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Click here to subscribeAn Edwardian mahogany Sheraton Revival music cabinet, the back cresting rail inlaid with a lyre surround by oak leaves ties with ribbons, crossbanded in satinwood, a raised tier above a flight of five music drawers, with sections for gramophone records, the whole raised on square legs with square feet.
INCUNABULA -- BOETHIUS (c.480-c.524). De consolatione philosophiae, commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas. - Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1487. Chancery 2° (275 x 205mm). Engraving of a classical scene mounted on front flyleaf. Text with commentary surround, gothic type. Rubricated in blue and red. Two sets of pinholes visible. (Without first and final blank leaf, M7 lower margin replaced.) Modern three quarter burgundy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, red edges. Provenance: Sheen, Carthusian monastery (19th-century inscription). One of the relatively few dated books printed by Johannes de Westphalia, a printer who not only catered to a university readership at Louvain, but is also documented as importing books to England in the 1480s. A clean, wide-margined copy. HC *3379; GW 4538; BSB-Ink B-602; Goff B-782. Not in BL. View on Christie's.com
19th Century French inlaid ebonised cased portico clock, arch shaped pediment supported by barley twist columns having brass capitals and terminals, white enamel dial with Roman numerals and in a cast foliate surround, brass movement stamped Linetaine, Paris and striking on a bell, 45cm high
A collection of WWII and later medals and badges, comprising silver German Mother`s cross in blue and enamel with central swastika surrounded by the inscription Der Deutschen Mutter, the reverse inscribed 16th December 1938 (af), also a cased Normandy 1944 medal, a quantity of other badges bearing eagle and swastika emblems, comprising a brass cross with crossed swords and central swastika emblem suspended on a black white and red ribbon, a badge depicting a gun surrounded by gilt metal oak leaves with eagle and swastika emblem, a ship in stormy sea surrounded by a gilt oak leaf surround with an eagle and swastika emblem etc together with some research.
FURNITURE A PAIR OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHINESE EXPORT HARDWOOD OCCASIONAL TABLES, each intricately inlaid with mother of pearl, butterflies, flowers and foliage, having two tiers, a plain top with ornamented surround, fretted apron and a plain undertier on squ ared legs, 81cm high x 45cm wide
18TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "Young girl in blue dress", oval miniature portrait study on ivory, half length, indistinctly initialled and dated 1759, mounted in a yellow metal (untested) locket with amethyst stone set surround, the reverse with sepia decoration of a Classical urn below a weeping willow tree and inscribed "A.E. Bacon", 4 cm x 3 cm (ILLUSTRATED)
19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "white silhouette portrait with sepia highlighting and oxblood background depicting a portrait bust of a lady with her hair up in a Classical Roman manner, oil on ivory, inscribed verso "Given by Maria Hudson to Charlotte Kilmister Mar: 1841", bears later hand-written inscription on paper "Gertrude Louisa Allen 2nd daur. of Ralph Allen Esq. of Bath and Mary, his wife, daur of Henry Palmer of Wanlip, Co. Leicester, died circa 1860, aet. (about) 38, unmd. (unmarried)", mounted in a rectangular black papier-maché frame with textured brass inner surround and brass suspension loop with bunch of grapes decoration, frame measures 13.25 cm x 11.75 cm
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