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Click here to subscribeA rare pair of Staffordshire matched equestrian figures modelled as Sir Robert and Lady Florentia Sale both on dun coloured horses facing right and left, he in full military uniform, she in blue riding habit and iron red cloak on shaped oval bases named in gilt script height 8ins circa 1848 (2)
A Nymphenburg figure of Pantalone 20th century after the model by F.A.Bustelli, the figure leaning forward with both hands under his black cloak behind his back, over a red doublet and hose, yellow shoes, his bearded head turned to the right, raised on a gilt-enriched rococo scroll-moulded base impressed mark and numerals 57 0, blue-painted mark to upper surface of base 17.8cm., 7in. A similar example was sold in these rooms on 17th March 2004, lot 50.
ANCIENT COINS, Roman Imperial Silver, Vitellius (AD 69), Denarius 3.30g, A VITELLIVS IMP GERMAN, laureate head right, rev CONSENSVS EXECITVM sic, Mars wearing cloak and helmet striding left holding spear and aquila with vexillum (not in RIC; not in BMCRE). Fine and very rare. Exciting confirmation of a very rare coin. This coin is recorded, cf RIC note to 23 discussing BMCRE's refererence to just one other specimen which was studied in 1799. Nevertheless RIC refers to BMCRE's reference, note to 84, only to dismiss it a misreading of the variant FIDES EXERCITVM.
A Gentleman's Blue Velvet Court Dress by Ede Son & Ravenscroft, Chancery Lane, London, including tail coat and breeches with cut steel buttons, lace cuffs, waistcoat, collars, shoes, braces, cased cut steel buckles, cloak, sword with cut steel hilt, hat etc, contained in a japanned tin trunk; a similar trunk containing a pair of mess trousers, hat and plumes (2)
Alex De Andreis (19th/20th century, Belgian) Portrait of a Cavalier, Half Length, Wearing a Period Costume and Red Cloak, a Gun over his Right Shoulder; Portrait of a Cavalier, Half Length, Wearing a Period Costume and Green Cloak, a Walking Cane in his Right Hand. Both signed, also inscribed with the artist's name on a plaque attached to the frame, oil on canvas, each 81cm by 65cm (32in by 25 1/2in) (a pair) (2)
A pair of Caughley monteiths, circa 1775-90, the lobed oval bodies with wavy blue-edged rims painted in French-style with floral sprigs in underglaze-blue, flanked by moulded acanthus leaf handles, a single foliate sprig to each base interior, 'S' mark in underglaze-blue, impressed H, 29.5cm, 11.625in. long, minor damage and repair, (2), A monteith is a wine glass cooler. It is normally found in silver or glass and takes the form of a bowl with a notched rim in which the stems of glasses can be held allowing the bowls to dip into the cooling water held within. The name reputedly comes from a Scotsman who wore a cloak with a scalloped edge.
AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY BISQUE-SHOULDER-HEADED DOLL with blonde wig, sleeping blue eyes and open mouth, the back marked A.M. - 7/0, probably for Armand Marseille, Germany, with kid body, upper arms and upper legs, and bisque lower arms and legs, in lace-trimmed underclothes and contemporary dress and fur-trimmed cloak, with hood, and silk shoes, 37cm, (14.5in) long
A pearlware figure depicting Peace Setting Fire to the Implements of War, with flower-sprigged gown and pink and green cloak, on a brown-lined square base, 20.5cm high, unmarked, circa 1790-1800 (small chip to back of cloak) See Pat Halfpenny, 'English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840', plate 49, page 189, for a similar figure
A Victorian rosewood fire screen, c.1840, embroidered in coloured wools with a view of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cloak for Queen Elizabeth I as courtiers look on, supported within a barleytwist frame and on four down curved tapering legs and pad feet with acanthus carvings, spaced by a barleytwist stretcher, the panel marked on reverse in ink, 'Mr G Parkinson? Richmond Place?', 27" wide, 45" high