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Book trade on alert after smash Rothberger’s final and grab thefts chapter brings £1m by Laura Chesters A spate of thefts from central London shops has put the antiquarian book Pick Left: a large trade on high alert. Vienna porcelain Three dealers have been targeted. The of the model of an latest break-in took place at around 2am on week elephant from December 4 at Altea Gallery on Saint the Rothberger George Street when 48 antique maps were collection – stolen with a retail value well in excess of £97,000 at £100,000. Bonhams. Altea Gallery’s director Massimo De Martini said: “This was a typical smash and Below: Heinrich grab – they were in and out within 90 Rothberger and seconds. They were captured on the CCTV his niece Bertha but they were fully masked so you cannot Gutmann. see faces.” Well rehearsed “The thieves were very well rehearsed – it was smooth and quick. I think it is a strange thing to target me. We see this sort of thing in jewellery but not antique maps. “I have been here 20 years and, of course, we may get fraudulent purchases or shoplifting, but not this brutal forced entry.” In September, a similar theft took place at fellow rare book and map dealer Robert Frew in South Kensington when around 15 items were taken. The thieves smashed their way in with a concrete pedestal taken from temporary fencing nearby. A similar “Heinrich Rothberger had a wonderful appreciation summed up well the story of the Rothberger collection that method was used at Altea. of Viennese porcelain and assembled an astonishing reached its final chapter on December 3 when 26 lots were Frew said: “The mode of entry was collection. The long struggle to obtain restitution is an all offered for sale on behalf of the family. Dealers, museums, identical and the time of day was very too familiar story, yet this at least is one which has a very institutions and private collectors competed every lot to similar at around 3am. They smashed two positive outcome. The appearance on the market of these a premium-inclusive total just shy of £1m, with a possibly glass display cabinets and grabbed remarkable pieces clearly excited collectors with many far unique Vienna porcelain elephant, c.1750, selling at £97,000 everything they could very quickly. exceeding their estimates.” (£121,500 including buyer’s premium). Bonhams’ director of European ceramics Sebastian Kuhn See page 8 Continued on page 4 Follow us on Twitter

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New Treasure law to cover all important finds

by Laura Chesters Left: a rare copper-alloy The Treasure Valuation return unclaimed rewards to Roman furniture fitting, Committee will work with museums. found in Old Basing, the DCMS on the The latest data from the The government plans to Hampshire, dating from recommendations. British Museum’s PAS report, change the official definition of c.43-200AD was recently Roger Bland, chair of the released this week, showed treasure to cover all important recorded as part of the Treasure Valuation 81,602 archaeological finds archaeological finds – not just PAS scheme. Committee, said: “I welcome were recorded in 2019, an those that are more than 300 Image: British Museum the publication of the increase of more than 10,000 years old and made of a government’s response to the on the previous year. precious metal. objects unearthed by the rather than a rolling 300 years Review of the Treasure Act. The PAS scheme also noted Unless an object is defined British public and recorded and it may include similarities This document marks an that there had been a rise in as treasure, finders have no since the start of PAS scheme to the current Waverly criteria important step forward in digitally recorded finds, legal obligation to report it and 23 years ago has reached more used in the assessment of works transforming the treasure because of lockdown this year can choose to sell on the open than 1.5m items. of art such as outstanding process so that it continues to (especially during ‘full market. aesthetic importance, meet the aims of the act.” lockdown’ from March 23 to The Treasure Act came into New definition connection with history and As a result of the public May 13), and more objects had law in 1996, with The British A specialist research project significance for study. consultation, the government been found in domestic Museum’s Portable Antiquities running next year will create Under the current act many will also introduce new gardens. Scheme (PAS) set up in 1997 so the new definition and there items – including spectacular measures to streamline the During the first lockdown, that archaeological objects will be opportunities for metal pieces such as the bronze recording process which 6251 finds were recorded found by the public can be detectorists, archaeologists, Crosby Garrett Roman parade include a new time limit, through PAS and the records of voluntarily recorded. museums, academics and helmet sold at auction for retsricting the number of times 22,507 finds on the database The popularity of metal curators to contribute. £2.3m in 2010 – are not deemed the Treasure Valuation were updated; so far this year detecting has grown and the Changes could include treasure and did not become Committee can review a case (2020) over 47,000 finds have number of archaeological introducing a static date of 1714 property of the crown. and developing a mechanism to been recorded.

A Bizarre discovery for Clarice Cliff historians

series of letters and contracts A second handwritten Right: an agreement signed by by Roland Arkell exchanged between owner agreement on Newport Pottery both Colley Shorter and Clarice Arthur Colley Shorter and headed paper dated February Cliff in advance of the launch of The November 27 Specialist designers including Nancy 28, 1927, was signed by Colley the Bizarre range. Collectors’ Sale at Cuttlestones Catford (who produced animal Shorter and Clarice Cliff. In it in Wolverhampton included a models for Gray’s Pottery and the two parties agree to extend little bit of 20th century toby jugs for Enoch their professional relationship family in 1920 and hitherto ceramics history. Wedgwood) and Dame Laura for a further five years (the used for the manufacture of Found in a box of 19th Knight (whose Circus pattern word ‘three’ was crossed out inexpensive domestic and hotel century engravings and other tablewares were the highlight and amended). wares. However, from 1927-36 the various Shorter family ephemera from a Staffordshire of the Artists in Industry This was an important it became the decorating shop businesses on his death in 1961. deceased estate was a folder of project of 1934). An agreement moment. The Newport Pottery, for the new Art Deco Bizarre Estimated at £80-120, this papers relating to the Burslem between AJ Wilkinson and an earthenware manufacturer range and the studio of the contract and the other papers firms of AJ Wilkinson and Knight listed the pottery at Newport Lane in Burslem firm’s head designer. were bought by a UK collector Newport Pottery. designs for which she was to next to AJ Wilkinson, had Cliff would marry Colley on the phone at £2000 (plus Of particular note was a receive royalties. been purchased by the Shorter Shorter in 1940 and inherited 15% buyer’s premium).

Left: among the ABA warning after smash and grab raids items taken from Continued from front page shops of three ABA members as the recent recovery of the Altea Gallery was targeted within weeks of one books stolen from a warehouse a fourth state Thankfully my insurance firm another is unprecedented. in Feltham in 2017 of Johannes De Richard Thompson Ltd have “It may be the same gang, or demonstrated, it is almost Ram’s map of been so helpful and it may signify a worrying impossible to sell this sort of London (1729), first understanding.” trend. Lockdown may have stolen material on the open published c.1690. An attempted break-in took closed off some of the more market – they are too place at another shop in central usual criminal avenues, and distinctive. London this autumn. there has been widespread “There is no thriving black All the dealers involved are recent coverage of valuable market and they can’t be members of The Antiquarian stolen books. The thieves melted down. After three years Booksellers’ Association haven’t displayed any the books from Feltham were meantime we must all be on Metropolitan Police crime (ABA). particular knowledge: they still buried under a floor in our guard.” reference number 6550608/20 President Roger Treglown seem to have grabbed anything Romania. We hope for the A full list of stolen items has for Altea Gallery and said: “Book theft is normally a which looks as though it might swift recovery of the books and been circulated by the ABA. 5613952/20 for Robert Frew. matter of shoplifting, rather be valuable. maps stolen from our Anyone with information Or call Crimestoppers than smash and grab. To see the “As we’ve always said, and colleagues, and in the should call 101 quoting the anonymously on 0800 555 111. 4 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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De la Tour nocturne sets Lempertz house record One of the last Georges de la in the Duchy of Lorraine. half-length portrait of Saint commission the buyer will Tour (1593-1652) paintings in This trademark nocturne James the Greater made just pay €4.34m. Lempertz’s private hands was sold by (shown right), one of De la over $3.23m (including previous record for an Old Cologne auction house Tour’s few signed works, was premium) at Sotheby’s in Master painting was set in Lempertz on December 8, the star of the collection of New York. It now hangs in 2012 when Gerard Dou’s Old writes Jonathan Franks. the aviation entrepreneur the Metropolitan Museum. Painter in his Studio sold at La Fillette au Braisier (Girl Hinrich Bischoff, who died Prior to that Christie’s sold A €3m to a London dealer. Blowing on a Brazier), a 2ft in 2005, and his wife, Ingrid. Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player for In the Cologne sale there 6in x 1ft 10in (76 x 55cm) Bischoff had bought it at £1.87m (including premium) was also a strong result for a canvas from 1646-48 set a Christie’s in London in 1975 in 1991. 17 x 13in (44 x 34cm) panel by new house record for the for £17,850 and it has since Lempertz guided La the late 15th century Flemish firm at €3.6m (£3.27m). been included in a number of Fillette au Braisier at €3m-4m artist Quinten Massys. His Fewer than 50 pictures museum exhibitions. and opened bidding at Mary in Prayer was estimated are known by the great The last time a painting by €2.4m. Two international at €500,000-700,000, but French Baroque painter who De la Tour was offered for museums were the went on to sell for €1.3m spent most of his working life sale was in 2008, when the main contenders. With (£1.18m).

Madagascar purchases archive of its last queen

they were moving home. Taylor On December 8 the items by Laura Chesters said: “This has been one of the were sold for £43,000 (plus most fascinating research 25% buyer’s premium), well Clothes, letters and projects of my career – sorting above the estimate of £1000- photographs of the last queen through the numerous 1500. The purchase was of Madagascar are to return documents and photographs, funded by the Anglo-Malagasy home after the Madagascan handling the princess’ opulent Society. government bought the embroidered Malagasy court The president of the collection at a south London gown and following these brave Republic of Madagascar, auction. women through the trials of Andry Rajoelina, was on the The archive relating to their lives.” phone authorising the bidding. Queen Ranavalona III (1861- During Herbert’s time with Taylor added: “I shouldn’t be 1917) and her aunt, Princess the family, Madagascar was biased but I have never been Ramisindrazana, came from invaded by France and its more glad to bring the gavel the family of Clara Herbert monarchy was deposed. In down for them. There was (b.1871), a devout protestant of September 1895, Ranavalona fierce bidding via the other Above: among the items at Kerry Taylor’s auction was one Irish descent who became a was forced to surrender phones and the internet.” of Princess Ramisindrazana’s dresses and a photograph paid companion to the ladies Madagascar’s capital, Rajoelina said: showing her wearing it. from the 1890s and stayed with Tananarive, to the French. “Madagascar attaches great the family until 1924. While initially retained as a importance to the acquisition Queen’s Palace where they will Anglo-Malagasy Society said: Auctioneer Kerry Taylor figurehead, in 1897 she was of these royal items as part of be displayed to the general “It is wonderful to be able to was presented with the exiled to the island of Réunion the re-appropriation of public, alongside the Royal bring to life the story of Miss personal items after a to prevent rebels from rallying Malagasy national history and Dais of Queen Ranavalona III, Clara Herbert and highlight descendant of Herbert found to her cause. She later moved to cultural heritage. recently returned to us from the long history of friendship them in the loft in their house Algiers and was barred from “They will be installed in France.” between British and Malagasy in Guildford, Surrey, when returning to her homeland. the newly reopened, restored A spokesperson for the people.”

A bright new future as ‘familiar faces’ open fresh firm in Leominster A new auction firm has launched in art or general sales over the years”. and attracting both buyers and the market town of Leominster in The business has opened a new sellers. Herefordshire. saleroom on Southern Avenue in “But of course, online viewing Owain Lloyd, Geoffrey Crofts Leominster and will be holding its and bidding is now paramount and Daniel Webb have launched first Antiques and Contemporary so setting up the business Minster Auctions having left local art auction on January 13, mostly from scratch has given us the auction house Brightwells when comprised of the clearance of a opportunity to create a blend of real it ceased art and antiques sales large country house local to the people service and advice along earlier this year. saleroom. Its first fine art auction is with online technology.” Minster Auctions’ directors, planned for March 10. Brightwells, founded in 1846 (for who have more than 80 years in Crofts said the firm will have many years the company traded combined experience between a “blend of the old and the new in as Russell Baldwin & Bright), now them, describe themselves as our approach to auctioneering. The focuses on auctions of plant and Above: Geoffrey Crofts, Owain Lloyd and Dan Webb at “familiar faces to many customers fundamentals of what we do are machinery, cars, wine and spirits. the new Minster Auctions saleroom in Leominster. who have bought at antiques, fine unchanged, putting together sales Laura Chesters

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Pick of the week Jumbo price from Rothberger collection The Anschluss of 1938 between Nazi Germany and £450,000 was also due on the hammer price. Austria had a devastating effect on Vienna’s Jewish Rothberger had specialised in Viennese porcelain at Right: Viennese population. For Heinrich Rothberger (1868-1953), a time when its importance as the second-oldest hard- porcelain owner of a department store in the prestigious paste factory in Europe was not generally appreciated. elephant – Stephansplatz, it meant the loss of both the family His focus was the pioneering wares made during the £97,000 at business and his collection of early European aegis of the Dutch court official Claudius Innocentius Bonhams. porcelain with little or no compensation. du Paquier (d.1751) and in the period immediately The Staatliche Kunstgewerbemuseum in the city after 1744 when the enterprise was acquired by the festoons was produced in Vienna, c.1740-44, during had been the beneficiary of a harrowing ordeal that Austrian state. the Du Paquier era. Of these only two are now known: included the incarceration of family members in A large white porcelain model of an elephant, one (also in white) in the Sullivan collection in the Frick Buchenwald, a forced sale and a flight to Cuba in 1939. c.1750, is the only recorded example of its type. Museum and another with enamel decoration forming While some of the collection was returned in 1947 Naturalistically modelled standing with outstretched part of a silver-mounted centrepiece in the Hermitage. (when the family had settled in Canada), more than 20 trunk and long tusks, it measures a full 20in (50cm) This Vienna model had been part of the Rothberger choice pieces were retained by the museum (renamed across, its only painted decoration being the Vienna collection as early as 1902 and was in good condition Museum für angewandte Kunst) until 2003 when they shield mark in underglaze-blue. save some small chips to the toes and the left ear. were finally restituted to Rothberger’s niece, Bertha Large models of elephants, inspired by the While all of the 26 lots from the collection were sold, Gutmann. Kakiemon pachyderms that first arrived in Europe from this was the best performer, sailing past its estimate It was these pieces, still bearing red museum Arita, Japan, in the 1680s, were made by a number of of £10,000-15,000 to bring £97,000 (£121,500 inventory numbers, that were offered at Bonhams’ Fine factories. including buyer’s premium). The buyer was the European Ceramics sale on December 3 in London. As The Count Brühl inventory (1753) lists 20 Meissen Princely Collections, Liechtenstein. they came by descent to the vendor who was based elephants in various sizes (the largest was modelled All pieces from the £979,309 group were acquired outside the EU, import VAT of 5% plus Bonhams’ new by Peter Reinecke) while a similar model of an by either museums, institutions or private collections. premium rate of 27.5% up to £10,000 and 25% to elephant wearing a caparison and draped in flora Roland Arkell

Frieze opens Cork Left: items cooperated fully.” Street gallery to be offered The Antiquities Trafficking at the Apter- Unit, led by Matthew Magazine publisher and fair Fredericks: Bogdanos, worked with organiser Frieze is to open a 75 Years of Homeland Security Precious gallery on Cork Street in Important Investigations and believes the metals Mayfair. The Pollen Estate English stele had been stolen with a runs the collection of newly Furniture number of other items including On Friday, December 11, developed buildings on the auction at a sarcophagus seized by the US street known as Cork Street Christie’s on authorities and returned last Michael Bloomstein of Galleries. January 19. year. The US authorities Brighton was paying the Julian Stocks, property believe these items were looted following for bulk scrap director at The Pollen Estate, stock at a live sale in Christie’s future where we hold less stock during the Arab Spring in 2011. against a gold fix of: said: “Frieze is the final Cork King Street on January 19. The and are able to spend more Cybele Gallery, which had $1833.65 €1491.60 £1368.44 Street Galleries letting and 140 lots feature important 18th time both in the pursuit of bought the stele at auction in joins Sadie Coles and Lisson and 19th century furniture and masterpieces and visiting our France in 2017, is pursuing the Gold Gallery who opened in the works of art from English clients.” auction house and vendor of 22 carat: £1210.50 per oz autumn. Since the start of the houses including Spencer the stele through the French (£38.92 per gram) pandemic, the Pollen Estate House, Langley Park and courts. has given rent-free periods Cliveden. Makers include 18 carat: £990.41 (£31.85) Stele seized on way where needed to help Chippendale, Ince & Mayhew, to fair is returned 15 carat: £825.34 (£26.54) businesses through these Linnell, Gomm, Lock, Cobb, Peter Wilson goes unprecedented times.” Bullock and Gillows. There A 2600-year-old Egyptian for a rebrand 14 carat: £770.32 (£24.77) Cork Street Galleries is also will also be a selection of limestone stele (pictured 9 carat: £495.20 per oz hosting a late night for London Chinese works of art. below) valued at around Peter Wilson Fine Art galleries on December 15. Harry and Guy Apter said: $180,000 has been returned to Auctioneers is to rebrand and (£15.92 per gram) Participants are Goodman “For 75 years Apter-Fredericks Egypt after Manhattan District end its general household sales. 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 Gallery, Lisson, Sadie Coles, have enjoyed dealing in the Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr’s It will instead focus on 12 Month Low: ▼ £12.77 Waddington Custot, The finest furniture, welcoming Antiquities Trafficking Unit specialist sales. Mayor Gallery, Saatchi Yates, clients, old and new, to our seized the piece The firm’s new name is Hallmark Platinum Flowers Gallery, Messums, Chelsea showroom. last year from Wilson55.com, taking £21.00 per gram Browse & Darby, Holtermann “After 40 years in the French dealership inspiration from its founding Fine Art and Nahmad Projects. business, a new world and a Cybele Gallery date of 1955. Its trading name Silver new way of working has on its way to will change from December 18. developed and it has become TEFAF New York. £14.50 per oz for 925 Dealer auctions clear to us both that we no The DA’s office standard hallmarked stock in London longer want or need a said: “Once the Downing joins 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 showroom in central London gallery was made memorabilia team London dealership Apter- to continue to thrive and do aware of the 12 Month Low: ▼ £8.60 Fredericks will sell some of its business successfully. We see a evidence, they Natalie Downing has joined 8 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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TOP SELLING LOTS

Surrey auction house Ewbank’s Left: Hansons, Etwall, Derbyshire, December 7 as a memorabilia valuer. The Natalie Qianlong (1735-1799) copper-red and auction house said its Downing of underglaze blue ‘deer’ lantern vase, memorabilia department has Ewbank’s. 18in (46cm) high, broken and reglued in grown in recent years to Most read six parts. become its largest department. Estimate: £15,000-25,000 She will work with head of Hammer: £200,000 department Alastair McCrea. The most viewed stories for Downing started her career week December 3-9 on in 2011 after gaining experience Founded in 2016 by antiquestradegazette.com at Christie’s and Bloomsbury furniture specialists Guy Savill Auctions. She has also and Sally Stratton, The 1 Top-selling Chinese previously worked at a Pedestal plans to host pre- bowls star in our pick of five auction contemporary art gallery. auction previews, auctions, highlights sold this valuation days and exhibitions Hampel, Munich, December 3 week at its new home. Large Limoges enamel on copper The Pedestal moves The next scheduled auction, 2 Collection from plaque depicting the Crucifixion, to Henley base Fine Interiors, will be held on James and Sophie c.1550, 14 x 11in (35 x 28cm). February 9, 2021, and its new Perkins’ country Estimate: €25,000-35,000 Auction house The Pedestal auction format Design For home Aynhoe Park Hammer: €55,000 has permanently moved to The Living sale is scheduled for comes to auction at Dairy on the Stonor Park spring 2021. Dreweatts Holts, Wolverton, Norfolk, Estate, Henley-on-Thames, It has also created The December 8 3 Covid-19 has “turbo- Oxfordshire. It has held two Pedestal Shop, retailing Pair of 16-bore ‘Royal’ charged the online art sales at the site this year and antique and contemporary self-opening hand market” latest report has now relocated from furniture, objects, works of art detachable sidelock reveals Rickmansworth. and paintings online. ejectors by Holland & 4 King’s Road attracts Holland. new design and Estimate: £30,000-35,000 Busts of tragic Roman antiques shops Hammer: £30,000 5 The latest hires at The duo take £106,000 Fine Art Society, HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE Phillips, Ewbank’s This pair of life-size bronze busts depict the tragic young figures and BADA – Wotton Auction Rooms, appointments across Publius Septimus Geta, son of emperor Septimus Severus, and Gloucestershire, December 7 the art and antiques his sister-in-law Plautilla. The two were murdered by Geta’s older Stella Bowen (1893-1947, Australian), sector brother and co-emperor Caracalla in 211AD. study of a classical statue stood on a The Grand Duke, Cosimo III de’Medici (1642-1723), had two plinth, signed, oil on board, 2ft x 20in Roman marbles of the pair displayed together at the Uffizi in (61 x 50cm). Florence which were the source of many Grand Tour copies, Estimate: £60-100 commissioned in both marble and bronze. Hammer: £7000 Among the best of these were the bronze casts made by Pietro Cipriani (c.1679-1745), Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi’s most able assistant in Florence. Several pairs are known to have been made for British milords at the beginning of the 18th century. This pair, offered at Canterbury Auction Galleries on November 29, were consigned from the home of a retired Kent antiques dealer. He had owned them for 25 years after purchasing Gorringe’s, Lewes, December 7 them at a small provincial auction where they were catalogued as In Numbers Rose Mary Barton (1856-1929, Irish) cast iron. Each stands around 2ft 1in (cm) high on square incurved watercolour of a Dublin street scene limestone bases and has a later dark green patination. with horse-drawn carriages, signed, Four phone bidders competed for them well above the £8000- 10 x 6in (24 x 16cm). 12,000 guide during 10 minutes of bidding. The buyer at £106,000 1,100,000 Estimate: £40-60 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) was a sculpture specialist. Hammer: £3600 Roland Arkell The amount of sales in dollars taken during The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Left: life-size America’s recent Boston virtual bronze busts antiquarian book fair, which ran of Publius from November 12-14. Keys, Aylsham, December 8 Septimus Geta, Chinese porcelain bottle vase with underglaze son of emperor copper red decoration of dragons and a rat, Septimus 6in (15cm) high. 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PAGE 008-009 2472.indd 2 11/12/2020 12:28:38 Feature Militaria Blades of glory A propellor hauled up by a fisherman proved to have an important link to Dambusters leader Guy Gibson and is now coming up at auction, as Tom Derbyshire reports in a wider look at the militaria market

When trawlerman James Walker was fishing in his stretched far beyond that, however, as an archive boat Thalassa off Ingoldmells Point near Skegness also on sale at Dominic Winter demonstrates. He in September 2007 his catch turned out to be a big worked first at a marine engineering firm and in one. Just not edible. Gibson told her how much 1913 moved to Vickers where he designed airships, Coming up out of the depths was a Heinkel He “he admired Barnes and that including the R100. In 1930 he transferred to III H-3 propellor. After inspection by authorities the success of the raid was concentrate on aircraft. from East Kirkby and the Lincolnshire Aircraft His innovations include the first use of geodesic Recovery Group it was established that only one essentially his design in engineering, which was key to his Heinkel was known to have crashed in that area development of the Wellesley and Wellington during the Second World War and it was one of bombers. When the Second World War began great RAF significance. a steel stand which has been constructed recently Wallis was assistant chief designer at Vickers’ The German plane had been shot down off for a television programme (it featured in Salvage aviation section. Skegness Pier on March 15, 1941 by a Beaufighter Hunters, The Restorers in September). In February 1943 his ideas for a drum-shaped, crewed by Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, It is estimated at £10,000-15,000 in the rotating bomb to attack the dams emerged. A year DFC (1918-44) – of Dambusters fame. Dominic Winter December 17 Military & Aviation later he was instrumental in the Tallboy bomb Gibson had spotted the Heinkel flying north History auction in South Cerney, Gloucestershire used to sink the battleship Tirpitz and the Grand and immediately got behind and in range of (the propellor is in Lincolnshire). Slam in 1945 for attacking heavily fortified targets. the enemy aircraft. At the crucial moment, he The archive offered at Dominic Winter comes suffered gun trouble, and by the time his colleague Barnes Wallis archive from the Wallis family by direct descent. Sergeant James had cleared it the Heinkel was Alongside Gibson, the key figure in the One of the lots, estimated at £2000-3000, is turning out to sea and diving home, but they still Dambusters raid on May 17, 1943, was Barnes a printed menu signed by Gibson for Wallis from destroyed it. Wallis (1887-1979) – inventor of the bouncing the Oatlands Park Hotel in Weybridge, Surrey, The three-blade propeller is now supported on bomb. Wallis’ achievements in his working life on June 23, 1943 (the month after the Dambusters raid). According to the auction house: “The dinner here is not the much-written about and photographed Dambusters’ dinner hosted by AV Roe that took place at the Hungaria in London on June 22, following the investiture at Buckingham Palace, where Gibson received his VC. This is a menu from a lesser-known dinner event hosted by Vickers at Weybridge on the following evening. “The Oatlands Park dinner was given in thanks Left: Barnes Wallis in to Vickers staff, test pilots, directors and their a 1960s photo with a wives. Wallis attended with his wife Molly and met model of Swallow, a Gibson and his wife at the railway station. supersonic aircraft “At the dinner Gibson was seated on Molly’s project he headed at right (a privileged place). Molly and Gibson hit Vickers-Armstrongs it off and Gibson told her how much he admired which was cancelled in Barnes, and that the success of the raid was 1957. The photo is one of essentially his. 10 of Wallis in a single lot “This pleased Molly because she was frustrated estimated at £100-150. by the security blackout that forbade public 10 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

PAGE 010-013 2472.indd 1 11/12/2020 11:43:37 Fishing trip that sank enemy ships

After a somewhat chequered period before the war, during which his employment ranged from gold- digging and sailing the South Sea Islands to running a camel racing team and a betting shop, Lt Hubert (Ted) Carse of the the Royal Australian Naval Reserve ended up as a hero. He was skipper and navigator of the MV Krait during its audacious 4000-mile round trip – Commando raid Operation Jaywick – in September 1943, on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour. It resulted in the the sinking and burning of seven enemy ships totalling 37,000 tons. Carse’s medal group including a 1 Commando Left: Heinkel He III H-3 propellor from a plane Association Cross of Valour, bronze, one clasp Above: one of the Japanese flags reportedly flown shot down by Guy Gibson – estimate £10,000- for Jaywick, with integral top Commando bar, was by MV Krait and the medals of Lt Carse – £38,000 15,000 at Dominic Winter on December 17. estimated at £20,000-40,000 at Dix Noonan Webb at Dix Noonan Webb. Above: printed menu signed by Gibson for (24% buyer’s premium) on December 3, along with Barnes Wallis from the Oatlands Park Hotel in Carse’s knuckle knife and a Japanese flag said to have Weybridge, Surrey, on June 23, 1943 – estimate been displayed aboard the Krait during the operation. £2000-3000. In January 1943 Carse had received an invitation for an interview about a secret mission. Still not fully aware of what he had committed himself to, he was now part of a team within the Z Special Unit – a commando arm largely comprised of Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy personnel organised by Special Operations Australia (SOA), modelled on the Special Operations Executive in London. A 15-man team would travel to the harbour in a vessel disguised as an Asian fishing boat. They would then use collapsible canoes (folboats) to attach Above: the crew and operatives of Operation Jaywick limpet mines to Japanese ships. (Lt Carse is shown front row, far left). The plan worked and Carse was in command as the Krait waited for the three canoe crews to who had bought it from the private museum of Sydney- rendezvous two weeks later. He had been told not based collector Bill Connell. It sold for £38,000 to an to wait for stragglers but ignored that and saved unidentified institution. the whole group, despite the huge danger. He was The Krait itself still survives and is now part of the Mentioned in Despatches for his bravery. collection of the Australian National Maritime Museum The lot came from the Warwick Cary collection, in Sydney.

Hughie Green took his flying opportunity

Hughie Green (1920-97) is well known as star of film, Left: Hughie radio and TV, such as Opportunity Knocks – and a Green’s colourful personal life such as being father to Paula medals – Yates. However, he also had a long and eventful career £1800 at Above: the auction includes this oil on canvas in aviation. Spink. depicting the R26 Airship over Norfolk, c.1918. Painted This was revealed in a group of five medals sold at by Alfred Egerton Cooper (1883-1974), it bears to a London auction house Spink (20% buyer’s premium) Society of Aviation Artists label to verso with 100 on December 8-9. Consigned by a private collector, guineas price mark. Wallis and Egerton Cooper were they sold on the low estimate at £1800 to a UK buyer on misdirected him and his Catalina nearly ran out of fuel over lifelong friends. They were both in the Artists’ Rifles, the phone. the sea. Later he flew Liberator aircraft backwards and and later in the First World War Cooper was a war Green was born in Marylebone, London, to a forwards across the North Atlantic transferring military artist who specialised in airships, including No 9 Canadian father. His career steadily took hold until commanders, statesmen and industrialists to South (Wallis’ first airship). Estimate £7000-10,000. in 1933, the Hughie Green Gang made its broadcast America, Africa and India. debut on the BBC, written, produced and directed Green also ferried Catalinas sold to the USSR. He by its 13-year-old star. His career took off in films – continued such delivery tasks post-war with British acknowledgement. As the evening broke up, and he fathered his first child at the age of 17 with a Aviation Services before his showbiz career took off, a Gibson signed Wallis’ collar to show that he was Birmingham usherette. risky time including mechanical failures over the North the real dam buster – which pleased Molly even Having taken private flying lessons, he was initially Atlantic. Other aviation work involved an encounter with more. Sadly, the collar has long since vanished declined by the RAF, and returned to his father’s home two Russian MiG jets who fired on him in the ‘Berlin (or possibly the inscription simply washed out), in Canada with the intention of joining up over there. Corridor’. making the survival of this near-pristine signed Green ended up on flying boats. On October 9 1943, The medals were sold with research and ephemera menu all the more remarkable and special.” n he nearly lost his life on his very first job looking for a such as his original Royal Canadian Air Force pilot’s flying dominicwinter.co.uk submarine spotted the day before when faulty radar log book representing his full Second World War service. antiquestradegazette.com 19 December 2020 | 11

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Falklands War honours fetch six figures

The Falklands War was 38 years ago now. However, for medal collectors the conflict is very much in mind, as evidenced by two six-figure results recently at London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb (24% buyer’s premium). The relatively short nature of the war, the small numbers of troops who served in hard-fought heroic actions plus the involvement of renowned regiments such as the Paras, means honours are rare and sought after. Left: medal group of two On December 3 a Distinguished Conduct Above: Falklands awarded to Lt David Clarke Medal group of nine medals sold to a UK Distinguished Conduct RN, who served on HMS collector for £150,000 against an estimate Medal group awarded Fearless, plus a substantial of £100,000-120,000. They were awarded to JC Meredith of 2 collection of related to Parachute Regiment D Company Platoon Para – £150,000 at Dix material such as the photos Sergeant JC Meredith who consigned them for Noonan Webb. Meredith above – £2300 at Wallis & sale in the hope of enjoying a financially secure is shown left. Wallis. retirement. Meredith saw action at Goose Green on the night of May 28-29, 1982, making an impact locations prior to the assault on Mount Longdon. Medal with one clasp for Northern Ireland were following the loss of the battalion’s forceful and Again, the medals were being sold by Pettinger accompanied by the recipient’s personal archive charismatic leader, Lieutenant-Colonel ‘H’ Jones himself. from the Falklands conflict. VC and again on June 14-15 during three separate This included a hand-written shorthand-type attacks at Wireless Ridge. Under attack in ‘Bomb Alley’ daily briefing notebook giving movement details Only eight DCMs were awarded during the Of the Task Force vessels familiar to TV viewers of various Argentine vessels such as the Santa Fe, South Atlantic conflict. back home, the amphibious assault ship HMS one of the Argentinian Navy’s two operational However, DNW had another in its sale on Fearless became an enduring symbol alongside submarines later captured during a helicopter September 17. This group of six medals awarded those such as Hermes and Canberra. attack. to Sergeant JS Pettinger, of the 3rd Battalion, The A medal group awarded to one of the Royal Navy Photographs included a near-miss when Fearless Parachute Regiment, fetched £130,000 (estimate servicemen who served onboard, Lt David Clarke, was in ‘Bomb Alley’ – the fight in San Carlos £100,000-120,000). a command planning and naval intelligence officer, Water in which British ships the Antelope and Pettinger’s D Company were the ‘eyes and ears’ was offered at Lewes auction house Wallis & Wallis Coventry were sunk. One of the Fearless’ landing of his unit and carried out extensive close-target (24% buyer’s premium) on December 1. craft, Foxtrot 4, was lost later with six killed. reconnaissance among enemy lines in order to A 1982 South Atlantic Medal with rosette Estimated at £1500-1600, the medals and provide accurate descriptions of routes and enemy for combat zone service and a General Service collection sold for £2300.

Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross winners in sale spotlights

Two Victoria Cross medals awarded during the Indian wounded himself and losing seven of the eight men in the Mutiny offered by Morton & Eden (20% buyer’s engagement, forced the rebels into the town and caused premium) in London on November 18-19 auction sold to them to abandon their plunder. the same buyer. The Indian Mutiny medal was the last campaign The first to come under the hammer in the Medals, decoration issued by the Honourable East India Orders and Decorations sale was awarded to Captain Company and around 290,000 were given. This example George Forrest for ‘gallant conduct in the defence of the is marked for Mjr H M. Clogston [sic], V.C, 2nd Regt of Delhi Magazine, on the 11 May 1857’, placing it among Cavy Hyd Contigt. The Dominic Winter catalogue notes: the earliest VCs to be awarded in the Indian Mutiny. “Clogstoun’s medal entitlement is for the VC, Indian It sold for £145,000 against an estimate of £80,000- Mutiny medal and India General Service 1854, one clasp Above left: VC to Ensign John Smith – £155,000 at 100,000. Pegu, and this group is held in the collection of the Morton & Eden. The second was the ‘Kashmir Gate’ VC awarded National Army Museum, London. to Ensign John Smith of Royal Bengal Engineers. In Above right: Indian Mutiny medal to Major Herbert “It should be noted, however, that the mutiny medal broad daylight and under heavy musket fire Smith Clogstoun – estimate £3000-5000 at Dominic Winter. held by NAM has been physically examined prior to this demonstrated ‘conspicuous gallantry’ during the sale and has not only been officially renamed, but in a storming and destruction of the Kashmir Gate at Delhi on A total of 182 Indian Mutiny VCs were awarded to clumsy and surprisingly careless manner. The careful September 14, 1857. members of the British armed forces, Indian Army and examination of the NAM example therefore confirms It also sold well above an estimate of £70,000-90,000, civilians under their command. conclusively that two authentic mutiny medals were taking £155,000 from the same anonymous bidder. issued to Clogstoun, the probable reason being that on David Kirk, medal specialist at Morton & Eden, Named in error the first medal – that which is offered in this catalogue – said: “It was a great honour for us to have offered two Coming up at Cirencester auction house Dominic his surname had been spelt incorrectly. distinguished Indian Mutiny VCs – neither of which had Winter on December 17 is an Indian Mutiny campaign “The medal offered here is also an unusual and very been seen on the market for more than two decades. medal awarded to a VC winner. On January 15, 1859, early example of the addition of ‘V.C.’ within the official There was plenty of competition for both, and the results Major Herbert Mackworth Clogstoun, 19th Madras naming.” show that the market for these iconic awards remains Native Infantry led a charge against a rebel band with Estimate £3000-5000. strong.” only eight men of his regiment and although severely dominicwinter.co.uk

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2 Ingenious, but the Germans smelt a rat

Always popular at auction, always great to write about – so no excuses needed for featuring a selection of the weird and wonderful Second 4 World War spy and sabotage gadgets and ingenious escape devices which do appear often in sales. The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) came up with all kinds of bizarre ideas but 3 perhaps none more so than the ‘exploding rat’. Developed in 1941, the aim was to blow up the 1. Exploding white rat, with an unused pencil detonator inserted inside – £850 at East Bristol Auctions enemy’s boilers by lying the rat – a taxidermied on November 20. rodent with a detonator inside – on the coal beside 2. Set of three Second World War ‘escape dominoes’ with secret maps hidden within the boiler. The fuse would supposedly be lit when each one – £1800. the rat was shovelled into the fire. The source of the dead rats was a London 3. Full set of battledress compass buttons – £1000 at Hansons. supplier, under the mistaken belief his client was 4. RAF/SOE pipe with hidden escape compass in the stem – £1000. 5 London University (100 were acquired by an SOE officer posing as a student needing them for 5. RAF pencil clip escape compass – £420. laboratory experiments). 6. Coming up at Tennants’ Militaria and Ethnographica auction on December The first consignment was seized by the enemy. 16 is a Second World War cryptology silk square, printed with a list of French The Germans were fascinated by the idea, codes, estimated at £400-600. It belonged to belonged to however, and the rats were exhibited at top Joyce Mary Pimblott, a cypher officer for the SOE (also pictured) military schools. Indeed, SOE files show that they actually organised searches for these rodent explosives. Files released in 1999 Hansons made £420 against a guide of £40-60. stated: “The trouble caused to them was a 6 All three lots mentioned went to UK buyers. much greater success to us than if the rats had actually been used.” Secret codes on silk A white rat, with an unused pencil Coming up at Tennants’ Militaria and detonator inserted inside, was estimated at Ethnographica auction on December 16 is a £300-500 at East Bristol Auctions (18% Second World War cryptology silk square, printed buyer’s premium) on November 20. Presumed to Compasses pointed out at auction with a list of French codes. be a practice/exhibit example, it sold for £850. On November 20, Derbyshire saleroom Hansons It belonged to Joyce Mary Pimblott, who A more ‘conventional’ device sold at £1800 (25% buyer’s premium) sold a large private was a cypher officer for the SOE handling (estimate £250-400) was a set of three Second collection of Second World War spy gadgets communications with the French Resistance and World War ‘escape dominoes’ with secret maps amassed over 40 years. British secret agents operating in France. hidden within each one. The ‘ivory’ domino tops Items such as these were produced by MI9, a She was born in Lancashire but moved with her are card and each removes to reveal small sections department of the war office between 1939-45, and family to Brussels when she was young and grew of maps of Europe and Burma. were given to SOE agents. up speaking French. At the outbreak of the war the Both lots mentioned went to an American Compasses were essential tools for agents family returned to England. Pimblott lied about private collector. parachuted into enemy territory or for Allied air her age (she was only 17) and joined the First Aid These were just two out of an extensive crew trying to escape and were concealed in all Nursing Yeomanry. collection of such gadgets formed by the late manner of everyday items from pencils to collar After her initial training, and on the discovery Arthur Muggeridge (1919-2010). Following studs and buttons. that she spoke fluent French, she was transferred his own military adventures, which included Hansons sold a full set of battledress compass to the SOE where she embarked on her secret injuries sustained at Dunkirk and in Norway buttons, some 25 mint examples that were wartime career. She played a key role in while involved in a 1941 raid called Operation unissued on card in and in an original stores communications surrounding the D-Day landing Claymore, in later life he collected military items cardboard box for a top-estimate £1000. and later translated documents required for the and particularly spy objects. When visiting Devon Sold at £1000, against an estimate of £500-800, Nuremburg Trials. in the 1960s Muggeridge became acquainted with was an RAF/SOE pipe with hidden escape compass Silk was a durable and practical medium for Charles Frazer Smith, who had worked for MI6 in the stem. The maker was marked Dagon. printing codes: it was lightweight and unlike paper and MI9 in the war and designed spy items for the Another particularly ingenious design was an would not disintegrate or run if wet, and it could SOE and others. RAF pencil clip compass. This could be balanced also be sewn into the lining of clothes without Muggeridge’s collection is being offered for sale on a pencil point by placing it into the impressed detection. by his family. East Bristol offered a first selection dimple, allowing the magnetised clip to swing Estimate: £400-600. in May this year. and act as a compass. One of several examples at tennants.co.uk antiquestradegazette.com 19 December 2020 | 13

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Bid welcome to the latest trends Mod Brit sale attracts high number of participants including many new to the auction house

by Alex Capon 1

Something of a recurring theme at auctions this year has been the increasing volume of bidders registering for sales during the pandemic. Bonhams’ (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern British art, for example, recorded 223 registrants, the highest for the department save for a much larger auction in June 2016 (an auction that included over 40 prominent works from the CS 2 Reddihough collection). The November 18 sale was staged during the latest lockdown positive way”, adding: “I’m not enter the collection, Bradbury was Artmarket). Bradbury said that the in England. Not only did it have a always the most optimistic person, not aware that the buyer had a taste fact that these works from 1930s higher number of registrants per lot, but there is a whole load of material for Bomberg before. Spain represented a turning point in but about half of the bidders were out there waiting to be offered.” “This was the most important Bomberg’s life and career meant that new to the auction house. Encouragingly for the Mod Brit Bomberg we’ve offered so far,” he it “fully justified its very high price”. Bonhams director of Modern market in the here and now, a number said. “A few oils have emerged in last British & Irish art Matthew Bradbury of the leading works at this sale few years but his last major Spanish Maugham by Kelly pointed to growing online activity generated significant overseas interest painting on the market was in 2007.” A work going in the other direction from clients stuck at home as well from Europe, the US and Australia, That work, East Valley, Cuenca: – one that was consigned from the as people seeing art as a good as well as a smattering of bidding Afternoon from 1934, sold at Christie’s US but sold to a UK buyer – was investment. from Asia. for £690,000. a portrait of the writer William “What really struck me was that Here, the identically sized 20½in Somerset Maugham by Sir Gerald clients new and old were prepared Bomberg view of Spain x 2ft 2in (52 x 67cm) oil on canvas Festus Kelly (1879-1972). to spend large amounts of money The top lot, a view of The Old City painted the following year had The strong reaction for this without viewing the lots,” he said in and Cathedral, Ronda, Spain by David many similar features, including the painting of a literary giant followed reference to the recent auction. Bomberg (1890-1957), sold to a US evocative tones and brushstrokes portraits of EM Forster and WH The event was held behind collector in the mid-west. Although applied in thick impasto to the Auden also bringing high demand closed doors at Bonhams’ New not the first piece of Mod Brit art to rooftops. and setting record prices for Roger Bond Street rooms. While clients Further to its desirable style, Fry and Maurice Field respectively at were not allowed in, some vigorous 4 subject and date, it also had Bonhams this year. competition on particular lots provenance going back to one of the Indeed, the consignment was came via the internet, absentee artist’s most important patrons, Asa received “on the back of the Forster commissions and 15 members of staff Lingard, the prominent Bradford result” said Bradbury, although he manning the phones. businessman who had helped provide did not specify if it came from the “It might sound like a cliché but the artist with funds to undertake his same vendor. demand is certainly outstripping move to Spain in the first place. The 2ft 4in x 2ft 8in (72 x 81cm) supply at the moment and sourcing The picture had appeared only oil on canvas laid on board was again works is the main challenge,” said once before at auction, back in 1957 an instance of an artist painting a Bradbury. He added the department at Cirencester saleroom Jackson- close friend. Kelly and Maugham was issuing quotes to clients on a Stops where it was purchased by the met in Paris in the early 1900s and daily basis but admitted that some vendor’s family, and it had not been maintained a special acquaintance vendors were feeling a little uncertain seen publicly for over 50 years. for over 50 years. about the market and price levels The estimate was set at £400,000- Maugham helped to fund Kelly’s currently. He was pleased, however, 600,000. After the US buyer saw off first trip to Mandalay in 1908 – a with the 70 lots gathered for the competition from a UK agent bidding visit intended to help him get over current sale, which he described for a client, it sold at £640,000. an unhappy love affair but one “compact and curated”. The price was the sixth highest for that turned into a career-defining Bardbury believes that next year Bomberg and fourth highest for a experience. He also based several will witness “real movement in a Spanish scene (source: Artprice by characters on the artist in his novels 16 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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1. The Old City and Cathedral, Ronda by David Bomberg – £640,000 at An artist hard to categorise Bonhams. 2. A Glass of Sherry in the Studio, The market for William Roberts (1895- a portrait of William Somerset 1980) has expanded significantly in the Maugham by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly last two decades and the performance – £75,000. of two small watercolours at Bonhams suggested demand is still healthy. 3. Emmanuel Church, NW6 by Sir He remains a tricky artist to William Coldstream – £35,000. define with his works sometimes 4. Still life with compotier and glass interchangeably referred to as Vorticist, by Duncan Grant – £40,000. Modernist, Futurist or Abstract. A 3 personal favourite is ‘Tubist’: due to the rounder forms widely present across his (including Frederick Lewson in that went overseas. It came from output (Roberts is said to have done for arguably his most important book Of the estate of Lady Cylla Dugdale tubes what Picasso did for cubes). Human Bondage). (1931-2018), an avid collector of 20th First up at Bonhams was the earlier Kelly also used Maugham century British art and a talented of the two works, Women Playing with frequently as a subject, painting him painter herself. Cats from c.1919 (right). The 11½ x 8in on 18 occasions including the 1911 Six of the eight lots from the (29 x 20cm) pencil, ink, watercolour and portrait The Jester, now in Tate Britain consignment sold, contributing a gouache had strong Vorticist undertones which is arguably his finest portrait. solid £330,250 (including premium) but also some nascent features of This example was from the early to the bottom line. Roberts’ individual style. bidders before selling to the trade at 1930s and depicts Maugham with Overshooting a £4000-6000 The picture came from the same £260,000. This was the fourth-highest a glass of sherry in Kelly’s studio. estimate, Coldstream’s painting source as the David Bomberg painting price for a work on paper by the artist but The Bonhams catalogue suggested of Emmanuel Church in West that was the top lot of the sale (see main the best for a non-war subject. it may have been ‘both sequel and Hampstead was knocked down at report). It was in excellent condition The other Roberts picture was indeed companion to The Jester’ as he £35,000. having been protected from light for a wartime work – a 12 x 16½n (31 x 42) exhibited both portraits at the Royal Pictured in both Bruce Laughton’s many years – it was kept in a wardrobe pencil and watercolour from 1940 titled Academy’s 1933 summer exhibition. William Coldstream (2004) and Peter and Bonhams’ director of Modern British Munitions Factory (below left). One of the Kelly later reworked the picture Rumley’s recent William Coldstream: & Irish art Matthew Bradbury had to lots from the estate of Lady Dugdale, it was slightly, adding a detail or two and Catalogue Raisonné (2018), the study unravel it from a blanket. a preparatory sketch for an oil painting of subtly adjusted the sitter’s expression of the church where the funeral of Estimated at £150,000-250,000, the the same name now in the City of Salford before exhibiting it again at the RA Coldstream’s father, Dr George picture was pursued by three determined Museums and Art Gallery (the first of three in 1943. Coldstream, would be held in 1950 works commissioned by Following its second outing, Kelly seems to have been painted from a The War Artists’ Advisory sold it to Maugham’s most important vantage point of 87 Marlborough Committee illustrating American patron, the stockbroker Mansions, Cannon Hill, where he aspects of life on the Bertram E Alanson. After Alanson’s was living at the time. Home Front). death in 1958, the work’s whereabouts The 8 x 10in (21 x 26cm) oil on Bradbury noted that remained untraced until it recently board from 1947 was acquired by this picture appealed to reappeared. Lady Dugdale from The Mayor a different set of bidders The estimate was £30,000- Gallery in London but had earlier compared to the earlier 50,000, a level in line with the provenance to art historian and work. It sold above a previous highest prices for Kelly ‘Cambridge spy’ Anthony Blunt. £70,000-100,000 estimate – the highest being the €82,000 Elsewhere at the sale, two works at £160,000 to a private (£55,225) for Saw Ohn Nyun from by Duncan Grant (1885-1978), a buyer from the Far East. 1932 at Adam’s of Dublin in October still-life and a portrait, came from 2006. Incidentally, that portrait of different sources but sold to the same the Burmese princes appears in the London dealer. background of the current picture. The former was a 16½ x 12¼in (42 c.1918 depicting Bell painting the least to a moderate extent. On the day, the portrait of x 31cm) oil on canvas with a good compotier herself, a key picture in the In the 2ft 6in x 20in (76 x 51cm) oil Maugham sailed to £75,000, going to early date of c.1916. Signed with Bloomsbury canon and now in Ulster on canvas depicted the subject sitting a private buyer in the west of England the artist’s initials, it depicted a Museum, Belfast. on a green upholstered wingback – breaking the artist’s record that had compotier with fruit – an object that Estimated at £20,000-30,000, it chair that formerly belonged to fellow stood for 14 years. was itself something of a favourite at was knocked down at £40,000. artist Walter Sickert. The chair, along Charleston (the East Sussex home A later work, although still with with a similarly upholstered chaise- International interest and meeting place of the Bloomsbury a good c.1928 date, was a portrait of lounge, came into Grant’s possession While this portrait seems to have Group). Given to Grant by Barbara Peter Morris – one of a number of when he took over Sickert’s Fitzroy appealed primarily to a domestic Bagenal (née Hiles), it appears in paintings Grant made of his friend Street studio. audience, other lots at Bonhams numerous still-lifes by both Grant and lover (for a brief period) during Estimated at £10,000-15,000, the drawing international interest and Vanessa Bell, including the the late 1920s. Again, the presence work sold at £18,000, a decent sum, included a view of a church by Sir former’s major painting of the of a particular object in the painting albeit not the highest for a portrait by William Coldstream (1908-87) dining-room at Charleston from may have raised it commercially, at Grant. n antiquestradegazette.com 19 December 2020 | 17

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When art meets science Sixteenth century book-maker’s creativity makes maths and astronomy more accessible

by Ian McKay Left: the title- page and one of the leaves that Though the other books featured in feature multiple this report of an October 15-16 sale volvelles in Texas are 20th century works of and moving fiction, the outstanding result of the parts from a day – and by a considerable margin – copy of the emerged for something much, much Astronomicum older and spectacularly different. Caesareum Bid to $260,000 (£201,550) of Petrus in the Dallas rooms of Heritage Apianus sold (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) for $260,000 was a 1540, Ingolstadt first of the (£201,550) Astronomicum Caesareum of Petrus by Heritage Apianus. Auctions. This work was described by Owen Gingerich in a 1995 survey of surviving copies as the “most spectacular contribution of the book- maker’s art to 16th century science”. Apianus (1495-1552), who studied mathematics and astronomy at Leipzig and Vienna, was an outstanding mathematician and a pioneer in astronomical and geographical instrumentation, as well as one of the more successful popularisers of such subjects. The period binding of what must have been a well-used copy is quite worn and there is occasional foxing, soiling and staining as well as a certain amount of colour bleed through or offset from the plates. It also lacks some of the volvelles, threads and seed pearls that Gingerich suggests should make up a complete copy, but it remains a splendid survival. The work’s large pages were brilliantly hand-coloured by the printers and filled with ingeniously contrived mechanisms, sometimes 1 2 3 4 with as many as six layers of paper discs arranged to give planetary yet another first of JK Rowling’s Ellery Queen, or rather Frederic positions plus a variety of other data. Four of the best-selling lots from the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Dannay and Manfred Bennington, This copy has 36 full-page plates Otto Penzler collection sold in Dallas at $44,000 (£34,110). who chose that pseudonym for their featuring woodcut astronomical are shown above. However, some of the bigger joint works. figures (one also used on the title- rarities and surprises of the sale Their first ever EQ mystery, a page) and of these, 21 present a total 1. The Charlie Chan mystery, The emerged from a further selection signed copy of The Roman Hat Murder of 60 volvelles and there are 29 House Without a Key – $40,000 of works from the mystery and of 1929, made $32,000 (£24,805) original silk threads and eight tiny (£31,010). detective fiction collections of Otto and The Egyptian Cross Mystery of 1932 seed pearls used as sliding indicators. 2. The Roman Hat Mystery by ‘Ellery Penzler, the publisher, collector and realised $20,000 (£15,505). The only copy to have made Queen’ – $32,000 (£24,805). proprietor of New York’s Mysterious Other notable results included a more at auction was the ex-Horblit/ Bookshop. $25,000 (£19,380) winning bid on Ortiz-Patiño copy, which in 1998, 3. Rex Stout’s first Nero Wolfe Bidding on a signed and inscribed a copy of Rex Stout’s very first Nero at Sotheby’s New York, sold for mystery, Fer-de-Lance – $25,000 1925 first of The House Without a Wolfe mystery, Fer-de-Lance, and a $400,000. (£19,380). Key, the first of the Charlie Chan 1933 first of John Dickson Carr’s 4. The Mad Hatter Mystery by John mysteries of Earl Derr Biggers, The Mad Hatter Mystery at $14,000 Literary highs Dickson Carr – $14,000 (£10,855). started at $4600 but it was eventually (£10,855). The literary high spots in Dallas knocked down at $40,000 (£31,010). All of these Otto Penzler lots included a 1937 first of JRR Tolkien’s Other much higher than predicted mentioned above set auction The Hobbit at $48,000 (£37,210) and bids were recorded for the works of records. n 18 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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Left: a very rare example of the 1777 broadside that announced America’s first National Thanksgiving celebration – $380,000 (£294,575). Below right: edited by Aldus Manutius and printed in Venice in the years 1495-98, the editio princeps of the works of Aristotle was the most important Greek printing project of the 15th century. The various parts were issued separately but often bound up in sets Above: part of GA Sala’s 1841 of five or six volumes. Bound in 18th century manuscript panorama of the red morocco gilt for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl ‘Christening of the Prince of Wales’ of Pembroke, this five volume set was sold in which the Duchess of Buccleuch for £81 to Maggs when last seen at auction, carries the royal infant, her train at Sotheby’s in 1914. On this recent outing at supported by two pages and followed Christie’s the price was $380,000 (£294,575). by the bearer of ‘The Feathers’, the Garter King of Arms and Frederick the Great, the ‘Godpapa’. It sold for Four lots take half sale total $7500 (£5815).

Four lots between them raised $1.5m London in June 1777. During a nearly year- including premiums to rack up more than long siege of Boston, Pelham, a confirmed British and Irish book auctions half the total at an online sale in New York loyalist, reconnoitered the landscape Dec 15* 4 24-lot Map Section, Eldreds - Plymouth 01752 721199 that ran from October 1-16. armed with a pass from James Urquart, the Dec 15* 4 24 lots Books & Ephemera, HRD Auction Rooms - Brading 01983 402222 Two very different items sold for town major of Boston, that is reproduced at Dec 15* 4 18 lots Books, Maps & Magazines, Gildings - Market Harborough 01858 41414 $380,000 (£294,575) each at Christie’s the upper left corner of the plan, along with Dec 15* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera: Household Sale, Aldridges - Bath 01225 462830 (25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium): an Aldine a cleverly drawn pair of compasses. Dec 15* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera, Great Western Auctions - Glasgow 0141 954 1500 editio princeps of the works of Aristotle and Once part of the extensive Nina & Arthur Dec 15-16* 4 Book & Photo Sections: 2 Motoring Collections, TCA & Lawrences - Crewkerne 01460 73041 a 1777 broadside announcing America’s Houghton collections, a manuscript survey Dec 15 & 18* 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 first National Thanksgiving celebration. plan produced by George Washington to Dec 16* 4 Online Sale: Books & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions 020 7717 5092 Following the victory at Saratoga in show some of the Ohio River lands in the Dec16* 4 15 lots Books & Maps, Andrew Smith - Alresford 01962 735988 October, the Continental Congress had Kanawha Valley that he had been granted Dec 16* 4 14 lots Books, Letters & Ephemera, Nesbits - Portsmouth 023 9229 5568 recommended that December 18 of that in acknowledgment of his service during Dec 16* 4 31-lot Comic & Book Section, Stacey’s - Rayleigh 01268 777122 year be set aside for “solemn thanksgiving the French & Indian War sold at $80,000 Dec 16* 4 Photographs incl China & Japan, Military Images, Dominic Winter - South Cerney 01285 860006 and praise”. (£62,015). Dec 17* 4 Military & Aviation History, Dominic Winter - South Cerney 01285 860006 Just three copies of the broadside, Yet another ex-Houghton cartographic Dec 17 4 Books, Atlases, MSS & Historical Photographs, Bonhams - London 020 7447 7447 its text believed to be largely the work of highlight, but in this instance of particular Dec 17* 4 9 lots Maps, Henry Adams - Chichester 01243 532223 Samuel Adams, are held in US institutional European appeal, was a double portolan Dec 17* 4 8 lots Printed Ephenera, Anderson & Garland - Newcastle 0191 430 3000 collections and this rare example was last chart of the Mediterranean produced in Dec 18* 4 8 lots Books & Ephemera, Gerrards Auction Rooms - Lytham St Annes 01253 72547s6 seen at auction almost a hundred years 1617 in Messina, Sicily. Though signed by ends Dec 18* 4 Royal Memorabilia, William George - Peterborough 01733 667680 ago. The whereabouts of two other copies Placido Calorio y Oliva, said the cataloguer, ends Dec 20 4 Antiquarian & Rare Books, 1818 Auctioneers - Milnthorpe 01539 566201 that came to auction around the same time it may well have been the work of Joan ends Dec 27* 4 Military Books, Ephemera & Photographs, C&T Auctioneers - Kenardington 01233 510050 are today unknown. Oliva but embellished by a family member Dec 30-31* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera, Clarke’s Auctions - Shaftesbury 01747 855109 The most expensive of the cartographic after he had left Sicily. Jan 1* 4 Book Section, W&H Peacock - Bedford 01234 266366 lots, at $240,000 (£186,045), was Henry Sold at $42,000 (£32,560) was a copy Pelham’s Plan of Boston in New England..., of Plantin’s 1558, second edition of André a two-sheet engraved map published in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger Antarctique..., a key source on the peoples sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com and natural history of Brazil and what was Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales then a French colony in South America. that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: Royal procession Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] A 9ft (2.74m) long manuscript panorama of the ‘Procession to the Christening of the Prince of Wales’ produced in 1841 by the teenaged George Augustus Sala depicts a comic parade marking the birth of the future King Edward VII that includes members of the royal family, court Welcoming Consignments: officials and some less familiar figures. Fine Books, Manuscripts Above: a view of Moscow from a 1599- Among the latter is the Boy Jones, headed 1606 set of Braun & Hogenberg’s famous “private secretary to her Majesty,” but & Works on Paper Auction Thursday 28th January city atlas, Civitates orbis terrarum, that actually a teenager who kept breaking into Gillray (James) made a far higher than expected $200,000 Buckingham Palace. The Caricatures of Gillray; with Historical and (£155,040). Bound as three volumes, the Many years later, in 1877, Sala gave Political Illustrations..., five parts containing 300 (of 305) double- the panorama to Sir Edward Lawson, then [c. 1818-1824]. Est. £3,000-4,000 page engraved and coloured views and editor of the Daily Telegraph, and in his maps, it was described as being browned inscription includes the words “Some of Full calendar at: forumauctions.co.uk throughout and showing some spotting. these days it may be accounted a curiosity As such it had been offered only as a and fetch something at Christie’s”. Forum Auctions, 220 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4LP collection of plates, not subject to return. It did – $7500 (£5815). Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected]

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This 8 x 10in (20 The sale of Silver, Jewellery, x 25cm) oil on Watches & Coins at Stride paper sketch of & Son of Chichester on East Bergholt December 17 includes, Common by estimated at £100-200, John Constable this hallmarked gold badge (1776-1837) with the logo of Delage. The depicts a view French luxury automobile close to the and race car company Constable family was founded in 1905 by home. Louis Delage in Levallois- It was painted Perret near Paris. It ceased c.1810 during his operation in 1953. long courtship stridesauctions.co.uk* with his neighbour Maria Bicknell and This 18th century Mughal short staffing spear (Bhuj-Kuttai) from north-west looks directly India has a gilded hilt in the form of an elephant’s head with rock crystal eyes. at the fields between the two homes where many of their first meetings took place. Measuring 14in (35cm) long in its red leather and gilt metal scabbard, it has It comes up at Bonhams’ Old Master Paintings sale on December 17 from a vendor expectations of £500-600 at Gerrards in Lytham St Annes on December 17-18. from outside the EU who bought it at the Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York in 1988. gerrardsauctionrooms.com* The estimate is £80,000-120,000. bonhams.com*

This 3½in (9cm) Guild of Handicraft (London 1906) silver cream jug decorated with amethyst cabochons designed by Charles Robert Ashbee comes for sale at Clarke’s in Semley, Dorset, on December 30-31 with a guide of £700-1000. clarkesauctions.co.uk*

Bidding at the William George timed online sale of Royal Memorabilia & Historical Documents ends on December 18. It includes this pair of Elizabeth II presentation cufflinks by Collingwood of Conduit The sale at Duke’s on Street, London. Given as a gift by December 17 titled A Taste of the queen, they are offered in their Luxury includes this case of original presentation box. The Graham’s Finest Reserve 1966 opening bid is £180. vintage port. Bottled in 1968, Collingwood produced the the 12 bottles come in their jewellery for Lady Diana Spencer original wood packing case. on her marriage to Prince Charles Estimate £500-1000. in 1981. dukes-auctions.com* wgandco.com*

This Regency tilt top table with The sale at Rendells of Ashburton, Devon, on December 17-19 includes items from a local chinoiserie lacquer decoration has collection of railwayana. This cast iron sign for the Brent signal box of South Brent, also in a guide of £1000-1500 at John Devon, has an estimate of £150-250. Nicholson’s in Haselmere, Surrey on rendells.co.uk* December 17. The top measures 3ft 1in (93cm) across. johnnicholsons.com*

This unusually large 17th century English iron mortar cast with the date 1669 and the initials WG, 11in (27cm) diameter has a guide of £800-1200 at Bishop & Miller * BID LIVE AT thesaleroom.com in Stowmarket on December 17. Place a max bid before the auction or bid bishopandmillerauctions.co.uk* live for these items on thesaleroom.com 20 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

PAGE 020 2472.indd 1 11/12/2020 11:59:16 Charles Miller Ltd Est. 2007 Specialist Maritime & Scientific Auctioneers Fine Art | Ship Models | Instruments | Objects

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T: 01743 450 700 E: [email protected] SOLD £22,000 (+ bp) W: www.hallsgb.com/fine-art Circle of Sir Peter Lely (1618- E: [email protected] T: 01743 450 700 W: hallsgb.com/fine-art 1680), Portrait of Princess Mary

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Get all cosy with a catalogue Many indoor fairs are on hold – so curl up at home and do some armchair browsing

by Frances Allitt

With Christmas coming – but also continuing coronavirus restrictions – it is the perfect time to curl up at home and flip or click through a catalogue. Many indoor fairs are on hold for the foreseeable future, so dealers have been working on these showcases of latest and prize stock individually as well as in groups. One of the largest recent undertakings was spearheaded by John and Felicity Rae-Smith of The Rae-Smith Gallery. Titled The Armchair Art Fair, the catalogue combines more than 400 fine art offerings from 12 dealers. Among those taking part are Freya Mitton, Harry Moore-Gwyn and Ottocento 1 2 Fine Art, all regulars on the UK fair circuit. 1. Still Life of Vases of Flowers is a “It’s been something to do in silk screen tapestry on canvas by difficult times and it’s come in perfect French artist Roger Bezombes time for Christmas,” says dealer Kaye (1913-94) offered by The Canon Michie. Some buyers have been past Gallery for £6250. clients who had stopped attending thecanongallery.co.uk physical fairs even before lockdown, demonstrating the reach of the project. 2. A watercolour dated 1909 of The Though the idea came about during Curate, Hopley Porter for the first lockdown, the catalogue was WS Gilbert’s The Rival Curates is not launched until late last month, offered for £2300 among a enough time to round up dealers, collection of works by Henry Mayo select works and have around 3000 Bateman (1887-1970) available copies of the catalogue printed. For from The Rae-Smith Gallery. Michie and many other participants [email protected] sales started quickly, and other traders 3. Kaye Michie is selling the have already signalled their interest, watercolour Flowers in a Jug by putting their names on a waiting list Bryan Pearce (1929-2003) as part should another issue be on the cards. 3 of The Armchair Art Fair for £3950. “It has been a success and is kayemichie.co.uk possibly something for the future,” Michie adds. “We could even widen it or have it in conjunction with a fair.” Online and paper copies are Claire Brown Art available from participating dealers. In this issue of Dealers’ Diary, we look A group of four Roman glass vessels dating from at a selection of the collaborative and the late 1st to 3rd century AD are offered at prices individual catalogues that have come ranging from £500-2000 in Claire Brown Art’s out recently, some with a Christmas catalogue Inspiration. bent, others simply showing high- Measuring 6-9in (16-24cm) tall, the flask and quality stock. n bottle come from a private collection in the UK which was acquired in New York and Israel in the 1970s-80s, while the two unguentaria are from a private German group acquired before 2000. After 30 years in the trade, including many years as a director at Rupert Wace, Brown went It’s been something to independent in 2019. This is her first solo catalogue, which brings together a range of periods and genres do in difficult times and “ such as Cycladic art, African iron figures, Colombian it’s come in perfect time disc ornaments and works by Contemporary artists. for Christmas clairebrownart.com

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Justin Croft Kallos Gallery

In his latest catalogue, Edification, London antiquities specialist Justin Croft offers works such as this Kallos Gallery offers this attic French version of Niklaus Bohny’s black-figure lekythos from Neues Bilderbuch (New Picture Book). c.525-475BC. The decoration It was published for mothers to depicts a Dionysiac scene with teach their children how to think, speak two satyrs chasing maenads. and count when aged between two It was included in a publication and seven. The German version was by JD Beazley which came released in 1848 and proved influential. out posthumously in 1971 and This French version, priced at £850, attributed it to the group of the was released in 1850 and features Cracow Peleus on the basis of its hand-coloured wood-engraved plates similarity in style to the group’s on tinted xylographic grounds. An name vase. English version appeared in several The lekythos is priced at variations before 1920 under the title The New Picture Book. £30,000. Edification features 45 recent acquisitions all around the theme of education, such as children’s kallosgallery.com books, illustrated works and ‘how-to’ guides. justincroft.com

Albert Amor

This previously unrecorded cylindrical mug is an addition to the known Worcester underglaze blue armorial pieces. The hound crest is associated with four families with the initial W – Warren, White, Wreahoke and Wyllie. Made c.1770, the mug is offered in Albert Amor’s most recent catalogue which features 95 examples of ceramic and porcelain. It emerged in a regional auction house sale in 2019 (see ATG No 2410) and is priced at £12,000. albertamor.co.uk

Jonathan Grant Gallery

Last month, New Zealand dealer John Gooderham of Jonathan Grant Gallery released a catalogue of works by artist Frances Hodgkins and her circle after three years of research. All the Hodgkins works sold in the first week and many of the remaining pieces had gone by the third. Among the remaining offerings is this watercolour by Owen Merton, Sailing off Bermuda, c.1922, which is available for NZ$25,000. jgg.co.nz

Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington’s Christmas 2020 catalogue features a selection of first and special editions such as this copy of Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. The first edition is inscribed by the author to three-year-old John Mitchell Janet Aitken, who nicknamed Kipling ‘Mr Sad’ after his drooping moustache and rare smile. Venus and Electric Fireflies, Oletta, Corsica is among the works by Contemporary Published in London by Macmillan and Co painter Michael Bennallack Hart offered for £7500 in a recent catalogue by John in London, 1902, it is offered for £6750. Mitchell Fine Paintings. Coinciding with the exhibition A Quieter World, which It is among 250 items featured in the closes this week, the catalogue features more than 40 landscapes in pastel and oil. latest catalogue, including works by Charles johnmitchell.net Dickens, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie. peterharrington.co.uk antiquestradegazette.com 19 December 2020 | 23

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Grosvenor Prints Australian Antique and Art Dealers Association

Covent Garden dealership Grosvenor Prints planned to feature 100 items in its special Catalogue 100, but after delaying its release for nine months due to For those in Covid-19 challenges, it now has an excess of items to offer. the southern Therefore, Catalogue 100 has been split into two parts, the first of which hemisphere, was released earlier this month to celebrate the end of the second lockdown Christmas means in England and includes portraits, UK views, modern etchings, sports images summer, sun, and ephemera. flowers and exotic One picture on offer is this seasonally appropriate mezzotint of Princess wildlife. In this Amalie Auguste of Anhalt- year’s Australian Dessau (1793-1854) putting Antique and Art an ornament on a Christmas Dealers Association tree. Offered for £380, it is (AAADA) Christmas catalogued as by Tischbein Catalogue, dealer and engraved by Michelis Josef Lebovic in 1797. It is in a proof state offers a group of before letters. Princess 11 Antipodean Amalie grew up to marry Christmas cards her first cousin Frederick from c.1883. The Günther, becoming Princess colour lithographs Consort of Schwarzburg- depict kangaroos and other native flora and fauna. Rudolstadt. Two were printed by John Sands and the rest probably by Gibbs, Shallard and Co. The Part two of the catalogue cards include text verso with the names of plants depicted. was released last week and The group is offered with a copy of a 19th century wood engraving advertisement offering includes overseas works, A selection from Gibbs, Shallard & Cos Christmas and New Year Cards 1883-4, which includes books, satire and fine art an image one of the cards on offer. The collection is offered for Aus$16,500. items. This year’s AAADA Christmas Catalogue features items from around 30 dealers and grosvenorprints.com describes itself as “an antique shop with gifts for those who have everything”. joseflebovicgallery.com aaada.org.au

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PAGE 025 2472.indd 1 11/12/2020 09:00:08 Special Report Shipping & delivery New world border 1 Deal or no-deal, logistics firms are as prepared as they can be for any eventuality for Brexit post-December 31 and have continued to deliver art, antiques and collectables to buyers across the land even through the pandemic. Here they share their experience of this unprecedented year and their predictions for 2021 with Laura Chesters. 4 5

Acton in west London, birthplace of The Who Gander & White, says the preparations are ongoing and home of Arthur Daley’s car lot in Minder, is for the worst-case scenario of no-deal and “if it is actually a frontier – a new border with Europe. anything better than no-deal then that is a bonus”. Inside logistics firm Hedley’s warehouses near We would love to see export He says customs agents have been trained and Park Royal, trucks loaded with art and antiques “licences electronically more have been hired as well as the KAP being in are processed to travel into Europe just as if they stamped and that they remain place. As with Hedley’s, Khureya adds: “Before were in Dover about to embark. you depart all the forms are completed beforehand The same procedures are happening in many as digital applications so the truck is ready to go rather than things being logistics warehouses around the country, including checked in Dover causing hold-ups.” at Gander & White’s Wimbledon warehouses. There is one thing on Khureya’s Christmas wish The preparations are all in place for Brexit and list, however: digital export licences. when the transition period ends on December 31: “We can clear customs in our warehouses He adds: “We would love to see export licences from January onwards cargo moving between before leaving for the ports. We are prepared as we electronically stamped and that they remain as the UK and the EU will have to undergo customs can be. The warehouses have been ready from the digital applications. There is a lot of lobbying formalities and border control. beginning of this year but lockdown has eaten into around this issue and it is vital that we can Hedley’s Group general manager Victor Jaques the time that was the so-called transition period.” continue to access these licences online.” says: “The border becomes our warehouse. From The Kent Access Permit (KAP), a document Art, antiques and collectables more than 50 years next year it is very strict about when the vehicles that logistics drivers must have before heading to old deemed cultural goods must be accompanied by can come in and out and it is all in place ready for the ports in Kent, means all the online forms are an export licence from the Arts Council if they are Brexit. In future the processes for Europe may be completed beforehand. to be exported. The Export Licensing Unit (ELU), as they are for Switzerland currently. Victor Khureya, executive operations director at which closed under the March lockdown, reopened Who do you trust to deliver your precious finds?

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1. A member of staff from Constantine with one of the logistics firms’ crates. 2. A CGI of Constantine’s planned Art Store LHR which will open near Heathrow in spring 2021. 3. One of the additions to the vehicle fleet at Constantine. 4. Gander & White’s Sonja Kappenburg in Paris. 5. Packing cases in Gander & White’s Wandsworth warehouse – one of four warehouses in the UK. 6. The Guggenheim in Bilbao. Gander & White works 6 with a number of museums around the world.

in the summer with a new temporary procedure that Gander & White’s Khureya says: “Air freight This could mean longer journey times due to can be completed online. capacity is still very limited and very expensive. delays or more expensive trips for consignors of The British Art Market Federation (BAMF) Some clients are waiting for rates to reduce. If goods. Danish logistics firm DFDS is promoting and its association members have been lobbying freight rates were cheaper we would have much a new direct Ireland to France freight ferry route Arts Council England and the government for this more movement in the market.” between Rosslare and Dunkerque that offers to become fully digitised permanently. Drivers have been encouraged to look at other “lorries and their drivers direct and paperless James Simmons, marketing manager at Mail options other than the usual Kent to France routes. transport between EU countries”. Boxes Etc, says: “The full impact of Brexit will David Forster, who runs delivery firm Art Move No-one really can anticipate what will happen not be known until after the transition period UK from his home in Hexham, Northumberland, next year but some believe France will become ends. There will undoubtedly be more paperwork said: “We have been told to consider avoiding a bigger hub for art and antiques logistics over to prepare and process and changes in how VAT Dover and seek alternative routes to Europe such London. is applied for remote bidders requiring shipping as via Hull or Newcastle to Amsterdam via ferry. Hedley’s Jaques says: “Currently items go outside of the UK and carriers may change their “However, even from where we are based in through London and then into Europe, but items prices. Northumberland, this option is treble the cost. for Europe from elsewhere in the world will “We also predict a shift from scheduled road Dover to France is around £200 compared with probably go through France first and only items freight to airline shipping, especially in the early over £1000 to Amsterdam on the ferry. direct for the UK will come to London. This could days while ports become congested, with officials “This makes things difficult for customers as be a major shift in our operations and we may well checking paperwork is correct and complete.” we have to pass on the cost. It is still cheaper to recruit there.” drive all the way down to Kent from the north of Hedley’s currently has four operations in Air freight cost England, go to France and drive back up into the But many firms have noted the rising costs. Netherlands than take the ferry option.” Continued on page 28 Who do you trust to deliver your precious finds?

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France: two in Paris in St Ouen and Saint Denis, 7 one in Avignon and one in Nice in the south. Brexit has been on the horizon for years, but no business could have anticipated the impact of the coronavirus before it struck. Although logistics firms were classed as essential business during the lockdowns and could continue to operate – in many cases finally getting the recognition for their work – the decrease in demand during the first lockdown damaged the trade. Many firms have had to furlough staff or make employees redundant. Even with trade returning, most international art fairs are postponed and museums closed for many months, so the market is still tough. Gander & White, which operates from more than 350,000 sq ft of fine art warehousing in locations across the UK, Europe and the US, has 8 9 many clients in the top-end gallery and museum sectors. Khureya says: “At the high end it is very slow. Art fairs have been cancelled, museums have had to close and at auction the very top end, at the multi-million-pound lot level, there have not been the sales. Online auctions are busy but the value of items has been reduced which means our operations have been impacted.” Market growth However, at the lower and medium level at auction, the art market appears to have been in growth. Greg Bradley at Bradleys Furniture Carriers and Bradleys Antique Packing Services reports a surge in demand since the first lockdown earlier this year. Based in north-east England, he has taken on four more people and two new vans. 7. Mail Boxes Etc runs 150 centres alongside franchisees operating its Auction Logistics delivery service. He says: “Business is really booming. It started off busy during the first lockdown from May and 8. Art Move UK has a team of four people with three vans. since then we have got even busier. People are 9. David Forster’s Art Move UK from Northumberland travels around the UK and Europe on deliveries. stuck sitting at home and just want to keep bidding at auction and buying more items for their homes. “We are growing our packing service and now work with auction houses including Elstob & overseas as the pound is lower so they are getting day. We are seeing a lot more demand from private Elstob, Sworders and Tennants.” a better deal. That has tempted buyers at auction individuals who have bought directly at auction Bradley believes there has been some growth in here in the UK.” rather than through centres or dealers. business in Europe due to “people wanting to get Forster, who runs a team of four people with “We have also seen a boost due to early things moved before Brexit”. three vans, concurs, adding: “We’ve had the best Continued on page 30 He adds: “The UK is cheaper at the moment for year we have ever had with new enquiries every

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PAGE 026-030 2472.indd 4 11/12/2020 15:11:40 WE’VE BEEN HANDLING ANTIQUES & FINE ART LONGER Imports and Exports from January 1 THAN MOST A number of changes will affect the import and export of goods from January 1, 2021, when items moving between the UK and the EU will have to undergo customs formalities and border control, like SINCE 1498 any other country. Exports from the UK into the EU will require customs clearance to leave. Then on arrival they will require customs clearance and will be subject to the duty and sales taxes in that country. For auctions held in the UK the sales tax on the buyer’s premium previously charged to EU buyers will now apply only to UK purchasers. For shipments into the UK from the EU, the UK government has introduced Postponed VAT accounting (users must apply for authorisation, then the importer does not pay VAT on the arrival of the goods and instead it is deferred and should be accounted for on the VAT return). This is to reduce pressure and congestion at the border and helps with business cashflow. However, many art and antiques businesses which import items • UK-wide weekly part-load service from EU countries will have to suffer the import VAT due if they want to use the VAT margin scheme (the scheme that allows tax to • International shipping be paid on the difference between what you paid for an item and • Storage in Aberdeen and London what you sold it for, rather than the full selling price). Some businesses and importers are expected to continue to import items on a temporary import basis (Temporary Admissions) 01224 569569 until the item is sold. Mark Dodgson, secretary general at the British Antique [email protected] Dealers’ Association (BADA), explains: “If the temporary import arrangements are used and the items are re-exported within two www.shoreporters.com years of import then no VAT is payable provided that, like other exports, proof of export is obtained. “If items are imported and the importer is not using the temporary import arrangements, but wishes to use the margin scheme for such imported items, then import VAT is paid but cannot be reclaimed at the time of import; if they are subsequently exported then it can be re-claimed at that time.” Keeping busy The changes have been keeping trade associations busy. The Society of Fine Art Auctioneers, SOFAA, compiled a detailed set of art market questions and answers based on replies obtained from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It Specialist wine and spirit transporter distributed the document to its members earlier this month ahead of producing a full briefing paper. for over 30 years SOFAA chairman Helen Carless said: “SOFAA has been liaising with ATG to ensure that as much information as possible is made available to all in the art market and as soon as possible. SOFAA’s We distribute throughout the UK links with DCMS have proved very valuable in this respect and and to many overseas countries we shall continue to work closely with BAMF [British Art Market Federation] and ATG to keep everyone as up-to-date as possible.” We offer a packing service and all exports are packed to IATA standard

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Continued from page 28 are viewing rooms and climate-controlled spaces and items can be packed and shipped directly from present buying ahead of Christmas.” there.” Delivery firms are expecting the higher levels Hedley’s Jaques agrees: “We could see a shift to of activity driven by online sales to continue into this within five years for many galleries.” 2021 and beyond. Logistics firm Constantine is opening a new Mail Boxes Etc runs 150 centres alongside art storage facility next spring. The firm, which franchisees operating its Auction Logistics service. operates international transportation, packing, Duncan Hypher, business development manager, case-making, art storage and installation services, says: “Our Auction Logistics business has seen a will open the 172,000 sq ft facility near Heathrow. significant increase in the volume of lots collected, Hedley’s Group truck It has chosen the location to give its clients easy packed and delivered since lockdown measures access from the airport but also via Crossrail to eased. and from central London with Bond Street just 30 “While the number of lots handled plummeted welcome push for those on the cusp of making the minutes away. by 90% vs April 2019, with auction houses closed, change. We are already seeing new people entering The new building will include more than a volumes began to recover in May. Sales levels since the art and antiques market, and online sales is hundred private vaulted rooms ranging from 43 the beginning of June have consistently grown the way forward for a quicker, easier and safer sq ft to 430 sq ft with the options for larger self- compared to the same month in 2019. customer journey.” managed or shared managed storage areas. “The growth since June has more than compensated for the drop in lots handled during From shops to storage Adapt and thrive the first lockdown with overall Auction Logistics The pandemic may cause another trend to develop: These initiatives are typical of the logistics and business up 12%, cumulative 2020 vs 2019, to the galleries using storage facilities instead of shops. shipping sector taking anything in its stride, end of October.” Hedley’s Group business development manager adapting and thriving. James Simmons, marketing manager of Mail Will Blake says: “Some smaller central London From 4m-high furniture to multi-million- Boxes Etc, adds: “The move towards online galleries have found that as their business is now pound paintings and from rare Roman statues to sales has been growing steadily for years. We more online that it makes sense to close their taxidermy, there will always be a delivery firm that believe that art and antiques businesses are now central London premises and instead use a storage can wrap it and ship it. significantly more prepared for online sales, facility as their showroom. The resilience and adaptability will be much increasing capacity for online bidding and “Being in Acton, close to central London, our needed in 2021 with Brexit, the ongoing pandemic handling of phone bidders within the saleroom. facilities have easy access with everything needed. and the continued demand for art, antiques and “The outcome of lockdown may have been a The buildings are secure, we have insurance, there collectables to be delivered to the door. n

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Online: a permanent booking PBFA monthly virtual showcase has done so well it is set to be more than a temporary fill-in

by Joan Porter Left: a plate by the peerless illustrator Ralph So well has the Provincial Booksellers Steadman from Fairs Association’s (PBFA) monthly The Mildenhall online book fair been received that Treasure, 1999, it is being continued as a permanent based on a short fixture. story by Roald The association’s David Maynard Dahl, is for sale said: “We started these in April when at £120 with we knew it was going to be difficult to bookseller William organise our live fairs. They run on about the online fairs is the range of Cowan of Oban at the 29th of each month with modern different countries I’ve sent books PBFA’s continuing firsts and foreign travel remaining and ephemera to since they began – online fair. popular buys. Unsold items remain Australia, Hong Kong, USA, Canada on the site. and France. It shows they are viewed “Recent fairs have seen items that worldwide, not just at home.” ranged from £7 to £25,000 for an Maynard added: “We feel our immaculate early copy of Tolkien’s investment in our online fair identity The Hobbit. In the November fair we has been justified, not just as an extra had 80 participating dealers and sales outlet for our members but to more than 1000 new items.” help the PBFA presence. Among the books Paul Bostock “The extra traffic to the site will of Nottingham sold in the November help advertise our live fairs and online fair was Peking and the Overland we will keep our online fairs as a Route by Thomas Cook, 1917, at permanent fixture.” n £125. Bostock said: “A positive point pbfa.org

Fair includes a black tie trade ball The tale of a 26-mile walk Dealer Gary Wallis is looking forward to next year and the first of his biannualHenley to buy a bible Decor Fairs that will run for five days instead of two. Destined for the now cancelled Towy Events In its riverside location by the Thames Christmas antiques and fleamarket at the Carmarthen in Oxfordshire, the event is set for the May Showground were two rare Welsh plates from the bank holiday weekend (Thursday to Monday, Llanelly Pottery, which Towy Events organiser and May 27-31) with a black tie trade ball on dealer Robert Pugh had planned to take. the 28th “to embrace the camaraderie and Painted by the renowned artist Samuel support of the trade,” said Wallis. Shufflebotham, c.1907, they are priced at£1800 the He added: “We had a wonderful fair in pair – one shown here. September with more than 4000 visitors They depict Mari and 108 standholders, 99% of whom have Jones who grew up signed up for the May fair.” living at the foot Six months before the fair, 60 dealers of Cader Idris, have already signed up with a good mix of near Dolgellau. the decorative and architectural. A snapshot In 1800, aged here includes: Architectural Salvage 15, so the Source in Hertfordshire, Montpellier story goes, she Antiques of Harrogate, Great British walked barefoot Revivals in Oxfordshire and Rutland Garden 26 miles across Classics. the mountains in henleydecorfair.com order to buy her own bible for which she had Right: Retrovation’s Steve Diggins by saved since she was nine. his stand at the Henley Decor Fair in Towy Events’ first market September. Diggins is one of the 60 dealers for 2021 is scheduled to run at the Carmarthen who have already signed up for the five-day Showground on March 7. event in May. towyevents.co.uk robertpughantiques.co.uk 32 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

PAGE 032 2472.indd 1 11/12/2020 12:07:36 December 17 - January 20 Fairs & Markets Events Calendar For a comprehensive and regularly updated listing please visit antiquestradegazette.com/calendar

Every care is taken in compiling this calendar. Before visiting any event listed here you are strongly advised to NEWCOMEN FAIRS. Tel: 01614 COVEN FAIRS. Tel: 07938 contact the organiser to check the event’s latest details as well 323444. Antiques & Collectables, 123040. Antiques & Collectables, Due to current market conditions caused by Covid-19, events as the safety and hygiene procedures they will expect all 10am-4pm at Elsecar Heritage 9.30am-3.30pm at Memorial may be changed or cancelled, often at short notice and it may Hall, Brewood Road, Coven, visitors to adhere to. Centre, Watt Road, Barnsley, Wolverhampton, WV9 5DL. be some time after a change is made that the organiser is able South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ. to notify us. Changes to national government and local FAIR ORGANISERS are requested to inform us of any changes JAY FAIRS. Tel: 01235 815633. lockdown rules could have occurred after ATG went to press so that the accuracy of the calendar can be maintained. WATSON ANTIQUE FAIRS. Tel: Antiques & Collectables, 9am- (2pm Friday December 11). In a few cases, smaller events may Antiques Trade Gazette cannot accept responsibility for 07919 022352. Antiques & 4pm at Parish Hall, Sunnyside, have provisional dates which they can confirm only later. errors or omissions Collectables, 8.30am-3.30pm at Benson, Oxfordshire, OX10 6LZ. The Queens Hall, Norwich Road, THE BIRMINGHAM CLOCK & V & A FAIRS. Tel: 01244 659887. P & V ROWSON ANTIQUE FAIRS. Watton, Norfolk, IP25 6DA. THURSDAY MONDAY WATCH FAIR. Tel: 07598 072645. Antiques, 10am-3.30pm at Tel: 07976 643174. Antiques, DECEMBER 17 DECEMBER 28 Clocks & Watches, 10am at Nantwich Square, Nantwich, 10am-4pm at Himely Hall, Himley SATURDAY The Motor Cycle Museum Cheshire, CW5 5DH. Park, Dudley, West Midlands, Birmingham, Coventry Road, LEGACY FAIRS. Tel: 07771 AMP FAIRS. Tel: 0117 918 DY3 4DF. JANUARY 16 Bickenhill, Warwickshire, 920780. Antiques & Collectables, 1207. Post & Cigarette Cards, 10am-4pm at Churchdown SATURDAY B92 0EJ. 9am-2pm at Wendover Memorial THURSDAY BANSTEAD ANTIQUES & Community Centre, Parton JANUARY 2 Hall, Wharf Road, Wendover, JANUARY 7 COLLECTORS FAIR. Tel: 01293 Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, TUESDAY Buckinghamshire, HP22 6HF. 518654. Antiques & Collectables, GL3 2JH. ADVINTAGEOUS. Tel: 07946 JANUARY 19 9am-3.30pm at Church Institute, 729243. Vintage, 10am-4.30pm at ELSIE’S VINTAGE ANTIQUES & COLLECTORS’ FAIR. Tel: 01189 High Street, Banstead, Surrey, SATURDAY Leeds City Market, 28-34 George IACF ARDINGLY. Tel: TUESDAY 701381. Antiques & Collectables, DECEMBER 19 Street, Leeds, LS2 7HY. SM7 2NG. 01636 702326. Antiques & DECEMBER 29 9am-4pm at W.I. Hall, Green Lane, Collectables, 9am-5pm at Hartley Wintney, Basingstoke, CSC FAIRS. Tel: 07803 543467. South of England Showground, FOREST FAIRS. Tel: 07810 PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS SUNDAY Hampshire, RG27 8DL. Ardingly, West Sussex, 564299. Stamps & Collectables, Antiques & Collectables, 9am- FAIRS ASSOCIATION (PBFA). Tel: JANUARY 3 RH17 6TL. 10am-3.30pm at The Shoreham 3.30pm at Stockport Town Hall, 01763 248400. Books (online SUNDAY (Day 1 of 2) Centre, Pond Road, Shoreham- Wellington Road, Stockport, only), 12 noon at pbfa.org. CODSALL ANTIQUES & JANUARY 10 Cheshire, SK1 3XE. by-Sea, West Sussex, BN43 5NA. COLLECTABLES FAIR. Tel: 07923 WEDNESDAY 538178. Antiques & Collectables, FRIDAY LEGACY FAIRS. Tel: 07771 JANUARY 20 9am-3pm at Village Hall, SUNDAY SUNDAY JANUARY 1 920780. Antiques & Collectables, DECEMBER 20 Wolverhampton Road, Codsall, 9am-3pm at Colston Hall, East JANUARY 17 IACF ARDINGLY. Tel: Staffordshire, WV8 1PL. Common, Gerrards Cross, 01636 702326. Antiques & GUILDHALL ANTIQUE FAIRS. Buckinghamshire, SL9 7AD. Collectables, 8am-4pm at B2B EVENTS. Tel: 07796 CHESHIRE SET FAIRS. Tel: 07803 Tel: 01766 831800. Antiques, HUNGERFORD ANTIQUES & FLEA South of England Showground, 714509. Flea & Collectables, 543467. Antiques & Collectables, 9am-3.30pm at Hood Park Leisure MARKET. Tel: 07920 131397. MARCEL FAIRS. Tel: 07887 Ardingly, West Sussex, 9.30am-3.30pm at Village Hall, Centre, North Street, Ashby- Antiques & Flea, 9.30am-3.30pm 648255. Antiques, 9am-4pm at 7.30am-3.30pm at Three RH17 6TL. Knutsford Road, Chelford, de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, at The Town Hall, High Street, Village Hall, The Green, Sarratt, Counties Showground, Malvern, (Day 2 of 2) Cheshire, SK11 9AS. LE65 1HU. Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0NF. Hertfordshire, WD3 6AS. Worcestershire, WR13 6NW. ALL OUR 2021 DATES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS 2021 SCAN this QR Code MARKET DATES and SAVE to your Homescreen to stay up-to-date in 2021 OUR NEXT MARKET www.iacf.co.uk

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Saints double up in one work Two-sided picture now heading to Dijon museum after being given definite attribution

by Anne Crane 1

£1 = €1.10 A double-sided oil on panel painting 1. A 16th century oil on panel by by Grégoire Guérard depicting St Grégoire Guérard featuring St Catherine of Alexandria was the Catherine of Alexandria to one highlight of the sale of paintings, side and St Christopher and drawings, furniture and works of art the Christ Child to the other – at Rossini (23% buyer’s premium) €105,000 (£95,455) at Rossini. in Paris on November 26. 2. Italian figure study in Guérard was a Dutch artist active chalk, ink and wash on paper in the Champagne and Burgundy catalogued as School of regions in the first half of the 16th Francesco Salviati – €19,700 century under the reign of François I. (£17,910). His identity has emerged only very recently through the efforts of a group 3. A study of a woman’s head of researchers led by Frédéric Elsig. catalogued as French school A corpus of paintings that had first half of the 19th century – been linked under the generic €25,000 (£22,730). name of ‘The Master of the Autun triptych’ was given a firm identity in 2005 when an archival contract emerged that linked one of these works to Guérard by name. Subsequent details of the artist’s 3 biography have been pieced together, resulting in the attribution of 42 paintings and stained glass windows to his hand. Rossini’s painting, which measures 3ft x 21in (91 x 55cm), shows St Catherine of Alexandria to one side identified by the inscription KATHERINA VIRGINUS set in a halo around her head and her saint’s attribute of a wheel. To the lower left is the coat of arms of Vienne – Dinteville family of Burgundy. To the reverse side is a painting en grisaille of St Christopher carrying the infant Jesus. Elsig has observed that this arrangement “obviously constitutes the right side of a triptych, the other elements of which are unknown to us to this day”. Rossini offered the panel with an 2 estimate of €60,000-80,000 and on the day it was bid to €105,000 (£95,455). The painting will be right F Salviati was catalogued returning to its Burgundian roots as as school of Francesco Salviati Saintly sign it was pre-empted by the Musée des (1510-63) with a modest estimate of Beaux Arts in Dijon and will now €600-800, but ended up selling for This painted wooden sign dated to the 18th join its collections. €19,700 (£17,910). century was one of the highlights of a sale held Much keener competition than by the Hôtel des Ventes de Nîmes (22.2% School of Salviati predicted came for a 14 x 12in (36 x buyer’s premium) in the southern French city Among the other notable results 32cm) oil on relined canvas – a study on November 27. The 2ft 1in x 19in (65 x 48cm) were several lots that substantially of the head of woman with her mouth double-sided sign, described as having damage exceeded their modest three-figure slightly open. This was catalogued as and restorations, is painted with a figure of St estimates. These included a drawing ‘French school first half of the 19th Barbara with her signature attribute of a tower in black chalk, pen and ink and wash century’ with a €300-400 estimate and the dated inscription A SAINCTE BARBE, A with white highlights of a recumbent but more than one bidder evidently BON LOGIS A PIED ET A CHEVAL 1743. It sold for figure holding a book. The 8 x 10in rated the work, as it ended up selling €1800 (£1635) against a €500-700 guide. (20 x 26cm) study inscribed lower for €25,000 (£22,730). n 34 | 19 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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New Bastiani auction high

On November 27 at an auction held by Ivoire Troyes (24% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in the French city, five bidders – two Americans, one French and one Cypriot – competed to secure a small 15th centry devotional oil on panel of the Virgin and Child by the Italian artist Lazzaro Bastiani. The painting, which was previewed in ATG No 2469, is dated to c.1480, the period when the artist was working in Venice, and carried an estimate of €50,000- 70,000. It took €115,000 (£104,545), almost double French artist goes once the guide, with the hammer falling to the French bidder. The price sets a new auction high for the artist. more unto the beach Lalique’s dragonfly brooch In the second half of the 19th century, the Normandy coast became a popular destination for Parisians keen to make an excursion from the capital and to enjoy the The highlight of a sale of jewellery and silver at Peschetau Badin (27% buyer’s premium) new leisure activity of sea bathing. on December 1- 2 in Paris was this gold ‘four dragonflies’ brooch by René Lalique. The The area was equally popular with French artists who liked to document this newly brooch dates from c.1900, the period when Lalique was making Art Nouveau taste jewellery fashionable recreation, as numerous works by the likes of Eugène Boudin and Claude before he moved on to large-scale manufacture Monet demonstrate. of glasswares. The artist Eugène Modeste Edmond Le Poittevin’s (1806-70) take on the subject The brooch, signed on the edge of one wing, was one of the best-sellers in Sotheby’s (25/20/13/9% buyer’s premium) sale of uses the signature techniques employed by paintings, drawings and sculpture 1300-1900, held in Paris on December 3. Lalique at the time, most notably plique à jour Les Bains de mer, plage d’Etretat (Sea Bathing; the beach at Etretat) (above) is a (translucent enamelwork) to create the effect of large, 2ft x 4ft 11in (63cm x 1.49m), panoramic format beach scene showing bathing the insects’ iridescent wings. The brooch is also huts, people in bathing costumes and fashionably attired ladies in crinoline dresses. set with diamonds and has a large cushion- The painting, is signed, localised and dated lower left on a plank Etretat 1864./Eug. shaped aquamarine to the centre. It sold within Le Poittevin. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1865 where it was seen and purchased by its €200,000-300,000 estimate at €230,000. the Emperor Napoleon III for 7000 francs. After the proclamation of the Third Republic, Napoleon III went into exile in England and his assets were impounded. Some were returned to him while others were sold. New Year’s Day Les Bains de mer, plage d’Etretat was thought to have been lost, known only from a photograph and drawings by the artist. The most likely hypothesis, says the auction Gallery Auction house, is that it was probably restituted to the Empress Eugénie, and possibly offered by her to her nephews, the Dukes of Alba. Friday, January 1st at 11am Offered at Sotheby’s with an estimate of €50,000-70,000, it ended up selling for Bid and see the full catalog online at: €180,000 (£163,635). This is a new auction high for the artist, surpassing the previous www.liveauctioneers.com high of Fr122,000 paid in 1992 for another smaller painting of the same subject. Fine and Decorative Art including an important Marshall Fredericks ‘Leaping Gazelle’ bronze, also 19th and 20th century paintings, bronze and marble sculptures, collection of tiles Rubens studio work including William De Morgan and art pottery, silver, decorative art, art glass, Among the Old Masters there was also a much higher than predicted price for an oil on 19th and 20th century furniture, lighting and much more! panel of the head of St Paul catalogued as the studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (below). The painting consists of a 15 x 11½ in (38.5 x 29cm) panel inserted into a larger panel measuring 2ft x 18¾ in (62 x 47cm). It is thought that the smaller panel is older, probably 17th century, and has been inserted into the later surround, possibly not long after it was painted. The work, which was purchased by the ancestors of the vendor in Paris in 1922, has a provenance back to the mid 17th century as: “Probably recorded as early as 1655 as Van Dyck in the Cathedral of Saint-Donatien in Bruges until at least circa 1765 ….” The composition of St Paul, Sam Gilliam which is known through a number of sketches and copies, is sometimes attributed to Rubens, to Anthony Van Dyck or their studios. Sotheby’s offered this panel painting with an attribution to Rubens’ studio and an estimate of €20,000- 30,000. In the end the bidding reached €160,000 (£145,455). Marshall Fredericks The highest-priced work in the William De Morgan tiles ‘Leaping Gazelle’ sculpture sale was Joseph Vernet’s 3 x 4ft Bid and see the full catalog online (93cm x 1.2m) oil on canvas of a view of Tivoli, near Rome, painted in 1753 25% buyer’s premium on all lots and previewed in detail in ATG No Schmidt’s Antiques Inc. 2469. It sold for €500,000 (£454,545) 5138 West Michigan Avenue, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Tel: +1 (734) 434-2660 against a €600,000-800,000 Since 1911 estimate. www.SchmidtsAntiques.com

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Bonnard at Besch

This oil on canvas by Pierre Bonnard from 1908 will be offered as part of Besch Cannes Auction’s December 27-31 series of Prestige sales. The painting goes under the hammer as part of the December 30 sale of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, tapestries and arts of ancient China. Measuring 15 x 17¼in (39 x 44cm), it is signed lower right. It has a provenance to Ambroise Vollard, was last under the hammer in 1971 at Christie’s in London and is included in the Bonnard’s catalogue raisonné. Estimate €140,000-160,000. Audubon’s squirrel cannesauction.com

This original oil painting of a California grey squirrel is by Biblical boxwood John Woodhouse Audubon, younger son of John James Audubon of Birds of America fame. It will be offered for sale This small carved boxwood domed box in Swann Galleries’ sale of Maps, Atlases, Natural History and features in the sale of antique furniture Color Plate Books in New York on December 17. and works of art at Aguttes in Neuilly on Father and son collaborated on projects, most notably on December 21. Dated to the 16th century, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, a lithographed it measures 4½ x 7¼ x 3¼in (11.5 x 18.5 x series of four-legged mammals for which both produced 8.5cm) and is carved in detailed low relief artwork. with medallions within borders featuring John’s painting from c.1853, on relined canvas, measuring biblical scenes from the Old Testament to 13¾ x 22¼in (35 x 56.5cm), comes to auction by direct the main body, while the cover features four descent from the artist’s family and has an estimate of recumbent figures emblematic of planets. $30,000-50,000. Estimate €6000-8000. swanngalleries.com aguttes.com

NADEAU’S AUCTION GALLERY Important New Year’s Day Friday January 1st 10.30am 5.5 CARAT PEAR RARE ORIGINAL GRAMOPHONE ARTHUR SZYK, WATERCOLOR AND SHAPED DIAMOND BY EMILE BERLINER GOUACHE ON PAPER, 1 OF 2 RING, E COLOR, VS1

JOHN TENNIEL, ‘THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS’, 1 OF 2 FELIX ZIEM, OIL ON BOARD, 3 21 X 29 /4IN LOUIS VALTAT, ‘POMMES ET DAHLIAS’, OIL ON CANVAS, 7 X 12IN

ANTONIO BUENO, ‘PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH RED’, OIL ON CANVAS, 17¾ X 16IN

GEORGE MERKEL, 3 OIL ON CANVAS, 19 /4 X 24IN

LOUIS XV TULIPWOOD COMMODE Visit our website for a fully illustrated catalog NADEAUSAUCTION.COM SERAPI ORIENTAL CARPET This auction will also be held live on invaluable.com, bidsquare.com and Liveauctioneers ABSENTEE AND PHONE BIDS ACCEPTED - PAYMENT BY BANK CHECK OR WIRE TRANSFER ONLY. (860) 246-2444 or 524-8666 • EMAIL: [email protected] • 25 MEADOW RD., WINDSOR CT 06095

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KINGSLAND AUCTION SERVICES SWORDERS Shirlheath, Kingsland, Leominster, Cambridge Road, Stansted Herefordshire, HR6 9RL. Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8GE. The original and authoritative listing of UK sales Tel: +44 (0)1568 708564 Tel: +44 (0)1279 817778 Antiques & General, 18.00 Homes & Interiors, 10.00 Due to current market conditions caused by Covid-19, In all cases you should check with auction house directly kingslandauctions.com sworder.co.uk 4 readers should expect that many of the live auctions to understand the conditions under which the auction is listed here will be held as live online only sales. Such taking place, including storage arrangements or delivery LAWRENCES TENNANTS auctions take place behind closed doors and are not open and collection options that are currently available. In partnership with Transport The Auction Centre, Harmby Road, to members of the public for bidding in the room. Bidding Collector Auctions Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG. 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Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Street, Knightsbridge, London, 3 Queen Victoria Road, Coventry, lots for sale on The Cheshire Saleroom, Withyfold mid-sussex-auctions.com SW7 1HH. Tel: +44 (0)1522 524984 Warwickshire, CV1 3JS. thesaleroom.com Drive, Macclesfield, Cheshire, Collective Sale, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)2476 223377 SK10 2BD. Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3900 goldingyoung.com 4 MURRAY’S Antiques, Furniture & Collectables, Tel: +44 (0)1625 431788 Modern British & Irish Art, 10.00 8-10 Allan Street, Douglas, Isle of 4 10.00 Furniture, Interiors, Toys, Wines & bonhams.com Man, IM1 3DQ. GREAT WESTERN AUCTIONS warwickauctions.co.uk 4 Spirits, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1624 665550 4 1291 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, adampartridge.co.uk BOURNE END AUCTION ROOMS Colin & Margaret Bendall Vinyl G14 9UY. Station Approach, Bourne End, Records Collection, 10.00 THURSDAY ANDERSON & GARLAND Buckinghamshire, SL8 5QH. Tel: +44 (0)1419 541500 murrays.im 4 DECEMBER 17 Anderson House, Crispin Court, Tel: +44 (0)1628 531500 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 4 Newbiggin Lane, Newcastle-upon- Home Furnishings & Collectables, greatwesternauctions.com NESBITS AUCTIONS Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE5 1BF. 10.30 7 Clarendon Road, Southsea, ADAM PARTRIDGE Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000 4 bourneendauctionrooms.co.uk HANSONS Hampshire, PO5 2ED. The Cheshire Saleroom, Withyfold Town & County, 09.30 Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, Tel: +44 (0)2392 295568 Drive, Macclesfield, Cheshire, andersonandgarland.com 4 BULSTRODES DE65 6LS. Antiques & Collectables, 10.30 SK10 2BD. 13 Stour Road, Christchurch, Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 nesbitsauctions.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1625 431788 ANDREW SMITH & SON Dorset, BH23 1PL. 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Furnishings, Domestic Effects, Textiles & Embroidery, 10.00 The Cattlemarket, Beveridge Way, christies.com 20 Western Approach, Plymouth, Collectables & Other Objects, 10.30 4 4 King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4NB. hansonsauctioneers.co.uk Devon, PL1 1TG. amershamauctionrooms.co.uk UK and Ireland Tel: +44 (0)1553 771881 CUTTLESTONES Tel: +44 (0)1752 663341 auction advertising Modern Cars, 18.00 Wolverhampton Auction Rooms, HARTLEYS General, 10.00 ANDERSON & GARLAND angliacarauctions.co.uk 4 1 Clarence Street, Wolverhampton, Victoria Hall, Little Lane, Ilkley, shobrook.co.uk Anderson House, Crispin Court, West Midlands, WV1 4JL. West Yorkshire, LS29 8EA. Newbiggin Lane, Newcastle-upon- 1818 7 BAMFORDS Tel: +44 (0)1902 421985 Tel: +44 (0)1943 816363 SILVERWOODS Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE5 1BF. 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BISHOP & MILLER JAMES BECK AUCTIONS TRURO AUCTION CENTRE MCCARTNEYS (POWYS) WESSEX AUCTION ROOMS MONDAY Unit 19B, Charles Industrial Estate, Cornhall, Cattle Market Street, Triplet Business Centre, Poldice Brecon Saleroom, Warren Road, Westbrook Farm, Draycot Cerne, DECEMBER 21 Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5AH. Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 9AW. Valley, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5PZ. Brecon, Powys, LD3 8EX. Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LH. Tel: +44 (0)1449 673088 Tel: +44 (0)1328 851557 Tel: +44 (0)1209 822266 Tel: +44 (0)1874 622386 Tel: +44 (0)1249 720888 Period Oak & Folk, 10.00 Furniture, Art & Collectables, 11.00 General Household, 10.00 Antique & General Furniture, 10.30 BANK HALL AUCTIONS 4 bishopandmillerauctions.co.uk jamesbeckauctions.co.uk cornwallauction.co.uk 4 4 Toys, 10.30 Bank Hall Works, off Colne Road, mccartneys.co.uk 4 wessexauctionrooms.co.uk Burnley, Lancashire, BB10 3AT. BONHAMS JOHN NICHOLSON’S TURNER & SONS MEWS AUCTION ROOMS Tel: +44 (0)1282 435435 101 New Bond Street, London, The Auction Rooms, Midhurst Road, Century Salerooms, 28-36 Roscoe Unit 7, Stenders Business Park, Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 W1S 1SR. Street, Liverpool, L1 9DW. SATURDAY Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey, The Stenders, Mitcheldean, DECEMBER 19 bank-hall-auctions.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7447 7447 Tel: +44 (0)1517 094005 GU27 3HA. Gloucestershire, GL17 0JE. Old Master Paintings, 14.00 General, 10.30 4 Tel: +44 (0)1428 653727 Tel: +44 (0)1594 544769 BELFAST AUCTIONS bonhams.com turnersauctions.co Antiques, 10.30 General, 10.30 ARTHUR JOHNSON & SONS 6 Duncrue Court, Duncrue Road, johnnicholsons.com 4 The Nottingham Auction Centre, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT3 9BW. BONHAMS KNIGHTSBRIDGE mewsauctions.co.uk W. & H. PEACOCK Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2 3GY. Tel: +44 (0)28 9077 1552 Montpelier Galleries, Montpelier LOCKE & ENGLAND 75 New Street, St. Neots, Tel: +44 (0)1159 869128 Antiques & General, 18.00 Street, Knightsbridge, London, PETER WILSON 12 Guy Street, Leamington Spa, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1AJ. Antiques & Furniture, 09.30 belfastauctions.com SW7 1HH. Victoria Gallery, Market Street, Warwickshire, CV32 4RT. Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550 arthurjohnson.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3900 Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5DG. Tel: +44 (0)1926 889100 Household Furniture, Garden, Tools & BOLTON AUCTION ROOMS Books, Atlases, Manuscripts & Collectables, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1270 623878 Antiques, Furniture, Household, CARDIFF CITY AUCTIONS Breightmet Drive, Bolton, Greater Historical Photographs, 12.00 peacockauction.co.uk 4 Books, Maps & Stamps, 12.00 bonhams.com 4 Jewellery, Garden & Tools, 11.00 Unit 7, Clydesmuir Industrial Estate, Manchester, BL2 6EE. 4 peterwilson.co.uk 4 leauction.co.uk Clydesmuir Road, Tremorfa, Cardiff, Tel: +44 (0)1204 775121 BRISTOL AUCTION ROOMS CF24 2QS. General, 10.00 FRIDAY RENDELLS 1-3 Yelverton Road, Brislington, MCTEAR’S Tel: +44 (0)29 2046 5377 boltonauction.co.uk 4 DECEMBER 18 Stonepark Saleroom, Ashburton, Bristol, BS4 5HP. Meiklewood Gate, 31 Meiklewood Household, Garage & Garden, 13.00 Newton Abbot, South Devon, Tel: +44 (0)1179 531603 Road, Glasgow, G51 4EU. cardiffcityauctions.com ESSEX AUCTION ROOMS Antiques, Furnishings & Collectables, Tel: +44 (0)141 8102880 ANDERSON & GARLAND TQ13 7RH. Forest Lodge Commercial Complex, Anderson House, Crispin Court, Tel: +44 (0)1364 653017 10.00 Jewellery, 10.30 HARRISONS AUCTION CENTRE High Road, Epping, Essex, CM16 5HW. 4 4 Newbiggin Lane, Newcastle-upon- Antiques, Collectables, Silver & bristolauctionrooms.co.uk mctears.co.uk 197 Nene Terrace Road, Crowland, Tel: +44 (0)19928 15528 Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE5 1BF. Jewellery, 10.00 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 DOMINIC WINTER AUCTIONS MORGAN EVANS & CO. Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000 rendellsfineart.co.uk 4 4 PE6 0LD. auctionhouse.co.uk Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South The Saleroom, Lon Groes, Gaerwen, Stamps & Coins, 10.00 4 Tel: +44 (0)1733 211789 Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Isle of Anglesey, LL60 6DF. andersonandgarland.com RYE AUCTION GALLERIES General, 10.00 GORRINGE’S GL7 5UQ. Tel: +44 (0)1248 421582 Units 2 & 3, Rock Channel Quay, Rye, 15 North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, Tel: +44 (0)1285 860006 BONHAMS harrisonsauctions.co.uk Vintage, Modern & Collectables, 10.00 East Sussex, TN31 7DL. BN7 2PD. Military & Aviation History, Barnes 101 New Bond Street, London, morganevans.com Tel: +44 (0)1797 222650 Tel: +44 (0)1273 472503 W1S 1SR. MURRAY’S Wallis & Churchill Collection General, 10.00 4 Tel: +44 (0)20 7447 7447 8-10 Allan Street, Douglas, Isle of Antiques & Fine Art, 09.30 dominicwinter.co.uk PARKER FINE ART AUCTIONS 4 4 ryeauctiongalleries.com Man, IM1 3DQ. gorringes.co.uk Hawthorn House, East Street, Fine Decorative Art, 10.00 DUKE’S bonhams.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1624 665550 Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7SX. RYEDALE AUCTIONEERS KEYS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS Fine Art Salerooms, Brewery Square, Tel: +44 (0)1252 203020 General, 10.00 Cooks Yard, New Road, 4 Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1GA. Paintings, 11.00 CHAUCER AUCTIONS murrays.im Kirkbymoorside, York, YO62 6DZ. Lane, Aylsham, Norwich, Norfolk, Tel: +44 (0)1305 265080 parkerfineartauctions.com 4 Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, A Taste of Luxury, 10.30 Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5QW. Tel: +44 (0)1751 431544 RYEDALE AUCTIONEERS NR11 6JA. dukes-auctions.com 4 End of Year Sale, 11.00 Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 PEEBLES AUCTION HOUSE Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 Cooks Yard, New Road, ryedaleauctioneers.com 4 Country Sale, 10.30 The Old School, Old Church Road, Sport Autograph Stamps, 10.00 Kirkbymoorside, York, YO62 6DZ. EWBANK’S 4 keysauctions.co.uk 4 Peebles, Scottish Borders, EH45 8LH. chaucercollectables.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1751 431544 The Burnt Common Auction Rooms, SIDCUP AUCTION ROOMS Tel: +44 (0)1721 588088 End of Year Sale, 11.00 London Road, Woking, Surrey, ELMWOOD’S 14 Church Road, Sidcup, Kent, 4 L.S. SMELLIE & SONS Jewellery, Scottish & European Art, ryedaleauctioneers.com GU23 7LN. The Red House, Munro Mews, DA14 6BX. 4 Lower Auchingramont Road, Antiques, Collectables & Household Tel: +44 (0)1483 223101 London, W10 5XS. Hamilton, Lanarkshire, ML3 6HW. peeblesauctionhouse.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 8302 4565 SIDCUP AUCTION ROOMS Wines & Spirits, 09.30 Tel: +44 (0)20 7096 8933 Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 Tel: +44 (0)1698 282007 4 14 Church Road, Sidcup, Kent, ewbankauctions.co.uk Jewellery, 14.00 General & Collectables, 09.30 PILTON AUCTIONS sidcupauctions.co.uk DA14 6BX. elmwoods.co.uk 4 hamiltonauctionmarket.com 4 FEATONBY’S AUCTIONEERS Pilton Quay, Barnstaple, Devon, Tel: +44 (0)20 8302 4565 EX31 1PB. STRIDE & SON Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 50/50A Bedford Street, North Shields, GERRARDS AUCTION ROOMS NL AUCTION ROOMS Tyne & Wear, NE29 0AT. Tel: +44 (0)1271 859081 Southdown House, St. John’s Street, sidcupauctions.co.uk St Georges Road, Lytham St Annes, Lodge House, 9-17 Lodge Lane, Tel: +44 (0)1912 522601 Household, Interiors & Motorcycles, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1XQ. Lancashire, FY8 2AE. London, N12 8JH. Jewellery, Stamps, Memorabilia, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1243 780207 TRING MARKET AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1253 725476 Tel: +44 (0)20 8445 9000 Coins & Collectables, 10.00 piltonauctions.co.uk 4 Antiques, 10.00 Brook Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, Fine Art, Antiques, Jewellery, Gold & Antiques, 14.00 featonbys.co.uk 4 stridesauctions.co.uk 4 HP23 5EF. Silver, Porcelain & Collectables, 10.00 4 RENDELLS nl-auctionrooms.com gerrardsauctionrooms.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1442 826446 FELLOWS Stonepark Saleroom, Ashburton, THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS General, 09.30 Augusta House, 19 Augusta Street, 4 PEMBRIDGE AUCTIONS Newton Abbot, South Devon, HOBBS PARKER The Dales Saleroom, Levens Hall Park, tringmarketauctions.co.uk Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 6JA. The Village Hall, Bearwood Lane, TQ13 7RH. Romney House, Ashford Market, Lund Lane, Killinghall, Harrogate, Tel: +44 (0)1212 122131 Pembridge, Herefordshire, HR6 9EA. Tel: +44 (0)1364 653017 Orbital Park, Ashford, Kent, North Yorkshire, HG3 2BG. W&H PEACOCK A: Jewellery, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)7584 036874 / Antiques, Collectables, Silver & TN24 0HB. Tel: +44 (0)1423 709086 Eastcotts Park, Wallis Way, Bedford, B: Pawnbrokers’ Jewellery & Watches, +44 (0)7973 278282 Jewellery, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1233 502222 General Antiques & Effects, 11.30 MK42 0PE. 11.00 4 Antiques & General, 17.00 rendellsfineart.co.uk Christmas Cars, 10.00 thompsonsauctioneers.com Tel: +44 (0)1234 266366 fellows.co.uk 4 pembridgeauction.weebly.com hobbsparker.co.uk Furniture & Effects, 10.30 ROMA NUMISMATICS TRING MARKET AUCTIONS peacockauction.co.uk 4 GERRARDS AUCTION ROOMS SOUTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS 20 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6EJ. JACKSON, GREEN & PRESTON Brook Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, St Georges Road, Lytham St Annes, 55 High Street, London, N14 6LD. Tel: +44 (0)20 7121 6518 41-45 Duncombe Street, Grimsby, HP23 5EF. Lancashire, FY8 2AE. Tel: +44 (0)20 8886 7888 Coins, 12.00 Lincolnshire, DN32 7SG. Tel: +44 (0)1442 826446 SUNDAY Tel: +44 (0)1253 725476 Antiques, Furniture & Effects, 14.00 romanumismatics.com Tel: +44 (0)1472 311115 DECEMBER 20 Fine Art, Antiques, Jewellery, Gold & General, 09.30 southgateauctionrooms.com 4 Silver, Porcelain & Collectables, 10.00 Furniture, 10.30 tringmarketauctions.co.uk 4 STRIDE & SON gerrardsauctionrooms.com 4 jacksongreenpreston.co.uk Southdown House, St. John’s Street, CARDIFF CITY AUCTIONS SUTTON HILL FARM TW GAZE Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1XQ. Unit 7, Clydesmuir Industrial Estate, COUNTRY AUCTIONS GREENSLADE TAYLOR HUNT KLM AUCTIONEERS Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, Tel: +44 (0)1243 780207 Clydesmuir Road, Tremorfa, Cardiff, Coventry Road, Broughton Astley, Sedgemoor Auction Centre, North Unit 22, Moderna Business Park, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN. CF24 2QS. Leicester, LE9 6QD. Petherton, Bridgwater, Somerset, A: Silver, Jewellery, Watches & Coins, Moderna Way, Mytholmroyd, West Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306 Tel: +44 (0)29 2046 5377 Tel: +44 (0)1162 436922 TA6 6DF. 11.00 Yorkshire, HX7 5QQ. Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 General, Antiques & Collectables, Antiques, Silver, Jewellery & Tel: +44 (0)1823 332525 B: Wine, Whisky, Port & Spirits, 14.00 Tel: +44 (0)7775 943057 4 twgaze.co.uk 4 13.00 General, 10.00 stridesauctions.co.uk Christmas Sale, 10.00 Collectables, 10.00 cardiffcityauctions.com 4 gth.net 4 klmauctioneers.com suttonhillfarmcountryauctions.com TORRIDGE AUCTIONS WATERMANS AUCTION ROOMS Manor Farm, Shellbank Lane, HENRY ADAMS AUCTIONS The Lion Store, 19 Barnstaple Street, MAXWELLS HARROGATE AUCTION CENTRE WELLERS Baffins Hall, Baffins Lane, Chichester, East-the-Water, Bideford, Devon, The Auction Rooms, Levens Road, Green Street Green, Dartford, Kent, 15 Hammerain House, Beech Avenue, The Guildford Saleroom, Bedford West Sussex, PO19 1UA. EX39 4AE. Hazel Grove, Cheshire, SK7 5DL. DA2 8DL. Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8ER. Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4SJ. Tel: +44 (0)1243 532223 Tel: +44 (0)1237 471955 Tel: +44 (0)1614 395182 Tel: +44 (0)1474 700033 Tel: +44 (0)1423 872202 Tel: +44 (0)1483 802280 Christmas Sale, Wines & Spirits, 10.00 General & Household, 10.00 Antiques & Vintage, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Antiques, 11.00 General, 09.00 henryadamsfineart.co.uk 4 torridgeauctions.co.uk maxwells-auctioneers.co.uk 4 watermansauctionrooms.co.uk harrogateauctioncentre.co.uk wellersauctions.com

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WYE VALLEY AUCTIONS MONDAY EAST BRISTOL AUCTIONS MEWS AUCTION ROOMS BOLTON AUCTION ROOMS KINGSLEY AUCTIONS Unit 5J, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, DECEMBER 28 1 Hanham Business Park, Memorial Unit 7, Stenders Business Park, Breightmet Drive, Bolton, Greater 112-118 Market Street, Hoylake, Ramsden Road, Hereford, HR2 6LR. Road, Bristol, BS15 3JE. The Stenders, Mitcheldean, Manchester, BL2 6EE. Wirral, Merseyside, CH47 3BG. Tel: +44 (0)1179 671000 Tel: +44 (0)1204 775121 Tel: +44 (0)1432 275487 Gloucestershire, GL17 0JE. Tel: +44 (0)1516 325821 General, 18.00 BOLTON AUCTION ROOMS 20th Century Design & Interiors, 10.00 General, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 4 Tel: +44 (0)1594 544769 4 wyevalleyauctions.com Breightmet Drive, Bolton, Greater eastbristol.co.uk boltonauction.co.uk kingsleyauctions.blogspot.co.uk Manchester, BL2 6EE. General, 10.30 QUEENS ROAD AUCTIONS mewsauctions.co.uk CHAUCER AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1204 775121 SPECIAL AUCTION SERVICES 9 Queens Road, Exeter, Devon, Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, TUESDAY General, 10.00 Plenty Close, off Hambridge Lane, 4 EX2 9ER. SULLIVANS AUCTIONS Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5QW. DECEMBER 22 boltonauction.co.uk Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5RL. Tel: +44 (0)1392 256256 Pant Industrial Estate, Dowlais, Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595 L.S. SMELLIE & SONS Antiques & General, 10.00 Merthyr Tydfil, South Glamorgan, Autographs, 10.00 BRETTELLS queensroadauctions.com chaucercollectables.co.uk 4 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 4 Lower Auchingramont Road, CF48 2SR. 4 Auction Rooms, rear of 58 High specialauctionservices.com Hamilton, Lanarkshire, ML3 6HW. Tel: +44 (0)1685 384603 ROBERTSONS Street, Newport, Shropshire, Tel: +44 (0)1698 282007 FREDERICK ANDREWS Main Street, Kinbuck, Dunblane, Furniture & Fine Art, 10.00 Unit 13, Duke of Clarence Trading STERLING VAULT AUCTIONEERS TF10 7AQ. General & Collectables, 09.30 Perthshire, FK15 0NQ. sullivansauctions.com Estate, High Street, Bluetown, 93-94 West Street, Farnham, Surrey, Tel: +44 (0)1952 815925 hamiltonauctionmarket.com 4 General & Collectables, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1786 822603 Sheerness, Kent, ME12 1RQ. GU9 7EB. Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS Tel: +44 (0)1795 662741 Tel: +44 (0)1252 720815 brettells.com 4 WYE VALLEY AUCTIONS kinbuckauctions.co.uk Antiques & General, 10.00 Watches & Jewellery, 10.30 Unit 5J, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, The Dales Saleroom, Levens frederickandrews.uk 4 CHESHIRE STAMP AUCTIONS Hall Park, Lund Lane, Killinghall, sterlingvault.co.uk Ramsden Road, Hereford, HR2 6LR. SHOBROOK & CO. Egerton Court, Haig Road, Knutsford, Tel: +44 (0)1432 275487 Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2BG. 20 Western Approach, Plymouth, GORRINGE’S THOMAS N. MILLER Cheshire, WA16 8DX. General, 18.00 Tel: +44 (0)1423 709086 Devon, PL1 1TG. 15 North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle- Tel: +44 (0)1565 653214 wyevalleyauctions.com Tel: +44 (0)1752 663341 General Antiques & Effects, 11.30 BN7 2PD. upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE6 2UN. Stamps, 16.30 General, 10.00 thompsonsauctioneers.com Tel: +44 (0)1273 472503 Tel: +44 (0)1912 658080 sandafayre.com 4 shobrook.co.uk Antiques & Fine Art, 10.00 TUESDAY Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 UNIQUE AUCTIONS gorringes.co.uk 4 DECEMBER 29 4 KINGSLEY AUCTIONS millersauctioneers.co.uk THURSDAY Vincent Court, Turnstone Road, Teal 112-118 Market Street, Hoylake, Park, Lincoln, LN6 3AD. H&H AUCTION ROOMS DECEMBER 31 THOMSON RODDICK AUCTIONEERS Wirral, Merseyside, CH47 3BG. BRETTELLS The Auction Centre, Rosehill Industrial Tel: +44 (0)1522 695820 The Auction Centre, Burgh Road Auction Rooms, rear of 58 High Street, Estate, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1 2RS. Tel: +44 (0)1516 325821 Antiques & Collectables, 09.00 Tel: +44 (0)1228 406320 Estate, Marconi Road, Carlisle, Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 Newport, Shropshire, TF10 7AQ. BALDWIN’S OF ST JAMES’S 4 unique-auctions.com Antiques & Home Furnishings, 10.30 Cumbria, CA2 7NA. kingsleyauctions.blogspot.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1952 815925 10 Charles II Street, St James’s, General & Collectables, 10.00 London, SW1Y 4AA. hhauctionrooms.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1228 528939 4 W&H PEACOCK Home Furnishings & Interiors, 10.00 MULLEN’S brettells.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7930 7888 Coins, 10.00 Eastcotts Park, Wallis Way, Bedford, L.S. SMELLIE & SONS thomsonroddick.com 4 Old Bray Road, Woodbrook, Bray, stjauctions.com 4 MK42 0PE. 4 Lower Auchingramont Road, Co. Wicklow . CURR & DEWAR 16A Tom Johnston Road, Dundee, Tel: +44 (0)1234 266366 Hamilton, Lanarkshire, ML3 6HW. WALTON & WALTON Tel: +353 (0)1 282 6107 Tel: +44 (0)1698 282007 Angus, DD4 8XD. CLARKE’S AUCTIONS Antique Furniture, Book, Art, Maps, Susan Mill, Junction Street, Classic & Contemporary Interiors, Units 1 & 2, Kingsettle Business Park, General & Collectables, 09.30 Tel: +44 (0)1382 833974 Ceramics & Glass, 11.00 Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 0NX. 10.00 hamiltonauctionmarket.com 4 Antiques, 10.00 Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury, 4 Tel: +44 (0)1282 423247 mullenslaurelpark.com 4 peacockauction.co.uk curranddewar.com Wiltshire, SP7 9BU. General, 10.00 NL AUCTION ROOMS Tel: +44 (0)1747 855109 waltonandwalton.co.uk SUTTON HILL FARM Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Lodge House, 9-17 Lodge Lane, DAVID LAY AUCTIONS SATURDAY COUNTRY AUCTIONS clarkesauctions.co.uk 4 London, N12 8JH. The Penzance Auction House, JANUARY 2 WARRINGTON & NORTHWICH Coventry Road, Broughton Astley, Tel: +44 (0)20 8445 9000 Alverton Road, Penzance, Cornwall, AUCTIONS Leicester, LE9 6QD. CLAYDON AUCTIONEERS Antiques, 14.00 TR18 4RE. 551 Europa Boulevard, Westbrook, The Claydon Saleroom, Calvert Road, nl-auctionrooms.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1162 436922 Tel: +44 (0)1736 361414 HANSONS Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 7TP. Collectables, Jewellery, Silver & 49 Parson’s Street, Banbury, Fine Art, 10.00 MK18 2EZ. PEMBRIDGE AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1925 658833 Household, 10.00 4 davidlay.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1296 714434 Oxfordshire, OX16 5NB. The Village Hall, Bearwood Lane, A: Militaria, 10.00 suttonhillfarmcountryauctions.com 4 Antiques, Collectables, Paintings & Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 Pembridge, Herefordshire, HR6 9EA. B: Toys & Games, 10.00 WINGETTS Prints, 12.00 Antiques, Collectables & Fine Art, Tel: +44 (0)7584 036874 / warringtonauctions.co.uk 4 THOMAS N. MILLER 29 Holt Street, Wrexham, Clwyd, claydonauctioneers.com 4 10.30 +44 (0)7973 278282 Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle- LL13 8DH. hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 4 Antiques & General, 17.00 WATSONS upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE6 2UN. Tel: +44 (0)1978 353553 JAMES BECK AUCTIONS pembridgeauction.weebly.com Heathfield Auction Rooms, The Tel: +44 (0)1912 658080 Antiques, Interiors & Collectables, Cornhall, Cattle Market Street, UNIQUE AUCTIONS Market, Burwash Road, Heathfield, Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 10.30 Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 9AW. SOUTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS Vincent Court, Turnstone Road, Teal East Sussex, TN21 8RA. 4 55 High Street, London, N14 6LD. millersauctioneers.co.uk wingetts.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1328 851557 Tel: +44 (0)1435 862132 Furniture, Art & Collectables, 11.00 Park, Lincoln, LN6 3AD. Tel: +44 (0)20 8886 7888 General, 11.00 Tel: +44 (0)1522 695820 WATSONS jamesbeckauctions.co.uk Antiques, Furniture & Effects, 14.00 4 4 watsonsauctioneers.com Heathfield Auction Rooms, The WEDNESDAY Antiques & Collectables, 09.00 southgateauctionrooms.com DECEMBER 30 Market, Burwash Road, Heathfield, LOCKE & ENGLAND unique-auctions.com 4 WYE VALLEY AUCTIONS WINGETTS East Sussex, TN21 8RA. 12 Guy Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 4RT. Unit 5J, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, 29 Holt Street, Wrexham, Tel: +44 (0)1435 862132 ACREMAN ST. ANTIQUES Tel: +44 (0)1926 889100 SUNDAY Ramsden Road, Hereford, HR2 6LR. Clwyd, LL13 8DH. General Furniture & Effects, 11.00 121 Acreman Street, Sherborne, Antiques, Furniture, Household, JANUARY 3 Tel: +44 (0)1432 275487 Tel: +44 (0)1978 353553 watsonsauctioneers.com 4 Dorset, DT9 3PH. Jewellery, Garden & Tools, 11.00 General, 18.00 Antiques, Interiors & Collectables, Tel: +44 (0)1935 508764 leauction.co.uk 4 wyevalleyauctions.com 10.30 Antiques, 10.00 WINGETTS HARROGATE AUCTION CENTRE wingetts.co.uk acremanstreetantiques.co.uk 29 Holt Street, Wrexham, Clwyd, W&H PEACOCK 15 Hammerain House, Beech Avenue, LL13 8DH. 75 New Street, St. Neots, TUESDAY CLARKE’S AUCTIONS Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8ER. Tel: +44 (0)1978 353553 Cambridgeshire, PE19 1AJ. JANUARY 5 WEDNESDAY Units 1 & 2, Kingsettle Business Park, Tel: +44 (0)1423 872202 Antiques, Interiors & Collectables, Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550 JANUARY 6 Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury, Antiques, 11.00 10.30 Household Furniture, Garden, Tools & BRETTELLS Wiltshire, SP7 9BU. harrogateauctioncentre.co.uk wingetts.co.uk Collectables, 10.00 Auction Rooms, rear of 58 High Street, Tel: +44 (0)1747 855109 4 ADAM PARTRIDGE peacockauction.co.uk Newport, Shropshire, TF10 7AQ. Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 18 Jordan Street, Liverpool, L1 0BP. Tel: +44 (0)1952 815925 4 MONDAY Tel: +44 (0)1517 098070 SUNDAY clarkesauctions.co.uk General & Collectables, 10.00 JANUARY 4 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 DECEMBER 27 FRIDAY brettells.com 4 CLAYDON AUCTIONEERS JANUARY 1 theliverpoolsaleroom.co.uk 4

The Claydon Saleroom, Calvert Road, BELFAST AUCTIONS GILDINGS HARROGATE AUCTION CENTRE Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, BARRY HAWKINS CLARKS AUCTION ROOMS 6 Duncrue Court, Duncrue Road, The Mill, Great Bowden Road, 15 Hammerain House, Beech Avenue, MK18 2EZ. 2A/2B Heathlands Industrial Estate, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, The Auction Rooms, 15 Lynn Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT3 9BW. Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8ER. Tel: +44 (0)1296 714434 Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 4DH. LE16 7DE. Downham Market, Norfolk, PE38 9NL. Tel: +44 (0)1423 872202 Antiques, Collectables, Paintings & Tel: +44 (0)7756 070198 Tel: +44 (0)28 9077 1552 Tel: +44 (0)1858 410414 Tel: +44 (0)1366 387180 Antiques, 11.00 Prints, 12.00 Jewellery, Gold & Silver, 10.30 Antiques & General, 18.00 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 harrogateauctioncentre.co.uk claydonauctioneers.com 4 clarksauctionrooms.com 4 belfastauctions.com gildings.co.uk 4 barryhawkins.co.uk 4

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BYRNE’S PETER FRANCIS THURSDAY FORUM AUCTIONS PETER WILSON THOMAS R. CALLAN Pullman House, The Sidings, Towyside Salerooms, Old Station JANUARY 7 220 Queenstown Road, London, Victoria Gallery, Market Street, 22 Smith Street, Ayr, Ayrshire, Boundary Lane, Chester, Cheshire, Road, Carmarthen, SA31 1JN. SW8 4LP. Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5DG. K A7 1TF. CH4 8RD. Tel: +44 (0)1267 233456 Tel: +44 (0)1270 623878 Tel: +44 (0)1292 267681 Tel: +44 (0)1244 681311 AMERSHAM AUCTION ROOMS Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Antiques, Furnishings & Collectables, Fashion, 14.00 Interiors, 10.00 Collectables & General, 09.00 Station Road, Amersham-on-the-Hill, Books & Works on Paper, 13.00 4 4 4 09.30 peterwilson.co.uk trcallan.com byrnesauctioneers.co.uk Buckinghamshire, HP7 0AH. forumauctions.co.uk 4 peterfrancis.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1494 729292 SMITHS TRURO AUCTION CENTRE C & T AUCTIONEERS Victorian & Later Furnishings & GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY Desirable Objects, 10.00 16 Broad Street, Newent, Triplet Business Centre, Poldice The Bourne Auction Rooms, Spalding Gloucestershire, GL18 1AJ. Valley, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5PZ. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8XJ. Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, amershamauctionrooms.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1233 510050 Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LE. Tel: +44 (0)1531 821776 Tel: +44 (0)1209 822266 South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. Arms & Militaria, 10.30 CHARTERHOUSE AUCTIONEERS Tel: +44 (0)1778 422686 Stamps, Coins & Postcards, 14.00 General Household, 10.00 candtauctions.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1142 816161 4 4 The Long Street Salerooms, Long Collective Sale, 10.00 smithsnewentauctions.co.uk cornwallauction.co.uk Model Railway, 10.00 Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3BS. 4 goldingyoung.com 4 DENHAMS sheffieldauctiongallery.com Tel: +44 (0)1935 812277 STROUD AUCTIONS W. & H. PEACOCK Horsham Auction Galleries, Dorking Antiques, Pictures, Books, Beswick & Unit J, Bath Road Trading Estate, Bath 75 New Street, St. Neots, Road, Warnham, West Sussex, J. STUART WATSON SHOBROOK & CO. Automobilia, 12.00 Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 3QF. Cambridgeshire, PE19 1AJ. RH12 3RZ. 20 Western Approach, Plymouth, charterhouse-auction.com 4 The Market Hall, Lockmeadow Leisure Tel: +44 (0)1403 255699 / 253837 Tel: +44 (0)1453 873800 Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550 Devon, PL1 1TG. Complex, Barker Road, Maidstone, Vinyl Records, Musical Instruments, Household Furniture, Garden, Tools & Fine Art, Antiques & Collectables, CLEVEDON SALEROOMS 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1752 663341 Kent, ME16 8LW. Guns, Sporting, Militaria & Taxidermy Collectables, 10.00 The Auction Centre, Kenn Road, denhams.com 4 General, 10.00 4 4 Clevedon, Bristol, BS21 6TT. Tel: +44 (0)1622 831859 stroudauctions.co.uk peacockauction.co.uk shobrook.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1934 830111 Antique & Modern Furniture & Effects, EWBANK’S Antiques, Interiors, Collectables & The Burnt Common Auction Rooms, 10.00 STROUD AUCTIONS Jewellery, 10.30 London Road, Woking, Surrey, jstuartwatson.com Unit J, Bath Road Trading Estate, clevedon-salerooms.com 4 Artist’s Resale Right GU23 7LN. Tel: +44 (0)1483 223101 Bath Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, DAVID DUGGLEBY JAMES BECK AUCTIONS Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette may mention Antiques, Collectables, Jewellery & GL5 3QF. The Saleroom, Vine Street, Cornhall, Cattle Market Street, Silver, 09.30 Tel: +44 (0)1453 873800 Artist’s Resale Right (ARR). Please refer to the Scarborough, North Yorkshire, ewbankauctions.co.uk 4 Vinyl Records, Musical Instruments, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 9AW. information below for details. YO11 1XN. Guns, Sporting, Militaria & Taxidermy Tel: +44 (0)1328 851557 GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER Tel: +44 (0)1723 507111 Living artists and the descendants of artists deceased stroudauctions.co.uk 4 Furniture, Art & Collectables, 11.00 The Bourne Auction Rooms, Spalding Jewellery, Watches & Silver, 11.00 within the last 70 years are entitled to receive a resale 4 jamesbeckauctions.co.uk Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LE. davidduggleby.com royalty each time their work is bought. The right applies TW GAZE Tel: +44 (0)1778 422686 only when the sale price reaches or exceeds the sterling Collective Sale, 10.00 Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, DENHAMS KINGHAM & ORME goldingyoung.com 4 Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN. Horsham Auction Galleries, Dorking Davies House, Davies Road, Evesham, equivalent of €1,000 and is calculated on a sliding scale. Road, Warnham, West Sussex, Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306 Worcestershire, WR11 1YZ. RH12 3RZ. Please note ARR is calculated in euros. HARTLEYS Railwayana, 10.00 Victoria Hall, Little Lane, Ilkley, West Tel: +44 (0)1403 255699 / 253837 Tel: +44 (0)1386 244224 Auctioneers will apply current exchange rates. twgaze.co.uk 4 Fine Art, Antiques & Collectables, Interiors & Collectables, 10.00 Yorkshire, LS29 8EA. Royalty Resale price Tel: +44 (0)1943 816363 10.00 kinghamandorme.com 4 4 4% up to €50,000 Home Furnishings & Collectables, WARRINGTON & NORTHWICH denhams.com 10.00 AUCTIONS LOCKE & ENGLAND 3% between €50,000.01 and €200,000 hartleysauctions.co.uk 551 Europa Boulevard, Westbrook, FELLOWS 12 Guy Street, Leamington Spa, 1% between €200,000.01 and €350,000 Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 7TP. Augusta House, 19 Augusta Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 6JA. KINGSLAND AUCTION SERVICES Tel: +44 (0)1925 658833 Warwickshire, CV32 4RT. 0.5% between €350,000.01 and €500,000 Shirlheath, Kingsland, Leominster, Tel: +44 (0)1212 122131 A: Antiques & Collectables, 09.00 Tel: +44 (0)1926 889100 Herefordshire, HR6 9RL. 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Unesco: evasion and lack of self-awareness

News MADAM – Your comprehensive at all – and is Left: News, potential to improve matters coverage of the recent Unesco evasive when Unesco looted art campaign a ‘fabrication’ ATG No 2471. considerably. Continued from front page debacle in last week’s issue (ATG challenged of the art trade and collectors.” With all of this and more, it is no Unesco launched its ‘The Real Price of Art’ campaign with agency DDB Paris on No 2471) successfully raises ongoing over this October 20 “to make the surprise that Our World Heritage general public and art lovers aware of the devastation of the history and identity of peoples concerns about the organisation’s figure. wreaked by the illicit trade in (ourworldheritage.org), a new non- cultural goods”. It marked the 50th anniversary of the Convention According to this Unesco advert the funerary relief on the Means of Prohibiting and behaviour and attitudes. This pictured (left) in a contemporary home was ‘stolen challenged, is governmental organisation of hugely Preventing the Illicit Import, in the National Museum of Palmyra by Islamic State Export and Transfer of militants during their occupation of the city, before Ownership of Cultural being smuggled into the European market’. The same Property adopted in 1970. Unesco is reported as saying that approach has piece is listed (above) on the Met website where it says self-defeating experienced experts in this field, Five adverts were created, the piece entered the museum collection in 1901. each picturing an object copied into the living room of an art persist in publishing false collector, telling the story of these publications were been adopted Museum. In 2001, a large part Unesco said it “regrets the use information and go to such as well as has just set up in direct competition it discussed the use of all images and modified.” antiques stolen in the Middle of Met images that caused any lengths to do so? Why not East, Africa, Europe, Asia and of its collections was smashed IAADA, which has long into pieces by the Taliban. As misunderstanding”. simply publish the real evidence Latin America. It read: “In an initial version questioned Unesco’s claims the group was overthrown later instead?” of Unesco’s campaign, the ‘Real regarding the scale of the looted texts “of the current campaign” with for some Adverts pulled that year, this priceless item was art problem, points out that damaging because, as its spokesman stated, the Price of Art’, some posters ‘The real issue’ However, by mid-November, looted by local dealers and copies of the original posts are displayed items from the Asked to comment, Unesco Unesco had pulled back the smuggled into the US market.’ available on multiple sites In fact, excavated during the Metropolitan Museum of Art told ATG: “The use of all images posts after it emerged only one database that is in the public online. all institutions concerned. Is the time. When 1927-28 Trinkler expedition, it The association also and texts of the current to effective protection of vulnerable sites had of the five objects used in the domain. campaign were discussed with campaign – the Righteous Judges has been in the Met’s collection contends that some of the items “Unesco’s intention was to all institutions concerned. panel from the Ghent since 1930. used as replacements also Similarly, a funerary alert the general public by “The artworks shown were Altarpiece missing since 1934 depicting objects of high amount to fabrications. “current campaign” the final version challenged about its cavalier monument from Palmyra was policyThe Met’sand Baule moon maskits all stolen credibility or reported missing at in tackling now become of “secondary interest” – had actually been stolen as the cultural value, which should be some point, some are still text suggested. said to have been ‘stolen by was replaced by an early 20th on display in museums, categorised as stolen or missing Members of the International Islamic State militants during century Téé Gla war mask with their occupation of the city, presented in luxurious private (Africa, Europe) but for others Association of Dealers in interiors. Unesco had no the text again saying it had been of what appeared, or does it include approach to statistics and thebefore truth, being smuggled into the crime.looted in Abidjan in 2010.(South America and Arab to Unesco. Ancient Art quickly identified intention of questioning the States) we have used restituted three of the pieces as those in European market’ while a Baule However, IAADA tracked the provenance of items in the Met artworks, and this is noted in the Met collection and another moon mask from the Ivory piece to the city’s Musée des Coast region was accompanied collection. the text, either explicitly or (a pre-Columbian face jar) that “After discussions with the Civilisations and contacted the the campaigns exposed as fake? Unesco claims that the figuresby the informationdon’t it had been Bycurator attempting who confirmed it had implicitly. to shame private The art trade has still not had a had been sourced from Met, which is a valuable partner “We would prefer to discuss commercial image bank Alamy. ‘looted in Abidjan as fighting not been stolen and remained in to Unesco, and in order to avoid the real problem – art For example, the image of a took place following the the collection. any misunderstanding, Unesco trafficking and how to tackle it 5th or 6th century Hadda stone electoral crisis of 2010-11’. IADAA’s spokesmen told More correctly, the Palmyra decided to remove all pictures effectively. The illicit trade in Did those institutions agree to the matter and the evidencehead of Buddha of was pictured the extent collectorsATG: “Unesco keeps claimingand the art market proper explanation or apology from of items from the Met collection. cultural property has exploded alongside the headline relief had been in the Met since that evidence of trafficking Only three magazines [carrying in recent years – this is the ‘Terrorism is such a great 1901 and the mask in private involving the art market is so the adverts] had already been real issue.” curator’ and the text ‘This hands since 1954. widespread and clear. If so, why In a statement on its website, printed. The digital versions of adoption of fabricated text to mislead of looting and traffickingantiquity belongs to the Kabulis all there they lose the goodwill of the very Unesco about how this advertising

When first published in October, this Unesco poster titled ‘How do you erase an entire culture? Piece by the public? to see.* people from the Met they should be working in campaign came to be used to piece’ featured a Baule moon mask (left) collection. Using the same text detailing the theft of the piece Unesco’s explanation also avoids from the Ivory Coast capitalpartnership during a political crisis, a with. celebrate the 50th anniversary of the second version of the poster was created to include a Téé Gla war mask (right) from the We Guéré people. Freely available evidence However, it too has not been stolen and remains in the Musée des Civilisations in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. the question of how and why: : “The use of the imageAt of the the recent cultural heritage Convention. This evasion and lack of Unesco told ATG African mask, as well as the text, were discussed and agreed with the museum, a long-standing partner that – The Met was not consulted over If so, why continue to quote bogus fully supports our campaign.”conference hosted by Latvia, where self-awareness does not bode well for antiquestradegazette.com the use of its images; figures to make a point,4 | 12 December and 2020 why not Unesco director Lazare Eloundou the future. – very specific claims were made publish such freely available evidence Assomo told the audience that about each piece that turned out to be rather than risking the exposure of member states had applauded the Joanna van der Lande fabricated; and two fraudulent campaigns in a row? campaign, he also said that he Chairman – Unesco made false claims If, as Unesco concludes in your wanted to make a clear distinction Antiquities Dealers’ Association directly accusing the art market of report, it “would prefer to discuss between the legitimate art market being complicit in criminal activity the real problem – art trafficking and and criminals. And yet by Unesco * BBC World Service, Business Daily involving these pieces. how to tackle it effectively”, it surely stating on its website that: “Unesco’s Zombie Statistics on February 20, 2019. Unesco had already stated that the must understand that accuracy – intention was to alert the public by During this interview, Lazare Eloundou items pictured in the second version facts and figures – matters, and that depicting objects of high cultural Assomo was challenged over the inaccuracy of the campaign were all looted, when continuing to present a false picture value, which should be on display of the figures Unesco had been promoting two of the three items pictured had of what is going on, even when in museums, presented in luxurious since 2011. (See https://bbc.in/2Jj9yqg not been. private interiors...”, it implies Unesco 5 mins 20 secs in). His response: “I don’t It also claims to be acting in the is hostile to there being an art market think we should enter into a debate about public interest, yet has been shown and private collectors. whether these figures are right or not to be using public money to mislead right.” While stating that “today we do the general public in a less than The priorities not consider it any more important to transparent way. As associations such as ours have concentrate on figures”, he claims that It continues to promote the figure Unesco must surely argued for years now, prioritising looting has increased, a claim immediately of $10bn as the annual value of illicit understand that Unesco’s objectives as set out in challenged by the interviewer, who says: trade in cultural property globally “accuracy – facts and the 1970 convention, especially “How do you know… you don’t have a when it has been advised that its protecting vulnerable sites, under global figure and you don’t support the 2011 source for this does not claim that figures – matters its Article 5 obligations, has the [Unecso report] figure?”

Re-writing the history of chess... or not News Making moves for Anglo-Saxon ‘chess piece’ MADAM – I read ATG for my education: it’s always of these constraints making a single, chewed, c.1170 an armed rider sitting astride Many high-status male burials by Roland Arkell his horse. Not unlike the of the period include the Left: the Bradwell depiction of the mounted remains of a board on which a Chess Piece, an Estimated at £6000-8000, an warrior on the Sutton Hoo table-top game similar to chess Anglo-Saxon bronze thought-provoking. Lewis chess piece cheap at £735,000. Anglo-Saxon bronze gaming helmet, he has centre-parted was played. gaming piece sold for piece – a metal-detecting find bobbed hair, large pellet eyes “Later examples use £95,000 at TimeLine. for the consignor – sold for and a moustache. miniature carved figures In ATG No 2470 you reported on the Bradwell ‘chess Were the Bradwell find accepted as a chess piece it £95,000 (plus premium) at instead of counters – such as TimeLine in Harwich, Essex Sutton Hoo connection the famous 12th century set of on November 24. Anglo-Saxon art specialist character figures carved in piece’ which sold for £95,000 against a £6000-8000 would reduce one’s respect for the Anglo-Saxon mind, As detailed by a report from Stephen Pollington, co-author ivory, discovered on the Isle of the Portable Antiquities Scheme of Wayland’s Work: Anglo-Saxon Lewis. It seems possible that included in the lot, it was dug up Art, Myth and Material Culture this figure was intended for a estimate. Uniquely, when reading ATG, I thought, ‘That’s casting the same shadow over intellect and imagination near Bradwell, Great Yarmouth, 4th-7th Century, believes it may similar function.” in July 2015 and came for sale be an early English chess piece. TimeLine dubbed the piece from the finder. “The purpose of the piece the ‘Bradwell Chess Piece’ much too cheap.’ as does a novelty Napoleonic chess set in an oligarch’s The 1¾in (5cm) miniature must remain the object of with the cataloguer describing sculpture, dating to the 6th-7th speculation but one context it as “an excessively rare If this were an early Anglo-Saxon chess piece it drawing room. century AD, takes the form of suggests itself immediately. museum-quality object”. would re-write the history of chess and of A-S culture so completely that its value would far exceed £95,000; but it Nick MacKinnon Above:Churchill News, ATG oil Noproves 2471. the toast of Modern British the autumn Modern British evening sale guide at the timed-online auction that by Alex Capon moving to January. closed on November 17, it was knocked isn’t a chess piece, is it? West Yorkshire down to a US private collector at A total of £9.23m was raised from the Favourite tipple £800,000, the fourth-highest price at latest dedicated sales of Modern British Sotheby’s (26/21/14.9% buyer’s auction for the war-time prime minister The attraction of the Lewis chessmen lies in in the header, the lotart atdescription Sotheby’s and Bonhams itself in premium) did sale raised not £5.65m suggest with 110 and amateur the artist. London. of the 145 lots (76%) sold. Top lot was Bonhams’ (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s Although the November sales were the 20 x 14in (51 x 35.5cm) oil on canvas premium) sale on November 18 was a personality subjected to symbolic form; they must fit on ATG replies: Other board games were played in Britain item was used to playshy of top-end chess. works as vendors It remainincluded board Jug with anBottles byextract Sir Winston live from auction but with no clients permitted cautious during the lockdown, the Churchill (1874-1965) which included in the room (bidding was conducted via overall take was respectable with a good his tipple of choice, a bottle of Johnnie phone, internet and commissions). It a square and act as mathematical abstractions. before chess arrived. Anglo-Saxon specialistnumber of individualStephen works performing Pollington’s Walker Black Label. reportgenerated (which a total of £3.58m with 60 of relatively well. Painted at Chartwell in 1930, it was the 70 lots sold (86%) sold. Christie’s did not hold an auction, given to the American railway heir The auction was led by a fine view of The horse in the Bradwell ‘Knight’ (foreshortened in Our report states that auction house TimeLine dubbed we also quoted): “Thehaving shiftedpurpose its calendar last yearof with the Averell piece Harriman who servedmust as a special remain the Old City and Cathedral in Ronda, Spain envoy to Europe in the 1940s. It was sold by David Bomberg (1890-1957) from at Sotheby’s New York in 1997 for 1935 that sold above estimate at Left: Jug with Bottles by Sir Winston $165,000 (£100,815). £640,000. It was also bought by a US your photo) is too long and disappointingly literal as a the item ‘the Bradwell Chess Piece’ and it is no accident the object of speculationChurchill – £800,000 but at Sotheby’s. one contextOffered with asuggests £150,000-250,000 private itself collector. symbolic form when it is precisely the Anglo-Saxon love that our headline put ‘chess piece’ between single inverted immediately. Many high-status male burials of the period of zoo-morphic abstraction that is so thrilling about their commas to indicate the sobriquet and our article used the include‘We are the looking remains forward of a boardto welcoming on which Christmas a table-top shopping game customers’ Continued from front page Worcestershire is in tier British art selling show in two, allowing B2B Events to Left: the Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery art; and precisely its mathematical abstraction that is so term ‘gaming piece’. similarare looking to forward chess to its holdwas its December played.” 13 Malvern Malvern Flea which had been postponed in return as they haven’t had one Flea at the Three Counties will run at the November. It is now resched- to attend.” Showground with both inside Three Counties uled for January 9-23, 2021, as interesting about chess, with the simultaneous solution To be fair to TimeLine, beyond the poetic licence used So,Indoor indeed, events, such as fairs not and outside chess. dealers. Organiser Showground on Bath is in tier two. Mitton said: in conference centres, may be Helen Yourston said: “We are December 13. “I am delighted that the show able to go ahead subject to local really pleased we will go ahead will now be able to go ahead. It restrictions and tier levels. In and we are looking forward to feels like an optimistic way to tiers one and two, public welcoming regulars and new continue. Helen Carless, the market was proving start the New Year. In the attendance at ‘business events’ Christmas customers.” chairman and managing remarkably robust: “Our meantime, business has been can resume, but are limited to Auction houses will be able director of Lawrences of general sale (November 25) carrying on behind closed antiquestradegazette.com 50% capacity or 1000 people to hold viewings and have Crewkerne and 19 chairman December of was only 6% unsold with 2019 an doors in a| Covid-safe 43 way.” indoors, whichever is lower. limited numbers inside their the Society of Fine Art increased average lot price – The new regulations However, indoor public premises once more. Auctioneers and Valuers, despite nobody being able to mentioned above affect gatherings such as ‘large Many successfully held welcomed the news and said view or bid in person.” England only. Devolved business events’ are not allowed online-only auctions during the firm will resume viewings Art dealer Freya Mitton has nations of the UK have their in tier three. lockdown and this is likely to in its premises. She added that been planning a Modern own restrictions. 4 | 5 December 2020 antiquestradegazette.com

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