The Gentleman's Library Sale

The Gentleman’s Library Sale I Montpelier Street, London I 23 - 24 February 2021 26661

The Gentleman’s Library Sale Montpelier Street, London I 23-24 February 2021

The Gentleman’s Library Sale Montpelier Street, London | Tuesday 23 - Wednesday 24 February 2021

Tuesday 23 February, 10am Wednesday 24 February, 10am Books: Lots 1-9 Silver: Lots 332-587 Pictures: Lots 10-39 Collectors: Lots 40- 65 Furniture, Carpets, Works of Art, Clocks: Lots 66-331

BONHAMS LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS PRESS ENQUIRIES IMPORTANT INFORMATION Montpelier Street AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE [email protected] In February 2014 the United Knightsbridge Please email [email protected] States Government announced London SW7 1HH with “Live bidding” in the subject CUSTOMER SERVICES the intention to ban the import www.bonhams.com line 48 hours before the auction Monday to Friday of any ivory into the USA. Lots to register for this service. 8.30am – 6pm containing ivory are indicated by VIEWING +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 the symbol Ф printed beside the Lot number in this catalogue. IMPORTANT NOTICE ENQUIRIES Senior Sale Coordinator Bonhams continues to hold SALE NUMBER Astrid Goettsch REGISTRATION viewings and sales in accordance 26661 +44 (0)20 7393 3975 IMPORTANT NOTICE to the government guidelines in [email protected] each region. If local restrictions Please see page 2 for bidder Please note that all customers, prevent our salerooms from information including after-sale irrespective of any previous activity Carpets opening, the sales will either be collection and shipment with Bonhams, are required to wholly online or livestreamed Helena Gumley-Mason complete the Bidder Registration from the auction house. Bids +44 (0) 20 8963 2845 Please see back of catalogue Form in advance of the sale. The will be accepted online, on the [email protected] for important notice to bidders form can be found at the back of Bonhams app, on the telephone every catalogue and on our Furniture website at www.bonhams.com and as absentee bids. For up to ILLUSTRATIONS Thomas Moore and should be returned by email or date information and if you have Front cover: Lot 32 +44 (0) 20 8963 2816 post to the specialist department any questions regarding an Back cover: Lot 460 upcoming sale please contact [email protected] or to the bids department at Inside front: Lots 143, 241 [email protected] Client Services on: Inside back: Lot 190 +44 (0)20 7447 7447 or Sculpture & Works of Art & [email protected] Clocks To bid live online and / or Michael Lake leave internet bids please go to www.bonhams.com/auctions/26661 BIDS +44 (0) 20 8963 2813 [email protected] and click on the Register to bid link +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 at the top left of the page. To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com Pictures Leo Webster Please note that bids should +44 (0) 20 7393 3863 be submitted no later than 24 [email protected] hours before the sale. New bidders must also provide proof Silver of identity when submitting bids. Ellis Finch Failure to do this may result in +44 (0) 20 7393 3973 your bids not being processed. [email protected] Always confirm with the bids office that faxed bids have been Miles Harrison received. Bidding by telephone +44 (0) 20 7393 3974 will only be accepted on a lot [email protected] with a lower estimate in excess of £500. Books & Manuscripts Matthew Haley +44 20 7393 3817 [email protected]

Collectors Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Jon Baddeley Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries +44 (0) 20 7393 3872 Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Central

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Astrid Goettsch Senior Sale Coordinator [email protected] 020 7393 3975

Ellis Finch Silver [email protected] 020 7393 3973

Miles Harrison Silver [email protected] 020 7393 3974

Michael Lake MRICS European Sculpture and Works of Art [email protected] 020 8963 281

Thomas Moore Furniture [email protected] 020 8963 2816

Leo Webster Pictures [email protected] 020 7393 3863

Helena Gumley-Mason Carpets [email protected] 020 8963 2845

Matthew Haley Books & Manuscripts [email protected] 020 7393 3817

Jon Baddeley Collectors [email protected] 020 7393 3872 BOOKS: Lots 1-9

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1 • 2 • BINDINGS BINDINGS DICKENS (CHARLES) The Works, 40 vol. bound in 80, “The DICKENS (CHARLES) The Works, 17 vol. (Complete), “Crown National Edition”, LIMITED TO 750 COPIES, numerous engraved Edition”, plates, occasional light spotting, opening gathering to David plates by Cruikshank, Hablot Browne, etc. on India proof paper, Copperfield loose, contemporary half calf gilt, red and green morocco colour reproductions of original parts wrappers, light dampstaining gilt lettering labels, Chapman and Hall, 1890-1892--GIBBON in opening few volumes, red crushed morocco gilt by Macdonald (EDWARD) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, of New York, decorative gilt panelled sides, spines tooled in 6 12 vol., “new edition”, engraved frontispiece and folding maps, compartments within raised bands, gilt-tooled inturns with inset blue contemporary diced calf, spines tooled in gilt, rubbed, W. Allason morocco panel, upper panel with arms in red and black morocco and others, 1818; idem, another edition “with notes by Dean Milman onlays and gilt, stiff watered silk endpapers (replaced in volume 3), and M. Guizot”, 8 vol., portrait and maps, contemporary red straight g.e., some volumes with joints neatly repaired, 8vo, Chapman and grained morocco gilt, g.e., rubbed at extremities, John Murray, 1887, Hall, 1906 8vo (37)

£3,000 - 5,000 £600 - 800 €3,400 - 5,600 €680 - 900

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 3

3 • 4 • 5 • BINDINGS BINDINGS BINDINGS MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) The ELIOT (GEORGE) The Writings, 25 GREVILLE (CHARLES C.F.) The Greville Works, 12 vol., new impression, 12 plates, vol. (Complete, including “The Life” by Memoirs, 8 vol., edited by Henry Reeve, contemporary half calf, spines tooled in J.W. Cross”), LARGE-PAPER EDITION, maroon straight-grained morocco gilt by gilt within raised bands, t.e.g., Longmans, frontispiece printed in 2 states (coloured, Bickers & Son, sides with 3-line gilt fillet 1903--JONSON (BEN) The Works, 9 vol., uncoloured), contemporary crushed half border enclosing 2-line inner border and half-titles, dark crushed morocco gilt by morocco gilt, spines tooled in compartments floral corner-pieces, gilt dentelles, t.e.g., Stikeman, gilt lettered on spine, gilt dentelles, within raised bands, t.e.g., 8vo, Boston and Longmans, 1874-1887--HAGGARD t.e.g., G. and W. Nicol, 1816--MUSSET New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1908 (ANDREW C.P.) [The Works], together 13 (ALFRED DE) The Complete Writings, 10 vol., plates, uniform blue half morocco gilt vol., ONE OF 150 SPECIALLY BOUND £800 - 1,200 for Brentano’s, t.e.g., Hutchinson [-Stanley SETS from an overall edition of 1000, €900 - 1,400 Paul], 1903-1914--SHERIDAN (RICHARD frontispieces in 2 states, original half levant BRINSLEY) The Works, 2 vol., 1821; The morocco, t.e.g., New York, Edwin C. Hill, Memoirs, 2 vol., 1825; The Speeches, 3 1905--BYRON (LORD) The Poetical Works, vol., 1842; Sheridiana, 1826, later uniform 10 vol., additional engraved picttorial title and half red morocco gilt, spines tooled in 6 frontispiece in each volume, contemporary compartments within raised bands, t.e.g. red morocco, gilt lettered on spine, g.e., (“Sheridiana” smaller format), Longman, John Murray, 1873, 8vo (41) Hurst [-Henry G. Bohn], 8vo (29)

£800 - 1,200 £800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400 €900 - 1,400

6 7 • Suckling’s elevation to Comptroller of the NAVAL – MAURICE SUCKLING BINDINGS Navy was to have a decisive influence in Letters patent appointing Maurice Suckling LAMB (CHARLES) The Life and Works, 12 fostering the nascent career of his nephew, Comptroller of the Navy (“...except those vol. (complete), “The Edmonton Edition”, Horatio Nelson; and indeed he presided at thereof relating to the Comptrolling of the edited by Alfred Ainger, with introduction and the examining board when Nelson passed as Treasurers Storekeepers and Victualling notes, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, this number lieutenant, a year early, in 1777. Suckling’s accounts...”) in succession to Sir Hugh “90”, printed on hand-made paper, 36 plates, bravery and conduct during an illustrious Palliser, at an annual salary of £500, on contemporary full aqua-green morocco gilt, career at sea encouraged the twelve-year-old one membrane of vellum, engraved initial sides with 5-line gilt fillet border, floral spray Nelson to join up and served as a constant portrait and decorated foliate borders, corner-pieces with small red morocco onlays, inspiration to him throughout his life. Suckling blue paper duty seal, trimmed at lower enclosing central armorial emblem, spines proved to be an able administrator: ‘Like margin, neatly restored and extended at titled with ornaments in 6 compartments his predecessor, Sir Hugh Palliser, Suckling foot with two reproduction pendant seals within raised bands, gilt dentelles, t.e.g., was, by dint of ability and detailed naval attached on cords, mounted, framed and spines light uniform fading, 8vo , [Printed knowledge, of fundamental value to Lord glazed, unexamined out of frame, folio (530 Boston, Merrymount Press for] Pafraet’s Sandwich in his extensive reform of naval x 765mm.), with frame 995 x 1035mm., Book Co., Troy, NY, [c.1910] Westminster, 12 April 1775 (2) administration’ (Ruddock Mackay, ODNB). A framed modern photographic reproduction of Thomas Bardwell’s portrait of Suckling is £800 - 1,200 £400 - 600 included in the lot. €900 - 1,400 €450 - 680

Provenance Christies, Trafalgar Bicentenary sale, 19 October 2005, lot 178.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 6 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 8

8 • BINDINGS [ARABIAN NIGHTS] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. with Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of the Nights... by Richard Burton [-Supplement. 17 vol. (complete), “Connoisseur Edition”, NUMBER 14 OF 100 SETS, frontispieces (in 3 states), plates (in 2 states), tissue guards, uncut, early green half morocco gilt, t.e.g., spines lettered in gilt with large decoration of a flowers in red morocco onlays and gilt, t.e.g., one cover detached, corner of one spine slightly worn, large 8vo, Printed for the Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only, [c.1900]

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

9 • BINDINGS MOTLEY (JOHN LOTHROP) The Works, 9 vol. (complete, comprising: The United Netherlands, 3 vol.;The Rise of Dutch Republic, 4 vol.; The Life and Death of John of Barneveled, 2 vol.), plates, polished calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McLurg & Co., spines elaborately tooled with within raised bands, green morocco lettering labels, t.e.g, bright and fresh, 8vo, John Murray, 1903-1904

£400 - 600 €450 - 680 9

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10 11 TP 12 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH NAIVE SCHOOL, 19TH ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY Still life of food with a cat stalking a mouse CENTURY Call of the hunt oil on canvas A jockey with a horse in a landscape oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.5cm (19 7/8 x 23 13/16in). oil on canvas 63.8 x 76.5cm (25 1/8 x 30 1/8in). 91.4 x 122.2cm (36 x 48 1/8in). £1,000 - 1,500 unframed £3,500 - 5,000 €1,100 - 1,700 €3,900 - 5,600 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,400

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 9 13 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A view of Rochester with busy shipping on the Medway oil on canvas 13 26.7 x 44.7cm (10 1/2 x 17 5/8in).

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

14 L. EVANS, 19TH CENTURY ‘View on Regent’s Canal’ signed, indistinctly inscribed and titled ‘L Evans 3 Devonshire/---- Camden Town/No1 View on Regents Canal’ (on stretcher) oil on canvas 25.4 x 35.3cm (10 x 13 7/8in).

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

15 FOLLOWER OF RICHARD WILSON, R.A (BRITISH , 1714-1782) Tabley House, Cheshire oil on canvas 50.8 x 61cm (20 x 24in).

14 £800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 10 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 16 ENGLISH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY British soldiers preparing cannon for an impending engagement oil on metal 33.4 x 56.5cm (13 1/8 x 22 1/4in). 16 £1,000 - 1,500 €1,100 - 1,700

17 * JOHN AUGUSTUS ATKINSON (BRITISH, 1775-1833) The 1st King’s Dragoon Guards at Waterloo watercolour and pencil 22 x 34cm (8 11/16 x 13 3/8in).

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

It has been suggested that this work may in fact depict Inniskilling Dragoons rather than as stated in the catalogue.

Provenance with the Parker Gallery, London. Private collection, USA.

18 CHARLES HENRY SEAFORTH (BRITISH, 1801-DIED AFTER 1859) 17 Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy in stormy seas signed and dated ‘C.H SEAFORTH/1859’ (lower left) oil on canvas 39.7 x 60.7cm (15 5/8 x 23 7/8in).

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 11 19 AFTER BENJAMIN MARSHALL, EARLY/MID 19TH CENTURY These works are after a pair of paintings by Benjamin Marshall ‘The Trimmed Cock’; ‘The Cock in Feather’ (British, 1768-1835) exhibited as titled at the Royal Academy in 1812. a pair Marshall’s paintings were subsequently published in 1812 as a pair both bear signatures and date of engravings, these would later be reprinted with amended titles of oil on canvas ‘War’ and ‘Peace’. It is likely that the present lots were copied after 50.5 x 40.9cm (19 7/8 x 16 1/8in).(2) these prints, with the exception of the farmyard background which is the invention of the artist. £3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,600

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 12 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 20 LOUIS FRANÇOIS GERARD VAN DER PUYL (UTRECHT 1750- 1824) Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, seated holding a letter from the Cape of Good Hope signed and dated ‘VD Puyl/ Pt 1787’ (lower left) oil on canvas 68.4 x 58.1cm (26 15/16 x 22 7/8in). unframed

£1,000 - 1,500 €1,100 - 1,700 20 21 ANGLO-IRISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY Portrait of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, London a wooden identification plaque affixed to the lower centre of the canvas oil on canvas 75.9 x 62.2cm (29 7/8 x 24 1/2in).

£600 - 800 €680 - 900

Swift is noted for his work as a satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and Anglican cleric who went on to become Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.

22 AR 23 24 EDGAR HUNT (BRITISH, 1876-1953) EDWIN FREDERICK HOLT (BRITISH, FOLLOWER OF JOHN NOST SARTORIUS Goats and chickens feeding in a farmyard 1830-1912) (BRITISH, 1759-1828) interior Cows in a farmyard with chickens and chicks A cockerel with trimmed feathers signed and dated ‘E. Hunt. 1916’ (lower signed and dated ‘E.F.Holt.1900’ (lower left) oil on canvas right) oil on canvas 53.5 x 60.5cm (21 1/16 x 23 13/16in). oil on canvas 40.6 x 61cm (16 x 24in). 35.8 x 45.7cm (14 1/8 x 18in). £1,500 - 2,000 £800 - 1,200 €1,700 - 2,300 £5,000 - 7,000 €900 - 1,400 €5,600 - 7,900

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 14 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 23

THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 15 25 H. KNIGHT (BRITISH, 19TH CENTURY) A portrait of a seated girl and her dog with a garden beyond signed and dated ‘H.Knight pinxt/1857’ (lower left) oil on canvas 90.5 x 75cm (35 5/8 x 29 1/2in).

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

Provenance Private collection, UK. 25 26 BRITISH SCHOOL, EARLY/MID 19TH CENTURY A primitive school portrait of a young girl, seated, holding a puppet of a soldier (or an Indian servant) and with a silver rattle at her waist oil on canvas 76.5 x 63.5cm (30 1/8 x 25in).

£700 - 1,000 €790 - 1,100

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 16 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 27 FELICE SANTOLONI (ITALIAN, BORN CIRCA 1800-) Three wall designs of baccanti taken from Herculaneum the first and third signed and inscribed ‘Felice Santoloni/BACCANTE/ Del Ercolano’ (lower edge) gouache the first 51.1 x 40.6cm (20 1/8 x 16in); the second 51.1 x 36.5cm (20 1/8 x 14 3/8in); the third 50.8 x 40 cm (20 x 15 3/4 in). (3)

£1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,300

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 17 28 29 30 CIRCLE OF CHARLES COLLINS ROMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800 DUTCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY (BRITISH, 1680-1744) A black retriever with a lizard and a dead A barking dog in a landscape A badger and a rabbit in a landscape duck in a landscape bears signature and date ‘Adrian./Adriaen oil on canvas oil on canvas v***/velde.fec/ 1662’ (strengthened, lower 61 x 74.3cm (24 x 29 1/4in). 55.5 x 68.6cm (21 7/8 x 27in). right) oil on laid paper, laid down on board, £6,000 - 8,000 £6,000 - 8,000 extended by 3.5cm on left edge €6,800 - 9,000 €6,800 - 9,000 24.5 x 30.2cm (9 5/8 x 11 7/8in).

Provenance £1,000 - 1,500 Roy Miles Fine Paintings, London, no. 997. €1,100 - 1,700 Private collection, UK (acquired from the above circa 1985); thence by descent.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 18 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 29

THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 19 31

31 AR THIERRY PONCELET (BELGIAN, BORN 1946) West highland white terriers as a Regency band performing in the gardens of a country house signed ‘Th. Poncelet’ (lower left) oil on panel 71.8 x 73.9cm (28 1/4 x 29 1/8in).

£3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,600

Provenance With Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London, no. PON400DCDC. Anon sale, Bonhams, New York, 2012, 15 February 2012, lot 167.

32 AR THIERRY PONCELET (BELGIAN, BORN 1946) A gentleman setter signed and dated ‘Th. Poncelet 1993’ (lower left) oil on canvas 83.2 x 60cm (32 3/4 x 23 5/8in).

£1,700 - 2,200 €1,900 - 2,500

Provenance Anon sale, Bonhams, London, 19 January 2017, lot 276. Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale by the present owner).

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 20 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 33

33 CHRISTOPHE HUET (FRENCH, 1700-1759 PARIS) A pair of singerie works depicting monkeys training a dog oil on canvas laid to board 46.9 x 37.5cm (18 7/16 x 14 3/4in). (2)

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

Provenance Chateau du Bourré, Anjou, France. Private collection, UK.

34 AR CHARLES FREDERICK WILLIAM DENING (BRITISH, 1876-1952) Going cheep - The Old Pet Shop on the Horsefair, Bristol signed and dated ‘C.F.W.DENING/1926’ (lower left) oil on canvas 30.2 x 40.4cm (11 7/8 x 15 7/8in). 34

£300 - 500 €340 - 560

35 FRANK PATON (BRITISH, 1856-1909) A set of ten etchings complete with a focal subject and surrounded by smaller satirical and comic images in reference to the central title each signed in pencil ‘Frank Paton’ etching 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in). (10)

£700 - 1,000 €790 - 1,100

35 (one of ten)

36 37 ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES WALSHAM BALDOCK (BRITISH, R. YEOMANS (BRITISH, 19TH CENTURY) 1822-1898) A horse greeted by a dog Two bay horses in a landscape with a goat at rest signed, dated and inscribed ‘R. Yeomans/Chatham/1854’ (lower left) oil on canvas oil on canvas 79 x 107cm (31 1/8 x 42 1/8in). 66.6 x 84.1cm (26 1/4 x 33 1/8in).

£4,000 - 6,000 £1,000 - 1,500 €4,500 - 6,800 €1,100 - 1,700

Provenance Anon. sale Sotheby’s, London, 26 March 2003, lot 99. Private collection, UK (acquired from the above).

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 22 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 38

38 AR CHRIS CHRISTOFOROU (CYPRIOT, BORN 1954) Tiger and Cubs signed and dated, watercolour and gouache 54.5 x 79.5cm (21 7/16 x 31 5/16in).

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

39 AR CHRIS CHRISTOFOROU (CYPRIOT, BORN 1954) British Raptors signed, acrylic on board 59 x 44cm (23 1/4 x 17 5/16in).

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

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40 AR 41 AR 42 AR RONALD COBB (BRITISH, 1907-1977): A RONALD COBB (BRITISH, 1907-1977): RONALD COBB (BRITISH, 1907-1977): SIGNED ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN AN ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN FOR A A LARGE SIGNED ORIGINAL COSTUME OF A MURRAY’S CABARET CLUB MURRAY’S CABARET CLUB SHOWGIRL DESIGN OF A MURRAY’S CABARET SHOWGIRL IN A BROWN AND WHITE IN A YELLOW AND BLACK DRESS, CLUB SHOWGIRL IN A BLUE AND ENSEMBLE, 1950’s, WHITE DRESS, 1951, the hand-painted pencil, watercolour 1950’s, the hand-painted pencil, watercolour and and gouache costume design featuring a the hand-painted pencil, watercolour and gouache costume design featuring showgirl showgirl in a low-cut yellow and black work- gouache costume design featuring showgirl ‘Greta’ in a brown and white ensemble, style dress, with sheer yellow skirt, black ‘Laurel’ in a blue and white off-the-shoulder annotated in pencil Sepia Farm No. scare gloves, black glasses, black handbag and dress with matching headpiece, with a small crow underdress by the artist, also signed matching boater hat, unsigned, mounted, watercolour study of a side view on the and dated by the artist to the bottom framed and glazed, sight 6 1/4in x 13 1/4in same sheet, and a pencil annotation Rain right corner, unframed, 6 1/2in x 14 1/2in (16cm x 35cm) No., signed and dated faintly by the artist to (16.5cm x 37cm) the bottom left corner, unframed, 9in x 17in £150 - 200 (23cm x 43cm) £200 - 300 €170 - 230 €230 - 340 £250 - 350 Here Cobb has blended a glamorous work- €280 - 400 For more information: wear style with a sense of erotica through www.murraysclubarchive.com the sheer fabric combinations. One of Cobb’s more sophisticated designs, similar to the glamour encapsulated in a Exhibitions Horst P. Horst model from Vogue in the The Museum of Soho, London, 22nd March 1950’s, or inspired by a Cecil Beaton - 7th April 2018. costume design design. Green & Stone of Chelsea, London, 4th-16th July 2019. Literature Levy, Benjamin, ‘Murray’s Cabaret Club: For more information: Discovering Soho’s Secret’, (The History www.murraysclubarchive.com Press), 2019.

For more information: www.murraysclubarchive.com

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43 AR 44 AR 45 AR RONALD COBB (BRITISH, 1907-1977): A RONALD COBB (BRITISH, 1907-1977): RONALD COBB (BRITISH, 1907-1977): SIGNED ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN AN ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN FOR A AN ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN OF A OF A MURRAY’S CABARET CLUB MURRAY’S CABARET CLUB SHOWGIRL MURRAY’S CABARET CLUB SHOWGIRL SHOWGIRL IN A YELLOW AND BLACK IN A MILKMAID COSTUME, IN A WHITE DRESS WITH RED CAPE, DRESS, 1950’s, 1950’s, 1952, the hand-painted pencil, watercolour and the hand-painted pencil, watercolour and the hand-painted pencil, watercolour and gouache costume design on card featuring gouache costume design featuring a showgirl gouache costume design featuring a showgirl a showgirl in a low-cut, pink, blue and in a full-length fitted white dress, white high- in a yellow and black spotty blouse, two- white milkmaid’s outfit with matching hat, collared bolero cape, long red cape and black tiered sheer skirt, matching yellow gloves and annotated in pencil Bo Peep No. by the headpiece, unsigned, mounted, framed and black choker, signed and dated by the artist artist, also part signed by the artist to the glazed, sight 8in x 13 3/4in (20.5cm x 35cm) to the bottom right corner, mounted, framed bottom right corner, mounted, framed and glazed, sight 7 1/2in x 16in (19cm x and glazed, sight 7 3/4in x 16in (19.5cm x £150 - 200 42cm) 40.5cm) €170 - 230

£200 - 300 £250 - 350 During the 1950’s the enthusiasm for the €230 - 340 €280 - 400 sci-fi genre grew with Hollywood hits galore. As such, Cobb drew on this campy space- Exhibitions As well as the extravagant designs, Cobb age aesthetic, as seen in this ‘galactic The Museum of Soho, London, 22nd March - also had the ability to turn relatively mundane queen’ ensemble. Due to his imaginative 7th April 2018. uniforms or costumes into more sensual designs, Cobb was later asked to design the Green & Stone of Chelsea, London, 4th-16th ensembles, as shown here with this milkmaid costumes for The Avengers play at the Prince July 2019. costume. of Wales Theatre in 1971.

For more information: Exhibitions Exhibitions www.murraysclubarchive.com The Museum of Soho, London, 22nd March - The Museum of Soho, London, 22nd March - 7th April 2018. 7th April 2018. Green & Stone of Chelsea, London, 4th-16th Green & Stone of Chelsea, London, 4th-16th July 2019. July 2019.

Literature Literature Levy, Benjamin, ‘Murray’s Cabaret Club: Levy, Benjamin, ‘Murray’s Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho’s Secret’, (The History Discovering Soho’s Secret’, (The History Press), 2019. Press), 2019.

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For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 25 46 AR FREDERICK ROWLAND EMETT (BRITISH, 1906-1990): a businessman and amateur inventor, and the grandson of Queen A 1-INCH SCALE MODEL OF EMETT’S MASTERPIECE Victoria’s engraver, Emett studied art and quickly became one of the AUTOMATON ‘A QUIET AFTERNOON IN THE CLOUD CUCKOO most popular cartoonists at Punch Magazine, eventually becoming VALLEY’, Cartoon Editor. English, early 1980’s, constructed using paper, card, wire, glue, recycled pencils, Many of Emett’s cartoons featured outlandish trains and railway plastic beads, cotton wool, wood, and fabric flowers affixed to a scenes of strange bumbling trains with excessively tall chimneys and shaped wooden base, the model depicting elements from Emett’s silly names. These did not go unnoticed and in 1950 the organisers automaton “A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley” which of the 1951 ‘Festival of Britain’ approached him to create a real-life was completed in 1984, the base titled and inscribed in Emett’s hand version of his cartoon ‘Far Twittering and Oyster Perch Railway’ Sketch model. Scale about 1” to 1’. (later renamed ‘The Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway’). It soon became one of the main attractions at the Festival, carrying over 2 The model depicts the tale of a pleasure trip on the ‘Far Tottering million people around the Festival park and made his reputation as and Oyster Creek Railway’; the centre of the creation featuring a a maker of mechanical ‘Things’. This led to numerous commissions train called ‘Wild Goose’, driven by an ingenious driver who toasts by commercial organisations and local authorities, and the ensuing tea-cakes on the fire-box as the train trundles along a raised railway years saw Emett creating many other machines and artworks that line. At ‘Cowparsley Meadow’ a farmer plays his harp soothingly to have continued to fascinate onlookers for decades. His larger works, his herd of cows, who nod their heads in appreciation. There is a such as Emettland, went on extended tours, ending up in prestigious large water wheel that turns timelessly at ‘Far Tottering’, its brass venues such as the Smithsonian Institution. However, his most cups beaten and misshapen from years of use. In a secluded dell at recognisable pieces (in many people’s eyes) are the crazy inventions ‘Wisteria Halt’, there is a beautiful flowering tree on top of which sits or ‘thingamabobs’ of ‘Caractacus Potts’ (played by Dick Van Dyke) in a clock – originally intended as the focal point of the whole piece. At the 1968 all-time classic movie ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’. ‘Shrimphaven Sands’, a fisherman can be seen out at sea, hauling in a net in which, rather surprisingly, he appears to have caught a Originally commissioned as a landmark clock, ‘A Quiet Afternoon in mermaid. As ‘Wild Goose’ continues its journey past ‘Twittering the Cloud Cuckoo Valley’ was destined to adorn a new shopping Woods, an ornithologist is seen cycling along with his camera – he area in Basildon, England. But by the time the artwork was is disguised as a tree. On the beach at ‘Oyster Creek’, a bathing hut completed in 1984, those plans had changed. Instead, it was is occupied by an elderly gentleman dressed in full length Victorian exhibited at several sites in the UK, before being stolen and then later swimwear, who dives dramatically into the water from time to time. saved from a scrapyard and returned to its original owner. Bonhams The model is housed in a Perspex case; subsequently sold ‘A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley’ for overall 29.5in long x 15in wide x 20in high (75cm x 38cm x 51cm); a six-figure sum to the National Railway Museum in 2019, for more model 24in x 11in (61cm x 28cm) information see: www.bonhams.com/auctions/25705/lot/1

‘A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley’ is a perfect example £3,000 - 4,000 of Emett’s whimsical imagination, and is in his own words “the best €3,400 - 4,500 and biggest of all his mechanical things”.

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (British, B.1906 – D.1990) was a Provenance celebrated cartoonist, inventor, designer, engineer and constructor Gifted to the vendor’s father who worked with Emett. of whimsical kinetic sculpture (automata). Born in London, son of

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47 AR FREDERICK ROWLAND EMETT (BRITISH, 1906-1990): A SCALE MODEL OF EMETT’S AUTOMATON ‘HMS PUSSIEWILLOW I’, English, late 1970’s, constructed using paper, card, wire, glue, recycled pencils, plastic beads, cotton wool, wood, and fabric affixed to a circular wooden base, the model depicting elements from Emett’s ‘HMS Pussiewillow I’, housed in Perspex case; 21in x 22 1/2in x 20 1/2in (53.5cm x 57cm x 52cm); model on 12in diameter wooden base, together with a poster of an ink and watercolour drawing by Emett of ‘Pussiewillow II’ at the Smithsonian Institute, framed and glazed, overall 33in x 25in (84cm x 63.5cm), (2)

£2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,400

It is thought ‘HMS Pussiewillow I’ stood for a while in the Marshal Field’s State Street store in Chicago. It was part of a ‘British Showcase’ held in the store to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in September 1977. The ‘Featherstone Kite’ and the ‘Exploratory Lunacycle’ also created by Emett were also on display, but the 48 ‘Pussiewillow’ was supposed to be there for ‘an indefinite period’.

For more information on Rowland Emett, please see footnote to keeping pussiecats, owls and... always in strict tempo!) signed previous lot. and dated August 1981, framed and glazed, overall 21in x 23 1/2in (53.5cm x 59.5cm), accompanied by a Christmas Card from Provenance Rowland and Mary Emett dated 22nd December 1986, (2) Gifted to the vendor’s father who worked with Emett. £600 - 800 48 AR €680 - 900 FREDERICK ROWLAND EMETT (BRITISH, 1906-1990): AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR OF A CAT, For more information on Rowland Emett, please see footnote to English, 1981, previous lot. pencil and watercolour on paper, depicting a cat and a bird as music conductors supposedly from Emett’s ‘Pussiewillow’ automaton, Provenance inscribed in Emett’s hand For Ron (who will have no trouble at all Gifted to the vendor’s father who worked with Emett.

50 AN A.PICART REFRACTOMETER ON STAND, FRENCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY, signed A. Picart, 20 rue Mayet, Paris, with rack and pinion focusing 50 to the eye piece and collimator, the tube mounted on brass column and iron tripod base, 21in (53cm) high

49 £300 - 400 A WHITEHEAD TORPEDO GYRO, SERIAL NUMBER 2841 €340 - 450

£800 - 1,200 51 €900 - 1,400 A BRASS SPECTROSCOPE, PROBABLY ENGLISH, LATE 19TH CENTURY Robert Whitehead (1823-1905) a British engineer working in with collimator and telescope, on circular platform above tripod base, Austria, developed the self propelled torpedo in the 1850’s at the 12in (31.5cm) high instigation of the Austrian Navy. Initially controlled by a pendulum and hydrostatic device, this was replaced by a sophisticated gyroscopic £150 - 250 control gear based on a design patented by Ludwig Obry in 1896. €170 - 280 Whitehead purchased the rights to fit this in his torpedoes in 1898 and it remained in service, in various marks of the Whitehead 52 torpedo, right up until the First World War. The gyroscope was fitted with a clockwork coil spring, pre-tensioned to give a starting spin to A SWIFT & SON MONOCULAR COMPOUND MICROSCOPE, the gyroscope of 2,400rpm when the torpedo was fired. ENGLISH, CIRCA 1900, signed Swift & Son, 43 University St., London W.C., with anodised The carrying case could double as a portable test-bed and winding brass stand, rack and pinion focusing, triple turret nosepiece, rotating station before installation. circular stage and plano/concave reflector, in mahogany case with two oculars, four objectives, sub-stage bull nose condenser and The Whitehead Torpedo Works was set up at Portland in 1891 and bench condenser, 14 1/2in (37cm) high was the world leader in torpedo production until WW1. Purchased from the family on Whitehead’s death in 1905 by Armstrong- £600 - 800 Whitworth and Vickers, it remained in production until 1966. €680 - 900

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53 55 A BRASS SURVEYING LEVEL, FRENCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY, A 15 INCH BETT’S PATENT PORTABLE GLOBE, ENGLISH, the telescope with lens cap, supported by two brackets above CIRCA 1860, circular platform and three levelling screws, 14in (35cm) long George Philip & Son Ltd, a collapsible umbrella globe with eight printed coloured lithograph gores printed on linen and sewn, £150 - 250 stretched over eight flexible umbrella ribs, mounted on central metal €170 - 280 pole, housed in wooden case with labels, 30in (76cm) long

54 £300 - 500 €340 - 560 A 1/2-INCH REFRACTING TELESCOPE IN CASE, ITALIAN, 18TH CENTURY, Y with turned horn mounts, eye-piece and objective caps, three vellum 56 draws and outer tube stained red with fleur-de-lys, in card case, A PAIR OF SCRIMSHAWED WHALE’S TEETH, ENGLISH, MID extended length 18in (46cm) 19TH CENTURY, one decorated with a portrait of a sailor holding a Union flag and the £300 - 500 other with a portrait of his wife in her wedding dress leaning on a €340 - 560 fouled killick, 5in (12.5cm) high (2)

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

57 Y Ф AN ADAMS DOUBLE-ACTION AIR PUMP, ENGLISH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, signed Adams London, the brass and mahogany pump with double vacuum cylinders and racked rods, ivory maker’s plaque, and two large and four small spherical brass finials, 16in (41cm) high, 5

£1,800 - 2,500 €2,000 - 2,800

Provenance Totness Grammar School where Charles Babbage was a student, the pump was purchased at a car boot sale at the school in 2017. Sold with this lot is a letter of provenance and a print showing the air pump in the school laboratory.

Literature Millburn, John R., ‘Adams of Fleet Street – Instrument Makers to King George III’ (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000)

58 A DUCRETET & LEJEUNE 18 1/2-INCH TWIN DISC WHIMSHURST MACHINE, FRENCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY, with makers plaque E Ducretet & L.Lejeune, Paris, on mahogany frame, with ebonite disc collectors, tall glass accumulators, glass combs/spark gap support insulators, wooden belt pulleys, brass fittings throughout, 26in x 20 1/2in (66cm x 52cm)

58 £500 - 800 €560 - 900

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59 61 TP A NICOLE FRERES KEY-WOUND TWO-PER-TURN CYLINDER A 24 1/2-INCH POLYPHON DISC MUSICAL BOX, GERMAN MUSICAL BOX, SWISS, CIRCA 1844 LATE 19TH CENTURY, No. 26693, the 30 x 8cm cylinder playing twelve popular airs as the coin-operated movement playing on four combs, (two teeth listed on original tune sheet, Gamme No. 840, in rosewood veneered missing), in stained wood case with arched glazed door at the front, case with marquetry inlaid lid, 20 1/2in (52cm) wide winding handle and coin chute at the side and replaced pediment above, 58in (147cm) high £1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,300 £1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,300 60 A BELLS-IN-SIGHT CYLINDER MUSICAL BOX, 62 TP Swiss, circa 1880, A SCALE MODEL OF A HORIZONTAL MILL ENGINE, LATE the 11in (25cm) cylinder playing 8 airs accompanied by 6 saucer 19TH CENTURY, bells, contained in rosewood veneered case, the lid inlaid with the single brass slide valve cylinder with lubricator cup, wood boxwood stringing and fruitwood musical trophy, 20.5in (52cm) x lagging, manual draincocks, wheel valve steam supply, the crosshead 12in (30.5cm) x 10in (20.5cm) runs between bar type guide bars with lubricator cups, brass Watt- style twin ball governor, the crankshaft with disc crank and flywheel £800 - 1,200 with shaped spokes painted red, cast baseplate fitted with handrails €900 - 1,400 raised on brass stanchions, on oak base under glazed case, model 31 by 16 by 18in (78 by 41 by 43cm ), display case 37 1/2 by 23 1/2 by 18in

£1,200 - 1,800 €1,400 - 2,000

63 TP A FINE 3½ INCH GAUGE MODEL OF G.N.R. IVATT ‘ATLANTIC’ EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE NO. 1414, the superheated copper-boilered, live steam coal fired 4-4-2 locomotive with twin outside cylinders, the cab with lever and quadrant reverse, safety valve, pressure gauge, water gauge glass, boiler feed controls, handbrake, firehole door, the 6-wheeled tender with water and coal spaces and lettered GNR, all finished in light 65 apple green, lined black edged white, with transfer cabside number, the model 44in (112cm) long, mounted on section of display track under glazed display case with brass information plate, The original 70004 locomotive was built at Crewe in March 1951 £5,000 - 8,000 and was delivered in special finish for static display at the Festival of €5,600 - 9,000 Britain at South Bank from May to September 1951. This locomotive was notorious for snapping its connecting rod at speed while hauling No. 1414 was originally designed by H.A. Ivatt and was built the Golden Arrow Pullman train in Kent, which was found to have at Doncaster in 1905. Only one of these locomotives escaped been caused by method of fitting the roller bearings to the axles. scrapping when the class was withdrawn in 1950, it was the first of It was withdrawn from service in 1967. Out of a class of 55 built the class built (originally numbered 251 of 1902) preserved by the only two survived. No. 70000 is privately preserved and 70013 is Science Museum. preserved as part of the National Railway Museum.

Provenance 64 TP Felix Leeman Collection of Lugano, Switzerland. AN EXHIBITION QUALITY 3½ INCH GAUGE LIVE STEAM MODEL LOCOMOTIVE “WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”, TP based on B.R. 4-6-2 “Britannia” class 7 MT No.70004 Standard 65 Pacific, this model was built by A. Nash, Derby in 1961 and supplied A 1-INCH SCALE, LIVE STEAM MODEL SHOWMANS by Ian Thompson Precision Models, with superheated copper coal- TRACTION ENGINE, fired boiler, piston valve cylinders, safety valves, brakes to driving built in 1970’s, by Maxwell Hemmens, Engineers, Thorganby, York, wheels, the removable cab roof enclosing boiler feed controls, water the single slide valve cylinder with twin safety valves and brass gauge glass, pressure gauge, valve gear control and sliding firehole extension tubes, the Stephenson’s link motion operated by lever and doors, the sprung 6-wheeled tender with rivet detailing and BR ‘lion quadrant from the cab, also regulator, hand brake and water feed and wheel’ emblem, the whole finished in BR green lined black and controls, eccentric-driven boiler feed pump, blower, 2-speed gearing, orange, smokebox and smoke deflectors in black and mounted with the extension platform with working generator powering front lamps, brass nameplate , the wheels black with polished wheel rims, rods the full-length canopy with extension chimney and raised on twisted and valve gear, brass supports, finished in black and maroon lined yellow with brass the model 53 inch/135cms long, mounted on section of display track boiler bands, the rubber-tyred wheels in yellow with maroon lining, under glazed display case with brass information plate, 22in (56cm) long

£10,000 - 15,000 £2,000 - 3,000 €11,000 - 17,000 €2,300 - 3,400

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 32 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 33 FURNITURE, CARPETS, WORKS OF ART, CLOCKS: Lots 66-331

66 67 69 66 TP AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRONZE MOUNTED AND WHITE MARBLE LYRE MANTEL CLOCK the dial signed Howell & James, London and Paris, the Louis XVI style case with grid iron pendulum and articulated paste bezel, the 4’’ enamel Arabic dial with outer five minute track, the brass movement striking on a bell, 46.5cm high

£700 - 900 €790 - 1,000

67 TP AFTER CLAUDE MICHEL, KNOWN AS CLODION, (FRENCH, 1738-1814): A PAIR OF LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL CANDELABRA formed as infant satyrs supporting fruiting vine and foliate asymmetric 68 branches, raised on fluted half column pedestals with cut corner square plinths, 45.75cm high (2)

£500 - 800 €560 - 900

68 A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE FIGURAL CHENETS IN THE LOUIS XV STYLE modelled as Harlequin and Columbine, each on a rocaille base beside a hound’s head, 29cm high, 28cm wide, 12cm deep (2)

£400 - 600 €450 - 680

69 AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRONZE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK OF SMALL SIZE the dial signed, Basile Charles Le Roy a Paris, surmounted with a figure of Apollo playing a lyre, the 2.75’’dial with silvered Roman chapter ring on bun feet, the twin train movement with silk suspension striking on a bell with pendulum, 33cm high

£700 - 900 €790 - 1,000

70 TP A 19TH CENTURY GILT BRONZE FIVE LIGHT COLZA CHANDELIER the lotus cast dwarf arms issuing from a central swept vase and bowl reciever with acanthus and pineapple knopped terminal, the upper rod fitting with knopped foliate collar and lobed campana urn terminal below a lotus cast central rose with four sectional suspension chains, later fitted for gas and electricity, 110cm drop approx

70 £1,200 - 1,800 €1,400 - 2,000

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71 A PAIR OF LATE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN RENAISSANCE REVIVAL STYLE GILDED GALVANOPLASTIE METAL, IVORY, MOTHER OF PEARL AND TORTOISESHELL INLAID DECORATIVE WALL PLATES by Jean Kayser Sohn, Crefeld the rims decorated with borders of scrolling foliage, one centred by an inlaid portrait of a gentleman, the other of a lady, both wearing feathered caps and with slashed, puffed sleeves, each signed J. F. Kayser Sohn, Crefeld to the edge of the rims, 29cm diameter (2) 72 £800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

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72 TP AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA (ITALIAN, 1529-1608): A PAIR OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY PATINATED BRONZE FIGURES OF MERCURY AND FORTUNA Mercury holding his purse, Fortuna holding a trumpet and standing on her wheel, raised on sienna marble cylindrical plinths with applied figural friezes, 85cm high overall, 83cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,300 73 73 AN EARLY VICTORIAN JAPANNED PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAY OR ‘TEA BOARD’ BY WALTON & CO PAINTED WITH A VIEW ENTITLED ‘GUARD ROOM, CHAMBOARD’ of ‘Gothic’ barbed oval form, painted with an interior view of the Château de Chambord, within a leafy border, the rear with impressed factory mark B Walton Co, Wolverhampton and painters title and number Guard Room, Chamboard, 400, together with traces of the original painted retailers mark, possibly Adam? 3? Bishopsgate?, 71cm x 54.5cm approximately

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

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74 TP AFTER JEAN CLAUDE FRANÇOIS ROSSET (FRENCH, 1706–1786): A PAIR OF SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PATINATED BRONZE FIGURES OF VOLTAIRE AND ROSSEAU both holding walking canes, raised on Siena marble plinths and foliate cast square bases, 48cm high overall (2)

£1,800 - 2,400 €2,000 - 2,700 74

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 35 75 TP A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CADDY TOP CHEST Circa 1760, with two short drawers above four long graduated drawers, on shaped bracket feet, the Rococo brass mounts apparently original, 95cm wide x 56cm deep x 93cm high, (37in wide x 22in deep x 36 1/2in high)

£1,000 - 1,500 €1,100 - 1,700

An additional image of the offered lot is available to view online at www.bonhams.com

76 (multiple hinged top)

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 36 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 76 TP A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY COMBINATION FOLIO CABINET/ Provenance STAND ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS Formerly housed at Spetchley Park, Worcester, home of the Berkeley Circa 1830, the sliding hinged adjustable ratcheted top inset with family for over 400 years. tooled leather surfaces, the top incorporating two laterally opposing In 1893, the offered lot was recorded as ‘a mahogany portfolio hinged adjustable ratcheted surfaces, above a pair of glazed doors cabinet’ (located at that time in the Inner Hall) as part of an inventory enclosing four adjustable folio shelves, with a twin panelled reverse, undertaken at Spetchley. on a plinth base and concealed castors, with two detachable rests, In the 20th century the present cabinet was documented as ‘a 107cm wide x 73cm deep x 85cm high, (42in wide x 28 1/2in deep x mahogany portfolio cabinet, fitted two glazed doors, 3’6” wide’ (then 33in high) located in the Front Hall) as part of another Spetchley inventory undertaken in 1949. £4,000 - 6,000 €4,500 - 6,800 Two virtually identical folio cabinets to the present model both sold at Sotheby’s. The one which is stamped: ‘Gillows’ sold in London, 17 June 1983, lot 130 whilst the other unstamped example was Purchased originally purchased in London, 8 March 1985, lot 201 by A. Alfred Sotheby’s, 11th December 2019, Spetchley - Property from the Taubman, and was then subsequently sold by the latter through Berkeley Collection, lot 112. Sotheby’s, New York, 13 & 14 April 2016, lot 316.

A total of four designs for closely related ‘pedestal portfolio stands’ (as they were described by Gillows) feature in the Estimate Sketch Books during the 1830s, No.’s 5073, 5106, 5109 and 5148, City of Westminster Archive.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 37 77 TP A GEORGE II WALNUT AND FEATHERBANDED BUREAU CABINET OF NARROW PROPORTIONS Circa 1730, the cavetto cornice above a mirror-inset re-entrant arched door enclosing two adjustable shelves, over two candle slides, the fall enclosing seven drawers and four pigeon holes, above lopers and four long graduated drawers, on shaped bracket feet, 68cm wide x 39cm deep x 192cm high, (26 1/2in wide x 15in deep x 75 1/2in high)

£5,000 - 7,000 €5,600 - 7,900

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 38 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 78 TP A GEORGE I WALNUT AND FEATHERBANDED CHEST ON CHEST Circa 1725, the reverse ogee moulded cornice above three short drawers, over three long graduated drawers, with two short and two long drawers below, above a later shaped apron, on later plinth base and shaped bracket feet, 109cm wide x 60cm deep x 171cm high, (42 1/2in wide x 23 1/2in deep x 67in high)

£3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,600

79 TP A PAIR OF CHARLES X GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS LATER CONVERTED TO LAMP BASES on tripartite scrolling paw feet and corresponding plinth bases, fitted for electricity, together with a pair of shades, 31cm high (not including fittings and shades), 59cm high overall (4)

£600 - 800 €680 - 900

80 TP A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE GILT BRONZE MOUNTED CUT GLASS LAMP BASES on acanthus paw footed tripartite platforms raised on corresponding plinth bases, fitted for electricity and with brass shade fitments, 42cm 81 high (not including fitments), 78cm high overall (4)

£1,200 - 1,800 €1,400 - 2,000

81 TP A PAIR OF FRENCH RESTAURATION PATINATED AND GILT BRONZE CANDLESTICKS ADAPTED AS LAMP BASES the reeded tapering shafts on waisted and turned circular bases, fitted for electricity, together with a pair of shades, 28.5cm high (not including fittings and shades), 56cm high overall (4)

£600 - 800 €680 - 900

82 TP ATTRIBUTED TO MAISON CHARLES: A GILT AND SILVERED 82 BRONZE AND METAL ‘VASE ROUSSEAUX,’ TABLE LAMP TOGETHER WITH A SILVERED METAL BOUILOTTE LAMP the first circa 1970, the second probably of a similar date and possibly also by Maison Charles, the first lamp formed as a campana vase of reeds, with matching shade, the second lamp with three hunting horn arms, on dished base, with matching shade, (both fitted for electricity), 79cm high and 64cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

83 TP A PAIR OF PATINATED AND GILT METAL LAMP BASES IN THE REGENCY GOTHIC STYLE on moulded canted square bases, fitted for electricity, together with a pair of shades 51cm high, (not including fittings and shades) 79cm high overall (4)

£800 - 1,200 83 €900 - 1,400

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84 TP AFTER ALFRED BARYE (FRENCH, 1839-1882) AND EMILE GUILLEMIN (FRENCH, 1839-1882): A LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PATINATED SPELTER ORIENTALIST EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF AN ARAB HUNTSMAN the figural group on naturalistic base with cast facsimile signatures Barye fils and Ele Guillemin and with bronzed finish, raised on a green variegated green marble oval plinth base, 66cm high

£2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,400

85 TP LOUIS HOTTOT (FRENCH, 1829-1905): A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF AN EASTERN WATER CARRIER 86 the bearded and turbaned figure pouring water from the vessel on his shoulder into a pot, on circular naturalistic base signed L. Hottot, 46cm high

£500 - 700 €560 - 790 See bonhams.com for further footnote

86 TP A 20TH CENTURY FRAMED PRINT ILLUSTRATING THE SAUDI ARABIAN ROYAL FAMILY GENEALOGY with two conjoining branches of the Arabian Royal dynasty, and handwritten inscription, 111cm high x 90.5cm wide including frame

£200 - 300 €230 - 340

87 TP AFTER BARON CHARLES-ARTHUR BOURGEOIS (FRENCH, 1838-1886): A PAIR OF PATINATED BRONZE FIGURES OF EGYPTIAN DANCING MUSICIANS probably early 20th century the male figure playing a triangle, the female figure playing a tambourine, both raised on a naturalistic circular bases, the rear of each numbered 1910 and 87, 84cm high overall (2)

£3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,600 See bonhams.com for further footnote 87

88 TP 89 TP A MATCHED PAIR OF FRANCO-FLEMISH LATE 17TH A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV CARVED BEECH FAUTEUILS CENTURY WALNUT FAUTEUILS Circa 1740, each with associated 18th century floral tapestry Each upholstered with associated late 17th/early 18th century upholstery and a cartouche shaped back, with shell, scrolled tapestry fragments, with bobbin turned frames, each arm support strapwork, rocaille, acanthus, trellis and foliate scroll carved frames, terminating in a roundel, on block-and-bobbin turned front legs on cabriole legs, with scrolled arms, each approximately: 72cm wide and square section rear legs, with a twin bobbin turned forerail and x 80cm deep x 101cm high, (28in wide x 31in deep x 39 1/2in high) H-stretcher, one fauteuil: 58cm wide x 56cm deep x 115.5cm high; (2) the other: 59cm wide x 55cm deep x 115cm high. (2) £1,200 - 1,800 £2,500 - 3,500 €1,400 - 2,000 €2,800 - 3,900

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90 TP 91 TP A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY PARTNERS’ PEDESTAL DESK The rectangular top with a moulded edge, inset with a gilt-tooled Circa 1830, the gilt-tooled leather inset top above four short and two leather writing surface, above one long and two short frieze drawers, long opposing ash-lined frieze drawers, each central long drawer over six short graduated drawers flanking the kneehole, with with a foliate embossed leather inset sliding top, over four opposing conforming opposing drawers, on plinth bases, 125cm wide x 76cm panelled doors, each enclosing three ash-lined graduated drawers, deep x 80cm high, (49in wide x 29 1/2in deep x 31in high) with twin panelled sides, 184cm wide x 102cm deep x 78cm high, (72in wide x 40in deep x 30 1/2in high) £1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,300 £3,000 - 3,500 €3,400 - 3,900

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 43 92 TP AN ITALIAN LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY CARVED Bellini family, who today have been involved in the fine and decorative WALNUT CREDENZA arts for well over 250 years, had by that time already established probably of Tuscan origin themselves as arguably one of the most important dynasties within The rectangular top with a fluted edge moulding, above three the realm of Italian antiques. panelled entrelac carved frieze drawers interspersed with four strap- fluted scrolled corbel angles, over three ovolo and bead-and-reel During the 1890s, or perhaps just prior to then, this walnut moulded panelled doors, the two end doors applied with large cabinet was most likely re-located to Munich in tandem with the carved lion mask handles, enclosing one shelf, interspersed by four von Hildebrands, since the Wittelsbacher Brunnen (an impressive stop-fluted Tuscan pilasters, each panelled end carved with a large Neoclassical fountain sculpture) in Lenbachplatz, which was central flowerhead roundel, on a stop-fluted plinth base terminating designed by Adolf von Hildebrand, actually underwent construction in in lion paw feet, the top possibly later and now completely loose, that city over the period 1893-1895. restorations and repairs, the underside of the top applied with a 19th century paper label with an ink inscription which reads: ‘Sgr. The offered lot is then listed as ‘ein italienisches grosses buffet mit Giuseppe Bellini, Firenze’, 209cm wide x 64cm deep x 109cm high, lowenkopfen’ in an inventory, dated 18 January 1921, undertaken at (82in wide x 25in deep x 42 1/2in high) the Munich estate of the von Hildebrands following Adolf’s death. It re-appears in the will of Irene Georgii, recorded as ‘I grosses alt £6,000 - 9,000 italienisches buffet mit lowenkopfen, Renaissance, sehr wert voll’, €6,800 - 10,000 forming part of a 1936 inventory produced in Kleinhohenrain. Thereafter, this Italian late Renaissance low cabinet passed by descent within the same family. Irene Georgii bequeathed it to her Provenance daughter, Maria, whose surname after marriage changed to Wetzel. During the late 19th century the present lot was evidently acquired Subsequently Maria’s son, Johannes Wetzel, inherited this piece by Irene von Hildebrand, wife of the major German sculptor following her death in 1990. Remarkably the previous owner, Dr Adolf von Hildebrand (1847-1921), while the couple lived in the Johannes Wetzel, is the grandson of Irene Georgii and thus by then secularized monastery of San Francesco in Florence. Irene extension the great grandson of Adolf von Hildebrand. Schauffelen (her maiden name) had married Adolf in 1877. This credenza was apparently purchased by Irene from Giuseppe see bonhams.com to view copies of the aforementioned 20th century Bellini who was a major antiques dealer based in Florence. In fact the documentation as well as additional images of the offered lot’.

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(lion mask handle) (profile view)

Comparables Adolf von Hildebrand A late Renaissance walnut credenza, which is dated 1550-1600, Hildebrand, who worked predominantly in the Neoclassical style, first forms part of the Victoria and Albert Collection, No. 1375:1-1904, learned sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy of Nuremberg before http://collections.vam.ac.uk. As with the present example this closely being taught by Kaspar von Zumbusch at the Munich Academy, and related piece was probably made in Tuscany. They share numerous then finally studying under Rudolf Siemering in Berlin. By 1873 Adolf characteristics in common which include; conforming stop-fluted had moved to Florence where he resided, as previously mentioned, Tuscan pilasters; a virtually identical drawer and door configuration; at a former Franciscan monastery which had been founded during similar bead-and-reel moulded panelling and fluted scrolled corbel the 16th century. In the same year, the sculptor assisted his friend angles; related low relief entrelac or guilloche frieze decoration; while Hans von Marees (1837-1887) by designing the architectural their plinth bases and lion paw feet are also very alike. framework for von Marees’ painted murals housed in the library of the German Marine Zoological Institute, located in Naples. Nonetheless, there is an interesting and potentially important variation between these two models, as is to be expected. Unlike the rather Although officially resident in Italy during the period 1873-1897, it is plain turned roundel door handles evident on the Victoria and Albert clear that from 1890 von Hildebrand lived mostly in Munich, since the model, the present low cabinet incorporates two highly characterful vast majority of works he was commissioned to make from that time and beautifully carved large lion masks. These appear to be a rare onwards were in Germany. Despite the fact that during his life the feature on credenzas of this type and possibly allude to some crest sculptor produced a total of five impressive and immense fountains, device or coat of arms element, perhaps in reference to the original he is arguably principally renowned for the Wittelsbacher Brunnen family who commissioned it for their home. and the Bismarck monument, Bremen, the latter of which was completed before 1910. For a further, albeit slightly plainer, comparable see G. Chiesa, Il Cinquecento, 1972, Milan, fig. 25, p. 30. In his Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst (“The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture”), which was published in 1893, von Hildebrand espoused the aesthetic autonomy of sculpture from painting. And this ideal or doctrine essentially formed the basis for most 20th century sculptural movements and consequently it is now justly considered of major importance. In 1904 Hildebrand received his ennoblement from the King of Bavaria, www.britannica.com & en.wikipedia.org

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93 A LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY ‘GRAND TOUR’ TYPE CARVED VARIEGATED RED MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP DEPICTING ROMULUS AND REMUS WITH THE SHE WOLF probably Italian mounted on rectangular black marble plinth base, 6.5cm high, 12.5cm wide, 6.5cm deep approximately

£350 - 450 €400 - 510

94 A ‘GRAND TOUR’ PATINATED BRONZE OF ROMULUS AND REMUS 95 probably first half 19th century the she-wolf suckling the two infants, on integral bronze base and raised on a later wooden plinth, 11.5cm high 18.5cm long approximately overall

£500 - 700 €560 - 790

95 A LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY ‘GRAND TOUR’ TYPE PATINATED BRONZE MODEL OF A RECUMBENT LION the stylised hooded beast on a verdi egitto granite rectangular plinth base, 11.5cm high

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

96 A LATE 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN PIETRE DURA PLAQUE the rear with M. Bonnino Figlio, Milan retailers mark the panel of rectangular form inlaid with a central musical and floral trophy including a guitar, a flute, an open book of music and sprays 96 of blue flowers, executed in various coloured marbles and stones including lapis, on a black marble ground, the rear with original paper label M.BONINO & FIGLIO, oreficiere, corali mosaici filigrane, prezzi fissi, Galleria V Emam N.73, MILANO and incised number 455, within a later gilt composition frame, the panel 15cm by 19.5cm, the frame 21cm by 26.5cm overall

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

97 A MID 19TH CENTURY ‘GRAND TOUR’ TYPE PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MODEL OF A RECUMBENT HOUND the sleeping dog on naturalistic rectangular base, raised on a conforming Giallo di siena rectangular plinth base, 9cm high

£500 - 600 97 €560 - 680

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98 A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN ‘GRAND TOUR’ GIALLO ANTICO MARBLE PORTRAIT RELIEFS OF ROMAN EMPERORS one depicting Nero in profile looking to dexter, the other probably depicting Vespasian, similarly also looking to dexter, mounted on Napoleonite / Corsite marble oval backplates, both with brass circular suspension loops, 15cm high, 12cm wide, not including suspension fittings (2)

£1,200 - 1,500 €1,400 - 1,700

99 TP A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN ‘GRAND TOUR’ CARVED STATUARY MARBLE PORTRAIT RELIEF OF THE EMPEROR NERO looking to sinister, wearing a radiate crown, mounted on a circular brescia verde seravezza roundel backplate, the moulded edge inscribed IMP.NERO.CLAVD.CAES.AVG.GERM, 34cm diameter

£2,500 - 3,500 €2,800 - 3,900 99

100 A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN GRAND TOUR CARVED CARARRA MARBLE MODEL OF LION the standing beast with open jaw on moulded rectangular plinth base with inlaid shaped brescia specimen panels, possibly breche violette, 21cm high

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

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£500 - 700 €560 - 790

103 AN ATTRACTIVE AND UNUSUAL LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY FRENCH BRASS CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH TRI-COLOUR MASK MOUNTS AND REPEAT the elaborate semi-Anglaise case with 18th century style pierced, engraved and shaded figural panelled decoration, the 3.75” silvered Roman chapter ring with foliate pierced centre, the brass twin train movement with jewelled lever platform escapement striking on a coiled gong, 19cm high overall 103 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,400

104 A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRASS CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH ALARM AND REPEAT the gorge case with 6’’ rectangular enamel Roman dial above an Arabic subsidiary alarm, the brass twin train movement with platform lever escapement with compensated balance, striking and chiming on a bell, 17cm high

£500 - 700 €560 - 790

105 AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRASS FOUR GLASS CLOCK the dial signed L’Epee, of typical rectangular form, with 4’’ Roman dial with outer Arabic five minute track, the brass twin train movement striking on a bell with mercury pendulum, 33cm high

£400 - 600 €450 - 680

106 TP A LARGE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN PLANETARIUM / TELLURIUM ORRERY signed Jan Felkl & Son the geared movement operated by a mounted crank at the side of a brass drum, the orbiting planets raised on brass columns, raised on a cylindrical pedestal and square base with bun feet (as found with one planet damaged), 180cm high, 110cm in diameter approximately

£1,000 - 2,000 €1,100 - 2,300 106 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 48 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 107

107 TP FRANZ SEIFERT (AUSTRIAN, 1866 -1951): A PATINATED BRONZE PORTRAIT FIGURE OF JOSEF LANNER the composer seated on a chair with crossed legs holding a violin 108 and bow, on rectangular base, signed to one side F.SEIFERT, 41cm high

£800 - 1,200 €900 - 1,400

108 TP AFTER GUILLAUME COUSTOU THE ELDER, FRENCH (1677- 1746): A LARGE PAIR OF LATE 19TH CENTURY / EARLY 20TH CENTURY PATINATED BRONZE MODELS OF THE MARLY HORSES on naturalistically cast bases bearing pseudo signatures COUSTOU, 60cm high (2)

£2,500 - 3,000 €2,800 - 3,400

109 THOMAS BROCK KCBRA (BRITISH, 1847-1922): A PATINATED 109 BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, POSSIBLY SIR HENRY HARBAN (BRITISH, 1823-1911) the sitter looking slightly to sinister with mutton chop whiskers and 110 moustache, wearing a jewelled cravat and frock coat on waisted square socle, the rear signed T.BROCK, ARASc on rouge marble square moulded and stepped plinth, 29cm high

£300 - 400 €340 - 450

110 AR FRANTA BELSKY (CZECH, 1921-2000): A SMALL BRONZED RESIN BUST OF WINSTON CHURCHILL the rear with facsimile signature F Belsky, raised on a separate stained wood stepped square plinth base, the bust, 14.5cm high, 16 cm high overall including plinth (2)

£400 - 600 €450 - 680

111 TP AFTER EMILE GUILLEMIN, (FRENCH, 1841-1907): A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE ‘AUX COLONIES’, depicting a colonial soldier holding his rifle on naturalistic circular base with applied presentation inscription, raised on a green marble circular plinth base, 44.5cm high

£500 - 700 €560 - 790 111

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112 TP 113 TP A MID VICTORIAN MAHOGANY WELLINGTON CHEST A MID VICTORIAN PORCELAIN AND GILT BRONZE MOUNTED ENCLOSING A COLLECTION OF GEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS SATINWOOD AND PURPLEWOOD BONHEUR DU JOUR Of typical form, with seven graduated drawers, five drawers Circa 1860, with floral and bird painted plaques, the triple panel enclosing assorted specimens, 66cm wide x 48cm deep x 122cm mounted superstructure with a large central door flanked by two high, (25 1/2in wide x 18 1/2in deep x 48in high) secret catch-activated and spring loaded smaller doors, enclosing a sycamore veneered interior with seven tulipwood crossbanded £1,000 - 1,500 and mahogany lined drawers, six vertical compartments and three €1,100 - 1,700 shelves, above a shaped frieze drawer with a sliding velvet inset top flanked by stationery compartments housed within a box, on tapering square section columnar legs terminating in brass cappings and castors, with a shaped platform undertier surmounted by an urn finial, 93cm wide x 50cm deep x 143cm high, (36 1/2in wide x 19 1/2in deep x 56in high)

£1,200 - 1,500 €1,400 - 1,700

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114 TP 115 TP A REGENCY MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD ATTRIBUTED TO A VERY LONG MID VICTORIAN ‘SAMUEL HAWKINS’ PATENT GILLOWS MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING TABLE TOGETHER WITH ITS Circa 1815, of bowed breakfront form, the superstructure with four LEAF STORAGE UNIT reeded and ring turned baluster shaped front supports and four On ring turned baluster and fluted tapering legs terminating in brass conforming engaged rear columns, with two short central frieze cappings and ceramic castors, with five leaves and a winder, the leaf drawers flanked by two deep drawers, each enclosing various open holder comprising an open unit with four turned columnar angles, the compartments, interspersed by reeded angles, on six ring turned and extending mechanism with a brass plaque which reads: ‘SAMUEL reeded tapering legs, 197cm wide x 70cm deep x 114cm high, (77 HAWKINS, PATENTEE, LONDON’, fully extended: 548cm wide x 1/2in wide x 27 1/2in deep x 44 1/2in high) 144cm deep x 72cm high, (215 1/2in wide x 56 1/2in deep x 28in high) unextended: 197cm wide. £1,200 - 1,800 €1,400 - 2,000 £1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,300 On the offered lot the distinctive double moulded panelling to the drawer fronts accentuated by projecting square angles, along with the elegant reeded tapering legs, are all characteristics found on some fine examples of Gillow’s furniture, predominantly produced during the period 1810-1820.

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116 TP 118 TP AN AUSTRIAN ‘GOTHIC REVIVAL’ CARVED OAK CENTRE A SET OF TWELVE MID VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL OAK TABLE DINING CHAIRS The detachable top on an H-form base comprised of cusped pointed possibly by E.W. Pugin arched arcading, each of the four ends carved to the front with a Including two armchairs, each with chamfered edges, the curved standing medieval knight figure holding a sword, stamped: ‘ Made in horizontal tablet toprail centred by a carved rosette roundel, above Austria’, 199cm wide, 108cm deep, 80cm high (78in wide, 42 1/2in square section stiles, on chevron carved ring turned tapering front deep, 31in high) legs terminating in ceramic castors, with splayed rear legs, each side chair approximately: 50cm wide x 59cm deep x 95cm high; each £1,200 - 1,800 armchair approximately: 55cm wide x 64cm deep x 100cm high. (12) €1,400 - 2,000 £1,800 - 2,500 117 TP €2,000 - 2,800 A SET OF EIGHTEEN MAHOGANY AND EBONISED DINING CHAIRS The offered chairs were formerly housed in the large dining room at in the Regency style Pierremont Hall, Broadstairs. Possibly these chairs were originally Including two armchairs, each with an acanthus wrapped and at the Granville Hotel in Ramsgate which is not far away from scrolled horizontal tablet toprail, on ring turned and reeded tapering Pierremont. The Granville Hotel itself was designed by E.W. Pugin. front legs, with splayed rear legs, each side chair: 55cm wide x 54cm deep x 89cm high, (21 1/2in wide x 21in deep x 35in high) each Virtually identical designs for a side chair and armchair were originally armchair: 58cm wide x 56cm deep x 91cm high. (18) illustrated in C. and R. Light’s design catalogue of 1881, which appear replicated in The Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, 1989, Suffolk, pp.’s 231-3. £3,000 - 4,000 €3,400 - 4,500

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119 119 TP A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND BRASS MOUNTED BRACKET CLOCK the dial signed Gatward, Tonbridge, the arched rectangular case with 6.5’’ arched silvered Roman dial with subsidiary Arabic seconds to the centre and strike silent subsidiary dial to the arch, the brass four pillar twin fusee movement with anchor escapement striking on a bell with pendulum and key, 42cm high approximately

£1,000 - 1,500 €1,100 - 1,700

120 TP A LATE 19TH CENTURY BRASS LANTERN CLOCK the dial signed for Chaplin, Bury, the four pillar case with turned finials, surmounted by a strapped bell, with pierced scrolling crestings, the arched 7’’ square dial with silvered Roman chapter ring below a signed 121 circular boss and scrolling spandrels mounts, the brass twin fusee movement with anchor escapement, pendulum and two keys on ebonised plinth, 43cm high overall

£700 - 900 €790 - 1,000

121 TP A LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH BRONZE AND MARBLE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK the movement stamped Vincenti, the case depicting a charioteer, on marble base with applied plaque inscribed ‘Alibert A Paris, 1855’, the 3.5” dial set in the wheel, the twin barrel movement striking on a bell, with pendulum and key, 39cm high, 49cm wide

£1,000 - 1,500 €1,100 - 1,700

122 TP A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK WITH PULL 122 REPEAT the dial signed Faber Smith, London, the arched rectangular case with 6.5’’ silvered arched Roman dial with outer Arabic five minute track, date aperture and subsidiary strike silent dial, the brass four pillar twin fusee movement with verge escapement striking on a bell, with brass bob pendulum, 42cm high

£700 - 1,000 €790 - 1,100

123 TP A MID-NINTEENTH CENTURY ROSEWOOD TABLE CLOCK the dial signed Barraud & Lund, Cornhill London and numbered 1856, the rectangular case with 6.5’’ painted Arabic dial, the brass twin fusee five pillar movement, striking on a bell, 39cm high

£600 - 800 123 €680 - 900

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124 TP A LATE 19TH CENTURY/EARLY 20TH CENTURY EBONISED AND BRASS MOUNTED BURR WALNUT MUSICAL BRACKET CLOCK the dial signed J.Williams, Guildford the Georgian style rectangular case with caddy top and brass urn finials on oggee bracket feet, the 7.5’’ silvered Roman dial 125 with subsidiary slow / fast dial to the arch and pierced hands, the brass triple fusee four pillar movement, striking on bell, and chiming on a nest of eight graduated bells, with pendulum and winder, 77cm high overall 126 TP AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER £800 - 1,200 WALNUT AND MARQUETRY INLAID €900 - 1,400 LONGCASE CLOCK the dial signed for Sam(uel) Pitts, London 125 TP Y the caddy top above a pierced scrolling A LARGE EARLY 18TH CENTURY sound grill with twin brass orb and spire FRENCH GILT BRONZE MOUNTED finials, the hood with half columns to the BOULLE CUT BRASS AND corners below a similar sound grill , the TORTOISESHELL INLAID BRACKET trunk with panelled door with bird and CLOCK floral vase decoration and circular lenticle, the movement signed J.F.Larse, Paris on corresponding moulded stepped plinth the elaborate arched case with caddy top base, the 12’’ square brass dial with silvered surmounted by a trumpeting herald finial Roman chapter ring and scrolling grotesque above a central classical female maskhead, mask head spandrels, the matted centre the canted front corners with caryatids over with twin turned winding holes, subsidiary and scrolling acanthus mounts, raised on Arabic seconds below twelve and date confirming swept panelled feet, the glazed aperture above six, the brass four pillar twin door enclosing a 10” white enamel Roman train movement with anchor escapement, and Arabic thirteen part dial with pierced striking on a bell, with case key, pendulum, scrolling hands, the inner case inlaid with winding crank and twin weights, 238cm high with a trompe l’oeil chequered ‘floor’ before approximately scrolls and lambrequins, the brass twin train movement with anchor escapement with £2,000 - 3,000 outside countwheel striking the hours and €2,300 - 3,400 half hours on a bell mounted onto the inner top of the case, with pendulum, winder and Samuel Pitts was apprenticed in London case key, in 1689, but he moved to Bristol, where he 110cm high married, and was there active from 1694 till 1750. 126 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,400

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127 TP 130 TP 133 A 19TH CENTURY BRASS AND A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY MINIATURE AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY LEATHER CUT GLASS SIX LIGHT DISH LIGHT OR CHILD’S MAHOGANY WELLINGTON AND BRASS CASED BOWLS BAG AND CHANDELIER CHEST CONTENTS the circular frame with inset radiating of typical form, the moulded top over six the bag marked ‘the Bowler’s Kit’ containing reed cut glass inset dish with stiff leaf and graduated drawers with turned knopped two woods with ivorine inset initialled knopped terminal, the rim mounted with handles flanked by plain pilasters on plinth plaques, each marked ‘Bussey, London,’ lotus baluster nozzles with turned knopped base, 49cm high, 36.5cm wide, 25cm deep together with two modern white ‘Jacks,’ the terminals, below a fluted vase reservoir, with bag 28cm high, 37cm wide and 16cm deep stiff leaf ceiling rose and suspension chains, £500 - 700 65cm drop approximately €560 - 790 £80 - 120 €90 - 140 £300 - 400 131 TP €340 - 450 134 TP MATTHEW NOBLE (BRITISH, 1817-1876): A CARVED WHITE MARBLE PORTRAIT A LATE VICTORIAN / EDWARDIAN 128 BUST OF A GENTLEMAN LEATHER GLADSTONE BAG TOGETHER A LATE 18TH CENTURY CARVED AND the sitter with mutton chop whiskers looking WITH AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY GILT WOOD WATCH STAND slightly to sinister, his shoulders clad in LEATHER DRESSING CASE probably German drapery, signed and dated to the rear M. the bag with brass fittings and adjustable the Rococo style scrolling and pierced stand Noble Sc., London 1865, 77.5cm high buckled straps, the case with foul weather decorated with rocaille and two allegorical canvas cover, the bag, 48cm high, 67cm figures depicting youth and age on scrolling wide, 41cm deep, the case, 51cm high, £600 - 800 61cm wide, 24cm deep (2) base, with old damages and re-gilded 40cm €680 - 900 high £400 - 600 Provenance €450 - 680 £500 - 700 From the estate of the American operatic €560 - 790 soprano and recitalist, Jessye Norman 135 (1945-2019). 129 A LATE 20TH CENTURY LEATHER TRAVELLING BACKGAMMON SET AFTER JEAN LOUIS NICOLAS JALEY 132 (FRENCH, 1802-1866): TWO 19TH RETAILED BY ASPREY, LONDON A LATE VICTORIAN CARVED AND CENTURY SILVERED BRONZE FIGURES the claret leather rectangular zipped case INLAID MAHOGANY MINIATURE OF NUDE MAIDENS opening to a beige, black and claret interior, BREAKFAST TABLE the first with Barbedienne foundry mark, the fitted gilt and silvered metal counters, dice the hinged top with undulating edge and kneeling figure with drapery in her lap, her shaker and four dice, 6.5cm high, 23.5cm central star decoration within a matching hands clasped to her chest, signed Jaley and wide, 17cm deep banded border, on turned and knopped inscribed and dated Rome 1831, the second pedestal support and scrolling tripod base, seated on a rocky outcrop with drapery, £300 - 400 29cm high overall looking slightly to sinister, 27.3cm high and €340 - 450 26.9cm high (2) £400 - 600 €450 - 680 £300 - 500 €340 - 560

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136 TP JAMES OSBORNE (BRITISH, 1940-1992): A PATINATED BRONZE EQUESTRIAN MODEL ENTITLED ‘FIGHTING STALLIONS’ the two horses both on their hind legs raised on oval base with engraved title inscription to the front and signed, dated and numbered JAMES OSBOURNE 83 1/12, 48cm high

£600 - 800 €680 - 900

137 137 TWO LATE 20TH CENTURY GERMAN HARDSTONE BIRDS OF PREY probably designed by Manfred Wild or Andreas Zadora von Gerlof and carved in Idar-Oberstein, comprising: a Zebra-stone model of a falcon, lacking base and a white agate model of a falcon on turned wooden base, the agate model requiring attention to mount on its base, 36cm high and 30.5cm high not including base (2)

£4,000 - 7,000 €4,500 - 7,900

138 HANS GURADZE (GERMAN, 1861–1922): A PATINATED BRONZE EQUESTRIAN FIGURAL GROUP OF A MEDIEVAL KNIGHT ON HORSEBACK EMBRACING A NUDE MAIDEN, POSSIBLY LADY GODIVA on rectangular naturalistic base signed to one Guradze, raised on a contemporary brown marble rectangular pedestal with moulded plinth base, 43cm high overall (2) 138

£300 - 500 €340 - 560 139 * TP AFTER PIERRE JULES MENE (FRENCH, 1810-79): A PATINATED BRONZE EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF ‘VAINQUEUR !!!’ modelled as a Derby jockey leading his horse on naturalistic moulded oval base with facsimile signatureP.J. MENE 1866 and integral title VAINQUEUR III, 35.5cm high

£3,000 - 4,000 €3,400 - 4,500

This model was listed as No.13 in Mene’s catalogue and a lifetime cast is illustrated in Jane Horswell, Les Animaliers, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1971. p. 151.

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For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 57 140 TP 141 TP A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, KINGWOOD CROSSBANDED AND A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND CROSSBANDED PURPLEWOOD PEMBROKE TABLE COMBINATION CARD/GAMES TABLE Circa 1785, the top inlaid with a central oval patera within a Circa 1745, the eared and shaped hinged top with double moulded segmented oval, each hinged leaf inlaid with scrolled foliage and an edges, opening to reveal four recessed counter wells, four circular anthemion, above one mahogany-lined drawer, on square tapering candlestick dishes and a baize surface, inset with two central legs each headed by a rosette inlaid oval, terminating in brass retractable slides enclosing an ebonised, walnut and fruitwood inlaid cappings and castors, 58cm wide x 76cm deep x 68cm high, (22 backgammon playing surface, above one short frieze drawer, on 1/2in wide x 29 1/2in deep x 26 1/2in high) lappet headed tapering legs, repaired shrinkage to the top, 90cm wide x 46cm deep x 76cm high, (35in wide x 18in deep x 29 1/2in £1,500 - 2,000 high) €1,700 - 2,300 £1,200 - 1,800 €1,400 - 2,000

A comparable George II mahogany combination card/games table, albeit one with a triple foldover top as opposed to the twin hinged top on the offered lot, is shown in three separate illustrations in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, 1937, New York, p. 242.

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For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 58 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 142 TP A VERY LARGE CARVED GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR elements apparently second quarter 18th century but with later alterations, probably altered in size during the 19th century The shaped rectangular plate encompassed by bevelled subsidiary plates, with shaped and eared upper and lower sections, the volute scroll, floral and acanthus carved cresting centred with a classical mask surmounted by a projecting stiff-leaf and acanthus spray, the shaped and foliate scrolled apron with a central scallop shell, 254cm high x 136cm wide.

£2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,400

An additional image of the offered lot is available to view online at www.bonhams.com

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 59 143 TP A PAIR OF VERY LARGE MAHOGANY LIBRARY BERGERES Although of recent manufacture, the offered bergeres are after a in the Regency style, after Charles Heathcote Tatham and Thomas Regency oak model reputedly supplied to John Aylmer, Courtown Hope House, County Kildare in Ireland, circa 1815, which sold Christie’s, Each with an outscrolled and dished leaf-carved back above London, 7 June 2011, 500 Years Decorative Arts Europe, lot 479. standing griffin-form end supports, with outstretched feather carved This in turn was most likely inspired by drawings and designs wings, terminating in animalistic legs and lion paw feet, 109cm wide produced by Charles Heathcote Tatham (1772-1842) and Thomas x 120cm deep x 119cm high, (42 1/2in wide x 47in deep x 46 1/2in Hope (1769-1831). Three such influential drawings of ancient high) (2) consular seats, or throne chairs, executed by C.H. Tatham while on the Grand Tour and dating to 1795 and 1799 respectively, are illustrated in Thomas Hope, Regency Designer, ed. by D. Watkin and £10,000 - 15,000 P. Hewat-Jaboor, 2008, New York, pp.’s 58 & 377, fig.’s 4-1 & 67-1. €11,000 - 17,000

For further comparison see the Coade stone seat, circa 1800, originally in the picture gallery at Thomas Hope’s Duchess Street property, but now at Parham House in Sussex, Ibid, p. 70, fig. 4-16. Whilst a carved mahogany sofa end dating to circa 1802, which is believed to have belonged to Thomas Hope, also appears Ibid p. 377, fig. 67. This itself is virtually identical to the sofa ends which feature in a design for the third vase room from Thomas Hope’s major 1807 publication, Household Furniture, Ibid, p. 33, fig. 2-14.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 60 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. (front view)

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THE GENTLEMAN’S LIBRARY SALE | 61 144 TP A GHOM IVORY GROUND SILK RUG, Central Persia, 157cm x 107cm

£400 - 600 €450 - 680