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Click here to subscribeA ROYAL WORCESTER SHALLOW TEACUP AND SAUCER, dated 1923 and 1926, painted by Ricketts & E Townsend, with Still Life of peaches, cherries, plums and grapes on a mossy bank, and a similar teacup possibly painted by Freeman, the saucer by F Roberts with a band of fruits on a mossy bank, signed (4)
A rare Dutch gold oval ‘Puritan’ watch with calendar. Jan Jansse Boekels the younger, The Hague, circa 1635. The gilt single fusee verge movement with four pierced Egyptian pillars, four-wheel train and later solid escapewheel, the backplate with elaborate foliate pieced balance and ratchet spring set up cocks and signed Jan Jans’ Boekels, Hage, the gold Roman numeral dial with stylised T-shaped half hour markers, inner quarter hour track, calendar aperture at XII o’clock and original shaped steel hand, the solid gold two-piece case with oval dial aperture (glass lacking) and turned post for the suspension loop, the rear with winding hole (lacking shutter), the case 3cm high (excluding suspension loop and post), 2.5cm wide. John Leopold gives an interesting but brief account of the life and work of Jan Jansse Boekels in his article Clockmaking in Britain and the Netherlands (published in NOTES & RECORDS of THE ROYAL SOCIETY, London 1989 page156);- ÒThe earliest certain instance of a Dutch-trained maker going to London dates from around 1626. It concerns one Jacob Cornelisse van Casbeeck, born ca. 1601, who had since about 1621 been an apprentice of the Haarlem maker Jan Jansse II Boekels. This van Casbeeck appears to have had an affair with his master’s wife Saertgen Adriaens, and in 1625 a disreputable fight brought loose, in which the wife accused Boekels of all sorts of behaviour (including incest) and managed to get him imprisoned. Boekels was able to clear himself, but no doubt a lot of damage had been done to his reputation and so he went to live in The Hague, thus becoming the first watchmaker to work there. The wife finelly ran off with van Casbeeck to London, where they lived as man and wife and as such had a daughter baptised in 1628. This fact enabled Boekels to get a divorce in 1632; he died circa 1650. This sordid story would be unimportant but for the fact that Boekels was the foremost watchmaker of Haarlem, if not the country, he seems to have been the first to produce small, oval watches of a simple rounded shape commonly known as puritan-watches. One such watch made by Boekels while still in Haarlem, and therefore dating before 1626, survives..Ó This watch can be compared to a related example described by Thompson, David JAN JANSSEN BOCKELTS THE YOUNGER ‘PURITAN’ STYLE VERGE WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS, HAARLEM, c. 1630, ‘‘ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGY’ Vol XXIX, December 2006 pages 827-30.
A British Mid 19th Century Scrap Album- Containing various watercolour still-life studies, landscapes, portraits and written verse, by and after many contributing hands, title page inscribed "Who Ever Contributes to this Scrap-book to fill Shall Receive the Best Thanks from Mr P Hill" pen and ink, bound in a marbled board and red leather gilt tooled album, ( album)
Frederic Leyton (20th Century), St Michael`s Mount, signed watercolour, 7 1/4" x 10 1/2", unframed, with Ada Hartley, still life of a stone ware jug and fruit on a table, signed on stretcher verso,oils on canvas, 11 1/2" x 15 1/2", assorted oils and watercolours to include Landscape with a horse, a still life in the manner of John Hall Thorpe, a limited edition print of wing commander R.A.B, Learoyd No 258/1000. (7).
Andrea Bates "STILL-LIFE IN BLUE AND ORANGE"-A VASE OF FLOWERS AND A BOWL OF TANGERINES ON A TABLE signed; inscribed on a label on the reverse oil on board 59.5 x 49.5cms; 23 1/4 x 19 1/2in. PROVENANCE Paintings in hospitals: Menier Chocolate Factory, London and Samaritan Hospital, Marylebone Road, London (de-accessioned).
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