A George IV silver three-piece tea servicemaker's mark EB, probably Edward Barton, London 1822, 1825, 1834Shaped bellied form with incurved fluted lower bodies, the overlapping gadroon rims profusely embellished with anthemions, shells and acanthus, on a shaped foot, the teapot leaf-capped handle with ivory insulators, weight 55oz. (3)Footnotes:The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10). With non-transferable reference (5MAJ62ZV)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A George III silver coffee potRebecca Emes & Edward Barnard, London 1820Ornately decorated, main ovoid shaped body with lobed lower body, bands of leaf motifs over a stippled ground, floral band and a band of acanthus scrolls, flowers and shells, the leaf-capped handle with a central floral band, the spout embellished with acanthus leaf and shell, the handle and finial with ivory insulators, height 22cm, weight 31.7oz.Footnotes:The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10). With non-transferable reference (KNF4U7L9)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A silver two-handled trayGoldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London 1926Shaped-rectangular form, gadroon rim with shell and acanthus corners, similarly embellished handles, the centre chased with cartouches among shells, scrolls, and flowers around a presentation inscription, length handle to handle 64cm, weight 110oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Edwardian silver salverMappin & Webb, Sheffield 1904Circular, the gadroon rim embellished with acanthus leaves and shells, foliate engraved band to the centre, diameter 27cm, together other items, including a flower vase, Walker & Hall, Sheffield, circa 1925, loaded base, height 26.5cm, two tea strainers on stands, two salt spoons, weight 25oz. (6)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A George III silver salverRichard Rugg, London 1761Shaped circular with shell and gadroon border, below the border is an engraved band of scrolls, floral sprays and an Oriental mask of a bearded man, diameter 20.3cm; together with a Victorian silver tray, Peter Henderson Deere, London 1898, shaped-rectangular, tongue and dart rim with leaf scrolls and large shells, script initials to the centre, on bun feet, length 26.6cm, weight 37.5oz. (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of Edwardian silver five-light candelabraGoldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London 1908In the Adam style, the tapering cylindrical columns and spreading square bases with ribbon tied drapes and tassels, bead rims, the engraved crest and motto is that of the PILKINGTON family of Park Lane Hall (or House) Yorkshire, the detachable branch sections each with two pairs of arms fitting below a central light, this enables these to be three or five-light candelabrum, the nozzles embossed with shells, husk festoons and stiff leaf motifs and with leaf embellished scroll arms, loaded bases, lacking one small drip pan, height 48.5cm.Footnotes:The crest is that of the PILKINGTON family of Park Lane Hall (or House) Yorkshire. The family were originally of Rivington, Lancashire where they were considered to be of considerable antiquity. Very little is known of the family at Park Lane Hall today however there is reference to a collection of pedigrees purchased in 1905 by the Norfolk Record Office, they identify Henry PILKINGTON (1787-1859) of Park Lane Hall Yorkshire.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A silver four-piece tea and coffee service together with a silver trayJames Dixon & Sons Ltd, Sheffield 1927 / 1928, the tray Joseph Gloster Ltd, Birmingham 1928Part fluted bellied form, the overlapping rims with shells and leaf scrolls, the two pots with leaf-capped scroll handles have ivory insulators, the two-handled tray with gadroon rim and embellished handle, centred with a presentation inscription, length handle to handle 56cm, weight 143oz.Footnotes:The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10). With non-transferable reference (LMJRT9PH)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of late 18th century serpentine-fronted mahogany and strung knife boxes for restoration (original interiors away and now as stationery cabinets): the sloping lids with opposing marquetry conch shells above serpentine fronts with elliptical Sheffield-plated escutcheons, each raised on three ogee style bracket feet (37.5cm high x 28.5cm deep x 23cm wide) (2)
A pair of table top lamps with lanternPortuguese silverVolute branch of applied flowers and foliage suspending lantern decorated with shells and stylised foliage motifsResting on raised stand of identical decoration with 4 feetEagle hallmark 833/1000 (1938-1984) and same date maker's mark(fitted for electrical wiring)Height: 26,5 cm1325 g
* Pocket Watch. An Edwardian 18K pocket watch by Elgin & Watch Co, the 45 mm white enamel dial with black roman numerals and seconds dial (damaged), the gold case with flat sides finely engraved with shells and scrolls on an engine turned ground, the inner case stamped 18K and numbered 2367, the movement engraved B W Raymond, Elgin Ill, Patent Pinion, N 263697, case 80mm long including the top loop, gross weight including the movement 144gQTY: (1)
A Charles and Ray Eames style lounge chair and ottoman, of recent manufacture, the Pau Ferro veneered plywood shells, with black leather upholstery, on aluminium swivel bases, Chair: 80cm high, 86cm wide Ottoman : 44cm high, 64cm wide, 54cm deep (2)Please refer to department for condition report
After Eero Saarinen, a set of three tulip chairs produced by Rudi Bonzanini, late 20th Century with plastic shells and loose orange upholstered seat cushions on white powder coated aluminium swivel bases each with cast manufacturers mark to base, each 81cm high, 49cm wide (3)Please refer to department for condition report
A Worcester blue and white junket or salad bowl, late 18th century circa 1770, the bowl with shaped rim, the interior under glaze printed in "The Pine Cone Group" over relief moulded scallop shells, the exterior underglaze printed with root vegetables, butterflies, moths and a snail, hatched crescent mark to base, 25.5cm diameter CONDITION REPORT:The piece shows expected surface wear and surface scratching but no obvious chips, cracks or crazing. Interior shows glazing fault approximately 8mm wide, with further small glazing faults, pits and frits across the surface. The exterior shows similar small glazing faults, pits and frits.
Lowe (E.J.) THE CONCHOLOGY OF NOTTINGHAM bookplate, publisher's wrapper bound in with author's inscription, cloth-backed patterned boards, [1832] § Howitt (R.C.L.) A FLORA OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1963, 8vo (2) Upon initial inspection the Lowe volume has the original wrappers board in and some ink inscriptions. Fossil shells.
AN IRISH GEORGE II STYLE MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE BY HICKS OF DUBLIN, late 19th CENTURY, the moulded top over on a carved frieze with foliate swags issuing from eagle heads and centred with a mask, on foliate carved ‘broken’ cabriole legs and paw feet, stamped HICKS. 79.5cm high, 179cm wide, 70cm deep.Provenance: The Davey Family; sold Mealy's Co. Kilkenny, 30 July 1991, lot 476 The work of James Hicks, from Dublin, is the antithesis of modernism. Renowned for his use of exotic woods, astounding marquetry and a profound interest with Chippendale, Adams and Sheraton styles, Hicks opened his workshop in 1894. Worldwide royal patronage followed and the firm won many famous commissions.Early furniture reflected the 18th century Palladian style featuring decorative shells, acanthus leaves, laurel swags, and heavyset cabriole legs. Later work was classical in style and refined.Hicks won many awards - notably the Aonach Tailteann in 1928. This satinwood display cabinet won a silver medal at the Royal Dublin Society Spring show in 1934, and the satinwood table dating 1929 was one of several pieces, which represented Ireland’s craftsmanship at the New York World Trade Fair in 1939. The President and Chairman of the fair sent a certificate to the Hick’s firm conveying their appreciation of the substantial contribution which Hick’s exhibit had made towards the success of the fair. Hick sadly died in 1936, never gaining the opportunity to receive this accolade in person.This impressive side table is attributed to the celebrated Dublin cabinet-maker, James Hicks and Sons of 5 and 6 Lower Pembroke Street. James Hicks was born in 1886, the son of a chairmaker, Patrick Hicks. The family may have been associated with the Dublin cabinet-making firm of Michael Butler, by tradition living next door in Upper Abbey Street. Butler made some of the finest 18th century revival Irish mahogany furniture and dealt in antique furniture. James Hicks set up his own business in Lower Pembroke Street, in 1894, having worked in Tottenham Court Road, London. He described himself as ‘Cabinet Manufacturer, Collector and Restorer of Chippendale, Adam and Sheraton furniture’, and included among his clients, several members of the Royal family as well as the aristocracy. Hicks had many important patrons and President Cosgrave in 1928 gave the firm the big commission of fitting out the Dail and Senate in the new Parliament in Leinster House and work was done in the Four Courts. Sets of Chippendale style chairs were ordered for the President’s house - Aras an Uachtaráin - and the Irish Embassy in Berlin. Hicks died in 1936.James Levins Snr. was the finest carver at Hick’s workshop and was responsible for the Irish baroque style mahogany side table with its grotesque head that was sold by the McGrath family, Cabinteely House, Co. Dublin, Christie’s house sale, 5-6 November 1984, lot 18 (see introduction by The Knight of Glin, ‘The McGraths, Cabinteely and James Hicks and Sons’). That mask is very close to the mask on the present table, also being flanked by C-scrolls, so it is probably that Levins carved the present lot. The table draws heavily on Irish 18th century prototypes, with its deep carved drapery-swagged apron and Venus shell badges, but is clearly of the revival period in its exageration of some of the lines (for example the oversized feet and narrow legs). That the essentially conservative nature of the Irish collector is nothing new can be demonstrated by the career of James Hicks. The most proficient and admired of this country’s cabinetmakers in the 20th century, Hicks enjoyed as much popularity during his life as he has posthumously.Pieces from his workshop come up regularly at auction and they always secure excellent prices, as buyers are confident of every item’s quality and durability. Hicks’s furniture, in addition to its impeccable craftmanship, is invariably graceful and easy to place in any home. However, while his high standards are consistent, so too is Hicks’s want of imagination and the essentially anachronistic character of his designs. When he first started his own business in 1894, the Celtic Revival movement was at its height, yet Hicks showed no interest in producing items with a distinctively “Irish” appearance. By the time he died in 1936, the modernist movement had permeated Ireland but evidence of this is non-existent in his work. Instead, Hicks was content to design and manufacture what might be called pastiche 18th-century English furniture.Except on a handful of pieces, he did not employ Irish motifs such as the lion’s claw foot or central mask on tables which had been so popular during the early and mid18th century. Hicks’s preference was for designs from a slightly later period, when neoclassicism had come into favour; Adam, Sheraton and Chippendale were his three muses.A specific influence has been traced to the late 18th-century cabinet-maker William Moore, who moved to Dublin in 1782 after training in London with the firm of Ince and Mayhew. The son of a chair-maker, James Hicks was born in Dublin and after serving an apprenticeship in London he returned to open premises in his native city on Lower Pembroke Street in 1894. His success appears to have been rapid; in 1903, Princess Victoria, daughter of Edward VII, bought a number of his pieces - the king himself is also supposed to have purchased a set of chairs - and two years later the newly-married Crown Princess of Sweden ordered Hicks’s furniture for her palace in Stockholm. In 1928, Hicks was commissioned to furnish the Dail and Seanad in Leinster House and he refurnished Cabinteely House after 1933 for Joe McGrath.In The Arts & Crafts Movements in Dublin and London, 1885-1925, published in the late 1990s, Nicola Gordon Bowe quotes Daisy, Lady Fingall as recalling that in 1904 Hugh Lane arranged for Hicks to make shelving and bookcases for her home, Killeen Castle. “His own high standard of art”, she remembered, would not allow him to produce anything unworthy of “the great tradition of cabinetmaking from which he was descended”.In her memoirs, Lady Fingall also referred to Hicks possessing “an untidy workshop in Pembroke Street, where many great people visited him”. His firm employed some 24 cabinet-makers and artisans, supervised by Hicks, who seems to have been particularly preoccupied with high standards.According to Desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight of Glin, Hicks’s marquetry was done to his designs by Harry Sherrard of Liffey Street, while carving was usually left to James Levins Snr and Jr; they would have been responsible for the rococo-style mirrors produced by Hicks and for the friezes featured on certain table fronts.Hicks’s nephew, Harry, was another member of staff, who worked on Titania’s Palace, the dolls’ house designed by Sir Neville Wilkinson, the framework of which was built of mahogany in eight sections in the Pembroke Street workshop. Mahogany was the most common material used, but his work also features a variety of imported woods such as satinwood, tulipwood and rosewood. Furniture by Hicks regularly won awards when exhibited at fairs, including the Gold Trophy at the 1928 Aonach.Although he found time to teach at craft schools in Dublin, Hicks, who died in 1936, seems to have had few successors and certainly none of his calibre. He was, in effect, this country’s last master cabinet-maker of the old school. His want of innovation, occasionally the subject of critical comments during Hicks’s lifetime, never deterred admiration either then or since.Condition Report: 178 x 71 x 80cm highIn excellent original condition - no damages to the carvingThe top could do with a wax polish
A PAIR OF GEORGE III IRISH SILVER SHAPED CIRCULAR CARD TRAYS, Dublin 1775, mark of Matthew West, the chased gadroon rim interspersed with scallop shells and foliate sprays raised on scroll feet, (17.5 troy ozs all in). 18cm diameterCondition Report: Both examples in very good condition. One tear to one border but sturdy, see additional images. Good clear hallmarks each with scratch marks reading "date Dublin 1748". Some light surface scratches to reserves and underside consummate with age.
Assorted vintage and modern African and South American tribal items. Including a stool, large bowl with carved and stained decoration, gilt wood doll, a wall hanging decorated with cowrie shells, etc. Condition Report: Ceramic bowl has a break and repair to its top rim, as well as a large crack. Top section appears to be lacking off the pommel of the knife.
Newlyn, an oval copper biscuit barrel embossed three galleons, the lid decorated embossed shells, impressed mark, 18cm wide, a Newlyn copper charger embossed a ship in full sail, stamped three times, 31cm diameter and a hammered circular tray with wavy edge, impressed Newlyn, 37.5cm diameter CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
A George V silver tea tray, with scrolling border and handles, applied with leaves and shells at intervals, crested, 73cm over handles, the reverse engraved with presentation inscription to C F Chetwynd Talbot, Cuba, January 1912, 147ozs Provenance: Charles Fleming Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot (1879-1933) Good condition
ATTRIBUTED TO COOPER PENROSEA GLAZED CASED FLORAL DISPLAY, composed of shells and peacock feathers. 46 x 23 x 10cmCondition Report: Good overall conditionCouple shells detached but present in case Period glass panels The back has inscription 'Suzanna Mason, June 9th 1747 to March 19th 1752'With manuscript presentation 'This is for my God daughter Mary Hackett'
Britains - A boxed Britains #2064 155mm Gun, together with an unboxed Britains #1725 4.5" Royal Artillery Howitzer. The boxed 155mm Gun appears to be in Good Plus condition overall with a few spots of paint loss and rubs commensurate with age and play, and comes with its original instruction leaflet as well as two other items of Britains ephemera and a variety of Britains shells - the lift off lid box appears Fair with some annotations to label as well as general age and storage imperfections. The #1725 RA Howitzer appear to be in Very Good - Excellent unboxed condition with a small nick on barrel and comes with an arsenal of 10 shells. (This does not constitute a guarantee)
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