Indo-Portuguese rosewood, teak, ebony and ivory inlaid cabinet on stand, estimate £20,000-30,000 at Hutchinson Scott.
The three-day sale at Hutchinson Scott in Skipton, North Yorkshire, on October 17-19 is led by this Indo-Portuguese rosewood, teak, ebony and ivory inlaid cabinet on stand (pictured top). Typical of the extravagant pieces of furniture made in Goa in the late 17th century, it is guided at £20,000-30,000.
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Rose Blanches by Bessie Ellen Davidson, estimate £1000-1500 at McTear’s.
Bessie Ellen Davidson (1879-1965) was the first Australian woman elected a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the first Australian woman appointed to the French Legion of Honour.
Mixing in Parisian art circles in the early years of the 20th century, she served in the French Red Cross during the First World War, after which she became a founding member of the Salon des Tuileries.
Her loosely Impressionistic paintings - mostly interiors, still-lifes, and portraits - were widely exhibited at the time. This 13 x 15in (33 x 40cm) oil on board, signed and titled verso Rose Blanches, is a good example. It is estimated at £1000-1500 as part of the sale of British & International Pictures at McTear’s in Glasgow on October 11.
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One of a pair of Coade stone panels, estimate £6000-10,000 at Cotswold Auction Company.
A pair of Coade stone panels form part of the Cotswold Auction Company’s October 17-18 sale of Pictures, Interiors and Antiques in Cirencester.
Titled Agriculture and Navigation, the two reliefs graced the gatehouse of the Apsley estate at Hurstbourne Priors, Andover, for nearly two centuries before demolition in the 1970s.
One of a pair of Coade stone panels, estimate £6000-10,000 at Cotswold Auction Company.
Salvaged at the time by the current owner, the panels are signed and dated Coade’s Lithodipyra, London 1787, and each measure approximately 3ft 3in x 4ft 11in (1 x 1.5m). Based on designs by John Bacon (1740-99), it is believed they were moulded by Joseph Panzetta and Thomas Dubbin for Eleanor Coade’s firm in Lambeth.
Similar moulded relief panels feature on the façade of Montreal Bank in Canada.
Estimate £6000-10,000.
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An 18th century white metal chalice described as possibly north European, estimate £300-500 at Lodge & Thomas.
Lodge & Thomas of Truro is offering an 18th century white metal chalice described as possibly north European, by repute attributed to Frederick Fabritius.
The plain bowl has a gem set knop within blue enamel bands of dragons; the circular base is set with polished semi-precious stones within a ground of wirework foliage. It is 5in (13cm) high, 296g, and is estimated at £300-500 on October 13.
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Kraak blue and white bottle vase decorated with stylised flowers, foliage and birds, estimate £600-900 at Thomson Roddick.
This 12in (31cm) Kraak blue and white bottle vase decorated with stylised flowers, foliage and birds has a guide of £600-900 at Thomson Roddick in Ayr on October 19.
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First edition of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, estimate £1500-2000 at Keys.
A first edition of Anthony Burgess’ dystopian black comedy A Clockwork Orange is estimated at £1500-2000 at Keys in Norfolk on October 12-13.
Published by Heinemann in 1962, the novella is set in a near-future society which has an extremely violent youth subculture. The author claimed to have written it in just three weeks. In 1971 the book was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick.
Elizabeth I Pattern ‘Pledge Penny’ from 1601, struck in copper, estimate £1800-2500 at Tennants.
Tennants of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, is offering an extensive private single-owner group of numismatic lots. The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Numismatist is an online timed sale, offering over 360 lots, with bidding open until October 15.
Pictured here is an Elizabeth I Pattern ‘Pledge Penny’ from 1601, struck in copper (estimate £1800-2500). This coin (BMC 4) is listed in English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum by C Wilson Peck as extremely rare. Examples can also be found struck in silver and pewter and an example of the coin even featured on the front cover of the 1970 edition of Peck’s work.
Tennants says: “Colin Cooke’s website states that there are only six examples of this coin in existence with three in museums, could this be a possible number 7?”
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Arctic exploration group of three medals awarded to George W Emmerson, an officer on board HMS Discovery during the expedition to discover a route to the North Pole, estimate £5000-7000 at Semley Auctioneers.
This Arctic exploration group of three medals were awarded to George W Emmerson, an officer on board HMS Discovery during the Victorian exhibition to discover a route to the North Pole between Ellesmere Island and Greenland.
Emmerson was, at various times, in charge of two sledging parties and his name is mentioned 44 times in Journals and Proceedings of the Arctic Expedition, 1875-76 published in 1877.
The Arctic Medal 1875-76 he received was one of only 155 issued. Offered together with an Egypt and Sudan 1882-89 medal and a Khedive’s Star, on October 14 at Semley Auctioneers in Shaftesbury, Dorset, it has a guide of £5000-7000.
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One of a pair of portraits of a brother and sister, George and Caroline Purling, by George Romney, estimate £50,000-80,000 together at Lawrences of Crewkerne.
A pair of portraits of a brother and sister, George and Caroline Purling, by George Romney are on offer at Lawrences’ sale in Crewkerne on October 18.
Little is known of their lives but George (1764-1840) worked for The East India Company in Bengal until 1800. His sister was born in 1754 and died near Canterbury in 1819. Each sibling died unmarried and without issue.
One of a pair of portraits of a brother and sister, George and Caroline Purling, by George Romney, estimate £50,000-80,000 together at Lawrences of Crewkerne.
However, Lawrences says the pictures are thought to date from the early 1780s and the commission probably arose from the Purling family home being close to Romney’s own house in Cavendish Square in London. They were exhibited at a show at The Grafton Galleries in London in 1900 but have passed by unbroken descent in the sitters’ family.
Estimate £50,000-80,000 for the pair.
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Bank of England £5 note issued in Leeds, estimate £12,000-16,000 at Noonans.
A Bank of England £5 note that was issued in Leeds is guided at £12,000-16,000 in the sale of British and Irish Banknotes at Noonans on October 12. Dated July 12, 1900, it is signed by Horace G Bowen who was chief cashier at the Bank of England from 1893 to 1902.
As Andrew Pattison, head of banknote department at Noonans, says: “This is a great note. Very few Bowen notes are in private hands especially from this exceptionally rare Leeds branch. The York hand stamp shows part of the journey of the note - issued in Leeds and paid into a bank at some point in York.”
The note was sold by Sir David Kirch as part of his collection a decade ago when it was sold to the current owner, who is a “major collector of notes from all over the United Kingdom”.
This is not the first Leeds note that Noonans has sold. An “extremely rare” £500 note dated 1936 made a hammer price of £24,000 in March.
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Epping, a woodland study in watercolour by Harry Barr offered with three further similar works in a lot estimated at £300-400 at Mallams.
Harry Barr was born in London in 1896, gaining his art teacher’s diploma in 1915. He went on to study at Westminster Art School where he met Walter Sickert, with whom he studied drawing. The two remained friends for life.
On October 18 in Oxford, Mallams is offering The Harry Barr Collection, consisting of 50 oil and 30 watercolour paintings from his studio.
Works include a number of different subject matters such as landscapes, harbour scenes, still-lifes and pigs (one of Barr’s favourite animals). Many well-known locations feature, including Epping, Richmond Park, Kings Lynn, Regents Park, Kew, and Caterham.
Barr’s subjects often included trees which took on an anthropomorphic look. Shown here is Epping, a woodland study in watercolour, signed, inscribed and dated 1948, measuring 14 x 16in (35.5 x 41cm), offered with three further similar works in a lot estimated at £300-400.
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Painted wood George III truncheon, dated 1796, estimate £600-800 at Dreweatts.
A 40-lot collection of truncheons and tipstaves will be offered on October 17 as part of Dreweatts’ Interiors auction at Donnington Priory, Newbury.
It includes a broad range of examples, showcasing the aims of the collector who says he was drawn to the “more unusual, interesting and scarcest of pieces, as well as those in the finest condition”.
The earliest painted wood example in the collection is a George III truncheon, dated 1796. An impressive 2ft 1in (63cm) in length and with a bullet-shaped handle, it is decorated with a stylised royal coat of arms and text for St. John, Hackney J. Brown.
Estimate £600-800.
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Jacob Epstein’s portrait of Lucien Freud, estimate £50,000-70,000 at Sworders.
A bronze bust that unites two titans of British 20th century art - the sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) and the painter Lucien Freud (1922-2011) - comes for sale at Sworders as part of the firm’s sale of Modern British and Contemporary Art on October 17.
Epstein’s 2ft 3in (68cm) high portrait of Freud is expected to bring £50,000-70,000.
This full bust of Freud was created in 1947, the same year the young artist married Epstein’s daughter, Kitty Garman. The plaster version is in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio but this is thought to be a unique cast in gilded bronze.
Jacob Epstein bronze of his daughter Kitty, estimate £6000-7000 at Sworders.
The seller, who bought the bronze in 2012, reunited it with another Epstein bronze of Kitty of the same period. It is offered with an estimate of £6000-7000.
Both pieces come for sale as part of the contents of Colne Priory in Essex.
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Seises Dancing at the Altar, Seville Cathedral, by Muirhead Bone, estimate £500-700 at Halls.
A single-owner collection comprising more than 350 paintings, prints and sculptures which belonged to late West Midlands vascular surgeon Magdi Latif Obeid has been consigned to Halls of Shrewsbury.
The collection is being sold over two timed online auctions running until October 17 and as part of a modern and contemporary art auction from October 13-31.
The auctions will feature works by artists such as Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, Willem Sternberg de Beer, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, George Clare, William Leighton Leitch, John Henry Henshall and Frank Wooton.
Obeid (1943-2021) was a distinguished consultant general and vascular surgeon whose passion for art led him to compile a significant collection which he began in the 1980s. His discerning eye and deep appreciation for British 19th and 20th century art saw his collection grow and he contributed works to a number of exhibitions at institutions such as the Barber Institute of Fine Art and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Seises Dancing at the Altar, Seville Cathedral, by Muirhead Bone (Scottish 1867-1953) carries an estimate of £500-700.
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