Tuesday, 11 September, 2012

Fine Art & Antiques

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Collectors' Items and Works of Art

Lot Description Illustration
1
An 18th century tortoiseshell box
The hinged domed lid panelled with tortoiseshell veneers and leather panels to the corners, the main body with an iron lock plate, the base cornered with leather panels. 17 cms wide.
Estimate: £200 - 300
2
A 19th century painted treen spice box
Formed and decorated in the style of the Brighton Pavilion. 22.5 cms high.
Estimate: £150 - 250
3
A 19th century Continental turned wood box and cover
Decorated in relief with a classical scene titled Environs de Rome. 9 cms diameter.
4
A 19th century turned wood box and cover
The interior bearing label inscribed Part of second deck beam of HMS Duke of Wellington....; another, the cover inset with a Victorian coin; and another, papier mache to simulate wood with an inset mother-of-pearl roundel. The former 12 cms diameter. (3)
Estimate: £100 - 150
5
A hinged box, formed from a coco de mer
The top hinged to one side revealing a recess. 31 cms high.
Estimate: £200 - 300
6
A 19th century fruitwood platter
Of line carved dished form. 66 cms diameter.
Estimate: £200 - 300
7
A Continental tiled panel
Depicting four signs of the zodiac: Capricorn, Cancer, Leo and Pisces. 107 cms wide.
Estimate: £100 - 150
8
A 19th century Stereoscopic viewer
Together with a quantity of slides, including: American scenes of cotton picking, sugar cane gathering, etc. (Quantity)
9
A 19th century portrait miniature on ivory
Depicting a young lady wearing a blue parure and a crimson cloak, variously inscribed and dated to verso, framed and glazed. 7 x 9 cms.
Estimate: £100 - 150
Not Illustrated
10
A 19th century portrait miniature
Of a gentleman housed in a acanthus leaf engraved shaped yellow metal pendant. The miniature 2.7 x 3.3 cms.
11
A late 18th/early 19th century sailors farewell token
The unmarked white metal roundel engraved to one side with a dancing couple beneath a banner inscribed Farewell, a three masted ship in the background, the reverse with a three masted ship beneath a banner inscribed HMS Edgar with initials AA Lee RN. 3.1 cms diameter.

Note: HMS Edgar was a 74 gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy which saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Estimate: £200 - 300
12
A 19th century sketch album
Enclosing various pencil and bodycolour sketches together with prints.
Estimate: £100 - 150
13
Richards, J.M. by Eric Ravilious. High Street.
Publisher London Country Life 1938, printed The Curwen Press. Original lithograph boards printed in brown, blue and black, 24 full colour lithographs.
Estimate: £800 - 1,200
14
A 19th century burr wood table snuff
The hinged cover with white metal mount. 8.5 cms high.
Estimate: £100 - 150
15
A French brass and silver plated game counter
The double sided implement with four dials marked Faisans, Perdrix, Lievres and Lapins, the top mounted with a suspension loop. 7.5 cms high.
Estimate: £400 - 600
16
A late 19th/early 20th century silver plated and brass game counter
Mounted to either side with two dials, inscribed Partridges, pheasants and rabbits and hares. 7 cms high.
Estimate: £400 - 600
17
A 19th/20th century carved wood and polychrome decorated chess set
The pieces modelled as military figures, possibly European and Ottoman, the King 7.5 cms high. (Quantity)
Estimate: £100 - 150
18
Six 19th century pottery carpet bowls and a jack
Typically decorated. The largest 7.5 cms diameter. (6)
19
A Second World War group of five, awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hamer
Comprising: 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star (Atlantic), Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945 with oak leaf clasp and George VI issue General Service Medal (1918 GSM) with Palestine 1945-48 clasp, the General Service Medal inscribed Major JR Hamer R Sigs; together with a set of miniatures.
Estimate: £300 - 500
20
A quantity of bound Punch almanacs
Ranging from 1909 through to 1913. (10)
Estimate: £100 - 150
Not Illustrated
21
Gallico, Paul. The Snow Goose
With illustrations by Peter Scott, leather bound with gilt tooling and in an outer case; and Gallico, Paul. Miracle in the Wilderness, with illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone, leather bound with gilt tooling. (2)
Estimate: £200 - 300
22
Brown MD, John. Rab and His Friends, Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh 1862.
Presentation copy, edition with extra plates and portrait, tooled leather binding, interior library label for Hugh Heugh Riach.
Estimate: £200 - 300
Not Illustrated
23
A 19th century German violin by Louis Lowendall
The scroll stamped Lowendall artist of violin Guarnerius, the interior bearing label inscribed Louis Lowendall fecit Dresdae anno 1885 and signed Lowendall in ink; together with a bow and later case and accessories. 60 cms long overall.
Estimate: £200 - 300
24
A pair of gilt metal table screens
Each with floral worked needlework panel. 47 cms high. (2)
Estimate: £100 - 150
25
A pair of 19th century decorated face screens
Each shaped panel with floral and acanthus sprays enclosing images of children playing beside a river, with turned handles. 24 cms wide. (2)
Estimate: £100 - 150
26
A pair of 19th century papier mache face screens
Each shaped panel decorated with an exotic bird amongst floral sprays and gilt acanthus scrolls, with turned handles. 23 cms wide. (2)
Estimate: £100 - 150
27
A pair of 19th century papier mache face screens
Each shaped panel chinoiserie decorated with figures in a garden opposing insects in floral sprays, with turned ivory handles. 23 cms wide. (2)
Estimate: £100 - 150
28
A pair of 19th century chinoiserie lacquered hand screens
Each decorated to both sides with figures in landscapes and mounted on turned handles. 37.5 cms high. (2)
29
After BERNARD SLEIGH (1872-1954) British
A Map of Fairy Land
Print on Rosebank fabric
126 x 59 cms, framed and glazed
Estimate: £200 - 300
Not Illustrated
30
A 19th century painted tole ware bottle coaster
Decorated with a tavern scene and gilt fruiting vines. 19 cms high.
Estimate: £100 - 150
31
A carved Fluorite mineral vase
Of baluster form. 32.5 cms high.
Estimate: £400 - 600
32
A Continental gilt metal mounted red glass claret jug
The hinged cover with goat finial, the baluster body with winged satyr scroll handle, standing on a grotesque mask moulded foot. 40 cms high.
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500
33
A gilt metal desk set
Comprising: inkwell with central taper stick, pen stand, powder pot and sectional spill holder and cover mounted with a figural sconce, each piece extensively foliate engraved with hardstone mounts, three pieces with putti finials. The inkwell 21 cms wide. (Quantity)
Estimate: £300 - 500
34
A 19th century Blackforest carved desk stand
The central hinged section depicting a fox and a bird above a recess and flanked by two faceted glass inkwells with carved bird lids. 40 cms wide.
Estimate: £200 - 300
35
A 19th century carved Blackforest inkwell
Formed as a bear, the glass inkwell set as a tree stump. 15 cms high.
36
A Victorian Britannia metal inkwell
Formed as an elephants head, the hinged lid with mounted finial formed as a monkey. 12 cms high.
Estimate: £100 - 150
37
A pair of gilt metal mounted cassoulet
Each with fruiting vine moulded rim above rams head masks with similar pendant swags, standing on shaped plinth base. 41 cms high. (2)
Estimate: £800 - 1,200
38
A gilt metal and bronze mounted cassoulet
The pierced cover forming a candle sconce, the body supported by three young fauns, standing on a plinth base; together with another similar. 24.5 cms high. (2)
Estimate: £200 - 300
39
A Continental cast bronze triptych plaque
Depicting a lively street scene. 27 cms wide.
Estimate: £100 - 150
40
A bronze soap dish
Modelled as a shell headed with the figure of a winged lion. 20 cms long.
Estimate: £200 - 300
41
A bronze bucket weight case
The hinged cover applied with figures, stylised sea serpents and a hippocamp clasp. 16 cms high.
Estimate: £300 - 500
42
A 19th century bronze bell by J. Warner & Sons Limited, London
Of typical form and dated 1894. 44 cms high.
Estimate: £600 - 800
Not Illustrated
43
No lot.
Not Illustrated
44
A carved malachite hippopotamus
Naturalistically modelled standing on a wooden base. 11.5 cms long.
45
A Continental micro-mosaic inset silvered crucifix
Mounted with an ivory Christ and standing on an ormolu mounted plinth base inset with a view of St. Peters Square, standing on acanthus cast lion paw feet. 64 cms high.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
46
After the ANTIQUE
Narcissus
Bronze, cast by Sapatino, Napoli,
Signed and dated 1889
(Adapted as a lamp base)
96 cms high, overall
Estimate: £1,200 - 1,500
47
After PETER VISCHER THE ELDER (1460-1529) German
King Arthur of England
Bronze
45 cms high
Estimate: £400 - 600
48
Manner of SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959) British
Bust of a Lady
Bronze, numbered 1/8 and bearing foundry mark, standing on a plinth base
47 cms high
Estimate: £400 - 600
49
A bronzed model of a female warrior
Modelled semi naked and holding a sword and a shield made from a turtle shell, the base inscribed J. Garnier, standing on a stepped spreading marble base. 72.5 cms high.
Estimate: £400 - 600
50
A Hagenhaur style bronze figure
Modelled as a stylised gymnast supporting a candle sconce, standing on an ebonised plinth base. 30 cms high.

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