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Click here to subscribeFive Large Kit Built Plastic Scale Models of Military Aircraft, in glazed display cases with naturalistic settings and name plaques - Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate, McDonnell Douglas F15 C Eagle, HAL Dhruv Attack Helicopter, Supermarine Spitfire MK24, BAC Lightning F6, together with a flight bag containing pilots manuals
Five Boxed Norscot 1:50 Scale Diecast Models of Construction Vehicles - Cat 365B L Series Excavator 55058, Cat 545 Cable Skidder 55072, Cat 992G Wheel Loader 55115, Cat 24H Motor Grader 55133, Cat 623 Elevating Scraper 55097; Boxed Norscot 1:16 Scale Model of a Cat Twenty-Two Track-Type Tractor 55154 (6)
A COLLECTION OF FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER PORCELAIN AND LATER TABLE WARES, late 18th century, comprising polychrome painted lobed oval dessert dish, 10 1/2" wide, a Caughley "Queen`s" pattern slop basin, marked "S", 6" diameter, a Worcester scale blue tea bowl "Fan" pattern, two handled chocolate cup and a similar cup and deep saucer painted in gilt with scattered flowerheads, saucer 6" diameter (6)
James Humbert Craig, RHA RUA (1877-1944) Unloading the Catch, Killary Harbour Oil on board, 45.5 x 60cm (18 x 23.5") Signed Provenance: Sold in these room, "Important Irish Art Sale" December 2005, Lot No. 142, where purchased by current owner Exhibited: RHA Annual Exhibition 1936, Cat. No. 112 Looking across Killary Bay from Rosroe, it shows the boats used for the treacherous waters of the Killeries. The herring industry was a major economic force in Connemara from the late 19th century until the end of World War 1. From South Connemara through Roundstone and using the railhead in the late 19th century and until the 1930s at Recess when the Galway-Clifden line was closed the herring was dried, or canned and shipped abroad. Rosroe was at the perimeter of The Marquess of Sligo's estates of which the most famous water estates is nearby at the head of Killary at Assleagh Falls and Delphi. The Lord Sligo's estate company continued to own the Assleagh Fisheries until the 1960s. The Co-operative Fishing Company continued with the Rosroe Fishery until after World War II. The property was subsequently owned by Count Cyril McCormack for many years and some eel and herring table products were also developed by Count McCormack. The light is typical of the area and was often painted by many landscape artists because of its light reflecting properties. The agricultural practice of lazy beds by subsistence farmers was in continuous use until the 20th century as a means of producing the staple diet of the potato, and it gives the Irish landscape its particular surface appearance end in the field patterns which resulted was very attractive to painters. J.H. Craig used a light toned palette to achieve his effects of mounting cloud forms and the reflections of the water, hills and mountains reflected in the water. It was a practice used by many artists in the Franco-Irish tradition having two sources, the English painter John Constable and the School of Barbizon painters using the smaller scale of humankind against the grand sweep of landscape and the clouds giving the sense of scale even to the smallest works. Paul Henry, Maurice MacGonigal, Kitty Wilmer O'Brien, Ann King Harman, Dorothy Blackham and Letitia Hamilton and many other artists painted in the area from the end of the 19th century and for much of the 20th. This is an unusually light coloured work of great charm and pictorial sensitivity to the great scale of nature, with the clear but small scale human figures busy in their material affairs, including in this instance, the herring nets and the clinker built herring boats, which were introduced into the area in the early 20th century, delivering the catch, as the waters were too shallow most of the time for the larger trawlers to berth at the quay and on which may be seen the drying sheds for the fish.
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) Garlanded Goat (1949-50) Colour inverted Aubusson Tapestry, 155 x 130cm (61 x 51.5") Signed and dated 1950 in weave of tapestry. Atelier René Duché 1999, numbered 8/9 verso in weave. Signed by the artist on label verso 'Garlanded Goat' was exhibited at The Taylor Galleries, Dublin - "Louis le Borcquy - Aubusson Tapestries" May 2000, before travelling to Agnews in London Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist Louis le Brocquy wrote that in the early forties, in Dublin, he had become interested in the emotional effect of colour, particularly in the relationship of the chromatic scale in music to the twelve subdivisions of the primary colours, red, yellow and blue. He said that at that time he was also excited by the dramatic effect caused by the visual inversion of both colour and tone. “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 tonality. A retinal 'memory' emerges inverted, an entirely new perception as contrary as night from dayâ€. Later in London in the late forties, early fifties le Brocquy designed a number of tapestries for Tabard Freres et Soeurs, Aubusson which included Travellers, the Eden series and Garlanded Goat. These were apparently designed by means of a technique learned from the master in this medium, Jean Lurçat. le Brocquy wrote that at the time when he was first designing these tapestries he also made second versions, inverted in both colour and tone. He said that he had had to wait fifty years before those colour-inverted cartoons could be woven at Aubusson by René Duché in 1999. le Brocquy's design for Garlanded Goat was based on his painting Goat in Snow (1949), now in Leeds City Art Gallery, and on the ancient ceremony at the Puck Fair at Killorglin, Co. Kerry. In the Architectural Review, London, June 1957, Robert Merville wrote "....apart from a few of Lurçat's, it is the most successful tapestry I have seen and a superb latter-day example of the Celtic art of surface decoration". In the 2000 Tayor Galleries Catalogue, Musée Départmental de la Tapisserie Head Curator, Michèle Giffault wrote: Without question, the most surprising thing about Louis le Brocquy's work is it's enduring quality, marked not so much by development as by an astonishing diversity encompassing the main currents that have characterised painting this century. We sense the affinity of his thought to the greatest achievements and the greatest names. His work is quite unique, disconcerting. And when we turn to the tapestries, we are again taken by surprise. From the exploratory work that he did in the 1950's with François Tabard, Jean Lurçat and his followers to full scale editions - both retissages and new, late-20th-century works - the interest that Louis le Brocquy brings to the art of weaving and his deep knowledge of the subject have never been in doubt. Above all, he has thought his tapestries through as a true designer who produces cartoons very different in size from his paintings. The Celebrated Garlanded Goat and Adam and Eve in the Garden link the refined simplicity of medieval weavings with the mastery of Cubist drawing. In them we detect the parallel paths taken by designer-artists around Lurçat such as Coutaud, Saint-Saëns and Tourlière. These artists also exchange ideas when designing cartoons, guiding the lissiers without preventing them from interpreting freely and applying technical virtuosity to the rigour of the original cartoon. Whatever form of expression le Brocquy uses, his spell is irresistible. The artist's powers are as remarkable in painting as they are in tapestry, and are widely acclaimed as such.
MINING MAPS. Good collection hand col pen and ink on glazed cloth "South Roskear, 1863", 46 x 24ins; "West Francis." drawn by Wm. Rich Jr, 1864, 22 x 22ins; "proposed additions to Wh. Harriet Sett.", 9 x 12ins c1860's; "Killevose Engine Shaft." 22 x 26ins, c1860's; "Wheal Seton, Tilly's Engine Shaft." 36 x 18ins, c1860's (some tears); plus two large scale maps on tracing paper "Wheal Grenville" and various mines around Pool.
A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid bracket clock, with painted roman dial, two train movement striking on a bell, the case with artichoke finial above a caddy style hood, the front with inlaid foliate motifs, twin brass handles and scale pattern side panels, on plinth with block feet, 18in. high. See illustration
Railway interest: A large collection of albums and booklets relating to LMS and British Rail, comprising an album containing approximately seventy one photographs mostly issued by British Railways Board of steam and diesel locomotives, two green booklets relating to particulars of MR.engine stock, booklet relating to LMS.livery containing numerous black and white photographs and diagrams, a London and North Western Railway locomotive engine stock book, with numerous photographs and principal dimensions, produced by Crewe Works August 1906, album containing numerous black and white photographs of steam engine drivers compartments, album relating to diesel locomotives, shunting and yard with the various engines and builders, power equipment and transmission etc, together with related drawings, a British Railways LMR former standard LMS locomotives with numerous photographs and technical drawings, principal characteristics of XL.M.S. locomotives with index of diagrams and locomotive numbers including ex war department 2-8-0 locomotives operated and maintained by L.M Region, various other booklets, diaries etc, two mounted photographs relating London, Midland and Scottish Railway, types of standard locomotives reproduced at the same scale and a mounted photograph of the first and each thousandth locomotive built at Crewe Works from 1845 to 1950 etc (illustrated).
Five Airfix 1:72 scale plastic model aircraft: consists of 257 Blenheim Mk IV; 2x 85 Bristol Fighter; 120 Roland C-11; 585 Flying Fortress. All appear G/VG (not checked if complete), boxed/bagged. Together with HO/OO scale Airfix A8V Pz. Kw. VI Tiger, G/VG, (not checked if complete), bagged. (6).
Six boxed die-cast model cars, all 1:18 scale except where stated: UT Models 39745 Audi A4 STW Orix Jones 1997; Bburago 1:24 scale 6252 Spirit of Belgium; Solido 202991/02 Peugeot 206 WRC 1999 & 2000; Anson 30317-W Lotus Caterham Super Seven 1973; Maisto 31628 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S; Maisto 36637 Morgan Aero 8. Overall appear E in G-VG boxes.
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