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Lot 366
A Collection of Edinburgh Crystal 'Thistle' pattern Glassware. The nine x 4 inch (10 cm) tumblers, six 3½ inch (9 cm) tumblers and four 4¾ inch (12 cm) wine goblets all engraved with thistles around the flared borders above diamond cut bulbous bodies and star cut bases. Also a cut glass water carafe & tumbler 8 in (20 cms) in height.
Lot 508
A Regency Mahogany Wine Cooler on Pedestal Stand. The tapered rectangular box with hinged scotia moulded lid opening to reveal a partitioned interior lined in paper. The wrythen fluted centre column above a quadriform platform raised on four scroll topped sabre legs with brass caps and castors, 31½ ins (80 cms) high, 23 ins (59 cms) wide, 16 ins (41 cms) deep.
Lot 364
Islands off Thrace, Thasos AR Stater. Circa 412-404 BC. Bald headed and nude Satyr in kneeling-running stance to right, carrying off a protesting nymph; Α in right field / Quadripartite incuse square. Kraay-Hirmer 437; Gulbenkian 464; Le Rider, Thasiennes, 6; SNG Copenhagen Suppl. 103. 8.50g, 21mm. Good Extremely Fine, excellent high classical style. Ex A. Tkalec, 7 May 2009, lot 29. Thasos, a large island off the western coastal region of Thrace, gained its enormous wealth by virtue of its local silver mines as well as mines it controlled on the Thracian mainland opposite the island city-state. According to Herodotos (VI, 46), the city derived 200-300 talents annually from her exploitation of this mineral wealth. Additionally, Thasos gained much material wealth as a producer and exporter of high quality wines, which was tightly regulated by the government, and it was perhaps due to this trade in wine that her coinage spread throughout the Aegean making it a widely recognized and accepted coinage in distant lands. The artistry of this coin is exceptional, and belongs to the very end of the 5th century BC before the end of the Peloponnesian War. Earlier didrachm staters struck to a local Thracian standard originally of 9.8g and subsequently to 8.7g are quite crude in style, portraying a vigorous and beastly satyr forcibly abducting a very unwilling nymph. By contrast the nymph on this coin seems to barely protest the abduction, and the satyr is imbued with almost wholly human qualities. The engraving is by a superior artist and is in a very lovely style, the head of the satyr reminding us of the miniature masterpieces from Katane in Sicily depicting a satyr's head facing, while the head of the nymph here is strongly reminiscent of the head of the nymph found on the coins of nearby Neapolis in Macedon. There is no explanation in the relevant literature of the letters A, Σ, or Φ which sometimes appear in the obverse field of these later staters (they never appear on the earlier staters). They cannot be the signatures of the artists as the staters with the same letter often show a markedly different hand at work, so they most probably simply identify the magistrate responsible for the issue, a commonplace feature on other coinages from a number of mints during this and subsequent times.
Lot 57
PINCHUS KREMEGNE (RUSSIAN-FRENCH 1890-1981)Still Life with Apples, Wine, Vase and Cup, oil on canvas54.3 x 73 cm (21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.)signed lower leftEXPERTISEWe are grateful to Jeannette Kremen for confirming the authenticity of this paintingPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.
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Lot 446
[PEEL ROBERT]: (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46. SCARLETT JAMES (1769-1844) 1st Baron Abinger. English Lawyer, Politician and Judge. A.L.S., Abinger, two pages, 8vo, New Street, 16th February 1839, to Robert Peel ('My dear Sir Robt.'). Scarlett announces 'I send by the bearer a bottle of brandy which was a hundred years old when I found it about twenty years ago' and continues 'I cannot say however that I think great age is a recommendation of this article as I have always found good brandy to go very fast'. Scarlett also sends a bottle of Mendoza wine from South America, adding that he believes it is the only specimen which ever arrived in England ('That you may know whether this last is worth an honourable place in your cellar') and concludes 'I wish you would take some opportunity of tasting another bottle here', inviting Peel to join him on any Saturday after the 23rd. With blank integral leaf. About EX
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