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ARTS & CRAFTS DESIGN TUESDAY 6TH WEDNESDAY 7TH OCTOBER 2020 AT 10AM OCTOBER 2020 AT 10AM
A good Martin Brothers stoneware bird jar and cover A Vistosi Pulcino glass bird designed by Alessandro Pianon Estimate £20,00030,000* Estimate £4,0006,000*
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Fabled Una and the Lion
proof set returns to auction Market proof by Roland Arkell coin and ending with the Choice specimens of the rarest penny, half penny and farthing. English coins are reaching new A celebrated Una and the Lion However, bidders will then be financial territory. proof set minted in the first given the opportunity to This Queen Anne (1702-1714) year of Queen Victoria’s reign keep the set together by five guineas piece from 1705 sold returns to auction next exceeding the aggregate for £220,000 (estimate £100,000- month. price of the eight lots. The 120,000) to top the Stratos The 1839 set of 15 coins - 11 top bidder will receive the collection of English gold coins of them the finest formally original box. sold by Spink on September 15. graded examples of their kind The last 1839 proof set sold At the time of the Whetmore - was last sold by Baldwin’s in at auction – one in a private dispersal in 1943, the 1705 Five London in 2015 for a record collection since February 1938 Guineas piece was thought of £420,000. It comes for sale on when it had been bought at as a ‘proof’ striking and deemed October 29 at the MDC Spink for £37 – took £220,000 more valuable than the renowned numismatic auction in Monte at Dix Noonan Webb in 2017. 1703 Vigo issue (see left). Carlo. However, more spectacular This example, graded by NGC The most notable coin in the sums have been paid for MS62+ ‘Proof Like’, had last been set is the famous Una and the individual coins from the set. sold by Stack’s Bowers Galleries Lion gold £5 pattern - among In the same month, Baldwin’s in New York in January 2012 the most beautiful and most- of St James’s set a new record for $43,709 ($54,625 including wanted of all milled coins. for a British five pounds piece premium). The obverse displays the when a ‘good, extremely fine’ The Stratos collection coupled famous ‘young head’ portrait Above: the three gold coins and the eight silver coins in the 1839 example of the 1839 Una and with the Ennismore collection of of Victoria by William Wyon proof set for sale on October 29 at the MDC numismatic auction in the Lion coin took £340,000. Anglo-Saxon and Viking coinage, while the reverse portrays her Monte Carlo are the finest known and graded examples. Pictured The current auction record provided Spink with ‘a once in a in full coronation regalia as here is the gold Una and the Lion £5 coin and the silver crown that for a British coin was set in blue moon auction’. Una leading the lion. It has the will carry guides of €500,000 and €40,000 respectively. New York in January 2019 Together the 321 lots took legend based on Psalm 119:133 when a 1703 Vigo five guineas over six hours to sell generating Dirige Deus Gressus Meos (May piece sold at $900,000 more than £3m with only one God Direct My Steps). finest by two points of 32 Wilkinson in 1856 (a cutting (£703,000) at a sale conducted lot failing to sell. “We are examples graded by NGC. from the 1856 sale catalogue is by Baldwin’s of St James’s. at a crossroads where the Top graded coins Before its sale five years ago, glued to the base of the box). A price of £1m was paid veteran collector meets the This example, graded Proof 66 this set was family-owned for There is a chance it will now early this year by a private technologically savvy investor Ultra Cameo by the decades – probably acquired be split. The coins will be collector for a 1937 Edward resulting in explosive auction Numismatic Guaranty soon after it was sold for 10 offered first as eight separate VIII trial sovereign in a deal results,” said Spink. Corporation (NGC), is the guineas at Leigh Sotheby and lots – beginning with the £5 negotiated by the Royal Mint.
Early English sea atlas among real sales at ‘virtual’ book fair
An English translation of a Dutch England, and the atlas, as well as 16th century sea atlas was being the first printed sea atlas, among the standout sales at the was the first book to standardise recent online edition of Firsts: symbols of buoys and beacons. London’s Rare Book Fair, writes The volume in question was Frances Allitt. published by J Charlewood Noted Dutch golden age of London in 1588. The folio cartographer Lucas Janszoon includes an engraved coat of Waghenaer (c.1534-c.1606) arms for Sir Christopher Hatton. released his first publication It sold for £150,000 from Spieghel der zeevaerdt in 1584. Daniel Crouch Rare Books at this It combined an atlas of nautical year’s second online staging of charts and sailing directions Firsts. with instructions for navigating The book fair, run by the European coastal waters and Antiquarian Booksellers’ was an immediate success. Association, usually has one An English translation, physical staging per year in June. The mariner’s mirrour, was This year it was called off due Above: Daniel Crouch Rare Books sold this English commissioned by the Lord to coronavirus and went virtual, translation of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer’s Spieghel der Chancellor Sir Christopher with this most recent second zeevaerdt at Firsts earlier this month, where it was offered Hatton in 1587. The maps are edition running online from for £150,000. It has an engraved coat of arms for Sir some of the earliest engraved in September 10-14. Christopher Hatton. 4 | 26 September 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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Planning changes threaten Portobello shops
hedging our bets. But we much does allow for a shop’s usage to by Laura Chesters prefer to keep it as an antiques be changed, we will endeavour gallery. It makes more to work with landowners and Concerns have been raised that commercial sense to remain as developers to ensure that the Portobello Road antiques antiques as well as preserving vitality of Portobello Road and shops could be under threat the character in the street. its innate character remains, under new English planning However we need more dealers and we recognise the antique laws that will make it easier to to return.” trade is an important element change the use of a retail of this.” building. Tourist trade drops From September 1, 2020, a Chinese silver dealer Paul The buzz returns shop can be converted into a Dwyer, who previously traded More positive news comes from café or restaurant without the in Portobello’s Chelsea Willy Stewart who set up need of planning permission. Galleries for seven years, is in Above: one of the many retail frontages in the area. Gallery Rafael in 2019 at The law, that replaces the negotiations to return to the number 295 Westbourne previous system in place since street. He said: “I am going Planning classification Grove (the first new antiques 1987, brings additional change back but it is difficult. Without shop to open in the area in a at a time when many shops are the Chinese visitors and From September 1, a shop can be converted into a café or decade). He has opened a struggling to reopen after tourists coming it is very restaurant without the need of planning permission. second shop at 297 Westbourne lockdown. difficult to trade there. So retail units (shops), cafes, restaurants, offices, clinics, Grove. One property on Portobello He added “I imagine any health centres, nurseries, gyms and light industrial units in Stewart has traded in the Road with an application to business, whether it is a café or England will all have the same ‘E’ classification, meaning they area for many years, most convert from retail to leisure is shop, will struggle at the can all be used for other purposes without the need to apply for recently in the now closed the building containing Silver moment due to the lack of planning permission. Gallery 91 on Portobello Road. Fox Gallery. The antiques visitors. We really hope things The new regulations, known as The Town and Country He said: “We have got centre recently reopened, but improve.” Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations stallholders outside and inside only half of its traders have A spokesperson at 2020, replace the previous system which had been in place since and people are saying our wanted to return. Kensington and Chelsea 1987. Under the new regulations, the previous classes A1, A2, A3, shops have brought a real buzz Property manager Luke Council said: “Helping our B1, D1 and D2 have all been incorporated into class E. back to the area for antiques. Mason said: “We want to have businesses stay afloat and The changes to the use classes are currently subject to judicial Some people have said options. If stall holders do not protecting livelihoods review (challenges will be heard during October) so there may be Portobello has lost its heart, return we could be left with two continues to be a top priority. later amendments. but we have seen great trading empty properties so we are While new planning legislation here on Westbourne Grove.”
Iraq veteran’s Military Cross sells for £36,000
ground under heavy fire and by Alex Capon carried Beard’s body back to safety on his shoulders. A Military Cross group Hayden’s MC plus a General awarded to a soldier who Service Medal with ‘Northern carried a fallen comrade Ireland’ and ‘Air Operations through fierce gunfire in Iraq Iraq’ clasps were offered with sold at £36,000 (plus 20% other personal effects including Above: Corporal David James Hayden, buyer’s premium) in a wristwatch, dress uniform, who was awarded the only Military Royal Household Macclesfield on September 11. insignia and ephemera at Cross issued to the RAF during the Iraq Corporal David James Adam Partridge. The auction campaign and the first ever awarded to Treasures for Sale Hayden was the first RAF non- house said he was selling them an RAF non-commissioned officer. A collection of 50 items from £1,000 to £1.1 million commissioned officer to ever to pay off his mortgage and are being offered for sale by application. win the Military Cross and the support his family. their medals during their To view all items: recipient of the only MC issued A number of bidders lifetime, military medals from royalpossessions.co.uk to the RAF during the entire pursued the lot before it was recent conflicts continue to Email: [email protected] Iraq campaign. knocked down in the middle of attract great interest at auction When his Squadron expectations. on account of their great rarity. Regiment was attacked during Shortly after the sale, Another Iraq War MC a patrol near Basra in 2007, he director and auctioneer Adam group belonging to Sgt Trevor volunteered to rescue Leading Partridge tweeted: “I’m an Coult of the Royal Irish Aircraftman Martin Beard emotional wreck and proud to Regiment, who was awarded A pair of Edward VII Her Royal Highness The Earl and who had been fatally wounded have been asked to handle the the medal for his bravery in a silver-gilt casters Princess Margaret’s Countess of in the firefight. Unaware his sale for David.” machine-gun ambush in diamond ring Strathmore’s (Queen Elizabeth II’s comrade had already died, Although it can be a great Baghdad, sold for £29,000 at royalpossessions.co.uk grandparents’) bed Hayden dashed across open shame that veterans have to sell Lockdales in March 2016. antiquestradegazette.com 26 September 2020 | 5
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PAGE 006-007 2460.indd 1 17/09/2020 19:31:35 AN 18TH CENTURY CARVED GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE, AFTER CASPAR NETSCHER (1639-1684) with red marble top, on carved scroll legs. 116cm wide x An Important pair of portraits of William III and The Duke of Portland, Full Length, 66cm deep x 87cm high Standing in Battle Attire Oil on canvas 153 x 122cm Provenance: Collection of the Peck Family, Prehen House, Contained in contemporary carved giltwood frames, resplendent with military trophies Derry Provenance: Collection of the Peck Family, Prehen House, Derry €10,000 – 15,000 €40,000 – 60,000
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Pick of the week The Stobwasser box that was up to snuff
Economic stimulus packages are not a new phenomenon. pen and ink of the same composition and Georg Siegmund Stobwasser (1717-76) was among the many title by Paris artist Charles-François Muller craftsmen attracted to the Brunswick by the special privileges (1789-1855) resides in the Musée Carnavalet. granted them in the city by Duke Karl I (1713-80) in the wake of the The box (with a chip to the base) was guaranteed Seven Years’ War. to find many admirers at the estimate of £200-300 but In its pomp, the ‘lacquerware manufactory’ he founded with the auctioneers were shocked to see pre-sale bidding via his father in 1763 employed more than 50 people creating a thesaleroom.com had jumped to £16,000 by the morning of wide range of papier-mâché and toleware luxuries. ‘Stobwasser- the sale. Two collectors from Germany had locked horns and arbeiten’ was sold from the half-timbered ‘Stobwasserhaus’ neither was quite finished. Bidding again during the sale, the located on Echternstrasse (it still stands today). Others via a hammer fell to an online bidder from Brunswick at £20,000 hugely successful branch in Berlin opened in 1772. (plus 21% buyer’s premium). The signature Stobwasser production was the flat circular Why such a huge price? It was under Georg Heinrich’s son table snuff box decorated with miniature reproductions of popular Johann Heinrich Stobwasser (1740-1829) that the firm employed Italian, French and Dutch paintings of the period. They were much and trained a succession of jobbing German artists. imitated but most are signed inside with a distinctive red script, Many of these are destined to remain anonymous but they often with pattern number and sometimes with a subject name. included talents such as the Brunswick landscape artist Pascha Examples make periodic appearances at auction. However, Johann Friedrich Weitsch (1723-1803), who ran the Stobwasser Above: the Stobwasser few generate quite the reaction of the 4in (10cm) box signed painting school, his son Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758-1828), the papier-mâché snuff box Stobwasser sche Fabrik in Braunschweig and numbered 887 portrait painter Johann Christian August Schwartz (1756-1814) decorated with a view of offered for sale at Bamfords in Derby on September 11. Part of and the Icelandic artist Thorstein Ilia Hjaltalin (1771-1817). One of the Palais-Royal, Paris a collection of snuff and other boxes, it was decorated with a these gifted hands was probably the decorator of this box. c.1810 sold for £20,000 at vignettes titled Vue du jardin du Palais-Royal près de la rotonde. A Roland Arkell Bamfords.
Indian bronzes with advice on trade with the returned by Met EU from January 1, 2021. It Left: the three states firms should already The Metropolitan Police’s Art gilt bronze have applied for and received and Antiques Unit have helped deities returned an Economic Operator Precious recover three 15th century to Tanjavur by Registration and Identification metals Indian bronze sculptures after the Met’s Art and (EORI) number. one was identified in the Antiques Unit. To view the full HMRC On Friday, September 18, possession of a UK dealer. letter visit: http://atg.news/ The bronzes, taken more HMRCletter. Michael Bloomstein of than 40 years ago, will now be Brighton was paying the returned to their temple in the following for bulk scrap Tanjavur district in India. against a gold fix of: Clement returns Although the thieves were Paris changes after now run next October. A digital to Shrewsbury $1954.75 €1648.75 £1505.16 identified and convicted in Covid concerns platform for the two events will India at the time, the open on November 4. Halls in Shrewsbury has Gold whereabouts of the stolen idols Three Parisian fairs have been Meanwhile, Fine Arts Paris welcomed back Alexander 22 carat: £1331.44 per oz was unknown. called off or altered due to has had a change of date and Clement to its fine art team. He (£42.81 per gram) In 2019, the Met’s Art and Covid-19 concerns. venue. It will now take place previously worked at Halls Antiques Unit were alerted by Modern and Contemporary from November 26-29 at Palais between 2015-18 before joining 18 carat: £1089.36 (£35.03) the Indian High Commission art fair FIAC, design fair PAD Brongniart. It is also adding an software firm Go Auction. He 15 carat: £907.80 (£29.19) that one of the bronze Paris, which were both due to online platform for foreign rejoins as senior general valuer sculptures had been offered for run next month, have been exhibitors and visitors. and Asian art specialist. 14 carat: £847.28 (£27.24) sale. The dealer, once presented postponed until next year. Anica Namur, the Belgian Halls said the appointment 9 carat: £544.68 per oz with the evidence, voluntarily FIAC was due to take place fine art and antiques fair, follows the “announcement disclaimed the sculpture so at the Grand Palais from originally due to take place in that current general valuer (£17.51 per gram) that it could be returned. He October 22-25. Following November this year, has been Joseph Trinder, will be leaving 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 also identified two additional discussions between exhibitors, rescheduled to November 11-21, the company at the end of the 12 Month Low: ▼ £12.77 sculptures from the set and collectors, visitors and 2021. month to pursue a new volunteered to return them. organisers, the event was adventure with his wife in the Hallmark Platinum DCI Tim Wright, of the officially called off last week. Czech Republic”. £19.70 per gram Met’s central specialist crime Exhibitors are being HMRC gives advice unit, said: “These three reimbursed for 100% of the on Brext transition Left: Silver bronzes haven’t been seized by sums already paid. The next Alexander the police, but have been staging will be in October 2021. All VAT-registered businesses Clement has £17.05 per oz for 925 voluntarily disclaimed by the PAD Paris, which was in the UK have been advised rejoined Halls standard hallmarked UK owner. Once he was aware scheduled for October 19-25, how to prepare for dealing with as a senior 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 that they had been stolen, he will now run from April 7-11. It exports and imports after general immediately recognised that follows the cancellation of this Brexit. valuer. 12 Month Low: ▼ £8.60 they should return to India.” year’s PAD London, which will HMRC has contacted firms 8 | 26 September 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 008-009 2460.indd 1 18/09/2020 16:04:47 Bid Barometer Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com
TOP SELLING LOTS
Stan the T-rex skeleton – $6m-8m at Christie’s. Most read
The most viewed stories for Duke’s, Dorset, September 10 week September 10-16 on Ferrari 412 tourer, one of only 576 made. antiquestradegazette.com Estimate: £20,000-40,000 Hammer: £28,000 1 Government’s latest crackdown on social gatherings does not Rogers Jones, Cardiff, September 12 impact trade of art Sir Kyffin Williams, oil on Clement has previously It will be offered at Christie’s and antiques canvas of Eryri mountains worked at Phillips of Chester Evening Sale of 20th Century near Llanberis titled and later Bonhams. Art on October 6 with an 2 Oldest surviving FA Clogwyn y Person I, 2ft 6in estimate of $6m-8m. Cup to be offered at x 3ft 6in (74cm x 1.05m), auction at Bonhams purchased in 2000. A $6m roar deal Estimate: £18,000-25,000 Toy specialist holds 3 Exhibitors report ‘exciting’ opening day Hammer: £19,500 A complete Tyrannosaurus rex first book sales skeleton is to be offered at at Petworth fair auction at Christie’s New York Collectable toy auction house 4 Consultation will be Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, September 16 on October 6. Vectis Auctions has begun final step before Ivory Roman lead ‘pig’ ingot c.81AD with raised inscription reading Imperatore The specimen, known as specialist book auctions and Act is law Caesare Domitiano Augusto Stan, is one of the largest, most will hold its second event on Consule Septimum with 18th complete and widely studied October 27. 5 New hires and century provenance. T-rex skeletons ever discovered. The Stockton-on-Tees firm expansion plans – Estimate: £15,000-25,000 It is named after the held its inaugural Books & Movers & Shakers Hammer: £17,000 paleontologist Stan Sacrison Works on Paper auction on across the auction who found the skeleton’s September 15 with 200 lots house sector partially unearthed hip bones from a collection of science in 1987 in South Dakota. fiction and fantasy volumes. HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE The 67m-year-old dinosaur The October sale includes has previously been at the more from the same collection Black Hills Institute in South with a large children’s books Cooper and Tanner, Frome, Dakota. sale planned in early 2021. September 10 Mixed lot including probably 17th century bronze cast of The Pacing Horse after Giambologna. The $275,000 toast to a Estimate: £20-40 In Numbers Hammer: £19,000 Golden Guinness Girl
The highlight of a sale of works from White Oaks, a prominent Atlanta mansion, was this portrait of Anglo-Irish society hostess 222 Oonagh Guinness by Philip de László (1869-1937). Clarke & Simpson, Suffolk, Oonagh was one of the three ‘Golden Guinness Girls’, the The number of online-only September 12 daughters of Arthur Ernest Guinness (1876-1949) who, as head auctions held so far this year Brass and enamel office plaque titled of the family’s eponymous brewing business, rose to become the by Sotheby’s. The number Collins’ Agency Domestic Registry wealthiest man in Ireland. De László himself had married into a of lots it has offered in Situations in all parts, 12in (30cm) square. branch of the Guinness family, wedding Lucy these timed online sales has Estimate: £10-20 Madeleine Guinness in 1900. tripled. Christie’s has held 113 Hammer: £1200 The 4ft 4in x 3ft 3in (1.3m x 99cm) oil on online sales so far this year canvas dated 1931 had hung in the drawing (to September 10) with an 82% room at Luggala, the 18th century hunting increase in lots offered. lodge in Co Wicklow where Oonagh lived Andrew Smith, Alresford, until her death in 1995. After later being September 10 sold as part of her estate, its subsequent Eastern Orthodox four- whereabouts had been a topic of conjecture fold pocket icon with for a number of years. panels painted with a It re-emerged at Atlanta auction house vision of hell, the Crucifixion, Ahlers & Ogletree on September 13 with Christ in heaven and saints feeding the poor and preaching before a labels to the reverse for the Galeries townscape with a Coptic church, 6in x 21in (15 x 53cm). Charpentier and the Christopher Wood Estimate: £100-150 Gallery. Estimated at $30,000-50,000, it was finally knocked Hammer: £3600 down at $275,000 (£214,800) plus 18% buyer’s premium– the second highest price at auction for de László and only behind 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 September 8-16, 2019. 10-16, 2020.‘Highest ‘Highest price over multiple estimate’ over = Ourtop selectionestimate’ of = Ouritems selection from the oftop items 10 highest from thehammer top 20 prices highest as a £220,000 bid for a portrait of Mrs Adrian van Montagu sold at hammermultiple of prices the high as aestimate multiple paid of the by internet high estimate bidders paid on thesaleroom.com by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com Christie’s in December 2019. Alex Capon ‘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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Automobilia Wednesday 30th September 2pm - live online only
1922 Marcel Bonnot G.W. Scott & Sons picnic set, circa 1909 1911 first series Rolls Royce ‘Crossing the Sahara’ mascot £6,000-7,000 (plus 26.4% BP*) silver ghost mascot £4,000-5,000 (plus 26.4% BP*) £4,000-5,000 (plus 26.4% BP*)
Le Vénus Noir, Josephine Baker mascot 1929 René Lalique ‘Vitesse’ 1928 René Lalique ‘Coq Nain’ mascot £4,000-5,000 (plus 26.4% BP*) £5,000-6,000 (plus 26.4% BP*) £3,000-4,000 (plus 26.4% BP*)
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The Autumn Sale To include equestrian and racing pictures originally at Denston Hall in Suffolk, collected in the 19th and early 20th century by John and Algernon Dunn Gardner Thursday 1st October at 10am
70 29 A fine and rare Leeds pottery horse, 47 A lignum vitae wassail bowl and cover, circa 1680, circa 1825, 43cm high John Wootton (British, c. 1682-1764), The Bloody Shouldered Arabian, £1,500-2,500 (plus 27% BP*) £6,000-8,000 (plus 27% BP*) oil on canvas, 82 x 120cm £30,000-50,000 (plus 27% BP*)
11 110 55 Isaac de Moucheron (Dutch, 1667-1744) Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt., RA John Nost Sartorius (British, 1759-1828), A View of Spaarenhout, near Haarlem, (British, 1735-1811), Portrait of William Brummell The 3rd Duke of Grafton on horseback oil on canvas, 49 x 56cm oil on canvas, 75 x 62cm oil on canvas, 70 x 88cm £15,000-25,000 (plus 27% BP*) £5,000-7,000 (plus 27% BP*) £20,000-30,000 (plus 27% BP*)
152 129 A lead water cistern, A Louis XV tulipwood and early 18th century, dated 1727, marquetry secrétaire cabinet 76 x 110 x 53cm £5,000-8,000 (plus 27% BP*) £3,000-4,000 (plus 27% BP*)
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