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Auction houses across the country are times for items to be picked up to ensure grappling with the practicalities of no personal contact. staging auctions safely as the UK enters its third week of the Council confusion government-sanctioned shutdown. Auction house premises are on the The industry is adapting by switching government’s list of the non-essential to an online-only formula with staff businesses that have been closed. working remotely and ensuring social Some councils appeared initially distancing measures are respected at all confused over online sales and the times, including during delivery. guidance on social distancing, with a few Last week, while some salerooms taking a tough line on what they deemed chose to furlough staff under the breaches of the Covid-19 lockdown government help scheme, others held before then backing down. ‘live online only’ auctions behind closed Two-thirds of the way through the doors, broadcasting sales on the internet March 31 auction held by Aldridges of from empty buildings or auctioneers’ Bath, the firm received calls from Bath own homes. Timed auctions are also an & North East Somerset Council and the option that many salerooms are local Environmental Health department pursuing. demanding that the sale be stopped. Most salerooms were offering free Auctioneer Ivan Street argued that, storage for sold items while some were also giving allotted individual collection Continued on page 5

Left: Gavin Strang did almost 12 hours If there hadn’t solo on the been so much rostrum The cat’s whiskers: a detail of a 1930s embroidery panel by May Morris that “ for Lyon & bidding, I might provided one of the strongest results at the Lyon & Turnbull ‘live online’ sale on have been finished Turnbull on April 1. Full image and full story on page 5. April 1. in half the time

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‘There are tools out there to ‘I felt more like a YouTuber operate in this new world’ than an auctioneer’

A number of industrial and government social-distancing made and businesses will need There were two in the room when commercial-focused businesses guidelines. to think about what works best British Bespoke Auctions held have operated online-only and Systems in place include (for example a focus on smaller a four-and-a half hour sale last timed auctions for some time allowing consignors themselves items) but the key is to make it week.On the rostrum on April 1, in and have systems in place that to upload images and video as easy as possible for the an office rather than the saleroom allow for very little contact about their items (that remain buyer.” (which is closed), was Nicholas between individuals. with the vendor until after the Classic car specialist H&H is Granger. Behind him was Bella, They all reiterate the auction) and allowing the conducting ‘virtual visits’ using a blue-and-gold macaw who has importance of giving the buyer consignor to arrange pick-up/ video calling to assess potential been by his side for 20 years. confidence in what they are delivery or agree to store items consignments and has put in Granger said there was a 50% Image by Erin Sheffield purchasing. until government restrictions place a strict ‘no-contact’ increase in new bidders registered Above: Nicholas Granger of British Stephen Jepson, national relax. protocol for those clients who to the sale and over 750 in total. Bespoke Auctions together with auction manager at Sanderson Robin Gray, managing still wish them to inspect and “We have adhered to saleroom mascot Bella. Weatherall, said: “We have director at William George, photograph their vehicles first government guidelines. This sale done online-only auctions for said: “It’s about giving hand. The visiting specialist will exceeded expectations and under from the estate of the actor Peter the past six-eight years. It is all confidence to buyers. We give be wearing appropriate PPE these difficult constraints people Wyngarde was held on March 26. about photos – a picture tells a people flexibility and (personal protective equipment) have been very supportive.” Auctioneer Andy Stowe said: thousand words. For a 70-lot reassurance and allow items to and can view the vehicle while Devon auctioneer Michael “The rostrum was my dining room sale we will take 700 photos. be stored free of charge. Some the client remains indoors. Bowman conducted an auction table, with the dog asleep at my Video is also important.” consignors want to hold off but Discussions take place via from his home over the weekend feet. I operated the software In this sector auctions are many still want to go ahead. phone. of March 28-29 with staff feeding myself, which was surprisingly still being held, using platforms Traffic to websites is still very The firm was working closely through bids via speaker phone. easy. I felt more like a YouTuber such as i-bidder and BidSpotter good so we want to carry on with its preferred vehicle Bowman said the sale seemed “at than an auctioneer, but it was a (both owned by the ATG’s holding sales.” transport provider EM Rogers least as successful as any other I great experience – and one we’ll parent company Auction Gray added: “There are tools & Chas Mortimer to provide have held in recent times”. be repeating soon. We had lots of Technology Group), that are out there to operate in this new no-contact delivery. Over at East Bristol Auctions, new bidders and the feedback has compliant with the new world. There is adaption to be Laura Chesters a successful sale of 257 lots been completely lovely.”

The situation evolves – but safe ‘We’ve got to bite the bullet’ For more than 20 years, English pottery specialist John Howard has used FedEx to send items to overseas clients. delivery options are available Demand is still there and last week Howard sent Given the government’s strict guidelines on social Take MBE Edinburgh’s support for Lyon & Turnbull’s rare 1820s Staffordshire figures to clients in Texas distancing, what delivery options can art and antiques online-only sales in April: a collection service provided on a and Pennsylvania. “They were picked up from here in buyers use during the lockdown period? bespoke ‘no-contact’ basis. Oxfordshire by FedEx and delivered overnight to the US,” The good news is that on March 30 the Department “If we can arrange a single, bulk collection following a he says. “There’s been no tail-off in FedEx’s service – of Transport wrote to road haulage and freight transport sale, we can help ensure the minimum of auction house they’re like the fifth emergency service for me right now.” associations to confirm that it “considers it essential that personnel is required onsite,” Hypher says. “We can also Howard has similar praise for Mail Boxes Etc for the work of the logistics sector should continue to the minimise the number of journeys to collect purchases, by “continuing to pick up my purchases from auction houses”. greatest extent possible” adding that “government policy collecting all items for shipment during a single visit.” The correct delivery documentation is even more is clear that this applies to all supplies chains and not only As ever, for the final part of the journey, objects are critical during disrupted those for food and medical supplies”. This means journeys placed by MBE with familiar couriers such as Parcel periods. for work by logistics staff are deemed ‘essential travel’. Force, DHL and FedEx, which provide consignment FedEx’s online system Without physical fairs to service, several art market tracking services. MBE’s established relationships with produces a certificate of delivery firms have closed their doors for the lockdown’s auction houses help facilitate non-contact access for its antiquity and what the firm duration (ATG No 2436). Yet there are still delivery services franchisees, so that social distancing can be observed. calls an Air Waybill – an item’s available – ones that adhere to government strictures while When it comes to dropping off the items, now delivery note with export treating fragile objects with the care that buyers expect. predominantly to residential addresses during the lockdown, category code, tracking Mail Boxes Etc (MBE) operates a franchise of depots the same distancing protocols are followed. number and customer details throughout the UK. While Public Health England advises that people to communicate estimated Under its ‘Auction Logistics’ brand, MBE partners with receiving parcels are not at extra risk of contracting the delivery time and any glitches ATG parent Auction Technology Group to provide some 100 virus, couriers will avoid asking for signatures as proof at customs. auction houses hosted on thesaleroom.com with bespoke of delivery. Instead, recipients are asked to acknowledge Howard insures his collection, packing and global delivery of art and antiques. receipt by opening their front doors or by logging a request deliveries with Lloyds broker “This unprecedented situation is evolving daily,” says to deposit the item in a safe place, to avoid purchases Besso, as carriers themselves Duncan Hypher, business development manager at MBE having to be returned to auction houses. don’t tend to underwrite fragile items. (UK)’s head office. “The solutions we put in place today may Couriers will record delivery in other ways, such as taking At the suggestion that transit costs may rise in line not be appropriate tomorrow. a photo of an item on a recipient’s porch. with more difficult journeys, Howard shrugs. “We’ve “Strict safety protocols are in place and we scrupulously During the pandemic, delivery options for art and got to bite the bullet,” he says. “We should accept observe the law, but subject to this we would like to help antiques buyers will vary from location to location, Hypher extra expense if we want to trade through this and not auction houses and buyers through this.” says. “However, we continue to evolve and react to compromise our items.” Individual MBE franchise stores are working with auction developments, always with a safety-first approach,” Noelle McElhatton houses where operationally possible, Hypher says. he adds. 4 | 11 April 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

PAGE 001 004 005 2437.indd 2 03/04/2020 17:1:0 Encouraging results for auctioneers choosing to sell behind closed doors

Continued from front page Sotheby’s is conducting Left: Edward Whitton some sales. Its watch using a team limited to four of Whittons in Honiton department has launched a Above: Charlie Ross keeps members of the same family, a conducted an online- programme of weekly online fit in his living room. sale format that was closed to only auction on April 2 auctions. The rolling seven-day the public but open to 847 ‘en plein air’. Internet format offers a swift turnaround Keep fit on a registered online bidders was buyers could hear between appraisal and sale. very much in the spirit of the birdsong as they placed The sales, beginning with a rostrum with law. He was then allowed to bids at the silver and 19-lot selection offered via Charlie Ross continue the sale that included jewellery sale. Hong Kong closing on April 8, the £18,500 Kashmir shawl are additions to the existing In these days of self- reported on News Digest (page 6). schedule of live auctions. isolation, social media is “We pinned everything on While small portable items awash with home workout this sale, probably the last we present fewer issues than those routines. Last week Charles can hold until we can get out and Lyon & Turnbull also complaining,” said Strang. “If that require careful and Ross launched his own about again,” said Street. “We reported a successful sale of there hadn’t been so much expensive packing and version online for those are hugely grateful to the bidders Decorative Arts on April 1 – bidding, I might have been shipping, Sotheby’s online auctioneers not selling who participated, many of the firm’s first using the ‘live finished in half the time. I’m auction of Old Master paintings during lockdown. whom we had not met before.” online’ format. glad we were able to trade in a from the collection of dealer His two-minute tongue- Alone in the saleroom, way which allowed all our staff Rafael Valls opened as planned in-cheek video features Council backs down managing director Gavin and customers to safely stay at last week and remains the BBC’s Bargain Hunt In a separate incident, another Strang stood for 12 hours on the home.” scheduled to close on April 8. and Antiques Road Trip investigating council was rostrum, fielding bids via The firm plans to repeat the The firm also posted the star demonstrating simple persuaded to let an unnamed video-conferencing software formula for three more sales in highest-ever total for an online exercises to keep rostrum- auctioneer continue to trade from three online platforms disciplines it believes are also sale of 20th Century Design ready. online after drawing a clear and phones operated by staff well-suited to ecommerce: when an auction that closed on “Auctioneers among you distinction between a public from home. Contemporary & Post-War Art March 31 raised $4.03m must be desperately worried auction and one held behind Almost 1400 bidders (April 16), African & Oceanic (£3.25m) including premium. It about getting unfit while your closed doors. registered online, with around Art, Antiquities and Natural had previously been scheduled salerooms are closed,” he The local authority later 500 online absentee and 700 History (May 5) and Fine as a live sale in New York. says as the clip opens. “Now conceded: “The complaint we commission bids left before the Asian & Islamic Works of Art Christie’s plans to announce I’ve devised some simple received referred to your sale. The selling rate across (May 13). more online sales in the weeks exercises to keep yourself business being open for public around 600 lots was 83% – ahead across collecting moving.” auction. This is clearly not the above the norm for this sale Furloughing staff categories including decorative Targeted muscle groups case if you are closed to the category. Meanwhile, reports emerged arts, fine art, jewellery, include the neck (turning the public. As such you are The £570,000 sale was led last week that Sotheby’s and watches, wine and handbags. head to welcome bidders) operating as an ‘Online by the £28,000 bid for a 19in Christie’s have already Other initiatives include an and the biceps and triceps Auctioneer’ and you do not (48cm) bronze reduction of the furloughed some staff and enhanced private sales site (accepting bids). Ross told have to close the premises. You New Sculpture classic, Sir introduced pay cuts (either offering online viewings and ATG that he was inspired must, however, continue to George Frampton’s Peter Pan forced or voluntary) for those immediate purchase options, after his family introduced ensure that the UK dated 1911. who remain in work. while a digital ‘auction estimate him to Joe Wicks exercise Government guidelines on “It was certainly the longest Bonhams and some regional tool’ has led to a year-on-year videos which he found “a bit reducing the spread of Covid- time I have ever spent on the rooms have also had to increase of 162% in online too vigorous for me”. 19 are followed.” rostrum, but I’m not furlough some employees. submissions.

Cat’s out of the bag – May emerges from behind the Morris curtain

Although often overshadowed by her embroidered panel has a handwritten famous father William, May Morris inscription reading Hunter at Bay was (1862-1938) was herself an important designed and worked by me in 1935, May figure in the British Arts & Crafts Morris and a paper label for Kelmscott movement, writes Roland Arkell. Manor, the Morris family’s Cotwolds As early as 1885, at the age of 23, home. she became manager of the Morris & The May Morris archive, in the Co embroidery department at Merton Ashmolean Museum since 1941, Abbey and continued there until the includes the watercolour design for this death of her father in 1896. piece. Estimated at £3000-5000 in Much of her later works were private Lyon & Turnbull’s ‘live online’ sale on commissions. April 1, it sold at £8500 (plus 25% This 18in x 2ft 4in (45 x 70cm) buyer’s premium).

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Pick of the week The Kashmir shawl of a former governor of India The auction held ‘live online’ by Aldridges of Bath on March 31 repertoire of Sikh long shawls into the ‘classic’ and the ‘modern’. included this spectacular hand-woven north Indian long shawl, or While early designs confine decoration to narrow pallas dochalla. It came with a colonial provenance. (borders), shawls in the ‘modern’ group are patterned across a The embroidered inscription Cashmere, 1846, Emily Hardinge much larger surface. In this case the entire 10ft 7in (3.22m) long suggested a connection with Emily Jane Stewart Hardinge textile, that may have taken more than a year to make, is patterned (1789-1865), who in 1821 had married Sir Henry with paisley forms (boteh). The central turquoise panel Hardinge (1785-1856), Peninsular War soldier, depicting figures at a temple is particularly rare. Durham MP and, from 1844-48, governor In remarkable condition, it was entered for sale at a general of India. valuation day by a Bath resident who knew nothing of The couple’s years in the sub-continent its history other than to say it has spent most of its life included the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) in a cupboard. and the subsequent treaties of Lahore and The estimate was £800-1200 but, following 21 Amritsar. In April 1846, Sir Henry was made online commission bids in the run-up to the sale, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, receiving auctioneer Ivan Street was able to open bidding at annual pensions of £3000 from Parliament and £4700. He fielded bids at larger increments before £5000 from the East India Company. selling to a UK phone against the internet at £18,500 Despite the inscription, pashmina wool (plus 20% buyer’s premium). shawls such as this were deemed masculine attire. While the The niche market for Kashmir shawls is enjoying a purple square shawl (rumal) was worn most commonly by women, the patch. Multi-estimate results across a sale of a private collection rectangular dochalla, was particularly favoured by men and was conducted by Christie’s online in June 2019 were followed earlier Above: Kashmiri shawl sold for worn draped over the shoulder or around the body for warmth. this year by a £12,000 bid for a late 18th century ‘moon’ shawl at £18,500 at Aldridges of Bath. The design dates it to c.1840. In The Kashmir Shawl and its Morphets in Harrogate (see ATG No 2435). Inset left: detail of the central Indo-French Influence (1997), Frank Ames divides the decorative Roland Arkell design of a temple.

Jewellery stolen in prominent German-Jewish London, has announced its Van Gogh painting Oxford burglary banker who was persecuted by membership list. taken from museum the Nazis. The £20m development Police are trying to trace Head of a Woman (1903) from located in five Grade II-listed A Vincent van Gogh painting antique jewellery stolen by Picasso’s Blue Period is one of Georgian townhouses includes from the early part of the Precious burglars from Norah’s Antiques at least 16 pictures that the 14 galleries and a variety of artist’s career has been stolen metals in Oxford. The theft occurred banker Paul von Mendelssohn- working spaces and storage from a museum in the sometime between the Bartholdy sold in the months options. Netherlands. On Friday, April 3, afternoon of March 21 and after the Nazis seized power There is a multi-tiered According to a report by 7.30am on March 22. and before his death in 1935. membership model for art Associated Press, the theft Michael Bloomstein of Thames Valley Police said It was sold to the dealer businesses, giving them access occurred at the Singer Laren Brighton was quoting the the offenders smashed the Justin K Thannhauser in 1934 to viewing rooms, meeting museum east of Amsterdam. following for bulk scrap street-facing window of the and The National Gallery of rooms and technical support. The painting in question is The against a gold fix of: shop in Turl Street and stole a Art said it acquired the pastel Among the dealerships on Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in $1610.41 €1493.72 £1311.20 large amount of jewellery as a donation in 2001. the list are Stair Sainty, which Spring 1884 which is believed including rings and brooches. The New York Times reported focuses on 16th-early 20th to have been stolen in the early Gold Investigating officer Det that the museum decided to century European painting, hours of March 30. The 10 x 22 carat: £1159.86 per oz Con Rob Prout, of Force CID transfer ownership of the draw- Old Master specialist Baring 22in (25 x 57cm) oil on paper (£37.29 per gram) based at St Aldates police ing in a settlement “to avoid Fine Art and John Martin shows a person standing in a station in Oxfordshire, said: “I the heavy toll of litigation”. Gallery, offering Contemporary garden surrounded by trees 18 carat: £948.97 (£30.51) am asking anybody who did The decision, it said, “does works. with a church tower in the 15 carat: £790.81 (£25.42) witness anything to make not constitute an acknowledg- ‘Honorary members’ – background. contact with police.” ment of the merit or validity of limited to institutional The museum houses the 14 carat: £738.00 (£23.73) At this stage no photos of the the asserted claims”. directors and senior curators collection of American couple 9 carat: £474.49 per oz stolen jewellery are available. – include the Camden Arts William and Anna Singer and Anyone with information Centre and the V&A Dundee. the painting was on loan from (£15.25 per gram) should call 101 quoting Arts hub members In light of the continuing the Groninger Museum in the 12 Month High: ▲ £15.95 reference 43200094657 or call list announced coronavirus outbreak the northern Dutch city of 12 Month Low: ▼ £11.35 the independent charity opening, planned for May 20, Groningen. Crimestoppers on 0800 555 Cromwell Place, the new arts has been postponed until the Hallmark Platinum 111. hub in South Kensington, autumn. £16.15 per gram Wyngarde estate Below: the new Cromwell Place arts hub. sale is white-glove Silver Washington gallery returns a Picasso The dedicated, online-only sale £9.75 per oz for 925 of actor Peter Wyngarde’s standard hallmarked The National Gallery of Art in estate and related items at East 12 Month High: ▲ £12.35 Washington announced it will Bristol Auctions was a white- return a pastel drawing by glove sell-out. 12 Month Low: ▼ £9.24 Pablo Picasso to the heirs of a A total of 257 lots sold on 6 | 11 April 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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TOP SELLING LOTS

Chiswick Auctions, March 30 March 26 ranged from items Rolex ‘Double Red Date’ Sea-Dweller Mark II, that were in his private resi- Ref 1665 with box and papers, c.1971. dence in Kensington to props Estimate: £28,000-48,000 and costumes from a long Hammer: £27,000 career. Wyngarde (1927-2018) Most read appeared in most 1960s-70s ‘cult’ programmes including Doctor Who and The Avengers The most viewed stories for Eppli, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, and took leading roles in his week March 26-April 1 on March 28 own shows Jason King and antiquestradegazette.com Qing 50 tael square silver sychee Department S. ingot, 1796-1821, 1875g. Auctioneer Andy Stowe Above: Peter Wyngarde’s 1 Coronavirus: latest Estimate: N/A said: “The rostrum was my personally owned copy of his changes to auctions Hammer: €14,000 (£12,000) dining room table, with the dog self-titled 1970 album on vinyl – and fairs dates asleep at my feet. I was operat- £320 at East Bristol Auctions. 2 TV’s Charlie Ross ing the software entirely myself, posts online workout which was surprisingly easy.” and pop stars. It had an amaz- video for auctioneers Stowe added: “We had lots ing celebrity reaction on social with closed salerooms of celebrity interest in this sale media.” with several of the buyers being 3 Showcasing 40 well-known presenters, actors Also see Auction Reports, p11. fabulous objects from dealers’ websites

4 Fellows sticks to Super football career family values as jewellery auction is Pax Romana, London, March 29 but a very sad ending staged from owner’s Life-size Gandhara schist head of a home bodhisattva, c.300AD, 18in (45cm), acquired in the 1980s. The first 20 lots of the football memorabilia sale at Stacey’s 5 Rembrandt self- Estimate: £6000-9000 in Rayleigh, Essex, on March 30 came from the family of the portrait, yachting Hammer: £7500 Edwardian player Benjamin Warren (1879-1917). watch and a portrait Born in Newhall, Derbyshire, and scouted while playing as a by a British society HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE junior, he emerged as one of England’s highest-rated half-backs, artist – among five playing for Derby County (one of the 12 founder members of the auction highlights Aldridges of Bath, March 31 Football League in 1888) for eight years from 1899 and for Chelsea that caught bidders’ Kangxi famille verte from 1908-11 before a knee injury ended his career. eyes Warren played 22 games for his country. Included in this ‘double-decorated’ archive was his first full international maroon cap (for a match dragon and peaches played against Ireland in Belfast in February 1908) sold together and pomegranates with the cloth ‘three lions’ badge from his shirt and original dish, 14in (35cm) photographs of Warren and his team. Estimated at £850-950, it across, broken. took £1000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium). Estimate: £150-250 An England cap from the game on November 2, 1911, played Hammer: £4800 against Ireland at the Baseball Ground (home of Derby County from 1895-1997) sold at £1350. A ticket from the same game was a rarity. This example, with the corner neatly torn off for entry, doubled up as Warren’s itinerary for the weekend. The rear has details of his hotel for Friday night and the schedule for match day. It made £750. Denhams, Horsham, A rare red and white striped England trial shirt made by March 25 Gamages, sold together with a postcard dated 1900-01 showing Kangxi plate decorated with Warren and the rest of the team wearing the kit, sold at £750. a figure from theWater Margins plus two other blue Poignant item In Numbers and white dishes, with some Warren’s life was ultimately a tragic one. When injury halted his damages. source of income, his mental health suffered. Among the most Estimate: £30-40 poignant items in the sale was a letter written in February 1914 Hammer: £3200 by Chelsea FC to Warren’s wife who struggled financially after her 33% Keys, Aylsham, March 25 husband was certified Possibly 17th century insane and admitted to The proportion of bidders at bronze of a lion an asylum in Derbyshire. Sotheby’s Design sale held attacking a stallion, The letter, sold for from March 24-31 in New York 12in (30cm) wide after £150 at Stacey’s, refers bidding via mobile phone. model by Giambologna to series of benefit (1529-1608). matches that were Estimate: £100-150 played in April that year Hammer: £3300 – one attracting 15,000 spectators. Warren died three years later of Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for March 8-16, 201926-April. 1. Above left: England cap awarded to tuberculosis. ‘Highest‘Highest pricemultiple over overestimate’ top estimate’= Our selection = Our of selection items from of theitems top from10 highest the top hammer 20 highest prices hammeras a Benjamin Warren (above right), sold pricesmultiple as of a the multiple high estimate of the high paid estimateby internet paid bidders by internet on thesaleroom.com bidders on thesaleroom.com Roland Arkell ‘Top‘Top sellingselling lots’ lots’ = =Our Our selection selection of itemsof items from from the top the 10 top highest 20 highest hammer hammer prices paidprices by internetpaid by for £1000 at Stacey’s. internetbidders on bidders thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com

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Sale serves a feast from the east Spring brings a varied array of Asian art at Lewes auction along with European treats

by Terence Ryle 1

A cross-section of Asian art – Qing porcelain, Meiji Satsuma and Euro-Asiatic ivories – provided the prizes at Gorringe’s (21% buyer’s premium) March 10 spring sale held in Lewes. Top-seller among nearly 90 Chinese lots was a Kangxi blue and white brush pot or bitong. Dated c.1700-15, the 7in (18cm) tall vessel was painted with a scholar and assistants to one side and a seven-column inscribed poem to the 3 reverse. It featured a studio seal mark 1. A 16th-17th century mu shi (bamboo and rock) – one seen Hispano-Filipino or Sino- on several porcelains of the period Portuguese ivory relief – likely to have been the name of a £10,000 at Gorringe’s. private kiln. The pot had a small chip to the 2. Gardner Russian peasant foot but, against a £10,000-15,000 2 figure – £6500. estimate, it sold at £35,000. Keen 3. Kangxi brushpot – £35,000. Chinese interest was evident but the London trade, always strong bidders 4. Kyoto Ryozan Meiji vase – for Kangxi wares, bought it. £10,000. A Chinese buyer bought two pieces with Daoguang (1821-50) marks which also went well above A 15in (37.5cm) tall, exhibition Kinkozan family had been producing high hopes. quality Satsuma vase finely wares from their Kyoto studios since A pair of 4½in (11.5cm) diameter painted with figures and boats in a 1645 and began exporting to the West yellow ground famille rose mountainous landscape bore a gilt during the 1850s. During the Meiji ‘medallion’ bowls with six-character 4 nine-character seal. It was marked period they became Japan’s largest seal marks were catalogued as for Kyoto Ryozan along with the producers of Satsuma ware until the ‘probably of the period’. Painted trademark of the Yasuda Company factory closed in 1927. to the exterior with lotus flowers and the mon of the Shimazu family. The 8¼in (21cm) diameter and foliage, they were estimated at Estimated at £4000-6000, this vase moulded bowl at Gorringe’s, £12,000-16,000 and made £22,000. went to a UK collector at £10,000. featuring bamboo-shaped basketwork Catalogued as of the period, Other Meiji prizes included a pair ribs and painted with panels of a ‘duck and lotus’ bowl using the of pottery vases by Yabu Meizan and millefleur to the exterior and white twice-fired doucai technique topped a moulded bowl from the Kinkozan flowers to the interior, was impressed that. It was painted to the exterior Kyoto studios, both of which were with the four-character mark to the with an underglaze blue band of bought by a London specialist dealer. base. Against expectations of £1500- dragons chasing the flaming pearl Yabu Meizan (1853-1934) opened 2000, the bowl sold at £4400. and overglaze with mandarin ducks his Osaka workshop in 1880, but Two Euro-Asiatic religious ivory swimming among lotus blossoms. To quickly became highly regarded in pieces went well above expectations. the interior was a central medallion Japan and then a hugely successful A 6in (15cm) relief depicting the of a pair of ducks in a lotus pond. exporter to the West. Crucifixion catalogued as Hispano- In May 2017 a pair of similar His 4¾in (12cm) tall ovoid vases Filipino or Sino-Portuguese was bowls took £72,000 at Sotheby’s offered in Lewes were painted to the probably late-16th or early-17th in London. The single bowl at upper half with figures of artisans and century and relates to an near- Gorringe’s, estimated at £8000- scholars and, below, with figures in contemporary engraving by Flemish 12,000, made £25,000. boats. Bearing gilt four-character seal artist Jan Sadeler. Items bearing the seal marks of marks, the vases, pitched at £3000- In a later fitted case, the ivory three of the greatest names in Meiji 5000, went at £5500. was pitched at £3000-5000 but ceramics led the Japanese section. In contrast with Meizan, the sold online to a London specialist 8 | 11 April 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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The Gardner ‘regional “types’ figures are an equally vibrant niche market 1 3

at £10,000 against Portuguese and 2 4 Spanish competition. Also of Portuguese interest was a 9½in (24cm) Indo-Portuguese 1 & 2. Two views of a creamware beaker wishing ivory group of Christ as the Good ‘Brooks’ beaker Success to the Brooks – £5500 at Mellors & Kirk. Shepherd. Dated to the 17th or 18th 3 & 4. Two views of a creamware mug attacking the century, it more than doubled top Catholic Relief Act of 1778 – £1500 at Gorringe’s. hopes at £3400 via an internet bidder. backed brutal slave Appealing to a very different collecting audience, but an equally trade not abolition slave trade throughout the British Empire was passed in 1807, vibrant niche market, are the although it was not until 1833 that slavery itself was outlawed ‘regional types’ figures produced at A rare creamware transfer printed and painted beaker in Britain and most of its colonies. the porcelain factory set up outside offered for sale by Mellors & Kirk (20% buyer’s premium) in Moscow by English entrepreneur Nottingham on March 18 told a dark tale, writes Roland Arkell. Religious hysteria Francis Gardner in 1776. It carries the image of a privateer and the words Success to Politics were at fever pitch in the latter years of the 18th The 8½in (21.5cm) tall example at the Brooks, while to the reverse is an oval medallion of a young century. Another rare English creamware mug, sold for a multi- Gorringe’s dated from the mid-19th woman in the guise of Hope and the initials MEB dated 1797. estimate sum at a Gorringe’s (21% buyer’s premium) weekly century. It had suffered loss to the left The vessel, built on the cheap in 1781 and operated until sale on March 16, tells of the hysteria that greeted the Catholic hand and his staff was a replacement 1804, was infamous. Owned by Joseph Brooks (1746-1823), Relief Act of 1778. but the £200-300 estimate always a Liverpool merchant whose family had provided the city The so-called Papists Act allowed Roman Catholics to join had a here-to-sell look about it. with its neoclassical town hall, it was the ‘Brooks’ and its 609 the army and purchase land if they took an oath of allegiance. After arousing wide Russian enslaved Africans stowed head-to-toe, that was the subject of The transfer-printed scene is a simplified version of an and East European interest, the a shocking engraving published in 1788. The image proved of anonymous print titled Sawneys Defence against the Beasts, figure went back to Moscow via incalculable value to the abolitionists’ cause. Whore Pope and Devil that first began to circulate in February thesaleroom.com at £6500. 1779. To the left of the composition stands a Scottish soldier Rare survivor in Highland dress who shouts Be Gone Judas alongside clerics Best of British The beaker, probably made for a member of the owner’s who cry No Faith Kept with Hereticks. British-made successes featured family, appears to be the only one known. Meanwhile, across the River Tweed the forces of Popery throughout the sale. “Anti-slavery memorabilia and documents are very are triumphant. John Bull lies prostrate on his back, trampled A 12in (30cm) diameter late-18th collectable, but rarer by far are those such as this which underfoot by the Whore of Babylon riding the seven-headed or early-19th century English baking openly advocated the evil trade at the very time that the Beast of Rome, while nearby the Pope addresses the king dish with a slipware lattice design clamour for its abolition was at its height,” said auctioneer saying I Absolve Thee From The Breach of Thy Oath. on a brown background cream went Nigel Kirk. Estimated at £500-700 to reflect two large hairline The guide on this rare 6in (15cm) mug, that was in great to the London trade at a quadruple- cracks, it ultimately sold at £5500. condition save a minor chip to the foot, was £80-120. However, estimate £2800. Ten years after the beaker was made an act banning the bidding reached £1500. Dating to c.1885 was a Doulton Lambeth flambé bottle vase standing 8in (19cm) tall. Decorated with an entwined mythical beast and Right: pottery incised MVM for the designer Mark model of a Kookaburra flies into V Marshall, it sold to a collector at kookaburra by £1800 (estimate £200-300). Maud O’Reilly Best of the furniture was a 3ft 6in – £2600 at Cumbrian saleroom (1.07m) diameter Regency giltwood Mitchells. and gesso convex wall mirror. With Maud O’Reilly (1886-1971), a key figure in Queensland’s Arts & Crafts a carved, ribbon-tied laurel wreath movement and a student of the LJ Harvey school, showed her pottery at a frame and a later plate, it went above number of British exhibitions in the mid 1920s. estimate to the northern English In 1926 she exhibited an 11in (27cm) slip-cast figure of a kookaburra, trade at £5500. similar to this one shown left, at The Royal Academy. Topping the silver was a pair of A number of versions are known including that sold by Bonhams in Sydney embossed, inverted pear tea caddies in 2011 for Aus$14,400 (£7323). The example pictured here, incised M O’Reilly and matching sugar box by Samuel 1926, has had some professional restoration to the beak but is in otherwise Taylor, London, 1752, which went good condition. within estimate to a local collector at Offered for sale at Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium) in Cockermouth on £3200. n March 18, it took £2600 (estimate £2000-3000) from an internet bidder. antiquestradegazette.com 11 April 2020 | 9

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Dresser looked to Fiji for dish inspiration

by Roland Arkell Right: Linthorpe moon flask by Christopher Dresser A Linthorpe pottery dish designed – £1900 at Paul for the Middlesbrough pottery by Beighton. Dr Christopher Dresser sold online well over a £400-600 estimate for £4200 at Paul Beighton (17.5% buyer’s premium) on March 2. Impressed Linthorpe 293, the model copies an original Fijian libation dish in the collection at the British Museum. This version (with a chip to an arm) is decorated with autumnal glazes with the figure’s Above: Linthorpe Fijian-style dish by head left unglazed. Christopher Dresser – £4200 at Paul Beighton. The result at the auction held in in Thurcroft, Rotherham, is one of a handful of strong prices recently designs for something like 1000 pots While most of Dresser’s designs perfect condition at £950. paid for examples of the rarer while working as art superintendent were intended for mass production, Scarcer was a treacle-glazed Dresser Linthorpe creations. at Linthorpe from 1879-82. some were made in very small moon flask, 5in (12cm) high, with A record price of £17,000 was bid numbers. relief moulded decoration in the at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh in Multiple influences Two other Dresser Linthorpe Chinese style of a sage under a tree October 2019 for a similar figural He drew on a wide range of designs were eagerly contested in the and a waterfall to the rear. vessel – a sake bottle also inspired by influences including Minoan, Beighton sale. Impressed with the number 440, Fijian art. Cycladic, pre-Columbian, Chinese A pre-Columbian type bottle it took £1900 from another online Unlike his more formal creations and Japanese ceramics as well as (model 237) with mouldings to the bidder using thesaleroom.com – a for the Minton factory, Dresser locally-found prehistoric and Bronze shoulders, an incised face and a sum that reflected some small chips enjoyed free rein when creating Age artefacts. streaked glaze sold online in near- around the rim.

Left: Constance Spry urn form wall pocket – £2600 Wardrobe designed for at TW Gaze. Below left: Fulham Pottery travelling in style flower vase and uplighter – £2200 at Woolley & Wallis. This deluxe Victorian travel accessory is a ‘campaign wardrobe’ made by Robinson & Sons of Ilkley, Yorkshire. Spry rated high by devotees Fashioned in a gold floral upholstery around an octagonal pine and mahogany Responsible for the flowers at the Most of these 1950s vessels are frame, it was really made for the domestic Queen’s coronation, the society florist priced in the low three-figures but others market rather than for international travel. Constance Spry (1886-1960) is also were produced in small numbers and are The interior is fitted with brass hooks and credited with the ‘democratisation’ of keenly sought after by decorators and an enamel label reading Patent, Patentees and flower arranging. Spry devotees. Manufacturers, Robinson & Sons Ilkley, Yorkshire. She ‘married’ premium blooms An unglazed wall pocket, modelled The firm was known primarily for its Ilkley with less celebrated plant materials as a swag of tassled fabric, measuring a Portable Couch, a campaign day bed which (such as kale and pussy willow) and substantial (43cm) across and bearing proved so popular it was copied by a number collected unconventional vessels an impressed facsimile signature. It of other companies. (from jam jars to attic curios) in which was offered at TW Gaze (18% buyer’s This wardrobe also proved influential later to house them. premium) in Diss, Norfolk, on February in life: the example owned by designer Nicky Later in her career Spry created her 21 with hopes of £100-1500 but sold to a Haslam was the inspiration for a wardrobe he own collection of flower containers buyer using the saleroom.com at £2600. recently designed for retailer OKA. with the Fulham Pottery Company. This late-19th century original, last sold Further Fulham at Christie’s in London in January 2014 for Another Fulham Pottery vessel, a 14in £2800, reappeared for sale at the Mallams (36cm) high clam shell flower vase (22.5% buyer’s premium) House & Garden incorporating two light fittings, performed sale in Abingdon on March 17 with an with similar verve at the Woolley & Wallis estimate of £600- (25% buyer’s premium) sale of Art Deco 800. It again proved and Design in Salisbury on March 18. popular, selling online Possibly a Spry design (it had no at £3400. signature) it could equally have been by factory designer Gerard de Witt. Estimated at £200-400, it made £2200. Above right: Robinson & Sons campaign wardrobe sold for £3400 at Mallams. The enamel label is shown left. 10 | 11 April 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

PAGE 00-011 2437.indd 3 02/04/2020 15:3:00 Left: a pair of Coalport urns Auction explorers and covers decorated by Thomas Keeling – £3600 at locate rare watch Potteries Auctions.

An unusual late Victorian silver pocket watch by Herbert Blockley of London sold for an unexpected £2800 at Potteries Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Stoke-on- Trent March 14-15. A clue to its origins is the screw-off cap to the winder. The vases bore Timekeepers such as this, with heavy duty waterproof cases, are known as the Royal Geographical “the Tiffany mark, Society pattern ‘explorers’ watch. with whom the Made from the last decade of the Shropshire maker 19th century (the case to this one is hallmarked 1899) they were supplied by had a long the Clerkenwell watchmaker Usher & connection Cole to the retailer Herbert Blockley of 41 Duke Street, St James’s. Many were sold to the Royal Geographical Society and to New York with whom the Shropshire maker had a long private clients. connection. The watch had been estimated at £200-300. The Sunny Climes vase had a 6in (15cm) firing crack to the inside rim, a 3in (8cm) hairline crack and a chip to the Left: Royal Sumptuous urns finial, but the pair sold toward high estimate at £3600. Geographical Top-seller among the 840 lots of ceramics at the From the same period and aimed at the same market Society 1400-lot sale was a sumptuous pair of Coalport urns was a Minton vase by Albion Birks, specialist in the pâté- pattern and covers. sur-pâté technique. ‘explorers’ The 16½in (42cm) tall vases titled The Fair Musician Decorated with a classical vignette depicting an watch – and Sunny Climes were each signed T. Keeling, for archery lesson between Venus and Cupid, the 7½in £2800. Thomas Keeling who worked at the factory in the early (19cm) tall vase quadrupled the estimate to sell at £2800. 1900s, and bore the crown mark and Tiffany & Co Roland Arkell

Machine exerts a Sex Pistols ‘holy grail’ is punk pick

strong influence Among a 200-lot list of vinyl records by a galaxy of rock and pop stars, punk provided The Wimshurst influence machine, an electrostatic the outstanding performance at Cottees’ (18% Left: original generator capable of creating high voltages, was buyer’s premium) specialist sale at Poole, acetate of developed between 1880-83 by British inventor James writes Terence Ryle. Anarchy In The Wimshurst (1832-1903). Described by auctioneer Tony Savage as “the UK – £6500 at This example below, of typical composition with two holy grail for collectors”, a one-sided acetate of Cottees. contra-rotating cylinders, two Leyden jars and a hand the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The UK recorded at crack mechanism, has a label for the London optical the famous Abbey Road EMI studios in 1976 was and scientific instrument maker Dollond and Company estimated at £800-1200. of Ludgate Hill. With the original blue and gold ‘psychedelic’ It stands 17in (42cm) high on a hardwood base. label, the disc, in a plain sleeve and in fine include instruments, juke boxes and other rock Offered for sale at Trevanion & Dean (20% buyer’s condition, went to a Kent collector at £6200. paraphernalia. premium) in Whitchurch, Shropshire, on March 14, it Now in their fourth year, these biannual Best of the instruments at the 470-lot March 7 took £2400. specialist sales at Dorset – the next is scheduled sale was an early 1980s Alembic 20th Anniversary for October, circumstances permitting – mahogany, walnut and ebony bass guitar. have witnessed what Savage describes as the Numbered 69/200 and in its original case it massive comeback of vinyl records but also went comfortably above hopes at £1800. Right: Wimshurst influence machine Fab Four in ‘ballroom of the stars’ by Dolland One of the highlights of actor Peter Wyngarde’s estate sale held live, online-only at – £2400 at East Bristol Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) on March 26 was a Beatles concert Trevanion & poster from 1963. Dean. It promotes the Fab Four’s concert in the Abergavenny Town Hall Ballroom (‘The Ballroom of the Stars’) on June 22, 1963. It measured 2ft 5in x 20in (74 x 50cm) and was printed by Arthurs Press Ltd, Stroud. Wyngarde was an acquaintance of the band. The poster (right) sold at a mid-estimate £2200 to a Beatles collector. It is the latest in a series of strong results for concert posters from the early days of famous bands – such as our Pick of the Week in ATG No 2435, a poster advertising an early gig by The Who at the short-lived Blue Moon club in Cheltenham, sold for £11,500 at Gardiner Houlgate’s auction.

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Sweetness was his weakness But artist McEvoy battles back to regain favour with auctioneers, buyers and dealers

by Alex Capon & Roland Arkell Left: Miss Violet Henry by Ambrose McEvoy, 1918 – £35,000 at Dreweatts.

Critics were not always kind to the Right: Horse, a small bronze by Henry British ‘society’ artist Ambrose Moore – £26,000. McEvoy (1878-1927). One wag writing during the First World War joked that at a time of sugar shortage McEvoy’s sometimes saccharine portraits were ‘a positive asset to the nation’. Despite such swipes, his portraits remained in high demand throughout the ‘Roaring Twenties’ with sitters including illuminaries such as Winston Churchill and James Ramsay MacDonald. When McEvoy died in 1927, he was at the peak of his fame. The market for his works since his death has had its ups and downs. His portraits were deemed somewhat ‘of their period’ and fell out of fashion as tastes changed after the Second and then on a large estate in by the famed dealer Joseph Duveen that the artist’s following was not, at World War. Asheville, North Carolina. in New York, a show that gave the this point at any rate, deterred from Although he remained in relative After marrying Brigadier Hartley artist a reputation in the US. It was bidding by the coronavirus crisis obscurity in subsequent decades, his Alfred Macochie, she lived in also pictured in John Rothenstein’s unravelling with greater urgency at name has re-emerged more recently Somerset and McEvoy painted Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith the time of this sale. both in terms of his portraits making her standing at a mantelpiece, her (1952) and so it was a ‘known’ work. increasing sums at auctions and reflection appearing in a mirror Offered for sale in Berkshire with Leading Lavery dealers spotting and cultivating the – a composition borrowed from modest expectations of £4000-6000, The top lot of the Dreweatts sale was growing interest. Whistler’s Symphony in White (1864). the appealing subject and fluid a view of Hyde Park Corner by Sir A significant moment came in The picture had a long exhibition technique found admirers. John Lavery (1856-1941) showing February 2015 when a portrait of a history. It was commissioned as It sold to a UK trade buyer using the procession for the marriage of young girl appeared at Dreweatts in part of a series of portraits McEvoy thesaleroom.com at £35,000 – a Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Newbury and soared over a £700- painted to benefit the Red Cross that record price for McEvoy at auction. Princess Marina of Greece and 1000 estimate to be knocked down were shown at the Grosvenor Gallery Indeed, the price suggested extra Denmark on November 29, 1934. at £32,000. The subject was later in 1918. Two years later it formed interest has been encouraged by the Lavery was the artistic equivalent identified as the aristocratic British part of the McEvoy exhibition held Mould exhibition as well as the fact of David Dimbleby in his day – actress and ‘Bright Young Thing’ Lois Sturt (1900-37). It subsequently featured at the first major show on McEvoy in 50 Duncan years which was staged by dealer Campbell Philip Mould at his Pall Mall gallery, opening last November. collection

McEvoy returns to Dreweatts A group of pictures from In the latest test of demand, the collection of the late art another early-20th century portrait dealer Duncan Campbell, by McEvoy resurfaced, again at who died in 2011, were Dreweatts (25% buyer’s premium), among the lots drawing and was offered at its Modern and interest at Dreweatts. Contemporary Art sale on March 19. Offered by the family, the eclectic range of works would have Anticoli Corrado, roughly 40km east of Rome, where the Morrocco The 4ft 2in x 3ft 4in (1.27 x 1.01m) been familiar to those who had visited his gallery in Thackeray family spent their holidays in the 1950s and early 1960s. It featured oil on canvas portrait of Miss Violet Street, Kensington. the familiar varied palette which the artist used to create the Henry (1901-76) was painted in 1918 A larger 269-lot array from his collection was sold at familiar the woven patchwork in his richly layered landscapes. and had been in the family of the Dreweatts & Bloomsbury back in April 2012 but here the 28 The collection also included a small selection of watercolours sitter ever since then. works on offer raised a total of £27,475 (including premium). by Rowland Hilder (1905-93), among which a decent competition The sitter was a typical McEvoy The top lot among them was Hillside with Village, Roviano emerged for a view of Tilford, Surrey (above right). client. She was the daughter of Philip (above left) by Scottish artist Alberto Morrocco (1917-98) that The rural landscape was an 8¼ x 12in (21.5 x 33cm) signed Solomon Henry (1863-1933), an sold on low estimate at £12,000 to a UK private buyer. watercolour and ink that surpassed a £500-700 estimate and Australian copper and coffee trader The subject was the village on the opposite side of the valley to was knocked down at £800. who later lived first in Paddington 12 | 11 April 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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within estimate at £26,000 and was knocked down to a UK private buyer. Illuminating artworks Conceived in 1978 and cast in an The market for edition of seven, it was a relatively £1 = €1.14 McEvoy’s works since late work and had a green patina The ROSC art exhibitions – ‘rosc’ being an Irish word roughly translated as ‘the poetry of “ with a smooth, undulating surface. vision’ – were the first major series of large-scale international art shows in Ireland. his death has had its While equine subjects are not The first took place at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) in 1967 and comprised the work ups and downs unknown in Moore’s oeuvre – they of the 50 ‘best’ living artists of the time including Francis Bacon, Willem De Kooning, started appearing as early as the Joan Miró, Ben Nicholson and 1920s – he did not experiment with Pablo Picasso. The New Yorker wheeled out with steady regularity the form in the same way that other described it as “one of the to cover royal weddings and key leading Modern British artists such boldest and most illuminating national moments in all their as Elizabeth Frink did, for example. international exhibitions of vibrant pomp. In the 1880s he was The work at Dreweatts was one modern art ever held...” commissioned to paint the state visit of only a handful actually created by This sizeable 4ft 3in x 4ft 7in of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow Moore that were also enlarged to a (1.3 x 1.4m) oil painting, Mastiff International Exhibition and this royal full-scale model. One of the full-size (Cwajnos), left, was among patronage continued throughout the versions can be found in the collection the works included, painted in rest of his career. of the Henry Moore Foundation in the the same year by Polish artist The 23¾ x 19½in (60.5 x 50cm) oil Hertfordshire countryside. Tadeusz Brzozowski (1918-87). on canvas at Dreweatts came fresh to While examples of the larger He was a member of the market, having been in a private edition in a brown patina can make the Krakow Group and the collection for some considerable substantially more, this 8¼in (21cm) international ‘Phases’ movement time. It followed a larger view long maquette nevertheless looked of painters inspired by of Hyde Park Corner but from a a decent proposition against a Surrealism and non-geometric different angle showing Armistice £20,000-30,000 estimate. and lyrical abstraction. The hallmarks of a top Brzozowski – distorted forms, intense Day in November 1918 that sold at colour, strongly emphasised textures and a mysterious title inspired by old Polish words Sotheby’s in November 2018 for ‘Exceptionally pleased’ – were all present in Mastiff (Cwajnos). £250,000 including premium. Dreweatts head of fine art Jennie Over 50 years later after ROSC it returned to the RDS on March 9 as part of a sale of This view had a lot going for it Fisher said: “Given the potentially Irish and international art at Dublin saleroom Whyte’s (20/13.5% buyer’s premium). It too in terms of its market freshness, difficult timing of this sale, we are came from a private collector in Ireland who had acquired it well in excess of its modest exhibition history and tonal effects. exceptionally pleased with the results. €1000-1500 guide for €90,000 from Adam’s of Dublin in 2007. Offered at Whyte’s with It duly sold over its £20,000-30,000 “There were some great prices an €80,000-100,000 guide, it drew competition once more and was knocked down to a estimate and was knocked down at for the top lots with strong and private collector in Poland for a sale-topping €190,000 (£167,000). The sum equals the £44,000 to the UK trade. competitive bidding from trade and auction record set in November 2017 by Desa Unicom in Warsaw for Pretzels (1959), a private buyers alike. While it may well-known Brzozowski canvas exhibited at MOMA in the 1960s. Moore bronze have been difficult for bidders to Overall, the 200-lot sale at Whyte’s totalled €1.1m and was 82% sold. The auction Among the sculptures at Dreweatts, attend the auction in person, they house said it was a “fine start to the art auction season” despite the “inclement weather” a small bronze of a horse by Henry fully embraced the full range of and concern over the impact of the coronavirus that had begun to grow at the time. Moore (British 1898-1986) sold remote options open to them.” n Gabriel Berner

Auerbach’s theatrical flourish in Scarborough

An unsigned Frank Auerbach (b.1931) sketch (top left) in inclusive £518, a sum that also illustrates the rising auction coloured inks of Camden Theatre in London, a favourite prices in the intervening decades for Auerbach’s work. subject of the artist, emerged as the top-selling lot at The 287-lot Spring Art Sale was 82% sold by lot and totalled Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby (22.5% buyer’s £180,000, that auction’s highest total to date. premium) on March 6. The work was one of over a dozen modestly priced Staithes Group work 20th century oils, watercolours, lithographs and drawings Among the works depicting local scenes was a 19 x 23in (48 by mainly British and American painters from the private x 59cm) oil on canvas of a woman mending nets at Runswick collection of the late Brian Hill of Bridlington, East Yorkshire. Bay near Whitby by Staithes Group artist Mark Senior The large Grade II-listed theatre, painted by Auerbach (1862-1927). It tipped over top estimate to sell to a Yorkshire repeatedly over many years, features in famous works collector on the book for £4600. such as The Camden Theatre (1976) in the British Council After the catalogue had been published, the figure was collection and Camden Theatre in the Rain (1977), a large- identified as Mrs Peggy Calvert by her granddaughter, who saw scale oil that sold at Sotheby’s in 2007 for a premium- the painting in the local paper and still lives at Runswick Bay. inclusive £1.92m. The picture (below left) was bought by the vendor in 1994 The 10 x 10½in (25 x 27cm) drawing offered in Scarborough at specialist Staithes Group dealer Phillips & Sons in Cookham had featured in the touring 1977 exhibition Drawing in Action by and came in appealing ‘ready to hang’ condition. “There is still Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. plenty of local interest in the Staithes Group, particularly for It came with provenance for Marlborough Fine Art in London oils,” said Duggleby after nearly all 45 lots dedicated to the art where Hill had bought it. In “very good condition” and in its colony sold. original frame, the drawing sold to the UK trade for £6000 The auction was led by Shipping Anchored in the Humber off against a £1000-2000 estimate. Spurn Point, a typically serene 19th century coastal oil by the It is not the first time such works have been offered. A Hull School painter Henry Redmore (1820-87) that sold to a comparable felt-tip pen sketch of the theatre executed in private buyer based in Yorkshire on bottom estimate for £8000. c.1973 sold at Christie’s in December 1999 for a premium- Gabriel Berner

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Witch pickings in salerooms Puritan Cotton Mather’s defence of executions is latest work on the subject to surface

by Ian McKay Below: signed and inscribed by Lucy Hawking and bearing the thumbprint of her father – as verified by his duty nurse’s inscription – a copy of their 2007 book Two copies of a 1682 work called George’s Secret Key to the Universe sold for £950 at A Tryal of Witches have featured in Toovey’s. It is one of six adventure tales by Lucy, all recent auctions, and witchcraft was based on real science and aimed at young readers. once again in the air at a recent West Sussex sale. Responsible for the day’s highest bid of £4100 at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) on March 17 was a 1693, third London edition in 19th century calf of Cotton Mather’s The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England... The book is essentially a defence of the witch hunts that he and his father, Increase Mather, had raised in Salem, Massachusetts. The Mathers saw witches as tools of the devil in Satan’s battle to “overturn this poor plantation, the Puritan colony”, and prosecution of witches as a way to secure God’s blessings for the colony. As a result, Above: the title page of Cotton Mather’s ...Account of the Tryals as many as 19 women were convicted of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England, sold for of witchcraft and put to death. £4100 by Toovey’s. Only a single example of the original US edition of the same year, but bid to £950 was a much less Last but not least sold for $7000 by Swann Galleries in familiar work by Bram Stoker: a The very last lot of the day 1987, appears in auction records. 1902 first (2nd impression) of The produced an unexpectedly high However, in 2014 one of the many Mystery of the Sea of 1902. bid of £650. It secured one of just sales held to disperse the vast ‘How In the original pictorial cloth 50 signed copies of Ten Designs for History Unfolds on Paper’ collections The book is essentially a binding, it was signed and inscribed the Two Gentleman of Verona by John of the US collector Eric Caren defence of the witch by Stoker for the Duke of Fife. Guthrie issued by the Pear Tree included a first English edition of “ The cataloguer wondered if that Press of Flansham in Sussex in hunts that Cotton and his 1693 which sold for $19,000 (then association derived from the fact 1925. £11,445). father, Increase Mather, that Stoker was for many years a Illustrated with woodblock plates has raised in Salem personal assistant to the actor Henry and in original wrap-around card Less familiar Stoker Irving and may have met the duke covers, it was lotted with other An ex-public library first of Dracula while managing Irving’s Lyceum ephemera relating to Guthrie and the in the Toovey’s auction made £1200 theatre. Pear Tree Press. n

Celebrated shorthorns in the spotlight Books, catalogues, ephemera, pictures and other material Not part of that Shorthorn Society property, but of from the collections of the Shorthorn Society of the United related interest was a five-volume set of John Mills’New and Kingdom & Ireland formed a significant part of a recent Complete System of Practical Husbandry of 1762-65 that had Carlisle sale. added association value. One of the more keenly pursued of those lots on March Each volume bore the bookplate of Robert Riddell of 19 at Thomson Roddick (17.5% buyer’s premium) was FB Friars Carse, near Dumfries, who was a companion and Larkworthy’s Photographs of Celebrated British Shorthorns, correspondent of Robert Burns. It sold for £350. a work of 1879 in which the portraits of the cattle are accompanied by details of their pedigree. It doubled the high Wainwright drawing estimate to sell at what may be a record £600. Items in the larger, general part of the sale included an ink The most expensive lot in the property was an 1823 oil and pencil drawing by Alfred Wainwright of a Scottish peak, painting by David Dalby of York, depicting Mr Hutchinson’s Binnein Mòr, at £380, and a 32pp, illustrated souvenir of the Above: spread from Photographs of Celebrated Beef Shorthorn Bull, Sir Leoline, that featured on the Royal Cup Final of 1914 in which Burnley defeated Liverpool British Shorthorns – £600 at Thomson Roddick. catalogue cover. It sold at £2800 (see Art Market, page 13). 1-0. Sold at £320, the latter was a copy that came to auction

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Horror titles cut after decapitation shocker

Offered without a reserve, a job lot magazine, its ‘Humor In A Jugular of “low grade” comics dating from Vein’ tagline a pithy reference to the 1940s-50s ended up selling for CSS #22. Some would later argue £1200 in a Comic Book Auctions that MAD was even more subversive, (19% buyer’s premium) timed sale mocking and lampooning the political on thesaleroom.com that ended on and artistic leaders of the day as it March 1. did, while going on to run for over 40 The big attraction it seems was a years and making Gaines a fortune.” 1954 copy of Crime SuspenStories. Auctioneer Malcolm Phillips Short-lived magic explained the background to its Other highlights from the CBA sale success. “When Johnny Craig drew included a lot offering the first five Above left: the notorious the initial [cover] illustration it issues of the short-lived DC comics 1950s issue of Crime showed the decapitated head dripping stablemate of Beano and Dandy. SuspenStories sold at Comic blood from the neck wound and was Previewed in ATG No 2430, those Book Auctions as the key looked upon as too gory by EC, or rare copies of Magic Comic, which attraction in a mixed lot that Entertaining Comics publisher and ran only in the years 1939-41, sold at made £1200. editor, Bill Gaines. £4100. Above right: an exceptionally “Consequently the illustration Two artworks produced by Frank high grade copy of a Marvel was lowered to ‘just’ show the Bellamy for consecutive 1968 issues comic of 1962 that featured head. This did not stop the issue’s of TV21 sold at £3550. the first appearance of cover becoming the centrepiece of Showing tape repairs, a re-stapled Spider Man, sold by Heritage a Senate sub-committee hearing on spine and numerous other faults a for $662,500 (£513,565). Juvenile Delinquency, from which copy of the 1963 first issue of Amazing Dr Frederick Wertham’s Seduction Of Spider Man comic sold at £2900 in the Left: Frank Bellamy original The Innocent became a staple in every CBA auction. artwork for TV21 sold by public library in North America However, in a March 5-8 comics CBA at £3550. and Crime SuspenStories #22 the most auction held by US saleroom infamous and horrific cover of its time. Heritage (20% buyer’s premium), “As a direct result, Gaines a copy of the Amazing Fantasy Marvel discontinued EC’s horror titles, comic of 1962, in which the comic British and Irish book auctions (all online only)

changing tack to found MAD book writer, editor and publisher Apr 7* 4 6 lots Books & Maps, Bretells - Newport (Shropshire) 01952 815925 Stan Lee’s most famous creation was ends Apr 7* 4 7 lots Printed Ephemera, William George 01733 667680 seen for the first time, was bid to Apr 8* 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 170 1314 $662,500 (£513,565). ends Apr 11* 4 Autographs Section, Excalibur Auctions 020 3633 0913 Billed as far and away the most Apr 14* 4 11 lots Books, Bretells - Newport (Shropshire) 01952 815925 valuable, in-demand comic book Apr 15* 4 Sports Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 170 1314 Some would argue later of the what is known in the ‘Silver Apr 21* 4 Paper Collectables, Toovey’s - Washington 01903 891955 that MAD was even more Age’, this near-mint copy, said Apr 23* 4 Books & Works on Paper incl more Birmingham Assay Office lots,Forum 020 7871 2640 “ Heritage, rivalled the finest it had ends Apr 23* 4 Royal Letters & Photos, Historical Documents, etc, William George 01733 667680 subversive, mocking and ever seen: “Jack Kirby did the Apr 25* 4 Movie & Music Memorabilia incl Autographs, Excalibur Auctions 020 3633 0913 lampooning political and classic cover, and Steve Ditko began artistic leaders of the day his legendary tenure as Spidey’s Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a as it did primary artist.” larger sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com

Right: Alfred Wainwright drawing of Binnein Mòr – £380 at Thomson Roddick.

from a descendant of one of the Burnley players. Welcoming Consignments for our continuing Three of the lesser-known works of calendar of Online-only auctions of Books the author of Little Black Sambo, Helen and Works on Paper Bannerman, also featured. All firsts in pictorial green cloth Elizabethan astronomer and almanac maker.- Askham (Anthony) An Almanacke and Prognosticatyon, made for the yeare of oure bindings, they were not perfectly Lord God. M.CCCCC.L.II. By Anthony Askham Phisition, preserved, but The Story of Little Degchie- 3 publisher’s trial sheets, 1552; and another fragment (4 pieces). Head: An Awful Warning to Bad Babas Sold for £22,000 (Online-only Auction, 20th February 2020) (1903) made £120, while copies of The Full calendar and COVID 19 Policy at forumauctions.co.uk Story of Little Black Mingo (1901) and Pat and the Spider (1904) sold at £80 each. No copies of the last mentioned work Forum Auctions, 220 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4LP appear in auction records that I have seen. Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected]

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Invent, innovate, be in touch How the trade is responding to the coronvirus alert with fresh online formats by Frances Allitt Left: Seaplane of the Imperial German Air Force over the Baltic Coast, 1918, by Carl Malchin (1838-1923), is offered for £7500 at Panter & Hall’s exhibition Dealers and trade bodies have been A Dealer’s Eye. adapting to the new normal caused by This show, which runs until April 17, offers 46 works coronavirus. For most this means from dealer Matthew Hall’s collection acquired over isolated living and remote transactions. two decades. The online catalogue contains his notes However, in a spirit of energy and and anecdotes on each piece, while further information invention, traders are finding new ways about each artist is available on the gallery website. to promote both their stock and their panterandhall.com brands online. Many are moving planned events to websites, such as Eames Fine Art, Right: Eames Fine Art of Southwark, south London, which is holding its first digital offers this poster for a 1971 show at the Knoedler exhibition. Fellow London gallery Gallery priced at £350 as part of its online exhibition Panter & Hall and Swiss dealership Picasso on Paper: Posters and Prints. The collection Bailly Gallery have also staged online of lithographic posters, all from historic exhibitions, shows (see right). by a group sheltering during the Black provides a chance to snap up affordable works by the great Modern artist. Available Death). In each email the dealership also are linocuts and original lithographic prints. The show will be hung and a video of New way to display offers a story about a work of art or life the exhibition accompanies the digital listings. Unframed pieces will be sent in the post Others are exploring new ways of in the trade to entertain its newsletter while the gallery’s framers are working to get framed works to new owners as well. The running online shows. subscribers. exhibition runs until April 26. Mazzoleni, a specialist in Modern Others have opted for video, such as eamesfineart.com and Post-war Italian art, launched Jamie Rountree of Rountree Tryon, #MAZZOLENIDIARY. Until June 7, who talks about key items of stock in the dealership is posting three works short films posted to his website and covers YouTube and Pinterest. exhibitors in a scheme dubbed ‘Meet per week on Artsy and on its social LinkedIn. Last Thursday the House of A series of BADA Friends Friday the Traders’. media pages. Images are accompanied Automata in Scotland presented a quizzes was launched on Instagram last Dealers have recalled favourite by quotes from the corresponding 40-minute show of 19th century Friday (according to plans at the time memories from the markets and artist and the project includes clockwork performances broadcast live of writing). Each competition revolves showcased highlight items of stock. interviews, videos and documentation over Instagram. around an object offered by a BADA In the following pages, we present from Mazzoleni’s archive. Meanwhile, trade bodies and fairs dealer and the winner is awarded a free our second selection of 40 objects Along with some of its own online have worked to support their members. membership to BADA Friends. The available to buy from dealers’ websites. displays, Rehs Galleries in New York LAPADA launched a series of structure is set to evolve over time. This ongoing feature seeks to show has been hosting a game of ‘Can You webinars to help dealers get to grips Sunbury Antiques, which runs the variety of objects and price points Guess the Artist’ on its various social with various online tools. antiques markets at Kempton and that can be found even without a trip media platforms, showing details of Created with social media agency Sandown Park, has been using its to premises. Another 40 will appear paintings for its followers to identify. The Tom Sawyer Effect, these offer social media platforms to promote its next week. n Answers are posted on the same practical advice on using digital platforms the next day. platforms, maximising online presence Also from the Big Apple, silver and and engaging with clients. Though jewellery specialist SJ Shrubsole is in these gatherings, hosted on Zoom, are the middle of a 30-day email series for members only, recordings are free modelled after Boccaccio’s Decameron to all on LAPADA’s website. (a 14th century collection of stories told The next session is on Thursday and

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buyers A collection of 50 Modern and Post-war works is offered by Bailly Gallery on Artnet and Artsy. The show features pictures such as Raoul Dufy’s Le Coeur, le Palais et worldwide le Ventre de Paris (1924), a gouache on paper offered for €80,000-90,000. Other 2covet.com artists represented include Maurice de Vlaminck, Joan Miró and Piet Mondrian. The show runs until June 25. baillygallery.com

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Ebury Trading Howard Walwyn This original Archittetura chest, c.1970-80, by Atelier This William III period ebonised table clock, Fornasetti features the studio’s typical lithographically c.1685-95, with an eight-day hour striking brass printed, hand-painted design and brass fittings. Formerly in dial movement by Samuel Watson, is offered for a fashion boutique in Milan, it is offered for £26,000. £45,000. The unusual inclusion of a viscount’s coronet in the design of the caddy mounts would eburytrading.com indicate that the original patron was a peer. Peta Smyth Antique Textiles This pair of 18th century French tapestry portières is walwynantiqueclocks.com probably from Beauvais, c.1720-30. Each features a design of poppies in a cartouche with other elements including birds, crossed quivers and a pair of dancing monkeys. With a provenance to the Mayorcas collection, L&V the pair is offered for £14,000. Art and Design petasmyth.com Designed by Aldo Tura, c.1950, this Italian two-tier red lacquered goatskin and gilded metal trolley measures 2ft (60.5cm) tall. The asking price is £1000.

landvdesign.com Mayfair Gallery Serhat Ahmet This micromosaic, just under 3in (7cm) This Berlin porcelain tête-à-tête set, c.1780, painted across, made in Rome, c.1830, is based on with scenes of farmyard animals in rural settings, the floor in Hadrian’s villa. The original is is offered for £3750. The set comprises a tray with known as the Capitoline Doves or the Doves scalloped handles, teapot, cream jug and sucrier and of Pliny. It is offered for £12,000. two cups and saucers.

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Alon Zakaim Fine Art Henri Le Sidaner’s oil on canvas Petite porte de Mark Goodger Antiques Trianon, Versailles (1936) is offered for $240,000 + Priced at £2850, this pair of silver mounted 5% import VAT. It reflects the French artist’s interest liqueur decanters in the shape of ducks were John Martin Gallery in light and demonstrates why (although he did not made by Saunders & Shepherd of Birmingham in This 20in (50cm) wide bronze, The Embrace, by consider himself a part of the group) he was often 1892. Both the heads are engraved with an earl’s Contemporary artist Olivia Musgrave is one of an associated with the Impressionists. crown and the letter L. edition of nine and is offered for £6400 + VAT. alonzakaim.com markgoodger.co.uk jmlondon.com antiquestradegazette.com 11 April 2020 | 17

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Ottocento This 6ft 3in (1.9m) wide needlework panel, Les Saisons (1962), is by The Home Bothy 20th century French artist Pierre Jourda (1931-2007). With a provenance Included in the decorative offerings from The to the studio sale of the artist, it is offered for £6600. Home Bothy is this American naïve portrait of a girl with a cat, c.1840. The large oil, 2ft 9in ottocento.co.uk x 3ft 3in (84cm x 1m), is offered in its original frame for £2900.

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J Collins and Son This coconut bugbear, probably worked by a sailor, features two hearts on the reverse and is engraved John Evans May 1816 and Ann Blimping May 1816. More lightly carved than those attributed to Napoleonic prisoners of war, it also depicts a two-storey house with trees, love birds and a schooner. It is Abbott and Holder offered for £975. This pencil drawing Head of a Man by Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-93) is signed and dated 1976. It is offered framed for collinsantiques.co.uk £19,000.

abbottandholder-thelist.co.uk Mackinnon Fine Furniture This George I ormolu mounted parcel gilt walnut secretaire cabinet in the manner of Samuel Bennet is available for £95,000. Made in England c.1720, it stands 8ft (2.44m) high and has a provenance to James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater.

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John Bird Antiques Featuring good verdigris patination, this mid-19th century copper cistern measuring 4ft 3in (1.3m) wide is available for £2800.

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AH Baldwin & Sons The William IV proof silver crown from 1834, designed by William Wyon, is one of the rarest British coins. It has an estimated mintage of around five pieces only, so this example, graded as Proof 64 Cameo, would make a significant addition to any collection. It is priced at £69,500. Alexander George Antiques baldwin.co.uk This English Charles II Japanned cabinet, c.1675, is offered for £17,250. With complete original brassware, the underside of one of the drawers features a Baron’s stamp – currently the subject of debate and further research.

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Joanna Booth These carved limewood drops, in the manner Altea Gallery of celebrated craftsman Grinling Gibbons, One of the highlight items on the website of Altea are revivalist pieces from c.1860. Perhaps Gallery is Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, originally made to flank a fireplace or doorway, the world’s first regularly produced atlas. This edition, they measure 4ft 11in (1.5m) long and are offered for £79,500, was published nine years after the offered as a pair for £3800. first and is a variant of the 1579 Latin edition.

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Thomas Coulborn & Sons Made c.1738, this freestanding dummy board figure, priced at£9750 , depicts a Chalet White Early Oak at Wysdom Hall grenadier of the Royal Scots Regiment. Used for pruning in the garden or reaching tall shelves Bearing the initials and date GM 1688, this 7ft 4in (2.24m) James II oak Painted in oil on panel, it would originally in the library, this set of early-19th century English court cupboard is available for £18,000. Made in north Lancashire, it retains have been one of a matching pair of steel ladders is hand forged. Made c.1820 and its original canopy – a rare find in a cupboard of this age. fireside boards. standing 5ft 10in (1.78m) tall, it is offered for £1950.

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Raffaello Pernici Ceramics specialist Raffaello Pernici offers a large c.1930 panel by architect Gio Ponti for Richard Ginori on the LAPADA website for £25,000. The apparently unique hand-painted piece represents the Italian landscape as a theatre scene and includes views of Mount Vesuvius and Tuscan hills.

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Pushkin Antiques This Austrian silver gilt and enamel cockerel shaped tazza by Ludwig Politzer, c.1890, is set with garnets and offered for £16,795.

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Cohen & Cohen From a service well-known among collectors of Chinese export porcelain, this pair of 13in (32cm) Qianlong period chargers is decorated with the arms of Okeover. The decorative programme is thought to come from original artwork painted by Arthur Devis (1711-87). The pair is priced at £110,000.

cohenandcohen.co.uk Garret and Hurst Young Poet, c.1889, a bronze by French Smith & Robinson sculptor Eutrope Bouret (1833-1906), This 3ft (91cm) wide trunk made by measures 11in (29cm) high including the base François Goyard of Paris, c.1920-30, features brass fittings all and is offered for £2979. marked with the maker’s name. Supported on a later customised Hickmet Fine Arts brass stand, it is offered on 1stdibs and LAPADA for £21,000. garretandhurst.co.uk This 6in (16cm) high signed soufflé flower cameo glass smithandrobinson.com & 1stdibs.com vase by Emile Gallé is decorated with burgundy and deep red flowers against a peach field. Dated to c.1920, it is offered for £5500.

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Patrick Sandberg Antiques Kevin Page Oriental Art Dating to c.1790, this Sheraton artist’s bonheur Offered for £69,500, this pair of Japanese Meiji period du jour made in rosewood, boxwood and ebony cloisonné vases c.1880 is decorated with large butterflies on Robert Young is priced at £8800. Standing 3ft 3in (1m) tall, an ink blue ground separated by silver wires. The foot and Available for £5500, this primitive Windsor comb back it features three frieze drawers containing many original neck of each vessel is decorated with floral and geometric armchair in ash, elm and walnut, c.1750, features an watercolour paints and crayons and a paper storage cupboard. designs inspired by the insects’ wings. arched crest and pierced splat.

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Rountree Tryon Galleries Alexander Ancient Art This Second World War oil on canvas Intercepting Doodlebugs over the This Roman marble funerary plaque, c.2nd-3rd South Coast, 1944 by Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962) was painted for century AD, is dedicated to the memory of Vibius the Defence Committee. It is offered for £22,500. Lucius Rufus, who died when he was only two years old. Decorated with griffins and a portrait of the boy, rountreetryon.com it is offered for £18,000.

Kate Thurlow alexanderancientart.com Kate Thurlow of Gallery Forty One features a number of mirrors on her website including this 2ft (61cm) high Louis XV example priced at Hispanic Antiques £750. Dated to c.1760, the frame has its original This 16th century gilding and retains the original mercury mirror southern German plate, now degraded. polychrome and giltwood figure katethurlow.co.uk of St John the Evangelist would originally have been part of a crucifixion group. The 2ft 9in (84cm) sculpture Catharine Hunt retains most Karen Taylor Fine Art Oriental Antiques of its original Primroses were a favourite subject of William Henry Hunt This Kangxi famille polychrome (1790-1864). They serve as the subject for this watercolour with verte brushpot, and is priced bodycolour measuring 6 x 8in (15 x 20cm), priced at £6500. c.1690, featuring a at £6000. scene of a meeting karentaylorfineart.com hispanicantiques.co.uk of scholars and officers with court officials, is offered for £8500.

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Nikki Page Antiques Freya Mitton 20th Century British Art Olde Time This pair of Swedish Gustavian armchairs, c.1800, scraped to This oil on canvas, Vinegar and Ginger Beer by Mary Fedden, This French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock, the original paint, is priced at £2650. measures 20in x 2ft (50 x 60cm) and is offered for £19,500. c.1860, is offered for £8500.

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Buyer tempted by Adam and Eve Graduation oil painting by artist who worked on Diaghilev set designs soars to six figures

by Anne Crane

£1= $1.15 Anisfield met Diaghilev An early work by Boris Anisfeld titled and worked on set Adam and Eve made one of the highest “ prices in the Russian paintings and designs for his ballets works of art auction at Shapiro (25% buyer’s premium) in New York on March 21. included in the catalogue raisonné The large signed oil on canvas, on the artist, was the actual work 8ft 9in x 10ft 5in (2.67 x 3.17m), had Anisfield submitted as his graduation been estimated at $20,000-30,000 piece to the Imperial Academy of Arts but realised no less than $105,000 in St Petersburg in 1909 and featured (£91,305). in the High Art School exhibition at Russian-born Anisfeld (1878-1973), the Academy in that year. who received his artistic training The painting had a provenance to in Odessa and St Petersburg, was the artist’s estate and then a private an artist and a set designer for the New York collection. The auction theatre. In the early years of the house reckoned that there were 20th century he met the impresario around 30 bidders on the lot before it Diaghilev and worked in Paris on was finally sold to a private buyer. n set designs for his ballets before he moved to the US in 1918 where he lived until his death in 1973. Adam and Eve was a popular Right: Adam and Eve, an oil on canvas subject with Anisfeld. of 1909 by Boris Anisfeld – $105,000 This particular painting, which is (£91,305) at Shapiro Auctions.

More adventures of Tintin Asian zingers in Zurich £1= €1.12 Tintin was a major player in a sale of Comic Strip art staged £1= SFr1.24 in Belgium. Some keenly contested examples of Asian Works relating to Hergé’s famous creation accounted for the art featured in the large sale held by three highest prices and several of the top 20 lots in an online-only Schuler in Zurich on March 23-27. auction also including related They included a 6in (15cm) high 20th items held by Millon in Brussels century Chinese porcelain brush pot on a on March 29. wooden stand which is delicately painted to The highest-priced lot was a the cylindrical body in famille rose palette 7in x 10½in (18 x 27cm) pencil with a winter landscape and a lakeside drawing on paper accompanied pavilion. by its tracing paper transfer, As well as an inscription below the rim, showing the young reporter and the piece has an iron red mark reading his dog Milou (Snowy) opening Xuren Zhushan to the base. Above: Chinese a box from which a dove flies. The mark relates to He Xuren (1882- Republican period The drawing was a project 1940), a member of the Friends of Zhushan porcelain brushpot and for a greeting card in 1959 group of Republican-era porcelain painters. a detail of the iron red and was produced during the A specialist in winter landscape painting, mark to the underside – publication of the episode Tintin his work was frequently copied both during SFr18,000 (£14,500) at in Tibet in the Tintin newspaper. and after his lifetime. He used this mark Schuler. The lot came with a copy of c.1930-40. a letter from Philippe Goddin The brush pot had a provenance to a Left: small oval jade attesting that the drawings are Swiss private collection from 1975. It easily plaque – SFr20,000 Copyright Hergé/Moulinsart 2020 by Hergé and realised €7000 outstripped its SFr800-1200 estimate to (£16,130). (£6250). take SFr18,000 (£14,500). Following at an upper-estimate €6000 (£5360) was a well- The Asian section also included a preserved 1930 black and white Petit Vingtième first edition of Chinese white jade oval plaque measuring Tintin au pays des Soviets (shown above left). 2½ x 2in (6 x 5.5cm) which had been in relief with two figures while the reverse had A 1946 coloured first edition ofLe Lotus Bleu provided the third- a Swiss private collection since the late an inscription and was signed Zigang. It too highest price of the sale at an upper-estimate €4500 (£4020). 1950s. Catalogued as dating to the first half easily outpaced its SFr1500-2000 guide to of the 20th century, it was decorated in low take SFr20,000 (£16,130). 26 | 11 April 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

A 07 47 00400 400 Send international highlights to Anne Crane at [email protected]

Left: a pair of Mid- Left: the Tiffany century chests Lotus lamp that designed by Gio led Clarke Auction Ponti – $18,000 Gallery’s March (£15,650) at Clarke 22 sale in New Auction Gallery. York on $120,000 (£104,350).

Left: Lalique Grande Nue Bras Levés figure – $25,000 (£21,740) at Clarke Auction Gallery. Tiffany and Lalique link up for glass highlights

£1= $1.15 March 22 were two Tiffany lamps Set on a wood base and measuring Also in demand was a pair of Tiffany and Lalique glassware from from this group: a signed Lotus lamp 2ft (62cm) high, the figure– which stylish mid-century multi drawer a private New York City collector at $120,000 (£104,350) and a Peony is engraved R.LALIQUE FRANCE chests measuring 3ft 11in x 3ft (1.2m provided some of the highlights in lamp at $100,000 (£86,955). – sold within estimate at $25,000 x 91cm) designed by the Italian the Clarke Auction Gallery (25% The selection of Lalique glass (£21,740). architect and designer Gio Ponti for buyer’s premium) online and phone included a frosted glass figure, known A 9½in (23cm) high opalescent the American furniture manufacturer bidding sale. as Grande Nue Bras Levés, a model Bacchantes vase went within guide at M Singer and Sons. Topping the bill in New York on introduced in 1921. $7500 (£6520). They realised $18,000 (£15,650).

Writing table with an English country house in mind

This early-19th century mahogany writing table comes an estimate of $1500-3000 in the auction to be held in from a private New York City and Southampton, New Bloomfield, New Jersey, on April 15. York, collection of English country house furniture to be It will be an online-only sale. offered by Nye and Company. John Nye had a long career at Sotheby’s before he The collection is strong on Regency and George III and his wife, Kathleen, acquired Dawson’s in 2003 and furniture that has been acquired from the top dealers, started Dawson & Nye. such as Hyde Park Antiques, Mallett, Philip Colleck and With the move to Bloomfield seven years later, they Clinton Howell Antiques & Fine Art. renamed the business to Nye & Company. The 2ft 9in (93cm) wide, brass-mounted table has nyeandcompany.com

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The original and authoritative We are also listing timed auctions that are being held on UK and Ireland thesaleroom.com – all bidding on these sales takes place 39 auction advertising online and can be operated by the auctioneer remotely. listing of UK sales auctions in our Wilkinsons Auctioneers 3 Use our online calendar to check for updates and also Forum Auctions 15 Every care is taken in compiling this calendar – changes check the latest news on our website where changes to UK calendar are happening very quickly at the moment. dates and sale formats are listed. Due to current market conditions caused by Covid-19, Information accurate at time of going to press International this week we are listing only those UK auctions that we (2pm Friday April 3). auction advertising have been able to verify as definitely taking place and Antiques Trade Gazette cannot accept responsibility for 36,772 being held as live online-only sales. Such auctions will lots for sale on Heritage Auctions USA 25 be held behind closed doors, are not open to members of errors or omissions. Potomack Auctions USA 25 the public for bidding in the room and can be operated by thesaleroom.com Hargesheimer Auctions Germany 27 the auctioneer remotely. Bidding takes place online and Auctioneers are requested to contact us with details may also be available on the phone or on commission, you should check directly with the auction house for full of their sales and inform us of any changes. details including the storage arrangements or delivery Contact us at: options that are currently available. [email protected]

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SPINK & SON TUESDAY STERLING VAULT AUCTIONEERS THURSDAY OMEGA AUCTIONS WEDNESDAY 67-69 Southampton Row, London, 93-94 West Street, Farnham, Surrey, Sankey Valley Industrial Estate, APRIL 8 WC1B 4ET. Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 APRIL 14 APRIL 16 Junction Lane, Newton-le-Willows, GU9 7EB. A: World Bank Notes, 10.00 Merseyside, WA12 8DN. Tel: +44 (0)1252 720815 B : Charity Sale of Bank of England Tel: +44 (0)1925 873040 BEESTON AUCTIONS ALDRIDGES DIX NOONAN WEBB Notes, 17.00 Bags, 10.30 Rare & Collectable Vinyl Records, Phoenix House, Lower Bristol Road, 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London, Unit 12, Paynes Business Park, (live online only) (live online only) 11.00 Dereham Road, Beeston, Norfolk, spink.com Bath, Somerset, BA2 9ES. sterlingvault.co.uk 4 W1J 8BQ. (live online only) PE32 2NQ. 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North Shields, Tyne & Wear, Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 4 Kenardington, Kent, sterlingvault.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1565 653214 NE29 6NW. Autographs & Stamps, 18.00 TN26 2LF. SPICER’S AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS Stamps, 16.30 Tel: +44 (0)1912 522601 (live online only) (live online only) Tel: +44 (0)1233 510050 The Exchange Saleroom, Exchange 4 General, Collectables & Fine Art, Street, Driffield, East Yorkshire, chaucercollectables.co.uk SATURDAY sandafayre.com 4 Antique Arms & Armour APRIL 11 10:00 YO25 6LD. (live online only) (live online only) Tel: +44 (0)1377 593593 4 DIX NOONAN WEBB ELMWOOD’S candtauctions.co.uk 4 EXCALIBUR AUCTIONS featonbys.co.uk Victorian & Home Furnishings, 10.00 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London, The Red House, Munro Mews, The Village Hotel, Centennial Avenue, (live online only) W1J 8BQ. 4 Centennial Park, Elstree, WD6 3SB. Portobello Road, London, CHAUCER AUCTIONS spicersauctioneers.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7016 1700 FELLOWS Tel: +44 (0)20 3633 0913 W10 5XS. Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, Coins, Tokens & Historical Medals, Augusta House, 19 Augusta Street, Movies, Music Memorabilia, Posters, Tel: +44 (0)20 7096 8933 Folkestone, Kent, STERLING VAULT AUCTIONEERS 10.00 Birmingham, West Midlands, Autographs & Comics, 10.00 Jewellery 14:00 93-94 West Street, Farnham, Surrey, (live online only) CT19 5QW. B18 6JA. (live online only) GU9 7EB. 4 (live online only) Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 dnw.co.uk excaliburauctions.com Tel: +44 (0)1212 122131 Tel: +44 (0)1252 720815 elmwoods.co.uk Sports Autographs, 10.00 Jewellery, 10.00 Jewellery, 10.30 (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) KINGSLEY AUCTIONS 4 chaucercollectables.co.uk Fellows.co.uk 4 sterlingvault.co.uk 4 112-118 Market Street, Hoylake, Great Value Wirral, Merseyside, CH47 3BG. SPINK & SON Tel: +44 (0)1516 325821 LYON & TURNBULL Online Transit Insurance 67-69 Southampton Row, London, SATURDAY Antiques & Collectables, 10.30 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, APRIL 18 WC1B 4ET. (live online only) EH1 3RR. Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 kingsleyauctions.blogspot.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1315 578844 BIDDLE & WEBB Philatelic Collectors’ Series, 10.00 Contemporary & Post War Art, 11.00 The convenient Icknield Square, Ladywood (live online only) (live online only) MORGAN O’DRISCOLL Middleway, Birmingham, West way to protect spink.com 4 Ballsbridge, Merrion Road, Dublin 4. lyonandturnbull.com Midlands, B16 0PP. Fine Arts & Tel: +353 (0)1 282 2338 Tel: +44 (0)1214 558042 Antiques in transit Irish & International Art, 10.00 WARRINGTON & NORTHWICH Jewellery, Silver, Watches & Interiors, (live online only) AUCTIONS FRIDAY 10.00 APRIL 17 morganodriscoll.com 4 551 Europa Boulevard, (live online only) biddleandwebb.co.uk 4 Westbrook, Warrington, SPINK & SON Cheshire, WA5 7TP. MCCARTNEYS ELSTOB & ELSTOB AUCTIONEERS 67-69 Southampton Row, London, Tel: +44 (0)1925 658833 Brecon Saleroom, Warren Road, Ripon Business Park, Charter Road, A: Home & Garden, 09.00 WC1B 4ET. 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A High Court judge has turned down an sold for £380,000 attempt by a group of dealers and collectors of antique ivory to stop the Ivory Act 2018 Original movie designs Purchased for £1 from a The 8in (19cm) high pear- coming into force, writes Noelle McElhatton. Hertfordshire charity shop shaped wall pocket with ruyi However, Mr Justice Robert Jay allowed earlier this year, a Qianlong handles and a yellow sgraffito room for FACT (the Friends of Antique and famille rose wall vase sold for ground is inscribed with a poem Cultural Treasures Limited) to apply for an are drawing in buyers £380,000 at Sworders in London praising incense alongside a yuti appeal, which the group has decided to last week. mark and two iron-red seal marks pursue. The lucky owner of the vessel reading Qianlong chen han (‘the In a 100-page judgment, published on – which is inscribed with an Qianlong Emperor’s own mark’) November 5, the judge declared himself imperial poem – was in the room and Weijing weiyi (‘be precise, be “sympathetic” to arguments that FACT Unique artwork created to feature on film posters at the Westbury Hotel, Mayfair, on undivided’). made in court in October (ATG No 2414). November 8 to watch it sell after a Wall vases were one of Meanwhile DEFRA, the defendant in is proving to be a strong aspect of the popular 10-minute contest that opened at Qianlong’s favourite porcelain the judicial review, has said it will “press entertainment collecting field. £40,000. forms. There are 320 in the Palace ahead” with bringing the act into force. Unaware of the significance of Museum, with this vase identical to Continued on page 6 his find, the vendor had been a pair in the collection, save their The splendid example shown right, for the 1954 deluged with enquiries after differing texts. briefly listing it on eBay. The choice of poem (one written film Creature from the Black Lagoon, is estimated Sworders appraised the vase by the emperor as a prince prior to Christie’s Education at £50,000-80,000 and his accession) probably dates this set for restructure at £2000-4000 as part of a large collection all promptly received vase to the early 1740s. interest at much higher Christie’s is in consultation with staff produced by a Bradford printing firm that will go on levels before the sale. More Asian art news on page 4 following a review of its education division, writes Laura Chesters. offer at Surrey saleroom Ewbank’s later this month. Christie’s Education will close with its courses absorbed into the firm’s wider Meanwhile, concept artwork for Star Wars posters business. The plan is to focus on online and non-degree education courses, ending – always highly popular in their finished form – is traditional higher education graduate degree programmes. also attracting high demand in London and US The proposed restructuring will not impact the current class of enrolled Master’s auctions. degree students who will finish during the 2019-20 academic year. However, the Master’s degree programme will then cease. The proposed restructuring plan integrates the Continuing Education and Left and above: two views of the Qianlong wall pocket c.1740-50 – Online Education departments into the Special feature £380,000 (plus buyer’s premium) at Sworders on November 8. main Christie’s company. Entertainment Sixty objects, sixty stories Memorabilia ixty objects XX Xxxxxx 2019 ,- ISSUE XXXX PRESIDENTS’ DAY WEEKEND page 14-20 FEBRUARY 13-18, 2020 GREG PEPIN SILVER A PALM BEACH SHOW GROUP EVENT | PALMBEACHSHOW.COM S sixty stories Institutions flock to Edgeworth salePAGE 001, 004, 006 2417.indd 5 08/11/2019 17:38:52 Two institutions dominated primary source material Edgeworth’s stepmother when signed and inscribed to family bidding for the notebooks relating to the prolific Anglo- her father Richard Lovell members for around £4000. and correspondence of a Irish writer Maria Edgeworth Edgeworth (1744-1817) married Low had been delighted to be significant Regency period (1768-1849). Collectively the 11 for a fourth time. Frances, a asked back to inspect more of female author at the Cotswold lots, found by specialist Jenny year younger than Maria, the collection at the end of Auction Company in Low on a visit to a Cotswold would be her confidante, travel 2019. Cheltenham last week. cottage, totalled £148,000. companion and the recipient of This time the unseen New Jersey’s Princeton The vendor, it emerged, was most of her literary legacy. contents of several suitcases University Library and the the goddaughter of a descendant Two years ago, in February were the author’s most personal Above: an engraved portrait of National Library of Ireland of Frances Anne Beaufort 2018, the auction house sold a Mrs Maria Edgeworth, 1808. divided the spoils of a cache of (1769-1865), who had become group of Edgeworth editions Continued on page 8 50,000 Auction catalogues Scanned or hard copy thecatalogstar.com Tel: 01225 829 090 PROOF OF PROVENANCE. INCREASE VALUE

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