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Summer of lustre to Pilkington vase Art& Antiques A new record for the Pilkington’s Lancastrian factory was set by Moreton-in-Marsh firm Kinghams when the Anthony J Cross collection of art pottery was sold on June 11-12. The 468-lot group, assembled over half a century, included some exceptional lustre wares, particularly those made by the Salford factory. It was Cross who wrote the factory monograph
Imagined Interiors at Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Beale Park event Pilkington’s Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles, published in 1980 alongside a landmark exhibition Sotheby’s / ArtDigital Studio
held by Richard Dennis. The months of July and August used to be Our special listings include hundreds of fairs the time to slow down and take a break. Not Now is the time to check the dates for your and auctions taking place over the next two this year. The art and antiques world is ready diary to ensure you take advantage of all the months in the UK and around the world along for one of its busiest summers ever as buyers opportunities coming up this summer. High-lustre finishes were produced at with extended previews of noteworthy lots and gear up for a spending spree. key dealer selling exhibitions. Pilkington’s for a relatively short period from Dealers’ Diary page 32-34 UK Fairs Calendar page 55-61 UK Previews page 42-46 International Previews 1906, the year George Forsyth (1879-1952), the page 62-63 Art Market page 48-51 International Auction Calendar page 64-68 Books page 52-53 International Fairs Calendar former art director at the Minton Hollins tileworks, page 69 Fairs & Markets page 54
joined the company. SUPPLEMENT Where to go and what to buy this summer The most important piece in the auction was a 21in (53cm high) exhibition vase dating from 1908. Unusually it is moulded in relief with St Inside this week’s issue we present a George on horseback lancing a dragon with special section dedicated to events a maiden to the side. The lustre decoration, taking place this summer. completed by factory decorator Gordon Forsyth We have extended our UK fairs and in an exuberant bronze and red iridescent glaze, markets calendar to cover the whole includes the inscription St George for England. of July and August, while Dealers’ Diary Among the largest pieces ever made by the previews London Art Week and a range of factory and one of just a handful to include relief selling exhibitions. moulded swell as painted decoration, it was Auction houses will also be busy exhibited at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition in catering for pent-up demand from buyers London to much admiration. Only two examples – we provide enhanced previews across are known to have been produced – the other art, antiques, books and more from both Continued on page 8 the UK and around the world. We also have special international auctions and fairs listings. Left: the 1908 Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pick Wherever you choose to visit we wish exhibition vase sold by Kinghams as part you a successful – and safe – summer. of the Anthony Cross collection for a of the record £75,000. week See pages 31-69
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A Charles II lignum vitae wassail bowl A George II Irish mahogany dining table A selection of French lighting, clocks A pair of tortoise coffee tables by and cover, the lid with an enamel ‘print’ Provenance: The Edward CroftMurray and furniture. Anthony Redmile with the Coat of Arms of Charles II CBE Collection. One of ninetyseven Provenance: The Gordon Quance Collection Provenance: From the family collections of Estimate £6,0008,000* lots in the sale Captain George Lionel Jameson OBE Estimate £4,0006,000* Estimate £3,0005,000*
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Brontë sale on hold as museums seek funds by Laura Chesters concerns this did not give them Museum, Abbotsford, the interests and their family’s sufficient time to prepare a bid Robert Burns Birthplace excellent care of this material to acquire some or all of the Museum, Brotherton Library for over a century.” Sotheby’s has delayed the sale collection. and Jane Austen’s House, Rebecca Yorke, interim of a library collection related to The more than 500 among others. director of the Brontë Society, the Brontë family to give a manuscripts, first editions and The FNL said a private said: “We are very grateful that chance for institutions to raise letters from the Honresfield library of English literature of Sotheby’s and the vendors have funds to buy it. Library were originally put such significance “has not been delayed the auction and are The Friends of the National together by Arthur Bell placed on the open market for proud to be working with the Libraries (FNL) launched an Nicholls, the widower of many decades, or is ever likely FNL and other partners on a appeal and is in discussion with Charlotte Brontë. They were Above: among the contents of to appear again”. fundraising campaign to private philanthropists and later acquired by Rochdale mill the library is this Emily and Anne Dr Gabriel Heaton, acquire this unique collection sources of public funds to raise owners Alfred and William Brontë manuscript birthday note Sotheby’s English literature for the nation.” the purchase price of £15m for Law, who lived at Honresfield with sketches by Emily (1841). and historical manuscripts The Honresfield Library of House – 20 miles from the specialist, said: “Sotheby’s has British Literature. Brontë family home in remained in the family until a great history of working The auction house had Haworth. The archive also this year when it was consigned together with private collectors planned to offer the collection features a variety of other items, to auction. and institutions and we are A private library across three auctions, with the including some from Robert The FNL will work on the pleased to play our part in this “of such significance first heldonline on July 2-13. Burns and Walter Scott. fundraising with institutions potential outcome for this great has not been However, as reported in ATG Following the deaths of the including the Bodleian library. placed on the No 2495, museums including Law brothers the library was Libraries, the British Library, “This proposed acquisition The Brontë Society & Brontë inherited by a nephew, Sir the National Library of is a fitting tribute to the Law open market for Parsonage Museum raised Alfred Law, in 1913 and Scotland, Brontë Parsonage brothers’ voracious literary many decades
Auction Technology Group lines up LiveAuctioneers deal
Auction Technology Group ATG’s existing art and antiques on the Main Market of the to bidders around the world. it has delivered to those (ATG), owner of Antiques marketplaces (as well as London Stock Exchange. Our goal is to keep this businesses over the last 19 Trade Gazette and online thesaleroom.com, ATG also important industry competitive years. As part of ATG, marketplaces including owns lot-tissimo.com in Fast-growing market in an increasingly digital world LiveAuctioneers’ partners will thesaleroom.com, has Germany) and reach a wider The company’s chief executive and, in turn, accelerate the extend their online marketing announced the proposed audience of bidders. Likewise, officer John-Paul Savant said: pace of sustainable commerce to reach ATG’s network of acquisition of LiveAuctioneers, ATG’s existing auction house “The proposed acquisition of by making it easier and more bidders from 150 countries a major art and antiques clients will have the option to LiveAuctioneers enables ATG attractive to buy and sell around the world. auction marketplace in North list on the LiveAuctioneers to enter the large and fast- through auctions.” “This, plus deeper America. website where North American growing North American art Founded in 2002, investment in the end-to-end The intended acquisition, bidders buy more than one and antiques segment, further LiveAuctioneers will continue buyer experience, will enable which is subject to customary million items a year online. diversifying our business and to operate with its headquarters auctioneers to foster enhanced regulatory approval, is aimed ATG says payment, back- bringing complementary in New York City and be led by competition for, and realise the at expanding ATG’s interest in office and marketing operations auctioneers and bidders to our long-standing CEO Phil full value of, the arts and the North American market. can be offered more efficiently group. Michaelson. He said: antiques items being auctioned Through the proposed deal, to the combined firms’ partner “It will strengthen our “LiveAuctioneers is proud of and expand the appeal of live auction houses that run their auction houses. ability to invest in improving the relationship it has online auctions as the best path sales on liveauctioneers.com The announcement comes the buying experience, making developed as a trusted partner by which to buy and sell can also list their auctions on four months after ATG listed online auctions more attractive to auction houses and the value secondary goods.”
Saleroom pulls ‘looted artefacts from Maqdala’ after appeal A group of Ethiopian works of art believed The embassy contacted the auction to have been taken during the Battle of house on June 9 about the return of the Maqdala in 1868 have been withdrawn “looted artefacts from Maqdala”. from a Dorset auction after the Embassy Beyene Gebremeskel, deputy head of of Ethiopia intervened. mission at the embassy, said: “We are The items (pictured right) are now pleased to have reached an agreement due to return to Ethiopia following an with Busby. These items are of immense agreement reached between the embassy are 19th century but the age of the cross, estimate of around £700. The items had cultural, spiritual and historical value to and the vendor. bible and satchel is not yet certain and been consigned from the estate of Major- Ethiopians. Current and future generations The items are a Coptic bible on vellum analysis will be undertaken. However, it is General William Arbuthnot, a serving of Ethiopians are deserving of the in a leather satchel with an Ethiopian believed they could be early- to mid-18th member of the late 19th century British restitution of their cultural heritage, so we cross and a set of graduated horn century. expedition to Abyssinia, which culminated very much look forward to returning these beakers. Busby of Bridport was due to offer the in the battle of Maqdala between British precious items in due course.” According to the embassy the beakers items in its June 17 sale with a collective and Abyssinian forces. Laura Chesters
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Tuesday 29th June & Wednesday 30th June Royalty, Antiques & Fine Art Sale Day One at 10am: Royalty (97 lots), Ceramics & Glass (175 lots), Silver (220 lots), Jewellery & Watches (195 lots), Clocks (40 lots) Day Two at 10am: Works of Art (220 lots), Pictures (280 lots), Furniture & Rugs (265 lots)
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Lot 1. Formerly the property of H.R.H. Diana, Lot 410. 19th century Chinese export silver mug, Lot 826. Scarce set of four 19th century Anglo- Lot 1229. Attributed to Marco Ricci (1676-1727), Princess of Wales, 1981 Ford Escort 1.6 Ghia, 13cm overall height, from a private collection of Chinese watercolours of tea harvesting scene. oil on canvas, fi gures and livestock in extensive registration WEV 297W, the gift of H.R.H. the Prince Chinese silver in this sale. £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*) landscape, 40cm x 101cm. £500-700 (plus 24% BP*) of Wales to his fi ancée as an engagement present in £4,000-6,000 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 921. Bernard Winskill (d. 1980), large bronze May 1981, two months before the Royal Wedding. Lot 525. Diamond and cultured pearl choker necklace sculpture of Lester Piggott on Nijinski, 61cm long, £30,000-40,000 (plus 12% BP*) estimated total diamond weight approximately 5ct. Lot 1272. Fred Pollock (b.1937), acrylic on canvas, £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*) from a private collection of 21 works by Bernard Petal, signed verso and dated ’89, 105cm x 107cm. Winskill in bronze and ceramic in this sale. Lot 68. Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson , £800-1,200 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 527. Pair of Art Deco-style diamond pendant Ist Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte, K.B, rare £1,200-1,800 (plus 24% BP*) earrings, estimated total diamond weight 8cts. Lot 1297. Set of fi ve Robert Mouseman Thompson handwritten double-sided and historically interesting £3,000-5,000 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 932. Fine late 18th / early 19th century 5in carved oak dining chairs, one of eleven lots of letter to a Danish general, written on board terrestrial pocket globe, signed Minshulls. Lot 701. Rare WWII German Luftwaffe aviator’s H.M.S. St George in Kioge Bay, on June 12th 1801. £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*) ‘Mouseman’ in this sale. military wristwatch by Hanhart. £7,000-9,000 (plus 24% BP*) £1,000-1,500 (plus 24% BP*) £1,000-1,500 (plus 24% BP*) Lot 1055. Circle of Marmaduke Cradock (c.1660-1717), Lot 102. Fine Chinese famille rose porcelain fi shbowl, Lot 773. Early 20th century German turret clock, 18th century oil on canvas, fancy chickens and fowl Lot 1385. Fine early 18th century walnut chest late Qing period, 42cm high. signed G Pechmann Roggenburg 1913. in landscape, 69cm x 113cm. on chest. £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*) £1,000-1,500 (plus 24% BP*) £2,000-3,000 (plus 24% BP*) £3,000-5,000 (plus 24% BP*)p
Presale viewing, strictly by appointment will be available on Friday 25th June 9am-5pm, Saturday 26th June 9am-1pm & Monday 28th June 9am-6pm Post sale collections by appointment Catalogues available to view online www.reemandansie.com, www.the-saleroom.com BP* - Buyer’s premium of 24% (12% for cars) incl. VAT @ 20%. Lots marked ARR will be subject to an additional fee - for full details see table in ATG Auction Calendar No. 8 Wyncolls Road, Severalls Business Park, Colchester CO4 9HU 01206 754754 [email protected] www.reemandansie.com https:--www.the-saleroom.com-en-gb-auction-catalogues-reeman-dansie?Auctions=past
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Lot 189. A George III ormolu mounted Lot 13. A Charles II stumpwork panel, 43 x 54cm Lot 313. James Northcote (1746-1841), ‘A pair of Great Lot 355. Antoinetta Brandeis (Italian, 1849- ebonised bracket clock by James £2,000-3,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) Northern Divers’ and ‘A Merganser perched on a rock’, 1926), Piazza San Domenico, Bologna & Wild, London pair of watercolours Triumphal Arch, pair of oils on board £400-600 (plus 27.6% BP*) £2,000-3,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) £8,000-12,000 (plus 27.6% BP*)
Lot 216. A Victorian mahogany library table, supplied by Sage & Co. Lot 434. Dorothea Sharp, RBA, ROI Lot 110. An impressive pair of Chinese famille Lot 62. A large pair of Martin Brothers Shopfitters of London (1874-1955), White Flowers, oil on card rose ‘eight immortals’ vases and covers, ‘eagle and vulture’ stoneware vases, £150-200 (plus 27.6% BP*) £3,000-5,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) late 19th century dated 1878 £6,000-8,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) £3,000-4,000 (plus 27.6% BP*)
Lot 584. A good Victorian gold, blue enamel, old cut diamond, foil backed garnet and graduated split pearl set articulated memorial bracelet £1,800-2,000 (plus 27.6% BP*)
Lot 442. Edward Seago (1910-1974), The Cove, Portugal, Lot 464. Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006), watercolour Capel Caersalem, oil on canvas £4,000-6,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) £4,000-6,000 (plus 27.6% BP*, ARR)
Lot 536. A large early 20th century Chinese Lot 539. A gentleman’s early 1970s steel Heuer Lot 305. GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771), Elegy Export silver punch bowl by Wing On & Co, Monaco Automatic Chronograph square cased written in a country church-yard, ‘Gray’s Shanghai wristwatch, on later associated leather strap Elegy’, editor’s personal copy including three Lot 236. A late 17th century Portuguese ormolu mounted £4,000-6,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) £3,000-5,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) original works by John Constable RA ebony and red tortoiseshell cabinet on stand £100,000-150,000 (plus 27.6% BP*) £8,000-12,000 (plus 27.6% BP*)
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Pick of the week Pilkington vase from Cross collection takes £75,000 Continued from front page
previously owned by John Scott and sold as part of his collection by The Fine Art Society in 2014. Three further Anthony Cross’ example had been acquired at views of the auction in the Midlands in 1981, just a few months too 1908 Pilkington’s late to be included in his book. It was, however, used Lancastrian as the cover illustration to Pilkington’s Lancastrian and exhibition Royal Lancastrian Pottery, A Guide for Collectors by A&B vase sold by Corbett (2016). Kinghams as A former owner was William Hague, a cotton master part of the who had a passion for antiques and the first man in Anthony Cross Oldham to own a Rolls-Royce who, it is likely, would collection for a have known the Pilkington family personally. record £75,000. It carried a pre-sale estimate of £20,000-30,000 but found sufficient deep-pocketed admirers to bring £75,000 (plus 23% buyer’s premium). The buyer was from the UK decorative arts trade, probably acting on behalf of a US collector. The underbidder was another dealer, & Turnbull in Edinburgh in October 2018. That sale a 22in (54cm) high silver and blue vase decorated by The Cross collection represented the best selection included both a 19in (48cm) green and red George Forsyth with the figure of Apollo riding a chariot. They of Pilkington’s lustre since the Kirkton House and the Dragon charger to a Walter Crane design (the sold at previous record sums of £32,000 and £34,000 collection of more than 30 pieces was sold by Lyon piece pictured on the front cover of Cross’ book) and respectively. Roland Arkell
produced in Cambridge, associate lecturer at the Massachusetts, c.1638. Courtauld Institute of Art, Right: No copy was thought to where he will continue to teach Thibault have survived – until 1985 when he starts at Chiswick. Duval has when the Utah documents Before joining the joined Precious dealer (and master forger and Courtauld, Dr Godetzky was Adam’s. metals convicted murderer) Mark the Harry M Weinrebe Hofmann claimed to have curatorial fellow at the On Friday, June 18, discovered a copy in a New National Gallery. He has also York bookstore. worked with several private Michael Bloomstein of Hofmann – the subject of a collectors of Old Masters. France and finalised while he Brighton was paying the number of books and quarantined in a hotel in Dublin, following for bulk scrap documentaries including the once he had arrived in Ireland. against a gold fix of: current Netflix hit Murder Duval appointed at The Asian art $1792.35 €1506.35 £1289.24 Among the Mormons – pleaded Dublin saleroom auction comprises more than Above: ‘The Oath of a guilty to two counts of second- 500 lots consigned from a Gold Freeman’forgery – $42,000 degree murder and is serving a Dublin auction house Adam’s range of international 22 carat: £1140.44 per oz (£30,000) at Heritage. life sentence in the Utah State has appointed Thibault Duval collections. (£36.67 per gram) Prison. as head of its newly formed He later confessed to Asian art department. 18 carat: £933.09 (£30.00) Notorious forgery prosecutors that The Oath of a He trained at museums CADA autumn fair 15 carat: £777.57 (£25.00) takes $42,000 Freeman was an elaborate including the Louvre and dates confirmed fabrication involving 17th worked at auction houses such 14 carat: £725.73 (£23.34) The ‘Oath of a Freeman’, one century paper, printing ink as Artcurial. He is a member of The Cotswold Art & Antiques 9 carat: £466.54 per oz of the most infamous forgeries created using a 400-year-old the Société des Amis du Musée Dealers’ Association Art and in US history, took a double- recipe and a manufactured Guimet, Paris, and the London Antiques Fair at Compton (£15.00 per gram) estimate $42,000 (£30,000) at printing plate. Oriental Ceramic Society. Verney has been confirmed for 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 Heritage earlier this month. Duval’s first sale at Adam’s, the autumn. The event will take 12 Month Low: ▼ £14.19 Estimated at $20,000 in the a two-day event, will be held in place on October 14-17, June 9 auction, the anonymous Godetzky joins up late June. postponed from 2020. Hallmark Platinum buyer will pay $52,500 with Chiswick It had been put £21.28 per gram including premium (25/20/12% together while buyer’s premium). Dr Albert Godetzky has Duval was in Keglevich now at Silver It was sold by Justin Schiller, joined Chiswick Auctions as lockdown in Ketterer Kunst the antiquarian bookseller who head of Old Master paintings £15.73 per oz for 925 in 1985 attempted to broker its and works on paper. German auction house standard hallmarked sale for $1.5m. A specialist in 16th-18th Left: Dr Albert Ketterer Kunst has appointed 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 The ‘Oath’ is considered to century northern Godetzky of a former director and head of be the oldest printed document European art, he is Chiswick Sotheby’s in Munich. 12 Month Low: ▼ £11.51 in English North America, currently Auctions. Countess Nicola Keglevich 8 | 26 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Zeeuws Veilinghaus, Zeeland, Left: week-long set of events in the June 9 Countess autumn for members. Kangxi famille verte dish Nicola BADA Week 2021 will be a decorated with two women in Keglevich gallery-based celebration with a boat in a mountainous river has joined talks and exhibitions across the Most read landscape, with red seal mark Ketterer UK in members’ galleries, at Zhu Ju, 18in (41cm) diameter. Kunst. fairs and in pop-up spaces. Estimate: €1500-1800 It will run from October The most viewed stories for Hammer: €38,000 (£32,600) 11-17 and is designed to week June 10-16 on “highlight the diverse and antiquestradegazette.com will join the executive team outstanding membership”. from August as senior director Kathryn Singer, BADA 1 Buy a share in the Clevedon Salerooms, Bristol, for strategy and director of strategy and world’s most June 10 internationalisation. operations, said: “This year has expensive stamp Edouard Cortes (French 1882- Keglevich was with naturally led to an ongoing 2 New hires and 1969), a pair of Parisian winter Sotheby‘s for almost 15 years. focus on web presence, but as promotions at street scenes titled Paris, Le Soir Prior to this she worked for restrictions ease we want to Hansons, Dawsons and Porte St Denis, each 9 x 13in international art advisory firm highlight the benefit of visiting and Bonhams (22 x 33cm), oil on canvas. Gurr Johns. our members’ exciting diversity Estimate: £8000-12,000 of galleries, exhibition spaces, 3 Top-selling Nigerian Hammer: £19,000 collections and specialities in mask stars in our pick BADA organises person.” of five auction special events week More details of events, highlights collaborations and partnerships 4 A 17th century portrait The British Antique Dealers’ will be announced in due miniature and a royal Association (BADA) plans a course. Sikh archer’s ring are Richard Edwards, Chippenham, among five lots to June 12 watch at auction Dominion lantern-shaped glass petrol pump globe, in excellent 5 Henry VIII gold medal condition. George Washington’s takes six-figure sum in Estimate: £4000-6000 slave purchase note Swiss auction Hammer: £15,500
The opening lot in Hake’s June 29-30 auction in York, HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE Pennsylvania, is a 1767 promissory note hand-signed by a prominent Virginia slave owner – George Washington. Claydon Auctioneers, The colonial-era note by the first President of the United States Middle Claydon, Bucks, served as a commitment to purchase four slaves, including June 12 William Lee, an African-American youth who became a trusted In Numbers Two Beswick horses, both personal valet. in white colourways. A financial ledger at Mount Vernon specifies that the Estimate: £10-20 transaction was for Mulatto Will £61.15, Ditto Frank £50, Negro Hammer: £2000 Boy Adam £19 and Jack £19. The document is hand-signed in £8m-12m black quill-pen ink by Washington and his brother John Augustine Washington, and is addressed to Mary Lee, Acting Executor of John The estimate of Lucien Freud’s Lee, Deceased. picture of David Hockney which Nagel, Stuttgart, June 10 William ‘Will’ Lee spent two decades at Washington’s side – at will be offered in the British Japanese scroll painting social events, on surveying expeditions, at the First Continental art evening sale: Modern/ in the style of Hiroshige, Congress, and on the battlefield during the 1777-78 winter at Contemporary at Sotheby’s 18 x 22in (44 x 56cm). Valley Forge and the Siege of Yorktown. He was almost certainly in London on June 29. It was Estimate: €90 the most famous slave of his day. completed in 2002 when Freud Hammer: €4000 (£3440) On Washington’s demise, his will stipulated that all of his 120 was almost 80 and Hockney slaves were to be freed on the death of his wife, Martha – with Lee 65. The pair made an exception. He was immediately freed and provided a $30 had met annual salary, stating, “This I Give in 1962 Him As A Testimony Of My Sense and were Of His Attachment To Me, And For friends. His Faithful Services During The The portrait Semley Auctions, Shaftesbury, Dorset, Revolutionary War.” was June 12 The framed George Washington- created in Maurice William Greiffenhagen signed promissory note, offered on the months (1862-1931), Portrait of Gilbert Maurice the market for the first time, has an leading up Parkinson, pastel and watercolour, opening bid of $10,000. to Freud’s critically acclaimed 14 x 10in (35 by 25cm) signed and More US previews on page 24-25. retrospective at Tate Britain. dated 1906. Roland Arkell Unseen in public since Freud’s Estimate: £150-250 2012 exhibition at the National Hammer: £5800 Left: framed George Washington- Portrait Gallery, it will appear at signed promissory note which auction for the first time. Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for June 8-16, 9-16, 2019 2021.. ‘Highest‘Highest pricemultiple over overestimate’ top estimate’= Our selection = Our of selection items from of theitems top from10 highest the top hammer 20 highest prices hammeras a has an opening bid of $10,000 at pricesmultiple as of a the multiple high estimate of the high paid estimateby internet paid bidders by internet on thesaleroom.com bidders on thesaleroom.com Hake’s auction. ‘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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PAGE 008-009 2498.indd 2 18/06/2021 13:00:52 Fine Art, Chinese Antiques, Estate
www.HelmuthStone.com Jewelry Auction Sunday August 1, 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.
Chinese Bodhisattva figures, exhibited at the Ringling Museum Highly important Chinese blue and white dragon stemcups, Xuande six-character mark on each. (Sarasota, Florida).
Palatial Chinese Shiwan kiln glazed ceramic vases, Pair of exceptional large rose medallion porcelain Important Chinese bronze Monumental pair of Baccarat-style crystal 1 height 23 ⁄2in. floor vases, each with gilded floral motif cloisonné Buddha, exhibited vases with gilt bronze swan form mounts, throughout, height 24in. at the Ringling Museum of Art height 33in. 1 (Sarasota, Florida), height 23 ⁄2in.
Jon Corbino (1905-1964), nude model mixed media Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), oil/mixed media collage of John F. Kennedy, Clemens van den Broeck (1843-1922), 1 1 1 1 painting, sight size 21 ⁄2 x 16 ⁄2in. sight size 9 ⁄4 x 10 ⁄4in. oil on panel painting of a whimsical interior setting, 1 sight size 22 ⁄2 x 16in. Online bidding via:
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Three Day Country House, Antique & Fine Art Auction The Derby Saleroom | Chequers Road | Derby | DE21 6EN
466 A large and impressive Coalport 503 A Royal Worcester figure, Mercury, vase and cover, painted by J H Plant modelled by George Evans £400-£600 £600-£1000 (part of a fabulous Wednesday 30th June, Thursday collection of 100 lots of Royal Worcester) 1st July and Friday 2nd July 2021 Commencing at 10.00am prompt each day
Silver and Plated Ware - Wednesday 30th June at 10.00am Ceramics and Asian Arts - Wednesday 30th June at approx. 1.30pm Pictures and Prints - Thursday 1st July at 10.00am 1695 An Italian giltwood, gesso and painted pier table £3000-5000 Country House and Furniture - Thursday 1st July at approx. 12.30pm and Friday 2nd July from 10.00am 647 A German KPM rectangular plaque £5000-£7000 (part of a wonderful collection of KPM) A Good Collection of Derbyshire Blue John
1425 A large 19th century copper chemist's advertising apothecary shop sign £800-£1200 1640 A Victorian walnut, oak and satinwood library cartonniere cabinet, in the manner of Holland & Sons £600-£1000
BIDDING IN THE ROOM IS LIMITED AND IS STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY - PLEASE CALL 01332 210 000 190 A Victorian silver-gilt two-handled cup and cover, John Aldwinckle & You can now bid live at Bamfords via our website totally free with no registration Thomas Slater, London 1891 £400-£600 fee* - just pay what the room pays. If you are already registered please re-register 655 A good Vienna circular plate £800- to take advantage of this free service. To register for live bidding or to re-register £1200 (part of a private collection) please visit www.bamfords-auctions.co.uk *commission on hammer price is 24.75% +VAT Bidding also available by commission, telephone or online via easyliveauction.com or the-saleroom.com. Buyers Premium 24.75% plus VAT
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10am - 5pm Monday 28th June 2021 Catalogue online only, 10am - 6pm Tuesday 29th June 2021 with all images; for condition 9am - 10am Wednesday 30th June 2021 reports please request via 9am - 10am Thursday 1st July 2021 Bamfords website 1539 A Post-Regency gonçalo alves www.bamfords-auctions.co.uk 1503 Part of a collection of 6 lots of library cabinet, by Gillow of Lancaster 9am - 10am Friday 2nd July 2021 stained glass windows, designed and £2000-£3000 executed by Andrew Stoddart
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PAGE 011 2498.indd 1 17/06/2021 18:24:08 Auction Reports Hammer highlights
Marble and so much Moore Polymath’s collection and own artwork both attract bidders as saleroom returns to action
by Terence Ryle 1
Back in action after a seven-month lockdown hiatus, the Summers Place (25% buyer’s premium) garden sale attracted international bidders and a two-day total of more than £1m. It featured works by and from the collection of the polymath Gerald Moore (1926-2018) – sometime successful child actor, Harley Street oral surgeon and safari park owner. More to the point, he was an accomplished sculptor and painter. When he retired to Devon in 1993, Sotheby’s sale of the contents of his Sussex estate allowed him to endow the Gerald Moore Gallery at Eltham College, London, to encourage young 1. Late Roman carved marble – £32,000 at Summers Place. talent. 2. Portland stone Venus after Canova – £28,000. At the Billingshurst rooms a 243- 3. Fruit seller by John Cheere – £17,000. lot sale on May 18 was followed by a 440-lot sealed bid auction the next 4. The 10ft 6in (3.22m) tall, stylised bronze by Gerald Moore – £34,000. day. Moore’s own material included 38 pieces of sculpture ranging from two 6½in (17cm) tall painted metal Abstract groups at £100 to the 3 sale-topping monumental bronze illustrated right. Standing 10ft 6in (3.22m) tall, the stylised figure was estimated at £6000-10,000 and sold at £34,000 to a UK private buyer. Golden oldies The strength of the sale was for older material – none more so than 4 a 3ft 8in (1.13m) wide carved marble plaque possibly dating to the late Roman period. Believed to depict the adoration of the disciples with Judas slipping through a doorway, it was pitched at £2000-4000 and sold to at £32,000 to one of the North American private buyers who dominated the upper reaches. Classical statues also did well including two mid-18th century lead figures. One, a 2ft 1in (63cm) tall fruit seller by John Cheere on a later stone 2 pedestal, more than doubled top stone, it was estimated at £2500- marble, double-sided bench, 5ft 9in expectations at £17,000. The other, 4000 but sold at £28,000. (1.76m) wide, doubled top hopes at possibly by the equally well-regarded £16,000. John Van Nost, depicted a 3ft 7 in Successful child actor, Take a seat That was a rare UK private success (1.10m) tall group of Leda and the “Harley Street oral Portland stone was also the medium among the higher prices but the best Swan on a later pedestal. It doubled surgeon and safari for the best-seller among the garden of the cast-iron Coalbrookdale seats, the mid-estimate at £21,000. park owner – and seats: an impressive pair of 19th so popular with UK buyers, was yet Topping the statues was a 5ft 10in century, 5ft 11in (1.80m) long carved another North American purchase – (1.78m) tall, late 19th/early 20th accomplished sculptor seats which went just over estimate at a c.1870 curved 3ft 11in (1.20m) wide century figure of Venus after Canova. and painter £19,000. Laurel pattern example which went In the unusual medium of Portland A c.1900 Italian carved white above estimate at £6600. n 12 | 26 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 012-13 2498.indd 1 17/06/2021 15:12:25 Right: Continental silver-mounted wood pipe bowl – £800 at Bellmans. Opium pipe Below: 19th century porcelain opium pipe –£20,000. blows away estimate in collection
A tobacco pipe which opened the series and an opium one which ended it – interspersed by a cigar stub – met keen demand at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium). The Wisborough Green saleroom’s the 19th century porcelain opium pipe on each of the great man’s three c.1960 The 6ft 7in (2m) wide polychrome- May 25-27 auction began with 600 pipes from the Finch collection illustrated on this brandy balloon glasses had proved too painted sofa, in the sort of pared-back consigned by the descendants of Charles page. strong for bidders but there were no Louis XVI style which Gustav III had Finch, who collected them during his rise to Featuring enamelled figures in a problems for his stogie. admired at Versailles, converted into a the top of a major tobacco company from landscape and a frog and carved with It had been picked up by his police double bed via a hinged folding back and 1913-47. flowers and gourds to the ivory ends, the escort, Arthur Church, who wrapped it in a extending frieze. First of the 83 lots of mainly 22in (56cm) long pipe had a later terracotta note, now on three pieces of paper, reading It needed some work and a good clean meerschaum or wood pipes was a 19th bowl with a signature. Thrown Away Tuesday Sept *** 194* by Rt but sold to the UK trade at £4800 against a century carved wood and silver-mounted There was some minor wear but against Hon Winston Churchill. £600-900 estimate. Continental pipe bowl. Carved as a pulpit a £1000-1500, it went back to China at Consigned by the vigilant policeman’s The (54cm) long ark came with with five with knights between columns, it was £20,000. grandson, it was estimated at £800-1200 carved and painted wooden figures of Noah pitched at £150-250 and sold to an Italian and sold to a UK private at £3500. and his family and 64 animals. bidder at £800. Churchill souvenir Other sections added to the surprises, Many of these were damaged, hence On the final day the Asian lots included The cigar stub, inevitably, was a notably a 19th century Scandinavian pine the modest £200-400 estimate, but the ark Churchillian souvenir. Gustavian sofa bed and a late 19th or early went to a UK collector at £3500. The £7000-10,000 estimates 20th century German Noah’s Ark. Terence Ryle
Modern & Contemporary
Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers Prints & Multiples Wednesday 7 July, 10am
Above: Gustavian sofa bed – £4800 at Bellmans. Right: 19th/20th century Noah’s Ark – £3500.
Medal reflects a heartfelt emotion The 1702 Accession of Queen Anne medal is not uncommon in copper and silver but very rare in gold. This example right came for sale at Bamfords (21% buyer’s premium) in Derby on June 10 where, estimated at £3000-5000, it took £12,500. The medal is a relatively early design by John Croker, who was to be chief engraver at the Tower of London from 1705-41. A bust portrait of the monarch appears to the obverse with the reverse depicting a heart, within branches of oak set on a pedestal inscribed Atavis Regievs Banksy, British b.1974- Bomb Love (Bomb Hugger), 2003 together with the words Entirely English. £50,000-£70,000 The latter are a reference to Anne’s first speech to Parliament in which, after the period of rule by Scan the QR code to view the auction catalogue William of Orange, she proclaimed “I know mine own www.roseberys.co.uk Heart to be entirely English”. Examples in copper can be found for under £100 and those in silver priced from £100-500 depending on condition. This gold medal came Email [email protected] for more information in a contemporary shagreen case. 70/76 Knights Hill, London SE27 0JD | +44 (0) 20 8761 2522
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A GROUP OF FOUR AWARDED A RARE BOW PORCELAIN WHITE TO PTE.C. AVIS A.S.C GLAZED SHELL SALT, CIRCA 1750-1755 Est £400 (plus 22.5% BP*) Est £150 (plus 22.5% BP*) (PART OF A LARGE COLLECTION)
A LATE 19TH CENTURY CANE NILS JONSSON. FOUR SWEDISH 1960s TEAK A BOW PORCELAIN AN OCTAGONAL AND BENTWOOD BATH CHAIR DINING CHAIRS, 'Garmi' for Troeds 'BOTANICAL' PLATE CIRCA 1755 AUSTRALIAN BRUSHBOX Est £100 (plus 22.5% BP*) Est £200 (plus 22.5% BP*) Est £300 (plus 22.5% BP*) WOOD AND INLAID (PART OF A LARGE COLLECTION (PART OF A LARGE COLLECTION) JARDINIERE IN THE TO THE BOW ITEMS) MANNER OF PETER WAALS Est £100 (plus 22.5% BP*) Buyer’s premium is charged at 22.5% inc vat. There is an additional £8 hammer fee per lot. Artist’s Resale Right fee, is also charged on applicable lots which are identified in the catalogue text for full details please see ATG calendar
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Two-Day Fine Sale To include the remaining contents of Julians Park, Hertfordshire Wednesday 30th June & Thursday 1st July at 10am
544 Lot 301 426 545 Thomas Campbell The Macallan Pure Highland Malt A Bohemian red glass pedestal urn, A carved marble bust of (Scottish, 1790-1858), Scotch Whisky, distilled 1937 19th century, 48cm high The Hon Edward Willes, a carved marble bust £2,000-3,000 £400-500 late 18th or early of a gentleman (from a spirits and wines (plus 29.4% BP*) 19th century £400-600 (plus 29.4% BP) section of about 170 lots) £400-600 (pedestal, lot 546) (plus 29.4% BP*) (plus 29.4% BP*)
38 384 91 Follower of Jacopo da Ponte, called Bassano, circa 1600, A pair of Chinese cloisonné horses, 41cm high Alexander Mann (Scottish, 1853-1908), ‘Burning The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria, £2,000-3,000 (plus 29.4% BP*) Weeds’, signed lower right ‘Alex R Mann.’ oil on canvas, 82 x 96.5cm (from a selection of 60 lots of Asian arts) Inscribed on a label attached to the reverse: ‘ ‘Burning £5,000-8,000 (plus 29.4% BP*) weeds.’/ by/ Alexander Mann/ 53 Glebe Place, Literature: Alessandro Ballarin, Jacopo Bassano, Chelsea/ London.’, oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm 2 vols, Padua, 1995-1996, illus. no. 623 £8,000-12,000 (plus 29.4% BP*)
441 516 517 :A pair of walnut framed high-back armchairs, 17th century A fine mahogany sideboard table, in the manner of Thomas Hope, circa 1810 A pair of ormolu mounted marble baluster £1,200-1,800 (plus 29.4% BP*) £7,000-10,000 (plus 29.4% BP*) table lamps, 20th century, 74cm high £1,500-2,500 (plus 29.4% BP*)
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