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Lot 100
A PAIR OF ITALIAN RED PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT CONSOLE TABLESSECOND HALF 18TH CENTURYeach 87.5cm high, 152cm wide, 66cm deep For a related pair of console tables, see Christie's, South Kensington, Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit, 17th September 2013 (£13,125). Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches, chips, splits, abrasions consistent with age and use.Evidence of old worm to a relatively minor extent - to the legs and feet, filler has been used in places to disguise - this has not affected the structural integrity of the tables/Various old splits, chips and losses.The surface gilding has been later refreshed in a sympathetic mannerSome old repairs throughoutThe red paint has possibly been refreshed in places and artificially distressed to simulate age.The carved frieze on both tables with various old repairs, losses and splits - please see additional images.Both tables are structurally sound with minimal movement between joints.One table surface with minimal lifting, old tacks and nails have been used to secure.One table surface with a split along the entirety of its length where the two panels were joined.Please refer to the additional images for a visual reference of condition.Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 101
A pair of attractive French porcelain and floral decorated JardiniŠresÿand Stands,ÿ19th Century, 5" (13cms) (one stand repaired); a very attractive Copeland T. Goode & Co., Nelson Commemoration three handled Cup 1905, 5 1/4" (13cms); a Samson porcelain floral decorated two compartment Stand for spirit lamp and tongs; two rectangular dressing table Trinket Trays; a blue and white Delft six compartment spice Dish; and a Majolica small Bowl and stand decorated with pastoral scenes. (9)
Lot 152
Berg (George, 1730-1775). British organist and harpsichord teacher, composer and chemist. Experiments in Chemistry [so titled on spine], 6 autographed manuscript notebooks bound as one, no place, 1759-1774, containing 672 numbered manuscript receipts recording experiments for glass making, a total of approximatey 250 leaves including some additonal inserted notes on guards and a few loose, some leaves part folding and a few pages inverted, the six notebooks in marbled wrappers with manuscript numerical paper labels to upper covers, the whole bound in modern antique-style half calf over marbled boards with two gilt-lettered spine labels, a little rubbed, 4to (200 x 160mm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Bought at auction by the vendor's grandfather, Hubert S. Williams-Thomas. Williams-Thomas was interested in all aspects of glass history and proprietor of Stevens and Williams Ltd, which later became Royal Brierley Crystal Ltd, one of the principal manufacturers of crystal glass in the Stourbridge area. George Berg was a London organist and harpsichord teacher. For a brief period (1755-1770) he was also a very productive composer, producing works ranging from operas in Italian to short glees and catches, plus seven collections of keyboard music. However, he also successfully combined chemistry and music, managing to fit experiments on glasses and other ceramics into his busy schedule as composer and performer. This is evident from this laboratory notebook which has been the subject of various articles in modern times: 1) W.A. Campbell, 'Musical Glasses', Chemistry in Britain' vol. 25 (1989), pp. 145-48. 2) Sarah Lowengard, 'George Berg and the SoA [Society of Arts]: interest, improvement, and the meaning of a practical engagement', a paper read to the William Shipley Research Group in 2006. 3) Sarah Lowengard, The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe (New York, 2008). 4) Michael Talbot, 'George Berg: An original musical and scientific spirit in Georgian London', The Musical Times, Spring 2019, pp. 3-27. 'All bodies may be chemically considered under three Tribes; Alkalies, Acid, or Neutrals. Alkalis have this essential property, that when mixed or united with Acids, they constitute Neutrals. But a more common mark of an Alkali is that it turns Syrup of Violets green, as an Acid turns it Red, whilst the admixture of a neutral Body does not alter the colour of that Syrup.' George Berg, Experiments in Chemistry Notebook I (no place, no date). 'Experiment 98. 3/4 oz: sand 1 oz: minium 1/4 oz: Borax 1/4 oz: Putty with half of half a Dram of the precipitate of Copper, one Hour in fusion produces an opake composition, the bottom part of a pea green; about the breadth of a goose quil on the top, was of a variegated redish brown thus I suppose the Copper & Minium would not mix, the Copper flew upwards & made the brown part, the bottom part acquired no green but that the minium gave. I believe the blackness on the Top of the Composition Ex: 96 is occasioned as follows the Borax extricates the Marine Acid from the Nitre which is thrown to the surface & there remains being uncapable of vitrifying. I suppose the cause of that redish colour is occasioned as follows: the Minium assists in some manner to calcine the copper yet further than in was before & uniting together produces that effect so I think no minium shall be used with Copper in any form whatever.' Experiments in Chemistry Notebook 2 (n.p. Nov 23 [1762]) 'Expt. 593 Best purple on silver 1 1/2 oz Sand, 1 1/2 oz rough Nitre, 2 1/4 oz minium & 2 drams english Manganese uncalcin'd. I hour in Carters Furnace. This Carter try'd on fine Silver, it is too hard, the silver having melted before the enamel. From this I am led to believe that Manganese prevents the fluxing of the Glass when in a large proportion. Pickavey tried this on Old Sterling Silver, it run very well, is a good purple, but wants to be a little brighter.' Experiments in Chemistry Notebook 6 (n.p. [10 March 1774]) 'The way to find how much Phlogiston is contain'd in any given Body as I learn'd from Mr. More Take any quantity of nitre & melt it in a Crucible & take a like quantity of any Body containing a Phlogiston, & while the Nitre is hot throw on little & little the Phlogistic matter till all is thrown on, then weigh the ashes & as much as it has lost of its original weight so much it contain'd of the Phlogiston.' Experiments in Chemistry 1759-1774 Notebook 2 (insert, n.d.)
Lot 268
English Civil War. The Petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, delivered to His Majestie the 16. Day of July: together with His Majesties Answer thereunto, London: printed by Robert Barker, 162, 8 pages (A4), title with decorative woodcut border, A2-4 carelessly trimmed at either head or foot of the leaf, with loss of a line or more of printed text, now added in manuscript in an early 20th century hand, modern wrappers with handwritten label to upper cover, slim 4to, together with: Scultetus (Abraham). The determination of the question, concerning the divine right of episcopacie, & The judgment of the learned divine D. Abrahamus Scultetus... concerning lay-elders, London: printed for Nathaniell Butter, 1641, 24 pages in all, later plain paper wrappers, stitched as issued, some soiling and minor fraying to extremities, slim 4to, plus: [Taylor, Jeremy]. A discourse concerning prayer ex tempore, or, by pretence of the spirit: in justification of authorised and set-formes of lyturgie, [London?]: printed in the yeere, 1646, title and 38 pages, 19th century marbled paper wrappers, stitched as issued, slim 4to, and: [Ryves, Bruno]. Mercurius Rusticus : or, the Countries Complaint of the barbarous Out-rages committed by the Sectaries of this late flourishing Kingdome. Together with a briefe Chronologie of the Battails, Sieges, Conflicts, and other most remarkable Passages, from the beginning of this unnaturall Warre, to the 25. of March, 1646, [Oxford]. printed in the yeere, 1646, title a little frayed to fore-edge, some soiling, defective at end, lacks all after page 144, bound in 20th century green cloth, small 8voQty: (4)
Lot 396
Gillray (James). A New Map of England & France. The French Invasion - or - John Bull Bombarding the Bum Boats, H. Humphrey, 1793 [but H. G. Bohn edition of 1847], uncoloured etched caricature, slight marginal fraying but not affecting the image, 350 x 255 mm, together with Fighting for the Dunghill - or - Jack Tar settling Buonaparte, H. Humphrey, 1798 [but H. G. Bohn edition of 1847], uncoloured engraved caricature showing Jack Tar/John Bull giving a bare-chested Napoleon a bloody nose as they straddle the northern hemisphere of a globe showing Europe, with another caricature to the verso, 270 x 365 mmQty: (2)NOTESThe first item described is a gloriously rude caricature that shows a stylised map of England and Wales with the county of Durham turned into the face of King George III. The king is shown defecating on France; his faeces gradually evolving into warships that threaten the coast of northern France. One of Gillray's most vulgar cartoons, that captures the belligerent spirit of 'John Bull' in the face of the tyranny of France and Napoleon.
Lot 1728
Spirit of London cased set of Feofee of Tetbury millennium medallions comprising a 9ct gold example, a sterling silver example and a bronze example, each 75g, hammered and numbered, this being number one. Gold 1/50, silver 1/250, bronze 1/1000, all with certificates, letter and quote for the design from Tim Leahy of Bagshawe Leahy, London
Lot 492
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION AND REFORM A large brown stoneware flask, c.1830, modelled probably as Daniel O'Connell holding a scroll moulded with a mitre and crown and inscribed 'Reform and Repeal', the reverse impressed 'I Berwick, Wine & Spirit Merchant, 4 Rose & Crown Court, Near Moorfields', the head broken off and well restored, 241mm. Cf. Alan Blakeman, Reform Flasks, number 81.
Lot 495
LORD GREY A Lambeth salt-glazed stoneware flask, c.1832, modelled as the prime minister holding a scroll impressed 'The True Spirit of Reform' above the title 'Grey & Reform Cordial', the upper half decorated with a brown glaze, the reverse marked 'Lambeth Pottery, Doulton & Watts, 15 High Street, Lambeth' and bearing the retailer's stamp 'W. Jones, Wine & Spirit Merchant, 50, Lambs Conduit, S.', 19cm.
Lot 497
LORD JOHN RUSSELL A Derbyshire brown stoneware flask, c.1832, the 1st Earl Russell depicted holding a scroll impressed 'The True Spirit of Reform', titled to the lower half, the reverse marked 'Belper & Denby, Bournes Potteries, Derbyshire', 18.2cm. Cf. Alan Blakeman, Reform Flasks, number 84.
Lot 499
LORD BROUGHAM A Lambeth brown stoneware flask, modelled as a three quarters figure of the Lord Chancellor holding a scroll inscribed 'The True Spirit of Reform' above 'Brougham's Reform Cordial', the reverse marked 'Lambeth Pottery, Doulton & Watts, 15th High Street, Lambeth', 18cm. Cf. Alan Blakeman, Reform Flasks, number 11.
Lot 501
EARL GREY, LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND LORD ALTHORP A set of three glazed earthenware flasks, c.1832, each modelled as one of the three key reformers, painted in Portobello type colours, each titled and holding a scroll impressed 'The True Spirit of Reform', some restoration to Lord Althorp, a chip to the back of Lord John Russell, 16cm (3).
Lot 77
PATRIOTIC SUPPORT FOR ADMIRALS RODNEY, HAWKE AND WOLFE A pearlware punch bowl, c.1785-90, printed in blue to the interior with the inscription 'May all British Admirals have the Eye of an Hawke, the Heart of a Wolfe and the Spirit of a Rodney' within an oval cartouche, the exterior with small Chinese vignettes beneath a formal border, a small footrim chip and faint star crack, 26.1cm. Rodney, Hawke and Wolfe were formidable commanders, enjoying the appreciation of the British population during the Seven Years War and the Wars of American Independence. Rodney's decisive victory at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782 was the last momentous event, Hawke having died in 1781. Rodney died in 1792 and Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, had fallen in 1759. Provenance: with Garry Atkins, June 2003.
Lot 126
A BACHELOR'S LATE VICTORIAN SCOTTISH SPIRIT KETTLE ON STAND WITH BURNER, maker Hamilton & Inches, Edinburgh 1898, of oblong form with re-entrant angles and fixed overhead ebony handle, with hinged cover, the stand raised upon four fluted cabriole supports, 8" high, 14ozs 17dwts total gross (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)All matching marks, kettle has two thin panels where engraving is polished out, fair, quite light gauge
Lot 504
MRS ANTONIA BOURIGNON - A Warning Against the Quakers, 1708, WITH The Light into Darkness, 1703, An Apology, 1699, WITH John Cockburn, Bourignianism Detected (Narratives I & II and letter bound as one) 1698, The Renovation of the Spirit, 1708, and three other works (8) (Est. plus 17.5% premium)
Lot 717
A ROLLS ROYCE BRASS AND COPPER KETTLE, with RR monogram to both sides, screw caps to the spout and lid, and a plaited rush handle, 7" overall, together with a Spirit of Ecstasy car mascot, 4" high (2) (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)Both in generally good condition. I wonder if the kettle may have had a burner at one point? Some rubbing to wording on top screw.
Lot 395
GARY HODGES (BRITISH, B. 1954) (6)Serenity; Baby Love; Vanishing; The Spirit of Elsa; Soulmates; Angel Eyeseach signed and numbered in pencil (in margin)printsthe largest image size 38 x 56.5cm, the smallest image size 26.5 x 26.5cm(all unframed)(6)ARRPlease note the estimate for this lot is £200-300, not as previously stated.
Lot 1463
A SILVER MOUNTED BITTERS BOTTLE AND ELEVEN FURTHER ITEMS (12)The bitters bottle, Birmingham 1961, a silver slide action pencil holder with a bloodstone seal terminal, a model of a windmill, a seal modelled as St George and the dragon, a European caddy spoon, a sterling mustard ladle, a book shaped vesta case, a long handled spoon, the bowl formed from a coin, a plated metal mounted spirit flask, a trinket dish formed from a shell, a silver lidded small glass jar and a pair of steel scissor action candle snuffers
Lot 1495
A PLATED TEA KETTLE AND STAND AND FURTHER ITEMS (10)Comprising; the tea kettle with black fittings, with a spirit burner and stand, a plated pair of grape scissors and two pairs of plated nut crackers, cased, a silver handled button hook and shoe horn, cased, a button hook and shoe horn, with a mother-of-pearl and abalone shell box, a toddy ladle with a twisted whalebone handle, two plated toastracks, a magnifying glass, a Danish bowl and an empty case
Lot 459
WEIHWASSER WANDKESSELFrankreich, 19.Jh. Farbloses Glas mit vergoldeter und reich verzierter Bronzemontur. Mit zwei farbig gemalten Miniaturen, Gottesmutter und heiliger Geist. A HOLY WATER FONT France, 19th century Colourless glass with gilt and richly decoratedbronze mount. With two coloured miniatures, Mother of God and the Holy Spirit. Keywords: sacral, religion, French, Francais, holy water stoup, vessel, Holy Ghost, bowl, wall
Lot 1234
A Victorian marble wood decanter case, the fitted interior lined in morocco and retaining three (of four) decanters and stoppers, Bramah lock, key, 24cm h and a Victorian silver letter B spirit label, London 1894 Minor knocks and scratches, small glazed crack of a few cm on lid, interior leather a little scuffed, necks of decanters chipped, silver label in good condition
Lot 76
A scarce 1902 edition of MOTORS and MOTOR DRIVING by Alfred C. Harmsworth from the Badminton Library, together with an original unconstructed cardboard "press-out”, full colour model of “The Spirit of Brooklands”. It was published by the Kellogg's company in 1992 to celebrate - “85 years of making History at Brooklands”.
Lot 586
Late 16th century AD. A carved marble head of a youthful woman, possibly a muse, with her sensual mouth slightly open, perfectly proportioned Greek nose and wide forehead; her curly hair divided into two and held in place with a taenia, the hair pulled back and secured to a bun by a ribbon bow with three locks falling on her neck, traces of gilding to the hair; the bust mounted on a square pedestal decorated with a realistically sculpted ram head flanked by foliate ornaments. See Meller, P., ‘Marmi e bronzi di Simone Bianco’ in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institutes in Florenz, 21.Bh.H.2, 1977, pp.199-210; Schulz, M., ‘Simone Bianco’, in Saur Kunstlerlexikon, 1995, 10, pp.445-47; Luchs, A., Tulio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 July - 31 October 2009, pp. 63-65, fig.4, for the portrait of an idealised woman ‘all’antica’; Schulz, M., ‘Simone Bianco, the Grimani Collection of Antiquities and Other Unexpected Findings’, in Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien, 2015-2016, 17/18, pp.36-37, fig.8, for girl portrait; Schulz, M., The History of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture, ca. 1400-1530, London and Turnhout, 2017, p.360. 34.3 kg, 50cm including stand (19 3/4"). From an important English collection; accompanied by an archaeological expertise by Dr Raffaele D’Amato; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10767-177464. This important Tuscan artist, who used to sign his works with the Greek name of SIMON LEVKOS O VENETOS (Simon the White, the Venetian), was known as a great marble sculptor, working between 1519 and 1553, although he enjoyed great posthumous success. Pietro Aretino, writing to his colleague in 1548, praising him for the portrait of the young bride of a Venetian patrician, said that the artist 'gave the spirit to marble with such antiquity of grace that nature itself could confess that in no way it diverges from a living thing'. The publication by Ursula Schlegel of numerous busts of young women made by Simone shows his great technical skill. This virtuosity can also be seen in this sculpture, probably made by a disciple who seems to have been one of the direct collaborators of the master. The girl's hair moves sinuously along her neck, in a delicate but decisive waving movement. Her face, surrounded by these vigorous modelled curls, is rendered with a sophisticated naturalism that evokes that of ancient portraiture. Although few of his commissions are recorded, and much of his oeuvre is made up of attributions, Simone has emerged through recent scholarship as a unique artistic personality in early 16th-century Venice, celebrated for his idiosyncratic in the busts all’antica, which are distinguished by both artistic flair and technical refinement. [A video of this lot can be viewed on the Timeline Auctions website] Fine condition.
Lot 287
Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic horse modelled in the round standing on an integral rectangular base; the horse's head and neck bent low, whilst the animal grooms its left foreleg with its teeth; finely executed semi-naturalistic anatomical detailing to the mouth, muzzle, head, eyes, legs and hooves; short tail dressed and tied with a ribbon, cropped mane in immaculate bunches, moulded saddle with saddle cloth, harness with discoid pendants; remains of painted pigmentation. See The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 1985.214.138, for similar. 8.5 kg, 51cm (20"). From a West Country, UK, collection; formerly with a Bath, UK, gallery, 1990s; accompanied by a positive Kotalla Laboratory thermoluminescence report no.38CM180321; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10836-178531. For centuries in China, geopolitical realities made horses 'the foundation of military might, the great resource of the state.' The Chinese used horses to pull war chariots from the Shang dynasty (c.1600 BC) onwards, and deployed mounted riders against their enemies from the 4th century BC onwards. Placing representations of horses in tombs was a practice in China from the Bronze Age, with ceramic figures being the most frequently discovered burial artefacts between the Han and Tang periods, with carvings and paintings appearing on the spirit roads leading to imperial tombs and in tomb murals, with some even capturing the likeness of specific animals when they were alive, creating a symbolic equality between rulers and their horses. Tang representations of horses symbolised the military prowess of the dynasty and the power and status of the owner of the equine figure. Riding itself was a privilege- an imperial edict issued in 667 AD prohibited artisans and tradesmen from riding horses, whilst the aristocracy rode to hunt, for sport and for pleasure. Finely modelled.
Lot 61
30x Hornby O gauge timpate items. A Southern Railway clockwork M3 0-4-0T locomotive, 126, in lined green. Together with 29x freight wagons including; Castrol tank wagon, BP Spirit tank wagon, Cement wagon, NE guard's van, Saxa Salt wagon, Redline-Glico tank wagon, Royal Daylight tank wagon, LMS Snow Plough, Milk van, Wagon mounted crane, LMS open wagon, etc. QGC-GC, some wear/damage. £60-80
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