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Having postponed the sale in November and by Laura Chesters again in January, Chorley’s finally got to sell an exceptional private collection of early English Masterpiece London has cancelled the porcelain in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, physical edition of its 2021 event on March 24. because of coronavirus restrictions – The 18 pieces, chosen by the vendor’s late husband but the Petworth fair will go ahead this for rarity, early dates and condition, had been acquired summer. in London between 1984-93, predominantly through The next Masterpiece has been rescheduled the dealership Albert Amor. to run from June 22, 2022, with the Foremost was a Chelsea owl from the Triangle- management now planning online Raised Anchor period c.1745-49. alternatives and small live events for 2021 This 8in (20.5cm) high model, long admired for its should restrictions allow them. remarkable ornithological accuracy, is thought to be Lucie Kitchener, managing director of based on the plate of The Great Hawk or Horned Owl the fair, and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, chairman, that appears in George Edwards’ A Natural History said: “We had hoped that it would be of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and possible to come together with our Undescribed Animals published between 1743-51. exhibitors, patrons and visitors for the fair Related models of owls on rocky bases are also this June. However, the continually evolving found in Staffordshire saltglaze stoneware and in impact of the pandemic has meant we are porcelain at Bow. focusing our efforts on online and a series A number of these have appeared at auction in of smaller-scale live events this summer.” It will announce details in due course. Two views of the Continued on page 6 Meanwhile, organiser The Antiques Chelsea owl from Dealers Fair Limited (ADFL) has the Triangle-Raised successfully negotiated with the National Anchor period Trust to find new dates forThe Petworth Park c.1745-49 – £40,000 Antiques & Fine Art Fair this summer after at Chorley’s. coronavirus restrictions forced the event to reschedule. The fair had been planned for May but will now take place on June 18-20 after the National Trust granted a licence to go ahead. Dealers have signed up and tickets are now on sale. Pick The fair was one of the few that could of the take place last year as it is held outside in a purpose-built marquee in the National week Trust’s Petworth House in West Sussex.
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PAGE 002 2486.indd 1 2 /03/2021 17:40: 0 318. John Randall Bratby (1928-1992), oil painting, TWO-DAY AUCTION ‘Venice’, signed, canvas 48 x 36in Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th April £2500-3500 (plus 24% BP*) Online Only - Commencing at 10am 319. James Roderick Moir aka Vic Reeves (born 1959), acrylic, ‘UPF What A Palava’, canvas NO PUBLIC VIEWING OR ATTENDANCE AT THE AUCTION 36.5 x 24in. Note: Complete with Certificate of for further details, please visit Authenticity issued by Eyestone, on behalf of Whiteground Ltd www.thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com £1000-1500 (plus 24% BP*)
277. Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970), ink sketch, ‘Anna Pavlova rehearsing 'The Dying Swan' (1925)’, signed and inscribed, 11.5 x 9in £300-500 (plus 24% BP*)
229. Dorothy Hepworth (1894-1978) aka Patricia Preece (1894-1966), 614. A pair of George III .65 calibre flintlock oil painting, Still life, board 16 x 20in 50. An emerald and diamond cluster ring, travelling pistols, by Henry Nock of London £250-350 (plus 24% BP*) the emerald, approximately .60ct, surrounded (1741-1804), 10in overall Part of The Michael Dickens Collection by diamonds of approximately 5ct in total £3000-5000 (plus 24% BP*) of paintings and drawings £2500-3500 (plus 24% BP*)
39. A late 19th century continental silver Nef 214. A lady’s Rolex ‘Oyster ‘Neptun’, by Bernard Muller, Perpetual’ wristwatch, 1983, with import marks for 18ct gold case, London 1891, serial no. 76198, 11.75in overall x gross weight 69g 15.5in high, weight 70oz £3500-4500 (plus 24% BP*) £1500-2000 (plus 24% BP*)
761. An early George III walnut and gilt brass mounted mantle clock by William Webster, Exchange Alley, London, 17.5in high £2000-3000 (plus 24% BP*)
296. Barry Kirk (born 1933), oil painting, ‘Painted 728 & 729. A Ladies’, signed, Norton Dominator canvas 28 x 30in. 1961 Model 99 Provenance: 600cc motorbike Francis Kyle and an A.J.S. Gallery, 9 Maddox 1951 Model 18 Street, London, CS (replica) 500cc exhibited 2004. motorbike One of eight lots Each £5000-7000 by the artist (plus 24% BP*)
810. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), ‘Sujet Poule’ (A.R.250), terre de faience pitcher, 1954, from the edition of 500, 7 x 5in high £2000-3000 (plus 24% BP*) THE ANNIE MARCHANT COLLECTION of over 600 lots of DOMESTIC AND COUNTRY ANTIQUES Monday 12th & Tuesday 13th April - Online Only - Commencing at 10am
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Realism dawns as Parker enjoys record sale and here it was estimated at by Alex Capon £2000-3000. After a lengthy competition, with interest A private collection of pictures emerging both online and on helped Parker Fine Art the phone, it sold at £28,000. Auctions to its highest total The following lot, another since opening in Farnham last signed but earlier chalk year. The consignment from a drawing from 1858 titled Le deceased estate was offered as Serrurier (The Locksmith) also a live webcast auction on drew keen interest against a March 19 and, with all 300 lots £3000-5000 estimate. sold, it raised a hammer total A well-observed figurative of £406,000 (plus 25% buyer’s study, it had featured in a premium). number of exhibitions including The works had been Above: Le Moulin à café (The coffee grinder), a drawing by one dedicated to French Realist collected from leading dealers Francois Bonvin – £28,000 at Parker Fine Art Auctions. art at Cleveland Museum of over a 50-year period and were Right: Le Serrurier (The Locksmith), also by Bonvin – £32,000. Art and the Brooklyn Museum largely in good condition and in 1980-81. It sold at £32,000 came nicely framed. Since drew strong interest from the Gabriel Weisberg’s 1980 First up was Le Moulin à café to a dealer who bid online via their previous owner had never UK and European trade. catalogue raisonné of the (The coffee grinder), a 6 x 8¼in thesaleroom.com and bought for investment, they artist’s drawings and (15 x 21cm) signed black chalk described it as “exceptional”. were priced to sell at Parker French Realism watercolours – demonstrated drawing from 1879 that had Other than Le bougeoir (The with most estimates set at only Leading the day were two his skill as a draughtsman and provenance to the French candlestick) from 1872, which a few hundred pounds. chalk drawings by François championing of unpretentious writer and cultural campaigner sold for $70,000 (£35,780) at The lowly pitched lots Bonvin (1817-87), the French subjects. These were rated Georges Pillement. Sotheby’s New York in May included an impressive Realist painter who exhibited among the most desirable The previous owner had 2008, these appear to be the selection of 19th century and at the Paris Salon from 1847. drawings by Bonvin to have purchased it from London highest sums for Bonvin earlier works on paper which Both works – listed in emerged in the last 10 years. dealer Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox drawings at auction.
Banksy: far from anonymous in the art market
For people who follow the art sale on March 25 offered a The top lot of the sale overall market, Banksy (b.1975) is now spray paint and emulsion on was Edvard Munch’s (1863- impossible to ignore. canvas which was the original 1944) Embrace on the Beach. It Increasingly, his original concept for Banksy’s Barely had previously sold at Sotheby’s works are mainstays of major Legal Poster (After Demi Moore) for £5.5m in February 2006 but sales of Modern and from 2006. Estimated at expectations were higher this Contemporary art, with his £2m-3m, it sold at £2.2m. The time round. Estimated at multiples among the best- auction also included a signed £9m-12m, it sold to an Asian selling elements of the modern screenprint of Girl with Balloon collector at £14m. prints market. from 2004, one of 88 artist’s Bonhams’ Post-War and The latest flagship auction proofs created in different Contemporary Art sale on series in London was topped by colour variants (this one with a March 24 was led by a rare a Banksy – the oil on canvas gold balloon). Bansky image that the artist Game Changer depicting a boy Estimated at £400,000- had made on found material in discarding his action toys in 600,000, it took £900,000 – a 2004. The spray paint on wood favour of a figure of an NHS significant record for a Banksy titled Girl with Ice Cream on nurse. It was painted last year editioned print, outselling a Palette overshot a £300,000- as a gift to the University purple version from the same 500,000 estimate and was Hospital Southampton and, to series that made £640,500 at a knocked down at £900,000. much publicity, was being sold Christie’s online sale in More on Banksy in our special to support the NHS and staff. September. focus on pages 17-23. It was estimated at £2.5m- 3.5m at Christie’s evening sale on March 23 but knocked down Moving into the 20th and 21st centuries at £14.4m, a near doubling of Meanwhile, Christie’s has announced that from this summer the artist’s record. How much it will be renaming its Impressionist & Modern and Post-War & the ‘charity’ factor counted is Contemporary sales. Starting with the New York series in May, difficult to judge: the previous the sales will be titled ‘20th Century Art’ and ‘21st Century Art’. high was the 2009 political satire Devolved Parliament sold at According to Christie’s, “removing art from the context of its Sotheby’s in 2019 for £8.5m. assigned movements” reflects the “evolving market demand Bullish Banksy bidding Above: an artist’s proof of Banksy’s Girl with and the collecting habits of our clients, and will allow for a continued elsewhere last week. Balloon from 2004 – £900,000 at Sotheby’s. more dynamic approach to serving the marketplace”. Sotheby’s cross-category 4 | 3 April 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Pick of the week The best of English porcelain in Glos
Continued from front page Known as the Wigornia type (after the example with a moulded mark in the Dyson & Perrins Museum), the decoration is carefully picked out in a distinctive pale recent memory (and others offered within the trade) palette of yellow, blue, puce and green. including the damaged example sold for £11,000 at Sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York in 1973, it Bonhams in 2018. Another sold for £22,000 at Bonhams was acquired from Amor in 1986. in 2010 and a third took £19,000 at Woolley & Wallis in Four coloured Wigornia creamboats of different 2005 (the vendor had bought two in a box lot at a sale in designs have been sold by Bonhams in recent years, Chichester). Above including the similar example in the Selwyn Parkinson Chorley’s owl had been acquired at Amor’s Treasures Worcester collection (£16,000 in May 2016). from Toronto exhibition in April 1993. It was in relatively coloured, Wine funnels are a form unique to Worcester and, good condition with only a shallow chip to the beak and Wigornia-type with a brief production period from c.1754-56, are prized two small glaze chips to the base to count against it. creamboat, rarities. Only 14 polychrome examples are known – the Estimated at £15,000-20,000, it was chased by four c.1752-53 – example here, in perfect condition with bright famille bidders over £30,000 before it came down to a final £12,000 at rose enamels, selling to a collector at £11,000 (estimate tussle between an online bidder using the Chorley’s Live Chorley’s. £10,000-15,000). It had been exhibited at Albert Amor as platform and a phone. It sold to the former, a UK private part of the Cohen collection in 1992. Left: Worcester collector, at £40,000 (plus 22.5% buyer’s premium). A blue and white funnel from this period (others were polychrome Early Worcester made c.1770) sold for £10,000 at Tamlyns in July 2013, wine funnel the same sum bid for a polychrome funnel with a Long c.1754-56 – A dozen coloured pieces from the very first years of the Eliza figure as part of the Barratt collection of Crowe Hall, £11,000. Worcester factory were topped at £12,000 by a relief- Bath, at Christie’s in 2010. moulded hexagonal form creamboat c.1752-53. Roland Arkell
was clear that the bottom of the He has more than 40 years’ next door on the high street has package had been slit open and experience, having worked at become vacant and White is retaped with a different tape as Phillips and Bonhams in Leeds submitting plans to redevelop used by the shipper. and with David Duggleby in the building into a saleroom. “I believe that with delays Scarborough. He specialises in He hopes it to open the 9000 Precious awaiting customs clearance, furniture, works of art and sq ft space in 2022. metals and labels advertising the pictures. contents, this is likely to The trainees are George On Friday, March 26, become a lot more common Rowell, Harriot McClemont Latest Treasure with the new EU Customs and Charlotte Trueman. Michael Bloomstein of figures revealed situation.” Brighton was paying the Above: the 1698 Daniel Quare Anyone with information The latest Treasure Annual following for bulk scrap pocket watch which has gone can call 101 quoting the Dorset Report and new information against a gold fix of: Dealer to hold missing in transit. Police reference number auctions next door from the British Museum has $1727.85 €1460.77 £1253.56 18-402 with crime number revealed 96% of Treasure Plea to find missing 55210043333 or call Silverware and coin finds were found by Gold Crimestoppers anonymously dealer Jon White (right) metal-detectorists and 22 carat: £1108.88 per oz 1698 Quare watch on 0800 555 111. plans to open a new many went to local (£35.66 per gram) A Daniel Quare pocket watch auction house in Royal museums. Covering has gone missing in transit and Wootton Bassett – next finds made in 2018, it 18 carat: £907.26 (£29.17) its owner hopes the trade Four new faces at door to his antiques found that 1094 cases 15 carat: £756.05 (£24.31) canhelp to locate it. Ryedale saleroom centre. were reported Treasure The gold pair cased pocket White, who also runs in 2018, consisting of 14 carat: £705.65 (£22.69) watch, with a signed gold Ryedale Auctioneers in Britannia Coin Company, more than 20,906 individual 9 carat: £453.66 per oz champleve dial and verge Kirkbymoorside, North opened Old Bank Antiques in artefacts. In total, 347 of these escapement and hallmark for Yorkshire, has appointed a new November 2019 and has cases were acquired by 108 (£14.59 per gram) London 1698, was purchased at senior valuer and auctioneer around 25 cabinets for dealers different museums. 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 auction in Denmark and and a trio of trainee valuers. selling jewellery, silver, coins, An overwhelming majority 12 Month Low: ▼ £14.22 shipped to the UK. However, it Jeremy Wood has joined as toys and collectables. of these (93%) were acquired went missing on its journey. senior valuer and auctioneer. The Co-op supermarket by museums local to the sites Hallmark Platinum The shipper of the item has where objects were found. £23.00 per gram launched an investigation. Preliminary Treasure Owner Peter Hall said: figures for more recent years Silver “Due to the new customs are currently 1311 for 2019 and regulations the parcel had to be 1077 for 2020. £15.02 per oz for 925 labelled with the contents and There are separate reports standard hallmarked value. With some delay it was for the British Museum’s 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 delivered to me and appeared Portable Antiquities Scheme to be intact. But it was in fact Above: Jeremy Wood, George Rowell, Harriot McClemont and (PAS) and Treasure. The 12 Month Low: ▼ £8.55 empty, and on examination it Charlotte Trueman have joined Ryedale Auctioneers. Department for Digital, 6 | 3 April 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 006 007 2486.indd 1 26/03/2021 13:31:03 Bid Barometer Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com
TOP SELLING LOTS
Culture, Media & Sport East Bristol Auctions, March 18 (DCMS) administers the Two pairs of 1940s gold plated circular Treasure report (released on rimmed spectacles, by repute owned March 22, 2020, with 2018 and worn by Mahatma Gandhi. data), which is usually a couple Most read Estimate: £50,000-80,000 of years backdated due to the Hammer: £55,000 length of time that Treasure takes to be administered. The most viewed stories for To coincide with the week March 18-24 on Treasure report released last antiquestradegazette.com week, the British Museum also announced recent Treasure Above: ‘snailman’ from 1200- 1 $35 yard sale find finds of significance. These 1350 found in Pontefract, West stars in Asia Week Charterfields, London, March 24 objects, which finders have a Yorkshire, last year. New York A single-page job application legal obligation to report, will 2 Gold ring fitting for a from 1973 signed by Steve Jobs now go through the Treasure The items, including coins, de Vere three years before he founded process – among them is the pendants, brooches, statues Apple in 1976. silver-gilt ‘snailman’ mount and spearheads, were hidden 3 Museums buy more Estimate: n/a (pictured) which Wakefield inside a trailer driven by Treasure finds as Hammer: £162,000 Museum hopes to acquire. Dimitar Dimitrov and found by metal-detecting police on October 27 last year. discoveries soar The 41-year-old, from Dominic Winter, South Cerney, 4 Silver Vaults to Pazardzhik in Bulgaria, March 24 Lorry driver jailed remain but Koopman pleaded guilty to transferring Four 19th century Chinese circular over antiquities plans Mayfair move criminal property. The porcelain panels, polychrome A Bulgarian man has been investigation involved Kent 5 Plea to help track painted with immortals in a cloudy jailed for two years after Police with assistance from the down stolen Daniel sky, each 11in (27cm) diameter, antiquities estimated to be Metropolitan Police Service’s Quare pocket watch one cracked, with provenance to worth more than £76,000 were specialist Art and Antiquities Abel William Bahr (1877-1959). found in his lorry by Border Unit and the Bulgarian Estimate: £1000-1500 Force in Dover, Kent. authorities. Hammer: £60,000
HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE Dylan Thomas two Stephan Welz, Johannesburg, months before his death March 23 An 18th or 19th century Continental The Welsh Sale at Rogers Jones in Cardiff on April 17 includes a In Numbers school portrait of a man, pastel and portrait of Dylan Thomas painted just two months before he died, chalk on paper, 16 x 10in (39 x 26cm). Canadian artist Gordon Stuart (1924-2015), who was based in Estimate: Zar2000-3000 Swansea, made three portraits of Thomas across three afternoon Hammer: Zar650,000 (£30,875) sittings near the poet’s home in Laugharne in September 1953. €2.75m Stuart recalled that Thomas “..was a good subject and very kindly towards me and told me he was looking forward to going The difference in price between to America”. After each sitting, Thomas would head straight for the two times Vincent van Brown’s Hotel in the village. Gogh’s (1853-90) Scène de rue On the poet’s fourth US tour, Thomas suffered a severe chest à Montmartre was offered at infection and bouts of heavy drinking left him in a coma. He died Sotheby’s Paris in less than Hotlotz, Singapore, March 21 on November 9, 1953, at the age of just 39. an hour on March 25. It was Yellow ground and green ‘dragon One of the three pictures is in the collection of the National initially knocked down at €14m and phoenix’ bowl with Kangxi Portrait Gallery, another in the University of Texas, with this one to an online bidder but it was six-character mark, 5in (12cm) titled Portrait of Dylan kept by the artist and then by his widow. announced shortly after that, diameter, purchased in Hong It has been entered for due to a ‘bidding error’, it would Kong in the 1980s. auction by the Gordon be reoffered at the end of sale. Estimate: Sin$500-800 Stuart estate. Second time round, it made Hammer: Sin$60,000 (£32,335) The painting was €11.25m (£9.7m) on the phone. exhibited at the National Eisteddfod in 1954 and Criterion Auctions, again in Swansea during London, March 19 the 2004 Dylan Thomas Three Egyptian glazed centenary celebrations. faience ushabti along with The estimate is a Roman clay oil lamp, the £10,000-15,000. tallest 4in (11cm). rogersjones.co.uk Estimate: £70-100 Hammer: £3800
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PAGE 006 007 2486.indd 2 26/03/2021 13:31:42 A curated selection of American & European Art, Old Master Paintings, Drawings Featuring over 400 lots of fine art, antiques, Asian porcelain, www.HelmuthStone.com estate jewelry, bronzes, glass, sculpture and more. Featuring contents from an important Bay Area collector. Sunday April 18, 2021 Telephone and Absentee bidding accepted. Bidding is also available through thesaleroom.com, LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, Epailive and 51BidLive. Visit www.HelmuthStone.com for more information.
Jon Corbino (1905-1964), ‘Nude’ oil/mixed Jon Corbino (1905-1964), ‘Horses and Rider’, Henri Matisse (1869-1954), ‘Virgin and Child Standing’, media painting, 24 x 15in. oil on canvas, sight size: 18 x 20in. lithograph on chine appliqued to wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered 195/200, with full margins.
Important Chinese blue and white Meiping Jesus Soto (1923-2005), Donald Mosher (MA, 1945-2014), ‘Boston Public Garden’, porcelain vase, Qianlong mark ‘Multiple III’ 1969, clear perspex with screenprint in oil on canvas, sight size: 30 x 36in. and of the period, height: 13in. black and white, with steel bars and nylon sculpture, 141/300, height: 193⁄4in. ‘Multiple II’ 1969, clear and yellow perspex with steel bars and nylon sculpture. 141/300, height: 193⁄4in.
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A good large Chinese famille verte porcelain fish bowl. A good Chinese red coral carving of Guanyin. Two Japanese Meiji Period carved ivory A fine early carved wood and lacquer Thai Buddha £4,000-£6,000 (+BP*) £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) and shibiyama tusk vases. and a fine early stone Thai Buddha, from a stately home. £2,000-£3,000 and £2,500-£3,000 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 and £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*)
A collection of mixed Chinese hardstone carvings and a pair of jade table screens. Three large impressive 19th century A superb 19th century Turkmen Judaica An early Persian, possibly Sassanian, cast silver dish. Various estimates (+BP*) Chinese carved ivory statues. inlaid metal charity/money box. £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) Various estimates (+BP*) £4,000-£6,000 (+BP*) Contact us by email for condition reports. We also accept Online Bidding commission and is available through: telephone bids BP* - Buyer’s Premium 25% of the hammer price + VAT on the premium Please contact us for further information on 01428 653727, email [email protected], or visit the website www.johnnicholsons.com Longfield, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3HA Tel. 01428 653727
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1967 Rolex Submariner Vast camera collection
JEWELLERY, SILVER, WATCHES, Antoine Blanchard 1986 Audi 10V Quattro Turbo OBJECTS OF VERTU AND COINS Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 April AUCTION LOCATION The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BS Dreweatts Telephone 01935 812277 Donnington Priory ENQUIRIES [email protected] Newbury +44 (0) 1635 553 553 Catalogue and free online www.charterhouse-auction.com or www.the-saleroom.com/charterhouse Berkshire RG14 2JE [email protected] bidding at: dreweatts.com
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Brouard boosts new saleroom First fine art sale at Minster includes rare appearance of work by the French designer
by Roland Arkell 1. Bronze and glass occasional table by Fred Brouard The work of French designer Fred (signature inset) – Brouard (1944-99) is not uncommon £6200 at Minster at sales in France and the US but Auctions. seldom appears at auction in the 1 UK. The sale of a 1970s gilt bronze 2. An early 19th wall applique for £1600 at Bellmans century mahogany in January 2020 is the only item by tear drop tavern Brouard listed in thesaleroom.com clock – £2000. price guide. 3. Edwardian silver Nonetheless it was a trademark equestrian trophy to piece by Brouard – a polished a design by Adrian bronze coffee table with oval Jones – £6000. smoked glass top – that led the first fine art auction held by recently formed Herefordshire firm Minster Auctions (30% buyer’s premium) on March 10. 3 The staff, including the three directors, are all ex-Brightwells employees. Signed to the base and numbered Brouard’s one from and edition of four work made c.1970, the table came from “ a deceased estate near Bristol. seldom Cautiously estimated at £2000-3000 appears at (similar pieces have made five-figure auction in sums in Paris), it sold to an online the UK bidder for a sale-topping £6400. Artist’s Resale Right will be applied to the hammer price in addition to 2 the usual fees. Good-quality traditional antiques made up the majority of the 800 lots that enjoyed a 90% selling rate for a sale total close to £200,000. landscapes by James Stinton in a tear drop case. Unsigned, it sold at fitted case which doubled the pre-sale £2000. Royal Worcester estimate, selling for £1800. Among 160 lots of silver was Highlight of the small ceramics Plenty of admirers emerged for an the imposing figure of a hunter section was a set of six Royal early 19th century tavern clock with and huntsman with marks for Worcester small coffee cups and white enamel dial, eight day striking Hollingshead & Burton, London 1907. saucers painted with pheasants in movement and an elegant mahogany Standing 2ft 1in high on an ebonised plinth, it was engraved Cup for a race to be run annually under rules to be laid down by the Bombay Hunt Committee. Presented by James E Graham Closon clicks among clock fans to commemorate the origin of hunting in Bombay by the arrival of the first hounds Peter Closon (c.1594-c.1662) was one of the most prolific of the so-called First which were sent out by him for his brother Period lantern clock makers – although relatively little is known about his life. the late Donald Graham who founded the Left: mid- Probably an emigré from France or the Low Countries who worked in Hunt in 1868. A series of panels named 17th century London from c.1615, he was involved in the very beginnings of the Clockmaker’s winners between 1906-40. lantern clock Company in 1631, took on many apprentices who became makers in their own The model is by Adrian Jones signed for right, and continued to trade into the pendulum era, flirting himself with the new (1845-1938), the Ludlow-born army Peter Closon technology. veterinary surgeon turned sculptor – £6500 According to the inscriptions to many of Closon’s surviving clocks his whose best-known work is the at Franklin workshop was sited ‘near Holborn Bridge’. Quadriga surmounting Constitution Browns. This mid-17th century brass lantern clock offered by Franklin Browns Arch at Hyde Park Corner. (18% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh on March 13 is inscribed to the foliate The auction house guided this dial Peter Closon, Holborn Bridge Fecit. It has a weight-driven movement with piece at £8000-12,000 – a number two independent wheel trains and has been later converted to pendulum use. that proved too bullish. It failed to Estimated at £400-600, it sold at £6500. sell under the hammer, but was sold privately soon after for £6000. n 10 | 3 April 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 010 14 2486.indd 1 2 /03/2021 16:37:3 Left: marble group of a vixen and two fox Gott’s foxy lady gets in tune with a buyer cubs by Joseph Gott Apprenticed to John Flaxman at the turn of the 19th 2ft 6in (75cm) oval base J Gott Ft, depicts a vixen – €13,500 (£12,300) century, Joseph Gott (1785-1860) travelled to Rome and her two cubs. It was among the furnishings at Sheppards. in 1822 on a pension from Sir Thomas Lawrence. of Eyrefield Lodge, a stud farm in Kildare, which Signature detail While he would spend the majority of his career were sold by Sheppards (25% buyer’s premium) of shown below right. in Italy, his patronage remained firmly rooted in the Durrow on March 11. British (and specifically Yorkshire) milords. The property, owned for half a century by Sir Small-scale depictions of animals and children Edmund and Lady Susan and Loder, has recently were his stock in trade, with the first of many been sold with the couple downsizing following a recorded animal groups, move to London. Greyhound and her This sculpture was a Puppies, commissioned much-loved family piece and it by the 6th Duke of proved similarly commercial, Devonshire in 1823. selling well above the The white marble group €1500-2500 guide at €13,500 pictured left, signed to the (£11,610). Ceramics of Shropshire and Song origins Two very different ceramic objects illuminated The Spring Auction at 1 Halls (20% buyer’s premium) in Shrewsbury on March 17. Although very much in the French style, a 12in (30cm) wide monteith or verrière (a wine-glass cooler or rinsing bowl) was made in soft- paste by the Caughley factory in Shropshire. One of only four known (one is held in the V&A, another in the Shrewsbury Museum and a third in a private collection in Germany), it has both the painted mark S (for 2 3 4 the Salopian China Warehouse) and an enigmatic incised H. Geoffrey Godden suggested that the latter denotes the contribution of François Hardenbourg from Strasbourg, who worked at the Sèvres manufactory and at the Caughley factory from 1780-88. This piece was previously part of the Rev Richard Hayes collection, 170 pieces of which are in Shrewsbury Museum. The original vendor (it was sold at Sotheby’s Olympia in 2005) noted that the monteith was originally one of two sold from a 1. Caughley ‘Chantilly Sprigs’ monteith or verrière (including a detail of the marks right) – house in Falloden, Northumberland, £2300 at Halls. previously owned by Sir Edward 2. Song period hare’s fur bowl – £13,000. Grey (1862-1933), foreign secretary 3. Ge type water pot – £2600. during the First World War. Halls probably now sells more 4. Large Qing figure of Guanyin – £8000. Caughley than any other saleroom. This piece joined a roster of strong recent prices when it took £2300 brown glaze with ‘hare’s fur’ ochre period but stood out because of its the Chinese lots included a large (£1500-2000). Two small 5in speckling. splendid glaze.” 20in (50cm) figure of Guanyin atop (12.5cm) high jardinieres in the same Specialist Alexander Clement The technique involved early a lotus base decorated with a dense Chantilly Sprigs pattern, c.1785-90, received it from a Shrewsbury vendor cooling in the kiln to separate profusion of blue flowers and foliage also from the Hayes collection, sold who has collected Chinese works of the glaze elements and produce and a Ge type water pot with a at £650 and £320. art for many years. interesting effects. Competition came greyish glaze suffused with a fine two- “It was one of several pieces we from online bidders in the UK and tone wire crackle. Chinese works had consigned from this collector, mainland China. Starting at £3000 Both estimated at £200-300, The biggest price in the sale by many of which dated to the Song (the estimate was £400-600), it the former, certainly 19th century, some distance was bid for a Song and Ming dynasties, and were quite finally reached £13,000 before selling sold at £8000. The latter, probably (960-1279) period bowl, just under diverse in style,” said Clement. “The to a buyer via thesaleroom.com. Qianlong period in imitation of the 4in (10cm), decorated with a dark bowl was one of four from the same Other strong performers among Song, took £2600. antiquestradegazette.com 3 April 2021 | 11
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Marble busts resurface together at auction
The Winter Antiques Sale at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) on February 25-26 was topped by consecutive bids of £17,000 each for two Regency white marble busts. Probably carved by the same One of two unidentified hand, c.1815, one at 2ft Regency marble 8in (82cm) high on its socle base busts sold for 2 depicted a lady with her face turned £17,000 each to dexter (its right), the other 2ft 6in at Duke’s on (77cm) with head turned slightly to February 25-26. 1 sinister (its left). Both subjects wore period decolletage with their hair worn up in coiled plaits. Three Dutch silver miniatures from a These fine-quality sculptures of collection sold by Duke’s on February 25-26. appealing subject matter had been acquired by the vendor in 1978 at a 1. Goat cart by Arnoldus van Geffen – £4600. country house sale held by Humbert, 2. Gaming board and counters by Fredrick van King and Chasemore at Roche Strant II – £1200. Court, Winterslow, Salisbury. They were guided in this latest sale at a 3. Spoon rack by Arnoldus van Geffen – 3 modest £1000-1500 each. £1300. Dutch miniatures The other big draw to this Dorchester catered to the Dutch and English A ‘drop door’ mouse trap by the from sleigh riding to soldiering and sale were 64 Dutch silver miniatures fashion for silver doll’s house same family workshop took £440 gardening. which had been part of a collection miniatures. while a hearth brush and shovel, It was two of these, both carrying formed by Baron Michiels van The collection here included many c.1700, marked VS, made £420. the mark for Arnoldus Van Geffen, Verduynen (1885-1952), the Dutch of the ‘entry level’ pieces priced from that made the highest prices of the ambassador to the Court of St James £100-300. However, much higher Genre scenes day in this section. from 1939-42. They had come for sale bids came for scarce models such Whereas silver toy makers in Sold at £2200 was a model of two by descent from the Barons Van Tuyll as the gaming board and counters England (such as George Mountjoy men in period dress carrying a child van Serooskerken. by Fredrick van Strant II, c.1740, and David Clayton) typically made in a basket supported across a ladder, The demand for silver toys (£1200) and a spoon rack holding miniature domestic accessories – while a similar group of a goat and an spanned 200 years from the late 17th six spoons by Arnoldus Van Geffen coffee pots, candlesticks and the attendant pulling a covered carriage to the end of the 19th century. At its (fl. 1728-69), the most famous of all like – the stock in trade of the Dutch prompted a bidding contest ending pomp in the early 18th century more the Dutch silver ‘toy’ makers, sold at makers also included the tiny cast only at £4600. Both pieces measured than 40 silversmiths in Amsterdam £1300. genre scenes of everyday activities just under 3in (7cm) across.
The head of state Fishing rarity reels in a buyer
This 21in (53cm) white marble herm bust of the first This 3in (7.5cm) brass and ivorine fishing reel American president George Washington (1732-99) is is inscribed to the face Ustonson & Peters, titled to the base, and signed and dated R Trentanove Makers to the Queen, 48 Bell Yard, Temple Bar, Fecc in Roma, 1827. London. It came for sale at Reeman Dansie (20% buyer’s Onesimus Ustonson (1736-83) is a premium) in Colchester on March 9 described celebrated name in early fishing tackle. as ‘the property of a lady, removed from a Apprenticed to John Herro, a fishing tackle Hertfordshire country estate’. maker based at the Fish and Crown in Bell Yard, The Grand Tour-era sculptor Ralmondo a narrow thoroughfare between Carey and Trentanove (1792-1832) is perhaps best known Fleet streets, he took over the shop in 1760. as a pupil of Antonio Canova and much of The firm remained a market leader his oeuvre comprised copies of neoclassical and family concern for the next century Above: brass fishing reel by Ustonson & masterworks. supplying luxury tackle to, among others, Peters – £2600 at Duke’s. However, he also executed highly accomplished the naturalist Joseph Banks for Cook’s portrait busts and collaborated with Canova on his Second Voyage and three reigning monarchs. only sculpture created for a US patron – a life-size The fishing rod and tackle supplied by daughter-in-law Maria Ustonson (1784-1856) to marble statue of Washington as a Roman general, commissioned for the North George IV in 1824 for use at Virginia Water (at an eye-watering cost £196 10s) is part of Carolina State House in 1815 but destroyed by fire in 1831. the Royal Collection. A number of Trentanove busts of Washington in different guises are known This reel is a relatively late issue, made when the firm was run by Maria and William with various dates from the 1820s. A seemingly more common version, with Peters, another Bell Yard tackle maker. The partnership between the two lasted seven Washington in a toga secured by a brooch, has appeared for sale in New York years from 1847-55 and it was under this name that the firm exhibited its wares at the many times; most recently one at Christie’s in 2019 sold at $16,000. Great Exhibition of 1851. Reeman Dansie guided its bust (in good condition save a few chips to the This rare reel from this brief period was guided at £100-200 at a Duke’s (25% buyer’s base) at £10,000-15,000 and it found a buyer at £16,000. premium) of Dorchester sale of Coins, Medals and Militaria, Arms and Armour, Sporting and Taxidermy on March 11. The hammer price was £2600 via thesaleroom.com. 12 | 3 April 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 010 14 2486.indd 3 2 /03/2021 16:3 :02 Letter suggests Left: the Stephany and Dresch Powell design toothpick box sold for £10,000 by Although catalogued Hannam’s (also simply as ‘a 19th century shown approx Art Nouveau glass’ and lifesize below). estimated at just £30-50, a letter that accompanied this rare wine glass, right, gave a clue to its origins. Stephany and Dresch It speculated a connection with J Powell showcase carving & Sons of Whitefriars, the glass factory acquired by talents in miniature the wine-merchant James Powell in 1834. Filigree or micro-carving was hugely popular among Hannam’s (23% buyer’s premium) in Selborne on Glasses of this form, fashionable English society in the late 18th century. March 15 was typical of the Stephany and Dresch output. with free twisted stems Its most celebrated practitioners were German The scene, mounted in rose gold, depicts shipping and and tulip bowls, were (probably Augsburg) emigrés G Stephany and J Dresch. pleasure boats against the backdrop of a magnificent designed by Powell’s Working in Bath in the 1790s and later in London, the 18th century building that may be the St Nicholas Naval grandson Harry Powell at the very end of the 19th pair specialised in miniature carvings of sometimes Cathedral on the Kryukov canal in St Petersburg. century. Similar glasses were exhibited at the Arts breathtaking intricacy. Would this box have come for sale under the rules of & Crafts Exhibition of 1906. Advertisements at the time described them as ‘the the Ivory Act 2018? The auction house estimated it was However, what really made this a rarity was the most eminent sculptors in ivory in Europe who will execute worth £200-300 – roughly the £250 sum proposed by coloured bowl, a mix of white and purple glass. any design for Rings, Bracelets, Lockets, or for Cabinet Defra to apply for a pre-1918 object to be considered ‘of Offered for sale by Rowleys (22.5% buyer’s pieces’. Their work was ‘so fine that a glass is necessary to outstanding artistic, cultural or historic value’ and thus premium) in Ely on March 13 – the consignors discover its beauties’. A royal warrant was granted in 1793. exempt from a wider ban. were house clearers from the Cambridge area – it Although it was not labelled (as some are), a 3 x 1in (8 In fact, as an item that surely ticks all of those boxes, it made an estimate-busting £3000. x 2.5cm) gold and ivory toothpick or patch box offered by sold for £10,000. Folk Art Circus Film Posters Arcade Machines Photography Modernism Tarot M
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