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Robert Brooks: the boss who built the Bonhams brand
by Alex Capon in 2010. He always looked up to his father, naming the new lecture theatre at Bonhams Former chairman of New Bond Street in his honour Bonhams Robert Brooks in 2005. has died aged 64 after a He opposed guarantees Among the highlights two-year battle with (although did occasionally use of the Alan Blakeman cancer. them later on) and challenged collection to be sold Having started his own Sotheby’s and Christie’s to by BBR Auctions on classic car saleroom, Brooks follow Bonhams’ example of September 11 is this Auctioneers, at the age of 33, introducing separate client shop display pot lid. he bought Bonhams 11 years accounts for vendors’ funds. Blakeman was pictured with later before merging it with Never lacking a competitive it on the cover of the programme Phillips in 2001. He streak, Brooks had left school produced for the first UK Summer subsequently expanded the as a teenager to briefly become National fair in 1985 (above). firm’s international presence a racing driver. Cars would before bowing out in 2018 after remain a key part of his selling the company to current personal and professional life. Pot lid out, wally bird in owners Epiris in 2016. His start in the auction world came when he worked as Advertising and antique bottle supremo Alan Gosnell & Co cherry toothpaste. It was featured Auctions pedigree a porter at CSK while it was Blakeman of BBR Auctions discovered this alongside a youthful Blakeman on the cover of A tall and imposing figure – he headed by his father. Before massive 18½in (45cm) diameter pot lid back in the programme produced for the first UK Summer was described as having the long he was promoted to the the early 1980s. National bottle and advertising fair in 1985 and bearing of a Grenadier motoring department under Blakeman said: “A couple walked up to the became something of a symbol of the Elsecar Guardsman – auctioneering Patrick Lindsay and became BBR stall at a show at the Adams Social Club in Bottle Museum after it opened in 1991. had been in his blood. He was the firm’s youngest auctioneer. Leek and asked if I bought pot lids. Not wishing Blakeman, who began acquiring bottles in the son of Bill Brooks, the After becoming a director of to leave my table, I suggested they brought it his teens, is to sell much of his own collection founder of Christie’s South the department (and later from the car to show me, to which they replied via an auction in Elsecar on September 11. He Kensington (CSK), who died joining the main board), he ‘no it’s too big’. told ATG that most of the collection has been in helped launch sales in Monaco. “As it happened to be my birthday I feared storage. Having become frustrated at this may be a practical joke, but when the boot “Time and again my daughter has said ‘Dad Christie’s and with designs on was opened there was a gobsmackingly large you need to sort it all out’. Thus was born the his own venture, he launched exhibition pot lid – as dug, complete with sale which has enabled me to fulfil a lifetime classic car firm Brooks Sellotape to the damage.” dream of owning a Martin Brothers wally bird”. Auctioneers in 1989. Such lids (only four are known) were made as The promotional lid is estimated at Despite a collapse in classic shop window promotional pieces for Victorian £2000-3000. Left: the car prices at around this time, retailers who agreed to stock 100 tubs of Roland Arkell late Robert Brooks. Continued on page 4
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We need a St James’s association, says Franses
by Laura Chesters Right: the years. A Supreme Court ruling Buckingham FRICS enough.” premises of S ordered the landlord to grant a Lawyer David Cooper said: Franses in St new lease (in 2018) and in “This case was a monumental Plans for a new association to James’s. August presiding Judge Parfitt decision and hugely significant protect the interests of art and ordered the landlord because rents were reduced by antiques dealers in St James’s Capitaland to pay the costs of 50% in Jermyn Street. in central London are under the High Court case. “It will make it more way after textile dealer affordable for galleries in the S Franses succeeded in Long battle area and will cause a major stir winning the costs of its recent Franses, whose new lease both in St James’s and across high court case. begins in October 2021, said: the wider West End. No one The firm’s Simon Franses Mall, Green Park and to work with others and create “This long battle has run for six believed we could do this and engaged in a six-and-a-half Haymarket. It is hoped it would this but we need someone, or and a half years and this second change the law.” -year legal battle with landlord encourage dealers to share better still a small group, to award of all our legal and Cooper praised Franses’ Capitaland and hopes a new information, particularly take this on and the surveyors costs is extremely determination in sticking with dealer association for the area around the issue of rising rents responsibility that goes with it.” gratifying. To prevail against a the case over the past six years, could prevent other dealers for tenants. Franses succeeded in June multinational, such as in my saying: “Simon is very having to face a similar ordeal. Discussions have begun in the case of S Franses Limited case, a tenant needs three persistent. He spent an The new body would be among potential members and v Cavendish Hotel (London) in things: determination, funding enormous amount of time, created to “market and Franses is hopeful a “next the High Court. The case and, most important, excellent money and energy. promote what is a unique area” generation” dealer will take up centred on a dispute over the legal and valuation advice. “If you took a hundred of 150 art and antiques dealers the mantel to lead the lease and rent at 80 Jermyn “I cannot praise our team of dealers you wouldn’t find currently based in the district association. He added: “After Street, St James’s, where the David and Julian Cooper, another who would have taken bordered by Piccadilly, Pall my legal battle I’m very happy gallery had operated for 27 Joanne Wicks QC and John this on like Simon.”
Former Bonhams chairman Brooks dies after cancer battle Continued from front page Left: Robert out his partners in 2005. will surely be remembered for Brooks on the He then focused on taking Bonhams by the scruff the new firm bounced back rostrum. expanding Bonhams’ presence of the neck and building it into well with Brooks joined by internationally, having a global enterprise. He was some of his former Christie’s purchased California auction certainly as fiercely protective colleagues as well as others house Butterfields from eBay in of the company brand as he was from Sotheby’s. The business 2002 before launching in New of his own achievements. established a solid foothold and York in 2005 and Hong Kong Since leaving Bonhams, grew its market share to the art and antiques sectors. sign of Brooks’ focus on brand in 2007 (opening a dedicated Brooks had been immersed in extent that, by 2000, he was in A year later, he took control building and a desire to saleroom in 2014). rather quieter pursuits, a position to acquire Bonhams of Phillips Son & Neale from eventually compete with the Perhaps his main project for renovating and running a large with backing from Dutch car Bernard Arnault’s LVMH, a historic duopoly. Bonhams, however, was closer farm that he had bought in importer and collector Evert merger that suddenly put There was considerable to home: the £30m trans- Somerset. Louwman. Brooks at the head of the upheaval. Staff cuts dispersed formation of its labyrinthine He is survived by his wife largest British-owned auction well-known Phillips specialists offices in New Bond Street into Evelyn whom he met in his Wider interests firm and with a presence in to auction firms around the its current light-filled, five- early days at Christie’s, as well The arrival of Bonhams & New Bond Street. country. storey auction premises with as three children and nine Brooks widened Brooks’ interest It was decided to retain the While LVHM initially three salerooms in 2013. grandchildren. well beyond the classic car name Bonhams for the business retained a sizable minority stake In terms of his auctioneering market and into the full range of due to its 1793 founding date – a (49.9%), Brooks finally bought and business legacy, Brooks Also see Letters & Opinion, p59.
A James I shoehorn by Robert Suffolk saleroom targets the oak market Mindum, dated 1613, estimated at £2000-3000 in Bishop & Miller’s Suffolk auction house Bishop role. Based in the Cotswolds, textiles, metalwork, folk art and oak and country sale on October & Miller is launching a series of near Stow-on-the-Wold, he and related works of art including early 14. Carved with flowers and designated oak furniture and works wife Carolyn, previously a textiles jewellery. geometric design, the text of art sales with the input of former specialist at Phillips, are dealing The first, with over 500 lots, to the edge reads Robert Bonhams specialist David Houlston. from home and online. Houlston’s includes a newly discovered Robert Mindum Made This Shooing The first sale in Stowmarket departure marked the end of Mindum shoehorn (estimate £2000- Hoorne For William is scheduled for October 14 with the regular Oak Interior sales at 3000) and a small Yorkshire court Wheatee Gentleman follow-up events planned for Bonhams held in Oxford with cupboard c.1630 (£8000-10,000). 1613. Found by Oliver January, May and September 2020. most items now being removed to “We are delighted to be working Miller in an East Houlston spent 15 years heading Knightsbridge for sale. with David and planning to take up Anglia home, it is Phillips’ and then Bonhams’ Bishop & Miller’s sales, the first the torch as the premier oak auction the 27th Mindum vernacular furniture sales but earlier with over 500 lots, will feature house in the country,” Oliver Miller shoehorn to be this year moved to a consultancy period oak, vernacular furniture, told ATG. documented.
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Ancient Art & Antiquities 7 September 2021
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Lot No. 0018 Lot No. 0021 Lot No. 0045 Lot No. 0062 Lot No. 0070 Egyptian Face Mask Egyptian Greek Core-Formed Greek Mirror Roman Veined Marble of a Young Male Bright Blue Drinking Cup Glass Oinochoe with Aphrodite and Eros Torso of an Athlete Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £100,000 - 140,000
Lot No. 0071 Lot No. 0075 Lot No. 0209 Lot No. 0222 Lot No. 0280 Roman Marble Roman Marble Large Yemenite Sassanian Chinese Tang Silenus Carrying an Askos Statue Foot Pair Anthropomorphic Idol Rock Crystal Dish Polo Player Pair Estimate: £50,000 - 70,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000
Lot No. 0323 Lot No. 0343 Lot No. 0375 Lot No. 0377 Lot No. 0452 Khmer Indian Swaminathan Battle-Speared Urartu Silver Belt Plaque 'The Whixall' Early Bronze Age Guardian Figure 'Bird and Mountain' Painting Illyrian Helmet with Marching Lions Cup-and-Ring Monolith Estimate: £18,000 - 24,000 Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000 Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000
Lot No. 0521 Lot No. 0590 Lot No. 0635 Lot No. 0755 Lot No. 8002 Large Renaissance Tudor Period Gold Mesoamerican Roman Ecgberht of Wessex - Winch- Herm Bust of a Philosopher Signet Ring with Oak Tree Ballgame Belt Statuette of a Satyr ester / Beornheard - Penny Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
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PAGE 005 2507.indd 1 26/08/2021 14:43:29 Auction Tuesday 14th September 2021 FINE JEWELLERY & WATCHES Est.1887 26 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Ireland +353 1 676 0261 View the online catalogue at ADAM’S www.adams.ie
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Three-day online auction of ANTIQUE & REPRODUCTION FURNITURE & EFFECTS Lot 1098. Thomas Bush Hardy, late TUESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER – 10AM 19th Century oil on canvas, 19½in x 29½in Est. £500-800 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 1009. 18th Century French school, pair of watercolours, 14½in x 10½in approximately Carpets & Rugs (13 lots) Est. £300-500 (plus 24% BP*) Antique & Vintage Textiles, Clothing & Handbags (24 lots) Miscellaneous Collectors’ Items (283 lots) Books (53 lots) Ceramics & Glass (182 lots)
WEDNESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER – 9.30AM Silver & Plated Items (162 lots) Jewellery & Coins (245 lots) Paintings (348 lots)
Lot 1306. John Piper, signed Limited Edition print, titled THURSDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER – 10AM ‘LLangloffan’, 16in x 22½in Est. £200-400 (plus 24% BP*) Copper & Brass (61 lots) Clocks & Barometers (45 lots) Antique & Reproduction Furniture (452 lots) ONLINE AUCTION WITH VIEWING STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT
Lot 58. PRS Custom Lot 59. 2003 Fender 24 electric guitar Eric Clapton signature Est. £1,000-1,500 Stratocaster (plus 24% BP*) Est. £800-1,200 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1395. 19th Century French mantel clock, 17in high Est. £500-800 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1678. Fine 19th Century mahogany sideboard of Chippendale revival form, circa 1880, 104½in wide x 76in high Est. £3,000-5,000 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 732. 19th Century Continental silver gilt singing bird automaton musical box, 3¾in wide Est. £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 1565. Mid-20th Century Charles Eames ICF Italian made chair and ottoman Est. £1,000-1,500 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1096. Gary Hodges, pencil and watercolour, 9in x 21in Est. £500-800 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1864. 19th Century mahogany silver table of Chippendale design, 36¼in x 22¾in x 29¾in high Lot 1771. Early to mid 19th Century leather upholstered Est. £1,000-1,500 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 1653. Early Victorian Samuel Hawkins patent circular square tub chair, 30in wide x 27in deep x 28in high extending dining table, 58in closed, 124in extended Est. £300-500 (plus 24% BP*) Est. £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*)
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Pick of the week The face of a king about to be executed It was second time lucky for a 17th century ring made his children when they paid him their final visit.” to commemorate the death of King Charles I. The hand-painted enamel portrait of the king The enamelled gold oval memorial ring for Charles I against a lilac ground is thought to have been copied (1600-49) had been offered at Gorringe’s in December from the famous 1633 oil by Anthony van Dyck. 2019 with an estimate of £7000-9000 but failed to The inside of the ring bears the engraving Martyr sell. Populi (the people’s martyr) while the reverse is This time, included in Hansons’ Historica, Coins painted with a skull motif, with the inscription Jn 30 and Antiquities auction in Etwall, Derbyshire, on 1648. Above: King Charles I mourning ring featuring his portrait August 26, it was hammered down at £9400 (plus 30% Many memorials mark the regicide in this way. (thought to be based on the 1633 Anthony van Dyck buyer’s premium inc VAT), just shy of the Staples adds: “During the 17th century the new year oil painting Charles I with M de St Antoine) – £9400 at £10,000-12,000 estimate. began in March. So December 1648 was followed by Hansons. Adam Staples, consultant valuer at Hansons, January 1648, and many contemporary memorials, Below and left: the engravings and skull inside the ring. said: “It’s part of a series including the king’s coffin, record the date of Charles’ of mourning jewellery to death as 1648.” commemorate Charles’ The ring was making its fourth death. Some of these appearance at auction in recent pieces were commissioned memory. by Charles himself, while Sold at Christie’s South awaiting his death, to be Kensington in 1997, it was offered given to loved ones and loyal again in 2016 as part of the supporters. collection of David Gainsborough “It’s known that he divided Roberts when it made £5500. his personal jewels among Laura Chesters
New York book fair Syon House hosts at a Christie’s auction last year. The Meadows Museum is a postponed to 2022 jewellery event The half-length oil of a lady division of the arts faculty at by Bartolomé González y the Southern Methodist This month’s New York Fellows Auctioneers has Serrano (1564-1627) appeared University and its main focus is International Antiquarian Book teamed up with interior design at Christie’s Old Master the arts and culture of Spain. Precious Fair (NYIABF) has been and architectural history evening sale in London on metals cancelled because of the consultancy Historic December 15 where it was bid ongoing pandemic. Decoration to host a jewellery beyond a £50,000-80,000 BADA launches an On Friday, August 27, This year, many of the fair’s event at Syon House (the west estimate and sold at £237,500 art prize and grant European dealers were not able London residence of the Duke including premium. Michael Bloomstein of to join due to the US travel ban of Northumberland) on The 3ft 11in x 3ft 3in (1.19 x The British Antique Dealers’ Brighton was paying the and, more recently, the fair October 19. 1m) canvas is signed and dated Association (BADA) has following for bulk scrap received cancellations from a The day includes a guest 1621 and is the first work by the launched an art prize to against a gold fix of: significant number of speaker, jeweller Andrew artist to enter the Meadows’ promote “significant art and $1795.50 €1529.35 £1310.72 American booksellers and was Prince, who created some of collection and it is one of only antiques for the future”. left with no choice but to the items seen in Downton a few portraits by González Finalists will be selected by Gold cancel. Abbey, and the chance to try on known outside Spain. It came a panel of specialists, including 22 carat: £1159.44 per oz Originally set for September some of the creations from the to auction having descended artists, art critics and curators. (£37.28 per gram) 9-12, the NYIABF at the Park show. It also includes a tour of through the family of Cuenca The BADA Art Prize winner Avenue Armory is considered Syon House with Caroline landowner and politician will then be determined by 18 carat: £948.63 (£30.50) the most important event of its Percy (who grew up at Syon Julián Casildo Arribas y Arauz public polling and a £1000 15 carat: £790.53 (£25.42) type in the world. House as the eldest daughter of (d.1915). grant will be awarded at the Organiser Sanford Smith the 10th Duke of BADA Week reception in 14 carat: £737.83 (£23.72) said: “The Delta variant of Northumberland) and London in October. 9 carat: £474.32 per oz Covid-19 has become a concern architectural historian Oliver bada.org/features/bada-art- and the US travel ban made it Gerrish. Percy and Gerrish prize-call-submissions (£15.25 per gram) difficult, if not impossible, for founded Historic Decoration Read more about BADA’s plans in 12 Month High: ▲ £17.72 more than half of the exhibitors in 2016. October in Dealers’ Diary this week 12 Month Low: ▼ £14.19 to join us. Limited tickets are available (page 36). “This decision was not made via the website below. Hallmark Platinum lightly.” fellows.co.uk £19.75 per gram “We are disappointed that Horowitz takes new the fair cannot go on, but for Sotheby’s position Silver everyone’s safety – our Dallas museum exhibitors, staff and public – we buys Old Master Noah Horowitz will join £14.28 per oz for 925 have made the difficult decision Sotheby’s in the newly created standard hallmarked to cancel. The Meadows Museum in Above: the half-length oil of a role of worldwide head of 12 Month High: ▲ £17.88 NYIABF has chosen new Dallas, Texas, has announced lady by Bartolomé González y gallery and private dealer dates for the event, tentatively that it was the buyer of a Serrano bought by the Meadows services. 12 Month Low: ▼ £13.73 taking place in April 2022. Spanish Baroque Old Master Museum in Dallas. He was previously at Art 8 | 4 September 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Right: Noah Historia Auktionhaus, Berlin, August 18 Horowitz of Late 19th century Royal Worcester pot pourri ‘ship’ Sotheby’s. vase after the Sévres model painted with Right: James battle scene and a floral bouquet, Flower Most read 19in (44cm) high, lid restored. has joined Estimate: £N/A Sworders. Hammer: €16,000 (£13,700) The most viewed stories for week August 19-25 on antiquestradegazette.com Basel where he was director of British & Irish Art department. the Americas for the fair Previously he worked at 1 Valuable watches organiser. Prior to that, he was Lawrences of Crewkerne. stolen in ‘brazen theft’ at Cheshire antiques executive director of The centre Armory Show in New York for four years. Correction 2 Bonhams’ former owner and chairman An incorrect price appeared in Robert Brooks dies Lacy Scott & Knight, Bury St Edmunds, August 20 Flower appointed last week’s News pages Museum-quality ship maker’s display model of the Steam Yacht Oriental 3 Omega watch made regarding a Qianlong ruby built by AJ Inglis of Pointhouse, Glasgow, c.1890, 4ft 9in (1.42m). by Sworders for the SAS stars in ground famille rose vase sold at Estimate: £3000-5000 our pick of five Sworders has hired James Hannam’s in Selborne, Hammer: £12,700 Flower as a valuer in its Hampshire. The hammer auction highlights Hertford office. Flower joins price, tendered by an 4 Chinese vase used to the auction house from anonymous buyer, was repay debt takes Mullock’s, Church Stretton, August 18 Bonhams where he most £520,000, not £550,000 as six-figure sum at England rugby international white jersey worn recently worked in the Modern published. Hampshire auction by Walter Greg who won two caps in 1875-6, 5 Striking William de playing against Ireland and Scotland. Morgan tile is among Estimate: £20,000-40,000 George Washington five lots to watch Hammer: £18,000 profiled in pastel form HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE The Cotswold Auction Company will offer a small lifetime portrait of the first American president as part of a pictures sale on Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, October 19. August 24 The firm believes it was executed by James Sharples, the Pavlova (Swan Song), HN676, a British pastellist who in 1794 travelled to the US with his family. rare Royal Doulton figure, 7in It is thought that Sharples secured a sitting with Washington not (17cm) wide. long after his arrival c.1795-97. Estimate: £150-250 Sharples and his wife Ellen produced multiple versions of the Hammer: £6500 profile portrait for the local market in Philadelphia. A few of these have survived and occasionally come to market in the US. It is believed that the portrait was once owned by collector Jeffery Whitehead and was exhibited in London twice – in 1899 In Numbers (when it was incorrectly attributed to Russell) and in 1891 (when it Potbury’s, Sidmouth, August 24 was catalogued as by ‘Sharpless’ as James Sharples was known Early 19th century mahogany at the time). 39 drop-dial fusee wall clock by It then sold at Christie’s in 1915 and later found its way to Vulliamy of London. Bowden Hall in Upton St Leonards near Gloucester – the same The number of countries where Estimate: £100-150 family collection as the ‘first African-American published book of galleries are coming from to Hammer: £9000 poetry’ written by a slave stand at Frieze London and girl, Phyllis Wheatley, Frieze Masters next month. The 1773, that the auction events will return to Regent’s house sold earlier this Park on October 13-17 (last year for £16,500 (see year’s event was cancelled due Books and Works On to the pandemic). Paper, ATG No 2504). This portrait is estimated at £30,000- 50,000. Windsor Auctions, Berkshire, August 21 Roland Arkell Sino-Tibetan bronze with contents still intact. Estimate: £500-800 Hammer: £10,200 Left: Cotswold Auction Company will offer a small lifetime portrait of the Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for August 8-16, 2019 19-25,. 2021. ‘Highest‘Highest pricemultiple over overestimate’ top estimate’= Our selection = Our of selection items from of theitems top from10 highest the top hammer 20 highest prices hammeras a first American president – pricesmultiple as of a the multiple high estimate of the high paid estimateby internet paid bidders by internet on thesaleroom.com bidders on thesaleroom.com estimate £30,000-50,000. ‘Top‘Top sellingselling lots’ lots’ = =Our Our selection selection of itemsof items from from the top the 10 top highest 20 highest hammer hammer prices paidprices by internetpaid by internetbidders on bidders thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com
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Lot 160 A Snow White enamelled charm Lot 73 A 19th century gold mounted by Cartier, circa 1937 Lot 252 Formerly from the Collection of Her hardstone cameo locket pendant Royal Highness, The Princess Margaret. An Art Deco cultured pearl and diamond bracelet, circa 1925
Lot 199 An Art Deco aquamarine cocktail Lot 211 A late 19th century Burmese ring by Cartier, circa 1940 sapphire ring Lot 124 A gold mounted amethyst rivière necklace and ear pendant suite, early 19th century
Lot 150 A late Medieval gold posy ring Lot 280 A rare Victorian silver and enamel Lot 353 Rolex. A stainless steel automatic ‘horseless carriage’ vesta case by Sampson wristwatch with date and bracelet, Mordan & Co., 1896 Ref. 16610, Submariner, circa 1992
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inMaker, movement, casetime decoration, provenance, rarity and original condition – the factors that combine to create value in the clock market. Here Richard Fox discusses some of the best examples recently sold at auction with the views of specialists at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams
While dozens of vintage wristwatches have passed sale, was a numbered clock – the digits 168 dating the seven-figure barrier at auction in recent it to c.1690. It is one of a small group of repeating years, only a handful of antique clocks have ever clocks marking the transition between the attracted a £1m price tag. But they do exist. As a general trend most workshop’s first clocks, made without subsidiary Back in June 2019 Bonhams sold the miniature top lots now go to private regulation and strike silent dials, and the ‘Phase Thomas Tompion ‘Q’ clock made for Mary II, “ Two’ clocks with fully developed dials. c.1693, for £1.6m. buyers and not the trade The auction house commented that the foliate In 2015 dealership Carter Marsh sold the lower spandrels to the dial are very unusual for ‘Medici’ grande sonnerie Tompion for around £4m Tompion and appear on a very few clocks at as part of the Tom Scott collection. This year the around this date. It may also be possible to link Winchester firm has offered the first tranche of the The first detail of interest is that it predates the clock with its original owner: it was probably John Taylor collection, selling the ‘Mudge Green’, the numbering system introduced at the Tompion originally purchased by General Charles Churchill a marine chronometer c.1776-79 by Thomas workshop to aid with the accounting process. of Minterne Magna, Dorset (1656-1714), brother of Mudge priced at £1.2m and entertaining offers of Secondly, although it has a bell and repeating John, 1st Duke of Marlborough. around £3.5m for the ‘Spanish Tompion’, another work set into the backplate, the clock is, strictly Jonathan Hills, from Sotheby’s, emphasised magnificent clock from the celebrated grande speaking, only a timepiece. the importance of a name: “It is the crucial sonnerie series. James Stratton at Bonhams said: “The clock is thing. Clocks with a major maker’s name get Overflowing with Golden Age rarities, the not a striker; however, the hours and quarters can attention.” He said about the piece: “The clock Taylor collection overshadowed much of what was be struck at will by pulling a cord from either side was in country house condition and wasn’t offered at auction in London and further afield of the case.” perfect and this was reflected in the value. It had this year. One of only a small handful of similar eight- good provenance, however, and was largely in an However, its presence (first at the Ronald day clocks, all of them with ebony ‘Phase One’ untouched original state.” Phillips gallery on Bruton Street and then in cases, it sold for £125,000 against an estimate of It sold for £80,000 against a more bullish Winchester) also helped add value to what was £65,000-90,000. The buyer was a US enthusiast estimate of £80,000-120,000. in the salerooms. In particular, the transparent (a Tompion table clock sold by Bonhams in Hills observed that other clockmaking periods pricing and accessible cataloguing gave buyers December 2020 for £210,000 also sold to North are now beginning to be appreciated. Sotheby’s a better-than-usual idea of the relative merits of America). enjoyed measured success with a trio of late 18th different types of Golden Age timekeepers. Stratton added: “As a general trend most top century gilt brass and paste clocks made for the Details matter. Take the two Tompion ‘quarter lots now go to private buyers and not the trade. Chinese market. repeating’ table clocks offered by Bonhams and Buyers are also more internationally based.” The only one to sell in the room was by Sotheby’s. At first glance they might look alike but He is witnessing more purchases of high-value specialist Clerkenwell maker John Mottram on closer inspection they were quite different. clocks being made online without a traditional whose clocks were much enjoyed by the emperor prior viewing – both recent Tompions sold without Qianlong and are still on view at the Palace International interest the buyers seeing the clocks first. Collection, Beijing. Standing 21in (53cm) high, it The Tompion in Bonhams’ (27.5/25/20/14.5% included both a musical train and an automaton buyer’s premium) Fine Clocks sale on June Name recognition to the top surmount. Seven paste-set rosettes spun 22 was a 13½in (35cm) quarter repeating table Sotheby’s (13.9/20/25% buyer’s premium) around a central pink and white rosette while timepiece from c.1680-85. Tompion, the opening lot of the July 6 Treasures another rotates along with the red and white finial. 12 | 4 September 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 012-14 2507.indd 2 26/08/2021 18:02:55 Right: a George III ormolu and paste automaton clock by John Mottram – £220,000 at Sotheby’s.
Left and above: two views of a Tompion Phase One table clock c.1680 – £125,000 at Bonhams.
Left: an orrery clock made for the conseiller- secrétaire of Louis XV – £380,000 at Christie’s. Right: two views of a Tompion quarter repeating table clock c.1690 – £80,000 at Sotheby’s.
“It’s very rare and lifts the clock up to another both a calendar and equation of time. Described Toby Woolley, Christie’s clock consultant, level with this extra layer of complication to the as ‘a tour de force of horological and scientific said: “The clock was a unique piece with great automaton,” said Hills. complexity’, it was originally designed by and provenance and a well-documented history. It was The clock made £220,000 against a guide of made for Jacques-Thomas Castel, Conseiller- a centrepiece item when it stood in the Great Hall £250,000-350,000. Secrétaire of Louis XV c.1763. of Mentmore. In all a spectacular timepiece.” Much more was expected for a yet more The clock’s provenance includes ownership It had some alterations including the dome complex Mottram creation of a similar date – a by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild and his under the figure of Father Time which is a later 3ft (92cm) high pagoda clock set with enamelled descendants at Mentmore Towers and its sale by addition. Selling at £380,000, the clock fell just panels of river landscapes and a silvered dome Sotheby’s in 1977 for a mighty £40,000. short of the lower estimate. n of spinning glass rods simulating a fountain. The ‘Swan Clock’ by the same maker sold in Sotheby’s Treasures sale in 2014 for £2m and the guide here was £1m-1.5m. A clock such as this, appealing to collectors in Your carriage clock awaits China and internationally, may have suffered a little from the absence of international collectors High-quality carriage clocks continue to be popular Another rare mid-19th century English chronometer in London, due to travel restrictions. However, at auction. A mid-19th century English giant carriage clock by Dent, London, No 12384, was a although ‘unsold’ on the day, it is understood to carriage chronometer timepiece from Bonhams’ more conventional size at 8in (20cm) high. This is the have found a buyer soon afterwards at a price Fine Clocks sale on June 22 proved to piece featured in Derek Roberts well known around the low estimate. be just so. Standing 10in (25cm) high reference book Carriage and other Travelling Hills added: “The market is still strong for great and numbered 4428, it was made by Clocks (1993) and it sold for £21,000. pieces across the board but it’s got to be the right John Poole, the chronometer “Buyers are very aware of the thing. People are looking for statement pieces and maker to the Admiralty who values of the clocks, but they the piece itself needs to be absolutely right. Buyers worked at 57 Fenchurch are buying because they want to today are very discerning. Overall, there are not Street, London, from c.1845-75. own the best of the best. It’s a very as many pure horological collectors around - some Specialist James Stratton knowledgeable market,” Stratton of these collectors have now been priced out of the said: “The dial and silvering were added. top end of the market.” spot on, top notch. I first saw this Stratton made a key observation clock about seven years ago and about top-end timepieces: “Does the Spectacular orrery clock it stayed with me. It is a beautiful clock look like a classic example of A spectacular orrery clock made for the clock with a super quality its type? The authentic look is very conseiller-secrétaire of Louis XV led Christie’s movement, and it has Poole’s important.” (14.5/20/25% buyer’s premium) horological auxiliary compensation.” offering – limited to just two lots in the firm’s The hammer went down at Exceptional sale held on July 8. £24,000 with the piece selling Left: English giant carriage Standing an imposing 7ft 10in (2.4m) high in towards the upper end of the chronometer by John Poole – its ormolu-mounted kingwood case, it features estimate of £17,000-25,000. £24,000 at Bonhams. quarter-striking, goes for a month and includes antiquestradegazette.com 4 September 2021 | 13
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Astronomical observation and royal connection
Regulators hold their own distinct appeal for collectors Britain was the centre of clock and watch-making he acquired it during the tumult of the who like their aesthetic and are interested in their historic technology in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. And civil conflict that followed the death of horological function as precision timepieces. many cutting-edge creations made their way to illustrious Ferdinand VII in 1833. This example by George Graham (right) was originally clients in Europe. David Penney, antiquarian delivered in 1738 to the Jesuit observatory in Vienna to be Ferdinand VI (1713-59) became a key patron of Thomas horological consultant, believes the used to assist in astronomical observations. Numbered Mudge (1715-94) after the Spanish monarch discovered hammer price to be an auction record for 756 for c.1737 (Graham was the successor to Thomas he was the master behind an equation watch he owned by a movement without a case. However, he Tompion’s business and his accounting system), this is John Ellicott. Mudge is known to have made at least five added: “If this does turn out to have been accordingly the fourth regulator built by Graham with a watches for Ferdinand, including one that repeated the made for Ferdinand VI, then the price 30-day power reserve. It is thought that the grid-iron and minutes as well as the quarters and hours and a repeater would appear to have been more than brass pendulum is a later improvement with the bob being watch with an alarm designed to fit at the end of a cane. reasonable. original to the timepiece. “A similarly special movement by Sold by German specialist Mudge movement Mudge, No 366, also believed to have been horology auction house Dr Crott A Mudge movement watch with reputed Spanish royal made for the same Spanish customer, was (25/22% buyer’s premium) connections was offered at Koller (25/22/15% buyer’s purchased by the British Museum for a sum on May 22 in Mannheim, it premium) in Zurich on June 30 where it sold to a UK dealer of around £100,000 in 1996.” got away at the low end for at SFr45,000 (£35,000). Laura Chesters expectations for €35,000 Signed Tho. Mudge 422 and dated c.1758, it shows (£29,670). a complete display of the equation of time. It is later engraved Dedicado à D. Ramon Cabrera Sus admiradores (dedicated to Ramon Cabrera [1806-77] from his admirers) – a reference to a key figure in the First and Second Carlist Wars who later settled in Surrey. It is possible
Left: three views of a complex Right: a regulator supplied by watch movement by Thomas George Graham to the Jesuit Mudge sold for SFr45,000 observatory in Vienna – (£35,000) at Koller. €35,000 (£29,670) at Dr Crott.
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PAGE 012-14 2507.indd 4 26/08/2021 18:04:17 Antiques Auction Wednesday 15th September at 10am Viewing: Monday 13th September 2pm-5pm, Robert Devereaux, silver-gilt Tuesday 14th September 9am-5pm and morning of sale 8.30am-10am A 4.28ct single stone diamond ring by Garrard Parliamentary military reward badge £14,000-£18,000* by Thomas Rawlins, 1642 £500-700*
Part of a large collection of Cycling memorabilia £500-£700*
A Tibetan or Himalayan patinated bronze figure of Tara 17th /18th century, Pala revival style £800-1,200* A Chinese gilt bronze figure of Guanyin, late Ming Dynasty £2,000-3,000*
An 18ct gold Patek Philippe gentleman’s A 19th Swiss century gold Calatrava’ wristwatch, and enamel vinaigrette Ref. 1578 £800-£1,200* £3,000-5,000* A rare gentleman’s large size stainless steel Omega 33.3 monopusher chronograph wristwatch c.1939, Ref. CK988 £6,000-8,000*
A rare Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory biscuit figure of an Armenian Woman from A pair of late 19th century Indian Colonial the 'Peoples of Russia' series silver candlesticks, after Pavel Kamensky c.1912 unmarked, probably Calcutta, c.1890 £800-1,200* £300-500*
A mid 19th century French engraved gilt brass case carriage clock with push button repeat by An Hermès Etoupe Clemence JPG Kelly bag Auguste, Paris c.1845 £1,500-£2,500* £700-900* Enquiries: Tel: 07808 737694 Office Tel: 020 8468 1010 Late 19th century brass bound teak *Plus buyer’s premium Email: [email protected] campaign secretaire chest of 24% incl. VAT @ 20%. £600-800* Lots marked ARR will be subject Address: Farleigh Court, Surrey, CR6 9PE to an additional fee - for full details see table in ATG Auction Calendar www.catherinesouthon.co.uk
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Monart makes a mark on home turf Collection of distinctive pre-war glass produced in Perth impresses at local saleroom
by Roland Arkell 1 2
In its 1930s heyday, Monart glass – Scotland’s answer to the French art glass movement – was celebrated for its vivid, spiralling colours in the fashionable emporiums of London, 3 New York and Melbourne. The product of an unlikely collaboration between the Spaniard 1 Salvador Ysart and Isobel Moncrieff 10 at an industrial glassworks in Perth, this distinctive cased glass was manufactured by family members in two distinct phases from c.1922 until c.1961: first under the name Monart at Moncrieff’s and from 1946 at the Shore Works as Ysart Brothers Glass. A collection of pre-war Monart 9 glass was among the attractions of the Antiques & Fine Art at Lindsay 8 Burns (20% buyer’s premium) in Perth on July 20-22. Some pieces had a provenance to the prolific early-bird collector Michael Parkington (a collection of mushroom form in mottled yellow, sales: a second tranche will be offered sold in two parts at Christie’s South Highlights from the sale at Lindsay blue and purple glass made £420. on September 2-3. Kensington in 1997 and 1998). Burns in Perth on July 20-22. Auctioneer Nick Burns had The July sale consignment of Half-a-dozen lots came from been quick to spot a trio of baby traditional country house furnishings a vendor with family links to the 1. Monart cylindrical vase plus a blue and aventurine pieces in the including two objects that packed a Moncrieff works. detail of the paper label – £450. so-called Royal Wedding Gift punch in terms of hammer price. The This source included a number of 2. Monart glass in the Royal Wedding pattern. As a fine art valuation first was a small Scottish Colourist rarities that strayed from the typical Gift pattern – £480. student at Southampton, he had watercolour of The White House, Iona production piece. They came with 3. Late Qing blue and white ‘five written a dissertation on Monart by Francis Cadell (1883-1937) sold at their original paper labels that, dragon’ vase – £2700. and corresponded with the Palace £5200. including codes for sizes, shapes and regarding 33 similar pieces it received The second was an impressive colour, combination, are always a 4. Anglo-Indian campaign amboyna in 1947 to mark the wedding of 800 standard silver wine cooler with bonus. Unlike post-war Ysart, which secretaire bookcase – £3000. the princess Elizabeth and Philip Art Nouveau foliate decoration and typically carries an acid-etched 5. Late 19th or early 20th century Mountbatten. stylised lettering reading German Cup signature, very little Monart was leather club armchair – £1700. A vase and two bowls of different and the engraved inscription Won By ever signed. sizes took £480. Lightfoot 1900. 6. Late 19th century golden Ushak Sold at £450 was an unusual 7in It is thought it had originally been carpet – £3600. (17cm) cylindrical vase (shape L) in Titled properties made for a horse race in Hong Kong. mottled dark blue and light blue glass 7. An early 19th century mahogany This auction, Lindsay Burns’ first- Measuring 2ft 3in (68cm) handle to with the golden inclusions achieved and gilt metal bracket clock by ever three-day event, was held online handle and weighing close to 7kg, it by adding gold powder, or aventurine, Robert Fletcher, Edinburgh – £2200. only and included a range of titled was found being used to house a large into the mix – an ingredient supplied 8. Qing hardwood console table – properties from throughout Scotland. spider plant. The wine cooler was by the Gilbert Martin factory in Paris. £9400. The firm has enjoyed a long- hotly contested to £4200. A rare 8in (20cm) jar and cover term relationship with Kilmany Another property yielding good (shape VJ) in mottled blue, green 9. Monart vase and cover – £580. House, a Fife property home to the material during lockdown was in and pink glass with gold coloured 10. Monart table lamp and shade – Anstruther-Gray family. Pitlochry. The estate was cleared inclusions and three whorls made £1750. Nick Burns recalls helping out his after relatives in the south had chosen £580. parents with a removal van at the mementoes via digital photographs. 11. Continental Art Nouveau 800 Table lamps are a rare form. The 16-bedroom house during his school A full silver chest contained a standard silver wine cooler – £4200. auction record for Monart stands at holidays in the early 1990s and it Victorian 24-place canteen of fiddle, £4000 for a seemingly unique acid had “given up some good things over thread and shell pattern flatware etched ‘cameo’ lamp sold by Lyon & the years”. (mainly by George Adams, London Turnbull in 2004. The impending sale of the house 1850) in an oak box with a retailers The example at Lindsay Burns yielded lots for Edinburgh firm Lyon label for Hunt & Roswell of Bond in mottled opaque greens and & Turnbull earlier this year with Street, London. With a gross weight purple with gold inclusions had its Burns later asked to assist with the of 247oz, it took (£2500-4000). original lacquered brass fitting and sale of the residual contents during Sold at £3000 (estimate labels to both base and shade. It 11 lockdown. 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Above: Second World War Commando Royal Marines archive – £9100.
6 Liquid fuelled wound fear
The best-performing entry of the Lindsay Burns sale against estimate was a lot comprising a group of seven medals and related militaria belonging to Mne A Mathieson of the 48 Commando Royal Marines. ‘Jock’ Mathieson, an uncle of the vendor, had been a dispatch rider in the Marines amphibious division formed in advance of Operation Overlord. During the Normandy 7 landings he believed he had been shot as he felt liquid trickling down his face. It turned out to be fuel from his motorbike that had taken the bullet as he carried it through the shallows. Highlights from the collection included a Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, two green berets and a rare airborne troop smock. Following lots of local press interest, it went on to sell for £9100 (estimate £300-500).
bookcase. Made in two parts with Chinese and Japanese works of art. recessed brass handles to both, it was A 16in (40cm) blue and white ‘five veneered in amboyna and lined with dragon’ vase on a carved and pierced Jewellery & Watches ebony and ivory. wood stand was a family piece, Eastertyre in Logierait in the brought back from China by the north of Perthshire is a Georgian vendor’s ancestor who worked for the Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers Tuesday 14 September, 11am house with links to the Crabbie Ben Line Shipping Company c.1900. family of ginger wine and beer fame. It was deemed a late Qing piece and A somewhat ramshackle property, it sold at £2700. was filled with the type of well-loved antiques that are always popular Full to the brim regardless of market conditions. A collection of 187 snuff bottles had Notable lots included an 18th been found boxed in ice cream tubs century walnut bachelor’s chest in another property that “with only of nice size and colour selling for tracks to walk through the flat” took restoration at £1500 and a late 19th close to two weeks to clear. or early 20th century club armchair Bought by the owner in the with sweeping back, scroll over arms 1980s-90s, they were sold in 19 lots An important diamond single stone pendant, the A yellow sapphire and diamond pendant, the pear-cut diamond, weighing 7.50 carats oval cut yellow sapphire, weighing 70.87 carats and delightfully aged burgundy for £17,000 to buyers from the UK, Estimate £80,000-£120,000* Estimate £70,000-£90,000* leather making £1700. US and China with a top bid of A late 19th century golden Ushak £2600 for a lot of blue and white and had its issues but, measuring 18ft x copper red decorated bottles. 13ft 11in (5.5 x 4.24m) with an ochre Sold at £9400 (the highest price field within a blue ground border of of the sale save an £11,600 diamond repeating floral palmettes, it was a cocktail ring centred with a 3.28ct fine and large carpet of a popular brilliant cut stone) was a Qing European market type. hardwood console table. It had been cut and reduced at one Anathema to the simplicity of end and was worn down to the weft in earlier ‘classic’ Chinese furniture, one corner where a door opened and it had a serpentine red and white A tourmaline and garnet brooch by René Boivin An Art Deco emerald and diamond ring, of closed for decades, but this did not marble top, a frieze carved and Estimate £8,000-£12,000* Odeonesque design detract too much. It sold for £3600. pierced with flowering prunus Estimate £800-£1,200* A Coalbrookdale Nasturtium blossom branches and a roundel of pattern cast iron garden bench, shishi dogs and four mask, scroll and Scan the QR code to view the auction catalogue rusting, unloved and heading for the scale carved supports. www.roseberys.co.uk on-site skip, was destined for better The auction house had taken days when it was sold for £1300. closer to £20,000 for a similar table Email [email protected] for more information With its maritime links, Scotland some years ago, one that included its 70/76 Knights Hill, London SE27 0JD | +44 (0) 20 8761 2522 continues to be a decent source of original plinth. n *Plus Buyer’s Premium +VAT (30% inclusive of VAT) antiquestradegazette.com 4 September 2021 | 17
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Sensational Tannoy speaker in a sleeper trio
Only a handful of companies have created products with sufficient impact that their brand names enter the lexicon as generic descriptions for objects of their type. Think Biro for pens, Hoover for vacuum cleaner and Tannoy for sound systems. The first dual concentric loudspeakers, designed by Tannoy’s Above: Maori Left: chief engineer Ronnie H Rackham, greenstone mere with medicine created a sensation when they provenance – £5000 at bottle appeared at the Radiolympia show Duke’s Avenue. inscribed (also known as the Radio Show) in Friar’s London, 1947. The famous ‘dual’ Left: vintage Tannoy Drops, By which housed two separate driver GRF 15in speaker in a The Kings systems in one speaker went through Canterbury cabinet – Patent many incarnations and were widely £8000. Granted to used in the recording industry. R Grubb A vintage Tannoy speaker was 1777 – one of three awakened sleepers that £2600. enlivened the sale held at Duke’s Avenue (25% buyer’s premium) saleroom in Dorchester on July 20. Briefly catalogued and estimated at just £20-40, it was sold at £8000. Such a price implied something special and indeed it was. This in 2013 Tennants took £7500 for sugar candy, oil of sassafras, salt of undercooked lots in this ‘general’ sale model, sold here complete with its a Tannoy Signature Speaker Unit tartar, gum Arabic and spirits of wine was a Maori pounamu (greenstone) original technical specifications and standing a mighty 5ft (1.52m) high. rectified’. mere or patu club that took £5000 brochures from c.1959, is known Another bottle of this type, dated against an estimate of £100-200. as the GRF. Also designed by Friar’s remedy c.1777-1800, is in the collection According to a fragmented label, Rackham (the name stands for Guy Equally unexpected bidding arrived of the Museum of London but it this was presented by Paora There R Fountain who founded the firm in Dorset for a small medicine bottle appears to be very rare. Collectors (c.1830-65), chief of the Ngati in 1926), it incorporates extra-large inscribed Friar’s Drops, By The Kings of early medicine bottles (there are a Whatua, to Admiral George Tryon in 15in (38cm) loudspeakers for the Patent Granted to R Grubb 1777. It was surprisingly large number) targeted the mid 19th century. highest standard of performance. It in ‘dug’ condition with accretions this example. Estimated at £50-100, It was said to be a tribal heirloom is housed in a ‘Canterbury’ corner inside and out. it raced away to bring £2600. and was gifted on the understanding cabinet measuring 3ft 10in (1.15m) According to adverts of the time, That is the sort of price reserved it would remain in Tryon’s family. high, marking this as the later of two Robert Grubb’s patent medicine for rarities, although some patent After being broken in two it had models. Friar’s Drops was promoted especially medicines from this period have received a staple repair. Vintage hi-fi is very much the for its ability to cure venereal disease made more: in 2016 BBR Auctions in Made in the highly valued stuff of online trading rather than plus ‘scurvy, rheumatism, stranguary, Elsecar, South Yorkshire, set a record pounamu stone for traditional close- fine art auctions but there are a few and gleets’. for an empty English medicine bottle quarter combat, mere were the most precedents for this sort of price for The ingredients mentioned in the when a Victorian flask of Dr Sibley’s revered of all Maori weapons. They classic British loudspeakers. original patent were listed as ‘aquilia Solar Tincture took £8200. are highly collectable today, with Back in 2014, Thomas Miller in alba (or the white eagle) purging good examples selling into Newcastle sold a near pair of Tannoy antimony, guaiacum wood, balsam Gift to an admiral five figures. GRF speakers for £15,750 while of Peru, extracts of cicuta, white The third item in a trio of Roland Arkell John Johnson; bal-ami.com Barn find could be golden oldie
A classic ‘barn find’ piece, this somewhat dilapidated jukebox was spotted as a potential Right: golden oldie by bidders at Gardiner Houlgate’s (22% buyer’s premium) Corsham sale. ‘barn find’ The rare 1950s Bal-AMi jukebox, serial no 1502, was ‘in very poor condition in need BAL-AMi of complete restoration’. It was pitched at £300-500 at the July 29 sale but sold to the jukebox – specialist gaming and music trade at £3400. £3400 at During the rock ’n’ rolling mid-fifties to the early sixties BAL-AMi was Britain’s biggest Gardiner maker. According to a jukebox enthusiast and expert ATG spoke to, this was a 1958 Houlgate. model I200M. At the time the Ilford firm used the latest US designs and some imported Far right: parts but met government restrictions that dictated manufactured goods be at least an example 53% made in Britain. of a fully While this model might cost £10,000-12,000 when fully restored and in working order, restored the restoration costs (including rechroming all the parts) could be as much as £5000. version. Terence Ryle
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PAGE 016-19 2507.indd 3 26/08/2021 17:29:52 Both furniture – but with very different features
The second day of Bellmans’ (22% buyer’s premium) sale in Billingshurst, West Sussex, held on August 3-5 included a Chinese hardwood table that catapulted way above its £1000-1500 estimate – selling for £220,000 (£278,080 including buyer’s premium). Ten bidders in the room competed with six others on the phone, with the buyer coming from mainland China. The table had been part of the Above: Chinese hardwood table – Above: campaign sofa attributed to local vendor’s family collection for £220,000 at Bellmans. Morgan & Sanders – £2400. many years with relatively little value attached to it. Although commonly called altar century furniture, hinted at the mid whole of simple, practical design. screws located to the underside. tables or pingtou’an, woodblock to later Qing period. However, some more elaborate and The design is associated with the illustrations suggest pieces like this A similar table in jichimu (chicken formal furniture was produced for London firm of Morgan & Sanders with recessed trestle-legs were used in wing wood) included in the second high-status clients. (1801-20), which alongside Thomas various contexts and in different ways part of the Robert Hatfield Ellsworth This sofa was recorded in a 19th Butler and William Pocock were including in the scholar’s studio for series of sales at Christie’s New century inventory of the Kepples the leading proponents of ‘patent’ scroll painting or as a ‘sideboard’ in a York was dated to the 18th century. Head Hotel, Portsmouth, sited only furniture in the Regency era. banqueting hall. Bellmans’ table, measuring 5ft 100 yards from the main naval base Similar lyre-back chairs feature in As many forms remained popular (1.53m) wide, was thought to be made and regularly used by officers and an advert by Morgan & Sanders in from the Song period onwards, from the revered Chinese rosewood diplomats prior to embarkation. the monthly periodical The Repository Chinese furniture is notoriously huanghuali. Made in c.1810 with a mahogany of Arts on August 1, 1809, which difficult to date and it is often only show-wood frame on brass castors showed their premises at ‘Trafalgar on small points of decoration and Campaign furniture and ebony veneered lyre-end House’ on the upper floor on the construction that attributions are On the altogether different ‘English supports and inlaid in brass, the Strand. made. furniture’ price level, but a rarity whole separates into transportable The firm supplied some furniture The relief-carved apron to this nonetheless, was a campaign or sections. to Nelson’s house, Merton Place in piece, which combined archaistic metamorphic sofa sold for £2400 The back is removed by releasing a Surrey, and collapsable pieces to patterns with scrolls of foliage of the (estimate £1500-2500). square screw concealed beneath the furnish HMS Victory. type one might find on European 18th Campaign furniture was on the fabric, with the arms released by a Roland Arkell
Sisters show sampler skills
Samplers made by siblings or generations of the same family can attract a significant commercial premium. The House & Garden sale at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, on July 19 included two matching early Victorian needleworks completed by Elizabeth Mary Trorey, aged 11 in 1839, and her younger sister Emma Marie Trorey, aged 11 in 1840. Both girls display very considerable needlework skills working to the same 22 x 18in (56 x 45cm) size and much the same format. Elizabeth chose a sophisticated design of roses and meandering flowers while, the following year, Emma Marie opted for a menagerie 18th century aristocracy and Harley, a well-known Above left: matching early Victorian needleworks of pairs of cats, pheasants and butterflies. Both bibliophile and collector, was one of his patrons. completed by siblings in 1839 and 1840 – £7800 at share the same framing, making them very This bust, standing 2ft 4in (70cm) high on a Mallams. much a pair. Undercooked at £200-300, marble plinth, was formerly the property Above right: John Cheere lead bust of Edward Harley – they sparked plenty of interest ultimately of Stephen Tennant (1906-87), the British £7800. selling via thesaleroom.com at £7800. socialite, friend of Cecil Beaton and lover of war poet Siegfried Sassoon. It was Left: Gothic revival stained glass window – £8800. Cheer for Cheere purchased by the vendor from The Heim The same bid, this time more expected, Gallery, London, which had acquired it of vulning pelican feeding her young within stylised leaves come for a lead bust of Edward from Tennant or his estate. and flowers. Set within a later oak frame, it measured 2ft Harley, the 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl The top price in the auction was the 3in wide x 3ft 9in high (67cm x 1.02m). It was unattributed Mortimer, by the English sculptor John £8800 phone bid (estimate £400-600) in the catalogue but was in the manner of one of the Cheere (1709-87). for an intricate Gothic revival stained leading Gothic revival designers such as Thomas Willement Cheere’s work was popular among glass window set with a central roundel (1786-1871) and Nathaniel Westlake (1833-1921).
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CHARTERHOUSE Auctioneers & Valuers Two-Day September Auction Coins, Militaria, Stamps & Toys Turnbull family medals Thursday 9th September at 10am Country House Interiors, Antiques & Textiles Friday 10th September at 10am
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Very large 18th century Borght tapestry
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Lot 581 The earliest Manchester United (Newton Heath) football medal ever to have been offered at auction. Dated 1893. Estimate: £20,000 to £25,000
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PAGE 020 2507.indd 2 26/08/2021 16:10:37 Interiors Thursday 9th September at 10:30am
"Simplicity was never an option"
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PAGE 021 2507.indd 2 27/08/2021 09:23:39 Auction Reports Art market
Prints market is in good health Group acquired by influential auctioneer and dealer Oliver Hoare shows high demand
by Alex Capon
One of the lesser known sides of the late dealer Oliver Hoare (1945-2018) was his interest in print collecting. Highly regarded for his Islamic art speciality – as an auctioneer he organised London’s first dedicated auction at Christie’s before establishing what would become arguably the most influential dealership in this category – he also quietly gathered a notable group of British prints, both works in modern styles and those in an older pastoral tradition. 1 2 Back in October last year, Christie’s sold the Asian art from his estate, along with some antiquities, tapestries and curios, in a 105-lot sale that raised £1.51m including premium. More recently, a group of 70 prints from the Hoare collection came up at Dominic Winter (24% buyer’s premium) in South Cerney. While not in the same league financially, the prints drew solid interest generally at the Gloucestershire sale on July 23 and a number of works made strong 3 4 individual prices which were close to, or even above, current retail price levels according to several dealers took up etching following a lengthy etchings that included a copy of this who attended the sale. Prints from the collection of Oliver gap. Although he was ‘rediscovered’ print which was, seemingly, the last Prints – often classed as the art Hoare sold at Dominic Winter. late in life by print dealer Robin appearance of Wiltshire Hedger at market’s most tradeable commodities Garton, it is his 1920s material that auction. – have been in good health in the 1. Wiltshire Hedger, an etching by commands the main focus of demand midst of the pandemic. Robin Tanner – £2600. on the market today. Rural settings Overall, 56 of the lots sold (80%) 2. Limbing, a wood engraving by Clare Wiltshire Hedger had a vintage Another artist who tackled similar for a £45,000 total including Leighton that sold along with a copy subject for the artist who spent most themes and was well represented premium. of May: Sheep Shearing for £1300. of his life in north-west Wiltshire in the Hoare collection was Clare and the copy offered at Dominic Veronica Hope Leighton (1898- Etcher rediscovered 3. Treading Grapes, a wood engraving Winter was a rich impression in the 1989). While her highest prices have Among the prominent performers, 11 by Leighton – £700. first of its three states. It is thought come for views of New York, pastoral prints by Robin Tanner (1904-88) 4. Indecision, a line wood engraving only 20-30 impressions were made in scenes represent her main body of brought attention with eight of them by Paul Landacre – £2400. this first state – it was followed by a work. selling above top estimate. These second state of 50 prints (published At the Gloucester sale, nine prints included the top lot of the Hoare by Nicholson) and further 12 in the were offered as seven different lots – collection, an etching titled Wiltshire third state (published later by Garton six of which got away for a combined Hedger from 1928. & Cooke). £3780 hammer total. Three lots were Tanner, an etcher and Signed and dated in pencil, the bought by a London gallery, two by draughtsman (and sometime 4 x 6in (10 x 15cm) etching was in another London print dealer and two watercolourist) whose works evoked generally in good condition despite went to private buyers. the English romanticism of William some traces of inky finger prints One of the lots purchased by the Blake and Samuel Palmer, was forced at the sheet corners and an area aforementioned gallery comprised to give up his printmaking career in Hoare quietly of residual adhesive and old tape two wood engravings: May: Sheep the early 1930s after the booming gathered a notable on the back. Estimated at £700- Shearing from 1933 which was created market for etchings dropped away in “ 1000, it sold to a private collector for A Farmer’s Year: A Calendar of the wake of the Wall Street Crash. group of British prints in Somerset at £2600 – a record for English Husbandry, the first book After spending three decades as this print and well over the £720 Leighton exclusively wrote, engraved a school inspector, it was not until fetched in the same rooms in October and designed, and Limbing from 1931 he retired in 1964 that he once again 2015 for a group lot of three Tanner which was part of her The Lumber 22 | 4 September 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Left: A Horse Affrighted Tape pleasure: Sleigh emerges by a Lion, an etching by When this triptych George Stubbs came in for examination – £15,500 at at Gloucestershire Dominic Winter. saleroom Dominic Winter, it was difficult to distinguish certain areas of the painting. It was kept behind glass which was covered in very old masking tape that had dried out and would not peel off the surface. After having to carefully scrape the remnants of the tape Above: The Crucifixion: A Triptych by Bernard Sleigh – Stubbs stands up to sale scrutiny away, an inscription £10,500 at Dominic Winter. to the base of the The top-priced picture of the Dominic Winter sale came for a print from a separate crucifixion emerged revealing the connecting hinges, was around half the source. The copy of George Stubbs’ (1724-1806) etching A Horse Affrighted by a artist’s name, Bernard Sleigh (1872- size of the Holloway picture. Indeed, Lion was consigned by a private collector in Herefordshire who had inherited the 1954), and the date of the work, 1929. the saleroom traced a reference and work from his father. “You can imagine my delight when this illustration to it in an article on the artist The etching from September 1777 has always held a special place for collectors became visible,” said director at the in the Journal of the Decorative Arts and examples in favourable condition are something of a rarity. The artist’s first auction house Nathan Winter. Society in 1997, meaning its existence separately published print, the size of the original edition is not known for certain (no Measuring 2ft 8 x 3ft 5in (82cm x was already ‘known’ to scholars. information is mentioned in Christopher Lennox-Boyd’s 1989 catalogue raisonné of 1.03m) overall, it came from a private Works by the artist who was a central Stubbs’ prints) but it is likely to be somewhat below 200 at the most. collection in the Cotswolds where it had figure in the Royal Birmingham Society Copies do appear at auction occasionally but values have often been limited by been the last 40 years or more. of Artists only occasionally appear at the variable quality of the printing and condition. It was soon discovered that the auction, with the highest price coming The impression here though was in a relatively good state, with strong contrasts triptych was a later and smaller version for The Sunset Angel which made of light and dark, and little evidence of wear in the plate. of one of the mural painter and stained £18,000 at Christie’s in September Estimated at £4000-6000, it drew three serious bidders: a UK specialist dealer, an glass artist’s most important works: 2005. When works do emerge, however, English private collector and an American gallery. It was eventually sold to the latter the crucifixion triptych he painted in they normally generate interest from at £15,500 – a price well above what it might have been expected to take given that 1906 for the chapel at Holloway Prison, the artist’s decent following and here the last copy available at auction fetched £3500 at Roseberys in July 2019. London. Depicting a prisoner in chains the £3000-5000 estimate at the July 23 The price seemed to sum up the prints in the sale generally, underlining not only at the feet of Christ, as well as a self- sale certainly proved appealing. how well this sector has survived the pandemic but how sums seem to have risen for portrait of the artist as a shepherd, it The auction house reported four rare material in the intervening period. was commissioned by the writer and phone bidders on the day plus extra reformer Edith Lyttelton. Having since online interest, and it was eventually been removed from Holloway, the larger knocked down at £10,500 to a private Camp series of six prints. Both typical Offered here with a £300-500 work can now be found in the Brigham collector of Birmingham School artists of her portrayals of working men estimate, it sold at £700. With few Young University Museum of Art in Utah who saw off strong underbidding from and women in rural settings, they records of copies of appearing at which acquired it in 2005. another private collector. The price was surpassed a £400-600 estimate and auction, this appears to be the highest This version, in a striking Arts & the third highest for Sleigh at auction sold at £1300. The fact that the very saleroom sum for this print so far. Crafts patinated copper frame with (source: Artprice by Artmarket). same copy of Limbing had sold for £150 at Dominic Winter in June 2017 Landacre engraving underlines both the stronger demand Stylistically different but also making for the artist and the boost provided a significant sum for an individual by the Hoare provenance. print was a line wood engraving from Original thinking While a copy of the book A 1935 by American draughtsman Paul Farmer’s Year... itself took £800 Landacre (1893-1963). A small oil painting discovered among the contents against a £300-500 estimate, the Indecision, a 7½ x 10in (19 x of a Leamington Spa property sold for many highest individual sum for a Leighton 26cm) image, demonstrated his multiples of its estimate at Kinghams (23% buyer’s print came for a copy of Treading trademark sparse linear style but it premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Grapes from 1928. The 7½ x 9in (19 x is also something of a rarity, being The Mass of Saint Gregory, a 9¾ x 6¾in (25 x 23cm) wood engraving was a black the only major wood engraving the 18cm) oil on panel, was initially regarded as a later proof impression aside from the artist completed without hatching copy but, after conducting research, the saleroom edition of 60 and was signed and or cross-hatching. Produced in an believed it to be an original 17th century Flemish titled by the artist. edition of 60, it was signed and titled School painting with a composition derived from As well as having been owned by and this impression, which had good a late 15th century engraving of the subject by Hoare, it had a fascinating earlier strong contrasts, had extra pencil German draughtman Israhel van Mechelem provenance having been among inscriptions in the lower right corner (c.1445-1503). the Leighton prints bequeathed and a red petrel estate stamp. Catalogued as such and given a £400-600 estimate on July 9, it drew good by the artist to Hilaire Belloc. It Estimated at £2000-2500, it sold interest from specialists both from the UK and overseas. Numerous requests were later appeared in an exhibition of at £2400 – a sum that appears to be made for extra images and information relating to the condition of the cracked panel prints from the French writer and the second highest at auction other and the ebonised tabernacle frame in which it was contained. historian’s collection at London than another copy that made $4200 On the day, seven phone lines were booked and, with other participants online, it dealer Abbott and Holder, from (£3098) at Swann in New York in was bid to £9500 with the gavel falling to a UK private buyer. where Hoare presumably acquired it. May 2018. n antiquestradegazette.com 4 September 2021 | 23
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160. 352. 169. 333. Wednesday 15th September Auction starts at 10am VIEWING 12th September, 11am - 2pm 13th & 14th September, 10am - 4pm Lot 40 Charles F Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901-1979) Peregrine Falcon with Grouse, £2,000 - £4,000 Lot 160 A diamond line bracelet, £7,000 - £10,000 Auction to include a significant collection of wildlife art Lot 169 A Gentleman’s 19th century 18ct gold full hunter pocket watch, £800 - £1,200 Lot 309 A large Meissen porcelain nodding pagoda figure, £1,200 - £1,800 Lot 319 A 13th century, or later, Kashan mosque oil lamp, £1,000 - £1,500 T: 01743 450 700 Lot 333 A late 19th century French, porcelain mounted, gilt metal mantel clock, £300 - £500 E: [email protected] Lot 352 A good, well proportioned, George II, walnut banded, oak bureau, £1,000 - £1,500 W: www.hallsgb.com/fine-art
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PAGE 024 2507.indd 2 26/08/2021 16:08:30 Timed Transport and Westminster £300-£500 (plus 24% BP*)
A London Underground Bond Street Street Sign Auction enamel ‘bullseye’ roundel sign £700-£900 (plus 24% BP*) Part II 10th - 24th September
£400-£600 (plus 24% BP*)
A 1940s London Transport ‘WAITING ROOM’ sign £150-£250 (plus 24% BP*)
A BR(S) enamel sign for ‘BRITISH RAILWAYS’ £80-£120 (plus 24% BP*)
A London Underground enamel direction sign £200-£300 (plus 24% BP*)
£60-£100 (plus 24% BP*)
An enamel sign displaying ‘COACH STN.’ £200-£300 (plus 24% BP*)
A BR(S) enamel door sign displaying ‘PRIVATE’ £80-£120 (plus 24% BP*)
A BR(E) enamel sign displaying ‘GENTLEMEN’ £120-£160 (plus 24% BP*) Enquiries: Tel: 07808 737694 Office Tel: 020 8468 1010 *Plus buyer’s premium of 24% incl. VAT @ 20%. Email: [email protected] Online charges apply. Please check A BR(M) enamel ‘NO SMOKING’ sign individual platform. www.catherinesouthon.co.uk £150-£250 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 1057 A Georgian fruitwood ‘Melon’ tea caddy with oval lock escutcheon. £800-£1,200 Antiques & Fine Art Sale (plus 26.4% BP*) Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th & Friday 10th September from 10am A three day sale of some 1,600 lots to include two 19th century silver plated shields and a collection of nine Medieval carved oak pew end panels from Greystoke Castle with a combined estimate of £6,000-£9,000 Lot 495 A 19th century silver plated copy of and a fine selection of clocks from all periods. ‘The Cellini Shield’ by Elkington & Co. VIEWING: Sunday 5th 11am-3pm, Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th 10am-5pm and throughout each sale day Lot 993 Provenance: Greystoke Castle, Penrith. A fine William IV £1,500-£1,800 (plus 26.4% BP*) DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE rosewood cased mantel clock by Asian Art Paintings, Drawings & Prints Table Boxes, Wall Clocks, Viner, 235 Regents Ceramics & Glassware Objects of Art & Collectors’ Items Barometers & Mirrors Street London. Coins Metalware Furniture, Longcase Clocks £800-£1,200 Jewellery, Watches & Pocket Textiles & Dining Tables (plus 26.4% BP*) Watches Silver & Allied Wares
Fully illustrated catalogue online now www.mitchellsantiques.co.uk Printed catalogues (£12 incl. P&P) Lot 1001 Bid online at our auctions A Georgian the-saleroom.com/mitchells ebonised bracket clock by Wilmer London. £3,000-£4,000 (plus 26.4% BP*)
Lots (l to r) 958, 959 & 960 Lot 1581 Lot 1527 Three of seven lots of Medieval oak pew end panels, carved in An early George III figured A late 18th/early 19th century mahogany relief, these with profile of a figure within later oak slip frames. walnut secretaire bookcase. longcase clock by Lewis of Frodsham. Provenance: Greystoke Castle. £2,000-£2,500 £2,000-£2,500 (plus 26.4% BP*) £1,000-£1,500 each (plus 26.4% BP*) (plus 26.4% BP*)
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From boy wizard to cat in a hat New York sale maintains run of high JK Rowling prices while Dr Seuss surfaces also in UK
by Ian McKay
Harry Potter books continue to command high prices. The Bonhams New York (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) sale of June 17 was led at $110,000 (£79,135) by a copy of the very first of them, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone of 1997, that also had a special label bearing JK Rowling’s signature laid in. With Hansons also making something of a speciality of HP sales in the UK, there has been no shortage of such material on offer this year. For example, the July 28 sale held in the North Yorkshire saleroom of Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) a Street Unicorn and the two foot bid of £80,000 was needed to secure tall Blue-Green Abelard offered in a particularly fine looking copy Above left: the 42 plates that make up DG Eliot’s ...Family of Cats represented every Knightsbridge. of that first issue – one originally species known at the time. Seen here is Felis Euptilura, the small Asian leopard cat Originally priced at $15, the Blue- acquired at a Nottingham branch of from the copy sold by Bonhams New York at $45,000 (£32,375). Green Abelard was much the most Dillons. Above centre: the 1958, first UK edition of Dr Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, sold by expensive of these commercially Hansons at £850. marketed creations and though the Colonial cruelties paintwork on this rare survivor was Above right: a toy version of the Blue-Green Abelard, one of the many characters A very different highlight of the rubbed and damaged, and the horns created by Dr Seuss – $18,000 (£12,950) in New York. Bonhams New York sale was a rare, had been re-attached with adhesive, it clandestinely published memorial sold at $18,000 (£12,950). addressed to King Phillip IV by Juan the most recent of its three previous by Dr Seuss – or Theodore Geisel, to Signed and inscribed “For the de Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of auction appearances in France in use his real name. children of Battersea with Best Puebla, which in the 17th century was the 1970s. This time out it realised In the 1930s, in pursuit of what Wishes... Dr Seuss”, a 1958, first the largest diocese in New Spain. $70,000 (£50,360). he called his ‘System of Unorthodox UK edition of The Cat in the Hat Issued without a title-page, but Another of the more expensive Taxidermy’, Geisel produced a series made £850 in a July 15 sale held by perhaps printed in Madrid c.1650-51, entries was an 1878-83 first of Daniel of animal sculptures that in 1937 were Hansons (25% buyer’s premium) – a Virtudes del Indio... is a defence of the Giraud Eliot’s Monograph of the Felidae, exhibited in New York to promote the modest sum but an auction record by Indians against unlawful cruelties, or Family of Cats. A complete set of the book that really launched his hugely some distance for a British first. n slanders and misrepresentations 42 hand-coloured litho broadsheet successful writing career: And to Think * In March, according to a New York perpetrated against them by Spanish plates produced by Joseph Smith That I Saw It on Mulberry Street*. Times report, Dr Seuss Enterprises colonists. after the drawings of Joseph Wolf, it There later followed an exhibition announced its intention to end the An extraordinarily rare work, here sold at $45,000 (£32,375). of ‘Rare and Amazing Trophies publication and licensing of six Dr Seuss preserved in an early 20th century One sale highlight was not a book for the Walls of your Game-Room, books, including this one – on the grounds red morocco gilt binding by Lortic, at all, but a model of one of the many Nursery or Bar!’, among them that they contained depictions of groups this copy was one that had made extraordinary characters dreamed up a Tufted Gustard, a Mulberry that were “hurtful and wrong”.
The Dean Gaisford Classical Library – The Howth Castle Collection
Fine Greek, Latin, Italian, French & English Volumes from 1520 – 1920. Together with other Important books on Travel, Botany, History etc. Important Original Manuscript Work Correspondence (include 25 A.L.s. from Saint John Henry Newman) Signed and Presentation Copies etc., and to include important Periodicals in large runs. (Approx. 1,000 lots) On Wednesday & Thursday September 22nd & 23rd, 2021 At Howth Castle, Co. Dublin Dean Thomas Gaisford in 1812, at the age of 32, was elected Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, a position he held for 43 years, until his death in 1855. He was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford from 1830 for 25 years. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE €25
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British and Irish book auctions
Aug 31* 4 76-lot Book & Map Sections, Wotton Auction Rooms - Wotton-under-Edge 01453 844733 Aug 31* 4 Books & Ephemera Section, Aldridges - Bath 01225 462830 Aug 31 - Sep 1* 4 50+ lot Book & Ephemera Sections, James & Sons - Fakenham 01328 855003 Sep 1* 4 4 lots Books & Maps, Bourne End Auctions 01628 531500 Sep 1* 4 Book Section, Anthemion Auctions - Cardiff 029 2047 2444 Sep 1, 3 & 8* 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 Sep 2* 4 5 lots Books, Clevedon Salerooms - Bristol 01934 830111 Sep 2* 4 Book Section, Greenslade Taylor & Hunt - Taunton 01823 332525 Sep 2* 4 Book Section, Whitton & Laing - Exeter 01392 252621 Sep 2* 4 Football Programmes & Sports Memorabilia, Sheffield Auction Gallery 0114 281 6161 Sep 2-3* 4 Pr/Press, Illus, 1st & other Books, MSS & Maps Section, Bamfords - Derby 01332 210000 Sep 2-3* 4 11 lots Maps & Books, Hannam’s - Selborne 01420 511788 Sep 2-3* 4 Book Section, Lindsay Burns - Perth 01738 633888 Sep 3* 4 24 lots Signed & other Books, Gerrards - Lytham St Annes 01253 725476 Above left: the 1871-72, first book-form edition of Middlemarch... sold for a record Sep 3* 4 23-lot Book Section, Durrants - Beccles 01502 713940 $22,500 (£16,190) by Doyle. Sep 3* 4 Sports Memorabilia, Sportingold - Saunderton 01494 565921 4 Above right: at $15,000-25,000, this illustrated note featuring Pooh and Piglet, sent Sep 4* Book Section, Lacy Scott & Knight - Bury St Edmunds 01284 748625 in 1932 by EH Shepard to his literary agent, Curtis Brown, was the highest estimated Sep 4* 4 7-lot Book Section: The Beaulieu Motoring Sale, Bonhams 020 7447 7447 lot in the US auction. At Sotheby’s London in 2011, it had made £11,000 – then Sep 4* 4 Small Book Section incl Hasted’s Kent, Bentleys - Cranbrook 01580 715857 around $17,000 – but this time it raised $13,000 (£9350). ends Sep 5* 4 31-lot Book Section, Thimbleby & Shorland - Reading 0118 950 8611 Sep 6* 4 8 lots Books & Ephemera, Gorringe’s - Lewes 01273 472503 Sep 7* 4 53-lot Book Section, Lawrences - Bletchingley 01883 743323 Middlemarch moves upward Sep 7* 4 12-lot Book Section, Rogers Jones - Colwyn Bay 01492 532176 Sep 7* 4 7 lots Books & Maps, Special Auction Services - Newbury 01635 580595 George Eliot’s much-admired novel (then £48,510) paid for a set seen at Sep 7* 4 Book Section, Eldreds - Plymouth 01752 721199 Middlemarch... made its first appearance Christie’s New York in 2017. Sep 7* 4 Manuscript Section: Antiquities Sale, TimeLine - Harwich 01277 815121 in a parts issue in 1871, but in the Doyle Another record was established in Sep 7-8* 4 Sports Memorabilia, Graham Budd Auctions - London 020 8366 2525 (26/21/15% buyer’s premium) of New York the recent Doyle sale for a four-volume, Sep 8* 4 123-lot Book & Map Sections, Hartleys - Ilkley 01943 816363 sale of June 22 it was a fine example of 1794 first of Anne Radcliffe’s Gothic novel Sep 8-9 4 Books, Maps & Documents, 20th C Photos, Dominic Winter - Sth Cerney 01285 860006 the four-volume, first book-form edition of The Mysteries of Udolpho in refurbished Sep 9* 4 84-lot Book & Ephemera Section, Eastbourne Auctions 01323 431444 1871-72 that turned heads. and restored, but original paper-backed Sep 9 4 Online: Modern Illus & Private Press Books, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 In the original cloth bindings, it was boards. Sep 10* 4 7 lots Books & Ephemera, Brighton & Hove Auctions 01273 230050 bid to a much higher than predicted and Bid to $6000 (£4315), it was among a Sep 11* 4 10- lot Book Section, Lacy Scott & Knight - Bury St Edmunds 01284 748625 record $22,500 (£16,190). number of lots in the sale that had once ends Sep 13* 4 Timed Sale incl Books & Annuals, British Bespoke Auctions - Winchcombe 01242 603005 Sets of that original parts issue in its formed part of the Julius & Theodore Cohn Sep 14 Music Books, MSS, Prints, etc from the Library of Arnold Dolmetsch, Sotheby’s 020 7293 6267 green and black paper wrappers have family library and was last seen at auction Sep 14-15* 4 9-lot Book Sections, Sworders - Stansted Mountfitchet 01279 817778 made much more, with a record $65,000 at Parke Bernet in New York 1955. Sep 14* 4 Books & Maps Sections: Travel & Exploration Sale, Bonhams - London 020 7447 7447 Sep 15 4 Fine Books & MSS, Bonhams - London 020 7447 7447 Sep 15* 4 45-lot Book Section, Cotswold Auction Co - Cirencester 01285 642420 Proto-feminist took up her quill Sep 15 & 17* 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 4 Focus on Women, a this work comprise ends Sep 19 Rare Book & Map Sections, 1818 Auctioneers - Milnthorpe 015395 66201 July 15 sale at Swann laudatory verses and (25/20/12%) of New letters in praise of Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a 4 York, was led at $65,000 her work and life by larger sale. Sales marked are viewable on thesaleroom.com (£47,100) – some 10 contemporaries, both Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales times the high estimate male and female, but that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: – by a disbound but rare are followed by the Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] example of the work of first edition in print Juana Inés de la Cruz of Respuesta a Sor (1648-95). Filotea de la Cruz, a An outspoken work in which she Hieronymite nun, writer, argues in defence poet and composer of a woman’s right who has been called a to study secular and flame that rose from religious texts. the ashes of religious In the engraved Modern Illustrated Books and authoritarianism, and frontispiece portrait Private Press (Online) who has in more recent after Clemente Puche Auction: Thursday 9th September times been recognised as a proto-feminist, (1699-1728) reproduced above she Greenhill (Elizabeth, binder).- Flint (Sir William Russell) this work was, like all her others, published sits, quill and book in hand, flanked by Breakfast in Périgord, posthumously. personifications of Europe and America. one of 525 copies signed by artist, 1968. Est. £2,000-3,000 Fama, y Obras Posthumas del Fenix de The coats of arms at top and bottom Mexico, Decima Musa, Poetisa Americana, are those of the soon-to-be-exiled Full catalogue and forthcoming sale issued in Madrid in 1700, was a first Queen of Spain, Maria Anna of Neuburg, calendar at: forumauctions.co.uk edition of the third selection of her works and Giovanna Pignatelli d’Aragona, 7th to be printed. Two earlier selections had Marquesa of the Valley of Oaxaca and a Forum Auctions, 220 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4LP appeared in 1689 and 1691. descendant of the conquistador, Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected] The first 142 un-numbered pages of Hernán Cortés. antiquestradegazette.com 4 September 2021 | 27
PAGE 026, 027, 028 2507.indd 2 27/08/2021 14:13:49 Auction Reports Books and works on paper
Rare and costly Ptolemaic prize discovered in Turin
Estimated at €50,000 but sold for Left: Greece and Crete, flanked €405,000 (£346,275) in a June 22 by the Aegean and the Adriatic, sale held in Turin by Aste Bolaffi are seen in this map from the (25% buyer’s premium) was a 1482 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy’s edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia. Cosmographia sold by Aste Also known as the Geographia, and Bolaffi of Turin at €405,000 produced c.150BC in Alexandria but (£346,275). drawing on an earlier, now lost atlas by Marinus of Tyre, it is a hugely influential work that was translated into Arabic in the 9th century and into Latin for the first time in 1406. Drawing on maps and texts produced by a geographer and cartographer known only as Nicolaus Germanus who was working in Florence at the time, this was a copy This hugely of the first edition of this famous “influential work work printed outside Italy. was translated into This edition produced in Ulm by Latin for the first Lienhart Holle includes 29 coloured woodcut maps, all bar one of which time in 1406 are double-page. Given the price, could this have been one of the small have wished or deserved. As Rodney taken over by Johann Reger, who four In 1990 an example in a fine 18th number of deluxe vellum examples Shirley notes in his great study of years later produced a second edition century binding by Derome le jeune recorded? The Mapping of the World... 1472-1700, that ran to around 1000 copies. was bid to $1.75m as part of the great Unfortunately for Holle, his Holle went bankrupt shortly after Five copies of this 1482 Ulm Bradley Martin library at Sotheby’s edition was not the success he would publication. His stock was, however, edition have made more at auction. New York.
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SALE OF PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, STUDIO POTTERY & JEWELLERY Wednesday 8th September at 10.30am Viewing: Saturday 4th September 9.30am-12.30pm Sunday 5th September 2pm-4pm, Monday 6th September 9am-5.30pm Tuesday 7th September 9am-7pm (Viewing days – visitors will need to wear a mask on entry. Condition reports & high resolution images can be requested by emailing [email protected])
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This foxglove brooch by René Boivin made with pear-shaped shaded A pair of 14-bore percussion pink tourmalines and circular-cut tsavorite garnets dates from c.1980 – guns by Charles Lancaster a later version of a jewel first designed by Juliette Moutarde in 1944. that were built for Roseberys notes in an amendment that the brooch is additionally Prince Albert as stamped with later British import marks for London 1992, Garrards & Co. a gift from Queen At the Jewellery & Watches sale at Roseberys in London on Victoria will be September 14 it is estimated at £8000-12,000. offered in the September 6 roseberys.co.uk* Gavin Gardiner auction. Offered on behalf of a deceased collector, they are the only pair of Prince Albert-owned guns outside the Royal Collection. The guns were built in 1850 and are signed Charles Lancaster, 151 New Bond Street, London. Prince Albert was a regular customer of Lancaster; he ordered his first pair of 15-bore guns in 1843 and the company received the Royal Warrant later the same year. Gardiner says: “These were a gift to the Prince Consort from his wife in 1850. Albert was a keen shot and Charles Lancaster was one of London’s leading gunmakers at the time. Albert continued using Lancaster guns until his death in 1861, and in line with his The sale at Semley in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on fascination for science and industry, had only the previous year received a pair of new September 18 includes the property of a number of breech-loading guns from Lancaster, becoming one of the first men in the land to own a deceased estates. pair of modern breech-loading shotguns.” This 5in (13cm) high Delft blue and white model of Estimate £30,000-40,000. a bird perched among flowers is marked HL for Leiden gavingardiner.com maker Johann Harlees (fl.1770-95). Estimate £150-250. semleyauctioneers.com* This pair of cut-glass scent bottles modelled as the royal crown with an orb and cross finial were probably This pair of doll’s gloves are made by John Blades. thought to have belonged to He was making items such as Queen Victoria. these as early as 1823 when a view of Her signature cut from a his upper showroom at 5 Ludgate Hill piece of vellum comes with was published by Ackermann, after the lot that carries an estimate John Gendall. A close examination of £100-200 at a timed online of the print shows a number of similar objects: it is possible that these were made as a sale conducted by Milnthorpe souvenir for the coronation of George IV which was held on July 19, 1821. firm 1818 Auctioneers that Blades held a royal warrant to George III and is known to have supplied diplomatic gifts ends on September 5. on behalf of the crown, some of which were designed by the architect JB Papworth. 1818auctioneers.co.uk* Both damaged, one with staple repairs, they have a guide of £60-80 at the Country House sale at Tennants in Leyburn on September 17. tennants.co.uk*
Bellmans’ sale on September 7-9 includes this set of 19th century Renaissance revival carved walnut bellows estimated at £500-800. bellmans.co.uk* Hegarty Fine Art and Antiques conducts the clearance of a West Cork country house in Bandon, Co Cork, on September 5. This ‘exceptionally fine’ Regency rosewood and brass inlaid centre table is expected to Buyer’s premium 20% including VAT. bring €3000-5000. Online bidders will pay an additional 5% plus VAT. hegartyantiques.com Online auction plus telephone & commission bids. View our catalogue and bid online via the saleroom at www.nigel-ward.co.uk (Just off the A465, midway Abergavenny and Hereford) On-site parking Special ONLINE-ONLY Two-Day Sale of ANTIQUE & COUNTRY FURNITURE, PORCELAIN, SILVER, PAINTINGS, OBJETS D’ART & COLLECTABLES Many quality items to hand briefly including unusual pair of rosewood tea tables, Indonesian cabinets and drawer units, Ercol table and chairs, etc. CHINA including early Frankfurt tin glazed lobed charger, pair of oval Doulton flow blue plaques, Oriental vases, etc. MISCELLANEA including Victorian burr walnut table top stereoscopic viewer, Argentinan dress sword, Georgian curved glass table top cabinet, velvet gold embroidered kaftans, WWI medals, etc. SILVER including boxed set tot glasses, tankard, casters, various Georgian/Victorian spoons, etc. This enamelled double-sided sign for Verichrome OUTSIDE, VINTAGE & HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS Kodak Film is in original unrestored condition. It is on Friday 3rd September and expected to sell for £350-500 at Towcester firm ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/ nigel-ward-and-company Humbert & Ellis on September 9. on Saturday 4th September humbertellis.com* 30 | 4 September 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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This watercolour of The Diving Bell This version of the classic at Plymouth Docks is one of 20 Boomerang table lamp manufactured watercolours and 70 drawings that by the famous Spanish factory FASE form part of a scrapbook dated carries an estimate of £250-350 at 1818-23 complied by Lady Emily Lots Road Auctions in Chelsea on Charlotte Bathurst (1798-1877). September 5 It comes for sale from a lotsroad.com* descendant at the Fine Books & Manuscripts sale at Bonhams on September 15 with an estimate of £2000-3000. The daughter of Earl Bathurst, Lady Emily’s album reflects a complicated web of aristocratic family An arms and armour sale at Wilson55 in Nantwich on connections and contributions from September 9-10 includes, estimated at £3000-4000, this a number of accomplished amateur pair of Forsyth and Co ‘scent bottle’ locks. watercolourists. The Rev Alexander John Forsyth, a keen hunter, began The contents underline the English experimenting with ways to shorten the ignition obsession with Napoleon, by then time of a firearm at the turn of the 19th century. safely in exile on St Helena, and also By 1806, he had designed a refillable ‘scent include an early mention of Jane bottle’ shaped magazine that could hold enough Austen whose name (identified as the author of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey in fulminate to prime the lock for 25 shots. December 1817) had not long been in the public domain when this album was begun. Dated to c.1811, these are Forsyth’s third model bonhams.com* with roller primers and are numbered 522 and 523. Originally from a gun made for Lord Plymouth, they were previously owned by W Keith Neal and are pictured in his book Forsyth and Co. Patent This Liberty & Co silver, enamel and turquoise Gunmakers. lidded jar designed by Archibald Knox for the wilson55.com* Cymric range has marks for Birmingham 1903. It is guided at £400-600 by David Duggleby of Scarborough on September 2. davidduggleby.com*
The sale at Lindsay Burns in Perth on September 2-3 will offer a group of Scottish football This 8in (20cm) high Burmantofts memorabilia relating to Arthur Barnes, a wing half who played for both Lochgelly Albert vase decorated in the Persian style and Dunfermline. He won a solitary international cap playing for Scotland against England by Leonard King, with full impressed in 1928. and patent marks to base, has a Accompanying his cap and period photographs is a series of 12 gold and silver medals guide of £400-480 at Gerrards of awarded across his career from the 1920s into the 1940s. Lytham St Annes on September 2-3. Estimate £100-200. gerrardsauctionrooms.com* lindsayburns.co.uk*
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PAGE 030-31 2507.indd 2 26/08/2021 16:07:40 FINE ANTIQUES, ART, Antiques, Fine Art, Collectors’ JEWELLERY & COLLECTABLES & Interiors Auction Saturday 4th September SATURDAY 4th September at 10am (Please note earlier starting time of 10am) at 10am John Trickett (b.1952), oil on canvas, image size 74cm x 58cm Viewing: Thursday 2nd 1pm-5pm and Friday 3rd 10am-6pm Room bidders now welcome back! John Harrison inspired long case clock, completely wooden including works Fine 18ct white gold diamond and emerald necklace with matching ring
Rare Gothic Revival Two fine quality Japanese Meiji period silvered bronze satsuma pottery pots, both signed, ‘Angelus’ carriage 21cm & 10cm high A monumental 19th century clock by Lucien Falize mahogany cased bracket clock of Paris, c.1878/1880, by John Moore of London, 18cm high striking on 8 bells & 4 gongs, 95cm high
A fine Royal Worcester Superb finely carved antique porcelain ‘swan’ vase Chinese spinach jade bowl, by Charles Baldwin, 27cm diameter, with provenance c.1900, 27cm high
Viewing: Thursday 2nd September 9.30am-5.30pm, Friday 3rd September 9.30am-5.30pm Vintage fairground Bambi ride Gordon Russell ‘Weston Suite’ table and four Saturday 4th September 9am-10am (10am sale starts) in working order (originally from chairs and pre-war Gordon Russell sideboard Blackpool pleasure beach) The Old Granary, Waterloo Road, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 3JQ Tel: 01580 715857 Email: [email protected] School Lane, Middle Littleton, near Evesham, Worcestershire WR11 8LN Full catalogue available online from Friday 27th August Email: [email protected] Tel: 01386 244 379 or 833 124 www.bentleysfineartauctioneers.co.uk www.littletonauctions.com CAPES DUNN Enjoy Antiques Trade Gazette FINE ART AUCTIONEERS OF MANCHESTER EST. 1826 on the move with the Jewellery, Silver, Watches & Gold Coins Tuesday 7th September, 11am smartphone and tablet app VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT ONLY: Friday 3rd September, 1.30pm-4.30pm Monday 6th September, 10am-4pm As well as having unlimited access to Tuesday 7th September, 9.30am-llam antiquestradegazette.com, a combined print & digital subscription enables you to download the Antiques Trade Gazette app and enjoy your weekly issues on the go.
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Barnard & Sons Ltd, London 1934, 68.5oz gross Dealer portal Caroline Lay (pictured below), art sale manager at David Lay, is the great-great takes over niece of Ella Naper who sat for this painting by Laura Knight. It sold for £105,000 in 70-year-old Penzance on January 28. Breitling Navitimer 806 aeronauticaln avigationalti mer, Chelsea fair by Laura Chesters
Chelsea Antiques Fair is to return later chronograph gent's wristwatch this year under the ownership of an online dealing platform. Caroline Penman, who has run the venerable event at the Chelsea Old Town Hall since the early 1980s, had recently been looking to sell the event. She has now agreed a deal for an undisclosed fee with 2Covet.com founders Steve Sly, Charles Wallrock (both dealers) and marketing specialist Zara Rowe. While coronavirus restrictions remain in place there is no confirmed date for the first fair. However, an event in autumn this year is planned. ‘Return to former glory’ Sly, Wallrock and Rowe created 2Covet.com in 2019 as a platform for dealers to sell online. Pick Sly said: “With the continued threat of Covid on our minds we strongly feel the of the market will relish smaller boutique events So what am I bid for week such as the historic Chelsea Antiques Fair. It is a time to return the fair to its former glory years.” my great-great aunt? The fair would normally run in March but last year’s edition was cancelled due to A nude study by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) found time and is now in the National Portrait Gallery. the virus. plenty of admirers when it appeared at the latest fine art The auctioneer on the rostrum on January 28 was her The autumn event will host around 30 sale held by Penzance saleroom David Lay (18% buyer’s great-great niece Caroline Lay, who is art sale manager at dealers, initially inviting 2Covet members premium). the auction house. and former Chelsea exhibitors, across a Dating from c.1913, it depicts Ella Naper – the same The catalogue entry suggested this was an ‘early study seven-day event. sitter who appears in the artist’s most famous painting of Ella Naper that led to Knight’s most celebrated work’. Self-portrait with nude which dates from around the same Continued on page 8 Continued on page 5
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