LONDON 6 JULY 2021 LONDON TREASURES 6 JULY 2021 L21303 This page This page LOT 26 LOT 11 AUCTION IN LONDON ALL EXHIBITIONS FREE 6 JULY 2021 AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 2:30 PM Saturday 3 July 12 NOON–5 PM 34-35 New Bond Street Sunday 4 July London, W1A 2AA 12 NOON–5 PM +44 (0)20 7293 5000 sothebys.com Monday 5 July FOLLOW US @SOTHEBYS 10 AM–5 PM #SOTHEBYSTREASURES Tuesday 6 July 10 AM–12 NOON Viewing times, subject to current government guidelines TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROPERTY IN THIS SALE, PLEASE VISIT SOTHEBYS.COM/L21303 This page LOT 16 UNIQUE COLLECTIONS SPECIALISTS Mario Tavella Henry House Thomas Williams President, General Director, France Senior Director, Head of Furniture Director, Furniture Chairman, Europe & Decorative Arts, London +44 (0)20 7293 6211 +33 1 53 05 53 12 +44 (0)20 7293 5486 [email protected] [email protected] Christina Prescott-Walker Alexandra Starp Senior Vice President Alexander Kader FSA Deputy Director, Specialist, Global Director, Senior Director, Co-Worldwide Head of Gold Boxes & Vertu Regional Art and Objects European Sculpture & Works of Art +44 (0)20 7293 5350 +1 212 606 7332 +44 (0)20 7293 5493 [email protected] [email protected] Henry House Elisabeth Banfield Senior Director João Magalhães Specialist Head of Furniture & Decorative Arts Director, Furniture European Sculpture & Works of Art +44 (0)20 7293 5486 +44 (0)20 7293 5089 +44 (0)20 7293 5745 [email protected] [email protected] David McDonald Senior Director Jonathan Hills Adèle Bourbonne Furniture Director, Clocks Cataloguer, Furniture +44 (0)20 7293 5107 +44 (0)20 7293 5538 +44 (0)20 7293 6809 [email protected] [email protected] Harry Dalmeny Chairman UK & Ireland Cynthia Harris Shiona Fourie +44 (0)20 7293 5848 Director, Head of Decorative Arts, Silver Deputy Director, Senior Project Manager +44 (0)20 7293 5531 +44 (0)20 7293 5470 Wendy Philips [email protected] [email protected] Senior Director, Tax & Heritage +44 (0)20 7293 6184 David Macdonald Consultants Senior Director, Furniture Harry Charteris, Julia Clarke, John Culme Mari-Claudia Jimenez +44 (0)20 7293 5107 Senior Vice President [email protected] ENQUIRIES Chairman, Co-Worldwide Head of Business Development Brice Foisil SALE NUMBER +1 212 606 7537 Senior Director, Head of Furniture & L21303 “TREASURES XII” Decorative Arts, Paris Franka Haiderer +33 (0)1 53 05 53 01 Senior Director [email protected] BIDS DEPARTMENT Co-Worldwide Head of Business +44 (0)20 7293 5283 Development Francesco Morroni fax +44 (0)20 7293 6255 +44 (0)20 7293 5688 Senior Director, Milan [email protected] +39 02 29 50 02 03 Alexandra Duch [email protected] Telephone bid requests should Senior Vice President be received 24 hours prior Head of Department, Consignment Helen Culver Smith to the sale. This service is Management Director, International Head of offered for lots with a low estimate +1 212 894 1437 Department Russian Works of Art of £3,000 and above. +44 (0)20 7293 6381 George North [email protected] Director SALE ADMINISTRATOR Valuations & Sales Manager Christopher Mason Oana Barbu +44 (0)20 7293 5752 Director, Sculpture & Works of Art [email protected] +44 (0)20 7293 6062 +44 (0)20 7293 5473 Shiona Fourie [email protected] fax +44 (0)20 7293 5800 Deputy Director Senior Project Manager Ulrike Christina Goetz POST SALE SERVICES +44 (0)20 7293 5470 Sculpture, European [email protected] Director of Departement Genevieve Renard +33 (0)1 53 05 53 64 Post Sale Manager [email protected] FOR PAYMENT, DELIVERY AND COLLECTION Rodney Woolley +44 (0)20 7293 5220 Senior Specialist, European Ceramics fax +44 (0)20 7293 5910 +44 (0)20 7293 5974 [email protected] TO LEARN MORE ABOUT [email protected] THE PROPERTY IN THIS FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL This page SALE, PLEASE VISIT LOT 22 +44 (0)20 7293 5000 SOTHEBYS.COM/L21303 FOR UK & EUROPE +1 212 606 7000 USA CONTENTS 3 AUCTION INFORMATION 5 SPECIALISTS AND AUCTION ENQUIRIES 10 TREASURES: LOTS 1–32 176 HOW TO BID 177 BUYING AT AUCTION 179 EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS 180 VAT INFORMATION FOR BUYERS 181 CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS FOR BUYERS 184 ADDITIONAL TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR ONLINE BIDDING WAREHOUSE, STORAGE, COLLECTION INFORMATION 186 AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE IMPORTANT NOTICES GLOSSARY OF TERMS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROPERTY IN THIS SALE, PLEASE VISIT This page LOT 4 SOTHEBYS.COM/L21303 LONDON 6 JULY 2021 2:30 PM This page LOT 2 LOTS 1–32 1 A TRANSITIONAL TOMPION Portrait of General Charles Churchill by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1646 - 1723) THOMAS TOMPION NO.168. AN EBONY PROVENANCE QUARTER REPEATING TABLE CLOCK, Probably purchased by General Charles Churchill of Minterne Magna, Dorset (1656-1714), brother of John, 1st Duke of LONDON, CIRCA 1690 Marlborough. A distinguished soldier, he became Lieutenant 8-inch latched dial with unusual foliate spandrels to the lower of the Tower of London and Governor of Guernsey. Charles corners and signed along the lower edge Tho: Tompion Londini Churchill inherited the lease of the Estate of Minterne Magna Fec, finely matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, the from his father in 1688 and proceeded to much improve the upper corners with subsidiary regulation and strike/silent dials manor house. On his death in 1714 he left the estate to his divided by foliate engraving, the fusee movement with seven widow Mary who, on her death in 1757, left it to her cousin, latched, knopped and ringed pillars, verge escapement with rise Nicholas Gould. It remained in the Gould family until 1768 and fall regulation, rack striking on a bell and with Tompion’s when the lease of the estate and contents of the house were pull quarter repeating on a further bell via inconnecting levers acquired by Admiral Robert Digby. On Digby’s death in 1815 on the backplate (one lever now missing), the backplate finely it was inherited by his nephew Sir Henry Digby, thence by engraved with foliate scrolls and swags held by metamorphic descent to the presnt owner. dophins, signed in a reserve Thomas Tompion Londini Fecit, numbered along the lower edge 168, the case with domed top £ 80,000-120,000 and gilt carrying handle, moulded base and later block feet 38cm 15in high 10 Buyers are liable to pay both the hammer price (as estimated above) and the buyer’s premium together with any applicable taxes and Artist’s Resale Right (which will depend on the individual circumstances). Refer to the Buying at Auction and VAT sections at the back of this catalogue for further information. Thomas Tompion (1639-1713), the greatest of English Society and much admired. It was thus that Tompion moved clockmakers was born the son of a blacksmith at Ickfield into an influential circle of people who were able to introduce Green, Bedfordshire. It seems that he was trained, with his him to the distinguished scientists of the day, the nobility and younger brother James, in the art of blacksmithing. King Charles II. There is no record of Thomas Tompion serving as an Shortly after 1680 Tompion devised a numbering system apprentice in a clockmaker’s workshop but on the 4th for all the clocks and watches that he made and this was September 1671 he was admitted to the Clockmakers’ continued after his death by his successor George Graham. Company in London as a ‘Brother’. He was described as Clock number 168 can be dated to circa 1690 and is one of a a ‘Great Clockmaker’ which meant that at the time of his small group of repeating clocks marking the transition between admission he specialised in the making of large turret clocks those referred to as Phase I, without subsidiary regulation and in iron. But the details of when he left Ickfield Green, where strike silent dials, and Phase II with the fully developed version he went before arriving in London and how he changed from of those dials. The subsidiary dials and mock pendulum blacksmith to skilled clockmaker, remain a mystery. enabled the clock to be started and regulated for timekeeping without having to move it. This was a significant technical On the 6th April 1674 Thomas Tompion became a ‘Free advance and would have been much appreciated by owners Clockmaker upon Redemption’ and was now allowed to anxious not to cause damage or disturb the timekeeping of the set up his own workshop and take apprentices. During this clock. The foliate lower spandrels to the dial are very unusual important year he was introduced to Robert Hooke and for Tompion and appear on a very few clock at around this date was commissioned by him to make a quadrant. This was only and include No.161 and No.166, both of which are also subsequently demonstrated to the members of the Royal transitional clocks. 12 2 ADAM VAN VIANEN’S FLORA Self portrait by Adam van Vianen, engraver Theodorus van Kessel now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam THE MARIANNE L. DREESMANN-VAN DER SPEK COLLECTION EXHIBITED FLORA: AN IMPORTANT DUTCH SILVER Zeldzaam Zilver uit de Gouden Eeuw, De Utrechtse Edelsmeden Van Vianen, 14 December 1984-10 February 1985, Centraal STANDING SALT, ADAM VAN VIANEN, Museum of Utrecht, no. 71 (UTRECHT), 1621 LITERATURE embossed and chased as a barefoot flower girl representing (Auction catalogue), Fine Dutch Silver, Christie, Manson Summer, balancing a basket, with little handles, on her head, & Woods Ltd., Laren, 21 March 1977, cat. no. 273, p. 56 carrying a basket of flowers on her arm and holding a spray (reproduced in colour); of tulips, on a domed foot of quatrefoil outline, flat-chased Johannes Rein ter Molen, Van Vianen, een Utrechtse familie signature ADV conjoined and dated 1621 within the fluid lobate van zilversmeden met een internationale faam , Rijksuniversiteit scrolls and undulating folds of the base, later engraved with a Leiden, Leiden, 1984, 2 vols, vol.