A silver mounted desk paperweight of ‘Bristol Bulldog’, by John Henry Hill, London 1935, of rectangular form, the glazed top mounted with a model of a bulldog,enclosing tricoloured panels of blue, white and red, raised on stepped base, the side containing a pull-out silver paperknife/letter opener and two propelling silver pencils, base loaded, dimensions 12.8 x 7.8cm. £300-£500 --- The Bristol Bulldog was a British Royal Air Force single-seat biplane fighter, designed in the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane company. The wheel hubs and propeller bosses were in the Flight colours. The Flight colours were blue, white and red. More than 400 Bulldogs were produced for the RAF and overseas customers, and it was one of the most famous aircraft used by the RAF during the inter-war period.
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A Victorian silver gilt Trophy Ewer, presented for the King’s Cup, Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta, Cowes 1901, Won by Rupert Guinness’s ‘Leander’, the ewer by Robert Garrard, London 1875, the base by James Garrard (R & S Garrard & Co), London 1899, the ewer modelled after John Flaxman’s design for Wedgwood, entitled ‘Sacred to Neptune’, the triton, representing Water, its arms encircling the neck of the ewer, before a dolphin’s mask, suspending a festoon of rushes to either side, with entwined handle, the body engraved with the inscription: ‘WON BY RUPERT GUINNESS’S ‘LEANDER’, AUGUST 10TH’, with lobed decoration below, knopped stem and fluted spreading foot, the ewer mounted on a square section silver gilt pedestal plinth, applied to one side with the Royal Coat of Arms, the front engraved with presentation inscription: ‘ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA COWES 1901. THE GIFT OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING.’, the plinth stamped ‘R & S GARRARD & CO. HAYMARKET. LONDON’, height of ewer: 44cm, height of plinth: 14.5cm. £4,000-£5,000 --- ‘Leander’ In the 1880s, yachting had become a popular sport amongst the aristocracy, led by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, with Cowes Week becoming the focus of lavish entertainment and competitive racing. The Guinness family took to the new sport with enthusiasm. The Hon. Rupert Guinness himself was a keen yachtsman, and member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Rupert Guinness owned the fine 98-ton, 90 foot yawl named Leander designed by Arthur E. Payne, and built by Messrs. Summers and Payne in the winter of 1889/1900. On 10 August 1901, Rupert Guinness won the prestigious King’s Cup at the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta, Cowes with Leander. The Sphere Magazine, issue dated 17 August 1901, (an illustrated weekly magazine first published in 1900), printed a photograph of Leander in full sail, captioned beneath: ‘THE “LEANDER”, WINNER OF THE KING’S CUP AT COWES Five yachts, including the German Emperor’s “Meteor” started on Saturday for the King’s Cup, which was won by the Hon. Rupert Guinness’s yawl, “Leander”. She is a fine typical cruiser designed by Payne and built in the winter of 1899-1900, but launched early this year on the return of Mr. Guinness from the front.” The following year in June 1902, Leander was placed second in the Heligoland Cup, the Dover to Heligoland yacht race, (the brainchild of King Edward VI’s cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm, a race open to any cruising yachts of over 70 tons, being a member of any of the Royal or recognised British yacht clubs, built in Britain and owned by a British subject). Leander also competed in the Cowes’ King’s Cup the same year, finishing fourth, the winner being Brynhilde owned by Sir James Pender. Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness (1874-1967) was the eldest of three sons of Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, the wealthy Anglo-Irish brewing family. Rupert was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Eton he had a brilliant rowing career, winning the School Sculling in 1892, rowing in the Eton Eight of 1893, which won the Ladies Plate at Henley. He won the Diamond Sculls at Henley in 1895, and again in 1896, and the same year he also won the Wingfield Sculls, making him the undisputed leading amateur oarsman of his day. Rupert Guinness saw active service between 1899-1900 in the Boer War. He was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the CMG in 1901. In 1928, on the death of his father, he became the 2nd Lord Iveagh, taking up the family seat of Elveden Hall, Thetford, Norfolk, (his father had purchased the property in 1894 from the executors of the will of the Maharaja Duleep Singh, following his death in 1893). A businessman, politician and philanthropist, Rupert Guinness was to take a keen interest in agricultural and medical research, and amongst Rupert’s many achievements number the founding of the Guinness World Records, first published in 1955 and an annual publication now published in more than 100 countries and 37 languages. * * * The design of the Trophy Ewer offered here for sale is one of a pair entitled ‘Sacred to Neptune’, and ‘Sacred to Bacchus’, representing Water and Wine, after John Flaxman, the plaster models supplied by Flaxman to the factory of Josiah Wedgwood in March 1775. The ornamental ewers were produced in different coloured clay bodies, including black basalt and blue and white jasper. These designs were, in turn, based on bronzes from the French sculptor, Michel Sigisbert-François (1728-1811). An example in black basalt can be seen at the V & A Museum (on display in Room 138), circa 1840, after the model made in 1776.
HENRY III: (1551-1589) King of France 1574-89 and King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania 1573-75. Last French King of the House of Valois. Assassinated. L.S., Henry, one page, oblong folio, vellum, Paris, 19th April 1576, in old French. The manuscript letter states, in part, `Aujourd'hui XVe jour d'avril mil cinq cent soixante-seize, le Roi étant à Paris, ayant égard aux recommandables services que le sieur de La Roche, Chevalier de son ordre et gentilhomme ordinaire de sa chambre, a fait à cette couronne, et désirant pour lui donner moyen de l'y affectionner et continuer de bien en mieux avec meilleure volonté l'approcher près de sa personne, et l'honorer d'état digne à ses mérites. Pour cette cause sa Majesté l'a retenu et retient en l'état de conseiller en son conseil privé pour y avoir séance et voix délibératrice et jouir des mêmes honneurs et autorités que les autres conseillersi. En témoig de quoi, sa Majesté a voulu signer ce présent brevet de sa propre main, et fait contresigner par moi´ (“Translation: “This day, the fifteenth day of April, one thousand five hundred and seventy-six, the King being in Paris, having regard to the commendable services which the Sieur de La Roche, Chevalier of his order and ordinary gentleman of his chamber, has rendered to this crown, and desiring to give him the means of affection and continuing better and better will to approach him close to his person, and to honour him with a state worthy of his merits. For this cause his Majesty has retained him and retains him in the capacity of Councillor in his Privy Council to have a seat and deliberative vote there and to enjoy the same honours and authorities as the other Councillors. In witness whereof, His Majesty has wished to sign this present patent with his own hand, and has been countersigned by me”) Countersigned by Brulart. Overall age wear and creasing with slightly uneven edges. About G The King refers to the Knight´s order of Saint Michel, founded in 1469 by Louis XI, called “Ordre et aimable Compagnie de Monsieur Saint Michel”.
‘I would not have been so rudely offended by the rigorous application of the law of the last Budget’ LEGENDRE ADRIEN-MARIE: (1752-1833) French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. A fine, rare A.L.S., Legendre, two pages, small 4to, Paris, 19th December 1817, to the members of the Royal Commission of Public Instruction, in French. Legendre writes following an ordinance of the King relating to the pensions of former members of the Council of the university, stating that he has received their extract of the ordinance and remarking 'Puisqu'une ordonnance du Roy etoit necessaire pour rendre special le tire de chaque pension, peut etre auriez-vous pu profiter de cette circonstance, Messieurs, pour solliciter en notre faveur une interpretation de l'ordonnance du 17 fevrier 1815, qu'eut designe nos pensions par le meme mot dont M. de Fontanes a si heureusement profite, pour empecher que sa pension de 30,000 fr. fut reduite comme les notres a 6000' (Translation: 'Since an ordinance from the King was necessary to make the drawing of each special pension, perhaps you could have taken advantage of this circumstance, gentlemen, to solicit in our favour an interpretation of the ordinance of 17th February 1815, which would have been designated by the same word which M. de Fontanes so happily took advantage of to prevent his pension of 30,000 francs being reduced like ours to 6000') and concluding 'Nous aurions aussi connu le pouvoir d'un mot mis a sa place, et en mon particulier je n'aurois pas ete aussi rudement froisse de l'application rigoureuse de la loi du dernier Budget' (Translation: 'We would also have known the power of a word put in its place, and in my particular case I would not have been so rudely offended by the rigorous application of the law of the last Budget'). With integral address leaf in Legendre's hand. A few contemporary ink annotations in an unidentified hand appear at the head of the first page. VGLouis-Marcelin de Fontanes (1757-1821) Marquis de Fontanes. French poet and politician, commissioned by Napoleon to write a eulogy on George Washington. Fontanes was the lover of Napoleon's sister, Elisa Bonaparte, for several years and the liaison assured him of his fortune. In 1808 Napoleon appointed Fontanes as Grand Master of the University of Paris, a post he held until 1815. Fontanes was accused of servility to Napoleon, although did consistently support religious and monarchical principles and it was therefore easy to foresee the joy with which Fontanes greeted the return of King Louis XVIII at the Restoration. The King rewarded him with a seat in the Chamber of Peers and also made him a Marquis on 31st August 1817. He had already been a Count since 1808 by the grace of the Emperor.
SANTOS-DUMONT ALBERTO: (1873-1932) Brazilian pioneer aviator. An excellent, bold dark fountain pen ink signature ('A. Santos=Dumont') and date, 3rd February 1911, in his hand on a small 4to page removed from an autograph album. Neatly affixed immediately above the signature is a fine original 5 x 3.5 photograph of the Santos-Dumont Demoiselle aircraft in flight over a tree-lined field. A few very light, minor stains, not affecting the signature or photograph. About VGThe Santos-Dumont Demoiselle, which consolidated the Brazilian's role in the birth of aviation in the 20th century, was a light-weight monoplane with a wire-braced wing mounted above an open-framework fuselage built from bamboo. The pilot's seat was below the wing and between the main wheels of the undercarriage. The Demoiselle was the last aircraft built by Santos-Dumont and the French pioneer aviator Roland Garros learned to fly in the Demoiselle, later flying one at Belmont Park, New York, in 1910.
Pair 18th century Chippendale-style mahogany dining chairs, each with serpentine top rail, pierced vase splat, drop-in seat with woolwork tapestry, on insert mould support, H-stretcher, a mahogany carver's armchair, a 19th century hardwood kitchen dining chair and a child's elm and stained wood railback chair (5)
A mid-20th century PORTMAN UPHOLSTERY THREE-SEATER SOFA, in the Howard ‘Bridgewater’ shape, upholstered in original ticking with repeating “P.U.” monogram, with scroll arms & low swept seat, loose cushions, & on square tapered front legs with ceramic castors, printed factory label to underside; 70” wide x 32” high x 37” deep over-all.
A mid-20th century PORTMAN UPHOLSTERY THREE-SEATER SOFA, in the Howard ‘Bridgewater’ shape, upholstered in original ticking with repeating “P.U.” monogram, with scroll arms & low swept seat, loose cushions, & on square tapered front legs with ceramic castors, printed factory label to underside; 70” wide x 32” high x 37” deep over-all.
Circa 5th-4th century B.C. A substantial terracotta panther sculpture, the animal standing alert and with head turned upwards to left, its tail curled underneath to right; head, front legs and paws well-detailed; traces of polychrome pigment; hollow interior; partially reconstructed. Cf. Torelli, M., Gli Etruschi, Cinisello Balsamo, 2000, p.637, no.328, for similar examples. 5 kg, 40 cm high (15 3/4 in.). Acquired on the European art market. German private collection formed in the 1970s. Acquired in the 2000s from Herakles Numismatik und Antiquita?ten GmbH, Munich. Ex English private collection. with Bertolami Fine Art, London, 24 March 2017, lot 10. Michael Bianco, California, U.S.A., collection. Private Australian collection with collection number 20.12. Accompanied by an illustrated two page collector's cataloguing document. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.114481-196374. This sculpture could possibly have been a part of a larger cultic sculpture group, perhaps related to Dionysus, possibly being the decorative side (with its parallel) of a cultic throne, for which the present sculpture would have served as an armrest. The possibility that the terracotta is Hellenistic is suggested by its parallels with the so-called ‘Throne of the Panthers’, preserved at the Museo Rocca Monaldeschi della Cervara, Bolsena (inv.2081). The throne comprises a square plinth supporting the seat and a semi-circular back with zoomorphic and vegetal decoration, with two panthers in a guard position to the sides. [For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price]
A FINE GEORGIAN HUNTING HANGER, 50.5cm heavy section double fullered blade etched with crowned Royal arms and crowned GR cypher, further decorated with small panels of strapwork and acanthus, all highlighted in rich gilt, the back edge marked Fabrique Royale a Hertzberg, characteristic white metal hilt with downturned shell guard, one quillon stamped with a maker's mark IK, stepped pommel, silver chain bound natural stag's horn grip, contained in its white metal mounted leather scabbard. Hertzberg or Herzberg is in Lower Saxony, where the Royal House of Hannover had its summer seat at Schloss Marienburg.
An early-20th century Arts & Crafts oak dining table, the plank top above a single frieze drawer, on carved octagonal legs joined by chamfered stretchers, on octagonal bun feet, 198 x 104cm, 71.5cm high, four oak dining chairs, each with circular dish seat and shaped struts, on splayed octagonal tapered legs, with a carver chair of similar design, (damaged), each back and seat with carved diamond devices pattern, (all chairs in need of restoration), together with an oak two-tier buffet of similar design, having a pair of panelled cupboard doors, 134cm wide, 141cm high, 49cm deep.
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