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A Keswick hammered brass waiter by W.H. Mawson, decorated with a band of honesty, on pad feet, stamped marks, 20cm diameter together wtih a Keswick brass flared vase, 14.5cm high, a circular brass tray by Harold Stabler, 19cm diameter and two Borrowdale hammered copper dishes, the largest 18cm diameter (5)
A Bretby Aesthetic style green glaze slender vase, decorated with Japanese geisha, pat.no.959, 18cm high together with an Aesthetic movement majolica two-handled squat vase, 19cm high, a Shelley vase, 17cm high and a Minton's 'China Astor' lobed dish, 20cm diameter (4)
Jan Van Huysum (1682-1749) Flowers in a terracotta vase on a marble ledge Signed lower left, fecit. 1739 Watercolour on paper stuck down on board, 45.5x32.5cm Provenance. The estate of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Jan van Huysum was the most accomplished of a family of 18th-century Dutch painters who specialised in highly detailed flowerpieces, painted in oil on copper or wood panel. He is credited with some 240 such paintings, some of them in major collections throughout the world. A number of quite freely handled watercolour drawings also exist which are probably studies of the intended arrangement of the flowers, foliage, terracotta pots, marble table tops, and often a bird's nest, which are typical features of the paintings. However, a handful of highly finished watercolour paintings also exists-two are in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem and one in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. One of the Teylers Museum watercolours was the most expensive item in a sale of drawings in 1796. The example in Cambridge has been described in the most recent publication on Van Huysum (see below) as 'meticulously signed and dated in the same manner as a painting, and may be regarded as a work in its own right. ... All this is interesting, because it also shows that Jan van Huysum derived drawings from his paintings, but these were finished watercolour drawings'. It is to this small group of what are described as 'little jewels of craftsmanship, scarcely inferior to the oil paintings' that the remarkable work offered for sale belongs.
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