SOTHEBY’S
NOVEMBER SALES continued Sale 26th November. A George I strawberry dish by Thomas
Bolton, Dublin 1715. 9J in. diameter.
Thursday, 19th November. Fine Jewels, the property of Mrs James Balfour, Mrs O. Vaughan, the late Mrs Beatrice E. Lawford (sold by Order of the Executors in aid of the R.S.P.C.C.), the late Mrs E. R. Parnall, Mrs M. G. Hilde, and other owners, including a diamond three-stone ring, a pearl and diamond sautoir, a diamond necklet, a small diamond necklace, also forming a tiara, two pearl necklaces, a small collection of gold cigarette boxes by modern makers, the property of Lady Duveen, an important pair of emerald and diamond cluster earrings, an important spray brooch in pearls and diamonds and a silver cigarette case, formerly the property of Cecil J. Rhodes.
Friday, 20th November. Works of Art. Oriental Carpets, Tapestries, Continental and English Furniture, the property of the late G. A. Kolkhorst, Esq., Countess Wachtmeister, deed, the late F. H. Hewer, Esq., the late C. W. Dyson Perrins Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., and other owners, including a rare 18th-century Italian terrestrial globe by Giovanni Maria Cassini of Rome, dated 1790, an attractive small 16thcentury Italian tapestry, rare Spanish cabinets, a collection of Portuguese furniture, an early 18th-century needleworkcovered settee, and an important set of six high-back chairs showing the influence of David Marot. 111. Cat. (2 plates). Is.
Monday 23rd November. Fine Portrait Miniatures, Gold Boxes, Faberge and Objects of Vertu, the property of the late Mrs E. Hurlimann, Peter Otway Smithers, Esq., m.p., and other owners, including a miniature of a young man by Samuel Cooper, dated 1658, a rare mid-eighteenth century automaton watch, a Spanish Renaissance enamelled gold cross dated 1662. 111. Cat. (3 plates), \s6d.
Tuesday, 24th November. Fine English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain, the property of the late Aage Park, Esq., W. H. Pitts, Esq., Captain T. W. Barnard, o.b.e., R. W. Kelton Cremer, Esq., and other owners, including a Milan faience ewer, a Longton-Hall cauliflower tureen, a rare Chelsea white figure of Britannia of the late triangle period, a pair of Worcester hexagonal vases with the ‘Bengal Tyger’ pattern, a fine pair of Meissen ‘pagoda’ figures by J. F. Eberlein, an early Miessen figure of a ‘Callot’ dwarf, a Hochst pastoral group by J. P. Melchior, an important Chinese tea-pot decorated by Jefleryes Harnett O’Neale, a rare pair of Meissen cockerel tea-pots and a Meissen Italian Comedy group of two lovers by J. J. Kaendler. 111. Cat. (13 plates), 6s 6d.
Wednesday, 25th November, at 11 am and 3 pm. Important Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Drawings, the property of the late E. C. Gregory, Esq., Dr E. Cassirer, Countess Jowitt, Mrs T. G. Kenefick, George Goodyear, Esq., George Gould, Esq., the Heirs of John A. Lynch, Esq., and other owners, including Famille d’arlequin, 1905, by Pablo Picasso, gouache (Zervos No 244), Danseuse sur les Points by Edgar Degas, pastel (Lemoisne No.910), Paysan en blouse bleue, 1895, by Paul Cezanne (Venturi No.687), TeTiai Na Ve I Te Rata, 1899, by Paul Gauguin, Grande corbeille de fleurs d ete. 1890, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, paintings from the Paris and Arles periods and two drawings by Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a Girl by Amedeo Modigliani, VEglise de Pourvi/le, temps de neige, 1893, by Claude Monet, and works by Braque, Boudin, Ernst, Douanier Rousseau, Toulouse-Lautrec, Fantin-Latour, Rouault, Sisley, IJtrillo, and Vlaminck. 111. Cat. (30 plates, 4 in colour), 12s 6d.
Thursday, 26th November. Important English and Continental Silver and Plate, the property of A Lady, deed, (from the Collection of the late Monty Ballard, Esq., of Monte Carlo), including a fine pair of Queen Anne chocolate jugs by George Gillingham, 1704, a George I strawberry dish by Thomas Bolton, Dublin, 1715, a George II cake basket by Peter Archambo, 1738, a rare collection of George II and George III cow milk jugs, mostly by John Schuppe, a Queen Anne punch bowl by William Gamble, 1707, a Queen Anne snuffers stand and a pair of snuffers by John Rand, 1704. George I and George II trencher salts, a pair of George I table candlesticks by Matthew Cooper. 1719, a George I coffee-pot, maker’s mark B.L. 1721, two George II coffee-pots by Edward Pocock and Edward Feline, 1731 and 1744, a George II Newcastle tea-pot by Isaac Cookson, 1745, a George III epergne by Emick Romer, 1773, a German silver-gilt canister by Hans Scholler, Leipzig, c. 1660, a Louis XV ecuelle, cover and stand, Paris 1739, and other Continental silver; also a gold bullet teapot. 111. Cat. (9 plates), 45 6d.
Thursday, 2 6th November and Friday, 27th November. Arms and Armour, Musical Instruments, Works of Art, Clocks, Oriental Carpets, English Furniture, the property of the late E. W. Reeves, Esq., and other owners, including a superb pair of percussion cap rifled target pistols by Gastinne- Renette a Paris, and a fine violin by Hieronymas Amati of Cremona, 1686. 111. Cat. (3 plates), \s6d.
Monday, 30th November. A collection of Scientific Instruments, the property of the late Henry Russell Wray, Esq., including a series of ‘Butterfield’ dials, a 17th-century Italian ivory pillar dial, a 17th-century equinoctial ring dial, by I. Rowley, a large and interesting 17th-century tablet dial by Lienhart Miller, dated 1613, a 17th-century Indo- Portuguese brass astrolabe, and a late-16th-century Flemish brass astrolabe. 111. Cat. (5 plates), 2s 6d.
Sale 30th November. An early famille-rose ruby-back dish with an hua decoration, 10i in.
Monday, 30th November. Fine Chinese Pottery and Porcelain and Works of Art, of various owners, including an interesting Sung celadon jar, a rare small corn measure vase in underglaze blue, of the Hsuan Te period, a Fukien blanc de chine figure of Buddha with the reign mark of Wan Li, an important pair of large armorial vases, a series of famille-rose and famil/e-verte figures and groups, and a remarkable ruby-back dish painted with a quail and with an hua (secret) decoration, one of the four recorded examples. 111. Cat. (6 plates), 35.
Tuesday, 1st December. The Dyson Perrins Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts, Part II: Forty-six Western and Oriental Illuminated Manuscripts, the property of the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a. 111. Cat. (54 plates, 6 in colour), 3 gns.
Wednesday, 2nd December. Eighteenth-century and Modern Paintings and Drawings, of various owners, including fine English water-colours.
Thursday, 3rd December. Fine English and Continental Silver and Plate, the property of Mrs D. Harrison-Alien, Lady Owen, the Hon. Mrs Eric Bailey, the late Miss E. B. Rawson, and other owners, including a 17th-century quaich by William Law, Edinburgh, c.1675, an extremely rare early 17th-century pipe, c.1620, a heavy silver-gilt tankard in Swedish style inset with a commemorative medallion of the coronation of William IV by John Bridge, 1832, a rare pair of German parcel-gilt marriage beakers, maker’s mark L., Hamburg 1593, a German parcel-gilt tankard of large size, maker’s mark A.H., Halle, c. 1700, a pair of Louis XV table candlesticks, maker’s mark D.I.L., Abbeville, c.1738. 111. Cat. (2 plates), 15.
Friday, 4th December. Continental Porcelain, Tapestries, Oiiental Carpets, and fine English and French Furniture, the property of various owners.
Sale 26th November. One of a pair of Queen Anne chocolate jugs
by George Gillingham, 1704, 11£ in.
Sale 12 th November. Rembrandt. Christ presented to the People.
NOVEMBER SALES continued Sale 26th November. A George I strawberry dish by Thomas
Bolton, Dublin 1715. 9J in. diameter.
Thursday, 19th November. Fine Jewels, the property of Mrs James Balfour, Mrs O. Vaughan, the late Mrs Beatrice E. Lawford (sold by Order of the Executors in aid of the R.S.P.C.C.), the late Mrs E. R. Parnall, Mrs M. G. Hilde, and other owners, including a diamond three-stone ring, a pearl and diamond sautoir, a diamond necklet, a small diamond necklace, also forming a tiara, two pearl necklaces, a small collection of gold cigarette boxes by modern makers, the property of Lady Duveen, an important pair of emerald and diamond cluster earrings, an important spray brooch in pearls and diamonds and a silver cigarette case, formerly the property of Cecil J. Rhodes.
Friday, 20th November. Works of Art. Oriental Carpets, Tapestries, Continental and English Furniture, the property of the late G. A. Kolkhorst, Esq., Countess Wachtmeister, deed, the late F. H. Hewer, Esq., the late C. W. Dyson Perrins Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a., and other owners, including a rare 18th-century Italian terrestrial globe by Giovanni Maria Cassini of Rome, dated 1790, an attractive small 16thcentury Italian tapestry, rare Spanish cabinets, a collection of Portuguese furniture, an early 18th-century needleworkcovered settee, and an important set of six high-back chairs showing the influence of David Marot. 111. Cat. (2 plates). Is.
Monday 23rd November. Fine Portrait Miniatures, Gold Boxes, Faberge and Objects of Vertu, the property of the late Mrs E. Hurlimann, Peter Otway Smithers, Esq., m.p., and other owners, including a miniature of a young man by Samuel Cooper, dated 1658, a rare mid-eighteenth century automaton watch, a Spanish Renaissance enamelled gold cross dated 1662. 111. Cat. (3 plates), \s6d.
Tuesday, 24th November. Fine English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain, the property of the late Aage Park, Esq., W. H. Pitts, Esq., Captain T. W. Barnard, o.b.e., R. W. Kelton Cremer, Esq., and other owners, including a Milan faience ewer, a Longton-Hall cauliflower tureen, a rare Chelsea white figure of Britannia of the late triangle period, a pair of Worcester hexagonal vases with the ‘Bengal Tyger’ pattern, a fine pair of Meissen ‘pagoda’ figures by J. F. Eberlein, an early Miessen figure of a ‘Callot’ dwarf, a Hochst pastoral group by J. P. Melchior, an important Chinese tea-pot decorated by Jefleryes Harnett O’Neale, a rare pair of Meissen cockerel tea-pots and a Meissen Italian Comedy group of two lovers by J. J. Kaendler. 111. Cat. (13 plates), 6s 6d.
Wednesday, 25th November, at 11 am and 3 pm. Important Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Drawings, the property of the late E. C. Gregory, Esq., Dr E. Cassirer, Countess Jowitt, Mrs T. G. Kenefick, George Goodyear, Esq., George Gould, Esq., the Heirs of John A. Lynch, Esq., and other owners, including Famille d’arlequin, 1905, by Pablo Picasso, gouache (Zervos No 244), Danseuse sur les Points by Edgar Degas, pastel (Lemoisne No.910), Paysan en blouse bleue, 1895, by Paul Cezanne (Venturi No.687), TeTiai Na Ve I Te Rata, 1899, by Paul Gauguin, Grande corbeille de fleurs d ete. 1890, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, paintings from the Paris and Arles periods and two drawings by Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a Girl by Amedeo Modigliani, VEglise de Pourvi/le, temps de neige, 1893, by Claude Monet, and works by Braque, Boudin, Ernst, Douanier Rousseau, Toulouse-Lautrec, Fantin-Latour, Rouault, Sisley, IJtrillo, and Vlaminck. 111. Cat. (30 plates, 4 in colour), 12s 6d.
Thursday, 26th November. Important English and Continental Silver and Plate, the property of A Lady, deed, (from the Collection of the late Monty Ballard, Esq., of Monte Carlo), including a fine pair of Queen Anne chocolate jugs by George Gillingham, 1704, a George I strawberry dish by Thomas Bolton, Dublin, 1715, a George II cake basket by Peter Archambo, 1738, a rare collection of George II and George III cow milk jugs, mostly by John Schuppe, a Queen Anne punch bowl by William Gamble, 1707, a Queen Anne snuffers stand and a pair of snuffers by John Rand, 1704. George I and George II trencher salts, a pair of George I table candlesticks by Matthew Cooper. 1719, a George I coffee-pot, maker’s mark B.L. 1721, two George II coffee-pots by Edward Pocock and Edward Feline, 1731 and 1744, a George II Newcastle tea-pot by Isaac Cookson, 1745, a George III epergne by Emick Romer, 1773, a German silver-gilt canister by Hans Scholler, Leipzig, c. 1660, a Louis XV ecuelle, cover and stand, Paris 1739, and other Continental silver; also a gold bullet teapot. 111. Cat. (9 plates), 45 6d.
Thursday, 2 6th November and Friday, 27th November. Arms and Armour, Musical Instruments, Works of Art, Clocks, Oriental Carpets, English Furniture, the property of the late E. W. Reeves, Esq., and other owners, including a superb pair of percussion cap rifled target pistols by Gastinne- Renette a Paris, and a fine violin by Hieronymas Amati of Cremona, 1686. 111. Cat. (3 plates), \s6d.
Monday, 30th November. A collection of Scientific Instruments, the property of the late Henry Russell Wray, Esq., including a series of ‘Butterfield’ dials, a 17th-century Italian ivory pillar dial, a 17th-century equinoctial ring dial, by I. Rowley, a large and interesting 17th-century tablet dial by Lienhart Miller, dated 1613, a 17th-century Indo- Portuguese brass astrolabe, and a late-16th-century Flemish brass astrolabe. 111. Cat. (5 plates), 2s 6d.
Sale 30th November. An early famille-rose ruby-back dish with an hua decoration, 10i in.
Monday, 30th November. Fine Chinese Pottery and Porcelain and Works of Art, of various owners, including an interesting Sung celadon jar, a rare small corn measure vase in underglaze blue, of the Hsuan Te period, a Fukien blanc de chine figure of Buddha with the reign mark of Wan Li, an important pair of large armorial vases, a series of famille-rose and famil/e-verte figures and groups, and a remarkable ruby-back dish painted with a quail and with an hua (secret) decoration, one of the four recorded examples. 111. Cat. (6 plates), 35.
Tuesday, 1st December. The Dyson Perrins Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts, Part II: Forty-six Western and Oriental Illuminated Manuscripts, the property of the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., d.c.l., f.s.a. 111. Cat. (54 plates, 6 in colour), 3 gns.
Wednesday, 2nd December. Eighteenth-century and Modern Paintings and Drawings, of various owners, including fine English water-colours.
Thursday, 3rd December. Fine English and Continental Silver and Plate, the property of Mrs D. Harrison-Alien, Lady Owen, the Hon. Mrs Eric Bailey, the late Miss E. B. Rawson, and other owners, including a 17th-century quaich by William Law, Edinburgh, c.1675, an extremely rare early 17th-century pipe, c.1620, a heavy silver-gilt tankard in Swedish style inset with a commemorative medallion of the coronation of William IV by John Bridge, 1832, a rare pair of German parcel-gilt marriage beakers, maker’s mark L., Hamburg 1593, a German parcel-gilt tankard of large size, maker’s mark A.H., Halle, c. 1700, a pair of Louis XV table candlesticks, maker’s mark D.I.L., Abbeville, c.1738. 111. Cat. (2 plates), 15.
Friday, 4th December. Continental Porcelain, Tapestries, Oiiental Carpets, and fine English and French Furniture, the property of various owners.
Sale 26th November. One of a pair of Queen Anne chocolate jugs
by George Gillingham, 1704, 11£ in.
Sale 12 th November. Rembrandt. Christ presented to the People.