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A Victorian percussion cap musket, make Tower, with oak stock and ram rod, the sideplates stamped V.R. Tower, 1845, 131cm long
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A Victorian tortoishell and Mother-of-Pearl inlaid rectangular snuff box 8cms, together with eleven other papier mache and horn snuff boxes
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Robert Burns: Poems chiefly in The Scottish Dialect (third edition) A. Strahan, T. Cadell and W. Creech of Edinburgy 1787 (Foxing to Frontispiece)
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An 18th century Norwegian burr elm lidded peg tankard, the hinged lid carved a flower, with scrolling handle and carved black feet, 19cm high
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A Satsuman vase, of ovoid form with flared neck and scrolling lug handles the body decorated with panels depicting Samurai, Geisha and street vendors, unsigned (damaged), 26cm high
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An 18th century Dutch wine glass, the conical bowl wheel engraved with a hunting scene, with waisted silesian stem a circular folded foot, 17cm high
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An 18th century Dutch wine glass, the conical bowl engraved 'IHS' within a star and floral sprigs, with waisted silesian stem on raised circular folded foot, 19cm high
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A pair of 19th century Meissen gilt enamel porcelain tea cups and saucers, decorated with ho-ho birds and butterflies, crossed sword marks (scored), 9cm high
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An early 20th century Swiss gilt wood mechanical singing bird automaton, in a gilt metal domed cage on a floral carved base, with stop/start lever and key wind mechanism
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A Japanese patinated bronze figure of a seated monkey, wearing a floral kimono, 18cm high
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A Clarice Cliff Fantasque Melons pattern vase (restored), 18cm high
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A Clarice Cliff My Garden pattern two handled vase, of square tapered form, 12.5cm high
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A Perthshire glass millefiore paperweight, with concentric rings and spiral twists, the base with cane marked '97/1PG', paper label and original box, 8cm wide
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A millefiore glass paperweight, possibly French, of internal mushroom design within a blue and opaque spiral twist border, start cut pontil, 7.5cm diameter
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A pair of Doulton Lambeth Mary Butterton water jugs, painted with daffodils on a yellow ground, artists monogram and printed marks, chipped 25cm high
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Royal Doulton figure of 'The Old Balloon Seller', HN1315, 9cm high
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A late 19th century Samson porcelain figure of Shakespeare, after Scheermakers model in Poets corner Westminster Cathedral, 30cm high
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A Bing & Grondahl porcelain vase painted with a Dutch Tjalk barge at sea, pat. no.8778/487, 19.5cm high together with a Royal Copenhagen vase, pat.no.1730, 16.5cm high (2)
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A pair of Beswick zebra, with hand painted decoration, printed mark, 18cm high
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A Victorian green glass bubble dump paperweight, 15cm high, a similar dump paperweight, 13cm high and a Whitefriars ashtray, 9cm diameter (3)
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A Zsolnay Pecs pierced floral bowl 21cm diameter, together with a Wedgwood lustre posy vase and a Wedgwood jar and cover (3)
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A Victorian brass letter rack with pierced floral decoration, 16cm high, a pair of baluster shaped brass candlesticks with pushers, 27cm high, a giltwood wall bracket and a green tazza (5)
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A set of five Venetian latticino coloured glass sundae dishes and matching stands, together with two unmatched dishes and one further stand, 13 pieces in total, dishes 6.5cm high, stands 16.5cm diameter
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A Royal Doulton black basalt bust of Winston Churchill, commemorating the centenary of his birth (1874-1974) with booklet and original fitted box, 28cm high
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A British and Foreign Sailors Society centenary of Trafalgar copper tray, circa 1905, 30cm diameter
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A pair of Chinese cylindrical cloisonné brush pots, on hardwood stands, 13cm high
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A Victorian nautilus porcelain bowl, painted with flowers and a blush ivory ground, black printed mark, 16cm high
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A Victorian Nautilus porcelain planter of waisted circular form, painted with flowers on a blush ivory ground, 14cm high
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William Morris Interest
A wool embroidered panel attributed to Bessie Burden (1839-1914). Woven in colours depicting Aphrodite, adorned with halo, her hair cascading down and with separate floral waistband, unfinished and unframed, 118x39cm
Of the twelve projected Red House embroideries, Jane Morris stated that seven were completed, but only six were now known - Penelope and St Catherine (complete) at Kelmscott Manor; Isoulde Blanchemains (unfinished) at Kelmscott; Flamma Troiae, Hippolyte and Woman with a Sword (complete) at Castle Howard;. In addition two cartoons from what appear to be Venus and Diana are sometimes identified as designs for this series, although this seems unlikely, as goddesses are not appropriate to a frieze of illustrious women. (Taken from Jan Marsh) However, this is contradicted by Linda Parry:
The twelve figures had trees between them and above them and a belt of flowers running below their feet. 3 of them including Aphrodite, are thought to be lost, the latter surviving only as a painting at Kelmscott. It was intended that the panels would be embroidered in a traditional late medieval technique with each figure worked on linen, cut out and applied to a more sumptuous ground, in this case woollen serge. This scheme was never finished and when the Morris family moved out of Red House in 1865 the panels were dispersed among the various embroideries, who included Jan Morris, Bessie Burden, Kate Faulkner, Georgiana Burne-Jones. Bessie exhibited 3 of these at the 1888 Arts & Crafts Exhibition. It looks very similar to Morris's drawing of Aphrodite rising from the sea, it is in the same pose etc. The embroideries were designed by Morris and embroidered by Jane's sister Bessie. Mackail notes that 12 figures were originally planned for the Red House Drawing Room. It is probably on a linen ground with wools in brick, stem, satin, long, short and couch stitches.
Our thanks to Helen Elletson for preparing this entry
Provenance: By family descent from the present owners grandfather who was a keen collector of Morris's work, circa 1900.
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John Ruskin: The Nature of Gothic. A chapter of The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin. Kelmscot Press, William Morris in vellum boards, gilt lettering to spine, dated 1892
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