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A black oak snuff box made from timber recovered from H.M.S. Boyne, sunk 1795, r
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A black oak snuff box made from timber recovered from H.M.S. Boyne, sunk 1795, raised 1833, of circular form with turned lid and base, the lid with printed description of Boyne’s car...
Category
Antique 1830s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Oak
A Meiji bronze vase by Nobuhira
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Meiji bronze vase by Nobuhira, of baluster shape with a spirally twisted neck, the body decorated with four high relief crabs and several partially...
Category
Antique 1890s Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
A miniature George III mahogany bureau
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A miniature George III mahogany bureau, of rectangular form with a fall front and fitted secretaire interior above two short and three graduated long drawers, raised on bracket feet....
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English George II Cabinets
Materials
Mahogany
A Grand Tour Regency bronze figure of Mercury (Hermes) on a marble column
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Grand Tour Regency bronze figure of Mercury (Hermes) on a composite marble column, the messenger of the gods is shown running on winged feet supported on a puff of wind with a torc...
Category
Antique 1810s Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Elegant George I Walnut Wing Armchair
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An elegant George I walnut wing armchair, the high barrel back with shallow curving wings and scroll arms, the shallow seat set on four swept cabriole legs with barrel castors enclos...
Category
Antique 1720s English George I Armchairs
Materials
Walnut
Meiji Period Patinated Bronze Vase by Kiryu Kosho Kaisha
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Meiji period patinated bronze vase by Kiryu Kosho Kaisha, the baluster body applied with gold, silver, bronze and copper designs of bogbean and arrowhead plants with a frog, dragon...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Victorian White Painted Terracotta Bust of a Young Woman
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Victorian white painted terracotta bust of a young woman, wearing a draped shawl over a bodice with a lace trim, her hair elaborately coiffed with a broad plait and multiple ringle...
Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Busts
Materials
Terracotta
Pair of Walnut Wing Armchairs in the Queen Anne Style
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of walnut wing armchairs in the Queen Anne style, the front legs carved with shells on the knees. English, circa 1920.
Category
Vintage 1920s English Queen Anne Armchairs
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Victorian Half Hull Model of the Three Masted Sailing Ship ‘Elizabeth’
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Victorian half hull model of the three masted sailing ship ‘Elizabeth’, shown facing right, the shaped soft wood hull with black painted top sides and applied shear line and gunwal...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
French Kingwood Marquetery Commode
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A French kingwood marquetery commode, the shaped rectangular top inlaid with tulipwood, harewood and boxwood marquetry comprising a flowerhead trellis flanked by floral panels and wi...
Category
20th Century French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Kingwood
Large Late Regency Six Door Mahogany Bookcase Attributed to Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large and impressive late Regency six door mahogany bookcase attributed to Gillows, the upper section with a triple breakfront cornice above glazed doors with brass diamond trellis grilles, each enclosing adjustable shelves, the base with panelled cupboards decorated with book-matched flame veneers between turned columns with palmette terminals. English, circa 1815.
Footnote. A double Breakfront Library Bookcase Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, c.1820
The bookcase of large form but of elegant proportions, having a pleasing low waist, always desirable on case furniture of this sort, brass grilles, a plinth base veneered in the finest mahogany and intriguing inlaid quatrefoil shaped escutcheons to the central doors.
Designed in the early 19th century “Roman” fashion, this bookcase is one of a small group of such pieces that have been linked in the past to designs provided by the Wyatt family of architects (see for example a bookcase of remarkably similar form offered by Christie’s in London on the 16th of December 2010 with an estimate of £40-£60,000). Although any link with Wyatt must remain purely speculative, the attribution of this bookcase to the firm of Gillows of Lancaster can be made with a much higher degree of confidence. This attribution is based partly on a fine suite of similar library bookcases supplied to Tatton Park and discussed in detail by Dr. Susan Stuart in Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, page 375-377, plates 443 & 444. Of even greater interest is a design for a complete...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
‘A Windy Day’ by Montague Dawson
By Montague Dawson
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
‘A Windy Day’ by Montague Dawson,watercolour heightened with white on artist board showing a gaff rigged yacht in the foreground with two astern in the distance, the water realistically painted with an approaching line squall to weather, signed ‘MONTAGUE DAWSON’. In the original gilt frame with a label stating ‘Windy Day Montague Dawson’ and a trade label from the Old Customs House on the back.. English circa ….
Provenance: Sold by The Old Customs House Gallery, Lymington.
Private collection, USA.
Footnote: Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was born in West London, in Chiswick in 1895, Montague Dawson was the grandson of Victorian landscape painter Henry Dawson. He studied under the seascape artist Charles Napier Hemy at the Royal Academy. He also worked in an art school in Bedford Row...
Category
20th Century English Paintings
Materials
Paint
Victorian Rosewood Medallion Backed Open Armchair by Holland & Sons
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Victorian rosewood medallion backed open arm chair by Holland & Sons, the rounded back and seat raised upon stop fluted front legs and kicked out ...
Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Armchairs
Materials
Leather, Rosewood
Charming Bust of a Child’s Head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, Dated, 1910
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A charming bust of a child’s head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, dated 1910, the girl has her head slightly tilted forwards as she looks out from under a lock of hair, set on a square block signed on the reverse ‘E Whitney-Smith 1910’.
This bronze is a reduction of Whitney-Smith’s original marble piece, a photograph of which survives in the V&A (object number AAD/1990/12/63). Another version can be seen in a 1920s photograph of the artist in his studio owned by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG x194201). Neither the identity of the sitter nor title of the work is known.
Edwin Whitney-Smith (1880-1952) was one of the pre-eminent sculptors of his day. Born in Bristol in 1880, he became a student of William Harbutt, the headmaster of Bath School of Art, best remembered today for inventing plasticine. Whitney-Smith showed great promise from an early age, opening a studio in St John’s Wood, London, in 1910. He exhibited over 40 pieces at the Royal Academy and despite not achieving Academician status, even with list of illustrious proposers, he became a dear friend of Sir Alfred Munnings, the famous horse painter, and sculpted his portrait. He was, however, elected to the Royal Society of British Sculptors and his works were generally well-received by critics and the general public alike.
Aside from the RA, he exhibited in Bristol, at the Paris Salon and the Scottish Academy and his work attracted the attention of such important patrons as the Courtauld family. One of his most famous works, The Waking Child, is in the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and another, The Irishman, is in the Tate. One version of his bust of Ernest Bevin, the trade unionist, stands in Tooley Street in Bermondsey to this day. An article in The Sphere, published on the 3rd of May 1924, referred to the sculptor as “a well-known sculptor of smiling children” and mentioned his “famous babies’ heads”.
Category
Vintage 1910s English Busts
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Napoleon III Satinwood Side Tables or Bedside Tables
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of Napoleon III satinwood side tables or bedside tables, each of rectangular form with a marble top (repaired) surrounded by a brass pierced gallery, all above a single frieze...
Category
Antique 1860s Napoleon III Cabinets
Materials
Satinwood
Late Regency Rosewood Breakfront Four Door Side Cabinet, Attributed to Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Regency rosewood breakfront four door side cabinet, attributed to Gillows, the shaped top with a brass gallery above four doors fitted with trellis-and-rosette grilles relined...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Bookcases
Materials
Silk, Rosewood
Late Regency Rosewood Breakfront Open Bookcase, Attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Regency rosewood breakfront open bookcase, attributed to Gillows, of rectangular form with three adjustable shelves, with tooled leather dust fringes, divided by four fluted p...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Bookcases
Materials
Rosewood
Delicate Walnut Easel Dressing Table Mirror
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A delicate walnut easel dressing table mirror, the oval plate within an asymetrical frame of C-scrolls in the Rococco manner, .deocorated in glass mosaic with a Venetian scene and fl...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Italian Rococo Table Mirrors
Materials
Walnut
Carved and Shaped Teak Seat Back from the Launch of Minesweeper H M S Bluebell
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A carved and shaped teak seat back from the launch of minesweeper H M S Bluebell, of shaped rectangular form with a central panel with 3in brass lettering HMS Bluebell, with braced b...
Category
Vintage 1910s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Teak
Very Large George III Rosewood Gallery Magnifying Glass
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A very large George III rosewood gallery magnifying glass, the circular glass within a rosewood frame, the baluster handle screwing into a brass bra...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English George III Scientific Instruments
Materials
Rosewood
George III Gallery Magnifying Glass
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A George III gallery magnifying glass, the circular glass within a mahogany frame, the baluster handle screwing into a brass bracket in the rim, the handle with a brass collar. Engli...
Category
Antique 19th Century English George III Scientific Instruments
Materials
Mahogany
Large and Impressive George iv Mahogany Serving Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large and impressive George IV mahogany serving table, the rectangular top surmounted by a carved back with a central cartouche of an eagle with outstretched wings holding a pistol...
Category
Antique 1820s English George IV Serving Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Mid-Victorian Free-Standing Painted Satinwood Two-Tier Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A mid-Victorian free-standing painted satinwood two-tier table, of rectangular form with turned and painted legs, decorated throughout with garlands of flowers, original castors. Eng...
Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Tables
Materials
Satinwood
Pair of Regency Classical Gilt Bronze Vases
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of Regency classical gilt bronze vases, each in the form of a shallow gadrooned bowl with an acorn finial supported by three goat-headed terms ...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Vases
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Exceptional Giltwood English Chinese Chippendale Period Mirrors
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of carved giltwood mirrors, each having connected cartouches, with framed of s-and c-scrolls, waves, and rocaille, surmounted by a carved and gilt phoenix, the top cartouche d...
Category
Antique 1840s English Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Presentation Model of America’s Cup Winner America by G. L. Watson
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This cased presentation half hull model is of the first winner of the America’s Cup, the schooner America. The copper coloured bottom is painted with black topsides and has a finely carved garland around the bow. There are two stump masts, a caprail and bowsprit. It is set on a mahogany backboard with a Bakelite name plaque engraved ‘Schooner Yacht ‘America’ Scale ¼ = 1 foot to W.G.J. from G.L.W’. A label identifies the case maker as ‘Lambert Picture Frame Manufacturer, 34 Albert Gate, Hyde Park, S.W.’ and another describes the model, including the fact that the case was added in 1903. It then explains the initials W.G.J. and G.L.W. ‘This model was presented by G.L.Watson to W.G.Jameson. George L.Watson was one of England’s leading yacht designers. He designed four America’s Cup Challengers which included: Thistle, Valkyrie, Valkyrie II and Shamrock II. He also designed the King’s Britannia, and the Kaiser’s Meteor. William G.Jameson was probably the most successful amateur helmsman in the U K in the 1880’s and the 1890’s. Jameson introduced Lord Dunraven to yacht racing in 1887. Dunraven was to build three challengers for the America’s Cup, all designed by G.L.Watson. Jameson in 1892 acted as an adviser to the Prince of Wales and introduced him to Watson who designed his Britannia. Jameson also advised Thomas Lipton in his Shamrock II challenge. Clearly, Watson and Jameson worked closely throughout their careers. Scottish, 1887.
Provenance: 1887 George L. Watson presented this half hull to William G. Jamieson
1903 Unknown owner(s) thence The Glen Foster Collection
1999 Hyland Granby Antiques, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts
2002 The Kelton Collection of Maritime Art & Artifacts
Probably the most famous racing yacht ever built, and the first winner of the America’s Cup, this schooner, designed by James and George Steers, was built by a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members to sail to England. The purpose of this visit was twofold: to show off U.S. shipbuilding skills and make money through competing in regattas. Only launched on 3rd May 1851, she had crossed the Atlantic and won the 53-mile race around the Isle of Wight by 22nd August that same year. America was captained by Richard Brown, who was a skilled member of the Sandy Hook Pilots group, renowned worldwide for their expertise and speed in manoeuvering schooner-rigged pilot boats...
Category
Antique 1880s Scottish Nautical Objects
Materials
Mahogany
Late George III Revolving Mahogany Drum Table Attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late George III revolving mahogany drum table attributed to Gillows, the circular top inset with a faded and gilt tooled green leather above four full and four dummy frieze drawers...
Category
Antique Early 1800s English Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of Bronze Figures Entitled ‘Avant Le Combat’ and ‘Après Le Combat’
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of bronze figures entitled ‘Avant le combat’ and ‘Après le combat’ cast from models by Etienne-Henri Dumaige, each showing a French infantry officer, and the other adjusting t...
Category
Antique 1880s French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large and Impressive Meiji Period Bronze Bison by Sano Takachika for the Kakuh
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large and impressive Meiji period bronze bison by Sano Takachika for the Kakuha Company, the animal powerfully modelled with his head low and turned s...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Fine Early William IV Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase Firmly Attributed Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine early William IV mahogany breakfront bookcase firmly attributed Gillows of Lancaster, in four sections, the top with astragal glazed doors enclosing four adjustable shelves between reeded pilasters with anthemion scroll corbels, the base with four panelled arched doors between acanthus scroll and reeded pilasters, the frieze with two short drawers and a central secretaire drawer fitted with a reading slope and two slides above small compartments, decorated throughout with rich book-matched veneers. The secretaire drawer stamped ‘Preston’. English, circa 1835.
Footnote: Many closely related acanthus carved terminals, anthemion corbels and other typical Gillows features can be seen on the pair of bookcases, on this website, made by Gillows & Co for the library at Dallam Tower, Cumbria in 1829, and on a bookcase shown in Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2008, vol. I, p.379, pl.450. A similar large breakfront bookcase...
Category
Antique 1830s English William IV Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Detailed Owner’s Model or Shipyard Model of a Double Ended Harbour Launch
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A detailed owner’s model or shipyard model of a double ended harbour launch, painted pale blue, the coach house with eight portholes, fitted with port and starboard lights...
Category
Vintage 1940s English Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
A fine Meiji period bronze of a fruit picker by UDAGAWA
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
His bronze work is a collection in the Japanese Art Department of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This work, a farmer’s wife feeding a baby at lunch on a bench (bronze), is also reproduced in Professor HARADA Jiro’s article Studio: Japanese Art and Artists of Today V Metal work (page 102)
His original name was UDAGAWA Sutejiro 宇田川捨次郎, which he used on his work until Meiji 39. He exhibited at the Third (Meiji 23, 1890) and Fifth (Meiji 36, 1903) at the Inland Industrial Exhibition (Naikoku kangyo hakurankai) --- in both cases using his earlier name Udagawa Sutejiro. In Meiji 39 he adopted his new art name Udagawa Kazuo. He exhibited at major exhibitions abroad: P-142 (Paris Great Expo in 1900, section 1), Q-43, 88 (Paris Great Expo in 1900, section 2), R-531 (Paris Great Expo in 1900, award winning section), S-123 (St Louise...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Bronze
An Ashford (Derbyshire) black marble pen tray
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An Ashford (Derbyshire) black marble pen tray, of rectangular form with two pen trays and a small circular well centred under a bronze handle in the form entwined serpents, the pen trays decorated with inlaid pietra dura borders. English, circa 1850.
Ashford marble is a type of limestone which can be polished to a glossy black finish. It is quarried in only two sites in Derbyshire and has been used as a decorative building material since Bess of Hardwick commissioned a chimney piece of Ashford stone for Chatsworth. In the 18th century Henry Watson...
Category
Antique 1850s English Desk Sets
Materials
Marble
Silver Cheroot Case from Mtb ‘Brave Borderer, ’
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A silver cheroot case from MTB ‘Brave Borderer,’ of rectangular form, the exterior textured, the interior gilt and incised with an image of the boat above the legend ‘H.M.S. “Brave Borderer” 1858-59’ and the initials ‘N.D.F’. Fully assayed.
The Brave-class fast patrol torpedo boats...
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Antique 1850s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Silver
George Edward Horton: the Launch of H.M.S. ‘Victoria’ from the Elswick Shipyard
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
George Edward Horton: The Launch of H.M.S. ‘Victoria’ from the Elswick shipyard of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co. Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1887, watercolour and pencil heig...
Category
Antique 1880s European Paintings
Materials
Paint
A pair of small Napoleon III kingwood display cabinets on stands
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of small Napoleon III kingwood display cabinets on stands, each of rectangular form with a single glazed cupboard set on a base with two disguised frieze drawers flanking a la...
Category
Antique 1870s Napoleon III Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Kingwood
Long Early George III Irish Mahogany Dining or Wake Table, circa 1760
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A long early George III Irish mahogany dining or wake table of exceptional colour, the highly figured veneered oval top with two drop flaps down over ei...
Category
Antique 1760s Irish George III Dining Room Tables
Materials
Mahogany
A pair of Louis XVI style mahogany and ormolu gueridons, after Adam Weisweiler
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of Louis XVI style mahogany and ormolu gueridons, after Adam Weisweiler, each with a circular amboyna veneered top and triform undertier enclosed within three pairs of simulat...
Category
Vintage 1910s French Louis XVI Gueridon
Materials
Mahogany
Duke of Edinburgh’s World tour 1959 on HM Yacht Britannia
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Duke of Edinburgh’s World tour 1959 on HM Yacht Britannia, a fascinating photographic record of the Duke’s visit to numerous destinations between Rango...
Category
Vintage 1950s British Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Frederick Chapman: ‘Naval Architecture War Vessels’, circa 1770
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
FREDERICK CHAPMAN: ‘Naval Architecture War Vessels’, circa 1770, , 50 engraved plates of various sizes depicting naval diagrams (numbered I-XXVI), four signed ‘F. Ringheim’and one ea...
Category
Antique 18th Century Swedish Books
Materials
Paper
Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra of Wales by Count Gleichen
By Elkington & Co.
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
These bronze figures show Edward, Prince of Wales, standing in a nonchalant pose with one leg crossed over the other, a cigar in his left hand, his hat at his feet and a shotgun slung over his right arm. The elegant Princess of Wales is depicted skating, with feathers in her hat, and wearing a fur-trimmed coat and muff as the wind catches her three-quarter length skirt. Each stamped Elkington & Co Founders and G 1870. English, dated 1870.
Provenance: Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Gleichen.
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Gleichen, was the son of Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Feodore of Leiningen, half-sister to Queen Victoria. He ran away from school to England in 1848 and was sponsored to enter the Royal Navy by Queen Victoria. In 1854 he attained the rank of Lieutenant after serving as mate on the flagship Cumberland, where his future brother-in-law was captain and his future father-in-law was admiral. In 1866 he retired from the navy and trained with the British sculptor William Theed. As a sculptor, he carried out several portrait commissions for Queen Victoria including a statuette of Prince Alfred, her second son, and another of Prince Albert Victor...
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Antique 1870s English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A large pair of Irish mahogany library armchairs in the Georgian style
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large pair of Irish mahogany library armchairs in the Georgian style , each with the shaped rectangular back, arm rests and seat upholstered in chestnut leather with close studde...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Georgian Armchairs
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Pair of Satinwood Anglo Chinese Collector’s Table Cabinets
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of satinwood Anglo Chinese collector’s table cabinets, each of rectangular form with a pair of doors which open to reveal five long drawers wit...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Cabinets
Materials
Satinwood
Large Victorian Leather Stool
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Victorian leather stool, of long rectangular form, the deep buttoned top reupholstered in blue-black leather, the frieze pierced with a band ...
Category
Antique 1870s Victorian Stools
Materials
Leather
Generous George III Wing Arm Chair
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A generous George III wing arm chair, the shaped deep-buttoned back with scrolling arms, reupholstered in distressed blue-black leather, raised on four ...
Category
Antique Early 1800s English George III Chairs
Materials
Leather
Large George III Wing Arm Chair
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large George III wing arm chair, the shaped deep-buttoned back with scrolling arms, reupholstered in distressed blue-black leather, raised on four cab...
Category
Antique 1790s English George III Chairs
Materials
Leather
A William IV satinwood display cabinet attributed to Edward Holmes Baldock
By Edward Holmes Baldock
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A William IV satinwood display cabinet attributed to Edward Holmes Baldock, the upper section with a marble top and ormolu gallery above two large glazed doors, the lower section in the form of a bureau plat with the original leather inset writing surface and three disguised frieze drawers, all raised upon cabriole legs, decorated overall with floral marquetry in exotic woods including tulipwood, purpleheart and fruitwoods, with superb fire-gilded ormolu mounts including elaborate goddess masks. English, circa 1830.
Footnote: Edward Holmes Baldock, (1777-1845) was one of the first London antique dealers, in the modern sense of the word. He principally dealt in 18th century French furniture...
Category
Antique 19th Century English William IV Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A set of 10 hand painted porcelain Vista Alegre dessert plates
By Vista Alegre
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A set of 10 hand painted porcelain Vista Alegre dessert plates, each painted in bright colours with a different exotic Brazilian bird within a gilt hand chased border, the reverse with the name of the bird species, ‘VA Portugal...
Category
20th Century Portuguese Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Napoleon III Parquetry Card Table by Sormani
By Sormani
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Napoleon III parquetry card table by Sormani, the shaped hinged top with ormolu ribbon and bead guilloche edging, decorated overall in kingwood, tulipwood and satinwood diamond tre...
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Very Fine Pair of Mid-Victorian Parcel Gilt Bronze Oil Lamps, by Hinks
By James Hinks & Son
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A very fine pair of mid-Victorian parcel gilt bronze oil lamps, by Hinks, each modelled as a bearded warrior dressed in the style of a Saxon king with a crowned helmet, broadsword and double-headed battle axe, standing in front of a slender scroll support surmounted by a cut glass oil reservoir, all set on a shaped ormolu base encircled with a victor’s wreath of oak leaves, and raised on an octagonal bronze base, converted to electricity, stamped ‘Hinks & Sons Patent’ on the fitting. English, circa 1860.
Footnote: James Hinks (1816-1905). Leaving home at 16 he tried many trades from wood turning, japanning, brush making, die sinking, medal making and even being a pub landlord, before manufacturing oil lamps. Working from the Crystal Lamp Works, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, he was joined by his son Joseph and renamed the company ‘James Hinks and Son in 1862’. They won a patent for ‘improvements in lamps’ the following year and swiftly launched the ‘Patent Duplex Lamp...
Category
Antique 1860s English Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Victorian Satinwood Breakfront Side Cabinet Attributed to Dyer and Watts
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Victorian satinwood breakfront side cabinet with Wedgwood plaques attributed to Dyer and Watts, the shaped top above a central door flanked by two gla...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Cabinets
Materials
Ormolu
Continental Brass Marble-Topped Coffee Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Continental brass marble-topped coffee table, of rectangular form with a pinkish marble top raised upon four waisted and sharply tapering square section legs, decorated with stippl...
Category
Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Marble, Brass
Attractive Late George I Giltwood Mirror
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An attractive late George I giltwood mirror, the rectangular frame enclosing a bevelled plate and surmounted by a broken S-scroll pediment, ce...
Category
Antique 1720s English Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Elegant Musical Party in an Interior’ Attributed to Gillis Van Tilborgh
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An Elegant Musical Party in an Interior’ attributed to Gillis van Tilborgh, oil on canvas depicting a Dutch genre scene with figures dressed in rich silk clothing, fine lace ruffs and fichu collars grouped round musicians playing a clavichord, a fiddle and a flute, some couples holding hands or sitting close together and a baby playing on the floor, with a plaque reading ‘Gerard Terburg 1608-1681’, the reverse with a chalk notation ‘Ld Hesketh’. Dutch, circa 1870.
Provenance: George, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (1768-1830), or his brother The Hon. Thomas Fermor, later 4th Earl of Pomfret (1770-1833), Easton Neston.
Thence by descent, Lord Hesketh, Easton Neston.
His Sale, Sotheby’s London, 17-19 May 2005, lot 82. Private Collection.
Literature: George Baker...
Category
Antique 19th Century Dutch Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Two Landscape Oil Paintings on Canvas by J R Wallace Orr, 1938
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Two landscape oil paintings on canvas by J R Wallace Orr, 1938, both showing Scottish coastal scenes with labels on the reverse from ‘Pearson and Westergaard Ltd, Fine Art Dealers, 28 West Nile Street, Glasgow, CI’ one titled ‘Ocharton Bay’ and the other’ Auchencairn Bay’, both signed ‘J R Wallace Orr 1938’. Scottish. Can be purchased individually or as a pair.
James Robert Wallace Orr (1907 – 1992) attended the Glasgow School of Art and gained a diploma from the Royal College of Art in 1933. He became a well-known painter, printmaker and teacher at the Glasgow Academy until his retirement in 1967. During the war he served in the London Fire Brigade...
Category
20th Century Scottish Paintings
Materials
Paint
A large mahogany reading stand by Yabsley of Plymouth
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large mahogany reading stand by Yabsley of Plymouth, the octagonal support set on a cruciform base with scroll feet and bold scrolling brackets, surmounted by an adjustable rectang...
Category
Antique 1860s European Tables
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
A late victorian inlaid four fold drafts screen, attributed to Hicks of Dublin
By Hicks of Dublin
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A very fine late Victorian four fold mahogany draught screen, attributed to Hicks of Dublin, each tall rectangular leaf divided into three panels below a flowerhead border, all inlaid with stained and exotic woods on a satinwood ground, the central panels showing four classical muses, the plain lower panels with satinwood stringing on a harewood ground. English, circa 1895.
Footnote: James Hicks was born into a family of Dublin chair-makers and the moved to London to train in workshops on the Tottenham Court Road, London. On returning to Dublin in 1894, he opened a business in Lower Pembroke Street, which rapidly became one of the city’s leading cabinet-making firms and won the royal warrants of King Edward VII and Princess Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden. He was inspired by the styles of Sheraton...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
Early Victorian Rosewood Reading Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An early Victorian rosewood reading table, the shaped top hinged to form an adjustable reading slope with a ratcheted support and detachable r...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Late Victorian Ebonized Freestanding Folio Stand
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Victorian ebonized freestanding folio stand, of rectangular form, the solid top with an ormolu gallery above five sections divided by sets of spindl...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Late Victorian Tables
Materials
Brass
Wilson Chilton’s mahogany Naval Architects/draughtsman box of curves/templates
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Wilson Chilton’s mahogany Naval Architects/Naval draughtsman box of curves and templates, probably by Gillows still retaining around 100 superb quality...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Mahogany
