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Dreweatts

Donnington Priory

Newbury, Berkshire

RG14 2JE

United Kingdom

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A GOOD 'JINGASA' HELMET, CIRCA 1750-1850

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Y A FINE JINGASA WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL 'MOSAIC' DECORATION

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A JAPANESE IRON CEREMONIAL TEAPOT, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE BRONZE BRIDGE FINIAL, MEIJI PERIOD

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A VERY LARGE JAPANESE BRONZE VASE, 19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE EIGHT FOLD 'BYOBU' SCREEN WITH NINE 'MANCHURIAN' CRANES, MEIJI PERIOD

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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE EIGHT FOLD 'BYOBU' SCREEN WITH NINE 'MANCHURIAN' CRANES MEIJI PERIOD- 19TH CENTURY Paper, gold leaf, silk, ink, wood, metal, after Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) signed: 'Hoitsu Itsu'/Rimpa School" 179cm high-533cm wide, 5 feet 10½ ins, 17 feet 5¾ ins wide This very large screen depicts seven 'Manchurian Cranes standing and eating, while a 'pair' of cranes gently glide downwards to join the 'flock'. 'Byobu', which means wind walls ( 屏 byo wall and 風 bu wind), are ornate and decorated 'mobile' walls used to separate interior spaces and provide privacy within a section of a room. As their name suggests, they were originally used as windbreakers in the 'airy' Japanese residences of antiquity. Born into the family of the feudal Lords of Himeji castle, Sakai Hōitsu had a privileged upbringing providing him the opportunity to study Noh drama, haiku poetry, tea-ceremony, music and painting. As was common during the Edo period, Hoitsu began his study of painting with the officially sanctioned 'Kano School', later receiving influence from and instruction in the contemporary Ukiyo-e, Maruyama-Shijo and Nagasaki styles. Taking 'tonsure' as a monk in 1797 Hoitsu freed himself of his significant familial obligations and immersed himself in the study of the life and art of Ogata Korin (1658-1716). He was inspired by the fact that a century earlier Hoitsu's family had been among Korin's chief patrons; numerous masterpieces by Korin were preserved in their family collection. In 1815, 100 years after Korin's death, Hoitsu published 'Korin Hyakuzu' (One Hundred Paintings by Korin), woodblock print reproductions of paintings by the master. Besides honouring Korin in this way, he clearly traced the lineage of what would come to be known in a later age as the Rinpa (Rimpa) School. Hoitsu, while taking Korin's works as his model, went on to create highly affecting works reflective of the refined tastes of his day.

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A RARE SCROLL PAINTING DEPICTING THE EUROPEAN HENDRIK DOEFF (1764 - 1837), NAGASAKI SCHOOL

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A MUSEUM RED MOROCCO LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF ANTIQUE CUTLERY

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GEORGE PERFECT HARDING (BRITISH 1779/80-1853), PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN IN TUDOR DRESS

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JAMES EARL OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMERICAN 1761-1796), PORTRAIT OF MR JANNER

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JAMES EARL OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMERICAN 1761 - 1796) PORTRAIT OF MR JANNER Oil on canvas Signed, inscribed and dated 'Mr Janner Aged 41 by J.Earl 1793 No 5A Newham Street Oxford Street ' (verso) 36 x 30.5cm (14 x 12 in.) Another oil portrait by James Earl is in the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, of William Jarvis with his son Samuel Peter Jarvis (Inv. no. 981.79.1) James Earl was an American portrait painter to the American royalists who spent the greater part of his career working in England as many of his sitters were former American colonists who had fled to London during and immediately following the end of the American Revolution. His ancestors were Quakers who emigrated from Exeter to Rhode Island in about 1634. At the beginning of the 18th century his grandfather settled in Worcester Country Massachusetts and James Earl was born in a village called Paxton in 1761. Ralph Earl (1726 - 1808), the father of James and his elder brother Ralph, was a farmer who joined the local militia during the Revolution in which he achieved the rank of Captain. However his son Ralph (1751 - 1801) became a loyalist and because of his activities in this cause left America and established himself as a painter in England from 1778 to 1785. It is thought that he taught his younger brother James and as he was also a loyalist, encouraged him to go to London. In April 1787 James exhibited two portraits at the Royal Academy and was resident at 6 Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange. In 1789 he married Georgiana Caroline Pilkington (1759 - 1838) the widow of Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth, an American loyalist from New Jersey. Both James Earl and the Smyths lived at 42 Great Peter Street, Westminster. In 1787 Smyth returned to North America to substantiate claims for his lost property. In a letter he wrote in August 1788 from Niagara to his wife he said 'I hope Mr Earl is well in health and Desire my Best Respects to Him'. Smyth died shortly before returning to England and Caroline was left with two children, Elizabeth Ann and William Henry. Earl enrolled in the Academy schools March 24th 1789 and is thought to have been a pupil of Benjamin West. He was an accomplished and popular painter and thirty four of his portraits painted during his seven years in England have been recorded so far. Many of his pictures have been misattributed to better known artists such as Sir William Beechey, George Romney, Mather Brown, Joshua Reynolds or to his brother Ralph Earl. Indeed four of his portraits of the Beauclerk family were attributed to Beechey, and those of Lord Aubrey and his wife to George Romney when they were sold by Sothebys in 1949. Another portrait of Lady Massereene in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond USA was until recently attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds. His portraits are not as stylised as those by his brother, and his subjects are portrayed with an almost photographic individuality. His portraits of men are direct and without flattery, and he had a particular interest in portraying the eyes of his subjects with an almost jewel-like quality. In 1794 he travelled to Charleston Carolina an expanding, affluent town, leaving his family in London. His obituary states that he had 'resided for nearly two years in this city'. He died of yellow fever and had made a will two days before his death. James Earl had a remarkable ability to capture a likeness, and his pictures are important additions to the body of 18th century American portrait painting. He was also the father of Augustus Earle (1793 - 1838) who lived a life of exploration as a draughtsman on board ship, and who famously was the artist on board the Beagle with Charles Darwin when he sailed to the Galapagos.

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JAMES AUMONIER (BRITISH 1832-1911), MOUNTAIN STUDY

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BRITISH SCHOOL (19TH/20TH CENTURY), SACRED STONE

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ATTRIBUTED TO KERSHAW SCHOFIELD (BRITISH 1872-1941), COTTAGE IN A HEATHER LANDSCAPE

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FRENCH / INDIAN SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY), LANGUEDOC

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GIDEON MATTHEW FIDLER (BRITISH 1857-1942), STONEHENGE, SUNRISE; TOGETHER WITH ANOTHER (2)

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H. ROOKE (BRITISH 19TH CENTURY), STONEHENGE

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BRITISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY), A NATIVE OF THE CAMIRA MOUNTAINS IN ALBANIA AND THE WOLF DOG

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HUBERT CORNISH (BRITISH 1757-1832), STONEHENGE, WILTSHIRE

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BRITISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY), WILD DAYRELL, WINNER OF THE DERBY, 1855

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EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973), 'AUTOPORTRAIT', 1902

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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN RUG OF SEICHUR PATTERN

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A FRAGMENT OF AN ENGLISH TAPESTRY DEPICTING A HAWK, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A SECTION OF INDONESIAN TEXTILE, 20TH CENTURY

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A CEREMONIAL BRASS HOLY WATER BUCKET OR 'ASPERSORIUM', 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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A METAL MOUNTED HORN POWDER FLASK, INDIA OR CHINA

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AN UNUSUAL BRASS SWAN COLLAR DATED '1891'

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AN UNUSUAL BRASS SWAN COLLAR NETHERLANDS, DATED '1891' Etched with 'M. BAK. AGTERBROEK.' and date 1891 2.5cm high, 7cm diameter (max) Literature : Further 'swan collars' can be seen with Finch and Co, no.13, catalogue no. 30, 2018 and no. 60, catalogue no. 38, 2022 Originally a native of northern Europe the mute swan 'Cygnus Olor' was domesticated early on and raised in captivity first for its meat, and later for its great beauty. Medieval records show that there were domesticated flocks in Britain just prior to the 12th century and that swans were regarded as the property of the Crown. They could only be raised and traded under royal licence enforced by the King or Queen's Swan Master and his deputies. Today an annual ceremony of 'swan upping' is still performed on the River Thames in July where all mute swans are rounded up and marked for ownership either by the Crown or by the Vintners and Dyers Livery Companies, who were granted rights of ownership in the 15th century. The welfare of the birds is still taken seriously at this event at which they are inspected, weighed and ringed or marked with a nick to the beak. However, in the Netherlands hundreds of swans were owned by 'zwanendriften' or 'swan herders' in a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. The young swans were caught, and their wings pinioned so that they could not fly, and their beaks marked with a tattoo of ownership. Upon their release as they could not fly, they spent the winter stranded on the frozen marsh and ponds walking in search of food. At around two years of age, they were caught by the herders by means of a wire loop around their neck and sold primarily for meat. This practice continued into the 21st century and was only recently outlawed in January 2017. This brass collar was most probably made as a form of protection for the swan belonging to its owner and would have prevented it from being taken by the 'swan herders' from adjacent land.

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A STEEL AND GILDED PIN CUSHION/SEWING CLAMP, RUSSIA TULA OR SWEDEN

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AN INTERESTING FRENCH TOLE PEINTE BESPOKE MILLINER'S TRADE OR SHOP SIGN

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A SET OF THREE ROWLAND WARD MOUNTED 'DEFORMED' ANTLERS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SEATED 'MONKEY' EATING FRUIT, SOUTH AMERICAN

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A RARE WESTERN TIBETAN HORSE SADDLE AS USED BY THE KAMPA HORSEMEN, 19TH CENTURY

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