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Lot 14
COOKERY & MEDICINE - LORD MAYOR OF LONDONManuscript receipt book from the household of Sir Edward Clarke, Lord Mayor of London for the year 1696-1697, written in several hands, consisting of 30 preliminary leaves beginning with a list of contributors, 'The Names of those Noble Persons By whose Assistance I made this Collection' (such as 'The Right Noble an most Honble Lord Ruthven Earl of Gowry, Sir William Ellis M.D... Lady Middleton...' etc.), chart of measures ('Half a Scruple/ One Scruple/ Half a Dram... The Four Cordiall fflowers... The four greater hot seeds... The five Emolient herbs...'), Bills of Fare for the 'Mayorality of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Clarke at his Lordshipps or his Officers Tables...' organised by month, followed by the receipts in three sections, firstly 'Preserves Conserves etc.' ('To Preserve Pippins at Candlemass', 'To make white Marmalett of Quinces', 'To Make Biskett' 'To make Jelly of Hartshorne', 'To make Chocolate', 'Wormwood Cakes', 'To make French Jumballs', 'Orange Chipps', 'Apricock Wine'); then 'Cookery Pastry' ('To Collar Eales', 'To make Carraway Wiggs', 'Cock Ale' ('...take a Red Cock parboyle him... pound him bones and all in a mortar...'), 'How to make a Lumber Pye', 'To make Angellotts' ('...keep it in flannell till it is Eaten...'), 'To Pickle Ashen Keyes'); finally 'Phisick Chyrurgery etc.' ('To keep the Body Soluable' ('...it will give you two or three Stools you may goe abroad...'), 'For the Kings Evill', 'A Poultis for St Anthonys Fire', 'For a Mattery Substance in the Eye', 'The Green Oyle to be made in May called Oyle of Charity', 'The Weapon Powder' ('...If it be a contused wound... add... the Powder of the Moss that grows upon a dead mans Skull... If so be bones be broken you must then add thereto the bones of a man which were taken out from him when he was alive...'), many with attributions (the majority to 'Madame Bolton', also 'Lady Herbert', 'Lady Wharton', 'Dr Packer', 'Dr King' etc.), calligraphic titles, red rules between recipes, pages numbered, each section with ruled index headed with red initials ('Cookery Pastry' index bound out of order), c.286 leaves (29 of which are blank), dust-staining and marks, liquid stains and marks particularly to medicinal pages, some show through, ink gall burn causing hole to title page, small tears, later rebound in cloth-backed boards, slightly scuffed, g.e., 4to (202 x 158mm.), [late seventeenth century]Footnotes:'THERE STOOD ON THE SIDEBOARD A COLLAR OF BRAWNS THAT WEIGHTED 162£ AND A VERY LARGE GOOSE PYE': RECEIPTS AND MENUS FROM THE LORD MAYOR'S TABLE.A particularly attractive volume of culinary and medicinal receipts, clearly written and decorated in calligraphic flourishes and touches of red, compiled from receipts donated by members of society. The seasonal Bills of Fare which take up much of the preliminary pages give an insight into the lavish entertaining undertaken by the Lord Mayor of London in the late seventeenth century, noting not only which dishes were presented but how they were presented ('There was sett on Blocks as Garniture Colared Beefe, Collared Eale, Pickles, Oranges'). Details are given of a lavish dinner for the Judges in January ('...there stood on the sideboard of A Collar of Brawns that weighted 162£ and a very Large Goose Pye...'), a 'Cold Treat given by my Lord Mayor to the Officers of the Artillery Company' in June, a dinner for the Governors of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals on 5 August 1697 and 'The Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Edwd Clarke on the day that he was Sworn to Mayor of the City of London (att Guildhall) being the day before the Lord Mayors day Anno Dni 1696'. On that auspicious occasion, the Lord Mayor and his guests began the day with a breakfast of rib of beef, little cakes and 20 gallons of burnt claret. Despite such extravagances the anonymous author is keen to point out that they have omitted the feast days such as Easter as '...such magnificent entertainments as those were are proper only for such great solemnities and Cannot without Great Extravagancy be Imitated By Private Persons...'.Sir Edward Clark of Brickendon, Hertfordshire, was a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and held several prestigious posts in his career including Sheriff of London in 1690 and Director of the Bank of England in 1694. He was Lord Mayor of London for the year 1696-1697. Provenance: Sir Edward Clarke, Lord Mayor of London (d.1703); Helen & Michael Oppenheimer, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Lot 17
COOKERYManuscript receipt book, written in several hands, opening with 3-page 'Rules to Keep Preserv[ves]' and upwards of 230 recipes, including 'To Make Scotchcollups', 'To Stew an Ox Cheek', 'Sauce for a boyled Leg of Mutton in Winter', 'Sauce for Green Geese', 'Sauce for Roasted Patridges, Pheasants or Young Turkeys', 'To Pickle Oysters', 'To Half a Calves Head', 'A Pidgeon Pye', 'To Butter Lobsters', 'Ragalia Concumbers', 'To Butter a Crab', 'Clear Cakes of Gooseberries', 'To Preserve Strawberries', 'apricock wine', 'To Make Lemon biskets', 'Chiscakes', 'Waffer Pancakes', 'The Pudding in the Pikes belly. good', 'English Catchup', 'To Make a Diet drink for a Fever', 'A Water which Dr. Stephens made and did many cures and kept it very secret to this Death. The Arch. Bisp. of Canterbury got it in Writing', 'The Walnut Water of Life', 'A most Excellent receipt for ye Plague', 'A brawn of a breast of pork', 'To Make Punch & tea', 'Pickle Samphire', 'To Pot Hare', 'George Basle breast salve', and many others, 266pp., including 182 numbered pages, a 10-page index (for recipes 1-119, and 158-166, the leaf for which bound first), several early childish illustrations including a pen and watercolour view of a house in a landscape setting, and a full-page illustration of a bird, approximately 20 blank or with single line of text), some soiling to opening leaf, one leaf with lower portion cut away, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, small 4to (185 x 145mm.) [c.1722-1771]Footnotes:'The Pudding in the Pikes belly... Take the liver of the pike, and a Dozen Oysters, Thread 2 anchoveys, some Lemon Peale and Nutmeg, the body of a Lobster or a Crab, mix all these together, then put in some grated bread, a quarter of a pound of butter, the yolk of one egg, mix all these together a little lemon and parsley, then put in the pudding at the throat of the Pikes'.Provenance: 'Sarah Robothom, Anno Domini 1722', inscription on first leaf; William Ford, inscription dated 1771 on p.6, and the recipe 'To cure the itch' signed and dated 'William Ford, Manchester, 1746'; Helen & Michael Oppenheimer, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 38
SUSSEX - LEDGERManuscript accounts ledger of John Pilbeam, bearing ownership inscription and date on first page ('This book beginning September 25 Day 1718 being of my Timber... at Londdon... and to Houme and [what?] it Douth com to and What Mony I Dou Receive and When by me/ John Pilbeam'), entries beginning May 1722, written in ink in several hands, each entry named ('John Elsen His Bill', 'Will Burtle', 'John Harden', 'Edmund Muddell'), early entries concerning crops ('2 gallons of Oates', 2 peckes of wheat'), moving on to other goods such as coal, straw, apples and domestic items, with mentions of taxes ('...for one years Window Tax £01-00-00...', '...taxes to the King...'), services ('...for keeping of 2 horses...', '...paid Charles Ward for to Dayes work a Loadeing of Stone...', '... to Wimen for Dressing & Dinner and Cleaning up the Linnen and trenchers and the pewter and all things...', '...for putting up a servants bed...'), and other items ('...Disbursmentes of being Churchwarden' including '...2 Church lockes...' and '...wine for the communion...'), noting debts paid and owed ('December ye 27 day 1723 then Reckoned with Will Seckelmare and he is in my debt...'), many later entries concerned with carpentry and building materials ('...a side for a cucumber frame...'), particularly for work done at Mitcham, many pages crossed through, last entry inverted, c.170 leaves, dust-staining and marks, small tears, edges frayed, one leaf excised, contemporary calf, marked and worn, edges bumped, spine lacking, front board nearly detached, folio (312 x 200mm.), 1720's to 1760'sFootnotes:There are records for the Pilbeam (or Pilbeame) family in a number of Sussex villages, notably Wadhurst, where they had farming and mercantile interests, and Ardingly. Indeed, several of the names mentioned here – Pilbeam, Muddle, Harden, Tully and Lintott for example can be found in the Ardingly parish records online and a John Pilbeam, possibly an ancestor, is noted as being a churchwarden in the village in the early 1600's. Several mentions of local placenames ('...The a Count of What Malt I have had of Walter Chatfield att Hawardes Heath...') and entries in the book concerning local farming activities ('...for a hoppicker that you have carred away/ for an oaster that you have carred away...') would also confirm the location of the family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 44
ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATISDeipnosophistae, in Greek, FIRST EDITION, edited by Marcus Musurus, Greek italic type, capital spaces with guide-letters, dolphin and anchor device on first and last pages, with blank leaf B10 of preliminaries (often lacking), some mostly light dampstaining, final leaf with device laid down, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered on spine [Adams A2096; Ahmanson-Murphy, 123; Renouard p.67; Vicaire 50], folio (304 x 108mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, August 1514Footnotes:EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE EARLIEST SURVIVING COOKERY TEXT: a valuable source of information on intellectual mores of the classical world, 'magnifiquement exécutée' (Vicaire).The Deipnosophistae ('Banquet of the learned') is the only known work by Athenaeus of Naucratis, a Greco-Egyptian writing in the early part of the 3rd century AD. In it a variety of scholars are invited to dine at a banquet held at the house of Larensius, a wealthy book-collector and patron of the arts. They debate at length a wide spectrum of topics, notably food, wine and cookery (the work is an important source of Greek, Persian, Roman and Sicilian recipes, many of which would have been lost), homosexuality (an unusually candid portrait for the time), sexual mores in general, health, music and philology. Aldus had planned a Greek edition of the work soon after establishing his press, but only got as far as printing a one-page proof in his second Greek type, which was not used after 1499.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 153
A fine Chinese bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, Ju You, Late Shang Dynasty, 12th-11th century BC, the broad pear-shaped body is raised on a splayed foot and the shoulder and cover with lozenge leiwen bordered by circles and centred on each side with an animal-mask, the twisted-rope, swing handle is joined at the shoulder by two simple loops and the domed cover is surmounted by an ovoid finial, the exterior and interior surfaces are covered with a mottled encrustation of bright malachite and azurite, and the interior base and inner cover are both cast with the clan mark, approximately 31cm high x approximately 23cm wide x approximately 16cm deepProvenance: Sotheby's, London, November 18th, 1998, lot 873 where purchased by the current owner and recently removed form a country house in West BerkshireThe clan mark, reading '丙' [bing], was associated with the Bing clan residing in todays Shanxi Province. A bronze jue vessel, late Shang dynasty, with similar clan symbol, bing, was excavated in 1953, Anyang, Henan Province, tomb no.304, and is now in the National Museum of China, Beijing; see Zhongguo qing tong qitu ji, Beijing, 2005, p.125. Further examples can be found in other important museum collections; see R. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1987, pp.194-195; in the collection of the British Museum, see W. Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1977, pl.10b; and in the Shanghai Museum, see Shanghai Museum: Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery, Shanghai, p.9. 晚商 青铜雷纹提梁"丙"卣「丙」金文铸款拍品来源：西伯克郡私人收藏，现藏家于1998年11月18日购自伦敦苏富比Condition Report: the exterior and interior surfaces are covered with a mottled encrustation of bright malachite and azuriteold corrosion consistent with date crack to foot 4.5cm long and various knocks and chips to foot rim cover edges with casting flaw and old knocks and chips Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 262
A Chinese famille verte wine cup, in Kangxi style, the delicately potted flared sides are well painted with a standing scholar leaning on a garden rock and watching the moon, the base recessed inscribed with a six-character kangxi mark, 5cm high"大清康熙年制"款五彩铃铛杯Condition Report: Good conditionCondition Report Disclaimer
Lot 108
A silver sugar bowl and cream jug, Henry Stratford Ltd, Sheffield 1919 & 1921, together with a silver baluster cream jug, London 1946, a George III silver pedestal cream jug, London 1790, a stylised shell form silver cream jug and two pierced silver bon bon dishes, total weight approx 23.3oz, together with a white metal wine funnel (8)
Lot 407
A small group of late 18th and early 19th-century drinking glassescomprising an air-twist wine glass with bell bowl, circa 1770, 16.2cm high (various chips); a wrythen short ale glass, 10.5cm high; a small rummer with engraved leaves to the bowl and a lemon squeezer base, 11cm high; and two further rummers with engraved bowls (5)Air twist - various foot rim and bowl chips.Lemon squeeze base glass - foot chipped to two corners.No further damages.
Lot 660
A Chinese archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, jue, Western Zhou dynasty, the U-shaped body supported by three blade-form legs, the single loop handle emanating from the mouth of a beast mask, the rim issuing a pair of posts surmounted by elongated flared caps, cast to the exterior with two taotie masks on a leiwen ground, the underside of the spout cast with a pair of dragons, 21.2cm highcf. For a similar example, please see Christie's New York sale, 25.03.2022, lot 172.西周 青銅饕餮紋爵杯同類器物詳見佳士得紐約2022年3月25日拍賣會第172號。 品相報告 Condition Report: Heavy encrustations to the surface, with malachite-coloured encrustations covering the exterior and interior. Some wear to the rim and extremities, with a few nicks to the rim present. All wear commensurate with age.
Lot 662
A Chinese bronze garlic-mouth twin handled wine flask, bianhu, Han dynasty, the flattened body of oblong form supported by a tall splayed rectangular foot rising to a short waisted neck and six-lobes garlic bulb shape mouth, flanked with a pair of loop handles with masks of mythical beast, the surface patinated overall to a dark brown with patches of malachite, 29cm high.Provenance: Estate of the late designer Anthony Powell (1935 – 2021).Christie's sale label 18. 02. 1999, lot 140.漢 青銅蒜頭口扁壺來源：前設計師安東尼·鮑威(1935 – 2021)藏。佳士得拍賣1999年2月18日第140號。品項報告 Condition report Neck restored. Surface ware commensurate with age with areas of encrustation. Scattered dents and scratches to the surface. Old restoration to the neck. Loss of an ear and a horn to one taotie mask. Asymmetrical garlic mouth.
Lot 719
A Chinese carved and lacquered 'jia guan jin jue' screen, 19th century, the rectangular panel slotted into a stand, carved in relief to one side with domestic scenes of ladies, officials and boys at play, applied with red and black lacquer with gilt painted border, the reverse painted in gilt depicting a scene of two young men offering jue cups to an old official accompanied by maids on a black ground, the stand covered in red lacquer with gilt painted to areas carved in relief, glazing applied to the three figurative panels, 82cm x 58.5cm x 21cm.Jia guan jin jue is one of the types of ceremony to commemorate his promotion to higher rank by offering him an archaistic jue cup, a type of ancient Chinese vessel used to serve wine.十九世紀 木雕漆描金屏Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 668
A George III hexagonal, brass coopered, mahogany wine cooler, with a later tin-lined partitioned interior, on the original base with 4 square tapering legs, rasied on the original brass castors, some damage, 49cm wide x 58.5cm highTop faded. Damage, including back edge of inside rim lacking 2cm section and bottom brass band split and repaired in places. Chips dents and scratches consistent with age and use. Lacking original lock and escutcheon.
Lot 677
A small Regency wine cooler/cellarette, the rectangular top inlaid with boxwood stringing, opening to reveal a later tin liner on the left and two apertures on the right, the integrated base with turned legs, some damage/restoration, 38.5cm wide x 30.5cm deep x 54cm high.Restoration, including top re-sited, glue residue on the inside edge. Damage including three horizontal cracks (front, middle and back) on the top, with some loss of mahogany on the front, along the outer edge of the stringing and both front and back cracks ‘filled’. Lacking some reeded mouldings on base, including both front corners, and castors. Chips, dents and scratches consistent with age and use.
Lot 687
Eight bottles of Champagne and sparkling wine, comprising Alexandre Bonnet Champagne rose brut, Antoni De Clevecy Champagne, Orlando Carrington Sparkling Wine, Marquis de la Tour Sparkling Wine, Chateau Belnor demi sec, Comte de Limeray Champagne brut, freixenet cava, and Oudinot rose brut. (8)
Lot 263
A collection of cookery manuscripts,18th/19th century, containing cures & remedies, food and wine recipes, pickling, and a clamshell box containing loose recipes, etc., together with E Kolsund: 4 September 1885 Menu; etc., a manuscript 'Reduction continued', late 18th/early 19th century, 71pp, and 60pp of recipes for puddings, clearing ale, imping pheasants, partridges, etc. (qty)
Lot 267
Modern cookery books,'The Complete Bocuse',by ... Bocuse,Flammarion,'Ripailles, Traditional French Cuisine',by Stephane Reynaud,Murdoch Books 2008,'Wine Grapes',by Jancis Robinson Julia Harding and Jose Voullamoz,Penguin Book 2012, with slip case,'Larousse Gastonomique',Hamlyn 2009, with slip case,'Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine',by Rene Redzepi,Phaedon,'The Great Dixter Cook Book',by Aaron Bertelsen,Phaedon, signed by the author, andfour further books (qty.)Condition ReportGenerally good.The Bacuse sealed and unused.Larousse - cooking stains to spine and sleeve.
Lot 558
After Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)Japanese,'Colours of Spring of Spring Playing with flower in the wine vat' (Shunshoku shuchuka asobi), coloured woodblock triptych, 31cm x 64cmSome light foxing around the image of the screen mainly. The print is mounted and framed and please note it hasn't been taken out of the frame.
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