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Fine Sales

Picture Auctions in Fine Sales

The Picture section of our Fine Sales offers the very best painting, drawings, prints and photographs that come through our Pictures department for auction.

Although the picture section is part of the fine sale, it offers a discrete picture auction in its own right.

Robert O Lenkiewicz [1941-2002] - Study/Girl with Blonde Hair (FS17/480) realised £8,000
in the picture auction of the January 2013 Fine Sale.

Robert O Lenkiewicz [1941-2002] - Study/Girl with Blonde Hair (FS17/480) realised £8,000 in the picture auction of the January 2013 Fine Sale.

The picture section of the sale usually offers several hundred lots of fine visual art from different periods and schools.

The typical categories of picture found in the picture auction of the fine sale include:-

Meet Daniel Goddard

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Daniel Goddard

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Maritime and Sporting

About William Wyld (1806-1889)

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William Wyld (1806-1889)

Explore Works of Art & Clocks

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Works of Art & Clocks

Explore Ceramics and Glass

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Ceramics and Glass

Explore Collectables and Toys

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Collectables and Toys

Sale FS17; Lot: 0826: A Regency rosewood breakfront side cabinet, applied with beaded mouldings, the four doors inset with fabric panels and divided by moulded uprights, headed by scrolls and on reeded bun feet, 183cm (6ft 0in) wide.

A Regency Rosewood Breakfront Side Cabinet (FS17/826)

Sold for £6,800

Sale FS37; Lot: 0346: A set of three George II tea caddies, maker Pierre Gillois, London 1754/55/56 of bombe outline, each with shallow domed lift-off lid and strawberry finial, the waisted bodies with chased scroll decoration raised on curved shell feet,(the larger caddy missing one foot), contained in a Victorian rosewood fitted box, 29cm wide, total weight of silver 23.38ozs.

A Set of Three George II Tea Caddies, Maker Pierre Gillois, London ... (FS37/346)

Sold for £2,500

Sale FS37; Lot: 1072: R J Bickell, South Molton, a floor-standing regulator the eight-day duration, timepiece movement having a dead-beat escapement with screw-adjustment for the depthing of the wheel arbors, with a brass-bound weight and brass bob to the wood-rod pendulum, the round silvered fifteen-inch dial engraved with a typical regulator layout showing seconds to the outer aspect and with hour and minute subsidiary dials to the centre and engraved with the name RJ Bickell, So. Molton, with blued steel spade hands, the curved topped mahogany case having a glazed trunk door, canted corners, inset shaped panels to the hood either side of the dial and an inset panel to the base, height 202cm * Biography Richard John Bickell is recorded as a clock and watchmaker, silversmith and gunsmith at South Street, South Molton in 1838 and then Broad Street from 1844 until 1878. He was mayor of the town in 1852 and made and supplied the Town Hall clock in 1851/52 for which he was paid £101.00. The address for the business was given as 19, Broad Street in 1883, whilst his home address is recorded as Sunnyside.

R J Bickell, South Molton, A Floor-standing Regulator (FS37/1072)

Sold for £2,400

Sale FS39; Lot: 0485: An Italian maiolica crespina painted in blue, manganese and ocre with a head and shoulders portrait of a lady within a wide border of stylised flowers and foliage, probably 18th century, 28cm diameter [some chips and repair].

An Italian Maiolica Crespina (FS39/485)

Sold for £380

Sale FS41; Lot: 0566: A pair of London blue and white delftware dry drug jars each painted with an elaborate strapwork cartouche surmounted with a shell and two winged cherubs, a cupid's head and floral swags below, inscribed 'Bals:Lucat' and 'U:Dialthae', circa 1730-50, 16.5cm high [some damage and glaze losses]. *Note. Balsamum Lucatelli was used to treat ulcers and Unguentum Dialthae to decrease inflammation and heal wounds.

A Pair of London Blue and White Delftware Dry Drug Jars (FS41/566)

Sold for £880

Sale FS37; Lot: 0922: Miura Ryuzaburo (1868-1919) A carved ivory okimono of two Kingfishers perched on a carved antler lotus root, one kingfisher holding a frog in it's beak the other holding a leaf, both birds signed, lotus root unsigned, one bird with damaged feet, overall length 26cm, (1868-1912), Meiji period.

Miura Ryuzaburo (1868-1919) A Carved Ivory Okimono of Two Kingfishers (FS37/922)

Sold for £1,950

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