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Click here to subscribeAn early 20th century Chinese cloisonne kettle, in the archaic style, with two brass handles of square form, above brass finial, the neck of the body and base and tip of spout with moulded foliate brass decoration, the cover and body with allover seascape decoration on an dark turquoise ground, 31.5cm high
Three framed reproductions of theatre posters: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 'Hamlet' played 'by Mr. Garrick'; (hand painted, once a BBC prop) Kilkenny Theatre Royal, 'Hamlet'; and Royal Lyceum Theatre, 'The Lyons Mail'; along with a modern coloured lithograph signed in pencil by H. Wassop, 'Seascape' no.36/125, 10in x 12in (four)
A LONGCASE CLOCK by J Helliwell, Leeds, the eight day movement with arched dial painted with floral spandrels, the moonphase with seascape and landscape, secondary dial, in oak and mahogany case crossbanded with stringing, scrolled pediment with brass finial on baluster turned columns, arched door with marquetry patera flanked by quarter columns, panel base, on plinth, 91 1/2"
Montague Dawson, F.R.S.A., R.S.M.A. (1895-1973) The nature hut, Gorgona signed 'Montague Dawson' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'S.S. Saint George/Gorgona 1924' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.) "This fascinating inscribed work, showing a party of modern travellers which apparently includes Montague Dawson himself, was almost certainly worked up from sketches done in situ in view of the careful attention to the topographical and other details which the artist needed for the large-scale commission which was to follow it. This subsequent painting, entitled 'The Buccaneers, Gorgona' (see Ranson, p. 93) shows a replica of this location in almost every respect except that the life figures have been replaced by buccaneers and the ship lying out in the bay is their seventeenth century full-rigger rather than the steam yacht St.George which conveyed Dawson's party. This precise and direct substitution of figures and a ship in a common land - and seascape is believed unique in Dawson's oeuvre and is a remarkable commentary on his methods. The factual evidence for one of the modern figures shown on the beach being Dawson is only circumstantial but, in a letter accompanying one of his other "buccaneer" pictures ('The Blue Lagoon', see Ranson, p. 51), he writes that he enjoyed painting that work immensely "as one knew these islands, they are (or were) so romantic", thereby suggesting a personal visit at some point in time, 1924 perhaps?
A Berlin coffee pot and cover circa 1765 painted with a landscape vignette depicting figures in a seascape waiting to board a ship, and on the reverse with a horseman in puce scale-ground borders edged with gilt scrollwork elaborated with floral gadroons and trailing flowers, the spout with gilt moulded scrollwork and floral decoration, the domed cover with similar decoration and a rose finial sceptre mark in underglaze-blue, impressed +, O and 2 19cm., 7Iin. very minor typical wear to enamels (2)