Fine Interiors 17 & 18 March 2026

FINE INTERIORS

Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 March 2026

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FINE INTERIORS

TUESDAY 17 & WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH, 10AM

Tuesday 17 March

Lots 1-90The Richard Collins Collection

Lots 91-172Furniture and Works of Art

Lots 173-205The Selected Contents of Tulip Tree House, Great Tew, Oxfordshire

Lots 206-353Furniture and Works of Art

Lots 354-380From the Collection of Jade Jagger, Kempsford Manor, Fairford, Gloucestershire

Wednesday 18 March

Lots 381-478The Selected Contents of Donnington Castle House, Newbury, Berkshire

Lots 479-558Furniture and Works of Art

Lots 559-600A Life in Bloom: The Contents of a Kensington Residence

Lots 601-607 Silver

Lots 608-685Furniture and Works of Art

Lots 686-698 Garden

VIEWING

Viewing will be held at our Stansted Mountfitchet Saleroom as follows: Friday 13 March10am - 4pm Sunday 15 March 10am - 1pm Monday 16 March10am - 4pm

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Cover Image | © Simon Brown

Alexander Hallett Head of Department

& Cataloguer

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

STORAGE OF LOTS

Sworders and Abels Partnership

Furniture and large items, and small items if they form part of the same invoice, not collected within seven working days of the auction will be removed by Abels Moving Services Ltd (Abels), at your expense, and delivered to their depot at Potters Bar, where they will be subject to collection, administration and storage fees - see below.

Charges

Collection Fee

Collection from Sworders £25 per collection of 1 – 5 items and £50 per collection of 6-10 items listed on an invoice (plus VAT )

Items will be stored free of charge for 7 days from the Sworders collection date.

Storage Charges

Storage charges will commence on the 8th day after being collected by Abels at £4.00 per lot, per day.

Additional charges will be made for items exceeding 8 x 8ft.

A Levied Liability Charge (LLC) of £0.08p / per £1k value of goods.

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Day One

Tuesday 17 March at 10am

The Richard Collins Collection: A Life in Pursuit of Beauty

We are honoured to present the first tranche of the Richard Collins Collection in this Fine Interiors sale.

Richard Collins leaves behind a remarkable legacy of design-led development and refined taste. A man whose life was devoted to the pursuit of architectural integrity, aesthetic refinement and the quiet joy of beautiful things, Collins was not merely a property developer, but a curator, collector and connoisseur, whose personal interiors bore the unmistakable imprint of a singular vision.

His collection – a seamless harmony of tradition and modernism, shaped by a long-standing admiration for leading figures such as Robert Kime and Rose Uniacke – reflects a layered sophistication that will resonate strongly with collectors worldwide. Collins believed that elegance lay not in perfection, but in the thoughtful juxtaposition of eras, materials and memories; his interiors were never sterile, but lived in, loved and deeply personal. This philosophy was perhaps most vividly expressed in his London homes, including his celebrated apartment overlooking Kensington Gardens, featured in House & Garden , where beauty, comfort and narrative coexisted in quiet balance.

The Richard Collins Collection is a rare and carefully curated assembly, deserving of presentation with distinction. The quality, style and sophistication of the pieces Richard selected and chose to live with would undoubtedly command interest individually; however, when presented as a collection and viewed through the lens of his life and philosophy, they are elevated from admired objects to essential expressions of a singular design vision. Sworders has been entrusted with the privilege of celebrating this exceptional legacy at auction.

It has been a privilege to honour Richard Collins through a series of sales that celebrate his extraordinary eye and enduring influence. Further pieces from the collection will appear in the Sworders Modern & Contemporary Art sale in April, followed by the Design auction in May.

LOT 1

A group of seven cushions, 20th century, comprising three kilim-covered examples, together with two pairs of striped woven cushions largest 50 x 53cm (7) £200 - 400

LOT 2

A pair of brass adjustable standard lamps, 20th century, Italian, each with an adjustable stem issuing an arched arm with single light, raised on a circular base 56cm diameter, 117cm high minimum, 161cm high maximum (2) £200 - 400

LOT 3

An upholstered ‘Labrador’ armchair by Howe, of recent manufacture, in the Howard & Sons ‘Bridgewater’ style, with roll arms and ring-turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors, stamped, 90cm wide, 105cm deep, 89cm high £800 - 1,200

Provenance: Purchased from Howe, Pimlico Road, London.

LOT 4

A flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with alternating squares in tones of deep purple and cream 286 x 194cm £200 - 400

5

A leather and wooden centre table, 20th century, the circular top raised on a cylindrical latticed base 121cm diameter, 72cm high

£300 - 500

6

A group of three glazed stoneware pots, 19th/20th century, French, comprising two confit pots and a modern example largest 31cm wide, 29cm deep, 33cm high (3) £300 - 500

A pair of painted bamboo armchairs, 20th century, of slatted construction, each with a feather cushion, upholstered in checked cotton 71cm wide, 68cm deep, 87cm high (2) £300 - 500

LOT 8

A kilim flat-weave wool rug, of recent manufacture, Uzbek, woven with a geometric design to a blue ground, 197 x 191cm £200 - 400

9

A black-lacquered wooden ladder in the Chinese taste, of recent manufacture, with six rungs 53cm wide, 4cm deep, 210cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 10

A blonde oak desk chair by Howe, of recent manufacture, with a curved back and red goatskin-upholstered seat, raised on tapering square supports 63cm wide, 63cm deep, 84cm high

£200 - 400

Provenance: Purchased from Howe, Pimlico Road, London.

LOT 11

A silver-plated brass table lamp, 19th century, with a stop-fluted column and a gadrooned base 21cm base diameter, 63cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 12

An Arts and Crafts fruitwood occasional table, late 19th/early 20th century, with a canted square top and undertier set between ring-turned supports

43cm wide, 43cm deep, 69cm high

£200 - 400

13

A framed suzani panel, early 20th century, Uzbek, embroidered in multicoloured silk threads with stylised foliate patterns, on a linen ground 153 x 108cm, framed and glazed 163 x 118.5cm £600 - 800

14

A group of three various bamboo side tables, 20th century, to include a tray-top example 62cm wide, 40cm deep, 51cm high (3)

£200 - 400

15

A modernist wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with alternating geometric motifs in tones of brown and cream

320 x 225cm

£400 - 600

A marble bust of John Milton, 19th century, raised on a waisted socle 25cm wide, 17cm deep, 40cm high £200 - 400

A small wooden occasional table by Minotti, of recent manufacture, Italian, of conical shape 41cm diameter, 50cm high £200 - 400

Four elm cinema stools by Howe, of recent manufacture, each with a saddle seat raised on a tubular base 42cm wide, 35cm deep, 61cm high (4)

£300 - 500

Provenance: Purchased from Howe, Pimlico Road, London.

LOT 19

A large industrial painted-metal ceiling light, mid-20th century, of spreading circular form 64cm diameter, 38cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 20

A set of four baroque-style beech side chairs, late 19th/early 20th century, Continental, each with a pierced back and rush seat, raised on moulded cabriole supports united by a wavy stretcher

53cm wide, 38cm deep, 102cm high, 44cm to seat (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 21

A pair of patinated metal urns, of recent manufacture, each with a ribbed body over a circular foot 14cm diameter, 32cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 22

A Louis Philippe figured walnut commode, c.1830, French, with a grey marble top above a moulded frieze drawer and three long drawers, raised on a plinth base terminating in square feet 125cm wide, 56cm deep, 97cm high

£400 - 600

Two gilt-bronze table lamps, 19th century, comprising a gothic revival example, with a cluster column and quatrefoil detail, the other neoclassical example with intricate neoclassical detail below a tapering column, fitted for electricity smallest 15.5cm diameter, 51.5cm high; largest 15cm diameter, 58cm high (2) £200 - 400

A Persian Mahal wool carpet, early 20th century, woven with repeating Herati motifs to a red ground, distressed 370 x 246cm

£400 - 600

A burr oak tripod table, first half of the 19th century, Continental, the circular top with snap action, raised on a turned column and moulded tripod feet 64cm diameter, 66cm high

£300 - 500

Provenance: Acquired from Colefax and Fowler, Pimlico Road, London.

A folk art wooden dairy bowl, 19th century, Swedish, of rounded rectangular form, with square detail 52cm wide, 43cm deep, 11cm high £200 - 400

A painted plaster bust of Apollo, 20th century, after the antique, bearing an inscription to the base

32cm wide, 27cm deep, 53cm high

£300 - 500

A set of four upholstered dining chairs by Massimo Scolari for Giorgetti, of recent manufacture, Italian, each with a curved back and upholstered cushion, raised on tapering supports

70cm wide, 70cm deep, 83cm high (4)

£300 - 500

A dhurrie flat-weave wool runner, of recent manufacture, Indian, woven with alternating blue, red and white stripes

490 x 126cm

£300 - 500

LOT 30

A pair of chrome and glass ceiling lanterns in the Regency taste, of recent manufacture, each with scrolling mounts and three lights

29cm diameter, 82cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 31

A large George II-style painted wooden library bookcase, late 20th century, of architectural form with a broken pediment and acanthus corbels, above shelves enclosed by mesh doors, over four further cupboard doors on a plinth base with imitation oak scumbled decoration

280cm wide, 68cm deep, 295cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

Provenance: Sotheby’s, 22 July 2003, lot 120.

LOT 32

A William IV mahogany and leather library armchair, c.1830, with a button and studded seat, raised on tapering foliate-moulded supports, terminating in brass caps and castors

75cm wide, 70cm deep, 95cm high

£600 - 800

Provenance: Acquired from Howe, Pimlico Road, London.

LOT 33

A painted fruitwood pier table, late 18th century, of rectangular form, with a shaped moulded top and serpentine front set above a plain frieze, raised on chamfered square supports terminating in stepped feet

105cm wide, 68cm deep, 78cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 34

A wrought-iron floor lamp, 20th century, French, the twisted stem raised on a tripod base

40cm diameter, 170cm high

£300 - 500

Provenance: Purchased from Colefax and Fowler, Pimlico Road, London.

LOT 35

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven in tones of red and black

402 x 312cm

£400 - 600

LOT 36

A wrought-metal and marble guéridon, 20th century, the circular top raised on tubular supports and a tripod base

55cm diameter, 71cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 37

A group of three Victorian Aesthetic period oak side chairs, c.1880, comprising an armchair and two singles, each with reeded detail and embossed leather upholstery decorated with fleur-de-lys motifs, raised on ring-turned supports terminating in castors armchair 62cm wide, 62cm deep, 99cm high (3)

£200 - 400

Provenance: Acquired from Charles Edwards, London.

LOT 38

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven in tones of green and blue

393 x 335cm

£600 - 800

LOT 39

A brass seven-light chandelier, 20th century, with cut-glass droplets and all-over foliage and scroll detail

67cm wide, 96cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 40

A pair of leather and linen two-seater ‘Wally’ sofas by Antonello Mosca for Giorgetti, of recent manufacture, Italian, each upholstered in cream leather and linen 210cm wide, 106cm deep, 48cm high (2)

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 41

A set of seven oak and leather ‘Grecian’ dining chairs by Howe, of recent manufacture, in the Regency taste with inlaid decoration, each with a curved back and red goatskin seat, raised on sabre supports 49cm wide, 60cm deep, 86m high (7)

£700 - 900

LOT 42

A blonde oak and painted dining table, of recent manufacture, the rectangular plank top raised on chamfered square supports united by stretchers 245cm wide, 101cm deep, 72cm high £500 - 700

A provincial ash ladder-back elbow chair, second half of the 19th century, with a rush seat and turned supports united by stretchers, terminating in peg feet

61cm wide, 50cm deep, 95cm high

£200 - 400

A Regency painted pine washstand, early 19th century, with scumbled imitation pine decoration, the raised three-quarter back over two frieze drawers and raised on faux bamboo supports

99cm wide, 57cm deep, 82cm high

£300 - 500

A George III painted pine dresser, mid-18th century, with a moulded rectangular top, set above a panelled cupboard door flanked by two banks of short drawers, raised on bracket feet

180cm wide, 57cm deep, 90cm high

£800 - 1,200

Provenance: Acquired from Howe, Pimlico Road, London.

A brass adjustable standard lamp, 20th century, Italian, with a tubular column and a tripod base

42cm diameter, 124cm high minimum, 194cm high maximum

£200 - 400

Provenance: Purchased from Howe, Pimlico Road, London.

A fruitwood side table, late 19th century, the moulded rectangular top above a plain frieze, raised on tapering square supports

65cm wide, 45cm deep, 71cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 48

A Victorian buttoned-leather Chesterfield sofa, late 19th century, raised on ring-turned golden oak supports terminating in brass castors, with a set of four printed cotton cushions

220cm wide, 90cm deep, 80cm high (5)

£600 - 800

Provenance: Acquired from Humphrey Carrasco, London.

LOT 49

A flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, with embroidered geometric motifs to a pale blue ground

490 x 288cm

£600 - 800

51

LOT 50

A set of five George IV-style mahogany and leather dining chairs, of recent manufacture, each with a button and studded back and seat, raised on tapering reeded supports terminating in pad feet

48cm wide, 57cm deep, 85cm high

(5)

£400 - 600

Provenance: Purchased from Robert Kime, Pimlico Road, London.

LOT 51

A William IV oak centre or dining table, c.1830, with a circular top, raised on a thick column and tripod base, terminating in scroll feet and brass castors 154cm diameter, 76cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 52

A George III-style mahogany and marble pier table, late 19th/early 20th century, with a demilune outline, the grey veined marble top raised on moulded supports

118cm wide, 59cm deep, 79cm high

£300 - 500

A flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, with stitched polychrome detail

295 x 212cm

£300 - 500

LOT 54

An oak centre table by Philippe Hurel, of recent manufacture, with a burgundy leather top, raised on a tripod base with square supports and stretchers 115cm diameter, 73cm high

£400 - 600

A pair of metal adjustable floor lamps, 20th century, each with a slender tripod base 35cm diameter, 84cm high minimum, 135cm high maximum (2)

£300 - 500

Provenance: Purchased from Howe, Pimlico Road, London.

A late Victorian upholstered armchair by Trollope & Sons, c.1890, upholstered in pale linen and raised on ring-turned front supports, stamped to the back leg 84cm wide, 105cm deep, 84cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 58

A set of six pieces of punched veneer, of recent manufacture, each mounted in a Perspex frame frame 52 x 41cm

(6)

£200 - 400

A Gustavian painted pine commode, late 19th century, Northern European, with a moulded rectangular top, above four long drawers fitted with brass shield-shaped escutcheons, raised on tapering square supports

86cm wide, 43cm deep, 93cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 59

A Bamileke ndop cloth panel, 20th century, Cameroon, decorated throughout with indigo stitch resist-dyed geometric patterns, stretched and mounted on canvas

126 x 50cm

£200 - 400

LOT 60

A George I-style walnut centre table, late 19th/early 20th century and later, with a beige marble top above a moulded frieze and cabriole supports

77cm wide, 53cm deep, 70cm high

£300 - 500

A walnut revolving desk chair, late 19th/early 20th century, with a curved slatted back and saddle seat, the quadripartite base terminating in castors

60cm wide, 60cm deep, 85cm high

£200 - 400

A kilim flat-weave wool rug, of recent manufacture, woven in tones of green and yellow.

386 x 223cm

£300 - 500

A brown oak ‘Naval’ occasional table by Robert Kime, of recent manufacture, in the Regency taste, with a dished circular top and conforming undertier, united by sabre supports terminating in brass caps and castors

50cm diameter, 73cm high

£300 - 500

Provenance: Purchased from Robert Kime, Pimlico Road, London.

A group of red lacquer vases, 20th century, Chinese, each of baluster form, comprising four smaller and one larger four 12cm diameter, 25cm high, one 15cm diameter, 32cm high (5)

£200 - 400

A pair of Victorian maple open armchairs, late 19th century, each upholstered in pink cotton, and raised on ring-turned tapering supports terminating in brass caps and castors, stamped with a serial number to the back leg

65cm wide, 85cm deep, 96cm high (2)

£600 - 800

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven in tones of red and yellow

400 x 307cm

£400 - 600

A painted wooden mirror, 20th century, of recent manufacture, with a rectangular frame

118cm wide, 146cm high

£200 - 400

A pair of wooden side tables, of recent manufacture, each with a square tray top above a stepped frieze, raised on splayed square supports 46cm wide, 46cm deep, 64cm high (2)

£200 - 400

A Gustavian-style pine console or serving table, c.1850, Swedish, with a plank top raised on trestle ends 272cm wide, 55cm deep, 73cm high

£600 - 800

Provenance: Acquired from Robert Young Antiques, London.

An Art Deco satinwood and sycamore desk by Frank Whitton for Russell of Broadway, c.1939, with curved ends and two frieze drawers

183cm wide, 86.5cm deep, 73.5cm high

£400 - 600

An Art Deco-style frosted glass, chrome and bronze centre table, 20th century, the circular top raised on a stepped cylindrical base 103cm diameter, 75cm high £400 - 600

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with polychrome stripes 316 x 199cm £200 - 400

A George III mahogany night table, early 19th century, the moulded rectangular top above an open shelf and short drawer, with pierced side carrying handles, raised on tapering square supports with strung detail 48cm wide, 32cm deep, 65cm high

£200 - 400

After Pierre Lenordez, a bronze model of a horse and hound, inscribed ‘P Lenordez’ to base 35cm wide, 11cm deep, 28cm high

£200 - 400

A stained wooden low cabinet, of recent manufacture, of plain rectangular form with six cupboard doors enclosing shelves

300cm wide, 42cm deep, 69cm high

£400 - 600

A bespoke painted pine library bookcase by Howe, of recent manufacture, of L-shaped outline, with metal shelves

34cm deep, 285cm wide, 260cm high

£600 - 800

Provenance: Supplied by Christopher Howe

LOT 77

A Perspex and parcel-gilt floor lamp by Charles Edwards, 20th century, with a tubular column and a round base

43cm diameter, 173cm high

£300 - 500

Provenance: Purchased from Charles Edwards, London.

LOT 78

A Victorian teak campaign-style partners’ desk, second half of the 19th century, the moulded rectangular top with an inset black leather writing surface above two pedestals, each fitted with four short drawers to one side and a cupboard to the other, raised on a plinth base and bun feet

155cm wide, 106cm deep, 77cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 79

A tribal wool rug, early 20th century, Caucasian, woven with repeating geometric motifs to a red ground, distressed

215 x 123cm

£200 - 400

LOT 80

A linen and leather sofa by Minotti, of recent manufacture, Italian, of square shape, raised on short chrome feet, with white and cream upholstery

192cm wide, 102cm deep, 91cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 81

A George II-style hardwood and marble centre table, 20th century, the rectangular top with inlaid detail, above a plain frieze and square cabriole supports, terminating in peg feet

155cm wide, 93cm deep, 80cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 82

A wrought-iron ladder, late 19th/early 20th century, with twelve steps 30cm wide, 270cm high

£300 - 500

Provenance: Supplied by Christopher Howe.

83

A rustic pollard oak coffee table, 19th century, with a thick plank top and cut-out legs

107cm wide, 60cm deep, 46cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 84

A pair of blue-glazed table lamps, 20th century, in the Oriental style, each of bottleneck form

18.5cm base diameter, 77cm high (2)

£200 - 400

85

A pair of studded leather and beech side chairs, 20th century, each with an arched back and a rounded seat, raised on tapering lobed front supports

46cm wide, 48cm deep, 96cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 86

A flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with stripes in tones of blue

332 x 250cm

£300 - 500

An upholstered armchair in the Howard & Sons style, of recent manufacture, upholstered in off-white linen with studded detail, raised on tapering ash supports with brass caps and castors, with a matching stool

80cm wide, 90cm deep, 88cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 90

A patinated bronze and marble table lamp, 20th century, with a plain cylindrical column over baluster base in the form of a pineapple, raised on circular spreading foot

17cm diameter, 66cm high

£200 - 400

A rattan and brass floor lamp, 20th century, with two lights and a slender column terminating in a circular base

33cm diameter, 131cm high

£200 - 400

An Oushak wool carpet, first half of the 20th century, woven with bold floral and foliate motifs to a red ground

425 x 402cm

£600 - 800

FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART

LOT 91

A pair of large painted-metal urns, first half of the 20th century, French, each of campana shape, with riveted detail

51.5cm diameter, 76cm high

(2)

£300 - 500

LOT 92

A George III-style mahogany Gainsborough library armchair, 19th century, with an arched back and square seat upholstered in gros and petit-point needlework upholstery, with a pair of open arms and square supports united by stretchers, with Chinese Chippendale blind fretwork decoration

73cm wide, 77cm deep, 102cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 93

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating Shah Abbasi motifs to a pale blue ground

553 x 364cm

£5,000 - 7,000

Two cuerda seca pottery tiles, 16th century, Spanish, Seville, each of square form with a moulded design forming a four-pointed star

7.5 x 7.5cm

(2)

£100 - 200

A silk needlework picture, mid to late 18th century, Italian, depicting a basket of flowers, with birds perching amongst scrolling foliage, on a yellow silk embroidered ground, later mounted needlework 56.5 x 49.5cm; frame 61 x 68cm

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 96

A pair of teak camel occasional tables, late 19th/early 20th century, Anglo-Indian, each shaped top with a deep carved foliate border and lobed terminals, over a camel, standing on an octagonal base with geometric detail

59cm wide, 72cm deep, 75cm high (2)

£4,000 - 6,000

LOT 97

After Edward Lear

A set of seven coloured lithographs from ‘Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots’ comprising:

‘Barnard’s Parrakeet’; ‘Golden-Crowned Parrakeet’; ‘Red-Winged Parrakeet’; ‘Alexandrine Parrakeet’; ‘Yellow-Naped Parrakeet’; ‘Blood- or Red-Rumped Parrakeet’; ‘Beautiful or Paradise Parrakkeet’, each inscribed with title and framed by Isaac and Ede, 1 Duke Street, St James’s, London, and two further prints of parrakeet and a parrot, framed and glazed seven 22.5 x 15.5cm, frame 41 x 33cm; two 24.5 x 18.5, frame 43 x 36cm (9)

£200 - 400

LOT 98

A late Victorian upholstered armchair, c.1890, upholstered in green cotton, with roll arms and a deep seat, raised on ring-turned supports terminating in brass castors, 92cm wide, 118cm deep, 84cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 99

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with bold Shah Abbasi motifs to a blue ground 440 x 362cm

£4,000 - 6,000

LOT 100

A George III carved giltwood and verre églomisé mirror, c.1780, of oval form, the frame with a gadrooned edge and a sectional lattice-decorated central band, enclosing a glass plate

93cm wide, 129cm high

£3,000 - 5,000

Provenance: Christie’s, ‘Important English Furniture’, 17 November 1988, lot 53. The property of a Lady.

LOT 101

A George II carved pine console table in the style of William Kent, second quarter of the 18th century, with a thick serpentine marble top above a Greek key-moulded frieze, the central support modelled as an eagle, its head turned and wings spread, raised on a plinth base

102cm wide, 55cm deep, 79cm high

£8,000 - 12,000

This ‘Jupiter’ eagle console table, appropriate for a ‘Roman’ banqueting hall, recalls Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ of the history of the shepherd Ganymede, who was borne aloft by an eagle to serve as Jupiter’s attendant at the banquet of the Gods. The pattern may have been invented by Lord Burlington’s protégé, the artist architect William Kent (1685-1748), who provided Roman eagles in his illustrations for Alexander Pope’s 1725 translation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’.

LOT 102

A pair of Imari porcelain vases and covers, early 18th century, Japanese, each painted with panels of flowers and leaves, with gilt highlights, the cover with a Buddhist lion knop

15cm diameter, 36.5cm high including covers (4)

£800 - 1,200

Provenance: Maperton House, Near Wincanton, Somerset, home of the Fitzgerald family.

103

A painted pine hanging shelf, 19th century, Bavarian, with a crenulated top and scrolling supports, with pegs beneath, painted all over with dense floral and foliate decoration

176cm wide, 26cm deep, 28cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 104

Two painted wooden cart panels, 19th century, Sicilian, each decorated with figural scenes and with carved detail each approximately 137cm wide, 10cm deep, 40cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 105

A provincial pine tripod table, late 19th century, the circular tilt top raised on turned supports united by stretchers, terminating in peg feet

80cm diameter, 73cm high

£300 - 500

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, the green and yellow field with all-over geometric design

423 x 305cm

£2,000 - 4,000

A glazed terracotta confit pot, 19th century, Italian, of cylindrical form, with twin ‘shell’ handles 29cm wide, 23cm deep, 28cm high £200 - 400

A pair of ‘hogscraper’ sheet-iron ejector candlesticks, 19th century, each with a plain stem and iron collar, raised on a circular base 18cm diameter, 47cm high (2) £200 - 300

An upholstered two-seater sofa, of recent manufacture, covered in a cream woven cotton, raised on tapering square supports terminating in brass castors 200cm wide, 108cm deep, 87cm high £400 - 600

LOT 110

An oval copper bin, mid-19th century, of oval form with twin loop handles 56cm wide, 46cm deep, 18.5cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 111

A large buttoned-leather stool or bench, of recent manufacture but incorporating some earlier elements, the rectangular seat raised on ring-turned mahogany supports, terminating in brass caps and castors

137cm wide, 110cm deep, 43cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 112

A George III mahogany window seat, late 18th century, in the French Hepplewhite style, with scrolling arms and a serpentine seat, upholstered in pale herringbone cotton fabric, raised on knee-carved cabriole supports terminating in peg feet

89cm wide, 44cm deep, 64cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 113

A carved walnut wall clock, 19th century, the enamel and gilt-brass dial inscribed ‘Aubert & Klaftenberger Geneve’, with a two-train movement striking on a gong, with pendulum and key, together with a coloured lithograph of HMS ‘Queen’ by Day & Haghe, clock 46cm wide, 24cm deep, 53cm high (4)

£600 - 800

Provenance: The clock comes from the collection of a descendant of R A Oliver.

With label inscribed: ‘the case of this clock was originally an ornamental frame to the wheeltelltale of H.M.S. Queen 110 gun Captn Sir Chas Sullivan bearing the flag of Vice Adm Sir Edward W.C.R. Owen Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Station 1842-44. The Queen was at that time a three decked sailing line of battleship. The case was designed by R. A. Oliver then a lieutenant in the ship and was carved by one of the Carpenters Crew.’

The frame verso includes a brief history of the ship and is inscribed: ‘My Father served in her from October 1841 to July 1844 as a Lieutenant. (Sgd) A.H. Oliver.’.

Also included is an original receipt for the print, dated 13 March 1929, from the Parker Gallery, 28 Berkeley Square, London.

LOT 114

A carved walnut mirror in the manner of Gabriel Viardot, early 20th century, French, the frame in the form of a putto and a dragon, enclosing a rectangular bevelled glass plate

70cm wide, 99cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 115

A set of ten William and Mary-style walnut dining chairs, 20th century, each with an arched back and square seat, with wrought and twisted open arms and supports united by stretchers, terminating in peg feet 63cm wide, 62cm deep, 100cm high (10)

£700 - 900

LOT 116

A large farmhouse table, of recent manufacture, with a hay-rake-type stretcher 230cm wide, 99cm deep, 76cm high £800 - 1,200

LOT 117

A miniature silkwork panel, mid to late 17th century, probably a purse front, worked in multicoloured silk threads, the tree and chains heightened in metal thread, depicting a biblical scene of two men tied to a tree, flanked by two further figures, glazed in a later Dutch-style ebonised and tortoiseshell ripple-moulded frame panel 8 x 11cm; frame 24 x 28cm £400 - 600

A Black Forest carved animal group, mid to late 19th century, Swiss, modelled as a stag and two hinds, on an oval mound base worked with tree stumps, rocks and foliage, on a moulded plinth

49cm wide, 38cm deep, 55cm high

£400 - 600

A flat-weave wool carpet in the style of Barbro Nilsson, of recent manufacture, with all-over geometric detail

361 x 280cm

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT

A small George III oak dresser base, late 18th century, the rectangular top above one short and one long frieze drawer, raised on square supports united by a pot board base

153cm wide, 43cm deep, 80cm high

£500 - 700

large grand tour Attic-style red-figure

A large grand tour Attic-style black-figure terracotta oinochoe, 19th century, decorated with figures in procession, lacking handle 22cm diameter, 51cm high

£300

Provenance:

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A collection of black basalt porcelain medallions, late 19th/early 20th century, four stamped to the reverse ‘Artimesia’, ‘Valerianus’, ‘Florianus’, or ‘M Aurelius Cazas’, the remaining with scratch numbers and inscriptions each 7 x 4cm (11)

£400 - 600

124

A neoclassical painted wooden commode, of recent manufacture, Italian, the rectangular top above two long drawers, raised on tapering square supports, painted all over with urns, swags and foliate scrolls

111cm wide, 56cm deep, 93cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

125

A composite portrait relief of Plato, 20th century, inscribed and mounted on a marble slab

19 x 16.5cm

£200 - 400

LOT 126

An Oushak wool rug of Shir van design, of recent manufacture, the cream and pale blue field with all-over polychrome geometric detail

210 x 150cm

£200 - 400

LOT 127

A pair of Wedgwood blue jasperware plaques, c.1891-1908, each of circular form, sprigged in white with the mask of the Gorgon Medusa and Mercury, respectively, each with impressed marks to the reverse ‘WEDGWOOD ENGLAND’, in moulded frames plaques 15.5cm diameter; frames 21cm diameter (2)

£400 - 600

The ‘Medusa’ relief was originally designed by John Flaxman Jnr about 1777. John Flaxman Jnr (1755-1826) was a Royal Academy educated artist and sculptor who became a leading figure in European Neoclassicism. Employed from around 1775, Flaxman became one of Wedgwood’s most prolific modellers. Products included busts, plaques and medallions and chess sets. The ‘Mercury’ relief was likely modelled around the late 19th century.

LOT 128

A small George III-style yew and limewood pier table, mid-20th century, by Charles Tozer, of demilune outline, the top with radiating veneers, above a fluted frieze centred with an urn flanked by paterae, raised on tapering fluted square supports, terminating in spade feet, bearing an ivorine label beneath inscribed ‘Tozer 25 Brook Street London W.1.’

83cm wide, 36cm deep, 76cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 129

A Heriz rug, 20th century, of traditional pattern, the field woven with a stylised medallion to the centre

346 x 250cm

£400 - 600

LOT 130

A group of grand tour bronzes, late 19th/early 20th century, Continental, comprising the Medici Venus, a seated Pan on a square ebonised base, and a figural ewer with dragon handle largest (Venus) 10.5cm diameter, 27cm high (3)

£400 - 600

LOT 131

A pair of grand tour patinated bronzes, late 19th/early 20th century, depicting Artemis and Apollo, each modelled in a standing position with their attributes, a bow and quivers and a lyre, respectively, raised on a square plinth base slightly larger (Artemis) 9cm wide, 9cm deep, 27cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 132

A large collection of grand tour plaster intaglios, 19th century, Italian, contained within fourteen display trays, subjects depicted include ‘Museum of Naples’, ‘The Vatican Museum’ and ‘Illustrious Men’, retailed by Giovanni Liberotti of Rome intaglios of various sizes; largest tray 33cm x 20cm, smallest tray, 18cm x 13cm (14)

£600 - 800

LOT 133

Frederick Leslie Kenett (1924-2012)

A group of four photographic prints, c.1950s depicting the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum, comprising horse and figural studies, mounted on board image 49.5 x 39.5cm; framed and glazed 69 x 58cm (4)

£600 - 800

LOT 134

A grand tour bronze figure of Athena, 18th/19th century, in Hellenistic style, depicted in typical form wearing a helmet and incised gowns, holding a later spear

18cm wide, 4.5cm deep, 22cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 135

A Tabriz wool carpet, early 20th century, Persian, woven with scrolling foliate motifs to a pale ground

381 x 280cm

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 136

A Renaissance bronze model of a goat, 17th century, Italian, on a later circular base with ball feet 8cm wide, 11cm deep, 14cm high

£500 - 700

An imitation marble table lamp after the antique, 20th century, set with a figure of Narcissus, mounted on a polished pedestal and a square base

17cm wide, 16cm deep, 69cm high

£200 - 400

A pair of neoclassical ebonised fruitwood and marquetry urns, 19th century, each with a gadrooned body over a socle foot and pedestal with inlaid laurel wreath, raised on a moulded plinth base

23cm diameter, 53cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 139

A large Persian Heriz wool carpet, c.1910, woven with geometric floral and foliate motifs to a red ground

520 x 354cm

£8,000 - 12,000

Provenance: Christie’s, ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets’, 25 April 2024, lot 236.

140

A George I-style gilt gesso pier mirror, 19th century, with a scrolling foliate frame enclosing a rectangular glass plate

78cm wide, 118cm high

£600 - 800

141

A grand tour carved marble urn, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, the urn with a gadrooned body over an octagonal fluted column and base 17cm diameter, 51.5cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 142

A George III mahogany serving table, c.1790, of serpentine outline, with a rosewood crossbanded and strung top, the frieze decorated with neoclassical motifs, raised on square tapering supports 193cm wide, 77cm deep, 82.5cm high

£600 - 800

144

A George II-style walnut wing armchair, early 20th century, with red and gold damask, raised on knee-carved cabriole front supports 94cm wide, 75cm deep, 110cm high, 48cm to seat £500 - 700

A pair of blonde oak side tables, of recent manufacture, each modelled as the Arco dei Gavi in Verona, with gilt-brass mounts and Carrara marble tops

32.5cm wide, 32.5cm deep, 51.5cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,000

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with polychrome floral motifs to a pale blue ground

433 x 338cm

£4,000 - 6,000

LOT 146

A composite marble bust of Augustus, late 19th/early 20th century, raised on a waisted socle base

56cm high

£700 - 1,000

LOT 147

A bronzed terracotta bust of Augustus Caesar, late 19th century/early 20th century, probably Italian, after the antique, also known as Octavian, raised on an integrated socle base

25cm wide, 20cm deep, 44cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 148

After Hiram Powers, a large composite marble bust, 20th century, depicting the mythical Roman empress, Diana

54cm wide, 32cm deep, 74cm high

£700 - 900

This is likely after the work of American sculptor Hiriam Powers (1805-1873). The original is currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC.

LOT 149

After Giorgione Sleeping Venus oleograph

52 x 84.5cm; framed 68 x 101cm

£300 - 500

150

LOT

151

A pair of Egyptian Revival composition stone obelisks, late 20th century, French, each of tapering form, the column depicting Ancient Egyptian figures and motifs, the base with a lion-ring handle, raised on gilt-metal ball feet 12cm wide, 12cm deep, 57cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT

152

A pietra dura and marble centre table, of recent manufacture, the rectangular top decorated in the Florentine style with scrolling flowers, foliage, birds and dolphins, with a moulded edge, raised on neoclassical white marble trapezophoron supports 199cm wide, 119cm deep, 182cm high £3,000 - 5,000

A scarlet and gilt-japanned cheval mirror in the George I taste, late 19th/early 20th century, with an arched top and urn finials, raised on cabriole supports, with all-over chinoiserie decoration

64cm wide, 43cm deep, 183cm high

£300 - 500

A Donegal ‘Oushak’ wool carpet, early 20th century, woven with geometric floral motifs to a red and brown ground, 345 x 325cm

£2,000 - 4,000

A Regenc y-style nest of three satinwood tables, c.1900, each rectangular top with ebony banding, raised on ring-turned supports.

55cm wide, 37cm deep, 66cm high (3)

£300 - 500

A near pair of decalcomania glass vases and covers, second quarter of the 19th century, Italian, each of baluster form with a flared rim, one with an all-over foliage and chinoiserie design on a pale-blue ground, the other with an all-over foliage design and pastoral scenes, in the eighteenth-century Continental style, on a pale-blue ground 20.5cm wide, 20.5cm deep, 66cm high (4)

£3,000 - 5,000

An export painted and gilt-paper folding screen, 19th century, Chinese, comprising six leaves, each incorporating three 17th-century ink drawings of figures, birds and trees, within a silk-embroidered border each leaf 171 x 64cm

£2,000 - 3,000

A pair of rococo-style painted wooden pier tables, of recent manufacture, Italian, each shaped top decorated with a faux marble panel and floral and foliate scrolls, with chinoiserie detail to the frieze, raised on pierced scrolling supports 119cm wide, 58cm deep, 74cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 159

Two shellwork mirrors, early 20th century, one of oval form, the other rectangular, both enclosed within shellwork frames including frames: oval 24.5 x 19cm; rectangular 29 x 25cm (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 160

A chinoiserie painted wooden corner cabinet on stand, 19th century, Dutch, of bow-front outline, with a single door enclosing a shelf, raised on tapering turned cup-and-cover supports united by a wavy stretcher, terminating in bun feet, painted all over with flowers and birds to a black ground

50cm wide, 32cm deep, 164cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 161

A small export black and gilt lacquer bureau, mid-18th century, Chinese, with a fall-front enclosing an interior fitted with drawers and pigeonholes, above a pair of lopers, one with a bone pull, and two moulded drawers, raised on a later japanned stand, bearing a label for the ‘Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 1960’

58cm wide, 34cm deep, 90cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 162

A Regency mahogany, maple and amaranth secretaire bookcase, in the manner of George Bullock, c.1815, with an arched pediment set with urn finials, above a pair of glazed doors enclosing shelves, above a fitted drawer and a pair of panelled cupboard doors, raised on moulded feet, with all-over scrolling foliate inlaid detail

108cm wide, 48cm deep, 244cm high

£1,500 - 2,000

A George III mahogany étagère, third quarter of the 18th century, with a folding reading stand with a ratcheted action, above three shelves and a base drawer, raised on square supports terminating in brass caps and castors, with all-over fret-carved decoration and small ivory inlays

47cm wide, 43cm deep, 95cm high

£300 - 500

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet of Anatolian design, of recent manufacture, woven with polychrome geometric motifs to a dark green ground

345 x 249cm

£800 - 1,200

A pair of giltwood wall appliqués, mid-19th century, French, each in the form of an angel, holding a candle support aloft 26cm wide, 65cm deep, 66cm high (2)

£2,500 - 3,500

LOT 166

A large painted and parcel-gilt wall mirror, 20th century, with a moulded frame enclosing a rectangular glass plate. 123cm wide, 162cm high

£400 - 600

A set of sections of transatlantic cables, late 19th century, including five graduated cross sections, each approximately 1cm deep, mounted on dark purple velvet and in a moulded rectangular frame frame 23 x 36cm

£400 - 600

LOT 168

A panel armorial painting, c.1730, Continental School, probably Dutch, depicting a coat of arms, within a carved oak frame

76 x 63cm

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 169

A George IV mahogany étagère, c.1830, the rectangular top set with turned finials, above two further shelves, set between fluted columns with foliate detail, raised on splayed feet terminating in castors 46cm wide, 49cm deep, 96cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 170

A pair of Rococo-style carved giltwood faux bois wall mirrors, 20th century, Italian, each rectangular mirror plate enclosed within a carved frame with entwined design, centred by a seahorse finial, stamped ‘Made in Italy’ 74cm wide, 135cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 171

A Regency painted and parcel-gilt pine chiffonier, c.1820, the superstructure with a pierced brass gallery above a mirror back and faux bamboo supports, with neoclassical decoration to the frieze and a pair of brass grille doors enclosing shelves, raised on ring-turned bun feet, with scumbled faux rosewood decoration 85cm wide, 32cm deep, 107cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 172

A pair of Louis XVI-style carved giltwood wall lights, of recent manufacture, each carved frame with acanthus, ribbon and arrow detail, the scroll arms terminating in two sconces 22cm wide, 75cm high (2)

£200 - 400

The Art of Craft: The Selected Contents of Tulip Tree House, Great Tew, Oxfordshire

Sworders’ Fine Interiors department is pleased to present a considered selection of lots from the beloved collection of Elizabeth Cooke, offered in this sale and photographed in situ at her beautiful 17th-century home, Tulip Tree House, in Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

A devoted lover of craftsmanship - particularly embroidery and pottery - Elizabeth lived at the idyllic Tulip Tree House for over forty years, restoring it with sensitivity and vision from a near ruin into a warmly layered and comfortable home. An avid reader and lifelong scholar, she assembled an extensive library, much of which was later donated to her alma mater, Somerville College, Oxford. This intellectual curiosity and depth of interest informed her collecting, lending it both discernment and quiet authority. Her deeply personal eye is reflected throughout the collection. Notable highlights include a rare and charming pair of early silk and wool needlepoint pictures dated 1730; a Regency silk and hairwork picture of Lincoln Cathedral ; Victorian samplers and silkwork panels; and a fascinating group of entomological and botanical studies, including works by William Goodall (1757-1844).

Elizabeth’s appreciation for surface, texture and patina extended beyond textiles to furniture and decorative arts. The collection encompasses a rich breadth of styles and periods, from 17th-century oak furniture and William and Mary tables to George II mirrors, rococo giltwood frames, naïve hunting scenes, Continental pomological studies and a striking baroque carved pine figure of Bacchus. Her enduring passion for pottery is delightfully represented by extensive collections of 19th- and 20thcentury jelly moulds, assembled over many years.

Lovingly formed over a lifetime, the collection reflects an instinctive understanding of harmonypieces of varying date and origin united by their gentle timeworn surfaces and honest patina. At Tulip Tree House, these objects were not merely displayed but lived with, contributing to interiors of warmth, character and quiet scholarship.

Further paintings from the collection will be offered in Sworders’ Old Master, British and European Art auction in May.

LOT 173

(part) 175 174

LOT 174

Continental School, late 18th/early 19th century,

A set of eight pomological studies, pen, ink and watercolour, each inscribed

20 x 17cm, framed and glazed 43.5 x 39cm (8)

£200 - 400

An Aesthetic Movement chair, late 19th century, the woven seat flanked by ebonised spindle-back arms and splat, the base united by stretchers and raised on ebonised legs, includes cushion

54cm wide, 47cm deep, 95cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 175

An oak buffet, early 17th century and later, the rectangular top on baluster supports, with a pair of panelled slides, above a gadrooned long drawer, and further fluted supports united by an undertier

121cm wide, 56cm deep, 150cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 176

A rococo-style carved giltwood pier mirror, 19th century, Italian, the frame with pierced scrolling decoration surrounding a rectangular glass plate

86cm wide, 132cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 177

French School, 1720 and later

Portraits of a nobleman and his wife, half-length

a pair of oval portraits with later foliate and floral surrounds, headed by a stylised shell motif, oil on canvas

89 x 141cm, lunette-shaped, unframed

£1,500 - 2,000

LOT 178

A painted pine bureau bookcase, 19th century, Northern European, with a double-domed top above a pair of glazed doors enclosing shelves, over a fall-front with fitted interior and a pair of panelled cupboard doors with geometric moulding, raised on bracket feet 115cm wide, 50cm deep, 219cm high

£700 - 900

LOT 179

A rococo carved giltwood and gesso wall mirror, mid-18th century, with an elaborate scrolling foliate crest above a moulded frame, enclosing a rectangular mercury glass plate

105cm wide, 128cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 180

Flemish School, 18th century

Figures and birds by a river naïve watercolour and gouache, oval

29.5 x 41.5cm, framed 41 x 53cm

£600 - 800

LOT 181

A Louis XVI-style walnut canapé, late 19th century, French, with a foliate-carved rail and a canework back, arms and seat, with an upholstered squab cushion, raised on tapering fluted supports

201cm wide, 76cm deep, 107cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 182

A pair of silk and wool needlepoint pictures, second quarter of the 18th century, worked in polychrome threads in tent stitch, depicting a vase of flowers, initialled ‘I(?) B’ and ‘M B’, respectively, and dated ‘1730’, in glazed, gilt and ebonised Hogarth frames

25 x 19cm; frames 29 x 23cm (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 183

A George II mahogany tea table, c.1730, of demilune outline, with a fold-over top enclosing a well, raised on shell-carved straightened cabriole supports 68cm wide, 49cm deep, 75cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 184

A William and Mar y-style walnut side table, 19th century, the moulded rectangular top with strung decoration, above a single frieze drawer, raised on wrythen-turned supports united by an ‘X’-stretcher, terminating in bun feet

91cm wide, 60cm deep, 76cm high

£200 - 400

185

19th Century School

A set of seven botanical studies watercolour, gouache and pencil, some inscribed ‘Barbados’

28 x 22.5, each framed and glazed 57.5 x 49.5cm (7)

£200 - 400

LOT 186

A George II walnut side chair, c.1730, with a high back and square seat upholstered in studded orange velvet, raised on knee-carved cabriole

supports terminating in foliate pad feet 65cm wide, 71cm deep, 99cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 187

English School, 19th century Huntsman and hounds pursuing a stag oil on panel

52 x 117cm; framed 61.5 x 126cm

£800 - 1,200

LOT 188

A baroque carved pine figure of Bacchus, late 17th/early 18th century, modelled standing contrapposto, wearing a garland of grapes and vines and a flowing robe, with conforming detail to the body and base, with losses

54cm wide, 45cm deep, 140cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 189

A Victorian silkwork picture, 19th century, worked in multicoloured threads on a black ground, depicting a potted plant with insects

24 x 19cm; framed 30 x 25cm

£300 - 500

LOT 190

A set of six provincial oak dining chairs, first half of the 18th century, each with a moulded rail and a vase-shaped splat, above a square seat fitted with twisted iron braces, raised on turned and block supports united by stretchers, each with a loose velvet cushion with a Flemish verdure tapestry panel

46cm wide, 52cm deep, 103cm high (6)

£300 - 500

A Victorian needlework sampler, 19th century, worked in polychrome wool threads on an exposed canvas ground, decorated with two buildings surrounded by vases of flowers, figures, and animals, within a flowering vine border, initialled bottom right ‘S.S’ 44 x 56cm; framed and glazed 57 x 70cm

£200 - 400

William Goodall (British, 1757-1844)

A set of entomological studies, signed and inscribed, each depicting various insects, pen, ink and watercolour 31 x 18cm; framed and glazed 45 x 31.5cm (13)

£400 - 600

A hardwood hat mould, 19th century, of typical form 38cm wide, 32cm deep, 19cm high £100 - 200

195

A walnut side table, 17th century and later, the rectangular top above a moulded frieze, and ring-turned column supports united by a stretcher

108cm wide, 65cm deep, 74cm high

£400 - 600

A silk embroidered picture, early 19th century, worked in multicoloured threads on an ivory silk ground, depicting a shepherdess and her dog under a tree, flanked by classical urns on columns united by a floral garland

72 x 58cm; frame 80 x 67cm

£200 - 400

LOT 196

A George II kingwood and parcel-gilt overmantel mirror, c.1730, the moulded rectangular frame with re-entrant upper corners and a foliate-cut gilt-gesso slip, enclosing a bevelled triple mercury glass plate, degraded 137cm wide, 52cm high

£300 - 500

LOT

A collection of brass shoes and boots, 19th century, of various designs and sizes (qty.)

£200 - 400

A Victorian painted cast iron stick stand, in the manner of Coalbrookdale, second half of the 19th century, in the form of Hercules and the serpent, with a removable drip tray and a curved base

48cm wide, 26cm deep, 85cm high

£200 - 400

A large silk and hair embroidered picture, early 19th century, worked in black hair on an ivory silk ground, with a verre églomisé mount titled ‘Lincoln Cathedral’

51 x 69cm, framed and glazed 72 x 91cm

£300 - 500

LOT 200

A William and Mary oak credence table, late 17th century, of demilune outline with a folding top enclosing a well, with a gateleg action, raised on ring-turned supports united by stretchers, terminating in splayed feet 76cm wide, 40cm deep, 73cm high when closed

£300 - 500

LOT 201

A large collection of pottery jelly moulds, 19th/20th century, of assorted shapes and sizes (qty.)

£200 - 400

LOT 202

A large collection of pottery jelly moulds, 19th/20th century, of assorted shapes and sizes (qty.)

£200 - 400

LOT 203

A large collection of pottery jelly moulds, 19th/20th century, of assorted shapes and sizes (qty.)

£200 - 400

LOT 204

A large collection of pottery jelly moulds, 19th/20th century, of assorted shapes and sizes (qty.)

£200 - 400

LOT 205

A reconstituted stone putto, 20th century, holding a bunch of grapes, raised on an integral square base

32cm wide, 34cm deep, 95cm high

£200 - 400

FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART

LOTS 206-353

LOT 206

An Ottoman silver filigree box, 19th century, of rectangular form with a hinged top, the whole with stylised floral and foliate scroll decoration

16.5cm wide, 10cm deep, 7.5cm high; 12ozt

£400 - 600

LOT 207

A pair of George I-style mahogany library armchairs, 20th century, each with a square back and seat, with open shepherd’s-crook arms and knee-carved straightened cabriole supports terminating in pad feet, upholstered in studded green leather

68cm wide, 67cm deep, 98cm high

(2)

£500 - 700

LOT 208

A wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, the red and cream field with cross and geometric detail

370 x 282cm

£1,500 - 2,500

209

Two pairs of rococo-style carved giltwood girandoles, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, each frame with scrolling floral and foliate decoration, enclosing twin glass plates, all with etched detail, supporting a pair of candle sconces

37cm wide, 62cm high

(4)

£600 - 800

LOT 210

A large George IV mahogany side cabinet, c.1825, the superstructure fitted with a three-quarter gallery with turned supports, over a pair of panelled cupboard doors enclosing a single shelf, raised on a plinth base

176cm wide, 47cm deep, 167cm high

£500 - 700

211

A japanned standard lamp, mid-20th century, the fluted column on a circular spreading base, decorated with gilt highlights and chinoiserie motifs on a green ground

46cm wide, 46cm deep, 143cm high

£150 - 250

LOT 212

A large set of golden oak library steps, early 20th century, with a square frame with canted edges, with three steps raised on tapering square supports

64cm wide, 73cm deep, 152cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 213

A carved wooden mirror, 20th century with a circular frame enclosing a glass plate 96cm diameter

£500 - 700

LOT 214

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, the pistachio-coloured field woven with scrolling foliate motifs in pale tones

291 x 243cm

£1,800 - 2,200

LOT 215

A shellwork starburst mirror, of recent manufacture, centred by an early 20th-century convex mirror, with a brass slip 94cm diameter

£600 - 800

An oak lowboy, mid-18th century, the rectangular moulded top over three frieze drawers and a shaped apron, raised on cabriole supports 26cm wide, 28cm deep, 71cm high

£500 - 700

A William and Mar y-style olivewood and marquetry cushion-framed mirror, 20th century, with oyster veneers and floral and foliate inlays, surrounding a bevelled

glass plate

63cm wide, 68cm high

£800 - 1,200

A gabbeh wool rug, mid-20th century, Persian, the field decorated with large geometric motifs in shades of brown

210 x 130cm

£800 - 1,200

A painted pine tripod table, late 18th/early 19th century, Dutch, probably Hindeloopen, the faceted tilt top raised on square and ring-turned supports terminating in peg feet, decorated all over with birds, flowers and foliate scrolls 85cm diameter, 73cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 220

A painted pine chest, 19th century, Northern European, the hinged lid enclosing a storage compartment, set with a pair of iron handles and raised on tapering square supports, painted all over with floral sprays to a red ground, inscribed ‘CDG 1828’

119cm wide, 63cm deep, 61cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 221

A painted pine chest, 19th century, the hinged lid enclosing a compartment, above a panelled front painted with flowers, set with iron handles to the sides and raised on bun feet 115cm wide, 58cm deep, 45cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 222

A painted wooden marriage chest, late 18th/early 19th century, Northern European, the hinged lid enclosing storage space, raised on bun feet, painted all over with floral sprays and inscribed ‘Johanna Eleonoro...1799’ 121cm wide, 63cm deep, 56cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 223

A painted pine marriage cupboard, 19th century, Northern European, with an arched pediment, above a pair of panelled cupboard doors enclosing shelves with cotton trim, raised on bun feet, with all-over floral and foliate decoration to a cream ground

130cm wide, 54cm deep, 180cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 224

A painted pine armoire, 19th century and later, Northern European, with a stepped cornice above a single door enclosing shelves, painted all over with flowers and foliate scrolls to a blue ground, raised on bracket feet

129cm wide, 50cm deep, 192cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 225

Spare lot

LOT 226

Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875), ‘Panthère Surprenant un Zibeth’, bronze, Première Version, on a naturalistic base signed ‘BARYE’ 23cm wide, 8cm deep, 11cm high

£500 - 700

Provenance: Bonhams, ‘Period Design’, 1 November 2011, lot 320.

LOT 227

A pair of cast iron table lamps, mid-19th century, French, each in the form of a lion mask, affixed to a lamp stand of recent manufacture overall 25cm wide, 12cm deep, 44cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 228

A George III mahogany chest of drawers, c.1775, attributed to Chippendale & Haig, the moulded rectangular top above two short and three long cockbeaded drawers, fitted with rococo gilt-bronze handles, raised on bracket feet with laminated blocks 120cm wide, 60.5cm deep, 86cm high

£5,000 - 7,000

For further detailed information in relation to this lot, please see www.sworder.co.uk

LOT 229

Frederick Leslie Kenett (1924-2012)

a group of six photographic prints, c.1950s depicting the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum, comprising:

‘A study of a man from the South frieze’;

A study of a man riding a war chariot from the South frieze’; ‘A study of two women from the South frieze’;

‘A torso study of a reclining nude from the South frieze’; ‘A study of a horse from the South frieze’ each stamped verso ‘COPYRIGHT F.L. Kenett, The Studio, 4 Eldon Road, London W8’ with negative number four 50 x 38cm; two 38 x 50cm; framed and glazed

63.5 x 53.5cm

(6)

£2,000 - 4,000

Frederick Kenett was a significant, yet often overlooked, post-war British artist. In the 1960s, he was commissioned by the Egyptian government to photograph Tutankhamun’s tomb and its treasures, becoming the first to capture the artefacts in Cairo’s museum. He also travelled across Europe, photographing classical art and architecture, often working with government authorities.

During this time, he formed a close friendship with sculptor Henry Moore, leading to an exchange in knowledge, with Kenett teaching Moore photography, while Moore introduced Kenett to sculpting. Their travels together in France and the Low Countries deeply inspired Kenett, who began creating his own sculptures in the mid-1960s. Moore’s influence is evident in Kenett’s work.

LOT 230

Frederick Leslie Kenett (1924-2012)

A group of eight photographic prints, c.1960s of Italian landmarks, comprising:

‘S. Giacolamo at S. Rocco’; ‘Arch of Janus, N.E Forum, Rome, 4th Century, #202’; ‘St Peter’s Square From the Colonnade 95/940’; ‘Palzzo de Senatori, seen from above 78/1037’; ‘Ostia Centrica Column and Ruins 39/864’; ‘St Agostino by Giacomo di Petrasanta #1066’; ‘End view of Beguiled Colonnade, Rome #933’; ‘Cypress Avenue at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli’, each stamped verso ‘COPYRIGHT F.L. Kenett’ four 26.5 x 34.5cm, four 34.5 x 26.5cm; framed and glazed 41 x 49cm (8)

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 231

A George III-style painted wood and composition pier table, of recent manufacture, the slender demilune top raised on tapering fluted supports, united by a pierced stretcher, with all-over neoclassical detail

115cm wide, 37cm deep, 81cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 232

A pair of papier mâché and rosewood side tables, second quarter of the 19th century and later, each shaped top with painted floral decoration, above a lobed baluster column and a triform base, terminating in scroll feet, converted from pole screens

40cm wide, 40cm deep, 55cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 233

A Persian Feraghan wool kelleh carpet, c.1880, the deep blue field woven with a herati design, within a stepped border, worn 473 x 222cm

£500 - 700

LOT 234

A pair of Louis XVI-style giltwood and composition wall lights, second half of the 19th century, French, each carved acanthus and foliate backplate issuing three scrolling arms, terminating in nozzles and drip trays

29cm wide, 21cm deep, 41cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 235

Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand (French, 1839-1920), a Louis XVI-style kingwood, amaranth and rosewood bookcase, late 19th/early 20th century, French, the brèche d’Alep marble top above two open shelves, raised on squat cabriole supports terminating in ormolu sabots, the carcass stamped ‘G. Durand’.

120cm wide, 37cm deep, 102cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 236

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Märta Måås-Fjetterström

367 x 279cm

£1,500 - 2,500

A Louis XVI-style walnut, marquetry and penwork games table, first half of the 20th century, French, the folding rectangular top with floral inlay, enclosing a baize-lined playing surface, with a concealed well beneath, raised on tapering fluted supports united by an ‘X’ stretcher, terminating in peg feet, with all-over brass mounts

46cm wide, 66.5cm deep, 77cm high

£200 - 400

A pair of Ferro Arte gilt-metal ceiling lights, mid to late 20th century, Spanish, each in the form of a stylised flower head issuing six light sconces 84cm diameter, 14.5cm high (2)

£600 - 800

A Louis XVI transitional kingwood, tulipwood and amaranth commode, fourth quarter of the 18th century, French, the serpentine marble top above two short and one long drawer, raised on cabriole supports, with all-over ormolu mounts 109cm wide, 56cm deep, 84cm high £500 - 700

A Heriz wool runner, 20th century, the field decorated with repeating geometric and stylised foliate medallions to a red ground

500 x 77cm

£800 - 1,200

LOT 241

A pair of bronzed-metal table lamps, of recent manufacture, of globular form with bands of geometric motifs, each with a 20½-inch tapered shade

38cm diameter, 83cm high including shades (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 242

A pair of Venetian giltwood girandoles, c.1750, Italian, the etched mirror plates depicting a gentleman and lady, probably lovers, each within a pierced and carved giltwood scroll frame

28.5cm wide, 62cm high (2)

£600 - 800

For a similar example, see Sworders, ‘Fine Interiors’, 22 July 2020, lot 686.

An ormolu bust of Louis XIV, 19th century, French, depicted facing straight on, over a trophy of arms in relief and a black marble base

8.5cm wide, 7cm deep, 18cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 244

A Louis XV-style rosewood and gilt-metal bijouterie table, late 19th century, French, the glass-panelled top with a hinged lid, enclosing a velvet-lined interior, raised on cabriole supports terminating in sabots, with all-over foliate mounts

92cm wide, 63cm deep, 78cm high

£700 - 900

LOT 245

A pair of chinoiserie painted and parcel-gilt wooden side tables, 20th century, each stepped rectangular top inset with an earlier Chinese watercolour painting, depicting figures in a country landscape farming rice, raised on faux bamboo supports united by stretchers

63cm wide, 37cm deep, 38cm high (2)

£300 - 500

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, with all-over geometric detail

428 x 311cm

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 247

A pair of patinated metal side tables, of recent manufacture, each with a tiled mosaic circular top, raised on a wheatsheaf base, with a verdigris finish 51cm diameter, 53cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 248

A silver-plated magazine rack in the manner of Maison Jansen, mid-20th century, in the form of a swan with a divisioned body

67cm wide, 29cm deep, 36cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 249

A giltwood overmantel mirror, late 19th century, the moulded frame with an arched top, enclosing a shaped glass plate

158cm wide, 178cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 250

A crystal glass ‘Alfie’ table lamp by William Yeoward, of recent manufacture, of graduated spherical design, with a 21-inch diameter black card shade

28cm diameter, 84cm high including shade

£200 - 400

LOT 251

A pair of ormolu candlesticks, 19th century, French, each in the form of a classical female figure with wings forming handles, the lower body transitioning to an acanthus scroll issuing a single light with detachable sconce, raised on an openwork rectangular base

15cm wide, 6cm deep, 12.5cm high (4)

£200 - 400

LOT 252

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Manner of Märta Måås-Fjetterström, woven with geometric motifs in tones of blue, grey and brown

362 x 283cm

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 253

A buttoned leather ottoman, of recent manufacture, of rounded rectangular shape, with a hinged lid enclosing a storage compartment, raised on short oak feet 105cm wide, 69cm deep, 40cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 254

An upholstered three-seater sofa, of recent manufacture, upholstered in dark blue linen, raised on tapering square supports terminating in brass castors 244cm wide, 112cm deep, 86cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 255

A shellwork mirror, of recent manufacture, incorporating earlier elements, with a broken pediment over a rectangular bevelled glass plate

77cm wide, 104cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 256

A carved and painted shell crest, late 18th/early 19th century, French, the scallop shape with deeply fluted ribs

87cm wide, 45cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 257

A limed oak commode, 19th century, French, the serpentine top over three drawers, raised on bun feet 130cm wide, 68cm deep, 82cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 258

A George II mahogany dining table, c.1740, formed of two drop-leaf sections, raised on tapering supports, terminating in pad feet

360cm long, 107cm wide, 71.5cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

Provenance: Purchased from Witney Antiques.

LOT 259

A composed set of ten George II walnut dining chairs, c.1740, each with a curved top rail over a shaped splat, with a drop-in seat, all raised on front cabriole supports 52cm wide, 48cm deep, 102cm high, 45cm to seat (10)

£2,000 - 4,000

Provenance: Purchased from Witney Antiques.

LOT 260

A Regency giltwoodframed convex wall mirror, c.1810, the circular mirror plate within a gilt frame, further surrounded by a foliate scroll border, centred by an eagle finial mirror 51cm diameter, frame 133cm high, 98cm wide

£800 - 1,200

LOT 261

A Songye kifwebe mask, 20th century, Congolese, carved wood with red, black and blue pigment, with a leather and fibre string cap, mounted on a black-painted metal stand mask

21cm wide, 28cm deep, 36cm high; 59cm high including stand

£300 - 500

LOT 262

A carved and polychrome painted wooden Iagim or splashboard, 20th century, Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Islands, with pierced and scrolling decoration, painted in red and green hues 67 x 59cm

£300 - 500

Provenance: A private collection, UK; acquired by the present owner in Vanuatu in 1979.

Lagims or splashboards serve an array of purposes. They are often mounted at the bow and stern of outrigger canoes to block water and ocean spray from entering the

vessel. They also provide support to canoe sideboards, allowing the vessel to have a deeper hull.

Aside from functionality, they have been known to have mystical properties. Traditionally, they have been designed with spiritual and divine motifs, providing protection to sailors. Within Massim society, elaborately designed lagims and splashboards have been known to be important markers of social status; a perceived relationship exists between their design and one’s social standing.

A wrought-iron wall mirror, 20th century, the pediment with an interlocking arrow design, centred by a neoclassical medallion of a gentleman, above a square bevelled mirror plate

90cm wide, 120cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 264

After Jonathan Couch

A set of twelve coloured lithograph prints of fish taken from ‘A History of the Fishes of the British Islands’, first published in 1862 17 x 22cm; framed 23 x 28cm (12)

£500 - 700

A William and Mar y-style walnut stool, c.1890 with a tapestry seat with tasselled fringe, raised on tapering faceted supports united by an ‘X’-stretcher, terminating in Braganza feet.

66cm wide, 43cm deep, 54cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 266

A late Victorian upholstered armchair, c.1890, in the country house style, the red upholstery with Oushak-style carpet covering to the arms, chair and back, with scrolled arms and raised on ring-turned tapering legs on castors

82cm wide, 96cm deep, 98cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 267

An upholstered stool or bench in the George Smith style, of recent manufacture, the rectangular seat upholstered in ‘Knurl Linen Brick’ by Howe, raised on double-turned tapering supports, terminating in brass caps and castors

123cm wide, 78cm deep, 43cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 268

A Regency mahogany book carrier, early 19th century, of rectangular form, with a three-quarter spindled gallery and arched top handle, raised on squat

bun feet

41cm wide, 27cm deep, 33cm high

£200 - 300

LOT 269

A large Persian Heriz wool carpet, mid-20th century, woven with geometric foliate motifs to a red ground

430 x 300cm

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 270

A pair of patinated and gilt-bronze candlestick lamps, early/mid-19th century, French, each raised on a tripartite paw base, with a 12-inch pleated shade, with later alterations

15cm diameter, 57cm high including shades (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 271

A Regency mahogany regulator bracket clock, c.1815, the case with a stepped top, set with a gilt-brass pineapple finial, with a pair of carrying handles, the silvered dial with Roman numerals and a subsidiary seconds dial, inscribed ‘Holmden, London’, with a chain-driven double-fusee movement, a visible deadbeat escapement and engine-turned plates, with a compensated brass-cased pendulum and a pull repeat, raised on large adjustable brass feet

32cm wide, 21cm deep, 59cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

The inscription on the face may refer to John George Holmden, who produced some of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy’s finest clock movements. He also made movements for several other prominent London makers, typically marking the frontplate simply ‘HOLMDEN’, which corresponds with this example. Holmden began his apprenticeship in 1781, gained his Freedom of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1788, and later served as a Liveryman from 1807 until 1840.

LOT 272

A large George III mahogany secretaire bookcase, c.1800, with a dentil-moulded cornice over three astragal-glazed doors, the lower section centred with a secretaire drawer, flanked by drawers, over cupboards

163cm wide, 60cm deep, 256cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 273

A papier mâché figure of an elephant, late 19th/early 20th century, French, on a rectangular base with scumbled decoration, fitted with wheels

54cm wide, 19.5cm deep, 36cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 274

A pair of walnut and olivewood parquetry wall brackets, mid-18th century, Continental, each of curved outline with a fret-carved scrollwork border with open-heart motifs, fitted with a metal folding bracket to the underside

24.5cm wide, 18cm deep, 11cm high overall (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 275

Two glazed terracotta jugs, 19th century, French, Val de Saône, Lyon, each with slip decoration and a loop handle, together with a Spanish slipware jug

larger French 32cm wide, 29cm deep, 35.5cm high; Spanish 23cm wide, 21cm deep, 30cm high (3)

£400 - 600

LOT 276

A polychrome-painted oak refectory table, late 16th century and later, the plank top above a frieze carved with fruiting vines, grapes and figures, raised on spiral-fluted column supports united by stretchers, terminating in block feet, highlighted in tones of blue, green, red and white, later decoration

245cm wide, 92cm deep, 81cm high

£600 - 800

A painted oak wall-hanging spice cabinet, early 19th century, fitted with forty drawers, each with brass pulls

133cm wide, 19cm deep, 59cm high

£800 - 1,200

278

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with foliate scrolls in pale tones

410 x 332cm

£2,000 - 4,000

A mahogany child’s high chair, c.1870, with a cane seat and back, attached to a square stand with ring-turned supports 39cm wide, 43cm deep, 97cm high £250 - 450

LOT 280

A large painted wall mirror, 20th century, the mirror plate enclosed within a green gilded frame, centred by drapery decoration

85cm wide, 131cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 281

An industrial painted-metal plant stand, 20th century, the circular top with ‘chain’ border, raised on a similarly formed stem and circular base, together with a metal standard lamp of similar design, on a tripod base stand 40cm diameter, 117cm high; lamp 157cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 282

A George III mahogany tripod table, mid-18th century, with a circular one-piece top, raised on a turned column and tripod base

88cm diameter, 70.5cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 283

A Julian Chichester ‘Dakota’ oval dining table, of recent manufacture, the fruitwood top raised on a metal tulip-shaped base

245cm wide, 122cm deep, 74cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 284

A Regenc y-style satinwood quartetto nest of tables c.1900, by Hampton & Sons, each rectangular top raised on ring-turned supports united by stretchers, terminating in splayed feet, bearing maker’s label beneath 51.5cm wide, 33.5cm deep, 74.5cm high (4)

£500 - 700

LOT 285

A Vienna bronze table lamp, late 19th/early 20th century, Austrian, in the form of a tree, comprising branches, foliage and glass cherries

33cm diameter, 62cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 286

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, with an open field surrounded by geometric motifs, to a cream ground

380 x 245cm

£800 - 1,200

A pair of carved giltwood wall brackets, probably 20th century, Continental, each backplate in the form of a monkey within fruiting foliage

32cm wide, 17cm deep, 34cm high (2)

£200 - 300

LOT 288

A pair of George I-style black and gilt-japanned chinoiserie pier mirrors, 20th century, each with a shaped plate, within a frame decorated with figures, buildings and foliate motifs

65.5cm wide, 122cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 289

A small giltwood settee, late 19th century, French, the pierced back with fluted detail, with a shaped rectangular seat raised on tapering turned supports, upholstered in printed cotton toile-de-Jouy-style fabric with chinoiserie decoration

96cm wide, 75cm deep, 83cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 290

A Regenc y-style mahogany quartetto nest of tables, c.1900, each rectangular top with a plain beaded border, on ring-turned supports 53cm wide, 36.5cm deep, 69cm high (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 291

A set of six black-painted ladder-back dining chairs, late 19th century, each with a caned seat and floral gilt decoration to the wavy three-ladder-back splat 54cm wide, 56cm deep, 93cm high, 44cm to seat (6) £200 - 300

LOT 292

A live-edge tree slice dining table, of recent manufacture, with brass butterfly brackets to the top, raised on square brass supports

251cm wide, 110cm deep, 75cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 293

A George III mahogany bureau bookcase, third quarter of the 18th century, the projecting cornice above panel doors enclosing shelves, the lower section with a hinged top enclosing an arrangement of pigeonholes and drawers, above four long drawers, raised on bracket feet, with losses

107cm wide, 56cm deep, 206cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 294

Spare lot

A terracotta bust, possibly of Sir Isaac Newton, 19th century, with stone mount, unattached 48cm high; 71cm including mount (2)

£300 - 500

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian Ingaborg design, of recent manufacture, with all-over polychrome detail

301 x 251cm

£800 - 1,200

A pair of painted metal and glass wall lights, second quarter of the 20th century, Italian, each of scrolling form issuing two light branches, hung with crystal beads and droplets

20cm wide, 16cm deep, 35cm high (2)

£200 - 400

A mahogany collector’s cabinet, early 19th century, the moulded rectangular top above an arrangement of slender drawers, the top right-hand drawer with a numbered interior, the top left-hand drawer with a divisioned interior, all raised on a plinth base

95cm wide, 44cm deep, 94cm high

£300 - 500

A Heriz wool carpet, 20th century, Persian, woven with a large stylised floral and geometric medallion to the field, the ivory-ground spandrels with similar geometric motifs, within a wide border

332 x 265cm

£1,000 - 2,000

A chinoiserie gilt-metal lantern, of recent manufacture, with faux bamboo detail and three lights

45cm wide, 45cm deep, 61cm high

£200 - 400

Three terracotta and wood crèche figures, 19th century, Italian, Neapolitan, each polychrome painted, comprising a Roman soldier, a monk, and a woman in a cream silk dress with gilt-metal embellishments

soldier 38cm high; monk 30cm high; woman 24cm high (3)

£300 - 500

An Aubusson-style needlepoint wool carpet, mid to late 20th century, the field decorated in blue with an overall floral design, within a border punctuated with delicate floral bouquets

260 x 387cm

£400 - 600

A pair of turned brass candlesticks, late 19th/early 20th century, each turned baluster stem raised on a circular stepped base 12.5cm diameter, 33.5cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 306 ▲

Miguel Moreno (Spanish, b.1935), a nude female torso, patinated bronze, inscribed ‘M. Moreno X I/L’, on a stone plinth

9.5cm wide, 9.5cm deep, 34cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 307

An export black and gilt lacquer cabinet-on-stand, Edo period, late 17th/early 18th century, Japanese, with a pair of doors, decorated with mountains, lakes and trees, with foliate-engraved brass mounts, enclosing ten drawers with floral and foliate detail, above a panelled base, raised on a later painted base with square supports

94cm wide, 54cm deep, 160cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 308

An upholstered armchair in the Howard & Sons style, of recent manufacture, with splayed arms and curved rails, raised on ring-turned wooden supports terminating in brass castors, covered in a striped red cotton 80cm wide, 96cm deep, 94cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 309

A pair of carved corbel table lamps, 20th century, comprising earlier elements, each raised on a black-painted rectangular base and fitted with a 14-inch ikat-printed shade

36cm wide, 15cm deep, 64cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 310

A small late Victorian mahogany elbow chair, c.1880, upholstered in buttoned green leather and raised on tapering turned supports terminating in castors

53cm wide, 69cm deep, 72cm high

£500 - 800

LOT 311

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, of Anatolian design, woven with repeating polychrome geometric motifs

301 x 251cm

£800 - 1,200

LOT 312

A red wax relief of a young faun playing the pipes, first quarter of the 18th century, Italian, mounted on a rectangular slate ground, in a moulded, painted and giltwood frame frame 28 x 22cm

£300 - 500

LOT 313

An upholstered two-seater sofa in the Howard & Sons style, of recent manufacture, covered in pale linen with contrasting piping, raised on tapering square supports terminating in metal castors, with two loose cushions

182cm wide, 96cm deep, 87cm high (3)

£400 - 600

A pair of carved and painted wood seated figures, mid-19th century, Chinese, each dressed in traditional robes, adorned with a dragon mask with green jewelled eyes 18cm wide, 13.5cm deep, 38cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 315

A Hollywood Regency oxidised and painted metal chandelier, first quarter of the 20th century, French, in the form of a pineapple with abundant foliate decoration and six light branches

61cm diameter, 53cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 316

A large Mashad wool carpet, 20th century, Persian, woven with a stylised foliate medallion to the centre, surrounded by densely applied floral motifs

472 x 346cm

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 317

A composite marble figure group, 20th century, after ‘The Wrestlers’, the underside inlaid with a Society of Arts medal designed by William Wyon (1795-1851) depicting Mercury and Minerva 45cm wide, 40cm high

£600 - 800

The original is currently held in the Uffizi collection in Florence, Italy.

LOT 318 

A Victorian tortoiseshell-veneered and ivor y-strung dressing table mirror, 19th century, the bevelled rectangular plate within an arched and shaped frame, suspended by a pair of trestle scroll end supports

28cm wide, 14cm deep, 44cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 319

A mahogany ballot box, early 19th century, with a cylindrical funnel, on a cabinet enclosing two drawers, the top edge inscribed ‘For’ and ‘Against’, with a key and side lock, and baize-lined

28cm wide, 25.5cm deep, 36cm high

£300 - 500

320

A white-glazed pottery lion, 20th century, modelled attacking an eagle, on a naturalistic rectangular base

34cm wide, 21cm deep, 29cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 321

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, of Anatolian design, woven with polychrome geometric motifs to a blue ground

354 x 258cm

£800 - 1,200

Two green-glazed table lamps, of recent manufacture, both raised on gilded bases, with shades excluding shades: largest 50cm high, smallest 46cm high (2)

£200 - 300

A Hungarian ash kneehole desk, second half of the 19th century, of inverted breakfront outline with a gilt-tooled leather top, above a frieze drawer and two pedestals fitted with cupboards, raised on a plinth base and castors, adapted

136cm wide, 60cm deep, 74cm high

£400 - 600

A Victorian sorcerer’s wall mirror, c.1860, comprising nine concave roundels, within a carved mahogany frame

37.5cm diameter

£800 - 1,200

LOT 325

Two pairs of Art Deco mirrored glass, chrome and laminated wood trays, mid-20th century, probably by Regent of London, comprising one larger pair and one smaller, each with a mirrored base, arched handles and squat bun feet larger 31 x 46cm; smaller 25 x 36cm (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 326

An eight-piece enamel-painted glass lemonade set, second quarter of the 20th century, comprising a jug and six glasses, each depicting scenes from Charles Dickens’ ‘The Pickwick Papers’, together with a chrome, mirrored glass and Macassar ebony tray, with a matching insert print, stamped in gilt ‘Regent of London’ to the underside jug 28cm high; glasses 15cm high; tray 32 x 42cm (8)

£300 - 500

LOT 327

An eight-piece enamel-painted glass drinks set, second quarter of the 20th century, comprising a silver-mounted cut-glass decanter and stopper, the silver by Goldsmiths’ and Silversmiths’, Birmingham 1937, and six cups, each decorated with a hunting scene, together with a chrome, mirrored glass and laminated wood tray, stamped ‘Regent of London’ to the underside decanter 25cm high with stopper; glasses 9cm high; tray 25 x 42cm (9)

£400 - 600

LOT 328

A brass and glass drinks trolley, 20th century, with two glass shelves, within a brass frame, raised on wheels 70cm wide, 40cm deep, 73cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 329

A pair of etched-glass and gilt-metal girandoles, 19th century, Continental, each with a shaped mirror back depicting a flowering vase flanked by putti, the plate with a scalloped and bevelled edge and further foliate sprigs, with a detachable bronze two-sconce branch 17.5cm wide, 14cm deep, 39cm high (4)

£600 - 800

LOT 330

A kilim flat-weave wool carpet of Anatolian design, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating polychrome geometric motifs

309 x 242cm

£600 - 800

LOT 331

A carved exercise club, late 19th/early 20th century, possibly Indian, of tapered form

44cm long

£200 - 400

LOT 332

A George III mahogany kettle stand, c.1760, in the manner of the St Martin’s Lane Syndicate, the dished circular top with a strung edge, above a baluster column with spiral-fluted detail, raised on moulded cabriole supports terminating in French scroll feet

48cm wide, 48cm deep, 57cm high

£2,500 - 3,500

LOT 333

A George III-style mahogany side table, c.1880, the plain rectangular top with a carved edge, the frieze with swags and paterae, raised on fluted square supports.

12.5cm wide, 59cm deep, 77.5cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 334

An export black and gilt lacquer screen, late 19th/early 20th century, Chinese, comprising four panels, each decorated with the ‘Hundred Boys’ playing in a garden, each with a Buddhist lion within a square panel to the base, raised on stylised square supports each panel 183.5 x 41cm

£300 - 500

LOT 335

A George III needlework sampler, late 18th/early 19th century, worked in polychrome silk threads on a linen ground, with alphabetical and numerical bands over two verses, surrounded by spot motif decoration of crowns, hearts, plants, animals and insects

49 x 48cm, in a glazed maple frame 59 x 57cm

£200 - 400

A hardstone model of an eagle, late 19th/early 20th century, modelled in flight catching a snake, the mottled green stone with white inclusions

31cm wide, 18cm deep, 23cm high

£300 - 500

An upholstered stool or bench, of recent manufacture but incorporating some earlier elements, the rectangular seat covered in House of Hackney ‘Palmeral’ velvet, raised on tapering fluted square supports

154cm wide, 92cm deep, 52cm high

£500 - 700

A George IV rosewood open bookcase, c.1830, with a white marble top, above open shelves set between plain pilasters with bullseye roundel detail, raised on a plinth base

107cm wide, 33.5cm deep, 81cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 339

A suzani-inspired flat-weave wool rug, of recent manufacture, with all-over foliate detail

266 x 185cm

£500 - 700

LOT 340

A suzani-inspired flat-weave wool rug, of recent manufacture, of typical pattern, with all-over

foliate detail

270 x 185cm

£500 - 700

LOT 341

A carved limestone head of a bearded man, late 19th/early 20th century head 22cm wide, 15cm deep, 50cm high; 58cm high including stand

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 342

A George II mahogany silver or tea table, second quarter of the 18th century, Irish, the rectangular top with a raised edge, above a shaped frieze centred with a shell, raised on knee-carved cabriole supports terminating in moulded pad feet.

77cm wide, 43cm deep, 70cm high

£400 - 600

For examples with stylistic similarities, see The Knight of Glin and James Peill, ‘Irish Furniture’, 2007, pp. 239-241.

LOT 343

A découpage still life picture, 19th century, depicting a classical urn filled with flowers including peonies, roses and lilies, the pedestal base laid with fruit image 74 x 52cm; in a glazed giltwood frame 91 x 68cm

£200 - 400

LOT 344

A giltwood sunburst mirror, late 19th/early 20th century, Continental, the centre fitted with a circular convex mirror, within a moulded and beaded frame, and a border of flaming sunrays

55cm diameter

£200 - 300

An extensive porcelain dinner service for eighteen, 20th century, German, by Schumann Bavaria, painted in underglaze blue with gilt highlights, with floral and foliate scrolls dinner plates 26cm diameter (189)

£200 - 400

Provenance: Originally purchased for the British Embassy, Cairo.

Spare lot

A Victorian mahogany extending dining table, c.1840, the moulded rectangular top with four extra leaves, raised on gadrooned baluster supports terminating in brass caps and castors 341cm long, 150cm wide, 76cm high (5)

£1,500 - 2,500

A pair of George IV mahogany card tables, c.1825, each rounded rectangular top enclosing a baize-lined playing surface, with a well beneath, above a reeded column and a quadripartite base with beaded edge, raised on lobed bun feet terminating in brass castors 92cm wide, 45cm deep, 74cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

A Josheghan wool carpet, early to mid-20th century, Persian, decorated in reds with a large diamond medallion to the centre, within a densely woven field and spandrels

342 x 242cm

£1,500 - 2,500

An export camphor wood chest, late 19th century, Indian, with a moulded rectangular lid enclosing storage space, set with brass mounts, one stamped ‘DAS & Co, Calcutta’ 103cm wide, 52cm deep, 49cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 351

A Persian Heriz wool carpet, second half of the 20th century, with geometric motifs in tones of red 331 x 266cm

£2,000 - 3,000

LOT 352

A pair of carved wooden paterae, late 19th/early 20th century, in the Ancient Roman style, each in the form of a cloudburst, mounted on modern stands 54cm diameter, 73cm high including stands (4)

£1,000 - 2,000

A Regenc y-style painted wooden faux bamboo settee, of recent manufacture, painted in off-white with green highlights, with a pierced back and arms above a squab cushion upholstered in Liberty & Co. fabric, raised on tapering supports, with a matching elbow chair settee 108cm wide, 67cm deep, 91cm high (2)

£300 - 500

She’s a Rainbow: From the Collection of Jade Jagger

The following collection offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the world of Jade Jagger – designer, collector and champion of living with beauty. Sourced from her former Gloucestershire home, Kempsford Manor, the pieces reflect a life shaped by travel, creativity and a fearless approach to mixing styles. Antiques, modern design and richly decorative objects sit side by side, united by an instinctive eye and a belief that interiors should evolve, surprise and delight.

Jagger’s influences span continents, from London to Goa and Ibiza, and this global outlook runs throughout the collection. Radiant textiles from Central and South Asia, sculptural pieces of furniture, playful accents and timeworn antiques converge, blending history with an acute sense of fun. A studded leather chest, vibrant suzanis and an exuberant ikat-patterned carpet coexist effortlessly with contemporary seating, lighting and decorative objects, creating rooms that feel both considered and joyfully lived in, while also demonstrating Jade’s finger firmly on the pulse of interior design.

At the heart of the collection is Jagger’s philosophy of continual reinvention – keeping what sparks joy, rearranging and refreshing as life moves on. This spirit of renewal offers Sworders’ buyers a rare opportunity to acquire pieces infused with unmistakable rock ’n’ roll attitude. Full of colour, texture and personality, the lots carry a knowing wink to their former home and the life lived among them. Further works from Jade Jagger’s collection will appear in our Modern and Contemporary Art and Design sales later in the year, continuing the story of a singular and endlessly charismatic style.

LOT 354

A pair of painted wooden ‘pull-along’ tigers, 20th century, Indian, each modelled prowling, on a shaped rectangular base terminating in wheels

107cm wide, 30cm deep, 65cm high

(2)

£200 - 400

LOT 355

A large suzani, early 20th century, Uzbek, embroidered with eight large repeating flower head medallions in tones of red and black

360 x 245cm

£300 - 500

LOT 356

Spare lot

357

A pair of iron lantern stands with lamps, 20th century, each raised on a tripod base with scroll feet 173cm high (2)

£200 - 300

358

A Louis XVI-style painted wooden canapé, 20th century, with a square back and arms, the rectangular seat raised on tapering fluted supports, upholstered in grey buttoned fabric, with a pair of embroidered suzani cushions

189cm wide, 81cm deep, 80cm high (3)

£500 - 700

A silvered-glass vase lamp, of recent manufacture, of baluster form 24cm base diameter, 57cm high

£100 - 200

360

A wool carpet of Ikat design, of recent manufacture, woven throughout in vibrant polychrome colours

430 x 305cm

£8,000 - 12,000

361

An upholstered ottoman, of recent manufacture, covered with a suzani textile and raised on bun feet 145cm wide, 63cm deep, 36cm high £500 - 700

Seven suzani cushions, of recent manufacture, each of square form with a stylised floral medallion to the centre smallest 32 x 32cm, largest 42 x 42cm (7)

£200 - 400

LOT 363

A Regenc y-style carved wooden settee, 20th century, with a reeded frame with foliate detail, with an arched back and scroll arms, upholstered in mushroom-coloured cotton fabric, raised on stylised paw feet

191cm wide, 69cm deep, 97cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 364

A Napoleon III-style parcel-gilt ebonised vitrine, 20th century, the moulded cornice above a glazed door enclosing red velvet shelves, gilded and ebonised all over with canted corners, fitted with strip lights, raised on square feet

95cm wide, 39cm deep, 171cm high

£200 - 300

LOT 365

A glazed earthenware ‘MaMa’ vase, late 20th century, designed by Roderick Vos (Dutch, b.1965) glazed, printed mark to base

44cm high

£150 - 200

LOT 366

A pair of stained wooden elbow chairs in the Anglo-Indian style, 20th century, each with a reeded frame and a woven rattan back and seat, raised on tapering square supports united by stretchers

53cm wide, 53cm deep, 95cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 367

A large suzani, late 19th/early 20th century, Uzbek, embroidered with a large medallion to the centre, within scrolling foliage in tones of black and red 142 x 162cm; in a painted frame 176 x 196cm

£200 - 400

LOT 368

A pair of crewelwork hangings, 20th century, Indian, Kashmir, each worked in wool threads in predominantly reds, depicting the tree of life design with dense flowering branches emerging from a vase, set within a lobed mihrab arch flanked by cypress trees and within a wide border containing stylised floral and foliate motifs, on hessian and mounted 183 x 121cm (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 369

A studded leather chest, first half of the 18th century, with a hinged domed top enclosing a fabric-lined interior, the front with iron clasps and lock plates, with a pair of carrying handles to the sides, with all-over scrolling decoration, raised on associated ironwork trestles

trunk 113cm wide, 60cm deep, 49cm high, 100cm high overall (3)

£500 - 700

LOT 370

A pair of Empire-style carved beech armchairs, c.1900, each with a high back above a pair of open arms with carved wings and scrolling acanthus terminals, over a concave seat and raised on reeded supports, one upholstered in geometric silk, the other in a grey cotton

70cm wide, 66cm deep, 100cm high

(2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 371

A Venetian-style etched glass mirror, 20th century, the central rectangular plate with a stylised foliate pediment and etched margin-plates, damages 64cm wide, 108cm high

£150 - 200

An upholstered stool or bench, of recent manufacture, raised on turned legs and castors

130cm wide, 73cm deep, 20cm high

£200 - 400

A Venetian-style cabinet, 20th century, with all-over painted and gilded detail, the panel doors enclosing a shelved interior, with fitted frieze drawer

92.5cm wide, 42.5cm deep, 73cm high

£400 - 600

A four-fold black-lacquered and gilt screen, 20th century, Chinese, decorated with prunus and birds 160cm wide, 182cm high

£200 - 300

A pair of painted and parcel-gilt-wooden vitrines, 20th century, Italian, each of bombé form, with painted and gilded decoration

54cm wide, 31cm deep, 176cm high

(2)

£500 - 800

An early Victorian mahogany ‘X’-framed stool, c.1840, with a needlepoint tapestry seat 49cm wide, 44cm deep, 48cm high £200 - 300

An iron eight-branch chandelier, of modern manufacture, with three matching two-branch wall lights 43cm high (4) £200 - 300

LOT 378

A set of three culinary lithograph posters by Richier-Laugier, Paris, 20th century, French, to include ‘Le Vin’, ‘Les Confitures’ and ‘La Soupe’ 84 x 65cm; framed 88 x 69cm (3)

£100 - 200

LOT 379

A set of four white metal-clad side chairs in the Regency taste, 20th century, comprising one elbow chair and three singles, each with a bar back with ram’s-head terminals, an Ikat fabric seat and sabre supports, with damages 61cm wide, 51cm deep, 87cm high (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 380

An oak library table, c.1900, the moulded top with a red leather skiver, raised on tapering square legs with block feet 367cm wide, 76cm deep, 80cm high £800 - 1,200

Provenance: British Museum Library.

Spring 2026

Painting with Wool | The Tapestries of Miriam Sacks

There are artists who ‘cross disciplines’, and then there are those who quietly dissolve the borders altogether. Miriam Sacks did the latter. Long before ‘textile’ regained its current currency in contemporary art conversations, Sacks was making woven images with the decisiveness of a painter, thread behaving like pigment, stitch like gesture, wool like atmosphere.

This March, Sworders brings that accomplishment into sharp focus with Painting with Wool: The Tapestries of Miriam Sacks , a one-woman retrospective staged in partnership with the artist’s estate. Running from Monday 2 March to Friday 27 March 2026 at the Cecil Court Gallery, the exhibition presents a curated selection that makes a persuasive case for Sacks as both master craftswoman and modern artist.

Miriam Sacks (1922–2004) was a South African–born British textile artist and painter, whose practice bridged fine art and craft at a moment when those categories were too often held apart. Her work is rooted in a deep curiosity about people, culture and the natural world. She earned an MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town before moving to London in 1946 to join her husband, Ian, who was studying to be a surgeon. In 1951, she relocated to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she began painting and ran a children’s art school. An early expression of her commitment to education and the visual arts, and an experience that would continue to inform her sensitivity to pattern, community and place.

A turning point came in 1956 during a visit to New York, when encountering The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries prompted Sacks to explore tapestry as a primary medium. Rather than treating it as a decorative tradition, she approached tapestry as a form of image-making, what she called ‘woven images’, using needle and thread with the spontaneity and expressiveness of a painter’s brush. Her method is both technically rigorous and strikingly inventive: colour is built in layers, surfaces feel worked and alive, and forms emerge and dissolve with a rhythm that moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction. Across her career, Sacks drew on experiences in Africa, her cultural heritage, and broader social concerns, while remaining consistently attentive to nature’s structures and to music’s sense of tempo and harmony.

Sacks held her first one-woman show at the Lidchi Gallery in Cape Town in 1962. Two years later she returned to London, and over the following decades exhibited widely, including at the British Embassy in Washington, DC (1966), Ben Uri Gallery (1969), Kettle’s Yard (1970), the Royal Festival Hall (1971), the Victoria and Albert Museum (1971, 1973), the South African National Gallery (1972), and on several occasions at Leighton House (1977, 1981, 1985, 1988). Her work was also shown alongside leading British ceramicists such as Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Bernard Leach, as well as celebrated weavers including Peter Collingwood - an artistic context that speaks to the calibre and seriousness with which her practice was received.

Supported by significant cultural figures including Maxwell Fry and Herman Wouk, Sacks’s work is now held in collections across the UK, the US, South Africa, Israel, Zimbabwe and Canada. She was also a prolific essayist and a dedicated collector of materials related to her practice, much of which continues to inform the understanding of her legacy today.

The works on view are generously loaned from the estate of the artist, and several examples will be offered in our spring Design auction on 21 April 2026. We warmly invite visitors to join us on weekdays, 11am–6pm, throughout the exhibition. No appointment is necessary.

Painting with Wool | The Tapestries of Miriam Sacks 2-27 March at Sworders London Gallery design@sworder.co.uk

Expanding our Expertise | Bryn Sayles Joins Sworders

We’re delighted to welcome Bryn Sayles to Sworders as Senior Valuer and Business Development lead for Modern & Contemporary Art. With a focus on building on the department’s success and expanding the reach of its sales, Bryn shares insight into her background and expertise.

Having spent the majority of my career promoting the work of 20th-Century British artists, lastly as the Head of the Modern British sales at Sotheby’s, I am thrilled to be joining the wonderful team at Sworders. Sworders have a great reputation within the business of offering exciting works from some of the best collections throughout the country, and I look forward to the opportunity of introducing new collectors to the great services on offer.

Much of my time working in the Modern British department was dedicated to showcasing 20thCentury British art to a new audience. So many artists working in Britain during this period were influential on an international level - from Lynn Chadwick beating Giacometti to the sculpture prize at the Venice Biennale in 1956, to Patrick Heron befriending Rothko and inviting him to St Ives, to amazing female artists such as Barbara Hepworth, who was exhibiting internationally and receiving commissions for public sculptures such as Single Form for the United Nations in New York. Having the opportunity to introduce new collectors from around the world to the wonderful work coming out of Britain has been one of the greatest joys of my career.

I have loved being able to work closely with collectors, both private and institutional, assisting them at every stage of the process. Whether that means helping clients build a collection from the very start, filling gaps through private sales, or managing the sale of treasured family collections with care and attention. It has been particularly gratifying placing works from major institutions such as MOMA, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, with new custodians who will enjoy them for years to come. Modern British collectors are amongst the most knowledgeable in this business, and one of the joys of visiting collections has been how much I have learned from passionate and scholarly owners.

I am particularly looking forward to the opportunity to see wonderful exhibitions coming up in London this year, as I will often be working from our London Gallery, which is just up the road from the National Gallery. On my list of must-sees are: Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting (National Portrait Gallery, 12 February – 4 May 2026), Hepworth in Colour (Courtauld Gallery, 12 June – 6 September 2026), and Frieda: The Making of an Icon (Tate Modern, 25 June 2026 – 3 January 2027).

For a complimentary auction valuation or more information regarding our Modern & Contemporary Art auctions contact Bryn Sayles at: brynsayles@sworder.co.uk | 01279 790337

René Lalique and the Art of Moulded Glass

Few figures are as central to the story of Art Deco glass as René Lalique, whose career charts a remarkable journey from jewellery to glass, and from intimate objects to works of architectural ambition. Lalique began his professional life as a jeweller, training under Louis Aucoc and working with prestigious houses including Cartier and Boucheron by the mid-1880s. His early designs, rooted in the flowing lines and natural motifs of Art Nouveau, quickly established his reputation as one of the leading creative figures of his generation.

During this period Lalique began to experiment increasingly with glass by incorporating it into his jewellery designs. A pivotal moment came through his collaboration with the perfumer François Coty, for whom Lalique designed labels and scent bottles. Despite the early examples being manufactured by the Legras glassworks, Lalique took control of his own glass production when he purchased the Combs-la-Ville glassworks in 1913.

Lalique’s true mastery lay in moulded glass. From his earliest cire perdue experiments - a lostwax moulding process producing effectively unique objects - to the sophisticated commercial moulding of the interwar years, he redefined what moulded glass could be. The introduction of demi-crystal, containing approximately 12% lead, proved crucial. Though technically a lesser material than full lead crystal, its muted tones, greater softness and gentle diffusion of light made it an ideal medium for Lalique’s designs. Nowhere is this more evident than in his opalescent glass, whose milky luminosity was achieved through carefully controlled additions of arsenic oxide, stannic oxide and fluorine.

By the early 1920s, production at Lalique’s new Wingen-sur-Moder glassworks enabled increasingly complex moulds and more streamlined techniques. Press moulding, introduced at this stage, allowed molten glass to be forced into metal moulds by a plunger, producing crisp external relief while maintaining a smooth interior surface. This balance of efficiency and refinement underpinned many of Lalique’s most enduring designs.

Lalique’s prominence reached its height at the 1925 l’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. He designed his own pavilion and created the monumental Les Sources de France fountain – a striking demonstration of moulded glass at architectural scale. These achievements confirmed moulded glass not as a secondary art, but as a medium capable of luxury, innovation and spectacle.

It is within this context that the Ceylan vase should be understood. Produced during Lalique’s interwar period, it brings together many of the defining characteristics of his glass. Decorated with parakeets, a motif consistent with his long-standing use of natural forms, the vase demonstrates his control of moulded glass and relief decoration. Executed in opalescent demicrystal, it exemplifies the softly diffused surface effects that had become central to his work by the mid-1920s. Originally designed in 1924, the vase was displayed at the 1925 exhibition in Paris, cementing its status as an icon of Art Deco glass.

We are pleased to offer this example in The Glass Sale , a specialist auction showcasing glass across a wide range of periods and techniques. Within this setting, the Ceylan vase stands as a clear expression of Lalique’s achievement in moulded glass, and displays the Art Deco period at its most confident.

The Glass Sale Tuesday 14 April | 10am

alexfroggatt@sworder.co.uk

Gaetano Pesce | The fish that swam upstream

We are pleased to offer a collection of works by Gaetano Pesce in our upcoming 21 April Design auction. Here, we share a spotlight on the designer’s creative life and career.

Architect, designer and urban planner, the life and work of creative powerhouse Gaetano Pesce was an incredibly varied and proudly eccentric one. With a career spanning nearly sixty years, he continually revolutionised and redefined modern design through his humanistic philosophy, bold use of colour and unconventional material choices. Pesce believed deeply in connecting the individual to society through the mediums of art and architecture to improve and change the way people lived in the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, he wished for a better global community despite the chaos of the world, a message that is still pertinent today.

Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939 and studied architecture at the University of Venice where he was taught by notable figures such as Carlo Scarpa and Ernesto Rogers. Between 1958 and 1963, he was an active member of ‘Gruppo N’, styled as an early design collective and modelled on the blueprint of the Bauhaus. The group considered the subject of art was the user, and that the individual who used the work was as equally important as the maker. 1 Although he trained as an architect, it was in industrial design that he made a significant cultural breakthrough. Pesce studied the forms and functions of ergonomic and decorative objects, furniture, jewellery and shoes but from the viewpoint of human emotion and the environment. These ideas culminated in the creation of the ‘Up’ and ‘Up 5_6’ armchairs. A uniquely feminist and curvaceous piece, it was designed after the female form with a ball ottoman representing the child tethered to its mother with a cord, simultaneously comforted and yet imprisoned. According to curator and author of SuperDesign , Maria Cristina Didero, ‘Pesce wanted to produce something about the condition of women in the world. The chair can be read as the mother, and the stool her child. But it could also be a ball and chain (suggesting) woman and the prison she was obliged to live in.’ 2 Another iconic design was the ‘I Feltri’ chair, created in 1987 and produced by Cassina, it was first unveiled to the public at the Milan Furniture Fair in the same year as part of a display focused on material experimentation. Crafted entirely from thick wool felt, the bottom section was coated in a resin-stiffened wool and is a technique patented by Cassina. The back can be folded down or alternately wrapped around the sitter to cocoon them. The idea was to create an object that evoked the feel of clothing.

Perhaps Pesce’s most pre-eminent works were his creations in resin. A multitude of items were cast in resin by Pesce including vases, chairs, lamps and reliefs dubbed as ‘industrial skins’. 3 In the mid-1990s, the company ‘Fish Design’ (taken from the English translation of Gaetano’s surname) was founded in New York and the venture focused on employing the themes of the double functionality

1 Giulio Carlo Argan. Modern Art: 1770-1970 . Sansoni. 2002.

of architecture within the objects, the use of colour as the ‘politic dimension’ as well as the culture of objects. By 2003, Pesce had met with Andrea Corsi who continued the production of these resin items and still does. Although Pesce had designed many items in resin, vases were always a mainstay of the technique, mostly mixing translucent and opaque textures which emulated more traditional materials such as ceramic or glass. His early works as a student were even inspired by three famous experimental glassmakers, Carlo Morretti, Luciano Vistosi and Paolo Venini, ultimately informing his very own casting techniques. 4 This fascination with glass would lead Pesce to form a longstanding collaboration with Cirva Glass works, a French studio set up in 1983 which acts almost as a research laboratory, inviting artists, designers and architects to work with glass.

Bubbling away under the surface of Pesce’s designs is a strong socio-political narrative which is prevalent in pieces such as the ‘Sessantuna’ table from 2010 which featured a series of 61 unique tables that when combined form the ‘boot’ shape of Italy, symbolising the 150th anniversary of the unification of the country in 1861. 5 The environment was another prevalent theme in his work also and can be seen in objects such as the ‘Vesuvio’ coffee maker designed for Zani & Zani in 1992. It was modelled on the volcanic landscape of Naples, taking its form from a mountain whose top has collapsed to form a crater. Rather than being abstract, the design is a direct response to the functionality of the coffee maker. The pressure builds with increased heat and pushes hot water up through the coffee grounds simulating a controlled and small eruption. Through objects such as this, Pesce playfully reminds us of the importance of nature and the worlds we live in through everyday rituals.

Other recent collaborations Pesce has worked on include a capsule collection of sandals and footwear with Brazilian brand Melissa who create shoes made from 100% recyclable PVC. Even up until his death in 2024, Pesce had also worked on an immersive space for Bottega Veneta’s spring/summer 2023 fashion show. The runway was decorated with a sizeable poured-resin floor in all manner of vivid colours and 400 individually designed chairs adorned the edges of the catwalk. Pesce said of the set and Bottega Veneta, ‘As a designer, I make originals, not standardised series, that’s the old way – this is the new way… And this is a fashion company that did a fantastic job in helping me realise such a project. It is a message that is super political – and it is not a museum or a gallery that is helping me convey it. Who makes culture today? The museum or the fashion company? It is food for the brain – not for pay. If we see the same thing each day, then we die.’ 6

Ever the maverick and full of surprises, Gaetano Pesce continues to inspire young designers and creatives the world over and Sworders is pleased to offer a collection of his works in our April Design sale.

2 Ray Edgar. Melbourne Design Week celebrates a feverish period for Italy’s radicals. The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 February 2018. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-anddesign/melbourne-design-week-celebrates-a-feverish-period-for-italys-radicals-20180223-h0wjfz.html

3 Gareth Williams. The Furniture Machine: Furniture Since 1990 . V&A Publishing. 2006

4 Christopher Wyrick. MOCA Pacific Design Centre Honors “Disruptor” Artist Gaetano Pesce . The Hollywood Reporter. 8 September 2016. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ lifestyle-news/moca-pacific-design-center-honors-926785/

5 Rose Etherington. Sessantuna by Gaetano Pesce for Cassina . Deezen. 30 June 2010. https://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/30/sessantuna-by-gaetano-pesce-for-cassina/

6 Jack Moss. A closer look at Gaetano Pesce’s colourful set for Bottega Veneta . Wallpaper. 14 October 2022. https://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/a-closer-look-gaetano-pesce-colourfulset-bottega-veneta-ss23

Design Tuesday 21 April | 10am design@sworder.co.uk | 01279 817778

Seven Courses for Her Majesty | Queen Victoria’s Dinner Menu 1837

On a single ledger sheet, written in a neat practiced hand, survives a wonderfully intimate relic of court life: a manuscript menu headed ‘Her Majesty’s Dinner, August 2nd 1837’. It is far more than a list of dishes. Alongside the full bill of fare, the document records the names of the kitchen staff and their assigned stations, quietly revealing the organised human machinery required to feed a royal table.

The date is striking. The dinner was given at Buckingham Palace only five weeks after the Coronation of Queen Victoria, at a moment when the new reign was still finding its ceremonial rhythm. The guest list reflects the diplomatic and aristocratic world that gathered around the young monarch: the Queen and the Duchess of Kent, alongside a circle of European diplomats and British grandees, including Count Pozzo di Borgo with members of his household, Count and Countess Ludolf, Count Mandelsloh, Prince Auersperg, Baron Taubenheim, and figures from the British court such as the Marchioness of Salisbury and the Countess of Charlemont. Also present were household officers and attendants, Lord Gardner, noted as a Lord-in-Waiting, and Colonel Buckley, the Queen’s Equerry, together with friends and ladies-in-waiting, from Lady F Hastings to Baroness Lehzhen, and a cluster of ‘Miss’ companions whose inclusion hints at the social texture of an evening that was both official and personal.

The menu itself demonstrates the grandeur - and stamina - expected of royal dining. It runs to seven courses, following the French-influenced structure fashionable in elite British households:

• Potages (soups)

• Poissons (fish)

• Relevés (substantial meats)

• Entrées (lighter dishes and ‘starters’)

• Rôts (roasts)

• Relevés again (another round of meats)

• Entremets (a concluding spread of vegetables and sweet dishes)

What feels most vivid, reading across the categories, is how recognisable some delights remain. Soufflé, whitebait and gâteau sit comfortably on modern menus, bridging nearly two centuries of changing taste. Yet this was indulgence on a scale few can imagine today; as if seven courses were not enough, the evening was supported by a buffet of beef, mutton, lamb, fowl and venison, among other provisions.

Taken together, the ledger sheet offers a rare double portrait: the public face of a newly crowned Queen entertaining the world, and the backstage reality of the kitchen brigade, named, placed and essential, making monarchy tangible through food.

This remarkable survivor is featured as a highlight in our forthcoming Books, Manuscripts and Maps timed auction, running from Friday 24 April to Monday 4 May 2026, offering collectors a rare opportunity to acquire an evocative piece of early Victorian court history.

Books, Manuscripts and Maps - Timed Auction Friday 24 April - Monday 4 May books@sworder.co.uk | 01279 817778

Introducing The 13th Note

Ahead of our inaugural sale, ‘The 13th Note’, taking place later this year, specialist Tony Salani shares an insight into a sale dedicated to the objects that define pop culture.

Trends come and go with the rhythm of the ages, but the 20th century marked a turning point: the rise of what we now comfortably call ‘pop culture’. Whether termed ‘popular culture’ or ‘mass culture’, it represents the shared ideas, images, sounds and objects that define a moment in time, some fleeting, others echoing across decades and generations. Few art forms capture this phenomenon better than music. Music is not just heard; it is collected, worn, displayed, idolised. From the instruments that give it voice, to the recordings that preserve it, the equipment that delivers it into our homes, and the merchandise that transforms artists into icons, music is one of the most tangible expressions of cultural memory.

Sworders has an excellent track record of selling pop culture items. Highlights include a Gibson Les Paul ‘Black Beauty’, signed and played by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin (£37,700), a signed copy of ‘Grapefruit’ by Yoko Ono and John Lennon (£2,470), and an autograph book collected by the vendor containing signatures from Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr among others (£2,600). As well as this, a gelatin print of Queen, taken just before their iconic Live Aid performance and signed by photographer David Bailey, realised £3,120. Each item is more than an object; it is a fragment of a larger story, a point of connection between collector and cultural moment.

It was none other than Pythagoras, in the 6th century BCE, who described the ratios between musical notes and provided the basis for the twelve-note scale, a concept that underpins all Western music. If you are searching for something more or something outside of the usual range, then that is where The 13th Note will satisfy the wants and needs of the collector. No matter what your interest, items will offer both aesthetic and documentary value: instruments that shaped sound, recordings that defined eras, and memorabilia that captures the presence of artists at pivotal moments.

We already have consigned a wonderful selection of Gibson, Fender, Rickenbacker and Gretsch guitars, together with Vox and Fender amplifiers, a Transcriptor Hydraulic turntable, signed vinyl records and an exceptional collection of Beatles photographs. Alongside these, are some very, very, very special music memorabilia (but you’ll be hearing a lot more about that in the coming weeks).

Taken collectively, the offering forms a carefully assembled survey of modern heritage. Each lot represents a note in a wider composition: the sound of cultural evolution, the hum of nostalgia, and the continuing dialogue between past and present. For seasoned collectors and new enthusiasts alike, The 13th Note offers an invitation, not just to acquire, but to participate in the world of modern collectables.

There is still time for further exceptional items to be added to take this sale ‘to 11’ (or should that be 13?). We are interested in high quality guitars, amplifiers, synthesisers, as well as music and film memorabilia, and anything else that captures the essence of pop culture.

*all sold prices shown include fees

The 13th Note Thursday 4 June | 1pm tonysalani@sworder.co.uk | 01279 817778

The HALO Trust | Life in Yemen’s ‘sniper city’

As our Charity of the Year for 2026, The HALO Trust share an insight into the life-saving work they are currently undertaking in Yemen.

Taiz has a dramatic setting on the side of Yemen’s tallest mountain, Jabal Sabir, boasting a vertiginous castle on a mountain spur. The frontline of the Yemeni civil war has run through the city since 2015, earning it the unhappy nickname of ‘sniper city’.

It’s impossible for its residents to escape the impact of conflict. The main highway is cut off by the frontlines. People and goods must use rough improvised roads to reach the city, and water supplies are largely on the other side of the battle lines.

In the neighbourhoods that were most fought over, there is widespread destruction.

Buildings have been flattened by airstrikes, homes are peppered with bullet holes, cars have been ploughed into street barricades and the no-man’s-land between the forces is mined and booby-trapped. Drones buzz overhead and at night there is the crackle of sporadic gunfire.

Yet people live here. People have returned close to the frontline running through the city because poverty has forced them back.

HALO has been one of the few international organisations working in Taiz for the last five years, clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance from the streets and damaged buildings.

Fatima Kassim has been able to return and visit her home after HALO removed an unexploded projectile that punctured one of her walls. The hole, stuffed with plastic bags, waits to be repaired, as does the spray of bullet damage. Fatima is still too scared to live full-time in her home.

‘The effects of the war continue to traumatise people here. Like anyone, all we want is to be able to live in a safe home and in a safe community.’

- Fatima Kassim, Taiz

The loss suffered by Dalila Abdo Ahmed has been more profound. Her family were landowners on the edge of the city near the frontlines. On her wedding day in 2018, she was trying to reach her new husband’s family home when she and two cousins walked into a minefield close by.

Dalila suffered a double amputation of both legs below the knee. She was rescued by her father who heard her cries. Five other victims have been killed and injured by the same minefield.

For Dalila there was more cruelty. While she was fighting for her life in intensive care, her new husband took her father to court seeking a return of the customary bride price, sometimes known as the mahr, before divorcing her. The reason her husband did not come to Dalila’s home to collect her on the day of their wedding, as would be traditional, was because he feared being caught by soldiers.

Dalila has struggled to find prosthetics in Taiz that allow her to move with comfort and lives with her family in some isolation, despite being in the centre of the city. ‘I have told my story several times,’ she says. ‘But it doesn’t seem to bring any help.’

‘I feel a grief. A loss for my youth and the loss of a chance to have a family. We are displaced in Taiz city, and our family home is now occupied by soldiers from the other side.’

- Dalila Abdo Ahmed, Taiz

Deadly remnants of war have left vast areas of farmland, water sources and communities contaminated, preventing families from rebuilding their lives.

Extreme poverty and insecurity, as well as escalating regional crises, have increased the threat of conflict in Yemen. An estimated 18 million people face severe hunger. Over a million children suffer acute malnutrition risking lifelong harm.

Clearing explosives is a critical step towards ending the cycle of violence and aiding Yemen’s recovery.

To find out more about the life-saving work of The HALO Trust and become part of building a safer, mine-free world, please visit www.halotrust.org.

Day Two

Wednesday 18 March at 10am

Timeless Elegance: The Selected Contents of Donnington Castle House

Set within expansive gardens and grounds, Donnington Castle House enjoys a secluded elevated position beside the historic medieval Donnington Castle, near Newbury, Berkshire. Built in 1648, the house retains a wealth of original architectural detail, including tall sash windows, panelled rooms, oak floors, decorative plasterwork, and bolection-moulded fireplaces, creating interiors of quiet grandeur and refined balance, which its previous owners spent thirteen years restoring.

During the Second World War, the British government requisitioned the house to serve as quarters for personnel of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division, the famed ‘Screaming Eagles’. Later, under the ownership of the Parker-Bowles family, Donnington Castle House became a familiar retreat for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, who were frequent guests.

Comprising almost 100 lots, the collection reflects a considered and highly decorative approach to furnishing a historic country house. Georgian and Regency-inspired furniture forms the backbone of the offering, including bookcases, sofa tables, commodes, and seating chosen for their scale, craftsmanship and practicality. These are complemented by an array of mirrors, lighting and ornamental objects, in neoclassical and Louis XVI taste, lending elegance and visual rhythm throughout.

Offered alongside paintings and sculpture, with works ranging from portraits and landscapes to still lifes and busts, the collection displays depth and narrative. Unified by atmosphere rather than strict period, it speaks to a confident eye and a desire to create interiors that feel both composed and livedin. Together, the pieces offered here present an opportunity to acquire objects selected not only for their individual appeal but also for their ability to work in harmony within an exceptional historic house.

LOT 381

A large brass hall lantern, 19th century, surmounted by a coronet and four scrolling supports with rococo shield terminals, above four opaque bevelled glass panes, with four lights

46cm wide, 46cm deep, 103cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 382

A pair of George II-style mahogany and leather elbow chairs, 20th century, each pierced back with foliate carving and a fiddle-shaped splat, with open arms and a leather drop-in seat, raised on cabriole supports terminating in claw and ball feet

68cm wide, 68cm deep, 104cm high

(2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 383

A pair of Regency mahogany side cabinets, c.1815, each with a rounded rectangular top, above a pair of cupboard doors fitted with brass grilles and silk panels, enclosing three shelves, raised on a plinth base 120cm wide, 37cm deep, 84cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 384

Constant-Joseph Brochart (French, 1816-1899)

Shepherd and shepherdess signed and dated ‘BROCHART/’75’ l.r., pastel, tondo

98cm diameter; framed 126 x 146cm

£4,000 - 6,000

Provenance: With Thomas Agnew & Sons; Sotheby’s, London, ‘British & Continental Pictures’,1 December 2004, lot 277.

LOT 385

A pair of George III-style mahogany settees, late 19th century, each arched back with a carved edge, with scroll arms and three loose cushions, upholstered in green velvet, raised on moulded cabriole supports terminating in French scroll feet

205cm wide, 94cm deep, 92cm high (2)

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 386

A pair of carved mahogany open armchairs in the George III style, 20th century, each with a gadroon-moulded frame, a square back and serpentine seat, raised on cabriole supports terminating in scroll feet, upholstered in pale green silk

75cm wide, 75cm deep, 87cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 387

A pair of gilt-brass wall lights, early 20th century, each in the form of hanging drapery, with a tied knot issuing twin twisted branches

27cm wide, 13cm deep, 63cm high

(2)

£200 - 400

LOT 388

A large George III mahogany library bookcase, early 19th century, of breakfront outline, the beaded cornice above astragal-glazed doors enclosing shelves, the lower section with panelled doors

374cm wide, 59cm deep, 258cm high

£3,000 - 5,000

Provenance: Sotheby’s, ‘Furniture and Interior Decoration’, 17 February 2004, lot 93.

LOT 389

A Persian Heriz wool runner, early 20th century, the pale field woven with paisley motifs, within a dark blue border

240 x 52cm

£400 - 600

LOT 390

A Doulton glazed stoneware urn, second half of the 19th century, of campana form, twin-handled, decorated with foliage and putti figures in relief, raised on a stepped pedestal base

43cm diameter, 72cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 391

A pair of brass and glass table lamps, 20th century, each with a slender faceted body, suspending variously cut-glass drops, on a turned wooden base, with a pleated shade 13cm diameter, 32cm high excluding shades (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 392

A group of George III silk-embroidered pictures, late 18th/early 19th century, comprising a pair of shield-shaped examples, each centred with a basket of peonies and roses, and two further examples shield-shaped examples 41 x 32.5cm (4)

£200 - 400

LOT 393

A Regency mahogany whatnot, c.1810, with a ratcheted top above three shelves, one with a short drawer beneath, set between ring-turned supports and raised on moulded feet, terminating in brass caps and castors

53cm wide, 44cm deep, 122cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 394

A tortoiseshell and brass desk stand, 19th century, French, in the manner of André-Charles Boulle, of rectangular form with concave moulded edges, fitted with a pen dish and a pair of glass inkwells, the whole embellished with cut-brass scrollwork and brass mouldings

31cm wide, 26cm deep, 7cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 395

A small George III mahogany side table, c.1810, the rectangular top with re-entrant corners and a reeded edge, above a frieze drawer, raised on square end supports, terminating in sabre legs with brass caps and castors

75cm wide, 53cm deep, 71cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 396

Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734) ‘Neptune and Amphitrite’ oil on canvas

122 x 76cm; framed 144 x 98.5cm

£3,000 - 5,000

Provenance: Christie’s, London, ‘British Pictures (1500-1850)’, 11 June 2004, lot 10; Christie’s, South Kensington, 28 June 1988, lot 4.

LOT 397

A Regency mahogany library bookcase, c.1815, of inverted breakfront outline with a moulded edge, above open shelves with leather trim, flanked by a pair of silk-lined cupboard doors with brass grilles, raised on a plinth base.

182cm wide, 41cm deep, 94cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 398

Spare lot

LOT 399

A neoclassical Nero Portoro marble urn, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, of slender shape, with a flared neck and a pair of handles, to a tapering body and a square base, with damages

17cm wide, 15cm deep, 64cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 400

A Regency mahogany sofa table, c.1820, attributed to Gillows, the rectangular top with drop ends and a bead-and-reel moulded edge, above a frieze drawer to each side, raised on scrolling supports with floral bosses, with outswept reeded legs terminating in brass caps and castors

95cm wide, 66cm deep, 74cm high when closed

£500 - 700

LOT 401

A George III mahogany sofa table, c.1810, the rectangular top with drop ends, above two frieze drawers, one stamped ‘BW 10 V.R.L’, raised on ring-turned supports united by stretchers, with moulded sabre legs, terminating in brass paw feet and castors

149cm wide, 76cm deep, 74cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 402

A pair of large japanned side tables, 20th century, each of canted square outline, with all-over chinoiserie decoration

70cm wide, 70cm deep, 49cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 403

Emile-Victor Blavier (French, 1821-1887) a carved terracotta bust of a lady, modelled wearing a tiara and a lace shawl, with her hand raised to her mouth, signed 60cm wide, 40cm deep, 72cm high £2,000 - 4,000

LOT 404

A pair of Victorian gilt-gesso hanging étagères, second half of the 19th century, each of multistage form, with scrolling floral and foliate detail, and a mirror back 43cm wide, 16cm deep, 111cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 405

Follower of Alfred de Dreux

A woodland ride oil on canvas

65 x 81cm; framed 85 x 100cm

£2,000 - 3,000

LOT

406

Edward Duncan RWS (British, 1803-1882)

‘View of Spithead from the Isle of Wight’ signed and dated ‘E. Duncan/1857’ l.r., watercolour

44 x 90cm; framed 69 x 114cm, in original gilt composition frame

£1,000 - 1,500

Provenance: Mrs Platt-Higgins, of Thinghill, Hereford, Christie’s, London, 22 April 1899, lot 90; sold to Arthur Tooth & Sons, 175-176 New Bond Street, London, for 60 guineas.

Exhibited: Old Water-Colour Society, 1857, no. 169. Illustrated London News, 23 May 1857: ‘Mr Duncan is admirably true to nature in ‘View of Spithead from the Isle of Wight’, and broad and free in execution’.

LOT 407

A tribal wool carpet, 20th century, centred by a medallion and spandrels, with all-over polychrome detail

315 x 187cm

£500 - 700

LOT 408

A pair of neoclassical rosewood and marble étagères, mid-19th century, each with a square top above two shelves, set between fluted Ionic column supports, raised on ring-turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors

49cm wide, 49cm deep, 88cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 409

A pair of Louis XVI-style carved marble and gilt-metal urns, early 20th century, French, each with a pineapple finial and a pair of satyr-head handles, decorated with swags and foliate scrolls, raised on a stepped base 22cm wide, 16cm deep, 50cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 410

A Regency mahogany sofa table, c.1815, the rectangular top with drop ends and a reeded edge, above a pair of frieze drawers, raised on square end supports united by a turned stretcher, with sabre legs terminating in brass caps and castors 152cm wide, 76cm deep, 73cm high

£400 - 600

411

A pair of large Chinese-style red-and-gilt japanned wooden jardinières, 20th century, each decorated all over with figures, pagodas and mountains, with carved lotus detail, raised on scrolling feet and a stepped wooden stand 66cm diameter, 67cm high (2)

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 412

A pair of cranberry glass and gilt-metal table lamps, early 20th century, each of faceted baluster form, on a lobed base with repoussé decoration, with a red silk shade 20cm wide, 20cm deep, 55cm high excluding shades (2)

£200 - 400

413

A small George III mahogany Pembroke table, c.1800, the oval top with drop ends, above a frieze drawer, raised on a turned column and tripod base, terminating in castors

79cm wide, 57cm deep, 74cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 414

Two upholstered armchairs, late 19th/early 20th century, each covered in russet velvet

larger 79cm wide, 94cm deep, 105cm high (2)

£400 - 600

A Victorian-style upholstered ottoman, 20th century, the red ground covered in polychrome foliate design, above a tasselled and buttoned base, raised on castors

74cm diameter, 39cm high

£300 - 500

A pair of brass table lamps, mid/late 20th century, each in the form of an eagle supported by a fluted column and square base

18cm wide, 13cm deep, 60cm high (2)

£300 - 500

A Heriz wool runner, 20th century, with all-over polychrome and geometric detail

332 x 106cm

£400 - 600

LOT 420

A pair of George III mahogany commodes in the manner of Gillows, c.1785, each of bow-front outline with lobed corners, above two short and one long drawer with beaded detail, raised on tapering reeded and fluted supports, terminating in brass caps and castors

104cm wide, 58cm deep, 73cm high

(2)

£3,000 - 5,000

A pair of Louis XVI-style mahogany and ormolu pier mirrors, late 19th century, French, each of plain rectangular form, with foliate paterae and foliate slips enclosing a mercury

glass plate

60.5cm wide, 185.5cm high

(2)

£800 - 1,200

A Louis XVI-style giltwood bergère, early 20th century, the stuffover floral seat flanked by two part-padded outswept arms, enclosed within a moulded gilt frame, raised on carved feet

66cm wide, 60cm deep, 100cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 421

A Louis XVI-style mahogany bouillotte table, late 19th/early 20th century, the circular red leather top with a pierced brass gallery rim, above a frieze with a fitted drawer and ormolu mounts, raised on tapering fluted legs

76cm diameter, 76cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 422

An Aubusson-style wool rug, late 20th century, the cream field with all-over foliate detail

186 x 117cm

£200 - 400

LOT 423 ▲

Marie Moreau (French, 1914-1998)

Still life of roses

signed and dated ‘Marie Moreau 1912’ l.l., oil on canvas

69 x 100cm; framed 86 x 117cm

£300 - 400

LOT 424

French School, circa 1900

A still life of a pot of chrysanthemums on a draped table oil on canvas

82 x 100cm; framed 102.5 x 120cm

£600 - 800

LOT 425

An alabaster bust of a woman, late 19th century, raised on a similar base 34.5cm wide, 39cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 426

After Auguste Moreau, a biscuit porcelain figure group, second half of the 19th century, French, in the form of a pair of putti, raised on a gilt-metal-mounted base, inscribed ‘Auguste Moreau’ 38cm wide, 31cm deep, 55cm high £300 - 500

LOT 427

A rococo carved giltwood overmantel mirror, second half of the 18th century, the landscape frame with pierced scrolling decoration, surmounted by a foliate cartouche above a mercury glass plate 120cm wide, 70cm high

£700 - 900

LOT 428

A gilt-metal and marble mantel clock in the Louis XVI taste, late 19th/early 20th century, French, of urn form, supported by cavorting putti and raised on an oval marble base, the dial set with Arabic numerals 31cm wide, 26cm deep, 58cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 429

A pair of Louis XVI-style biscuit porcelain and gilt-metal-mounted urns, late 19th/early 20th century, French, each with scrolling foliate mounts and mask handles, decorated in relief with putti and foliate swags

27cm wide, 23cm deep, 43cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 430

Eugène Petit (French, 1839-1886)

Chrysanthemums in an urn, with a silver tray and jug on a draped table signed and dated ‘Eugene Petit 75’ l.r., oil on canvas

94 x 128cm; framed 115 x 143cm

£1,500 - 2,500

Provenance: Christie’s, South Kensington, ‘19th Century European Art’, 4 December 2003, lot 94.

LOT 431

A Louis XVI-style painted wooden bergère, late 19th/early 20th century, French, the stuffover seat flanked by part-padded carved outswept arms within a carved frame, with all-over green and white upholstery, raised on carved cabriole legs, terminating in hoof feet

67cm wide, 59cm deep, 96cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 432

A pair of gilt-brass, clear and amethyst glass table lamps, early 20th century, French, each with a knopped glass finial and a slender column, issuing five scrolling branches suspending numerous drops, raised on a scrolling triform base, with delicate silk shades 54cm wide, 33cm deep, 83cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 433

A Gien faience cachepot, late 19th/early 20th century, French, with ram’s-head handles and polychrome design depicting flora and fauna, Gien stamp to base

33cm diameter, 27cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 434

A pair of Louis XVI-style mahogany and marble bouillotte tables, 20th century, French, each of typical form, with a pierced gallery and an arrangement of slides and drawers to the frieze, raised on tapering fluted supports terminating in sabots

65cm diameter, 56cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 435

An Aubusson-style wool rug, late 20th century, the red and ivory field with all-over foliate detail

281 x 185cm

£400 - 600

LOT 436

A Louis XVI painted and parcel-gilt wooden pier mirror, late 18th/early 19th century, French, with an urn surmount flanked by flowers and foliate scrolls, with a moulded frame with acanthus detail enclosing a mercury glass plate

87cm wide, 180cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 437

Follower of Sir Peter Lely

A pair of portraits: a portrait of a nobleman, possibly John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, three-quarter-length, in a red cloak; a portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length seated, in a gold dress and blue wrap oil on canvas

126 x 102cm; framed 142 x 118cm (2)

£4,000 - 6,000

Provenance: With Messrs. Sotheby & Co., London.

LOT 441

A large Persian Feraghan wool carpet, first half of the 20th century, woven with a central medallion and repeating Herati motifs to a deep blue ground

633 x 350cm

£4,000 - 6,000

A George II-style carved oak wall bracket, 19th century, of curved outline, with carved acanthus decoration and a gadrooned body, together with a Roman-style composite funerary urn bracket 42cm wide, 21cm deep, 33cm high, urn 50cm high (2)

£200 - 400

A George III-style walnut and marquetry low bookcase in the Adam taste, c.1890, of demilune outline, the top with radiating veneers above a blind-fret-carved edge, the frieze inlaid with anthemion motifs punctuated by ram’s-head terminals, with open shelves, raised on tapering fluted supports.

203cm wide, 53cm deep, 90cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

442

A pair of brass table lamps, 20th century, each of hexagonal outline, in the chinoiserie taste, with shades

18.5cm base diameter, 54cm high

(2)

£200 - 400

LOT 443

A biscuit porcelain bust of Wellington by C J Mason & Co., second quarter of the 19th century, modelled in the Roman style, on a waisted circular socle, stamped to the reverse ‘Pubd by C J Mason & Co.’

19cm wide, 14cm deep, 28cm high

£600 - 800

For a similar example, see Bonhams, ‘Napoleon Bonaparte: The British Sale’, 27 October 2021, lot 134.

LOT 444

A Heriz wool runner, 20th century, the red field with all-over polychrome, palmette and geometric detail

326 x 81cm

£600 - 800

A Regency mahogany bookcase, early 19th century, with a moulded rectangular top above a reeded frieze, and three open shelves set between fluted pilasters, raised on a plinth base

121cm wide, 29cm deep, 100cm high

£400 - 600

A novelty cricket lamp, 20th century, in the form of a bat, ball and stumps, with a velvet cap, raised on a stepped rectangular base, with a square pleated linen shade

50cm wide, 47cm deep, 83cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 447

A Regency rosewood, parcel-gilt and brass sofa table, c.1820, the rectangular top with drop ends, above a pair of frieze drawers and a turned column with carved acanthus decoration, raised on a quadripartite base with sabre supports, terminating in foliate-cast caps and castors

153cm wide, 75cm deep, 73cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 448

English School, 19th century

A pair of landscapes: a river landscape with anglers; a coastal landscape with fisherfolk and a boat on the shore both indistinctly signed with initials, the first dated ‘1858’(?), oil on canvas, oval

73 x 90cm; framed 98 x 111cm

(2)

£600 - 800

LOT 449

Henry Hewitt (British, 1818-1879)

A wooded landscape with figures by a stream signed and dated ‘H. Hewitt/1842’ l.l., oil on canvas

41 x 59cm; framed 66.5 x 85.5cm

£300 - 500

LOT 450

A Persian Bakhtiari wool runner, 20th century, the red field with all-over polychrome and geometric detail, woven with repeating medallions

366 x 99cm

£400 - 600

A golden oak low library bookcase, mid-19th century, of breakfront outline, with a raised gallery and open shelves with gilt-tooled leather trim, raised on a plinth base

184cm wide, 33cm deep, 101cm high

£400 - 600

An amboyna and mahogany letter box, 19th century, of rectangular form, the hinged lid fitted with a brass slot, 33cm wide, 21cm deep, 17cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 453

James Pardon (British, 1792-1862)

A huntsman with hounds at the edge of a wood signed, inscribed and dated ‘J. Pardon delt./Canterbury 1818’ l.l., oil on canvas

80 x 108cm; framed 99 x 126cm

£4,000 - 6,000

LOT 454

A late Victorian stool or bench, c.1880, the rectangular seat upholstered in brown velvet and raised on ring-turned supports terminating in peg feet

123cm wide, 70cm deep, 49cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 455

A pair of cobalt-blue porcelain and gilt-brass table lamps, early 20th century, French, each of neoclassical urn form, decorated with torches, urns and putti

19cm diameter, 43cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 456

Lucas Whittonus (18th century)

A pair of portraits Portrait of John Knight of Slapton and Wappenham North Hants (b.1664), eldest son of Thomas and Alice Knight, half-length in a green coat, holding a sliver-topped riding crop, a spaniel by his side; Portrait of his wife Catherina Knight, half-length in a blue dress, holding a silver-topped walking stick the first inscribed ‘Knight of Slapton/...Knight of Rugby/AEtatis 72/Lucas Whittonous Pinxt’ u.r., the second inscribed ‘Catherina wife of J...Knight/Anno... AE tatis 37/Lucas Whittonus...’ u.r., both with later transcription verso, oil on canvas

89 x 79cm; framed 102 x 93cm (2)

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 459

A tribal wool rug, 20th century, the red and blue field with a central medallion and all-over polychrome detail

204 x 128cm

£200 - 400

A pair of brass and glass candelabra lamps, 19th century, each stem and base decorated in a carved acanthus and floral design, the scroll arms issuing four sconces with shaded lights and hanging droplets, fitted for electricity

39cm wide, 62cm high (2)

£300 - 500

A late Victorian carved giltwood and gesso pier mirror, late 19th century, the frame set with a pierced crest and scrolling decoration, surrounding a shaped glass plate

87cm wide, 148cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 460

A set of twelve George III mahogany dining chairs, c.1800, in the Sheraton taste, comprising two elbow chairs and ten singles, each with a bar back and pierced splat set with reeded spindles, above a square seat upholstered in velvet, raised on tapering square supports terminating in spade feet

53cm wide, 53cm deep, 83cm high (12)

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 461

A tribal wool rug, 20th century, Turkish, with a central medallion, spandrels and all-over geometric detail

252 x 145cm

£200 - 400

LOT 462

Spare lot

LOT 463

A large carved giltwood and gesso oval mirror, 19th century, the frame with ropetwist and beaded decoration, enclosing a glass plate

200cm wide, 134cm high

£800 - 1,200

464

A bronzed-spelter figural group, ‘Patria’ late 19th/early 20th century, depicting an angel and a blacksmith, bearing a plate inscribed ‘Patria Par Ch. Vely’ and bearing a cast signature

32cm wide, 28cm deep, 63cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 465

A pair of small Napoleon III upholstered armchairs, mid-19th century, French, each with a shaped back and scroll arms, above a serpentine seat raised on tapering turned supports, covered in buttoned green velvet with tasselled detail

80cm wide, 83cm deep, 82cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 466

William Luker Snr (British, 1828-1905) Highland cattle in a mountainous landscape oil on canvas

62 x 102cm; framed 86 x 126cm

£500 - 700

LOT 467

Conway Weston Hart (Australian, 1814-1864)

A drummer boy of the Light Company of an infantry regiment signed ‘C Hart’ l.r., oil on canvas

76.5 x 63.5cm; framed 93 x 79cm

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 468

A Persian wool carpet, early 20th century, woven with repeating mina-khani motifs to a blue ground

371 x 254cm

£600 - 800

LOT 469

Two Limoges pâte-sur-pâte plaques, late 19th/early 20th century, French, comprising a large example of a reclining putto, inscribed ‘Madeline Limoges’, with a smaller example of dancing figures the larger 22 x 30cm, both framed (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 470

A Regency rosewood book trough, c.1815, with a pierced brass gallery and twin handles with foliate detail, with a stepped base

56cm wide, 24cm deep, 17cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 471

Professor Giuseppe Bessi (Italian, 1857-1922) an alabaster bust of Joan of Arc, signed to rear, on a rectangular base

37.5cm wide, 37cm high

£400 - 600

472

After Charles Théodore Perron, ‘Dignité’, a patinated spelter figure, late 19th/early 20th century, French, marked ‘Charles Perron’ 65cm high, base 17cm square

£300 - 500

LOT 473

Henry William Banks Davis RA (British, 1833-1914)

A shepherd tending his flock at sunset signed and dated ‘H. W. B. Davis 1885’ l.l., oil on canvas

76 x 122cm; framed 107 x 152cm

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 474

Manner of John Frederick Herring Snr

Horses at a trough oil on canvas

56 x 76cm; framed: 71 x 92cm

£300 - 500

LOT 475

A taxidermy boar head, late 19th/early 20th century, mounted on a shield-shaped plaque

55cm wide, 60cm deep, 70cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 476

A large brass coal or log bin, late 19th/early 20th century, Dutch, with all-over repoussé decoration featuring eagles, lions, and fleur-de-lys motifs, set with a pair of loop handles and a gadrooned belly

64cm diameter, 50cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 477

A large cast iron fireback in the 17th-century style, 19th century, with an arched top, carved throughout with fruit, foliage, an angel and other figures in relief

77cm wide, 106cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 478

A cast iron fireback in the 17th-century style, 19th century, bearing a coat of arms, with foliate and eagle designs in relief

69.5cm wide, 53.5cm high

£200 - 400

FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART

LOTS 479-558

LOT 479

An ormolu and Siena marble table lamp, 19th century, French, the base mounted with a bust of Henry IV of France, with a 16-inch pleated silk shade, raised on a square pedestal and giltwood plinth base 18cm wide, 18cm deep, 87cm high including shade and finial (3)

£300 - 500

LOT 480

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (French, 1747-1803), a Louis XVI giltwood bergère, with a balloon back and acanthus-capped arms, the serpentine seat raised on tapering spiral-fluted supports, upholstered in green and white-striped floral watered silk, stamped ‘I.B Sene’ beneath 70.5cm wide, 76cm deep, 91cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

Provenance: Acquired by Giuseppe Rossi in 1963; Christie’s, ‘Works of Art from The Giuseppe Rossi Collection Sold to Benefit a Charity’, 24 September-20 October 2020, lot 67; Mackinnon Fine Furniture, London; Christie’s, ‘Mackinnon: Fine Furniture and Works of Art’, 10 November 2021, lot 119; a private collection, London.

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené achieved maître in 1769. This chair was previously offered at Christie’s, attributed to Claude II Sené, the younger brother of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené. Interestingly, the antique silk covering the rear edge of the cushion and the front edge of the seat below shares the same pattern, suggesting that the chair was once, perhaps originally, upholstered in this design, which appears to have been replicated during later re-covering.

LOT 481

A pair of Louis XV-style ormolu candelabra, 19th century, French, each base and stem with carved acanthus and putto detail, terminating in five scrolled sconces 30cm wide, 54cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 482

A Louis XVI-style canapé, late 19th century, of tub form, with all-over silk damask upholstery depicting floral and pastoral scenes, within a carved walnut frame, raised on fluted tapering legs

75cm wide, 60cm deep, 79cm high

£200 - 300

LOT 483

A George III mahogany window seat, c.1760, with scrolling arms and a padded seat upholstered in a pale blue striped textured fabric, raised on moulded square supports

90cm wide, 44cm deep, 59cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 484

A gilt-brass strut timepiece in the manner of Thomas Cole, c.1870, retailed by Leroy & Fils, the silvered dial engraved with foliage and garlands enclosing a Roman chapter ring, housed in a pierced and engraved oval case, the backplate engraved ‘LEROY & FILS PALAIS ROYAL 114 & 115’, with shutter covers to the movement, a winder, and a later velvet case clock 10cm wide, 5cm deep open, 13cm high (3)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 485

A Louis XVI gilt-bronze double-profile portrait relief plaque or badge, late 18th century, French, of oval form, depicting Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI supported by a trophy of arms, set with a paste stone border, mounted on a red silk damask ground within a shaped and moulded giltwood frame buckle 9.5 x 7cm; frame 14 x 11cm

£300 - 500 485

LOT 486

A live-edge tree slice coffee table, of recent manufacture, the top with butterfly brackets, raised on a metal base

160cm wide, 102cm deep, 42cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 487

An upholstered armchair, late 19th/early 20th century, with a deep seat and squat bun feet terminating in castors, covered in Navajo-inspired flat-weave wool

85cm wide, 115cm deep, 75cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

A figured walnut side table, c.1860, with a shaped quarter-veneered top, raised on moulded and fret-cut supports, terminating in scroll feet

76cm wide, 49cm deep, 70.5cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 489

A pair of gilt and black japanned table lamps, of recent manufacture, each of shaped baluster form on a rectangular base, decorated with chinoiserie figures and motifs, fitted with a 17-inch wide pleated shade

22cm wide, 11cm deep, 87cm high including shades (2)

£200 - 400

A set of four giltwood wall lights, late 19th/early 20th century, in the rococo style, each comprising two sconces, foliate decoration throughout, centred by a floral ribbon

29cm wide, 14cm deep, 55cm high (4)

£800 - 1,200

A painted pine commode, of recent manufacture, Italian, incorporating some earlier elements, of serpentine outline with a faux marble top, above two long drawers, raised on cabriole supports and decorated with chinoiserie motifs

132cm wide, 56cm deep, 96cm high

£600 - 800

A George IV mahogany waterfall bookcase, c.1830, with a shaped back and two graduated shelves, above a pair of panelled cupboard doors, raised on bun feet. 89cm wide, 32cm deep, 150cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 493

A bedcover in Tassinari & Chatel crimson silk, of recent manufacture, with embellished trims and overall gilt-metal embroidery depicting stylised palmettes and scrolling foliate tendrils

243 x 182cm

£300 - 500

Provenance: A private collection, London.

LOT 494

A set of bed crown canopy curtains in Tassinari & Chatel silk, of recent manufacture, comprising a pair of curtains and four swags, with ornate gilt-metal tassels each curtain 90cm wide at top, 292cm drop (6)

£500 - 700

LOT 495

A Regency Pontypool-type toleware coal bucket, early 19th century, twin-handled, with gilded floral decoration on a black ground, raised on ornate carved scroll feet

52cm wide, 32cm deep, 47cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 496

A Heriz wool runner, 20th century, decorated with repeating geometric medallions to an ivory ground 573 x 75cm

£1,000 - 2,000

A Regency mahogany cheval mirror, c.1810, with turned supports and brass mounts, with a rectangular swing mirror, raised on splayed supports terminating in gilt-brass lion paw caps and castors

81cm wide, 68cm deep, 182cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 498

A small leather-upholstered camelback sofa, late 19th/early 20th century, with a drop-in seat, studded apron and raised on square supports united by an ‘H’-stretcher

115cm wide, 49cm deep, 77cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 499

A pair of tin-glazed earthenware jars, 20th century, Italian, each of globe form, with underglaze blue painted monogram

25cm diameter, 28cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 500

An Ottoman metal thread, silk and velvet embroidered purse, 19th century, Turkish, of softened rectangular form with a cusped flap, the green silk ground profusely decorated in silver and gilt threads with panels of scrolling floral motifs, the flap lifting to reveal floral sprays in multicoloured silk threads

18cm wide, 9cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 501

An Ottoman gilt-metal thread and velvet embroidered panel, 19th century, Turkish, of circular form with a tasselled fringe terminating in spangles, the plum velvet ground densely decorated in gold thread with foliate sprays and scrolls, centred with a crescent moon and stylised floral medallion, with silk backing

100cm diameter without fringe

£300 - 500

LOT 502

A Damascus specimen wood and micromosaic games table, 20th century, Syrian, the folding rectangular top enclosing a baize-lined playing surface, itself revealing a fitted well, raised on square cabriole supports united by an undertier, profusely inlaid throughout with mother-of-pearl and bone

70cm wide, 36cm deep, 70cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 503

A Damascus walnut and marquetry elbow chair, late 19th/early 20th century, Syrian, with a canted horseshoe back and mother-of-pearl and parquetry detail

60cm wide, 53cm deep, 82cm high

£500 - 700

A Damascus-style walnut and fruitwood armchair, c.1900, in the manner of Liberty & Co., London, the carved top rail with Arabic calligraphy, above a part-padded carved back with mother-of-pearl parquetry design, the stuffover upholstered seat flanked by spindle-back arms, raised on turned feet

63cm wide, 52cm deep, 97cm high

£400 - 600

A Regency reverse glass painting, early 19th century, depicting a classical maiden

18.5 x 15cm; in an ebonised rippled frame

24 x 20.5cm

£200 - 400

A group of three composite stone busts of Zeus, of recent manufacture, after the antique 29cm wide, 26cm deep, 35cm high (3)

£300 - 500

LOT 507

A Regency rosewood and parcel-gilt pier cabinet in the manner of Henry Holland, c.1810, the shaped white marble top, above a pair of panelled doors set between tapering fluted columns, raised on turned feet, 79cm wide, 39cm deep, 88cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 508

A pair of George III mahogany side chairs, c.1760, each with a pierced ladder back and a black oilcloth leather drop-in seat, raised on square supports united by stretchers, both stamped with initials beneath 57cm wide, 57cm deep, 93cm high (2)

£300 - 500

A rustic tree slice chopping block, 20th century, in the vernacular style with slab top, of typical form, raised on four legs

75cm widest diameter, 78cm high

£200 - 400

A copper preserve pan, 19th century, of typical form, with a swing handle and brass brackets

62cm diameter, 39cm high

£200 - 400

A wooden artist’s studio easel by Newman’s of Soho Square, London, early 20th century, with a wind action, the square supports united by stretchers, raised on brass castors, with a crusty paint surface and bearing an ivorine label to the base 69cm wide, 69cm deep, 210cm high at lowest extension

£600 - 800

LOT 512

A large tramp art mirror, mid-19th century, German, the carved frame with all-over geometric decoration, with a 20th-century German newspaper cutting attached verso

42cm wide, 52cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 513

An ash and birch comb-back Darvel Windsor armchair, second half of the 19th century, Scottish, Ayrshire, the high back with a two-part bow, above a serpentine seat, raised on turned supports united by an ‘H’-stretcher

61cm wide, 69cm deep, 97cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 514

A matched pair of ash and elm Windsor chairs, early 19th century, each high hoop back with a pierced fruitwood splat, each seat raised on single ring-turned supports united by an ‘H’-stretcher

57cm wide 65cm deep 109cm high

(2)

£400 - 600

LOT 515

An iron and brass baker’s rack, late 19th/early 20th century, French, consisting of three tiers with scroll decoration throughout 122cm wide, 53cm deep, 203cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 517

A baroque-style carved silvered and giltwood mirror, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, the oval mirror plate within a frame carved with foliate motifs and centred by a ribbon crest

63cm wide, 82cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

A farmhouse oak trestle table, of recent manufacture, united by a stretcher 244cm wide, 78cm deep, 77cm high £600 - 800

LOT 518

A Regency overmantel mirror, c.1820, the triple mirror plate flanked by Corinthian columns, the upper section depicting a classical chariot scene with cherubs, beneath a beaded cornice

148cm wide, 11cm deep, 91cm high

£400 - 600

A pair of painted and parcel-gilt wooden mirrors, 20th century, each with a moulded Hogarth frame enclosing a rectangular glass plate

76cm wide, 97cm high (2)

£500 - 700

LOT 520

A pair of Gothic-style painted metal wall lights, of recent manufacture, by Niermann Weeks, each with a backplate surmounted by an ogee three-centred arch over blind fretwork panels, supporting a single light sconce with trefoil gallery

23cm wide, 12cm deep, 50cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 521

A maiolica pottery tile, 17th/18th century, Italian, painted with a bird 20.5cm square

£200 - 300

LOT 522

Spare lot

LOT 523

A carved giltwood pier mirror, 19th century, of slender rectangular outline, with an elaborately moulded frame with dentil, floral and foliate decoration, enclosing a bevelled glass plate

71cm wide, 145cm high

£700 - 900

LOT 524

A large giltwood mirror, mid-19th century and later, Italian, the oval plate within a laurel leaf frame, with applied grapes and acanthus pediment and mounts

93cm wide, 139cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 525

After Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, The Duke of Wellington, patinated bronze, late 19th/early 20th century, after the monument statue at Hyde Park Corner, London

29cm wide, 14cm deep, 38cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 526

A silver-plated table lamp, 19th century, after the antique, the base in the form of the Townley Vase, the collar stamped ‘S Hooper, New St. Birmingham’, raised on a square black stone base, with a silk shade

21cm wide, 20cm deep, 84cm high including shade (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 527

Three rococo-style gilt-metal and glass chandeliers, early 20th century, Continental, each with glass beaded scrolling frames issuing six light branches, cut-glass sconces and droplets

71cm diameter, 82cm high

(3)

£600 - 800

LOT 528

A George IV rosewood low bookcase, c.1830, the serpentine marble top above open shelves, flanked by a pair of cupboards with pleated silk lining and brass grilles, raised on a plinth base

188cm wide, 40cm deep, 94cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 529

A scagliola low table, late 19th/early 20th century, Italian, the pietra dura circular top with an undertier, raised on ring-turned legs

64cm wide, 45cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 530

A Regency giltwood and gesso convex mirror, c.1815, surmounted by a ho-o bird within fruiting vines, with a moulded frame and a reeded painted slip, issuing a pair of scrolling branches

73cm wide, 21cm deep, 106cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 531

A gilt gesso pier mirror, 19th century, of arched form, with a shell pediment and all-over carved foliage and scroll detail, enclosing a shaped plate

97cm wide, 170cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 532

A pair of scumbled wooden table lamps, 20th century, each column raised on a square plinth, with a pleated paper shade 14cm wide, 14cm deep, 45cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 533

A walnut and feather-banded chest of drawers, early 18th century and later, the rectangular top above two short and three long drawers, raised on bracket feet

97cm wide, 59cm deep, 91cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 534

A baroque-style tortoiseshell wall mirror, 20th century, the frame with black-painted ripple-moulded detail, enclosing a later glass plate.

53.5cm wide, 44cm high

£300 - 500

535

A baroque-style walnut and specimen wood centre table, 19th century, the rectangular top with parquetry decoration, raised on tapering faceted supports united by a wavy ‘X’-stretcher, terminating in bun feet, with ebonised detail throughout.

137cm wide, 79cm deep, 71cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 536

Jef Lambeaux (Belgian, 1852-1908), a bust of a young woman, c.1900, patinated bronze, raised on a marble plinth, signed ‘Jef Lambeaux’ and with ‘H. Luppens & Cie Editeurs’ foundry mark

bronze 47cm high; 62cm high overall

£1,000 - 1,500

537

A giltwood wall mirror, 19th century, French, the rectangular bevelled plate within a fluted frame with a Napoleonic cypher to the corners

56cm wide, 5.5cm deep, 63cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 538

A Regenc y-style mahogany serving table, 19th century, the rectangular top with an acanthus-carved edge, above a plain frieze with bead-and-reel moulding, raised on lion’s-head monopodia terminating in paw feet 218cm wide, 72cm deep, 92cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 539

A pair of hardwood lantern lamps, 20th century, each consisting of four frosted glass panels, resting on a hardwood base, fitted for electricity 19cm wide, 19cm deep, 35cm high (4)

£200 - 400

LOT 540

A pair of marble-veneered mirrors, 20th century, Italian, each frame with gilt floral bosses and a beaded slip with two glass plates

54cm wide, 120cm high

(2)

£500 - 800

LOT 541

A small mahogany meuble d’appui, late 19th/early 20th century, French, of demilune outline, with a brushing slide lined with red felt, above four cupboard doors punctuated by fluted column pilasters, on a plinth base

131cm wide, 36cm deep, 80cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 542

A large upholstered oak stool, of recent manufacture, the square seat covered in an oatmeal wool with blue and green highlights, raised on short cabriole supports

155cm wide, 155cm deep, 41cm high

£400 - 600

Two George III mahogany and parcel-gilt architectural models of classical columns, mid-18th century, the first with a Corinthian capital over a fluted shaft, the other Doric over plain shaft, each with coordinating gilded pedestal and square stepped base Corinthian 76cm high, Doric 70.5cm high; each base 24.5cm square (2)

£3,000 - 5,000

Carved from high quality mahogany and having accents picked out in gold, these rare architectural models were likely intended for an architect’s office, or for a study of a gentleman architect, such as Lord Burlington (1694-1753), who was famously known as the ‘Architect Earl’.

Comparable examples include a set of models of architectural orders preserved at Sir John Soane’s Museum in the architect’s upstairs drawing office.

A comparable set of five models of the architectural orders, catalogued as of French origin and of the Louis XVI period, was sold at Dreweatts, 21 May 2025, lot 304 (£23,000). A further set of three columns, previously owned by the late Sir Albert Richardson (1880-1964), architect, historian, and sometime President of the Royal Academy – was sold by Christie’s London, 19 September 2013, lot 173 (£13,750). A comparable delicacy of the carving, in the manner of the ‘St. Martin’s Lane Circle’, suggests that the present columns were made by the same craftsman.

LOT 544

A collection of nine architectural engravings, 18th/19th century, including: After John Harris, ‘The East Front of Blenheim House Drawn Orthographically’; After Matthias Darly, ‘Elevation of His Royal Highness the Duke of York’s Palace in Pall Mall’, among others, retailed by Sebastian D’Orsai (AB) Ltd. of London

of various sizes, largest 71 x 87cm, smallest 39 x 52cm (9)

£300 - 500

LOT 545

An architectural walnut, amboyna and ebonised pedestal model of a font, late 19th century, the hollow hexagonal top supported by three turned columns, raised on a stepped base

22cm wide, 36cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 546

A pair of Scottish provincial silver-mounted horn beakers, early 19th century, each with a silver rim and liner, the body with an applied silver crest engraved with a ram and initial ‘K’ 9cm diameter, 13cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 547

A pair of carved red marble Solomonic columns, possibly 17th or 18th century, Italian, each with a carved stone Ionic capital above a twisted body, raised on a stepped base 35cm wide, 35cm deep, 196cm high (2)

£4,000 - 6,000

LOT 548

A Regency mahogany collector’s specimen cabinet, early 19th century, the rectangular top above a pair of glazed doors, enclosing thirty-six graduated narrow drawers containing a number of various specimens, on a plinth base

123cm wide, 56cm deep, 120cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 549

A brass candlestick, 16th century, with a waisted base and turned stem, pinned base 16cm diameter, 28cm high £400 - 600

For a similar example, see Ronald F Michaelis, ‘Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks’, p.43, fig.32.

LOT 550

Two folk art painted marriage chests, mid to late 19th century, French, Rouen, each with a domed top and all-over floral and swag decoration, the larger bearing a stamp larger 44.5cm wide, 30.5cm deep, 28cm high; smaller 41cm wide, 17.5cm deep, 19cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 551

A woolwork picture, 20th century, worked in needlework in multicoloured threads, depicting a harvest scene with figures in a farming landscape, painted features image 53 x 159cm; frame 63 x 169cm £300 - 500

LOT 552

A glazed pottery lion, early 19th century, depicting a resting lion, raised on a stepped base

58cm wide, 9cm deep, 31cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 553

A Victorian figured walnut hanging medicine cabinet, c.1870, with an arched pediment centred with a roundel, over a pair of etched glass doors decorated with star motifs, enclosing two shelves

70.5cm wide, 20cm deep, 69.5cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 554

A pair of upholstered armchairs by Colefax and Fowler, of recent manufacture, each of square shape with roll arms, covered in ‘Hector’ herringbone linen fabric and raised on castors

95cm wide, 98cm deep, 70cm high (2)

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 555

A pair of Savonarola stools, 20th century, Continental, of typical form, each with a foliate-carved leather seat 65cm wide, 48cm deep, 49cm high (2) £400 - 600

A Queen Anne walnut chest of drawers, first quarter of the 18th century, with crossbanded decoration, with two short drawers over three long drawers, terminating in later bracket feet

98cm wide, 53cm deep, 91cm high

£500 - 700

A pair of patinated and gilt-bronze candlestick lamps, early/mid-19th century, French, each raised on a tripartite paw base, with a 15½-inch pleated shade, with later alterations

14cm diameter, 63cm high including shades (2)

£1,000 - 1,500

A George III wingback armchair, c.1800, with leather upholstery, scroll nail-trim arms, and raised on chamfered legs and stretchers

90cm wide, 70cm deep, 119cm high

£800 - 1,200

A Life in Bloom: The Contents of a Kensington Residence

Occupying a charming apartment in one of London’s most sought-after postcodes, this collection embodies a highly personal and deeply considered vision of interior decoration. Rooted in a love of the decorative arts, classical ornament and painterly storytelling, it reveals an instinct for composition and atmosphere. Each object was carefully chosen to represent a chapter in the owner’s life story and, when viewed as a whole, contributes to a richly layered setting that has brought endless joy to its creator.

At the heart of the design concept at Abingdon Mansions were the murals and painted furniture by Michael Dillon, whose work laid the foundations for the interior’s overall aesthetic. Commissioned specifically for the space and incorporating vignettes drawn from the owner’s own life, Dillon’s neoclassical compositions – sunlit gardens, distant coastlines and mythological figures – introduce an atmosphere of theatre and deliberate escape into a bygone world. Walls, doors and tables are transformed into architectural illusions and imagined vistas, extending the confines of the rooms and creating a sanctuary removed from the pace and pressures of a hectic City career.

Irish-born Dillon has worked at the highest level of decorative painting since the mid-1980s. His career has taken him from Ireland and the UK to Europe, the USA and beyond, with commissions ranging from National Trust properties and country house hotels to opera sets and luxury yachts. His long association with Fortnum & Mason in the 1990s, and the hand-painted bottle of The Macallan 1926 whisky he completed in 1999 – which later sold for over £1 million – underline the esteem in which his work is held. Yet it is in private commissions, such as those seen here, that his versatility and imagination are most fully expressed.

Among the highlights offered in this sale is the grisaille garden-view panel of 1996. Its classical associations are echoed in a suite of painted furniture depicting scenes from Greek mythology and views of Greenwich, acquired over subsequent years to complement the mural scheme. These works are further enriched by a carefully assembled selection of fine European furniture, porcelain, textiles and works of art, mostly conceived in the Louis XVI and broader neoclassical taste. Floral motifs recur throughout, reflecting both aesthetic preference and personal narrative, and providing a refined framework for Dillon’s painted surfaces.

Following a distinguished professional life in London’s financial world, the owner now resides full-time at her home on the Dorset–Wiltshire border, devoting the same discipline, discernment and creative energy to the surrounding gardens and meadows. The flowers and foliage cultivated there have long served as a sustaining source of inspiration – a living counterpart to the classical gardens imagined within the London interior.

Though now offered as individual lots, the collection retains the coherence of its original conception: an interior shaped by scholarship, craftsmanship and a delight in beautiful surroundings. For collectors, it presents not simply the opportunity to acquire distinctive decorative works, but to participate in a cultivated and imaginative way of living.

LOT 559

A painted and parcel-gilt wooden overdoor, late 18th century, Italian, carved in polychrome with seven standing wheat stems surrounded by a laurel garland, among foliate scrolls, flanked by a pair of later foliate brackets

crest 99cm wide, 36cm high

(3)

£200 - 400

LOT 560 ▲

Shân Egerton (British, 1948-2023)

‘Romanian Jug and Dish’ signed with initials l.r., pastel

31.5 x 26.5cm; framed 41 x 36cm

£100 - 150

LOT 561 ▲

Shân Egerton (British, 1948-2023)

An open landscape with figure, horses and cart signed with initials l.r., pastel

29 x 34cm; framed 38.5 x 43.5cm

£150 - 250

LOT 562

A length of neoclassical woven silk furnishing fabric, late 18th century, French, Lyon, the design in the manner of Jean Démosthène Dugourc (French, 1749-1825) for Maison Pernon et Cie, of loom width, decorated with a burgundy-ground oval and urn-shaped medallions to the centre, enclosing a portrait of a Muse and cherub and two lions respectively, connected by diamond-shaped motifs containing rams’ heads, putti, winged chimera and a cartouche with two putti swimming with a dolphin, on a pale blue ground sprigged with cream foliate arabesques and flaming torches 196 x 56cm; framed and glazed 208 x 67cm

£1,000 - 2,000

Provenance: Acquired from Peta Smyth, London.

A school for future silk weavers was established in the early 17th century in Lyon, which became the main centre for silk weaving in France. The same design framework seen in the present example, albeit with subtle differences, can be found in a fragment of Lyon school silk housed in the Powerhouse Collection, dated c.1780 (object no. 95/211/1). This design includes an oval medallion enclosing a portrait of a Muse and cherub, encircled by delicate arabesques and flanked by flaming torches, with further ram’s heads, putti and winged chimera, all bear striking similarities to the present example.

The Lyon firm of Camille Pernon was responsible for some of the most technically accomplished and luxurious silks of the late eighteenth century, supplying royal and aristocratic patrons across Europe. Among their most influential collaborators was the designer Jean-Démosthène Dugourc, whose refined neoclassical idiom found particular favour with the Spanish court. Several of his woven schemes were produced for King Charles IV, including textiles featuring playful putti, satyrs, and garlanded ornaments, motifs that recur across his work for Maison Pernon et Cie and reflect the workshop’s exceptional mastery of brocaded and embroidered silks. For similar examples, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object nos. 48.79.3 and 33.140.

LOT 563

... Toledo (contemporary)

A vase of flowers signed ‘Toledo’ l.r., also signed and dated ‘2012’ verso, oil on canvas board 30 x 30cm; framed 37 x 37cm £300 - 500

LOT 564

A set of four Louis XVI-style painted wooden side chairs, early 20th century, French, each pierced splat with floral decoration, above a square seat upholstered in floral fabric, raised on tapering fluted supports 51cm wide, 51cm deep, 103cm high (4)

£300 - 500

Michael Dillon (Irish, b.1957), a George III-style painted wooden centre table, 20th century, the oval top centred with figures seated in Greenwich Park, within a floral garland border, raised on a turned column and a quadripartite base, terminating in brass caps and castors

139cm wide, 96cm deep, 73cm high

£400 - 600

A set of five lengths of brocaded silk dress fabric, second half of the 18th century, French, probably Lyon, each panel of loom width, with ribbed tobine white and pink stripes on an ivory taffeta ground, sprigged with weft-woven flowers and brocaded floral sprays in rich colours

116 x 48cm; framed and glazed 125 x 57cm (5)

£2,000 - 4,000

Provenance: Purchased from Peta Smyth, London.

LOT 567

Continental School, 19th century

View of a lake with mountains beyond with indistinct marking l.r., oil on canvas

28.5 x 42cm; framed 38 x 51.5cm

£400 - 600

LOT 568

Frank N Smith (British, 19th century)

Boats moored on the banks of a lake signed, inscribed and dated ‘Frank N. Smith/Tickford/1860’ verso, oil on board, painted circle 21 x 21cm; framed 30 x 30cm

£150 - 200

LOT 569

A neoclassical needlepoint rug, 20th century, woven with floral sprays to a pale ground 242 x 168cm

£200 - 400

A small Napoleon III settee, c.1860, French, with a curved back and outswept arms, raised on tapering turned ebonised supports, upholstered in foliate fabric

146cm wide, 100cm deep, 84cm high

£300 - 500

A pair of small button-upholstered boudoir chairs, late 19th century, each upholstered in foliate silk damask, raised on squat walnut supports 62cm wide, 72cm deep, 75cm high (2)

£300 - 500

572

A small group of floral porcelain pieces, 18th-19th century, comprising: a circular potpourri dish and cover encrusted with flowers, a Meissen footed dish painted with fruit and tulips, a Derby porcelain putto, and a Spode floral encrusted potpourri bowl and cover largest (circular dish and cover) 32cm wide, 29cm deep, 8cm high (6) £300 - 500

LOT 573 ▲

Michael Dillon (Irish, b.1957)

a neoclassical painted wooden low table, of recent manufacture, the circular top centred with the Three Graces, within floral sprays and a lattice border, raised on a turned column and tripod base 85cm diameter, 51cm high £300 - 500

LOT 575

A small Louis XVI giltwood mirror, late 18th century, French, the rectangular plate within a ribbon-and-swag carved frame, surmounted by a Sacred Heart crest

41cm wide, 64cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 576

A group of eight cushions, of recent manufacture, comprising a pair of linen examples decorated with floral sprays, together with three suzani examples, a pair of silk examples and a smaller needlepoint piece linen 52 x 52cm (8)

£200 - 400

LOT 577 ▲

Michael Dillon (Irish, b.1957), a pair of neoclassical painted wooden side tables, of recent manufacture, painted with Greek goddesses, raised on tapering square supports 57cm wide, 41cm deep, 57cm high (2)

£400 - 600

These tables depict the Greek myth of Selene, goddess of the moon, who fell in love with a shepherd, Endymion. Selene’s father, Zeus, in a rage of jealousy, condemned the unfortunate mortal to everlasting sleep.

LOT 578

A silver thread-embroidered velvet panel, 18th century, French, of two lengths, decorated with floral sprays on a blue cut and uncut ground, with flower head spangles, later tasselled border and linen backing

160 x 111cm

£800 - 1,200

Provenance: Acquired from Peta Smyth, London.

20th Century School

A pair of mountain landscapes oil on canvas, oval 13 x 18cm; framed 17.5 x 22cm (2)

£200 - 300

LOT 580

James Warren Childe (British, 1778-1862) Portrait of a girl in an interior with her pet cat signed and dated ‘J W Childe/1839’ l.r., watercolour heightened with white 39 x 31cm; framed 58 x 49cm

£600 - 800

LOT 581

A Louis XVI-style painted oak bureau, late 19th century, the fall carved with foliate scrolls, enclosing a fitted interior, above a frieze drawer and raised on slender cabriole supports, 78cm wide, 48cm deep, 108cm high

£300 - 500

581 LOT 582 ▲ Michael Dillon (Irish, b.1957), a pair of painted wooden bedside tables, of recent manufacture, each moulded rectangular top above a cupboard, raised on cabriole supports, with all-over floral decoration 38cm wide, 34cm deep, 72cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 583 ▲

Julian Barrow (British, 1939-2013)

‘On Elephant Island, Aswan’ signed ‘Julian Barrow’ l.r., oil on canvas

20 x 15cm; framed 27 x 22cm

£400 - 600

Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, London, ‘Julian Barrow, Bond Street to Bengal’, 2002, catalogue no. 43.

LOT 584 ▲

Julian Barrow (British, 1939-2013)

‘Nile Edge, Aswan’ signed ‘Julian Barrow’ l.r., oil on canvas

20 x 25cm; framed 29 x 33.5cm

£600 - 800

Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, London, ‘Julian Barrow, Bond Street to Bengal’, 2002, catalogue no. 38.

LOT 585

A needlepoint wool rug, 20th century, woven with floral sprays

209 x 150cm

£200 - 400

586 ▲

A Louis XVI giltwood fauteuil, c.1780, French, in all-over floral and damask upholstery, flanked by part-padded carved arms raised by spiral twist supports, with a dart beaded gilt frame, raised on fluted tapering legs, with additional upholstered cushions

59cm wide, 56cm deep, 90cm high

£500 - 700

A silver-metal and enamel-clad settee in the Regency style, 20th century, Indian, the bar back set with a pair of ram’s head terminals, above a drop-in seat upholstered in red silk damask, raised on sabre supports, decorated all over with Mughal-style flowers and foliate scrolls

114cm wide, 61cm deep, 86cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 589

A pair of Regency porcelain tureens, early 19th century, by Spode, each with twin loop handles on an oval foot, the cover with a scroll finial, decorated with flowering branches in the Kakiemon style, within flower-panelled iron-red and gilt scroll borders, with restorations

39cm wide, 22cm deep, 25cm high (4)

£200 - 400

Provenance: Acquired from Stockspring Antiques.

LOT 590

A group of Gardner Manufactory ‘Eastern Market’ porcelain bowls, late 19th century, Russian, each painted with two reserves containing floral sprays, painted red marks underneath, including: a pair, on a blue ground, another, on a red ground, one larger, red ground, and another pair five 16.5cm diameter, 8cm high; one larger 18.5cm diameter, 9cm high (6)

£200 - 400

Provenance: A collector in Pakistan.

The Gardner Porcelain Factory was founded in 1766 by the English merchant Frances Gardner, in the village of Verbilki, Moscow. In the 1770s and 1780s, the factory produced the four Order Services for Empress Catherine II: Order of St Andrew the First-Called, the Order of St George the Victorious, the Order of St Alexander Nevsky and the Order of St Vladimir. The Gardner factory produced wares of a standard that competed with the Imperial Porcelain Factory, both for the national and international market. In 1892, the factory was bought and absorbed by the Matvei Kuznetsov factory.

A similar piece can be seen in the V&A Collection, accession no. C.10-2018, collected in Afghanistan. As Russian influence expanded across Central Asia in the late 19th century, Gardner porcelain entered regional trade networks and became surprisingly well integrated into local material culture. Surviving examples from Afghanistan show not only that these wares were imported, but that they were valued and repaired using distinctive Afghan techniques, indicating long domestic use. Russian manufacturers, including Gardner, also produced specialised ‘Eastern-market’ goods with bright decoration, local ornamental motifs and even Arabic inscriptions, designed to appeal to Muslim consumers across Central Asia. These tailored exports, circulating along historic routes linking Herat, Kabul and Quetta, illustrate how Russian porcelain adapted to, and was absorbed by, the tastes and traditions of communities across Afghanistan and the wider region.

LOT 591

A pair of Minton painted porcelain cachepots, second half of the 19th century, each of circular form with ring handles, decorated with daisies in grass, on a blue ground, impressed ‘MINTON’ mark to the foot rim and registration mark for October 1868

24cm wide, 20cm deep, 17.5cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 592

A pair of watercolours, early 20th century, French, watercolour and crayon, each depicting porcelain designs by Gabriel Fourmaintraux, Desvres, France sheet 30 x 46cm; in glazed and painted frames 70 x 87cm (2)

£400 - 600

Provenance: Acquired from Lucy B Campbell, 123 Kensington Church Street, London, labelled verso.

LOT 593

A pair of Minton porcelain potpourri vases, 19th century, each painted with a titled vignette of Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, and Haughton Castle, Durham, respectively, the reverse with a bouquet, with entwined stem handles issuing flowering branches, lacking covers 27cm wide, 18cm deep, 14cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 594

A walnut, rosewood and parquetry occasional table, 19th century, Italian, Sorrento, the canted square top with an inlaid games table, with geometric decoration to the border, raised on a ring-turned column and four scrolling supports 60cm wide, 60cm deep, 73cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 595

A terracotta bust of a young woman, 19th century, French, raised on a marble socle base 31cm wide, 17cm deep, 54cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 596

After Carlo Maratti Putti with festoons of flowers oil on canvas 48 x 78cm; in a moulded giltwood frame 66.5 x 96cm £200 - 400

This example is a copy of a piece in the Louvre collection (no. RF 2114), which belongs to a well-known group of collaborative works associated with Carlo Maratti and the German still-life painter Franz Werner von Tamm, produced after von Tamm settled in Rome in 1685. The two artists are recorded as having decorated a suite of six overdoors for the banker Francesco Montioni’s residence on the Via del Parione between 1692 and 1694. Their success was such that Marchese Nicolò Maria Pallavicini later asked Maratti to create a further set of four comparable pieces for the Palazzo Pallavicini.

The decorative appeal of these schemes sparked considerable demand, prompting Maratti’s extensive workshop to supply repetitions for patrons eager to adopt the latest Roman fashions in interior ornament. Although the original cycles have since been dispersed, four of the six Montioni canvases have been securely identified, with those other than the Louvre example held at the Accademia Albertina’s Gemäldegalerie in Vienna, and another surviving in a private collection in Mantua. The Pallavicini set, however, appears to have left no trace in modern scholarship. In December 2009, Christie’s sold a workshop version of the work for £24,000, and other related workshop versions of differing compositions from the series remain in situ in the Salone da Ballo of the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi.

After Auguste Joseph Peiffer, The Gallant Musketeer, terracotta, inscribed ‘PEIFFER’, raised on an ebonised circular base

18cm diameter, 37cm high

£200 - 400

A large gilt porcelain punchbowl, 19th century, painted with a floral bouquet to the centre, bordered by an extensive gilt border, the exterior with similarly decorated reserves, with painted blue mark underneath ‘JP’ 31cm diameter, 13cm high £200 - 400

A pair of Saint-Cloud-style porcelain potpourri bowls and covers, 19th century, each of oval form with a pierced cover, encrusted with trailing flowering vines and raised on a naturalistic base, with indistinct underglaze blue marks to the underneath 18cm wide, 14cm deep, 18cm high (4) £200 - 400

A Murano glass still life sculpture, 20th century, Italian, modelled as a group of fruit and vegetables

17cm diameter, 23cm high

£100 - 200

SILVER LOTS 601-607

LOT 601

A George III silver trophy cup, the base marked William Holmes, London 1792, the cover with a greyhound finial, the cover altered, GHAC no. 9662

25cm wide, 15cm deep, 29.5cm high; 47.9ozt (2)

£2,000 - 4,000

602

A Charles II silver wine taster, late 17th century, marks rubbed, twin-handled, with punched decoration 8cm diameter; 1.1ozt

£500 - 700

LOT 603

A pair of George III silver-gilt candlesticks, by John Schofield, London 1796, each of tapering column form on a circular foot, with chased palmette borders, with detachable nozzles, engraved to the base with a crest, marks to base and nozzle, bases loaded 14.5cm wide, 33cm high (2)

£4,000 - 6,000

LOT 604

A pair of George II silver-gilt plates, maker’s initial ‘H’, London 1754, each of circular form with a gadrooned border, the underside of the rim engraved with a griffin head

28cm diameter; 46ozt (2)

£1,800 - 2,200

LOT 605

A George II silver tumbler cup, London 1730, engraved initials to the underside

T over T * E 5.5cm diameter, 4cm high; 1.8ozt

£300 - 500

LOT 606

A George I silver kettle, burner and stand, by Isaac Ribouleau, London 1725, raised on a pierced stand with cast paw feet

27cm diameter, 26cm high including stand; 77ozt (3)

£2,000 - 3,000

LOT 607

A silver centrepiece, the bowl stamped ‘ED. Wollenweber, Munich’, in the form of a classically dressed maiden, engraved ‘To the revered[?] Director [?] Georg Airhegger’, ‘50th Anniversary’ and ‘Baunndoll spinning mill and weaving mill in Haufbeuren’, the detachable bowl with foliate cast rim 34cm diameter, 56cm high (2)

£4,000 - 6,000

FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART

LOTS

608-685

LOT 608

A George III mahogany eight-day longcase clock, third quarter of the 18th century, the broken arch silvered dial signed to the arch ‘James Wright, Derby’, below a rolling moon and lunar calendar, the chapter ring with Roman numeral hours and Arabic minutes, enclosing a subsidiary second dial and date aperture, with foliate scrollwork throughout, the five-pillar(?) twin-train movement with anchor escapement striking on a bell, the case in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster, the hood with moulded swan neck pediment above a fretwork frieze and arched door flanked by fluted columns, the trunk with dentil moulded and concave throat above a ‘Chinese Chippendale’ blind fretwork frieze, the serpentine crossbanded long door with flame-veneered inner panel, the base with central moulded panel flanked by quoin canted angles on dwarf ogee feet

51cm wide, 24cm deep, 213cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

Provenance: The vendor is a descendant of John Smith, a 19th-century Derby clockmaker.

LOT 609

A William and Mar y-style walnut and marquetry cushion-framed mirror, 19th century, with scrolling foliate detail, enclosing a later glass plate

81cm wide, 81cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 610

A set of six shellwork pictures, first quarter of the 20th century, five of maritime interest and another depicting a beachfront scene, all with naturalistic features, each enclosed within a shellwork frame with convex glazing largest 23cm diameter

(6)

£600 - 800

LOT 611

A wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, the field with all-over polychrome geometric detail

251 x 183cm

£500 - 700

A walnut and marquetry bureau, late 18th century, Dutch, of bombé form, the rectangular top above a shaped fall-front enclosing a writing surface and fitted interior, with three long drawers below, on ball and claw feet, one handle changed 134cm wide, 63cm deep, 113cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 613

A George II-style mahogany supper table, c.1880, the carved top, with eight dished sections and shell-carved detail, raised on a turned column with a birdcage action, with a carved tripod base

74.5cm diameter, 74.5cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 614

A Victorian Betjemann’s patent walnut book slide, fourth quarter of the 19th century, numbered ‘4358’, with two hinged ends mounted with gilt-brass Gothic-style panels, inset with malachite cabochons

40.5cm wide, 17.5cm deep, 19cm high

£200 - 300

LOT 615

A Venetian giltwood girandole, 18th century, Italian, the etched mirror plate depicting classical motifs, enclosed within a carved giltwood scroll frame

45cm wide, 95cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 616

A George III mahogany pier table, c.1790, of serpentine form, with rosewood banding, the plain frieze set with a pair of paterae, raised on tapering square supports terminating in spade feet.

127cm wide, 58cm deep, 84cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 617

A silver-plated ice bucket stand, c.1970s, Continental, the stand stamped ‘Alpaca Platada’ with associated but distinct bucket, made in France base diameter 23cm, 72cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 618

A Regenc y-style giltwood mirror, 20th century, the round frame surmounted by a black-painted eagle crest and set with a pair of scrolling candle arms, enclosing a bevelled glass plate

108cm wide, 154cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 619

A George III-style mahogany side table, c.1890, with a plain demilune top above a frieze with carved swags, paterae and urns, raised on tapering square supports

100cm wide, 46.5cm deep, 70.5cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 620

A William IV mahogany cellaret, c.1835, of sarcophagus form, the hinged lid enclosing a fitted interior, with a pair of lion mask handles, raised on paw feet and castors, with all-over carved acanthus detail

87cm wide, 66cm deep, 60cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 621

A chinoiserie black lacquer and painted wooden coffee table, 20th century, of rectangular shape, incorporating a 17th-century Chinese coromandel lacquer panel into the top, decorated with figures in a pagoda, raised on stylised square supports 107cm wide, 51cm deep, 40cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 622

A pair of gilt-brass bouillotte table lamps, 20th century, French, each with a green and parcel-gilt-decorated tole shade, over three light sconces and a circular dished drip tray base

37cm diameter, 77cm high

(2)

£400 - 600

LOT 623

A black and gilt japanned low table, 20th century, of circular form, the top decorated with flowers, foliage, birds and landscapes, above a pierced frieze and cabriole supports

105cm diameter, 39cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 624

A pair of alabaster lion bookends, of recent manufacture, Italian, each in the form of a resting lion, raised on carved base

29.5cm wide, 10cm deep, 20.5cm high

(2)

£300 - 500

An export black-lacquered bamboo screen, 20th century, Chinese, the four-panel leaves decorated with flowers, foliage and birds to one side and calligraphy to the other each panel 41cm wide, 203cm high

£700 - 900

A pair of turned wooden urns, 20th century, each with a wide everted rim, over a ribbed body, socle foot and tall cylindrical pedestal base 24cm diameter, 75cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 627

Philips Galle (1537-1612) after Maarten van Heemskerck

The Eight Wonders of the World a complete set of eight engravings from the third edition, including:

‘The Pyramids of Giza’;

‘The Lighthouse at Alexandria’;

‘The Statue of Zeus at Olympia’;

‘The Colossus of Rhodes’;

‘The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus’; ‘The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus’; ‘The Colosseum at Rome’ each numbered l.r. margin plate 21 x 26cm; framed and glazed 43 x 48cm (8)

£2,000 - 4,000

Literature: New Hollstein 478-485, third state of three.

LOT 628

A pair of Louis XVI patinated and gilt-bronze candelabra, late 18th century, French, each in the form of a child holding a bunch of flowers issuing twin light branches, raised on a cylindrical red marble pedestal and a square gilt-bronze base

44cm high, base 11cm square (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 629

A James II oak dresser base, late 17th century and later, the rectangular top above four frieze drawers with geometric moulding, raised on ring-turned and block supports terminating in bun feet, with alterations

250cm wide, 48cm deep, 70cm high

£500 - 700

A flat-weave wool runner of Anatolian design, of recent manufacture, woven with a polychrome geometric design to a pale ground

384 x 80cm

£300 - 500

LOT 631

A pair of brass palm trees, c.1920s, French, each raised on a circular base with ball feet

11cm diameter, 13cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 632

A brass and leather bedside cabinet in the Regency taste, 20th century, the galleried top set with pineapple and pointed finials, above a pair of faux book spine doors enclosing a marbled paper interior, raised on slender reeded supports terminating in conforming peg feet

36cm wide, 32cm deep, 63cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 633

A large giltwood overmantel mirror, 19th century, in the Italian taste, the mirror plate within a carved foliate border

187cm wide, 120cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 634

A George III painted and parcel-gilt-wooden armchair, c.1770, in the manner of John Linnell, the cartouche back with outswept carved padded arms, with foliate and swag decoration throughout, raised on four fluted legs

68cm wide, 58cm deep, 102cm high

£700 - 900

LOT 635

A Regency mahogany hanging waterfall bookcase, early 19th century, with a fretwork gallery above four graduated shelves, on ring-turned supports

107cm wide, 19cm deep, 58cm high £200 - 400

LOT 636

An ebony and specimen wood tripod table, mid to late 19th century, Sri Lankan, the octagonal top inlaid with radiating specimen wood veneers including Macassar, camphorwood, teak, padouk, satinwood and palmwood, raised on splayed bobbin supports

61cm diameter, 66.5cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 637

A flat-weave wool rug of Anatolian design, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating geometric motifs and stripes

208 x 130cm

£200 - 400

LOT 638

A Victorian mahogany stool, c.1870, with purple velvet upholstery and a shaped apron, raised on cabriole supports terminating in brass castors

103cm wide, 51cm deep, 45cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 639

A biscuit porcelain bust of Napoleon as First Consul, 19th century, French, after a model by Louis-Simon Boizot, turned slightly to dexter in a high-collared jacket incised with foliate vine, raised on a gilt-metal socle and a graduated marble base

12cm diameter, bust 17cm high, 36cm high including base

£400 - 600 639

LOT 640

A rosewood occasional table, c.1860, the circular top with a shaped apron, raised on a turned column and a scrolling tripod base 56cm diameter, 72.5cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 641

A faience double-gourd vase, 19th century, French, tin-glazed earthenware, painted with gilt reserves on a yellow ground, alternating between scenes of cherubs and peony bouquets in blue and white 16cm diameter, 31cm high

£150 - 250

LOT 642

A Regenc y-style patinated metal table lamp, 20th century, with a reeded stem, raised on a three paw supports and a tripartite base 21cm diameter, 78cm high

£200 - 300

LOT 643

A Louis XV carved giltwood console table, mid-18th century, Italian. the violet marble top of serpentine outline, above a rococo carved scrolling base 120cm wide, 54cm deep, 85cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 644

A pair of verde antico imitation marble table lamps, c.1940s, in the French taste, each in the form of an urn with gilded decoration throughout, twin ram’s-head handles and raised on a gilded base 64cm high, 18cm base diameter (2) £300 - 500

LOT 645

A Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted mantel clock 19th century, French the case with an eagle crest and porcelain mounts, an eight-day drum-head movement striking on a bell, to an engraved gilt dial, with pendulum and key 46cm wide, 13cm deep, 35cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 646

A collection of grand tour plaster intaglios, 19th century, depicting French monarchs, to include Louis XVI and Charles IX mounted in six, later, glazed giltwood frames 43 x 33cm (6) £700 - 900

LOT 647

A pair of patinated and gilt-bronze candlestick lamps, early to mid-19th century, French, each raised on a circular foliate cast base, with a 12½-inch pleated shade, with later alterations

12cm diameter, 53cm high including shades (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 648

A Louis XIV-style eight-light giltwood chandelier, 20th century, the frame with all-over carved acanthus and scroll detail, issuing scrolling arms

93cm wide, 111cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 649

A Venetian etched glass panel mirror, late 19th century, Italian, the cruciform frame with bevelled glass panels and an arrangement of etched glass plates within an ebonised moulded surround

89cm wide, 107cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 650

A pair of patinated bronze tazzas in the manner of Clodion, late 19th/early 20th century, French, each in the form of a group of putti supporting a scallop shell bowl with gilt interior, raised on a canted square base

15cm wide, 12cm deep, 25cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 651

An Oushak wool carpet of Karachov Kazak design, of recent manufacture, the ivory and red field with all-over polychrome, geometric and floral detail

295 x 199cm

£400 - 600

A stripped wooden pier mirror, early 20th century, with a moulded frame enclosing a

mercury glass plate

108cm wide, 130cm high

£300 - 500

A long Victorian pine bench, 19th century and later, upholstered in green wool

265cm wide, 60cm deep, 92cm high

£400 - 600

Provenance: The selected contents of Comforts Place, Lingfield, Surrey.

A large silver-mounted mirror, the silver by George Heath, London 1887, the rectangular frame with softened corners, mounted with silver ribbons and a monogram crest on a velvet ground

57cm wide, 78cm high

£700 - 900

LOT 655

A George III mahogany secretaire bookcase, late 18th century, with a glazed upper section enclosing shelves, above a fitted drawer, enclosing nine drawers flanking four pigeonholes, over two further drawers and raised on bracket feet.

109cm wide, 57.5cm deep, 231cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 656

A long Victorian pine bench, 19th century and later, upholstered in green wool

265cm wide, 60cm deep, 92cm high

£400 - 600

Provenance: The selected contents of Comforts Place, Lingfield, Surrey.

LOT 657

A flat-weave wool runner of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Barbro Nilsson

996 x 73cm

£400 - 600

LOT 658

A flat-weave wool runner of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Barbro Nilsson, woven with geometric motifs in tones of green and yellow

454 x 74cm

£400 - 600

LOT 659

Two export porcelain famille rose vase lamps, 19th century, Chinese, each of baluster form, with flora and fauna detail, raised on a carved hardwood stand smallest 22cm diameter, 61cm high; largest 26cm diameter, 62cm high (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 660

A George I-style walnut and inlaid bachelor’s chest, early 18th century and later, with a fold-over top above two short and three graduated long drawers, raised on bracket feet, with alterations 74cm wide, 40cm deep, 78cm high

£300 - 500

661

A collection of seven brass alms dishes, probably 16th century or later, Continental, all with repoussé design, including some depicting Adam and Eve largest 47cm diameter, smallest 28cm diameter (7)

£1,000 - 2,000

662

A Heriz wool carpet, early to mid-20th century, the field with an all-over design of stylised foliate and geometric motifs

300 x 232cm

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 663

A pair of leather buckets, late 18th/early 19th century, each painted with red initials, with leather handles 27cm diameter, 30.5cm high (2)

£500 - 700

LOT 664

After Anne Pratt, a collection of 24 coloured lithograph prints, likely from ‘The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain’, first published in 1855

22.5 x 17.5cm; framed 27.5 x 22.5cm (24)

£500 - 700

LOT 665

A George III mahogany sideboard, c.1790, the crossbanded serpentine top over an arrangement of drawers, raised on tapering supports

182cm wide, 68cm deep, 89cm high

£300 - 500

Provenance: Purchased at auction in 1947, thence by descent.

LOT 666

A pair of painted toleware six-light chandeliers, of recent manufacture, each of scrolling foliate form with verdigris decoration

66cm diameter, 68cm high (2)

£400 - 600

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LOT 667

A composition figure of an armorial unicorn, of recent manufacture, cast from an architectural fragment, modelled recumbent with a crown collar, an acorn and oak leaf wreath beneath, lacking horn

73cm wide, 37cm deep, 75cm high

£200 - 400

For a similarly modelled Coade example, see Christie’s, ‘Dunsborough Park: Garden Statuary from the Collection of Baron and Baroness Sweerts de Landas Wyborgh’, 19-20 June 2013, lot 64.

668

A folk art terracotta cow, 20th century, Continental, depicted in a resting position, painted with butterflies and naturalistic motifs, signature to leg

49cm wide, 14cm deep, 19cm high

£200 - 400

669

A pair of lacquered occasional tables, late 19th century, each painted top with mother-of-pearl inlay depicting a landscape scene, raised on a turned column and scroll tripod legs, with gilded floral design

46cm diameter, 58cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 670

A Ziegler wool carpet, 20th century, Persian, woven with scrolling Shah Abbasi motifs to a pale ground

360 x 267cm

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 671

After Carl Kauba

‘Peace’, patinated bronze, raised on a circular marble base, inscribed ‘C. Kauba’

20cm diameter, 72cm high

£800 - 1,200

Born in Vienna in 1865, Carl Kauba trained at the Academy of Fine Arts and became internationally recognised for his depictions of Native American subjects. Although it remains uncertain whether he ever travelled to the United States, his works reflect the late nineteenth-century European fascination with the American West. The present example, ‘Peace’, was conceived as a thematic counterpart to Kauba’s companion bronze, ‘War’, the pair representing opposing yet complementary aspects of leadership and tribal life.

LOT 672

After Richard Lancake, ‘Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants Described in The Gardeners Dictionary’, a set of eight hand-coloured engravings of botanical subjects, engraved by Jefferys and Miller

34 x 22cm, framed and glazed

45.5 x 33.5cm (8)

£200 - 300

LOT 673

A large George IV oak library armchair, c.1830, the arched rail with three bullseye roundels, above a pair of moulded open arms and a red leather back and seat, raised on tapering reeded front supports terminating in brass caps and castors

74cm wide, 74cm deep, 115.5cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 674

A George III glazed and brass hall lantern, late 18th/early 19th century, of tapered form with ram’s-head masks to the corners, with a dished glass smoke guard

26cm wide, 26cm deep, 51cm high overall (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 675

Four painted plaster armorial shields, early 20th century, each bearing a coat of arms comprising Winchester College, Clifton College, Wellington College and the University of Oxford

53 x 42cm

(4)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 676

A George III yew and elm Windsor chair, late 18th century, with a high hoop back and a saddle seat, raised on cabriole forelegs united by an ‘H’-stretcher

63cm wide, 57cm deep, 99cm high

£300 - 500

A yew and elm Windsor armchair, early 19th century, North-East Midlands, with a low hoop back with a pierced splat, raised on single ring-turned supports united by a crinoline stretcher

58.5cm wide, 50cm deep, 87cm high, 44cm to seat

£300 - 500

LOT 678

A Tabriz wool carpet, mid-20th century, Persian, the field with an all-over design with bold Shah Abbasi motifs to a red ground

447 x 327cm

£3,000 - 5,000

Jacques Barbié (French, 1735–1779), a set of five black and white engravings, comprising portraits of General Wolff [sic], Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, François de Chevert, and Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, together with a set of five German figural prints largest 20 x 11cm; frame 24 x 15cm (10)

£300 - 500

A mounted red deer skull, 20th century, German stamped ‘Ex Libris. Freiherr von Wolffersdorf’ 90cm high approximately £300 - 500

A small James II oak chest of drawers, late 17th century, the moulded rectangular top above three graduated drawers with geometric mouldings, with panelled sides and raised on bun feet 76cm wide, 51cm deep, 69cm high £300 - 500

A pair of toleware cockerels, 20th century, French, each naturalistically painted and raised on a circular rock base 46cm wide, 21cm deep, 55cm high (2) £300 - 500

683

A provincial pine tavern table, 19th century, the circular tilt top raised on a swivel base with trestle supports 95cm diameter, 70cm high £300 - 500

A painted wooden dummy board, late 19th/early 20th century, in the form of a young girl with a hoop and a stick 58cm wide, 19cm deep, 89cm high £300 - 500

A joined oak chest, early 17th century, the hinged lid with notched edges, above a carved front decorated with a pair of Romayne panels, inscribed ‘Anno 1613’ 94cm wide, 40cm deep, 59cm high £300 - 500

GARDEN LOTS 686-698

LOT 686

A patinated metal figure of a seated moose, of recent manufacture, modelled in a reclining position on an integrated base

112cm wide, 174cm long, 141cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 687

A set of four terracotta garden pots, of recent manufacture, French, each in the form of a basket, with loop handles 42cm diameter, 37cm high (4)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 688

A Victorian slate sundial by Richard Melvin, London, dated 1860, of multi-dial form, with pointed gnomons

35.5cm square, 20cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 689

Karen Melody Green (American, b.1968), a patinated copper weathervane, in the form of a humpback whale, stamped ‘3 Green 2006’ to the tail, above ‘N-E-S-W’ directions, raised on a tubular stand and a square base

66cm long, 88cm high including base

£800 - 1,200

LOT 690

A pair of cement sphinxes, late 20th century, Italian, each of typical form, on an integral rectangular base

61cm wide, 23cm deep, 50cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 691

A pair of white marble Buddhist lions, 20th century, each seated on a square plinth base overall 59cm wide, 90cm deep, 155cm high (4)

£400 - 600

LOT 692

A pair of black stone Buddhist lions, 20th century, each seated on a square plinth base, 39cm wide, 51cm deep, 89cm high overall (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 693

A lead shell fountain splash, 19th century, raised on a tripartite base, with feet in the form of fish

37cm wide, 32cm deep, 41cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 694

A faux marble fountain head, 20th century, in the form of a lion’s head, modelled after the gargoyles on the cornice of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon

40cm diameter, 36cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 695

A stone greyhound figure, 20th century, the animal depicted recumbent, raised on a stepped base

73cm wide, 22cm deep, 33cm high

£300 - 500

LOT

A pair of reconstituted stone lions, first quarter of the 20th century, French, each modelled seated with one paw raised 28cm wide, 51cm deep, 66cm high (2)

£700 - 900

A carved marble fountain, late 19th century, in the form of a putto wrestling a frog

32cm wide, 32cm deep, 66cm high

£800 - 1,200

A pair of garden urns, 19th century, each of flared form with egg-and-dart border, raised on a lobed column and socle base

79cm diameter, 77cm high (2)

£500 - 700

The Richard Collins Collection

Continued in our upcoming Design and Modern & Contemporary Art auctions.

Modern & Contemporary Art | Tuesday 31 March Design | Tuesday 21 April © Simon Brown

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

For Specialist Live Auctions

Our conditions of business consist of:

1. Information for Buyers;

2. [Terms of Consignment for Sellers –not detailed here, but can be viewed at www.sworder.co.uk]

3. Terms of Sale for Bidders and Buyers.

1. INFORMATION FOR BUYERS

Introduction

The following notes are intended to assist Bidders and Buyers, particularly those that are inexperienced or new to our salerooms. All of our auctions are governed by our Terms and Conditions and any notices that are displayed in our salerooms or announced by the Auctioneer at the auction. Our Terms and Conditions are available for inspection at our salerooms and the Terms of Sale are printed in the back of our auction catalogues. Our staff will be happy to help you if there is anything in our Terms and Conditions that you do not fully understand.

Please make sure that you read our Terms of Sale carefully before bidding in the auction. If your bid is successful, you will be obliged to comply with our Terms of Sale.

Methods of payment

Lots must be paid for before they are collected or shipped. For those attending the auction we ask that Lots are paid for on the day of the sale. Methods by which we accept payment are detailed on our Website, including online payment upon receipt of your invoice, and these should be paid by 5pm on the Friday following the sale. We accept cash to an upper limit of 10,000 euros equivalent. Any cheques will need to be cleared before you can take the Goods away.

Collection and storage

All Lots should be paid for and collected by 5pm on the Friday following the sale. Commission Bidders should check the success of their bids and arrange payment, and collection or shipping within this time. For our specialist auctions please refer to the collection and storage requirements detailed in the catalogue and on our Website, which specifies the applicable fees.

Furniture and large items sold in our Fine Interiors, Design or Specialist Single-Owner Sale Auctions, and small items if they form part of the same invoice, not collected within seven working days of the auction will be sent to Abels Moving Services Ltd. at your expense. Refer to clause 10 in Sworders Terms of Sale for more information.

Agency

As Auctioneers we usually act on behalf of the Seller whose identity, for reasons of confidentiality, is not normally disclosed. If you buy at auction your contract for the Goods is with the Seller, not with us as Auctioneer.

Estimates Estimates are designed to help you gauge what sort of sum might be involved for the purchase of a particular Lot. Estimates may change and should not be thought of as the sale Price. The lower estimate may represent the Reserve Price (the minimum Price for which a Lot may be sold) and will not be below the Reserve Price. Estimates do not include the Buyer’s Premium or VAT (where chargeable). Estimates are prepared some time before the auction and may be altered by a saleroom notice or announcement by the Auctioneer before the auction of the Lot. They are not definitive. Buyer’s Premium

The Terms of Sale oblige you to pay a Buyer’s Premium on the Hammer Price for each Lot purchased, at 25%, except for our Fine Wine and Spirits auctions when it is 18%. In addition, VAT is charged on these Premiums (see below).

Value Added Tax (VAT)

Items in our catalogue may be marked with a dagger † or double dagger ‡, which indicates that VAT is payable by the Buyer on the Hammer Price and the Buyer’s Premium at either the standard rate (currently 20%) or a reduced rate (currently 5%), depending upon the legal requirements relating to that Lot.

Lots which do not have either of the above symbols have no VAT payable on the Hammer Price. This is because such Lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. The VAT included within the Premium is not recoverable as input tax.

Shipping Costs are liable for VAT and are payable by the Buyer.

If you are exporting the items from the UK, you may be able to claim a reimbursement of the VAT, where:

1. you are using Sworders Delivery service.

In these cases, a zero rated (VAT exempt) invoice can be issued where the following criteria are met:

a. the items are exported within three months of the date of the auction

b. the total amount of VAT payable would exceed £75 per shipment

There is no administrative charge for clients using Sworders Delivery Service.

If you cancel shipping through Sworders Delivery Service, we will reinstate the VAT, which must be paid prior to the release of goods.

2. you arrange shipping through a private logistics company, agent or courier and the following criteria are met:

a. the invoice is paid in full, including VAT

b. the items are exported from the UK within three months of the date of the auction

c. the certificate of shipment and export documents are provided to us within a year of the date of export from the UK d. the total amount of VAT to be claimed exceeds £75 (from which you will be deducted a £25 administration fee.

See Terms of Sale clause 5 for more information relating to VAT. Inspection of Goods by the Buyer

As we act on behalf of the Seller, we are dependent on information provided by the Seller about their Goods. We may inspect Lots and will act reasonably in taking a general view about them. However, we are normally unable to carry out detailed examinations of Lots to check their condition in the way a Buyer would do. You will have ample opportunity to inspect the Goods. You must inspect and investigate Lots that you might wish to bid for. Please note carefully the exclusion of liability for the description and condition of Lots set out in the Terms of Sale at clauses 16.2 and 16.4.

Condition reports

We may be able to assist Buyers unable to view by emailing a condition report, but these are based solely on our own opinion and are for guidance only and no responsibility is accepted for their accuracy. Intending Buyers are strongly encouraged to view.

Shipping of Goods

We offer a delivery service for Lots purchased, either by shipping ourselves, in partnership with Bradleys Shipping Services, or use of a third party logistics company. Estimates for Shipping Costs for smaller items may be calculated pre-sale on our website under each Lot and are based on value, size and your chosen UK destination. For items purchased the actual cost can be added to your account and paid online after the sale. If you purchase multiple Lots from the same auction, we will combine packaging/ deliveries to reduce the Shipping Costs. Lots for which Shipping Costs cannot be automatically calculated, such as furniture, you can obtain a bespoke Shipping Cost from our website to any destination in the world after you have purchased an item, by clicking the link in your invoice.

Estimates of Shipping Costs on our website are based on the low estimate, whilst the actual cost is based on Hammer Price. Furniture and large items sold in our Fine Interiors, Design of Specialist Single Owner Sale Auctions, and small Items if they form par of the same invoice, will be removed from the premises after 4pm seven working days following the sale, by Abels Moving Services Ltd., the cost of which you will be liable for. See clauses 9 and 10 in the Terms of Sale for Title and Collection of Purchases and Costs relating to Collection Services, for more details.

Electrical Goods

These are sold as ‘antiques’ only for their historical or decorative attributes. If you buy electrical Goods for use you must ask a qualified electrician to check them for compliance with safety regulations before you use them.

Export of Goods

If you intend to export Goods you must find out:

a. whether an export licence is needed; and b. if there is a prohibition on importing Goods of that character e.g. because the Goods contain prohibited materials.

Restricted Items

We do not sell items that are prohibited under UK legislation from sale.

The sale of lots containing ivory from Elephants, hippopotamus, narwhal, killer whale, and sperm whale are banned, subject to some exemptions. For goods that contain ivory, you should satisfy yourself that they are correctly registered or certified and meet the exemption criteria as set out in applicable legislation.

If you intend to export goods that may fall to be a protected species, or one that requires to be registered or listed as exempt, you should find out:

a. whether you need an export licence

b. if there is a prohibition on the export of goods of that nature outside of the UK or on the import of goods into your intended country, for example, if the goods contain prohibited materials such as elephant ivory or protected fauna and flora

Post 1950 Upholstered Furniture

All items of furniture included in a sale are offered for sale as works of art. The items may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and for this reason, they should not be used in a private dwelling.

Furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia nigra)

To comply with CITES Regulations on Post-1947 furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood, all post-war rosewood furniture items must have an Article 10 certificate in place, prior to being offered for sale.

If you are purchasing rosewood furniture for commercial purposes and not solely for your own use, CITES regulations require you to obtain your own certificate. You would need to contact the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and, as part of the process of obtaining your document, it is a requirement that you have seen sight of the Sworders’ certificate or are aware of its reference number.

It is the responsibility of commercial Buyers to ensure that they obtain a copy of the appropriate certificate, or the certificate reference number, after purchase from Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers. Items are marked with this sign §.

Bidding

Bidders are required to register with us before the auction starts. We Reserve the right to impose a deadline prior to the auction by which you must register or by which we must receive a Commission bid. If you wish to bid on high value Lots this deadline may be several days before the auction to allow us sufficient time to carry out the necessary checks. In some cases, we may require a deposit to be paid against Lot, prior to confirming your bid. Lots will be invoiced to the name and address as registered for bidding. You may need to provide us with proof of your identity in a form acceptable to us and such other information as we may require. Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for telephone or online bidding. Please note that we may refuse to register you, if you do not provide us with all the information and documentation that we ask for or at our discretion.

Commission bidding

You may leave Commission bids with us indicating the maximum amount to be bid against a Lot (excluding the Buyers’ Premium and/or any applicable VAT). We will execute Commission bids as cheaply as possible having regard to the Reserve (if any) and competing bids. If two Buyers submit identical Commission bids we may prefer the first bid received (where this can be reasonably ascertained). We recommend leaving Commission bids online via our Website, though please contact us about leaving bids by telephone or fax/email. All absentee bids should be received at least 30 minutes before the auction commences; we cannot guarantee to execute Commission bids received after this time.

Telephone bidding

If you are unable to come to the auction it may be possible to bid on the telephone for higher value Lots. Please note that this service is generally for Lots with an estimate of £500 or more. The number of lines may be limited so we urge serious telephone bidding only and ask that you be prepared to bid over the top estimate. It is advisable to leave a maximum covering bid in case we are not able to contact you by telephone. All lines must be booked and confirmed in writing before the day of the auction and preferably some time in advance. Telephone bidding involves many variables and whilst we take every care to ensure the smooth operation of this service, we cannot be held liable if your bids are missed for any reason.

Online bidding Lots purchased via a live online bidding service may be subject to an additional Commission charge on the Hammer Price payable by the Bidder, in accordance with rates specified by the online service. These are charged at 0% if bidding via Sworders Website. If bidding through other online bidding platforms, you will be charged additional surcharges, which will be payable to us on top of the Hammer Price and our Buyer’s Premium at their advertised rate.

Artist’s Resale Right Lots marked with a ▲ indicate the item is subject to additional Artist’s Resale Right charges, payable by the buyer.

Financial Checks

As auctioneers we may have to conduct various checks into our customers under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (as amended), under sanctions legislation and other related legislation.

If you are successful in your bid, and your hammer total is in excess of £6,000.00, you may need to provide the documentation, as set out below, unless we confirm we already have this information from you:

a. For individuals

1.a.1. official photo identification (driving licence, passport or equivalent); and

1.a.2. proof of address (less than three months old)

b. For corporate entities

1.b.1. the certificate of incorporation (or equivalent) with the entity’s official name, registered number (if any) and registered address

1.b.2. details and ID documentation for directors and beneficial owners of the entity

c. For trusts and estates

1.c.1. details and ID documentation for executors/trustees; and 1.c.2. details of beneficiaries and settlor

We may ask you for further information if we deem this necessary. We may use third party software, to enable you to provide us with your identification documents, to verify your identity and ensure compliance with our legal responsibilities.

If you are bidding for another person (your “principal”) you will be required to provide the above information for yourself and your principal, along with a signed letter from your principal authorising you to bid on his/her behalf.

If we deem that you have not provided sufficient information for us to complete our anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions checks to our satisfaction, we may refuse to register you to bid and we may postpone completion of, or cancel, any contract made by you and the Seller in the event you have made a successful bid.

TERMS OF CONSIGNMENT FOR SELLERS

Not detailed here, but can be viewed at www.sworder.co.uk

3. TERMS OF SALE FOR BIDDERS AND BUYERS

Please note that if you register to bid and/or bid at auction this signifies that you agree to and will comply with these Terms of Sale. Please note that these Terms of Sale relate to auctions conducted by an Auctioneer only, where the opportunity is available to view the lots. We have separate terms for online only auctions and those where viewing is not available.

1. Definitions and interpretation

1.1 To make these Terms of Sale easier to read, we have given the following words a specific meaning:

In these Terms of Sale, the words ‘you’, ‘yours’, etc. refer to you as the Buyer. The words ‘we’, ‘us’, etc. refer to the Auctioneer. Any reference to a ‘Clause’ is to a clause of these Terms of Sale unless stated otherwise.

2. Information that we are required to give to Consumers

2.1 A description of the main characteristics of each Lot as contained in the auction catalogue.

2.2 Our name, address and contact details as set out herein, in our auction catalogues and/or on our Website.

2.3 The Price of the Goods and arrangements for payment as described in Clauses 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10.

2.4 The arrangements for collection or delivery of the Goods as set out in Clauses 9 and 10.

2.5 Your right to return a Lot and receive a refund if the Lot is a Deliberate Forgery as set out in Clause 15.

2.6 We and Trader Sellers have a legal duty to supply any Lots to you in accordance with these Terms of Sale.

2.7 If you have any complaints, please send them to us directly at auctions@sworder.co.uk.

2.8 We also refer you to your warranties as a Bidder and Buyer as set out in Clause 6.

‘Auctioneer’ means GES & Sons Ltd trading as Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, a company registered in England and Wales with registration number 6858916 and whose registered office is located at Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex CM24 8GE or its authorised Auctioneer, as appropriate;

‘Art Market Participant’ means an art market business registered with HMRC under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017;

‘Bidder’ means a person who places a bid for Goods at our auction;

‘Bidding Platform’ means the bidding platform on which the online auction is held operated by the Auctioneer, or by a third party service provider on the Auctioneer’s behalf;

‘Bidding Platform Fee’ means the fee equal to a % of the hammer price charged on the sale of a Lot, as advertised on the bidding platform on which the online auction is held, operated by a third party service provider;

‘Buyer’ means the person who makes the highest bid for the Goods accepted by the Auctioneer;

‘Buyer’s Premium’ means the commission we charge you on the purchase of a Lot;

‘Commission’ means the Commission that we charge a vendor on the sale of their Goods;

‘Consumer’ means an individual acting for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside that individual’s trade, business, craft or profession;

‘Deliberate Forgery’ means: (a) an imitation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source; (b) which is described in the catalogue as being the work of a particular creator without qualification; and (c) which at the date of the auction had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been as described;

‘FCA’ means the Financial Conduct Authority;

‘Goods’ means the Goods that have been consigned to us for sale at our auction;

‘Hammer Price’ means the level of the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer and recorded in the Auctioneer’s sale book;

‘Lot(s)’ means the goods that we offer for sale at our auctions;

‘Money Laundering Legislation’ means the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 and related legislation, together with any applicable terrorist financing legislation and legislation on restrictive measures;

‘Premium’ means the Premium charged to the Buyer on the sale of the Goods in accordance with the Terms of Sale as set out in clause 4;

‘Price’ means the total of the Hammer Price, Premium, Shipping Costs (if applicable) and any applicable VAT;

‘Principal’ means a person or entity you are acting on behalf of for the purposes of the consignment of the goods to the Auctioneer;

‘Proceeds’ means the Price less the Commission, the Premium, Shipping Costs, any expenses incurred to your account and any applicable VAT;

‘Reserve’ means the minimum Price at which the Goods may be sold;

Restrictive Measures’ means economic or financial sanctions, export controls, embargoes or any other restriction on trade under the laws of the European Union, the United Kingdom or the United States, or in the jurisdiction in which you, your Principal, or any agent acting for you does business;

‘Sale Proceeds’ means the net amount due to the seller;

‘Seller’ means the owner of the Goods and any agent who consigns the Goods for sale on the owner’s behalf (if applicable);

‘Shipping Costs’ means the charges applied to the shipping of all Goods purchased, should the Buyer ask for Sworders shipping agent to deliver the Goods (if applicable);

‘Terms of Consignment’ means the Terms on which we agree with sellers to offer Lots for sale in our auctions, as agent on their behalf;

‘Terms of Sale’ means the Terms of Sale for Bidders or Buyers at our auctions (as updated from time to time);

‘Total Amount Due’ means the hammer price for a Lot, the Premium, any applicable artist’s resale right royalty, any service charge or fee levied by an independent bidding platform through which the successful bid was placed, any VAT due and any additional charges payable by a defaulting buyer under these terms of sale;

‘Trader’ means a Seller who is acting for purposes relating to that Seller’s trade, business, craft or profession, whether acting personally or through another person acting in the Trader’s name or on the Trader’s behalf (such as an agent and/or the Auctioneer);

‘VAT’ means any value added tax or equivalent sales tax; and

‘Website’ means our Website available at www.sworder.co.uk.

3. Bidding procedures and the Buyer

3.1 You must register your details with us before bidding and provide us with any requested proof of identity and billing information, in a form acceptable to us. You must also satisfy any security arrangements we have in place before entering the auction room to view or bid. If you are bidding on behalf of someone else, you will be required to provide us with all information on the ultimate owner of the goods as we may require, to satisfy our checks under the Money Laundering Legislation.

3.2 We strongly recommend that you attend the auction in person. You are responsible for your decision to bid for a particular Lot. If you bid on a Lot, including by telephone and online bidding, or by placing a Commission bid, we assume that you have carefully inspected the Lot and satisfied yourself regarding its condition and other characteristics.

3.3 If you instruct us we may execute Commission bids on your behalf. We will confirm receipt of your instruction by sending you an email acknowledging your request and confirming your bid. Neither we nor our employees or agents will be responsible for any failure to execute your Commission bid, unless our failure to do so is unreasonable. Where two or more Commission bids at the same level are recorded, we have the right to prefer the first bid made (where this can be reasonably ascertained).

3.4 The Bidder placing the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer will be the Buyer at the Hammer Price. The Auctioneer shall retain discretion on the running of the auction and retains the right not to accept a bid and to prefer a bid over any other bids received at the same time. Any dispute about a bid will be settled at our discretion. We may reoffer the Lot during the auction or may settle the dispute in another way. We will act reasonably when deciding how to settle the dispute.

3.5 Bidders will be deemed to act as Principals, even if the Bidder is acting as an agent for a third party.

3.6 We may bid on Lots on behalf of the Seller up to one bid below the Reserve.

3.7 We may refuse to accept any bid if it is reasonable for us to do so.

3.8 Bidding increments will be at our sole discretion (but will be in line with standard auction practice).

3.9 If you participate in the auction using the services of an Independent Bidding Platform, other than Sworders Live, you will incur an additional fee or additional commission payable to that platform. We will collect this fee as part of the Total Amount Due if you are successful in your bid.

4. The purchase Price As the Buyer, you will pay:

a. the Hammer Price;

b. a Premium of 25% plus VAT of the Hammer Price or 18% plus VAT for our Fine Wine and Spirits Auction;

c. any artist’s resale right royalty payable on the sale of a Lot; and d. any Independent Bidding Platform fee payable on a Lot; and e. any VAT due.

5. Value Added TAX (VAT)

5.1 As the Buyer, you shall be liable for the payment of any VAT applicable on the Hammer Price, Premium and Shipping Costs (if applicable) due for a Lot, at the appropriate rate prevailing by law at the date of the auction. Please see the symbols used in the auction catalogue for that Lot and the ‘Information for Buyers’ in our auction catalogue for further information. Please see 5.6 for the conditions to be fulfilled before the VAT charged on the Hammer Price may be cancelled or refunded upon exporting from the UK

5.2 Lots affixed with (†): VAT on the Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium is imposed on all items affixed with a dagger (†). This imposition of VAT maybe because the Seller is registered for VAT within the UK and is not operating under a Margin Scheme.

5.3 Lots affixed with (‡): A reduced rate of Import VAT on the Hammer Price of 5% is payable. This indicates that a Lot has been imported from outside the UK.

5.4 Lots affixed with [Ω]: Standard rate of 20% of Import VAT on the Hammer Price and premium is payable. This applies to items that have been imported from outside the UK and do not fall within the reduced rate category.

5.5 Lots affixed with [Ω] or ‡ when these lots are released to buyers in the UK, the buyer will become the importer and must pay Sworders the import VAT at the rates noted above on the hammer price. The buyer should also note that the appropriate rate will be that in force on the date of our release and not that in force at the date of auction or payment.

5.6 Export from the UK: For lots offered under the VAT Margin Scheme and lots with [Ω] or ‡ symbols attached; you may be eligible to have a VAT refund in certain circumstances if the lot is exported. Should you show us proof of export within three months of collection a VAT refund may be arranged. No VAT amounts will be refunded where the total refund is under £75. Bank/transfer charges relating to any refund will be borne by the buyer and will not be reimbursed. Please note that all customs formalities of the destination country are the responsibility of the buyer.

6. Buyer Warranties

6.1 You warrant, and where you are acting on behalf of someone else, you will procure that your Principal warrants, that:

6.1.1 the funds to be used for the purchase of the lot(s) are not connected with, nor derived from, any criminal activity, including

without limitation tax evasion, money laundering or terrorist financing;

6.1.2 neither you, or an agent acting for you, nor your Principal, are to the best of your knowledge either under investigation, nor have you been charged with or convicted of without limitation tax evasion, money laundering, terrorist financing or other criminal activities; and

6.1.3 neither you, nor any agent acting for you, nor your Principal, are subject to restrictive measure or owned, partly owned or controlled by person(s) subject to such restrictive measures.

6.4 Where you are bidding on behalf of another person and you are an Art Market Participant, you warrant that:

(i) you have conducted appropriate customer due diligence on the ultimate Buyer of the goods, in accordance with all applicable Money Laundering Legislation (ii) upon request, you will provide us, or any independent third party auditor (employed at our cost), with any identification and any other relevant documents you have obtained for customer due diligence purposes on the ultimate buyer of the goods (iii) you consent to us relying on this due diligence; and (iv) you will retain for a period of not less than five years the documentation evidencing the due diligence

6.5 Where you are acting on behalf of another person and you are not an Art Market Participant, you warrant that you will provide accurate and complete information about your Principal to us.

7. The contract between you and the Seller

7.1 The contract for the purchase of the Lot between you and the Seller will be formed when the Auctioneer records the winning bidder in the sale book accepting the highest bid for the Lot at auction, unless due diligence information required by us under the Money Laundering Regulations in accordance with our internal procedure remains outstanding, in which case the contract will be formed when that information is accepted by us as complete.

7.2 You may directly enforce any terms in the Terms of Consignment against a Seller to the extent that you suffer damages and/or loss as a result of the Seller’s breach of the Terms of Consignment.

7.3 If you breach these Terms of Sale, you may be responsible for damages and/or losses suffered by a Seller or us. If we are contacted by a Seller who wishes to bring a claim against you, we may at our discretion provide the Seller with information or assistance in relation to that claim.

7.4 We normally act as an agent only and will not have any responsibility for default by you or the Seller (unless we are the Seller of the Lot).

7.5 In addition to any other rights we may have to cancel a contract for sale under these Terms of Sale, we may delay completion of a sale, delay the release of a lot or cancel the sale of a lot in the event:

7.5.1 you are in breach of your warranties in clause 6;

7.5.2 we have not completed our enquiries pursuant to the Money Laundering Legislation to our satisfaction;

7.5.3 we have reason to believe that the transaction might be unlawful for any reason or that the sale might put us under a civil or criminal liability.

8. Payment

8.1 Immediately following your successful bid on a Lot you will:

8.1.1 give to us, if not already provided to our satisfaction, proof of identity in a form acceptable to us (and any other information that we require in order to comply with our anti-money laundering obligations); and

8.1.2 pay to us the total amount due in any way that we agree to accept payment.

8.1.3 pay in full the Shipping Costs prior to the Goods being shipped, should you agree to Sworders shipping agent delivering the Goods.

8.2 If you owe us any money, we may use any payment made by you to repay these debts.

9. Title and collection of purchases

9.1 You are bound by the contract for the purchase of a lot at the recording of the winning bid in the auctioneers sale log, however, the transaction is not complete, and ownership will not pass to you and you and may not claim or collect a Lot until:

9.1.1you have paid us the total amount due, including any additional charges, in cleared funds; and

9.1.2 you have provided us with the information, and we have completed our enquiries, in relation to our responsibilities under Money Laundering Legislation, as set out in clause 8.1

9.2 You will (at your own expense) collect any Lots that you have purchased and paid for not later than 5pm on the Friday following the auction, or such later date as is specified in the printed catalogue, on our Website or agreed with us subsequently.

9.3 If you agree to using our delivery service, only when the full Shipping Costs have been paid will the Goods be dispatched. We reserve the right that some Lots will not be suitable for an automated shipping estimate and will require bespoke quotes from the shipping agent.

9.4 If you do not collect the Lot within the time period under Clause 9.2, you will be responsible for removal and storage charges in relation to that Lot – see clause 9.5 -9.7 below.

9.5 Furniture and large items sold in our Fine Interiors, Design or Specialist Single Owner Sale Auctions, and small items if they form part of the same invoice, will be removed from the premises after 4pm seven working days following the sale, by Abels Moving Services Ltd, for storage at their Potters Bar depot and subject to collection, storage and administration costs, the cost of which you will be liable for. See clause 10 for Costs relating to Collection and Storage Services

9.6 Items will be stored by Abels Moving Services Ltd free of charge for seven days from the date of collection. Storage charges will commence thereafter. All costs associated with collection and storage in these cases are payable directly to Abels Moving Services Ltd and must be paid prior to collection of the lot – see clause 10 on Costs Relating to Collection and Storage Services.

9.7 All lots must be collected by prior appointment at:

Abels Moving Services Ltd, The Heights, East, Cranborne Road, Potters Bar, EN6 3JN.

020 4259 4315

collectionsPB@abels.co.uk

Collections Monday – Friday 08:30-16:30 only.

9.8 Risk of loss or damage to the Lot will pass to you when you (or your agents) take physical possession of the Lot, or it is collected by Abels Moving Services Ltd.

9.9 If you do not collect the Lot that you have paid for within thirty days after the auction, we may sell the Lot. We will pay the Proceeds of any such sale to you but will deduct any storage charges or other sums that have been incurred in the storage and sale of the Lot. We reserve the right to charge you a selling Commission at our standard rates on any such resale of the Lot.

10. Costs Relating to Collection and Storage services

10.1 These fees relate to the collection and storage of your purchases by Abels Moving Services Ltd. and are payable directly to them.

10.2 Collection from Sworders £25 per collection of 1-5 items and £50 per collection of 6-10 items listed on an invoice (plus VAT).

10.3 Free storage for one week thereafter, then:

10.3.1 £4.00 (plus VAT) per lot, per day*

*Additional charges apply for items exceeding 8 x 8ft

*A levied liability charge (LLC) of £0.08 per £1,000 value of goods is payable

*Admin fees will be payable on collection of goods from Abels Moving Services Ltd.

*All charges are subject to VAT and 6.27% insurance on total charges.

11. Remedies for non-payment or failure to collect purchases

11.1 Please do not bid on a Lot if you do not intend to buy it. If your bid is successful, these Terms of Sale will apply to you. This means that you will have to carry out your obligations set out in these Terms of Sale. If you do not comply with these Terms of Sale, we may (acting on behalf of the Seller and ourselves) pursue one or more of the following measures:

11.1.1 take action against you for damages for breach of contract; 11.1.2 reverse the sale of the Lot to you and/or any other Lots sold by us to you;

11.1.3 resell the Lot by auction or private treaty (in which case you will have to pay any difference between the Price you should have paid for the Lot, and the Price we sell it for as well as the charges outlined in Clause 9.7). Please note that if we sell the Lot for a higher amount than your winning bid, the extra money will belong to the Seller;

11.1.4 remove, store and insure the Lot at your expense;

11.1.5 if you do not pay us within five business days of your successful bid, we may charge interest at a rate not exceeding 1.5% per month on the total amount due;

11.1.6 keep that Lot, or any other Lot sold to you, until you pay the total amount due, including Shipping and Storage Costs where applicable;

11.1.7 reject or ignore bids from you or your agent at future auctions or impose conditions before we accept bids from you; and/or

11.1.8 if we sell any Lots for you, use the money made on these Lots to repay any amount you owe us.

11.2 We will act reasonably when exercising our rights under Clause 11.1. We will contact you before exercising these rights and try to work with you to correct any non-compliance by you with these Terms of Sale.

12. Health and safety

Although we take reasonable precautions regarding health and safety, you are on our premises at your own risk. Please note the lay-out of the premises and security arrangements. Neither we nor our employees or agents are responsible for the safety of you or your property when you visit our premises, unless you suffer any injury to your person or damage to your property as a result of our employees’ or our agents’ negligence.

13. Sellers warranties

13.1 The Seller warrants to us and to you that:

13.1.1 the Seller is the true owner of the Lot for sale or is authorised by the true owner to offer and sell the Lot at auction;

13.1.2 the Seller is able to transfer good and marketable title of the Lot to you free from any third party rights or claims; and

13.1.3 as far as the Seller is aware, the main characteristics of the Lot set out in the auction catalogue (as amended by any notice displayed in the saleroom or announced by the Auctioneer at the auction), and any documentation provided to you by the seller in relation to the Lot, are correct.

13.2 If, after you have placed a successful bid and paid for a Lot, any of the warranties above are found not to be true, please notify us in writing. Neither we nor the Seller will be liable to pay you any sums over and above the total amount due and we will not be responsible for any inaccuracies in the information provided by the Seller except as set out below.

13.3 Please note that many of the Lots that you may bid on at our auction are second-hand.

13.4 If a Lot is not second-hand and you purchase the Lot as a Consumer from a Seller that is a Trader, a number of additional terms may be implied by law in addition to the Seller’s warranties set out at Clause 13.1 (in particular under the Consumer Rights Act 2015). These Terms of Sale do not seek to exclude your rights under law as they relate to the sale of these Lots.

13.5 Save as expressly set out above, all other warranties, conditions or other terms which might have effect between the Seller and you, or us and you, or be implied or incorporated by statue, common law or otherwise are excluded.

14. Descriptions and condition

14.1 Our descriptions of the Lot will be based on:

(a) information provided to us by the Seller of the Lot (for which we are not liable); and

(b) our opinion (although it is likely that we will not be able to carry out a detailed inspection of each Lot).

To Note: The actual colour of a Lot may vary from images in the auction catalogue or online listing.

14.2 We will give you a number of opportunities to view and inspect the Lots before the auction. You (and any independent consultants acting on your behalf) must satisfy yourself about the accuracy of any description of a Lot. We shall not be responsible for any failure by you or your consultants to properly inspect a Lot in advance of the auction.

14.3 Representations or statements by us as to authorship, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling Price involve matters of opinion. We undertake that any such opinion will be honestly and reasonably held and accept liability for opinions given negligently or fraudulently, but not otherwise.

14.4 Please note that Lots (in particular second-hand Lots) are unlikely to be in perfect condition. Lots are sold ‘as is’ (i.e. as you see them at the time of the auction). Neither we nor the Seller accept any liability for the condition of second-hand Lots, for their fitness or purpose, or for any condition issues affecting a Lot if such issues are included in the description of a Lot in the auction catalogue, online listing, the condition report for a lot (or in any saleroom notice) and/ or which the inspection of a Lot by the Buyer ought to have revealed.

14.5 Restricted Items containing Ivory

14.5.1 The sale of lots containing ivory from Elephants, hippopotamus, narwhal, killer whale, and sperm whale are banned, subject to some exemptions. In these cases, where these items are offered for sale, we rely on information provided to us by the Seller confirming that the item satisfies the relevant legal exemptions. We will display the Ivory Declaration Submission Reference relating to the application for exemption in the Lot description. Lots marked  contain ivory material.

14.6 Post 1950 Upholstered Furniture

14.6.1 All items of furniture included in a sale are offered for sale as works of art and may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988; for this reason, they should not be used in a private dwelling.

14.7 Furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia Nigra)

14.7.1 To comply with CITES Regulations on Post-1947 furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood, all post-war rosewood furniture will have an Article 10 certificate in place, prior to being offered for sale and we will display the Certificate Number in the information for each lot. These items are marked with this sign §.

14.7.2 If you are purchasing rosewood furniture for commercial purposes and not solely for your own use, CITES regulations require you to obtain your own certificate. You would need to contact the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and, as part of the process of obtaining your document, it is a requirement that you have seen sight of the Sworders’ certificate or are aware of its reference number.

14.8 Electrical items

14.8 Lots with electrical components are sold as ‘antiques’ only for their historical or decorative attributes and for display purposes only. If you buy electrical Goods for use, you must ask a qualified electrician to check them for compliance with safety regulations before you use them.

14.9 Fire Safety

14.9 All items of furniture are sold as a Collector’s item, for display purposes and are not supplied for use. Such lots may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and for this reason, you must first ensure that they are refurbished and rendered compliant with any applicable furniture and safety regulations.

15. Deliberate Forgeries

15.1 You may return any Lot which is found to be a Deliberate Forgery to us within twelve months of the auction provided that you return the Lot to us in the same condition as when it was released to you, accompanied by a written statement identifying the Lot from the relevant catalogue description and a written statement of defects.

15.2 If we are reasonably satisfied that the Lot is a Deliberate Forgery, and it has been returned to us within the specified time, in the condition in which it was released to you, we will refund the money paid by you for the Lot (including any Premium and applicable VAT), You will have no right to a refund under this clause if:

15.2.1 the catalogue description reflected the accepted view of experts as at the date of the auction; or

15.2.2 you personally are not able to transfer good and marketable title in the Lot to us

15.3 If you have sold the Lot to another person, we will only be liable to refund the Price that you paid for the Lot. We will not be responsible for repaying any additional money you may have made from selling the Lot. Your rights under this clause are given to you as a Buyer in our auction; they are not given to, and may not be transferred or assigned to, any third party.

15.4 Your right to return a Lot that is a Deliberate Forgery does not affect your legal rights and is in addition to any other right or remedy provided by law or by these Terms of Sale.

16. Our liability to you

16.1 We will not be liable for any loss of opportunity or disappointment suffered as a result of participating in our auction.

16.2 In addition to the above, neither we nor the Seller shall be responsible to you and you shall not be responsible to the Seller or us for any other loss or damage that any of us suffer that is not a foreseeable result of any of us not complying with the Terms and Conditions. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it is obvious that it will happen or if at the time of the sale of the Lot, we, you and the Seller knew it might happen.

16.3 Lots are sold as antiques for their decorative attributes rather than for use, and are often of considerable age and uncertain manufacture; neither we, nor the seller, accepts liability for loss or damage to Lots, or any other loss or damage that is caused by, or results from, any inherent vice or defect affecting the Lots

16.4 Subject to Clause 15.4, if we are found to be liable to you for any reason (including, amongst others, if we are found to be negligent, in breach of contract or to have made a misrepresentation), our liability will be limited to the total purchase Price paid by you to us for any Lot.

16.5 Notwithstanding the above, nothing in these Terms of Sale shall limit our liability (or that of our employees or agents) for:

16.5.1 death or personal injury resulting from negligence (as defined in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977);

16.5.2 fraudulent misrepresentation; or

16.5.3 any liability which cannot be excluded by law.

17. Notices

17.1 All notices between you and us regarding these Terms of Sale must be in writing and either from your registered email address, our email address, or if in hard copy letter, signed by or on behalf of the party sending it.

17.2 Any notice referred in Clause 17.1 may be given:

17.2.1 by delivering it by hand;

17.2.2 by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery; or

17.2.3 by email

17.3 Notices must be sent:

17.3.1 by hand or registered post;

a. to us, at our address set out in these Terms of Sale or at our registered office address appearing on our Website; and b. to you, at the last postal address that you have given to us as your contact address in writing; or

17.3.2 by email:

a. to us, by sending the notice to the following email address: auctions@sworder.co.uk

b. to you, by sending the notice to any email address that you have given to us as your contact email address in writing.

17.4 Notices will be deemed to have been received:

17.4.1 if delivered by hand, on the day of delivery;

17.4.2 if sent by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery, two business days after posting, exclusive of the day of posting; or 17.4.3 if sent by email, at the time of transmission unless sent after 17.00 in the place of receipt in which case they will be deemed to have been received on the next business day in the place of receipt.

17.5 Any notice or communication given under these Terms of Sale will not be validly given if sent by fax, any form of messaging via social media or text message (including WhatsApp).

18. Data Protection

18.1 We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. We do not share your data unless there is a business, or legal reason for us to do so. We will hold and process any personal data in relation to you in accordance with our current privacy policy, a copy of which is available on our Website at www.sworder.co.uk.

18.2 We reserve the right, where we deem we are required for regulatory purposes, to reveal your identity and contact details (and

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those of your Principal) to the Seller).

18.3 In agreeing to these terms of sale, you agree that:

• should you decide to use Sworders delivery service, we may share relevant personal data that we hold with the shipping agent to allow effective communication between the shipping agent and you, and to enable delivery

• should you fail to collect your items within seven working days of the date of the auction, we may share your details with the shipping agent to allow effective communication between them and you, to arrange for the payment of storage and collection of your items from their store.

19. General

19.1 We may, acting reasonably, refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person.

19.2 We act as an agent for our Sellers. The rights we have to claim against you for breach of these Terms of Sale may be used by either us, our employees or agents, or the Seller, its employees or agents, as appropriate. Other than as set out in this Clause, these Terms of Sale are between you and us and no other person will have any rights to enforce any of these Terms of Sale.

19.3 We may use special terms in the catalogue descriptions of particular Lots. You must read these terms carefully along with any glossary provided in our auction catalogues or online listing.

19.4 Each of the clauses of these Terms of Sale operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining clauses will remain in full force and effect.

19.5 We may change these Terms of Sale from time to time, without notice to you. Please read these Terms of Sale carefully, as they may be different from the last time you read them.

19.6 Except as otherwise stated in these Terms of Sale, each of our rights and remedies: (a) are in addition to and not exclusive of any other rights or remedies under these Terms of Sale or general law; and (b) may be waived only in writing and specifically. Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale is not a waiver of that or any other right. Partial exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale will not preclude any further or other exercise of that right or any other right under these Terms of Sale. Waiver of a breach of any term of these Terms of Sale will not operate as a waiver of breach of any other term or any subsequent breach of that term.

19.7 These Terms of Sale and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them (including any non-contractual claims or disputes) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

These terms are based upon the recommended terms of sale by the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers.

Updated July 2025

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