Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, December 08 2009
Chistmas Auction of Fine Art,Antiques and Collectors Items
Viewing Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, Monday 10am-7pm immediately prior to sale. Open on mornings of sale (Tuesday and Wednesday) from 8.30am until 10am for viewing. Sale starts promptly at 10am each day. Please remember that if you want to leave a commission bid or bid by telephone we need all instructions by Monday 6.30pm before sale.
George Henry Phillips (fl. mid 19th Century) - Coloured mezzotint after William Drummond and Charles J. Basebe -"The Cricket Match between Sussex and Kent at Brighton", 23.5ins x 35.75ins, published 1st May 1849 by E. Gambart & Co, 84 Berners Street, Oxford Street, London, and W.H. Mason's Repository of Arts, Kings Road, Brighton (with slight tear to top margin and mount obscuring damage to lower margin), in walnut moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 166 SOLD FOR: £ 360
19th Century coloured lithograph after James Pollard -"Anglers Packing Up" - Group of four anglers on a river bank sorting catch, 13.25ins x 17ins, published by T. Helme, Novr. 17th 1831 (Picture Frame Manufacturer, 15 Tabernacle Square, Old St Road), in modern gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 167 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A pair of coloured prints by George Baxter -"The Reception of The Reverend Williams" and"The Massacre of Reverend Williams", each 8.5ins x 12.5ins, contained in original gilt moulded frames and glazed with oval title plates (frames overpainted)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 168 SOLD FOR: £ 140
Graham Clarke (born 1941) - Artists proof coloured etching -"Keep Your Saxon" (from"History of England"), 16.75ins x 13.5ins, No. 29 of edition of 200, signed in full in pencil and inscribed, in modern gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 169 SOLD FOR: £ 220
Feliks Topolski (1907-1998) - Two pen and ink drawings - Half length portrait of a Cossack, 9.75ins x 6.75ins, signed in full, and shoulder length portrait of a figure wearing a turban, 7.75ins x 4.75ins, initialled, both in Hogarth frames and glazed
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 170 SOLD FOR: £ 340
George Belcher (1875-1947) - Three charcoal sketches thought to be for cartoons in"Punch" -"Are you interested in the Derby, Mrs Cobb?" - Interior scene with two women talking, 13ins square, published Punch May 20th 1925,"I hope you felt the inspiration of the Tattoo, Jenkins" - Two figures talking in a garden, 13.5ins x 13ins, and"Look at the cows, Miss Jones" - Two women talking by the edge of a field, 13ins x 14.5ins, all signed in full, in modern ebonised frames and glazed
Guide Price: £300-500
Lot 172 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Style of George Romney (1734-1802) - Ink sketch - Portrait of a lady wearing a bonnet, 8.5ins x 6.5ins, unsigned, in modern gilt moulded frame and glazed, and a copy of a book -"The Drawings by George Romney from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge catalogued by Patricia Jaffe", first published 1977
Guide Price: £100-200
Spencer Roberts (1920-1997) - Red chalk drawing -"Nude with Hummingbird" - Study of a lightly draped reclining nude model observing a hummingbird, 20.5ins x 23.5ins, signed in full and dated 1981, in modern gilt moulded frame Provenance : Bought by the vendor from the artist's widow
Guide Price: £750-1000
Lot 174 SOLD FOR: £ 200
Alfred Palmer (1877-1951) - Pastel drawing -"Temple of Luxor, Egypt", 14.5ins x 16.5ins, signed in full in red, in grey painted moulded frame and glazed Provenance : From the collection of the artist's daughter sold at The Canterbury Auction Galleries Autumn Fine Art Auction, Tuesday, 28th October 1997, Lot 173
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 175 SOLD FOR: £ 80
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) - Sepia engraving after the Reverend William Peters -"The Spirit of a Child arrived in the Presence of the Almighty", 19.25ins x 15.25ins, and five other sepia and engravings by after Bartolozzi, all framed and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
T. Raffles Davison - Black and white print -"The Oval New Cricket Pavilion", 12ins x 25.25ins, in oak frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Henry William Bunbury (1756-1811) - Two sepia mezzotints -"Morning, or the Man of Taste" and"Evening, or the Man of Feeling" - Caricatures of interior scenes, each 11.25ins diameter, published by J.R. Smith, No. 73 Opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street, October 10th 1781, in moulded gilt frames and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 178 SOLD FOR: £ 200
William Walcot (1874-1943) - Artists proof etching - Venetian scene, 9.5ins x 23ins, signed in pencil and No. Ed.75, in modern gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 179 SOLD FOR: £ 440
Reginald Smythe ( born 1917) - pen, ink and wash drawing -"Andy Capp" -Cartoon of football interest, 7.75ins x 9.25ins , signed Reg Smythe and inscribed by artist, in ebonised frame and glazed
Guide Price: £250-350
Fred Miller (19th Century British) - Five coloured artists proof mezzotints after Old Masters, including -"Titus" after Rembrandt, 13.5ins x 11.5ins","The Fountain of Love" after Fragonard, 16.75ins x 12.75ins, full length portrait of"Sir Philip Le Roy" and his wife after Van Dyck, and"Mrs Carnac" after Joshua Reynolds, 9.75ins x 8ins, all signed in pencil to margins, in modern gilt moulded frames and glazed Note : All mezzotints taken from pictures in the Wallace Collection
Guide Price: £200-300
After Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Lithograph - Landscape "The Little Mermaid" 1966 Landscape with a mermaid, on handmade paper 23.75ins x 16.25ins, signed in pencil to lower right margin and No. 7/75, in modern gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £400-600
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Cotton handkerchief signed by Chagall with a small sketch of a cat and an eye and inscribed"Opera 23 Sept 1969", 8.25ins x 8ins, contained in ebonised box frame with cloth lining . Note: Vendor Revised Estimate.
Guide Price: £800-1000
Paul McCartney (born 1942) - Pastel - Flower meadow, 14ins x 20ins, signed with monogram"P.Mc."., in moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £500-700
Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841) - Two coloured lithographs - Bird portraits -"Vinago Militaris" and"Vinago Sphenura", 19.25ins x 13.25ins, printed by C. Hullmandel, in ebonised frames with cream silk covered mounts
Guide Price: £450-600
Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841) - Two coloured lithographs - Bird portraits -"Picus Occipitalis (Male and Female)" and"Picus Squamatus", each 19.25ins x 13.25ins, printed by C. Hullmandel, in ebonised frames with cream silk covered mounts and glazed
Guide Price: £450-600
Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841) - Two coloured lithographs - Bird portraits -"Pica Vagabunda" and"Pica Erythrorhyncha", each 19.25ins x 13.25ins, printed by C. Hullmandel, in ebonised frames with cream silk covered mounts and glazed
Guide Price: £450-600
Indian School - Gouache - Standing figure of Shiva with attendants, cloth panel 48ins x 38.5ins, in pine frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 188 SOLD FOR: £ 1000
Albert Steiner (1877-1965) - Three black and white photographs -"Winterlandschaft Bei Maloja" - Snow capped mountain scene with chalets to foreground, 6.5ins x 8.75ins,"Bei Silvaplana" - Summer lake scene with town to background, 9ins x 6.5ins, and"Am Silvaplanersee-Oberengadin" - Summer lake scene, 8.75ins x 6.5ins, all signed"Albert Steiner, St. Moritz" and also titled in pencil (all mounted but unframed)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Lot 189 SOLD FOR: £ 2900
Edward Hasted -"The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", printed for the author by Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury 1778-1799 (four volumes containing maps of the Hundred, engravings and map of the County of Kent - bound in full mottled calf leather)
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 190 SOLD FOR: £ 210
Walter Scott -"The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte" printed by Ballantyne & Co, Edinburgh 1827 (nine volumes bound in blue cloth and half leather)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 191 SOLD FOR: £ 75
S. Baring Gould -"The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" published by Methuen & Co, London 1897 (one volume in red cloth) and"The Autobiography and Recollections of Laura, Duchess of Abrantes (Widow of General Junot)" published by Richard Bentley & Sons, London 1893 (four volumes bound in blue cloth and half gilt blocked blue leather)
Guide Price: £100-150
An early handwritten copy of"The Koran" (early pages somewhat damaged and restored and some discolouration), bound in leather (binding damaged)
Guide Price: £250-400
Lot 193 SOLD FOR: £ 340
William Russell Flint -"Minxes Admonished or Beauty Reproved", published by The Golden Cockerel Press 1955, No. 111 of edition of 150 bound in scarlet Morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, and signed by Russell Flint, illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Russell Flint with eight additional plates, complete with slip case covered in marbled paper
Guide Price: £250-300
