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A French porcelain mounted ormolu mantel clock Le Roy & Fils, Paris, circa 1870 The eight-day bell-striking movement with foliate scroll and female term decorated Roman numeral cartouche dial, within a break-arch pedimented case with urn surmount and foliate crest flanked by polychrome decorated vase finials, the waisted sides with slender pilasters and foliate cast panel decoration flanking a central mask and scroll painted porcelain plaque, on shaped base with three conforming circular panels inset into the elaborate foliate scroll cast apron, 44cm high.
A collection of eight Islamic pieces, comprising an iron bottle vase, with a white metal overlay design of bands and leaves, 22cm high; two brass vases, decorated with copper and white metal overlay; a similar box and cover; two trays; a brass bowl and a white metal medallion
A mahogany elbow chair, late 19th century, in Chippendale revival style, the vase shaped back with acanthus carved cresting rail and pierced 'Gothick' splat, the out-turned arms with acanthus scroll knuckles and curved supports, drop-in seat, square underframe with stretchers
English, early 19th century Four alabaster panels commemorating Lord Nelson, formerly mounted on the Trafalgar Urn inscribed: HORATIO / VISCOUNT NELSON KB / Commander in Chief in the / Mediterranean / Fell in the discharging of his Duty / Off Trafalgar in the moment of Victory. / 21 October 1805 / ALEXANDER DAVISON consecrates / this Urn as a tribute of respect to the Immortal Memory of / His Friend each weathered panel with finely carved flanking dolphins and depicting respectively: the commemorative inscription within an oval cartouche; a relief carving of HMS Victory; a cartouche of laurel wreaths with protruding trophies; and a seated figure of Britannia with a lion, the latter two panels cracked down the middle. The alabaster urn which surmounted the plinth is included in the lot but broken in three pieces due to weathering. each: 29.5 by 55cm., 11.5 by 21.5in. Provenance Alexander Davison Esq., St. James's Square, sold 21 April 1817, lot 715 The recently-identified Trafalgar Urn is a relic of the remarkable relationship between Nelson and his agent, and closest civilian friend, Alexander Davison (1750-1829). The two men had met in Canada in 1782, forging a friendship that would only be broken by Nelsons death twenty years later. At the time Nelson was a young, unknown post-captain on convoy duty during the American War whilst Davison was at the outset of a highly lucrative career as a military contractor. As Nelsons fame grew, however, Davison increasingly took charge of his friends business and domestic affairs. He was appointed Nelsons prize agent after the battle of the Nile in 1798 and again after the battle of Copenhagen three years later. By way of thanks for this profitable appointment, and to bind himself closer to Nelsons ÒBand of BrothersÓ for whom he arranged the famous ÒEgyptian ClubÓ swords and dirks, Davison lavished gifts on his friend. Many of these appeared at the sale of Davisons collection at Sothebys, London in October 2002. Davison also used his vast fortune to build a spectacular art collection by patronising many of the leading artists of the day including Benjamin West, Richard Westall and David Wilkie. Perhaps the single most important painting he owned was The death of the Earl of Chatham by John Singleton Copley (now in the Tate Gallery, London). Among the artists Davison regularly entertained at his mansion in St. Jamess Square in London were the sculptors Joseph Nollekens and John Flaxman. It was therefore unsurprising that when Nelson wished to commemorate the death of his colleague Captain Ralph Miller with a monument in St. Pauls Cathedral, he gave the task to Davison, who commissioned Flaxman. Davison was sorely disappointed not to be appointed the prize agent for the battle of Trafalgar, privately ruing the death of his famous client although there are signs that Nelson had already decided to give the task to a rival agent. Accordingly, Davisons commemorations were more muted than they had been after the Nile when he had ostentatiously presented a medal to every man who had fought the battle. Nevertheless, he gave medals to the men on board Victory and erected an obelisk on his estate in Northumberland: Ôto the memory of private friendship. A similarly intimate sentiment informed the ordering of an urn - a replica of the famous Warwick Vase - for his townhouse which he dedicated to Ôthe immortal memory of his friend. Indeed, in the aftermath of the battle Davison badly n eded some influential friends. Having already been convicted for electoral fraud some years earlier, he was again facing prosecution for defrauding the government in his contracting business; charges that returned him to prison in 1809. On his release, with most of his fortune gone in fines and in fighting his case, Davison was forced to sell much of his magnificent art collection. ÔThe Entire Property of Alexander Davison, Esq. comprised almost a thousand lots and took fourteen days to sell on the premises at St. Jamess Square in April/May 1817. Lot 711 was a marble bust of Nelson by Flaxman (now in the collection of the Ministry of Defence, London). Three lots later the urn appeared, with even greater fanfare: A SUPERB STATUARY TWO-HANDLED URN (to the Memory of the late LORD NELSON) on a pedestal 7 feet high, richly ornamented in EMBLEMATIC DEVICES, and surmounted by the figures of NEPTUNE, AMPHITRITE, &c. The urn then disappeared from sight for almost two hundred years.
A Viennese small enamel vase and cover, .800 small article mark for 1886-1922, the domed cover with a cherub finial, painted with classical ladies in a garden attended by winged cherubs between mask and scroll borders and bulbous base, on a waisted pedestal, 10cm (4in) high, 128g (4 oz) gross
A George III silver ogee baluster caster by Thomas Daniel, London 1777, with rope borders, engraved with a script monogram, 185cm (6in), 106g (3.25 oz); and a George III vase shape caster, London 1777, with moulded borders, 12.5cm (5in), 89g (2.75 oz)
A pair of Victorian silver vase shaped “bun top” pepper pots, maker’s mark “CBEP” (not traced), Sheffield 1882, each with beaded borders and fluted decoration, on a square base, 8cm (3.25in) high; another similar, same date and maker, on a circular foot; and another similar by James Garrard, London 1897, each engraved with the Dawson crest, 367g (11.75 oz) gross
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