SOTHEBY’S
FOUNDED 1744
34 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1
will hold the following sales in NOVEMBER each sale beginning at 11 am
Monday, 2nd November and following day. The Signet Library: Bibliography and Reference Books, selected from the Signet Library, Edinburgh, the property of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, including long runs of Hansard, the Hakluyt Society Publications, Calendar of State Papers and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Tuesday, 3rd November. English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain, the property of the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., the late G. A. Kolkhorst, Esq., Captain T. W. Barnard, o.b.e., Mrs Joan Weston, and other owners, including a rare William and Mary portrait mug dated 1694, Bristol and Liverpool delftware, an interesting Chelsea ‘girl in a swing* figure of a boy, an unusual Lowestoft garniture of five vases with red-scale decoration, a series of Worcester leaf-dishes of the Wall Period, and a Bow sweetmeat figure of an Oriental woman. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6d.
Wednesday, 4th November. Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, from the collection of the late E. C. Gregory, Esq., the property of Mr Walter P. Chrysler, jun., Mrs Victor Gollancz, Professor Thomas Bodkin, Anton Dolin, Esq., P. V. F. Cazalet, Esq., and other owners, including seven paintings by Ben Nicholson, works by Sir Jacob Epstein, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Augustus John, Victor Pasmore, Sir Stanley Spencer, Sir Matthew Smith, Graham Sutherland, and Christopher Wood, a portrait of Bahram, and other paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings; also sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 3s 6d.
Thursday, 5th November. Fine Jewels, the property of Lady Greg, The Hon. Miss V. V. Kitson, Mrs Brian Gething, Mrs A. B. Timmis, Mrs E. R. Lloyd-Blood, the late Miss Lillie Constance Wallis, and other owners, including an important diamond flexible bracelet, a diamond necklace in circular and baguette-cut stones, an important corsage ornament in emeralds, pearls and diamonds, two pairs of diamond pendent earrings, a gold and diamond bracelet watch in the modern style, and a pearl and diamond sautoir. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6d.
ON VIEW AT LEAST THREE DAYS PRIOR
Friday, 6th November. Rare Oriental Carpets, Tapestries, and Fine English Furniture, the property of The Most Hon. The Marquess of Bute, the Hon. E. L. Iliffe, Lt-Col. J. E. Harrison, Mrs R. M. Gore, and other owners, including a large Indo-Persian animal carpet, a set of six early 17thcentury Brussels tapestries woven with The Story of Noah, a repeating alarm bracket timepiece, by John Knibb, a marquetry longcase clock by Daniel Quare, a bracket clock by Henry Jones, a fine cream Japanned bracket clock by Peter Garon, a set of eight Hepplewhite dining chairs, a George I walnut bureau-cabinet, a small early George III secretaire, a rare mid-18th-century carved mahogany display cabinet, a fine Chippendale mahogany serpentine-fronted writing table, and a Hepplewhite satinwood inlaid toilet table. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 3s 6d.
Monday, 9th November. Fine Portrait Miniatures, Scientific Instruments, Watches and Objects of Vertu, the property of Signora Anna Berera, Commander R. W. D. Bray, r.n., the Rt Hon. Viscount Harcourt, k.c.m.g., o.b.e., the late F. H. Hewer, Esq., and other owners, including a self-portrait by Sophonisba Anguisciola, and examples by Andrew and Nathaniel Plimer, George Engleheart, Samuel Shelley, John Smart, and Richard Cosway; Bilston enamels; an 18th-century portable orrery and a rare oval gold ring thermometer by Brequet & Fils. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6cl.
Monday, 9th November. Scandinavica: An important collection of books relating to the Scandinavian countries. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6d.
Tuesday, 10th November. Americana and Voyages: Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Historical Manuscripts, the property of The Most Hon. The Marquess of Hertford, Mrs Gerard B. Werner, of New York, Lt-Col. R. S. Burn, and other owners.
Tuesday, 10th November. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain and Works of Art, the property of Sir George Stuart Robertson Lt-Col. J. E. Harrison, and other owners, including T‘ang and Ming pottery figures, a Chun Yao lotus bud water-pot, a rare early 15th-century deep conical bowl, an early 15th-century blue-and-white dish, a fine Tehua blanc de chine figure of Kuan Yin, a finely drawn early Mei Ping, a large famille-verte Monteith cistern, and an attractive famille-rose dessert service. 111. Cat. (6 plates), 35.
Wednesday, 11th November. Old Master and Modern Paintings and Drawings, the property of Professor Thomas Bodkin, including La petite Cascade by Hubert Robert, The Siege of Magdeburg by Alexander Marshall, Landscape by Jan (Velvet) Brueghel, and examples by Castigilone, Cotman, Collinson, and Desportes. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 35 6d.
Thursday, 12th November. English and Continental Silver and Plate, the property of the late Lt-Col. N. A. H. Campbell, and the late Major D. E. Campbell, and other owners.
Thursday, 12th November. Fine Old Master and Eighteenth-century Engravings and Etchings, the property of the Estate of the late Joseph William Baxendale, Esq., Professor Thomas Bodkin, John Walter, Esq., the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, and other owners, including a collection of etchings by Rembrandt, The Dance of Herodias by Israhel van Meckenem, Piranesi’s works, and Goya’s Los Caprichos. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 35 6d.
Friday, 13th November. English and Continental Glass, French Paperweights, Oriental Carpets, Tapestries, and English Furniture, the property of the late Herbert George Wilton, Esq., Lt-Col. J. E. Harrison, Mrs Doris Bryce, the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., and other owners, including fine colour-twist wine glasses, a pair of Bristol opaque-white salt-cellars, a fine Bristol opaque-white baluster vase, a Baccarat butterfly and flower weight, a good Louis XV Lille tapestry, an interesting collection of English oak and walnut furniture, a Regency secretaire mahogany wing bookcase, a set of eight Hepplewhite mahogany dining chairs, and a Sheraton mahogany dining table. 111. Cat. (2 plates), 15.
Monday, 16th November. Fine Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Sumerian, Babylonian, Luristan, Halstatt,
Cycladic and Byzantine art, the property of T. Allworthy, Esq., Mrs K. I. Pauli, Sir Harold Macmichael, G.C.M.G., D.S.O., Major H. de Vahl Rubin and other owners, including an important marble relief, 1st century A.D., a rare Roman cameo portrait bust, 1st century A.D., a Geometric Greek bronze figure of a horse, early Roman and Syrian glass, a bronze bust of a Roman senator, 2nd century A.D., an important alabaster Sumerian figure and a fine Sumerian limestone head of an official; also a series of seven important Assyrian sculptures, the property of Canford School (sold by order of the Governors). 111. Cat. (15 plates), Is 6d.
Monday, 16th November and following day. Printed Books, the property of George Smith, Esq., Mrs K. L. Macaw, Mrs L. de C. Casley, and other owners.
Tuesday, 17th November. English Pottery and Porcelain, the property of Mrs Radcliffe, H. N. Wood, Esq., Mrs H. R. Cantilo, and other owners, including a fine large Wedgwood creamware dinner service, a fine pair of Worcester jardinieres, a pair of Derby figures of a gallant and a lady, a set of six Chelsea plates painted by O’Neale, and a pair of Chelsea figures of a lady and a gallant.
Wednesday, 18th November. Important Old Master Paintings and Drawings, the property of the Trustees of the Kingston Hall Settled Estate, removed from Kingston Hall, Nottingham, the late Sir John Leigh, Bt, and other owners, including The Head of a Bearded Man by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, two portraits of Philip, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, by Thomas Gainsborough, a double portrait of Edward and Randall Bootle as boys, and a portrait of Edward Every, by George Romney, three paintings by George Stubbs, three Venetian views by Canaletto, View of the Fondamenta Nuove by Francisco Guardi, and a cappriccio by the same Master, an unrecorded portrait of a man by Hans von Kulmbach, two river landscapes by Jan van Goyen, and paintings by Jan (Velvet) Brueghel and Pieter Brueghel the Younger; also drawings by Mair von Landshut, Piazzetta, and Giovanni Battiste and Domenico Tiepolo. 111. Cat. (21 plates), IO5.
Sale 10th November. Viscount Southwell, Views in Kansas.
Sale 12th November. I. Van Meckenem. Dance of Herodias.
Sale 5th November. A corsage ornament in emeralds, pearls and diamonds.
Sale 23rd November. A mid-seventeenth-century Norwegian
rock crystal and enamelled gold watch.
FOUNDED 1744
34 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1
will hold the following sales in NOVEMBER each sale beginning at 11 am
Monday, 2nd November and following day. The Signet Library: Bibliography and Reference Books, selected from the Signet Library, Edinburgh, the property of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, including long runs of Hansard, the Hakluyt Society Publications, Calendar of State Papers and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Tuesday, 3rd November. English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain, the property of the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., the late G. A. Kolkhorst, Esq., Captain T. W. Barnard, o.b.e., Mrs Joan Weston, and other owners, including a rare William and Mary portrait mug dated 1694, Bristol and Liverpool delftware, an interesting Chelsea ‘girl in a swing* figure of a boy, an unusual Lowestoft garniture of five vases with red-scale decoration, a series of Worcester leaf-dishes of the Wall Period, and a Bow sweetmeat figure of an Oriental woman. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6d.
Wednesday, 4th November. Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, from the collection of the late E. C. Gregory, Esq., the property of Mr Walter P. Chrysler, jun., Mrs Victor Gollancz, Professor Thomas Bodkin, Anton Dolin, Esq., P. V. F. Cazalet, Esq., and other owners, including seven paintings by Ben Nicholson, works by Sir Jacob Epstein, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Augustus John, Victor Pasmore, Sir Stanley Spencer, Sir Matthew Smith, Graham Sutherland, and Christopher Wood, a portrait of Bahram, and other paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings; also sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 3s 6d.
Thursday, 5th November. Fine Jewels, the property of Lady Greg, The Hon. Miss V. V. Kitson, Mrs Brian Gething, Mrs A. B. Timmis, Mrs E. R. Lloyd-Blood, the late Miss Lillie Constance Wallis, and other owners, including an important diamond flexible bracelet, a diamond necklace in circular and baguette-cut stones, an important corsage ornament in emeralds, pearls and diamonds, two pairs of diamond pendent earrings, a gold and diamond bracelet watch in the modern style, and a pearl and diamond sautoir. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6d.
ON VIEW AT LEAST THREE DAYS PRIOR
Friday, 6th November. Rare Oriental Carpets, Tapestries, and Fine English Furniture, the property of The Most Hon. The Marquess of Bute, the Hon. E. L. Iliffe, Lt-Col. J. E. Harrison, Mrs R. M. Gore, and other owners, including a large Indo-Persian animal carpet, a set of six early 17thcentury Brussels tapestries woven with The Story of Noah, a repeating alarm bracket timepiece, by John Knibb, a marquetry longcase clock by Daniel Quare, a bracket clock by Henry Jones, a fine cream Japanned bracket clock by Peter Garon, a set of eight Hepplewhite dining chairs, a George I walnut bureau-cabinet, a small early George III secretaire, a rare mid-18th-century carved mahogany display cabinet, a fine Chippendale mahogany serpentine-fronted writing table, and a Hepplewhite satinwood inlaid toilet table. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 3s 6d.
Monday, 9th November. Fine Portrait Miniatures, Scientific Instruments, Watches and Objects of Vertu, the property of Signora Anna Berera, Commander R. W. D. Bray, r.n., the Rt Hon. Viscount Harcourt, k.c.m.g., o.b.e., the late F. H. Hewer, Esq., and other owners, including a self-portrait by Sophonisba Anguisciola, and examples by Andrew and Nathaniel Plimer, George Engleheart, Samuel Shelley, John Smart, and Richard Cosway; Bilston enamels; an 18th-century portable orrery and a rare oval gold ring thermometer by Brequet & Fils. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6cl.
Monday, 9th November. Scandinavica: An important collection of books relating to the Scandinavian countries. 111. Cat. (3 plates), Is 6d.
Tuesday, 10th November. Americana and Voyages: Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Historical Manuscripts, the property of The Most Hon. The Marquess of Hertford, Mrs Gerard B. Werner, of New York, Lt-Col. R. S. Burn, and other owners.
Tuesday, 10th November. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain and Works of Art, the property of Sir George Stuart Robertson Lt-Col. J. E. Harrison, and other owners, including T‘ang and Ming pottery figures, a Chun Yao lotus bud water-pot, a rare early 15th-century deep conical bowl, an early 15th-century blue-and-white dish, a fine Tehua blanc de chine figure of Kuan Yin, a finely drawn early Mei Ping, a large famille-verte Monteith cistern, and an attractive famille-rose dessert service. 111. Cat. (6 plates), 35.
Wednesday, 11th November. Old Master and Modern Paintings and Drawings, the property of Professor Thomas Bodkin, including La petite Cascade by Hubert Robert, The Siege of Magdeburg by Alexander Marshall, Landscape by Jan (Velvet) Brueghel, and examples by Castigilone, Cotman, Collinson, and Desportes. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 35 6d.
Thursday, 12th November. English and Continental Silver and Plate, the property of the late Lt-Col. N. A. H. Campbell, and the late Major D. E. Campbell, and other owners.
Thursday, 12th November. Fine Old Master and Eighteenth-century Engravings and Etchings, the property of the Estate of the late Joseph William Baxendale, Esq., Professor Thomas Bodkin, John Walter, Esq., the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, and other owners, including a collection of etchings by Rembrandt, The Dance of Herodias by Israhel van Meckenem, Piranesi’s works, and Goya’s Los Caprichos. 111. Cat. (7 plates), 35 6d.
Friday, 13th November. English and Continental Glass, French Paperweights, Oriental Carpets, Tapestries, and English Furniture, the property of the late Herbert George Wilton, Esq., Lt-Col. J. E. Harrison, Mrs Doris Bryce, the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., and other owners, including fine colour-twist wine glasses, a pair of Bristol opaque-white salt-cellars, a fine Bristol opaque-white baluster vase, a Baccarat butterfly and flower weight, a good Louis XV Lille tapestry, an interesting collection of English oak and walnut furniture, a Regency secretaire mahogany wing bookcase, a set of eight Hepplewhite mahogany dining chairs, and a Sheraton mahogany dining table. 111. Cat. (2 plates), 15.
Monday, 16th November. Fine Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Sumerian, Babylonian, Luristan, Halstatt,
Cycladic and Byzantine art, the property of T. Allworthy, Esq., Mrs K. I. Pauli, Sir Harold Macmichael, G.C.M.G., D.S.O., Major H. de Vahl Rubin and other owners, including an important marble relief, 1st century A.D., a rare Roman cameo portrait bust, 1st century A.D., a Geometric Greek bronze figure of a horse, early Roman and Syrian glass, a bronze bust of a Roman senator, 2nd century A.D., an important alabaster Sumerian figure and a fine Sumerian limestone head of an official; also a series of seven important Assyrian sculptures, the property of Canford School (sold by order of the Governors). 111. Cat. (15 plates), Is 6d.
Monday, 16th November and following day. Printed Books, the property of George Smith, Esq., Mrs K. L. Macaw, Mrs L. de C. Casley, and other owners.
Tuesday, 17th November. English Pottery and Porcelain, the property of Mrs Radcliffe, H. N. Wood, Esq., Mrs H. R. Cantilo, and other owners, including a fine large Wedgwood creamware dinner service, a fine pair of Worcester jardinieres, a pair of Derby figures of a gallant and a lady, a set of six Chelsea plates painted by O’Neale, and a pair of Chelsea figures of a lady and a gallant.
Wednesday, 18th November. Important Old Master Paintings and Drawings, the property of the Trustees of the Kingston Hall Settled Estate, removed from Kingston Hall, Nottingham, the late Sir John Leigh, Bt, and other owners, including The Head of a Bearded Man by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, two portraits of Philip, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, by Thomas Gainsborough, a double portrait of Edward and Randall Bootle as boys, and a portrait of Edward Every, by George Romney, three paintings by George Stubbs, three Venetian views by Canaletto, View of the Fondamenta Nuove by Francisco Guardi, and a cappriccio by the same Master, an unrecorded portrait of a man by Hans von Kulmbach, two river landscapes by Jan van Goyen, and paintings by Jan (Velvet) Brueghel and Pieter Brueghel the Younger; also drawings by Mair von Landshut, Piazzetta, and Giovanni Battiste and Domenico Tiepolo. 111. Cat. (21 plates), IO5.
Sale 10th November. Viscount Southwell, Views in Kansas.
Sale 12th November. I. Van Meckenem. Dance of Herodias.
Sale 5th November. A corsage ornament in emeralds, pearls and diamonds.
Sale 23rd November. A mid-seventeenth-century Norwegian
rock crystal and enamelled gold watch.