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Click here to subscribeThree assorted yellow metal and gem set stick pins, including early 20th century, cultured pearl, ruby and rose cut diamond cluster. Condition: Cluster- Overall good condition, commensurate with age. Length 59mm. Cluster 12mm. Gross weight 3.7 grams. Remaining two, one 9ct modern, the other unmarked. both set with cultured pearls. Gross 1.5 grams.
A 19th century Dieppe carved ivory figure of a 17th century gentleman, standing and wearing a ruff colour, height 30cm, height with plinth 36cm Condition: A little bleached with numerous fine lines of cracking, predominantly in the base but also through the back of the right leg and one or two through the face, possibly held a walking stick or similar in his right hand.
A Regency mahogany and ebonised bowfront stick barometer by Bate of London, with silvered scale and thermometer, 97cm Condition: Overall looks to be in good condition, dial clean, adjustment knob for dial sticks out a fairly long way, one small section of moulding missing just below the right corner of the scale, small sections of ebony from around the rim of the urn shaped cistern cover now missing, good state of polish
A group of over fifty collectables, including a Smiths eight day floating balance mantel clock with oval teak frame, 22.5 by 6.5 by 17.5cm high, a Smiths De Luxe travel clock and barometer in leather case, 16 by 8.5 by 2.8cm high closed, a Crummles & Co. English enamels lidded pot, with presentation box and booklet, 4.5 by 2.8cm high, a Royal Worcester ERII Golden Jubilee enamel trinket pot, 4.8 by 3.3cm high, a reproduction metal green painted stick stand, a set of kitchen scales various teapots, jugs, vases, mugs, dishes and ornaments. (2 boxes)
A group of collectables, comprising a Medieval lead wall cramp from the Tower of Strasbourg Cathedral, with paperwork provenance, a white metal mounted drinking horn, Indian carved wooden and brass carving knife and fork set, a bamboo swagger stick, a set of bellows, and two wooden turned bars. (8)
A group of military swagger sticks and police truncheons, comprising of a WWI Prince of Wales Own 14th West Yorkshire cane swagger stick, with white metal cap, 69cm long, an early 20th century Boys Brigade swagger stick, 69cm long, a leather swagger stick, a Berkshire Special constable style truncheon, 38cm long, and two other wooden truncheons. (6)
Early 20th century tapered glass water jug with palm tree etched decoration, Old Sheffield plate chamber stick, stainless steel Kings pattern cutlery, six settings, silver-plate four bottle cruet, large modern glass vase, silver souvenir teaspoons, oriental claw bell, Richter's 'Anchor box' set of toy building blocks, brass oil lamp and miscellanea in two boxes Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
An English officer, Captain Lyons of the Bengal Infantry, seated smoking a hookah, watching nautch girls performing, with a retinue of Indian musicians and servants Calcutta, by an Indian artist, after an original painting of 1801 by Captain Crockatt of the Bengal Engineers, circa 1810-12gouache on paper 380 x 530 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceGeneral Sir George Nugent, 1st Bt. (1757-1849), Commander-in-Chief, India, 1811-13, & Maria, Lady Nugent.Thence by descent via the Nugents to the current owners.PublishedA. L. Cohen (ed.), Lady Nugent's East India Journal, Oxford 2014, pl. 4.A close copy by an Indian artist working in Calcutta of an original painting, dated 1801, by Captain Crockett, an Engineers officer, now in the British Museum (1946,0624.4). The inscription on the reverse of this painting reads: Drawn by Capt Crockatt Engineers Bengal Establishment 1801 - The officer represented is Captain Lyons - Infantry Bengal Establishment.As a depiction of the lives of East India Company officers and their relations with Indians, this painting must rank alongside the well-known depictions of, for instance, John Wombwell smoking a hookah (Lucknow, 1790), William Fullarton (Murshidabad or Patna, 1760), Zoffany's painting of the Impey family with Indian musicians, the Delhi painting of Sir David Ochterlony, or Colonel Polier watching a nautch, by Tilly Kettle. or in a more female context, the two paintings of Lady Impey with her Calcutta household (illustrated in W. Dalrymple (ed.), Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, London 2019, p. 49; or in S. C. Welch, Room For Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, New York 1978, p. 23, fig. 3).Despite the British presence, and the British artist of the original, it is the group of Indians who are the main focus, in all their variety: from the senior servants with their silver chauris, the presumably middle-ranking under-butlers, such as the figure on the left who stands demurely with his arms folded across his stomach; the female figures with their green robes; the musicians; and the sepoy cradling his musket lurking in the doorway at the back.Lady Nugent, at least, seems to have felt a similar fascination on her arrival in Calcutta and afterwards, impressed by the numbers of servants (even for someone who was, unlike us, used to having servants), their varied livery, and their manner towards the English. On visiting General Hewett's house in January 1812, she noted:We found Sepoy Grenadier Sentinels at the gate; they are fine looking men, and I like their dress extremely - it has a very military appearance. The yard in front of the house was filled with servants [...] The footmen are called Kitmatgars - we dress ours in white, with scarlet sashes, or rather white and scarlet mixed or twisted together - scarlet bands to their turbans - and silver crescents in front - this dress is really very pretty. [This livery can be seen in lot 173, Lady Nugent in her palanquin]. The servants were all drawn up in order, and when we got out of the carriage they all made salaams down to the ground. The whole of the party attended us into the house - the inferiors arranging themselves in the hall, the superiors attending us up to the drawing room. (Cohen, p. 37).Once they had started on their tour up-country, she recorded that 'Sir George and I could not help laughing at the number of our attendants; we were surrounded by silver stick men and kitmagars, the soubadar or native officer of the escort was at a distance, and the havildar, or sergeant, waited a small distance behind him' (Cohen, p. 74) - this on the bank of a river in the middle of nowhere.She was also struck by the importance in Indian society of the hookah, 'which are indeed an extraordinary sort of things'. Early on she commented that 'neither Sir George nor myself find the smell very disagreeable, or insupportable [...] 'I have, however, set my face against young men smoking, as it is in reality an odious custom.' Not long after this, she tried it herself, at the suggestion of another English woman. 'I tried to smoke it, as she assured me it was only a composition of spices, but I did it awkwardly, swallowing the smoke, and the consequence was I coughed all night'. (Cohen, pp. 48, 54).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: PP This lot is owned by a private individual. The right of return enjoyed by EU customers is not applicable.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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