whole with a striated aquamarine ground, Classical motifs executed in yellow, red and black with gilt highlights, the legs in "fish scale" paint-decoration, curly maple secondary wood, h. 34 in., w. 73 1/2 in., d. 23 in. Provenance: Ann Koerner Antiques, New Orleans. Ill.: One King's Lane, "Tour Author Julia Reed's Party-Ready New Orleans Home". Note: A painted and rush seat sofa conserved by the Brooklyn Museum and attributed to New York makers P. and B.R. Thomas or John Cowperthwaite nearly identical to that seen here was included in Berry B. Tracy's seminal Classical America 1815-1845 exhibition. A pair of painted sofas, also closely related to this lot, are part of the furnishings commissioned for William Crogan's "Picnic House" in Pittsburgh and now in the Carnegie Museum. Ref.: Tracy Classical America 1815-1845, fig. 26; Cooper. Classical Taste in America, p. 140, pl 100.
Burago 1:18 scale die cast models: Alpine A110, Dodge Viper, Ferrari G10, 1:43 scale Ferrari F50, Brumm Fangio Mercedes W1 both boxed, tinplate friction powered Mercedes, Corgi JPS F1 large die cast car, two similar 1:36 scale models, Corgi Dinky & other die cast tanks etc Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
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