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Lot 45
Charles Napier Hemy, RA RWS (British, 1841-1917)The Riverside, Limehouse signed and dated 'C.N.H. 1914' (lower right)oil on canvas122.5 x 182.9cm (48 1/4 x 72in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith the Fine Art Society.Anon. sale, Christie's, 17th May 1923, lot 155 for £157.10.0 (F.A.S vendor), acquired by Gooden and Fox.William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), Lancashire.The Bungalow and Rivington Hall, Horwich, Lancashire sale, Knight, Frank & Rutley, London, 9-17 November 1925, lot 1105, p.68.Bolton Museum and Art Gallery (acquired from the above sale).Sale, Bonhams, 25th January 2012, lot 165, where acquired by the current owner. ExhibitedLondon, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1914, no. 369.London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1922. LiteratureRoyal Academy Pictures and Sculpture 1914, illustrated p 82.The name Limehouse comes from the lime kilns established there in the 14th Century and was used to produce quick lime for building mortar. In 1660, Samuel Pepys visited a porcelain factory in Duke's Shore, Narrow Street, whilst the Limehouse Pottery, on the site of today's Limekiln Wharf, was established in the 1740s as England's first soft paste porcelain factory.Limehouse became a significant port in late medieval times, with extensive docks and industries such as shipbuilding (which was established in the 16th century and thrived well into the 19th century), ship chandlering and rope making. By the Elizabethan era many sailors had homes there and by early in the reign of James I about half of the population of 2000 were mariners. Limehouse Basin opened in 1820 as the Regent's Canal Dock. This was an important connection between the Thames and the canal system, where cargoes could be transferred from larger ships to the shallow-draught canal boats. As the age of steam led to bigger ships, the facilities at Limehouse became inadequate. However, local ingenuity found a highly successful alternative: many of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's lifeboats were built in Limehouse between 1852 and 1890. Though no longer a working dock, Limehouse Basin with its marina remains a working facility. The wharf buildings that have survived, are now highly desirable residential properties. Taylor Walker began brewing at the site of today's 'Barley Mow' pub in 1830. This stretch of the Thames was known as Brewery Wharf, whilst from a little further along the embankment, the first voluntary passengers left for Australia.From the Tudor era until the 20th century, ships crews were employed on a casual basis and would be paid off at the end of their voyages. Inevitably, permanent communities of foreign sailors became established, including colonies of Lascars and Africans from the Guinea Coast. From about 1890 onwards, large Chinese communities at both Limehouse and Shadwell developed, established by the crews of merchantmen in the opium and tea trades, particularly Han Chinese, creating London's first and original Chinatown. The resulting opium and gambling dens soon attracted a wider clientele than visiting Chinese sailors, luridly described by, amongst others, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Like much of the East End it remained a focus for immigration, but after the devastation of the Second World War many of the Chinese community relocated to Soho.The Hemy family set sail for Australia when he was 10 years old and, as he later recalled, 'I can remember it (the open sea) entered my soul, it was imprinted on my mind, and I never forgot it'. Hemy sketched and painted at locations on Narrow Street's river front and other notable artists who used Limehouse as a backdrop for their paintings included James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1863-1902). Whistler was living near the docks in Wapping between 1859-1863 and produced a series of etchings known as 'The Thames Set', which must have been a great influence on Hemy. These concentrated on the picturesque wooden buildings of the lower Thames, the barges, wharfs, warehouses and inns of Wapping, Rotherhithe and Limehouse, together with the barge men and labourers who worked there. Whistler also produced a major oil painting titled Wapping, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1864, no. 585, (collection National Gallery of Art, Washington). In 1869, Hemy was living in Fulham, not far from Whistler's studio in Chelsea. He may have been introduced to Whistler by his friend Tissot, whose work in the 1870s had a more direct influence on Hemy. Tissot painted scenes of beautiful ladies and sea captains on board ships and in interiors with the Thames and the black masts of ships seen through the windows in the background, e.g. An Interesting Story of c. 1872 (collection National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne). An interested spectator of Hemy at work was a young Frank Brangwyn. As a boy in the 1870s, Brangwyn often wandered down among the old buildings of the Thames where he would watch 'a magnificent looking man in a velvet coat painting a big picture. I would sneak up and admire him.'The Thames estuary continued to draw Hemy and he painted a series of pictures of the busy mouth of the Thames i.e. The Shore at Limehouse (exh. R.A. 1871, no. 435), Blackwall (exh. R.A. 1872, no. 198), London River - the Limehouse barge-builders (exh. R.A. 1875, no. 108), The harbour master's home, Limehouse (exh. R.A. 1901, no. 1039), 1901, Home at last, 1909, Limehouse Hole, (exh. R.A. 1910, no. 862) and The barge, Limehouse, (exh. R.A. 1918, no. 356). London River, his 1904 R. A. exhibit (no. 236), an evocation of Hemy's favourite stretch of the Thames with Hawksmoor's famous St. Anne's church prominent on the skyline, was bought by the Chantrey Bequest for £1,000 and now hangs in Tate Britain.The old buildings on the banks of the river at Limehouse and Wapping provided excellent subjects and Hemy used the boatmen as models; his knowledge of the sea enabling him to establish an easy rapport with them. Of his RA exhibit Limehouse barge builders of 1875 (collection South Shields Museum and Art Gallery), Hemy wrote, 'I painted the picture altogether from nature sitting in a barge and talking with the workmen.'Hemy's memorial exhibition took place at the Fine Art Society in 1918 where 101 of his works were shown.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 53
˜A CHINESE SILVER MATCHED THREE-PIECE TEA SET, WANG HING, CANTON AND HONG KONG,CIRCA 1890of shaped square outline, the bulged sides chased with matted ground panels of bamboo, figures in landscapes or paying court, and prunus blossom, with handles simulating bamboo, milk jug and sugar bowl with gilt interiors, teapot with prunus chased lid below a bamboo finial, 'WH' and '90' stamps to underside, teapot with workshop mark '仁記'(Ren Ji), sugar bowl and milk jug with workshop mark '佳記' (Jia Ji), teapot 21cm long; together with a pair of plain Chinese silver sugar tongs, also stamped 'WH' for Wang Hing and indecipherable workshop mark; 1176g including ivory insulators to pot, excluding fitted wood box (5)We are grateful to Adrien von Ferscht for identifying the artisan workshops. For further information on the firm of Wang Hing, please see Adrien von Ferscht, Chinese Export Silver 1785-1940 – The Definitive Collectors’ Guide, 4th Edition, Glasgow and Beijing, January 2015.
Lot 54
˜A PARCEL-GILT-SILVER TEA SET, ATTRIBUTED TO P. ORR AND SONS, MADRAS (CHENNAI), INDIA, CIRCA 1905-10 comprising teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and sugar tongs, each with chased and repousse decoration, the sides with temple and procession scenes in relief, with acanthus and beadwork borders above and below, the handles in the form of scrolling multi-headed snakes, each with a figure of the infant Krishna perched on its body, the teapot handle with ivory insulators, teapot: 17cm high, 28cm long; sugar-bowl: 9.5cm high, 23.5cm long; milk jug: 14.3cm high, 14.3cm long; tongs: 13.5cm long, weight: 2376g all inP. Orr and Sons was founded in 1846 in Madras, at first primarily as a clockmaker, but following the visit of the Prince of Wales to India in 1875-6, the company received a royal warrant for silver and jewellery produced in the 'Swami' style, decorated with Hindu deities and mythical animals, as well as musicians and religious processions. Orr's sales catalogue of circa 1880 illustrates examples from this pattern, which continued to be produced well into the 20th century, often with minor variations of decorative detail. The firm exists to this day as a retailer of clocks and watches. See Wynyard Wilkinson, 'Indian Silver, 1858-1947', London 1999, pp.145-157. For a bachelor set of the same pattern, probably of earlier date, recently sold in London, see Chiswick Auctions, 'The Stewart Collection', 14 February 2023, lot 48.
Lot 598
A George V silver backed dressing table set, with engine turned decoration, comprising hand mirror, hair brush, clothes brush and comb, by William Neale & Son Ltd, Birmingham 1925, in fitted case, together with two silver topped cut glass dressing table jars, a pair of silver and tortoiseshell backed clothes brushes, and two sets of six silver handled tea knives with plated blades, cased (qty)
Lot 629
A service of silver King's pattern flatware and cutlery, comprising 4 table spoons, 14 table forks, 13 dessert spoons, 6 dessert forks, 13 dessert knives, 6 soup spoons, and 2 teaspoons, together with matching silver handled steel carving set, 12 silver handled table and dessert knives, 6 similar tea knives, and a silver handled serving slice and cheese knife, much by Elkington & Co, Birmingham 1963, 95oz weighable, and a few matching silver plated pieces (qty)
Lot 771
A set of six early Victorian silver fiddle pattern tea spoons, by Josiah Williams & Co, Exeter 1852, a set of twelve Edwardian silver coffee spoons with engraved dog nose handles, by Levesley Bros, Sheffield 1908, six various silver napkin rings, and other odd silver flatware etc, 15oz overall (qty)
Lot 788
A pair of 18th century Irish silver circular salts, on pad feet, marks partly worn, an Irish silver snuffer's tray with pierced and engraved decoration (AF) by William Doyle, Dublin 1805, and other silver comprising a sauce boat, butter shell, dressing table tray, tea strainer, christening spoon etc, a silver mounted glass decanter and stopper, a silver overlaid glass spill vase, a cased set of silver handled tea knives, and other items, 30oz weighable (qty)
Lot 817
A collection of silver, comprising a helmet shaped cream jug by Charles Edwards, London 1928, an American twin handled sucrier and milk jug on weighted bases, stamped sterling, other small items incl a pair of pierce decorated circular dishes, a Continental salt, another with Egyptian figural supports and glass liner, a tea strainer, four various decanter labels, a hand mirror, a set of four embossed buttons and a small quantity of costume jewellery, 10oz weighable (qty)
Lot 396
Silver to include cased sets of coffee spoons, a cruet set and other itemsvarious dates, makers, mostly with Dublin import marks comprising two cased egg cup and spoon sets, of which one engraved Gillian, a cased set of six Art deco coffee spoons, a cased set of six coffee spoons with bean terminals, a cased set of stainless steel tea knives with filled handles, a three piece cruet set with blue glass liners and spoons, a set of eleven coffee spoons, initialled, an engine turned ashtray with presentation inscription, two spill vases with weighted bases, a pair of napkin rings, etc., (qty)weighable silver approx. 21.55oztCondition:Mostly fair condition. Salt and salt spoon with corrosion. Mostly good condition. Napkin rings with dents
Lot 418
An Edwardian silver three piece tea setBirmingham, 1908, makers mark rubbedcomprising teapot, cream jug and twin handled sugar basin, of oval lobed tapering from, on claw feet, the teapot with ebonsied loop handle and fluted knop finial, initialled, (3)Handle to spout width 29cm, weight overall approx. 30.9oztCondition:Dints and small dents to the lobed areas. repair to side of jug. Marks rubbed on all three pieces
Lot 422
A George V silver four piece tea setLondon, 1926, Wakely and Wheeler, with retailer's stamp for Searle & Co Ltd 79 Lombard Street London, all with embossed floral strapwork to their domed bases, comprising a tea pot and hot water pot, both with wooden handles, knops, and a twin handled sugar bowl and a cream jug, (4)teapot handle to end of spout, 26cm, weight approx. 55.69oztCondition:
Lot 303
A Royal Albert Old Country Roses tea and dinner wares comprising six cups, saucers and plates, dinner plates, a cake plate, two sandwich trays, milk jug and sugar bowl together with a Paragon English Bluebell pattern tea set with nine cups, eleven saucers, ten plates, two cake plates, milk jug and sugar bowl Condition Report:Available upon request
Lot 375
A collection of silver including a set of six silver Onslow pattern tea spoons and sugar tongs, by William Hutton & Sons, London 1892, a Georgian silver table spoon, London, a sifter ladle by Elizabeth Eaton, London, a Georgian silver salt spoon, London, a silver napkin ring, asparagus tongs, card holder etc, 270gms (7) Condition Report:Available upon request
Lot 376
A collection of silver including a matched set of seven silver oar pattern tea spoons, various makers, monogrammed terminals, a Dutch silver sauce ladle, four silver fiddle and shell pattern tea spoons, various makers, a pair of silver napkin rings, by Walker & Hall, Sheffield, a silver pickle fork, the finial shaped as a thistle, Birmingham, and a silver thimble by Charles Horner, Chester, 283gms (16) Condition Report:Available upon request
Lot 332
Three boxes of china to include: Royal Kent floral teaware, Royal Kent 'Trentside' part coffee set with coffee pot, 'Angelique' Hostess mid Century coffee ware, Ye Old English Grosvenor china 'Romney' design teaware, Alfred Meakin 'Medina Shape' design tea and dinnerware; serving dishes, bowls, plates, teacup etc. (3)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 350
Two boxes of mostly china to include; Royal Standard rose design part tea set, Crown Staffordshire teaware, Myott 'Windswept Leaves' design small bowls, crystal bowl with metal rim and spoon, miniature miner's lamps, Embassy ware part teaset, Aynsley painted fruit 'Orchard Gold' design lidded urn, coffee can, plates and a similar Dartmouth pottery ramekin, iron etc. (2)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 364
Shelley 'Forget-me-not' tea set to include: twelve cups and saucers, milk jug & sugar bowl, twelve side plates and two shallow bowls.Some minor surface scratches to some saucers and side plates and more noticeable scratches to one of the larger plates. Chips to base of one side plate and possible restoration to rim of one other. Hair crack to rim of one cup. Some cups have a small area of crazing to the base and some have minor chips and frits to bases.
Lot 107
A cased George VI silver afternoon set, Robert Pringle and Sons, London 1943, comprising a tea strainer, preserve spoon, pickle fork and butter knife, all with openwork designed terminals, pickle fork 19cm long, all within a fitted case, with a George V silver Christening set, Atkin Brothers, Sheffield 1924, the napkin with cast ogee borders, within fitted box, and a cased Victorian preserve spoon, Alexander Clark, Birmingham 1899, within fitted case, and three further cased silver sets, including pickle forks, preserve sets, and pusher set, gross weight 7.8ozt (excluding pickle forks and second preserve set)
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