Works of Art

  • French or Italian Regence Fitted Games Box

    French or Italian Regence Fitted Games Box

    French or Italian Regence Fitted Games Box

    10275 A French or Italian lacca povera Regence period fitted games box, the domed lid decorated with fête galante garden scene, the interior with four fitted counter boxes with tally markers similarly decorated, original metalwork.

     

    French or Italian

    1720

     

    Width: 7.5 ins (19 cms)

    Depth: 5.75 ins (14.5 cms)                                    £2,400

     

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  • Netherlandish Bronze Plaque 'The Triumph of Poverty'

    Netherlandish Bronze Plaque ‘The Triumph of Poverty’

    Netherlandish Bronze Plaque ‘The Triumph of Poverty’

    10221 A Netherlandish bronze plaque after Van Heemskerck, ‘The Triumph of Poverty’, from a series of plaquettes of ‘The Triumphs’.

     

    Netherlandish

    1650

     

    Width: 12.5 cms

    Height: 6.5 cms                                                            £650

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  • Pair of Japanese Arita Ewers

    Pair of Japanese Arita Ewers

    Pair of Japanese Arita Ewers

    10214 A pair of Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain ewers, the bodies decorated with panels of peonies and a central panel of standing figures, the handles with a scrolling flower pattern, with a double ring decoration to the foot. One with re-stuck rim sections and cracks to the handle restored, the other with restored rim chips.

     

    Japanese, Arita

    1680-1700

     

    Height: 8.75 ins (22 cms)                                             £2,600

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  • Rare Silver Mounted Chinese Teapot

    Rare Silver Mounted Chinese Teapot

    Rare Silver Mounted Chinese Teapot

    10237 A rare silver-mounted Chinese white glazed crackleware teapot, the body with applied prunus relief, the lid with silver strapwork attached by chain to the handle mount, the short spout similarly mounted, on a raised foot rim with glazed base. Lid with restored crack.

     

    Chinese, 1680-1700

    Contemporary silver mounts Dutch or German

     

    Height: 4.25 ins (11 cms)                                          £3,000

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  • Rare Giustiniani Terraglia Mosaic Centre Piece

    Rare Giustiniani Terraglia Mosaic Centre Piece

    Rare Giustiniani Terraglia Mosaic Centre Piece

    10153 A rare Neapolitan terraglia centrepiece by Giustiniani, the multi-lobed flower bowl with applied cream and gilt beads above a green bead base, supporting a cylindrical centre column with a campana-shaped vase with similar decoration. Stamped twice Giustiniani I N. Three rim leaves re-stuck and restored.

     

    Italian

    1826-1836

     

    Height: 14.5 ins (37 cms)

    Diameter: 13 ins (33 cms)

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  • Set of Fourteen Views of the Museo Pio Clementino by Volpato and Ducros

    Set of Fourteen Views of the Museo Pio Clementino by Volpato and Ducros

    Set of Fourteen Views of the Museo Pio Clementino by Volpato and Ducros

    10184 Giovanni Volpato (1733-1803) and Abraham-Louis Ducros (1748-1810)

    Complete set of 14 Views of Museo Pio Clementino, Rome.

    Sepia and grey wash over etched outlines. Later framed and mounted. Four views smaller.

    Circa 1792

    Width: 29 ins (75 cms) Frame: 38.25 ins (97 cms)

    Height: 21 ins (53 cms) Frame: 30 ins (76 cms)

    SOLD

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  • Small Dutch Delft Dish

    Small Dutch Delft Dish

    Small Dutch Delft Dish

    9984 A small Dutch Delft shaped and moulded dish, the centre decorated with a stylised pond or flower bed within a continuous border of figures in a garden landscape. Hatchet Factory painted mark.

     

    Dutch, Delft

    1750

     

    Width: 10.25 ins (26.5 cms)                                          £650

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  • Small Dutch Delft Dish

    Small Dutch Delft Dish

    Small Dutch Delft Dish

    9983 A small Dutch Delft shaped and moulded dish, decorated with a Chinese figure holding a vase in a landscape within a border of shells and flowers. De Roos (Rose) factory, painted mark with D

    Dutch, Delft

     1750

    Width: 10.5 ins (27 cms)

    £650

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  • Large Dutch Delft Chinoiserie Charger

    Large Dutch Delft Chinoiserie Charger

    Large Dutch Delft Chinoiserie Charger

    10101 A large Dutch Delft chinoiserie charger, decorated with two figures in a garden, the border similarly decorated with four figures in a wooded landscape, the back simply decorated with stars and circles. De Paeuw (The Peacock Factory) painted mark. Several restored rim chips.

     

    Dutch, Delft

    1695

     

    Diameter: 15.5 ins (39.5 cms)                                          Sold

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  • Flemish Bronze Sculpture of John the Baptist

    Flemish Bronze Sculpture of John the Baptist

    Flemish Bronze Sculpture of John the Baptist

    10268 A Flemish bronze sculpture of the head of John the Baptist

    Probably 17th or 18th century

     

    Depth: 3 ins (7.5 cms)

    Height: 2 ins (5 cms)                                                   £650

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  • Large Italian Etruscan Hydria

    Large Italian Etruscan Hydria

    Large Italian Etruscan Hydria

    10244 A large Italian hydria in Etruscan style, decorated in Attic style with two figures in front of an altar, the neck with stylised anthemion. The body cracked and repaired.

     

    Italian, Naples

    Late 19th century

     

    Height: 15.5 ins (39 cms)                                              SOLD

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  • Large Japanese Porcelain Dish

    Large Japanese Porcelain Dish

    Large Japanese Porcelain Dish

    10163 A large Japanese blue and white porcelain dish, painted in Ming style with a pair of ducks in a pond with a large flowering prunus tree, within a geometric border, the reverse with loosely painted flower motif, a turned foot rim and with a square seal mark.

     

    Japanese

    1800-1850

     

    Diameter: 18.25 ins (46 cms)                                  £1,600 

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  • Fine Victorian Statuary Marble Plaque

    Fine Victorian Statuary Marble Plaque

    Fine Victorian Statuary Marble Plaque

    10227 A fine Victorian statuary marble plaque, a Neoclassical two-handled vase with bell flowers in late Georgian style.

     

    English

    1850

     

    Height: 10 ins (25.5 cms)

    Width: 6 ins (15 cms)                                                   £700

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  • Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Imari Bottle Vases or Tokkuri

    Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Imari Bottle Vases or Tokkuri

    Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Imari Bottle Vases or Tokkuri

    10165 A fine pair of silver mounted Japanese Imari square bottle vases or Tokkuri, the bodies decorated with figures amongst flowering trees in four versions, the neck with red and gilt flowers in reserved panels below a red lattice pattern, the screw-topped silver fittings with flower head finials, probably Dutch.

     

    Japanese, Arita

    1700

     

    Height: 11 ins (28 cms)                                                 SOLD

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  • Pair of English Bronze Figures of Sphinxes

    Pair of English Bronze Figures of Sphinxes

    Pair of English Bronze Figures of Sphinxes

    10247 A pair of English well patinated bronze figures of the Capitoline sphinxes, the faces and headdresses finely detailed, on later verdi antico bases. Original statues are in the Capitoline Museum, Rome

     

    Italian

    Circa 1800

     

    Length: 9 ins (23 cms)

    Height: 6 ins (15 cms)                                                SOLD

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  • Large Japanese Arita Dish

    Large Japanese Arita Dish

    Large Japanese Arita Dish

    10236  A large and fine Japanese Arita porcelain dish, petal shaped with a brown glazed rim and decorated with a mountainous lakeside landscape with trees and pavilions and a bridge in the foreground, the reverse decorated with a continuous floral scroll, a turned foot ring with spur marks. With 19th century riveted repairs, hairline crack and two restuck rim sections.

    Japanese, Arita

    1680-1700

     

    Diameter: 18.5ins (47cm)

    Depth: 3.5ins (9cm)

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