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Click here to subscribeEdgar Plans (Spanish 1977-), 'Caninus', 2010, unique acrylic and oil stick on paper, signed, titled and dated; sheet: 70 x 50cmARR sheet: 70 x 50cm In very good/artists condition No knocks, tears or creases to the sheet There are some markings/paint around the border, however this a part of the artwork and is not considered damage Deckled edge in good condition This work is stored flat and has not been framed.
Jack Kabangu (Zambian 1996-), 'Women Of The Night', 2022, unique, acrylic, oil stick and oil pastel on canvas, signed and dated to the canvas verso; canvas: 30 x 30cm canvas: 30 x 30cm In very good condition/artist's condition No sign of paint loss or restoration Multiple sections of paint across the canvas verso, this is from time of production and is not considered damage. No apparent issues.
An Attic red-figure Nolan amphora Circa 460 B.C.25.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 May 1970, lot 132. with Folio Fine Art, London, acquired at the above sale.with Charles Ede Ltd, London (catalogue 89, 12 December 1972, no. 11). Private collection, UK, acquired from the above and thence by descent to the present owner.Side A of the vase depicting a young woman carrying a torch, side B with a young man holding a walking stick. Scraffito on the underside of the foot of the vase reading 'ΕΛ', and 'ΙΙΙΙ' at the centre.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
19th century Chinese Canton tortoiseshell brisé fan, decorated with a complex processional scene of numerous figures, some on horse back, one in a sedan chair, beside pavilions etc., all within figural arcades, each stick approximately 20mm at widest point, 18.5cm long (one outer guard lacking, plus minor losses)
Early 19th century French Empire patinated bronze and ormolu figural mantel clock, circa 1810, in the manner of Alibert or Lesieur, modelled 'au negre portefaix' as a barefoot and bare-chested slave with brimmed hat, carrying a bale of cotton on a frame upon his back, a gourd water bottle tied around his waist, a detached (but present) sugar cane walking stick to reattach to his left hand, his right hand now empty, the 3.25-inch convex white-enamelled dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, the anonymous two-train movement, numbered 1685, with silk suspension, outside countwheel-striking on a bell, the canted rectangular plinth base with three applied mounts; a monkey between palm fronds, and two baskets with perching birds, on toupie feet, 33cm highThe form of the current lot is based on a design registered by Jean-Andre Reiche in January 1808. Literature: see Niehuser, Elke, 'French Bronze Clocks' p.149)
A pair of German figural place card holders PforzheimStamped 800 and DRGM (German registration mark)Designed as a lady and a gentleman, each holding a bouquet of flowers, 4cm high, together with a set of 11 German pickle forks with rosebud terminals and stylised stems, stamped 835, maker C. Backhausen, 9.5cm long; a smaller Dutch pickle fork (stamped 835) and two matched condiment spoons; and a silver mounted glass cocktail stick holder, stamped 835, Hermann Behrnd, Dresden, 6.5cm high, total weighable weight approx. 2.1ozt (a lot)
Sixteen Original Star Wars Trilogy Plastic Action Figures to include Yoda The Jedi Master with Snake, Cloak, Gimer Stick, Belt, See-Threepio (C-3PO) with Removable Limbs and Back Pack, Darth Vader with Black Cloak and Lightsaber (tip missing), Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi with Cloak and Blue Lightsaber. Wicket W. Warwick with Hood, some weapons and accessories present with figures. Together with a Tripod laser Cannon.
A collection of silver and white metal items. The lot to include a 925 silver money clip marked 925, 5cm. A hallmarked silver cheroot case, 5cm. A hallmarked 925 silver swizzle stick hallmarked Birmingham. A 935 silver pocket watch having twin bear mark 4.5cm. A Chinese white metal needle case embellished with a Qilin, having Chinese marks to lid and base 7cm . Total weight 137g.
FOUR INDIAN ARROWS, 19TH CENTURY the first two with pointed iron heads tubular sockets and reed shafts, the third with leaf-shaped head and reed shaft (now in two pieces) and the fourth a reed shaft (head missing); together with a silver-topped swagger stick (worn), the first: 72.7 cm overall (5)
A FINE 22 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY DURS EGG, CIRCA 1790 with rebrowned octagonal twist barrel rifled with eight grooves, fitted with reblued folding back-sight and silver-gilt fore-sight, signed ‘D. Egg, London’ in gold capital letters over the breech, inlaid with two gold lines, and struck beneath with London proof marks, gold-lined vent, engraved case-hardened breech tang decorated with foliage inhabited by two game birds and a sunburst, engraved stepped bevelled lock retaining some early case-hardening colour, decorated with a hound putting up a game bird on the tail and signed beneath the pan, fitted with blued sliding bolt safety-catch, bevelled cock decorated with a spray of foliage, gold-lined semi-rainproof pan and border-engraved steel chiseled with a central triangular panel, the interior fitted with blued main and sear spring, figured walnut half-stock, finely chequered grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left, case-hardened iron mounts, comprising butt-plate engraved with a hound putting up a game-bird on the tang, trigger-plate with stylised pomegranate finial, trigger-guard with a moulded pillar at the front, engraved with a game vignette on the bow and a star on the rear scroll, fore-end-cap decorated with a sunburst, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, iron sling swivels, original wooden ramrod with chequered brass tip, iron sling swivels, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and some early finish throughout, 69.6 cm barrel ProvenanceBonhams 23rd April 2008, lot 371. ExhibitedThe Rowland Club, Cotswolds weekend, June 2008. Durs Egg, son of Leonz a gunmaker in Oberbuchsiten, Switzerland, was born in 1748 and, after a short stay in Paris, is recorded working with John Twigg in London around 1772. He was granted denization in 1791, worked as Gunmaker and Sword Cutler, 24 Princes Street, Leicester Fields, 1778 - 86; 1 Coventry Street, Haymarket, 1786 - 1804; 132 Strand (near Somerset House), 1804 - 16; 1 Pall Mall Colonnade, 1816 - 32. He had a factory at 35 Mansell Street, 1794 – 11, his house and workshop was at 9 Kensington Gore, 1797 – 1802 and Knightsbridge Green, 1802 - 30. He was Contractor to Ordnance, 1784 – 1820, was granted patents for a breech loading gun, waterproof locks, recoiling barrel, pistol shoulder butt, tubular sights in 1803; and improved flintlocks, 3 & 4 barrelled guns, stick gun and safety powder flask in 1812. He was Gunmaker to George IV & Duke of York. A silver-mounted flintlock breechloading rifle by Durs Egg, made around 1784, is preserved in the Royal Collection, Windsor. He became blind in 1822 and died in 1831. See Blair 1973, pp. 266-299 and 305-353.
Britains Royal Air Force set 1527, Band with moustaches (one side drum stick missing, additional man with no arms), set 240 in peak caps with two Officers (not matching, set 240 in side caps (one officer and one man missing) and set 2073 Marching at the slope, fixed bayonets, with Officer, additional Officer and Man (Condition Very Good-Good, one bayonet missing) (37)
Taylor and Barrett four Decontamination Squad Britains from set 1759, Air Raid Precautions two Stretcher Bearers and Man with Gas detector stick, Hill Policeman in steel helmet, Britains Air Raid Warden (converted) and a Crescent Civilian Stretcher Party with extra casualty, a Britains Casualty and a Hill stretcher (Condition Very Good-Good) (16)
British Forces by John Ruddle: 3rd Middlesex Yeomanry 'Sharpshooters' with elements of North Devon, Oxfordshire and another Yeomanry regiment, Band and escort of the Royal Artillery, Royal Marine Artillery, East Kent Regiment, two other line regiments and the Highland Pipe Band of the Black Watch (Condition Very Good, one lance head, one helmet spike and one side drum stick missing) (145 approx.)
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