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Lot 161
'Dawn' a Moorcroft Pottery vase designed by William Moorcroft, shouldered form with waisted neck and flaring rim, tubeline decorated with a band of trees and hills, below fish scale and chevron borders to the neck, in shades of blue and cream highlighted in pink flambe on a pale blue ground, impressed marks, painted blue signature, 25cm. high
Lot 275
A pair of H.G. Murphy Falcon Studio silver tablespoons, London 1934, plain form, stamped marks, length 22.5cm, approx. weight 4.9oz. (2) Provenance H.G. Murphy (1884-1939), and thence by descent to the present owner. H.G. Murphy was born in Birchington-on-Sea in Kent on 27th October, 1884. His father, a groom, died when Harry was only six and the family was obliged to seek lodgings in London, where they settled in premises located just off Kensington Church Street. A shy and introspective boy, Harry was largely self-taught and spent much of his spare time in the local library where, according to family tradition, he devoured Encyclopaedia Britannica from cover to cover firing a lifelong passion for many of the subjects which were to influence his designs including botany, astronomy, astrology and zoology. At the age of 14, a chance meeting at a local Arts and Crafts exhibition was to have a radical bearing on Harry's life and career. While admiring the silverware on display he fell into conversation with Henry Wilson, the celebrated designer and craftsman who, clearly impressed by the boy's enthusiasm, offered Harry a six-year apprenticeship at his studio in Kensington. Wilson was probably England's greatest teacher and mentor of young talent in the Arts and Crafts tradition and by the end of his apprenticeship Harry had mastered many of the skills necessary to be a highly competent goldsmith and silversmith, such as hammering, engraving, gem polishing, gem setting, niello work and enamelling. Unsurprisingly, much of his output before and after the First World War was strongly influenced by nature and naturalism and it was not until the 1920s that he started to experiment with a range of different ideas and concepts. In 1928, Harry Murphy established retail premises in Marylebone called the Falcon Studio. By the early 1930s, his output was prodigious encompassing silver commissions from City institutions, churches, schools and sporting associations as well as small-scale jewellery in silver and gold, such as a splendid topaz, sapphire, diamond and polychrome enamel tiara designed and made for the Princess Royal. The Falcon Studio prospered through the late 1930s but Murphy's health had begun to deteriorate. In 1938 he received the award of Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) from The Duke of Gloucester and Harry was appointed the Faculty's First Master. He died on 10th July, 1939, at the tragically young age of 54.
Lot 82
A rare Martin Brothers stoneware model of a fish probably by Edwin Martin, modelled with raised tail, incised scale decoration, glazed ochre and green highlighted with white and black, unsigned, professional restoration to fins, 27cm. long Literature Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis Publications, page 91 for a model of a Pike similar and dated to circa 1890. A Large Collection of Martin Brothers Stoneware - The Property of Roy Aitken, Sotheby's Belgravia 19th April 1978 lot 65 page 17 for an identical fish.
Lot 896
A George III mahogany stick barometer,by George Adams, London, c.1780, the broken arch pediment over a silvered vernier scale engraved 'G Adams, Fleet Street, London. Inst. Maker to His Majesty', above a thermometer, tube and orb-shaped cistern cover with a rounded base,98cm highProvenance: The Estate of a Gentleman Dealer.George Adams Junior is recorded by Edwin Banfield as being apprenticed to his father, also called George, in 1765 and taking over the family business, at 60 Fleet Street, London, on his father's death in 1773. He continued his father's tradition of producing outstanding instruments and became instrument maker to George III and optician to the Prince of Wales. He died in 1795 leaving the business to his younger brother, Dudley.
Lot 133
Blaeu (Johannes). Atlas Maior of 1665, by a facsimile published by Taschen, 2005, numerous colour (including some folding) maps throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, large folio, together with De Jode (G.), Speculum Orbis Terrarum, published Antwerp, 1578, facsimile published Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1965, numerous black & white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, with Waghenaer (Lucas Jansz), Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, Leydem 1584 - 1585, published N. Israel & Meridian Publishing Ltd., 1964, numerous black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, spine faded, folio, with another eleven facsimile atlas volumes and large scale maps similar (14)
Lot 139
British Isles. Elwe (Jan, & Jaillot Alexis Hubert), Les Isles Britanniques qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse et Irlande..., published Amsterdam, 1792, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of the Orkney and the Shetland islands, large uncoloured cartouche and mileage scale, 480 x 600 mm, together with Covens (J. & Mortier C.), Regnorum Magnae Britanniae sive Angliae, Scotiae nec non Hiberniae nuperrima delineatio..., circa 1720, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, inset map of the Orkney Islands, large decorative cartouche, old folds, 510 x 595 mm The first map described:- R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750. Jaillot 4 state 5. (2)
Lot 166
France. A collection of six large scale maps of Saumur, Bressuire-Niort, Loches, Confolon, St. Jean D'Angely and Aigurande, published by the Depot de la Guerre, circa 1860, six uncoloured engraved maps, sectionalised and laid on linen, each approximately 570 x 840 mm, each with a contemporary marbled paper chemise and contained in six individual marbled card slipcases with calf gilt title labels to spines, slight wear Each map has a printed label 'Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine. Cartes du Depot de la Guerre et du Depot des fortifications. The date on the maps would indicate that they were published for the military campaigns of the French second empire. The imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, which was sandwiched between between the Second Republic and the Third Republic. (6)NB: This should read - Seven maps contained in six slipcases
Lot 224
Yorkshire. Jefferys (Thomas), A Map of the county of York, reduced from the large survey in twenty sheets of the late Thomas Jefferys and drawn from a scale of two statute miles to one inch revised and corrected in the present time by Wm. Faden..., Jany. 1st. 1816, engraved map with bright contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen on four sheets, calligraphic cartouche, inset town plan of Kingston upon Hull, uncoloured engraved vignette of the South East view of York Minster, slight offsetting, each sheet with contemporary green endpapers with printers labels, each sheet approximately 600 x 725 mm, contained in a contemporary quarter morocoo gilt slip case, worn, stained and frayed A clear and highly accurate copy of Jefferys's earlier map of 1771. Uncommon. (1)
Lot 506
Updated description A 1950’s Oriosa Gentlemans Chronograph wristwatch, in Chrome plated case, with stainless steel back the black dial with outer tachymeter scale, subsidiary dials, batons, silvered hands, the dial signed Oriosa Swiss, 17 jewel Incabloc, fitted with a Manual wind movement, calibre Landeron 248; 17 jewels, hour, minute, second, chronograph together with an Ancre Rubis gentleman watch and a Carronade Gentleman's chronograph wristwatch.. Oriosa lacks bracelet, minor scratches on glass, and case worn.All watches work, at time of inspection, we can offer no guarantee of accurate time keeping or future working
Lot 247
Switzerland, Botany - Candolle, Augustin Pyramus dePlantes Rares du Jardin de Genève. Geneva: Librairie de J. Barbezat & Comp., 1829. First edition, 4to, 4 parts in one volume, folio (360 x 273 mm.), [vi], 92, [i]; half-title, 24 stipple-engraved plates, all printed in colours and some finished by hand, after Heyland (21), Mlle. Car. Chuit (2) and Anspach (1) by Heyland (7), Millenet (11), Anspach (4), Bovet (1) and Bouvier (1), printed by Tattegrain, original printed boards (371 x 290mm.), uncut, rebacked with cloth, boards a little dust-soiled and scuffed at foot, internally mostly very cleanNote: FIRST EDITION, second "consolidated" issue, with the title dated 1829, otherwise identical to the first issue. This rare work was originally published in four fascicules between 1825 and 1826 or 1827.The present rare work was published a few years after the Swiss botanist Candolle settled in Geneva where he became director of the ‘Jardin Botanique’. Candolle's main focus was botany but he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany.Candolle proposed a "natural" method of plant classification as opposed to the artificial Linnaean method, a classification system which he outlined first in his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (Elementary Theory of Botany, 1813), the principle of which was taxa do not fall along a linear scale; they are discrete, not continuous. This work also introduced the concept of "taxonomy". His theory of "Nature's war" - of plant species fighting each other for space and existence - influenced Charles Darwin and was one of the considerations that influenced Darwin's theory of natural selection.The present work describes a number of rare plants of Geneva's famous botanical garden which was founded by Candolle himself in 1817. The remarkably fine stipple-engravings are all beautifully printed in colour and some are finished by hand. Great Flower Books, p.53; Nissen BBI 327; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1000.
Lot 508
A German red roofed dolls’ house, wood covered with printed paper featuring brick and stone, ornate front door with lion head knocker, window boxes, pillared porch, dormer window and flower boarder around base, front opening to reveal two white painted rooms - 15½in. (39.5cm.) high (slight woodworm and general wear); and a small quantity of small scale dolls’ house furniture
Lot 541
Edwardian silver salver of square form, in the manner of Paul De Lamerie, with rococo scroll and lattice work decoration, vacant cartouche with engraved fish-scale surround and Neptune face, piecrust border and heavy scroll, shell and flower-head edge, on four paw feet (Birmingham 1909), with separate Duchess of Sutherland Cripples Guild mark - DSCG, maker's mark - M. S. for Millicent Sutherland (Lady Millicent Fanny St. Claire-Erskine Duchess of Sutherland). All at approximately 62ozs, 37cm across
Lot 903
Late 19th / early 20th century Continental bronze pocket watch holder in the form of an eagle with serpent in his beak, perched on top of a Doric column with thermometer scale, 15cm high, together with another watch holder modelled after the antique with crane and tortoise, raised on marble plinth (2) CONDITION REPORT Eagle and serpent stand in good order, a few small chips around column. Base appears to have been broken around the bottom and restuck as it has a crack running all the way around it. Approximately 14.5cm in heightThermometer has some slight discolouration to silvering around dial, otherwise in good order. 15cm in height
Lot 275
17th / 18th century Chinese export blue and white bottle vase with heart-shaped floral panels and feather decorated neck - underglazed blue double-rings to base, 22cm and similar saucer dish with painted floral sprays - double-ring and rose mark to base, 22cm CONDITION REPORT Saucer dish has four small chips to rim and some scale/discolouration to glaze. Bottle vase in good order with no chips cracks or restoration
Lot 1074
A Venetian style triptych mirror, scale model of Roman leather body armour on stand (originally purchased 1,260 Euros), a painted tin model of a cockerel, a pair of foliate table lamps, four terracotta lizard models, a pair of candlesticks and a modern glass mosaic baluster vase (12)The lamps are reproduction. Generally good condition. Mirror in generally good condition also.
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