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A LARGE GREEN GLAZED TERRACOTTA SERVING BOWL , FRENCH OR ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CUT-GLASS CLUB-SHAPED DECANTERS AND STOPPERS, CIRCA 1825

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A MALLET-SHAPED MAGNUM DECANTER AND STOPPER, CIRCA 1840

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CHUN LIAO (TAIWANESE, B.1969), LOW CYLINDER BOWL, CIRCA 2000

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λ NIC HARRISON (BRITISH, B.1949), TWO TEA BOWLS, CIRCA 2000

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λ RUPERT SPIRA (BRITISH, B.1960), OPEN BOWL, CIRCA 2000

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RAYMOND FABRE (1924 – 2011, FRENCH), PABLO PICASSO WITH HIS SON PAUL, FIRMIN BAUBY, PAULE DE LAZERME

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A BOX STRUNG OAK DISPLAY STAND OR TABLE WITH REVOLVING TOP, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A CARVED HARDWOOD TABLE BASE, 20TH CENTURY

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A GILT METAL FRAMED ETCHED GLASS HALL LANTERN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR, 20TH CENTURY

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λ ANTHONY FRY (BRITISH 1927-2016), TEMPLE ELEPHANT

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λ ANTHONY FRY (BRITISH 1927-2016), INDIAN LANDSCAPE

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SIR SIDNEY NOLAN (AUSTRALIAN 1917-1992), BIRD AND DANCERS

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AN AESTHETIC PERIOD CALAMANDER, THUYA-BANDED, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY TWO-TIER TABLE, CIRCA 1890

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A PAIR OF SINHALESE COROMANDEL OPEN ARMCHAIRS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SINHALESE CALAMANDER CANOPY BED, PROBABLY GALLE OR COLOMBO, 19TH CENTURY

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Y A MATCHED PAIR OF SINHALESE EBONY-BOUND SPECIMEN PARQUETRY TRAYS ON STANDS, GALLE, CIRCA 1850

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Y A MATCHED PAIR OF SINHALESE EBONY-BOUND SPECIMEN PARQUETRY TRAYS ON STANDS GALLE, CIRCA 1850 Each top inlaid with specimen woods including calamander, satinwood, amboyna and palm tree, with reeded ebony borders, on folding calamander stands one tray 69cm wide, 48cm deep, the other 66cm wide, 51cm deep, both 76cm high Sri Lanka has long been renowned for the variety and beauty of its cabinet woods. J. W. Bennett wrote in 1843 that ‘the island abounds with teak, nadoon, pericopsis mooniana, satinwood, black and variegated ebony timber, commonly called calamander... and innumerable other trees… adapted to every purpose to which the ship and house builder, the cabinet and musical instrument maker could possibly apply them’ (F. D’A Vincent, Report on the Conservation and Administration of the Crown Forests of Ceylon , Colombo, 1883, page 30). Most of the furniture made in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon) during the British occupation was intended for local consumption by officials, planters, merchants and high-status Sinhalese. However, evidence of a healthy furniture making industry on the island is shown by the recording of furniture in ‘Ledgers of Exports From Colonies’ and the recording of the sterling value of ‘cabinet ware’ from Ceylon to Great Britain, Mauritius, the African ports in the Red Sea, and India. A small quantity of furniture from Ceylon was sent for display at the 1851 Great Exhibition, London, and at the 1855 Paris international Exposition, in the latter case displayed alongside samples of the many woods available on the island and the furniture serving as vehicles for the beauty and variety of different woods. In 1857 two pieces from the Great Exhibition were donated to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) (see also Robin Jones, `Furniture from Ceylon at International Exhibitions and World's Fairs 1851 - 1904', Furniture History , vol. 40 (2004), pp. 113 - 134). A number of related tables are known – all with a variety of similar tops but having varying supports, suggesting that the manufacture of the table tops was almost a specific business, the bases commissioned according to need, taste and budget, and they might be sold or even exported in their own right. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with wear and tear consistent with age and use. There are dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks throughout. The veneer specimens with some shrinkage cracks. Condition Report Disclaimer

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FERDINAND KONRAD BELLERMANN (GERMAN 1814-1889), AFTER PRINCE WALDEMAR OF PRUSSIA

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HENRY SALT (BRITISH 1780-1827), VIEW NEAR THE POINT DE GALLE, CEYLON; FROM 24 VIEWS

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A SUITE OF FRENCH INDIENNE CHINTZ CURTAINS, 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX CUSHIONS COVERED IN THE 'MELOGRANO' DESIGN FLORAL LAMPAS

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A GREEN MERCURY LUSTRE GLASS TABLE LIGHT, 19TH CENTURY

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AN OAK OCTAGONAL SCULPTURE PEDESTAL, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF REGENCY GILT LACQUERED BRONZE SATYR OIL LAMPS AND SERPENT BRACKETS

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A PAIR OF BRONZE LIGHT BASES OF CHINESE ARCHAIC FORM, AMERICAN, EARLY/MID 20TH CENTURY

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Y A REGENCY BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD AND CANED LOW CHAIR, CIRCA 1820

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Y A REGENCY BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD AND CANED LOW CHAIR BY GILLOWS,CIRCA 1820 With a panelled toprail and spindle back above a caned seat, the green velvet cushions apparently original, the seat rails carved with scrolls and foliage, on tapering turned and reeded legs with brass caps and castors, stamped to the back rail H.LEE, handwritten label to one cushion Rev E.H.Dawkins 86cm high, 56cm wide, 67cm deep Provenance: Possibly Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-Under-Lyne, Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire; possibly gifted to Revd. E.H. Dawkins at Moggerhanger House, Bedford; or West Markham, Nottinghamshire; or Over Norton Park, Nr. Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire The Reverend Edward Henry Dawkins’ (1794-1859) patron was a distant cousin Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-Under-Lyne (1785-1851), who lived at Clumber Park. It is therefore possible that this chair was a gift from Henry Pelham-Clinton. It is likely, albeit without supporting invoices, that Gillows supplied furniture to Clumber, as a side-cabinet confidently attributed to Gillows and bearing the inventory label Clumber N.2646 was supplied to Henry Pelham, 4th Duke of Newcastle (d. 1851) (sold Chrisie’s, London, 10 May 2006, lo 53). Unfortunately, Clumber’s records are incomplete as in 1938 the house was stripped, the contents sold and the house demolished. Likewise, a sofa table in the manner of Gillows, with a secure Clumber provenance was included in the Exhibition of English Decorative Art, Lansdowne House, London’, 1929, ex. cat. no. 488 and Art Treasures exhibition, Bath, 1958, ex. cat. pl. 34. Another connection between the Rev. Dawkins and Gillows is provide by his uncle George Hay Dawkins (1764-1840), notable for having the good fortune to inherit the wealth of the Pennant family who also owned the Penrhyn estate and slate quarries in North Wales, and who were clients of Gillows (see, for instance, the pair of tables in Gillows Estimate Sketch Book of 1822, No. 3146). The stamp of H.Lee has been recorded on several sets of chairs all of which might be attributed to Gillows, including a pair sold June 2011, lot 258. Though the stamp has not yet been positively identified with a craftsman in Gillows’ employment it is possibly Henry Lee, chair and sofa maker of Oxford Market and Ogle Mews, London (active circa 1827) (see G. Beard, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660 - 1840 , 1986, p. 534). Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with wear and tear consistent with age and use. There are minor dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks. Re-caned. The upholstery apparently original or near original, there are locating slots cut in the seat frame presumably for a framed cushion, the green velvet of the seat cushion heavily faded and frayed, the back cushion largely lacking green velvet. Condition Report Disclaimer

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND BRONZED LIBRARY TABLE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND BRONZED LIBRARY TABLE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY AFTER DESIGNS BY CHARLES TATHAM With a black leather-lined top above a panelled frieze with two mahogany-lined drawers, the tapering turned and fluted legs wrapped with lotus and acanthus foliage and with brass caps and castors, castors stamped PEARSON & PASLEY, DUBLIN 76cm high, 136cm wide, 83cm deep The design for this sculptural table reflects the influence of the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham (1772- 1842), whose drawing of the famed Barberini Candelabra in the Vatican Museums, Rome (V&A D.1527- 1898), was later published in Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture …, 1799. Tatham had been working as a draughtsman for the architect Henry Holland since 1790. Holland, under pressure to find fresh styles for his patron, the Prince of Wales at Carlton House, sponsored Tatham to underake an extensive tour through Italy, to act as his agent studying classical remains and architecture, as well as to acquire marble fragments of antique decoration for Holland to use as inspiration, many of which were subsequently bought by John Soane. The frieze is soberly decorated with inset tablets whilst the legs are carved as distinctively tapering columns with acanthus-enriched capitals and foliate-carved terminals, following Tatham’s engravings of the Barberini candelabrum in the Vatican Museum, dated 1798-99. Holland subsequently ordered a carved mahogany pedestal of the Barberini pattern in 1795-99, which was probably supplied by the Mount Street cabinetmakers Elward Marsh & Tatham (1793-1808), where Tatham’s brother Thomas was a partner (F. Collard, Regency Furniture , 1985, p. 48). Striking in its simplicity, the design of this library table adheres closely to Tatham’s philosophy of ‘combining the beauties of many in a single object’ while the absence of comparable examples only enhances the likely involvement of Holland and Tatham. Pearson & Pasley were ironmongers, furniture manufacturers, upholsterers and cabinet brass founders trading as early as the 1830s and recorded in 1850 Dublin trade directory at 24 Capel Street, Dublin. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with wear and tear consistent with age and use. There are minor dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks. The black leather top in good condition. The legs decorated in imitation of bronze. Condition Report Disclaimer

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Y A REGENCY GILT-BRASS MOUNTED AND INLAID EBONY AND CALAMANDER BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE

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Y A REGENCY GILT-BRASS MOUNTED AND INLAID EBONY AND CALAMANDER BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1815 The stepped cornice with a pierced gallery and spiral fluted finials above four brass-beaded and glazed doors, flanked by columns with lotus clasps and enclosing two long and four short ebony-edged mahogany shelves, the base with four mahogany-lined drawers above panelled calamander-crossbanded doors and similar columns, enclosing an arrangement of drawers and trays, on a plinth base, sparingly inlaid overall with rosettes, quatrefoils and anthemion 240cm high, 235cm wide, 56cm deep Provenance: Horace G. Everitt (d. 1982), Knowle Hall, Warwickshire. Acquired by the Phillips family who bought Knowle Hall with some contents in 1982 Acquired privately from Mrs. Phillips, Knowle Hall, Warwickshire, 2015. The magnificent bookcase of gilt-bronze mounted ebony with calamander and ‘Buhl’ (brass) inlay is attributed to the fashionable London cabinet-makers George Oakley & Co. of St. Paul’s Churchyard and Old Bond Street. Noted for their stylish furniture in the Grecian and French ancienne regime styles, much of their oeuvre was characterised by the use of exotic woods such as rosewood and calamander and embellished with brass stars and metal inlays. Newspaper articles stated that ‘all people with taste buy their furniture at Oakley’s’ (1804), another described the firm as ‘famous for goods of the latest fashion’ (1807) and they stood alongside Gillow and Charles Elliott as the pre-eminent makers and sellers of furniture in London. George Oakley became a freeman of the Upholders Company in 1782 and was listed in directories at 2 Clement’s Lane, Lombard St until 1789. His trade card of 1786 records an address at 22 St Paul’s Churchyard and by 1799 he had opened new premises at 35 St Paul’s Churchyard where orders could be placed and where he also held a stock of fabric patterns. Fabrics of every description and wallpapers were offered at Oakley’s Elegant Printed Furniture Warehouse at 67 New Bond Street, 1802 - 05 (having acquired the printed textile business of Dudding & Co). By 1811 there were premises at 35 Piccadilly and an entry in The Times, October 1812 refers to the `late extensive additions’ to his manufactory ‘in which the first artists and mechanics are employed’ while also mentioning warerooms at 16 Old Bond Street. Oakley was still at 8 Old Bond Street in 1823 before moving on to Baker Street (1825) and Cirencester Place (1838). All of this implies a thriving business and Oakley worked in partnership with other cabinet-makers including Henry Kettle (until 1797), Thomas Shackleton (1798 – c. 1809) and with the gilder John Evans (until at least 1819). The partnership subscribed to Sheraton’s Cabinet Dictionary in 1803 and Oakley’s name appears on invoices either independently or in partnership. Among Oakley’s illustrious patrons were Thomas Baring for the Manor House, Lee, Kent, Lord and Lady Kerry in the late 1790s and early 1800s, Michael Hicks-Beach for Williamstrip Park, Glocs (under the direction of Sir John Soane), The Bank of England (c.1810), J.H Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warks and the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, Somerset (both 1813 and both of which included ebony and ebonised furniture by, or probably by, Oakley), and for Soane himself at Pitzhanger (1804) and later at Lincoln’s Inn Fields – his last recorded bill for Soane was in 1827. The most complete of Oakley’s commissions was for Charles Madryll Cheere, Papworth Hall, Cambs, c. 1810, though now dispersed many documented pieces survive and they offer glimpses of the sort of high Regency style that was Oakley’s signature. The Papworth furniture included an architectural winged bookcase, the mahogany veneer embellished with vertical bands of palm leaf ornament and ebony dots, a satinwood and calamander pedestal table inlaid with ebony, and a suite of dressing-room furniture comprising a winged clothes press and dressing-table also of satinwood and calamander. Oakley’s original bill is quoted extensively in Margaret Jourdain, ‘English Empire Furniture made by George Oakley’ Architectural Review , vol. 48, July – December 1920. Perhaps the most tantalising of Oakley’s relationships is with the Royal family. In 1799 the Morning Chronicle reported ‘… the Queen and Princesses, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York made a tour of the most elegant shops and manufactories in the different lines of the useful Arts. We saw them at Oakley and Shackleton’s magazine of furniture in Old Bond Street… and thus Their Majesties, in the prevailing taste for magnificence in every article of decoration, give the most flattering encouragement to the arts by their countenance and protection’. A few months later the firm was granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment. In 1810 Oakley supplied the Prince Regent with a ‘capital mahogany pedestal desk, inlaid with Bhull bordering, fitted with drawers on both sides… the top covered with black leather and raised on brass castors’ (Royal Collection RA 25318). A gilt bronze mounted mahogany, ebony and brass-inlaid serving-table by Oakley survives at Holyrood House, Scotland (Royal Collection RCIN 28079). It seems improbable that Oakley supplied just two pieces of furniture to the Royal family. Intriguingly a brass mounted and inlaid calamander sofa table was among Queen Mary’s collection at Marlborough House (Royal Collection RCIN 904), it displays many features that are strongly suggestive of Oakley’s authorship, or influence, not least the distinctive brass inlaid rosettes to the cornice that feature on the present lot. However it has no brands or other marks that would be likely if it were supplied in the early 19th century and it’s probable that it was acquired by Queen Mary in her lifetime (see H. Clifford Smith, ‘Her Majesty Queen Mary as Connoisseur and Collector’, Country Life, 17 April 1937, pp. 439 -443, fig. 6). Further, George IV’s brother the Duke of Sussex had the library in his private quarters at Kensington Palace furnished with ebony furniture though there is nothing in posthumous sales of the King’s brothers that answers to the description of the bookcase offered here. The bookcase would certainly made a strong statement about wealth and connoisseurship and must have been intended for a high status patron. Ebony was the most opulent of cabinet woods, Adam Bowett writes that ‘it’s attraction both aesthetic and symbolic. Ebony was the wood of emperors, kings and princes and it was imbued with the authority of ancient texts… its heart was jet black, seemingly flawless and imperishable, a kind of vegetable marble… Ebony achieved a degree of perfection in surface, form, and colour not achievable in any other wood’ (A. Bowett, Woods in British Furniture-Making 1400 – 1900 , 2012, p. 70). It was also enormously expensive and hence was usually reserved for decorative details such as inlay. It’s use in this bookcase indicates supreme extravagance. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure wear and tear consistent with age and use. There are dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks. The surfaces good and well burnished, the shelves, drawers and trays and metalwork apparently original, the glass at least in part apparently original. Condition Report Disclaimer

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A REGENCY CARVED MAHOGANY CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE, CIRCA 1820

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A REGENCY CARVED MAHOGANY CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE CIRCA 1820 Of large proportions with associated dished grey marble top, the beaded frieze with foliate tablets on a massive beaded pedestal base carved as a wolf pelt with paw feet and brass anti-friction castors 73cm high, 137cm diameter Several major cabinet-making firms produced vigorously carved zoomorphic furniture in the early decades of the 19th century, notably Gillows, who supplied centre tables on carved lion paw bases of similar exuberance to a number of their clients, including Stephen Tempest for Broughton Hall, Yorkshire; Lord Brownlow for Belton House, Lincolnshire; Lord St Helens for Grafton Street, London and the Marquess of Zetland for St Nicholas, Yorkshire. Whilst some of the carving to the frieze clearly follows the neoclassical patterns promoted by C.H. Tatham, and subsequently undertaken by the Mount Street cabinet-makers Marsh & Tatham – notably the relief tablets on both the frieze and plinth – the combination of carving sources seen on the present table may indicate a major Irish cabinet-maker, who was certainly influenced by Gillows, the crucial link for which may be a centre table described as ‘almost certainly’ by Williams & Gibton of Dublin, sold Christie’s, Aynhoe Park, 9 October 2012, lot 274. Although the present table is supported on what initially appear to be lion paw feet, the richly carved, luxuriant hair appears to resemble that of a bear or of a wolf, the existence of which appears unique in British furniture. Perhaps uncoincidentally, the last wolf in the British Isles was hunted down near Mount Leinster in County Carlow in 1786 though wolves had featured heavily in Irish mythology throughout history and continue to do so in the names of people and places. Condition Report: Good, structurally secure with wear and tear consistent with age and use. There are dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks. As noted the marble top is associated. Some small loose fragments of veneer. Condition Report Disclaimer

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A REGENCY VINE ENGRAVED, BELL SHAPED GLASS HANGING LIGHT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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Y A SET OF SIX SCOTTISH REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY CHAIRS, CIRCA 1820

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Y A REGENCY MINIATURE BRASS MOUNTED EBONY MANTEL TIMEPIECE5

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Y A REGENCY MINIATURE BRASS MOUNTED EBONY MANTEL TIMEPIECE JAMES MURRAY, LONDON, CIRCA 1825 The eight-day single fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by disc bob pendulum, the backplate signed James Murray, Royal Exchange, London , the arched foliate scroll engraved gilt brass dial applied with white enamel Roman numeral hour disc further signed JAMES MURRAY, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON to centre, the rectangular case with flush hinged carrying handle to top over cavetto cornice, arched side glasses and skirt base with brass feet 18cm (7ins) high, 12cm (4.75ins) wide Provenance : Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted, Upton House, Banbury, Oxon, and by descent Marcus, 1st Viscount Bearsted, with his brother Samuel, made his fortune trading with the Far East, before founding the oil company Shell. The Bearsted collections were started in the 1890's when the 1st Viscount bought Lord Romney's house in Kent complete with all its contents, which included fine English pictures and furniture; it is therefore possible that this handsomely austere clock also came from the Romney collection. James Murray was born in 1780, he gained his freedom of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1815, was elevated to the Livery in 1817 and is thought to have worked until his death in 1847. He is perhaps best known as a maker of marine chronometers and other precision timekeepers; James Weddell took three chronometers supplied by Murray on his Antarctic expedition 1822-4. Several others of this pattern are recorded, including the apparent pair to this timepiece, with Brigadier Meyrick Neilson, Tetbury, illustrated in Apollo , June 1973, page 7; another, with Anthony Woodburn, Kent, in 2009, (£10,000); another, sold Mc Tears Auctioneers, Glasgow, 1 February 2019, lot 1438. Two others signed Barraud & Lund, in almost identical ebonised and gilt-bronze cases having the same foliate-engraved arched gilt-brass dial are recorded; one was exhibited by Ronald Phillips Ltd, Bruton Street, at the 2007 Grosvenor House Antique Dealers Fair (priced £19,000); another was with Tobias Birch, Evesham, in 2018 (priced £9,000). Condition Report Disclaimer

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A GRAND TOUR STYLE MARBLE CAMEO PAPERWEIGHT, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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Y AN INDIAN INLAID EBONY & IVORY PARQUETRY TEA CADDY

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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER BOWL IN OLD KINGDOM TASTE, PROBABLY EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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'RUINES DE TUILERIES' A MARBLE ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT, FRENCH, CIRCA 1883

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IN THE MANNER OF FORNASETTI, A 'VERRE ÉGLOMISÉ' TRAY, MID 20TH CENTURY

100

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ÉMILE GALLÉ (FRENCH 1846-1904), TALL 'CLÉMATITE' VASE, CIRCA 1895

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AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A PAIR OF TURNED AND POLISHED CORNISH SERPENTINE URNS

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A FOSSIL MARBLE LIDDED URN, 18TH CENTURY

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Y AN INDIAN IVORY INLAID SANDALWOOD GLOVE BOX, VIZAGAPATAM, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN URNS, CIRCA 1800/1820

105

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A PAIR OF REGENCY GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE NEO-EGYPTIAN CANDLESTICKS

106

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Y A SET OF 'BOULLE' MOUNTED FIRE BELLOWS, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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Y EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (FRENCH, 1879-1933), A DESK TIDY, CIRCA 1925

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Y A SINHALESE CARVED EBONY DOCUMENT BOX WITH SILVER MOUNTS, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY/EMPIRE BRONZE CANDLESTICK À LA VICTOIRE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF THOMIRE DUTE

110

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A BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA STANDING FEMALE FIGURE, GREECE, MIDDLE OF THE 6TH CENTURY BCE

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A PAIR OF GRAND TOUR SPECIMEN MARBLE STANDS, CIRCA 1800

112

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AN ORMOLU MOUNTED LAPIS LAZULI CORINTHIAN COLUMN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

113

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A SMALL AGATE CUP, EUROPE, POSSIBLY 17TH CENTURY

115

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A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY THREE DIVISION CUTLERY TRAY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

116

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A REGENCY BRONZE TABLE LIGHT OF CANNON BARREL FORM, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

117

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED NEOCLASSICAL BUREAU PLAT, FRENCH, SECOND QUARTER 20TH CENTURY

118

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A LATE REGENCY BRONZE 'CANNON BARREL' TABLE LIGHT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF GEORGE III METAMORPHIC LIBRARY STEPS, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY

120

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