COLLECTORS' ITEMS, WORKS of ART & CLOCKS Collectors

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]

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464, 465, 466, 467, 468

466.

464.

Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; a pair of oak

Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak table

lamp of knopped octagonal form 21.5cm. high.
£100-150 rectangular ashtrays, 10cm. wide.
£80-120

465.

467.

Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; a pair of oak

candlesticks of octagonal tapering form, 13cm. high.

Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak

circular fruit bowl, 24cm. diameter.
£100-150
£150-200 468.

octagonal serviette ring, 4cm. long, and a mouse seated on cheese, 8cm. high.
£80-120

469, 470

469.

470.

rectangular ﬁre kerb with canted edge, 127cm. long.

Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson; an oak stool

with inter-woven leather seat on octagonal tapering legs united by stretchers, 34cm. wide.

£200-300

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471 1
471

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. high.

472

£500-600

473

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480
475

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 sticks and guards, 27cm. long.
£150-180

481

480.
476.

A Japanese carved ivory cylindrical box and cover, the

sides decorated with a relief image of Daruma screaming in pain as he emerges from his robes on awaking from a thousand year meditation, also as Danima with a cobweb on his robe, signed to the lid interior, 10cm. diameter.
£200-300

A Regency period silkwork

picture depicting a young woman with a basket of ﬂowers before a country cottage, worked in coloured silks, wools and chenilles, 34 x 29cm.

479

478.

A Chinese carved jade rectangular pendant

decorated with ﬁgures seated in a forest, with dragon border, 7 x 8.5cm. on a polished wood stand.
£80-100
476A.

A William Morris design tapestry fragmant with all

over design of acorns and oak leaves, 182 x 51cm.
£300-400
£100-200
479.
481.

A Maori carved green nephrite Tiki pendant of

traditional stylised form, the head pierced for a suspension, 6cm. long.
477.

A pair of Japanese inlaid

bronze vases of cylindrical tapering form, each decorated with a cockerel and hen perched in blossoming branches, signed to the base, 21cm. high.

A Chinese carved hardstone

urn and cover of squat circular form, the cover surmounted by a dragon, with dragon mask ring handles, raised on three paw feet,13cm. wide, on a polished wood stand.
£100-200
£400-500
£300-400

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482

482.

A Japanese carved ivory okimono of six immortals on a rocky

outcrop, signed to the base, 14cm. high. Meiji period.
£500-700

483

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

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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 with cranes ﬂying above a clouded landscape on a maroon ground, on spreading circular pedestal foot, 34cm. diameter.
487.

A Japanese ivory shibayama parasol handle, the shaft

decorated in typical inlay with insects, a butterﬂy and trailed with ﬂowering shrubs, the pommel carved with twenty humorous and frowning faces, signed, 25cm. long.
£200-300
486.

488

A Japanese carved ivory

okimono of a chick emerging from an egg, with inlaid eyes, signed, 7cm. long.
£250-350
488.

A Japanese carved ivory

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.
£250-300
£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

486 487
489

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490

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

491-4. No Lots.

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497

496A.

Two carved composite

stone heads of cherubs (from the Scottish Life building , Edinburgh).

495

£200-300

499

497.
495.

A large Norwegian burr birch peg tankard with lion

thumbpiece, the cover and handle incised with foliage, 18th Century, 25cm. high
£500-700

A bronze study of a cat

leaning against a rouge marble column, mounted on a naturalistically modelled square base, indistinctly signed to the bronze, 52cm. high.
499.

A pair of black marble vases

of cylindrical tapering form. raised on plain ring turned columns with stepped circular bases, overall height 170cm.
£1500-1800
497A.
£400-600

A 19th century gilt metal eight light candelabrum,

each scrolling branch with faceted clear glass prismatic drops, 62cm. high.
£200-300

498
496

496.

A late 16th/early 17th century wrought iron rush

light mounted on a carved wood pineapple shaped base, 38cm. high.
498.

A Newlyn-style copper framed rectangular wall mirror, the

frame decorated with sailing boats and seagulls, with embossed initials EW, 99 x 124cm.
£500-700
£300-400

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500

503

500.

503.

After Adolph Jean Lavergne

bronze bust of a peasant girl with scarf draped over her hair and shoulders, signed Lavergne, and bears initials J.K.C. 43.5cm. high.

After Eutrope Bouret (1833 - 1906) A bronze study of a young

Mercury seated on a rocky outcrop on a naturalistic base, signed Bouret, mid
£400-600 brown patination, raised on a

polished circular marble base,

501.

A pair of 19th century rococo 30cm. high. style gilt metal twin branch

£400-600 candelabra, with foliate 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
504.

wide.

decorated with cherub mask,

£150-200 grape scrolls and foliage,

the acanthus capped reeded

502.

Franz Bergman

branches with circular sconces and beaded rims, 41cm. high.
£300-400

A cold painted bronze study

of a wren, with Bergman vase stamp, 5cm. long.

504

£50-80
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505

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

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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

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

village reveller’s dancing outside a tavern, 17 x 24cm. together with a companion depicting villagers seated outside an inn with a harbour in the background, indistinctly initialled C.H.H. and dated 1723 ?, 17 x 24cm.

A 19th century mahogany and brass bound travelling decanter box, the square hinged

lid enclosing a four division compartment with four clear glass decanters and stoppers, with recessed handles to the sides, 21.5cm. wide.
£200-300
£1200-1500

509

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510
522
511

521.

510.

522.

A Decorative French
A 19th century papier mache

cigar case of rectangular outline, one side painted with a portrait of Jenny Lind, the Swedish opera singer, the other labelled ‘Segars’, 13.5 x 7.5cm.

A Victorian English skeleton

clock, the eight-day chain fusee movement with anchor escapement, the silvered chapter ring with black Roman numerals and blued steel spade hands, the movement having Gothic plates with a central spire and ﬁve-spoke wheelwork, standing on a brass plinth and on an oval mahogany base, with glass dome (broken), height: 24cm, inc. base.

Victorian Carriage Clock, the

eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half hours on a gong with push button repeat, the backplate stamped with the serial number ‘6572’, the white enamel dial having stylised black Arabic numerals with coloured floral swags between, with decorative pierced and engraved brass hands and a finely cast gilt brass pierced mask, the Anglaise case with fluted pillars to the corners and a decorative handle, height: 17cm (handle down)
£180-220
511.

A 19th century blonde tortoiseshell bombe tea

caddy, with cushion and domed hinged lid enclosing two lidded compartments, raised on four turned ivory ball feet, 19cm. wide.
£250-300
523.
£600-800

A modern mantel clock in the

French style, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half hours on two bells, the waisted case with marquetry inlay and gilt-metal mounts, height: 57cm.
512.

An Imperial Russian silver and enamel handled parasol,

the pale lilac enamel over engine turned decoration with blue Greek key border, with silk canopy a/f, and bamboo shaft.
£800-1200
£100-150
£200-300
513 – 520. No Lots.
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525

526

524.

526.

A late Victorian French gilt-metal and

Le Roy et Fils, Paris, a gilt-metal and

marble mantel clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the white enamel dial having black Arabic hour numerals with coloured swags of ﬂoral decoration between decorative gilt-brass hands, the movement set within a gilt-metal drum held by

porcelain-mounted mantel clock, the eight-

day duration movement striking the hours and half hours on a bell, the backplate stamped with the mark of the maker ‘Le Roy et Fils, Paris’, with the matt-gilt porcelain dial decorated with a pink cherub and with black Roman numerals 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 with a ﬂoral and bird mount, height; 37cm.
Street, London’ being their retail outlets, with matching porcelain panels set within the front
£150-200 of the shaped case, the whole surmounted by

a ﬁgure of a seated putto, all standing on a

525.

A French Empire mantel clock, the eight-day

duration movement striking the hours and half hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the gilt-wood plinth, on an ebonised base, height: 48cm.

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 with the clock movement set to one side within a bronze casing on top of which is surmounted a bust of Napolean with, standing to the side, the ﬁgure of a winged Herald holding a plaque declaring ‘Paix d’Europe’, height: 46cm.
Charles-Louis were clockmaker’s to the Princess Pauline and the Duke de Bourbon. Examples of their work are in all the major collections as well in the Ministere de la Guerre, Paris. The Maison de Le Roy was founded in 1785 at Palais Royal and continued until the death of Charles at
£600-800 Versailles in 1865.

£600-800

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527.

* Gustav Becker, born in 1819,

trained as a clockmaker in both Germany and Austria. He setup his clockmaking company in Freiburg, Silesia, Germany in 1850 and won a Gold Medal, the Medaille D’or, at the 1852 Silesia Trade Exposition.

A mid-19th century Dutch marquetry Friesland

Staartklok, the eight-inch arched painted dial having cast brass spandrels, concentric alarm disc, painted decoration to the centre and with a scene in the arch depicting a man ﬁshing in a boat on a canal, the posted weight-driven brass movement with painted iron top and base plates, anchor escapement and central mounted alarm, the case with a broken-arch hood having turned pilasters with brass Corinthian capitals supported on pierced and inlaid wood
529.

A German ‘Vienna’ style

wall clock, the spring-driven, eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a gong, with a dead-beat escapement, adjustable pallets and a five rod compensating pendulum with brass bob, the backplate brackets, the shaped backboard stamped ‘Deutsches Reichs inset with a repousse brass lenticle depicting Father Time
Patent No. 55006’, the twopiece ivorine dial having black and inlaid with marquetry work Roman numerals, red half-hour of floral, bird and butterfly decoration, the sides with further marquetry inlay, height: 102cms. decoration and blued steel hands, the walnut veneered case having turned pilasters to the front, an arched glazed door
£500-600 and glazed sides, the flat top

with cresting and a gadrooned

528.

Gustav Becker, a ‘Vienna’ style wall clock, the weight-

driven, eight-day duration base, height: 105cms.
£200-300
530. movement striking the hours on a gong, with maintaining power, dead-beat escapement, adjustable pallets and a woodrod pendulum with brass bob, the backplate stamped with the maker’s trademark and serial number ‘740380’, giving a date of manufacture of circa

Francis Mitton, Chichester, an oak longcase clock, the

eight-day duration movement striking on a bell and having turned, ﬁnned pillars with decorative steel-work, the twelve-inch square brass dial having a matted dial centre with ringed winding holes,

530

1889, the two-piece ivorine dial engraved ‘C’ scroll decoration
* Francis Mitten is recorded as

working in Chichester, Sussex, circa 1711 and married at St. Pancras, London in 1714 before returning to Chichester circa 1730. having black Roman numerals, red half-hour decoration, a subsidiary seconds dial and to the date aperture, cast ‘female-head’ spandrels to the four corners, a subsidiary stamped with the trademark for seconds dial, a raised silvered the maker Gustav Becker, the initials ‘G.B’ either side of an anchor and having blued steel hands, the walnut veneered case with turned pilasters to the front, an arched glazed door and sides, a decorative pediment top and gadrooned base, with turned wood finials, height: 128cms (inc. finials)
£500-700 chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, ‘fleurde-lys’ half-hour decoration, diamond half-quarter-hour markings and signed ‘Fran Mitton, Chichester’, the plain oak case with bracket feet and turned pillars to the hood with cast-brass capitals, height 200cms.
£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’ halfhour markings and signed on a silvered cartouche ‘Matthew Bushell’, the oak case having mahogany cross-banding to the shaped trunk door and base, with mahogany pillars to the hood, a blind-fret to the top freize, with scroll dentil moulding to the cornice and a shallow caddy to the top, height: 214cms.

532

movement striking the hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the eleven-inch square brass dial having cast ‘cherub & crown’ spandrels to the corners, a matted
£400-500 centre with ringed centre

hole, blued steel hands and a raised, silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, Arabic ﬁve-minute markings, ‘meeting-arrowhead’ half-hour markings, diamond half-quarter-hour markings and signed either side of VI o’clock ‘John Silver of Woodstock fecit’, the oak case having a panelled door, cut-down base, angled sides to the hood and a shallow caddy top, height: 198cm.
£200-250

531

* Matthew Bushell is recorded as working at Aston by Budworth, Cheshire living in a house now called ‘The Clockhouse’ and repaired clocks in Arley Hall, 1760- 1800.
531.

A late-Georgian Westcountry mahogany longcase clock,

the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, with the twelve-inch painted arched dial having black Roman numerals, ﬂoral corner spandrels, a seconds dial, date aperture and decorated
533.

John Silver, Woodstock, an oak longcase clock, the

associated thirty-hour plated
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 dial having black Roman numerals, cottage scenes painted to the four corners, a seconds dial and date aperture, with boxwood and decorative brass hands, the arch having a moon-phase date disc, the mahogany case having a short door with barley-twist columns to the trunk and boxwood & ebony stringing and inlay to the base & trunk, the hood with wavy moulding to the frame, barley twist columns with cast brass capitals, wavytop cresting and eagle ﬁnials, height: 220cms (inc. ﬁnial)
£600-800

535

* James Glass, is recorded as working at 31, Old Market Street, Bristol from at least 1825 until 1856 and married Ann Brooks on the 6th of March 1825 at St. Philip & Jacob Church. He was paying insurance premiums on six houses in Bristol & Somerset and was still renewing in 1856 obviously supplementing his clockmaking business by buying, selling and renting property.

534

534.

Duncan, London, a mahogany longcase clock,

the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the thirteeninch painted arched dial having black Roman numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands, painted ﬂowerhead decoration to the four corners & arch,

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536.

537.

Richardson, Easingwood, an oak longcase clock,

the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the twelve-inch painted arched dial having black Roman numerals, a

A mahogany ‘ﬁve-dial’ wheel barometer, having,

from the top, a hygrometer, a thermometer, Butlers’ mirror, eight-inch silvered barometer dial with a cast brass bezel, blued steel hand subsidiary date dial, decorative and brass pointer, and level, brass hands, pink & yellow ﬂowerhead corner decoration with a green ground, a rural river scene to the arch and signed by the maker ‘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. the mahogany case having boxwood stringing and a swan-neck pediment, height: 96cm.
£100-150