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Early Victorian burr walnut vanity box extensively fitted with silver plate mounted glass bottles and tidies, with velvet lined interior and push release drawer below, 31cm wide
£100 - 150
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Good and extensive Archibald Knox for Liberty's Art Nouveau pewter tea and coffee service - comprising five pieces on matching tray, circa 1903, each piece with hammered finish and entwined knotwork and fruit ornament - variously marked and numbered 0231 / 420290, the tray 50cm wide.
Provenance: Purchased from Victoria and Albert Museum Liberty's 1875 - 1975 Centenary selling exhibition, July - October 1975, exhibition no. D. 176 - to be offered together with the original catalogue
£400 - 600
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Late 18th / early 19th century Continental burr wood and tortoiseshell snuff box of rectangular cushion form, the hinged cover with inset glazed panel painted with pastoral scene, 9.5cm wide, together with a horn snuff (2)
£100 - 150
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Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson of Kilburn carved oak ashtray of canted rectangular form, with signature mouse to one end, 21cm wide
£100 - 150
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Good 19th century Continental painted papier mâché snuff box of circular form, painted with a miser, indistinctly inscribed to the reverse of the lid, 9.5cm diameter
£150 - 250
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Regency blond tortoiseshell and mother of pearl inlaid canister of rounded oblong form, with push-release hinged cover, 12cm high
£100 - 150
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19th century Continental foiled paper and gilt metal mounted necessaire of cylindrical form, with metal capped scent to one end, the other end with cylindrical tortoiseshell compartment, 14cm long
£80 - 120
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Chinese carved jade or green hardstone snuff bottle and stopper incised with landscape scenes, together with Oriental carved bone pepperette, carved bone napkin ring and two inside painted snuff bottles, cased (5)
£80 - 120
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William IV painted wooden truncheon with Royal cypher - WRIV, 47cm long
£80 - 120
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Assorted works of art to include boxwood train whistle, ambrotype portraits, 19th century compass, papier mâché boxes, embossed Dutch silver spoon and other items
£100 - 150
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20th century carved hardwood Fijian war club of typical form with incised geometric bands, 99cm long
£120 - 180
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19th century or earlier carved marble head of a maiden, her hair tied up and head slightly sinester on grey marble socle base, 44cm high
£250 - 350
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Two Victorian copper jelly moulds including cylindrical castellated mould with Benham & Froud orb mark, numbered 337, 13cm diameter, together with an oval lobed mould stamped F.W. & Co, 625 (2)
£80 - 120
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Late 19th / early 20th century Austrian cold painted bronze model of a lizard, apparently unmarked, 8cm wide
£120 - 180
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19th century Chinese Canton carved boxwood card case of typical form, carved with figures and pagodas, 12cm high
£100 - 150
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Fine Indo-Persian mother of pearl handled pen knife, the ornate handle in the form of a birds head with gilt roundel and coloured glass ornament, Islamic signature panel, 10cm long when closed, together with an Indian knife / multitool (2)
£150 - 250
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19th century Chinese filigree white metal card case of shaped rectangular outline, decorated with dragons and arabesque ornament, 10cm high, together with 19th century Vizagapatam card case (2)
£80 - 120
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19th century French neo-classical bronze figure of a standing figure, raised on wooden socle, 16cm high, together with a similar bronze
£80 - 120
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Late 19th century Russian Khodynka cup of sorrow otherwise known as the 'Blood Cup', the enamelled beaker with 1896 concentric design, 10.5cm high.
£200 - 300
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Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783-1873) - two 19th century plaster cast medallion plaques, each of octagonal form with white relief and pale blue slip decoration, impressed with mottos commemorating battles, signed and dated 1820 and 1823 respectively
£400 - 600
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Late 19th century Japanese shibyama pen knife, 8cm long, together with three late 19th / early 20th century silver bladed pen knives and a modern silver caddy spoon (5)
£100 - 150
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Collection of antique copper and brass to include copper preserve pan, copper saucepans, tankard, coopered jug and other items
£100 - 150
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19th century Islamic copper and brass ewer, the hinged domed cover with bird finial and engraved foliate and geometric bands, 47cm high
£80 - 120
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Two West African figural stone carvings together with a similar hardwood carving, a brass tobacco box housing pair of Georgian folding spectacles, an Indian brass model of a salamander and a vase
£100 - 150
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Indian School (circa 1800), gouache on paper - portrait of Jonathan Duncan (1756 - 1811), Governor of Bombay, depicted in profile, seated at his desk before a map of India, 17cm x 21cm, within foliate and gold-splash borders, framed.
Provenance: From the collection of Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), British soldier and scholar. Author of 'The Hindu Pantheon' published 1810 - the first English publication detailing the Hindu gods. The original work was extensively illustrated by engravers including William Blake - the engravings taken from Indian paintings in Edward Moor's own collection. The majority of the collection was gifted to the British Museum by Mrs A. G. Moor in 1940
£1000 - 1500
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Indian School (circa 1750), gouache on paper - Vishnu and attendant mythical beasts, 18cm x 31cm, framed.
Provenance: From the collection of Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), British soldier and scholar. Author of 'The Hindu Pantheon' published 1810 - the first English publication detailing the Hindu gods. The original work was extensively illustrated by William Blake - the engravings taken from Indian paintings in Edward Moor's own collection. The majority of the collection was gifted to the British Museum by Mrs A. G. Moor in 1940
£300 - 500
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Indian School (circa 1790), gouache on paper - portrait of the Maharaja Dowlut Rau Sindeah with attendants and military forces beyond, within gilt border, inscribed in pen to the border - 'Dowlut Rau Sindea', 37cm x 27cm, framed.
Provenance: From the collection of Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), British soldier and scholar. Author of 'The Hindu Pantheon' published 1810 - the first English publication detailing the Hindu gods. The original work was extensively illustrated by William Blake - the engravings taken from Indian paintings in Edward Moor's own collection. The majority of the collection was gifted to the British Museum by Mrs A. G. Moor in 1940
£1000 - 1500
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Indian School (circa 1790), gouache on paper - portrait of the Seypour Rajah and attendants, a hunt in the distance, in gilt border inscribed - 'The Seypour Rajah', 38cm x 27cm, framed.
Provenance: From the collection of Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), British soldier and scholar. Author of 'The Hindu Pantheon' published 1810 - the first English publication detailing the Hindu gods. The original work was extensively illustrated by William Blake - the engravings taken from Indian paintings in Edward Moor's own collection. The majority of the collection was gifted to the British Museum by Mrs A. G. Moor in 1940
£1000 - 1500
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Indian School (circa 1750), gouache on paper - three Hindu mythological scenes, framed as one, two images 31cm x 17.5cm, the other 17cm x 30.5cm, framed.
Provenance: From the collection of Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), British soldier and scholar. Author of 'The Hindu Pantheon' published 1810 - the first English publication detailing the Hindu gods. The original work was extensively illustrated by William Blake - the engravings taken from Indian paintings in Edward Moor's own collection. The majority of the collection was gifted to the British Museum by Mrs A. G. Moor in 1940
£500 - 700
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Indian School (18th century), watercolour - portrait of a nobleman in traditional attire, reclining on cushions, 22cm x 17cm.
Provenance: From the collection of Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), British soldier and scholar. Author of 'The Hindu Pantheon' published 1810 - the first English publication detailing the Hindu gods. The original work was extensively illustrated by William Blake - the engravings taken from Indian paintings in Edward Moor's own collection. The majority of the collection was gifted to the British Museum by Mrs A. G. Moor in 1940
£200 - 300
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Indian School (circa 1800), watercolour and gouache on paper - portrait of the Indian statesman 'Ballagee Nana' seated, in gold-splash border, 28cm x 21cm, framed.
N.B. Nana Furnaveese was a prominent Indian statesman. Edward More mentions a bronze statue once in the domestic chapel of Nana Furnaveese at Poona and was plundered thence when that great man was so shamefully seized and used by that foolish boy (as he was then, the present Dowlut Rhao Sindeah (see lot 900).
Provenance: From the collection of Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), British soldier and scholar. Author of 'The Hindu Pantheon' published 1810 - the first English publication detailing the Hindu gods. The original work was extensively illustrated by William Blake - the engravings taken from Indian paintings in Edward Moor's own collection. The majority of the collection was gifted to the British Museum by Mrs A. G. Moor in 1940
£400 - 600
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Indian School (18th / 19th century), gouache on paper - Maiden in a garden with peacocks, Nagari inscription to upper left border, 24.5cm x 17cm
£300 - 500
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Indian School (18th / 19th century), gouache on paper - figures in a palace at night with elephants and tiger in the gardens below, script verso, 20cm x 14cm
£300 - 500
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Indian School (18th / 19th century), gouache on paper - Lovers in a palace at dusk, Nagari script upper left border and numbered - 19, 27cm x 17cm
£300 - 500
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Indian School (18th century), gouache on paper - Nobleman on a white stallion, Nagari script title on blue border, 29cm x 21cm
£300 - 500
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Indian School (18th / 19th century), gouache on textile applied to paper - Ganesh seated on a veranda, a similar image applied verso, 37cm x 36cm
£300 - 500
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John Speed - The Bishopric and Citie of Durham, 17th century hand-coloured engraved map, image 39cm x 50cm, in glazed frame
£100 - 150
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19th century Japanese bronze figural group - depicting two figures taking tea in a boat, being powered by another, signature panel to base, 17cm long
£100 - 150
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Pair of 19th century carved bamboo brush pots - carved in high relief with figures in a bamboo grove, 22cm high, together with three others smaller
£200 - 300
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Good quality Victorian carved limewood panel - carved in high relief with the head of a maiden, her hair tied with flowers and corn, 15cm x 10cm, together with a relief carved plaque depicting putti and a Continental figural carved cane or parasol handle (3)
£100 - 150
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Art Nouveau pewter and green glass claret jug - with hinged cover and bifurcated handle, the flared body with sinuous female and scrolling foliate ornament, 37cm high
£100 - 150
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Fine 17th century stump-work picture depicting figures representing the five senses, together with animals, insects and mythological beasts in gardens, with raised details and encrusted with shells, coral beads and sequins, 49cm x 55cm, in glazed ebonised frame
£3000 - 5000
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Fine 17th century stump-work picture - beautifully worked with figures, insects and animals, depicting a biblical scene - possibly the story of Esther, in a range of stitches with applied seed pearls, 30cm x 49cm, in glazed silvered frame
£5000 - 7000
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Collection of nine Chinese jade and hardstone carvings - the largest 8cm high
£100 - 150
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Collection of decorative late 18th / early 19th century stipple engravings by Bartolozzi and others, in gilt frames (13)
£150 - 250
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Charles Eamer Kempe Studios - two stained glass window designs for Buckingham Palace - one in pencil, the other with sepia watercolour, both studies for the face of the Duke of Clarence as St. George, approximately 27cm x 23cm, unframed. The stained glass window was commissioned by Queen Alexandra to commemorate her eldest son who died in 1892, aged 28. Designed by Charles Eamer Kempe's chief cartoonist J. W. Lisle, the window was originally made for the Minister's Staircase, Buckingham Palace - it was damaged in an air raid in 1940
£200 - 300
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Charles Eamer Kempe Studios - four stained glass window designs for the West Window of The Priory Church of The Holy Trinity, York - pen and pencil, together with large number of stained glass window designs by the same firm - many signed and inscribed for Malvern Priory, Cirencester and others, pen, pencil and watercolours, all unframed (approximately 50)
£200 - 300
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Charles Eamer Kempe Studio - group of stained glass window designs - pen, pencil and wash - studies include designs for Cathedral of St. John The Divine New York, St. Mary's New York and others (approximately 20)
£100 - 150
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Charles Eamer Kempe Studio - collection of stained glass window designs - pen, pencil and wash - subjects include designs for St. Saviour, Southward, Davenport and others, various sizes, all unframed (approximately 20)
£100 - 150
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Charles Eamer Kempe Studio - collection of stained glass window designs - pen, pencil and wash - subjects include designs for St. Paul's, Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford and others, various sizes, all unframed (approximately 20)
£100 - 150
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