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Click here to subscribeArts and Crafts period oak mirror back sideboard, circa 1900, the back with a central bevelled glass mirror beneath a shelf and flanked on either side with tulip shaped staves, over a base fitted with two recessed panel cupboard doors with patinated copper strapwork handles and opening to a single shelf, on the right of the doors three short drawers, each with brass and copper plate handles, raised on block feet, width 153cm, height 167cm
Late Victorian oak and mahogany Welsh dresser, having two arched glazed panel doors centred with two further glazed panels, opening to two shelves, the base fitted a mahogany faced ogee fronted long drawer over two recessed arched panel mahogany centre doors with moulded glass knobs, opening to a single shelf, raised on bracket feet, width 149cm, height 221cm
PRINTED CATALOGUE AMENDMENT: THE ESTIMATE FOR THIS LOT SHOULD READ £300-500: Oak glazed free standing flat front corner cupboard, 19th Century, ogee moulded cornice over two glazed doors with brass knobs, opening to three shelves, the base fitted with a single drawer flanked by two blind drawers over two panelled cupboard doors opening to a further shelf, all raised on bracket feet, width 110cm, height 205cm
A SOVIET AGITLAK TRAVEL CHESS SET SMENA SMENE IDYOT, N. ZINOVIEV, PALEKH, 1929of a rectangular shape, the hinged cover depicting in detail a rural domestic scene, where young pioneers are winning during a chess game against an adult. The players are gathered around the table in a children's room. An interior around them features a Russian oven with a cat sleeping on it, two draped windows, a shelf with the books of fairy tales, and children's toys, such as: a ball, a teddy bear, a truck. With all these details emphasizing the cosiness of the moment, some elements, such as a portrait of Mikhail Kalinin overlooking the tournament from the wall and a lamp with a bright red bulb, carry a clear message - In with the New, out with the Old!. It also is underlined in the main subject of the painting, where the sharp-minded youth, inspired by the new Communist era, wins the old-fashioned rival, featuring an allegorical plea for the rejection of illiteracy, superstition, and devoutness in the name of progress of the Soviet people. Made of Karelian birch, decorated with a gold floral pattern on the body, the inside of the hinged cover features a motto: Smena-Smene-Idyot [A Change Goes for a Change], and a red flag with a hammer and a sickle below it. Inside of the box, there is a set of red and white chess (some figures missing) and a folding board, decorated with checkered pattern of red stars on a black ground and gilt flowers on an unpainted ground; the unfolded board measures 8 x 8.6 cm (3 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.), the box overall measures 7.5 x 10 cm (3 x 3 7/8 in.), signed on the cover N. Zinoviev lower left, inscribed and dated Palekh 1929 lower rightLITERATURE:For comparable items, see Soviet Agitational Lacquered Miniature from the Collection of Alexander Dobrovinsky, (Moscow: Iskusstvo-XXI Vek, 2011), pages 148 and 325.LOT NOTES:Nikolai Mikhailovich Zinoviev (1888-1979) was a teacher and a director of the Palekh Art School, awarded the title of The People`s Artist of the USSR, as well as the author of several books on art of Palekh. He is particularly well-known for featuring children in his lacquer miniature painting. It is entirely possible that Nikolai Zinoviev painted himself as the adult in this scene. It is not only a physical similarity between the character and the artist that hints to this conclusion - there are a pot with paintbrushes and a rack with multiple Palekh keepsake boxes situated in the interior of the room depicted. The present lot also features a great resemblance in the painting style, as well as the subject matter, with the other works by the artist: a famous plaque Pioneers` Trial on Baba Yaga and Evil Spirits (from the Collection of Alexander Dobrovinsky) and numerous scenes featured in a desk set with anti-religious playing cards Pioneers Reforming Baba Yaga and Evil Spirits (sold at Shapiro Auctions, October 25, 2014, lot 70)
Ib Koford-Larsen for G-Plan, a painted teak 'Danish range' sideboard with an arrangement of five drawers flanked by three doors, on circular tapering legs joined by stretchers, l. 201 cm CONDITION REPORT: Painted with black emulsion, one handle damaged, no stamp- presumably this is underneath one of the layers of paint on a shelf!
David Booth for Gordon Russell Ltd, a walnut and crossbanded 'Helix' sideboard, the two doors enclosing a shelf and central fitted drawer, w. 121.5 cm CONDITION REPORT: Structurally sound, wear commensurate with age, some scratches to front No worm, Marks behind handles, one handle bent Wear and some knocks (see images) Scuffing down one side of raised bevel (see images)
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