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Lot 643
ENGLAND V SCOTLAND Programme and ticket for the 1947 and 1949 matches at Wembley. 1947 includes a pirate programme issued by Abbott, official programme has a horizontal fold and staples removed and seat ticket is creased. 1949 programme is very slightly creased and seat ticket is good. Generally good
Lot 8093
Maggy Clarysse. Flowering Garden with a Seat. Oil on canvas, signed lower right and verso. 46 x 55cm.PROVENANCE; The residual studio collection of the artist. Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011), hidden away for the past decade, will come to auction in this sale.Consigned by her family, the art displays an extraordinary range, from pointillist studies of ponds, via Cézanne-inspired landscapes to Impressionist and post-Impressionist still lifes. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by a woman who was obsessed with art and would rise early each day to get to her easel, completing 12 hours of painting, sketching, sculpting and drawing before turning her hand to crafts in the evening.BIOGRAPHY; The art came before and after a successful career as a model from the 1940s to 60s with the glamour that it brought with it.Born in Belgium, Maggy studied at art college in Brussels with the aim of becoming a Paris fashion designer. To that end, she eventually approached a leading couture house to show them her designs.To her delight, they agreed to take her on immediately. However, they did not want her as a designer, but as a model!This led to work in Paris, London and around Europe, with Maggy basing herself first in Germany and then in Paris as a couture house model and then a model for Vogue.She was photographed by Terence Donovan and David Bailey, with one shoot ending up with her pushing the then leading film star, Norman Wisdom, into a swimming pool her reasons for doing so remain shrouded in mystery!It was while on holiday in the south of France in the late 1950s that she met her future husband, an English businessman, and they then married and moved to Barnes in south-west London.She gave up modelling when her son was born, and the glamour days of chic long dresses were over, and she then turned her exceptional work ethic towards art.Maggy painted from dusk to dawn for many decades up until her death in 2011 and enjoyed considerable success commercially.She would divide her time between London and their apartment in the South of France, and she hosted several exhibitions a year between the early 1970s and the late 2000s in both London and Antibes. Works sold for up to £6,000-8,000 but are much more reasonably estimated here. Few of her works come on to the market and this sale provides a unique opportunity for collectors. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by the artist.
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Lot 85
Law (John, finance minister in France, bap. 1671, d. 1729) Autograph Letter signed to [Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon], in French, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, 289 x 205mm., Venice, 24th January 1721, in the wake of his banishment from France after the failure of his financial system for the second time, expressing his deep gratitude for a letter written by the duke to the French diplomat Théodore Chevignard, Chevalier de Chavigny (a friend of Law's but also an ally of his powerful opponent Cardinal Dubois), "les absens principalement ceux de mon espece n'ont que peu d'amis, en revenge je ne suis ennemi de personne. Je souhaitte a tous ceux qui servent le regent succes dans leur ministere..." ("Exiles, especially those of my sort, have few friends, and yet I am nobody's enemy. I wish success in their ministry to all those who serve the regent"), folds.⁂ Very scarce; autograph letters signed by John Law rarely appear at auction. "On 5 January 1720... [Law] was appointed controller-general of finance and in April received the more prestigious title of superintendent. In the course of April and May 1720 he was effectively chief minister and minister of finance, a sort of latter-day Cardinal Mazarin and Nicolas Fouquet combined; but on 27 May, the first crisis of his 'financial system', he was temporarily dismissed from office and threatened with imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris. Yet the eclipse was only brief: he returned to office on 2 June with the additional responsibilities of the superintendence of French commerce, the director-generalship of the Banque Royale, and a councillorship of state with a seat in the council of regency. With the collapse of his system Law was forced to offer his resignation on 9 December 1720, and he went into exile abroad... ." - Oxford DNB.
Lot 48
GEORGE CUIT SENIOR (BRITISH 1743 - 1818) A SET OF FOUR VIEWS OF THE HYDE, NEAR INGATESTONE, ESSEXOil on canvasInscribed and dated `Ingatestone church and the cottage/near the Hyde. Taken from the Hall door./Painted by Geo. Cuit/1806'; `South East view of the Hyde near Ingatestone, Essex/late the seat of Thomas Brand Holles Esq. now of/John Disney DD/Taken from the London Road/painted by George Cuit 1806'; `The Hermitage at the Hyde near Ingatestone/Painted by George Cuit/1806': and `View of the water and grounds at the Hyde/near Ingatestone. Taken from the end of the shrubbery walk/Painted by George Cuit/1806' respectively (on the reverse) 43 x 54cm (16¾ x 21¼ in.) (4)Provenance: Sale, Phillips, London, 20 June 1995, lot 42 (sold for £14,500)The collection of Lady Victoria GettyAccording to David W J Gill's The World of Disney From Antiquarianism to Archaeology the Revd. John Disney inherited the Hyde Estate from Thomas Brand Hollis in 1805 and commissioned the paintings of it from his friend, George Cuit Senior in 1806. Please note: The cataloguing has been amended to GEORGE CUIT SENIOR (BRITISH 1743-1818) rather than George Cuit Junior
Lot 230
A 19th century Windsor high hoop back elm and ash armchair and one other similar, both with saddle seats and turned supports joined by "H" stretchers. 57 cm overall width x approx 63 cm overall depth x 104 cm overall height, 40 cm to the seat. and 57 cm overall width x 60 cm overall depth x 110 cm overall height, 43 cm to the seatPrivate estateThe larger of the two is slightly loose at the jointsNo woodworm infestation but a few historic flight holes may exist
Lot 245
Set of eight William IV mahogany dining chairs comprising a pair of open armchairs and six singles , all with broad cresting rails over carved plats and stuff over seats and cluster column fore supports. 57 cm overall width x 52 cm overall depth x 84 cm overall height x 47 cm high to the seat, the carvers. 51 cm overall width x 50 cm overall depth x 84 cm overall height x 47 cm height to the seat, the single chairs.The chairs have some flex across the seat frames and will require some firming up.The beechwood frames show some peppering of historical woodworm and one rail has a bizarre plywood capping applied that I can not explain, perhaps to hide old wood worm flight holes?Some lengths of reeded moulding missing or damagedOne splat has been damaged and crudely glued back together, this could be enhanced considerably.The quality of mahogany is excellent but the chairs will need some work to firm up, they don't wobble like a proverbial "jelly" but when force is applied some flex can be felt in the framework.One carver chair cresting rail has come loose but not off.
Lot 255
A George III mahogany barrel back fireside armchair, with segmented stuff over upholstered back and scroll arms. On square, tapering supports terminating in brass socket swivel castors. 71 cm overall width x approx 74 cm deep x 117 cm overall height, 56 cm to the loose seat cushion top.Old repair to one back leg that has had a crude wood screw repair.Upholstery slightly soiled and piping worn
Lot 258
A George I style walnut dressing stool probably by Tozer of Tottenham Court Rd, 1920s, with a rectangular drop-in seat within cross-grain mouldings. On shaped cabriole legs with "Dublin shell " carved knees and terminating in shaggy hoof feet. 62 cm overall width x 48 cm overall depth x 49 cm overall height to the top of the seatPrivate estateGenerally good order
Lot 362
A good George III cherry, walnut and elm comb-back Windsor armchair, Thames Valley, circa 1770-90, the tall back having a solid vase-shaped splat, flanked by four spindles and one lath, below a shaped stay-rail, incurved front arm supports, saddle seat, each turned front leg with a small low baluster, joined by an elliptical turned H-form stretcher , 60cm wide, 44cm deep, 118cm high Chris Pickvance Collection
Lot 368
A rare and large George III elm and fruitwood open armchair, East Anglian, the adjustable 'square' back with five reeded spindles operating on a metal side ratchets, the dished seat flanked by sweeping arms on baluster-turned supports, on square section legs united by plain stretchers, 63cm wide, 53cm deep, 103cm high, the seat 43cm high Footnote For a similar chair see Bernard Cotton, 'The English Regional Chair',, p. 217 pl. 27
Lot 369
A rare James I/Charles I joined oak caqueteuse armchair, Aberdeenshire, circa 1610-30, the resplendent leaf carved cresting with detrited ownership initials, atop an elongated reeded panel and stiff-carved uprights, the outsplayed square-ended arms on inverted-baluster turned front supports, trapezoid-shaped boarded seat, on inverted-baluster turned front legs, joined by plain stretchers. For similar chairs see the Trinity Hall collection, Aberdeen and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, nos. 14.183 & 14.50 Height 114.5cm. Width 61cm. Depth 52cm
Lot 392
An unusual and possibly unique George II cherry ladderback side chair, possibly Lincolnshire, circa 1750, The back with four graduated arched splats (and a vacant slot for a further ladder), rush seat, hipped cabriole legs joined by a prominent baluster-turned fore-rail and multiple turned stretchers, 49cm wide, 37cm deep, 99cm high Chris Pickvance Collection
Lot 412
A striking Charles II joined oak and inlaid panel-back open armchair, Leeds, Yorkshire, circa 1670The raked back with a well-carved panel designed with a central lozenge framed within cross-hatched trilobes and scrolls, beneath a double scroll-carved cresting, with similar carved ears, and chequer dog-tooth inlaid rails, the downswept arms on baluster-turned supports, boarded seat, the ring-turned columnar front legs joined all round by plain stretchers.For a coffer with very similar carved panels see the collection at St Johns Church, Leeds.Height 114.5cmWidth 58.5cmDepth 65cm
Lot 421
A Charles I oak panel-back open armchair, West Country, circa 1630, the pediment top rail lunette-carved, the single panel back carved with a central lozenge enclosing a four-petal flowerhead, lunette-carved lower rail, solid seat flanked by downswept arms, on columnar-turned front legs joined by plain stretchers, 59cm wide, 42cm deep, 100cm high, the seat 46cm high Purchased Bonhams Fine Oak Furniture 11th January 2007
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