Works of Art

  • French Louis XVI Carved Walnut Roundel

    French Louis XVI Carved Walnut Roundel

    French Louis XVI Carved Walnut Roundel

    10747 A French Louis XVI carved walnut roundel of the harvest, two putti digging and ploughing a corn field, within a segmented border.

     

    French

    1780-1800

     

    Diameter: 12 ins (31 cms)                               £1,650

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  • Ottoman Steel Arm Guard

    Ottoman Steel Arm Guard

    Ottoman Steel Arm Guard

    10743 An Ottoman steel arm guard of typical form, engraved with a pattern of flower heads within a calligraphic border inscription, Qur’an chapter II verse 255, and with the armourer’s mark from the Ottoman arsenal of Hagia Eirene.

     

    Ottoman

    Circa 1550

     

    Height: 14 ins (35.5 cms)                                            £800

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  • French Bronze Flute Playing Putto

    French Bronze Flute Playing Putto

    French Bronze Flute Playing Putto

    10296 A French bronze figure of a putto playing the flute, in the style of Roccatagliata, one leg forward with the flute raised to the lips, eyes and hair finely detailed, on a stepped, circular slate base.

     

    French

    1860-1890

     

    Height: 10.5 ins (26.5 cms)

    Height including base: 12.5 ins (32.5 cms)                £1,600

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  • Large Ottoman Iznik Dish

    Large Ottoman Iznik Dish

    Large Ottoman Iznik Dish

    10604 A large Ottoman Iznik dish decorated with saz leaves, painted on a white ground with a central scrolling leaf surrounded with tulips, carnations and stylised flower heads, the border with foaming waves and rocks, the back with small flower heads below a painted wavy rim border, the raised foot rim pierced for suspension. Restored, broken into four pieces.

    Private European collection.

     

    Ottoman Turkey, Iznik

    1600-1620

     

    Diameter: 13.5 ins (34 cms)                                             £7,000

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  • Pair of Japanese Arita Actor Figures

    Pair of Japanese Arita Actor Figures

    Pair of Japanese Arita Actor Figures

    10726 A pair of Japanese Arita male actor figures, wearing hats and black kimono with iron red details, and holding open fans, enclosed bases and with small vent holes on the back.

     

    Japanese, Arita kilns

    1700-1730

     

    Height: 6.25 ins (16 cms)                                        SOLD

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  • Pair of Bronze Japanese Vases

    Pair of Bronze Japanese Vases

    Pair of Bronze Japanese Vases

    10694 A pair of small Japanese bronze vases by Nogawa, silver inlaid and engraved with details of bamboo branches. Engraved Nogawa mark on both bases.

     

    Japanese

    1900

     

    Height: 6.5 ins (16.5 cms)                                          £480

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  • Pair of Chinese Export Qianlong Lion Candle Holders

    Pair of Chinese Export Qianlong Lion Candle Holders

    Pair of Chinese Export Qianlong Lion Candle Holders

    10616 A pair of Chinese export Qianlong period crouching lion candle holders, the smiling faces decorated in puce with green bodies, the candle holders replaced with European turned and painted wooden nozzles.

     

    Chinese

    1760-1800

     

    Height: 4.75 ins (12 cms)

    Width: 5.75 ins (14.5 cms)                                          SOLD

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  • Large Patinated Bronze Bust of Lucius Verus from Barbedienne Foundry

    Large Patinated Bronze Bust of Lucius Verus from Barbedienne Foundry

    Large Patinated Bronze Bust of Lucius Verus from Barbedienne Foundry

    10698 Barbedienne foundry

    Life size patinated bronze bust of Lucius Verus, grandeur originale, with detailed hair and beard, looking to his left, on a square tapering plinth base, after the Roman marble in the Louvre (Borghese collection). The back engraved ‘F. Barbedienne. Fondeur’ with the cachet ‘A. Collas Breveté Réduction Mécanique’.

     

    1865 – 1890

     

    Height: 27.5 ins (70 cms)                              £7,500

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  • Pair of George III Gilt Bronze Mounted Cassolettes

    Pair of George III Gilt Bronze Mounted Cassolettes

    Pair of George III Gilt Bronze Mounted Cassolettes

    10699 A pair of George III gilt bronze mounted fluorspar cassolettes, the urn-shaped bodies with shaped handles and leaf decoration on a fluted socle with square plinth base, the reversible tops with flame finial and candle holder. Original gilding with light wear.

     

    English

    1775

     

    Height: 7.5 ins (19 cms)                               SOLD

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  • Large Octagonal Blue and White Arita Vase

    Large Octagonal Blue and White Arita Vase

    Large Octagonal Blue and White Arita Vase

    10702 A Large Japanese Arita blue and white octagonal vase, the body decorated with phoenixes among flowering peony bushes, the shoulder painted with a fan motif, the neck rim with Buddhistic symbols, on a raised circular foot rim.

     

    Japanese

    1670 – 1690

     

    Height: 17.25 ins (44 cms)                                          £4,500

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  • Pair of Japanese Arita Ovoid Vases

    Pair of Japanese Arita Ovoid Vases

    Pair of Japanese Arita Ovoid Vases

    10695 A pair of Japanese Arita blue and white ovoid vases and covers, decorated in Wanli style with three panels of flower bushes reserved on a strapwork background, lappet shoulders, the domed lids with floral design and knop finials. Both lids re-stuck and well restored, bodies perfect.

    1680

    Height: 14.75 ins (37.5 cms) £7,000

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  • Fourfold Embossed and Painted Leather Screen

    Fourfold Embossed and Painted Leather Screen

    Fourfold Embossed and Painted Leather Screen

    8550 A fourfold embossed and painted leather screen, English or Dutch mid 18th century panels, gilded and painted with parrots among flowering foliage and vines. With old damage.

     

    Early 18th century

     

    Height: 65 ins (165 cm)

    Width: 96 ins (244 cm)

    SOLD

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  • Chinese Brass Mounted Burr Aboyna Box

    Chinese Brass Mounted Burr Aboyna Box

    Chinese Brass Mounted Burr Aboyna Box

    10513 A Chinese brass mounted burr amboyna box, with flush fitted handles and corner mounts, the interior with a fitted tray and easel mirror support.

     

    Chinese export

    1820

     

    Height: 5 ins (13 cms)

    Width: 11.25  (28.5 cms)

    Depth: 9 ins (22.5 cms)                                             £1,650

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  • Pair of Dutch Mounted Japanese Imari Ewers

    Pair of Dutch Mounted Japanese Imari Ewers

    Pair of Dutch Mounted Japanese Imari Ewers

    10576 A pair of Dutch mounted Japanese Imari soy ewers, the bodies decorated with chrysanthemum and peony bushes marked with ‘S’ in a roundel, the handle and spout with scrolling leaf patterns, the lightly engraved copper gilt mounts with chain links, turned foot rim. Both bodies cracked and professionally restored.

     

    Japanese

    1700-1720

     

    Height: 8 ins (20 cms)                                                  £4,000

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  • Pair of Chinese Kangxi Blue and Gilt Vases

    Pair of Chinese Kangxi Blue and Gilt Vases

    Pair of Chinese Kangxi Blue and Gilt Vases

    10583 A pair of Chinese Kangxi blue and gilt Yen Yen vases, the gilt decoration of flowering trees in landscapes rubbed. Turned foot rims, bases unglazed. One neck with old damage restored.

     

    Chinese. Kangxi period

    C 1700

     

    Height: 16 ins (40 cms)                                     £6,500

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  • Fine Pair of French Regence Mounted Japanese Arita Pots

    Fine Pair of French Regence Mounted Japanese Arita Pots

    Fine Pair of French Regence Mounted Japanese Arita Pots

    10589 A fine pair of French Regence mounted Japanese Arita cache pots, Dutch decorated with birds and flowers in Kakiemon style, with side handles and liners. One vase with restored crack.

     

    Japanese, Arita, the mounts Paris

    1720

     

    Height: 6.5 ins (16.5 cms)                                    £ 9,500

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