28TH APRIL FINE ART SALE IS NOW ONLINE

TUESDAY 28TH APRIL AT 12 NOON

Fine Art Sale to include Jewellery, Silver, Sculptures, Bronzes, Paintings, Furniture & More

HERE ARE SOME UPCOMING LOTS

LOT 783: CIRCLE OF GEORGE STUBBS, 1724 - 1806, A LARGE MID 18TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS

Horse attacked by lion before a rocky landscape, signed Stubbs lower right, bearing Christie’s stencil verso, held in a fine gilt frame, relined.

(sight 76.5cm x 97cm, canvas 78.5cm x 99cm, frame 104.5cm x 124.5cm)

The composition relates closely to George Stubbs’ celebrated Lion Attacking a Horse series of the early 1760s, a subject that combines anatomical precision with heightened drama. It corresponds particularly to the engraving by Benjamin Green (1769) with slight differences taken from a painting formerly in the collection of Luke Scrafton Esq., now considered lost.

The surface has been cleaned, with some reduction to the original glazes

EST £3000-5000

LOT 501: AN 18CT GOLD 2.40CT NATURAL DIAMOND TRILOGY / ENGAGEMENT RING, HALLMARKED BIRMINGHAM

Having central round brilliant cut diamond flanked by two round brilliant cut diamonds Open worked gallery and back.

(UK ring size K½, gross weight 5.8g)

The ring is accompanied by a Jewellery Report from Gemmological Certification Services, GCS Lab, report number 5786-1205, dated January 2026, stating the diamond weighs 1.00 carat approx. / 0.70ct approx. / 0.70ct approx, colour G to M, clarity SI1/SI2

EST £2000-3000

LOT 503: J.W. BENSON, 20TH CENTURY GEORGE V 9CT GOLD OPEN FACE POCKET WATCH

Hallmarked Birmingham, 1929, Having a white enamel dial with black Roman numeral hour marks, with subsidiary dial with Arabic numeral marks, 15 jewel Swiss movement. (7cm x 5cm, gross weight 84.3g)

EST £500-800

LOT 640: JOHN ROUND & SON LTD, A COLLECTION OF GEORGE V SILVER FLATWARE

Hallmarked Sheffield, 1916, Hanoverian pattern, all engraved with family crest to reverse terminals. Comprising soup ladle, two sauce ladles, ten dinner spoons, twelve dinner forks, eleven dessert spoons, eleven dessert forks and seven tea spoons.

(ladle 35cm, 3478.4g)

EST £3000-5000

LOT 670: FABERGÉ, ANDERS (ANTTI) NEVALAINEN, ACTIVE 1885 - 1917, A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN SILVER HINGED CASE

Marked for Moscow. Rectangular form with plain polished finish, interior having rose gilt vermeil decoration with addition inscription, reading: ‘Harry Chilton from E’, stamped with 88-left facing kokoshnik mark assayed by Ivan Sergeyevich Lebedkin (Moscow, 1898 - 1914), along with ‘AN’ for Nevalainen.

(h 1.5cm x w 8.5cm x d 5cm, 132.4g)

EST £150-250

LOT 703: BRITISH CHESS COMPANY, STROUD, TWO LATE 19TH CENTURY STAUNTON CHESSMEN AND BOXES

Together with associated period folding chessboard.

EST £100-200

LOT 712: A RARE MONUMENTAL SET OF FOUR WHITE CARVED MARBLE (ENGAINÉS) 19TH CENTURY STATUES AFTER FRANÇOIS BAROIS, GUILLAUME COUSTOU AND JEAN MELCHIOR RAON,

Representing ‘The Four Seasons’, Flora (‘Spring’) carries a basket of roses, one of which she is holding in her hand; Ceres (‘Summer’) wears a wreath and holds a sheaf of wheat aloft, a bundle of sheaves at her side; Autumn has draped his cloak over his head to protect himself from a cool breeze: he holds a piece of harvest bread; Vulcan (‘Winter’) is depicted as a bearded figure, his head draped with his cloak, a brazier in his hand and his robes trimmed with fur, originals in The Louvre Paris.

Approx. 220cm

N.B. these are offsite, buyer would need to arrange collection

Provenance: private collection London, purchased SCP Faure Rey, Houdan, 19/10/97, Lot 838

EST £20,000-30,000

LOT 724: HENRI PICARD, A VERY FINE LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRONZE AND ORMOLU SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA, IN THE LOUIS XV ROCOCO TASTE Each exceptionally cast and finely chased as a mythological marine triumph, the scrolling foliate seven-branch light held aloft from a richly modelled draped sea goddess borne aloft by Neptune, supported on cascading naturalistic water base with three diving dolphins and central facial mask , terminating on scrolling foliage feet. Stamped H PICARD

LOT 731: A 17TH CENTURY WILLIAM AND MARY FIGURED BURR WALNUT AND HERRINGBONE INLAID CABINET ON CHEST

The pair of doors opening to reveal a fitted interior with an arrangement of thirteen drawers

With secret compartments,above two short over two long graduated drawers, raised on later bracket feet.

(h 176cm x d 55cm x w 120cm)

EST £600-800

LOT 741: AN 18TH CENTURY FRENCH LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE MOUNTED CHINOISERIE DECORATED COMMODE

The Brocatello marble top above three drawers, decorated with Chinese landscape with pagodas and figures, raised on square cabriole legs terminating on sabots.

(h 86.5cm x d 50cm x w 96cm)

EST £1000-2000

LOT 745: ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERS, CIRCA 1760

The rectangular top above an arrangement of three short drawers over three long graduated drawers, refitted with gilt brass Rococo design swan neck handles, raised on carved bracket feet.

(h 98cm x d 57cm x w 110cm)

EST £1000-2000

LOT 753: ATTRIBUTED TO LOUIS MAGDELEINE PLUVINET, AN 18TH CENTURY FRENCH LOUIS XVI PAINTED CANAPE EN CORBEILLE/SOFA

The shaped carved back with foliage finials above padded arms with guilloché carved scrolled and acanthus leaf decoration, raised on four tapping reeded legs.

(h 84cm x d 70cm x w 155cm)

N.B. an identical settee by Pluvinet sold Christie’s 1 July 2021 lot 285, $8,125

Louis-Magdeleine Pluvinet, likely the son of the Menuisier Philippe Pluvinet, died in 1783, only eight years after receiving his maîtrise in 1775

EST £600-800

LOT 759: AFTER LEONARDO DA VINCI, 1452 - 1519, AMBOISE, AN 18TH CENTURY RED CHALK DRAWING

Study the head of the infant Christ, with raised hand taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks, bearing a collector’s number ‘2’ to upper right, indistinctly red chalk inscriptions verso, framed and glazed.

(sheet 21cm x 28cm, frame 43.5cm x 54cm)

N.B. after Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Virgin of the Rocks, Musée du Louvre, Paris

EST £200-400

LOT 796: WORKSHOP OF JACOPO DA PONTE (CALLED JACOPO BASSANO, BASSANO DEL GRAPPA), CIRCA 1510 - 1592, 16TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS

The Burial of the Body of Christ, indistinctly signed lower right, relined, held in a fine carved giltwood frame.

(sight 52cm x 81.5cm, frame 72cm x 101cm)

EST £1000-2000

LOT 797: ATTRIBUTED TO PAOLO CALIARI (CALLED PAOLO VERONESE), VERONA, 1528 - 1588, VENICE, 16TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS

Portrait of a Venetian lady Caterina Vannini, 1571 - 1644, Italian musician and Dominican nun wearing fur coat with white ruff collar with a jewelled headdress, held in original carved giltwood frame, re-lined.

Sight 60cm x 76.5cm

Frame 83cm x 100cm

EST £3000-5000

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