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Bonhams 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7400 fax 20741 Fine English Furniture & Works of Art, of Works Fine English Furniture & 6 March 2013, New Bond Street, London Bond Street, New 6 March 2013, Fine English Furniture & Works of Art Wednesday 6 March 2013 at 2pm New Bond Street, London Fine English Furniture & Works of Art Wednesday 6 March 2013 at 2pm New Bond Street, London Bonhams Enquiries Customer Services 101 New Bond Street [email protected] Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm London W1S 1SR +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 www.bonhams.com Furniture & Works of Art Guy Savill Please see back of catalogue Viewing +44 (0) 8700 273 604 for important notice to bidders Sunday 3 March 11am to 3pm [email protected] Monday 4 March 9am to 4.30pm Illustrations Tuesday 5 March 9am to 4.30pm Sally Stratton Front cover: Lot 20 Wednesday 6 March 9am to 12pm +44 (0) 8700 273 603 Back cover: Lot 18 [email protected] Inside front cover: Lot 285 (detail) Bids Inside back cover: Lot 285 (detail) +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Sculpture 20741 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Rachael Osborn-Howard Sale Number: To bid via the internet please visit +44 (0) 8700 273 610 £20 (£25 by post) www.bonhams.com [email protected] Catalogue: Please provide details of the lots Administrator Live online bidding is on which you wish to place bids Jackie Brown available for this sale at least 24 hours prior to the sale. Please email [email protected] +44 (0) 8700 273 602 with “Live bidding” in the subject [email protected] New bidders must also provide line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. proof of identity when submitting Head of Furniture bids. Failure to do this may result Department UK & Europe in your bids not being processed. Fergus Lyons +44 (0) 20 7468 8221 [email protected] Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. 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Sold lots not collected by will be no storage charges for card, credit card, bank draft or then will be removed to Bonhams lots collected between Monday 11 traveller’s cheque. Payments Park Royal Warehouse at: March 2013 and close of business Buyers on Wednesday 20 March 2013. Payment at time of +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Address: collection +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Unit 1, Sovereign Park Transfer & storage By credit card / debit card Coronation Road, Park Royal charges London NW10 7QP Sellers will commence on Thursday 21 Important Notice Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 March 2013 and will be applicable A surcharge of 3% is applicable Payment of sale proceeds Hours of opening 9.30am to for each working day. when using Mastercard, Visa and +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 4.30pm Monday to Friday +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax overseas debit cards. The charges levied by Bonhams All lots removed to Bonhams are as follows: The following symbol † is used to Valuations, taxation warehouse will be available for denote that VAT is due at 20% & heritage collection from 2pm on Monday Furniture, large paintings and on hammer price and buyer’s +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 11 March 2013. These lots will large objects premium. +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax be subject to transfer and storage [email protected] charges if they are not collected Transfer per lot £35.00 within the period outlined below. CITES REGULATIONS Catalogue subscriptions Daily storage per lot £3.60 Please be aware that all Lots marked with the symbol Y are To obtain any Bonhams catalogue Lots may be released from Painting and Objects subject to CITES requlations when or to take out an annual Bonhams warehouse on exporting these items outside the subscription: production of the Collection Order Transfer per lot £20.00 EU. The regulations may be found Subscriptions Department obtained from cashiers office Daily storage per lot £1.90 at www.ukcites.gov.uk or may be +44 (0) 1666 502200 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge or requested from: +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax New Bond Street and a form of All the above charges are exclusive [email protected] photographic ID. If a third party is of VAT. UK CITES Management Authority collecting on behalf of the client, Zone 117 Shipping the client must provide Bonhams For information and estimates Temple Quay House with written authority prior to on domestic and international 2 The Square collection. The third party must shipping as well as export licenses Temple Quay present a photographic form of ID please contact Bonhams Shipping BRISTOL BS1 6EB Department on: when collecting. +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] 1*Y A William & Mary walnut, oyster-veneered, ebony, sycamore and green stained horn floral marquetry cabinet on later stand in the manner of Thomas Pistor The rectangular cavetto moulded cornice above a cushion moulded marquetry drawer and a pair of oval panelled doors inlaid with floral sprays and birds on double eagle headed brackets, with floral inlaid spandrels enclosing a central cupboard door enclosing three short drawers surrounded by eleven inlaid short drawers; the later stand with two short drawers on five spirally turned legs joined by flattened wavy stretchers, on turned bun feet, with indistinct paper collector’s label to the underside, 118cm wide, 51cm deep, 170cm high (46” wide, 20” deep, 66.5” high). £5,000 - 8,000 €5,800 - 9,300 US$7,900 - 13,000 A similar example sold at Christie’s, The English Collector and Tapestries, 500 years, 31st October 2012, lot 62. The style and handling of the marquetry on the present cabinet has affinities with the inlay on a cushion frame mirror and a side table probably supplied by Thomas Pistor senior, to James Grahme for Levens Hall, Cumbria circa 1685, illustrated in Adriana Turpin, `Thomas Pistor Father and Son’, Furniture History, 2000, pp. 44-45, figs. 1-5. Thomas Pistor Senior is recorded as a resident of Moorfields in 1678 and by 1693 he had moved to Bell Court in the same area. A 1693 tax assessment refers to his dwelling house and timber yard at the latter address, giving rise to the likelihood that his work shop was in the same location since he was said to own all the property at Bell Court. His son Thomas junior who is recorded as trading from a premises in Ludgate Hill, London and was dead by 1711, the same year his stock was sold off following an announcement in the Spectator on 22nd March. (see Turpin op. cit, P. 43 and Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660- 1840, 1996, p. 700). (detail of interior) Fine English Furniture & Works of Art | 3 2 A late 17th/early 18th century Anglo-Dutch gilt-metal wall applique Of cartouche shape the decoration in relief, possibly depicting Charlemagne, originally incorporating an arm with candleholder now lacking, 90cm wide, 57.5cm high (35.5” wide, 22.5” high). £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,700 US$1,600 - 2,400 3 An 18th century Anglo-Flemish walnut ‘dolls’ chair’ retaining it’s original upholstery The rectangular padded back within a studded metallic braid border and flanked by paterae carved spiral turned uprights, surmounted by turned finials and a pierced cabochon, dolphin and coronet cresting, the upholstered seat with metallic thread fringing on paterae carved spirally turned legs joined by spirally turned stretchers, 20cm wide, 20cm deep, 53cm high (7.5” wide, 7.5” deep, 20.5” high). £3,000 - 4,000 €3,500 - 4,600 2 US$4,700 - 6,300 Provenance: Sotheby’s, London 18 May 1990, Lot 26 as ‘An Important Franco-Flemish Miniature Chair, circa 1685’ (£4500 hammer) Chairs of this small scale and period are extremely rare.
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