19th Century Ivory Fan with pierced and carved sticks depicting reclining putti amongst flowers within cartouches to the sticks, carved guards with figures and floral motifs, both are coloured in gilt, blue, red, green and yellow paints, velum mount depicting classical robed figures around a gilt table, within a decorative border, verso depicts Ceres the Goddess of agriculture, grain and fertility with a putto, and a crowned lady seated on a grassy knoll with a seated lion and blue shawl, 26.5cmPainted decoration to the sticks and guards is rubbed. One stick broken and a couple have damages. Painted decoration to the mount is very rubbed and worn, especially scuffing to the upper and lower edges. Repainting and lifting to the card sticks on verso. Wear
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Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. First edition, first impression. Hartford, Connecticut./London, American Publishing Co./Chatto & Windus, 1880, first edition, first impression with "MOSES" on frontispiece, 8vo. XVI, 631, pages with 1 additional page of advertising for Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad", with inserted portrait of Mark Twain before the frontispiece, blindstamped cloth with illustrated spine and front cover (wandering Tramp with umbrella, pipe and stick).
Queen - Roger Taylor (Drummer) - a non-matching pair of stage-used drumsticks from a late 1970s concert (unknown). The first drum stick being a personalised ' Roger Taylor - Premier CC ' with his name printed in red, the other a standard Premier ' C ' size drumstick. Both well played with, but complete. Provenance: originally obtained by the vendor when he wrote to Taylor via the Queen fan club c1978/79 and asked for a pair of sticks, as the vendor had a desire to become a drummer. These were what were returned to him shortly after.
TOMOCHIKA: A LARGE AND NATURALISTIC WOOD NETSUKE OF A SKULL WITH HOSSUBy Tomochika, signed TomochikaJapan, Edo (Tokyo), mid-19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)Naturalistically carved from wood with bone teeth, several fine parietal lines covering the cranium, a hossu (flywhisk) below the skull. The back of the skull incised with the signature TOMOCHIKA within an irregular reserve. Natural himotoshi.LENGTH 5.3 cmCondition: Good condition, some age cracks, a natural knot in the wood above the right eye socket.Provenance: European collection.The fly whisk (hossu) belongs to the paraphernalia of a Buddhist monk, especially those of the Zen sect. The combination of skull and hossu might be an allusion to the Zen priest Ikkyû (1394-1481) who according to legend wandered around on New Year's day with a skull mounted on a stick as a reminder of the ephemeral nature of human life and the significance of the Buddhist teachings.
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