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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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 Additional Condition Reports will be available from 2nd April 

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 49 Sold
RICHARD CAREY (20TH CENTURY) (2)
Marlene Dietrich receiving flowers
signed 'Richard Carey' (lower right)
mixed media
51 x 35cm
together with a watercolour portrait of Marlene Dietrich, indistinctly signed (lower right), 34 x 24cm
(2)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 50 Sold
GEORGE BARBIER (FRENCH, 1882-1932)
Svoboda
signed and dated 'GEORGE BARBIER 1920' (lower right) and inscribed (upper right)
watercolour, gouache and ink
25 x 18cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 51 Sold
A ROSENTHAL STUDIO LINE TAC WALTER GROPIUS TEA SERVICE (13)
20th Century
Comprising teapot, sugar bowl, cream jug, four teacups and six saucers
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 52 Sold
A FRENCH ART NOUVEAU BRONZE MERMAID FIGURAL TABLE LAMP
Circa 1920s
Inscribed to the cast ‘Marina Paris 23’, mounted on a later black marble base, lacking original glass nautilus shade, replaced with a shell, 53cm high excluding shell
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 53 Sold
BASIL WOODHOUSE (BRITISH, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Portrait of a lady
signed 'Basil Woodhouse' (lower right)
watercolour
63 x 40.5cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 54 Sold
AN FRENCH ART NOUVEAU WALNUT DISPLAY CABINET
With parcel gilt bevelled glass single glazed door, 37cm wide; 31cm deep; 135cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 55 Sold
A VERLYS OPALESCENT GLASS SHALLOW BOWL
1930's
The underside moulded with three birds and dragonflies, moulded Verlys France, 29.5cm diameter
Overall in good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans…
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 56 Sold
A GROUP OF ART NOUVEAU/ART DECO RETAIL CATALOGUES (11)
Mostly Early 20th Century
Including Liberty & Co, Georg Jensen, Asprey, Waring & Gillows, etc.
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 57 Sold
AFTER KLARA SEVER: A SILVERED BRONZE FIGURE ‘SULTRY AWAKENING' (2)
20th Century
35.5cm high; Together with a spelter figural table lamp after Melodion, 32cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 58 Sold
A TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS GOBLET
Early 20th century
The cupped bowl and circular foot moulded with nodules, of gold, green and purple iridescence, signed L.C.T D6724, 9cm high
Overall in good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans…
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £150 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 59 Sold
KATE E HILL (BRITISH, FL. 1895-1898)
The Evening Star
titled, inscribed and dated 'Kate E. Hill July 1898' (verso)
watercolour
11.5cm diameter, circular
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £200 - £400
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 60 Sold
A LOETZ PHAENOMEN PG 7766 IRIDESCENT GLASS VASE
Early 20th century
Of mallet form with waisted neck and crimped rim, the bronze ground with silver-yellow swirls, unmarked, 21.5cm high
Good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website…
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 61 Sold
AN ART NOUVEAU BRASS CENTREPIECE
Early 20th Century
The central stem and bowl with hammered finish, joined by twisting leaves and vines, the four footed base surmounted by similar twisted motifs encasing the base of the stem, likely would have originally had a glass top, 52.5cm high
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 62 Sold
GEORGE WHITELAW (BRITISH, 1887-1959)
Mr Milton Rosmer as Pierrot in Prunella
signed 'G Whitelaw' (centre right)
watercolour, gouache and pencil
29 x 22.5cm
ARR
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 63 Sold
TWO TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS PLATES (2)
Early 20th century
The larger with wavy rim, the smaller with moulded nodules to the underside, each signed L.C.T, the smaller with D 9265, 17cm and 13cm wide
The smaller plate has a chip to one of the nodules on the undersideProvenance: The Purple Shop –…
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 64 Sold
FOUR PIECES OF IRIDESCENT GLASS (4)
20th century
Comprising; a glass vase with pinched rim, possibly Kralik, the purple glass with irregular iridescent blue wave design, 12cm high; a dimpled glass vase with pinched rim, the clear glass with blue waves on a golden lustre ground, 13cm high; a tall trumpet shaped vase decorated with purple wavy lines on a mottled orange ground, 25cm high; a tapered cylindrical vase with an iridescent wave design, 12cm high
The trumpet shaped vase has a crack running across the base and up the sidesThe other vases are in…
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £150 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 65 Sold
IN THE MANNER OF LIBERTY & CO; AN ARTS & CRAFTS COPPER FRAMED RECTANGULAR WALL MIRROR
With enamelled decoration, 115cm wide; 75cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 66 Sold
THREE ART DECO SILVER MOUNTED ONYX BOXES AND ANOTHER (4)
Early 20th Century
The largest silver-mounted oblong box inlaid with malachite design, 15cm wide, a square onyx and malachite box, 10cm wide, two small silver-mounted snuff boxes, one inlaid with geometric border and one with an abalone dragonfly
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 67 Sold
20TH CENTURY SCHOOL
A lady in clown costume
indistinctly signed (lower right)
watercolour and gouache
35 x 24.5cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 68 Sold
A TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS BOWL
Early 20th century
Of panelled octagonal form with a gold and purple iridescence, signed L.C.T, 11cm diameter
There is a shallow chip around the ground pontil mark, possibly done at the time of…
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 69 Sold
AN AUSTRIAN ART NOUVEAU CERAMIC FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK
Early 20th Century
The two lovers modelled in an embrace, above flowers and ribbons surrounding the brown dial, stamped underneath AUSTRIA and inscribed d281, 51cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 70 Sold
ALFRED DAGUET (1875-1942): A FRENCH ART NOUVEAU EMBOSSED GILT COPPER AND GLASS MOUNTED CASKET OR JEWELLERY BOX
Early 20th Century
Mounted with amethyst and turquoise coloured paste cabochons, embossed entwined thistle motifs, flanked by studded side edges, embossed ‘Alfred Daguet 07’ to the reverse, later painted interior, 35.5cm wide; 14.5cm deep;12.5cm high
Alfred Daguet was a metalsmith working in Paris during the first half the 20th Century. His metal…
Hammer price: £700
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 71 Sold
COLETTE MOREAU (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY) (2)
Woman in costume holding a plume of red feathers
signed 'COLETTE MOREAU' (lower right)
gouache
42 x 33cm
together with; Rene Gontran Ranson (French, 1891-1977), Le Soufre (Costume design of a lady in a yellow dress and headdress), signed 'RANSON' (lower right) and inscribed (upper right), watercolour, gouache and pencil, 32 x 24.5cm
(2)
ARR
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 72 Sold
A SMALL TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS VASE
Early 20th century
Of swollen cylindrical form, applied around the centre with horizontal trails and `tadpoles', signed L.C.T and N.7015, 10cm high; also a Tiffany Favrile glass decanter stopper, unmarked, 8cm length (2)
Vase- some losses to the trails and `tadpoles'Stopper- some chips around the bottom edgeProvenance:…
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 73 Sold
AN ART NOUVEAN PEWTER ALLOY MOUNTED LOETZ PAPILLON STYLE GLASS VASE AND A TABLE LAMP (2)
Early 20th Century
Modelled with sinuous vines and flowers, enclosing a blue and green mottled iridescent glass to the lower half and a later associated drinking glass to the upper half, 41cm high; Together with a blue and opaque Schneider style glass table lamp, of tapering baluster form, lacking shade, 35cm high excluding fitment
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 74 Sold
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY (3)
View of a beach
watercolour
22 x 34cm
together with a pair of watercolour of boats at sea by Frederick James Aldridge, each signed (lower right), each 17 x 25cm
(3)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 75 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
(all unframed)
(10)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £200 - £400
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 76 Sold
A COLLECTION OF PIETRA DURA DESK ACCESSORIES AND HARDSTONE SPECIMENS (13)
20th Century
Comprising two Anglo-Indian oval butterfly paperweights, the larger 15cm, an Indian floral oblong box cover with handle, 12cm wide, a magnifying glass and an octagonal marble sampler desk weight, 22cm long; Together with eight marble samples
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 77 Sold
A LATE 19TH CENTURY CHINESE EXPORT CHINOISERIE DECORATED FOUR FOLD SCREEN
220cm wide; 211cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £200 - £400
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 78 Sold
A PAIR OF MINTON SECESSIONIST PEDESTALS (2)
Early 20th century
Each decorated with stylised flowers glazed in green, ochre, red and salmon pink, impressed marks, date cypher for 1902, 58cm high
Some typical wear to the top surfaces but overall in good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop –…
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 79 Sold
A COLLECTION OF HARDSTONE SPECIMEN EGGS, BALLS AND DECORATIVE ITEMS (18)
20th Century
The collection to include a banded agate snuff box, 5cm wide, three place card holders, an ornamental ball, a doorknob, two faceted glass balls, a brass Art Nouveau dish and other items
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 80 Sold
AFTER EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY
O Mistress Mine, where are you roaming? (From Twelfth Night)
oil on canvas
89 x 141cm
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £500 - £700
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 81 Sold
A MINTON SECESSIONIST PEDESTAL (4)
Early 20th century
Of baluster form, painted with flowers in blue, purple and shades of green, impressed mark, black printed Mintons Ltd, No.12, 61cm high; also a Minton Secessionist jardiniere and two Minton turquoise glazed jardinieres (4)
The pedestal with cracks to the sides.The Secessionist jardiniere with extensive restorationThe…
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 82 Sold
A COLLECTION OF ART NOUVEAU PERIOD AND RELATED BOOKS (QTY)
To include various examples of ‘The Studio Magazine Yearbook’ and Edmund Dulac picture books
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 83 Sold
A FRENCHh ART DECO MARBLE AND BRONZED SPELTER CLOCK GARNITURE (5)
1930’s
The mixed marble garniture comprising central mantel clock flanked by two pairs of doves, both inscribed BALLES to the cast, 42cm wide, and two graduated pairs of vases or desk stands, the larger with alabaster panels
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £60 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 84 Sold
ADOLFO BUSI (ITALIAN, 1891-1977) (2)
Pierrot with a woman, a pair
each indistinctly signed (lower left)
gouache
each 34.5 x 44.5cm
(2)
ARR
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 85 Sold
A LOETZ CRETE PAPILLON GLASS SOLIFLEUR VASE
Early 20th century
Of rosewater sprinkler shape with dimpled body, of blue colour with silvery blue splashes, unmarked, 25cm high
Good conditionProvenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website…
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 86 Sold
A PAIR OF TIFFANY STYLE STAINED AND LEADED GLASS MOUNTED TABLE LAMPS (2)
20th Century
The shades with marbled stained glass panels, supported on patinated metal baluster and embossed table lamp bases, 26cm diam., 37cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 87 Sold
AN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT OVERMANTEL WALL MIRROR
With a trio of polychrome painted herons to the upper frieze, the rectangular plate flanked by three shelves, 135cm wide; 153cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 88 Sold
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Portrait of a young woman with a hooded cloak
pastel
43.5 x 32.5cm
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 89 Sold
POSSIBLY DUFFNER & KIMBERLY: A LARGE MATCHED PAIR OF TIFFANY STYLE STAINED GLASS MOUNTED BRASS TABLE LAMPS (2)
20th Century
The shades with a patchwork of stained panels interspersed with purple flower motifs, with undulating border, on tapering fluted column bases, 49cm diam. 66cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £200 - £400
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 90 Sold
`PRUNES'. A LALIQUE CLEAR, OPALESCENT AND BLUE STAINED GLASS VASE
Designed in 1930
Engraved R.Lalique France, 18cm high
Shallow chip to outside edge of  base, approx. 1cm square. Some light surface scratches to the…
Hammer price: £2,200
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 91 Sold
MARTIN LEMAN (BRITISH, B. 1934)
Flowers in a blue vase
signed and dated 'Leman 69' (lower right)
oil on board
30.5 x 26cm
ARR
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 92 Sold
A PAIR OF FRENCH WROUGHT-IRON AND MOTTLED GLASS WALL LIGHTS AND ANOTHER PAIR OF RETHONDES GLASS AND WROUGHT-IRON MOUNTED WALL LIGHTS (4)
Early 20th Century
The demi-lune moulded Muller Frères style orange glass with leafy frames, 47cm wide; Together with second pair with orange and opaque glass drop shades, signed ‘Rethondes’, 22cm high
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 93 Sold
MICHAEL KEAY (BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY) (4)
Costume design
signed and dated 'Michael Keay 1968' (upper right)
watercolour
39.5 x 24cm
together with a watercolour and gouache by another hand of a lady dressed as a clown, 24 x 17cm; and a pair of mixed media works of people in costume, indistinctly signed and dated '23', each 32 x 24cm
(4)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 94 Sold
AN ART DECO PINK MARBLE DESK STAND (4)
Circa 1930s
With pen recess and two ink pots, 45cm wide; with matching photograph stand and another; Together with an onyx lapis lazuli inlaid time piece
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £60 - £120
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 95 Sold
FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1920 (35)
Evening Gowns
print in colours
13.5 x 10.5cm
together with thirty four prints in colour of French fashion between 1912 and 1921, after various artists, each sheet 25 x 20cm, (all unframed)
(35)
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £200 - £400
16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Lot 96 Sold
AN AUSTRIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS COPPER, AMBER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL 'CHUNK GLASS' HANGING LIGHT SHADE
Probably circa 1920s
The domed shade inset with mother-of-pearl shells and coloured glass, surrounded by a copper border inset with large amber specimens and embossed with circular motifs, 30cm diam.
Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.See Bellmans website article for…
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 April 2024
16 April 2024

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