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Lot 260
Still Life Tulips, watercolour signed and dated by Harriet Gladys Russell 1936, Still Life Chrysanthemums, watercolour signed T Russell and Mice Picnicking, colour print after Jane Pinkney signed in pen max 37cm x 27cm (3) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Lot 806
Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997) ''Spring'' - A still life of assorted flowers in a glass vase Signed, oil on canvas, 59cm by 49cm Provenance: commissioned directly from the artist as part of a set of ''The Four Seasons'' *Artists' Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business
Lot 18
A Derby Porcelain Coffee Can and Saucer, circa 1790, painted in the manner of George Complin with a still life of fruit beside an upturned basket, on light blue ground gilt with springs, painted marks in puce, saucer 5cm diameter See illustration For a coffee can from the same service see Bonhams, New Bond Street, 23 April 2008, lot 304 Provenance: The Foden Collection
Lot 511
Sabina BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated Year 15 = AD 130-131. CABEINA CEBACTH, diademed and draped bust right / CABEINA CEBACTH, Sabina seated left, holding corn-ears and sceptre; LIE (date) above. Milne 1306; Emmett 1334; Curtis 558-559, 561; BMC 917 var. 13.68g, 25mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine, attractive and still partially lustrous metal. Extremely Rare, and likely the finest known example. Sabina is here depicted wearing an intricately detailed headdress and diadem, but underlying this proud representation was a dark secret: the empress is known to have had an affair with Suetonius, her husband Hadrian's personal secretary, an affair recorded in the Historia Augusta, Life of Hadrian (1.11.3). However, it is also known that Hadrian was not left in the position of the cuckold, as he had a famously passionate relationship of his own with his favourite, Antinous. This interesting coin is a good exemplar of the power of propaganda and the representation of the Imperial family as a united front. It highlights the importance given to the portrayal of the emperor and his family, ensuring that they be seen, from the outside at least, as models of dignity and virtue. The charming portrayal of Sabina on this issue, which was struck in the same year Suetonius died, may have coincided with a renewal and strengthening of the ties between the emperor and his empress.
Lot 900
David Hockney 1937 - Artist Pencil Signed and Dated Ltd Edition Lithograph, Rose In Window, Titled ' Le Nid Du Due 'Still Life Study of a Vase on a Window Ledge, The Vase Containing a Single Rose, Monogrammed and Dated 1971 to Lower Right. Size 23.5 x 17 Inches, Mounted and Framed Behind Glass. Created by the Bernard Jacobson Gallery In The 1970's, When They Exhibited The Original Watercolour. Only 1000 Prints Made, And Then The Majority Where Over Printed with The Exhibition Details and Sent To Museums and Other Out-Lets, Leaving Few Prints The Where Not Over Printed - This Is One. Condition Nr Mint.
Lot 448
Seleukid Empire, Cleopatra Thea Eueteria AR Tetradrachm. Sole reign. Ake-Ptolemais, dated SE 126/125 BC. Diademed and veiled bust of Cleopatra Thea right, wearing stephane / BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ KΛEOΠATΡAΣ ΘEAΣ EΥETHPIAΣ, double-cornucopiae tied with fillet, monogram to right, [date IΠP (= year 187) in exergue]. SC 2258.2; BMC 1 = LSM, NNM 84, 7; Houghton, CSE 803; Seyrig, Tresors II, 30.242; Spink 3014, 87 (same obverse die). 16.74g, 30mm, 12h. About Extremely Fine. Excessively Rare; the fifth known example. The life of Kleopatra Thea Eueteria (“Kleopatra the Goddess of Plenty”) would have been worthy of immortalisation in Shakespearean tragedy as few but the lives of the Ptolemies are; such was the complexity of her life and the constant intrigue that surrounded her, it is most surprising that she has never been the subject of major artistic work or representation in historical fiction. Born into the Ptolemaic royal family of Egypt in circa 164 BC, Cleopatra was the daughter of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II, who were brother and sister. It seems that early in her life she had been betrothed to her uncle Ptolemy VIII Physcon, who was the rival King of Egypt in an uneasy triumvirate. However in 150 BC she was married to the usurper king of the Seleukid Empire, Alexander Balas, at a sumptuous ceremony in Ake Ptolemais; this marriage would produce a son, Antiochos VI Dionysos. In 145 though, her father invaded Syria, defeated Balas in battle and remarried her to Demetrios II, the son of the former king deposed by Balas, only to die himself a few days later in uncertain circumstances. With the death then of her father Ptolemy VII Philometor, Cleopatra Thea's erstwhile fiancé Ptolemy Physcon married her mother Cleopatra II, and six years later replaced her with her daughter Cleopatra III, Cleopatra Thea's sister. Cleopatra bore her new husband Demetrios II two sons who would later grow up to be kings themselves: Seleukos V Philometor, and Antiochos VII Grypos. In 139, Demetrios II was captured while fighting the Parthians, and held hostage. With the loss of the king, Demetrios’ younger brother Antiochos VII Sidetes assumed the throne, taking Cleopatra Thea as his wife the following year. She bore him too at least one son, Antiochos IX Kyzikenos. In 129, in a bid to destabilise the Seleukid Empire, the Parthians released Demetrios II to reclaim his throne and wife from his brother. Conveniently, that same year Sidetes was killed in battle against the Parthians, and thus Demetrios regained his throne, taking Cleopatra as his wife once more. By now though the empire was a shadow of its former self, and Demetrios faced difficulties maintaining his control over his reduced territories. Recollections of his old cruelties and vices, along with his humiliating defeat and apparent good treatment in Parthia, caused him to be detested. Ptolemy Physcon, now at odds with his former wife Cleopatra II, who had fled Egypt to the court of her daughter and son-in-law, set up the usurper Alexander II Zabinas in opposition to Demetrios. Alexander defeated Demetrios in battle at Damascus in 126, and fled to Ptolemais whereupon Cleopatra closed the gates against him. After this final desertion by his wife, he was captured, possibly tortured, and died a miserable death on a ship near Tyre. This coin was struck in the brief period after the death of Demetrios and before his eldest son Seleukos V became king in 125. During that time Cleopatra held the reins of empire and ruled as Queen in her own right, issuing this very brief (and today extremely rare) coinage. Seleukos V was murdered on his mother’s orders soon after his accession, and then from 125 to 121 BC Cleopatra Thea ruled jointly with Demetrios’ younger son Antiochos VIII Grypos, who was still a teenager at his crowning. Defeating Alexander II Zabinas in 123, the victorious returning king was offered a poisoned cup of wine by his mother, who apparently feared losing her control over him, but the suspicious Antiochos instead forced her to drink it herself. So perished Cleopatra Thea, though her influence was yet felt for many years: while Antiochos Grypos proved a competent king, reorganising the state and providing stability and financial recovery, all this would end in 114 when Cleopatra’s son by Antiochos Sidetes, Antiochos Kyzikenos, returned to Syria to claim the throne, sparking renewed civil war.
Lot 11
A ROYAL WORCESTER CHINA CABINET PLATE, 1951, of plain dished circular form, centrally painted in polychrome enamels by L. Maybury with a still life of two plums and cherries on a mossy bank within a solid gilt border, raised and chased with minaret panels on a foliate ground, signed, gilt mark, 9 1/4" diameter (Est. plus 18% premium inc. VAT)
Lot 14
A MATCHED COALPORT CHINA MANTEL GARNITURE, c.1920's, comprising a pair of two handled vases and covers of ovoid form each painted in polychrome enamels with a Highland loch vignette and a still life of fruit, within gilt highlighted ecru borders, on a cobalt blue ground, retailed by G.W. Darby, 30 Market St., Nottingham, green printed mark and inscribed V5146/R, S/S 293 in gilt, 9 1/2" high, together with a similar pedestal tyg with three vignettes, green printed mark and inscribed V5327/2.144 in gilt, 8 1/2" high (3) (Est. plus 18% premium inc. VAT)
Lot 728
HENRY GEORGE TODD (1846-1898) STILL LIFE WITH A SLICED ORANGE; STILL LIFE WITH A PEAR AND WHITE CURRANTS a pair, both signed and dated 1884, oil on canvas, 19 x 24.5cm (2) Provenance: Mandells Gallery, Norwich. ++In the same fine condition as when purchased by the vendor's family from the Norwich dealer in probably the 1970s. Both in need of a light clean only. In 18th c style gilt frames
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