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Click here to subscribeAn English cut-glass and faceted spinning tazza or 'lazy Susan', late 19th century, the tray top, 47cm diameter Provenance: The Dukes of Newcastle, Clumber Park. Reputed by the vendor to be the largest known of its type.Clumber Park Clumber Park was the seat of the Pelham-Clintons, Dukes of Newcastle. It was purchased by the National Trust in 1946 following the house's demolition in 1938 after damage caused by a series of fires.
Circle of William Hoare of Bath (British 1706-1799) Portrait of John Roberts (c.1711-1772), secretary to Henry Pelham, three-quarter-length Oil on canvas 126 x 100cm (49½ x 39¼ in.) Provenance: The Earls of Chichester, Stanmer Hall The present lot was purchased as a portrait of the Duke of Newcastle. However the physiognomy suggests this attribution may be incorrect. A double portrait by Hoare of Henry Pelham and his secretary John Roberts bears a striking resemblance of the former and the sitter here. This is corroborated by the paper entitled war accounts in the sitter's hands. Furthermore, records in The National Portrait Gallery catalogue for the group of paintings of the Pelham family by Hoare of Bath it mentions one portrait of a man in a red coat, as being one of a group by Hoare at Stanmer Hall in East Sussex. Stanmer Hall In 1713, Henry Pelham of Lewes bought Stanmer Estate for £7,500. He died in 1721 and his eldest son Henry then appointed French architect Nicolas Dubois to design a new house in the fashionable Palladian style at a cost of £14,000. With the old Manor demolished, work began on the new house in 1722, using sandstone quarried in the Weald. In 1725, the Estate was inherited by Henry's younger brother, Thomas Pelham - who had lived as a Merchant in Constantinople. Work on the house was finally completed in 1727. Thomas Pelham's son, of the same name, inherited the estate in 1737and would later be elected to the House of Commons for Rye in 1749, a seat he held until 1754. He served as a as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1761 to 1762 and as Comptroller of the Household from 1765 to 1774 being admitted to the Privy Council in 1765. In 1768 Thomas succeeded his cousin the Duke of Newcastle as second Baron Pelham of Stanmer as well as the Pelham baronetcy. Pelham also served as Surveyor-General of Customs of London from 1773 to 1805 and as the last Keeper of the Great Wardrobe from 1775 to 1782. In 1801 he was created Earl of Chichester, a title which would maintain Stanmer as its seat for the next 140 years. In 1942 Stanmer was requisitioned by the War Office for the Canadian Tank Regiment, to provide billets and live firing ranges. In 1947 it was sold as a result of the extensive damage caused by its requisitioning and death of the 8th Earl whilst on active service in 1944.
A Charles II style carved walnut chair back settee, early 20th century, with twin oval caned panels above a caned seat with red velvet squab cushion, on scrolling legs joined by carved and turned stretchers, 124cm high, 107cm wide; with two William and Mary style carved walnut and caned armchairs, early 20th century, on cabriole legs joined by stretchers This lot is to be sold without reserve
Frederick Kerseboom (German 1632-1690) Portrait of Ralph Freeman Jr. of Aspenden (1666-1742) Oil on canvas 124 x 101cm (48¾ x 39¾ in.) Provenance: Tyttenhanger House, St. Albans Their sale, Christie's, London, 5 March 1982, lot 18 Ralph Freeman Jr. was born at Aspenden Hall in 1666. He was one of the leaders of the Hanoverian Tories in Queen Anne's reign, Freeman nevertheless remains a rather colourless, and in some ways inscrutable, figure. His youth was spent in a hothouse of piety under the influence of his father and of his tutor, James Bonnell. Freeman's father had wanted his son to 'be a scholar if he be capable of it', but Ralph jnr. entered Parliament in December 1697 at a by-election for Hertfordshire, a seat he was to hold until the accession of George II. Tyttenhanger Park The Tyttenhanger estate was originally owned by the Abbey of St Albans until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was then granted by the Crown in 1547 to Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College, Oxford. Pope died without issue in 1559 and following the death of his wife, Elizabeth it entered into the ownership of his nephew Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552-1638), in 1598.Blount's nephew, Sir Henry Blount (1602-1682), High Sheriff in 1661, demolished Pope's pre-existing manor house and built the present mansion on the site in 1654/5. The house was altered and extended throughout the 18th century. Sir Henry's son Thomas Pope Blount (1649-1697) was created the first of the Blount baronets in 1680. On the death of the third Baronet in 1757 the estate passed to his niece and heiress Catherine Blount, daughter inlaw of the sitter. The family retained ownership of the house until 1973 and of the present lot until it was sold at Christie's in 1982. Please note: The provenance should read 'Anonymous Sale, Christie's, London, 5 March 1982, lot 18' It is purported that this portrait once hung in Tyttenhanger House, St. Albans
A George II style stained walnut library armchair, early 20th century, the serpentine rectangular back and seat covered in close-nailed brown suede, the shepherd's crook arms above leaf-carved front cabriole legs with claw and ball feet, 110cm high, 73cm wide This lot is to be sold without reserve
A set of three George III mahogany dining chairs, possibly Scottish, circa 1760 in the Chippendale style, the acanthus carved toprails above pierced vase shaped splats and drop in seats, the carved aprons flanked by pierced rocaille angle brackets, on moulded square legs joined by lozenge section H-shaped stretchers, 97cm high, 56cm wide Provenance: Possibly supplied to Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet, for Aske Hall, Richmond, North Yorkshire Thence by direct descent to the present 4th Marquess of Zetland Until sold Tennants House Sale, 22 September 1994, lot 1281 Footnote: Aske Hall is a country house in North Yorkshire belonging the Marquesses of Zetland. The present chairs were possibly supplied to Aske in around 1763 when Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet purchased the estate and sought, in partnership with his architect, John Carr, to transform Aske Hall into one of the great 18th-century houses of the North, a fitting monument and pendant to a man who was himself known as the Nabob of the North. The newly refurbished Aske was to furnish him with a suitable seat for a new dynasty and a controlling influence in the parliamentary borough of Richmond.The estate passed through direct descent to the present Marquess of Zetland who sold these chairs in 1999.
A George III style carved mahogany sofa, late 19th/early 20th century, the gadrooned top-rail above a padded back, out-scrolled arms and triple serpentine seat upholstered in blue damask, the cabriole legs with conforming gadrooned decoration and cabochon-carved knees above scroll feet, 91cm high, 197cm wide
A CARVED WALNUT AND TAPESTRYWORK UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR IN WILLIAM AND MARY STYLE, late 19th or early 20th century, the rectangular back and seat with floral coverings, the acanthus carved arms with scrolled terminals, the cabriole legs with 'X' frame stretcher and hoof feet, 122cm high, 72cm wide
A HUANGHUALI YOKEBACK ARMCHAIR (SICHUTOU GUANMAOYI), 20TH CENTURY, with an arched crest rail united by a curved splat, the cleated rectangular seat with two out scrolling arms, carved with lingzhi fungus facings, on four turned legs united by peripheral stretchers, seat possibly later, 54cm wide, 112cm high
A rare Elizabeth I oak Glastonbury armchair:, of pegged construction, the twin arcaded panel back with carved lozenge foliate centres and guilloche surrounds, with shaped scroll cresting with incised stylised leaves centred by a carved geometric pendant leaf, bearing the initials 'A. H.', having shaped arm supports and solid panel seat on X-frame legs.* Provenance. Circa 1900, a farm near Oakford, mid Devon.* Note Illustrated Tobias Jellinek Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 - 1700 p119 plate 127.* Note Two copies of this chair are on display at St Nicholas Priory, Exeter. About a dozen comparable chairs are recorded, seven of which have been found in Devon, prompting conjecture that they may have Devon provenance.
A plumber's sample or merchant's display: for a Twyfords Planetas, watercloset the exterior moulded with flowers and foliate motifs, the interior and exterior printed in sepia with product specifications, late 19th Century, 23cm long, [small chips]* Note. In the mid 1880s Thomas William Twyford received an enquiry from a French architect that caused him to invent the first one-piece free standing pottery 'wash out' water closet with hinged seat.
A James I carved oak open armchair:, the raked back with guilloche flowerhead top rail with scroll cresting and bun finials, having a plain domed arch panel in guilloche surround, with foliate spandrels and channel moulded uprights, the shaped arm supports on baluster uprights, having a solid seat with loose cushion and channel moulded seat rail, with fret cut apron on turned legs, united by plain stretchers, terminating in block feet.
An early to mid 17th Century child's turned ash and oak high chair: the tapered back with urn finials, the arm supports with urn and baluster uprights, having a solid oak seat, on tapered under-framing, united by stretchers, some turnings replaced. Note the rare survival of the many free-running turned rings.* Notes. Illustrated. Tobias Jellinek Early British Chairs and Seats 1500-1700 p.150 plate 169 described as 'very fine and rare'.
A late 14th/early 15th Century carved oak misericord: the seat supported by a manticore with lion-mask shield, his weapon now lacking, being attacked by two warriors, one with a two-pronged spear, the other with crossbow, 29 x 59cm.* Provenance Other misericords, probably from the same school of carvers, are at St. Mary's Enville, Malvern Priory and particularly Worcester Cathedral and these have been re-ordered once in the 16th Century, twice in the 19th Century, now heavily restored. One Worcester Cathedral misericord is in the V&A Museum. It seems quite probable that the present example was also in Worcester Cathedral.
Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal KCVO RAA (1863-1931), 'Salome', bronze, base signed 'B Mackennal London' and inscribed with title, the base with two entwined snakes, 29cm high Born in Melbourne, Australia, Mackennal came to England in 1882. He studied in London and Paris, spending five years in the latter city and coming under the influence of French Symbolism and Romanticism. He spent the rest of his life working in London, though he frequently visited Australia and sculpted the portraits of many famous Australians of the early 20th century. He became a proponent of 'The New School of British Sculpture', exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1886, and was elected ARA in 1909 and RA in 1922. He was the first Australian artist to be knighted (1921). Apart from his heads and busts, Mackennal sculpted portrait reliefs and also the profiles of King George V used for coins, medals and postage stamps. His bronzes include a number of statuettes in the Symbolist manner, the most famous of which was Circe (honourable mention at the Salon of 1893) and ‘She sitteth on a Seat in the High Places of the City’. Examples of his work are in public collections: UK - Eton College, Royal Opera House, St Pauls Cathedral, Tate Gallery, London, Windsor Castle, Australia - University of Melbourne (Victoria) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney).
An early Victorian country house oak hall bench, with turned ends, the stepped seat raised on spirally turned supports united by stretchers, the underside bearing a label for 'William Constantine & Co, 3 South Parade, Leeds', together with artisan's handwritten details, 168cm wide 45cm deep 67cm high
Large scale model of an open top Horse Drawn Omnibus, constructed mainly in wood with full detail to lower and upper deck, metal chassis with suspension, in brown and cream with Baker St -Waterloo Route, Oakley's advert , built to a very good standard, finished to a good standard, height 11'', length 13'', width 7'', no horses, F-G, some minor damage, one upper deck seat damaged,
Corgi Aviation Archive WWII Aircraft, a boxed group 1:72 scale some limited edition comprising, AA34304 Focke Wulf, 49205 Messerschmitt, AA32504 Tropical Stuka, AA32506 Junkers, AA35703 Red 13, AA34313 Focke Wulf, AA34315 FW190, AA35708 2 Seat Trainer, AA32514 Junkers, AA32515 Junkers, US35705 Messerschmitt and AA34312 FW190, G-E, Boxes G, (12)
White Metal Car and Aircraft Kits, four boxed examples, a Wills Finecast 1:24 scale 1025 Austin 7 (sealed) and S&D Models 7mm scale white metal and brass 20 seat Chara Banc kit with figures all individually packaged by Omen and bubble packed components and instructions, together with two LDM 1:48 scale aircraft kits both sealed, No 3 Comper Swift and No 12 DH 71 Tiger Moth, all appear complete but unchecked, G-E, Boxes G, (4)
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