Works of Art

  • Ottoman Damascus Fritware Tile

    Ottoman Damascus Fritware Tile

    Ottoman Damascus Fritware Tile

    10394 An Ottoman Damascus fritware tile, the lobed central panel with tulips and carnations, surrounded by unusual tiger stripe and cintamani motifs, the corners with floral rosettes on apple green background. One edge and one corner restored, two glaze chips to the centre. Modern board hanging support.

     

    Ottoman Syria, Damascus

    1580

     

    Height: 10.5 ins (26.5 cms)

    Width: 10.75 ins (27 cms)                                      Sold

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  • A Pair of White Glazed Meissen Allegorical Groups

    A Pair of White Glazed Meissen Allegorical Groups

    A Pair of White Glazed Meissen Allegorical Groups

    10287 A pair of white glazed Meissen allegorical groups after Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Spring with a putti holding a basket of flowers and Autumn resting on a tree stump with a satyr holding a bunch of grapes. Autumn with crossed swords mark, Spring no visible mark. Autumn satyr, both feet restored. Spring, flower chips.

     

    German, Meissen Factory

    1740-1745

     

    Height: 10.5 ins (27 cms)

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  • George II Carved and Painted Crest

    George II Carved and Painted Crest

    George II Carved and Painted Crest

    10385 A George II carved and painted crest, possibly an overdoor, the shield-shape escutcheon with gryphon, supported by oak leaf and acorn swags.

     

    English

    1740-1750

     

    Height: 15.5 ins (38.5 cms)

    Width: 40 ins (102 cms)

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  • Pair of Chinese Export Qianlong Hunting Dogs

    Pair of Chinese Export Qianlong Hunting Dogs

    Pair of Chinese Export Qianlong Hunting Dogs

    10392 A pair of Chinese export Qianlong period figures of hunting dogs, seated with mouth slightly open, wearing a decorated collar and with the tail curling around hind leg. Restoration to front legs.

     

    Chinese

    1770

     

    Height: 10 ins (25.5 cms)                                  £14,500

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  • European School Workshop Drawing

    European School Workshop Drawing

    European School Workshop Drawing

    10380 European School, 18th Century

     

    Workshop interior with an ornamental lathe and woodworking tools.

    Pen and ink with sepia wash.

     

    Width: 10.5 ins (27 cms)

    Height: 7 ins (18 cms)

    £1,250

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  • Persian Safavid Blue and White Bowl

    Persian Safavid Blue and White Bowl

    Persian Safavid Blue and White Bowl

    10368 A Persian Safavid period blue and white pottery bowl, the centre decorated with fantastical plants and flowers with an arcaded guard border, within a continuous border of unusual plants and possibly pomegranates, the reverse neatly painted with nine panels with a disc at the centre of each, on a raised foot rim. Glaze chips to the rim, two hairlines and some staining and rubbing through usage.

     

    Persian

    1680

     

    Diameter: 11.75 ins (29 cms)                                     Sold

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  • Large Japanese Arita Blue and White Vase

    Large Japanese Arita Blue and White Vase

    Large Japanese Arita Blue and White Vase

    10339 A large Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain octagonal vase, the neck decorated with Buddhistic symbols above a three band lappet border, the body decorated with two phoenixes among peony and chrysanthemum bushes, on a raised circular foot.  Restoration; Two hairlines, a rim chip and a body crack.

     

    Japanese

    1680

     

    Height: 21 ins (54 cms)                                    Sold

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  • Dutch Decorated English Creamware Dish

    Dutch Decorated English Creamware Dish

    Dutch Decorated English Creamware Dish

    10360 A Dutch decorated English creamware dish, the shaped rim with floral decoration, the centre painted with a scene from the parable of the prodigal soon, entitled ZYN BEROUW (‘Remorse’). Rim hairline and rubbed decoration.

     

    Dutch

    1770

     

    Diameter: 10 ins (16 cms)                                             £320

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  • William IV 18 Inch Library Globe by John & William Cary

    William IV 18 Inch Library Globe by John & William Cary

    William IV 18 Inch Library Globe by John & William Cary

    10356 A late Regency 18-inch library globe.
    John & William Cary, 1835
    CARY’S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, EXHIBITING The Tracks and Discoveries made by CAPTAIN COOK; Also those of CAPTAIN VANCOUVER on the NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA And M. DE LA PEROUSE, on the COAST of TARTARY TOGETHER With every other Improvement collected from Various Navigators and Travellers to the present time. LONDON: Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary, Strand, March 1st.1816. WITH CORRECTIONS and ADDITIONS to 1835, made up of two sets of eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores, with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and four meridians, the oceans with an analemma, many explorers’ routes of Butlers, Cook, De La Perouses, Gore, Pickersgill, Ross and Vancouver given, the continents with nation states colour-outlined and fully coloured, showing cities depicted by a small building, towns, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, marshland, caravan routes and African salt and copper mines, the Oceans in blue; the sphere with engraved brass hour dial and engraved meridian, the hand-coloured engraved paper horizon ring with degrees, Zodiac and calendar scales and wind directions, mahogany stand with three quadrants to the meridian support with turned inverted finial, the three tapering reeded legs terminating in castors and united by turned stretchers to the glazed compass box with blued-steel needle and engraved thirty-two point wind rose with degree scales.

     

    Height: 45 ins (114 cms)                                                               SOLD

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  • Pair of Italian Mounted Baroque Alabaster Vases

    Pair of Italian Mounted Baroque Alabaster Vases

    Pair of Italian Mounted Baroque Alabaster Vases

    10322 A pair of Italian gilt bronze mounted Baroque alabaster vases with covers, the large pineapple finials above domed covers, the bodies with everted rims and finely chased, winged dragon handles, on spreading circular base.

     

    Italian

    1730

     

    Height: 18 ins (46 cms)

    SOLD

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  • Japanese Arita Blue and White Ovoid Vase

    Japanese Arita Blue and White Ovoid Vase

    Japanese Arita Blue and White Ovoid Vase

    10224 A Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain ovoid vase, the finely turned rim with chrysanthemum petal border, the body with two reserved panels of a dragon amongst clouds chasing a pearl, against a background of figures in a mountainous landscape, on a turned, everted rim. Sealed crack to the shoulder.

     

    Japanese

    1680

     

    Height: 11 ins (28 cms)                                               £2,200

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  • Large Dutch Delft Kraak Charger

    Large Dutch Delft Kraak Charger

    Large Dutch Delft Kraak Charger

    10260 A large Dutch Delft Kraak style charger with traditional decoration, the centre painted with a bold flower display, the border with eight panels of Chinese objects, the reverse with simple star decoration, a turned foot ring pierced for suspension. Restored rim crack.

     

    Dutch

    1680

     

    Diameter: 15.5 ins (39.5 cms)                                          Sold

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  • French Faience Deep Bowl

    French Faience Deep Bowl

    French Faience Deep Bowl

    10340 A French faience deep bowl, the shaped rim decorated in blue and manganese with simple flower sprays, centring on a standing figure with a parasol in a garden in Chinoiserie style, the glazed back with ribbed moulding and wide foot rim, pierced for hanging. Small body crack restored.

     

    French, possibly Nevers

    1770

     

    Diameter: 12.5 ins (32 cms)

    Height: 3.5 ins (9 cms)                                            £850

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  • Dutch Delft Wavy Rim Axe Factory Charger

    Dutch Delft Wavy Rim Axe Factory Charger

    Dutch Delft Wavy Rim Axe Factory Charger

    10344 A Dutch Delft wavy rim charger, the centre panel decorated with flowers in a vase, within a wide border showing six panels in reserve of fruits in vases, against a background of stylised floral swags. The glazed back with a double line and a low rim pierced for hanging, with the hatchet mark.

     

    Dutch, Porcelain Axe Factory

    1760

     

    Diameter: 13.5 ins (34.5 cms)                                      £650

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  • Dutch Delft Wavy Rim Kangxi Charger

    Dutch Delft Wavy Rim Kangxi Charger

    Dutch Delft Wavy Rim Kangxi Charger

    10343 A Dutch Delft wavy rim charger, decorated in Kangxi style with flower bushes on a rocky outcrop, within a border of four various flower bushes, the reverse decorated with flower sprays and marked with an incense burner. Similar dishes in Gemeentesmuseum, The Hague.

     

    Dutch

    1700-1725

     

    Diameter: 13.25 ins (33.5 cms)                                      £750

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  • Unusual Dutch Delft Bump Bottomed Charger

    Unusual Dutch Delft Bump Bottomed Charger

    Unusual Dutch Delft Bump Bottomed Charger

    10341 An unusual Dutch Delft blue and white charger, the raised centre decorated with a bird amongst flowers on a rocky outcrop, with a guard border of tracery, the main border with six panels in reserve of fruit bushes, on a diaper background. Plain glazed back with low foot rim.

     

    Dutch

    1680-1700

     

    Diameter: 13.25 ins (33.5 cms)                                  £750

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