Fine Art Sale Highlights: Exceptional Results from Our September Auction
LOT 272: ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR 1841 – 1919, OIL ON CANVAS, IMPRESSIONIST RIVERSCAPE VIEW THROUGH TREES, Signed ‘Renoir’, lower right.
Framed. 65cm x 50cm [25.59 ins x 19.68 ins].
Unrestored.
SOLD FOR £82,000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 1A: ZODIAC LTD, SWITZERLAND, A 1960’S GENTLEMAN’S 18CT GOLD WRISTWATCH, MODEL 725-401B
Having silvered steel with gold toned dart hour marks and hands, calendar window towards right. Zodiac 72B Swiss 21 jewels adjusted perpetual movement, case attached to an Italian 18ct gold herringbone link strap with engine turned textured finish, marked for GORI & ZUCCHI, Arezzo.
(case 32.8mm x length 22cm, gross weight 81.6g)
SOLD FOR £3400 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 2: SIGVARD BERNADOTTE FOR GEORG JENSEN, MID 20TH CENTURY DANISH STERLING SILVER COCKTAIL SHAKER, MARKED FOR 1945-51, MODEL 819B
Cylindrical form having engraved diamond crosshatched decoration, signed and marked to underside.
(h 17.5cm x w 17cm x d 9.1cm)
SOLD FOR £2700 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 8: THOMAS WALLIS II, A GEORGE III SILVER BEEHIVE SHAPED HONEY POT AND TRAY, HALLMARKED LONDON, 1801
Georgian honey pot having chased outer decoration surmounted by ring pull finial, interior lid and body having Gilt vermeil interior, tray having outer rim reeded decoration.
(h 14.2cm x d 12.6cm, 424.2g)
SOLD FOR £6600 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 49: A LARGE 19TH CENTURY VICTORIAN ETRUSCAN REVIVAL YELLOW METAL, GARNET AND DIAMOND BRACELET (YELLOW METAL TESTED AS 14CT)
Having eight carbuncle-esque garnets surmounted by rose cut diamond (approx 4mm) mounted in a swirl knot tubular front with applied rope twist front and outer edge decoration. Attached to an adjustable mesh bracelet.
(front 36mm x 39mm, band width 15.5mm, approx internal maximum diameter 77mm, 47.1g)
SOLD FOR £3100 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 108: A 19TH CENTURY VICTORIAN YELLOW METAL & MOONSTONE RING (YELLOW METAL TESTED AS 9CT GOLD)
Having an unusual carved face to centre (approx. 12mm x 4.3mm) mounted in a four claw setting.
(UK ring size N½, 3.3g)
SOLD FOR £1300 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 170: LOUIS VUITTON, A RARE LATE 1920’S/EARLY 1930’S ART DECO PERIOD POROSUS CROCODILE TOILETRY KIT TRUNK WITH BRASS HARDWARE
Long rectangular form, having red leather and suede interior with Impressed “Sales” number ‘787370’ to inner lid L.V. monogrammed clasps, lock plate having Louis Vuitton rivets, serial number: 069041. 149 New Bond Street, London, 70 champs Élysées, Paris, Made in France.
(h 21.5cm x w 57.3cm x d 13cm)
SOLD FOR £3600 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 196: A 17TH CENTURY CHINESE MING DYNASTY PARCEL GILT BRONZE CENSOR AND COVER
Having six engraved and chased rectangular panels depicting various mythical creatures, fauna & flora in relief, two fu dog masks to either side, lid having pierce and chased scrolling leaf and floral decoration with karashishi / fu dog finial, raised on three tall cylindrical legs.
(h 15.2cm x w 15.5cm x d 12.8cm)
SOLD FOR £1100 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 211: ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN II PÉNICAUD, ACTIVE 1531 - 1549, LIMOGES, CIRCA 1540 - 1550, A LARGE AND RARE GRISAILLE PAINTED ENAMEL ON COPPER THE ENTOMBMENT OF CHRIST SIGNED WITH INITIALS LOWER RIGHT PL
Composed of four separate enamelled copper plaques forming a continuous narrative scene, depicting the dead Christ at the tomb surrounded by the mourning Virgin, Saint John and attendant holy figures, painted predominantly en grisaille against a dark ground and sparingly heightened with yellow and green, with a Gothic inscription LE POSERENT EN UN MONUMENT, contained within a moulded oak frame.
Sight 32cm x 39cm, Frame 41cm x 53cm
SOLD FOR £4000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 212: AN IMPORTANT AND RARE DUTCH VOC ARMORIAL PEN-ENGRAVED IVORY INLAID EBONY DOCUMENT CASKET, MADE FOR ABRAM VAN BERLECOM, D. 1729, OPPERHOOFD OF BIMILIPATNAM, COROMANDEL COAST, INDIA, PROBABLY MASULIPATNAM OR BIMILIPATNAM, CIRCA 1717 - 1729
Rectangular form, the ebony ground profusely inlaid throughout with finely engraved ivory forming exceptionally dense scrolling flowering vines and foliage within geometric borders, the hinged lid centred by an elaborate quartered armorial achievement beneath a coroneted helm and bird crest, the arms incorporated into the original inlaid decoration above the inscription ‘D’Heer Abram Van Berlecom’, the sides s decorated with scrolling foliage , the interior of the lid further inlaid with a large scrolling flower , the original small ball feet now lacking.
(h 13cm x w 58.5cm x d 42cm)
Provenance: private collection
N.B. Believed to be one of the earliest known personalised armorial caskets of this rare group, the present example belongs to an exceptionally finely worked class of early 18th Century Dutch colonial document boxes produced on India's Coromandel Coast for prominent officials of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Registration of an ivory item. Submission reference: 77QJRGCC
SOLD FOR £19,000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 214: A RARE MID 15TH CENTURY, NOTTINGHAM CARVED ALABASTER FRAGMENT OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER CARRYING THE CHRIST CHILD, CIRCA 1450
Possibly part of altarpiece, the relief carved with the bearded Saint Christopher, carrying the Christ Child upon his left shoulder and leaning upon his rustic staff, his robes falling in deeply carved folds the upper part of Christ the child and the figure of Saint Christopher below the knees lacking, the sides chamfered, mounted on a later Perspex support.
Traces of original polychrome paint decoration
H27cm x D5cm x w13.5cm, Mount 21.5cm x 35.5cm
SOLD FOR £6500 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 224: AN IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN ECCLESIASTICAL RENAISSANCE REVIVAL CARVED MARBLE ALTAR CANDLESTICKS, MODELLED AS KNEELING WINGED ANGELS
In classical draped robes, supporting a tall architectural Corinthian column with acanthus carved capital on stylised clouds.
(h 67cm x d 53cm x w 27cm each)
SOLD FOR £2500 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 234: RICHARD LYONS, LONDON, C.1635 - C.1696, A CHARLES II WALNUT AND BURR WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK, CIRCA 1680 - 90
The square brass dial signed ‘Richard Lyons London’, with silvered Roman chapter ring and Arabic five minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial, calendar aperture and matted centre, with pierced steel hands and applied winged cherub-mask spandrels, the substantial two-train eight-day movement with brass plates united by turned pillars, striking on a bell.
The walnut and figured burr walnut case with moulded cornice above a pierced frieze, the hood flanked by barley twist columns, the trunk with long figured burr walnut veneered door, raised on a moulded plinth base terminating on bun feet
(h 196cm x d 25cm x w 46cm)
SOLD FOR £4000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 258: ATTRIBUTED TO SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK, ANTWERP, 1599 - 1641, LONDON, PEN AND INK OVER BLACK CHALK ON LAID PAPER
A preparatory study of a leaning bearded male figure for The Betrayal of Christ, first Antwerp Period, C. 1618 - 1620, framed and glazed.
(sheet 15.7cm x 15.9cm, sight 15cm x 15cm, frame 28cm x 29cm)
SOLD FOR £7000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 274: THOMAS LAWRENCE, P. R.A., 1769 - 1830, EARLY 19TH CENTURY OIL SKETCH ON PANEL
Portrait of The Calmady Children, sgraffito initialled ‘TLP’ (Thomas Lawrence Pinx) and dated 1823 within red drapery lower centre with Colourman’s mark for Thomas Brown, 163 High Holborn (regular supplier to Sir Thomas Lawrence), held in a period giltwood and gesso oval frame.
Panel size: 26.7cm x 32.2cm Sight 26.5cm x 31cm
Frame 36.7cm x 42.5cm
SOLD FOR £26,000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 275: ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN CONSTABLE, R.A. (EAST BERGHOLT 1776–1837 LONDON)
A FINE EARLY 19TH CENTURY HEAVY IMPASTO OIL SKETCH ON PANEL
Stormy wooded landscape (possibly Stour Valley), with man resting with a white horse, on a track beside a pool of water, possibly signed with initials lower left ‘JC
Held in a fine early 19th-century carved swept giltwood and gesso frame, scrolling foliage and floral decoration.
Sight: 41cm x 56cm, Panel: 43cm x 58.2cm, Frame: 74cm x 89cm
SOLD FOR £16,000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 277: 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)
SOLD FOR £8000 ON THE HAMMER
LOT 291: STUDIO OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN, LEIDEN, 1606 - 1669, AMSTERDAM, 17TH CENTURY OIL ON PANEL
Head and shoulders portrait of a bearded man, reverse bearing an old handwritten attribution Rembrandt and further handwritten Miss Stewart-Bam inscription, label for Wilkinson Restorers Limited, 95 Upper Cheyne Row, London, SW3, held in a carved giltwood frame.
(panel 18cm x 23cm, sight 16.5cm x 22cm, frame 32cm x 38cm)
SOLD FOR £33,000 ON THE HAMMER
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