A rare armorial Imari porcelain dish for the American market dating: Kangxi (1662-1722) provenance: China Painted in imari style with gilding, featuring the Horsemonden family badge; featuring other four, smaller emblems at the border alternated with four, ruyi-shaped cartouches enclosing floral decorations; surrounded by a beautiful ramage of flowers and peonies; featuring two stylized, underglazed blue branches at the back. A restored breakage with no missing parts at the border. Period: 1716 circa. An almost identical dish was sold at Bonhams, Sale Number 22658; ASIAN ART; 9 November 2015, London, Knightsbridge; lot. 233. An identical dish is at Victoria and Albert Museum; Museum number FE.441978; Gallery location: Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case 13, shelf 3. See a pair of similar, bigger dishes in Jie Rui Tang Collection; Catalogue Numbers 0845 & 0846. See also a sample in the British Museum; Registration number Franks.758.+. The Horsemonden family was from Horsemonden, in Kent. Several members of this family moved to the USA between the 17th and the 18th Century. This set was presumably made for Daniel Horsemonden (1691 – 1778) who died in Flatbush, New York. John Horsemonden, his brother or cousin, might have brought this set from China in 1716; John Horsemonden was a navy commissioner on the “Marlborough†(an East Indiaman) and Second Member of the East indies in Canton, in 1721. dimensions: diameter 22 cm.
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1930's WALNUT BEDROOM SUITEcomprising a double door wardrobe with shaped top, one door with mirrored inner side and marked 'A.Gardner & Son Ltd., Glasgow', upper shelf and rail, raised on short shaped supports, 188cm high x 124.5cm wide; dressing table with tri-plate mirror above a central single drawer flanked by two smaller drawers either side, raised on long cabriole legs; dressing stool; cupboard/chest with double doors and shelved interior above two drawers and raised on short cabriole legs; and bed ends with irons
Johns (Captain W E), Biggles of the Camel Squadron, and other Biggles volumes (box) Condition report Report by GHThere are 17 volumes in total. All of them are hardbacks, some with and some without dust jackets. Range of conditions, all with a degree of shelf wear. Biggles the Pioneer Air Fighter has a sellotape repair to the dust jacket, and others are tatty with losses. Bindings generally in reasonable condition. See photos.
Amundsen (Roald) The South Pole, and Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram' 1910-1912, two vols, John Murray 1912, frontispiece loose, red cloth with Norwegian flags (2) Condition report Report by GHVolume one - front board and spine slightly loose from binding and first page detached. Some foxing to opening pages and occasional spotting throughout. Plates generally clean and all appear present. Corners of boards and spine folded in and tops and bottoms of spine a little tatty. Volume two - boards, spine and binding generally nice and tight. Spine with a little fading and slightly tatty at the top and with some shelf wear at the bottom. Opening pages with browning and discolouration and some further browning and spotting throughout. Plates generally clean and appear complete. First edition.
Jackson (F G) A Thousand Days in the Arctic, two vols, 1899 (2) See illustration Condition report Report by GHBoth volumes slightly knocked on edges and with some shelf wear. In volume two the page edges visible when the book is closes opposite the spine and along the bottom have foxing but the gilded top does not. Internally there are occasional spots towards the outside borders of the pages. Most pages clean. Volume one generally with much less foxing and only occasional small spots. Both binding reasonably firm and with only occasional age related marks and wear.
Payer (Julius) New Lands Within the Arctic Circle, Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthoff in the Years 1872-1874, two vols, 1876 (2) Condition report Report by GHVolume one - spine tatty at top and bottom and colour faded, boards loose and becoming detached, corners folded with heavy shelf wear to the bottom. Opening pages with some foxing and occasional light spotting throughout. Volume two - spine and front board completely detached, spine tatty at top and bottom and colour faded, with shelf wear to the bottom. Some foxing on opening pages and occasional spots throughout. Plates in both books generally quite clean and all appear to be present. Both with various pencil annotations to opening pages.
An Edwardian satinwood, mahogany crossbanded marquetry inlaid and strung corner vitrine, having a moulded and dentil cornice over a glazed door enclosing a single shelf red plush lined interior, the base with a pair of panel doors decorated with trailing flowers, figures and armorials, on neo-classical square stepped reeded legs united by undertier, 200 x 92cm
A walnut cupboard with bookshelves by Peter Waals, the twin compartment cupboard with single shelf, patinated hinges and hand wrought patinated brass drop handles probably by Alfred Bucknell, with dovetail joints, sleigh feet and simple ebonised wood inlaid bead borders, 124cm. high, 60.5cm. wide, 27cm deep. Provenance Laurence Bisson, Pembroke College, Oxford, then professor at Queen's University Belfast. Philip Boyd, thence by descent. Literature Ernest Gimson & The Cotswold Group of Craftsmen, Leicester Arts and Museum Services, page 59 catalogue F.30 for Ernest Gimson's variation on this cabinet in oak, and page 73 catalogue F.55 for the original design drawing by Peter Waals (including the sleigh feet).
'Me ne Infischio - La Studentessa' a Lenci Pottery figure designed by Helen Konig Scavini, the young girl modelled perched on a book shelf, an open volume resting on the floor, enamelled in colours painted marks, impressed signature to back of base, professional restoration to head, 38cm. high Literature Alfonso Panzetta La Ceramiche Lenci, Umberto Allemandi, page 187 catalogue number 489-490 for this model illustrated.
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