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Lot 460
USA 1871 Half Dollar. 12.47g. 31mm. Seated Liberty looking right with a cap on a stick and a shield, 13 stars around. 1871 in ex. R. Eagle with arrows and olive branch in talons, banner with motto above. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GOD WE TRUST HALF DOL. Ref: KM 99. EF/UNC will grade very well.
Lot 5
~ A Chinese Celadon Jade Inscribed “Luohan” Boulder, Qianlong, carved with Ańgaja in a grotto, seated cross-legged in loose flowing robes, his left hand holding a sutra and walking stick, the right counting prayer beads, flanked by the Imperial eulogy and seal marks 20cm highWith original receipt from Trollope & Sons (London) Ltd, West Halkin Street, London dated 25 November 1955 for £85, as well as a transcription of the eulogy The inscription can be translated as “Wearing a hundred-patch robe and leaning on a proper bamboo staff, his Vedic ritual texts in a bookcase, he stares at his akshamalika straight across his chest. What he has remembered is not nothing, although there are no words for it.”The iconography of this depiction of Ańgaja is derived from the portrait series of the sixteen Luohans painted in 891 by the Tang dynasty painter-poet-monk, Guanxiu for the Shengyinsi or 'Temple of Sage Reason'; the temple was later destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion. In this series the artist depicted the enlightened disciples with grotesque bodies, hunched backs, bushy eyebrows, and pronounced foreheads, as they had allegedly appeared to him in a dream.In 1757, the Qianlong Emperor visited the Shengyin Temple during his Southern inspection tour to study these images of the Luohan as an act of religious devotion. He recorded that, having seen the masterpieces, he was inspired to personally write a eulogy comprising two colophons for each painting. The Emperor believed the paintings to be the same set that had been recorded in the Xuanhe Huapu [The Xuande catalogue of paintings], the inventory of the Song dynasty emperor Huizong.Subsequently, Qianlong commanded the palace painting master, Ding Guanpeng (act.1708-ca.1771) to copy the paintings and to include new inscriptions of the eulogies. Ding’s copies are now in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei and were widely copied in various media.In 1764, the abbot at Shengyin Temple, Master Mingshui, instructed local stone engravers to copy Guanxiu’s paintings and the Emperor’s colophons and seals. The sixteen engraved stone panels were installed on the sixteen sides of the Miaoxiang Pagoda in Hangzhou. Almost immediately rubbings of the panels were being produced. Knowing the Emperor’s fondness for them, in 1778, the military governor of Shandong province, Guotai (d.ca.1782), presented the Qianlong Emperor with a magnificent zitan folding screen set with black lacquer panels inlaid with white jade in imitation of the rubbings.A similar jade boulder, depicting the second Luohan, Kanakavasta, was recorded in the collection of the Wou Lien-Pai Museum as published in Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection, Surrey, 2011, pl. 177 (fig. 2).Another example depicting Kanaka is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 02.18.640 and a further example as Cudapanthaka is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.A sixteen-fold screen with inlaid jade plaques portraying the sixteen luohans, including a depiction of Angaja derived from the same source as the present jade, dated to the forty-second year of the Qianlong reign (1777) is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (22 June 2012 - 14 October 2012), and illustrated in A Lofty Retreat from the Red Dust: The Secret Garden of Emperor Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2012, pp.216-233, no.53.A Qianlong Imperial jade screen with the same image of Ańgaja and inscribed with the same script and seals as the present examples was offered by Bonhams Hong Kong, 24 November 2012, lot 307 and Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 November 2022, lot 3049.Please note that there will be no internet bidding on this lot. All bidders on lots 1-10 will be required to provide identification and a deposit of £1,000. Registration for commission and telephone bidding on these lots will close on Wednesday 13th March at 12 noon. To register please email enquiry@tennants-ltd.co.uk A natural internal small crack towards the top section of the staff. Sutra with tiny corner flakes. Other minimal small imperfections to the stone, none detrimental. Slight wear to the gilt inscrpitions.
Lot 569
A large collection of assorted LPs, various dates and genres, to include: Kate Bush - The Whole Story, Hounds Of Love, Never Forever, The Kick Inside (x3), and Lionheart (x2); China Crisis - Flaunt The Imperfection; Clannad - Legend; The Christians - self-titled; Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet; Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening; Enya - Watermark; Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Trilogy (x2); David Essex - The Best Of, Golden Ivory, Out On The Street, All The Fun Of The Fair, Rock On; Fairport Convention - Angel Delight; Europe - The Final Countdown; Gloria Estefan - Anything For You; Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together; Cher - Greatest Hits; Johnny Cash - At San Quentin, At Folsom Prison, Greatest Hits Volume 1; The Carpenters - Now And Then (x2); Belinda Carlisle - Live Your Life Be Free, Runaway Horse, and Heaven On Earth; JJ Cale - Naturally; The Byrds - self-titled; The Cars - Heatbeat City; and Bread - Lost Without Your Love, etc (130) some duplicates
Lot 623
A collection of vinyl, various dates and genres to include Roxy Music - S/T & For Your Pleasure, Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together & In Your Mind, The Sranglers - IV, The Clash - Combat Rock, Public Image Limited - The Flowers Of Romance, UB40 - The Singles Album and Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial etc., together with various 7" singles to include David Bowie and Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street, Sinead O'connor - Nothing Compares 2 U and Jools Holland - Boogie Woogie '78 etc. (approx. 100)
Lot 502
Novelty Erotic Penis Walking Stick Cane, circa 1938. The handle carved from hippo tusk, in the form of a phallus and scrotum. The scrotum with banner reading “True”. Highly detailed. The silver collar with hallmarks for London, 1938. Makers mark rubbed, with other marks of “Kendall” and the number “2”. Elaborate acanthus swirl engravings and initialed shield cartouche “WCG”. Dark wood bamboo shaft and metal ferrule. Overall length 87 cms. Handle 10.5 cms.
Lot 376
19th Century Victorian albert watch chain constructed from woven hair with 9ct gold fittings including photo locket, T bar and fob medal. Together with a selection of Victorian silver brooch fronts (as found), 9ct gold and amethyst stick pin and silver stick pin. Watch chain measures approx 13.5 inches in total.
Lot 234
Late 19th Century Victorian amethyst and gold stick pin being set with a large oval mixed cut amethyst to the head in a prong setting (unmarked, assessed as 9ct gold), together with a pearl set stick pin with rose twist finial. Amethyst measures approx. 16 x 12mm. Box boxed, including a Mappin & Webb box.
Lot 72
Collection of 19th Century and antique jewellery to include a rose metal stick with reverse carved classical figure and seed pearls, yellow metal pin with coral finial, silver butterfly wing pendant signed HWK, matching brooch (a/f), jet horseshoe mourning brooch, silver riding whip brooch and two other stick pins. Pendant measures 5.5cm.
Lot 1190
Early 20th century pizzle or swagger stick, with 12ct gold ferrule and grip, engraved Jane, and a Victorian walking cane with silver ball finial, Charles Cooke London 1893, both stamped Brigg, L76cm (2) Provenance; formerly the property of Lady Jane Edith Seymour, youngest daughter of the 6th Marquess of Hertford, by descent to the vendor.
Lot 144
Ethnographica - Three African items: possibly South African Zulu walking stick or 'prestige staff', with a small swollen round head covered completely with fine wire decorated with four twisted bands, 64cm long overall (bottom segment missing); an Assegai throwing spear, with 32.5cm head and leather collar to a turned shaft, 79.5cm overall; and a cow-hide shield, of typical oval form with two vertical ribs beneath slats 59cm (lacks pole mount); (3)
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