SECOND DAY’S SALE

THURSDAY 12th JULY 2012

Furniture

Commencing not before 2.30pm Furniture will be on view on: Saturday 7th July 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 8th July 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 9th July 9.00am to 5.15pm Tuesday 10th July 9.00am to 5.15pm Wednesday 11th July 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day

Enquiries: Christopher Hampton Enquiries: Richard Bearne Tel: 01392 413100 Tel: 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 723. An Indo-Persain carpet with central diamond shaped reserved panel decorated with stylised florets and foliage on a deep blue and red ground within a seven stage border, 436 x 318cm (14ft 4in x 10ft 5in).

724. A Tabriz carpet the ivory field with palmettes, flowers and foliage, within a conforming 724 border and twin guard stripes, 320cm (10ft 6in) x 240cm (7ft 10in). £400 - 600 721. 722.

A Tabriz carpet the dark A Kirman carpet the ivory 725. indigo field with repeating field with overall stylised A central Persian carpet the palmettes, flower sprays and flowers and foliage, within a ivory field with palmettes, scrolling tendrils, within a pale conforming puce and apple flowers and scrolling foliage, indigo flower spray border and green border, 427cm (14ft within a conforming madder twin guards, 300cm (9ft 10in) 0in) x 292cm (9ft 7in). border and four guard stripes, x 186cm (6ft 1in). £400 - 500 350cm (11ft 6in) x 230cm £400 - 500 (7ft 7in).

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186 726. An oak, boxwood and ivory inlaid walnut chest of four geometrically panelled long drawers, with panelled sides and on bracket feet, 106cm (3ft 6in) wide, part late 17th/early 18th Century, reconstructed. £600 - 800

727. A 17th century oak and walnut rectangular side table fitted with a single drawer on turned legs, united by curved and flattened X-frame stretchers, terminating in bun feet, 76cm. (2ft 6in) wide. £300 - 400

728. An oak dresser the plate rack with moulded cornice and two open shelves, the fielded panel 729 base with three frieze drawers, two doors and on bracket feet, 163cm (5ft 4in) wide, 18th century and later. £600 - 800

729. A late 17th century walnut chest with rectangular top, two short and three long geometrically-panelled drawers applied with split baluster turnings and on bun feet, 110cm. (3ft 7in) wide. £800 - 1200 730

730. A 17th Century style oak refectory table with cleated plank top and inverted baluster legs, with block feet joined by an H stretcher, 85cm (2ft 11½in) x 230cm (7ft 6in), together with a set of eight ash ladderback chairs, with rush seats, including two armchairs (9). £600 - 800

730 part 187 732 731. An oak rectangular dresser base in the 17th century taste, the top with a moulded edge, containing three moulded panel frieze drawers, on turned baluster legs, united by plain moulded stretchers on bun- shaped feet, 244cm (8ft) long. £400 - 600

732. An oak refectory table in the 17th century manner, the five plank top on three pairs of ring-turned columnar supports, with scroll brackets and joined 733 by square stretchers, 73cm (2ft 5in) x 234cm (7ft 8in). £1000 - 1500

733. A set of six early 19th Century provincial oak dining chairs (including two armchairs), each with rectangular back, crossbars with confronting C scrolls, solid seats and on tapering square legs with stretchers. £400 - 600

734. An early 19th Century oak dresser the enclosed back with moulded cornice and open shelves, the base with three frieze drawers and on slender turned front supports to an undertier and bracket feet, 182cm (6ft 0in) wide, 214cm 734 (7ft 0in) high. £800 - 1200 188 737 open

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735. A panelled oak double bedstead the headboard carved with roundels and geometric motifs, the footboard plain and all with ball finials, 139cm (4ft 6in) wide, 17th Century and later. £400 - 600

736. A late 17th/early 18th century oak chest in two parts, with rectangular top, four geometrically panelled long drawers and on stile feet, 95cm. (3ft 1½in) wide. £400 - 600

737 737. A George III mahogany and inlaid secretaire bookcase bordered with lines, the upper part with an architectural crossbanded pediment with urn finials, moulded dentil cornice and arcaded pendant hung frieze, fitted with adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of astragal glazed panel doors, the lower part having a fall enclosing a tulipwood crossbanded and inlaid fitted interior with small drawers and pigeon holes about a central enclosed cupboard, flanked by simulated fluted pilaster column concealed compartments, containing three long drawers below, on splayed bracket feet, 110.5cm (3ft 7½in) wide, 235cm (7ft 8½in) high. £1300 - 1500 189 738

738. 739 A mahogany supper table in the 18th Century manner the shaped circular tip up top carved with foliage and with nine dished roundels, the fluted and reeded stem on a tripod base carved with ribbon tied wheatears and claw and ball feet, 82cm (2ft 8in) diameter. 740 £200 - 250 741.

A George II mahogany 739. drop leaf breakfast table A George III inlaid with oval top and on mahogany serpentine tapering turned legs with fronted chest the top with pad feet, 130cm (4ft 3in) chequered banding to the x 113cm (3ft 10½in). edge, the four graduated £200 - 250 long drawers each inlaid with boxwood lines and dots, a 742. sharks tooth band below A George IV brass and on shaped bracket feet, mounted rosewood 114cm (3ft 9in) wide. games table of elongated £800 - 1200 octagonal form, the

fossilised marble top 740. centred by an inlaid A George III mahogany specimen marble estate cabinet with cleated chessboard, the square rectangular hinged top, cabriole corner supports enclosing a compartment, a headed by lotus leaves, similar central recessed door united by a platform flanked either side by three stretcher and ending in graduated short drawers and anthemion moulded brass on bracket feet, 164cm (5ft 742 sabots, with castors, 66cm 4½in) wide. (2ft 2in) wide. £300 - 400 £1000 - 1500

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743-4. No lots. and ebonised lines and 747. with ebonised mouldings, A George IV mahogany 745. the shaped, moulded and card table the rectangular An early 19th Century Dutch reeded ledge back with a fold over top with rounded satinwood and sycamore side central ebonised ground shell corners and wide satinwood cabinet with broad stained medallion, the bowed centre banding within crossbanding sycamore bands and chequer with a reeded edge and similar and stringing and on inlaid lines throughout, the frieze central medallion, fitted with tapering square legs with drawer and two doors below two drawers, flanked by a pair spade feet, 90cm (2ft 11½in) flanked by canted corners and of pedestal cupboards with wide. on tapering square legs, with caddy tops and fan spandrels, £300 - 400 brass ball feet, 100cm (3ft 3in) one fitted with shelves, the wide). other with deep drawer and £400 - 600 cellarette drawer below, each enclosed by a door with shell 746. and urn decorated panels, A Regency mahogany and on square tapered legs, inlaid pedestal sideboard terminating in block feet. of bowed breakfront outline, 212cm (6ft 11½ in) long. cross banded in kingwood £500 – 700

191 749. A Regency mahogany sofa table with crossbanded rounded rectangular top, two real opposing, two faux frieze 748 drawers, the end standards united by an arched stretcher and on reeded splayed legs with brass caps and castors, 157cm (5ft 2in) wide. 748. £500 - 700 A late 18th/early 19th Century Dutch mahogany and marquetry secretaire a abattant inlaid throughout with musical 750. trophies suspended from ribbon tied swags, flowers, foliage and An early 19th Century urns, the projecting frieze drawer above a fall front enclosing a mahogany card table of fitted interior, a pair of doors below and on square supports with canted rectangular form, with block feet, 100cm (3ft 2½in) wide, 156cm (4ft 1½in) high. satinwood crossbanded fold £800 - 1200 over top, similarly inlaid frieze with satinwood tablets and on parcel ebonised tapering turned legs, 91cm (3ft 0in) wide. £300 - 400

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751. A 19th Century cream painted and gilt settee of large proportions and upholstered in ivory and maroon Genoa velvet, the acanthus carved scrolling top rail monogrammed ‘S’ beneath a carved shell, the panelled hexagonal uprights with lotus finials, the padded arms with scroll terminals and baluster supports continuing into fluted legs, with castors, 224cm (7ft 4in) wide. £600 - 800 751

752. A crossbanded mahogany breakfast table the rounded rectangular top with boxwood and ebony stringing and a reeded edge, on a simple column to four reeded splayed legs, brass caps and castors, 152cm. (5ft x 101cm). £300 - 500

753. An early 19th Century mahogany drop leaf table in the Gillow’s manner with moulded edge to the rounded rectangular top, two frieze 754 drawers opposing two false drawers and on tapering reeded legs with brass castors, 150cm (4ft 11in) wide, some alteration. £400 - 600

754. A Victorian walnut and burr walnut breakfront bookcase applied with gilt brass mounts, the three doors now glazed and with brass grilles behind, on a plinth base, 152cm (5ft 0in) wide, some alteration. £600 - 800 755 755. A Victorian marble topped Altar table the red marble top carved with five Maltese crosses in circular cartouches , raised on stained pine square leg supports with triple arched apron, 97 x 210 x 66cm. £600 – 800 *Formerly in The Bishops Palace Wells. 193

756. A Victorian walnut davenport with thuya crossbanding and boxwood and ebony stringing, raised stationery compartment, sloping flap, four real and four false side drawers, carved and pierced front supports and on trestle feet with castors, 53cm (1ft 9in) wide. £400 - 600

757. A Victorian walnut breakfast table the shaped quarter veneered top raised on a reeded baluster support on floral carved downswept scroll legs, 150 x 112cm. £400 - 600

758. A Victorian burr walnut veneer and inlaid rectangular combined Games and Work table the hinged top decorated with a band of Tunbridgeware centred by a panel of a bird on a leafy branch, inlaid on the underside 756 for chess and backgammon, having a shaped sliding well below, on turned column end and carved dual splayed supports, united by a turned stretcher, terminating in castors, 58.5cm. (1ft 11in) wide. £120 - 180

759. A mid 19th Century mahogany pedestal cylinder bureau the interior with pull out writing slide, small drawers and pigeon holes, each pedestal with three drawers and on plinth bases, 138cm (4ft 6½in) wide. £800 - 1200

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760. 761. 763. A Victorian mahogany An early Victorian mahogany A Victorian carved walnut extending dining table library table with tooled scroll end chaise longue with moulded edge to the leather inset and moulded decorated with acanthus rounded rectangular top and edge to the rounded scrollwork, having a shaped on tapering reeded legs with rectangular top, two frieze and moulded openwork three brass castors, 137cm 4ft 6in) x drawers to each long side quarter back, scroll end and 260cm (8ft 6in) including two and on tapering reeded legs seat upholstered in yellow extension leaves. with brass Collinson’s patent silk damask fabric, having a £1000 - 1500 castors, 136cm (4ft 5½in) x shaped apron on cabriole legs, 97cm (3ft 2in). terminating in whorl feet and £500 - 700 castors. £350 - 450 762. A Victorian mahogany buffet 764. No Lot. with quarter gallery and three rectangular tiers on simple turned supports and brass castors, 163cm (5ft 4in) wide. £300 - 500

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765. A 17th/18th century Franco-Flemish iron bound rosewood coffre fort the strap hinges, corner mounts and escutcheons all with fleur de lys terminals, the hinged top enclosing a compartment, the fall front revealing three small drawers and the sides with carrying handles, 62cm (2ft ½in) wide. £300 - 400

766. A 19th Century French iron framed double bedstead the arched rectangular head and footboards infilled with scrolling ‘wrought’ ironwork, 122cm (4ft 0in) wide. £500 - 700

767 A late 18th Century Dutch mahogany armoire with pierced interlaced pediment centred by a swag carved panel and Delft stand, the dentil cornice above two panelled doors, each pivoting on a brass mounted stop fluted Corinthian column, the base with carved and splayed canted corners, three long drawers and on fluted splayed square feet, 173cm (5ft 8in) 767 wide, 242cm (7ft 11in) high. £800 - 1200

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768. A Dutch colonial brass mounted camphorwood blanket chest of traditional rectangular form, the sides with brass carrying handles and on ebonised bun feet, 107cm (3ft 6in) wide, the top with brass plaque engraved ‘Nora Liccama’. £400 - 600

769. An early 18th century Dutch East India Company padouk and ebony chest of large proportions, the lifting top with brass strap hinges and lock secured by stud-headed bolts, the sides with heavy brass carrying handles, 168cm (5ft 6in) x 70cm (2ft 3½in) the back stamped VOC, 1724. £1500 - 2000 770 770. A mid 18th Century Italian giltwood console table of serpentine outline, the verde antico marble top within a broad band of specimen marbles, the frieze and apron carved with foliate cartouches, husk swags and scrolls and continuing into moulded cabriole legs with knurl feet, 101cm (3ft 4in) wide. £2500 - 3500

197 771 771. A pair of 18th Century style black japanned serpentine commodes each decorated in gilt, red and silver with chinoiserie scenes, scrolling foliate sprays and flowerheads, each central door flanked by concave panels and on fluted and gadrooned legs, 165cm (5f 5in) wide. £600 - 800

772. A 19th Century gilt framed overmantel mirror with lotus moulded frieze, the three glass plates divided by moulded uprights applied with stiff leaves, 99cm (3ft 3in) x 122cm (4ft 0in). £150 - 200

773. A gilt framed oval wall mirror in the Adam style the bevelled glass plate within beaded and egg and dart mouldings, surmounted by an urn with ribbon tied husk swags, ribbon tied flower sprays below, 94cm (3ft 1in) x 107cm (3ft 6in). £300 - 500 775

774. 775. A 19th century walnut A French gilt brass mounted tulipwood and parquetry rectangular mirror of bonheur du jour in the Louis XVI manner and outlined breakfront moulded outline throughout with amaranth, the superstructure with white marble inset with a cartouche-shaped top above two doors, each applied with a Sevres style oval plate within a gilt foliate slip, plaque, three short drawers below, the table base with a long 94.5cm (3ft 1¼in) x 67cm (2ft drawer fitted with a tooled leather writing slide and on tapering 2½in). square legs with acanthus moulded sabots, 80cm (2ft 7in) wide, £100 - 150 136cm (4ft 5½in) high. £2000 – 3000 198 776

776. A Regency gilt framed rectangular wall mirror the architecturally moulded cornice with projecting corners and the columnar uprights 778 applied with foliate motifs, 56cm (1ft 10in) x 49cm (1ft 7 ¼in). £120 - 180

777. A 19th century gilt mirror the arched plate in a guilloche moulded frame , surmounted by a pierced scroll pediment, 172 x 91cm £400 – 500 785

778. A Victorian gilt framed 779 785. girandole the shaped oval A late 19th century Russian Arthur Simpson of Kendal - A glass plate within a rope twist childs table and a pair of slatted oak letter rack with frame surmounted and applied elbow chairs decorated in scroll sides and restraining bar with foliate scrolls, floral swags the Khokloma style in red above a frieze carved with fruit and laurel sprays, two pairs of and black lacquer with flower and scrolling foliage, 69cm acanthus moulded scrolling head and foliate designs, (2ft 3in) wide, labellled Arthur candle branches and a shell the table 67cm (2ft 2½in) x W Simpson, The Handicrafts, apron below, 95cm (3ft 1½in) 42.5cm. (1ft 4¾in) on turned Kendal. x 56cm (1ft 10in). legs; the chairs with guilloche £80 - 120 £300 - 500 decoration on splayed legs. £200 - 300

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786 A Cotswold School oak 787 gateleg occasional table with oval top, scrolled frieze and Gothic manner with entwined on square twin end supports scrolling foliage and stylised 787. with ‘sledge’ feet, 88cm. (1ft oak tree motifs, the two A pair of Liberty-style oak 10½in) wide. doors with patinated metal slat-back open armchairs £100 - 150 strap hinges, the stand with each with serpentine toprail, conforming foliate frieze and flat outswept arms, rush seat 786A. moulded square legs joined by and on simple turned legs with An Arts and Crafts oak an undershelf, 143cm (4ft 8in) stretchers. cabinet on stand the panelled wide, 170cm (5ft 7in) high. £300 – 400 upper section carved in the £600 - 800

788 788. A pair of Maund and Berg standing mahogany display cabinets of oval shaped outline with interior plate glass adjustable shelves, enclosed by a central glass door on short cabriole legs, claw and ball feet, 188cm (6ft 2in) high x 111cm (3ft 7½in) wide. £2000 - 3000

200 789. example, the secretaire chest Gimson the Cotswolds School A contemporary pearwood and the dressing table display designer of furniture and and glass topped demi-lune typical Waals characteristics, metalwork. He subsequently table by David Savage of i.e., octagonal knob handles, joined Gimson in his Daneway openwork quadruple petal through dovetails and ‘sledge’ workshop as foreman/manager design on square section feet. It is recorded in Peter and chief cabinet maker until splayed supports, 127cm. (4ft Waals Client Ledger - page Gimson’s death in August 2in) across. 72- 1929, Aug.22, that Alfred 1919. He continued to run £200 - 300 James purchased “pieces of the Daneway workshop until, oak”. It seems likely that these in early 1920 he set up on were crafted into some of the his own at Halliday’s Mill , ALFRED JAMES offered lots. , employing many of Gimson’s skilled craftsmen Alfred James Esq (1844- including designer Norman 1936) of Edgeworth Manor Jewson. From 1920 until his near Stroud, Gloucestershire, PETER VAN DER WAALS sudden death in 1937, the inherited the lordship of the workshops produced high Manor on the death of his Born in the Hague, Peter quality furniture to Waals’ brother Albert in 1914. He Waals was the nephew of and Jewson’s designs and also never married and on his Nobel Prize-winning physicist trained apprentices in the death, the offered lots were Johannes Diderick van der Cotswold School tradition. inherited by his surviving Waals. Trained as a cabinet A disastrous fire in his brother the Reverend Frank maker in Holland, he spent workshops in 1938 ended his James of Edgeworth and were three years working in widow’s attempts to continue passed down through the , and Vienna production there. generations to the present day. before moving to London where, in 1901, he met Ernest Alfred James was a supporter of Peter van der Waals, ’s foreman/manager and assisted him in setting up his own workshop at nearby Chalford after Gimson’s death in 1919.

Alfred James was a talented craftsman in his own right, as is evidenced by the following thirteen lots, which are stamped and dated and obviously made for his own personal use. Given his established connection with Peter Waals, it is likely that he received tuition from him, as did other amateurs, perhaps the best known being Sir George Lowthian Trevelyan who “apprenticed himself to Peter Waals and made 790 many fine pieces of furniture 790. including the bed in which Alfred James - A small mahogany bureau/display cabinet with he finally died, as he wished”. glazed double domed upper section, a panelled sloping flap, an Also it is entirely possible that arrangement of five small drawers below and on square cabriole Waals may have designed legs, 72cm (2ft 4½in) wide, inscribed on both interior ‘secret’ some of the pieces for drawers A J Jan 1928. execution by his ‘student’. For £200 - 300

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791. Alfred James - A Cotswold School composite part bedroom suite comprising a secretaire chest with hinged divided panelled top, enclosing compartments and an arrangement of five drawers below, all with chamfered octagonal knob handles, 94cm (3ft 1in) wide, a pedestal dressing table with swing mirror and ten drawers, 104cm (3ft 5in) wide, a washstand with two panelled doors, 90cm (2ft 11½in) wide, a dressing stool on chamfered legs and a single bedstead with panelled head and footboards, 92cm (3ft 0in) wide (5). £400 – 600 * The secretaire chest stamped A James 8.8.31 The dressing table stamped A James 12.12.31 The Stool stamped A James 20.1.32 The washstand stamped A James 6/9/35

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792. 793. 792A. Alfred James - A Cotswold Alfred James - A Cotswold A Cotswold School Oak School oak side table with School oak dressing dining chair in the manner of rectangular top, fielded panel table mirror with arched Peter Waals: with trellis back, frieze drawer, chamfered rectangular bevelled glass plate leather drop-in seat and square serpentine underframe and on and two moulded drawers to legs with stretchers, the frame square legs, 101cm (3ft 4in) the base, 51cm (1ft 8in) wide, incised VIII. wide, the drawer stamped A stamped A James 1923. . £30-50 James 1923, together with a £100 – 150 matching chair with arcaded * Provenance: Alfred James back, stamped A James 1923 Esq, Edgeworth Manor, (2). Gloucestershire. £150 - 250

203 We are grateful to the Gloucester Archives for images of the above entries (Ref. no. D2876/1)

793A. Peter Van Der Waals - A solid english walnut extending dining table the rectangular top with gently angled ends and edged with solid figured walnut outlined with holly and ebony chequer lines, each section on four knopped and chamfered legs joined by a shaped and chamfered ‘hayrake’ stretcher, 106cm (3ft 5½in) x 274cm (9ft 0in) including one extension leaf. £4000 – 6000

* Entry on Peter Van Der Waals Client Ledger, page 72 - ‘Squire Alfred James, Edgeworth Manor, Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire - 1929 Febr - walnut expanding dining table 63-10-00 - 1929 March 4 by cash 63-10-00’. This is a virtual duplicate of the entry on page 66 ‘A James Esq .....’.

204 794 795 794 Footnote The inspiration for 797. A Cotswold School oak this model may have been the An early Ivory & beaten single bedstead the linenfold Scrivens Conduit Head, Circa white metal cup & cover the headboard with carved owl 1636, which was removed from shallow domed cover with finials, the linenfold sides and Gloucester City to Edgeworth ivory turned knop finial, the footboard carved with fruiting Manor Grounds Circa 1830. bowl of tapering form, with vines and pomegranates, It was returned and rebuilt as ivory and pique decorated 114cm (3ft 9in) wide. a feature of Hillfield Gardens, knopped stem, on a spreading £300 – 400 Gloucester City in 1937. circular foot, and polished Alternatively, the much grander stone socle base, incised to the * Provenance Alfred James style of this model may in part underside of foot AJ, the cup Esq, Edgeworth Manor, have been inspired by the and cover 16cm. high. Gloucestershire. nearby Malmesbury Market £200 - 250 Cross and also the Jacobean 798. 795. style interior of Edgeworth An Edward VII silver mustard Alfred James - An Manor. It was probably an idea pot of plain cylindrical form, oak miniature model for a new garden feature never with shallow domed hinged fountainhead in Jacobean realised. lid, bears crest of James of taste and of octagonal outline, Edgeworh, 7.5cm. high, maker the ogee arched canopy Alfred James, London, 1908, surmounted by a lion serjant 796. with matching spoon, total with shield, the pediment A matched Edward VII silver weight of silver 6.29ozs. pierced and carved with scrolls porringer and cover the £80 - 100 and the arcaded underframe circular lid with plain knop, 799. supported on Ionic columns maker Alfred James, London, An Edaward VII silver with panelled pedestals united 1908, the porringer of beaten pepperette of plain cylindrical with a stepped base, 23cm design with two swept handles form, with reeded girdle and (9inch) diameter - the base on a spreading circular foot, spreading circular foot, 9cm. stamped A James 14/18.34, 13.5cm. diameter, maker WIP, high, maker Alfred James sold together with an oak wall London, 1904, total weight of London, 1906, 5.03ozs. bracket (2). silver 13.82ozs. £70 - 90 £150 – 250 £150 - 200

205 800. An early 20th century white metal communion cup and cover with domed cover and spire finial, the cup raised on a knopped and scroll decorated stem with bell shaped base on a spreading circular foot, 20cm. high, maker Alfred James, bears no other marks. £150 – 200

801. An Edward VII circular silver ashtray of plain circular form with reeded girdles, 8.25cm. diameter, maker Alfred James, London, 1907, 5.20ozs. £60 - 80

802. A painted satinwood serpentine side table in the George III manner, the top decorated with a half-patera and floral sprays, the frieze with stringing, the tapering legs with simulated fluting and on splayed feet joined by curved stretchers. £1000 - 1500 803

803. Robert Russell - A Rare Tunbridgeware rosewood and marquetry tripod wine table the top with stylised leaf banding, the hexagonal stem with alternating stylised coral marquetry faces and on three down turned splayed legs, 45cm (1ft 5¾in) diameter, 74cm (2ft 5in) high. £500 – 700

* The Tunbridgeware manufacturer Robert Russell was born in Tunbridge Wells in 1812. At first he probably produced Tundridge ware pieces with conventional tesserae mosaic and perspective cube work. At the Great Exhibition of 1851, he exhibited a Tunbridge ware marqueterie inlay lady’s work box fitted with a till. This distinctive style of marquetry can be seen on the border and the supporting column of this wine table. Rather aptly, Russell advertised his work as Tunbridge Wells marquetry.....analogous to the Tunbridge ware, but of a superior character. His technique involved cutting lobe shaped sections of contrasting wood veneers to form a central block, or in the case of this table, to form chains for border decoration, sometimes in combination with conventional mosaic bandings and blocks. In 1863, he included among his clients the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Spith, Lady Ann Marie Dawson, Lady Mary Rose, Lady Franklin, Lady Cornwallis and Lady Harding. In 1871 his work force consisted of his daughter and unusually four women. Production seems to have continued until his death in 1873. see Brian Austen, Tunbridgeware and Related European Decorative Woodwares, Foulsham 2001, Third Extended edition, page 155 - 156, for the source of this information.

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206 805. A George III mahogany four poster bedstead the canopy with Greek key pattern cornice, the two cluster column end posts carved with acanthus leaves and foliate motifs and ending in reeded feet, 148cm (4ft 10in) wide, 252cm (8ft 3in) high, together with 20th Century crewelwork drapes, mattress etc. £2000 - 3000

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806. A Mid 18th Century style mahogany ‘Pepys’ bookcase with acanthus carved cavetto cornice, a nine pane glazed door with moulded ovolo astragals, two real and two false brass escutcheons, six graduated drawers below and on short cabriole front legs, 120cm (3ft 11in) wide, 230cm (7ft 6 ½in) high. £2000 - 3000

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807. A George IV mahogany breakfront library bookcase with moulded cornice, three pairs of glazed doors with arched astragals, a pair of panelled doors below enclosing sliding trays, flanked by conforming doors enclosing drawers and a plinth base, 276cm. (9ft ½in) wide, 244cm (8ft) high. £4000 - 6000

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808. A pair of Regency mahogany card and tea tables the rectangular hinged tops with canted angles and reeded edges, one being plain, the other baize lined, the friezes with reeded mouldings, on reeded fluted and ring turned legs, terminating in brass cappings and castors, 91.5cm (3ft) wide. £2000 - 3000

809 open 809 809. A George III mahogany crossbanded and inlaid secretaire bookcase bordered with boxwood and chequer strung lines, the upper part with a moulded cornice and frieze decorated with oval fan medallions, fitted with shelves and enclosed by a pair of astragal glazed panel doors with oval panel centres in hexagonal surrounds, the lower part having a fall enclosing a fitted interior with small drawers and pigeon holes about a central enclosed compartment, containing three long drawers below and with a shaped apron base, on slightly splayed bracket feet, 126cm (4ft 1½in) wide, 230cm (7ft 6½in) high. £1200 - 1800 210

810. A George III mahogany and inlaid sideboard of D shaped breakfront outline, bordered with boxwood and ebonised lines, fitted with a central frieze and recessed arched apron drawer, flanked by an enclosed cupboard to either side, on square tapered legs, terminating in spade feet, 183cm (6ft) long. £250 – 300

811. An early 19th Century 810 mahogany cheval mirror: the rectangular glass plate within a ring turned frame with mushroom finials and on reeded splayed feet, brass paw caps and castors, 93cm (3ft ½in) wide. £500-700

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