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OLD MASTER PAINTINGS Wednesday 8 July 2015 OLD MASTER PAINTINGS | 1 2 | BONHAMS BONHAMS OLD MASTERS DEPARTMENT Andrew McKenzie Caroline Oliphant Brian Koetser Director, Head of Department, Group Head of Pictures Consultant, London London London London – – – Lisa Greaves Archie Parker Poppy Harvey-Jones Department Director Senior Specialist Junior Specialist London London London – – – Alexandra Frost Mark Fisher Madalina Lazen Administrator, Director, European Paintings, Senior Specialist, European Paintings Los Angeles London New York Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, – – – Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling Global CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. Gordon McFarlan, OLD MASTER PAINTINGS Wednesday 8 July 2015, at 2pm 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING Live online bidding is Global Director ILLUSTRATIONS Saturday 4 July available for this sale Picture Sales Front cover: lot 112 12.00 to 17.00 Please email [email protected] Jonathan Horwich Back cover: lot 2 Sunday 5 July with ‘live bidding’ in the subject +44 (0) 20 7468 8280 Inside front cover: 11.00 to 17.00 line 48 hours before the auction [email protected] lots 8, 70 Monday 6 July to register for this service. Inside back cover: 9.00 to 16.30 CUSTOMER SERVICES lots 26, 105, 122 Tuesday 7 July ENQUIRIES Monday to Friday 8.30 to 18.00 9.00 to 16.30 IMPORTANT INFORMATION Specialists +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Wednesday 8 July Andrew McKenzie The United States Government 9.00 to 12.00 +44 (0) 20 7468 8261 Please see back of catalogue has banned the import of ivory [email protected] for important notice to bidders into the USA. Lots containing SALE NUMBER ivory are indicated by the 22644 Caroline Oliphant symbol Ф printed beside the +44 (0) 20 7468 8271 lot number in this catalogue. CATALOGUE [email protected] £25.00 Lisa Greaves +44 (0) 20 7468 8325 BIDS [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Archie Parker To bid via the internet please visit +44 (0) 20 7468 5877 www.bonhams.com [email protected] Bidding by telephone will only be Poppy Harvey-Jones accepted on lots with a lower +44 (0) 20 7468 8308 estimate in excess of £1,000. poppy.harvey-jones@bonhams. com Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 4pm on Alexandra Frost the day prior to the sale. New +44 (0) 20 7468 8307 bidders must also provide proof [email protected] of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in Consultant your bid not being processed. Brian Koetser Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling Global CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. Gordon McFarlan, Central Middlesex Hospital SALE Park Royal INFORMATION Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V Bids All other sold lots will remain in Address: IMPORTANT NOTICE +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 the collections Department at West ParkActon Royal Warehouse A surchargeHorn Lane of 2% is applicable +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax New Bond Street without StationUnit 1, Sovereign Park when using Mastercard, Visa [email protected] charge until 5.30pm Coronation Road, Park Royal and overseas debit cards. Wednesday 22 July 2015. Lots London NW10 7QP Payments not collected by then will be Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 The following symbol is used to Buyers Returned to the department. Hours of opening 9.30am denote that VAT is due on the +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Storage charges may apply. -4.30pm Monday to Friday only. hammer price and buyer’s +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax premium Handling and storage Lots may be released from Sellers charges Bonhams warehouse on † VAT 20% on hammer price Payment of sale proceeds The charges levied by production of the Collection and buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Bonhams are as follows: Order obtained from cashiers +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax office at Bonhams, * VAT on imported items at a All lots marked with W Knightsbridge or New Bond preferential rate of 5% on Valuations, taxation and Street and a form of hammer price and the prevailing heritage Transfer per lot £20.00 photographic ID. If a third party rate on buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 Daily storage per lot £3.40 is collecting on behalf of a +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax client, the client must provide W These lots will be removed to [email protected] All other objects Bonhams with written authority Bonhams Park Royal after the prior to collection. The third sale. Please read the sale Catalogue subscriptions Transfer per lot £10.00 party must present a information page for more To obtain any Bonhams Daily storage per lot £1.70 photographic form of ID when details. catalogue or collecting. to take out an annual All the above charges are VAT refunds on exports from subscription: exclusive of VAT. Payment in advance the EU Subscriptions Department Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 To submit a claim for refund of +44 (0) 1666 502200 to ascertain amount due by: VAT HMRC require lots to be +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax cash, cheque with banker’s exported from the EU within [email protected] card, credit card, bank draft or strict deadlines. traveller’s cheque. Shipping For lots on which Import VAT For information and estimates Payment at time of collection has been charged; marked in on domestic and international By credit card / debit card the catalogue with a * or Ω, lots shipping as well as export must be exported within 30 licenses please contact days of Bonhams’ receipt of Bonhams Shipping payment and within 3 months of Department on: the sale date. For all other lots +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 export must take place within 3 +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 months of the sale date. +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] For further VAT information please contact: Collection and Storage [email protected] after sale Sold lots marked with ‘W’ will be transferred to the warehouse at Park Royal from 5pm the day of the sale & will be available for collection from 9.30am Friday 10 July 2015. These lots will be subject to transfer and storage charges from Wednesday 22 July 2015. 1 FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (VIENNA 1731-1801) A study of Shells (Halbe Flügelschnecken) inscribed ‘Halbe Flügelschnecken/Cochlides semi–alatae./i7.’ (upper centre and upper right) graphite, pen and brown ink and watercolour on laid paper, watermark fleur-de-lys on a shield with a crown 49.8 x 35cm (19 5/8 x 13 3/4in). together with a work by the same hand of snakes (2) £7,000 - 10,000 €9,800 - 14,000 US$11,000 - 15,000 Provenance Sale, im Kinsky, Vienna, 13 October 2009, lot 78 OLD MASTER PAINTINGS | 7 2 GIULIO CLOVIO (MODRUŠ 1498-1578 ROME) Juraj Klović was born in Grižane, Croatia, in 1478. By 1516, however, A page from an illuminated manuscript showing The Virgin Annunciate he was in Venice painting his first miniatures after Albrecht Dürer under surrounded by a decorative border containing niches with statues of the name of Giulio Clovio. Thence he travelled to Perugia, where he Moses and King Solomon, playful cherubs and decorative cartouches produced between 1534 and 1538 what is now known as the with trompe l’oeil insects gouache and gold on vellum laid on card, the reverse inscribed in Stuart de Rothesay Book of Hours, and then to Rome. In 1539 he a later hand ‘Julius Clovius macedo monumenta hoec Alexandro/ entered the service of Alessandro Farnese for whom he created his Farnesio cardinali domino suo faciebat MDXLVI’ masterpiece, the Farnese Book of Hours, on which he worked from 14 x 11.5cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2in).