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Calendar begins revival via the virtual rostrum After a month’s hiatus, remotely. Some firms will also that Christie’s have run for a for June 3-4), with more than remote means, Fisher said the a number of top-tier be using timed online auctions. number of years, we felt this 700 lots, and an Oxford two- firm is not physically receiving regional auction houses are Mallams, one of many UK was the format that we should day of Jewellery, Watches, any new consignments. returning to the rostrum to regional firms that temporarily adopt,” said director Robin Silver & Objets de vertu sale “Travelling to a saleroom conduct ‘live online’ sales. closed their doors on March Fisher. on June 17-18. does not qualify as an essential In accordance with social- 23, has taken the decision to “Vendors have been very The merchandise offered journey and using couriers distancing rules, these will begin selling remotely in early positive and understanding.” was consigned pre-lockdown presents unnecessary risk. We typically be held by an June via live online only The revised calendar will before the saleroom closed and have decided to wait until the auctioneer alone in the auctions. “After looking at include the firm’s traditional many of the staff placed on offices reopen.” saleroom with the input of a recent sales, and particularly two-day sale of Asian art in furlough. While Mallams is handful of staff working the online-only Asian art sales Cheltenham (now scheduled continuing valuations by Continued on page 4 Tiffany ‘orchidomania’ returns Paulding Farnham brooch brings £50,000 during lockdown sale
Of all the sensational jewellery displayed by Tiffany at the 1889 Pick Paris Exposition Universelle the most memorable was a group of of the 24 enamelled orchid brooches. The exhibit, artfully suspended from fine wires above the main showcase, was singled out for its week ‘fertility of imagination and power of invention’ and won a gold medal – the first ever awarded to an American firm. Much of the credit went to the project’s artistic director George Paulding Farnham (1859-1927). He worked at Tiffany from 1879 but the orchid brooches are among the first pieces that can be firmly attributed to him. Some of the original watercolour sketches are pictured in John Loring’s Paulding Farnham: Tiffany’s Lost Genius (2000). Paulding Farnham had chosen a topical subject matter. His brooches paralleled a contemporary fashion for orchid cultivation that had begun in the UK and spread to the US by the end of the 19th century. They called it orchidomania. For his designs he enjoyed access to the Tiffany library, which Above: a Tiffany gold, enamel and gemset tiger orchid brooch, c.1890, contained many natural history journals, and to both live and sold for £50,000 at Elstob & Estob in Ripon on April 18. A group of 24 similar preserved botanical specimens purchased for the design studio. brooches, made under the aegis of artistic director George Paulding Farnham, were shown at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle where Tiffany won a gold medal – the first ever awarded to an American firm. Continued on page 8
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Sales return as auctioneers Left: a Qing embroidered kesi red and black rethink the old selling model robe from the family of William Orr Leitch (1871-1948), engineer Continued from front page a monthly live online sale of in chief of the Chinese between 300-400 lots of government railway, However, provisions have watches and jewellery. estimate £1500-2500 at been put in place to provide Timed online sales, Sworders on May 28. ‘contact-free’ delivery to comprising goods already buyers by courier, and free catalogued and stored, will storage is being provided until also be conducted for Wine travel restrictions are lifted. (May 8-17), Coins and Stamps (May 15-24), Designer and first virtual valuation day on chief medical adviser Chris The new normal Luxury Goods (May 22-31) April 28 with more to follow if Whitty that some form of Online sales – whether live and Modern British Art Part II customers required them. “very socially disruptive” online only or timed online – (June 7-29). Live sales will These moves, combined distancing measures would be have become the new normal include Jewellery (May 19), with the apparent success of needed for at least the rest of in the market since March with Asian Art (May 28), Modern holding auctions with no the year and possibly until a strong results posted in a wide Above: Chepstow Castle, an 8 x British Art (June 10) and Mid bidders in the room, are vaccine for Covid-19 is found, range of categories, 10in (20 x 24cm) watercolour by Century Modern (June 23). leading some auctioneers to a re-evaluation of the processes encouraging more auction John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), question the old-style model. needed to run a thriving houses to move to this format. estimate £2000-3000 at Keys in Garden rostrum With the announcement last auction business is now taking For example, Gorringe’s Aylsham on May 12. Keys in Aylsham will also week by the UK government’s place. weekly sale held as live online re-start its sale programme only on April 20 attracted At Hansons a trio of sales in after a month’s pause with live more than 900 bidders on Etwall, Derbyshire and online auctions devoted to thesaleroom.com and achieved Bishton Hall, Staffordshire Wine, Ports and Spirits (April a sell-through rate of more than will become live online events. 29), Paintings and prints (April 92%. These are Historica, Coins, 30), East Anglian Art (May 12) A timed sale of watches held Banknotes & Antiquities (May and Antiques & Collectables by Fellows that ended on the 6-7), Fine Jewellery, Watches (May 16). same day attracted 1600 regis- & Silver (May 13-14) and the Keys director Tim Blyth trants – a house record for a four-day country house sale at will conduct the auction from timed sale – and achieved a Bishton (May 21-22 and May home, with the sale healthy 87% sell-through rate. 25-26). administered by other staff Sales formerly postponed by Dawsons in Maidenhead from their own homes. Special Auction Services and also unveiled its first live “When the lockdown first Above: English school view of St Paul’s, Covent Garden – estimate Hansons are also being online-only sale last week, started, we paused our activity £10,000-15,000 at Sotheby’s. rescheduled as online events. releasing a catalogue for a while we reviewed how we A camera and photographic jewellery, watches, silver and could operate in a way which is auction at SAS in Newbury fine art auction on April 28. completely safe for our staff Covent Garden during (postponed from March 24) and customers,” said Blyth. will now be a timed online sale Fresh line-up “I am looking forward to the time of Cromwell on thesaleroom.com finishing As reported last week, taking to the ‘rostrum’ at Following the success of the dedicated online sale of works on May 11 with a collectables Sworders is launching a new home, hopefully in the garden from the collection of Old Masters dealer Rafael Valls, which sale (previously March 31) calendar of online-only and if the weather is good enough.” more than tripled the high estimate to gross £1.6m (see Art closing on May 14. timed online auctions. Provisions have been put in Market, page 14), Sotheby’s will conduct its mid-season sale of The firm’s first online-only The major changes include place at Keys to provide Old Masters as an online event, writes Roland Arkell. live sale will be a Jewellery, a monthly timed online format ‘contact-free’ delivery to The 194-lot sale is open for bidding from April 29-May 7. Silver, Coins, Pens, Objets for the Homes and Interiors buyers by courier, and free The catalogue includes a 23in x 2ft 6in (58cm x 1.08m) oil on d’Art and Watches auction on sales (previously fortnightly storage is being provided for canvas thought to be the earliest painted view of the Covent May 21. live events) and the addition of larger purchased lots until Garden piazza. The English school view, c.1649, shows the travel restrictions are lifted. piazza just over a decade after Inigo Jones’ St Paul’s church (at Keys is also conducting the centre of the composition) was consecrated in 1638. online valuations and virtual A wing visible to the south side of the building added A diamond and gem-set bracelet by consignments for future sales between 1647-49 helps date the picture to the time of Cromwell, Andrew Grima, unsigned, London – with lots able to be consigned as does the absence of a similar addition to the north side not 1962, estimate £3000-5000 at by post or to be collected once finished until the 1650s. It was around this time that a market Mallams’ sale on June 17. it has been deemed safe to was begun under Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (1587- relax the lockdown. 1641). Under Charles I he was granted a licence to develop ‘howses and buildings fitt for the habitacons of Gentlemen and Mother of invention... men of ability’. Such services moving online The picture predates a view of Covent Garden in the is, through necessity, becoming collection of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton House, c.1666-67, more common. although is probably later than an etching by Wenceslaus Hollar Dreweatts launched virtual c.1647 that includes a cross on the pediment of the church, valuations using applications which does not appear here. This picture, in the family of the such as FaceTime and Zoom present owner for at least three generations, first came to light last month and Fellows in 1970. It carries an estimate of £10,000-15,000. announced it would hold its 4 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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The childhood dreams of a double VC winner posthumously a year later after by Tom Derbyshire he died at a first aid post in the early stages of the offensive at A childhood scrapbook Passchendaele. He had rescued including tales of valour wounded men from No Man’s written and illustrated by Land despite being hit in the double Victoria Cross winner head himself. Noel Chavasse and his twin Lord Ashcroft bought his brother has been bought by medals in 2009 for nearly their old school in Oxford. It £1.5m. They have been on was sold by Herefordshire display in the Lord Ashcroft militaria dealer War & Son to Gallery at the Imperial War Magdalen College School. Museum. Above: pages from the Chavasse brothers sketchbook sold to Magdalen College School. Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC and Bar, MC Snowflakes in Oxford (1884-1917) was the most highly The 209-page ‘scrapbook’ was St Peter’s College, Oxford. The enjoying athletics [both men the archive, the scrapbook will decorated British officer of the created over the winter of acquisition also includes the competed in the 400m at the be digitised and available to First World War, and one of 1900-01 and is titled Snow Second World War gallantry 1908 Olympic Games].” view online.” only three men to be awarded Flakes. It takes the form of a medals of Christopher’s son, A spokesperson for the The scrapbook had been the VC twice. He and his handwritten magazine, written Major Noel W Chavasse. school added: “The MCS priced at £7000 by War & Son. brother Christopher Maud by Christopher and illustrated Camilla Kinton (nee Archive was recently The firm had bought it as Chavasse (1884-1962) were with sketches and watercolours Chavasse), granddaughter of announced as the first school part of a collection from an pupils at MCS between 1896- by Noel. Scenes from Oxford Christopher, said: “The archive in the UK to achieve owner who had been unaware 1900, before the family moved life including a poem called My Chavasse family are absolutely Accredited Archive Status. of its significance. Steve Nuwar to Liverpool. Heart is in Oxford appear delighted that the scrapbook “The items will go on display from the dealership told ATG: Noel was awarded his first alongside scenes of battle and has gone to Magdalen College alongside an already extensive “The collector visited our shop VC for heroics at Guillemont in bravery. School. Christopher and Noel collection of personal effects in Leominster and my father 1916 where he attended to the Christopher Chavasse was were extremely happy there, belonging to the brothers, bought his whole collection wounded all day under heavy later Bishop of Rochester and cycling to school each day from including Noel’s field cap and from him and this was one of fire. His second was given founder of St Peter’s Hall, later Wycliffe Hall and particularly death penny. Once added to his groups.”
Edward the Martyr penny found in ‘remarkable condition’ A silver penny of the boy king (Edward king of the English). now stands, by supporters of his Edward the Martyr – the On the reverse is a small cross half-brother Aethelred. teenager who ruled Saxon pattee with the legend around Edward became venerated as Britain in the 10th century and reading Aelstan M’O Cant a saint and martyr and his was later venerated as a saint – (Aelfstan moneyer of bones were exhumed and taken has sold to a UK collector for Canterbury). to a shrine at Shaftesbury £9000 at Dix Noonan Webb Thirty-nine mints were in Abbey in 1001. The shrine was (24% buyer’s premium). operation around the country at lost during the dissolution of the It had been found in a this time, with three moneyers monasteries in the 16th century, ploughed field on the Isle of working at Canterbury. but his bones were rediscovered Wight by a metal detectorist Edward was just 13 years old in 1931 and now reside at a who was ready to give up for the Above: silver penny of Edward the Martyr c.975-978, £9000 at DNW. when he was crowned king shrine in the Russian Orthodox day after finding only three lead after the death of his father Church in Brookwood, Surrey. bullets. He received a signal in online-only auction on April 22 condition with a fine portrait of Eadgar but ruled only briefly, The DNW a u c t io n the same area and dug down with an estimate of £5000- the boy king wearing a diadem from 975-978. He was comprised 695 lots, with only about five inches deeper. 7000, was described by DNW and facing left”. Around is the assassinated at the Saxon hall four items left unsold. The coin, offered in the as being in “remarkable legend Edpeard Rex Anglorx where Corfe Castle in Dorset Tom Derbyshire
Be alert to money laundering activity during lockdown says HMRC HMRC has warned the art market to be on alert for on January 10. They apply to ‘Art Market Participants’ the year has been postponed but AMPs can still register money laundering attempts during the coronavirus (AMPs) – auction houses, dealers or anyone trading in or for anti-money laundering supervision with HMRC online pandemic, writes Laura Chesters. acting as an intermediary in the trade of works of art that via https://atg.news/AMPregister In a statement, HMRC said it recognises the sell for above the €10,000 threshold (or a series of linked The new directive is in addition to the stipulations “significant challenges” the art market faces “as a result transactions). already in place under the Money Laundering, Terrorist of Covid-19” but “the risks of money laundering and HMRC said that although most businesses will already Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the terrorist financing continue, with criminals using the have procedures in place for clients or transactions Payer) Regulations 2017. current financial difficulties to their advantage”. where the customer is not physically present, “social Guidance designed to help AMPs meet their new New anti-money laundering rules (applying the Fifth distancing requirements are likely to increase this need”. obligations under this regulation can be viewed via Money Laundering Directive, known as 5MLD) took effect HMRC’s planned staggered registration schedule for https://atg.news/AMLguide
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Pick of the week Tiffany orchid brooch is a blooming good buy
Continued from front page The hyper-realistic brooches and hair pieces were Left: Tiffany enamel and gemset often created by electroforming the flower from life orchid brooch, c.1890, designed before the application of enamel and precious stones. by Paulding Farnham – £50,000 Gustav Stickley, leader of the American Arts & at Elstob & Elstob. Crafts movement, said at the time: “The copying of flowers in jewellery is, of course, no new thing… but the orchids of Messrs Tiffany are the first that we have tiger orchid (grammatophyllum speciosum), a species “It was really a case of a buyer sat at home surfing seen, and it would be impossible to surpass them, native to Indonesia. his computer during lockdown and finding something whether for cleverness of imitation or for perfection of The flowerhead is applied with yellow, brown and he had always wanted,” said auctioneer Davis Elstob. workmanship.” orange enamels with rose-cut diamond highlights “He spotted it the day before the sale and rang They proved hugely popular. All brooches offered at to the stamen and a sinuous stem set with circular- us in a panic. I was able to put him in touch with the 1889 expo had sold by the second day and by April cut emeralds and rubies. Signed Tiffany & Co to the our jewellery specialist [Inez Tobin who joined as a 1890 the number of varieties offered at Tiffany stores reverse on the pin fitting and stamped with a French consultant earlier this year] who talked him through it.” in Paris and New York had increased from 24 to 41. import mark, the brooch was in good condition save an A near-identical tiger-orchid brooch was sold by However, as they enjoyed a relatively short production area of possible retouching. the Belgian auction house Haynault of Woluwe-Saint- run until around 1896, each survivor is a rarity. Pitched at a punchy £40,000-60,000, it sold to a Pierre in June last year for €41,000 (£36,000), close to The example offered in a ‘live online’ auction held by buyer in France underbid by a US client for £50,000 four times the estimate. Elstob & Estob in Ripon on April 18 was modelled as a (plus 22% buyer’s premium). Roland Arkell
Bonhams Oz online clients and employees remains 20 after running for a total of sales launched the company’s utmost priority, seven and a half hours, with 377 and we are working within lots, attracted 1150 registrants Bonhams Australia plans its government guidelines, ensuring on Fellows’ platform and more first live online-only auction on all our team can observe social than 400 on thesaleroom.com. Precious May 13. The 73-lot sale features distancing at work with ease. These 1600 registrants metals Asian art with a focus on jade, “We are very aware that surpassed the 716 who signed Chinese silver and ceramics. many of our clients, including up to its jewellery auction on Above left: Paul Darvill has On Friday, April 24, Bonhams also offers phone galleries and dealers, are using April 16. bidding with a special service joined Bonhams. this period of relative inactivity Fellows will launch specialist Michael Bloomstein of for Mandarin-speaking to address outstanding virtual valuation days with Brighton was paying the Above right: Elie Massaoutis, bidders. Viewings are available conservation and restoration jewellery and watch specialists following for bulk scrap now of Phillips. strictly by appointment at the issues, and we are keen to working remotely. Interested against a gold fix of: Bonhams Woollahra offices. international specialist and continue to support these parties are invited to join on $1733.30 €1606.81 £1404.80 In line with the new head of design in France. He needs at what is undeniably a April 28 from 10am-4pm. government guidelines, previously spent 14 years at challenging time for the art Using video conferencing Gold appointments are limited to two Sotheby’s and developed market.” software, valuers will be able to 22 carat: £1242.66 per oz clients with a 30-minute limit. Design sales in Paris, London All enquiries should be sent meet with clients face-to-face to (£39.95 per gram) For more on the sale, see the and New York for the firm. He to [email protected]. discuss their items. Prospective International section, page 24-32. will work in Paris for Phillips. vendors can also contact 18 carat: £1016.72 (£32.69) Fellows via its online valuation 15 carat: £847.26 (£27.24) Timed auction sets portal, website live chat, email Appointments at Art conservation house record and social media channels. 14 carat: £790.78 (£25.42) two salerooms firm ready for work 9 carat: £508.36 per oz Fellows’ latest timed auction Bonhams’ motoring division Fine art conservation company has hit a house record for Dealers stage a (£16.35 per gram) has hired Paul Darvill as senior Plowden & Smith has reopened number of registrants. timed online sale 12 Month High: ▲ £16.36 European sales specialist. following a brief closure in The sale that ended on April 12 Month Low: ▼ £11.35 He was previously at RM response to Covid-19. Among the lots in a timed Sotheby’s in Europe. At Initially the firm is operating online sale put together by Hallmark Platinum Bonhams he will work on with a reduced number of staff Left: an 18ct picture dealers is a painting by £16.82 per gram auctions in Germany, but continues to provide fine yellow gold Rolex Francis Holman (1729-90) Switzerland and Belgium, and art conservation and Oyster Perpetual titled An East India Company Silver will split his time between its restoration services to galleries, Day-Date Ship, in three positions, off Dover. offices in New Bond Street, dealers and private collectors. watch sold It is estimated at £8000- £10.17 per oz for 925 London, and Paris. Camilla Hughes-Hunt, for £10,250 12,000 in the auction held on standard hallmarked managing director, said: “We (estimate of thesaleroom.com. Specialist role 12 Month High: ▲ £12.35 have taken this decision after £4500-£5500) at Put together by The Parker Phillips has appointed Elie very careful consideration. The Fellows on April Gallery, the 77-lot auction runs 12 Month Low: ▼ £9.24 Massaoutis as a senior well-being of Plowden & Smith’s 20. until 2pm on April 29 and 8 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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Right: An East India Company Ship, in Roger Jones, Cardiff, April 17 three positions, off Pair of 2ft 8in (80cm) high 19th century Dover by Francis Cantonese famille rose vases. Holman is estimated Most read Estimate: £3000-5000 at £8000-12,000 in Hammer: £14,500 an online timed sale. The most viewed stories for week April 16-22 on antiquestradegazette.com includes works from dealers Each dealer will select three such as Rountree Tryon, David objects that have not previously 1 Philip Mould sells Chiswick Auctions, April 22 Brooker Fine Art, Ottocento, been offered on the PBFA ‘Pride and Prejudice’ portrait miniature to South of France by Mary Freya Mitton and The Parker website to list, to be revealed Jane Austen’s House Fedden (1915-2012) Gallery with estimates ranging when the fair goes live on April museum signed and dated 1988, from £200-40,000. 29. It runs from noon until 11pm. oil on canvas, 2ft 5in x 23in The 20% buyers’ premium Due to the lockdown, the 2 Art dealers at home… (74 x 59cm). will be donated to NHS PBFA has cancelled all its fairs and on the internet: Estimate: £10,000-15,000 Charities. in April, May and June. dealers invite viewers Hammer: £13,500 However, if the new format is to their homes and successful, it will be repeated gardens PBFA organises on a monthly basis. 3 Metal detectorist virtual fair format All objects will be fully illustrated on the site, and discovers Edward the William George, timed auction Browsing at a fair can mean the ‘visitors’ will be able to contact Martyr Saxon boy closied on April 22 serendipitous discovery. To help the dealers directly to arrange king silver penny Portrait of Viscount Petersham by Peter Stroehling (1768-1826), an oil recapture a bit of this magic delivery and payment methods. 4 Coronavirus: latest on canvas dated 1819, 2ft 1in x online, The Provincial Members set to exhibit at changes to auctions 2ft 6in (63 x 76cm). Booksellers Fairs Association this edition include Anthony and fairs dates (PFBA) is launching its first Smith Books, Jonkers Rare Estimate: n/a virtual month-long book fair. Books and Rainford & Parris. 5 New faces at Hammer: £12,000 Sworders, Phillips and Bonhams - the latest Movers and Sharp eyes spot top blade Shakers from auction HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE Ken tanto, distinguished by double-edged blades, are one of the houses rarer styles of Japanese sword. Most were made as Buddhist ritual Gorringe’s, Lewes, April 20 implements rather than weapons and are decorated accordingly. A Simon and Halbig bisque head The example offered by Golding Young & Mawer in Grantham on doll together with an unmarked April 20 carries the name of a famous Japanese blade maker. bisque head doll, both with fixed Carved in relief with the standing figure of Fudo Myoo (one of the blue paperweight eyes and Five Bright Kings known as the Immovable One), the blade is signed composition bodies and to the unpolished tang with the name Umetada Myoju (1560-1634), dresses. a great tsuba maker, swordsmith and a renowned judge of swords Estimate: £150-200 working during the Momoyama and early Edo periods. The so-called Hammer: £4000 ‘father of the new-style sword’, the school he founded in the Nishijin area of Kyoto, c.1600, proved hugely influential. The date of this ken, consigned by a local vendor who inherited it from her father, was uncertain. The silver koshirae (mounts) designed as a dragon entwining around the scabbard were 19th century but the 13in (33cm) blade was potentially a Myoju school In Numbers Golding Young & Mawer, Grantham, creation from the early part of the long Edo period (1603-1868). Only April 20 a handful of swords made by Myoju himself are authenticated – just Meiji period Satsuma hexagonal koro and one of them a ken. cover, signed Kinkozan zo, 7½in (19cm) high. Typically, a blade such as this would be submitted to the NBTHK $29,000 Estimate: £150-200 (Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai or Society for the Preservation Hammer: £2350 of the Japan Art Swords) to pass judgement on its date and The average price per lot authorship. That may well happen in the near future. of items bought online at Offered as the first lot of a sale of an Asian art conducted by Sotheby’s sales between March auctioneer Colin Young from his dining table, the dagger attracted 15-April 15. This compares to a number of highly specialised buyers. The bidding rapidly ran an average price across 2019 Fellows, Birmingham, April 16 up to £15,000 and then, following some splitting of the final bids, of $8900. Mid-20th century 14ct gold and continued to £26,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) – the winning bid platinum, sapphire and circular-cut coming via the firm’s own live bidding platform. diamond dress ring with central Roland Arkell stone weighing estimated 2.03cts. Estimate: £150-200 Right: ceremonial Hammer: £1800 ken tanto signed for Umetada Myoju – Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for April 8-16, 16-22, 2019. 2020. ‘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 £26,000 at Golding 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 Young & Mawer. ‘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 2440.indd 2 24/04/2020 16:24:57 De Morgan menagerie Auction Reports retailed by Morris Peacocks, wyverns, dolphins and birds adorn Sands End vase
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Sale celebrates the great outdoors Last-minute decision to take remote bids only and absorb costs such as storage pays off
by Roland Arkell 3 The sale at garden statuary specialist Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst on March 24 (the day after lockdown) was among the first conducted under new government restrictions on social distancing. At the eleventh hour the decision was taken to proceed with just three 1 members of staff in the room and all bids taken remotely. 2 The circumstances were unpromising. In fact, helped by overseas bidders, and the decision to absorb both online bidding and Highlights from the sale held by Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst on March 24. storage fees, the results were pretty strong. 1. Late-18th or 19th century copy of the Medici urn – £7500. A second Hygieia 2. Coadestone bust of Gerard de Visme – £3200. The highest-priced lot in the antiques 3. Pair of Georgian sandstone lions on oval pedestals – £4500. section was a life-size lead figure of 4. Antique giant clam shell – £1800. Hygieia modelled by Charles Bonnet 4 5. Lead figure of Hygieia by Charles Bonnet for the Bromsgrove Guild – £30,000. for the Bromsgrove Guild. Although the model does not appear in any of the Bromsgrove literature, another example of this antiquities, copied in marble, bronze, by Edward William Physick (c.1774- figure was commissioned for the terracotta, alabaster and biscuit. This 1862) who made at least three other garden of the Buckinghamshire fine-quality Grand Tour souvenir busts of Wellington in 1832, 1843 and mansion Chequers by owner Lord Alongside the stands 3ft 4in (1.01m) – around two- another undated now in the Merchant Lee. The house was presented to the Borghese vase the thirds of the size of the original. Taylor’s Hall in the City of London. nation in 1917 as a country residence “ A rare 11½in (29cm) high ‘bronzed’ This 2ft 6in (74cm high) bust is Medici urn became for the use of future prime ministers. Coadestone bust, c.1793, sold for over likely to have been made in the latter Hygieia, the daughter and chief one of the most three times its low estimate at £3200. stages of the duke’s life and unusually attendant to Asklepios, the god of popularly reproduced The back carries the date and it shows him in the normal dress medicine, still stands on the lawn in antiquities the scratched name of Gerard de of the day, rather than in military, front of the main entrance. Visme (1726-97), a British merchant ceremonial or classical robes. This model, the only other known of Huguenot descent whose home, cast, sold at the lower end of a Wimbledon Lodge, was lavishly Typical fare £30,000-50,000 estimate. decorated with the products of Mrs Decent prices were paid across the Coade’s Lambeth Manufactory. sale for the typical fare expected of Medici urn copy Left: white marble bust of the Duke He made his fortune in Portugal these sales: lead cisterns, sandstone A late-18th or 19th century marble of Wellington before returning to London, where troughs, wrought and cast-iron copy of the Medici urn sold to a – £2300 at he was partner in a banking firm De garden seats and bronze and marble bidder via thesaleroom.com for Summers Place. Vismes, Cuthbert, Marsh, Creed and statuary. £7500 against a £2000-4000 guide. Co. The bust, with a partial old paper A good contest emerged for two The Roman original from inventory label, is that pictured in antique giant clam shells, each the second half of the first century Mrs Coade’s Stone by Alison Kelly. estimated at £200-400. One sold for AD was first recorded in 1598 in A carved white marble bust of £1600 to a commission bidder, the the inventory of the Villa Medici, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of other for £1800 to an internet bidder. Rome. In 1780 it entered the Uffizi in Wellington, sold at £2300 (estimate A pair of Georgian carved Florence, where it remains today. £400-600). sandstone reclining lions mounted on Alongside the similarly shaped Removed from a house formerly oval pedestals, 2ft 8in (80cm) high Borghese vase it became one of owned by a member of the Physick x 3ft 8in (1.1m) long, sold online at the most popularly reproduced family of sculptors, it is thought to be £4500 (estimate £2000-4000). They 10 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 010-12 2440.indd 1 23/04/2020 17:20:00 Picture shows portrait Possible jigsaw design within a portrait is a puzzle in itself Mystery Italo-Flemish work is Purpose of hand-coloured alphabet top result of Sotheby’s/Valls sale sheet sold at auction is unclear
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Right: ‘open and closed’ views of two Penal Laws communion chalices sold by Sheppard’s on March 24. They made €750/£690 (left) and €1400/£1288.
Ingenious chalices conceal Catholic purpose 5 The Penal Laws weigh heavily on the history of Ireland. Before to their flock. When not in use the stem and the bowl could be they were largely repealed in the period 1778-93, the series of detached and ‘hidden’ together as a beaker. Similar ‘recusant’ statutes were imposed in an attempt to force Irish Catholics chalices were made in England. (and Protestant dissenters) to accept the established Church of The two examples shown here, sold at €750/£690 (estimate Ireland. €200-300) and €1400/£1288 (€100-150), were both part of the It was no small restriction: the Penal Laws meant Catholics Tim O’Mahony collection dispersed at Sheppard’s (19% buyer’s could not hold public office, inherit land or worship in public. premium) in Durrow, Co Laois, on March 24. It was in this atmosphere that brass and bronze communion The sale, held ‘live online’ because of coronavirus measures, chalices such as those pictured here were made secretly in the featured the eclectic mix of objects and curios bought by a 17th and 18th centuries and used by priests to discreetly minister collector from Borris in Co Carlow over half a century.
Candlesticks shine online
The sale conducted by Michael Bowman (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Newton Abbot, Devon, on March 28 was a homespun affair – held in the auctioneer’s house, with his wife handling phone and commission probably dated to the second half of bids and two assistants operating the bidding platforms remotely by the 18th century but still showed a way of a loudspeaker mobile phone link. good level of detail. It was, said Bowman, “an almost surreal experience” but he deemed A series of bronze friezes, made the sale “as successful as any I have held in recent times”. in the late 20th century for London’s Among the most eagerly contested lots was this pair of Charles tourist attraction Camden Lock II brass ‘trumpet’ form single knop candlesticks sold for £3050 Market, were the top lot of the (estimate £400-600) to an online bidder from south-east England. auction, sold by the sealed bids One of the 7½in (19cm) high sticks had suffered some old damage process. to the neck but they were an elegant form and it is unusual to find In total, the 19 panels documenting a pair of 17th century sticks still together after three and a half Above: pair of Charles II candlesticks – £3050 at the site’s history as a horse hospital centuries. Michael Bowman. and a warehouse for the Regent’s Canal are 28m long. Offered as four lots, they sold together for £55,000. The sealed bids section of these sales occasionally throws up some strong results for objects that are Anti-slavery tobacco box potentially worth a lot to one individual but are not always well reflects the human cost suited to the ‘sell it on the day’ auction format. Brought into Wolverhampton firmCuttlestones (17.5% buyer’s premium) on In this latest auction a massive a valuation day, this early-19th century anti-slavery tobacco box sold to a UK 1970s Italian glass chandelier, bidder on thesaleroom.com for £480 on March 20. some 8ft 10in (2.4m) high by 6ft 7in Right: early- The simple cast-iron box has a lift-off cover depicting the chained kneeling (2m) wide, which was previously 19th century figure that became a symbol of the abolition movement and is titled simply in the Mayfair gambling club 50 St anti-slavery Humanity. James’s Street, carried an estimate of tobacco box There is a degree of cruel irony in these objects, many of them made c.1810 £20,000-30,000. – £480 at as fund-raisers by the Millfield Iron Works, near Wolverhampton. Tobacco itself It sold for £35,000. n Cuttlestones. was a slave-grown crop. antiquestradegazette.com 2 May 2020 | 11
PAGE 010-12 2440.indd 2 23/04/2020 17:50:29 Auction Reports Hammer highlights
Pottery expertise provides firm foundations
Held over three pre-lockdown days 1 2 on March 5-7, Evesham saleroom Kingham & Orme’s (23% buyer’s premium) auction was rich in 3 the best of English and European decorative arts, writes Terence Ryle. However, as reported in ATG No 2435, the lot many will have left Worcestershire discussing was a small silver hawking bell with an inscription to Duleep Singh. This connection with the last of the Sikh maharajahs prompted multi-estimate bidding to £5500 on thesaleroom.com. Kingham & Orme, established by two well-known art pottery Highlights from the March sale at Kingham & Orme. specialists, was on more familiar territory with a 12½in (34cm) tall 1. William De Morgan red lustre vase – £8000. 4 lustre vase and cover made by 2. Christopher Dresser electroplated toast rack – £4800. William De Morgan at the Sands End Pottery (1888-1907). 3. Moorcroft flambé Fish pattern vase – £4400. Painted with bands of peacocks, 4. Gus Crystal Works vase – £4000. 5 wyverns, dolphins and birds, it had 5. Mettlach blacksmith’s stein – £2400. an original paper label to the lid for Morris and Company. It sold on the lower £8000 estimate. A 17in (37cm) tall Della Robbia c.1930 (26.5cm) tall flambé Fish vase. went back to France just above top The sale included 70 mustard handled albarello-form vase went to a It bore an underglaze blue signature, estimate at £5500. pots, the third and last tranche of UK buyer at a mid-estimate £3400. an impressed facsimile mark and had A more unusual entry was an the Shennan collection to be offered Designed by William Warwick, an HM Queen Mary sticker. It sold at a Imperial Russian cameo vase made at Evesham. Two were by Arts & c.1895, it was sgraffito decorated with mid-estimate £4400. in the Art Nouveau style by the Gus Crafts pioneer Charles Robert a tree above a band reading Liverpool, Another single-owner ceramics Crystal Works, Moscow, c.1900. Ashbee (1863-1942) for the Guild of and to the reverse with a floral collection comprised around 70 The 6in (15cm) trumpet vase Handicrafts. roundel with a similar cartouche late-19th and early-20th century carved to the brown päte-de-verre One, dated 1903, was formed labelled Zafarano. Mettlach steins by Villeroy & Boch. body with a lakeside scene was signed as a planished spherical bowl The market for these is typically in in Cyrillic for Yuri Stepanovich surmounted by a carnelian cabochon Martinware gourd North America, where specialist Nechayev-Maltsov (1834-1913), and supported on a slender stem. It A Martinware stoneware gourd, sales are held. Topping the collection factory owner from 1894. Estimated sold with its spoon just below top dated 1900, was by brothers Walter was a c.1901 half-litre stein decorated at £400-600, it went to an east hopes at £2400. The other, dated and Edwin. with blacksmith’s tools and emblems European bidder at £4000. 1901, was designed as a 2½in (6.5cm) Standing 11in (27cm) tall, the and a band of verse. Against a £40- tall tankard with a green cabochon relief-moulded lobed hexagonal 60 estimate, it sold to an American Dresser toast rack finial to the domed lid and wirework section was sgraffito decorated with buyer at £2400. Christopher Dresser created a number handle. Against a £1200-1800 jellyfish and sea creatures. It sold a A small glass section also brought of designs for toast racks. Among the estimate it, too, made £2400. shade below estimate at £3400. overseas bidding to the fore. best is a plated six-division triple- Staying faithful to the Arts & A single collection of 27 top- Lalique led the way with the arched example, model 67, made in Crafts style long after the dawn quality Moorcroft pieces totalled familiar but much coveted frosted c.1881 for James Dixon and Son. of Deco, Omar Ramsden was more than £40,000 – a healthy result and moulded car mascot Victoire, The example at Kingham & Orme, represented by a planished, conical for a largish batch coming onto a designed c.1928. The 10in (26cm) 6½in (16.5cm) long, bore stamped hexagonal bowl on six hoof feet. crowded, and relatively quiet, market. long female head with stylised hair marks and a facsimile signature, Dated London 1934, the 5in (12cm) Pieces ranged in date from the streaming in the wind, numbered and sold to a collector just shy of top diameter bowl went on the lower 1900s-60s but the top-seller was a 1147 and marked R Lalique France, estimate at £4800. estimate of £800.
Lizzie: the biggest and best Hornby loco Appearing in 1937, a couple of years after the locomotive itself was launched, the LMS Princess Elizabeth was the biggest and best locomotive that Hornby ever made, writes Roland Arkell. Costing over £5 (financing was available), the flagship of the Hornby electric range proved the swan song for 0 gauge with the company’s emphasis then switching to Hornby Dublo from 1938. Examples of the ‘Lizzie’ in her satin-finished lined maroon livery are still among the most coveted of all Hornby models today. This example left, offered as part of the online sale held by Lewes toy specialist auction house Wallis & Wallis (22% buyer’s premium) on April 6, had been professionally restored (the signature of the restorer appeared to the chassis under smoke box). Offered in its original wooden display box with inner information card, it was pitched at £600-800 but sold at £1200 to a buyer on thesaleroom.com.
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PAGE 010-12 2440.indd 3 24/04/2020 10:01:43 The East Anglian Art Sale Fine Art Auctioneers Live Online Auction Tuesday 12th May at 10.30am Forthcoming Spring sale of Online-Only Auctions East Anglian paintings, watercolours and prints 29th April Wines, Ports & Whiskies 30th April Pictures
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PAGE 013 2440.indd 1 24/04/2020 18:04:02 Auction Reports Art market
Sotheby’s teams up with Valls The London auction house holds its first online-only sale dedicated to a single dealer
by Alex Capon
With online sales becoming the new normal for auction houses and with the trade facing the obvious difficulties of selling from galleries during a lockdown, it might not seem surprising that Sotheby’s should hold its first internet-only sale of Old Masters devoted to a single dealer during this time. However, the auction of 100 works from London dealer Rafael Valls was arranged, catalogued and promoted well in advance of the coronavirus crisis. When it was announced in early March, it was made clear that the motivation behind the sale for both dealer and auctioneer was about reaching new buyers – using the ever- developing digital platforms in this Above left: a portrait of a gentleman standing beside a framed portrait of a lady most traditional of sectors. which was catalogued as ‘Italo-Flemish school, 17th century’ at Sotheby’s online sale For Sotheby’s, it was “a unique of 100 works from the Rafael Valls gallery. It led the auction at £220,000. opportunity” to offer “high-quality works chosen over the course of Above right: A moonlit view over the bay of Naples, with the eruption of Vesuvius on 22 an entire career by one of the most February 1822 by C John M Whichelo – £55,000. esteemed Old Masters dealers in Europe”. Auction houses For the gallery, it was a chance “currently havc to present a select group of works considerably better that ran from April 1-8. While posted an impressive 14 artists’ “reflecting Rafael Valls’ taste and resources and online holding the physical viewing was not records. Each lot attracted an average eclecticism to a wider audience”. possible, detailed condition reports of 16 bids with participants coming Sotheby’s has been holding online platforms than dealers were available on every lot page and from 29 countries. Old Masters sales since in 2017 and do, especially in the each entry had a link to a shipping Toby Campbell from the Raphael has noticed these offerings tend to Old Master arena – calculator tool. Valls dealership told ATG: “The attract a higher proportion of new Sotheby’s help was By the time the auction closed, results were certainly very pleasing clients than traditional live auctions. 98 of the 100 lots had been sold for a and very gratifying too. We would The Valls sale was no different, invaluable premium-inclusive £1.6m – well above certainly consider doing it again with 30% of bidders being new to the pre-sale estimate of £405,100- but we are wary of overstepping the Sotheby’s, with a similar proportion 583,700 (based on hammer prices). mark and flooding everyone with too of works selling to first-time buyers. Sotheby’s said the buyers were almost many sales. The sale itself was a timed auction all private collectors. The sale also “The mutual respect that dealers and auction houses hold for one another was a natural route for us to take. Auction houses currently have Attracting nearly 40 bids at Sotheby’s/Rafael Valls sale, considerably better resources and A stroll under the cherry blossom, Kyoto by Spanish artist online platforms than dealers do, Pedro Ribera (1867-1932) was one of a small number of especially in the Old Master arena. 20th century works at the auction. Their help was invaluable in helping The Madrid-born artist, who later settled in Paris to make the sale a success.” where he trained under Léon Bonnat and Albert Maignan, Both Campbell and Sotheby’s head travelled widely from 1900-30, visiting South America, of Old Master paintings Andrew north Africa and the Far East. This diminutive but Fletcher believed the results showed evocative work captured the blooming cherry blossom in how demand for Old Masters was Kyoto, known to flower only for a short period in the spring holding up during the lockdown. and therefore often symbolising the transience of life in The former, though, also pointed Japanese art. out that, with the bulk of the works The 6¼ x 9½in (16 x 24cm) signed oil on pine panel was fetching under £25,000, it showed pitched at an attractive £1500-2000. It eventually sold at Above: A stroll under the cherry blossom, Kyoto by Pedro Ribera – the “amazing value” even for good £14,000. £14,000 at the Rafael Valls/Sotheby’s sale. examples of 17th century painting. There was even a sense that the 14 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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Right: Dutch School portrait of a girl from c.1640 – £65,000 at the Rafael Valls/ Sotheby’s sale. Far right: Dutch School portrait of a young boy holding a baton and a hobby horse from c.1630 – £24,000.
The Dutch kids are all right
Unlike in other parts of Europe where portraits of children in their finest garb, demonstrating their status, on oak panel but the figure was en silhouette (meaning children were a rare phenomenon, the Dutch Republic parental pride and sense of fashion. it was painted on a panel with the edges following the experienced a rapid increase in this genre of painting The 3ft 6in x 4ft (1.06 x 1.21m) oil on panel had been outline of the figure). between 1500-1700. purchased in May 2018 at an auction in Rotterdam but, This technique sometimes known as a ‘dummy board’ Two Dutch school portraits of children turned a few having since had its underlying quality revealed, here it or ‘silent companion’ was popular at this time. Works heads at the Rafael Valls/Sotheby’s sale, continuing a run drew strong interest against a £8000-12,000 estimate were often displayed without a frame so the trompe l’œil of 17th century child portraits performing well against and sold at £65,000 to a private collector. style would fool viewers into thinking that the flat panel estimates over the past two years. Also drawing bidding against the same estimate was a real figure. One was a portrait of a young girl next to a draped but by a different hand was a portrait of a young boy Andrew Fletcher of Sotheby’s said it was the first red curtain holding a fan in her proper right hand. Dating depicted full-length and holding a baton and a hobby example he could remember of such a work on the from c.1640, it was a vintage example of the kind of horse. London market. works commissioned by wealthy families to show their This picture was a 3ft 2in x 2ft 1in (95 x 63cm) oil It sold at £24,000 to a private collector.
sale found greater appetite from designed to resemble a 17th century x 91cm) oil on canvas was fairly good Whichelo record buyers starved of other purchasing Dutch interior. and original, although it had an Among the record prices set at the opportunities at the moment. understandable amount of wear and sale was one for British painter “Online sales in general seem to Elusive Cesare restoration for a work of its age. C John M Whichelo (1784-1865). have gained a major boost because The top lot of the Valls/Sotheby’s Although the folded letter next His depiction of Vesuvius erupting of the lockdown and may continue sale was an intriguing 17th century to gloves on the table probably once in 1822 sparked 36 online bids which to grow now that people have got to portrait of a man standing beside a identified the sitter and perhaps the carried it well over the £6000- grips with how easy it is to sit at home framed portrait of a lady. Effectively painter too (the name ‘Cesare’ is 8000 estimate. and bid,” said Campbell. a double portrait, it was catalogued legible but the rest of the inscription The 2ft 1in x 2ft 6in (63 x 76cm) “However, this may be to the as ‘Italo-Flemish school’ as it was tantalisingly indistinct), an oil on canvas was an unusual work detriment of bidding in person in the appeared to combine both Flemish attribution proved elusive. for the artist who was better known saleroom which has the atmosphere and Italian elements. The fact that artist, sitter and as a topographical painter and of the room to carry the sale to The type of frame depicted for the subject remained a mystery – was it watercolourist. He was also a marine higher heights.” lady’s portrait, for instance, called a a betrothal painting or an allusion to specialist and for a few years held the The works on offer dated from cassetta, originated in Tuscany in the the man’s wife having passed away? – appointment of marine painter to the 16th to the 20th centuries and 15th century but later became very appears to have given it an enigmatic King George III. were amassed over Valls’ long popular throughout northern Europe. quality that ignited interest. Fletcher Works by Whichelo do not appear career in the business. They were However, at least one fellow Old said: “It was simply a very chic and on the market very often in any case selected to show both the eclectic Master dealer felt the painting was somewhat moving image in tune with and seldom with such a Romantic spread across the gallery’s stock more Flemish with less significant today’s taste.” subject and painterly effects, and also to represent some of the Italian influence and, although Estimated at £8000-12,000, it although the precise details of the areas that it is best known for, such the catalogue suggested that it was attracted no fewer than 56 bids and port were more in keeping with as trompe l’oeil painting. reminiscent of paintings by Frans finally sold to a private collector at other known works. Valls himself has spent nearly four Pourbus, the Antwerp-born artist was £220,000. It was the highest price The good condition of the picture decades as a dealer and his St James’s never a name entertained by Valls. for an Old Master painting sold by added to its rarity in enhancing its gallery, which he owns and runs The gallery had bought it at Sotheby’s in an online sale. commercial appeal and it eventually with his wife Caroline, specialises in Sotheby’s New York in June 2013 Did the huge price suggest that sold at £55,000 to a private collector. Dutch, Flemish and Spanish works. for a premium-inclusive $56,250 bidders had an artist’s name in That price eclipsed the £52,000 The gallery’s stand at the annual (£36,235) and had it cleaned. mind? Perhaps, although Campbell for a pastel portrait of Admiral Lord TEFAF Maastricht is often a keen The picture revealed was a finely said: “If someone thinks they have Nelson sold at Sotheby’s in July topic of conversation at the fair, executed work and the underlying a better idea than us, then all credit 2013 in terms of the highest sums at such as when it was inventively condition of the 3ft 5in x 3ft (1.04m to them.” auction for the artist. n antiquestradegazette.com 2 May 2020 | 15
PAGE 014-15 2440.indd 2 23/04/2020 17:18:14 Send your books news to Ian McKay at Auction Reports [email protected] Books and works on paper Danger risk from grave errors Essay warns about considerable perils of the ‘indecent custom’ of burials in churchyards
by Ian McKay Left: the title-page of Thomas Lewis’ warning about perils associated with churchyard burials, sold for £420 by An essay by Thomas Lewis on Bearnes Hampton Littlewood. the public health risks involved in Right: could this hand-coloured alphabet churchyard burials realised £420 in sheet have been intended for use as a a March 18 sale of books, maps and jigsaw puzzle, asked the cataloguer. The prints held by Bearnes Hampton publisher, E Wallis, is often credited with Littlewood (23% buyer’s premium). the invention of such things, but whether The writer’s argument, as stated that holds true in this case is another on the title-page of a 1721 work called matter. It sold at £240 in the Exeter sale. Seasonable Considerations on the Indecent and Dangerous Custom of Burying in Churches and Church-Yards..., was that “...the Custom is not only contrary to Containing a full complement illustrations also featured on the a signed 1972 first of Watership Down the Practice of the Antients, but fatal, of 2592 hand-coloured plates, a front cover of each volume. made £620 online. Also included in the Case of INFECTION”. 36-volume set of Sowerby’s English Showing something of a lean to the were two letters exchanged by the Botany... of 1790-1814, uncut in text block, but complete with jacket, writer and the consignor. n Hunting and botany cloth-backed, pink paper covered Another writer with a point to boards with morocco labels, sold on make, albeit this time anonymously, thesaleroom.com at £1800. A few of British and Irish book auctions (all online only) published Hunting Vindicated from the bindings showed some defects. Cruelty, in a letter to the Monthly Though the drop-sided carrying Apr 28 4 32 lots Books, Claydon Auctioneers - Middle Claydon 01296 714434 Reviewers in 1782. Perhaps to make box was in need of some restoration, Apr 28 4 Comic & Book Sections, Unique Auctions - Lincoln 01522 690444 even more certain that the work’s a 10-volume set of the works of Jane Apr 29 4 32 lots Books & Ephemera, Richard Winterton - Lichfield 01543 251081 true origins should not be discovered, Austen was in fine condition and Apr 29 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 170 1314 the writer had this slim work issued sold at £520. Published in 1898 by Apr 29 4 30 lots Books & Ephemera, James & Sons - Fakenham 01328 855003 with a Spitzbergen imprint. It sold Dent, the books were illustrated Apr 29 4 260-lot Literature Section: Rugby & Football Sale, Mullock’s - Church Stretton 01694 771771 online for £380. by HM Brock, one of whose Apr 30 4 Modern & Children’s Literature, P/Press & Original Illustrations, Forum - London 020 7871 2640 Apr 30 4 Books Sale for Michael Sobell Hospice Charity, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 170 1314 Apr 30 4 14-lot Book Section: Sports Sale, Greenslade Taylor Hunt - Taunton 01823 332525 Magazines are artworks themselves May 1 4 20-lot Book Section, Greenslade Taylor Hunt - Taunton 01823 332525 May 1 4 5 lots Books, Spicers - Driffield 01377 593593 The three magazines shown here May 2 4 10-lot Literature Section: Rock & Retro Sale, Stacey’s - Rayleigh 01268 777122 were all produced by students of ends May 4 4 7-lot Book Section, Criterion - London 020 7359 5707 the Royal College of Art in the years ends May 5 4 84-lot Book, Map & Ephemera Sections, Southgate Auctions - London 020 8886 7888 1925-27 and sold online for £1000 in a ends May 5 4 13-lot Book Section, Fonsie Mealy - Castlecomer +353 56 444 1229 March 18 sale at Mellors & Kirk (24% May 6 4 63-lot Book Section, Swan Fine Art - Tetsworth 01844 281777 buyer’s premium) of Nottingham. ends May 6 4 22 lots Comics & Books, Border Auctions - Hawick 01450 376170 On the left is the first and only May 6 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 170 1314 issue of The Gallimaufray, which May 7* 4 Books & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 contained hand-coloured illustrations and wood engravings by Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden and others. Then come the first (and only?) two issues of the college magazine Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com that succeeded it, The Mandrake and The Second Mandrake, which again feature Bawden’s work among the illustrations. The price realised was at the low estimate for these rare items – the last mentioned limited to a run of just 200 copies – but the Mandrakes were somewhat soiled and stained in now detached wrappers and stamped ‘discard’.
Grim album ‘Online Only’ Auction Calendar The photograph seen at bottom right Please see forumauctions.co.uk for our COVID-19 response is a group of Chinese men convicted of spying and awaiting “...execution Paolozzi Prints from a Private Collection Wednesday 29th April by Imperialists”. Dated to c.1911, Modern Literature, Children’s, Private Press Thursday 30th April that grim image is part of an album and Original Illustrations of close on 100 photographs, sold Books & Works on Paper Thursday 7th May at £5500 by Halls (20/12% buyer’s Editions & Works on Paper Tuesday 19th May premium) of Shrewsbury on March 18, that relate to a tumultuous period of Chinese history known in Books & Works on Paper Thursday 21st May European terms as the ‘Revolutionary Foreign Concessions Period’. A number of cities were divided into ‘concession territories’ and through an agreement with the Qing dynasty Forum Auctions, 220 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4LP rulers, Japan, the US, Britain and a number of other European powers administered Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected] different areas while fighting between Chinese loyalists and rebels was still going on. 16 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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On April 29 Forum Auctions holds a sale of 50 prints by The auction calendar has been much changed by Covid-19 restrictions. However, as Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) from a private collection. indicated by these lots offered for sale in May, some UK auction houses continue This 1964 screen print titled Plaza 1964 (Miles 21), to transact behind closed doors holding timed or ‘live online-only’ sales with an artist’s proof aside from the edition of 10 printed by bids taken via bidding platforms such as thesaleroom.com or over the phone. Kelpra Studios, London, measures 21 x 16in (53 x 45cm). Typically purchases can either be collected safely and couriered, or stored by the Estimate £200-300. auctioneers until the current government guidance is lifted. Some of the events forumauctions.co.uk* below have been rescheduled from earlier dates. Check antiquestradegazette.com/ calendar and thesaleroom.com for the latest updates.
A collection of pots by the Martin Brothers This Märklin Loreley offered by Swan Fine Art in Tetsworth on paddle steamer/river pleasure May 7 includes this small 3½in (9cm) vessel boat No 5066/75, c.1914, is estimated at incised and decorated with a grotesque fish. £7000-10,000 in the Young’s online timed auction Signed Martin Bros, London and Southall, ending on May 2. 1898, it is estimated at £400-700. It is catalogued as a working clockwork toy, in hand japanned tin, theswan.co.uk* and is about 2ft 6in (75cm) long. youngsauctions.co.uk
This pair of 18in (44cm) vases This rare first US issue of Elvis decorated with famille verte Presley’s debut single That’s All Right narrative scenes carry Kangxi issued on the Sun label in 1954 carries four-character marks but are not an estimate of £900-1000 at Stacey’s deemed of the period. in Rayleigh, Essex, on May 2. They come for sale at Ewbank’s By repute the 10in shellac (with a Asia art sale in Surrey on April deep groove through the outside edge 30 from a named English private of the label consistent with the first collection formed between US issue) came from the collection of ‘Cowboy’ Jack Clement who was a producer c.1968-85. working with Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in the 1950s. Estimate £400-600. staceyauction.com* ewbanksauctions.co.uk*
Lyon & Turnbull holds a sale of African & Oceanic Art, Antiquities and Natural History in Edinburgh on May 5. Among the top-estimated lots at £6000-9000 is this Apulo-Corinthian helmet from southern Italy, c.350-500BC. The hammered bronze helmet was previously part of the Axel Guttmann collection of ancient arms and armour sold This Qing export card case, probably by Sotheby’s in December 1985. made in the ivory-carving workshops Unlike the classic famous Greek Corinthian helmet, of 19th century Canton, comes in its which was won full-face when in combat, the Apulo- original card box. Corinthian variant was worn on the top of the head like a cap. At Greenslade Taylor Hunt in Taunton This is clear in this example, where the aperture for the eyes is on May 1 it has an estimate of £100-150. far too small to have been functional. gth.net* lyonandturnbull.com*
This 17th century gold posy ring is inscribed with the motto fortunate if favoured – a rare verse that does not appear in any of the known references. Recorded with the Portable This ticket to Antiquities Scheme, it has an estimate of Tomkins’ Lottery of £500-600 at Hansons’ Historica sale in the British Gallery Etwall, Derbyshire, on May 6-7 of Pictures has a hansonsauctioneers.co.uk* guide of £50-100 at Southgate Auction Rooms’ sale of ephemera in London in a timed sale beginning on May 5. The lottery of 16,500 tickets was launched in 1821 to allow the engraver Pietro William Tomkins to disperse of his collection of paintings, drawings and engravings, and the lease of his * BID LIVE AT thesaleroom.com New Bond Street premises, ‘by way of chance’. Place a max bid before the auction or bid southgateauctionrooms.com* live for these items on thesaleroom.com antiquestradegazette.com 2 May 2020 | 17
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Above: Barbara Brown, Frequency, screen-printed cotton, Above: Lucienne Day, Calyx (Blue), screen-printed linen, 1951, Above: Shirley Craven, Kaplan, 1961, for Hull Traders, 1969, for Heal Fabrics, £3000. for Heal Fabrics, £4000. £2500. Gallery sends textile messages Dealers come up with tech solutions to display an exhibition no visitors can now attend
in the 1930s, bringing personal art into people’s homes at a time by Frances Allitt experience with the European art of austerity. It was an explosion of world. Her interest in artists such as creativity.” Calyx (Blue), a 1951 textile by These are commercial Calder is suggested in her roller- Planned to run during what Lucienne Day (1917-2010), sprouts printed fabrics for David Whitehead turned out to be the full British artists who are also with Modernist forms. Its colourful, “ Shirley Craven (b.1934), another coronavirus lockdown, the show flower-like shapes hint at the fine artists in their RCA student, become chief designer is hung in the gallery, but remains mobiles of Alexander Calder or the own right and director of the firm Hull empty of visitors. The opening biomorphs of Joan Miro. Traders. Her works, such as Kaplan was staged over a Zoom call, with In the world of post-war Britain, (pictured above), were celebrated for ‘attendees’ enjoying a wine or drink it was common to have such designs particularly close ties between unconventional, large-scale patterns. of their choice – at home. enter the home – not as ‘fine’ artworks design and wider art movements. Barbara Brown (b.1932), a Though Gray says that it is but as textiles. These were created by Day’s famous Calyx (a darker contemporary of Craven, was dubbed disappointing to have visitors Day and other female designers, many but similar concept to Calyx Blue), ‘Heal’s Golden Girl’ for her popular barred from a physical show, it has of whom got their start at The Royal was produced by Heal Fabrics and and distinctive geometric designs encouraged all involved to think College of Art (RCA). presented at the 1951 Festival of Britain. which reflect the ‘look’ of the British laterally about how to enhance it. Material Textile: Modern British Though inspired by flowers, the forms 1960s. Among these is Frequency, a Interviews with the designers Female Designers at Messums on it are similar to the twisting forms favourite of the artist. Inspired by Op are available as podcasts from the Wiltshire, an online exhibition co- of Calder or Paul Klee. Art and geological formations, the Messums website. People may curated by Gray MCA, showcases Other designers featured here manufacturer Heal’s named it after ‘visit’ the exhibition courtesy of these designers and some of their demonstrate the breadth of interests the apparent radio-wave design. a tour conducted by drone, also award-winning works. involved in creating their textiles. Many of these women started their accessible online. There is also a The exhibition spans the For example, Austrian-born Marian careers by being more or less steered host of information, including a PDF 1950s-70s, when there were Mahler (1911-83) moved to Britain into textiles during their artistic catalogue, and an extensive plan for education. Working with applied art sharing the works via social media. such as fabrics was perceived as a The show follows a recent burst of safer and more feminine route than interest in textile collecting. becoming a painter or sculptor. As well as the show at Two Their talent was celebrated, Temple Place – Unbound: Visionary nonetheless. Manufacturers would Women Collecting Textiles (launched in attend their degree shows to snap January with many highlights now up choice designs. Today, many are visible online) – textiles received a enshrined in the V&A and other special showcase during The London museums. Ashley Gray of Gray MCA, Art Fair in January, where many co-curator of the show with Messums’ works found ready buyers. Hannah Hooks, says that today a “I very much hope that people are lively interest exists for the stories of getting more excited about textiles,” these women and their work. Gray says. “It’s been a specialist area “There’s a real excitement about up until now.” colour and atmosphere of these But fresh names, bright modern works and the history of the women compositions and affordable prices themselves and why they had to are likely to attract buyers in any battle so hard,” he says. “These are collecting field. n commercial artists who are also fine messumswiltshire.com Above: Jacqueline Groag, Traffic Light, 1953, for David Whitehead, priced £3750. artists in their own right, bringing graymca.com 18 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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Brighten up your home Specialist plays his cards right Dealer Timothy Millett, Left: a Georgian love token a specialist in engraved on a worn Georgian and support charity historical medals and copper coin, c.1790. Tokens associated works such as this are, says The last few weeks of lockdown may launched another scheme. of art, has launched Timothy Millett, “the art have left you wishing you could do The Libertson family, which a website to sell of the underclass, first more to fight coronavirus. Or they runs the business, has pledged a greeting cards based appearing in the mid 18th may have left you feeling like that matching gift of 25% of all sales on images of some of century. It was out of these blank stretch of wall in the living room until the end of May to raise a his favourite objects, that developed sailor’s could really do with brightening up. minimum of $25,000 to support writes Roland Arkell. farewells and valentines and For those who are feeling a bit of both Mount Sinai Health System’s Millett, a BADA member subsequently the convict tokens emotions, two major dealerships are research and clinical care for who was among the dealers that were a parting gift to their family holding selling campaigns with some patients with Covid-19. At the time standing at the aborted The Open Art Fair prior to transportation to Australia.” of the proceeds going to charity. of writing the gallery had raised in Chelsea in March, has chosen more more than $15,000. than 100 items deemed suitable for a Richard Green “We’re not thriving but we’re quirky card – many of them photographed on the object depicted. “What is on the Mayfair art dealership Richard certainly surviving and since we are, for a book, Tokens of Love, Loss and new site [launched in early April] is really a Green Gallery has launched a charity we wanted to look at what we can Disrespect 1700-1850, scheduled for combination of stock items, favourites from exhibition: Art for Heroes. do,” David Libertson told ATG. “Art is publication in the autumn. my archive and the engraved coins from my The business is backing the Royal not an essential service, but it has The images range from typical sailors’ personal collection,” Millett told ATG. “I try to Brompton & Harefield Hospitals’ charity the power to brighten everybody’s farewells to defaced coins poking fun at the put a paragraph or so about many of them Supporting the Frontline, an effort lives in times of darkness.” royal family. Many were made as keepsakes to give them extra appeal. The process has launched by two local private members’ The Ronin Gallery specialises in and have obvious appeal to those searching been quite enjoyable and, as we are now all clubs, 5 Hertford Street and Oswald’s. Japanese woodblock prints of the for a more unusual expression of affection. in lockdown, I am hoping that the idea of the The effort provides food boxes for 17th-21st centuries. The idea was sparked while a chapter on written word will hit the spot.” hospital staff and their families during roningallery.com love and romance in the 18th century was Most cards are priced at £3 each, the coronavirus alert. giving.mountsinai.org being written for the forthcoming book. including postage and packing. To enhance the initiative, the gallery Each card comes with information tcmcards.com is offering 25 modern and historic paintings at discounted rates – mostly Call for nominations… at or below cost price – with 15% of the In May and June, Alexander George purchase price going to Supplying the Fine Antique Furniture is planning Frontline. It is also absorbing the 4% to donate 15% of its online proceeds ARR charge. to Covid-19 charities. richardgreen.com It is currently asking for 2covet connects rbhcharity.org nominations of charities that have been affected. Those wishing to accredited Ronin Gallery submit the name of a charity should Meanwhile, over in New York City, which visit the dealership’s website where dealers is at the heart of the US pandemic, there is a form to fill out. the owners of the Ronin Gallery have alexandergeorgeantiques.com to discerning buyers worldwide 2covet.com
WHITFORD FINEART POST-WAR BRITISH ABSTRACTION
Above left: Wynford Dewhurst’s oil on canvas Blossom time, Valley of La Sédelle is offered for £35,000 at Richard Green. Above right: Utamaro’s woodblock print Courtesan Hisui from Ogiya, c.1798, Until 8th May 2020 view works in link in bio on woodblock print, is priced $25,000 by Ronin Gallery. William Gear, Black Form, 1956 @whitfordfineart
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Goodman Fine Art Measuring 2ft 4in x 3ft 4in (73cm x 1.02m) this 2015 Bridget Riley screenprint on paper, Bagatelle 2, is from an edition of 75. It is offered for £14,000 by Goodman, a specialist in Modern British art.
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Roy Precious Antiques and Fine Art Reepham Antiques Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn (c.1572-1657), who painted As well as an antique furniture restoration this anonymous sitter in 1631, was a portraitist in The business, Graham Butler and Nigel Castell run Hague in the first half of the 17th century. Reepham Antiques of Norfolk. They offer this Offered for £25,000, the oil on panel measures mid-18th century George III giltwood pier mirror, 2ft 10in x 2ft 7in (87 x 80cm) including its frame and 5ft 9in (1.75m) high, in the manner of Thomas has a provenance back to Alfred Morrison (1821-87) of Chippendale, for £65,000. Fonthill House in Wiltshire.
reephamantiques.co.uk royprecious.co.uk
Cloverleaf Home Interiors This German folk art Noah’s Ark, Mostly Maps c.1880, contains around 270 This 22 x 17in (56 x 43cm) copper engraved map of Greece and its animals, including moles and surrounds with original hand-colouring is offered for £380. It is taken grasshoppers and some unusual from a 1584 edition of Abraham Ortelius’ (1527-98) Thetrum Orbis birds such as ibis and peacocks. Terrarum, specifically the Additamentum first published in 1579. It is available for £2200. The dealership’s offerings mostlymaps.com can be found in several online locations including eBay, Selling Antique and Antiques Atlas.
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Ashton Rare Books Written and illustrated by William Nicholson (1872-1949), this copy of Clever Bill, offered for £2500, is a first UK edition published by William Heinemann in 1926. The children’s book tells the story of a toy soldier left behind when a girl leaves in a hurry to visit her aunt.
ashtonrarebooks.com
Spinka This Art Nouveau Hansord mahogany and In March, Hansord moved into its marquetry hall new showroom, a 17th century cabinet, c.1900, farmhouse six miles from Lincoln, features on Spinka & but with the lockdown a public Co’s Selling Antiques opening is now on hold. page. It measures 7ft However, all new stock is visible 3in (2.21m) tall and on its website including this 4ft is offered in original (1.22m) wide George III mahogany condition for £3950. kneehole desk, priced at £3450.
sellingantiques.co.uk hansord.com
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Kaye Michie Fine Art Julian with a Crow, a watercolour and gouache by Mary Fedden (1915-2012) dated 1990, is offered for £5200. The McEwan Gallery David Levi Antiques The McEwan Gallery in Scotland offers kayemichie.co.uk A male and female Jack Russell terrier are this double-royal size poster by Lance each depicted with a different broom in this Cattermole for British Railways, c.1953. pair of naïve portraits painted in England, Subtitled Royal Highland Gathering, Braemar, c.1830, and offered for £2200. the 4ft x 2ft 11in (1.24m x 89cm) linen- backed poster is available for £1800. davidleviantiques.com
mcewangallery.com Carina Haslam Gallery The title of this oil on board by contemporary artist Emma Franc is Still Beautiful, which refers to the drying flowers in the vase. The 2ft (60cm) square oil on board is offered for £600 unframed (or with a white tray frame for an extra £85).
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J Roger Antiques This mahogany George III Sheraton period revolving drum table retains its original leather Stephen Ferder Antiques top and is offered for a price in This late-19th century French armchair in Louis XVI the region of £3450.
style is offered with original decoration for £585. jrogerantiques.com
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Sotheran’s This three-volume special edition of Ernest Holmes Antiques Shackleton’s The British Antarctic Expedition of This 5ft 5in (1.65m) tall Charles II olive oyster- 1907-1909, priced at £37,950, was published by William veneered and floral marquetry cabinet on stand Heinemann in 1909. The set, from the library of the c.1665-80 is offered for £45,000. Similar to an polar explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, is number 4 of example at Ham House, it is thought to be by the 300 deluxe sets and is signed by the entire shore party same ‘cabinetmaker to the royal household’ Gerrit and bound in vellum in a large quarto format. Jensen (active 1680-d.1715).
sotherans.co.uk holmesantiques.co.uk
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Nicholas S Pitcher Oriental Art This 15½in (40cm) Tang dynasty painted red pottery ‘fat lady’ figure is, unusually, modelled holding a young child. It comes with an Oxford thermoluminescence test certificate confirming an 8th century date and is priced at £6500.
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Driffold Gallery Robert Eagle Fine Art This oil on panel by Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902) This oil on canvas, Sangria, 3ft (91cm) square, is one of apparently includes a view of the artist’s house and the several works by Scottish artist John Bellany (1942- village at Harbledown near Canterbury perched on the 2013) that Robert Eagle offers fresh to the market. The hill beyond. It is dated 1882 and is offered in its original collection was gifted by the artist to a close relative, on frame from a Midlands family collection for £8000. whose behalf the dealer offers this work for £6000.
driffoldgallery.com roberteaglefineart.com
Sokol Books Published in Paris in 1522, this is an early edition of Bernard von Breydenbach’s account of the Holy Land, considered the first illustrated travel book. Breydenbach set out on the Gwen Hughes Fine Art hazardous journey in 1482 with a party that included the Dark Day on the Embankment (1909) by American artist artist known only as Berwick. His works, based on first-hand Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) was probably composed observation, form the basis for some of the illustrations from the window of his London studio. Signed and in the present work, though others are culled from earlier inscribed, the aquatint is believed to be from an edition printed texts. The book is offered for £37,500. of 40 and is offered framed for £2200.
sokol.co.uk gwenhughesart.co.uk
Hignell Gallery Sophie Ryder’s contemporary sculpture Crawling (1999) from the Lady-Hare series was exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) and is now at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. The monumental bronze, from an edition of six, is available from London’s Hignell Gallery for £410,000 plus VAT. A Reindeer Antiques bronze maquette of the This George III Sheraton period oval box veneered in harewood, figure, from an edition of blackthorn and boxwood is offered for a price of £1000-1500. The nine, is also available for original working lock opens to reveal a plain interior covered in £23,000 plus VAT. sugar paper. hignellgallery.com reindeerantiques.co.uk
Courtesy the artist and Hignell Gallery, © David Sandison
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Thompson’s Galleries An exhibition on the New English Art Club is accessible remotely from the Thompson’s Aldeburgh Robert Schreuder Antiquair gallery. The catalogue includes works by Fred Cuming and Peter Brown, whose painting Incoming This pair of French bronzes c.1830-40 is based on two of the main characters Tide, Wells Next the Sea is offered for £3250. Thompson’s Monochrome exhibition, organised for – Romulus and Titus Tatius – in Jacques-Louis David’s painting The its London premises, is also visible on its website. Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799). They are offered together on bases of rouge griotte marble for €11,500. thompsonsgallery.co.uk robertschreuder.com
Wilsons Antiques Johnstone and Jeanes of New Bond Street Matthew Holder – famous for their patented radially expanding Probably made in southern Germany dining tables – made a range of other pieces during the second half of the 17th including this c.1860 century mahogany writing century, this limewood frame measures table, offered with replaced leather for £1975. 4ft x 3ft 4in (1.23 x 1.01m). It features
much of its original polychrome and wilsonsantiques.com gilding with some retouching and restorations to the carving. It is priced at £5650. Rossi & Rossi
matthewholderwoa.com Specialist in classical and contemporary Asian art, Rossi & Rossi offers this 13th century bronze of Ganesh from Tamil Nadu, southern India, for €425,000. The work, which measures 17in (43cm) tall, has a provenance back to the collection of Jay C Leff who acquired it prior to 1959.
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Beaux Books This copy of Brassaï’s influential Modernist Ruth Hudson Antiques photobook Paris De Nuit, published in 1933, Showing Cherry Gardens in Rotherhithe, this etching by William Wyllie (1851-1931) is is offered for £1950. With his camera Brassaï priced at £1650 on Antiques Atlas. In Stuart times Rotherhithe was famous for the (1899-1984) documented the workers, chorus Cherry Gardens, a recreational area where Londoners went to relax. Samuel Pepys girls, criminals, lovers, tourists and drunkards of records visiting to buy cherries for his wife. While the gardens are now gone, cherry the Parisian streets. trees have been replanted recently on the site.
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PAGE 022-23 2440.indd 2 24/04/2020 11:49:46 , AUCTION &Coll ArtSaturday, 16th May, 10.00amect Viewing from Monday, 11th, till Thursday, 14th May 2020, 10.00am - 6.30pm Collection of Meissen porcelain 18/19th century, H=8,5 to 32,5 cm
Bernhard v. Guérard (1770-1836), Pierre Adolphe Hall (1739-1793), gouache/ivory, gouache/ivory, 7 x 5,8 cm
D=6,4 cm metz-auktion.de
H=64 cm
H=35,8 cm Order of the Ministry of War with the signature of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1792, 32,5 x 24 cm
J. P. Ferdinand Preiss (1882-1943), A. Gory (act. 1895-1925), bronze/ivory on marble base School of Fontainebleau 16th century, Carrara marble oil/panel, framed, 34 x 25,5 cm
Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886), signed twice, bronze, H=18,5 cm
Collection of ca. 150 bottles of French and Italian red wine, Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1967-79, Carruades de Lafite 2002 Mihály von Zichy (1827-1906), watercolour, sign./dat. 1856, D=21 cm Collection of porcelain 18/19th century, Höchst, Frankenthal, Ludwigsburg, Paris, Passau, Sèvres and Vienna, H=5 to 35 cm
Samuel Cooper (1609-1672) attrib., Miniaturist 18th century, gouache/ivory, 6,8 x 5,5 cm gouache/ivory, 3,8 x 3,2 cm Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 3-5 • D 69117 Heidelberg • Tel. 0049 6221 23571 • Fax 0049 6221 183231 • Email: [email protected]
PAGE 024 2440.indd 2 24/04/2020 12:15:53 Burma 20th century, H=85 cm
South-India 19th century, Ganesha, bronze, H=108,5 cm
China 20th century, basket, H=67 cm
Burma 20th century, wood, H=171 cm
South-India ca. 1900, doorframe 243 x 160 cm and double wing door 176 x 48 resp. 52 cm, oak and walnut carved
China, bronze, H=39 cm
China Ming Dynasty, bronze, Lü Zuogeng (born 1963), oil on canvas, signed and dated (19)98 and (19)96, Liu Sun Fa (born 1946), bronze, H=20 cm 115 x 95,5 cm 121 x 91 cm H=64 cm
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Qwerty minded: typewriters tempt bidders in German sale Specialist auction house sells early versions hailing from the US
by Roland Arkell
£1 = €1.13 The Sholes & Glidden was not the world’s first typewriter, but it was the first successful commercial example. Principally the work of US inventor Christopher Lathan Sholes, it was developed with the assistance of fellow printer Samuel Soule and amateur mechanic Carlos Glidden. The New York firm Remington, an arms manufacturer seeking to diversify, acquired the patent in early 1873 and put it into production the following year. The machine incorporates elements which became fundamental to typewriter design, including a cylindrical platen (roller) and the four-rowed Qwerty keyboard that remains the norm today. Visually it owes much to sewing Above left: Jackson Type I typewriter machines of the period, including a – €18,000 (£15,850) at Auction Team Breker. japanned case with floral and portrait Above right: Sholes & Glidden typewriter vignettes and a cast-iron stand with a – €29,000 (£25,520). treadle to operate the carriage return. The first model had its flaws (it Left: Cash Typograph – €26,000 (£22,850). could print only upper-case letters) and was very expensive at $125 but these issues were remedied in its later and cheaper successors. More Joseph Hassel Jackson’s than 5000 Sholes & Glidden or Typewriter Company of Boston, Remington No 1 typewriters were Massachusetts, advertised its first sold, with over 1000 units made in ‘time and labour saving’ product in 1874 alone. August 1899. in greater numbers than some of the The Jackson Type I designed by Office milestone other rarities offered in the Breker factory foreman Andrew Wilton An example of the Remington No 1, sale of Office Antiques. Steiger (1856-1935) was promoted as described by Cologne technology One of the rarest of all typewriters the ‘fastest machine in the world’ and specialist auction house Auction is the Cash Typograph made by The priced at $100. Team Breker (21.8% buyer’s Typograph Company of Hartford, The curious ‘grasshopper-action’ is premium) as ‘a milestone in the Connecticut, in 1888. described by Darryl Rehr in Antique history of the office equipment It has a full-sized paper flat platen Typewriters and Office Collectibles industry’, had the serial number that moves left-to-right and back- (1997): “Each type-bar resembles A901, dating it to 1873. and-forth. The four-row keyboard has an elongated pantograph, with the A similar fully restored model capitals only. The patent relating to scissors action accomplishing the with its stand had sold for €35,000 the machine was filed by Arthur Wise mechanical gymnastics [that causes in October. This one (minus a The Sholes & Glidden Cash in April 1886 and a full-page each bar to] do a somersault on its ribbon, missing one typebar guide) advertisement for the Typograph way to the platen…” did almost as well. It made €29,000 “typewriter was not appeared in the 1891 edition of Geers’ The example at Breker, bearing (£25,500) against an estimate of the world’s first Business Directory for Hartford. the maker’s plaque reading Patented €15,000-25,000 on April 4, in an typewriter, but it was Only a handful are known and Jackson Typewriter, Boston, Mass with auction held on online marketplaces some of the world’s best collections the serial no 597, was one of only including thesaleroom.com and the first successful are missing one. The example offered a few units produced (the Type II lot-tissimo.com commercial example at Breker, missing a few keytops but made c.1903 has a different typebar The Sholes & Glidden typewriter otherwise in good condition, was arrangement and keyboard layout). is hugely desirable on account of its pitched at €15,000-25,000 and took Estimated at €10,000-15,000, it historical importance, but it survives €26,000 (£22,850). took €18,000 (£15,850). n 26 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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Raise a tankard to online sales
Above: Liberty & Co pewter bowl on offer in Treadway Gallery’s May 3 auction with an estimate of $500-700. Left: cameo glass perfume bottle estimated at $15,000-25,000.
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Bonhams Australia is holding its first auction behind closed doors in Treadway Gallery’s Spring Sale of decorative arts will be held in Cincinnati on May 3 using phone, Sydney on May 13 with bidding online and by phone. internet and absentee bidding but with no public attendance. The select 73 lots will focus on Asian art, notably Chinese silver, One of the potential highlights is a little 3¼in (8cm) high cameo glass perfume bottle which is ceramics and jades including items from the Grice collection. finely carved to both sides with rural landscapes set within cartouches. This Chinese export silver tankard and cup is one of the Grice In the auction house’s opinion, the detailed and delicate execution of this decoration make collection highlights. These were made by the firm of Wang Hing in it attributable to the master glass artist George Woodall (1850-1925), who worked for the West the late 19th century. Midlands glass manufacturing firm of Thomas Webb & Sons. The 4¾in (12cm) high, 275gm dragon-handled tankard is The bottle has a provenance to a New York collection and is estimated at $15,000-25,000. elaborately decorated with urban scenes of street vendors and This wide-ranging sale also includes a selection of English Arts & Crafts items. Among the many messengers on horses and travellers among pavilions and pine trees. examples of metalware featured is a 13½in (34cm) wide Liberty & Co Tudric pewter bowl designed It is stamped with an extra Chinese mark, reading sheng-ch’ang, by Archibald Knox and decorated with a characteristic Celtic-style motif. which is often used to identify the maker within the company. The bowl, which has a provenance to a New England collection, has an estimate of $500-700. The estimate is Aus$1200-1800. treadwaygallery.com bonhams.com
Ocean liner and trolley buses from tin toy collection Bertoia Auctions’ large spring sale of antique toys, trains and banks in Vineland, New Jersey, takes place on May 7-8. It includes several named collections and one of the star attractions will be the Above: this hand-painted live steam- European tin toy collection of Atlantique City promoter the late Norman Schaut. powered Mӓrklin ocean liner Amerika is Left: the blue and white procelain Atlantique City was an antique toy estimated at $30,000-50,000 at Bertoia. bottle vase, with mark above, for sale at fair running in Atlantic City, NJ, from Hotlotz in a timed auction running until Below: this Lionel City Hall Park electric 1986-2009. May 3, estimated at Sin$1000-2000. powered trolley and trailer in the rare 2 7/8in Schaut’s primary interest was early gauge, a scarce pair each measuring 15in trains, trolley buses or trams, of which he (38cm), is guided at $8000-12,000 (both of sometimes acquired multiple examples, these lots are from the Schaut collection). but he also collected automotive and nautical toys. Five-clawed dragons, crashing waves The Bertoia sale includes a highly detailed 2ft 4in (71cm) twin-funnel The timed sale of Oriental ceramics and works of art to be held by Hotlotz Mӓrklin live-steam ocean liner, Amerika, Singapore running until May 3 features a selection of items from the estimated at $30,000-50,000, as well as descendants of Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke, GCMG, KCVO, KBE, KStJ, who several paddle boats. was governor-general of Ceylon from 1954-62. In compliance with government They include this blue and white pear-shaped porcelain bottle vase regulations there will not be live bidding decorated with a design of five-clawed dragons on a crashing wave ground. at the gallery, but all forms of remote The 15in (39cm) high vase, which has a six-character Yongzheng mark bidding will be available, including within a double circle to the base, was presented to Sir Oliver by Zhou Enlai, absentee, phone, and online. The auction the first premier of The People’s Republic of China on the occasion of his first house have also filmed a virtual 3-D tour state visit to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in late 1956-early 1957. of the preview rooms. The vase has an estimate of Sin$1000-2000. bertoiaauctions.com hotlotz.com 28 | 2 May 2020 antiquestradegazette.com
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AUSTRALIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA HOTEL DE VENTES HORTA QUEBEC FONTAINEBLEAU PARIS 70-74 Avenue de Roodebeek, NEW SOUTH WALES J B MILITARY ANTIQUES IEGOR OSENAT ADER NORDMANN 2/135 Russell Street, Morley, Brussels, 1030. 1456 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, 9-11 Rue Royale, Fontainebleau, 3 rue Favart, Paris, 75002. ABA ASSOCIATES Tel: +32 27416060 6062. H3G 1K4. 77300. Tel: +33 153407710 The Gallery Room, State Library of Tel: +61 08 9276 5113 May 25-26 Art & Antiques Tel: +1 5143444081 May 19 Antique Furniture & Art Tel: +33 164222762 NSW, Sydney, 2000. May 3 Militaria May 27 Fine Wines May 1 Decorative Furniture (live online only) Tel: +61 292210288 (live online only) horta.be May 12 Antiquities & Art May 9 Automobilia May 26 Tribal Art May 18 Jewellery, Watches, Silver jbmilitaryantiques.com.au May 19 Canadian Art (live online only) (live online only) & Works of Art MILLON iegor.net osenat.com May 29 Old & Modern Prints (live online only) AUSTRIA Avenue des Casernes 39B , (live online only) abaassociates.com.au Brussels, 1040. LIMOGES ader-paris.fr VIENNA Tel: +32 026469138 FINLAND thesaleroom.com LIMOGES ENCHERES BARSBY AUCTIONS DOROTHEUM May 18 Paintings & Works of Art HELSINKI 32 rue Gustave Nadaud, Limoges, 155 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest, Dorotheergasse 17, Vienna, 1010. (live online only) BUKOWSKI ALDE Tel: +43 1515600 87000. 2065. millon-bruxelles.be Mastokatu 4-6, Helsinki, 00160. 1, rue Fleurs, Paris, 75006. May 7 Jewellery Tel: +61 0294608026 Tel: +358 966891150 Tel: +33 0555776000 Tel: +33 145490924 May 13 19th Century Paintings & May 29-Jun 14 Spring Sale May 16-17 Jewellery, Watches, VANDERKINDERE May 7 Discovery Sale May 13 Modern Illustrated Books Watercolours Chaussée d’Alsemberg 685-687, (live online only) May 28 Books & Original Bindings Antiques & Collectables May 28-29 Watches Brussels, 1180. bukowskis.com interencheres.com (live online only) (live online only) dorotheum.com barsbyauctions.com.au Tel: +32 23445446 alde.fr Apr 28-29 Art & Antiquities HAGELSTAM AUCTIONS thesaleroom.com LYON BELGIUM (live online only) Bulevardi 9A, Helsinki, 00120. ARTCURIAL Tel: +358 96877990 CONAN AUCTION ANTWERP vanderkindere.com 7 Rond-Point des Champs- BONHAMS May 15 Classic Items, Militaria & 8 Rue de Castries, Lyon, 69002. BERNAERTS Elysées, Paris, 75008. 97-99 Queen Street, Woollahra, Numismatics Tel: +33 472734567 Tel: +33 142992020 Verlatstraat 16-20, Antwerp, LOKEREN hagelstam.fi Sydney, 2025. 2000. DE VUYST May 11 Wine & Spirits May 19 Interiors Tel: +61 2841222222 Tel: +32 32481921 Kerkstraat 22-54, Lokeren, 9160. May 14 Books & Manuscripts (live online only) May 20 Print Multiples & May 13 Asian Art May 5-7 Art & Antiques Tel: +32 93485440 FRANCE conanauction.fr Illustrated Books (live online only) (live online only) May 16 Old Masters, Modern & CAEN (live online only) bonhams.com bernaerts.be Contemporary CAEN ENCHÈRES CONAN AUCTION May 20 Jewellery de-vuyst.com 13, route de Trouville, Caen, 1 rue Cronstadt, Lyon, 69007. SHAPIRO AUCTIONEERS 14000. (live online only) BRUSSELS Tel: +33 472734567 May 19-25 Modern & Vintage 162 Queen Street, Woollahra, BRUSSELS ART AUCTIONS Tel: +33 231860813 May 28 Modern & Contemporary Watches Sydney, 2025. 7 & 9 rue Ernest Allardstraat, CANADA May 20 Jewellery Art (live online only) Tel: +61 293261588 Sablon-Zavel, Brussels, 1000. BRITISH COLUMBIA (live online only) May 29 Hermès Handbags May 12 Art & Design Tel: +32 25115324 MAYNARDS May 23-24 Militaria conanauction.fr (live online only) (live online only) May 19 Art & Antiques 3331, Jacombs Road, Richmond, (live online only) artcurial.com May 26 Australian & International ba-auctions.com V6V 1Z6. interencheres.com NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE thesaleroom.com Art Tel: +1 6048766787 thesaleroom.com AGUTTES (live online only) CARLO BONTE May 23 Firearms & Militaria 164 bis, avenue Charles de Gaulle, shapiro.com.au Kardinaal Mercierstraat 20, maynardsfineart.com AUCTIONEVE Brussels, 8000. CANNES Neuilly-sur-Seine, 92200. Dosne-Thiers Foundation, Tel: +32 50332355 AZUR ENCHÈRES Tel: +33 147455555 27 Place Saint Georges, Paris, STATUS INTERNATIONAL NOVA SCOTIA May 28-30 Fine Art & Antiques 31 Boulevard d’Alsace, Cannes, May 26 Jewels 75009. 64 Parramatta Road, Forest CROWTHER & BRAYLEY (live online only) 06400. (live online only) Tel: +33 153340404 Lodge, 2037. P.O. Box 5032, Waverley, carlobonte.be Tel: +33 493390135 May 29 Contemporary Art May 28 Antique & Modern Frames Tel: +61 292674525 B2R 1S2. May 13 Classic Sale thesaleroom.com (live online only) auctioneve.com May 15 Coins & Banknotes Tel: +1 9024233226 azurencherescannes.com aguttes.com May 21 Stamps & Covers May 9 Art & Antiques CORNETTE DE SAINT CYR CHRISTIE’S statusint.com crowther-brayley.com Chaussée de Charleroi 89B, CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES 9 avenue Matignon, Paris, 75008. Brussels, 1060. HOTEL DES VENTES DE NICE Tel: +33 140768585 VICTORIA Apr 29 Contemporary Art & ONTARIO CHARLEVILLE MÉZIÈRES MILLON May 26 The Collector: Le Goût A. H. WILKENS GIBSON’S AUCTIONEERS Design 30 rue de la Gravière, Charleville- 3 place Franklin, Nice, 06000. Français 1 William Morgan Drive, Toronto, 885-889 High St, Armadale, 3143. May 18 Design Mézières, 08000. Tel: +33 493623775 May 27 Books & Manuscripts M4H 1N6. Tel: +33 324574266 Tel: +61 395002607 cornettedesaintcyr.fr May 4 Collection & Selections May 27 Antique & 20th Century Tel: +1 4163607600 May 16 Objets d’Art May 25 Decorative & Chinese Art, (live online only) Drawings May 11 Militaria & Instruments May 30 Stamps & Works on Paper Jewellery & Watches GALERIE ATHENA christies.com May 12 Militaria, Maps, Books & interencheres.com May 29 Jewellery (live online only) Rue de Laeken 78, Brussels, 1000. (live online only) Tel: +32 22500000 Engravings CORNETTE DE SAINT-CYR gibsonsauctions.com.au millon-associes.com May 1-3 Art & Antiques ahwilkens.com DEAUVILLE 6 avenue Hoche, Paris, 75008. May 7-8 Art & Antiques TRADART Tel: +33 147271124 LESKI galerieathena.com WADDINGTON’S Le Galaxy, Route des Créacteurs, May 26 Vintage Chanel 727-729 High Street, Armadale, ORLEANS 275 King Street East, Toronto, Deauville, 14800. POUSSE CORNET cornettedesaintcyr.fr 3143. M5A 1K2. GALERIE MODERNE Tel: +33 231881818 2 impasse Notre-Dame du Tel: +61 385396150 3b Rue du Parnasse, Tel: +1 4165049100 May 23 Modern & Contemporary DELORME - COLLIN DU BOCAGE Chemin, Orleans, 45000. May 10 Sporting Memorabilia Brussels, 1050. Apr 25-30 Contemporary Art Decorative Art 11 Rue de Miromesnil, Paris, (live online only) Tel: +32 25115415 (live online only) (live online only) Tel: +33 238540000 75008. May 24 Australian & Colonial May 25-26 Art & Antiques May 25-Jun 2 Wines & Spirits May 31 Jewellery & Watches May 9 Militaria Tel: +33 158183905 (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) Apr 30 Antiquities leski.com.au galeriemoderne.be waddingtons.ca tradart-deauville.auction.fr poussecornet.auction.fr encheres.parisencheres.com
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JEAN MARC DELVAUX TOULOUSE BIETIGHEIM-BISSINGEN DÖHLAU HILDESHEIM MULHEIM 29 rue Drouot, Paris, 75009. MARAMBAT MALAFOSSE AUKTIONSHAUS CHRISTOPH LANKES AUCTIONS VEUSKENS AUKTIONSHAUS AN DER RUHR Tel: +33 140220040 7 Rue d’Astorg, Toulouse, 31000. GÄRTNER Triftfeldstrasse 1, Döhlau, 95182. Max-Planck-Strasse 10, Delle 45, Mulheim, 45468. May 7 Furniture & Art Tel: +33 0561125202 Steinbeisstrasse 6 + 8, Tel: +49 928695050 Hildesheim, 31135. Tel: +49 2083059081 delvaux.auction.fr Tel: +49 51219990090 May 14 Books, Paintings & Art Bietigheim-Bissingen, 74321. May 15 Toys May 26 Fine Art, Watches, marambat-malafosse.com lankes-auktionen.com Apr 29-30 Stamps & Coins Jewellery & Militaria MILLON Tel: +49 07142789400 veuskens.de May 26-27 Coins & Banknotes (live online only) 3 rue Rossini, Paris, 75009. auktionshausanderruhr.de Tel: +33 493623775 VANNES auktionen-gaertner.de DRESDEN KASSEL thesaleroom.com May 26 Madame’s Boudoir JACK-PHILIPPE RUELLAN DRESDNER BRIEFMARKEN AGON SPORTS WORLD (live online only) 8 rue du Dr Joseph Audic, ZAC du BORGHOLZHAUSEN AUCTIONS Frankfurterstrasse 92a, Kassel, millon-associes.com Ténénio, Vannes, 56001. TEUTOBURGER MUENZAUKTION Oschatzerstrasse 32, Dresden, 34121. MUNICH Tel: +33 297472632 Brinkstrasse 9, Borgholzhausen, 01127. Tel: +49 5619279827 HERMANN HISTORICA PIASA May 16 Furniture 33829. Tel: +49 3598489367 May 13 Sports Memorabilia Linprunstrasse 16, Munich, svvruellan.com (live online only) 118 rue du Faubourg Saint- Tel: +49 5425930050 May 13-14 Stamps 80335. agon-auktion.de Honoré, Paris, 75008. May 22-23 Universal Coins dresdner-briefmarkenauktion.de Tel: +49 8954726490 thesaleroom.com Tel: +33 153341010 VICHY teutoburger-muenzauktion.de May 25 Works of Art May 14 Contemporary African Art VICHY ENCHÈRES DUSSELDORF May 26 Arms & Armour May 28 Design KEMPTEN 16 avenue de Lyon, Vichy, 03200. BUXTEHUDE AUKTIONSHAUS DEMESSIEUR May 26 The J. Durval Collection of May 28 Editions Tel: +33 0470301120 ALLGÄUER AUKTIONSHAUS KUNST & AUKTIONSHAUS Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 3, Antique Firearms piasa.fr May 14 Paintings, Jewellery, Art Königstrasse 17, Kempten, May 27 Fine Antique & Modern EVA ALDAG Dusseldorf, 40210. & Furniture 87435. Firearms Ottenser Weg 10, Buxtehude, Tel: +49 21193655885 Tel: +49 831 5642530 TAJAN (live online only) May 27 The Frey Collection – May 9 Fine Art, Asian Art & May 14-16 Art & Antiques 37 rue des Mathurins, Paris, May 14 Aviation 21614. Firearms from Württemberg 75008. Tel: +49 416181005 Antiques allgaeuer-auktionshaus.de (live online only) (live online only) May 28 International Orders & Tel: +33 153303030 interencheres.com May 9 Antiquities Military Collectables May 6 20th Century Interiors demessieur.de KONIGSTEIN IM TAUNUS auktionshaus-aldag.de thesaleroom.com May 29 German Historical (live online only) REISS & SOHN Adelheidstrasse 2, Konigstein Collectables May 27 Books & Contemporary GERMANY COLOGNE hermann-historica.com Art DR ANDREAS STURIES im Taunus, 61462. AHLDEN AUCTION TEAM BREKER Tel: +49 617492720 thesaleroom.com (live online only) Steigenberger Parkhotel, SCHLOSS AHLDEN Otto-Hahn-Strasse 10, Cologne, Apr 28-30 Books & Manuscripts May 28 Oriental & Islamic Art Königsallee 1A, Dusseldorf, Grosse Strasse 1, Ahlden, 29693. 50997. (live online only) (live online only) 40212. KETTERER KUNST Tel: +49 516480100 reiss-sohn.de tajan.com Tel: +49 2236384340 Tel: +49 2115141354 Joseph-Wild-Strasse 18, Munich, May 16 Fine Art May 16 Science, Technology, schloss-ahlden.de May 9 Modern & Contemporary KÖNIGSWINTER 81829. Music & Toys Art Tel: +49 89552440 THIERRY DE MAIGRET AUCTION PARTNERS (live online only) Drouot-Montmartre, 21, (live online only) Hauptstrasse 301, Königswinter, Apr 22-May 1 Classic & Modern rue d’Oran, Paris, 75018. AUGSBURG breker.com sturies.de Art GEORGE REHM AUCTIONS 53639. Tel: +33 144839520 thesaleroom.com thesaleroom.com Tel: +49 222328611 (live online only) May 15 Fine Art, Collectables & Provinostrasse 50 1/2, Augsburg, kettererkunst.de 86153. May 2 Art, Antiques & Jewellery Collectables thesaleroom.com Tel: +49 0821551001 BONGARTZ (live online only) FRANKFURT AM MAIN auctionpartners.de May 14-15 Art & Antiques Hitzelerstrasse 2, Cologne, BBA-THERESE WEISER NACHF May 18 Hunting NEUMEISTER AUCTIONHOUSE (live online only) (live online only) 50968. Battonnstrasse 23, Frankfurt am KONSTANZ auktionshaus-rehm de Tel: +49 24169090 Main, 60311. Barer Strasse 37, Munich, 80799. May 26 Antique Arms & Militaria AUKTIONSHAUS BAYER Tel: +49 892317100 (live online only) thesaleroom.com May 2 String Instruments & Bows Tel: +49 69 675148 Rosgartenstrasse 14, Konstanz, May 5 Jewellery thierrydemaigret.com bongartz-auctions.com May 2 Stamps, Coins & Jewellery 78462. (live online only) stampmaster.de Tel: +49 753124451 BERLIN May 6 Fine Art & Antiques VERMOT & ASSOCIES LEMPERTZ May 29 Jewellery, Watches & ALTENBURG (live online only) 20 rue Cadet, Paris, 75009. Coins Meeet-Mitte, Chausseestrasse 86, Neumarkt 3, Cologne, 50667. FREIBURG May 29 Modern Art Tel: +33 171194216 auktionshaus-bayer.de Berlin, 10115. Tel: +49 2219257290 FRANK PEEGE (live online only) May 7 Paintings & Asian Art May 16 Vienna Porcelain from a Dreikonigstrasse 43, Freiburg, Tel: +49 3069564433 KARRENBAUER neumeister.com vermotetassocies.com 79102. May 23 Photographs Private Collection Obere Laube 46, Konstanz, thesaleroom.com altenburg-auktionen.de (live online only) Tel: +49 76175556 78462. ROUEN May 16 Prussian-Sale May 14-16 Art & Antiques Tel: +49 753127202 GUILLAUME CHEROYAN peege.de QUITTENBAUM LEMPERTZ (live online only) May 16 Art & Antiques Theresienstrasse 60, Munich, 40 rue Victor Hugo, Rouen, 76000. Poststasse 22, Berlin, 10178. May 28 Jewellery karrenbauer.de Tel: +33 235886064 80333. Tel: +49 3027876080 (live online only) GARMISCH May 16 Motorcycles Tel: +49 89273702125 May 16 Prussian Sale May 29 Decorative Art PARTENKIRCHEN KREFELD interencheres.com SCHOPS TUROWSKI May 26 Lalique lempertz.com (live online only) MERRY OLD ENGLAND Wiedstrasse 21, Krefeld, 47799 (live online only) May 30 Old Masters, Paintings, Zugspitzstrasse 49, Garmisch Tel: +49 21511546127 May 26-27 Art Nouveau & Art ROYAN NOSBÜSCH & STUCKE Drawings, Sculptures & 19th Partenkirchen, 82467. GEOFFROY-BEQUET May 9 Art, Antiques, Design Deco Fasanenstrasse 28, Berlin, 10719. Tel: +49 882159909 6 rue Poincaré, Royan, 17200. Century Art kunstunddesign-auktionen.de (live online only) Tel: +49 3088922090 May 14 Antiques, Art, Collectables Tel: +33 546386935 (live online only) thesaleroom.com quittenbaum.de May 14-16 Rare Books, Graphics & Jewellery May 13 Postal Stamps lempertz.com thesaleroom.com & Photography (live online only) interencheres.com thesaleroom.com LEINFELDEN- (live online only) caselton.de nosbuesch-stucke.berlin thesaleroom.com ECHTERDINGEN URSULA NUSSER E.K. EPPLI AUKTIONSHALLE SAINT JEAN DE LUZ thesaleroom.com VAN HAM Nordendstrasse 46, Munich, Heilbronner Strasse 9-11, COTE BASQUE ENCHÈRES Hitzelerstrasse 2, Cologne, 80801. 8 rue Dominique Larréa, Saint HAMBURG Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Tel: +49 89 2782510 OSTDEUTSCHE 50968. Jean de Luz, 64500. KENDZIA 70771. May 19 Art & Antiques KUNSTAUKTIONEN Tel: +49 2219258620 Tel: +33 559233853 Sierichstrasse 33, Hamburg, Tel: +49 7112209087 nusser-auktionen.de Bänschstr. 35, Berlin, 10247. Apr 30-May 14 Prints & Multiples Apr 20-May 3 Coins May 15 Books 22301. Tel: +49 3042852000 (live online only) (live online only) cotebasqueencheres.com Tel: +49 402299767 May 23 Fine Art May 27 Asian Art eppli.com OBERURSEL May 8-9 Art & Antiques AUKTIONSHAUS OBERURSEL ostdeutsche-kunstauktionen.net May 27 Decorative Art thesaleroom.com (live online only) Fuchstanzstrasse 14 & 33, SAINT-CLOUD May 28 Fine Jewellery & Watches LE FLOCH auktion-kendzia.de Oberursel, 61440. PRUCHA May 28 Fine Art LEIPZIG 1 boulevard de la Republique, Tel: +49 1712060060 Hotel Bristol Berlin, May 28 Post War & Contemporary LEIPZIGER MUENZHANDLUNG Saint-Cloud, 92210. Kurfürstendamm 27, Berlin, HEIDELBERG Nikolaistrasse 25, Leipzig, May 30 Art & Antiques Tel: +33 148788106 Art & Collection of Christian METZ (live online only) 10719. Eggers 04109. May 4 Wines Friedrich Ebert Anlage 3-5, Tel: +49 341124790 auktionshaus-homm.de Tel: +49 308814721 May 28 Old Master Paintings May 16 Militaria May 16 Art Heidelberg, 69117. May 15-16 Coins & Medals thesaleroom.com van-ham.com May 17 Design, Modern & prucha-auktion.de Tel: +49 622123571 numismatik-online.de Contemporary Art thesaleroom.com May 16 Art & Collectables lefloch-drouot.fr metz-auktion.de LÜBECK PFORZHEIM BIELEFELD HANSEART ANTIQUARIAT PETER KIEFER SENLIS AUKTIONSHAUS OWL CUXHAVEN WINTERBERG Mengstrasse 14, Lübeck, 23552. Steubenstrasse 36, Pforzheim, Am Bach 1a, Bielefeld, 33602. 75172. HÔTEL DES VENTES DE SENLIS CUXHAVENER AUKTIONSHALLE Hildastrasse 12, Heidelberg, Tel: +49 45170757800 Tel: +49 5219864198 Tel: +49 723192320 63 rue du Faubourg Saint Martin, Friedrichsstrasse 1, Cuxhaven, 69115. May 9 Art, Antiques & Senlis, 60300. May 9 Art & Antiques 27474. Tel: +49 6221915990 Collectables May 11-13 Books & Art Tel: +33 344530342 (live online only) Tel: +49 472151225 May 16 Old Masters (live online only) (live online only) May 6 Jewellery, Art & Furniture auktionshaus-owl.de Apr 30-May 2 Varia (live online only) auktionshaus-hanseart.de kiefer.de senlisencheres.com thesaleroom.com cuxhavener-auktionshalle.de winterberg-kunst.de thesaleroom.com thesaleroom.com
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PLAUEN SPINK INTERNATIONAL ART SALE LEIDEN STEPHAN WELZ & CO SWITZERLAND MEHLIS 4/F & 5/F, Hua Fu Commercial Via G. Puccini 3, Milan, 20121. BURGERSDIJK & NIERMANS The Great Cellar, Alphen Estate, Tel: +39 0240042385 Hammerstr. 30, Plauen, 08523. Building, 111 Queen’s Road West, Nieuwsteeg 1, Leiden, 2311 RW. Alphen Drive, Constantia, Cape ZURICH Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. May 19 Watches Town, 7806. Tel: +49 3741221005 Tel: +31 715121067 KOLLER Tel: +852 39523000 internationalartsale.it Tel: +27 217946461 May 12-13 Arts & Antiques Hardturmstrasse 102, Zurich, May 28-30 Art, Antiques & May 10-11 Numismatics May 5 Certified Diamonds b-n.nl Collectables spink.com ITINERIS CASA D’ASTE (live online only) 8031. (live online only) Via Vivaio, 24, Milan, 20122. stephanwelzandco.co.za Tel: +41 444456363 Tel: + 39 0249501546 mehlis.eu ROTTERDAM thesaleroom.com Apr 22-May 13 Wines & Spirits ITALY May 20 Old Masters & 20th VENDU NOTARISHUIS thesaleroom.com (live online only) BRESCIA Century Paintings Kipstraat 54, Rotterdam, May 21 Prints, Drawings & CAPITOLIUM ART 3011 RT. JOHANNESBURG kollerauctions.com Books STUTTGART Via Carlo Cattaneo 55, Brescia, Tel: +31 104118544 STRAUSS (live online only) 89 Central Street, Houghton, EPPLI AM MARKT 25100. May 12 Art & Antiques Tel: +39 0302072256 itinerisaste.com Gauteng, Johannesburg, 2198. Barenstrasse 6-8, Stuttgart, notarishuis.nl UNITED STATES 70173. May 5 Modern & Contemporary Tel: +27 216836560 Art PORRO AUCTION HOUSE May 10-11 19th Century, Modern, ARIZONA Tel: + 49 711 236 9442 (live online only) Via Olona 2, Milan, 20123. THE HAGUE Post-War & Contemporary Art GARY KIRSNER May 2 Jewellery, Watches, capitoliumart.it Tel: + 39 272094708 VENDUEHUIS DER NOTARISSEN (live online only) May 30 Contemporary Art 863 Northridge Drive, Prescott, Porcelain, Silver & Luxury thesaleroom.com Nobelstraat 5, The Hague, 2513. straussart.co.za porroartconsulting.it 86301. Accessories Tel: +31 703658857 thesaleroom.com (live online only) May 18 Interiors & Decorative Art Tel: +1 8479915927 eppli.com CANTANIA PALERMO May 11 Beer Steins & Related ART LA ROSA GALLERIA SARNO venduehuis.com SPAIN thesaleroom.com Viale Africa 12, Cantania, 95129. Via Emerico Amari 148, Items Tel: +39 09516942489 Palermo, 90139. BARCELONA (live online only) NEW ZEALAND LA SUITE SUBASTAS SUGENHEIM May 2 Antiques Tel: +39 091581848 garykirsnerauctions.com (live online only) May 13-16 Art & Antiques AUCKLAND Conde de Salvatierra, 8, JAN K. KUBE artlarosa.com (live online only) WEBB’S Barcelona, 08006. Altes Schloss, Schlossstrasse 47, Tel: + 34 933001477 thesaleroom.com galleriasarno.it 23-25 Falcon Street, Parnell, CALIFORNIA Sugenheim, 91484. Auckl. May 21 20th Century Interiors thesaleroom.com BONHAMS Tel: +49 91651386 Tel: +64 95246804 (live online only) May 2 Militaria FLORENCE May 18 Works of Art May 28 Pablo Neruda 7601 Sunset Boulevard, Los GONNELLI CASA D’ASTE ROME kube-auktionen.de (live online only) (live online only) Angeles, 90046. via Ricasoli 6, Florence, 50122. BERTOLAMI FINE ARTS suitesubastas.com Piazza Lovatelli, 1, Rome, 00186. mossgreen-webbs.co.nz Tel: +1 3238507500 Tel: +39 055 216835 thesaleroom.com TEGERNSEE May 26-28 Books & Graphics Tel: +39 063218464 May 1 Native American Art KUNST & AUKTIONSHAUS gonnelli.it May 2-3 Italian Foreign Coins & Medals POLAND LAMAS BOLAÑO SUBASTAS May 6 Prints & Multiples WALTER GINHART (live online only) KRAKOW Roselló 229, Barcelona, 08008. May 18 Natural History Steinmetzplatz 2-3, Tegernsee, MAISON BIBELOT May 6 Charity Sale DESA Tel: +34 934151766 May 19 Lapidary Works of Art, 83684. Corso Italia, 6, Florence, 50123. Tel: +39 055295089 (live online only) ul. Florianska 13, Krakow. Apr 29-30 Art, Antiques & Tel: +49 8022188340 May 10 Antiquities Coloured Stones & Minerals May 25-Jun 8 Art Books of Villa Tel: +48 124221966 Collectables (live online only) May 20 Gold, Opals & Coloured May 9 Art & Antiques Lazzi May 30 Art (live online only) bertolamifinearts.com (live online only) (live online only) desa.art.pl lamasbolano.com Stones ginhart.de May 28 Modern, Contemporary thesaleroom.com thesaleroom.com bonhams.com thesaleroom.com Art thesaleroom.com May 28 Furniture & Old Master COLASANTI CASA D’ ASTE PORTUGAL SETDART Paintings Via Aurelia 1249, Rome, 00166. LISBON Calle Aragón 346, Barcelona, ÜBACH-PALENBERG Tel: +39 0666183260 (live online only) RENASCIMENTO 08009. JOHN MORAN HORST POESTGENS May 20 Fine Art, Old Masters & May 29 Jewellery & Watches Avenida Alvares Cabral, no. 35, Tel: +34 932 463241 AUKTIONATOR 19th Century Paintings 145 East Walnut Avenue, (live online only) Lisbon, 1250-015. Apr 30 Antiques & Collectables Kirchplatz 6-7, Übach-Palenberg, (live online only) Monrovia, 91016. maisonbibelot.com Tel: +351 218458130 Apr 30 High Epoch D-52531. May 21 Furniture, Sculptures May 27-28 Art & Antiques setdart.com Tel: +1 6267931833 Tel: +49 245149209 & Art GENOA (live online only) (live online only) May 3 Traditional Collector May 19 Dolls & Toys BOETTO colasantiaste.com renascimento-sa.pt MADRID (live online only) poestgens.de Mura dello Zerbino 10 Rosso, thesaleroom.com FERNANDO DURÁN May 17 California & American Genoa, 16122. Conde de Aranda 23, Madrid, VIENNA Tel: +39 0102541314 ROMANIA 28001. Fine Art May 25 Modern & Contemporary SARZANA AMADEUS-AUKTIONSHAUS BUCHAREST Tel: +34 915753911 (live online only) Art CZERNY’S Apr 28-29 Art & Antiques Naglergasse 27, Top 2, Vienna, Piazza V. Veneto 13-19, Sarzana, ARTMARK May 19 Studio Jewelry (live online only) 5 C.A. Rosetti Street, Bucharest, (live online only) 1010. May 26-27 Design 19038. (live online only) Tel: +39 0187691376 010281. Apr 30 Jewellery Tel: +43 15122439 (live online only) (live online only) johnmoran.com May 8 Art & Antiques asteboetto.it May 1-2 Militaria Tel: +40 232303016 (live online only) Apr 29 Fine Art fernandoduran.com thesaleroom.com (live online only) thesaleroom.com czernys.com (live online only) amadeus-auction.com thesaleroom.com May 19 Post War & Contemporary SWEDEN JULIEN’S AUCTIONS MILAN Art HALMSTAD CAMBI CASA D’ASTE 9665 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite HONG KONG (live online only) HALLANDS AUKTIONSVERK Palazzo Serbelloni, Corso Venezia MONACO artmark.ro Nässjögatan 6, Halmstad, 30247. 150, Beverly Hills, 90210. HONG KONG 16, Milan, 20121. MONTE CARLO thesaleroom.com Tel: +46 35156900 Tel: +1 3108361818 ANTIQUORUM Tel: +39 236590462 HERMITAGE FINE ART May 31 Art & Antiques 9 Queen’s Road, Suite 704, May 12 Design Hotel Metropole, 4 Avenue de la May 21 Sports Legends hallandsauktionsverk.se Hong Kong. (live online only) Madone, Monte Carlo, 98000. SINGAPORE (live online only) Tel: +852 29736328 cambiaste.com Tel: +377 97773980 juliensauctions.com Apr 27-30 Fine & Russian Art, May 10 Watches & Vintage thesaleroom.com SINGAPORE MALMO thesaleroom.com Manuscripts & Autographs HOTLOTZ POSTILJONEN AB Timepieces hermitagefineart.com Hans Michelsensgatan 9, Malmo, IL PONTE Cendex Center 01-15, 120 Lower (live online only) 21120. Via Pitteri 8/10, Milan, 20134. Delta Road, Singapore, 169208. antiquorum.com Tel: +46 40258850 PBA GALLERIES Tel: +39 028631472 Tel: +65 62547616 NETHERLANDS May 14-15 Spring Sale 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, May 25-28 Interiors, Furnishings, May 3 Oriental Ceramics & Works BONHAMS HAARLEM postiljonen.se Militaria, Modern Art, Books, of Art 94109. Suite 2001, One Pacific Place, BUBB KUYPER Photographs, Carpets & Textiles Kenaupark 30, Haarlem. hotlotz.com Tel: +1 4159892665 88 Queensway, Hong Kong. (live online only) Tel: +31 235323986 thesaleroom.com STOCKHOLM May 7 Americana, Travel & Tel: +852 29184321 ponteonline.com BUKOWSKIS May 26-29 Arts & Antiques Exploration and World History May 16 Fine & Rare Wine & Whisky thesaleroom.com (live online only) Arsenalsgatan 4, Box 1754, bonhams.com bubbkuyper.com SOUTH AFRICA Stockholm, S111 87. Cartography Tel: +46 86140800 IL PONTE (live online only) CAPE TOWN May 12-13 Modern Art & Design SOTHEBY’S Palazzo Crivelli, via Pontaccio 12, IJSSELSTEIN May 14 Rare Golf Books, ANTIQUARIAN AUCTIONS bukowskis.com 5th Floor, One Pacific Place, Milan, 20121. HERITAGE AUCTIONS P.O. Box 186, Constantia, Cape Memorabilia & Ephemera 88 Queensway, Hong Kong. Tel: +39 02863141 NETHERLANDS Town, 7848. PHILEA (live online only) Tel: +852 25248121 May 19-21 Furniture, Old Masters, Energieweg 7, IJsselstein, 3401 MD. Tel: +27 217940600 Svartensgatan 6, Stockholm, 11620. May 28 Art & Archaeology of Asia May 12-20 Jewellery Silver, Carpets & Textiles May 28-Jun 4 Rare Books, Maps (live online only) Tel: +31 306063944 Tel: +46 86400978 May 18-26 Watches & Manuscripts & Cartography ponteonline.com May 19-23 Coins, Banknotes & May 2 Coins May 20-27 Watches Medals (live online only) May 21 Stamps (live online only) sothebys.com thesaleroom.com mpo.nl antiquarianauctions.com philea.se pbagalleries.com
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SLAWINSKI AUCTION COMPANY INDIANA SKINNER CLARKE AUCTION OHIO May 14 Modern & Contemporary 5015 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts RIPLEY AUCTIONS 63 Park Plaza, Boston, 02116. 2372 Boston Post Road, ASPIRE AUCTIONS Art Valley, 95066. Tel: +1 6173505400 (live online only) 2764 East 55th Place, Larchmont, 10538. 2310 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Tel: +1 8313359000 May 12-20 Fine Jewellery Tel: +1 9148338336 44114. May 21 Jewellery & Watches Indianapolis, 46220. May 10 California Estates & Collections May 25 Fine Art Tel: +1 2162315515 (live online only) Chinese Antiques Tel: +1 3172515635 (live online only) (live online only) Apr 24-May 2 Art May 28 Books, Manuscripts, (live online only) May 5-14 American Indian & Jewellery & Watches May 4 Vintage Jewellery clarkeny.com (live online only) May 25 California Estates May 16 Sports, Racing & Ethnographic Art aspireauctions.com (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) May 28 The Martin Magovsky Entertainment Memorabilia thesaleroom.com slawinski.com May 6-14 Fine Books & DOYLE Collection of Children’s Books antiquehelper.com Manuscripts 175 East 87th Street, New York, (live online only) GARTH’S FLORIDA (live online only) 10128. freemansauction.com 1450 Dublin Road, Columbus, 43215. A.B. LEVY’S STRAWSER AUCTIONS May 13-21 Discovery Interiors Tel: +1 2124272730 Tel: +1 7403624771 211 Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, (live online only) Apr 29 Prints & Multiples MORPHY AUCTIONS 106 E. Dutch Street, Wolcottville, May 16 Americana & Decorative 33480. May 14 American & European Art May 5 Fine Jewellery 2000 N. Reading Road, Denver, 46795. Arts Tel: +1 5618359139 (live online only) 17517. Tel: +1 2608542859 (live online only) (live online only) Apr 30 Jewellery, Antiques & May 19 Important Jewellery May 12 Post War & Contemporary Tel: +1 7173353435 Estate Sale May 20-21 Antiques garths.com (live online only) Art May 13 Automobilia (live online only) strawserauctions.com May 26-Jun 2 Gentleman’s Sale May 27 Arms & Militaria (live online only) GRAY’S AUCTIONEERS ablevys.com (live online only) May 28-29 Sporting & Firearms May 12 Impressionist & Modern 10717 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, KANSAS May 28 Fine Wines & Rare Spirits morphyauctions.com AUCTION GALLERY OF THE (live online only) Art 44102. PALM BEACHES WOODY AUCTION skinnerinc.com (live online only) Tel: +1 2164587695 1609 South Dixie Highway 5, West Woody Auction Hall, 130 East 3rd May 13 Paintings & Drawings Apr 29 Fine Art, Furniture & SARASOTA HELMUTH STONE GALLERY Palm Beach, 33401. Street, Douglass, 67039. TREMONT AUCTIONS (live online only) Decorative Art 1991 Main Street STE 112, Florida, Tel: +1 5618057115 26 Ossipee Road, Suite 103, May 20 English & Continental graysauctioneers.com Tel: +1 3167472694 34236. May 9 Art & Antiques Newton, 02464. thesaleroom.com May 15 Glass Furniture & Old Masters Paintings Tel: +19412609703 (live online only) Tel: +1 6177951678 (live online only) agopb.com (live online only) May 17 Chinese Paintings, May 17 Asian Art & Antiques May 22 Fine Jewellery NEUE AUCTIONS May 30 Glass (live online only) Jewellery, Fine Art, Antiques, (live online only) 23533 Mercantile Road, Suite 119, Sculptures & Glass HILL AUCTION GALLERY (live online only) tremontauctions.com Beachwood, 44122. 7824 NW 44th Street, Sunrise, doylenewyork.com (live online only) woodyauction.com Tel: +1 2162456707 helmuthstone.com Launderhill, 33351. MICHIGAN May 30 Antiques, Decorative Tel: +1 9547417164 KENSINGTON ESTATE thesaleroom.com LOUISIANA SCHMIDT’S ANTIQUES Art, Fine Art, Sterling Silver & Apr 29 Design, Decor & Couture 5138 West Michigan Avenue, AUCTIONS Jewellery (live online only) NEW ORLEANS AUCTION Ypsilanti, 48197. 989 Plattekill Road, Clintondale, (live online only) TEXAS May 27 Out of the Ordinary GALLERIES Tel: +1 7344342660 1215. neueauctions.com HERITAGE AUCTIONS (live online only) 333 Saint Joseph Street, New May 15 Antiques & Fine Art Tel: +41 9173310807 thesaleroom.com 3500 Maple Avenue, Dallas, hillauctiongallery.com Orleans, 70130. (live online only) May 18 Fine Art & Antiques 75219. thesaleroom.com schmidtsantiques.com Tel: +1 5045661849 (live online only) RACHEL DAVIS FINE ARTS Tel: +1 8008726467
May 1 Modern & Contemporary kensingtonestateauctions.com 1301 West 79th Street, Cleveland, May 1 Jewellery GEORGIA MINNESOTA (live online only) Art REVERE AUCTIONS 44102. GREAT GATSBY’S AUCTION WEISS AUCTIONS Tel: +1 2169391190 May 5 Silver & Vertu (live online only) Vandalia Tower, 550 Vandalia GALLERY 74 Merrick Road, Lynbrook, May 23 Fine & Decorative Art (live online only) 5180 Peachtree Industrial Street, St Paul, 55114. May Spring Major Estates 11563. (live online only) May 6 Urban Art Boulevard, Atlanta, 30341. Tel: +1 6214406985 (live online only) racheldavisfinearts.com (live online only) Tel: +1 7704571903 May 20 Fine & Decorative Art Tel: +1 5165940731 May 31 Spring Major Estates May 7-9 Sporting Memorabilia May 2-3 Fine Art, Art & Antiques revereauctions.com May 7 Comics, Sports TREADWAY GALLERY (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) thesaleroom.com Memorabilia and Animation Art 2029 Madison Road, Cincinnati, May 10 World Coins greatgatsbys.com neworleansauction.com (live online only) 45208. (live online only) May 21 Toys Trains & Diecast thesaleroom.com MISSOURI Tel: +1 5133216742 May 13 Photographs HINDMAN AUCTIONS (live online only) SELKIRK AUCTIONEERS May 3 Spring Sale (live online only) 668 Miami Circle NE, Atlanta, 4739 McPherson Ave, Saint Louis, weissauctions.com May 14 Fine & Decorative Arts 30324. MARYLAND (live online only) 63108. treadwaygallery.com (live online only) Tel: + 1 4048000192 RICHARD OPFER Tel: +1 3146969041 ROLAND AUCTIONS May 15 US Coins May 11 American Indian Art & thesaleroom.com 1919 Greenspring Drive, May 9 Gallery Sale 2 Dosoris Way, Glen Cove, 11542. (live online only) Western Art Timonium, 21093. selkirkauctions.com May 17 World Coins (live online only) Tel: +1 2122602000 Tel: +1 4102525035 May 2 Estate Sale OREGON (live online only) hindmanauctions.com O’GALLERIE NEW HAMPSHIRE (live online only) May 20 Prints & Multiples May 7 Photography THE COBBS 228 Northeast Seventh Avenue, rolandsantiques.com (live online only) ILLINOIS May 21 Harold Screen Soda 50 Jaffrey Road, Peterborough, Portland, 97232. May 21 Comics HINDMAN AUCTIONS Fountain 03458. Tel: +1 5032380202 (live online only) 1338 West Lake Street, Chicago, opferauction.com Tel: +1 6039246361 SOTHEBY’S May 4-5 Furniture & Decorative May 28 Decorative Arts 60607. May 16 Fine Art & Antiques 1334 York Avenue, New York, Art (live online only) Tel: +1 3122801212 thecobbs.com 10021. (live online only) May 29 Ethnographic Art May 13 Timepieces MASSACHUSETTS Tel: +1 2126067176 ogallerie.com (live online only) (live online only) ELDRED’S NEW JERSEY Apr 20-29 Jewellery May 29 European Art May 14 Fine & Important P.O. Box 796, 1483 Route 6A, East BERTOIA AUCTIONS May 4-14 Contemporary Art Jewellery PENNSYLVANIA (live online only) Dennis, 02641. 2141 De Marco Drive, Vineland, (live online only) (live online only) ALDERFER AUCTION COMPANY ha.com Tel: +1 5083853116 08360. May 4-15 Impressionist & Modern 501 Fairgrounds Road, Hatfield, May 15 Essential Jewellery Tel: +1 8566921881 Art 19440. SIMPSON GALLERIES (live online only) May 14 Fine & Decorative Art May 7-8 Spring Sale May 19 Modern Design (live online only) (live online only) Tel: +1 2153933000 6116 Skyline, Houston, 77057. (live online only) May 6 Antique Dolls Tel: +1 7135246751 (live online only) May 15 Summer Sale bertoiaauctions.com May 7-21 Prohibition in America May 19 Early 20th Century Design (live online only) (live online only) May 16-17 Fine Art & Antiques (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) May 9 Wines alderferauction.com May 21 American Paintings NYE & CO simpsongalleries.com May 20 American & European Art 20 Beach Street, Bloomfield, May 19 American Art (live online only) CORDIER AUCTIONS thesaleroom.com (live online only) 07003. sothebys.com 1500 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, May 21 Post War & Contemporary eldreds.com Tel: +1 9739846900 17104. Art Apr 30 Discovery STACK’S BOWERS PONTERIO Tel: +1 7177318662 VIRGINIA (live online only) (live online only) FONTAINE’S AUCTION GALLERY 123 West 57th Street, New York, May 2 Discovery Sale OLD WORLD AUCTIONS May 21 Prints & Multiples May 20 Estate Treasures 1485 West Housatonic Street 10019. (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) (Route 20), Pittsfield, 01201. Tel: +1 2125822580 May 3 Tools Tel: +1 8042908090 May 22 American & European Art nyeandcompany.com Apr 15-29 Antique Maps (live online only) May 13 Ancient & World Coins (live online only) Tel: +1 4134488922 (live online only) lesliehindman.com cordierauction.com May 23 Antiques & Fine Art NEW YORK (live online only) oldworldauctions.com (live online only) BONHAMS May 20 Coins FREEMAN’S thesaleroom.com SUSANIN’S AUCTIONS 580 Madison Avenue at 56th St, (live online only) fontainesauction.com 1808 Chestnut Street, 900 South Clinton, Chicago, New York, 10022. stacksbowers.com Philadelphia, 19103. THE POTOMACK COMPANY 60607. Tel: +1 2126449001 1120 North Fairfax Street, Tel: +1 3128329800 JAMES R BAKKER May 13-27 Modern & Tel: +1 2155639275 STAIR GALLERIES Alexandria, 22314. 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Emile Gallé, Nancy, Opal-pendant, Gold and enamel goblet, circa 1920, 30 cm Peter Heyden, 1995 Luigino Vigandon, Genf 1957, 17 cm, 868 gr
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976), Night on Capri, Oil/canvas, 50 x 60.3 cm Yellow house with fir trees. 40 x 53.5 cm
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A High Court judge has turned down an sold for £380,000 attempt by a group of dealers and collectors of antique ivory to stop the Ivory Act 2018 Original movie designs Purchased for £1 from a The 8in (19cm) high pear- coming into force, writes Noelle McElhatton. Hertfordshire charity shop shaped wall pocket with ruyi However, Mr Justice Robert Jay allowed earlier this year, a Qianlong handles and a yellow sgraffito room for FACT (the Friends of Antique and famille rose wall vase sold for ground is inscribed with a poem Cultural Treasures Limited) to apply for an are drawing in buyers £380,000 at Sworders in London praising incense alongside a yuti appeal, which the group has decided to last week. mark and two iron-red seal marks pursue. The lucky owner of the vessel reading Qianlong chen han (‘the In a 100-page judgment, published on – which is inscribed with an Qianlong Emperor’s own mark’) November 5, the judge declared himself imperial poem – was in the room and Weijing weiyi (‘be precise, be “sympathetic” to arguments that FACT Unique artwork created to feature on film posters at the Westbury Hotel, Mayfair, on undivided’). made in court in October (ATG No 2414). November 8 to watch it sell after a Wall vases were one of Meanwhile DEFRA, the defendant in is proving to be a strong aspect of the popular 10-minute contest that opened at Qianlong’s favourite porcelain the judicial review, has said it will “press entertainment collecting field. £40,000. forms. There are 320 in the Palace ahead” with bringing the act into force. Unaware of the significance of Museum, with this vase identical to Continued on page 6 his find, the vendor had been a pair in the collection, save their The splendid example shown right, for the 1954 deluged with enquiries after differing texts. briefly listing it on eBay. The choice of poem (one written film Creature from the Black Lagoon, is estimated Sworders appraised the vase by the emperor as a prince prior to Christie’s Education at £50,000-80,000 and his accession) probably dates this set for restructure at £2000-4000 as part of a large collection all promptly received vase to the early 1740s. interest at much higher Christie’s is in consultation with staff produced by a Bradford printing firm that will go on levels before the sale. More Asian art news on page 4 following a review of its education division, writes Laura Chesters. offer at Surrey saleroom Ewbank’s later this month. Christie’s Education will close with its courses absorbed into the firm’s wider Meanwhile, concept artwork for Star Wars posters business. The plan is to focus on online and non-degree education courses, ending – always highly popular in their finished form – is traditional higher education graduate degree programmes. also attracting high demand in London and US The proposed restructuring will not impact the current class of enrolled Master’s auctions. degree students who will finish during the 2019-20 academic year. However, the Master’s degree programme will then cease. The proposed restructuring plan integrates the Continuing Education and Left and above: two views of the Qianlong wall pocket c.1740-50 – Online Education departments into the Special feature £380,000 (plus buyer’s premium) at Sworders on November 8. main Christie’s company. Entertainment Sixty objects, sixty stories Memorabilia ixty objects XX Xxxxxx 2019 ,- ISSUE XXXX PRESIDENTS’ DAY WEEKEND page 14-20 FEBRUARY 13-18, 2020 GREG PEPIN SILVER A PALM BEACH SHOW GROUP EVENT | PALMBEACHSHOW.COM S sixty stories Institutions flock to Edgeworth salePAGE 001, 004, 006 2417.indd 5 08/11/2019 17:38:52 Two institutions dominated primary source material Edgeworth’s stepmother when signed and inscribed to family bidding for the notebooks relating to the prolific Anglo- her father Richard Lovell members for around £4000. and correspondence of a Irish writer Maria Edgeworth Edgeworth (1744-1817) married Low had been delighted to be significant Regency period (1768-1849). Collectively the 11 for a fourth time. Frances, a asked back to inspect more of female author at the Cotswold lots, found by specialist Jenny year younger than Maria, the collection at the end of Auction Company in Low on a visit to a Cotswold would be her confidante, travel 2019. Cheltenham last week. cottage, totalled £148,000. companion and the recipient of This time the unseen New Jersey’s Princeton The vendor, it emerged, was most of her literary legacy. contents of several suitcases University Library and the the goddaughter of a descendant Two years ago, in February were the author’s most personal Above: an engraved portrait of National Library of Ireland of Frances Anne Beaufort 2018, the auction house sold a Mrs Maria Edgeworth, 1808. divided the spoils of a cache of (1769-1865), who had become group of Edgeworth editions Continued on page 8 50,000 Auction catalogues Scanned or hard copy thecatalogstar.com Tel: 01225 829 090 PROOF OF PROVENANCE. INCREASE VALUE
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WEDNESDAY H&H CLASSICS PRO AUCTION EWBANK’S FRIDAY LOCKDALES APRIL 29 The Motor House, Lyncastle Road, 22-26 Druid Street, London, SE1 2EY. The Burnt Common Auction Rooms, MAY 1 52 Barrack Square, Martlesham Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4SN. Tel: +44 (0)1761 414000 London Road, Woking, Surrey, Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 3RF.
Tel: +44 (0)845 833 4455 Vintage Toys, Die-casts & Comics, GU23 7LN. Tel: +44 (0)1473 627110 C & T AUCTIONEERS Tel: +44 (0)1483 223101 BIGWOOD AUCTIONEERS Classic Motor Cars, 13.00 10.30 Banknotes, 9.30 The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal A: Asian Art, 9.30 The Old School, Tiddington, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8XJ. (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) B: Vintage Fashion & Textiles, 14.00 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, 4 Tel: +44 (0)1233 510050 www.handh.co.uk proauction.ltd.uk 4 lockdales.com (live online only) CV37 7AW. Toy Soldiers & Dolls, 10.00 ewbankauctions.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1789 269415 (live online & postal bids only) HANNAM’S AUCTIONEERS Furnishings, Interiors & Collectables, MULBERRY BANK AUCTIONS candtauctions.co.uk 4 RICHARD WINTERTON The Old Dairy, Norton Farm, Selborne, 10.30 15 Kelvin Avenue, Hillington Park, The Lichfield Auction Centre, Wood FORUM AUCTIONS Hampshire, GU34 3NB. (live online only) Glasgow, G52 4LT. End Lane, Fradley Park, Lichfield, 220 Queenstown Road, London, CHAUCER AUCTIONS bigwoodauctioneers.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1420 511788 Staffordshire, WS13 8NF. SW8 4LP. Tel: +44 (0)1412 258181 Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, Fine Art & Antiques, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5QW. Tel: +44 (0)1543 251081 (live online only) Modern Literature, Children’s Private (live online only) Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 Homes & Interiors, 9.30 RYE AUCTION GALLERIES hannamsauctioneers.com 4 Press & Illustrations mulberrybankauctions.com 4 Autographs & Stamps, 10.00 (live online only) Units 2 & 3, Rock Channel Quay, Rye, (live online only), 13.00 (live online only) richardwinterton.co.uk 4 East Sussex, TN31 7DL. forumauctions.co.uk 4 chaucercollectables.co.uk 4 JAMES & SONS Tel: +44 (0)1797 222650 POTTERIES AUCTIONS 5 Norwich Street, Fakenham, Norfolk, Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Unit 4a, Silverdale Enterprise Park, WARRINGTON & NORTHWICH KEYS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS (live online only) CHISWICK AUCTIONS NR21 9AF. Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, AUCTIONS Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers ryeauctiongalleries.com 4 1 Colville Road, London, W3 8BL. Tel: + 44 (0)1328 855003 ST5 6SS. 551 Europa Boulevard, Westbrook, Lane, Aylsham, Norwich, Norfolk, Tel: +44 (0)20 8992 4442 Militaria, Coins, Ephemera, Postcards Tel: +44 (0)1782 638100 Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 7TP. NR11 6JA. Photography, 11.30 & Railwayana, 11.00 SPICER’S AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS British Pottery, Collectors’ Items & Tel: +44 (0)1925 658833 Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 (live online only) (live online only) The Exchange Saleroom, Exchange Furniture, 10.00 4 4 A: Coins, Watches, Jewellery & Pictures & Prints, 10.00 chiswickauctions.co.uk jamesandsonsauctioneers.com Street, Driffield, East Yorkshire, (live online only) Ceramics, 09.00 (live online only) 4 4 YO25 6LD. potteriesauctions.com B: Toys & Games, 16.00 keysauctions.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1377 593593 CLAYDON AUCTIONEERS KEYS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS (live online only) Victorian & Home Furnishings, 10.00 The Claydon Saleroom, Calvert Road, Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers 4 RYEDALE AUCTIONEERS warringtonauctions.co.uk MULLOCK’S (live online only) Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, Lane, Aylsham, Norwich, Norfolk, Cooks Yard, New Road, MK18 2EZ. The Clive Pavilion, Ludlow spicersauctioneers.com 4 NR11 6JA. Kirkbymoorside, York, YO62 6DZ. Tel: +44 (0) 1296 714434 Racecourse, Bromfield,Ludlow , Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 Tel: +44 (0)1751 431544 Paintings & Prints, 12.00 THURSDAY Shropshire, SY8 2BT. Wines, Ports & Spirits, 10.30 VINE AUCTIONEERS Homes, Interiors, Railwayana & Toys, (live online only) APRIL 30 Tel: +44 (0)1694 771771 160 Kemp House, City Road, London, claydonauctioneers.com 4 (live online only) Rugby & Football Memorabilia, 10.00 10.00 keysauctions.co.uk 4 (live online only) EC1V 2NX. (live online only) CHAUCER AUCTIONS mullocksauctions.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)20 7117 2952 ryedaleauctioneers.com 4 EWBANK’S Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, Watches, 9.30 The Burnt Common Auction Rooms, MA SAN AUCTION Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5QW. (live online only) London Road, Woking, Surrey, 2 Princes Buildings, George Street, PRO AUCTION 4 STACEY’S Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 vineauctioneers.co.uk GU23 7LN. Bath, Somerset, BA1 2ED. 22-26 Druid Street, London, SE1 2EY. Essex Auction Rooms, 37 Websters Books sold on behalf of the Michael Tel: +44 (0)1483 223101 Tel: +44 (0)1225 318587 Tel: +44 (0)1761 414000 Way, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 8JQ. Jewellery & Watches, 09.30 Asian Art & Antiques Sobell Hospice Charity, 18.00 Vintage Toys, Die-casts & Comics, Tel: +44 (0)1268 777122 10.30 SATURDAY (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) Rock & Retro, 10.00 4 4 (live online only) MAY 2 ewbankauctions.co.uk masanauction.com 4 chaucercollectables.co.uk (live online only) proauction.ltd.uk 4 staceyauction.com 4 BIDDLE & WEBB FORUM AUCTIONS MULLOCK’S CLARKS AUCTION ROOMS 220 Queenstown Road, London, RICHARD WINTERTON Icknield Square, Ladywood The Clive Pavilion, Ludlow 2A/2B Heathlands Industrial Estate, T & T AUCTIONS SW8 4LP. The Lichfield Auction Centre, Wood Middleway, Birmingham, West Racecourse, Bromfield,Ludlow , Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 4DH. The Masonic Hall, St. Johns Road, Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 End Lane, Fradley Park, Lichfield, Midlands, B16 0PP. Tel: +44 (0)7756 070198 A: Forum Auctions @ Artsy: Colour Shropshire, SY8 2BT. Staffordshire, WS13 8NF. Tel: +44 (0)1214 558042 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9UY. Theory, 16.00 Tel: +44 (0)1694 771771 Furniture, Collectables & Jewellery, Tel: +44 (0)1543 251081 Jewellery, Silver, Watches & Interiors, Tel: +44 (0)1892 529898 B: Paolozzi Prints, 13.00 Rugby & Football Memorabilia, 10.00 10.30 Homes & Interiors, 9.30 10.00 Stamps, 10.00 (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) forumauctions.co.uk 4 mullocksauctions.co.uk 4 clarksauctionrooms.com 4 richardwinterton.co.uk 4 biddleandwebb.co.uk 4 tandtauctions.com
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MONDAY SPINK & SON DIX NOONAN WEBB UNIQUE AUCTIONS HANSONS SUNDAY MAY 4 69 Southampton Row, London, 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London, Rose Orchard, Newark Road, Lincoln, Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, MAY 10 WC1B 4ET. W1J 8BQ. DE65 6LS. LN5 9EJ. Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Tel: +44 (0)20 7016 1700 Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 BOLTON AUCTION ROOMS Bonds & Share Certificates of the Coins, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1522 695820 Historica, Coins, Banknotes & CHISWICK AUCTIONS Breightmet Drive, Bolton, Greater World, 11.00 (live online only) Antiques & Collectables, 18.00 Antiquities, 10.00 1 Colville Road, London, W3 8BL. Manchester, BL2 6EE. 4 (live online only) dnw.co.uk (live online only) (live online only) Tel: +44 (0)1204 775121 Tel: +44 (0)20 8992 4442 spink.com hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 4 General, 10.00 unique-auctions.com 4 Asian Art, including Chinese (live online only) ELMWOOD’S Paintings, 10.00 boltonauction.co.uk 4 THOMAS N. MILLER Ground Floor Studio, The Red House, ROMA NUMISMATICS (live online only) Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle- WARWICK & WARWICK Munrow Mews, London, W10 5XS. 20 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6EJ. chiswickauctions.co.uk 4 upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE6 2UN. Tel: +44 (0)20 7096 8933 Ballroom, Court House, Jury Street, SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY Tel: +44 (0)20 7121 6518 Tel: +44 (0)1912 658080 Jewellery, 14.00 Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, Warwick, CV34 4EW. Coins, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 (live online only) SULLIVANS AUCTIONS South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. Tel: +44 (0)1926 499031 (live online only) (live online only) elmwoods.co.uk 4 Pant Industrial Estate, Merthyr Tydfil, Tel: +44 (0)1142 816161 romanumismatics.com 4 millersauctioneers.co.uk 4 World Stamps, 12.00 Medals & Militaria, 11.00 South Glamorgan, CF48 2SR. (live online & postal bids only) (live online only) Tel: +44 (0)1685 384603 HANSONS SWAN FINE ART AUCTIONS sheffieldauctiongallery.com 4 warwickandwarwick.com Furniture & Fine Art, 10.00 WEDNESDAY Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, The Swan, High Street, Tetsworth, DE65 6LS. (live online only) MAY 6 Oxfordshire, OX9 7AB. Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 Tel: +44 (0)1844 281777 sullivansauctions.com TUESDAY Historica, Coins, Banknotes & THURSDAY Jewellery, Silver, Ceramics & Fine MAY 5 BRITISH BESPOKE AUCTIONS Antiquities, 10.00 MAY 7 Furniture, 12.00 The Old Boys’ School, Gretton Road, (live online only) WESTENHANGER AUCTION (live online only) Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, 4 GALLERIES CHESHIRE STAMP AUCTIONS hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 4 GL54 5EE. theswan.co.uk Egerton Court, Haig Road, Knutsford, FORUM AUCTIONS Station House, Stone Street, Tel: +44 (0)1242 603005 Cheshire, WA16 8DX. Westenhanger, Hythe, Kent, Antiques, Collectables & Jewellery, SWAN FINE ART AUCTIONS 220 Queenstown Road, London, Tel: +44 (0)1565 653214 WHITTONS AUCTIONS CT21 4HX. 10.00 The Swan, High Street, Tetsworth, SW8 4LP. Stamps, 16.30 The Fine Art Auction Rooms, Dowell Tel: +44 (0)1303 813545 (live online only) Oxfordshire, OX9 7AB. (live online only) Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Street, Honiton, Devon, EX14 1LX. bespokeauctions.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1844 281777 +44 (0)7779 995117 sandafayre.com 4 Books & Works on Paper, 13.00 Tel: +44 (0)1404 517000 Natural History & Curiosities, 12.00 Antiques, Wine & Port, Jewellery, Silver & Jewellery, 9.30 (live online only) (live online only) Clocks, Watches, Books & Coins, 11.00 C & T AUCTIONEERS (live online only) EAST BRISTOL AUCTIONS theswan.co.uk 4 forumauctions.co.uk 4 4 (live online only) 1 Hanham Business Park, Memorial The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, whittonsauctions.co.uk westenhangerauctioneers.com 4 Road, Bristol, BS15 3JE. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8XJ. Tel: +44 (0)1179 671000 Tel: +44 (0)1233 510050 Jewellery, 10.00 Third Reich Collection), 10.00 Great Value FRIDAY (live online only) (live online & postal bids only) MAY 8 MONDAY 4 eastbristol.co.uk 4 candtauctions.co.uk Online Transit Insurance MAY 11
SWAN FINE ART AUCTIONS CHARTERHOUSE AUCTIONEERS KINGSLEY AUCTIONS The Swan, High Street, Tetsworth, BOLTON AUCTION ROOMS Haynes International Motor Museum, 112-118 Market Street, Hoylake, The convenient Oxfordshire, OX9 7AB. Breightmet Drive, Bolton, Greater Wirral, Merseyside, CH47 3BG. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, Tel: +44 (0)1844 281777 Manchester, BL2 6EE. Tel: +44 (0)1516 325821 BA22 7LH. way to protect Paintings to Include Old Masters & Tel: +44 (0)1204 775121 Antiques & Collectables, 10.30 Tel: +44 (0)1935 812277 Fine Arts & Stamps, 12.00 (live online only) Classic & Vintage Motorcycles, 12.00 General, 10.00 Antiques in transit (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) kingsleyauctions.blogspot.co.uk 4 4 theswan.co.uk charterhouse-auction.com boltonauction.co.uk 4
LYON & TURNBULL UNIQUE AUCTIONS 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, CHAUCER AUCTIONS CHISWICK AUCTIONS EH1 3RR. Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, Rose Orchard, Newark Road, Lincoln, 1 Colville Road, London, W3 8BL. Tel: +44 (0)1315 578844 Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5QW. LN5 9EJ. Tel: +44 (0)20 8992 4442 African & Oceanic Art, Natural History Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 Tel: +44 (0)1522 695820 & Antiquities, 11.00 Autographs & Stamps, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 09.00 Handbags, 10.00 (live online only) (live online only) (live online only) transit2insure.com (live online only) lyonandturnbull.com 4 chaucercollectables.co.uk 4 unique-auctions.com 4 chiswickauctions.co.uk 4
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Against the backdrop of a weakening pound, the price of gold in the UK has hit an all-time high. ISSUE 2402 | antiquestradegazette.com | 27 July & 3 August 2019 The gold x, climbing since May, peaked at £1184.17 on Friday, August 2, represent Get your - ing a 3.1% rise on the previous week and koopman rare art above the previous record of £1182 set in antiques tr ade September 2011. ‘I placed an advert online The silver spot rate reached £13.64 per ounce last week, the highest of 2019 but some way short of record levels. Precious metals are a traditional safe haven at times of economic uncertainty. The current peak follows the increasing possibility of a no-deal Brexit and the and in print for a role at our announcement that the US Federal Reserve THE ART MARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art was cutting interest rates. L e e Brighton precious metals dealer Michael Bloomstein reported larger amounts of gold and silver coming in due to the increasing Left: Tiffany mixed London office. The quality scrap values. At the start of the year he had Morning Briefing metal and ivory tea Ivory ban heads predicted greater movement in the gold caddy – £21,000 at price after the relatively consistent levels Woolley & Wallis. across 2018 (see ATG No 2373). He pointed out that the ratio between the to High Court prices of gold and silver was growing ever wider. “For the past 20 years you would candidates and expedient by Noelle McElhatton The judge noted the applicants’ normally have needed about 60 ounces of argument that trade in pre-1947 silver to buy one ounce of gold. Now you worked ivory is already covered in EU would need 85 ounces of silver to buy one A High Court judge has given the law and therefore “raises a point of ounce of gold.” go-ahead for a full judicial hearing on some considerable difficulty and from Antiques Trade Gazette the legality of the Ivory Act, due to usher importance in European law”. in a near-total ban on the UK trade in The hearing will take place sometime response to the advert antique ivory. in October 2019 “if that is reasonably Sir Wyn Williams has granted practicable”, a note from the Queen’s permission to the applicants – a new Bench Division Administrative Court company formed by dealers and collectors stated. called the Friends of Antique Cultural The government will be required to Treasures Ltd (FACT) – to challenge the argue its case at the High Court hearing. secretary of state for environment, food Bids pour in for tea caddy gave me good reason to and rural affairs on aspects of the act. AUGContinued 29 –on pageSEPT 5 1, 2019 An unusual entry to the July 16 Silver & Objects of Vertu sale at Woolley & TRINITY HOUSE PAINTINGS A PALM BEACH SHOWWallis GROUP in Salisbury EVENT was this | 5in BALTIMORESUMMERSHOW.COM (13cm) silver and mixed metal tea caddy by Tiffany & Co, writes Roland Arkell. London Auctions enters liquidation It was made under the aegis of Edward C Moore (1827-91), who introduced the Japanese metalworking technique mokume (simulating If you want to keep on top of the latest news with consignors among creditors wood grain) to Tiffany in the 1880s. A Meiji period ivory okimono of playful advertise with the ATG PAGE 001 004 005 3403.indd 1 children provides the finial. In addition to the factory mark, the base has a monogram for Mary Jane London Auctions Ltd is insolvent and has Bhardwaj Insolvency Practitioners of Morgan (1823-85), the second wife of the shipping and railroad magnate 02/0 /2019 13:09:10 entered liquidation proceedings. Northwood has been appointed as Charles Morgan (1795-1878). She was a regular Tiffany client. The west London firm, based at 30-34 liquidator. A meeting of creditors and An evidently similar item was included in the 10-day, $1.25m Morgan Chiswick High Road, is understood to have shareholders has been arranged (at 47-49 estate sale held by American Auction Galleries at New York’s Chickering in the art and antiques world, signing up to debts of more than £137,000 with around Green Lane, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 Hall in 1886. Lot 706 in the sale was catalogued as Tea Canister, illustrating again should the need £44,000 owed to unpaid consignors. 3AE) when a full statement of the Japanese difficult workmanship in metals of ‘Moku-me’ or veins in wood, Concerns began to surround the future company’s affairs will be given. ivory qilin surmounting cover, gold lined. of London Auctions earlier this month as Ashok Bhardwaj told ATG that the total However, this example (perhaps its pair) came for sale by family descent calls were not returned and the premises owed to 101 different vendors is £44,000 to the current owner. Despite the problems inherent in an American object closed during normal office hours. The with additional liabilities of £13,000 to the with ivory elements, such a fine example of ‘Japonism’ attracted many Antiques Trade Gazette’s Morning Briefing firm held a sale on June 30 but an auction Inland Revenue, £18,000 to the sole admirers. 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High price? Not for the archive Two kilos – that’s a tiddler of a coin MADAM – Re: your report on the sycee of ephemera that came with it sold at auction in Germany (International, ATG No 2438). MADAM – In your recent report on Surely when one considers the rai the Toovey’s book sale (ATG No stones of the Island of Yap, which can 2437) you mention the purchase of weigh up to 4 tonnes (and be up to 4 the Pear Tree Press publication Ten metres in diameter), the sycee weighing designs for Two Gentlemen of Verona. under 2 kilos is a mere runner-up in any Just in case your readers think that listing of ‘the largest coin ever made’? Above: the Qing example of sycee the price was very high, the purchase currency sold at German auction included a very large archive of John Spanner, Merstham house Eppli for €14,000 (£12,730). additional ephemeral items printed by this press, items such as a letter headed paper for local garage, Thanks for keeping us up to date revealing the diversity of its work. Above: Ten Designs for the Two MADAM – I would like to express my to sitting down with a cup of tea or coffee The archive, for that is what it is, Gentleman of Verona sold for £650 at appreciation to the editorial and other and a few biscuits to read and enjoy the will become part of Horsham District Toovey’s on March 17 – with a large colleagues that have provided us with a ATG at leisure. In these strange times one Council’s Horsham Museum archive of ephemeral items. copy of the ATG every week during this has to do these unusual things (reading collections and was acquired by the extraordinary time. the ATG online) to keep up to date with Friends of Horsham Museum. Many of them are working remotely the latest reports; after all, those that It is currently being listed by a press and one day be the basis of a from home, but it is nice to see that the have taken the trouble and effort to museum volunteer while the museum temporary exhibition, when we learn antiques trade news continues, albeit not produce the articles should be given the is closed. more about the fantastic archive. mentioned on the national media. decency in having their work read. It was too important a record of a OK, I may not like reading online – Once again, many thanks for keeping Sussex private press to be dispersed Jeremy Knight whether it’s the ATG or other magazines us all up to date one way or another. and will enable future researchers to Museum and heritage manager, and newspapers – mainly because it create a fuller understanding of the Horsham Museum & Art Gallery plays on my eyes. But I do look forward Ken Lewis
Obituaries
John Gewirtz I would be at the shop and Roger Lloyd Tonkinson design and how these objects could was never ceased to be work together. After my mother’s death It is with great sadness amazed as customer after My father, Roger Lloyd Tonkinson, in 2005 Tremayne carried on with the that I announce the sudden customer would arrive trained and worked as an architect until help of dad’s second wife, Eileen, until it death of my father and mid-morning and wait to 1997 when he and my mother Anne finally closed in 2014. mentor, John Gewirtz, see and buy his morning’s moved to St Ives, Cornwall. My father was a regular at the aged 81. purchases. I still believe half They bought an old bakery and turned London contemporary ceramics He began his career of them were buying the it into one of the foremost destinations and design sales and he travelled as a silver dealer in the stock on merit and the other in the UK for modern design enthusiasts. nationwide to source items from Chancery Lane Silver Vaults in 1960 and half were simply buying into ‘Dad’. Tremayne Applied Arts specialised both private collections and auctions, opened his own business, John Laurie John was a true ‘mensch’. For many in 20th century design and was one becoming good friends with many of the Antiques, in Camden Passage in 1961. years a local homeless man would visit of the first specialist galleries in the auctioneers, specialists and collectors John was a real personality as well the shop every Wednesday afternoon UK outside London, also strongly he met on his way. as a great dealer. He encouraged his and whistle at dad through the window, supporting contemporary crafts with clients’ patronage as much with his Dad would give him a nod and he would regular exhibitions of new furniture and St Ives stalwart sense of humour as he did with his spend the next 15 minutes cleaning the ceramics. He was a member of the Tate stock! In the 1970s-80s, when business shop windows with his hand. Scandinavian design, modern prints, Committee, a supporter of the St Ives was flourishing, John’s ability to get to To be honest, this only gave our St Ives school paintings and studio Festival and was heavily involved with know his clients was always his strong professional Monday morning window ceramics – the emphasis was on good the Leach Pottery and the St Ives Trust. suit. He was a ‘good man’, one of the cleaners extra work to do, but Dad A two-year battle with cancer finally good guys in life, and he was as attentive always gave him £10 as he was always came to an end this March but dad never to the customer spending £50 as he was happy and privileged to help anyone less lost his passion for antiques and art, with the customer spending £5000. fortunate than himself. regularly reading articles and discussing I joined the business in 1988 and John retired relatively young at 63 antiques with the various doctors and together we experienced the surge in and enjoyed spending time with his specialists he met. commerce during the 1990s. Dad would wife, children, grandchildren and loving Indeed, his passion for the arts and go out buying every Friday morning – friends as well as travelling extensively. life was contagious and anyone who you had ‘calls‘ in those days! He never stopped being a silver dealer had the chance to spend five minutes or First stop was always a trusted and would return from holidays all over five hours in Tremayne would walk away colleague in George Street, followed the world with his local silver purchases. having learnt something new, or having by Kensington Church Street, then the He will be immeasurably missed by imparted their knowledge onto my father Silver Galleries in Bond Street and finally his wife Valerie, sister Marilyn, sons who was always so keen to learn more the young runners who worked in the Richard and Jeremy, daughter Nicola, himself. Silver Vaults. daughter-in law Julia, son-in-law Justin, His enthusiasm and energy is He would sift through their purchases Maxine and grandchildren Jo, Freddie, something I hope we can all embrace in of the week and would often return to Mimi, Frankie and Oscar. our own lives. Islington with a carful of merchandise. Richard Gewirtz Alex Tonkinson
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