There are 3130 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeBill Viola, b. 1951, HATSU TUME - FIRST DREAM, each c-print: signed on a label attached to the reverse; signed on a label attached to the video cassette, three c-prints on aluminium, one video (56 minutes) and one book, held in box, each c-print: 40x50cm.; 15.75x19.75in. (5) Conceived in 1981 and executed in 2002, this work is number 8 from an edition of 15. Provenance: FrameWorks, Vienna
*Bach (Johann Christian). A Second Sett of Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte with accompanyments, for two violins & a violoncello, Opera VII, printed by Welcker [1775?], 15pp. of engraved music, including title, first violin part only, bound with the first violin parts only for Felice Giardini's Sei Quintetti, 1767, Tomaso Giordani's Sei Quintetti per Due Violini, Viola, Violon Cello e Cembalo, engraved title and 14 pp. of engraved music [not traced], Six Sonatas for two violins, or a german flute and violin, with a thorough bass for the harpsichord, by Charles Frederic Abel, Opera III, printed for the author and sold by R. Bremner, [1770?], and A Fourth Sett of Six Sonatas, for the Harpsichord with an accompanyment for a flute violin & violin cello, by Matthias Vento, printed by Welcker [1768], orig. calf backed boards with morocco label to upper cover worn, with upper cover det., folio, together with other various music folios, including a large volume of Bass and Cembalo parts for overtures and concertos by Geminiani, Martini, Avison, etc (25)
An Italian Faience Small Shallow Dish, circa 1875], circular, painted in blue with a central medallion of an infant playing the triangle, seated on a harp and viola, flanked by roundels of pipes, drum and trumpet, with upper and lower renaissance scrollwork grotesques, against a brown lustre ground, 26.8cm diameter
Simpson (Christopher). A Compendium of Practical Musick in Five Parts: Teaching, by a New, and Easie Method, 1st ed., printed by William Godbid, 1667, [xvi],176,[2],6 pp., printed musical notation throughout, lacks eng. port. frontis. and leaves N7 & N8 at rear (last two leaves), leaves A1, A2, A7 & A8 silk-lined to surface, leaves C8, B1 & B2 strengthened to foredge margins, inner margins of some leaves strengthened and few outer margins close-trimmed, small hole to text of leaf F4, upper margin of leaf D8 repaired with slight loss to running title, occ. scattered spotting and light browning, modern qtr. morocco, 8vo The five parts include the rudiments of song, the principles of composition, the use of dischords, the form of figurative descant and the contrivance of canon. Christopher Simpson (c.1605-1669), English composer, theorist, and viola da gamba player. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War, and later was employed by Sir Robert Bolles. His tutoring of Sir Robert's son John (b. 1641) occasioned the writing of The Division-Violist (London, 1659; 2nd ed. 1665), praised by Jenkins, Coleman, and Locke. Another of Simpson's pupils, Sir John St. Barbe, inspired The Principles of Practical Musick (London, 1665), which became the Compendium of Practical Musick (London, 1667). Simpson's instrumental works are all for viol, with or without other instruments, and vary in difficulty. Wing S3810. (1)
(Art reference etc)] Flower's Victorian Jewellery (1951); Danks' The Viola d'Amore (1979, no.394 of 500); Eyles' Good Sir Toby (1955); Balston's Staffordshire Portrait Figures (1958); St Ives 1939-64 (1985); Gage's The Eye in the Wind (1977); Wanscher's The Art of Furniture (1968); Ward-Jackson's English Furniture Designs (1958); Brooke's English Coins (1966); Burns' Imperial Carnival Glass (1999); Harrod's Carol McNicoll (2003); & 9 others (20)
A Royal Copenhagen `Flora Danica' part table service, late 19th-early 20th century, each piece finely painted with a named botanical specimen below pink-ground pearl borders within gilt-edged serrated rims, comprising: a large oval bowl and domed cover, the entwined branch handle with flower terminals, Cytisus Laburnum.L., 40cm., 15.75 in., a circular bowl and domed cover, Leontoden autumnalis.L., 23.7cm., 9.25 in., a large oval dish, Trapa nalans.L., 52.2cm., 20.5 in., a circular dish, Corydalis cava.L., 35.5cm., 14in., a medium oval dish, Solanum miniatum Bernh., 37.5cm., 14.75 in., a shaped rectangular dish, Papaver Argemone.L., 29.8cm., 11.75 in., a shaped triangular dish, Oxalis Stricta.L., 28.3cm., 11.125 in., two small shaped triangular dishes, Cirsium acaule.All. and Oxalis corniculata.L., 21.3., 8.375 in., an oval dish with entwined branch handle, Viola Silvatica.Fr., 24.2cm., 9.5 in., two leaf-shaped dishes with handles, Pingvicola vulgaris.L. and Primula farinosa.L., 21.2cm., 8.375 in. and four later circular individual butter dishes, 7.7cm., 3in., wave marks in blue, script titles in black, some with Royal Copenhagen and crown marks printed in green, various numerals and painter's mark in green enamel, impressed numerals, a few minor rim chips, (18).