10 Eclectic Objects from the London Collections Sale

10 Eclectic Objects from the London Collections Sale

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  Justin Vulliamy No.165. A mahogany longcase clock, London, circa 1785. Estimate £25,000–35,000.

  Previously unrecorded, this humble looking longcase clock is one of the earliest numbered Vulliamy clocks. It is particularly rare as the numbered original winder has remained with the clock. Francois Justin Vulliamy (c.1712-1797) was the first member of the famous family to receive a reputation for excellence in Britain.
  
  

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  A George I giltwood marginal plated pier mirror, circa 1725, in the manner of Gumley and Moore. Estimate £40,000–60,000.

  A tour de force of 18th-century design, this mirror is made particularly rare by the very unusual plating to the cresting, which adds a touch of luxury to an already expensive-to-produce object to produce, as well as acting as a testament to the skill of the capable glass-makers and carvers who made it. The design of the mirror, with its ‘Indian Masks’, shares characteristics with the output of James Moore and his partner John Gumley, ‘cabinet-maker and glass-seller to the crown’ from 1717 to 1726.
  
  

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  A Charles II embroidered casket, second half 17th century.
  Estimate £15,000–20,000.

  Embroidered caskets such as this one are testament to the great demand for rich materials and elaborately ornamented pieces in 17th-century England, but also to society’s fascination with the natural world. The present example is thought to date from the time of the marriage of Anne Trafford (d. 1671) to Fisher Dilke of London (d.1690).
  
  

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  A pair of Chinese Export Nodding Head painted plaster figures, probably Canton, Qing Dynasty, mid-18th century. Estimate £25,000–40,000.

  Chinese Export figures such as the present ones testify to the taste for Chinoiserie that, beginning in the second half of the 17th century, lasted well into the following one. The largest collection of figures of this type is in Sweden at the Drottningholm Palace. A number of similar but larger figures, collected by the Prince Regent for the Brighton Pavilion, are recorded in early engraved views of its interiors.
  
  

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  A rare and finely carved model for a 36-gun merchantman named 'Stathuys van Dort' and dated '1723', possibly a VOC merchantman. Estimate £40,000–60,000.

  This rare model , intended to be viewed from below, was probably commissioned for the Dordrecht city hall as an omen of good fortune in 1723, is extraordinarily detailed and a palimpsest of the history of boat-making techniques astride the 17th and 18th centuries.
  
  

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  A Regency carved giltwood sofa, circa 1812, attributed to Tatham, Bailey and Sanders. Estimate £20,000–25,000.

  The present sofa is probably one of the giltwood sofas depicted in Charles Wild’s (1781-1835) evocative watercolour of the newly refurbished Blue Drawing Room in the north-west corner of Buckingham House, circa 1812. It was removed to Windsor Castle between 1827 and 1866, and bears the Windsor Castle brand for room 250.
  
  

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  After a model by Giambologna (1529-1608), Italian, 19th century, Mercury. Estimate £8,000–12,000.

  Giambologna’s figure of Mercury , poised on one foot and supported by a zephyr, is one of the artist’s most celebrated works. Its enduring fame reached a peak under the Grand Tour during the second half of the 18th century, when a number of fine copies of all sizes, mostly in patinated bronze or gilt-bronze, were made.
  
  

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  Follower of Giovanni Paolo Panini, Soldiers and Philosophers amongst Ruins. Estimate £20,000–30,000.

  The composition of the present work derives from Giovanni Paolo Panini's Predica di un apostolo in the Denver Art Museum, Denver. A painter and architect active in Rome and particularly popular with Grand Tourists, Panini is one of the best-known vedutisti, or view painters, who took particular interest in the city’s antiquities, and whose clear style influenced the likes of Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto.
  
  

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  A pair of George III carved oak and caned 'Gothic' window seats, circa 1800, in the manner of James Wyatt. Estimate £15,000–20,000.

  Supplied for Clare Priory, Suffolk, around 1803, these superb benches epitomise the refined Gothic style popularised by the architect James Wyatt (d. 1813). The use of oak as the principle timber was an unusual choice for the period, and heralds the celebration of all things native that would become the height of fashion further into the 19th century.
  
  

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  French, 19th century, after the antique, Egyptian goddess Hathor. Estimate £10,000–15,000.

  Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) was one of the most celebrated French metalworkers of the 19th century, and one whose production included copies of works by living artists, as well as decorative enamelled objects and copies after the antique. The Egyptian goddess Hathor personified the principles of joy and feminine love.
  
  

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    Type: auction

    Category: Past Auction

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    31 October–1 November 2017 | 10:00 AM GMT | London

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