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Lot 601
λ WILLIAM PIE (BRITISH B.1938)'WATER CUBE'Stainless steel water feature110 x 100cm (43¼ x 39¼ in.), the base 186 x 186cmCondition Report: Appears to be in good working order. Some areas beginning to rust, green moss like substance to top of sculpture but this could be easily removed with a clean.One slate tile to the base cracked.Some scratches and marks to the steel border of the base. The steel cube in good order overall with just a few minor marks and scratches. Professional instillation/plumbing required before use. Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 113
A collection of miscellaneous ceramics, comprising Sylvac bunnies, a Beswick oversized goblet no. 1799, a blue glazed Dog of Fo, a Chinese ginger jar, a blue and white pottery tile in the style of William de Morgan, (qty)Condition report: Paint splatters to most pieces.Small chips to most pieces.Ginger jar cracked.
Lot 8172
Kani Alavi (*1955), persischer Maler, lebt seit 1980 in Berlin, Meisterschüler bei Klaus Fußmann, Blumenstück, Öl auf Keramikfliese, u. re. sign. u. dat. 2001, 15 x 15 cmKani Alavi (*1955), Persian painter, lives in Berlin since 1980, master student of Klaus Fußmann, flower piece, oil on ceramic tile, u. r. signed and dated 2001, 15 x 15 cm
Lot 4685
Konvolut von 5 Fliesenbildern, Holland, 20. Jh., alle in Eichenholzrahmen. 3 mit jeweils 2 Fliesen x a 32 x 19 cm, 1 x mit 6 Fliesen 46 x 33 cm. Leicht ber.Set of 5 tile pictures, Holland, 20th century, all in oak frames. 3 with 2 tiles each x a 32 x 19 cm, 1 x with 6 tiles 46 x 33 cm. Slightly rubbed
Lot 5654
Historismus-Beistelltisch um 1880. Eiche massiv, gedrechseltes Gestell, Platte mit eingelassener Fliese mit Floralmotiv, 78 x 46 x 46 cm.- Dieses Möbel kann nicht in unseren Berliner Räumen besichtigt werden.Historism side table around 1880. solid oak, turned frame, top with inset tile with floral motif, 78 x 46 x 46 cm.- This furniture can not be viewed in our Berlin rooms.
Lot 273
A mixed selection of ceramics, including a floral vase, blue and white Oriental style pedestal bowl stamped G&C, tureen and cover, washing jug and bowl, JUWC 1897 stamped dish planter, glass bowls, Comitti of London aneroid barometer, Edwardian green painted single drawer tile backed small wall mirror, modern sunburst wall mirror, Victorian wool work foot stool, etc
Lot 45
A 19th Century framed 8in Mintons Hollins & Co dust pressed tile decorated with a transfer and hand painted lily flower, buds and foliage, together with a 12in x 6in framed tile decorated with raised white orchid flowers and foliage and a 6in Mintons China Works tile decorated with a white canna lily and pink flowers, all S/D. (3)
Lot 53
Five assorted early 20th Century 6in dust pressed tiles decorated with fruit and foliage to include one marked The Broughton with a pomegranate to the front, a Brown, Westhead Moore & Co tile transfer decorated with lemons, a Maw & Co tile with raised pomegranate and a similar Mintons example, S/D. (5)
Lot 355
FIVE MINTONS CHINA WORKS,EARLY ENGLISH HISTORY SERIES 6" WALL TILES DESIGNED BY JOHN MOYR SMITH, C1872, ALL DIFFERENT, PRINTED IN BLACK ON BUFF OR BLACK ON WHITE AND ONE OTHER FROM THE SHAKESPEARE SERIES, C1874 (6) Early English History - minor edge / corner damage, none of which is particularly noticeable. No substantial damage, none cracked or repaired. Shakespeare tile - glaze degraded, worn and scratched; chipped around the edges
Lot 690
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteThe Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal awarded to the fashion designer Hardy Amies, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel while organising sabotage assignments with the Special Operations Executive in Belgium during the Second World War and subsequently built a hugely successful fashion label, his designs finding favour with the young Princess Elizabeth who granted him a Royal Warrant on her accession to the throne Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal, E.II.R., 1977 Silver Jubilee Medal (Hardy Amies) nearly extremely fine £400-£500 --- Edwin Hardy Amies was born on 17 July 1909 at Maida Vale, London and was educated at Latymer Upper School and Brentwood. It was suggested that he should work for a scholarship to Cambridge, but Amies wanted to become a journalist. His father arranged a meeting with R. D. Blumenfeld, the editor of the Daily Express, who told him: ‘We don’t want academics in the journalistic world. We want men of international culture. Send him abroad to learn French and German. Make him work.’ After spending three years in France and Germany - learning the languages and working for a customs agent, an English School and a wall tile factory - Amies returned to England and became a weighing-machine salesman for W & T Avery. It was his mother’s contacts in the fashion world together with his own facility with the written word that secured him his first job in fashion. His vivid description of a dress, written in a letter to a retired French fitter and brought to the attention of the owner of the Mayfair couture house Lachasse, made a strong impression. The wearer of the dress was the owner’s wife. In early 1934, with no previous experience, he succeeded the designer manager, Digby Morton, who had left Lachasse to set up his own house. By the time war intervened, he was designing the whole collection. At the outbreak of the Second World War, with his language experience, Amies was called to serve in the Special Operations Executive. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant from Officer Cadet Training Company on to the British Army General List on 18 May 1940, and was transferred from the General List to the Intelligence Corps on 15 July 1940. Amies suspected that S.O.E.’s commander Major General Colin Gubbins did not regard a dressmaker as suitable military material; but his training report stated: ‘This officer is far tougher both physically and mentally than his rather precious appearance would suggest. He possesses a keen brain and an abundance of shrewd sense. His only handicap is his precious appearance and manner, and these are tending to decrease’. Posted to Belgium, Amies worked with the various Belgian resistance groups and adapted names of fashion accessories for use as code words, while he organised sabotage assignments and arranged for agents to be parachuted with radio equipment behind enemy lines, into the Ardennes. Amies rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, but outraged his superiors in 1944 by engaging famed photographer Lee Miller and setting up a Vogue photo shoot in Belgium after D-Day. In 1946, he was created an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown on 17 September 1948 by the prince regent of Belgium. Amies was an integral part of Operation Ratweek, an assassination project developed by the S.O.E. to eliminate double agents and Nazi sympathisers in Belgium. In 2000, a BBC 2 documentary entitled Secret Agent named Amies as one of the men who helped to plan the killing of dozens of Nazi collaborators, but Amies disclaimed all knowledge of the matter. Hardy Amies was quirky, yet conservative; for example, having his British Army uniform tailored on Savile Row. Years later, Hardy recalled that Kim Philby was in his mess; and, on being asked what the infamous spy was like, Hardy quipped, ‘He was always trying to get information out of me, most significantly the name of my tailor.’ On demobilisation, Amies bought the lease of a house in Savile Row, built by Lord Burlington in 1735 and damaged in the Blitz, and set up his own business. It was not long before he was designing clothes for Princess Elizabeth. ‘A very grand lady asked me to make coats and skirts for what she called her “gels”’, he recalled, ‘and they turned out to be ladies-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth. The Princess saw them and asked me to make clothes for her visit to Canada in 1948.’ His royal warrant dated from her accession to the throne. The Queen wore a Hardy Amies pink silk dress and coat for the Silver Jubilee and a Hardy Amies yellow coat on her 60th birthday. In 1950, recognising a need for cheaper, instantly available clothes, Amies expanded his business by opening a ready-to-wear boutique. He designed uniforms for the police, British Airways, the South African defence force, male nurses at Broadmoor and the staffs of W H Smith, the London Hilton, and Wall’s ice-cream. In 1967, he was commissioned by director Stanley Kubrick to design the costumes for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In 1973 Amies sold his business to Debenhams, with a view to further expansion, but in 1980 bought it back with the profits of his success with menswear in Canada, Australia, Japan, America and New Zealand (where, he estimated in 1979, 55 per cent of men wore suits in whose design he had a hand). Eventually, he had more than 40 overseas licensees. Handsome, with aquiline features and a full head of hair, Amies was proud of his athletic figure and played tennis well into his eighties. His other principal love was gardening, and he built from scratch an elaborate traditional garden. Hardy Amies was appointed CVO in 1977 and KCVO in 1989. In 2000, Amies sold the house to the Luxury Brands Group and announced his formal retirement. He died at home in 2003, aged 93, and is buried in the village churchyard at Langford, Oxfordshire.
Lot 2375
A Pair of George V Silver-Mounted Ceramic Trivets, by Charles Turman Burrows, Birmingham 1910, each square and on cast foliage feet, the tiles painted in the 17th century style, with figures on horseback, 14cm square. Each marked on side, the marks are generally clear. The silver mounts in generally good condition, though one rocks slightly when placed on flat surface. There is a noticeable crack to one tile, running the full length through the figure. The other tile with smaller cracks.
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