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London charity is beneficiary of restituted art
A sight loss charity in London has benefited from a surprise windfall after pictures restituted to the estate of a benefactor were sold at auction in Vienna. Four decades ago, the Vision Foundation (then named the Greater London Fund for the Blind) received a bequest of the estate of Irma Löwenstein Austin (c.1892-1976) when she died without an heir. More recently, the charity discovered that pictures she and her husband had sold under duress in Vienna in 1938 were in museums in Munich, Dortmund and Berlin. Small in size but certainly packing a punch, a three-lot sale of collectables The restitution process that began in 2018 raised almost $28m ($32.1m including premium) at Sotheby’s New York. was concluded last year. On June 7, The Compassionate Child (The Top left: the 1933 Double Eagle 20-dollar coin surpassed a $10m-15m Beggar) by Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg estimate and sold at $16.75m (£11.88m), an auction record for any coin. Waldmüller (1793-1865) was offered at Below left: the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp was already the Dorotheum with an estimate of €150,000- world’s most expensive before this sale and here sold at $7m (£4.97m). 200,000. It was hammered down at Above: the 24-Cent ‘Inverted Jenny’ plate block made $4m (£2.84m). €240,000 (£207,000) (plus 28/25/22/18% buyer’s premium). Two other pictures by Buy a share in the world’s Continued on page 7 most expensive stamp Tennis museum nets Perry medal Stanley Gibbons, the buyer of British Guiana One-Cent Magenta collector Weitzman had bid for it at the world’s most expensive was offered at an auction branded Sotheby’s in 2014. This time round, A gold medal won at Wimbledon in 1936 by stamp at Sotheby’s New York Three Treasures – Collected by the price including premium was British tennis great Fred Perry has been last week, said it plans to Stuart Weitzman on June 8. $8.3m. purchased by the Lawn Tennis Museum at “democratise” its ownership by Estimated at $10m-15m, it was Stanley Gibbons, the world’s the All England Lawn Tennis Club. It was inviting the public to buy shares knocked down at $7m (£4.97m), a oldest stamp dealership, said it offered at auction by sport specialist in it. sum shy of the estimate and also the Graham Budd on June 7-9 and sold for a The sole-surviving example of the record $7.9m that shoe designer and Continued on page 6 hammer price of £20,000. Full story on page 8
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PAGE 001,006,007 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 16:47:28 Longfield, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3HA Tel. 01428 653727 FINE PAINTINGS AUCTION To include Oils, Watercolours, Prints and Engravings and Russian Paintings. WEDNESDAY 23rd JUNE - 11.00AM
David Cox Sr (1783-1859) British, ‘The Vale of Clwyd’, George Adolphus Storey Herbert James Draper John Linnell (1792-1882) British, Henry Dawson (1811-1878) British, wayfarers gathering supplies with a harvesting scene beyond, (1834-1919) British, oil on canvas, (1864-1920) British, a portrait of a gentleman a view of Chepstow Castle from the River Wye, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘1854’, signed and indistinctly dated, oil on canvas, signed possibly Samuel Warren, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘1866’, 36in x 60in. 36in x 28in, in a fine quality with remnants of label oil on canvas, signed and 20in x 30in. 1 1 £6,000-£8,000 (+BP*) Barbizon-style frame. verso, 53 /2in x 27in. dated ‘1837’, 18 /2in x 15in. £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) £1,200-£1,800 (+BP*) £6,000-£8,000 (+BP*) £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*)
James and John Cleveley, circa 1789. 20th century Scandinavian School, M. Scurr mid-19th century British School, P.C. Dommersen (1834-1908) Dutch, 1 ‘Mort du Capitaine Cook’. Hand-coloured aquatint, oil on canvas, indistinctly signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘1841’, 21 /4in x 36in. A similar oil on oak panel, signed with initials, inscribed to the lower right, 17in x 23in. 38in x 54in. work is in the collection of the Scarborough Art Gallery. and bearing artist’s wax seal verso, 6in x 8in. £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*) £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*) £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*) £600-£800 (+BP*)
John Charles Moody (1884-1962) Attributed to Arthur Meadows (1843-1907) British, Stanley Barkeley (1855-1909) Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924) British, 19th century Continental British, oil on canvas, ‘Mackerel boats Nearing the Port Of Calais’, oil on canvas, British, oil on canvas, a framed triptych, oil on panel, signed, school, oil on mahogany 1 1 signed, 44in x 44in. signed and with remanence of label verso, 12in x 24in. signed, 21in x 17in. central panel 8in x 27 /2in, adjacent panels each 8in x 8in. panel, 16in x 12 /4in. £1,200-£1,800 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £1,000-£2,000 (+BP*)
Linda Mary Weir (b.1951) British, Walter Stuart Lloyd (fl. 1875-1929) British, Phyllis Bray (1911-1991) British, Konstantin Razumov (b.1974) Konstantin Razumov (b. 1974) a view of boats in the harbour at St. Ives, ‘Appledore, North Devon’, boats in a harbour, a recumbent female nude in antheral forest glade, Russian, ‘Box Seat’, Russian, oil on canvas, signed, oil on canvas, signed, with buildings beyond, watercolour, signed, oil on canvas, signed with initials, oil on canvas, signed, signed and inscribed verso, 1 1 16in x 20in, (unframed). 20in x 36in. 24in x 36in. 16 /8in x 13in. 55 x 45 cm, 21 /2in x 18in. £700-£1,000 (+BP*) £500-£800 (+BP*) £400-£600 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*)
Pre-sale viewing times: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th June 10.00am-2.00pm, Monday 21st June 9.00am-5.00pm, Tuesday 22nd June 9.00am-5.00pm, Wednesday 23rd June, morning of the sale, from 9.00am We are open for viewing, observing all COVID-19 safety precautions. Masks MUST be worn on site unless exempt and social distancing must be adhered to. There will be a limited number of spaces available in the room on the day of the auction, so please phone ahead to book a space. Collection within 7 days. 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 Philip Maggs for further information on 01428 653727 or 07970 440959, email [email protected], or visit the website www.johnnicholsons.com Contact us by email for condition reports.
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PAGE 002 2497.indd 2 11/06/2021 11:36:53 Longfield, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3HA Tel. 01428 653727 SELHAM HOUSE AUCTION Auction of the contents of Selham House, near Petworth, GU28 0PS FRIDAY 25th JUNE Antiques from 10.30AM, Paintings from 2.00PM
Viewings at Selham House An Antwerp Tapestry (circa 1720) by Jacob Van Der Goten, 8ft 2in x 13ft 8in. Provenance: Powderham Castle, Devon. Auction at John Nicholson’s Salerooms £6,000-£8,000 (+BP*)
A good pair of Victorian A Persian floral carpet, Howard leather armchairs. 11ft x 8ft 6in. £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £800-£1,500 (+BP*)
A George III mahogany desk, William Powell Frith (1819-1909) British, ‘An Incident in the Life of Lady Mary A Louis XV commode. £5,000-£8,000 (+BP*) A good Victorian figured 4ft 6in x 2ft 8in. Wortley Montague’, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1872, 44in x 56in (112cm x 156cm). Aubusson tapestry, 7ft 2in x 8ft 4in. £2,500-£5,000 (+BP*) walnut credenza 5ft 5in long. £1,000-£2,000 (+BP*) £15,000-£20,000 (+BP*) Sèvres, Oriental porcelain & clocks. Various estimates (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*)
Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) British, James Clark Hook (1819-1907) British, Chinese School, Circa 1850, Henry Redmore (1820-1887) British, ‘A Slight Catch’, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘Milk for the Schooner’, oil on canvas, signed with ‘The Hongs of Canton’, oil on canvas, A pair of oil on canvas marine scenes, 1890, 36in x 48in (91cm x 122cm). monogram and dated 1864, 28in x 42in (71cm x 107cm) 12in x 18in (30cm x 46cm) signed and dated 1857, 8in x 11in (20cm x 28cm), (2). £10,000-£15,000 (+BP*) £7,000-£10,000 (+BP*) £4,000-£6,000 (+BP*) £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*)
Arthur Joseph Meadows (1843-1907) British, Korean School, 19th Century, Chinese School, Circa 1876, A pair of oil paintings, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) ‘Breezy Day’, oil on canvas, signed, triptych, ink and watercolour on silk, ‘A French Clipper off Hong Kong’ and ‘The Danish Clipper J. H. Loeve off Hong Kong’, British, pencil study of a reclining Knight, 1 24in x 42in (61 x 107cm). each 40in x 12 /2in (101cm x 32cm). oil on canvas, 18in x 24in (46cm x 61cm), in hand-carved Chinese Chippendale frames. 7in x 12in (18cm x 31cm). £2,000-£3,000 (+BP*) £1,000-£2,000 (+BP*) £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) Pre-sale viewing times (at Selham House): Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th June 10.00am-4.00pm, Monday 21st to Thursday 24th June 10.00am-5.00pm, no viewings on morning of the auction Viewings will take place at Selham House. Entry by catalogue (£20), admits two. Auction to take place at John Nicholson’s Auction Rooms, Longfield, Midhurst Road, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3HA 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 Contact us by email for condition reports.
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PAGE 004 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 13:22:24 BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER, GLOUCESTERSHIRE Thursday 24th and Friday 25th June Two-Day Cotswold Country House Auction Sale of Antiques, Fine Art & Objets d’Art To include Fine Antique & High End Modern Design Furniture, Works of Art, Ceramics, various Fine Clocks, Antiquarian Books, Military Medals, Fine Wristwatches, Mirrors, over 40 lots of Hand-Knotted Persian Carpets, Lighting, Estate Jewellery and Silverware, 17th – 21st century Oils, Watercolours and Lithographs, Chinese Porcelain, Glassware over 40 Oil on Canvas Portraits, Bijouterie, Bronzes, etc. A Military Cross group (from a selection of medals) AT THE NORTH COTSWOLD SALEROOM, GL54 2AR 800+ various selected lots to include the residual contents of a £10 million Cotswold Country House Estate and other selected Estate entries removed for convenience of sale to The North Cotswold Saleroom
A 19th century carved marble
From a very good selection of clocks
Hamish Mackie, a large bronze, 55cm
A private collection of Omega wristwatches
John Wootton (c.1686-1764) a large landscape oil, From an excellent selection of 98cm x 136cm country house portraits
From a very good selection of antique estate silver From an excellent selection of country house portraits
From a very good selection of satinwood furniture 19th century Meissen Viewing: Tuesday 22nd & Wednesday 23rd 8.00am - 7.00pm A Persian ceramic tile, first half 19th century and on sale day mornings from 7.30am until start of sale at 9.30am (a set of four) www.the-saleroom.com/taylerandfletcher Enquiries to Martin Lambert Tel: (01451) 821666 Buyer’s premium Viewing Days & Sale Days Telephones: 01451 821666 07989 357218 https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/tayler-and-fletcher 21.6% incl. VAT @ 20% Email: [email protected] taylerandfletcher.co.uk
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legal case to decide if the coin Weitzman’s $28m pocket-sized collection – probably the example once owned by King Farouk – could Continued from front page Photo: SquareMoose of art, or for dealers to invite Phoenix. As well as this latest be privately owned. The investors to buy stakes in whole initiative, the firm is working previous high for any coin, was intended to put the famous 1856 collections, this is believed to be with another Phoenix-owned the 1794 ‘Flowing Hair’ silver stamp on view at its London the first time this model has business, Castelnau Group, to dollar sold for $8.525m at premises in The Strand before been used in the stamp market. develop a new digital platform Stack’s Bowers in 2013. making it available to “a much Shircore said there are many for collectables trading. The third item was the wider audience than ever collectors who would “love to Stanley Gibbons will have “a Inverted Jenny Plate Block before” through “fractional own a piece of the world’s most minority shareholding in the which sold at $4m (£2.84m) ownership and the creation of famous stamp but, of course, new digital platform at zero cost against a $5m-7m estimate to digital collections”. most mere mortals couldn’t as well as cost-free access to the David Rubenstein, the In effect, members of the hope to buy it on their own”. platform itself”. co-founder of investment firm public will be able to purchase The One-Cent Magenta was The Carlyle Group. shares in the stamp which can Above: the 1933 Double Eagle produced in British Guiana as Coin auction record The result of a philatelic be traded. 20-dollar coin – $16.75m part of a contingency supply The most valuable of error in 1918 with the biplanes The firm has launched a (£11.88m) at Sotheby’s. created following a shortage of Weitzman’s three treasures printed upside-down, only one website, 1c-magenta.com, where the imported stamps. proved to be the fabled 1933 sheet of 100 ‘Inverted Jennies’ people can register their interest stake in the stamp but said the Made using the printers of Double Eagle $20 coin – the was ever distribued. This is the in acquiring a stake. company was looking towards a the local Royal Gazette only example of 13 specimens in only block of four known. Stanley Gibbons chief model similar to financial newspaper, all were thought to private hands. Estimated at It last appeared at auction 16 executive Graham Shircore said markets where shares come be entirely lost until this one was $10m-15m, it drew three bidders years ago when it sold for the firm was still finalising the with voting rights. “If someone discovered in 1873 by a 12-year- before it was knocked down at $2.97m and was subsequently plans but confirmed it was comes in with an offer to buy it old schoolboy in South $16.75m (£11.88m). purchased privately by “developing a platform to create outright, then shareholders can America. The price was more than Weitzman in 2014. Sotheby’s a secondary market” for shares vote on whether to accept it.” The purchase of the stamp double the $6.6m it had made in said it becomes the second most in the stamp. While it is not unheard of for was financed through an 2002 at a Stack’s Bowers sale valuable philatelic item at He did not rule out Stanley consortiums to buy shares in interest-free loan from Stanley conducted on behalf of the US auction. Gibbons retaining a controlling collectables or individual works Gibbons’ majority shareholder Government. It had required a Alex Capon
Fledgling Brussels auction house sells €800,000 altarpiece
A large 15th century altarpiece mayor Jean Constant Fidèle operated as an important Below: 15th from a church in southern Duval in 1798. However, its medieval trade route, it century altarpiece Belgium has been sold in altarpiece remained with displays a number of influences – €800,000 Brussels for a hammer price of Duval’s descendants until it including the Belgium (£727,300) at €800,000/£727,300 (plus was consigned to Antenor Hennuyer style, the Dutch Antenor. 30% buyer’s premium). Auctions on May 30 with Brabant style, as well as Residing in the same family an estimate of €150,000 characteristics of early for more than two centuries, -200,000. Netherlandish work. the carved, gilded and Believed to date to 1450-60, It has been bought by a polychromed limestone the 4ft 11in (1.5m) wide philanthropic foundation and altarpiece was once in the sculpture features The will stay in Belgium. church of Saint-Denis-en- Lamentation at the Foot of the Antenor Auctions launched Broqueroie, in the Hainaut Cross with the saints John the in Brussels in November 2020 province in the Walloon region Baptist, Peter, Paul, Stephen, and is run by Olivia Roussev on the border with France. Lawrence and Sebastian with a team of auctioneers and The abbey was demolished depicted under Gothic specialists. when the land was sold to Mons canopies. Made in a region that Laura Chesters
New museum planned for Battle of Britain medals A Battle of Britain medal group sold at medals collection, and this group will be £384,000 at Spink in 2012, a new world record Gloucestershire auction house Dominic joining the rest of the collection which will be auction price for a group of British medals. Winter is set to go on display at a new put on public display at her new museum at The Brothers group had been estimated at museum in London, it has been revealed. Chandos House in London when it opens in £120,000-160,000. Meadows said there were The Second World war honours including about a year.” several phone bidders and on the day the CBE, DSO, DFC and Bar and logbooks awarded John also owns Bill Reid’s Victoria Cross underbidder was a private collector. to Air Commodore Peter Malam ‘Pete’ group, given for his bravery during a bombing He added: “The family of Peter Brothers Brothers (1917-2008) had sold for £155,000 raid over Germany, and John ‘Cat’s Eyes’ were delighted. Peter had requested the group (plus 20% buyer’s premium) on May 20, as Cunningham’s group plus many other be sold in due course and the proceeds split reported in News, ATG No 2496. important gallantry groups. Reid’s group set a among his grandchildren. Peter’s daughters Henry Meadows of Dominic Winter said: British record for a VC when it took £335,000 thanked me for all the hard work and we are Above: Air Commodore “Our group was bought by Melissa John, the at Spink in 2009. The group awarded to delighted the group will be on public display Peter Brothers. owner of the world’s foremost Battle of Britain Cunningham, the night fighter ace, fetched for all to appreciate.” Tom Derbyshire
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Left: The Compassionate Furniture | Works of Art | Pictures | Silver Child (The Beggar) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – €240,000 (£207,000) at Dorotheum on June 7.
Below: a room in Irma and Oscar Löwenstein’s Vienna home with the painting visible on the wall to the left. Image: Dorotheum
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Waldmüller returned to the Löwenstein Austin estate had sold at Dorotheum in November 2020: Preparing the Celebration of the Wine Harvest (also €240,000) and The Grandparents’ Visit (€70,000). The three pictures were part of the private collection of Irma and Oscar Löwenstein, members of Vienna’s Jewish community, who in 1938 fled Nazi persecution for London. During her lifetime Irma made various unsuccessful attempts to recover the lost items from their art collection, the remainder of which is Capildeo, partner at Charles Russell still missing. Speechlys, said: “The restitution of The Vision Foundation was assisted these artworks was complex and on a pro bono basis by law firm Charles required careful navigation of various Russell Speechlys and consultant laws. It has been a real honour to help Cadell & Co, with the auction house support the legacy.” also waiving its vendor’s fees. Rudy Laura Chesters
Online bi-monthly magazine puts Spotlight on Asian Art in London Asian Art in London has announced the two-section format introduced in 2020, dates for its autumn 2021 season and the runs from October 21-30 for Indian & launch of a 60-page digital sales Islamic art, with East Asian art on magazine called Spotlight. October 28-November 6. Spotlight will be published bi-monthly As well as dealers, auction houses and the current issue will include 52 also take part. New to the event this works available from 26 dealers taking year is Frome saleroom Dore & Rees, part in AAL. The price of each item will now owned by Asian art specialist Lee be listed and can be purchased directly Young (formerly of Lyon & Turnbull [email protected] | www.sworder.co.uk from the dealer. and Duke’s). Viewing by appointment at The Stansted Auction Rooms The first edition was sent toAAL ’s To receive Spotlight, sign up to the Cambridge Road | Stansted Mountfitchet | Essex | CM24 8GE mailing list and to the participating mailing list on AAL’s website dealers’ clientele last week (June 8). asianartinlondon.com/contact-us/. This year’s festival, which follows the Laura Chesters antiquestradegazette.com 19 June 2021 | 7
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Pick of the week Fred Perry medal nets Left: two views of Fred Perry’s 1936 £20,000 from museum Wimbledon gold medal – £20,000 at Graham Budd. The year 1936 was a very successful one for British tennis, in the middle of a mini golden age. Not only Right: Dorothy Round’s Wimbledon Mixed did Fred Perry defend his 1935 Wimbledon men’s title Doubles gold medal (£5500) and 1933 against Gottfried von Cramm, winning 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 Ladies’ Singles silver medal (£4400). in the final, but he also won the Mixed Doubles with compatriot Dorothy Round. from the late 1920s until 1950, winning the Wimbledon £5500 (estimate £2500-3500) at Graham Budd’s sale. Little were tennis fans to know that the next time a Ladies’ Singles title twice in 1934 and 1937, the Mixed Her silver medal, Birmingham 1932, also by Fattorini British man would win the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Doubles title three times in 1934, 1935 and 1936 – & Sons, realised £4400 (guide £2000-3000). Both had would be 2013, thanks to Sir Andy Murray. twice with Perry, once with Japanese player Ryuki Miki been bought at Bonhams in May 1998 by the same Perry’s 1936 gold medal came up for auction at – and the Australian singles title in 1935. collector as the Perry 1936 gold medal at Christie’s in Graham Budd (20.5% buyer’s premium) in London on Perry’s 37mm diameter medal, hallmarked 18ct, 1997 – the vendor here. June 7-9 and suitably Round’s medal for that Mixed Birmingham 1936, by Joseph Moore, sold for £20,000 Perry’s medal was purchased by the Lawn Tennis Doubles triumph was sold at the same time, along with at the Graham Budd auction against an estimate of Museum at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), her 1933 Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles runners-up silver. £14,000-18,000. Wimbledon. Museum curator Adam Chadwick said: Fred John Perry (1909-95) played both table tennis It was one of three Perry Wimbledon winners’ medals “As part of our commitment to the game’s heritage, and lawn tennis and was world no 1, winning 10 majors sold by his family at Christie’s South Kensington in 1997. the AELTC was keen to add this important item to its including eight Grand Slam tournaments, two Pro Slam His medals from 1934 and 1935 had made £11,000 and collection and delighted to have acquired it for future singles titles and six major doubles titles. He won four £10,000 respectively, with the 1936 example bringing display at the museum.” mixed doubles titles – two at Wimbledon with Round in £8000 (£9200 including 15% premium). Round’s Mixed Doubles medal went to a UK 1935 and 1936. Of the same size, Round’s Mixed Doubles 14ct gold collector, while her silver medal was bought by an Dorothy Edith Round (1909-82) was active in tennis medal, Birmingham 1835, by Fattorini & Sons, took overseas collector. Tom Derbyshire
and restaurants to open and the Chinese Works of Art even permits a limited number department at Sotheby’s New of visitors to the York. Helen football stadium, the Separately, Bonhams has Smith of Kreisverwaltungsreferat, the made two senior appointments Precious Hansons. local authority responsible for in Asia. Marcello Kwan has metals licensing public events, has become head of Modern and denied the organisers of the fair Contemporary art in Asia and On Friday, June 11, permission for it to go ahead. Cindy Lim has joined as a senior Juana Schwan, the fair’s specialist and head of sale. Both Michael Bloomstein of manager, regretted that the Above: Prof Anja Shortland of roles are based in Hong Kong. Brighton was paying the local authorities had King’s College London has written Kwan was previously at following for bulk scrap “prevented the chance of an a book on lost and stolen art. Christie’s in Hong Kong. against a gold fix of: early cultural and economic $1891.95 €1552.71 £1336.47 revival, by refusing their how objects were retrieved and permission”. how “thieves and fences end up Money Museum to Gold Hansons jewellery Several of the exhibitors also in court and behind bars”. sell coins on eBay 22 carat: £1182.22 per oz expert promoted pointed out that last year’s The book has been published (£38.01 per gram) Highlights had been held in by Unicorn. The Money Museum, operated Jewellery specialist Helen October with a well-thought- by the American Numismatic 18 carat: £967.27 (£31.10) Smith has been promoted to out hygiene plan and without Association, plans to sell a 15 carat: £806.06 (£25.92) associate director at Hansons negative consequence for Bonhams makes selection of coins via eBay. The Auctioneers. She joined in exhibitors and visitors alike. appointments items offered will be low-value 14 carat: £752.32 (£24.19) 2016, becoming head of specimens that are already 9 carat: £483.64 per oz jewellery in 2019. Smith was In New York Bonhams has hired represented in its collection. The previously a designer goldsmith Book covers lost Phyllis Kao as US director of deaccessioning is to clear space (£15.55 per gram) in the retail industry. and stolen art tales business development. Prior to for future objects and the funds 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 this role Kao was a specialist in will help the museum grow. 12 Month Low: ▼ £14.19 Case studies of lost and stolen Munich Highlights art have been turned into a Hallmark Platinum fair postponed book by a professor at King’s £22.10 per gram College London. The 12th edition of Munich art Prof Anja Shortland, who Silver and antiques fair Highlights, specialises in the economics of which was due to take place crime, has compiled Lost Art: £16.38 per oz for 925 from July 1-4, has been The Art Loss Register Casebook standard hallmarked postponed until October 19-24. Volume 1. The book is based on 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 Even though the Covid-19 10 cases from the ALR’s incidence in Munich is at a level archive, showing how Above (l to r): Phyllis Kao has joined Bonhams in New York; Cindy Lim 12 Month Low: ▼ £11.51 that allows museums, galleries restitutions were negotiated, and Marcello Kwan have been appointed to senior Hong Kong roles. 8 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 008-009 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 14:04:12 Bid Barometer Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com
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Oriental Art Auction, Hattem Right: a view of The June 8 Decorative Antiques & Safavid Quran, possibly Shiraz Textiles Fair which is second half of the 16th returning to Battersea century, refurbished c.1880 by Park running from Most read Muhammad ‘Ali Isfahani, September 28-October 3. Sultan al-Kuttab (king of scribes) with a lacquer binding The most viewed stories for by Fathullah Shirazi. week June 3-9 on Estimate: €120,000-150,000 antiquestradegazette.com Hammer: €400,000 (£363,600) 1 ‘Elegy’ from 1836 reveals original John Constable Historica Aucktionhaus, Berlin, June 7 three times a year, had to watercolours Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905), Orientalist oil on canvas Battersea Dec ready postpone and cancel planned of a sunset on the Nile, for autumn return fairs due to the various 2 Five pictures that signed and inscribed The Decorative Antiques & Textiles lockdowns during the pandemic caught bidders’ eyes Roma, 2ft 1in x 4ft 2in Fair is returning to its home in and instead held virtual events at Dreweatts’ Old (66cm x 1.26m). Battersea Park in south London and auctions. Master sale Estimate: n/a this autumn. More than 150 exhibitors Hammer: €34,000 The new dates will be will take part in the autumn fair 3 Reward offered for (£29,200) September 28-October 3. and tickets will be released return of stolen The event, previously held shortly. treasures from Arundel Castle
4 Ming dish sets house Bonhams, London June 7 record in Copenhagen Cloisonné enamel and gilt bronze Fortinghall manuscript auction incense burner in the form of a fangding, 6in (15cm) high, 18th century, 5 Victoria Cross provenance to Roger Keverne. heads to Scottish library awarded for heroic Estimate: £1000-2000 A 16th century manuscript has been bought by The National defensive feat Hammer: £15,000 Libraries of Scotland at auction. ‘ranking alongside The library owns the companion volume, the Book of the Rorke’s Drift’ comes for sale Dean of Lismore, and successfully bid £20,000 (plus 25% buyer’s HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE premium) to secure The Chronicle of Fortingall (previously spelt Fortighall) at Lyon & Turnbull of Edinburgh. Beeston Auctions, Estimated at £20,000-30,000 at the May 18 sale, the Norfolk, June 9 manuscript will now become part of the libraries collection, Cotswolds School inlaid reunited with the Lismore manuscript after more than 400 years. oak bedroom suite. The Chronicle... was written between 1554-79 by members of Estimate: £40-60 the MacGregor family at Fortingall in Highland Perthshire. The Hammer: £7000 same family compiled the slightly earlier Book of the Dean..., which In Numbers is the earliest surviving collection of Gaelic poetry compiled in Scotland. The library’s manuscripts curator Dr Ulrike Hogg said: “The two manuscripts Sfr260,000 are so closely connected that it’s difficult Wessex Auction Rooms, to describe one without reference to the The price (£205,400) of a gold Chippenham, June 6 other.” medal proclaiming Henry VIII Probably early 19th Since at least 1855 The Chronicle... as the Supreme Head of the century oil on board was among the furnishings of Taymouth Church of England – the only sketch of a Venetian Castle where, at the peak of their known example in private scene. wealth, power and influence, the Earls of hands – which sold in a Swiss Estimate: £20-40 Breadalbane & Holland lived from the early auction. It was estimated to Hammer: £4900 18th century until 1922. bring SFr75,000 at Lugdunum The manuscript, written in Latin, Scots in Solothurn on June 9 (see and Gaelic, includes passages of local and wider News, ATG No 2494, for more). history, diary entries, stanzas of poetry, proverbs and The Supremacy medal was Greenslade aphorisms plus commentaries on religion. struck in 1545, a decade after Taylor Hunt, Noteworthy elements include a list of battles from the formal completion of ‘the Taunton, Bannockburn (1314) to Flodden (1513), a Gaelic poem written in a king’s great matter’ – his June 4 writing system based on Middle Scots and poetry in Middle Scots divorce from Advertising by William Dunbar. Catherine sign for Dr Martin MacGregor, senior lecturer in Scottish history at the of Aragon Ushers University of Glasgow, said: “It has great linguistic importance and the Noted Stout, The Brewery, Trowbridge, 10in by 2ft 7in (24 x 77cm). as it embodies the interplay of Latin, Scots and Gaelic as written break with Estimate: £40-50 languages in then Gaelic-speaking Scotland.” Rome. Hammer: £3500 The acquisition was made possible with funding from the Friends of the National Library, the Magnus and Janet Soutar 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, 3-9, 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 Trust, the BH Breslauer Foundation Fund and the Leckie Family 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 Charitable Trust. Laura Chesters ‘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 2497.indd 2 11/06/2021 14:05:55 Period Oak, Country Furniture & Effects Sunday 20th June 11am (CLOSED DOOR SALE) Viewing: Wednesday 16th-Friday 18th June BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Full colour catalogues are available for £10
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BP* - Buyer’s premium of 24% incl. VAT @ 20%. Lots marked ARR will be subject Summer Fine Art to an additional fee - for full details see table in ATG and Antiques Auction Auction Calendar
To include Silver, Jewellery, Watches, Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, Ceramics, Glass, Paintings, Furniture Thursday 24th June at 10.30am at The Etwall Saleroom, Derbyshire (webcast only)
Sir Jacob Epstein Hitchens, Ivon (British) (1893-1979), (British, 1880-1959), a woodland landscape, impasto oils Portrait of a young boy, on canvas, signed and dated 1934 bronze, signed £20,000-£30,000 £1,500-£2,000 (plus 24% BP*) (plus 24% BP*)
An Edwardian aquamarine and 15ct gold necklace A matched set of six Queen Anne silver dog-nose table A 17th century Commonwealth silver Puritan spoon, plain bowl and tapering stem, £900 -£1,200 (plus 24% BP*) spoons, Britannia Standard, London, 1709 incised to reserve of stem with prick dot lettering ‘SG’, hallmarked by Stephen £800-£1,200 (plus 24% BP*) Venables, London, 1649 £1,500-£2,000 (plus 24% BP*)
A diamond solitaire 18ct gold ring, the round brilliant A diamond metamorphic necklace/tiara,total diamond A Baccarat millefiori paperweight, Soo Pieng, Cheong (Singaporean) (1917-1983), cut diamond weighing approx 3.07 carats weight approximately 9.91carats set with multiple canes including four abstract composition in colour, oils on board, £5,000-£6,000 (plus 24% BP*) £5,000-£7,000 (plus 24% BP*) Gridel silhouettes of a monkey, horse, signed and dated 1960 goat and dog, dated 1848 £1,000-£1,500 (plus 24% BP*) £400-£600 (plus 24% BP*)
Terence Storey P.P.R.S.M.A., F.R.S.A (British 1923-2019), A pair of yellow ground ‘peony’ garden seats, A Canton enamel rectangular censer, Qianlong mark On The River Orwell, oil on canvas, signed (part of a single-owner Qing dynasty, 19th century £1,500-£2,000 (plus 24% BP*) collection of the Derbyshire artist’s work) £1,500-2,000 (plus 24% BP*) £300-£500 (plus 24% BP*)
Catalogue available to view on www.hansonslive.co.uk Entries invited for our forthcoming Autumn Fine Art & Antiques Auction Thursday 23rd September 2021, to include paintings by Kyffin Williams Contact Isabel Murtough, Head of Fine Art at Etwall antiquestradegazette.com [email protected] 01283 733988 www.hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 17 April 2021 | 25 The Auction Centre, Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire DE65 6LS
PAGE 011 2497.indd 2 11/06/2021 16:11:17 Feature Clocks & Watches Taylor
Themade first tranche of one of the finest English clock collections in private hands comes for sale in London and Winchester this summer. Roland Arkell reports
“It’s impossible to imagine a world without clocks, institution. In 2016, Taylor had said: “I have a and that is why horology has always fascinated jaundiced view of museums, that museums only me.” The seeds of Dr John C Taylor’s passion for show something like 10% of their clocks and the timekeeping were planted in childhood. Fromanteel was an inventor, an rest only see the light of day if some particular Born in Buxton in 1936, he would watch his curator decides to put on a show.” entrepreneur, an international father Eric (a fellow inventor) taking apart and “ It is out in the open market where he believes reassembling clocks on the kitchen table. As a businessman – all of which I the collection will receive the attention it deserves. pilot since his teens, he became acutely aware of have aspired to be The dispersal will be conducted via a number of the role of time in navigation. catalogued selling exhibitions over perhaps two He purchased his first antique timekeeper (a years. In the absence of a ‘live’ Masterpiece fair this month-going longcase, c.1710, by his namesake year, highlights from the first Taylor catalogue will John Taylor of Ormskirk) in a shop near Harrods parallels with his own career and came to admire be offered at the Bruton Street galleries of English shortly before moving to the Isle of Man in the mid two men in particular: Ahasuerus Fromanteel furniture dealer Ronald Phillips from June 23-30. 1970s and so began one of the greatest collections (1607-93) and John Harrison (1693-1776). All 46 pieces will then be shown in Winchester of early English clocks in private hands. “Of all the early clockmakers I think (July 3-24). Fromanteel made more fundamental It is hoped all restrictions will be lifted by the Switched on to collecting manufacturing, research and design time the doors open in Mayfair but the event will Dr Taylor is best known as the inventor of the [developments]. He was an inventor, he was an go ahead even if some social-distancing measures automatic switch-off device on the electric kettle entrepreneur, he was an international businessman are required. known as the Otter G. – all of which I have aspired to be.” While there is a compelling argument that “I can go to any high street in the Western He is among those who think that Fromanteel Golden Age clocks remain undervalued (most world, look in the window of any shop selling was making pendulum clocks in London two or cost less than a branded modern wristwatch mass kettles, and say ‘I designed that one, designed that three years before the Dutch physicist Christiaan produced in the thousands), the best do not come one, designed the controls on that one’.” Huygen took out a patent for a domestic clock. cheap. While prices start at £2750 (a printed dial The sale of more than a billion of these devices “John Harrison is even more a hero of mine surveying compass by Henry Sutton dated 1650), (some of them recently pictured on a series of because I’ve spent my business life making they will rise to £3.5m for the Spanish Tompion, stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post Office) bimetal controls. He invented bimetal and I only a turtleshell and gilt brass grande sonnerie helped fund some of the best Golden Age and discovered that midway through my life.” striking bracket clock commissioned c.1703 for precision timekeepers that have come to market Taylor’s own ‘chronophage’ series of clocks presentation by Queen Anne to Archduke Charles in the past four decades, each purchase made to – including that he made for his alma mater von Habsburg. tell an extra paragraph in the story of English Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (astronaut One of only 13 full grande sonnerie clocks made clockmaking. Neil Armstrong made a special visit to see it) – by Tompion across his career, it was bought for The Taylor holdings ultimately totalled over are effectively giant embodiments of Harrison’s $2.1m at Sotheby’s Masterpieces from the Time 150 clocks, watches and instruments by a roster grasshopper escapement. Museum sale in 1999. of names that read like a Who’s Who of early It is refreshing that, in the interests of openness, clockmaking. Open market Carter Marsh has chosen to include this kind of Many have formed part of scholarly exhibitions: At the age of 85, Dr Taylor has chosen to oversee historical pricing information in the cataloguing Taylor’s clocks were the core of the Innovation and the sale of his collection through Winchester whenever possible. Collaboration exhibition at Bonhams (2018) and The dealership Carter Marsh. The dealership is conscious events like this don’t Luxury of Time 1550 to 1750 at the National Museum It is his desire to see the fruits of his 40- come around too often (particularly now that of Scotland and the Manx Museum (2020). year odyssey dispersed in a way that they can Sotheby’s and Christie’s seldom hold dedicated As he explained to ATG in 2016, Dr Taylor be enjoyed by future generations of collectors clock sales) and believes market transparency is found in the great clockmaking pioneers some and enthusiasts rather than left en bloc to an the best policy. n 12 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 012-15 2497.indd 2 11/06/2021 10:42:14 Left: this George I silver-mounted, month-going equation and year calendar longcase with duplex escapement was made by Daniel Delander, c.1715. In an ebonised fruitwood and gilt metal case possibly designed by the architect James Gibbs, this extraordinary clock was made for James Bridges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1673-1744). It was probably intended for his country seat, Cannons House in Enfield, but after the duke failed to settle his bill a court case ensued in 1722 and subsequently the clock was sold by lottery. The clock later appeared among the stock of James Cox (c.1723-1800), famed maker of clocks and automata destined for the Oriental market, and was included in an auction in May 1765. More recently it sold at Christie’s in 2002 for £214,882. The asking price at Carter Marsh is £395,000.
Above: dating from c.1670, this Charles II longcase represents an important step forward in the development of clocks from the John Fromanteel workshop. It includes a number of modifications on earlier designs done as a means of cost saving without compromising on function and accuracy. This was one of the very first longcase clocks to use the indigenous walnut veneers (see also a Joseph Knibb of Oxford longcase on page 14). The chapter ring is made of silvered brass, rather than the solid silver used previously, while various changes have been made to save on brass castings. The movement has the bolt-and-shutter maintaining power system essential to winding the clock without disturbing its timekeeping, first developed on the Denton Hall Fromanteel of c.1658. An innovation is the use of a heavy brass fly in the strike train. This clock was acquired from dealer Anthony Woodburn in 1996 for £125,000. The asking price is £165,000.
Above: to the tutored eye, the work of Henry Jones (1642-95) is instantly Left and right: as an inventor himself, Dr Taylor’s recognisable. This Charles II ebony primary interest when buying a clock was veneered and silver-mounted table ‘how and why it is different to previous clocks’, clock, c.1678, of small proportions not simply because they were ‘delightful and includes many archetypal features. It beautiful objects in their own right’. has a Dutch-striking verge movement. Nonetheless, there are many timekeepers in the The clock sold for an auction record collection that were made for high-status clients. for the maker in December 2000 when Numbered 650 for c.1724, this is one of only four it took £149,681 at Christie’s and Carter substantiated George Graham lantern clocks. Marsh will seek virtually the same sum Like those made by his predecessor Thomas (£150,000) when the Taylor collection Tompion, all are miniatures, but this clock is is offered later this month. extraordinary as it has, uniquely, a solid silver Dr Taylor, who rarely sold pieces chapter ring and a fire-gilded frame, dial plate during his collecting life, did not buy and front fret. It was almost certainly a special as an investor. “They are not bought production, commissioned and finished for a to hope that they will increase in wealthy customer’s own personal use. The 30- value,” he said. “It’s about the way hour verge movement includes an alarm. the mechanisms changed and how Known as the Hooper Graham (it was sold horology has developed throughout the for £30,000 in 2004 as part of the John Hooper period of the collection.” collection). it will be priced at £55,000 as part of the John Taylor collection.
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While the Taylor collection (see p12-13) is this summer’s horological focus – “a once in a generation event” is how one dealer described it – plenty of other purchasing opportunities are available for enthusiasts of the best in early English clockmaking. Tetbury dealer Ben Wright Clocks will shortly publish a catalogue of latest acquisitions, while specialist Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks is open for face-to-face business on Kensington Church Street and planning his annual selling exhibition in November. Pictured here are highlights from both dealers together with a Phase I Tompion coming up for sale at Bonhams at the end of the month – London’s only dedicated clocks sale this season.
More glamorous Tompion
“This is much more interesting than the usual Tompion ebony striking table clock,” says dealer Ben Wright, “firstly because it’s one of his more glamorous Phase III examples, but also because it illustrates the fall-out between Thomas Tompion and his erstwhile business partner (and nephew in law) Edward Banger. “We don’t know the full details but the partnership was dissolved around 1708 when this clock [numbered 465], was still awaiting its new owner. Tompion had the joint signatures covered by a plaque engraved with only his name” (see detail). One of only three other clocks known to have been given this treatment, it is priced at £295,000. benwrightclocks.co.uk
Pinnacle of technology
The first clocks represented the pinnacle of English technology and often lead the way in fashion. The Chimes of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire is a long established retailer Dated to c.1666, this longcase clock by Joseph Knibb specialising in the sale of antique clocks from longcase (grandfather) is believed to be the earliest recorded veneered clocks to bracket, mantel, wall and carriage clocks. in walnut. The indigenous timber (less www.antique-clock.co.uk expensive than imported ebony) would later become widespread in English case furniture by 1680. This is also the earliest-known longcase clock to retain its original verge escapement (see detail) and one of only five surviving complete examples by Knibb made in his formative years in Oxford before moving to London c.1670. Among the highlights of Ben Wright’s newly published catalogue, it is priced at £185,000. benwrightclocks.co.uk
The Chimes, Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, UK View seven days a week, by appointment only
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PAGE 012-15 2497.indd 4 11/06/2021 10:42:58 Quare the Quaker
This walnut longcase, c.1710, by Daniel Quare (1648/49-1724) with a month duration movement is priced at £95,000 by Howard Walwyn. He praises its small proportions, exceptional figuring and its fine condition that includes the survival of the engraved brass fretwork to the hood. As a practising Quaker, Quare would not sign any oaths of allegiance preventing his appointment as Clockmaker to the King. Nevertheless, he was a regular visitor at the palace and was ‘free of the back stairs’. walwynantiqueclocks.com
In the first rank of early makers
John Ebsworth was in the first rank of early makers who were working during the last quarter of the 17th century. He was appointed Master of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1697 and he made a number of very fine longcase, bracket and lantern clocks. This Charles II period ebony and gilt-mounted table clock signed Johannes Ebsworth Londini fecit c.1673 has a turntable base, useful to attending to the mechanism without the need to lift the clock. The shallow caddy top has an original gilt brass mount with the monogram MR, probably for the original owner (see detail), and it comes with a tulip- engraved winding key of the period. Howard Walwyn prices it at £85,000. walwynantiqueclocks.com
One of five Phase I Birthday present to a marquess A fine late 17th century ebony veneered quarter This Victorian gilt-brass repeating table month-going tripod clock by timepiece by the father Thomas Cole is engraved of English clockmaking, with a dedication dated Thomas Tompion, leads July 6, 1861, from the Bonhams’ Fine Clocks sale Marchioness of Anglesey in London on June 22. as a birthday present to her Made c.1680-85, before husband, the 2nd Marquess the advent of Tompion’s of Anglesey. numbering system, it is one The clock remained in of only five Phase I clocks the Anglesey family at Plas of this type known to exist. Newydd, now owned by the This series of clocks have National Trust, until 2015. the bell set into a cut-out It is priced at £19,500 by aperture in the backplate, Ben Wright Clocks. necessary because at benwrightclocks.co.uk this time Tompion used a backplate that was larger than the frontplate. It is estimated at £65,000-90,000. bonhams.com
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PAGE 012-15 2497.indd 5 11/06/2021 10:44:06 Carter Marsh Co. FINE CLOCKS AND WATCHES
The John C Taylor Collection - Part I Major selling exhibitions: 23rd to 30th June 2021: 3rd to 24th July 2021: Highlights from e John C Taylor Collection The John C Taylor Collection - Part I at RONALD PHILLIPS Ltd. at Carter Marsh & Co. 26 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London W1J 6QL 32A The Square, Winchester SO23 9EX
Exhibit 8 e Ingram Exhibit 16 Henry Jones, London East
Exhibit 41 e Beatty Graham, no.696 Exhibit 31 e Spanish Tompion, no.381 Exhibit 40 e Hooper Graham, no.650
Exhibit 22 Daniel Quare, London Exhibit 34 e Chesham Quare longcase Exhibit 7 John Hilderson, London
Full catalogue of 46 exhibits available online at www.cartermarsh.com
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PAGE 016 2497.indd 2 10/06/2021 17:14:49 Exceptional Clocks SUMMER CATALOGUE View online at www.benwrightclocks.co.uk
JOHANNES FROMANTEEL JOSEPH KNIBB, OXFORD THOMAS TOMPION (& EDWARD BANGER) A very fine and important olivewood and ebonised An exceptionally rare 8-day walnut longcase clock. LONDON NO. 465 striking turntable clock. Circa 1670 Circa 1666 A very rare ebony striking table clock. Circa 1708
JAMES MCCABE, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES CONDLIFF, LIVERPOOL. JAMES MARKWICK, LONDON NO. 1658 / 602 A very rare skeleton table regulator with balance A fine quality walnut and Arabesque marquetry A small solid mahogany striking travelling clock wheel escapement. striking table clock with pull quarter repeat. with balance wheel escapement. Circa 1830 Circa 1830 Circa 1690
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The right time for Cartier rarities Scarce variations of the classic dress watch come to market as interest rises in vintage Cartier
by Roland Arkell
Cartier dress watches are the antithesis of the rugged ‘tool’ watches that have ridden the crest of a market wave for several years. Typically made with Jaeger- LeCoultre movements, white enamel dials and 18ct gold cases rather than stainless steel, these are more the stuff of Jermyn Street suits and briefcases rather than racetracks and regattas. They are timeless classics, not the height of collecting fashion. However, the market is not unchanging. Watches of Knightsbridge (21% buyer’s premium) says that interest levels for vintage and second-hand Cartier watches have been rising as buyers look for ‘value’ in the market. A record bid of £96,000 was received on May 22 for a rare niche takes place on June 16 when Only one other is known to exist octagonal watch from 1976. This is Bonhams offers a yet scarcer Cartier with these lugs and it is in the Cartier from a range of timekeepers made Pebble Turtle watch with a guide of Collection. Above: octagonal Cartier London for and retailed by Cartier London in £150,000-200,000. These designs, made alongside wristwatch c.1976 – £96,000 at Watches the 1970s, with this gent’s size watch A variant of the Cartier London Sixties classics such as the Maxi Oval of Knightsbridge. made in very small numbers. Pebble, this watch hallmarked and the Crash, were the last made Surviving in excellent all-original Above right: Cartier Pebble ‘Turtle’ for 1975 earned its name from the with the input of a Cartier family condition, it sold well above hopes of wristwatch c.1975 – estimate unusual ‘turtle feet’ lugs to the member: Jean-Jacques Cartier ran £18,000-26,000. £150,000-200,000 at Bonhams. distinctive case, featuring a square the London branch of the luxury Another test of this market with softened edges within a circle. goods firm from 1945-74. n
A ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ Omega brings £9000
Tennants’ (20/17.5/10% buyer’s premium) sale of Jewellery, Watches & Silver on May 22 included, at a top-estimate £9000, a rare Omega aviator’s watch. It was sold with information from the Omega Museum that confirms the watch was manufactured in July 1915 and is thus one of the earliest Omega first-generation model chronographs ever made. It uses a pocket watch-size movement and an outsize case with a button at 6 o’clock that made for ease of use during flying. An almost identical watch, owned by Lawrence of Arabia and worn by him throughout the Arabia campaign, was discovered on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, and later sold at Antiquorum to the Omega Museum for Sfr86,000. Rolex tool watch pioneer Regardless of rarity, watches of this vintage are frequently outpaced in the market by later issues. The Leyburn sale was topped at £12,000 by a rare 1953 Rolex: the Turn-O-Graph or ref 6202. Made for just two years alongside the first Submariners, the ref 6202 – touted as “a self-winding, waterproof watch that acts as a stopwatch” – marks the genesis of Rolex’s most popular tool models. Above: Rolex Turn-O-Graph or ref 6202 At 36mm it is smaller than other tool watches but all the classic – £12,000. case and dial elements are there. Perhaps only 1000 were made. This Right: Omega aviator’s watch c.1915 – example with an original dial finish and a 1957 bracelet had been owned £9000. by the vendor since new.
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PAGE 018-19 2497.indd 2 10/06/2021 16:24:15 Daytona is One careful owner for a Bond Submariner Scarce variations of the classic dress watch come to market as interest rises in vintage Cartier £30 bargain After a decade riding a market wave, ‘original owner’ in lockdown Rolex tool watches are increasingly scarce at auction. The example at Heritage (25% buyer’s premium) In these days of the internet search engine in Dallas on June 1 was the most coveted of all and the live bidding platform, it is reassuring Submariners: the ‘big crown’ or reference 6538 to know that bargains are still out there. (right). It’s the model worn by Sean Connery in This Rolex Cosmograph Daytona c.2009 his portrayal of James Bond in several movies, was purchased via an online-only sale during including Dr No. the April lockdown for just £30. The buyer had This one came directly contacted Batemans (20% buyer’s premium) from the family of the in Stamford and, after a thorough inspection and original owner, who paid some research, received a call to say the watch was $89.65 (plus tax) for genuine, albeit with a blinging aftermarket bezel studded with 124 diamonds and a it in November 1960, total weight of over 3.5 carats. Offered for sale at as part of Batemans’ specialist according to the quarterly Jewellery & Watches sale on May 21 with a pre-sale estimate of £5000- original sale invoice 8000, it sold to an online bidder against five phones for £14,000. included with the lot. This watch, the reference 116520, was one of the first made with a Rolex The hammer price was in-house movement (the calibre 4130) and was produced for 11 years but is $100,000 (£70,000). now discontinued. It differed from the older Rolex chronographs by having the The reference 8171 is tachymeter scale engraved on the bezel for greater dial legibility. considered one of the most important timepieces that Rolex introduced during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was unusually large for the time, at 38mm – hence the nickname Padellone (frying pan) – and stands out from the crowd with the addition of a triple calendar moonphase ‘Big triangle’ shapes up nicely complication. This example, left, from c.1950 in yellow gold, reached $44,000 (£30,800).
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Buyers release pent-up demand Silver specialist says collectors were raring to go after months of staring at an online catalogue
by Roland Arkell 2 “I suppose after five months nobody 1 could say they didn’t have time to read the catalogue,” joked silver specialist Rupert Slingsby, as the Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) silver auction originally scheduled for November 2020 and then January 2021 finally got under way on April 27-28. He believed the hiatus, during which time the catalogue had been read and reread many times online, had probably helped rather than 3 hindered the market. The 1060 lots enjoyed a selling rate of 94% for a hammer total of £951,830 (the lower estimate for the sale was £575,080). It was the highest-grossing silver sale that the Highlights from the private collection sold by Woolley & Wallis on April 28. Salisbury firm has held. “I think what has been 1. Newcastle chamberstick by Eli Bilton – £13,000. demonstrated here is the genuine 4 2. Charles II porringer and cover with chinoiserie decoration – £26,000. pent-up demand for high-quality and especially early silver, which 3. Late 17th century filigree hornbook – £8500. collectors haven’t been able to get 4. Charles II silver tumbler cup – £18,000. their hands on over the past six 5 5. Charles II wine taster by Simon Romney (London 1675) later engraved months.” William Bussell 1687 – £6500. Around half the take came from a single source: an estate collection 6. Elizabeth I globular ‘segment’ form pomander, unmarked, c.1600 – of caddy spoons (see facing page) £10,500. and early silver pieced together, with the guidance of Godalming dealer Alastair Dickenson, over more than front and back are those of Grant. search engine, two specialist rattle 30 years from the early 1980s until In 2013 this piece had been sold by collectors slugged it out before it sold around 2017. W&W for £13,000 but nine years at £15,000 (estimate £1000-1500). Leading this fine-quality selection later, guided at £6000-8000, it went was a Charles II silver porringer with to an overseas dealer at £31,000. Newcastle tradition marks for Benjamin Pyne, London, From the principal collection, a Making a similar improvement on 1683. It is taken above the norm by Charles II silver tumbler cup was estimate was a late 17th century the survival of the original cover with I think what has been engraved with an armorial shield of taper stick with a cylindrical stem, a pierced foliate finial and engraved demonstrated here is Garnish or Michell and struck for flat circular base and four bun feet. bird and foliate decoration in the “ WF (probably by William Francis) It carried marks (EB with a rosette chinoiserie taste. the genuine pent-up and London 1683. below) that were identified late in The auction house had sold this demand for high This piece had sold for a punchy the day as those of the Newcastle piece to Dickenson in 2015 for quality and especially £21,000 at the How of Edinburgh silversmith Eli Bilton I. £16,000. This time round, pitched at sale at Woolley & Wallis in October Newcastle enjoyed a long £10,000-15,000, it brought £26,000. early silver 2007 but was guided here at £4000- established gold and silversmithing This was one of a handful of 6000. “It fetched a massive price tradition from the 13th century and pieces offered here that Woolley & in the How sale and we were not a town mark, expressed by one or Wallis had sold in recent memory. expecting anything like that in three castles, was occasionally used The results show that the market for today’s market,” said Slingsby. “But on items from the 17th century when certain items – collectables and early it went on to sell for £18,000, so quite as many as 13 smiths worked in the silver rather than standard domestic close to the How figure.” city. However, it was not until 1702 wares – has improved somewhat in 6 A William III gold baby’s rattle that an official assay office with a date recent years. and coral teether had been a snip in lettering system was opened. 2008 when it had sold to Dickenson This taper stick by perhaps Best-seller for £1300. It has the maker’s mark the best-known Newcastle maker The top-selling lot (from a different as only P (unidentified) but alongside of the period was a quirky form source) was a William IV silver panels of engraved decoration is the and probably dated from c.1685. ice pail or wine cooler by Paul contemporary inscription Benjn. Vigor An exhibition label read CINOA Storr (London 1830) modelled as a 1697. Thirteen years later, in the era Continued on page 22 coopered bucket. The arms engraved of the ubiquitous use of the internet 20 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 020-23 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 12:29:30 A A baker’s dozen of caddy spoons from the private collection sold by Woolley & Wallis C on April 28.
A. With a lily pad handle and gilded leaves by Francis Higgins, London, 1852 – £1800. B. Of leaf form with berries and a twig handle B by Edward Farrell, London, 1818 – £1700. C. With shell bowl and handle by Paul Storr, London, 1834 – £1500. D. With bowl cast as a limpet shell by Francis D Higgins, London, 1843 – £2500. F E E. With shell bowl and swan head handle by Prattinton and Currie, London, 1846 – £1200. F. Eagle’s wing caddy spoon by Joseph Willmore, Birmingham, 1814 – £5000. G. With shovel form bowl and panel of Brighton Pavilion by Robert Mitchell, Birmingham, 1825 – £2200. H H. With bowl pierced to simulate filigree by I Cocks and Bettridge, Birmingham, c.1820 – G £3000. I. With feather decoration and swan neck and head handle by William Stocker, London, 1866 – £1900. J. With enamel decoration by Bernard Instone, Birmingham, 1928 – £1400. K. With three chalcedony cabochons by Omar Ramsden and Alwyn Carr – £2500. L. With three lozenge shaped green stone cabochons by Omar Ramsden – £4200. M. With flower head bowl and stem handle by Francis Higgins, London, 1843 – £2200. J
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Caddy spoons array ‘probably best on market since Norie’
The principal private collection at Woolley & Wallis An advanced caddy spoon collector will seek the most A couple of rarities from the Norie collection included a fine array of caddy spoons. unusual or collectable forms alongside the more typical reappeared here. From classic forms by Joseph Willmore and Francis examples that survive in number. A spoon with the bowl cast as a limpet shell by Francis Higgins to Arts & Crafts examples by Omar Ramsden The top price here was the £5000 tendered for a eagle’s Higgins (London 1843) that had made £2800 in 2004 and Bernard Instone, this was perhaps the best array on wing spoon, the form chosen by Captain Norie as the front resold here for £2500, while another with a feather bowl the market since Woolley & Wallis sold the John Norie cover illustration to his book Caddy Spoons and by the and a handle formed as a swan’s head by William Stocker collection in two parts 17 years ago. Offered in 145 lots, Society of Caddy Spoon Collectors as its emblem. (London 1866) took £1900 (it had realised £2400 at the sensible estimates meant all found buyers for a total of This example, marked for Joseph Willmore in 1814, Norie sale). £107,000. was among the first made (Victorian and more modern Arts & Crafts spoons and those from the later 20th Specialist collectors have sheltered caddy spoons versions also survive). These early models that are die century appeal to a wider pool of buyers. The examples from some of the difficulties besetting other areas of the stamped rather than cast were made in two pieces with here typically sold to dec arts rather than spoon collectors. silver market. W&W silver expert Rupert Slingsby said that the handle skilfully soldered to the bowl with a virtually This included the Omar Ramsden spoon set with three Norie remains the highwater mark in this market – “caddy undetectable join. lozenge shaped green stone cabochons that brought spoons have never again reached the heights they did back By comparison there were two eagle’s wing spoons in £4200. in 2004” – but added that “they have seen a comeback the Norie collection by Willmore: the 1834 example going The most expensive Ramsden spoon in the Norie sale, over the last year or so and, in this sale, there were some at £1650 and the 1814 spoon at £1550. Some recently one decorated with a crimson enamelled boss and dated good prices”. have sold for as little as £800. to 1919, took £3300. antiquestradegazette.com 19 June 2021 | 21
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International Art Treasures Exhibition Victorian and Albert Museum, 1962, Exhibit No. 300. Estimated at £1000- 1500, it took £13,000. Secular Newcastle silver of this date is rare, although a porringer of 9 similar date made by the short-lived Abraham Hamer (an apprentice of Eli Bilton) sold at Chiswick Auctions last October for £6500. 7. George I ‘college’ or ‘ox-eye’ cup – £9500 at Woolley & Wallis. A mid-17th century silver box 7 made around the time of the regicide 8. Charles II penner and inkwell engraved Robert Gartfide 1682 – £5000. was formerly part of the Albert 9. William III gold baby’s rattle and coral teether – £15,000. Collection, an assemblage of over 10. Mid-17th century box worked with a bust of Charles I – £11,000. 600 pieces published in 2004 and later sold by Dickenson. Sold for 10 £11,000 (estimate £3000-5000) at W&W, the box was unmarked but Anne (her portrait appears verso) to colleges of Oxford and Cambridge possibly by Richard Illingworth, and her godson, Master Guy Selbright universities and the London livery carried a portrait of Charles I within (his crest appears on the handle). companies. The earliest-known a border of national emblems and a Another c.1700 was sold as part of example is the Northampton cup, motto that translates as ‘The King the collection of bibliophile Cornelius c.1616, owned by the Company of Lives. The law guides. The flock J Hauck at Christie’s New York in Mercers. prospers’. The sunburst above the 2006 ($11,400) and reappeared for The 4in (10cm) cup here, by head of the monarch may refer to his sale at Heritage in December 2020 George Gillingham, London 1720, execution. when it took $20,625. The example carried a Latin inscription that offered at W&W was worked in translates as ‘Three times happy Reading aid filigree with the alphabet and the are they and more, who are held by Hornbooks, used to teach children Lord’s Prayer engraved to a plate unbreakable bonds and whose love, to read, were used in homes and rather than printed on paper. The undivided by evil quarrels will be schoolrooms in Europe, North and leather and base metal but hornbooks hammer price was £8500 (estimate dissolved on the final day’. South America from the 15th to the in silver were higher status nursery £3000-5000). It had previously sold twice at 18th century. Shakespeare mentions objects: the example in the collection Another rare form of this era is the Sotheby’s New York, most recently in them in Love’s Labours Lost. of the V&A by Thomas Kedder ‘college’ or ‘ox-eye’ cup, a drinking 2001 when it made $22,600, and sold Most were made in wood, bone, (London, 1703) was given by Queen vessel most often associated with the at £9500 here. n
Of a vine quality Breadalbane items Beer jug or wine jug? finally up for sale The expect purpose of Georgian silver pear-shaped Gavin Campbell (1851-1922), the 7th Earl of Breadalbane, jugs is sometimes unclear. was a prominent society figure and Liberal politician However, we can say in the Gladstone administration but is best known in with some confidence collecting circles as the owner of a vast array of silver. that this piece, marked Much was dispersed at sales in 1926 and 1935 but for Thomas Heming, a handful of pieces were saved by the family including London 1765, was for a number of English Apostle spoons, each carrying the wine as the cast and addition of engraved gothic letter B and a coronet – chased decoration probably added by the 7th Earl who had collector’s marks includes swags of engraved to much of his holdings. Above: George I seal box – fruiting vines. Heming’s They were included in Lyon & Turnbull’s (25% £9500 at Lyon & Turnbull. trade card from the buyer’spremium) sale of 43 lots from the family of the Right: Apostle spoon dated 1760s-70s, a copy of Earls of Breadalbane & Holland on May 18. 1478 or 1538 – £6500. which is held in the British A spoon with a St Simon terminal was thought to Museum collection and available document an important moment in the history of British to view online, depicts a jug (of a different form) with silver: it potentially dated from 1478, the first year that a doubtless admired was a George I seal box by Francis the same distinctive ornament. ‘date letter’ was used in the hallmarking system. Garthorne (London 1726) issued to John Campbell, This example came for sale at Tennants (20% However, an addendum to the catalogue suggested 3rd Earl of Breadalbane & Holland (1692-1782), buyer’s premium) on May 22 with a provenance to this ‘Edward IV’ mark could equally be read as the mark who had been ambassador to both the Danish and Charles William Grenfell (1823-61) whose family for 1538 – making this a marginally less exciting Henry Russian courts. The box still retains the Royal Charter owned Taplow Court in Buckinghamshire. VIII spoon. The price of £6500 (it was modestly guided at that granted him plenipotentiary powers and a wax It improved significantly on the estimate of £2500-4000) does suggest the consensus was this was impression of the great seal of George I. £3000-5000 to sell at £20,000. from the Tudor rather than War of the Roses era. Estimated at £3000-5000, it took £9500. One piece in the family collection the 7th Earl Roland Arkell 22 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 020-23 2497.indd 3 11/06/2021 12:38:23 Cracking English treen pieces emerge at auction
Two very good pieces of English treen were offered by Hannam’s (23% buyer’s premium) in Selborne on May 25, writes Roland Arkell. Both a boxwood screw-action nutcracker (estimate £60-80) and an oak plaque carved with an owl among flowering vines (estimate £80-120) sold way above these modest hopes. Probably a century earlier than catalogued, the nutcracker is inscribed with the name Margreat Left and above: three views of Merrill and an abridged version of a 17th century carved boxwood the famous passage from the Song of screw-action nutcracker sold This latest piece, part of a Solomon: Set me as a seale upon thine for £6000 at Hannam’s. collection consigned to the heart, as a signet upon thine arm; for love Hampshire auction house, sold to an Above right: the carved oak is strong as death and cruel as the grave. online bidder at £6000. panel, possibly a roof boss, that To the edge is the name Raphe Merrill. took £3200. Nutcrackers are traditionally Owl carving thought to have been given as love The oak tile or plaque, measuring tokens to mark an engagement or a around 12in (30cm) square, sold at marriage (Henry VIII gave one to Charles II screw-action nutcracker it is illustrated in Robert Mills’ £3200. It might well be a late 15th or Anne Boleyn). dated 1664, also with Biblical Nutcrackers (2001). early 16th century roof boss. Square Screw-action nutcrackers were verse (paraphrasing a line from The earliest dated brass example carved oak bosses are a feature of popular throughout the 17th century, Corinthians), sold for £7000 at is that inscribed Ruth Gifford 1676 sold some West Country houses including but appear to have been superseded Bonhams 2013 while another that for £7000 at Bonhams in March those in Congresbury in Somerset by those which worked on the lever is dated 1631 was sold by Christie’s 2017. All these examples are now in and Sampford Courtenay in Devon. principle in the following centuries. in November 1998 for £4500. the Nutcracker Museum in Vilnius, Another, also worked with an owl, Inscribed pieces such as this Thought to be the earliest known Lithuania, the most active recent sold for £7000 at Bonhams Oxford in are particularly rare. A dated dated screw-action nutcracker, player in the market. January 2014.
Left: Sutcliffe photography some of the 56 medals back to Yorkshire medals awarded A group of 56 medals awarded to figures in the world of art such as John to Frank pioneering photographer Frank Meadow Ruskin, to whom he was introduced as a Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941) are heading back boy by his father. Sutcliffe to the area he covered in his evocative His work provided an enduring record sold for images. of life in and around Whitby in the late £6500 Sutcliffe, from Whitby, was one of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. at Dix first photographers to create ‘art’ from Sutcliffe’s most famous photograph, Noonan his images. His medals, dating from Water Rats (1886), featuring naked Webb. 1874-97, were offered as a single lot by children playing in a boat, earned him London auction house Dix Noonan Webb condemnation from his local clergy who (24% buyer’s premium) on June 2-3. excommunicated him - but did not stop The medals ranged from local the then Prince of Wales (later Edward places such as Keighley to Scotland, VII) from purchasing a copy. Two-day Auction the US, Germany and Austria. They Peter Preston-Morley, head of the of Books & Ephemera were consigned by a private vendor. coin department at DNW, said: “This Fine Art Auctioneers Thursday 17th & Friday 18th June Estimated at £2400-3000, they sold is the first that I have seen such an at 10.30am for £6500 to a private buyer in North extensive collection of photography Viewing by appointment Yorkshire. medals awarded to one person. Thomas Paine: Rights of Man, Sutcliffe was born in Headingley, “When these medals were awarded Part the Second, 1791-92, Leeds, the eldest of eight children between 1870s-90s, photography was first Jordan edition first part, second edition second part. of the painter Thomas Sutcliffe. still a relatively new phenomenon – you Est. £1,000-1,500 He first worked in Tunbridge Wells normally see more dating from the end (plus buyer’s premium of 24% incl. VAT) before returning to the family home in of the Victorian era, so 1900-10 onwards. Broomfield Terrace, Whitby, and later “Sutcliffe was obviously at the The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1903, first edition, moving with his wife Eliza, née Duck, and forefront of his game, and was showered fine example. their four children, to the nearby village with awards, not only on a regional level Est. £1,200-1,800 (plus buyer’s premium of Sleights. from Yorkshire, but also nationally and of 24% incl. VAT) keysauctions.co.uk Sutcliffe made a living as a portrait internationally.” Palmers Lane, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6JA 01263 733195 Please see our website for the full catalogue, or call for further information photographer, influenced by prominent Tom Derbyshire Watch and join in the bidding live online at bid.keysauctions.co.uk
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Supply flows as lockdown eases Consignments held back during the restrictions are now impressing in salerooms
by Alex Capon
Since the easing of Covid-19 restrictions came into effect in April, some lively auction action has been witnessed around the country. Even though some auctioneers are maintaining ‘behind closed doors’ sales for the time being, most have now welcomed bidders back into the room and have restarted live viewings. With many salerooms now offloading consignments they were holding back during the national lockdowns in England, here we look at some of the picture highlights sold in London and the regions over the last two months. 1 2 Nicholson landscape The standout lot at Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Design and to have reused her mother’s earlier to support three cultural institutions: Modern Art sale in Oxford on May 1. Castagnola by Winifred Nicholson, materials in this way, although not The Wallace Collection, Westminster 26-27 was a Winifred Nicholson a work which also featured a painting unknown. Abbey and The Grange Festival. (1893-1981) oil on board titled by her daughter Kate Nicholson on The work came to auction from Vendors for the sale included some Castagnola. the back – £36,000 at Mallams. a private Cornish collection and, famous names such as Jools Holland Measuring 23¼ x 2ft 5in (59 x 2. Flowers on a window sill by estimated at £15,000-25,000, it and Sir Paul Ruddock but also a ream 74cm), the view of the village on the Winifred Nicholson – £20,000 at attracted good competition before it of dealers in different areas of the art northern shore of Lake Lugano in Olympia Auctions. was knocked down to a phone bidder and antiques trade including Sam Switzerland was painted in c.1923 at £36,000. The price was a notable Fogg, Rafael Valls, Runjeet Singh and 3. View of a Venetian Canal by John and was one of her ‘fast and furious’ sum for a Winifred Nicholson that Koopman Rare Art. Bratby – £2400 at Olympia Auctions. artistic experiments created during was neither one of her more familiar The works offered with a this period (as described by her still-lifes nor harbour scenes. charitable element tended to generate husband Ben Nicholson). good interest and they accounted for The location was where the couple also from 1923, which had the same Cultural support half of the top-10 lots. spent the first three winters of their title – a work now in the National Another work by Winifred Nicholson Flowers on a window sill came from married life. This picture, with its Galleries of Scotland. leading a recent sale was Flowers a private vendor in Devon who muted palette and bare trees standing As a bonus, on the back of the on a window sill which appeared at had been given the painting by her in a segmented landscape, had painting was another work by the Olympia Auctions (25% buyer’s mother-in-law who had worked at compositional and tonal similarities couple’s daughter Kate Nicholson premium) on May 6. Kettles Yard, Cambridge, and is to an oil on board by her husband, (1929-2019), a Cumberland The auction of British & thought to have bought the picture landscape from c.1950. Although Continental Pictures, Prints and from an exhibition there in the 1970s Winifred often painted on the reverse Sculpture was the first of three sales or 80s. It was being sold with a of pictures due to a shortage of that the firm is staging this summer percentage of the proceeds going to materials, it was rare for her daughter with proceeds from various lots going The Grange Festival.
Fedden Glyndebourne artwork takes centre stage
The artist Mary Fedden (1915-2012) was a great lover of opera. Pirro from Rossini’s Ermione (1819). The vendor had bought it In her later period she designed programme and book covers from an exhibition at the Glyndebourne Opera House in the year for the Glyndebourne Festival and exhibited her work several it was executed. times at the East Sussex manor house. In the opera, Pirro (or ‘Pyrrhus’), the son of Achilles, king of Occasionally her views relating to Glyndebourne and its Epirus, falls in love with the Trojan prisoner Andromache, widow operas appear at auction. One came up at Olympia Auctions of Hector, and is eventually killed by a group of angry soldiers. (25% buyer’s premium) on May 6. Signed and dated 1995, the Estimated at £800-1200, the watercolour took £2000. 8½ x 5in (22 x 13cm) watercolour depicted the lead character That sum was in line with the £1800 for another of Fedden’s Glyndebourne scenes – a view of two figures on stage during a Left: Pirro from Ermione by Mary Fedden – £2000 production of Verdi’s Simone Boccanegra – sold at Christie’s in at Olympia Auctions. March 2004.
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Surprised vendor ends up Turkish delighted
A vendor had a nice surprise on April 22 at West Sussex saleroom Denhams (20% buyer’s premium) where a painting she had inherited from her aunt and formerly owned by her grandmother proved much more valuable than she realised. The local seller had no idea that the 7 x 11in (18 x 28cm) oil on panel of ladies and ferrymen on a jetty might be by a notable artist when she brought it into the Horsham firm. However, it was signed to the lower right F Zonaro and it was quickly established that it might be by the Italian painter Fausto Zonaro (1854-1929). Zonaro moved to Istanbul in the early 1890s and became one of the Above: A view from Uskudar, Istanbul by Fausto Zonaro – £16,500 at Denhams. chief exponents of European-styled realism in the Ottoman Empire. In 1896 he was appointed court artist art historian who has co-written terms of detail and it lacked a few by Sultan Aldulhamit II, a position two books on Zonaro, who compositional elements including 3 he held until he returned to Italy authenticated the work but noted the presence of three dogs on the 13 years later. He produced plenty it had been poorly restored. It also jetty and a face covering to the of scenes depicting everyday life in had a small area of missing paint figure with the parasol. Istanbul and this picture depicted above one of the figures and the Nevertheless it was deemed an The view of the village a familiar location showing the panel had slightly warped. attractive proposition against a was one of her ‘fast banks of the Bosphorus at Uskudar It was identified as a smaller £4000-6000 estimate and, after “ on the Asian side of the city. version of an oil on canvas titled bringing interest from several and furious’ artistic Photographs of the picture were The Boat although, compared to the Turkish phone bidders, it sold at experiments created sent to Erol Makzume, a Turkish larger picture, it was less defined in £16,500 to a buyer in Istanbul. during this period
The 23¾in (60cm) square oil on Far left: Ernest canvas laid on board dated from Bawden, Huntsman 1978. A work produced at the tail of the Devon and end of Nicholson’s long career, it Somerset Staghounds had some familiar themes including by Lionel Edwards – the subject matter of a jug or pot £4500 at Greenslade of flowers on a windowsill. While Taylor Hunt. her earlier works can make more, Left: Brian HE especially those with more visible Roberts out with the backgrounds showing indoor and Duke of Beaufort’s outdoor elements juxtaposed or Fox Hounds by John complementing each other, this Gregory King – £800. picture sold at the lower end of its £20,000-30,000 estimate to a private British collector. Another Modern British work at Hunting scene trots back to Taunton the sale was a colourful Venetian scene by John Bratby (1928-92). A Returning to the same auction house after 20 years, a small interest prior to the sale and, after a short bidding tussle, it late work by the artist, it was created Lionel Edwards (1878-1966) hunting scene drew interest was knocked down to a west Somerset buyer at £4500 – a while he travelled extensively in again at Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium). sum indicating it had held its value better than many other Europe depicting the cities he visited Offered at the Taunton saleroom’s spring sporting sale on sporting pictures sold over recent times. using brightly coloured impasto. April 15, it showed a famous figure in hunting folklore: Ernest While in contrast to his influential Bawden, huntsman of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, King of the chase ‘kitchen sink’ realist scenes which he descending a combe near Chalkwater. Also bringing decent bidding, a painting by John Gregory began painting in the late 1950s and The 9½ x 13½ (24 x 34cm) oil on board had originally sold King (1929-2014) of Brian Roberts who, along with the artist are now commercially more valuable, at GTH in September 2001 for £4000 where it was bought by a himself, was joint master of the Hursley Foxhounds. this 4ft x 2ft in (1.22m x 64cm) signed Northamptonshire client who was the consignor here. Showing Roberts riding in the foreground with Major Gerald oil on canvas came with a £2000- Back then it had come from the family of Denis Aldridge, a Gundry leading the hounds and the 10th Duke of Beaufort at 3000 estimate and sold at £2400 to lifelong friend of Edwards who corresponded regularly with the the head of the mounted field, the 19¾ x 23½in (50 x 60cm) a UK private buyer. The work sold artist. Shortly after that sale, it had featured in a double-page signed oil on canvas was a commissioned painting from 1962. for £1400 when it last appeared at article on Bawden in Hounds Magazine. It sold at £800 (estimate £400-450), an above-average auction at Bonhams Oxford in May Estimated at £2500-3500 this time round, it drew good price for the artist. 2014. n antiquestradegazette.com 19 June 2021 | 27
PAGE 026-28 2497.indd 2 10/06/2021 15:50:53 Auction Reports Art market
Simple Cornish charm stands out in the salerooms
Naive-style Cornish art has been on Far left: Three- a good run at regional auctions over masted schooner recent months. anchored off a One of the most notable lots came lighthouse by Alfred at the three-day spring fine art sale Wallis – £27,000 at at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood Bearnes Hampton (23% buyer’s premium) in Exeter & Littlewood. where a small boat picture by Alfred Left: Chy-an-Eglos Wallis (1855-1942) was on offer. from the Artist’s Depicting a three-masted Window by Bryan schooner anchored off a lighthouse, Pearce– £9000 at the 8 x 8¾in (20.5 x 22.5cm) oil and Chorley’s. pencil drawing on card was a highly typical work. It came to auction with excellent provenance. The drawing had been Interestingly this sale in Exeter The lots included a record for on board which, like Wallis’ work, acquired by Jim Ede, founder of followed a collection of 36 Modern Abstract painter John Blackburn was typical in style and subject. the Kettle’s Yard house museum in British works that were consigned (b.1932) when two pictures sold for Dating from 1963, it had a good Cambridge, directly from the artist. to Cambridge saleroom Cheffins £7500 apiece. exhibition history – most recently It had been given to Ede’s nephew (24.5% buyer’s premium) by Kettle’s having been shown at the Belgrave as a wedding present and came to Yard itself. From the artist’s window Gallery in St Ives in 2019. Here, it auction from a family descendant. Offered back on February 25, Elsewhere, decent bidding came for overshot a £6000-8000 estimate Estimated at £8000-12,000 at they were part of a larger group of a view of St Ives by Bryan Pearce and was sold at £9000 to a European the auction on April 14-16, it more works left to the museum by Ede’s (1929-2006) offered at Chorley’s private buyer. than doubled predicted levels after lifelong friend, the late architect (22.5% buyer’s premium) in A further work by Pearce sold at drawing interest from both local John Ady, on the understanding Cheltenham as part of the collection Mallams in Oxford on May 26-27 bidders and those from further afield. that any pictures the museum chose of Sir Roy Strong on April 27. when another oil on board of his It was knocked down at £27,000 to not to acquire from the bequest Chy-an-Eglos from the Artist’s Window hometown titled Wills Lane, St Ives the London trade. would be sold to raise funds. was a 23½in x 2ft 5in (60 x 75cm) oil from 1975 took a mid-estimate £5000.
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Alexander MacKenzie (1923-2002), 1954 Bosulval, 16cm x 49cm John S. Piper (b1946), ‘Tinners Row’, 20cm x 62cm
Robert Morson Hughes (1873-1953), ‘Cliffs at Botallack’, exh. St.Ives, 60cm x 81cm
Jack Pender (1918-1998), Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), Fred Yates (1922-2008), ‘Saltash, Cornwall’, one of nine works by the artist ‘Newlyn Fishermen’, ‘Diogenese and Black Pipe’ Project 1 92cm x 70cm (part of a Lenkiewicz art section)
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PAGE 029 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 14:15:21 Auction Reports Books and works on paper
Star turns of a gigantic sale Auction marking German firm’s 50th anniversary includes earthly and heavenly delights
by Ian McKay 1
A record sum for a copy of the 1566, expanded second edition of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium came in the auction marking Reiss & Sohn’s (19% buyer’s premium) 50th year in business. Printed in Basel, and incorporating for the first time Georg Joachim Rheticus’ Narratio..., or abstract of Copernican heliocentric theories (in third edition form of 1540), this was the star turn in another of the enormous sales that have become a speciality of this 2 German saleroom. Included in the April 27-30, 1. A key leaf from the 1566, horses, bridles and bits depicted 3100-lot sale, the example of second edition of Copernicus’ De in a work by H Kreutzberger that De revolutionibus showed some revolutionibus orbium coelestium, made €22,000 (£19,130). Printed dampstaining and a few shortcomings showing planetary orbits around the in Augsburg in 1562 and bound in of condition. In a restored but almost sun – €220,000 (£191,305) at Reiss contemporary half calf gilt, this copy contemporary English calf binding, it & Sohn. features contemporary manuscript took €220,000 (£191,305). 2. Detail from a leaf in the 1472 captions in German and incorporates On April 8, Swann (25/20/12% some 50 blank leaves, seemingly buyer’s premium) had offered first of the Etymologie of Isidore of Seville on which appeared the first intended to allow extra notes to be a copy of the 1566 edition of De made by the book’s owner. revolutionibus... that was browned and printed map of the world – €120,000 stained throughout and described (£104,350). 4. Leaf from the Cronecken der as having seen period marginalia 3. One of the many woodcuts of Sassen, printed by Peter Schöffer in amateurishly and incompletely Mainz in 1492 – €46,000 (£40,000). washed away in several places. Bound in period style in modern limp parchment, it nevertheless known continents of the age are produced by Reiss featured one of managed a low-estimate $60,000 3 shown within a circle, with Asia 1255 coloured woodcuts (including (£43,795) in New York. filling the top half of map and Europe numerous repeats) found in a copy and Africa named below. of the Cronecken der Sassen, or Saxon Further highlights Sold at €50,000 (£43,480) was Chronicle printed by Peter Schöffer At Reiss, bid to €42,000 (£36,520) a very rare, 1525 first issue Die Zwölf in Mainz in 1492. It sold at €46,000 was a sammelband, or collection of Artikel..., the so-called ‘Twelve..’ or (£40,000). six works by Johannes Kepler dating It was the star turn in ‘Peasant Articles’. The cataloguer The very first book form account from 1614-39. Four of them were another of the enormous described this work as “...the first of Captain Cook’s death in the wholly focused on mathematical or “ draft of human rights and civil Hawaiian islands, according to his sales that have become a astronomical matters, while two liberties in Continental Europe after bibliographer, MK Beddie, appeared others dealt with biblical chronology. Reiss speciality the Roman Empire”. not in England but in a rare work Another of the highlights, at a five Some 25 impressions of the work published in 1780 in Revela, or times-estimate €120,000 (£104,350), appeared in that same year, it seems, Tallinn as the Estonian capital is now was a 1472 first of the Etymologie of and a former owner of this first issue known. Isidorus Hispalensis, or Isidore of example said that it was for a long Nachrichten von dem Leben den Seville, a scholar and Archbishop of time to be found displayed in a case Seereisen des berühmten Captain Cook is Seville who died in 636AD. in the entrance hall of the British based on an unsigned letter – dated All manner of subjects are Museum. Kensington, February 4, 1780 – included in the work – mathematics, It was exhibited alongside another that incorporates passages from a astronomy, medicine, geography, of the museum’s bibliographical letter to the Admiralty announcing meteorology, botany, agriculture and treasures, the Greek text Bible of the Cook’s death that had been sent much more besides – but its principal 4th century AD known as the Codex from Kamchatka by Captain Charles claim to fame in this context lies Sinaiticus. Clerke in June of the previous year. in the small woodcut shown above Bound with another work that right: the first-ever printed map of Saxon Chronicle deals with Spanish voyages to the the world. The front cover of the special, 80-lot Pacific Northwest, and which also In an example of what have come selection of major items that made up includes reference to Cook, this to be known as T-O maps, the three 4 the first of the three sale catalogues rarity sold at €44,000 (£38,260). n 30 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 030-31 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 11:16:45 Send your books news to Ian McKay at [email protected]
British and Irish book auctions
ends Jun 15 Antiquarian Books & MSS, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 Jun 15 4 Books, Maps, MSS, Prints & Ephemera, Hansons - Wolsey Bridge 01889 882397 Jun 15* 4 Antiquarian & General Book & Map Sections, Capes Dunn - Heaton Mersey 0161 432 1911 Jun 15* 4 56-lot Book Section, incl. Typography, Maxwells - Stockport 0161 439 5182 Jun 15* 4 34-lot Book & Maps Sections, HRD Auction Rooms - Brading 01983 402222 Jun 15* 4 5 lots Books & Maps, Rogers Jones & Co - Colwyn Bay 01492 532176 Jun 16 4 Books & Pictures, incl. a Scottish Private Library, Thomson Roddick - Carlisle 0131 440 2448 Jun 16 4 Irish & other Books, Maps & Ephemera, Purcell - Birr +353 57 912 0270 Above: Tigger, Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore in an EH Shepard drawing sold for Jun 16* 4 22-lot Book Section, Victor Mee - Kells +353 47 55076 $75,000 (£54,350) by Heritage. Jun 16* 4 18 lots Books, Golding Young & Mawer - Lincoln 01522 524984 Jun 16* 4 6-lot Book Section, Cato Crane - Liverpool 0151 709 5559 Jun 16* 4 31 lots Magazines, Comics & Ephemera, Nick Barber - Felixstowe 01394 549084 English art sold in Dallas... Jun 16, 18, 23 & 25* 4 Autograph & Book Sales, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 Jun 16-17 4 Books, Maps, Prints, Docs, Eng. Lit., Children’s, Dominic Winter - South Cerney 01285 860006 An Illustration Art sale held in Dallas said Heritage, an auction record, was ends Jun 17* 4 27-lot Book Section, Golding Young & Mawer - Lincoln 01522 524984 on April 3 by Heritage (25/20/12% a Charles Addams ink and watercolour Jun 17* 4 13-lot Map & Ephemera Sections, Busby - Bridport 01308 420100 buyer’s premium) was led at $80,000 drawing of the grim decorations seemed Jun 17-18 4 Book & Ephemera Sale, Keys - Aylsham 01263 733195 (£57,970) by one of Alberto Vargas’ appropriate for the Christmas tree to be 4 much admired pin-ups, Mara Corday, found in the home of the Addams family, Jun 17-18* 9-lot Book Section, Adam Partridge - Macclesfield 01625 431788 4 True Girl of 1952. his most famous creation. Jun 18* 17 lots Books, Comics, Ephemera & Maps, Brighton & Hove Auctions 01273 230050 4 Sold at $75,000 (£54,350) was ‘It Also bid to $70,000 was Chesley Jun 18* 35-lot Book & Map Sections, Ewbank’s - Woking 01483 223101 4 Appears You have Eaten a Bee’. It is Bonestell’s original artwork for the Jun 18* Military Book & Ephemera Section, East Bristol Auctions - Hanham 0117 967 1000 one of EH Shepard’s illustrations for a dust jacket of The Exploration of Mars, Jun 18* 4 Book Section, Horley Auctions - Horley 01293 360769 chapter in AA Milne’s The House at Pooh a collaborative work by Will Ley, a well Jun 18* 4 Book Section, Whitton & Laing - Exeter 01392 252621 Corner titled ‘In which Tigger comes to known sci-fi writer, and the German ends Jun 18* 4 Royal Memorabilia, incl. Historical Docs, William George - Peterborough 01733 66768 the Forest and has Breakfast’. rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. ends Jun 19* 4 Book Section, Border Auctions - Hawick 01450 376170 Bid to $70,000 (£50,725), a very The illustration depicts a winged rocket Jun 21* 4 8-lot Book Section: Gun Sale, Holts - Wolferton 01485 542822 much higher than expected sum and, orbiting Mars after its 25-day flight. Jun 22* 4 23 lots Books & Ephemera, Special Auction Services - Newbury 01635 580595 Jun 22* 4 44 lots Art & other Books Sections, Barbara Kirk Auctions - Penzance 01736 361342 Far left: Jun 22-24* 4 Autograph & Ephemera Sections, Loddon Auctions - Arborfield 0118 9761 355 Charles Jun 23 4 Books, MSS, Maps & Photographs, Lyon & Turnbull - Edinburgh 0131 557 8844 Addams Jun 23* 4 53-lot Book Section, Trevanion - Whitchurch 01948 800202 drawing – Jun 23-24* 4 Historical Document & Indian Ephemera Sections, Mullock’s - Church Stretton 01694 771771 $70,000 Jun 24 4 Online: Books & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 (£50,725). Jun 24 4 Books, Documents & Ephemera, Stride & Son - Chichester 01234 780207 Left: Chesley Jun 24 4 Books, MSS & Photographs, Bonhams - London 020 7393 3828 Bonestell’s Jun 25-27* 4 16 lots Books, Unique Auctions - Lincoln 01522 690444 artwork Jun 26* 4 9 lots Books & Autographs, Stamford Auctions Rooms - Stamford 01780 411485 for The ends Jun 26* 4 Book Section, Thimbleby & Shorland - Reading 0118 950 8611 Exploration Jun 30 & Jul 1* 4 Autograph Auctions, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 of Mars – Jul 1* 4 Comics Section, Sheffield Auction Gallery 0114 281 6161 $70,000 Jul 2-13 Honresfield Library Pt I, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 (£50,725). Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those ...into battle – the English version sales that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: An April 15 Americana sale held by Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in New York Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] was led at $55,000 (£39,855) by an 1830, Palmyra first of The Book of Mormon. However, the lot that had carried the highest estimate, at $40,000-60,000, proved a little disappointing at just $26,000 (£18,840). This was a clean and strong impression of a rare London issue of An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775. Published in June of the following year, it was a view drawn and engraved by Bernard Romans, an artillery Welcoming consignments for our forthcoming calendar: captain, mapmaker and Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 24th June engineer, that had been first issued in America Signed and Inscribed: A Gentleman’s Library Wednesday 7th July of Modern Literature some nine months earlier. Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 8th July Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 15th July Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 29th July Left: the 1776 English Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 5th August version of Bernard Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 19th August Romans’ An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown... – $26,000 Catalogues and bidding at: forumauctions.co.uk (£18,840) at Swann. antiquestradegazette.com 19 June 2021 | 31
PAGE 030-31 2497.indd 2 11/06/2021 11:20:19 Tring Market Auctions AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS Fine Art & 20th Century Sale Friday 9th July at 10.30am A Sale of Antique Furniture, Ceramics, Glassware, Metalware, Treen, Objets d’Art, Jewellery, Clocks, Silver, Pictures, Books, Ephemera & Decorative Arts About 400 lots Viewing: Wednesday 7th July 10am until 6pm, Thursday 8th July 10am until 6pm Sale Day from 9am until commencement of sale
A French Art Nouveau carved horn A pair of gold platinum diamond ‘dragonfly’ necklace, signed GIP earrings with solitaire drops, for Georges Pierre, 68cm long each approx. 0.5ct
A late 19thC French mantel clock in gilt brass case with champlevé enamel panels, 43cm tall A pair of early Victorian silver John Allin (1934-1991), The fruit seller, dishes, maker’s mark for Paul oil on board, signed Allin and inscribed Storr, 45ozt, London 1838, Road, dated 72, framed, 40cm x 42cm each 28cm diameter. Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp, 1592
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PAGE 033 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 16:22:02 Previews Our weekly selection from salerooms
Tayler & Fletcher’s British The Signed & Designed sale Sporting Art and History at Elstob & Elstob in Ripon, a auction on June 24-25 timed online auction ending includes a signed oil on June 20, includes this set of canvas by John Wootton Arcimboldesca porcelain plates (British, c.1682-1764). by Fornasetti. Made c.1955, Consigned from a they are painted and printed Gloucestershire country with a face designed of various house, A Romantic vegetables on blanks made by Landscape is, says the Winterling Bavaria. saleroom, ‘in remarkably Estimate £400-600. good condition considering elstobandelstob.co.uk* its great age and is a virtuoso rendition by the artist at the height of his powers’. Reminiscent of the Flemish Style in vogue at the time, the artist ‘doffs his cap’ to his illustrious masters Jan Wyck and Jan Siberechts, with both of whom he collaborated on occasion. His principal sponsors were the Duke of Beaufort, the Prince of Wales and the This Edwardian satinwood Earl of Oxford. and inlaid Carlton House The estimate at the sale in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, is £7000-10,000. desk, guided at £3000- taylerandfletcher.co.uk* 5000 at Adam Partridge in Macclesfield on June 17-18, was purchased by the Worcestershire vendor at This sketchbook Sydney House Antiques in begun in 1817 is Peterborough, 1988. by John Glover The drawer is stamped (1767-1849), a Maple & Co and further signed British artist by the cabinetmaker Raphael who gained Lalli in pencil to the underside. fame after moving to Australia in 1831 at the age of 64. The auction house describes it as ‘a stunning example’. He secured one of the largest land grants in Van Diemens Land, now Tasmania, at Mills adampartridge.co.uk* Plains, Deddington, and kept a record of his difficult relationship with his neighbour John Batman, the bounty and aboriginal hunter who co-founded Melbourne. He called Batman “the vilest man I have ever known”. Glover had already served as president of the Old Water Colour Society in London and It was the creation of SeaLab I and II by the US Navy in the spent his final 18 years consolidating his reputation by painting the Australian landscape. 1960s that led to the creation of the Rolex Sea-Dweller – a The John Glover Society was established in 2001 to promote his memory and watch for harsh deep-sea conditions. contribution to Australian art, with a statue to him being unveiled two years later in The first divers to these experimental deep-sea Evandale, Tasmania. underwater habitats had been issued with Rolex The sketchbook, started more than a decade before Glover emigrated and featuring a Submariners. However they found that during range of Scottish subjects, is consigned for sale at Ewbank’s in Woking on June 17 from a decompression, the helium used in the breathing gas local deceased estate. Last sold at Sotheby’s in 1988, it is estimated at £2000-3000. mixture would pop the plexiglass crystal on the watch ewbankauctions.co.uk* as the helium forced its way out. The Sea-Dweller has a helium escape valve on the side of the case and delivered a greater depth rating, improving it Several Windsor chairs feature in the from 200m to 610m. Wilkinson’s sale in Doncaster on June 20. This particular example of the Sea-Dweller ref 1665 is a type This 18th century example in ash and made for five years in the late 1970s. The all white (rather than elm, with a vase-shaped back splat, saddle red) writing to the dial has earned it the nickname ‘Great White’. It comes for seat and cabriole legs terminating on pad sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on July 1 with a guide of £15,000-20,000. feet, is estimated at £2000-3000. lyonandturnbull.com* wilkinsons-auctioneers.co.uk*
Of local interest among the collectors’ items offered as part of Mitchells’ extensive June 16-18 auction is a cased taxidermy of a 39.5lb hen salmon Caught in the Eden This Art Nouveau silver and gold, turquoise and polychrome enamel at Caldew Foot February 28th 1912 by R Forster, Carlisle. It is mounted by Raine pendant carries marks for both the maker Theodor Fahrner and Brothers, ‘Scientific Ornamental Taxidermists’ of Carlisle. Anglo-German retailer Murrle Bennett & Co. Housed in the same case is a 4lb 6oz trout also caught by R Forster at Glenshiel It is estimated to bring £1000-2000 at Kinghams of Moreton in Ross-Shire August 10th 1936. Marsh on June 18. Estimate at the Cockermouth sale is £4000-6000. kinghamsauctioneers.com* mitchellsantiques.co.uk* 34 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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This unrecorded Jacobite goblet, c.1759, is engraved Alastair and Hazel Hull are closing their gallery in Haddenham with the inscription The Confederate Hunt, Lady near Ely after trading for almost 50 years. The couple have Wins Wynne Lady Paramount while the reverse been compulsive travellers exploring the remote bazaars of carries the names of the ‘lady patronesses’ from Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran, the tribal areas of north-west 1754-58, above the political slogan Hark Wenman & Pakistan, Nepal and the Indonesian archipelago buying the Dashwood/ Sr Watn & old Interest/ for Ever. unusual, exotic and colourful. In Jacobite clubs the lady patroness was usually Their collection is coming up at auction on June 20 in an unmarried lady of the neighbourhood and the a sale conducted by Batemans of Stamford, Lincolnshire, only female member allowed to attend club dinners. offering almost 700 lots including many simple household Typically these meetings were political gatherings and domestic items to rare old architectural items, held in support of the Tories and to oppose the sculptures, coins and jewellery. Whigs. This goblet refers to Messrs Wenman Pictured is a Tao Tao from central Sulawesi, estimate and Dashwood who, in 1754, had been the Tory £200-230. Tao Tao are wooden effigies of deceased family candidates for Oxfordshire. members of the Torajanese people that are placed high up Like the three other ‘Confederate Hunt’ goblets on a cliff face overlooking the surrounding countryside. known, this example is broken following what must have been a particularly riotous Traditional Tao Tao adorn a cliff face at Lemo Village in Tana club meeting. Toraja region of the highlands of central Sulawesi in Indonesia. It comes for sale at Bonhams’ Fine Glass & British Ceramics auction on June 23 The ‘possibly early 20th century’ figure measures 3ft 5in with a guide of £5000-10,000. (1.05m) high. One finger is damaged. bonhams.com* batemans.com*
A house visit in Cornwall uncovered 50 works amassed by a lady who spent many The Asian Art sale at Adam’s in Dublin on June years collecting paintings mainly by local 29-30 includes a group of Qing hard stone carvings artists. that formed part of the Joseph Vallot (1854-1925) They will be coming up for sale on sale at Drouot in 1925. June 23 at Plymouth Auction Rooms. Vallot, a French astronomer, geographer, Among the collection eight works by Fred naturalist and alpinist, constructed an observatory Yates can be found alongside Alexander on Mont Blanc (the Refuge Vallot) that even Mackenzie, Hugh Ridge, John Piper, Joe included a ‘salon chinoise’. This was decorated with March and Robert Lenkiewicz. Vallot’s collection of objects from the Far East. In Pictured here is a (92 x 70cm) oil on 1984 it was taken down and reconstructed at the canvas by Jack Pender (1918-98), which is Alpine Museum in Chamonix. known as Newlyn Fisherman. This 18th or 19th century white jade phoenix Pender was born in Mousehole, wine pot and cover, estimated at €6000-8000, Cornwall, and taught at Plymouth Art was one of a number of pieces acquired at the School. He exhibited with the Newlyn and Vallot sale by Carlos Alfredo Tornquist Altgelt Penwith societies from the late 1940s. (1885-1953), a member of a prominent Argentinian Estimate £1500-2000. banking family. They come for sale by descent. plymouthauctions.co.uk* adams.ie*
The sale at East Bristol Auctions on June 18 At Brighton & Hove Auctions on June 18 includes a number of items related to the Great this Orientalist cold painted bronze is Train Robbery – the theft of £2.6m from a Royal guided at £200-300. The group, signed Mail train heading from Glasgow to London in the to the base for Franz Bergman, features early hours of August 8, 1963. a figure in prayer on a rug with the table The bulk of the stolen money was never and lamp forming an inkwell. recovered. After the robbery, the gang hid at brightonandhoveauctions.co.uk* Leatherslade Farm and famously used the money in a game of Monopoly – leaving the fingerprints instrumental in the arrest of most of the gang. This £1 banknote comes housed in its original police evidence envelope which lists it as Exhibit No. 441T and a label which reads ‘Bank of England The Crystal Palace Game, £1 Note - Ser No. M81C 074955 - Not Put In Front Of Jury. To the rear of the note is a period a Voyage Round the World, label, believed to be highlighting a fingerprint. an Entertaining Excursion Estimate £300-500. in Search of Knowledge, eastbristol.co.uk* whereby Geography is Made Easy was created by Henry Smith Evans and published by Alfred Davis & Co, London, c.1855. Although it seems to be based on the This 2ft x 20in (60 x 50cm) tempera and oil titled 1851 exhibition, the game is Taming the Fauns is signed below the mount actually about colonisation – for Harry Morley (1881-1943), a British painter, presenting opportunities to etcher and engraver known for his classical and gain wealth in the dominions. mythological compositions. This copy, framed and glazed, has a guide of £1000-1500 at Dominic Winter in South At David Duggleby of Scarborough on June 18, Cerney on June 17. it is expected to bring £800-1200. dominicwinter.co.uk* davidduggleby.com* antiquestradegazette.com 19 June 2021 | 35
PAGE 034-35 2497.indd 2 10/06/2021 17:04:25 John Howard Gateway Antiques Cheltenham Road, Burford Roundabout Burford, Oxfordshire OX184JA T: +44 (0)1993 823678 E: [email protected] 6 Market Place, Woodstock W: www.gatewayantiques.co.uk Oxfordshire OX20 1TA T: +44 (0)1993 812580 M: +44 (0)7831 850544 E: [email protected] W: www.antiquepottery.co.uk
A fabulous Victorian figured mahogany library bookcase of large proportions – impressive carved and fretwork cornice with turned urn finial with their carved swags – fully adjustable An English delftware shelves throughout blue dash charger with 3m x 2.85m x 0.45m pomegranates and leaves, circa 1890 17thC £7,850
Strachan Fine Art Moxhams Antiques 17 Silver Street Bradford on Avon Wiltshire BA15 1JZ T: +44 (0)1225 862789 PO Box 50471, London W8 9DJ M: +44 (0)7802 506167 E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)20 79382622 W: www.moxhams-antiques.co.uk M: +44 (0)7860 579126 E: [email protected] W: www.strachanfineart.com
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A (1723-1792) Lady Elizabeth Montagu (1743-1827) later 3rd Duchess of Buccleuch oil on canvas 30 x 25in (76.2 x 63.5cm) A Victorian oak gothic writing table with superb painted 1766 carved detail, original colour and patina circa 1880, width: 51¼’in (130cm), height: 28½in (72.5cm), depth: 31in (78.5cm)
Trinity House 20 High Street Legge Carpets Paintings Broadway WR12 7DT T: +44 (0)1386 859 329 E: [email protected] W: www.trinityhousepaintings.com 25 Oakthorpe Road Oxford OX2 7BD T: +44 (0)1865 557572 E: [email protected] W: www.leggecarpets.com
A late 19th-century Persian Qashqai tribal rug from the southwest of the country. The three lozenges on the central vertical axis are set on a dark blue field with a Laurence Stephen Lowry multitude of animals including birds. (British, 1887-1976) The borders at the top and bottom of the Clocking on Time, 1969 field are very unusual. The most outstanding Pencil on paper features of this rug are its velvet like texture Paper size: 9.8 x 10.8in and the superb quality of the wool and dyes. (24.9 x 27.4 cm) 190 x 132cm Signed and dated (lower right) IRO £6,500
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PAGE 036 -039 (CADA).indd 2 11/06/2021 12:30:27 Elizabeth Harvey-Lee 1 West Cottages W.R. Harvey Antiques Middle Aston Road North Aston Oxfordshire OX25 5QB E: [email protected] 86 Corn Street, Witney W: www.elizabethharvey-lee.com Oxfordshire OX28 6BU T: +44 (0)1993 706501 M: +44 (0)7967 649958 E: [email protected] W: www.wrharvey.com
A rare quality Charles II Period Burr Walnut Escritoire, Circa 1680, containing some 40 drawers and secret compartments, 1 height 65 ⁄4in (167.5 cm) 1 width 48 ⁄2in (123cm) 1 depth 21 ⁄2in (54.5cm)
Claude Lorrain L’enlèvement de l’Europe Original etching, 1634
Sarah Colegrave Catherine Hunt Fine Art Oriental Antiques
London and Oxfordshire PO Box 743, Cheltenham GL52 5ZB by appointment M: +44 (0)7976 319344 T: +44 (0)7775 943722 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.cathy-hunt.co.uk W: www.sarahcolegrave.co.uk
Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) Blackbird Signed with monogram lower right Watercolour A pair of Shunzhi figures modelled as 33.5 x 23.5cm (13¼ x 9¼in) the Hehe Erxian Twins, £2,500 also known as the Harmony Twins
Newman Fine Art Painswick, Gloucestershire M: +44 (0)7802 436621 The Cotswolds Art and Antique E: [email protected] W: www.newmanfineart.co.uk Dealers’ Association Founded in 1978, The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA), was the first regional association created to promote its members’ integrity, knowledge and expertise to a wide audience working with progressive initiatives to showcase the high quality art and antiques to be found in the heart of the English countryside. David Bates (1840-1921) As the pandemic restrictions ease even more, our members are Tewkesbury delighted to welcome you to their premises in and around the Abbey, signed Watercolour picturesque, historic Cotswolds. If you are not visiting the area, you 25 x 35cm can view our members’ websites. Between them, the members represent a number of specialisations. Please do follow our Instagram: @cadaartandantiquesassociation or find out more about our all our dealers on our website at www.thecada.org
The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Save the date: Our annual Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair is taking place in its new venue Dealers' Association Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park in Warwickshire - from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 October 2021 A Wealth of Art & Antiques in the Heart of England You can sign up for updates on the website. www.thecada.org
PAGE 036 -039 (CADA).indd 3 11/06/2021 12:31:04 Howards Jewellers 44a Wood Street Delomosne & Son Ltd Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6JG T: +44 (0)1789 205404 E: [email protected] Court Close, North Wraxall, W: www.howardsjewellers.com Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 7AD T: +44 (0)1225 891505 E: [email protected] W: www.delomosne.co.uk
A rare Royalist silver locket Date 1649-1660 A rare set of six champagne The interior containing an flutes, the deep round funnel applied bust of King Charles 1 bowls engraved with ‘OXO’ borders, English c.1770
Tobias Birch David Pickup Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Fine Antique Clocks T: +44 (0)7860 469959 E: [email protected] W: www.davidpickupantiques.com T: +44 (0)1242 242178 M: +44 (0)7970 795892 E: [email protected] W: www.tobiasbirch.com
Joseph Knibb, London Circa 1685 A fine phase III, ebony veneered and gilt brass mounted striking table clock with push pull bar quarter repeat
A fine pair of George II mahogany chairs of exceptional shape, colour and patination, English 1740.
Freshfords Fine A fine George III 18th Christopher Clarke Antiques century period carved Antiques giltwood oval mirror attributed to John Linnell. Freshford, Bath, Somerset BA2 English, circa 1770 T: +4 4 (0)12 2 5 72 2111 £18,750 M: +44 (0)7720 838877 Sheep Street, E: [email protected] Stow on the Wold W: www.freshfords.com Gloucestershire GL54 1JS T: +44 (0)1451 830476 E: [email protected] W: www.campaignfurniture.com
A pair of early 19th century Regency mahogany A ship’s apothecary Bergère chairs. English, circa 1805 cabinet, circa 1800 £24,500
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PAGE 036 -039 (CADA).indd 4 11/06/2021 12:31:40 Astley House Astley House, High Street Prichard Antiques Moreton-In-Marsh GL56 0LL T: +44 (0)1608 650601 E: [email protected] W: www.astleyhouse.com 16 High Street Winchcombe GL54 5LJ T: +44 (0)1242 603566 E: [email protected] W: www.prichardantiques.co.uk
A large still life ‘A Country Kitchen Table” by Walter Herbert Roe A mid-19th century (fl. 1882-1909) French cherrywood dining table, oil on canvas two extending leaves doubling 34 x 50in the size of the table. Superb framed size original condition, with a glowing 42 x 58in colour and lovely waxed surface.
Haynes Fine Art Mayflower Antiques
London/Cotswolds PO Box 7408, Picton House, 42 High Street Stourbridge Broadway, Worcestershire WR12 7DT DY8 9GZ T: +44 (0)1386 852 649 T: +44 (0)7966 770748 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.haynesfineart.com W: www.mayflower-antiques.co.uk
Eugène Louis Boudin (French 1824-1898) Pêcheuses sur le Rivage Oil on paper laid down on canvas, signed Canvas size: 6¾ x 9½in
Mark Goodger Antiques Architectural Heritage
Northamptonshire, England, UK Taddington Manor, Taddington T: +44 (0)1604 863979 Near Cutsdean, Gloucestershire M: +44 (0)7779 654879 GL54 5RY E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1386 584414 W: www.markgoodger.co.uk E: [email protected] W: www.architectural-heritage.co.uk I: @ahmodernbritishart
GERMINATION 1980 (Opus 405) An extremely rare Robert Adams (1917-1984) 18th century tented top bronze on wood base dodecagon tea caddy, signed 1980 ADAMS 3/6 naively painted and features edition: 1 of 6, height on plinth 47.20cm verre églomisé panels Provenance: a private collection Exhibitions: Gimpel Fils London, Robert Adams Late Bronzes 15th Sept- 15th Oct 1988 cat no. 33 another cast Literature: The Sculpture of Robert Adams, Alastair Grieve Catalogue No. 675
The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Save the date: Our annual Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair is taking place in its new venue Dealers' Association Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park in Warwickshire - from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 October 2021 A Wealth of Art & Antiques in the Heart of England You can sign up for updates on the website. www.thecada.org
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Self interest can be rewarding London gallery stages exhibition looking at how a range of artists depict themselves
by Gabriel Berner
With a focused stare and slightly I’ve always found manic expression, this powerful self-portraits self-portrait (right) depicts Austin “ Osman Spare (1888-1956) aged absolutely around 50. fascinating The south London artist, who was once hailed as the next Aubrey had an interesting group of works, Beardsley but died in obscurity, which is often how it goes for dealer explored the portrayal of the self exhibitions.” throughout his career as a painter. The show also contains paintings The pencil and coloured chalk of artist studio interiors, portraits work dates from 1935 and is one of of fellow painters, and other artist- the stars of an exhibition of self- related works such as a fine study by portraits in London at British art Dod Proctor of her hands. Among specialist Harry Moore-Gwyn. a small number of loaned works is a It closely compares to another in Wyndham Lewis portrait of fellow the Victoria and Albert Museum Vorticist Edward Wadsworth and a executed in the same year. self-portrait of a young and confident “Spare was a true bohemian with 1 2 David Bomberg dating from his time an extraordinary personality. He was 3 as Walter Sickert’s pupil. also a superb draughtsman and had a Two of the top portraits for sale particular reputation for self-portraits, 1. Self-portrait of Austin are offered with distinguished which were a significant part of his Osman Spare, 8 x 5in (20 x provenance. The John Bratby (1928- output,” says Moore-Gwyn. 13cm) wash over pencil and 92), which is a rare early self-portrait Though Spare has always had coloured chalk – £8500. from 1961, was in the artist’s own a cult following among those who 2. Portrait of a man, thought collection until acquired by the recognised his prodigious skill as a to be a self-portrait by John dealer and collector John Constable draughtsman, his work has begun to Everett Millais, 3 x 2in (8 x towards the end of Bratby’s life (it gain wider recognition only in recent 5cm) pencil – £3750. has an asking price is £8500). years. The drawing by John Everett 3. The interior of the artist’s According to artprice.com, the Millais (1829-96), cautiously studio at West Preston current top 10 prices at auction for identified as a self-portrait largely Street, Edinburgh, by Charles Spare’s works have come within the on account of the sitter’s distinctive Halkerston, 11½ x 14in (29 x last seven years. curls and sideburns, comes from the 35cm) oil on panel – £4750. “Spare’s drawings make money estate of the artist’s grandson, the because he is so distinctive but painter Raoul Millais. various dealers have championed from June 15-30 at Moore-Gwyn’s self-portraits by John Everett Millais, This confident and swiftly him for a long time, including Rupert gallery in Mason’s Yard, St James’s, Hubert Wellington, Francis Dodd executed thumbnail sketch formed Maas,” says Moore-Gwyn. brings together more than 40 and John Bratby among others. part of an archive of mainly early The Spare portrait had passed drawings and oils on the theme of the “I’ve always found self-portraits work Millais produced during the through the Maas Gallery in 2002 artist as subject, spanning the 1800s absolutely fascinating and I always 1840s-50s. It is attractively pitched and is priced at £8500. to the present day. wanted to do a show on them,” says at £3750. n Portrait of the Artist, which runs Keeping company with Spare are Moore-Gwyn. “I found I already mooregwynfineart.co.uk
Call for Quinneys antiques loans A call has gone out to the trade for antiques to furnish Westgarth at the University of Leeds and is being the set of a new production of the comedy-drama performed by the university’s student actors. A film play Quinneys. version of the play will be premiered at a cinema in Written by Horace Vachell, the play is set in the Leeds and possibly London in November or December. world of the fictional antiques dealer Joseph Quinney. The loaned antiques are needed for up to four It was a major hit on its release in 1915. days during the week starting June 28. The new production, the first in more than 70 years, A small budget has been allocated for transport is part of the Arts & Humanities Research Council- with the objects covered by the university’s insurance funded project The Year of the Dealer led by Dr Mark policy and acknowledged in any associated publicity. A Charles II walnut chair and a Charles II lacquer cabinet on stand are among the antiques still needed. Left: Quinneys being performed for the first time in For further details including the complete list 1915. Image from The Play Pictorial, no 158, Vol XXVI. email [email protected]. 40 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Gwen John in a new light The web shop window She was among the first female Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. students to study at the Slade and Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week. exhibited with major galleries, but for many years Gwen John (1876- This 1980s British-built ejection 1939) was forgotten, overshadowed seat is being sold by Chelsea dealer by her famous lover Auguste Rodin Hatchwell Antiques with an asking and flamboyant artist brother price of £12,500. Augustus John. The Martin-Baker Mark IV Now a long-overdue reappraisal aluminium seat flew in a French of John’s work is under way with Dassault/Dornier Alpha jet, a light some experts acknowledging she attack aircraft manufactured by was a better painter than her brother. French and German companies. Her paintings, many of female sitters When operational the handles above and quiet domestic interiors, are the pilot’s head or between his notable for being subtly rendered in legs would be pulled and a series a close range of tones. of blasts would blow the seat free A works on paper exhibition at of the aeroplane and a parachute London dealer Browse & Darby Above: this small 5 x 4½in (13 x 11½in) 1920s would open. in Cork Street examines her gouache titled Woman wearing a green “We managed to acquire this watercolours, gouaches and pencil cloche has an asking price of £12,000 at through contacts, but they are drawings from the early 20th Browse & Darby. getting much harder to find,” said century. Gwen John, until July 16, Allan Hatchwell of the second- includes still-lifes, informal portraits and studies of cats with prices from £6000-12,000. generation family business. “Martin- browseanddarby.co.uk Baker began making ejection seats in 1948 and they have saved many thousands of lives since. We have sold 12 to one customer who wanted to use them as dining room chairs 5 Questions and another re-purposed his as a gaming seat for his son.” hatchwellantiques.co.uk Gavin Morgan little if any face-to-face contact with founded Morgan customers for so long, looking forward Strickland Decorative everything is exciting! We will be exhibiting Arts with fellow next month at Petworth, our first fair for Go through the keyholes dealer Gary well over a year and we cannot wait. Strickland. It will 4 be exhibiting at The One question it is important for of the art world experts people to ask before buying? Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has announced the launch of an online series Once you have established that an item from June 18-20. that explores the homes and private collections of high-profile figures in the art world. is genuine and you are fully aware of morganstrickland.com Living with Art incorporates art dealers, collectors, artists and designers, and will any condition issues, the one and only be published monthly via TEFAF’s online blog, TEFAF Stories, and across its social 1 really important question for a buyer to How do you define the field you media platforms. ask themselves is ‘Do I love it?’. Don’t trade in/your area of expertise? It is a concept that has gained plenty of traction in the art world during the buy just for investment and don’t buy Morgan Strickland specialises in British pandemic with many high-profile figures – dealers Philip Mould and Derek Johns because it seems cheap. If you really and European 20th century decorative among them – welcoming the public to their homes through livestreaming, social- love it you will end up with a collection arts and jewellery, particularly Art media posts and publications. that you truly cherish. Nouveau, Arts & Crafts and Art Deco. If The first edition of Living with Art features the Parisian home of TEFAF exhibitor and it has great design and is well made, we 5 sculpture specialist Xavier Eeckhout. will sell it. One object you couldn’t do without? His collection includes works by Yves Klein, Francois Xavier Lalanne, and Hermès juxtaposed with ancient Greek sculptures and a Japanese coat of armour. 2 Traditionally I would say my jeweller’s loupe What is one little-known fact Dutch Old Master dealer Niels de Boer and Paris antiquities specialist Galerie (although I lose them on an extremely about dealing in general? Chenel will follow. In my view the best and most successful regular basis). However, these days with tefaf.com/stories dealers follow their eye and their gut business relying more and more on an instinct. No dealer can know everything online presence it is probably my phone. but those with a good eye and who are Left: Xavier brave tend to make the best buys. Left: an Art Nouveau Eeckhout and 3 bronze lamp by his two youngest What is encouraging about the children in their art and antiques market this year? Hjördis Nordin- Tengbom, living room, Despite all the troubles associated with including Panther Covid-19 the desire for antiques has c.1900, £2950 from Morgan by Albéric Collin remained very strong over the last year and Lion Cub by and business has been surprisingly good. Strickland Decorative Arts. Roger Godchaux After having to sell remotely and having on a pink coffee table by Yves If you would like to be featured in 5 Questions, please contact Klein. [email protected]
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Old Masters, Civilizations, Modern Art & Greek Art Fine Art & Furniture July 7th at 2.30pm - Paris June 24th at 2pm - Paris
Contact : Maude Laugeay +33 1 53 34 55 18 [email protected]
Experts : Michel et Raphaël MAKET +33 1 42 25 89 33 [email protected] Catalogs on www.rossini.fr Hammered gold plaque and www.maket-expert.com Live auction on drouotonline.com or Interencheres.com hallmarked, enamels, cabochons of precious stones and glasses. HARTUNG Hans 1904-1989. Acrylic and pastel. 50X32.5cm Contact : Astrid de Saint-Pern Constantinople, 10th-12th century. +33 1 53 34 55 29 - [email protected] 8.9X6.8cm ROSSINI - 7, rue Drouot 75009 - [email protected] - 01 53 34 55 00 - www.rossini.fr - 2002-066 RCS Paris B 428 867 089
Auctioneers : Public exhibition : Room 10 Christophe Joron-Derem and Gäetan Ducloux Jun 19th, 21st and 22nd from 11 to 6 pm SVV n° : 2002-401 - 46, rue Sainte-Anne - 75002 Paris 9, rue Drouot - 75009 Paris - Tél. : +33(0)1 48 00 20 05 Tél. : +33(0)1 40 20 02 82 - [email protected] Catalogue online : www.joron-derem.fr - www.drouot.com Auction on Wednesday 23rd Jun 2021 HOTEL DROUOT - PARIS - 11 AM and 1:30 PM - Room 10
From a set of two: Wang YANCHENG (Born in 1960). Francis PICABIA (1879-1953). Important double sided work Tsugouharu FOUJITA (1886-1968) Abstract composition. Tête de femme, around 1942-1943 and Portrait de femme et visage superposé, around 1938-1939 Portrait imaginaire Oil on canvas. Signed 150 x 180 cm Oil on thick cardboard on each side . Signed. 48,5 x 35 cm Oil on canvas. Signed. 27 x 22 cm A certifi cate for each oil written by the Picabia Comity will be delivered to the buyer
Rare teapot in Yixing sandstone, Signed « Ming Yuan », with 5 slit characters China, Qing Dynasty. L. 15 cm – H. 9 cm
French school, around 1660, Le NAIN brothers entourage From a complete set (24 pieces) Les enfants à leur ouvrage. CHU Teh-Chun (1920-2014) Oil on canvas. 35 x 47 cm Handed painted cermamic plate. J. F. van DAEL (1764-1840) Signed and dated. still life on an entablature Diam. 53 cm Oil on canvas. Monogrammed. 93 x 75,5 cm
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Salon all set for its 2021 return Drawings fair will be staged in the usual venue but dealers can also take part online © Benjamin Peronnet Mano la © de by Anne Crane
After last-minute cancellation in 2020 and postponements of its original spring dates in March this year, the Salon du Dessin, France’s specialist fair for works on paper, is scheduled to open next month on July 1-4. It will be staged at its usual home, the Palais Brongniart in the Bourse district of Paris. This is the 30th anniversary of the longstanding fair and 33 exhibitors will be attending in person. The majority come from Paris but some are also arriving from other European 2 countries: Spain, Switzerland, 1 Belgium and the UK, as well as Rosenberg & Co from New York. Previews from the Salon du Dessin. a selection of drawings by sculptors, “We are grateful that dealers have 1. A new exhibitor at the Salon du including this nude study of a woman stuck with us despite the numerous holding a robe by Auguste Rodin (1840- obstacles and we are delighted that Dessin is Benjamin Peronnet from Paris who is taking this profile portrait of 1917). The 6¼ x 4in (16 x 10cm) work they are so eager to participate in the in graphite, watercolour and gouache fair,” says Salon president Louis de the head of a young man by the French artist Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823). on paper, which is dated to c.1890, is Bayser. available for €95,000. The physical event will be The 8 x 7in (20 x 18cm) work in chalk on complemented by an online version. blue paper is priced at €70,000. 4. Helene Bailly Gallery from Paris is This allows galleries that have not 2. José de la Mano from Madrid is taking this gouache featuring a winged been able to travel to the fair to take showing this double-sided drawing by horse by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Le part: nine dealers will have an online the artist Claudio Coello (1642-93). The cheval ailé from c.1943-43 measures presence where each – like the other 11½ x 8½in (29 x 22cm) drawing, in red 11½ x 17½in (29 x 44.5cm) and is exhibitors – can show up to 15 pre- and black chalk on ochre paper, dated signed lower right and dated lower left. vetted works. They include Stephen to c.1685-90, features the bust of a child It is priced at €400,000-500,000. Ongpin from London, Martin and head of an angel to the recto and 5. The longstanding exhibitor de Bayser Moeller from Hamburg and Jill to the verso the figure of St Anthony of from Paris is taking this black chalk and Newhouse Gallery from New York. Padua. It is priced at €45,000. pastel portrait of a man facing left by Internet users will be able to 3. The Jeanne Bucher Jaeger gallery the 17th century French artist Simon contact dealers directly and can also from Paris is one of nine dealers Vouet (1590-1649). The 11 x 8¼in (27.5 make appointments with a member of exhibiting at the Salon du Dessin for x21cm) work is available in the region the fair’s team for a video conference. © Alain Auzanneau the first time. The gallery is presenting of €300,000. The Salon will offer its usual 3 wide-ranging mix of works on paper
spanning Old Master drawings, Gallery Bailly © Helene 19th century and modern works. A 5 small taste of what will be on offer is previewed here. A loan exhibition is being staged, devoted to graphic works. This features around 40 examples spanning the 15th to 19th centuries on the theme of ‘Aspects of Nature’ from three of Marseille’s museums: the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille; the Musée Grobet-Labadié and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode. The Salon opening, by invitation only and with a reservation required, will take place simultaneously at the Palais Brongniart and online on Wednesday, June 30. n 4 salondudessin.com © Galerie de Bayser 44 | 19 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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56. Gold ring set with a round brilliant-cut diamond (weight: 2,79 carat). Gemological report from C.G.L n° 23910 of May 2021 specifying: Weight: 2.79 ct, Dimensions: 9.02-9.14 x 5.61 mm, Color: I, Purity: VS2, Fluorescence: none. Valuation: 8,000 - 12,000 € 57. Cartier Panther platinum brooch fully set with diamonds. Signed and numbered. Length: around 3,3 inches. Valuation: 20,000 - 30,000 € 78. Teodor Axentowicz. Sarah Bernhardt. Pastel on canvas. Previously owned by Sarah Bernhardt (label of her estate auction on the back). Valuation: 20,000 - 30,000 € 79. Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). Woman in a cave (and Red Sphinx), 1882. Watercolor and oil on paper signed lower left. 13,58 x 9,21 inch. Valuation: 150,000 - 200,000 € 226. Woman. Bamu River, Papuan Gulf. Former Serge Brignoni’s collection (Switzerland). Wood, red and blue paint. 100’’ high. Valuation: 25,000 - 30,000 €
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