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78 Derngate Northampton Trust. agents to remain open for one- by Laura Chesters to-one home visits and & Matt Ball valuations by appointment, Golding Young & Mawer will Art and antiques busi- also continue to offer this ser- nesses in England are more vice and will not be closing its prepared for trading removals or house clearance through this new lockdown divisions. having gained experience Many firms are offering last time around. valuations via video and will Many are finding ways to take delivery of consignments carry on and say they feel more via drop-off or post. confident than back in March. Delivery companies are also Colin Young, managing still trading throughout lock- director at auction house Gold- down because logistics firms ing Young & Mawer in are classed as an essential Lincolnshire, said: “We are business. more positive. This time the government has been clearer in Premises closed to public terms of what we can do. The new coronavirus restric- Six-figure sums “The biggest problem last tions for England came into time was moving items out of force on November 5 and run for Glasgow the building. In March we until at least Wednesday, closed six offices and fur- December 2. Four duo loughed 38 out of 40 staff. We Antiques shops, centres, art are now all back up and run- galleries, auction houses and This cabinet by Charles Rennie ning and have even expanded. fairs and markets all have to Mackintosh (1868-1928) was made for “We are stronger and wiser close their premises to the but also everyone in the sector public. businessman Wenman Joseph Bassett now knows how fragile their The regulations, approved Lowke for his remodelled home at 78 business is. The positives are by parliament last week, allow Derngate, Northampton (above). that we are now more experi- non-essential retail business Selling at £200,000, it was one of enced in online-only auctions including auction houses to two works by ‘Glasgow Four’ artists and how we can still serve our operate click and collect and which made six-figure sums in Lyon & clients. We’ve made a lot of delivery services. changes since March.” Operating online and by Pick Turnbull’s Decorative Arts auction in Young said his firm is facili- phone, and having staff on the of the Edinburgh on November 2-3. tating safe collection and premises for collection and delivery of items and because week See Pick of the Week page 10 the regulations allow estate Continued on page 7 SAVE OVER 40% + FREE Gifts
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Charles Miller Ltd Est. 2007 Specialist Maritime & Scientific Auctioneers Tuesday, 24th November, 10am, to be sold live by webcast Over 290 curated lots, viewing by appointment only
Lot 119
Lot 8
Lot 227
Lot 125
Lot 8: Attributed to John Lynn (British, Act. 1826-1869) The Merchant Brig 'Madonna', oil on canvas, 19½ x 27½in. £1,500 2,500 Lot 72: A builder's model for the turret deck steamship Good Hope built by Doxford & Sons, 1903, 18½ x 54½ x 15in. £4,000 6,000 Lot 119: 1:24 scale East India Company builder's model for the 16-gun brig Ternate, circa 1801, built by the Bombay Dockyard £3,500 4,5000 Lot 125: John Downman (British, 1750-1824) Rediscovered portraits of Lord Nelson & Lady Hamilton, 1802 £8,000 12,000 Lot 227: General William Twiss's 4in. radius pocket sextant by Jesse Ramsden, circa 1794 £4,000 6,000 Lot 295: Pair of 15in. library globes by J. & W. Cary, London, 1819 & 1820 £20,000 30,000
Lot 72
Viewing by appointment only at 6 Imperial Studios, Tel: +44 (0)20 7806 5530 3 11 Imperial Road Fax: +44 (0)20 7806 5531 London SW6 2AG UK [email protected] There’s more to navigate at
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Papers reveal doomed anti-slavery colony charter the three vessels that by Roland Arkell sailed from England on April 14, 1792. In 1793, well in advance of the The mission started badly. Slave Trade Act (1807) and the Smallpox tore through the Slavery Abolition Act (1833), colonists on board the ship, 275 British men, women and while an attack on the party’s children attempted to settle an munitions supply as they uninhabited island off the coast anchored off the African coast of Sierra Leone. left six dead. By July more than Their aim was to prove that half of the colonists had sugarcane, coffee and cotton deserted (Dalrymple himself could be cultivated profitably returned to London in Novem- in West Africa without the ber never to return) with the need for slave labour. group eventually reduced by In fact, the party was marsh fever to a mere nine reduced to just a handful of white settlers and around 20 survivors in 17 months. Among freed slaves. them was the settlement’s 27-year-old governor Lt Philip Archive discovered Beaver (1766-1813), who reluc- Lt Beaver appealed for more tantly returned to London in colonists to join him as the ven- 1793, taking with him a tin box ture began to show some containing the colony’s promise, but by this time nega- records. tive publicity and the onset of The Bulama papers, around war with France meant there 90 documents which Beaver were no takers. used as the basis of his book There were, however, many African Memoranda (1805), had potential buyers for the archive barely seen the light of day of paperwork he left behind since, until they were rediscov- that was offered by Tayler & ered earlier this year. Fletcher in Bourton-on-the- Pictured are the Bulama papers Water on October 29-30. sold for £23,000 at Tayler & Abolitionist campaign It had, said cataloguer Fletcher, together with the The doomed experiment on Henry Forcer Evans, “come portrait of Lt Philip Beaver by John Opie (£9000) Bulama – a fertile island on the out of the blue by direct descent and his Sultan’s Medal for Egypt (£11,000). mouth of the Gambia River from a local family”. (now known as Bolama) that Following numerous enquir- forms part of the state of ies, his online catalogue entry cartography, diplomatic cor- at £23,000 (plus buyer’s pre- in full naval uniform, c.1800, Guinea-Bissau – had been the numbered 684 photos. They respondence plus the vivid mium). Institutions had tried sold at £9000 in the auction brainchild of Henry Hew Dal- showed invoices related to the descriptions of survivors. Few, to buy it but it is thought to while the gold Imperial Order rymple (1750-95), the son of purchase of the island, a ‘con- if any, appear to have been used have gone to a UK private of the Crescent 1st Class (the slaveowners who had become stitution’ granting freedom of to aid the research of the arti- collector. Sultan’s Medal for Egypt) he involved in William Wilber- religion and shared ownership, cles written about the Bulama After the Bulama project, was awarded by Salim III in force’s abolitionist campaign. receipts for materials and car- project in the 20th century. Beaver returned to the Royal 1801 took £11,000. The portrait Meeting in Hatton Garden, riage, plans of proposed Estimated at £2000-3000, Navy and was made a captain. went to the National Maritime the Bulama Association was settlements, letters between bidding from half a dozen seri- His half-length portrait by John Museum, the medal to a pri- formed, and funds raised to members of the Association, ous parties emerged and it sold Opie (1761-1807) showing him vate collector.
Stanley Spencer Gallery acquires self-portrait
by Frances Allitt Fund for a six-figure sum with expressing the frailty of the support from the V&A Pur- sitter’. Left: Stanley Spencer, chase Grant Fund and The “Spencer’s striking self-por- Self-Portrait, red The last known drawn self-por- Friends of Stanley Spencer trait offers a unique perspective conté on paper, 1959, trait of Modern British artist Gallery. into the final months of this acquired by Stanley Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) has The finished oil is now in the important British painter,” Spencer Gallery with been acquired by the Stanley Tate Britain collection. says Jenny Waldman, director the assistance of the Spencer Gallery in Cookham. of Art Fund. Art Fund and V&A The 1959 red conté on paper ‘Intense image’ “We are delighted to sup- Purchase Grant Fund. was completed in preparation Featured in the gallery’s cur- port the Stanley Spencer for an oil painting commis- rent exhibition Love, Art Loss: Gallery in this acquisition, sioned by the artist’s friends, The Wives of Stanley Spencer, the ensuring the work goes on © Estate of Stanley Spencer. Joy Smith and her husband. picture is described by the gal- public display in Cookham All Rights Reserved. 2020 / It was acquired via private lery as ‘an intense, unnerving where the artist was born and Bridgeman Art Library treaty sale through the Art image, its immediacy of line found such inspiration.” 6 | 14 November 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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Stand-alone topographical picture auctions at Christie’s come to an end after 52 years
by Alex Capon “These targeted cost man- Left: Sint Eustatius agement measures have been in the Dutch Antilles, difficult, but they are intended with West Indiamen Christie’s has axed its stand- to help protect our company massed in the road alone sales of topographical and ensure we can continue to off Oranjestad, a pictures and will incorporate best serve our clients.” late 18th century the specialist department into Both Christie’s and Sothe- Dutch School oil on the 19th century picture by’s are reported to have canvas – £125,000 department based in London. furloughed a number of staff with premium at Consignments in this area will earlier in the year and made Christie’s. now be offered in auctions in financial cuts, but actual the wider category. details of the individuals and The final dedicated offering departments affected have not was a timed-online sale that been disclosed. In June, how- closed on November 5. ever, Christie’s announced that Head of topographical pic- its was merging its Impression- tures Nicholas Lambourn is ist and Modern Art department leaving Christie’s after almost and the Post-War and Contem- Highlights at the auctions Moritz Rugendas which raised freeport in the 17th and 18th 40 years. The company said it porary Art department. over the years have included over £4m in the department’s centuries. The island, dubbed will “explore the options and the Shackleton Collection of record £7.7m sale in December ‘the Golden Rock’ for its com- alternative opportunities with On the move polar items sold in 2001, the 2016. mercial riches, is shown at its any other colleagues who are Topographical sales began at Winkworth Collection of Top lot at the final sale was a height in the late 18th century directly impacted”. Christie’s in 1968, initially at Canadiana that raised a triple- late 18th century Dutch School in this rare 16¾in x 2ft 2in It added: “Across the King Street before moving to estimate raise £3.49m in 2015 oil on canvas depicting the tiny (42.5 x 66cm) work. summer Christie’s took neces- South Kensington in 1980 and and a group of nine Chilean volcanic island of Sint Eusta- Estimated at £40,000- sary steps to adapt the then coming back to King and Peruvian oils by the tius in the Caribbean which 60,000, it sold at £125,000 business. Street again from 1990. German itinerant artist Johann became an independent with premium.
Online operation for salerooms and dealers but fairs have to close
Continued from front page to be viewed from outside – offering online deliveries and public. Our auctions are all still lockdown in December, includ- Howe London for example. click and collect.” going ahead as planned and we ing Bearnes Hampton & delivery, is therefore permitted Dealer Grey Harris in Bris- are accepting consignments into Littlewood and Woolley & – a fact confirmed in writing tol has an exhibition of metal Markets and fairs shut our upcoming auctions in Wallis. The latter will hold a last week by the Department figures re-enacting the Delhi A blow for the sector is the clo- December and January.” timed online sale from Novem- for Digital, Culture, Media & Durbar in its window and is sure of arts and antiques Richard Winterton Auc- ber 19 to December 4 with Sport (DCMS) in response to also offering viewings by markets and fairs which have tioneers in Lichfield announced about 150 lots of jewellery, a question submitted by ATG. appointment. had to cease whether indoors its intention to keep trading via silver, ceramics and small Many dealers are Tim Bryars of Cecil Court or outdoors. Museums and gal- a statement on its website on collectables. organising viewings by map and book dealership leries have also had to close. November 2. The new regulations affect appointment in their shops, Bryars & Bryars said: “I am Those firms continuing to “As our auctions already England only. Devolved nations such as Ludlow’s Rowles dismayed to be shuttered again trade behind closed doors were take place safely online-only of the UK have their own Fine Art, and others are but this time I am going into quick to promote this fact and behind closed doors, we restrictions. In Wales, the holding exhibitions that will the shop to work. online. Birmingham auction are not expecting any change to national ‘firebreak’ ended on run online and in store, like “During the last lockdown I house Fellows said in an email our sales programme,” it said. Monday, November 9. Edenbridge’s Lennox Cato. stayed away for three months. sent to clients last week that it is “Since Covid, 100% of our Lobbying to obtain clarifica- Some plan to update their This time I will be cataloguing “business as usual in our offices, sales have run online-only and tion on the UK government’s window displays regularly in the shop and we will be we’re just not open to the general have been joined by thousands position had been undertaken of bidders from all over the by BAMF (the British Art world. Recent online-only auc- Market Federation), SOFAA Right: IACF’s Ardingly antiques market tions rank among the most (the Society of Fine Art Auc- ran on November 3-4, making it the successful sales we have ever tioneers) and Auction last major fair in England before the held.” Technology Group, owner and new lockdown began last week. Trade Colchester auction house publisher of Antiques Trade was brisk in the autumn sunshine as Reeman Dansie announced Gazette. attendees knew it would be their last eight specialist timed online Anthony Browne, chairman event for a month. Although IACF’s next sales before Christmas, includ- of BAMF, said: “One of the two planned fairs will not be able to go ing ceramics, glass, coins, great things about business in ahead, the organiser is set to hold one jewellery, watches, silver, wine general, and the art market is of the first events post-lockdown: its and fine art. no exception, is it is endlessly Newark fair is scheduled for December A small number of auction inventive. Businesses are 3-4, meaning it opens one day after houses, however, have decided adapting to this strange restrictions are due to lift. to postpone live sales until after situation.” antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 7
PAGE 001, 006, 007 2467.indd 3 06/11/2020 16:20:12 Next Aucti on of Fine Modern & Anti que Guns
Day One – 11:00am Monday 7th December Lots 1 – 899 Anti que Guns, Air Weapons, Edged Weapons Arms and Armour, Militaria, Vintage Accessories Works of Art and Books
Day Two – 11:00am Tuesday 8th December Lots 900 – 1850 Modern Sporti ng Guns, Rifl es and Accessories Lot 450 - Royal Armouries, St. Etienne A Magni cent pair of 25-bore intlock silver and gilt decorated double-barrelled holster-pistols Please note the aucti on will be held behind closed doors, £10,000 - £15,000 parti cipati on online, by telephone or by commission bid only Further items from the W. Keith Neal Collecti on
Lot 400 - Twigg, London Lot 403 - H. Mortimer, London Lot 405 - H. Tatham, London Lot 407 - H. Nock, London Lot 408 - Gri n & Tow, London *Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000 *Estimate: £1,200 - £1,600 *Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500 *Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000 *Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Lot 409 - D. Egg, London Lot 410 - J. Tirebuck, London Lot 411 - Twigg, London Lot 412 - H. Nock, London *Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500 *Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000 *Estimate: £1,200 - £1,600 *Estimate: £1,200 - £1,600 An Extensive WWII Era German Edged Weapon Collecti on, Featuring:
Lot 250 Lot 251 Lot 256 Lot 258 Lot 265 *Estimate: £300 - £500 *Estimate: £300 - £400 *Estimate: £800 - £1,200 *Estimate: £600 - £800 *Estimate: £600 - £1,000
Lot 458 Lot 899 J.J. Kuchenreuter, Germany Model Colt’s No.3 Derringer *Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000 in a book casing *Estimate: £800 - £1,200
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Ancient Art & Antiquities 24 November 2020
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Lot No. 0001 Lot No. 0024 Lot No. 0067 Lot No. 0071 Lot No. 0127 Egyptian Limestone Egyptian Attacking Horus Roman Marble Roman Asclepius Graeco-Roman Gold Head of a Priest with Inscription Head of a Nymph God of Medicine Statuette Earring Pair with Nubian Heads Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 Estimate: £25,000 - 35,000 Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000
Lot No. 0159 Lot No. 0244 Lot No. 0270 Lot No. 0282 Lot No. 0307 Large Sumerian Levantine Sassanian Silver-Gilt Large Western Asiatic Chinese Han Military Textile Industry Document Cart with Oxen Wild Boar Vessel Mouflon Ram Watchtower Model with Moat Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 Estimate: £40,000 - 60,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000
Lot No. 0343 Lot No. 0352 Lot No. 0359 Lot No. 0393 Lot No. 0433 Chinese Liao South East Asian Vajtasatta Gandharan Large Mughal Greek Archaic Macedonian Gold Death Mask Buddha Seated on Lotus Base Five-Section Stupa Carved Mortar or Illyrian Bronze Helmet Estimate: £7,000 - 9,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 Estimate: £18,000 - 24,000
Lot No. 0439 Lot No. 0466 Lot No. 0468 Lot No. 0493 Lot No. 0530 Phoenician Chamfron Medieval Steppe Warrior Gold Medieval German Viking Trefoil Brooch 'The Wisbech' Medieval Gold with Winged Genius Sword-Belt Fitting Set Great Helm with Odin Masks and Sapphire Love Ring Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £60,000 - 80,000 Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000
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Pick of the week Right: Frances Macdonald McNair design – £100,000 Fab pair from ‘Glasgow Four’ duo at Lyon & Turnbull. Two pieces by ‘Glasgow Four’ artists Charles Rennie of Man. The cabinet had a guide of £10,000-15,000 Mackintosh and Frances Macdonald McNair topped and sold to a private British collector at a price that Lyon & Turnbull’s Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 with 25% premium was £250,000. auction on November 2-3. The Derngate property is now owned and managed A bedside cabinet by Charles Rennie Mackintosh via a charitable trust (and will reopen after lockdown (1868-1928) was hammered down at £200,000 to welcome visitors again). Liz Jansson, house (pictured on front page). The pair to another in the manager, said: “Some of the 78 Derngate management collection of the V&A dated c.1916, it came by descent team watched the auction with great interest and from Wenman Joseph Bassett Lowke (1877-1953), were thrilled and astonished to see its huge demand. until it was last sold at auction in 1988 and was then in It just goes to show that cutting-edge design and a private London collection. craftsmanship is always to be admired and highly Frau (Women’s Own Dress). The book itself, authored In the wake of his success in Glasgow, Mackintosh sought after.” by Anna Muthesius, is considered a seminal text and his wife Margaret Macdonald moved to Suffolk Also in the L&T sale was a work by Frances in the development of early 20th century women’s in 1914. His main client in this period was Bassett Macdonald McNair. Her collaborations with her fashion. Muthesius and her husband Hermann, the Lowke, founder of the tinplate toymaker of the same sister Margaret Macdonald (who married Rennie architectural writer, became close friends with the name, whose house at 78 Derngate, Northampton, was Mackintosh), Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert McNair ‘The Four’ after several trips to Glasgow and the remodelled and furnished in the modern taste. (who married Frances) are celebrated as pivotal works Willow Tearooms. For Derngate, Mackintosh’s style evolved to in the development of the Art Nouveau aesthetic in It sold at £100,000 against an estimate of £10,000- focus on broad planes of polished and waxed timber Scotland. 15,000. This represents a considerable jump in price enhanced by abalone inlay. His production methods They all studied at the prestigious Glasgow School in just eight years. It appeared at L&T in 2012 as part changed too. Unable to supervise the manufacture of of Art in the early 1890s and she was encouraged to of the Donald and Eleanor Taffner collection and sold these pieces, Mackintosh provided drawings that were experiment with forms and patterns – as evidenced at £13,000. worked up by German craftspeople working on the Isle in Frances’ design for the cover of Das Eigenkleid Der Roland Arkell & Laura Chesters
Museum appeal to of engravings completed in British Museum after the mil- Right: buy Armada maps 1590 by Augustine Ryther. lion-dollar artwork was Julian The original drawings by donated to the institution. Dineen of The National Museum of the Surveyor of the Queen’s Works Johns (b.1930) produced Bellmans. Royal Navy hopes to raise and military engineer Robert Flags I in an edition of 65, with Precious £600,000 to stop the export of Adams (d.1595) which were seven artist’s proofs. Johns’ metals a group of hand-drawn Armada used by Ryther have been lost. various iterations of the Stars maps to an overseas buyer. It is believed these maps are and Stripes, both in paint and On Friday, November 6, The 10 maps are the only near-contemporary copies. in print, are among his most specialist and valuer and was known contemporary drawings The maps had been owned sought-after works, both by pri- previously at Bonhams’ Win- Michael Bloomstein of of the defeat of the Spanish in by William Waldorf Astor vate collectors and museums, chester office. Brighton was paying the 1588 and have been temporar- (1848-1919) and were then and this is reflected in the high following for bulk scrap ily prevented from being inherited by the Waldorf Astor prices they have reached at auc- against a gold fix of: exported by The Department family. More recently, dealer tion in recent years. Christie’s goes for $1947.45 €1644.54 £1483.17 for Digital, Culture, Media & Daniel Crouch acquired the This edition was made continental Sport on the advice of the group and agreed a sale to an nearly 20 years after Johns first Gold Reviewing Committee on the overseas buyer, believed to be used the instantly familiar A number of prominent pieces 22 carat: £1312.00 per oz Export of Works of Art and in the US. design in his work. Other of Continental furniture are (£42.19 per gram) Objects of Cultural Interest. To donate visit nmrn.org. impressions of this print have being offered in Christie’s latest As reported in ATG No uk/armada-maps. sold at auction in recent years, edition of The Collector sale. 18 carat: £1073.44 (£34.52) 2452, there is a fundraising all for well over $1m (£770m). The two-part auction will 15 carat: £894.54 (28.76) deadline of January 9, 2021, to The impression of the work feature a live-streamed session raise the £600,000 plus VAT. Jasper Johns flags acquired by the British taking place on November 12 14 carat: £834.90 (£26.85) The museum has laid down fly in public show Museum – numbered 7/65 – with bidding available made 9 carat: £536.72 per oz £100,000 from a ring-fenced had been owned by US online, by phone or via absen- annual purchase grant from the Jasper Johns’ screenprint collecting couple Johanna and tee bid, but without members (£17.26 per gram) Royal Navy but needs to raise Flags I will be on display at the Leslie Garfield since 1980 of the public in the saleroom. 12 Month High: ▲ £11.83 a further £500,000 to place before being gifted to the A timed-online session is also © Jasper Johns/DACS, London. 12 Month Low: ▼ £10.54 them on display for the first American Friends of the Brit- running that closes on Novem- time. While applications to ish Museum. ber 17. Hallmark Platinum funders, including the National The auction house is hosting £18.72 per gram Lottery, are being made there is a virtual viewing with the items “no guarantee of success” so it Dineen promoted displayed in situ at Christie’s Silver the museum is seeking wider by Sussex saleroom King Street. It will also offer public support. one-to-one virtual appoint- £15.90 per oz for 925 The maps, drawn by an Julian Dineen has been pro- ments with specialists. standard hallmarked unknown draughtsman, pos- moted to become head of The Collector sale aims to 12 Month High: ▲ £10.67 sibly from the Netherlands, Above: The British Museum has Bellmans’ picture department. showcase works representing relate to the most famous been given this Jasper Johns He has been at the firm for the 500 years of decorative arts 12 Month Low: ▼ £8.85 images of the conflict: a series work titled Flags I from 1973. past four and a half years as a which have been “curated to 10 | 14 November 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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create unique living and dining Morphets, Harrogate, spaces” and a number of lots October 29 from both parts of the sale have First edition of Edward been selected by British Vogue Gibbon’s The History of the style editor Gianluca Longo for Most read Decline and Fall of the Roman a photoshoot using the Great Empire, six volumes, 1776-88. Conservatory in Syon Park as Estimate: £3000-5000 a backdrop. The most viewed stories for Hammer: £9500 Christie’s is also holding an week October 29 t0 auction of more than 120 works November 4 on from the collection of Modern antiquestradegazette.com design and furniture dealer Roseberys, London, November 4 Gordon Watson, who has a 1 Trade awaits Untitled group of bronze figures standing on a shop in London’s Pimlico clarifications as new circular slate plinth by Rowan Gillespie (b.1953), lockdown looms Road. The sale, a timed-online Above: among the lots at signed and dated 1990, 19in (48cm) high, auction which closes on Christie’s The Collector sale is 2 Art and antiques inscribed Bank of Ireland R.T.E. November 25, features Post- this Louis XV ormolu-mounted businesses in England Estimate: £1000-2000 war and Contemporary art, table à écrire by Leonard start making Hammer: £7000 prints, photographs and pieces Boudin. Dating from c.1760, it lockdown plans of decorative art, with esti- has provenance to Alfred de mates ranging from £800 to Rothschild (1842-1918) and is 3 New recruits and £60,000. estimated at £60,000-80,000. promotions at Hindman and Swann Rob Michiels Auctions, Bruges, Galleries among the November 1 latest Movers & A polychrome Dutch maiolica Shakers in the US dish with a fruit tazza, dating Crude and rude for from the first half of the 17th 4 De Morgan tile century, 10¼in (26cm) in more than 40 years bought for £8 on a diameter. A related example is in stall takes £3800 at Museum Rotterdam. Fat Sod, Skinhead, Colin the Amiable Crocodile and Victor Pratt auction Estimate: €4000-8000 the Stupid Twat were introduced to the public in the form of a Hammer: €13,500 (£12,230) comic offered in a Newcastle pub in December 1979. Forty-one 5 Portrait miniature, years later that comic is still going strong: Viz. Lalique jewellery and One of only 150 copies of Viz No1 created by Chris Donald from Chelsea dish – among HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE his parents’ house, with its free gift ice-cream (a red sketch of an five auction highlights ice-cream stapled inside the back cover), is estimated at £700-900 Wessex Auction Rooms, in Comic Book Auctions’ timed online sale closing on November 22 Chippenham, November 31 (below). Two further printings were made of 250 copies each. Nineteenth century oak double Malcolm Phillips of CBA says: “Our vendor was a student bedstead, part of a complete at Newcastle Polytechnic at the time and he frequented the bridal suite (other sections offered Jesmond pub [The Gosforth Hotel] where early Viz copies were as separate lots), heavily carved intermittently offered for sale. Having got hold of most of the throughout including foliate details issues from No 4 onwards, he finally found No 1 in 1995 at North with barley-twist columns. Shields Books where it was Estimate: £50-80 advertised in Book and Hammer: £1300 Magazine Collector for £40. In Numbers “He tells us they even sent it to him ‘on approval’ so he could check its authenticity. He then ‘reluctantly’ sent 198 Bonhams, London, November 2 them the money as he A famille verte square-section tapering ‘landscape’ thought it such a high price in The number of vellum folios vase catalogued as Kangxi and with provenance, those days. in the Book of Lismore, a 19in (48cm) high. “As a long-time buyer at 15th century manuscript Estimate: £1000-1500 our auctions he finally decided containing some of medieval Hammer: £17,000 to offer his Viz collection for sale this November.” Irish literature’s greatest The vendor bought Viz No 4 (also offered in this CBA auction, masterpieces. The book has estimate £500-700) at the Jesmond pub from a popular punk been donated to University rocker called Arthur 2 Stroke who, along with his band The Chart College Cork by the trustees Auction Antiques, Exeter, Commandos, had their ad on the front cover. CBA has sold three of the Chatsworth Settlement, October 29 Viz No 1s since 1999, with the latest one making £425 in 2004. which owns the land and A set of early 20th century The first printing of the ‘Free Ice Cream’ inViz No 1 was in red estates of the dukedom of bagpipes with original chanter and the rarer second printing in black. Newcastle auction house Devonshire. and sterling silver mounts. Anderson & Garland holds the world record for the latter at nearly Maker’s mark PH for Peter £1000 hammer. A&G sold a Viz No 2 (dated April 1980) for £1400 Henderson, Glasgow 1909. in July 2018 (see ATG No 2352) and a Viz No 4 (October 1980) took Estimate: £60-80 £900 in 2016. Hammer: £4200 In September 2017 a comprehensive complete collection of Viz comics, publications and ephemera, including Viz No 1 with red- Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for October 8-16, 2019 29. to November‘Highest price 4, 2020.over estimate’ ‘Highest = Ourmultiple selection over of top items estimate’ from the = Ourtop 10selection highest ofhammer items pricesfrom the as atop ink ‘Free Ice Cream’ and the rare nos 2, 3 and 4, sold for £2900. 20multiple highest of thehammer high estimate prices as paid a multiple by internet of biddersthe high on estimate thesaleroom.com paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com ‘Top selling lots’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer Tom Derbyshire prices‘Top selling paid lots’by internet = Our selection bidders ofon items thesaleroom.com from the top 10 highest hammer prices paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com Photo: Clare Keogh.
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It’s good to cork Old Master dealer Mark Weiss tells us about his love for another kind of vintage. His collection leads a special report on the wine, whisky and spirits market. By Frances Allitt, Laura Chesters and Tom Derbyshire
Mark Weiss is best known as a dealer in Old I soon decided to collect reds too, and that’s Master portraiture, but he also harbours a the bulk of the collection now. I also have some not-so-secret identity as a long-term collector great champagnes and a good selection of red of Burgundy wines, some of which are kept in If we’re talking Burgundy, Rhones and whites from the Loire, and some top a specialist store in at The Weiss Gallery, his the horse has already Californian reds. It is mostly stored professionally, space in St James’s, London. “ but I also keep about 1500 bottles in a dedicated bolted in terms of price wine room in my Jermyn Street gallery, as well as How did you get started in wine collecting? and accessibility around 1000 at our house in France. I’ve always had a taste for wine. While I was growing up with my parents, we would drink What made Burgundy a good candidate for wine with dinner at the weekend and my father’s collecting? interest led him to put together a small but what I need to be drinking from now on”. So, after When I started collecting it was less understood interesting cellar. As with my two siblings, after some research to identify the very best, I bought a and appreciated than it is now. It was certainly we all left home we each became passionate cooks couple of cases of great 1985 white Burgundy from more affordable and the finest examples were and for my part, my interest in wine seriously Domaine Leflaive at Christie’s, and my collecting readily available. I was very lucky because for began them. At first it was in a small way with took off from there. most of the period I was buying it was widely Italian or New World wines for around five to ten considered too ‘complicated’. There was also the pounds a bottle. How big is your collection? thought that Burgundy was ‘fragile’ and that it Then about 30 years ago I was given a bottle of At its peak it was around 16,000 bottles. Now needed to be drunk by the time it was eight years white Burgundy – not a particularly grand one, it’s something over 10,000. Roughly 85% of that old, which is certainly not the case. but I had a nirvana moment and decided “this is is Burgundy, and though I started with whites, Are you still building up your collection? No. Top Burgundy has become far too expensive and I stopped buying when the release prices started to rise too high. Whereas once I could buy by the case, now allocations are by the bottle. I’ve always enjoyed a bit of wheeling and dealing in wine and have sold a great deal of wine over the years either to the wine trade or by auction. I naturally drink bottles from my collection… not every night – I am trying to lead a healthier lifestyle. But usually when I drink wine, I drink Burgundy.
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PAGE 014-19 2467.indd 2 06/11/2020 11:12:00 Mirrors reflect the Mollys local magic
Irish auction house Victor Mee (19% buyer’s premium) holds regular sale of pub memorabilia and collectables but the online-only October 5-6 offering was on another level. The 1400 lots, many market fresh, were described by the Co Cavan firm as “the largest private collection of pub memorabilia and advertising that we have ever seen”. The two days were dedicated to the McCabe Collection gathered together by one family. Molly McCabe was the publican at E McCabe and Sons bar in Warrenpoint in Co Down, Northern Ireland, for her whole life, having taken over from her founding father, Edward, who purchased it in 1924. The bar was known locally as ‘Mollys’. It was bought by her nephew, Des, in the late 1990s and thrived in the area until Molly’s death in 2011 after which it was sold. Des, who consigned the collection to Victor Mee, said: “As a boy I grew up bottling Guinness in the pub with my dad. As I got older I began to appreciate the design, graphics and branding. “The pub was much more than beer and whiskey. It was a focal point to the community – a post office, tobacconist, grocery store, chemist and so the range of products and brands collected over the last 100 years reflects that.” Some of it was gifted to Molly by US soldiers stationed locally in the Second World War. Some of it by relatives in Philadelphia. Some of it came from Guinness representatives visiting Mollys over the years brandishing advertising wares. Pieces have come from connections in the UK, some bought by Des and Molly at auction. Among the items of whiskey interest was a large 2ft 5½in high x 6ft 5in wide (75cm x 1.95m) example advertising The Finest Whiskey In The World DWD Pure Pot Still Ten Year Old Extra Special, described by the saleroom as ‘extremely rare’, sold for a mid-estimate €7000. all over the world today. The critical thing with Above: Mark Weiss Dublin Whiskey Distillery was based at wine is making sure you have the correct storage, holding a bottle of Jones Road Distillery in Dublin – founded in especially if you’re buying bottles to lay them 1991 La Tache from 1873 and one of the ‘six great distilleries’ of down – then you need a proper professional Domaine Romanee- the early 20th century in the capital – and storage facility. The other thing is patience. Conti, “worth today was renowned for superior quality whiskey. Drinking a really great wine when it’s too young around £5,000 and All six are now closed. is really infanticide. which I bought in Another promotional mirror, (80 x 60cm), 2003 for £300”. this time for Brown & Corbett Irish whiskey, How has this collecting habit worked alongside a Below left: Weiss’ took €5200 against an estimate of €3500- career as a paintings dealer? desert island 4500. The firm operated from Killowen I’ve never really collected the paintings that I deal wines: a 1982 Distillery in Coleraine until it was bought by in. However, I’ve been able to satisfy my collecting Krug, two Grand William Boyd in the late 1930s. The distillery urge through wine. Cru Burgundies, stopped production entirely at the start of It has also been a useful calling card. I have (a 1996 Chevalier- the Second World War (although a Killowen been able to imbue my passion into several of my Montrachet from distillery has recently been revived). best clients and it has become a shared interest. Domaine Leflaive, We’ve always done grand dinners in the gallery and a 1990 Clos de la and for which I have always served my great wines, Roche from Domaine Left: Brown & Corbett Irish so the two have worked together quite well. Dujac) and a 1988 whiskey mirror – €5200 at Chateau Climens. Would you say your palate is more developed than Victor Mee. most? Below: DWD Irish whiskey I’ve been involved with tasting groups and so am mirror – €7000. familiar with wines from all over the world. I have no claims to have a great palate, but I have a good one. At a certain point qualitive judgements become a bit like hi-fi systems – can most people really tell the difference between a £1000 system and a £30,000 system? What are your ‘desert island wines’? For a potential ‘ultimate dinner’, I would select to drink from my gallery cellar a bottle each of an incredibly great and legendary champagne, 1982 Krug, and two sensational Grand Cru Burgundies, the white a 1996 Chevalier-Montrachet from Domaine Leflaive, and the red a 1990 Clos de la Roche from Domaine Dujac, but to round the meal off I would also want a dessert wine, the 1988 Chateau Climens, which in this vintage rivals Chateau Yquem.n antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 15
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Red alert: Macallan matured for 78 years
The oldest bottle released from The Macallan Distillery – and the oldest age statement whisky ever offered at auction – has sold for a premium- inclusive £756,400 in London. Matured for 78 years, it was offered at Sotheby’s (21% buyer’s premium) on October 31 as part of The Red Collection, a “new classic aged collection of single malt from The Macallan” comprising six Left: The Red whiskies in total. The other five were examples of Collection from The Macallan at 40, 50, 60, 71 and 74 years old (the Macallan including only set of its kind to be made available for sale). bottle matured for Estimated at £200,000-800,000, the lot was 78 years – sold bought by an Asian private collector. The set for a premium- had been gifted by The Macallan to City Harvest inclusive £756,400 London to raise funds for the charity which at Sotheby’s on redistributes surplus from the food industry to October 31. vulnerable people across the capital. A Sotheby’s statement said: “The extremely rare set differs from the standard release and is distinguished by its exclusive labels, which are illustrated and signed by Spanish artist Javi Aznarez. Only two sets feature these labels: Set #1 Dalmore, and independent bottles from Silvano Macallan, beginning with Alexander Reid, the will remain in The Macallan’s archives and Set #2 Samaroli. farmer and teacher who founded The Macallan in was presented in the Sotheby’s auction.” Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s spirits specialist, said: 1824, whose surname means ‘the red one’ in Scots The auction continued with the second part of “This exceptional result for The Red Collection and was originally associated with red hair. the Ultimate Whisky Collection which realised is testament not only to the strength of the whisky “In 1903, owner Roderick Kemp launched The £1,057,364, bringing the combined total for parts market but also to the esteem with which The Macallan Choice Old range, which was reportedly I and II to £8.7m. Sotheby’s sale of Part I in Macallan is held. Equally, the result of The shipped in cases labelled with distinctive red print October 2019 set the record for the most valuable Ultimate Whisky Collection Part II cements its to distinguish it from The Macallan’s existing whisky collection ever sold at auction at £7.6m, position as the most valuable whisky collection whiskies, which featured black labelling. an auction record any bottle of wine or spirit with ever sold at auction. “Almost eight decades later, in 1980, red was to The Macallan Fine & Rare 60-Year-Old 1926, sold “The overall total for The Ultimate Whisky feature strongly in the release of The Macallan’s for £1.5m, and distillery records for Bowmore, Collection speaks volumes of the diversity then oldest vintages, dated 1938, 1940 and 1950. Brora and Glenfiddich and Springbank. in today’s premium whisky market and the Allan Shiach, chairman of The Macallan at that The second part of this collection included importance of provenance to collectors.” time, tied a red ribbon around the sought-after whiskies aged in excess of 50 years from The According to Macallan: “The colour red has bottlings to denote their age and value.” Macallan, Bowmore, Glenfiddich and The deep and long-standing significance for The Tom Derbyshire
Label measures up to take Champagne stars Strong pre-sale interest emerged for two magnums of champagne offered separately at the Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) Sussex Interiors including Laphroaig to high value Asian Works of Art, Wines & Spirits auction in Wisborough A “10-year-old Laphroaig, something still readily available today” Green on October 20. had a little bit of extra appeal when it came up for sale in west A magnum of 1985 Krug London, however. champagne (right) with a label Sam Hellyer, head of wines and spirits at Chiswick Auctions (21% to the rear stating Specially buyer’s premium), said: “It was one of those things that came in from reserved at Maison Krug Reins a private vendor who owned a house clearance company. They for late shipment to Annabels sent me a number of pictures of various whiskies to value from a April 1998 was estimated at collector’s home. Most of the items were worth less than £100 £500-800, while another of individually, but the second I saw this I knew it was something a 1961 Dom Perignon vintage little special and in great condition.” champagne (far right) had The label was key: “That instantly dated it to sometime a guide of £250-350. around the mid-1970s when the measurement of bottled spirits The lots, consigned moved to metric. Unusually, it has both measurements on it, so by a UK private vendor, it could be from either side of the change, but it made it easy to attracted absentee identify. bids and phone “Looking at previous auctions, it had been going up in value bidding during the for the last six years every time a bottle appeared in the market. sale but eventually I valued it between £800-1200 and it sold for £1000 – anything sold online to the that sells bang in the middle of my estimate is always gratifying.” same buyer, for £850 The Laphroaig, offered in the Wines & Spirits sale on October 27, each. was bought by a European wine and spirits merchant.
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PAGE 014-19 2467.indd 4 06/11/2020 11:16:01 ‘Dramatic rise in whisky prices’
Whisky has been a booming market in recent years, says Simon Jones, associate director at Lawrences (25% buyer’s premium) of Crewkerne. “We have seen a dramatic rise in prices for whisky over the last couple of years, with increased interest from private buyers as well as specialist buyers in this field,” he adds. The wine and whisky section of the September 11 Collectors, Sporting & Textiles auction included a bottle of The Macallan (left), single Highland malt Scotch whisky, 18 years old, distilled in 1972, bottled 1990, in the original cardboard box, estimated at £800-1200. It came from a property in Bristol with a large variety of items for auction and was purchased for £1600 by a private Quaret adds up to buyer in Scotland after attracting a lot of pre-sale interest. From the same vendor, a bottle of John Jameson (right), 37 years old, catalogued as ‘75cl, 40° proof, fill low neck, four-figure sum label worn, foil cap good’, featured a label reading This extremely rare whiskey was purchased by Averys in May 1949. This lot comprising four whiskies estimated at £30-50 This very last butt was bottled in the Spring of 1987. Against a ended up selling for £1050 at Sheffield Auction Gallery guide of £200-300, it took £800 – returning to Ireland thanks to (20% buyer’s premium) on October 30. a private buyer. The individual items were: Tobermory The Malt Scotch Whisky From The Isle Of Mull, 75cl, 40% Vol; Grant’s Royal Finest Scotch Whisky, 70d proof; Clynelish Finest Highland Malt Scotch Whisky 12 Years Old, 75.7cl, 70d proof; Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky Old Angus meets miniatures Flagon, 750ml, 40%.
Whisky big and small was a winner at Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) in Bishton Hall, Staffordshire, on October 20. A bottle of Old Angus Liqueur Blended Scotch Whisky, Train & MacIntyre Ltd, Glasgow (right), sold for a top-estimate £200 to a private UK buyer. Spotted on a home visit by Adrian Rathbone of Hansons, it had been originally purchased at the outbreak of the Second World War, in 1939. Miniatures also sold well from a collection amassed over 30 years by a now deceased gentleman from Rugeley – about five minutes away from Bishton Hall. Rathbone said: “He was a contributor to a number of written publications.” Highlights included three Macallan miniatures from 1973, 1974 and 1975 (right) which took £240 against an estimate of £75-150, and three from 1970, 1971 and 1972 with the same guide that made £170. Both lots were bought by different UK buyers bidding online.
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Hallowed Burgundy Armagnac and a rare malt
According to Dreweatts, the 1985 Richebourg by Henri Jayer “rightly holds the hallowed status of ‘legendary’ A Chateau De Pomès Pédérère Armagnac (below left) distilled in 1950 is estimated among Burgundy collectors – the sort of wine that people at £200-300 at McTear’s Rare & Fine Whisky Auction on December 16. will travel across the world to experience”. The Glenury Royal distillery The Donnington Priory saleroom states that Richebourg closed in 1985 and its products “always needs more time than other Grand Crus. It takes are sought after for this reason. that little bit longer to show the other-worldy complexity it This Glenury Royal 1970 Rare hides for the first years of its life. The 1985 will now be as Malts whisky (far right) aged 28 Henri Jayer intended when he first harvested the grapes.” years is offered with an estimate Little is left in the world from an original production of of £600-700. one barrel. The bottle on offer at Dreweatts (right) in the Graeme Maxwell, whisky November 26 auction is estimated at £30,000-50,000. specialist at the Glasgow Guided at £4500-5500 in the same sale is a Chateau auction house, said: “As part of Latour 1966 (below) which has been owned by the the Rare Malts series, this is a same family since it first arrived on these shores. This bottle which should adorn any “sensational and unique jeroboam of 1966 Chateau good whisky collection, while Latour is in perfect condition and presented in the also being a fantastic liquid to box it was originally shipped”, says Dreweatts. drink.” The 1966 vintage, one of the favourite vintages mctears.co.uk of renowned wine writer Michael Broadbent (perhaps best-known as the man who restarted Christie’s wine auctions in the 1960s), is described by Dreweatts as a “lean long distance runner” and “magnificent depth, enormous, well stacked and Macallan from 1962 velvety”. In such a large format, the ageing process slows considerably and “the new owner of this wine In its Whisky & Spirits sale on December 9, Lyon & will have no urgent need to drink it, but very hard to Turnbull offers a number of 1960s Macallan whiskies resist this titan of wines at the peak of its powers”. including this 1962 The Macallan Gordon MacPhail 100 dreweatts.com proof. The 75cl bottle is estimated at £2000-3000. lyonandturnbull.com
Castarede class Rioja ready to take away
Tate Ward in Shoreditch, London, was set up in 2019. Among the lots coming up in its Fine Wine and Spirits sale on December 7 is a bottle of 1893 Castarede Armagnac (right). It is offered with an estimate of £600-800. Henry Adams in West Sussex tateward.com will hold The December Auctions Fine Wines & Spirits sale on December 17. Among the highlights is this wooden case of 12 bottles of La Rioja Alta SA Vina Alberdi Rioja, Reserva 1996. It is estimated at £100-150. henryadamsfineart.co.uk
Highland achiever Pick up a case in Surrey
The Fine Wine & Whisky sale at Tennants on December 12 features this Ewbank’s Fine Wines & Spirits auction in Surrey on December 17 Macallan-Glenlivet 1937 35-year-old includes this bottle of Bas Armagnac Baron de Sigognac 1951. In Pure Highland Malt Scotch Whisky. It a wooden presentation case, it carries an estimate of £150-250. is in a 75cl Pinerolo bottle imported ewbankauctions.co.uk to Italy (bottle number 522) and is estimated at £3000-4000. tennants.co.uk
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Bonhams’ Fine and Rare Wine and Whisky sale in Hong Kong will take place over two days from November 20-21. Among the whisky highlights is a collection from Club Qing, the Hong Kong whisky bar founded by Aaron Chan in 2015. The bar specialises in Japanese whisky and rare old Scotch whisky. Featuring in the sale from Club Qing is a 54-bottle set of Ichiro’s Full Card Series from closed Japanese whisky distillery Hanyu. This is currently the world’s most expensive set of Japanese whisky ever sold at auction. Chan formed his collection over a decade prior to his bar’s opening, sourcing each of the 54 bottles globally before they became available in the auction market. Founded in 1941 by Isouji Akuto, the Hanyu distillery ceased production in 2000. In 2019 a Full Card Series sold at Bonhams Hong Kong for HK$7.2m/ £717,435 (including 24% premium). Unlike the two previous examples at auction which were offered as one single lot of 54 bottles, this collection of the 54 bottles from Club Qing will be offered as individual lots of single bottles. ‘Legendary winemaker’ Also at Bonhams in Hong Kong is what the auction house describes as “one of the most encyclopedic wine collections in Asia”. The Collection of A-1 Fine Wines is estimated at more than HK$20m. Above: four of the 54 bottles to be offered in individual The group was put together by William Giauw from lots are (left to right): Singapore in the past 30 years and will be offered over 500 Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt-Ace of Spades (1 of 122 bottles) is lots comprising 2000 bottles, Giauw founded his own wine estimated at HK$300,000-500,000). merchant retail business – A-1 Fine Wines – in 1997. Among Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt-Jack of Clubs (1 of 124 bottles) is the lots to be offered is a Richebourg 1959 (right) from guided at HK$250,000-350,000). legendary winemaker Henri Jayer. The bottle has an estimate Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt-Queen of Hearts (1 of 125 bottles) is of HK$180,000-260,000. estimated at HK$250,000-350,000). bonhams.com Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt-King of Diamonds (1 of 124 bottles) is expected to fetch HK$300,000-500,000.
Out of Glen Grant
Among the selection coming up in the Wine, Port & Spirits sale at Lacy Scott & Knight on December 11 is a Glen Grant, 1948 Scotch Whisky (left), from the Glen Grant distillery, Strathspey. Bottled in 1960 by Berry Brothers & Rudd, it is estimated at £1500-2000. Also in the same sale is group of 12 bottles of Château Lafite Rothschild, 2013, Pauillac, in their original wooden case (right). The group has provenance to one of the Rothschild family cellars and is estimated at £3500-4000. BLUE AND WHITE lsk.co.uk ‘LION’ BASIN JIAJING MARK BUT 19TH CENTURY £5,000-7,000
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PAGE 021 2467.indd 1 05/11/2020 17:34:44 Charles Wesley gets his Auction Reports message across in brief Notebook given as gift includes hymns in written in shorthand
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Slimline sale still one to remember Auctioneer makes his debut on the Cambridge rostrum with reduced but memorable offering
by Terence Ryle
Making his debut at Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium), auctioneer Nicolas Martineau had just over three hours on the Cambridge rostrum instead of the traditional two days for an autumn ‘fine’ sale. Covid-19 had interrupted the supply 3 of new lots. However, with a £746,000 hammer total the slimline 154-lot event on October 1 ensured a memorable start. “There was real quality to everything on offer and a real 2 appetite for it from both the trade and private buyers,” said Martineau. Most came from a single private source: a collection initially begun in 1849 by the MP John Dunn 1 Gardner (1811-1903) of Denston Hall, 4 Suffolk, and later added to by his son Algernon Dunn Gardner (1853-1929). 5 The 64 paintings dominated the Highlights at Cheffins, October 1. sale (see Art Market, ATG No 2466). 6 Elsewhere, Continental furniture 1. Louis XV tulipwood and marquetry took top honours and it was notable secretaire cabinet – £19,000. to see the UK trade taking the best 2. George III mahogany chest by on offer time and again rather than Giles Grendey – £6500. fill the role of underbidder to private buyers. 3. A c.1680 lignum vitae wassail bowl A brêche marble-topped Louis – £5500. XV tulipwood and marquetry 4. A late 17th century Italian table – secretaire cabinet led the field. The £10,000. 3ft 9in (1.15m) tall cabinet with an 5. Leeds white pearlware horse, arrangement of drawers and secret c.1825 – £17,000. drawers behind the tambour doors had some condition issues. However, 6. Nicolai Lieberich bronze, After The furniture was less of a surprise. This A UK dealer also took the it excited French interest pushing the Wolf Hunt – £14,000. was a George III caddy-topped ceramics prize, more than doubling final bid from an English dealer to 7. Late 19th century board game – mahogany chest with brushing slide the top estimate to do so. £19,000. £2200. and four drawers. Measuring 2ft A large 19in (43cm) Leeds, c.1825, 7in x 2ft 10in (78 x 87cm), it was a white pearlware horse is a rare Superb quality fine-looking piece and late in the piece but does crop up from time to A bigger surprise was the interest day a maker’s label was discovered time and previous prices suggested in a late 17th century Italian table. for Giles Grendey, St John’s Square, the £6000-8000 estimate was Lacking its central stretcher, the 8ft London. Grendey (1693-1780) was reasonable. In fine condition with 8in (2.63m) long walnut top now one of the foremost makers of the age, a particularly good base, it took stood on a trestle, although the table’s working in Clerkenwell from 1731 £17,000. baroque wooden supports carved until at least 1755. Much more of a dark horse was a with grotesque masks, mermaids There was real quality The information, along with 15in (38.5cm) prancing bronze version and flowers did come with the lot. and an appetitie for it minor condition problems such as on a wooden plinth with boulle work Martineau thought it was the superb “ loss of veneers, was included in the panels. Briefly catalogued as ‘probably from both the trade quality of the top which prompted catalogue but the vendor was happy 18th century’ and estimated at £300- bids until to a five-times-top-estimate and private buyers to stick to the original estimate of 600, it sold to the trade at £6500. A £10,000 from the UK trade. £700-1000. The chest sold to a UK late 17th century date was likely. The best-seller among the English dealer at £6500. Best of the bronzes was After the 22 | 14 November 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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‘Hans Sloane’ Chelsea dish is a vine find Turret clock tops it off The Clocks & Watches This Chelsea dish moulded as a vine leaf and painted sale at Gardiner Houlgate with polychrome fruit is a textbook production (20% buyer’s premium) from the Red Anchor period c.1755-58. in Corsham, near Bath, on Subjects such as this are sometimes October 23 was topped referred to as ‘Hans Sloane’ Chelsea – a at £16,000 by this large reference to an advertisement in Faulkner’s iron two-train turret clock Dublin Journal of July 1-4, 1758, announcing movement by Thomas ‘... table plates, soup plates and desart plates Cooke (1807-68) of York. enamelled from Sir Hans Sloan’s plants’. The estimate was This was apparently one of the first identifiable £1000-2000. references to the Chelsea factory’s popular As well as a maker’s botanical wares. plaque reading T Cooke & Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), physician to Queen Anne, Sons, York from 1860- was a great botanist and collector of rare plants. From 1712 he owned 90 it is inscribed on the the Chelsea Physic Garden and leased it to the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. subsidiary seconds dial Most botanical renderings on these Chelsea pieces were taken from illustrations in Philip Miller’s Erected for J. Sydney Davey, Gardener’s Dictionary and Figures of Plants depicting specimens from the Physic Garden. Esq, by Jas. Truscott, Tenby & Gloucester in Tenby Church Tower. ‘Hans Sloane’ Chelsea plates appear on the market with some frequency but dishes such as The movement, which strikes the hours, has a single five-legged this are a rarer find. Estimated to bring £80-120 atTrevanion & Dean (20% buyer’s premium) in gravity escapement with both a remontoire (secondary source Whitchurch, Shropshire on October 24, it sold via thesaleroom.com at £7000. Roland Arkell of power) and maintaining power achieved by an epicyclic gear system. The whole is housed in a 2ft 7in (79cm) frame.
Wolf Hunt catalogued as after Nikolaï buyers, it sold online to a collector at Ivanovich Lieberich (1828-83), whose £5500. figures of bears and hunting scenes The trade was back in action to FINE & DECORATIVE remain highly popular in his native secure a matched pair of late 17th Russia and in the US. century tazze. Standing about 13in Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers Wednesday 25 November, 10am It was signed Lieberich and (33cm) and featuring engine ring- inscribed Fabr.C.F.Woerffel/ St turned and chip carved decoration, Petersbourg for his favoured foundry. they also had minor condition This 16¼in (41cm) wide model problems but tripled top hopes at took a premium-inclusive £4800 £4600. at Sotheby’s in 1989 and at Denver The late Victorian board game was auction house Hindman (26% buyer’s one of those items which catch the premium) in July 2018 another eye when clearing a country house example took 10-times-estimate and had that equestrian theme which $20,000 (then about £15,000). was popular at Cambridge. At Cheffins, Russian bidders Merry’s Game of the Race comprised quickly passed the £2000-3000 a set of 12 painted lead horses with estimate and the bronze sold to one of jockeys, two leather dice shakers, them at £14,000 via thesaleroom.com. two dice and original printed sheet of Transmuting base metal into gold the rules in a 9¼ x 6in (23.5 x 15cm) with less intervening artistic work mahogany box. was a lead water cistern initialled It lacked its board but was VIM and dated 1727. Measuring 2ft otherwise in good general condition 6in x 3ft 7in x 21in (76cm x 1.1m x and, against a £100-200 estimate, 53cm), it was decorated with shells, came in at £2200, selling to a private geometric panels and baroque buyer. n cartouches. Always expected to go above the £3000-4000 estimate, it went to the UK trade at £10,000. Among the smalls, two lignum 7 vitae items and a late 19th century game stood out. A c.1680, 16½in (42cm) tall wassail bowl and cover had some splits and Fully illustrated catalogue available online www.roseberys.co.uk small areas of losses to the rim and finial but more than doubled top Contact [email protected] for more information expectations. A fairly rare victory for the private 70/76 Knights Hill, London SE27 0JD | +44 (0) 20 8761 2522 antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 23
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Sticky situation is resolved An 1859 first of Darwin’s seminal work shrugs off condition issues to be a best-seller
by Ian McKay
At first sight, an 1859 first of On the Origin of Species... offered in a recent Nottingham sale looked pretty forlorn – but it ended up as the day’s best-seller. An upper portion of the spine was missing, as was the half-title, while the inner hinges were cracked and separated from the text block of the copy for sale at Mellors & Kirk (20% buyer’s premium) on September 17. Sticky tape repairs were not a Above left: a spread from the Charles Wesley notebook sold by seemingly lacking any instructions – it was published by notable attraction either, but the Mellors & Kirk for £7000. N Carpenter of London. The gamesboard.org.uk website cites modest initial estimate of £7000 or Above right: sold for £1400 in Nottingham was a board game only one recorded copy, in the Hull municipal collection, and so was left far behind and it reached called The Eventful Career of Napoleon Buonaparte. Featuring dates it to c.1840. £32,000 before being knocked down 17 coloured aquatint scenes from Boney’s career on the Below left: the 1859 first of On the Origin of Species... which to a US bidder on thesaleroom.com. playing board and complete with the red card wallet – though made £32,000 despite condition issues. The record for a first of this famous work was set by Hindman of Chicago last November when a very fine copy made $460,000 (then £357,420). Bid to £6000 was a diary kept night and saw nothing but death Gift from Wesley by a young Englishwoman, Harriett before us”. To her great relief a A notebook whose principal attraction Brundell, at the time of the Indian steamer came to their assistance and comprised hymns written in both Mutiny of 1857. she was eventually reunited with her English and in shorthand by the leader It presents descriptive and lengthy husband. of the Methodist movement, Charles entries for every day and includes Wesley, sold at £7000. details of an eventful and perilous Extraordinary album According to an inscription by the flight to Calcutta from the bungalow Sold at £10,000 was an extraordinary Rev Edward Spencer, it was given at Mirzapur that she shared with her autograph album kept by the Right to him c.1770 by Wesley and had her husband, an engineer engaged Rev Rowley Hill, Bishop of Sodor and remained in his family ever since. on the construction of the East India Man (1836-87). It also incorporated An evangelical member of the Railway. contemporary portrait photographs, established church and schoolmaster, Sticky tape repairs were At one stage, travelling by river, engravings, press cuttings and much Spencer was the incumbent of St not a notable attraction Harriet and her companions were more besides. Mary’s Church at Wingfield in “ offered protection by “...a Ranee Ordained in 1860, Hill’s either, but the modest Wiltshire for 43 years, and one of attended by four hundred sepoys in ascendancy in the Church of England his pupils was Thomas de Quincey initial estimate was left boats, but ...felt confident that her was swift and he became the youngest (1785-1859). far behind sepoys would murder us during the Anglican bishop aged just 41. n
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£7500, by George British and Irish book auctions While care has been taken in compiling these previews, we strongly advise that you also Estimated at £200-300 in a Kent sale, check with the saleroom concerned in case of cancellations or postponements because a military commission that bears the of the latest Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions. signature of King George III and is Nov 9-11* 4 Sports Memorabilia, Graham Budd - London 020 8366 2525 additionally signed and endorsed by Nov 10* 4 20-lot Book & Map Sections, Rogers Jones - Colwyn Bay 01492 532176 William Pitt the Elder, Britain’s prime Nov 10* 4 10 lots Books & Comics, Arthur Johnson - Nottingham 0115 986 9128 minister at the time of the Seven Years 4 War, sold online instead for £7500. Part Nov 10* 7 lots Books & Ephemera, Piers Motley - Exmouth 01395 267403 4 of an August 2 auction at Canterbury Nov 10* 7 lots Books: Asian Art Sale, Duke’s - Dorchester 01305 265080 Auction Galleries (24% buyer’s premium), the document dated October 7, 1760, Nov 10* 4 6-lot Book Section, Hansons - Etwall 01283 733988 appoints James Murray “...Governor of our Town of Quebec, and of all the Lines and ends Nov 11 Collection James Bond Books & MSS, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 5297 Fortifications thereof, and of the Dependencies of Quebec”. Nov 11* 4 Antiquarian & Collectors’ Books, Toovey’s - Washington 01903 891955 Nov 11* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera, Jones & Jacob - Watlington 01491 612810 Nov 11* 4 9 lots Books & Magazines, Warren & Wignall - Leyland 01772 369884 Nov 11* 4 4 lots Northants Books, Peter Francis - Carmarthen 01267 233456 Beyond Browning in Somerset Nov 11* 4 Book Section, Anthemion Auctions - Cardiff 029 20472444 Nov 11, 18 & 20 * 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 170 1314 Principal attraction in a September 8 Nov 11-12 4 Books, Maps, Autographs & Topographical Prints, Dominic Winter - S Cerney 01285 860006 Crewkerne book sale at Lawrences (25% Nov 12* 4 11-lot Book Section, Morgan Evans - Gaerwen 01248 421582 buyers premium) was the Browning family Nov 12* 4 Football & Sports Memorabilia, Sporting Memorys - Birmingham 0121 684 8282 archive that featured as Pick of the Week Nov 13* 4 78 lots Books & Maps, Swan Fine Art - Tetsworth 01844 281777 in ATG No 2459, but three other items from Nov 13* 4 8 lots Books & Ephemera, Brighton & Hove Auctions 01273 230050 that 370 lot sale are noted here. Nov 13* 4 8 lots Books, Maps & Ephemera, Fieldings - Stourbridge 01384 444140 In the original limp vellum binding, 4 one of 300 copies on paper of the 1895 Nov 14* 78-lot Literature Section: Titanic & Transport Sale, Henry Aldridge - Devizes 01380 729199 4 Kelmscott Press edition of The Tale of Nov 15* 14 lots Books & Maps, Hegarty Auctioneers - Bandon +353 23 885 2910 Beowulf, as created by the press founder Nov 15* 4 Book Section, Westenhanger Auctions - Hythe 01303 813545 William Morris and the Anglo-Saxon Nov 16* 4 87 lots Books & Maps, Claydon Auctioneers - Middle Claydon 01296 714434 scholar AJ Wyatt, brought a bid of £3400. ends Nov 16* 10 lots Books & Cartoons: Geoffrey Boycott Collection, Christie’s - London 020 7389 9060 When published the price was two guineas. Above: the wood engraved title-page ends Nov 17 Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 That Beowulf bid was pretty much what spread from the Kelmscott Tale of Beowulf Nov 18* 4 Sports Memorabilia, Hansons - Etwall 01283 733988 had been expected, but half a dozen lots sold at £3400 at Lawrences in Somerset. Nov 18 4 Books, Maps, MSS & Photographs, Tennants - Leyburn 01969 623780 later a copy of Charles Dodgson’s Through Nov 18 4 Selected Books from Rugby School Library, Forum Auctions - London 020 7717 5092 the Looking Glass and what Alice found Nov 19 4 Fine Books, MSS & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7717 5092 there that had been estimated at just rubbed at the extremities and and cracked Nov 18-20* 4 Angling & Golf Memorabilia, Mullock’s - Church Stretton 01694 771771 £200-300 was bid instead to a considerably at the hinges, while some of the pages ends Nov 21* 4 Book Section, Border Auctions - Hawick 01450 376170 more substantial £3000. showed occasional light spotting and one ends Nov 22 4 Comics & Comic Artwork, Comic Book Auctions 020 7424 0007 While this was certainly a first-issue group of 14pp was working loose. Nov 24* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera: Maritime & Scientific Sale,Charles Miller - London 020 7806 5530 copy, published in the last few days of In a contemporary binding of speckled Nov 25* 4 Books & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7717 5092 December 1871, and was in the original calf, one of 500 second-edition copies of Nov 25* 4 Book Section, Anthemion Auctions - Cardiff 029 2047 2444 cloth gilt binding, it had its shortcomings. Adam Smith’s ...Wealth of Nations printed in 4 The binding was described as shaken, 1778 sold at £14,000. Nov 27-28* Book Sections: Antiquities & Coins Sale, TimeLine - Harwich 01277 815121 Nov 28* 4 18-lot Book Section, Michael J Bowman - Newton Abbot 01626 324071
Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com Left: ‘Miseries Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales of Travelling’, that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: from an 1808 first Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] edition of Thomas Rowlandson’s Miseries of Human Life sold for £1300 at John Nicholson’s.
Book Auction Calendar: Selected Books from Rugby School Library Wednesday 18th November Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 19th November Rowlandson makes life a misery Online Books & Works on Paper Wednesday 26th November Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 3rd December ‘Miseries of Travelling’ is one of the 50 hand-coloured plates that make up an 1808 first Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 17th December edition of Thomas Rowlandson’s Miseries of Human Life – in this instance “Unpacking up Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 7th January your clothes for a journey because your servant is a fool...”. It comes from a copy sold for £1300 in a September 22 sale held by John Nicholson’s Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 21st January (25% buyer’s premium). Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 28th January Sold at £650 was one of 35 copies of a limited edition of Tristram and Isolde illustrated by Evelyn Paul (1883-1963), an artist and illustrator best known for her work in the style Catalogues and information: forumauctions.co.uk of medieval illumination. Bound in full vellum gilt, it was undated but is most likely to have Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected] been an edition of 1913 or 1920. antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 27
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Far left: Vocabulario American accounts manual de las lenguas castellana, y Mexicana of life gone by of 1611, bid to $22,000 (£17,325) in a Swann Two very different lots were bid to $22,000 (£17,325) Galleries of New York each in a sale of printed and manuscript Americana held sale of September 24. in New York on September 24. Much the earlier work in the Swann Galleries Left: the title-page of (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale was a copy of the William Billings’ Music Vocabulario manual de las lenguas Castellana, y Mexicana In Miniature..., sold at of Pedro de Arenas. $7000 (£5810). Printed in Mexico in 1611 and bound in contemporary vellum, this was a slightly stained but rarely seen complete first edition copy of a popular Nahuatl-Spanish dictionary that went through some 16 editions over the succeeding centuries. Grim reading The catalogue entry for the other lot sold at that sum, $36,000 (£28,345), was the guest register of the Catskill period, this was the work of a Boston music teacher and the manuscript diary of an officer of the 7th Michigan Mountain House. Built on the precipice of a steep cliff composer who has the added distinction of being the first Cavalry, James Wallace Bentley, charged with protecting and a major tourist attraction, this was also a venue that American composer to issue a volume of his own music. emigrants on the Overland Trail to America’s western once served as the spiritual home of the artists known In all, Billings issued six compilations of sacred music lands in the summer of 1865, was headed with the words collectively as the Hudson River School. from 1770-94 but this was the first of two which he ‘Scalping, Torture, Kidnapping, Circling the Wagons’. The names of Thomas Cole, William Cullen Bryant and published on his own press. It makes grim reading in places and the longest and Frederick Edwin Church are among those whose names The cataloguer also noted that music was not a most harrowing entry describes a series of attacks on appear on its pages. full-time profession in 18th-century New England and emigrants near Cooper Creek, Wyoming. Sold at $7000 (£5810) to an institutional buyer was Billings supplemented his income with work as a tanner, a copy of William Billings’ Music In Miniature..., a 32pp street-cleaner, and as hog reeve – the latter, I find, being Welcome to the Catskills collection of psalm tunes. a person charged with the prevention of, or appraising of The sale’s top lot, at a much higher than expected Nicely preserved and uncut in plain wrappers of the damages caused by stray swine!
Littleton Auctions Auctioneering since 1979 Antiques, Furniture, Jewellery & Collectables Saturday 14th November at 10am Online only with no Various militaria to room viewing include a German or bidding. Feldgendarmerie (military police) gorget Unusual and rare cased walking stick .25 air rifle
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Shiftingforces Covid-19 regulations have complicated the Irish and Scottish art markets but online and phone bidding has helped to keep results relatively robust, as Alex Capon reports
£1 = €1.10 investments and €15bn has now been built up in The Irish art market produced lively action just small private savings accounts in Ireland as less The art markets in Ireland and Scotland before new Covid-19 rules came into effect. wealthy clients are no longer spending much on have had to get used to different ways of In the Republic of Ireland, a new lockdown travel, clothes and commuting. working since the pandemic struck. began on October 21 which is due to run for six At the auction on October 19, the day’s top lot Dealing with the shifting regulations weeks (with a review after four). For auction in particular provided evidence of robust demand over the course of the last eight months houses, as well as shops and galleries, this means at the top end of the market at least. has been a challenge. their premises must close their premises to the Paul Henry’s (1876-1958) A sunny day, But many Irish and Scottish businesses public, although online trading is permitted. Connemara, c.1940, was described by Whyte as have also had to juggle with different In terms of the pre-lockdown sales, some “the best Henry I have ever handled”. changes that apply across the borders. notable competition came at Whyte’s (20% “I first saw it 20 years ago in a private collection For example, as many Irish auction buyer’s premium) latest Irish & International in Northern Ireland,” he said, “and I had hoped houses source works both in the Republic Art sale. Managing director and auctioneer the owner would part with it every time I visited and in Northern Ireland, and their Ian Whyte said that despite the current general him since I saw it first. He finally succumbed after Scottish counterparts do so in both economic uncertainly there was a “current surge two decades of gentle persuasion.” Scotland and England, this has meant in the Irish market”. Works by Henry come up regularly at auction extra adjustments have been required He pointed out that negative interest rates but this picture was commercially almost in a when organising client visits, staging were turning wealthier clients towards alternative category of its own. Although not the largest work viewings and holding sales by the artist, the 16 x 20in (41 x 51cm) signed oil themselves. on canvas was a well-known picture which the However, despite these he painted for the cover of his autobiography, primarily logistical issues, published in 1951. where the consignments have A prime-period landscape of Achill Island, it come through and decent also featured on the covers of Brian Kennedy’s works have been offered from biography of Henry as well as a National Gallery the real or virtual rostrum of Ireland catalogue exhibition. they have tended to perform While the artist has long faced criticism for relatively well, and especially appearing to produce a large number of works, well given the circumstances. somewhat repetitive in terms of style and subject Both salerooms and matter, supporters point to what writer and critic buyers have responded to Sean Ó Faoláin described as Henry’s talent to the situation with increased catch “light caught in a flux, a moment’s dazzling phone bidding and online miracle”, making him “the least static painter I activity. Indeed, a bounce know”. This work was picked out for displaying has even been reported in these qualities. some quarters as collectors Followers also admired its fresh atmosphere, look to spend on something pristine colours and the way the artist had they can enjoy at home at a mentally formulated the composition before time when other pursuits are setting it down on the canvas with no overpainting restricted. or re-working. Here we pick out some A number of collectors viewed the €150,000- recent examples of such 200,000 estimate as quite reasonable even highlights that caught our eye. though works by the artist have only reached this level four times in the last five years at auction 30 | 14 November 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 030-35 2467.indd 2 05/11/2020 16:07:47 Yeats makes waves in Dublin
As with fellow Dublin saleroom Whyte’s, Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium inc VAT) latest Irish art sale was led by a Paul Henry. The top lot of the auction held on September 2 was Hay Stooks with Cottages that overshot a €50,000-70,000 estimate and was knocked down at €100,000 (£90,910), while Henry’s smaller Connemara Landscape also drew competition and sold at €70,000 against a €30,000-50,000 estimate. Island living Another big name, if not the biggest name, in the Irish art market also drew significant interest. A late seascape by Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) came to auction from a private Dublin vendor but had Above: A sunny day, Connemara by Paul Henry – provenance to Mr a record €420,000 (£381,820) at Whyte’s. and Mrs Nesbit Waddington who assembled an important collection of Irish art kept at their historic Beaulieu House residence in Co Louth. Below left: River Blackwater, October Evening, Bound for the Islands (above), a 9 x 14in (23 x 36cm) signed oil on board, was painted in 1952 when Near Ballyduff, County Waterford by Arthur K Yeats was 80 and it depicted a sailor standing on a headland waving out to a boat on the sea. Like Maderson – €21,000 (£19,090). many of Yeats’ late subjects showing an isolated figure looking down at an expanse of water, it may have an element of self-portrait to it. Very much a ‘known’ work, having appeared in at least two catalogue raisonnés of the artist’s works, it was estimated at €50,000-70,000 and was finally knocked down at €90,000 (£81,820) (source: Artprice by ArtMarket). On the day, – a strong sum for a late work by Yeats and also a picture in this comparatively small size. it was eventually knocked down at €420,000 (£381,820) to an Irish collector resident in the UK. According to The Irish Times, the buyer was bidding on the phone and, although many photographs had been sent out prior to the sale, Wall hanging is a great Scott had never actually viewed the painting in the flesh. The price represented an auction record for Among the works bringing competition at de Veres (25% buyer’s premium) of Dublin on October 20 was a Henry, overshooting the €400,000 (£353,980) handmade woollen wall hanging by Patrick Scott (1921-2014). for The Potato Diggers sold at Adam’s in 2013, and Tapestry, 5ft 11in x 6ft 6in (1.8 x 1.98m), was a trademark textile by the artist whose market has been the £265,000 The Lobster Fisher made at Christie’s growing notably since he died six years ago. in 2002. The Co Cork-born painter was self-taught and became set designer for the Gate Theatre in Dublin before later representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1960. Prize spot for salmon Over his career, he produced many Abstract paintings and mixed-media works, including his minimalist Another Irish landscape in demand, this time ‘Gold’ series of paintings executed in tempera equalling the artist’s record, was a more recent which are the most commercially desirable painting but, again, a prime example of its type. and command the highest prices at auction. Works by Arthur K Maderson (b.1942) appear His tapestries and carpets, though, also fairly often at auction, mostly landscapes painted form a significant part of his oeuvre. Such in the artist’s trademark Impressionistic style. works have been receiving recent interest, The 3ft 9in square (1.14m) signed oil on board including at Whyte’s in March when one from 1991 was a vintage example that, despite fetched €22,000 (£20,000) – a sum that lacking figures that often appear in his works, was substantially raised the bar for Scott’s admired for its tonal quality and placid subject. textiles. The location depicted also appears to have This example at de Veres was estimated at helped it commercially: the River Blackwater in €3000-5000 and drew strong bidding before County Waterford, which is a prize spot for salmon it was knocked down at €11,000 (£10,000) to fishing. a Dublin private buyer. Indeed, it outsold Gold The painting drew strong competition against Painting, a gold leaf and acrylic on canvas, a €3000-5000 pitch and was eventually knocked that took €10,500 (£9545) at the same sale. down at €21,000 (£19,090) to a collector in Co Kerry. The price equalled the sum fetched by Sunday Afternoon, Lismore River Pool sold at Adam’s in April 2008. Left: Tapestry by Patrick Scott – €11,000 Overall the Whyte’s sale raised €1.6m (£1.45m) (£10,000) at de Veres. with 119 of the 131 lots sold (91%). n antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 31
PAGE 030-35 2467.indd 3 05/11/2020 16:12:31 Special report Irish and Scottish Art
‘Belfast Boy’ O’Neill shines in summertime
Works by Daniel O’Neill (1920-74) are a common sight at where he became friends with auction, mostly paintings of mysterious female figures in artist Gerard Dillon and began unspecified landscapes. to work with fellow Belfast artist His prices shot up during the decade-long ‘Celtic Tiger’ Sidney Smith, he first exhibited boom years but demand has been more selective since the his works in a group show at the financial crash of 2008. A colourful example that appeared city’s Mol Gallery in 1943. at the Morgan O’Driscoll (20% buyer’s premium) online Visiting Paris in 1949, he sale which closed on October 27 gave a good opportunity became influenced by the works to assess the current state of the market. of Maurice de Vlaminck and Summer (right), a 2 x 3ft (61 x 91cm) signed oil on Maurice Utrillo and started to board, had previously sold at Bonhams in London in develop his own related style November 2006 for £95,000, the second-highest price for using simplified forms and strong colours. was sold for €125,000 (£113,635), the highest price for the artist at auction at the time. The example at O’Driscoll showed four women on a hill O’Neill since 2008. While the sum was up on the 2006 It reappeared with a €70,000-100,000 estimate. above a river and was a more unusual and complex work price in terms of sterling, it had actually fallen in euros O’Neill (1920-74) was part of a group of mainly self- in terms of composition. The auction house’s catalogue due to the currency changes over the last 14 years. Even taught artists who formed the ‘Belfast Boys’ who were suggested that the white walls and red roofs of the homes still, it was a notable result that will probably engender all represented by the Victor Waddington Gallery until its in the background, as well as the poplar trees on the greater confidence in the O’Neill market. closure in the late 1950s. hillside, implied the setting was probably France, while The son of an electrician, he was born in Belfast the style and handling of paint meant it probably dated Yeats boats and left school early, training as an electrician in the from the 1960s when the artist had several exhibitions at Elsewhere at the sale, another work that provided a useful shipyards and also working as a housepainter. After the Dawson Gallery in Dublin. gauge of the state of the market was Jack Butler Yeats’ taking life drawing classes at the Belfast College of Art, After a good bidding competition at the online sale, it (1871-1957) A Hooker and a Nobbie, a small painting of two boats based on sketches he made as he travelled around Connemara in 1911. The fact that the 9 x 14in (23 x 36cm) signed oil on board had sold twice at auction in the last eight years – for €31,000 at Adam’s in 2012 and then €40,000 at de Above right: Summer Veres in 2015 – meant that the €70,000-100,000 estimate by Daniel O’Neill – may have looked a bit punchy. €125,000 (£113,635) However, it managed to find a buyer on low estimate – at Morgan O’Driscoll. again a good sign for the market and a decent sum in its Left: A Hooker and a own right for a Yeats of this size without figures. Nobbie by Jack Butler Overall, the auction performed pretty well and the Yeats – €70,000 fact that the new government Covid-19 guidelines meant (£63,635). that the Co Cork saleroom was unable to hold its Dublin viewing scheduled for the weekend before the auction did not seem to dampen demand. The top price of the sale came for a set of four Andy Warhol (1928-87) Muhammad Ali screenprints that took €210,000 (£190,910) against a €200,000-300,000 estimate.
Butler’s garden blooms in Wiltshire saleroom
This small watercolour by Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941) titled The Garden, Kilkenny sold for an unexpected £2500 at Wessex Auction Rooms (17% buyer’s premium) in Chippenham. The winning bid on September 30, way above the estimate of £80-100, came via thesaleroom.com. Although she trained in London and made frequent trips to England and the continent, Butler spent most of her life in the family home at Kilmurry, Kilkenny. Scenes of privileged domesticity based around the house, its gardens and the surrounding pasture proved the key source of inspiration in her work. Many were painted en plein air – qualities that can be seen in this 7¾ x 13in (17 x 33cm) watercolour that came for sale from a Gloucestershire estate. In 1980, many of Butler’s watercolours, drawings and sketches were sold as part of an artist’s studio sale at Christie’s in London. Above: The Garden, Kilkenny by Mildred Anne Butler – £2500 at Wessex Auction Rooms.
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PAGE 033 2467.indd 1 06/11/2020 15:46:21 Special report Irish and Scottish Art
Traquair takes the attention
A group of 33 lots that came to auction from a descendant of the artist Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852-1936) drew a strong response at Bonhams’ (27.5/25/20/13.9%) latest Scottish sale in Edinburgh. Traquair was a notable figure in the Arts & Above: A Corner of the North Shore, Iona by John Crafts movement and was elected as the first Maclauchlan Milne – £22,000 at Duke’s. female honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1920 which was, incidentally, 20 years after she had originally been turned down. Born in Dublin, she came to Scotland in 1874 Iona in oil and when her father, Ramsay Traquair, was appointed Keeper of Natural History at the Museum of Science and Art in Edinburgh (known today as watercolour the National Museum of Scotland). Although she is now regarded an important Two Scottish coastal pictures attracted multiple figure who excelled in a range of disciplines bidders at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest Art including painting, illustrating, enamelling, & Design sale. embroidery and jewellery design, her works do The sale in Dorchester on October 9, dedicated to not appear on the market regularly. works from post-1880, generated particular demand Bonhams' picture specialist in Edinburgh for a painting of the island of Iona off the west coast May Matthews said the consignment represented of Scotland by John Maclauchlan Milne (1885-1957). “a once in a generation chance” for collectors. Pitched at £5000-10,000, it brought plenty of “Phoebe Anna Traquair holds a unique place in the attention from both trade and private buyers and was history of Scottish culture and was the first major Only two works have made more for Traquair knocked down to a collector at £22,000 – the highest woman artist in modern Scotland,” she said. at auction: an enamel triptych that took £25,000 price for a work by the artist sold at auction this year. “Collectors responded enthusiastically to the at Shapes in 2007 and a painting titled Love’s Milne was sometimes known as ‘the fifth chance to acquire one of these beautiful works,” Testament that achieved £32,000 at Christie’s Colourist’ because of the way he followed the she added, noting that the variety of paintings, back in 1993. styles, techniques and tonal qualities pioneered by drawings, watercolours and even a plaque on offer Another child portrait at Bonhams, possibly Fergusson, Peploe, Cadell and Hunter. His works “gave everyone an opportunity to get involved in of the same sitter, titled Boy and Sheep, also appear occasionally on the market, with his bright the bidding”. commanded good interest. It was estimated at views of Paris and the Scottish coast tending to Competition at the October 14 auction came £2000-3000 and sold for £8000. According to command the greatest sums. mainly from the UK but also the US and Ireland the catalogue, it related to Shepherd Boy, now in the The 16½ x 20½in (42 x 52cm) signed oil on panel with trade, private and institutional interest all National Galleries of Scotland, which was painted had originally been acquired directly from the artist emerging. the same year and used the same size canvas. and then passed through the Portland Gallery in All bar one of the 33 lots sold for a £110,000 Also making a hefty price was a portrait of a London, where it was acquired by the vendor. total. The three top Traquair works went to three girl, believed to be the artist’s niece Ada Moss. different private buyers: two in England and one Dated ’91, the 10¼ x 8¼in (26 x 21cm) oil on Frequent visits in Scotland. canvas was signed with a monogram and, against Another view of Iona selling to a private buyer was a £1000-1500 estimate, sold at £16,000. a small watercolour by Francis Campbell Boileau About a boy Overall, the Bonhams sale raised £560,310 Cadell (1883-1937). The 8 x 10½in (21 x 27cm) Leading the group was Reverie, a 9¾ x 13in (25 with 186 of the 251 lots (79.43%) finding buyers. signed work on paper had also been through the x 33cm) oil on board of a young boy resting on While a George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931) Portland Gallery and was one of the numerous his elbow. Figurative subjects tend to be the still-life failed to sell against a £120,000-150,000 depictions he made on his frequent visits to the most sought after and works depicting children estimate, the auction was led by two somewhat island from 1912 onwards. have a special place in Traquair’s oeuvre. With louche works by Jack Vettriano (b.1951) – the Estimated at £5000-10,000, it was knocked down trademark muted palette, the picture estimated at Scarlet Ribbons, Lovely Ribbons that took £75,000 at £8000 – a sum in keeping with previous results £1000-1500 sold for £17,000. and Ae Fond Kiss that made £42,000. for a work of this size.
Top: Portrait of a girl, thought to be the artist’s niece, by Phoebe Anna Traquair – £16,000 at Bonhams. Left: Reverie – £17,000.
Above: Iona, a watercolour by Francis Cadell – £8000 at Duke’s.
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PAGE 030-35 2467.indd 5 05/11/2020 16:15:54 Architect’s apprentice McGhie built an artistic legacy
Two trademark scenes by Scottish artist John McGhie (1867-1952) impressed at Great Western Auctions (24% buyer’s premium) in Glasgow. The artist was born in Lesmahagow near Lanark and was the son of a grocer. After displaying a talent for drawing, he became an architect’s apprentice before persuading his father to allow him to enrol at the Glasgow School of Art. He later studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he became familiar with social realism and en plein air painting. After moving to the village of Pittenweem near Anstruther on the Firth of Forth in 1904, he produced a significant body of work depicting the coast, boats and local fishing community. First up at the Glasgow auction on September 18 was Fisher Girl, a 2ft 6in x 2ft 1in (76 x 63cm) signed oil on canvas. Estimated at £2500-3500, it caught the eye of a number of bidders and took £3800, a solid mid-range sum Above left: Dutch fishing harbour by John McGhie –£2500 for McGhie. at Great Western Auctions. A few lots later came a scene of a Dutch fishing harbour, a 2ft 4in x 3ft (71 x 91cm) signed oil on canvas Above right: Fisher Girl by McGhie – £3800. showing figures on a jetty. Guided at £1500-2500, it sold Right: portrait of a Scottish nobleman – £3400. on top estimate. Mystery sitter Meanwhile, earlier in the month at Great Western Auctions, a mystery portrait of a Scottish nobleman Coast family of repute”. He added: “Pre-restoration generated a stiff competition despite obvious condition speculation suggests that it is painted in the manner of issues. Modestly estimated at £200-300, the 2ft 5in x 2ft Pompeo Batoni (1708-87) dating from c.1760 and may be (75 x 61cm) oil on canvas was covered with a film of ‘hazy’ a portrait of one of the Campbells of Argyll. bloom that obscured the sitter’s features. “The gentleman appears to be pointing proudly However, a number of dealers saw something of towards his estate.” quality in it and Duncan Wood of Anthony Woodd Gallery Following Wood’s success at the auction, he has in Edinburgh competed with bidders from the London agreed to sell the picture to an “important American trade at the September 5 antiques and collectables sale. private collector in the UK” for a five-figure sum, including The picture was knocked down at £3400. a newly added c.1760s frame. Wood said the painting “apparently came from a West Alex Capon & Laura Chesters
Nicholson sounds the retreat with a Scottish work
A painting by an English artist but with a Scottish artist and passed to her descendants after she died. of Scotland. The piper depicted was a local shepherd subject drew attention at the latest Modern Made During the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, whom she befriended during her time there. auction held by Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium). Nicholson visited the Scottish Highlands many times, Estimated at £7000-10,000, it was knocked down at The Piper who played the retreat at Tobruk by often with her close friend, the poet Kathleen Raine. £11,000. Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) attracted a number of As with other works that she produced showing the While the artist’s still-lifes and views of the Cornish bidders at the live online auction held on October 23. effects of light created by the ever-changing weather coast have made considerably more at auction before, The 2ft 4in x 3ft (70 x 90cm) signed oil on canvas conditions, this picture was painted while staying at this was a mid-range sum for a Scottish subject. (below) dated from c.1952 and had remained with the a retreat at Sandaig in Ross-shire on the west coast Novel technique Two days before, L&T held a Paintings and Works on Paper sale also as a live-online event. A painting by Scottish artist John Pettie (1839-93), The Sub Prior and Edward Gendinning (left), depicted a scene from The Monastry, a novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1820 – presumably when the protagonist confesses to his jealousy of his brother and resolves to become a monk. Pettie spent much of his career in England where he exhibited at the Royal Academy and historical and literary subjects were a significant part of his oeuvre. This example certainly linked back to his Scottish roots, which may have helped it commercially. The 2ft 6in x 2ft 1in (76 x 63.5cm) signed oil on canvas from 1862 was estimated at £500-700 but more than doubled predictions, selling at £1500.
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PAGE 030-35 2467.indd 6 05/11/2020 16:18:37 Previews Our weekly selection from salerooms
This heavily carved early While care has been taken in compiling these previews, we strongly advise that you also Victorian oak davenport desk, check with the saleroom concerned in case of cancellations or postponements because a riot of caryatids and mask of the latest Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions. heads, bears the stamp for Miles & Edwards, Oxford Street. At Rogers Jones in Cardiff on November 13 it has a guide of £300-500. The firm of Miles & Edwards began operating as furniture makers and sellers of fabrics and accessories for upholstery and curtains at 134 Oxford Street, London in 1822. The firm was bought by Charles Hindley & Sons in 1844. rogersjones.co.uk*
Among the most coveted of the designs created by Lucien Ercolini for Ercol is the elm and beech sofa bed with a ‘surfboard’ back. This example has a guide of £500-700 at W&H The material culture of the Peacock in Bedford on November 13 Merovingians, who occupied peacockauction.co.uk* much of modern France and western Germany from the 5th until the mid 8th century, is This set of four 19th particularly known for its rich century Grand Tour metalwork tradition, including bronzes set to square jewellery and weapons. sienna marble bases, 8½in This ring, c.600-700, (22cm) tall, has a guide of combines elaborate goldwork £1200-1800 at East Bristol with richly coloured gemstones Auctions on November 13. and is described as ‘the eastbristol.co.uk* property of an established London gallery, acquired from a private estate collection formed in the 1970s’. It has a guide of £2000-4000 at Pax Romana in London on November 15. paxromana.auction*
This photo, showing the Hon Charles Rolls seated in his 1902 MORS racing car, is one of the The Winter Sewing Sale at images from a set of 164 original Argent Archer Bleasdales of Leamington Spa half-plate and full-plate prints taken from the will be conducted as a timed original glass plate negatives. online auction via thesaleroom. It is part of the Bryan Goodman Collection of com. Closing on November 18, it Early Motoring Photographs and Archive. includes the first tranche of the This single-owner collection is being sold Hamlin collection of Tunbridge by Transport Collector Auctions (in partnership Ware, where this scarce Euclid with Lawrences of Crewkerne) on December 16. puzzle has a guide of £80-120. Estimate £400-800. bleasdalesltd.co.uk* lawrences.co.uk*
This gold stater with the laureate head of Apollo carries the name in Greek of Philip II of Macedon c.359-336 BC. This gem-set and enamel pendant The design on both sides of these famous coins – this one struck in Pella, the ancient by Carlo & Arthur Giuliano in original capital of Macedonia – was politically inspired. The racing chariot fitted green leather case by Guichard reminded people that Philip himself had comes by descent from George been a champion charioteer in the Corderoy (1860-1923), founder of Olympic games. The choice of Corderoy & Co. Remarkably it is Apollo positioned Philip and his accompanied by original purchase fellow Macedonians as true receipt dated October 25, 1900, from Greeks. C&A Giuliano for £22. Norwich coin specialist At the Woolley & Wallis Fine Chris Rudd expects it will bring Jewellery sale in Salisbury on £2500 as part of a timed online December 9-10 the estimate is sale closing on November 15. £3000-5000. celticcoins.com* woolleyandwallis.co.uk* 36 | 14 November 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 036-37 2467.indd 1 06/11/2020 12:55:39 * 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
The 12 x 17in (30 x 42cm) An Italian sardonyx cameo of Omphale, probably Roman, pencil and watercolour, c.1810-20, is estimated at £5000-7000 with Matthew Munitions Factory, by Barton at Olympia Auctions on November 18. William Roberts (1895- Omphale, a Lydian queen, became the wife of 1980), carries expectations Hercules. Following advice from the oracle at Delphi, of £70,000-100,000 at the hero was enslaved in recompense for the slaying Bonhams’ sale of Modern of Iphitos; purchased by Omphale, his strength and British & Irish Art in London beauty resulted in their marriage on his release. on November 18. It was The hairstyle with floral headband and strongly last on the market in 1976 Neo-classical profile of this cameo bear close when it was bought by Lady affinities with the ‘Ideal Head’ of Antonio Canova Dugdale at Michael Parkin (1757-1822), presented by the sculptor to the Duke of Fine Art, London. Wellington, which arrived in England in 1818. Roberts, who had been This 2 x 1in (5 x 2.5cm) cameo, perhaps later set in an an official war artist during The Great War, created this work shortly after the outbreak of unmarked gold brooch mount, comes to auction from the estate of conflict again in September 1939. Depicting the figures at work in the Woolwich Arsenal, it Harriet Bull Pitman (nee Brown, 1922-2019), of the ‘Brown-Goodwin’ House in Marblehead amounts to a detailed preparatory study for the finished oil of the same title in the City of Old Town, Massachusetts. Salford Museums and Art Gallery. The house was purchased in 1832 by William Peach Brown (1780-1838), son of Captain It was a natural subject for Roberts who himself had worked in a Tufnell Park munitions John Brown, a privateer during the American Revolution. It remained in the Brown family factory during 1915. for six succeeding generations. bonhams.com* olympiaauctions.com*
This Edwardian cased rose quartz The sale at Forum Auctions in London on and silver gilt parasol handle, November 18 comprises selected books together with eight lacquered from the library at Rugby School. This plate brass canopy tips, come in a fitted comes from a first edition, second issue velvet and tooled leather Mappin & of Robert Hooke’s most famous work, the Webb case. 1667 Micrographia: or some Physiological Estimate £300-400 at Special Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Auction Services in Newbury on Magnifying Glasses with Observations and November 12. Inquiries there-upon. specialauctionservices.com* Lacking one of the 38 engraved plates (some of them probably engraved by Sir Christopher Wren), it is expected to bring £6000-8000. forumauctions.co.uk*
The Autumn Fine Sale at Tennants in Leyburn on November 14 includes this Victorian mahogany noctuary painted dial wall clock used to monitor the rounds of a night watchman. Marked below the wheel John Whitehurst Patent, the clock is thought to have originally hung at Kedleston Hall and was later sold to the Rolls- Royce works in Derby in 1906-7. After the Second World War it was transferred to Roll-Royce at Crewe, from where it was privately sold to Ireland. Estimate £700-900. tennants.co.uk*
The silver Battle of Coorg medal The sale at Claydon Auctioneers in Buckinghamshire on November 16-17 includes this was awarded by the Honourable set of seven Regency period wrought iron strap back garden chairs. East India Company to senior Estimate £800-1200. members of the local forces who claydonauctioneers.co.uk* remained loyal during the Coorg rebellion of 1837. Around the perimeter is the inscription in Canarese script: A The sale at Brighton & Hove mark of favour given for loyalty Auctions on November 13 to the Company’s Government includes this Bakelite Tesla in suppressing rebellion in the months of April and May 1837. The reverse shows crossed Talisman 308U value radio. knives and other Coorg ornaments within a wreath. It is thought 44 were struck in gold The streamlined design (in three thicknesses depending on the status of the recipient) and 300 in silver at the conceived in the 1930s was Calcutta Mint for presentation in December 1839. the most popular of the Tesla This good example has expectations of £450-500 at Lockdales in Ipswich on range made in Czechoslovakia November 14-15. in the 1950s. Estimate £50-80. lockdales.com* brightonandhoveauctions.co.uk* antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 37
PAGE 036-37 2467.indd 2 06/11/2020 12:56:58 PAGE 038 2467.indd 2 06/11/2020 11:27:28 pub-atg-2020-11.indd 2 05/11/2020 09:04 Auction in Versailles, France November 15th
RUSSIA. Large earthenware coat of Travel box with the arms of Marie Joséphine arms of the TROUBETSKOY family of Savoy, wife of the future King Louis XVIII. (Трубецкой) 76 x 53.5 cm
François-Jean GARNERAY (1755 - 1837) Molière honored by Louis XIV. Oil on panel signed and dated. 56 x 72.2 cm
According to the hours of Louis the great. King Louis XIV Jean-Baptiste LACOMBE (1760-1794) Self-portrait in prayer in the Royal Chapel of Versailles by Jean-Baptiste LACOMBE de PAUILLAC Gouache enhanced with gold on paper.21 x 15 cm Oil on canvas. 61 x 49 cm
QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE 18th century Spanish school. Portrait of a young dolphin with a Trunk n° 5 from the Garde robe de la Dauphine Antoine BENOIST (1632-1717) rapier, presumed to be future Charles II of England. Medal in honor of Louis XIV. Oil on canvas. 167 x 121 cm Diam: 85 mm. In its case. Around 1706 Agrément 2002 135 - Commissaire-Priseur habilité : Jean-Pierre Osenat habilité : Jean-Pierre Agrément 2002 135 - Commissaire-Priseur
QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE SOUVENIRS CHATEAU DE SAINT CLOUD. Rare and fine silk shoe Bathtub of Queen Marie-Antoine . and the chapel of the castle Experts : Jean-Claude DEY & Arnaud de GOUVION SAINT-CYR / Alexis BORDES / Marie de La CHEVARDIÈRE Françoise BERTHELOT-VINCHON / Alain NICOLAS & Pierre GHENO / Vincent l’HERROU co m p le t e c ata l o g u e o n li n e o n o u r w eb s i t e
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Show gives a window on the world French galleries team up for joint exhibition highlighting well-travelled artist Martin-Ferrières Copyright for all: Galerie Alexis Pentcheff by Frances Allitt
With much of Europe retreating once again into lockdown, two French galleries are offering a window on the world with a retrospective of the well-travelled artist Jacques Martin- Ferrières (1893-1972). Galerie Alexis Pentcheff in Marseille and Galerie Maket in Paris host Intimité et Horizons, which brings together a number of the artist’s still-lifes and scenes of his native France as well as depictions of locations from the former Yugoslavia to Venice and the US. Martin-Ferrières was prolific. Above left: Collioure, oil on In this show alone more than 120 canvas, signed lower right, paintings and 60 gouaches are spread 2ft 2in x 2ft 8in (65 x 81cm). between the two galleries, while Martin-Ferrières others frequently crop up on the open shied away from Above right: Les Arts market. “ Ménagers, oil on canvas, artistic fashions and signed lower right, 2ft 5in x Man of many layers the Modernist 3ft 2in (73 x 96cm). Born to the well-known Pointillist movements of the day Left: Foule en Yougoslavie, painter Henri Martin (1845-1924) in which he considered oil on canvas, signed lower Saint-Paul, Martin-Ferrières trained left, 21in x 2ft 5in (54 x at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, ‘vulgar and 73cm). but began to stray from the academy’s ephemeral’ conventions and became known for his thick application of paint in multiple layers. scholarship in 1924 and a gold medal specific settings, such as shoppers at In the upcoming pair of French He also shied away from artistic in 1928. marketplaces, men chatting in the shows prices range from €1000 to fashions and the Modernist The show is divided into several harbour at Collioure, or a crowd of €20,000. movements of the day, which, parts. The first includes still-lifes and women in Yugoslavian dress. They run from November 26 to according to the gallery, he considered early Parisian views then covers his Though several of his auction December 23, starting online, where ‘vulgar and ephemeral’. early trips including scenes of Italy. highs came in the late 1980s, some of works will appear on the gallery Instead he worked in his own, Finally, it celebrates the acceptance his works have found major success website and social media. rather conservative style, sometimes of his works at the Salon and various more recently. Vase de fleurs made a The exhibitions are due to incorporating his father’s Pointillist galleries. record for the artist at a Sotheby’s continue virtually and open technique. In this last category several of his sale in 2007, while another high price physically when the new French Eventually he became a regular major journeys are documented, was achieved with La maison d’Henri lockdown ends, currently slated for exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes including those to Greece and Spain. Martib à Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (1918) at the end of the month. n Français and he was the recipient Typical throughout his works is Bonhams in 2017 (source: Artprice galeriepentcheff.fr of several awards, including a travel the inclusion of figural groups within by Artmarket). maket-expert.fr
Gallery has December hopes
Henry Moore’s lithograph Reclining Woman is among the highlights in the Christmas exhibition at Thompson’s Gallery of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Running from December 5-January 4, the gallery hopes to run the show in person as planned. Although a second lockdown has been announced, the opening date should allow time for the restrictions to ease, according to current plans. In the meantime, the firm will operate online for the duration of lockdown. The Christmas show features works in a variety of media and styles and includes both Modern and Contemporary artworks. Among the other artists featured are lithographer Harry Becker (1865-1928), Above: Henry Moore, Reclining Woman, Contemporary artist Ania Hobson and perennial Modern British favourite John Above: John Piper, Untitled 1992 (Plant Pots), lithograph, 23in x 2ft 2in (58 x 66cm), Piper (1903-92). chalk, india ink, gouache on paper, 2ft x 2ft 7in priced £3850. thompsonsgallery.co.uk (61 x 78cm), £22,500.
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Right: a selection of figures from the Cartwright Collection The web shop window of Marlborough Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. models depicting Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week. the 1903 Delhi Durbar. Sealed bids This 19th century Aesthetic are accepted until movement ebonised slipper December 1. chair is offered in original condition with its original needlework upholstery for £2450. Made in England in Durbar parades across a shop window 1880, it features a straight top rail with key patterned A collection of more than 580 figures elephants, 12 maharajas, British and Indian ears above four turned representing participants in the 1903 troops, camels and various bazaar sets. and parcel gilt spindles. Delhi Durbar comprises the bulk of this The centrepiece is the Duke of Connaught, The chair stands on turned month’s exhibition at Bristol jeweller who stood in for Edward VII at the event. sabre front legs and is Grey-Harris & Co. The exhibition runs until November 29. united by a stretcher and It depicts the opening procession of the In light of the new lockdown, the gallery spindle gallery. British assembly in India held to mark the has organised the procession of figures in It is available from accession of a new emperor or empress – the window of its Clifton shop, where it will Loveday Antiques, a in this case Edward VII. The 1903 event is be visible from outside at an appropriate second-generation regarded as the most elaborate of the three height for small children. The shop is company that launched in 1969. Loveday has a showroom in Hertfordshire and also Durbars that took place, and Lord Curzon, accepting sealed bids on the collection trades from various online platforms and its website. who organised the extravaganza, dubbed it until December 1, and these will be
“the biggest thing ever seen in India”. reviewed on the 5th. lovedayantiques.co.uk The figurines were produced by Also available at the show are two 1903 Marlborough Military Models and the silver commemorative badges struck by assemblage, made up of 93 sets, was built the Royal Mint which were awarded to all up by former military man David Cartwright participants in the event, as well as several from 1985-2018. Many of the figures were items of jewellery. CADA takes hand-painted by Cartwright and include 14 grey-harris.co.uk to Instagram for Xmas 5 Questions The Cotswolds Art and Antiques Dealers Association (CADA) is taking to Instagram to give its Alex Puddy runs providing adverts at no cost to them as in members a boost before the festive Architectural the ATG this week (see p42-44), brilliant season. Heritage in PR from Gail McGuffie and constant With the new lockdown, Above: Freshfords Fine Antiques offers Gloucestershire support to promote CADA’s sole reason Christmas shopping might be more this George III Belgian Spa grisaille pink and is also chair for being, which is to drive sales to our challenging than usual this year. oval tea caddy, c1760-70 for £3500. and director of The members. However, CADA is this month Cotswolds Art and devoting its Instagram page to ideal Antiques Dealers 3 What challenges are facing the Christmas buys and gift suggestions those with specific Christmas Association (CADA). trade in the coming months? from members. themes, such as a 1763 sampler from architectural-heritage.co.uk There are a few! For us at the CADA it Among the featured items are Legge Carpets which depicts a cotswolds-antiques-art.com was the need to postpone our fair, which biblical scene of Mary and Joseph will now be held in October 2021 at our with the baby Jesus. 1 How did you get your start? new venue in the museum galleries of Trinity House Paintings offers I was born into a dealing family and Compton Verney. a selection of wintery paintings by so you could pick any date – for me artists such as Kyffin Williams. Other though it was when I stood my first 4 Who do you admire in the trade? highlights objects include those that (June) Olympia aged 23 and made There are too many great dealers past might appeal as gifts, such a George my very first sale, a Scottish multi- and present. However, if pushed I would III tea caddy from Freshfords Fine faceted sundial, to Axel Vervoordt who, say the Clarke Brothers (Sean and Antiques. magically, was always in before the Simon) of Christopher Clarke Antiques in “Our Instagram account also doors were open! Stow-on-the-Wold – the town incidentally shares and celebrates images taken in where the CADA first started over 40 the area, which may be helpful when 2 You are also the head of CADA. years ago. What have you done to support your planning a trip here,” says CADA head Alex Puddy (also see 5 Questions members this year? 5 Real ale or espresso martini? left). “We look forward to providing Working with my committee we have Before it would probably have been a warm welcome to visitors when it offered our (not increased) subscription both but now I would prefer to toast the is safe. In the meantime, we continue of £400 + VAT to be paid in instalments, CADA with a crisp white from the Loire. Above: this English needlework of the to help people online and over the Holy Family on the flight to Egypt is signed telephone.” If you would like to be featured in 5 Questions, please contact Mary Parker fecit, 1763 and is offered by CADA Instagram: [email protected] Legge Carpets for £980. @cadaartandantiquesassociation antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 41
PAGE 040-41 2467.indd 2 05/11/2020 15:46:40 Catherine Hunt PO Box 743, Cheltenham GL52 5ZB Mayflower Antiques Oriental Antiques M: +44 (0)7976 319344 E: [email protected] W: www.cathy-hunt.co.uk PO Box7408, Stourbridge DY8 9GZ T: +44 (0)7966 770748 E: [email protected] W: www.mayflower-antiques.co.uk
Yongzheng (1723-1735) plate made c.1730 from a noteable Gloucestershire collection, very fine enamel work to the decoration
Greenway Antiques Painswick, Gloucestershire Newman Fine Art M: +44 (0)7802 436621 W: www.newmanfineart.co.uk
90 Corn Street Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 6BU T: +44 (0)1993 705026 M: +44 (0)7831 585014 W: www.greenwayantiques.co.uk E: [email protected] Twitter: @GreenwayAntique
Noel Harry Leaver ARCA(1889-1951), ‘Winchcombe’, signed, inscribed verso, watercolour on tinted paper, 25 x 35cm
John Howard Woodstock, Oxfordshire 17 Silver Street Moxhams Antiques M: +44 (0)7831 850544 Bradford on Avon E: [email protected] Wiltshire BA15 1JZ W: www.antiquepottery.co.uk T: +44 (0)1225 862789 M: +44 (0)7802 506167 E: [email protected] W: www.moxhams-antiques.co.uk
Regency metamorphic Late 18th century English slipware chair
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PAGE 042, 043, 044 2467.indd 2 06/11/2020 15:47:08 Tobias Birch T: +44 (0)1242 242178 T: +44 (0)20 79382622 Strachan Fine Art Fine Antique Clocks M: +44 (0)7970 795892 M: +44 (0)7860 579126 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.tobiasbirch.com W: www.strachanfineart.com
Richard Lyons, London, a fine small 17th century table clock with pull John Liston (c.1776-1846), quarter repeat, circa 1685 actor and comedian, painted c. 1828, oil on canvas 30¼ x 25¼in, 76.84 x 64.14cm
Legge Carpets Freshford, Bath, Somerset BA2 Freshfords Fine Antiques T: +4 4 (0)12 2 5 72 2111 M: +44 (0)7720 838877 E: [email protected] 25 Oakthorpe Road, W: www.freshfords.com Summertown Oxford OX2 7BD T: +44 (0)1865 557572 E: [email protected] W: www.leggecarpets.com
Detail of a pair of William Morris curtains in the Campion design A matched pair of 18th century early George III period mahogany chests, English circa 1765
Howards The Cotswolds Art and Antique Dealers Association has been 44a Wood Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, supporting its members for Warwickshire CV37 6JG over 40 years. T: +44 (0)1789 205404 E: [email protected] W: www.howardsjewellers.com Our sole aim, our reason for being if you like, is to promote the integrity, depth of knowledge and the high quality of Art and Antiques to be found within our membership. Enamel stork brooch, set with diamonds and a certificated natural freshwater Our dealers are based in the heart of England radiating out pearl, French, circa 1910 from the centre of the Cotswolds, collectively supported by a dedicated PR consultant, an active website and our own Antiques Fair which we are looking forward to presenting next October at Compton Verney.
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PAGE 042, 043, 044 2467.indd 2 06/11/2020 16:09:32 W.R. Harvey Antiques T: +44 (0)1604 863979 Mark Goodger Antiques M: +44 (0)7779 654879 E: [email protected] W: www.markgoodger.co.uk 86 Corn Street, Witney, Rare exceptional Anglo-Indian carved ivory sewing Oxfordshire OX28 6BU compendium in the form of a temple, exquisitely T: +44 (0)1993 706501 carved with a pierced gallery, circa 1840 M: +44 (0)7967 649958 E: [email protected] W: www.wrharvey.com
A Queen Anne period burr walnut, crossbanded and feather banded bureau bookcase
Architectural Heritage David Pickup
Taddington Manor Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Taddington, near Cutsdean T: +44 (0)7860 469959 Gloucestershire GL54 5RY E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1386 584 414 W: www.davidpickupantiques.com E: [email protected] W: www.architectural-heritage.co.uk
A finely carved early 20th century marble wellhead having four carved classic scenes, Alexander the Great and Saint George and the Dragon - as two examples, separated by a floral band and pendant with four snarling lion masks to each Alan Peters, 1992 quarter. Raised on a carved circular base A masterpiece of 20th century cabinet making supporting a decorative iron overthrow, Height: 44 inches with chain and bucket! Height 231cm (90.94 in) Diameter 91cm (35.83 in)
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee 1 West Cottages Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold, Christopher Clarke Antiques Middle Aston Road Gloucestershire GL54 1JS Campaign Furniture North Aston T: +44 (0)1451 830476 Oxfordshire OX25 5QB E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.campaignfurniture.com W: www.elizabethharvey-lee.com
Edith Lawrence (1890-1973), Houses under the Hill, 228 x 332mm, original colour linocut, c.1929- Captain Sir William O’Malley 30, signed and numbered 1/50 and the Hon. Ivor Talbot £7,500 of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, Grosvenor School linocut by Grand Casemates Square, the wife of Claude Flight Gibraltar, circa 1844
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PAGE 042, 043, 044 2467.indd 3 06/11/2020 16:41:40 T h e r i a u l T ’ s 5 0 T h a n n i v e r s a r y e a r l y W i n T e r a u c T i o n Saturday, December 5, 2020 at Theriault’s Studio in Annapolis, Maryland The Auction Begins at 11AM Eastern “ThE DOLL AS ThEATRE” — A CATALOgED MARquiS AuCTiOn Of nEAPOLiTAn DOLLS he celebrated Hanne Büktas collection of rare 18th century The auction will be conducted live online with live audio and video TNeapolitan dolls will come to auction by Theriault’s of feed allowing each object to be shown in close detail as it comes to Annapolis, Maryland on Saturday, December 5, in an important the podium. A free color brochure is available on request now and a auction titled “The Doll as Theatre, Neapolitan and Continental full color 244-page catalog with detailed photographs of each item is Dolls of the 18th Century”. Classic figures of the Neapolitan available for $75 softbound or $105 hardbound. Video presentations scene are featured including an extraordinary trio of Caspar, of the collection narrated by Florence Theriault are also available for Balthazar and Melchior in royal robes astride their decorated viewing after November 15 on Theriault’s YouTube channel. horses, as well as other royalty, aristocratic men and women from the fashionable salons of 1700s-era Naples, village people from There are many options for bidding including traditional absentee the markets, shops and taverns including delightful children, and bidding, live telephone bidding, live internet bidding, and pre-bidding on peasant peoples from the countryside. Too, the collection includes internet. Collectors are invited to telephone Theriault’s customer service very sought-after, rarely found, accessories such as horses, cows, at +001-410-224-3655, email [email protected] or visit theriaults.com lambs, and dogs, as well as furnishings, rare baskets of modeled for additional information or to order catalogs. Appointments can also be food, embroideries and more. made to remotely view specific lots prior to the auction. As studies into this field continue, more and more documentation is being uncovered concerning the artists of the highly-characterized The auction contains over 350 choices. dolls. The collection includes a number of very rare examples A second session of the Hanne Büktas attributed to celebrated sculptors of 18th century Naples including Collection will take place March 6, Giuseppe Sanmartino, Francesco Celebrano and Lorenzo Mosca. 2021. A two-volume set of the auction Cataloguer Florence Theriault of Theriault’s notes, “Although the pieces catalogs can be ordered at a special were rarely signed, newly-uncovered documentation as well as style price of $125 softbound or $165 comparisons with those pieces which were signed allows us to attribute hardbound. Volume II will be shipped some of these works”. mid-February. x
For more information or to order the catalogs PO Box 151, Annapolis, MD 21404 visit theriaults.com, email [email protected], 410-224-3655 M-F 8:30AM-5PM EST or call +001-410-224-3655. A video feed is free Fax: 410-224-2515 • theriaults.com to view during the auction and absentee, live telephone and live internet bidding are available. the dollmasters
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While care has been taken in compiling these previews, we strongly advise that you also check with the saleroom concerned in case of cancellations or postponements because Steiff bear looking for a home of the latest Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions.
Bertoia Auctions’ latest wide-ranging toy sale in Vineland, New Jersey, on November 12-13 includes this early Steiff teddy bear Millet returns to his native Normandy dating from c.1905.
@ Artcurial The 2ft (61cm) high, centre seam bear Artcurial’s latest staging in apricot mohair with black shoe-button eyes, of its biannual sales of Old features a swivel head, jointed arms and has Master and 19th century a small blank button in its ear. The pads paintings, drawings and have been replaced and there is wear to sculpture will take place the muzzle. on November 18 as a live, Estimate $10,000-15,000. behind-closed-doors auction bertoiaauctions.com at the firm’s Paris rooms. Among the highlights are a newly discovered panel painting of The Penitent Magdalene by Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known as Salaì, who was Leonardo da Vinci’s closest collaborator (estimate €100,000-150,000); an oil on panel attributed to the German Renaissance Royal footwear in Versailles artist Melchior Feselen depicting Judith carrying the head of Holofernes (estimated at €400,000-600,000) and, from the 19th This leather-soled silk and kid leather shoe decorated with pleated ribbons is inscribed century, this painting of a fishing boat at sea in pen on the heel Soulier de Marie-Antoinette donné à M.de Voisey. by Jean-François Millet (above right). It has passed down by descent through the family of Charles-Gilbert de Lachapelle Millet’s 12¾ x 16in (32.5 x 41cm) oil on (1755-94) who was head of the canvas, which is signed lower left, dates offices of the civil list of the king. from the time when the artist moved back to His wife Marie Emilie née his native Normandy for around 16 months Leschevin was a close friend of from August 1870 during the Siege of Paris. Madame Campan, Queen Marie It is one of a number of seascapes that he produced during this period. The painting Antoinette’s first chambermaid. has featured in several exhibitions, as the labels on the back of the painting attest, and The show will feature in a live the path from its original creation through a number of famous collections to the current behind-closed-doors sale titled La owners is particularly well documented. Royauté à Versailles at Osenat in Included in the artist’s posthumous sale at the Hôtel Drouot in May 1875, the painting Versailles on November 15. entered the Duncan collection in London; was then acquired by Victor Desfossés and then Estimate €8000-10,000. purchased at the 1899 sale of his collection by Ernest Cognacq, founder of La Samaritaine osenat.com department store. Part of his extensive art collection was bequeathed to the city of Paris and is now the Musée Cognacq-Jay. Millet’s painting of the fishing boat passed to Ernest’s great-nephew Gabriel and was acquired from the posthumous sale of his collection in 1952 by the grandparents of the current owners. It is estimated at €400,000-600,000 in the Artcurial sale. Georgian globes travel to Los Angeles artcurial.com
This pair of early 19th century George III period terrestrial and celestial Leeds maker clocks in globes in mahogany stands are by Dudley Adams, This 19in (48cm) high late 18th (1762-1830) a member of the century English mahogany cased well-known Adams family of bracket clock is one of the horological globemakers. entries in Fontaine’s online auction to The 3ft 9in (1.1m) high be held in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, globes are part of a 193-lot on November 14. consignment from the estate The clock, which has an eight-day of Ann and Pete Jackson that time and fusée movement striking the furnished their Santa Barbara hours on a bell, is by William Bowling home, Rancho San Carlos, who is listed as a clockmaker in St which the couple built during James Street, Leeds, and is signed in the Depression era. the centre of the painted dial and on They will be offered by the backplate. Bonhams in Los Angeles Estimate $1200-1500. on November 12 with an fontainesauction.com estimate of $15,000-30,000 bonhams.com 46 | 14 November 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 046-47 2467.indd 1 05/11/2020 17:14:10 Send highlights to Anne Crane at [email protected] MODERN MASTERS AND VINTAGE MASTERS Including Important World Treasures at auction December 1st - 2nd, 2020 Over 700 lots featuring a significant offering of modern masters deaccessioned from an important corporate collection as well as other vintage world treasures, circa 1600 - 1900. Including Chinese, Russian, European artwork, paintings, decorative arts, jewelry, gold, and more.
Pair of striking French posters Pictured here are two inter-war French posters advertising motoring products that will feature in poster auctions taking place in the US this month. The 1930s colour lithograph poster for the French oil brand Antar, above left, will be offered by Potter & Potter in its November 14 sale of posters, printed ephemera and works on paper in Chicago. The 2ft 7in x 2ft (79 x 61cm) poster, depicting a red racing car zooming along the corniche road at the Monte Carlo rally, was published by Vox and has an estimate of $1500-2500. Above right is a striking poster designed by AM Cassandre in 1931 advertising Triplex safety glass which will be offered in Poster Auctions International’s sale to be held in New York the following day, November 15. WAYNE THIEBAUD (b. 1920-) The 2ft 7in x 3ft 11in (79cm x 1.2m) poster, printed by Alliance Graphique, Paris, Black Suckers has an estimate of $20,000-25,000. pre-sale estimate $15 - $20,000 potterauctions.com posterauctions.com
Oyster server
This 10 x 12in (25 x 30cm) Minton’s majolica revolving oyster-serving stand from c.1870 will feature in the fourth day of the auction series to be staged by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Maine from November 12-15. The four-tier stand, with a handle formed as three fish, is impressed Minton and has a date cypher and shape number to the base. FRED EVERSLEY (B. 1941-) Estimate $5000-7000. Acrylic Disc, diameter 36 inches thomastonauction.com pre-sale estimate $3 - $5,000
Rare Gauguin woodcut print
Swann Galleries is holding a 476-lot sale of Old Master to STEPHEN DE STAEBLER (1933-2011) Modern prints spanning the 16th bronze, height 70 inches to 20th centuries in New York on pre-sale estimate $10 - $15,000 November 12. Among the highlights is this early impression of a rare woodcut print by Paul Gauguin, Mahna No Varua Ino, from 1893-94. The INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS 8¼ x 14¼in (21 x 35.5cm) print on imitation Japan paper from an 2229 Lincoln Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 USA edition of approximately 25-30 has an estimate of $20,000-30,000. (001) 319-277-2256 jacksonsauction.com swanngalleries.com antiquestradegazette.com 14 November 2020 | 47
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Second ‘lost’ and enjoy your weekly issues Marlborough gem sparkles in Cambridge on the go. An intaglio ring became the second of the ‘lost’ Marlborough jewels to surface at auction in 2019 when it sold for £36,000 (plus 22.5% premium) in Cambridge. The Grand Tour-era gold ring with an earlier Roman intaglio of a clean-shaven
Pocket barometer by Short Mason Ltd London, sold at Sworders on October 2019, 15, for £150 via thesaleroom.com man was sold at Cheffins on December 12 together with a copy of the hardback Christie’s catalogue from June 1899 of the sale of The Marlborough Gems, at which, according to family tradition, it was bought. The collection of about 800 engraved gems formed by the nobleman and politician George Spencer, 4th Duke of 4 Read the weekly Marlborough (1739-1817), was the largest and most important of the age. It resided at Blenheim Palace until it was sold by the Continued on page 4 Gazette on the day it is PREDICTIONS FOR 2020 published rather than Predictions for 2020: A varied quartet of items sold Our guide to the New Year agenda1 - pages 12-15 across online-only sales in 2019 waiting for it to arrive Above: one of the lost Marlborough gems, 3 sold for £36,000 at1. This Cheffins. two-handled presentation cup and cover with the mark of Quan of Canton, probably retailed by Lee Ching of Canton, Hong Kong and Shanghai, c.1900 sold at $11,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) as part of the collection of Myrna and Bernard Posner, offered by 2020 Christie’s in New York during an online-only sale closing on August 22. New Year Double Issue: 28 December 2019 and 4 January2. The sale of tennis2020 memorabilia conducted ‘on behalf of the in the post trustees in bankruptcy of the estate of Boris Becker’ by business asset valuer and auctioneer Wyles Hardy & Co in July included this 7in (17cm) silver replica of the Renshaw Cup made by Wakely & 2 Wheeler of London, 1987 sold via thesaleroom.com at £40,250. 3. No sale in 2019 was more successful than Sotheby’s March online 4 ANTIQUES AND 20TH dispersalCENTURY of memorabilia DESIGN from the estate of free market economist visionThe Decorative Friedrich von Hayek. Sotheby’s set a modern-day record for an online- For better or worse, Brexit is finally set to proceed and will be a major factor in the year Antiques & Textiles FOR INTERIORonly hammer DECORATION price when his Nobel prize medal awarded in 1968 sold ahead – as will timed auctions, anti-money laundering rules, the looming prospect of for £950,000. a near-total ivory trade ban, antiquities challenges and a new buying ethos based on THREE4. ThisTIMES fine copy A of YEARthe Dandy ComicIN No 2 (1937), one of only a few issues known to exist, sold via thesaleroom.com for £4550 by Comic cultural sensitivities, changes at major fairs and a growingFAIR ‘green’ movement BATTERSEABook PARK, Auctions onLONDON June 2. 4 Build an online archive decorativefair.com +44 (0)20 7616 9327 moreWINTER than $1m in hammer total by “We treat the lots offered in our Brexit uncertainty over November. timed auction format no differently 21-26The key to timed-sale January success has 2020to those offered in our catalogued Major anniversariesUse this advert as ain complimentary 2020 ticket for two / ATG Following the Conservative Party Pent-up consignments turned out to be a healthy respect sales. We have found that our timed of back issues that you winning a majority in the General from previously for the oldest auction principles. auction format is presently our most Dealers, fair organisers and auction houses often hold events that coincide with be a theme for Firsts, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association fair in June. Election on December 13, the UK is “ Lots must be market fresh, well effective new buyer recruitment tool important anniversaries. More recently, 2020 marks the 15th year since the launch of online auction reticent vendors could expected to end its EU membership photographed,DF_ATG 50x216 described WIN20.indd in detail 1 for younger shoppers.” The year 2020 is the 200th anniversary of the births of two major 19th century marketplace thesaleroom.com18/12/2019 (and we’ll also 21:34 be eagerly anticipating 2021 on January 31. now be released and with realistic estimates. Some He expects that the hammer total names: Florence Nightingale and Ludwig van Beethoven. which is when ATG turns 50). 38 x 31 cm amily idyll. Oil on metal plate, The UK government will then sales benefit from theming by from timed auctions at Forum in The year also marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance master Below is a list of key anniversaries in 2020 that may prompt a spike in have until the end of the transition category or represent a single-owner 2020 will represent more than 25% Raphael and the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens. The latter will interest and perhaps buying activity in art, antiques and historical documents. period on December 31 to negotiate a collection. All must be available for or more of overall hammer, a rise of
PAGE 001, 004 2423.indd 1 20/12/2019 11:07:31 F free-trade agreement with Brussels. year just ending was something of a examination in person. 8 percentage points year-on-year. can view whenever The end to some of the Brexit breakthrough for this selling model While some specialist UK auction Other major UK regional auction January June
uncertainty will help the art and in the UK. Expect more of the same houses have made timed-online their houses are set to embrace timed 100th anniversary of the birth of science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov 150th anniversary of the death of author Charles Dickens antiques trade. over the coming 12 months. exclusive way of selling – witness the sales in the year ahead. The future is 100th anniversary of prohibition coming into effect in the US Pent-up consignments from Results from 2019 for Sotheby’s, success of Comic Book Auctions increasingly online. 200th anniversary of the birth of author Anne Bronte August previously reticent vendors could Christie’s and Bonhams tell a story: and its sales on thesaleroom.com, 75th anniversary of VJ Day when Japan announced its unconditional now be released possibly leading to a timed sales may represent only a for example – a few of the UK’s Red tape challenge February surrender, ending the Second World War in the Pacific bonanza for auction houses in 2020. small percentage of total business biggest regional firms have also made 200th anniversary of the birth of American Civil War general William you need them Foreign dealers previously but they are now the firms’ biggest online-only sales a core part of their Tecumseh Sherman unwilling to exhibit at UK fairs may source of new customers. Accessible business model. The European Union’s Fifth Anti- September feel more willing to commit to new sales of collectable trainers, Supreme Fellows intends to raise the Money Laundering Directive is 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima during the Second World War 75th anniversary of the official ending of the Second World War with the schedules in 2020 now that the fear merch, wristwatches, ‘celebrity’ number of its online-only sales in to come into effect in the UK on 200th anniversary of the birth of John Tenniel, known for his illustrations of formal signing of the surrender document by the Japanese on USS Missouri of a no-deal Brexit has receded. collections are all part of the quest to 2020 by at least a quarter, holding January 10, 2020 (see page 4). Alice in Wonderland 150th anniversary of the start of the Siege of Paris during the Franco- In the longer term, however, broaden the target audience. 25 or more next year. Stephen It inserts extra layers of Prussian War the trade will face significant No wonder Bonhams intends to Whittaker, managing director at administration in the purchasing of March complications as a result of inevitable double the number of its online-only Fellows, said: “All of the sales have art and antiques at values of €10,000 75th anniversary of the death of diary writer Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen November changes to import and export rules. sales in 2020. had a very high sell-rate and they or more. As the trade adjusts to the concentration camp. The specific date is uncertain but is thought to be in 50th anniversary of the death of French President Charles de Gaulle Average online lot values and have been popular among our buyers, new regulation there will be concerns March 1945 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims arriving at Cape Cod so I’m sure this is a trend which will Timed auctions on the up selling rates are rising and the about how it will impact day-to-day 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Dublin during the Irish War of horizon of what sells online is continue in 2020.” processes. Independence broadening. Books, prints, jewellery, Stephan Ludwig, Forum Auctions’ On the one side is the April 500th anniversary of the death of Italian artist Raphael The ‘online-only’ or ‘timed online’ Asian art and secondary Old Masters chief executive officer, affirms that administrative burden. Companies 500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan reaching the Pacific Ocean 250th anniversary of the birth of poet William Wordsworth through the Strait of Magellan (as it became known) and becoming the first auction is not exactly a new way are now the norm. In 2019 Christie’s the key to a successful timed auction must ensure they meet the 4 Find topics of interest of selling art and antiques. Ebay, sold the Posner collection of is “no different to that of a traditional requirements in the course of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Russian revolutionary leader Lenin European to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific founded by Pierre Omidyar in the Chinese and Japanese export silver auction, namely presenting the new year, including putting in place autumn of 1995, turns 25 years old in an online sale in the supposedly correct combination of interesting an AML policy and risk assessment, May December in 2020. However, the perception of sleepy month of August; Texas material, competitive pricing and establishing a record-keeping system, 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe) during the Second World War 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Ludwig van Beethoven the timed sale as the place for low- auction house Heritage converted ensuring the lots are easily accessible appointing an AML reporting officer 200th anniversary of the launch of Charles Darwin’s ship HMS Beagle 300th anniversary of the birth of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young value collectables or unsold lots from monthly interiors sales into online- to a broader ecommerce-savvy 200th anniversary of the birth of nurse Florence Nightingale Pretender also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘live’ sales is finally changing. The only auctions in July and had sold community of buyers. 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