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Lot 173
MEIZAN; a fine Japanese Meiji period Satsuma wine ewer, the spreading body decorated with two main panels painted with figures and cranes with an allover painted main field using different colour enamels to depict semi precious stones, signed with impressed seal and gold painted seal to base, height 18.5cm.Additional InformationFinial of lid has been restored. Minor rubbing to gilding including tiny area at base of spout (see photo), overall very good.
Lot 42
A 'cariatic' silver wine coaster by Stuart Devlin, of circular form, the turned wooden base with figural openwork sides, hallmarks for Stuart Devlin, London, 1987, diameter 11.5cm.Footnote: Peter Hinks, Twentieth Century British Jewellery 1900-1980, p.135 , cat no 126 for a cariatic design brooch.Condition report: Overall condition good to fairHallmarks clearLight scratching throughout, small areas of discolouration
Lot 73
Collection of glass ware, to include two Rosenthal studio line flutes, a pair of decanters, Victorian cranberry glass jug, wine glass rinser, spill vase and one other Jack in the pulpit vase. The studio line glasses stand 35cm high Condition report: The decanters are both chipped. No other damages.
Lot 300
A late 19th/early 20th century walnut and marquetry inlaid wine tableThe circular top with floral marquetry inlay, the frieze inlay interspersed by turned finials, raised on double barley twist stem and scroll tripod supports, 47cm diameter, 73cm high (18 1/2in wide, 28 1/2in high).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 93
A collection of Irish glassComprising a decanter and stopper, probably Cork, circa 1800, with moulded flutes above a band of cut stars, 24cm high, a similar decanter engraved with grapes, a Battle of the Boyne glass, perhaps engraved by Franz Tieze, circa 1900, three small wine glasses and two custard cupsFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 96
Two mixed twist wine glasses and an incised twist wine glass18th CenturyThe former both with central air twist enclosed by opaque white threads, the first with bell shaped bowl, the second with ogee bowl and moulded flutes, together with a wine glass with round funnel bowl on short, incised twist stem, tallest 18cm high (3)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 98
A large collection of continental polychrome and gilt decorated glasswareCirca 1900The glasses and vessels of quatrilobed form and decorated with a wide band of gilt, embellished with designs in blue, red, green and white dot enamels, together with ten Italian glass ornaments of dolphin form. (qty)Footnotes:Comprising:4 decanters, 2 are 37cm high, 2 are 35cm high.2 jugs, 25cm high.6 bowls, 13 stands13 tall green tinged glasses13 wine glasses, 13.5cm high13 wine glasses, 12.7cm high13 sherry glasses, 11.5cm high12 champagne glasses, 11.5cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 170
A good set of four early Victorian silver mounted wine coasters/decanter slidesby Edward Farrell, London 1840/42 Each with high sides pierced with scrolling foliage, the central silver mount with an outer border of c-scrolls and trellis-work, centred by an engraved monogram, diameter 14.5cm. (4)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 345
Mattia Preti, called il Calabrese (Taverna 1613-1699 Malta)The Feast of Absalom oil on canvas116.8 x 168.2cm (46 x 66 1/4in).Footnotes:ProvenanceSale, Sotheby's, New York, 25 March 1982, lot 83 (as 'Attributed to Preti')With Piero Corsini Inc., New YorkDr. Carlo Croce, PhiladelphiaSale, Christie's, New York, 14 January 1993, lot 164 (sold $49,500)Sale, Christie's, London, 25 April 2001, lot 109LiteratureM. Laskin and M. Pantazzi, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1987, vol. I, pp. 232-3M. Marini 'Mattia Preti, la sua visione e i suoi seguaci', in Mattia Preti, Rome, 1989, pp. 146 and 157, note 12J. T. Spike, Mattia Preti, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Florence, 1999, p. 367, no. 305, ill. p. 368ExhibitedNorthampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Baroque Painters in Italy, 17 November 1989- 8 February 1990 (no catalogue) Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Mostly Baroque: Italian Paintings and Drawings from the Carlo Croce Collection, 24 April- 14 June 1992 (no catalogue)The present composition which John Spike regarded as an important early work from the mid 1630s would appear to be the artist's earliest known treatment of a subject that he painted later in two famous works now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, and the National Gallery of Canada. The subject is taken from Samuel, XIII: v. 28, which describes how Absalom, son of King David, sought revenge on his half-brother Amnon, for the rape of his sister Tamar. The prince invited the unsuspecting Amnon to a banquet and after lulling him with wine and food, signalled his assassins to murder him.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 38
Ɵ Two leaves with Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum sive originum, book 20, with readings on wine, and Pubilius Syrus, Sententiae, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Northern France (most probably Cercamp, Amiens), third quarter of the twelfth century] Bifolium, each leaf with double column of 44 lines of a small and precise proto-gothic bookhand, written above topline and without biting curves, faded red rubrics, one-line initials of capitula for next book on second leaf in alternate pale green and red, large pale and green initials with foliate penwork decoration, reused on a binding in late medieval period and with folds across middle of leaves, corners of blank margins clipped away and slight damage through heat exposure to upper outer corner of first leaf, else good condition, each leaf 395 by 285mm.; in cloth-covered card binding Provenance: 1. Most probably written for use in the Cistercian Abbey of Cercamp, diocese of Amiens, founded 1141 with monks from Pontigny, ransacked in 1415 during Agincourt, but re-established before being forcibly converted to stables and a military hospital in the 1630s during the Thirty Years' War, then seized for military use again in 1710 by the troops of Field Marshal d'Harcourt. At the Secularisation there was little left to suppress. By the nineteenth century the buildings were in use as a wool factory, and later became the residence of the Barons de Fourment. This bifolium certainly reused there at the end of the Middle Ages, and with a sixteenth or early seventeenth-century ex libris of the house, upside down at the foot of the rectos of both leaves: "Abbey de Cercamp", most probably from reuse there around a set of accounts. No other manuscript or fragment of one from this medieval library can be traced by us.2. André Simon (1877-1970), wine merchant, gourmet and one of the most important twentieth-century authors on wine, who voraciously collected books on the same subject. 3. Sotheby's 6 December 1993, lot 5. 4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1777, acquired in Sotheby's. Text and script:This bifolium is from an elegant monastic copy of the most important encyclopedia produced by the Middle Ages. Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636) was part of the intellectual renaissance in the seventh-century Visigothic court, and was notably close to King Sigebut (c. 565-620/1), to whom the first version of this work was dedicated. It has been suggested that he composed it as a form of summa for his recently-civilised barbarian masters, but it quickly found other more conventional readers in mainland Europe and became the most widely consulted scientific reference work of the Middle Ages. It survives today in nearly a thousand manuscripts (Barney et al., Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 2006, p.24), and by the year 800 copies of it could be found in almost all the cultural centres of Europe. The leaves here contain discussions of food, oils and greases, beverages (prominently including wine) and vessels for food. The second leaf contains the entries from 'M' to 'T' of the Sententiae of Pubilius Syrus (fl. 85-43 BC.), a Syrian slave freed by his Roman master due to his talent as an author and playwright. All that now remains of his work is this text: a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse arranged in alphabetical order. He was admired greatly by Seneca the Younger, quoted by Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing, sc. 1: "if she did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly"), and his work is the origin of the expression "a rolling stone gathers no moss".
Lot 80
George I, king of England, Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal for a grant of arms to George St. George, Conferring on him the barony of Hatley in Ireland, in Latin, decorated manuscript charter on parchment[England, dated 26 April 1715] Large single sheet charter on two rolls of parchment (one rolled inside the other), with 26 and 30 long lines in a fine and calligraphic script, ruled on thick red lines, the first line in large gold letters with ornamental cadels and opening with a large initial in same enclosing a skilfully painted portrait of King George I, full border of coloured coats-of-arms and golden acanthus leaves on first leaf, with the Great Seal of England in brown wax (diam. 150mm.) attached by plaited silver cords (these fraying but intact), each parchment leaf 600 by 750mm.; in contemporary wooden fitted case with large circular compartment for seal, lined with coloured paper and covered in tooled leather, by "Charles Tennant, at the sign of the Royal Trunk at the corner of Wine Tavern street and Merchants-Quay, Dublin": his printed label inside, leather here aged and dusty, with scuffs and losses of sections and wood and leather at extremities Provenance: Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1381, acquired Christie's, 26 June 1991, lot 342. Text and script:A notably large and proud example of Early Modern script and decoration used to display the original owner's power and influence.
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