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June 2008 - Top Lots
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SCHOOL OF FRANCESCO ZUCCARELLI (1702 - 1788) Continental landscape, peasant family with cattle and goat to the foreground, figures and grazing cattle beyond with distant village and rolling hills, oil on canvas, unsigned, 83cms x 92cms. | £25,000 |
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PHILLIPE JACQUES DE LOUTHERBOURG (1740 - 1812) River valley landscape with herdsman and travellers, mules cattle and sheep on a cliff top path, trees and mountains beyond, oil on canvas, unsigned, hand written artist's label verso, 63.5cms x 55cms. | £19,000 |
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BRIAN SHIELDS 'braaq' BRITISH (1951 - 1997), The Football Match, The crowd looks on as the referee indicates a free kick, the rooflines of factories and mills beyond, acrylic on board, signed 'braaq ann' to lower right, 47.5cms x 66.5cms. | £14,000 |
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BRIAN SHIELDS 'braaq' BRITISH (1951 - 1997), The Cricket Match, Game in play with out-fielder running for the ball as crowds look on, a river and industrial city seen from the park, oil on board, signed to lower right 'braaq ann', 47cms x 66cms | £9,000 |
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WALTER WINANS (1852-1920), equestrian study of a horse, patinated bronze, signed to base and dated 1912, 55cms high. | £6,500 |
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A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE PORCELAIN VASES AND COVERS of fluted baluster form painted with ho-ho birds, shishi and landscapes within rectangular panels, the annulated neck painted with archaic symbols over diaper shoulders with shishi and dragon filled reserves and diaper border to the foot, the domed covers with bracketed rim and incised ball and loop finials, Qianlong period (18th century) (one repaired to neck and finials later) | £5,000 |
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FRANCIS MONTAGUE (FRANK) HOLL RA ARWS (1845-1888), Going Home... How Much Is Past... How Little Remains, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1877 lower right. Royal Academy Exhibition label and artist's label verso, the latter inscribed with title and 'Painted for F S Teesdale Esq. by me, May 1877' and signed Frank Holl, 48cms x 65cms. |
£4,600 |
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SAMSON OF PARIS PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE OF WORCESTER FIRST PERIOD STYLE polychrome painted in the manner of James Giles with exotic birds and insects in mirror shape reserves, underglaze blue and gilded borders comprising teapot, sucrier and cover, spoon tray, saucer dish, bowl, five coffee cups and nine tea cups (two damaged) and eight saucers. | £4,200 |
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WILLIAM THORNLEY (1857 - 1935) The Medway Near Chatham and a companion work, a pair, oil on mahogany panel, signed lower left, 25.5cms x 20.5cms. | £3,800 |
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A PAIR OF CHINESE WUCAI BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS painted with galloping horses between foliate covered mountain peaks against a ground of iron red whorls, beneath a lappet border, the domed covers with knop finials, probably Transitional, 42cms high (hair line crack to both and one cover damaged) | £3,500 |
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TOM McGUINNESS (1926 - 2006) Colliery town street scene with miners heading for the pit as a group of older men walk the other way and two women gossip as they pass two black cats, oil on board, signed and dated '55 to lower right, 60cms x 90cms. | £3,400 |
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WILLIAM WEEKES (1856-1909), Two donkeys and a carrion crow, oil on panel, signed lower right, 28.5 x 20.5cms. | £3,200 |
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FOLLOWER OF FRANS SNYDERS (1579 - 1657) Combat de Coqs, oil on panel, unsigned, old label verso, 83cms x 121cms | £3,200 |
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A WORCESTER BLUE SCALE PATTERN PART TEA SERVICE, atelier of James Giles, each piece polychrome painted with exotic birds and insects in gilt mirror shape reserves, fretmark in underglaze blue, circa 1770 comprising teapot and cover with flower finial, sugar bowl and cover, waste bowl, tea vase (lacking cover), nine saucers, six cups, four tea bowls, two saucer dishes together with a continental tea pot stand and spoon tray of similar pattern | £3,200 |
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A 19TH CENTURY FAR EASTERN TEMPLE BELL of oval helmet shape cast in high relief with raised panels of whorled cones, surmounted with a vase encircled with salamanders hanging from a pendant of bat form, within a carved and pierced wooden stand, 122cms high. | £3,200 |
