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Lot 1433
HERMAN M LIJFTOGT (DUTCH, B. 1951)Still Life With Blue Tile signed and dated 'M. LijFTOGT 1995' (lower left) and inscribed and dated (verso) oil on canvas 20.5 x 25cm ARR Provenance Waterman Fine Art Ltd., Jermyn Street, London; Private collection, UKCondition reportOriginal canvas; slightly uneven varnish in some areas, otherwise the paint surface is in good, clean condition overall; no sign of retouching under ultraviolet light.
Lot 1416
KEN HOWARD (BRITISH, 1932-2022)Still life with flowers in a vase signed 'Ken Howard' (lower right) oil on canvas-board 26 x 21cm ARRVIEWING NOTICEThis work will be on view in London on 7th & 8th May4 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London, SW7 2JETuesday 7th May 3pm-6pmWednesday 8th May 9am-4pmPlease click here for more details.
Lot 1235
LANTA SPURRIER (BRITISH, 1905-1981) (4)Still life of a book, a vase and two cards oil on canvas-board 51 x 61cm (unframed) together with three other oils on canvas-board by the same hand, Bottles, signed, 72 x 29cm; Studio Impedimenta, 61 x 51cm; and Still life of a jug and two vases, 66 x 51cm, (all unframed) (4) ARRFootnoteATALANTA (LANTA) SPURRIER (1905-1981)Was a British painter known for painting en plein air with direct, bold brushwork and a strong sense of colour. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art under Augustus John, by then considered one of Britain’s foremost painters of a broadly impressionistic style. Spurrier subsequently established a studio in Chelsea where she also taught. She later moved to the Surrey/Sussex borders and worked from a studio at South Holmwood, near Dorking. Spurrier travelled widely, painting in France, Switzerland, Austria, Greece and most frequently Italy. Alongside her studio practice Spurrier also worked in commercial art design, mostly book covers and posters, with projects including the National Henry Wood Fund and the London Olympic Games Exhibition.
Lot 1275
JAMES BOLIVAR MANSON (BRITISH, 1879-1945)Still life with roses, a Buddha sculpture and a heart shaped box on a table signed 'J. B. MANSON' (lower left) oil on canvas 51 x 40.5cm Provenance Sale, Bonhams, London, 23rd May 2000, lot 1; Sale, Bonhams, London, 28th June 2001, lot 153; Private collection, UK
Lot 1234
LANTA SPURRIER (BRITISH, 1905-1981) (4)On the Shelf with artist's label (verso) oil on canvas-board 60.5 x 51cm (unframed) together with three other oils on canvas-board by the same hand, Still life of a vase, 51 x 61cm; To the Boats, signed, 59 x 43cm; and An extensive landscape with a coppice of trees, 30.5 x 61cm, (all unframed) (4) ARRFootnoteATALANTA (LANTA) SPURRIER (1905-1981)Was a British painter known for painting en plein air with direct, bold brushwork and a strong sense of colour. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art under Augustus John, by then considered one of Britain’s foremost painters of a broadly impressionistic style. Spurrier subsequently established a studio in Chelsea where she also taught. She later moved to the Surrey/Sussex borders and worked from a studio at South Holmwood, near Dorking. Spurrier travelled widely, painting in France, Switzerland, Austria, Greece and most frequently Italy. Alongside her studio practice Spurrier also worked in commercial art design, mostly book covers and posters, with projects including the National Henry Wood Fund and the London Olympic Games Exhibition.
Lot 314
Camden (William). Annales Rerum Anglicarum, et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha, ad annum salutis M. D. LXXXIX, 1st edition, London: William Stansby for Simon Waterson, 1615, [10], 499, [20] pp. (Index), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, B1 cancel, lacking final errata leaf, contents in very good clean condition, unidentified 19th century armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, with morocco spine labels replaced, rubbed and marked to spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 4496.The historian William Camden (1551-1623) also wrote a second volume of Annals, which he delibrately delayed publication of until after his own death (it was first published in 1627), because his text dealt with people who were still alive. This first volume includes a description of Drake's voyage around the world in 1577-80, as well as information on Drake's early life, obtained first hand from the man himself.
Lot 155
Chris Kettle – ‘Attacco’ (Still Life with Grapes and Silverware), oil on canvas, signed and dated 2010 verso, 130cm x 130cm, within an ebonized wood frame. Note: Chris Kettle lives and works at his studio in Steyning, Sussex. Chris studied Fine Art at Cardiff Institute and has been a featured artist in a variety of group shows in Milan, New York, Miami, and London. Additionally, his artwork has appeared in solo exhibitions in Gstaad, Newcastle and Brighton.
Lot 320
Pair: Gunner G. W. Tryner, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was forced to stump up bail in 1949 when his jealous eldest son attempted to murder his daughter-in-law with a carving knife British War and Victory Medals (207898 Gnr. G. W. Tryner. R.A.) good very fine (2) £70-£90 --- George William Tryner was born at Denton, Lincolnshire, around 1880. A presser and threader in the lace trade, he moved his growing family to Rose Cottage, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, and enlisted as a Gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery in April 1918. According to his Army Service Record he served four months in Salonika, but his front line duties were curtailed by dysentery and poor conditions; transferred to the 2nd Western General Hospital to recuperate, he was evacuated home per H.M.T. Nile in December 1918 and discharged to Army Reserve on 27 April 1919. By now father to Harold, Gladys and Kenneth, Trynor likely hoped to return to a quiet and peaceful life. This all changed on 10 September 1949 when he found himself standing £40 bail for his eldest son at Nottinghamshire Hall Court, Harold being charged with attempting to murder his wife, Naomi Tryner, by strangulation and cutting her throat. The Nottingham Journal of 4 October 1949 offers some more detail: ‘After a hearing lasting nearly three hours, Nottingham Shire Hall magistrates yesterday decided that a charge of attempted murder against a 41-year-old packer, Harold Tryner, of 26 Hanson-road, Stapleford, should be withdrawn and a charge of aggravated assault substituted. Tryner then pleaded guilty, and was bound over for two years to keep the peace. The magistrates made an order for his separation from his wife, whom he was alleged to have attacked with a carving knife, and tried to strangle last month, and he was ordered to pay maintenance of £1 10s. a week for his wife, and 10s. for each of their two children. While her husband still stood accused of trying to murder her, Mrs. Naomi Tryner told the magistrates about quarrels caused, she said, by her husband's jealousy, and described incidents on Whit Sunday night, when, she alleged, he followed her into the bedroom with a craving knife and threatened "to do me in and the children also". Pleading for his wife to come back to him, Harold Tryner added: 'If I can't have you no one else will...”’ It remains unclear whether Naomi Tryner returned to her former career as a cinema usherette. George William Tryner died on 11 December 1961.
Lot 265
An unusual Diplomatic Service group of four awarded to Sir Edward Henry Goschen, 2nd Baronet, who served in the Boer War with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th (Irish) Imperial Yeomanry and was taken prisoner when the entire 13th Battalion was surrounded and captured en masse at Lindley on 31 May 1900 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14182 Tpr: E. H. Goschen, 47th Coy. 13th Impl: Yeo:) fitted with silver ribbon brooch; Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, 4th Class breast badge with rosette, gold and enamels, blue enamel chipped in obverse centre; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamels, with full neck cravat; Egypt, Sultanate, Order of the Nile, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, with full neck cravat, white enamel flaked on lower arm, the first toned, extremely fine, otherwise very fine or better (4) £600-£800 --- Edward Henry Goschen was born on 9 March 1876, the eldest son of the Right Honourable Sir William Goschen, who became the British Ambassador to Berlin, and was in that appointment on the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Goschen was also the great-grandson of George Joachim Goschen, the famous publisher of Leipzig, and a grandson of William Henry Goschen, who founded the banking firm of Fruhling and Goschen in London in 1815. He was nephew of the first Viscount Goschen, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and a first cousin of Sir Harry Goschen, Baronet, of Goschens and Cunliffe. Edward Henry Goschen was educated at Eton, which he joined in 1889 as a member of Mr R. A. H. Mitchell’s House, where he acquired his lifelong love of cricket. He then followed his father into the Diplomatic Service, and in 1897 was appointed an honorary attaché to the Embassy in Saint Petersburg. However, when the Boer War in South Africa broke out, he then volunteered his services and attested for one year’s service as a Trooper (No. 22) with the Special Corps of Imperial Yeomanry on 7 February 1900, before his unit was retitled, and he then continued in the service as a Trooper (No. 14182) with the 47th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Company, a unit of the 13th Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry, bound for service in South Africa, and as such embarking on 17 February 1900. He was then present on operations in the Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal, being one of 140 men of his company present on operations. The Battalion to which the 47th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Company joined out in South Africa, the 13th Battalion, was, as one writer put it, ‘the Imperial Yeomanry dream’; Wyndham, the creator of the Yeomanry, had wanted it to represent the cream of British manhood and the ‘13th Battalion took his scheme to its ultimate extreme’. The 45th Company from Dublin had Masters of Foxhounds and the sons of much of Ireland’s legal establishment in its ranks. The 47th Company, as mentioned, came from some of England’s wealthiest families, and the 46th and 54th from Belfast represented Ulster Unionism’s commitment to the Imperial cause. The battalion’s officers included Lord Longford, Lord Ennismore, the Earl of Leitrim, James Craig, later Lord Craigavon, and Sir John Power of the Irish whiskey distilling family. Politics, money, patriotism and class, the combination was irresistible to the press and public, some of whom dubbed the battalion the ‘Millionaires’ Own’. On arrival in South Africa, the 47th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Company, well connected as well as well heeled, only spent a week in the unpleasant surroundings of the Imperial Yeomanry camp at Maitland. Admittedly their reward was weeks of training on the edge of the Karoo Desert north of Cape Town, but life there was eased by the arrival of the Dublin men to keep them company and of a spectacular array of food, drink and other luxuries which had been sent out from England. On 15 May the two companies arrived in Bloemfontein to meet the Ulstermen, who had come straight from Maitland, and just a week later the newly assembled battalion was given its first orders for active service. The 13th Battalion then joined General Colvile’s 9th Division, which was short of mounted troops, and as such the yeomanry was detailed to link up with Colvile at Ventersburg, south of Kroonstad. But, because they were delayed waiting for forage, they did not arrive in time, and Colvile had by then begun his march east to Lindley and then north to Heilbron, taking the right flank during Robert’s march on Johannesburg. The 13th Battalion Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Basil Spragge, was an experienced regular infantry officer, and he was then handed a telegram, the origins of which are still a mystery. The telegram essentially ordered Spragge to join Colvile at Lindley. Colvile later denied all knowledge of this telegram, and there is speculation that the Boers had tapped the telegraph lines and sent a bogus message to lure the yeomanry to destruction. It was still a risky deception, as Colvile himself was heading to Lindley with the 9th Division, and if he had done so, and then lingered long enough, the yeomanry would have caught up with him, providing much needed strength to the 9th Division. Colvile’s intelligence officer later confirmed that Colvile did not give this order, but despite the speculation it does not seem likely that the Boers did send the order, and more than likely it was just down to bad staff work at British headquarters who had issued the orders to Spragge, and failed to inform Colvile. Nevertheless it played right into the hands of the Boers. The 13th Battalion marched for Lindley at daybreak on 26 May, and that afternoon met a party of armed Boers who claimed to be going to Kroonstad to surrender, and Spragge naively disarmed them, invited them to lunch and then allowed them to go. The Boers promptly returned to Lindley with much valuable information. As Private Maurice Fitzgibbon of the Dublin company, son of one of Ireland’s most senior judges, recalled: ‘The scouts of the Boer commandos at Lindley had been permitted to enter our lines to find out our numbers, our armaments and the amount of our supplies, had even had lunch with us and all this information and hospitality at the expense of a few out-of-date rifles and a few perjured oaths.’ The Boers now knew of the yeomanry’s approach, but Colvile did not. When the yeomanry rode into Lindley the following afternoon, it quickly became apparent that all was not well. Colvile was gone, and no letter or message of any sort left, the town being ominously deserted and the people too frightened to give any information. Within an hour of the yeomanry’s arrival, the Boers opened fire from some of the houses, and the yeomanry were ordered to evacuate the town, which was commanded by hills and difficult to defend, and then retreat to where they had left their baggage some three miles to the west on the Kroonstad Road. After fighting a rear guard action they regrouped on the northern bank of the Valsh River. Spragge now made the most crucial decision of the entire Lindley affair. He could either make a run for it, or set up his defences and send for help. His decision to do the latter was later heavily criticised, but in reality Spragge could not have ordered a move that night, although there was a window of opportunity, albeit a brief and highly risky one, the following morning. By the time the entire Battalion had regrouped outside Lindley it was 5pm; the men were tired, and so were the horses, which had come 87 miles in three days. If Spragge had abandoned the b...
Lot 844
A particularly attractive and poignant Memorial Artwork to commemorate Second Lieutenant A. C. Hopwood, Royal Engineers, late London Regiment, hand drawn and illuminated by his father, Mr. E. A. Hopwood, a talented draughtsman and keen follower of the Art Nouveau school of design ‘1914-1919. In Memoriam Alan Clement Hopwood. Sec. Lieut. R.E.’, pen and ink with watercolour and gilt enhancement, signed and dated ‘E. A. Hopwood. 1923.’, to lower right-hand corner, approx. 33cm x 42cm, glazed and gilt framed, in good condition, colours vibrant £120-£160 --- Alan Clement Hopwood was born in Camberwell on 2 February 1899, the younger son of Ernest A. Hopwood. Educated at St. Margaret’s School and Hulme Grammar School from September 1911 to June 1916, he was severely wounded by shellfire on 14 September 1918 whilst attempting to construct a 300-foot long vehicle ramp down the face of a retaining wall of the canal du Nord at Ruyaulcourt; the attack mirrored a series of retaliatory bombardments up and down the length of the canal, focussing heavily upon strategic positions such as canal crossings which would slow the Allied Advance. The Hulmean of December 1918 adds a little more information: ‘He will be well remembered by many boys still in the School, in which he took a high place in his forms, captained the second football and cricket elevens, and was honorary secretary of the Scientific Society. He took a great interest in railways, and had begun his engineering studies at the School of Technology when he obtained a commission from the University O.T.C., in the Royal Engineers. His O.C. wrote to his father: “If it is any comfort to you to know that he was a soldier, then I can assure you that he was through and through. He died like a soldier, uncomplaining.’ Equally as poignant as the artwork, Hopwood’s gravestone bears the inscription: “Peace, Peace! He is not dead!”, by the Englishman and romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the remaining verse adding: “he doth sleep. He hath awakened from the dream of life... Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.”’
Lot 107
Naomi Archer (Welsh 20th century), 'Tudor Merchant's House , Tenby', signed. Watercolours. 30x21cm approx., together with others in the same hand, 'Little Haven Pembrokeshire', signed. Watercolours. 25x33cm approx., and still life study of jug and fruit, signed. Watercolours. 41x28cm approx. Framed and glazed. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 90
AN 18K GOLD 'CIRCLE ROPE' BRACELET, DESIGNED BY SCHLUMBERGER, FOR TIFFANY & CO. Designed as a series of openwork twisted gold links, in 18K gold, signed Tiffany & Co. and Schlumberger, length 19.8cm Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) began his career in Paris in the 1930s as a designer of costume jewellery for the renowned couturier Elsa Schiaparelli and by the end of the decade he was creating fine jewellery for a discerning clientèlec. In 1939 he joined forces with Nicholas Bongard and together they opened a jewellery shop at 745 Fifth Avenue. From plummy amethysts to bursting bright turquoise, Schlumberger looked to nature for inspiration, combining coloured gems with diamonds and yellow gold to create a riot of hue and light. Tiffany & Co., under the direction of Walter Hoving, recruited Schlumberger in 1955 with hopes to breathe new life into the company and create a new look. Schlumberger was one of only four jewellers that Tiffany has allowed to sign their work and it was his playful imagination that mounted a jewelled bird on top of the famous Tiffany Yellow Diamond. In many ways a man ahead of the crowd, Schlumberger was the first jewellery designers to be awarded the prestigious ‘Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award in 1958. “Schlumberger brings to his art classic design principles of the Renaissance,” reported The Blue Book of 1986. Diana Vreeland, the respected editor of Vogue, wrote that Schlumberger appreciated “the miracle of jewels, which for him are the ways and means to the realisation of his dreams”. Created in his studio on the mezzanine level of Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue flagship store, his designs became de rigueur for fashionable women of the time including Diana Vreeland, Babe Paley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Audrey Hepburn. Perhaps most famous of all his designs were his pailloné enamel bracelets, which were to become dubbed ‘Jackie Bracelets’ due to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier’s fondness for the pieces, of which she owned several. The shimmering colours of the bracelet were achieved through an unusual technique wherein translucent enamel and foil were layered on top of another. One of Schlumberger’s most enduring designs, this bracelet can still be found in Tiffany’s contemporary collections and are still admired and sought after. Of these bracelets, fashion editor Diana Vreeland wrote “His enamel is perfection…He likes to stab enamel with nails of gold, as if to hold it from flying back to the world of nature from which he’s taken its colours”. Schlumberger retired in the late 1970s and died in 1987, but more than a hundred of his designs continue to be made by Tiffany artisans. In 1995, he became only the third ever jewellery designer to be honoured with a retrospective on his work titled ‘Un Diamant dans la Ville’ in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, who still house many of his original design sketches. Schlumberger pieces have not only held their value at auction but continue to increase in general.
Lot 91
A PAIR OF DIAMOND AND ENAMEL 'TAJ MAHAL' EARCLIPS, DESIGNED BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER FOR TIFFANY AND CO. Of a pointed, dome design, centring a brilliant-cut diamond accented by blue enamel stripes and textured gold, mounted in 18K gold, signed Sclumberger and Tiffany & Co., with maker's case, length 1.7cm Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) began his career in Paris in the 1930s as a designer of costume jewellery for the renowned couturier Elsa Schiaparelli and by the end of the decade he was creating fine jewellery for a discerning clientèle. In 1939 he joined forces with Nicholas Bongard and together they opened a jewellery shop at 745 Fifth Avenue. From plummy amethysts to bursting bright turquoise, Schlumberger looked to nature for inspiration, combining coloured gems with diamonds and yellow gold to create a riot of hue and light. Tiffany & Co., under the direction of Walter Hoving, recruited Schlumberger in 1955 with hopes to breathe new life into the company and create a new look. Schlumberger was one of only four jewellers that Tiffany has allowed to sign their work and it was his playful imagination that mounted a jewelled bird on top of the famous Tiffany Yellow Diamond. In many ways a man ahead of the crowd, Schlumberger was the first jewellery designers to be awarded the prestigious ‘Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award in 1958. “Schlumberger brings to his art classic design principles of the Renaissance,” reported The Blue Book of 1986. Diana Vreeland, the respected editor of Vogue, wrote that Schlumberger appreciated “the miracle of jewels, which for him are the ways and means to the realisation of his dreams”. Created in his studio on the mezzanine level of Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue flagship store, his designs became de rigueur for fashionable women of the time including Diana Vreeland, Babe Paley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Audrey Hepburn. Perhaps most famous of all his designs were his pailloné enamel bracelets, which were to become dubbed ‘Jackie Bracelets’ due to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier’s fondness for the pieces, of which she owned several. The shimmering colours of the bracelet were achieved through an unusual technique wherein translucent enamel and foil were layered on top of another. One of Schlumberger’s most enduring designs, this bracelet can still be found in Tiffany’s contemporary collections and are still admired and sought after. Of these bracelets, fashion editor Diana Vreeland wrote “His enamel is perfection…He likes to stab enamel with nails of gold, as if to hold it from flying back to the world of nature from which he’s taken its colours”. Schlumberger retired in the late 1970s and died in 1987, but more than a hundred of his designs continue to be made by Tiffany artisans. In 1995, he became only the third ever jewellery designer to be honoured with a retrospective on his work titled ‘Un Diamant dans la Ville’ in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, who still house many of his original design sketches. Schlumberger pieces have not only held their value at auction but continue to increase in general.
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