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‘Elegy’ from 1836 The stern face, luxurious reveals original moustache and pointing finger are instantly familiar – but the John Constable message below Kitchener’s intense gaze not so. watercolours Instead of the famous Wants you text on the classic First by Alex Capon World War recruiting poster, the example offered at Dorset Discovered lying unrecognised on a auction house Onslows on bookcase in a Sussex cottage, a unique May 28 was subtly different: edition of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written Your country needs you. Also in a Country Churchyard will be offered confusing was the title London at Gorringe’s this month with a Opinion above Kitchener rather £100,000-150,000 estimate. Not only is the 1836 first illustrated than Britons in suitably chunky edition of the great poem a significant rarity red lettering. in itself (very few, if any, copies have This was the first news seemingly emerged at auction in the last 40 stand version created by Alfred years), this particular quarto copy has 17 Leete as an advert for the original drawings and watercolours, each September 5, 1914, edition of bound in directly before the applicable London Opinion magazine, later adapted to the now much more Continued on page 4 well-known poster version.
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Right: First World War Kitchener house record image from the edition of The London Opinion by Laura Chesters magazine of Pick September 5, Copenhagen auction house Bruun of the 1914 – £11,000 Rasmussen achieved a house record with at Onslows. the sale of an early Ming porcelain dish. week Hammered down at Dkr35.5m (£4.1m) on June 2, it also became the most expensive piece of Asian decorative art ever sold in Scandinavia. The Chinese buyer will pay Dkr46.15m (£5.32m) including 24% buyer’s The Kitchener call to arms that premium and VAT. inspired a classic poster design Estimate was Dkr200,000–300,000. Continued on page 4
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Original Constable illustrations found Continued from front page Left: the editor’s personal copy of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, stanza to which they relate. bound with 17 original drawings including These works include three three by John Constable. It is estimated at watercolours by John Constable £100,000-150,000 by Gorringe’s. no less, and others by artists such as Charles Landseer, Peter Right: one of the Constable watercolours, De Wint and Richard Westall. measuring 4¾ x 6¾in (12 x 17cm) bound These influential names into the book. This illustration refers to the were commissioned for the eleventh stanza Can storied urn or animated illustrated edition of Gray’s bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting Elegy by the prominent Regency breath?… bookseller, librarian and bibliographer John Martin. The book was published by legacy and remembrance. hand-written letters which will Rogers to Martin but dates John Van Voorst, London, and Spotted during a routine accompany the lot. One letter from two years later. dedicated to and probably valuation visit, this was the dated 1835 is from Constable to The lot will be offered at funded by the poet and banker editor John Martin’s personal Martin and includes a sketch of Gorringe’s sale in Lewes on Samuel Rogers. copy. It is believed that the the churchyard at Stoke Poges, June 29. It featured 33 wood book was handed down through Buckinghamshire (where the engravings in all which aimed the vendor’s family, although it grave of Gray’s much-loved Right: the letter from John to capture the vivid imagery of is unclear how they acquired it. aunt, Mary Antrobus, had Constable to John Martin the poetry and explore themes Also found within the red acted as the catalyst for his that accompanies the lot at in the text such as mortality, morocco gilt covers were two poem). The other letter is from Gorringe’s.
Renaissance roundel UK export delayed Battle of Britain medal
A rare Renaissance roundel has been the Treby family of Plympton, Devon. groups hit six figures temporarily blocked from export by The decision to temporarily block its Two impressive Battle of Britain medal groups offered a the UK government in the hope a export was taken by culture minister day apart at separate auctions both took six-figure sums. buyer in the UK will emerge. Caroline Dinenage. It follows the On May 19, a DSO and bar and DFC awarded to RAF The parcel-gilt and silvered advice of the Reviewing Group Captain Brian Kingcome (1917-94) soared to bronze roundel depicts Mars, Committee on the Export of £110,000 at London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb (24% Venus, Cupid and Vulcan Works of Art and Objects of buyer’s premium) against an estimate of £30,000- and is believed to be from Cultural Interest, which cited 40,000. The lot was bought by a UK collector of Mantua, in the northern its significance for the study of outstanding gallantry awards. Italian region of Lombardy, north Italian bronze sculpture A day later, Gloucestershire saleroom Dominic Winter and made c.1480-1500. in the late 15th century and (20% buyer’s premium) offered honours including It had sold at Christie’s in the history of English CBE, DSO, DFC and Bar (and logbooks) awarded to Air December 2003 for £6.95m collecting in the mid-18th Commodore Peter Malam ‘Pete’ Brothers (1917-2008). (including buyer’s premium) century when it first arrived in Guided at £120,000-160,000, they took £155,000. and was owned by the buyer and Britain. their family until 2019, when it was A decision on the granting of the purchased by the current owner. An licence has been deferred until Two of The Few export licence was then applied for and has Above: this rare c.1480- September 27. This may be extended until Christopher Mellor-Hill, head of client liaison (associate now been temporarily declined by the 1500 Renaissance March 27, 2022, if a serious intention to director) of DNW, said: “The outstanding price government. roundel has been raise funds is made. paid reflects Kingcome’s status as was one of the Its earlier provenance includes being temporarily blocked The price required is £17m plus exceptional Battle of Britain heroes. owned by George Treby III (c.1726-61) and from export. £3.4m VAT. Laura Chesters “He epitomised the Battle of Britain image of the daring, adrenaline-driven young men who became ‘One of The Few’ in defending our country from Biggin Hill in Kent where he commanded the 92 Squadron of Spitfire before being himself wounded and later continuing Ming dish makes Scandinavian top sum to fight in Italy and France until the end of the Second World War.” Continued from front page antiques at Bruun Rasmussen, said: He destroyed a total of 11 enemy aircraft, probably “We were well aware that the dish destroyed a further five and damaged 13. The 15th century blue and would fetch a good price and that Brothers flew 875 operational hours and is credited white porcelain dish with a there would be a great deal of with 16 aerial victories, 10 of which he achieved during dragon motif came from a interest in it. Yet, I also have to the Battle of Britain with 32 Squadron. Danish private collection. admit, that our estimate was a bit He had a relatively long career as a combat pilot, However, the auction house off the mark. But the result itself achieving his first two kills in May 1940 during the Battle believes it was once owned by can certainly be described as of France and his last in August 1944 when he shot Swedish architect Salomon having hit the bullseye.” down a Focke Wulf 190 over the Loire. After rejoining Sörensen (1856-1937). the RAF, Brothers even flew operations during the Ralph Lexner, head of the Left: early Ming porcelain dish – Malayan Emergency of the 1950s. Tom Derbyshire department of Asian art and Dkr35.5m (£4.1m) at Bruun Rasmussen. 4 | 12 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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The historic Military Cross group of medals to Anthony Eden, After Filippo Negroli, a fine embossed burgonet in the 16th century Prime Minister of Great Britain 195557 North Italian style, probably 19th century Estimate £7,00010,000* Estimate £5,0008,000* The Sultan’s Medal for Egypt 1801 (first class) attributed to The scarce Korean War Distinguished Flying Cross group of medals General Sir Eyre Coote to Major (later Maj. Gen.) A. G. E. StewartCox Royal Artillery Estimate £12,00016,000* Estimate £4,0006,000*
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Pick of the week Kitchener wants you – the first time round
Continued from front page London museum,” said Bogue. “It had been underbid Pre-sale, Patrick Bogue of Onslows had said: “This by numerous online bidders to around £5000, then is the elusive missing link and holy grail of First World a phone bid to around £8000, then a commission War posters. We are extremely excited to announce underbidder who is a collector.” that this rarity has at last turned up. We think this Onslows has also sold three of the better-known news-stand version is even rarer than the handful of Britons posters – the first for a ‘record price’ of known examples of the recruiting poster.” £24,000 in 2014. The same year a further ‘better Leete’s 2ft 6in x 20in (76 x 51cm) design was so condition’ example turned up in Edinburgh and was striking when it appeared on the news stands it was sold by private sale to the underbidder for £14,000. commandeered by the government’s Parliamentary Another then turned up in 2019 along with some Recruiting Committee and permission was sought to other Great War posters, taking £14,000 (bought use it as a recruiting poster. by an Australian bidder who aimed to loan it to the The published poster was also printed by the Australian War Memorial, joining another copy Down Victoria Printing Company, suggesting that the Under at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne). magazine owner gave consent for its reproduction Two others are held by London’s Imperial War making it a condition that the printing contract went to Museum and the Robert Opie collection. the magazine’s own printers. Tom Derbyshire It had been consigned to Onslows as part of a collection of 64 First World War posters. Estimated at £2000-4000, it took £11,000 (plus 25% Right: the classic First World War Kitchener Britons premium). “It sold via a commission bid by Onslows recruitment poster sold by Onslows in 2019 for £14,000. and was bought by a private buyer on behalf of a © Lancelot Ribeiro Estate 350-lot online auction with of museum services in Bonhams. Chicago. She joins after working as managing director of private Snijders starts new client services for the Haven Precious art consultancy Art Group, a collection advi- metals sory subsidiary of Pure Above: a pair of Howard & Sons Muys Snijders, Insurance. On Friday, June 4, Ivor armchairs estimated at former Chris- Prior to Haven, she was a £12,000-18,000 in the Lorfords tie’s senior vice registrar at the Museum of Above: The Business Luncheon Michael Bloomstein of and Bonhams timed online sale president, man- Contemporary Art Chicago. by Lancelot Ribeiro has been Brighton was paying the ending on June 18. aging director bought by The Kiran Nadar following for bulk scrap for the Ameri- Museum of Art. against a gold fix of: Bonhams stages cas, has set up Houston joins the $1869.55 €1540.06 £1323.64 Lorfords auction a new venture. Dawsons team Indian modern artist Lancelot Art Business Consulting Ribeiro (1933-2010) to two Gold Antiques centre Lorfords in (ABC) is a management con- Nicky Houston has joined museums. The Tate has 22 carat: £1170.87 per oz Tetbury has teamed up with sultancy focusing on art Dawsons as an auctioneer and acquired six works by Ribeiro (£37.65 per gram) Bonhams to hold an online businesses and artists. The valuer. She specialises in paint- and The Kiran Nadar Museum auction of dealers’ stock. firm plans to operate across ings and jewellery and was of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, 18 carat: £957.98 (£30.80) The sale runs online until New York, Philadelphia, previously an adviser to private India, has acquired two large 15 carat: £798.32 (£25.67) June 18 and the items will be on London and Geneva. clients. oil paintings. view at Lorfords’ showroom. The Tate acquisition 14 carat: £745.10 (£23.96) The collection includes over includes the oil Cityscape (Night), 9 carat: £479.00 per oz 180 pieces selected by owner Hindman appoints Ribeiro paintings 1963, the oil and PVA The War- and founder Toby Lorford. museum expert find new homes lord (Psychedelic Man Series), (£15.40 per gram) He said: “It has been such a 1966, as well as four works on 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 pleasure to have the opportu- Hindman has appointed Caro- London dealership Grosvenor paper from 1964. 12 Month Low: ▼ £14.19 nity to source some of my line Mujica-Parodi as director Gallery has sold works by The two large oil paintings favourite pieces from the col- bought by KNMA are The Hallmark Platinum lection for the Lorfords X Offering, 1966, and The Business £22.35 per gram Bonhams sale.” Luncheon, 1966, (pictured). Bonhams has worked with a The prices paid were in the Silver number of dealers to offer their region of £20,000 for the large stock at auction during the pan- oils and under £5000 for the £16.00 per oz for 925 demic when shops and fairs works on paper. standard hallmarked have been closed. Grosvenor Gallery repre- 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 In February, items from sents the estate of the artist and dealers of The Decorative Above (l to r): Nicky Houston of Dawsons, Caroline Mujica-Parodi is holding a dedicated show 12 Month Low: ▼ £11.51 Antiques & Textiles Fair held a of Hindman and Tracey Kahle of Freeman’s. running until June 27. 6 | 12 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 006-007 2496.indd 1 04/06/2021 13:36:06 Bid Barometer Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com
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Kahle now Kansas Christian Hesse Auktionen, City regional rep Hamburg, May 29 Elegies from the Castle of Freeman’s has appointed Duino by Rainer Maria Rilke, Tracey Kahle to the newly cre- Most read 1931, translated from the ated role of regional German. representative in Kansas City. Estimate: €13,000-20,000 Kahle previously worked for The most viewed stories for Hammer: €42,000 (£36,400) luxury jewellery retailers as a week May 26-June 2 on senior gemologist and antiquestradegazette.com appraiser. 1 Rare octagonal Cartier watch and a Wannenes Art Above: a 15ct gold medal Victorian portrait Auctions, Genoa, Suffolk lots set the feature in our pick of exhibition standard awarded to Mrs Nelson-Scott, May 28 maker at Elkington & Co, London, five auction highlights French tortoiseshell Ninety lots in the Lacy Scott & at The Scottish Exhibition of 2 Dewlish House yields wood bureau, first Knight auction in Bury St Natural History, Art and Industry, ‘good old-fashioned quarter 18th century. Edmunds on June 11 comprise Glasgow 1911. It is estimated at house sale with Estimate: €3000-4000 the Damon Murrin Collection £100-150 at Lacy Scott & Knight. everything on offer’ Hammer: €22,000 of medals, souvenirs and (£19,100) ephemera relating to great of collectors of exhibition 3 Master forger Mark exhibitions, international memorabilia. Hofmann’s infamous expositions and world fairs. Murrin’s medals range from work comes to Hotlotz, Singapore, timed online Murrin joined the British the 1801 French Napoleonic auction sale ending May 30 World Exhibitions Study Exposition Progress of the Arts to Art deco-style 38ct emerald 4 Archive of Stephen Group in 1987, nine years after the most recent,the 1992 Uni- single-stone ring. Hawking acquired by it was formed by a small group versal Exposition of Seville. Estimate: Sin$18,000-25,000 Cambridge University Hammer: Sin$60,000 (£32,600) Library and Science Museum after tax Left: deal cigarette case and 5 Stopwatch used by ref lighter given Jack Taylor in 1974 HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE to Elvis by World Cup final the king of comes to auction Thailand – Halls, Shrewsbury, June 2 £3600 at Signal Book for the Ships of Mallams. War, 1794. Printed book with manuscript notes and hand- coloured flags. Present from Thai king Estimate: £400-600 to King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Hammer: £11,000 A combination cigarette case and lighter given to Elvis Presley by the king of Thailand sold for six times its top estimate at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Abingdon. It was given to Elvis during King Bhumibol’s 1960 visit to Hollywood’s Paramount Studios where the ‘King of Rock & Roll’ was filming GI Blues. The case and lighter sold to a phone bidder for £3600 during In Numbers Toovey’s, Washington, West the May 24 Home Sale. Sussex, May 27 The cigarette case was inscribed inside and out, dated and George III needlework sampler by stamped with Thai silver marks and ‘sterling’, and was sold M Rudrum, dated 1804. complete with its original case. 5.75 million Estimate: £80-120 Elvis later gave this cigarette case to the vendor’s aunt, Ursula Hammer: £2000 Nixon, who was working in the US in the 1960s as an English The number of shares online teacher and had come to know or work for the superstar. dealer marketplace 1st Dibs intends to sell in a forthcoming Third film flotation on New York’s NASDAQ Hannam’s, Selborne, Elvis made 31 films as an actor between 1956-69. Three years exchange, which is expected Hampshire, May 26 before GI Blues, he had starred in to value the company at about Seventeenth century boxwood his third movie, Jailhouse Rock. $800m. The firm made a net nutcracker inscribed with a Auction house Ewbank’s (25% loss of $12.5m in 2020. poem, 2½ x 2in (6.5 x 5cm). buyer’s premium) in Send, Surrey, Estimate: £50-75 sold a linen-backed, 2ft 6in x 3ft Hammer: £6000 4in (76cm x 1.02m) British Quad Jailhouse Rock poster (left) for a Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for May 8-16, 26-June 2019. 2, 2021. ‘Highest‘Highest pricemultiple over overestimate’ top estimate’= Our selection = Our of selection items from of theitems top from10 highest the top hammer 20 highest prices hammeras a mid-estimate £750 on May 27. 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 Tom Derbyshire ‘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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Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu Tuesday 15 June at 1pm
Lot 238 A pair of early 20th century Lot 248 A 1970s precious metal and cultured Lot 227 A 17th century miniature portrait later diamond and seed pearl ear pendants pearl necklace by Pierre Baltensperger mounted in 19th century gold locket pendant
Lot 80 A late 18th century rock crystal Lot 306 A 19th century gold and enamelled Lot 110 A star sapphire ring by and topaz bow brooch Japanese lacquer panel snuff box De Vroomen, 2006
Lot 330 Breguet, A lady’s gold ‘Marine’ Lot 228 An Egyptian Revival gold and Lot 334 Rolex, A stainless steel automatic wristwatch Ref. 2003B, circa 1990 agate scarab fob, circa 1860 ‘Zenith’ Daytona chronograph wristwatch, Ref. 16520, circa 2000
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A 19th/20th century A good large Chinese A very good pair of Japanese cloisonné A large bronze twin-handle A pair of 19th/20th century Chinese famille rose A large and impressive Chinese blue & white transitional period and ormolu nine-light candelabra. censer and stand. dog candlesticks Chinese carved porcelain lotus blue & white £1,200-£1,800 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) jade vase/lamp on Zun vase. porcelain vase. hardwood stand. £5,000-£8,000 (+BP*) £2,000-£3,000 (+BP*) £1,000-£2,000 (+BP*)
A large Japan pattern dinner service of 44 pieces. A Victorian mahogany collector’s A Louis XV petit commode A circular petrified wood table on bronze legs. Possibly Coalport. cabinet filled with butterflies. 3ft 7in tall. stamped ‘IDF’. 1ft 11in diameter, 2ft 3in tall. £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £800-£1,000 (+BP*)
Art glass – Gallé, Lalique, Daum, La Voie Française, de Vez, etc. Estimates £200-£1,000 (+BP*)
A Gentleman’s lifetime collection of Meissen porcelain. A collection of Georgian and Regency tea caddies, 28 Lots. Early Georgian and Victorian silver, 80 Lots. Estimates £200-£400 (+BP*) Estimates £50-£500 (+BP*) Various Estimates (+BP*) Pre-sale viewing times: Friday 11th June 9.00am-5.00pm, Saturday 12th June 10.00am-2.00pm, Sunday 13th June CLOSED, Monday 14th June & Tuesday 15th June 9.00am-5.00pm, Wednesday 16th June from 9.00am (Oriental and Islamic until start of sale, Fine Antiques until 5.00pm), Thursday 17th June from 9.00am (Fine Antiques only) We are open for viewing, observing all COVID-19 safety precautions. Masks MUST be worn on site unless exempt and social distancing must be adhered to. There will be a limited number of spaces available in the room on the day of the auction, so please phone ahead to book a space. Collection within 7 days. We also accept Online Bidding commission and is available through: telephone bids BP* - Buyer’s Premium 25% of the hammer price + VAT on the premium Please contact us for further information on 01428 653727, email [email protected], or visit the website www.johnnicholsons.com Contact us by email for condition reports.
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Sumptuous Sèvres in salerooms Range of highlights from ancien regime to the empire periods sold in UK auctions
by Roland Arkell 1 Catalogued as ‘a good Louis XVI style urn-shaped porcelain clock’, a French timepiece offered at John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) on April 15-16 was deemed by eager bidders to be something even more enticing. Pitched at £600-800, it sold at £16,500. Clocks such as these first appear in the Sèvres factory records for 1775 as Vase Pendule à Dauphins. An adaptation of the similar vase à 2 dauphins made by the factory in the 1750s, it takes the 14in (36cm) form of a fountain with two gilt white dolphins, each spouting jets of water that form the cover. Only a handful are known: one surviving at the Sèvres Cité de la céramique museum and two others that have appeared for sale at Christie’s in recent years. One (with an ormolu rather than a porcelain foot) came with a royal provenance to the bathroom at Louis XVI’s apartments at Versailles and sold accordingly in 2013 at £433,875. A better price comparison is perhaps 1. Sèvres Vase Pendule à Dauphins (plus details) – £16,500 at John Nicholson’s. the damaged example sold in June 2. Late Louis XV period Sèvres garniture – £16,000 at Rowley’s. 2016 for £43,750. All surviving versions have marks 3. Two imperial Sèvres plates – £3200 at Chiswick Auctions. for the gilder Etienne-Henry Le Guay but have movements and dials signed by different makers – in keeping period, modelled during the first Classical subjects with the factory records that suggest wave of neoclassicism known as the By 1800 the Sèvres factory was they were sold at 24 livres each to goût grec. Close inspection of online serving the needs of the empire rather clockmakers. The example sold here 3 images suggest they carried the date than the ancien regime. It called for a in Haslemere, part of the contents of letter T for 1772 and the gilder’s mark fresh approach to porcelain design. a large London property, is signed 2000 for Henry-François Vincent Both typical of the imperial to the dial Noël Leroy a Paris with the (1733-1809). output, two plates were offered by movement probably associated. He previously worked with his Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s father at Saint-Cloud and was premium) as part of an interiors sale Country house source described in the records as “five feet on May 13. It was not the only piece of Sèvres high, very fat, pale-faced, and with With red printed factory marks making waves in the UK regional blonde hair in round curls,” when he for 1807 and 1809, these were both rooms in the spring. moved to Vincennes on a wage of 36 finely decorated with classical The sale at Rowley’s (22.5% livres a month in 1753. By the time subjects. One depicted a female bust buyer’s premium) in Ely on he was 22 in 1755, he was earning 60 in profile, the other a scene depicting May 8 included a garniture of three livres as a gilder although further pay the tale of the ‘Corinthian Maid’ gilt-decorated Sèvres porcelain vases increases were delayed as punishment Dibutades, who drew around her – the largest 19in (48cm high). for insulting a bookkeeper. He lover’s shadow on a wall in order to They came from the same worked at the factory until 1800 preserve his image as a memento Bedfordshire country house as many using the mark 2000 (vingt cent) as a while he was away. of the better lots in the sale (including By 1800 the Sèvres pun on his surname. This poetic explanation for the a painted and giltwood neo-Palladian factory was serving These vases were in poor origin of painting was particularly wall bracket, c.1735, in the manner of “ condition – in the family for many popular during the 18th and early the needs of the William Kent that sold for £11,000 years, they were broken and crudely 19th century. – as featured in Bid Barometer in ATG empire rather than the repaired – but attracted three A catalogue addendum meant that No 2493). ancien regime principal phone bidders against a the pair, guided at just £200-300, Although catalogued as 19th £200-300 guide. Outbidding two were properly recognised. With some century, this garniture more probably rivals from France, a UK ceramics wear to the gilding, they brought dated from the end of the Louis XV dealer bought them at £16,000. £3200. n 10 | 12 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 010, 011, 012, 014 2496.indd 1 03/06/2021 16:26:18 Breakfast service fit for royal visitors
This huge porcelain breakfast service was made to welcome Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their first visit to Scotland in 1842. The Worcester service of more than 280 pieces, each painted with sprigs of heather and the family coronet, was previously among the furnishings of Taymouth Castle where, at the peak of their wealth, power and influence, the Earls of Breadalbane & Holland lived Above: the Breadalbane from the early 18th century until 1922. Worcester porcelain heather Edinburgh saleroom Lyon & Turnbull During the royal visit, meals pattern dinner service – (25% buyer’s premium) sold 43 lots for were provided for more £30,000 at Lyon & Turnbull. A the family on May 18. “ detail of a plate appears left. than 700 people a days A massive upgrading project preceded the royal visit to Taymouth on September 7-10, 1842. John Campbell, 6th Earl of punch bowl decorated with Jacobite Breadalbane and Holland (1824-71), emblems. hired some of the finest craftsmen of This 11in (28cm) bowl forms an the era to complete his renovation plans important part of a small group of and commissioned the Chamberlains’ Chinese export Jacobite porcelain Worcester porcelain factory to add wares (those celebrating the Duke of numerous pieces to the family’s Flight Cumberland’s victory at Culloden are Barr & Barr dinner service. more common). A close example is held LAWRENCE, T.E. During the royal visit, meals were in the Drambuie Collection of Jacobite SEVEN PILLARS OF provided for more than 700 people each Works of Art and was previously in the WISDOM, A TRIUMPH day. While royal invitees would have staunchly Jacobite family collection of One of the 32 lunched and dined on silver, breakfast the Earl & Countess of Perth. ‘incomplete’ copies presented to men and refreshments would have been They share the same portrait of who had served with served from Breadalbane porcelain. the Young Pretender (a direct copy of Lawrence in Arabia It was Victoria and Albert’s first the engraving by Sir Robert Strange, £25,000-35,000 + fees journey north of the border and one member of Prince Charles’s Lifeguards that would begin the queen’s love-affair regiment, during the ’45), although the with the Scottish Highlands and prompt floral sprays to the Breadalbane example the purchase of Balmoral in 1852. include white or Stuart roses of the type Victoria enjoyed Breadalbane’s tartan- also used Jacobite glasses. clad ‘Scottish’ experience immensely, Bowls such as this would have been commenting in her journal: “It seemed as used in conjunction with glassware in if a great chieftain in olden feudal times Jacobite clubs. The symbolic drowning was receiving his sovereign.” of Hanoverian kings on coins set into The Breadalbane Heather pattern punch ladles or the passing of glasses service was expected to bring £2000- over the bowl to symbolise the ‘king over 3000 but sparked sufficient interest to the water’ would all have been well- bring £30,000. understood in 18th century society. RARE BOOKS, It was not in great condition (in Jacobite decoration addition to wear to the enamels there MANUSCRIPTS, MAPS & PHOTOGRAPHS An 18th century ceramic with Scottish was a substantial rim chip) but more LIVE ONLINE WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE | 10AM associations was a rare Qianlong-era than doubled hopes at £11,500. VIEWING IN EDINBURGH BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
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Left: Body Pot by Joanna Ceramics at Chelmsford Technical Odundo work Constantinidis – £15,000 at Maak. College and School of Art, have Right: untitled by Magdalene tended to occupy the second tier of attracts prices Odundo – £105,000. the market. Most of her pared-down thrown at the level of forms, often enhanced by lustre glazes, sell in the high hundreds Coper and Rie rather than the thousands. However, this Maak sale included In November 2020, studio ceramics one of her best-known pieces, the specialist Maak (20% buyer’s 18in (46cm) high stoneware Body Pot premium) achieved a world record that has a deep rust brown glaze with for a living ceramic artist with the lustrous sheen. sale of the 1988 Angled Mixed Coloured It dates from c.1975 – well before Piece by the coveted Kenyan-born Constantinidis took early retirement potter Dame Magdalene Odundo in order to devote herself to producing (b.1950). Selling at £200,000, it was ceramics full-time – and is the type of pictured on the front cover of ATG prime period work for which she was (No 2470). awarded the Medal of Honour at the Odundo again featured in the exhibitions at Hepworth Wakefield international exhibition of ceramic art firm’s spring auction on May 13, and Salon 94 in New York, Odundo’s in Faenza in 1978. represented by two untitled works burnished and carbonised terracotta work enjoys the sort of financial With provenance to a private from 1991. form not unlike the record breaker rewards shared only by pots by Hans collection in London (it had been Entered for sale by an international (estimate £30,000-50,000). Coper and Lucie Rie. acquired from Oxford Ceramics collector who had bought them in Both had small condition issues Gallery), it was estimated at £700- 1992 was a rich orange burnished and (one a restored rim chip, the other Artist’s record 900 but received a remarkable 50 oxidised terracotta vase with three some scratches) but sold at £80,000 In contrast, pieces by Joanna bids before selling for an artist’s combed pinches to each shoulder and £105,000 respectively. Constantinidis (1927-2000), record of £15,000. (estimate £10,000-15,000) and a Buoyed by the success of recent for nearly 40 years a lecturer in Roland Arkell
Right: northern Indian panel – Medal marks a springboard £9500 at Chiswick Auctions. moment for Arts & Crafts Below right: The April 27 sale at Gildings (20% Khorassan silver buyer’s premium) of Market and copper inlaid Harborough included a number bronze tray made of medals of historical interest, in north-east Iran not least this 1862 London in the 12th century International Exhibition bronze – £28,000 at winner’s medal. Roseberys. As indicated to the edge, it was awarded to Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co for a stained-glass exhibit (number 6734 in Class 34). Double Islamic and Indian interest Made to a design by Leonard C Wyon, the medal was among the first Shown here are two highlights from sales of as a casket lid, it amounts to an early tribute to awarded to the firm that had been Islamic & Indian art held by London salerooms the much-admired Safavid lacquer production, founded jointly only the previous recently. combining both Indian elements with year by William Morris, Ford Madox The March 31 sale at Roseberys (25% Persianate features and a scene of a mother Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles buyer’s premium) included a Khorassan silver and child that echoes Christian devotional Faulkner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, PP and copper inlaid bronze tray made in north- prototypes. Marshall and Philip Webb. east Iran in the 12th century. It came for sale from a private American The idea was to create and sell It measures 12in (30cm) across and is collection, with a guide of £800-1200. medieval-inspired, handcrafted items decorated with silver-inlaid naskh and kufic for the home – although in its first few inscriptions. Acquired in the UK in 1976, the tray years the main business of the firm was had stayed in the same private collection in the in making ecclesiastic stained glass to cater UK until the sale where, guided at £2000-3000, for the church building spree that came with the Above: 1862 it sold at £28,000 on thesaleroom.com. ‘ritualist’ revival. London The William Morris Gallery notes that seven International Much-admired production stained glass panels designed by Gabriel Dante Exhibition bronze The April 16 sale at Chiswick Auctions Rossetti showing the Parable of the Vineyard were winner’s medal – (25% buyer’s premium) was topped at all shown at the exhibition prior to being installed £2100 at Gildings. £9500 by the 7 x 12in (18 x 30cm) lacquered at the Church of St Martin’s, Scarborough. and mother of pearl inlaid wood and papier A medal that marks a springboard moment for one of biggest mâché panel pictured. names in British Arts & Crafts, it was estimated at £200-300 but sold Made in northern India, perhaps originally at £2100 to London decorative art specialist Blairman & Sons. Roland Arkell 12 | 12 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 010, 011, 012, 014 2496.indd 3 03/06/2021 16:36:26 Asian & Islamic Art Mallams Wednesday 23rd June & 1788 Thursday 24th June at 10am Viewing by appointment only
A Chinese famille rose yellow ground ‘Floral’ A large Chinese porcelain ‘Bajixiang’ tripod Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) bowl, Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795) censer, 18th/19th century ‘Shiba Zojoji (Zojoji Temple, Shiba)’, Provenance: A private collection Provenance: Acquired by the vendor’s woodblock print, from the series Tokyo nijukkei £25,000–30,000 grandfather in the 1950s (Twenty views of Tokyo) £10,000-15,000 £700-1000 A Chinese mottled emerald green jade gourd snuff bottle, circa 1800-1850 A Chinese bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara, Ustad Haji Muhammad Sharif (1889-1978) Provenance: From the collection of Mr Ferruccio late Ming 17th century ‘Prince Salam and Anarkali’ painting on paper Stefenelli who was the Consul of the Italian Provenance: From a Gloucestershire private (Part of a private collection of five lots by Concession of Tientsin in the 1930s, thence by collection the artist) descent £600-800 £400-600 £3000–5000
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Postcards of Cumbrian life (and loss of life)
Trying to set a water-speed record is one of sport’s most hazardous competitions – with a high fatality rate as a result. Donald Campbell’s death in 1967 on Coniston Water is well known. Before him, however, was the great Sir Henry Segrave (1896-1930). Sets of rather macabre postcards sold as part of a larger collection at Richard Winterton (20% buyer’s premium) in Lichfield on May 13 show the scenes on June 13, 1930, when the racing driver and three- times land-speed record holder was Postcards from the ‘Cumbria & Lake District. Transport’ killed while attempting to set a new album sold at Richard Winterton for £1400. water-speed mark on Windermere. Sir Henry had turned from cars to Above: Malcolm Campbell in Blue Bird K4 on boats in 1928, winning races in Lord Coniston Water. Wakefield’s speedboat Miss England Left: the Miss England II tragedy in which Sir Henry before tackling the water-speed Segrave and two crew members died trying to set a record in a new craft, Miss England II. water-speed record on Coniston. The postcard views depict Sir Henry and his two crew members, mechanics Michael Willcocks and show the boat as it cruised to a new thought to have flipped after hitting album of around 485 examples Vic Halliwell, in Miss England II on speed record on its first two runs. a tree branch – following the crash. on ‘Cumbria at play’ made £1600 June 13, 1930, as they set off. Others Further views depict the boat – Sir Henry and Wilcocks were (guide £100-150). Both sold to a lifted out but the former’s injuries private collector bidding on the proved too much. Halliwell’s body phone. was later recovered from the lake. A different private collector Miss England II herself was bought about 385 images dedicated recovered and repaired, then to ‘Cumbria at work’ for £1250 AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS remarkably used by Kaye Don to (estimate £80-120), also via the break two more world water speed phone. records. Willcocks recovered from Altogether, the Lake District Collective Antiques his injuries and would go on the ride postcards archive included about Auction again in Miss England II. 4500 examples from the Edwardian with books, stamps and a small collection This stunning The same set of postcards era to the mid-20th century. of Russian pictures included an image of Sir Malcolm Richard Winterton ephemera collection was Campbell in Blue Bird K4 on specialist Robert French said: “From Tuesday 15th June at 12 noon “beautifully Coniston on August 19, 1939. day-to-day working practices from and Wednesday 16th June at 10am collated with Donald’s father, he also broke land bygone Cumbria to pre-First World huge attention and water speed records in the 1920s War biplanes, trams, buses and now to detail and 30s. defunct railway stations to evocative The postcards (and photocards) images of the Lake District, this were in an album titled ‘Cumbria & stunning collection was beautifully Lake District. Transport’. Estimated collated with huge attention to at £150-250, the approximately detail.” 540 items sold for £1400. Another Tom Derbyshire
Lot 513: An 85 diamond set bar brooch with detachable pendant drop
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1 2 3 Keep your eye on the birdies Essex sale provides latest market test for Calcutta/Company School ornithological paintings
emanated from the West. At around flamboyantly coloured birds tend to by Alex Capon 1. One of a pair of Calcutta School the same time the British introduced do better and, unsurprisingly, the watercolours of Indian treepies watercolour painting, sepia wash and rarer species command a premium. Interest in the exquisitely detailed that sold together for £26,000 at European paper to India (previously Artistic factors relating to how ornithological paintings produced Sworders. Indian miniatures were created refined and delicate they are in terms by Indian artists from the late 18th 2. Calcutta School study of a purple predominantly in gouache). of the execution are also key (in to the mid-19th centuries has grown heron – £17,000. Although the practice of bird particular buyers will look carefully significantly over the last few decades. painting in India predates the period at the meticulous rendering of the While some areas of the 3. One of a pair Calcutta School of British rule, the fact that large feathers). As you would expect, Orientalist art market have suffered watercolours of koels that made numbers of ornithological works condition, size and provenance also commercially from links with £16,000 as a single lot. were commissioned by colonial play an important role as with other colonialisation, the way these works 4. One of a group of four Company patrons from artists working in sectors of the art market generally. combined Mughal artistic traditions School watercolours of exotic birds Lucknow, Calcutta, Patna, Madras Until around the mid 1990s, with European working methods – £13,000. and Delhi means a steady stream of many of these bird pictures could seems to have lent them appeal them continue to emerge at auctions be acquired relatively affordably rather than hindered them on the in the UK. Indeed, the production but their increasing recognition modern market. of these watercolours became and growing interest from bidders A number of exhibitions in the last something akin to an industry, with in the sub-continent has led to 10 years have underlined this. officers in the East India Company a considerable growth in prices, An exhibition of the bird paintings 4 giving the artists access to the birds particularly for quality examples. commissioned between 1777-82 in kept in their aviaries, menageries and A further boost has come over Calcutta by Mary, Lady Impey, wife botanical gardens. recent years with the advent of of the East India Company’s chief It is rare therefore, but not internet bidding, making them more justice Sir Elijah Impey, was held at unheard of, for the name of the accessible to Indian buyers. Examples the Ashmoleon in Oxford in 2012-13. individual artist to be recorded sold at auction over 20 years ago can More recently a show titled Forgotten (Lady Impey’s studies, for example, now make sums with an extra ‘0’ Masters: Indian Painting for the East were by three named artists). This added – a notable increase especially India Company ran at the Wallace means that when they emerge in a traditional sector such as this. collection in 2019-20. at auction today they tend to be Together they demonstrated how catalogued as simply ‘Calcutta Commercial boost the acute observation and attention to School’ or, more generically, In the latest test of the market, the detail derived from Mughal miniature ‘Company School’. sale of the Sally Hunter and Ian painting fused with a new scientific Their values relate strongly Posgate collection at Sworders approach to natural history that to their subject matter: the more (25% buyer’s premium) on May 18 16 | 12 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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In the footsteps of Cedric Morris
The 466-lot sale of the Sally Hunter and Ian Posgate collection at Sworders was a marathon event – taking over 10 hours in all. With a mix of pictures, furniture, ceramics and works of art, the final tally came to £737,828 (including buyer’s premium) with a 95% selling rate. While the Indian ornithological paintings drew considerable demand (see main report), the May 18 auction also set a number of records for Modern British Above: Bawdsey End, Old Felixstowe, Suffolk by Allan Walton artists including some with associations with the East – £5500 at Sworders. Anglia School of Painting and Drawing which were championed by the Sally Hunter Fine Art gallery in Left: Traction Engines Resting by Lucy Harwood – £7500. Knightsbridge. The firm had devoted exhibitions to the work of Lucy afternoon tea every Sunday. She was greatly influenced coast titled Bawdsey End, Old Felixstowe. Estimated at Harwood (1893-1972) and Allan Walton (1892-1948) by the school’s founder Cedric Morris and still-lifes, and £2000-3000, the 2ft 1in x 2ft 6in (64 x 76cm) oil on canvas and both were represented here by five pictures. landscapes of Suffolk around her home at Upper Layham took £5500, beating the previous auction high of £2000 for Harwood was one of the school’s longest-serving in the county were her main subject matter. Storm at Lowestoft sold at Christie’s in March 2004. members, attending from its opening in Dedham in Works by East Anglian School artists have been lifted 1937 and later at Benton End where she was a central over the last few years as prices for Morris himself have Warburton record figure in the school’s social life, insisting on a formal rocketed. All of the top five auction prices for Harwood, The collection included 13 works by Joan Warburton for example, have been set since the start of 2020 with (1920-96), another of Cedric Morris’ first students at the highest for an individual work before this sale being the East Anglian School. The five oils and eight works on the £3500 for Still Life with Portrait sold at Bonhams in paper made a combined £18,770. December (source: Artprice by Artmarket). The 1957 oil on canvas Nine Pigeons in London sold at Left: Cats Here the 2ft 6in x 2ft 1in (77 x 64cm) signed oil on £5000 while her 1948 painting Cats with milk, although with milk canvas Traction Engines Resting had a good subject and suffering from craquelure throughout, sold at £6550 by Joan an attractive 1930s date as well as Harwood’s trademark against a £400-600 estimate to a private buyer bidding Warburton palette and thick brushstrokes. Estimated at £800-1200, online and made another artist record. – £6500 at it was knocked down at £7500 to a UK private buyer – “As always we achieved good prices for local artists Sworders. raising the bar for the artist. like Harwood, Walton and Warburton,” said Sworders’ An auction record was also set for Walton, another specialist Jane Oakley. artist regularly sold by Sally Hunter Fine Art and who was “As the best works by their tutor Cedric Morris are a teacher at Benton End. The quintet of oils were led at now priced beyond the reach of most collectors, these £5550 by a scene of holidaymakers enjoying the Suffolk artists are becoming more and more popular.”
underlined this commercial change. exquisitely detailed,” said Sworders nevertheless took off and the lot was lots made significant rises on It included a group of 23 lots specialist in charge Jane Oakley. eventually knocked down at £26,000 previous prices. One was a pair of comprising Indian ornithological “The Calcutta school prospered to a private buyer in London. watercolours of koels (a member of watercolours from c.1800 which for only a short period at the end of The rise in value many times the same family as the cuckoo) that were returning to the market having the 18th century into the beginning over was in part due to the strong made £16,000 (estimate £600-800) originally been acquired at leading of the 19th century and these performance in June last year of a to a different London buyer bidding auctions and through London works were therefore a good date group of exceptional Calcutta School online. It had been acquired for specialist dealer Arthur Millner. for anyone interested in Company works which sold at Bonhams and £1785 with premium at Christie’s in Hunter was a London gallery School pictures.” seem to have lifted the bar for the September 1997. The other lot was owner herself and compiled a large The top lot among the group was a market. While two topographical a pair of watercolours depicting teal art collection with her late husband, pair of finely executed watercolours figurative works at Bonhams made that made £5400 (guide £600-800) Posgate, an insurance underwriter at depicting Indian treepies. The bird, £60,000 and £50,000 apiece, a and had been purchased for £2300 at Lloyds of London, which was kept at also known as the rufous treepie, study of a bird perched on the branch Christie’s in October 1999. their Victorian home on the outskirts is a member of the crow family but by Calcutta artist Shaykh Zayn al- While the works catalogued as of Henley on Thames. with conspicuous plumage and a long Din (fl.1770-80s) with provenance to simply ‘Company School’ were more While they also amassed a notable black-tipped tail. It creates a flash the Impey collection made £32,000. uneven in quality, they all sold well Modern British art collection (see colour as it flies passed. Also bid dramatically over nevertheless. report above), the ornithological The 18¾ x 13in (48 x 22cm) pen, estimate at Sworders was a Calcutta A group of four watercolours of paintings made some impressive ink and watercolours (heightened School study of a purple heron that exotic birds, all with labels, easily returns with all 23 lots selling for a with bodycolour) were numbered was pitched at £400-600. Another passed a £400-600 estimate and combined £189,410. ‘400’ and ‘399’ in Persian – probably superbly detailed work and this time took £13,000 from a bidder in India The lots drew interest both on the representing their position in with seemingly no condition issues – one of several lots in the collection phone and online and were knocked an album rather than an edition (although it was unexamined out of migrating home at the sale. A group down to four different bidders: three number. They had been bought its elegant frame), the 17½ x 11½in (44 of five studies of birds from the parrot from the UK and one in India. together at Christie’s in September x 29cm) watercolour and bodycolour family also took £10,000 (est: £500- In particular the five Calcutta 1997 for £1898 including premium. was again purchased by a private 700) and outstripped the £1035 they School works drew demand, selling Given a cautious £600-800 buyer in London. The £17,000 price had made as a group lot at Christie’s significantly over estimate. “The estimate here, perhaps on account of was the highest for an individual again in October 1999. This last examples Sally and Ian collected the small repair to one of the works work in the collection. result again underlined a jump in were of great quality – some and a few areas of foxing, the bidding Two further Calcutta School price over the intervening 21 years. n antiquestradegazette.com 12 June 2021 | 17
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Art Auction - Wednesday 23rd June 6pm Featuring a collection of paintings from the estate of an art collector
Alexander MacKenzie (1923-2002), 1954 Bosulval, 16cm x 49cm John S. Piper (b1946), ‘Tinners Row’, 20cm x 62cm
Robert Morson Hughes (1873-1953), ‘Cliffs at Botallack’, exh. St.Ives, 60cm x 81cm
Jack Pender (1918-1998), Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), Fred Yates (1922-2008), ‘Saltash, Cornwall’, one of nine works by the artist ‘Newlyn Fishermen’, ‘Diogenese and Black Pipe’ Project 1 92cm x 70cm (part of a Lenkiewicz art section)
359 Faraday Mill Trade Park, Cattedown, Plymouth, Devon PL4 0SE
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Lot 1144 A Regency mahogany bracket clock by Hayley of London. £1,000-£1,500 (plus 26.4% BP*) Lot 217 Antiques & Fine Art Sale Elizabeth II 2014 1oz Britannia. £1,000-£1,200 (plus 26.4% BP*) Wednesday 16th, Thursday 17th & Friday 18th June from 10am From a large private collection of 364 coin lots being sold for charity. A three day sale of some 1,600 lots to include over 50 antique clocks, an oil on canvas by Mary Fedden RA amongst other fine artworks, a splendid cased taxidermy of a hen salmon and a large private collection of gold bullion and other coins being sold for charity. VIEWING: Sunday 12th 11am-3pm, Monday 14th 10am-7pm, Tuesday 15th 10am-5pm and throughout each sale day DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE Gold Bullion & Coins Asian Art Textiles Jewellery, Watches & Pocket Watches Ceramics & Glassware Table Boxes, Wall Clocks, Silver & Allied Wares Paintings, Drawings & Prints Barometers & Mirrors Objects of Art & Collectors’ items Furniture, Longcase Clocks Metalware & Dining Tables Fully illustrated catalogue online now www.mitchellsantiques.co.uk Printed catalogues (£12 incl. P&P)
Bid online at our auctions through Lot 1206 the-saleroom.com/mitchells A fine George III mahogany longcase clock by Thomas Dodd of Chester. Lot 1499 £800-£1,200 A very good William and Mary walnut (plus 26.4% BP*) chest of drawers. £500-£700 (plus 26.4% BP*)
Lot 836 Lot 1266 Mary Fedden RA (1915-2012), oil on canvas painting A Mouseman stool circa 1925-1930 with superb colour ‘Russian landscape Moscow’, 50cm x 90cm. and patination that may have been made by founder £6,000-£9,000 (plus 26.4% BP*, ARR) Robert Thompson himself. £1,400-£1,800 (plus 26.4% BP*)
* Plus Buyer’s Premium of 26.4% incl. VAT @ 20% Lots marked ARR will be subject to an additional fee - for full details see table in ATG Auction Calendar Enquiries to Mark Wise ASFAV or Michael Roberts B.A.(Hons) Mitchells Antiques & Fine Art, 47 Station Road, Cockermouth, Cumbria CA13 9PZ 01900 827800 • www.mitchellsantiques.co.uk • [email protected]
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PAGE 019 2496.indd 1 03/06/2021 17:09:59 Auction Reports Books and works on paper
Lots that reach new frontiers Map of Arabia and the Gulf and others break estimate boundaries in Oxford saleroom
by Ian McKay
Captain EF Hunter’s Map of Arabia and The Persian Gulf was one of the lots fetching sums considerably in advance of what looked to be quite modest estimates in an April 22 Oxford book sale. Against a guide of £200-300, it was sold by Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) for £5800. Perhaps the fact that this four- sheet map was only a 1935 War Office reprint, not the original publication of 1908, had guided that valuation. Another impressive performer was 1 2 one of the many works relating to voyages undertaken in search of the missing Sir John Franklin expedition 1. One of the four sheets that make up the 1935 War Office reprint of Captain in search of a Northwest Passage. EF Hunter’s Map of Arabia and The Persian Gulf – £5800 at Mallams. Though it is James Mangle’s 2. The pineapple frontispiece and title-page of John Abercrombie’s The Hot greatly enlarged, 1852 second edition House Gardener... of 1789 – £850. that is most prized, an ex-library copy of the 1851, original edition of 3. The Newport Public Library stamp on the title-page is rather an eyesore, Expedition Papers and Dispatches relating but this 1588 first of Abraham Fraunce’s The Lawyers Logike... managed a to the Arctic Searching Expeditions of 3 record £3800 in Oxford. 1850-51..., which ran to just 49pp, sold at £3400. It was, however, a copy inscribed to another famous Arctic the late Peter Hayden (1928-2019). £800 were first (1712) and second explorer, Captain Frederick William During National Service in the (1728) English editions of his Theory Beechey. Intelligence Corps, Hayden trained of Gardening..., illustrated with as a Russian interpreter and years numerous double-page or folding ‘Lawiers Logike’ later his research into Russian plates. The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the gardens for a 2005 book earned Illustrated above, however, is the Praecepts of Logike by the Practise of the him a Gold Medal from the Russian frontispiece and title-page of John Common Lawe of 1588 is a work by Academy of Arts. Abercrombie’s The Hot House Gardener Abraham Fraunce, a Shropshire- an ex-library copy bearing labels, This, said Mallams, made him the or the General Culture of the Pine-apple born lawyer, poet and protégé of Sir stamps and pencil annotations and first foreigner to receive the award and Methods of forcing Early Grapes, Philip Sidney. in a later full calf binding, made a since it was introduced by Catherine Peaches, Nectarines and other Choice Fraunce’s Encyclopaedia Britannica record £3800. the Great. Fruits. entry defines him as a determined Hayden lots included English Published in 1789 and illustrated classicist who wrote all his English Gardening historian language translations by John with five plates in all, this Hayden verse in classical hexameters, making The Oxford auction also included James of the works by the French copy was in later plain boards and his poetry rather awkward and books from the library of a writer Antoine Joseph Dezallier showing its age but still made a unreadable. This legal work, although gardening historian and writer, d’Argenville. Sold at £850 and record £850. n
David Lloyd George takes on foxy features
Based on a slightly earlier American original called The (18% buyer’s premium) in Dumfries, it sold online Landlords Game, this example of Brer Fox an’ Brer Rabbit at £550. (left), a “new and fascinating game for old and young Bid to that same sum as the day’s opening lot was a alike”, was produced in 1913 by the Newbie Games poorly preserved but scarce 1672, illustrated first of The Company of Annan in Dumfriesshire. Hydrostaticks or the Weight, Force and Pressure of Fluid Its sponsors were the local Liberal Committee and Bodies... by George Sinclair, an engineer and the first the foxy features of David Lloyd George are clearly professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. recognisable. The game, which was apparently sold A remarkable man, Sinclair is also remembered for for one shilling, comprises a folding board, instruction making a descent in a diving bell to a look at a wreck of one leaflet, dice, four playing pieces and the required currency, of the Spanish Armada ships lost off the coast of Mull, and property and play cards. for his interest in a very different field, that of witchcraft. In In an April 15 sale held by Thomson Roddick 1685 he published Satan’s Invisible World Discovered.
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‘Living saint’ Einstein proves he British and Irish book auctions ends Jun 8 Music Books & MSS, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 is not always deadly serious Jun 8* 4 166-lot Book Section, Cotswold Auction Company - Cheltenham 01242 256363 Jun 8* 4 82-lot Book Section, Lawrences - Bletchingley 01883 743323 Sold for $42, 500 (£30,795) in an Jun 8* 4 43-lot Book & Map Section, Duke’s Avenue Auctions - Dorchester 01305 257544 April 14 sale in Connecticut was Jun 8* 4 19-lot Book Sections, Sworders - Stansted Mountfitchet 01279 817778 a very appealing Einstein lot that Jun 8* 4 8 lots Children’s Books & Puzzles, Special Auction Services - Newbury 01635 580595 offered a short but amusing letter Jun 9 4 Online: Travel Books, Maps & Atlases, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 dating from November 1928 and a Jun 9* 4 36-lot Book Section, Andrew Smith & Son - Alresford 01962 735988 signed photo-portrait. Jun 9* 4 15-lot Book &Map Sections, Warren & Wignall - Leyland 01772 3698884 Part of a University Archives Jun 9* 4 8-lot Book & Map Sections, Catherine Southon - Warlingham 020 8468 1010 (25% buyer’s premium) auction, Jun 9* 4 Erotic Magazines & Ephemera, Beeston Auctions 01328 598080 the single-page, German text letter Jun 9, 11,1 6, 18* 4 Autograph Auctions, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 was a primarily humorous and Jun 10* 4 65 lots Books, Comics & Ephemera, Lockdales - Ipswich 01473 627110 self-deprecating one, addressed to Jun 1* 4 10-lot Book & Map Section, Clevedon Salerooms - Bristol 01934 830111 members of the AE group, a sort of Jun 10* 4 Online: Stephen White Space Collection, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 academic fan club. Jun 10-11* 4 7-lot Book & Ephemera Section, Charterhouse - Sherborne 01935 812277 In it he accepts the honour of being Above: a German children’s game that Jun 11* 4 100-lot Book & Ephemera Section, Gentleman’s Library Sale, Bamfords - Derby 01332 210000 their ‘patron saint’ and in his turn once kept the young Albert Einstein Jun 11* 4 23-lot Map Section, Rogers Jones - Cardiff 02920 708125 provides them with a guiding motto. amused – $27,500 (£19,930) at Jun 11* 4 6-lot Book Section, Gerrards - Lytham St Annes 01253 725476 The letter reads in full: “The church University Archives. Jun 11* 4 5-lot Book Section, Lacy Scott & Knight - Bury St Edmunds 01284 748623 demands of its saints that they be Jun 11-12* 4 25-lot Books & Comics, Potteries Auctions - Stoke-on-Trent 01782 638100 dead; for only in this way can it avoid blindly. Greetings from your patron Jun 11-12* 4 5-lot Book Section, Thomas R Callan - Ayr 01292 267681 [lit: be safe from] any unexpected saint, A. Einstein.” Jun 11-12* 4 5 lots Books & Maps, Mander - Sudbury 01787 211847 surprises. You, however, have been Once owned by the much younger Jun 12* 4 17-lot Book Section, Lacy Scott & Knight - Bury St Edmunds 01284 748625 bolder, and have chosen me – still Einstein, Perlen-Mosaik-Spiel, a game Jun 12* 4 Book Section, Nigel Ward - Pontrilas 01981 240140 more or less living – for your patron in which coloured wooden beads ends Jun 13* 4 137 lots Antiquarian & other Books, 1818 Auctioneers - Milnthorpe 01539 566201 saint. can be set into a perforated board ends Jun 13* 4 57-lot Book Section, Mullen’s - Bray +353 1 282 6107 “May this whim bring you good to create pictures, bore a bullish ends Jun 15 Antiquarian Books & MSS, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 fortune and may good humour and estimate of $45,000-100,000. Jun 15 4 Books, Maps, MSS, Prints & Ephemera, Hansons - Wolsey Bridge 01889 882397 friendship reign in your ranks. May That may have been inspired by Jun 15* 4 Antiquarian & General Book & Map Sections, Capes Dunn - Heaton Mersey 0161 432 1911 the grumbling and brow-furrowing the fact that a building block game Jun 15* 4 Typography Book Section, Maxwells - Stockport 0161 439 5182 of your patron saint not infect you, owned by Einstein, and consigned Jun 16 4 Books, incl a Scottish Private Library, Thomson Roddick - Carlisle 0131 440 2448 particularly when you are gathered by the same family descendant, Jun 16 4 Irish & other Books, Maps & Ephemera, Purcell - Birr +353 57 912 0270 together under his halo. If you need a had made £50,000 at Christie’s in Jun 16* 4 6-lot Book Section, Cato Crane - Liverpool 0151 709 5559 motto, I suggest to you the following: London 2016. Jun 16* 4 31 lots Magazines, Comics & Ephemera, Nick Barber - Felixstowe 01394 549084 Seek to understand everything, In the event, the game in the US Jun 16-17 4 Books, Maps, Prints, Docs, Eng Lit, Children’s etc, Dominic Winter - Sth Cerney 01285 860006 Despise no one, Believe nothing auction made just $27,500 (£19,930). Jun 17* 4 13-lot Map & Ephemera Sections, Busby - Bridport 01308 420100 Jun 17-18* 4 9-lot Book Section, Adam Partridge - Macclesfield 01625 431788 Jun 18* 4 16 lots Books, Comics & Ephemera, Brighton & Hove Auctions 01273 230050 Travellers face tough questions Jun 18* 4 Book Section, Ewbank’s - Woking 01483 223101 ends Jun 18* 4 Royal Memorabilia, incl. Historical Docs, William George - Peterborough 01733 66768 4 Once described as the first ends Jun 19* Book Section, Border Auctions - Hawick 01450 376170 American board game, and certainly a contender Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger for the title of earliest- sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com known geographic board Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales game, The Travellers Tour that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: through the United States Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] of 1822 sold for $8500 (£6160) at PBA Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) on April 1. PBA had hoped for more, but while undoubtedly a great rarity, this example lacked the teetotum, or special dice, The Stephen White along with players’ tokens. Space Collection The rules were tough. The 139 numbered stops Online Auction: Thursday 10th June Buzz Aldrin descending the ladder of the Lunar Module, July 1969, marked on the map have vintage oversize chromogenic print, c.505 x 405 mm, on a NASA to be named from a list card mount, signed and inscribed by Aldrin. Inscribed “To Ken Sharp with very best wishes and personal thanks of options given in the for your unselfish help over the years. Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11.”. Est. £6,000-8,000 text below, but not only Full catalogue and forthcoming sale are players penalised for failing to know where calendar at: forumauctions.co.uk they have landed, they are asked to state the town or Forum Auctions, 220 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4LP city’s population! Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected]
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PAGE 020-021 2496.indd 2 04/06/2021 14:22:19 Previews Our weekly selection from salerooms
On June 17 Busby in Bridport, Dorset, will offer By repute this gem-set jade archer’s ring, c.1820, was from this 13in (36cm) high mid-19th century Jacob the famed collection of Maharani Jindan Kaur (1817-63), Petit (1797-1868) porcelain inkstand modelled as wife of Ranjit Singh and mother of Duleep Singh. a seated cat on top of a scrolling foliate base. Possibly among the jewels boxed in Bombay in 1850 It comes by descent from the estate of Air by Frazer and Hawes and sent to London for sale at Marshal Sir Aubrey Beauclerk Ellwood of The Old Garrards, it was acquired by the vendor from House, North Perrott, Crewkerne. the family of renowned London jeweller Estimate £600-800. John Brogden (1820-84). busby.co.uk* At the Arts of India sale at Roseberys London on June 15, it is guided at £6000-8000. roseberys.co.uk*
Female artists have provided many of the stand-out lots in Tennants’ Modern and Contemporary Art Sale on June 19. The contents of Hollycombe House, Highlights include Mary Fedden’s former home of the late Tim Redcliffe Road from 1946 estimated at Hoare, will be sold by Dreweatts £6000-8000. in Newbury on June 15-16. The painting depicts a still-life of a jug Although sited on the of flowers and pottery zebra sitting on a South Downs in Linch, windowsill and was previously exhibited at West Sussex, the interior is the Royal West of England Academy. colourfully described by the tennants.co.uk* auction house as combining ‘the magic of a Scottish baronial shooting lodge with a London gentleman’s club’. This pair of 16in (40cm) Chinese famille rose jars and covers is estimated at £3000-5000. dreweatts.com*
This rare handbill for a cricket match played between an England side and Sussex at the Royal Brighton Cricket Ground in 1827 carries a guide of £2000-3000 at Special Auction Services in Newbury on June 22. The single printed sheet, purchased by the vendor at Christie’s in 2010, reads: The Third Grand Match of Cricket will be played on the above ground, for 1000 Sovereigns, on Monday, the 23rd day of July, 1827, and following days. specialauctionservices.com*
The Fine Jewellery & Watches sale at Wilson55 in Nantwich on June 17 features, estimated at £300-400, this gold and enamel timepiece by JW Benson commissioned A 17th century enamelled portrait miniature depicting Lady Frances Haversham (1646- by Welsh landowner Sir Thomas Duncombe Love Jones-Parry (1832-91) for his sister. It 1705), her auburn hair in fashionable ringlets, is estimated at £1200-1500 in the Dix includes the family coat of arms and an inscription dated 1868. Noonan Webb auction in London on June 15. Love Jones-Parry was a colourful figure. The Liberal MP for Caernarfonshire, he was It was later mounted into a 19th century gold locket-back pendant, 33mm diameter, the a prominent figure in eisteddfodic circles, where he had the bardic name Elphin, and was reverse is engraved Frances Lady Haversham born 1646 beneath a baron’s coronet. one of the founders of the Welsh settlement at Patagonia, with Puerto Madryn named Lady Frances Annesley was the daughter of the 1st Earl Of after the family estate. Anglesey and Lady Elizabeth Altham, Countess of Anglesey. wilson55.com* Her first marriage was to Francis Wyndham but when widowed in 1688, she married Sir John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham (1648-1710), with whom she had at least 11 children. Thompson was the first surviving son of Maurice The sale at Lacy Scott & Knight Thompson of St Andrew, Eastcheap, City of in Bury St Edmunds on June 12 London and Haversham, who at one time is includes this majolica oval game said to have obtained a monopoly of the pie tureen and cover decorated Virginia tobacco trade. to the cover with quail and chicks Sir John was created a Baronet of and to the base with rabbits amid Haversham in the County of Buckingham long grass. in 1673, and later returned to parliament One of the best-known pieces where he held a seat for Gatton until 1696, by the George Jones factory, it and was raised to the peerage as Baron carries a registration kite mark Haversham. Between 1699-1701, he was Lord for December 1873. This example in a turquoise ground (it was also made in cobalt blue) of the Admiralty. has been damaged and restored and has an estimate of £300-500. dnw.co.uk* lskauctioncentre.co.uk* 22 | 12 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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A medal awarded to one of Admiral Lord Nelson’s most highly regarded protégés is estimated at £60,000-80,000 in a London auction on July 13. Morton & Eden is selling the ‘exceptionally rare’ small captain’s Naval Gold Medal for the Battle of Lissa in 1811, presented to Captain Sir William Hoste KCB, Royal Navy (1780-1828). His honours have never appeared at auction before, having remained in the collection of the family until now. Hoste entered the navy at an early age. Shortly afterwards an introduction was engineered by his father to another great Norfolk naval officer: Horatio Nelson. This sowed the seeds of a firm friendship, and soon after Hoste was accepted by Nelson to serve as his captain’s servant aboard the newly refitted HMS Agamemnon. Hoste was by Nelson’s side from 1793-98 and was present at the Battle of St Vincent and the Battle of the Nile. In 1805 he was An Arts & Crafts upright Bechstein piano and matching stool designed by Ernest Archibald sent by Nelson to deliver diplomatic gifts and messages to the Dey of Algiers, thereby Taylor comes for sale at Thomas R Callan in Ayr on June 11-12. missing the Battle of Trafalgar where his friend was killed. The two pieces were found by auctioneer Michael Callan in ‘a modest mid-terrace town Hoste’s finest hour, however, came at the Battle of Lissa (the island today known as Vis house in Irvine, Ayrshire’. in the Adriatic Sea) on March 13, 1811, when he led four frigates in a devastating attack on Research has shown it was among the first pieces designed by Taylor for Wylie and the larger French and Venetian squadron. Lochhead, Glasgow, and was shown at the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition. An The gold medal will be sold separately to his other honours including his Knight archival photograph (see above left) shows the instrument in situ as the centrepiece of Commander’s neck badge, 1814, for The Most Excellent Order of the Bath, KCB (Military Taylor’s exhibition stand (John Ednie and George Logan were also given showcases). Division), which has an estimate of £4000-5000. Both pieces, made in pearwood, are inlaid with mother of pearl rosettes with the mortonandeden.com piano mounted with pierced silver-plated hinge brackets and candle sconces. They were purchased from a Miss Templeton in the early 1960s by J Caldwell of the Eglington Arms Hotel in Irvine and came by descent to the current vendor. Il Gruppo del Laocoonte, a large The estimate for what is probably a unique piece is £4000-6000. biscuit porcelain model of Laocoon trcallan.com* and his sons, is one of the lots at Bonhams’ ‘first-ever sale by an international auction house dedicated Dawsons in Maidenhead is conducting exclusively to a celebration of the male the Nancy Fouts Studio Sale on June 10. form in art’, on June 16. Born in the US, Fouts (1945-2019) Dating from c.1785, the piece was attended a Knightsbridge finishing school modelled by Filippo Tagliolini after the and she went on to study at both the statue of Laocoön and His Sons excavated Chelsea School of Art and Royal College in Rome in 1506 and placed in the Vatican. of Art. When Domenico Venuti became Her early career was in advertising at director of the Real Fabbrica the Shirtsleeve Studio where she was Ferdinandea factory in Naples in 1779 worked on campaigns for British Airways, he wholeheartedly embraced the new Silk Cut cigarettes, Virgin, the Post Office neo-classical style heavily influenced by and Mentos Mints. Later she lived in the archaeological finds and the large a Victorian gothic revival vicarage in number of antiquities in the collection of London that served as a home, gallery King Ferdinando IV. The Gruppo is among and studio. the largest and most impressive of the faithful copies of classical sculpture in biscuit Some of the works included in this porcelain produced by the factory. sale are illustrated in the Nancy Fouts monograph (2018) Estimate: £40,000-60,000. This piece from 2014, titled Marcel Duchamp’s Lost Case, is typical of an artist who bonhams.com* worked under the umbrella of ‘modern-day Surrealist’. The witty small leather case filled with vintage briarwood smokers’ pipes has an estimate of £300-500. dawsonsauctions.co.uk* This pair of George I Britannia standard dinner plates are from the famed Mildmay service issued across a decade or more by The Charterhouse June 10-11 Paul de Lamerie to Benjamin two-day auction in Sherborne Mildmay, 19th Baron Fitzwalter includes a selection of clocks. (1672-1756) of Schomberg House, Dating to c.1660, this longcase Pall Mall, and Moulsham Hall, Essex. example of small and slender These plates are from the original service proportions features a dial as ordered in 1725, shortly after Mildmay’s signed Fabian Robin Londini Fecit. marriage to the daughter of the Duke of Fitted with a sophisticated Schomberg, with other pieces added later in eight-day, five-pillar movement 1737 following his appointment as treasurer striking the hours on a bell, it of the household. The orders are recorded is in a walnut case with floral in de Lamerie’s accounts. It seems probable that the plates were originally made with marquetry inlaid decoration and gadrooned edges and were modified at a later date. is estimated at £3000-5000. This pair come for sale at Chiswick Auctions on June 11 with a guide of £8000-12,000. charterhouse-auction.com* chiswickauctions.co.uk* antiquestradegazette.com 12 June 2021 | 23
PAGE 022-23 2496.indd 2 03/06/2021 18:14:24 (Just off the A465, midway Abergavenny and Hereford) Special ONLINE-ONLY two-day sale of Antique & Country Furniture, Porcelain, Silver, Paintings, Objets D’art & Collectables Outside, Vintage & Household Effects - Friday 11th June Antiques & Collectables - Saturday 12th June including lovely 1937 Morris 8 series 1 Motor Car (blue/black) Both commencing at 9am Many quality items briefly including: set of 12 Hands of Wycombe boardroom chairs, Georgian. Chippendale-style carver chair, etc. CHINA including Sèvres cups and saucers (18thC and 19thC), pair of Meissen vases c.1745, Meissen figure by Konrad Hentschel, New Hall blue and white helmet jug, 19thC Nove floral vase, Paris porcelain by Clignancourt, La Courtille, Dagoty, etc. GLASS including good painted Bohemian tankard, 18thC toastmaster’s glass engraved with bell, MISCELLANEA including French Napoleon III automaton clock, late 19thC gilt & porcelain Leroy & Fils Paris clock garniture, Thomas Worsley fusee wall clock, Whitechapel Bartlet factory bronze mortar, 17thC bronze Oliver Cromwell plaque, 15thC carved bone crucifix, Spanish colonial ‘Cristo Negro’ crucifix, Tokyo school Meiji period okimono of a chicken seller, Indian art: carved wood figures, betel nut cutters, Burmese lacquer offering bowls, early satirical engravings by Rowlandson, Gillray and others, quantity of Star Wars, Lord of Rings, Thunderbirds figures, etc.
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3 4 Fair open? Now we’re talking... Dealers eager to attend Petworth event say online is fine but they miss contact with the public
September, he was keen to return. limitations of dealing remotely by Gabriel Berner 1. A 19th century Qing dynasty export Santos London brings a selection during the pandemic: “While online Dehua blanc-de-Chine figure with of 15th-19th century Chinese has kept us going, lots of people don’t While most major British fairs have provenance to Princess Margaret – porcelain pieces including a 19th really want to spend big money on decided not to hold physical events priced in the ‘very low five figures’ at century Qing dynasty export furniture they haven’t been able to this summer, one is forging ahead. Santos London. Dehua blanc-de-Chine figure with see in person.” The seventh edition of The 2. A 1930s Harry and Lou Epstein burr provenance to Princess Margaret Art Deco furniture by Harry Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair, walnut and bird’s eye maple veneer (it is priced in the ‘very low five and Lou Epstein and Mid-century postponed from May because of cocktail cabinet – £8500 from Jeroen figures’). accessories will be among the items pandemic restrictions, plans to run Markies. A trip to the September event he is exhibiting. The brothers’ from June 18-20 in a purpose-built also convinced fellow newcomer designs were recognised as among 3. Banksias and other Australian Plants marquee on the sprawling Capability Sean Clarke of Christopher Clarke the finest and innovative in the by Elizabeth Blackadder, 22in x 2ft 6in Brown landscape behind Petworth Antiques to sign up. It will be the British Art Deco style, with most (57 x 76cm) watercolour – £22,000 House in West Sussex. company’s first fair in several years. of their furniture via special order from Jenna Burlingham Fine Art. For the UK trade it will be the first “I visited Petworth last September and custom made using fine quality physical, higher-end vetted event to 4. Secretaire campaign two-part chest and saw it was a good-looking show materials such as burr maple, take place since the last edition of the made by SW Silver in the second half with a great mix of dealers,” says sycamore and walnut veneer. A same fair in September 2020. of the 19th century – £3750 from Clarke. “The size and shorter time 1930s burr walnut and bird’s eye “The fair is fully subscribed Christopher Clarke Antiques. span appealed to me as well as the maple veneer cocktail cabinet is and people are absolutely gagging fact that it is organised by Ingrid.” priced at £8500. to take part,” says fair organiser Well-known for campaign As for pictures dealers, returning Ingrid Nilson. “There is no doubt Helped along by the speed of the furniture, Christopher Clarke exhibitor Jenna Burlingham Fine that the internet is a fantastic means vaccine roll-out, Nilson says demand Antiques takes a mix of items from Art brings an array of art including of selling but it is different. I know to participate in this year’s event has portable furniture to military and Banksias and other Australian Plants dealers have massively missed the been so high that only a few regular East India Company School mica by Elizabeth Blackadder (b.1931), interaction [at fairs] and so have the exhibitors have decided not to take pictures. Smaller items include those a vibrant watercolour from 1999 public because I am inundated with part. The fair is at full capacity – 60 made for travel such as ‘Brighton priced at £22,000. Offerings from requests for complimentary tickets.” stands – with a lengthy waiting list. Bun’ candlesticks, brass bound boxes local Petworth galleries Ottocento Nilson says she has a blueprint “This is a mixed fair with a range and leather luggage. Prices range and Rountree Tryon Galleries already in place for June having of disciplines and new specialities from £95 to around £6000. include a mixed-media collage by successfully navigated Covid-19 to keep it interesting and caters to “The first thing that made us Terry Frost (1915-2003) for £5100 protocols with the authorities for the an audience with varying degrees of want to do Petworth was that the and a watercolour of a cock and hen equivalent fair held in September spending power,” she adds. organisers were clearly gunning for pheasant by Archibald Thorburn (it was given the green light by it and were not being hesitant like (1860-1935) for £14,000. The National Trust on the basis First-timers other fairs,” said Jacob Markies of Among the other exhibitors are that it was classed as an outdoor Among six first-timers is Alberto Art Deco specialist Jeroen Markies, Thomas Spencer Fine Art, Hickmet event). Wide one-way gangways, Santos of Santos London who another new name on the exhibitor Fine Arts, Julian Eade Antiques, test and trace, hand sanitiser, social would usually be exhibiting on the list. He is optimistic that the fair Jupiter Antiques and Morgan distancing and signage will feature international fair circuit. With most will go ahead as planned: “If you Strickland Decorative Arts. heavily again. overseas events still on ice, he is can have 20,000 fans in a football Nilson remains optimistic the fair Despite the risks of hiring a looking to domestic fairs such as stadium, I’m sure you can hold an will go ahead as planned, due to its stand – dealers are liable for the cost Petworth to make up the shortfall. antiques fair.” classification as an outdoor event. should there be a pandemic-related “After 16 months of inactivity His last fair appearance was at “We have this setting in the cancellation – the nine-month stretch due to the pandemic and because Chelsea’s Open Art Fair in March glorious Capability Brown parkland. without a major physical fair and the the other markets are still closed to last year, which closed after just two We have space, we have air and I prospect of a thin summer calendar Europeans, I was itching to have days of its planned run of more than have ordered wall-to-wall sunshine, has meant many are unwilling to wait contact with the public,” says Santos. a week. which will be fulfilled!” n any longer to reconnect with clients. 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Gallery moves after 37 years The web shop window Photography specialist the Michael Hoppen Gallery is relocating from Jubilee Place in Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Chelsea, its home of 37 years. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week. The firm pointed to “shifting trends” since the pandemic started, particularly online growth, prompting the decision to move. This portrait miniature by Gustavus Hamilton The new gallery space, which will be used for exhibitions, is not ready but will be (1739-75), traditionally identified as depicting his “more intimate in scale and a place where you can view and handle work, engage with sister Elizabeth Hamilton, is priced at £4250 from our team of experts, meet our artists and browse our archive and library”. An opening Elizabeth Fitzsimmons. date and full details will be announced later this year. Signed and dated 1764, the watercolour on ivory For now, the gallery is moving to its new archive space at the Pall Mall Deposit off portrait shows the sitter in a blue dress edged with Ladbroke Grove in Notting Hill where works can be viewed from June 10. white lace and a pearl necklace and comes in its “The transfer to new pastures has been on the cards for some time – and the huge move original gold bracelet clasp mount encased with old- under Covid has not been without its challenges,” said the gallery’s Michael Hoppen. cut diamonds and rubies. “Although we will not occupy “This miniature by Hamilton conveys his artistry quite as much space as we have in skill at the height of his career as a miniaturist,” the past, our appetite for big projects says Fitzsimmons. “This can be seen in his use of and interesting photographs is by no blue undertones and shaded stippling prevalent way diminished.” throughout, with particular attention toward her facial features.” michaelhoppengallery.com The son of an Irish vicar, Hamilton spent all his working life in Dublin where he attracted a fashionable clientele. His contemporary, actor and artist John O’Keefe, noted that Hamilton “was encouraged by ladies of the first rank… and made a power Left: this photograph, Berlin Car by of money by his pencil”. Zoltan Glass, was used to announce the arrival of the Michael Hoppen Gallery to Jubilee Place 37 years ago. elizabethfitzsimmons.com
Left Bank tempts visitors to galleries
Dozens of art and antiques galleries in the Left Bank area of The event runs from June 9-13, with galleries offering a Paris known as the Carré Rive Gauche are enticing art lovers selection of pieces, from ceramics, jewellery and silverware to back to the district with a five-day event showcasing new stock Asian artworks, furniture and Modern and Contemporary art. An and exhibitions. online marketplace is available for those unable to attend via the The Carré is named after a group of streets in the 6th and 7th association’s new multi-lingual website. arrondissements between the Seine and the Boulevard Saint Galerie La Crédence, located on rue des Saints Pères, is Germain. The area has its own dealers’ association, which has selling an early 17th century French School oil priced at €8500. It organised the Carré Rive Gauche annual event since 1977. depicts an episode told by Pliny the Elder from one of Cleopatra’s With the disruption caused by Covid-19, a high number of lavish banquets where she dissolved a large pearl from a pair of galleries are taking part this year – around 74 from a total of 90 earrings in a goblet of vinegar, before gulping it down. Above: early 17th century French School in the district. carrerivegauche.com priced €8500 by Galerie La Crédence.
Left: a pair of Austrian red ‘Gothic-form’ no 38 side chairs by Thonet, c.1880 – 5 Questions £2600 from BEAR Petworth. Claire Penhallurick, regard furniture from this era as ‘dated’ so how it can combine a day away with antiques a former director of and ‘second-hand’. I used to myself looks as hunting. Islamic and Indian art but walking through the salerooms at well as how at Bonhams, founded Bonhams for over 20 years sparked an it functions 3 What is the best exhibition you BEAR in Petworth interest in me. It is a great moment to has become have visited recently? in 2020 specialising sell a ‘non-believer’ such a piece; to hear more Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits at The in 20th century and them say that previously they would not important. In the past year, online auctions Royal Academy. I had never been a fan antique furniture and works of art, with have considered furniture of that vintage. have been strong, even though in most of his work, perhaps finding some of his an emphasis on Mid-century design. It’s like a blindfold has been taken off. cases there has been no public viewing. subject matters unappealing. I was totally BEAR will be exhibiting for the second It’s definitely true that most things come Many private people have turned to buying spellbound and had to go back twice. time at The Petworth Park Antiques & back into fashion if one lives long enough. online, swapping time previously spent Fine Art Fair on June 18-20. wandering around antiques shops to online 4 One question it is important for bearpetworth.com 2 What is exciting about the art auctions and dealer websites. people to ask before buying? and antiques market this year? We are expecting a very good turnout Is it beautiful and functional? 1 What is one little-known fact People have spent a lot of time in their at the Petworth fair as it will be one of the about your field? homes over the past year and have taken first major antiques events to take place 5 One object you couldn’t do There is still a surprising amount of a closer look at their surroundings. For this year, with renewed interest from locals without? people, children of the 60s and 70s, who many still, home is also the place of work, and those coming from further afield who My Nespresso machine.
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Above: A Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, 1787, by artist and caricaturist Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811). Priced at £7000 from exhibitor WR Harvey Antiques. It’s been a long wait but Harrogate is back with a minuet to go
Measuring over 7ft long, this 18th century work, Great Yorkshire Showground, running from June 11-13, early 1990s, the event has become a regular fixture of the above, is believed to be one of the longest engravings with a ticket price of £7000 from exhibitor WR Harvey annual fair calendar, although it has been more than a year produced in the past 300 years. Antiques of Oxfordshire. since the last edition took place due to the pandemic. A Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, 1787 was made by Among the other 42 exhibitors standing are John Organiser Sue Ede said: “We are delighted to be artist and caricaturist Henry William Bunbury (1750- Newton Antiques, Melody Antiques, Rowles Fine Art returning to Yorkshire and the Pavilions of Harrogate to 1811) and engraved and published by the London and Bottlebrook Antiques. stage our usual antiques fair. More than 40 specialist print-seller William Dickinson. Cabinet Antiques, specialising in silver enamel and dealers will be taking part and I know many collectors One of few surviving originals, it lampoons cold-painted bronzes, and Glass of All Ages, specialist are really looking forward to viewing and buying a whole prominent members of the nouveau riche in the in antique and contemporary glass and porcelain, make range of art and antiques once again.” city of Bath at the time, showing their exaggerated their first appearances at the fair. All the necessary rules and regulations will be flamboyance in attempting the minuet. in place to ensure the fair complies with the latest The engraving will go on sale at The Pavilions of Looking forward guidelines, she added. Harrogate Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair at The Since its first run at the Pavilions of Harrogate in the cooperevents.com/harrogate Business bright in Buxton despite weather
The Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair travelled from Manchester.” made a welcome return to the annual fair Oxfordshire dealer WR Harvey Antiques, calendar with a well-attended four-day a first-timer at the event, reported meeting event in the Peak District. As it was the first fair “plenty” of new prospective customers. At over 50 years old the venerable event Among the items it sold was a George I is one of the country’s longest running “for a while some walnut bureau, c.1725, with a ticket price of and for the last 10 years or so has been people travelled quite £5000, to a local buyer. organised by Cooper Events. a distance to attend “The opening day was well attended The latest instalment took place on May as was Friday [the second day] with lots 20-23, just days after restrictions on indoor of interest in a number of items,” said the events were eased, making it the first Park (1880-1962), with an asking price of dealership’s David Harvey. vetted fair of the year to go ahead. It got £4800, a pastel of a circus performer by cooperevents.com/buxton off to a bright start despite the inclement Rose Hilton (asking price £1650) and a weather with a steady stream of sales study of pintail ducks by Sir Peter Scott reported on the first day. (asking price £750). Among them were two early 19th Cooper Events has announced it will century earthenware garden urns which Nice to meet you hold this year’s Chester Decorative sold within 10 minutes of the fair opening “Buxton was great despite the torrential Above: Modern British dealer Antiques & Art Fair a month earlier for £5000 from King George Antiques rain and driving winds. As it was the first Freya Mitton made a number of than the usual October slot. from Essex. fair for a while some people travelled quite sales at the Buxton fair including It will run from September 17-19 Modern British dealer Freya Mitton a distance to attend,” said Mitton. a view of St Ives by John Park at The County Grandstand at Chester made a number of sales throughout the “I met collectors who I had not known with an asking price of £4800. Racecourse. event including a view of St Ives by John before, including a number who had
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Bidder hell bent on a purchase Sixteenth century Limoges work depicts underworld scene from Virgil’s The Aeneid ©Coutau-Bégarie/Drouot by Anne Crane
£1 = €1.15 The plaque last Very much the highest price in appeared on the market an auction of furniture, paintings “ and works of art held by Coutau- in 1892 as part of a Bégarie & Associés (24% buyer’s group sold in London premium) at Drouot in Paris on May 28 was the multi-estimate €920,000 (£800,000) paid for a 16th century Limoges enamel copper plaque. market in 1892 as part of a group It was one of a group of superbly sold in London at the dispersal painted plaques executed c.1525-30 of the Magnac collection. These by an anonymous Limoges enameller were acquired by the dealership decorated with scenes taken from Goldschmidt which sold them to the Virgil’s epic poem, The Aeneid, giving French collector Jules Porgès. the artist the title of ‘Master of the A photo of Porgès’ Paris town Aeneid’. Many of these are now in house shows the plaque alongside major institutions. three other examples from the same The source for these scenes is series. Porgès’ widow sold the other the set of engravings printed by plaques (the other three in the photo Grüninger of Strasbourg to illustrate are now in the Met in New York) but the Virgil published by Sebastian the family retained this sole example. Brandt in 1502. Offered for sale at the Couteau- Bégarie auction with a €200,000- Golden opportunity 300,000 estimate, bidding sailed The 9 x 8in (22.5 x 20cm) plaque far above that level with the offered at Coutau-Bégarie is painted hammer finally falling at €920,000 in polychrome enamel on silver foil (£800,000) or €1,184,960 including Above: a 16th century Limoges enamel plaque sold by Coutau-Bégarie for over copper with gold highlights and premium. n €920,000 (£800,000) on May 28. comes in a 17th century gilt leather and velvet case. It depicts a scene from book VI of the Aeneid covering the descent A Paris alternative to draw you in into Hell showing the point at which Aeneas, having searched for the Although long-standing Paris fair for works on paper the Salon gather to offer an alternative event in a former department golden branch to give him access du Dessin has moved its dates to July 1-4, the other Paris store near the Bastille at 42 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine. to the underworld, reaches the fair, Drawing Now, devoted to Contemporary works on paper, Visitors will be invited to register by time slot, in order to blessed groves of the Elysian fields, usually staged at the same time, is taking place this month enjoy a comfortable visit while respecting sanitary protocols. where the shades of the dead wander from June 10-13. For further information see the website below. around in peace. Titled Drawing Now Alternative! this year 34 galleries will drawingnowartfair.com The plaque last appeared on the
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Couples adorn ivory casket Fine sense of perspective
Auction house Prunier in Louviers, Normandy, has a long tradition of holding sales of Haute Epoque or early works of art. The latest takes place on July 11 and among A highlight of the sale of Old Master the major attractions will be a carved ivory casket or coffret dated to the 14th paintings at Aguttes on June 17 century decorated with chivalric scenes of courtly love. will be this panel painting of The The casket with iron fittings, which measures 7½ x 4 x 3in (19 x 10.5 x 8cm) Annunciation. The 3ft x 2ft 11in (98 is carved with a series of couples, each set within an arcade that include a man x 90cm) work, in tempera and gilded kneeling before a lady who is about to present him with a wreath of flowers; a man stucco on wood, is a collaboration pinching a woman’s chin while she holds his hand and a scene from the famous between two Venetian-born courtly tale of Tristram and Iseult. painters: Antonio Vivarini (c.1414- In May Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh sold another, slightly wider, 14th century 76/84) and his brother-in-law ivory casket carved with chivalric subjects for £1.2m against an estimate of Giovanni d’Alemagna (1411-50). £30,000-50,000 (reported in ATG No 2494). Other examples can be found in the The artists worked collaboratively Louvre, the Cluny Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, while the Musée d’Art et on a number of commissions in the Histoire in Brussels has a similar example. city until Giovanni’s death, including The casket on offer at Prunier has a provenance to a private collection in eastern the high altar in the San Tarazio France purchased from the dealer Charles Ratton in 1952. chapel in the San Zaccaria which is Estimate is €70,000-80,000. still in situ. prunierauction.com Their collaborations are examples of the beginning of a move away from the Gothic towards the Renaissance with increased use of perspective and architectural motifs, in part through the influence of the contemporary Venetian innovator Jacopo Bellini (fl.1424-70). The Annunciation on offer at Aguttes, which was made c.1449-50, exhibits these new tendencies in features such as the use of perspective in the architectural background of the painting which probably depicts buildings visible in Venice or Padua. The relatively small size of the painting and the use of rich materials including gold on the stucco suggests that the work was probably created for private devotion by a wealthy patron rather than as a piece for a church. Estimate €200,000-300,000. aguttes.com Œuvre de l’artiste : © Succession H. Matisse H. : © Succession l’artiste de Œuvre
Matisse work re-emerges
Emperors survive album break-up A charcoal drawing by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) that has not been seen since the major One of the highlights of the sale of Antiquities, Orientalist painting and Orientalist works retrospective on the artist at of art to be held by Millon on June 14 is a miniature painted with a double portrait of the the Philadelphia Museum of Mughal emperors Shah Jahan and his son and successor Aurangzeb. Art in 1948 is to be offered for The 19½ x 15¾in (50 x 40cm) page, painted in gouache heightened with gold, comes auction by Ivoire Manosque on from what is known as the late Shah Jahan album which was compiled at the end of Shah June 26. Jahan’s reign. After the sack of Delhi in 1739 the album was probably taken to Persia It was discovered by Ivoire but by the late 19th century it was in Russia, sold to an Armenian merchant and then in Manosque’s auctioneer the early 20th century went to Jennifer Primpied-Rolland France where it was taken apart rolled up above a wardrobe by the dealer Georges Demotte where it had lain undiscovered and elements of the painting and for many years, its owner who calligraphy sold separately. had inherited it being unaware Just over 100 pages have of its significance. survived. The most highly regarded The work has a provenance to Matisse (at least until 1948); then a gift from are those depicting the Mughal the artist to an anonymous lady in Nice, then by descent to Sister Suzanne Mazar, emperors. This particular page a nun at the Minimes Convent in Mane, before passing down to the current owner. attributable to the artist Anup The charcoal and stump drawing, which measures 2ft 2in x 20in (65 x 50.5cm) Chattar portrays Shah Jahan in and is signed and dated 22/10/38, is a portrait of Hélène Mercier (Princess later life and Aurangzeb, who Galitzine), one of Matisse’s favourite models in the late 1930s. took the throne after a war of The drawing is a preparatory study for a commission from Matisse by Nelson succession between Shah Jahan’s Rockefeller for Le Chant, a fireplace decoration for his penthouse in Manhattan, sons. The fact that the miniature that depicted Hélène and her compatriot Lydia Delectorskaya, another of the features a majestic depiction of artist’s favourite models at the time. Aurangzeb implies that it was made Research by the expert Agnès Sevestre-Barbé has revealed that the inscription after his accession in 1658. on the reverse reading PH Vaux 2425 et 3116 – D19 corresponds to the numbering The miniature, which has a in the archives of the photographer Marc Vaux, who from the 1920s specialised provenance to a French private in photographing sculpture, paintings and the artists themselves in their studios. collection, acquired before 1974, The drawing is estimated at €300,000-400,000. has an estimate of €60,000-80,000. ivoire-france.com millon.com antiquestradegazette.com 12 June 2021 | 35
PAGE 034, 035, 036 2496.indd 2 04/06/2021 11:29:43 International France Sotheby’s / ArtDigital Studio Studio / ArtDigital Sotheby’s Christie’s goes halves Gods and goddesses
Sotheby’s Paris sale of Old Masters on June 15 offers a selection of © Christie’s images limited images © Christie’s Christie’s is paintings and sculpture spanning the Middle Ages through to the 19th holding a sale century. of Old Master It includes a single-owner French collection of European paintings paintings and and sculpture formed over more than 60 years. This features three sculpture in Paris bronzes from the Dieux et Désesses (Gods and Goddesses) series on June 16 where devised in 1652 by the French sculptor Michel Anguier (1612-86) for the the lots offered royal goldsmith and jeweller Pierre Le Tessier de Montarsy. include this portrait These finely cast baroque sculptures were intended to represent of a young woman human and divine temperaments by associating each with one of the writing a letter by four elements. On offer are Neptune Agité, Mars quittant ses armes and the artist known Pluton Mélancolique. as The Master of Neptune, top right, which was cast c.1670-80 and stands 20½in the Female Half (50cm) high, is one of eight known examples of this size and the Lengths. composition shows the influence of the Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo A group of Bernini. It last appeared at auction in 2001 at Christie’s New York in the around 100 sale of the Dr Otto Wittman Collection. It has an estimate of €300,000- works have been 500,000. attributed to this The 21½ in (54.5 cm) high figure of Mars, centre right, from Flemish artist c.1660-70, stamped with the crowned C and also inspired by Bernini’s who was active Mannerism, was last at auction in Sotheby’s London in 2008. It is guided in Antwerp c.1530-60. The 21½ x 16in (54 x 40.5 cm) oil on panel at €120,000-180,000. painting at Christie’s was last under the hammer in 1972 at an The 22½in (57cm) high figure of Pluto, bottom right, made c.1660-70, auction held by Mes Audap, Godeau, Solanet, where it was acquired inspired by the antique Farnese Hercules, is one of only four large-format by the family of the vendor. The estimate is €80,000-120,000. bronzes of this size known. Last at auction in a sale at Drouot in 1992, it The auction is followed on the same day by a sale devoted to is guided here at €200,000-300,000. works by women artists in a range of different mediums. sothebys.com christies.com
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The Grand Saloon of a connection with one of the great was known as Ossian’s Hall on account of a ceiling names of the Tudor era. painted by Alexander Runciman in the 1770s with scenes Assuming the form of a crowned 3 from the Poems of Ossian. leopard’s head, it bears some Sadly, Penicuik was reduced to a shell by fire in 1899 similarity to the Boleyn beast which 4 Renowned Pre-Raphaelite but the large Indo-French carpet that adorned the saloon adorned the palaces of Henry VIII floor survived. Originally brought back from Pondicherry from 1533-36, the period in which beauty caught on camera by Edward Clerk (1824-1917) of the 4th Madras Cavalry as he was married to his second wife 6 a gift for his father, it was sold by his descendants at Lyon Anne. In a condition consummate 7 Original photographs of a well-known Julia Margaret Cameron (her maternal with age, it came for sale in Stansted Pre-Raphaelite beauty – the muse of aunt and godmother), she also sat & Turnbull in Edinburgh on February 11. See page 6 Mountfitchet on March 30-31 from a William Holman Hunt and the mother of for the sculptor Thomas Woolner and vendor who had owned it for around 2 Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell – sold Holman Hunt – who both proposed 40-50 years. Highlights from the Sworders Fine Interiors sale on March 30-31. for £2600 at Sworders (25% buyer’s marriage when she turned 18. It was Estimated at £800-1200, it raised premium). said that Holman Hunt only married his Pick plenty of interest before selling to the 1. Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica wares totalled £54,500. The two albumen prints of Julia second wife, Edith Waugh, because she of the Prinsep Stephen (1846-95) had been resembled Julia. UK trade at £12,000. 2. Christopher Moore 1829 marble bust – £10,500. Another example of British (or guided at £500-800 as part of the The first of the two photographs week possibly American) vernacular craft 3. George III satinwood Pembroke table – £5000. Stansted firm’s Out of The Ordinary shows Julia aged 11, together with her to eclipse estimate was a fine marine 4. North Italian mahogany cabinet – £5200. two-day sale on April 13-14. They were sister Mary Louisa Fisher. It was taken ivory, whalebone and baleen inlaid bought by an American museum. in 1857-58 by either the Manchester 5. Early 16th century carved leopard’s head – £12,000. walking stick. photographer James Mudd or Joseph Coins and medals ‘up 15-20%’ during EU proposes ban on import Canes of this type, typically 6. An 18th century Ottoman table cabinet – £2300. Many suitors Cundall, another Victorian pioneer who and export of antique ivory worked from the jawbone of a whale 7. A c.1810 doll’s house – £13,500. Julia Jackson was born in Calcutta, made the first photographic record of £53m year for London’s salerooms by sailors to be sold to natural capital of British India, in 1846 but the Bayeux Tapestry. Despite the near absence of fall in the number of lots estimates that coins and New proposals by the states. Trade within the EU of history-curious Victorians in the port moved to England with her family to An identical but smaller print to this face-to-face trading, 2020 offered. The market benefited medals increased in value by European Commission to ivory ‘worked’ prior to 1947 cities, come in many different guises. Little Holland House in Kensington as was part of the famous ‘Signor 1857’ was a record year for from buyers having extra “around 15-20% on average prevent the commercial export plus musical instruments made Many now appeal beyond the cane to a private UK buyer at £10,500. minor signs of wear, were in good geometric and flared inlays of ebony, This was reflected in the estimate an infant. photograph album that Julia Margaret London’s coins and medals collecting time during the across the board” in 2020. and import of most antiques prior to 1975 will be permitted collecting community and into the A more expected reaction came condition. All sold to an international ivory and boxwood and Renaissance on a George III Sheraton period Deemed one of the most beautiful Cameron composed before herself auction houses with Covid-19 restrictions and what The roller-coaster 12 months containing ivory have been (with added paperwork and folk art world. for a c.1810 doll’s house. This 3ft 8in buyer. The 74-piece dinner service figures in arched panels. The 6ft example in inlaid satinwood. Pitched women in England, she attracted many choosing to become a photographer. combined total sales just Spink (with sales of £9.9m) featured several auction described by The British certificates required) but the This example was relatively (1.12m) wide recreation of a Regency took £23,000 (estimate £10,000- (1.83m) tall cabinet, which had some at £1000-1500, the 2ft 8in (82cm) suitors among a circle of family friends shy of £53m. described as “a crossroads landmarks, including a new Antique Dealers Association sale of such items into and out sophisticated: carved to the shaft home opened to reveal four papered 15,000), the 64-piece coffee service, minor losses and splits, went a UK long table had a twin oval top with a that included the good and the great Family tragedy The headline figure, where the veteran collector record for any classical coin set (BADA) as “hugely damaging of the EU will be banned. with spirals and fluting and inlaid and furnished rooms. Carrying £13,500 (£2000-3000) and the dealer within estimate at £5200. central burr thuya panel within a tied (Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlye, The taker of the second photograph published in this issue as part of meets the technologically by Roma Numismatics during and disproportionate”. BADA secretary general with tortoiseshell graduated lozenges. hopes of £7000-10,000, it sold to an 60-piece part-canteen of porcelain Of similar appeal was a 6ft ribbon and foliate swag border and a Alfred Lord Tennyson) and artists such is uncertain although it may be one of ATG’s annual survey of the savvy investor resulting in an extraordinary year in which On January 28, the EC Mark Dodgson said: “The Pitched at £600-800, it sold to a American private bidder at £13,000. and silver-gilt cutlery marked for (1.80m) tall late 19th century tulipwood crossbanded edge above as Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Edward Burne- more than 50 portraits Cameron made capital’s numismatic auction explosive auction results”. the firm almost doubled its published draft measures recommendation to prevent scene, represented a rise of Pierce Noonan, CEO of Dix year-on-year sales to £17.8m. designed to control the sale of London dealer at £13,000 – a price The house was one of two A Michelsen and Georg Jensen, Moorish hardwood cabinet on stand, a frieze drawer. It sold to a private Jones and George Frederick Watts. of her niece. It dates from the mid more than 10% despite a 3.5% Noonan Webb (£13.6m), See page 10-16 elephant ivory within member Continued on page 4 more akin with the best canes sold in belonging to the costume designer £18,500 (£3000-5000). profusely inlaid with ebony and ivory buyer at £5000. A favourite model of photographer 1860s, when Julia (having declined to RARE COINS AUCTION SATURDAY 12TH JUNE the UK regions in recent years. Evangeline Harrison who had motifs, which doubled expectations A second George III example, become Mrs Holman Hunt) had become Unexpected successes among the inherited it from her friend Jocelyn The decorative – and exotic in going to a UK private at £2800. but in mahogany and estimated at engaged to Herbert Duckworth, sculpture added to the £753,000 Rickards, the artist and costume A taste for the decorative and exotic Also from the Middle East, an £400-600, went to a London dealer a barrister and member of the hammer total across March 30-31. designer who is widely credited lifted furniture prices. 18th century 16in (40cm) Ottoman at £2500. Somerset landed gentry. Best was a white marble bust by as having defined the ‘Swinging A c.1900 Louis XVI-style tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl The vertiginous fall from stardom Married for just three years, Irish-born Christopher Moore (1790- London’ look of the ‘60s. inlaid, parquetry and mahogany inlaid table cabinet was extensively has long been seen in mahogany she was devastated by her 1863) who made a successful living in Top price of the sale came among marble top commode, after Jean- damaged but outpaced the £400-600 bureau bookcases and although husband’s untimely death and London. the ceramics: a dinner service, coffee Henri Riesener, modelled from estimate, selling to a Continental attractively small, as these things (with three young children) refused His 2ft 4in (72cm) tall bust The armorial head service and canteen of cutlery in the the Concordant Commode at the collector at £2300. go, a 6ft 5in x 3ft 1in (1.95m x 94cm) to contemplate remarrying for NUMISMATIC engraved Mary-Jane, wife of George “bore some similarity Flora Danica botanical pattern long Palais de Fontainebleau, went to a By contrast, two classically George III example was pitched at many years. However, in 1878 AUCTION Evelyn Esquire February 1829 Christopher to the Boleyn beast the pride of the Royal Copenhagen European buyer against US interest restrained English Pembroke tables £400-600. she accepted the proposal t. (00377) 93 25 00 42 Moore Sculpsit, raised a lot of interest which adorned the factory. at a top-estimate £6000. A set of 12 also went well above hopes. The cylinder fall was split in two of the writer and critic Leslie [email protected] Great Britain George III. Dollar double Australia 5 pounds Adelaide 1852 Austria Leopold I from the UK and Ireland. There were First used on a dinner service French Louis XV-style carved and Other than davenports (a decent places but was working properly, Stephen with whom she would www.mdc.mc obverse pattern. NGC PF66* ULTRA CAMEO PCGS SP66+ 5 ducats 1669 chips and cracks to the plinth but it palaces of Henry VIII created by royal command as a gift polychrome painted and upholstered William IV mahogany example opening to reveal a fitted interior have four more children – all was, said the auction house, “a very from 1533-36 for Catherine the Great in 1790, it set of dining chairs, estimated at failed to get away against a £600- with pull-out ratcheted writing of them influential members of beautiful portrayal of a member of has been in production ever since. £400-600 took £4200. 800 estimate), it’s hard to think of a surface over three drawers and splay what would be known as the quite a significant family”. The pieces at Essex dated from From 19th century north Italy bigger casualty of the furniture slump feet. It sold to the London trade for Bloomsbury Group. 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