Sale:
FS11 (13 Jul 2011)
Auction Lot:
0473
Estimate: £3,000-£4,000
Realised: £14,500
A Martin Bros salt glazed stoneware 'grotesque' spoon warmer. Signed RW Martin,
London & Southall 11-1879.
Sale:
FS11 (13 Jul 2011)
Auction Lot:
0662
Estimate: £6,000-£8,000
Realised: £21,000
A George III mahogany serpentine-fronted serving table.
Sale:
FS11 (13 Jul 2011)
Auction Lot:
0447
Estimate: £2,000-£3,000
Realised: £26,000
A pair of Chinese porcelain vases enamelled in the famille rose palette with magpies
amongst prunus, converted as lamps, apocryphal Qianlong marks.
January 2011 Fine Art Sale
Qianlong (1736-1795) Blue and White Wine Ewer. FS09/541. Estimate: £5,000-£8,000.
The forthcoming sale has certainly shaped up to be a healthy one. The recent news
of eight figures sums being paid for Chinese porcelain lead to a busy few weeks
on the valuations desk and whilst we have yet to find 'the next one' the sale does
have a couple of Qianlong (1736-95) mark and period pieces worthy of mention. Lot
541 a blue and white wine ewer estimated at £5,000-£8,000 and lot 542 a doucai alter
candlestick £3,000-5,000.
Whilst summer seems a long way off the picture section offers a little sunshine
in the form of a collection of St Ives pictures by Ben Nicholson, Terry Frost, Alexander
Mackenzie and Alfred Wallis amongst others. The latter a retired fisherman who took
to painting late in life was greatly admired for his naïve handling of form, scale
and perspective - a vision untainted by an art education.
Lot 430 Harbour Approaches is a perfect and endearing example of his work, being
offered at £4,000-6,000. Lot 507 Off the Coast of Tarapaca £12000-18000 however
was painted by Thomas Somerscales, a formal Naval man and a drawing tutor, his work
certainly shows all the benefit of an art education, but they were both broadly
speaking contemporaries and both spent many years on the waves producing works largely
from memory.
Harbour Approaches by Alfred Wallis. FS09/430.
Estimate: £4,000-£6,000.
From exotic Chilean coasts to Africa there is lot 268 a gold presentation watch
£2000-3000 bearing the inscription 'From the Royal Geographical Society to Lieut
Cecil WG Murphy RA as a momento of his journey with Dr Livingstone's remains from
Unyanyembe Central Africa to Zanzibar'. One of the more colourful and memorable
19th century English explorers obsessed with finding the source of the Nile is now
buried by the Thames his remains interred in Westminster Abbey.
Lot 796 a 17th century Italian ebony and ivory veneered cabinet on stand decorated
with views of Noah's Ark and multiple panels bearing pairs of animals and birds
has both an exotic and homely appeal and is estimated £3,500-£4,500.
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
- Okehampton Street, Exeter, Devon
- Qianlong (1736-1795) Ceramics
- St Ives Painters
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