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Click here to subscribeHARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) & MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; two stoneware jugs, a bowl and plate, impressed pottery marks, tallest jug height 11cm (4). (D) CONDITION REPORT: Nibbles to jug spouts, otherwise appears good with no further obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration.This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) & MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a stoneware coffee set comprising coffee pot, milk jug and four cups and saucers, iron decoration on grey ground, impressed pottery marks, gallery price label, coffee pot height 14cm (6) (D). CONDITION REPORT: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration.This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) & MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a large stoneware bread crock (missing lid), green and khaki wax resist decoration, impressed CP mark, height 29.5cm. (D) CONDITION REPORT: As well as missing its lid there is a large chip to the rim, otherwise appears good with no further obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
CRICKET: Selection of multiple signed album pages by various county cricket teams of 1940's & 1950's, comprising Surrey 1946 (10 signatures including Laurie Fishlock, Alec Bedser, John Parker, Arthur McIntyre, Gerald Mobey, Eddie Watts etc.), Warwickshire 1946 (8 signatures including James Ord, Peter Cranmer, Lawrence Street, Ken Taylor etc., two in pencil), Leicestershire 1947 (11 signatures including George Walton, Jack Walsh, Gerry Lester, Jack Lee, Jack Howard etc.), Northampton 1947 (11 signatures including Arthur Cox, Dennis Brookes, Robert Clarke, Vince Broderick, Percy Davis etc., one in pencil), Yorkshire c.1947 (13 signatures including Len Hutton, Harry Crick, Harrold Beaumont, Brian Sellers, Willie Watson, Alec Coxon, Ellis Robinson etc.), Gloucestershre c.1950 (11 signatures including Tom Graveney, Ken Graveney, Jack Crapp, George Emmett, Sam Cook, Colin Scott, Arthur Milton, Tom Goddard etc.), Surrey 1951 ( 11 signatures including Eric Bedser, Alec Bedser, Tony Lock,Arthur McIntyre, Laurie Fishlock, Peter May etc.), Sussex c.1952 (12 signatures including David Sheppard, George Cox, Rupert Webb, Jim Wood, Jack Oakes, Ian Thompson etc.), Kent c.1953 (10 signatures including Brian Edrich, Arthur Fagg, Bill Murray-Wood, Fred Ridgeway, Peter Hearn etc.), Somerset 1954 (6 signatures including Peter Wight, Geoff Lomax, Maurice Tremlett, Johnny Lawrence etc.), Worcestershire 1954 (11 signatures including Roly Jenkins, Noel Hughes, Laddie Outschoorn, Robert Broadbent etc.). The majority of signatures are bold ink examples. VG, 8
A folder of historically important ephemera from the personal collection of the lawn tennis player Mrs Dorothea Lambert Chambers (nee Douglas), seven times winner of the Ladies Singles Championship at Wimbledon between 1903 and 1914,the folder contains personal messages from family, friends and tennis personalities covering her lengthy career, with many focussed on her Wimbledon exploits, particularly the famous final against Suzanne Lenglen in 1919 which is still widely regarded by many commentators to have been the finest ever Ladies Singles Final, other material relates to her role as captain of the victorious 1925 Great Britain Wightman Cup team against the United States, an inventory of the archive is as follows: i) three small original photograph, including playing at Eastbourne, 1913, ii) congratulatory telegram for her first Wimbledon win in 1903 from "Martin"iii) personal letter, 1919, to Mrs Lambert Chambers from Mrs Blanche Hillyard, six time winner at Wimbledon between 1886 and 1900, ahead of her forthcoming Final v Suzanne Lenglen, July 1919, the tone of the letter is a remarkable insight into the psychology of a pioneering champion sportswoman, Mrs Hillyard imploring Dorothea to "... GO ALL YOU CAN AND NEVER GIVE UP, STICK TO HER 'TILL THE LAST ACE ... DIE HARD ... THANK GOD SHE DIDN'T LIVE IN MY DAY! ... I SHALL EVIL EYE HER ... I HOPE YOU DON'T GET THE CURSE, I WISH SHE [Lenglen] MAY HAVE IT "iv) Letter, 2nd July 1919, from Clemintina Anstruther-Thomson, who was a famous socialite of her age, painted by John Singer Sargent, and clearly a big fan and concerned at rumours that Lambert Chambers was considering retirementv) Telegram from the British Davis Cup player H. Roper-Barrett ahead of the 1919 Lenglen final with a short, authoritative message RELY UPON YOU TODAY CONFIDENTLYvi) Good Luck Telegram from Northumberland Tennis Association 4th July 1919vii) a letter from Leslie St. B. Sladen on active service in France and relaying discussion of the match with Mlle. Lenglen by British 'Tommies'viii) Telegram to SS Aurania before the sailing for the 1925 Wightman Cup in the USAix) thee original small photographs relating to the 1925 Wightman Cup including an image on board ship and two of the ladies teamx) large 8 by 10in. of the Wightman Cup doubles match at Forest Hills in 1925xi) letter from a personal friend M H Hague regarding a series of exhibition matches in Canada in August 1925xii) Telegram from Harry H.Herbert, President of the Westside Tennis Club, Forest Hills, August 1925, regarding Mrs Lambert Chambers and her compatriot Miss McKane (later Mrs L. Godfree) participation in the 1925 US Open, the latter reaching the final where she lost to Helen Willsxiii) Telegram from Fred Hawthorne, the famous New York Tribune sports correspondent, September 1925, sent to the SS Mauretania during the voyage home to England after the Wightman Cupxiv) a further telegram to the Mauretania for Dorothea from the captain of the US team, Elizabeth Ryan, reflecting genuine sporting camaraderie reading BON VOYAGE TO THE TEAM HOPE YOU ARE ALL AWFULLY SICK, CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN ON SPLENID WIN ESPECIALLY CAPTAIN, SHALL MISS YOU ALL TERRIBLY MUCH LOVE, ELIZABETH RYANxv) Original photograph of the team aboard the Mauretania wearing their tennis kit and posing with the Wightman Cup trophyxvi) a Wightman Cup congratulatory letter from a fellow tennis player from Eastbourne and clearly a close friend as it is addressed to "Dollie", also updating Mrs Lambert Chambers that she is suffering from an arm injury, almost certainly tennis elbow which Dorothea also suffered fromxvii) Letter from Wightman Cup team-mate Evelyn Colyer sent on first morning home from America 9th September 1925 and a thank you letter for Mrs L C's captaincy; and a portrait postcard of Evelyn Colyer; and press cuttings
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) & MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a shallow stoneware dish with wax resist decoration, and six small tiles, dish diameter 32cm, tiles 10 x 10cm (7). (D) Provenance: Purchased from Crowan Pottery, Praze in the early 1960s and in a private collection ever since. CONDITION REPORT: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) & MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a stoneware bowl with wax resist decoration, impressed pottery mark, diameter 27cm. (D) Provenance: Purchased from Crowan Pottery, Praze in the early 1960s and in a private collection ever since. CONDITION REPORT: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration. Rings like a bell. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) & MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a stoneware jug, iron decoration on a grey ground, impressed pottery mark, height 15.5cm. (D) CONDITION REPORT: Nibbles off unglazed base, otherwise appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk.
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) and MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a stoneware bowl, tenmoku and kaki brushwork over resist decoration, impressed CP mark, diameter 27cm. (D) CONDITION REPORT: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) and MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a stoneware teapot with cane handle and two mugs, tenmoku and kaki brushwork over resist decoration, impressed CP marks, made c.1962, teapot height 15.5cm (excluding handle) (3). (D) CONDITION REPORT: Teapot spout repaired, split to one end of cane handle and chip to foot ring, otherwise appears good with no obvious signs of other faults, damage or restoration. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) and MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; two stoneware jugs, a porcelain fluted jug and a stoneware oil bottle, impressed CP marks, made c.1962, tallest height 18cm (4). (D) CONDITION REPORT: Tallest jug with firing crack to rim, porcelain jug missing a lid, otherwise appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration. This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
A collection of studio pottery to include a Marianne de Trey Dartington pottery bowl, two David Leach single-handled bowls, three Seth Cardew Wenford Bridge Pottery egg cups, two Paul Michael Green West Witton Pottery single-handled bowls, two Harry and May Davis Crowan Pottery single-handled bowls and a Della Robia Pottery dish
A collection of various autographs from the 1930's to 1950's, including Haile Selassie, the 1933 Davis Cup tennis players including Fred Perry, Bunny Austin, Harry Lee, Patrick Hughes, two signatures from the May 1953 Everest Expedition including George Band, other tennis players and various amateur sketches, all housed in a small autograph album, 7 x 4.75in.
A CHINESE NUT BEAD AND ROSE QUARTZ MANDARIN OFFICAL'S NECKLACE, CHAO ZHU, CIRCA 1850 interspersed with larger malachite beads, three jinian of rose quartz beads with amethyst pendants with kingfisher feather filigree mounts, the double gourd malachite fotou bead at the back suspending an oval rock crystal bead framed in kingfisher filigree mounts with a rock crystal pendant, with the original (by repute) leather box, decorated with central character, flowers and butterflies, box and necklace with family labels describing the reputed provenance 117cm long, box 22cm diameter Provenance: by repute Governor Yeh Ming-ch'en (1807-1859), according to MS label, worn by the Governor at his capture; acquired circa 1858 by Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (1824-1901); thence by family descent. Lots 78-92 This group of Chinese artefacts has descended in the present owner's family from their ancestor, Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (1824-1901). Arthur Hood began his career in the Royal Navy in 1836 and gained considerable experience before being promoted in November 1854 to command the brig, HMS Acorn. By May 1856 he and his vessel were in China under Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour (1802-1887), commander-in-chief of the East Indies and China Station. In June of 1857 HMS Acorn was involved in the destruction of the fleet of Chinese junks in the Battle of Fatshan Creek (see lot 90) and later in the attack on Canton. It is from this period that Hood acquired the pieces comprising this collection. A MS note, probably written in the latter part of the 19th Century, attached to lot 78 explains how it came into Hood's possession: 'Official Necklace of Yeh Governor of Canton, China. He was wearing this when captured by Commander Arthur W.A. Hood R.N (In conjunction with [Astley] Cooper Key in his palace. Yeh was a first class Mandarin. Commander Hood commanded H.M.S. ''Acorn'' - and lay for 9 months in the Canton River waiting opportunity to achieve capture of city and its Governor. When the moment arrived the 2 officers with seamen landed, and marched through the city and crowds of Chinese to the palace, captured the Governor, placed him in his own sedan chair, and carried him back to our boats and so on board H.M.S. ''Acorn'' . . .' The arrest of Governor Yeh (otherwise High Commissioner Yeh Ming-ch'en) was precipitated by his own actions, which in turn appear to have had the full backing of Peking. Although the Treaty of Nanking had been signed between Great Britain and the Emperor in 1842, thus bringing to an end the First Opium War, the Chinese felt that the accord was unfair. This led to sporadic and increasingly violent unrest. Matters finally erupted when in 1856 Yeh, then in the throes of supressing an uprising of Chinese rebels and ordering thousands of executions, seized a Hong Kong (British) registered ship and its crew. The registration had expired, a fact well known to the British (and the French) who nevertheless used the incident as an excuse to send for their fleets. The action sparked the Second Opium War (1856-1860). However much the British may have been the aggressors, the general opinion of Governor Yeh was vividly expressed by Sir John Francis Davis, former Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, when on 28 February 1858 he wrote to the Editor of The Times in London (2 March 1857, p. 9f): 'The Belial [i.e. worthless] art of making ''the worse appear the better reason'' has been rather unluckily applied to exciting our sympathies in favour of the savage Bedlamite [i.e. lunatic] Governor Yeh, the butcher of 70,000 of his own countrymen, and the bidder at 30 dollars each (5£,) for the heads of ours. The truculent Tartars had never a more hideous representative, and I believe that not but Milton himself ever made the devil appear at all interesting.'Additional Images (Illustrative only, not included in the lot):Gouache portrait of Ye Mingchen, painted in a Chinese artist's studio in Canton, circa 1856Governor Yeh, London Illustrated Times, 27 February 1858Watercolour portrait of Arthur William Acland Hood at age 14, by William Derby (1786-1847), to be sold on 24 February 2016, Harry Moore-Gwyn, British & Continental Pictures at 25 Blythe Road, London.
HARRY DAVIS (1910-1986) & MAY DAVIS (1914-1998) for Crowan Pottery; a stoneware cruet set, painted decoration on celadon glaze, impressed CP marks, height of mustard pot 5.5cm (3). Provenance: Purchased in Leeds, 1991 CONDITION REPORT: Miniscule chip to underside of mustard pot lid, otherwise appears good with no further obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration.
A 1930's neo-Georgian style 3 piece tea service with corner panels of engraved decoration, the teapot bearing inscription: "To A. Leslie Knighton (Manager 1928-1933) by the Directors of the Birmingham Football Club, May 1933", 38 oz., Birmingham 1932-33; a 1930's oval tray with shaped piecrust border, presented to Mr & Mrs Leslie Knighton, and bearing the engraved signatures of Harry Hibbs, goalkeeper of Birmingham FC 1931 FA Cup Winning Team, Norman Edwards, Joe Davis and other local dignitaries and players, Birmingham 1932, circa 70 oz.
16mm Sound Lawn Tennis Film, Extremely Rare Film “GREATEST MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TENNIS” - Superb Black and White 16mm cine film on a spool (1967). 40 Minutes in Duration, Supplied with a DVD copy. Narrated by Chris Schenkel. The whole film projects a strong 'Davis Cup' theme throughout and is excellently presented and produced with very good sound and quality. The Introduction explains game's origins in 1874 with photos of Major Walter Clopton Wingfield's first rules booklet 'Sphairistike', and how the game progressed in America with Sears, Whitman, Ward and Davis with The Davis Cup Trophy. Important early action shows Molla Burjsdat playing May Sutton in 1915 , followed by scenes of Sutton with hers sisters Violet, Ethel and Florence Sutton in an exhibition game. Early scene of some tournament doubles follows. Socialising at Newport Casino (c.1910) and a tennis singles possibly showing Harold Hackett. (with necktie around forehead) Then 1914 West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills - extensive coverage of Norman Brookes against William Tilden. Most importantly, WONDERFUL Full and slow motion footage of Suzanne Lenglen Leaping around the court “Turning the game of tennis into a graceful ballet.” followed by footage of her game at Forest Hills against Molla Burjsdat Mallory. Aerial footage of the indoor Professional Tennis Tour shows slow motion footage of Big Bill Tilden. Forest Hills 1919 posing with little Bill Johnston and match play. There's footage of Dick Williams and Vinny Richards playing Bill Tilden- Tilden with national Trophy - Dick Williams playing Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste and Tilden. Jean Barotra with Jacques Brugnon 1927 Davis Cup against Tilden and Frank Hunter at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia and Lacoste versus Tilden. Also Little Bill Johnston and Henri Cochet. A plethora of slow motion and real time footage of over 70 famous players follows, including: Cochet, Perry, Anita Lizana, Jadwiga Jedrezjowska (Poland) Alice Marble, Kay Stammers, Sarah Palfrey, Helen Jacobs, Kitty Godfree, Pauline Betz, Gussy Moran, Elsworth Vines, Jack Crawford, Bunny Austin, Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Frank Parker, Adrian Quist, John Bromwich, Gene Mako, Baron Godfried Von Cramm, Henkel, Joe Hunt, (Killed in a wartime plane crash), Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder playing without shoes! Dinny Pails, Pancho Gonzales v Ted Schroeder, Pancho Segura, Bill Talbert, Gardner Mulloy, Bill Sidwell, Frank Sedgman, Adrian Quist, Budge Patty, Frank Sedgman, Jaraslov Drobny, Ken Rosewall at Wimbledon. Lew Hoad, Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Louise Brough, Margaret Dupont, Mrs. Jean Bostock, Mary Halford, Maureen Connolly, Angela Mortimer, Althea Gibson, Shirley Fry, Maria Aster Bueno, Darlene Hard, Billie Jean Moffat, Rod Laver, Rafael Osuna, Harry Hopman watches Emerson and Fraser v. Sirola and Pietrangeli, Chuck McInley, Fred Stolle, Chuck McInley, Dennis Ralston, John Newcombe and Manuel Santana. The conclusion shows Trabert, Talbert, Seixas, King Gustav, (Left -handed) Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Governer Adlie Stevenson, and Prince Aka Hito (Crown Prince of Japan).
After John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) Landscape with a figure and dog in the foreground, donkeys in a lane nearby, possibly Mousehole Signed within the plate, inscribed on a gallery label verso John Sell Cotman drypoint, and with later inscription drypoint etching, 11cm by 16.5cm, provenance: The Little Gallery, 5 Kensington Church Walk, London; And various other prints and engravings, one titled Miss Siddall drawing Rossetti, after the original by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, inscribed in ink within the plate Sept 1853, black and white print, 11.5cm by 17cm, provenance: The Little Gallery, 5 Kensington Church Walk, London; a pair of painted over photographs entitled Harry King, The Queen`s Huntsman, Entered Service 6th May 1836, 1st Whip 1st January 1855, Huntsman 1st July 1866, Died 30th December 1871; another inscribed Charles Davis, Queen`s Huntsman, Feeder 1807, Whipper-In 1814, Huntsman 1824, Pensioned 1st April 1866, Died 26th October 1866, each 18.5cm by 13.5cm, arched tops; a photogravure by Annan & Sons, Glasgow; a photograph by Hughes & Mullins, Ryde, Isle of Wight, portraying Queen Victoria, seated three-quarter length, holding a parasol, bearing signature June 22nd 1897 and 1837-1897 (on the margin), 29cm by 21cm; and six other prints of Princess Eugenie engraved by H Linton, Louis Napoleon Boneparte, Louis-Philippe, Captain Sir Thomas B Thompson of the Leander, engraved by F Englehart after George Englehart, miniature painter to George III, Don Alphonso XII, and a stipple engraving of Maria Cosway by F Bartolozzi (11)
An extremely rare film titled GREATEST MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TENNIS, a superb black &white 16mm cine film on a spool (1967), 40 Minutes in duration; sold together with a copy transferred to DVD (2). The film is narrated by Chris Schenkel. The whole film projects a strong `Davis Cup` theme throughout and is excellently presented and produced with very good sound and quality. The Introduction explains game`s origins in 1874 with photos of Major Walter Clopton Wingfield`s first rules booklet `Sphairistike`, and how the game progressed in America with Sears, Whitman, Ward and Davis with The Davis Cup Trophy. Important early action shows Molla Burjsdat playing May Sutton in 1915, followed by scenes of Sutton with hers sisters Violet, Ethel and Florence Sutton in an exhibition game. Early scene of some tournament doubles follows. Socialising at Newport Casino (c.1910) and a tennis singles possibly showing Harold Hackett, with necktie around Forehead. Then 1914 West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills-extensive coverage of Norman Brookes against William Tilden. Most importantly, wonderful full and slow motion footage of Suzanne Lenglen Leaping around the court "turning the game of tennis into a graceful ballet" followed by footage of her game at Forest Hills against Molla Burjsdat Mallory. Aerial footage of the indoor Professional Tennis Tour shows slow motion footage of Big Bill Tilden. Forest Hills 1919 posing with little Bill Johnston and match play. There`s footage of Dick Williams and Vinny. Richards playing Bill Tilden- Tilden with the National Trophy-Dick Williams playing Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste and Tilden. Jean Barotra with Jacques Brugnon 1927 Davis Cup against Tilden and Frank Hunter at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia and Lacoste versus Tilden. Also Little Bill Johnston and Henri Cochet. A plethora of slow motion and real time footage of over 70 famous players follows, including: Cochet, Perry, Anita Lizana, Jadwiga Jedrezjowska (Poland) Alice Marble, Kay Stammers, Sarah Palfrey, Helen Jacobs, Kitty Godfree, Pauline Betz, Gussy Moran, Elsworth Vines, Jack Crawford, Bunny Austin, Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Frank Parker, Adrian Quist, John Bromwich, Gene Mako, Baron Godfried Von Cramm, Henkel, Joe Hunt, (killed in a wartime plane crash), Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder (playing without shoes!), Dinny Pails, Pancho Gonzales v Ted Schroeder, Pancho Segura, Bill Talbert, Gardner Mulloy, Bill Sidwell, Frank Sedgman, Adrian Quist, Budge Patty, Frank Sedgman, Jaraslov Drobny, Ken Rosewall at Wimbledon. Lew Hoad, Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Louise Brough, Margaret Dupont, Mrs. Jean Bostock, Mary Halford, Maureen Connolly, Angela Mortimer, Althea Gibson, Shirley Fry, Maria Aster Bueno, Darlene Hard, Billie Jean Moffat, Rod Laver, Rafael Osuna, Harry Hopman watches Emerson and Fraser v. Sirola and Pietrangeli, Chuck McInley, Fred Stolle, Chuck McInley, Dennis Ralston, John Newcombe, Manuel Santana. The conclusion shows Trabert, Talbert, Seixas, King Gustav (Left -handed), Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Governer Adlie Stevenson and Prince Aka Hito (Crown Prince of Japan).
Harry & May Davis A Crowan Pottery porcelain tea service, with fluted decoration covered in a celadon glaze, comprising; teapot and cover, milk-jug and sugar basin, four cups, twelve saucers, eight side plates, a larger jug and and a matched jug and a collection of domestic ware impressed seal mark, minor damages, teapot 9.5cm. high
A Royal Worcester Porcelain Sheep Painted Vase, Harry Davis, circa 1908, of classical pedestal baluster shape, frontally painted with three sheep on a cloudy moorland, the reverse with a boulder amongst tussocks, outscrolled shoulder handles picked out in gilt, moulded trumpet neck and leaf moulded foot, in blush ivory and apricot, puce printed crown and wheel mark, year mark and shape 1482, 16cm high See illustration. Provenance: Burrow Hall, Nether Burrow, Kirkby Lonsdale, Tennants sale on the premises, 14 May 1996, lot 77.
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