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Lot 318
A squirrelOstrich egg and tiger eye stone sculpture 925/000 silver head, hands, feet and tail in Oporto assay mark (1985-2020) and Manuel Alcino & Fos Lda maker's mark (reg. 86)Literature:VIDAL, Manuel Gonçalves; ALMEIDA, Fernando Moitinho de - "Marcas de Contrastes e Ourives Portugueses (1887 a 1993)", vol. II. Lisboa: IN-CM, nº 4107 e 4887Height.: 25 cm
Lot 305
A 19th century, framed silk hand embroidered fan sleeve. Tourmaline stone decorates the strap, beautifully adorned with embroidered peacocks and various charming birds. Housed in a gilded frame with glass cover. Frame: 5.5"W x 21"H x 0.25"D. Sight: 2.5"W x 18.75"H. Issued: 19th c.Country of Origin: ChinaCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 365
Three magnificent snuff bottles made from various stone, and glass. Peking glass snuff bottle without its stopper, painted to the interior with a Chinese Garden scene, a carved hardstone snuff bottle with coral stopper lined with jade, and carved rock crystal with conforming hair. Tallest: 2.25"L x 1.25"W x 3"H. Shortest: 1.75"L x 0.75"W x 2.5"H. Condition: Age related wear.
Lot 322
A beautiful apple-green stone of a bearded man smoked filled double-gourd flask in one hand, and a cane in the other hand. A gourd is a symbol for healing and medicine. This item has a base included: 2.25"L x 1.5"W x 1"H. Issued: 19th centuryDimensions: 2"L x 1.5"W x 4.75"HCountry of Origin: ChinaCondition: Age related wear. As is.
Lot 378
Three finely carved hardstone snuff bottles from eye of tiger, agate, and tianhuang stone. All perfectly carved decorations; two with birds on tree and one mythical faces on each side. Two have stopper and one without stopper. Tallest: 1.75"L x 0.75"W x 2.5"H. Shortest: 1.75"L x 0.75"W x 2"H. Condition: Age related wear.
Lot 346
A Chinese carved red stone snuff bottle. This finely carved bottle features two mythical creatures coming from both sides, surmounted on a small carved wood base. The stopper features a tiny bird perched atop. Stopper does not have spoon. Dimensions: 1.25"L x 1"W x 3.25"HCondition: Age related wear. As is.
Lot 167
λ PAUL NASH (BRITISH 1889-1946) SEAGULL EYE WIND WAVES Wood Printed with artist's address to Bourlet & Sons Ltd., London label (to underside) 52 x 40cm (20¼ x 15½ in.) In the avant-garde English journal Axis no 8 for Early Winter 1937, Paul Nash's object Burnt Offering was reproduced - one of the few images we have of his objects, once quite numerous but now virtually all disappeared. Burnt Offering seems to be a composite object, with what appears to be a turned wooden finial (upside down) or door handle partially destroyed by fire fixed to a concrete or stone base with markings and encrustations that make it look as if it had long been submerged in the sea.Nash's objects were a major presence in the surrealist exhibitions in England in the 1930s. At the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries he showed two objects - untitled, but described as "Designed Object", and one "Found Object Interpreted" whose medium was given as "Vegetable Kingdom" (Marsh Personage). Burnt Offering was also shown at the London Gallery exhibition "Surrealist Objects and Poems" (1937). As Michel Remy says, "Hardly any exhibit has survived from the exhibition", (so far as we know). True to the complexity of the surrealist interest in the object, fifteen categories of object were listed in the catalogue; in "Surrealist objects" Nash exhibited Homes without Hands and Forest; in "Found Objects" Long-gom-pa ("a five-branch root named after a Tibetan runner famous at the time" (Remy); in "Found Objects Interpreted" Goodness How Sad, Encounter of Wild Stones, Not Cricket and Nest of Wild Stones; in "Objects Collages", Aquarium and Only Egg; in "Oneiric Objects" Tree Man; in "Objects for Everyday Use" (with Margaret Nash) Basket for Found Objects; Burnt Offering in "Perturbed Objects"; Moon Aviary in "Constructed Objects".For the Cambridge University Arts Society "Exhibition of Surrealism" (1937) he showed three: Only Egg, The Nest of Wild Stones and Long-gom-pa. In the same exhibition Eileen Agar showed Le père Ubu. In 1938, following the great success of the London International Surrealist Exhibition, Nash showed several works, including Objets aux champs and Objets balancés (probably photographs rather than actual objects, the latter possibly Poised objects [Causey 1973 pl. 27].)Of the twenty-five or so known and named objects, most were dismantled, scrapped, "not made" or have simply melted away. Forest from Roland Penrose's collection (trees made from glove stretchers) and Only Egg "seem to be the only two objects by Nash to have survived", according to the catalogue raisonné. As the Tate catalogue entry for Nash's important photomontage/drawing Swanage, c. 1936 says, "Almost none of these objects survives except as depicted in Nash's work, though he apparently continued to keep and collect objects until his death".It is therefore extraordinarily difficult to place the object in question with any certainty although there is plenty of leeway for the existence of a hitherto unknown "found object" - or possibly "found object interpreted". A typewritten label on the back of the object gives the title "Seagull Eye Wind Waves" and an address for Paul Nash: Whitecliffe Farm, near Swanage, which is where he lived from October 1934 until he moved to the centre of Swanage in 1935. In March 1936 the Nashes left Swanage. So the object (or its collection) would date from roughly the same period as Marsh personage, his first found object, which in some respects, especially visually, it resembles.Whereas Marsh Personage and Long-gom-pa are clearly found "natural" objects, (the latter furze-wood, the former driftwood, "salvaged from a stream", and the first of the found "vegetable" objects), Seagull Eye Wind Waves is "interpreted" and worked on. It is composed of three pieces of wood, each with a strong character: the thickly gnarled outer rim of a hollow tree, which embraces a curved form, perhaps once part of a piece of furniture. This has been carved to enhance its resemblance to outspread seagull wings, and the tip of the top wing becomes a bird head; through a hole in the top of this shape runs a thin, antler-like branch. Perhaps this worn forked stick that has pierced the wooden curve was encountered thus in a curious natural formation, and the curve was then interpreted as wings and the bird's head, crudely carved. Gashes and striations in the side of the wooden base, some circling knots in the wood, some indicating the lines of a torso, must belong to the same intervention. It might have been worked by Nash, or found by him as a piece of rough carving, a kind of primitive interpretation by an unknown hand, with a sense of the phallic and sexual suggestions in the lump of wood and its odd impaling. This would be wholly in line with surrealist taste and there are plenty of examples of such finds. For example the construction made by an aliéné, (a frame filled with broken scissors and other sharp implements) found and exhibited by André Breton. This rural find by Nash is in line with his profound love of the natural world and its innumerable forms. He wrote in Axis (January 1935) "...I find I still need partially organic features to make my fixed, conceptual image. I discern among natural phenomena a thousand forms which might, with advantage, be dissolved in the crucible of abstract transfiguration; but the hard cold stone, the rasping grass, the intricate architecture of trees and waves, or the brittle sculpture of a dead leaf - I cannot translate altogether beyond their own image, without suffering in spirit. My aim in symbolical representation and abstraction, although governed by a purpose with a formal ideal in view, seeks always to give life to a conception within the formal shell..." In my opinion Seagull Eye Wind Waves is a found interpreted object by Paul Nash. Professor Dawn AdesCausey, Andrew and Eates, Margot Paul Nash Paintings and Watercolours Tate 1975Causey, Andrew Paul Nash's Photographs, Document and Image Tate 1973Evans, Myfanwy "Paul Nash 1937" Axis no 8 Early Winter 1937Exposition internationale du surréalisme Exb. cat. Galerie Beaux-arts Paris 1938 Exposition surréaliste d'objets Exb. cat. Charles Ratton Paris 1936Jenkins, David Fraser Paul Nash, The Elements Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010Montagu, Jemima (ed.) Paul Nash, Modern Artist, Ancient Landscape Tate 2003Nash, Paul "For, but not with" Axis 1 January 1935Nash, Paul "Swanage or Seaside Surrealism" Architectural Review November 1936Nash, Paul "The Object", Architectural Review November 1936Nash, Paul Fertile Image Ed Margaret Nash [1951] 1975Nash, Paul Writings on Art ed. Andrew Causey Oxford 2000Paul Nash, Places Exb. cat. South Bank Centre 1989Read, Herbert (ed.) Surrealism 1936Remy, Michel Surrealism in Britain Ashgate 1999Surrealism Exb. Cat. Cambridge University Arts Society 1937Surrealist Objects and Poems London Gallery Ltd. 1937 The International Surrealist Exhibition New Burlington Galleries Exb Cat. 1936 The London Bulletin 1938-1940
Lot 308
A pair of George III style Diamond, Amethyst and Tourmaline drop earrings, each set with an oval rose cut amethyst rose cut diamond triple layer halo, pave bales, tourmaline dividers, total approx stone weights, amethyst 2.89ct, diamond 1.65ct, tourmaline 0.32ct, unmarked yellow metal mounts, 5.9g gross.
Lot 335
A Certified diamond and ruby pear shaped cluster ring, set with a central pear cut diamond 0.45ct and sixteen old cut diamonds 0.80ct and fifteen mixed cut rubies, total stone weights, diamonds 1.25ct, rubies 0.45ct, rose gold shank with silver setting, tests a approx 8ct gold, size M, 5.6g gross, with WGI Certificate.
Lot 172
First World War British 1914-18 war medal impressed to R.5831 H. Jacobs A.B Royal Navy Volunteer reserves, together with British Red Cross Society medal for war service 1914-18, silver Royal Tournament medallion engraved ‘1939 Tug Of War, 110 stone, army, R.A.S.C, Feltham, Dvr J. White, ARP silver badge, H.M Customs preventive service shoulder title, Lovat scouts enamelled badge and various other cap badges etc. varying dates, crowns, manufactures and conditions
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