The beautiful and unusual as collection comes to auction

COOPER and Tanner Salerooms at Standerwick, near Frome, are delighted to present a superb single owner collection from a former antique dealer with particular interest in interior design, from the local area.

The sale includes period paintings, objet d’art, ceramics and furniture. The sale will take place at the Standerwick sale rooms on Wednesday, April 5th, starting at 10am.

There are a range of beautiful and unusual items in the sale. In the furniture section highlights include a pair of 19th century Sienna marble and bronze Grand Tour urns on pedestal bases with an estimate of £400-600, an early 18th century walnut tallboy (£800-1,000), a 19th century papier mâché and abalone inlay table (£150-250) and an 18th century style walnut low armchair, with needlework covers (£600-800).

The collector had a particular interest in painted furniture and chinoiserie style interiors and there is a good selection of these items within the sale.

Also included in the sale is an interesting selection of ceramics and decorative objects including a painted wooden architectural folly, in the form of a Tempietto (£200-300); a large 20th century majolica figure of a seated boy (£200-300); a 19th century sailor’s valentine seashell display (£150-250) and a 19th century tortoiseshell and ivory inlaid box (£300-500). There is also a good collection of Chinese and oriental items included in the sale.

Some of the most impressive pieces in the sale are oil paintings, including a large oil on canvas circle of Jan Victors, Portrait of a young gentleman wearing a turban, 134cm x 104cm (£3,500-4,500); a 17th century English School, Portrait of a lady, 72cm x 60cm (£700-1,000) and a 17th century Italian School, The Raising of Lazarus, 74cm x 61cm (£8001,200).