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FINE INTERIORS
TUESDAY 10 & WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER, 10AM
Tuesday 10 September
Lots 1-59 The Selected Contents of North Road House, Hertfordshire
Lots 60-147 Furniture and Works of Art
Lots 148-188 The Property of the late Baron John Mauger Langin
Lots 189-287 Furniture and Works of Art
Lots 288-376 A Private Collection of Native American Artefacts
Lots 377-391 The David and Pam McCleave Collection
Wednesday 11 September
Lots 392-464 A Private Collection, Moor Park, Hertfordshire
Lots 465-542 Furniture and Works of Art
Lots 543-553 Silver
Lots 554-584 The Property of a Gentleman
Lots 585-656 Furniture and Works of Art
Lots 657-665 The Property of a Private Collector, Kensington Lots 666-685 The Bunny Campione Collection
Lots 687-743 Furniture and Works of Art
Lots 744-759 Garden
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Friday 6 September 10am-4pm
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Alexander Hallett Head of Department Valuer & Cataloguer
Charlotte Lee-Finglas
Grace Julier
Sale Co-ordinator
Day One
Tuesday 10 September at 10am
Hues of History
Bold colour combines with architectural intricacy in a lovingly restored Hertfordshire home.
Carefully curated over the last forty years, Sworders is pleased to present the selected contents of North Road House, Hertford. Designed in 1827 by the prominent local architect Thomas Smith, for his own occupation, the house is distinctly Regency with its stucco façade to the front, but with nods to the neoclassical style throughout. After a period of disregard, the house was saved from conversion to flats by the vendor and put back to its former splendour in the early 1980s.
Growing up in a household of collectors, the vendor notes he was influenced from an early age by his father, but cites an exhibition at the Victorian and Albert Museum in the late 1970s on Biedermeier furniture as the greatest steer in developing his daring yet genius taste. North Road offers the perfect expression of this, with its boldly coloured walls and abundance of architectural detail complementing the effortless mix of English and Continental furnishings. Each piece confidently placed with purpose, but without fussiness.
The collection is broad and eccentric, spanning from furniture to porcelain, but throughout is underpinned by a discerning eye for good early 19th-century design. Among the highlights are three striking chandeliers which hung in the principal rooms, to include a Regency colza example. Beyond this, a Biedermeier secrétaire à abattant with architectural interior is particularly notable.
LOT 1
A Regency bronze and gilt-lacquered four-light colza chandelier, c.1820s, with a four-chain suspension from an acanthus cast corona, the dished base richly decorated with scrolling foliage, terminating in bearded mask nozzles and centred by a foliate pendant, fitted for electricity with frosted glass flame shades, missing reservoir, 56cm wide
20cm high excluding chain
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 2
A Victorian oak hall table, c.1890, the shaped superstructure centred with a crest, above a fossil marble top and a single frieze drawer, on ring-turned supports, 155cm wide
64cm deep
120cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 3
A pair of Charles X mahogany fauteuils, c.1820-30, French, each with a slightly curved backrest above a padded seat, the arms carved with volute terminals, on foliate cabriole legs terminating in scroll feet, 61cm wide
59cm deep
93cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 4
A Regency mahogany hall chair, first quarter of the 19th century, a circular back with central roundel, above a shaped seat, on turned tapering forelegs, 44cm wide
49cm deep
86cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 5
A Regency mahogany hall chair, c.1810, in the manner of Elward, Marsh & Tatham, with foliate carved cresting, 51cm wide
51cm deep
93cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 6
A William IV mahogany hall chair, c.1820s, the waisted back carved with an anthemion to the centre, the plank seat raised on reeded forelegs,
47cm wide
47cm deep
89cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 7
A George III mahogany hall chair, c.1790-1800, a dished serpentine seat, with a painted crest to the oval back, on tapering supports,
46cm wide
46cm deep
96cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 8
A Regency-style mahogany open bookcase, second half 19th century, the stepped cornice above four recessed panelled uprights supporting shelves, the lower section with conforming configuration raised on plinth base, 240cm wide
42cm deep
249cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 9
A Regency bronze diminutive desk mirror, 19th century, the circular plate within a stiff leaf border, on a column stem descending on to a square section plinth base, 15cm wide
10cm deep
27.5cm high
£300 - 400
LOT 10
A Victorian gilt-lacquered brass chandelier, mid-19th century, possibly Birmingham, in the Louis XVI taste, the multi-tiered stem with foliate and gadroon casting, the four principal branches each with a further four conforming nozzles, hung from an acanthus-wrapped corona with four chains, 110cm diameter
45cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 11
An imitation bronze model of the Farnese Hercules, 20th century, after the antique, on a square plinth base, 20cm wide
20cm deep
61cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 12
A William IV leather armchair, second quarter of the 19th century, with deep button upholstery, the arms carved with lion masks terminals, on reeded forelegs terminating in brass castors, 67cm wide
75cm deep
82cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 13
An Oushak wool carpet, early 20th century, Turkish, woven with geometric foliate motifs to a blue ground, with ‘Maple & Co.’ label present to the underside, 445 x 367cm
£600 - 800
LOT 14
William Theed the Younger (1804-1891), ‘Roma’, a carved marble bust of a classical figure, signed verso ‘William Theed Fecit’, titled and dated ‘1830’, 31cm wide
23cm deep
47cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
William Theed lived in Rome between 1826 and 1848 where he studied and worked in the workshops of the neoclassical artists Bertel Thorvaldsen, John Gibson and Richard James Wyatt. Following a recommendation from the sculptor John Gibson, Theed received his first commission from Prince Albert in 1847, for two marble statues for Osborne House in the idealised classical style. Theed returned to London in 1848 and became one of the leading and most prolific artists of the period, and favourite of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It was with Prince Albert in particular with whom he established a close connection, and it was Albert who commissioned him in 1856 to create six colossal marble busts of classical figures after the antique to be placed in the gallery above the grand staircase at Buckingham Palace, most of which remain on display to this day.
LOT 15
A Regency rosewood breakfast table, c.1830, in the manner of Trotter, the circular book-matched veneered top above a tripartite base with turned column angles, terminating in paw feet carved with volutes, 127cm diameter
73cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 16
A Victorian oak armchair, second half of the 19th century, with roll arms and a deep padded back, stamped to the rear leg ‘Trollope & Sons’, 86cm wide
93cm deep
109cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 17
A Regency mahogany armchair, c.1820, the square back, padded arms and squab seat upholstered in a foliate monogram covering, the reeded forelegs headed with brass roundels, terminating on to brass caps and castors, 80cm wide
86cm deep
107cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 18
A Biedermeier mahogany secrétaire à abattant, second quarter of the 19th century, probably German, the stepped cornice and plain frieze above a panelled cupboard, the lower section with a lobed panelled frieze drawer above a fall-front, enclosing a fitted interior with central architectural model and mirrored parquetry floor, fitted with two further drawers on a bracketed plinth base, 109cm wide
52cm deep
107cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 19
A Regency gilt-bronze and patinated bronze chandelier, first quarter of the 19th century, the circular dish with eight acanthus-cast arms and a central pendant drop, suspended by four chains from a conforming corona, 81cm diameter
29cm high excluding chain
£800 - 1,200
LOT 20
A William IV mahogany ‘X’ frame stool, c.1835, the rectangular stuff-over seat above lotus-wrapped moulded supports, united by a turned stretcher, 70cm wide
45cm deep
50cm high
£600 - 800
For a similar example, see Christie’s London, ‘500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe’, 17 March 2011, lot 139.
LOT 21
A pair of Rockingham swan-handled porcelain vases, c.1825, each oviform body enamel-painted with a still life of a basket of flowers, raised on a gilt-decorated socle and platform base, 21cm wide
16cm deep
45cm high (2)
£600 - 800
For a similar example, see Victoria & Albert Museum, accession no. c.760-1935.
LOT 22
A pair of Louis XVI gilt-bronze and patinated bronze cassolettes, 18th century, each vase-shaped body surmounted by a reversible lid, interchangeable from nozzle to finial, the vase decorated with ribbon-tied swags, raised on a circular fluted column descending on to a stepped square section base, terminating on bun feet, 8cm wide
8cm deep
24cm high (2)
£300 - 500
See Christie’s London, ‘Important European Furniture, Sculpture and Carpets’, 7 Jul 2005, Lot 301, for an almost identical pair.
LOT 23
A pair of cut-glass covered urns, 19th century, Irish, each with strawberry diamond panels between polished pillar cuts, raised on a pedestal and square base, and with removable lid, 11cm diameter
26cm high (4)
£200 - 400
LOT 24
A black fossil marble urn and cover, early 20th century, of urn form raised on a pedestal base, the domed cover with an onion-knopped finial, 16cm diameter
28cm high (2)
£200 - 400
A group of classical-style sculptures, 20th century, to include a Parian ware bust of Apollo, a painted plaster bust of Ephebe of Marathon, and a plaster model of the Colossal Foot, Ephebe 16cm wide
11cm deep
26cm high (3)
£100 - 150
LOT 26
A Wedgwood neoclassical black basalt urn and cover, c.1790, the removable domed lid with an acorn finial, over a body with twin satyr handles and decorated with a band of drapery swags and engine-turned decoration, raised on a socle foot and square plinth, impressed ‘WEDGWOOD’ mark to the underside, 12.5cm wide
9cm deep
21cm high (2)
£150 - 250
For another example with an almost identical body, see Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. WE.1128-2014.
An alabaster and slivered-metal plafonnier, early 20th century, of shallow dished form with egg-and-dart detail, suspended by four chains, 59cm diameter
20cm high excluding chains
£300 - 500
LOT 28
A pair of papier mâché wine coasters, 19th century, each decorated with gilt foliage and insects, 13cm diameter (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 25
LOT 27
LOT 31
A pollard oak mirror, 19th century, with an ebonised slip enclosing a later glass plate, 52cm wide
66cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 30
A Biedermeier mahogany chest of drawers, mid-19th century, German, the rectangular top above five swept drawers with mother-of-pearl escutcheons, raised on bracket feet, 81cm wide
53cm deep
101cm high
£300 - 500
A Victorian walnut side chair, mid-19th century, with scrolling pierced decoration and wrythen supports terminating in castors, 57cm wide
57cm deep
124cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 32
A wool kilim rug
20th century, Caucasian, with geometric floral motifs on a black ground, 440 x 252cm
£200 - 300
LOT 29
LOT 33
A Northern European mahogany pier mirror, 19th century, the ogee cornice with beaded moulding above a recessed panel and rectangular plate, flanked by applied neoclassical decoration, on a stepped plinth base, 71cm wide
177cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 34
A pair of William IV mahogany side chairs, c.1835, each with a curved back and black leather seat, raised on tapering fluted supports, 50cm wide
50cm deep
83cm high (2)
£200 - 300
Provenance: Bonhams, ‘Rothman Collection’, 8 March 1995, lot 319.
LOT 35
A pair of George IV brass candlesticks, 19th century, each with Gothic tracery and on a triform base, 13cm wide
28.5cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 36
Two porcelain veilleuse bases and stands, first half of the 19th century, French, probably Paris, each of turret form with painted reserves and heightened in gilt, the principal example with scenes of ‘HOTEL DES MONNAIES’ and ‘BARRIÈRE DE BELLEVILLE’, 10.5cm wide
10.5cm deep
16.5cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 37
A Biedermeier mahogany cabinet, first half of the 19th century, German, with a marble top above a pair of cupboard doors, enclosing a retractable shelving superstructure, raised on square supports, 132cm wide
57cm deep
96cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 38
A William IV mahogany cheval mirror, c.1830, with a rectangular swing mirror set between a pair of turned columns, on a rectangular base raised on bracket feet, 92cm wide
49cm deep
167cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 39
A pair of George III Hepplewhite -style mahogany side chairs, late 19th/early 20th century, each with an oval guilloché-moulded back, with waisted splat, carved trailing bellflowers and central spoked wheel, above a stuff-over seat, on fluted tapering supports headed with acanthus decoration,
58cm wide
52cm deep
93cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 40
A Regency-style gilt-metal inkstand, 19th century, in the manner of Thomas Messenger & Sons, on a tripartite base with three stylised dolphins supporting the main gadrooned and stiff leaf decorated body, the cover enclosing an inkwell, pounce pot and spill tray, 11cm wide
11cm deep
16cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 41
Two framed sets of wax seals, late 18th/early 19th century, mostly in red with handwritten inscriptions underneath each one, to include George Canning (1770-1827), Lord Palmerston (1784-1865), Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton (1784-1841), Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton (1773-1854), each in a glazed oak frame, 35.5 x 29cm (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 42
A pair of neoclassical-style alabaster bookends, 20th century, each modelled as one half of a classical fluted column, 13cm wide
6.5cm deep
16cm high (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 43
A carved giltwood figure, 17th century, Continental, modelled wearing flowing robes amongst clouds, 60cm wide
20cm deep
80cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 44
A George III-style carved giltwood overmantel mirror, late 19th/early 20th century, with a scrolling rococo frame, surrounded by a triple plate, 132cm wide
66cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 45
A George III mahogany breakfront linen press, 18th century, the ogee cornice above plain panelled doors, the interior with oak slides, the lower section with nine drawers on bracket feet, 134cm wide
67cm deep
191cm high
£500 - 800
48
A Biedermeier mahogany cabinet, early 19th century, German, with a grey marble top, above a frieze drawer and a pair of cupboard doors set with ivory escutcheons, raised on tapering square supports, 110cm wide
52cm deep
92cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 47
A George III mahogany Gainsborough armchair, third quarter of the 18th century, the serpentine back, arms and seat all with needlework upholstery, the downswept arms above square stretchered supports, terminating on barrel castors,
72cm wide
75cm deep
98cm high
£600 - 800
A cobalt blue glass vase or cruet bottle, c.1770, attributed to the workshop of James Giles, of wrythen cut form, gilt with a coat of arms above a motto ‘Semper Sapit Svprema’ (Always Supremely Wise), possibly for the Selby family, 7cm diameter
14cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 49
A Victorian simulated rosewood painted chest of drawers, mid 19th century, with simulated rosewood decoration, painted with foliate scrolls, 110cm wide
54cm deep
103cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 46
LOT
Tess Morley (contemporary), a pair of shellwork wall brackets, of recent manufacture, each with a marbled paper top above mirrored panels edged in Venetian pearl shells, supported by a large cluster of shells, a label to the reverse,
22cm wide
15.5cm deep
21cm high (2)
£600 - 800
A mosaic table, 20th century, the circular top with geometric decoration, raised on tubular steel supports,
100cm diameter
78cm high
£200 - 400
A set of six oak and cane elbow chairs, early 20th century, each with painted details and a blue leather seat, some damage to cane, 58cm wide
58cm wide
96cm high (6)
£600 - 800
LOT 50
LOT 51
LOT 52
54
A near pair of shellwork convex mirrors, of recent manufacture, in the grotto taste, each encrusted with numerous shells surrounding a circular glass plate, 85cm diameter (2)
£1,000 - 1,500
A provincial elm chopping block, 19th century, Chinese, with a circular top and joined tripod base, 56cm diameter
62cm high
£100 - 150
A painted pine garden table, 19th century and later, the circular top raised on a scrolling naturalistic tripod base, 49cm diameter
75cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 53
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LOT 55
LOT 56
A sheet metal fish, 20th century, with pierced detail,
74cm wide
15cm deep
43cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 57
A neoclassical-style cast iron boot scraper, 19th century, with anthemion decorated ends,
40cm wide
32cm deep
20cm high
£80 - 120
LOT 58
A pair of cast iron planters, 20th century, each with lion mask decoration,
46cm wide
44cm deep
29cm high (2)
£150 - 250
LOT 59
A pair of garden benches, 20th century, each with a chinoiserie-style pierced back over a slatted seat, 185cm wide
63cm deep
88cm high (2)
£400 - 600
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FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART
LOT 60
A suzani-style flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, the field with repeating red tulips to a pale ground, 286 x 258cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 61
A glass and pierced metal ‘Hyde’ hall lantern by Jamb, of recent manufacture, the arched glazed top with a petal-shaped smoke outlet, above pierced filigree work and tapered sides, 38cm diameter
63cm high
£2,000 - 4,000
LOT 62
An upholstered footstool by George Smith, late 20th century, the rectangular top raised on ring-turned supports, 122cm wide
68cm deep
38cm high
£300 - 500
98cm
82cm high
£1,000
LOT 63
A two-seater sofa by George Smith, of recent manufacture, upholstered in a cream herringbone fabric, raised on turned supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, 202cm wide
deep
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 64
A two-seater sofa by George Smith, of recent manufacture, upholstered in a cream herringbone fabric, raised on turned supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, bearing a label beneath, 202cm wide
- 2,000
LOT 65
A group of three scatter cushions, 19th century, comprising a pair of verdure tapestry examples with tassels, together with a large Chelsea Textiles needlework example, with a large flower head worked in gros and petit point to a blue/green ground, largest 57cm wide
50cm high (3)
£200 - 300
LOT 66
A pair of Louis XV-style gilt-bronze candelabra, late 19th/early 20th century, French, each of scrolling rococo form, with three branches formed as swirling acanthus leaves, 30cm diameter
39cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 67
An upholstered ottoman, 20th century, of waisted rectangular outline, covered in floral fabric, 110cm wide
61cm deep
50cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 68
A Swedish röllakan-style wool carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated with repeating flowers to an off-white ground, with sage green and grey ends, 307 x 244cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 69
A Victorian brass club fender, late 19th century, with twisted supports and a stepped base, 146cm wide
47cm deep
60cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 70
A set of eight neoclassical elm dining chairs, 19th century, Baltic, each with an anthemion-form splat and red leather seat, raised on tapering fluted front supports,
46cm wide
50cm deep
86cm high (8)
£500 - 700
71
A provincial elm kitchen table, first half of the 19th century, the rounded rectangular plank top, raised on ring-turned baluster supports and terminating in later brass castors, 181cm wide
79cm deep
78cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 72
A gilt-metal and glass table lamp in the Empire style, early 20th century, French, the shade decorated in relief with sphinxes and anthemion motifs, above a spiral column and stepped square base, raised on bracket feet, 32cm diameter
61.3cm high
£300 - 500
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LOT 73
A sorcerer’s mirror, early 20th century, the plate with concave inclusions, set within a gilt frame with moulded corners and sides, 41cm wide
42cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 74
A Victorian teak and brass secretaire campaign chest, second half of the 19th century, fitted with an arrangement of short and long drawers, raised on bun feet, 99cm wide
48cm deep
121cm high
£700 - 900
LOT 75
A Tabriz wool carpet, 20th century, the central field with a large flower head medallion surrounded by floral and geometric motifs, intentionally distressed, 347 x 240cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 76
An oak artist’s studio easel, late 19th/early 20th century, with an adjustable platform, with two winders, 70cm wide
70cm deep
223cm high when collapsed
£300 - 500
LOT 77
A pair of Louis XVI-style ormolu wall lights, late 19th century, French, each with a flaming urn and ram’s mask backplate, with three leaf-scroll branches hung with laurel swags, and with flower nozzles and drip-pans, 35.5cm wide
23cm deep
56cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 78
A Regency mahogany country house canterbury, c.1820, with five divisions set between turned supports, with a single drawer, 80cm wide
48cm deep
79cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 79
An Arts and Crafts design wool runner, 20th century, decorated with large serrated leaf motifs to a pale blue ground, 390 x 80cm
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 80
A grey sycamore ‘Fitzgerald’ cocktail cabinet by Nina Campbell, of recent manufacture, with a pair of glazed doors enclosing shelves, above six drawers raised on ‘X’ frame supports, 121cm wide
63cm deep
189cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 81
A celadon-glazed pottery lamp, of recent manufacture, Chinese, of baluster form on a hardwood base, with a 23-inch linen-covered shade, 22cm wide
97cm high including shade
£200 - 400
LOT 82
A provincial painted pine cupboard, 19th century, French, with two pairs of doors and a pair of short drawers, raised on stile supports, 116cm wide
53cm deep
212cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 83
A Satsuma vase lamp, Meiji period (1868-1912), Japanese, of hexagonal form set with twin handles, painted with figures, with a silk shade, 22cm diameter
52cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 84
A painted wooden box, 19th century, Chinese, of octagonal form, decorated with figures and flowers,
33cm wide
23cm deep
27cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 85
A neoclassical beech settee, late 18th century and later, Italian, the pierced splat decorated with urns, with a hessian-upholstered seat, raised on tapering square supports united by stretchers, 170cm wide
53cm deep
90cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 86
A scrubbed pine farmhouse table, 19th century, the rectangular top above a frieze set with two drawers, raised on tapering square supports, 140cm wide
70cm deep
79cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 87
A set of four Gothic Revival oak stools, late 19th century, each of square shape with a padded seat covered in foliate fabric, raised on square supports with scrolling detail, 30cm wide
30cm deep
42cm high (4)
£600 - 800
LOT 88
A Regency-style leather, brass and mahogany club fender, 20th century, with a studded seat, fluted supports and a stepped base, 200cm wide
55cm deep
52.5cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 89
A pair of painted wooden armchairs, 20th century, Continental, each of ‘X’ frame design, with a cream-upholstered seat, 64cm wide
52cm deep
91cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 90
A leather and chrome coffee table, 20th century, with stitched detail, 150cm wide
70cm deep
47cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 91
A mahogany, iron and brass campaign washstand, late 19th/early 20th century, of oval shape with three tiers, fitted with a pewter bowl and two dishes, 63cm wide
45cm deep
87cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 92
A George II walnut open armchair, c.1735, with neoclassical upholstery, sweeping open arms, and raised on carved cabriole supports, 71cm wide
74cm deep
103cm high
£2,500 - 3,500
LOT 93
A papier mâché lacquered tray top table, of recent manufacture, raised on simulated bamboo supports, 77cm wide
60cm deep
47cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 94
A George III mahogany linen press, c.1760, the dentil-moulded cornice with blind-fret banding, above two panelled doors, over two short and two long drawers, raised on bracket feet, 134cm wide
67cm deep
191cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 95
A George III-style cherry tripod table, 20th century, the dished top raised on a ring-turned column, 53cm diameter
72cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 96
A Nurata silk embroidered suzani, late 19th/early 20th century, Uzbekistan, worked in pink, red and green threads on six cotton panels, embroidered with an eight-point floral star medallion to the central field surrounded by flowering shrubs to the corners, within a border of further flowerheads, serrated leaves and meandering vines, lined, 254 x 160cm
£800 - 1,200
For a similar example see: Sotheby’s, ‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’, 1 October 2015, lot 4.
The present suzani displays several stylistic features seen in examples produced in the Nurata region of south central Uzbekistan, including a composed and balanced floral decoration organised around an axis, with a floral star medallion to the centre surround by ‘shrub’ formations.
LOT 97
Two terracotta bowls, early to mid-20th century, Peru, Shipibo-Conibo people, each painted with polychrome geometric decoration, larger 14cm high
20cm diameter (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 98
A Louis XV painted oak console table, mid-18th century, of scrolling rococo form, with a serpentine rouge marble top, 112cm wide
64cm deep
81cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
An ebonised fruitwood, ivory-inlaid and bronze -mounted table cabinet, late 17th/early 18th century, North Italian, with a pair of doors decorated with soldiers, enclosing an interior fitted with nine drawers surrounding a cupboard centred with Neptune, with three further drawers within, raised on bun feet and a later stand, cabinet 58cm wide
33cm deep
51cm high
128cm high overall (2)
£2,500 - 3,500
An ebonised fruitwood, ivory and bone cabinet, 17th century and later, North Italian, engraved throughout with fruit, foliate scrolls and mythical beasts, the hinged top above a pair of geometric-moulded doors, enclosing an interior fitted with drawers and a cupboard, with further secret drawers within, decorated with hunting and court scenes, on a later stand with spiral-turned supports, 73cm wide
37cm deep
144cm high (2)
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 99
LOT 100
LOT 101
A Heriz wool runner, 20th century, Persian, woven with geometric medallions to a red ground, 469 x 94cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 102
An Empire flame mahogany cheval mirror, second quarter of the 19th century, French, the arched mirror plate flanked by a pair of columns, each surmounted by a gilt-brass urn, on a shaped plinth terminating in castors, 112cm wide
43cm deep
167cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 103
A George III-style mahogany settee, 19th century, upholstered in foliate yellow fabric, with open arms and knee-carved cabriole supports, united by turned stretchers, 163cm wide
76cm deep
100cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 104
A Louis XVI-style kingwood, amaranth, parquetry and gilt-metal meuble d’appui, late 19th century, French, with a grey marble top above a frieze drawer and single door, raised on toupie feet, bearing a paper label for ‘G. Trollope & Sons, Parliament Street, London’, 86cm wide
40cm deep
107cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 105
A Victorian Hungarian ash, rosewood and tulipwood library table by Holland & Sons, the leather top inset within a crossbanded border over two frieze drawers, the standard ends with moulded decoration and parcel-gilt carved shells, husks and foliage, the downswept supports terminating in shell carved feet enclosing castors, both drawers stamped ‘Holland & Sons’ with a paper label ‘M H 2394’ below a printed coronet, 115cm wide
68cm deep
74cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 106
A large wool carpet of Persian design, of recent manufacture, Nepalese, the central lozenge within geometric motifs on a pink ground and multiple borders, 536 x 371cm
£3,000 - 5,000
The design of the present example was inspired by the Tabriz carpet in the entrance hall of Castle Drogo, Devon.
LOT 107
A painted wooden bench, of recent manufacture, carved in the form of an open book stacked on further books, 182cm wide
61cm deep
52cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 108
A painted wooden laundry bin, 20th century, with painted decoration, inscribed ‘The London Laundry Co., Clerkenwell, Tel: 2711’, with metal mounts, on a wheeled base, 105cm wide
63cm deep
83cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 109
An Aubusson wool rug, 20th century, French, woven with roses amongst scrolling foliage to a pink ground, 342 x 138cm
£400 - 800
LOT 110
An artist’s lay model of a horse, first half of the 20th century, the articulated body on two metal rods and raised on a wooden plinth, 51cm wide
13cm deep
40cm high
£600 - 800
109
LOT 111
A George III carved giltwood pier glass, c.1760, the frame with acanthus scrolls enclosing a mercury glass plate, with damages, 61cm wide
120cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 112
A Regency mantel clock, 19th century, the 5-inch enamel dial with Roman hours, strike/silent lever, signed ‘DENT LONDON’ and numbered ‘987’, the twin fusee movement striking the hour on a coiled gong, the backplate signed ‘Dent LONDON’ and ‘987’, within a mahogany drumhead case with ormolu mounts, with pendulum,
28cm wide
15cm deep
32cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 113
A carved white marble bust, late 18th/early 19th century, in the form of a man wearing a wig, jacket and waistcoat, 56cm wide
30cm deep
69cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 114
An Empire -style malachite and ormolu centre table, 20th century, French, the canted rectangular top above a frieze with applied neoclassical motifs, raised on winged lion monopedia supports, 80cm wide
160cm deep
84cm high
£4,000 - 6,000
LOT 115
A flat-weave wool kilim runner, of recent manufacture, of kilim design with repeating diamond motifs to a burnt-orange ground, 491 x 83cm
£400 - 600
LOT 116
A black and gilt japanned chest of drawers, early 18th century and later, decorated with chinoiserie motifs, fitted with two short over three long drawers, on bun feet, with some refreshed decoration, 96cm wide
57cm deep
92cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 117
A silk on silk embroidered suzani, 20th century, Central Asian, Uzbekistan, decorated with large repeating flower head motifs on a red ground, within a narrow border, 190 x 184cm
£500 - 800
LOT 118
A William and Mary walnut side table, late 17th century and later, the rectangular quarter-veneered top with feather banding, above a frieze drawer, and raised on spiral-turned supports united by an ‘X’ stretcher, terminating in bun feet, 87cm wide
57cm deep
70cm high
£300 - 500
A Victorian pollard oak davenport in the manner of Gillows, second quarter of the 19th century, the sliding sloped top with a hinged lid, enclosing an interior fitted with drawers, with a folding side drawer and a pair of slides, above three graduated side drawers and raised on bun feet,
52cm wide
57cm deep
83cm high
£300 - 500
A George III-style mahogany partners’ desk, 19th century, of canted rectangular outline, the top set with three gilt-tooled leather skivers, above three frieze drawers to each side, above twin pedestals fitted with cupboards and drawers to a plinth base, stamped ‘Gill & Reigate’,
168cm wide
106cm deep
77cm high
£3,000 - 5,000
According to the University of Leeds, the firm of Gill & Reigate was founded in 1898 and, by 1901, trading at 85 Oxford Street, London, they described themselves as ‘Dealers in Antique & Modern Furniture, Artistic Decorators and Upholsterers’. They were decorators to King George V. The firm appears to have lasted until 1958, then trading at Arlington House, Arlington Street, London. During the period 1915-1920, the firm were engaged on the restoration and furnishing of Sulgrave Manor, under the direction of the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield.
An Aubusson carpet, 20th century, decorated with a rose bouquet within a medallion to the centre, on a scarlet ground with biscuit ground borders, 546 x 356cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 119
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A steel fender, early 20th century, with pierced decoration, 129cm wide
28cm deep
14cm high
£200 - 300
A George III vernacular painted elm tavern settle, early 19th century, Welsh, of curved shape, 155cm wide
45cm deep
140cm high
£800 - 1,200
A Louis XVI-style kingwood and amaranth bureau plat, late 19th century, French, the rectangular top with a gilt-tooled leather skiver above three frieze drawers, raised on tapering fluted supports, with all-over gilt-metal mounts, 140cm wide
80cm deep
78cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 122
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LOT 125
A wool carpet of Arts and Crafts design, of recent manufacture, in the style of CFA Voysey for Liberty & Co., woven with bold floral and foliate motifs to a yellow ground, 368 x 314cm
£4,000 - 6,000
LOT 126
A collection of plaster cast relief intaglios, each depicting a Greek coin, one damaged, approximately 2.5cm diameter, together with an abalone intaglio, of the head Athena, in profile, wearing a crested helmet, 2.5cm high (13)
£200 - 400
Provenance: Thomas Allworthy (d.1973), thence by descent to the present owner.
Allworthy is believed to have been a collector of antiquities, who sold a small number of pieces at Sotheby’s, 19 May 1956.
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An Empire alabaster mantel clock, c.1820, French, the relief-cast gilt-brass dial with an enamelled chapter ring inscribed ‘Angevin a Paris’, with an eight-day movement with a silk suspension, striking the hours and half hours on a bell, within a column centred with a relief-carved head of Medusa, on a square base, 18cm wide
18cm deep
47.5cm high
£300 - 5000
LOT 129
A sorcerer’s mirror, early 20th century, of circular form, with a rim of concave inclusions, mounted on a metal dish, 31cm diameter
£300 - 500
A Victorian Aesthetic period coromandel, ebonised and parcel-gilt centre table, c.1880, the octagonal top above a pierced architectural base, on splayed supports, 120cm wide
120cm deep
75cm high
£300 - 500
A set of four silk curtains by Charles Hammond, late 20th century, each with all-over chinoiserie decoration, 122cm wide at pleated top edge 242cm wide at bottom edge 310cm long, with three fringed pelmets, and two extra lined lengths of fabric (9)
£200 - 400
LOT 131
A George III-style cast iron fire grate, c.1900, the arched back with relief-cast foliate and shell detail, with a flat-fronted grate and tapering fitted supports set with brass urn finials, 56cm wide
30cm deep
77cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 128
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132
A vernacular elm pig bench, 19th century, of primitive form with a rectangular top and block supports,
140cm wide
64cm deep
48cm high
£800 - 1,200
Provenance: Acquired by the present owner from Standlake Manor, Standlake, Oxfordshire.
133
A Persian Heriz wool carpet, early 20th century, woven with geometric foliate motifs to a red ground,
380 x 277cm
£800 - 1,200
A George III yew and elm Windsor chair, late 18th century and later, North East Midlands, the high hoop back over a pierced splat and shaped seat, raised on cabriole legs with a crinoline stretcher,
61cm wide
54cm deep
105cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 135
A set of three ‘pistol-grip’ fire tools, early/mid-19th century, with impressed maker’s marks, 16.5cm wide
76cm high (3)
£300 - 500
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A set of three brass and steel fire tools, c.1840, each with spiral-twist stems, shovel 15cm wide
78cm long (3)
£400 - 600
LOT 137
A set of three brass and steel fire tools, c.1840, each with rococo handles, shovel 15.5cm wide
81cm long (3)
£400 - 600
138
A carved and polychrome painted wooden figure of Saint Roch, late 17th century/early 18th century, French, modelled standing with a dog to his right and a child to his left, 23cm wide
24cm deep
65cm high
£500 - 800
LOT 139
A carved alabaster eye idol, c.4000 BC, Syrian, Tell Brak, carved and incised with two pairs of eyes, complete with a metal stand, 4cm wide
7.5cm high (2)
£600 - 800
Provenance: Property of an international collector. For a similar example, see the British Museum, museum no. 126492.
LOT 140
A reverse -painted glass apothecary jar and cover, late 19th century, decorated with classical figures and a blue banner inscribed ‘RHUBARB’, 33cm diameter
56cm high (2)
£400 - 600
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A set of thirteen museum studies, each depicting museum pieces including 18th-century ceramics, glass and silver, in pen, ink and watercolour heightened in white, largest 43 x 61cm, framed and glazed (13)
£400 - 600
LOT 142
A pair of carved altarpieces, 19th century, Italian, each with a silvered and scrolled pedestal below a flame finial, 28cm wide
13cm deep
56cm high (2)
£500 - 700
LOT 143
A lava model of a sarcophagus from the Tomb of the Scipios, late 19th/early 20th century after the antique, Italian, the removable lid with palm scrolled ends, the front edge indistinctly inscribed ‘CORNELIVS CN.P. SCIPIO’ in red, the main body with Roman Doric entablature above an inscription, 17.5cm wide
5cm deep
9cm high (2)
£500 - 800
For a similar example, without the cover and with a marble base, see Tyntesfield Collection (National Trust), no. 20179.1. This sarcophagus is that of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, the celebrated conqueror of the Etruscans in 298 BC. It was discovered in 1780 in the Tomb of the Scipios on the Appian Way, and later transported by Pius VI to Rome’s Pio-Clementino Museum.
LOT 144
A faience amulet of one of the Four Sons of Horus, probably Late Period (c.650-300 BC), Egyptian, of the baboon-headed Hapy, in flatback form shown in profile, with turquoise glaze, incised decoration and pierced twice for attachment, 8.5cm high
£200 - 400
Provenance: Thomas Allworthy (d.1973), thence by descent to the present owner.
Allworthy is believed to have been a collector of antiquities, who sold a small number of pieces at Sotheby’s, 19 May 1956.
LOT 146
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A collection of Egyptian antiquities, probably Late Period after 600 BC, comprising: a lapis lazuli jackal, a light blue faience amulet of Khnum, and a turquoise faience amulet of Anubis, 4.5cm high, together with a bronze recumbent frog, 3.5cm long (4)
£200 - 400
Provenance: Thomas Allworthy (d.1973), thence by descent to the present owner.
Allworthy is believed to have been a collector of antiquities, who sold a small number of pieces at Sotheby’s, 19 May 1956.
A collection of Egyptian antiquities, comprising a beaded necklace, other faience amulets including a scarab, Horus, Isis, etc., and further beads, largest amulet 3.5cm high (qty.)
£200 - 400
Provenance: Thomas Allworthy (d.1973); thence by descent to the present owner.
Allworthy is believed to have been a collector of antiquities, who sold a small number of pieces at Sotheby’s, 19 May 1956.
Four bronze opium weights, 19th century, Indian, of Ganesha, Garuda, Shiva and Parvati, Shiva 2.5cm wide
5cm high (4)
£200 - 400
Provenance: Thomas Allworthy (d.1973), thence by descent to the present owner.
Allworthy is believed to have been a collector of antiquities, who sold a small number of pieces at Sotheby’s, 19 May 1956.
LOT 147
From Gown to Gavel: The late Baron John Mauger Langin
In the picturesque Oxfordshire village of Piddington, tucked away in a quiet corner beside The Old Rectory and the church, lies The Coach House, the former residence of Mr John Mauger Langin. The home presented an assortment of significant effects from all periods and subjects, and an insight into the world of a zealous and passionate collector, with every nook, cranny and surface filled with a diverse array of antiques from all eras and subjects.
Formerly a barrister, Langin traded his gown and wig for a life on the road, and followed his passion for antiques by forming R A Barnes Antiques. Running the business from his home, he traded weekly on Portobello Road and, having previously run a shop in Putney, he accumulated in excess of fortyfive years in the trade. Although many pieces were begrudgingly sold (as is the dealer’s plight), his attachment to his purchases resulted in many items also being kept. In particular, his interest in Wedgwood became a major focus in his collecting habits, and will be well-reflected in the sale of the remaining contents in a future Homes and Interiors sale at Sworders.
In our Fine Interiors sale, we are pleased to offer some forty lots of John’s most prized pieces, demonstrating the breadth of his personal style and taste. Of particular note is a composite Royal Copenhagen porcelain part dinner service in the perennially admired ‘Flora Danica’ pattern and two other porcelain part dinner services by Herend, alongside many other pieces of fine quality furniture and decorative arts that Sworders hope the new owners will enjoy as much as John did.
LOT 148
A composite Royal Copenhagen ‘Flora Danica’ porcelain part dinner service, 20th century, pattern number 20, each piece with a gilt-heightened zigzag border, painted with botanical specimens with corresponding Latin names to the reverse, with blue wave and printed green crown marks, comprising: 13 dinner plates, 35 side plates, 12 bread and butter plates, 4 lunch plates or stands with pierced rims, a large oval platter, 3 graduated oval dishes, each with a handle, 2 graduated oval salad bowls, 5 various round platters with a perforated edge, a triangular salad bowl, a small pickle dish, a custard cup, lacking lid, and a small saucer platter 47cm long (79)
£10,000 - 15,000
LOT 149
A George III-style mahogany settee, late 19th century, with a camel back, upholstered in floral crewel work fabric, raised on tapering square supports, 178cm wide
90cm deep
99cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 150
After Leonardo da Vinci, a painted porcelain plaque, c.1860-80, German, an oval profile portrait of Beatrice d’Este, mounted in a Florentine-style giltwood scrolled frame, plaque 17 x 11cm, frame 31 x 26cm
£300 - 500
LOT 151
A pair of Jacob Petit porcelain potpourri jars and covers, 19th century, each of canted square form with a perforated removable cover and pierced gallery, the sides painted with alternating panels of floral sprays and ships on stormy seas, between gilt scrolls and flowers on a green ground, and raised on lion mask and paw feet, painted underglaze blue ‘J.P.’ marks to the underside, 15cm wide
15cm deep
23cm high (4)
£800 - 1,200
For a similar pair with an aubergine ground, see Christie’s, ‘Interiors’, 7 October 2014, lot 137.
LOT 152
A pair of carved, painted, silvered and giltwood torchères, 19th century, Italian, each polychrome-decorated figure with one outstretched arm supporting a pricket candlestick, on scroll supports and a triform plinth base, 26cm wide
26cm deep
78cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 153
A carved and polychrome -painted figure, 18th century, Spanish, depicting the Madonna and Child, standing on a cloud of putti masks, 15cm wide
13cm deep
40cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 154
A group of three delftware chargers, 17th/18th century, Dutch, comprising a polychrome example, and two blue and white examples, each approximately 34cm diameter (3)
£200 - 400
LOT 155
A pair of Spode creamware chestnut baskets on stands, c.1820-30s, each twin-handled basket painted with shield motifs and with pierced sides, on a matching stand, baskets 23.5cm wide
13.5cm deep
7.5cm high, stands 23.5cm wide
17cm deep (4)
£200 - 400
LOT 156
A group of export blue and white plates, 18th/19th century, Chinese, variously decorated with floral and garden designs, three 23cm diameter one 28cm diameter (4)
£200 - 400
LOT 157
A George III-style mahogany étagère, early 20th century, in the Chinese Chippendale taste, with a rectangular top above two pierced undertiers, set between cluster column supports, 42cm wide
33cm deep
109cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 158
A set of four Company School miniature paintings on ivory, late 19th/early 20th century, Indian, including the Qutb Minar, the Red Fort and other monuments, each in a gilt-metal and velvet-mounted frame, three 4.7 x 6cm
one 3.5 x 4cm (4)
£200 - 400
LOT 159
A set of six oval Company School miniatures on ivory, 19th century, Indian, including views of the Qutub Minar, Diwan-i-Khas in the Red Fort, the Red Fort of Delhi, Akbar’s Mausoleum and other monuments, in gilt-metal frames, 5.3 x 6.5cm (6)
£200 - 300
LOT 160
A Herend ‘Queen Victoria’ porcelain part dinner service, 20th century, Hungarian, each with painted and gilt-heightened decoration with stylised peony flowers and butterflies, blue printed and impressed marks to base, dinner plates 26.5cm diameter (97)
£600 - 800
LOT 161
A pair of gilt-metal table lamps, late 19th century, each of urn form with cast twin lion masks and a floral wreath to the front and back, raised on an ebonised wooden plinth and square marble base, 18cm wide
52cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 162
A pair of Regency-style ebonised and parcel-gilt wooden pedestals, 20th century, each circular top on square section supports united by lattice stretchers, raised on a platform base, terminating in paw feet,
40cm diameter
104cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 163
A Louis XVI-style patinated bronze and ormolu mantel clock, 19th century, French, in the form of a seated putto on a cloud striking a gong, containing a 3.5-inch white enamel dial with Roman numerals and raised on an oval base with panels of scrolls and foliage, 24cm wide
14cm deep
31cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 164
A pair of Regency-style ebonised and parcel-gilt side cabinets, 19th century, each faux marble top over two frieze drawers, and a pair of cupboard doors fitted with brass grilles and enclosing a shelf, raised on bun feet, 83cm wide
39cm deep
99cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 165
A pair of Louis XV-style carved beech fauteuils, early 20th century, French, each with a padded back and seat upholstered in foliate fabric, raised on cabriole supports united by an ‘X’ stretcher, 72cm wide
82cm deep
102cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 166
A pair of ormolu candlesticks, 19th century, each with twin branches on swept supports, descending on to a quatreform base, 15.5cm wide
10cm deep
16.5cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 167
A pair of Regency-style painted and parcel-gilt wooden jardinière stands, 20th century, each with a imitation porphyry top, raised on square tapering supports united by lattice stretchers, and a triform base terminating in lion paw feet, 40cm diameter
113cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 168
A William and Mary-style walnut and gilt-metal portable pillar barometer, 20th century, after the model by Daniel Quare, the arched top set with three finials, above an engraved face and a stop-fluted and spiral-turned column on a plinth base, terminating in folding feet cast with masks and foliate scrolls, 22cm wide
22cm deep
103cm high
£600 - 800
For the original example by Quare, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art accession no.64.101.877.
LOT 169
A Regency-style painted and parcel-gilt pier mirror, 19th century, with a lattice and bevelled glass plate set between a pair of cluster columns, 87cm wide
127cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 170
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LOT 171
A Queen Anne -style walnut wing armchair, 19th century, upholstered in blue crewel work and raised on cabriole supports terminating in pointed pad feet,
83cm wide
87cm deep
121cm high
£300 - 500
172
A pair of cut-glass and gilt-metal candelabra, second half of the 19th century, French, each surmounted by a faceted dagger and issuing four branches, terminating in leaf drip trays and sconces, with faceted cut-glass drops, raised on a column cast in relief with flowering and fruiting foliage, 29cm wide
29cm deep
66cm high (2)
£300 - 500
173
A Regency rosewood and parcel-gilt pier table, early 19th century and later, the green marble top above a mirror back and turned giltwood columns, over a platform base, 76cm wide
36cm deep
92cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 174
A Louis XVI-style gilt-metal jardinière, 19th century, of oval form, with twin caryatid handles and cast decoration with floral swags, supported on an open scrolled pedestal and cross-form base, with a copper insert,
43cm wide
27cm deep
45cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 175
After Raphael, a painted porcelain plaque, 19th century, of the Madonna della Sedia, in a carved giltwood frame, plaque 19 x 18cm, frame 40 x 47.5cm
£300 - 500
LOT 176
A guilloché enamel and gilt-metal snuffbox, 19th century, French or Italian, the hinged oval cover with a painted pictorial panel depicting a mother and children, the body with guilloché decoration and mounted with gilt-metal scrolls and flaming torches, 9.5cm wide
7.5cm deep
3.5cm high
£200 - 300
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A Herend ‘Fruit and Flowers’ porcelain part dinner service, late 20th century, painted with bouquets of fruit, flowers and vegetables and scattered with insects, painted blue marks underside, dinner plates 25cm diameter, together with a Herend porcelain jardinière, with a flared rim and raised on lion’s paw feet, 20.5cm diameter
19cm high (105)
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 178
In the manner of Clodion, 19th century, a painted terracotta figural group of a satyr, infant satyr and putto, on an integrally cast circular socle base, inscribed to the underside ‘CC’, 19cm diameter
48cm high
£200 - 300
For a similar example, see Christie’s, ‘The Desmond Heyward Collection, from Haseley Court, Oxfordshire’, 8 June 2021, lot 147.
LOT 179
A giltwood overmantel mirror, 19th century, of slender proportions with acanthus moulding, 74cm wide
147cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 180
A pair of Regency-style ebonised and parcel-gilt wooden elbow chairs, late 19th/early 20th century, each with scrolling arms and lion-paw detail, with a loose cushion covering the cane seat, 56cm wide
61cm deep
82cm high (4)
£500 - 700
LOT 181
A carved giltwood overmantel mirror, mid-19th century, with acanthus detail, 130cm wide
137cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 182
A pair of ormolu lamps, 19th century, French, each in the form of a cherub holding a basket of grapes aloft, on a circular stepped base with further relief-cast fruiting and flowering foliage, 20cm wide
20cm deep
57cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 183
A grand tour bronze figure of the Dancing Faun, 19th century after the antique, Italian, raised on a square plinth base, 14cm wide
11cm deep
42cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 184
A gilt-metal model of Trajan’s Column, late 19th/early 20th century, surmounted by a figure of Napoleon, raised on a marble base, 13.5cm wide
13.5cm deep
44.5cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 185
Joseph Uphues (German, 1850-1911), ‘The Archer’, a late 19th/early 20th century patinated bronze figure of Hercules shooting the Stymphalian Bird, inscribed ‘J. Uphues’, with foundry mark
‘H. Gladenbeck & Sohn’, 10cm wide
14cm deep
37cm high
£300 - 500
For a similar example, see Christie’s, ‘Interiors’, 19 February 2013, lot 378.
LOT 186
A set of three grand tour plaster plaques, 19th century, each of rectangular form, depicting ‘The Bacchanal of Putti’ after François Duquesnoy, and two others, 12.5 x 17cm, framed and glazed (3)
£200 - 300
LOT 187
A patinated bronze figure of a male athlete, c.1900 after the antique, Italian, cast by Sabatino de Angelis & Fils, inscribed to the base, 36cm wide
12.5cm deep
45cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 188
A Victorian cast iron bench, in the Coalbrookdale style, the pierced back and seat flanked by scrolled arms, raised on cabriole supports, 106cm wide
46cm deep
89cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 189
A grand tour specimen marble table, 19th century, Italian, the circular top centred with the Doves of Pliny within multiple geometric hardstone and marble borders, raised on a parcel-gilt rosewood base, 66cm diameter
72cm high
£4,000 - 6,000
FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART
LOT 190
A patinated brass hall lantern in the Gothic taste, of recent manufacture, with bevelled glass panels and three candle sconces, not fitted for electricity, 30cm wide
30cm deep
78cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 191
A Regency mahogany extending dining table in the manner of Gillows, early 19th century, the reeded edge top with ‘D’ ends and five additional leaves, on reeded tapering legs, terminating in castors, 134cm wide
261cm long
72cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 192
A Swedish-style wool carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated with repeating geometric bands in off-white and yellow to a pale blue ground,
310 x 247cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 193
A hardwood faux bamboo display cabinet, first half of the 20th century, Chinese, with all-over carved foliate detail, and a pair of glazed doors enclosing a stepped interior with an open back,
96cm wide
33cm deep
167cm high
£800 - 1,200
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190
A Regency ebonised and gilt brass-inlaid table or bracket clock, first half of the 19th century, the 7½-inch enamelled dial signed ‘James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London’ and numbered ‘1058’, with Roman chapter ring and triple fusee movement, subsidiary strike/ silent and slow/fast dials, engraved backplate and repeat, housed in an ebonised case with brass-inlaid decoration and raised on gilt ball feet, with winding and case key, 34.5cm wide
21.5cm deep
51cm high
£3,000 - 5,000
A George III oak side table, second half of the 18th century, the rectangular top above a single drawer, with geometric inlaid decoration to the frieze and supports, 70cm wide
46cm deep
77cm high
£200 - 400
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A George I-style walnut wingback armchair, late 19th/early 20th century, upholstered in studded brown leather, raised on squat cabriole supports, 82cm wide
83cm deep
105cm high
£1,200 - 1,800
LOT 197
A pair of ormolu and marble paperweights, 19th century, Italian, each surmounted with a reclining greyhound on a stepped base of grey and verde antico marble, 18cm wide
8.5cm deep
13cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 198
A mahogany kneehole desk in the manner of Gillows, 19th century, the galleried top over an arrangement of seven drawers and raised on squat bun feet, 122cm wide
56cm deep
84cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 199
A wool embroidered suzani-style carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated with floral and foliate motifs in blue on a pale ground, 285 x 252cm
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 200
An ebonised fruitwood and ivory panel, 19th century, North Italian, depicting two women with a handloom, inscribed ‘A Seveso’,
32 x 26cm
£600 - 800
LOT 201
A large pierced brass fender, 18th century, with scrolling foliate detail and centred with a pair of sphinxes, 150cm wide
27cm deep
33cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 202
A pair of ebonised wooden library bookcases, 19th century, Italian, each cornice with gilt lettering inscribed ‘Biblioteca Musicale’, above two pairs of glazed doors with silk-lined interior, 108cm wide
62cm deep
263cm high (2)
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 203
Two cast iron firebacks, 17th century, each with an arched top and relief-cast decoration, larger 56cm wide
85cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 204
A gilt-brass and glass basket chandelier, early 20th century, French, with heavy teardrop-shaped drops, 41cm diameter
41cm high
£250 - 350
LOT 205
A Bidjar wool runner, early 20th century, Persian, the red field woven with herati motifs to a blue ground, 335 x 110cm
£300 - 500
LOT 206
After Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an engraving of a design for a chimney piece from ‘Diverse Maniere d’Adornare I Cammini’, inscribed b.l. ‘Cavaliere Piranesi inv. ed inc.’, image 38.5 x 25cm, 54 x 66.5cm framed and glazed
£150 - 250
LOT 207
A yew and ash games table, 19th century, the square top with chequerboard inlay, raised on a ring-turned column and tripod supports, 57cm wide
41cm deep
75cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 208
An Arts and Crafts design wool runner, of recent manufacture, decorated with large serrated leaf motifs to a pale blue ground, 390 x 86cm
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 209
A pair of Empire -style lacquered and gilt-brass table lamps, 19th century, French, each of neoclassical urn form, with a circular milk-glass shade, 28cm diameter
68cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 210
A Louis XVI-style tulipwood, rosewood and fruitwood parquetry bouillotte table, late 19th/early 20th century, French, the circular top decorated with radiating veneers, with a gilt-metal-mounted edge, the frieze set with two drawers and a pair of slides, raised on tapering square supports terminating in sabots, 82cm diameter
74cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 211
A pair of Charles X ormolu candelabra, 19th century, French, each baluster stem supporting four palm cast sconces, supported by a stepped circular base, 31cm wide
31cm deep
63cm high (2)
£600 - 800
LOT 212
A collection of velvet cushions, of recent manufacture, by Emma Shipley, comprising: a pair decorated with prowling tigers, a pair with winged zebras and other fauna, and a pair with tiger stripes, 49cm wide
28cm high (6)
£300 - 500
LOT 213
A pair of Louis XV-style gilt and patinated bronze candelabra, late 19th century, French, each modelled as a seated putto holding a torch aloft, with six foliate branches, on a white marble quadriform base terminating in bun feet,
33cm wide
26cm deep
60cm high (2)
£800 - 1,200
LOT 214
A Louis XV-style gilt-brass and marble pier table, 20th century, the rectangular top raised on a pierced scrolling frame, 97cm wide
40cm deep
84cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 215
Three Regency faux bamboo painted chairs, early 19th century, comprising two open armchairs and a single example, each with painted floral decoration and raised on simulated bamboo legs and stretchers, armchairs 58cm wide
44cm deep
92cm high (3)
£300 - 500
LOT 216
A Berber-style wool carpet, of recent manufacture, with an off-white trellis pattern on a dark blue ground,
305 x 180cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 217
A painted and parcel-gilt pine open bookcase, 19th century, of breakfront outline, with a painted faux marble slate top, with three divisions, each with a single shelf, and tooled leather dust aprons, 176cm wide
44.5cm deep
91cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 218
A near pair of armorial maiolica albarellos, 17th century, Italian, Deruta, each painted with a blue ground of oak leaves and labelled ‘Dia. Cumin’ and ‘Dia. Prvnisle’ respectively, below an armorial shield, 14cm diameter
19.5cm high (2)
£800 - 1,200
LOT 219
An enamelled milk-glass medicine or apothecary flask, mid-18th century, German, of footed form, the enamelled inscription enclosed within a floral cartouche, 13.5cm high, and a similar medicine or apothecary flask, 18th century, German, of square form, the enamelled inscription surmounted with a crown, 11.3cm high (2)
£200 - 400
The second bottle is likely to have held a nitric acid mixture.
LOT 220
A delftware blue and white drug jar, mid-18th century, probably Lambeth, the jar inscribed ‘U:Simplex’, within a panel topped with angels, birds and foliage, 14.5cm diameter
17.5cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 221
Two maiolica drug jars, mid-18th century, Italian, each of dumbbell form, decorated with a rectangular panel inscribed ‘Rubia.Tinet’ or ‘A.Fumaria’, amongst painted polychrome flowering foliage, 9.5cm diameter
14.5cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 222
A Meissen porcelain nodding pagoda figure, 19th century, modelled as a female sitting cross-legged and wearing robes painted with flowers, with an articulated head, tongue, and hands, underglaze blue crossed swords mark beneath, damages, 31cm wide
30cm deep
31cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 223
A delft-style jug and cover, late 19th/early 20th century, modelled as a seated bear clutching a club, a shield to its chest with crown and birds, the removable cover of the jug as the bear’s head, with a belt and buckle around the neck, the underside of the jug marked ‘J.G. R 333 180’, 14cm wide
19cm deep
26cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 224
A large Winterthur faience dish, 18th century, Swiss, the centre painted with a scene of the Fountain of Life and inscribed ‘Fons Vitae’, with a wide rim decorated with fruiting foliage, 40cm diameter
£1,000 - 2,000
Provenance: The collection of Hermann Baer (1898-1977); thence by descent to the present owner.
LOT 225
Two maiolica waisted albarelli, mid 16th-century, Italian, each polychrome painted with a wide band of orange, blue and green stylised foliage to one side, the other with ‘d c B’ joined and surmounted by a four-armed cross within an oval cartouche, larger 13cm diameter
23cm high (2)
£500 - 800
Provenance: The collection of Hermann Baer (1898-1977); thence by descent to the present owner.
LOT 226
A Westerwald stoneware bottle vase, 17th century, German, of square section form with sloped shoulders and a narrow neck, decorated with oval cartouches enclosing incised armorials on a stylised foliate blue ground, 11cm wide
11cm deep
30cm high
£100 - 200
Provenance: The collection of Hermann Baer (1898-1977); thence by descent to the present owner.
LOT 227
A Venetian style maiolica jar, probably 19th century, Italian, decorated in polychrome with citrus fruits and scrolling foliage, between banded and crosshatched borders, 22cm diameter
21cm high
£300 - 500
Provenance: The collection of Hermann Baer (1898-1977); thence by descent to the present owner.
A provincial oak dresser 19th century, the upper section with three shelves, above a pair of drawers and cupboard doors, 143cm wide
49cm deep
204cm high
£300 - 500
A flatweave wool kilim carpet, of recent manufacture, with banded decoration interspersed with geometric motifs, on a blue ground,
247 x 173cm
£400 - 600
A pair of wrought-iron jardinière frames, late 19th/early 20th century, French, each with scrolling decoration, 93cm diameter
128cm high (2)
£300 - 500
A pair of George IV-style mahogany occasional tables, early 20th century, each with a carved rectangular top, a reeded column and tripod base, 42cm wide
35.6cm deep
76cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 228
LOT 229
LOT 230
LOT 231
LOT 232
An Anatolian carpet of Moroccan design, of recent manufacture, Turkish, 236 x 182cm
£300 - 500
LOT 233
A Regency-style chinoiserie faux bamboo étagère, of recent manufacture, with three painted canvas-applied tiers, united by patinated metal supports, 40cm wide
30cm deep
70cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 234
An ebonised wooden and ivory table cabinet, 19th century, North Italian, with incised geometric detail, set with an arrangement of short drawers surrounding a cupboard door, decorated with figures, hunting and pastoral scenes, 50cm wide
26cm deep
37cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 235
A Louis XVI kingwood, parquetry and gilt-metal-mounted petite commode, c.1770, of oval form, with a leather top over three short drawers, raised on outsplayed supports terminating in sabots, united by a shaped undertier,
44cm wide
32cm deep
73cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 236
A stained wooden clothes box, early 20th century, the hinged lid enclosing a lift-out tray, 122cm wide
58cm deep
26cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 237
A narrow Persian Karajeh runner, 20th century, woven with geometric motifs to a red ground, 306 x 62cm
£400 - 600
LOT 238
An etched glass window, 20th century, of arched form, centred with the figure of a female saint, within a foliate border in alternating blue and red tones, 82cm wide
132cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 239
An artist’s studio double easel, late 19th/early 20th century, French, with a ratcheted action, stamped ‘Foit en France, R.S. Beaux Arts’, 63cm wide
64cm deep
212cm high
£600 - 800
A large pine farmhouse preparation table, 19th century, the plank top over three drawers and a fixed leaf to the back, raised on block supports with stretchers, 243cm wide
110cm deep
95cm high
£500 - 700
A flat-weave wool kilim carpet, of recent manufacture, Afghan, woven with polychrome vegetable dyed threads in geometric motifs,
300 x 200cm
£600 - 800
A George II mahogany Gainsborough armchair, late 18th century, the open arms with scroll detail, raised on square supports united by stretchers, 70cm wide
63cm deep
83cm high
£400 - 600
Provenance: Acquired by the present owner from a Dublin hotel.
LOT 240
LOT 241
LOT 242
A large oak outfitters’ display case, 19th century, the moulded frieze over two glazed sliding doors, enclosing a two velvet-lined shelves, on a plinth base, 183cm wide
70cm deep
198cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
A pair of neoclassical painted wooden window seats, early 20th century, Italian, each with carved sides and tapering turned supports, upholstered in calico, 79cm wide
40cm deep
73cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 245
A pair of Louis XVI-style gilt-bronze candelabra, c.1880, French, each with a spiral and fluted baluster stem, cast with swags, the central sconce supported by an urn, flanked by scrolled branches, drilled, 51cm wide
21cm deep
75cm high (2)
£2,500 - 4,000
Provenance: Sotheby’s, ‘19th and 20th Century Furniture and Decorations: Belle Epoque Series’, 3 March 1995, lot 2.
LOT 243
LOT 244
LOT 246
A George IV carved giltwood and composition overmantel mirror, c.1830, with a leaf-carved pediment and three pilasters punctuated by foliate bosses, 146cm wide
152cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 247
A Regency-style carved giltwood centre table, 20th century, with a circular smoked glass top supported on a base of three dolphins, raised on a shaped platform plinth, 152cm diameter
80cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 248
A large Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, the central field with all-over foliate and geometric decoration to a green ground, within a wide biscuit border, 357 x 272cm
£1,000 - 1,200
247
248 246
LOT 249
A small oak chest, early 18th century, of joined construction, with a panelled top, front and sides, raised on stile supports with moulded detail, 98cm wide
40cm deep
64cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 250
A Victorian Aesthetic period mahogany hall bench, c.1880, with turned raised ends and supports, 91cm wide
28cm deep
51cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 251
A maple four-poster bed in the manner of Gillows, 19th century and later, with blue damask silk drapery, 177cm wide
223cm deep
234cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 252
A Charles II oak drop-leaf table, late 17th century, the oval top above a pair of drawers and a double gateleg action, and bobbin-turned supports united by square stretchers, raised on peg feet, 108cm wide
140cm deep
77cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 253
A stained pine folding travel easel, 19th century/early 20th century, with a ratcheted action, labelled ‘J Bryce Smith, Hampstead’, 61cm wide
54cm deep
172cm high
£100 - 150
LOT 254
A blue opaline glass wash basin and jug, mid-19th century, French, the jug with an applied handle, basin 37cm diameter
jug 26cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 255
A carved, painted and parcel-gilt wooden architectural fragment, 19th century, French, centred with a garland and flanked by a pair of hands, each grasping a vine leaf with grapes, 102cm wide
23cm high
£300 - 400
LOT 256
A Regency gilt-framed wall mirror, of neoclassical design, 68cm wide
49cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 257
A pair of upholstered stools, of recent manufacture, each of octagonal form, in textured fabric with studded detailing to the edges, raised on stained wooden supports, 55cm wide
55cm deep
45cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 258
An oversized flat-weave wool runner, of recent manufacture, of kilim design with repeating diamond motifs within a red and blue border, 493 x 75cm
£400 - 600
LOT 259
A large Parian figure modelled by C B Birch, ‘Wood Nymph’, dated 1864, 26cm diameter
48cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 260
A steel and brass spark guard, 19th century, 114cm wide
27cm deep
69cm high together with a pair of tools (3)
£200 - 300
261
A cast iron fire grate, early 20th century, with a floral back and serpentine grate, raised on square supports,
46cm wide
24cm deep
89cm high
£600 - 800
A large Bakhtiar wool carpet, c.1900, Persian, the red field woven with repeating square panels decorated with flowers, 482 x 394cm
£6,000 - 8,000
LOT 263
A pair of Louis XV-style ormolu wall lights, 19th century, French, each of scrolling rococo form, with two lights, converted, 42cm wide
15cm deep
52cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 262
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LOT 264
A set of six George III mahogany dining chairs, c.1800, each with a reeded frame and turned supports, armchairs 60cm wide 60cm deep 87cm high (6)
£350 - 450
LOT 265
A giltwood picture frame, late 19th century, of rectangular form, with carved crest and scrolling frame, 120cm wide 143cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 266
A pair of wrought-iron and burnished steel andirons, late 19th/early 20th century, each with a twisted loop to the front, 31cm wide 57cm deep 57cm high (2)
£400 - 600
Provenance: Easton Neston, Northamptonshire.
LOT 267
A turned wooden bowl, 20th century, containing five wooden egg moulds and two balls, 55cm diameter 19cm high (8)
£300 - 500
LOT 268
A Kashan wool carpet, mid-20th century, Persian, the field with a large floral medallion to the centre, on a pale ground, within a banded biscuit border, 390 x 270cm
£2,000 - 4,000
LOT 269
Two neoclassical bronzes, 19th/20th century, comprising a figure of a putto and a figure holding a rock aloft, putto 13cm wide
13cm deep
27cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 270
A pietra dura tabletop, 20th century, North Italian, Florence, of shaped rectangular outline with various hardstones inlaid in the form of floral and foliate scrolls, 150cm wide
89cm deep
3cm high
£800 - 1,200
270 269
LOT 271
A black slate obelisk, late 19th/early 20th century, raised on a plinth base,
15.2cm wide
15.2cm deep
47.5cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 272
A pietra dura tabletop, 20th century, North Italian, Florence, of shaped rectangular outline with various hardstones inlaid in the form of floral and foliate scrolls, 150cm wide
89cm deep
3cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 273
A Wedgwood green jasperware urn, 19th century, decorated in relief with neoclassical motifs and set with a pair of bacchanalian handles, on a rouge marble base, 9cm diameter
23cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 274
Nine framed sets of wax seals, 20th century, each with a series of red seals depicting portraits and classical motifs, 36 x 49cm, framed and glazed (9)
£300 - 500
LOT 275
A carved alabaster desk model, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, modelled after the Leaning Tower of Pisa, on a circular base, top lacking, 14cm diameter
27.5cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 276
A marble bust of Ariadne after the antique, 19th century, Continental, on a later alabaster socle, 16cm wide
11cm deep
32cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 277
A pair of marble pedestal columns, 19th century, Italian, each on a square base, 32cm wide
32cm deep
130cm high (2)
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 278
A patinated and gilt-bronze urn, second half of the 19th century, set with a pair of mask handles, on a blue-black marble base, 10.9cm wide
10.9cm deep
30.2cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 279
A pair of ormolu cassolettes, 19th century, French, each with a pierced basket on a grey-black marble base, 16cm diameter
24.5cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 280
A portrait miniature on ivory, 1815, French, depicting Napoleon, possibly by Horace Vernet, inscribed ‘Vernet 1815’
7 x 7cm, in a red leather case (2)
£200 - 400
281
An ormolu and patinated bronze bust of Napoleon attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire, c.1806, French, after a model by Antoine-Denis Chaudet, the bust raised on a square tapering plinth emblazoned with an ‘N’ within a laurel wreath, 13.9cm wide
13.2cm deep
40cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 282
A pair of Empire bronze medallions by Galle, 19th century, French, one depicting Napoleon, the other Alexander I of Russia, within a guilloché-cast frame, 8.9cm diameter (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 283
A white marble twin-handled tazza, 19th century, Italian, in the manner of Boschetti, the moulded rim and lobed body raised on a flared pedestal base, 28cm wide
21cm deep
19cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 284
Five grand tour marble balls, 19th century, three raised on lava stone bases, the other two on short stepped plinths, largest 15cm diameter
28cm high including base (10)
£800 - 1,200
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50cm wide
33cm deep
153cm high (4)
£800 - 1,200
26cm deep
59cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 285
A set of four painted pine pilasters, 19th century, Italian, each of scroll form, with faux giallo antico marble decoration,
LOT 286
A marble bust of a gentleman, late 18th century, on an associated socle, 50cm wide
(2)
LOT 287
A plaster panel after the antique, mid-20th century, cast from the Parthenon Frieze, 104 x 164cm £300 - 500
Pattern of the Plains
Sworders Fine Interiors department are very excited to offer a private collection of Native American artefacts in our September sale, amassed by one individual over the past forty years, from auction houses, collectors and dealers across the United Kingdom, United States and Europe.
The collection of almost one hundred lots comprises artefacts from across the breadth of the North American cultures, including Blackfoot, Plateau, Cree, and Sioux, amongst many others. Although quillwork, parfleche and a ‘bear claw’ necklace all feature, the assemblage is mostly made up of beaded items from the Northern Plains of the United States and Canada, including vests, moccasins, ornamental strips, tent decoration, bags and ceremonial wear, demonstrating the sheer versatility of Native American beadwork and the importance the technique plays in the art of these cultures.
Beads of various types, including shells, seeds, bones and stones, have been used by Native American cultures since the beginning of time, however, it is with the introduction of Italian glass beads by Europeans in the 15th century, that they really became a staple of their artistic identity. Since there was no currency exchange at the time, they traded animal skins, furs and meat for beaded necklaces and other goods, and these widely replaced, or were combined with, dyed porcupine quills for the decoration of finer clothing. The patterns and designs used in beadwork hold clues to their origin; for example, the Lake Indians favoured flowered designs, and the Sioux or Plains Indians created repeating patterns of small geometric designs, such as those seen on lots 326 and 333 in the present offering.
Other highlights as chosen by the vendor include lot 293, a Blackfoot beaded man’s shirt, lot 312, a pair of Ojibwe Woodlands mittens from the James Hooper collection, and lot 345, a brilliant blue Northern Plains or Plateau beaded vest. In terms of rarity and uniqueness, they also mention lot 311, an Ojibwe grass dancer’s outfit, with pictorial horse motif and brightly coloured florals on a white ground. After persistently collecting for the best part of a lifetime, the time has come to create some space and sell these and many other incredibly intricate pieces, which are so rare to see in such numbers on the British market today. Sworders are sure that they will pique the interest of existing enthusiasts of Native American culture and new collectors alike, continuing the appreciation of this wonderful art form well into the future.
LOT 289
A Native American beaded hide tobacco or pipe bag, late 19th/early 20th century, with fully beaded panels to the front and back, decorated with floral motifs to a white ground, with hide fringe, 15cm wide
67cm long
£300 - 500
A Native American ‘bear claw’ necklace, late 19th/early 20th century, Meskwaki, Pawnee or Oto, constructed from otter fur, with twenty-three pieces of bone or antler carved to resemble grizzly bear claws, each pierced through the centre and strung with Italian glass trade beads, the tapering trailer decorated with a lazy-stitch beadwork panel, trailing ribbon and a single piece of abalone shell, 33cm wide
78cm long
£1,000 - 2,000
For similar examples, see the National Museum of the American Indian, no. 14/1174, and Detroit Institute of Arts, no. 81.644.
LOT 290
A Native American beaded shirt, late 19th century, Cree, the moose hide dress with multicoloured glass beads worked on black velvet, in stylised floral motifs to the bib, yoke and cuffs, approximately 64cm wide 80cm long
£600 - 800
LOT 291
A pair of Native American beaded cuffs, mid-20th century, Cree Maskwacis (Hobbema), with lazy-stitched flowers on a white ground, wrist circumference 20cm 21cm long (2)
£200 - 400
The present lot was collected by Albert Mattern, Edmonton, Canada, 1960s, by repute, and then obtained from the above by ‘K.B.’, 1975.
LOT 288
LOT 292
A set of Native American quilled tipi ornaments, late 19th/early 20th century, Northern or Central Plains, each composed of hide slats wrapped with natural and dyed quills, trimmed with dew claws inserted with red-dyed horsehair, each approximately 34cm long (10)
£300 - 500
LOT 293
A Native American Plains beaded man’s shirt, second quarter of the 20th century, probably Blackfoot (Piegan), the soft hide garment with beaded and fringed strips to the front and reverse of the body and arms, with applied beaded roundels to the chest and to the back of the shoulders, 62cm wide (shoulder to shoulder)
91cm long
£600 - 800
Provenance: Collected by Jason de Haan, Foster City, California; acquired from the above by Richard Green, Birmingham, UK - Richard Green Collection label ‘05/371’.
Literature: ‘Whispering Wind’, vol. 39, no. 3, Issue 271, 2010, p.8.
Richard Green is a scholar of Native American cultures, both past and present, and has authored numerous articles for the publication ‘Whispering Wind’ over the past twenty years. He is a craft worker, collector, and member of the Bead Society of Great Britain, and in 2004 he worked with the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on an exhibition of North American Plains artefacts, authoring an accompanying catalogue: ‘A Warrior I have BeenPlains Indian Cultures in Transition’.
LOT 294
A pair of Native American beaded moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Cheyenne (Plains), the vamps decorated with dark blue bison tracks, between bands of geometric motifs on a white ground, raw hide tongue and cuffs, hide sole sinew stitched, 10cm wide
26cm long
10cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 295
A Native American beaded hide knife sheath, late 19th/early 20th century, Sioux, of tapering form, with geometric decoration and fringed edges, the main body 8cm wide 28cm long, with a steel knife (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 296
A Native American parfleche flat case, second half of the 19th century, with painted geometric decoration, with a top flap and fringed edges, 30cm wide
4cm deep
30cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 297
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Cheyenne, each centred with a five-pointed star to a green ground, with a salt and pepper border, each 11cm wide
27cm long
14cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 298
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th century, Sioux, Lakota or Nakota, the vamps decorated in polychrome colours with an insect motif, each 10cm wide
27cm long
10cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 299
A Native American beaded and quilled hide doll, late 19th/early 20th century, Cheyenne, decorated with plaited hair, multicoloured glass beads, stained porcupine quills and cowrie shells, 33cm wide
9cm deep
41cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 300
A Native American Plains beaded ceremonial belt, late 19th/early 20th century, Cree, the belt decorated with a beadwork strip with geometric medallions on a red cloth back, with six hanging ermine tails and hide fastenings, 119cm long
£200 - 300
The present lot was acquired by an unknown collector in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1973, by repute.
LOT 301
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, probably Arapaho, decorated with geometric motifs in tones of green, blue, white and red, each 11cm wide
30cm long
12cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 302
Two pairs of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Plains, both with vamps beaded with geometric motifs on a white ground, with a banded border extending to the heel around the outside, raw hide tongue and soles, larger 9cm wide
28cm long
9cm high (4)
£300 - 500
LOT 303
A Native American Great Plains beaded hide tobacco pipe bag, late 19th/early 20th century, Chippewa Cree/ Sioux, with front and back lazy-stitch panels with flowers, the front within a border of bugle beads, fringed, 20cm wide
74cm long including fringe
£600 - 800
Provenance: Collected by John T Kelley, c.1910-20; purchased from the above by Charles M and Kay Eberhart, Denver, Colorado; purchased from the above by Richard Green, c.1965.
Collected from the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation by John T Kelley, who was the Indian Agent at Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana from 1903 to 1920. With Kelley Collection label inscribed ‘Mrs Pointed Iron Sioux’.
LOT 304
A pair of Native American beaded hide gauntlets, first half of the 20th century, Plateau Cree, each cuff with a geometric motif panel, hide fringes to the outer seam, the hand with smaller triangular motifs, 24cm wide
37.5cm long (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 305
A pair of Native American beaded moccasins, first half of the 20th century, Cheyenne (Plains), the uppers fully beaded with a flower design on a white ground, raw hide tongues and sinew-stitched soles, 9cm wide
25cm long
9cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 306
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Northern Plains, possibly Plains Cree, decorated with red diamond motifs on a white ground, 10cm wide
26cm long
9cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 307
A pair of Native American beaded hide gauntlets, first quarter of the 20th century, Blackfoot, each with a floral motif panel to the arm and fringed trim to the outside seam, with a smaller beaded panel to the hand,
22cm wide
36cm long (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 308
A Native American beaded hide tobacco pipe bag, first quarter of the 20th century, Blackfoot (Glacier National Park), with front and back panels decorated with geometric patterns, fringed, 18.5cm wide
70cm long including the fringe
£200 - 400
LOT 309
A Native American ‘elk tooth’ child’s dress, 20th century, of navy and red cloth, the collar with a beaded strip, and sewn to the front and back with numerous rows of simulated elk teeth, 46cm wide
73cm long
£200 - 400
Elk-tooth dresses are important symbols of prestige for Apsáalooke (Crow) women. As many as five hundred elk teeth would be meticulously sewn into the bodice and only the two canine teeth of the bull elk would be used, therefore, a dress like this reflected not only a woman’s sewing skills, but also her male family members’ hunting prowess. Today, few elk-tooth dresses are made entirely from real teeth and, since the late 20th century, substitutions have been used instead, however, this style of dress endures as an object of significance and cultural pride.
LOT 310
A pair of Native American quilled hide arm bands, late 19th/early 20th century, Sioux, incorporating natural and dyed porcupine quills, glass seed beads, metal cones and dyed feathers,
30cm long (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 311
A Native American Plains beaded outfit, early/mid-20th century, Ojibwe (Chippewa), comprising: a leather-mounted belt, 107cm long, a collared tie, tie 53cm long, a pair of cuffs, and a pair of armbands, each decorated with multicoloured floral and horse-head motifs to a white ground and cloth-backed, the tie with a sequin border and beaded tassels (6) £800 - 1,200
Provenance: Collected by John C Hellson (1932-2016), 1950s; purchased from the above by Michael G Johnson, 1970; kept in the collection of Kim Oakeshott, UK, 1970s; purchased from the above by Richard Green, Birmingham, UK, 2004.
The items in the present lot were collected at the Nut Lake Indian Reserve in Saskatchewan by John C Hellson in the 1950s, from a well-known grass dancer of the Yellow Quill First Nation, Jack Sunshine. Hellson was a historian and ethnologist who specialised in Plains culture and co-authored ‘Ethobotany of the Blackfoot Indians’ in 1974. Richard Green Collection label ‘06/377’, handwritten note on reverse ‘Jack Sunshine Nut Lake Res Sask’.
LOT 312
A pair of Native American beaded hide mittens, last quarter of the 19th century, Ojibwe (Woodlands), each with a broad flared cuff, decorated with a beaded floral panel, 23cm wide
36.5cm long (2)
£400 - 600
Provenance: Bonhams, ‘Tribal Art: North American Artefacts from the James Hooper Collection (1897-1971)’, 12 May 2004, lot 5.
LOT 313
A Native American beaded hide vest, first quarter of the 20th century, Blackfoot, with opaque and translucent glass beads in geometric motifs to a white ground, later backing, 50cm wide (armpit to armpit)
51cm long
£500 - 700
LOT 314
A pair of Native American beaded moccasins, first half of the 20th century, Sioux, the uppers fully beaded with bright blue bison tracks accented with diagonal strips, with a beaded split tongue and sinew-stitched raw hide sole, 10cm wide
26cm long
9cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 315
A Native American beaded hide tie and collar set, late 19th/early 20th century, Blackfoot, with matching floral and geometric decoration to a white ground, collar 53cm wide tie 28cm long, together with another Blackfoot collared tie, first quarter of the 20th century, with beaded floral decoration to a white ground, 20cm wide
31.5cm long (3)
£200 - 400
The beaded tie and collar set was purchased at Glacier National Park in the 1920s, by repute.
LOT 316
A Native American beaded awl case, late 19th/early 20th century, Sioux Lakota, the tapering hide tube and flap cover with ‘salt and pepper’ decoration, with trailing hide fringe terminating in metal-capped hair tassels, 39cm long, together with a quilled parfleche hair ornament, 97cm long (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 317
A pair of Native American beaded and quilled hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Sioux, the vamps with rows of quillwork, with a beaded band with geometric detail, each with a cotton trim to the ankles, each 11cm wide
28cm long
10cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 318
A pair of Native American beaded moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, the vamps partially decorated with thunderbird motifs, raw hide tongue, cuffs and soles, 9cm wide
26cm long
10cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 319
A Native American beaded hide tobacco pipe bag, late 19th/early 20th century, Ojibwe (Chippewa), the hide with a serrated edge and square beaded floral panels to the front and back, 19cm wide
63cm long
£200 - 400
LOT 320
A Native American beaded bag, second quarter of the 20th century, Plateau, possibly Yakama, the hide panel front worked in glass beads with geometric motifs to a white ground, with a cotton back and hide top handles, 31cm wide
33cm long
£200 - 400
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316
LOT 321
A Native American beaded tobacco or pipe bag, fourth quarter of the 19th century, Crow, with red felt panels to the front and back, worked in multicoloured beads depicting geometric patterns, 15.5cm wide
108cm long including fringe
£400 - 600
LOT 322
Two pairs of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th century, Cheyenne, both pairs decorated with geometric motifs in tones of blue, white, red and yellow, larger 11cm wide
27cm long
10cm high (4)
£200 - 400
LOT 323
A Native American beaded pictorial strip, late 19th century, Blackfoot or Cree, decorated in glass beads depicting Red Ensign flags and stepped pyramids on a pale blue ground, to a canvas backing, 7.5cm wide
83cm long, together with a pair of armbands, late 19th/early 20th century, Blackfoot, worked in glass beads with flowers and leaves to a pale blue ground, to a canvas and cotton backing, 7cm wide
31cm long (3)
£400 - 600
Accompanied by a handwritten note stating ‘This belt was purchassed from Cree Indians just North of Glacier Park in Whiskey Canada. My friends [sic] Grandfather purchased it around 1890…Thanks Jon R. Quarter’.
LOT 324
A Native American beaded hide tobacco or pipe bag, late 19th/early 20th century, Blackfoot, the front and back with panels decorated with geometric and floral motifs on a white ground, with a fringed edge, 16cm wide
68cm long including fringe
£300 - 500
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LOT 325
A Native American beaded vest, late 19th/early 20th century, Cree, the front worked in glass beads with a floral design, to a yellow felt ground, on a cotton back, 50.5cm wide
56cm long
£200 - 400
Provenance: With Richard W Ryan, Vedauwoo Antiques.
LOT 326
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Santee Sioux, the vamps decorated with a butterfly motif in polychrome tones, with printed polka-dot cotton trim to the ankles, 9.5cm wide
26cm long
9cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 327
A Native American beaded sheath and knife, late 19th/early 20th century, Cheyenne, the hide panel with a striped motif to the front, attached to a parfleche case with brass tacks and with further geometric decoration, sheath 10.5cm wide
30cm long (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 328
A Native American beaded collar and tie, late 19th/early 20th century, possibly Northern Plains, with floral and geometric motifs in pinks and reds on a white ground, on a cloth backing with hide tassels and ermine drops, 21cm wide
37cm long
£200 - 400
LOT 329
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/ early 20th century, Sioux, each decorated with geometric motifs in tones of blue, red, green and white, with a printed cotton trim to the ankle, 11cm wide
27cm long
10cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 330
Two pairs of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Arapaho, each decorated with polychrome decoration, the vamp centred with a cross motif, larger 10cm wide
25cm long
25cm high (4)
£200 - 400
LOT 331
A pair of Native American beaded armbands, late 19th/early 20th century, Plains (Cree, Stoney or Blackfoot), decorated with stepped geometric motifs to a white ground, on a canvas backing with hide strings, 18cm wide 29cm long (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 332
A Native American beaded strip, late 19th/early 20th century, Blackfoot, decorated with geometric motifs to a white beaded ground, on a canvas backing laid on felt and cotton, 10cm wide 141cm long
£300 - 500
LOT 333
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins,
c.1900, Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation, the vamps fully decorated with geometric motifs in tones of white, blue, red and yellow, with a navy velvet trim to the ankles, each 11cm wide 27cm long 9cm high (2)
£600 - 800
LOT 334
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Plateau, possibly Nez Perce, each decorated with red, orange and blue geometric motifs to a light blue ground, 10cm wide
24.5cm long
8cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 335
A Native American beaded and painted hide bag, last quarter of the 19th century, Plains (Blackfoot or Cree), with a large beadwork roundel to the centre, 19cm wide 40cm long including fringe, together with a small Blackfoot beaded pouch, 7cm wide
11cm long (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 336
A Native American beaded collar and tie set, first quarter of the 20th century, Northern Plains, each decorated with geometric motifs to a white ground, within a pink and blue banded border, collar 42cm wide tie 30.5cm long, together with another Northern Plains beaded collared tie, tie 31cm long (3)
£300 - 500
Each with a handwritten label inscribed ‘Collected by Charles Evans (d.1942) during trips in Canada 1909-1924. The English Family (Leeds) sold the collection in 2009’.
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Sioux, each decorated with geometric motifs in tones of green, red, orange, blue and white, 10cm wide
26cm long
10cm high (2)
£300 - 500
A Native American beaded hide dress, second half of the 20th century, in the Métis style (Canadian Plains), with floral beadwork to the yoke and sleeves, and with fringed seams, approximately 67cm wide
80cm long
£200 - 400
A pair of Native American beaded hide and cloth leggings, late 19th/early 20th century, Crow or Plateau, each of red felt with a tapering beaded floral panel, 37cm wide 33cm long, together with a Native American beaded belt, late 19th century, Plateau or Northern Plains, worked with glass beads on a thick canvas backing, with arrowheads to a pale blue ground, 8cm wide
68.5cm long (3)
£300 - 500
A Native American beaded hide child’s collared tie, first half of the 20th century, Northern Plains, worked in multicoloured beads decorated with geometric motifs to a bright blue ground, 27cm wide
22cm long
£200 - 400
With a handwritten label inscribed ‘From the collection of George Beauchamp Seymour’.
LOT 337
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LOT 341
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, mid-20th century, Northern Arapaho, Wind River Reservation, decorated with geometric motifs to a yellow ground, bearing a silk ribbon indicating first prize at the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico, 1963, exhibited by Dolly Naganomi, 11cm wide
27.5cm long
9cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 342
A collection of Native American children’s beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, to include Plains and Iroquois examples, all decorated with geometric motifs in polychrome colours, one pair with painted parfleche insoles,
8cm wide
17.5cm long
6cm high, and a single larger Iroquois example (15)
£300 - 500
LOT 343
A Native American beaded belt, second quarter of the 20th century, Cree (Saddle Lake), worked in glass beads on a canvas backing, depicting stars, squares and arrows in orange and white to a pale blue ground, 4cm wide
80cm long
£300 - 500
With a handwritten artefact record inscribed ‘Alberta Belt, Cree, Sadle [sic] Lake, c.1940, Beaded Belt Obtained from Mr Jack Owen in 1966 Edmonton’.
LOT 344
A group of Native American beaded items, first half of the 20th century, Nez Perce (Plateau), comprising: two sets of collars and neckties, decorated in glass beads depicting flowers to a bright blue ground, and another collared necktie, inscribed ‘R.C.’ and decorated with bunches of cherries and hearts with simulated diamonds, collars approx 47cm wide ties approx 34cm long, ‘R.C.’ 49cm wide
27cm long (5)
£300 - 500
LOT 345
A Native American beaded vest, late 19th/early 20th century, Northern Plains or Plateau, the fully beaded front with floral motifs to a bright blue ground, on hide panels with brass tacks to the shoulders and side, with a velvet back, 47cm wide (armpit to armpit)
61cm long
£600 - 800
LOT 346
A group of Native American beaded items, first half of the 20th century, Plateau, probably Nez Perce, comprising: a collar and necktie set, decorated with flowers to a white ground, the tie with beaded fringe, collar 45cm wide tie 30cm long, and a collared tie decorated with butterflies and strawberries (3)
£200 - 400
LOT 347
A pair of Native American beaded cuffs, late 19th/early 20th century, Crow or Plateau, each worked in glass beads on hide, depicting flowers and motifs to a white ground, 29cm wide
15cm long (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 348
Two pairs of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Plains, comprising: a larger Sioux pair with geometric decoration in polychrome colours, 9cm wide
22cm long
7cm high, and a smaller pair decorated with flag motifs (4)
£300 - 500
LOT 349
A group of Native American beaded items, first half of the 20th century, Plateau, comprising: a beaded bag with a multicoloured beaded panel to the front and fringed edge, 15cm wide
27cm high including fringe, a multicoloured striped tie with cloth collar, and another collared tie, fully-beaded, with stars to a yellow ground (3)
£200 - 400
LOT 350
A pair of Native American beaded hide gauntlets, late 19th/early 20th century, Columbia River Plateau, each with a beaded arm panel depicting deer and flowers, a fringed hem to the outside seam, with further floral and diamond motifs to the hands,
16.5cm wide
44cm long (2)
£200 - 400
For similar examples, see Marilyn Laufer (Curator), Steven Grafe and Joyce Szabo, ‘Real Western Wear: Beaded Gauntlets from the William P. Healey Collection’, Georgia Museum of Art, 2007, pp.108-109.
LOT 351
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Plateau or Plains Cree, each upper decorated with diamond motifs and a ladder to the vape on a white ground, with a weft beadwork trim in blue, accented with triangular devices, and with a raw hide tongue, serrated cuff and sole,
10cm wide
27cm long
13cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 352
A Native American beaded and quilled dance club, late 19th/early 20th century, the stone terminal with quill-wrapped slats, and a hide-mounted handle with beaded bands and feathers, 61cm long, together with another beaded ceremonial club, second quarter of the 20th century, Blackfoot, the loop handles, shaft and pendulous stone fully beaded, with metal-capped hide tassels, 82cm long (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 353
A pair of Native American beaded hide mittens, first quarter of the 20th century, each worked in glass beads on hide, depicting a butterfly with floral motifs, 21cm wide
36cm long (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 354
A Native American man’s beaded hide war shirt, first quarter of the 20th century, Sioux (Plains), in the 1870s style, the open-sided garment with woollen clothbound round neck, over a triangular hide bib, with lane-stitched beadwork design depicting an arrowhead and geometric motifs on a white ground, with further beaded bands to the sides and arms, with fourteen horsehair drops and fringed edges to the bib, under the arms and down the sides, 77cm wide
124cm long
£600 - 800
Provenance: By repute, this shirt was acquired by a private Belgian collector in Germany before World War II, from a Sioux man who worked as an actor in a circus (possibly Sarrasani Circus).
For a similar, earlier, example, see the National Museum of the American Indian, no. 2/4442.
LOT
355
A pair of Native American beaded felt leggings, late 19th/early 20th century, Crow, each decorated with multicoloured glass beads depicting flowers to a green ground, 34cm wide
33cm long (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 356
A Native American beaded hide bag, late 19th century, Cree or Ojibwe Saulteaux, with beaded floral panels to the front and back, and beaded borders extending to the top of the bag,
17cm wide
62cm long
£200 - 400
LOT 357
A pair of Native American beaded moccasins, first half of the 20th century, Cheyenne (Plains), each upper fully beaded with dark blue bison tracks and bands of geometric motifs, with a sinew-stitched hide sole, 9cm wide
26cm long
9cm high (2)
£300 - 500
358
A Native American beaded whimsey or pincushion, late 19th/early 20th century, the stuffed high-heeled boot worked to the front in raised beadwork with metallic sequins, a short beaded strap to the top, and round and bugle-bead tassels to the soles, 19cm wide
6cm deep
31cm long
£200 - 400
For another beaded boot whimsey, see Brooklyn Museum accession number 2016.11.22.
359
A pair of Native American beaded cuffs, first quarter of the 20th century, Sioux, each worked in multicoloured glass beads with geometric motifs to a white ground, with fringed open seams, 12cm wide
13cm long
5cm deep (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 360
A pair of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Winnebago, Nebraska, each with panels of floral beadwork in polychrome colours, 10cm wide
29cm long
13cm high (2)
£300 - 500
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A Native American beaded necktie, early 20th century, Sioux, with a stylised knot and overlapping pendent tabs, lane-stitch beadwork on brain-tanned hide with cotton backing, 13cm wide
25cm long
£200 - 400
Literature: Richard Green, ‘Whispering Wind’, issue 296, vol.43, no.4, ill. p.11.
A group of Native American beaded items, 20th century, comprising: a Chippewa beadwork on a black velvet cover, a beadwork and sequin necktie, and a beaded wall pocket or hussif inscribed ‘ALASKA’ with an eagle and American flags, 21cm wide
48cm long (3)
£200 - 400
The necktie accompanied by a handwritten note inscribed ‘Obtained from Moosewoods Reserve, necktie for war dancer… predominantly Sioux, descendant Bond Sitting Bull (1881) Saskatoon/Saskatchewan’.
A Native American beaded vest, late 19th/early 20th century, Nez Perce (Plateau), with fully beaded front of flower head designs to a bright blue ground, on red cotton and blue cotton back, 47cm wide
55cm long
£500 - 700
A Native American beaded hide tobacco or pipe bag, late 19th/early 20th century, the front with a beadwork panel decorated with flowers to a white ground, with a braided drawstring opening to the top, 15.5cm wide
56cm long including fringe
£200 - 400
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LOT 368
A Native American beaded hide tobacco or pipe bag, late 19th/early 20th century, Cree, sinew sewn with front and back panels of thread-sewn Venetian beads decorated with a large flower head to one side and a geometric diamond motif to the other, both on a white ground, the hide fringe part wrapped with multicoloured glass bugle beads, 15cm wide
94cm long including fringe
£300 - 500
Two pairs of Native American beaded hide moccasins, late 19th/early 20th century, Plateau, each shoe decorated in polychrome colours with floral motifs, larger 11cm wide
26cm long
13cm high (4)
£200 - 400
A Native American beaded bag, late 19th/early 20th century, with panels to the front and bag decorated with flowers to a white ground, fringed borders and bottom edge, 30cm wide
70cm long
£200 - 400
A Native American beaded hide tobacco or pipe bag, late 19th/early 20th century, Blackfoot or Sarcee, with front and back panels decorated with geometric motifs to a white ground, 17.5cm wide
78cm long including fringe
£300 - 500
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LOT 369
A pair of Native American beaded moccasins, late 19th century, Sioux (Lakota), each vamp fully beaded, with geometric motifs on a white ground flanked by green blocks, with a banded white border accented with stepped triangular motifs extending around the heel, with raw hide tongue and sole, 10cm wide
26cm long
9cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 370
A pair of Native American beaded hide leggings, late 19th/early 20th century, Shoshone (Wind River Reservation), each with a beaded band and strip decorated with geometric motifs to a bright blue ground, 22cm wide
32cm long (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 371
A pair of beaded hide tipi ornaments, early/mid-20th century, probably Arapaho, each stuffed hide rosette with a beaded front, decorated with concentric circles in pumpkin and black glass beads pierced with red and white segments, 16cm diameter
3.5cm thick (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 372
A Native American beaded hide child’s jacket, early/mid-20th century, Plateau, with a floral spot motif to the pockets and floral garland decoration around the shoulders, 49cm wide
50cm long, together with a beaded Woodlands child’s vest, late 19th/early 20th century, with floral glass beaded decoration on hide, with a cloth backing, 28cm wide
34.5cm long (2)
£200 - 400
A Native American beaded hide tobacco or pipe bag, first quarter of the 20th century, Sioux, the front and back with matching panels decorated with geometric floral motifs on a white ground, with a fringed edge and tin cone feathers, 18cm wide
66cm long including fringe
£200 - 400
A group of Native American beaded items, late 19th century, comprising: a Northern Plains beaded pouch, 18cm long, a Sioux (Lakota) fetish amulet, in the shape of a lizard, 15cm long, and a small beaded envelope, 13cm wide (3)
£200 - 400
A Native American beaded hide tobacco or pipe bag, second half of the 19th century, Blackfoot, with a fully beaded panel to one side, decorated with floral motifs to a white ground, and with a hide fringe, 16cm wide
82cm long (2)
£600 - 800
A Native American beaded bridle, first half of the 20th century, the brow and cheek bands partially beaded and accented with red pigment, suspending a fully beaded tab with horsehair tassels, with a standard bit measuring approximately 5in wide at the mouth and 6in wide in total, approximately 44cm wide
67cm long excluding reins
£200 - 400
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LOT 376
THE DAVID AND PAM MCCLEAVE COLLECTION
LOT 378
A life -sized carved and polychrome -painted shop display, 19th century, modelled as a sportsman in tweeds with a duck on his head, 58cm wide
39cm deep
185cm high
£600 - 800
A Victorian-style chesterfield sofa, 20th century, with buttoned green leather, 212cm wide
90cm deep
77cm high
£300 - 500
A Victorian gilt-bronze letter rack, 19th century, with three pierced letter racks decorated with classical figures, scrolls and swags, surmounted by a crested female mask and raised on a base with two inkwells, enclosing one singular glass insert, 33cm wide
24cm deep
23cm high
£150 - 250
LOT 380
A Victorian mahogany library table, mid-19th century, the rounded rectangular top with a gilt-tooled leather skiver, above a frieze set with three drawers to each side, raised on turned supports terminating in ceramic castors,
182cm wide
105cm deep
78cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 377
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LOT 381
A green leather porter’s chair, 20th century, with buttoned and studded detail and a pair of cupboard doors, on castors, 90cm wide
84cm deep
178cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 382
A Victorian walnut metamorphic set of library steps, late 19th century, in the Gothic taste, with a hinged action, folding into a chair, ladder 40cm wide
63cm deep
88cm high
£150 - 250
LOT 383
A carved walnut wing armchair in the 17th-century taste, late 19th/ early 20th century, upholstered in a floral printed linen fabric, on carved stretchered legs, 95cm wide
78cm deep
135cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 384
A set of four painted railway oil lamps, 20th century, of various sizes, three examples fitted with a lamp burner marked ‘Sherwood Ltd., Birmingham’, green example 13cm wide
22cm deep
33cm high (4)
£200 - 400
LOT 385
A ‘British Railways’ railway enamel sign, 20th century, the cream text on a burgundy ground, 17 x 76cm
£100 - 200
LOT 386
A scale model of an Edwardian horse -drawn bus, 20th century, the wooden body painted with destinations and route information, ‘Gt. Central & Waterloo Railway Stations’, ‘Piccadilly Circus’, ‘Marylebone Station’, ‘Oxford St. Regent St. Piccadilly. Strand’, ‘Baker St & Waterloo Stations’ and inscribed ‘London General Omnibus Company Limited’, on a painted stand with plaque inscribed ‘London Horse Omnibus 1911’, with Perspex display case, model 42cm wide
20cm deep
31cm high, case 58cm wide
35cm deep
39cm high (3)
£400 - 600
LOT 387
A model of a railway luggage carriage, 20th century, inscribed to the side ‘GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY RECEIVING OFFICE, Penzance Station… COLLECTING VAN FOR PASSENGER TRAIN PARCELS’, 45cm wide
32cm long
43cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 388
A Great Western Railway cast brass locomotive nameplate, c.1920s, ‘Cranmore Hall’, and cabside number plate ‘4914’, applied to a painted wooden board, 101 x 200cm
£3,000 - 5,000
John Austin (British, 20th century), Cranmore Hall at Birmingham Snow Hill, image courtesy of the artist.
LOT 389
A scale model of a brewer’s horse -drawn dray, with planked body and hinged tailgate, driver’s seat and footrest, spoked wooden wheels, with a plaque inscribed Young & Cos. Brewery Limited Wandsworth. SW.’, on a painted stand with a Perspex display case, dray 50cm wide
23cm deep
42cm high, case 67cm wide
39cm deep
50cm high (3)
£300 - 500
LOT 390
A brass and red painted model of a Shand Mason fire pump, 20th century, inscribed ‘London County Council Metropolitan Fire Brigade’, with a brass plaque inscribed ‘Shand Mason & Co. Engineers, London’, with vertical copper and brass boiler having ‘J’ tubes, steam fittings, twin-cylinder live steam engine, metal-tyred wooden wheels and coal bunker, wooden body with suction and delivery hoses, and driver’s seat with brass seat rail and footrest, 57cm wide
25cm deep
37cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 391
A 3.5-inch gauge live steam scale model of the locomotive LMS ‘Black Five’, no.5089, the chassis includes twin outside cylinders, with six-wheel tender and finished in black lined livery, on a display track with painted stand and a Perspex display case, model 89cm wide
13cm deep
15cm high, case 110cm wide
32cm deep
34cm high (3)
£2,000 - 3,000
The David and Pam McCleave Collection of Modern British Art
The McCleave Collection of Modern British Art is not just a mere assortment of paintings and illustrations; it is a vibrant testament to the power of friendships, the love of art and the thrill of the chase. David and Pam McCleave’s passion for Modern British Art was profoundly influenced by the personal relationships they developed with some of the late 20th century’s most notable artists.
The McCleave Collection features an impressive array of works from 20th-century painters and illustrators, ranging from Sir Alfred Munnings to Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro. Yet, the couple’s deep engagement with the art world was often sparked by the friendships they forged. The Chelsea Art Club - where David McCleave’s striking presence earned him the nickname ‘Big Dave’ - was a frequent haunt, as was the bustling London gallery scene. However, it was during the 1980s that David’s passion for collecting truly flourished. Actively seeking out the artists he admired most, David immersed himself in their creative processes, acquiring works directly from them.
Two artists, in particular, held a significant place in the McCleave Collection: Terence Cuneo and Ruskin Spear. David McCleave’s admiration for Terence Tenison Cuneo (1907-1996) was longstanding. Possessing several of Cuneo’s paintings and a cherished copy of ‘The Mouse and His Master’, David was thrilled to discover that the artist lived near by. A phone call and a shared glass of sherry soon blossomed into a genuine friendship. David frequently visited Cuneo’s studio, where he not only witnessed the artist at work, but also purchased numerous pieces. Cuneo, renowned for his iconic steam-train images for British Railways, also explored a wide range of other subjects, including military history and portraiture. The McCleave Collection proudly showcases this diversity, featuring exceptional ‘train’ paintings alongside significant works like a view of the De Havilland Aircraft Factory painted in 1943.
Ruskin Spear (1911-1990) is another artist whose works form a cornerstone of the McCleave Collection. Spear, a true original of British art, found his muse in Hammersmith, the neighbourhood that became his primary subject due to the limitations imposed by his childhood polio. Spear’s keen observations of local life, combined with his portraits of public figures, captured the essence of his immediate surroundings. David McCleave, who befriended Spear in the artist’s last decade, acquired many of Spear’s paintings, often sharing a malt whisky during visits. The collection includes notable works such as ‘Fulham Football Club’, discovered under Spear’s bed after his death and later purchased directly from the artist’s widow, Mary.
The McCleave Collection also features works by Clive Barker (b.1940), whose time at Vauxhall Motors profoundly influenced his art. Barker’s precise and beautiful depictions of automobiles, often created by specialist fabricators, resonated with David McCleave’s love for the pop art movement. Their introduction in a London pub led to David acquiring a diverse range of Barker’s small-scale works, capturing themes from Andy Capp to the Routemaster bus.
The photography of David Bailey (b.1938) and Terry O’Neill (1938-2019) also holds a special place in the McCleave Collection. These photographers, who documented the fashions and celebrities of the Swinging Sixties, found an eager collector in David. Bonding with Bailey over their shared East End roots and attending O’Neill’s exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, he amassed a significant selection of their iconic prints, from Michael Caine in ‘Get Carter’ to The Rolling Stones.
In the wake of the pandemic, David and Pam McCleave began to organise their collection, with the intention of eventually dispersing it at auction. This pivotal moment in the art market, particularly for Cuneo and Spear, underscores the significance of the McCleave Collection. We are honoured to facilitate this important sale, offering a unique opportunity for art enthusiasts to acquire pieces imbued with the McCleaves’ passion for art, friendships and the thrill of the chase.
Modern and Contemporary Art | To include the David and Pam McCleave Collection Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 October 2024 pictures@sworder.co.uk
Grima
The Master of Modernist Jewellery
When thinking of works by Andrew Grima, you are immediately met with visuals of modernist, geometric and textured designs, often decorated with bold and vibrant gemstones. Grima was one of the most important post-war jewellery designers, with his innovative designs and techniques setting a different standard, moving away from the traditional and towards a new exciting future for jewellery.
Born in Rome in 1921 to a Maltese father and Italian mother, the family moved to the UK when Grima was five. After studying at what is now Nottingham University, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined up as an army engineer serving in Burma, which is perhaps where he was first exposed to fine and colourful gemstones.
Grima’s start in the jewellery world came when he returned to civilian life and joined his fatherin-law’s jewellery firm, ‘H.J. Company’. Starting in an administrative role, his creative flare soon became apparent and it wasn’t long until he began designing. Despite being entirely selftaught, he carried on with the role of designer after his father-in-law’s death, and his reputation steadily grew for pieces that were innovative and modern, often featuring uncut or irregular gemstones set into abstract and heavily textured designs.
The advent of the 1960s saw Grima’s big breakthrough when his sculptural and bold designs caught the eye of royalty. In 1966, he won the Duke of Edinburgh Prize for Elegant Design and his clientele soon included HRH The Queen, other British royals, as well as America’s First Lady, Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Also that year he was the first jeweller to have a single exhibition in the V&A museum, and later, in 1970, he won the Queen’s Award to Industry.
Grima continued working until his death in 2007, with his work still remaining popular and highly collectable today. His legacy continues with his daughter, Francesca, and his wife, JoJo, spearheading the company. Currently, approximately only twenty or thirty pieces are made per year by a handful of experienced goldsmiths, most of whom have been working for Grima for over forty years.
For those seeking to own a piece of Grima’s work, in our upcoming Fine Jewellery and Watches sale on 12 November, we have an 18ct gold and diamond brooch, c.1970s, modelled as a stylised straw folded into a knot, in textured gold with pavé diamond terminals (estimate £3,000-5,000), and a pair of 18ct gold and diamond tube earrings, c.1970s, each designed as three textured gold hollow tubes of different lengths, the central tube with a pavé diamond terminal section (estimate £1,200-1,800). These offer a rare opportunity to own something made in the early years of the company and still in such great condition. Although being sold as separate lots, they are incredibly similar in style and could easily be worn as a set.
With all of Grima’s work being highly collectable, it is anticipated that there will be keen interest from collectors worldwide, as previously seen with Grima pieces we have sold. In a recent auction, we were lucky enough to sell a 1960s Grima and Omega collaboration piece - it was through-and-through Grima in style, with its pink tourmaline dial set in textured bright yellow gold, providing an amazing contrast of colour. This proved to be highly popular, with the hammer finally coming down, after keen bidding, at £19,500. And more recently, a beautiful ring, also from the 1960s and showcasing vibrant emeralds set within an iconic textured gold surround, sold for £5,500.
Keep an eye out for our upcoming Fine Jewellery and Watches sale to see a wide array of tantalising pieces, not only including works from Grima, but also other highly sought-after 20thcentury designers.
Fine Jewellery & Watches Tuesday 12 November 2024 | Entries Invited Until 27 September jewellery@sworder.co.uk
Alsace-Lorraine
The Small Part of France with a Large Glass History
The Alsace-Lorraine area of France is steeped in history and conflict. On the eastern edge of France, near the German border, the territory was annexed to Germany during the FrancoPrussian war in 1871, and not returned to France until the conclusion of the First World War. Despite such turbulence in the area, it produced some of the finest glass around the turn of the 20th century, with René Lalique, Émile Gallé and the Daum family some of the most high-profile glassmakers to grace the area.
In our next Design sale on Tuesday 22 October, we are lucky to offer a plethora of cameo works from many of the French greats, as well as a fine collection of contemporary Lalique works.
Jean Daum had little experience of glass when he established the firm in 1878 and, initially, the glassworks based in Nancy produced utilitarian items. After Jean’s death in 1885, the firm was taken over by his sons, Auguste and Antonin, and under their leadership, the business was transformed, becoming one of the most respected and high-quality producers of glass in the Art Nouveau period. As well as their own success, they nurtured other glassmakers to become successful in their own pursuits, such as Charles Schneider. Daum’s work, often cameo glass, is typified by incredible attention to detail and numerous decorative processes. We have several pieces in the forthcoming auction, which display mottled glass bodies, acid etching and enamelling. One such piece is the ‘Bluebells’ vase which encapsulates these decorative methods in a naturalistic masterpiece.
Émile Gallé glass also features in our Design sale. Gallé’s work displays his passion and knowledge of botany, and his floral designs were much admired by the affluent population at the time, due to their accordance with Art Nouveau ideals. Landscapes, animals, insects and more exotic designs were produced after Gallé’s death. Like Daum, the glassworks was renowned for its production of cameo glass, a technique revived in the 19th century by Stourbridge firms. One of the fine examples on offer depicts butterflies in flight.
Although the Alsace-Lorraine region suffered its political upheavals, it became a beacon of artistic innovation for glassmaking. Output from the area not only reflects the rich cultural heritage, but also highlights the mastery of Art Nouveau design. The pieces featured in our upcoming sale offer a glimpse into the remarkable craftsmanship that defined this era. These works stand as enduring symbols of beauty and creativity, a testament to the resilience and artistic spirit of the Alsace-Lorraine region during a time of great change.
Design Tuesday 22 October 2024
Alex Froggatt | design@sworder.co.uk
Stansted and the Rumblings of Religious Reform
Essex had been a stronghold of nonconformism long before the days of the Quakers. The north of the county had been a centre for the Lollards – Christian reformers who followed the teachings of John Wyclif - and its congregations were quick to display their dissatisfaction with the established church.
So, when the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quaker movement, began to spread its roots, its powerful message, of returning to a simpler Christianity, found a receptive audience in Essex. Founded around 1652 by the Cumbrian preacher George Fox, the term ‘Quaker’ began as a derisive nickname referring to his message that people should ‘tremble at the Word of the Lord’, however, the group eventually embraced the term.
As early as 1656, a monthly meeting was established in Sawbridgeworth, while Fox himself visited Bishop’s Stortford in 1665, writing in his journal: ‘Then we rode to Bishop’s Stortford where some were convinced’. The residents of Bishop’s Stortford were not alone in their scepticism it seems, in the early days at least, and Adrian Davies, in his book ‘The Quakers in English Society, 1650-1725’, describes how members of the Religious Society of Friends were at odds with much of society. Their refusal to attend church, have children baptised, or doff their hats to any man, led to jail sentences and rioting.
Yet, with time – and the passage of the Act of Toleration that allowed for freedom of conscience in 1689 - Quakers became fully integrated into the villages and hamlets of Essex and thereabouts. Respected for their integrity in social and business matters, and prepared to moderate onceextreme theological positions, many Friends assumed positions of great responsibility and respectability in the local community.
In the decades after the Restoration, the parish of Stansted Mountfitchet, in particular, become a powerful centre for the Quakers and other Independents. Quaker meetings are first recorded here in 1696 and, by 1703, land on Conygree Wood had been acquired for a Quaker burial ground. While the town’s first meetings were probably held in an existing timber-framed house or farm building, a second lease agreement of 1735 references a Meeting House.
Among the most prominent local Quaker dynasties was the Day family. John Day was among those who signed the lease on the Quaker cemetery plot, where there is a collective memorial stone for members of the Day family, with death dates ranging from 1712 to 1796. As early as the reign of Queen Anne, the Day family’s property holdings had the makings of a considerable country estate.
Included in Sworders’ Books and Maps sale, that runs online from 18-27 October, are two rare drawn and hand-coloured plans, detailing the tracts of land and buildings in the area owned by Mr Samuel Day at the turn of the 18th century.
One, dated 1703, carefully documents his acreage in the parishes of Stansted Mountfitchet, Birchanger and Ugley – including land on what is today Stansted Mountfitchet’s high street. The other plan (undated, but likely produced at the same time) is titled ‘A Plan of Samuel Days House Yard Gardens and Orchard, situated in the Parish of Stansted in Essex’.
Probably produced as legal documents for the Day family to record property ownership, they carry an estimate of £800-1,200.
Books and Maps Friday 18 October - Sunday 27 October 2024 books@sworder.co.uk
Sworders Supports
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, it disrupts every aspect of life for them and their family. Instead of enjoying childhood, navigating teenage years, or exploring university life, these children and young people face overwhelming fears - fears of treatment, family upheaval, financial strain and mental health challenges - without clear support.
Young Lives vs Cancer offers a range of essential services, including emotional support, practical assistance and financial aid to those in need.
Earlier this year, Sworders announced Young Lives vs Cancer as its ‘Charity of the Year’ after a record number of employees voted in a company-wide poll. The charity was nominated by our colleague Emilia, for whom it holds significant importance. After losing her close friend, Jake, to cancer, she now leads fundraising and awareness efforts wherever possible.
JAKE’S STORY
Told by his father, Richard
Young Lives vs Cancer provided our family fantastic support throughout Jake’s ten months of treatment. Jake was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was 15, and after emergency surgery at Great Ormond Street, he was admitted to University College London Hospital (UCLH) to undergo a round of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Within a matter of days, we had been visited by a social worker from the charity, and she built an instant bond with both Jake and our family. She provided an immediate grant to help offer financial support, and was very quickly supporting us with other tasks, ranging from completing lengthy forms, signposting us to other support and being someone we could call on to discuss any issues.
She also arranged for us to make use of the wonderful Paul’s House, a home-from-home provided by the charity that allows families to stay close to the hospital while their child is receiving treatment. The house is within five minutes of UCLH and we made use of it for Jake to socialise with friends, to cook a normal family meal, and just get away from the hospital environment. Jake was in hospital for 15 weeks.
When Jake eventually returned home, the charity continued to support us. Sadly, ten months after diagnosis, Jake lost his battle and passed away at home. Since then, we have supported the charity with various fundraising activities. Several of Jake’s friends and family have also organised their own events, and collectively we have raised over £90,000.
Through various initiatives and events, Sworders strives to raise awareness and funds for this truly impactful cause.
On Thursday 1 August, we hosted a Valuation Evening at Knebworth Golf Club in aid of Young Lives vs Cancer. Sworders’ experts met with the public to appraise items across a range of specialisms. The event was well-received, with attendees gaining valuable insights into their treasured possessions. Selected items were consigned to Sworders’ calendar of sales for the remainder of the year. With a suggested minimum donation of £5 per valuation, the event raised £234, enough to cover over three nights of accommodation for a family at Young Lives vs Cancer’s home-from-home facility, Paul’s House.
Stay tuned for more information on how you can get involved and support this incredible cause. Together, we can help Young Lives vs Cancer continue their extraordinary work, offering hope and strength to those who need it most.
Young Lives vs Cancer Donate through our JustGiving page, available on our website
We’re Buzzing at Sworders
A little-known fact is that, while we at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers get on with our day-to-day jobs, hidden around the site at Stansted Mountfitchet, we have two beehives that have been busily working throughout the year.
We’re blessed to have our auction rooms nestled in an old quarry which, after fifteen years, has become a haven of wildlife, wildflowers, insects, and our resident rabbit and deer populations. During the dark days of last winter, I constructed some bait hives, with the idea that a community of bees may also thrive around our site.
Come April, three bait hives were duly put in place and, just three days later, we were lucky enough to have our first swarm, helped no doubt by some early good weather and two fields of oilseed rape adjacent to our building. This was followed by two more swarms in the next three weeks although, with only a single queen, they were combined to get them going.
After a few more weeks of settling, the bees were then transferred into larger 100-year-old hives that I had spent the winter painting, repairing and making additional lifts, from one that my father and grandfather used at home in Suffolk. After a slow start, both built up well, thanks to the abundance of pollen and nectar around the saleroom.
Now high summer has arrived, and it seems the bees have been extremely busy, having filled five supers (each with ten frames in). After a team effort from a few intrepid colleagues in harvesting and collecting the honey, and an evening of de-capping and spinning, the ‘amber nectar’ has now settled and is jarred – with a Regency-inspired logo applied, thanks to our fabulous designers in the marketing team.
We thought it would be right to offer the honey to anyone who’d like it and are now taking donations for a jar or two, which will go to raise money for ‘Young Lives vs Cancer’, our charity of the year. So, if you’d like some jars of the purist local ‘Sworders’ honey, come and see us at reception or at Folies, the garden and coffee venue on site - but, be quick, as they are sure to fly off the shelves quickly!
We’re hoping that, both inside and outside our Stansted saleroom, all will be a hive of activity again in 2025 and, who knows, maybe they’ll be another opportunity for Sworders honey for tea.
John Black | Sworders Honey
Available to purchase from Stansted Reception and Folies for a suggested donation of £5
A Private Collection of Moorcroft Pottery
One of the most exceptional collections of Moorcroft pottery to come on the market in the last decade will be offered by Sworders this autumn.
Collecting for almost forty years from as far afield as Canada, Australia and South Africa, the vendor has focused on the prime-period signed wares from the early Macintyre era and the William Moorcroft years, proudly displaying the pieces in cabinets at their home in the north of England.
William Moorcroft (1872-1945) was a graduate of what is now the Royal College of Art when he first worked with the commercial pottery and porcelain firm of James Macintyre & Co. Still only in his mid-twenties, Moorcroft’s first pieces were launched in 1897 and, within a year, he was in charge of the company’s ornamental ware department. In 1904, his Art Nouveau-influenced ‘Florian Ware’ - a design that perfected the technique of trailing slip known as tube-lining - won him a gold medal at the St Louis International Exhibition.
His early style, featuring a variety of blooms, including forget-me-nots, cornflowers, irises and tulips, is still one of the most acclaimed Moorcroft ranges and consistently sought after by today’s connoisseurs of his work. The collection for sale at Sworders displays the vendor’s particular passion for pieces of the ‘Poppy’ design: from teawares to vases, there are some sixtysix pieces, including an inkstand (lot 60, estimate £500-700) and a chocolate set comprising a tray, chocolate pot, cream jug and sugar bowl (lot 51, estimate £300-500).
Moorcroft miniatures, produced in a bewildering range of forms and patterns from the early 1900s onwards, are a collecting field of their own and some of these tiny rarities from the Macintyre era can command sums to rival those paid for full-sized versions. Such miniatures were this collector’s first love and there are over forty examples in different designs, each measuring no more than 3½in (8cm) high. Highlights include tiny vases in the ‘Poppy’ (£300-500), ‘ForgetMe-Nots’ (£300-500), ‘Pansy’ (£200-300) and ‘Alhambra’ (£200-300) patterns.
Backed by the famous London store of Liberty & Co., where many of his products were sold, in 1913 Moorcroft was able to open an art pottery factory of his own on Sandbach Road, Cobridge, Staffordshire. Key amongst the artful patterns created there, specifically for distribution through Liberty, was ‘Claremont’, the popular toadstool pattern made in subtly different guises in the first three decades of the 20th century from c.1905. Lot 129 is a ‘Claremont’ vase, printed with the mark ‘Made for Liberty & Co.’ with the registration number ‘420081’ for c.1910 and estimated at £800-1,200. It is one of thirty-two examples of this pattern in the sale and together they make a remarkable display. The landscape designs of ‘Eventide’, with its autumnal balloon-shaped trees, and the similar ‘Moonlit Blue’ pattern were other popular patterns retailed by Liberty & Co. There are a dozen pieces of each in the sale.
The series of relatively formal Art Deco wares made by Moorcroft in the 1920s and 1930s assumed a more austere aesthetic. These pared-back tube-lined designs were well received in Paris at the time and Moorcroft won an award at the famous 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes - the event that gave Art Deco its name - and again at the 1937 International Exposition.
A final highlight of the collection is the series of ‘Fish’ designs; twenty-six examples on offer in a range of various colours and glaze types. The most desirable are typically the high-temperature flambé glazes for which Moorcroft built a special kiln in 1921. A vase with this lustrous effect (lot 216), with the impressed Moorcroft signature and the mark ‘Potter to HM The Queen’ (a reference to the royal warrant granted to the factory by Queen Mary in 1928), is expected to realise £2,000-3,000.
As well as bowls and vases in many different forms, the collection reflects the wide variety of intriguing and unusual items produced by Moorcroft, including timepieces, inkwells and inkstands, a ring stand, hair tidier and moustache cup.
The collection, comprising over 250 lots, will be offered for sale on Tuesday 17 September with a total estimated value of around £75,000.
A Private Collection of Moorcroft Pottery Tuesday 17 September 2024 design@sworder.co.uk
Antiquity and Avant-Garde: The Confluence of Roman Sculpture and Modern Art from a Private European Collection
A remarkable European private collection is set to come up for auction at Sworders later this year, offering an eclectic mix of antiquities and modern art that reflects the sophisticated taste of its owner. The collection, which includes a group of Roman marble torsos and a variety of pictures and sculptures by renowned European artists such as Marc Chagall, César, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas and George Lappas, highlights the appeal of both ancient and modern art, which although thousands of years apart in manufacture, sit together at the vanguard of today’s art market.
At the core of this collection are three Roman marble torsos, each embodying the sophistication and artistic prowess of imperial Rome. Each finely carved - two in the form of athletes and the other as Herakles - they serve as enduring symbols of classical beauty and technical skill, clearly exemplifying why such pieces have long been the archetypal meeting point between style and connoisseurship.
Roman sculptures continue to command high prices at auction, driven by their rarity and historical significance, and collectors and institutions alike are drawn to these pieces for their beauty, as well as the direct connection they offer to ancient history. In recent years, notable sales in London, New York and Paris have demonstrated that the appetite for antiquities remains robust, with well-preserved and documented pieces consistently achieving impressive results.
Contrasting with the ancient allure of the Roman sculptures, are the modern works by artists such as Marc Chagall, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, George Lappas, César, and Liana Vassalou, which also form a significant part of this collection.
George Lappas’ ‘Red Man’ offers a contemporary perspective, with its exploration of abstract form and dynamic movement, while ‘Compression – Magazines’ by César Baldaccini, commonly known as César, showcases the artist’s pioneering techniques in modern sculpture. His ‘Compressions’ and use of unconventional materials revolutionised the field of sculpture and established him as a leading figure in contemporary art.
The market for modern art has shown remarkable resilience and growth in recent years, driven by a globalised art world where collectors are increasingly looking beyond tradition. Contemporary and modern artworks have become key investment pieces, with buyers seeking both aesthetic pleasure from works that resonate on a personal level, as well as financial return potential for long-term appreciation, and the inclusion of works by artists like Chagall, César and Lappas in this collection offers the security of some of the top names in the art world.
This European private collection, with its blend of Roman antiquities and modern masterpieces, brings a unique insight into the current dynamics of the auction market. On one hand, the enduring appeal of ancient art is evident in the ongoing demand for Roman sculptures, which continue to captivate collectors with their historical significance and artistic excellence, and, on the other, the market for modern and contemporary art remains vibrant, fuelled by an evergrowing interest in the innovative and the avant-garde.
The juxtaposition of these two genres within a single collection highlights the diverse interests of today’s collectors, who are increasingly drawn to art that spans both time and style. This trend is reflected in the auction market, where cross-category sales, especially those which celebrate the personality and taste of individuals, are becoming more common, offering buyers the opportunity to acquire works that reflect their own multifaceted collecting habits.
Day Two
Wednesday 11 September at 10am
Provenance and Prestige
A collection of furniture and decorative arts from the heyday of the antiques trade.
The following section includes over seventy lots of fine antique furniture and works of art from a local private collection, many of which were purchased from prestigious dealers, interior decorators and auction houses during the furniture trade’s heyday in the second half of the 20th century.
Clearly assembled with a penchant for traditional style and an eye for quality, notable highlights include a late 18th-century Dutch japanned cabinet purchased from Glaisher & Nash and a set of eight George III mahogany armchairs from Stair & Co., which were exhibited at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair in 1996. Additionally - and in keeping with the late-summer timing of the sale – the collection also includes a group of garden ornaments which are sure to inspire bidders, including a neoclassical stone capital and a pair of 19th-century terracotta urns originally from Sandon Hall in Staffordshire.
With such emphasis on quality and authenticity in today’s antiques market, provenance is a significant factor that sets something apart from the rest. Luckily, many of the items in this collection come with their original bills of sale, creating a clear trail of ownership that only adds to their desirability.
Many more items from the collection will be sold throughout Sworders’ autumn calendar, including Modern British sculpture, and art glass by makers such as Daum and Gallé, in Design on 22 October, and an impressive collection of fine paintings in Old Master, British and European Art on 19 November.
LOT 392
A George I walnut shepherd’s crook armchair, early 18th century and later, the shaped padded back and rounded seat covered in needlework close-nailed upholstery, on cabriole supports, 62cm wide
55cm deep
87cm high
£1,500 - 2,000
Provenance: H C Baxter & Sons, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, June 1994.
LOT 393
A George I walnut stool, early 18th century, the drop-in seat upholstered in French early-18th-century floral needlework, raised on cabriole legs united by turned ‘H’ stretchers, 52cm wide
42.5cm deep
45cm high
£300 - 500
The needlework supplied by Mayorcas Ltd., 38 Jermyn Street, London, July 1988.
LOT 394
A George III mahogany serpentine chest, late 18th century and later, the shaped moulded top above four graduated drawers between fluted angles, on canted bracket feet, 92cm wide
56cm deep
78.5cm high
£300 - 500
Provenance: Christie’s, ‘Fine English Furniture including the property of Miss Elizabeth Collis’, 7 June 1997, lot 146.
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A Hereke silk rug, 20th century, Anatolian, the rectangular field with a pendant medallion to the centre surrounded by floral motifs, on a red and green ground within a red ground floral border,
332 x 210cm
£800 - 1,200
Provenance: Asprey, Bond Street, London, purchased May 1977.
A walnut open armchair, 18th century, Dutch, the arched padded back above a broad seat upholstered in a close-nailed needlework, the splayed scroll arms descending on to stretchered cabriole supports, terminating in hoofed feet, re-blocked, 70cm wide
61cm deep
110cm high
£500 - 700
Provenance: Sotheby’s, probably ‘English and Continental Furniture’, 23 October 1992, lot 109.
An upholstered easy armchair by Kingcome, of recent manufacture, with green damask covering, 65cm wide
83cm deep
78cm high, together with a footstool by Kingcome, 52cm wide
52cm deep
40cm high (2)
£200 - 400
A Regency rosewood and boxwood games table, c.1810, the chequerboard-inlaid square top with radiating decoration, above a frieze drawer with a navette-shaped bone escutcheon, above a turned column, raised on tripod supports terminating in peg feet, 40cm wide
40cm deep
70cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 395
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LOT 399
A Victorian-style armchair by Colefax & Fowler, 20th century, the button back and cushioned seat upholstered in a yellow foliate fabric with a tasselled fringe, 85cm wide
98cm deep
100cm high, with a matching footstool (2)
£700 - 900
LOT 400
A pair of papier mâché table lamps, 19th century, Indian, Kashmiri, each of baluster vase form with floral reserves, 40.5cm diameter
56cm high including shade (2)
£300 - 500
Provenance: Colefax & Fowler, Brook Street, London.
LOT 401
A George III satinwood card table, c.1795, the crossbanded fold-over top above a frieze decorated with a painted cherub, raised on slender square tapering supports, 91cm wide 45cm deep
74cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 402
A walnut upholstered stool, 19th century, the green velvet stuff-over seat on moulded cabriole supports, terminating in scroll feet, 51cm wide
51cm deep
39cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 403
A pair of Aubusson tapestry wall hangings, 19th century, each with a central motif with a lute to a biscuit field, with floral sprays and fleur-de-lys decoration, 278 x 115cm (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 405
A George III-style satinwood open bookcase, last quarter of the 20th century, in two sections, each with open shelves flanked by inlaid pilasters, on turned feet, 79cm wide
35cm deep
183cm high
£700 - 900
A George I-style walnut and beechwood framed two-seater settee, 19th century, a rectangular pad back and stuff-over seat, with outswept arms, on shell-headed cabriole supports joined by turned stretchers, 117cm wide
48cm deep
100cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
A pair of decalcomania table lamps, mid-19th century, French, each decorated with chinoiserie scenes on a pale blue ground, with a pleated gingham shade, 14.5cm wide
45cm high (2)
£300 - 500
Provenance: Asprey, New Bond Street, London, February 1992.
A Louis XVI-style kingwood, rosewood and parquetry-inlaid lamp table, early 20th century, French, the circular top with a brass gallery, above a frieze drawer, on square tapering supports terminating in sabots,
56cm diameter
65cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 404
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LOT 408
A Louis XV-style walnut fauteuil, 19th century, the cartouche-shaped padded back above a serpentine seat, flanked by carved and padded arms, on carved cabriole supports with scrolled toes, 64cm wide
49cm deep
91cm high
£150 - 250
LOT 409
A papier mâché japanned tray top table, 20th century, the dish-top tray with gilt foliage decoration, on turned supports,
55.5cm wide
43.5cm deep
42cm high, together with a similar example, 20th century, 39.5cm wide
29.5cm deep
51cm high (2)
£200 - 400
Provenance: The principal example supplied by Colefax & Fowler, May 1987.
LOT 410
A pair of oval Beauvais wool and silk tapestry cushions, 18th/19th century, each depicting a floral bouquet with roses and peonies supported by a laurel wreath, on a pale green and biscuit ground, 45 x 41cm, together with a smaller square example, 36 x 30cm (3)
£200 - 300
Provenance: The pair from Christie’s, ‘Important English Furniture (Lots 51-58: The Property of a Lady)’, 17 April 1997, lot 54’.
LOT 411
A collection of five Aubusson and Beauvais tapestry cushions, 18th century and later, mostly decorated with floral sprays, two approximately 50 x 50cm three 50 x 32cm (5)
£600 - 800
LOT 412
A pair of wool and silk tapestry cushions, 18th/19th century, French, each square sage-green field decorated with floral sprays, 43 x 42cm, together with an oval wool example, 38cm wide (3)
£200 - 400
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LOT 413
A pair of wool and silk tapestry cushions, 18th/19th century, each of square form, decorated with birds in a naturalistic setting on a green field, 41 x 38cm (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 414
A collection of seven Aubusson and Beauvais tapestry cushions, 18th century and later, mostly decorated with floral sprays, three largest approximately 50 x 52cm one oval 39cm wide (7)
£400 - 600
LOT 415
An Aubusson table tapestry or tapis de table, c.1840, French, of square form, with a medallion enclosing roses to the centre on a pink and biscuit ground, within all-over foliate spray motifs and similarly decorated medallions to the corners, 185cm wide
£600 - 800
LOT 416
A Chippendale period carved and giltwood mirror, c.1765, the cartouche-shaped plate within a scrolling acanthus and ‘C’ scroll frame, 45cm wide 111cm high
£1,200 - 1,800
Provenance: Phillips of Hitchin Antiques Ltd., exhibited ‘Grosvenor House Antiques Fair’, June 1973.
417
A George IV rosewood open bookcase, c.1820, of bow-fronted outline with a moulded top and three shelves flanked by pilasters, raised on squat bun feet, 109cm wide
41cm deep
89cm high
£300 - 500
Provenance: E M Cheshire Antiques, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, 16 March 1988.
LOT 418
A three -fold upholstered screen, 20th century, each panel covered in a repeating fan and foliate pattern, 152cm wide extended
52cm deep
160cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 419
A George III-style satinwood occasional table,
c.1890, the segmented oval top with black line inlay, raised on slender tapering square supports,
59cm wide
40cm deep
66cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 420
A pair of side chairs by Kingcome, of recent manufacture, each with a padded back and seat, upholstered in gingham cotton with a tassel and braided trim, 52cm wide
63cm deep
91cm high (2)
£200 - 400
421
A George III inlaid satinwood workbox, c.1790, the hinged and canted rectangular lid with inlay decoration of a basket of flowers within scrolling foliage, over a similarly decorated body with two neoclassical urns to the front, with key, enclosing a single baize-lined interior, 32.5cm wide
26cm deep
14cm high
£300 - 500
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A Louis-Philippe Aubusson tapestry rug or tapis de table, c.1840, French, the shaped ‘Turkish-taste’ medallion filled with a floral arrangement, to a pale green outer field decorated with floral-filled ‘palmette’ corners and a scrolling oriental-style border,
183 x 185cm
£300 - 500
Provenance: Laloux-Dessain, Brussels; with Mayorcas Ltd., ‘Grosvenor House Antiques Fair’, June 1988.
A set of three George III-style satinwood stands, second half of the 20th century, of Sheraton design, each with a segmented top with central patera and rosewood crossbanding, above a swag-and-husk decorated body, on a plinth base and castors, 43cm diameter
43cm high (3)
£200 - 400
A canteen of gilt copper flatware, 19th century, possibly German, comprising twenty-four dessert forks, twenty-four dessert spoons and twenty-three dessert knives in a fitted gilt-tooled leather case decorated with an armorial and floral sprays, casket 32cm wide
13cm deep
21cm high (72)
£300 - 500
A near pair of George III satinwood occasional tables, late 18th century and later, each with a canted rectangular top above a frieze drawer, raised on slender tapering square supports united by ‘X’ stretchers, converted from worktables, approximately 57cm wide
40cm deep
76cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 422
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427
A pair of upholstered armchairs in the style of Howard & Sons, 20th century, by Colefax & Fowler, each in yellow corduroy fabric with a cushioned seat, 74cm wide
85cm deep
82cm high (2)
£1,500 - 2,500
A George III satinwood, sycamore and amaranth kettle stand, late 18th century, the galleried serpentine top above a candle slide, on slender square tapering supports, with inlaid bellflower decoration, 27.5cm wide
27.5cm deep
70cm high
£150 - 250
A Victorian toleware table lamp, 19th century, of canted square form, the front panel with gilt chinoiserie decoration, on a green ground, indistinctly stamped to the reverse, with a 20-inch pleated shade, 28cm wide
22cm deep
64cm high
£100 - 200
429
A George III-style mahogany kettle stand, 19th century, the circular dished top on a turned column and acanthus carved scroll legs, 39cm diameter
53.5cm high
£500 - 700
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A George III mahogany open armchair, c.1790, the arched back above a serpentine seat, upholstered in red gingham fabric, raised on turned fluted supports, 63cm wide
63cm deep
92cm high
£500 - 700
Provenance: Christie’s, ‘Fine English Furniture including the Collis Collection, the Property of Miss Elizabeth Collis’, 5 June 1997, lot 36.
For a closely related example, see Victoria & Albert Museum inv. no. W.8-1955 (ill. M Tomlin, ‘Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture’, London, 1982, p.142, cat. no. Q/6); for another closely related pair, see ‘Norman Adams Yearbook 1985’, pl. 20, and ‘The Antique Collector’, November 1991.
LOT 431
A George III satinwood worktable, c.1795, the canted rectangular top with tulipwood crossbanding, above a fitted drawer, raised on slender tapering square supports,
51cm wide
37cm deep
78cm high
£400 - 600
Provenance: Kenneth Neame Ltd., Brook Street, London, purchased 17 October 1983.
LOT 432
A set of eight George III mahogany armchairs, c.1780, each with a cartouche-shaped back and outswept padded open arms above a serpentine seat, raised on fluted turned supports headed by paterae, upholstered in various fabrics, 64cm wide
64cm deep
90cm high (8)
£7,000 - 9,000
Provenance: Stair & Co., Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, July 1996.
LOT 433
A George III satinwood, rosewood and marquetry side cabinet,
c.1790, the book-matched serpentine top with a tied foliate spray within a crossbanded border, above a pair of panel doors with ivory escutcheons, raised on a shaped apron and bracket feet,
110cm wide
45cm deep
97cm high
£800 - 1,200
Provenance: Philip Duncan Ltd., Lowndes Street, London, purchased 2 July 1973.
LOT 434
A George I walnut wingback armchair, early 18th century and later, the padded back and cushioned seat upholstered in silk damask and inset with a tapestry panel, raised on knee-carved cabriole supports, the back legs replaced, 80cm wide
82cm deep
125cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
Provenance: John Bly, 27 Bury Street, London, January 1995.
LOT 435
A George III Sheraton period satinwood and tulipwood demilune side cabinet,
c.1790, the segmented crossbanded top above four panel doors, enclosing a fitted interior of four graduated drawers, raised on tapering square supports, 140cm wide
61cm deep
84cm high
£2,000 - 4,000
LOT 438
A Sheraton period inlaid satinwood occasional table, late 18th century and later, the canted rectangular top above a short drawer and slide with ivory escutcheon, raised on slender tapering square supports, converted from a worktable, 49cm wide
38cm deep
74cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 437
A George III-style mahogany tripod table, late 19th/ early 20th century, the circular dish top with scalloped rim, raised on a turned, fluted and acanthus-carved column, terminating in leaf-carved and scrolled feet, 49cm diameter
55cm high
£500 - 700
A George I walnut shepherd’s crook armchair, early 18th century and later, the back and seat upholstered in green silk, with open arms, raised on front cabriole supports with spliced cushion knees,
62cm wide
62cm deep
97cm high
£700 - 900
Provenance: Asprey & Garrard, 167 New Bond Street, London, February 2001.
LOT 439
A George I yew and walnut pedestal bureau, c.1710, the fall-front enclosing a fitted interior, above a central frieze drawer, with six short drawers below encompassing a kneehole section,
81cm wide
43cm deep
99cm high
£200 - 400
A Savonnerie wool rug, 20th century, decorated with scrolling acanthus and roses to a brown field, 88 x 195cm
£200 - 400
Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington, ‘The Manor House, Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire’, 15 September 1998, lot 30.
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A Louis XVI painted and parcel-gilt wooden fauteuil, late 18th century, French, the back and seat upholstered in needlework panels with channelled scroll arms, raised on turned stop-fluted supports, 59cm wide
61cm deep
89cm high
£700 - 900
LOT 442
A giltwood wall bracket, 19th century, the shaped platform on a scroll and acanthus decorated bracket, 53cm wide
23cm deep
37cm high
£200 - 400
443
A George III mahogany open armchair, late 18th century, the oval back and seat upholstered in tartan fabric, raised on fluted supports, 65cm wide
65cm deep
92cm high
£500 - 800
Provenance: Thorpe & Foster/ Hampshires of Dorking, Surrey, February 1991.
LOT 444
A George III mahogany wing armchair, late 18th century and later, upholstered in yellow velvet with a needlework panel to the back, with scrolling arms, raised on square supports united by stretchers, 70cm wide
67cm deep
100cm high
£500 - 700
445
A George III-style mahogany open armchair, 19th century, the oval back above a stuff-over serpentine seat with fluted front rail, flanked by moulded padded scroll arms, on fluted turned supports headed by paterae, upholstered in a striped salmon silk, 69.5cm wide
50cm deep
92cm high
£500 - 700
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A satinwood, harewood and japanned cabinet, c.1790, Dutch, of breakfront outline, the top inset with three Japonesque panels bordered by tulipwood crossbanding, above three cupboard doors, each with chinoiserie-decorated lacquered panels, on four tapering feet with block toes,
156cm wide
56cm deep
85cm high
£3,000 - 5,000
Provenance: Glaisher & Nash, London, purchased 22 January 1973.
LOT 447
A wool rug, 20th century, Turkish, the yellow field with repeating scrolling foliage within a triple border, 321 x 221cm
£200 - 400
LOT 448
A George I walnut and beech wing armchair, early 18th century and later, upholstered in yellow damask inset with a tapestry panel to the padded back, an overstuffed seat and outswept scroll arms and raised on knee-carved cabriole supports, replacements to the supports, 85cm wide
58cm deep
116.5cm high
£1,200 - 1,800
Provenance: Peter Lipitch Ltd., Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, July 1995.
LOT 449
A painted and parcel-gilt wooden low table, 20th century, the glass inset top on scroll supports with carved detail, 110cm wide
110cm deep
46cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 450
A Tabriz pictorial wool rug, early/mid-20th century, Persian, the central field decorated with exotic birds perched on a flowering tree, a tiger with serpent below, to a pale field and within a densely woven border, 213 x 145cm
£500 - 700
LOT 451
A beech wing armchair 18th century, Dutch, upholstered in yellow fabric, raised on cabriole supports united by turned stretchers, terminating in pad feet, the upholstery torn, 83cm wide
68cm deep
124cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 452
An upholstered daybed, of recent manufacture, covered in paisley fabric, 90cm wide
174cm long
77cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 453
An Agra design wool rug, 20th century, the green field with repeating geometric and foliate motifs, within a wide flower head border, 288 x 249cm
£200 - 400
LOT 454
A set of four Victorian Aesthetic period satinwood side chairs by Howard & Sons, c.1880, each Japonesque lattice back above a yellow stuff-over seat on tapering turned supports, bearing remnants of paper labels beneath, 44cm wide
48cm deep
84cm high (4)
£200 - 400
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LOT 455
A Regency-style painted wooden games table, 20th century, the square top with a printed chinoiserie-decorated centre within a foliate border, reversing to a chessboard and enclosing a well, on a turned column descending on to a triform base with paw feet, 47cm wide
48cm deep
72cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
Provenance: Sotheby’s, 7 and 14 May 1993, lot 203.
LOT 456
A toleware wine cooler, 19th century, of oval form with a scarlet ground embellished with a gilt cockerel amongst flowers,
54cm wide
42cm deep
26cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 457
A pair of ormolu chenets, 19th century, French, each of rococo outline with scrolling leaf and ‘C’ scroll design, 33cm wide
28cm deep
34cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 458
A toleware wine cooler, 19th century, of oval form, cream-painted with foliate decoration, 50cm wide
40cm deep
26cm high
£200 - 400
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LOT 459
A pair of terracotta garden urns, 19th century, each of campana form, with a pair of mask and loop handles, the egg-and-dart moulded rim above a waisted body decorated with a bird in relief, on a swept fluted circular socle and square stepped foot, indistinctly stamped, damages, 55cm diameter
138cm high (2)
£1,000 - 2,000
Provenance: Sandon Hall, Staffordshire; Christie’s, ‘Garden Statuary, Architectural and Decorative Furnishings’, 6 June 1994, lot 106.
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A terracotta garden urn, of campana form, fitted with a pair of mask and loop handles, 56cm diameter
123cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 461
A terracotta garden urn, second half of the 19th century, the lobed body of bulbous form, with scrolling acanthus decoration to the lower section, on a square plinth base, impressed Doulton Lambeth marks, damages, 48cm diameter
base 39cm wide
80cm high
£800 - 1,200
Provenance: Christie’s, ‘Garden Statuary, Architectural and Decorative Furnishings’, 6 June 1994, lot 77.
LOT 462
A Neoclassical carved stone capital, 18th century and later, in three parts, the canted and shaped square top raised on a scrolling acanthus column, on a later circular socle base, 74cm wide
75cm deep
101cm high
£3,000 - 4,000
Provenance: Clifton Nurseries, Covent Garden, purchased 11 June 1985.
LOT 463
A painted metal garden bench, c.1860, the pierced and shaped back with scrolled arms over a slatted seat, 165cm wide
36cm deep
109cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 464
A pair of terracotta garden urns, 20th century, each of campana form, with classical figural relief decoration, on a footed plinth, 34cm diameter
47cm high (2)
£100 - 200
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LOTS 465-542
LOT 465
A small teak and brass campaign chest, 19th century, fitted with two short over three long drawers with teak liners, raised on bun feet,
76cm wide
40cm deep
99cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 466
A Moroccan-style wool carpet, of recent manufacture, the field with a boldly knotted, repeating diamond, trellis pattern in off-white on a blue ground, 265 x 158cm
£200 - 400
LOT 467
A pair of ebonised wooden luggage racks, 20th century, French, each with brown leather straps, 65cm wide
38cm deep
41cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 468
A painted wooden stepladder, 20th century, 44cm wide
93cm deep
127cm high
£150 - 250
LOT 469
A pair of damask silk panels, late 18th century, Italian, each woven with yellow foliate palmettes against a crimson ground, 162 x 46cm, framed and glazed (2)
£500 - 800
LOT 470
A ‘Collingwood’ two-seater sofa by Nina Campbell, of recent manufacture, in the Howard taste, with textured upholstery and green velvet piping, raised on tapering supports, 147cm wide
105cm deep
88cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 471
After Jean de Boulogne aka ‘Giambologna’, early 19th century, ‘Mercury flying on the breath of Aeolus’, patinated bronze, raised on a porphyry and marble base, 16cm wide
34cm deep
74cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 472
A chinoiserie porcelain and gilt-brass mosaic coffee table, 20th century, of rounded rectangular outine, profusely decorated with painted fragments, raised on tapering square supports,
129cm wide
96cm deep
47.5cm high
£600 - 800
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LOT 473
A pair of Louis XV-style griotte uni marble and ormolu candelabra, c.1890, French, each with six lights supported by scrolling foliate branches, issuing from an urn-shaped body, raised on a square base terminating in bun feet, 32cm diameter
76cm high (2)
£4,000 - 6,000
A matched pair of Louis XVI giltwood console tables, c.1780 and later, each with a brocatelle marble top, above a fluted frieze centred with a patera and punctuated by stiff acanthus leaves, raised on tapering square supports, one table modern,
136cm wide
65cm deep
87cm high (2)
£4,000 - 6,000
Provenance: Jacques Perrin, Perrin Antiquaires, Paris, 8 June 2006; a private collection, London.
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A Berber kelleh-style wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven in tones of blue and pale yellow, with alternating waved lines and a chequerboard pattern,
392 x 177cm
£600 - 800
LOT 476
A painted pine cupboard, 20th century, the glazed panelled doors enclosing four shelves, 107cm wide
39cm deep
194cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 477
A mahogany bombé commode, late 18th century, Dutch, the rectangular top above three drawers, raised on splayed square supports, 87cm wide
52cm deep
83cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 478
A large silk ikat textile, 20th century, Uzbek, woven in pink, yellow and off-white, mounted to a frame, 190 x 147cm
£400 - 600
LOT 479
A carved wooden chest, early 20th century, Filipino, with mother-of-pearl inlay, decorated with birds and foliate scrolls, 99cm wide
48cm deep
48cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 480
A pair of Louis XV-style silvered-brass wall lights, late 19th/early 20th century, French, each of scrolling rococo form with three branches, 39cm wide
26cm deep
51cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 481
A three -seater sofa in the Howard & Sons style, of recent manufacture, upholstered in red printed floral fabric with tasselled detail, with scroll arms and raised on turned oak front supports, teminating in brass caps and castors, 215cm wide
97cm deep
80cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 482
A pine and metal centre table, 20th century, the circular top raised on a pierced tubular base, 122cm diameter
75cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 483
An Orientalist needlepoint picture, 19th century, depicting a man in a turban, on horseback, with a tiger in the foreground, 57.5 x 65cm, framed and glazed
£200 - 300
LOT 484
An ari (aari) work silk embroidered panel, probably 18th century, Indian, Gujarat, worked in pale gold and brown threads in fine chain stitch, depicting flower heads and meandering stems, on a pale muslin ground, overall 100 x 62cm, framed and glazed
£200 - 400
LOT 485
A Charles II needlework picture, mid/late 17th century, worked in polychrome silks with a figure of a king in a tented canopy, being approached by an old man holding a scroll inscribed ‘The Law’, with further figures and a castle in the background, the foreground with landscape and ocean scenes, with a mermaid, lion and leopard, a small area of raised work to the foreground, 44 x 50cm, framed and glazed
£400 - 600
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LOT 486
A carved hardwood chair, 19th century, South Indian, profusely carved all over with floral and foliate scrolls, the pierced back centred with a figure of Ganesha, the arms with lion supports, with a rattan seat raised on acanthus-carved baluster legs, 63cm wide
58cm deep
105cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 487
A hardwood and ivory low table, early 20th century, Indian, the circular top with inlaid floral and foliate decoration, raised on four elephant-head supports with composite tusks, 77cm wide
48cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 488
A carved hardwood chair, 19th century, South Indian, profusely carved all over with foliate scrolls, the back centred with a pair of seated deities, the arms with lion supports, with a rattan seat and raised on acanthus-carved baluster legs,
70cm wide
58cm deep
116cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 489
A large Bakhtiari wool carpet, Persian, the central field decorated with a large flower head medallion to a dark red and navy ground, the pale ground border with further geometric motifs,
429 x 347cm
£400 - 600
LOT 490
A coromandel and ebonised wooden centre table in the Anglo-Indian style, of recent manufacture, the circular top with a gadrooned edge, above a carved square column and quadripartite base, terminating in castors,
170cm diameter
82cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 491
A carved ebony planter, 19th century, Anglo-Indian, profusely carved with fruit and flowers, above a ring-turned column and triform base, terminating in turned bun feet, 40cm wide
40cm deep
85cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 492
A painted and iron-bound wooden low table, 19th century and later, Indian, incorporating a door panel, raised on ebonised wooden supports, 130cm wide
84cm deep
54cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 493
A carved hardwood four-poster bed, 19th century, Indian, 185cm wide
230cm long
236cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 494
A carved padouk occasional table, 19th century, Anglo-Indian, the circular tilt top with a foliate-carved frieze, raised on a similarly carved column and tripod base, terminating in bun feet, 58cm diameter
73cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 495
A Persian tribal wool rug, 20th century, woven with geometric floral and bird motifs to a red ground, 258 x 181cm
£300 - 500
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LOT 496
A carved and inlaid wooden screen, early 20th century, Syrian, Damascus, each leaf with an arched top, decorated with arabesques, mother-of-pearl and bobbin-turned detail, each leaf 62cm wide
196cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 497
A carved and inlaid fruitwood freestanding corner cabinet, early 20th century, Syrian, Damascus, decorated with arabesques and bobbins, 80cm wide
40cm deep
173cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 498
A bone and ivory-inlaid hardwood armchair, late 19th/early 20th century, Swahili, the arched back with geometric decoration, with a string seat, raised on square supports with an integral footrest, 70cm wide
58cm deep
116cm high
£2,000 - 4,000
Armchairs, such as this example, were commonly found in the homes of wealthy merchants along the Swahili-speaking coast of East Africa until the early 20th century. They were crafted in workshops in Mombasa and the islands of Pate, Lamu, and Zanzibar. Known in Swahili as kiti cha enzi (‘chair of power’), these chairs were typically displayed in pairs or larger sets, and were reserved for visiting dignitaries and important family members. The design resembles the Mudéjar-style armchairs from 16th- and 17th-century Spain and Portugal. However, there are also similarities to furniture from the earlier Mamluk period in Egypt, suggesting that Swahili artisans developed this style by blending southern European and North African influences.
For a similar example, see The Art Institute of Chicago, accession no. 2004.476.
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A walnut black and serpentine marble centre table, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, 176cm wide
87cm deep
86cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
A pair of pierced gilt-metal girandoles, of recent manufacture, each of navette shape with a candle platform and a mirror back, 81cm wide
20cm deep
140cm high (2)
£300 - 500
A Regency rosewood canterbury after a design by J C Loudon, early 19th century, with four divisions decorated with garlands, over a frieze drawer and ring-turned supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, 50cm wide
39cm deep
50cm high
£400 - 600
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LOT 502
A pair of Japanese three -fold bybu screens, 20th century, Japanese, each painted with a pine tree with bamboo leaves near its root, ink and colour on gold-foiled paper, each fold 61cm wide
171cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 503
A leather-upholstered beech seat, 20th century, the seat raised on splayed beech supports, 141cm wide
45cm deep
60cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 504
A painted wooden console table in the Gustavian taste, of recent manufacture, the scrubbed rectangular top above a frieze drawer and tapering supports, united by an undertier, 145cm wide
45cm deep
76cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 505
A large cast iron fireback in the 17th century style, probably 19th century, with an arched top and relief-cast decoration, worn, 93cm wide
78cm high
£300 - 500
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LOT 506
A Mottahedeh ‘Tobacco Leaf’ porcelain part dinner service, 20th century, decorated in Chinese Export style, including eight dinner plates and seventeen dessert plates, with green script Mottahedeh mark, gilt and green crown mark for Vista Alegre, and black marks for Metropolitan Museum of Art, dinner plates 27.5cm diameter (44)
£2,000 - 4,000
For a similar example, see Christie’s, ‘The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part I’, 9 May 2018, lot 140.
LOT 507
A Charles I-style oak refectory table, 19th century, but possibly incorporating some earlier elements, the later rectangular top raised on a carved frieze and bobbin-turned supports united by a stretchers, 256cm wide
80cm deep
79cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 508
An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated with geometric motifs to a blue ground, 395 x 295cm
£3,000 - 5,000
LOT 509
A hardwood kiakavo ceremonial club, late 19th/early 20th century, Fijian, of typical form with a notched hilt, 23cm wide
100cm long
£400 - 600
LOT 510
Two rootwood shillelagh sticks or clubs, 20th century, Irish, one with a screw ferrule and cap, each 90.5cm long (2)
£100 - 150
LOT 511
A pair of George III painted wooden elbow chairs, c.1800, each with a pierced back, caned oval seat and turned supports, with later decoration, 53cm wide
54cm deep
83cm high (2)
£150 - 200
LOT 512
A carved stone head, 20th century, African, in the form of a bearded man, 50cm wide
30cm deep
58cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 513
Three wooden and silvered-brass ser ving platters, 20th century, Spanish, in the form of a cow’s head, a fish head or a pig’s leg, fish 90cm wide
19cm deep
7cm high (3)
£200 - 400
514
A Regency carved and giltwood console table, early 19th century and later, the later Grand Antique marble top over scrolled supports, with a mirror back and a moulded rosewood platform plinth,
143cm wide
46.5cm deep
97cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
515
A pair of painted and parcel-gilt metal wall lights, 20th century, Italian, each in the form of a rapier issuing a pair of acanthus branches, 31cm wide
16cm deep
89cm high (2)
£200 - 400
516
A carved wooden box, 19th century, each half carved with a lion mask in relief, 13.5cm diameter
7cm high (2)
£100 - 150
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A grand tour gilt-bronze figure of the Spinario, 20th century, after the antique, raised on a stepped wooden base, 27cm wide
20cm deep
40cm high
£200 - 400
A burr walnut and steel side cabinet by Soane, of recent manufacture, with a pair of doors enclosing shelves, on a plinth base,
160cm wide
50cm deep
83cm high
£500 - 700
A George IV mahogany bergère library armchair, c.1830, with a scrolling rail and arms, and a buttoned leather seat raised on tapering supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, 63cm wide
85cm deep
96cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
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520
A Scandinavian-style flat-weave wool kilim carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated with a block design in blue tones,
300 x 206cm
£600 - 800
LOT 521
A pair of Sienna marble and gilt-bronze urns, 19th century, Italian, each with twin handles and raised on a stepped base terminating in bun feet,
15cm wide
12cm deep
41cm high (2)
£600 - 800
LOT 522
A George I walnut chest of drawers, early 18th century and later, the rectangular top above two short and three long drawers, raised on bracket feet,
98cm wide
53cm deep
91cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 523
A ‘Pagoda’ coffee table by Nina Campbell, of recent manufacture, the tiered steel frame moulded as bamboo, each tier supporting a glass top, 122cm wide
95cm deep
45cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 524
Jean-Auguste Barre (French, 1811-1896), a painted plaster figure of Fanny Elssler, c.1840, stamped to the base ‘A Barre’ and inscribed ‘FANNY ELSSLER’, with scratched ‘B’ initial to the underside, 18cm wide
18cm deep
44cm high
£300 - 500
Fanny Elssler (1810-1844) created the role of Florinda in Jean Coralli’s ballet ‘Le Diable Boîteux’ at the Paris Opera in 1836, and danced it again in London later the same year. It became the role with which she was most closely associated and her performance of the Cachucha, a Spanish dance performed with castanets, was captured in contemporary prints and became an iconic image of the Romantic Ballet.
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A pair of ‘Pisa’ table lamps by Vaughan, of recent manufacture, each with a marbled paper shade, the chromed stem with two knuckle joints, terminating on to a cylindrical foot, 11cm diameter
48cm high (2)
£150 - 250
LOT 526
A painted pine haberdashery cabinet or bank of drawers, 19th century, with twenty-five drawers, each with a painted number to the front, with brass handles and card slides, 108cm wide
35.5cm deep
110cm high
£400 - 800
LOT 527
A pierced brass fender, early 19th century, with round finials and anthemion detail, 152cm wide
33cm deep
22cm high
£150 - 200
LOT 528
An oak and leather ‘Rivoli’ cabinet by Soane, of recent manufacture, the rectangular top above a pair of cupboard doors flanked by brass tubular supports, 145cm wide
50cm deep
82cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 529
A flat-weave wool kilim runner, of recent manufacture, decorated with a diamond trellis pattern within a border of geometric motifs, 392 x 85cm
£300 - 500
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LOT 530
A set of three Victorian graduated papier mâché trays, by Jennens & Bettridge, London, each of shaped rectangular outline with gilt-heighted detail, stamped ‘Jennens & Bettridge’ to the underside, the largest with an associated bobbin-turned stand, largest 81cm wide
61cm high (4)
£400 - 600
LOT 531
A pair of brass andirons, 19th century, each with anthemion-cast decoration and stylised paw feet, 22cm wide
45cm deep
59cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 532
A George III mahogany bureau, third quarter of the 18th century and later, in the chinoiserie taste, the fan front enclosing a fitted interior with a central pagoda cupboard, above two short and three long graduated drawers with stylised blind-fret carving, and raised on bracket feet,
85cm wide
48cm deep
107cm high
£700 - 900
LOT 533
A pair of brass and iron firedogs and basket, 19th century, each firedog with a brass spindle over canon ball stem, basket with firedogs 93cm wide 46cm deep 51cm high, together with a poker and a pair of tongs (5)
£200 - 300
A Steinway & Sons baby grand piano, early 20th century, serial no. ‘229193’, the mechanism inscribed ‘Tubular Metallic Action Frame PAT [patent]’, within a walnut case, 143cm wide
182cm deep
98cm high, and a button-upholstered and adjustable piano stool (2)
£3,000 - 5,000
A Tabriz wool carpet, 20th century, Persian, woven with geometric floral and foliate motifs to a pale ground, 312 x 226cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 534
LOT 535
535
534
A Yamaha ‘C3 Conservatory’ grand piano, c.1980, no. ‘D3090356’, 145cm wide
185cm long
100cm high, and an adjustable piano stool (2)
£4,000 - 6,000
539
LOT 537
Two framed sets of plaster intaglios, 19th century, each housed in a moulded and glazed octagonal frame, smaller 21.5cm wide larger 42 x 39cm (2)
£150 - 250
LOT 538
A sailor’s valentine double -cased shellwork, c.1840, each 10.75-inch side inlaid with varying shells in concentric bands and blocks, within an octagonal, hinged and glazed mahogany case, with crossbanded decoration and a mother-of-pearl escutcheon, 64.5cm wide open 10cm deep closed 32cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 539
A shellwork model representing Napoleon’s tomb, 19th century, French, the hinged central casket enclosing a wax figure and under an architectural four-columned canopy, raised on a marquetry-inlaid base, with a glass dome, 29cm wide
18cm deep
41.5cm high (2)
£1,000 - 2,000
Napoleon’s tomb was designed and built between 1840 and 1861 at Les Invalides in Paris to keep the remains of Napoleon following their repatriation to France from St Helena. Although the present model does not accurately adhere to the design of the Parisian monument (in fact, it is more similar to Napoleon III’s tomb in form), the addition of several initialled ‘N’s and a bicorne hat on top of the tomb indicate the maker’s intention.
LOT 540
A sailor’s shellwork double -cased valentine, c.1860-1870, each 7.5 x 8-inch side inlaid with varying shells in concentric bands and blocks, the right panel with ‘forget me not’, the left with a heart, within an octagonal hinged and glazed mahogany case, with carrying chain and hook and eye fastening, 46cm wide open
7cm deep closed
23cm high
£800 - 1,200
A scratch-built model of ship, c.1900, inscribed ‘Alice’, modelled as an oyster trawler, fully rigged with five sails, with wood decking, a painted hull and a rudder, on a wooden stand, 114cm wide
40cm deep
89cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
A cased model of the SS ‘City of Paris’, 19th century, the model of a three-funnel steamship with billowing smoke and underway, in a glazed sloped-top case with painted back and sides, 96.5cm wide
18cm deep
40cm high
£800 - 1,200
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LOT 543
A set of twelve Victorian silver second course plates, by John Samuel Hunt, London 1858-9, also stamped Hunt & Roskell late Storr & Mortimer 9382, each with ribbon and leaf ‘French’ border, with an engraved crest, 26cm diameter, 227ozt (12)
£6,000 - 8,000
LOT 544
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LOT 545
An Edwardian eighteen-setting silver canteen of cutlery, by Mappin & Webb Ltd., Sheffield 1912, each decorated with a ribbon-tied laurel cartouche enclosing an ‘HB’ cypher, all above harebells, stamped ‘Rd 547092’ comprising:
18 tablespoons, 20.8cm long
18 dessert spoons, 17cm long
18 table forks, 20cm long
18 dessert forks, 17.2cm long
2 vegetable spoons, 22.3cm long
2 sauce ladles, 16.6cm long and a soup ladle, 28.5cm long,
all contained within an oak canteen, complete with recessed brass handles and a lined interior, with an ivorine plaque inscribed ‘Mappin & Webb, 2 Queen Victoria St. London E.C.’, 44.5cm wide 33.2cm deep
LOT 546
Two silver-plated bottle coasters, each pierced rim with fruiting vine, 21cm diameter
4.5cm high (2)
£200 - 400
Provenance: The property of a gentleman.
LOT 547
A George III silver twin-handled entrée dish and cover, probably by Thomas Heming, London 1760-1, of circular form, the cover engraved with a crest with a stork, with a turned wooden finial, over a base with gadrooned rim, 24cm wide
23cm deep
10cm high, total weight 27ozt (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 548
A George II silver two-handled cup, by John Langlands I, Newcastle 1759-60, of typical form with an applied waistband, ‘S’ scroll handles and raised on a pedestal foot, 24cm wide
13cm deep
16.5cm high, 18ozt
£400 - 600
Provenance: The property of a gentleman.
LOT 549
An Irish George II silver ewer, by Matthew West, Dublin, probably 1751, of plain baluster form with a pedestal base and ‘S’ scroll wooden handle, scratch marks
‘J.F’ to the underside, 13cm wide
17.5cm deep
24.5cm high, total weight 25ozt
£400 - 600
Provenance: The property of a gentleman.
LOT 550
A pair of Edwardian silver candlesticks, by Elkington & Co. Ltd., London 1901-2, the stop-fluted columns above spreading square bases with beaded rims, 11cm wide
11.5cm deep
27cm high, loaded (2)
£400 - 600
Provenance: HMS ‘Lusitania’, by repute; the selected contents of North Road House, Hertfordshire.
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LOT 551
A pair of George II cast silver candlesticks, by John Priest, London 1756, each sconce with a removable drip pan, over a knopped column, on a stepped square foliate base, 11cm wide
11cm deep
24cm high, 37.6ozt (2)
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 552
A silver-gilt porringer, London 1680-1697, the body with a gently flared rim over moulded band and twin ‘S’ scroll handles, the underside with erased inscription reading ‘…departed this life 24 January 1798, blessed be the memory, wise and good’ and initialled ‘K H’, marks worn,
15.5cm wide
9.5cm deep
8.5cm high, 5.78ozt
£600 - 800
LOT 553
A French silver sauce boat, maker’s marks rubbed, Paris 1798-1809, the body with a large loop handle and applied reeded borders, on a pedestal foot with oval base and bracket feet, 26cm wide
16cm deep
28cm high, 42ozt
£700 - 1,000
Provenance: Sotheby’s, ‘Works of Art from the Gutzwiller Collection’, 12 December 1996, lot 74.
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
554
After Jean de Boulogne aka ‘Giambologna’, late 19th century, two bronze figures of Venus and of Mercury, each raised on a turned plinth with cast decoration, 18cm diameter
82cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 555
William Forsell Kirby (1844-1912)
‘European Butterflies and Moths’
a set of twelve botanical lithograph prints, each numbered and depicting floral and insect specimens
26 x 20cm, each in a glazed giltwood frame, 42 x 35cm (12)
£400 - 600
Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington, ‘Interiors’, 2 August 2011, lot 471.
LOT 556
A mahogany, fruitwood and penwork jardinière, late 19th/early 20th century, Dutch, of basket shape with a swing handle, brass rim and pine-cone finial, raised on splayed supports, 36cm diameter
50cm high, together with a similar pair (3) £200 - 400
Provenance: The former purchased at Bonhams, ‘Fine Art & Interiors’, 7 March 2013, lot 687.
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Manner of Dora Carrington, first half of the 20th century, a group of five reverse-painted glass and foil-backed paintings, comprising: a small pair, each depicting a flowering basket with a bird, a larger pair, each with a cornucopia and a parrot, and one other, larger, with a peacock to the centre surrounded by flowers, largest 63 x 50cm, each framed and glazed (5)
£300 - 500
A Grand Tour bronze urn, 19th century, Italian, of tapering form and cast with flowering and fruiting foliage in relief, on a Rouge Griotte marble base, 17cm wide
13cm deep
18.5cm high
£300 - 500
A Louis XVI bois satiné, amaranth and fruitwood marquetry commode, c.1780, the Belgian grey Saint-Anne marble top above three drawers, the top drawer fitted and stamped to its leading edge, in 18th-century script, ‘N…7…N’, the angle mounts added in the early 20th century, 130cm wide
61cm deep
88cm high
£800 - 1,200
A large needlepoint carpet, decorated with bold roses and flowers, approximately 330 x 230cm
£600 - 800
LOT 557
LOT 558
LOT 559
LOT 560
560
559
558
557
A set of four ormolu wall appliqués, late 19th century, French, each with a tapering fluted backplate, with oak-leaf garland decoration surmounted by an urn, two scrolling leaf-cast branches with circular drip trays and leaf-cast nozzles, and a ribbon surmount, 27.5cm wide
13cm deep
49cms high (4)
£1,500 - 2,500
A pair of George IV mahogany torchères, c.1825, each with a ring-turned column, on a tripod base, 35cm wide
25cm deep
124cm high (2)
£800 - 1,200
A large gilt-bronze carriage clock, 19th century, French, the white enamel dial marked with Roman and Arabic chapter rings, in a case with Corinthian capitals over reeded columns to each corner, and glass panels to the sides and back, with a Greek-key-style top handle, 10.5cm wide
9cm deep
20cm high including handle
£200 - 400
LOT 561
LOT 562
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563
562
561
LOT 564
A Regency Spode porcelain tea service, first quarter of the 19th century, decorated in pattern ‘878’, for a twelve-place setting to include coffee cans, teacups and saucers, decorated in the Imari style with flower heads amongst gilt scrolls on a burnt-orange ground, some numbered in red to the underside, teapot 27cm wide
12cm deep
17cm high (43)
£1,000 - 1,500
A Minton bisque porcelain bust of Earl Grey, depicted in classical robes, raised on a gilt-lined circular socle and square base with inscription, damages,
9cm wide
5.5cm deep
17cm high
£150 - 250
A pair of Victorian walnut corner brackets late 19th century, each set with four shelves, 60cm wide
44cm deep
113cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 567
A pair of Egyptian Revival patinated metal bookends, late 19th/early 20th century, each modelled as a seated pharaoh, 4.5cm wide
8cm deep
13.5cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 565
LOT 566
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LOT 568
A Louis XVI cherrywood commode, c.1790, the rectangular Belgian grey Saint-Anne marble top above three short and two long graduated drawers, flanked by fluted turret columns headed by ribbed mounts cast with anthemia and Greek key, on toupie feet, 126cm wide
58cm deep
85cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 569
A pair of George III mahogany side chairs, late 18th century, each with a slatted square back, the seat with a floral cover, on tapering square supports terminating on spade feet, 54cm wide
54cm deep
93cm high (2)
£100 - 200
LOT 570
Two wool runners, 20th century, Caucasian/Persian, comprising a Gendje and a Shirvan example, Gendje 290 x 97cm
Shirvan 356 x 107cm (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 571
After George Edwards and Jacques de Sève, a set of twelve facsimile prints of primates, of recent manufacture, 39 x 33cm, each framed and glazed (12)
£100 - 200
LOT 572
Two ormolu figures of Napoleon, 19th century, French, each raised on a milk-glass column and a stepped octagonal base, 8cm wide
8cm deep
14cm high (2)
£300 - 500
571 part lot
572
570
569
568
LOT 573
A pair of Gothic Revival bronze tazzas, 19th century, each tazza with pierced scroll handles and spreading lancet embossed feet, on a marble plinth with acanthus-leaf bronze mounts, bases 20.5cm wide
12cm deep
25cm high (2)
£600 - 800
LOT 574
A large needlepoint rug, 20th century, the field with three roses on a pale biscuit ground, within a densely decorated banded border, 190 x 147cm
£400 - 600
LOT 575
Lorenzo Bartolini (Italian, 1777-1850), a carved white marble bust of Charles James Fox after Joseph Nollekens, signed to the reverse ‘BARTOLINI’, 30cm wide
30cm deep
48cm high
£8,000 - 12,000
Provenance: Sotheby’s, European Sculpture and Works of Art 900-1900, 28 October, 2003 lot 85.
Lorenzo Bartolini rose from modest origins to become one of the most celebrated Italian sculptors following Canova. In 1797, he moved to Paris and retrained in the Studio of Jacques-Louis David. He became a favoured sculptor for Napoléon, who sent him to Carrara in 1807 to direct the Academy of Sculpture and to set up a workshop dedicated to the production of portraits of the Bonaparte family. After the fall of Napoléon, Bartolini relocated to Florence where his grand tour patrons included Thomas Hope and the 6th Duke of Devonshire. This particular work of art depicts Charles James Fox (1749-1806), a leading British Whig politician, whose parliamentary career lasted thirty-eight years during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
It has been noted by John Kenworthy-Browne (a leading authority on the work of Lorenzo Bartolini) that Henry Matthews wrote in his ‘Travel Diary’, that ‘casts have been imported from London of the busts of the King, Fox, Pitt, Nelson, Perceval, and many others. Bartolini reproduces these in marble and sends them back to London...Notably, two busts of Fox by Bartolini are documented, one of which is housed at Ickworth’.
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LOT 576
A bronze figure of Narcissus, 19th century after the antique, Italian, modelled on a waisted circular base, 11.2cm diameter
27cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 577
A grand tour bronze model of the Colonne Vendôme, 19th century, French, raised on a black slate base, 7.5cm wide
7.5cm deep
18.5cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 578
After Guillaume Cousteau, 19th century, a pair of bronzes of the Marly horses, each depicted with a groom, on a naturalistic base, 14cm wide
30cm deep
39cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 579
A George III tortoiseshell and ivory-inlaid tea caddy, 19th century, of canted rectangular form with ivory banding, the interior fitted with a lidded compartment and green velvet lining, 11cm wide
7.5cm deep
8cm high
£200 - 400
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578
577
576
LOT 580
An alabaster bust of the Octavian Augustus, 19th century, after the antique, 21cm wide
16cm deep
35cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 581
A Regency satinwood tea caddy, 19th century, the hinged cover with an heraldic badge of the Prince of Wales, with crossbanded decoration and a central medallion inlaid with a bird amongst foliage on a painted green ground, 17cm wide
14cm deep
13cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 582
An ormolu and cold-painted bronze figural group, late 19th/early 20th century, probably Austrian, of two children with a sledge, 12.5cm wide
8cm deep
7cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 583
A collection of grand-tour-style resin sculptures, of recent manufacture, comprising the Temples of Vespasian and Titus, and Castor and Pollux, a bust of Emperor Lucius Verus, a bust of Lucrezia d’Este after Antonio Canova, and one other, Castor 26cm wide
10.5cm deep
56cm high (5)
£300 - 500
LOT 584
An ormolu, rock-crystal and malachite paperweight, second half of the 19th century, Russian, simulating a sleigh surmounted by an ice block, mounted on a rectangular base, 13cm wide
9cm deep
7cm high
£300 - 500
For a similar example using lapis lazuli, see Bonhams Skinner, ‘European Decor and Design, Part II, Featuring Russian Enamels and Silver from the Collection of James Lee Soffer’, 8-19 October 2023, lot 314.
FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART
586
A verdure tapestry fragment, 17th century, Flemish, decorated with pheasants in a wood with a house beyond, within a foliate decorated border, 239 x 267cm
£1,500 - 2,000
A specimen marble casket, 17th/18th century, Italian, the domed and hinged cover over a shaped front and flat back, 62cm wide
32cm deep
27cm high
£800 - 1,200
587
A pair of painted beech altar candlesticks, 18th century and later, each with gilded foliate decoration and raised on three lion paw feet, converted, 25cm wide
65.5cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 585
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A wrought-iron-mounted wooden chest, 18th century, the hinged top with a single handle, 30.5cm wide
22cm deep
12cm high
£250 - 450
LOT 589
A Persian Heriz wool runner, 20th century, with repeating floral motifs to a deep red ground, 332 x 98cm
£800 - 1,200
LOT 590
Three reverse -coloured engravings on glass, ‘The House of Moses Hart Esq. between Twickenham and Isleworth’, after Augustin Heckel, ‘A View of Greenwich Hospital’, and ‘A View of Hammersmith, looking down the Thames’, after J Boydell, 28 x 39.5cm, frame 39.5 x 51cm (3)
£200 - 400
LOT 591
A pair of glass table lamps, of recent manufacture, in the Art Deco style, each of spiralled tapering form, surmounted by a conical shade, 18cm diameter
75cm high (2)
£250 - 350
589
LOT 592
A George II walnut chest on stand second quarter of the 18th century and later, the upper section with two short and three long drawers, the base with three further drawers all with crossbanded and line-inlaid decoration, raised on cabriole legs and pad feet, 97cm wide
57cm deep
157cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 593
A George II-style wingback armchair, early 20th century, with grey linen upholstery, raised on square cabriole supports,
74cm wide
85cm deep
105cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 594
A George II walnut lowboy, c.1750, the quarter-veneered rectangular top with re-entrant front corners, above two frieze drawers, raised on knee-carved cabriole supports, terminating in pointed pad feet,
76cm wide
46cm deep
76cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 595
A Berber-style wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven in monochrome threads with a diamond trellis pattern,
250 x 157cm
£300 - 500
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594
593
592
LOT 596
A famille rose porcelain lamp, 20th century, Chinese, painted with precious objects, fruits and floral roundels, with a 15-inch diameter shade, 25cm diameter
67cm high with shade
£200 - 400
LOT 597
A verdure tapestry panel, 18th century, French, the central field decorated with a river landscape, figures in boats and a house, within a border of leafy foliage, on a later cotton backing, 235 x 135cm
£300 - 500
LOT 598
A gilt-metal-mounted and champlevé enamel mantel clock, second half of the 19th century, French, in the chinoiserie taste, decorated with flowering branches inlaid on a turquoise ground, the caddy top surmounted by a qilin, the movement stamped ‘Japy Frères Med d’Honneur’ and numbered ‘58’ and ‘6270’, with winding key and bell,
20.5cm wide
18cm deep
38cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 599
A pair of floor lamps by Maison Lunel, c.1950, French, each with four upright lights, with red collars and brass tulip crowns, with modern shades, 40cm diameter
162cm high (2)
£300 - 500
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600
LOT 600
A Regency-style painted wood and découpage kneehole desk, 20th century, decorated with sea creatures, with three frieze drawers, and raised on square supports, 87cm wide
41cm deep
77cm high
£150 - 200
LOT 601
A Regency mahogany, brass and coromandel console table, c.1820, Irish, the yellow marble top with black marble banding, over a foliate cut-brass inlaid frieze, raised on knee-carved supports terminating in paw feet, 183cm wide
86cm deep
94cm high
£800 - 1,200
Provenance: The Collection of the late Rosemary and Theo Cutting.
LOT 602
A Richard Ginori porcelain ‘Fish’ part service, 20th century, Italian, comprising twelve dinner plates and one oval serving dish, each with a gilt rim and painted with various fish to the centre, green painted factory marks, dinner plates 25cm diameter serving dish 39cm wide (13)
£500 - 700
For similar examples, see Christie’s, ‘The Mrs Henry Ford II Collection’, London, 15 April 2021, lot 90.
LOT 603
A Charles X mahogany guéridon, 19th century, French, the circular grey marble top raised on a gadrooned column and tripod base, terminating in paw feet, 100cm diameter
70cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 604
A pair of stained beech armchairs in the 17th-century style, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, each with an upholstered back and seat,
57cm wide
54cm deep
97cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 605
A George II-style painted wood and composition console table, 20th century, of demilune outline, with floral decoration, raised on turned supports united by a stretcher, 114cm wide
37cm deep
82cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 606
A large blond oak and leather stool, 20th century, the shaped top raised on cabriole supports, 150cm wide
110cm deep
46cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 607
A pair of oversized leather and limed wooden Gainsborough armchairs, of recent manufacture, by Andrew Martin, each with open arms and raised on knee-carved supports, terminating in claw and ball feet, 76cm wide
83cm deep
115cm high (2)
£800 - 1,200
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606
605
604
A pair of lacquered and brass-mounted occasional tables, late 20th century, in the Regency taste, each circular top raised on a baluster column and tripod base, 47cm diameter
70cm high (2)
£600 - 800
A Siena marble and walnut centre table 19th century, Italian, the rectangular top raised on turned supports united by stretchers, 126cm wide
70cm deep
84cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
A specimen-wood folding screen, early 20th century, Japanese, with marquetry and parquetry decoration of birds and blossoming branches, each leaf 37cm wide
123cm high
£300 - 500
A Louis XVI-style ebonised wooden bureau plat, 20th century, French, the rectangular top with a gilt-tooled leather skiver, above an arrangement of frieze drawers and tapering fluted supports, with all-over gilt-metal mounts, 131cm wide
70cm deep
78cm high
£500 - 700
LOT 608
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LOT 612
A near pair of mahogany step commodes, early 19th century and later, each with two hinged shelves, raised on square supports, one stamped ‘Gillows Lancaster’, the slightly taller 57cm wide
49cm deep
78cm high (2)
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 613
A pair of large painted and parcel-gilt wooden pilasters, 19th century, Italian, each of scrolling rococo design with acanthus detail,
63cm wide
47cm deep
168cm high (2)
£800 - 1,200
LOT 614
A pair of Louis XVI-style painted beech fauteuils, c.1930s, each with a studded needlepoint back and seat, raised on tapering stop-fluted supports, reputedly embroidered by French artists ‘Les Six’, Paris, for Princesse de Polignac, 68cm wide
55cm deep
90cm high (2)
£400 - 600
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612
LOT 615
An ebonised wooden floor lamp, of recent manufacture, with bobbin-turned detail, 24cm diameter
133cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 616
A pair of large walnut and parcel-gilt throne chairs, 19th century, Italian, each with a high back seat with sphinx finials, with open arms and square supports, upholstered in crimson velvet, 69cm wide
56cm deep
154cm high (2)
£500 - 700
LOT 617
A Regency-style Gonçalo alves serving table, late 19th/early 20th century, the arched back centred with three Gothic spires, the rectangular top above a reeded frieze and sabre supports, 181cm wide
66cm deep
103cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 618
A lacquered wooden brass and iron centre table, 20th century, Continental, the rectangular top raised on scrolling supports, 155cm wide
82cm deep
80cm high
£600 - 800
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617
616
LOT 619
Two pairs of ebonised fruitwood, ivory and silvered-brass inlaid hall chairs, 19th century, North Italian, each with an arched back decorated with a figure among foliate scrolls, set between a pair of spiral-turned pilasters, the rectangular seat raised on turned supports united by stretchers, 43cm wide
47cm deep
139cm high (4)
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 620
A painted leather, silvered-metal and bone -inlaid occasional table, 20th century, of square architectural form,
50cm wide
50cm deep
56cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 621
A steel and leather ‘Trestle’ table by Soane, of recent manufacture, the rectangular top raised on square tubular supports, 180cm wide
77cm deep
77cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 622
An ebonised wooden ‘Saville’ console table by Soane, of recent manufacture, the white marble top above a mirrored back, set between a pair of column supports, on a plinth base, 165cm wide
33cm deep
96cm high
£600 - 800
621
619
LOT 623
An Aubusson flat-weave wool carpet, 20th century, of 18th-century Savonnerie design, the central field decorated with large repeating flower head medallions to a biscuit ground, within further sage and biscuit ground borders, decorated with floral motifs, 375 x 272cm
£2,500 - 3,500
LOT 624
A painted and parcel-gilt wooden commode, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, of serpentine outline, decorated in the rococo taste with flowers and foliate scrolls, 113cm wide
50cm deep
90cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 625
Enrico Braga (Swiss-Italian, 1841-1919), a white marble bust of a girl, signed ‘E Braga Milano’, 28cm wide
19cm deep
48cm high
£300 - 500
A pair of late Victorian rosewood and ivory-inlaid cabinets by Collinson & Lock, c.1890, each of rectangular outline with a dentil-moulded cornice above a pair of glazed doors enclosing a velvet-lined interior, with two panelled cupboard doors beneath, raised on tapering square supports united by a shaped undertier, terminating in spade feet, stamped to the cupboard doors,
66cm wide
38cm deep
180cm high (2)
£7,000 - 9,000
Presented with a receipt of purchase dated 8 January 1927.
LOT 627
A pair of Louis-Philippe mahogany fauteuils, c.1830, each with reeded and anthemion-moulded open arms, raised on sabre supports, upholstered in laurel-decorated silk, 60cm wide
60cm deep
92cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 628
Two teak collector’s specimen cabinets, 20th century, by Philip Harris, each fitted with twenty-eight drawers containing microscope slides,
39cm wide
32cm deep
43cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 629
An Empire birch commode, late 18th/early 19th century, Northern European, the stepped rectangular top above three drawers set between a pair of column pilasters, raised on block feet, 103cm wide
50cm deep
91cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 630
A contemporary design wool carpet, 20th century, woven with stripes in neutral tones, 318 x 206cm
£600 - 800
630
629
628
627
LOT 631
A marble bust of a woman, 19th century, modelled in classical robes with an anthemion-decorated crown,
47cm wide
31cm deep
74cm high
£1,000 - 1,400
LOT 632
A pair of Art Deco-style mirrored glass bedside tables, late 20th century, each fitted with two drawers and raised on painted splayed supports, 41cm wide
35cm deep
69cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 633
A large Louis XV-style carved giltwood canapé, 19th century, French, the frame with scrolling foliate detail, with an arched back and serpentine seat, upholstered in green velvet, raised on squat cabriole supports terminating in castors,
282cm wide
80cm deep
124cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
633
631
632
LOT 634
A small George III mahogany linen press, third quarter of the 18th century, with a dentil-moulded cornice, above a pair of panelled doors enclosing oak slides, above two short and a long drawer, raised on bracket feet, 135cm wide
67cm deep
191cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 635
A Berber wool rug, 20th century, Moroccan, the thick pile woven with geometric motifs, 277 x 180cm
£400 - 600
636
A carved chestnut coffer, late 17th century and later, French, of joined construction, the hinged plank top above a panelled front with foliate detail, raised on stile supports, 179cm wide
45cm deep
50cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 637
A George II-style walnut stool, late 19th century, with a drop-in needlepoint seat, raised on knee-carved cabriole supports united by turned and square stretchers, terminating in pad feet, 56cm wide
48cm deep
47cm high
£200 - 400
LOT
LOT 638
A Persian Heriz wool carpet, early 20th century, woven with geometric foliate medallions to a red ground,337 x 224cm
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 639
A mahogany bijouterie table, late 19th/early 20th century, in the George II taste, with carved rococo detail, raised on knee-carved cabriole supports united by turned and square stretchers, terminating in pad feet, 79cm wide
49cm deep
76cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 640
A Regency rosewood specimen cabinet, c.1815, the brass top above a pair of grille doors, enclosing twelve drawers on a plinth base, terminating in concealed lignum vitae castors, 110cm wide
54cm deep
85cm high
£1,500 - 2,000
638
641
A large George IV mahogany dining table in the manner of Gillows, c.1820, the moulded top raised on reeded tapering supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, lacking leaves, extended 505cm long
153cm deep
73cm high
£500 - 700
642
A Berber-style wool carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated with a diamond trellis pattern to a blue ground, 400 x 280cm
£1,000 - 1,500
A steel and brass nursery fender, 19th century, with swag detail, 117cm wide 22cm deep
23cm high
£200 - 300
641
643
642
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LOT 643
LOT 644
A large George III mahogany library bookcase, early 19th century, of breakfront outline, with glazed doors enclosing shelves, above cupboard doors and a plinth base,
305cm wide
50cm deep
298cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 645
A bronze table lamp, 20th century, modelled as two elephants on a naturalistic base and column, with pleated shade, 30cm wide
28cm deep
55cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 646
A George II yew lowboy, mid-18th century, the moulded rectangular top above three drawers, with a scrolling fret-carved frieze, raised on cabriole supports terminating in pointed pad feet, 80cm wide
50cm deep
70cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 647
John Pass, after Johann Eberhard Ihle, a set of nine botanical prints, each hand-coloured engraving depicting a plant specimen to include cacti, corals and seaweeds, some titled underneath, 27 x 21cm, each in a glazed giltwood frame with banded gilt and marbled mount, 45.5 x 41cm (9)
£200 - 400
646
644
645
647 part lot
LOT 648
A copper bathtub by Catchpole & Rye, of recent manufacture,
74cm wide
180cm long
69cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
LOT 649
A Carrara marble sculpture of a classical figure, late 19th/early 20th century, modelled as a young woman holding a dove, depicted semi-nude and raised on an integral circular base,
20cm wide
20cm deep
76cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 650
A Swedish design flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated in greens and blues with a banded block pattern,
260 x 171cm
£500 - 700
LOT 651
A Victorian Gothic Revival oak desk chair, late 19th century, in the manner of Charles Bevan, the curved and chamfered top rail with dog-tooth carving over a pierced and shaped central splat, raised on four splayed supports with castors, 67cm wide
60cm deep
80cm high
£200 - 400
651 650
649
648
LOT 652
A green and gilt japanned longcase clock, 18th century and later, with a month-going movement with five pillars, striking the hours on a bell, the 12-inch brass dial with a silvered chapter ring set with Roman and Arabic numerals, with a calendar wheel, moonphase, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, inscribed ‘David Pain London’, the case with a stepped hood with three giltwood finials, above a pair of turned column pilasters flanking a glass door, the trunk with a conforming arched long door and a plinth base, with all-over chinoiserie decoration,
50cm wide
25cm deep
250cm high
£4,000 - 6,000
LOT 653
A flat-weave wool kilim runner, of recent manufacture, Afghan, decorated with a diamond trellis pattern within a border of geometric motifs, 393 x 82cm
£300 - 500
LOT 654
A George III fruitwood tea caddy, early 19th century, in the form of an apple, 12cm diameter
13cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 655
A George III fruitwood tea caddy, early 19th century, in the form of a pear, with original red blush and key, 12cm diameter
19cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 656
An ormolu figure of a boy, 19th century, signed to the reverse ‘P. Ferrarri’ and raised on a polished marble base, 5.5cm wide
6cm deep
16cm high
£200 - 400
656
655
654
653
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, KENSINGTON
LOTS 657-665
A Victorian silver-handled riding crop by Pearce & Sons, late 19th century, with chased and engraved decoration depicting a polo match, the acanthus-capped collar with an engraved shield-shaped cartouche inscribed ‘For best shot won by Pe H Senior 1883’, marked for Alfred Ambrose Wall, Birmingham, 1878, above a tapering plaited shaft, 79cm long
£200 - 300
LOT 658
A carved riding crop, late 19th/early 20th century, the handle modelled as a pug with inset glass eyes, over a wrythen horn shaft with a plaited whip,
60cm long
£300 - 500
LOT 659
An Edwardian gold-handled riding crop, early 20th century, the L-shaped handle marked for London, 1902, mounted in 15ct gold and marked ‘SWAINE LONDON’, over a crocodile leather grip, and a further gold-mounted section decorated with an eagle crest and marked ‘AVANTE’, with a tapering shaft, 9cm wide
83cm long
£300 - 500
LOT 660
A rhino horn side -saddle whip, second half of the 19th century, the slender tapering shaft with wrythen pommel, over a chased and engraved silver-gilt collar with vacant floral cartouche, 83cm long
£400 - 600
LOT 661
An antler and malacca riding crop, early 20th century, the handle modelled as a whippet with glass eyes, over a white metal collar and a slender tapering shaft stamped ‘ARCADE’, 6.5cm wide
78cm long
£150 - 250
LOT 657
A silver-mounted riding crop, late 19th century, French, the handle with reeded decoration above a leather shaft with indistinct embossed gilt lettering, 9.5cm wide
80.5cm long, a silver and niello work riding crop, 19th century, the curved handled chased with a cypher ‘BH’, above a leather shaft, 8cm wide
77cm long, and a Victorian silver-mounted bamboo riding crop, with a silver collar and cap, 11cm wide
81cm long (3)
£200 - 300
A Victorian steel, silver and malacca riding crop, late 19th century, with a hammer grip above a collar marked for London, 1888, and a tapering shaft, 81cm long, together with a similar riding crop, the top formed as a dog, 73cm long (2)
£100 - 150
A leather riding crop, late 19th/early 20th century, the handle formed as a golf club above a palmwood shaft, 8cm wide 80cm long, and a leather example, with an antler handle, 68cm long (2)
£100 - 200
A silver-mounted deer-hoof riding crop, late 19th/early 20th century, with an engine-turned silver collar, unmarked, and a malacca shaft, 10cm wide
72.5cm long, a leather-mounted deer-hoof riding crop, 20th century, Afghan, 7cm wide
100cm long, and and a Gaucho silver-mounted riding crop, Argentinian, with a repoussé decorated handle, 4.5cm wide
75.5cm long (3)
£150 - 250
LOT 662
LOT 663
LOT 664
LOT 665
From the Collection of Bunny Campione
Bunny Campione is one of the best-known and most-loved faces from the long-running BBC series ‘The Antiques Roadshow’, where she specialises in dolls, doll’s houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews, amongst other esoteric fields. She gained a wide knowledge of antiques working at Sotheby’s for twenty-three years until 1996, firstly in the Furniture Department and latterly in the Collectors Department, followed by a stint as a Senior Consultant for Christie’s until 2002. The group of twenty lots included in this sale encompass two of her favourite disciplines - antique birdcages and miniature furniture - and include pieces she has enthusiastically collected throughout her life, from several prestigious outlets such as Jeremy Ltd.
LOT 666
A large Aubusson-style painted canvas hanging, 20th century, with a central cartouche enclosing classical figures riding a chariot, within a border of putti, drapery flowers and architectural motifs, 213 x 265cm
£200 - 400
LOT 667
A painted wire birdcage, 19th century, the three-domed form with top handle, hinged door and open base, 61cm wide
31cm deep
61cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 668
A Louis XV manufacturer’s sample fauteuil, c.1760, the walnut frame carved with scrolls and foliage, upholstered in piped checked cotton, 39.5cm wide
28cm deep
54cm high
£800 - 1,200
Provenance: O F Wilson Ltd., Queen’s Elm Parade, London, purchased 8 January 2002.
LOT 669
Two George II miniature bureaux, each with strung decoration, a slope enclosing a stepped interior with pigeonholes, three drawers and a well, over two short and two long drawers within oak sides on bracket feet,
22cm wide
11cm deep
24cm high (2)
£500 - 900
LOT 670
A miniature mahogany Chippendale -style single chair, late 19th century, with a vase-shaped pierced splat, over a drop-in seat and moulded square front legs,
38cm wide
30cm deep
64cm high
£150 - 300
LOT 671
A beech doll’s chair, 19th century, in 17th-century style, with a scroll carved crest over open arms and an upholstered back and seat, raised on ring-turned legs,
28cm wide
18cm deep
23cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 672
A painted pine architectural birdcage, 19th century, in the form of a building with lantern roof, over a frieze mounted with a clock face, part-glazed façade and wirework sides, with a pull-out drawer and feeder, 34cm wide
28cm deep
52cm high
£500 - 800
LOT 673
A miniature floral marquetry bureau à cylindre, 19th century, Dutch, inlaid with urns and floral festoons, the fitted interior with pigeonholes and small drawers, a slide and two drawers to the base, on swept legs, 43cm wide
27cm deep
33cm high
£300 - 500
A George III chinoiserie birdcage, the wirework cage of pagoda form, with canted corners and turned mahogany finials and pendants, enclosing three feeders and a galvanised metal drinker, on a mahogany base with a pull-out drawer and bracket feet, 31cm wide
24cm deep
56cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
Provenance: Dreweatt Neate, ‘Antique Furniture, Clocks & Scientific Instruments’, 30 January 2002, lot 548.
A travelling birdcage, early 19th century, the cylindrical mahogany base on glass feet with inlaid decoration to the sides and base, below a polished metal cage with a vertically sliding door, original detachable water and feeding bowls, and original case, 19.7cm diameter
20cm high (2)
£2,000 - 4,000
Provenance: Jeremy Ltd., Lowndes Street, London, purchased 16 June 2000.
For a similar example, see ‘The Dictionary of English Furniture’, vol 1, p.77.
LOT 674
LOT 675
675
673
674
LOT 676
A provincial elm child’s correction chair, 19th century, painted in green with an ‘X’ frame splat above a caned seat, raised on tapering square supports united by stretchers, 30cm wide
40cm deep
98cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 677
A miniature bentwood child’s chair, late 19th/early 20th century, the bentwood seat punched with decorative holes, reading ‘BABY’, on a beechwood frame, 24cm wide
24cm deep
50cm high, and a miniature beechwood rustic Windsor chair, 29cm wide
23cm deep
46cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 678
A miniature Victorian mahogany circular table, with a snap top on a vase-shaped column, a platform base and brass paw feet, 26cm diameter
24cm high, together with a mahogany supper table, with a rectangular top on a baluster-turned column and waisted platform base, 25cm wide
19.5cm deep
17cm high, and an oak stool, 22cm high
12cm deep
12cm high (3)
£300 - 500
LOT 679
An arte povera miniature table cabinet, late 19th/early 20th century, the exterior decorated with printed romantic landscapes, the two doors enclosing an arrangement of nine drawers decorated with a hunting scene, birds, urns and pastoral landscapes, 30cm wide
20cm deep
28.5cm high
£300 - 500
Provenance: Richard Duboff Fine Art Ltd., Grosvenor Road, London, purchased 13 June 1989.
678
677
676
LOT 680
A Louis XV Transitional-style rosewood serpentine miniature commode, late 19th/early 20th century, French, the top and sides decorated with cube parquetry in sycamore and rosewood, over a similarly decorated fall-front, with an inlaid oval panel depicting a fable from ‘The Wolf and Lamb’ by Jean de la Fontaine, within strung and crossbanded borders and enclosing three drawers, raised on cabriole legs terminating in gilt-bronze sabots,
37.5cm wide
27.5cm deep
28cm high
£250 - 450
With expertise report by Eugène Brelaz, St-Laurent-du-Var, France, undated.
LOT 681
A Victorian miniature centre table, with a burr walnut snap top, inlaid with an urn of flowers and an exotic bird within scrolling borders, on a turned column and carved outswept legs, 30cm diameter
12cm high, together with a further mahogany centre table, the top inlaid with a central patera within a six-pointed star, on a carved and turned column, and moulded and scrolled legs, 27cm diameter
23cm high (2)
£500 - 1,000
LOT 682
A George III chinoiserie birdcage, the pagoda-shaped cage with a turned finial, two mahogany feeders, a perch and swing, over a banded mahogany base with turned faux bells and finials, 40cm wide
24cm deep
50cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
Provenance: Turpin’s Antiques, Hungerford, Berkshire, purchased 5 June 1998.
LOT 683
A walnut miniature commode, late 19th century, Continental, the serpentine front having three drawers with knob handles, on compressed bun feet, 30cm wide
17cm deep
23.5cm high, together with an inlaid mahogany commode, 19th century, Italian, the three long drawers with stylised inlaid swags and banding, on short square tapering legs, 30cm wide
14.7cm deep
25.5cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 684
A miniature mahogany chest of drawers, 19th century, the moulded rectangular top over four drawers, each with an ornate brass escutcheon and two knob handles, within double ‘D’ moulded sides and raised on bracket feet,
19.5cm wide
9.5cm deep
19cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 685
A miniature George III-style tripod table, the circular top on a baluster-turned column and outswept legs, 17.5cm diameter
15.5cm high, and a miniature mahogany folding stepladder, 7cm wide
15cm high (2)
£200 - 400
LOT 686
Spare lot
684
683
FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART
A Louis XV-style gilt-brass and cut-glass chandelier, 20th century, decorated in the rococo taste, set with neoclassical figures supporting fifty lights, with further lights within, with numerous variously shaped cut-glass drops, 145cm wide
180cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 688
A pair of painted bedside cabinets, 20th century, Italian, each decorated with scrolls and leafy vines, with twin cupboard doors enclosing three drawers and raised on cabriole supports, 62cm wide
38cm deep
83cm high (2)
£400 - 600
LOT 687
687
688
A pair of silk curtains, 20th century, each length with a pleated top, 186cm wide at pleated top edge
234cm wide at bottom edge
221cm long, together with a pelmet with beaded fringe, pelmet 290cm wide (3)
£400 - 800
An oak chest of drawers, late 17th century and later, the rectangular top above three long drawers with geometric-moulded fronts and brass drop handles, raised on stile feet, 103cm wide
58cm deep
98cm high
£600 - 800
A flat-weave wool dhurrie carpet, of recent manufacture, Indian, in an ikat-style pattern with blue on a white ground,
285 x 195cm
£500 - 700
LOT 689
LOT 690
LOT 691
691
690
689
LOT 692
A George III 3-inch pocket globe and case by Dudley Adams of London, late 18th/early 19th century, printed ‘A New Globe of the Earth by Dudley Adams’ within a rectangular cartouche, the terrestrial globe with twelve hand-coloured and engraved gores, outside the cartouche printed ‘J. Mynde Sc’ , with pinholes at the poles and showing ‘Cook’s going out 1776’ and King’s Return 1780’, the American coastline north of California is drawn with Alaska and Behring, in a fish-skin covered case with a celestial globe applied to inner surfaces, two hooks and eyes,
7.5cm diameter (2)
£3,000 - 5,000
Dudley Adams (1762-1830), was a maker of pocket globes, compasses, table gloves and patented spectacles, working at Charing Cross for sixteen years and then joining the family business on Fleet Street from 1796. From a family of renowned instrument-makers, Adams was the son of George Adams Snr. (1750-1795), and younger brother of George Adams Jnr. (1750-1795).
For a similar example, see Bonhams, ‘Instruments of Science and Technology’, 15 September 2021, lot 168.
LOT 693
An Empire Siena marble and ormolu obelisk clock, 19th century, French, set with Roman numerals and arrow-form hands, with an eight-day movement with a silk suspension, striking a bell on the hours and half hours, the backplate inscribed ‘Blondeau Ht Du Roi A Paris’ and numbered ‘1087 71’, raised on acanthus-capped paw feet, 22.5cm wide
21.9cm deep
47.5cm high
£600 - 800
Antoine Blondeau settled at 19, rue de la Paix in Paris between 1825 and 1830. He was represented at the Public Exhibition of the products of French industry in 1827 and invented the window watch in 1830.
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LOT 694
A large brass carriage clock, early 20th century, the white enamel dial marked by Roman and Arabic numerals, an engraved inscription below reads ‘N. Shelmderdine from his Father Jany 14th 1900’, striking the half-hours, the case with twin Corinthian capitals and spiralled columns, and five bevelled glass panels, the backplate numbered ‘883’, with key and leather travelling case, 13cm wide
9.5cm deep
21cm high to top of handle (2)
£800 - 1,200
LOT 695
An onyx and gilt-mounted mantel clock, 19th century, French, surmounted with a twin-handled tazza, over an enamelled dial with Roman numerals, and a twin fusee movement striking the half hours,
38cm wide
18cm deep
44cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 696
A large painted folk art doll’s house, c.1930, the front opening to reveal a two-storey interior, with various pieces of carved wood miniature furniture, including a piano, 37cm wide
18cm deep
62cm high
£350 - 450
LOT 697
An alabaster figure of the Callipygian Venus, 19th century after the antique, probably Italian, raised on a later plinth,
13cm wide
13cm deep
28cm high
£600 - 800
A carved giltwood and gesso overmantel mirror, 19th century, the arched frame with foliate detail, 170cm wide
212cm high
£1,000 - 1,500
A ‘Newport’ breakfront console table, of recent manufacture, lacquered in cream, the top over a Gothic-style pierced apron, raised on tapering supports, 153cm wide
58cm deep
90cm high
£600 - 800
A mahogany ‘Vendome’ sofa by Soane, of recent manufacture, upholstered in ‘Old Flax: Sky Blue’ by Soane, 245cm wide
85cm deep
87cm high
£600 - 800
LOT 698
LOT 699
LOT 700
LOT 701
A Sèvres-style porcelain and ormolu-mounted bowl, 19th century, the body with painted panels enclosing a cherub to one side and a floral bouquet to the other, on a bleu céleste ground with gilt scrolling borders, mounted with acanthus-cast twin handles and raised on a dolphin tripartite base, 44cm wide
33cm deep
28.5cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 702
A wooden faux bamboo conservatory dining set, of recent manufacture, the turquoise-painted set comprising an octagonal table with a glass top and four armchairs in Brighton Pavilion-style, table 123cm wide
123cm deep
78cm high (5)
£400 - 600
LOT 703
A flat-weave wool kilim, of recent manufacture, Afghan, woven with polychrome vegetable-dyed threads in geometric motifs,
307 x 205cm
£500 - 700
LOT 704
A pine washstand, 20th century, with a frieze drawer, over simulated bamboo supports, 80cm wide
45cm deep
76cm high
£100 - 200
LOT 705
A pair of red velvet two-seater sofas, of recent manufacture, Italian, each with red piping and loose cushions,
217cm wide
105cm deep
86cm high (2)
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 706
A flat-weave wool dhurrie carpet, of recent manufacture, Indian, woven in black and grey with a geometric design,
342 x 251cm
£300 - 500
LOT 707
A Regency painted and parcel-gilt wooden music stand, c.1815, decorated all over with foliate scrolls, oak leaves and acorns, with an adjustable telescopic platform above a fluted column decorated with stiff acanthus leaves, and raised on a tripod base terminating in gilt-brass claw and ball feet,
50cm wide
50cm deep
122cm high at lowest
£300 - 500
705
706
707
A baroque -style painted wooden coffee table, of recent manufacture, the rectangular top over turned and stretchered baluster supports, terminating in squat bun feet,
174cm wide
104cm deep
42cm high
£200 - 400
A stained wooden easel, early 20th century, with a ratcheted action,
87cm wide
125cm deep
176cm high
£200 - 400
A Regency rosewood and brass chiffonier, c.1820, the stepped superstructure with a pierced brass gallery, mottled mirror back and with beaded edges, above a pair of brass grille doors, with foliate cut-brass detail, raised on scroll feet,
108cm wide
40cm deep
137cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 708
710
709
708
LOT 709
LOT 710
LOT 711
A Louis XVI-style carved beech settee, late 19th/early 20th century, the carved and crested top rail and arms with acorn finials, over the back and drop-in seat upholstered in sage-green toile de Jouy fabric, with two bolster cushions,
153cm wide
65cm deep
100cm high (3)
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 712
A George III-style mahogany kettle stand, late 19th/early 20th century, the rectangular top above a pair of slides and cabriole supports, with shallow relief carving to the knees and feet,
448cm wide
38cm deep
58.5cm high
£300 - 500
A mahogany shop display cabinet, early 20th century, with glazed sides and doors enclosing a pair of shelves, 73cm wide
38cm deep
77cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 713
A Scandinavian design flat-weave wool kilim carpet, of recent manufacture, decorated with polychrome blocks with serrated ends,
300 x 200cm
£600 - 800
A long oak settle, 18th century, with a high panelled back above a pair of open arms and a moulded seat, raised on ring-turned supports united by stretchers,
268cm wide
62cm deep
140cm high
£600 - 800
A specimen marble and hardstone tabletop, 20th century, decorated with fifteen variously shaped classical vessels, 59cm diameter
51cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 714
LOT 715
LOT 716
715
714
716
717
A carved teak door panel, 19th century, Indian, with foliate decoration, 170 x 170cm
£300 - 500
A Louis XVI painted beech single bed, late 18th century, French, with urn and swag surmounts to the headboard and footboard, upholstered in green velvet, 130cm wide
198cm long
148cm high
£400 - 600
719
A Persian wool carpet, 20th century, Tabriz, with a central floral medallion and herati motifs to a cream ground, 400 x 304cm
£300 - 500
LOT
719
718
717
LOT 718
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A pair of carved and painted overdoors from Weald Hall, Essex, second quarter of the 18th century, possibly from a design by Giacomo Leoni (Italian, c.1686-1746), each with a moulded pediment over Ionic capitals, and formal leaf swags of laurel leaves and berries united by a tied ribbon, 133cm wide
11cm deep
80cm high (2)
£1,000 - 2,000
Provenance: R C Knight & Sons, Norwich, ‘Weald Hall, Brentwood, Essex, Sale of the Valuable Fixtures and Fittings’, 1950, lot 100; purchased from the above by the vendor’s father; thence by descent.
Although Weald Hall’s architect has never been confirmed, it is plausible that Giacomo Leoni had some involvement in its design around the 1720s, when he was at his most prolific (see Giles Worsley, ‘England’s Lost Houses’, 2002, p.108). Leoni, also known as James Leoni, was born in Venice c.1686, and came to England c.1714, aged 28, where he was instrumental in introducing the Palladian style through his publication of the first complete English translation of Palladio’s ‘I Quattro Libri Dell’Architettura’. His designs appeared refreshing and elegant compared to the heaviness of English Baroque, and almost immediately attracted the attention of several wealthy patrons, with great commissions including Lyme Park, Cheshire, and Clandon Park, Surrey. The latter is credited as being Leoni’s ‘masterpiece’ and an important example of the transition from Baroque to Palladianism, but was lost to a fire in 2015.
Weald Hall was no stranger to the most prominent names in 18th-century art and design; Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was responsible for the naturalistic landscaping that took place around the 1730s-40s, and Robert Adam was commissioned by the Tower family to produce several designs in 1778 (now housed in the Sir John Soane’s Museum, London), some of which were brought to life in the Hall’s dining room.
A Regency mahogany chaise longue, c.1820, with scrolled ends and upholstered in striped yellow silk, raised on tapering square supports terminating in brass caps and castors, stamped ‘B.B. & CO. PATENT’, 75cm wide
220cm long
90cm high
£700 - 1,000
LOT 721
LOT 722
A modernist steel and glass side table, 20th century, with two platforms and hairpin supports, 57cm wide
57cm deep
67cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 723
A Palladian ebonised oak bookcase, 19th century, of breakfront form with three glazed doors flanked by reeded pilasters, raised on a base with three drawers and squat bun feet, 257cm wide
66cm deep
230cm high
£1,500 - 2,500
LOT 724
A neoclassical rosewood and parcel-gilt mirror, 19th century, with an arched top and foliate scrolls, 82cm wide
111cm high
£300 - 500
723
722
724
LOT 725
A set of eight Victorian walnut dining chairs, late 19th century, each top rail with an acanthus-carved crest, upholstered in studded leather and raised on tapering fluted supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, stamped ‘J. Thorpe’ and numbered beneath,
50cm wide
55cm deep
90cm high (8)
£600 - 800
LOT 726
A pierced gilt-metal folding screen, 20th century, Spanish, with three arched panels with scrolling detail, each panel 56cm wide
172cm high
£200 - 400
A walnut, fruitwood and ebonised commode, late 18th century, North Italian, with parquetry detail and fitted with two drawers, raised on tapering square supports, 121cm wide
54cm deep
91cm high
£700 - 900
LOT 728
A Renaissance -style carved walnut throne chair, 19th century, with an embossed leather back and seat, with shell stud detail, 77cm wide
62cm deep
124cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 727
LOT 729
A walnut centre table, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, the scagliola top above frieze drawers, and raised on square baluster supports united by a wavy stretcher, 186cm wide
80cm deep
79cm high
£2,000 - 3,000
LOT 730
A Heriz wool runner, Persian, the central field decorated with geometric medallions to a pale ground, within a border of multiple bands,
361 x 95cm
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 731
A George IV rosewood chiffonier, c.1830, the superstructure supported by a pair of carved lion monopodia, above a pair of cupboard doors flanked by column pilasters, 114cm wide
51cm deep
121cm high
£400 - 600
729
730
731
LOT 732
A George III polished steel fender, late 18th/early 19th century, of serpentine outline with pierced decoration, 123cm wide
31cm deep
17cm high
£200 - 300
LOT 733
A Kashan wool carpet, 20th century, Persian, the field woven with shaped medallions, profusely decorated with scrolling floral and foliate motifs, within four borders, on a blue and cream ground,
350 x 265cm
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 734
A pair of Genoese -style metal and glass table candelabras, 19th century, French or Italian, each with twin scroll arms terminating in a glass-beaded column, issuing two scrolled branches with sconces and drip pans issuing cut-glass beads and droplets,
38cm wide
16cm deep
45cm high (2)
£400 - 600
733
734
732
LOT 735
A weathered marble figure, 19th century, in the form of a nude female on a chaise longue, 48cm wide
23cm deep
47cm high
£800 - 1,200
LOT 736
An Empire -style green glass and ormolu jardinière, 19th century, French, of oval shape with overlaid decoration with neoclassical motifs, raised on bracket feet, 24.9cm wide
18.6cm deep
13cm high
£200 - 400
LOT 737
A carved and polychrome -painted Madonna and Child, in the 16th-century manner, Continental, modelled with one arm outstretched, on an ebonised plinth with gilded scrolls, 45cm wide
26cm deep
82cm high
£1,000 - 2,000
736
735
LOT 738
A scratch-built folk art doll’s house, c.1930s, formed from a wall cabinet, with two glazed doors below a pitched roof,
82cm wide
52cm deep
93cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 739
A pair of Renaissance -style carved giltwood and polychrome angels, 17th century, Italian, each with inset glass eyes and holding aloft a wrought-iron three-light candle branch, 48cm wide
40cm deep
71cm high (2)
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 740
A carved marble bust of a gentleman, 19th century, raised on a waisted circular socle, 49cm wide
35cm deep
72cm high
£600 - 800
740
739
738
LOT 741
An imitation marble figure, of recent manufacture, in the form of a classical winged male, 53cm wide
53cm deep
128cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 742
A Tabriz wool carpet, the madder field with a large indigo medallion, within an indigo ground palmette border and two pairs of guard stripes, 396 x 272cm
£1,000 - 2,000
LOT 743
A pair of wrought-iron apartment gates, 20th century, French, each of scrolling form, 140 x 80cm (2)
£200 - 400
743
741
742
GARDEN LOTS 744-759
A cast iron garden ‘serpent’ bench, 19th/20th century, the single plank back and seat raised on twisting serpent supports,
158cm wide
55cm deep
79cm high
£400 - 600
A pair of painted aluminium garden chairs, 20th century, each in the Coalbrookdale ‘Fern and Blackberry’ pattern, 67cm wide
67cm deep
92cm high (2)
£600 - 800
A pair of large carved lava stone Buddhist lions or Barong, 20th century, Indonesian (Javanese), each raised on a metal plinth, larger 120cm wide
44cm deep
43cm high (4)
£300 - 500
LOT 744
LOT 745
LOT 746
745
744
746
LOT 747
A group of eight carved Cotswold stone finials or piers, 18th century, each formed as a ball, comprising: one large example, a near pair of medium examples, a near pair of small examples, and three other medium examples, 26 to 40cm diameter (8)
£1,000 - 2,000
Provenance: Edgeworth Manor, Stroud, Gloucestershire, by repute.
LOT 748
A Tang-style cast iron trough, 20th century, Chinese, cast with panels of flowers, hoop rings and dragon-head feet, 105cm wide
58cm deep
43cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 749
A painted cast iron urn, 20th century, with a flared rim over a lobed body and socle base, raised on a square stepped plinth, 53cm diameter of neck
117.5cm high including plinth (2)
£500 - 800
LOT 750
A marble fountain, the circular bowl surmounted by a cherub clasping a dolphin, on a column base carved with further fish, 57cm diameter
127cm high
£600 - 800
748 747
LOT 751
A Victorian carved stone sundial, 19th century, the later square metal plate supported by a Gothic-style column,
34cm wide
34cm deep
80cm high
£400 - 600
LOT 752
A lead birdbath or fountain, 20th century, modelled as a cherub holding a dish aloft,
35cm diameter
72cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 753
A Victorian painted cast iron jardinière or planter frame, 19th century, raised on pierced supports and a hexagonal plinth, 60cm diameter
64cm high
£300 - 500
LOT 754
A stone trough, of rectangular form, 121cm wide
56cm deep
34cm high
£600 - 800
752
753
751
754
LOT 755
A pair of conical metal obelisk planters, each with a ball finial, 54cm diameter
233cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 756
A pair of metal Windsor obelisks, each with a ball finial, 59cm diameter
197cm high (2)
£300 - 500
LOT 757
A pair of metal Windsor obelisks, each with a ball finial, 44cm diameter
140cm high (2)
£200 - 300
LOT 758
A pair of metal obelisk planters, each with a ball finial, 43.5cm diameter
183cm high (2)
£150 - 250
LOT 759
A pair of metal Windsor obelisks, each with a ball finial, 54cm diameter
162cm high (2)
£200 - 300
759
757
758
756
755
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1. INFORMATION FOR BUYERS
Introduction
The following notes are intended to assist Bidders and Buyers, particularly those that are inexperienced or new to our salerooms. All of our auctions are governed by our Terms and Conditions and any notices that are displayed in our salerooms or announced by the Auctioneer at the auction. Our Terms and Conditions are available for inspection at our salerooms and the Terms of Sale are printed in the back of our auction catalogues. Our staff will be happy to help you if there is anything in our Terms and Conditions that you do not fully understand. Please make sure that you read our Terms of Sale carefully before bidding in the auction. If your bid is successful, you will be obliged to comply with our Terms of Sale.
Methods of payment
Lots must be paid for before they are collected or shipped. For those attending the auction we ask that Lots are paid for on the day of the sale. Methods by which we accept payment are detailed on our Website, including online payment upon receipt of your invoice, and these should be paid by 5pm on the Friday following the sale. We accept cash to an upper limit of 10,000 euros equivalent. Any cheques will need to be cleared before you can take the Goods away.
Collection and storage
All Lots should be paid for and collected by 5pm on the Friday following the sale. Commission Bidders should check the success of their bids and arrange payment, and collection or shipping within this time. For our specialist auctions please refer to the collection and storage requirements detailed in the catalogue and on our Website, which specifies the applicable fees.
Agency
As Auctioneers we usually act on behalf of the Seller whose identity, for reasons of confidentiality, is not normally disclosed. If you buy at auction your contract for the Goods is with the Seller, not with us as Auctioneer.
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.
Buyer’s Premium
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.
Lots which do not have either of the above symbols have no VAT payable on the Hammer Price. This is because such Lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. The VAT included within the Premium is not recoverable as input tax.
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.
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
Bidders are required to register with us before the auction starts. We Reserve the right to impose a deadline prior to the auction by which you must register or by which we must receive a Commission bid. If you wish to bid on high value Lots this deadline may be several days before the auction to allow us sufficient time to carry out the necessary checks. Lots will be invoiced to the name and address on the registration form. You will need to provide us with proof of your identity in a form acceptable to us and such other information as we may require. Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for telephone or online bidding. Please note that we may refuse to register you if you do not provide us with all the information and documentation that we ask for or at our discretion.
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
Any Lots purchased via a live online bidding service will be subject to an additional Commission charge on the Hammer Price payable by the Bidder, in accordance with rates specified by the online service. These are charged at 0% while bidding via Sworders Website. If bidding through other online bidding platforms, you will be charged additional surcharges, which will be payable to us on top of the Hammer Price and our Buyer’s Commission at their advertised rate.
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 are to be removed from the premises by 5.00pm at the latest on the Friday following each sale. Sworders retain the right to remove Lots remaining after this time into safe storage, for which a charge will be made.
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.
2. Information that we are required to give to Consumers
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 Should you decide to use the delivery service, you thereby agree to allow us to share relevant personal data that we hold with the shipping agent in order to allow effective communication between the shipping agent and you, and to enable delivery.
8.5 If you do not collect the Lot within the time period under Clause 8.2, you will be responsible for any reasonable removal and storage charges in relation to that Lot.
8.6 Risk of loss or damage to the Lot will pass to you when you (or your agents) take physical possession of the Lot.
8.7 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. Remedies for non-payment or failure to collect purchases 9.1 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:
9.1.1 take action against you for damages for breach of contract;
9.1.2 reverse the sale of the Lot to you and/or any other Lots sold by us to you;
9.1.3 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;
9.1.4 remove, store and insure the Lot at your expense;
9.1.5 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;
9.1.6 keep that Lot or any other Lot sold to you until you pay the total amount due, including Shipping Costs where applicable;
9.1.7 reject or ignore bids from you or your agent at future auctions or impose conditions before we accept bids from you; and/or
9.1.8 if we sell any Lots for you, use the money made on these Lots to repay any amount you owe us.
9.2 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.
10. 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.
11. Warranties
11.1 The Seller warrants to us and to you that:
11.1.1 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;
11.1.2 the Seller is able to transfer good and marketable title to the Lot to you free from any third party rights or claims; and
11.1.3 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.
11.2 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.
11.3 Please note that many of the Lots that you may bid on at our auction are second-hand.
11.4 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.
11.5 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.
12. Descriptions and condition
12.1 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).
12.2 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.
12.3 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.
12.4 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 secondhand 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.
13. Deliberate Forgeries
13.1 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.
13.2 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:
13.2.1 the catalogue description reflected the accepted view of experts as at the date of the auction; or
13.2.2 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.
13.3 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.
13.4 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.
14. Our liability to you
14.1 We will not be liable for any loss of opportunity or disappointment suffered as a result of participating in our auction.
14.2 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.
14.3 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.
14.4 Notwithstanding the above, nothing in these Terms of Sale shall limit our liability (or that of our employees or agents) for:
14.4.1 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.
15. Notices
15.1 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.
15.2 Any notice referred in Clause 15.1 may be given:
15.2.1 by delivering it by hand;
15.2.2 by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery; or
15.2.3 by email.
15.3 Notices must be sent:
15.3.1 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
15.3.2 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.
15.4 Notices will be deemed to have been received:
15.4.1 if delivered by hand, on the day of delivery;
15.4.2 if sent by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery, two business days after posting, exclusive of the day of posting; or
15.4.3 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.
15.5 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.
16. 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.
17. General
17.1 We may, acting reasonably, refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person.
17.2 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.
17.3 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.
17.4 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.
17.5 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.
17.6 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.
17.7 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.
These terms are based upon the recommended terms of sale by the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers
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