The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, August 03 2010
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 1 SOLD FOR: £ 660
A pair of 19th Century German porcelain standing figures in the Meissen manner - Gentleman and his lady in 18th Century dress, both figures encrusted with flowers, 19.25ins and 20ins high (crossed swords mark in overglazed blue to base)
Guide Price: £700-1000
A late 19th Century Sitzendorf porcelain group - "The Musical Family" - Standing figure of a husband, seated mother, a figure playing a guitar, two children, and a dog, 10.5ins high (crossed mark in underglazed blue to base)
Guide Price: £200-300
A pair of Samson porcelain figures in the Chelsea Derby manner - Lady and gentleman gardener in 18th Century dress, 8.25ins high, and one other ditto pair of a gentleman and a lady with a lamb at their feet, 8.5ins high, and a pair of Continental porcelain figures of seated children, 4.5ins high (with restoration and damage)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 4 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A 19th Century Samson porcelain figure in the Chelsea Derby manner - Seated figure of a gentleman playing a cello, 6.25ins high (chipped and with various restorations), and five other German porcelain figures, various
Guide Price: £80-120
A pair of 19th Century Samson porcelain figures - seated peg-leg man and a seated man with one arm (after Derby originals), 6ins and 6.25ins high respectively (former chipped)
Guide Price: £125-160
A pair of 19th Century German porcelain figures - male and female gardeners in the 18th Century manner, each 8.25ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
A modern Capo-di-Monte porcelain group modelled by Sandro Maggiori - Two young lovers in 18th Century dress, 14ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 9 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A 19th Century Potschappel porcelain figure of a "Goldammer" on a rustic stump, 7.75ins high (crossed mark with T above in underglazed blue to base), and a Wilhelms-Feld porcelain group of two children, 10ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
A German porcelain and "lace porcelain" group of two young lovers in 18th Century dress, 9.75ins high (crowned AR(?) mark in underglazed blue to base)
Guide Price: £100-150
A pair of Italian porcelain figures - Vagrant musicians, 7ins high (crowned N in underglazed blue to bases)
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 12 SOLD FOR: £ 110
A pair of late 19th Century German porcelain figures - parents with children, 8ins high, a pair of similar figures of a young boy and girl, 8.5ins high, and two other German porcelain figures, 6ins high
Guide Price: £125-160
A late 19th Century German porcelain figure of a gentleman of Italian origin in multi-coloured outfit, 16ins high (apparently unmarked), and a Continental pottery figure of a Regency beau, 19.5ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 14 SOLD FOR: £ 620
A 19th Century Vienna porcelain cabinet plate, enamelled with "Jupiter and Calisto" seated in a woodland landscape with cupid looking on, within mauve, wine and raised gilt decorated borders, 9.75ins diameter (blue beehive pattern mark in underglazed blue to base and titled in red)
Guide Price: £250-350
Lot 15 SOLD FOR: £ 500
A 19th Century Vienna porcelain cabinet plate, enamelled with three classical Muses and three cupids, within apple green and raised gilt borders, 9.75ins diameter (beehive pattern mark in underglazed blue to base and impressed No. 23)
Guide Price: £200-300
A pair of late 19th/early 20th Century Continental porcelain cabinet plates in the Vienna manner, enamelled with classical scenes within wine and gilt borders, 9.5ins diameter (printed blue beehive pattern mark to base and No. 2704 - one with star crack to base)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 17 SOLD FOR: £ 210
A late 19th/early 20th Century Vienna porcelain cylindrical teapot and replacement cover, enamelled with lovers, 5.5ins high, a Vienna porcelain coffee can and saucer enamelled with an oval reserve of "Rinaldo" (both with beehive pattern mark in underglazed blue to bases) one other ditto cylindrical cup and associated saucer, and a pair of "Sevres" style porcelain and gilt brass mounted miniature urns, 6ins high (covers restored)
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 18 SOLD FOR: £ 1750
Six 19th Century French "Sevres" porcelain cabinet plates, enamelled with figures drinking and gambling after David Teniers, 9.5ins diameter (overglazed Sevres style mark in blue to bases - gilding somewhat rubbed)
Guide Price: £250-350
Lot 19 SOLD FOR: £ 290
A 19th Century Jacob Petit porcelain bottle shaped vase and cover in the "Schneeballen" manner, 13.5ins high (marked JP in underglazed blue to base)
Guide Price: £150-250
Lot 20 SOLD FOR: £ 270
A 19th Century Meissen porcelain cabinet breakfast cup and saucer of shaped outline, enamelled with lovers, saucer 6ins diameter (crossed swords mark in underglazed blue to base - circa 1870)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 21 SOLD FOR: £ 520
A 19th Century Paris porcelain two handled ewer, the front enamelled with two young women and two children beneath a tree, 12.25ins high, and black slate square plinth base for same
Guide Price: £150-200
A pair of late 19th Century Sitzendorf porcelain pillar candlesticks supported by figures of young girls, 11ins high, a ditto smaller pair, 8ins high, and one other pair of Bohemian porcelain pillar candlesticks, 8ins high
Guide Price: £125-160
A set of four Italian porcelain pillar candlesticks representing "The Four Seasons" each with leaf sconces, 11.5ins high (crowned N mark in underglazed blue to bases)
Guide Price: £150-250
Lot 24 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A German white glazed floral encrusted porcelain wall bracket modelled with a ram's head, 5.75ins wide x 7ins high (bears underglazed blue Meissen Marcolini period mark to top)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 25 SOLD FOR: £ 150
Three 1960s Fornasetti black, white and gilt plates, each depicting figures by Vincenzo Bellini, each 10ins diameter (black printed marks to bases)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 26 SOLD FOR: £ 130
A Royal Dux porcelain figure of a lightly draped dancing girl wearing blue dress, 8.5ins high (raised pink triangle mark to base and No. 3602)
Guide Price: £125-160
A 20th Century Continental porcelain figure in the Royal Dux manner designed by Elly Strobach - reclining naked young woman, 6.75ins high (apparently unmarked - incised No. 707)
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 28 SOLD FOR: £ 250
A modern Rosenthal porcelain figure 'Die Trinkende', designed by Ernst Wenck in the form of a naked kneeling young woman, 7ins high, (printed mark to base numbered 752/1)
Guide Price: £250-350
A Royal Dux pottery figure designed by Elly Strobach of a bathing beauty, 7.75ins high (printed mark "Royal Dux Deutschland" and No. P114)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 30 SOLD FOR: £ 170
A Royal Dux pottery figure designed by Elly Strobach - reclining nude woman, 6.25ins high (printed mark to base "Royal Dutch Deutschland" and impressed No. 207P)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 31 SOLD FOR: £ 300
A Goldscheider pottery head, 10ins high (unmarked but with No. 7495 to back 7495 and 10/17) and black glazed circular base for same
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 32 SOLD FOR: £ 240
A Goldscheider red terracotta glazed kneeling figure of a naked young woman, 15ins high (gold label to base and No. 8495 to base)
Guide Price: £250-300
Austrian pottery wall mask modelled in the form of a young lady with auburn hair, 9.5ins high (incised initials AS and No. 189)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 34 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A Continental moulded mask in the Goldscheider manner thought to be designed by Adolph Prischl, with pierced eyes and green glazed curly hair, 11.5ins high (apparently unmarked)
Guide Price: £200-300
A late 1930s/40s Goebel-Bieber terracotta wall mask of a young woman with red shawl, 15.25ins high (impressed mark and 'Made in Vienna' and No. 291)
Guide Price: £150-200
A late 1930s/1940s Goebel-Bieber terracotta wall mask of a young woman with curly hair, 11.5ins high (impressed mark and incised No. 304)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 37 SOLD FOR: £ 120
A Czechoslovakian pottery bust in the Art Deco manner designed by Elly Strobach of a young woman smoking a cigarette, 7ins high (impressed No. 15193 and impressed signature to reverse)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 38 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A Continental buff semi glazed pottery figure of a putti holding its left hand aloft, on circular base 22.5ins high (finger and thumb missing)
Guide Price: £100-150
A late 19th/early 20th Century Continental pottery group - Figure of "Mr Punch" seated on steps below broken column, 14.5ins high (unmarked)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 40 SOLD FOR: £ 70
An early 20th Century Austrian pottery two division basket of Art Nouveau design, 16ins wide x 11ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 41 SOLD FOR: £ 110
A Continental porcelain saucer shaped dish painted with a shoulder-length portrait of young girl, 7ins diameter, in red velvet covered frame
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 42 SOLD FOR: £ 110
A 19th Century Austrian pottery tobacco jar and cover by Bernard Bloch - Head of a boy wearing a hat, 6.25ins high (impressed BB393 to base - chipped), and three Continental porcelain tobacco jars and covers, various heads and various sizes
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 43 SOLD FOR: £ 70
Two 19th Century Continental porcelain tobacco jars and covers - Sultans, 6ins high (impressed 3607/37) and 5.25ins high (impressed 8110) (see Horowitz, Page 46) and one other pottery tobacco jar and cover, 7.25ins high (damaged)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 44 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Two Continental porcelain tobacco jars and covers - Fisherman, 5ins high (see Horowitz, Page 28, fig. 084), Black baby, 4.25ins high, and a pottery ditto - Priest, 5ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 45 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Two Continental porcelain tobacco jars and covers - Red Indians, 4.5ins and 6.5ins high (latter incised 2257)
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 46 SOLD FOR: £ 120
A Continental porcelain "Jazz" jar and cover - Girl seated on drum, 8ins high (impressed 7094/1 - jar and cover cracked)
Guide Price: £40-60
Lot 47 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Three Continental porcelain tobacco jars and covers - Asian heads, 5ins high, 4.75ins high (see Horowitz, Page 48, fig. 208) and 5ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 48 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Two 19th Century Continental pottery tobacco jars and covers - Sultans, 6.5ins high (impressed 3607/27) and 5.25ins high (impressed 8110) (see Horowitz Page 46) and a porcelain ditto - Man with turban, 5.5ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 49 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Two 19th Century German pottery tobacco jars and covers by Bernard Bloch - Feminine heads 5ins high (impressed BB8304 - see Horowitz, Page 41, fig. 160), 6.25ins high (impressed BB336) and one other pottery ditto, 6.5ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 50 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Three 19th Century Continental pottery tobacco jars and covers - Black heads 5.25ins high (impressed BU401 - see Horowitz, Page 59, fig. 271), 5ins high (impressed 2771/7 - restored - see Horowitz, Page 57, fig. 259) and 5ins high
Guide Price: £70-100