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Lot 197
Set of Chinese export porcelain tea bowls and saucers with lovely famille rose enamels and European gilding. An excellent example of Chinese export with very fine and delicate flower enameling.Bowls; height: 2 in x diameter: 3 1/2 in. Smaller dish; height: 1 1/4 in x diameter: 5 1/2 in. Larger dish; height: 1 1/2 in x diameter: 6 in.
Lot 204
Group of six pieces of Chinese biscuit-glazed ceramics. Includes a set of four tea bowls, one dish with a radiating design in egg and spinach sancai glaze, and one Tang dynasty water dropper, which has a label from the Thomas collection affixed to the underside.Height ranges from 1 in to 4 in; Diameter ranges from 2 1/2 in to 5 1/2 in.
Lot 211
A selectin of silver plate and silver to include an early 20th century four piece tea set with a silver plated, twin handled tray, a quantity of rat tail cutlery to include those by Cooper Bros, a silver egg spoon, salt spoon and one other spoon, along with other items, total weight of silver 31.9g
Lot 197
A rare Mintons teapot and cover designed by Sir Henry Cole, under the pseudonym Felix Summerly 's Art Manufacturers, shouldered body, the spout cast with a lion head, the handle with mountain goat terminal, the cover with a ram's head finial, glazed creamy yellow, unsigned,chip and hairline to cover, 16.5cm. high (2) Literature Paul Atterbury & Maureen Batkin The Dictionary of Minton, Antique Collector's Club, page 260 for an illustration of Cole's designs and also of this teapot. Catalogue notes Sir Henry Cole (1802-1882) was a civil servant who spent his life championing the arts, in particular design, being involved in the organisation of the 1851 Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace and later in 1853 he became the first director of the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria & Albert Museum. Cole was also a director of Summerly's Art Manufacturers and using the Felix Summerly pseudonym designed this tea set that won the silver medal from the Royal Society of Arts in 1846. The cups and saucers from the service appear to have become a staple design for Minton being produced over a long period but the scarcity of known examples of the teapot suggest that it was produced in limited quantities.
Lot 176
A ruby and diamond brooch composed of nine graduated floral clusters, each set with a cushion-cut diamond in a border of oval and cushion-cut rubies, unmarked(Length: 6.3cm)Note: This lot forms part of the collection of Ellen Mary Victoria Fludder (nee Lowe), whose larger collection featured in our 9th March 2022 Jewellery & Silver Auction. Ellen was the daughter of John Lowe, whose antiques shop, J. Lowe was a well-known feature of what was then 138 Wardour Street, London, during the early 20th Century, the street numbers have since changed. Originally a watch and clock repairer, John expanded the business to include antiques, primarily jewellery and oriental art. John became a well-known and respected antiquarian and clockmaker, and indeed his youngest son John Harold Lowe remembered visiting Buckingham Palace with his father, where he was employed to wind the clocks for Edward VII or George V. Adverts from the period show a novel approach to marketing, using lines from Shakespeare to expound upon the virtues of dealing with such an exemplary antiquarian as J.Lowe; ‘China dishes, Very Good Dishes! / The Stamp of Merit. / I will buy with you! Sell with You!/ Old and Antique’ reads part of the poem, borrowing lines from The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night among others. This literary flight of fancy rather foreshadows another foray into the literary world the family would later take. Born in May 1897, Ellen was a favourite of her father’s and though she was sent to boarding school in Devon at a young age, she and her brothers were later educated in London, and living above the shop, surrounded by such curiosities and attending various auctions and dealers’ shops, it is little wonder that she began to take a lively interest in her fathers’ business. Though very much a woman in man’s world, she became a well-known fixture in her fathers’ shop and at the London salerooms. Indeed, one of her regular customers, who she met when she was around 18, was the author Edgar Jepson (1863-1938), who was a keen collector of antiques. As well as writing detective fiction, Jepson was also a translator, most notably of the Arsène Lupin stories by Maurice Leblanc, which are currently enjoying a revival on Netflix. He was quite taken with the character Ellen cut in the shop, and certainly, the curiosities of the Far East which filled the shop offered much scope for his creative mind. His 1927 novel, ‘Miss Timmins and Lord Scredington’ is based around J.Lowe and Ellen is the inspiration for the title character, Miss Timmins. ‘Miss Timmins runs an Oriental curio shop, and her adventures with strange and beautiful pieces of jade and lapis lazuli and chalcedony, carved by the artists of the East, and the strange and sometimes dangerous customers they bring her, are always amusing and thrilling.’ Edgar opens the novel with a direct reference to the frustrations of a ‘lady antique dealer’ in a world of men, and throughout her adventures the feisty Miss Timmins enjoys nothing better than getting the better of her male competitors, who often underestimate her. The novel has everything you could want from a 1920s cosmopolitan adventure novel; a rakish Lord smitten with the heroine, tea dances at the best places in town, brushes with the occult and unscrupulous antiquarians; certainly, if only a fraction of it is true, Ellen had a rather interesting life! J.Lowe closed in 1924, after the death of John Lowe, and Ellen later went on to work for Reville Terry, a Couturier on Grosvenor Square as their jewellery buyer, regularly travelling between London and Paris to see the latest collection.
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