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Christmas Opening Times

The salerooms will be closed from the end of Friday, 20th December 2019 and will re-open at 9:00am on Thursday, 2nd January 2020. We wish all of our customers a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

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A very Happy Christmas and a Properous New Year from everyone at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.

The salerooms will be closed from the end Friday, 20 December 2019.

We will then be closed over the Christmas period and will re-open at 9:00am on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.

We wish all of our customers a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

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Sale FS37; Lot: 0866: A large Chinese cloisonne vase in the form of two chickens, of ovoid form with enamel decoration of fish amongst seaweed, a shaped wing to each side, raised on four feet, 36cm high.

A Large Chinese Cloisonne Vase (FS37/866)

Sold for £480

Sale FS39; Lot: 0611: A 19th century Cantonese carved export ivory card case and cover the whole decorated with figures in a pagoda landscape, 9.5cm high.

A 19th Century Cantonese Carved Export Ivory Card Case and Cover (FS39/611)

Sold for £400

Sale FS39; Lot: 0727: Holingue Frères, a French Gorge carriage clock the eight-day duration movement having a silvered platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell, with push button repeat of the last hour at will, the backplate stamped with the serial number 5585 with the frontplate stamped with the initials HL for the maker Holingue frères, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals, a subsidiary alarm dial, blued steel moon hands and signed for the retailer G Taylor & Son, Paris, the gorge case with typical five-bail handle, height 17.5cm (handle up) 14.5cm (handle down). * Biography Jean-Francois and the younger Louis Holingue were the sons of the carriage clock maker Jean Baptiste and worked in the clockmaking town of Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, near to Dieppe, producing the rough movements for a number of well-known makers including Paul Garnier and Bolviller; with Louis-Albert Holingue, the son and likely successor of Louis, married and settled in Paris with seemingly little interest in returning to the town, the brothers sold their workshops and equipment to Alfred Drocourt in 1875, having supplied Drocourt for a number of years with movements for his own clocks finished in Paris.

Holingue Frères, A French Gorge Carriage Clock (FS39/727)

Sold for £450

Sale FS40; Lot: 0939: An 18th Century mahogany and later floral marquetry bureau, the sloping fall decorated with floral foliate sprays radiating from an urn, enclosing a fitted interior with small drawers and pigeon holes about a central enclosed cupboard flanked by upright concealed compartments with blind fret carved ornament, containing four long graduated drawers below, on bracket feet, 110.5cm (3ft 7 1/2in) wide.

An 18th Century Mahogany and Later Floral Marquetry Bureau (FS40/939)

Sold for £520

Sale FS45; Lot: 0302: English Provincial School, 18th Century - Portrait of Black John, jester, full-length standing,- oil on canvas, 103 x 62cm * Note. Black John, said to be Jester to J Arscott of Tetcott [of hunting fame]. Arscott [1718-1788] was the last man in England to keep a professional jester and, on his death, left the Tetcott property, where he was buried, to the Molesworths. Black John was so attached to his master that he built a shelter close to the church at Tetcott and there, with an old hound as his sole companion, he grieved away the remainder of his life and died of a broken heart.

English Provincial School, 18th Century - Portrait of Black John, Jester, Full-length ... (FS45/302)

Sold for £15,500

Sale FS41; Lot: 0899: James Edwards, Stourbridge, a striking skeleton clock the eight-day duration, double-fusee movement having scroll shaped plates standing on a pair of plinths, five-spoke wheelwork and striking the hours on a bell set to the top, the silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals and the retailer's name Cave, Plymouth, with blued steel Germanic cross hands, standing on a rosewood base with glass dome (damaged), height 38.5cm includes base and dome. * Biography James Edwards is recorded as working in Stourbridge, Worcestershire from before 1829, when he is known to have been in the High Street, until 1853 by which time he is known to be working at Hagley Road. by 1860 all records of him stop so presumably he had ceased trading or died at this point. Edwards was probably the first of the skeleton clock makers to produce top quality pieces on a fairly large scale, pre-dating both Evans of Handsworth and Smiths of Clerkenwell by at least ten years. * Note. Reference Derek Roberts, Skeleton Clocks Britain 1800-1914; Antique Collectors Club 1987; pages 173-177.

James Edwards, Stourbridge, A Striking Skeleton Clock (FS41/899)

Sold for £720

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