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Lot 232
GOLDEN COCKREL PRESS: 1- The Journal of James Morrison, Boatswain's Mate of the Bounty, describing the Mutiny & subsequent Misfortunes of the Mutineers. With an introduction by Owen Rutter and five engravings by Robert Gibbings. 1935, Limited edition #144 of 325. Folio, original blue and cream 'sail-type' binding (with the receipt from Maggs Bros. 11 July, 2001 for £650-; 2- The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch, As related in William Bligh's dispatch to the Admiralty and the journal of John Fryer. With an introduction by Owen Rutter and wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. 1934, Limited edition #160 of 300. Folio, original russet and cream 'sail-type' binding. Light spotting to covers.. (2)
Lot 195
A pair of gilt gesso girandoles, each with three branches. 66cm high to top of light bulbs.Condition report: These are wired for electricity, but would need to rewired or at least checked by an electrician before use. Some of the gesso has fallen off, many cracks, breaks, some missing.Losses and splits throughout. They have passed a PAT test, but would most likely need to be rewired for installation. Please see images
Lot 196
A collection of brass lighting, to include an Edwardian three branch ceiling light, in the Arts & Crafts taste, with a triangular column, and three frosted glass shades with opaque glass trailing, 40cm high, a pair of wall lights, formed as a pair of crossed torches, each united by a ribbon, having moulded leaf shades, 30.5cm wide, 23.5cm high, and a pair of scrolled wall lights, each with a wrythen moulded glass shade, 33cm wide (5)Condition report: One shade chipped to the three branch ceiling light. Paint marks to shades of torch wall lights. General wear, knocks and loss of finish to the frames.
Lot 265
A Regency mahogany side cabinet, 19th Century and later, having a galleried shelf raised on gilt metal supports over a fold-out top inset with leather writing surface a single drawer and with cupboards beneath, the cupboard doors fitted with grilles and faux book spines raised on out swept bracket feet, 72cm wide, 38cm deep, 105cm highCondition report: superstructure possibly later, and in need of attention shelf and columns loose, door spines also later, all over signs of cosmetic wear would benefit from light restoration
Lot 141
A Mont Blanc Limited Edition 'Leonard Bernstein' ballpoint pen, with gilt metal treble clef clip, complete in fitted box with the tribute CD performed by the Philharmonic of NationsCondition report: Signs of light use, but otherwise in good condition. There is no tribute to 'Leonard Bernstein' booklet
Lot 186
A collection of English and Continental porcelain, 18th century and later, to include a shaped tray, probably mid-late 19th century, painted with figures in a landscape, bearing Meissen crossed swords mark beneath, 37cm wide, together with a dressing table set, tea bowls, mugs and a Delf plate (12)Condition report: The tray with some rubbing to gilt and light scratches to paint. The Delft plate chipped and cracked. The other pieces with chips, breaks, repairs and wear. General wear to all commensurate with age.
Lot 60
Hornby/Tri-ang OO model railways; a collection with six locomotives, including 'Albert Hall'; 'Flying Scotsman' (x2), one with inner coal light; LNER 8477 tank engine; 'Sir Dinadan', one other and and shell for another 'Flying Scotsman; along with a few rolling-stock items and other accessories.
Lot 4
A fine and unusual double-sided album page from the Imperial Mughal Library during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb, with scenes from the life of the Sufi Shaykh Majd al-Din Baghdadi Herat, 16th Century, with Deccani and Mughal additions of the second half of the 17th Centuryrecto, six scenes in gouache and gold on paper, perhaps excised from a manuscript of Jami's Nafahat al-Uns, laid down on an album page with an inner silver-sprinkled light blue border, nasta'liq inscriptions within gold cloudbands in upper and lower border, outer border with undulating foliate motifs in gold on a light pink ground, seal impression of Mughal Imperial Librarian at lower right corner; verso, a circular painting of a noblewoman, Mughal, late 17th Century, laid down on sections from Deccani and Mughal gilt-decorated album page borders of the late 17th-early 18th Century, gold-sprinkled inner borders, fine marbled border outside these, upper outer border with nasta'liq inscription, lower border with two lines of text in nagari script in gold (trimmed at right-hand edge), perhaps later, numbered 69 in Arabic at lower left corner each scene recto 100 x 95 mm. and slightly smaller; painting verso 103 mm. diam.; album page 390 x 278 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Imperial Mughal Library, apparently during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb (reg. 1658-1707).Private US collection, early 1970s-present.The seal impression in the lower right corner (recto) is that of a Mughal official, and reads: sohrab khan khaneh zad-e 'alamgir padshah, 'Sohrab Khan, born in the household of 'Alamgir Padshah'. The date is not clear, but it is clearly from the reign of Aurangzeb/'Alamgir I (1658-1707), and judging by the terminology, probably the early years of his reign. The seal impression of Sohrab Khan is found on other album pages including one in the Philadelphia Museum, while another was on a portrait of the Mughal nobleman Farrukh Fal, dated 1650-75, with Francesca Galloway (Indian Miniatures, London 2005, pp. 16-17, no. 6). This also had the same kind of nagari inscription indicating a Rajput collection, perhaps Amber. An album page with Sohrab Khan's seal impression, depicting a Mughal nobleman recto and with calligraphy by Javaher Raqam verso, dated to the third quarter of the 17th Century, was sold at Sotheby's, The Khosrovani-Diba Collection, 19th October 2016, lot 15.The Persian text verso consists of a couplet in praise of the beauty of a lady (perhaps by implication, that depicted in the painting below). The nagari text at the bottom also praises her beauty, comparing it to spring.The fragments of plants on a gold ground are reminiscent of imaginary plant studies in a dispersed manuscript of Indian philosophy, the Aparoksha Siddhanta, produced in the Deccan, at Aurangbad, and dated 1669 (see Francesca Galloway, op. cit., pp. 4-7, nos. 1, 2; also N. Haidar, M. Sardar, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy, New York 2015, pp. 292-293, no. 169).Marbling is of course a technique strongly associated with the Deccan, and the example here in the outer border verso is particularly striking. The petal-like differentiated areas were probably created using some sort of stencil or resist-masking technique for blocking off sections (though there is some suggestion that the technique is decoupage). For examples of Deccani marbling, and a discussion of the technique, see Haidar and Sardar, op. cit., pp. 156-169, esp. p. 158.The absence of text makes it impossible to say if the paintings recto were excised from a manuscript of Jami's Nafahat al-Uns, or another text on Sufis, or were simply depictions of the life of Shaykh Majd al-Din, made in an album for a specific patron.Jami's Nafahat al-Uns told the lives of six hundred and eleven Sufi saints. Shaykh Majd al-Din Baghdadi was a pupil of Najm al-Din Kubra. Khwarazm Shah asked the Caliph of Baghdad to send him a physician and Majd al-Din was sent. The Khwarazm Shah threw him in dajlah (referring, it seems, to a river as large as the Tigris - a scene perhaps depicted at lower left). Examples of the complete text have appeared at auction a few times: the only illustrated instance was a single leaf, dated to Herat, circa 1500 (see Christie's South Kensington, Indian and Islamic Works of Art and Textiles, 11th April 2008, lot 102. For complete examples of the text, see: Christie's, Islamic, Indian and Armenian Art and Manuscripts, 12th October 1999, lot 80 (dated AH 910/AD 1504); Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 5th December 2002, lot 496 (Afghanistan or North India, 17th Century); Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 31st March 2009, lot 138A (a Turkish translation, dated 1520).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 12
A practice sheet (siyah mashq) in nasta'liq script on an illuminated album page Persia, 18th-19th CenturyPersian manuscript on paper, text written diagonally in large nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground and intertwined with stylised foliate motifs in gold, inner margins with floral motifs in gold on a light brown ground, outer borders with an undulating foliate motif in gold on a light green ground, laid down on later card 285 x 130 mm.Footnotes:There are three different notes in Persian on the reverse, all attributing the hand to that of the famous calligrapher 'Abd al-Rashid Daylami, whose recorded work is dated between AH 1030/AD 1620-21 and AH 1071/AD 1660-61. He died circa 1670. See M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. II, Tehran 1346sh, pp. 393-400.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 282
A double-sided page depicting a Persian nobleman wearing an elaborate late Safavid turban, from a dispersed album of Deccani rulers and noblemen Deccan, Golconda, circa 1680gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with gilt-decorated floral borders, numbered 62 or 68 at top; verso, Gujari ragini, depicting a female musician seated in a palace garden, Deccan, late 17th-18th Century, with a single line of Persian text in nasta'liq above and below, inner and outer gilt-decorated floral borders, the page laid down on a later separate sheet paintings 197 x 118 mm., 160 x 117 mm.; album page 335 x 215 mm.Footnotes:Another folio from this album, with the same illuminated borders, is in the British Museum (1920,0917,0.69), dated to the early 18th Century. Zebrowski observes that 'it was the custom at Golconda for painters of modest talent to produce albums of Deccani and Mughal notables for sale in the bazaar to European and other foreign travellers' (M. Zebrowski, Deccani Painting, London 1983, p. 194). We might also compare in connection with both our painting and the British Museum example, two folios in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M. 81.8.9, and M. 87.20.1), of circa 1690: the first a Mughal-influenced portrait with the same light green background and flowers at the subject's feet; and an oval portrait in the same style and that of the British Museum. (See P. Pal, Indian Painting: a catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles 1993, vol. I, pp. 348-351, nos. 110 and 111.The nasta'liq script verso is a demonstration of how to join letters of the alphabet to others, and is not related to the painting.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 304
VISHNU AND HIS CONSORT ENTHRONED Pahari, KANGRA VALLEY, perhaps Garwhal, CIRCA 1800gouache and gold on paper, the divine couple enthroned within a roundel edged with lotus leaves, within a yantra, all on a light blue ground, pink flecked outer border 210 x 207 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePurchased from Hearst & Hearst, Boston, USA, in the early 1980s.Private Collection, Boston USA.Chaturbhuja (four-armed) Vishnu is depicted carrying his identifying objects: a mace, a lotus, a discus and a conch shell in each of his four hands. The artist has chosen to represent Vishnu in his avatar as Krishna, denoted by his blue body. He is also clad in a bright yellow dhoti and a marching scarf around his neck — a colour used for Krishna's garments - and a crown and jewels, in line with the iconographic convention designating Vishnu as a king. His consort, probably Lakshmi, is dressed in a green blouse, a bright orange skirt and a golden odhni that covers her head. The particularly notable feature of this painting is the situating of the enthroned couple within a yantra, a mystical diagram derived mostly from the Tantric tradition, used in temples and in homes to aid meditation and also for the benefits that their occult powers are supposed to yield. The circular border around the enthroned divine couple is surrounded by lotus petals. The lotus is a symbol of purity, creation and transcendence, but more importantly it has associations with the idea of fertility, a symbol of the female reproductive organ. Eight-petalled lotuses, such as this one, point in the cardinal and intermediate directions. While yantras can be of several types, those which assist in the worship of deities are called pujayantras, with the lotus around the central portion, surrounded by a square with four gates.The reverse of the painting carries a couplet in nagari, which means that it is said that whoever chants the name of Raghubir (i.e. Lord Ram, who is also an incarnation of Vishnu) will be absolved of his/her sins, have no fear of death, and will remain happy. The second line states that Lakshmi Narayana (i.e. Lord Vishnu and the Goddess Lakshmi) reside in the heart.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 139
A ROYAL DOULTON NURSERY RHYMES 'A' SERIES WARE HUNTLEY & PALMERS BISCUIT CASKET IN THE FORM OF A COMMODE, the pull off cover printed with a design by William Savage Cooper 'Hey, Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle', reg no 459880, printed marks to lid and base (Condition report:- lid shows areas of restoration under UV light, some wear to the green rim to the top of the base)
Lot 209
SHELLEY MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL NURSERY WARES comprising a napkin ring, fairy boat tumbler/beaker (no obvious chips or cracks, rings ok, slight wear to transfer), rabbit egg cup (staining to base, ring slightly dull), fairy motoring plate (slight scratches, rings), diameter 15.5cm, chute fairies 20.5cm plate and cover for a hot water plate (6) (Condition report:- signs of light use to most items except for parachute plate which has wear to the transfer print decoration, no chips or cracks)
Lot 326
TWO ROYAL DOULTON STONEWARE 'BABY' HOT WATER BOTTLES, from nursery ware series, c.1910, both with moulded decoration, one with blue/green glaze, the other in light green/brown glaze, impressed factory marks to bases, approximate length 19.5cm (2) (Condition report:- both have nibbles to decoration and one has chip to top of lid)
Lot 115
FOUR PIECES OF ROYAL DOULTON BUNNYKINS EARTHENWARE TABLEWARE DESIGNED BY BARBARA VERNON AND WALTER HAYWARD, comprising Dancing in the Moonlight LF6 bread and butter plate, Hoopla LF129 22cm plate, Getting Dressed LF2 porridge plate and Hot Water plate (4) (Condition report:- wear to transfer on bread and butter plate, light wear to hot water plate)
Lot 198
ROYAL DOULTON CHARLES DICKENS SERIES WARES, ETC, comprising rectangular pin trays - Sam Weller, Mr Squeers, Tony Weller and Mr Micawber, shaped rectangular pin tray - Mr Squeers, Mr Pickwick beaker cover, Mr Micawber shaped circular pin tray D5175, miniature vase, Mr Fagin and a twin handled bowl decorated with rattles, stars and lanterns, possibly Night Watchman series, (Condition Report:- restored handle, light scratches to most pieces) (9)
Lot 208
SHELLEY MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL NURSERY WARES comprising a Fisherman Joe 20cm plate and bowl, Cowboy James and Do You Know The Laddie? plates and Look At This Wee Jolly Elf saucer (5) (Condition report:- signs of light use to most items, loss of image to the well of the saucer, no chips or cracks)
Lot 130
A CASED ROYAL DOULTON CHINA NURSERY RHYMES L SERIES WARE TRIO AND HALLMARKED SILVER TEASPOON, the china printed with designs in the style of Ann Anderson, each piece with a different nursery rhyme (condition report:- all three pieces are free from chips, cracks and restoration, signs of light use, case is slightly loose in places)
Lot 140
A ROYAL DOULTON NURSERY RHYMES 'A' SERIES WARE HUNTLEY & PALMERS BISCUIT CASKET IN THE FORM OF A COMMODE, the pull off cover printed with a design by William Savage Cooper 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers', reg no 459880 (blurred), printed marks to lid and base (Condition report:- appears to be in good condition, viewed under UV light, no sign of restoration)
Lot 18
FOUR BOXED ROYAL DOULTON BUNNYKINS FIGURES EXCLUSIVE TO THE INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS CLUB AND EVENTS 2005, comprising Clarissa The Clown DB331, Clarence The Clown DB332 and two Tino The Trixstar DB333, all complete with related paperwork (4) (Condition report:- all four figures are in good condition, some light crazing to glaze noted on Tino, boxes in reasonable condition)
Lot 123
TEN PIECES OF ROYAL DOULTON EARTHENWARE NURSERY RHYMES SERIES WARE DESIGNED BY WILLIAM SAVAGE COOPER, printed with Nursery Rhymes A D5187, items comprise a baby's plate with name and date to the rim, a 9½'' plate, a rectangular jug, two egg cups, one with gilt rim (slight wear), a small cup and saucer, a conical footed beaker with handle, a wavy rimmed fruit dish and a conical mug (10) (Condition report:- several pieces have crazing in the glaze, small cup sounds dull when tapped, some transfers have light wear)
Lot 196
ROYAL DOULTON HISTORIC SERIES WARE, comprising Plymouth Hoe plate, Stratford Church dish, Temple Bar bowl, Haddon Hall and Chelsea Hospital squared plates, HMS Victory dish featuring Lord Nelson, The Tower of London rectangular tray, two pin trays, cottage scene and Sedan chair, Robin Hood sugar bowl, all D5940, together with a pair of old English costume plates, (Condition Report:- overall condition good, no chips or cracks, light scratches in places, some wear to the borders) (12)
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