DISS AUCTION ROOMS GAZETTE
SPRING 2016 ISSUE 50
The Gallery Sale Pages 4 & 5
by Lawrence Baynes
l.baynes@twgaze.co.uk
The Blyth Barn Everybody has their own take on home furnishings. For every devoted flatpack shopper there is one who insists on the bespoke. For every bright and colourful there are the subtle and subdued. And for every old there is the new. In previous decades these furnishing decisions were taken on what we could afford and, importantly, what matched; period products went in period houses and modern styles in new
builds. But here in the twenty-teens we have more thinking to do – Would that go in my front room? Would that fit with my three piece suite? It has become more about spotting complimentary styles, colours and ages. Maybe drawing disparate design ideals together with softer touches that show understanding and an “eye”; We have all become interior designers! And as designers we need to understand the source material.
So what better place to start than the Blyth Barn, the cornerstone of our fabulous furniture Friday. Every week there are nearly 400 lots of furniture and furnishings crossing all styles and ages. To focus our minds, bi-monthly we bring out one specialist area; Period oak, Farmhouse and Cottage Furniture and Vintage Industrial Furniture. Three different stylings that may provide you with a statement piece or a background flavour.
Or just a reason to think about what you actually like and not what a catalogue prescribes. Louis Smith and myself are always on hand to offer help and advice and if we have no inspiration for you this week…there is always next. Friday 19 February Vintage Industrial Furniture Friday 1 April Period Oak Friday 3 June Farmhouse & Cottage Furniture
Marsh Lettings Auction Approx 800 acres of grazing marshes at Haddiscoe. With handling facilities & marshmans services. To let for the 2016 season by auction. Catalogues available from 1st March 2016. For more information please contact us on 01953 423 188 or rural@twgaze.co.uk
Jenny Winstanley The Quarterly Antiques Special - Friday 26 February by Edward Smith If your chosen outlet for creative flair is to work with clay you may reasonably be described as a sculptor. However if you spent over 40 years producing unsurpassable works then surely the word Artist says a lot more. This is certainly true of Jenny Winstanley, whose innate ability to capture an animal showed feeling for the subject that exceeded mere representation. The majority of Jenny’s 40 plus year career was spent learning how to represent the bone, fur and sinew of cats in clay based pottery. It was a worthwhile devotion to the point that her studio in North Walsham became the Cat pottery and the name Winstanley Cats holds international reputation being referenced in the Millers Guide.
e.smith@twgaze.co.uk Every piece created at the pottery is signed and bears a size number between 1-8; 1 for miniature and 8 for life-size. They are made with cathedral glass eyes which give life, life that is so often absent from ceramic sculptures. And they are uniquely decorated through the application of glazes and paints so much so that any prize pet could be recreated beyond discernable difference. Despite the love for cats, Jenny was a master of a whole menagerie of animals, including dogs, rats, bears and hares.
Our next quarterly special auction is set to include this beautifully sculptured hare (illustrated) with a modest estimate of £50-100. Lifesize, (size 8) you certainly have to look twice to check if it is alive or not, and what higher praise can an Artist have than that.
Other notable lots to be included are a Lalique menu holder, £100-200. A Lalique lamp £1000-1500, a Hunter & Palmer library book tin £40-60, a Royal Worcester sea breeze figure £70-100. 1930s Poole pottery fawn vase £150-200 and a collection of Oriental ceramics.
Portrait or Landscape? The Gallery Sale By James Bassam
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Anne Spalding (b1911) a framed oil on panel £80-120
Saturday 6 February will see the first of this year’s TW Gaze Gallery Sales. As the sale includes choice works from the last three hundred years it allows for a wide range in tastes from antique to contemporary painting and prints.
country, we only really saw this with royalty and religious figures from the 15th and 16th Centuries onwards, the elaborately dressed Henry VIII by Hans Holbein setting the example. The upper and middle classes had to wait until the 18th Century before This particular sale fashion (and or includes a private snobbery) dictated collection from a the family patriarch deceased estate or matriarch to hang which held a above the fireplace. surprising number These canvases are of portrait and rarely signed as figurative works. painting a portrait In the last year was like any trade these have seen an and no historical or increase in artistic importance popularity at the was placed at the auction house. time so there wasn’t Those dark, dreary the need. The leading and sometimes names of the day scary looking such as Sir Joshua portraits who’s eyes Reynolds and seemed to follow Thomas you around the Gainsborough took room are now commissions from appearing in bright the nobility but such white interiors was their work load mixed with mid 20th they sometimes had Century and to take assistants. contemporary settings, everyone is The miniature looking for an became popular too ancestor to adorn at this point, their wall it seems. although expensive as materials were The history of not cheap. It enabled portraiture is a long a special keepsake of one, the Ancient a loved one or dearly civilisations of departed to be kept Greece and Rome on one’s person, saw its popularity especially for those rise alongside the in the military, a wealth of the public longing look at a displaying status and sweetheart’s power. In this likeness almost
enough to bear the absence. The Silhouette was a cheaper way to own a portrait or miniature and became a fashionable feature around many household fireplaces well into the 19th Century. The 19th and 20th Centuries see the biggest change in portraiture with painting styles, techniques and media constantly evolving. From depicting the latest fashions, romantic portrayals of maidens to capturing the harsh ‘real’ life struggles of the working class the genre was open to everything and to almost everyone with etchings and lithographs much more affordable to the
masses. Exact likenesses gave way to an array of representations of the sitter using bolder strokes and brighter yet un-natural colours. With the introduction of photography came a much more accessible art form, the daguerreotype was a low cost alternative the lower classes could obtain. And now portraiture has taken a new form, like it or not the simple ‘Selfie’ taken from your smart phone is the most popular portrait guise in history, it is probably just as well though that most are not printed. While we may not have a Holbein or Reynolds in the sale there are oils and acrylics from the late
Oil on board of a Cornish harbour’s edge £150-250
The Gallery Sale Saturday 6 February
17th to late 20th Oil on Centuries. canvas If the portrait of thought of a female pianist a portrait £400-600 doesn’t appeal then worry not, we have a selection of landscapes in oil and watercolour to tempt you with, collection of acrylics 18th and 19th Century by the ornithological English school to 20th artist Raymond Century local scenes Watson featuring our including an Edward best loved field and Seago watercolour garden birds. and artists are So whatever your included as well as tastes, your preferred Continental views. era or genre of art Still life studies include a large Thomas there may be something for your Stuart Milner collection, portrait or arrangement of landscape, natural chrysanthemums and history or still life wildlife art will be study. represented by a
RAYMOND WATSON (1935-1994) framed & glazed acrylic £500-750
Viewing Thursday 4 February 2-8pm, Friday 5 February 10am-6pm and on the morning of the sale from 8.30am. Catalogue on twgaze.co.uk and live bidding via the-saleroom.com
Art Deco Jewellery By Lisa West l.west@twgaze.co.uk
In the mid 1920’s the organic flow of Art Nouveau was overtaken by a new form of design, Art Deco. As a design aesthetic it filtered through every form of manufacture. Machines could be used to exactly repeat a pattern, accurately replicate symmetry, or reflect some geometry not previously achievable by craftsmen. Jewellers were at the forefront of this brave new design world and produced many sharp stylized designs exploiting strong symmetry and bold contrasting opulent materials to create something new and glamourous. Signature pieces from the era are mostly formed from platinum or silver and characteristically contain tightly packed gemstones. For example diamondstudded bracelets, ruby flecked brooches and sapphire earrings. However it was not exclusively the most expensive materials that were used, other contrasting materials such as black onyx and
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red coral were introduced for their graphic properties. It should also not be overlooked that Art Deco designs were made from gold especially during the mid-1930s. With New York and Paris leading the way this was truly a period of international jewellery fashion with revered designers such as Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels at the forefront.Trends in fine art such as Cubism and Futurism can be seen in the jewellery of this age and the impact of Art Deco can be seen throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s, through to the present day. Discerning jewellery buyers still know that when the look you are after is glamourous and that little bit opulent there
is no better place to start than the Art Deco period. Two such pieces are set to feature in our forthcoming jewellery auction, 12 February 10.30.The first is a 18ct white gold diamond encrusted bracelet .With a 4.40ct diamond total the presale estimate is £35004200. The second is a 15ct white gold diamond and sapphire pendent brooch with an estimate £1200-1500. As always, the rest of the sale will reflect a range of pockets and tastes, but for those looking for Valentines presents, you cannot go too wrong with Art Deco.
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modern design The first Modern Design sale of the year is soon upon us and a few items have started to trickle in. Paintings and prints mostly which will include four Dame Elisabeth Frink prints from her seabird range. One recent entry has been this graduated set of three glass vases by Kjell Engman for Kosta Boda from 1982. The design is not a common one but the interesting thing is that they originally come from the Elton John Collection sold through Sotheby’s. So here is your chance not only to own some quality Scandinavian glass, but something once owned by a music giant.
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