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Lot 100
A heavy quality Edwardian silver three-piece tea service of ogee form, teapot handle with ivory insulators, Atkin Brothers, Sheffield 1904-06, 36oz gross (apparently unused) Ivory submission reference number NDU9ZKULTeapot - tarnished, no dents, hinge flushed, inside like newOthers - no signs of restoration or damage, sit flat on surface mirror - wobble
Lot 26
A weighted silver 'Witchball' table lighter, William Comyns & Sons Ltd, London 1957, a cut glass scent bottle with foliate-chased silver hinged bun cover, an engine-turned four-piece brush set including mirror and comb, Sheffield 1954/55 (comb teeth a/f), a similar powder bowl Birmingham 1959, a Sheraton Revival silver-backed mirror and pair of brushes, Yard-O-Led silver pencil, penknife and other oddments, t/w an Austro-Hungarian .800 grade pair of fish-servers with loaded handles (slice marked on blade) and a bread-fork with .800 grade handle, an .800 grade foliate-engraved powder compact, a Victorian pair of pierced and engraved electroplated fish servers, ep bread-fork, etc. (box)
Lot 128
Asprey: a brown leather dressing case, fitted with a set of Art Deco silver gilt and 'Coffee and Cream' guilloche enamel toiletry items, including four brushes, hand-mirror and comb and seven floral cut glass jars (apparently complete), Asprey & Co, Birmingham 1934, to/w a leather necklace-box, the case sitting in the top of a leather suitcase with gilt brass fittings and canvas over-cover
Lot 863
A Victorian Aesthetic period inverted breakfront boxwood inlaid ebonised credenza, probably for Liberty, London, the triple mirror plate back over three glazed-in cabinet doors, enclosing fabric lined shelves, raised on a plinth base, 154 cm w x 40 cm x 183 cm h o/all, good and original overall, surface finish worn and marked commensurate with age and use, glass panel to each side missing
Lot 94
A boxed silver child's hairbrush and mirror, the simulated mother of pearl backs painted with Japanese figures, also a silver-backed comb, Birmingham 1927, three silver napkin rings, a novelty 'scimitar' bookmark, a pair of salt ladles by Peter & William Bateman, London 1811 and another Georgian salt ladle to/w two electroplated napkin rings and two small spoons
Lot 818
A Victorian rosewood ladies writing desk by Edwards & Roberts, stamped to the drawer lining, the raised superstructure centred by a mirror over a stationary compartment, the tooled leather top over an arrangement of five drawers, raised on tapered square legs terminating in ceramic castors, 106 cm x 57 cm x 117 cm h o/all
Lot 24
IMPORTANT ET TRÈS RARE CABINET EN LAQUE NOIR PEINT À L'OR, GUIMarque et époque Longqing (1567-1572), les portes possiblement du XVIIe siècleAN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE GOLD-PAINTED BLACK-GROUND LACQUER CABINET, GUIEight-character Longqing mark and of the period (1567-1572), the doors possibly of 17th century dateOf square shape and with square corners, fitted with two doors with surface-mounted large shaped bronze hinges and backplates cast with dragons amongst ruyi-shaped clouds, opening to an interior with a single shelf and lacquered red, the doors finely painted in delicate shades of gold and red on a black ground with a couple and their attendants on a fenced terrace bordered by plantain trees and ornamental rocks before an open pavilion, the other door similarly decorated with ladies gathered around a table inside a pavilion surrounded by plantains and ornate rocks bordered on all four sides by a band of confronted dragons contesting the flaming pearl painted in gold and red on a black ground, the sides each with a rectangular panel finely painted in subtle shades of gold and red with a sinuous, writhing five-clawed dragon ascending below a similar writhing five-clawed dragon descending amid lush and dense lotus scrolls with large blooms bordered by bands of dragons striding through lotus vines, the top boldly painted with a shaped medallion enclosing a pair of mynah birds resting on the branch of a flowering camelia and rockwork, framed by lush scrolling lotus blooms, the back similarly painted with a tall gnarled flowering prunus tree flanked at the base by a small cluster of pine and bamboo hidden behind an ornate rock and small sprays of lingzhi, all finely outlined in gold and in subtle washes of gold and red against a mirror-black ground and above a horzontal eight-character Longqing mark painted in gold along the centre lower section. 104 x 96 x 45 cm (41 x 37 3/4 x 17 3/4 in)Footnotes:PROPERTY FROM A BELGIAN NOBLE COLLECTION比利時貴族收藏明隆慶 黑漆描金方角櫃 「大明龍慶御用監製」款 （櫃門或爲十七世紀）Provenance:Formerly in the collection of Raymond Pelgrims de Bigard, Comte de Bigard (1875-1955), Chateau de Grand Bigard, Dilbeek, Belgium.Thence in the family by descent to the present owner.來源Raymond Pelgrims de Bigard（1875-1955）伯爵舊藏，大拜哈爾登城堡，迪爾貝克，比利時後經家族流傳至今This beautiful lacquer cabinet is one of the earliest dated examples of lacquer-painted furniture made. The mark on the lower back of the cabinet records that it was made during the Longqing period (1567-1572) of the Ming dynasty. The inscription further states that this cabinet was made by the imperial workshops yuyongjian suggesting that it was intended to be placed in the private quarters of the emperor's residence or in an official space in one of the numerous halls of the imperial palace. The five-clawed dragons painted on the sides and around the frame further support this claim as the use of this particular type of dragon was restricted to Imperial wares. Similarly rendered on contemporaneous porcelain and textile, these five-clawed creatures are typical of the ferocious designs of the late Ming period and leave no doubt as to the imperial origins of the piece.Lacquer wares inscribed with Longqing marks are very rare compared with the abundancy of surviving marked lacquer pieces made during the preceding Jiajing (1522-1566) and subsequent Wanli (1573-1620) periods. We can assume that the highly skilled artisans employed for manufacture of pieces made for the Imperial court of the Jiajing emperor are likely to have continued working under the Longqing and Wanli emperors thereby continuing to apply their technical expertise, skills and decorative repertoire to the works they created. Not surprisingly, the closest related examples of gold-painted lacquer furniture are cabinets dated to the Wanli period. One of these, a large Wanli-marked cabinet painted in the same technique with red and gold dragons amongst scrolling lotus on a black ground is in the collection of the Guimet Museum, Paris, illustrated in Sir Harry Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 144 (Fig. 1). Another example inscribed with a Wanli mark and similarly decorated in shads of gold with striding five-clawed dragon is a pair of chests published in Valrae Reynolds and Yen Fen Pei, Chinese Art from The Newark Museum, New York, 1980, cat.no. 25, pp. 46-47.The technique of decorating a black or brown lacquer surface with designs in subtle shades of gold and red is just one of several lacquer-working techniques listed by Huang Cheng in his treatise on lacquer, Xiushi lu 髹飾錄 (On Lacquer Decoration) believed to have been compiled first during the Longqing period of the Ming dynasty. Other techniques include carved lacquer, filled lacquer, smooth lacquer, colorful-painted lacquer, painted gold paint, gold lacquer, piled lacquer and inlayed lacquer. However, in the Jiaqing, Longqing and Wanli period, pieces with gold-painted lacquer or painted lacquer decoration are extremely rare and only a handful of examples are known. The majority of known pieces include smaller items such as two small cabinets similarly painted with gold dragons and lotus on a black lacquer ground, published in Hu Desheng (ed.), Collections of the Palace Museum: Painted Furniture, Beijing, 2009, nos.89 and 99, but also large, representative compound cabinets and smaller cabinets such as the present example. In Sir Harry Garner noted that no other painted lacquerware known belonging to the sixteenth or early seventeenth century was as important as these pieces of Imperial furniture. The technique employed in this type of decoration was also complex and according to Garner required several steps and required great skills as the brushstrokes had to be precise. On this cabinet, the quality of the dragons and lotus scroll differs on each side suggesting different artisans were involved. The lacquer surface on all sides of this cabinet displays a consistent craquelure underlining the quality and purity of the original lacquer used. Unusually, the top and the back of this cabinet are also lavishly decorated, featuring a flowering prunus tree and a flowering camelia, both skilfully rendered in shades of red and gold. This rare feature only appears on a pair of Wanli-marked gold-painted black lacquer cabinets decorated with Buddhist lions amidst lotus scrolls, the back also painted with a large flowering prunus tree, rocks and magpies below a Wanli mark in a horizontal cartouche, sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 April 2008, lot 1628, the second in Sotheby's London, 4th May 1984, lot 106. The designs on the sides, top and back of this wonderful cabinet perfectly match designs found on other marked Ming lacquer pieces of furniture and place this cabinet in a rare group of Imperial wares. However, the finely decorated doors of this cabinet depicting ladies and their attendants engaged in leisurely pursuits are a unique feature and do not appear on any other marked piece of Ming painted lacquer furniture. It appears that the quality of the painting and the wonderfully subtle shades and washes of gold and red employed to bring to life the two domestic scenes ... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: WW Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 340
Two desk thermometers, 20th century, 20.5cm and 12cm high,a Sorrento ware inlaid card box, in the form of a book,12cm,a Tunbridgeware mirror, 19.3 x 15.5,a dice shaker, 7.5cm high, seven painted skittles and a ball, 15.5cm, a Chinese box, with a sliding lid, 9.8cm, anda pair of Chinese lotus shaped stands, one lacking top, 14.5cm wide (15)Condition ReportIvorine panel on thermometer.Card box - one end loose, end with crackItems used. Please see additional images.
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