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16-April | The Purple Shop - The Anthony Gardner Collection

Auction date Tuesday 16 April 2024 10:00 - 18:00 BST

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Tuesday 16 April - Sussex Saleroom 
Lot 1– 171      10am | Works of Art, Furniture,  Pictures & Prints, European Ceramics & Glass
Lot 180- 618   1pm  | Jewellery, Watches, Buckles and Silver

Viewing- Sussex Saleroom 
12 April | 10am - 4pm
13 April | 9am - 12:30pm
15 April | 10am - 4pm

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Payment
Payment to be received by bank transfer or on collection by Tuesday 23 April

Collections - Sussex Saleroom 
We will be open for collections on sale days 9am -4.30pm and additionally
Wednesday 17 April        9am – 4.30pm
Thursday 18 April             9am - 4.30pm
Friday 19 April                   9am - 4.30pm
Monday 22 April               9am-4.30pm
Tuesday 23 April               9am – 4.30pm

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A significant proportion of the proceeds of the sale of the collection and estate are going to charities; including The Royal Marsden Hospital, Cancer Research UK, The Terrence Higgins Trust, Al-Anon, RADA and Trinity Hospice. 

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Total lots: 601

Lot 1 Sold
A TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS BOTTLE VASE
Early 20th century
Decorated with green vine leaves against a gold iridescent ground, signed L.C. Tiffany, Favrile and 2929 E, 16cm high
In overall good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans…
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 2 Sold
AN ART NOUVEAU GILT-BRASS AND FROSTED GLASS TABLE LAMP IN THE FORM OF A DRAGONFLY AND FLOWER
Early 20th Century
Modelled as a dragonfly perched on a flower, mounted with pink glass facets with frosted glass wings, 52cm high
The unusual Art Nouveau lamp design is dominated by this dragonfly, which hovers over a poppy…
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 3 Sold
IRENE SHARAFF (AMERICAN, 1910-1993) (4)
Elizabeth Taylor in The Taming of the Shrew
signed and inscribed 'Sharaff' (lower right)
watercolour and gouache
37 x 27cm
together with a photograph print of Anthony Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor in The Taming of The Shrew; a DVD of The Taming of The Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; and a booklet for The Taming of The Shrew
(4)
Anthony Gardner played Haberdasher in the 1967 film rendition of The Taming of The Shrew alongside…
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 4 Sold
`DAHLIA'. A LALIQUE FROSTED GLASS PLAFONNIER (2)
Designed in 1921
Engraved mark R.Lalique France, 30.5cm diameter, gilt metal fixings and chains; also a Lalique Dahlia pattern opalescent wall light, originally half of a plafonnier, unmarked, 30.5cm wide, metal fixings
Plafonnier in overall in good condition.The wall light was originally been a plafonnier. There is a…
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 5 Sold
IN THE MANNER OF LIBERTY & CO; AN ARTS & CRAFTS COPPER SQUARE REPOUSSÉ WALL MIRROR
With embossed fruiting pomegranate motif, 89cm wide; 89cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 6 Sold
FOUR ART NOUVEAU STAINED SATIN BIRCH PANELS OF THE PERSONIFICATIONS OF THE SEASONS (5)
Each 28cm x 72cm; Together with a painted four section folding screen depicting personifications of the elements, in the manner of Alphonse Mucha, 71cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £750
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 7 Sold
ROBERTO MONTENEGRO (MEXICAN, 1885-1968) (10)
Vaslav Nijinsky, an Artistic Interpretation of his Work in Black, White and Gold (1913)
lithographs in colour, printed by C.W. Beaumont & Co
all similar sizes, the largest 31 x 22.5cm, the smallest 25 x 18cm
(10)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 8 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF MATERIALS, BEADED COSTUME ELEMENTS ETC (QTY)
Comprising embroidered silk-work, patches, large sequined offcuts, feather fans, beaded bags, leather suitcases, and a beaded door fringe etc.
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £60 - £80
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 9 Sold
A LOETZ CRETE PAPILLON IRIDESCENT GLASS VASE
Early 20th century
With squat body beneath a slender neck and everted rim, of green glass with silvery blue splashes, unmarked, 15.25cm high
Tiny nick to the rimProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans…
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 10 Sold
ROLAND PARIS (1894-1945): A PAIR OF COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURAL BOOKENDS OF THE KING AND THE SCHOLAR (2)
Circa 1930
The portor marble bases signed ‘ROLAND PARIS’, 14.5cm wide; 13cm high
Ivory License number: 1Z5FSZRW Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See…
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 11 Sold
THE PURPLE SHOP AND MR GARDENER’S PERSONAL ARCHIVE TO INCLUDE A LETTER FROM HRH PRINCESS MARGARET (QTY)
The shop archive to include assorted ephemera, cuttings, scrap books (including extracts from Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan etc), jewellery stock slides and viewer, business cards, shop floor design, exhibition posters; Together with an original signed letter from HRH Princess Margaret to Mr Gardener thanking him for a butterfly buckle, with associated press cutting; Also to include a collection of photographs and posters relating to Mr Gardener’s personal acting career.
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 12 Sold
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Orpheus
watercolour
51 x 75cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 13 Sold
A LOETZ IRIDESCENT GLASS VASE
Early 20th century
The amethyst glass with silvered vertical stripes and spots, unmarked, 19cm high
Condition Report:Some scuffing to the silvering, but overall in good conditionProvenance: The…
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 14 Sold
AN ART DECO PURPLE CHIFFON AND BEADED FLAPPER DRESS
20th Century
The dress elaborately decorated in Art Deco motifs in silver and purple beads, with scoop neckline and cropped waist, 104cm long
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection. See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 15 Sold
'ALBERT', A LALIQUE SMOKEY GLASS VASE
Designed in 1925
Engraved R.Lalique, No. 958, 17.5cm high
Several chips around the edge of the base, the largest approx. 1cm by 0.75cm. Some light surface…
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 16 Sold
AN IRON FRAMED RECTANGULAR COFFEE TABLE
The top inset with a trio of foliate cast pierced grille panels, 179cm wide; 86cm deep; 44cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £200 - £400
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 17 Sold
AN ARTS & CRAFTS ENAMEL PLAQUE MOUNTED COPPER INKWELL (5)
Early 20th Century
The square inkwell with white-metal capped corners, the cover and base inset with enamel plaques, 13cm wide; Together with an enamel and hammered pewter square table box, early 20th Century, possibly, for Liberty & Co., depicting a sailing boat at sea, oak lined interior, stamped ‘0888’ with initials ‘J.D’, 17.5cm wide; an enamel plaque depicting the side profile of a maiden, 20cm diameter overall; and two further enamelled items
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 18 Sold
H*** GLEIZES (EUROPEAN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Portrait of a lady
signed and dated 'HGleizes 99' (lower right) and with artist's stamp (to reverse of stretcher)
oil on canvas
65 x 46.5cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 19 Sold
AN IRIDESCENT GLASS VASE
Possibly Kralik or Fritz Heckert, 20th century
Ovoid form with dimpled sides, decorated with irregular gold iridescent waves against a mottled red ground, unmarked, 21.5cm high
Some small burst air bubbles and scattered black impurities to the glass surfaceProvenance: The…
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 20 Sold
AVERIL BURLEIGH (BRITISH, 1883-1949)
Cleopatra
signed 'AVERIL BURLEIGH' (lower left)
watercolour
25.5 x 17cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £600 - £900
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 21 Sold
POSSIBLY JULES-ANDRE MELIODON (FRENCH,1867-C.1940): AN ART NOUVEAU BRONZE FIGURE, PROBABLY THE METAMORPHOSIS OF DAPHNE
Early 20th Century
Formerly a lamp, drilled to the base and back of figure, signed to the cast ‘ M? Meliodon’, 26.5cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 22 Sold
T*** E*** W*** (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY) (2)
Still life of flowers in a vase, a pair
each signed with monogram 'TEW' (lower right)
gouache
45 x 28.5cm
(2)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 23 Sold
TWO IRIDESCENT GLASS VASES (2)
Of cylindrical form, the smaller with everted rim, the cobalt blue glass with silvery blue splashed iridescence, unmarked, 15cm and 21cm high
Good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 24 Sold
JULIEN CADET CAUSSE (FRENCH 1869-1909): AN ART NOUVEAU BRONZE ENTITLED ‘LYS’
Late 19th/ Early 20th Century
Inscribed to the side of the cast ‘J Caussé‘, the base entitled 'LYS', 39cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 25 Sold
A LOETZ MAXIMIA GLASS VASE
Early 20th century
Of ovold form, the candia ground with silvery yellow splashes and irregular rows of blue stripes, unmarked, 20cm high
Good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website…
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 26 Sold
IN THE MANNER OF LIBERTY & CO; AN ARTS & CRAFTS COPPER FRAMED WALL MIRROR
With enamelled decoration and oval mirror plate, 56cm wide; 77cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 27 Sold
A GROUP OF THREE CIGARETTE BOXES INCLUDING AN ART DECO SHAGREEN INLAID BOX (3)
Circa 1920
With sycamore lined interior, 16.5cm wide; Together with a tortoiseshell box with ivory stringing and initial ‘A’, subdivided interior, 15cm wide, and a walnut box with ivorine thumbpiece, 19.5cm wide
Shagreen box ivory licence number: 21XGNS18Tortoiseshell box ivory licence number:…
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 28 Sold
THE JEWELLERY REFERENCE LIBRARY OF THE PURPLE SHOP (QTY)
Comprising a large quantity of books in reference to Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Cartier, Lalique, Faberge, Liberty & Co, Grima, Gaskin, Giuliano, etc.
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 29 Sold
UMBERTO BRUNELLESCHI (ITALIAN, 1879-1949)
Pierrot et Colombine
signed and numbered in pencil 'Brunelleschi 196' (in lower margin)
print in colours
41 x 31.5cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 30 Sold
SAM HERMAN ( 1936-2020) A TALL STUDIO GLASS VASE
1971
Of irregular form, in clear glass with an abstract design and iridescent patches, etched mark, Samuel Herman 1402 London 71, 36.5cm high
ARR
Overall in good condition. There is a small circular burst air bubble around the top of the rim,…
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 31 Sold
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE PENS INCLUDING A PARKER 61 FOUNTAIN PEN IN BOX (7)
20th Century/Modern
Also including another Parker 61 fountain pen, a red and a black Parker Duofold fountain pen each with 14K nibs, a green Parker Slimfold fountain pen with 14K nib, a red Parker 17 fountain pen and a Parker ballpoint pen
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 32 Sold
CIRCLE OF ALPHONSE MUCHA (2)
Advert designs, A seated woman in a pink dress, a set of two
watercolour and bodycolour
each 48 x 34cm
(2)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 33 Sold
A TALL IRIDESCENT GLASS VASE
Possibly Loetz, 20th century
Of dimpled ovoid form, with green trailed decoration against a golden iridescent ground, unmarked, 27.5cm high
Overall in good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans…
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 34 Sold
ATTRIBUTED TO ARCHIBALD KNOX OR DAVID VEAZEY FOR LIBERTY & CO: AN ARTS AND CRAFTS TUDRIC TWIN HANDLED VASE
Early 20th Century
Of squat bulbous form, the slender neck neck with everted rim, with sinuous brass handles with Celtic knots and roundels under the shoulders, stamped TUDRIC 0214 to the base, on later black base, vase 33.5cm high excluding base
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 35 Sold
AN ART DECO ALUMINIUM AND BRASS ‘PIERROT’ FIGURAL TABLE LAMP
Early 20th Century
Inscribed to the cast ‘EXE 3’, with yellow frosted shade, mounted on a green marble base, 29cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 36 Sold
AN ART NOVEAU STAINED PINE PAINTED FOUR FOLD SCREEN
216cm wide; 171cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 37 Sold
LIBERTY & CO: A PEWTER FOUR PIECE BACHELOR TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE (8)
20th Century
The hammered four piece service stamped Liberty & Co to the underside, model number 01372, teapot 12cm high; Together with a Tudric pewter small bowl with embossed rim and turquoise coloured cabochons, a jewellery or pocket watch stand and two pewter and enamel menu holders, 13cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 38 Sold
PARKER HAGARTY (BRITISH, 1839-1954)
Portrait of a young lady
signed 'PARKER HAGARTY' (upper right)
watercolour and mixed media
34 x 24.5cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 39 Sold
SIX ROYAL DOULTON STONEWARE WRIGHT'S COAL TAR ADVERTISING SOAP DISHES (6)
Early 20th century
Each modelled as a dragonfly on the edge of a blue glazed pool, impressed marks, 15cm wide
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £350
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 40 Sold
FERDINAND PREISS (1882-1943): AN ART DECO COLD PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURES OF 'BUTTERFLY DANCERS'
Circa 1930
Modelled mid dance in flared dresses, arms and legs outstretched, mounted on an octagonal green onyx base, signed to the onyx ‘F. Priess’, overall 47cm high
Condition: Good general condition, some minor marks and scratches to the painted metal, some very…
Hammer price: £9,500
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 41 Sold
A NORTH EUROPEAN JUGENDSTIL STYLE CREAM PAINTED BRASS, COPPER AND PEWTER MOUNTED DOMED CASKET
Late 19th / Early 20th Century
Mounted with a central female mask and titled ‘ARS NATURAM JUVAT’ translating as 'Art Helps Nature', 40cm wide; 24cm deep; 32.5cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 42 Sold
L*** F** MORRES (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Portrait of a young lady
signed 'L F. MORRES' (centre right)
watercolour
33 x 27.5cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 43 Sold
A TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS CANDLESTICK
Early 20th century
Of spiral ribbed form with a golden iridescence shading to purple at the rim, signed L.C.T, 13.75cm
Some ware around the lower part and baseProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner…
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 44 Sold
AN ART NOUVEAU BRASS THREE BANCH HANGING LIGHT
Early 20th Century
With downward swept arms with upright stylised flower stems, tulip-shaped opaque moulded glass shades, 79cm high; 43cm wide
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 45 Sold
AN ART DECO ALUMINIUM AND BRASS ‘PIERROT’ TABLE LAMP
Circa 1920
Inscribed to the cast ‘EXE 3’, with an orange mottled globular shade, mounted on a verde antico marble plinth base, 29cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 46 Sold
ATTRIBUTED TO DEREK JARMAN (BRITISH, 1942-1994)
Costume designs for Ballet for Small Spaces
annotated in pencil
pencil and watercolour
49.5 x 40cm
ARR
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 47 Sold
IN THE MANNER OF LIBERTY & CO; AN ARTS & CRAFTS COPPER FRAMED REPOUSSÉ WALL MIRROR
With oval bevelled mirror plate, 72cm wide; 53cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £750
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 48 Sold
A SET OF FOUR ART NOUVEAU COPPER DOOR PLATES (QTY)
Early 20th Century
Each with scalloped edges and wider section for a door handle and locking mechanism, 71cm high: Together with a single example decorated with embossed ivy leaves, 68cm high, together with a box of escutcheons
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 April 2024
16 April 2024

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