19th-20th century AD. A white-glazed ceramic jug with bulbous body, funicular mouth with pouring lip, basal ring, strap handle; decorated with gilt-lustre trumpet whorls and tendrils, heater shield with rampant lion in blue and gilt-lustre divided per fess; to the underside, a gilt-lustre Moorish arch with 'LC' mark. 1.7 kg, 24cm (9 1/2"). Property of an American gentleman; acquired 1970s-1990s. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
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3rd-2nd millennium BC. A mixed ceramic group comprising: a shallow bowl with duck-head handle, notched rim and band of roulettes; a trumpet-shaped bowl with domed spirals to the rim; a juglet with angled rim and pouring lip. 396 grams, 5.5-15cm (2 1/4 - 6"). Property of an Essex gentleman; previously from a 1980s London collection. [3, No Reserve] Fair condition, repaired.
English Tokens - 19th century AD. Made on 19th century shillings. Obv: smoothed and neatly engraved floral pattern with 'Hodgetts' around. Rev: musical score over crossed trumpet and french horn. Obv; smoothed and neatly engraved floral patter with 'Turnpenny' around. Rev: as before. 4.17, 4.29 grams. ("). The reverse motifs suggest a musical connection for this pair of tokens; they are also of similar size to many 18th-19th century gaming tokens. Extremely fine.
LARGE SELECTION OF CRYSTAL and other glassware, including a ships decanter and stopper, 26cm high; a pair of trumpet vases with knopped stems, 20.5cm high; a circular rose bowl, 9.5cm high; a shaped tapering vase, 18cm high; a stout water jug, 13.5cm high; an Edwardian water jug, 13.5cm high; a circular cut glass bowl engraved with roses; three salt and peppers; pair of tapering hob nail cut spill vases with silver rims; silver top dressing table bottle and many other items Note: viewing advised
Desire Leroy (attributed) for Minton, a pate sur pate plate, cobalt blue ground painted with a central trumpet and dagger with floral and foliate swags, within a tooled gilt Secessionist flame border and further slip decorated and jewelled foliate ribbon band, gilt footrim and mark, 26.5cm diameter
A small group of silver items to include a Hanau silver ladies' shoe with Continental marks to the heel, London 1895 import marks, and BM Berthold Muller, a silver playing card case with playing cards, height 9.75cm, a hallmarked silver trumpet vase with loaded base, Walker & Hall, and a silver mounted glass vase (4). CONDITION REPORT Silver shoe: no thinning of metal, no sign of restoration. Clear marks to base.Trumpet Vase: discolouration to interior of vase, bearing silver mark. Misshapen silver collar to glass vase, clear hallmarks, small chip to base of vase.
Bifolium with a large white-vine initial, from a copy of Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Southern Germany or Austria, mid-twelfth century] Two conjoined leaves, with a 12-line high initial ‘G’ (opening “Gratias grano tritici …”, on Psalm 69), in finely drawn split red bands, their centre-sections infilled with red, and held together at highest and lowest points by distinctively German bands with small circles (that seem to represent riveted metal bands used to hold timber together), the lower tail of the initial turning in on itself and filling its own body with sprays of curling acanthus leaves, explicits and incipits in fine red capitals, some capitals touched in red in opening of text following large initial, small initials in red (one formed from a distinctive minuscule ‘e’ with a tongue that widens to a wedge at its outermost end to resemble a trumpet), single column of 3 lines in a small and precise early gothic bookhand (on Psalms 68 and 69; trimmed at top with loss of two lines of text), one contemporary marginal note “nomen”, some folds, scuffs, areas of discolouration and a small hole in margin, overall good condition, each leaf 257 by 192mm.A fine example of an early German white-vine initial, with their characteristic penwork ‘riveted bands’ holding the sections of the body of the initial together. Compare F. Avril and C. Rabel, Manuscrits enlumines d’origine germanique, 1995, no. 122, pl. cxv (that one Austrian).
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