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The Auction Room London
Oct 19
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LOT 524: LÉON FRANÇOIS COMERRE, FRENCH, 1850 - 1916, OIL ON CANVAS

Interior screen portrait, a young elegant Oriental woman drinking tea seated on a giltwood daybed, signed centre left, held in a decorative gilt frame.

(sight 70cm x 93cm, frame 100cm x 124cm)

N.B. It has been suggested that the sitter for the present work is Suzanne Hudelo, née Armand

EST £2500-3500

LOT 33: A LARGE STRING OF BUTTERSCOTCH AMBER BEAD NECKLACE

Graduated form connected by silver lobster clasp.

(largest bead 35mm x 23mm, length 59.5cm, gross weight 163.9g)

EST £150-250

LOT 42: AN 18CT YELLOW GOLD & DIAMOND SOLITAIRE RING, hallmarked London 1974. Having central round brilliant cut diamond (approx. 6mm). Claw set with partial open work gallery, closed back, tapered shoulders. UK ring size P, gross weight-3.2g.

EST £400-600

LOT 48: YELLOW METAL & SIX ROSE CUT DIAMOND NECKLACE, YELLOW METAL TESTED AS 18CT GOLD. Having drop pendant set with four various round rose cut diamonds (largest approx. 4.5mm) with an addition two tear drop rose cut diamonds (6mm x 4mm). Diamonds are most likely 19th century. They are set in a later gold mount with partial open work galleries.

Pendant: 22mm x 14mm. Chain length: 50.5cm, gross weight-6.3g.

EST £500-800

LOT 79: Caesar, Julius (100-44 BCE). The Commentaries of Caesar. Translated by William Duncan. London: for J. and R. Tonson, S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1753. Frontispiece, (6), civ, 335pp, [10]. 80 engraved illustrations only, including all 6 maps, many of which double-page or folding.

420mm x 260mm

EST £2500-3500

LOT 109: A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN SÈVRES DESIGN CENTREPIECE

Decorated with a figural neoclassical scene amongst flora and fauna, held within gilt oval panel to one side, the otherside decorated with a spray of flowers, blue cobalt blue ground with gilt highlights, pierced gilt ormolu gallery with satyr mask terminals, raised on a chased square base with laurel wreath decoration.

(h 39cm x w 50.5cm x d 27.5cm)

EST £100-200

LOT 121: VINCENTI & CIE, A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH MARBLE AND GILT ORMOLU CLOCK AND CANDELABRA GARNITURES

Having rosso levanto rouge marble body with applied gilt rams head, urn, floral swags and scroll work decoration, stylised hoof feet to sides, upper horn of plenty surmounted by semi clad putti finial, carved Roman numeral dial, movement back plate marked ‘Vincenti & Cie, Medaille D'Argent, 1855’ and ‘2448’, garnitures having similar decoration with upper three branch candelabras.

(clock h 40cm x w 38cm x d 17.5cm)

EST £200-300

LOT 122: PIERRE BONNARD, 1867 - 1947, AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY FIGURAL BRONZE SCULPTURE OF A LADY (MOST LIKELY FROM THE ‘BATHER’ COLLECTION)

Signed with monogram ‘PB’ to reverse.

(h 34cm x w 8cm x d 7.5cm)

EST £150-250

LOT 125: AFTER HENRY MOORE, 1898 - 1986, A 20TH CENTURY BRONZE FIGURAL GROUP OF MOTHER AND CHILD

Signed ‘Moore’, editioned 4/9, raised on a square slate base.

(h 20cm x w 10.2cm x d 10cm)

N.B. illustration of cast cane be seen in Alan Bowness, Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1974-80, vol. 5, London, 1988, no. 682, p. 26.

EST £100-200

LOT 304: MONT JOYE LEGRAS, FRANCE, AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY MATCHED PAIR OF FRENCH ART NOUVEAU ENAMELLED GLASS VASES

Decorated with various pansies amongst leaves, grass and gilt trims.

(h 40.5cm x d 14.5cm)

EST £300-500

LOT 320: A DECORATIVE CHINESE CARVED WOOD WRITING DESK

Decorated with dragons and foliage, the top with pieced back and arrangements of drawers and panel doors above a single drawer, raised on for winged dragon cabriole legs.

(h 160cm x d 66cm x w 137cm)

EST £100-200

LOT 325: A FINE PAIR OF PERSIAN SILK ISHFAHAN TREE OF LIFE RUGS

In muted oatmeal and shades of reds.

(142cm x 190cm)

EST £500-800

LOT 368: MANNER OF GRINLING GIBBONS, A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE CARVED GILTWOOD AND PAINTED MIRROR

Decorated with winged cherub heads, scrolling foliage, fruits, violin flute, trumpet and swags.

(h 247cm x w 180cm)

Provenance: The Rutland Arms in Bakewell - once acclaimed as 'Derbyshire's Most Famous Inn' was built in 1804

N.B. A well-known character of Bakewell, who had close associations with The Rutland Arms in its earliest years, was the multi-talented White Watson, 1760 - 1835. geologist, sculptor, stonemason and carver. He was the grandson of Samuel Watson, 1662 - 1715, an English Sculptor in wood and stone was a native of Heanor, Derbyshire. He was employed at Chatsworth House between 1690 or 1691 and 1711. just three miles to the north-east of Bakewell. Watson is known to have worked at Burghley House and at Sudbury Hall. Also working at Badminton, Burghley and Sudbury as was Grinling Gibbons, who had a great influence on Watson's work (Possible connection to the mirror?). Other similar carvings by Grinling Gibbons, can be found at Hampton Court Palace, Trinity College, Chapel Oxford, Petworth House, St. James, Piccadilly

EST £3000-5000