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* Bianchini Férier. A collection of original designs, late 19th-early 20th century, 25 original drawings, various media, including watercolour, gouache, pencil, on paper or card, some stencilled, featuring floral, foliate, or geometric patterns, most with annotations, one with ink stamp 'Suzanne Kientz, Paris' and name 'Pardo' on verso, another with ink stamp 'M. TH. Robert Gattiker, Paris' on verso, some edge-fraying and marks, largest 147.5 x 91 cm (58 x 36 ins), smallest 20 x 13 cm (8 x 5 ins), contained in a large board portfolioQTY: (a folder)NOTE:Provenance: From Bianchini Textiles, Christie's South Kensington, London, 27th July 2001.The silk weaving house of Bianchini Férier was founded in Lyon in 1888, and achieved success early on, with the award of a Silver Medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889. In 1912 the artist Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was brought on board, and he produced around 4000 designs for the firm between 1912 and 1928. After his contract came to an end Bianchini Férier continued to make fabrics for important fashion houses such as Charles Worth, Madeleine Vionnet, Jeanne Lanvin Paquin and Patou, as well as producing scarves for Hermes, Jacques Fath and others, and creating imaginative designs for Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior and Yves Saint-Laurent, to name but a few.
* Calligraphy Box. A Japanese lacquer calligraphy box, Meiji period (1868-1912), the rectangular box finely decorated in gold, silver and bronze lacquer work showing chrysanthemums and insects, the cover enclosing a lift-out tray with inkstone and white metal butterfly seal, the lower section with a drawer and folding butterfly wing handle, some loss of lacquer and general wear commensurate with age, 17 cm high x 26 cm wide x 13.5 cm deepQTY: (1)
* Embroidered picture. Saint Louis de Gonzague, by Eleonora Gonzaga, Mantua, Italy, 18th century, finely-worked oval half-length portrait, profile to left, of a male saint holding a Madonna lily, enclosed in an oval frame of picot-edged metallised silver braid, within a wide border of fruit and festoons worked in chenille in pink, blue, green, and cream, and arabesques worked in metallised silver thread, on a cream grosgrain silk ground, metallised plaited braid edging, volute border of gilt carved wood, 29.5 x 25 cm (11.5 x 9.75 ins), original oval gilt frame with moulded pediment, 45.5 x 36 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Purchased in Cannes, France, by Charles Goodbarne Stirling (1866-1948); given to his wife Wilhelmina Stirling (1865-1965), the sister of artist Evelyn De Morgan; and thence by descent.Inscribed in ink on the backboard 'Eleonora Gonzaga me opus', and with paper label inscribed in ink in a mid 19th century hand 'Saint Louis de Gonzague Ouvrage du 18me. Siécle: Embroderie executée par la duchesse Eléonore de Gonzague de Mantoue. (Collection Morosini'. Adherred below is a postcard with postmark 1914, written to Wilhelmina Stirling from her husband Charles Goodbarne Stirling, which reads: "Made a coup yesterday in grubby shop - a lovely piece of 18th. century needlework in oval frame of St. Louis of Gonzaga worked by the Duchess Eleonore of Gonzaga at Mantua (from the Morosini Collection) - condition perfect. Mrs. Cox is naturally jealous."Wilhelmina Stirling was a great patron of the arts, a follower of the ideals of the Arts & Crafts Movement, a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and founder of the De Morgan Foundation, established to preserve the many works she had collected which were executed by her sister, Evelyn De Morgan, and brother-in-law, William De Morgan. In 1931 Wilhelmina and her husband, Charles Goodbarne Stirling, moved into Old Battersea House, which had been threatened with demolition by the local council. They campaigned to save the house, a fine example of seventeenth century domestic architecture, and were granted a life tenancy. The house proved to be a wonderful setting for their impressive art collection, and presumably this finely-executed needlework would have hung there. Mrs Stirling gave tours of the house, and loved talking about the treasures she and her husband had collected, as well as imparting anecdotes about the house itself, including stories about spectral encounters.Saint Louis de Gonzaga, also known as Aloysius Gonzaga, was a young Italian nobleman born in 1568 in Castiglione delle Stiviere, near Mantua. He is one of the patron saints of youth and purity, as well as the patron saint of students.
* Duke of Wellington. A mixed collection of Duke of Wellington memorabilia including, a 19th century trinket box with a Duke of Wellington portrait surrounded by six paste gemstones with a later embroidered interior 7 cm diameter, a Duke of Wellington portrait patch box 7 cm diameter, a 19th century Duke of Wellington cameo sulphide cut glass scent bottle occasional chips and marks, a 19th century Duke of Wellington cameo sulphide paperweight, Charles I sterling silver hallmarked dish, London 1973,13 cm diameter, 129g, plus a spectacles case depicting Duke of Wellington statueQTY: (6)
A Collection of silver hallmarked flatware's; Set of six Birmingham silver coffee spoons, A Set of five Sheffield silver tea spoons, Sheffield silver sugar tongs, London silver condiment knives, Two silver condiment spoons and Silver pickle fork with thistle finial fitted. Together with mother of pearl letter opener and various mother of pearl handles flatware's- plated blades. [Silver weight- 160grams]
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