SOTHEBY & CO
ESTABLISHED 1744
ON VIEW AT LEAST THREE DAYS PRIOR Sale 1 st March. A fine George I silver-gilt cup and cover by John
Edwards, 1720, lOi in. high.
Sale 14th February. A superbly carved dark-green jade oval lotus bowl, 8b in. long, 5 in.
wide, and 2J in. high. K(ang Hsi.
34-5 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1
wili hold the following sales in FEBRUARY and MARCH
each sale commencing at 11 am precisely.
Sale 8th February. Portrait of Robert Allan of Kirkliston, Midlothian, by Sir Henry Raeburn,
r.a., 49 by 39 in.
other owners, including a pair of rare early Kakiemon jars, a fine Pai Ting dish of the Sung Dynasty, a Ming enamelled saucer dish, a bronze mirror of theT‘ang Dynasty, and a pair of large Ming bronze figures of geese, also an important Imperial spinach-green jade large K‘ang Hsi bowl, and a green jade Moghul oval box, probably made for an Indian royal house. 111. Cat. (8 plates), 35 6d.
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Wednesday, 15th February. Modern and Eighteenth-century Paintings and Drawings, of various owners.
Thursday, 16th February. English and Continental Silver and Plate, of various owners, including George II coffee-pots, by William Darker and Fras. Spilsbury, sets of George II and George III table candlesticks, of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., C.B., C.S.I., c.b.e., k.m., a Norwich beaker, c.1660, a seventeenth-century Dordrecht beaker, of Sir Lancelot Royle, k.b.e., and interesting examples of Scandinavian and French silver.
Friday, 17th February. Works of Art, Carpets, Tapestries, and English and Continental Furniture, of the late T. W. Kennion and other owners.
Tuesday, 21st February. Japanese Colour Prints, of various owners.
Sale 21th 128th February. William Blake, Book of Urizen. 28 plates on 28 leaves. One of only
two known complete copies.
Wednesday, 1st February. Old Master Paintings and Drawings, of the Rt Hon. Lord Harlech, K.G., P.C., G.C.m.g. (removed from Brogyntyn, Oswestry, Shropshire), Laurence Houseman, Esq., Mrs Agnes Latta, and other owners.
Thursday. 2nd February. Fine English and Continental Silver and Plate, of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., C.B., c.S.i., c.b.e., k.m. (sold by order of the Executors), and other owners, including a pair of tea-trays (1814) and other pieces by Paul Storr, two George 111 matching silver-gilt salvers on foot (1808 and 1810), a pair of table candlesticks by Jacob Margas, 1719, a Queen Anne coffee-pot by William Lukin, 1711, Queen Anne and George I salvers on foot, and Swedish and Norwegian tankards. 111. Cat. (4 plates), 2s.
Friday, 3rd February. English Glass, a Collection of Eighteenthcentury Drinking Glasses, French Paper-weights. Oriental Carpets, and English and Continental Furniture, of Mrs M. F. Roberts, the late W. J. G. Winn, Esq., Lady Evelyn Malcolm, and other owners, including an enamelled masonic firing-glass by William Beilby, two rare Jacobite glasses, and a Baccarat snake-weight. 111. Cat. (1 plate), 6d.
Tuesday, 7th February. English Pottery and Porcelain, of Mrs J. Weston. Miss R. Preston-Joy, the late Dr R. L. Langdon-Down, and other owners.
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Wednesday, 8th February. Modern and Eighteenth-century Paintings and Drawings, of the late J. W. Hely Hutchinson, Esq., G. W. F. de Winton, Esq., and other owners, including a fine portrait of Robert Allan by Raeburn, a portrait of James St Aubyn by Hogarth, and drawings by Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne, Rowlandson, and other artists; also a small collection of sketches by Alexander Cozens, the property of Mrs Richard Ford. 111. Cat. (1 plate), 6d.
Thursday, 9th February. Fine Portrait Miniatures, Watches. Gold Boxes, Faberge, and Objects of Vertu, of Alan R. Green, Esq., Mrs E. Fuller, Sir Lionel Goodenough Taylor, and other owners, including important miniatures by D. Gibson, Richard Crosse, Lawrence Crosse, Thomas Flatman. Samuel Cooper, and Isaac Oliver; also a superb French Empire gold presentation snuff-box. 111. Cat. (3 plates), 15.
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Friday, 10th February. Textiles, Tapestries, Carpets. Clocks. Chandeliers. Ormolu, and English and Continental Furniture, of Mrs D. McNichol, Mrs E. Q. Nicholson, and other owners, including Stuart needlework pictures, crewel-work, and tapestry borders; also a collection of ormolu, and Empire furniture, the property of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., C.B., C.S.I., C.B.E., K.M.
Monday, 13th February, and two following days. Printed Books, of Colonel J. C. Wynne-Finch, J.P., D.L., and other owners.
Tuesday, 14th February. Important Chinese and Japanese Pottery and Porcelain, Ancient Bronzes and Cloisonne, and Very Fine Jade Carvings, of the Hon. Mrs Bruce, C. M. Moncrieff, Esq., the late Dr R. L. Langdon-Down, and
Sale 14th February. A rare famille-rose group of two dancing European figures,
9 b in. high, Ch ien Lung.
Wednesday, 22nd February. Important Old Master Paintings and Drawings, including an important portrait of his sister by Rembrandt, a double portrait by the rare German painter tom Ring, the property of J. Walter, Esq., Bearwood, Wokingham, a fifteenth-century Swiss portrait, a landscape by J. Patinier, the Baptism of Christ, attributed to Isenbrandt, an attractive Madonna and Child of the Antwerp School, a fine landscape by Salomon van Ruysdael, a small river landscape by Jan Breughel, a Madonna and Child attributed to Botticelli, a Holy Family by Giovanni Mansueti, an attractive series of Venetian views by Antonio Joli, and a
selection of Old Master drawings from the collection of Dr E. Schapiro, including drawings by Isaac Oliver, and Elsheimer. 111. Cat. (5 plates), 25 6d.
Thursday, 23rd February. Fine Jewels and Jewellery, of various owners.
Friday, 24th February. Important European Pottery and Porcelain, Carpets, Clocks. Tapestries, and Very Fine French. English, and Continental Furniture, of Roger de Candolle, Esq., O. M. Rolleston, Esq., and other owners, including a collection of faience and porcelain animal and vegetable tureens, with an unrecorded Chelsea double squab tureen, and a pair of Chelsea carp tureens, and a Sevres rose-pompadour dejeuner, of Sir Oliver Welby, Bt, removed from Denton Manor, Grantham; also an important French Gothic tapestry, two pairs of Louis XV ormolu and porcelain candelabra, a Louis XV commode signed B.V.R.B., a pair of Louis XV consoletables, and a set of Louis XV fauteuils with Beauvais covers, the property of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., c.b., c.S.i., c.b.e., k.m. 111. Cat. (22 plates), 105 6d.
Monday, 27th February, and following day. A Selected Portion of the Valuable Library at Brogyntyn. Oswestry, the property of the Rt Hon. Lord Harlech, k.g., p.c., g.c.m.g., including Henry Howard s Songes and Sonettes, fifth edition, 1559, and an important series of seventeenth-century quarto plays; also William Blake s Book of Urizen, one of the only two known complete copies, the property of Major T. E. Dimsdale.
Tuesday, 28th February. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain and W orks of Art. of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., c.b., C.S.i., c.b.e., k.m., and other owners, including a fine T ang green glazed wine jar, a rare famille-rose figure of a seated hound, a pair of cloisonne figures of parrots, and an attractive jade carving of a buffalo. 111. Cat. (3 plates), 15.
Wednesday, 29th February. Fine Old Master Paintings and Drawing, of J. R. W. Blathwayt, Esq., removed from Dyrham Park, Glos., including flower paintings by J. B. Monnoyer, Verbruggen, and Boschaert; also good examples by Hondecoeter, Snyders, and Casteels, and other Masters of the Dutch School.
Thursday, 1st March. Fine English and Continental Silver and Plate, of the late Brigadier E. S. D. Martin, D.S.O., o.b.e., m.c., and other owners, including a set of eight George II table candlesticks by William Cripps, 1744. a silver-gilt cup and cover by John Edwards, 1720, with the contemporary arms of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and his wife, Mary Catesby. 111. Cat.
Friday, 2nd March. Works of Art. Sculpture, Carpets, and English Furniture, of the late J. R. W. Blathwayt, Esq., removed from Dyrham Park, Glos., and other owners, including a Romanesque stone relief from a capital, a fine Nuremberg steel casket, and a Venetian bronze horse, c. 1600. 111. Cat. (2 plates), 6d.
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HYDe Park 6545 (6 lines)
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ABINITIO, WESDO
LONDON
ESTABLISHED 1744
ON VIEW AT LEAST THREE DAYS PRIOR Sale 1 st March. A fine George I silver-gilt cup and cover by John
Edwards, 1720, lOi in. high.
Sale 14th February. A superbly carved dark-green jade oval lotus bowl, 8b in. long, 5 in.
wide, and 2J in. high. K(ang Hsi.
34-5 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1
wili hold the following sales in FEBRUARY and MARCH
each sale commencing at 11 am precisely.
Sale 8th February. Portrait of Robert Allan of Kirkliston, Midlothian, by Sir Henry Raeburn,
r.a., 49 by 39 in.
other owners, including a pair of rare early Kakiemon jars, a fine Pai Ting dish of the Sung Dynasty, a Ming enamelled saucer dish, a bronze mirror of theT‘ang Dynasty, and a pair of large Ming bronze figures of geese, also an important Imperial spinach-green jade large K‘ang Hsi bowl, and a green jade Moghul oval box, probably made for an Indian royal house. 111. Cat. (8 plates), 35 6d.
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Wednesday, 15th February. Modern and Eighteenth-century Paintings and Drawings, of various owners.
Thursday, 16th February. English and Continental Silver and Plate, of various owners, including George II coffee-pots, by William Darker and Fras. Spilsbury, sets of George II and George III table candlesticks, of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., C.B., C.S.I., c.b.e., k.m., a Norwich beaker, c.1660, a seventeenth-century Dordrecht beaker, of Sir Lancelot Royle, k.b.e., and interesting examples of Scandinavian and French silver.
Friday, 17th February. Works of Art, Carpets, Tapestries, and English and Continental Furniture, of the late T. W. Kennion and other owners.
Tuesday, 21st February. Japanese Colour Prints, of various owners.
Sale 21th 128th February. William Blake, Book of Urizen. 28 plates on 28 leaves. One of only
two known complete copies.
Wednesday, 1st February. Old Master Paintings and Drawings, of the Rt Hon. Lord Harlech, K.G., P.C., G.C.m.g. (removed from Brogyntyn, Oswestry, Shropshire), Laurence Houseman, Esq., Mrs Agnes Latta, and other owners.
Thursday. 2nd February. Fine English and Continental Silver and Plate, of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., C.B., c.S.i., c.b.e., k.m. (sold by order of the Executors), and other owners, including a pair of tea-trays (1814) and other pieces by Paul Storr, two George 111 matching silver-gilt salvers on foot (1808 and 1810), a pair of table candlesticks by Jacob Margas, 1719, a Queen Anne coffee-pot by William Lukin, 1711, Queen Anne and George I salvers on foot, and Swedish and Norwegian tankards. 111. Cat. (4 plates), 2s.
Friday, 3rd February. English Glass, a Collection of Eighteenthcentury Drinking Glasses, French Paper-weights. Oriental Carpets, and English and Continental Furniture, of Mrs M. F. Roberts, the late W. J. G. Winn, Esq., Lady Evelyn Malcolm, and other owners, including an enamelled masonic firing-glass by William Beilby, two rare Jacobite glasses, and a Baccarat snake-weight. 111. Cat. (1 plate), 6d.
Tuesday, 7th February. English Pottery and Porcelain, of Mrs J. Weston. Miss R. Preston-Joy, the late Dr R. L. Langdon-Down, and other owners.
.
Wednesday, 8th February. Modern and Eighteenth-century Paintings and Drawings, of the late J. W. Hely Hutchinson, Esq., G. W. F. de Winton, Esq., and other owners, including a fine portrait of Robert Allan by Raeburn, a portrait of James St Aubyn by Hogarth, and drawings by Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne, Rowlandson, and other artists; also a small collection of sketches by Alexander Cozens, the property of Mrs Richard Ford. 111. Cat. (1 plate), 6d.
Thursday, 9th February. Fine Portrait Miniatures, Watches. Gold Boxes, Faberge, and Objects of Vertu, of Alan R. Green, Esq., Mrs E. Fuller, Sir Lionel Goodenough Taylor, and other owners, including important miniatures by D. Gibson, Richard Crosse, Lawrence Crosse, Thomas Flatman. Samuel Cooper, and Isaac Oliver; also a superb French Empire gold presentation snuff-box. 111. Cat. (3 plates), 15.
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Friday, 10th February. Textiles, Tapestries, Carpets. Clocks. Chandeliers. Ormolu, and English and Continental Furniture, of Mrs D. McNichol, Mrs E. Q. Nicholson, and other owners, including Stuart needlework pictures, crewel-work, and tapestry borders; also a collection of ormolu, and Empire furniture, the property of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., C.B., C.S.I., C.B.E., K.M.
Monday, 13th February, and two following days. Printed Books, of Colonel J. C. Wynne-Finch, J.P., D.L., and other owners.
Tuesday, 14th February. Important Chinese and Japanese Pottery and Porcelain, Ancient Bronzes and Cloisonne, and Very Fine Jade Carvings, of the Hon. Mrs Bruce, C. M. Moncrieff, Esq., the late Dr R. L. Langdon-Down, and
Sale 14th February. A rare famille-rose group of two dancing European figures,
9 b in. high, Ch ien Lung.
Wednesday, 22nd February. Important Old Master Paintings and Drawings, including an important portrait of his sister by Rembrandt, a double portrait by the rare German painter tom Ring, the property of J. Walter, Esq., Bearwood, Wokingham, a fifteenth-century Swiss portrait, a landscape by J. Patinier, the Baptism of Christ, attributed to Isenbrandt, an attractive Madonna and Child of the Antwerp School, a fine landscape by Salomon van Ruysdael, a small river landscape by Jan Breughel, a Madonna and Child attributed to Botticelli, a Holy Family by Giovanni Mansueti, an attractive series of Venetian views by Antonio Joli, and a
selection of Old Master drawings from the collection of Dr E. Schapiro, including drawings by Isaac Oliver, and Elsheimer. 111. Cat. (5 plates), 25 6d.
Thursday, 23rd February. Fine Jewels and Jewellery, of various owners.
Friday, 24th February. Important European Pottery and Porcelain, Carpets, Clocks. Tapestries, and Very Fine French. English, and Continental Furniture, of Roger de Candolle, Esq., O. M. Rolleston, Esq., and other owners, including a collection of faience and porcelain animal and vegetable tureens, with an unrecorded Chelsea double squab tureen, and a pair of Chelsea carp tureens, and a Sevres rose-pompadour dejeuner, of Sir Oliver Welby, Bt, removed from Denton Manor, Grantham; also an important French Gothic tapestry, two pairs of Louis XV ormolu and porcelain candelabra, a Louis XV commode signed B.V.R.B., a pair of Louis XV consoletables, and a set of Louis XV fauteuils with Beauvais covers, the property of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., c.b., c.S.i., c.b.e., k.m. 111. Cat. (22 plates), 105 6d.
Monday, 27th February, and following day. A Selected Portion of the Valuable Library at Brogyntyn. Oswestry, the property of the Rt Hon. Lord Harlech, k.g., p.c., g.c.m.g., including Henry Howard s Songes and Sonettes, fifth edition, 1559, and an important series of seventeenth-century quarto plays; also William Blake s Book of Urizen, one of the only two known complete copies, the property of Major T. E. Dimsdale.
Tuesday, 28th February. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain and W orks of Art. of the late Herman Cameron Norman, Esq., c.b., C.S.i., c.b.e., k.m., and other owners, including a fine T ang green glazed wine jar, a rare famille-rose figure of a seated hound, a pair of cloisonne figures of parrots, and an attractive jade carving of a buffalo. 111. Cat. (3 plates), 15.
Wednesday, 29th February. Fine Old Master Paintings and Drawing, of J. R. W. Blathwayt, Esq., removed from Dyrham Park, Glos., including flower paintings by J. B. Monnoyer, Verbruggen, and Boschaert; also good examples by Hondecoeter, Snyders, and Casteels, and other Masters of the Dutch School.
Thursday, 1st March. Fine English and Continental Silver and Plate, of the late Brigadier E. S. D. Martin, D.S.O., o.b.e., m.c., and other owners, including a set of eight George II table candlesticks by William Cripps, 1744. a silver-gilt cup and cover by John Edwards, 1720, with the contemporary arms of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and his wife, Mary Catesby. 111. Cat.
Friday, 2nd March. Works of Art. Sculpture, Carpets, and English Furniture, of the late J. R. W. Blathwayt, Esq., removed from Dyrham Park, Glos., and other owners, including a Romanesque stone relief from a capital, a fine Nuremberg steel casket, and a Venetian bronze horse, c. 1600. 111. Cat. (2 plates), 6d.
Telephone
HYDe Park 6545 (6 lines)
Telegrams
ABINITIO, WESDO
LONDON