A FRENCH BRASS STRIKING AND REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH FOUR SHIBAYAMA…
No. 32641, Circa 1885
Decorated all over in three-colour low-relief Shibayama style, in an Anglaise Riche-style case, with reeded and shaped pivoted handle above bevelled rectangular glass, with four three-quarter fluted…
Hammer price:
£3,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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A FRENCH BRASS GORGE CASE PETITE SONNERIE REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK
By Henri Jacot, 31, Rue de Montmorency, Paris, No. 3030, circa 1885
The case with folding handle and large rectangular top glass, above bevelled glass panels and rear door, on spreading foot, the signed white enamel dial with blued steel hands and subsidiary alarm…
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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A FRENCH BRASS GORGE CASE PETITE SONNERIE STRIKING AND REPEATING CARRIAGE…
Retailed by LeRoy & Fils, 13 & 15 Palais Royal, Paris and 211 Regent Street, London, No 9559, made by Drocourt, No 10354, circa 1885
The brass Gorge case with folding handle and large rectangular bevelled glass top panel above bevelled glass front, sides and back door, the white enamel dial, signed by LeRoy, with Paris and London…
Hammer price:
£900
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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A FRENCH BRASS GORGE CASE PETITE SONNERIE STRIKING AND REPEATING CARRIAGE…
Retailed by Paul Garnier, Paris, No. 10651, circa 1890
The Gorge case with folding handle above large rectangular glass bevelled panel with bevelled panels to the front, sides and back door, the white enamel dial, detailed PAUL GARNIER within a gilt mask…
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF SWISS ENAMEL, SEED-PEARL, SILVERED AND GILT-BRASS…
Nos. 661 & 662, Circa 1900
Engraved all over, each with an arched folding handle above the silvered top, above bevelled glazed front, sides and rear door, the white enamel dial with seed-pearl-set bezel, sweep centre seconds…
Hammer price:
£4,500
Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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A RARE AND UNUSUAL PASTE-SET GILT-BRASS ‘FERRIS-WHEEL’ CONSTANT FORCE…
From the design by Charles Victor Hour, for the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900
Surmounted by a removable model of the Medici lion, above a stepped plinth with four finials, the pediment with a pierced motif band, above bevelled glazed doors and sides, the plinth with a pull-out…
Hammer price:
£6,500
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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AN IMPRESSIVE AUSTRO/HUNGARIAN GILTWOOD AND EBONISED QUARTER STRIKING…
By Johann Petz, Nickolsburg, circa 1785
Surmounted with a figure seated on a cushion, above the drum case, supported on the elephant’s back, whilst an attendant attempts to pull a cover across the elephant’s head, white painted wooden…
Hammer price:
£8,500
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD AND BOXWOOD-OUTLINED BALLOON MANTEL CLOCK
Circa 1900
The case inlaid to the front with a roundel, on plinth base and four ball feet, with 5in circular white enamel dial and blued steel spade hands, the drum-shaped movement by Samuel Marti, striking the…
Hammer price:
£20
Estimate: £80 - £120
12 May 2025
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12 May 2025
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A JAPANESE BRONZE FIGURE OF A BIJIN BY GENRYUSAI SEIYA
Meiji period
Standing playing a samizen, a parasol across her back, signed, 26cm high
Top of samizen lacking from left hand upwards
Estimate: £150 - £250
27 March 2025
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27 March 2025
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A CIZHOU TYPE POTTERY VASE (2)
Probably Yuan/Ming dynasty
The compressed globular body painted with brown foliate designs against a deep cream ground, 11cm high; also a Cizhou type small dish, 14cm diameter
Vase- some wearDish- some adhered grit around the well. Some discolouration to the glaze. Triangular hole to the back of the dish
Hammer price:
£100
Estimate: £100 - £150
27 March 2025
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27 March 2025
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A CHINESE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE STICK HOLDER (2)
Probably Ming dynasty
Cast as a figure standing in long robes with left arm held aloft, supported on two lotus flowers, 15cm high; also a bronze seal, cast as a figure seated on the back of a…
The figure with solder repair through both ankles. Some typical wear to the gilding.The seal with minor wear
Hammer price:
£550
Estimate: £200 - £300
27 March 2025
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27 March 2025
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KINOSHITA ITSUUN ( 1799-1866) A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING
Mountainous landscape, ink on silk, 123cm by 42cm, mounted on brocade
Footnotes: This lot contains ivory and has been registered
in accordance with the Ivory Act (section10). Reference No. B6C9RRFV Prospective buyers
should be aware that some countries have…
Hammer price:
£200
Estimate: £200 - £300
27 March 2025
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27 March 2025
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A LARGE CHINESE SCROLL PAINTING
20th century
Opaque pigments on paper, painted with a panoramic landscape depicting a pheasant standing on rocks amongst flowering shrubs with birds in branches and in flight, 95cm by 304cm, unframed
Overall in good condition. Some minor creasing where rolled. Some discolouration to the back of paper at one end
Estimate: £100 - £200
27 March 2025
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27 March 2025
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF VISHNU RECLINING ON THE SERPENT RAFT
South India, 17th/18th century
Surrounded by female attendants and diminutive figures of Hanuman and Garuda and sheltered by the seven-headed cobra, rectangular pierced raised plinth, 9.5cm high by…
Minor dents and oxidationIt is likely that there was a canopy at the back of the group.
Hammer price:
£1,700
Estimate: £300 - £500
27 March 2025
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27 March 2025
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A PAIR OF LAC-BURGAUTE SNUFF BOTTLES (6)
Probably Japanese, 19th century
Of flattened ovoid form, each decorated in mother-of-pearl and gilt on a black ground, one side with figures in a lakeside pavilion, the reverse with a bird amongst…
Some losses to each stopperThis lot contains
ivory and has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section10). Reference No.AUPVHGGE
Prospective buyers should be aware that some
countries…
Hammer price:
£1,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
27 March 2025
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27 March 2025
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ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Portrait miniature of a gentleman with white hair, wearing a blue coat
on ivory (ref. 566T5AZ5)
6.2cm
in a gilt-metal frame
Provenance
Private collection, UK
Footnotes:This lot contains ivory and has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section10). Reference No.566T5AZ5Prospective buyers should be aware that some countries have limitations on…
Hammer price:
£90
Estimate: £100 - £150
26 March 2025
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26 March 2025
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SIR JOSEPH NOEL PATON (BRITISH, 1821-1901)
Puck and the Fairy (Act II, Scene I, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
signed with monogram and dated '1882' (lower left) and with inscribed label 'Sir Noel Paton R.S.A. ** L.D. H.M Limner for Scotland,…
ExhibitedEdinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy, 1883, No. 299FootnoteSir Joseph Noel Paton was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1821. After attending Dunfermline Art Academy, he went onto study at…
Hammer price:
£21,000
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
26 March 2025
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26 March 2025
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JOHN BRETT (BRITISH, 1831-1902)
Irish Sea
incised inscription and indistinctly dated 'Irish Sea 9.1 Aug (?)' (lower right)
oil on board
18 x 35.5cm
Provenance
Sale, Bonhams, London, 16th September 1971, lot 157, as a pair with …
FootnoteBrett's characteristic incised inscription gives details of the subject, day and month, but for some reason omits the year. There is some evidence pointing to 1873 as the most likely date.…
Hammer price:
£650
Estimate: £500 - £800
26 March 2025
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26 March 2025
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MARIA TUKE (BRITISH, 1861-1947) (7)
Henry Scott Tuke. R.A., R.W.S. A Memoir. London: Martin Secker, 1933. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece portrait, plates (some staining to title). original blue buckram gilt. FIRST…
ProvenancePrivate collection, UKFootnoteDated between 7th September 1933 and 14th March 1934, the correspondence was prompted by a notice posted by Maria Tuke following the obituary of Mr S.M. Ellis…
Hammer price:
£140
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
, 17:00 GMT
26 March 2025
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ARTHUR CROFT MITCHELL (BRITISH, 1872-1956)
The Orange Dress
with inscribed label (to back of stretcher)
oil on canvas
75 x 50.5cm
(unframed)
Provenance
The artist, thence by descent to the present owner;
Private collection, UK
Hammer price:
£220
Estimate: £100 - £150
26 March 2025
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26 March 2025
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ARTHUR CROFT MITCHELL (BRITISH, 1872-1956) (2)
Still life of fruit in a bowl and other items
oil on board
47 x 62cm
with a sketch (verso)
(unframed)
together with an oil on canvas by the same hand, Still life of white lilies in a vase, with…
Hammer price:
£110
Estimate: £80 - £120
26 March 2025
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26 March 2025
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ARTHUR CROFT MITCHELL (BRITISH, 1872-1956) (2)
Still life of roses in a vase
oil on canvas
38 x 28cm
together with an oil on canvas by the same hand, Still life of rhododendrons in a vase, signed 'A. C. Mitchell' (lower left) and with inscribed…
Hammer price:
£120
Estimate: £80 - £120
26 March 2025
, 17:00 GMT
26 March 2025
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ARTHUR CROFT MITCHELL (BRITISH, 1872-1956)
Still life of pink, red and white roses in a vase
with inscribed label (to back of board)
oil on canvas attached to board
48 x 32cm
Provenance
The artist, thence by descent to the present owner;…
Hammer price:
£50
Estimate: £150 - £250
26 March 2025
, 17:00 GMT
26 March 2025
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ARTHUR CROFT MITCHELL (BRITISH, 1872-1956)
An extensive landscape
with label inscribed 'Poole No. 1' (to back of stretcher)
oil on canvas
71 x 91cm
Provenance
The artist, thence by descent to the present owner;
Private collection, UK
Hammer price:
£140
Estimate: £100 - £150
26 March 2025
, 17:00 GMT
26 March 2025
, 17:00 GMT