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Lot 43
AN ARTHUR PRICE CANTEEN OF SILVER PLATED CUTLERY. Kings pattern, EPNS A1 grade, consisting of eight place settings, comprising dinner knives and forks, dessert knives, dessert forks and dessert spoons, soup spoons, coffee spoons, teaspoons and four table spoons, fitted in a canteen case in mahogany finish, complete with 50 year guarantee card.
Lot 25
An important George III satinwood, marquetry and tulipwood banded demi-lune commode attributed to Gillows The top banded in tulipwood with a chevron marquetry banding and centred by an elliptical panel, above a pair of doors centred by oval panels of marquetry shells on a harewood ground and enclosing a shelf, flanked by bowed end panel doors centred by stylised conch shells on harewood grounds, each enclosing two shelves, on square section tapering cross banded feet, the reverse of the commode constructed of four fielded panels, to be sold together with Nora Zeigler's copy of R.W Symonds, "Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks" inscribed to Miss L.N Ziegler132cm wide, 57cm deep, 91.5cm high. Provenance: The Ziegler family of Ziegler & Co, Carpet manufacturers and merchants, Manchester Nora Ziegler (1888-1969) and thence by descent to: Rupert James Mawson Howe (1911-1971) and thence by descent to the vendor. The commode offered here is attributed to Gillows on the basis of its similarity in both materials, design and construction to the documented Workington Commode supplied by the firm to John Christian Curwen M.P (1756-1828). Both commodes are veneered in satinwood and banded in purplewood and incorporate similar marquetry shells, while the shell decoration on the commode offered here is more complex, the Workington Commode features highly unusual figurative panels. The commodes both have the same ‘French’ feet, overhanging tops and identical detailed chevron banding. The coloured design for the Workington commode appears in the Gillow Estimate Sketch book for 1788 and is reproduced in L.Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Hertfordshire 1995, colour plate 12. Similar shell marquetry in combination with a plain purplewood elliptical panel on the top appears on the satinwood marquetry card table stamped Gillow of Lancaster and London and illustrated in S. Stuart, Gillow of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol. 2, Suffolk, 2008, pl.GG63, p.393 In 1788, the prominent cabinetmakers Gillows of Lancaster crafted an exceptional satinwood commode for John Christian, M.P., intended for his Dressing Room at Workington Hall, one of his Cumbrian estates. This semi-circular commode exemplifies the firm’s most ambitious work of the period, featuring four doors, inlaid shell motifs, and elaborate marquetry. The piece cost Gillows £11.5s.0d. to produce and was sold to Christian for £13.18s.0d., yielding a 24% profit. The commode’s refined design includes rich satinwood veneers with purplewood and tulipwood inlays, a top overhanging slightly to accommodate projecting pilasters, and French feet. The most remarkable decorative elements are the two inlaid ovals on the central doors, depicting a Cumbrian miner and a local girl carrying a “swill” basket—a highly unusual choice in English furniture design, which typically favoured classical or mythological subjects. Christian, a wealthy landowner with significant mining interests, was known for his progressive political views and advocacy for the working class. A member of the Society of Friends of the People, he likely commissioned these figures as a tribute to the local labour force. The Workington commode is notable not only for its craftsmanship and social symbolism but also because it marks a rare instance where Gillows attempted figural inlay. No other known pieces from the firm during the 18th century include similar motifs. Christian also commissioned a pair of commodes of this form from the Gillow firm which appear in the Gillow Estimate sketch books for 28 June 1786 and which remain untraced. The pair of commodes were made for his round house ‘Belle Isle’ on Lake Windermere named after his wife, the heiress Isabella Curwen whom he married in 1782. These commodes appear plain in the Gilllow Estimate sketch books but the Gillow historian Ned Pakenham has noted that often, even into the 19th century, Gillows did not always draw detail into their sketches, so handles, marquetry, fluting, reeding and carving will not always be shown or even mentioned in accompanying text in the sketch books but will be there on the executed item Lot UpdatesAll lots are subject to 25% Buyer's Premium plus VAT
Lot 95
Seven: Lieutenant J. Platos, Press and Culture Office, Polish Armed Forces1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Merit Cross, without swords; Monte Cassino Cross' numbered '48258'; Poland, Republic, Order of Polonia Restituta, gilt and enamel, Soviet produced 1944 type, mounted as worn, in that order, in a wooden display case with a number of badges, sold together with an original I.D. card, the last slightly chipped, overall very fine (7)Jan Platos is recorded as an Unattached 2nd Lieutenant in Poland in 1939, escaping to Palestine after the Fall of Poland he appears on an I.D. card issued to the then Polish Brigade as a Lieutenant. Serving with then in Iraq and through Africa he is confirmed on the role of the Monte Cassino Cross, earning the badge number 48258. This relates to a unit named the Press and Culture Office, Non-Divisional Units. He appears to have remained in the British Military after the war, earning a Cross of Merit from the Government in Exile however his Polonia Restituta is a Communist issued type suggesting a Liaison role between the two countries; sold together with an original I.D. card named to the recipient, three table medals, four unit badges, one on silver and one enamelled as well as a letter providing research on the recipient and copied research.…
Lot 52
Minimen - The Old West Range - 'Saloon Card Table Vignette'. Designed by Jack Updyke (also of Figarti Miniatures). Conditions generally appear Excellent Plus to Near Mint overall (one small detached part from table top (enclosed), some figures may have loose, posable heads), contained in plain boxes. See photo.
Lot 91
A 19th century rosewood envelope card table having a square marquetry inlaid and satinwood strung top with four hinged fold out leaves each having a carved and polished circular dish surrounding a baize lined surface over a single frieze drawer raised on square tapering supports united by an undertier with a turned gallery surround on end cap castors. H.76 W.56 D.56cm (closed) H.73 W.111.5 D.111.5cm (open)
Lot 183
Anthropomorphic Taxidermy: A Cased Pair of Card Playing Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris), modern, a pair of full-mount adults each sat upon cut ash tree stumps, both with miniature cards in hand, playing poker around a pedestal table, mounted upon soil covered groundwork beneath, enclosed within a lead framed five-glass table display case, 48.5cm by 23cm by 40cm
Lot 54
Taxidermy: Anthropomorphic Diorama of Card Playing Red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris), circa 1880-1900, a whimsical diorama of four adult poker playing Squirrels, three smoking pipes, all with cards in hand, a centrally positioned pedestal table with drinking glasses, cards and nuts laid about, all amidst natural dry grasses and foliage, set against a woodland painted backdrop, enclosed within a period pine-framed three-glass display case, raised upon four supporting turned drawer handle feet, 60cm by 27cm by 45.5cm
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