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Lot 134
Assorted bottle stoppers comprising a German silver ewer form spirit pourer with hinged cover, stamped 835, two of rounded form stamped 835, a silver-plated spirit pourer in the form of a bird with hinged beak, pewter stopper etc Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Lot 108
A collection of Chinese silver, to include an egg cup by Zeewo, spirit pourer with shot glass, teaspoons, etc.Additional InformationAs not all component parts are solid silver, some have associated parts no weight is specified. General surface wear throughout, tarnishing and toning, there is a small split to the top cup and general scratches.
Lot 325
A South Indian or Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) winged spirit or demon figure, polychrome painted wood with gilt detail, approx 78 x 70cm.Additional InformationBreaks to tips of some wings, fingers lost to both hands, further splits and damage particularly to protruding sections, chip to one tooth, areas of surface damage and loss, loss to decoration in places, some large surface chips particularly to lower section, will need attention.
Lot 464
A large early 20th century African tribal Chokwe figure with pronounced coiffure, height 71cm, and a Borneo Dayak slit drum carved as an open mouthed spirit, height 89cm (2). Additional InformationSplits to the upright figure through the head, neck and chest, also to the arms where they meet the side of the figure and to the legs, raised parts have chips and knocks. The other piece has further damage as well.
Lot 38
A selection of silver, to include two Edwardian silver shakers, a silver and blue glass mustard pot, and two spirit labels, gross weight 5.45ozt. Condition report: Overall condition fair to goodScratches, dents and discolouration in keeping with age and useShakers with hallmarks for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London, 1904.Mustard pot with a dent to the side, scratches (some deep) hallmarks partially worn for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co, London, 1894Whisky label chain snapped, text partially worn, hallmarks for Charles S Green & Co Ltd, Birmingham, 1955Port label with hallmarks for Edinburgh, 'IR',
Lot 238
David Studwell Red Scissors, 2020 Giclee print on Hahnemuhle pearl paper Signed recto 12.3 x 16.1cm (4¾ x 6¼ in.) David Studwell is a contemporary British artist and print maker who studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art. Having worked as an artist for over 20 years, Studwell harnesses the spirit of the sixties and seventies, the cult of celebrity and the legacy of Warhol to produce iconic screen prints. Studwell is drawn to classic bygone eras such as the golden age of Hollywood and the swinging sixties; he revisits yesteryears cult figures and stars whilst firmly transporting them to the present with washes of retro-colour, adding his own unique modern stamp to each piece.
Lot 239
David Studwell Blue Scissors, 2020 Giclee print on Hahnemuhle pearl paper Signed recto 12.3 x 16.1cm (4¾ x 6¼ in.) David Studwell is a contemporary British artist and print maker who studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art. Having worked as an artist for over 20 years, Studwell harnesses the spirit of the sixties and seventies, the cult of celebrity and the legacy of Warhol to produce iconic screen prints. Studwell is drawn to classic bygone eras such as the golden age of Hollywood and the swinging sixties; he revisits yesteryears cult figures and stars whilst firmly transporting them to the present with washes of retro-colour, adding his own unique modern stamp to each piece.
Lot 262
(BOLINGBROKE HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT). Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism; On the idea of a Patriot King … etc. Calf rebacked. Bookplate of Lord Carlingford & various old ownership inscriptions incl. over half title & title. 1st ed., 1749; also Bolingbroke, A Dissertation Upon Parties ... Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, eng. frontis, rebound calf, 1749. (2).
Lot 123
The Trinity, in a historiated initialon a leaf, from an illuminated manuscript choirbook in Latin[southern Germany (probably Bavaria, perhaps Donau-Ries), second quarter of the sixteenth century] Single large leaf, with a large historiated initial 'B' (opening "Benedicat nos deus, deus noster ..." the responsory for Trinity Sunday), in blue with white acanthus leaves overlaid, enclosing God the Father as a crowned and white bearded man, enthroned as he cradles Christ's lifeless body on his lap and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descends, two angels in background holding up a green cloth, all within red and green realistic frame and on brightly burnished gold grounds, the gold heightened with yellow paint to pick out foliage, foliate sprays from the edges of the initial sprouting into the margin with coloured acanthus leaves, large gold bezants and gold pendulous fruit, with a green haired wildman with bare knees and elbows hanging from the branches and looking down at a bird in the foliage below, red and blue initials (one with contrasting penwork and two human faces at its side poking out their tongues), red rubrics, 6 lines of text with music on a 5-line red stave (rastrum: 35mm.; the number of staff lines an uncommon feature but not unheard of at the end of the Middle Ages, and not indicating polyphony), slight flaking from ink of main text in places, inkburn causing tiny holes in parchment in some letters and music notes, trimmed at top with losses from border there, slight stains at outer edge from last mounting, small scuffs and folds, else excellent condition, 460 by 345mm. The wildman (or wodewose in Middle English) in the border here, with his realistically bald knees and elbows, is a charming and distinctively Germanic addition to the decoration. These mythical, humanoid creatures were hairy, primitive, unable to control their desires and thought to live in the deep forests or mountains. As noted in the French epic Valentin et Orson, they were unable to speak beyond senseless mumbling, and Chrétien de Troyes has them as skilled hunters, but unable to master fire they ate the meat raw. They fascinated both medieval man as a model for everything man hoped he was not, as well as an object of envy for their simple lives outside the mores of civilised society. For more see R. Bernheimer, Wild Men in the Middle Ages, 1952, and T. Husband, The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism, 1980.Another leaf from the same parent manuscript was sold in Sotheby's, 7 December 2010, lot 10, realising £11,250, and identified as by a follower of the Bavarian panel painter and illuminator known as the Master of the Munich Saint John on Patmos, fl.1525-30 (cf. Les Enluminures cat.14, Pen to Press, Paint to Print, 2009, pp. 95-7). However, the coloured frames around the initial and borders of the leaf show affinity to an antiphoner made in 1531 for the Cistercian house of Kaisheim, in Donau-Ries (E. Hemfort, Monastische Buchkunst zwischen Mittelalter und Renaissance, 2001, p.141), and the parent manuscript may well be from that region.
Lot 7
‡ Short quotations from Isocrates, Ad Demonicum, 9, and Menander, Sententia, in Attic Greek, in Greek cursive and capitals, manuscript on large polished wooden tablet doubtless produced as part of a scribal teaching exercise[Egypt, late fourth or early fifth century] Rectangular wooden tablet, used lengthways, with single column of 5 long lines plus a single word on a sixth line in a clear and sloping Greek cursive on one side and a further 2 lines in large Greek capitals on the reverse, one hole at head of board in middle (perhaps for suspension), wood with slight scuffing in places and one small loss of a section at its foot (without affect to text), 140 by 138 by 10mm.; in blue cloth covered folding case A remarkably rare ephemeral witness to the practical teaching of novice scribes in Graeco-Roman Egypt, on wood, a material of such value in Egypt that few survive Provenance:1. Prof. Dr. Pieter Johannes Sijpestein (1934-1996) of Baarn, near Amsterdam; his collection known as the Moen collection (his wife's maiden name), and almost certainly acquired by him in the European and American trade in the 1960s to early 1980s. Much of his collection passing after his death to the University of Austin, Texas, as well as Syracuse University, New York. This his inventory no. 78, and published in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik in 1983 (see below).2. Bonhams, 29 April 1991, lot 77, to Sam Fogg.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1359, acquired June 1991. Text and script:This is a 'wooden leaf tablet' employed in Antiquity as a writing master's template for scribal teaching in an important and wealthy scriptorium. Cribiore comprehensively discusses their use from pharaonic Egypt onwards (pp. 65-72), and the value of the raw material - as Egypt produced little wood. Here we have the refined master-scribe's hand copying out the quotation from Isocrates (436-338 BC.; here "... and he exposed his spirit to dangers. Nor did he display an ill-timed craving for wealth, but he enjoyed the good things present like one who was going to die, yet cared for his property as if he was immortal"), the father of rhetorical Greek and founder of the Athenian academy in the Lyceum, on one side in cursive, for students to copy onto papyrus. The pierced hole at the top of the board allowed it to be strung together with other such templates, and handed around the class for copying time and time again. To this, a student has added on its reverse the extract from the Greek dramatist Menander (c. 342/41-c. 290 BC.) in slightly clumsy capitals with a few erasures, finishing this with his initials. The format of such teaching aids has remained relatively unchanged in the region from the Ancient World until the last century (see the 'cricket bat' shaped writing tablet produced in Morocco in the early twentieth century, offered as lot 46 in our 31 March Islamic sale this year [auction moved to 12 June]). As noted by Sijpestein and Agosti (the latter in Pintaudi, p. 38) the combination of Isocrates and Menander here is also found in a poem of Dioscorus of Aphrodito (d. sixth century) and their use together in teaching may well have been ingrained in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Byzantine world. Sijpestein in 1983 dated this piece to the seventh century, and that date was followed by Cribiore in her survey, but it has been recently and convincingly redated to "la fine del IV o addirittura l'inizio del V seculo" by G. Agosti (in Pintaudi, no. 11). This accords well with other surviving examples which appear to cluster in those centuries (see Cribiore, nos. 83, 146 and 317, with slightly earlier examples in 292, 296 and 333). Published:P.J. Sijpestein, 'Isokrates, Ad Demonicum 9 und Ein Monostichon Menandri auf Einer Holztafel', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 52 (1983), pp. 291-92.R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, 1996, no. 229.R. Pintaudi, Papyri Graecae Schøyen, 2005, no. 11, pp. 37-40.C. Pernigotti, Menandri Sententiae, 2008, p. 48 and no. 895.P. Pruneti and M. Menchelli, Corpus dei papyri filosofici, 1.2.2, 2008, pp. 922-24.L. Maurice, The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World, 2013, p. 102.C. Pernigotti, Corpus dei papiri filosofici, 2.2, 2015, pp. 244-46. The present artefact is Mertens-Pack 2736.2, and is published online as TM 61405 and LDAB 2549.
Lot 492
Vinyl Records LPs 33RPM - most signed by the artists inc, Peter Rowan, Medicine Trail, Joe Sun, Out Of Your MindJoe Sun And The Solar System (2), The Sun Never Sets, I Ain't Honky Tonkin' No More, With Shotgun, Livin' On Honky Tonk Time, Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)Moe Bandy, Following The Feeling Roger Humphries, A Blast Of Fresh AirRoy Drusky, Roy Joe Firth, Country Free Spirit, Morning After The Night Before & Sayin' What's To SayBoxcar Willie, 20 Great Hits - Volume 1Jimmy Payne, Walk With Me The Rest Of The Way, The Best That Love Can Give, Oklahoma Square, Jimmy Lawton, Arizona Sunday,Carole Gordon, FairytaleWendel Adkins, Live At Gilley's , Sundowners
Lot 3
Large collection of Hornby '0' gauge clockwork train sets and additional rolling stock, accessories and track all in excellent condition comprising: Hornby M3 tank goods train set (1931-35) in original purple box comprising 0-4-0 LNER tank loco 460 in green, open truck 'NE', timber wagon, Shell motor spirit tank wagon in red, No. 1 buffer stop (addition to original set) and an oval of track; Hornby No 41 tank passenger train set (1954-60) in original red box comprising 0-4-0 tank loco 82011 in BR black with lion over wheel emblem, 2 x 4-wheel maroon 1st/2nd composite coach, 1 x 4-wheel maroon passenger brake van and an oval of track; 2 x No. 41 4-wheel passenger coach in maroon, 1 x No. 1 milk traffic van, 1 x flat truck with Insul-meat container (box says with cable drum - see below), 1 x No. 50 hopper wagon, No. 50 cattle truck - BR, 1 x goods brake van - BR, 1 x No. 50 crane truck; 1 x platform crane, 1 x No.1 water tank, 1 x No.2 single arm home signal, 1 x No.2 turntable, 1 x No. 1 level crossing, 2 x PR2/PL2 pairs of LH/RH points 2' radius, 2 x CR2 right angle crossing, 1 x CA2 acute angle crossing, 1 x 12 x B1 straight rails; Plastic box containing cable drum for above flat truck, 2 x No.1 buffer stops, track connecting plates and various trackside/platform items; 1 x M Wayside station (1930-41); Loose track: 1 x AB1; 2 x A1; 2 x A1½; 13 x A2; 2 x 1 x A2½; 1 x PL2; 1 x DC2; 5 x B1; 5 x B½; 2 x B¼ ; 3 x home-made wooden items: single road station 'Sheringham', signal box 'Norwich East' and footbridge
Lot 28
A Bristol pearlware Pratt-type commemorative dated spirit barrel, 1821, painted in Pratt-type shades with stylised foliate bands, the top inscribed William Thomas Agust (sic) 4th 1821, 16cm highThe estate of Christopher and Rosemary Warren.Condition Report: Slight surface wear to the leading edges of the rims of each end where it has rested. Minute rim chip to inscription end.Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 29
A Bristol (Pountney) pearlware commemorative and dated spirit barrel, 1832, painted in William Fifield manner with flowers and inscribed with initials JG and dated 1832, 12cm highThe estate of Christopher and Rosemary Warren. Condition Report: No serious damage issues noted.Condition Report Disclaimer
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