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Lot 450
THERE WILL BE NO ONLINE BIDDING FOR THIS LOTThis is a premium lot. In order to bid on this lot, please contact the auction house to obtain and complete a registration form, and provide the necessary deposit. This is the only way bids will be accepted on this lot.An important and extremely rare archaic bronze tripod water vessel and cover (Ying) Late Western Zhou, 1100-771BC The shouldered ribbed body supported by three short legs, each cast with a taotie mask, with prominent curled horns, eyes and flared nostrils matching the three-dimensional well-defined taotie mask of the ribbed handle, the spout cast in the form of a leaping tiger its stylised tail scrolling upwards where it meets the body, the domed cover with a dynamic crouched tiger bearing its teeth with elaborate scrolled whiskers, terminating in a spiralling scrollwork pattern continued on the main body of the vessel, the inside of the cover finely cast with a four-character pictogram, covered overall with a malachite green encrustation, all raised on an Imperial Qing Dynasty Zitan trefoil stand, with stylised archaistic scrollwork and taotie-mask inspired bracket feet, 13.75ins (35cm) long x 10.25ins (26cm) high, with stand 12.25ins (32cm) high overall Provenance: Capt. Harry L. Evans, RM, (1831-1883) and thence by descent to the present owner. Captain Evans was part of the Royal Marine contingent serving aboard H.M.S. James Wyatt in 1854, and took part in the capture of Canton in 1857 and the subsequent expedition to White Cloud (Baiyun) Mountains. He was slightly wounded in the attack upon the Pei-ho forts in 1859 and was present at the capture of the Taku Forts in 1860. Later that year, he was also involved in the capture of the Summer Palace, Pekin. Note: Oxford Authentication Ltd Thermoluminescence report available, Sample No: C117m45, dated the 13th November 2017. Weight 4.25kg
Lot 452
THERE WILL BE NO ONLINE BIDDING FOR THIS LOTThis is a premium lot. In order to bid on this lot, please contact the auction house to obtain and complete a registration form, and provide the necessary deposit. This is the only way bids will be accepted on this lot.A large Chinese bronze 'elephant' censer and cover of tripod form cast with elephant handles and feet, the trappings set with paste 'jewels', the pierced domed cover set with a sleeping elephant supporting a basket filled with 'cash', psyche and auspicious objects, all reserved against a classic lotus scroll ground in high-relief, 13ins (33cm) high (apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in relief to the base - Qing Dynasty, 17th/18th Century) Provenance: Capt. Harry L. Evans, R.M., (1831-1883) and thence by descent to the present owner. Note: A similar bronze censer also bearing a Xuande mark, was sold at Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, lot 340, 19th March 2013 for $8125.00.
Lot 453
THERE WILL BE NO ONLINE BIDDING FOR THIS LOTThis is a premium lot. In order to bid on this lot, please contact the auction house to obtain and complete a registration form, and provide the necessary deposit. This is the only way bids will be accepted on this lot.A large Chinese bronze 'elephant' censer and cover of tripod form cast with elephant handles and feet, the pierced domed cover set with a recumbent elephant supporting a basket filled with 'cash', sychee, ruji sceptre and peaches, all reserved against a classic lotus scroll ground in high-relief incorporating four stylised chilong, 14.5ins (37cm) high (Qing Dynasty - 17th/18th Century) Provenance: Capt. Harry L.Evans, R.M., (1831-1883) and thence by descent to the present owner.
Lot 929
A Mauchline "Fernware" black lacquered octagonal occasional table with turned column and tripod base, 21.5ins square x 24.25ins high, a ditto "Fernware" black-lacquered and gilt circular occasional table, the top picked out in colours, 24ins diameter x 21ins high, and a ditto oval "Fernware" black-lacquered oval occasional table on an extended tripod base, the top picked out in naturalistic colours, 17.5ins x 24ins x 20ins high
Lot 556
An English blue and white delftware three-division tripod sweetmeat dish: painted with Chinese figures by lattice fences, bamboo, flowers and foliage within foliate borders, probably Liverpool, circa 1750-60, 18 cm wide [some damage and restoration]. *Notes Paper label for F.H.Garner Collection.* Notes Cf. Frank Britton 'English Delftware in the Bristol Collection' page 137, pl.9.39.
Lot 633
A French 'Japonesque' ormolu-mounted pottery tripod dish: painted with a central panel depicting a man wearing a conical straw hat and two swords from his belt reserved on a ornately decorated cream ground, the mount with pierced oriental style handles and on claw feet, late 19th century, 50 cm wide.
Lot 657
A pair of late 19th/early 20th Century Venetian carved wood and decorated Blackamoor stands,: the simulated green variegated marble tops with serpentine and gilt fluted borders, on sculptured Blackamoor and foliate scroll supports with tripod scroll bases, heightened in green and gilt, 95cm (3ft 1 1/2in) high.
Lot 915
A pair of carved walnut and cane panelled torcheres:, of circular tapering form in the Regency taste, the tops with a reeded and ribbon decorated edge, having cane panel cone-shaped sides on tripod shaped and splayed legs with guilloche ornament headed with ram's heads and laurel leaf swags, united by triangular platforms and terminating in hoof feet, 27cm (10 1/2in) diameter, 121.5cm (3ft 11 1/4in) high.
Lot 183
A tray of silver items to include:- a 14cm silver sugar caster, a small 7cm hip flask hallmarked Birmingham 1922, a pedestal fruit dish on tripod base, 9cm high, Sheffield 1910, capstan inkwell and bud vase with filled bases, salt and pepper, silver mounted napkin rings, cased set of green handled tea knives, etc, weighable silver approximately 8.3oz.
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