An elegant Anglo Indian teak cupboard / wardrobe (or in Indian, almirah). With rounded pediment, fielded panel doors with pegged joints & nicely shaped bracket foot base. Southern India c 1850.
Art Nouveau Oval Bentwood Table c 1880
A wonderful Art Nouveau bentwood oval table in excellent original condition. The base of laminated steam bent birch. Vienna c 1890. 76cm H x 115cm W x 75cm deep. Price inc GST SOLD
Regency Twin Fusee Bracket Clock c 1815
A handsome & good quality, small, English Regency period bracket clock in brass inlaid mahogany case. The twin fusee movement with painted dial, adjustable large bob pendulum & lock, striking the hours on a bell. The dial & movement unsigned, though almost certainly by Thwaites & Reed of London, with signature ‘eared’ fixing wings to the rear movement plate. With original lion mask carrying handles. Newly serviced & warranted for 2 years. UK origin c 1815. 43cm H x 25cm.x 16cm.
Pair of Boulton & Fothergill Tapersticks c 1765
A wonderful & really rare tiny pair of George III period old Sheffield plate tapersticks, for small wax tapers. With their original sconces, in the form of fine reeded Corinthian columns. Old Sheffield plate – an annealed sheet of copper fused to a sheet of silver, and worked up by silversmiths from the flat sheet (not electroplate), was only invented c1760.These are stamped by the leading Birmingham industrialists / artists who invented the subject. The mark B&F not used after 1773. They are literally half the size of standard candlesticks, and just as much work to manufacture.
Four Modernist Coffee Tazzas by Joe Colombo c1960
A stylish & good quality set of four coffee tazzas, saucers & milk jug by the Milanese designer, Joe Colombo (1930-1971).
Pair of Canton Enamel Whale Oil Moderator Lamps c1845
A rare pair of French ‘moderator lamps’, for burning whale or colza oil, the famille verte enamel bodies ordered in Canton before the Hong fires, specfically for the lamps, with the original piston pumps,burners and shades in perfect original condition, mounted in gilt bronze. Terrific quality.
William IV Corinthian Mantel Mirror c 1835
A good quality carved timber mantel mirror, of a type made by Gillows of Lancaster & Fentham of London. Original mercury silvered thin plate in nice condition. The acanthus leaf columns taken from antiquity & the leaf modillions of the Corinthian order. In Colonial slang, a Corinthian was a leader in taste & style, vis Sir John Jamieson & Captain Piper were the ‘first Corinthians of the Colony’. Carved pine. UK c 1835. 93cm H x 110cmW x 7cmD
Regency Silhouette c 1810
A finely drawn, painted & cut portrait silhouette of a young man in a frock coat, contained in the original gilt copper frame & glass. UK c 1810
Large Portrait Silhouette c 1830
A nice quality & large portrait silhouette in bronzed, cut & china white heightened gouache of a man in a frock coat, on a lithographed backdrop of a draped column & books. Original glass & gilt frame. UK c 1830
Company School Artists Table c1810
A rare Anglo Indian artist’s table, in teak & toon (Indian cedar), probably from an Indian Company School. c 1810
82cm H x 76cm D x 96cm W
Price inc GST SOLD