A 19th century Swiss silver and enamel box made for the Ottoman Turkish market – estimate £800-1200 at Kings Russell.
A sale of Islamic and Indian art at Kings Russell in London on October 24 includes this 19th century Swiss silver and enamel box (pictured top)made for the Ottoman Turkish market.
Estimate £800-1200.
Stamford Auction Rooms in Lincolnshire conducts a single-owner sale of silver, jewellery and watches on November 11.
The Fisher collection includes this Victorian silver parure: a locket pendant necklace with matching bangle, earrings and brooch – each engraved with Kate Greenaway-type characters.
In the original box labelled for H&C Gowland of Sunderland, it has a guide of £200-400.
Arum Lilies by South African artist Irma Stern – estimate £20,000-30,000 at Bellmans.
The Modern British & 20th Century Art sale at Bellmans in West Sussex on November 15 includes this gouache by celebrated South African artist Irma Stern (1894-1966).
Arum Lilies, measuring 2ft 7in x 23in (77 x 57cm), is signed and dated 1936. It comes by descent from Sir William Clark (1876-1952), the British High Commissioner to South Africa 1935-39. It was purchased by him at an exhibition of Stern’s work in Cape Town in 1936.
Estimate £20,000-30,000.
Untitled 329, a Hockney signed iPad print offered with a copy of David Hockney: A Bigger Book Art Edition – estimated at £25,000 at Gary Don.
On October 25 Gary Don in Leeds is selling a copy of David Hockney: A Bigger Book Art Edition. One of the four special editions created by Sumo that included a book stand designed by Marc Newson, it comes for sale with a guide of £25,000. Numbered 0177/250, it is in mint condition and has been opened only to check the contents.
Shown here is Untitled 329, a Hockney signed iPad print of a vase of flowers also included.
The Woolley & Wallis silver department is selling a private collection of over 100 vinaigrettes as part of the October 25-26 Silver & Objects of Vertu sale.
Vinaigrettes, which offered a practical and fashionable solution to poor sanitation, took on many forms, from simple silver boxes to various novelty items.
This example modelled as a pair of bellows has marks for David Pettifer, Birmingham 1857. Acquired by the vendor in 1980, it is now estimated at £1000-1500.
Stained ash plywood and brass trolley, c.1936, by Gerald Summers – estimate £12,000-18,000 at Lyon & Turnbull.
The Modern Made sale at Lyon & Turnbull in London’s Mall Galleries on October 28 includes a collection of furniture by Gerald Summers (1899-1967).
This stained ash plywood and brass trolley, c.1936, is Summers’ only documented design for Isokon, the design firm founded by Jack Pritchard and Welles Coates. Both Isokon and Summers’ firm Makers of Simple Furniture used the same birch plywood manufacturer Venesta in their furniture making.
Although a series of copies were produced in the early 2000s, only 20 or so original trolleys were thought to have been made before plywood became difficult to source with the onset of the Second World War. A similar piece (perhaps this one with a provenance to New York dealer Barry Friedman) featured in the Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946 exhibition organised by The American Federation of Arts which travelled to nine institutions around the US in the 1980s.
Estimate £12,000-18,000.
Metronome with bust of philosopher, c.1954 drawing in black ballpoint pen on paper by Salvador Dalí – estimate £10,000-15,000 at Ewbank’s.
Estimated at £10,000-15,000 each, two works on paper by Salvador Dalí (1904-89) are expected to lead the Contemporary Art auction at Ewbank’s on October 26.
Both come with signed certificates issued by Nicholas and Olivier Decharnes confirming that the work is registered in the Archive Decharnes.
Pictured here is Metronome with bust of philosopher, a c.1954 drawing in black ballpoint pen on paper measuring 3 x 7in (9 x 18cm). Its companion is a 9 x 13in (24 x 33cm) study for Studio Imaginaire from c.1949.
Limed oak Tuscan table from Rosehall House in Sutherland modelled on Sir Robert Lorimer’s designs for furniture at Balmenno Castle in Perthshire – estimate £800-1200 at Bonhams.
Rosehall House in Sutherland had, until recently, lain abandoned for more than 50 years, but in the 1920s it was full of life.
It was there that the owner of the 700-acre estate, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, and one of the wealthiest men in the world, whiled away the summers with his lover, the great French couturière Coco Chanel.
Finding the house too gloomy for her tastes, Chanel set about a major refurbishment. Among other changes – completely re-wallpapering the house, for example – she commissioned new, lighter, furniture, some of which features in the Scottish Home sale at Bonhams Edinburgh on October 20.
One of these pieces, a limed oak Tuscan table pictured here was modelled on Sir Robert Lorimer’s designs for furniture at Balmenno Castle in Perthshire.
Estimate £800-1200.
A chess library is being offered by East Bristol Auctions in a timed online sale that closes on October 24.
Estimated at £1000-2000 is a copy of The Noble Game of Chess by Captain Joseph Bertin (1735).
Bertin, a Huguenot born at Castelmoron-sur-Lot sometime in the 1690s, was one of the first British authors to write about the game of chess. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld in The Oxford Companion to Chess call his book The Noble Game of Chess “the first worthwhile chess book in the English language”.
In 1735, the year this small volume was published, Bertin was recommissioned in a Regiment of Invalids and, according to Hooper and Whyld, “in all probability he died soon afterwards”.
Leonard Camplin Jewsbury’s Second World War RAF DFM medal group, logbook, uniform, insignia and other ephemera – estimate £4500-5500 at Sheffield Auction Gallery.
When his country called in 1940, 19-year-old Leonard Camplin Jewsbury (1921-2004), a pit boy from Hoyland, South Yorkshire, joined the RAF. Stationed at RAF Melbourne with No 10 squadron he received the Distinguished Flying Medal in 1943 after completing 25 sorties.
On behalf of his family, Sheffield Auction Gallery will sell Jewsbury’s DFM medal group, logbook, uniform, insignia and other ephemera on October 27.
Estimate £4500-5500.
Early 20th century papier mâché and felt model of a French bulldog – estimate £300-500 at Lodge & Thomas.
The Fine Art, Antiques, Silver & Collectables Sale on October 21 at Truro auction house Lodge & Thomas includes this early 20th century papier mâché and felt model of a French bulldog in the manner of Roullet and Decamps, with glass eyes, a nodding head and a lead-operated growler mechanism on wooden castors. It measures about 14in high x 18in long (36 x 45cm).
Estimate £300-500.
Bound together, a second edition printing of Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Voyasie (1624) and his Itinerarium (1644) is expected to bring £15,000-18,000 at Chiswick Auctions.
Copies of two key works in the history of Dutch exploration in the 17th century come for sale at Chiswick Auctions on October 26.
Bound together, a second edition printing of Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Voyasie (1624) and his Itinerarium (1644) is expected to bring £15,000-18,000.
Voyasie is a rare description of pioneering Arctic voyages in search of the fabled North-East Passage.
Linschoten (1563-1611) had accompanied Willem Barents on two voyages to the Arctic Ocean in 1594 and 1595. During the first voyage the fleet had managed to enter the Kara Sea. The second voyage, launched on a much grander scale with seven ships loaded with merchandise destined for China, found the sea impassable due to ice and was forced to turn south.
The work is bound in a single volume together with the three-volume 1644 edition of Itinerarium, an equally important Dutch language work on the sea routes of west Africa, Brazil, India, and the East and West Indies, together with Linschoten’s account of his travels in the Orient.
