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Museum hopes to buy Brontë manuscripts
by Laura Chesters
The Brontë museum hopes to raise funds to buy rare manuscripts from a rediscovered library collection coming up for sale at Sotheby’s. More than 500 manuscripts, first editions and letters from the Honresfield Library will be offered across three auctions, with the first to run online on July 2-13. The collection was originally put together by Arthur Bell Nicholls, the widower of Charlotte Brontë, and later acquired by Rochdale mill owners Alfred and William Law who lived at Honresfield House – 20
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Infamous forgery comes to auction Plaques pull in devoted fans by Roland Arkell This rare pair of south Italian or Sicilian devotional depicting the Annunication and the Nativity. They were The Oath of a Freeman, one of the most plaques (capezzali) sold for £26,000 (plus 25% buyer’s probably made in one of the carving workshops in the infamous forgeries in US history, heads to premium) at Matthew Barton of Olympia Auctions in west coastal town of Trapani during the mid to late 17th century auction at Heritage this month. It comes for London on May 25. They were secured by one of several using the locally harvested coral. sale from Justin Schiller, the antiquarian continental European bidders well above the estimate of The engraved gilt metal and enamel frames are bookseller who in 1985 attempted to broker £8000-12,000. characteristic of these pieces, the panel verso concealing its sale for $1.5m. The Italian word ‘capezzale’ literally means a headboard, the unsightly wax and pitch glue that holds the coral, a The Oath, a pledge of loyalty and duty but also refers to the devotional shrines that were hung method of adhesion termed ‘retroincastro’. By the end demanded of all new members of the above a bed. These 5½in (14cm) plaques, which carried of the 18th century the coral reefs in the region had Massachusetts Bay Colony, is considered to a provenance to St Mary’s Bourne Street, the Anglican been thoroughly depleted and the industry at Trapani be the oldest printed document in English church near Sloane Square in London, were a genuine pair disappeared. Roland Arkell Continued on page 4
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ENGLISH & EUROPEAN CERAMICS & GLASS WEDNESDAY 16TH JUNE 2021
A large Bow whiteglazed figure of the actress Kitty Clive, A small waisted beaker or dram glass, c.1765, 7.9cm. A rare Böttger stoneware hexagonal teapot and cover, c.171015, c.1750, 25.3cm. Provenance: from the collection of the late Terence C. Woodfield. 15cm across. Estimate £1,5002,000* Estimate £2,5003,000* Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Foster. Estimate £10,00015,000* A Staffordshire slipware owl jar and cover, c.16901710, A Chelsea hexagonal Fabledecorated teapot and cover, 23.8cm. c.175255, 18cm across. A rare Ralph Wood pearlware figure of John Milton, c.17901800, Estimate £5,0008,000* Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Foster. 29.5cm. Estimate £6,0008,000* Estimate £1,0001,500*
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Concern over cultural goods rule change dealers and auction houses. UKBS does not oppose the Goods (EU 2019/880) in goods being exported to by Laura Chesters However, the manner of the revocation and acknowledged Great Britain, but not Northern Northern Ireland, whether repeal could have unforeseen that the regulation has been Ireland. This difference could destined for the EU or not, have The revocation of the European consequences, according to widely criticised for its create major challenges if the not been illegally exported from Union’s cultural goods heritage body, the UK National potential effects on what many UK is not well prepared, their country of origin, a check regulation in Great Britain Committee of the Blue Shield countries may recognise as UKBS has warned. that is not currently required at could leave Northern Ireland (UKBS). legally owned objects which Fionnuala Rogers, cultural UK borders. Ultimately, the UK exposed, according to cultural It has warned that the have no contribution to property lawyer and chair of is going to have to make some property experts. government is unprepared to terrorist financing. UKBS, said: “It is highly likely significant changes as a result of The UK government is in “handle the challenges of that the EU will want to ensure this regulation, despite the the process of revoking the EU maintaining distinct systems Impact assessment that Northern Ireland does not revocation.” regulation on the Import of for the import of cultural goods Instead, the organisation is become a gateway for cultural The UK government is due Cultural Goods. into different parts of the UK” urging government to plan for goods to enter the EU in to debate the issues after the This step has been widely and has “significantly the impact it will have. violation of the Regulation. recess in June. UKBS added welcomed by the art and underestimated the risks this As part of Brexit, on May 19 “Equivalent checks will need that it is “essential that the UK antiques trade due to the might pose to the increase of the UK began to repeal the EU to be carried out in Great government considers these complexity of the regulation illicit trafficking through Regulation on the Introduction Britain, and UK customs will matters during the and the onerous impact on Northern Ireland”. and the Import of Cultural need to ensure that cultural parliamentary debate”.
Notorious ‘Oath’ forgery up for sale
Continued from front page century paper, printing ink created using a 400-year-old North America, produced in recipe and a manufactured Cambridge, Massachusetts, I will be relieved printing plate. He planted it in around 1638. No copy of this that the albatross the shelves of a second-hand diminutive broadsheet was “ bookstore so it could be thought to have survived – until is gone ‘discovered’ and bought for $25. 1985 when the Utah documents Hofmann went to prison dealer (and master forger and about its price, provenance and owing Schiller more than convicted murderer) Mark title”. $300,000. Hoffman claimed to have Hoffman – the subject of a The bookseller is offering discovered a copy in a New number of books and the Oath, housed in the York bookstore. documentaries including the slipcover made by the Library The simple 4 x 6in (10 x current Netflix hit Murder of Congress when it considered 15cm) sheet fooled scores of Among the Mormons – pleaded the purchase, via a court order bibliophiles including Schiller, guilty to two counts of second- that allows him to recoup some has been a painful experience, Above: two views of The who entered negotiations to sell degree murder and is serving a of that lost money. I will be relieved that the Oath of a Freeman, a forgery it to the Library of Congress for life sentence in the Utah State He says it will be a relief to albatross is gone.” by Mark Hoffman. It has $1.5m. Prison. He later confessed to finally part with it. “With all its It has an opening bid of an opening bid of £10,000 It was turned down not prosecutors that The Oath of a notoriety you could call it the £10,000 as part of Heritage’s as part of Heritage’s Rare because the Oath was deemed a Freeman was an elaborate most famous 20th century Rare Books Signature auction Books Signature auction on fake but “because of questions fabrication involving 17thh American forgery. Because it in Texas on June 9-10. June 9-10.
Another chance to give views on LAPADA fair is cancelled again Portobello area improvements The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair usually Warwickshire on July 23-25 where a number held in the autumn in London’s Berkeley of LAPADA dealers have taken stands. Kensington & Chelsea council has Square has been cancelled for a second year Simms added: “We have been busy launched a study to allow residents and running. forging partnerships with other events. In businesses in the area to have their say The association has decided it is too addition to the Game Fair we are running on future development plans. much of a risk to plan to stage the event. a similar arrangement at the Scottish The project is largely focused Game Fair which will be held at Scone on locations where housing may be Difficult decision Palace in Perthshire (September 24-26), built. However, the survey will allow In a statement Freya Simms, CEO of which LAPADA members are welcome to for feedback on how planners could LAPADA, said the board had taken the join.” preserve local characteristics or make “difficult decision” to cancel the event LAPADA is also in talks about other improvements. because “there are simply too many London-based initiatives planned for The ‘character study’ consultation is open until June 27 at impediments and unknowns for us to be able September. https://virtualengage.arup.com/RBKCcharacterstudy/. to proceed with confidence”. The association says these “may appeal The study is in addition to the council’s five-year Market Plan where it had Under current government guidance to LAPADA members as an alternative to been asking the antiques trade to submit feedback on Portobello Road market. indoor and outdoor fairs can go ahead later the LAPADA fair in Berkeley Square, and we See 5Questions with a Portobello Road dealer in Dealers’ Diary, page 33. this year and LAPADA will proceed with will provide an update on these as soon as the LAPADA Pavilion at the Game Fair in the details are confirmed.” 4 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Parsonage Museum hopes to buy Brontë rarities
Continued from front page Far left: a rare handwritten manuscript of Emily’s poems, miles from the Brontë family mentioned in the preface to home in Haworth. Wuthering Heights, with pencil Following their deaths the corrections by Charlotte is library was inherited by a estimated at £800,000-1.2m. nephew, Sir Alfred Law, in 1913 and has since remained in the Left: the Brontë family copy family. of Thomas Bewick’s A History of British Birds, estimated at ‘Rightful home’ £30,000-50,000. The Brontë Society & Brontë Parsonage Museum fears the splitting of the library will be detrimental to the study of the determined to save as much as literary family. we can, but due to the dramatic Ann Dinsdale, principal financial impact of the curator at the museum, said: pandemic, the timing is “The society believes that the enthusiasts for generations to some of her best-known verse, archive. unfortunate. rightful home for these unique come.” including No Coward Soul Is The museum hopes to “Museum revenue has fallen and extraordinary manuscripts, Among the items in the Mine, The Bluebell and The Old fundraise to secure some of the away to almost nothing and unseen for 100 years, is at the library is a book of 29 hand- Stoic. lots. However, it is concerned competition for public funds Brontë Parsonage Museum, written poems by Emily with The Brontë family’s copy of it will not be able to have the has become fiercer than where they can be enjoyed by an estimate of £800,000-1.2m. Thomas Bewick’s A History of time to put together financing ever. We are, however, issuing visitors, explored by scholars It is the only surviving hand- British Birds – as mentioned in and plan. a lobbying call to action to do and shared with Brontë written manuscript to feature Jane Eyre – is also part of the Dinsdale added: “We are what we can.”
Stephen Hawking archive acquired by two institutions
Archive papers and personal The acceptance of the Lee © Sarah Image objects belonging to the late archive settled £2.8m of tax Left: Prof Prof Stephen Hawking (1944- and the acceptance of the Stephen Hawking 2018) have been acquired by contents of Hawking’s office in his office at two institutions. settled £1.4m tax. Christie’s the department Cambridge University Heritage and Taxation of advanced Library and the Science Advisory Service advised on mathematics Museum Group have both the transaction. and theoretical benefited from the archive via The entire contents of physics in the an Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Hawking’s office will be University of tax agreement with the UK preserved as part of the Science Cambridge. government. Museum Group Collection, This photo was with selected highlights going commissioned Simpsons scripts on display in 2022. by the Science The items include personalised In November 2018, 22 lots Museum in wheelchairs, scientific ‘bets’ from Hawking’s estate were 2011 to mark signed with a thumbprint that sold at Christie’s following his Hawking’s 70th he made with his peers, papers death in the March of that year. birthday. on theoretical physics and his They raised a premium- scripts from The Simpsons. inclusive total of £1.82m.
Music academy promises historical instruments will be kept The Royal Academy of Music has said music. A spokesman for the academy – we do not, in fact, own any original it has no plans to sell or dispose of any told ATG: “The reviews we will be manuscripts by Handel nor do we hold of its historic instruments after national undertaking are concerned solely with any which have been loaned to us by a media reported it was looking into We will not be disposing the storage of collections onsite and how third party. ‘decolonialising’ its collection. of instruments based on we interpret items in our collections. “We have not removed Handel, or The Sunday Telegraph said that a “ “We will not be disposing of musical any other composer, from the syllabus. review could lead to “problematic” their provenance or instruments based on their provenance “For us, inclusion means widening musical instruments and artefacts being associations or associations. the net, not cancelling historical figures ditched. “Additionally, the Telegraph article and artefacts.” The academy in Marylebone Road, thought to hold a collection of around stated that we hold a ‘vast collection of The academy received its royal London, which dates back to 1822, is 22,000 items relating to the history of manuscripts by the composer Handel’ charter in 1830 from King George IV. antiquestradegazette.com 5 June 2021 | 5
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Lot 2: George Hutchins Bellasis. Views in Saint Lot 21: Robert Lyall. The Character of the Russians, 1823 Lot 34:Pavel Svin’in. Sketches of Russia, 1814 Lot 124: Cicero. Ein Buch zu Helena, 1815 £1,000-£1,500 £700-£1,000 seynem Sune Marco, 1531 £1,000-£1,500 £2,000-£3,000
Lot 260: Blaeu. Bermuda, circa 1640 Lot 363: Cecil Aldin. Terrier study Lot 439: Jacques Stella. Les Jeux et Plaisris de Lot 456: World Map Board Game, circa 1855 £500-£800 £2,000-£3,000* l’Enfance, 1657 £1,000-£1,500 £3,000-£4,000
Lot 510: Louis Wain. ‘If Only Big Things were Little... ‘ Lot 527: Ian Fleming. Casino Lot 650: Kelmscott Press. The Wood Beyond the Lot 656: Paul Nash. Urne Lot 666: Sangorski & Sutcliffe £2,000-£3,000* Royale, 1st edition, 1953 World, 1894 Buriall and the Garden of binding of the Rubaiyat of £10,000-£15,000 £1,500-£2,000 Cyrus, 1932 Omar Khayyam, 1911 £3,000-£5,000 £1,500-£2,000
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Pick of the week Left: the Michael Z Berger watch Spending quality time with Pablo Picasso with Pablo Picasso dial The silvered dial to this 1960s stainless steel bracelet One day in the 1960s, Picasso took the watch off his – €175,000 watch gives a clue to its former owner. wrist and gave it to her. (£150,500) at In place of the hour markers are the 12 letters Only two other named dial watches like this are Bonhams Paris. spelling Pablo Picasso. known. Bonhams believed both were owned by La The father of modern art was a well-known watch Fondation Picasso and suggested it was unlikely wearer and was photographed with a Rolex GMT another will come for sale. However, the foundation Master, a Jaeger-LeCoultre triple calendar moon phase has since said it does not own either of the other and this bespoke watch with a movement by the little- watches (an addendum was added to the online known Swiss watch producer Michael Z Berger and a catalogue description). case signed MT Co of Hong Kong. At Bonhams Paris on May 20 it was guided This well-worn watch is visible in many images of at €12,000-18,000 (the price of a large edition Picasso including the famous series taken by Cecil Picasso ceramic or print) but in fact sold for Beaton in the 1960s. €175,000/£150,500 (€219,050 including premium). According to the vendor, it was a gift from Picasso Jonathan Darracott, Bonhams global head of to the Greek sculptor Lela Kanellopoulou. watches, said: “This was an extraordinary find and we She met Picasso at the Cahiers d’Art, having are so thrilled at this well-deserved result for such a collaborated with Christian Zervos, publisher of the special timepiece, which was also a superb example of important Cahiers d’Art magazine and of the catalogue the 12-digit name tradition, replacing the numerals on raisonné of the works of Picasso. the watch dial with the owner’s name, which goes back Right: Picasso gave the She was someone of intrigue for Picasso who gave to the 1700s. watch to Greek sculptor her the pet name ‘La belle Hélène’ as a reference “It is rather fitting that Picasso followed this trend Lela Kanellopoulou (whom to her beauty, Greek nationality and background in as he was famous for being a great self-publicist.” he called La belle Hélène). archaeology. Roland Arkell
The Fine Art Group Branczik and Moore will Anyone with information on buys Pall Mall firm move to Hong Kong from this incident should call 101 London and New York quoting Operation Deuce or Art and finance adviser The respectively. call Crimestoppers Fine Art Group has bought US At Sotheby’s since 2004, anonymously on 0800 555 111. Precious appraisal firm Pall Mall Art Branczik became head of metals Advisors. The group, run and Contemporary art for Europe founded by Philip Hoffman, in 2016. Artists not affected On Friday, March 28, 2021, now incorporates art advisory, Yuki Terase, the current by new 5MLD rules agency, finance, investment head of Contemporary art, Michael Bloomstein of and valuations to offer services Asia, leaves in July. HMRC has confirmed that Brighton was paying the “for every stage of the art Charles F Stewart, Above: the Arundel Castle artists do not fall under the following for bulk scrap collecting cycle”. Sotheby’s CEO, said: “Asia is cabinet that was broken into and scope of the 5th Money against a gold fix of: Hoffman will be working our highest growth region at the Mary Queen of Scots rosary Laundering Directive. $1892.45 €1547.28 £1333.86 with Anita Heriot (Pall Mall Sotheby’s, and there is beads stolen. The Treasury recently Art Advisors’ president) and immense potential for further announced that it is not Gold her team of specialists who are expansion in Modern and and silver treasures stolen in a intended that artists – persons 22 carat: £1179.86 per oz joining The Fine Art Group. Contemporary art. As such, it burglary at Arundel Castle. who create original art – are in (£37.94 per gram) makes sense to send some of Thieves broke into the castle on scope of the art market our strongest specialists to the night of May 21. More than participants (AMPs) definition 18 carat: £965.34 (£31.04) Mod & Contemp further invest in the region and £1m worth of artefacts were and therefore they are not 15 carat: £804.45 (£25.87) duo in Hong Kong ensure global integration.” taken including the rosary required to register as an AMP. beads, several coronation cups If an artist has already 14 carat: £750.82 (£24.14) Sotheby’s has appointed Alex owned by Earl Marshals and registered as an AMP they can 9 carat: £482.67 per oz Branczik to the role of Mary Queen of other gold and silver antiques. contact [email protected] chairman of Modern & Scots relic stolen A spokesman for Arundel to arrange a refund of the fee. (£15.52 per gram) Contemporary art in Asia and Castle Trustees said: “The All other AMPs are due to 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 colleague Max Moore will Rosary beads carried by Mary stolen items have significant register with HMRC for anti 12 Month Low: ▼ £14.91 become head of Contemporary Queen of Scots at her execution monetary value, but as unique money laundering supervision art sales in Asia. in 1587 were among rare gold artefacts of the Duke of by June 10 (read more about Hallmark Platinum Norfolk’s collection have this in ATG No 2494). £11.70 per gram immeasurably greater and priceless historical Silver importance.” Two institutions Det Con Molly O’Malley of will share portrait £16.17 per oz for 925 Alex Branczik (left) Chichester CID said: “If you standard hallmarked and Max Moore are offered or hear of anyone The National Gallery in 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 (right) of Sotheby’s offering for sale any of the items London and Birmingham’s will now be based in stolen, we would also like to Barber Institute of Fine Arts 12 Month Low: ▼ £11.51 Hong Kong. hear from you.” will both benefit from the 8 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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TOP SELLING LOTS © The National Gallery, London Gallery, National © The acquisition of a portrait by Silverstone Auctions, German artist Lovis Corinth Kenilworth, May 22 (1858-1925). Triumph X-75 Hurricane, The painting is the first item 1973, one of 1152 under the Acceptance in Lieu Most read produced, same owner scheme to have been allocated for last 26 years. to more than one museum or Estimate: £15,000-20,000 collection. The most viewed stories for Hammer: £26,500 The portrait of Dr Ferdinand week May 20-26 on Mainzer (1871-1943), a antiquestradegazette.com German-Jewish gynaecologist, Hermann Historica, historian and writer, and a key 1 Metal detectorists’ Munich, May 26 cultural figure of early Above: Portrait of Dr Ferdinand bronze discoveries Longquan brush washer, sell for £185,000 at 20th-century Berlin, was Mainzer, 1899, by Lovis Corinth. Yuan dynasty, 14th century, Hansons painted by Corinth in 1899. 7½in (19cm) diameter. Mainzer had fled Germany Stone, settling £87,600 of tax. 2 A glory of the Estimate: N/A to the US, where he died. Later Dr Gabriele Finaldi, chivalric age sets an Hammer: €30,000 (£26,000) his granddaughter Gisela Stone director of the National auction record in settled in London, eventually Gallery, London, said: “The Scotland bringing the portrait to her Barber Institute of Fine Arts Bonhams, London, May 25 home, where it hung until her and the National Gallery 3 Family’s lions roar Silver and stainless steel flatware death in 2016. already share a portrait by Van once more service for 12 designed by Carlo The picture was acquired by Dyck of the artist’s friend Scarpa and produced by Cleto 4 Owner was key to Munari, Vicenza, c.1977, 72 pieces the government in lieu of François Langlois and now we Strong demand Inheritance Tax from the jointly own Corinth’s portrait each with facsimile signature. estates of Evan and Gisela of his friend Dr Mainzer.” 5 Rare Aesthetic Estimate: £5000-7000 bedroom suite and a Hammer: £22,000 famous bare-knuckle boxing print feature in our pick of five Ref’s 1974 World Cup auction highlights final stopwatch for sale English football referee Jack Taylor created history when he blew his whistle in the first minute of the 1974 World Cup final to give Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, May 20 the Netherlands a penalty against West Germany. Seventeenth century French school Scored by Johan Neeskens, it was not only the first-ever half-length portrait of a lady as penalty awarded in the World Cup final but also the fastest goal in Diana, oil on canvas, 2ft 10in x 2ft a World Cup final. 2in, (87 x 66cm). Property of a On June 14 the Omega stopwatch used by Taylor (1930-2012) Scottish Borders family. to time that game is coming to auction at Fellows in Birmingham Estimate: £2000-3000 – just two years after the whistle he used on the day was also sold Hammer: £22,000 at auction. That Acme Thunderer whistle was offered in November 2019 HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE by sport specialist Graham Budd, consigned by a UK private collector. Estimated at £900-1200, it went to an overseas bidder In Numbers Peter Francis, Carmarthen, May 26 for a hammer price of £4200. Pair of oak hall chairs with Art Taylor’s Omega stopwatch, consigned by family, is guided Nouveau ivory inlaid roundels, c.1890. at £3000-5000 by Fellows. It contains engravings including the Estimate: £40-60 official 1974 World Cup logo and Taylor’s initials. 228 Hammer: £2400 Fellows said: “It is not known why Taylor was able to keep the stopwatch, although it is likely that he was gifted it by FIFA. He The number of years since the gave the stopwatch to his daughter, Jayne Willis, over 40 years Louvre opened in Paris. Its ago. It has remained – untouched – in a cabinet since the 1980s.” next president Laurence des Measuring 54mm in diameter, and with a mechanical, hand- Cars takes up her new role on wound movement, it will be sold alongside more than 200 other September 1. She is the first timepieces in Fellows’ Luxury Watch Sale. woman to hold the post. The 1974 World Cup final took place in Munich, with West Germany emerging as winners Aldridges, Bath, May 25 in a 2-1 victory. Taylor awarded Margaret Rose Preston (Australian, two penalties in the first 30 1875-1963), a rural landscape, minutes (one for each team, both woodcut, 7½in (19cm) square, successful). signed in pencil lower margin. Tom Derbyshire Estimate: £70-100 Hammer: £2700 Left: Omega stopwatch used by Jack Taylor to time the 1974 Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for May 8-16, 20-26, 2019. 2021. ‘Highest‘Highest pricemultiple over overestimate’ top estimate’= Our selection = Our of selection items from of theitems top from10 highest the top hammer 20 highest prices hammeras a World Cup final – estimate pricesmultiple as of a the multiple high estimate of the high paid estimateby internet paid bidders by internet on thesaleroom.com bidders on thesaleroom.com £3000-5000 at Fellows. ‘Top‘Top sellingselling lots’ lots’ = =Our Our selection selection of itemsof items from from the top the 10 top highest 20 highest hammer hammer prices paidprices by internetpaid by internetbidders on bidders thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com
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Three-day auction of
Lot 1528. 19th century tortoiseshell ANTIQUE & REPRODUCTION Lot 808. Mid-20th century double clip two division tea caddy. brooch. Est. £300-400 (plus 24% BP*) FURNITURE & EFFECTS Est. £3,000-5,000 (plus 24% BP*) TUESDAY 8TH JUNE – 10AM Carpets & Rugs (9 lots) Antique & Vintage Textiles, Clothing & Handbags (36 lots) Miscellaneous Collectors’ Items (263 lots) Books (82 lots) Ceramics & Glass (164 lots)
WEDNESDAY 9TH JUNE – 10AM Silver & Plated Items (71 lots) Lot 157. Charles P (later Charles Jewellery & Coins (237 lots) I), single page manuscript Paintings (281 lots) document on vellum dated 25th July, 1622 (one of several lots Lot 509A. Harry Davis Lot 1215. Namikawa from a private collection). THURSDAY 10TH JUNE – 10AM for Royal Worcester, Yasuyuki, cloisonné Est. £400-600 (plus 24% BP*) pedestal vase and cover, vase and cover, 3 1 Copper & Brass (71 lots) 8 ⁄4in tall. 4 ⁄2in high. Clocks & Barometers (20 lots) Est. £300-400 Est. £5,000-8,000 (plus 24% BP*) (plus 24% BP*) Antique & Reproduction Furniture (362 lots)
Lot 334. Currer ONLINE AUCTION AND Bell (Charlotte Bronte), three VIEWING STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT volumes, ‘Villette’. Est. £300-500 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1018. Noel Harry Leaver ARCA, 1 1 watercolour, 14 ⁄2 x 20 ⁄2in. Est. £300-500 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1017. Edward Killingworth Johnson RWS, watercolour ‘The Royalist’. Est. £300-500 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 895. Robert Watson, oil on canvas, 20 x 30in. Est. £700-1,000 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 207. Fender Telecaster Lot 1459. Victorian plaster relief work electric guitar. panel attributed to D. Brucciani & Co., Est. £800-1,200 30 x 40in. (plus 24% BP*) Est. £400-600 (plus 24% BP*)
Various lots of taxidermy
Lot 1562. Pair of 19th Lot 1571. Pair of 19th century French giltwood century French giltwood armchairs. open armchairs. Est. £500-800 Est. £700-1,000 (plus 24% BP*) (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1558. 19th century French kingwood and parquetry inlaid Lot 1557. 19th century French kingwood Lot 1354. Set of 14 (12 plus two) Regency Lot 1545. H. Wirtz, late 18th/early 19th century French kingwood and and ormolu mounted side table, marquetry inlaid and ormolu mounted mahogany dining chairs. crossbanded serpentine shaped commode, 58in wide. 3 1 3 19 ⁄4 x 28in. side table, 24 ⁄2 x 29 ⁄4in. Est. £2,500-3,500 (plus 24% BP*) Est. £2,000-4,000 (plus 24% BP*) Est. £300-500 (plus 24% BP*) Est. £300-500 (plus 24% BP*) BP* - Buyer’s premium of 24% incl. VAT Lots marked ARR will be subject to an additional fee - for full details see table in ATG Auction Calendar
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PAGE 011 2495.indd 1 27/05/2021 12:40:53 Auction Reports Hammer highlights
Four sales prove better by design Extensive cross-section of objects offered in Edinburgh and London by same auction house
by Roland Arkell
Two locations, four sales, 1145 lots. The spring ‘design’ series at Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium) offered an impressive cross-section of objects from progressive design movements from 1860 to the present day. Bidders responded in kind. Across the April auctions – one in Edinburgh, three in London, all conducted live online – 3746 registered participants generated 2 a hammer total of £1.95m and an 3 average selling rate of 88%. The Design Since 1860 sale in 1 Scotland on April 21-22 was first 7 8 out of the blocks. Pieces by greats of the Victorian design movement from William Morris to Christopher Dresser were topped by an ebonised 6 wood and cloisonné mirrored wall cabinet by EW Godwin (1833-86) and probably made by art furniture manufacturer William Watt & Co. This 3ft 6in (1.06m) wide cabinet is typical of Godwin’s Anglo-Japanese style. He often incorporated genuine 9 Japanese artefacts into his work, shopping regularly in the 1870s at Liberty’s East Indian Art Warehouse interest and close study of botany. white sold for £7000 at McTear’s in on Regent Street, and this is possibly They sold for £8500. Glasgow in April. where the cloisonné enamel panels to There were some fine examples Talwin Morris (1865-1911) is the doors were acquired. of Glasgow School design, not least perhaps best known for his book Measuring 2ft 2in (66cm) high, two pairs of stained oak dining designs (he was arts manager for this is the cabinet pictured in The chairs designed by Charles Rennie Glasgow publisher Blackie & Son Secular Furniture of EW Godwin by Mackintosh. Made in 1910, these from 1898-1911) but he also produced Susan Soros (1999) and came for sale Victorian and pre-war ‘brander’ back chairs (a reworking of furniture, textiles and metalwork. from ‘an important private collection’ the classic Scottish vernacular form) A pair of repoussé decorated brass with an earlier provenance to dealer “design is an area of were among the designs Mackintosh panels c.1893 worked with stylised Paul Reeves. Estimated at £5000- opportunity for the made for the decorator William and linear plant forms and Glasgow 8000, it took £19,000. UK’s provincial Douglas. The chairs from the set roses once formed part of an entrance Sold at £13,000 was a William auction rooms of six came with a strong collecting screen at Blackie’s Printing Work. De Morgan three-colour lustre dish provenance, having previously been They brought £6500. decorated by leading factory artist owned by Glasgow luminaries, The total for the sale was £617,600 Charles Passenger with a heron the sculptor Benno Schotz and the with the selling rate running at 83%. amid bullrushes c.1890. De Morgan architect Jack Coia. One pair sold considered pieces from the so-called 11 at the low end of expectations at Regional gains ‘Moonlight and Sunset Suite’ series £15,000, the other failed to get away. Victorian and pre-war design is an to be the pinnacle of his achievement Sold for £8000 was an oak and area of opportunity for the UK’s in lustre. It took almost two decades stained-glass cabinet designed by provincial auction rooms. Specialist of experimentation before he Ernest Archibald Taylor (1874-1951) departments at the ‘big three’ are now mastered the three-colour technique for Wylie & Lockhead, Glasgow, cigarette paper thin with the majority (each colour required its own firing c.1905. This rare piece combines of material consigned for sale ushered with the light blue tone created using Taylor’s skills as both a furniture online or moved on via referrals. Like acid etching). He later lamented that maker (he joined Wylie & Lochhead others on the regional scene, L&T is his efforts had been in commercial as trainee designer in 1893) and a making a good play at filling any void. vain as relatively few pieces were sold. stained-glass designer (in 1908 he Glass by René Lalique (1860- Dresser produced designs for the moved to Manchester to manage and 1945), the epitome of inter-war period Coalbrookdale Ironwork Company design for George Wragge). glamour, took centre stage on April between 1867-72. His pair of iron This particular model was sold in 29. Dedicated Lalique sales have chairs combined both details from mahogany or oak – with the latter been a London fixture for many years the gothic revival and highly stylised much the rarer of the two. A similar (first at Christie’s South Kensington foliate forms that reflected his display cabinet by Taylor painted in and at Bonhams) and L&T was quick 12 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 012-14 2495.indd 1 28/05/2021 10:41:06 4 5 Highlights from the spring Design series at Lyon & Turnbull
1. Anglo-Japanese wall cabinet by EW Godwin – £19,000. 2. Three-colour lustre dish by William De Morgan – £13,000. 3. Pair of repoussé decorated brass panels by Talwin Morris – £6500. 4. Chairs designed by Christopher Dresser for Coalbrookdale – £8500. 5. Oak and stained glass cabinet designed by EA Taylor – £8000. 6. Lalique clear, frosted and grey stained Serpent vase – £22,000. 7. Lalique Thibet vase – £8000. 8. Lalique Ceylan vase – £11,000. 9. A filet-de-verre glass vase by Toots Zynsky – £10,000. 10. A burr walnut and brass table by Ico Parisi for Singer & Sons – £11,000. 11. Foemina blown and cut glass vase by Lino Tagliapietra dated 1985 – £12,000.
comparison, another opalescent Tagliapietra (b.1934) has been Ceylan vase sold at Sworders the same described by US contemporary Dale week for a more typical £3500. Chihuly (b.1941) as “the greatest An impressive selection of cobalt glassblower in the world”. blue vases included versions of Fourteen works made by Thibet, designed in 1931 with a pair of Tagliapietra in the 1980s and ‘90s ibex forming the handles (£8000), were topped at £12,000 by his 22in Tuileries with its foot of sparrows from (56cm) Foemina Vase fashioned in 1930 (£7000) and the globular Milan two-tone orange blown and cut glass vase worked with leafy branches from that was signed and dated Murano 10 1929 (£17,000). 1985. His 21in (53cm) Spirale Vase Bringing the sale series right up made in white and clear glass in the to date was the cross-collecting 1990s sold for £6000, while a 2ft 1in Modern Made catalogue assembled (63cm) hand-blown vase from the by specialist Philip Smith. Some 1427 same period brought £6500. bidders registered for this sale that Equally recognisable are the to pick up the baton. The firm’s first The appeal of vibrantly coloured enjoyed a total of £948,000 and a creations of Rhode Island glass artist dedicated Lalique sale, assembled by or opalescent glass helps explain why selling rate of 80%. Toots Zynsky (b.1951), best known recently recruited former Christie’s two apparently similar items can be As well as some important Modern for her super-colourful, thermo- specialist Joy McCall, enjoyed a priced quite differently. British works – including Edward formed vessels using the filet-de- selling rate of 88% with the £329,000 No collection of Lalique vases Wolfe’s portrait of Pat Nelson sold verre or glass thread technique. A total at the top end of expectations. would be complete without the at £95,000 (see ATG No 2492) – the remarkable orange, yellow, red, green The first 57 of 107 lots came from a budgerigar Ceylan vase designed in April 30 sale could also boast a group and black form signed simply Z was private European collection. Largely 1924. The example here, estimated at of studio and contemporary glass much admired by all who viewed for composed of pre-war vases, it included £6000-8000, was exceptional. from a private European collection. the brilliance of its colours and its some of the most famous Lalique “It is simply the best Ceylan vase I More typical of material sold in manufacture. It sold for £10,000. creations: the clear, frosted and grey have ever seen because of the depth New York and Paris, the 33-piece An array of post-war furniture stained Serpent vase, designed in 1924 of the opalescence and the subtlety consignment, put together by an classics was led at £11,000 by a burr (£22,000) and two versions of the 1919 of the green staining” said McCall. international collector in the 1990s, walnut and brass low table designed Perruches vase, one in deep amber with “It’s superb – right down to the long featured works by leading names in in 1951 by Ico Parisi (1916-96). This white staining (£14,000), the other tails of the birds that were very often the field from Italy, Sweden, Japan particular model was made by Singer in cased opalescent and blue stained polished down during production.” and the US. & Sons exclusively for the American glass (£20,000). It was rewarded with £11,000. By Italian ‘maestro vetraio’ Lino market. n You can be sure of poster popularity
Lyon & Turnbull’s Lalique sale had been displayed at McKnight Kauffer and Paul Nash with styles ranging the Mall Galleries in London with posters from the from Vorticism to Surrealism. Many chose to promote Shell Heritage Art Collection as a backdrop. not only petrol and oil but also the pleasures of the Duplicates from the collection sold to benefit The motoring lifestyle. National Motor Museum Trust, these 2ft 6in x 3ft Against what were attractive estimates, all of the 9in (76cm x 1.14m) ‘lorry bills’ included posters from 49 lots, catalogued by poster specialist Tomkinson some of Shell’s most celebrated inter-war advertising Churcher, got away to total £60,000. Leading the sale campaigns. at £3400 was John Stewart Anderson’s ‘machine age’ Commissioned by Jack Beddington, who had a keen design Motorists Prefer Shell (right). Ben Nicholson’s eye for young talent, the list of artists who contributed Guardsmen Use Shell took £2400 while Graham included Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Edward Sutherland’s Brigham Rock, Yorkshire sold at £2200.
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Inscribed Lowestoft jug can be linked to factory owner
Lowestoft porcelain is particularly Left: two views of admired for its sense of place: the a Lowestoft jug close ties the factory on Crown thought to have been Street (then Bell Lane) enjoyed with made for Samuel its local community in Norfolk and Hingham Aldred – Suffolk between 1757-1802. £7900 at Keys. Although by 1770 the firm had a warehouse in Cheapside, London, Right: two views of it survived longer than the average a Lowestoft jug with 18th century English porcelain decoration attributed factory, perhaps because it had less to Richard Powles – competition in the local market. £3200. An 8in (19cm) documentary jug was the stand-out piece among 50 lots of Lowestoft offered by Keys (20% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham on been supplied by a Mr Gamble of Porcelain of the 18th century (1963). when Bonhams offered the Godden May 12-13. Known as the ‘Aldred Jug’, Bungay and was the first example of Estimated at £5000-7000, it took collection in 2010. its lip is inscribed with the initials copper plate printing on Lowestoft £7900. Keys’ jug, with a label to the base SA, probably for Samuel Hingham porcelain. for the Alison Bremner collection Aldred, grandson of the Lowestoft The jug has a collecting provenance Ships sailing in (elements of which were sold by merchant Obed Aldred, one of the dating back to the late 19th century Another rare Lowestoft jug, a little Sotheby’s in 2011), was not a great four original partners in the Lowestoft and was previously owned by a smaller at 6in (14cm) high, was firing, with some of the decoration factory. Samuel inherited many of his succession of renowned Lowestoft decorated in underglaze blue with a obscured by the running of the glaze, grandfather’s assets including parcels collectors. These included William maritime scene of ships off the coast. but it nonetheless sold for £3200 of land and buildings on Bell Lane Rix Seago (who acquired a large part Several pieces of this type are (estimate £2500-£3000). that had been part of the factory site. of his collection from the Browne pictured in Geoffrey Godden’s According to his obituary, Powles, This is the only known inscribed family, descendants of the factory Lowestoft Porcelain, where they are a local artist of some skill who piece of Lowestoft porcelain with manager Robert Browne), FA Crisp attributed to the decorator Richard would later become a merchant in a possible direct link to one of the and MM Paul. It featured in the Powles (1763-1807). London, started work as a boy at the owners of the factory. The copper bicentenary exhibition of Lowestoft They include the 5in (12cm) flask Lowestoft factory ‘to support his plate for the transfer print of a porcelain in 1957 and in Bernard painted with four sailing ships and a mother’ and remained there until he hound and huntsmen is said to have Watney’s English Blue and White shipbuilding scene sold for £24,000 was ‘grown up’.
Wimbledon not common Bed courtesy of Collier & Plucknett This half-tester bed with its carved heraldic lions and painted and gilt panels is just one part of Almost two decades after the first American cast-iron mechanical banks, an extensive bedroom suite made c.1870 by Collier & Plucknett. John Harper and Company of the Albion Works in Willenhall, Staffordshire The partnership of James Plucknett and Frederick Collier operated from a showroom in filed a patent for the Wimbledon bank on September 21, 1885. Leamington Spa and workshops in Warwick. The firm advertised in various trade directories It features a British Infantryman in red tunic and blue trousers lying on a between 1872-80 as ‘manufacturers of rich carved furniture in the peculiar styles characteristic green-painted base who, with the help of a lever and a spring mechanism, of the Gothic, Tudor and Elizabethan ages’ and gained many commissions from well-heeled shoots a coin into a pill box flying a red, black and white flag. The name is a local families. Perhaps Collier & Plucknett’s best-known commission was for Tyntesfield, the reference to Wimbledon Common – the first meeting place for the National celebrated Victorian mansion in Wraxall, north Somerset, re-modelled for William Gibbs (1790- Rifle Association formed in 1860 and the venue for the nation’s most 1875) that is now owned by the National Trust. prestigious annual rifle shooting contest, the Queen’s Trophy. The Aesthetic movement oak suite offered by Dreweatts (25% buyer’s premium) in Only a dozen or so of these banks are known and the best preserved Newbury on May 12 was firmly part of the furnishings of Berwick House, Shropshire. As well have sold for small fortunes in the US where the collecting hobby is most as the bed, it comprises a breakfront wardrobe, developed. One described as ‘near mint’ took $17,000 at Morphy in Denver, a breakfront compactum, a washstand with Pennsylvania, in February this year. Japonisme tiles, a writing table with glazed The example pictured here was offered by David Duggleby (20% buyer’s superstructure and an overmantel – all with the premium) in Scarborough on May 14. It was in good painted and gilt panels throughout. Several elements rather than tiptop condition with most of the original carry a brass maker’s label. paintwork intact but some losses to the flag and the pill The estimate for the full suite of £2000-3000 was box. Offered with expectations of £8000-12,000, it got certainly on the low side – perhaps the price of just away at the low estimate. one of the elements. In fact, bidding reached a more impressive £48,000.
Left: Collier & Plucknett suite Above: Wimbledon mechanical (bed shown, with detail above) bank – £8000 at David Duggleby. – £48,000 at Dreweatts.
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PAGE 012-14 2495.indd 3 28/05/2021 10:47:53 LTD Thomas R Callan Est 1933 Auctioneers and Valuators Two-Day Fine Art and Antiques Friday 11th and Saturday 12th June Viewing: Wednesday 8th June 9am-5pm, Thursday 9th June 9am-8pm, Friday 10th June 9am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am
Lot 164. Sapphire Jubilee gold proof 10oz Lot 413. Napoleonic French prisoner of war bone ship model Lot 1. Pair of Royal Worcester porcelain vases by crown 2017 Guernsey No. 15/15 Estimate £8,000-12,000 (plus 24% BP*) Charles Baldwyn Fifty pounds in 22 carat gold (one of three Baldwyn lots in the sale) Lot 372. 1960s Chinese (from a collection of gold coins) Estimate £3,000-5,000 (plus 24% BP*) porcelain figure of Mao Estimate £10,000-12,000 (plus 24% BP*) Tse Tung, 142cm high (from the Paul Harris collection of Chinese ceramics) Estimate £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 38. Wedgwood Fairyland lustre bowl by Daisy Makeig-Jones (one of two in the sale) Estimate £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 591. George Leslie Hunter Lot 528. Simeon Stafford (Scottish 1877-1931) ‘St Ives’ (from an extensive collection of ‘The Black Hat’ contemporary art in the sale) Estimate £50,000-70,000 (plus 24% BP*) Estimate £1,000-£1,500 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 668. Arts and Crafts upright Bechstein Piano and matching piano stool, designed by Ernest Archibald Taylor for Wylie and Lochhead, Glasgow, this piece was made for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition. Estimate £4,000-6,000 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 592. Helen Bradley (British 1900-1979) ‘Dear Me’ (one of two Helen Bradley paintings in the sale) Estimate £40,000-60,000 (plus 24% BP*)
Catalogues by post or view online. BP* - Buyer’s premium of 24% incl. VAT @20% Lots marked ARR will be subject to an additional fee - for full details see table in ATG Auction Calendar 22 Smith St, Ayr KA7 1TF (opposite Ayr railway station - 10 minutes from Prestwick Airport) Tel: 01292 267681 Fax: 01292 261671 Email: [email protected] Web: www.trcallan.com
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FINE ART AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS The June Specialist Sale Antique Furniture, Fine Art & Collectors’ Items ONLINE ONLY In excess of 650 lots to include antique furniture, clocks, paintings, ceramics, oriental, jewellery, silver, wide range of collectors’ items & decorative objects, etc.
Thursday 10th June at 10.30am Heuer-Super Autavia Dash-mounted Art Nouveau-style hand-knotted wool Chronograph Timer carpet, 366cm x 278cm £1,200-£1,800 (plus 26.4% BP*) £800-£1,200 (plus 26.4% BP*) THIS IS A LIVE ONLINE-ONLY AUCTION BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Viewing appointments by request - Monday 7th - Wednesday 9th June
Ada Godman, pair of Arts and Crafts embroidered pictures titled ‘Spring’ and ‘Summer’, 153cm x 76cm £2,000-£3,000 (plus 26.4% BP*)
Rare second quarter 19th century mahogany Cecil Kennedy, Anton Chotka (Austrian, 1881-1955), twin-fusee cylinder musical bracket clock (1905-1997), cold painted bronze Bedouin tent lamp, 38cm high £1,200-£1,800 (plus 26.4% BP*) oil on canvas, 'Winter', £2,000-£3,000 (plus 26.4% BP*) still life with vase of flowers, Exh. The Fine Art Society, 1961 £800 - £1200 (plus 26.4% BP*)
Dunhill-Namiki black lacquer lever fill fountain pen circa 1930 £1,200-£1,800 (plus 26.4% BP*)
Taxidermy mounted moose head £1,500-£2,500 (plus 22% BP*)
Cortes, Edouard 2ct diamond ring with (French 1882- European Gemological 1969), pair of Laboratory certification oils on canvas, £7,000-£9,000 Paris, Le Soir and (plus 26.4% BP*) Porte St Denis £8,000-£12,000 (plus 26.4% BP*)
Fine quality Victorian Gillow & Co. kidney-shaped burr walnut pedestal Two consecutive lots of desk - Ex Gibbs family, purchased at Tyntesfield House Sale, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) for P.E. Gane, Fine pair of 19th century French ormolu mounted porcelain 5th December 1945 Bristol, important prototype armchairs vases decorated by Sèvres artist Eugène-Louis Sieffert £12,000-£18,000 (plus 26.4% BP*) £2,000-£3,000 each (plus 26.4% BP*) £4,000-£6,000 (plus 26.4% BP*)
BP*-Buyer’s Premium of 26.4% incl. VAT @ 20% | Lots marked ARR will be subject to an additional fee, for full details see table in ATG auction calendar
Fully illustrated catalogue can be viewed by visiting: www.clevedonsalerooms.com and www.the-saleroom.com/clevedon The Auction Centre, Kenn Road, Kenn, Clevedon, Bristol BS21 6TT | ( 0193 4) 8 3 0111 | [email protected]
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MEDALS, MILITARIA & COUNTRY PURSUITS to include The Damon Murrin Great Exhibition Collection Friday 11th June at 10am Approx. 600 lots to include military medals, honorific medals, edged weapons, antique firearms, uniforms and other related military ephemera, followed by an auction of sporting, hunting, horseracing, and fishing effects and taxidermy.
A 17th century Northern European rapier, circa 1660 £400-600 (plus 27% BP*)
A pair of 19th century percussion officer’s pistols by Mabson £600-800 (plus 27% BP*)
David Shepherd (1931-2017), The Prince of Rannoch Moor, A Boer War trio of medals, naming 78046 CPL WHLR: W.J. SAWYER. oil on canvas, 54 x 86cm 21ST BTY: R.F.A., King’s South Africa (1901-1902), SERJT: - WHLR: W.J. £8,000-12,000 (plus 27% BP*) SAWYER R.F.A. and 78046 W. Q. M. SJT: W.J. SAWYER R.F.A. £300-500 (plus 27% BP*) FINE ART & ANTIQUES WITH CLASSIC CARS & MOTORCYCLES Saturday 12th June at 10am Approx. 500 lots to include a collection of classic cars and motorcycles to include Edwardian and later models by Rolls Royce, Alvis, Morgan Plus 4, Jaguar, Sunbeam Alpine, 1938 MG VA Roadster etc, several early motorcycles to include Norton, a 1937 Velocette, 1960 Excelsior Consort and others for restoration, antiquarian books, English, Continental and Oriental ceramics, A platinum diamond solitaire ring, glassware, silver and plated wares, jewellery and watches, objets d’art, Asian works of art, pictures and prints, clocks, rugs and weight estimated as 4.78 carats carpets, and furniture and furnishings. £10,000-15,000 (plus 27% BP*)
A gent’s Patek Philippe Aquanaut stainless steel automatic calendar wristwatch £12,000-18,000 (plus 27% BP*)
A Regency Sir William Russell Flint RA (1880-1969), Baccante, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), John Boultbee (1753-1812), mahogany servery red, black and brown crayon, 19.5 x 31cm Scene near Bath, black chalk and grey- portrait of a water-spaniel within a landscape, £700-1,000 £1,200-1,800 (plus 27% BP*) wash on white paper, 155 x 19.2cm oil on canvas, 60 x 75cm (plus 27% BP*) £3,000-5,000 (plus 27% BP*) £6,000-8,000 (plus 27% BP*)
A 1915 Norton Model 1 Big Four 6 £7,000-9,000 (plus 12% BP*)
A 1959 Jaguar XK150 drophead coupe 3442cc £60,000-80,000 (plus 12% BP*)
A 1934 Alvis Speed Twenty SC Tourer by Vanden Plas £50,000-60,000 (plus 12% BP*) A pair of Victorian mahogany framed settees Viewing: £1,500-2,500 (plus 27% BP*) Medal, Militaria & Country Pursuits, Fine Art & Antiques at the Auction Centre: Thursday 10th 10am-7pm, Friday 11th 10am-7pm, sale day from 9am * Plus buyer’s premium of 27% (12% for classic cars Cars & Motorcycles at Hollow Road Farm, IP31 1SJ: and motorcycles) including VAT @ 20% Friday 4th 10am-5pm, Thursday 10th 10am-5pm, Friday 11th 10am-6pm, sale day 9am-1pm Live bidding available via our website (no surcharge) Free catalogues online or joint printed copies for £8 from reception (£10 by post) and thesaleroom.com (4.95% plus VAT)
The Auction Centre, 10 Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3AA https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/lacy-scott-and-knight Tel: 01284 748 625 Email: [email protected]
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PAGE 017 2495.indd 1 27/05/2021 13:00:24 Auction Reports Art market
Munnings and a marvellous sale Panoramic Somerset landscape helps Leicestershire saleroom to post highest auction total
by Alex Capon 2 Modern British pictures sold at Gildings’ (20% buyer’s premium) recent Fine & Decorative Arts and Antiques auction helped the Leicestershire saleroom to the highest total in its 41-year history. 1 The hammer total of £393,500 from 485 lots in Market Harborough on April 27 exceeded the previous house record by over £65,000, with the firm reporting more than 1000 online and phone bidders. “It was fantastic to see such consistently high results for a wide variety of Modern British art in this record-breaking sale,” said Gildings’ director and 20th century decorative art specialist Will Gilding. “Despite the fact that this was an online-only auction, the sheer volume 1. View from Selworthy by Sir Alfred Munnings – £105,000 at of bids we received on almost every Gildings. lot meant the atmosphere was electric 2. Barn Owl, 1994 by Geoffrey Dashwood – £12,000. on the day.” He pointed to increased demand 3. The High Fall (Ffrwd Fawr) by John Piper – £14,000. from both buyers bidding on the big- 4. Early Light, a colour screenprint by Bridget Riley – £11,000. ticket items as well as local artworks from places they know well, but also mentioned that it was still a struggle to ignite interest in the lower end, print. The original sold at Christie’s including areas such as Victorian 3 New York for $1.05m (£748,335) in watercolours. December 2000. Will Gilding described the View to a thrill combination of good subject, One work in particular stood out. desirable provenance and good The undeniable star of the show was 2019 and another £35,000 in July untouched condition to boot as “the a landscape by Sir Alfred Munnings 2016. holy trinity for a good result”. (1878-1959). A more valuable Somerset While Munnings paintings View from Selworthy was one of a The sheer volume of bids landscape sold again at Christie’s in featuring horses are typically more series of Somerset landscapes he we received on almost March 2015, making £130,000. valuable, this work was always painted looking towards Dunkery “ This 17¼in x 2ft 4in (44 x 72cm) bound to outscore its £6000-8000 Beacon, the highest point on Exmoor. every lot meant the signed oil on canvas at Gildings estimate. On the day it drew interest It was a subject he returned to on atmosphere was electric had plenty in its favour including from both UK and US-based buyers a number of occasions, especially despite being online only its market freshness and good with a mix of private and trade after he bought a cottage at nearby provenance. It had been exhibited buyers. Ultimately, after a lengthy Withypool which later became his at the Leicester Gallery in 1947 and exchange of phone bids, it fell to the permanent home during the Second 4 was given to Munnings’ friend Sybil UK trade at £105,000. World War. Harker as a token of appreciation The sum was one of the highest for Some of these panoramic works for her 13 years’ of mastership of a conventional Munnings landscape are considered among his best the Norwich Staghounds. It came (ie without a horse) in the last three landscapes, capturing the summer to auction as part of a local private years and appears to be the highest at sun, long shadows and undulating consignment with a direct family a UK regional sale since Woolley & hills, with smoother surfaces for connection to Harker. Wallis sold A huntsman and hounds for the rolling grassland and bold The artist had come to know £200,000 in June 2014. impasto to the trees and foliage in Harker through his frequent rides It was also the third highest- the foreground. A number are now with the hunt where he was given ever price for a picture at Gildings housed in Munnings Art Museum unofficial status as ‘artist to the (behind Maisons au Quai Vert, Bruges at Castle House, Dedham, but a few hunt’. Harker was also the subject by Auguste Herbin that made have emerged at auction in the last of one of his most famous paintings, £125,000 in 2017, and a 16th century five years, including two at Christie’s. Sibyl Harker on Saxa, with the Norwich Venetian painting sold at £205,000 One made £60,000 in December Staghounds which was made into a in 2007). 18 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Left: A View of Algernon Newton Godmersham Park Kent on a Cloudy Day takes to the country by Algernon Newton – £20,000 at David Algernon Newton (1880-1968) has been one of the Duggleby. stars of the season with both his urban and rural scenes attracting high prices in the regions in the last month. His large-scale A Dorset Landscape made a record £225,000 at Duke’s in Dorchester on May 13, just days after Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury had sold ‘Regent’s Canal, Paddington’ for £75,000 (both reported in ATG No 2493). Another work had appeared in North Yorkshire a few weeks before. Offered at Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby (20% buyer’s premium) on April 16 was A View of Godmersham Park, Kent on a Cloudy Day. Godmersham Park is famous for its Jane Austen connection. The property was inherited in 1794 by her brother Edward and her novel Mansfield Park is said to be based on Godmersham. A drawing of the house now was commissioned by the Marchioness of Normanby to English country houses and their furniture. appears in the background of the Austen portrait on the paint Mulgrave Castle near Whitby in the same year. Having descended through Dunning’s family to the £10 note. The 2ft 5in 3ft 10in (74cm x 1.17m) signed oil on vendor here, the auction house contacted the artist’s canvas had remained at Godmersham until it was sold great-grandson Sir Mark Jones for assistance with the Rural commissions at Christie’s sale of the house’s contents in June 1983. cataloguing. The painting will now be included in his Newton was commissioned to paint the estate in October The buyer back then was the late John Archibald Dunning forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Newton’s work. 1942 by a later owner, Robert Tritton, who paid the artist (1928-2019), a celebrated architect who emigrated to Estimated at £3000-5000, the picture attracted £262-10-0 for his services. At the time, painting country New York and completed numerous projects on Park Continued on page 20 estates was an important a part of Newton’s trade. He Avenue and Fifth Avenue. He was also an expert on
estate in Nottinghamshire. Piper waterfall Coming from an edition of 75, This picture made a large chunk of it was pitched at £4000-6000 – a the overall total at Gildings but a level in line with previous prices for Arts of India John Piper (1903-92) sketch also this print. But with multiple bidders made a useful contribution to the competing, it eventually came down Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers Tuesday 15 June, 1pm bottom line. to two London buyers battling it The signed 14¼ x 19¼in (36 x out before it made £11,000. The 49cm) pen, ink and chalk on paper of sum exceeded the £7000 fetched by the Ffrwd Fawr waterfall in Powys, another copy at Bonhams in June Wales, showed exactly the same 2020. view as a striking and colourful oil painting from 1943 that was around Dashwood owl double the size and sold for £66,000 While furniture, Chinese works of at Gildings in April 2016. It came art and medals also played a role in from a different source, however, a helping achieve the record total, so local private consignor who lived did a selection of modern sculptures. barely 15 miles from the property that In particular, a group of five had supplied the work in 2016. bronzes of birds by Hampshire- This work on paper had been based sculptor Geoffrey Dashwood acquired from a 1973 exhibition at (b.1947) drew interest with four the Gadbsy Gallery in Leicester and of them going over top estimate. came with a copy of the exhibition All selling to the same UK private catalogue signed by Piper himself. collector, they made a combined Described as ‘a fine example of £24,800. his naturalistic style’, it was pitched Top of the tree was Barn Owl, at £15,000-25,000 but sold slightly 1994, a lifesize signed bronze from A large processional scene, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, circa below this level at £14,000 and was an edition of 12 which had been 1750, opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper knocked down to the trade. purchased by the vendor (who was downsizing) from The Sladmore Estimate: £1000-£1500* Riley spotlight Gallery in July 1994. Another of Britain’s most celebrated Drawing admirers at the viewing 20th century artists, Bridget Riley and with the fact that it had been (b.1931), was represented by a signed exhibited at the Royal Academy Scan the QR code to view the auction catalogue limited edition screenprint from 1987 standing in its favour, it quickly www.roseberys.co.uk titled Early Light. The 21in (53cm) surpassed its £2000-4000 estimate square impression was a trademark and sold at £12,000 – an auction Email [email protected] for more information and brightly coloured piece by the record for the artist (source: Artprice 70/76 Knights Hill, London SE27 0JD | +44 (0) 20 8761 2522 op-artist that came from a deceased by Artmarket). n *Plus Buyer’s Premium +VAT (30% inclusive of VAT) antiquestradegazette.com 5 June 2021 | 19
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Far left: A September Sunset by Alfred de Bréanski Snr – £13,500 at David Duggleby. Left: The Lower Harbour Whitby, a watercolour by George Weatherill – £7300.
Algernon Newton urban value higher than the rural
estimates, raising a combined £39,400. The top price met with a good response and all 20 lots sold for a Continued from page 19 among them came for a trademark evening loch scene, a combined £31,420. 19¼in x 2ft 5in (49 x 74cm) signed oil on canvas titled A The most desirable picture on account of its large interest from multiple parties and eventually sold at September Sunset. size, composed handling and composition and its subject £20,000 to the London trade – a buy that looks good Even if the market for Bréanski’s highly detailed and matter, which appealed especially to local collectors, was value in light of the prices fetched elsewhere but perhaps atmospheric scenes is not what it once was, the £2000- The Lower Harbour Whitby. The 15½ x 22¾in (39 x 58cm) indicating that country houses fall some way behind 3000 pitch always looked somewhat undercooked and it watercolour, signed and dated 1877, carried a label on urban subjects in the Newton commercial pecking order. sold for £13,500 to a private buyer. the back for the Walker Galleries of Harrogate. Another artist well represented at the sale was Bringing a decent competition on the day against a Loch and harbour serenity George Weatherill (1810-90). On offer was a selection of £3000-5000 pitch, it was knocked down at £7300 to a Elsewhere at the Duggleby sale, four oil paintings by 18 coastal watercolours plus a couple of pencil sketches. Harrogate buyer. The price was toward the upper range Alfred de Bréanski Snr (1852-1928) were offered The works by the Staithes artist whose impressionistic of Weatherill’s prices and it joined six other views of separately and all sold well above their attractive style earned him the nickname ‘The Turner of the North’ Whitby in the top 10 auction results for the artist.
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PAGE 018-20 2495.indd 3 27/05/2021 14:42:06 W.H. LANE & SON AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS, ESTABLISHED 1934
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Coloured illustrated catalogues £7inc. postage. (All major credit cards accepted). or online at www.the-saleroom.com/whlane or www.ukauctioneers.com from 28th May Live bidding online at www.the-saleroom.com/whlane For further information please contact Guy Haskell W.H. Lane & Son, Jubilee House, Queen Street, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4DF Tel: 01736 361 447 or Email: [email protected]
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PAGE 021 2495.indd 1 28/05/2021 11:32:11 Auction Reports Books and works on paper
Chaucer and Newton make it big Famous Kelmscott edition and copies of unpublished letters both attract strong bidding
by Ian McKay 1884-95, Moscow first of a work whose Russian title translates as Inventory of the Kremlin Armoury. Two very famous but very different In 10 volumes it presents more than figures topped the price lists in a 500 photographic plates of weapons London sale held on the last day of and armour, both Russian and from March. other nations. Bid to £80,000 at Bonhams This was a work that made (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s £31,500 rather that the suggested premium) was one of 425 copies £3000-4000. of the celebrated 1896, Kelmscott Bid to £20,000 against an edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works. estimate of £4000-6000 was Arte Together with its famous engraved militaire des Chinois... of 1772. illustrations after Edward Burne- 1 Illustrated with 33 hand- Jones, this copy also boasted a coloured engraved plates of battle near-contemporary, William Morris- formations, armour, etc, this was a inspired, Art Nouveau-style binding 1. A busy spread from the 1896 Kelmscott edition of the works of Chaucer sold by first European edition of a work by by Paul Claessens. Bonhams at £80,000 and the binding made for it by Paul Claessens. the Chinese military strategist Sun A very different Isaac Newton lot, Tzu (544-496BC) in a translation by 2. A plate from the 1602, posthumously and commercially published edition of sold at £50,000, was a manuscript Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, a Jesuit Tycho Brahe’s Astronomiae instauratae mechanica sold for £25,000. notebook of some 100pp kept by missionary resident in Beijing. John Wickins. A friend, collaborator 3. One of 33 hand-coloured plates that illustrate a 1772 translation by Jean Joseph Other highlights of the and amanuensis, Wickins’ notes Marie Amiot, a Jesuit missionary, of an ancient work by the Chinese military Knightsbridge sale included an include transcripts of unpublished strategist Sun Tzu. It sold at £20,000. autograph leaf of the 16 lines of letters from Newton that comment 4. The magnificent binding of a 1675 first of David Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata that Robert Burns’ song ‘The Banks of on Hooke, telescopes, theology and made a record £37,000. the Cree’ (also known as ‘Here is much more besides. the Glen’) dated to 1794. It made £22,000. Oxford outlined Boasting a splendid Restoration Great price period binding of elaborately Sold at £28,000 was one of around gilt black goatskin from a so far 130 sets of a photographically unidentified workshop, a 1675 first of illustrated record of the Great David Loggan’s Oxonia illustrata sold Exhibition of 1851. for £37,000 – almost trebling the Running to four volumes, bound standing auction record. in red morocco gilt by Rivière, it Illustrated with 40 large engraved contains 154 mounted calotypes, views of Oxford and its colleges, all captioned on the mounts and Loggan’s major work was produced depicting both the exhibition in the city where he held the position building and prize-winning of engraver to the university, but exhibits. despite the Sheldonian imprint, said William Henry Fox Talbot had the cataloguer, it is thought to have granted the Exhibition Committee been printed in Loggan’s own house use of his newly developed in Holywell. photographic process, in return for This copy originally formed part of which he was presented with 15 of the library of Charles Finch, Earl of these special presentation copies. Winchilsea, Viscount Maidstone and 2 3 The work of Claude-Marie Ferrier Baron FitzHerbert of Eastwell (1672– and Hugh Owen, the images were 1712). It also bears a bookplate dated 40 copies that were distributed printed at Talbot’s recommendation 1704, the year he was appointed Lord privately by Brahe. The copy in the by his one-time assistant and Lieutenant of Kent. Knightsbridge sale, however, was collaborator Nicolas Henneman, who a first trade edition, commercially he had helped to establish his own Brahe observatory printed in Nuremburg in 1602, a photographic studio. Astronomiae instauratae mechanica is a year after Brahe’s death, but from Last but certainly not least, a famous illustrated description of the the same blocks and plates. It sold at mention for a first impression copy of astronomical instruments that filled a £25,000. Arthur Conan Doyle’s first published famous observatory which, with royal A couple of copies of that earlier, book, A Study in Scarlet of 1888. backing, Tycho Brahe established privately printed issue have made six- This copy of the first separately on the Danish island of Hven in the figure sums. published version of the tale (first 1570s. printed in Beeton’s Christmas Annual This great work was first printed Kremlin call to arms of 1897) was in an early 20th century in 1598 at Heinrich Rantzov’s castle Among the more unexpected binding of red morocco backed cloth, near Nuremburg, in an edition of 4 successes of the day was an but sold well at £28,000. n 22 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 022-23 2594.indd 1 28/05/2021 11:59:38 Send your books news to Ian McKay at [email protected]
British and Irish book auctions
Jun 1* 4 4 Signed WWII & other Military & Aviation Books, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 Jun 1-2* 4 7 lots Comics & Football Programmes, Cadmore Auctions - Potters Bar 01992 633373 Jun 2* 4 200-lot Book Section, including Skiing, Halls - Shrewsbury 01743 450700 Jun 2* 4 9-lot Book Section, Barry L Hawkins - Downham Market 01366 387180 Jun 2, 9 & 11* 4 Autograph Auctions, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 Jun 2-3* 4 31-lot Book Section, Golding Young & Mawer - Bourne 01778 422686 Jun 3 4 Books, Maps & Ephemera, TW Gaze - Diss 01379 650306 Jun 3* 4 31-lot Book Section, Busby - Bridport 01308 420100 Jun 3* 4 6 lots Maps & Books, Duggleby Stephenson - York 01904 393300 4 Above: New and Correct Plan of the Cities of London, Westminster Jun 3* Book Section, Greenslade Taylor Hunt - Taunton 01823 332525 4 and Borough of Southwark – £3100 at Reeman Dansie. Jun 3-4* 11 lots Books & Maps, Lindsay Burns - Perth 01738 633888 Jun 4* 4 6 lots Books & Ephemera, Durrants - Beccles 01502 713490 Jun 5 &6* 4 10 lots Maps & 15-lot Book Section, Canterbury Auction Galleries - Canterbury 01227 763337 London calling in Colchester ends Jun 6* 4 47-lot Book Section, Thimbleby & Shorland - Reading 0118 950 8611 ends Jun 6* 4 35-lot Book Section, Hogben Auction Galleries - Hythe 01303 813545 A New and Correct Plan of the Cities of London, Westminster and Borough of Southwark ends Jun 6* 4 9-lot Book Section, Elstob & Elstob - Ripon 01765 699200 sold at Reeman Dansie (20% buyer’s premium) of Colchester on March 9-10 was ends Jun 6* 4 Comics & Related Artwork, Comic Book Auctions - London 020 7424 0007 offered on behalf of an un-named charity. ends Jun 6* 4 Ephemera Section: Michael Kent’s 1937 Coronation Collection, Crow’s - Dorking 01306 740382 An example of Thomas Kitchin’s engraved and folding map of 1775, it showed ends Jun 6* 4 Ephemera & Book Sections, Southgate Auction Rooms - London 020 8886 7888 small losses, with holes at the folds and to the outer edges, and there was some Jun 7-9* 4 Sports Memorabilia, Graham Budd Auctions - London 020 8366 2525 discolouration, browning and staining. No printed elements were lost, said the ends Jun 8 Music Books & MSS, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 saleroom, but the estimate was set at just £150-250. Jun 8* 4 166-lot Book Section, Cotswold Auction Company - Cheltenham 01242 256363 It did much better than that – finally selling at £3100. Jun 8* 4 7 lots Children’s Books & Puzzles, Special Auction Services - Newbury 01635 580595 Jun 9 4 Online: Travel Books, Maps & Atlases, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 Jun 9* 4 8-lot Book & Map Section, Catherine Southon - Warlingham 020 8468 1010 Jun 9* 4 Erotic Magazines & Ephemera, Beeston Auctions - Beeston 01328 598080 Bentley successes at Le Mans Jun 9* 4 Book Section, Anthemion Auctions - Cardiff 029 2047 2444 Jun 10* 4 65 lots Books, Comics & Ephemera, Lockdales - Ipswich 01473 627110 Bentley owners and fanciers had the Jun 10* 4 Online: Stephen White Space Collection, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 opportunity to acquire some scarce Jun 11* 4 100-lot Book & Ephemera Section, Gentleman’s Library Sale, Bamfords - Derby 01332 210000 memorabilia in an April 7 sale at Bourne Jun 11* 4 5-lot Book Section, Lacy Scott & Knight - Bury St Edmunds 01284 748623 End Auctions (17.5% buyer’s premium). Jun 11-12* 4 5-lot Book Section, Thomas R Callan - Ayr 01292 267681 Top lot, at £3000, was one that offered Jun 12* 4 17-lot Book Section, Lacy Scott & Knight - Bury St Edmunds 01284 748625 three hardback booklets by RS Witchell 4 focusing on successes enjoyed by Bentley ends Jun 13 Antiquarian & other Books, 1818 Auctioneers - Milnthorpe 01539 566201 cars at Le Mans in the years 1927-29. Also ends Jun 15 Antiquarian Books & MSS, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 4 part of the lot were a programme for The Jun 15* Antiquarian & General Book & Map Sections, Capes Dunn - Heaton Mersey 0161 432 1911 4 British Double Hour Race of 1929 and a Jun 15* Typography Book Section, Maxwells - Stockport 0161 439 5182 4 Bentley car badge. Jun 16 Books, incl. a Scottish Private Library, Thomson Roddick - Carlisle 0131 440 2448 4 A 24pp Bentley brochure called The Blue Jun 16 Irish & other Books & Ephemera, Purcell - Birr +353 57 912 0270 4 Riband of English Motor Racing – The Story Jun 16-17 Books, Maps, Prints, Docs, Eng. Lit., Children’s, Dominic Winter - South Cerney 01285 860006 4 of the International Tourist Trophy Race Jun 17* 10-lot Map Section, Busby - Bridport 01308 420100 4 made £1600 and two copies of Bentley Plus ends Jun 18* Royal Memorabilia, incl. Historical Docs, William George - Peterborough 01733 667680 Four, a 42pp souvenir of that year’s 24-hour Le Mans event, realised £1800. Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger The seven lots on offer also included sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com a couple of special dinner menus with Above: produced to celebrate a Bentley Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales amusing illustrated covers, one of which, success at Le Mans in 1928, this menu that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: sold at £440, is shown here. sold at £440 in Buckinghamshire. Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected]
Offering is auction gold Sold for £3000 on March 11, as part of a Welcoming consignments for our forthcoming calendar: four-day sale held by Bellmans (22% buyer’s Travel Books, Maps and Atlases (Online) Wednesday 9th June premium) of Wisborough Green was what The Stephen White Space Collection (Online) Thursday 10th June was billed as a gold mounted rectangular book binding, probably European and 19th Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 24th June century but in the 18th century taste. Signed and Inscribed: A Gentleman’s Library Wednesday 7th July of Modern Literature Both back and front of the binding or book cover, which is a little over 4in (10cm) tall, Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 8th July are centred by crowned cartouches. Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 15th July Shown here is a richly dressed, kneeling Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 29th July figure with what appears to be a crown Above: gold-mounted rectangular resting on a cushion beside him, making book binding – £3000 at Bellmans. some form of offering. Catalogues and bidding at: forumauctions.co.uk
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Lot 34 A blue enamel and diamond flower brooch by Boucheron (part of a private collection of 13th June, 11am - 2pm Boucheron) - £3,000 - £5,000 14th & 15th June, 10am - 4pm Lot 45 A platinum single stone diamond ring - £20,000 - £30,000 Lot 152 A Gentleman’s Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT Master ‘Pepsi’ bracelet watch - £7,000 - £9,000 Please contact us to book an appointment Lot 215 J.W. Hayes (British 19th-20th Century), La Toilette du Soir - £800 - £1,200 Lot 261 A near pair of Coalport vases - £300 - £500 T: 01743 450 700 Lot 390 A Japanese bronze figure of a tiger, Meiji period - £300 - £500 Lot 402 An Indian, rosewood-type, octagonal occasional table (part of a collection of Ottoman and E: [email protected] Asian works)- £600 - £800 W: www.hallsgb.com/fine-art
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1. A Late 19th/Early 20th Century Spice Cabinet, in the form of a house € 700 - 1,000 Catalogue Now Online 2. In The Style of Gaspare Gabrielli, Early 19th Century ‘Idealised Southern Landscapes’ € 1,000 - 1,500 3. Christopher Moore RHA, Marble Bust of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket € 12,000 - 16,000 www.adams.ie 4. A Very Large Pair of English Silver Sauceboats, London c.1910 € 800 - 1,200 Tel: +353 (0)1 6760261 5. A French Early 19th Century 18K Gold ‘Boite a Mouches’ € 2,000 - 2,500 6. A Pair of Carved Alabaster Urns, 19th Century, in the Neoclassical style € 2,000 - 3,000 7. A Fine Regency Rosewood and Parcel Gilt Tilt-top Breakfast Table € 1,500 - 2,500 8. A Copper Windvane, in the form of a sailing ship € 400 - 600
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PAGE 025 2495.indd 1 27/05/2021 18:10:17 Collector Interview
Noted down in my address book New reference work details an illuminating form of gift that took off in the Victorian era
by Laura Chesters Left: John Wilson with examples of illuminated addresses John Wilson is a collector of from his collection illuminated addresses. They are (bottom left, to gifts, usually given to individuals as Alderman James a thank you for a service rendered. Hellyer in 1942, and They were popular in Victorian below to Thomas times but fell out of favour after the Hayes in 1909). mid-20th century. He has recently written a book on the topic to “share a wide variety of addresses and explore who each address was presented to, and why”.
ATG: How did you get the collecting bug and how long have you been collecting? John Wilson: I have been collecting things since I was a boy. Like many others, I collected stamps, trade cards and coins. I was also taken by my parents to jumble sales, and collected heraldic china (which we referred to as Goss china). My father enjoyed antiques and his interest passed to me. I had seen illuminated addresses in stately homes and noticed them particularly about 30 years ago. It was probably 20 years ago that a proper collection the quality of the calligraphy and on the wall and the rest are kept in a Which is your earliest one? developed. artwork can be poor. Secondly, I picture folder. It is always a challenge From 1844, to Sir Thomas Wilde look at condition. If the paper has to find space on a wall for a new one. from the London Vinegar Makers What drew you to illuminated addresses been handled a lot, or if it has been thanking him for helping to avoid a primarily? left near the sun or dampness, then Where do you find items to buy? tax on vinegar, as he was a lawyer. I I saw some in a stately home and either the surrounding mounts or Mainly auctions (I am a big user of don’t know exactly when illuminated admired them. I particularly liked the address can be damaged by thesaleroom.com), book dealers and addresses first began. them as they seem to combine both browning, spots or dirt. Thirdly, I antiques dealers. great beauty and interest. The beauty judge the price. Prices can be very Do you have any royal illuminated comes from skilled calligraphy variable. I would expect the price to What is the most you have spent on an addresses? enhanced with bright surrounding increase depending on the recipient item for your collection? Yes, I have addresses to The designs and pictures, often using (fame and title increasing the price), About £400. Duke of Connaught and Princess gold and silver. They were created the quality and the condition. Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, to be impressive. Each one is unique How large is your collection? two of Queen Victoria’s children, and represents a person and place How do you display the items and where? I have about 170. However, I also and other relatives such as Princess at a point in time. They give the Most illuminated addresses come in like original fine calligraphy in other Alice, Countess of Athlone, Queen opportunity to explore the social the form of a book and they live on forms. Victoria’s granddaughter. history surrounding an occasion. a bookshelf with other books. Some come as scrolls so live in tubes. The Have you considered selling any items When did you get the idea for your book? Can you remember your first item? remainder are single sheets. Some are from your collection? I have felt for some time that it is a I can’t remember the first, but one framed and hang No, not yet, but the time is likely to shame that beautiful items often sit in of the early ones that I really come, if my children continue to collections or museum vaults never liked was to Sir James Ritchie, show no interest. to be seen. Progressing my book bought from Gorringe’s [auction idea seriously began in 2019 and the house] in Lewes. The artistry was Is there one you are still looking for? writing, photos and design took place fabulous. No, but like most collectors, I am in 2020. drawn to seek new items. I am The book, Beauty in Letters: A What elements do you look for when particularly drawn to auctions Selection of Illuminated Addresses, was considering a purchase? of the contents of stately homes. published by the Unicorn Publishing I look for three things. Firstly, Every Victorian or Edwardian Group on April 29. This was my first the quality of the design. Some grand house would most likely book. Whether I write any more is illuminated addresses were have one or more illuminated likely to depend on how successful created by amateur artists, and address. this one is. n 26 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 026 2495.indd 1 28/05/2021 10:55:51 MAJOR FINE ART AUCTION OF WAREHOUSE & STUDIO CLEARANCE Online only - 8th & 9th June from 9am
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PAGE 027 2495.indd 1 28/05/2021 14:39:00 Previews Our weekly selection from salerooms
Fred Perry’s 1936 All England Club Moreton in Marsh firm Kinghams is selling the Wimbledon Tennis Championships Men’s Anthony J Cross collection of art pottery on June Singles winner’s gold medal is expected to 11-12. The 468-lot collection, assembled over half bring £14,000-18,000 at Graham Budd’s century, includes some exceptional lustre wares, Sporting Memorabilia sale in London on particularly those by the Pilkington factory. June 7-9. The most important piece in the auction is a 21in Perry defended his 1935 Wimbledon (53cm) high vase dating from 1908. Moulded in title against Gottfried von Cramm, winning relief with St George on horseback lancing a dragon comfortably 6-1, 6-1, 6-0. It would be the last with a maiden to the side, the vase incorporates an Wimbledon Men’s Singles title won by a British exuberant bronze and red iridescent glaze and is player until Sir Andy Murray in 2013. The medal was inscribed St George for England. last sold as part of The Fred Perry Collection at With pedigree provenance, it was exhibited at the Christie’s in 1997. 1908 Franco British Exhibition to much admiration grahambuddauctions.co.uk* and only two examples are known to have been produced by decorator Gordon Forsyth. Estimate £20,000-30,000. kinghamsauctioneers.com*
The sale at Thomas R Callan in Ayr on June 11-12 includes some fine pieces of artist-decorated Royal Worcester This silver Victorian claret worked with repoussé porcelain. Several pieces are pastoral scenes is engraved with an inscription decorated by Charles Baldwyn, best reading Presented to Mr Thomas Marshall by known for his ornithological subjects the members of the Lyceum Club as a slight and swans in particular. acknowledgement of their respect and of his This pair of 12½in (31cm) vases, valuable services as Honorary Secretary April 1853. shape No 1686, painted with four Hallmarked for James & Nathaniel Creswic, swans in flight, are date coded 1900. Sheffield 1852, it has an estimate of £400-500 at Estimate £3000-5000. Humbert & Ellis in Towcester on June 8. trcallan.com* humbertellis.com*
This Gu shaped vase decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous frieze of a prunus tree, flowers and birds dates from the early Kangxi or Transitional period, c.1670. The 17in (43cm) high vase, with a rim chip, has been in the vendor’s family for at least 100 years. At Batemans on Stamford on June 5 it is expected to bring £4000-6000. This Beilby type cordial glass, c.1765, enamelled to the batemans.com* ogee bowl with a fruiting vine in opaque, is set on a double series opaque twist stem. It is expected to bring £500-700 at Halls of Shrewsbury on June 16. fineart.hallsgb.com*
All framed within a 2ft 8in x 2ft (87 x 62cm) glazed frame, this collection of items of Crimean War interest relates to The King’s Royal Irish Hussars. It includes Victorian officer’s dress items such as a sabretache, two flap pouches, each with red cloth having embroidered Victorian crowned VR cipher with lion above and winged harp to the centre, shamrock wreath and battle honours, along with two cross This late 1960s stainless steel Omega belts, buckles and other items. Seamaster is from the series known as It was discovered in an attic the ’Soccer Timer’ on account of a ’45 room of a small Plymouth property. minutes’ sub-dial that is perfect for a The family was connected to a referee timing a football match. Clearly Colonel Moul of the British Army, it was named by US collectors. around 1880-1900. Featuring a brightly coloured dial and On June 9 at Plymouth hands, it has a guide of £1200-1800 Auction Rooms, the collection is at the Jewellery & Watches sale at estimated at £500-700. Roseberys London on June 8. plymouthauctions.co.uk* roseberys.co.uk* 28 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 028-29 2495.indd 1 27/05/2021 15:46:10 * BID LIVE AT thesaleroom.com Send your previews three weeks in advance of sale Place a max bid before the auction or bid to [email protected] live for these items on thesaleroom.com
This Victorian butcher’s The private collection of Sue Pearson, dealer in shop model made antique and vintage teddy bears and soft toys, c.1880 for Fernley Family is going under the hammer at Special Auction Butchers in Limehouse Services in Newbury on June 8. will be offered by She is parting with her collection which Catherine Southon in comprises 34 lots of teddy bears and soft toys an online auction in because she is downsizing. Surrey on June 9 where Shown here is Pricey, a large Farnell teddy it is estimated to fetch bear (c.1920) which was one of her earliest £12,000-18,000. purchases and is estimated at £1500-2000. The polychrome His name comes from a visit to an antiques decorated wood and shop where she discovered him with no price plaster diorama, which tag and when asking the price, the dealer measures 3ft 2in (94cm) sucked his teeth and said “He’s pricey madam,” wide, shows the shop and the name stuck. front on one side decked Pearson started out with a stall in Brighton with meat cuts and Market and she opened Sue Pearson Antique and Collectors Bears in The Lanes in 1982. carcasses while to the other side is an abattoir and figures engaged in butchery. specialauctionservices.com* It is being offered on behalf of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, who bought it in 2012. Prior to that, it was on loan to the Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, for over 30 years. Andrew Parker, master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, explains: “Over the last Items given to a south five years we have rebuilt and refurbished the historic Butchers’ Hall in Bartholomew Close Lakes family by Alfred and and sadly there is no longer anywhere to display this stunning model. Covid has hit us hard Betty Wainwright are up and we have been unable to fundraise as much as normal to support our objectives of for sale at Cumbrian firm charity, education and fellowship – so the money raised from this sale will help strengthen 1818 Auctioneers. the livery company in its time of need.” They have been catherinesouthon.co.uk* entered into the picture timed online sale ending on June 6 by the Duff family. Percy Duff was a Jaeger Le-Couture Atmos good friend and colleague clocks are regular visitors of Alfred, taking over from to the saleroom. However, him as borough treasurer this example comes in of Kendal in 1967. Percy its original box with two also took over the role of booklets. At Lockdales in treasurer of the Lakes and Lune Water Board from Wainwright in that year. Ipswich on June 9-10, it is The lots include a thank-you card, a set of Lakes and Lune Water Board illustrated guided at £500-800. accounts for 1973, a pension form, a signed Wainwright map which Alfred gave to Percy lockdales.com* and a signed copy of his Coast to Coast book. Shown here is a Wainwright pen and ink sketch of Bowness Bay – signed almost 40 years later by Wainwright and given by him to Mike Duff – estimated at £1500-2000. 1818auctioneers.co.uk*
The sale at Rowley’s of Ely on June 5 includes this super turbo Ecomobile designed by Arnold Wagner and produced by the Swiss company Peraves. Powered by a BMW K100 Bamford’s June 8 Toy, Juvenalia, Advertising engine, it operated much like a & Collectors sale in Derby includes this Carr motorcycle with stabilisers that are & Co mahogany shop display cabinet. It lowered and raised at the driver’s dates from the early 20th century, although instigation. It cruises at somewhere the faux boxes of biscuits are reproductions. between 100-120mph. Estimate £1500-1700. A total of 89 Ecomobiles were made bamfords-auctions.co.uk* between 1985-2005 with perhaps only five now in the UK. A number of the early models made an appearance on the BBC’s Top Gear in April 1988 and on Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorworld in January 1996 (a clip of a youthful Jezza being driven in a blue one by Wagner’s wife can be found on YouTube). The red vehicle on offer here was made in 1995 and was purchased, secondhand, by the current owner directly from Wagner in Winterthur in 2005. This lot is sold ‘as seen, as is and where is’ with an estimate of £3000-5000. rowleyfineart.com*
Tennants’ 20th century design sale in Leyburn on June 19 includes the customary array of oak This early 20th century peridot, pearl furnishings by Robert Mouseman Thompson and diamond bangle has a guide of (1876-1955) and his followers. £750-850 at Taylors of Montrose on Estimated at £1000-1500 is this order bowl and June 3. cover that can be confidently dated to c.1948 as it taylors-auctions.com* was made for Patricia Kirk of Kilburn (1927-2015) for her 21st birthday. tennants.co.uk* antiquestradegazette.com 5 June 2021 | 29
PAGE 028-29 2495.indd 2 27/05/2021 15:46:43 Two-Day Gentleman’s Library, Grand Tour & Auction of Curiosities
Over 1,200 Lots, including:~ An Thursday 10th & Friday 11th June 2021 Important Queen Anne Gold Online from the Derby Saleroom Coronation Medallion; A Rex Whistler Watercolour Bookplate Design, and Books with Rex Whistler Provenance and Artwork; Noël Coward Association Copies and Ephemera; Hooke’s Micrographia, London: 1667; Further Antiquarian Books and Modern First Editions; Manuscripts, Works on Paper, Prints, and Maps; Portions from Derbyshire and Yorkshire Wine Cellars; Boxes and Objects; Bronzes and Further Sculpture; Interior Decoration; Chinese and Pan-Asian Works of Art; Tribal Art and Ethnographica; Weapons; Medals, Coins and Tokens; Taxidermy and Natural History Specimens; Musical and Scientifi c Instruments.
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FURNITURE, CLOCKS, GARDEN & ARCHITECTURAL, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART, CERAMICS, SILVER & JEWELLERY Wednesday 16th June 10am
Lot 182. Art Deco bronze Lot 356. figure, 8½in high overall Carved Est. £600-800 sandstone (plus 21% BP*) gargoyle, probably late 19th century. Est. £150-250 (plus 21% BP*)
Lot 397. Large Black Forest mantel timepiece by Japy Frères. Est. £800-1,200 (plus 21% BP*)
Lot 264. Edgar Hunt, oil Lot 328. Brian Shields (Braaq), oil Lot 486. Victorian presentation burr walnut and marquetry davenport. Est. £3,000-5,000 (plus 21% BP*) Est. £3,000-6,000 (plus 21% BP*) Est. £900-1,400 (plus 21% BP*) VIEWING: Saturday 12th June 9am-12.30pm, Monday 14th June 9am-4.30pm, Tuesday 15th June 9am-4.30pm and morning of sale 9am-10am and lunchbreak
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This 3 day sale will feature over 1,700 fascinating pieces that forever capture those epic sporting moments of the past. Expect memorabilia from a vast range of sports including Football, Boxing, Tennis, Cricket, Golf, Racing and the Olympic Games.
Sports memorabilia offers the opportunity to hold a piece of history that has defined a key moment in your life. A piece of history that allows you to relive those spine tingling, edge of your seat, heart thumping moments in Lot 412 sport and reimagine them in your own home. Muhammad Ali signed Adidas boxing boot Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
IMPORTANT IRISH ART AND SCULPTURE AUCTION Tuesday 22nd June Dublin, Ireland An auction of exceptional quality including major works by:
Jack Yeats (2) Jack B Yeats RHA, 1871-1957 THE GOOD GREY MORNING (1948), Oil on canvas, 20" x 27" (51 x 68.5cm), signed. Paul Henry €200,000 - 300,000 Roderic O’Conor Louis le Brocquy Camille Souter James Sinton Sleator Basil Blackshaw
John Shinnors Roderic O’Conor, 1860-1940 FLOWERS AND FRUIT (C.1921), Oil on canvas, 28¾" x 23¾" (73 x 60cm), signed. John H Campbell €80,000 - 120,000 F E McWilliam Patrick O’Reilly Full catalogue at Paul Henry RHA, 1876-1958 Irish Art Auctioneers & Valuers SUNNY DAY, CONNEMARA (C.1932), Oil on board, 14" x 16", signed. www.deveres.ie €70,000 - 100,000 deVeres Art Auctions, 35 Kildare Street, Dublin 2. PSRA Licence No. 002261.
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From darkness comes light Exhibition concentrates on John Craxton works before he moved to Greece after the war
by Laura Chesters
John Craxton (1922-2009) was a great hope for British painting in his youth but he moved overseas and spent 60 years away, mainly in Greece. He made his name in 1944, aged just 21, with a show at the Leicester Galleries. Despite finding fame, he left England for Europe as soon as he could after the war. Osborne Samuel Gallery is now showing John Craxton: Drawn from Darkness: Paintings and Drawings 1940- 1946 focusing on his work produced before 1946 (through the war years 1 2 and up to when he left for Greece). due to follow the gallery’s 2018 show Prior to travelling abroad, John Craxton in Greece – The Unseen Craxton had been befriended by 1. Dancer in a Landscape by John Craxton, 1943, Works (the first major selling show Graham Sutherland (1903-80) pencil, charcoal, crayon and goache on paper, of works by Craxton for 25 years). whom he accompanied on trips to priced at £95,000 (plus Artist’s Resale Right) by However, the pandemic caused Pembrokeshire in Wales. Osborne Samuel. inevitable delays. The gallery said this period 2. Shepherd in Landscape, c.1942, gouache and Gallery joint founder Gordon focused on “arcadian pastoral ink on paper, available for £48,000 (plus Artist’s Samuel said the trustees of Craxton’s landscapes of dreamers and poets”. Resale Right). estate, his partner Richard Riley and his biographer Collins had always Means of escape 3. The cover of the new biography John Craxton: intended to show the earlier ‘Neo- The show features around 40 works A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins. Romantic’ works (a tag that Craxton including Dancer in a Landscape (1943) hated, preferring ‘Arcadian’) and “if and Shepherd in Landscape (c.1942). the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions Craxton said later in life: 3 had continued we would have waited “Between 1941-45, before I went to the wealthy collector Peter Watson until we were able to welcome Greece, I drew and occasionally (1908-56). visitors to the gallery, even in lesser painted landscapes with shepherds The artist’s biographer Ian Collins numbers”. or poets as single figures… they were said that when Craxton left for Thankfully the launch of a my means of escape and a sort of Craxton was off at Greece in 1946 he was “off at last Collins’ new biography John Craxton: self-protection. A shepherd is a lone on his journey into light, warmth, A Life of Gifts was also delayed to figure... I wanted to safeguard a “last on his journey colour and joy. But, drawn from ensure the two events coincided. world of private mystery.” into light, warmth, darkness, the works he left behind The exhibition runs until During these years, Craxton was colour and joy glimmer in glory.” June 25 at the gallery in Dering friends with Lucian Freud (1922- The current exhibition has been Street, Mayfair, and online. n 2011) and both were supported by long in the planning and was always osbornesamuel.com
The web shop window Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
This Elizabeth I joined oak sycamore and fruitwood coffer, West Country, c.1570, is among the stock being offered by new dealership Houlston. It is priced at £8950. The new business has been set up by former Bonhams’ specialist David Houlston, specialising in oak furniture and works of art, and his wife Carolyn, previously a textiles specialist at Phillips. Based in the Cotswolds, near Stow-on-the-Wold, the couple will deal in period oak, vernacular furniture, textiles, metalwork and related works of art. David will also continue to operate as a consultant, independently from this business, for a range of companies, institutions and private clients.
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Chinese art expert makes his mark with new book Asian art specialist Gerald Davison has He adds: “Inscriptions and marks of “An interesting aspect of my books Left: Gerald released his fourth and final book and it is varying types appeared on Chinese pottery is that the old editions get advertised at Davison. a heavyweight work – literally. and porcelain with increasing frequency fantastic prices on eBay and Amazon for Weighing in at nearly 1kg, Marks on from the Tang Dynasty (618-906CE) through example, often changing hands for many Chinese Ceramics has already been well to the Republic in the early years of the hundreds of pounds,” he said. received. 20th century” and that his book is the “only “One of my small 1987 books that Davison decided to publish this book reference work in any language to deal originally sold for £10 is currently himself through his website rather than exhaustively with the entire range of these advertised at £425! The reality is that through international distributors as very diverse marks”. each new publication has made earlier before. Across 400 pages there are illustrations editions obsolete. “I opened the website without fanfare to of 4200 individual marks. “Within days of my new 2021 book make sure it was functioning well and the being sold, copies started appearing first print run sold out in under four weeks,” Highly recommended on eBay at very inflated prices. I now he says. A larger run of the book is now Colin Sheaf, global head of Asian art at advertise the same book on eBay at available. Bonhams, has already reviewed the book. the normal price to try to stem this Davison has been a dealer for 60 years He said it is: “Hugely expanded, crucially profiteering. (starting when he was 18) and he wrote his extended to cover 20th century ceramics “But the new reprint even appeared first book in 1987. He followed this in 1994 for the first time, and handily cross- Davison hopes his new book will be as for sale on eBay before we had sold and 2010 (as well as several reprints of referenced for maximum usefulness. This popular as his other publications but was any and it turned out they were stolen each one) and said his “latest book brings is one of the very few reference books surprised to find buyers are so keen that from the binders and the police are now to a conclusion my research and unique that are genuinely essential for anyone there has even been criminal activity to investigating.” work on the subject”. interested in Chinese-taste ceramics.” secure the work. chinesemarks.com
5 Questions
Anne Swift and sort of ‘involved’ from the her son Phil run beginning, in that you get Swift Antique Lace, taken along to markets, trading from a auctions, etc. It was only stall in London’s recently that I realised I’d Portobello Road picked up quite a lot of antiques market. knowledge about antique Anne has been selling lace, bobbins and lace from my mum without actively textiles for the past four decades and her learning it, so I thought I would have a go! son Phil joined gradually. He now runs the business following Anne stepping 3 What is one challenge that back from the day-to-day operations. Portobello Road dealers face? Pendant portraits by Andrea Appiani. Left: Napoleon Bonaparte with Genius of Victory. They also trade via Instagram and eBay. The main challenge has been Right: Josephine Bonaparte Crowning the Myrtle tree. @swift_antique_lace longstanding – exacerbated by the pandemic. It is that many premises 1 Anne, when and where did you formerly home to antique dealers (either Napoleon and Josephine reunited start dealing? in galleries or in shops) have been turned It began with the art market along the into cafes, chain stores, estate agents In the year commemorating 200 years French Revolutionaries. In 1800 Wycombe railings at Green Park in the late 1970s, etc. Portobello antiques market is an since the death of Napoleon, pendant distributed a print of the painting of before moving to Portobello market in ecology under threat. Unless the antiques portraits of Napoleon and Josephine Napoleon as propaganda, advocating the the early 1980s, where I began to sell section of Portobello Road is given some Bonaparte have been reunited after more young general’s success.” antique textiles. sort of protected status (perhaps like than a century apart. The portrait of Napoleon (Napoleon Savile Row), I can’t see how the trend can They are now on show at dealership Bonaparte with Genius of Victory) is on loan 2 Phil, when did you become be halted. Robilant+Voena’s Envisioning an Empire: to the exhibition from the Earl of Rosebery involved in the business and why? Napoleon and Josephine reunite exhibition (Sotheby’s Harry Dalmeny), enabling the As the child of an antique dealer, you’re 4 One object you couldn’t do in London running until June 27. reunion of the pendants. It has been part without? The portraits by Italian neoclassical of the collection at Dalmeny House since Being on a stall outside in all weathers, a painter Andrea Appiani (1754-1817) were 1885. Left: Flemish tarpaulin is pretty essential. somehow separated in the past 200 The Josephine portrait is believed to bobbin lace, years. Completed in 1796 in Milan, the pair have been inherited by Earl Wycombe’s made in the 5 What sort of buyers look for are believed to have come to the UK the widow, subsequently owned by Dowager 17th century, antique lace? following year. Marchioness of Lansdowne, then in a private 13½ x 8½in It’s a mixture of collectors, dealers and The exhibition is curated by Carolyn collection before being sold at Christie’s in (35 x 22cm), designers. Antique lace is something of a H Miner, who said: “The Napoleon, and October 1999 as ‘Portrait of a lady’ when it priced at £70. rarefied market. likely the Josephine, were brought to Great was bought by Duchess Salviati. Britain by Earl Wycombe soon after they Josephine Bonaparte Crowning the were painted. Myrtle tree is on offer from Robilant+Voena If you would like to be featured in 5 Questions, please contact “A Whig politician, he hoped Bonaparte with an asking price of £850,000. [email protected] would limit the intemperance of the robilantvoena.com antiquestradegazette.com 5 June 2021 | 33
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16 June at 11am Live Online Viewing By Appointment
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Please note that following Government guidelines regarding corona virus safety measures, and in line with the auctioneering industry, this is an online-only auction, with the added convenience of telephone bidding and the facility to leave commission bids, please do contact us to discuss further. Browse our fully illustrated online catalogue with multiple images, descriptions, information, and condition reports, please do contact us if you require any further details regarding any lots you are interested in bidding on. We have created customer safe-zones in our saleroom for viewings by appointment only of specific lots you wish to inspect in greater detail, please contact us to make a booking.
George Wajewicz (1897-1965), ‘Tanganyika’, Part of a good collection of Asian works with lion and lioness, oil on canvas of art in this sale
‘Pandora’, life size garden statue on plinth base (part of a large collection of garden items in this sale)
Pair of 19th century Maltby & Co terrestrial and celestial table globes, c.1847-1850 Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp, 1592
The Old Granary, Waterloo Road, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 3JQ Instagram: @antiquemaps Tel: 01580 715857 Email: [email protected] Tel. 020 7491 0010 alteagallery.com Full catalogue available online from Friday 23rd April www.bentleysfineartauctioneers.co.uk
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PAGE 034 2495.indd 2 27/05/2021 18:25:30 CHARTERHOUSE Auctioneers & Valuers June Two-Day Auction Coins, Militaria & Stamps - Thursday 10th Clocks & Scientific Instruments -Thursday 10th Model Cars, Trains & Toys - Thursday 10th Furniture, Antiques & Interiors - Friday 11th Viewing Tuesday 8th 9am-5pm and Wednesday 9th 9am-5pm subject to any restrictions
Lt Col F.O. Lewis medals Raised work panel
Fabian Robin longcase clock Oyster veneered chest
Live The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BS Telephone 01935 812277 [email protected] www.charterhouse-auction.com or www.the-saleroom.com/charterhouse TOOVEY’S Asian & Islamic Ceramics & Works of Art – Thursday 10th June Fine Art & Decorative Pictures – Wednesday 23rd June Antique & Period Furniture, Edged Weapons & Firearms, Militaria & Medals, Collectors’ Items, Works of Art, Light Fittings & Rugs – Thursday 24th June Silver, Plate & Jewellery – Wednesday 30th June Catalogues online a week before each sale at www.tooveys.com and www.the-saleroom.com/tooveys Viewing and attendance at the sales by appointment only – to arrange please call +44 (0) 1903 891955 10th June, Lot 1100 ~ A Chinese porcelain Online bidding at www.the-saleroom.com/tooveys plaque, late Qing dynasty, 38cm x 25.3cm
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10 June, 2pm A very fine English erotic ‘cushioned’ enamel plaque of a couple making love, probably South Staffordshire [c. 1760] Estimate: £1,500 – 2,000 Get in touch [email protected] Visit chiswickauctions.co.uk
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Rudolf Bauer. Presto IX. 1917. Oil on canvas. 149.5 × 198.5 cm. Hans (Jean) Arp. Fruit Préadamite. 1962. White marble. H 58.4 cm. Keith Haring artwork © Keith Haring Foundation
Gerhard Richter. Abstraktes Bild. 1986. Oil on canvas. 200 × 160 cm. Keith Haring. Andy Mouse - New Coke. 1985. Acrylic on canvas, not on a stretcher. 304.8 × 304.8 cm.
Mother-of-pearl and gold cigarette case, by Fabergé, St. Petersburg, ca. 1890.
Modern & Contemporary Art Fabergé and Objets de Vertu Miniature roulette wheel, by Fabergé. Compulsory auction St Petersburg, 1846 – 1920. Ø 5 cm.
Zurich, 22 June 2021 Agate scent bottle / seal gnome figure, by Fabergé. Moscow, circa 1900. H 7.4 cm.
Koller Auctions Hardturmstrasse 102 · 8031 Zurich Tel. +41 44 445 63 63 · [email protected] www.kollerauctions.com
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Monumental-sized Bruno Liljefors John Constable John Piper Frederico Bartolini
Continental silver Carved jade and amber Carved jade Carved jade and enameled silver Large Orientalist and enamel clock bronze
English silver Gold mounted and Carved coral Jean-Thierry Bondt Kangxi Rolex Daytona enamel carved vessel Cosmograph
Bagues-style tables Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz Thomas Rowlandson Francis Cotes de la Pena
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Mainz ‘masterpiece’ example Distinctive bureau cabinet form could have been intended for presentation to the guild
by Jonathan Franks
£1 = €1.15 From the 1730s onwards, 2 cabinetmakers in Mainz developed a distinctive form of bureau cabinet, known as a Cantourgen. Around the middle of the century, ébénistes in 3 the city were required by the guild to present such a technically complicated piece of furniture as their masterpiece. On April 14, an intricately inlaid walnut Cantourgen with gilt bronze mounts surprised the auctioneers at Neumeister (27% buyer’s 1. Open and closed views of an premium) in Munich by going well Aeolian Vocalion gramophone over estimate to take the top price. which sold for €16,000 (£13,915) Through comparisons with other at Auction Team Breker in Cologne. known pieces, the 7ft 6in (2.29m) 2. Meissen coffee pot which took high bureau was attributed to €43,000 (£37,390) at Neumeister. Ulrich Sedlmayr and was possibly 3. Cantourgen or bureau cabinet even his masterpiece. The guide of sold by Neumeister for €100,000 €20,000-30,000 reflected previous 1 (£86,955). market values, but the hammer fell at €100,000 (£86,955), bid by a south German collector. Another of the highlights came buyer’s premium) in Cologne sends forth; living, vibrant, with all from the same source – a carefully on April 24 was the result for an the beauty undimmed that is graven composed Munich private collection. Aeolian Vocalion gramophone from in the record.” It was a 9in (24cm) high Meissen the early 1920s. An extra attraction of the example coffee pot from c.1735. The landscapes The standard model had been in Cologne was the decoration of the and harbour scenes on both sides were introduced by the Aeolian Hall ornate case, which is in the shape probably painted by Johann Georg Company in London in 1912 and the of a Chinese temple, painted with Heinze and Anselm Bader. manufacturers left no doubt that they motifs from traditional Chinese German collectors did their best, were convinced of the quality of their legends on three sides. but at the close, it was a collector product. It came complete with a from Shanghai who placed the In an advertising brochure from corresponding stand and was given a winning bid of €43,000 (£37,390), 1914 one could read: “How smooth, starting price of €5600. double the upper estimate. how wonderfully true are these International bidders from around tones... this marvellous phonograph the world joined in until the hammer Vibrant sounds has but reflected them through fell at €16,000 (£13,915). The buyer One of the high notes at the sale held intervening time. All the voices of was a Californian institution with by Auction Team Breker (21.8% the orchestra this Aeolian-Vocalion Chinese connections. n
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Lake Como at dusk Cathedral connection
One of the highlights at Quittenbaum’s sale in Munich on June 8 is a Gallé vase from the period Over many decades, a ‘Viennese Cosmopolitan’ 1920-36. After the death of its founder Emile Gallé in amassed a collection of works of art which are 1914, the Établissements Gallé in Nancy continued now being sold in the second auction of Tiberius to produce glass and ceramics under the direction of in Vienna on June 21. The company, run by the chief designer Auguste Herbst. two experienced local dealers, held its auction The multi-layered etched vase, known as Le Lac premiere in March. de Côme le soir, has a special place in the oeuvre of One of the stars of the collection is a late 15th the company. It is the only named Italian landscape ever century, 14in (35cm) high alabaster figure of the portrayed by the firm and indeed one of very few non- Seated Madonna, Sedes Sapientiae (Throne of French subjects that is identifiable. On one side is a view of Wisdom). The figure, which shows traces of Lake Como and the shore with a peacock in the foreground; on the other the ruin of polychromy, is attributed to the sculptor Gil de Siloé and workshop. He was born either a castle with the setting sun. in Orleans or Antwerp, c.1440, but his claim to fame are the works of art he created for It is generally thought that the design dates to 1919 at the earliest and it was the cathedral of Burgos in northern Spain at the behest of Queen Isabella of Portugal. kept in production to the mid-1930s. There were five different sizes, ranging from Furthermore, he was commissioned in the late 1480s by Isabella of Castile, the 8in (20cm) to 20in (52cm), four of which were of ovoid form, the largest shaped queen’s daughter, to design a magnificent, star-shaped alabaster tomb for her parents. like an amphora. The colour scheme also varies, as do numerous details of the Her father King Juan II of Castile had died in 1454; her mother survived until 1496. landscape. The vase in Munich is 14in (36cm) high and is expected to bring The tomb – the carving of which shows many similarities to the Madonna on offer €14,000-16,000. in Vienna for €60,000-80,000 – is housed in the Caruja de Miraflores, a Carthusian quittenbaum.de monastery just outside Burgos. tiberius-auctions.com
Hopes for a chain reaction Artist Noterman goes ape Along with his famous Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and A south German collector George Frederic Watts, John Roddam Spencer- is parting with a painting Stanhope was often influenced by the tales of classical by Zacharie Noterman, antiquity and the paintings of Italian old masters. which is coming under In the case of his 4ft 3in x 21in (1.28m x 53cm) the hammer at Metz in canvas Andromeda he found his literary inspiration in Heidelberg in a sale held on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and his style of painting in the June 18-19. works of Sandro Botticelli. The Belgian artist was After her mother Cassiopeia had annoyed born in Ghent, c.1820, and Poseidon, by claiming that Andromeda was more died in Paris, where he beautiful than the Nereids, the sea god had her spent much of his career, chained to a rock as a sacrifice for a sea-monster. in 1890. He received his This is the scene portrayed by Spencer-Stanhope. initial training from his It is one of two versions of the subject he executed, elder brother, before enrolling at the Académie royale des beaux-arts d’Anvers the other, with a different background, came under (Antwerp). After setting up his own studio in Paris, he soon became part of the the hammer at Sotheby’s in November 2013. The artistic establishment, exhibiting at many of the Paris Salons between 1859-87. story of Andromeda had a happy end: Perseus, the His subject matter was perhaps limited, but apparently very lucrative. Nearly son of Zeus, discovered the enchained damsel, slew all of his works were depictions of animals, in particular monkeys engaged in the monster and took her as his wife. human activities. In this 16 x 20in (41 x 52cm) canvas, mounted on wood, three Karl & Faber in Munich is hoping for an equally monkeys in an inn are playing cards. It was painted in 1880 and is typical of successful outcome on June 16, when it offers the Noterman’s take on popular Flemish Old Master interiors. Along with all the other painting from a European collection with a guide of lots in the sale, the painting is being offered without reserve. €80,000-120,000. metz-auktion.de karlundfaber.de
Take your opportunity to own a game of chance
Wendl in Rudolstadt is holding its 100th sale on June 23-26 and among the unusual collectables is a 19th century game of chance, known as Kakelorum, from c.1830. The origins of the name are unknown. It was probably invented in Oberammergau in the 1780s and later found favour in many Alpine regions, but also as far as Alsace. As a rule, sets were made of carved and painted wood. The game was played by dropping a small ball onto the spiral chute in the hollow figure on the edge, often depicting an oriental or Indian, wearing a turban. The ball rolls down the chute and lands in one of the numbered wells in the wooden base. Whether it was originally intended as a children’s toy is not known, but the Kakelorum certainly established itself as a means of gambling. Punters could try to predict the landing point of the ball, not unlike roulette. Its use was so widespread in the mid-19th century that it was sometimes prohibited by the authorities. Today’s collectors have nothing to fear; they are, however, expected to put up at least €390. auktionshauswendl.de
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Barbarity brings faith for Arthur Segal Portrait influenced by Caravaggio
Having spent seven Among the many paintings on offer at the Old Master sale held by Dorotheum in years in Berlin, the Vienna on June 8 are numerous works that document the vast artistic influence of Romanian artist Arthur Caravaggio, not only on Italian painters. Segal left Germany Nicolas Régnier was born in the Spanish Netherlands in the 1580s. His first teacher at the outbreak of the was Abraham Janssens in Antwerp, who had been working in Rome during Caravaggio’s First World War and lifetime and passed on his enthusiasm for the painter to his young pupil, who later moved to Ascona, the followed his example and travelled to Italy. There he went by the name Niccolò Renieri. Swiss town popular After some time in Parma, he moved to Rome, where he lived and worked with many with many early 20th of the Dutch and Flemish artists who congregated in the city and painted in the style century avant-garde of Caravaggio. Régnier was later artists as a safe active in Mantua, Bologna and harbour in wartime. above all Venice, where he also Disillusioned by the set up shop as an antiques and art barbarity of the war, dealer. He died there in 1667. Segal found faith and The painting on sale in Vienna, in 1915 executed three a 2ft 4in x 22in (70 x 57cm) canvas religious frescoes on a titled Portrait of a Nobleman as wall in Ascona’s cemetery building. Soon afterwards, he created the first of his multiple Aeneas, shows the subject bearing paintings, dividing the composition into several fields, each with a smaller motif. a branch of golden laurel, which On June 18, Ketterer in Munich is selling a 2ft 11in x 3ft 7in (89cm x 1.1m) canvas in was sacred to Proserpine, the a similarly painted frame, which combines a multiple composition with a biblical theme. Queen of the Underworld. It can Cain and Abel, which is after all the original story of human conflict, was painted in be dated to Régnier’s Venetian 1918 and condenses the story of the two brothers into four scenes. Until 1970, when period and has a solid provenance. her legacy was auctioned by Sotheby’s in London, Cain and Abel belonged to Segal’s In the 17th century it belonged to daughter Marianne. Since then, it has been in an unnamed private collection. the patrician family Antelminelli It is now expected to bring €60,000-80,000. and has passed by descent to the kettererkunst.de current consignor. Estimate €120,000-180,000. dorotheum.com
NEXT AUCTION: Works of Art, Antiquities Antique Arms and Armour from all over the world Photography via a painted focus
The early 20th century German photographer August Sander has a legendary June 21 - 22 status, not least for his long-running series of documentary portraits, published under the title People of the 20th Century. He was also a prolific collector of works ONLINE AUCTION by the numerous artists he knew in Cologne and the surrounding area. On June 10, Grisebach in Berlin is selling paintings from Sander’s collection which have not been on the market since he acquired them in the 1920s. One of the highlights is Franz Wilhelm Seiwert’s Wandbild für einen Fotografen (Wall Painting for a Photographer), a 3ft 7in x 5ft 1in (1.1 x 1.55m) canvas, painted for Sander in 1925, which incorporates the depiction of a plate camera with bellows and the Further Information: inverted view of a person on the right of the composition. The small central figure in a white circle of light is also shown as seen through the lens of a camera. www.hermann-historica.com For many decades, the wall painting had pride of place in Sander’s Cologne house. The guide now is €400,000-600,000. Hermann Historica GmbH ❘ 85630 Grasbrunn /Munich ❘ Germany grisebach.com
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A Gilt Bronze Mounted Patinated Copper Two-Handled Vase by Alexis Decaix, Designed by Thomas Hope for his Duchess Street Mansion, London, circa 1802-1803 Property From The Estate of David D. Denham, Tulsa, Oklahoma Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
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th &Coll Friday,Art 18 June, 10:00am ect Saturday, 19th June, 10:00am Viewing from Monday, 14th, till Thursday, 17th June 2021, 10:00am - 6:30pm Art estate Hans Soller (1933-2011), Chelsea Gallery of Switzerland, Zurich H=225 cm, W=184 cm, D=66 cm 16,5 x 13,5 cm Collection of 200 items of excellent Meissen porcelain 18th-20th century
20 x 25,5 x 18 cm
Lam Qua (1801-1860) attrib. oil on canvas
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H=32 cm H=32 cm
A pair of portetorchères, Italy 19th century H=43 cm, gilt wood, carved with paintwork D=23 cm W=30 cm H=each 160 cm Cabinet, colonial Spanish, Mexico 18th cent., walnut/ivory Paris 14th cent. H=10,5 cm ivory 48 x 66 cm
Zacharie Noterman (c. 1820-1890), oil/canvas Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), earthenware, Johannes Huibert Prins (1737-1806) attrib. 41 x 52 cm dat. 5.6.(19)52, 54 x 34 cm metz-auktion.de Wakizashi, Japan 19th century, L=65 cm
H=82 cm, L=235 cm, W=93 cm
India 1860, teak/brass England 17th cent., oak Refectory table, England 17 th century, walnut Four chairs, Portugal 17th century, walnut, carved Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 3-5 • D-69117 Heidelberg • Tel. 0049 - 6221 - 23571 • Email: [email protected]
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THE sWEDisH ANDrÉE POLAr EXPEDiTiON 1897 — TWO uNPuBLisHED DiAriEs BY AXEL sTAKE
We are offering several interesting objects that belonged to Axel Stake (1868-1901), the chemical engineer who designed and managed the hydrogen machine that was used to fill the balloon “Örnen” (=The Eagle) in S. A. Andrée’s famous and fatal Swedish expedition to the Arctic in 1897. Of considerable interest are his two handwritten diaries for the years 1896 and 1897, both unpub- lished and therefore of great value for the research of the expedition.
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Julia Beck “Mirroring de l’eau sur étang avec des nénuphars”. Oil on canvas, 41 x 124.5 cm. An ormolu mantel clock Estimate: € 150 000 - 200 000 Estimate: € 20 000 - 30 000
Aleksej Danilovich Kivshenko A Fabergé gold, enamel and nephrite boxe Alexei Petrovich Bogoliubov Estimate: € 30 000 - 50 000 Estimate: € 20 000 - 30 000 Estimate: € 40 000 - 60 000
A trompe l’oeil painting, ca. 1750 Edvard Munch Asian Sale Estimate: € 25 000 - 30 000 Estimate: € 30 000 - 40 000 More than 160 lots
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The Grand Saloon of a connection with one of the great was known as Ossian’s Hall on account of a ceiling names of the Tudor era. painted by Alexander Runciman in the 1770s with scenes Assuming the form of a crowned 3 from the Poems of Ossian. leopard’s head, it bears some Sadly, Penicuik was reduced to a shell by fire in 1899 similarity to the Boleyn beast which 4 Renowned Pre-Raphaelite but the large Indo-French carpet that adorned the saloon adorned the palaces of Henry VIII floor survived. Originally brought back from Pondicherry from 1533-36, the period in which beauty caught on camera by Edward Clerk (1824-1917) of the 4th Madras Cavalry as he was married to his second wife 6 a gift for his father, it was sold by his descendants at Lyon Anne. In a condition consummate 7 Original photographs of a well-known Julia Margaret Cameron (her maternal with age, it came for sale in Stansted Pre-Raphaelite beauty – the muse of aunt and godmother), she also sat & Turnbull in Edinburgh on February 11. See page 6 Mountfitchet on March 30-31 from a William Holman Hunt and the mother of for the sculptor Thomas Woolner and vendor who had owned it for around 2 Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell – sold Holman Hunt – who both proposed 40-50 years. Highlights from the Sworders Fine Interiors sale on March 30-31. for £2600 at Sworders (25% buyer’s marriage when she turned 18. It was Estimated at £800-1200, it raised premium). said that Holman Hunt only married his Pick plenty of interest before selling to the 1. Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica wares totalled £54,500. The two albumen prints of Julia second wife, Edith Waugh, because she of the Prinsep Stephen (1846-95) had been resembled Julia. UK trade at £12,000. 2. Christopher Moore 1829 marble bust – £10,500. Another example of British (or guided at £500-800 as part of the The first of the two photographs week possibly American) vernacular craft 3. George III satinwood Pembroke table – £5000. Stansted firm’s Out of The Ordinary shows Julia aged 11, together with her to eclipse estimate was a fine marine 4. North Italian mahogany cabinet – £5200. two-day sale on April 13-14. They were sister Mary Louisa Fisher. It was taken ivory, whalebone and baleen inlaid bought by an American museum. in 1857-58 by either the Manchester 5. Early 16th century carved leopard’s head – £12,000. walking stick. photographer James Mudd or Joseph Coins and medals ‘up 15-20%’ during EU proposes ban on import Canes of this type, typically 6. An 18th century Ottoman table cabinet – £2300. Many suitors Cundall, another Victorian pioneer who and export of antique ivory worked from the jawbone of a whale 7. A c.1810 doll’s house – £13,500. Julia Jackson was born in Calcutta, made the first photographic record of £53m year for London’s salerooms by sailors to be sold to natural capital of British India, in 1846 but the Bayeux Tapestry. Despite the near absence of fall in the number of lots estimates that coins and New proposals by the states. Trade within the EU of history-curious Victorians in the port moved to England with her family to An identical but smaller print to this face-to-face trading, 2020 offered. The market benefited medals increased in value by European Commission to ivory ‘worked’ prior to 1947 cities, come in many different guises. Little Holland House in Kensington as was part of the famous ‘Signor 1857’ was a record year for from buyers having extra “around 15-20% on average prevent the commercial export plus musical instruments made Many now appeal beyond the cane to a private UK buyer at £10,500. minor signs of wear, were in good geometric and flared inlays of ebony, This was reflected in the estimate an infant. photograph album that Julia Margaret London’s coins and medals collecting time during the across the board” in 2020. and import of most antiques prior to 1975 will be permitted collecting community and into the A more expected reaction came condition. All sold to an international ivory and boxwood and Renaissance on a George III Sheraton period Deemed one of the most beautiful Cameron composed before herself auction houses with Covid-19 restrictions and what The roller-coaster 12 months containing ivory have been (with added paperwork and folk art world. for a c.1810 doll’s house. This 3ft 8in buyer. The 74-piece dinner service figures in arched panels. The 6ft example in inlaid satinwood. Pitched women in England, she attracted many choosing to become a photographer. combined total sales just Spink (with sales of £9.9m) featured several auction described by The British certificates required) but the This example was relatively (1.12m) wide recreation of a Regency took £23,000 (estimate £10,000- (1.83m) tall cabinet, which had some at £1000-1500, the 2ft 8in (82cm) suitors among a circle of family friends shy of £53m. described as “a crossroads landmarks, including a new Antique Dealers Association sale of such items into and out sophisticated: carved to the shaft home opened to reveal four papered 15,000), the 64-piece coffee service, minor losses and splits, went a UK long table had a twin oval top with a that included the good and the great Family tragedy The headline figure, where the veteran collector record for any classical coin set (BADA) as “hugely damaging of the EU will be banned. with spirals and fluting and inlaid and furnished rooms. Carrying £13,500 (£2000-3000) and the dealer within estimate at £5200. central burr thuya panel within a tied (Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlye, The taker of the second photograph published in this issue as part of meets the technologically by Roma Numismatics during and disproportionate”. BADA secretary general with tortoiseshell graduated lozenges. hopes of £7000-10,000, it sold to an 60-piece part-canteen of porcelain Of similar appeal was a 6ft ribbon and foliate swag border and a Alfred Lord Tennyson) and artists such is uncertain although it may be one of ATG’s annual survey of the savvy investor resulting in an extraordinary year in which On January 28, the EC Mark Dodgson said: “The Pitched at £600-800, it sold to a American private bidder at £13,000. and silver-gilt cutlery marked for (1.80m) tall late 19th century tulipwood crossbanded edge above as Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Edward Burne- more than 50 portraits Cameron made capital’s numismatic auction explosive auction results”. the firm almost doubled its published draft measures recommendation to prevent scene, represented a rise of Pierce Noonan, CEO of Dix year-on-year sales to £17.8m. designed to control the sale of London dealer at £13,000 – a price The house was one of two A Michelsen and Georg Jensen, Moorish hardwood cabinet on stand, a frieze drawer. It sold to a private Jones and George Frederick Watts. of her niece. It dates from the mid more than 10% despite a 3.5% Noonan Webb (£13.6m), See page 10-16 elephant ivory within member Continued on page 4 more akin with the best canes sold in belonging to the costume designer £18,500 (£3000-5000). profusely inlaid with ebony and ivory buyer at £5000. A favourite model of photographer 1860s, when Julia (having declined to RARE COINS AUCTION SATURDAY 12TH JUNE the UK regions in recent years. Evangeline Harrison who had motifs, which doubled expectations A second George III example, become Mrs Holman Hunt) had become Unexpected successes among the inherited it from her friend Jocelyn The decorative – and exotic in going to a UK private at £2800. but in mahogany and estimated at engaged to Herbert Duckworth, sculpture added to the £753,000 Rickards, the artist and costume A taste for the decorative and exotic Also from the Middle East, an £400-600, went to a London dealer a barrister and member of the hammer total across March 30-31. designer who is widely credited lifted furniture prices. 18th century 16in (40cm) Ottoman at £2500. Somerset landed gentry. Best was a white marble bust by as having defined the ‘Swinging A c.1900 Louis XVI-style tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl The vertiginous fall from stardom Married for just three years, Irish-born Christopher Moore (1790- London’ look of the ‘60s. inlaid, parquetry and mahogany inlaid table cabinet was extensively has long been seen in mahogany she was devastated by her 1863) who made a successful living in Top price of the sale came among marble top commode, after Jean- damaged but outpaced the £400-600 bureau bookcases and although husband’s untimely death and London. the ceramics: a dinner service, coffee Henri Riesener, modelled from estimate, selling to a Continental attractively small, as these things (with three young children) refused His 2ft 4in (72cm) tall bust The armorial head service and canteen of cutlery in the the Concordant Commode at the collector at £2300. go, a 6ft 5in x 3ft 1in (1.95m x 94cm) to contemplate remarrying for NUMISMATIC engraved Mary-Jane, wife of George “bore some similarity Flora Danica botanical pattern long Palais de Fontainebleau, went to a By contrast, two classically George III example was pitched at many years. However, in 1878 AUCTION Evelyn Esquire February 1829 Christopher to the Boleyn beast the pride of the Royal Copenhagen European buyer against US interest restrained English Pembroke tables £400-600. she accepted the proposal t. (00377) 93 25 00 42 Moore Sculpsit, raised a lot of interest which adorned the factory. at a top-estimate £6000. A set of 12 also went well above hopes. The cylinder fall was split in two of the writer and critic Leslie [email protected] Great Britain George III. Dollar double Australia 5 pounds Adelaide 1852 Austria Leopold I from the UK and Ireland. There were First used on a dinner service French Louis XV-style carved and Other than davenports (a decent places but was working properly, Stephen with whom she would www.mdc.mc obverse pattern. NGC PF66* ULTRA CAMEO PCGS SP66+ 5 ducats 1669 chips and cracks to the plinth but it palaces of Henry VIII created by royal command as a gift polychrome painted and upholstered William IV mahogany example opening to reveal a fitted interior have four more children – all was, said the auction house, “a very from 1533-36 for Catherine the Great in 1790, it set of dining chairs, estimated at failed to get away against a £600- with pull-out ratcheted writing of them influential members of beautiful portrayal of a member of has been in production ever since. £400-600 took £4200. 800 estimate), it’s hard to think of a surface over three drawers and splay what would be known as the quite a significant family”. The pieces at Essex dated from From 19th century north Italy bigger casualty of the furniture slump feet. It sold to the London trade for Bloomsbury Group. Estimated at £1000-1500, it went c.1960-80 and, while used with some was a mahogany cabinet featuring than Pembroke tables. £4200. n 12 | 1 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com antiquestradegazette.com 1 May 2021 | 13