Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, December 07 2010
Two day Sale of Antiques, Fine Art, Ceramics,Glassware and Various Collectables
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 284 SOLD FOR: £ 1300
Harold Hitchcock (1914-2009) - Oil painting - "The Children's Protector", misty landscape with figure of a knight holding sword and young child to foreground, canvas laid on board 17ins x 16ins, signed with a monogram and dated 1973, in stained beechwood moulded frame
Guide Price: £1500-2000
Lot 285 SOLD FOR: £ 250
19th Century English School - Oil painting - "The Dover Mail Coach on Hambleden Hill with Canterbury to background" - Coaching scene with four horses in hand, canvas 20ins x 30ins, unsigned and unframed
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 286 SOLD FOR: £ 200
19th Century English School - Oil painting - Shepherd and his flock resting, canvas 10ins x 17.5ins, in gilt swept frame
Guide Price: £150-200
19th Century French School - Oil painting - Still life with peaches and grapes, board, 13ins x 16ins, in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 288 SOLD FOR: £ 100
20th Century School in the 18th Century Dutch manner - Oil painting - Still life of fruit on a stone ledge, panel 9.5ins x 12ins, unsigned, in gilt swept frame
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 289 SOLD FOR: £ 70
20th Century Continental School - Pair of oil paintings - Still lives with fruit, canvases 9.5ins x 12ins, in gilt moulded frames (overpainted)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 290 SOLD FOR: £ 380
Daphne Fedarb (1912-1992) - Oil painting - "Dead Sunflowers", canvas 36ins x 20ins, signed, titled to reverse, in painted wood frame
Guide Price: £300-400
Margaret Thomas (born 1916) - Oil painting - Still life with vase of pink roses, 14ins x 10ins, in cream painted frame and glazed Note : Bears label to back with artist's name and address, "Half Way Cottage", 11a North Road, Highgate Village, London N6 (mount of view 2527), an inscription "For Clair with love from Margaret 1963", and another label inscribed "From Miss Pink "Pinkie"
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 298 SOLD FOR: £ 520
Norman Meredith (born 1909) - Watercolour - "Sam Pig's first donkey ride", 14.5ins x 21ins, signed and dated '90, in gilt frame and glazed Provenance : Bears label to reverse - Chris Beetles Ltd, Exhibited "The Illustrators" 28th November - 14th December 1990, No. 202
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 299 SOLD FOR: £ 520
Norman Meredith (born 1909) - Watercolour - "Man was made for Joy and Woe", 14ins x 21ins, signed and dated 1990, in gilt frame and glazed Provenance : Bears label to reverse - Chris Beetles Ltd, Exhibited "The Illustrators", 28th November - 14th December 1909, No. 203
Guide Price: £500-700
Maurice W. Whittington (1905-1984) after Lady Elizabeth Butler (1846-1983) - Watercolour - "A Man of Kent in Flanders" - full length portrait of a British Tommy, 27ins x 18.75ins, unsigned, in painted frame and glazed Note : Apparently this is one of four copies of the original property of The Buffs, housed in The Buffs Museum, Canterbury, made by M.W. Whittington, a well-known commercial artist based in Thanet and presented to Senior Officers of The Buffs
Guide Price: £100-200
W.M. McKewan - Watercolour - Seated girl wearing a bonnet and apron, 19ins x 13.75ins, signed in red and dated 1872, in gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £300-500
Lot 302 SOLD FOR: £ 150
Hilda Hechle (19th/20th Century School) - Watercolour - "Peasants of Old Grodenthal (Tyrol)", 15.5ins x 12ins, signed, in ebonised and gilt moulded frame and glazed (with artists label to back)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 303 SOLD FOR: £ 210
Vera Spencer (born 1926) - Watercolour - "The Farewell Kiss", 12ins x 9ins, signed, in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £80-120
Frank Edwards (20th Century School) - Watercolour - "Lady at Well", 12ins x 8.5ins, unsigned Note: bears Appleby Bros. Ltd label to reverse indicating Christmas Exhibition 1965 and complete with certificate of authenticity from Sygun Museum of Wales
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 305 SOLD FOR: £ 90
F. Roffe - Watercolour - "The Signal", 14ins x 11.5ins, (apparently signed to reverse of picture) in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Late 19th/early 20th Century School - Watercolour - Roman kitchen scene with three standing figures, 22ins x 18ins, apparently unsigned, in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £350-500
Lot 307 SOLD FOR: £ 60
Dudley (?) - Watercolour - "Reconstruction of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral", 10ins x 7.75ins, indistinct signed and dated 1969, with inscription to reverse indicating "The Original Drawing for Christian Canterbury City of Pilgrims", in gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 308 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Victor Corden (1860-1939) - Watercolour sketch - "In Time of War" - Interior of Cathedral with three soldiers and horses, 9.75ins x 6.5ins, initialled "VC", in gilt moulded frame and glazed Provenance : The Parker Gallery, 2 Albemarle Street, London, W1X 3HF
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 309 SOLD FOR: £ 140
H. Doldiecy (?) - Three watercolours - Three soldiers on horseback - 5th Houzards 1805, 8th Houzards and Trompette deep Dragons 1805, each 12ins x 9.5ins, signed and inscribed, in gilt moulded frames and glazed
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 310 SOLD FOR: £ 50
In the manner of W.G. Shrubsole (1885-1889) - Watercolour - Old Palace and River Medway, Maidstone, 10.5ins x 19ins, bears signature, in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 311 SOLD FOR: £ 900
John Ward (1917-2007) - Ink and watercolour drawing - Town scene with figures by a canal, 13ins x 18.75ins, signed, in gilt frame and glazed, and "The Paintings of John Ward", David & Charles, 1991 (one volume)
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 312 SOLD FOR: £ 90
William R. Hoyles (1870-1935) - Watercolour - "Port Dufarch, Holyhead", 14ins x 22ins, signed, in turquoise painted frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 313 SOLD FOR: £ 250
Yong Mun Sen (1896-1962) - Watercolour - Beach hut, 10.5ins x 14.75ins, signed and dated 1953, in scumbled frame and glazed
Guide Price: £250-350
Lot 314 SOLD FOR: £ 250
Yong Mun Sen (1896-1962) - Watercolour - Fishing boat, 10.5ins x 14.5ins, signed and dated 1953, in scumbled frame and glazed
Guide Price: £250-350
Lot 315 SOLD FOR: £ 150
Circle of Paul Marny (1829-1914) - Watercolour - Harbour scene with boats to foreground, 9.5ins x 13.5ins, bears signature, in modern gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £150-200
Martin Hardie (1875-1952) - Three watercolours - Estuary scene with fishing hut on quay, 10ins x 14.5ins, watermill, 10.25ins x 14.25ins, and farm and farmyard scene, 10ins x 15.25ins, all signed in full, in gilt frames and glazed and three other smaller watercolours by the same artist
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 317 SOLD FOR: £ 140
J.W. Holmes - Gouache - "R.M.S. Britannia", 10.5ins x 17.5ins, signed and dated 1889, in card mount
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 318 SOLD FOR: £ 130
Fred Jay Girling (19th/20th Century) - Watercolour - "H.M.S. London", 10.5ins x 14.75ins, signed, in gilt moulded frame and glazed, and signed and titled to reverse
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 319 SOLD FOR: £ 300
Jane O'Malley (born 1944) - Gouache - Still life with jug and plate on table, painted on brown paper, 11.25ins x 16ins, signed in full and dated 12.10.87, in modern white painted frame and glazed Provenance : Purchased The New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore Street, St. Ives, Cornwall, 11th July 2007
Guide Price: £300-400
C. Melville (?) (19th Century English School) - Watercolour - "A Bouquet on a Mossy Bank" - Still life with spray of mixed flowers, bird and insect, 16ins x 13ins (apparently unfinished), signed and dated 1836), in modern painted moulded frame and glazed Provenance : Bears handwritten label to reverse with description and indicating bought at Lady Morrison's Sale for
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 321 SOLD FOR: £ 140
E.F. - 19th Century English School - Watercolour - "Lilacs" - Still life with a bowl of lilacs, 13ins x 29ins, monogrammed and dated 1896, in gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 322 SOLD FOR: £ 50
Mary Mosey - 19th Century English School - Watercolour - Still life with vase of flower, 12ins x 14ins, unsigned but with label to reverse, in gilt moulded frame and glazed, and a pair of coloured prints - Still lives with flowers, ovals 12ins x 15.5ins, in octagonal gilt frames and glazed
Guide Price: £60-80
Jose deep Zamora (Spanish 1890-1971) - Two watercolours - Costume designs for "Paris Revue", 12.75ins x 9.75ins, one with remnants of signature and with designer's stamp to reverse and annotated (both unframed) Provenance : Purchased at Phillips Auction, London, 21st November 2000
Guide Price: £200-300
Thomas Tyler Ireland (act. 1880-1927) - Pair of watercolours - Autumnal river landscapes, 30.5ins x 20.5ins, signed, in gilt swept frames and glazed
Guide Price: £300-400
Stanley Date - Watercolour - "February - 1954" - Winter landscape with boat on pond to foreground, 14.25ins x 20.25ins, signed in black in full, in limed oak frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Thomas Pratt - Watercolour - Winter river landscape, 10ins x 15ins, signed, in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 327 SOLD FOR: £ 210
S.J. Toby Nash (1891-1960) - Watercolour - "Canterbury Cathedral", 14ins x 10.75ins, and one other view of Canterbury Cathedral, 9ins x 11.5ins, both signed, in black frames (latter glazed)
Guide Price: £100-150
Circle of William Burgess (1805-1861) - Watercolour - "Golders Gardens", 10ins x 13ins, unsigned but bears indistinct inscription to lower left corner in pencil, in gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 329 SOLD FOR: £ 40
Percy Oxenden - Watercolour - "Folkestone", 6.5ins x 9.5ins, signed and dated 1898, in later gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £50-70
W. Sands (20th Century British) - Pair of watercolours - "Bethesda Hill, St. Ives", and "St. Ives", 9.5ins x 5ins, signed, in gilt frame and glazed (former unsigned)
Guide Price: £100-150
Leyton Forbes (19th/20th Century) - Pair of watercolours - Rural cottages and gardens, 6ins x 9ins, signed, in gilt frames and glazed
Guide Price: £200-300
William Callow (1812-1908) - Watercolour - River landscape with cottage to bank, 5.5ins x 8.5ins, signed, in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 333 SOLD FOR: £ 140
Val Davis - Pair of watercolours - Swans on a lake, 23ins x 15.5ins, signed, in gilt frames and glazed, one other watercolour - Lake scene, 10ins x 15.75ins, signed, in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 334 SOLD FOR: £ 40
19th/20th Century School - Two watercolours - River landscapes, one with castle to horizon, possibly Windsor, each 3.25ins x 5.5ins, in gilt frames and glazed
Guide Price: £50-70
H.B. Brabazon (1821-1906) - Gouache - "Landscape near Durham", 6ins x 9.5ins, monogrammed, in limed oak frame and glazed Provenance : Sold by The Fine Arts Society, London, November 1942 with label to reverse
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 336 SOLD FOR: £ 130
Birnie - Watercolour - View of the back of a row of houses from across a field, 22ins x 29ins, signed in pencil and dated '78, in gilt moulded frame and glazed and St Robert - Coloured engraving - Map of England, 19ins x 20ins, in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £60-80
Tom Pomfret (1920-1997) - Gouache - "Barfreston, Kent", 16ins x 23ins, titled, monogrammed and dated October '69, in white and gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £200-300
Tom Pomfret (1920-1997) - Gouache - "Le Printemps Salignal", 9.75ins x 18ins, signed, titled and dated '70, in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £150-200
Tom Pomfret (1920-1997) - Two gouaches - "Grimaud", 12ins x 18.75ins, dated 1979, and "Rue Dans Sarlat", 16ins x 10ins, dated '69, both, titled, monogrammed, framed and glazed
Guide Price: £150-200
