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Click here to subscribeA Meissen porcelain figure group of child musicians modelled with central conductor, seated female lute and harp players, a seated lad playing the flute and a standing tambourine player with dog at foot, set on a rocky mound and fluted circular base in white, gold and some sparse colour, 18.5 cm high, under glaze blue crossed swords, press number 74 and incised B.24, base chipped.
Sir Joseph Noël Paton - Knight on Horseback accompanied by a Maiden playing a Lute, sepia pen and ink, indistinctly inscribed and dated `Sept 11./78`, approx 15.5cm x 19cm, within an inscribed mount and gilt frame. Provenance: Rupert Toovey & Co Sale of the Noël-Paton Collection, 10th October 2001.
HENRY VIII: (1491-1547) King of England 1509-47. Very fine D.S., Henry R, as King, at the head, one page, oblong 4to vellum (one membrane), Westminster, 14th December 1533. The manuscript document is addressed to Lord Windsor, Keeper of the Wardrobe, and is a warrant to provide livery for six of the King`s sackbut players, named as Mark Anthony, Peregrine Symon, Nicholas Shakbote, Lewes Vincle, Nicholas Andrewe and Anthony Symon, stating that each of the `shakbotes` is allowed `fowertene yards of chamlet for a gowne price evry yarde iii s iiii d It[em] to evry of them a furre of blak bogy [lamb`s skin] for every of their gownes price every furre four pownde It[em] to every of them eight yards of Damaske for a Jaquet price every yarde viii s....thre yards of velvet for a dublet.` With blind embossed paper impression of the Royal signet seal at the foot. Rare. One small hole in the left margin, not affecting the text or signature, in otherwise remarkably clean and crisp condition. VG. Henry VIII was a renaissance man and his court was a centre of artistic and scholarly innovation and glamorous excess. The King was an accomplished musician and competent performer on the lute and harpsichord who maintained a considerable musical establishment including as many as ten sackbuts, a similar instrument to the modern trombone.
A LATE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN PORCELAIN TABLE CENTREPIECE the pierced conical basket encrusted with rambling roses and supported on a trunk stem, further encrusted with roses, and with two cherub musicians, one with a lute the other a tambourine in playful pose, on rococo scroll base, blue Coburg mark to base, 37cms high
A 19TH CENTURY STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY FLAT BACK FIGURE depicting a seated musician playing a lute, beneath a bower. Together with a model of a seated lady playing a lute with a gentleman in ermine trimmed cloak standing beside her, highly coloured with painted features, the base decorated with a gilt eye. Height 9" and 6.5". (AF) (2)
A GROUP OF 19TH CENTURY STAFFORD-SHIRE POTTERY FIGURES, including a pair of arbour groups modelled as a gentleman playing a lute and lady dancing, on a bridge above a river with a swan, on oval gilt line base. Together with a Staffordshire pottery pen holder depicting a swan on either side of a tree with a cygnet between, on gilt lined base and a flat back figure depicting a lady seated with a lamb on her lap, a gentleman standing and a sheep at their feet with tree behind. Height 7.5", 4.5" and 7". (AF) (4)
A 19th century Staffordshire figure group `Scuffle` modelled as a youth tussling with two female companions over a hat full of fruit, 16.5cm high; together with another figure group `Songsters` modelled as a man playing a horn and lady with a lute standing on rocks, 18cm high (both restored),
A pair of late 19th/early 20th century Royal Dux figures comprising lute playing gallant and his lady with ostrich feather fan, each with green and gilt clothing, raised on naturalistically modelled plinth bases, with pink triangle base marks, no. 374 and 375 respectively, height 35.4cm and similar