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Click here to subscribeA William IV mahogany library table, c.1830, the rectangular top with rounded corners above two lipped frieze drawers between the lute scroll brackets and raised on octagonal tapering end standards joined by a turned mirrored baluster stretcher and on acanthus carved and volute scroll feet and casters, distressed, 53.5" wide, 27.5" deep, 27.5" high
A Staffordshire flat back watch group, modelled with a musician and a dancer, both in Scottish dress, he with a lute and wearing a plumed hat, she dancing with a scarf, coloured in cobalt blue, orange and green, gilt lined oval base, 25cm high; a pair of Staffordshire flat backs of Scottish Dancers, both with floral wreaths and garlands, rectangular bases, 22.5cm high, c.1880
A 19th century French bronze tazza, the shallow bowl centred a classical figure playing a lute and inscribed 'CONCOURS DE MOISSONNEUSES PRIX D'HONNEUR CHALONS-SUR-MARNE 1875', to female mask mounts and griffin side handles on a open stem to a circular base, with slate plinth, 12.5in (31.6cm) h, 20in (51cm) w
A late 19th century Cauldon ware, Brown-Westhead Moore porcelain baluster shaped vase decorated in the Louis XV mode, having a dull green ground with tooled gilt fern and flowerhead detail, shield shaped reserve outlined with gilt enhanced with turquoise and painted in 18th century style with seated female songstress and attendant lute playing putto, signed A Boullemier, two scrolled projecting gilt and similar turquoise enhanced grips, neck, rim and base, 40cm
A Dutch carved ivory figure, 19thc of a female playing a lute 11cms high; A European carved ivory figure, 18th/19thc of a robed female standing arms outstretched with children playing at her feet, 12.5cms high, (af); A Victorian ivory & mother of pearl inlaid card case ; also two continental carved wooden puttos, 20thc./5
A Minton ormolu mounted candelabrum, of a troubadour and lady, finely painted in bright enamels, the tree and scrolling base encrusted with small flowers and gilt, three leafy scrolling branches above, the rococo base with shell feet, 41cm h, puce printed English Porcelain Cartouche mark and initials W J/MB Typical minor faults and slight restoration to the head of the musician's lute, foot and the fan held in the lady's left hand but of the typical fine quality decoration associated with Minton figures of this period, the ormolu original to the group and retaining most of the original gilding. Slightly spotted in places.
Joris van Son (Antwerp 1623-1667) A vanitas still-life with a skull, a pistol, a lute with broken strings, a flute, shells, peaches, figs, bread and an urn on a partly draped ledge inscribed and dated 'VANITAS· VANITAS ET·OMNIA·/VANITAS·/1651' (mid centre on paper) oil on canvas 26 5/8 x 31 in. (67.6 x 78.7 cm) " We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer of the RKD for confirming the attribution based on transparencies.
After Giambattista Tiepolo Interior with a lady playing a lute; Interior with a lady holding a parrot; Interior with a lady holding a spaniel a set of three, all oil on canvas, all oval each: 89.5 by 70.5 cm.; 35.25 by 27.75 in. (3) The former is a later copy after Tiepolo's original in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Provenance Dino Barozzi, Venice;
A Pair of James Hadley Worcester Porcelain Figures of Eastern Musicians, 1887], each full length, one holds a stylised lute, the other a tambourine, in typical "stained ivory" colours, both signed "Hadley", puce printed crown and wheel mark and year letter, figure No. 1084, also impressed marked, 32cm high
A Meissen group of vintners circa 1880 modelled as a boy seated beside an open pannier holding a vine branch and grape bunches, a girl standing to his side holding a filled beaker and wine jug, on a rocky oval base; and a later group of a gallant and his companion, he with flower posies, she playing a lute, a lamb at her feet, a tree to the rear, applied flowers crossed swords in underglaze-blue, the first incised F.92 and with cancelled mark, impressed numerals 16.5cm. and 15cm., 6Iin. and 5Pin. some typical losses and repairs (2)
Three enamel plaques, French, late 19th century each painted in opaque and translucent enamels, the first, entitled: Le dafi, by T. Leroy, signed, 16.5cm, 6 1/2 in; the second, entitled: Cadet de Gascogne, also by T. Leroy, signed, showing a smiling soldier draped in his flag, 16.5cm, 6 1/2 in; and a smaller example, signed with initials OR, of a troubadour playing the lute, 14.5cm, 5 3/4 in, each in elaborate gilt-metal frame (3)
A late 19th/early 20th Century fan with plain giltwood sticks, the paper panel finely painted with a spray of orchids, 14ins, a tortoiseshell effect fan, the black net and lace trimmed panel decorated with a standing figure of a girl with a lute, and dragonflies, one other mourning fan, two tortoiseshell effect long shoe horns, and a pair of tortoiseshell effect framed lorgnettes, in leather travelling case
A pair of Derby candlestick figures, of a seated bagpiper and a lady with a lute, attended by a hound or lamb respectively the piper in a puce jerkin, turquoise waistcoat and lavender breeches, his companion in a plumed head-dress, puce and gilt bodice and flowered skirt, both seated before a heavily flowered boage on puce edged gilt shell and scrolling open-work base, 24cm h, William Duesbury & Co, patch marks, c1780. Some old restoration, in particular to both sconces and with some typical losses to the bocage on the figure of the lady. The back scroll to the base has been re-built but both in otherwise overall good condition. Such restoration as there is, is old and discoloured; no "professional' restoration
A 17th Century Carved Oak Panel, rectangular, depicting a woman playing a lute in a woodland with a recumbent stag nearby, within a moulded and joined oak frame with iron shaped key escutcheon, {23.5cm by 34cm}; and Three Other Carved Oak Figural Pilasters, 17th-19th century, {ranging 19cm to 53.5cm} (4)