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William De Morgan, an Arts and Crafts green Long Clawed Bird tile, circa 1900, painted with a cormorant on tufted ground, impressed De Morgan, Iles, Passenger mark, 15.5cm squareNote: see Greenwood, M, 1989, The Designs of William De Morgan, p.127, design 990, for an example of this bird in reverse
A Qajar lustreware moulded tile, Persia, 19th century, moulded in relief with a round boss decorated with a bird perched within stylised foliage, approximately 30cm x 30cm, within a later wood frame, 39cm x 39cm Condition Report: Historic old cracks. Not examined out of frame.Condition Report Disclaimer
A Chinese Buddhist lion pottery ridge tile, Ming dynasty, with weathered luminous green glaze, with traces of green, white and orange glazes, 26cm high Provenance: Formerly from a family collection in Chelsea and to the present owner明 綠釉獅子立像瓦拍品來源:倫敦切爾西私人收藏 Condition Report: the glaze with losses and wear throughout and chip to left leg and base and tail and other minor chips throughout Condition Report Disclaimer
A Victorian mahogany kneeler stool with drop-in upholstered seat within a scrolling foliate decorated frieze on cabriole legs to scroll feet, 130 cm wide x 25 cm deep x approx 17 cm high, together with a 19th Century mahogany tea table, the circular top on a turned pedestal to tripod base, 78.5 cm diameter x 73 cm high and a circa 1900 tile back marble top washstand of two drawers and cupboard door on turned legs to castors, 91.5 cm wide x 50.5 cm deep x 111 cm high
A Timurid moulded pottery mihrab tile fragment Central Asia, second half of the 14th Centurycomprising the lower part of a large palmette, carved and decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise and white with scrolling foliate interlace and split palmettes, framed with printed upper section from another similar tile mounted above 39.5 x 31.5 cm. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection formed in the 1950s and 60s. PublishedArts from the Land of Timur, Sogdiana Books, 2012, no. 465, p. 222.Similar mihrab-shaped arches can be seen at the Mausoleum of an Anonymous Woman in the Shah-e Zende necropolis complex in Samarkand, illustrated in Jean Soustiel and Yves Porter's book Tombs of Paradise: The Shah-e Zende in Samarkand and architectural ceramics of Central Asia, 2003 p, 87. Another example is found in the Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, as illustrated in Hülya Bilgi's book Reunited after centuries: Works of art restored to Turkey by the Sadberk Hanim Museum, 2005, pp. 28-29, cat. no. 4.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Iznik pottery tile Turkey, circa 1575of square form, the white ground decorated in raised-red, cobalt blue, green and black outline with a cusped medallion containing an interlace of split-palmettes and a lotus on a ground of tendrils with saz leaves and cloudbands 25.4 x 25.3 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, 7 April 2011, lot 323.Private Belgian collection, acquired at Mansour Gallery, London on the 14th of April 2011, and thence by descent.For a similar tile formerly in the Howard Hodgkin collection see Sotheby's, Howard Hodgkin: Portrait of the Artist, 24 October 2017, lot 234.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Timurid underglaze-painted pottery tile Persia, second half of the 15th Centuryof hexagonal form, decorated in black under a green glaze with a series of palmettes and split palmettes forming a quatrefoil motif on a ground of scrolling tendrils 15.9 cm. diam.Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Joseph Mott (d. 1952).His daughter, Helena Mott (d. 1997, the current owner's great-aunt).Joseph Mott was the Art Director of Doulton Lambeth in the late 19th/ early 20th centuries, and collected widely in the field of ceramics. Items from the collection of his daughter, Helena Mott, inherited from her father, were auctioned by Bonhams: see The Helena Mott Collection of Doulton and Related Items, 22 October 1997.A group of comparable tiles is in the British Museum, London (Accession No. G.495.1-14).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Iznik pottery tile Turkey, circa 1575of square form, decorated in raised-red, cobalt blue, turquoise and green with black outline on a white ground with two scrolling tendrils terminating in roses and overlaid with partial floral medallions, the interstices with cloudbands 25.4 x 25.6 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceHôtel Drouot, Paris, November 2010, lot 251.Private Belgian collection acquired at Mansour Gallery, London on the 7th of April 2001, and thence by descent.Similar treatment of roses can be seen on Iznik tiles in the Cinili Kiosk Museum at the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul (Gonul Oney and Banri Namikawa, Turkish Ceramic Tile Art, 1975, nos. 69, 70 and 74).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Iznik pottery tile Turkey, circa 1575of square form, the white ground decorated in raised-red, cobalt blue, turquoise, green and black with two central tulips surrounded by scrolling tendrils overlaid with saz leaves, the edges and two corners with partial flowerheads 25 x 25.2 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceJoseph V. McMullan (1896-1973).Christie's, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, Rugs and Carpets, 19 October 1993, lot 370.Private Belgian collection, acquired at Mansour Gallery, London, in March 1994 and thence by descent.Joseph McMullen was a well known authority on Islamic carpets who left his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on his death in 1973. The collection has been the subject of numerous publications and has been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery in London, as well as in New York.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare underglaze-painted pottery tile from the Portuguese Convent of Santa Monica in Goa (built 1627) North India, Probably Sindh, 16th Centuryof rectangular form, decorated in cobalt blue and turquoise on a white ground with a pomegranate tree with hatched trunk, three pomegranates and two large flowers, simple border, in wood frame with handwritten note pasted to reverse dated 27 November 1956 describing the history of the tile the tile 19.5 x 21.5 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection of Robert R. Lewis, according to the handwritten note dated 1956, to the reverse.Private UK collection, acquired in London in the early 1980s and thence by descent. The Convent of Santa Monica was constructed in 1627 and rebuilt after a fire in the mid 17th Century. Whilst Portuguese tiles were imported, Indian tiles were also used in the colonial buildings of Goa, and the group of tiles to which the present lot belongs were most likely produced in Sindh the century before they were installed in the convent. For further discussion and comparable examples of tiles from the Convent of Santa Monica, including a panel of tiles in situ, see Arthur Milner, Indian Tiles, London 2021, pp. 163-165, Figs. 4.40, 4.41, and 4.42. Another similar tile is in the National Tile Museum, Lisbon.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Chinese sancai-glazed tile maker's figure of a Daoist monk, Ming dynasty, standing in long flowing robes on a roof tile incised "僧人圓林一尊", fitted European wood stand, the figure 37cm high Provenance: Formerly from a family collection in Chelsea and to the current owner明 三彩人物立像"僧人圓林一尊"瓦拍品來源:倫敦切爾西私人收藏 Condition Report: one section of the long flowing robe missing on right hand side where it meet the tile the glaze still vibrant but extensive weathering and losses to glaze throughout the wood stand with wear and loose sideCondition Report Disclaimer
A selection of 19th Century and later collectibles, including: a set of six Victorian silver teaspoons, by John Aldwinckle & Thomas Slater, London, 1890, and a pair of Victorian silver sugar tongs, by Nathan & Hayes, Birmingham, 1891, contained in an upholstered case; a 19th Century decorative ceramic wall tile, tis centre decorated with two flowers on stalks surrounded by leaves, in a square border, 25 x 7 x 25cms high; a German inlaid oak mantle clock by the Hamburg American Clock Company, with white enamelled Arabic dial, in carved oak case with fluted columns and inlaid urn decoration; a 19th Century brass oil lamp; and other items.
A collection of nine Persian glazed tiles - some antique, including three oval tiles, one 30 cm tile moulded and decorated with a female figure amidst a border of flowers and two with sunburst masks, one 30 cm long, bordered by flowers, the other 23.2 cm long, within a border of birds and fish; plus six square and rectangular tiles decorated with figures, portraits, birds and flowers, size from 16 cm to 21 cm on the longest sides, two broken and repaired.
Two Maw & Co ceramic floral design tiles, one with ruby lustre finish, the second with sprays in polychrome enamels, each with 'Floreat Salopia' mark verso, 15 cm square, together with a smaller Craven & Dunnhill dust pressed lustre tile, with art nouveau floral design, 12.5 cm square, and a similar period tile with art nouveau floral decoration on a green ground, unmarked verso, 15 cm square.Qty: 4
A 19th-century stoneware tile, probably by Martin Brothers (unsigned), with incised floral decoration painted in blue and green, likely from a larger tile set, 15.5 cm x 15 cm.Small loss to one corner, with further nicks and losses to the reverse side. Surface marks throughout commensurate with age.

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