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Lot 675
POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately 175 topographical and other cards, including real photographic views of Chulmleigh from Chulmleigh Bridge Cottages; the Rectory, Kingsnympton; Kingsnympton Church (interior); Commercial Street, Hereford; Commercial Street, Abertillery; 'Coalmining' [a pit pony and dram] (Timothy's Series No.226); and a lady in a wheelchair; with views of the American Prisoners' Memorial Stone, Dartmoor Prison (by Northmore of Princetown); Devon & Somerset Staghounds at Exford Bridge; Apollo Hotel, Bombay; [Indian] Fish Woman; Brahmin Priest; Group of Fakirs; Public Buildings, Bombay; Green's Mansions, Bombay; Railway Station, Hyderabad (two different); Golconda Tombs; Church Gate Station, Bombay (two, the same); Government Dockyard, Bombay; Thakurdwar Temple, Bombay; Dalhousie Barrack, Fort William, Calcutta; Crawford Market, Bombay; Shah Aum's Tomb, Ahmedabad; and others, (album).
Lot 715
POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL Approximately 115 cards, including real photographic views of Rodney Stoke Church; Brean Church; Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn; King's Lynn from West Lynn; and the Custom House, King's Lynn; with views of Cornhill, Bridgwater; Bridgwater Bridge; St. Mary's Church, Bridgwater (by Whitby of Bridgwater); East Brent Church; Long Street, Dursley; High Street, Newport (Salop); Forton Rectory, Newport (Salop); The Church, Mark; Stogursey; St. Andrew's Church, Stogursey; Ruins of Stogursey Castle; the Devon & Somerset Staghounds, Triscombe Stone; and others, (album).
Lot 90
A 19th century Chinese hardwood and inlaid dressing table chest, brass bound exterior, the top inlaid with four early Chinese carved Jade panels, surrounded by two ivory, coral, Peking glass and hard stone jardinières and flowering plants, with similar decoration to side panels, the front section with similar decoration having two panel doors, the hinged top and front doors open to reveal a mirror and fitted interior, all supported on a carved shaped apron base, 27 cm wide x 37 cm deep x 22 cm high
Lot 201
A rare and large Chinese archaic bronze ritual drinking vessel, Hu, Warring States period 5th-3rd century B.C., carved in relief with three registers of ancestral figure scenes of sacrifice, worship and hunting, taotie mask ring handles, brown patina with areas of malachite and cuprite encrustation, approx. 50cm high, repairsLiterature:see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Press, 1987, Fig. 28e with an illustration of a smaller bronze Hu vessel in the Palace Museum Beijing decorated with similar figure scenes.A bronze fanghu (square wine vessel) decorated in the same style but with an inlay technique around the decoration is in the Rietberg Museum, accession no. RCH9A and is illustrated in the Museum Rietberg Zurich Museum Guide, Zurich, 2000, p. 75, fig. 59.A fanghu of this type and style with pictorial decoration in flat relief restricted to three horizontal registers, now without any of the background inlay material remaining, in the National Palace Museum, is illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Shang and Chou Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessels, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1989, p. 217, plate 77. A third, smaller fanghu decorated in the same technique with silhouetted figures and animals in flat relief shown in various hunting scenes, also now lacking the inlay material which filled the background, in the Freer Gallery of Art, is illustrated by Lawton in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Change and Continuity 480-222 B.C., Washington D.C., 1982, p. 33, no. 5The decoration is similar to scenes carved on to later Eastern Han dynasty stone tomb reliefs such as The Wu Family Ancestral Shrine found on the north of Wuzhai Mountain in Zhifang Township, Jiaxiang County of Shandong Province, China.Provenance: the estate of the late Jean-Claude Jean-Claude (1926-2016).Jean-Claude Lepileur was a man of great learning. Born in Lisieux in France, he became a buyer and seller of antiques and formed a partnership with Mrs Senta Christian in a joint antiques venture, travelling to and from England from their early base in Deauville in Normandy. Mr Lepileur was a self-taught historian, chemist and restorer, with a particular love of all things Asian, especially pieces of art from China. And more specifically ancient Chinese bronze artefacts, which he collected avidly all his life.Mr Lepileur and Mrs Christian moved their business to Finchley in London in the 1950s and they continued to operate as a partnership until 1996, when Mrs Christian passed away. Jean-Claude had a very discerning eye for art and at one point even managed to identify two original Rembrandt sketches for sale on a stall on Portobello Market and was able to purchase them for a few pounds. They were later fully authenticated by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mr Lepileur was also a frequent visitor to the British Museum in those days as he was always keen to compare his latest Chinese bronze acquisitions with those in the collection of the museum. During his life he amassed a collection of some eighty bronzes and a number of ceramics, pictures and scrolls. He also collected over 60 reference books, many of them very detailed, which he used to assist him with his research. Mr Lepileur was still buying and selling up until his death in December last year, aged 90. The collection is presented complete, with no omissions and is a great tribute to his skill in identifying, researching and collecting some wonderful pieces of Chinese art.
Lot 214
A Chinese stone tomb relief, probably Han dynasty, 1st-2nd century A.D. carved in low relief to the frieze with stylised birds, the two lower registers with figures making offerings, three inscriptions to the lower band, 47.5cm x 88cm, repairedProvenance: the estate of the late Jean-Claude Jean-Claude (1926-2016).Jean-Claude Lepileur was a man of great learning. Born in Lisieux in France, he became a buyer and seller of antiques and formed a partnership with Mrs Senta Christian in a joint antiques venture, travelling to and from England from their early base in Deauville in Normandy. Mr Lepileur was a self-taught historian, chemist and restorer, with a particular love of all things Asian, especially pieces of art from China. And more specifically ancient Chinese bronze artefacts, which he collected avidly all his life.Mr Lepileur and Mrs Christian moved their business to Finchley in London in the 1950s and they continued to operate as a partnership until 1996, when Mrs Christian passed away. Jean-Claude had a very discerning eye for art and at one point even managed to identify two original Rembrandt sketches for sale on a stall on Portobello Market and was able to purchase them for a few pounds. They were later fully authenticated by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mr Lepileur was also a frequent visitor to the British Museum in those days as he was always keen to compare his latest Chinese bronze acquisitions with those in the collection of the museum. During his life he amassed a collection of some eighty bronzes and a number of ceramics, pictures and scrolls. He also collected over 60 reference books, many of them very detailed, which he used to assist him with his research. Mr Lepileur was still buying and selling up until his death in December last year, aged 90. The collection is presented complete, with no omissions and is a great tribute to his skill in identifying, researching and collecting some wonderful pieces of Chinese art.
Lot 293
A Chinese archaistic yellow jade plaque, Eastern Zhou dynasty or later, in the form a mythical beast carved in relief with spiral grains, the stone of greenish-yellow tone with russet inclusions to the edge, 15.8cmSee Alfred Salmony, carved jade of Ancient China, 1980, text p.80, Plate XLIII for an Eastern Zhon dynasty plaque in the G L Winthrop Collection, New York
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