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THE OAK INTERIOR Wednesday 28 March 2018 THE OAK INTERIOR Wednesday 28 March 2018 at 11am 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING Live online bidding is available PHYSICAL CONDITION OF IMPORTANT INFORMATION Sunday 25 March for this sale LOTS IN THIS AUCTION The United States Government 11am to 3pm Please email [email protected] PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS has banned the import of ivory Monday 26 March with ‘live bidding’ in the subject NO REFERENCE IN THIS into the USA. Lots containing 9am to 7.00pm line 48 hours before the auction CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL ivory are indicated by the Tuesday 27 March to register for this service. CONDITION OF ANY LOT. symbol Ф printed beside the 9am to 4.30pm INTENDING BIDDERS MUST lot number in this catalogue. Wednesday 28 March ENQUIRIES SATISFY THEMSELVES AS TO 9am to 10.45am David Houlston THE CONDITION OF ANY LOT +44 (0) 1865 853 667 AS SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 14 OF SALE NUMBER +44 (0) 207 468 5841 THE NOTICE TO BIDDERS [email protected] CONTAINED AT THE END OF 24693 THIS CATALOGUE. CUSTOMER SERVICES CATALOGUE Monday to Friday 08.30 to 18.00 As a courtesy to intending £25.00 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 bidders, Bonhams will provide a written Indication of the physical BIDS ILLUSTRATIONS condition of lots in this sale if a request is received up to 24 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Front cover: Lot 468 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax hours before the auction starts. Back cover: Lot 170 This written Indication is issued To bid via the internet please Inside front cover: Lot 235 (detail) visit bonhams.com subject to Clause 3 of the Notice Inside back cover: Lot 468 (detail) to Bidders. Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the sale. New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bid not being processed. Telephone bidding will only be accepted on lots with a lower estimate in excess of £500. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Jean Ghika, Charles Graham-Campbell, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Matthew Haley, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, David Johnson, Charles Lanning, Grant Macdougall Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. SALE Central Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital INFORMATION Park Royal Acton Ln Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & STORAGE AND HANDLING PAYMENT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE West ActonCHARGE S ON SOLD LOTS All chargesHorn Lane due to Cadogan Tate +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax LOTS MARKED TP StationRETURNED TO CADOGAN TATE may be paid to them in advance or To bid via the internet please visit All sold lots marked TP will be at the time of collection from their www.bonhams.com removed to Cadogan Tate 241 Acton STORAGE warehouse. Payment may be made Lane, London, NW10 7NP from Storage will be free of charge for by cash, cheque with banker’s card, PAYMENTS 9.00am on Tuesday 3 April 2018 & the first 14 calendar days from and credit, or debit card (Please note: Buyers will be available for collection from including the sale date Wednesday Amex is not accepted). +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Cadogan Tate from 12pm 28 March 2018. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Wednesday 4 April 2018 and then Information on charges due is every working day between Charges will apply from 9am available by email at collections@ Sellers 9am-4.30pm. Collections are by Monday 16 April 2018. cadogantate.com or telephone on Payment of sale proceeds appointment only & a booking email +44 (0)800 988 6100. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 or phone call are required in advance After the storage-free period the +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax to ensure lots are ready at time of following charges apply: SYMBOLS collection, photographic id will be Pictures and small objects: † VAT 20% on hammer price and VALUATIONS, TAXATION required at time of collection & if a £2.85 per day + VAT buyer’s premium & HERITAGE third party is collecting written +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 authorisation from the successful Furniture, large pictures and large VAT on imported items at a +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax buyer is required in advance objects: £5.70 per day + VAT preferential* rate of 5% on hammer [email protected] Photographic id of the third party price and the prevailing rate on will requested at the time of (Please note: Charges apply every buyer’s premium CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS collection. To arrange a collection day including weekends and Public To obtain any Bonhams catalogue time please send a booking email to: Holidays) Y These lots are subject to or to take out an annual [email protected] or CITES regulations, please read subscription: telephone call to +44 (0)800 9886 HANDLING the information in the back of the Subscriptions Department 100 to ensure lots are ready at time After the first 14 calendar days catalogue. +44 (0) 1666 502200 of collection. following the sale, the following +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax handling charges apply per Lot: [email protected] All other sold lots will remain in the Pictures and small objects: collections department at Bonhams £21.00 + VAT Please note that Bonhams, SHIPPING New Bond Street until 5.30pm Friday Cadogan Tate & Alban shipping For information and estimates on 13 April 2018 free of charge lots not Furniture, large pictures and large will be closed Friday 30 March domestic and international shipping collected by this time will be removed objects: £42.00 + VAT 2018 – Monday 2 April 2018 for as well as export licenses please to the warehouse of Cadogan Tate & the Easter Holiday. All will reopen contact Alban Shipping on will be available for collection from LOSS AND DAMAGE from 9am Tuesday 3 April 2018. +44 (0) 1582 493 099 9am Tuesday 17 April 2018 handling Extended Liability cover for the value [email protected] & storage charges will apply. of the Hammer price will be charged at 0.6% but will not exceed the total ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT value of all other transfer and storage All electrical equipment in this sale charges. has either been tested by a suitably qualified electrician or has been operationally disabled. If the intention is to reconnect this equipment we recommend that this is carried out by a suitably qualified electrician. 1 2 1 A RARE AND GOOD LAST HALF OF THE 15TH CENTURY POLYCHROME-DECORATED CEILING BOSS, WEST COUNTRY, CIRCA 1450 - 1500 Carved with a coat of arms, probably that of Courtenay, or, three torteaux, one charged with a mullet for difference, in chief a label of three points azure, the coat of arms atop leafy foliage, 23cm wide x 14cm deep x 23cm high, (9in wide x 5 1/2in deep x 9in high) £3,000 - 5,000 The arms of the powerful Courtenay family or, three torteaux are shown here differenced by the addition of a label of three points, and a mullet. The former is a mark of cadency used to distinguish a younger son during the lifetime of his father; the latter cadence denotes a third son. This boss might be carved with the arms of a member of the Courtenay family of Powderham. 2 A 15TH CENTURY POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL- GILT CARVED OAK ROOF BOSS, PROBABLY SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND The central dome formed as a flower of four swirling and scroll-tipped petals, the quatrefoil-shaped ground decorated at each corner with three scroll-tipped leaves, 28cm wide x 9cm deep x 27cm high, (11in wide x 3 1/2in deep x 10 1/2in high) £1,000 - 1,500 3 A LARGE AND FINE ELIZABETH I/JAMES I CARVED OAK FINIAL, CIRCA 1600 Carved in the round and modelled as a lion sejant erect, with flowing curly mane and bared teeth, the legs and feet with collars of fur, the front paws resting upon a scroll-edged shield, 24.5cm wide x 22cm deep x 62cm high, (9 1/2in wide x 8 1/2in deep x 24in high) £5,000 - 8,000 See M. Jourdain, English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance 1500 - 1650 (1924), p. 173, figs. 244 & 245 for a staircase at Bradninch Manor, Devon, circa 1547, with a comparable newel-post finial. Two further stone lion sejant erect, from the tomb of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, built 1554, are illustrated ibid., p. 3 69, figs. 78 & 79. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.