Sale:
SE48 (04 Nov 2008)
Auction Lot:
0047
Estimate: £2,000-3,000
Realised: £5,300
Three Sèvres plates and a soup plate with marks for Leve, Commelin and Massey, datecode
for 1788.
Sale:
FS11 (13 Jul 2011)
Auction Lot:
0334
Estimate: £12,000-£18,000
Realised: £26,000
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935). Cock and Hen Pheasant, signed and dated 1901.
Sale:
FS10 (20 Apr 2011)
Auction Lot:
0191
Estimate: £5,000-£6,000
Realised: £5,000
A sapphire and diamond five stone half hoop ring.
Preview of April 2011 Fine Art Sale in Exeter, Devon
Whilst it is the high value items we auctioneers make most noise about, it is often
those items that display a great deal of time and effort in the making, but seem
eminently affordable, or the more novel, obscure or abstract items that make the
Fine Sale so appealing and dare I say eclectic at times.
The epitome of the glass makers art is encapsulated in lot 330 a Facon de Venise
vase with an intricate display of blowing, tooling and trailing that is all the
more astounding as it was produced in the 17th century.
Novelty of course always sells and there is always a market for pieces such, as
lot 18, modelled on animals particularly when coupled with a good maker, Richard
Comyns and an equally good retailer Asprey & Co.
Lot 18: A three piece novelty 'frog' cruet set by Asprey & Co, modelled as one large
and two smaller frogs seated in a pensive pose, with textured bodies, black
and brown glass eyes, the larger frog a mustard pot with hinged head, complete with
blue glass liner and forked tongue modelled by spoon maker Richard Comyns 1966,
the frogs hallmarked for London 1967, the mustard 7cm high, 18ozs.
Estimate: £300-400.
Understandably not many Inuit items make it to these shores particularly when they
hallow from the tip of Alaska or the Chuckchi Peninsula. The two ivory discs that
form lot 530 seem even more obscure as they have been carved from mammoth tusk!
Lot 530: An Inuit circular carved ivory disc decorated with a face carved in
low relief, 7cm diameter and a smaller oval carved plaque, 6cm high. Estimate: £600-800.
In our last Fine Sale we offered a group of four works by the, primarily West Country
based, abstract artist Alexander Mackenzie (1923-2002) all of which were well received
so we are happy once again to offer another striking work lot 306 of the Yorkshire
Dales entitled 'Austwick Landscape'.
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
- Okehampton Street, Exeter, Devon
- Salerooms
- Fine Art
- Richard Comyns
- Alexander Mackenzie (1923-2002)
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