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Lot 283
QUEEN 1983 CHATEAU LAFITE MADE IN HEAVEN PROMOTIONAL ISSUE WINE. A 750ml bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac (labels in excellent condition, levels at base of neck, well sealed) in a presentation box. The wine was presented to our vendor by Jim Beach at the launch event of the Made In Heaven album at Blenheim Palace in 1996.
Lot 747
REGGAE / AFRO / STEEL BAND - LPs/12". Smoky bundle of 14 x LPs and 8 x 12". Artists/titles include Toots and The Maytals - In The Dark (original UK, DRLS.5004, Ex/VG), Eek-a-Mouse, General Trees, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Igniters Explode, George Faith, Martha Velez, Reggae Chart Busters, Trojan Explosion, Red Red Wine, Fire Down Below, Ladysmith Black Mambazo (x2) inc. Shaka Zulu and Induku Zethu, Abana Ba Nasery, Barrington Levy, Dennis Brown, Rev. Badoo, Ray Mondo & Samantha Rose, Rico Rodriguez & Brian Edwards. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.
Lot 265
JOAN ARMATRADING MASTER TAPES. Two boxed reels of 16 track 10.5" BASF tape. Olympic Studios labels to each box indicate that contents include recordings made by Joan Armatrading for her eponymous album. One from 19th January 1976 contains "Tall in the Saddle". The second is from the following day and contains two titles: 'Water with the Wine' and 'Save Me'. Containing original first-generation studio quality unreleased takes which were part of the very first stages of recording the songs. The second reel (20/1/76) does not contain any sung vocals, only the instruments (Joan's guitar plus band). There is some of her spoken voice, and the end-phrase "save me" sung several times (softly, to herself and in a 'trial' way, rather than 'performed') in between takes 2 & 3 of that song. Note - sold as an artefact only, no copyright included. Provenance: The vendor acquired the tape following his involvement in the sale of Olympic Studios to Virgin in 1986/87.
Lot 330
Shang Dynasty, 13th-12th century BC. A bronze ritual wine chalice with plain trumpet-form neck above three bow-string bands, the mid-section with a band of dragons with rounded eyes centered on a narrow flange, below two further bow-string bands interrupted by four cruciform apertures, the spreading foot with lip overhanging vertical sides. 348 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"). Property of a North West London gallery; formerly in a 1980s collection. Fair condition.
Lot 99
4th century BC. A substantial silver ceremonial drinking vessel comprising a fluted tubular curved body with rolled rim and lotus-flower detailing, and a protome of a galloping horse with head erect, ears pricked and a knop finial to the stiffened mane, forelegs extended; narrow conical spout to the chest; mounted on a custom-made stand. See Garnsey, P. Food and Society in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge, 1999 for discussion of the use of the rhyton at Greek feasts. 761 grams total, 17cm (6 3/4"). From an important London collection; acquired from J.J Klejman, New York, USA, 29 October 1964; formerly in the Thompson family collection; accompanied by a copy of positive metallurgic analytical results, written by Metallurgist Dr. Peter Northover (ex Department of Materials, Materials Science-Based Archaeology Group & Department of Materials, University of Oxford"). Rhytons formed part of the array of formal tableware for use at a ceremony such as a religious libation or a symposion drinking party. The rhyton was dipped into the krater wine container and held above the drinker's mouth with the spout covered by a thumb, then opened to release a stream of wine into the mouth. Fine condition.
Lot 192
3rd-4th century AD. A red earthenware vessel with applied decoration, probably for votive purposes and used as water or wine jar, a rare variety of the`Rheinish type' exhibiting the face and unusually the arms. See similar pottery in Museum of London, inventory numbers 61364, 18302, 21674, 21739, 7368, A1739. 519 grams total, 22cm with stand (8 1/2"). From a collection formed in London before 1990. Exuberant folk-decoration of Roman cooking and daily life pottery comprised coarsely modelled faces on water-jars and other vessels, many of them probably made in Britain and on the Rhine provinces, as confirmed by the archaeological finds. Face pots are found in most cultures; symbolic, naturalistic, crude or refined, and probably these provincial Roman examples are nothing more than humorous touches to simple kitchen jars. Storage flagons, decorated like our specimen, were used mainly for water or wine. Sometimes they were decorated with a bearded face on a largish rotund shape. Many similar designs would have been made all over the Empire. It is also interesting to note that facepots have found in cemetery areas or in sacred places such as the Walbrook stream, close to London’s temple of Mithras. Fine condition.
Lot 584
Circa 1350 AD. A gilded sheet-silver double-cup or doppelkopf comprising two shallow bowls with rims designed to lock together and each with a curved ledge handle forming a loop upon closure; the lower cup being slightly smaller than the upper, featuring a tiered foot with carinated profile and gilt beaded rim, inset roundel to the underside with similar gilt and beaded rim and low-relief engraved scene depicting a robed lady (perhaps representing Eve in the Garden of Eden?) kneeling on her right knee to pick one of two sprays of flowers in a dense foliage field, her left hand resting on the raised left knee; the handle a curved rectangular tab with gilt incised borders; the upper cup similar in form with indented roundel to the centre, lacking the applied foot, and beaded band to the shoulder. Eight other examples of this object type are known to exist all dating to the 14th century: one held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; one held at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, being part of the Cloisters collection acquired in 1983; one part of the Lingenfeld Treasure, unearthed 1894 and now in the Historisches Museum der Pfatz, Speyer; one part of the Colmar Treasure, found 1863, and now held at the Musée de Cluny, Alsace; one discovered in the garden of the Seedorf Convent, found 1606, and now held at the Historisches Museum, Basel; one as part of the Erfurt Treasure, unearthed 1998, and held at the Erfurt Synagogue; one held at the National Museum, Zurich, and the last example held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, acquired in 1960; see Treasures of the Black Death exhibition catalogue, p.72-3; also Meyer, G. L'Orfèvrerie médiévale au musée d'Unterlinden à Colmar, Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire, vol.XXIV, 1981; Fritz, J.M. Goldschmiedekunst der Gotik in Mitteleuropa, Munich, 1982; Taburet-Delahaye, E. L'Orfèvrerie gothique, XIIIe-XVe siècle au musée de Cluny, Paris, 1989; and Taburet-Delahaye, E. Les Bijoux du trésor de Colmar in Le Trésor de Colmar, Paris, 1999. 385 grams total, 13.5cm each (5 1/4"). Property of a London collector; found in a gravel pit near to the River Danube, at Donauwoerth, Western Bavaria, in the 1960s; accompanied by an academic report and photographs, plus images of the other eight examples known; three found as part of treasures, and all held in museum collections. The doppelkopf is a pair of vessels which fit together so that the upper serves as a cover during storage and as a second drinking vessel when removed. It is a specific type of vessel which is known to have come into use in the 14th century. The place in which they were manufactured is presently uncertain but the majority of known surviving examples were discovered in the Rhineland and Switzerland. Examples were present in both the Erfurt and Colmar treasures dating from the early 14th century. It is understood that the format of two open shallow vessels forming an enclosed space may have been copied from wooden exemplars and others in more exotic materials such as ostrich eggs or coconuts. There are illustrations of the wooden forms from Freiburg in Brisgau in Taburet-Delahaye (1999"). The significance of the specific form of the vessel derives from the importance in medieval Germanic culture of taking strong drink in the making of celebrations (toasts) and the customs and rituals surrounding these celebrations and amuletic (even supernatural) powers ascribed to them. The custom of Minnetrinken in which commemorative celebrations were made to invoke the memory of dead family members and loved ones, was especially associated with weddings with the fictive inclusion of the dead 'ancestors' of both families as witnesses to the matrimonial act. In this connection, these cups appear to be connected specially with Jewish weddings where two drinks of wine are taken as part of the ceremony of blessing. In Christian contexts, the list of persons celebrated could be extended to saints, martyrs, Christ and the Virgin Mary - not always approved or sanctioned by the ecclesiastical authorities but firmly entrenched in secular custom and folklore. Over time, the church came to accept the custom of Johannesminne in honour of St. John the Evangelist. The double-cups can never have been numerous and indeed only a handful are known to survive; all but the present example being in museum collections. The circumstances of its discovery are intriguing: it was recovered in the 1960s from a gravel pit near the town of Donauwerth, western Bavaria, near the banks of the River Danube. The pit held many finds which were duly preserved by the landowners, including from Bronze Age down to Roman artefacts of bronze and iron with a smaller quantity of medieval items suggesting that the pit area was in use over many centuries (indeed, millennia) either as a place of deliberate deposition or perhaps a location where a difficult river crossing made casual loss unavoidable. The town of Donauwerth stands at the junction of the rivers Danube (Donau) and Wörnitz. A riverine trading port, the town became the last call for ships travelling inland from eastern Europe and Vienna. Its near neighbour is the city of Augsburg, which was granted the status of a Free Imperial City in 1276. Originally a Swabian settlement, political power in Donauwerth was held by the dukes of Upper Bavaria in the mid-13th century and in the 14th century, Donauwerth was made an imperial city. It adopted the Reformation in 1555. [2] Fair condition. Excessively rare, all other known examples held in museum collections.
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