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BONHAMS 22 QUEEN STREET, EDINBURGH, EH2 1JX HOME & interiors EDINBURGH Wednesday 22 June 2016 HOME & interiors Ӏ Edinburgh Edinburgh Ӏ 22 June 2016 THIS SALE FEATURES Furniture, Works of Art, Silver, Ceramics, Glass and Pictures AT HOME WITH 23497 Professor David Purdie, Edinburgh polymath INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS – BONHAMS.COM HOME & interiors EDINBURGH SALE WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016, 11.00 VIEWINGS SUNDAY 19 JUNE 2016, 13.00 - 16.00 MONDAY 20 JUNE 2016, 10.00 - 16.00 EVENING VIEWING WITH REFRESHMENTS, 17.00 - 19.00 TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2016, 10.00 - 16.00 WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016, 9.00 - 11.00 VENUE 22 QUEEN STREET EDINBURGH EH2 1JX MEET THE TEAM Kenneth Naples Georgia Williams Works of Art, Clocks and Furniture & Works of Art Scientific Instruments [email protected] [email protected] 0131 240 2296 0131 240 0912 Fiona Hamilton Iain Byatt-Smith Silver Pictures fi[email protected] [email protected] 0131 240 2631 0131 240 0913 Katherine Wright Bruce Addison Ceramics & Glass Head of Furniture [email protected] [email protected] 0131 240 0911 0131 240 0910 SALE INFORMATION FURNITURE, SCULPTURE & WORKS OF PLEASE NOTE THAT BIDS SHOULD BE PAYMENTS ART, CARPETS, TAPESTRIES & RUGS SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN 4PM ON THE BUYERS KENNETH NAPLES DAY PRIOR TO THE SALE. NEW BIDDERS +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 131 240 0912 MUST ALSO PROVIDE PROOF OF IDENTITY +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 FAX [email protected] WHEN SUBMITTING BIDS. FAILURE TO DO THIS MAY RESULT IN YOUR BID NOT BEING SELLERS GEORGIA WILLIAMS PROCESSED. TELEPHONE BIDDING WILL PAYMENT OF SALE PROCEEDS +44 131 240 2296 ONLY BE ACCEPTED ON LOTS WITH A LOWER +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 [email protected] ESTIMATE IN EXCESS OF £500. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 FAX SILVER LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS AVAILABLE VALUATIONS, TAXATION AND HERITAGE FIONA HAMILTON PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] WITH +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 +44 131 240 2631 ‘LIVE BIDDING’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE 48 +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 FAX [email protected] HOURS BEFORE THE AUCTION TO REGISTER [email protected] FOR THIS SERVICE. PICTURES CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS IAIN BYATT-SMITH PHYSICAL CONDITION OF LOTS TO OBTAIN ANY BONHAMS CATALOGUE OR +44 131 240 0913 PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY REFERENCE IN THIS TO TAKE OUT AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION: [email protected] CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL CONDITION SUBSCRIPTIONS DEPARTMENT OF ANY LOT IS FOR GENERAL GUIDANCE +44 (0) 1666 502200 CERAMICS & GLASS ONLY. INTENDING BIDDERS MUST SATISFY +44 (0) 1666 505107 FAX KATHERINE WRIGHT THEMSELVES AS TO THE CONDITION OF ANY [email protected] +44 131 240 0911 LOT AS SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 14 OF THE [email protected] NOTICE TO BIDDERS CONTAINED AT THE END SHIPPING OF THIS CATALOGUE. FOR INFORMATION AND ESTIMATES FINE FURNITURE ON DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL BRUCE ADDISON AS A COURTESY TO INTENDING BIDDERS, SHIPPING AS WELL AS EXPORT LICENSES +44 131 240 0910 BONHAMS WILL PROVIDE A WRITTEN PLEASE CONTACT BONHAMS SHIPPING [email protected] INDICATION OF THE PHYSICAL CONDITION DEPARTMENT ON: OF LOTS IN THIS SALE IF A REQUEST IS +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 CUSTOMER SERVICES RECEIVED UP TO 24 HOURS BEFORE THE +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 MONDAY TO FRIDAY 8.30 TO 18.00 AUCTION STARTS. THIS WRITTEN INDICATION +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 FAX +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 IS ISSUED SUBJECT TO CLAUSE 3 OF THE [email protected] NOTICE TO BIDDERS. PLEASE SEE NEXT PAGE FOR BIDDER INFORMATION INCLUDING AFTER-SALE IMPORTANT INFORMATION COLLECTION AND SHIPMENT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS BANNED THE IMPORT OF IVORY INTO SALE NUMBER THE USA. LOTS CONTAINING IVORY ARE 23497 INDICATED BY THE SYMBOL ĸ PRINTED BESIDE THE LOT NUMBER IN THIS BIDS CATALOGUE. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 FAX TO BID VIA THE INTERNET PLEASE VISIT BONHAMS.COM BUYERS COLLECTION & BONHAMS BO’NESS WAREHOUSE CITES REGULATIONS STORAGE AFTER SALE ADDRESS: PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ALL LOTS MARKED ALL SOLD LOTS WILL REMAIN IN THE JOHN PYE AUCTIONS WITH THE SYMBOL Y ARE SUBJECT TO CITES COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT AT BONHAMS, CARRIDEN REGULATIONS WHEN EXPORTING THESE EDINBURGH FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS BO’NESS ITEMS OUTSIDE THE EU. THE REGULATIONS THAN 14 CALENDAR DAYS FROM THE SALE WEST LOTHIAN MAY BE FOUND AT WWW.UKCITES.GOV.UK DATE. EH51 9SF OR MAY BE REQUESTED FROM: SOLD LOTS NOT COLLECTED BY 6 JULY LOTS MAY ONLY BE RELEASED FROM UK CITES MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY 2016 WILL BE REMOVED TO THE BONHAMS BONHAMS, EDINBURGH WAREHOUSE ZONE 117 EDINBURGH WAREHOUSE FACILITY IN ON PRODUCTION OF THE “COLLECTION TEMPLE QUAY HOUSE BO’NESS. ORDER” OBTAINED FROM THE CASHIER’S 2 THE SQUARE OFFICE AT BONHAMS AND A FORM OF TEMPLE QUAY LOTS REMOVED TO BONHAMS, EDINBURGH PHOTOGRAPHIC I.D. IF A THIRD PARTY IS BRISTOL BS1 6EB WAREHOUSE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO COLLECTING ON A CLIENT’S BEHALF, THEY COLLECT FROM MONDAY 11 JULY 2016. MUST ALSO PRODUCE A CLIENT’S LETTER SYMBOLS OF AUTHORIZATION. THE FOLLOWING SYMBOL IS USED TO COLLECTION DENOTE THAT VAT IS DUE ON THE HAMMER LOTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTION STORAGE WILL BE FREE OF CHARGE FOR PRICE AND BUYER’S PREMIUM FROM BONHAMS EDINBURGH WAREHOUSE THE FIRST 19 CALENDAR DAYS FOLLOWING FACILITY IN BO’NESS FROM 10.00AM THE SALE, CHARGES COMMENCE FROM † VAT 20% ON HAMMER PRICE MONDAY 11 JULY 2016 AND THEN EVERY 6TH JULY. AFTER THE FREE STORAGE AND BUYER’S PREMIUM WORKING DAY BETWEEN 10.00AM AND PERIOD, THE FOLLOWING CHARGES APPLY: 4.30PM (PLEASE NOTE – BUYERS NEED TO £10.00 + VAT PER WEEK FOR SMALL ITEMS, VAT ON IMPORTED ITEMS AT A BE ONSITE AT THE WAREHOUSE BY 4.00PM). * AND £15.00 + VAT FOR LARGE ITEMS. PREFERENTIAL RATE OF 5% ON HAMMER A BOOKING EMAIL OR PHONE CALL WILL BE PRICE AND THE PREVAILING RATE ON REQUIRED TO ENSURE LOTS ARE READY AT BUYER’S PREMIUM TIME OF COLLECTION. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COLLECTIONS FROM BO’NESS NEED TO VAT REFUNDS ON EXPORTS FROM THE EU BE MET BY A MEMBER OF BONHAMS STAFF TO SUBMIT A CLAIM FOR REFUND OF VAT PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR CONTACT DETAILS. HMRC REQUIRE LOTS TO BE EXPORTED FROM THE EU WITHIN STRICT DEADLINES. CONTACT DETAILS FOR COLLECTION FROM BONHAMS WAREHOUSE FACILITY FOR LOTS ON WHICH IMPORT VAT HAS BEEN IN BO’NESS: CHARGED; MARKED IN THE CATALOGUE PLEASE CONTACT: GEORGIA WILLIAMS WITH A OR , LOTS MUST BE EXPORTED DIRECT LINE: +44 131 240 2296 * 1 WITHIN 30 DAYS OF BONHAMS’ RECEIPT OF EMAIL:[email protected] PAYMENT AND WITHIN 3 MONTHS OF THE SALE DATE. FOR ALL OTHER LOTS EXPORT MUST TAKE PLACE WITHIN 3 MONTHS OF THE SALE DATE. FOR FURTHER VAT INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: [email protected] Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 9VILY[)YVVRZ*V*OHPYTHU *VSPU:OLHM*OHPYTHU .VYKVU4J-HYSHU(UKYL^4J2LUaPL 9LNPZ[LYLK6ѝJL!4VU[WLSPLY.HSSLYPLZ 4HSJVST)HYILY*V*OHPYTHU /HY]L`*HTTLSS+LW\[`*OHPYTHU :PTVU4P[JOLSS1Lќ4\ZL4PRL5LPSS 4VU[WLSPLY:[YLL[3VUKVU:>// *VSPU:OLHM+LW\[`*OHPYTHU 1VUH[OHU)HKKLSL`(U[VU`)LUUL[[4H[[OL^ *OHYSPL6»)YPLU.PSLZ7LWWPH[[7L[LY9LLZ 4H[[OL^.PYSPUN*,6 )YHKI\Y`3\JPUKH)YLKPU:PTVU*V[[SL 0HPU9\ZOIYVVR1VOU:HUKVU;PT:JOVÄLSK 7H[YPJR4LHKL.YV\W=PJL*OHPYTHU (UKYL^*\YYPL7H\S+H]PKZVU1LHU.OPRH =LYVUPX\L:JVYLY1HTLZ:[YH[[VU9HSWO;H`SVY MH_ .LVќYL`+H]PLZ1HTLZ2UPNO[ *OHYSLZ.YHOHT*HTWILSS4PYHUKH3LZSPL :OHOPU=PYHUP+H]PK>PSSPHTZ *HYVSPUL6SPWOHU[ 9PJOHYK/HY]L`9VIPU/LYLMVYK(ZHWO/`THU 4PJOHLS>`ULSS4H`V^:\aHUUHO@PW +H]PK1VOUZVU*OHYSLZ3HUUPUN at home with DAVID PURDIE 0UHU[OJLU[\Y`,KPUI\YNOOV\ZLÄSSLK with books and pictures, Neil Lyndon discovers [OLWYVMLZZVY^OVZ\YYV\UKZOPTZLSM^P[OYLSPJZVM[OLWHZ[ Photography by Robert Ormerod esmerising surprises lurk in every nook and cranny research, I spent two years on the Canberra as ship’s doctor. VM+H]PK7\YKPL»Z,KPUI\YNOÅH[HUK[OLZ[HY[SPUN I was GP for 3000 people – delivered babies, buried the revelation is the stock-in-trade of the property’s dead and treated innumerable cases of VD among the crew.” M owner. After 40 minutes in this home and Bellow of laughter, here. with this man, you reel away with your brain buzzing As National Service had been abolished, he explains, from intellectual overload, grinning with sheer pleasure he was required by his father to render some other public at the encounter. service that would allow him “to look my soldierly uncles and Without precise directions, nobody would ever notice the grandfathers in the eye”. three-storey 18th-century house, hidden in the corner of two Purdie’s father, a senior executive of British Aerospace, streets in the centre of Edinburgh’s Stockbridge. At the top of seems to have told him what to do in no uncertain terms. a circular stone staircase waits a large, loud 69-year-old with Though young David had been a prize-winning scholar sprouting grey hair on a balding head as massive as a lion’s. in Classics and English at Ayr Academy and wanted to He’s dressed in check shirt, a ragged silk waistcoat which is read Classics and Philosophy at Glasgow University, his torn up the back, chinos, loafers and a bow tie in the salmon father would have none of it and determined that the boy pink and sky blue colours of should “do something useful”. the Scottish Arts Club. His Hence medicine. handshake is as meaty and “After 40 minutes with this man, The father ought to have muscular as a blacksmith’s. you reel away with brain buzzing, been pleased with his son’s Professor David W.