The Spring Antique and Picture Sale, Sale, and Picture Antique The Spring The Spring Antique and Picture Sale including Furniture and Works of Art Bonhams from the Collection of Jack Vettriano 22 Queen Street Edinburgh and Garden Statuary and Design EH2 1JX Thursday 22 May 2014 +44 (0) 131 225 2266 Edinburgh, Thursday 22 May 2014 +44 (0) 131 225 2547 fax Edinburgh 21872 International Auctioneers and Valuers - bonhams.com The Spring Antique & Picture Sale including Furniture and Works of Art from the Collection of Jack Vettriano and Garden Statuary and Design Thursday 22 May 2014 at 11am 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh Bonhams Enquiries Customer Services Important Information 22 Queen Street Carpets, Rugs & Furniture Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm The United States Government Edinburgh EH2 1JX Bruce Addison +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 has banned the import of ivory +44 (0) 131 225 2266 +44 (0) 131 240 0910 into the USA. Lots containing +44 (0) 131 225 2547 fax [email protected] Please see back of catalogue ivory are indicated by the www.bonhams.com/edinburgh for important notice to bidders symbol Ф printed beside the Works of Art and Clocks lot number in this catalogue. Viewing Kenneth Naples Illustrations Sunday 18 May 1pm to 4pm +44 (0) 131 240 0912 Front cover: Lot 287 Monday 19 May 10am to 4pm [email protected] Back cover: Lot 391 Tuesday 20 May 10am to 4pm Inside front cover: Lot 305 Wednesday 21 May 10am to 4pm Paintings Inside back cover: Lot 214 Thursday 22 May 10am to 11am Iain Byatt-Smith +44 (0) 131 240 0913 Bids [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax To bid via the internet Sale Number: 21872 please visit www.bonhams.com Catalogue: £10 (£12 by post) Please provide details of the lots on which you wish to place bids Live online bidding is at least 24 hours prior to the sale. available for this sale Please email [email protected] New bidders must also provide with “Live bidding” in the subject proof of identity when submitting line 48 hours before the auction bids. Failure to do this may result to register for this service. in your bids not being processed. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Iain Rushbrook, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax James Knight, Patrick Meade, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Charles Lanning, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Sophie Law, Camilla Lombardi, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Sale InformationInformation Edinburgh Salerooms Managing Director The Scottish Sale Books, Manuscripts & 22 Queen Street, EH2 1JX Miranda Grant Miranda Grant Maps& Maps +44 (0) 131 225 2266 Henry Baggott +44 (0) 131 220 2547 fax Chairman Scotland Pictures Frances Campbell Simon Miller Chris Brickley Glasgow Office Colleen Bowen Arms & Armour 176 St. Vincent Street, G2 5SG Valuations, Trusts & Iain Byatt-Smith Andrew Robb +44 (0) 141 223 8866 Estates Chris Dawson (London) Kenneth Naples +44 (0) 141 223 8868 fax Charles Graham-Campbell James Holloway (consultant) Grant MacDougall Furniture, Clocks, Oriental London Gordon McFarlan Jewellery & Silver Carpets, Works of Art & 101 New Bond Street, W1S 1SR Andrew Robb Clare Blatherwick Scientific InstrumentsInstruments +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Belinda Treble Gordon McFarlan Bruce Addison +44 (0) 20 7447 7400 fax Fiona Hamilton Kenneth Naples Alexis Tortolano FrancesDavid Jones Campbell (consultant) Rachel Bailey David Jones (consultant) AretiAsian Chavale Art Toys and Collectors’ Items Ian Glennie ToysNicholas and Oddy Collectors’ (consultant) Items AsianAsha Edwards Art Nicholas Oddy (consultant) Ian Glennie Whisky MariaEuropean Baskhanova Ceramics WhiskyMartin Green & Glass MartinCharles Green MacLean (consultant) EuropeanKatherine Wright Ceramics Charles MacLean (consultant) & Glass The Sporting Sale KatherineWine Wright TheHenry Sporting Baggott Sale Thomas Gilbey HenryFrances Baggott Campbell Wine Frances Campbell Thomas Gilbey Kevin McGimpsey (Golfing Consultant) Mark Jones (Snaffles Consultant) Important notice to Buyers Items will be stored at D.J. Manning Carriden Please note that all furniture, large works of arts, clocks & Bo’ness carpets not collected from the saleroom by Friday 30 May West Lothian 2014 will be transferred to the warehouse of D.J. Manning EH51 9SF transfer & storage charges will apply. Tel 01506 827 693 Fax 01506 826 497 Small items £10 per week plus VAT Large items £15 per week plus VAT Prior to collection from D.J. Manning please contact Luigi Canciani, Head Porter on 0131 225 2266, [email protected] © Bonhams Scotland All rights reserved. Reproduction of catalogue and photographs, in whole or in part is prohibited without acknowledgement to Bonhams Scotland Clocks and Works of Art Lots 1 - 103 183 2 1 The following eight lots are the property of the late 3 Professors Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray, sold MAPS – CUMBERLAND & NOTTINGHAM SPEED (JOHN) Cumberland and the Ancient Citie of Carlile Described to benefit The Darwin Trust of Edinburgh. with many Memorable Antiquities therein found Observed, inset bird’s-eye view of Carlisle, 380 by 500mm., Sudbury and Humble, 1 1610 [but 1611, or later]; The Countie of Nottingham described, A bronze figure study inset view of Nottingham, coats of arms, 385 x 510mm., Bassett and Of a male figure standing with arms behind his back clasping a book, his Chiswell, [1676]--SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) and KIP (WILLIAM) Cumbria head tilted slightly back, mounted on a grey marble base, 24cm wide, Sive Cumberlandia Qae olim pars Brigantum, plate number 54, 285 x 24cm deep, 57cm high (9in wide, 9in deep, 22in high) 320mm., [1637], double-page, hand-coloured engraved maps (3) £300 - 400 £300 - 500 2Y Ф An Austrian Secessionist mahogany and brass inlaid casket Of slightly tapering rectangular form with twin handles and pierced shaped lock clasp, inlaid overall with stylised flowing foliate designs, raised on bracket feet, together with twenty four stained ivory draught pieces, and an early 20th century rosewood and brass inlaid tray, with twin handles and foliate inlay, raised on ball feet, 27cm wide, 18cm deep, 11cm high (10 1/2in wide, 7in deep, 4in high), and 39cm wide, 23cm deep, 4cm high (15in wide, 9in deep, 1 1/2in high) (3) £300 - 500 4 | Bonhams 5 7 4 7AR W.W. Carmean Charles Bray (Salford, England 1922-2012) A bronze pod of dolphins Wild Water 2 Signed and dated 1988, limited edition 16/25, of dark blue patination With concentric rings on opaque etched glass, raised on a black ceramic and modelled jumping and diving, 47cm wide, 35cm high (18 1/2in base engraved ‘Bray’, 26 wide, 10cm deep, 44cm high (10in wide, 3 wide, 13 1/2in high) 1/2in deep, 17in high) £300 - 500 £400 - 600 5 8 A 20th century carved marble female Inuit figure A walnut oyster veneered Bible box Carved depicting a windswept figure wrapped in fabric, raised on a Late 19th or early 20th century mahogany plinth, 29cm wide, 18cm deep, 41cm high, (11in wide, 7in Of rectangular form, with brass hinges and locking mechanism, 28.9cm deep, 16in high) wide, 19.5cm deep, 7.8cm high (11in wide, 7 1/2in deep, 3in high) £300 - 400 £200 - 300 6 A 20th century pietra dura landscape picture Cut to depict a continental village lane, contained within a moulded gilt frame, engraved ‘Misuri’ bottom right, 27cm wide, 20.5cm high (10 1/2in wide, 8in high) £200 - 300 The Spring Antique and Picture Sale | 5 12 11 9Y Ф Paul D’Aire (Fl 1890-1910) La vieille, a bronze figure of an old man Modelled with bowed back and walking stick in hand with carved ivory hands and face, raised on a naturalistic base, inscribed ‘Paul D’Aire’, 10cm wide, 10cm deep, 23cm high (3.5in wide, 3.5in deep, 9in high) £250 - 400 10AR Y Ф Victor Rousseau, Belgian (1865-1954) A bronze and ivory figure of a musician The figure depicted walking and holding a guitar, on a naturalistic base cast as cobbles, signed ‘ROUSSEAU’, 9cm wide, 8cm deep, 27cm high (3.5in wide, 3in deep, 10.5in high) £300 - 500 11AR Benno Schotz (Estonian, 1891-1984) A figure of a clown Cast standing upright pulling open his costume to expose his chest, raised on a rectangular base inscribed to the base ‘Benno Schotz 1975’, raised on a variegated green marble plinth, 22cm wide, 12.5cm deep, 41cm high (8 1/2in wide, 4 1/2in deep, 16in high) £1,000 - 1,500 12AR Benno Schotz (Estonian, 1891-1984) The Bather Depicting a female figure modelled with back bent, in the act of drying herself, raised on a circular base inscribed ‘Benno Schotz 1929’, mounted on a wooden plinth, 25cm wide, 17cm deep, 40cm high (9 1/2in wide, 6 1/2in deep, 15 1/2in high) 13 £2,000 - 3,000 6 | Bonhams 14 15 13 A late 19th century patinated bronze of a violinist Modelled with back slightly bent, apparently tuning his instrument, raised on an octagonal base and marble plinth, 8cm wide, 8.5cm deep, 37cm high (3in wide, 3in deep, 14 1/2in high) £300 - 400 14 A bronze classical figure of a female harpist Modelled stripped to the naval and with harp balanced on her hip, raised on a circular moulded base stamped ‘Bronze Garanti’, ‘Neri’ and ‘102’, 21cm wide, 17cm deep, 52cm high (8in wide, 6 1/2in deep, 20in high) £400 - 600 15 After Julius Paul Schmidt-Felling (German, 19th/20th century) A patinated bronze figure of an archer The nude warrior wearing a helmet and aiming a bow, inscribed Schmidt-Felling Fec.