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A CONTINENTAL STONEWARE FLAGON, a boomerang, a skin lute, and other items

A pair of Victorian Staffordshire flatback arbour groups, with a man playing a lute and a woman dancing above a swan under a bridge, oval bases, 19cms high

Edward Light of London, (1747-1832), a Regency harp lute, with black lacquered body, decorated in gilt with fleur de lys, fruiting vines and a lute, inset with pierced gilt roundel, with twelve strings, inscribed above the finger board 477, Light, Foley Place, London, 80cm long. Visit www.sworder.co.uk for larger image and condition reports.

An Italian Micro-Mosaic Paperweight, circa 1860, the rectangular black marble or slate body with a double groove to each end, enclosing a depiction of a gentleman seated on a mule carrying paniers, playing the lute as two young women dance, 18.2cm by 9.6cm by 1.7cm (damaged)

Michael Thomas Harpsichord (c1969). Early French, double-manual, 2 x 8ft, 1 x 4ft registers, buff to first 8ft, compass FF to f3, lute stop, Peau de Buffle, shove coupler, wooden jacks, real quill/leather plectra, keyboard having blackwood naturals and ivory-topped sharps. Finished in natural pine case with cedar lids.

A Royal Dux Bohemia Art Nouveau Figural Centrepiece Bowl, early 20th century, modelled as a large sea shell on the side of which sits a young woman holding a lute, another young woman attempts to haul herself up from a crashing sea wave pedestal enriched with arum lilies, in typical subdued colours and gilt throughout, 44cm high See illustration

A miniature tortoiseshell covered model of a lute.

An 18th century Derby figure of a shepherdess playing a lute, on rococo scroll base, inscribed no.301, 7ins

Ludwig Durnbauer - a late 19th Century brown patinated cast bronze figure of a maiden playing a lute and wearing classical drapes, raised on a circular base with cast signature 'Durnbauer', height approx 72cm.

BRONZE SCULPTURE, a mother teaching her child the lute, marble base, 50cm H x 41cm W overall.

A late 19th century French gilt metal trinket box in the form of a harpsichord, with hinged lid, length 13cm, marked Depose N15, also a similar trinket box in the form of a lute, height 15cm (2).

An early Staffordshire figure of a lady playing a lute with a dog at her side, polychrome decoration. 15cm high

A French silver and enamelled powder compact of compressed circular form with blue ground and decorated with a watteauesque scene with a lute player and young women, 2.25".

Royal Dux centrepiece of a maiden holding a lute seated on a shell on a naturalistic base

A Pair of 18th Century Carved & Polychromed Celestial Music Making Cherubs. The airborne figures playing a horn & lute, with curly hair and draped in billowing cloths. Retaining much of the paint-work. 21 ins (54 cms) in length.

A pair of oak figures, 19th Century, carved as a gentleman playing a hurdy gurdy, the woman playing a lute, each surmounted with a capital, 46cm high (2). Visit www.sworder.co.uk for larger image and condition reports.

A Victorian Staffordshire figure group modelled as a lady with a hawk and gentleman holding a lute on a tasselled couch, 26cm high

A SAMPSON OF PARIS "CHELSEA GOLD ANCHOR STYLE" BOCAGE FIGURE of a female musician holding a lute, with lamb to foot, against a floral encrusted bocage background, on pierced rococo base, painted in polychrome and highlighted with gilding, pseudo gold anchor mark, 9"

A DERBY FIGURE emblematic of music, standing holding a lute wearing a coronet and long flowing robes, painted in polychrome, highlighted with gilding on rococo base, red painted mark, 71/2"

A pair of oil on canvas studies of costumed monkeys, seated playing a lute and seated with parrot on arm, a pair indistinctly signed 23 x 19cm, oval in ornate gilt leaf moulded and burr wood effect frames.

A 19th century French clock garniture having figural lute playing gilded female surmount together with two vase twin handled side ornaments and each on variegated stepped marble plinth.

A Victorian Parian figure of a Roman lady, 35 cms and another of a classical nude with a lute (2)

Property formerly in the collection of Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1875-1944), see introduction to lots 13 to 19 and lots 198 and 199, A FINE PAIR OF 28 BORE SILESIAN LONG WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS, TESCHEN, CIRCA 1640-60, each with tapering barrel punched and engraved with sprays of foliage at the breech, muzzle and over the median (light surface rust and patination), stamped on the left of the breech with a proof mark, probably Suhl, slender breech tang decorated en suite, strongly bevelled lock retained by three side nails, with flush-fitting external wheel retained by a gilt-brass bracket pierced and engraved with the Imperial Double Eagle, sliding pan-cover filed with diagonal fluting at the rear, gilt-brass button release chiselled with a cherubic head, close-fitting dog with internal spring, the lower portion filed with diagonal fluting en suite with the pan-cover, fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with staghorn tendrils and pellets enriched with mother-of-pearl rondels (the stocks with minor repairs, inlay with small losses), including rabbits being pursued by hounds over the fore-end, marine monsters, a cherub playing a lute opposite the lock, doghead tendrils about the tang, a scroll incorporating a bird-of-prey's head about the trigger, and a bird-of-prey on each side of the butt, all within segmental lines, the butt encircled by a slender steel band and inlaid with an expanded flowerhead in mother-of- pearl (one missing), steel mounts comprising trigger-guard with very slender terminal and a single ramrod-pipe each punched with scrolls en suite with the barrel, engraved staghorn rear ramrod-pipe (one missing), and engraved staghorn fore-end cap, and steel-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original, 67cm; 26 3/8in, (2), These pistols are distinguished from other Teschen examples of this period by their more refined streamlined locks incorporating partly enclosed wheels and dogs, and also by the high quality of the inlays on the stocks.

Jean Jacques Pradier (1792-1852), A mid 19th century French bronze L'Ange Gardien, modelled with the angel holding a lute and shielding the infant Christ with a wing, signed Pradier Sculp, 14ins

A Dresden porcelain figure group of two cherubs, late 19th Century, one playing a lute the other holding a bow, raised on a scroll moulded naturalistic base, underglaze blue mark to base (minor faults and restoration) together with a 20th Century Sitzendorf porcelain Chelsea style figure of a gallant with a recumbent sheep.

A CRYSTOLEUM depicting a young classical maiden playing a lute, unsigned, 19th century, 7 3/4" x 9 3/4", framed.

A Russian silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel tea-glass holder, probably Moscow, 1908-1917. apparently unmarked, decorated with a medieval lute-player and a bird amidst elaborate scrolling foliage on a pale blue ground, and with the interlaced initials AO, the flared foot with bud and foliate scrolls, 9.5cm high, 7cm deep. Provenance: Christie’s New York, The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels, 20th October 1998, lot 220. Provenance: Christie's New York, The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels, 20th October 1998, lot 220

A limited edition commissioned crystal sculpture made by Jane Webster for the Pye Television Awards. The curved and rounded rectangular body falling to an integral stand set to a further carved and shaped wooden base, the whole copper wheel engraved with a stylised figure in flowing robes playing a lute within shaped borders. The whole set to a hinged double door presentation box, height 23.5cm.

An Art Deco period gilt bronze and ivory inkstand of shaped rectangular form, surmounted by the figures of Pierrot and a jester playing a lute, 26cm wide; together with a matching letter opener, 21cm long.

Farmer (Henry George), An Old Moorish Lute Tutor, Civit Press, 1933, gilt decorated boards

A 19th Century oil on canvas, study of a boy playing a lute, in gilt frame

Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) When the lute is broken melodies are remembered not Etching Signed with initials and dated '74 in pencil lower right Numbered 44/60 lower left P. 38cm x 39cm

Two Edwardian monochrome silk pictures: "Lute Enfantine", and "See-Saw", after Fred Morgan

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER FIGURES of Eastern musicians playing a lute and tambourine, both wearing gilt shaded brown/cream head dresses and robes standing barefoot on a naturalistically moulded bases, shape no.1084, date code 1913, 9 1/2" high

An Edward VII silver backed hair brush, embossed in the art nouveau manner with a female figure holding a lute and flowers, Birmingham 1908; a tortoiseshell backed hand mirror (damaged). (2)

DUTCH SCHOOL A nocturne with figures reading by candlelight and a musician with a lute, the frame branded "PC" and the back of the panel with two labels (one largely removed) numbered 67 in pen and inscribed "Blue Room" in pencil, oil on chamfered panel, 141/2" x 101/2".

* A thirteen string lute

A large collection of Staffordshire flatbacks, figures etc, including Highlanders on horseback, spaniels, lute player and others

Gold charm bracelet, with numerous charms of various designs including fish, lantern, animals, lute, buildings, with padlock clasp, approx 67 grams

A white metal 3 branch candleabra having natural stylised branches (with central cherub with lute) on plain tapered central column and stepped base

An Edmund Dulac: a pair of early 20th century framed and glazed prints; Young Girls Surrounded by Squawking Parrots together with Young Girl Playing a Lute Underneath a Tree.

A pair of late 19th Century Samson porcelain figures of musicians, one gentleman carrying a lute (slightly damaged), and a girl playing a hurdy gurdy, 4.25ins high (gold painted anchor mark to bases)

Six German porcelain figure groups, all female figures wearing lace ceramic crinoline dresses, largest group a girl playing piano with lute accompanying - 11in. long

Six course ebony Lute by Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris after the original by Georg Gerle, with eleven ribs and holly spacers and similarly veneered neck and peg box with additional bone inlay, fitted with heart-shaped ebony and pernambuco pegs, dated 2001, with hard case 70cm long Illustrated

A Meissen porcelain figure of a gallant in a green coat and violet breeches playing a lute, modelled after the original by Friedrich Elias Meyer, 14cm. high, painted crossed swords mark, press number 103, slight damage to coat.

A Royal Doulton figure, 'Lute', HN 2431,modelled by Peggy Davies

A 17th Century Flemish Oil on Panel depicting a figural scene in a courtyard setting with a gentleman seated at a table playing the lute. 24½ ins x 19 ins (62 cms x 48 cms). In an ebonised frame with ripple-moulded inner border; 32 ins x 26½ ins (81 cms x 67 cms).

A Continental porcelain figure group of three young ladies all wearing lace dresses with flowers, one playing a lute

Treen: A 19th Century French burr wood circular snuff box and cover, the lid decorated with a lady reclining on a bed playing the lute, titled "Elle Rappelle Les Heures Pres de Vous on Les Oublie", 7cm diameter.

H HARDING, SIGNED AND DATED 1825, PAIR OF WATERCOLOURS AND OIL ON IVORY, Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots; and a further Portrait of a Young Man in Period Costume Playing a Lute, 6" x 4 ?" (2)

A Victorian rosewood framed fire screen, the fretwork carved pediment over a central tapestry panel depicting a man playing lute to a young girl, a bearded gentleman below polishing helmet, a dog at his side, flanked by open barley twist pillars to Gothic style cup and cover supports united by an open barley twist stretcher to splayed moulded scroll feet, 72 cm wide (ILLUSTRATED)

a Meissen Porcelain Figural Mantel Clock Case, circa 1875, as a scantily clad infant reading from an open book flanked by a drum clock case (face and mechanism now lacking, and replaced by 18ct gold fob watch, complete with key), surmounted by puce drapes supporting symbols of the arts, including lute, French horn, artist's palette, victory wreath, and a marble bust, upon a shaped rectangular plinth with leaf and entrelac detail, in colours and gilt throughout, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue (double erased), 22cm high See illustration

A small Italian tortoiseshell and mother of pearl mounted lute, together with a similar classical guitar.

A pair of late 19th century continental muse figures, one playing a lute, both painted in colours, probably Rudolstadt, 15cm (6in)

Two small Derby porcelain figures - One depicting a musician playing a lute with a lamb at her side, and the other a young girl with flowers and bocage, both on rococo bases, 5.75ins and 5.25ins high (both unmarked - circa 1770 - both slightly chipped to bocage)

JAMES CHARLES PLAYFAIR; watercolour entitled 'A Rondel' study of a seated young lady being serenaded by a man playing a lute, 54cm x 38cm, signed and dated ' 71, framed. ILLUSTRATED.

A 19th century bronze model of a classical lady seated on a stool, with a lute, stamped '1481', 14in (35.5cm) h.

A set of twelve Limited Edition Royal Doulton 'Lady Musician' figurines, modelled by Peggy Davies, comprising of 'Dulcimer' HN 2798, No. 660; 'Lute' HN 2431, No. 147; 'Harp' HN 2482, No. 663; 'Flute' HN 2483, No. 674; 'Cymbals' HN 2699, No. 638; 'Cello' HN 2331, No. 728; 'Viola D'Amore' HN 2797, No. 407; 'Violin' HN 2432, No. 613; 'Virginals' HN 2427, No. 708; 'Hurdy-Gurdy' HN 2796, No. 647; 'French Horn' HN 2795, No. 601; 'Chitarrone' HN 2700, No. 496, green factory marks to bases, together with individual certificates, (12).

BERNARD LORJOU, FRENCH (1908-1986) “L”Arlequin, three-quarter portrait of a harlequin with lute, oil on canvas, signed to lower right, 89cms x 112cms. See illustration N.B. Previously with Christies London, lot 94, 22nd June 2001. See illustration

A Pair of 17th Century Carved Oak Terms in the form of cherubic musicians; one strumming a lute, the other blowing a pipe; their bodies rising from scrolls with pendant garlands of fruit & foliage, 29 ins (74 cms) long, 3 ins (7.5 cms) wide.