Five to buy at Design Sale linked to remarkable polymath Lewis Foreman Day
13 October 2022 The Woolley & Walls auction on October 19-20 follows design from the Aesthetic Movement of the mid 19th century to designers of today, covering ceramics and glass, furniture and lighting, works on paper, metal ware and jewellery.
Guided at £1000-1500, this large slate mantel clock by Wassell & Halford was designed by Lewis F Day. It is rectangular with circular dial with Arabic numerals, the dial painted with a panel of daisy flower stems in blue and white on a gold ground, the case with incised floral lunette panels, between two rectangular ceramic panels of flowers Night shade and Day's eye, signed Wassell & Halford to the dial, 38cm high.
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Included is a small collection of items from the descendants of Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910).
Day was a polymath and designed for ceramics, textiles, furniture and metalware while also writing numerous books on pattern and textile design. Included in the sale are a group of his books, a previously unrecorded pair of bellows designed and made for his own use and a silver napkin ring made for his wife by Omar Ramsden.
The auction also includes two vases probably designed by Lewis F Day, one for Maw & Co, the other an unknown factory, both consigned by family descendants.
Here is a selection of five to buy at the Design Sale with a connection to Lewis Foreman Day (including picture top).
Got a great ring to it
Estimated at £150-250 is an Omar Ramsden and Alwyn Carr silver napkin ring designed by Lewis Foreman Day, made for his wife Temma, circular, hammered in low relief in script Temma, on a textured ground, stamped marks, London 1908, 5cm diameter (0.7oz). To bid for the Omar Ramsden and Alwyn Carr silver napkin ring designed by Lewis Foreman Day check thesaleroom.com.
Mystery vase
Shown here is a pottery vase possibly designed by Lewis F Day, shouldered, swollen cylindrical form painted with pomegranate flowers in golden lustre on a red ground unsigned, small chip to base, 19.5cm high. The estimate is £200-300.
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Rossetti chair
The family of Lewis F Day consigned to auction this Morris & Co Rossetti armchair, the design attributed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ebonised ash with rush seat unsigned, 89cm high, guided at £300-500.
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Day watercolour
This 75 x 65cm watercolour and white highlight on paper book illumination, framed, signed Lewis F Day, 1885, is estimated at £200-300. See the Lewis F Day watercolour on thesaleroom.com.
