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A VICTORIAN WALNUT SERPENTINE GAMES TABLE, the fold over swivel action top revealing various gaming boards, lower pull-out storage section and twin turned stretcher base, including a selection of various games, dominoes, chess etc, approximate width 53cm x depth 43cm x height 73cm (s.d.)
A CREATIONS PAST REPRODUCTION WIND-UP MUSICAL AUTOMATON DOLL, nape of neck marked 'CP 1993 England' and printed 'Hand Made Creations Past England', in working order, height of doll and plinth approximately 40cm, complete with hat and accessories, comes with wooden and glass table-top display cabinet, approximately 50cm high x 29cm square
A GEORGE V HARRODS LTD GREEN LEATHER DRESSING CASE, peach silk liner (s.d.), incomplete contents, includes silver backed brush and five silver topped glass jars, Birmingham 1920 and London 1921, together with other dressing table requisites, inkwell, mirror, jotter and case for a lighter, the case with gilt initials M.E.W. to the top and Broadstairs to area of handle, with green canvas outer cover
A Caughley ice pail, cover and inner liner, circa 1786-93, painted with the Dresden Flower pattern in underglaze blue with additional gilt overglaze detail, S mark, 26cm high (has been broken into 17 pieces and re-glued)Provenance: Purchased in 2007 from eBay. See Geoffrey Godden, Caughley & Worcester Porcelains 1775-1800 (1969), pl. 114 where the author speculates that the gilding was probably added by Chamberlain's of Worcester and p. 61 for the list of shapes.The first record of ice cream in this country is 1671 on the menu of a feast for the Knights of the Garter held in St. George's Hall at Windsor Castle. At this time it was considered such an exclusive dish that it appeared only on the king's table. The earliest printed recipe appeared in Mrs Eale's Receipts, a work on confectionary which was published in London, 1718. It was not until the second half of the 18th century that ices became more readily available from confectioner's shops, and these pails were commonly found on upper class homes' sideboards to be used for a dessert of ice cream with cut fruit. If ice alone is used to fill the cover and the bucket, the ice cream melts very quickly. Although there is nothing recorded in literature, it is almost certain that a little salt was sprinkled on the ice. Porcelain is the ideal material for ice cream pails as it is impervious to salt which improves the refrigerant effect. Experiments has shown that ice cream will remain in a frozen state for up to four hours in these ice pails if salt is added to both containers.After a time, a small amount of ice eventually forms on the exterior of the pail - usually causing condensation, and possible adhesion to the table cloth. It is therefore likely that these early pails would have been placed on a plate or stand. Later designs of these pails often had feet to prevent them freezing to the table, and these objects were rarely made beyond the year 1830.
A Caughley potted meat pot transfer-printed in the Pleasure Boat or Fisherman pattern, circa 1780-90, S mark, 11.9cm wideProvenance: Wright Collection no.869, purchased from J. Pinnick.The preservation of food such as meat or cheese by 'potting' was an important process. It involved sealing food in butter other fat to eliminate its exposure to air which would cause it to go bad, and this process would mean that this food could be kept for weeks or months at a time dependent on the storage conditions. By the 1600s, pots were beginning to replace the heavy crusts which were initially used as a method in this process of preserving meat. These crusts would be used in place of a container to protect the food from the outside environment and were not necessarily always consumed.In order to complete the potting process the meat would be cut into pieces, baked with fresh butter or some form of other fat and seasoned. After pounding with a mortar and pestle the meat would then be stored into pots such as these when they were then heated, cooled and sealed with a final layer of butter. An exception to this rule would sometimes be small birds which could be found potted whole.18th century receipts show that potting was used for a large variety of meats such as ox-tongue, eels, hare and rabbit. A cookery book by Hannah Glasse (1777 and 1787, therefore contemporary to this meat pot) showed that some cooks often kept meat beyond its prime in a refusal to waste it. In which case the meat would be removed from the pot, boiled and re-buttered in order to re-preserve it.Potted meals were prized by places such as Inns, as they provided an easy and reliable source of food for their patrons and ships would maintain a similar store of potted goods in order to facilitate long journeys. Prime cuts of meat were often used and these meat pots were an important feature of many a dinner table in the 18th century.
A late 19th century Vienna enamel and ebonised miniature table cabinet, with bronze mounts, the pair of doors decorated with 18th century style male and female figures, enclosing two drawers with further painted landscape panels, similar decoration to further panels all around, 15.5cm high, 12cm wide and 10cm deep (one rear enamel panel damaged)
A Chinese Canton carved ivory card case, 18th/19th Century, of barbed rectangular form, the front carved in high relief with a group of figures around a table to a panel within profuse flowers and foliage, to the reverse with a populated village around a vacant oval cartouche, 10.5x7.5cm.
A terracotta bust of Anne Boleyn signed Mark Jones 76, 25cm high along with an oak framed table top display case, 35cm wideMark Jones born in Chester 1960 studied BA Fine Art (Sculpture) at Loughborough College of Art and Design followed by an MA in Art and Design (Painting) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Artist Resale Rights apply
A group of three iron rush nips, one on an iron tripod base terminating in pad feet, 23.5cm high, another table top example with twisted stem and tapering nozzle on a split elm base, 26.5cm high and a floor standing example on a square chamfered base with twist column, 74cm high (3)
A nest of three Galle workshop Art Deco occasional tables, each of rectangular form the tops veneered with specimen woods in an abstract pattern, each table top with the inlaid Galle signature with double stepped ends, the plain rectangular legs with scroll capitol and foot, 69.5cm, 43cm and 34cm wide, 44.5cm, 42.5cm and 41cm high, 39.5cm, 38cm and 36.5cm deep
A Caughley custard cup and cover transfer-printed with the rare Garden Table pattern, circa 1778-92, S mark, 7.8cm highProvenance: Wright Collection no. 546 purchased from N. Gent in 1997.Literature: See Ironbridge 1999 no.304 and Newsletter June 2008 No.34 p.7. This is a very rare pattern which was previously unrecorded, with only two further examples having arisen following the compilation of Maurice Wright's database. The Caughley Society newsletter article titled 'Gardens, Tables and Vases' distinguishes between the Garden Floral pattern which is 'painted and very rare' and The Garden Table pattern which is printed. Sandon suggests in his book that Caughley also made a painted copy of the Worcester equivalent, examples of which could possibly be collection numbers 649 and 679. An example of the Garden Table pattern was sold in these rooms on 25th May 2005, lot no. 33
A William and Mary boarded oak sloping table top desk, fitted with iron butterfly hinges opening to reveal two short drawers, dated 1691 to the frieze, carved with the initials 'EB', over scrolling leaves, the fall front with chip carved edges, 70.5cm wide, 30cm high, 49.5cm deep
A mid Victorian figured and burr walnut pedestal work table the quarter veneered top over a single frieze drawer and pull out basket on a short column and four down swept legs terminating in scroll feet and white salt glazed castors, 58cm wide, 72.5cm high, 46cm deep
A William IV mahogany and rosewood crossbanded circular centre / dining table, the top with radiating veneers over a plain frieze with half bobbin turned moulding, on a tripartite tapering column and base, standing on three heavy scroll feet, 127cm diameter, 71cm high
An Edwardian mahogany satinwood banded bijouterie / display cabinet, in the 18th century style, the dentil inlaid cornice over two astragal glazed doors opening to reveal two fixed shelves on a table cabinet base, on four slender line strung tapering legs, 79.5cm wide, 173cm high, 52.5cm deep
A Gordon Russell oak refectory table, the rectangular top on six turned pilasters on three sleigh supports united by central plain stretchers, paper label to the underside 'This piece of furniture was made throughout by Gordon Russell Ltd. at Broadway, Worcs. Design number X33/3213. Designer Gordon Russell. Foreman F. Shilton, Cabinet Maker W. Monks and A.E. Hughes. Timber used English oak Date 1.8.30'. Also stencilled to the underside 10.7, 302cm long, 77.5cm wide, 76cm highProvenance:Main Hall, Birmingham UniversityNOTES: 1929/30 was an important period in the time line of Gordon Russell furniture, with the newly formed company 'Gordon Russell Ltd' founded in September 1929, changed from the former 'The Russell Workshops' which was synonymous with handmade low volume production. The company was expanding quickly with only twenty employees rising to two hundred in only a few years.The speedy expansion can be attributed to the newly emerging contract market with schools and universities buying Russell furniture, Professor Attenborough of Leicester University was one of the early customers with Birmingham University closely following with orders for the Great Hall. Broadway was also attracting prestigious visitors which included Henry Ford and the Queen Mother whose aunt Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon lived in Broadway, combined with the company's first London Showroom opening in October 1929 at 28 Wigmore Street the stage was set for Gordon Russell to be a household name.
A Gordon Russell oak refectory table, the rectangular top on six turned pilasters on three sleigh supports united by central plain stretchers, paper label to the underside 'This piece of furniture was made throughout by Gordon Russell Ltd. at Broadway, Worcs. Design number X33/3214. Designer Gordon Russell. Foreman F. Shilton, Cabinet Maker W. Monks and A.E. Hughes. Timber used English oak Date 1.8.30'. Also stencilled to the underside 10.8, 302cm long, 77.5cm wide, 76cm highProvenance:Main Hall, Birmingham UniversityNOTE: 1929/30 was an important period in the time line of Gordon Russell furniture, with the newly formed company 'Gordon Russell Ltd' founded in September 1929, changed from the former 'The Russell Workshops' which was synonymous with handmade low volume production. The company was expanding quickly with only twenty employees rising to two hundred in only a few years.The speedy expansion can be attributed to the newly emerging contract market with schools and university's buying Russell furniture, Professor Attenborough of Leicester University was one of the early customers with Birmingham University closely following with orders for the Great Hall. Broadway was also attracting prestigious visitors which included Henry Ford and the Queen Mother whose aunt Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon lived in Broadway, combined with the company's first London Showroom opening in October 1929 at 28 Wigmore Street the stage was set for Gordon Russell to be a household name.
A Gordon Russell oak refectory table, the rectangular top on six turned pilasters on three sleigh supports united by central plain stretchers, paper label to the underside incomplete Also stencilled to the underside 10.9, 323cm long, 77.5cm wide, 76cm highProvenance:Main Hall, Birmingham UniversityNOTE: 1929/30 was an important period in the time line of Gordon Russell furniture, with the newly formed company 'Gordon Russell Ltd' founded in September 1929, changed from the former 'The Russell Workshops' which was synonymous with handmade low volume production. The company was expanding quickly with only twenty employees rising to two hundred in only a few years.The speedy expansion can be attributed to the newly emerging contract market with schools and university's buying Russell furniture, Professor Attenborough of Leicester University was one of the early customers with Birmingham University closely following with orders for the Great Hall. Broadway was also attracting prestigious visitors which included Henry Ford and the Queen Mother whose aunt Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon lived in Broadway, combined with the company's first London Showroom opening in October 1929 at 28 Wigmore Street the stage was set for Gordon Russell to be a household name.
A large Marklin table top steam plant, early 20th century, mounted on a base of 35cm, fitted with whistle, adjustable safety valve, steam control, overflow valve, driving a single reciprocating piston fitted to a 15cm 6 spoke flywheel, the model mainly in black and red with cream pinstriping to the housing in contemporary fitted pine box.
A Caughley porter mug transfer-printed with the Thorny Rose pattern, circa 1777-82, unmarked, 10.2cm high and 10.4cm diameter (faint star crack to base)Provenance: Wright Collection no.457 purchased in 1998 from Cambridge. Though unmarked and sold as 'Worcester' by the dealer, this is undoubtedly a Caughley example. The pattern is exactly the same as collection no. 339 (lot 121) which is marked, though this porter mug is a rarer shape.Portering was hard work and porters needed a considerable amount of carbohydrate as fuel - much of which they got from drinking. One estimate is that 18th century manual workers were getting 2,000 calories a day from beer. Pubs were used as fuelling stops: it was "universal" in the 18th century, according to a writer in 1841, for public houses in London to have a bench outside for porters to sit at and a board (that is, table) alongside it "for depositing their loads" while they stopped for "deep draughts of stout … such as are idealised in Hogarth's Beer Street." That was "stout" as in stout porter, of course: the strong, dark brew London's brewers developed out of the brown beer they brewed at the beginning of the 18th century was just the sort of refreshing, energising brew the porters wanted, and its popularity with the portering class is why it was given their name.
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