A Few Results From Our January Fine Art Sale

January Fine Art Sale To Include Jewellery, Silver, Bronzes, Sculptures, Paintings, Furniture, Books & More

Here are a few Results

LOT 1: CARTIER, FINE LADIES’ 18CT YELLOW GOLD AND DIAMOND BAIGNOIRE JOAILLERIE BRACELET WRISTWATCH

Ref: 1960, GC10002, having silvered dial with black Roman numeral hour marks, quartz movement, case and strap set with diamonds.

(case 18mm x 25mm, closed inner diameter approximately: 52mm, gross weight 60g)

SOLD FOR £8700 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 5: AN ART DECO WHITE METAL & 5.15CT NATURAL DIAMOND SOLITAIRE RING

Having central round old European cut diamond (approx.11.2mm), claw set met by stylised open work gallery, flanked by four diamonds (each approx. 1.5mm) followed by a knife edge shank. (UK ring size M, gross weight 5.8g)

SOLD FOR £12,000 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 11: FRENCH PLATINUM & 3.50CT NAUTRAL DIAMOND PENDANT NECKLACE, HOUSED IN RETAIL BOX FOR CHARLES BORELLI & SONS LTD. Pendant having pear shaped diamond (approx. 19mm x 12.5mm x 2.5mm) set in stylised wire basket mount, met by four graduated encrusted round brilliant cut diamond bail (largest approx. 1.5mm), stamped with the French ‘Mascaron’ hallmark to side of basket mount. Connected to a gold plated 950 platinum chain. Housed in fitted retailers' case for ‘Charles Borelli & Sons Ltd, Watchmakers & Jewellers, 35& 36 The Borough, Farnham’.  Pendant: 25.5mm x 12.5mm. Chain length: 40cm, gross weight: 5.2g.

SOLD FOR £8500 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 12: BRITTON, GOULD & CO., A PAIR OF GEORGE V SILVER CORINTHIAN COLUMN CANDLESTICKS, HALLMARKED BIRMINGHAM, 1929

Corinthian column form with removable pan, met by floral and stylised acanthus leaf capital, fluted column followed into a gadrooned and stepped square base.

(h 30.8cm x w 12.5cm x d 12.5cm, gross weight 1647.4g)

SOLD FOR £650 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 15: A FRENCH ART DECO PLATINUM & NATURAL DIAMOND PENDANT NECKLACE

Having central round old European cut diamond (approx. 8mm x 8mm x 4.5mm) followed by another old European cut diamond (approx. 3.5mm), held within a pear shaped platinum mount encrusted with graduated set of diamonds. Met by two bezel set diamonds and surmounted by larger round old European cut diamond (approx. 5.2mm x 5.2mm x 3.5mm), connected by trombone link platinum chain.

(pendant 40mm x 16mm, chain length 47cm, gross weight 7.5g)

SOLD FOR £5200 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 52: AFTER THE ORIGINAL BY HYLLUS, SON OF DIOSCURIDES, ‘DIONYSIAN BULL’, A 19TH CENTURY CARVED GLASS INTAGLIO YELLOW METAL RING (YELLOW METAL TESTED AS 14CT GOLD)

Slight domed oval glass intaglio insert (approx. 29mm x 21.5mm), depicting a Dionysian bull, his body girded with a garland of ivy, walking with head bowed. thyrsus formed ground line, set in a stepped back mount, open back with large stylised open work shoulders.

(front 31mm x 23mm, UK ring size Z, gross weight 12.7g)

N.B. National Library of France, In.58.1637, Louis XIV’s medal cabinet at Versailles.

(Wedgwood) Catalogue of cameos, intaglios, medals, bas-reliefs, busts and small statues, Josiah Wedgewood, 1787, example 303, ‘Bull’

SOLD FOR £480 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 74: ATTRIBUTED JOSEPH EDWARD SYDENHAM, A LATE EDWARDIAN 18CT YELLOW GOLD TROMBONE LINK T BAR ALBERT CHAIN, HALLMARKED CHESTER, 1910

Marked ‘JES’ to T Bar, each link marked ‘18’ and crown.

(length 44.5cm, 51.1g)

SOLD FOR £6200 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 101: DAVID ROBERTS. R.A. THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT & NUBIA BOOKS, SIX VOLUMES, 1855 - 1856

Published by Day & Son, London.

SOLD FOR £1300 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 133: A LARGE & FINE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TALL SLENDER FLARING YENYEN VASE CHENGHUA SIX CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI

Decorated with scrolling foliage blossoming lotus flowerheads.

(h 44cm x d 19cm)

SOLD FOR £1700 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 140: ATTRIBUTED TO GEORG PETEL, 1593, WEILHEIM, 1634, AUGSBERG, THE GERMAN MICHELANGELO, A FINE 17TH CENTURY BRONZE CORPUS CHRISTI

Head tilted to the right, eyes wide open looking up.

(h 52cm x d 10cm x w 30cm)

N.B. an almost identical carved boxwood Corpus Christi is in the collection of Julius Böhler Munich

Petel traveled extensively through Italy, France, and the Low Countries, where he’s work was heavily deeply influenced by the stylistic innovations of Giambologna. And his friends Peter Paul Rubens.and Anthony van Dyck ,Petel even created a famous bust of Rubens in 1633. van Dyck painted a portrait of Georg Petel around 1628.

SOLD FOR £4400 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 173: HENRY DASSON, PARIS, 1825 - 1826, A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE

The rectangular rogue de Languedoc marble top above a frieze drawer, decorated scrolling foliage and flowers, the corners with female facial masks above corinthian capitals raised on four tapering fluted legs terminating on leaf sabots, stamped twice to underside ‘HENRY DASSON’, dated 1877, marble inscribed No 2 and 14 in chalk .

(h 75.5cm x d 49cm x w 61cm)

Provenance: label to the underside sir H C Bannerman 1904, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1905-1908

SOLD FOR £3200 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 176: MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, AN IMPRESSIVE LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT CHINESE CHIPPENDALE DESIGN BOOKCASE, with pagoda top and pierced fretwork cornice above four astroglazed doors opening to reveal shelf interior above a long secretaire drawer opening to reveal a fitted interior above a pair of panelled doors flanked by twelve drawers raised on bracket feet.

H253cm x d44cm w197cm

SOLD FOR £5000 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 184: ATTRIBUTED TO FERDINANDO POGLIANI, 1832 - 1899, A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE BREAKFRONT EBONISED AND IVORY INLAID ARMOIRE/ WARDROBE

The broken pediment above a large single mirrored door flanked by a pair of panelled doors decorated with classic maiden above three drawers, raised on a plinth base, the Inlaid decoration overall with scrolling foliage facial masks and mythical beast and birds.

(h 259cm x d 65cm x w 215cm)

N.B. Ferdinando Pogliani (active 1860's and 1870's) worked with his sons Paolo and Carlo in his workshop in Borgo di Porta, Vittoria N.81, Milan. He later had a showroom in the elegant Via Monte Napoleone and won prizes in several leading Exhibitions becoming one of the cities leading cabinetmakers

SOLD FOR £900 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 209: WORKSHOP OF RAFFAELLO SANZIO, CALLED RAPHAEL, URBINO, 1483 - 1520, ROME, 16TH CENTURY RED CHALK HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE DRAWING

Study of Madonna della Tenda, Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John, The Baptist, framed and glazed.

(sheet 21.2cm x 27.5cm, frame 41.5cm x 49cm)

N.B. A similar size 16th century version painted on panel sold 31 January 2013 New York lot 156 £65,500

This drawing follows the design of Raphael's 'Madonna della Tenda

(or Madonna of the Curtain) a work of 1514 in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (see J. Meyer zur Capellen, Raphael A Critical Catalogue of His Paintings The Roman Religious Paintings Ca 1508-1520, Münster, 2005, vol. II, p. 135, cat. no. 56). The composition is also reminiscent of Raphael's 'Madonna della Sedia dating from around the same time in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

SOLD FOR £1000 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 220: A LARGE FINE LATE 19TH CENTURY PRE-RAPHAELITE OIL AND EMBOSSED GILT GESSO ON PANEL

Adam and Eve and the serpent in The Garden of Eden, with embossed inspiration ‘UNTO ADAM ALSO AND TO HIS WIFE DID THE LORD GOD MAKE COATS OF SKINS AND CLOTHED THEM’, held in original partial gilt and painted frame with hand painted inscription, lamb of god that takes away the sins of the world have mercy upon us, lamb of god that takes away the sins of the world grant us thy peace.

(sight 72cm x 105cm, frame 97cm x 130.5cm)

Provenance: Lilian Josephine Pocock (1883–1974) was a stained glass artist

SOLD FOR £3400 ON THE HAMMER

LOT 234: CIRCLE OF LUCA GIORDANO, NAPLES, 1634 - 1705, A LARGE 17TH CENTURY ITALIAN OIL ON CANVAS

Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, retaining original canvas and frame, with old handwritten attribution to ‘DOMENICO ZAMPIERI’ verso of canvas, frame and inventory collection number.

(sight 99cm x 126cm, frame 117cm x 143.5cm)

SOLD FOR £4800 ON THE HAMMER

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