Better by Design | The Principal Contents of Boden Hall 4 March 2025
Tuesday 4 March 2025
It is now nearly forty years since I first experienced the thrill of driving up the front drive at Boden Hall.
As you enter the estate through the entrance off the Knutsford Road near Rode Heath in the ancient parish of Astbury, and drive in beside a very pretty Gate House in the cottage orné tradition, you immediately sense that you are entering a very special and cherished corner of England.
Sitting comfortably today in its seventy acres of farm and parkland and extensive, exquisitely tended gardens, it is totally secluded from the road, and only gradually does it reveal itself. The drive splits as you approach, going left towards the service cottages, domestic offices and coach house and sweeping to the right to reveal the pièce de résistance , the west elevation of Boden Hall itself and the dramatic expanse of the lake and charmingly snug Boat House.
That initial sense on entry that this is a truly special place is not disappointed.
The present house dates from 1825, being built from scratch as a ‘gentleman’s residence’ - the seat of the Rev. James Mainwaringwhich replaced an earlier ancient house. Constructed on two floors of red brick with partial mellow Siena wall colouring, gracious large sash windows, and slated roofs with substantial projection and reassuring deep soffits, it is an architectural package which pleases the eye and sense of proportion today, as indeed, it has for over 200 years.
My first visit all those years ago was a professional one. I had been invited to the house to prepare a valuation for the then owner, Mrs Johnson of the famed Johnson Tiles business in Stoke-on-Trent. Little did I know that this was to be the first of many visits spanning nearly forty years.
H&R Johnson was formed at the end of the Boer War when, in its closing stages, Harry Johnson, who had been fighting in South Africa, received a message from his father, Robert: ‘Come home at once. I have bought you a tile factory’. Proving to be a great leader and entrepreneur, Harry expanded the business by leaps and bounds, with profits in the 1920s exceeding £90,000. During the First World War, Harry fought with distinction with the North Staffordshire Regiment where, despite being injured, he was awarded a DSO and finished the war as a Lieutenant Colonel. In the First World War, Boden had been unoccupied and had fallen into decline. Colonel Johnson viewed it on his return from the front and, despite its dilapidated condition, bought it on the spot from its then owner, Sir Robert Baker Wilbraham of Rode Hall, and set about making it inhabitable. Harry Johnson
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continued his successful work at the firm until his retirement in 1953. He was succeeded by his son Derek, who masterminded the overseas expansion of the firm with factories in South Africa, Canada and India, and this expansion, together with acquisitions on home soil, meant H & R Johnson became the largest tile manufacturer in Britain. After divorcing his first wife in the early 1970s, Derek remarried in 1973 to a South African, Mrs Joan Cullinan (of Cullinan diamond fame). However, Derek died suddenly in 1977, leaving some £650,000 in his will, and it was his widow that I was to meet (the first of many meetings as it turned out) nearly forty years ago.
Imagine my delight when, in 1996, at the end of Mrs Johnson’s tenure, my friends Bill and Vicky Wrather bought Boden Hall and set about restoring it to its original state. I first met Bill and Vicky when, in the late 1980s, my wife and I moved into her family home in Macclesfield. At that time, Bill and Vicky lived in an elegant Old Rectory in Siddington, just outside of Macclesfield, and thanks to Bill’s eclectic interest and enthusiasm for collecting - everything and everything from veteran motor cars and bicycles, to steam engines, Victorian and Modern British Paintings, furniture and objects - this caused our paths to cross and a warm friendship developed. In those days, Vicky owned and ran a successful textiles and decorating business, Minshull Archives in Knutsford, and was renowned for her great eye for colour and texture, and ability to ‘layer’ the look of an interior. For them, Boden was a dream come true. A blank canvas onto and into which they could project their vision, and enhance and place their growing collections. I count myself lucky to have been around at the right time and the right place to see it all happen.
For the past twenty-five years, I have lived in the South of England, but despite this, our friendship endured (both my wife and I have enjoyed the London to Brighton Run with Bill and Vicky in their Panhard et Levassor, one of his extraordinary collection of motors, not so many years ago) and have many happy memories of fun times down the years. Following Bill’s sad demise in 2023 and the subsequent sale of Boden Hall, Vicky has decided to instruct Sworders to sell the principal remaining contents, and I am glad to have been able to help her in this process. Slimming one’s possessions is never easy at the best of times, and in the case of a couple like Bill and Vicky, who have been so meticulous and careful in their choice of objects to create the nigh-perfect interiors at Boden, it has been particularly difficult. The photography in the Sworders catalogue does a brilliant job in showing the place as it was until very recently.
Tim Wonnacott FRICS
Tuesday 4 March 2025 | 10am
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Lots 1-83 T he Entrance Hall, Sitting Rooms and Billiard Room
Lots 84-152
Lots 153-163
Lots 164-209
Lots 210-296
Lots 297-305
Lots 306-395
Lots 396-435
Lots 436-467
The Dining and Drawing Rooms
The Kitchen
The Vicky Wrather Collection of Teapots
The Library, Inner Hall and Landing
Liv e Steam and Scale Models
The Bedrooms
The Bill Wrather Collection of Automobilia
Oranger y, Garden and Outbuildings
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LOTS 1-83
LOT 1
A Victorian gilt and carved wood overmantel mirror, the arched top with urn finials over turned, fluted and acanthus-carved supports, 128cm wide
160cm high
£500 - 1,000
LOT 2
A pair of large Victorian brass altar sticks, each of knopped form with pierced decoration, on a circular stepped base, converted to electricity, 97cm high overall (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 3
A George IV mahogany console table, c.1825, the veined marble top raised on boldly carved and scrolled front legs, terminating in paw feet, 137cm wide
69cm deep
91.5cm high
£2,000 - 4,000
LOT 4
William Henry Boucher (1842-1906), after Walter Dendy Sadler ‘Home Sweet Home’ engraving, signed ‘W Dendy Sadler’ and ‘W Boucher’ in pencil, published by L H Lefévre & Son, Sept 1900 visible 54 x 65cm, together with: seven further engravings of figures in interiors and gardens by William Henry Boucher, James Dobie and L Muller, after Walter Dendy Sadler, all signed in pencil visible 56 x 69 and smaller (8)
£150 - 250
Provenance: With Charles Nicholls & Son, Manchester.
LOT 5
A pair of Regency mahogany hall chairs, in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster, each with a carved and waisted back over a solid seat, on turned tapering front legs,
38cm wide
39cm deep
86cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 6
A wicker log basket, of recent manufacture, with twin handles, 56cm diameter
57cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 7
A set of three brass and steel fire irons, 19th century, comprising a shovel, tongs and poker, each with a brass handle and plain shaft, shovel 79cm long (3)
£300 - 500
LOT 8
A pair of oak bellows 20th century, painted and carved with a fox in a landscape, 56cm long, together with another beechwood pair, painted with three birds on a branch 37cm long (2)
£150 - 250
LOT 9
A cast iron mythical beast, modelled recumbent, on a stepped rectangular base, 28cm long
20cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 10
An engraved brass serpentine fire basket, in the Georgian style, engraved with mythical beasts, birds, tulips and an urn, supported on square columns with tall urn finials, 79cm wide
49cm deep
61cm high
£400 - 800
LOT 11
A Victorian gilt-brass spread eagle lectern, the eagle standing on a half-round orb, atop a spirally reeded and knopped column, on a domed base and paw feet, 163cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 12
An Empire -style two-branch ceiling light, with a circular central boss, inverted finials and cornucopia-cast decoration, with frosted glass shades, converted from gas, 56cm wide
21cm deep
140cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 13
A painted cast iron stick stand, in the manner of Coalbrookdale, modelled as the infant Hercules and a serpent, with a loose drip tray, 46cm wide
21cm deep
81cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 14
A cast iron boot-scraper, 19th century, on a quatrefoil base, 38cm wide
32cm deep
23cm high
£100 - 200
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A leather fire bucket, 19th century, with copper band and rivet rim, with swing leather handle, 27cm diameter
28cm high
£150 - 200
LOT 16
A Victorian mahogany boot stand, 19th century, fitted for six pairs of boots, 61cm wide
33cm deep
105cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 17
A toleware painted umbrella stand, late 19th/early 20th century, decorated with flowers on a green ground, 60cm high, together with three shooting sticks, a bone -handled walking stick, and three others (8)
£100 - 200
LOT 18
An early Victorian mahogany coat stand, c.1840, with scroll arms and stick stands, on a plinth base with turned feet, 92cm wide
30cm deep
203cm high
£300 - 500
A Victorian oak Gothic stick barometer, by Negretti & Zambra, with a silvered register and thermometer and carved decoration, 99cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 20
A pair of Victorian face screens, each embroidered screen on a white pottery column with gilt fern decoration, a pottery knop and cast gilt-metal base, 61cm high (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 21
A pair of hardwood balustrade table lamps, of recent manufacture, each of square form on an ebonised plinth, 82cm high overall (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 19
LOT 23
Jacob Thompson (1806-1879)
A gentleman sportsman in a landscape, with his dog and gun signed and dated ‘Jacob Thompson 1835’ l.r., oil on canvas
76.5 x 63.5cm
£2,000 - 3,000
A Regency mahogany peat chest, early 19th century, Irish, probably Cork, of sarcophagus shape with a half hinged top, over faux panelled sides within boldly turned rope-twist borders, and on paw feet, 116cm wide
84cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 22
A blue and white ginger jar, 20th century, Chinese, decorated with peacocks amongst clouds, between lappet borders, 32cm high
£100 - 200
25
A famille rose table lamp, 20th century, Chinese, with enamelled decoration and brass mounts, converted to electricity, 70cm high overall
£200 - 400
A pair of blue and white porcelain baluster vases, 20th century, Chinese, each with panelled decoration, 79.5cm high (2)
£200 - 400
A Victorian leather-bound bible, published in 1868, with illustrations and maps, within an embossed and gilt-leather binding with gilt-metal clasps, 25cm wide
34cm high
£100 - 200
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LOT 28
A mahogany cabinet, early 19th century, in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster, with Gothic tracery doors enclosing later shelves, over seven drawers with knob handles and patented brass locks, raised on faceted feet,
172cm wide
LOT 29
A pair of large blue and white baluster vases and covers, 20th century, Chinese, decorated with mythical creatures amongst foliage, each with a Buddhist lion knop, 69cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 30
A set of ten fret-cut hunting figures, of recent manufacture, comprising six horses and riders, and four hounds, mostly with applied titles, ‘Master of Fox Hounds’, ‘Squire Jenkins’, ‘First Whip’ etc., largest 30cm high (10)
£200 - 400
LOT 31
A pair of Victorian black-painted torchères, each with a metal drip tray on a carved and fluted column, on a tapering square plinth and scrolled feet, 37cm wide
37cm deep
127cm high (2)
£200 - 400
A pair of Regency oak hall chairs, early 19th century, each with a shell-shaped back and panel seat, on turned legs,
41cm wide
44cm deep
86cm high (2)
£200 - 300
A Victorian Gothic oak-framed thermometer, c.1870, by Salom & Co., London and Edinburgh, with a glass register, on a plinth base, 19.5cm wide
40cm high
£80 - 120
A William IV pier table, with turned and tapering front supports on a platform base, 91.5cm wide
46cm wide
86cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 34
LOT 33
LOT 32
Provenance: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., London (Christie’s), ‘Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries’, 9 October 1959, lot 149.
LOT 35 ▲
Dorothea Sharp (1873-1955)
‘Children Standing on Rocks Feeding Gulls’ signed ‘DOROTHEA SHARP’ l.l., oil on board
37 x 44cm
£10,000 - 15,000
LOT 36 ▲
Dorothea Sharp (1873-1955)
‘Girls Picking Daffodils’ oil on canvas
105 x 90cm
£50,000 - 70,000
Provenance: Jas T Godfrey Esq.; Sotheby’s, London, ‘Modern British and Irish Paintings and Drawings’,
LOT 37
L Muller (19th century), after Walter Dendy Sadler
‘The Squire’s Song’ engraving, signed ‘W Dendy Sadler’ and ‘L Muller’ in pencil, published by Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1901 visible 44 x 55cm, together with: seven further engravings of figures in interiors and gardens, after Walter Dendy Sadler, by various hands including William Henry Boucher and James Dobie, all signed in pencil
visible 50.5 x 37.5cm and smaller (8)
£150 - 250
Provenance: With Charles Nicholls & Son, Manchester.
LOT 38
An oak longcase clock, early 19th century, the painted arched dial with subsidiary seconds and date dials, the hood with fret-carved swan-neck pediment and brass finials, the case with arched door and column sides, on bracket feet, 49cm wide
24cm deep
230cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 39
An Attic-style pottery black-figure column-k rater, 19th century, Italian, decorated with figures to a lined and cross-hatched border, 23cm wide
29cm high
£400 - 600
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LOT 40
A Victorian bamboo plant stand, the body decorated with stylised floral tiles, 84cm wide
28cm deep
80cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 41
A Victorian blonde oak ‘Gothic’ bookcase, late 19th century, with trefoil ebonised border decoration, leather-edged shelves, and with cupboards to the base, 141cm wide
39cm deep
252cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 42
A Victorian needlepoint fire screen, decorated with floral blooms in relief, in a gilt and oak Gothic frame, 77 x 60cm
£100 - 200
LOT 43
Two milliner’s treen hat formers, 19th century, each on a stand and with a leather buckled band, 28 and 30cm high, and a wig stand, 26cm high (3)
£500 - 700
LOT 44
A painted pine shop display shelf, 19th century, Continental, with a central pediment, twenty-seven shelf compartments, above six further shelves below with fret-carved outline decoration, finished in a grey-green paint, 283cm wide
39cm deep
314cm high
£500 - 1,000
LOT 45
Horrockses, Crewdson & Co. Ltd., Manchester, 19th century, a glazed display of the processes to produce cotton, 59cm wide
49cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 46
A set of Victorian oak metamorphic library steps, late 19th century, with a pierced bar back, raised on tapering octagonal supports, stamped to one leg, 45cm wide
45cm deep
94cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 47
Cecil Aldin (1870-1935)
The Bluemarket Races: ‘The Arrival on the Course’ (two); ‘Between the Races’; ‘The Finish’; ‘On the Road’; ‘Homewards’ six chromolithographs, published by Lawrence & Bullen Ltd., London, 1902
50 x 77cm and similar (6)
£300 - 500
LOT 48
A Regency mahogany library bookcase, c.1820, with an arched pediment, column sides, and tooled leather and brass shelf fronts, with cupboards to the lower half, flanked by leaf and scroll-carved brackets, on a plinth base, 163cm wide
67cm deep
238cm high
£400 - 800
LOT 49
A quarter-size mahogany-framed slate billiard table, green baize-lined, height adjustable and on turned column legs, with billiard balls, triangular racks and cue rests, 256cm long 134cm wide, together with a brass-framed billiard three -lamp light, 115cm wide
60cm high (qty.)
£600 - 800
LOT 51
A bronze muzzle -loading signal cannon, 18th century, Dutch, Amsterdam, of plain form with a pair of dolphin handles and a vacant cartouche, stamped with the Amsterdam city proof mark, on bronze wheels and iron clasps, barrel 67cm long
overall 71cm long (2)
£500 - 700
Two surveyor’s measuring rods, early 20th century, together with four surveyor’s tripods, largest 153cm high (6)
£80 - 120
A Fuller calculator by W F Stanley & Co., 19th/20th century, with a fitted wooden case, 44cm long (2)
£100 - 150
A set of brass balance scales, c.1900, on a mahogany base with drawer, 25cm wide 15cm deep
31cm high
£50 - 70
LOT 50
LOT 52
LOT 53
An Edwardian oak overmantel, c.1900, inset with two Cecil Aldin chromolithographs, ‘Gone Away’ and ‘Check’, with shelf pediment, 140cm wide
64cm high
£300 - 400
A large faux flower, of recent manufacture, 68cm high, together with two smaller orchid examples, 42cm high (3)
£50 - 80
A Victorian Aesthetic ash and ebony washstand, with raised gallery back, inset with a lacquer and gilt panel of birds and a swan, the base with drawers and cupboards, on plinth base, 138cm wide
51cm deep
115cm high
£300 - 400
LOT 54
LOT 55
LOT 56
Walter Langley (1852-1922)
‘Eventide’ signed ‘W. LANGLEY’ l.r., watercolour
66 x 46cm
Exhibited: Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, and also in Warrington and Birmingham, ‘Walter Langley: Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony’, 1997-1998
£4,000 - 6,000
LOT 57
LOT 58
A Victorian brass fire kerb, second half of the 19th century, raised on lion paw feet,
87cm wide
22cm high, together with a pair of fire iron rests, and a copper coal scuttle with swing handle (4)
£200 - 300
LOT 59
A Victorian beech and rattan folding occasional table, c.1880, on faux bamboo supports, 82cm wide
52cm deep
70cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 60
A Victorian low chair, c.1890, with carpet upholstery and a bullion tassel fringe, on turned ebonised legs and castors, 63cm wide
70cm deep
78cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 61
A Regency mahogany secrétaire bookcase, c.1810, with a plain arched pediment and angled glazing bars, over a fitted writing drawer and three further drawers, all with brass ring handles, on swept bracket feet, 107cm wide
52cm deep
230cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 62
A painted giltwood wall mirror, 19th century, the plate painted with storks in a watery landscape, the frame with half-round reeded sides and entwined moulded flowering foliage, 96cm wide 190cm high
£800 - 1,500
LOT 63
A Victorian pitch pine octagonal kneehole desk, the later glass top above two banks of three opposing drawers, set with Aesthetic-style iron handles, between Gothic arched side panels, 127cm diameter 74cm high
£500 - 1,000
LOT 64
A travelling solitaire board and balls, late 19th/early 20th century, with a pivot top revealing a well below, together with a typed ‘solitaire solution’, 18cm diameter
£100 - 200
LOT 65
A brass telescopic table lamp, on a square base, together with a pleated shade, 66cm high minimum
83cm high maximum
£150 - 250
LOT 66
A Victorian armchair, upholstered in red damask, on carved and turned oak supports, 70cm wide
81cm deep
90cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 67
A pair of mahogany candlestick table lamps, 20th century, each with a turned and fluted stem on a turned base, with an oval tasselled parchment shade, 65cm high overall (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 68
An oak library timepiece, 19th century, with a silvered pointed arch dial, inscribed ‘Carter, 61 Cornhill, London’ within engraved scrolls, the case with pierced Gothic decoration enclosing a single fusee movement and with an engraved backplate, 19cm wide
28cm high
£400 - 600
Two Victorian pottery jugs, probably Watcombe, each of bellied form, with a printed band of classical decoration and gilt borders, one example with a hinged metal lid, larger 21cm high (2)
£80 - 120
A toleware coal bin and cover, 20th century, the painted black ground with red banding and gilt details, 39cm diameter
37cm high (2)
£100 - 200
A Victorian oak music stand, with pierced Gothic tracery, adjustable rests on an adjustable brass column, and a panelled and carved tripod base, 44cm wide
£300 - 500
A Zoffany ‘Albany’ two-and-a-half-seater settee, of recent manufacture, upholstered in red, on beechwood legs, 182cm wide
97cm deep
92cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 69
LOT 70
LOT 71
LOT 72
A set of Georgian fire irons, comprising a pierced shovel, a set of tongs and a poker, each with a twisted steel shaft, shovel 77cm long (3)
£200 - 400
LOT 74
A pierced steel fender, early 19th century, the ‘D’-shaped fender with brass top and bottom rails, 107cm wide 23cm high
£100 - 200
A basket of eight various carpet bowls, including four ceramic and four papier mâché examples, largest 16cm diameter (9) £100 - 200
An Aesthetic period walnut octagonal centre table, late 19th century, with a fabric-covered top below a later piece of glass, on turned and fluted supports and stretchers, 60cm diameter
67cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 73
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LOT 78
A pair of brass altar candlesticks, 19th century, each with a castellated sconce, turned column, stepped base and presentation inscription, 38cm high (2)
£150 - 300
A Regency oak pier table by Robert Strahan of Dublin, c.1820, Irish, with a shaped green veined marble top, on boldly scrolled legs and paw feet, 108cm wide
56.5cm deep
77cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 79
A Victorian armchair, the ebonised show wood frame with turned front legs and later buttoned upholstery, 72cm wide
88cm deep
85cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 80
A nest of three red-lacquered tables, late 19th century, Chinese, each with carved and gilt decoration, the turned, reeded and fluted supports on gilt dragon feet, largest 46cm wide
31cm deep
67cm high (3)
£300 - 500
LOT 77
LOT 81
A painted terracotta figure, 20th century, Austrian, in the manner of Goldscheider, of a young boy holding a basket, stamped to base ‘JMM 6824’, 74cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 82
A pair of terracotta table lamps, of recent manufacture, each of baluster shape, 45cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 83
A painted housekeeper’s cupboard, 19th century, French, with glazed doors above and cupboards below, on a plinth base, 127cm wide
46cm deep
238cm high
£300 - 400
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LOTS 84-152
LOT 84
Hendricus-Jacobus Burgers (Dutch, 1834-1899)
A young lady writing a letter signed and dated ‘Hen J Burgers 1870’ l.r., oil on panel
24 x 36.5cm
£600 - 800
LOT 85
William Greatbach (1802-1885), after William Salter ‘The Waterloo Banquet at Aspley House, June 18 1836’ mixed method engraving, published by F G Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, 18 June 1846
72 x 117cm
£500 - 700
LOT 86
A mahogany cutlery tray, 19th century, with twin compartments and a shaped carrying handle, 43cm wide
31cm deep
18cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 87
A pair of large Gothic-style brass candelabra, in the manner of AWN Pugin, each with a central sconce over nine scrolled arms, over a knopped central column with cast fish-scale decoration, terminating on an engraved circular base and recumbent lion feet, 88.5cm high (2) £800 - 1,200
LOT 88
An early Victorian mahogany pedestal sideboard, with a carved back over an inverted breakfront with a long frieze drawer, flanked by arched panelled doors enclosing drawers and shelves, on lion’s paw feet and a plinth base, 199cm wide
73.5cm wide
125cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 89
A George III wine funnel, London 1803, with an engraved crest in the shape of a lion, 15.5cm long, 2.8ozt
£150 - 300
LOT 90
A silver trophy for the ‘Tilburstow Hill Climb, 1936’, by James Fenton & Co., Birmingham 1935, engraved ‘Presented by H.J.F. Parsons F.S.Q, Won by R. C. Blake,1903 50.H.P. Napier, Time 1minute 15 1/5 seconds’, 16.5cm wide
22cm high, 5ozt
£100 - 150
LOT 91
A silver three -piece tea service, by Viners Ltd., London 1935, comprising a teapot with carved wood handle and finial, a sugar basin and milk jug, teapot 27cm wide
15cm high, 36ozt (3)
£200 - 300
LOT 92
A cased set of six silver salts, by Martin, Hall & Co., London 1863, comprising six salts and six spoons in a fitted case, the case 26cm wide, 7ozt
£200 - 400
LOT 93
A collection of wine accessories, comprising a silver wine taster, inset with an Elizabeth I silver shilling, by D & J Welby, London 1928, 16cm long, three white metal wine tasters, of recent manufacture, and a wine thermometer, a pourer and stopper (7)
£100 - 200
LOT 94
A pair of silver three -branch candelabra, by Crichton Brothers, London 1929, each with scrolling arms on an octagonal stepped base, 39cm wide
46cm high, 122ozt (2)
£1,500 - 2,500
95
A Parker Duofold ‘Lucky Curve’ fountain pen, 14cm long, together with a silver napkin hook, London 2008, with shell-shaped clasps, 6cm long (2)
£80 - 150
96
A mother-of-pearl and sapphire dress stud set, comprising four buttons, a pair of chain-link cufflinks and one dress stud, one dress stud deficient, each with a mother-of-pearl plaque with a central round cut sapphire accent, mounts faced in white and stamped 9ct, in a fitted case, together with a dress stud set, with four buttons with removable clips, a pair of chain-link cufflinks and two dress studs, each with a central split pearl accent, in a fitted case, gross weight 4.5ozt (2)
£80 - 120
LOT 97
A pair of silver wine coasters, Sheffield 1822, each with pierced decoration of fruiting foliage and a wooden base, 15cm diameter, a pair of silver pepper pots, by S W Smith & Co., Birmingham 1910, 5ozt, and a further silver-mounted pair, London 1988, 11cm high (6) £200 - 300
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A collection of six silver menu stands, Chester 1907, each cast with a veteran motor car, 3cm high, and four other silver menu stands, by Munsey & Co., London 1913, each cast with a shield and numbered ‘454426’, 3.5cm high, 8ozt (10)
£200 - 400
LOT 99
A silver-plated tricycle bottle stand, 20th century, 19cm high, and a similar cigar lighter 15cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 100
An 18ct gold half hunter pocket watch with albert chain, the 48mm case with a blue enamel Roman chapter ring to the front cover, a white dial signed ‘T. W. Long & Co. Cardiff’, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, blued hands, case no. 227, maker’s mark R & S, London 1919, gold dust cover, top wind movement ‘no. 376770’, suspended by an 18ct gold albert chain to a swivel clasp, French poinçon hallmark, 30cm long, 141.41g
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 101
A George III convex wall mirror, with an ebonised eagle crest above swags, a concave ball frame, four scrolled candle sconces and a carved apron,
LOT 102
Charles Green (1840-1898)
‘Latest News from the War’ signed and dated ‘C Green 1867’ l.r., inscribed with title on artist’s label verso, watercolour and bodycolour 34 x 47cm
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 103
Circle of Arthur Devis (1712-1787)
Portrait of Sir Peter and Lady Dennis, full-length, in a wooded landscape, a sleeping pug at his feet, a man-of-war offshore and a castle in the distance a label verso is inscribed ‘Sir Peter and Lady Dennis/He commanded the yacht/which conveyed the princess/of Mecklenburg-Strelitz/Bride of George 3rd of/England’, oil on canvas 56 x 63cm
£2,500 - 3,500
Provenance: Rosa Frances Johnson.
102
LOT 104
A collection of glass tableware, early 19th century and later, comprising: a claret jug, the silver-plated mount over a tapering body engraved with foliate motifs, 30.5cm high, a Prussian-type decanter, with two annulated rings below a moulded mushroom stopper, a similar decanter, with three neck rings over a pillar-cut body, a pair of globe and shaft-form decanters, each engraved with fruiting vine, and a pillar-cut claret jug, with a radial-cut mushroom stopper (6)
£200 - 400
LOT
105
A large glass rummer, engraved with fruiting vine over a baluster stem, 27cm high, a glass rolling pin, 37cm long, a lipped bowl, and a celery vase (4) £100 - 200
LOT 106
A group of six glass decanters, 19th century, French, five with stoppers, largest 39cm high (6) £100 - 200
LOT 107
A polychrome -painted glass figural bottle, possibly Legras, in the form of a gentleman with red sash, with enamelled decoration and cork, 29cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 108
Two glass champagne jugs, late 19th century, probably Stourbridge, each of bulbous shape with an ice pocket, one clear glass, the other ruby glass, both with a crackled ice finish, 29cm high (2) £100 - 200
LOT 109
A collection of shells, to include a sea urchin, conch and clam examples, together with a submerged pottery vase fragment, vase 22cm high (qty.)
£80 - 120
LOT 110
A collection of three corkscrews, comprising: a rack-and-pinion corkscrew by Heeley & Sons with turned bone handle and brush, 20.5cm long, a Dowler Patent rack-and-pinion corkscrew, and one other (3) £300 - 500
LOT 112
A wine corkscrew by Hermès, Paris, in burgundy crocodile leather, with box, 8cm long (2)
£100 - 200
A novelty brass mechanical cigar cutter, on a stepped composition base, 24.5cm long
£200 - 300
LOT 113
A Victorian carved oak letter box, the hinged cover carved ‘answered’ and ‘unanswered’, the sides and front with carved blind-fret gothic tracery, 25cm wide
14cm deep
12cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 111
LOT
114
Charles Green (1840-1898)
Doffing the cap
signed with initials and dated ‘1885’ l.l., watercolour heightened with white
24.5 x 18.5cm
£400 - 600
LOT
115
Charles Green (1840-1898)
An old man sitting in front of a stone cottage signed with initials and dated ‘1858’ l.l., watercolour heightened with white 22 x 16cm
£400 - 600
LOT
116
Charles Green (1840-1898)
‘The Print Collector’ signed and dated ‘C Green/1879’ l.r., also signed and inscribed with title on label verso, watercolour
Waiting in line signed and dated ‘C Green 1873’ l.l., watercolour heightened with white
26.5 x 41.5cm
£600 - 800
LOT 118
John Rogers Herbert RA (1810-1890)
‘The Wine that Maketh Glad the Heart of Man’ oil on canvas
77 x 64cm
£5,000 - 7,000
Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 12 November 1992, lot 85.
LOT 119
A George III strung mahogany cutlery urn, with a fitted interior, a re-entrant square base with an inlaid band, and later feet, 68cm high
£700 - 1,000
LOT 120
A pair of painted slate table lamps, of recent manufacture, each decorated in the neoclassical taste and with a shade, 73cm high with shades (2)
£500 - 800
LOT 121
A wine cradle, the brass turned frame with a winding mechanism, on an oval wooden stand, 21cm wide 24cm high
£150 - 300
LOT 122
A novelty steam engine ceramic brandy decanter, c.1900, with brass tap fittings, on a wheeled iron frame, 35cm wide
33.5cm high
£150 - 200
LOT 123
A Regency mahogany wine cooler, of sarcophagus shape, with panelled sides and a lion mask ring handle to the front, with a fitted lead-lined interior, and on turned legs, 57cm wide
39cm deep
59cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 124
A Regency strung mahogany fold-over card table, the top with rosewood banding above a frieze with a brass-inlaid tablet, the square baluster column over a platform base, and brass-strung and carved outswept legs, 92cm wide
45.5cm deep
73cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 126
A pair of large Gothic andirons, 19th/20th century, French, each with cast decoration, a crowned vacant shield and foliage, 68cm high (2)
£300 - 500
A Regency copper samovar, 19th century, with foliate brass mounts and tap, 57cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 127
A set of three George III fire irons, comprising a shovel, a pair of tongs and a poker, each with pierced foliate decoration, shovel 71cm long (3)
£200 - 400
LOT 125
LOT 128
A collection of fire tools, comprising a coal scuttle, a reproduction halberd, a mesh fireguard and a George III-style steel serpentine fender, fender 115cm wide
15cm high (4)
£100 - 150
LOT 129
A toleware plate warmer, 19th century, the domed top over a single door decorated in gilt with fruiting vines, enclosing two shelves, the sides with ring handles and on cast scrolled legs,
37cm wide
30cm deep
68cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 130
A toleware jug and basin, 20th century, each with floral decoration on a red ground, basin 57cm wide
25cm high (2)
£80 - 150
LOT 131
A George III mahogany three -tier whatnot, with three circular dished tiers on a baluster-turned column and tripod base, largest shelf 61cm diameter
120cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 132
A pair of biscuit tins by William Crawford and Sons Ltd., c.1938, each in the form of a Georgian tea caddy, with faux satinwood and walnut finish, and printed marks to the base, 15cm wide
9cm deep
12.5cm high (2)
£50 - 100
LOT 133
A mahogany lazy Susan, 19th century, with turned decoration, 50cm diameter
18cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 134
A George III mahogany pedestal dining table, the strung and crossbanded rectangular snap top on a turned column, over four outswept reeded legs, terminating with brass paw castors, 153cm long
107.5cm wide
73cm high
£500 - 1,000
LOT 135
A Staunton pattern chess set, 20th century, the rooks with glass eyes, together with a booklet, ‘the Sports Leader, Chess Rules’, and a mahogany box, king 6.5cm high, together with a set of bone and ebony dominoes, with mahogany box (qty.)
£100 - 200
LOT 136
An embroidered bell pull, worked with birds and simulated pearls amongst foliage, 207cm long
£150 - 300
LOT 137
A William IV mahogany cellaret, the domed top over a panelled front, with carved brackets in the form of fruiting foliage, on carved bun feet and brass castors, 79cm wide
52cm deep
63cm high
£600 - 1,000
LOT
138
Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (Irish, 1856-1941)
‘La Belle Mère’ - portrait of the artist’s wife Hazel and his daughter, Eileen
signed ‘J Lavery’ u.l., also signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘1911’ verso, oil on canvas
128 x 90cm
£180,000 - 250,000
Provenance: The artist, by descent to his granddaughter, Lady Ann Forbes-Sempill; with Pyms Gallery, London, c.1990.
Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Gallagher Galleries/Pyms Gallery, London, ‘A Free Spirit’, 1990, no 37.
We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
Lady Hazel Lavery (1880-1935)
& Eileen Lavery (1890-1935)
Born Hazel Martyn in boomtown Chicago, to a wealthy industrialist of Irish ancestry, Hazel became known as ‘The most beautiful girl in the Midwest’. After a long courtship and opposed by her mother, she married artist John Lavery, twenty-four years her senior, in 1909. The couple established a home in Cromwell Place, South Kensington, which became a hub for societal gatherings, where guests included the aristocracy, members of government, artists, and notably Irish statesmen and politicians, including Winston Churchill, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, J M Barrie and Michael Collins.
Hazel was herself a talented artist, who exhibited together with her husband, and advised Churchill on technique. However, she may be best remembered for her friendship with the Irish republican, Michael Collins, rumoured, but never proven, to be romantic, and her extraordinary effect on politicians of Ireland and Britain, for whom her salon represented precious common ground. She developed a passionate interest in Irish politics and was an unofficial go-between for the opposing factions in the fractious Home Rule debate. She may have helped Collins accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which ultimately led to his assassination by hard-line Republicans in
1922. Her contribution to an independent Ireland was recognised by her portrait being reproduced on Irish banknotes for much of the 20th century. These are considered some of the most iconic and beautiful of all modern banknotes.
Many works by Lord Lavery of his glamorous wife appear in national collections in Ireland and beyond, including ‘Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan’ in the National Gallery of Ireland, reproduced on said banknotes.
Eileen Lavery (1890-1935) was the daughter of John Lavery and his first wife, Kathleen MacDermott. Eileen first married John Dickinson, a solicitor, with whom she had a daughter, Diana, followed by a second marriage, in 1920, to William Forbes-Sempill, later Lord Sempill, with whom she had two further daughters. She was a keen aviator, as witnessed by a portrait by her father, ‘The First Irish Airwoman’, now in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. A portrait by F H Newbery is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery.
Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (1856-1941)
Professor Kenneth McConkey
L a Belle Mère
For Walter Shaw Sparrow, writing his monograph on John Lavery in 1911, the artist’s Portrait Group (Père et Fille) 1897-1900 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris), was clearly ‘a very outstanding picture ’ ( fig.1). 1 A centrepiece in the French contemporary collection, it was widely exhibited and reproduced. As a portrait of the artist’s beloved six-year- old daughter, Eileen Marion Lavery, with himself hovering in the background, it was intimacy made public – she in a fresh frock, and he, dressed for the street rather than the studio. 2 Already known for painting double portraits when it was purchased in 1900, Lavery continued to be fascinated by the comparison of faces and the overlapping of s itters in the same picture. And while he travelled extensively for portrait commi ssions in the Edwardian years, and established a winter studio for seascapes and Oriental scenes in Tangier, he occasionally returned to pairing s of figures in his work. It was when married to Hazel Trudeau and appointed Associate of the Royal Academy, as Shaw Sparrow was preparing his monograph, that the artist had embarked upon La B elle Mère (fig.2). 3
Fig.1
John Lavery, Portrait Group (Père et Fille) 1897-1900, 208 x 126.5cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Fig.2
John Lavery, La Belle Mère, 1911, the present picture
In this instance, as with the Orsay canvas, there was a special ‘family’ significance in his subject. On 22 July 1909, the painter, a widower since 1891, had married Mrs Hazel Trudeau, a widow since 1904, with a five-year-old daughter, Alice. They entered a world that in the previous decade had seen numerous celebrities pass through the artist’s spacious studio at 5 Cromwell Place, in Knightsbridge. Bringing his new domestic arrangements together in 1910, and in preparation for the International Exhibition in Rome, Lavery conceived the idea of painting a large studio interior modelled on Velázquez’ Las Meninas , with Hazel, Alice and Eileen as its principal actors. But this, when it returned from the exhibition, required extensive reworking and would take a further three years to complete (fig.3). 4
Two further canvases demonstrate the direction Lavery’s ‘family’ subjects take before and after La Belle Mère , both entitled Mother and Child . The first, representing Hazel and Alice, then aged five, was painted shortly after their arrival in Cromwell Place, and the second, showing Eileen and her daughter, Diana, then aged four (figs.4&5). The first is a Whistlerian harmony in brown and black, while the second places Lavery in contention with younger artists like Laura Knight, Hilda Fearon and Harold Speed who delighted in the new freedoms accorded by contemporary fashions.
Fig.4
John Lavery, Mother and Child, (Hazel and Alice) , 1909, 127 x 101.6cm, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Fig.5
John Lavery, Mother and Child, (Eileen and Diana), 1917, 120 x 94.5cm, Private Collection
L avery remained supremely sensitive to harmonies of colour and to ne, even when h is p alette has lightened, and a greater spontaneity h a d emerged in his handling. Poi sed b etween these works, La Belle Mère d emonstrates a willingness to bring something new to an old idea. Whi l e in The Artist’s Studio Hazel and Eileen appear in n at ural light, here t he artist experi m ents with a flickering firelight pa lette. The flari ng and fading o f such a light source accoun t s in part for the pace and sketch-like quality of the ensemble, and the variation in application b e tween foreground and background f igures. 8 I n p urely personal terms, there could be n ot hing more significant than bringin g his two favourite models tog ether. 9
Ken neth McConkey
January 2025
Fig.3
John Lavery, The Artist’s Studio, 1910-13, 344 x 274 cm, National Gallery of Reland, Dublin
La Belle Mère relates closely to this important project. It indicates that Hazel was quickly slipping into Lavery’s social world of private views, Academy dinners and society soirées, that in 1911, surrounded sittings from Lady Gwendoline Churchill, Anna Pavlova, the socialite Ruby Peto, the haunting Mme Robert de Billy and others.5 Described as the ‘most beautiful girl in the Midwest’ and a Chicagoan of Irish/American descent, Hazel was becoming a valuable asset - ‘in love with the spectacle of life’ finding ‘her true art’ as a hostess, according to her husband. 6 To this should be added the role of model since, in 1927, Lavery was commissioned to paint her portrait as Kathleen ni Houlihan for the Irish Free State currency. In the present instance, Eileen, soon to be married in the following March, accompanies her and both are dressed for a ball or evening reception during the London season. 7
1. Waller Shaw Sparrow, John Lavery and his Work , 1911 (Kegan Paul, Trubner, Trench & Co.), p.138.
2. Kenneth M cConkey, John Lavery, A Painter and his World , 2010, (Atelier Books, Edinburgh), pp.7174; also Kenneth McConkey, Lavery on Location , 2023 (exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), no. 57, pp.132-3. Born in March 1891, to Lavery’s consumptive first wife, the former London flower seller, Annie Evans (aka Katheen McDermott), Eileen’s early years were spent in Scotland, before her move to be with her father to London in 1898. Her mother died within six months of her birth.
3. Notable precedents for double portraits, include Mother and Son, Mrs Lawrie and Edwin , 1891 (Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Venice), Anne Montgomery Knox and her father 1896-7 (Private Collection) and Mrs Plowden and Humphrey , 1897-8 (Private Collection).
4.McConkey 2010, pp.108-111.
5. For Lady Gwendoline Churchill and Mme Robert de Billy, see McConkey 2010, pp.108-109 and notes 15&16); for Ruby Peto, see Whyte’s Dublin, 25 May 2015, lot 30 – catalogue note by Kenneth McConkey; and for Pavlova, see Kenneth McConkey, ‘Pavlova and her Irish painters’, Irish Arts Review , Winter 2024, vol. 41 no. 4, pp.126-131.
6. John Lavery, The Life of a Painter , 1940 (Cassell), pp.195, 197. Born Hazel Martyn, (1880-1935), daughter of a wealthy Chicago stock yard company vice-president, she was betrothed to a young doctor, Edward Livingston Trudeau, when she first met Lavery in 1903. When Trudeau’s sudden death in 1904 left her pregnant with Alice, she and Lavery retained sporadic contact. Following their marriage, she blossomed as a leading society hostess; see also, Sinéad MacCoole, Hazel, A Life of Lady Lavery, 1880-1935 , 1996 (Lilliput Press Ltd., Dublin). Cecil Beaton in The Book of Beauty , 1930 (Duckworth & Co.), pp.53-55, would later describe ‘the cutting of her features’ as ‘perfection’ and Hazel’s ‘complexion like white china, her cheeks like the fire through china, her hair bright red’, and ‘with her preference for lipstick and powder she is like a very sophisticated squirrel’. He further recalls that ‘with her love of ‘ostrich plumes’, as in the present work, she was ‘different from other beauties – isolated, melancholy, wise – a rare and romantic being’.
7. Eileen, following Portrait Group (Père et Fille), had featured frequently in Lavery’s work and was currently the subject of The Amazon 1908-10 (Ulster Museum, Belfast) the artist’s principal work at the Royal Academy in 1911. She married James Dickinson in Tangier the following year.
8. Lavery may well have planned to continue working on La Belle Mère but was prevented from doing so by the death of Hazel’s younger sister, Dorothea, necessitating an unplanned trip to Chicago in October 1911. Not long after their return to London, they set sail for their annual winter sojourn in Tangier.
9. As is well-known, both sitters died in 1935 within seven months of one another, when the artist was entering his eightieth year; see McConkey 2010, pp.192-195.
LOT 139
A pair of Victorian needlepoint bell pulls, each with a brass handle, 201cm long 11cm wide, and a needlework square cushion case, 50 x 51cm (3)
£200 - 300
LOT 140
A pair of Empire -style bronze lamps, 20th century, French, each with a reeded column and lion paw feet, 57cm high (2)
£500 - 800
LOT
141
A painted console table, late 18th century, the rosso antico marble top, above an applied gesso relief-moulded frieze with panel decoration, supported on winged griffin monopodia legs, 195cm wide
61cm deep
83cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 142
A large oval mirror, 20th century, in the Irish style, the painted frame with applied lustres, 160cm wide
130cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 143
A Regency polished steel fire kerb, the kerb with pierced decoration, on turned feet, 137cm wide, and a set of fire tools, of plain turned and knop form (4)
£200 - 300
LOT 144
A Regency mahogany bergère library chair, a reeded frame with open column arms, with seat and back cushions, on turned legs and brass castors, 59cm wide
78cm deep
91cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 145
A Regency mahogany secretaire bookcase, with plain cornice and a glazed cupboard enclosing three shelves, the secretaire drawer opening to reveal a fitted satinwood interior with eleven leather-lined drawers flanking pigeonholes, over three drawers with brass handles, on turned feet, 114cm wide
56cm deep
247cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 146
A Regency faux rosewood window seat, upholstered in a chequered fabric, with angled seat ends on turned legs,
138cm wide
31cm deep
41cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 147
A William IV mahogany bar-back dining chair, with a lappet-carved back and splat, a leather drop-in seat, and on sabre legs,
54cm wide
57cm deep
87cm high
£150 - 200
LOT 148
A pair of William IV mahogany bergère chairs, each with a curved scroll back, lappet-carved arms and a cushion seat, on scroll legs and castors,
50cm wide
56cm deep
79cm high (2)
£250 - 300
LOT 149
A Victorian Gothic-framed gilt-brass thermometer, raised on a carved and pierced rectangular base, 12.5cm wide
28.5cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 150
Edward George Hobley (1866-1916)
‘Boy and Goat’ signed ‘EDWARD.G.HOBLEY’ l.r., also signed and inscribed with title verso, oil on canvas
61.5 x 46cm
£1,200 - 1,800
Provenance: Phillips, 16 November 1999, lot 275.
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1893, catalogue no. 477.
LOT 151
Frederick Hall (1860-1948)
Horses by a thatched barn signed ‘Fred Hall’ l.r., oil on board
33 x 41cm
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 152
Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
‘Morning Sunshine’ signed and dated ‘Harold Harvey 1911’ l.r., oil on canvas
96 x 76cm
£25,000 - 35,000
Provenance: Clifford(?) Seed Esq., West Yorkshire, by 1980; his sale, Phillips, 20 June 1983, lot 17; to the Fine Art Society, London; Christie’s, 6 March 1986, lot 80, illus.; with MacConnal-Mason & Son Ltd., London; thence to the current owner.
Exhibited: Passmore Edwards Gallery, Newlyn, ‘Newlyn Pictures’, March 1911; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1911, catalogue no. 307; Fine Art Society, London, ‘Spring Exhibition’, 1985, catalogue no. 17 (illus. in catalogue as ‘Bringing in the Washing’).
Literature: ‘ The Newlyn Pictures, 1911 Exhibition’, The Cornishman, 23 March 1911, p.3; ‘The Newlyn Pictures, 1911 Exhibition’, The Cornish Telegraph, 23 March 1911, p.3; ‘Cornwall’, The Art News, 15 April 1911, p.54; ‘The Royal Academy II - West Country Artists’, Western Morning News, 6 May 1911, p.4; Peter Ridson & Pauline Sheppard with an introduction by Kenneth McConkey, ‘Harold Harvey, Painter of Cornwall’, 2001 (Sansom & Co.), pp.73, 141, no. 143; Ridson & Sheppard, with McConkey, 2001 (Sansom & Co., expanded ed. 2024), pp.54, 123, no. 176.
We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Professor Kenneth McConkey
When recent works by local artists were shown at the Passmore Edwards Gallery, Newlyn, in March 1911, Harold Harvey’s paintings were grouped with those of the younger generation, specifically those of Harold and Laura Knight. Up to this point, according to the provincial papers, ‘the significance of the work of such artists’ had not been ‘fully apprehended’. With due regard to older artists such as Stanhope Forbes, Mrs Knight specifically had shot to fame in the previous two years, on the basis of a ‘school of thought’ that ‘for some years now, Mr Harvey in particular has been developing …’. 1
While there was some partisanship in the comment – Harvey was born in Penzance – there can be no doubt that his Impressionistic handling had the strongest appeal to more recent incomers to the Penwith peninsula. In the contemporary rhetoric of ‘city versus country’, the cheerful specimens of Englishness contained in works like Morning Sunshine epitomised health and happiness. 2 To this painting ‘one instinctively turns’, the reviewer continues, for an everyday scene ‘above Newlyn’ that:
… represents the bringing in of clothes which have been drying in the open. One is arrested by the virility of the three figures descending the steep ground in the bright light – the healthy-faced and gladsome girls and the woman with the basket of clothes under her arm, but one is equally as much impressed with the truly great conception of light which Mr Harvey has caught. There is also a delightful peep of Newlyn Pier and the shimmering sea at the foot of the slope. 3
The Passmore Edwards exhibition was a mere prelude to the Royal Academy which opened in May, where Morning Sunshine was once more greeted with approval:
A most attractive open air subject picture is Mr Harold Harvey’s ‘Morning Sunshine’ with three young girls promenading a green bank sloping sideways to the sea. Their hair and dresses are caught by sunlight, and the landscape is alive with the freshness of a spring morning. 4
While the painting was much admired, it is also clear that Morning Sunshine was revised at some point between its initial showing and 1980, and the three foreground figures have been reduced to two. 5 Further research may reveal the reasons for this.
However, it remains the case that the work in its present form fits well into the sequence of Harvey’s smaller works around 1910. In 1908, for instance, he had painted Young Washergirls , his first painting of a procession of girls carrying wicker baskets of washing. These figures with baskets, accompanied by a small child, are re-cast in The Blackberry Harvest c.1910 (figs.1&2). 6
Fig.1
Harold Harvey, Young Washergirls, 1908, 30 x 40cm, Private Collection
Although we recognise the faces of his models here and elsewhere, their names, before the 1920s, elude us. Yet names in the end are of little consequence when what we are meant to admire is a domestic ritual practiced in the glorious light and warm breezes of a Cornish headland. When his Academy piece, Morning Sunshine , was on its way to London in April 1911, Harvey gave his hand in marriage to Gertrude Bodinnar and moved up to Maen Cottage at the top of Newlyn, where it was a short step out on to the grassy slope to revisit familiar scenes he had already made his own.
Kenneth McConkey January 2025
1. ‘The Newlyn Pictures, 1911 Exhibition’ The Cornishman , 23 March 1911, p. 3.
2. See for instance CFG Masterman, The Condition of England , 1909 (Methuen & Co.), a polemic on the social divisions and current transformations taking place in English society.
3. As note 1.
4. ‘The Royal Academy II - West Country Artists’, Western Morning News , 6 May 1911, p.4. Harvey also showed a smaller work, Milking Time (Private Collection, Ridson 2024 no. 125) in the 1911 Academy.
5. When viewed c.1981 by the present author, this change had been made.
6. Young Washergirls , (Ridson 2024, no. 124) after its sale at Lawrence’s, Crewkerne, on 25 September 1980, appeared in The Plein Air Tradition , an exhibition at Whitford and Hughes, London in 1982 (no. 134) as Washing Day ; see also Washday , 1907 (Ridson 2024, no. 123), a work showing a mother, daughter and younger child retrieving washing from hedgerows near the hilltop. The Blackberry Harvest (Ridson 2024, no. 188) was sold at Christie’s, 5 June 2008, and although not reviewed until Harvey’s solo exhibition in Plymouth in 1912, must date from c.1910; see ‘Pictures at Plymouth by Mr Harold Harvey’, Western Daily Mercury, 23 August 1912, p.8.
Fig.2
Harold Harvey, The Blackberry Harvest, c.1910, 40.7 x 35.6cm, Private Collection
LOT 153
A wrought-iron six-branch chandelier, 20th century, with green patination, scrolled arms and shades, 70cm diameter
63cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 154
A grained oak clock cupboard, early 19th century, Shropshire, the panelled housekeeper’s cupboard with a clock to the centre, the hood with swan-neck pediment and brass ball finials, an eight-day striking movement to a painted arched dial signed ‘Edw. Glase, Bridgnorth’, the cupboard with drawers to the base, on turned feet, 242cm wide
55cm deep
267cm high
£2,000 - 4,000
LOT 155
An oak cased Act of Parliament clock, early 19th century, with mahogany banding and a 24-inch painted dial, 140cm high
£500 - 1,000
LOT 156
A large toleware coffee tin, 19th century, fitted with three compartments with porcelain handles, and gilded ‘coffee’ lettering, 32cm wide
20cm deep
64cm high
£60 - 80
LOT 157
A collection of kitchenwares, including: a brass chestnut warmer, 59cm long, five flat irons, a timer in a turned beechwood stand, a turned mahogany mallet or mortar, a metal lantern with mica windows, and two duck brushes and stands (15)
£80 - 150
LOT 158
Twenty green-glazed majolica plates, late 19th century, each with moulded patterns, comprising fifteen tea plates and five serving plates largest 28cm wide
21cm high (20)
£100 - 200
LOT 159
A beechwood and elm kitchen Windsor chair, with turned supports, 50cm wide 110cm high, and a painted cast iron plant stand, 41cm diameter, 33cm high (2)
£80 - 120
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158
LOT 160
Cecil Aldin (1870-1935)
‘A Hunting Morning’; ‘Drawn Blank’; Dog chasing a chicken
three chromolithographs, published by Thomas McLean, London
52 x 82, 52 x 83 and 27 x 70cm respectively, and five further prints of hunting and coaching scenes: Charles Hunt, after W J Shayer
‘The Duke of Beaufort Coach’ hand-coloured lithograph image 44 x 59.5cm; J Harris, after Ja. Pollard
‘The Lord Nelson Inn, Cheam’ hand-coloured lithograph image 33 x 50.5cm; W H Simmons, after Francis Grant
‘The Shooting Party - Ranton Abbey’ hand-coloured lithograph image 48 x 71.5cm; Thomas Lupton, after J W Snow
‘The Meet at Blagdon’ hand-coloured lithograph image 46.5 x 75cm; After Francis Cecil Boult
‘The Last Honors of the Chase’, 1884 overpainted lithograph in colours image 38 x 63cm (8)
£300 - 500
LOT 161
A pair of beechwood elbow chairs, 20th century, each with bobbin turning, rush seat and a cushion, 56cm wide
47cm deep
16.5cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 162
Three enamel advertising signs, comprising:
‘Horniman’s Pure Tea’, 27 x 42cm, ‘Lyons’ Tea Sold Here’, and ‘Brooke Bond’s Tea’, together with a ‘Ty-Phoo Tea’ oval mirror on card,
a composition figure ‘Plucking Tea’, and a ‘Balkan Sobranie Pipe Tobacco’ sign, with a tin lid and folding support (6)
£100 - 200
LOT 163
A painted pine dresser, late 19th century, Continental, with a closed plate rack, column sides and panelled doors to the base, on sledge feet, 113cm wide
52cm deep
213cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
The Vicky Wrather Collection of Teapots
‘Fearful Consequences through the Laws of Natural Selection and Evolution of living up to one’s teapot’… inscribed on the base of the celebrated Royal Worcester ‘Aesthetic’ teapot.
When my brother gave me my very first teapot in my early twenties, little did I know quite where it would lead! He and I had been brought up in a vegetarian household - which at the time was unusual, and we have both remained lifelong veggies - rarely also consuming alcohol. So, when he gave me that first teapot (he was at school at Dartington at the time and I think paid ten old pennies for it at Totnes market) he said, ‘well, you don’t drink anything else much apart from tea, so I’ve bought you this’ and my addiction to tea for the past fifty years has remained pretty much the same.
As I love tea as a beverage so much and have enjoyed in my travels discovering all sorts of exciting infusions, a natural progression has been for me to become interested in teapots themselves and to form a collection, particularly if they are novel in their design.
At one time I had over four hundred novelty teapots, all displayed in purpose-built cabinets at Boden Hall, which years ago had featured in a local Stoke-on-Trent newspaper and this editorial led to several readers writing to me, telling me how they had been employed at Sadler’s or wherever in the Potteries, doing either modelling or decoration. As a result, I have it from the horse’s mouth that the silver resist on the novelty motor car teapots only features on ‘firsts’ with no silver resist on ‘seconds’!
I hope that my teapots give as much pleasure to future generations of collectors and/or those who just want a fun brew!
Victoria Wrather January 2025
THE VICKY WRATHER COLLECTION OF TEAPOTS
LOTS 164-209
LOT 164
Four field-gun ‘Belisha’ teapots and covers, by Clews & Co., printed marks, 15cm high (4)
£100 - 200
LOT 165
A teapot modelled as a tank, c.1930, with an ‘Old Bill’-style cover, 16cm high, another similar example, of recent manufacture, inscribed ‘Workhouse, Liverpool, England, L. Roberts’, 15cm high, and a Crown Ducal commemorative Second World War teapot and cover, inscribed ‘Liberty and Freedom, War Against Hitlerism’, 15cm high (6)
£100 - 150
LOT 166
A Sadler ‘T-Plane’ teapot and cover, 10cm high, together with a Wadeheath example, modelled as an ocean liner, 12.5cm high (4)
£100 - 200
LOT 167
A Carlton Ware pottery teapot, 20th century, modelled as a biplane and pilot in a green, white and brown glaze, 14cm high (2)
£50 - 100
LOT 168
Four Sadler pottery teapots and covers, c.1930s, each in the form of a racing car with silvered highlights, impressed marks, 10cm high (8)
£100 - 150
LOT 169
Two Sadler teapots, c.1930, each modelled as a racing car, impressed ‘820236’, 10cm high, an Art Deco Sadler racing teapot, with a printed nursery design by Mabel Lucie Attwell, 10cm high, and a model of a coach, with silvered highlights, 10cm high (4)
£100 - 200
Provenance: The Vicky Wrather Collection of Teapots.
LOT 170
A Sadler pottery wagon train tea set, 20th century, comprising two teapots and covers, two milk jugs, and a sucrier and cover, impressed marks, teapots 13cm high (8)
£50 - 100
LOT 171
Seven Sadler ‘Ye Daintee Ladyee’ teapots and covers, mid-20th century, one example inscribed ‘As purchased by Her Majesty The Queen’, four impressed with ‘Ye Daintee Laydee’, 19cm high (14)
£60 - 80
LOT 172
Two Ellgreave Pottery ‘Cinderella’ teapots and covers, c.1930s/1940s, with printed marks
15cm high (4)
£80 - 120
LOT 173
A commemorative FA Cup pottery teapot and cover, by Sadler of Burslem, modelled as a football, the handle as a footballer, the cover with a silvered trophy handle, printed marks, 16cm high (2)
£50 - 100
LOT 174
Five pottery teapots, comprising: two Wood’s Pottery ‘Little Old Lady’, 21cm high, a Lingard Pottery ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’, an H J Wood ‘Princess Charlotte’, and one other example (10)
£100 - 200
LOT 175
Two Lingard Pottery teapots and covers, 20th century, each modelled as a ‘Little Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe’, one in green, the other in yellow, 14cm high (4)
£80 - 150
LOT 176
Four Lingard Pottery teapots and covers, modelled as ‘Mr Pickwick Proposes a Toast’, impressed marks, 18cm high (8)
£80 - 150
LOT 177
Five teapots and covers, 20th century, comprising: a Lingard, Webster & Co. example of ‘Humpty Dumpty’, 10cm high, a Lingard ‘Sairey Gamp’ example, a Beswick figural pot, a Lingard, Webster & Co. ‘Ye Old Wishing Well’ example, and a Crown Staffordshire cube teapot (10)
£100 - 200
LOT 178
Four pottery teapots and covers, comprising: a Beswick ‘Sam Weller’, 1369, 15cm high, a ‘Peggotty’, 116, a ‘Dolly Varden’, 1203, and a Lingard ‘Sairey Gamp from Charles Dickens’, 15cm high (8)
£100 - 200
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LOT 179
Four figural pottery teapots and covers, c.1930, comprising: a Roy Simpson Coronation Ware hand-painted skier teapot and cover, 19cm high, a Sadler Santa Claus teapot and cover, a Welsh lady teapot and cover, and one other figural teapot (8)
£100 - 200
LOT 180
A collection of Mabel Lucie Attwell for Shelley ‘Boo Boo’ teapots and covers, comprising: a milk jug, 15cm high a teapot and cover, a smaller teapot without a cover, a sucrier and cover, and another sucrier without a cover, printed marks (7)
£100 - 150
LOT 181
A Shelley ‘Animal’ series tea set, early 20th century, designed by Mabel Lucie Attwell, all with painted polychrome decoration and a Mabel Lucie Attwell stamped signature, ‘Rd no. 724421’, teapot 19cm high, together with two pottery ‘Bunny’ teapots and covers, printed marks, 19cm high, and a Wadeheath Donald teapot and cover (10)
£200 - 300
LOT 182
Fourteen novelty animalier pottery teapots and covers, 20th century, including cats, penguins, rabbits and an elephant, largest 22cm high (28)
£100 - 200
LOT 183
Five pottery teapots and covers, comprising: a Wood ‘Cube’ teapot, 9cm high, a Burleigh Ware example, in the form of an acorn, a Wadeheath example, in the form of a bird’s nest, Melba Ware, in the form of cabbage leaves and flower, and a fox-hunting pot, impressed ‘England’ (10)
£100 - 200
LOT 184
A Royal Winton three -piece tea set, each modelled as a rooster and including a teapot and cover, printed marks, 15.5cm high (4)
£80 - 120
LOT 185
Three novelty pottery teapots and covers, comprising: a Fluck & Law Ronald Reagan teapot, 27cm high, an example modelled as a flat iron, and a Carlton Ware seated pig (6)
£80 - 150
LOT 186
Two pottery teapots and covers by Tashiro Shoten, 20th century, Japanese, each modelled as a seated camel, with wicker handle, printed marks, 9 and 12cm high (4)
£50 - 100
LOT 187
Three Chinese Yixing zisha teapots, 20th century, comprising: one example decorated with leaves, and two of plainer design, with stamped Yixing mark to base, 9.5 to 17.5cm long (6)
£50 - 100
LOT 188
Ten miniature teapots and covers, 20th century, Chinese, each with enamelled decoration, 12.5cm high, together with an enamelled brass model pot (21)
£100 - 200
LOT 189
Four Art Deco pottery items by George Clews & Co. Ltd., comprising two teapots on a tray and two further examples, printed marks, largest 11cm high (9)
£100 - 150
LOT 190
An Art Deco pottery three -piece tea set, Czechoslovakian, with a printed floral design, printed marks, teapot 21cm high (5)
£50 - 100
LOT 191
A group of Art Deco pottery jugs and vases, including Sylvac parrot and squirrel jugs, 20 and 22cm high, a Wadeheath jug moulded with polychrome owls, 19cm high, and a Losol Ware biscuit jar and cover, 17cm high (13)
£100 - 200
LOT 192
Four novelty teapots and covers, comprising: a Price Brothers’ poodle, 21cm high, a Lustre Pottery example, 1976, with a silvered reclining nude handle and cover, a Thomas Hughes & Son Ltd. example, decorated with purple and green leaves, with printed mark, and a Sunshine Ceramics example, with a rainbow handle and spout (8)
£80 - 150
LOT 193
Two pottery cottage teapots and covers, c.1930, a yellow-glazed example by Arthur Wood, impressed marks, and a blue-glazed example by Price Bros., 15cm high (4)
£50 - 100
LOT 194
A collection of Staffordshire ‘cottage ware’ pottery, mid-20th century, comprising four teapots and covers, and three biscuit jars and covers with wicker swing handles, various makers, some marked, largest pot 16cm high (14)
£100 - 200
LOT 195
A collection of Staffordshire ‘cottage ware’ teawares, 20th century, including five teapots and covers, a biscuit barrel with a wicker handle and a milk jug, largest pot 16cm high (16)
£100 - 200
LOT 196
A group of three pottery teapots and a milk jug, comprising: a Wadeheath example with cover, c.1930, modelled as an ‘Old English Castle’, 13cm high, a Thomas Lawrence Falcon Ware teapot and milk jug, ‘The Wishing Well’, teapot 10.5cm high, and a Coronation Ware ‘Robinson Crusoe’ pot and cover, 16.5cm high (7)
£100 - 200
LOT 197
Seven teapots and covers, 20th century, comprising: a Lingard ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ example, 23cm high, a Royal Doulton example, with a Venetian scene, another inscribed ‘The Cup That Cheers’, two models of cottages, a model of a windmill, and one other (14)
£100 - 200
LOT 198
A collection of pottery and porcelain teapots and covers, 20th century, including a blue-glazed example modelled as a Buddha sitting on an elephant, two examples modelled as cottages, and a Chinese enamelled teapot, largest 17cm high together with two milk jugs (qty)
£50 - 100
LOT 199
A pottery teepee teapot and cover, Clarice Cliff for Newport Pottery, with painted relief decoration, printed marks including ‘Greetings From Canada’, 18cm high (2)
£150 - 250
LOT 200
Three pottery teapots and covers, comprising: an ‘Empire Ware, England’ British patriotic teapot, 20th century, 17cm high, a Thomas Hughes & Son Ltd. Elizabeth II Coronation teapot and cover, and a Ringtons Ltd. Queen Mary and King George Silver Jubilee teapot (6)
£80 - 150
LOT 201
Eight pottery teapots and covers, including a ‘Wheatsheaf’ teapot by Lingard Webster, a Sudlow Burslem marbled teapot and a Crown Derby Imari teapot, largest 20cm high (16)
£50 - 100
Two Cadogan teapots, 19th century, one treacle glazed, with floral and berry moulded decoration, the other similar but green glazed, both indistinctly marked, larger 22cm high (2)
£80 - 120
LOT 203
Five Victorian black-glazed teapots and covers, one example with a stand, all with enamelled and gilt decoration, largest 16cm high (11)
£80 - 120
LOT 204
Ten pottery teapots and covers, and a Coronet Ware gypsy caravan biscuit box and cover, with a wicker handle, largest 21cm high (23)
£100 - 200
LOT 205
A three -piece pottery tea set, 20th century, comprising a Royal Art Pottery set, moulded in the form of baskets of fruit, pot 15cm high, together with a set moulded in the form of a Victorian lady, pot 21cm high (10)
£80 - 120
LOT 202
LOT 206
A Royal Venton Ware three -piece tea service designed by Holdcroft, comprising a teapot, milk jug, and sucrier and cover, with printed marks, teapot 11cm high, together with a further green-glazed teapot cover (6)
£50 - 80
LOT 207
Eight pottery teapots and covers, 20th century, including a porcelain pot and cover decorated with cherry blossom and female figures, a teapot modelled as a postbox, and a rooster pot and cover, 16cm high (16)
£100 - 200
LOT 208
Four large pottery teapots, late 19th century, including a Dudson teapot and cover with moulded decoration, largest 27cm high (7)
£50 - 100
LOT 209
Twelve teapots and covers, including a Whieldon-style shell-shaped pot with a swing handle, a modern Minton majolica-style monkey pot, a modern studio pottery pot, a teapot modelled as a serpent wrapped around a ball, indistinctly signed and dated ‘1999’, 16cm high (25)
£100 - 200
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THE LIBRARY, INNER HALL AND LANDING
LOTS 210-296
210
A brass hall lantern, 20th century, French, with scrolled supports and fitted with three lights and a suspension chain, 37cm diameter
70cm high
£200 - 400
211
A pair of Victorian brass altar table lamps, each with a knopped stem and a white shade, 82cm high (2)
£200 - 400
212
Edward Henry Holder (1847-1922)
Figures outside cottages in a mountain landscape signed and dated ‘E. H. Holder 85’ l.r., oil on canvas
41 x 61cm
£500 - 800
A Victorian papier mâché display, modelled as fruit on a vine, raised on an ebonised base, with a glass dome, 43cm high
£100 - 200
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LOT 214
A Victorian baronial oak and marble -topped hall table, Irish, by Robert Strahan of Dublin, the white marble top over a scrolled frieze and tapering octagonal legs, bearing a paper trade label to the underside,
141cm wide
215
A boldly carved Victorian giltwood wall mirror, with an associated carved crest over boldly carved scrolling foliage mounts, enclosing a bevelled plate,
79cm wide
110cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 216
A pair of Victorian oak hall chairs, in the Aesthetic style, each inset with a classical roundel in relief to the back, above turned supports with ebonised detail,
47cm wide
42cm deep
93cm high (2)
£300 - 500
217
A pair of blue and white table lamps and shades, 20th century, Chinese, each of square shape, on a turned wooden plinth, 73cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 218
A Regency rosewood marble -topped pier table, the white marble top on boldly carved and scrolled front legs and panelled rear legs, 58cm wide
53cm deep
90.5cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
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A Victorian iron-bound oak silver chest, with extensive iron mounts, a hasp and carrying handles,
80cm wide
53cm deep
53cm high
£300 - 500
A Victorian steel-framed reclining armchair, with original red, plush, buttoned upholstery, on scrolled front legs,
68cm wide
62cm deep
87cm high
£180 - 250
LOT 221
A blue and white monteith bowl, of recent manufacture, 21cm long, and a blue and white vase, 20th century, Chinese, 49cm high (2)
£80 - 120
LOT 222
A bamboo and lacquered single door cabinet, 20th century, the doors fitted with oval chinoiserie panels,
45cm wide
32cm deep
100cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 219
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LOT 223
A painted and brass-mounted table lamp, of recent manufacture, with a tapering column on a circular base, with shade, 71cm high overall
£100 - 200
LOT 224
A Regency mahogany bar-back
elbow chair, with an overstuffed seat, on sabre legs,
49cm wide
58cm deep
83cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 225
Two truncheons, one example decorated with a George IV monogram, crown and a metal ferrule, 55cm long, the other with a ‘GR’ monogram, the initials ‘WA’, a crown and possibly dated ‘1818’ (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 226
A George III mahogany Pembroke table, with a single frieze drawer and a dummy drawer, on turned legs, 90cm wide
52cm deep
70cm high closed
£80 - 150
A turned mahogany stick stand, in the style of Wyburd for Liberty, with twelve compartments and a tin drip tray, 61cm wide
22cm deep
71.5 cm high
£300 - 500
A bamboo walking stick, with an engraved white metal collar and horn ferrule, 93cm long, and another example, with a segmental horn shaft, 85cm long (2)
£80 - 150
A briar walking stick, the handle carved in the form of a grotesque gentleman, with glass eyes, bending forward with one hand on his knee, 87cm long
£200 - 300
A walking stick shotgun, with a horn handle and cane body, 80cm long, and a ‘Tripocane’ walking stick, German, with a turned wooden shaft and handle, with impressed marks, 84cm long (2)
A Valid Shotgun certificate is required upon purchase
£100 - 200
LOT 227
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LOT 229
LOT 230
A walking stick, the ivory handle modelled as a dog’s head with glass eyes, with an inset hardwood collar, on a turned wood shaft, 86cm long
£100 - 200
LOT 232
Two ivory and Macassar ebony walking sticks, one example with the handle carved as a seated monkey, signed, 89cm long, the other modelled as a clenched fist clasping a serpent, 85.5cm long (2)
£100 - 200
A sword stick, with damascene decoration, a turned bone handle and a brassed-metal collar and ferrule, 91cm long, and another sword stick, with a bone handle carved in the form of a dog’s head with a collar and glass eyes, 88cm long (2)
£80 - 150
LOT 234
A bamboo walking stick, with a cylindrical tiger’s eye handle in a silver mount, London 1879, 87cm long
£100 - 200
LOT 231
LOT 233
LOT 235
Three walking sticks, comprising: an ebony example with an engraved silver handle, London 1904, a bamboo example with a brass handle enclosing a patented candle, and one other with a cast white metal handle inscribed ‘T Carboll, No 4145, Leinster. Regt.’, all 91cm long (3)
£150 - 300
LOT 236
A hardwood walking stick, carved with a bearded man’s face, 83.5cm long, and another example, carved with a fish on an ebony stem, 90cm long (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 237
Three walking sticks, comprising: an example with an antler handle, a cast white metal collar and a bamboo shaft, another with a horn handle, engraved white metal mounts and an ebonised shaft, and a walking stick with an antler handle, a coppered collar and a carved wooden shaft, largest 91cm long (3)
£100 - 200
LOT 238
Eight walking sticks, including a bamboo measuring cane, an ebonised stick with a horn whistle handle, an ebony stick with twist turning and ivory insets, and a wooden stick carved with an entwined snake, largest 106cm long (8)
£150 - 250
LOT 239
Nikolai Klimashin (1921-1981)
‘In the Chair’
signed and inscribed in Cyrillic verso, oil on canvas
59 x 40cm
£200 - 300
LOT 240
A George V fire bucket and cover, the body painted in red with lettering ‘FIRE WATER’ above a royal cypher, 30cm high (2)
£80 - 120
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241
Etienne Laporte (French, 19th century)
‘Carte Astronomique de l’Univers’ an astronomical map of the universe, lithograph in colours with letterpress, dissected into 32 sections and laid on linen as issued, published Paris, c.1875
136 x 93cm
£80 - 120
LOT 242
A mahogany country house boot jack, 19th century, with a turned handle and supports, 21cm wide
77cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 243
A Victorian manicure set, in a glazed and leather case, 29cm wide
25cm high
£50 - 100
Margaret A Heath (fl.1886-1914)
The street sweeper signed. ‘Marg. A. Heath’ l.r., watercolour
36.5 x 26cm
£200 - 300
LOT 245
Robert Farrier (1796-1879)
‘Sunday Morning - The Toilet’ inscribed with title verso, oil on panel
52 x 38.5cm
£800 - 1,200
Provenance: Mr Edmund Woods of Shopwyke.
Samuel McCloy (1831-1904)
‘The Intruder’ signed ‘S. MCloy’ l.l., watercolour heightened with white
36 x 46.5cm
£500 - 800
J T Wilson (19th century)
‘Family Cares’ signed ‘J. T. Wilson’ l.r., watercolour and gouache
27 x 21cm
£500 - 800
LOT 244
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LOT 248
George Shalders (1825-1873)
Sheep resting in a woodland pasture signed and dated ‘G. Shalders1869’ l.l., watercolour and bodycolour
26 x 36cm
£500 - 800
LOT 249
Attributed to Philip James de Loutherbourg RA (French-British, 1740-1812)
A winter landscape with figures, dogs and cattle by a frozen river, a coach-and-four entering a village beyond oil on canvas
46 x 61cm
£2,000 - 3,000
250
A William IV mahogany-framed sofa, the show wood with floral garland carved decoration, upholstered in kilim carpet, on turned and lappet-carved legs
192cm wide
81cm deep
91cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 251
A William IV rosewood stool, the upholstered seat above a lappet-carved frieze on cabriole legs,
104cm wide
58cm deep
41cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 252
A Victorian mahogany upholstered stool, upholstered in a striped fabric, above a moulded frieze, terminating on turned legs and ceramic castors, 62cm wide
50cm deep
42cm high
£150 - 200
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253
A William IV rosewood pedestal table, with a later leather circular lined top, to a moulded tray edge, on a baluster column and scroll-carved tripod base, 58cm diameter
70.5cm high
£250 - 350
LOT 254
A Victorian brass altar stick, c.1870, with a painted wood upper column, castellated drip pans and twist carved lower column, on a weighted circular base and small feet
20.5cm diameter
115cm high
£250 - 400
LOT 255
A Victorian cast iron ‘Literary Machine’ reading table, by John Carter, London, with a circular, height adjustable, mahogany top, and brass-framed arm supporting a mahogany bookrest, the base with lion paw feet, terminating on castors, 37cm wide
£300 - 500
LOT
256
An Art Deco chromium-plated double -sided photo frame, containing an image of David Niven, Deanna Durbin verso, on a swing frame, 24.5cm wide
31cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 257
A pair of brass altar candlesticks, early 20th century, each of tapering column form with a drip pan, applied floret mouldings, and on a circular spreading foot, 48cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 258
A collection of desk accessories, late 19th century, comprising: an adjustable mahogany stand, 35cm wide a Victorian cast iron hand paperweight, a cast iron Coronation crown commemorative paperweight, two nutcrackers in the form of a dog and a crocodile, and a circular glass inkwell with a brass lid (6)
£200 - 300
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LOT 259
A Victorian library chair, the oak frame with a horseshoe-shaped back, green buttoned leather upholstery, on turned and carved legs with brass castors, 72cm wide
68cm deep
85cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 260
A Victorian mahogany partners’ desk, c.1880, an inset leather cloth to the top, fitted with nine drawers, three verso with cupboards below, with turned wood handles, terminating on a plinth base and wood castors, 151cm wide
101cm deep
76cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
A farmyard with figures and horses, a sheepdog in the foreground, ducks by a pond and pigs outside a thatched barn
signed ‘J F Herring’ l.l., oil on canvas
61.5 x 92.5cm
£5,000 - 7,000
LOT 261
John Frederick Herring Jnr (1815-1907)
LOT 262
A pair of Victorian beadwork banner screens, c.1870, each brass-framed with a ceramic column and moulding, on a loaded circular moulded base, 23cm diameter
56.5cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 263
A mid-Victorian Gothic brass screen holder, with folding green silk screen, 21cm wide
41.5cm high, together with a similar Gothic pressed brass letter rack, with a weighted plinth base, 10cm wide
23cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 264
A Regency mahogany library chair, c.1820, with open column arm supports, upholstered in dark blue velvet fabric, on turned column legs and castors, 62cm wide
82cm deep
100cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 265
A Regency mahogany bracket clock, by Barraud, London, an eight-day striking movement to an 8-inch enamel dial, the lancet-shaped case with pagoda cresting, brass grille sides, Egyptian Revival inlays, and flanked by cluster columns to a plinth base, on brass lion paw feet, 29cm wide
19cm deep
56cm high
£1,500 - 2,000
LOT 266
A pair of William IV rosewood card tables, each with scroll and leaf-carved frieze decoration, on a gadroon-moulded pedestal column, lappet-carved circular raised base, lion paw feet and concealed castors, 91cm wide
45cm deep
72cm high (2)
£1,000 - 2,000
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LOT 267
A pair of William IV rosewood folio stands, each with adjustable sides, on gadrooned moulded feet and castors,
LOT 268
A pair of George IV brown oak card tables, c.1830, each decorated in the Gothic taste with split-round moulded border, a tracery panelled frieze and raised on a cluster column pedestal, with shaped base and carved feet, 91cm wide
45.5cm deep
73cm high (2)
£3,000 - 5,000
LOT 269
A pair of cloisonné vase lamps, c.1900, each with peony and floral decoration, 18cm diameter
51cm high not including shades (2)
£500 - 700
LOT 270
‘The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle’, comprising four volumes, three-quarter leather-bound with gilt tooling and lettering, a limited edition, no. 722 of 1000, signed by Dr John Hemming, Director and Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, London, published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1994, within a carved wood case, case 36cm wide
19cm high (5)
£100 - 200
LOT 271
A Victorian polished steel and cast iron fire kerb, with rail and cast iron acanthus-leaf-moulded ends, 138cm wide, together with a set of fire irons with lion rampant bronze handles (4)
£300 - 500
LOT 272
A Regency mahogany davenport, c.1820, with a three-quarter brass gallery, an interior with four small drawers, and with a slide and four side drawers with dummy verso, split-round border moulding and applied carved corner mouldings, on leaf-carved and shaped feet,
55.5cm wide
54cm deep
76cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 273
An Aesthetic period painted coal box, with brass mounts and decorated with birds amongst blossom on a blue ground, 26cm wide
37.5cm deep
40cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 274
A pair of tripod table lamps, of recent manufacture, each with a conical shade, 67cm high (2)
£150 - 200
LOT 275
A mahogany adjustable candlestand, c.1880, with turned decoration, on a circular base, 16cm diameter
26.5cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 276
A Louis Vuitton bifold wallet, the exterior in brown monogrammed canvas, the interior in tan ‘Taïga’ leather revealing two long slip pockets and four cardholders, stamped ‘Louis Vuitton Paris, Made in Spain’, with box and wrapping, 11.5cm wide
10.5cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 277
A William IV mahogany pedestal library table, leather lined with an adjustable bookrest, a lappet-moulded border, candle slides and blind frieze drawer, with leaf-carved corners, on a lappet-moulded column, with a tripod base carved with scrolls terminating in brass-capped castors,
65cm wide
52.5cm deep
75cm high
£700 - 1,000
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64 x 83cm
£5,000 - 7,000
LOT 278
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (Dutch, 1778-1851)
The rescue oil on canvas
Village Cross, Ashton under Hill, Worcestershire
signed ‘E KINGTON BRICE.’ l.r., oil on canvas
76.5 x 101.5cm
£1,500 - 2,000
Attributed to William Traies (1789-1872)
A wooded river landscape with a group of boys and a fisherman in the foreground, and cattle watering in the shallows oil on canvas
71 x 92cm
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 279
Edward Kington Brice (1860-1948)
LOT 280
LOT 281
A late Regency mahogany portable desk stand, fitted with inkwells, a lidded compartment and pen tray, 24cm wide 15cm deep 15cm high, together with a porcupine quill pen, inlaid with silver metal, 18.5cm long (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 282
A Burleigh Ware character jug, of Winston Churchill, impressed to the base ‘Churchill Victory 1965’, 12cm wide 13cm high
£50 - 70
LOT 283
A caricature pottery jug of Winston Churchill, as First Sea Lord, impressed ‘British Made 126’ to the underside, 22cm wide 24cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 284
A pair of hardwood juggler’s batons, the batons 6.5cm diameter 51cm long, together with a collection of metalwares, comprising a pair of bronze sphinxes, two novelty nutcrackers, a brass candlestick holder and a further nutcracker, and a large horn spoon (9)
£60 - 100
LOT 285
Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert (French, 1828-1893), ‘Le Champion’, bronze, a single scull trophy, 81cm long
22cm high
£800 - 1,200
283
LOT 286
A brass-framed draughtsman’s pantograph, c.1900, the mapping instrument with ivory castors, in a fitted mahogany case with accessories, case 53cm wide
9cm high closed £100 - 200
LOT 287
A theodolite by Stanley, late 19th/early 20th century, numbered ‘114606’, with fitted wooden box, 35cm wide, and a further theodolite with fitted wooden box (2) £80 - 120
LOT 288
Two theodolite levels, 19th century, one example by Negretti & Zambra, London, the other by Troughton & Simms, London, 29 and 31cm high (2) £100 - 200
LOT 289
A military-grade marine barometer with gimbal mount, unmarked, finished in black with brass mounts, silvered register, model ‘M855/S’, 91cm high £200 - 300
A marine brass-cased telescope, c.1860, by J H Steward, London, with focusing wheel, angle wheel and further adjustment apparatus, on a cast iron pedestal, 105cm long
35cm wide
130cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
A brass student microscope, c.1900, with a selection of lenses and slides in a fitted mahogany case, case 26.5cm long
£80 - 120
A Roberts patent mechanical loom, manufactured by Ellingworth, with fitted case, 36cm wide (2)
£50 - 100
LOT 290
LOT 291
LOT 292
LOT 293
A late Regency mahogany bar-back elbow dining chair, c.1820, with leaf and scroll-carved splat back, scroll arms and drop-in seat, on shaped and turned legs, 54cm wide
50cm deep
88cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 294
Joseph Bishop Pratt (1854-1910), after Peter Graham RA Highland cattle and seabirds four mixed method engravings, each signed ‘Peter Graham’ and ‘Joseph B Pratt’ in pencil, published by Arthur Tooth & Son, with NPA Printsellers’ Association blind stamp image 53.5 x 81.5cm and similar (4) £200 - 300
Provenance: With Thomas Agnew & Sons; T Bromley & Son, Bolton.
LOT 295
Henry James Pidding RBA (1797-1864)
The last drop oil on panel 23 x 17.5cm £500 - 800
Provenance: With Clarendon Gallery, Manchester.
LOT 296
A William IV mahogany library bookcase, c.1830, with lappet-moulded and fluted columns, blind frieze drawers, and on a plinth base, 244.5cm wide
81cm deep
248cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
LIVE STEAM AND SCALE MODELS
LOT 297
A 5-inch gauge 4-2-2 live steam GNR (Great Northern Railway) locomotive and tender, no. 79, with firebox hatch, pressure gauge and water gauge, forward and reverse lever, the boiler with a pressure relief valve and whistle, displayed on a section of brass rail sleepered track, on a mahogany base,
89cm long
17cm wide
29cm high
£3,000 - 5,000
LOT 298
A 4½-inch gauge live steam 4-6-0, King class scale model locomotive and tender, ‘King William III’, finished in GWR livery with pressure gauge, water level sight glass, brakes and regulator lever, cabside no. ‘6007’, 133cm long
26cm high
£4,000 - 6,000
LOT 299
A 3-inch gauge tinplate live steam 4-2-2 locomotive and tender, finished in GNR green livery, 16cm high
62cm long overall (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 300
A Gauge I Märklin tinplate 4-4-2 GNR clockwork locomotive, finished in GNR livery, with 1st-class and 3rd-class passenger carriages and a guard’s van, displayed on sleepered track sections, 59cm long overall
£800 - 1,200
LOT 301
A scale model of a single cylinder beam engine, early 19th century, with brass cylinder, regulator and fittings, on a cast iron base with mouldings to all sides, 38cm wide
5.5cm deep
46cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
A Victorian scale model of a single cylinder pumping engine, the cast iron frame with vertical cylinder and brass fittings, 24cm wide
45cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 303
A scale model of a Stuart Turner-type vertical single cylinder pumping engine, with an iron frame and brass feet,
20cm wide
33cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 304
A live steam model of a Stuart Turner vertical cylinder engine, with reverse, the cast iron frame finished in green, 15cm wide
24cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 305
A stationary spirit-fired live steam plant, c.1950, by Bing of Germany, with a horizontal boiler, with burner and funnel, on a painted base,
20cm wide
10cm deep
16.5cm high
£50 - 80
LOT 302
THE BEDROOMS
LOTS 306-395
LOT 306
A pair of Louis XV-style elbow chairs, 20th century, French, each painted all over, with a caned back and seat, and a cushion upholstered in floral fabric, 59cm wide
50cm deep
97cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 307
A pair of mahogany table lamps, 20th century, each with a baluster turned column and turned base, with a pleated green shade, 67cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 308
An Edwardian satinwood revolving bookcase, the top with a glass inset over an inlaid frieze with ivory detail, the revolving bookstand on fluted square tapering legs, 59.5cm diameter
75cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 309
A G. A. Dunn & Co. silk top hat, together with an ‘Attaboy Hats’ card hat box (2)
£80 - 150
LOT 310
A Victorian cast iron and marble pedestal table, with a later rosso antico marble top, on three shaped cast legs, 50cm diameter
70cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 311
A painted tinplate paraffin lantern, 20th century, French, by J Guichard & C Couvard, 33cm wide
25cm deep
55cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 312
Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924)
At the farm gate signed ‘YEEND KING’ l.r., oil on canvas
115 x 84.5cm
£3,000 - 5,000
Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, ‘Victorian Pictures’, 9 June 1993, lot 204.
‘The
signed and dated ‘E. A. Hornel/1911’ l.r., oil on canvas
78 x 106cm
£10,000 - 15,000
Provenance: With Ian MacNicol, Glasgow.
LOT 313
Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933)
Swan Pond’
313
LOT 314
A pair of Victorian oak hall chairs, each with a circular carved back, over a solid seat and turned front legs, 44cm wide
40cm deep
87.5cm high (2)
£200 - 500
LOT 315
A Victorian mahogany wardrobe, the moulded cornice over two arched panelled doors between turned columns, enclosing hanging space, three drawers, three slides and a shelf, over a base drawer between scrolled brackets, on a plinth base, 151cm wide
77cm deep
224cm high
£500 - 1,000
LOT 316
A Regency tub chair, with pink scrolled upholstery and moulded mahogany arms and legs, 75cm wide 90cm high, together with a ‘C’-shaped stool, 44cm wide 19cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT
317
A Herbert & Johnson silk top hat, the accompanying leather hatbox with an applied brass label engraved ‘W Bethell’, 34cm wide
29cm high, a leather collar box and collars, collar box 17cm wide 9cm high, and two beech ‘dumbbells’ (5)
£100 - 150
LOT 319
Charles Edward Holloway (1838-1897)
King’s Lynn, Norfolk, signed and dated ‘C E Holloway R.I 1888’ l.r., watercolour heightened with white 47 x 72.5cm
£500 - 700
Thomas Lindsay RWS (1794-1861) ‘View near Radnor’ signed ‘Lindsay’ l.l., watercolour heightened with white 37.5 x 58cm
£300 - 500
Joseph Charles Reed (1822-1877)
Sonning on Thames signed and dated ‘J. C. Reed/72’ l.l., watercolour 29.5 x 47.5cm
£300 - 500
LOT 318
LOT 320
LOT 321
A pair of wrought-iron ceiling lights, 20th century, French, each with spiral decoration and a pierced ‘globe’ supporting four downswept arms, 206cm diameter
111cm high (2)
£500 - 1,000
LOT 322
A Victorian mahogany dressing table, with a mirrored back on turned supports over four drawers, the base with three further short drawers, the central one with a writing surface, pen tray and two inkwell spaces, all on boldly turned front supports and a shaped base,
117cm wide
54cm deep
160cm high, together with a Victorian rosewood single chair (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 323
A brass carriage timepiece, with an enamel dial, 14cm high, and a Victorian-style brass counter bell, 13cm diameter (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 324
A reproduction painted pine trunk, with initials ‘W.H.W.G.’, and iron handles, 81cm wide
49cm deep
47cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 325
Bernard Benedict Hemy (1845-1913)
Boats in a port
signed ‘B B Hemy’ l.r., watercolour
51 x 72.5cm
£400 - 600
LOT 326
Thomas Bush Hardy (1842-1897)
‘Morning near Gainsboro. on the Trent’ signed ‘T B Hardy’, inscribed with title and dated ‘187?’ l.r., watercolour
27.5 x 47cm
£200 - 300
LOT 327
English School, 19th century
A view of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament watercolour heightened with white
27.5 x 58cm
£500 - 700
LOT 328
A Victorian oak adjustable bookstand, with Gothic ends pierced with a quatrefoil motif, 44cm long minimum
88cm long maximum
36cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 329
A Victorian oak bookrest, with pierced folding Gothic ends, 19cm high, and a pair of modern bookrests, 18cm high (3)
£100 - 200
LOT 330
A Victorian mahogany low bookcase, with an inverted open breakfront and two adjustable shelves, flanked by panelled doors, on a plinth base, 130cm wide
46cm deep
85cm high
£300 - 500
English School, 19th century
‘Footbridge in Easdale’; ‘On the Western Shore of Lake Windermere’ a pair, each titled verso, bodycolour, oval
22.5 x 16.5cm (2)
£80 - 120
Herbert E Butler (1861-1931)
Figures and houses on the quayside, Polperro signed ‘H. E. BUTLER’ l.l., watercolour
52 x 71cm
£250 - 350
W Fisher (19th century)
‘The Young Anglers’ signed and dated ‘W. Fisher/1878’ l.l., watercolour and bodycolour
35 x 41cm
£100 - 150
LOT 331
LOT 332
LOT 333
334
An oval mirror, 19th century, Irish, the frame set with faceted glass panels, 60cm wide
40cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 335
An Edwardian brass ceiling light, early 19th century, with three scrolled arms and opalescent glass shades, 50cm diameter
51cm high
£150 - 300
A Victorian ebonised watch stand, below a glass dome, 14cm high, a mahogany adjustable wig stand, and two Victorian ebony brushes with white metal monograms (4) £200 - 300
LOT 337
A pair of mahogany table lamps, each with a tapered card shade, 76cm high overall (2)
£200 - 400
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LOT 338
A Victorian mahogany step commode, with a hinged tread, over another enclosing a pot below a turned wooden cover, on turned legs,
43cm wide
79cm deep
68cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 339
A pair of brass twin-branch candlesticks, each with a double-headed eagle finial, raised on a turned stem and weighted base, 17cm diameter
43cm high (2)
£150 - 300
LOT 340
A Victorian leather armchair, with a buttoned back and turned front legs,
78cm wide
92cm deep
90cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 341
A George III-style steel fire basket, the upper section with a rising sun motif over a chased crescent pattern, 57cm wide
62cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 342
A set of Arts and Crafts brass fire tools, comprising a shovel, pair of tongs, brush and poker, on a stand, 76cm high (5)
£200 - 400
LOT 343
A collection of prints to include:
Henry Fletcher (fl.1710-1750), after Peter Casteels ‘The Month in Flowers’, April, August, September and October
four modern reproduction prints of the engravings published by Robert Furber, London 1730 visible 41.5 x 31cm; After Sir David Wilkie
‘Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo’ engraving by John Burnet, published 27 January 1877 by the London Fine Art Association, by kind permission of Messrs Henry Graves & Co. 43 x 74cm; together with:
‘The Rent Day’ engraving by Abraham Raimbach, published 6 January 1877 by the London Fine Art Association, by kind permission of Messrs Henry Graves & Co. 42 x 62cm;
and a pair of prints titled ‘The Challenge’ and ‘It Wasn’t Me’, after Alexander Rosell
50 x 65cm (8)
£100 - 150
LOT 344
Frederick Hall (1860-1948)
‘Mare and Foal’
signed ‘FRED Hall’ l.r., oil on canvas laid on board 26 x 41cm
A label verso states that the work was painted near Wallingford on the Berkshire Downs with Wittenham Clumps in the background
£600 - 800
LOT 345
Circle of Charles Baxter (1809-1879)
A country girl oil on board, painted oval 56 x 47cm
£500 - 700
LOT 346
A Victorian oak wall mirror, 19th century, with a castellated crest over an arched and bevelled plate within moulded pilasters, 68cm wide
94cm high
£200 - 400
A pair of Edwardian brass ceiling lights, early 20th century, each with three scrolled arms and moulded clear shades, 55cm diameter
27cm high, plus hanging chain
£300 - 500
A Victorian Wellington chest, probably satin elm, with six crossbanded drawers, knob handles and a locking bar,
62cm wide
49cm deep
101cm high
£500 - 1,000
A Victorian mahogany shaving mirror, 19th century, with a magnifying glass on an adjustable turned column and base, 24cm diameter
70cm high
£100 - 200
A cast iron doorstop, 20th century, in the form of a basket of flowers, 26cm high
£80 - 150
LOT 347
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LOT 348
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LOT 350
LOT 351
K M Norcross (20th century)
‘Homegrown’ - a vase of summer flowers signed ‘K. M. Norcross’ l.r., inscribed with title verso, watercolour
30 x 44.5cm
£40 - 60
LOT 352
A George III-style painted wardrobe, of recent manufacture, with a broken cornice over two panelled doors enclosing a hanging space, over two dummy drawers and four short drawers with pottery knob handles, 125cm wide
61cm deep
250cm high
£300 - 400
LOT 353
A wicker conversation seat, 134cm wide
74cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 354
An iron hanging ceiling light, 20th century, the central crown with trefoil gallery, supporting four branches terminating in ornamental brass sconces, 108cm diameter
150cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 355
A pair of Victorian single chairs, late 19th/early 20th century, each with painted decoration and a rush seat, 43cm wide
42cm deep
85cm high, a bamboo and ebonised side cabinet, 23.5cm wide
33cm deep
97cm high, and an Eastern box side table (4)
£100 - 200
LOT 356
A giltwood pier mirror, 19th century, the rectangular mirror plate flanked by rope-twist jambs, below a shaped top with gilded balls beneath, 42cm wide
69cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 357
A George III-style cast iron fire basket, 20th century, the arched back over a grate with a pierced apron, on fluted and tapering legs with large classical urn finials, 86cm wide
48cm deep
84cm high
£500 - 800
LOT 358
A painted wooden fire screen, of recent manufacture, in the form of a vase of flowers, 64cm wide
77cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 359
A Victorian brass fender, with scrolled ends, 132cm wide, together with three brass and steel fire irons, shovel 71cm long (4)
£200 - 300
LOT 360
A set of five framed pressed flower specimens, 19th century, French, each with a paper label inscribed ‘Herbarium A. Brun’, with a handwritten identification and dated 1872-1890, glazed with taped borders, 43 x 28cm (5)
£300 - 600
LOT 361
A pair of pressed flower specimens, late 19th century, French, each with a paper label with a handwritten description, 44 x 28cm, each in a glazed gilt frame (2) £100 - 200
LOT 362
A set of twelve framed pressed flower arrangements, early 20th century, French, each with handwritten description, 42 x 27cm, each mounted in an oak frame (12) £600 - 1,000
361
362 part
360 part
LOT 363
A giltwood and painted wall mirror, 19th century, French, with a carved cornice over a rope-twist and beaded frame, 104cm wide
154cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 364
A pair of pottery table lamps, of recent manufacture, each decorated with flowers and insects, 55cm high overall (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 365
A Louis XVI-style marble and painted wood demilune pier table, the shaped, white, veined marble top over a painted base, raised on fluted tapering supports with carved husks, united by a guilloché carved and shaped stretcher, centred by a carved flaming urn,
162cm wide
60cm deep
85cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 366
A painted pine chest of drawers, having two short and three long drawers with knob handles, raised on bun feet, 91cm wide
41cm deep
100cm high
£100 - 200
After Francesco Piranesi and after Tommaso Piroli
The Callipygian Venus; ‘Antinous’ two modern lithographic reprints visible 52 x 36.5cm, together with a botanical print (3)
£100 - 150
LOT 368
Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758), after W Chambers, two engravings of classical pavilions, both inscribed 45 x 34cm (2)
£100 - 200
369
A Louis XVI-style wing armchair, with a carved and painted frame, on turned tapering legs, 71cm wide
71cm deep
110cm high, together with a fringed tapestry cushion (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 370
A wrought-iron eight-light chandelier, 20th century, with brass drip pans, 75cm diameter
150cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 367
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371
A Japonesque pottery tray, late 19th century, the printed and enamelled tray within a bamboo border,
39 x 57.5cm
£80 - 150
LOT 372
A large glass candlestick table lamp, 20th century, with a tapered card shade, 73cm high overall
£100 - 300
LOT 373
A late Victorian wardrobe, the single door over a base drawer, with original painted and grained decoration, 105cm wide
45cm deep
209cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 374
A painted and parcel-gilt wall mirror, of recent manufacture, with a moulded frame and four applied flower heads to the corners, 60cm wide
90cm high
£100 - 150
375
A bentwood and wicker rocking chair, 20th century, by Heywood-Wakefield, the caned seat on turned beechwood supports and rockers, 61cm wide
79cm deep
87cm high
£200 - 400
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LOT 376
After Francis Wheatley ‘Cries of London’ twelve hand-coloured engravings by Giovanni Vendramini, Luigi Schiavonetti and Anthony Cardon
30.5 x 22.5cm (12)
£80 - 120
LOT 377
A square oak pedestal, late 19th/early 20th century, with blind-fret Gothic decoration, on a plinth base, 114cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 378
Two Victorian bamboo wall mirrors, c.1900, one example flanked by two painted glass panels, larger 79cm wide
102cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 379
A late Victorian oak desk chair, with leather drop-in seat, on tapering square legs, 58cm wide 38cm deep
107cm high
£80 - 120
377
376 part
LOT 380
A pair of woven pictures, 20th century, depicting junks on a river, each with pen and ink accents, 54 x 53cm, in glazed bamboo frames (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 381
An Arts and Crafts walnut wall mirror, with applied pressed-metal tendril and foliate mounts flanking the bevelled plate, 40cm wide
64.5cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 382
A Victorian-style watering can, of oval shape with a hinged cover and painted woodgrain decoration, 42cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 383
A matched pair of mahogany candle lamps and shades, each with a turned column on a circular base, 79cm high (2)
£80 - 120
LOT 384
A pair of Arts and Crafts ebonised beech side chairs, late 19th/early 20th century, in the William Morris style, each with a rush seat and squab cushion, 42cm wide
86cm high (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 385
Henry William Standing (fl.1894-1931) Exercise in the yard; A horse-drawn carriage two, both signed and dated ‘H. W. Standing/1895’ l.l., watercolour and bodycolour 29 x 44cm and 27.5 x 48cm respectively (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 386
A pair of Aesthetic wrought-iron candlesticks, each with a flower-head-shaped sconce over scrolled supports, 23cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 387
A Victorian bamboo and rattan chest, late 19th/early 20th century, fitted with three long drawers, 89cm wide
41.5cm deep
82cm high
£150 - 250
LOT 389
A Victorian bamboo and lacquer magazine stand, of rectangular form with four supports united by an undertier, 40cm wide
37cm deep
71cm high, and a Victorian bamboo and lacquer side table, with an undertier, 53cm wide
35cm deep
73cm high (2)
£100 - 200
A green-painted sixteen-light chandelier, 20th century, French, decorated with trailing leaves, 80cm diameter
138cm high
£150 - 300
LOT 390
Two Victorian iron headboards, each arched fan back with traces of gilded foliate decoration, and two modern divans and shawl covers, 93cm wide
197cm deep
94cm high (2)
£150 - 300
LOT 391
A group of curtain poles, with brass and mahogany examples, with rings, largest 238cm long (qty.)
£300 - 500
LOT 388
LOT 393
A Victorian mahogany ‘X’-framed elbow chair, with a reeded frame and blue upholstery, 57cm wide
56cm deep
93cm high
£100 - 200
A Victorian silhouette, of a mother, two children and a dog, with highlights in white, in a moulded rosewood frame, 30 x 41.5cm, together with a modern silhouette of a lady in a bonnet, 7 x 5.5cm (2)
£150 - 300
LOT 394
A Victorian silhouette, 19th century, depicting a mother and son, with gilt and white highlights, mounted in a swept rosewood frame, 21 x 16.5cm
£80 - 150
A Victorian faux rosewood bobbin-framed library chair, with later upholstered loose cushion seat and back, on castors, 54cm wide
68cm deep
93cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 392
LOT 395
394
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The Bill Wrather Collection of Automobilia
William ‘Bill’ Wrather (1939-2023) was a much-loved collector of anything old, beautiful and well made, and this extended to property, antiques, motor cars and bicycles.
Although a proud Yorkshireman, born in Sheffield, his success was forged in Manchester, where he began his career as a retail agent before founding his own general practice in commercial agency, trading as Wrather and Co.
Not satisfied with advising others, however, he began to acquire and develop buildings in his own right and generally held them as investments. He built a significant portfolio of refurbished period office buildings, principally in Manchester city centre, and at one time owned most of the city’s Albert Square. His broad collection also encompassed retail parks, industrial estates and shopping centres, venturing beyond the Manchester metropolitan area.
Away from corporate life, Bill was passionate about motor cars, ranging in date from the very early Victorian era through to the sports cars of the 1960s. He had a fabulous stable which included an Aston Martin DB5 Volante, a 1928 Bentley Speed Six, a 1914 RollsRoyce Silver Ghost, a 1908 Napier 38-hp, a 1914 Humber TT race car and 1897 and 1903 Panhard et Levassors. There was also a significant collection of pre-1900 bicycles, tricycles and penny farthings.
Together with his wife, Vicky, he spent many joyful years at Boden Hall. It was also where he passed away, having faced a debilitating illness with remarkable fortitude, supported by his devoted family.
Bill always enjoyed a party and was an enthusiastic user of his cars at home and abroad. He was much loved by his friends, particularly those who shared in his motoring hobby, and is greatly missed.
THE BILL WRATHER COLLECTION OF AUTOMOBILIA
LOTS 396-435
LOT 396
A ‘Dunlopillo’ advertising poster, 20th century, for removable cushions for cars, 64 x 49cm
£100 - 200
LOT 397
A 1950s ‘Dunlop’ enamel sign, with the logo on a yellow ground 46 x 146cm
£200 - 300
LOT 398
An ‘NCU’ advertising two-colour enamel sign, double-sided, 46cm diameter
£150 - 200
LOT 399
A ‘Huiles Labo’ advertising sign, with thermometer, 96 x 30cm
£150 - 250
LOT 400
Two enamel advertising signs, a ‘Sunflower Pétrole Raffiné Vacuum Oil Company’ sign, 59 x 39cm, and a ‘Bougies Eyquem’ enamel advertising sign, 100 x 31cm (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 401
An ‘Huile D.F.’ advertising poster, 81 x 60cm
£150 - 200
LOT 402
An educational poster, 20th century, of the car show at the Grand Palais, Paris, 55 x 74cm
£70 - 100
LOT 403
A ‘Napier’ mirror plate advertising sign, featuring a 1907 open tourer, 60 x 90cm
£50 - 100
LOT 404
After A Molynk ‘Poursuite’; ‘Proces-Verbal’ a pair of chromolithographs, printed by Dietrich & Cie, Brussels 43.5 x 88.5cm, together with: After Fernel ‘La Contravention’ chromolithograph, printed by Dietrich & Cie, Brussels 35 x 88cm, and a pair of lithographs in colours after Edmund G Fuller ‘The Poetry of Motoring’, Plate 1 and Plate 2
34 x 74cm (5)
£200 - 300
405
After Ettore Tito
‘Aide-Toi le Ciel Taidera’; Qui Trop Embrasse…’ two hand-coloured line block prints
23 x 18cm (2)
£80 - 120
LOT 406
A set of six ‘Berliet’ advertising prints, after Rene Vincent, Bombay, Paris, London, Chicago, Sevilla, Nurnberg, marked ‘Automobil Berliet, Lyon’, published by Draeger Frères, Imp. 23 x 28.5cm (6)
£70 - 100
407
Victor Venner (1869-1913)
‘Past’ and ‘Present’ a pair of lithographs in colour, published by Richard Wyman, London, 1903 image 40 x 62cm (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 408
A ‘Michelin’ advertising sign, painted aluminium, double-sided, depicting Bibendum on a bicycle, 46 x 48cm £100 - 150
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A ‘Michelin’ Bibendum, 20th century, modelled seated with a ‘MICHELIN’ sash, with a metal wall mount, 26cm wide
45cm high
£50 - 70
A Michelin Man air compressor, 20th century, French, with a red-painted cast-alloy seated Bibendum figure, 27cm high
£80 - 120
A ‘Michelin’ forecourt trolley compressor, with a cast iron Bibendum figure seated astride the compressor housing, 30cm wide
92cm high overall
£1,000 - 1,500
A ‘Michelin’ air compressor, c.1920, French, with a seated cast-alloy painted Bibendum figure, 29cm long 28cm high, and another, incomplete (2)
£300 - 500
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LOT 413
A brass-framed timepiece, 20th century, modelled as a veteran car, 16cm wide
13cm high
£150 - 200
LOT 414
An Art Deco clock, the ebonised case with a chromium car mascot, 31cm wide
15cm deep
22cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 415
A ‘Shell-Mex Ltd.’ lamp oil can, with gold lettering on a green ground, 37cm high
£40 - 60
LOT 416
A winged devil car mascot, on a ruby glass decorated radiator cap, 17.5cm high 9.5cm cap diameter
£300 - 400
LOT 417
A Rolls-Royce ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ car mascot, c.1920, indistinct marks, on a later Bakelite stand, 18cm high
£300 - 500
LOT
418
A brass-framed inkstand, c.1900, modelled as a veteran car, with glass inkwells, the base with a pen rest, 15cm wide
10cm high
£60 - 80
LOT
419
A ‘Cycles Grasset’ advertising porcelain vesta stand, circular with a blue glaze, 11.5cm diameter 4cm high, together with a ‘Panhard et Levassor’ silver-plated letter opener, the handle shaped as a veteran car, a ‘Supreme USA Gas’ cast iron bottle opener, modelled as a pump, and a veteran car design plated bottle opener (4)
£50 - 70
LOT
420
A Hess (Germany) tinplate ‘Hessmobil’ open tourer, c.1908, lithographed in dark green, with red/black and gold coach lining, balloon wheels, and composition driver, 22cm long
14.5cm high including driver
£300 - 400
LOT 421
A collection of five tinplate model vehicles, comprising: two Schuco 3000 clockwork saloon cars, a Schuco Studio 1050 racing car, a Schylling Collector Series racing car, and a Technofix clockwork motorcycle and rider, motorcycle and rider 17cm long (5)
£100 - 200
LOT 422
Two tinplate toy racing cars, 20th century, a Japanese friction drive No. 42 Super Racer, 46cm long, and a Hodge tinplate clockwork Fire Chief’s car, 36cm long (2)
£100 - 150
LOT
423
A sheepskin flying jacket and trousers, mid-20th century, maker’s label ‘A M’, size 6
£200 - 300
LOT 424
An advertising poster for Peugeot bicycles, c.1908, Peugeot, ‘CHEREL - St SERVAN’, depicting an army messenger in uniform in the foreground, holding a black Peugeot bike with a chainring depicting the Peugeot stylised lion logo, the message being received by a superior officer who is seated on horseback, printed by ‘L. Arnault, Neuilly-sur-Seine’, chromolithograph, 186 x 122cm, framed
£1,000 - 1,500
Provenance: The Bill Wrather Collection of Automobilia.
LOT 425
A ‘Royal Champion Cycles’ advertising poster, c.1910, chromolithograph, 87 x 62cm
£80 - 120
LOT 426
A Victorian patent brass-framed timepiece, late 19th century, modelled with an early bicycle, on stand, 19.5cm wide
18cm high
£150 - 200
426
425 424
423
A silver-plated cycling trophy for the ‘Drogheda Committee Cup’, won by Peter J Cannon, 20 August 1899, with cyclist finial, 23cm wide
35cm high
£100 - 150
Jean Garnier (French, 1853-1910), ‘Le Champion’, a bronze cyclist with a hand raised in victory, on a fabric-covered wood stand, 30cm wide
31.5cm high
£500 - 700
English School, early 20th century Man riding a bicycle oil on board
47 x 59cm
£100 - 200
Tom Blower, an Edwardian cyclist on a penny-farthing, tinted photograph, 29 x 23cm
£40 - 60
LOT 427
LOT 428
LOT 429
LOT 430
LOT 431
Edwardian cyclists, a black and white photograph, 40 x 50cm, and another photograph
23 x 16cm (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 432
Four cycling bookplates, including ‘As If We Didn’t Know They’re the Older University’ by Norman Mansbridge, 24 x 19.5cm and smaller (4)
£40 - 60
LOT 433
A collection of prints and photographs, including ‘Johnson’s Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School’, ‘The Cyclist’s Camp at Alexandra Park’, ‘The Twenty-Five Miles Race for the Amateur Bicycle Championship at Lillie Bridge’; and three prints by G M Payne, 25.5 x 33cm and smaller (qty.)
£300 - 400
433 part
432 part
432 part
LOT 434
A painted scratch-built model of an open landau carriage, 19th century, with Rexine seats and a folding leather canopy, 80cm wide
45cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 435
A Victorian pony phaeton, late 19th century, with an iron frame and finished in yellow-lined black livery, a folding canopy to a button-upholstered fabric seat, terminating on four leaf-sprung wire wheels, 340cm long
‘The “Sports” Who Lost Their Tin’; ‘The “Crowd” That “Scooped” the Pools
a set of six lithographs in colours, published by Lipschitz & Son, London
29 x 39cm (6)
£200 - 400
LOT 437
Cecil Aldin (1870-1935)
‘The Liverpool Coach’ and ‘The Glasgow Coach’ two chromolithographs 38 x 101cm and 39 x 105cm respectively (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 438
A cut-glass and brass-framed ceiling light, early 20th century, French, with a leaf-chased and scroll hanging bracket, to a circular frame and fruit boss, 46cm diameter
56cm high
£150 - 200
LOT 439
An Edwardian pine ‘Improved House Maid’s Box’, with a lift-out tray, a paper label, an iron swing handle and painted iron corner straps, 40cm wide
26.5cm deep
41cm high including handle
£50 - 100
437
438
436 part
LOT 440
An iron candle mould, 19th century, 20cm high, an iron sugar cutter, 19th century, mounted on a wooden base, and another iron cutter (3)
£80 - 120
LOT 441
Two bentwood elbow chairs, 20th century, Austrian, both with pressed decoration, one impressed ‘Thonet Austria’, the other with a paper label inscribed ‘Mundus, Austria’, larger 58cm wide
58cm deep
96cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 442
A collection of treen, including a coopered box and cover, with a swing handle, 25cm high, a wall-mounted salt box and cover.
28cm high, and a rattle
26cm long (10)
£50 - 100
LOT 443
A collection of metalwares, comprising: a bronze skillet, probably 17th century, the three-legged bowl with a handle cast ‘WH3’, 40.5cm long
15cm high, an iron sugar cutter on a wooden base, 36cm long 14cm high, together with iron sugar nips, an iron rushlight, hinged iron tongs, a brass goffering iron stand, and an iron scraper (12)
£100 - 200
441
LOT 444
A pair of Sheraton-style single chairs, early 20th century, each with painted decoration and a ticking-upholstered seat, 48cm wide
44cm deep
95cm high, together with an Edwardian single chair, with painted decoration and a rush seat, 45cm wide
50cm deep
88cm high (3)
£100 - 200
LOT 445
An ecclesiastical brass altar stick, late 19th century, with a Gothic twist column and castellated drip pans, 76cm high, together with a seven-branch menorah brass candlestick, 51cm wide
56cm high (2)
£150 - 200
LOT 446
A pair of mosaic wall plaques, each of lancet shape, representing St Luke and St Matthew, 61cm wide
84cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 447
A painted iron sunbed, early 20th century, with scrolled supports and wheels, 180cm long
51cm wide
£100 - 200
LOT 448
A Sussex chair, with rush seat, after a design by William Morris, 53cm wide
86cm high, together with a similar example (2)
£150 - 200
LOT
449
A wirework chandelier, 20th century, French, with six sconces, 92cm diameter
40cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 450
A collection of Victorian advertising tins and containers, early 20th century, including one example with a hinged cover, painted decoration and inscribed ‘Tea’, another with a grained finish, a pair of chinoiserie decorated tins and a Callard & Bowser’s fruit drops tin, ‘Tea’ tin 26cm high (7)
£80 - 150
LOT 451
A wrought-iron game hanger, probably 19th century, with six hooks, 34cm diameter
30cm high, and a brass bottle jack, 29cm high (2)
£80 - 120
LOT 453
Seven clear glass medicine bottles and stoppers, with printed Latin inscriptions within a shallow recess, largest 23cm high, together with two green glass bottles and stoppers, largest 19cm high (9)
£50 - 100
A boulangerie stand, 19th century, French, with scrolled supports, 202cm wide
49cm deep
225cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 454
A patent ‘Viameter’ way marker wheel, with brass register plate and wood handles, 92cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 455
A collection of stoneware ceramics, 19th/20th century, including two bottles impressed ‘Hassall & Foulkes, Chester’ and ‘Thos Garnett…Northwich’, amphora-shaped examples and a dairy bowl, dairy bowl 44cm diameter (10)
£80 - 150
LOT 452
452
LOT 456
An ornamental wire birdcage, of recent manufacture, with a hinged top, 36cm wide
18cm deep
47cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 457
A collection of wirework plant stands, of recent manufacture, oval examples 39cm long 17cm high, together with a metal bowl, with pierced decoration, 32cm diameter
15cm high (4)
£80 - 150
LOT 458
A wirework plant stand, 20th century, with three tiers, 89cm wide
38cm deep
98cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 459
An ironwork plant or boulangerie stand, 19th century, French, with four shelves and scrolled decoration, 101cm wide
30cm deep
200cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 460
A pair of terracotta urns, of recent manufacture, each by FA.PA Fabbrica Terrecotte, Tuscany, of large size on small feet, impressed marks, 85cm diameter
75cm high (2)
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 461
An iron anchor, of typical form, 94cm wide
117cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 462
Two large terracotta oil jars, each of tapering ovoid form with moulded bands, 53cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 463
A pair of terracotta olive jars, 20th century, each of amphora shape with a glazed neck and handles, 56cm wide
79cm high (2)
£500 - 800
LOT 464
A pair of salt-glazed lions, by Thos. Brook, Bracken Moor, Deepcar, impressed marks, 74cm long
24cm wide
45cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 465
A wirework garden aviary pavilion, 19th century, French, of octagonal form with a zinc roof, gilt-metal finial and gilt ornamentation, wirework ‘fan’ and ‘spray’ designs with further cast lower panels, opening double doors and balustraded steps, 100cm wide
280cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 466
A collection of garden tools, including wrought-iron crosscut saws and a spade, largest saw 35cm wide
177cm long (7)
£100 - 200
LOT 467
A collection of garden tools, including pitchforks and other gardening tools, largest 22cm wide
188cm long (9)
£100 - 200
464
465
Tuesday 15 April | 10am
David Hockney OM CH RA (b.1937)
‘Pool Made With Paper and Blue Ink’ for the book Paper Pools (MCA Tokyo 234) lithograph in colours, 1980 sheet 27 x 24cm
Estimate £20,000-30,000
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For Specialist Live Auctions
These conditions of business consist of:
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2. Terms of Sale (for Bidders and Buyers).
1. INFORMATION FOR BUYERS
Introduction
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Items not collected within seven working days of the auction will be sent to Abels Moving Services Ltd, at your expense. Refer to clause 8 in Sworders Terms of Sale for more information.
Agency
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Estimates Estimates are designed to help you gauge what sort of sum might be involved for the purchase of a particular Lot. Estimates may change and should not be thought of as the sale Price. The lower estimate may represent the Reserve Price (the minimum Price for which a Lot may be sold) and will not be below the Reserve Price. Estimates do not include the Buyer’s Premium or VAT (where chargeable). Estimates are prepared some time before the auction and may be altered by a saleroom notice or announcement by the Auctioneer before the auction of the Lot. They are not definitive.
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The Terms of Sale oblige you to pay a Buyer’s Premium at 25% on the Hammer Price of each Lot purchased, except for our Fine Wine and Spirits auctions when it is 18%. In addition, VAT is charged on these Premiums (see below).
VAT
Items in our catalogue may be marked with a dagger † or double dagger ‡, which indicates that VAT is payable by the Buyer on the Hammer Price and the Buyer’s Premium at either the standard rate (currently 20%) or a reduced rate (currently 5%), depending upon the legal requirements relating to that Lot.
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Shipping Costs are liable for VAT and are payable by the Buyer.
If you are exporting the items from the UK, you may be able to claim a reimbursement of the VAT, where:
1. you are using Sworders Delivery service.
In these cases, a zero rated (VAT exempt) invoice can be issued where the following criteria are met:
a. the items are exported within three months of the date of the auction b. the total amount of VAT payable would exceed £75 per shipment
There is no administrative charge for clients using Sworders Delivery Service.
If you cancel shipping through Sworders Delivery Service, we will reinstate the VAT, which must be paid prior to the release of goods.
2. you arrange shipping through a private logistics company, agent or courier and the following criteria are met:
a. the invoice is paid in full, including VAT
b. the items are exported from the UK within three months of the date of the auction
c. the certificate of shipment and export documents are provided to us within a year of the date of export from the UK
d. the total amount of VAT to be claimed exceeds £75
e. you have paid an administrative fee of £25
Inspection of Goods by the Buyer
As we act on behalf of the Seller, we are dependent on information provided by the Seller about their Goods. We may inspect Lots and will act reasonably in taking a general view about them. However, we are normally unable to carry out detailed examinations of Lots to check their condition in the way a Buyer would do. You will have ample opportunity to inspect the Goods. You must inspect and investigate Lots that you might wish to bid for. Please note carefully the exclusion of liability for the description and condition of Lots set out in the Terms of Sale at clauses 12.2 and 12.4.
Condition reports
We may be able to assist Buyers unable to view by emailing a condition report, but these are based solely on our own opinion and are for guidance only and no responsibility is accepted for their accuracy. Intending Buyers are strongly encouraged to view. Condition reports cannot be prepared on the day of the sale.
Shipping of Goods
We offer a delivery service for Lots purchased, either by shipping ourselves, or use of a third party logistics company. Estimates for Shipping Costs for smaller items can be calculated pre-sale on our website under each Lot and are based on value, size and your chosen UK destination. For items purchased the actual cost can be added to your account and paid online after the sale. If you purchase multiple Lots from the same auction, we will combine packaging/deliveries to reduce the Shipping Costs. For lots for which Shipping Costs cannot be automatically calculated, such as furniture, you can obtain a bespoke Shipping Cost from our website to any destination in the world either in advance of the sale or after you have purchased.
Estimates of Shipping Costs on our website are based on the low estimate, whilst the actual cost is based on Hammer Price.
Items not collected within seven working days of the auction will be sent to Abels Moving Services Ltd, at your expense. You will be liable for all costs relating to the collection and storage of your items. See clause 8 and 9 in the terms of sale relating to the Title and Collection of purchase and associated costs.
Electrical goods
These are sold as ‘antiques’ only. If you buy electrical Goods for use you must ask a qualified electrician to check them for compliance with safety regulations before you use them.
Export of Goods
If you intend to export Goods you must find out: a. whether an export licence is needed; and b. if there is a prohibition on importing Goods of that character e.g. because the Goods contain prohibited materials such as ivory.
Bidding
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Commission bidding
You may leave Commission bids with us indicating the maximum amount to be bid against a Lot (excluding the Buyers’ Premium and/or any applicable VAT). We will execute Commission bids as cheaply as possible having regard to the Reserve (if any) and competing bids. If two Buyers submit identical Commission bids we may prefer the first bid received (where this can be reasonably ascertained). We recommend leaving Commission bids online via our Website, though please contact us about leaving bids by telephone or fax/email. All absentee bids should be received at least 30 minutes before the auction commences; we cannot guarantee to execute Commission bids received after this time.
Telephone bidding
If you are unable to come to the auction it may be possible to bid on the telephone for higher value Lots. Please note that this service is for Lots with an estimate of £500 or more. The number of lines is limited so we would urge serious telephone bidding only and ask that you be prepared to bid over the top estimate. It is advisable to leave a maximum covering bid in case we are not able to contact you by telephone. All lines must be booked and confirmed in writing before the day of the auction and preferably some time in advance. Telephone bidding involves many variables and whilst we take every care to ensure the smooth operation of this service, we cannot be held liable if your bids are missed for any reason.
Online bidding
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Artist Resale Rights
Lots marked with a ▴ indicate the item is subject to additional Artist Resale Right charges.
IMPORTANT NOTICES
Removal of Lots
All Lots will be removed from the premises by 4pm seven working days following the sale, by Abels Moving Services Ltd, the cost of which you will be liable for. See clause 8 and 9 in the Terms of Sale for Title and Collection of purchases and Costs relating to Collection Services, for more details.
Electrical Goods
All electrical Goods offered in this sale have either been tested and certified safe or unsafe by an appropriately qualified electrician. All electrical Goods certified unsafe must be re-commissioned by an appropriately qualified electrician and we recommend those certified safe are similarly re-commissioned.
Post 1950 Upholstered Furniture
All items of furniture included in this sale are offered for sale as works of art. The items may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and for this reason, they should not be used in a private dwelling.
Furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia Negra)
To comply with CITES Regulations on Post-1947 furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood, all post-war rosewood furniture items must have an Article 10 certificate in place, prior to being offered for sale.
If you are purchasing rosewood furniture for commercial purposes and not solely for your own use, CITES regulations require you to obtain your own certificate. You would need to contact the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and, as part of the process of obtaining your document, it is a requirement that you have seen sight of the Sworders’ certificate or are aware of its reference number.
It is therefore the responsibility of commercial Buyers to ensure that they obtain a copy of the appropriate certificate, or the certificate reference number, after purchase from Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers. Items are marked with this sign §.
Ivory Lots marked contain elephant ivory material. Please be advised that several countries, including those in the EU and the USA, now prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Accordingly, prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding.
Please note that if you register to bid and/or bid at auction this signifies that you agree to and will comply with these Terms of Sale.
These Terms of Sale relate to auctions conducted by an Auctioneer only, where the opportunity is available to view the lots. We have separate terms for online only auctions and those where viewing is not available.
1. Definitions and interpretation
1.1 To make these Terms of Sale easier to read, we have given the following words a specific meaning:
In these Terms of Sale, the words ‘you’, ‘yours’, etc. refer to you as the Buyer. The words ‘we’, ‘us’, etc. refer to the Auctioneer. Any reference to a ‘Clause’ is to a clause of these Terms of Sale unless stated otherwise.
information, in a form acceptable to us. You must also satisfy any security arrangements we have in place before entering the auction room to view or bid.
3.2 We strongly recommend that you attend the auction in person. You are responsible for your decision to bid for a particular Lot. If you bid on a Lot, including by telephone and online bidding, or by placing a Commission bid, we assume that you have carefully inspected the Lot and satisfied yourself regarding its condition and other characteristics.
3.3 If you instruct us, we may execute Commission bids on your behalf. We will confirm receipt of your instruction by sending you an email acknowledging your request and confirming your bid. Neither we nor our employees or agents will be responsible for any failure to execute your Commission bid, unless our failure to do so is unreasonable. Where two or more Commission bids at the same level are recorded, we have the right to prefer the first bid made (where this can be reasonably ascertained).
‘Auctioneer’ means GES & Sons Ltd trading as Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, a company registered in England and Wales with registration number 6858916 and whose registered office is located at Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex CM24 8GE or its authorised Auctioneer, as appropriate;
‘Bidder’ means a person who places a bid for Goods at our auction;
‘Buyer’ means the person who makes the highest bid for the Goods accepted by the Auctioneer;
‘Commission’ means the Commission that we charge you on the sale of the Goods as set out in Clause 4 below;
‘Consumer’ means an individual acting for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside that individual’s trade, business, craft or profession;
‘Consumer Contracts Regulations’ means the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013;
‘Deliberate Forgery’ means: (a) an imitation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source; (b) which is described in the catalogue as being the work of a particular creator without qualification; and (c) which at the date of the auction had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been as described;
‘FCA’ means the Financial Conduct Authority;
‘Goods’ means the Goods that have been consigned to us for sale at our auction;
‘Hammer Price’ means the level of the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer;
‘Premium’ means the Premium charged to the Buyer on the sale of the Goods in accordance with the Terms of Sale;
‘Price’ means the total of the Hammer Price, Premium, Shipping Costs (if applicable) and any applicable VAT;
‘Proceeds’ means the Price less the Commission, the Premium, Shipping Costs, any expenses incurred to your account and any applicable VAT;
‘Reserve’ means the minimum Price at which the Goods may be sold;
‘Seller’ means the owner of the Goods and any agent who consigns the Goods for sale on the owner’s behalf (if applicable);
‘Shipping Costs’ means the charges applied to the shipping of all Goods purchased, should the Buyer ask for Sworders shipping agent to deliver the Goods (if applicable);
‘Terms of Consignment’ means these Terms of Consignment;
‘Terms of Sale’ means the Terms of Sale for Bidders or Buyers at our auctions;
‘Trader’ means a Seller who is acting for purposes relating to that Seller’s trade, business, craft or profession, whether acting personally or through another person acting in the Trader’s name or on the Trader’s behalf (such as an agent and/or the Auctioneer);
‘VAT’ means any value added tax or equivalent sales tax; and
‘Website’ means our Website available at www.sworder.co.uk.
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2.1 A description of the main characteristics of each Lot as contained in the auction catalogue.
2.2 Our name, address and contact details as set out herein, in our auction catalogues and/or on our Website.
2.3 The Price of the Goods and arrangements for payment as described in Clauses 4, 5, 7 and 8.
2.4 The arrangements for collection or delivery of the Goods as set out in Clauses 8 and 9.
2.5 Your right to return a Lot and receive a refund if the Lot is a Deliberate Forgery as set out in Clause 13.
2.6 We and Trader Sellers have a legal duty to supply any Lots to you in accordance with these Terms of Sale.
2.7 If you have any complaints, please send them to us directly at auctions@sworder.co.uk.
3. Bidding procedures and the Buyer
3.1 You must register your details with us before bidding and provide us with any requested proof of identity and billing
3.4 The Bidder placing the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer will be the Buyer at the Hammer Price. Any dispute about a bid will be settled at our discretion. We may re-offer the Lot during the auction or may settle the dispute in another way. We will act reasonably when deciding how to settle the dispute.
3.5 Bidders will be deemed to act as principals, even if the Bidder is acting as an agent for a third party.
3.6 We may bid on Lots on behalf of the Seller up to one bid below the Reserve.
3.7 We may refuse to accept any bid if it is reasonable for us to do so.
3.8 Bidding increments will be at our sole discretion (but will be in line with standard auction practice).
4. The purchase P rice
4.1 As a Buyer, you will pay:
a. the Hammer Price;
b. a Premium of 25% plus VAT of the Hammer Price or 18% plus VAT for our Fine Wine and Spirits Auction;
c. any artist’s resale right royalty payable on the sale of a Lot
d. any bidding platform fee payable on a Lot; and e. any VAT due.
5 VAT
5.1 You shall be liable for the payment of any VAT applicable on the Hammer Price, Premium and Shipping Costs (if applicable) due for a Lot. Please see the symbols used in the auction catalogue for that Lot and the ‘Information for Buyers’ in our auction catalogue for further information.
5.2 We will charge VAT at the current rate at the date of the auction.
6. The contract between you and the Seller 6.1 The contract for the purchase of the Lot between you and the Seller will be formed when the Auctioneer records the winning Lot in the sale book accepting the highest bid for the Lot at auction, unless due diligence information required by us under the Money Laundering Regulations 2019 in accordance with our internal procedure remains outstanding, in which case the contract will be formed when that information is accepted by us as complete.
6.2 You may directly enforce any terms in the Terms of Consignment against a Seller to the extent that you suffer damages and/or loss as a result of the Seller’s breach of the Terms of Consignment.
6.3 If you breach these Terms of Sale, you may be responsible for damages and/or losses suffered by a Seller or us. If we are contacted by a Seller who wishes to bring a claim against you, we may at our discretion provide the Seller with information or assistance in relation to that claim.
6.4 We normally act as an agent only and will not have any responsibility for default by you or the Seller (unless we are the Seller of the Lot).
7. Payment
7.1 Immediately following your successful bid on a Lot you will:
7.1.1 give to us, if not already provided to our satisfaction, proof of identity in a form acceptable to us (and any other information that we require in order to comply with our antimoney laundering obligations); and
7.1.2 pay to us the total amount due in any way that we agree to accept payment.
7.1.3 pay in full the Shipping Costs prior to the Goods being shipped, should you agree to Sworders shipping agent delivering the Goods.
7.2 If you owe us any money, we may use any payment made by you to repay these debts.
8. Title and collection of purchases
8.1 Once you have paid us in full the total amount due for any Lot, ownership of that Lot will transfer to you. You may not claim or collect a Lot until you have paid for it.
8.2 You will (at your own expense) collect any Lots that you have purchased and paid for not later than 5pm on the Friday following the auction, or such later date as is specified in the printed catalogue or on our Website.
8.3 If you agree to using our delivery service, only when the full Shipping Costs have been paid will the Goods be dispatched. We reserve the right that some Lots will not be suitable for an automated shipping estimate and will require bespoke quotes from the shipping agent.
8.4 If you do not collect the Lot within the time period under Clause 8.2, you will be responsible for removal and storage charges in relation to that Lot – see clause 8.5 -8.7 below.
8.5 Items not collected within seven working days of the auction will be collected by Abels Moving Services Ltd for storage at their Potters Bar depot and subject to collection, storage and administration costs, for which you will be liable. See Clause 9 for Costs relating to Collection and Stora ge Services
8.6 Items will be stored by Abels Moving Services Ltd free of charge for seven days from the date of collection. Storage charges will commence thereafter. All costs associated with collection and storage in these cases are payable directly to Abels Moving Services Ltd and must be paid prior to collection of the lot – see clause 9 on Costs Relating to Collection and Storage Services.
8.7 All lots must be collected by prior appointment at Abels Moving Services Ltd, The Heights, East, Cranborne Road, Potters Bar, EN6 3JN. 020 4259 4315 collectionsPB@abels.co.uk
Collections Monday – Friday 08:30-16:30 only.
8.8 Risk of loss or damage to the Lot will pass to you when you (or your agents) take physical possession of the Lot or it is collected by Abels Moving Services Ltd.
8.9 If you do not collect the Lot that you have paid for within thirty days after the auction, we may sell the Lot. We will pay the Proceeds of any such sale to you, but will deduct any storage charges or other sums that we have incurred in the
storage and sale of the Lot. We reserve the right to charge you a selling Commission at our standard rates on any such resale of the Lot.
9. Costs Relating to Collection and Storage services
9.1 These fees relate to the collection and storage of your purchases by Abels Moving Services Ltd and are payable directly to them.
9.2 Collection from Sworders £25 per collection of items listed on an invoice (plus VAT)
9.3 Free storage for one week thereafter, then:
9.3.1 £4.00 (plus VAT) per lot, per day*
*Additional charges apply for items exceeding 8 x 8ft
*A levied liability charge (LLC) of £0.08 per £1,000 value of goods is payable
*Admin fees will be payable on collection of goods from Abels Moving Services Ltd
*All charges are subject to VAT and 6.27% insurance on total charges
10. Remedies for non-payment or failure to collect purchases
10.1 Please do not bid on a Lot if you do not intend to buy it. If your bid is successful, these Terms of Sale will apply to you. This means that you will have to carry out your obligations set out in these Terms of Sale. If you do not comply with these Terms of Sale we may (acting on behalf of the Seller and ourselves) pursue one or more of the following measures:
10.1.1 take action against you for damages for breach of contract;
10.1.2 reverse the sale of the Lot to you and/or any other Lots sold by us to you;
10.1.3 resell the Lot by auction or private treaty (in which case you will have to pay any difference between the Price you should have paid for the Lot and the Price we sell it for as well as the charges outlined in Clause 8.7). Please note that if we sell the Lot for a higher amount than your winning bid, the extra money will belong to the Seller;
10.1.4 remove, store and insure the Lot at your expense;
10.1.5 if you do not pay us within five business days of your successful bid, we may charge interest at a rate not exceeding 1.5% per month on the total amount due;
10.1.6 keep that Lot or any other Lot sold to you until you pay the total amount due, including Shipping Costs where applicable;
10.1.7 reject or ignore bids from you or your agent at future auctions or impose conditions before we accept bids from you; and/or
10.1.8 if we sell any Lots for you, use the money made on these Lots to repay any amount you owe us.
10.2 We will act reasonably when exercising our rights under Clause 9.1. We will contact you before exercising these rights and try to work with you to correct any non-compliance by you with these Terms of Sale.
1 1 . Health and safety
Although we take reasonable precautions regarding health and safety, you are on our premises at your own risk. Please note the lay-out of the premises and security arrangements. Neither we nor our employees or agents are responsible for the safety of you or your property when you visit our premises, unless you suffer any injury to your person or damage to your property as a result of our employees’ or our agents’ negligence.
1 2 . Warranties
1 2 .1 The Seller warrants to us and to you that:
1 2 .1.1 the Seller is the true owner of the Lot for sale or is authorised by the true owner to offer and sell the L ot at auction;
12.1.2 the Seller is able to transfer good and marketable title to the Lot to you free from any third party rights or claims; and
1 2 .1.3 as far as the Seller is aware, the main characteristics of the Lot set out in the auction catalogue (as amended by any notice displayed in the saleroom or announced by the Auctioneer at the auction) are correct.
12.2 If, after you have placed a successful bid and paid for a Lot, any of the warranties above are found not to be true, please notify us in writing. Neither we nor the Seller will be liable to pay you any sums over and above the total amount due and we will not be responsible for any inaccuracies in the information provided by the Seller except as set out below.
12.3 Please note that many of the Lots that you may bid on at our auction are second-hand.
12.4 If a Lot is not second-hand and you purchase the Lot as a Consumer from a Seller that is a Trader, a number of additional terms may be implied by law in addition to the Seller’s warranties set out at Clause 11.1 (in particular under the Consumer Rights Act 2015). These Terms of Sale do not seek
to exclude your rights under law as they relate to the sale of these Lots.
12.5 Save as expressly set out above, all other warranties, conditions or other terms which might have effect between the Seller and you, or us and you, or be implied or incorporated by statue, common law or otherwise are excluded.
1 3 . Descriptions and condition
13.1 Our descriptions of the Lot will be based on: (a) information provided to us by the Seller of the Lot (for which we are not liable); and (b) our opinion (although it is likely that we will not be able to carry out a detailed inspection of each Lot).
13.2 We will give you a number of opportunities to view and inspect the Lots before the auction. You (and any independent consultants acting on your behalf) must satisfy yourself about the accuracy of any description of a Lot. We shall not be responsible for any failure by you or your consultants to properly inspect a Lot in advance of the auction.
13.3 Representations or statements by us as to authorship, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling Price involve matters of opinion. We undertake that any such opinion will be honestly and reasonably held and accept liability for opinions given negligently or fraudulently.
13.4 Please note that Lots (in particular second-hand Lots) are unlikely to be in perfect condition. Lots are sold ‘as is’ (i.e. as you see them at the time of the auction). Neither we nor the Seller accept any liability for the condition of second-hand Lots or for any condition issues affecting a Lot if such issues are included in the description of a Lot in the auction catalogue, the condition report for a lot (or in any saleroom notice) and/ or which the inspection of a Lot by the Buyer ought to have revealed.
1 4 . Deliberate Forgeries
14.1 You may return any Lot which is found to be a Deliberate Forgery to us within thirty days of the auction provided that you return the Lot to us in the same condition as when it was released to you, accompanied by a written statement identifying the Lot from the relevant catalogue description and a written statement of defects.
14.2 If we are reasonably satisfied that the Lot is a Deliberate Forgery, we will refund the money paid by you for the Lot (including any Premium and applicable VAT) provided that if:
14.2.1 the catalogue description reflected the accepted view of experts as at the date of the auction; or
14.2.2 you personally are not able to transfer good and marketable title in the Lot to us, you will have no right to a refund under this Clause.
14.3 If you have sold the Lot to another person, we will only be liable to refund the Price that you paid for the Lot. We will not be responsible for repaying any additional money you may have made from selling the Lot.
14.4 Your right to return a Lot that is a Deliberate Forgery does not affect your legal rights and is in addition to any other right or remedy provided by law or by these Terms of Sale.
1 5 . Our liability to you
15.1 We will not be liable for any loss of opportunity or disappointment suffered as a result of participating in our auction.
15.2 In addition to the above, neither we nor the Seller shall be responsible to you and you shall not be responsible to the Seller or us for any other loss or damage that any of us suffer that is not a foreseeable result of any of us not complying with the Terms and Conditions. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it is obvious that it will happen or if at the time of the sale of the Lot, we, you and the Seller knew it might happen.
1 5 .3 Subject to Clause 14.4, if we are found to be liable to you for any reason (including, amongst others, if we are found to be negligent, in breach of contract or to have made a misrepresentation), our liability will be limited to the total purchase price paid by you to us for any Lot.
15.4 Notwithstanding the above, nothing in these Terms of Sale shall limit our liability (or that of our employees or agents) for:
15.4.1 death or personal injury resulting from negligence (as defined in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977);
14.4.2 fraudulent misrepresentation; or
14.4.3 any liability which cannot be excluded by law.
1 6 . Notices
16.1 All notices between you and us regarding these Terms of Sale must be in writing and either from your registered email address, our email address, or if in hard copy letter, signed by or on behalf of the party sending it.
16.2 Any notice referred in Clause 16.1 may be given:
16.2.1 by delivering it by hand;
16.2.2 by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery; or
16.2.3 by email.
16.3 Notices must be sent:
16.3.1 by hand or registered post;
a. to us, at our address set out in these Terms of Sale or at our registered office address appearing on our Website; and b. to you, at the last postal address that you have given to us as your contact address in writing; or
16.3.2 by email:
a. to us, by sending the notice to the following email address: auctions@sworder.co.uk
b. to you, by sending the notice to any email address that you have given to us as your contact email address in writing.
16.4 Notices will be deemed to have been received:
16.4.1 if delivered by hand, on the day of delivery;
16.4.2 if sent by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery, two business days after posting, exclusive of the day of posting; or
16.4.3 if sent by email, at the time of transmission unless sent after 17.00 in the place of receipt in which case they will be deemed to have been received on the next business day in the place of receipt.
1 6 .5 Any notice or communication given under these Terms of Sale will not be validly given if sent by fax, any form of messaging via social media or text message.
1 7 . Data Protection
We will hold and process any personal data in relation to you in accordance with our current privacy policy, a copy of which is available on our Website.
1 8 . General
18.1 We may, acting reasonably, refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person.
18.2 We act as an agent for our Sellers. The rights we have to claim against you for breach of these Terms of Sale may be used by either us, our employees or agents, or the Seller, its employees or agents, as appropriate. Other than as set out in this Clause, these Terms of Sale are between you and us and no other person will have any rights to enforce any of these Terms of Sale.
18.3 We may use special terms in the catalogue descriptions of particular Lots. You must read these terms carefully along with any glossary provided in our auction catalogues.
18.4 Each of the clauses of these Terms of Sale operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining clauses will remain in full force and effect.
18.5 We may change these Terms of Sale from time to time, without notice to you. Please read these Terms of Sale carefully, as they may be different from the last time you read them.
18.6 Except as otherwise stated in these Terms of Sale, each of our rights and remedies: (a) are in addition to and not exclusive of any other rights or remedies under these Terms of Sale or general law; and (b) may be waived only in writing and specifically. Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale is not a waiver of that or any other right. Partial exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale will not preclude any further or other exercise of that right or any other right under these Terms of Sale. Waiver of a breach of any term of these Terms of Sale will not operate as a waiver of breach of any other term or any subsequent breach of that term.
18.7 These Terms of Sale and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them (including any non-contractual claims or disputes) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
1 9 Sharing your information
19.1 Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. We do not share your data unless there is a business, or legal reason for us to do so. In agreeing to these terms of sale, you agree that:
• Should you decide to use Sworders delivery service, we may share relevant personal data that we hold with the shipping agent to allow effective communication between the shipping agent and you, and to enable delivery
• Should you fail to collect your items within seven working days of the date of the auction, we may share your details with the shipping agent to allow effective communication between them and you, to arrange for the payment of storage and collection of your items from their store.
Please refer to Sworders Privacy Policy for more information on how we process your data.
These terms are based upon the recommended terms of sale by the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers
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