BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR Fine English Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Works of Art and Sculpture Wednesday 4 November 2015 BRITAIN - DEFINING THE INTERIOR Session I - Ceramics and Silver, at 12.00 Session II - Furniture and Works of Art, at 14.00 Wednesday 4 November 2015 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS Sunday 1 November +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Ceramics Front cover: Lot 128 11.00 to 15.00 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax John Sandon Back cover: Lot 1 Monday 2 November To bid via the internet please +44 (0) 20 7468 8244 Inside front cover: Lot 49 (detail) 9.00 to 16.30 visit bonhams.com [email protected] Inside back cover: Lots 205, 206 Tuesday 3 November Fergus Gambon 9.00 to 16.30 Please note that bids should be PHYSICAL CONDITION OF submitted no later than 4pm on +44 (0) 20 7468 8245 Wednesday 4 November [email protected] LOTS IN THIS AUCTION 9.00 to 11.30 the day prior to the sale. New PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY bidders must also provide proof Silver REFERENCE IN THIS SALE NUMBER of identity when submitting bids. Michael Moorcroft CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL Failure to do this may result in +44 (0) 20 7393 3835 22305 CONDITION OF ANY LOT IS your bid not being processed. [email protected] FOR GENERAL GUIDANCE ONLY. INTENDING BIDDERS CATALOGUE Telephone bidding will only be Furniture and Works of Art MUST SATISFY THEMSELVES £25.00 accepted on lots with a low Sally Stratton +44 (0) 20 8963 2847 AS TO THE CONDITION OF estimate in excess of £1,000. [email protected] ANY LOT AS SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 14 OF THE NOTICE TO Live online bidding is available Guy Savill BIDDERS CONTAINED AT THE for this sale +44 (0) 20 8963 2848 END OF THIS CATALOGUE. 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Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Gordon McFarlan, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. 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SPECIALISTS FURNITURE Guy Savill Sally Stratton Michael Lake SILVER Michael Moorcroft CERAMICS John Sandon Fergus Gambon BRITISH CERAMICS Session I, at 12.00 Lots 1 - 16 1 A WEDGWOOD JASPERWARE CANOPIC JAR AND COVER, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY Of ovoid form, the white stoneware domed cover formed from a human head wearing a ‘Nemes’ headdress, the jar in black jasper dip with turned bands applied with a variety of sprigs, the upper band including a ‘winged disk’ and other sprigs in Egyptian style, the lower band including signs of the Zodiac, 26.2cm high, impressed WEDGWOOD (2) £4,000 - 6,000 €5,400 - 8,200 US$6,100 - 9,100 These jars were originally made in the Egyptian city of Canopus and were used to preserve the viscera of the deceased. The Wedgwood versions are based on Plate CXXXII in Bernard de Montfaucon’s ‘L’Antiquité Expliquée’ published in Paris in 1719, a book in Josiah Wedgwood’s library. Three examples in blue and green jasper dip and caneware are illustrated by Robin Reilly, Wedgwood Jasper (1994), colour plate 63 6 | BONHAMS 2 A LARGE PEARLWARE BOXING PLAQUE OF SPRING AND LANGAN, CIRCA 1825 Of rectangular form with an integral reeded frame picked out in black, printed in black with Tom Spring and Jack Langan in boxing attire, a crowd of gentlemen watching the fight from behind the ring, titled below the figures ‘SPRING AND LANGAN’, 34.0cm x 41.4cm (restored) £4,000 - 5,000 €5,400 - 6,800 US$6,100 - 7,600 This rare plaque depicts the champion boxer Tom Spring in his fight with Irishman Jack Langan.