BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR Fine English Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Works of Art and Sculpture Wednesday 4 November 2015
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR Session I - Ceramics and Silver, at 12.00 Session II - Furniture and Works of Art, at 14.00 Wednesday 4 November 2015 101 New Bond Street, London
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John Sandon Fergus Gambon BRITISH CERAMICS Session I, at 12.00 Lots 1 - 16 1 A WEDGWOOD JASPERWARE CANOPIC JAR AND COVER, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY Of ovoid form, the white stoneware domed cover formed from a human head wearing a ‘Nemes’ headdress, the jar in black jasper dip with turned bands applied with a variety of sprigs, the upper band including a ‘winged disk’ and other sprigs in Egyptian style, the lower band including signs of the Zodiac, 26.2cm high, impressed WEDGWOOD (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
These jars were originally made in the Egyptian city of Canopus and were used to preserve the viscera of the deceased. The Wedgwood versions are based on Plate CXXXII in Bernard de Montfaucon’s ‘L’Antiquité Expliquée’ published in Paris in 1719, a book in Josiah Wedgwood’s library. Three examples in blue and green jasper dip and caneware are illustrated by Robin Reilly, Wedgwood Jasper (1994), colour plate 63
6 | BONHAMS 2 A LARGE PEARLWARE BOXING PLAQUE OF SPRING AND LANGAN, CIRCA 1825 Of rectangular form with an integral reeded frame picked out in black, printed in black with Tom Spring and Jack Langan in boxing attire, a crowd of gentlemen watching the fight from behind the ring, titled below the figures ‘SPRING AND LANGAN’, 34.0cm x 41.4cm (restored)
£4,000 - 5,000 €5,400 - 6,800 US$6,100 - 7,600
This rare plaque depicts the champion boxer Tom Spring in his fight with Irishman Jack Langan. The fight took place at Worcester racecourse in 1824, watched by 40,000 people and for a purse of 300 sovereigns. It lasted 77 rounds, Langan being defeated after some two hours and thirty-two minutes. Tom Spring retired and purchased the Castle Inn, Holborn, which became the unofficial headquarters of English boxing
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 7 Circle of David Morier, Portrait of William Augustus, Darlaston Hall Duke of Cumberland (detail)
3 A CHELSEA BUST OF WILLIAM, DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, CIRCA 1750-52 Naturally modelled looking slightly to his right, his periwig coiffed with ringlets and tied in a bow, his scaled breast plate surmounted by a mask of Medusa, 13.5cm high (minor chip to one ringlet at the back)
£12,000 - 15,000 €16,000 - 20,000 US$18,000 - 23,000
Provenance: There has been much speculation concerning the Duke of Darlaston Hall, Stone, Staffordshire, seat of the Jervis family Cumberland’s involvement in the Chelsea porcelain factory. An account House sale early 1950s, prior to the demolition of Darlaston Hall, exists by a Mr. Mason, who worked at the Chelsea factory transcribed where purchased by a cousin of the present owner by William Chaffers in the 1947 edition of his Marks and Monograms, p.937, ‘I think the Chelsea China manufactory began about the year Prince William Augustus (1721-1765) was the youngest son of George 1748 or 1749... It was first carried on by the Duke of Cumberland and II and Caroline of Ansbach. In 1726 he was granted several titles Sir Everard Fawkener, and the sole management was entrusted to a including Duke of Cumberland. The Duke pursued a military career and foreigner of the name of Sprimont...’ Sir Everard Fawkener was the is best known as commander the loyalist troops against the Jacobite Duke’s secretary and there is no doubt Fawkener was closely involved forces of Charles Edward Stuart. with Nicholas Sprimont’s porcelain business. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams arranged for Fawkener to borrow his collection of Meissen The Jervis family of Darlaston Hall also owned Meaford Hall on the porcelain so that Chelsea could make copies. In a letter of 9 June opposite bank of the River Trent, where Admiral John Jervis was 1751 to his friend Henry Fox, Hanbury-Williams wrote ...’I find also that born in 1735. In December 1745 The Duke of Cumberland installed the Duke is a great encourager of the Chelsea China, and has bespoke his army near to Stone and dug-in in anticipation of an attack by a set for his own Table.’ Aside from providing the factory with his Charles Stuart’s Jacobites. Swinton Jervis provided accommodation custom, it seems unlikely that the Duke had any financial involvement for seventy British soldiers at Meaford and possibly at Darlaston, while in the venture. Indeed, in a note published in 1763 Sprimont went to Cumberland himself slept in Stone High St in the building now called great lengths to disassociate himself with the Duke. ‘The paragraph in Cumberland House. Hearing of Cumberland’s forces lined up at Stone, the Gazetteer of Saturday, Dec 24 1763, that his Royal Highness the the Jacobite advance halted at Leek, just 16 miles away, followed Duke of Cumberland has been lately at the manufactory, in order to by retreat and the decisive defeat at Culloden on 16 April 1746. The purchase the secret is without Foundation.’ aftermath of the battle and the Duke’s vindictive and brutal crackdown on Jacobitism earned Cumberland the taunt “Butcher”. Even if he was not a financial backer, the Duke was still an important and wealthy patron of the Chelsea factory and Sir Everard Fawkener In Staffordshire the loyalist landowners around Stone saw Cumberland no doubt encouraged the production of this bust of his employer. as their saviour and it is quite likely Swinton Jervis purchased this Elizabeth Adams discusses the Duke’s involvement in her book Chelsea porcelain bust to display at Darlaston Hall. The house Chelsea Porcelain (1987/2001) where she illustrates a similar bust from remained in the Jervis family until 1880 when they fell on hard times. the British Museum, p.70, fig.6.7. Another example of this bust is in Darlaston was bought by James Meakin, a pottery owner and JP. the Colonial Williamsburg collection, published by John Austin (1977) Three generations of Meakins lived at Darlaston before a sale of p.114, pl.107. Others are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New the contents was held in the early 1950s prior to the demolition of York and in the Schreiber collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Darlaston Hall. An example from Lord and Lady Fisher’s collection is illustrated by Severne Mackenna (1948) pl.14, fig.35.
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4 A FINE WORCESTER (BARR, FLIGHT AND BARR) DESSERT SERVICE, CIRCA 1810 Richly painted and gilded in bright Japan style with a pagoda, fence and rockwork set amongst a profusion of flowering plants and trees, a long-tailed bird perched on a branch, comprising a centrepiece with shell handles, pair of oval dishes, pair of square dishes and fourteen plates, centrepiece 34.8cm wide, impressed crown and BFB marks, printed marks referring to Coventry Street address (two plates chipped) (19)
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
A plate of the same pattern is illustrated by Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain (1978), pl 90, p 98
10 | BONHAMS 5 A WORCESTER (FLIGHT, BARR AND BARR) CABINET PLATE BY THOMAS BAXTER, CIRCA 1815 The cavetto fully painted by Thomas Baxter with a still life of six shells, A number of shell painted plates of this design apparently formed part naturalistically painted and arranged on a stone shelf amongst corals of a single service, half of which was painted with shells, the other half and seaweed, surrounded by a thin black line and a wide gold band, with Thomas Baxter’s flower painting. Examples were sold by Christie’s the blue border with a classical design in raised gold, 24cm diam, in New York 26 April 1994, lot 42. A dessert centrepiece of the same impressed crown and FBB, printed mark referring to Royal patronage pattern with shells by Thomas Baxter was sold in these rooms on 7 and Coventry Street address (some wear) December 2005, lot 255. Another plate is illustrated by Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain (1978), pl.95, p.103. £8,000 - 12,000 €11,000 - 16,000 A small number of pieces of Flight, Barr and Barr porcelain painted US$12,000 - 18,000 with Thomas Baxter’s shells are titled ‘Shells from Nature’, written in Baxter’s distinctive hand. This suggests the artist had his own collection of sea shells and created his own unique compositions. It is generally felt that plates with this distinctive border were individual He also painted superb shell panels on Swansea and Chamberlains cabinet plates, the painting and the gilding entirely the work of Thomas cabinet plates. Baxter. An example, now in the Museum of Royal Worcester depicts the actress Sarah Siddons and is known to have cost its original owner the remarkable sum of fifty guineas. Two plates with landscapes by Baxter are recorded with the same border.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 11 6 A PAIR OF DERBY BOUGH POTS AND COVERS, CIRCA 1800 Of semi-circular form with ram’s head handles, painted in sepia monochrome with panoramic rural views, possibly by George Robertson, reserved on a bright yellow ground within gilded borders, 24.5cm wide, crown, crossed batons and D marks in puce (some restoration) (4)
£2,000 - 2,500 €2,700 - 3,400 US$3,000 - 3,800
Provenance: The Rowland Williams Collection
Illustrated by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, An Illustrated Guide (2002), colour plate 149, p 176
12 | BONHAMS 7 A PAIR OF DERBY CROWN PORCELAIN COMPANY GLADSTONE SERVICE PLATES, CIRCA 1883 Made as replicas of the service presented to William Ewart Gladstone, the centres painted with titled views by Count Holtzendorf of ‘Dale Abbey Church and Guest-House’ and ‘Stepping Stones near Hathersage’, both signed ‘G H’, the rich underglaze blue borders reserving three oval floral panels painted by James Rouse Senior, alternating with the initials ‘W’, ‘E’ and ‘G’ within jewelled rectangular borders, a gilded and acid-etched border inside the rim, 23.5cm diam, special service mark printed in red, registration lozenge for December 1883, inscribed ‘Replica’ and ‘Flowers by J Rouse Senr’
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
Provenance: The Rowland Williams Collection
In December 1882 the Liberal Working Men of Derby commissioned a gift to celebrate Gladstone’s political jubilee- 50 years in public life. The Prime Minister was known as a china collector and admirer of Derby porcelain. A 26 piece dessert service was ordered, designed by Richard Lunn. Each piece was painted with a view by Derby’s senior painter, Count Holtzendorf who was sent into the countryside to sketch local beauty spots. James Rouse was then in his eighties and represented Derby’s long tradition of flower painting. The set took a year to create.
The service was presented in December 1883 at Howarden Castle, Gladstone’s country seat. Before this, it was displayed at the factory’s showrooms in Derby to invited guests and the general public, in evenings so that the working people who paid for it could see the splendour. Derby’s Liberal Working Men had only been able to raise £60 and the Derby Crown Porcelain Co. subsidised the rest, claiming the set cost them £600 to make. In return they earned massive publicity leading eventually to the granting of the Royal Warrant.
A small number of sample plates and specimens from the service were converted into ‘replicas’ for special presentation. One is illustrated by John Twitchett and Betty Bailey, Royal Crown Derby (1976), p.182 and another replica plate in colour, opposite p.17. Another was sold in these rooms 3 October 2012, lot 235 but was painted by different artists to the original service. See also Hugh Gibson, A Case of Fine China (1993), pp.64-68.
BRITAIN - DEFININGFINE THE CHINESE INTERIOR ART | 13 8 A FINE ROYAL CROWN DERBY CABINET PLATE BY DÉSIRÉ LEROY, DATED 1891 Of ‘Royal Gadroon’ shape, painted in the centre with a spray of garden flowers, signed ‘Leroy’, the border with three smaller floral panels alternating with small oval medallions of doves, each suspended from the rim with a purple ribbon, reserved on a claret ground, the gilded borders raised and tooled, 22.5cm diam, Royal Warrant mark in red
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
Provenance: The Rowland Williams Collection
9 A ROYAL CROWN DERBY VASE AND COVER BY DÉSIRÉ LEROY, DATED 1898 Of shield shape with scrolled handles, painted in Limoges enamel style with a bird on a leafy branch, signed Leroy, the reverse with a group of mushrooms, reserved on a green band richly gilt with raised and tooled scrollwork, narrower pale yellow bands painted with garlands of pink roses, turquoise jewels around the rim, dense gilding on the rich blue- ground, 16.2cm high, printed red marks (2)
£1,800 - 2,200 €2,400 - 3,000 US$2,700 - 3,300
14 | BONHAMS MASTERPIECES OF RETICULATED PORCELAIN BY GEORGE OWEN 10 A FINE ROYAL WORCESTER RETICULATED VASE AND COVER BY GEORGE OWEN AND SAMUEL RANFORD, DATED 1907 Of oval section with elaborate scrolled handles applied with white beads, the body pierced with a wide band of honeycomb, two more bands on the neck, the shoulder with two panels of unique design, the foot and cover also pierced, the whole richly gilded in raised and flat gold, bands of beads around the shoulder and foot, 21cm high, mark in gold, shape number 931, incised signature G Owen 1907, gilder’s mark RS for Samuel Ranford (2)
£30,000 - 40,000 €41,000 - 54,000 US$46,000 - 61,000
This is a very rare shape to find with reticulated decoration by George Owen and this is hardly surprising, as it will have been particularly difficult to plan the fine network of honeycomb on a vase with an oval cross section. Samuel Ranford provided the gilding on many of George Owen’s finest productions. The mark of the caster, no. 61 seen here, also occurs on many of Owen’s pieces and may be the numeral used by Owen’s son, George Potter Owen.
16 | BONHAMS 11 * A ROYAL WORCESTER RETICULATED VASE AND COVER BY GEORGE OWEN, DATED 1909 Of slender form with twin handles modelled as birds with wings outstretched, the body pierced with a broad band of honeycomb, the cover and neck with unique borders of elaborate scrollwork, the shoulder and foot also pierced and bands of white beads applied to the foot, the borders and piercing picked out in gold, 26.2cm high, mark in gold, shape number 2064, incised G Owen (restoration to one wing tip only) (2)
£16,000 - 20,000 €22,000 - 27,000 US$24,000 - 30,000
BRITAIN - DEFININGFINE THE CHINESE INTERIOR ART | 17 12 A FINE ROYAL WORCESTER RETICULATED TEAPOT AND COVER BY GEORGE OWEN, DATED 1878 Of double-walled globular form, the outer wall reticulated with wide bands of honeycomb enclosing a unique formal band, more reticulation on the spout and cover, all the piercing coloured in light blue and highlighted with gold dots, the pink borders with a zig-zag design in white and turquoise jewels, larger turquoise jewels on the handle, 12.2cm high, applied mark and puce printed mark (finial restuck) (2)
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
In 1913 Eli Haywood, the director of the china works museum wrote an account of George Owen’s early career. He noted “...after much thought & experiment, he succeeded in carrying out the difficult problem of making a perforated teapot with an inner lining, and this piece was exhibited, and gained for him not only praise, but resulted in his making 300 copies of it.”
13 A ROYAL WORCESTER RETICULATED VASE BY GEORGE OWEN, DATED 1906 The body pierced with a deep band of carefully graduated honeycomb, reserving a small leaf-shaped panel inscribed in gold ‘J D 1906’, the foot and slender quatrelobed neck also pierced, the rim and borders delicately gilded, 12.8cm high, mark in gold, shape number G789
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
18 | BONHAMS 14 A GOOD PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER VASES BY CHARLEY BALDWYN, DATED 1897 Of campana shape with twin handles, painted with a group of swans in flight above enamelled and gilded reeds and vegetation, the reverse with swallows in flight, reserved on a sky blue ground, the moulded borders picked out in gold and salmon, unsigned, 18.5cm high, marks in puce, shape number 1926 (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
These vases pre-date by three years most examples of flying swans painted by Charley Baldwyn and this rare pair is likely to be one of the prototypes, made when Baldwyn and the Worcester factory were developing what became a popular ground colour. Prior to 1900 very few Royal Worcester paintings were signed by their artists.
15 A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER VASES BY HARRY DAVIS, DATED 1931 Of cylindrical form, the pierced bases picked out in gold and simulating Chinese hardwood stands, painted with two sheep and a lamb on lush green hillsides, lakes and misty mountains in the distance, signed H Davis, gilded rims, 26.1cm high, marks in puce, shape number 6/161 (one foot with sections restuck) (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 19 16 * TWO MASSIVE ROYAL WORCESTER VASES BY JOHN STINTON, DATED 1910 AND 1911 Of remarkable size, the ovoid bodies both painted with two Highland cattle on an atmospheric mountain-side with swirling mist in morning light, further landscape vignettes on the reverse, the necks, feet and scrollwork handles shaded in bronze and gold, both vases signed J Stinton, 54.5cm high, factory marks and date codes in puce, shape number 1969 (some re-gilding to extremities) (2)
£12,000 - 15,000 €16,000 - 20,000 US$18,000 - 23,000
20 | BONHAMS SILVER Lots 17 - 114 17 AN EDWARDIAN SILVER NOVELTY SENTRY BOX CIGAR BOX by Carrington & Co., London 1907, the watercolour by Richard Simkin (1840-1926) Realistically modelled, the sides hinge outwards to reveal the compartments for cigars, the front with an arched glazed panel set with a watercolour of a standing trooper from the Life Guards wearing medals for the Boer War, signed R.Simkin, the base weighted, height 16cm.
£1,800 - 2,200 €2,400 - 3,000 US$2,700 - 3,300
Richard Simkin was employed by the War Office to design recruiting posters, and he went on to paint many watercolours of Army uniforms.
18 A SET OF FOUR SILVER BIRD MENU HOLDERS by William Edward Hurcomb, London 1910 Featuring a grouse, a pigeon, a partridge and a curlew on bases with a hammered finish, boxed, height 3.5cm. (4)
£1,000 - 1,500 €1,400 - 2,000 US$1,500 - 2,300
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22 | BONHAMS 19 A PAIR OF LARGE SILVER FOX HEAD STIRRUP CUPS by Garrard & Co, London 1914 Realistically modelled with bared teeth, the collar engraved with regimental badges and presentation inscription: “Presented to Capt F. H. Sutton on the occasion of his marriage by the officers of the XI Hussars, July 22 1914”, length 21cm, weight 58.5oz. (2)
£15,000 - 20,000 €20,000 - 27,000 US$23,000 - 30,000
Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Sutton MC was stationed in France and Belgium between 1914 and 1919. He is known to have been in Meerut, India by 1922, and between 1924 and 1928 commanded the XI Hussars. During this final year the regiment became mechanised, the first cavalry regiment to do this.
BRITAIN - DEFININGFINE THE CHINESE INTERIOR ART | 23 20 A PAIR OF SILVER CANDELABRA WITH TWO CANDLESTICKS ENSUITE by Crichton Brothers, London 1914 The candelabra with banded knop finials and scroll arms with two lights, the knopped baluster stems on stepped circular bases, height of candelabra 33.5cm, weight 115oz. (4)
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
24 | BONHAMS 21 A MATCHED PAIR OF LARGE EDWARDIAN BRITANNIA STANDARD SILVER LIDDED TANKARDS by Lambert & Co, London 1909/1912 In the late 17th century style with scroll handles, the lids topped with cast models of seated lions, with Britannia standard silver marks, height 30cm, weight 204oz. (2)
£7,000 - 9,000 €9,500 - 12,000 US$11,000 - 14,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 25 22 AN EDWARDIAN SILVER EPERGNE by Walker & Hall, London 1907 The central dish with scroll-pierced wavy edge, raised on a petalled baluster stem with scroll-pierced spreading base supporting four scrolling arms holding similar scroll-pierced dishes, raised on four acanthus decorated scrolling paw feet, height 33.5cm, diameter 58cm, weight 84oz.
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
26 | BONHAMS 23 A PAIR OF EDWARDIAN SILVER ARMADA EWERS by Elkington & Co Ltd., London 1901 Of typical form with spring-action scroll handle, elongated shaped neck with bands of acanthus leaves and flowers, the bulbous body chased and embossed with flowers and leaf scrolls around two cartouches, the cartouches flanked with applied male and female winged figures and masks to the front, on a spread circular foot, height 45cm, weight 120oz. (2)
£8,000 - 12,000 €11,000 - 16,000 US$12,000 - 18,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 27 24 A PAIR OF EDWARDIAN SILVER NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA by Henry & Arthur Vander, London 1909 With beaded rims, the fluted urn capitals with detachable drip-pans, the branches with reeded loop arms above a tapering reeded stem, each raised on a well circular foot, height 40cm, weight 89.5oz. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
28 | BONHAMS 25 A SILVER PRESENTATION CUP IN THE FORM OF THE WARWICK VASE by Edward Barnard & Sons Ltd, London 1910 With typical lion pelt and dramatic mask-head decoration and elaborately entwined handles, inscribed, ‘Presented to Harold Cecil Halsted Esq, RE MD MRCS LRCP LSA by Harold Stocker and Hubert G Stocker on his retirement as a token of their esteem and regard,’ raised on a square ebonised base, height 36cm, weight 65oz.
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 29 26 A LATE 19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN SILVER MOUNTED EMU EGG CENTREPIECE by Henry Young, Melbourne, circa 1885 The emu egg with applied silver finial depicting an emu and a fern- decorated scalloped hinge mount, raised on stem modelled as a tree fern shading an aboriginal kangaroo hunt on a naturalistic base with a snake and a swan on a pond, on a later wooden base, height excluding the base 24cm.
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
Henry Young joined his father’s manufacturing jewellery and silversmithing business in the 1860s. By 1882, Henry Young and Co was registered at 53 Collins Street East and appears to have ceased trading by 1891, see page 195, J M Houstone, Early Australian Silver (2012).
27 A VICTORIAN SILVER TEA KETTLE ON A STAND by Richard Martin & Ebenezer Hall, London 1878, the burner, London 1903 Compressed spherical form, the body with three finely chased panels depicting South East Asian figures and animals among chrysanthemums and stylised leaf backgrounds, with shaped over- hanging handle modelled as two snakes and textured spout applied with a crawling lizard, the hinged dome lid applied with similar lizard finial above a chased band comprising a faced sun, bird and fish among scrolls, supported on a scroll pierced stand with central burner and raised on three crane and ball monopodia feet, height 33cm, weight 45oz.
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,800 US$3,800 - 5,300
The present lot, although made by English silversmiths, clearly takes its inspiration from South East Asian examples from the same period and it is highly likely that Martin & Hall would have been working from Asian prototypes which they had seen first-hand in order to produce objects such as this.
A silver-gilt example with retailer’s marks for Huang Mao Xing was sold in these rooms, 3 June 2015, ex-lot 28, which had similar panels with highly stylised foliate decoration. Though the present lot is made from a single piece of silver and the gilt example had unusual construction with the panels riveted in. For a Singaporean piece exhibiting similar stylised foliage see Ho Wing Meng, Straits Chinese Silver (Singapore, 2004), Fig. 135, p.166
30 | BONHAMS 28 A VICTORIAN SUITE OF SILVER CANDELABRUM AND TWO COMPORTS WITH A LATER MATCHING METALWARE CANDELABRUM AND COMPORT by Joseph & Edward Bradbury, London 1868/1872, the later pieces by Valenti, Barcelona The candelabra modelled as fruiting vine branches with three lights, the central raised sections supporting later bowls, the bases of all pieces with scroll and shell borders, standing on three rocaille feet, together with a matching electroformed metalware candelabrum and larger comport, the bases incuse stamped 916 Valenti, height of candelabra 66cm, weight of the three Victorian pieces 163oz. (5)
£6,000 - 10,000 €8,200 - 14,000 US$9,100 - 15,000
Engraved with the crest and motto of TURNBULL.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 31 29 THE 1873 ASCOT QUEEN’S VASE: A VICTORIAN SILVER PRESENTATION TROPHY by R. S. Garrard & Co, London 1872 Depicting St. George (the Redcrosse Knight in Spencer’s The Faerie Queene) in medieval-style armour dropping the poisoned cup, his horse rearing up, next to a maiden with a bow and arrow quiver, the whole on an ebonized wooden plinth with a silver plaque engraved with the presentation inscription “The Gift of Her Majesty the Queen, Ascot 1873”, height 60cm, length of plinth 44cm.
£25,000 - 35,000 €34,000 - 48,000 US$38,000 - 53,000
Won by Thorn at Ascot Races on 11th June 1873. The race was described in the Daily News: “...and none of the other south county horses left could compete with Thorn, who dashed the cup from the lips of Hannah’s Backers in the last few strides, after being disappointed at the last turn.” Thorn, a chestnut colt owned by Mr R N Batt, by King of trumps out of Lady Alice Hawthorn, also came third in the Doncaster Cup in the same year.
From the middle of the 19th century onwards the design of the three perpetual trophies at Ascot, of which the Queen’s Vase is one, frequently took the form of elaborate figural scenes. Usually equine related, the inspiration for the designs was often battles and fables. Many of the trophies supplied by Garrard & Co. were designed by Edmund Cotterill until his death in 1860. After this date, the designs were often undertaken by the illustrator and artist, Harrison Weir (1824- 1906). The following extract shows a contemporary commentator’s favourable opinion about this style of trophy:
“The Ascot Prizes... fully sustain the great advancement in this branch of art, which we have had the satisfaction to record with each successive year of late. They are picturesque and poetic in character, and present strange contrasts with the old Race-cups, mostly imitated from poor Italian or pseudo-classic models. In these days our artists mostly borrow the subjects from history or poetry, and, catching inspiration from the author...and his design being transferred to the artisan, is wrought with spirit and exquisite finish, so as to rival the finest school of metalwork.” Illustrated London News, 9th June 1855
32 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 33 30 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER COMPORTS by Elkington & Co, Birmingham 1895 The electroform bodies modelled as reclining satyrs holding aloft the cut glass bowls resting on silver stands decorated with classical masks and foliage, the base with musical instruments and dramatic masks, on four scroll feet, height 26cm, weight of silver 67.5oz. (2)
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
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31 A SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN SILVER COMPORTS by Stephen Smith, London 1871, also with registration kite With cut glass dishes, the stands in Cellini pattern with embossed mask-heads and terms amongst floral decoration on three leaf-capped scroll feet, height 20cm, weight of silver 56.5oz. (4)
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,800 US$3,800 - 5,300
32 A SILVER-MOUNTED GLASS CLARET JUG by Charles Boyton II, London 1883 The mounting profusely decorated with floral and foliate embossing and chasing, the spout modelled as a yawning face, the cut-glass body of tapering cylindrical form, height 29cm.
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600 32
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 35 33
33 A SET OF SIX VICTORIAN SILVER BEAKERS by Edward Brown, London 1894 Of tapering form with gadrooning halfway up the body, height 10cm, weight 33oz. (6)
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
The arms are those of RICHARDS, originally of Rowley, Kent, impaling possibly SANGSTER.
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34 35 A VICTORIAN SILVER BREAD BASKET A VICTORIAN SILVER JARDINIERE by Thomas Bradbury & Sons, Sheffield 1859 by Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1895 The body modelled as a wicker basket with a border of wheat ears, Of oval form with shaped shell and scroll rim, the body profusely the swing handle as wheat ears and leaves, the flat base engraved embossed and chased with floral and foliate decoration, with two with a wreath, diameter 30cm, weight 45oz. handles in the form of devils, on a spreading foot, length 48cm, weight 95oz. £2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 £6,500 - 8,000 US$3,000 - 4,600 €8,800 - 11,000 US$9,900 - 12,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 37 36 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER MOUNTED BUDGERIGAR SCENT BOTTLES by William Leuchars, London 1882 Realistically modelled, the hinged heads set with red glass eyes, the glass bodies engraved with feathers, also stamped with a design registration mark, length 16.5cm. (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
38 | BONHAMS 37 A VICTORIAN SILVER CENTRE-PIECE by Edward, Edward, John & William Barnard, London 1874 Modelled with two entwined palm trees sheltering a camel and two Arabian figures, one standing the other seated, on a rocky ground embellished with scrolling and flowering lily-pads around a vacant cartouche, height 43cm, weight 98oz.
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
38 A VICTORIAN SILVER CENTREPIECE by Robert Hennell III, London 1852 The circular base raised on three swirling-acanthus scroll bracket feet and applied with water lilies among chased lily pads, the stem modelled as flowering reeds realistically applied with two small birds and flanked by two large storks, all beneath a spume decorated flaring bowl with scalloped edges issuing from a leafy canopy, height 43.5cm, weight 62.5oz.
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 39 39 A VICTORIAN PART SET OF BACCHANALIAN AND STAG HUNT PATTERN FLATWARE various makers and dates Comprising: twelve gilt dessert spoons in Bacchanalian pattern, nine by Wakely & Wheeler, London 1891, and three by Henry & Henry Lias, London 1876; twelve pairs of dessert forks and forks and six teaspoons in Bacchanalian pattern by William Theobalds & Robert Metcalfe Atkinson, London 1840; six teaspoons by C. J. Vander, London 1982; six cake forks in Stag Hunt pattern, same date and maker; together with eleven serving pieces with various makers and dates, contained in a fitted wooden box, length of dessert spoon 18cm, weight excluding knives 106oz. (65)
£3,500 - 4,500 €4,800 - 6,100 US$5,300 - 6,800
40 | BONHAMS 40 A VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT AND TURQUOISE MOUNTED AND COROMANDEL CASED DRESSING TABLE SET by Edward, Edward, John & Willam Barnard, London 1850, the pots by William Neal The gilt fitments decorated with parcel-gilt engraved strapwork around circular cartouche with monogram below a Viscount’s coronet, comprising: four cut-glass jars, the silver-gilt lids modelled as coronets applied with fourteen turquoise cabochons, a similar fifth spirit jar with fitted cup, a pull-out shelf containing: seven pots, two circular, three rectangular, one air-tight for ink and another similar with larger hole, each applied with a beaded band of turquoise cabochons, a pair of hexagonal tapersticks and oval dish with scalloped sides, an unmarked Bacchus pattern spoon, a flowering vine teaspoon, by Henry John Lias & Son, London 1852, a gilt-metal corkscrew, a mother of pearl and gilt-metal thermometer, a mother of pearl and gilt-metal button hook and a gilt-metal folding ruler, with lower pop-out sectioned jewellery tray. (21)
£6,500 - 8,500 €8,800 - 12,000 US$9,900 - 13,000
Engraved with a personal cypher ensigned by the coronet of a viscount, probably for Charles, 2nd Viscount HARDINGE Cornwallis, 3rd Viscount Hawarden
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 41 The Winter Cup
41 A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE 19TH CENTURY INDIAN COLONIAL SILVER PRESENTATION URN AND COVER by Hamilton & Co., Calcutta, c.1827 The cover of stepped domed form with acanthus leaf decoration and a border of vines and grapes, the finial in the form of an oak sprig with acorns, the body of campana form with a matted band of flowers and foliage, the two upright handles attached to the body with further oak sprigs, with presentation inscription: “To Roger Winter Esq., Barrister at Law, Councel for the Inhabitants of Calcutta to oppose the Registry of the Stamp Act in the Supreme Court of Calcutta, 12th July 1827. Presented by his fellow citizens as a mark of grateful admiration for the disinterestedness, the zeal and the eminent ability which he showed in resisting (although unsuccessfully) the claim set up by the East India Company to subject the inhabitants of this ancient British settlement (to Secret and Unlimited Taxation), on a square base, the corners guarded by seated tigers, the sides of the base with models of fasces, a coat of arms, a ceremonial mace crossed with a sword and scales, and a wrecked ship with cargo strewn and a scroll engraved with the names the donors, with a wooden, height 49cm, weight 283oz.
£15,000 - 20,000 €20,000 - 27,000 US$23,000 - 30,000
The arms are those of WINTER.
Provenance:
Roger Winter became Secretary to the Lord Chief Justice in Calcutta and died suddenly of cholera in May 1828, at the age of 39, thence by descent.
This presentation piece was in recognition of the efforts made by Roger Winter, the lawyer hired by a group of merchants and influential figures in Calcutta to oppose the Indian Stamp Act, 1827 which was to tax all public documents in India including newspapers. The Act was ultimately imposed, and the lack of collective opposition from the residents of Calcutta led one commentator in The Oriental Herald to sum up the situation thus: “...the great mass of the pretended ‘independent’ British inhabitants of India appear to us to have hugged their chains with an unaccountable and debasing fondness...”
The names of the donors, as they appear engraved on the scroll, are: John Palmer (known as the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century), J. Young, Rajah Baddinaut Roy, Rajah Sib Chrishon, A. Colvin (a merchant), Rammohun Roy (an important figure in the Bengali renaissance), J. W. Hogg (Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature), Radamadul Banerjee, G. Young, Ramgopal Mallick Bahadur of Calcutta, A. Wight, Doowarkanauth Tagore (an Indian industrialist), J. Smith, Rustomjee Cowarjee (a Parsi merchant), J. W. Paxton (a member of the Bengal civil service), Bunksee Dhur, J. Calder, J. Cullen, J. W. Ricketts, F. Vrignon and G. Sweney.
42 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 43 42 * A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER ENTRÉE DISHES by Paul Storr, London 1838 Of shaped oval form with entwined acanthus scroll handles, a gadroon with centre border, and shell handles, engraved with arms and crest, length 36cm, weight 131oz. (2)
£7,000 - 9,000 €9,500 - 12,000 US$11,000 - 14,000
The arms are those of SHAKERLEY impaled with WEBSTER of Ashfield, County Longford, Ireland. The arms represent the conjoined families of Geoffery Shakerley, youngest son of Charles Watkins Shakerley who married Ellen Maria, daughter of James Agneau Webster in April 1827.
44 | BONHAMS 43 A WILLIAM IV SILVER ENTRÉE DISH by Paul Storr, London 1832 Of shaped circular form with a domed and lobed lid, the finial reeded and modelled as branches, the base with a gadroon border. Engraved with a coat-of-arms, diameter 28cm, weight 56oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
The arms of AYLMER quartering OGLE impaling ELLISON.
44 A WILLIAM IV SILVER TABLE SPIRIT LIGHTER by Robinson, Edkins & Aston, Birmingham 1837 The central spirit chamber in the form of a quatrefoil column adorned with classical masks and a cast floral border, the central light and four removable lights modelled as flames, on a circular dish with scalloped edges and two cast loop handles, height 14cm, weight 25.5oz.
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 45 45 A WILLIAM IV SILVER COVERED JUG by John Figg, London 1836 Of lobed baluster form, the finial modelled as a fir cone, the scroll handle with an overlapping petal design, the body, lid and foot with embossed and chased flowing acanthus leaves, height 28cm, weight 36oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
46 A GEORGE IV SILVER EGG CRUET by Joseph Angell, London 1825 The stand with a gadroon and shell loop handle, acanthus leaf legs, on four lion’s paw feet, the four removable egg cups and salt with gilt interiors, crested, height 25cm, weight 29oz.
£1,200 - 1,800 €1,600 - 2,400 US$1,800 - 2,700
46 | BONHAMS 47 A MATCHED SET OF THREE GEORGE III AND IV GRADUATED SILVER MEAT DISHES the larger dish by R. & S. Garrard & Co., the second largest by William Stroud, and the least large by Robert Hennell, London 1819, 1820 & 1827 Of oval form with raised gadroon and centre borders, all three engraved with a crest and motto, length of the largest dish 59cm, weight 307oz. (3)
£7,500 - 10,000 €10,000 - 14,000 US$11,000 - 15,000
The crest and motto are those of ERSKIN[E].
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 47 48 A LARGE GEORGE IV SILVER SALVER by William Stroud, London 1822 Of shaped circular form, the openwork border adorned with vines, grapes, shells and classical masks, the surface chased with floral and foliate decoration, on four shell and scroll feet, the centre engraved with arms, diameter 56cm, weight 173oz.
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,200 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
The arms are those of GREENE impaling (possibly) EVANS.
48 | BONHAMS 49 A GEORGE IV SILVER ÉPERGNE by Rebecca Emes & Edward Barnard I, London 1824 The tiered circular shaped stand profusely chased and embossed with flowers, foliage and scrolls, topped with a cut glass bowl, the four scroll arms with candle holders and decorated with vines and grapes, the whole supported on four shell and scroll feet, engraved with arms, height 46cm, weight 145oz.
£10,000 - 15,000 €14,000 - 20,000 US$15,000 - 23,000
Bearing the lozenge of arms appropriate to Elizabeth and Harriet BLACKBURNE, unmarried sisters of John Ireland Blackburne (1782- 1874) of Orford Hall and Newton, Lancs., MP for Warrington and Newton 1835-47.
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50 A PAIR OF 1819 SILVER ENTRÉE DISHES by Philip Rundell, London 1819 Of rectangular form with gadroon and shell borders, the cast handles with stylised flowers and lions’ heads and paws, crested, length 31cm, weight 151oz. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
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50 | BONHAMS 51 A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER SALVERS by Joseph Craddock & William Reid, London 1824 Of circular form with wide borders of shell and vine ornament, the flat bases profusely chased with floral and scroll decoration, on three scroll feet, diameter 36cm, weight 100oz. (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
52 A GEORGE III SILVER CANDELABRUM by John & Thomas Settle, Sheffield 1818 With a baluster knopped stem embellished with acanthus leaves leading to three swirling reeded branches, the main central holder with a removable flame finial, on four lion’s paw feet, the base filled, height 63cm.
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,800 US$3,800 - 5,300
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 51 53 A GEORGE III SILVER CENTREPIECE by William Pitts, London 1801 Of oval form, the wirework body rimmed with acanthus leaves and grape vines, standing on four lion’s paw feet, with a frosted glass inner, length 31cm, weight 53.5oz.
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
52 | BONHAMS 54 AN IMPRESSIVE GEORGE III SILVER TEMPIETTO ÉPERGNE by Joseph Preedy, London 1802 The central ovoid detachable canopy decorated in overlapping leaves and surmounted by an unmarked figure of Victory with chased lappet border fitting into a cast lappet and bell husk gallery frame, raised on six slender inverted-baluster pillars with bifurcated foliate-scroll capitals, with a central scalloped and faceted glass bowl suspended on four chains, the oval platform bordered by a pierced hoop and bell husk gallery and supporting six foliate and flowerhead-embellished scrolling arms with pierced lappet ring receivers for similar cut-glass dishes, four circular and two oval, all raised on four lily-of-the-valley capped legs terminating in paw feet, height 64cm, length 83cm, weight 204oz.
£35,000 - 45,000 €48,000 - 61,000 US$53,000 - 68,000
Joseph Preedy’s first mark as largeworker was registered in 1777. illustrated as figure 269, Michael Clayton, The Collectors’ Dictionary of His second, in 1791, was in partnership with William Pitts. Pitts and the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America (Woodbridge Preedy are noted for their inventive and elaborate épergnes and 1985). centrepieces, following in the footsteps of Pitts father, Thomas. The partnership was dissolved in 1799 and Preedy enters his third mark in The designs for these centrepieces were heavily influenced by the 1800. important architects and designers of late 18th century neo-Classic movement including Robert and James Adam, James Wyatt and Sir It is clear that Preedy kept the moulds and designs use in the current William Chambers. The inspiration for the present lot might have been lot from the partnership with Pitts, the distinctive legs, columns and found in a drawing from the Adam brother’s office for a baldachinno to galleries can be seen in one by the partnership dating from 1799, be included in their designs for a new Parliament House.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 53 55 A LARGE PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SAUCEBOATS by William Stroud, London 1810 Oval form with a gadroon rim and a leaf-capped scroll handle, on three stepped shell feet, length 21.5cm, weight 35.5oz. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
54 | BONHAMS 56 A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN by William Fountain, London 1802 Of oval form, the domed lid with gadroon decoration and a branch finial, with two split reeded handles, on four leaf feet, engraved with arms, length 37cm, weight 116.5oz.
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,200 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
The arms and motto are those of CAULFIELD.
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57 A SET OF THREE GEORGE III SILVER SERVING DISHES by John Parker I & Edward Wakelin, London 1767 58 Triangular form with cusped corners and raised gadroon and leaf borders, crested, numbered 5, 6 and 7 and with scratch weights, length 25cm, weight 55.5oz. (3)
£4,500 - 6,500 €6,100 - 8,800 US$6,800 - 9,900
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58 59 A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS A GEORGE III SILVER WARMING DISH by William Homer, London 1751, with early 19th century Neapolitan by Paul Storr, London 1818 import marks Oval form, the domed lid surmounted by a heraldic finial modelled The detachable drips pans with Rococo shell motifs, the knopped as a bird of prey and torse, the edges with gadrooning, the stand baluster stem above a shaped shell base, engraved with arms, height and burner with four reeded legs and lion’s paw feet, length 32.5cm, 23cm, weight 40oz. (2) weight 100oz.
£2,000 - 3,000 £3,000 - 4,000 €2,700 - 4,100 €4,100 - 5,400 US$3,000 - 4,600 US$4,600 - 6,100
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 57 60 61 A GEORGE III SILVER ÉPERGNE A GEORGE III SILVER COFFEE POT by Daniel Smith & Robert Sharp, London 1766 by Charles Wright, London 1769 The central oval basket with pierced body and scroll handles, the Baluster form with a domed lid and cast foliate finial, the whole oval base with cast scroll garlands, on four scroll legs with openwork profusely chased and embossed with floral and scroll decoration, with rocaille feet, the four arms with circular dishes, height 32cm, weight an ebonised wood double scroll handle, height 33cm, weight 40.5oz. 91.5oz. £4,000 - 6,000 £8,000 - 12,000 €5,400 - 8,200 €11,000 - 16,000 US$6,100 - 9,100 US$12,000 - 18,000
58 | BONHAMS 61 62 A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SALVERS by John Schofield, London 1799 Of circular form with a beaded border and bright-cut engraving, on three scroll feet, engraved with arms, diameter 31.5cm, weight 63.5oz. (2)
£3,500 - 4,500 €4,800 - 6,100 US$5,300 - 6,800
63 A GEORGE III SILVER BEER MUG by Benjamin & James Smith, London 1810 Of baluster form with a gilt interior, a band of applied hops around the body, a reeded loop handle, and ears of wheat rising from the base, height 16cm, weight 14oz.
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Engraved with the crest of the Parkinson family, Herefs, and can be attributed to the branch living at Kinnersley Castle which was bought by Leonard Parkinson in 1806.
60 | BONHAMS 64 A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS by Luke Proctor & Co, Sheffield 1787 The sconces of octagonal batwing form on batwing fluted sconces on navette-section tapering columns on fluted outswept batwing bases, the detachable drip pans also marked, with filled bases, crested, height 28cm. (4)
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 61 65 A GEORGE III SILVER HOT WATER JUG by John Roberts & Co, Sheffield 1774 Of Neo-Classical vase form with a pineapple-shaped finial, the body with an arcade-style band, on a square base with four ball feet, height 32cm, weight 20oz.
£1,000 - 1,500 €1,400 - 2,000 US$1,500 - 2,300
Engraved with the crest of HAY of Dalhousie, Scotland.
62 | BONHAMS 66 A RARE GEORGE III PROVINCIAL SILVER HOT WATER OR COFFEE POT by Hampston & Prince, York, with a variant of their maker’s mark used between 1776-79, also marked on the lid Of baluster form with a lobed finial on a domed lid, the body engraved with ribbon-tied swags and a cartouche engraved with arms, and with a vacant cartouche on the opposite side, with a raffia-bound strap handle and spreading foot with gadrooning, height 30cm, weight 24oz.
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
The female side of the arms is engraved with the coat originally recorded Johnstone of Hilton in 1672, and used by the Earls of Annandale and very many of that name since that date. The male side is engraved with an unknown variant associated with Mildred/Myldred and Randall. The Johnstone arms are likely to have been illicitly used in England in the late 18th century.
The late Michael Clayton suggested that these pots, with distinctive short spouts were intended for Turkish coffee rather than hot water.
The York Assay Office had fallen into disuse around 1714, and it was partly the establishment of Hampston & Prince that led to its revival in 1776. The first recorded date letter is the ‘D’ for 1779, and the theory that no date letter punch had been cut for the three preceding years is supported by a number of items, to which this hot water jug belongs, marked only with maker’s mark struck twice and a lion passant.
For further information see Michael Baggott, ‘An Illustrated Guide to York Hallmarks’ (Bodmin 2010), p.6.
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67 68 A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SALVERS A GEORGE III SILVER ARGYLE by William Fountain & Daniel Pontifex, London 1793 by Aldridge & Green, London 1781 Oval form with a reeded border and four shell and scroll feet, engraved Oval form with beaded borders, the detachable domed cover with with arms, length 23cm, weight 28oz. (2) urn finial and engraved with a crest, opening to reveal tapering interior section with pull-off lid, the polished body engraved with a crest below an Earl’s coronet, wood loop handle, length 21cm, weight 12.5oz. £1,800 - 2,500 €2,400 - 3,400 US$2,700 - 3,800 £2,500 - 3,000 €3,400 - 4,100 US$3,800 - 4,600
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69 Y Ф A GEORGE III SILVER COFFEE POT by Hester Bateman London 1786 Baluster form with beaded rims and embellishments to the spout, the hinged dome lid applied with stained ivory pineapple finial, wood loop handle, the body engraved with a ribbon-tied oval husk cartouche surrounding an armorial shield, height 29cm, weight total 26oz.
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,800 US$3,800 - 5,300
The shield for FRAMLINGHAM.
70 A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER COASTERS by Hester Bateman, London 1787 With beaded wavy edges, the sides with pierced scroll decoration and bright-cut engraving, on turned wooden bases, diameter 12cm. (2)
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 65 71 A GEORGE III SUITE OF THREE GRADUATED SILVER SALVERS by John Parker & Edward Wakelin, London 1767 and 68 Circular form with a gadroon and sprig border, on three rococo scroll feet, engraved with a coat-of-arms, length of larger 38cm, of the two smaller 23cm, weight 86oz. (3)
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
Provenance:
Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, the remaining contents, Christies September 1973, ex-lots 670 and 672.
The large salver in the present lot is recorded in the Wakelin ledgers, now held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the account of the Rt. Honble. Ld. Viscount Molineaux in 1769:
Jan 6 To a large Nurl’d and Shell Waiter 56. 18 X @8/4 £23/14/2 To Graving a Coat Supporters and Coronet £1/10/0
The arms are those of Charles William, Viscount MOLYNEUX impaling STANHOPE for the 1768 marriage of the 9th viscount to Isabella, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Harrington. In 1771 the viscount was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Sefton, a title which became extinct in 1972.
66 | BONHAMS 72 A GEORGE III SILVER TUREEN by William Burwash, London 1816 Of bellied oval form, the domed lid with a finial modelled as two acanthus leaves, the body with a slant gadroon rim, the two loop handles in the form of acanthus leaves and shell, with two applied shell and scroll cartouches to the sides engraved with crest, on four scroll feet, together with a Sheffield plate liner, length 39cm, weight 104.5oz.
£4,500 - 6,500 €6,100 - 8,800 US$6,800 - 9,900
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 67 73 A PAIR OF GEORGE III CAST SILVER CANDLESTICKS by Thomas Hannam and Richard Mills, London 1764 The square gadrooned sconce on spooled and gadrooned nozzles, the tapering octagonal stems with square shoulders, on square bases with welled centres, height 25.5cm, weight 37.5oz. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
74 A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS by William Cafe, London 1763 The circular detachable drip pans with gadroon borders, on tapering octagonal stems with gadrooned knops, on square bases, crested, height 25cm, weight 37oz. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
68 | BONHAMS THE COLLECTION OF A CAMBRIDGE HISTORIAN PART I
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 69 75 A VICTORIAN SILVER INKSTAND by Charles Thomas Fox and George Fox, London 1841 Sir Robert Henry Inglis (1786 – 1855) 2nd Baronet of Milton Bryant, The body shaped as water flowing from three small shells into a larger Woburn, Bedfordshire. An English Conservative Politician had a Rococo style shell on two ram’s horn feet and one shell and leaf foot, parliamentary career which spanned from 1824 – 1855. the two cut-glass inkwells with silver lids modelled in the form of rippling water, the removable taperstick as graduating stylised flower Robert Inglis became a friend of Robert Peel whilst at Christ Church buds, length 28cm, weight without bottles 31oz. Oxford. Other than politics, Inglis had artistic, antiquarian and literary interests. In 1841, the same year as the present lot, Sir Robert was appointed to the first Fine Arts Commission, responsible for the £2,000 - 3,000 refurbishment and internal decoration of the new Gothic buildings after €2,700 - 4,100 the devastating fire that destroyed the Houses of Parliament in 1834. US$3,000 - 4,600 Inglis was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 22 February The crest is that of INGLIS. 1816, and was for several years one of the vice-presidents. He was also president of the Literary Club and a fellow of the Royal Society and, in 1850, was elected the antiquary of the Royal Academy and chairman of the House of Commons Library Select Committee.
70 | BONHAMS 76 A VICTORIAN SILVER ‘POSEIDON’ VASE by John Samuel Hunt, London 1863 In the form of a Greek volute krater, with swan necks junctions, the neck chased and embossed with nautical equipment and the body embossed and chased with a scene of Poseidon drawn through waves by two hippocampi, height 34.5cm, weight 47.5oz.
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
The present lot demonstrates the interest in the Ancient world which inspired a Neo-Classical revival during the 19th century. Similarities with the ‘Poseidon Vase’ can be made with the Sosibios Volute Crater vase, now held in the Louvre, Paris, though the inspiration for the decorative frieze has been taken from elsewhere in the Greek artistic tradition.
The Sosibios vase entered the French Royal Collection in 1692 and was the inspiration for Keat’s poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. The most obvious parallels between the Sosibios and ‘Poseidon’ vase can be seen in the handles; notably the floral paterae motifs and swan head decoration to the junctions. It is known that unlike many other silvermiths working in the 19th century, Hunt visited France and would have undoubtedly have seen the Sosibios vase firsthand.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 71 77 Y Ф A GEORGE IV SILVER GILT SAFFRON POT by Edward Farrell, London 1820 Of squat baluster form with a swan finial, the sides embossed and chased with classical scenes of Venus and Adonis and Odysseus handing a dispatch to Achilles, with a cast acanthus leaf spout and ivory scroll finial on four mask and lion’s paw feet, engraved with a coronet and a monogram ‘A’, height 10.3cm, weight 10.5oz.
£2,000 - 2,500 €2,700 - 3,400 US$3,000 - 3,800
78 Y Ф A GEORGE IV SILVER ‘TENIERS’ COFFEE POT by Edward Farrell, London 1830, also incuse stamped LEWIS ST JAMES ST, retailer’s mark of Kensington Lewis Of baluster form, the finial modelled as a man pouring beer from a barrel, the body chased with rural scenes after the style of David Teniers, the silver handle with ivory insulators, the four feet modelled as grotesque figures, height 24cm, weight 30oz.
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
Between 1816 and 1834, Farrell was largely associated with the retailer Kensington Lewis. Typically it is Farrell’s more inventive output in the Baroque style which bears this mark. Lewis is first mentioned in 1816, where he was an active buyer at the eleventh Duke of Norfolk’s sale, held at Christie’s. Describing himself as stocking ‘antique’, rather than second hand plate, he specialised in elaborately chased or embossed Baroque silver, refurbished old plate and more modern pastiches of old plate. Occasionally, he would supply earlier examples when possible and in 1826, he was recorded by Ackerman as having in his St. James Street shop the twelve Aldobrandini tazze made by Cellini.
79 A GEORGE IV SILVER ‘TENIERS’ TEAPOT by Edward Farrell, London 1822 Of squat baluster form, the finial in the form of a man pouring beer from a barrel, the body and lid chased and embossed with rural tavern scenes after the style of David Teniers, the spout shaped as a satyr’s head with a bird beak pourer, the feet as grotesque figures, height 17cm, weight 33.5oz.
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
72 | BONHAMS 80 A GEORGE IV SILVER AND SILVER-GILT EWER by Paul Storr, London 1829 Vase form, the hinged cover with fleur-de-lys finial, the neck and outer edge of the body applied with detachable silver-gilt fruiting vine bands, the ropetwist handle with acanthus junctions, the lower body with embossed palmettes and acanthus leaves, raised on an acanthus-cast foot, height 29cm, weight 31oz.
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,200 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
Claret jugs were particularly popular in the late 1820s and 30s, often with frosted or coloured glass bodies contrasting with the silver and gilt mounts. Storr was known for producing remarkably realistic fruiting vine mounts, exhibited so well in the present lot. The silver-gilt mounts appear to float above the polished surface of the inverted baluster body. The twisted vine handle is a play on the theme of the vine and is similar to that on a Warwick vase, see lot 25.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 73 81 A FINE AND RARE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER by Louisa Courtauld and George Cowles, London 1771 Of classical urn form, the lid with rising acanthus leaves and an acorn finial, two leaf-capped scroll handles, a frieze of scrolls and rosettes, the body ringed by drapery and classical masks, on a circular base with spiral fluting, height 39cm, weight 69oz.
£8,000 - 12,000 €11,000 - 16,000 US$12,000 - 18,000
The neo-classical style was eagerly adopted by Louisa Courtauld and George Cowles as well as by other silversmiths in the 1770s, and the two-handled cup and cover perhaps best encapsulates the fashion. Robert Rowe writes of an almost identical cup and cover by Courtauld & Cowles, now held by the V&A (804:1, 2-1890): “The cup of 1771 shows off their skill very well. The eye delights in the flowing frieze, every other flower in which is reversed with its stem making an extra spiral in the design; the frilliness of the acanthus leaves is subtly emphasized too by the reflecting powers of the plain convexity of the cup” (Adam Silver p.39). Interestingly, whilst the V&A cup has very slight differences in the mask head decoration, the present lot has a twin held at the St. Louis Museum of Art (97:1986a,b).
The Courtauld examples show similarities in artistic language with the Richmond Cups. One can compare 1771 and 1773 examples by Daniel Smith and Robert Sharp, particularly in the spiral fluting of the feet and use of acanthus leaf decoration, Bonhams 20th June 2012, ex-lots 141 and 142.
74 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 75 82 A GEORGE III SILVER COFFEE POT by John Payne, London 1768 Of baluster form with embossed scroll and foliate decoration, with cast spout and handle fixtures in the Rococo style, engraved to one side with a coat of arms, the other with a crest., height 27cm, weight 29.5oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
John Payne was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1765.
The arms of WILKES impaling FISKE/FYSHE of Herts and of STUDSHAW, Suffolk. The crest is for John Wilkes (1725 – 1797) an English Radical, journalist and politician. The arms are for Wilkes’ nephew Hope Wilkes (1736 - 1803) impaled on those of his wife Martha Fiske (1748 - 1813).
Hope Wilkes lived the life of a respectable country gentleman, serving as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Essex. His uncle, John Wilkes, on the other hand, was an outspoken journalist and popular Collection, WOA 2935 www.parliament.uk/art © Palace of Westminster London politician who came to be regarded as a champion of liberty in England on account of his continual persecution and repeated expulsion from Parliament, and as a ‘champion of freedom’ in the American colonies. John Wilkes 1727-97 M.P’, oil on canvas by Robert Edge
Pine, 1768 After a failed election attempt in 1754, Wilkes was returned to Parliament as MP for Aylesbury in 1757. Five years later in 1762, he founded a weekly radical publication The North Briton as a response to the newly appointed John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute as head of government. Issue 45 of The North Briton, a numerical reference to the Jacobite Rising of 1745 which did not go unnoticed, was particularly vitriolic, only thinly disguising attacks aimed directly at the King. The result was a charge of libel against Wilkes.
The following year in 1764, Wilkes, along with fellow politician Thomas Potter (1718–1759), wrote a pornographic poem entitled An Essay on Woman as a parody of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man. The poem was declared obscene and blasphemous and caused great scandal. Wilkes fled to Paris avoid trial but was found guilty in absentia.
Pressures from French creditors by 1768, left Wilkes with little choice but to return to England and, later that year, was imprisoned in the King’s Bench Prison. Troops opened fire on his supporters who had gathered outside the prison, leaving seven dead and fifteen wounded. Later this incident became known as the St George’s Field Massacre. Additionally, it is believed that it was the events surrounding Wilkes’ imprisonment and struggle with liberty which inspired the I LOVE LIBERTY picture-back spoon design, showing a bird escaping its cage.
It would have been at this time that Wilkes commissioned Payne to create the present lot as a gift by Wilkes in celebration of his nephew’s marriage on 6th December 1768.
After his release from prison and shut out of parliament, Wilkes persued his political ambitions by becoming an alderman in 1769, sheriff in 1771, and lord mayor in 1774. In the same year, he was also re-elected as MP for Middlesex, winning the seat again in 1780 and 1784. By that year however, the issues which had made Wilkes popular during the middle of the century where growing cold and by 1790 he found so little support even among those in Middlesex that he declined to stand for election. He died in 1797.
76 | BONHAMS © Palace of Westminster Collection, WOA 2935 www.parliament.uk/art © Palace of Westminster
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 77 83
83 A GEORGE II SILVER COFFEE POT by Samuel Courtauld I, London 1758 Of baluster form, the fluted and gadrooned lid with a lobed finial, the body embossed with scrolls, on a spreading foot, engraved with arms, height 26cm, weight 24oz.
84 £3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 A RARE GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP AND COVER by Samuel Wood, London 1777 US$4,600 - 7,600 In the form of a classical urn, the domed cover with a pine cone and acanthus leaf finial, the body and lid decorated with vine embossing The arms are those of GLOVER of South Creake, Norfolk. Label for and chasing, with two cast satyr’s heads beneath the cover, height heir-apparent. 24cm, weight 33.5oz.
Robert Glover of South Creake (1705 - 1768) was an agriculturist £2,000 - 3,000 who strove to consolidate and improve his estates, by employing €2,700 - 4,100 techniques such as marling, crop rotation, cultivation of winter feed US$3,000 - 4,600 and expansion of convertible husbandry allowed him to purchase the estate of Barmer where he lived until 1757, when he entrusted the estate to his nephew, Edward Glover. It is possible therefore Vessels of this form are referred to in Jackson Illustrated History of that the present lot was given as a gift by Robert to his nephew to Silver Plate (New York 1969) p.971 in which he calls them vase- commemorate this move. shaped tea caddies.
Samuel Courtauld inherited his father’s business in 1745 and entered Samuel Wood had a long and successful career and became Prime his own mark in 1746. Samuel died in 1765. His wife Louisa Perina Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1763. In the early 1770’s Courtauld with their son Samuel continued the business until 1780. A he had moved away from Foster Lane into semi-retirement at his similar coffee pot by Coutauld, and dated 1757, was included in the granddaughter’s house in Southgate, Middlesex. Wood still continued service presented to Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1762. production into his 70’s and died in 1794 at the age of 90.
78 | BONHAMS 84
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 79 85 A GEORGE II SILVER WAITER by Paul De Lamerie, London 1733 With a “pie-crust” border, chased with Rococo shell, scroll and floral decoration, supported on three hoof feet, underside initialled T*E with S above, diameter 15cm, weight 7oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
Identical chasing has been noted on a salver hallmarked for the same year and made by Thomas Farren: these rooms 15th May 2012, ex-lot 219. This appears to confirm De Lamerie’s well known practice of out- sourcing to other specialists to achieve his commercial success.
80 | BONHAMS 86 A GEORGE I BRITANNIA STANDARD SILVER COFFEE POT by Thomas Tearle, London 1719 Of straight-sided tapering form with domed lid surmounted by an acorn finial, the spout of octagonal cross-section, engraved with arms, height 24cm, weight 22oz.
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
Thomas Tearle entered his first mark in February 1719, suggesting the Fairfax’s career as an officer in the Horse Guards (1721 – 1733) stalled present lot must be one of his early pieces. and, in 1735, he visited for the first time his American estates. He returned to England two years later to pursue a political career before The arms are those of FAIRFAX of Steeton and Denton Castle, returning permanently to America in 1747, settling in Belvoir. Five years Yorkshire, here for Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693 – later Fairfax made his permanent home at Greenway Court in the 1781). frontier territory.
Born at Leeds castle in Kent, Lord Fairfax succeeded to his title in In 1748, he made the acquaintance and then employed the future first 1709. After his father’s death and during his minority his mother, president of the United States of America, George Washington. This Catherine Culpeper, sold off the Yorkshire estates of Denton, Nun was Washington’s first employment, as surveyor of land for Fairfax, Appleton and Bolton Percy to pay off the debts on her estates in Kent. operating firstly out of Belvoir then at Greenway Court. In 1719, Thomas’s mother died and he inherited Leeds Castle, Kent and through the Culpeper estate he became entitled to vast estates in Virginia’s Northern Neck Proprietary.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 81 87 A WILLIAM III BRITANNIA STANDARD SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP AND COVER by John Smith I, London 1699 With gadrooning and fluting to the body, punched with leaf motifs, the cover similarly decorated with a gadrooned ball finial, the scroll handles with beaded rat-tails, height 22.5cm, weight 31.5oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
John Smith I completed his apprenticeship in circa 1691 and entered his first mark probably in April 1697 on commencement of the register as a large worker. His premises according to Heal were in White’s Alley Holborn.
82 | BONHAMS 88 A GEORGE I BRITANNIA STANDARD SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP AND COVER by Bowles Nash, London 1721 Of circular form, with a central girdle above cut card decoration, scroll handles, on a raised circular foot, the pull-off cover with a knop finial and cut card decoration, the body engraved with arms, height 26cm, weight 49oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
The arms are those of LIPPINCOT, sometime Baronets of Glos., originally of Devonshire. The senior branch of the Lippincot family in England became extinct in 1779 with Henry Lippincott.
Bowles Nash was apprenticed to Gabriel Sleath in 1713. He became free in March 1720, taking out his first, mark, Britannia standard mark in March 1721 and entered his second mark, Sterling standard in June 1721. Nash’s career was short ending in 1724.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 83 89 A CHARLES II SILVER TANKARD by Gilbert Shepherd, London 1668 Of straight-sided tapering form, with a flat lid with shaped frontispiece, the scroll handle with a beaded rat-tail, height 18cm, weight 27oz.
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
Maker’s mark that of G S flanking a crozier and pellets above, see Jacksons page 123.
84 | BONHAMS 90 A CHARLES I SILVER COMMUNION CUP AND PATEN maker’s mark RP with mullet below, see Jackson page 119, London 1640 The tapering bowl with a flaring lip on a raised trumpet foot, the paten fully marked, height 15.5cm, weight 10.5oz. (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Provenance:
St. Peter’s Church, Winterborne Came, Dorset. See Nightingale, “The Church Plate of the County of Dorset”, (Salisbury 1889), page 54.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 85 OTHER PROPERTIES
91 A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS by William Cripps, London 1759 In Corinthian column style with detachable drip pans on square bases with gadroon decoration, height 31cm, weight 74oz. (4)
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,200 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
86 | BONHAMS 92 A GEORGE II SILVER TEA KETTLE AND STAND by Peter Archambo, London 1748 Inverted baluster form, the domed hinged lid with a pine cone finial, the double scroll swing handle with female heads, the body chased and embossed with flowers and scrolls, the burner and stand with pierced and cast Baroque style decoration, the scroll legs on shell feet, height 33.5cm, weight 66oz.
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 87 93 A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER TEA CADDIES, AFTER PAUL DE LAMERIE by Thomas Heming, London 1752 Of rectangular form, the sides chased with chinoiserie scenes of tea pickers and buildings, each within a rococo cartouche, also chased and embossed with lion’s masks, shells and foliage, the sliding cover with conforming decoration and shell finial, on four scroll feet, in a later burr walnut box with silver fittings, height 13cm, weight 23.5oz. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
Provenance:
Roche Court House Sale, Humberts King & Chasemore, 23-25 October 1978, ex-lot 673.
Examples of Paul De Lamerie’s originals can be found in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver 97.28.1-2.
88 | BONHAMS 94 A WEST COUNTRY GEORGE II SILVER TANKARD by John Boutet of Plymouth, Exeter 1741, marked on the base and handle The domed lid with an open scroll thumb-piece, the double-scroll handle with a rat-tail, the baluster body with a reeded band, on a stepped base, height 18cm, weight 23oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
For further information about John Boutet see Miles Harrison, Exeter & West Country Silver 1700-1900 (2014), p.35.
95 A GEORGE II SILVER COFFEE POT probably by Richard Bayley, London 1738 Tapering cylindrical form with wood loop handle, the hinged dome lid engraved with a floral border below a chased spume band and applied with bud finial, the body with two vacant c-scroll cartouches each surmounted with a ram’s head and flanked by two chased woodland, foliate and scroll bands, raised on an engraved circular foot, height 24cm, weight 30oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 89 96 A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER by Paul De Lamerie, London 1737 With a raised scalloped rim divided into 27 compartments with diaper chasing, the flat surface chased with scroll and shell decoration, on four scroll feet, diameter 24.5cm, weight 21oz.
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
The arms are those of Francis STUART (1673-1739), 7th Earl of Moray (1730-39) and his 2nd wife (m.1730) née Jean Elphinstone, daughter of James, 4th Lord of Balmerinoch.
For a similar example see: Philip A. S. Phillips, “Paul De Lamerie” (Cirencester 1973) plate CLXII.
The feet can be compared with those of the following lot.
90 | BONHAMS 97 A GEORGE II BRITANNIA STANDARD SILVER INKSTAND by Paul De Lamerie, London 1730, fully marked to underside of the The present lot is sold with a letter from Henry Peregrine Rennie stand, the pots and taper stick are unmarked Hoare (1901 - 81), inheritor of the part of Stourhead not given to Of rectangular form with cusped corners, on four scroll feet, fitted with the National Trust and historian of the bank C. Hoare & Co, Hoare’s a sander, the lid with scroll piercing; an inkwell, the lid with holes for Bank: A Record 1672-1955 (1932). In the letter, Hoare discusses holding quills, and a cast taperstick with an octagonal baluster knop, several entries from 1728/9 in the bank ledgers detailing payments crested, length 21.5cm, weight excluding the taperstick 18.5 oz. and receipts on the account of “Mr L’Emerie/Paul Delamiere/Paul de Lameree.” He goes on to suggest that the entries link Paul de Lamerie and Henry “The Magnificent” Hoare (1705–1785), who laid out the £6,000 - 8,000 gardens at Stourhead, though much was sold from the estate in the €8,200 - 11,000 late 19th century by Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare. Although the present US$9,100 - 12,000 vendor is of the Hoare family, the line of descent of the inkstand is not documented. The crest is that of HOARE. The inkstand has been extensively spectrographically tested at Goldsmiths’ Hall. All parts are Britannia standard, apart from the sterling standard taperstick body and this has the same profile of impurities as the hallmarked stand. The feet can be compared with those of the previous lot.
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98 99 A GEORGE II SILVER SNUFFER TRAY A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER by David Willaume, London 1728 by Peter Archambo, London 1730 Waisted and shaped rectangular form, with a faceted baluster and Of square form with a raised rim and shaped corners, on four cast scroll handle, on four bun feet, crested, length 18.5cm, weight 10.5oz. feet, engraved with a coat-of-arms, length 24cm, weight 18oz.
£3,000 - 3,500 £1,200 - 1,500 €4,100 - 4,800 €1,600 - 2,000 US$4,600 - 5,300 US$1,800 - 2,300
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92 | BONHAMS 100 A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-MOUNTED GLASS OIL AND VINEGAR BOTTLES by Anne Tanqueray, London 1727 The receivers of square form with canted corners, the sides pierced with stylised floral motifs, with double-scroll handles, raised on four scroll feet, the glass bottles with scroll handles and domed covers with shell thumbpieces, engraved with a crest, height 20.5cm, weight of weighable silver 21oz. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
The crest and motto of MONTGOMERIE of Scotland.
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101Y Ф 102 A GEORGE I SILVER TEAPOT A PAIR OF GEORGE I SILVER TAPERSTICKS by William Fawdry, London 1723 by Francis Turner, London 1716 Of bullet form, the hinged lid with a knop finial, the top engraved and Of conventional form with stepped hexagonal bases, crested, height chased with scroll and mask decoration, the ivory scroll handle with 12cm, weight 7.5oz. (2) silver mounts, with a cast spout with flaring lip, crested, length 21cm, weight 18oz. £4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 £4,000 - 6,000 US$6,100 - 9,100 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
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94 | BONHAMS 103 A GEORGE I SILVER TEAPOT by Richard Green, London 1718 Of octagonal stepped baluster form, with an octagonal knop finial, a faceted spout and wooden scroll handle, on a circular foot, height 15cm, weight 17oz.
£8,000 - 12,000 €11,000 - 16,000 US$12,000 - 18,000
Provenance:
The Hilmar Reksten Collection, Christie’s London, 22 May 1991, lot 110.
The arms are those of SANDBY of Lincolnshire impaling probably BARE of Devonshire.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 95 104* A RARE GEORGE I IRISH PROVINCIAL SILVER COFFEE POT by John Robinson, Limerick, first quarter 18th century, maker’s mark only, JR, four times to underside (one mistruck) Tapering cylindrical with domed hinged lid surmounted by a knopped finial over a scrolled side handle and spout with hinged flap cover, underside with monogram ‘O/Q*E’ and scratch weight ‘35-20’, height 27.5cm, weight total 32.5oz.
£20,000 - 30,000 €27,000 - 41,000 US$30,000 - 46,000
John Robinson was apprenticed to the prominent Dublin goldsmith Matthew Walker in 1717, and he was recorded in the Dublin Goldsmiths’ Company records as a goldsmith of Limerick sending for assay a waiter and teaspoons in 1738. The silver items were found to be significantly worse than the required purity, and Robinson was fined ten shillings by the Company. Matthew Walker offered to pay the fine.
For an illustration of John Robinson’s maker’s mark see John R. Bowen & Conor O’Brien, ‘A Celebration of Limerick’s Silver’ (Cork 2007), p.205. For a coffee pot of similar date and design, see Kurt Ticher, ‘Irish Silver’ (Shannon 1972), Plate 2.
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105 A JAMES II SILVER TAZZA maker’s mark PM, London 1687 The top with a raised slanted gadroon border, with matching decoration on the trumpet foot, engraved with a cypher monogram, diameter 30.5cm, weight 21.5oz.
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100
106 A JAMES II SILVER BEAKER by John Duck, London 1688 Of tapering cylindrical form with a flaring rim, embossed and chased with floral and foliate decoration, engraved with the inscription ‘IL MC 1723’, height 8cm, weight 3oz.
£4,500 - 6,000 €6,100 - 8,200 US$6,800 - 9,100
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107 A WEST COUNTRY SILVER PORRINGER AND COVER by Peter Rowe, Plymouth circa 1700, lid also marked Of plain form with a girdle around the body, the lid with and a knop finial, with two scroll handles and a stepped foot, height 16cm, weight 17.5oz.
£3,500 - 4,500 €4,800 - 6,100 US$5,300 - 6,800
Peter Rowe was active in Plymouth from circa 1690 onwards and is best known as the maker of a salt modelled on the first Eddystone Lighthouse built near the coast of Plymouth in 1698 and destroyed by a storm in 1703.
108 A JAMES II SILVER BEAKER by John Duck, London 1688 Of tapering cylindrical form with a flaring rim, embossed and chased with floral decoration, engraved with a marriage inscription ‘1708 B I*M’, height 8.5cm, weight 2.5oz.
108 £4,500 - 6,000 €6,100 - 8,200 US$6,800 - 9,100
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 99 109
109 110 A QUEEN ANNE SILVER LIDDED TANKARD A CHARLES I SILVER WINE CUP by Alice Sheene, London 1703 maker’s mark possibly RW, see Jacksons, Ian Pickford edition, Antique Of straight-sided tapering form, the flat stepped lid with a shaped Collectors’ Club, 2002, page 121, London 1640 frontispiece, the scroll handle with a ram’s horn thumb rest, on a The tapering circular bowl with a knopped baluster stem, on a moulded foot, engraved on the base “John Walker’s Legacy to Ann spreading base, marked near the rim and under the foot, height 13cm, Walker 1703”, height 21cm, weight 38.5oz. weight 4.5oz.
£5,000 - 7,000 £2,000 - 3,000 €6,800 - 9,500 €2,700 - 4,100 US$7,600 - 11,000 US$3,000 - 4,600
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 101 111 A JAMES I SILVER BEAKER maker’s mark SM, London 1621 Of flaring cylinder form with engraved foliate decoration around the rim, on a moulded foot, height 9.5cm, weight 4oz.
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,200 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
112 A SILVER MOUNTED SALT-GLAZED TIGERWARE JUG maker’s mark distorted, probably W C over a grasshopper for William Cocknidge, see Jackson’s p.95, London 1570, the mount and body later The gadrooned cover with baluster knop and entwined acorn thumbpiece, the later neck mount engraved with floral strapwork on a bellied body, circa 1600-1610, with relief floral decoration, height 19cm.
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
Provenance:
Lynch, Allerford, Somerset, Sotheby’s September 1982, ex-lot 502.
102 | BONHAMS 113 A PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE SILVER TAZZE by Nathaniel Underwood, London 1704 The screw-off tops with moulded rims and cut-card support decoration on the undersides, the cast feet also marked, engraved with an armorial, diameter 18.5cm, weight 26oz. (2)
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,200 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000 113 (detail)
The arms are those of GRENVILLE accollée with TEMPLE for the 1710 marriage of Richard Grenville of Wootton, Bucks., to Hester, daughter of Sir Richard Temple Bt., (1634-97). The Dukes of Buckingham (1822- 89) were direct descendants of this marriage.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 103 114* A SUITE OF THREE QUEEN ANNE BRITANNIA SILVER LIGHTHOUSE CASTORS by Charles Adam London 1704 The bayonet-fastened high dome covers surmounted with double knop finials and pierced with two bands, the lower of scrolls and foliate, the upper of stylised flowers, the bodies each with applied girdle and raised on a circular spreading foot, height one 19.5cm, two 15.5cm, weight 20.5oz. (3)
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
104 | BONHAMS BRITISH FURNITURE, SCULPTURE AND WORKS OF ART Session II, at 14.00 Lots 115 - 315 115 A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT CUSHION FRAME MIRROR The rectangular plate within a gilt slip and moulded frame, previously with a cresting, 83cm high, 74cm wide (32 1/2in high, 29in wide).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
116 A LATE 17TH CENTURY YEW WOOD AND SYCAMORE BANDED ESCRITOIRE Inlaid with ebonised lines, the rectangular ogee moulded top above a cushion frieze drawer and a hinged fall inlaid with central oval and quadrants, monogrammed C.A enclosing a later baize lined fall, a central cupboard door enclosing four drawers, flanked by ten drawers, with eight pigeonholes concealing four compartments, the lower part with two short and three long drawers on a moulded base and later bun feet, 109cm wide, 53cm deep, 167cm high (42 1/2in wide, 20 1/2in deep, 65 1/2in high).
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 107 117 A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY SIMULATED TORTOISESHELL CARVED STOOL The rectangular padded seat upholstered in later Aubusson tapestry, above pierced scrolling fascia stretchers on double ‘S’ scroll legs joined by turned later stretchers, on ‘braganza’ feet, with brass collector’s label to underside, numbered ‘101’ and with ivorine dealer’s label for ‘Frank Partridge, Works of Art, 26 Kings Street, St James’s and New York’, 50cm wide, 43cm deep, 37cm high (19 1/2in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 14 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
Provenance: Formerly with Frank Partridge, Works of Art, 26 Kings Street, St James’s and New York.
A related stool in beechwood suggesting some form of painted decoration and from the J. Thursby Pelham collection is illustrated in R.Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London 1964, p.503, pl.25.
Further examples of simulated tortoiseshell on late 17th century English furniture include a William & Mary chest on stand sold Bonhams, Los Angeles, 27 February 2006, lot 5006 and William and Mary cabinet on stand sold Christies, South Kensington, 3 July 2012, lot 115.
108 | BONHAMS 118 A MID 17TH CENTURY EMBROIDERED PICTURE DESIGNED WITH IDEALISED SCENES OF THE MEETING OF ISAAC AND REBECCA English circa 1660 To the centre right standing by a well Rebecca lifts a jug towards Isaac, to the centre left an outsized parrot is perched on a branch, the lower left section shows Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, holding a necklace in his hand and approaching Rebecca’s father Bethu’el, the lower right with a laden camel and horse, the upper section with a temple, house and church, the surround with trees, flowers and fruit embroidered in coloured silk and coiled threads with raised work, laid and buttonhole stitches, within a giltwood and glazed frame, the needlework 22cm high, 29cm wide (8 1/2in high, 11cm wide), the frame 40cm high, 29cm wide (15 1/2 in high, 17 1/2in wide)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
The story of Rebecca at the well comes from the Book of Genesis, and tells of Abraham’s search for a suitable wife for his son Isaac. Abraham sends his faithful servant Eliezer to his homeland of Mesopotamia 118 to search for a wife for his son, and as he rests at a well on his long journey, he prays for guidance. At this moment Rebecca offers water to Eliezer, his servants and the camels. This demonstrates her good and kind nature and Eliezer realises that she is the appointed bride.
119 A MID 17 CENTURY EMBROIDERED BOX WITH SECRET DRAWERS English circa 1660 The cream silk ground designed with animals, trees and flowers in coloured silks, the lid with a woman and child beneath a canopy, two metal handles, one to each side, the lifted lid reveals a shallow red silk lined fixed tray with removable pen tray and red velvet covered box with secret inner drawer. Lined with impressed red velvet the fall front reveals a central deep drawer, two shallow drawers to the left, the upper of which conceals a secret drawer at the back and two shallow drawers to the right also with a concealed drawer, the front of each with coloured silk embroidery of animals, flowers and insects in laid and buttonhole stitches, chenille, coiled thread and raised work having metal loop handles, the whole lined in red silk and red and green paper, the lid previously containing a mirror, 24cm wide, 29cm deep, 17cm high (9in wide, 11in deep, 6 1/2in high)
£4,000 - 5,000 €5,400 - 6,800 US$6,100 - 7,600
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 109 120 A WILLIAM AND MARY OLIVE OYSTER VENEERED AND SYCAMORE FLORAL MARQUETRY LACEBOX The hinged moulded rectangular lid inlaid with a central oval panel of a bird amongst flowers and scrolling leaves within a stiff leaf band and quarters filled with floral sprays and leaves, above similarly inlaid sides, 48cm wide, 37cm deep, 11cm high (18 1/2in wide, 14 1/2in deep, 4in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
121 A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT, BURR WALNUT AND CROSSBANDED ESCRITOIRE The rectangular ogee moulded cornice above a cushion drawer and a hinged fall enclosing a ratcheted writing slope and a central cupboard door enclosing a small drawer, surrounded by twelve short drawers and two removable pigeonholes, the lower part with two short and two long drawers on later bun feet, 92cm wide, 49cm deep, 156cm high (36in wide, 19in deep, 61in high).
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 111 122 A WILLIAM AND MARY OLIVE OYSTER-VENEERED CUSHION FRAME MIRROR The rectangular plate within a moulded frame, previously with a cresting, 80cm high, 71cm wide (31in high, 27 1/2in wide).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
123 A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT OYSTER VENEERED, CROSSBANDED AND SYCAMORE BANDED CHEST ON STAND The rectangular moulded top inlaid within an arced banding above two short and two long drawers, the stand with moulded edge above one long drawer on spirally turned later legs, joined by a flattened shaped apron, on later bun feet, 93cm wide, 58cm deep, 117cm high (36 1/2in wide, 22 1/2in deep, 46in high).
£10,000 - 15,000 €14,000 - 20,000 US$15,000 - 23,000
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 113 124 A GEORGE I WALNUT CROSSBANDED AND FEATHERBANDED CORNER CUPBOARD The moulded cornice above a pair of bowed doors enclosing three shelves, with engraved brass escutcheons and hinges, on a shallow plinth, 68cm wide, 46cm deep, 110cm high (26 1/2in wide, 18in deep, 43in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
125 A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT WING ARMCHAIR The rectangular padded back, shaped wings and scroll arms above a bowed padded seat, on cabriole legs and pad feet, upholstery partially removed exposing parts of the frame.
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
126 A QUEEN ANNE AND LATER FIGURED BIRD’S-EYE MAPLE, WALNUT AND PRINCESWOOD BANDED ESCRITOIRE In three parts, the rectangular cavetto moulded cornice above a cushion frieze drawer and a fall front enclosing a central cupboard door enclosing four short shelves, flanked by twelve short drawers and nine removable pigeonholes, the middle section above two short and one long, the later lower part with one long drawer, on later bun feet, probably originally on turned legs, 105cm wide, 49cm deep, 168cm high (41in wide, 19in deep, 66in high).
£3,500 - 4,500 €4,700 - 6,100 US$5,300 - 6,800
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 115 127 A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT, BURR WALNUT CROSSBANDED AND FEATHERBANDED KNEEHOLE DESK The moulded edge rectangular quarter veneered top above a long drawer and a central kneehole with a recessed cupboard door enclosing three shelves, flanked by six short drawers, on later bun feet, the sides applied with later brass carrying handles, 100cm wide, 51cm deep, 78cm high (39in wide, 20in deep, 30 1/2in high).
£10,000 - 15,000 €14,000 - 20,000 US$15,000 - 23,000
Provenance: Purchased W.F Greenwood & Sons Ltd, Harrogate, 13 April 1962.
116 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 117 128 A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND SYCAMORE FLORAL MARQUETRY CHEST The rectangular ogee moulded top with central oval inlaid with a flower filled vase with strapwork bands, with birds, flowers and leaves inlaid to each corner, above two short and two long drawers similarly inlaid, with leafy crossbanding, the sides with arcades of birds, shells, flowers and cornucopias within leaf inlaid wide crossbandings, on a plinth base and later feet, 101cm wide, 57cm deep, 88cm high (39 1/2in wide, 22in deep, 34 1/2in high).
£20,000 - 30,000 €27,000 - 41,000 US$30,000 - 46,000
According to Herbert Cescinsky in English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, the general spacing of marquetry during the period 1690- 1705 into panels probably owed its inception to the copying of the Jacobean carved panels of the period, directly before the accession of William III. He argues that “the work of Holland is decidedly inferior in harmony of colouring, the English sycamore and plane-tree admitting of staining with colours of greater purity, and giving a much better effect, than the beech and hornbeam used for the purpose in Holland”.
A similarly designed marquetry table top is illustrated in A.Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, p. 61, plate 2:43, showing the variety created by transposing elements of the design, so that no two quadrants of marquetry are identical, as illustrated in the lot here.
A similar chest from Clevedon Coourt, Somerset is illustrated in R.Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Vol II, p.34, fig 16.
118 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 119 129 A GEORGE I CREAM JAPANNED CORNER CUPBOARD Heightened with gilt chinoiseries, decorated with flowers, figures and buildings, the ogee moulded top above a double panelled door enclosing two shelves, flanked by canted angles, on a plinth base, 68cm wide, 37cm deep, 107cm high (26 1/2in wide, 14 1/2in deep, 42in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
130 A GEORGE II WALNUT AND FEATHERBANDED CHEST ON CHEST The rectangular ogee moulded cornice above three short drawers and three long graduated drawers, flanked by fluted angles, the lower part with three long graduated drawers flanked by shaped fluted angles on shaped bracket feet, 103cm wide, 56cm deep, 188cm high (40 1/2in wide, 22in deep, 74in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
131 A GEORGE II IRISH WALNUT AND CROSSBANDED CHEST The rectangular moulded top above two short and two long drawers on cabriole legs and drake feet, 106cm wide, 54cm deep, 88cm high (41 1/2in wide, 21in deep, 34 1/2in high).
129 £3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 121 132 A GEORGE II CARVED MAHOGANY DINING CHAIR The shaped scrolling toprail above a vase shaped pierced splat, with a bowed drop-in seat upholstered in later floral needlework, above a shaped apron on cabriole acanthus and ‘C’ scroll carved legs, with claw and ball feet, 57cm wide, 43cm deep, 98cm high (22in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 38 1/2in high).
£1,200 - 1,800 €1,600 - 2,400 US$1,800 - 2,700
133 A GEORGE II CARVED WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR The scrolling toprail above a vase shaped splat and shaped open arms with scrolling arm supports, above a drop-in seat on cabriole legs joined by block and reel turned ‘H’ stretcher.
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
134 A GEORGE II WALNUT WING ARMCHAIR The shaped rectangular padded back, shaped sides and scrolled arms above a rectangular padded seat on cabriole legs, joined by a turned stretcher on pad feet.
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
122 | BONHAMS 135 A GEORGE II CARVED WALNUT DOUBLE CHAIRBACK SETTEE The undulating scrolling toprail above vase shaped splats and outswept arms with acanthus carved and scrolled arms, with acanthus and scrolled arm terminals above a bowed drop-in seat, upholstered in floral needlework, on cabriole acanthus carved legs and pad feet, 137cm wide, 55cm deep, 102cm high (53 1/2in wide, 21 1/2in deep, 40in high).
£10,000 - 15,000 €14,000 - 20,000 US$15,000 - 23,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 123 136 A GEORGE II STYLE GREEN PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT BOOKCASE The egg and dart and dentil moulded cornice above a blind fret carved frieze, above a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing shelves, on a rosette carved plinth base, elements 18th century, 148cm wide, 44cm deep, 208cm high (58in wide, 17in deep, 81 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
137 A GEORGE II IRISH CARVED GILTWOOD AND GESSO MIRROR The shaped rectangular later plate within a beaded and leaf moulded frame surmounted by a swan-neck pediment centred by a foliate carved cartouche, with scrolling floral frieze, 122cm high, 73cm wide (48in high, 28 1/2in wide).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 125 138 A GEORGE I GILTWOOD CARVED AND CUT GESSO MIRROR in the manner of John Belchier The rectangular bevelled plate (distressed) within a strapwork and paterae carved frame, surmounted by a pierced leaf and female mask cresting flanked by eagle’s heads and scrolling leaves, the undulating apron below with scrolling acanthus centred by a shell, on a punched ground, regilt, 93cm high, 53cm wide, (36 1/2in high, 20 1/2in wide).
£3,000 - 6,000 €4,100 - 8,100 US$4,600 - 9,100
139 A QUEEN ANNE CARVED GILTWOOD RECTANGULAR PIER MIRROR The shaped rectangular later plate within a beaded and shaped moulded frame, regilt, 111cm high, 72cm wide, (43 1/2in high, 28in wide).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
126 | BONHAMS 140 A RARE AND UNUSUALLY SMALL GEORGE II CARVED WALNUT CARD in the manner of Benjamin Crook The shaped rectangular top with rounded projecting angles enclosing an interior with a later green baize, four counter wells and four candle wells, above a shaped frieze drawer, on cabriole legs carved with shells and trailing bellflowers at the knee, on pad feet, 62cm wide, 33cm deep, 72cm high (24in wide, 12 1/2in deep, 28in high).
£7,000 - 10,000 €9,500 - 14,000 US$11,000 - 15,000
This model relates in the shaped tops, distinctive wavy frieze and cabriole legs with shell carving to a recorded walnut card table by Benjamin Crook. Benjamin Crook is recorded at The George and White Lyon in St. Paul’s Churchyard from 1732-1748. The labelled Benjamin Crook table was sold Christie’s, London, 15 April 1999, lot 107, had been in the collection of Percival Griffiths F.S.A. by 1924 and was sold by his Executors at Christie’s London, 10 May 1939, Lot 202 (also included in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London 1924-7, p. 155).
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 127 141 A GEORGE II WALNUT CABINET ON STAND The rectangular ogee moulded cornice above a pair of glazed doors enclosing a later velvet lined interior with two later shelves, the lower part with a frieze drawer and an undulating apron on shell carved cabriole front legs and claw and ball feet, 97cm wide, 41cm deep, 182cm high (38in wide, 16in deep, 71 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
142 A PAIR OF GEORGE I WALNUT AND PARCEL GILT FRET CARVED MIRRORS Each with a rectangular bevelled plate, one replaced within a stiff leaf moulded slip and shaped fret carved frame surmounted by a pierced leaf shaped scrolling cresting with trailing leaves, fruit and flowerheads to each side with shaped apron below, 106cm high, 58cm wide (41 1/2in high, 22 1/2in wide). (2)
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
Provenance: Holbrook Lodge, Ipswich Holbrook Lodge was initially built for the Berners family in 1776, it formed a lodge for Woolverstone Hall and was acquired by London County Council in 1951. It became Woolverstone Hall School, London County Council’s boarding school near Ipswich.
143 A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND CROSSBANDED CHEST 141 The rectangular moulded to above four long drawers, with a shaped plinth on short ogee bracket feet, 81cm wide, 41cm deep, 78cm high (31 1/2in wide, 16in deep, 30 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
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144 A MATCHED PAIR OF GEORGE II CARVED GILTWOOD FRAMES Inset with rectangular later mirror plates, within riband tied borders and sanded frames with projecting corners applied with shells, with egg and dart outer frames and with trailing festoons of leaves and fruit, oak leaves and acorns, 83cm high, 68cm wide (32 1/2in high, 26 1/2in wide), 82cm high, 66cm wide, (32in high, 25 1/2in wide) respectively. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
145 A GEORGE I FRET CARVED WALNUT PIER MIRROR The shaped rectangular bevelled divided twin plate within a gilt slip and moulded frame, surmounted by a ‘C’ scroll fret carved cresting, centred by a recessed shell, 127cm high, 47cm wide (50in high, 18 1/2in wide).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
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130 | BONHAMS 146 A GEORGE II STYLE WHITE MARBLE AND BRIGNOLES VIOLET CHIMNEY PIECE The moulded mantel shelf above an egg and dart moulded frieze, the tablet decorated with a stylised shell, foliate scroll work and rocaille flanked by swags of fruit and flora, the rebate with a moulded slip with carved acanthus decoration, the jambs with fluted Corinthian columns on block supports, minor restorations, 199cm wide, 37cm deep, 141cm high (78in wide, 14 1/2in deep, 55 1/2in high). The rebate 114cm wide, 97cm high (44 1/2in wide, 38in high).
£15,000 - 20,000 €20,000 - 27,000 US$23,000 - 30,000
Provenance: Private Collection, Staffordshire The above lot was purchased by the present vendor’s father from a house sale in London in 1962/3 for a property in Bournemouth, Hampshire and later removed to Staffordshire.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 131 147 A GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE The rectangular moulded edge top above a frieze drawer, on lappet carved cabriole legs and pad feet, 93cm wide, 57cm deep, 71cm high (36 1/2in wide, 22in deep, 27 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
148 A LARGE PAIR OF GEORGE I STYLE WALNUT WING ARMCHAIRS WITH 18TH CENTURY TAPESTRY COVERS The rectangular padded backs with serpentine toprails and shaped wings, above scrolled arms and padded stuff over seats, on cabriole legs and claw and ball feet, minor differences in size. (2)
£5,000 - 8,000 €6,800 - 11,000 US$7,600 - 12,000
149 147 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SIDE TABLE The serpentine shaped top above a frieze drawer on square section tapering legs joined by moulded X-shaped stretchers joined by an oval platform, 68.5cm wide, 49cm deep, 71cm high (26 1/2in wide, 19in deep, 27 1/2in high).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 133 150 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ESTATE CABINET The ogee moulded cornice centred by a reeded bracket, above a pair of doors divided into four panels, previously fitted with vertical divisions, above two panelled doors enclosing a shelf, on a moulded plinth base, 137cm wide, 33cm deep, 245cm high (53 1/2in wide, 12 1/2in deep, 96in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
134 | BONHAMS 151* A GEORGE II CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE in the manner of Benjamin Goodison The rectangular moulded grey and white fossil marble top above an ogee moulding and Greek key carved frieze, on cabriole legs and pad feet, 91cm wide, 56cm deep, 77cm high (35 1/2in wide, 22in deep, 30in high).
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 135 152
152 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD TABLE The rounded rectangular hinged top with later tooled gilt and brown leather writing surface above a frieze drawer, on cabriole lappetted legs and pad feet, 91cm wide, 45cm deep, 73cm high (35 1/2in wide, 17 1/2in deep, 28 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
Provenance: The Leslie family, Tarbert House, County Kerry, Eire.
153 A SMALL GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST The moulded caddy top above a brushing slide and four graduated drawers, on bracket feet, 76cm wide, 47cm deep, 81cm high (29 1/2in wide, 18 1/2in deep, 31 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600 153
136 | BONHAMS 154 A GEORGE II CARVED MAHOGANY DROP FLAP GATELEG DINING TABLE The oval moulded edge top with two elliptical hinged leaves on stylised shell and acanthus carved cabriole legs and ball and claw feet, 143cm wide extended, 120cm deep, 71cm high (56in wide extended, 47in deep, 27 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 137 155 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY DWARF LINEN PRESS The upper part with a moulded overhanging cornice above a blind fret carved frieze and a pair of fielded panel doors enclosing four trays, the lower part with two deep drawers, on ogee bracket feet, 124cm wide, 62cm deep, 158cm high (48 1/2in wide, 24in deep, 62in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
138 | BONHAMS 156 A GEORGE II CARVED MAHOGANY GAINSBOROUGH CHAIR The rectangular padded button back above padded arms on inswept moulded supports, the button upholstered close-nailed seat, on scroll carved moulded legs and squared off scroll feet, 71cm wide, 76cm deep, 96cm high (27 1/2in wide, 29 1/2in deep, 37 1/2in high).
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,100 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 139 157
157 A GEORGE III IRISH MAHOGANY CARVED CENTRE TABLE The rounded rectangular top above an undulating fret carved frieze, with central carved scallop shell, on cabriole shell and bell flower carved scroll legs and lion paw feet, 90cm wide, 57cm deep, 69cm high (35in wide, 22in deep, 27in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
A related centre table with a less complex shaped frieze was sold Christie’s, London, 4 October 2001, lot 100.
158 A SMALL GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST The rectangular moulded top above a slide and four long graduated drawers, on shaped bracket feet, 62cm wide, 42cm deep, 78cm high (24in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 30 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
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140 | BONHAMS 159 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CHEST WITH A FITTED DRAWER possibly by Henry Kettle The moulded shaped caddy top above a fitted drawer enclosing a sliding baize lined ratcheted writing surface above various lidded compartments, apertures and divisions, flanked by pen trays and apertures for inkwells, all above three graduated drawers flanked by fluted canted angles, on shaped bracket feet, 92cm wide, 52cm deep, 81cm high (36in wide, 20in deep, 31 1/2in high).
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
With similarities to a labelled serpentine chest by Henry Kettle illustrated in C.Gilbert, Marked London Furniture,1700-1840, Leeds 1996, p.295, pl.552A. This moulded handle pattern was used by Kettle and can be seen on a labelled bureau bookcase formerly with Phillips of Hitchin, see C.Gilbert, ibid., p.290, pl.545.
Henry Kettle is listed at St Paul’s Churchyard as cabinet maker, upholder and undertaker (c.1773-97) and often used a trade label to identify his work. Kettle originally went into partnership about 1770 with William Henshaw who had been established at St Pauls Churchyard since at least 1754 when he took over the business of the cabinetmaker Philip Bell at 23 St Pauls Churchyard. Trade labels are recorded bearing both addresses. In 1796-97 Kettle entered into a short lived partnership with the cabinetmaker George Oakley.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 141 160 A SMALL GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CHEST The shaped rectangular moulded top above a slide with later baize, above four long graduated drawers with a wreathed apron, on shaped bracket feet, 85cm wide, 56cm deep, 84cm high (33in wide, 22in deep, 33in high).
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,100 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
161 AN EARLY GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE The rectangular brown fossil marble inset top above a frieze drawer on shell and bellflower carved cabriole legs with claw and ball feet , 87cm wide, 44cm deep, 74cm high (34in wide, 17in deep, 29in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 143 162 A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS TOGETHER WITH A PAIR OF MATCHING LATER OPEN ARMCHAIRS The serpentine moulded top rails centred by a carved shell and bellflower above pierced vertical shaped splats above serpentine padded stuffover seats on square moulded legs joined by ‘H’ stretchers. (8)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
144 | BONHAMS 163 A GEORGE III CARVED GILTWOOD FRAMED GILTWOOD PIER GLASS The arched, pierced cresting in the form of a ho-ho bird, the arched frame with scrolling leaf-carved borders including husk chains, the divided bevelled central plates outlined with complex bevelled margins, 207cm high, 88cm wide (81in high, 34 1/2in wide)
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,100 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
Provenance: Francis Alexander Lauder (1873-1946), Bowden Hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire and thence by descent.
Francis Lauder’s collection of antique furniture was partly assembled by the furniture historian and advisor R.W Symonds. Symonds was behind Lauder’s purchase of two of the Howard mirrors which were sold Bonhams, London, 3 November 2008, lot 9 and which were en- suite to the other pair of Howard Mirror sold Bonhams London, 19 November 2014, lot 33 (Sold by private treaty). Symonds managed to negotiate for Lauder the purchase of the pair of mirrors sold at Bonhams in 2008, although originally being sold as a set of four by the London dealer Lionel Harris Junior. The depressed economic circumstances seem to have led Harris to consider splitting the set and also selling them at a loss confirmed in letter from Harris to R.W Symonds. Although it is not known if Symonds was involved in the acquisition of the mirror offered here, other pieces from Lauder’s collection were to feature in R.W Symonds’ publications.
Symonds was behind the formation of some of the most important early twentieth century collections including those formed by Geoffrey Blackwell, Percival Griffiths, J. S. Sykes, James Thursby Pelham, E. B. Moller and Frederick Poke liaising between dealers and the collectors themselves.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 145 164 A GEORGE III IRISH CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE The later mottled green breccia marble top above a running leaf scroll frieze centred by a ‘green man’ mask, on carved cabriole legs each carved with double eagle’s heads and acanthus leaves, on claw and ball feet, 141cm wide, 65cm deep, 80cm high (55 1/2in wide, 25 1/2in deep, 31in high).
£30,000 - 50,000 €41,000 - 68,000 US$46,000 - 76,000
Provenance: Sheffield Park, East Sussex Private Collection, West of England Phillips London, 12 October 1999, lot 17
Sheffield Park was the home of Anglo-Irish politician and theorist John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (d.1821) where James Wyatt worked extensively in the late 1770s. The design of the celebrated Sheffield Park dining chairs have been attributed to Wyatt and Gillows (sold Christie’s, London, 11 November 1999, lot 50). The Sheffield family had emigrated to Ireland during the reign of Charles II and acquired a substantial fortune. Sheffield was still heavily involved in Irish politics but his third marriage to the daughter of Lord North bought him to the forefront of British politics in the early 1800s.
The grotesque mask was among recurrent devices used in Ireland and following a long tradition with stone carved examples found from the Celtic period onwards. An Irish side table with a ‘goblin’ mask of circa 1740 is illustrated in A.Coleridge and F.Fitzgerald’s article for Apollo October 1966, Eighteenth Century Irish Furniture, A Provincial Manifestation, fig.23.
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146 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 147 165 A GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY READING TABLE The hinged rectangular top above a frieze drawer flanked by lopers, on square panelled tapering gaitered legs and square ogee feet, 41cm wide, 30cm deep, 84cm high (16in wide, 11 1/2in deep, 33in high).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
166 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE The shaped rectangular moulded top above a baize lined slide and four long graduated drawers with projected reeded angles, on shaped bracket feet, 106cm wide, 60cm deep, 81cm high (41 1/2in wide, 23 1/2in deep, 31 1/2in high).
£5,000 - 8,000 €6,800 - 11,000 US$7,600 - 12,000
Provenance: Edward Nowell, Wells.
167 A GEORGE III STYLE CARVED MAHOGANY SILVER TABLE 165 in the Chippendale style The rectangular top with a pierced fret carved gallery above a blind fret carved frieze pierced with gothic arches, the frieze moulded legs with similar fret carved and piercings headed by pierced fret carved spandrels, 109cm wide, 56cm deep, 78cm high (42 1/2in wide, 22in deep, 30 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 149 168 A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND PARCEL GILT FRETWORK MIRRORS The rectangular plates within carved gilded slips and moulded frames, the sides with pierced foliate and floral chains, surmounted by shaped pierced foliate incised decorated tops with gilded acanthus leaves and gilded floral basket crestings, with shaped incised decorated aprons below, the plates re-silvered or replaced, each 112cm high, 56cm wide (44” high, 22” wide). (2)
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,100 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
Provenance: The Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, June 1989.
150 | BONHAMS 169 A SET OF SIX GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS in the Chinese Chippendale taste The serpentine toprails with acanthus leaf carved ears above pierced vertical vase shaped splats pierced with quatrefoils and with carved crockets, above stuffover serpentine seats, upholstered in cream damask, on square tapering legs and square feet. (6)
£15,000 - 20,000 €20,000 - 27,000 US$23,000 - 30,000
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170 171 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SYCAMORE MARQUETRY A SMALL GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND PARCEL GILT BUREAU SERPENTINE CHEST CABINET probably Channel Islands The upper part with a pierced fretwork broken swan neck pediment The shaped rectangular top above a simulated flute and paterae inlaid with foliate scroll carved terminals above a dentil moulded frieze and frieze, above four long graduated drawers, with a shaped apron, on a single door inset with a later shaped bevelled mirror and enclosing slender outswept bracket feet, 99cm wide, 59cm deep, 86cm high (38 three adjustable shelves above a pair of candle slides, the lower part 1/2in wide, 23in deep, 33 1/2in high). with a sloping fall and enclosing a fitted interior comprising of six pigeon holes, six various drawers around a central chequer banded cupboard door, all above four graduated drawers, on ogee bracket £6,000 - 10,000 feet, labelled twice EXHIBITED AT THE 1953 ANTIQUE DEALERS €8,100 - 14,000 FAIR, GROSVENOR HOUSE, PARK LANE, W1, and typed ‘Mahogany US$9,100 - 15,000 bureau bookcase’, 75cm wide, 53cm deep, 218cm high (29 1/2in wide, 20 1/2in deep, 85 1/2in high). Provenance: Edward Nowell, Wells. £5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
Provenance: Exhibited at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, London,1953.
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 153 172 AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND KINGWOOD TEA CADDY Of sarcophagus form, the cavetto moulded hinged lid with paktong swing handle enclosing three gilt brass cannisters and spoon shelf with apertures for four spoons, the plain side with quartered moulded corners, with a paktong pierced escutcheon, on shaped ogee bracket feet, 24cm wide, 15cm deep, 17cm high (9in wide, 5 1/2in deep, 6 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
173 AN UNUSUAL GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND BOTTLE CARRIER 172 Of oval form, with twelve divisions and twin brass carrying handles, together with an imperial quart green glass and gilt wine bottle, 64cm wide, 49cm deep, 21cm high (25in wide, 19in deep, 8in high). (2)
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
174 A NEAR PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND PLATE BUCKETS With swing brass handles and coopered sides, 36cm in diameter, 37cm high (14in in diameter, 14 1/2in high). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600 173
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154 | BONHAMS 175 A SET OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY HANGING FIVE-TIER WALL SHELVES in the Chinese Chippendale taste The graduating tiers with pierced fret sides above two apron drawers, 76cm wide, 21cm deep, 98cm high (29 1/2in wide, 8in deep, 38 1/2in high).
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
Provenance: Purchased C.O’Connell Ltd, 5 & 6 Lavitt’s Quay, Cork 21.9.56 for £23.
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176 A REGENCY IRISH MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND REVOLVING JARDINIERE ON STAND With wreathed sides, on a square base with reeded and rope twist carved side mouldings and spirally turned legs with brass capping and castors, 36cm in diameter, 71cm high (14in in diameter, 27 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 155 177 A GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY DINING ROOM PEDESTAL PLATE WARMER The square moulded top with applied mouldings and roundels above a fluted frieze and panelled cupboard door, with central foliate carved roundel enclosing two slatted shelves and lead lined interior, 47cm wide, 47cm deep, 97cm high (18 1/2in wide, 18 1/2in deep, 38in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
178 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SYCAMORE MARQUETRY SERPENTINE SERVING TABLE The shaped top above a plain moulded frieze on square tapering legs headed by paterae, on spade feet, 160cm wide, 74cm deep, 93cm high (62 1/2in wide, 29in deep, 36 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
156 | BONHAMS 179 A GEORGE III CARVED GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR in the manner of Robert Adam The later rectangular bevelled plate within a beaded border and mirrored marginal outerborder applied with an anthemion filet, with a stiff leaf moulded border and projecting corners surmounted by a leaf and acanthus cresting, with scrolling acanthus and paterae, with similarly carved apron below, regilt, 180cm high (70 1/2in high), 93cm wide, (36 1/2in wide).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
The above mirror relates in outline, use of marginals and the handling of the anthemions to the cresting and apron, to the mirrors thought to be by Robert Adam supplied for the Taffeta bedroom at Osterley Park, Middlesex. The use of an anthemion marginal border is further echoed at Osterley on the set of four pier mirrors supplied for the Gallery. The design for the mirrors is dated 1768 and the and they are listed in the 1782 inventory for Osterley Park as ‘four large Pier Glasses in Elegant carved & Glass bordered frames, rich ornaments at the top and bottom...’. Virtually identical designs exist for mirrors in the collection of the Sir John Soane Museum, London, which are inscribed ‘for the Earl of Shelbourne’, see M.Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, p.29.
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 157 180 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED DEMI-LUNE PIER TABLE Inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, the shaped top above a tulipwood and purplewood banded frieze, on octagonal tapering line inlaid legs and spool feet, 83cm wide, 43cm deep, 85cm high (32 1/2in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 33in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
Provenance: Postlip Hall, Cheltenham
181 A GEORGE III CARVED FIDDLE BACK MAHOGANY AND MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE The rectangular moulded edge top with hinged leaves above a frieze drawer and an opposing faux drawer on reeded tapering legs terminating in acanthus carved and turned baluster feet joined by a fluted, baluster turned acanthus decorated X-stretcher, 89cm wide, 63cm deep, 69cm high (35in wide, 24 1/2in deep, 27in high).
180 £4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
182 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WARDROBE The broken swan neck pediment centred by a flaming urn finial above a dentil moulding, above a pair of divided double panel doors, the upper panels of rectangular form, the lower panels of circular form, enclosing a later hanging rail and two later shelves, flanked by moulded uprights, on short tapering inlaid simulated fluted legs, 158cm wide, 64cm deep, 123cm high (62in wide, 25in deep, 48in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 159 183 A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY LUGGAGE STAND The rectangular slatted top on square tapering gaitered legs and spade feet, with H.TIMPSON & SONS depository label to the underside, 62cm wide, 46cm deep, 45cm high (24in wide, 18in deep, 17 1/2in high).
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
184 A GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS in the manner of Thomas Chippendale The rectangular ogee moulded cornice above a pair of panelled doors with carved paterae to each corner enclosing five sliding trays, the 183 lower part with rectangular moulded top above a slide and four short and one long drawer on ogee bracket feet, 128cm wide, 52cm deep, 185cm high (50in wide, 20in deep, 72 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
The treatment of the moulded panel doors with inswept corners and very similar carved paterae can be see on a linen press made for the Best Bedroom at Paxton, Berwickshire by Thomas Chippendale in 1774. See C.Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, p.138
185 A SET OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY STEPS The rectangular padded buttoned seat upholstered in green leather, hinged and enclosing three treads, with heart shaped carrying handles to the sides, on square chamfered legs and castors, 77cm wide, 46cm deep, 50cm high (30in wide, 18in deep, 19 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
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186 A LARGE GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SYCAMORE MARQUETRY OVAL TRAY With central large marquetry conch shell and plain gallery, 75cm wide (29 1/2in wide).
£1,000 - 2,000 €1,400 - 2,700 US$1,500 - 3,000
187 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRAY The dished tray with a wavy pie-crust moulded edge, 54cm wide, 46cm deep, 3cm high (21in wide, 18in deep, 1in high). 188 £1,000 - 1,500 €1,400 - 2,000 US$1,500 - 2,300
188 A GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY KETTLE STAND The circular dished top on a ring turned and reeded baluster column and tripod base with downswept legs and pad feet, 31cm in diameter, 56cm high (12in in diameter, 22in high).
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
162 | BONHAMS 189 AN IRISH GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE The later grey Paloma marble top above an egg and dart and moulded frieze and a gadrooned apron centred by a carved shell motif, on acanthus scroll carved slender cabriole legs and claw and ball feet, 126cm wide, 60cm deep, 80cm high (49 1/2in wide, 23 1/2in deep, 31in high).
£10,000 - 15,000 €14,000 - 20,000 US$15,000 - 23,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 163 190 A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY WATERFALL BOOKCASE The upper shelf with a three quarter moulded gallery and a similar shelf and two deeper shelves above a frieze drawer on square section tapering legs, the sides applied with ring handles, 47cm wide, 27cm deep, 120cm high (18 1/2in wide, 10 1/2in deep, 47in high).
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
191 A LARGE GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE The circular tilt top above a ring turned shaft, on cabriole legs and pointed pad feet, 115cm in diameter, 72cm high (45in in diameter, 28in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
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164 | BONHAMS 192Y Ф A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE The rectangular ogee and dentil moulded cornice above a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing three shelves, the lower part with a rectangular top above a deep panelled drawer enclosing a central cupboard door, two long and four short drawers with ivory knops and eight pigeonholes, above a pair of figured panelled doors and a shaped apron, on shaped bracket feet, 109cm wide, 54cm deep, 224cm high (42 1/2in wide, 21in deep, 88in high).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 165 193 A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY, TULIPWOOD CROSSBANDED AND SYCAMORE MARQUETRY KNIFE BOXES Applied with silver mounts, with boxwood and ebonised chequer banding, the shaped hinged lids enclosing a fitted interior with apertures for knives, the shaped fronts with sycamore marquetry simulated fluted uprights, each 39cm high, 23cm wide (15in high, 9in wide). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Provenance: Edward Nowell, Wells.
194 193 FOLLOWER OF JOHN NOST SARTORIUS: A REGENCY MAHOGANY OVAL TRAY PAINTED WITH A HUNTING SCENE The galleried tray depicting the field in full cry, bearing the signature, J.N.Sartorius, 59cm wide, 40cm high (15 1/2in wide, 15 1/2in high).
£1,200 - 1,800 €1,600 - 2,400 US$1,800 - 2,700
A set of six Regency rosewood dining chairs with top rails decorated with various racehorses, signed J.N Sartorious and dated 1818 were sold Phillips London 13 June 1995, lot 220. A tray from the same collection was also sold in the same sale as lot 221 alongside the set of chairs and was again decorated with a racing scene from the ‘Newmarket Spring Meeting of 1795’ and was similarly signed J.N Sartorius.
John Nost or Nott Sartorius (1759-1828) was a celebrated equestrian painter known for both his portraits of horses and for his racing and hunting scenes. Amongst his patrons were leading sportsmen of the day including the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Derby, Sir Charles Bunbury and Charles James Fox.
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166 | BONHAMS 195 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND OVAL TRAY The brass clad gallery with moulded overscrolled brass carrying handles, 74cm wide, 60cm deep, 7cm high (29in wide, 23 1/2in deep, 2 1/2in high)
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
196 A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND PEAT BUCKETS With swing brass handles and pierced sides, each 36cm diameter, 38 cm high (14in diameter, 14 1/2in high). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
197 TWO SETS OF MATCHING EARLY 19TH CENTURY POLISHED STEEL FIRE IRONS Each comprising of a tongs, shovel and poker, the handles of facetted form, the shovels with pierced roundels, the shovels 76cm long (29.5” long). (6)
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
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198 A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY THREE TIER ETAGERE The rectangular top tier above two further concave tiers, on square section supports, brass cappings and castors, 81cm wide, 30cm deep, 95cm high (31 1/2in wide, 11 1/2in deep, 37in high).
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
199Y A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING TABLE possibly by Gillows The rounded rectangular top, with five additional leaves, above a rosewood banded frieze, on shaped and reeded, tapering legs with brass cappings and castors, the centre section reducing to a side table, 417cm wide, 139.5cm deep, 74cm high (164in wide, 54 1/2in deep, 29in high).
£7,000 - 10,000 €9,500 - 14,000 US$11,000 - 15,000
168 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 169 200 A GEORGE II CARVED GILTWOOD MIRROR The later shaped rectangular plate surmounted by a shell and cabochon carved cresting flanked by ‘C’ scrolls, the sides carved with rocaille and scrolling acanthus leaves, with double ‘C’ scroll and cabochon carved apron below, all on a punched ground, regilt, 112cm high, 55cm wide(44in high, 21 1/2in wide).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
201 A GEORGE III IRISH CARVED GILTWOOD ARCHED PIER MIRROR The later rectangular bevelled plate surmounted by a shaped bevelled plate etched with stylised leaves, within a pierced moulded frame carved with ‘C’ scrolls, leaves and flowerheads surmounted by fruit and flowers, the pierced apron centred by a swan and ‘C’ scrolls flanked by rustic cottages, regilt, 130cm high, 62cm wide (51in high, 24in wide).
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
170 | BONHAMS 202 A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY CARVED GILTWOOD WALL SCONCES/MIRRORS in the Hepplewhite taste The circular later plates within beaded and wreathed frames surmounted by flowers above classical urns and swagged leaves and berries with scrolling acanthus and stiff leaf carved paterae, scrolling leaf and fan carved apron below, elements late 18th century, each 96cm high, 49cm wide (37 1/2in high, 19in wide). (2)
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
Provenance: Donnington Castle House, Donnington, Berkshire.
203 A DUTCH CARVED WHITE AND GREEN PAINTED MIRROR The shaped rectangular plate surmounted by a pieced scrolling leaf cresting and scrolling cabochon with portrait bust medallion of a Roman dignitary, flanked by scrolling flowerheads and ‘S’ scrolls, the shaped sides with scrolling acanthus and floral filled baskets, on a plinth base, adapted from 18th century boiseries, decoration refreshed, 127cm high, 118cm wide (50in high, 46in wide).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
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204 206 A SMALL GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND CROSSBANDED A SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY GOTHIC REVIVAL GILT SERPENTINE SIDEBOARD BRASS TWIN LIGHT ARGAND LAMP Inlaid with boxwood lines, the shaped top above a frieze drawer and The crocketted leaf cast octagonal vase reservoir with foliate finial shaped apron flanked by two deep drawers, on square chamfered above grotesque masks issuing foliate arms with pierced brass tapering legs, 159cm wide, 67cm deep, 93cm high (62 1/2in wide, burners, the rectangular pedestal base inset with figures including a 26in deep, 36 1/2in high). King, Queen and a Bishop mounted within arched niches surmounted by Gothic tracery, raised on an octagonal arcaded and quatrefoil cast moulded base, the arm fitment marked 1, together with two later £2,000 - 3,000 frosted glass shades, 78cm high, (30 1/2in high) €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600 £3,000 - 4,000 205 €4,100 - 5,400 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE US$4,600 - 6,100 in the manner of Thomas Chippendale Provenance: The rectangular moulded top above a frieze drawer with egg and dart By repute Rendelsham Hall, Suffolk (demolished 1949), previously moulded top on square tapering legs with pierced scrolling brackets removed from Westminster Hall, London. on spade feet, 97cm wide, 61cm deep, 86cm high (38in wide, 24in deep, 33 1/2in high). The introduction of the Argand lamp in the late 18th century revolutionised domestic life by allowing rooms to be far more brightly lit than had been previously possible. This was achieved by means of a £5,000 - 10,000 special burner which was invented by the Swiss chemist Ami Argand €6,800 - 14,000 (1759-1803) in 1783. The burner consisted of two concentric tubes US$7,600 - 15,000 surrounding a cotton wick which enabled a double current of air to be drawn up through the wick. Over this was placed a glass chimney Provenance: to increase the upward draught which then produced a flame ten Donnington Castle House, Donnington, Berkshire. times brighter than a candle flame transforming the activities which could take place after dusk in the home. The oil used in Argand lamps was usually colza oil made from rape seed. As the oil was extremely viscous it was too thick to be drawn up by capillary action and as such oil reservoirs had to be placed higher than the wick, enabling the oil to run down to by force of gravity.
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 173 207 No lot
208Y A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED OCCASSIONAL TABLE Inlaid with boxwood lines, the rounded rectangular tilt top on ring turned shaft with downswept line inlaid tripod legs, with ball feet, 53cm wide, 43cm deep, 72cm high (20 1/2in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 28in high).
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
209 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, KINGWOOD AND BURR YEW SERPENTINE PIER CABINET In the manner of Mayhew and Ince The crossbanded moulded edge top above a single door with four graduated faux drawer fronts enclosing two shelves flanked by canted angles, on a shallow moulded plinth, on short turned tapering legs and toupee feet, 79cm wide, 50cm deep, 89.5cm high (31in wide, 19 1/2in deep, 35in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
174 | BONHAMS 210 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE The upper part with an overhanging dentil moulded cornice above a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves, the lower part with a rectangular moulded edge above a pair of faux drawers enclosing a secretaire drawer fitted with five pigeonholes and eight various drawers all above three further various drawers, on bracket feet, 110cm wide, 59cm deep, 229cm high (43in wide, 23in deep, 90in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 175 211 A GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE The rectangular top above a Greek key moulded and profusely carved frieze with a running shell and intertwined scroll work decorated frieze centred by a scrollwork cartouche, on square section moulded and bead decorated legs headed by pierced scrolling foliate spandrels on moulded lozenge decorated block feet, 152cm wide, 75cm deep, 86cm high (59 1/2in wide, 29 1/2in deep, 33 1/2in high).
£30,000 - 50,000 €41,000 - 68,000 US$46,000 - 76,000
Provenance: Formerly with Colling & Young, Bird Street, London W1.
Literature: H.Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. II, p.274, fig.304
Table illustrated in H.Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. II, p.274, fig.304
176 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 177 212v A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED AND SYCAMORE INLAID LINEN PRESS The ogee dentil moulded cornice above a simulated fluted frieze with fan paterae, above a pair of panelled doors, with fan inlaid corners enclosing four slides, the lower part with two short and two long drawers on shaped bracket feet, with Maples depository label to the reverse, 122cm wide, 48cm deep, 187cm high (48in wide, 18 1/2in deep, 73 1/2in high).
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
178 | BONHAMS 213 A SET OF TWELVE LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND CHEQUERBANDED DINING CHAIRS in the Sheraton style, including a pair of open armchairs The moulded top rails above pierced backs with three vertical uprights and a cross rail flanked by moulded uprights, the downswept moulded arms and supports above drop-in seats, on moulded square section tapering legs. (12)
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 179 214 A GEORGE III CHANNEL ISLANDS MAHOGANY WARDROBE The rectangular ogee moulded cornice above a pair of triple panelled doors enclosing a later rail, with triple panelled sides, on shaped bracket feet, 121cm wide, 58cm deep, 190cm high (47 1/2in wide, 22 1/2in deep, 74 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
180 | BONHAMS 215Y A LARGE GEORGE III IRISH SYCAMORE, ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED, HAREWOOD AND YEW WOOD MARQUETRY ELLIPTICAL PIER TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM MOORE OF DUBLIN The shaped top with fan and bellflower inlay with radiating veneers that by his close attention to business and instructions to his men, above a simulated fluted frieze, on square tapering legs headed by he has brought the manufacture to such perfection, to be able to sell yew ovals and trailing bellflowers and gaitered legs, with restorations for almost one half his original prices; as the greatest demand is for to the feet, 178cm wide, 59cm deep, 89cm high (70in wide, 23in Pier Tables, he has just finished in the newest taste a great variety of deep, 35in high). patterns, sizes and prices, from three guineas to twenty; Card tables on a new construction (both ornamented and plain) which appear like small Pier Tables, with every article in the inlaid Way, executed £12,000 - 18,000 on shortest notice, and hopes from his long experience at Messrs. €16,000 - 24,000 Mayhew and Ince, London, his remarkable fine coloured woods, and US$18,000 - 27,000 elegant finished work, to meet the approbation of all who shall please to honour him with their commands. Moore began his career working with the famous London cabinet- makers William Ince and John Mayhew where he learned much of his Working at first from premises in Abbey Street, he had moved by 1791 trade. Moore moved to Dublin some time before 1782 and in May of to a more fashionable address in Capel Street, where he remained that year he placed an advertisement in the Dublin Evening Post which until his death in 1815 (cf. G.Beard and C.Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of contained the following announcement: English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, p.622.)
William Moore most respectfully acknowledges the encouragement he Similar examples attributed to Moore were sold Bonhams, Los has received, begs leave to inform those who may want Inlaid work, Angeles, 10 June 2013, lot 4094 and 16 June 2014, lot 5048.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 181 216Y Ф and the same year Rudolf Ackerman also showed in colour French A SMALL LATE GEORGE III SATINWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND style furniture in four numbers of his magazine. It was an Empire style TULIPWOOD CROSSBANDED AND PAINTED CARLTON HOUSE that matched the mood, which followed the abdication of Napoleon DESK and the restoration of Louis XVIII and caught on in England most Inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, the curved and stepped Provenancenotably attracting: the attention of the Prince Regent. top with pierced gilt brass gallery, above four short drawers flanked By historic family descent to the present private collection. by a pair of curved doors painted with a beaded oval flanked by two This distinctive design of writing table, with its superstructure of two smaller side drawers with ivory handles, one fitted for stationery, Aor desk three of tiers this ofform small in satinwooddrawers rising but fromwithout the the back marble and curvingtop and around further flanked by two drawers to the front, above an inset white polychromethe sides, dates decoration from the was late exhibited 18th Century. by A.Fredericks It was first (Chelsea) seen in aLtd, plate marble top and three frieze drawers, the reverse painted with strings Londonpublished at bythe George International Hepplewhite Art Treasures in 1792 Exhibition and illustrated at The againVictoria by & of beads, on turned tapering legs headed by fluted, on brass cappings AlbertShearer Museum, in 1793. London Thomas in Sheraton 1962 and also illustrated illustrated in the a similar accompanying desk in and castors, the drawers with ivory pulls, 107cm wide, 64cm deep, cataloguehis Cabinet as Maker’s pl.81. Although and Upholsterer’s satinwood Drawing examples Book appear, 1793, to pl.have 60, 99cm high (42in wide, 25in deep, 38 1/2in high). beenentitled produced ‘A Lady’s in Drawinglesser quantity and Writing a further Table’. satinwood model of related form but with a different handle pattern was sold from the collection of TomThe termDevinish, Carlton Sotheby’s House Newpresumably York, 24 came April about2008, as lot a 132. result A ofrelated some £20,000 - 30,000 Carltonkind of precedentHouse desk at in Carlton mahogany House was in Londonsold Bonhams, and then The the Contents term then €27,000 - 41,000 ofperpetuated. Trelissick House, Carlton 23 House July 2013, on Pall lot Mall 85 andwas another the home in mahoganyof George III US$30,000 - 46,000 waswhile formerly Prince ofwith Wales, Blairman having & Son,been London inhabited and by is his illustrated mother untilin E. herT. Joy,death The in Country1773. In Life1783 Book the ofPrince English Regent Furniture instructed, London, the architect1964, pl.95, Provenance: p.71Henry Holland (1745-1806) to rebuild the house and work was to By historic family descent to the present private collection. continue in various forms for the next thirty years. A rosewood Carlton TheHouse unusual desk presenceremains in of the a white Royal marble Collection top althoughrather than with a ratcheted a flat rather A desk of this form in satinwood but without the marble top and writingthan stepped surface superstructure. is an unusual addition Interestingly, but appears it was notto beuntil original 1796 withthat polychrome decoration was exhibited by A.Fredericks (Chelsea) Ltd, thethe deskterm having‘Carlton a Housesubframe desk’ to supportwas first the used marble. and isThe referred use of to white by the London at the International Art Treasures Exhibition at The Victoria & marblefirm of reflectsGillow in the their French cost tastebooks dominantfor clients. at theHugh time Roberts and recordswhich in Albert Museum, London in 1962 and illustrated in the accompanying washis article popularised for Furniture by Percier History, and The Fontaine’s Journal Recueil of the Furniture des Decorations History catalogue as pl.81. Although satinwood examples appear to have InterieuresSociety, Vol.XXXI,(1812) which that an showed account the from grandeur the cabinet-maker of the Imperial John palaces Kerr been produced in lesser quantity a further satinwood model of related andfor a the ‘large same Elegant year Rudolf Satin wood Ackerman Writing also Table showed containing in colour 15 drawersFrench form but with a different handle pattern was sold from the collection of styleand 2furniture cupboards’ in four is numberspreserved of in his the magazine. Royal Archive. It was The an EmpireKerr desk style is Tom Devinish, Sotheby’s New York, 24 April 2008, lot 132. A related thatno longer matched in the the Royal mood, Collection which followed but is thought the abdication to have of been Napoleon identified Carlton House desk in mahogany was sold Bonhams, The Contents andas a the desk restoration that was ofgiven Louis by XVIII the Princeand caught of Wales on in to England his acting most private of Trelissick House, 23 July 2013, lot 85 and another in mahogany notablysecretary attracting Captain, the later attention Admiral, of Johnthe Prince Payne Regent. (1752-1803) for his was formerly with Blairman & Son, London and is illustrated in E. T. services in accompanying the Prince’s wife Caroline of Brunswick to Joy, The Country Life Book of English Furniture, London, 1964, pl.95, ThisEngland distinctive in 1795. design The Kerrof writing desk table,was formerly with its superstructurwith Mallett, Londone of two and p.71 oris threeillustrated tiers inof L.Syngesmall drawers in Mallett’s rising Great from Englishthe back Furniture and curving, London, around the1991, sides, p.138, dates fig from 155. the late 18th Century. It was first seen in a plate The unusual presence of a white marble top rather than a ratcheted published by George Hepplewhite in 1792 and illustrated again by writing surface is an unusual addition but appears to be original with Shearer in 1793. Thomas Sheraton also illustrated a similar desk in the desk having a subframe to support the marble. The use of white his Cabinet Maker’s and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book, 1793, pl. 60, marble reflects the French taste dominant at the time and which entitled ‘A Lady’s Drawing and Writing Table’. was popularised by Percier and Fontaine’s Recueil des Decorations Interieures(1812) which showed the grandeur of the Imperial palaces The term Carlton House presumably came about as a result of some kind of precedent at Carlton House in London and then the term then perpetuated. Carlton House on Pall Mall was the home of George III while Prince of Wales, having been inhabited by his mother until her death in 1773. In 1783 the Prince Regent instructed the architect Henry Holland (1745-1806) to rebuild the house and work was to continue in various forms for the next thirty years. A rosewood Carlton House desk remains in the Royal Collection although with a flat rather than stepped superstructure. Interestingly, it was not until 1796 that the term ‘Carlton House desk’ was first used and is referred to by the firm of Gillow in their cost books for clients. Hugh Roberts records in his article for Furniture History, The Journal of the Furniture History Society, Vol.XXXI, that an account from the cabinet-maker John Kerr for a ‘large Elegant Satin wood Writing Table containing 15 drawers and 2 cupboards’ is preserved in the Royal Archive. The Kerr desk is no longer in the Royal Collection but is thought to have been identified as a desk that was given by the Prince of Wales to his acting private secretary Captain, later Admiral, John Payne (1752-1803) for his services in accompanying the Prince’s wife Caroline of Brunswick to England in 1795. The Kerr desk was formerly with Mallett, London and is illustrated in L.Synge in Mallett’s Great English Furniture, London, 1991, p.138, fig 155.
182 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 183 217 A PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED BEECHWOOD OPEN ARMCHAIRS in the manner of John Linnell The oval padded backs with wreathed moulded frames surmounted by twin flowerhead crestings, above acanthus leaf carved and padded arms with clasped ball terminals, on downswept wreathed arm supports and serpentine padded seats with wreathed and beaded seatrails, on fluted turned tapering legs headed by stiff leaves and paterae on lobed feet, originally probably gilded or painted. (2)
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
The ball clasped finials are typical feature of Linnell seat furniture and 218 appear on a set of armchairs supplied to Robert Child (d.1782) of A GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY SERPENTINE WINDOW Osterley Park (circa 1768) for either Osterley Park or for 38 Berkeley SEAT Square. The Child chairs also feature the same clasped lotus leaves The scrolling arms above serpentine seat rails, padded and where the arm joins the back. Two armchairs from this suite were upholstered in blue braided patterned silk, on serpentine moulded offered Christie’s London, 14 June 2001, lot 80 (withdrawn from cabriole legs, 97cm wide, 51cm deep, 64cm high (38in wide, 20in sale) and on a suite of seat furniture supplied to the Duke of Argyll for deep, 25in high). Inverary Castle circa 1775-78. See H.Hayward and P. Kirkham, ibid., Vol.II, figs 72,87,89). The carved stiff leaves at the back of the arms £3,000 - 5,000 and at the base of the seat along with ball arm terminals can be seen €4,100 - 6,800 in a design for an armchair, c.1770-75, illustrated in P. Kirkham, William US$4,600 - 7,600 and John Linnell, Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, p.45 plate 87.
184 | BONHAMS 219 A LARGE GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND CROSSBANDED CIRCULAR BREAKFAST TABLE With sycamore line inlay, the circular tilt top with a reeded edge on a ring turned shaft and downswept quadripartite reeded legs, with square brass cappings and castors, 153cm in diameter, 74cm high (60in in diameter, 29in high).
£5,000 - 8,000 €6,800 - 11,000 US$7,600 - 12,000
Provenance: Purchased Richard Courtney Ltd, May 1989.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 185 220Y Ф A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND TULIPWOOD CROSSBANDED CHEVERET ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS Inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, in two parts, the removable superstructure with carrying handle and three-quarter gallery above two short and one long drawer, on square tapering legs and spade feet, with ivory knob handles, 48cm wide, 45cm deep, 114cm high (18 1/2in wide, 17 1/2in deep, 44 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
See L.Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, (1995) Fig.150 for a satinwood and tulipwood banded ‘Sheveret’ table circa 1790 of similar form.
221Y A LATE GEORGE III SATINWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND KINGWOOD BANDED SIDE CABINET The rectangular top with central oval above a frieze drawer and a pair of stove enamelled oval panels painted with classical draped urns on a green ground within ebonised frames enclosing two shelves, on square tapering legs and spade feet, 99cm wide, 49cm deep, 91cm high (38 1/2in wide, 19in deep, 35 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
186 | BONHAMS 222 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND THUYA, PURPLEWOOD BANDED HARLEQUIN ACTION DRESSING/WRITING TABLE in the manner of Gillows Inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, the divided hinged top with central figured oval part enclosing a baize lined interior, stationery compartments with two ink bottles, the rear of the top enclosing a rising section with central ratcheted mirror, ten compartments, eight lidded compartments; above seven short and one arched recessed drawer, with banded ovals to the sides, on square tapering legs and square brass cappings and castors, 89cm wide, 54cm deep, 81cm high (35in wide, 21in deep, 31 1/2in high).
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,100 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
Provenance: Purchased Moxhams Antiques, 17 January 1996, £25,000.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 187 223 A SET OF SIX GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMORIAL HALL CHAIRS The shaped top rails above pierced lattice backs headed by shaped from Mrs Grace Percival the sister of Sir William Pendarves (1689 - and moulded tablets decorated with the arms of Stackhouse family, 1726). John Stackhouse and Susanna Acton erected Acton Castle the serpentine dished seats on square section stop-fluted legs headed near St Michaels Mount above Stackhouse Cove. by carved foliate C-scrolls, on tableted block feet, 48cm wide, 44cm deep, 92cm high (18 1/2in wide, 17in deep, 36in high). (6) Edward William Wynne Pendarves was granted the arms of Stackhouse from the heralds office in 1815, including one listed as a golden ragged Saltire illustrated on the chairs, becoming part of £20,000 - 30,000 the three crests of Pendarves and uniting the families of Stackhouse, €27,000 - 41,000 Pendarves and Wynne. Wynne was absorbed as a consequence of US$30,000 - 46,000 inheriting the estate of Luttrell Wynne (an artist and second cousin), who had been unmarried. Provenance: John Stackhouse (1742 - 1819) and thence by descent to his son: The Pendarves family settled at Pendarves, near Camborne, during Edward William Wynee Pendarves (1775-1853) and thence by the reign of Elizabeth 1st and have been in continuous occupation descent through the Pendarves family. until the house was demolished in 1956. Dilapidation through the second world war, when the Americans were stationed at the house The ragged saltire was originally the crest of STACKHOUSE, one of and no grants for restoration being forthcoming led the family to the three crests used by the Pendarves family. undertake this decision. During the demolition the Pendarves family silver was discovered buried within the walls of the house. Several The above chairs were the property of Edward William times, as in the case of Stackhouse and in instances in the 20th Stackhouse(1775 - 1853), MP for Lostwithiel, in West Cornwall, who century, the inheritance and the arms have been taken up by another in 1815 assumed the name of Pendarves becoming Edward William side of the family necessitating a change of name to Pendarves. Wynne Pendarves. He had inherited Pendarves and its Cornish Estate including the chairs from his parents, John Stackhouse (1742 - 1819), a well known botanist, and Susanna Acton (1754 - 1834). John was the second son of William Stackhouse, the rector of St Erme near Truro, who died in 1771. John inherited the Pendarves estate in 1764
188 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 189 224 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ‘GARFORTH’ PATTERN OPEN ARMCHAIR ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS The pierced top rail and pierced back with a moulded trellis pattern splat flanked by moulded uprights headed by carved rosettes and moulded finials, the downswept arms on baluster supports with a moulded seat-rail on ring turned tapering legs and turned feet.
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
The Garforth pattern was introduced by the Gillow firm in 1795 and was drawn again in 1798. The orders for Garforth pattern chairs in 1796 included six white japanned and green decorated examples from the Earl of Strafford for Wentworth Castle (Wentworth Woodhouse), Yorkshire and thirty six mahogany chairs for Sir William Gerard for various rooms at Garswood New Hall, Lancashire, see S.Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, Suffolk, 2008, Vol.1, p.193. A similar Garforth pattern armchair is illustrated in S.Stuart, ibid., p.195, pl.166.
225 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CANTERBURY BY GILLOWS The four curved divisions with slatted sides above a frieze drawer on square tapering legs and brass cappings and castors, stamped to the drawer ‘GILLOWS LANCASTER’, 45cm wide, 30cm deep, 53cm high (17 1/2in wide, 11 1/2in deep, 20 1/2in high).
£1,800 - 2,500 224 €2,400 - 3,400 US$2,700 - 3,800
The present lot is virtually identical to a design for a Canterbury executed in 1793, which features in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, pl. 994, City of Westminster Archives. For a similar example see Bonhams, Knightsbridge, Gentleman’s Library Sale, 28 January 2015, lot 600.
226 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARCHITECTS DESK ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS The rectangular moulded double ratcheted top inset with later green and gilt tooled writing surface, with a detachable reading rest, with a ratcheted flap to the rear, above a shaped secretaire drawer enclosing a later green and gilt tooled leather slide with central ratcheted writing surface, above six alphabetical inlaid compartments with two secret compartments to the rear; above a shaped recess flanked by four drawers to each side, on a plinth base, with castors, 125cm wide, 65cm deep, 96cm high (49in wide, 25 1/2in deep, 37 1/2in high).
£8,000 - 12,000 €11,000 - 16,000 US$12,000 - 18,000
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Related Literature: A desk of this modeal circa 1790 and with the impressed stamp I must not omit to tell you that Gillows table has arrived and gives GILLOWS LANCASTER is illustrated in S.Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster great satisfaction. Every one that sees it likes it so much I dare say and London 1730-1840, Suffolk 2008, p.282, pl.296. I shall have some commissions to send him. His bill did not much exceed yours being about £30 ready money’. This type of desk was intended for use either seated or standing. The alphabet inlaid drawers and fall front supported by quadrants The Gillow archives records in 1810: ‘pack for W.Scott Esq., Cstle were designed after a fashion popularised by Thomas Shearer’s, The Street, Edinburgh, case containing mahogany beauroe writin table Cabinet Maker’s London Book of Prices (1788-1803). Gillows made Double Elevating tops cupboard in center compleat writing drawers’. numerous minor variations of this form of desk during the latter part of (See C.Wainwright, The Romantic Interior, Fig 162 & 163). the 18th century. See Phillips Knowle house sale, The Contents of Elm Hill, Worcestershire, 10th January 2001, lot 346 for a related architects table by William Brownrigg for Gillows of Lancaster supplied to Sir Walter Scott purchased a similar desk from Gillows for his Thomas Gibbons of Elm Hill in 1785. A further related architect’s Edinburgh house in Castle Street in 1810 and then subsequently pedestal desk attributed to Gillows, but with an open kneehole, sold moved it to his Study at Abbotsford in 1826. In May 1810 Scott wrote Christies, London, 14 September 2000, lot 202 (£24,675 inc buyer’s to J.B.Morritt of Rokeby Hall, Yorkshire: premium).
‘You know I fell in love with your Library table and now the The Lady [The Lady of the Lake] has put crowns into my purse I would willingly treat myself unto the like...’ On the 9th August Scott wrote again to Morritt:
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 191 227 A GEORGE III PADOUK, MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY TRIPOD TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY HILL OF MARLBOROUGH The octagonal tilt-top with segmented veneers inlaid with a central spray of summer flowers within a scalloped border and tulipwood crossbandings, the turned and fluted stem with a vase-shaped knop, on inwardly scrolling, moulded legs, 59cm wide, 59cm deep, 68cm high (23in wide, 23in deep, 26 1/2in high).
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
Henry Hill is listed as a cabinet-maker, coach-maker auctioneer and representative of the Sun Insurance Company. He was active in Marlborough from about 1740 until his death in 1778 when the business was taken over by his assistant Samuel Hilliker. Most of Hill’s known clients were landed Wiltshire families including the 9th Duke of Somerset at Maiden Bradley, Arabella Calley of Burderop Park, Wiltshire and the Methuens at Corsham Court.
The marquetry on this table closely relates to that on a commode by Henry Hill for Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire in 1770/1771 (see L. Wood, The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Catalogue of Commodes, fig.55). The Maiden Bradley commode appears to have the same floral spray and ‘C’ scroll inlay to the top and the same floral sprays on the drawer front as in the above lot.
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192 | BONHAMS 228Y A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY, BURR YEW AND MARQUETRY DEMI-LUNE CARD TABLE in the manner of Ince and Mayhew Crossbanded in purplewood and rosewood, the hinged top enclosing a replaced baize lined interior above a simulated fluted frieze, on ring turned reeded tapering legs and turned feet, 92cm wide, 45cm deep, 74cm high (36in wide, 17 1/2in deep, 29in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
229Y A REGENCY FIGURED MAHOGANY SATINWOOD AND ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED CIRCULAR BREAKFAST TABLE The tilt top on a ring turned shaft with reeded downswept quadripartite legs and square brass cappings and castors, 120cm in diameter, 69cm high (47in in diameter, 27in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 193 230 A SET OF SIX GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY SHIELD BACK OPEN ARMCHAIRS The shaped pierced splats carved with flowerheads, paterae and leafy frons above outswept open arms and downswept arm supports, above serpentine padded seats upholstered in blue moire-silk on square tapering legs carved with trailing bellflowers, headed by paterae on spade feet, two labelled ‘Sir James Horlick’, five stamped ‘H’. (6)
£12,000 - 18,000 €16,000 - 24,000 US$18,000 - 27,000
Provenance: Sir James Horlick (1886-1958) Achamore House, The Isle of Gigha, Scotland. Purchased Christie’s, London 7 July 1988, lot 16 (realised £28,600 including premium).
Related Literature L.Ramsay, ‘Chinoiserie in the Western Isles, The Collection of Sir James and Lady Horlick’, The Connoisseur, June 1985.
Sir James Horlick was a renowned collector during the first half of the 20th century purchasing items for the leading dealers of the period. He has a particular focus on Chinoiserie including fine japanned furniture pieces, notably the three Thomas Chippendale commodes formerly at Harewood House.Other pieces from the Horlick collection were sold Sotheby’s, London, 5 June 2007, lots 1-52.
194 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 195 231Y A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND BRASS INLAID CARD TABLES in the manner of Gillows The D shaped hinged tops enclosing later baize lined interiors above friezes centred by contre partie brass inlaid tablets, on ring turned reeded legs and spool feet, 91cm wide, 45cm deep, 76cm high (35 1/2in wide, 17 1/2in deep, 29 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
232 A REGENCY MAHOGANY LIBRARY BERGERE The rectangular caned back within a reeded frame with downswept padded arms with reeded terminals and baluster supports, the caned sides and seat with an antique buttoned leather squab, on reeded baluster legs and brass cappings and heavy brass wheel castors, the front castors stamped S.DOBBINS & CO PATENT BRISTOL, 68cm wide, 77cm deep, 85cm high (26 1/2in wide, 30in deep, 33in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
196 | BONHAMS 233 A MID 19TH CENTURY SATINWOOD AND TULIPWOOD CROSSBANDED BREAKFRONT DISPLAY CABINET Inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, the upper part in three sections, the ogee moulded pendant carved cornice above a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing two later glass shelves, flanked by single doors each enclosing two later shelves, the lower part above a central deep drawer and flanked by three small drawers to each side in turn flanked by oval fan paterae on square tapering legs and spade feet, with label to the interior, ‘Antique from the Frank Partridge Collection, Hemenway, New Orleans’, 152cm wide, 46cm deep, 203cm high (59 1/2in wide, 18in deep, 79 1/2in high).
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
Provenance: Frank Partridge Collection, Hemenway, New Orleans. Previously one of a pair.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 197 234 A REGENCY MAHOGANY EBONISED AND PARCEL GILT DRUM TOP LIBRARY TABLE in the manner of Henry Holland The octagonal top inset with a later panel of gilt tooled leather, above four drawers and four faux drawers, on a tapered moulded reeded column and tripartite base, on lions paw feet and castors, 106cm wide, 106cm deep, 74.5cm high (41 1/2in wide, 41 1/2in deep, 29in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
198 | BONHAMS 235 A SMALL REGENCY MAHOGANY PEDESTAL CUPBOARD The square inset verde antico marble top within a plain border and square gadrooned and foliate clasped frieze below above a panelled door enclosing shelves, with a push button release for the door to the left hand side, on a moulded plinth base and pointed moulded feet, 35cm wide, 35cm deep, 93cm high (13 1/2in wide, 13 1/2in deep, 36 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
236 A REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL BENCH in the manner of C.H.Tatham The rectangular seat with paper scroll ends on fluted tapering legs headed by roundels, on spade feet, 121cm wide, 39cm deep, 48cm high (47 1/2in wide, 15in deep, 18 1/2in high).
£5,000 - 8,000 €6,800 - 11,000 US$7,600 - 12,000
Provenance: The Conservative politician George William, 7th Viscount Barrington, PC (1824–1886) of Becket House, Shrivenham.
This design of hall seat is derived from a Roman seat pattern issued in Charles Heathcote Tatham, Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture, 1799 (pl.46).
With close similarities to a hall bench sold Christies, London, The Legend of Dick Turpin Part I, 9 March 2006, lot 248.
A comparable hall bench was sold Christie’s London, The Legend of Dick Turpin, 9 March 2006, lot 249 (£10,200 including premium)
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 199 237 A REGENCY OAK, POLLARD OAK AND EBONY INLAID WORK TABLE in the manner of George Bullock The rectangular top with elliptical end above a frieze drawer and two drawer fronts concealing a single deep drawer, the sides of bowed form, on ring turned octagonal legs and turned feet, joined by a ring turned tapering stretcher centred by a turned finial, 53.5cm wide, 39cm deep, 75cm high (21in wide, 15in deep, 29 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
238 A REGENCY POLLARD OAK, PURPLEWOOD AND MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE in the manner of George Bullock Inlaid with ebonised lines, the rounded rectangular top with inset later black tooled leather writing surface, above a frieze drawer on fluted turned tapering purplewood front legs, with brass cappings and castors, with ivorine label to interior of drawer, ‘SPILLMAN & Co., ST. MARTIN’S LANE, LONDON’, 112cm wide, 71cm deep, 76cm high (44in wide, 27 1/2in deep, 29 1/2in high).
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£1,200 - 1,800 £1,200 - 1,800 €1,600 - 2,400 €1,600 - 2,400 US$1,800 - 2,700 US$1,800 - 2,700
A similar inkstand in ebony and inlaid in ivory can be seen illustrated in the Blairman’s publication, George Bullock, Cabinet-Maker, figure 24, it was described in a bill which formed part of the Tew Archive invoiced by Bullock to Matthew Robinson Boulton in 1817. The designs for the side panels, which are almost identical to the inkstand offered can be found in Wilkinson’s Tracings, (p.123 and unbound numbers 241,242 and 249).
There were apparently several lots in the catalogue of the Bullock Sale of 1819 described as a ‘tray-shaped inkstand’ and in various finishes. Martin Levy notes a rosewood and brass inlaid example in contre- partie on the London market in 1987, but without carrying handles (as 240 shown here) and bottles. Another example, of circular form, was sold Christies, London, 23 April 2009, lot 1 (£8500). This ink stand was also in scarlet tortoiseshell and brass, but with mother-of-pearl inlay and lacking bottles. It was noted that the circular pattern could have been created for Queen Charlotte as she was a visitor to Bullock’s establishment at the Grecian Rooms, Piccadilly in 1812. A similar example described as ‘A very sumptuous circular ink stand, of the late George Bullock’s Buhl manufacture with richly cut glass’ was included in the Queen’s effects sold anonymously, Christie’s, London as ‘The Remaining part of a valuable Collection of Curiosities (works of art)...’ 24-26 May 1819, lot 38.
Another similar but slightly smaller example was sold in these rooms, 3 March 2010, lot 143.
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 201 241 A MATCHED PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY CHARGER STANDS ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS The shaped rectangular backs on applied split baluster turnings and block bases, 21cm wide, 11cm deep, 35cm high (8in wide, 4in deep, 13 1/2in high) and 21cm wide, 11in deep, 38cm high (8in wide, 4in deep, 14 1/2in high) respectively. (2)
£1,200 - 1,800 €1,600 - 2,400 US$1,800 - 2,700
A related charger or salver stand is illustrated in S.Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Suffolk 2008, p.119, pl.669.
242 A REGENCY FIGURED MAHOGANY DOUBLE SIDED BOOK CARRIER ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS With gilt brass twin carrying handles above a spindle turned central division and spindle turned and pierced fret carved ends, above a frieze drawer on a beaded base, 41cm wide, 31cm deep, 23cm high (16in wide, 12in deep, 9in high).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
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243 A REGENCY MAHOGANY LOW PRESS ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS The rectangular moulded top above a pair of central panelled doors enclosing three slides flanked by four drawers to each side, on a moulded plinth base and turned feet, 198cm wide, 59cm deep, 113cm high (77 1/2in wide, 23in deep, 44in high).
£2,500 - 4,000 244 €3,400 - 5,400 US$3,800 - 6,100
A closely related press cupboard from the collection of Major Sir (Michael) Osmond Williams 2nd Bt. Mc. (1914-2002) of Castell Deudraeth & Borthwen, Co. Merioneth was sold Bonhams London, 4th June 2014, lot 100, another sold Bonhams, London, 6 March 2013, lot 144 and another 11 March 2015, lot 140.
A very closely related low press cupboard supplied by Gillows for Tatton Park, is illustrated in N.Goodison & J Hardy, ‘Gillows at Tatton Park’, Furniture History, 1970, plate 10A. Five cupboards of this type were supplied to the house, one with the makers name James Capstick, another with the name H.Holmes.
Further similar examples include a cabinet sold Christie’s, London, 4 June 1998, lot 177 and another which was probably made by the journeyman John Parkes, who was another employee of the firm. (See also Gillows’ Sketch Book 344/144, p.7 for a low wardrobe of the above pattern).
244Y A REGENCY ROSEWOOD FOLIO STAND The rectangular moulded edge top on ring turned tapering uprights with spindle filled sides and a central spindle filled vertical divider, on a moulded plinth base and castors, 90cm wide, 47cm deep, 76.5cm high (35in wide, 18 1/2in deep, 30in high).
£1,500 - 2,000 €2,000 - 2,700 US$2,300 - 3,000
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 203 245Y A FINE REGENCY ROSEWOOD SPECIMEN MARBLE AND GILT BRONZE MOUNTED CENTRE TABLE WITH SPECIMEN MARBLE TOP ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS The circular inset top with various sized rectangular radiating marbles and semi-precious stones including malachite, lapis lazuli, cipolin, campan, breccia, red griotte and violet brocatelle within a verde antico band on a white ground, within a lobed border and applied with cabochon and guilloche edge, on a turned and lobed acanthus leaf carved shaft and leaf carved tripartite platform base, with guilloche applied frieze on acanthus leaf carved cabriole legs and recessed castors, 95cm in diameter, 79cm high (37in in diameter, 31in high).
£15,000 - 30,000 €20,000 - 41,000 US$23,000 - 46,000
Provenance: The Hon. William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley of Canford (1787-1855).
The estate of Canford House, nr. Poole, Dorset was left to Ponsonby’s wife by her maternal grandfather Sir John Webb. Ponsonby settled there in the mid 1820’s and constructed a new mansion and made several local improvements. Although he had to sell Canford in the 1840’s, he was remembered in Poole for his ‘private kindnesses and public benefits’.
William Ponsonby is recorded as a client of Gillows of Lancaster, supplying him interior doors, (see Gillows Estimate Sketch Books reference 3088 and 3089).
These types of specimen marble tops were typical momentoes of a grand tour bought back from Italy by the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The tops where then normally supplied with English bases. Gillow are recorded as making two such bases for Stephen Tempest of Broughton Hall, the profuse carving and the choice of rosewood as the principal timber made these stands relatively expensive with Tempest paying Gillows in London £47.0.0d for the example still at Broughton Hall and illustrated in S.Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol.I, Suffolk, 2008, p.337, pl.391.
The heavily carved base reflects the use of bold high relief carving which can be seen on furniture produced by Gillows in the 1820s and 1830s. The heavy acanthus leaves can be seen on the tables sold Christie’s Belton House, Lincolnshire (The property of The Lord Brownlow), 30 April - 2 May, 1984, lot 90 and Sotheby’s London, 17 November 2010, lot 194.
See also S.Stuart, ibid., Vol II, pl. E.5 which shows a drawing room layout designed for G.Bamford about 1820-30 again employing similar carving. The drawing also shows a pair of bergrères and a sofa which in turn correspond to a suite supplied by Gillow & Co. in 1824 to Thomas Wynn (d.1832), 2nd Baron Newborough, for Glynllifon, Caernarvonshire, Wales, sold Christie’s, London, 9 March 2010, lots 101 & 102. This form of carved scroll foot was also employed by the firm and appears on a stamped goncalo alves writing table sold Christie’s, London, 13 September 2007, lot 1160.
204 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 205 246 thought to have been intended for the Royal Pavillion at Brighton see A REGENCY CARVED MAHOGANY AND EBONY MARQUETRY M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1965 p. 56 fig. 102 BREAKFRONT SERVING TABLE The rectangular top with a wreathed moulded edge above three frieze The stamp of B. Harmer who is linked to a group of fine seat drawers inlaid with stylised fleur-de-lys, on turned reeded legs headed furniture dating from the late George III period and is recorded on by leaf carved capitals on brass hairy paw feet, 182cm wide, 70cm the celebrated dolphin decorated Music Room suite supplied by deep, 98cm high (71 1/2in wide, 27 1/2in deep, 38 1/2in high). Marsh and Tatham to Powderham Castle suggesting that he was a subcontractor operating at the top end firms. £2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
247 A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO B. HARMER FOR ELWARD, MARSH & TATHAM The rectangular panelled toprails above square splats with applied tablet mouldings above rectangular dished seats on square moulded outswept legs and spade feet, 47cm wide, 43cm deep, 84cm high (18 1/2in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 33in high). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Four chairs of this model were sold Christie’s London, The Collection thought to have been intended for the Royal Pavillion at Brighton see of Will Fisher, 2 February 2012, lot 103. M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1965 p. 56 fig. 102
The above chairs relate to a suite of dining Chairs formerly at The stamp of B. Harmer who is linked to a group of fine seat Brabourne Manor, Kent which bear the brand of B. Harmer, who furniture dating from the late George III period and is recorded on is known to have worked as a journeyman for Elward, Marsh and the celebrated dolphin decorated Music Room suite supplied by Tatham, see C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture Marsh and Tatham to Powderham Castle suggesting that he was a 1700-1840. The design of the above chairs also relates to the hall subcontractor operating at the top end firms. seats supplied by Elward, Marsh and Tatham in 1802 and, which are
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 207 248 A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS VASES CONVERTED TO LAMPS in the manner of Thomas Hope The baluster shaped vases depicting seated classical figures with scroll handles terminating in mask heads on stepped waisted bases with reeded and acanthus decoration, excluding fitting 44.5cm high (17 1/2in high) (2)
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
A single related vase in bronze was sold Christie’s London, 22 May 2014, lot 1222.
249 A REGENCY MAHOGANY CARTONNIER The shaped three gallery pierced with carrying handles above two shelves and shaped solid end supports and castors, 91.5cm wide, 29cm deep, 52cm high (36in wide, 11in deep, 20in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
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208 | BONHAMS 250 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN CUT GLASS AND GILT BRASS CANDLESTICKS BY F & C OSLER With diamond-cut decoration throughout with slender stems and trumpets bases, on bun feet, each stamped twice to the underside ‘Osler’s’, each 31cm high, (12in high). (2)
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
In the 19th century Birmingham was renowned for its manufacture of metal and glass goods. The firm of F. & C. Osler (established in 1807 by Thomas Osler in Broad Street) was a principal manufacturer of light fittings and glass furniture, much of which was exported to the Indian sub-continent. A London showroom established the firm as a market leader and it continued to be so throughout the century, with an international reputation for extremely high standards of quality and craftsmanship. Osler who also shared a showroom in Calcutta with the silversmiths Hamilton & Co.
251 A PAIR OF REGENCY GILT BRONZE AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS The guilloche and leaf turned sconces above cascading vine leaves and grapes above lobed stems with ram’s head supports on Greek key and guilloche turned circular bases, 20cm high (7 1/2in high). (2)
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
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252 A GEORGE IV CARVED MAHOGANY CHAISE LOUNGE The shaped padded back, scroll padded arm and rectangular padded seat above a seatrail applied with roundels, on lobed and turned legs with brass cappings and castors, 171cm wide, 67cm deep, 82cm high (67in wide, 26in deep, 32in high).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
253 A REGENCY MAHOGANY BOTTLE CARRIER ON STAND The carrier with six divisions with a shaped central division with a brass edging and pierced with a carrying handle, the stand with a plain frieze on ring turned tapering legs, brass cappings and castors, 44cm wide, 37.5cm deep, 52cm high (17in wide, 14 1/2in deep, 20in high).
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300 253
210 | BONHAMS 254Y Ф A REGENCY ROSEWOOD OCCASIONAL TABLE INSET WITH A 17TH CENTURY MARQUETRY PANEL The rectangular brass bound top inlaid with rosewood and amaranth parquetry and with ivory inlaid lines, on ring turned end supports and downswept legs joined by a turned stretcher, 56cm wide, 41cm deep, 73cm high (22in wide, 16in deep, 28 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
255 A GEORGE IV CARVED MAHOGANY CELLERET in the manner of Gillows Of sarcophagus form, the ogee moulded lobed and hinged lid with carved acanthus, above beaded panelled sloping sides and lobed plinth, on lion paw feet, 60cm wide, 45cm deep, 57cm high (23 1/2in wide, 17 1/2in deep, 22in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
256Y A NEST OF WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD QUARTETTO TABLES BY BLAIN OF LIVERPOOL The graduated tables with rectangular tops with low moulded borders, on pierced scrolling and moulded end supports and short scroll feet joined by floor level flattened undulating shaped stretchers, the largest table stamped to the underside of one end support A.BLAIN LIVERPOOL, The largest table, 61cm wide, 36cm deep, 78cm high (24in wide, 14in deep, 30 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
This stamp of ‘A Blain Liverpool’ is commonly seen on pieces from the William IV and early Victorian periods, pieces from the later 19th century seem to carry the A Blain & Sons stamp.
Arthur (or Arbuthnot) Blain is recorded active in Liverpool c. 1835, see C.Gilbert and G.Beard, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986. Arthur was established at 35 Paradise Street, Liverpool and died in 1868. Born in Donegal, Ireland around 1796 his firm worked for the shipbuilders Cammell Laird and furnished the cabins for the Alabama, the fittings and furniture being selected by James Dunwoody Bulloch. The firm had been established in 1796 by his father and the business was continued by his son William Hughes Blain who died in 1909.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 211 257Y A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND PARTIAL GILT THREE-TIER OPEN BOOKCASE The rectangular top with pierced three-quarter gallery above two graduated sections of open shelves above a pair of central frieze drawers, flanked by gilt scrolled trusses, above a shelf on platform bases, 113cm wide, 33cm deep, 154cm high (44in wide, 12 1/2in deep, 60 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
258 A REGENCY MAHOGANY SIDE CABINET The moulded rectangular slightly inverted breakfront top above a pair of panel doors inset with gilt metal grilles and pleated silk panels enclosing a shelf and flanked by moulded tapering tableted uprights, on carved lion’s paw feet, 126cm wide, 43cm deep, 79cm high (49 1/2in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 31in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
212 | BONHAMS 259 A WILLIAM IV CARVED GILTWOOD AND SPECIMEN MARBLE INSET OCCASIONAL TABLE The circular inset white marble top inlaid with various marbles including sarrancolin, rance, verde antico, red levanto and portor, with central stellar, within a gilt leaf moulded edge on a fluted and leaf carved shaft on tripartite platform base, with lion paw feet, 52cm in diameter, 75cm high (20in in diameter, 29 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 213 260 261Y A REGENCY EGYPTIAN REVIVAL CAST AND WROUGHT IRON A REGENCY ROSEWOOD, EBONISED AND BRASS INLAID REGISTER GRATE LYRE END SOFA TABLE The frieze cast with central winged scarab with entwined serpent The rounded rectangular top with an ebony banding and a hinged leaf flanked by crocodiles above caryatid supports, the integral grate with to the rear above a pair of frieze drawers, on solid moulded lyre end Egyptian masks, 89cm wide, 95cm deep, 32cm high (35in wide, 37in support joined by an undulating moulded stretcher on downswept legs deep, 12 1/2in high). terminating in brass cappings and castors, losses 122cm wide, 73cm deep extended, 70cm high (48in wide, 28 1/2in deep extended, 27 1/2in high). £3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600 £3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600 A related Egyptianesque fire grate photographed in-situ at 64 Queen Street, Edinburgh is illustrated in A.Bolton, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Vol.II, London, 1922, p. 212. Another similar 262Y sold Christies, The Nigel Bartlett Collection, Chimneypieces and A NEAR PAIR OF REGENCY THREE-TIER ETAGERES Architectural Elements, 14 September 2005, lot 150. ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS One in rosewood, the other in figured mahogany, the square tops on reeded turned supports with lobed finials, on reeded turned tapering legs, with brass cappings and castors, each 36cm wide, 36cm deep, 71cm high (14in wide, 14in deep, 27 1/2in high). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Provenance: The rosewood example purchased Christies, London, 26 January 2006, lot 139 (realised £8400 including buyer’s premium), the other example purchased from Florian Papp, New York.
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 215 263 A LATE REGENCY GONCALO ALVES PIER CABINET The rectangular concave top with a partial pierced gilt metal gallery above three graduated drawers and a pair of cupboard doors enclosing a shelf and flanked by tapering columns with acanthus carved capitals, 71cm wide, 51cm deep, 115cm high (27 1/2in wide, 20in deep, 45in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600 264 A GEORGE IV CARVED GONCALO ALVES CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS Inlaid with purplewood banding, the tilt top with beaded frieze on a turned and lobed shaft and tripartite base, with acanthus leaf scrolling feet and castors, 118cm in diameter, 72cm high (46in in diameter, 28in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
The gadrooning and moulding on the column of this table relates to the end supports often seen on writing tables/library tables by the firm and supplied to many of their clients included that supplied to William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam for Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire and subsequently sold Christie’s, London, 8 July 1998, lot 83. Goncalo alves was a timber also known as both albuera and zebra wood and was used at Gillows from July 1823 until the mid 1860s.
216 | BONHAMS 265 A GEORGE IV GONCALO ALVES CARVED WRITING TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS dated 1837 The rounded rectangular top with pierced brass three-quarter gallery, above a red tooled leather writing surface and a pair of drawers on shaped end supports, with lobed feet and recessed castors, the outside reverse of one drawer signed in pencil, ‘T (J) Lesing (Liping) & frame 28 Dec 1837’, 122cm wide, 71cm deep, 78cm high (48in wide, 27 1/2in deep, 30 1/2in high). Centre Archive © Westminster
£5,000 - 8,000 €6,800 - 11,000 US$7,600 - 12,000 The design for a related mahogany pillar end sofa table made for Literature: Ferguson & Co in 1837 from the Illustrated in S.Stuart, Gillows of London and Lancaster, 1740-1830, Gillows Estimate Sketchbooks. Suffolk 2008, pp.269-270, pl.277 & 279
This table which is not stamped by Gillows bears a pencil inscription with the names of the journeymen and the date although Susan Stuart was not able to trace them while working on the entry for this table in her 2008 publication. Goncalo alves or ‘albuera wood’ as it was known by the Gillow firm was used by Gillows on a variety of items in the 1823-65 period. The design for the table offered here appears three times in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, firstly in February 1836 then in 1837 and then again in 1850. The varying designs only differ in dimensions and the choices of timber.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 217 266 A REGENCY MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING TABLE in the manner of Gillows The rounded rectangular moulded top with two additional leaves above a plain moulded frieze, on turned reeded tapering legs on turned feet, with brass cappings and castors, folding down to a pier table, 226cm wide extended, 122cm deep, 73cm high (88 1/2in wide extended, 48in deep, 28 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
218 | BONHAMS 267 A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHEST ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS the joiner William Cleminson The rectangular moulded edge top above three short and three long graduated drawers, on turned bun feet, stamped GILLOWS*LANCASTER to the central short drawer, signed in pencil to the underside of the left hand short drawer, ‘WM. Cleminson’, 117cm wide, 55cm deep, 107cm high (46in wide, 21 1/2in deep, 42in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
William Cleminson, a joiner for Gillows was apprenticed to Adam Cockhill in 1813. Cleminson, Sharples and High made an oak bookcase for the Bishop of Lincoln in May 1843 (Gillows Estimate Sketch books 244/104, p.5381, 8.5.1843). See S.Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Vol II, p.266.
The pattern for the above chest of drawers is recorded in Gillows Estimate Sketch books for 1821 where it was listed as being executed by the journeyman John Hanibal. A related chest with three short drawers but with a plinth base has also been recorded, see Christie’s, London 12 September 2007, lot 1155. A further related chest was sold 267 Bonhams, London, 11 March 2015, lot 156.
268 A REGENCY CARVED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED SERVING TABLE The rectangular top with a moulded rear gallery above a plain frieze, on acanthus carved volute scroll front supports terminating in lotus carved scrolling feet, the rear supports of plain rectangular form, on a concave moulded platform base, 183cm wide, 68cm deep, 107cm high (72in wide, 26 1/2in deep, 42in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100 268
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 219 269 A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY PEDESTAL LIBRARY DESK IN THE GOTHIC STYLE possibly by Gillows, the design possibly by William Porden The rectangular moulded top with canted angles inset with a red leather writing surface above a central panelled frieze drawer centred by a quartrefoil and Gothic arched apron and kneehole flanked by four panelled drawers to either side, the opposing side with three frieze drawers and a pair of cupboard doors flanked the kneehole, on plinth bases, 186cm wide, 109cm deep, 80cm high (73in wide, 42 1/2in deep, 31in high).
£30,000 - 50,000 €41,000 - 68,000 US$46,000 - 76,000
Provenance: views that the most of the furniture is heavily inspired by both Porden’s Reputedly supplied to the 1st Marquess of Westminster for Eaton Hall, furniture designs and the architecture. A second phase of Gothic Cheshire modifications arose at Eaton Hall after the dismissal of Porden in 1821 Christie’s King Street, London, English Furniture, 7th July 1994, lot 129 when Benjamin Gummow (1766-1844) took over as the supervising architect. This occasioned the requirement for more furniture to fill Related Literature: the extended interiors. A large amount of this was evidently supplied Peter N. Lindfield-Ott, Furniture History 2012, ‘The Furnishing of a by John Davis of 20 Lower Brook Street, London, who invoiced Lord Gothic Fantasy, 1803-1825: Eaton Hall, Cheshire’, pp. 155-180 Grosvenor the substantial sum of £14,491 10s 6d for furniture. An extensive inventory of the furniture supplied by Davis to Grosvenor is The firm of Gillows are known to have carried out an extensive preserved in the family archives, although the present desk does not commission at Eaton Hall for the Marquess of Westminster prior to seem to feature amongst the furnishings listed suggesting that it may 1840. This was consistent in style with the architecture of the house well have been part of the earlier Gillows commission. which was re-built to the Gothic designs of William Porden between 1804 and 1812 . It is therefore tempting to speculate that the present A large oak library table from the Chapter House at Chester Cathedral overtly Gothic library desk may have been supplied for Eaton Hall and with Eaton Hall provenance was sold Bonhams, London, 19 simultaneous to the Gillows commission or during a later phase of the November 2014, lot 176. The tracery patterns to the drawers matches building’s development. that seen on the drawers of the desk offered here. The oak library table offered previously by Bonhams relates in design to the State Bed The broad lancet arches, quatrefoils and blind tracery to the frieze from Eaton Hall. As such, this would align the table to John Davis’s panels featured here, relate closely to furniture designs by William furniture commission of the 1820s. Nevertheless a tantalising reference Porden, for Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, 2nd Earl to Library tables was made in a letter from Porden (in the Grosvenor of Grosvenor (1767-1845) at Eaton Hall which are held in the ‘Cheshire family archive) of 7 January 1811 which included the lines ‘I shall Archives and Local Studies’ (see ‘Furniture History’, op. cit., pp. 160- send this Evening Designs for the smaller Library Tables to stand by 162, figs. 7, 8 and 9). Although the majority of the furniture supplied the fire & A design for the State Bed. The first I think will conveniently to Eaton was dispersed in two sales in 1959 and 1992, a significant accommodate four persons for reading or writing. The second will record of the furnishing at Eaton hall was made by the artist J.C. have an appropriate effect and be rich and picturesque.’ Unfortunately Buckler during his visits to the house between 1823 and 1825. His no designs for the bed or tables survive (see ‘Furniture History’, op. watercolour depictions of the interiors were later published as a series cit.,, pp. 170-172, fig. 19). of engravings in Views of Eaton Hall in Cheshire, the seat of the Right Honourable Earl of Grosvenor, 1826. It is clear from Buckler’s interior
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270 A PAIR REGENCY IRISH EBONISED, PARCEL GILT AND FACETTED GLASS BEAD MIRRORS The oval plates within moulded frames applied with cut clear glass beads, each 57cm high, 46cm wide (22in high, 18in wide).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
271 A VERY LARGE REGENCY CARVED GILTWOOD CONVEX MIRROR The circular plate within a moulded ebonised slip and ball encrusted moulded frame surmounted by a spread eagle on scrolling acanthus leaves, with leaf carved apron below, 190cm high, (74 1/2in high), 114cm wide, (44 1/2in wide).
£5,000 - 8,000 €6,800 - 11,000 US$7,600 - 12,000
Provenance: The Leslie family, Tarbert House, County Kerry, Eire.
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 223 272 AN IMPORTANT REGENCY IRISH MAHOGANY FOUR PEDESTAL DINING TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO MACK, WILLIAMS AND GIBTON The rounded rectangular top including three deep leaves with double moulded edge, on turned shafts and quadripartite moulded downswept legs, with brass moulded cappings and castors, 506cm wide, 151cm deep, 72cm high (199in wide, 59in deep, 28in high).
£80,000 - 120,000 €110,000 - 160,000 US$120,000 - 180,000
Provenance: Purchased Mallett Ltd, New Bond Street, London Private Collection.
Literature: Mallett Ltd, Exceptional Furniture and Works of Art, 2010.
Irish dining tables are characterised by the unusually thick moulded tops and large robust pedestals. Notable examples to appear on the auction market include a stamped four pedestal example by Mack, Williams and Gibton sold Bonhams, London 12 February 2012, lot 86, and another example from the Owston Collection sold Bonhams Australia, 25 June 2010, lot 145. A table by Gillingtons of Dublin with again with the characteristic thick moulded top was sold Bonhams, London, 22 November 2005, lot 184.
The firm of Mack, Williams and Gibton were established at 39 Stafford Street, Dublin and were appointed Upholsterer’s & Cabinet Makers to his Majesty, His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and His Majesty’s Board of Works. After the death of John Mack in 1829, the firm continued to trade as Williams and Gibton (1830-1844). They supplied some of the most important public buildings in Ireland, including the Four Courts, the War Office, the Barracks Office, Dublin Castle, the Chapel Royal and the Treasury and Viceregal Lodge. They were also commissioned to produce furniture for many prominent Irish houses such as Ballynegall, Co. Westmeath, Oakley Park, Co. Meath and Strokestown Co. Roscommon. The firm is recognized for the excellent timbers employed and their high quality of workmanship which is often compared to Gillows of Lancaster and London. Many of the furniture pieces they produced were inspired by designs published by Thomas Hope and George Smith. A closely related table attributed to Mack, Williams and Gibton was sold anonymously, Christie’s, London, 15 April 1999, lot 161.
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273 A SET OF EIGHTEEN REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS The shaped panelled top-rails above pierced backs with rope-twist cross-rails between moulded uprights, the caned seats on moulded sabre legs, stamped with chairmakers intials ‘HH’ to the underside. (18)
£6,000 - 8,000 €8,100 - 11,000 US$9,100 - 12,000
226 | BONHAMS 274 A LARGE WILLIAM IV CARVED MAHOGANY BOWFRONT SERVING TABLE The rectangular top with panelled low superstructure, above a central bowed panelled door and frieze on lotus leaf carved turned tapering reeded legs and lobed feet, some losses to the feet, 244cm wide, 75cm deep, 93cm high (96in wide, 29 1/2in deep, 36 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
275 A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY POT CUPBOARDS The square tops above a pair of panelled doors with moulded tapering uprights with shaped capitals and socles, each enclosing a shelf, on plinth bases, 38cm wide, 36cm deep, 79cm high (14 1/2in wide, 14in deep, 31in high). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 227 276 A REGENCY GILT BRONZE ORMOLU FIVE-PIECE OVAL SURTOUT DE TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL possibly supplied by Alexis De Caix The mirrored plateau with pierced galleries anthemion gallery with applied tasselled and draped cartouches with the coat of arms for the Marquesses of Ormonde, on ‘C’ scroll anthemion and lion paw feet headed by applied plaques with the family crest, 255cm wide, 46cm deep, 10cm high (100in wide, 18in deep, 3 1/2in high). (5)
£25,000 - 35,000 €34,000 - 47,000 US$38,000 - 53,000
Provenance: Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde KP and 18th Earl of Ormonde of Kilkenny Castle, Ireland (1770-1820). Walter was the Chief Butler of Ireland, Knight of Saint Patrick and MP for Kilkenny. He married Anna Maria Catherine Clarke, daughter of Joseph Hart Pryce Clarke, on 17 March 1805. It seems likely that this large and elaborate surtout was commissioned to celebrate their marriage.
The Butler family remained at Kilkenny Castle until 1935, when they sold its contents and moved to London. In 1967, Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess and 24th Earl of Ormonde, sold the abandoned and deteriorating castle to the Castle Restoration Committee for £50.
John Bridge (1755-1834) together with Philip Rundell (1746-1827 and later Rundell’s nephew Edmund Waller Rundell (d.1857) created one of the most successful silver manufacturing businesses in the early 19th century. Rundell and Bridge were appointed ‘Jewellers and Goldsmiths to the King’ in 1789 and were granted further Royal warrants by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. They not only retailed their own wares but pieces by other leading craftmen such as Benjamin Smith and Digby Scott and were they were joined by the master silversmith Paul Storr (1771-1844) during the period 1807-1819.
Rundell, Bridge and Rundell were in business with the bronze founder and ormolu manufacturer Alexis De Caix from around 1806. De Caix fled to England from the French Revolution, based in 15 Rupert Street he worked for Thomas Hope, Henry Hollands and Garrard’s in the highly fashionable French Empire taste. The 1st Marquess of Ormonde subsequently commissioned a fine silver dinner service from Rundell, Bridge and Rundell in 1808, part of which is now at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
228 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 229 277 AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY WELLINGTON CHEST in the manner of Gillows The rectangular top above six drawers, the top drawer with a fall front enclosing pigeonholes, the remaining drawers with articulated covers, flanked by square section uprights, the right hand upright with a locking mechanism and concealed key hole behind the capital, on a plinth base, 71cm wide, 37cm deep, 120cm high (27 1/2in wide, 14 1/2in deep, 47in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
278Y A WILLIAM IV AMBOYNA AND ROSEWOOD CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE Inlaid with rosewood banding, the amboyna tilt top above turned shaft with turned gilt brass collar, on a tripartite base, with lobed bun feet and castors, 122cm in diameter, 73cm high (48in in diameter, 28 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
230 | BONHAMS 279 A GEORGE IV AMBOYNA, CROSSBANDED AND CALAMANDER MARQUETRY LIBRARY TABLE in the manner of George Bullock or G.J.Morant The rounded rectangular top with inlaid running frieze of stylised vine leaves and hop flowers, above a pair of drawer and shaped end supports with carved lotus leaves and flowerheads, on downswept leaf carved legs with castors, 155cm wide, 67cm deep, 73cm high (61in wide, 26in deep, 28 1/2in high).
£7,000 - 10,000 €9,500 - 14,000 US$11,000 - 15,000
The inlay and choice of timber reflects the ‘British’ fashion promoted The design for the marquetry is related to a collection of tracings by the Tenterden Street cabinet-maker George Bullock (d.1818) that were originally bound in a scrapbook by Thomas Wilkinson after which was reproduced in Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts, 1816. Bullock’s designs in 1820, now at Birmingham Museum and Art A typical example of this style is George Bullock’s commission for Gallery. Thomas Wilkinson may have worked for Bullock, which would Matthew Robinson Boulton for Tew Park, Oxfordshire, alongside the explain his access to the original designs. The popularity of Bullock’s Bond Street cabinet-maker G.J.Morant’s work at Tew thirty years later. designs meant that his work was widely imitated and it is possible that the tracings were used for this purpose, by firms such as G.J.Morant.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 231 280Y A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND BRASS MARQUETRY OCCASIONAL TABLES in the manner of George Oakley The rectangular tops with pierced brass galleries and leaf cast edges on spreading shafts inlaid with stylised leaves, on lobed quadripartite bases with downswept legs and moulded brass cappings and castors, each 51cm wide, 37cm deep, 77cm high (20in wide, 14 1/2in deep, 30in high). (2)
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
281 A VICTORIAN SATINWOOD, PURPLEWOOD BANDED AND EBONISED SIDE TABLE in the manner of Donald Ross of Denmark Street In the Louis XVI style, applied with gilt metal mounts, overall inlaid with line and dot marquetry, the rectangular gilt metal bound top above a frieze drawer, on square tapering legs joined by a platform undertier, on gilt metal leaf cast feet, 41cm wide, 36cm deep, 70cm high (16in wide, 14in deep, 27 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
The distinctive dot-and-trellis marquetry decoration is characteristic of the work of Donald Ross, who was inspired by the work of the 18th century French cabinetmakers Garnier and Sené. Working in London’s Denmark Square in the third quarter of the 19th century, Ross exhibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851. A 1928 letter written by Thomas Ross, Donald’s son, to the Victoria & Albert Museum, states that a suite of similar furniture exhibited by Ross at the Great Exhibition is believed to have been sold to Queen Victoria through an agent called Freyberg. For related works by Ross, see C. Payne, Nineteenth Century European Furniture, Suffolk, 1981, nos. 969, 970 and 972, p. 315. For an almost identical side table see Bonhams, London 2 March 2011, lot 198.
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 233 282 A VICTORIAN BURR WALNUT PARTNER’S PEDESTAL DESK BY HOLLAND & SONS The rounded rectangular moulded top with later brown and gilt tooled leather inset writing surface above a shaped kneehole flanked by eight short graduated drawers, with opposing panelled cupboard doors, each enclosing a shelf, on a moulded plinth base, stamped twice ‘HOLLAND & SONS’, 183cm wide, 90cm deep, 74cm high (72in wide, 35in deep, 29in high).
£5,000 - 10,000 €6,800 - 14,000 US$7,600 - 15,000
Holland and Sons rose from their origins in the early 19th century to become, by the middle years of the century, a rival to Gillows and one of the greatest English furniture producers. Recorded as early as 1815, as Taprell and Holland, by 1843 under the auspices of William Holland, a relative of the Regency architect Henry Holland, they formed a business alliance with Thomas Dowbiggin of 23 Mount Street, who had made the state throne for Victoria’s Coronation. They also worked successfully as undertakers and were responsible for the Duke of Wellington’s funeral. Under William Holland the firm became cabinetmakers and upholsterers to the Queen, their first commission being for Osborne House in 1845, supplying furniture in the Queen’s favoured Louis XVI style. They continued to supply furniture for Osborne until 1869 but gained further commissions for Windsor Castle, Balmoral and Marlborough House. Hollands also worked for many leading institutions including the Reform and Athenaeum Clubs, the British Museum and the Royal Academy. Along with Gillows they shared the commission for the new Houses of Parliament. The participated in many of the important International Exhibitions including London in 1862, Vienna in 1873 and Paris in 1867 and 1872. The Holland’s labelled day books are now housed in the National Archive of Art and Design in London and present a virtual ‘who’s who’ of 19th century society.
234 | BONHAMS 283Y A LATE REGENCY ROSEWOOD DWARF BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE BY GILLOWS OF LANCASTER The shaped rectangular top with pierced three-quarter baluster turned gallery above a pair of central silk panelled doors, enclosing three adjustable shelves flanked by three open adjustable shelves to each side, with gilt tooled leather dust curtains, in turn flanked by leaf carved and reeded pilasters, on a moulded plinth base, stamped to the top of one door, ‘GILLOWS.LANCASTER’, 183cm wide, 35cm deep, 98cm high (72in wide, 13 1/2in deep, 38 1/2in high).
£6,000 - 9,000 €8,100 - 12,000 US$9,100 - 14,000
Literature: Illustrated in S.Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol I., pp.384-385 pl.460-462
Provenance: Private Collection
The above lot relates to a design for a ‘commode’ which appears in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books for 1836 with cupboard doors to the ends rather than open shelves. The design is reproduced in S.Stuart, ibid., p.384, pl.459.
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 235 284 A VICTORIAN CAST IRON BLACK PAINTED ‘CAMEL’ BENCH BY Z.D.BERRY & SON, DESIGNED BY GEORGE JOHN VULLIAMY circa 1878 The later slatted scrolling back and seat with ends cast as recumbent laden camels with pierced scrolling leaves and flowerheads, on plinth bases, 213cm wide, 79cm deep, 83cm high (83 1/2in wide, 31in deep, 32 1/2in high).
£8,000 - 10,000 €11,000 - 14,000 US$12,000 - 15,000
The architect George John Vulliamy (1817–1886) was the second son of the celebrated clockmaker Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780- 1854) and is now best remembered for the pedestal and sphinxes for Cleopatra’s Needle on the Thames Embankment in London and for Dolphin or sturgeon lamp posts that line the embankment (which were erected in 1870). The Camel benches actually pre-empted the arrival of Cleopatra’s Needle by a year. Sir Joseph Bazelgette was responsible for a scheme that reclaimed around twenty two acres of marshland, creating a new sewage system and a new road which took the pressure off The Strand. The Embankment as it became known was styled to give a flavour of the far reaching British Empire. The benches exist in two patterns either with sphinxes or Camels, the sphinxes being those close to Cleopatra’s needle and the camels in the section close to Victoria Embankment. The benches were manufactured by Z.D Berry & Son of Regent Street although many of the originals have now been replaced.
Vulliamy was articled to Messrs Joseph Bramah & Son, engineers, in 1833 and later entered the office of Sir Charles Barry where he remained until 1841. In the early 1840s he travelled extensively in Europe visiting France, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt. On his return to England he began practicing as an architect later assisted by his uncle Lewis Vulliamy. In 1861 Vulliamy was elected superintending architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works, and this was to remain his focus for the remainder of his career and resulted in the landmark fixtures he designed for the Embankment.
One of the camel benches on the Embankment depicted in One Christmas Eve by Harold Piffard, circa 1900
236 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 237 285 A PAIR OF GEORGE IV IRISH CARVED GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES WITH PIETRE DURE TOPS in the manner of James Del Vecchio & Son The white and grey marble tops inlaid with stylised flowers and leaves in white and brown onyx with green marble, above egg and dart moulded friezes on single lion monopodiae and square plinth bases, each, 94cm wide, 42cm deep, 95cm high (37in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 37in high). (2)
£10,000 - 15,000 €14,000 - 20,000 US$15,000 - 23,000
The Irish carvers and frame makers, James Del Vecchio & Son are listed working at numerous Dublin addresses from 1797 to 1851, (see Knight of Glin, Dublin Directories and Trade Labels, Furniture History, 1985, pp.263-264). Under James junior the company is known for its robust carving and as a supplier of high quality inventive giltwood furniture for Dublin society. A William IV Irish carved console table with eagle-head monopodiae boldly signed Del Vecchio is illustrated in E.T.Joy, English Furniture, 1800-1851, 1977, p.77.
238 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 239 286 286 A LARGE MID 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND MILITARY CUTLERY BOX ON LATER STAND BY GELLEE FRERES The rectangular sloping hinged lid inset with marital arms and motto Deus Justum Protegit, possibly for the Marquis se Sainte- Germaine-Beaupre of Brittany, enclosing a velvet lined interior with cutlery apertures, the sides with recessed handles, with paper label to the interior, ‘MEDAILLES AUX EXPos UNIVles DE PARIS 1855 & LONDRES 1862, MEDAILLES D’OR, PARIS 1867, A LA BOULE D’OR GELLEE FRERES, GELLEE & CIE SUCC GAINIERS, 27 QUAI D’HOROLOGE 27’, 73cm wide, 57cm deep, 98cm high (28 1/2in wide, 22in deep, 38 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
It has not been possible to positively identify the arms on the above knife box. The only marquis among fifty six European shields of this description was Alegre, created Marquis de Tourzel in the Auvergne in March 1576 who subsequently adopted a red shield with a square tower between two columns of three fleurs-de-lis which rules him out. The shield of the wife seems to correnspond to that of van Zandyck of Flanders whose black shield was charged with three birds above a 287 broad horizontal band and one demi-lady below it.
287 A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND BRASS BOUND DEMI- LUNE STICK STAND The shaped back with pierced handles above ribbed moulded body on plinth base, with removable tin liner, 34cm wide, 21cm deep, 77cm high (13in wide, 8in deep, 30in high).
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
See Bonhams, London 3 June 2015, lot 246 for almost identical stick stand (realised £3120 including buyer’s premium).
288 A NEAR PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND BRASS 288 STICK STANDS possibly by Shoolbred Each of cylindrical moulded form with twin ring tamed lion masks handles, on a moulded base, with tin liner, each 30cm diam, 61cm high (11 1/2in diam, 24cm high). (2)
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
For a similar near pair of Victorian and brass bound stick stands see Bonhams, London 11 March 2015, lot 207 (£5460 including buyer’s premium).
James Shoolbred & Co were well known manufacturers and retailers of furniture from about 1870 onwards with premises on Tottenham Court Road. They were noted for quality work in all styles employing French and German upholsterers and leading English designers.
240 | BONHAMS 289 A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN RENAISSANCE REVIVAL CARVED TEAK HALL BENCHES The inverted breakfront moulded tops above scrolling leaf carved friezes and central panelled backs carved with the marriage coat of arms for the Llewellyn/Blandy family, flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves within leaf and dart mouldings, above winged lion arm supports and hinged rectangular seats on fluted sloping fronts, with fluted scrolling leaf carved sides monogrammed RWL, on plinth bases, each 131cm wide, 62cm deep, 79cm high (51 1/2in wide, 24in deep, 31in high). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Provenance: Robert William LLewllyn (1848-1910) and presumably by descent to Sir Robert Godfrey Llewllyn CB, CBE, MC, TD (1893 -1986) and presumably thence by descent to: Captain Sir Michael Rowland Godfrey Llewellyn (1921-1994) Sold Bonhams, London, 14 March 1995, lot 1.
The coat of arms carved to the backs of both benches was granted at the marriage of Robert William Llewellyn of Court Coleman, Bridgend and Baglan Hall, Glamorgan and Harriet Annie Blandy (1862-1952) of Kingston Bagpuize in 1882.
289 (details)
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 241 290 A VICTORIAN SATINWOOD AND PARCEL GILT SIDE CABINET With incised foliate decoration, the rectangular top with projecting angles and a laurel wreath riband tied carved border, the frieze decorated with a central cartouche, foliate scrolls, shuttering and Vitruvian scrolls above a central arcaded recess with a mirror backing, above two drawers, flanked by columns with acanthus decoration and Corinthian capitals and cupboard doors enclosing shelves and with further columns to each end, on a bead and reel decorated panelled apron with paterae and centred by a floral carved tablet, on lobed and beaded bun feet, the locks stamped, ‘CHUBB & SONS, LONDON, MAKERS TO HER MAJESTY, 696762’, 151cm wide, 52cm deep, 104cm high (59in wide, 20in deep, 40 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
291 A NEAR PAIR OF VICTORIAN BURR WALNUT THREE-TIER WALNUT CANTERBURY WHATNOTS in the manner of Gillows Each with rounded rectangular top and pierced gilt brass three-quarter gallery on fluted turned supports, the lower tier with three divisions above an apron drawer, on turned tapering legs with brass cappings and castors, one drawer stamped ‘07583’, each 55cm wide, 47cm deep, 97cm high (21 1/2in wide, 18 1/2in deep, 38in high). (2)
£3,500 - 5,000 €4,700 - 6,800 US$5,300 - 7,600
242 | BONHAMS 292 AN ENGLISH ROCOCO REVIVAL GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR 2nd quarter 19th century The shaped plate divided with leafy fronds, surmounted by a double ‘C’ scroll and projecting acanthus leaf carved cresting, flanked by ‘C’ scrolls with trailing fruits and flowers, the sides carved with further ‘C’ scrolls, leaves, fruits and flowers with double ‘C’ scroll carved apron below, 228cm high, 168cm wide (89 1/2in high, 66in wide).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Provenance: Purchased by the late vendor at the contents sale of Compton Castle, Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset, 10 & 11 April 1961.
Compton Castle was originally built circa 1820-5 by John Hubert Hunt (1774-1829) whose family had owned an estate in Compton Pauncefoot since at least the mid 17th century. The Castle was designed by the London-based architect John Finden (c1782-1849). After Hunt’s death in 1830, Compton Castle was let to a series of tenants whose tenancies were fairly short lived although ownership of the castle remained with the Husey-Hunt family. In 1911, Compton Castle and its landscaped garden were sold to William Peake Mason, later Lord Blackford, who commissioned the architect Charles Biddulph-Pinchard to make alterations to the house. After Lord Blackford’s death in 1947, his wife continued to live at Compton Castle for some time, and during the 1950s she regularly opened the gardens to the public before her death in 1958. The contents of the Castle were sold in a dispersal sale in 1961.
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293 A PAIR OF REGENCY OAK HALL CHAIRS after a design by Peter and Michael Angelo Nicholson with the crest for the Watts family, Wiltshire of Cotlington, Somerset and Devon The shaped back with rectangular roundel decorated top rails and moulded lyre shaped supports centred by moulded carved solid backs centred by rectangular tablets decorated with armorials of seated hounds, the tapered seats above roundel decorated seat rails on square section moulded legs. (2)
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
The design for these chairs is based on a design by Michael Angelo Nicholson. The design is included in The Practical Cabinet Maker by P and M.A Nicholson published by H.Fisher,Son & Co., Caxton, London, 28 October 1826, pl.48.
The designs of the father and son team of Peter and Michael Angelo Nicholson were very much a continuation of the Grecian forms championed by Thomas Hope to whom the Nicholsons were clearly indebted. The majority of the designs were produced by Michael Angelo while Peter Nicholson, who had trained as a cabinet-maker had progressed into architecture and was also a mathematician. While the majority of the their designs from 1826 are Grecian also included are Egyptian and Gothic style designs. The Practical Cabinet Maker was republished in both 1835 and 1843, the year after Michael Angelo’s death, suggesting that the flavour of these Regency designs had remained popular into the early Victorian period.
295 294 A VICTORIAN ELIZABETHAN REVIVAL OAK PARQUETRY LIBRARY TABLE in the manner of Richard Bridgens The rounded rectangular top inlaid with strapwork, Tudor roses and portculisses, above an ogee moulded frieze and cabochon carved pierced scrolling end supports with scrolling leaves and on scroll feet, on castors, 123cm wide, 70cm deep, 71cm high (48in wide, 27 1/2in deep, 27 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
295 AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL OAK BUTLER’S TRAY ON STAND The rectangular tray with undulating pierced and hinged sides with pierced carrying handles, on an ‘X’ frame hinged stand, 74cm wide, 46cm deep, 87cm high (29in wide, 18in deep, 34in high).
£1,200 - 1,800 €1,600 - 2,400 US$1,800 - 2,700
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BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 245 296 A VICTORIAN SATINWOOD, TULIPWOOD CROSSBANDED, SYCAMORE MARQUETRY AND PARCEL GILT BOWFRONT CREDENZA in the Louis XVI style Inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, the shaped top with projecting corners above a panelled and beaded frieze centred by paterae above a panelled door with central oval medallion of a classical lady and children singing around a piano, with riband tied draped swags with stiff leaf moulded border flanked by a pair of smaller doors each enclosing a shelf and inlaid with lozenge paterae, flanked by mirror backed open shelves and Corinthian capitals, on leaf carved and turned feet, numbered twice on the reverse ‘2826’, 203cm wide, 59cm deep, 105cm high (79 1/2in wide, 23in deep, 41in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
296 (detail)
246 | BONHAMS 297
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 247 297 SIR WILLIAM REID DICK (BRITISH, 1879-1961): AN EXTREMELY RARE LARGE GREEN PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF ‘THE SLINGSHOT’ OR ‘SLING BOY’ TOGETHER WITH A PLASTER MAQUETTE OF THE SAME MODEL cast by the Morris Singer foundry, London The standing figure with a catapult, on a naturalistic base, signed W. Reid Dick 1911 and with foundry stamp MORRIS SINGER FOUNDERS LONDON, raised on an ebonised wood plinth, the maquette of similar scale but raised on an integral shaped, canted plinth, also signed W. Reid Dick 1911 the bronze 63cm high, the plaster maquette 69cm high (2)
£12,000 - 18,000 €16,000 - 24,000 US$18,000 - 27,000
Provenance: Cartwright Hall. The majority of the other casts measure 33cm high, Sir William Reid-Dick R.A. and larger examples at 60cm are exceedingly rare. The present bronze and thence by descent to his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Reid Hart and is 63cm high, and the only known example of this size. Considering thence by decent to her son Oliver Hart. the exceptional provenance, it is likely that Reid Dick had the present bronze cast for his own personal collection. That it corresponds in size To be sold with a copy of a photograph of Mary Hart and Ann Benton, and scale with the accompanying plaster maquette would suggest daughters of Sir Reid Dick, showing the bronze in the background of that it was cast from this 1911 plaster model. However we know that their family home. the present bronze must have been cast after 1927, as the Morris foundry did not merge with the Singer firm until that date. This bronze is, as far as we can ascertain, a unique cast. It was cast by the Morris Singer foundry, widely considered to be the leading The plaster maquette features a moulded, canted plinth below the bronze foundry in Britain for much of the 20th century, casting works naturalistic base, which the artist decided to remove when casting the for prominent artists such as Alfred Drury and Bertram Mackennal and present bronze. This plinth is visible in some of the early small casts later Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. In fact we know from Reid such as the example illustrated in the Fine Art Society catalogue of Sir Dick’s correspondence with one of his patrons (W.H. Bassett-Green) Alfred Gilbert & The New Sculpture. Perhaps Reid Dick considered it that he considered the Morris Singer foundry to be the best in Britain. old fashioned by the time that he decided to cast the present bronze The industrialist W.H. Bassett-Green had commissioned from Reid and favoured the more naturalistic integral base. According to family Dick a large public monument depicting Lady Godiva. Bassett-Green history, Reid Dick specifically selected the green surface patination wanted the bronze cast in a foundry at Cheltenham (probably the and oversaw the casting and finishing process. Mancini foundry which was based there), who had quoted a cheaper price and a more timely delivery date. Reid Dick felt so strongly that it Related literature: should only be cast at the Morris Singer foundry that the two fell out, D. Wardleworth, William Reid Dick, Sculptor, Ashgate, p.160. however Reid Dick won the argument and Godiva was cast at the H. Granville Fell, Sir William Reid Dick, KCVO, RA, London, 1945, pl. Morris Singer foundry in 1944 and unveiled in Coventry city centre in 2. 1949. He must have been pleased with the result as he also used the J. Cooper, Nineteenth Century Romantic Bronzes: French, English and foundry to cast his statues of Franklin D Roosevelt (Grosvenor Square, American Bronzes 1830-1915, Devon, 1975, pp. 97-8. 1948) and David Livingstone (Victoria Fallls, 1948).
Reid Dick first exhibited his bronze of the Sling Boy at the Royal Academy in 1911. His first version was cast by the Italian founder Giovanni Galizia at the Parlanti foundry and later reductions were cast by Galizia in his own foundry. The bronze exhibited at the Royal Academy was 60cm high and is now in the Bradford City Art Gallery,
248 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 249 298 HERBERT WARD (ENGLISH, 1863-1919): A BRONZE MODEL OF A CROUCHING AFRICAN GIRL the nude girl on a naturalistic base, dark brown patination, signed Herbert Ward, 44cm high
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Ward travelled extensively in his youth, visiting New Zealand, Australia and later Africa. In 1884 he accepted a post as an officer in the new Congo free state where he spent two years working on the upper and lower Congo River. He later joined the Sanford Exploring Company, but left the Congo, never to return in 1889.
Those years in the Congo had a profound effect on his artistic output, as well the drawings and watercolours that he produced whilst in the Congo, once back in London he produced numerous sculptures depicting various peoples of Africa. Whilst in London, he exhibited six times at the Royal Academy, before moving to Paris where he received a mention honourable in 1901 at the Salon des Artistes Français and in 1908 he won the salon’s gold medal for ‘Le Chef de Tribu’ (now in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren.
Examples of his work rarely come to auction as unlike many sculptors of his day, he did not cast major series or reductions of his works through large foundries. However a group of twenty two bronzes by Ward were sold at Ader-Picard-Tajan, Paris on November 6, 1987, and most realised very strong prices. The most expensive bronze depicted ‘Guardian of a Luba Village’ which realised Fr375,000 (£37,500). His work also features in many important museums throughout the world, such as Musee D’Orsay, Paris, The Library of Congress, Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, The Johannesburg Art Gallery and Le Musée du Luxembourg, Paris.
Related Literature: P. Kjellberg, Bronzes of the 19th Century, Schiffer, 1994, p648.
298 (detail of signature)
250 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 251 Lot 299 shown on its original pedestal on a postcard from the Edwards family archive
299 SIR GEORGE JAMES FRAMPTON, ENGLISH (1860-1928) A RARE AND EARLY BRONZE FIGURE OF PETER PAN WITH DIRECT PROVENANCE TO THE SCULPTOR the model originally conceived 1911, this cast dated 1913 Acquired by the vendors grandfather William Edwards, wholesale The boy standing on a naturalistically modelled base, his arms and manufacturing chemist, directly from the Sir George Frampton in outstretched, playing a pipe, the base monogrammed GF and with 1913 and sold with two accompanying letters, both from the sculptor. an encircled title PP, dated 1913, rich dark brown patination mounted The first letter dated March 25th 1911, promising that Frampton will on a contemporary green marble moulded rectangular plinth, together definitely be in touch if he does decide to make a more ‘homely’ with two letters of provenance from the sculptor to the vendors version of the original larger model, the other letter undated (but grandfather, one dated 1911, the other circa 1913, a contemporary presumably dating to 1913 after the present bronze was cast) relating turned oak plinth selected by the sculptor to compliment the piece to Frampton’s suggestions on how the bronze should be displayed at and its surroundings, and a later photographic postcode depicting the the Edward’s family home, North Court situated in Redington Gardens, present bronze, dated 1936, the bronze 48cm high (18 1/2” high), the Hampstead NW3 (since demolished). bronze including the base 60.5cm high (23 1/2” high), the oak pedestal 99cm high (38 1/2” high) ). (2) Thence by family decent.
This bronze is possibly one of the first of the limited edition of £25,000 - 35,000 reductions made of Peter Pan cast between 1913-1925 and bears the €34,000 - 47,000 date of the first year of production. Derived from the life size plaster US$38,000 - 53,000 of Peter Pan exhibited by Frampton at the The Royal Academy in May 1911, it was then cast in bronze and erected by on behalf of Provenance: the ‘anonymous donor’ J. M. Barrie in Kensington Gardens in May of William Edwards, London and thence by family descent the following year. The first accompanying letter, dated March 25th 1911, interestingly pre-dates the opening of the 1911 Royal Academy Exhibition by five weeks suggesting that William Edwards was already aware of the existence of the plaster model of Peter Pan. The tone of this letter implies that Edwards and Frampton enjoyed a friendly relationship and that Edwards had possibly already seen the sculptor working on the figure prior to its public exhibition and it is tempting to believe that he may have even visited Frampton’s studio to view the work in situ as their homes were relatively near. The second letter provides further evidence of this possible friendship in that Frampton subsequently offers to come to the Edwards home after he had taken possession of the bronze to advise on a suitable pedestal to display the figure.
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George Frampton’s correspondence to William Edwards regarding his Peter Pan
90 Carlton Hill 90 Carlton Hill St Johns Wood St John’s Wood
My dear Mr Edwards Mr Dear Mr Edwards, If Peter is reduced to a ‘homely’ size I shall My sincere thanks for your charming and most wel- certainly give you an opportunity of having him come letter, which has given me real pleasure. I am and I appreciate very much your very wondering whether you are in on Sunday morning as great kindness in wishing to take him with you. I should like to come and see ‘Peter’ and at the same With kindest regards to Mrs Edwards and time get some idea what shaped pedestal would suit yourself and family. him and his surroundings. I will take my chance of I am yours very sincerely finding you in. With our united kindest regards to Mrs Geo. Frampton Edwards, yourself and family. Yours v. sincerely March 25th 1911 Geo. Frampton
Ps. Best thanks for enclosure Geo
254 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 255 300Y A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN LOUIS XV STYLE KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED GILT BRONZE MOUNTED BUREAUX DE DAMES BY GILLOWS date stamp for the period 1894-96 The rectangular tops above sloping falls enclosing fitted interiors, with leather inset writing surfaces, open recesses, four short drawers around a central sliding pen tray and apertures for inkwells, one with two glass inkwell remaining, above short central faux drawers flanked by two short drawers above a long drawer and shaped aprons, on slender cabriole legs terminating in sabots, one drawer stamped GILLOWS, one drawer stamped L30987, minor differences in the sliding compartments to the interior, 65cm wide, 39cm deep, 91cm high (25 1/2in wide, 15in deep, 35 1/2in high).
£5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 US$7,600 - 11,000
256 | BONHAMS 301 A NEAR PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN EBONISED AND BRASS MARQUETRY ‘BUHL’ OCTAGONAL VITRINES in the manner of A.C.Boulle, in the Louis XIV style Applied with gilt bronze mounts in premiere and contre-partie, the octagonal tops above cavetto moulded friezes inlaid with scrolling leaves with leaf cast clasps and beaded and stiff leaf cast borders above glazed sides, each with four glazed doors enclosing glass shelves, on plinth bases, each 68cm diameter, 119cm high (26 1/2in diameter, 46 1/2in high). (2)
£15,000 - 20,000 €20,000 - 27,000 US$23,000 - 30,000
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302 A LARGE VICTORIAN THREE SEATER CHESTERFIELD SOFA BY HOWARD & SONS Upholstered in red ‘damask’, the curved buttoned padded back, scroll arms and rectangular seat on ring turned ebonised legs with brass cappings and castors, one back leg numbered ‘296 6637’, back castors stamped Howard & Sons, 226cm wide, 95cm deep, 71cm high (88 1/2in wide, 37in deep, 27 1/2in high).
£5,000 - 10,000 €6,800 - 14,000 US$7,600 - 15,000
Provenance: Earl of Chichester, Little Durford Manor, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
John Howard originally established his company at 24 Lemon Street in 1820. By 1854 he was established in the heart of the West End at 22 and 36 Berners Street. The firm grew to become one of the most fashionable and successful of the 19th century, participating in many of the International Exhibitions for the remainder of the century. Howard and Sons were commissioned to provide furniture for numerous notable clients and such beautiful houses as Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire, Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire and Stokesay Court, Shropshire. Still fashionable at the close of the century, in 1893 the enterprise even provided the fittings for Mr Vanderbilt’s yacht.
304 A VICTORIAN WALNUT ‘EGERTON’ EASY ARMCHAIR BY HOWARD & SONS Upholstered in cream Howard & Sons ticking, the rectangular padded back above scroll arms and rectangular padded seat on ring turned tapering legs with brass castors, stamped on the leg ‘12396 79, HOWARD & SONS LTD, BERNERS ST’.
304 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
258 | BONHAMS 303 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN WALNUT ‘BRIDGEWATER’ EASY ARMCHAIRS BY HOWARD & SONS Upholstered in cream Howard & Sons ticking, the rectangular buttoned back and padded arms above rectangular seats with loose squabs, on ring turned tapering legs with brass cappings and castors, stamped 16213 6920 and 10412 3903 HOWARD & SONS LTD, BERNERS ST, the castors stamped ‘Howard & Sons’. (2)
£6,000 - 10,000 €8,100 - 14,000 US$9,100 - 15,000
A pair of Howard & Sons ‘Bridgwater’ armchairs were sold Christie’s London, 30 April 2014, lot 219 (£17,500 including premium)
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 259 305 A SMALL LATE 18TH CENTURY VIZAGAPATAM BOX circa 1780-90 The rectangular hinged lid decorated with a scence of a turreted building within borders of running foliage, the front, sides and back similarly decorated, on a moulded plinth, 19cm wide, 15cm deep, 7.5cm high (7in wide, 5 1/2in deep, 2 1/2in high)
£1,000 - 1,500 €1,400 - 2,000 US$1,500 - 2,300
306Y Ф A MID 19TH CENTURY ANGLO INDIAN PORCUPINE QUILL, SANDALWOOD, ENGRAVED IVORY AND PORCUPINE QUILL WORKBOX possibly by Shedashboodoo, Vizagapatam circa 1855 Of sarcophagus form, the borders engraved with running floral motifs, the hinged lid with a silk and metal thread embroidery to the reverse and enclosing a fitted interior of lidded compartments on turned feet, 122cm wide, 15cm deep, 15cm high (48in wide, 5 1/2in deep, 5 1/2in high).
£2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 US$3,000 - 4,600
A closely related workbox by Shedashboodoo was purchased by the East India Company in the Madras Presidency in 1855 and was exhibited at the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1855 and was acquired by the India Museum, now in the collection of the V&A Museum, London (01096 IS). The related box is also illustrated in A.Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London 2001, p.212, pl.58. A further related box was sold Christie’s, New York, 27 October 2006, lot 64.
260 | BONHAMS 307Y Ф AN 18TH CENTURY ANGLO-INDIAN PADOUK, EBONY AND IVORY MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY TEA CADDY Decorated with all over parquetry stellar design within Greek key borders, the moulded edge top with an articulated brass handle enclosing a divided interior with three lidded compartments and three divisions behind, the fronts with an ivory engraved escutcheon and with moulded corners on small bracket feet, 28.5cm wide, 14cm deep, 15cm high (11in wide, 5 1/2in deep, 5 1/2in high)
£1,500 - 2,500 €2,000 - 3,400 US$2,300 - 3,800
308Y Ф AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY ANGLO-INDIAN TORTOISESHELL, IVORY AND SILVER MOUNTED SARCOPHAGUS SHAPED WORK BOX The slightly domed fluted lid inset with a silver crest opening to reveal a fitted blue paper lined interior, with a mirror and various lidded compartments fitted with sewing accessories, with a drawer below, the sides applied with spirally turned ring handles, on carved lion’s paw feet, 25cm wide, 18cm deep, 14cm high (9 1/2in wide, 7in deep, 5 1/2in high)
£3,000 - 4,000 €4,100 - 5,400 US$4,600 - 6,100
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 261 309Y Ф This games table belongs to a group of furniture and related smaller A MID 19TH CENTURY VIZAGAPATAM IVORY AND objects produced in the Indian town of Vizagapatam situated on the SANDALWOOD CARVED GAMES TABLE south east coast of India in proximity to the city of Madras to the The circular tilting drum top with central removable chequerboard South. It operated as a principle trading port from the 17th century due enclosing an ivory and tortoiseshell inlaid backgammon board, the to its position on the major trading routes between Europe and the Far profusely leaf and flowerhead carved shaft on a leaf carved and lobed East. Vizagapatam was ideally located as a manufacturing centre with quadripartite base, with acanthus carved and scrolled lion paw feet, its harbour facilitating the transport of indigenous exotic timbers and 61cm in diameter, 75cm high (24in in diameter, 29 1/2in high). materials including teak rosewood, ebony and ivory. Its proximity to Madras and Calcutta was also advantageous as goods were retailed there. In addition to the production of furniture, Vizagapatam had also £15,000 - 20,000 been and established centre for the manufacture of dyed cottons €20,000 - 27,000 which had attracted European traders since the 17th century such US$23,000 - 30,000 as the Dutch who established a trading post at Bimlipatam to the north in 1628, and the English, whose textile factory was founded at Vizagapatam in 1668. In 1768 the whole of the Circars region came under the control of the East India Company, with a subsequent increase in population due to the expanding lucrative coastal trade.
In common with the present lot, the design of the furniture produced by the Indian cabinet makers was clearly based on European prototypes or pattern books. Whilst the first items of furniture and smaller wares produced in Vizagaptam from the late 17th century relied on ivory inlay and bandings inlaid into a primary timber such as rosewood, the vogue for ivory as the principle medium had become universal by the end of the 18th century. This necessarily restricted the repertoire of manufacture to smaller items of furniture such as chairs and table cabinets. The fashion for similar wares in Europe was spread through the examples which were brought back to the West by dignitaries and officials of the East India Company such as Edward Harrison, Governor of Fort St.George (Madras) (1711-17), Clive of India and Warren Hastings.
A closely related Vizagapatam ivory games table top was sold Christies, London 20 September 2001, lot 341, the underside labelled ‘438 a Rajah of Vizagapatam’, previously retailed by Mallett, London.
262 | BONHAMS BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 263 310 A MID 19TH CENTURY ANGLO-INDIAN EBONY AND EBONISED SOFA in the late Regency taste The shaped top rail with foliate decoration above a padded back, the overscrolled ends with moulded supports and palmette roundels and scroll decoration, the inserts padded with a caned panel behind, the moulded seat rail with further palmette and anthemion decoration, on bulbous reeded legs headed by squared off gadrooned capitals, on large brass cappings and castors, 211cm wide, 67cm deep, 93cm high (83in wide, 26in deep, 36 1/2in high).
£4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,100 US$6,100 - 9,100
264 | BONHAMS 311Y Ф A MID 19TH CENTURY CEYLONESE EBONY, IVORY AND SPECIMEN WOOD CENTRE TABLE Galle district Nineteenth century commentators on the island also noted these With ivory, ebony and white metal chequerbanding, the circular tilt top tables. Henry Charles Sir (Ceylon and the Ceylonese (London, 1850), with sections of whorling radiating veneers and a central ivory inlaid vol.II, pp.226-7) wrote in 1850 that at Galle: roundel, with a leaf moulded edge, on a lobed and ‘S’ scroll carved shaft and shaped quadripartite and leaf carved platform base and leaf ‘also manufactured those exquisite inlaid articles, which far surpass carved turned feet, 112cm in diameter, 74cm high (44in in diameter, any specimen of Tunbridge ware that has yet been produced- ivory 29in high). and various native coloured woods are inlaid upon ebony and as the designs are well defined, the effect produced is magnificent’.
£5,000 - 7,000 Related tables were also presented at several international exhibitions €6,800 - 9,500 throughout the nineteenth century and formed the centrepiece to the US$7,600 - 11,000 Ceylon Courts or collections of manufactured and natural products of the island. Some exhibition catalogues where these tables were shown The present lot was manufactured in the Galle District of Ceylon (Galle include: being the main town in the south west of the island). A number of provenanced examples are known; these include a related table sold The Catalogue of the natural and Artificial Products of Ceylon (Paris, Sotheby’s, London, 9 July 1993, lot 287, which bore the inscription to 1855), Paris Exposition 1855, p.26; the Catalogue of the Ceylon Court, the central ivory disc: London Exhibition, (London, 1862), p.14; the Catalogue of the Ceylon Court, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, (London, 1862), p.14; and the Presented to Mrs.R.B.Tutler by the Patients of the Kandy Sunday Catalogue of the Ceylon Court, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, (London, Scholars with their grateful and affectionate regards, New Years Day, 1886), p.107. 1836 For further information see R. Jones, Nineteenth Century Carved Ebony The earliest documentary source for tables of this kind, is found in Furniture from Sri Lanka, Regional Furniture, Volume X, 1996, pp. 27- Colonial Office records (PRO CO 54/127). This comprises an inventory 41. taken in 1833 of the contents of the British Governor’s house (King’s house), in Colombo, Ceylon/ The inventory noted: Similar tables offered at auction include examples at Bonhams, London, 19 November 2014, lot 220, Phillips, London, 21 November One Table with different woods of Ceylon, ebony feet 2000, lot 135, Christie’s, London, 12 November 1998, lot 158, Sotheby’s, London 6 October 1989, lot 188, and 10 July 1992, lot 174.
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312 A PAIR OF LATE 19TH CENTURY CHINESE-EXPORT BLACK LACQUER STOOLS Heightened with gilt chinoiseries, the rectangular padded buttoned seats with scrolling seat tails joined by ring turnings, above ‘X’ form legs, joined by a stretchers, each 58cm wide, 36cm deep, 47cm high (22 1/2in wide, 14in deep, 18 1/2 in high ). (2)
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 5 June 2007, lot 183.
313Y Ф AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY CHINESE-EXPORT PADOUK AND SATINWOOD BANDED GAMES/SOFA TABLE Inlaid with ebony lines, the rounded rectangular hinged top with reeded edge and central reversible cleated top enclosing a ebony and ivory chequerboard and backgammon board, above a simulated drawer and a single frieze drawer, on standard end supports and downswept with leaf cast cappings and castors, 112cm wide, 55cm deep, 76cm high (44in wide, 21 1/2in deep, 29 1/2in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Purchased Partridges August 1968 for £1,200.00
313 Similar games/sofa tables were sold in these rooms 27 June 2006, lot 158 and 3 July 2007, lot 267. A related table is illustrated in P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks at Fairfax House, York Civic Trust, plate 116.
266 | BONHAMS 314 A LATE 18TH CENTURY CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE PAINTED MIRROR OF CAPTAIN JOHN CRANSTOUN Standing beside a red draped open window, looking out onto a river landscape, wearing an embroidered waistcoat and blue frock coat, within a rectangular later frame, 34cm high, 28cm wide (13in high, 13in wide)
£2,500 - 3,500 €3,400 - 4,700 US$3,800 - 5,300
Provenance: “John Cranston the author of this and several other letters is the same Family tradition has it this is a painting of Captain John Cranstoun whose picture or likeness rather painted on mirror by the Chinese is (1745-1788), known as Jack. Family archives contain some details of in my possession - he was the favourite and beloved brother of his and letters from him, with a note from 1872 supporting the claim. beautiful and (...) sister Ann or Annie Cranston, who it was said died of a broken heart when she heard of the death of this much loved Jack was the second child and eldest son of the Rev John Cranstoun brother who died at St Helena on his passage home to his native of Ancrum (1706-1790) and Ann, daughter of the Rev J. Gilchrist. He country. Ellen C. Gordon February 1872”. went to sea as an officer in the Honourable East India Company at the age of about 15 in 1760, in July 1784 he became Captain of the It seems likely that the mirror painting was painted whilst Cranstoun Assia. was in China on this voyage, he would have been around 29 years old at the time. The family letters are sent from Jack mostly to his father. On the 26 December 1771 he sent a letter from London saying that he is about to set sail as first or second mate on the Royal Charlotte from Gravesend to China and that he cannot be back before June 1774. Written on the back of this letter is the following note:
BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR | 267 315 A LATE 18TH CENTURY CHINESE EXPORT BLACK LACQUER CABINET ON STAND Heightened with gilt chinoiseries, the rectangular top above a pair of 315 (open) panelled doors enclosing an elaborate stepped interior with pierced balustrades, turned uprights and sliding screens, eighteen short drawers and a stepped long drawer; above two drawers, the stand with pierced Greek key carved apron, on shaped square legs and block feet, 103cm wide, 55cm deep, 171cm high (40 1/2in wide, 21 1/2in deep, 67in high).
£3,000 - 5,000 €4,100 - 6,800 US$4,600 - 7,600
Provenance: Wentworth Woodhouse (completion of the house and out buildings The Milnes Gaskell family of Thornes House, Wakefield and thence by c.1760-1804) and Denton Hall (1769-1781). His largest scale work descent. was The Hospital de Santo Antonio in Oporto, Portugal (c.1769-1843).
Formerly on loan to Claydon House, Buckinghamshire. Thornes House was commissioned for James Milnes (1755-1805),the Yorkshire cloth exporter. Milnes added to his already substantial Thornes House, Wakefield, Yorkshire was designed by John Carr fortune, acquiring a £100,000 dowry on marrying one of the co- (1723-1807) the predominant architect of the period in the north heiresses of Hans Buck, the Leeds cloth merchant, in 1778. The of England who worked chiefly in the Palladian style. Carr had house was probably the finest 18th century building in Wakefield and calculated that the North could provide him with substantial patronage its contemporary reputation secured it’s inclusion in the 1802 edition and therefore he did not need a London base. Carr’s domestic of Vitruvius Brittanica, the regular survey of the world’s most important commissions included Newby Hall (remodelling c.1758-60), Harewood buildings by George Richardson. House (1775-1781 except the decoration of the principal rooms),
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