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Sotheby’s outpaces Gilbert’s Christie’s across St George ‘transformative’ year by Laura Chesters

brings Sotheby’s edged ahead of Christie’s in terms of annual turnover in 2020, with private and online sales helping both firmsoffset declines in totals £1m from live auctions. Sotheby’s reported turnover for the year at $5bn (£3.6bn), a 4% rise on 2019 – when total sales were $4.8bn (£3.5bn). In contrast, Christie’s reported a fall Art historian Richard of 25% in its total sales on the previous year, to £3.4bn Dorment, curator of ($4.4bn) in 2020. Charles F Stewart, Sotheby’s CEO, said: “In a matter the exhibition Alfred Gilbert: of months, our worldwide team united to implement a Sculptor and Goldsmith at sweeping set of transformative changes to our business, the Royal Academy of Arts in many of which will continue long after the pandemic is 1986, described this parcel behind us. Following these innovations, we ended the gilt bronze as “that rare Continued on page 4 thing, a fully documented Gilbert cast from the 1890s”. The probably unique double- ‘Earliest dated Irish size model of St George sold for a record £1m at Bonhams glass’ sells at auction on December 16. What is perhaps the earliest dated piece of Irish glass sold See page 8. at auction in Lewes, writes Roland Arkell. The documentary wheel-engraved goblet, dated 1697, is attributed to the enigmatic Odaccio glasshouse that operated in Dublin from c.1675. There was plenty of interest both on the phones and the internet at Gorringe’s on December 8 before it sold to a European bidder at £9500 (plus 23% buyer’s premium) against a £1000-1500 estimate. More complex story Pick Most earlier histories of glass give the credit for the of the development of lead crystal to George Ravenscroft at the Savoy glasshouse in 1674. week Today’s scholarship points to a more complex story Continued on page 5

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A William and Mary marquetry chest of drawers A Regency rosewood, ebony and brass inlaid mirror A large bronze figure of Milo of Croton Provenance: The estate of the late Jane Sumner by George Bullock after Jacques­Edme Dumont (1722­1775) One of over 100 lots in the sale Estimate £10,000­15,000* Estimate £2,000­3,000* Estimate £4,000­6,000*

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Christie’s boss: ‘The future will be omnichannel’

Continued from front page Right: Bidding at Sotheby’s year as market leaders.” It is Old Master sale the first time since 2011 (when in London in the totals were $5.8bn and December 2020 $5.7bn) that Sotheby’s has took place on finished ahead of Christie’s. the phone, in Sotheby’s said it experienced the room and a record year for private sales, online. totalling more than $1.5bn (£1.1bn), a 50% increase on 2019. Left: Sotheby’s said online biding and buying would continue to Christie’s reported close to grow. Among the highest-value bids placed through Sotheby’s app £1bn of private sales in 2020 was an underbid of almost £4m for this Rembrandt self-portrait from (up 57% on the previous year), 1632 that eventually sold for £12.6m at Sotheby’s live-streamed with three individual sales cross-category evening sale in London on July 28, 2020. With buyer’s above $100m. premium added, the price was £14.6m. Private sale certainty Guillaume Cerutti, chief executive officer at Christie’s, three times the volume and At Christie’s, online-only live auctions “are the essence” in 2020, both auction houses said: “We have seen a rare over seven times the value for sales jumped 262% in 2020 to of what Christie’s does and predict the mood will change in phenomenon of high-end 2019”. Average lot value in £243m, with more than 200 they will return. “The future 2021. private sales. The uncertainty Sotheby’s timed online sales timed sales during the year. will be omnichannel,” he said. Cerutti added: “The and the environment has led had more than doubled from Cerutti believes the shift to Both auction houses appetite for objects and works clients to choose private sale under $10,000 to over $20,000 online auctions is permanent; highlighted Asia as a of art is very strong across the over auctions in some and 70% of its auctions were the coronavirus pandemic continuing source of growth, world. On the supply side we instances.” held online in 2020 (up from accelerated the pace of a with Sotheby’s Asian clients believe it will be a much better Sotheby’s reported it had 30% in 2019). Sotheby’s said change already well under way. accounting for over 30% of its year. Delayed decisions to sell held more than 400 timed improvements in its web and He predicts half of Christie’s worldwide auction sales. For are expected and some online auctions, which it said mobile applications meant auctions will be timed online Christie’s, 34% of global spend important estates are coming produced sales that were an 80% of bids received across all next year with fewer live auc- in auction sales came from up in the US. We have a strong “all-time industry high of more types of auctions were placed tions than before. buyers in Asia. pipeline for next year and we than $570m (£420m), over online. However, he stressed that Despite consignor reticence are reasonably confident.”

More independent condition reports requested across 2020 Demand for independent restoration services Plowden & & Smith, said: “Although we reassurance to buyers and in-person access to objects”. condition reports soared Smith recorded a 30% rise in have definitely seen a spike bidders.” The typical turnaround for a during lockdown, according to requests for condition reports during lockdown restrictions, report is the same or next day one restoration firm, writes between March-December we expect demand to remain Operating in lockdown and the pricing depends on the Laura Chesters. 2020 compared to the previous steady for various reasons. Plowden & Smith’s team will time and travel costs, number The growth in remote year. “For one thing, this was travel to auction houses and of items and size, and bidding, online-only auctions The firm has launched a new already a popular service view items on behalf of clients. complexity of the artwork. and more buyers staying at branded product called Smart before Covid-19 and in an Even during lockdowns, when The firm has specialists home has boosted demand for Report with prices starting at increasingly cautious art salerooms have been closed to overseas and has a thriving third-party assessment of £250. market, an independent the public, its team has been market in the Middle East with auction lots. Camilla Hughes-Hunt, condition report from a able to operate and said it a conservation specialist based Specialist art and antiques managing director at Plowden specialist conservator offers “had no issue gaining permanently in the UAE.

Art and antiques businesses to focus on online sales this new year As the UK auction calendar ramps back of livestock or agricultural equipment) Items must be collected from the front of mainland Scotland will be in level 4. up, expect sales to be held as they were in and market stalls selling non-essential door and the public are not permitted to Non-essential retail will have to close. November – with no viewings or viewings goods” will close to the public but “can go inside”. For other regions of England In Wales a lockdown with non-essential by appointment. Non-essential shops, continue to be able to operate click-and- there are different regulations, such as shops closed began on December 28. fairs and markets are closed in tier 4 for collect (where goods are pre-ordered shops and auction houses can remain Meanwhile, Ireland returned to its England and also in much of Scotland, and collected off the premises) and open for the public in tiers 1-3. highest level lockdown – level 5 – on Wales and Northern Ireland. delivery services”. Devolved nations have different December 24 but non-essential shops The government announced The Department for Digital, Culture, rules. In Northern Ireland from will be allowed to remain open. The (December 19) last month that Media and Sport confirmed to ATG December 26 all non-essential retail measures will remain in place until at businesses in various areas of England that shops and auction houses can businesses closed. In Scotland new least January 12. in tier 4 including “non-essential retail “continue to operate under tier 4 restrictions took effect from December Check the relevant government and auction houses (except for auctions regulations via click and collect only. 26 that last for three weeks. Every part websites for further updates.

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Christie’s boss: ‘The future will be omnichannel’ Chard’s courage rewarded in Rorke’s Drift archive

Left: a portrait of by Tom Derbyshire Chard by Alphonse de Neuville – A handwritten account of the £28,000 at Bonhams. battle of Rorke’s Drift by Lt John Chard of the Royal Right: sketch from Engineers, who led the a draft manuscript renowned stand against the account of Rorke’s Zulu attack, sold for a hammer Drift by Lt John price of £140,000 on Chard – £140,000. December 17. Estimated at £10,000- 15,000, it was one of 15 lots in Bonhams’ Fine Books and Left: presentation sword of of honour given to him by the and the pontoon beneath Signal Manuscripts sale that had honour given to Chard by people of Plymouth in Hill and the plain. come by descent to the vendor. the people of Plymouth in November 1879, a matter of A previously unknown Chard was among the 11 men November 1879 – £65,000. months after his heroic portrait of Chard in the awarded the Victoria Cross for exploits, which made £65,000 uniform of the Royal bravery during the defence and, January 22, 1879, the fighting band of men struck a chord (estimate £15,000-25,000). Engineers, by Alphonse de at the personal request of continuing through the night. with the public at the time Born in Boxhill in 1847, which Neuville, took £28,000 against Queen Victoria, wrote an By the following morning, 370 which has echoed down the was then on the outskirts of a guide of £1000-2000. De account of the battle. Zulu warriors had been killed years, most famously in the Plymouth, he had studied at Neuville’s famous 1880 view of The document for sale was a and the British forces had lost feature film Zulu. Plymouth New Grammar the action, The Defence of Rorke’s handwritten draft. The 40-page 15 men. “Chard’s account of his School. Drift, is in The Art Gallery of manuscript account is mostly Bonhams head of books and exploits is a vivid reminder of Sold for £69,000 (estimate New South Wales , Sydney. written in brown ink with manuscripts Matthew Haley valour against all odds and I £3000-5000) was Chard’s The manuscript account, annotations, additions and said: “The defence of Rorke’s am not surprised there was so personal photograph album, sword, photograph album corrections (in the text and Drift was an important boost much interest from collectors commemorating his service and Chard portrait were all margins) in blue and brown ink. to morale after the heavy defeat nor that it sold for such an during the Zulu War. Among bought by the same private Much of the battle for the of British troops by the Zulus at impressive amount.” the 44 albumen prints are five collector on the phone, but outpost took place on the Isandlwana. The exceptional Other lots relating to Chard relating to Rorke’s Drift the 15 lots attracted multiple afternoon and evening of courage of Chard and his small included a presentation sword including views of the storehouse buyers otherwise.

Odaccio goblet dated 1697 sheds light on first lead crystal Continued from front page Odaccio Glassworks, while further research unearthed the that recognises in particular the Right: a box possibility that the numerous contribution of Italian was fitted initials on the piece (each glassmakers working in London and lined ending in M) could reference at the time. Many pieces of with velvet the Martin family of engravers ‘Ravenscroft’ glass are now to house the in Dublin. being re-catalogued as broken goblet Dan Bray at Gorringe’s made ‘A nglo-Venetian’. in the late a further connection with a The names of John Baptista 19th century. related wine glass engraved God Da Costa and John Odaccio Save the Queen from c.1690 sold Formica, two artisans from by Bonhams as part of the Altare who had worked together Hubbard collection in 2011 for in Nijmegen in the Netherlands £20,000. Similar in both form from c.1665-72 before crossing Left: the inverted baluster It proved the highlight of 50 and decoration, it had a the North Sea, are thought to be wine glass dated 1697 lots consigned by Andrew provenance to the Hall estate in important. It may be that Italian attributed to the Odaccio Rudebeck, a local collector of Barnstaple, the seat of the know-how provided the glasshouse in Dublin sold for close to 50 years, best known as Chichester family who had chemistry and artistry with £9500 at Gorringe’s. a buyer of medieval stained strong Irish connections. Ravenscroft acting as financial glass (28 roundels formed part The foot of this newer backer and effective publicist. operated in Dublin into the Bishop of Dublin 1715. of an autumn exhibition at discovery is broken and sections 1690s. Fragments of glass The 7in (17.5cm) high glass London dealer Sam Fogg). are lacking. Move to Dublin vessels from this period have that surfaced at Gorringe’s is Rudebeck had bought this However, it has remained The Italian connection soon been found during excavations inscribed to the funnel bowl I piece only a decade or so ago in largely intact courtesy of a late spread to Dublin. in, or near, Dublin, including Pray To God Bless Them All and a regional auction where it was 19th century owner who had a Odaccio was one of three those at Rathfarnham Castle. dated 1697. catalogued simply as ‘a French box fitted and lined with velvet people named in a glassmaking Hitherto, the earliest dated Similar to sherds found in rosewood box containing a to house the family heirloom. patent issued for Ireland in 1675 piece of Irish glass was a goblet both Ireland and in south-west broken glass goblet’. Subsequently a museum- (the wording almost identical to worked with wheel-cut laurel England, it has a merese, an Communication with glass style perspex base has been Ravenscroft’s of the previous branches and the roughly angular inverted baluster stem historian Colin Brain led to the made so that the goblet can be year) and he is thought to have engraved inscription Lord Arch and a conical foot. suggestion it may be from the displayed standing up.

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Ernest William Gimson (1864-1919) Rare set of three oak cupboards, made separately. Daneway House c1909 Original drawing ref 1941.222.533 Cheltenham Museum & Art Gallery

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Tony O’MALLEY (Irish 1913-2003), oil Jack PENDER (British 1918-1998), acrylic SOLD FOR £4,000 SOLD FOR £1,300

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Pick of the week Left: Sir Alfred Gilbert Gilbert’s St George figure sells at a £1m high bronze figure of St George – £1m at Bonhams. Closing the year in some style, a patinated and parcel Werrington Park, Launceston, in 1895 (the year the gilt bronze ‘double size’ figure of St George set a new original was installed at Windsor Castle). auction record for Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) at Liberal Unionist MP for Truro in the early 1890s Bonhams. and a noted botanist, Williams hoped to own The apparently unique cast from 1895 made four double-size replica figures, but the other 10-times its estimate at the Fine Design 1200-1900 three representing the patron saints of sale in London on December 16, selling at £1m Ireland, Scotland and Wales were never (£1.22m including buyer’s premium). realised. The bronze, discovered by Bonhams specialists “Being involved in identifying this during a country house valuation, is a close variant wonderful statue and bringing it to of Gilbert’s design for the statue of St George market has been truly exciting. I am commissioned for the tomb of the Duke of Clarence in delighted that it sold for such an St George’s Chapel. astonishing sum,” said Lake. Gilbert, the premier English sculptor of the day, The previous high for Gilbert was controversially capitalised on the appeal of the model one of the 10 Morris Singer Foundry by accepting commissions to make copies for private casts of Anteros from 1987 – the figure atop the clients. A very small number of these in a variety of Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus. Those media have survived, each measuring 20in (50cm). were commissioned by The Fine Art Society Bonhams’ bronze, however, is 3ft (90cm) high. following the rediscovery of the original plaster Research by head of European sculpture and moulds in 1984. Number 5 in the series sold works of art Michael Lake identified the work for £210,000 at Sotheby’s in 2019. as a commission from John Charles Williams of Roland Arkell

Art in lieu of tax German-British painter Frank Tableware archive Henri de Triqueti, has been hits new top level Auerbach (b. 1931) and a group served at auction announced by the Department of 32 monoprints by Russian for Digital, Culture, Media and A record amount of paintings, artist Naum Gabo (1890-1977). Thomas Goode & Company, Sport. antiques and historical objects Other items acquired include Mayfair retailer of tableware to It was purchased at Bam- Precious were saved for the nation in lieu works from the collection of Sir royalty and celebrities since the fords in Derby in January 2019 metals of tax in 2020, with £65m of Geoffrey Keynes and offered 1840s, plans an auction of its for a hammer price of £22,000 objects accepted. In total the from the estates of Mary archive. by the current owner (as On Wednesday, December items settled £40m of tax. Keynes and Stephen Keynes. The company kept one copy reported in ATG No 2382). The government said 2020 These items were copies of of each article supplied for its The owner applied for an 23, Michael Bloomstein of was a record-breaking year for The Acorn magazine and six own archives, and now Sothe- export licence to take the art- Brighton was paying the the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) works by William Blake (1757- by’s will offer these items with work overseas and it is now following for bulk scrap and Culture Gifts Scheme 1827). The Acorn is a childhood the proceeds to fund the refur- valued at £150,000. against a gold fix of: (CGS) schemes. AIL allows for magazine, running to 15 issues, bishment of the Thomas Goode Culture minister Caroline $1867.10 €1529.07 £1390.06 the ownership of works of art produced by members of the Arts & Crafts building in South Dinenage placed the tempo- to be transferred to the nation Keynes family, most famously Audley Street. rary export bar on the artwork Gold in lieu of inheritance tax. Both the economist John Maynard The firm, which is part because the artist, Henri de 22 carat: £1229.62 per oz schemes are administered by Keynes (1883-1946). owned by Elton John, said this Triqueti, has “national signifi- (£39.54 per gram) the Arts Council England. The magazines and auto- is the first time it has had a cance” and his “royal Among the items to be graph collection have been clear-out since it opened. connections and influence on 18 carat: £1006.06 (£32.35) acquired by museums and gal- allocated to Cambridge Uni- The auction runs online sculptors in Britain mean it 15 carat: £838.38 (£26.96) leries are 15 works by versity Library and the Blake until January 8. would be a great shame to lose works to the Fitzwilliam this exquisite sculpture 14 carat: £782.49 (£25.16) Museum. abroad”. Photo courtesy of Currey & Co. Currey of courtesy Photo 9 carat: £503.03 per oz Cleopatra sculpture The decision on the export export blocked licence application for the (£16.17 per gram) Christie’s closes sculpture will be deferred until 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 access to library An export block on an ivory March 17 and may be extended 12 Month Low: ▼ £13.41 sculpture, Death of Cleopatra by until June. Christie’s has ended external Hallmark Platinum access to its library and £20.65 per gram archive. In a statement it said: Above: ‘First State’ by William “As a courtesy Christie’s has Silver Blake. One of six works by previously supplied compli- Right: the 15in (38cm) high ivory and Blake from the estates of Mary mentary archival information bronze statuette of Cleopatra dying by £15.40 per oz for 925 Keynes and Stephen Keynes to for the purposes of research. Henry-Joseph-François Baron standard hallmarked be accepted and acquired via However, we are regrettably no de Triqueti (1803-74). 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 the Acceptance in Lieu scheme longer able to fulfil these Signed and dated H De by the Fitzwilliam Museum in requests or to answer enquiries Triqueti, 1859, it is on a red 12 Month Low: ▼ £8.60 Cambridge. from external agencies.” marble and ebony base. 8 | 9 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com

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LS Lowry makes Bonhams, London, December 18 Isle of Man return Monumental Victorian Scottish silver ewer by Marshall & Sons, Edinburgh A street scene by LS Lowry 1883 embossed and chased with a (1887-1996) that had previously Most read classical battle scene, 208oz. set an artist’s record when it Estimate: £6000-8000 sold at auction will be offered Hammer: £13,000 again next year by the same The most viewed stories for firm on the Isle of Man. week December 17-22 on Back in July 1980, the view antiquestradegazette.com of Crowther Street in Stock- port sold for £21,500 at 1 Plea to help find Chrystals Auctions in Douglas presidential pocket Amersham Auction as a local Manx lady managed Above: The street with many watch stolen from Rooms, December 17 to outbid the London trade. steps (Crowther Street) by LS London dealer Chinese bronze censer The work remained on the Lowry, to be offered by Chrystals 2 New salerooms plus and stand, 11in (27cm) island and recently Murray Auctions on the Isle of Man. appointments at diameter with apocryphal Keefe, the son of John Keefe galleries – the latest Xuende mark. who was on the rostrum 40 38cm) oil on canvas in 2021. It news across the art Estimate: n/a years ago, discovered the paint- will announce the date of the and antiques sector Hammer: £8500 ing while clearing the sale and the estimate in the now-deceased lady’s former New Year. 3 Auctions take a hit house in Laxey following the The work itself is signed and from Covid-19 but death of her brother. dated 1961. An earlier view by private and online Dominic Winter, South Cerney, Chrystals, which is acting Lowry of same location from sales rise at Sotheby’s December 17 for the executors of the family, 1930 is owned by Stockport and Christie’s Propeller of a Heinkel He III shot will offer at the 19 x 15in (48 x Heritage Services. down over Skegness 15 March 4 Busts of tragic Roman 1941 by Guy Gibson VC, DFC duo take £106,000 (1918-44). On a bespoke stand. 5 Top-selling Estimate: £10,000-15,000 Museum buys stained Staffordshire figure Hammer: £9000 group stars in our glass window designs weekly pick of five auction highlights HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE Horsham Museum and Art Gallery has bought a presentation watercolour picture for three stained glass windows in a local church, St Peter’s in Cowfold, from London dealer Abbott and Holder. The designs were created at Powell and Sons’ Whitefriars glass works. The museum has purchased the picture for £350 and the funding came from the Friends of Horsham Museum and Cowfold Local History Society. Jeremy Knight, museum and heritage officer at Horsham District Council, said: “It is great that Abbott and Holder invested Adam Partridge, Macclesfield, December 16 the time and effort in seeing the potential in the archive to Wedgwood creamware teapot decorated with John Wesley and a photograph the artworks and ensure the locations were given and further creamware teapot, possibly Leeds, titled Beware of the Fox, then offer them at prices that museums and local societies could In Numbers damages and repair. afford to acquire. Estimate: £40-60 “Without their work and dedication, this wonderful work of Hammer: £1200 art and important historical record could have been lost to the community it was originally created for.” 27,400 Stride & Son, Chichester, Read more about these Whitefriars glass window designs at December 18 Abbott and Holder in Dealers’ Diary (page 20). The number of Roman coins Two Qing mutton fat Laura Chesters and artefacts seized by French carved and pierced celadon authorities in Belgium. They jade plaques, the larger are believed to have been decorated with birds and illegally excavated throughout stylised flowers, 4in Right: three eastern France. Following a (10.5cm) wide. stained joint investigation by the two Estimate: £150-250 glass nations, officials found the Hammer: £3200 Anderson & Garland, window hoard in the possession of a Newcastle, December 17 designs for French man and his mother Fry’s Milk Chocolate ‘Five St Peter’s Abbott and Holder/Horsham Museum. living in Belgium. Boys’ enamel advertising in Cowfold, sign, 18 x 12in (44 x West 30cm). Sussex, Estimate: £200-300 acquired by Hammer: £2800 Horsham Museum Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for December 8-16, 2019 17-22,. 2020.‘Highest ‘Highest price over multiple estimate’ over = Ourtop estimate’selection of = Ouritems selection from the oftop items 10 highest from thehammer top 20 prices highest as a and Art hammermultiple of prices the high as aestimate multiple paid of the by internet high estimate bidders paid on thesaleroom.com by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com Gallery. ‘Top‘Top selling lots’ lots’ = = Our Our selection selection of of items items from from the the top top 10 highest20 highest hammer hammer prices prices paid by paid internet by internetbidders onbidders thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com

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Waistel Cooper in his own world Once dismissed as a mere Hans Coper follower, the studio potter is now in rising demand

by Roland Arkell Far left: flared stoneware bottle vase by The auction record for the Ayr-born Waistel Cooper studio potter Waistel Cooper (1921- – £2000 at 2003) was broken twice in eight days Maak. in November. Left: lugged First up at the Maak (20% buyer’s stoneware premium) online sale of Modern & vessel by Contemporary Ceramics closing on Cooper – November 19 was a 9in (23cm) flared £3500 at Adam stoneware bottle vase with dry brown Partridge. surface over a cream glaze. Dated by the auction house to c.1985, it came for sale from a private collection in Cornwall with a guide of £400-600 but received 35 bids before hammering at £2000. This new benchmark was short- lived. At Adam Partridge (20% buyer’s premium) in Macclesfield on November 27 was an equally sophisticated 14in (36cm) lugged stoneware vessel with textured iron surface and a cream glaze with iron Rothschild’s Primavera in 1955 and Waistel Cooper. He dated the piece without Waistel Cooper and vice flecks to the rim. It was guided at a the seminal British Artist Craftsmen to the late 1960s or early 1970s. versa.” modest £250-350, but took £3500. exhibition that toured the US in It owes much to the minimalist, The dealer believes Cooper’s 1959), it was in the 1960s that he European-centred work of Hans price levels remain at an attractive Distinct eras really found his stride, rejecting Coper rather than the Leach level. “A small Hans Coper cup now Waistel Cooper ceramics tend to utilitarianism in favour of rough tradition. However, Cooper’s makes £10,000 at auction while the be categorised according to four unglazed textures and pure form. reputation as an imitator is, says record of his nearest rival is £3500. distinct eras that reflected his place Typically, it is the Culbone-era Williams, ill-placed. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out of work: Iceland (where he first pieces, informed by the earthy tones “I think people are starting to that there’s either something very started working in clay from 1946- of the ancient Somerset forest and the re-discover the context of Waistel wrong in the market, or Waistel 50), Porlock (1950-57), the nearby volcanic landscapes of Iceland, that Cooper in 20th century art,” he said. Cooper will prove to be a sound Culbone estate (he lived in the are the most desirable wares. “For the past 20-odd years he has investment. “Quite a few of my relative isolation of Keeper’s Lodge The buyer of the £3500 vase was been dismissed unjustly as a Hans clients are in their 30s and 40s and from 1957-82) and latterly Penzance. Lynton, Devon, dealer Tim Williams Coper follower but he had a clear have cottoned on to this. Other While exhibiting regularly in whose inaugural exhibition at his voice and style. collectors are in their 70s and just the 1950s (a solo show at Henry new gallery in August was devoted to “There wouldn’t be Hans Coper love the aesthetic of his pots.” n

Glassmaker turns his hand to silver The name William Beilby (1740-1819) is typically John Busfield of York) appears as mark no 39 on associated with the best of English glass and the copper plate of the Goldsmiths Company of particularly the enamelling workshop operated Newcastle-upon-Tyne. from Amen Corner in Newcastle in the 1760s-70s. Beilby and Bainbridge are registered paying for However, he worked in a number of mediums, assay 1739-54. The engraved decoration, probably including as an engraver and (like his father) a by Beilby includes the crest of the Vere family. silversmith. With a provenance to Mary Cooke Antiques, This 62oz George II Newcastle silver salver it was part of a collection of silver offered at shown right has the maker’s mark for William Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland (22% Beilby and Jonathan Bainbridge, 1738. buyer’s premium) on December 7. Estimated at Above: George II Newcastle silver salver – £4200 This mark (also attributed to William and £2000-3000, it sold at £4200. at Anderson & Garland.

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Broken and reglued but still sold at £200,000

Hansons’ (25% buyer’s premium) Fine Art Auction in Etwall, Derbyshire on December 7 included a once magnificent Qianlong 1 (1735-99) copper-red and underglaze blue lantern vase. Standing 18in (45cm) high, it 2 is decorated with a herd of deer, including a red stag and blue doe, amid a mountainous landscape with pine trees and rock work. The neck of the vase has parallel bands of similar auspicious symbols of cranes, clouds, lingzhi, prunus, fruiting peach branches and ruyi head motifs. Large lantern vases of this type were a creation of the Qianlong period (this vase was probably made in the imperial kilns under the direction of Tang Ying in the 1740s) with the size and shape allowing a broad ‘canvas’ for decoration. A similar vase (with a hairline crack) sold for £625,000 at Duke’s in 3 Dorchester in February 2010. Hansons’ vase was discovered in a private Leicestershire house. It had 1. Qianlong copper-red and underglaze blue lantern vase – been acquired by a local industrialist £200,000 at Hansons. working in the China trade in the 2. A pair of blue and white ‘bird and tree’ bowls – £64,000 at 1870s. It was in poor condition Gardiner Houlgate. having been broken and reglued at the rim in nine pieces. 3. A pair of yangcai ‘New Year Longevity’ stem cups – £15,000 at The damage was apparently the Gorringe’s. result of a hunting party in the 1950s. 4. Large zitan bitong with date for 1630 – £210,000 at Woolley & Estimated at £15,000-25,000, Wallis. competition between 11 phone 4 bidders plus online bidders pushed the hammer price to £200,000. The winning bid came via a private buyer (bitong) made in the much-revered at Gardiner Houlgate (20% buyer’s in China using thesaleroom.com. hardwood zitan inlaid to the rim with premium) on November 26 had silver wire. Chenghua (1447-87) marks but more Condition no barrier Measuring an impressive 12in probably date from the Yongzheng Condition issues such as this are Condition issues are (30cm) across, it was estimated at period (1722-35). seldom a barrier to bidding for the seldom a barrier to £8000-10,000, but sold at £210,000. Painted with a pair of birds and best Qing porcelain. At Gorringe’s “bidding for the best Although dated to the Qing period fruiting trees to the exterior and (23% buyer’s premium) in Lewes on Qing porcelain the fine quality carving of birds to the interior with five Sanskrit December 8, £15,000 was taken for a perched amid prunus and bamboo characters, they are inspired by Ming pair of 4in (11cm) yangcai ‘New Year in a rocky landscape includes an prototypes. Longevity’ stem cups dating from the inscription with a date for the Several similar ‘bird and tree’ Qianlong or Jaiqing periods, c.1800. longevity’. The reverse is inscribed second year of the doomed reign of bowls have sold in recent memory One of the cups had been in half xin nian ming bei (New Year longevity Chongzhen (1627-44 and the last of including a group of three that took and the second cup has a small cup) with the base with an underglaze the Ming emperors) corresponding an unexpected £130,000 at Christie’s V-shaped section of the rim broken blue ‘hall mark’ zhu lin tang (Pearl to 1630. The inscription, signed Dong in London on November 3. and reglued but they sailed above Forest Hall). Qichang, refers to a Chen Meigong The pair came for sale in hopes of £2000-3000. admiring this piece at the Xiang Yi Corsham, Bath, by descent from the The decoration combines a Big brushpot An temple in the city of Jiaxing. estate of Roy Moodie, a financier sgraffito ruby ground plus medallions The Asian art sale at Woolley & with the Hong Kong and Shanghai with prunus, lingzhi and sacred Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) in ‘Bird and tree’ bowls Banking Corporation in the 1950s. bamboo (nandina) which form the Salisbury, also on December 7, was A pair of 3¾in (9cm) Chinese Estimated at £20,000-30,000, rebus: ‘May the fungus bestow topped by a large Chinese brushpot porcelain blue and white bowls offered they sold at £64,000. antiquestradegazette.com 9 January 2021 | 11

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Automobilia: Dominions sign gets into gear

Petrol-themed enamel signs do not get much better than that made to promote British Dominions Empire Motor Insurance in c.1912. The multi-coloured graphics include the front end of an Edwardian sports car as it approaches the brow of a dusty hill climb. Above: British Dominions Empire A decade ago one of these 5ft x 3ft 4in (1.52 x 1.01m) Motor Insurance sign – £6900 at H&H signs might have cost around £2000-3000 in decent Classics. Back-painting at sale forefront condition but today they are more expensive. Below: René Lalique Victoire Spirit of The example pictured here was offered the World mascot – £2300. Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) Autumn Fine Sale in Leyburn at the H&H Classics (15% buyer’s premium) on November 14 was topped by a pair of verre eglomisé pictures automobilia sale that closed online on by Jonas Zeuner (1727-1814). Dated 1786, one picture depicted a December 6. townscape with frozen river and figures skating and sledging, and The auction house described it as ‘the best the second more unusual scene (above) depicted an ice-bound example of this rare sign we have offered, with landscape with fur-clad figures, a dog sled and bears. bright vibrant colours and gloss across the entire Zeuner is regarded as one of the foremost practitioners of back- image’. Showing only light professional restoration painting glass, combining oil paint with engraved gold and silver leaf. to the edges and mounting holes, it sold at £6900. Topographical scenes of Dutch cities were his stock in trade (and he also appears to have lived in England from 1802-06) but winter Spirited sum scenes appear rarely in his work, and this Arctic scene may be a This sale, the largest of its type the Cheshire- one-off. based car specialist has held, with 802 lots and a total of £220,000, also included a Victoire Spirit of the The pair sold comfortably over estimate at £13,000. Wind clear and frosted glass mascot by René Lalique sold at £2300. A design introduced in 1928, this one, in fine condition, has an engraved post-war signature. TOOVEY’S Silver, Plate & Jewellery – Wednesday 13th January Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, Clocks, Barometers, Scientific Instruments & Cameras – Thursday 21st January Antique & Period Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Works of Art, Light Fittings, Needleworks & Rugs – Thursday 28th January Catalogues online a week before each sale at www.tooveys.com and www.the-saleroom.com/tooveys Viewing and attendance at the sales by appointment only – to arrange please call +44 (0) 1903 891955 21st January, Lot 1050 ~ A Breguet Type 20 Online bidding at www.the-saleroom.com/tooveys stainless steel-cased gentleman’s chronograph wristwatch, case diameter 4cm

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Two’s company, three’s allowed Collection offered in Canterbury recalls the bizarre family life of Stanley Spencer

by Alex Capon

“The most bizarre domestic soap opera in the history of British art.” This was how the dealer-collector- researcher Michael Dickens described the relationship between the artist Stanley Spencer, his second wife Patricia Preece and the latter’s long-term lover and life partner Dorothy Hepworth. Dickens, who died aged 77 in March, had spent a long period researching the three figures, all of whom trained as artists. He championed Preece’s work in particular which, although not in 1 2 keeping with Spencer’s exalted visions, did have its own individual 1. Bowl and fruit on a table by Dorothy Hepworth – £1400 at Canterbury Auction style and helped her establish a Galleries. notable reputation in her own right. Having staged and promoted 2. View of a West Country cove by Hepworth – £920. exhibitions of Preece’s work and sold 3. Portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet by Hepworth – £520. examples of her signed paintings, 4. Connie in blue and white dress by Hepworth – £420. Dickens caused something of a stir in 1996 when he revealed that he now 5. Fireplace by Hilda Carline – £260. believed that Preece had not actually produced any of these works at all. The ‘real’ artist behind Preece’s paintings was in fact Hepworth, notables in the art world, including aka Patricia Preece (1894-1966)’. something for which he found Augustus John.” All bar two got away for a evidence from their joint diary Given these circumstances, it combined hammer total of £6900. entries. is perhaps to be expected that the They sold to nine different bidders, Perhaps this should not have come ‘shy’ Hepworth has not had much one of whom was a Scottish private as such a surprise – when they were prominence over the years in terms of buyer who secured six lots. students together at the Slade in 4 auction presence. London Hepworth received first-class Although a small number of Cookham mix honours while Preece simply got a dealers and collectors have been The selection was a mix of still-lifes pass. keen on her work for some time now, and figurative studies as well as a While they were previously Dorothy allowed not many examples have emerged couple of landscapes, some of which believed to have collaborated on Patricia to take on the market (although some have had been painted during the time certain pictures and miniatures, “ cropped up previously catalogued as the two women lived together in Dickens asserted that at some point it credit for work by Preece). Cookham (Spencer moved to the was only Hepworth who actually did she did not do Following Dickens’ death, a house next door in 1932). the painting and Preece’s involvement 5 collection of paintings and studio Among the works in Canterbury was limited to aspects such as pottery from his private collection was a three-quarter portrait of a organising the arrangement of objects came up at Canterbury Auction sitter called ‘Connie’ in a blue and for her still-lifes, even though the Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) white dress darning a sock. The 2ft works were exhibited and sold under on November 28-30 which included x 18in (61 x 46cm) oil on canvas was her name. 18 works by Hepworth, although signed P Preece and dated 1948, while “Patricia did very little painting in many were either signed or inscribed the stretcher was inscribed Patricia her life,” he said. “Dorothy allowed by Preece. Preece and Moor Thatch Cookham, her to take credit for work she did not Dickens, who lived in Broadstairs Berks. Estimated at £400-600, it sold do.” in Kent, had been a client of the online at £420 to a private buyer. Pointing out that buyers of saleroom and overall the 62 lots However, it was a painting of ‘Preece’ included luminaries such raised a £27,960 total. A further 67 another young woman in a bonnet as Virginia Woolf, Edward Marsh lots will also be offered on February that made the highest price among the and Kenneth Clark (her pictures 6-7 including sketches by Spencer figurative works in the group, making also drew admiration from the critic himself and Laura Knight. £520 against a £300-500 estimate, Clive Bell), Dickens wrote: “The The 18 Hepworths in the current also selling online to a private buyer. two women not only deceived the consignment were aptly catalogued While these prices do not seem Bloomsbury artists, but also other as ‘Dorothy Hepworth (1894-1978) excessive, they were in fact in line 14 | 9 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com

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Drysdale record equalled at Oz sale

An important work by Modern Australian artist Russell Drysdale (1912-81) equalled his auction record when it sold at Deutscher and Hackett (25% buyer’s premium) in Melbourne on November 11. Going to the Pictures was estimated at Aus$2.5m-3.5m but was knocked down for Aus$2.4m (£1.32m) to a private collector, the same sum fetched by Grandma’s Sunday Walk, offered at Mossgreen in June 2017. With premium, the price was Aus$2.95m and the result was the highest achieved for an Australian artist at auction in 2020. It was also the seventh-highest price for any Australian picture – a list still led by Sidney Nolan’s First-Class Marksman from 1946 that took Aus$4.5m (£2.75m) at Menzies in 2010. Going to the Pictures was consigned by descendants of the well-known journalist Clive Turnbull. The writer and art critic at three newspapers (the Melbourne Herald, the Argus and 3 The Age) had acquired the signed oil on canvas at Drysdale’s landmark exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in 1942, the year Above: Going to the Pictures, 1941, by Russell Drysdale – sold with, if not above average, in terms of after it was painted. for Aus$2.4m (£1.32m) at Deutscher and Hackett. previous auction sums for Hepworth, It was one of four famous outback scenes in the show. The partly due to the fact that her works others are now in the Queensland Art Gallery, the University of have never appeared regularly Sydney Art Collection and the Newcastle Region Art Gallery. Modernist and art teacher. Having seen Impressionist and enough to build up momentum on the The 18 x 22in (46 x 56cm) work remained in Turnbull’s other Modern works in Europe in the early 1930s for the first secondary market. family after his death in 1981 and over the years it has been time, Drysdale decided to pursue a career as an artist and The top sums among the group in well exhibited, appearing at frequent shows of the artist’s enrolled at the Shore-Bell School in Melbourne. Canterbury came for landscapes sold work and being on loan at the National Gallery of Victoria from His works mainly tackled themes relating to his homeland together as a single lot and a still- 2009-16. including the effects of drought, environmental degradation life. The former lot, a 20in x 2ft (51 x and Aboriginal dispossession. 61cm) oil on panel of a West Country Trademark features However, he managed to gain international recognition, cove offered together with three Going to the Pictures, although painted when Drysdale lived in exhibiting at London’s Leicester Galleries and with the smaller panels, overshot a £150-200 Sydney, was an attempt to reflect the experience of rural life Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Tate in estimate and was knocked down to a in Australia and convey its remoteness. It was painted in the London both buying examples of his work. private buyer at £920. artist’s trademark style which blends landscape painting with Today Drysdale is one of only five Australian artists who An equally strong competition Surrealism. have broken the Aus$2m barrier at auction (the others are came for the painting of a bowl and Drysdale was born in Sussex in England but his family John Brack, Sidney Nolan, Brett Whiteley and Fred Williams). fruit on a table which sold to the moved to Melbourne in 1923. They had extensive agricultural The Drysdale painting provided a useful chunk of the overall same buyer. The 2ft 1in x 2ft 9in (62 interests and Drysdale was headed for a life on the land, but premium-inclusive Aus$13.1m (£7.18m) total at Deutscher and x 84cm) oil on panel was thought to changed direction after meeting George Bell, the influential Hackett. be an earlier still-life and it seemed to show the influence of the Bloomsbury group artists on Hepworth’s work. Pitched at £300-500, it took Left: two £1400, the highest Hepworth Rare examples auction sum other than the £2600 from a group for the portrait Girl Resting sold at prints of limited- Bloomsbury Auctions in November edition 2014. by Iraqi prints by Dia The Dickens collection also al-Azzawi included 25 works from members of artist – £7900 the Carline family, which sold for at Jones & sums between £60 and £760. The emerge Jacob. group included one by Spencer’s first wife Hilda Carline (1889-1950). in UK Hilda, who left the family home in Cookham and moved to Hampstead because of Spencer’s infatuation with Preece, rarely painted after this As with other sectors of the art and antiques market, But it seems likely that eagle-eyed bidders identified this period. But Dickens had been able Contemporary art can certainly produce dramatic bidding group as a rare complete set of al-Azzawi’s The Mu’allaqat – a to acquire the 20½ x 16in (52 x 41cm) battles for under-valued material appearing at auction. series of silkscreens executed in 1978 and produced in an Fireplace from a member of her family. An example came at Watlington, Oxfordshire, saleroom edition of 60. Estimated at £200-300, it sold Jones & Jacob (18% buyer’s premium) on October 14 when a Measuring 3ft 5in x 2ft 4in (1.04m x 71cm), they were made online at £260 to a trade buyer who folio of nine signed prints by Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi (b.1939) as a homage to seven historical Arabic poems – the title can be also secured three further lots from drew fervent competition against an estimate of just £50-70. translated as ‘The Hanging Odes’, as these poems were hung in the collection, including a pair of The artist has been a notable name since he fled his the Ka’ba at Mecca. seascapes by Hilda’s father George homeland in 1976 and his works are now held in several At the auction, the lot was knocked down at £7900. The only Carline (1855-1920) that made international museums. other record of this set selling at auction was at Bonhams in £760 and was the top lot among the While his paintings can easily sell for tens of thousands of November 2017 when another example fetched £22,000 at a Carline works. n pounds, his prints tend to make sums in the low thousands. specialist Middle Eastern art sale in London. antiquestradegazette.com 9 January 2021 | 15

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The life of an early evolutionist Norfolk auction offered autobiography of the pioneering Alfred Russel Wallace

by Ian McKay

Bid to a record £1900 in a Norfolk auction of October 29 was a 1905, two-volume first of My Life. A Record of Events and Opinions. Offered in the Diss saleroom of TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium), this was the autobiography of Alfred Russel Wallace, the man whose own investigations and thoughts on evolution led Darwin to finally get cracking on his earlier, but until then unpublished researches into the ...Origin of Species. 1 2 Sporting lots included The Fancy, or True Sportsman’s Guide by ‘An 1000 copies of Folio’s 2010 facsimile Operator’ [John Badcock], the two of the Hereford Mappa Mundi doubled 1. Sold for a record £260 by TW Gaze was volumes of 1826 in contemporary its guide to make £800. a 1738 first in rebacked contemporary boards and illustrated with 54 colour calf of Benjamin Mackerell’s History and plates. It sold at £550. Cold War classic Antiquities of King’s-Lyn. A collection of Pierce Egan’s Other highlights included a 1963 2. The cutter Annasona in one of the 32 Boxiana volumes sold at £1500 and first of John le Carré’s The Spy Who chromolitho plates after watercolours an 1821, first issue of his Life in London Came in from the Cold at £1300. Only a by Henry Shields that are the principal made £440. The latter was in a very couple of signed copies have matched attraction of James Meikle’s Famous Clyde handsome Rivière binding of full or exceeded that sum at auction. Yachts 1880-87, published in the following crushed morocco gilt. Le Carré died last month, aged 89. year. It sold for £650. A 2006 Folio Society facsimile His novel featuring George Smiley of the Luttrell Psalter went just over and the ‘Circus’, his breakthrough 3 3. A 1963 first of John le Carré’s The Spy high estimate at £550 but one of the novel, was a huge success. n Who Came In From The Cold – £1300. Broadside or chapbooks?

The surprise lot in an October 29 following his execution, Pollock’s sale held in Carlisle by Thomson body was to be given to a Dr Munro Roddick (18% buyer’s premium) for dissection. was one in which the principal That lot also included a collection attraction may well have been a of 30 or more chapbooks dating from penny broadside of 1826 headed Trial the early 19th century and bearing and Sentence! Glasgow and other Scottish imprints, Presenting a detailed account of and the saleroom’s book specialist, the Edinburgh trial and conviction John Thomson, admits to some of William uncertainty as to which portion of Pollock for the lot held the greater attraction for the awful bidders. murder of However, both he and the his wife, consignor were as one in their it also appreciation of the bid of £850 that Shakespeare brightened up added the finally secured a lot estimated at just news that, £50-80. Reproduced above is the opening spread of a special copy of an 1895 Dent edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream offered in a November 2-3 decorative arts sale held by Lyon & Turnbull (25/20% buyer’s premium). The illustrations to this edition are the work of Robert Anning Bell, but this copy, which made £2600, is a rather special one in which the plates have been coloured by Gloria Cardew and the book rebound by members of the Guild of Women-Binders, whose relief cover design incorporates the figure of Puck and other fairies. Though she was a prolific colourist who also did work for the Kelmscott and Vale private presses, little is known about Cardew and it is possible, said the saleroom, that she used a pseudonym in her work. Left and above: the penny broadside of 1826 and chapbooks sold as a single lot at Thomson Roddick for £850. 16 | 9 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com

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‘Greatest British and Irish book auctions Jan 5* 4 15 lot Book Section, Special Auction Services - Newbury 01635 580595 Jan 5* 4 14 lot Book Section, Potburys - Sidmouth 01395 517300 logician Jan 6* 4 12 lot Book Section, Adam Partridge - Liverpool 01625 431788 Jan 6* 4 Book & Comic Lots, Warrington & Northwich Auctions 01925 658833 Jan 6, 13, 15, 20, 27 & 29* 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 since ends Jan 6* 4 9 lot Book Section, Bourne End Auction Rooms 01628 531500 Jan 7* 4 Online Sale: Books & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions 020 7717 5092 Jan 7* 4 69 lot Book & Ephemera Section, Smiths Newent Auctions 01531 821776 Leibniz or Jan 7* 4 22 lot Book Section, Clevedon Salerooms - Bristol 01934 830111 Jan 7* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera, Featonby’s - North Shields 01912 522601 Jan 7* 4 Book Sections: Militaria & Aeronautica Sale, Humbert & Elis - Towcester 01327 359595 Aristotle’ 4 ends Jan 7* 9 lot Book Section, Golding Young - Bourne 01522 524984 Jan 8* 4 7 lot Comics Section, British Toy Auctions - Runcorn 01928 579032 Among the successful lots in a Jan 8 & 9* 4 21 lot Book & 13 lot Map Sections, David Duggleby - Scarborough 01723 507111 History of Science & Technology Jan 9* 4 60 lots Books & Ephemera, Claydon Auctioneers - Middle Claydon 01296 714434 sale held by Bonhams Los Angeles Jan 9* 4 7 lots Railway Books & Comics, Cottees - Poole 01202 723177 (27.5/25/20/13.9% buyer’s Jan 9* 4 Book Section, Whitton & Laing - Exeter 01392 252621 premium) on November 5 was a Above: signed and inscribed at the head Jan 9* 4 Book Section, Nigel Ward - Pontrilas 01981 240140 group of five signed and inscribed of the cover at “Xmas 1947” by Oskar Jan 9* 4 Book Section, Lacy Scott & Knight - Bury St Edmunds 01284 748625 offprints from periodical publications Morgenstern, What is Cantor’s Continuum ends Jan 10* 4 Autographs Section, East Bristol Auctions 0117 967 1000 of papers and other work by the Problem?, an offprint from American Jan 11 4 Antiquarian & General Books, Taylors - Montrose 01674 672775 logician, mathematician and analytic Mathematical Monthly, is one of a group Jan 12* 4 6 lots Books, Rogers Jones - Colwyn Bay 01492 532176 philosopher, Kurt Gödel. of signed and inscribed offprints of Jan 12-13* 4 116 lot Book Section, Reeman Dansie - Colchester 01206 754754 Sold at $100,000 (£75,355) and Kurt Gödel’s works sold for $100,000 Jan 12-13* 4 Book & Ephemera Sections, Special Auction Services - Newbury 01635 580595 dating from the years 1944-58, they (£75,335) by Bonhams Los Angeles. Jan 13* 4 11 lots Transport Books, Thomson Roddick - Carlisle 01228 535288 had all been given to the economist Jan 13* 4 Book Section, Halls - Shrewsbury 01743 450700 Oskar Morgenstern. One of his Jan 13* 4 Autograph & Ephemera Sections, Tim Davidson - Nottingham 0115 986 8550 closest friends at the Institute for Christie’s New York (25/20/14.5% 4 Advance Studies at Princeton, the buyer’s premium) a bid of $20,000 Jan 14* 30 lot Book Section, Wilson55 - Nantwich 01270 623878 4 recipient once described Gödel as (£15,505) secured a 1953 first Jan 14* Book Section, GreensladeTaylor Hunt - Taunton 01823 332525 4 perhaps the most wondrous man one of Gödel’s The Consistency of the ends Jan 14* Letters Section: Royal Memorabilia Sale, William George - Peterborough 01733 667680 4 can imagine. Continuum Hypothesis. Jan 14-15* Book Section: Gentleman’s Library & Grand Tour Sale, Bamfords - Derby 01332 210000 4 “Hardly anyone knows him. If It was inscribed for Richard Jan 16* Large Book Section, Tennants - Leyburn 01969 623780 4 I were nearer his level (and what a Macksey, then a Princeton Jan 20 Boxed Books Sale, Keys - Aylsham 01263 733195 4 distance that would be to cover!) I undergraduate but later the founding Jan 20-21 Antiquarian & other Books, Maps, Modern Literature etc, Dominic Winter - S Cerney 01285 860006 4 would write his life. Perhaps even so force behind its Department Jan 21* Online Sale: Books from the Library of Brian Findlay, Forum Auctions 020 7717 5092 4 I should record some of his thoughts of Comparative Thought and Jan 21-22* Book Section, Lindsay Burns - Perth 01738 633888 4 and doings, since the world will know Literature. Jan 22* Football Programmes: Sports Memorabilia Sale, The Auction Centre - Runcorn 01928 579796 4 little what kind of man he is. A man In the Bonhams auction in Jan 23* Book Section, Semley Auctioneers - Shaftesbury 01747 855122 whom von Neumann & Weyl have California, an 1859 first of Darwin’s Jan 25 4 Antiquarian Books, Maps & Prints, Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood - Exeter 01392 413100 said to me more than once [is] the On the Origin of Species... made Jan 26-27* 4 10 lot Catalogue & Book Section: Silver Sale, Woolley & Wallis - Salisbury 01722 424594 greatest logician since Leibniz or $135,000 (£103,055), but a signed Jan 28 4 Fine Books, MSS & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions 020 7717 5092 Aristotle.” autograph leaf from an early draft of another of his books, The Descent Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger Reaching consistency of Man, failed on an estimate of sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com In an October 1-16 sale held by $250,000-350,000. Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] First of famous tragedy

In a modern binding of full dark brown morocco, a 1633 first edition of Christopher Marlowe’s The Famous Tragedy of the Rich 2021 Book Auction Calendar (January - February): Jew of Malta was a highlight of Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 7th January a Swann Galleries (25/20/12% Online Sale: Books from the Library of the Thursday 21st January buyer’s premium) sale of late Brian Findlay October 27. It doubled the high estimate Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 28th January to sell at $120,000 (£91,605). Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 4th February The play was written by Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 18th February Marlowe c.1589 and entered Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 4th March in the Stationers’ Register five years later, but no earlier edition is recorded. Catalogues and information: forumauctions.co.uk Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected]

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The sale at Mallams in Cheltenham on January 21 includes items from Long Court, Randwick, in Gloucestershire. The pieces were previously owned by Captain Richard Ford (1860-1940) of Ennismere Gardens, London, who inherited a large art collection from his father in 1917. His handwritten inventory matches many of the lots that were bequeathed to his sons at Long Court. Brinsley Ford (1908-99), the eminent historian, added extensively to his inheritance and built up the collection that featured a Michelangelo study which was sold by his estate for $12m in 2000. Two 19th century albums of photographic cartes de visite come for sale at Bearnes Mallams’ sale includes five works by Paul Sandby (1731-1809). This 7 x 11in (18 x 27cm) Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter on January 25. Members of the British and European pen, ink and watercolour of The Mall, Chiswick has an estimate of £1500-2000. It was royal families, novelists, politicians, US presidents are among the sitters together with valued at £15 by Agnews in January 1935. cards for a number of people connected with Exeter Cathedral (including the high mallams.co.uk* churchman bishop Henry Phillpotts,1778-1869). The photographs were collected in the 1860s by a Miss Harington, the sister of Rev Edward Charles Harington (1804-81) who was chancellor and sub dean at Exeter. Estimate £400-600. The January 19-20 sale at Chorley’s in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, features one of bhandl.co.uk* the earliest books to promote free emigration to an Australian colony. Godwin’s Emigrant’s Guide to Van Diemen’s Land was first published in 1823 by Thomas Godwin, providing The sale at Bishop & Miller in information regarding Stowmarket on January 20 titled Dr the climate, soil types, Atomica’s Journey into Cool includes habitat and available this remarkable survivor: a 1920s land in what would Chance Brothers glass globe together become Tasmania. with the box and packing it was This second edition of delivered in. 1841 has an estimate of The vendor believes this globe with £2000-3000. the lettering Visible Petrol has never chorleys.com* been used. Estimate £800-1200. bishopandmillerauctions.co.uk*

On January 18 Wotton Auction Rooms in Gloucestershire will sell a large collection of antique dolls. This 20in (49cm) Jumeau bisque socket head doll with jointed composition body is marked to the back of the head in red Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 8 Hlll. Wearing period clothes and shoes, she is guided at £400-600. wottonauctionrooms.co.uk*

Sworders’ Design sale on January 26 will include a prime period Robert ‘Mouseman’ The silver sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury Thompson oak dining table and six dining chairs with a provenance to the estate sale rescheduled for January 26-27 includes a fine of Peter James Cunliffe Horlick, 3rd Bt (1908-58). The table is offered on its own and private collection of early silver, much of it the chairs together as a single lot, each estimated at £6000-8000. acquired through dealer Alastair Dickenson. Thompson provided office furniture for the Horlicks factory in Slough in three This William and Mary provincial silver batches (1930, 1936 and 1938) plus additional pieces for family members. tankard by Timothy or John Smith of York, In October 2018 Sworders sold a 47-lot collection of Mouseman furniture from 1691, is engraved with the arms of the the Horlicks collection for £236,000. It was consigned by British pharmaceutical Worshipful Company of Drapers and inscribed company GlaxoSmithKline as the Slough factory was sold and the Horlicks brand The Gift of Timothy Williamson and John itself put up for sale. Hartloy and (with by different hand) To TI. sworder.co.uk* TI is thought to be Thomas Jackson, a merchant tailor made free in 1655 who was Chamberlain of York in 1665. * BID LIVE AT thesaleroom.com Last sold at auction in 2000, it has an Place a max bid before the auction or bid estimate of £7000-9000. live for these items on thesaleroom.com woolleyandwallis.co.uk* 18 | 9 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com

PAGE 018 2474.indd 1 23/12/2020 10:31:21 463 East LancastEr avEnuE Downingtown, PEnnsyLvania 19335 P: (610) 269-4040 F: (610) 269-9274 [email protected] www.PookanDPook.com AuctioneerS And ApprAiSerS AY000004L AmericAnA & internAtionAl Auction FridAy, JAnuAry 29, 2021 At 6pm And SAturdAy, JAnuAry 30, 2021 At 9Am

John Stobart (American b. 1929), of the Margaret Evans Large French Canadian feltwork panel, late 19th c. Large group of Russian enamel

Important pair of English delft bowls each with a portrait of Admiral Horatio Nelson, ca. 1806

Serapi carpet, ca. 1900

Isphahan pictorial China Trade of the carpet, early 20th c. American ship Annie Bowen

New England Queen Anne tea table, ca. 1765

English canvaswork George II giltwood Large Pennsylvania panel, late 18th c. looking glass, ca. 1760 collection of mocha Newton’s terrestrial pocket globe

NY Federal Tiffany & Company silver Carved tavern tall case clock, Maria Sibylla Merian Persian pattern flatware figure, 19th c. ca. 1790

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3 Move to the country Evocative rural photographs by PH Emerson showcased by gallery

by Frances Allitt the technique allowed for long-lasting rural settings, especially the agrarian clarity, meaning that much of the communities of East Anglia. As his detail is preserved today. career progressed, he steered away Coming Home from the Marshes, 1886, The image is among the highlights both from both sharp and soft focus, by pioneering photographer from Life and Landscape, the focus of seeking to replicate instead the PH Emerson (1856-1936) in his the show at Michael Hoppen, along human-eye’s view of the world. series Life and Landscape on the Norfolk with images from Emerson’s most Following the publication of Broads, is among the works offered in famous series, Marsh Leaves (1895). Marsh Leaves, he published no further a solo show on the artist at London’s Organised with fellow photography pictures, focusing instead on writing Michael Hoppen Gallery until the specialist Robert Hershkowitz, the about the medium. He argued 1. PH Emerson, Coming Home from end of this month. exhibition showcases these bucolic against composite prints and the the Marshes (1886), vintage platinum The picture exemplifies scenes at a time when, says the manipulation of negatives, promoting print, £7000. Emerson’s early interest in capturing gallery, “so many of us are weighing ‘truthfulness’ as the most important picturesque scenes of everyday rural up the value of urban living in favour aspect of photographic images. 2. A Winter Pastoral (1895), vintage life with the precision and clarity of countryside existences”. It runs Works are available to view hand-pulled gravure, £2500. which the latest photographic until January 31. online. Contact the gallery for future 3. Ruined Water Mill (1886), vintage technology allowed. The use of a Emerson was among the early viewing appointments (given current platinum print, £7000. platinum print offered wide tonal photographers to use the medium as Covid-19 restrictions). n variation for rendering details and an art form. He trained his lens on michaelhoppengallery.com Bruno Effect dealers announced Stained glass designs This 1928 ink and The Bruno Effect, a digital marketplace that will provide The Bruno Effect ‘founding member’ dealers include: watercolour of stained a platform for initially 650 dealers to sell their furniture UK glass for Stockton on and collectables online, has revealed new dealers ahead Koopman Rare Art, Ronald Phillips, Godson & Coles, the Forest in North of its launch next year, writes Laura Chesters. Butchoff and Robert Young Antiques Yorkshire is offered at The facility, aimed at interior designers and US Abbott and Holder for collectors, chooses its dealers on an invitation-only Pegboard Modern, Lillian Nassau, Archive 20th £350. basis. CEO Carmine Bruno founded the firm which will Century, Moderne Gallery and Twentieth It is part of launch next spring. He previously worked at 1stdibs and Belgium a collection of set up the online marketplace Online Galleries in 2006 Alain Hens and Akanthos presentation which was sold to 1stdibs in 2012. France watercolours from the A list of some of the ‘founding member’ dealers has Galerie 54, Alexandre Vossion and Moreux Rive Whitefriars Glasshouse been announced (see right). Gauche. after it was bought Bruno said: “Buyers want to source items from the Netherlands by James Powell in most reputable dealers, just as much as dealers want GHYCZY, Galerie Gaudium and Studio Cadmium 1834. His three sons to be listed next to sellers that have earned the same Denmark established the stained credibility in the market. Another Classic ApS and Helmer Design & Antik glass department in “Many dealers have since approached us asking to Sweden 1844 and, with the join and we’ve had to politely decline, which is not easy Balder Design and Modernity assistance of Charles but we know it’s the only way to achieve our vision. Austria Winston, created pieces that were as close as possible to By maintaining this standard, we’ve already been able Alexandra Alge Möbelagentur medieval stained glass in texture and colour. to attract some incredible dealers who don’t sell their Italy The venture was highly successful, with windows exceptional items through any other marketplace.” Compasso appearing in churches, institutional buildings and private The Bruno Effect has also launched a digital Spain homes across the UK, the British Empire and North magazine called Effect Magazine. DADA America. abbottandholder-thelist.co.uk 20 | 9 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com

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Roentgen cabinets draw bidders Cologne auction house offers fine selection of 18th century works made by both father and son

by Johnathan Franks

£1 = €1.10 For some people Friday the 13th is not the most auspicious day to hold an auction, but Lempertz (25% buyer’s premium) in Cologne had no problems on November 13. From four consignors the saleroom had acquired 15 works by the most accomplished German cabinetmakers of the late 18th century, Abraham Roentgen and his son David, which they offered under the title Fit for a King. On the day, there was lively bidding and only two lots failed to sell; all the others went to private collectors. 2 It is thought that the Roentgens created some 2000 pieces in all, the majority destined for the residences 1 of European royal houses and members of the aristocracy. After an apprenticeship with his father, Abraham travelled to the 1. Top lot at the Lempertz sale of Roentgen furniture was this 3a & b. Made by David in c.1785, this writing desk with sliding Netherlands and subsequently to writing cabinet from c.1765, inspired by a French secrétaire à compartments released by a spring mechanism once belonged London, where he arrived in 1733. abattant. To create the floral inlays, Abraham Roentgen used 10 to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was last on the market in 1979, Here he perfected his craft and different woods: red satinwood, tulipwood, kingwood, snakewood, when it was sold to a German collector by Sotheby’s in Monaco. encountered new techniques and burr walnut, holly, hornbeam, maple, oak and cherry. It went to a The desk sold at Lempertz for €210,000 (£190,910). decorative elements that he later private collector for a hammer price of €300,000 (£272,727). applied to the furniture he created, in 4. Small caskets, such as this one in burr walnut, rosewood and particular his use of inlays which were 2. An oval table which transforms into a writing desk, veneered cherry veneer, built by Abraham in the 1750s, were a specialty of a prime characteristic of his works and inlaid with rosewood, walnut, elm and other woods. It was the Neuwied workshop. The finely inlaid box changed hands for the In London Abraham became a made by David Roentgen between 1775-80 and has his monogram estimated €30,000 (£27,270). member of the Moravian Church and incorporated into the inlay. It sold for €150,000 (£136,360). from then on the ethics of the Pietist church shaped his life and his work. He instilled these ideas in his eldest was auctioned by Phillips in London. ensure the survival of the company. son David, who was to become his It was bought there by a German Many of his works incorporated successor. dealer who passed it on to a collector hidden mechanisms to release in Westphalia, who consigned it to drawers and sliding side Remarkable pieces The majority of the Lempertz. It was knocked down for a compartments. This applied to Abraham returned to Germany and “Roentgen pieces were low-estimate €300,000 (£272,727). an oval table from 1775-80, which eventually founded a workshop in destined for the Dating from the mid-18th century, transforms into a writing desk Neuwied on the Rhine, where the a table centrepiece or tray, decorated (previewed in ATG No 2461). It Moravian Church was tolerated residences of European with rhombus-shaped marquetry, opened the Cologne sale and was by the local ruler Count Friedrich royal houses and is one of a kind in the oeuvre of knocked down for a lower-estimate Alexander zu Wied-Neuwied. members of the Abraham. No other examples of €150,000 (£136,360). There he created remarkable this design are known. It had once The imperial provenance of pieces of furniture, among them a aristocracy belonged to Dietrich Fabian, author another, slightly later writing desk, writing cabinet from c.1765, which 4 of the definitive work on Roentgen veneered in thujawood, probably took the top price at the Cologne furniture. It changed hands within contributed to its final price. It had sale. The cabinet, with intricate floral estimate for €22,000 (£18,180). once belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm inlays, was inspired by a French After David had taken over from II, who bought it in 1918. Sixty years Secrétaire à abattant. Abraham used his father, things did not always later, it was sold by Sotheby’s in an impressive variety of woods: red run smoothly. In the late 1760s, Monaco and since then had belonged satinwood, tulipwood, kingwood, the workshop was under threat of to a German collector. It went snake wood, burr walnut, holly, closure. The after-effects of the €10,000 over the upper guide and hornbeam, maple, oak and cherry. Seven Years’ War (1756-63) had put sold for €210,000 (£190,910). The cabinet had an interesting an enormous strain on the family provenance, having belonged to an finances and it was only through a Paris workshop English family called Peters from the lottery in 1769 that David was able to After a visit to Paris in 1774, David late 19th century until 1984, when it reduce the stock in his warehouse and established a workshop there, where 22 | 9 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com

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Right: Diego Giacometti, première 3a version, Berceau table c.1963 – €201,600 ($324,576) including premium at the Smith & Singer auction held at Sotheby’s Paris. Giacometti tables go on a trip

Two Diego Giacometti (1902-85) bronze tables from an ‘important collection’ in Sydney appeared in a Paris auction after being consigned via an Australian saleroom. They had been sent by Smith & Singer on behalf of the private client to the Important Design sale at Sotheby’s Paris (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) on December 17. A première version Berceau table took €201,600 ($324,576) including premium. Featuring a patinated bronze and glass top, 15in x 4ft 6in x 17in (38.5cm x 1.37m x 43cm), it was estimated at €100,000-150,000. A seconde version Berceau table in the same form, 14½in x 3ft 10in x 16¾in (36.5cm x 1.17m x 42.5cm), also sold for €201,600 ($324,576) against an estimate of €80,000-120,000. Geoffrey Smith, chairman of Smith & Singer, said: “As the epicentre of the market for important design, Paris was the natural choice for the auction of these remarkable 3b examples by Diego Giacometti. We are delighted that our decision was rewarded with such a result.” In 1995 Smith & Singer, operating as Sotheby’s Australia, became wholly owned by Sotheby’s, only to be restructured under a strict licence agreement in 2009 when co- owners Smith and Gary Singer acquired the rights to use the Sotheby’s Australia name. Singer and Smith (a married couple) rebranded the company with their own names from January 1 last year. The auction house conducts sales in Melbourne and Sydney.

Look, no hands Among the many tricks up their sleeves, magicians could use this crafty device made c.1940s by Jon Martin in London. The ‘holdout’ was worn on the arm under a coat. When activated, it shot out from the sleeve to deliver or steal small objects, then retracted out of sight. Estimated at $1500-2500 and sold for $4400 (£3260) on December 15, it was one of the many objects offered in the regular Magic Sale held by Chicago saleroom Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium).

he sold not only pieces imported disappeared from view for many from Neuwied, but also furniture he decades and resurfaced at Christie’s manufactured in the French capital. in London in 2012. More recently it Sign of the Chicago style He absorbed and adapted the had belonged to a German collector. fashions of the times, as can be seen It went over the top guide to sell for Chicago auction house Toomey (25/20/15% in a finely inlaid cylinder bureau from €260,000 (£236,360). buyer’s premium) offered items with links to the 1780s, which reflects the transition More affordable, but still classic important local figures in art and design during its from Rococo to Classicism. Once examples of the artistry of the Tradition & Innovation auction on December 3. again, David used a wide variety of cabinetmaker, were the small caskets Louis Sullivan, (1856-1924), mentor to the great different woods and veneers and also manufactured by Abraham, which Frank Lloyd Wright, was central to the history of incorporated a spring mechanism to concluded the sale. They were all Chicago and modern architecture. release the drawers. made in c.1755. The sale included this decorative stair baluster, Having once belonged to the An example in burr walnut, c.1893, from the demolished Chicago Stock Arnault Collection, the bureau had rosewood and cherry veneer went for Exchange, which Sullivan designed with his spent the last four years in the home the predicted €30,000 (£27,270), partner Dankmar Adler (1844-1900). It made a of a private owner in Brussels and while a silver mounted box with premium-inclusive $27,500 (£20,350) against an now changed hands for €170,000 mosaic inlays in mahogany, cherry, estimate of $3000-5000. In copper-plated cast (£154,545), just shy of the lower satinwood and ebony, containing a iron, produced by Winslow Brothers Foundry, estimate. hidden compartment, was knocked it measured 11in wide x 1in deep x 2ft 6in high From the same period, but down below estimate at €32,000 without base (28 x 2½ x 76cm). manufactured in Neuwied, a (£29,090). The baluster was consigned by an ‘important mahogany chest of drawers attracted The final lot in the Cologne private collector, Denver, Colorado’. considerably more interest. From sale was a shallow document box, Sullivan – highly influential in the Chicago its creation until 1942, the chest veneered in olivewood, mahogany School, US Modernism and skyscraper design – had belonged to Roentgen’s family and kingwood, which sold for the collaborated with Adler on more than 100 works. and their descendants. It then expected €25,000 (£22,730). n antiquestradegazette.com 9 January 2021 | 23

PAGE 022-023 2474.indd 2 23/12/2020 13:14:40 New Year's Spectacular Auction Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm Preview at the Gallery, Friday and Saturday, Jan 3 and 4, 10:00 - 4:00, and Sunday, Jan 5, 10-Noon. or anytime online at www.ameroauctions.com

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Georgian gilt gesso mirror Marble & bronze lidded urns Republic period Famille rose Qing dynasty ruffled rim 10 Chinese Chippendale chairs porcelain plaque dragon vase

Large South East Asian carved wood Miniature portraits Jacques Martin - Ferrieres Pair of 12 inch Josiah Loring Boston Bodhisattva

Amero Auctions is kicking off 2020 with a Winter Spectacular auction featuring vid Alfaro Siqueiros triptych, Enrique Sanchez. Also included in this auction is a wide array of the Trophyfinest hunt epergne & centerpiece items yet offered. Original artworks to include Leon- Georg Jensen Silver, Tiffany Lamp and display sign, Chinese Porcelains, Pair of ard Foujita, Henri Lebasque, Henri Martin, Jacque Martin-Ferrieres, Maqbool Russian / French stone accented commodes, Philip & Kelvin Laverne Special

FidaManner of Sandro BotticelliHusain,Hiram powers marble bust of DianaSalvador Dali, Jean-Paul Basquiat (attributed), Young Lim-Choi, Chan table, a pair of signed Fiske large garden lions, early Chinese scrolls with Angelo Savelli, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Fernando Garcia Ponce, Pedro Ferdinand, one attributed to Wen Zhengming, Ladies Rolex, period furniture, inlaid Chi- Antlered Several paintingstea caddy by Carlos Merida. A collection of Woodie Long outsider art nese furniture, bronzes, marble sculptures to include Ferdinando Vichi, Fine

George II Irish table Amero Auctions is kicking off 2020 with a Winter Spectacular auction featuring vid Alfaro Siqueiros triptych, Enrique Sanchez. Also included in this auction is acquireda wide array of the finest items yet offered. Original artworksdirectly to include Leon- Georg Jensen Silver, Tiffanyfrom Lamp and display sign, Chinese a Porcelains, descendant, Pair of Ilya Glazunov, Jose Clemente Orozco, Da- Jewelry, Grand Baroque sterling flatware, and much more. ard Foujita, Henri Lebasque, Henri Martin, Jacque Martin-Ferrieres,Amero Auctions Maqbool is proudRussian to present/ French our stone first accented auction commodes, of 2021 on PhilipJanuary & Kelvin17th. LaverneThis auction Special features Fida Husain, Salvador Dali, Jean-Paul Basquiat (attributed),fine Young English Lim-Choi, furniture Chan and table,accessories; a pair of Oldsigned World Fiske paintings; large garden Asian lions, and early Chinese Chinese objects; scrolls Important with Angelo Savelli, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Fernando Garcia Ponce,20th Pedro century Ferdinand, works ofone art; attributed Tiffany to student Wen Zhengming, lamp and deskLadies accessories, Rolex, period Tiffany furniture, sterling inlaid flatware Chi- set, Several paintings by Carlos Merida. A collection of WoodieHiram Long Powersoutsider “Diana”art nese Bust; furniture, Estate bronzes,collection marble of early sculptures miniatures; to include Keith Ferdinando Haring original Vichi, artwork; Fine acquired directly from a descendant, Ilya Glazunov, Jose Clemente Orozco, Da- Jewelry, Grand Baroque sterling flatware, and much more. Bidding conducted in house, by phone or online with Liveauctioneers and Invaluable. Mount Athos bejeweled cross Russian silver items; Meissen figurines; Fine jewelry; and much more. Visit us at ameroauctions.com Bidding conducted in house, by phone or online with Liveauctioneers and Invaluable. Amero Auctions Buyer's Premium: 1540 North Lime Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34237 18% for Credit Card 941-330-1577 • www.ameroauctions.com 3% Discount for Cash or Check AB3806 • AU5067 23% Online Amero Auctions Buyer's Premium: PAGE 024 2474.indd 1 1540 North22/12/2020 16:55:41Lime Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34237 18% for Credit Card 941-330-1577 • www.ameroauctions.com 3% Discount for Cash or Check AB3806 • AU5067 23% Online Monaco january 20th, 2021 - 3pm SCULPTURES & PAINTINGS MONTE-CARLO AUCTION HOUSE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY

FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953) Spanish woman, vers 1926 watercolor, pencil and gouache on paper 73,5 x 50,7 cm

CHAÏM SOUTINE (1894-1943) Portrait of Coco CHANEL Oil on paper 23,5 x 21,7 cm

JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985) Landscape with blue dog, november 1952 oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm

ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944) MONTE-CARLO AUCTION HOUSE Woman with crab 10-12 QUAI ANTOINE 1ER Bronze proof with brown patina 98000 MONACO Vollard cast 00 377 93 25 88 89 CATALOG AVAILABLE ON H. : 16,5 cm [email protected] WWW.HVMC.COM

Public exhibition : Room 1 Auctioneers : January 20th and 21st from 11 to 8 pm Christophe Joron-Derem and Gäetan Ducloux and friday 22nd from 11 to 12 am SVV n° : 2002-401 - 46, rue Sainte-Anne - 75002 Paris 9, rue Drouot - 75009 Paris - Tél. : +33(0)1 48 00 20 05 Tél. : +33(0)1 40 20 02 82 - [email protected] Catalogue online : www.joron-derem.fr - www.drouot.com Auction on Friday 22nd January 2020 HOTEL DROUOT - PARIS - 11 AM and 2 PM - Room 1

Henry MORET (1856-1913) Baie de Lampaul, Ouessant Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1895. 60 x 73 cm. Henry MORET (1856-1913) La côte de Moëlan, Finistère Luigi COLOMBO dit FILLIA (1904-1936) Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1896 73 x 59 cm Nus subconscients. Oil on canvas. Signed. 98 x 72 cm

Escalier de Cristal - Paris Cut crystal aquarium with golden bronzes. Signed Around 1850 H. 45 cm

School of Brabant, workshop of the Borman, circa 1480-1510 Bernard BUFFET (1928-1999) Saint Barbara Lampe pigeon et lampe à huile - 1953 Limestone high relief with minimal Ink on paper. traces of original polychromy - H. 70 cm Signed ans dated. 50,3 x 65,2 cm Tschang Yeul KIM (né en 1929) Water drop Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 60.6 x 49.5 cm

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ASHLEY WALLER AUCTIONS JAMES BECK AUCTIONS Four Oaks, Farm Lane, Lower Cornhall, Cattle Market Street, The original and authoritative listing of UK sales Withington, Cheshire, SK11 9DU. Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 9AW. Tel: +44 (0)1477 571001 Tel: +44 (0)1328 851557 Antiques, Collectables, Furniture, Furniture, Art & Collectables, 11.00 Due to current market conditions caused by Covid-19, In all cases you should check with the auction house Militaria & Vintage Items, 10.00 jamesbeckauctions.co.uk readers should expect that many of the live auctions directly to understand the conditions under which the ashleywaller.co.uk 4 listed here will be held as live online only sales. Such auction is taking place, including storage arrangements or KINGHAM & ORME auctions take place behind closed doors and are not open CHARTERHOUSE AUCTIONEERS delivery and collection options that are currently available. Davies House, Davies Road, Evesham, to members of the public for bidding in the room. Bidding The Long Street Salerooms, Long Our online calendar is updated throughout the week, Worcestershire, WR11 1YZ. takes place online and is also usually available on the Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3BS. check it regularly to ensure you have the latest Tel: +44 (0)1935 812277 Tel: +44 (0)1386 244224 phone or on commission. information. Antiques, Pictures, Books, Beswick & Interiors & Collectables, 10.00 However, where auction houses (usually classed as ‘non- Automobilia, 12.00 kinghamandorme.com 4 essential retail’ in government guidance) are allowed We are also listing timed auctions that are being held on charterhouse-auction.com 4 to open to the public some firms may decide to allow a thesaleroom.com. LOCKE & ENGLAND restricted number of bidders in the room, subject to safety CLEVEDON SALEROOMS 12 Guy Street, Leamington Spa, Information accurate at the time of going to press The Auction Centre, Kenn Road, and hygiene measures. Readers should bear in mind Warwickshire, CV32 4RT. (2pm Wednesday December 23). Clevedon, Bristol, BS21 6TT. that regulations and guidelines differ across each of the Tel: +44 (0)1926 889100 Tel: +44 (0)1934 830111 Antiques, Furniture, Household, devolved nations of the UK and differ across the various Auctioneers are requested to contact us with details of Antiques, Interiors, Collectables & Jewellery, Garden & Tools, 11.00 regional tiers within a nation. They are also subject to their sales and inform us of any changes. Jewellery, 10.30 leauction.co.uk 4 change at short notice. Contact us at: [email protected] clevedon-salerooms.com 4 NORTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS DAVID DUGGLEBY The Saleroom, Vine Street, 17 Northgate, Newark, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1EX. WEDNESDAY DENHAMS STROUD AUCTIONS YO11 1XN. Tel: +44 (0)1636 605905 JANUARY 6 Horsham Auction Galleries, Dorking Unit J, Bath Road Trading Estate, Tel: +44 (0)1723 507111 Victorian, Edwardian & Trade Furniture 271 Road, Warnham, West Sussex, Bath Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Jewellery, Watches & Silver, 11.00 & Miscellaneous Effects, 11.00 auctions in our RH12 3RZ. GL5 3QF. davidduggleby.com 4 northgateauctionroomsnewark.co.uk 4 ADAM PARTRIDGE Tel: +44 (0)1403 255699 / 253837 Tel: +44 (0)1453 873800 UK calendar 18 Jordan Street, Liverpool, L1 0BP. Fine Art, Antiques & Collectables, Vinyl Records, Musical Instruments, DENHAMS SMITHS 10.00 Horsham Auction Galleries, Dorking Tel: +44 (0)1517 098070 Guns, Sporting, Militaria & Taxidermy 16 Broad Street, Newent, denhams.com 4 4 Road, Warnham, West Sussex, Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 stroudauctions.co.uk Gloucestershire, GL18 1AJ. RH12 3RZ. 4 Tel: +44 (0)1531 821776 theliverpoolsaleroom.co.uk EWBANK’S Tel: +44 (0)1403 255699 / 253837 THOMAS N. MILLER Stamps, Coins & Postcards, 14.00 36,980 The Burnt Common Auction Rooms, Fine Art, Antiques & Collectables, Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle- 4 ASHLEY WALLER AUCTIONS London Road, Woking, Surrey, smithsnewentauctions.co.uk lots for sale on upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE6 2UN. 10.00 Four Oaks, Farm Lane, Lower GU23 7LN. 4 Tel: +44 (0)1912 658080 denhams.com thesaleroom.com Tel: +44 (0)1483 223101 STROUD AUCTIONS Withington, Cheshire, SK11 9DU. Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 Antiques, Collectables, Jewellery & FEATONBY’S AUCTIONEERS Unit J, Bath Road Trading Estate, Tel: +44 (0)1477 571001 millersauctioneers.co.uk 4 Silver, 09.30 Bath Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Antiques, Collectables, Furniture, 50/50A Bedford Street, North ewbankauctions.co.uk 4 Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE29 0AT. GL5 3QF. Militaria & Vintage Items, 10.00 TW GAZE Tel: +44 (0)1912 522601 Tel: +44 (0)1453 873800 ashleywaller.co.uk 4 Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER Jewellery, Stamps, Memorabilia, Vinyl Records, Musical Instruments, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN. The Bourne Auction Rooms, Spalding Coins & Collectables, 10.00 Guns, Sporting, Militaria & Taxidermy BAMFORDS AUCTIONEERS Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306 4 Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LE. featonbys.co.uk stroudauctions.co.uk 4 Peak Village Shopping Centre, Tel: +44 (0)1778 422686 Railwayana, 10.00 4 Collective Sale, 10.00 twgaze.co.uk FELLOWS Chatsworth Road, Rowsley, THOMAS R. CALLAN goldingyoung.com 4 Augusta House, 19 Augusta Street, Derbyshire, DE4 2JE. 22 Smith Street, Ayr, Ayrshire, WARRINGTON & NORTHWICH Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 6JA. Tel: +44 (0)1629 730920 K A7 1TF. HARTLEYS AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1212 122131 Country Home & Interiors, 10.00 Victoria Hall, Little Lane, Ilkley, 551 Europa Boulevard, Westbrook, A: Jewellery, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1292 267681 bamfords-auctions.co.uk 4 West Yorkshire, LS29 8EA. Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 7TP. B: Pawnbrokers’ Jewellery & Watches, Interiors, 10.00 4 Tel: +44 (0)1943 816363 Tel: +44 (0)1925 658833 11.00 trcallan.com BARRY HAWKINS Home Furnishings & Collectables, Antiques & Collectables, Home & fellows.co.uk 4 The Auction Rooms, 15 Lynn Road, 10.00 Garden TRURO AUCTION CENTRE UK and Ireland Downham Market, Norfolk, PE38 9NL. hartleysauctions.co.uk warringtonauctions.co.uk 4 FORUM AUCTIONS Triplet Business Centre, Poldice auction advertising Tel: +44 (0)1366 387180 220 Queenstown Road, London, Valley, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5PZ. Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 KINGSLAND AUCTION SERVICES WARWICK AUCTIONS SW8 4LP. Tel: +44 (0)1209 822266 Shirlheath, Kingsland, Leominster, barryhawkins.co.uk 4 The Coventry Auction Centre, Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 General Household, 10.00 Dreweatts 7 Herefordshire, HR6 9RL. 3 Queen Victoria Road, Coventry, Books & Works on Paper, 13.00 cornwallauction.co.uk 4 Forum 17 Tel: +44 (0)1568 708564 forumauctions.co.uk 4 BOURNE END AUCTION ROOMS Warwickshire, CV1 3JS. Hartleys 13 Antiques & General, 18.00 Tel: +44 (0)2476 223377 Station Approach, Bourne End, W&H PEACOCK W.H. Lane 6 kingslandauctions.com Antiques, Furniture & Collectables, GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER Buckinghamshire, SL8 5QH. 75 New Street, St. Neots, Littleton 12 10.00 The Bourne Auction Rooms, Spalding Tel: +44 (0)1628 531500 Cambridgeshire, PE19 1AJ. Lyon & Turnbull 13 PETER FRANCIS warwickauctions.co.uk 4 Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LE. Toovey’s 12 Silver, Jewellery, Fine Art & Antiques, Towyside Salerooms, Old Station Tel: +44 (0)1778 422686 Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550 Household Furniture, Garden, Tools & Nigel Ward 6 10.00 Road, Carmarthen, SA31 1JN. WHITTONS AUCTIONS Collective Sale, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1267 233456 4 Collectables, 10.00 Woolley & Wallis 3 bourneendauctionrooms.co.uk 4 The Fine Art Auction Rooms, Dowell goldingyoung.com Antiques, Furnishings & Collectables, peacockauction.co.uk 4 Street, Honiton, Devon, EX14 1LX. 09.30 HUMBERT & ELLIS BYRNE’S Tel: +44 (0)1404 517000 International peterfrancis.co.uk 4 10 Foundry Place, Old Tiffield Road, WHITTON & LAING Pullman House, The Sidings, Silver & Jewellery, 10.30 auction advertising Towcester, Northamptonshire, 32 Okehampton Street, Exeter, Devon, Boundary Lane, Chester, Cheshire, whittonsauctions.co.uk 4 SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY NN12 6FP. EX4 1DY. CH4 8RD. Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, Tel: +44 (0)1327 359595 Tel: +44 (0)1392 252621 Amero USA 24 Tel: +44 (0)1244 681311 South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. THURSDAY Militaria, 10.30 Silver, Jewellery, Watches & HMVC Monaco 25 Tel: +44 (0)1142 816161 humbertellis.com 4 Collectables & General, 09.00 JANUARY 7 Collectables, 10.00 Joron-Derem France 25 4 Model Railway, 10.00 byrnesauctioneers.co.uk whittonandlaingauctioneers.co.uk 4 Pook & Pook USA 45 sheffieldauctiongallery.com 4 J. STUART WATSON AMERSHAM AUCTION ROOMS The Market Hall, Lockmeadow Leisure C & T AUCTIONEERS WILSON 55 SHOBROOK & CO. Station Road, Amersham-on-the-Hill, Complex, Barker Road, Maidstone, The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal Victoria Gallery, Market Street, Online Calendar: 20 Western Approach, Plymouth, Buckinghamshire, HP7 0AH. Kent, ME16 8LW. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8XJ. updated every week day. Devon, PL1 1TG. Tel: +44 (0)1494 729292 Tel: +44 (0)1622 831859 Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5DG. See antiquestradegazette. Tel: +44 (0)1233 510050 Tel: +44 (0)1752 663341 Victorian & Later Furnishings & Antique & Modern Furniture & Effects, Tel: +44 (0)1270 623878 com/calendar for all the latest sales dates Arms & Militaria, 10.30 General, 10.00 Desirable Objects, 10.00 10.00 Fashion, 14.00 candtauctions.co.uk 4 shobrook.co.uk amershamauctionrooms.co.uk 4 jstuartwatson.com wilson55.com 4

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FRIDAY MEWS AUCTION ROOMS WHITTON & LAING LITTLETON AUCTIONS W&H PEACOCK H&H AUCTION ROOMS JANUARY 8 Unit 7, Stenders Business Park, 32 Okehampton Street, Exeter, School Lane, Middle Littleton, Eastcotts Park, Wallis Way, Bedford, The Auction Centre, Rosehill Industrial The Stenders, Mitcheldean, Devon, EX4 1DY. Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 8LN. MK42 0PE. Estate, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1 2RS. Gloucestershire, GL17 0JE. Tel: +44 (0)1392 252621 Tel: +44 (0)1386 244379 Tel: +44 (0)1234 266366 Tel: +44 (0)1228 406320 ANGLIA CAR AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1594 544769 Books, Coins, Stamps & Militaria, Antiques, Furniture & Collectables, Furniture & Effects, 10.30 Antiques & Home Furnishings, 10.30 hhauctionrooms.co.uk The Cattlemarket, Beveridge Way, General, 10.30 10.00 10.00 peacockauction.co.uk 4 King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4NB. mewsauctions.co.uk whittonandlaingauctioneers.co.uk 4 littletonauctions.com 4 HANNAM’S AUCTIONEERS Tel: +44 (0)1553 771881 WELWYN GARDEN CITY AUCTIONS The Old Dairy, Norton Farm, Selborne, Modern Classic Cars, 10.00 NIGEL WARD & COMPANY MORPHETS Ludwick Family Centre, Hall Grove, Hampshire, GU34 3NB. angliacarauctions.co.uk 4 The New Salerooms, The Border SATURDAY 6 Albert Street, Harrogate, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Tel: +44 (0)1420 511788 Property Centre, Pontrilas, Hereford, JANUARY 9 North Yorkshire, HG1 1JL. AL7 4PH. Fine Art & Antiques, 10.00 BIGWOOD AUCTIONEERS HR2 0EH. Tel: +44 (0)1423 530030 Tel: +44 (0)20 8421 2298 hannamsauctioneers.com 4 The Old School, Tiddington, Tel: +44 (0)1981 240140 ANTIQUES 2 GO Design, 10.00 Antiques, Collectables, Ceramics & Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Modern Effects & Bric-a-Brac, 10.00 4 Village Hall, Upper Green, Moreton morphets.co.uk General, 16.00 L.S. SMELLIE & SONS CV37 7AW. nigel-ward.co.uk 4 Pinkney, Daventry, Northamptonshire, welwynauctions.co.uk 4 Lower Auchingramont Road, Tel: +44 (0)1789 269415 MURRAY’S NN11 3SG. Hamilton, Lanarkshire, ML3 6HW. Furnishings, Interiors & Collectables, POTTERIES AUCTIONS 8-10 Allan Street, Douglas, Isle of Tel: +44 (0)1327 871797 WILLINGHAM AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1698 282007 10.30 Unit 4A, Silverdale Enterprise Park, Man, IM1 3DQ. Antiques, 10.30 25 High Street, Willingham, General & Collectables, 09.30 bigwoodauctioneers.com 4 Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tel: +44 (0)1624 665550 hamiltonauctionmarket.com 4 antiques2go.co.uk Cambridge, CB24 5ES. Staffordshire, ST5 6SS. General, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1954 261252 BRITISH TOY AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1782 638100 murrays.im 4 NL AUCTION ROOMS ARTHUR JOHNSON & SONS General, 10.00 The Auction Centre, 9 Berkeley Court, Antiques, British Pottery, Collectables Lodge House, 9-17 Lodge Lane, The Nottingham Auction Centre, willinghamauctions.com 4 Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire, & Furniture, 10.00 NIGEL WARD & COMPANY London, N12 8JH. 4 Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2 3GY. WA7 1TQ. potteriesauctions.com The New Salerooms, The Border Tel: +44 (0)20 8445 9000 Tel: +44 (0)1159 869128 Tel: +44 (0)1928 579032 Property Centre, Pontrilas, Hereford, SUNDAY Antiques, 14.00 SMITHS Antiques & Furniture, 09.30 nl-auctionrooms.com 4 Toys, 11.00 HR2 0EH. JANUARY 10 16 Broad Street, Newent, arthurjohnson.co.uk 4 britishtoyauctions.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1981 240140

Gloucestershire, GL18 1AJ. Books, Paintings, Prints, Silver Plate & OAKHAM AUCTION CENTRE Tel: +44 (0)1531 821776 CARDIFF CITY AUCTIONS C.W. HARRISON & SON 16B Pillings Road, Oakham, Rutland, CHARTERHOUSE AUCTIONEERS Jewellery, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Unit 7, Clydesmuir Industrial Estate, Milner Way, Ossett, West Yorkshire, Leicestershire, LE15 6QF. The Long Street Salerooms, Long nigel-ward.co.uk 4 smithsnewentauctions.co.uk 4 Clydesmuir Road, Tremorfa, Cardiff, WF5 9JQ. Tel: +44 (0)1572 723569 Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3BS. CF24 2QS. Tel: +44 (0)1924 269599 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1935 812277 OTTERY AUCTION ROOMS SPICER’S AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS Tel: +44 (0)29 2046 5377 General, 10.00 oakhamauctioncentre.co.uk Antiques, Pictures, Books, Beswick & Escot Village Hall, Gosford Lane, The Exchange Saleroom, Exchange Household, Garage & Garden, 13.00 cwharrison.co.uk 4 Automobilia, 10.00 Ottery St Mary, Devon, EX11 1NA. PEMBRIDGE AUCTIONS Street, Driffield, East Yorkshire, cardiffcityauctions.com charterhouse-auction.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1404 811800 The Village Hall, Bearwood Lane, YO25 6LD. CARDIFF CITY AUCTIONS Antique, Vintage & Collectables Pembridge, Herefordshire, HR6 9EA. Tel: +44 (0)1377 593593 CLAYDON AUCTIONEERS 4 Unit 7, Clydesmuir Industrial Estate, DAVID DUGGLEBY otteryauctionrooms.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)7584 036874 / Victorian & Home Furnishings, 10.00 The Claydon Saleroom, Calvert Road, Clydesmuir Road, Tremorfa, Cardiff, The Saleroom, Vine Street, 4 +44 (0)7973 278282 spicersauctioneers.com Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, POTTERIES AUCTIONS CF24 2QS. Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Antiques & General, 17.00 MK18 2EZ. Unit 4A, Silverdale Enterprise Park, Tel: +44 (0)29 2046 5377 pembridgeauction.weebly.com YO11 1XN. SPINK & SON Tel: +44 (0)1296 714434 Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, General, Antiques & Collectables, Tel: +44 (0)1723 507111 67-69 Southampton Row, London, General Goods & Chattels, 09.00 Staffordshire, ST5 6SS. 13.00 SOUTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS Decorative, Antiques & Collectables, WC1B 4ET. claydonauctioneers.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1782 638100 cardiffcityauctions.com 55 High Street, London, N14 6LD. 11.00 Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Antiques, British Pottery, Collectables Tel: +44 (0)20 8886 7888 davidduggleby.com 4 Banknotes, Bonds, Shares & Coins, COTTEES & Furniture, 10.00 HARROGATE AUCTION CENTRE Antiques, Furniture & Effects, 14.00 10.00 4 Mannings Heath Road, Poole, Dorset, potteriesauctions.com 4 15 Hammerain House, Beech Avenue, southgateauctionrooms.com EMSWORTH AUCTIONS spink.com BH12 4NQ. Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8ER. Parish Hall, Church Path, Emsworth, TAYLORS AUCTION ROOMS Tel: +44 (0)1202 723177 RAMSAY CORNISH Tel: +44 (0)1423 872202 Hampshire, PO10 7DP. SUTTON HILL FARM COUNTRY Brent Avenue, Montrose, Angus, Toys, 10.00 15-17 Jane Street, Edinburgh, Antiques, 11.00 Tel: +44 (0)1243 376403 AUCTIONS DD10 9PB. cottees.co.uk 4 EH6 5HE. Antiques, Collectables, Curios, Coventry Road, Broughton Astley, harrogateauctioncentre.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1674 672775 Tel: +44 (0)131 553 7000 Vintage & General, 16.00 Leicester, LE9 6QD. Antiquarian Books, 10.00 DAVID DUGGLEBY Homes & Interiors, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1162 436922 MCTEAR’S taylors-auctions.com 4 ramsaycornish.com 4 HOLTS AUCTIONEERS Antiques, Silver, Jewellery & The Saleroom, Vine Street, Meiklewood Gate, 31 Meiklewood Army Reserve Centre, end of Adam Collectables, 10.00 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Road, Glasgow, G51 4EU. WEST OF ENGLAND AUCTIONS RYEDALE AUCTIONEERS & Eve Mews, Kensington, London, suttonhillfarmcountryauctions.com 4 YO11 1XN. Tel: +44 (0)141 8102880 3 Warren Road, Torquay, Devon, Cooks Yard, New Road, W8 6UG. Tel: +44 (0)1723 507111 Scottish Contemporary Art, 10.00 TQ2 5TQ. Kirkbymoorside, York, YO62 6DZ. 4 Tel: +44 (0)1485 542822 TENNANTS A: Art, 11.00 mctears.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)8000 235948 The Auction Centre, Harmby Road, B: Furniture & Interiors, 12.30 Tel: +44 (0)1751 431544 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Modern Sporting Guns & Accessories, Home & Interiors, 10.00 Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG. davidduggleby.com 4 PAX ROMANA westofenglandauctions.co.uk 11.00 ryedaleauctioneers.com 4 4 Tel: +44 (0)1969 623780 25 Bury Place, Bloomsbury, London, holtandcompany.co.uk WYE VALLEY AUCTIONS Country House Sale, 10.30 GOLDSMITHS WC1A 2JH. SPINK & SON Unit 5J, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, tennants.co.uk 4 The Auction Centre, Eastwood Tel: +44 (0)7424 994167 JACKSON, GREEN & PRESTON 67-69 Southampton Row, Ramsden Road, Hereford, HR2 6LR. Road, Oundle, Peterborough, Antiquities, Jewellery & Weapons, 41-45 Duncombe Street, Grimsby, London, WC1B 4ET. Tel: +44 (0)1432 275487 THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS Cambridgeshire, PE8 4DF. 10.00 Lincolnshire, DN32 7SG. Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 General, 18.00 The Dales Saleroom, Levens Hall Park, 4 Tel: +44 (0)1472 311115 Tel: +44 (0)1832 272349 paxromana.auction wyevalleyauctions.com Lund Lane, Killinghall, Harrogate, Banknotes, Bonds, Shares & Coins, Furniture, 10.30 General, 09.30 North Yorkshire, HG3 2BG. 10.00 jacksongreenpreston.co.uk goldsmithsofoundle.com WILSON 55 Tel: +44 (0)1423 709086 spink.com Victoria Gallery, Market Street, TUESDAY General Antiques & Effects, 11.30 JOHN NICHOLSON’S JANUARY 12 KINGHAM & ORME SUTTON HILL FARM COUNTRY Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5DG. thompsonsauctioneers.com The Auction Rooms, Midhurst Road, Davies House, Davies Road, Evesham, AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1270 623878 Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey, Books & Maps, 20.00 ALDRIDGES Worcestershire, WR11 1YZ. TW GAZE Coventry Road, Broughton Astley, GU27 3HA. wilson55.com 4 Phoenix House, Lower Bristol Road, Tel: +44 (0)1386 244224 Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, Leicester, LE9 6QD. Tel: +44 (0)1428 653727 Bath, Somerset, BA2 9ES. Interiors & Collectables, 10.00 Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN. Tel: +44 (0)1162 436922 4 General, 09.30 Tel: +44 (0)1225 462830 kinghamandorme.com Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306 Collectables, Jewellery, Silver, General 4 MONDAY Decorative & Household Furniture, johnnicholsons.com Household, White Goods & Furniture Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 JANUARY 11 10.00 KLM AUCTIONEERS 4 4 twgaze.co.uk suttonhillfarmcountryauctions.com aldridgesofbath.com 4 Unit 22, Moderna Business Park, LACY SCOTT & KNIGHT Moderna Way, Mytholmroyd, West The Auction Centre, 10 Risbygate GORRINGE’S WESSEX AUCTION ROOMS TENNANTS BEARNES HAMPTON & LITTLEWOOD Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Yorkshire, HX7 5QQ. Westbrook Farm, Draycot Cerne, The Auction Centre, Harmby Road, 15 North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, St. Edmund’s Court, Okehampton Tel: +44 (0)7775 943057 Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LH. IP33 3AA. Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG. BN7 2PD. Street, Exeter, Devon, EX4 1DU. Antiques, Collectables & Household, Tel: +44 (0)1249 720888 Tel: +44 (0)1284 748623 Tel: +44 (0)1969 623780 Tel: +44 (0)1273 472503 Tel: +44 (0)1392 413100 10.00 Toys, 10.30 Home & Interiors, 10.00 Jewellery, 10.00 Antiques & Fine Art, 10.00 Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 klmauctioneers.com wessexauctionrooms.co.uk 4 lskauctioncentre.co.uk 4 tennants.co.uk 4 gorringes.co.uk 4 bhandl.co.uk 4

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BISHOP & MILLER SPECIAL AUCTION SERVICES BURSTOW & HEWETT JEFFERYS TIM DAVIDSON DAVID STANLEY AUCTIONS Unit 19B, Charles Industrial Estate, Plenty Close, off Hambridge Lane, Abbey Auction Gallery, Lower Lake, 5 Fore Street, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, New Market House, Meadow Lane, Stordon Grange, Ashby Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5AH. Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5RL. Battle, East Sussex, TN33 0AT. PL22 0BP. Gotham, Nottingham, NG2 3GY. Osgathorpe, Loughborough, Tel: +44 (0)1449 673088 Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595 Tel: +44 (0)1424 772374 Tel: +44 (0)1208 871947 Tel: +44 (0)1159 868550 Leicestershire, LE67 5EU. Collectables, 10.00 A: Interiors, 10.00 Granary Sale, 09.00 Antique & Modern Furniture, Jewellery Cigarette & Trade Cards & Sports Tel: +44 (0)1530 222320 specialauctionservices.com 4 B: Asian Art, 14.00 burstowandhewett.co.uk 4 & Effects, 10.00 Memorabilia, 10.00 Antique & Modern Woodworking 4 bishopandmillerauctions.co.uk 4 jefferysauctions.co.uk 4 timdavidsonauctions.co.uk Tools, 09.30 SPINK & SON CHALKWELL AUCTIONS davidstanley.com 4 67-69 Southampton Row, London, TOOVEY’S BRETTELLS 2 Baron Court, Chandlers Way, JUBILEE AUCTION ROOMS WC1B 4ET. Spring Gardens, Washington, Auction Rooms, rear of 58 High Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 5SE. Phillips Yard, Pewsey, Wiltshire, FEATONBY’S AUCTIONEERS Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 3BS. Newport, Shropshire, TF10 7AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1702 613260 SN9 5NU. 50/50A Bedford Street, North Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Tel: +44 (0)1903 891955 Tel: +44 (0)1952 815925 Age Coinage, 14.00 Antiques, Interiors, Jewellery, Silver & Tel: +44 (0)1672 562012 Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE29 0AT. Silver, Plate & Jewellery, 11.00 General & Collectables, 10.00 spink.com Collectables, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 4 Tel: +44 (0)1912 522601 4 tooveys.com brettells.com chalkwellauctions.co.uk 4 jubileeauctions.com Jewellery, Stamps, Memorabilia, TAYLORS AUCTION ROOMS TW GAZE Coins & Collectables, 10.00 CURR & DEWAR Brent Avenue, Montrose, Angus, 4 CHAUCER AUCTIONS KINGSLAND AUCTION SERVICES Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, featonbys.co.uk DD10 9PB. 16A Tom Johnston Road, Dundee, Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, Shirlheath, Kingsland, Leominster, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN. Tel: +44 (0)1674 672775 Angus, DD4 8XD. Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5QW. Herefordshire, HR6 9RL. FELLOWS Domestic & Rural Bygones, Militaria, Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306 Tel: +44 (0)1382 833974 Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 Tel: +44 (0)1568 708564 Augusta House, 19 Augusta Street, Ethnic Art, Edged & Armed Weapons Vintage Fashion & Furnishings, 10.00 Antiques, 10.00 4 Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 6JA. taylors-auctions.com 4 Sport Autographs, 10.00 Antiques & General, 18.00 twgaze.co.uk curranddewar.com chaucercollectables.co.uk 4 kingslandauctions.com Tel: +44 (0)1212 122131 THOMAS N. MILLER UNIVERSAL PHILATELIC AUCTIONS Silver & Costume Jewellery, 09.00 4 GILDINGS Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle- CORBITTS MELLORS & KIRK 4 The Old Coal Yard, West End, fellows.co.uk The Mill, Great Bowden Road, upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE6 2UN. Britannia Hotel Newcastle Airport, The Auction House, Gregory Street, Northleach, Gloucestershire, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Tel: +44 (0)1912 658080 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, Nottingham, NG7 2NL. GL54 3HE. FIELDINGS AUCTIONEERS LE16 7DE. Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 NE1 8DJ. Tel: +44 (0)1159 790000 Tel: +44 (0)1451 861111 Mill Race Lane, Stourbridge, West 4 Tel: +44 (0)1858 410414 millersauctioneers.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1912 327268 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Postal, 17.00 Midlands, DY8 1JN. upastampauctions.co.uk 4 Racing Cars & Motorbikes, 10.00 Stamps, 10.00 mellorsandkirk.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1384 444140 4 THOMAS WATSON January Sale, 10.00 gildings.co.uk corbitts.com 4 The Gallery Saleroom, WARWICK & WARWICK 4 MOORE ALLEN & INNOCENT fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk HANNAM’S AUCTIONEERS Northumberland Street, Darlington, Ballroom, Court House, Jury Street, CUTTLESTONES The Salerooms, Norcote, Cirencester, The Old Dairy, Norton Farm, Selborne, Co. Durham, DL3 7HJ. Warwick, CV34 4EW. GARDINER HOULGATE Tel: +44 (0)1325 462559 Penkridge Auction Rooms, Pinfold Gloucestershire, GL7 5RH. Hampshire, GU34 3NB. Tel: +44 (0)1926 499031 Auction Rooms, 9 Leafield Way,Bath , Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Lane, Penkridge, Staffordshire, Tel: +44 (0)1285 646050 Tel: +44 (0)1420 511788 World Stamps, 10.00 Somerset, SN13 9SW. thomaswatson.com 4 ST19 5AP. Vintage & Antique Furniture, Interiors, Fine Art & Antiques, 10.00 warwickandwarwick.com Tel: +44 (0)1225 812912 Tel: +44 (0)1785 714905 Paintings & Prints, 10.00 hannamsauctioneers.com 4 Vintage & General, 11.00 UNIVERSAL PHILATELIC AUCTIONS Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 mooreallen.co.uk 4 WOOLLEY & WALLIS gardinerhoulgate.co.uk 4 4 The Old Coal Yard, West End, cuttlestones.co.uk 4 51-61 Castle Street, Salisbury, HOUSE & SON Northleach, Gloucestershire, REEMAN DANSIE Wiltshire, SP1 3SU. 11-14 Lansdowne House, Christchurch GL54 3HE. GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER DIX NOONAN WEBB 8 Wyncolls Road, Severalls Business Tel: +44 (0)1722 424500 Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, Tel: +44 (0)1451 861111 Auction Rooms, Old Wharf Road, 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London, Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9HU. Furniture, Clocks & Art, 10.00 BH1 3JW. Postal, 10.00 Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 7AA. W1J 8BQ. Tel: +44 (0)1206 754754 woolleyandwallis.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1202 298044 upastampauctions.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1476 565118 Tel: +44 (0)20 7016 1700 Toys, 10.00 Furniture, Porcelain, Silver, Jewellery, Collective Sale, 10.00 Orders, Decorations, Medals & reemandansie.com 4 Glass & Objets d’Art, 09.30 WATSONS THURSDAY goldingyoung.com 4 Militaria, 10.00 houseandson.com 4 Heathfield Auction Rooms, The JANUARY 14 ROBERTSONS Market, Burwash Road, Heathfield, dnw.co.uk HANNAM’S AUCTIONEERS East Sussex, TN21 8RA. Main Street, Kinbuck, Dunblane, LYON & TURNBULL The Old Dairy, Norton Farm, Selborne, Tel: +44 (0)1435 862132 DREWEATTS 1759 Perthshire, FK15 0NQ. AMERSHAM AUCTION ROOMS 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, Station Road, Amersham-on-the-Hill, Hampshire, GU34 3NB. General, 11.00 Donnington Priory Salerooms, Oxford Tel: +44 (0)1786 822603 EH1 3RR. 4 Buckinghamshire, HP7 0AH. Tel: +44 (0)1420 511788 watsonsauctioneers.com Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 2JE. Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 Tel: +44 (0)131 557 8844 Tel: +44 (0)1494 729292 Fine Art & Antiques, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1635 553553 kinbuckauctions.co.uk Modern Scotland: A Private Collection 19th & 20th Century Furnishings, hannamsauctioneers.com 4 Jewellery, Silver & Art, 10.30 of Scottish Art, 10.00 WEDNESDAY Collectables & Household Effects JANUARY 13 dreweatts.com 4 SILVERWOODS lyonandturnbull.com 4 amershamauctionrooms.co.uk 4 HANSONS Ribblesdale Centre, Lincoln Way, Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 1QD. MENDIP AUCTION ROOMS ANDERSON & GARLAND ANDERSON & GARLAND DE65 6LS. Tel: +44 (0)1200 423322 Rookery Farm, Roemead Road, Anderson House, Crispin Court, Auction Rooms, Old Wharf Road, Anderson House, Crispin Court, Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 Binegar, Somerset, BA3 4UL. Newbiggin Lane, Newcastle-upon- Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 7AA. Antiques & Memorabilia, 10.00 Newbiggin Lane, Newcastle-upon- Antiques, Collectables & Lady Harvey 4 Tel: +44 (0)1749 840770 Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE5 1BF. Tel: +44 (0)1476 565118 silverwoods.co.uk Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE5 1BF. Jones, 10.00 Victorian & Later Effects, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000 Collective Sale, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000 hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 4 4 SPECIAL AUCTION SERVICES mendipauctionrooms.co.uk 4 Town & County, 09.30 goldingyoung.com Pictures, 10.00 4 andersonandgarland.com Plenty Close, off Hambridge Lane, andersonandgarland.com 4 HENRY ADAMS AUCTIONS OMEGA AUCTIONS HALLS Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5RL. Baffins Hall, Baffins Lane, Chichester, BAMFORDS Sankey Valley Industrial Estate, Halls Holdings House, Bowmen Way, Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595 BAMFORDS West Sussex, PO19 1UA. The Derby Auction House, Chequers Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 3DR. Collectables, 10.00 The Derby Auction House, Chequers Junction Lane, Newton-le-Willows, Road, Derby, DE21 6EN. Tel: +44 (0)1243 532223 Tel: +44 (0)1743 450700 specialauctionservices.com 4 Road, Derby, DE21 6EN. Merseyside, WA12 8DN. Tel: +44 (0)1332 210000 Antiques, Fine Art & Maritime Items, Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1332 210000 Tel: +44 (0)1925 873040 Antiques, Interiors, Collectables & 10.00 4 TAYLORS AUCTION ROOMS Gentleman’s Library & Curiosities, Tony Prince Collection, 10.30 Estate, 10.00 hallsgb.com henryadamsfineart.co.uk 4 10.00 omegaauctions.co.uk 4 bamfords-auctions.co.uk 4 Brent Avenue, Montrose, Angus, bamfords-auctions.co.uk 4 HANNAM’S AUCTIONEERS DD10 9PB. HORNERS REEMAN DANSIE BOLDON AUCTION GALLERIES The Old Dairy, Norton Farm, Selborne, Tel: +44 (0)1674 672775 Acle Auction Gallery, Old Norwich BURSTOW & HEWETT 8 Wyncolls Road, Severalls Business 24A Front Street, East Boldon, Tyne & Hampshire, GU34 3NB. Antique & Quality Furnishings, Road, Acle, Norfolk, NR13 3BY. Abbey Auction Gallery, Lower Lake, Wear, NE36 0SJ. Tel: +44 (0)1420 511788 Jewellery & Fashion, 10.00 Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9HU. Battle, East Sussex, TN33 0AT. Tel: +44 (0)1493 750225 Tel: +44 (0)1206 754754 Tel: +44 (0)1915 372630 Fine Art & Antiques, 10.00 taylors-auctions.com 4 Furniture, Household Effects & Antiques, Interiors & General, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1424 772374 Toys, 10.00 hannamsauctioneers.com 4 Collectables, 10.00 4 Granary Sale, 09.00 4 boldonauctions.co.uk THOMSON RODDICK AUCTIONEERS 4 reemandansie.com burstowandhewett.co.uk 4 horners.co.uk HARTLEYS The Auction Centre, Burgh Road BOURNE END AUCTION ROOMS ROGERS JONES & CO. Victoria Hall, Little Lane, Ilkley, Estate, Marconi Road, Carlisle, JAMES BECK AUCTIONS Station Approach, Bourne End, C & T AUCTIONEERS West Yorkshire, LS29 8EA. Cumbria, CA2 7NA. The Saleroom, 33 Abergele Road, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5QH. The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal Cornhall, Cattle Market Street, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, LL29 7RU. Tel: +44 (0)1628 531500 Tel: +44 (0)1943 816363 Tel: +44 (0)1228 528939 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8XJ. Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 9AW. Tel: +44 (0)1492 532176 Home Furnishings & Collectables, Home Furnishings & Collectables, Coins, Medals, Toys & Collectables, Tel: +44 (0)1233 510050 Tel: +44 (0)1328 851557 Vintage & Antiques, 10.30 10.30 10.00 10.30 Vintage & Collectable Toys, 10.30 Furniture, Art & Collectables, 11.00 rogersjones.co.uk 4 bourneendauctionrooms.co.uk 4 hartleysauctions.co.uk thomsonroddick.com 4 candtauctions.co.uk 4 jamesbeckauctions.co.uk

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LOCKE & ENGLAND W&H PEACOCK HANSONS TENNANTS ELSTOB & ELSTOB AUCTIONEERS W&H PEACOCK 12 Guy Street, Leamington Spa, 75 New Street, St. Neots, Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, The Auction Centre, Harmby Road, Ripon Business Park, Charter Road, Eastcotts Park, Wallis Way, Bedford, Warwickshire, CV32 4RT. Cambridgeshire, PE19 1AJ. DE65 6LS. Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG. Ripon, North Yorkshire, HG4 1AJ. MK42 0PE. Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550 Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 Tel: +44 (0)1926 889100 Tel: +44 (0)1969 623780 Tel: +44 (0)1677 333003 Tel: +44 (0)1234 266366 Antiques, Furniture, Household, Household Furniture, Garden, Tools & Antiques, Collectables & Lady Harvey Collection of Natural History & Jewellery, Watches & Silver, 10.00 Furniture & Effects, 10.30 Jewellery, Garden & Tools, 11.00 Collectables, 10.00 Jones, 10.00 4 4 Taxidermy from Hodnet Hall, 10.30 elstobandelstob.co.uk 4 4 peacockauction.co.uk hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 4 peacockauction.co.uk leauction.co.uk tennants.co.uk 4 EXCALIBUR AUCTIONS WHITTAKER & BIGGS MARTEL MAIDES AUCTIONS J.S. FINE ART AUCTIONEERS The Auction Rooms, Brown Street, THE AUCTION CENTRE Unit 16, Abbots Business Park, SUNDAY The Auction Rooms, 40 Cornet Street, Cotefield Auction Rooms, Oxford Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 1QY. 9 Berkeley Court, Manor Park, Primrose Hill, Kings Langley, JANUARY 17 St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1LF. Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, Tel: +44 (0)1260 279858 Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 1TQ. Hertfordshire, WD4 8FR. Tel: +44 (0)1481 722700 OX15 4AQ. Antiques & Collectables, 09.00 Tel: +44 (0)1295 272488 Tel: +44 (0)1928 579796 Tel: +44 (0)20 3633 0913 Collectables, 10.00 whittakerandbiggs.co.uk CARDIFF CITY AUCTIONS 4 Antiques, Interiors & Collectables, British Toys, 10.00 Vintage Toys & Model Railways, 10.00 martelmaidesauctions.com Unit 7, Clydesmuir Industrial Estate, 10.00 theauctioncentre.co.uk 4 excaliburauctions.com 4 WILSON 55 4 Clydesmuir Road, Tremorfa, MCTEAR’S jsfineart.co.uk Victoria Gallery, Market Street, THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS HANSONS Cardiff, CF24 2QS. Meiklewood Gate, 31 Meiklewood Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5DG. JACKSON, GREEN & PRESTON The Dales Saleroom, Levens Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, Tel: +44 (0)29 2046 5377 Road, Glasgow, G51 4EU. Tel: +44 (0)1270 623878 41-45 Duncombe Street, Grimsby, Hall Park, Lund Lane, Killinghall, DE65 6LS. Tel: +44 (0)141 8102880 Fine & Classic, 14.00 General, Antiques & Collectables, Lincolnshire, DN32 7SG. Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2BG. A: Silver, 10.30 wilson55.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 13.00 Tel: +44 (0)1472 311115 B: Asian Art, 12.30 Tel: +44 (0)1423 709086 Burnaston Old Hall Collection, 10.00 cardiffcityauctions.com Furniture, 10.30 4 C: British & Continental Ceramics WOOLLEY & WALLIS General Antiques & Effects, 11.30 hansonsauctioneers.co.uk jacksongreenpreston.co.uk & Glass, 14.30 51-61 Castle Street, Salisbury, thompsonsauctioneers.com HARROGATE AUCTION CENTRE 4 Wiltshire, SP1 3SU. J.S. FINE ART AUCTIONEERS mctears.co.uk MCTEAR’S 15 Hammerain House, Beech Avenue, Tel: +44 (0)1722 424500 TW GAZE Cotefield Auction Rooms, Oxford Meiklewood Gate, 31 Meiklewood Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8ER. MELLORS & KIRK Furniture, Clocks & Art, 10.00 Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, 4 Road, Glasgow, G51 4EU. Tel: +44 (0)1423 872202 The Auction House, Gregory Street, woolleyandwallis.co.uk Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN. OX15 4AQ. Tel: +44 (0)141 8102880 Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306 Antiques, 11.00 Nottingham, NG7 2NL. A: Jewellery, 10.30 Tel: +44 (0)1295 272488 harrogateauctioncentre.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1159 790000 FRIDAY B: Art, Medals, Militaria & Furniture, Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 Antiques, Interiors & Collectables, 4 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 JANUARY 15 12.30 twgaze.co.uk 10.00 mellorsandkirk.com 4 4 4 WHITTAKER & BIGGS mctears.co.uk jsfineart.co.uk WESSEX AUCTION ROOMS The Auction Rooms, Brown Street, BAMFORDS MOORE ALLEN & INNOCENT The Derby Auction House, Chequers MEWS AUCTION ROOMS Westbrook Farm, Draycot Cerne, LEIGHTON HALL AUCTIONS Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 1QY. The Salerooms, Norcote, Cirencester, Road, Derby, DE21 6EN. Unit 7, Stenders Business Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LH. Newhouse Farm, Alton, Tel: +44 (0)1260 279858 Gloucestershire, GL7 5RH. Tel: +44 (0)1332 210000 The Stenders, Mitcheldean, Tel: +44 (0)1249 720888 Staffordshire, ST10 4AY. Antiques & Collectables, 09.00 Tel: +44 (0)1285 646050 Gloucestershire, GL17 0JE. Gentleman’s Library & Curiosities, Vinyl Records & Music Memorabilia, Tel: +44 (0)1538 710358 whittakerandbiggs.co.uk Vintage & Antique Furniture, Interiors, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1594 544769 10.30 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Paintings & Prints, 10.00 4 bamfords-auctions.co.uk General, 10.30 wessexauctionrooms.co.uk 4 leightonhallauctions.com 4 mooreallen.co.uk 4 mewsauctions.co.uk MONDAY BIGWOOD AUCTIONEERS LOWESTOFT AUCTION ROOMS JANUARY 18 NORTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS The Old School, Tiddington, NETHERHAMPTON SALEROOMS SATURDAY Pinbush Road Industrial Estate, 17 Northgate, Newark, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Salisbury Auction Centre, Salisbury JANUARY 16 Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 7NL. Nottinghamshire, NG24 1EX. CV37 7AW. Road, Netherhampton, Wiltshire, CHURCHILL AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1502 531532 Tel: +44 (0)1636 605905 Tel: +44 (0)1789 269415 SP2 8RH. Ambassador House, Hadden Hill, Long ANDREW SMITH & SON Antiques & General, 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 Furnishings, Interiors & Collectables, Tel: +44 (0)1722 342044 The Auction Rooms, Manor Farm, Wittenham Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire, northgateauctionroomsnewark.co.uk 4 10.30 General Household Furniture & lowestoftauctionrooms.com OX11 9BH. bigwoodauctioneers.com 4 Effects, 14.30 Itchen Stoke, Alresford, Hampshire, Tel: +44 (0)1235 812287 PHILIP SERRELL salisburyauctioncentre.co.uk 4 SO24 0QT. MENDIP AUCTION ROOMS The Saleroom, Barnards Green Road, BRIDPORT AUCTION HOUSE Tel: +44 (0)1962 735988 Rookery Farm, Roemead Road, Antiques & General, 10.00 Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3LW. 1 St. Michael’s Trading Estate, SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 Binegar, Somerset, BA3 4UL. churchillauctions.co.uk Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3RR. Tel: +44 (0)1684 892314 Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, andrewsmithandson.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1749 840770 Tel: +44 (0)1308 459400 Antiques & Fine Art, 10.00 South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 FREDERICK ANDREWS Antiques, Fine Art & Collectables, serrell.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1142 816161 ARTHUR JOHNSON & SONS mendipauctionrooms.co.uk 4 Unit 13, Duke of Clarence Trading 10.00 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 4 The Nottingham Auction Centre, Estate, High Street, Bluetown, bridportauctionhouse.com sheffieldauctiongallery.com 4 ROMA NUMISMATICS Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2 3GY. RINGWOOD AUCTIONS Sheerness, Kent, ME12 1RQ. 20 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6EJ. Tel: +44 (0)1159 869128 The Close, Ringwood, CHAUCER AUCTIONS SIDCUP AUCTION ROOMS Tel: +44 (0)1795 662741 Tel: +44 (0)20 7121 6518 Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street, Antiques & Furniture, 09.30 Hampshire, BH24 1LA. 14 Church Road, Sidcup, Kent, Antiques & General, 10.00 Coins, 12.00 Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5QW. arthurjohnson.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1425 480178 DA14 6BX. frederickandrews.uk romanumismatics.com Tel: +44 (0)8451 304094 Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)20 8302 4565 Autographs, 18.00 BIDDLE & WEBB ringwoodauctions.co.uk Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 GORRINGE’S SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY chaucercollectables.co.uk 4 Icknield Square, Ladywood sidcupauctions.co.uk Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, Middleway, Birmingham, West ROWLEY’S 15 North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. DAVID DUGGLEBY BN7 2PD. SPINK & SON Midlands, B16 0PP. 8 Downham Road, Ely, Tel: +44 (0)1142 816161 The Saleroom, Vine Street, 69 Southampton Row, Tel: +44 (0)1214 558042 Cambridgeshire, CB6 1AH. Tel: +44 (0)1273 472503 A: Silver & Jewellery, 10.00 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, London, WC1B 4ET. Interiors, 10.00 Tel: +44 (0)1353 653020 Antiques & Fine Art, 10.00 B: Collectable Coins & Stamps, 11.00 YO11 1XN. Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 biddleandwebb.co.uk 4 Antiques, Interiors & Collectables, gorringes.co.uk 4 sheffieldauctiongallery.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1723 507111 Country Pursuits, Militaria, Sporting World Banknotes, 14.00 10.00 spink.com CARDIFF CITY AUCTIONS rowleyfineart.com 4 H&H AUCTION ROOMS TAYLORS AUCTION ROOMS Guns & Taxidermy, 11.00 4 Unit 7, Clydesmuir Industrial Estate, Brent Avenue, Montrose, Angus, davidduggleby.com The Auction Centre, Rosehill Industrial SPORTINGOLD Clydesmuir Road, Tremorfa, Cardiff, SIDCUP AUCTION ROOMS DD10 9PB. Estate, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1 2RS. DURRANTS Kings Hotel, Oxford Road, CF24 2QS. 14 Church Road, Sidcup, Kent, Tel: +44 (0)1674 672775 Tel: +44 (0)1228 406320 The Old School House, Peddars Lane, Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, Tel: +44 (0)29 2046 5377 DA14 6BX. A: 19th & 20th Century Furniture & Antiques & Home Furnishings, 10.30 Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9UE. HP14 3TA. Interiors, 10.00 Household, Garage & Garden, 13.00 Tel: +44 (0)20 8302 4565 Tel: +44 (0)1502 713490 Tel: +44 (0)1494 565921 hhauctionrooms.co.uk B: Jewellery & Silver, 10.00 cardiffcityauctions.com Antiques & Collectables, 10.00 Antiques & Furniture, 10.00 Sporting Memorabilia, 09.00 4 sidcupauctions.co.uk taylors-auctions.com 4 sportingold.co.uk 4 HANSONS durrantsauctions.com CHIPPENHAM AUCTION ROOMS Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, Unit H, The Old Laundry, Ivy Road, TENNANTS THOMAS R. CALLAN FIELDINGS AUCTIONEERS TAYLORS AUCTION ROOMS Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1SB. DE65 6LS. 22 Smith Street, Ayr, Ayrshire, Mill Race Lane, Stourbridge, West Brent Avenue, Montrose, Angus, The Auction Centre, Harmby Road, Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 K A7 1TF. Midlands, DY8 1JN. DD10 9PB. Tel: +44 (0)1249 444544 Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG. Tel: +44 (0)1292 267681 Tel: +44 (0)1384 444140 Tel: +44 (0)1674 672775 Antiques, Jewellery, Silver & Tel: +44 (0)1969 623780 Antiques, Collectables & Lady Harvey Interiors, 10.00 January Sale, 10.00 Fashion, 10.00 Collectables, 10.00 Antiques & Interiors, 10.00 Jones, 10.00 trcallan.com 4 fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk 4 taylors-auctions.com 4 chippenhamauctionrooms.co.uk 4 tennants.co.uk 4 hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 4

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MALLAMS SOUTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS GARY DON SWORDERS Dunmore Court, Wotton Road, 55 High Street, London, N14 6LD. Curtis Buildings, Berking Road, off Cambridge Road, Stansted Tel: +44 (0)20 8886 7888 Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6BH. York Road, Leeds, LS9 9LF. Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8GE. Artist’s Resale Right Antiques, Furniture & Effects, 14.00 Tel: +44 (0)1235 462840 southgateauctionrooms.com 4 Tel: +44 (0)1132 483333 Tel: +44 (0)1279 817778 Household, 10.00 Oriental Art, Gold ,Silver, Artworks, Homes & Interiors, 10.00 Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette mallams.co.uk 4 WOTTON AUCTION ROOMS Furniture, Books, 10.00 sworder.co.uk 4 may mention Artist’s Resale Right (ARR). Tabernacle Road, Wotton-under- garydon.co.uk 4 NL AUCTION ROOMS Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 7EB. THOMAS N. MILLER Please refer to the information below Tel: +44 (0)1453 844733 Lodge House, 9-17 Lodge Lane, HANSONS Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle- Post Christmas Sale, 10.00 for details. London, N12 8JH. wottonauctionrooms.co.uk 4 Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE6 2UN. Tel: +44 (0)20 8445 9000 DE65 6LS. Tel: +44 (0)1912 658080 Living artists and the descendants of artists Antiques, 14.00 WYE VALLEY AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1283 733988 Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 deceased within the last 70 years are entitled Unit 5J, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, nl-auctionrooms.com 4 Antiques, Collectables & Lady Harvey millersauctioneers.co.uk 4 Ramsden Road, Hereford, HR2 6LR. to receive a resale royalty each time their Tel: +44 (0)1432 275487 Jones, 10.00 PAUL BEIGHTON AUCTIONEERS 4 THOMSON RODDICK AUCTIONEERS work is bought. The right applies only when General, 18.00 hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 16-18 Woodhouse Green, Thurcroft, wyevalleyauctions.com The Auction Centre, Burgh Road the sale price reaches or exceeds the sterling Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 9AQ. HRD AUCTION ROOMS Estate, Marconi Road, Carlisle, equivalent of €1,000 and is calculated on a Tel: +44 (0)1709 700005 TUESDAY The Auction Rooms, Quay Lane, Cumbria, CA2 7NA. Antiques & Collectables, 10.30 JANUARY 19 Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 0AT. Tel: +44 (0)1228 528939 sliding scale. pbauctioneers.co.uk 4 Tel: +44 (0)1983 402222 Home Furnishings & Interiors, 10.00 BRETTELLS Antiques & General, 10.00 thomsonroddick.com 4 Please note ARR is calculated in euros. PEMBRIDGE AUCTIONS Auction Rooms, rear of 58 High Street, hrdauctionrooms.co.uk 4 Auctioneers will apply current exchange rates. The Village Hall, Bearwood Lane, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 7AQ. WARRINGTON & NORTHWICH Pembridge, Herefordshire, HR6 9EA. Tel: +44 (0)1952 815925 KINGSLEY AUCTIONS AUCTIONS General & Collectables, 10.00 Royalty Resale price Tel: +44 (0)7584 036874 / 112-118 Market Street, Hoylake, 551 Europa Boulevard, Westbrook, brettells.com 4 +44 (0)7973 278282 Wirral, Merseyside, CH47 3BG. Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 7TP. 4% up to €50,000 Antiques & General, 17.00 Tel: +44 (0)1516 325821 Tel: +44 (0)1925 658833 CHORLEY’S 3% between €50,000.01 and €200,000 pembridgeauction.weebly.com Prinknash Abbey Park, Cheltenham, Antiques & Collectables, 11.00 Toys & Games, 10.00 Gloucestershire, GL4 8EU. kingsleyauctions.blogspot.co.uk warringtonauctions.co.uk 4 1% between €200,000.01 and €350,000 PIERS MOTLEY AUCTIONS Tel: +44 (0)1452 344499 Fine Art, Antiques, Silver, Jewellery & The Bicton Street Auction Rooms, PIERS MOTLEY AUCTIONS WATSONS 0.5% between €350,000.01 and €500,000 Books, 10.00 Exmouth, Devon, EX8 2RT. 4 The Bicton Street Auction Rooms, Heathfield Auction Rooms, The chorleys.com 0.25% in excess of €500,000 Tel: +44 (0)1395 267403 Exmouth, Devon, EX8 2RT. Market, Burwash Road, Heathfield, Antiques, Collectables & General, CHRISTIE’S Tel: +44 (0)1395 267403 East Sussex, TN21 8RA. Royalties are also capped so that the total amount of the royalty paid for 10.00 8 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QT. Antiques, Collectables & General, Tel: +44 (0)1435 862132 Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 any single sale of a work cannot exceed €12,500. ARR is exempt of VAT. piersmotleyauctions.co.uk 4 10.00 General, 11.00 Furniture, 10.00 4 4 christies.com piersmotleyauctions.co.uk watsonsauctioneers.com RICHARD WINTERTON The Lichfield Auction Centre, Wood CHURCHILL AUCTIONS POTBURYS WOTTON AUCTION ROOMS End Lane, Fradley Park, Lichfield, Ambassador House, Hadden Hill, Long Auction Room, Temple Street, Tabernacle Road, Wotton-under- Online Calendar: Staffordshire, WS13 8NF. Wittenham Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 9BN. Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 7EB. updated every week day. OX11 9BH. Tel: +44 (0)1543 251081 Tel: +44 (0)1395 517300 Tel: +44 (0)1453 844733 Tel: +44 (0)1235 812287 See antiquestradegazette.com/calendar Antiques, Home & Interiors, 09.30 Antiques & General, 10.00 General, 10.00 Post Christmas Sale, 10.00 for all the latest sales dates richardwinterton.co.uk 4 churchillauctions.co.uk potburysauctions.co.uk 4 wottonauctionrooms.co.uk 4

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by Joan Porter Far left: getting ready for the reopening in early December is Martin Dunster of the Lostwithiel Antiques Centre with a friend At the end of lockdown on lending support. December 2 in England, Cornwall Left: this pair of handsome mid-20th was in Tier 1 and was moved into century Italian terracotta hounds costs Tier 2 on December 26. £475 at Ludgate House Antiques. Here, we talk to two antiques businesses in the county about how trade is for them. face relationships are crucial while Annette and Martin Dunster developing new contacts.” own the Lostwithiel Antiques Ralph added: “We managed to Centre which they bought last year. hold our second Enys House antiques Originally from London and then the and decorative fair in September Bath area, they moved to Cornwall which was a great success and very 15 years ago, opening their centre in a Mallet to Malvern and up to Lincoln Falmouth. Ralph said: “As a small much welcomed by the locals and former boatyard. The Dunsters said: and then down to Brighton and on business we did qualify for the grant, other dealers. Everyone had been “Cornwall has been crazy with visitors to Oxford where we have an interior which was welcomed and gave us a shut away for so long and made the and we’ve sold a lot of stock, including designer client.” push to build a website, but we still most of it. We also noticed the age a Mongolian decorated chest at A flood in Lostwithiel last month think a shop window that’s ever- range was a lot younger, which is £1200. Particularly good sellers are had little effect on the centre and it is changing and interesting is a must. great.” n garden pieces, even in winter. We’ve business as usual. “We love our shop and will be been all round the country sourcing Nicki and Ralph Retallack here for years to come. We have very lostwithielantiquecentre.com stock at fairs including from Shepton own Ludgate House Antiques in loyal customers and building face-to- ludgatehouseantiques.com

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1. A member of staff from Constantine‘intention with one of the to mislead’ logistics firms’ crates. 2. A CGI of Constantine’s plannedby ArtRoland Store Arkell LHR which will open near Heathrow in spring 2021. A Unesco campaign aimed at increasing border 3. One of the additions to the vehiclepublic fleet awareness at of looted art is threatening Deal or no-deal, logistics firms are as prepared as they can be for any Constantine. to backfire after it emerged the ‘stories’ told in its adverts were fabricated. 4. Gander & White’s Sonja Kappenburg in Paris. eventuality for Brexit post-December 31 and have continued to deliver Three of the objects chosen for the October 5. Packing cases in Gander & Whitecampaign’s Wandsworth were long-time exhibits from the art, antiques and collectables to buyers across the land even through warehouse – one of four warehousesMetropolitan in the UK. Museum of Art in New York and had been misrepresented. Other pieces came from stock the pandemic. Here they share their experience of this unprecedented 6. The Guggenheim in Bilbao. Ganderimage &sites White and workshad not been stolen. year and their predictions for 2021 with Laura Chesters. with a number of museums aroundCINOA, the world. the international federation of art and 4 5 6 antiques dealers associations, filed a formal complaint with Unesco on November 15. It described the campaign as “fraudulent, with the desired intention to mislead the public on the provenance of works of art and to damage the credible reputation Acton in west London, birthplace of The Who Gander & White, says the preparations are ongoing in the summer with a new temporary procedure that Gander & White’s Khureya says: “Air freight This could mean longer journey times due to Continued on page 4 and home of Arthur Daley’s car lot in Minder, is for the worst-case scenario of no-deal and “if it is can be completed online. capacity is still very limited and very expensive. delays or more expensive trips for consignors of actually a frontier – a new border with Europe. anything better than no-deal then that is a bonus”. The British Art Market Federation (BAMF) Some clients are waiting for rates to reduce. If goods. Danish logistics firm DFDS is promoting Inside logistics firm Hedley’s warehouses near We would love to see export He says customs agents have been trained and and its association members have been lobbying freight rates were cheaper we would have much a new direct Ireland to BADAFrance freight hiresferry route first Pick Park Royal, trucks loaded with art and antiques “licences electronically more have been hired as well as the KAP being in Arts Council England and the government for this more movement in the market.” between Rosslare and Dunkerque that offers of the are processed to travel into Europe just as if they stamped and that they remain place. As with Hedley’s, Khureya adds: “Before to become fully digitised permanently. Drivers have been encouraged to look at other “lorries and their driversfemale direct and paperless chairman were in Dover about to embark. you depart all the forms are completed beforehand James Simmons, marketing manager at Mail options other than the usual Kent to France routes. transport between EU countries”. week The same procedures are happening in many as digital applications so the truck is ready to go rather than things being Boxes Etc, says: “The full impact of Brexit will David Forster, who runs delivery firm Art Move No-one really can anticipateby Laura whatChesters will happen logistics warehouses around the country, including checked in Dover causing hold-ups.” not be known until after the transition period UK from his home in Hexham, Northumberland, next year but some believe France will become at Gander & White’s Wimbledon warehouses. There is one thing on Khureya’s Christmas wish ends. There will undoubtedly be more paperwork said: “We have been told to consider avoiding a bigger hub for art andThe antiques British logisticsAntique Dealers’ over Association (BADA) De Morgan charger The preparations are all in place for Brexit and list, however: digital export licences. to prepare and process and changes in how VAT Dover and seek alternative routes to Europe such London. has appointed Louise Phillips as its new chairman, taking over from Michael Cohen. when the transition period ends on December 31: “We can clear customs in our warehouses He adds: “We would love to see export licences is applied for remote bidders requiring shipping as via Hull or Newcastle to Amsterdam via ferry. Hedley’s Jaques says: “CurrentlyCohen steps items down goafter seven years in the role from January onwards cargo moving between before leaving for the ports. We are prepared as we electronically stamped and that they remain as outside of the UK and carriers may change their “However, even from where we are based in through London and then into Europe, but items swoops to £27,000 and the changes were announced at BADA’s AGM the UK and the EU will have to undergo customs can be. The warehouses have been ready from the digital applications. There is a lot of lobbying prices. Northumberland, this option is treble the cost. for Europe from elsewhere in the world will on December 1. “We almost never see De Morgan pieces over Turkey, attracted by these British interpretations formalities and border control. beginning of this year but lockdown has eaten into around this issue and it is vital that we can “We also predict a shift from scheduled road Dover to France is around £200 compared with probably go through FrancePhillips first is anda second-generation only items antiques dealer: here,” said James Bridges, director of Martel of the Iznik style, bought five pieces. They Elaine Phillips Antiques was established by her Hedley’s Group general manager Victor Jaques the time that was the so-called transition period.” continue to access these licences online.” freight to airline shipping, especially in the early over £1000 to Amsterdam on the ferry. direct for the UK will come to London. This could Maides on Guernsey. At least, not until he was included a 14in (36cm) diameter ruby and gold mother in the 1960s and specialises in 17th and 18th says: “The border becomes our warehouse. From The Kent Access Permit (KAP), a document Art, antiques and collectables more than 50 years days while ports become congested, with officials “This makes things difficult for customers as be a major shift in our operations and we may well asked to clear a near-derelict house on the island lustre charger in the ‘Frightened Bird’ pattern next year it is very strict about when the vehicles that logistics drivers must have before heading to old deemed cultural goods must be accompanied by checking paperwork is correct and complete.” we have to pass on the cost. It is still cheaper to recruit there.” century oak furniture and decorative items. Louise joined the firm in 1985 after a career in PR and and found a collection of six lustre dishes by the (detail shown) at £27,000 (plus 17.5% buyer’s can come in and out and it is all in place ready for the ports in Kent, means all the online forms are an export licence from the Arts Council if they are drive all the way down to Kent from the north of Hedley’s currently has four operations in Air freight cost marketing in the fashion industry. Victorian art potter lining a staircase. premium). Brexit. In future the processes for Europe may be completed beforehand. to be exported. The Export Licensing Unit (ELU), England, go to France and drive back up into the See page 8 Continued on page 5 On November 25, a determined bidder from as they are for Switzerland currently. Victor Khureya, executive operations director at which closed under the March lockdown, reopened But many firms have noted the rising costs. Netherlands than take the ferry option.” Continued on page 28

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MADAM – Your comprehensive News at all – and is coverage of the recent Unesco evasive when Left: News, potential to improve matters debacle in last week’s issue ( Unesco looted art campaign a ‘fabrication’ ATG challenged Continued from front page ATG No 2471. considerably. of the art trade and collectors.” No 2471) successfully raises ongoing Unesco launched its ‘The Real Price of Art’ campaign over this with agency DDB Paris on With all of this and more, it is no October 20 “to make the concerns about the organisation’s general public and art lovers aware of the devastation of the figure. history and identity of peoples surprise that Our World Heritage wreaked by the illicit trade in behaviour and attitudes. cultural goods”. It marked the 50th This anniversary of the Convention (ourworldheritage.org), a new non- on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, According to this Unesco advert the funerary relief Unesco is reported as saying that pictured (left) in a contemporary home was ‘stolen Export and Transfer of in the National Museum of Palmyra by Islamic State challenged, is approach has Ownership of Cultural governmental organisation of hugely Property adopted in 1970. militants during their occupation of the city, before Five adverts were created, being smuggled into the European market’. The same it discussed the use of all images and piece is listed (above) on the Met website where it says each picturing an object copied the piece entered the museum collection in 1901. self-defeating been adopted into the living room of an art experienced experts in this field, hnefatafl – or justcollector, telling the story of a toy instead texts “of the current campaign” with antiques stolen in the Middle Museum. In 2001, a large part Unesco said it “regrets the use these publications were persist in publishing false East, Africa, Europe, Asia and of its collections was smashed of Met images that caused any modified.” information and go to such as well as for some Latin America. into pieces by the Taliban. As misunderstanding”. IAADA, which has long lengths to do so? Why not has just set up in direct competition the group was overthrown later It read: “In an initial version questioned Unesco’s claims simply publish the real evidence Adverts pulled all institutions concerned. Is the that year, this priceless item was of Unesco’s campaign, the ‘Real regarding the scale of the looted instead?” However, by mid-November, looted by local dealers and Price of Art’, some posters art problem, points out that ‘The real issue’ damaging time. When Unesco had pulled back the smuggled into the US market.’ displayed items from the copies of the original posts are because, as its spokesman stated, the posts after it emerged only one In fact, excavated during the Metropolitan Museum of Art available on multiple sites Asked to comment, Unesco “current campaign” the final version of the five objects used in the 1927-28 Trinkler expedition, it database that is in the public online. told ATG: “The use of all images campaign – the Righteous Judges has been in the Met’s collection domain. The association also and texts of the current challenged about its cavalierpanel from the Ghent since 1930. “Unesco’s intention was to contends that some of the items campaign were discussed with to effective protection of vulnerable sites had Altarpiece missing since 1934 Similarly, a funerary alert the general public by used as replacements also all institutions concerned. of what appeared, or does it include – had actually been stolen as the monument from Palmyra was depicting objectspolicy of high amount toand fabrications. its“The credibility artworks shown were in tackling text suggested. said to have been ‘stolen by cultural value, which should be The Met’s Baule moon mask all stolen or reported missing at approach to statistics andMembers of the Internationalthe Islamictruth, State militants during on display in museums, was replaced by an early 20th some point, some are still now become of “secondary interest” Association of Dealers in their occupation of the city, presented in luxurious private century Téé Gla war mask with categorised as stolen or missing the campaigns exposed as fake? Ancient Art quickly identified before being smuggled into the interiors. Unescocrime. had no the text again saying it had been (Africa, Europe) but for others three of the pieces as those in European market’ while a Baule intention of questioning the looted in Abidjan in 2010. (South America and Arab Unesco claims that thethe Met collectionfigures and another moon maskdon’t from the Ivory provenance of items in the Met However, IAADA tracked the States) we have used restituted to Unesco. (a pre-Columbian face jar) that Coast region was accompanied collection. piece to the city’s Musée des artworks, and this is noted in had been sourced from by the information it had been “After discussions with the Civilisations and contacted the the text, either explicitly or Did those institutions agree to the commercial image bank Alamy. ‘looted in Abidjan as fighting Met, which is a valuable partnerBy curator attempting who confirmed it had implicitly. to shame private For example, the image of a took place following the to Unesco, and in order to avoid not been stolen and remained in “We would prefer to discuss matter and the evidence5th or 6th centuryof Hadda the stone electoral extent crisis of 2010-11’. any misunderstanding, Unesco the collection. the real problem – art The art trade has still not had a head of Buddha was pictured More correctly, the Palmyra decided to remove all pictures IADAA’s spokesmen told trafficking and how to tackle it adoption of fabricated text to mislead alongside the headline relief had been in the Met since of items from thecollectors Met collection. ATG: “Unesco keeps claimingand effectively. the The illicit art trade in market ‘Terrorism is such a great 1901 and the mask in private Only three magazines [carrying that evidence of trafficking cultural property has exploded proper explanation or apology from of looting and traffickingcurator’ and the textis ‘This allhands sincethere 1954. the adverts] had already been involving the art market is so in recent years – this is the the public? antiquity belongs to the Kabul In a statement on its website, printed. The digitalthey versions of widespreadlose and clear. the If so, why realgoodwill issue.” of the very

to see.* When first published in October, this Unesco poster Unesco about how this advertising News titled ‘How do you erase an entire culture? Piece by Unesco’s explanation also avoids piece’ featured a Baule moonpeople mask (left) from the Met they should be working in collection. Using the same text detailing the theft of the piece campaign came to be used to from the Ivory Coast capital during a political crisis, a the question of how and why: Freely available evidence second version of the posterpartnership was created to include with. a Téé Gla war mask (right) from the We Guéré people. However, it too has not been stolen and remains in the celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Musée des Civilisations in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. – The Met was not consulted over Unesco told ATG: “The use of the imageAt of the the recent cultural heritage African mask, as well as the text, were discussed and If so, why continue to quote bogus agreed with the museum, a long-standing partner that Convention. This evasion and lack of fully supports our campaign.” Left: the Anglo-Saxon ‘gaming MADAM – I read with interest your the use of its images; conference hosted by Latvia, where figures to make a point,4 | 12 December and 2020 why not antiquestradegazette.com self-awareness does not bode well for – very specific claims were made Unesco director Lazare Eloundou publish such freely available evidence the future. about each piece that turned out to be Assomo told the audience that rather than risking the exposure of fabricated; and member states had applauded the two fraudulent campaigns in a row? Joanna van der Lande – Unesco made false claims campaign, he also said that he Chairman piece’ (or otherwise) sold article about the ‘Bradwell chess Making moves If,for as Unesco concludesAnglo-Saxon in your ‘chess piece’ directly accusing the art market of wanted to make a clear distinction report, it “would preferMany to high-status discuss male burials Antiquities Dealers’Left: Association the Bradwell being complicit in criminalan armed activity rider sitting astride between the legitimate art market the real problem – ofart thetrafficking period includeand the involving these pieces. his horse. Not unlike the and criminals. And yet by Unesco Chess Piece, an by Roland Arkell how to tackle it effectively”, it surely * BBC World Service, Business Daily Unesco had already stated that the remains of a board onstating which on a its website that: “Unesco’s Anglo-Saxon bronze depiction of themust mounted understand that accuracy – Zombie Statistics on February 20, 2019. piece’ (News, ATG No 2470, and items pictured in the second version table-top game similarintention to chess was to alert the public by gaming piece sold for for £95,000 by TimeLine has warrior on the Suttonfacts and Hoo figures – matters, and that During this interview, Lazare Eloundou Estimated atof £6000-8000, the campaign were an all looted, when was played. depicting objects of high cultural £95,000 at TimeLine. helmet, he has centre-partedcontinuing to present a false picture Assomo was challenged over the inaccuracy Anglo-Saxontwo bronze of the threegaming items pictured had “Later examplesvalue, use which should be on display bobbed hair, largeof what pellet is goingeyes on, even when of the figures Unesco had been promoting piece – a metal-detectingnot been. find in museums, presented in luxurious miniature carved figures since 2011. (See https://bbc.in/2Jj9yqg It also claims to be actingand ina moustache.the private interiors...”, it implies Unesco Letters, ATG No 2472). for the consignor – sold for instead of counters – such as 5 mins 20 secs in). His response: “I don’t generated plenty of debate. public interest, yet has been shown is hostile to there being an art market £95,000 (plus premium) at Sutton Hoo connection the famous 12th century set of think we should enter into a debate about to be using public money to mislead and private collectors. TimeLine in Harwich, Essex character figures carved in whether these figures are right or not the general public in a lessAnglo-Saxon than art specialist on November 24. right.” While stating that “today we do transparent way. ivory, discovered onThe the priorities Isle of As detailed by a report from Stephen Pollington, co-author not consider it any more important to It is an intriguing object, I see It continues to promoteof the Wayland’s figure Work: Anglo-Saxon Lewis. It seems possibleAs associations that such as ours have concentrate on figures”, he claims that the Portableof Antiquities $10bn as the Scheme annual value of illicit Unesco must surelythis figure was intendedargued forfor yearsa now, prioritising Art, Myth and Material Culture looting has increased, a claim immediately The Morris label included in thetrade lot, in it cultural was dug property up globally understand thatsimilar function.” Unesco’s objectives as set out in 4th-7th Century, believes it may challenged by the interviewer, who says: near Bradwell,when Great it has Yarmouth, been advised that its accuracy“ – facts and the 1970 convention, especially TimeLine dubbed the piece be an early English chess piece. “How do you know… you don’t have a in July 2015source and camefor this for does sale not claim that figures – matters protecting vulnerable sites, under from the description you give that it “The purpose of the piece the ‘Bradwell Chess Piece’ global figure and you don’t support the 2011 its Article 5 obligations, has the from the finder. with the cataloguer describing [Unecso report] figure?” The 1¾in (5cm) miniature must remain the object of speculation but one context it as “an excessively rare sculpture, dating to the 6th-7th museum-quality object”. century AD,Re-writing takes the form of suggests the itself history immediately. of chess... or not is made of bronze, is about 5cm in News is from later date MADAM – I read ATG for my education: it’s always thought-provoking. of these constraints making a single, chewed, c.1170 Making moves for Anglo-Saxon ‘chess piece’ by Roland Arkell an armed rider sitting astride Many high-status male burials Lewis chess piece cheap at £735,000. his horse. Not unlike the of the period include the depiction of the mounted In ATG No 2470 you reported on the Bradwell ‘chess Estimated at £6000-8000, an remains of a board on which a Left: the Bradwell warrior on the Sutton Hoo table-top game similar to chess Chess Piece, an Anglo-Saxon bronze gaming helmet, he has centre-parted Were the Bradwell find accepted as a chess piece it piece – a metal-detecting find was played. Anglo-Saxon bronze length, and is dated to the 6th to 7th bobbed hair, large pellet eyes gaming piece sold for piece’ which sold for £95,000 against a £6000-8000 “Later examples use for the consignor – sold for and a moustache. £95,000 (plus premium) at miniature carved figures £95,000 at TimeLine. would reduce one’s respect for the Anglo-Saxon mind, TimeLine in Harwich, Essex Sutton Hoo connection instead of counters – such as estimate. Uniquely, when reading ATG the famous 12th century set of on November 24. Anglo-Saxon art specialist , I thought, ‘That’s As detailed by a report from character figures carved in Churchill oil provescasting the samethe shadow overtoast intellect and imagination of ModernStephen Pollington, co-author ivory, discovered on the Isle ofBritish the Portable Antiquities Scheme much too cheap.’ of Wayland’s Work: Anglo-Saxonguide Lewis. Itat seems possiblethe that timed-online auction that included in the lot, it was dug up Art, Myth and Material Culture the autumn Modern Britishnear Bradwell,evening Great Yarmouth, sale this figure was intended for a as does a novelty Napoleonic chess set in an oligarch’s 4th-7th Century, believes it may similar function.” in July 2015 and came for sale be an early English chess piece. If this were an early Anglo-Saxon chess piece it from the finder. closedTimeLine on dubbed theNovember piece 17, it was knocked “The purpose of the piece the ‘Bradwell Chess Piece’ The 1¾in (5cm) miniature must remain the object of by Alex Capon drawing room. moving to January. sculpture, dating to the 6th-7th with the cataloguer describing speculation but one context would re-write the history of chess and of A-S culture so century AD, takes the form of it as “an excessively rare suggests itself immediately.down to a US private collector at century AD. museum-quality object”. MADAM – Re: your article on the William completely that its value would far exceed £95,000; but it I would suggest he’s Favourite tipple £800,000, the fourth-highest price at isn’t a chess piece, is it? Nick MacKinnon Churchill oil proves the toast of Modern British A total of £9.23mWest was Yorkshire raised from the Above: News, ATG No 2471.auction for the war-time prime minister Sotheby’s (26/21/14.9% buyer’s by Alex Capon the autumn Modern British evening sale The attraction of the Lewis chessmen lies in guide at the timed-online auction that moving to January. latest dedicated sales of Modern British and amateur artist. closed on November 17, it was knocked A total of £9.23m was raised from theFavourite tipple down to a US private collector at personality subjected to symbolic form; they must fit on premium) sale raised £5.65m with 110latest dedicated sales of Modern British £800,000, the fourth-highest price at Sotheby’s (26/21/14.9% buyer’s in the header, the lotart description at Sotheby’s and Bonhams initself did not suggestauction thefor the war-time prime minister premium) sale raised £5.65m with 110 art at Sotheby’sATG and replies: Bonhams Other board in games were played in Britain London. Bonhams’ (27.5/25/20/14.5%and amateur artist. buyer’s of the 145 lots (76%) sold. Top lot was De Morgan ‘Frightened Bird’ dish (above) I would suggest that, if this piece a square and act as mathematical abstractions. Although the November sales were Bonhams’ (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s of the 145 lots (76%) sold. Top lot was the 20 x 14in (51 x 35.5cm) oil on canvas item was used to playshy of top-endchess. works as vendors It remainincluded an extract frompremium) sale on November 18 was a board Jug with Bottles by Sir Winston before chess arrived. cautious during the lockdown, the live auction but with no clients permitted London. premium)Churchill (1874-1965) sale which onincluded November 18 was a The horse in the Bradwell ‘Knight’ (foreshortened in overall take was respectable with a good in the room (bidding was conducted via his tipple of choice, a bottle of Johnnie the 20 x 14in (51 x 35.5cm)Anglo-Saxon oil on canvas specialistnumber of individualStephen works performing Pollington’s reportphone, (which internet and commissions). It Walker Black Label. Our report states that auction house TimeLine dubbed relatively well. generated a total of £3.58m with 60 of Although the November sales were Painted at Chartwell in 1930, it was your photo) is too long and disappointingly literal as a Christie’s did notlive hold an auction, auction but withthe 70no lots sold (86%)clients sold. permitted given to the American railway heir either a model or Jug with Bottles weby also Sir quoted): Winston “Thehaving purposeshifted its calendar last ofyear with the piece must remainThe auction was led by a fine view of board Averell Harriman who served as a special the item ‘the Bradwell Chess Piece’ and it is no accident the Old City and Cathedral in Ronda, Spain envoy to Europe in the 1940s. It was sold symbolic form when it is precisely the Anglo-Saxonshy of top-endlove works as vendors remain in the room (biddingby wasDavid Bomberg conducted (1890-1957) from via at Sotheby’s New York in 1997 for the object of speculationLeft: Jug with Bottles but one context suggests itself1935 that sold above estimate at by Sir Winston $165,000 (£100,815). that our headline put ‘chess piece’ betweenChurchill single (1874-1965) inverted which includedChurchill – £800,000 at Sotheby’s. £640,000. It was also bought by a US Offered with a £150,000-250,000 of zoo-morphic abstraction that is so thrillingcautious about their during the lockdown, the immediately. Many high-statusphone, male burialsinternet of the and periodprivate collector.commissions). It sold for £27,000 at Martel Maides (Pick of dates to the 6th or 7th century, it is too commas to indicate the sobriquet and our article used the his tipple of choice, a bottle of Johnnie art; and precisely its mathematical abstractionoverall that is take so was respectable with a good include‘We arethe lookingremains forward of a board to generatedwelcoming on which Christmas a table-topa total shopping gameof £3.58mcustomers’ with 60 of term ‘gaming piece’. Continued from front page interesting about chess, with the simultaneous solution Walker Black Label. Worcestershire is in tier “ two, allowing B2B Events to British art selling show in number of individual works performing similarare looking to forward chess to its was played.”the 70 lots sold (86%) sold. hold its December 13 Left: the Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery To be fair to TimeLine, beyond the poetic licence used return as they haven’t had one Malvern Painted at Chartwell in 1930, it Fleawas at the Three Counties Malvern Flea which had been postponed in to attend.” Showground with both inside will run at the November. It is now resched So,Indoor indeed, events, such as fairs not chess. - relatively well. and outside dealers. Organiser The auction Threewas Counties leduled for Januaryby 9-23, a 2021, fine as view of in conference centres, may be Helen Yourston said: “We are Showground on Bath is in tier two. Mitton said: given to the American able railway to go ahead subject to local heir really pleased we will go ahead December 13. “I am delighted that the show antiquestradegazette.com restrictions and tier levels. In and we are looking forward to possibly a toy will now be able to go ahead. It Christie’s did not hold an auction, tiers one and two, public the Old City and Cathedral in Ronda, Spain welcoming regulars and new feels like an optimistic way to attendance at ‘business events’ continue. Helen Carless, the market was proving the Week, ATG No 2471). early for chess. The parallel with the Christmas customers.” start the New Year. In the Averell Harriman who served as a special can resume, but are limited to chairman and managing Auction houses will be able remarkably robust: “Our meantime, business has been 50% capacity or 1000 people director of Lawrences of having shifted its calendar last year with to hold viewings and have by David Bomberggeneral sale (November 25) carrying(1890-1957) on behind closed from indoors, whichever is lower. Crewkerne and chairman of limited numbers inside their 19 Decemberwas only 6% unsold 2019 with an doors in a Covid-safe way.” envoy to Europe in the 1940s.However, indoor It public was sold the Society of Fine Art increased average lot price – | 43 premises once more. The new regulations gatherings such as ‘large Auctioneers and Valuers, despite nobody being able to Many successfully held 1935welcomed the news that and said sold abovementioned estimate above affect at business events’ are not allowed view or bid in person.” online-only auctions during the firm will resume viewings England only. Devolved in tier three. Art dealer Freya Mitton has at Sotheby’s New York in 1997 lockdown for and this is likely toin its premises. She added that nations of the UK have their 4 | 5 December 2020 £640,000.been planning It a Modernwas ownalso restrictions. bought by a US $165,000 (£100,815). antiquestradegazette.com Left: Jug with Bottles by Sir Winston private collector. Lewis Chessmen is unfounded; they Offered with a £150,000-250,000 The label on the back of the charger Churchill – £800,000 at Sotheby’s. are from the 12th century, much later. bone counter found at Lyminge in armies are typically represented by can’t be the original label from the 1890s

‘We are looking forward to welcoming Christmas shoppingBritish customers’ art selling show in Worcestershire is in tier the Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery Chess didn’t reach England till at least KentContinued from fronta page few years ago, from TaplowLeft: plain pieces. since the Morris & Co shop on George two, allowing B2B Events to Malvern Flea which had been postponed in Malvern November. It is now resched - are looking forward to its hold its December 13 will run at the at the Three Counties uled for January 9-23, 2021, as return as they haven’t had one Flea Three Counties Bath is in tier two. Mitton said: the 10th century, if not the 11th. into attend.”Buckinghamshire,Showground with both inside or from ShowgroundSutton on My opinion is that, on present Street was opened in 1917. “I am delighted that the show Indoor events, such as fairs and outside dealers. Organiser December 13. will now be able to go ahead. It in conference centres, may be Helen Yourston said: “We are feels like an optimistic way to able to go ahead subject to local really pleased we will go ahead and we are looking forward to start the New Year. In the Is it a gaming piece, then (as your Hoo.restrictions and tier levels. In continue. Helen Carless, the market was proving evidence, if the horseman is dated to I don’t think there is anything underhand meantime, business has been tiers one and two, public welcoming regulars and new remarkably robust: “Our chairman and managing carrying on behind closed attendance at ‘business events’ Christmas customers.” general sale (November 25) Auction houses will be able director of Lawrences of doors in a Covid-safe way.” can resume, but are limited to was only 6% unsold with an to hold viewings and have Crewkerne and chairman of The new regulations article calls it)? I don’t personally 50% capacity or 1000 people the Society of Fine Art increased average lot price – the 6th to 7th century, he is probably going on here. I also have a charger with mentioned above affect indoors, whichever is lower. limited numbers inside their despite nobody being able to Auctioneers and Valuers, England only. Devolved However, indoor public premises once more. view or bid in person.” Many successfully held welcomed the news and said nations of the UK have their gatherings such as ‘large Art dealer Freya Mitton has King goes to warthe firm will resume viewings own restrictions. online-only auctions during know of a similar gaming piece business events’ are not allowed in its premises. She added that been planning a Modern not a gaming piece. the same label address on what I believe to in tier three. lockdown and this is likely to antiquestradegazette.com of this date. The main games at Hnefatafl4 | 5 December 2020 is a possibility. It was a war There is no game of that date that be an earlier Chelsea period WDM charger this time were an early version of game, with the king in the middle of is known to have had one. Also, 5cm from the 1870s. backgammon, derived from the the board, with his army around him, is quite big for a square on a gaming I presume the Morris & Co shop Roman game duodecim scripta, and and at the edge of the board the other board. I would suggest he’s either a was selling old stock through their new the game of hnefatafl. army surrounding them. model or possibly a toy. premises. The backgammon-type game Generally the only figurative piece may have used counters, such as the is the king, and the soldiers of the two Roland Cobbett Alastair Wright

Obituary – William Millin (1929-2020)

My dad, known affectionately as Willie, died suddenly on all the driving at 3am with trailer in tow, often in freezing November 9, 2020, the last in the line of three siblings, weather but never complaining, only happy to be helping leaving behind Marian, his wife of 68 years, two children, mum and I in something we loved – anything for a quiet five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren – he was life! much blessed. Around that time, with Fulham becoming vacant, dad Dad left school at 14 and later joined the RAF on let mum and I open an antiques shop on the premises National Service, then, after marrying mum in 1952, he called Remains to be Seen and that lasted a little while joined his father-in-law in his tailor’s shop in Fulham until we became involved with fairs at Olympia and the where he rose to the principal suit maker and showed his Decorative for many years. real talent. Dad was dad always on the scene, loading and My father was an astute businessman and, unloading, painting walls, getting coffees – anything he recognising a good opportunity, purchased and ran could do to help, always referring to himself as the unpaid several properties up till very recently, always bemoaning helper. the ones that got away! He was super proud that mum and I held our own at the major fairs in London. He was particularly interested Church Street shop in anything to do with the Second World War, as he lived In 1968 mum took a table in an antiques shop in Church through it, and watched the old films over and over again Street (Edgware Road not the posh Kensington) and dad as well as the news all day long. got roped in with no choice. After marrying in 1973 and moving to Bournemouth Completely unflappable I started supplying mum in the shop and that was the Dad was completely unflappable while all those around start of all the Ardinglys and Newarks – with dad doing him were in a spin and we never once heard him swear. He always erred on the side of kindness, giving others the benefit of the doubt. Dad came down to live near me in Bournemouth for the last year and that meant we spent a lot of time humour, extremely generous and always doing things for together and were able to visit mum easily in the care others putting them first. Above all he was hugely proud That was the start of all the home down there. We even managed to squeeze in a of all his family and these last two lines of my daughter’s Ardinglys and Newarks – with family holiday to his beloved Mallorca in August where he poem to her grandpa at his burial really sums him up: “ enjoyed many happy times with mum. From tough beginnings he rose to success dad doing all the driving at For dad life was full and rewarding and he had the But being a grandpa was what you did best 3am with trailer in tow most wonderful nature, always smiling, great sense of From daughter Jan Keyne (Town & Country)

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