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Click here to subscribeAn early Tunbridge ware white wood painted sewing clamp, the 'C' form frame with line decoration and side mounted with a cylinder tape measure with printed label 'A Brighton Trifle', hand inked reduced tape within, below a vase form pin cushion top, split to 'C' frame recently re-stuck, 15cms high. From the collection of Dr. Brian Austen
Mauchline ware - four pieces, comprising a tulip form vase in alternate woods (Dunnottar Castle / Fasque House), 23cms, a rectangular box (Recollections of the International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Edinburgh 1886), 17cms, another (Hastings Pier), 11.4cms, and a book marker (Cavendish Place, Eastbourne), 16.5cms. (4)
A Palais Royal satinwood small format sewing box, circa 1830, the ogee front and back below a domed lid with central steel carrying handle flanked by borders of cut steel pins and raised on brass ball feet. The lid interior with cracked mirror lining to lid over a red velvet flush fitted tray with gilt wire decorated pin cushion, two matched mother of pearl snowflake thread winders, mother of pearl thimble lacking pansy motif, a rectangular needle case, a steel stiletto with gilt mount and mother of pearl vase form handle, a pair of steel scissors with gilt mounts to carved mother of pearl arms with four inset enamel floret motifs below oval loops and a mother of pearl needle case, probably matched, complete with silk squab, 18.8 x 8.2 x 6.5cms.
An elaborate and elegant mahogany reel stand, the circular base on three bun feet below two circular tiers divided by baluster turnings and incorporating sixteen brass reel rods each with a turned finial, the whole surmounted by a vase form pin cushion, 14.5cms dia. at base, 31cms high. From a distinguished UK Private Collection
A pair of late 18th/early 19th Century Dutch scissors on hook and chain, the scissors with oval section blades to scrolling silver engraved arms below plain oval loops, on a long silver chain to a lyre form silver mount centred by a vase below a flower with belt hook, various marks, the scissors 16cms, 77cms with chain outstretched.
A late 18th Century German silver standing thimble compendium, the circular base to a tapering cylinder needle case, below a vase form pomander, the thimble unscrewing to reveal a two division tapering reel in turn unscrewing to a small compartment, spiral turned engraving, 11cms. From the collection of the late Sue Read
An early Tunbridge ware white wood paint and label decorated sewing clamp, the 'C' form frame with line painted decoration below line painted vase form pin cushion with original velvet infill and with a black on red label 'A Gift From Brighton', 16cms high. From a distinguished UK Private Collection
A Japanese Meiji period blue and white porcelain vase, by Makuzu Kozan, with an elongated garlic neck, finely painted with writhing dragons below lappets and stylised wave designs, four character mark of Miyagawa Kozan to underside, 23cm high. Miyagawa Kozan is often referred to as Makuzu Kozan(1842-1916). He was one of the Japan's leading ceramicists of the Meiji era, frequently winning awards at many of the International exhibitions of the day. He was appointed Imperial Court artist in 1896.
A group of Oriental ceramics, to include a 20thC porcelain miniature ginger jar and cover, decorated with bird and flowers against a white ground, stamped Made in China, 10cm high, various blue and white rice bowls, blue and white vase of tapering form decorated with flowers and butterflies, 13cm high, (AF), etc.
A Qing dynasty blue and white Chinese porcelain ginger jar, decorated with prunus blossom on a cracked ice ground, four character Kangxi mark, 14cm high, a 19thC blue and white porcelain vase decorated with reserves of figures on a floral ground, four character mark, 13.5cm high, and a further blue and white porcelain vase, of baluster form, decorated with figures in a garden setting, 9cm high. (3)
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