COLLECTORS’ ITEMS WORKS OF ART & CLOCKS

SECOND DAY’S SALE

THURSDAY 15th July 2010

COLLECTORS’ ITEMS, WORKS OF ART & CLOCKS

Commencing not before 12.30pm

Collectors’ Items, Works of Art and Clocks will be on view:

Saturday 10th July 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 11th July 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 12th July 9.00am to 5.15pm Tuesday 13th July 9.00am to 5.15pm Wednesday 14th July 9.00am to 5.15pm

Limited viewing on sale day.

Works of Art & Collectors’ Items Clocks Enquiries: Martin McIlroy Tel: 01392 413100 Email: [email protected]

Enquiries: Leigh Extence Tel: 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] 109 464, 465, 466, 467, 468

464. 466. Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; a pair of oak Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak table rectangular ashtrays, 10cm. wide. lamp of knopped octagonal form 21.5cm. high. £80-120 £100-150 465. 467. Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; a pair of oak Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak candlesticks of octagonal tapering form, 13cm. circular fruit bowl, 24cm. diameter. high. £100-150 £150-200 468. Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak octagonal serviette ring, 4cm. long, and a mouse seated on cheese, 8cm. high. £80-120

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469. 470. Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak stool rectangular fire kerb with canted edge, 127cm. with inter-woven leather seat on octagonal long. tapering legs united by stretchers, 34cm. wide. £200-300 £200-300

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471. A 19th century mahogany and crossbanded table top collector’s cabinet, of rectangular outline, the hinged doors enclosing six sliding trays containing assorted world seashells, 49cm. wide. £400-500

472. A human phrenology skull , each section of the skull is numbered, some labelled, 19cm. long. £220-300

473. A 19th century ivory chess set, probably Indian, one side stained green, the other left natural, the king, 8.5cm. high, the pawn 3,5cm. 472 high. £500-600

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111 475 480 474. A collection of six 18th and 19th century fan leaves depicting neo-classical subjects, vistas of Roman ruins, courting couples, all lacking sticks and guards, but mounted on card. (6). £250-350 475. A 19th century printed and hand painted fan depicting Diana and Acteon, with pierced and gilt decorated 481 sticks and guards, 27cm. long. £150-180 476. 480. A Regency period silkwork A Japanese carved ivory picture depicting a young cylindrical box and cover, the woman with a basket of 479 sides decorated with a relief flowers before a country image of Daruma screaming in pain as he emerges from cottage, worked in coloured 478. his robes on awaking from silks, wools and chenilles, 34 x A Chinese carved jade a thousand year meditation, 29cm. rectangular pendant also as Danima with a cobweb £80-100 decorated with figures seated on his robe, signed to the lid 476A. in a forest, with dragon border, interior, 10cm. diameter. A William Morris design 7 x 8.5cm. on a polished wood £200-300 tapestry fragmant with all stand. over design of acorns and oak £100-200 leaves, 182 x 51cm. 479. £300-400 A Maori carved green 481. 477. nephrite Tiki pendant of A pair of Japanese inlaid A Chinese carved hardstone traditional stylised form, the bronze vases of cylindrical urn and cover of squat circular head pierced for a suspension, tapering form, each decorated form, the cover surmounted by 6cm. long. with a cockerel and hen a dragon, with dragon mask £400-500 perched in blossoming ring handles, raised on three branches, signed to the base, paw feet,13cm. wide, on a 21cm. high. polished wood stand. £300-400 £100-200

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482. A Japanese carved ivory okimono of six immortals on a rocky outcrop, signed to the base, 14cm. high. Meiji period. £500-700

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483. A bound book of thirteen Chinese watercolours depicting various forms of punishment and execution, each enclosed within a material border, each 20 x 32cm. £400-500 113 484. A pair of Japanese Komai style novelty menu holders in the form of fans decorated with birds amongst blossoming shrubs, 8cm. wide and another similar decorated with cranes amongst chrysanthemums 7.5cm. wide. £80-120 485. 485 A Japanese gin-bari jardiniere of hexagonal form decorated 487. with cranes flying above A Japanese ivory shibayama a clouded landscape on a parasol handle, the shaft maroon ground, on spreading decorated in typical inlay with circular pedestal foot, 34cm. insects, a butterfly and trailed diameter. with flowering shrubs, the £200-300 pommel carved with twenty 486. humorous and frowning faces, A Japanese carved ivory signed, 25cm. long. 488 okimono of a chick emerging £250-350 from an egg, with inlaid eyes, 488. signed, 7cm. long. A Japanese carved ivory £250-300 okimono of a smiling peasant man leaning on a tree trunk, signed to inset red tablet to the base, standing on an ebonised shaped base, 18.5cm. high. £300-400 489. A carved ivory figure of a Sinhalese Government Peon, in traditional dress, 17cm. high together with a companion figure of a Hindu Lokii, 16.5cm. high. both a/f. £200-300

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490. A pair of Japanese ivory vases of ovoid form finely decorated in the Satsuma style with lacquered and gilded decoration of dragons, flowerheads and trailing foliage, signed to the base, 9cm. high. Meiji Period. £800-1000

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496A. Two carved composite stone heads of cherubs (from the Scottish Life building , Edinburgh). 495 £200-300 497. 499 495. A large Norwegian burr A bronze study of a cat birch peg tankard with lion 499. leaning against a rouge marble thumbpiece, the cover and A pair of black marble vases column, mounted on a handle incised with foliage, of cylindrical tapering form. naturalistically modelled square 18th Century, 25cm. high raised on plain ring turned base, indistinctly signed to the £500-700 columns with stepped circular bronze, 52cm. high. 497A. bases, overall height 170cm. £400-600 A 19th century gilt metal £1500-1800 eight light candelabrum, each scrolling branch with faceted clear glass prismatic drops, 62cm. high. £200-300

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496. A late 16th/early 17th 498. century wrought iron rush A Newlyn-style copper framed rectangular wall mirror, the light mounted on a carved frame decorated with sailing boats and seagulls, with embossed wood pineapple shaped base, initials EW, 99 x 124cm. 38cm. high. £500-700 £300-400 116 500 503

500. 503. After Adolph Jean Lavergne After Eutrope Bouret (1833 bronze bust of a peasant girl - 1906) with scarf draped over her A bronze study of a young hair and shoulders, signed Mercury seated on a rocky Lavergne, and bears initials outcrop on a naturalistic J.K.C. 43.5cm. high. base, signed Bouret, mid £400-600 brown patination, raised on a 501. polished circular marble base, A pair of 19th century rococo 30cm. high. style gilt metal twin branch £400-600 candelabra, with foliate 504. decorated nozzles and sconces, A set of six gilt-metal twin swirling branches on foliate branch wall appliques, the and scroll circular bases, 22cm. cartouched shaped backplate wide. decorated with cherub mask, £150-200 grape scrolls and foliage, 502. the acanthus capped reeded Franz Bergman branches with circular sconces A cold painted bronze study and beaded rims, 41cm. high. of a wren, with Bergman vase £300-400 504 stamp, 5cm. long. £50-80

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505. Enzo Plazzotta (1921-1981) Nureyev (2nd study) signed and numbered Plazzotta 11/12, bronze with brown patination, mounted on a polished black stone plinth base, 28cm. high excluding base; together with original photograph/certificate signed by Plazzotta and dated 31.10.68 £1500-2500 118 506

506. After Moreau A bronze study of a winged maiden, with flowing drapes, holding a bullrush in her right hand and wearing a garland of bullrushes in her hair, signed Moreau Math Scpt, 115cm. high, raised on a plaster doric capital, overall height 163cm. £6000-8000

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508. A 19th century mahogany and brass bound travelling medicine box, the rectangular hinged top enclosing six assorted clear glass bottles and stoppers, with single drawer below containing a set of balance scales and weights. £150-200 507 509. 507. An 18th century straw-work picture depicting A 19th century mahogany and brass bound village reveller’s dancing outside a tavern, 17 travelling decanter box, the square hinged x 24cm. together with a companion depicting lid enclosing a four division compartment with villagers seated outside an inn with a harbour four clear glass decanters and stoppers, with in the background, indistinctly initialled C.H.H. recessed handles to the sides, 21.5cm. wide. and dated 1723 ?, 17 x 24cm. £200-300 £1200-1500

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510. 521. 522. A 19th century papier mache A Decorative French A Victorian English skeleton cigar case of rectangular Victorian Carriage Clock, the clock, the eight-day chain outline, one side painted with eight-day duration movement fusee movement with anchor a portrait of Jenny Lind, the having a platform lever escapement, the silvered Swedish opera singer, the escapement and striking the chapter ring with black Roman other labelled ‘Segars’, 13.5 x hours and half hours on a numerals and blued steel 7.5cm. gong with push button repeat, spade hands, the movement £180-220 the backplate stamped with having Gothic plates with a 511. the serial number ‘6572’, central spire and five-spoke A 19th century blonde the white enamel dial having wheelwork, standing on a tortoiseshell bombe tea stylised black Arabic numerals brass plinth and on an oval caddy, with cushion and with coloured floral swags mahogany base, with glass domed hinged lid enclosing between, with decorative dome (broken), height: 24cm, two lidded compartments, pierced and engraved brass inc. base. raised on four turned ivory ball hands and a finely cast gilt £250-300 feet, 19cm. wide. brass pierced mask, the 523. £600-800 Anglaise case with fluted pillars A modern mantel clock in the 512. to the corners and a decorative French style, the eight-day An Imperial Russian silver handle, height: 17cm (handle duration movement striking and enamel handled parasol, down) the hours and half hours on the pale lilac enamel over £800-1200 two bells, the waisted case with engine turned decoration with marquetry inlay and gilt-metal blue Greek key border, with mounts, height: 57cm. silk canopy a/f, and bamboo £100-150 shaft. £200-300

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524. 526. A late Victorian French gilt-metal and Le Roy et Fils, , a gilt-metal and marble mantel clock, the eight-day duration porcelain-mounted mantel clock, the eight- movement striking the hours and half hours on day duration movement striking the hours and a bell with an outside countwheel, the white half hours on a bell, the backplate stamped with enamel dial having black Arabic hour numerals the mark of the maker ‘Le Roy et Fils, Paris’, with coloured swags of floral decoration with the matt-gilt porcelain dial decorated with between decorative gilt-brass hands, the a pink cherub and with black Roman numerals movement set within a gilt-metal drum held by set onto a blue ground and signed ‘Le Roy et two putti between which the pendulum swings, Fils, 13-15 Palais Royal, Paris, and ‘211, Regent standing on a white marble base surmounted Street, ’ being their retail outlets, with with a floral and bird mount, height; 37cm. matching porcelain panels set within the front £150-200 of the shaped case, the whole surmounted by 525. a figure of a seated putto, all standing on a A French Empire mantel clock, the eight-day gilt-wood plinth, on an ebonised base, height: duration movement striking the hours and half 48cm. hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals * Basile Charles Le Roy was the Master and decorative gilt-brass hands, the ormolu case Clockmaker to Napoleon & along with his son with classical Romanesque mounts to the front Charles-Louis were clockmaker’s to the Princess with the clock movement set to one side within Pauline and the Duke de Bourbon. Examples of a bronze casing on top of which is surmounted their work are in all the major collections as well a bust of Napolean with, standing to the side, in the Ministere de la Guerre, Paris. The Maison the figure of a winged Herald holding a plaque de Le Roy was founded in 1785 at Palais Royal declaring ‘Paix d’Europe’, height: 46cm. and continued until the death of Charles at £600-800 Versailles in 1865.

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122 527. * Gustav Becker, born in 1819, A mid-19th century Dutch trained as a clockmaker in both marquetry Friesland Germany and Austria. He set- Staartklok, the eight-inch up his clockmaking company arched painted dial having cast in Freiburg, , Germany in brass spandrels, concentric 1850 and won a Gold Medal, alarm disc, painted decoration the Medaille D’or, at the 1852 to the centre and with a scene Silesia Trade Exposition. in the arch depicting a man fishing in a boat on a canal, the posted weight-driven brass 529. movement with painted iron A German ‘’ style top and base plates, anchor wall clock, the spring-driven, escapement and central eight-day duration movement mounted alarm, the case with striking the hours on a gong, a broken-arch hood having with a dead-beat escapement, turned pilasters with brass adjustable pallets and a five Corinthian capitals supported rod compensating pendulum on pierced and inlaid wood with brass bob, the backplate brackets, the shaped backboard stamped ‘Deutsches Reichs inset with a repousse brass Patent No. 55006’, the two- lenticle depicting Father Time piece ivorine dial having black and inlaid with marquetry work Roman numerals, red half-hour of floral, bird and butterfly decoration and blued steel decoration, the sides with hands, the walnut veneered further marquetry inlay, height: case having turned pilasters to 102cms. the front, an arched glazed door £500-600 and glazed sides, the flat top 528. with cresting and a gadrooned Gustav Becker, a ‘Vienna’ base, height: 105cms. style wall clock, the weight- £200-300 driven, eight-day duration 530. movement striking the hours Francis Mitton, Chichester, on a gong, with maintaining an oak longcase clock, the power, dead-beat escapement, eight-day duration movement adjustable pallets and a wood- striking on a bell and having rod pendulum with brass bob, turned, finned pillars with the backplate stamped with decorative steel-work, the the maker’s trademark and twelve-inch square brass dial 530 serial number ‘740380’, giving having a matted dial centre a date of manufacture of circa with ringed winding holes, 1889, the two-piece ivorine dial engraved ‘C’ scroll decoration * Francis Mitten is recorded as having black Roman numerals, to the date aperture, cast working in Chichester, Sussex, red half-hour decoration, a ‘female-head’ spandrels to circa 1711 and married at subsidiary seconds dial and the four corners, a subsidiary St. Pancras, London in 1714 stamped with the trademark for seconds dial, a raised silvered before returning to Chichester the maker Gustav Becker, the chapter ring engraved with circa 1730. initials ‘G.B’ either side of an black Roman numerals, ‘fleur- anchor and having blued steel de-lys’ half-hour decoration, hands, the walnut veneered diamond half-quarter-hour case with turned pilasters to markings and signed ‘Fran the front, an arched glazed Mitton, Chichester’, the plain door and sides, a decorative oak case with bracket feet pediment top and gadrooned and turned pillars to the hood base, with turned wood finials, with cast-brass capitals, height height: 128cms (inc. finials) 200cms. £500-700 £500-700

123 with a depiction of an angel at a window signalling to a bearded gentleman reading, with brass ‘thistle’ hands, the mahogany case having a short door with canted corners to the trunk and stringing to the base, the hood having wavy moulding to the door, barley twist columns with cast brass capitals, wavy cresting and eagle finials, height: 210cms.

£1200-1500 532. Matthew Bushell, an oak & mahogany longcase clock, the thirty-hour movement striking the hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the eleven-inch square brass dial having cast ‘female-head’ spandrels to the corners, an engraved matted centre with ringed date aperture and ‘false’ winding holes, a blued steel single hand and a raised, silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, Arabic five-minute markings, ‘fleur-de-lys’ half- hour markings and signed on a silvered cartouche ‘Matthew Bushell’, the oak case having mahogany cross-banding to 532 the shaped trunk door and base, with mahogany pillars to movement striking the hours the hood, a blind-fret to the on a bell with an outside top freize, with scroll dentil countwheel, the eleven-inch moulding to the cornice and square brass dial having cast a shallow caddy to the top, ‘cherub & crown’ spandrels height: 214cms. to the corners, a matted £400-500 centre with ringed centre 531 hole, blued steel hands and * Matthew Bushell is recorded a raised, silvered chapter ring 531. as working at Aston by engraved with black Roman A late-Georgian Westcountry Budworth, Cheshire living numerals, Arabic five-minute mahogany longcase clock, in a house now called ‘The markings, ‘meeting-arrowhead’ the eight-day duration Clockhouse’ and repaired half-hour markings, diamond movement striking the clocks in Arley Hall, 1760- half-quarter-hour markings and hours on a bell, with the 1800. signed either side of VI o’clock twelve-inch painted arched ‘John Silver of Woodstock fecit’, dial having black Roman 533. the oak case having a panelled numerals, floral corner John Silver, Woodstock, door, cut-down base, angled spandrels, a seconds dial, an oak longcase clock, the sides to the hood and a shallow date aperture and decorated associated thirty-hour plated caddy top, height: 198cm. £200-250 124 signed ‘Duncan, London’, the associated mahogany case having shell inlay to the door and base, boxwood & ebony chequered stringing to the trunk and door, canted corners to the trunk with the hood having fluted pillars with brass Corinthian capitals, fluting below the cornice to the break-arch top and wavy moulding to the hood door, the swan necked pediment with octagonal paterae and a turned brass finial, height: 208cms. £1000-1500

* Quite possibly James Duncan who is recorded at a number of addresses in London, including Chancery Lane from 1780 until 1819, and also at St. James’s Street.

535. James Glass, Bristol, a mahogany moon-phase longcase clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, with the thirteen-inch painted arched 535 dial having black Roman numerals, cottage scenes painted to the four corners, a * James Glass, is recorded as seconds dial and date aperture, working at 31, Old Market with boxwood and decorative Street, Bristol from at least brass hands, the arch having 1825 until 1856 and married a moon-phase date disc, the Ann Brooks on the 6th of mahogany case having a short March 1825 at St. Philip & door with barley-twist columns Jacob Church. He was paying to the trunk and boxwood & insurance premiums on six 534 ebony stringing and inlay to houses in Bristol & Somerset the base & trunk, the hood and was still renewing in 1856 534. with wavy moulding to the obviously supplementing Duncan, London, a frame, barley twist columns his clockmaking business by mahogany longcase clock, with cast brass capitals, wavy- buying, selling and renting the eight-day duration top cresting and eagle finials, property. movement striking the hours height: 220cms (inc. finial) on a bell with the thirteen- £600-800 inch painted arched dial having black Roman numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands, painted flowerhead decoration to the four corners & arch,

125 536. 537. Richardson, Easingwood, A mahogany ‘five-dial’ an oak longcase clock, wheel barometer, having, the eight-day duration from the top, a hygrometer, movement striking the hours a thermometer, Butlers’ on a bell with the twelve-inch mirror, eight-inch silvered painted arched dial having barometer dial with a cast black Roman numerals, a brass bezel, blued steel hand subsidiary date dial, decorative and brass pointer, and level, brass hands, pink & yellow the mahogany case having flowerhead corner decoration boxwood stringing and a with a green ground, a swan-neck pediment, height: rural river scene to the arch 96cm. and signed by the maker £100-150 ‘Richardson, Easingwood’, the oak case having a shaped moulding to the top of the door, canted corners to the trunk, a plain base with bracket feet, the hood having turned pillars with brass capitals, the swan necked pediment with octagonal paterae and a turned brass finial, height: 234cms. £800-1200

* James Richardson Snr. of Easingwood, North Yorkshire is recorded as being the son of the clockmaker James Richardson of Helmsley and was working from circa 1780. He was married in 1802 to Ann and they had three children including, in 1807, James Jnr. When James Snr died, sometime prior to 1823, Ann continued the business with the three children, eventually being succeeded by William Richardson, who is recorded as working in the Market Place until 1834 when he was succeeded by his younger brother, James Jnr, who was still known to be working in 1866.

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