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Click here to subscribeA Chinese Canton porcelain plate, 19th century. The interior setting with figures at a table, diameter 23.5cm and another Chinese Canton plate, diameter 24cm. (2)From a Private Collection, purchased from a Country House Sale, Devon, mid 1980s. Both pieces with either obvious chips are restoration. The painting is still fresh and clean. Please view extra images.
A Chinese 'Wu Shang Pu' famille rose porcelain plate, 19th century. The central medallion enclosing a lone female figure standing beside a table, surrounded by figures and inscriptions, diameter 20cm.From a Private Collection, purchased from a Country House Sale, Devon, mid 1980s. Small chips to outer rim, two hairline cracks and some wear to gilt. Please see our website for more images, thankyou.
A Chinese famille rose porcelain and hardwood framed table screen, 19th century. Decorated with a buddha, four sages and three female figures, height 59cm, width 38cm, size of plaque 37 x 24cm.Provenance: From the estate of William Arthur Blackburn Leach.DOB: 2nd Jan 1872.Leach was born in Norwich where he attended a local grammar school, later becoming an apprentice carpenter and engineer. In 1902 after he had qualified, he went to China where he obtained a position in the Public Works Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council. He spent his working life in Shanghai until he left in 1926.During his time in China he held interests in a Christian Mission school and helped to support street children.He seized every opportunity to visit other parts of China and took thousands of photographs. He purchased widely on his travels, particularly woodcarvings, bronzes, traditional kimonos, paintings and porcelain. He treasured silver items and bought much to take home. He travelled home at least four times during his stay in China and these return visits were round-the-world trips in which he travelled through and visited Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Egypt and The Holy Land, the Far East, Canada and USA.On his return to the UK he lived in Northampton where he was a lay preacher and a local councillor. He gave a great many talks on his experiences in China and the many other Countries he had visited.He died in 1962.One foot requires regluing. Some signs of previous treated worm to the frame. Lower right hand-side showing frailty where the screen matches with the base, but still standing firm. Some natural pitting to the porcelain.
A Chinese famille rose porcelain teapot, late 18th/early 19th century. The lobed circular body with opposing cartouches each filled with an interior scene of a mother and her children at the table and two rabbits, the cover painted with floral sprays, insects, bowls of fruit and a dog, height 14cm, width 20cm, diameter of body 10.5cm.From a Private Collection, purchased from a Country House Sale, Devon, mid 1980s.The lid has a chip in the same place as a crude brake repair. Firing blemish around the steam hole. The body has many pitted glaze marks and wear to the enamel decoration. The spout has two glaze flake chips and is rough to the touch.
A collection of small silver wares to include a pair of Edwardian "Fiddle" pattern sauce ladles (by Jonathan Round, Sheffield 1903), a modern seal spoon in the 17th Century style (possibly by Philip Van Wyck student of George Hart of the Guild of Handicraft, London 1978), an annointing spoon "The Corinium Spoon" by Leonard Jones of Circencester, a set of six silver coffee spoons, a set of six silver tea spoons, silver napkin ring, pierced silver mote spoon, mother of pearl handled silver sifter spoon together with a collection of various plated wares including wooden handled pierced fish serving scoop, chamber stick (no snuffer), muffin dish, a pair of open salts, a silver handled tea strainer, five tea spoons with rabbit finials and six plated table spoons CONDITION REPORTS PLEASE NOTE THE TERRIER INSCRIBED MUG HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM THIS LOTTotal weight of silver 11.99oz
A ceramic Asprey teapot made exclusively for KIDS Charity Gala evening 2003. Designed by Peter Ting for Asprey using drawing from KIDS play sessions, and limited to only 50 pieces. These were placed on each table at the event and auctioned off to the highest. Complete with a copy of the Gala Evening Programme with written provenance for the teapot. Approx. 12cm tall x 29cm tall.
A retro mid century pale blue Formica topped, drop leaf kitchen table with 4 matching chairs. Table raised on 4 tubular natural wood legs. Together with 4 light wood, curved backed chairs with pale blue/green vinyl seat cushions. One chair has remnants of Chair Centre Limited, London label to underside. Table approx. 76cm tall x 81cm long.
A vintage Lloyd Loom style basket weave chair with sprung seat, together with a dark oak circular shaped low table raised on 4 cabriole style legs. Chair painted white with floral upholstered seat, remnants of original pink coloured paint visible on underside. Table approx. 38cm tall x 61cm diameter.
A Mid century Ercol drop leaf dining table together with a set of 4 Ercol dining chairs. Unmarked oval shaped table with cross frame support and splayed legs. Metal tubular supports to underside for leaf supports. Chairs with fleur de lis design to backs, each stamped with BS mark to underside and dated 1960. Table top approx. 124cm x 113cm when extended, approx. 65cm wide with leaves down.
* Table Cabinet. An early 20th century Chinese wooden table cabinet, a combination of dark and light wood, the two hinged doors finely carved and pierced with figures, pagodas, landscapes and exotic birds, enclosing a bank of seven drawers, all various sizes carved with foliate sprays, two further drawers to the lower section and raised on straight supports, 50 cm high x 42 cm wide x 23.5 cm deepQTY: (1)
* [Ascher, Zika (1910-1992)]. A collection of embroidered, woven, and printed fabrics, 17th century & later, including: a pair of late 19th century hand-embroidered Chinese cuffs, worked in polychrome silks and metal threads on a cream silk ground, depicting figures, pagodas, bridges, and vegetal forms, slightly dusty in places, each 61.5 cm (24.25 ins), manuscript and printed label attached with thread 'Liberty of London'; a 19th century fine cotton Persian prayer cloth, block-printed in reds, greens, and blues on a cream ground, with central large boteh and a pair of peacocks within a scalloped niche frame, surrounded by floral and foliate motifs, with decorative Arabic script above, within a multi-banded floral border, some browning and losses, 183 x 110.5 cm (72 x 45.5 ins); a double-ended cloth similar, block-printed with exotic birds and floral motifs, faded, and with some splits, 129.5 x 68 cm (51 x 26.75 ins); a late 19th century Indo-Persian metalwork table mat, hand-worked on black wool, with fringed edging, 45 x 45 cm (17.75 x 17.75 ins); a small pointed hemmed piece of metalwork embroidery, English, late 16th/early 17th century, 17.5 x 7.5 cm (7 x 3 ins); an early 19th century woven shawl, somewhat worn, 99 x 108 cm (39 x 42.5 ins); a Franco-Prussian printed fabric panel, circa 1870, with repeated portrait medallions of Wilhelm I, Bismarck, and other statesmen, encircling a battle scene, discoloured and worn, with loss, 200.5 x 62 cm (79 x 24.5 ins); and some small fragments of early brocade, various sizes and condition QTY: (34)NOTE:Provenance: from the Zika Ascher Collection and Ascher Archives.Zikmund Ascher (1910-1992), known as Zika and nicknamed 'The Mad Silkman', was a Czech textile businessman, artist and designer who, with his wife Lida (1910-1983), became a leading name in the field of British textiles, art, and fashion. The pair, who arrived in Britain at the outbreak of WWII, were innovators who pushed the conventions of British fabric design in daring new directions. They brought colour and vibrancy to the bleak face of post-war textiles, and with this, hope and optimism was conveyed through their work. They experimented with bold patterns and new and unconventional fabrics, including mohair, rayon, parachute nylon and cheesecloth, influencing top couturiers such as Christian Dior, Cristobel Balenciaga and Yves Saint-Laurent, and they also collaborated with leading artists such as Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens and Henri Matisse, to produce a series of iconic silk scarves. In 1987 the V&A in London mounted a retrospective exhibition of the Aschers' work, and published an accompanying book by Valerie D. Mendes and Frances M. Hinchcliffe entitled Ascher: Fabric, Art, Fashion. More recently, in 2019, an impressive publication The Mad Silkman: Zika and Lida Ascher Textiles and Fashion, by Konstantina Hlaváckova, accompanied an exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, paying a lasting tribute to the important contribution made by the Aschers to British fashion.
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