THE OAK INTERIOR Including the Jan Gadd Pewter Collection and The Country House Collection of the Late John Keil Esq. Wednesday 24 February 2016 101 New Bond Street, London THE OAK INTERIOR Including the Jan Gadd Pewter Collection and The Country House Collection of the Late John Keil Esq. Wednesday 24 February 2016 at 11am 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS Sunday 21 February +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 David Houlston Front cover: Lot 461 (detail) 11am to 3pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 1865 853 667 Back cover: 361 (part) Monday 22 February To bid via the internet please +44 (0) 207 468 8221 Inside front cover: 159 (detail) 9am to 4.30pm visit bonhams.com [email protected] Inside back cover: 249 (detail) Tuesday 23 February 9am to 4.30pm Please note that bids should be CUSTOMER SERVICES PHYSICAL CONDITION OF Wednesday 24 February submitted no later than 4pm on Monday to Friday 08.30 to 18.00 LOTS IN THIS AUCTION 9am to 10.30am the day prior to the sale. 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(Please note buyers price plus the buyer’s premium at cheque. +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax need to be onsite at Ward Thomas a rate of 0.4% (payable after 14 [email protected] Removals Ltd by 4.00pm). A booking calendar days following the sale) of email or phone call will be required the invoice value plus IPT of 9.5%, ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT to ensure lots are ready at time of payable annual. All electrical equipment in this collection. sale has either been tested by a suitably qualifi ed electrician or has been operationally disabled. If the intention is to reconnect this equipment we recommend that this is carried out by a suitably qualifi ed electrician. Mr and Mrs Jan Gadd 116 (detail) JAN Gadd [1937–2015] My sister and I cannot remember a time before pewter. Although for of polish and glaze there were seams, rough edges and turning marks. most of our childhood the measures, tankards, flagons, and chargers All this, along with the object’s shape, heft, even its sound, he could had to jostle for space alongside brass, silver, porcelain, paintings, read and understand. What drew him first to pewter in particular may and dozens of other artefacts and objects that our parents collected, have been its personality—practical, well designed, unpretentious, it was always clear what our father, Jan Gadd, favoured above all. innovative, uncompromising and stolid yet surprisingly vulnerable Even now I can remember the sound and smell of the metal-buffing to knocks, something of an acquired taste—but as an engineer- machine that was bolted to the worktop in the garage, and I can turned-businessman who manufactured tools he had a clear affinity picture him emerging from the dusty gloom in a blue boilersuit, face for those who had combined genuine artistry and craftsmanship black, white teeth clamped in a grin around an unlit pipe, brandishing with commercial acumen. Pewter, unlike its precious cousins, always a gently glimmering piece of pewter. sought a broad market: its makers had to balance cost with value, design with utility. This was, I think, one reason why he always sided Jan Gadd was born in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1937, the only child of a with those who sought to restore pewter’s original lustre. To leave the shipyard estimator and his wife. Educated as an engineer, he pursued object uncleaned was to prefer the artefact over its manufacture, and a career in marketing and sales, developing a particular interest and to undervalue both the makers and their customers.