Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, March 16 2010
Spring Auction of Fine Art and Antiques
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.
Lot 388 SOLD FOR: £ 180
A Japanese carved ivory figure of a bearded man holding a box with two baskets and a turtle by his feet, on oval base, 2.75ins high (with oval seal mark in red to base - Meiji period)
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 389 SOLD FOR: £ 120
A Japanese ivory letter opener, the handle finely carved with flowers and leaves to each side, 11.5ins overall (red character mark to one side of handle)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 390 SOLD FOR: £ 150
A late 19th Century Chinese ivory door stop pattern cribbage board, the border carved with floral and leaf ornament and with turned screw finial to one side, 8.5ins x 1.5in x 5.75ins high (containing five red stained sticks)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 391 SOLD FOR: £ 360
A late 19th Century Chinese ivory and gilt metal mounted rectangular box, the whole carved in the Cantonese manner with river landscape scenes with figures, pavilions, junks, trees and bridges, 3.75ins x 2.5ins x 1.25in high (some panels loose and cracked to top panel)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 392 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A late Georgian ivory and gold coloured metal rectangular toothpick box, the lid inlaid with lozenge and floral ornament, 2.75ins x 1in x 75in high, and a late Georgian tortoise-shell needle box, 1in x .5in x 2ins high
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 393 SOLD FOR: £ 230
A 19th Century Indian (Vizagapatnam) tortoise-shell and ivory overlaid domed top box, the exterior applied with pierced and fretted panels, on carved paw feet, 4ins x 2.75ins x 2ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
A 19th Century tartanware rectangular stamp box (McBeth), 3ins x 1.5in, a ditto rectangular needle box (Caledonia), 1.25in x 2.25ins, and a ditto oval needle box (Victoria), 1.25in x 2.25ins
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 395 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A 19th Century tortoise-shell, pique and mother-of-pearl inlaid rectangular note case, the front inset with a watch, the .75in dial with Roman numerals and inlaid with bead and floral garlands, and with shield cartouche to back, 4.25ins x 2.75ins
Guide Price: £150-200
A 19th Century French pressed horn rectangular snuff box, the lid decorated with"The Last Supper" within scroll and floral border, 3.5ins x 2.25ins x 1in high
Guide Price: £150-200
A late 19th Century painted spelter figure of a parrot, 3.5ins high, one other similar fitted as a pen wiper, 4.5ins high, and a similar cockatoo fitted as a pen wiper, 4.5ins high (all with some flaking and the latter slightly damaged)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 398 SOLD FOR: £ 250
Two early 20th Century polished ivory tusks, each 19.5ins overall
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 400 SOLD FOR: £ 70
An ivory tusk section carved with two fish hanging from a rope, 6.25ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 401 SOLD FOR: £ 70
A 19th Century Tunbridge ware clothes brush inlaid with band of floral ornament, one other similar brush inlaid with panel of geometric ornament, the handle inlaid with floral ornament, and a Tunbridge ware photograph frame inlaid with tessellated ornament, the whole picture 6ins x 4.5ins
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 403 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A 19th Century fan, the lace panel worked with flowers and leaves, and with plain mother-of-pearl sticks, 14ins overall, and box for same, and one other fan with a black and white and sequinned lace panel, with plain tortoise-shell sticks, 10.5ins overall, and box for same
Guide Price: £125-160
An early 20th Century Chinese soapstone cylindrical seal, the top carved with a figure of Shoulao holding a peach, on cylindrical base engraved with a mountain landscape, 6ins high, and box for same
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 405 SOLD FOR: £ 300
19th Century English School - Miniature shoulder length portrait of a young woman with a blue ribbon in her head and wearing a coral necklace, and white lace collar with pearl necklace and blue dress, oval probably on ivory, 2.5ins x 2ins, in gilt metal frames with rope twist and bead border
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 406 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A 19th Century silhouette -"John Black Gracie (1799-1847)" - Shoulder length profile, oval 3.625ins x 2.75ins, in gilt metal mount and black ebonised frame, and a miniature painting - Shoulder length profile of a gentleman, 3.25ins x 2.5ins, in gilt metal mount and black ebonised frame
Guide Price: £100-150
A Stevengraph -"Victoria" - Shoulder length portrait of Queen Victoria with crest and floral garland below, 4.25ins x 2.5ins, framed and glazed, a Stevengraph Queen Victoria Jubilee commemorative bookmark, 6ins overall, two black and white Stevengraphs -"Albert The Good" - Shoulder length profile of Prince Albert with an oval medallion and - Views of Crystal Palace", each 7.5ins x 4.25ins, and a selection of similar items
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 409 SOLD FOR: £ 230
A Norwegian silvery metal and"Plique a Jour" enamel spoon by Anderson of stained glass effect, the circular bowl decorated with a flower and with stylised leaf and floral ornament to handle and terminal, 6ins (maker
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 410 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A Norwegian silvery metal and"Plique a Jour" enamel spoon in the manner of"Anderson" of stained glass effect, the circular bowl decorated with central flowerhead surrounded by scroll ornament, and with conforming handle and terminal, 5ins (unmarked)
Guide Price: £100-150
A"Royal Club" oxidised metal single lever corkscrew, patented by Charles Hull of Birmingham
Guide Price: £1500-2000
An Edwardian plated cased rectangular butt marker, with plain case, 2.25ins x 1.75in containing eight numbered markers with ball pattern finials (enamelling to some numbers rubbed)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 413 SOLD FOR: £ 340
An early 19th Century double barrelled percussion pistol, the 5.75ins twin cylindrical rotating barrels with clasp to side and curved figured walnut stock, 11ins overall (lacking hammer)
Guide Price: £150-200
A South East Asian bronze circular mirror, the pierced handle with scroll work, 7.5ins overall (apparently circa 11th/12th Century - with repair to handle)
Guide Price: £250-350
Friedrick Gornik (1877-1943) - Bronze - Standing figure of a lady wearing a fur lined robe and holding a book, 4.25ins high (impressed signature to base)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 415 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A brown patinated bronze figure of a horse on oval naturalistic base set with flower to centre, 10ins wide x 9.5ins high (with slight damage to tail)
Guide Price: £200-300
A pair of Japanese brown patinated bronze figures of dancing geishas, 13.5ins and 14ins high (seal mark to bases - Meiji period - feet drilled to fit later mahogany stands)
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 417 SOLD FOR: £ 180
Early 20th Century School - Brown patinated bronze figure -"The Angler" - Standing figure of a boy wearing a wide brimmed hat with a fishing rod under his arm, 9.5ins high, signed"A. Joliveau" and stamped"Art Union of London 1909"
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 418 SOLD FOR: £ 1000
A good pair of early 19th Century French ormolu and white marble urn pattern cassolettes, each with three rams head terminals and reversible domed covers, the bodies with floral swags and each supported on three hoof feet, the circular bases with bead ornament, 9.5ins high
Guide Price: £700-1000
Lot 419 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A 20th Century French gilt metal square photograph frame with ribbon pattern cresting, to hold picture 2.5ins diameter, 5.5ins x 4.75ins overall, and one other similar ditto to hold picture 2.25ins diameter, 5ins x 4ins overall
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 420 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A 20th Century French gilt brass rectangular photograph frame with ribbon cresting, the pink cloth lined slip with gilt metal leaf scroll ornament, to hold picture 3.625ins x 2.25ins, 7.25ins x 5ins overall, and one other French gilt metal circular photograph frame with ribbon cresting, to hold picture 3.25ins diameter, 4.25ins high overall
Guide Price: £150-200
A French bronze model of"Bureau Caisse", the two storey house with cockerel finial, 8.5ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 422 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A pair of North American Indian buckskin moccasins, the fronts finely embroidered with stylised leaf ornament, 10.25ins overall, and a North American Indian bead necklace, 15.5ins . Note : This lot was brought back from Canada in 1901/1902 by the vendor
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 423 SOLD FOR: £ 100
An early 20th Century Japanese album containing a selection of coloured prints depicting shoulder and half length portraits of Samurai warriors and Geisha women, in cloth bound album, 8.25ins x 6ins (slight damage)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 424 SOLD FOR: £ 1250
A collection of 19th Century Italian plaster intaglios (souvenirs of"The Grand Tour"), contained in six nesting trays, the three hundred and fifty-six intaglios of varying sizes
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 425 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A late George III needlework sampler by"Eliza Buckenham of Creeksea School" worked in coloured threads with"Friendship" verse, vases of flowers, birds, the alphabet and numbers within stylised floral borders and dated May 5th 1821, 12ins x 13ins, in birdseye maple frame and glazed (with several moth holes)
Guide Price: £70-100
A George III silk needlework panel -"Hope" - Worked with a classical figure of a woman looking out to sea at a galleon in full sail, oval 11.5ins x 8.5ins, with black and gilt decorated glass slip, and in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £125-160
An Osborne"Ivorex" rectangular plaque -"Wedding Journey of Minnehaha and Hiawatha", 11.5ins x 8.5ins, contained in original ebonised moulded frame with velour covered slip and glazed
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 429 SOLD FOR: £ 980
A late 19th/early 20th Century"Black Forest" carved lindenwood Smokers companion, carved in the form of a standing mother bear with hinged head to accommodate tobacco jar, supporting an oval table, fretted and carved with floral and leaf ornament, and with two lidded compartments, (originally with three bear cubs - now missing), 19ins x 15ins x 31ins high (see Note C -"Swiss Carvings - The Art of the"Black Forest" 1820-1940" by J. Orenski, Simon Daniels and Michael Daniels, Antique Collectors Club 2005, pages 122 and 123 for similar examples)
Guide Price: £600-800
Lot 430 SOLD FOR: £ 320
A"Black Forest" carved lindenwood tobacco jar and cover, carved in the form of a bear
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 431 SOLD FOR: £ 180
A"Black Forest" carved lindenwood tobacco jar and cover, carved in the form of a long eared dog wearing a collar, with glass eyes, on circular base, 10.5ins high (with some splits and cracks)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 432 SOLD FOR: £ 160
A"Black Forest" carved wood cylindrical tobacco jar and cover, carved in the form of a bear on top of a tree stump, on oval base, 8.5ins high, and one other carved wood tobacco jar and cover carved in the form of a hen sitting on a barrel with a fox with a hen in his mouth below, on oval base, 10ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 433 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A plated cylindrical tobacco jar and cover, the cover with figurative finial and cast with fruiting vines, the jar cast in relief with village scenes with figures drinking, dancing and on horseback, with bead mounts and circular footrim, 5ins diameter x 9ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 434 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A plated octagonal tobacco jar and cover, the domed cover cast with ribbon and flowerhead motifs, the jar cast with four panels of figures interspersed with vases of flowers and worded"Tobacco
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 435 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A brass heart shaped tobacco box, the lid engraved with conjoined twins and worded"Biddenden - Elisa and Mary Chulkhurst", 3.5ins x 3.75ins, and a cast brass hexagonal tobacco jar and domed cover for same, the whole cast with leaf scroll ornament, the cover with turned and reeded finial, and on bracket feet, 8ins high
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 436 SOLD FOR: £ 110
A spelter and ebonised cigar cutter modelled in the form of a bulldog emerging from a barrel, on three paw pattern feet, the barrel worded"Kusch
Guide Price: £60-80
