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After the Antique: A rare Coadestone Townley vase the rim and foot stamped Coade`s Lambeth and dated 1840 92cm.; 36ins high by 54cm.; 21ins wide Eleanor Coade (d.1821) opened her Lambeth Manufactory for ceramic artificial stone in 1769, and appointed the sculptor John Bacon as its manager two years later. She was employed by all the leading late 18th Century architects. From about 1777 she began her engraved designs, which were published in 1784 in a catalogue of over 700 items entitled A Descriptive Catalogue of Coade`s Artificial Stone Manufactory. Then in 1799, the year she entered into partnership with her cousin John Sealy, she issued a handbook of her Pedlar`s Lane exhibition Gallery. The firm became Coade and Sealey from this date and following Sealey`s death in 1813, it reverted to Coade and in 1821 with the death of the younger Eleanor Coade, control of the firm passed to William Croggan, who died in 1835, following bankruptcy. Coade`s manufactures resembling a fine-grained natural stone, have always been famed for their durability (see A. Kelly Mrs Coade`s Stone, London 1980). The original is a large Roman marble vase of the 2nd century AD , discovered in 1773 by the Scottish antiquarian and dealer in antiquities Gavin Hamilton in excavating a Roman villa southeast of Rome. The ovoid vase has volute handles in the manner of a pottery krater. It is carved with a deep frieze in bas-relief, occupying most of the body, illustrating a Bacchanalian procession. Its name comes from the English collector Charles Townley, who purchased it from Hamilton in 1774 for £250. Townley`s collection, long on display in his London house in Park Street, was bought for the British Museum after his death in 1805. In the 19th century it was often imagined that Keats` Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) was inspired by the Townley Vase, though modern critics suggest instead that the inspiration was more generic, and may have also owed something to scenes portrayed on William Hamilton`s collection of Greek vases which entered the BM collection at around the same time. Copies of the Townley Vase have subsequently been made in a number of mediums including bronze, iron and lead.
A Handyside cast iron fountain circa 1860 117cm.; 46ins high Andrew Handyside started the foundry in 1806 and by 1851 the firm had expanded and operated out of the Britannia Iron Works, Derby. At the Great Exhibition they exhibited Medici vases, bacchanalian vase and a bronzed vase decorated with busts of Peel, Nelson, Watt, Wellington, Stephenson, Scott, Shakespeare and Milton, and a fountain. At the time, the foundry was described as being |from the magnitude of its operations is second to none in England|. They produced two catalogues in 1848 and 1874. A similar model is illustrated in the 1848 Catalogue no 15.
Henri-Adrien Prévost de LONGPÉRIER (1816-1882) numismate et archéologue. 3 L.A.S., 1864-1865, [à Alexandre Grassi] ; 11 pages in-8, un en-tête Ministère de la Maison de l’Empereur. Direction générale des Musées impériaux. 14 février 1864. Il remercie le jeune archéologue corse pour le numéro de L’Avenir de la Corse et le fragment de vase antique de terre rouge, dont il transcrit et commente l’inscription à la pointe ; observations sur le nom Maria, dans l’Antiquité, et sur l’inscription d’Auguste et de son petit-fils Caius César… 22 mars 1864. Ayant exprimé quelques réserves sur son explication « ingénieuse » du nom du potier du fragment, il l’entretient de l’expédition archéologique au Mexique, auquel Grassi souhaite se joindre : il faut faire valoir « une spécialité bien déterminée » auprès du ministre, et il parlera de lui : « J’aurai le concours de Mr Mérimée »â€¦ 25 juin 1865. Encouragements pour les recherches numismatiques de Grassi en Corse. Il se félicite de n’avoir pas réussi à le faire envoyer au Mexique, où les recherches des archéologues sont entravées par les gouverneurs de province : « le plus clair de notre expédition scientifique sera la publication des riches et excellents documents que Mr Aubin avait recueillis, il y a vingt ans »â€¦ On joint une L.A.S. du baron Henri Aucapitaine à Grassi, Aléria 3 février, avec transcription d’une inscription sur deux fragments de marbre.
Olga Alexandrovna de Russie (1882-1960) Grande-Duchesse de Russie, sÅ“ur de Nicolas II et peintre. 2 L.A.S., 16 mai 1934 et Ballerup 6 avril [1936 ?], à Fernand Thormeyer à Carouge (Suisse) ; 1 page obl. (au dos d’une carte postale illustrée), et 4 pages in-8 avec enveloppe. Affectueuse correspondance à « Siocha », son ancien précepteur à la cour impériale. « Voilà que nous avons reçu une lettre du Directeur de l’école russe à Paris. Nous devons être à Paris pour les examains le 28, 29 & 30 juin »â€¦ – Elle a été très occupée par le « bazar arménien », dont elle se plaint tout en se félicitant de son succès ; elle se réjouit de se retrouver à sa maison de Knudsminde et d’embellir son jardin. « Enfin mes tableaux sont emballé dans 3 grandes caisses (j’ai fait cela moi-même) & ils sont tous parti sur un bateau à Londres. 87 en tous – 70 aquarelles & 17 huiles »â€¦ Anniversaire d’Emilia Iv. : « 70 ans. Je lui ai donné une bague avec topaze jaune (anneau en platine) & les garçons lui ont donné une belle vase danoise »â€¦ Elle parle avec affection de sa « pauvre vieille » avec qui elle cause de tout et verse des larmes quelquefois, de ses souvenirs du palais Amitchkoff « où nous dansions », et de sa sÅ“ur Xenia avec qui elle tricote tous les jours : en prévision de Pâques, cette semaine, « nous irons chaque jour à l’église. Mes pieds & jambes me font mal déjà (après le bazar) George de Grèce va avec nous »â€¦
An Edwardian silver three-piece tea set, by Sibray Hall & Co, London 1907, of panelled vase shape with waisted necks, wavy rims and scroll borders on four leaf capped scroll feet, 39oz CONDITION REPORT: Teapot: Knop split. One foot impacted into body with dents around it. Solder to base of spout. Both sugar bowl and milk jug have dents throughout including to leg and jug. General wear.
A Chinese blue and white vase of baluster shape, decorated with a garden scene depicting an official engaging in appreciation of antiquities surrounded by attendants, Chengua six-character mark within a double ring to the base, Kangxi period (18th century), 27cm high
A selection of mostly Meissen blue-ground and gilt dressing table items, late 19th century, comprising; a chamberstick, four various circular boxes, three with covers, a pair of double-gourd vases and covers, a pair of solifleur vases, two various models of slippers, a small vase, a hand-bell, a small quatrefoil dish, a small bottle-vase; and two similar Coalport small ewers and a Limoges miniature basket, late 19th/20th centuries
A late Victorian pair of Arts and Crafts style pressed glass open salts on silver stands with pinched rims to/w shell spoons, maker L.B., Birmingham 1895 to/w a cased replica 'Maidenhead Spoon', London 1977, a specimen flute vase on weighted foot, Sheffield 1978 and a Dubarry pattern stilton scoop (4)
A pair of silver specimen flute vases on weighted bases, Sanders & Pedlingham, Birmingham 1923, 16 cm h. to/w a smaller flute vase, Birmingham 1907, a pair of Victorian sugar tongs by George Unite, Birmingham 1868 and a small US Sterling pin dish, R. Wallace & Sons, Wallingford, Conn. (5)
A Royal Worcester comport painted to the centre with a mountainous scene with highland cattle by J Stinton, 23.5 cm dia., 11 cm h. to/w a Royal Worcester style ivory ground twin handle vase painted with a church on a river bank and two continental porcelain figures of an Asian couple with 'nodding' heads, 9.5 cm h (4) Condition Report Comport a/f - extensively restored. Figures a/f
A Bishop Oriental Ivory twin handle footed bowl and water jug, green ground decorated moulded with scrolling floral decoration in low relief to/w a similar cream ground bowl with polychrome decoration and a vase in the form of a tulip (4) Condition Report Polychrome bowl - handle re-glued
Powell & Bishop Bisto Korea vases, Fuji-Yama decoration comprising a pair of baluster vases, 21.5 cm h. c/w hardwood stands, a pair of ovoid vases with short narrow necks and a spherical vase (5) Condition Report Hairlines from rim of one baluster vase. One ovoid vase and the spherical vase crazed.
Wedgwood Fairyland lustre small bowl designed by Daisy Makeig-Jones, gilt and enamelled to the exterior with leap-frogging elves against a starry black ground, to the interior with flying elves and fairies on a mother of pearl ground, printed marks and pattern no. Z4968, dia. 13.5 cm to/w a smaller Wedgwood lustre bowl, gilt and enamelled to the exterior with birds on a blue/green ground within a gilt swan neck border, 10 cm dia. (2) Condition Report Fairyland lustre - extensively cracked, restored/re-glued Smaller vase broken in half and re-glued/restored
A Chinese blue and white ovoid vase decorated with maidens on a verandah, artemesia mark to the base, Kangxi, 1662 - 1722, 13.5 cm h. c/w hardwood cover to/w a Chinese blue and white small vase decorated with figures in a rocky landscape, 19th century, c/w wooden cover (2) Condition Report Kangxi vase - cracked 19th century vase - crazed overall
A Chinese octagonal blue and white hot water plate decorated with a watery landscape, 18th century, 23.5 x 27.5 cm to/w a Chinese blue and white cylindrical tankard with strap handle decorated with a watery landscape, 13.5 cm h., a smaller example, 9 cm h., both c. 1800 and a Chinese blue and white ovoid vase decorated with prunus, 13 cm h., 19th century (4)
A Chinese five lobed bulb vase with tall neck and pomegranate mouth decorated in cobalt underglaze blue with maidens on a terrace between scrolling foliage, four character mark, 19th century, 24 cm h. Condition Report Chip to the rim of the pomegranate and hairlines in this area
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