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Lot 506
Neil Young / Test Pressing, USA Columbia Test Pressing of the 'On The Beach' Album. White Columbia Test Pressing labels. Comes with photocopied 8 page pre-review by Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe with amendments and a double sided album label etc information sheet. Some wear to paper items and creasing to the album sleeve - Vinyl VG / VG+
Lot 616
Paul McCartney / Wings / Beatles, twenty eight CDs including doubles with some sealed and with titles including Band on the Run (25th Anniversary - sealed), Wings Over America (Double - original 'Fatbox'), Liverpool Oratorio (Double - Original 'Fatbox'), Run Devil Run (with Interview Disc), Standing Stone and more - mainly excellent or sealed condition
Lot 32
New Kingdom,1550-1070 BC. A rectangular black stone scribe's palette with chamfered underside, shallow central recess. 313 grams, 11.5cm (4 1/2"). Property of a Swedish collector; acquired in 2009 from Rilton Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; previously with the Falmouth Museum, UK, in the 1970s; accompanied by a copy of the Rilton Gallery invoice. Fine condition, usage wear.
Lot 484
4th-5th century AD. A drum-shaped gold mount with beaded wire border, convex garnet cloison upper face, central garnet cabochon, bronze slider bar to the reverse with sheet gold covering. See Menghin, W. The Merovingian Period. Europe Without Borders, Berlin, 2007.14 grams, 25mm (1"). From a European collection; previously in a large American collection formed in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1995; previously in the Mansees collection; formed 1950s-early 1990s.[No Reserve] Very fine condition, one stone chipped.
Lot 521
Cast 1920 AD. A large bronze commemorative cast plaque with four pins to the reverse, depicting two nude standing winged male figures each extending an arm towards the other above a heater-shaped panel with raised text The first direct flight across the Atlantic was made on 14-15th June 1919, on a Vickers-Vimy Aeroplane, fitted with two Rolls-Royce engines of 560 HP each. Pilot Captain Sir John Alcock K.B.E., D.S.C. Navigator Lieutenant Sir A. Whitten Brown, K.B.E. This tablet is erected by Rolls Royce Limited in appreciation of the care and skill displayed by Mr. F. Henry Royce, the Engineer-in-Chief, and his assistants in the design of the engines and of the experimental staff and of all workers at Derby in connection with their construction.The reverse inscribed SINGERS Bronze Founders Frome. The plaque sculpted on commission from Rolls-Royce by Sir William Reid Dick (1879-1961); the eagle-on-globe, which originally surmounted the plaque, now lost. Cf. The Times, London for 13 July 1920, p.17; and cf. Wardleworth, Dennis, William Reid Dick, Sculptor, Routledge, 2016, p.50; and see Dictionary of National Biography, biographical entries for Alcock, Brown and Dick.65.5 kg, 101cm (39 3/4"). Property of a Hertfordshire country gentleman; rescued from a scrapyard in Bishop's Stortford, Essex; UK, in 2002. John Alcock (1892-1919) and Arthur Brown (1886-1948) made aviation history by making the first non-stop flight, taking some sixteen hours flying time, across the Atlantic Ocean, only a few months after the end of the War. After flying from St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland, taking some sixteen hours to complete, Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air, presented them with the Daily Mail prize (first offered in 1913) having achieved the flight in less than than the seventy-two hours stipulated; shortly afterwards they were invested with the KBE by George V at Windsor Castle; both men had been aviators during World War I and both had been prisoners of war; Alcock held after engine failure over Turkey and Brown being shot down over Germany. Alcock died in an airplane crash at Rouen, France while test flying a new Vickers Viking plane on 18 December 1919 and Brown died naturally on 4 October 1948; the Vickers Vimy airplane they made their pioneering flight in is preserved today in the Science Museum, South Kensington, London; several monuments to their achievement are still existing today: three in Newfoundland, one at the landing spot in Ireland, with others at Heathrow Airport, London and Manchester Airport (a few miles from the birthplace of Alcock); a Royal Mail postage stamp was issued in 1969 to mark the 50th anniversary of the flight; Rolls-Royce, whose Eagle engines were installed in the aircraft, paid their own tribute and commissioned this plaque from the late sculptor Sir William Reid Dick RA, RSBS (1879-1961, knighted 1935 and appointed King's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland by George VI in 1938) in 1920, believed originally sited at one of the Rolls-Royce factories; possibly at Derby. The sculptor made or contributed to many important works sited around the world in stone and bronze and these included, in London, the Kitchener Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, the Air Force Memorial at Westminster, the statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Grosvenor Square, the Statue of George V at Westminster and, elsewhere, the figure of Lady Godiva at Coventry, the Arras Memorial and other War Memorials and the statue of David Livingston at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Fine condition. An important piece of aviation history and a work by a renowned sculptor.
Lot 594
1st millennium BC. A carved jadeite D-shaped panel with holes to the upper and lateral edges; to one face a facing mask with narrow eyes, broad nose, downturned mouth, flanked by arched lines. 86 grams, 75mm (3"). From the private collection of a German gentleman; acquired prior to 1999. The Olmecs were the first people in Mesoamerica to create a codified religious universe that we can recognise today through the surviving art. Olmec deities had features of the powerful animals of the tropical rain forests, with the principle deity being a were-jaguar, brought to life through the mating of a human female and a male jaguar. These deities display a mix of human and feline features and the most enduring of these were-jaguar deities is the Rain Baby, a deity whose tears were believed to bring the life giving rains. The mix of human and feline features could relate to the Shamanic practice of trance rituals where the practitioner was believed to enter the body of an animal, such as a jaguar, in order to communicate with the spirit world. The creation of luxury objects from jade required a material which didn't occur in the heart of Olmec culture. Therefore rulers dispatched parties to procure the stone, and over these jade routes the Olmec empire reached into what is now Honduras, as well as to Mexico city area and the Pacific Ocean. This way, the culture expanded through the Mesoamerica and create the base for later Maya culture, traceable in art style, rituals and ballgame. The facial expression with the narrow eyes and crescentic mouth resembles that of the Olmec jadeite mask displayed in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York under accession number 1977.187.33. Fine condition.
Lot 595
3rd-2nd millennium BC. A carved stone anthropomorphic idol with recesses to the neck, legs and face, reserved eyes and nose; mounted on a custom-made stand. 347 grams, 16cm including stand (6 1/4"). Property of a London lady; by inheritance; formerly with Walter Steinberg collection; acquired Howard Nowes, USA, 2000; accompanied by an invoice from Howard Nowes.[No Reserve] Very fine condition.
Lot 612
1530-1150 BC. A red-white mottled agate cylinder seal with a cross above a seated(?) person, the right hand holding a barley stalk, ear of corn below, by this symbol we can identify this person as the goddess Šala; this agricultural deity was either the wife of the god Adad (IŠKUR), who embodied the power of storms, or the wife of Dag?n (in Hebrew dag?n = grain“), who was the inventor of the plough (ibid., p. 172f. sub Šala, p. 110f. sub Iškur, and p. 56 sub Dagan); the goddess looks to the left at an inscription in nine vertical lines: 1) dIŠKUR ZU-ni [ …] - Adad … [ … ] 2) re-me-ni Ba-[ba6] - Merciful is Ba[ba(?)] 3) A UD i ...3) A UD i ... See J. Black, J & Green, A. Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, London, 1992, p.39 s.v. barley stalk; for further Kassite cylinder seals with barley stalk see Stiehler-Alegria Delgado, G. Die kassitische Glyptik, MVAS 18, München, Wien, 1996, Pl.10, sub E; and for this type of stone see p.246.9.32 grams, 22mm (1"). Private collection, London, UK; formerly with Persepolis Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK; in the 1980s. Fine condition, although incomplete this is a very important seal for the antiquarian and iconography of the Kassite glyptic.
Lot 615
9th-8th century BC. A carved black hardstone cylinder seal with a pair of winged beasts and plants, possibly a contemporary copy; accompanied by a section of the old scholarly notes on a collection of 61 seals, typed and unsigned, by W. G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Mid-west Iranian, c. 900-700 B.C. Black stone. One winged monster pursuing another; crescent; two plants.' See Keel-Leu, H. & Tessier, B. Die Vorderasiatischen Rollsiegel der Sammlungen Bibel + Orient der Universität Freiburg Schweiz, Fribourg, Göttingen, 2004, no. 144.10.9 grams, 31mm (1 1/4"). Property of a London gentleman; part of his family collection since the 1970s; collection identification number 12; supplied with a museum-quality impression. This lot is part of a single collection of cylinder seals which were examined in the 1980s by Professor Lambert and most are accompanied by his own detailed notes; the collection has recently been reviewed by Dr. Ronald Bonewitz. Very fine condition.
Lot 670
3rd-7th century AD. A group of five stone stamp seals consisting of: two carnelian one with a scorpion, the other with a reclining ibex; an agate seal engraved with a male bust; a brown jasper seal, with circles engraved to the domed top, the underside with the forepart of a lion; and a haematite seal showing a quatrefoil with ibex heads to the end of each arm. 19 grams total, 14-17mm (1/2"). Property of a North London lady; gifted from her father's collection; formerly with a Mayfair gallery, London, UK; previously acquired in the 1980s.[5] Fine to extremely fine condition.
Lot 740
2nd century BC-2nd century AD. A rectangular alabaster stele with stylised human face carved in the half-round with remains of red pigmentation; lentoid sockets for separate inlaid eyes, keeled triangular nose, D-shaped bilinear ears; short incised inscription below the chin. 5.4 kg, 32cm (12 1/2"). Ex South London collection; acquired in the late 1990s. South Arabian sculpture associated with palaces and domestic settings often reflects a strong Graeco-Roman influence. In contrast, ancestral images, funerary portraits and votive dedications exhibit a distinct style that is characteristically local. The flat surfaces to the rear of these stele suggest that they were installed against walls and were most likely memorial plaques in honour of the dead. Relief plaques such as these are known from the upland areas of the Marib, the ancient centre of the Sabaean Empire. This area contains numerous stone ruins dating from between the first millennium BC into the early first millennium AD, and which was a period when the region was enriched by the burgeoning Roman demand for spices that linked south Arabia to Ethiopia and the cultures of the Indian Ocean in a complex trade network. Fine condition, repaired.
Lot 755
Mid 3rd millennium BC. A carved limestone figure fragment of a standing priest with shaved head, hands folded to the chest; the eyes formed as sockets with black stone inserts surrounding white shell(?) centres. Cf. Aruz, J. Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York, 2003, items 24, 28.424 grams, 11cm (4 1/4"). Private collection, London, UK; formed 1970s-1980s. Fair condition.
Lot 770
3rd century AD. A large carved stone statue of the Bodhisattva Maitreya modelled in the round with loosely draped garment, holding a water pot in the left hand, hair arranged into a top knot with beaded mesh decoration falling to the front; three necklaces to the chest, one with amulet cases, another terminating in animal heads; nimbus to the rear of the head, standing on a dais supported by an Atlante squatting nude, rosettes to either side; mounted on a custom-made stand. See the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 13.96.17, for similar.35 kg, 85cm including stand (33 1/2"). Property of English gentleman; formerly in a Belgium collection since the 1950s. Fine condition.
Lot 771
1st-4th century AD. A carved stone bust of Buddha with nimbus to the rear, with emaciated features and sunken eyes; mounted on a custom-made stand. 8.1 kg, 44cm (17 1/4"). Property of a London collector, acquired early 1990s. The image relates to the tradition that Prince Siddharta starved himself for many years in an attempt to free himself from the demands of his physical body, before realising that enlightenment comes through meditation for which a healthy body is necessary. Fine condition.
Lot 772
4th-6th century AD. A carved stone figure fragment of the Bodhisattva Vajrapani standing nimbate with loincloth and loosely draped beads, junglefowl held in the left hand; mounted on a custom-made stand. 916 grams, 17cm (6 3/4"). Property of a London gallery; previously on the London art market since 2007. Fair condition.
Lot 870
3rd century BC-1st century AD. A very large limestone bust of a male with diadem across the head, almond-shaped eyes, slit mouth, beard to the chin; long neck with square base. See Billingsley, J. A Stony Gaze: Investigating Celtic and Other Stone Heads, Taunton, 1998, for discussion.78 kg, 52cm (20 1/2"). From the private collection of the late John Moor, York, UK; acquired from the beneficiaries of the estate. Fine condition. Rare.
Lot 42
Four assorted bar brooches, comprising a gold plain bar brooch, marked 15ct, a gold split pearl Swallow and a scrolling brooch, marked 18ct, a gold circular and ball bar brooch, marked 9ct (pin not gold), and a 15ct gold two stone garnet bar broochplain 2.38gsplit pearl 3.45gball 1.01ggarnet 2.40g
Lot 55
A ladies 18ct gold mechanical watch head, with later added gold oval panel link bracelet, marked 375, by Payten Pepper Ltd, and a silver sapphire and white stone cluster ring, together with a collection of costume jewellery to include several strands of simulated pearls, necklace, brooches, ring, etc. watch 14.96gring 2.10g
Lot 57
A collection of costume jewellery, to include an America gold single green stone tie-tack (tested as approximately 10ct), costume brooches, a green and white paste stone cluster ring, a silver Thai black enamel panel bracelet, simulated pearl necklaces, a two row curb link bracelet, a sterling silver circular brooch with applied opal mosaic marked Scandia sterling, a collection of filigree brooches, etc
Lot 58
A collection of items to include a single row Aventurine bead necklace, an Arts & Craft style white metal purple stone brooch, a Victorian garnet star brooch, a gold cultured pearl stick pin in a Mappin & Webb cufflink box, a Mappin & Webb blue leather wallet, and a collection of brooches to include a 9ct gold framed picture locket, a white metal Chinese brooch, marked sterling, and a silver circular cultured pearl wreath brooch
Lot 63
A collection of costume jewellery, to include a gilt metal red and white cubic zirconia line bracelet, a silver amethyst line bracelet, a synthetic opal cabochon and cubic zirconia line bracelet, marked 925 and matched synthetic opal earring and necklace, a metal hinge bangle set with paste stone (ignore markings), five assorted dyed hardstone bracelets, some set with gemstones and others with paste, a rolled gold curb link bracelet with 9ct gold padlock, etc.
Lot 66
A Portuguese gold guitar brooch, with hand engraved wrigglework, marked 800, a pair of 18ct white gold hoop earrings, damaged, an Art paste stone clip on earring converted to a brooch, a silver Prince of Wales chain, a silver box-link chain, a ladies Casio strap watch, white dial and Arabic numerals, a ladies gold plated Citizen bracelet watch, with mother of pearl dial, in box, etc. earrings 1.89g
Lot 403
A CHINESE WHITE JADE TOGGLE OF A LÍNGJIĂO, QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY the horn-shaped water chestnut, língjiǎo, encircled by a blossoming vine carved to form a suspension loop, with seed pearls, pink tourmaline and turquoise beads, the white stone of even tone with minor inclusions, age wear6,5cm wide
Lot 415
A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE VASE, REPUBLIC PERIOD, 1912 – 1949 the compressed ovoid body rising form a splayed foot to an elongated neck, enamelled to the centre with a large moss-covered longevity stone, shòushí, issuing pink and lavender peonies alongside yellow chrysanthemums, the neck painted with drooping tendrils of lilac flowers, the reverse painted with a pair of iron-red bats, the base with a pseudo six-character underglaze-blue Qianlong mark42,7cm high
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