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| OS220) Sale. BENACRE HALL SUFFOLK. The property of
the Estate of the late Sir John Gooch - Sotheby's 9th.10th &11th
May 2000. 1691 lots. Over 1,000 lots in colour. Large softback.
Price sheets. very good. The 15 page introduction to the sale gives an illustrated and detailed history of Benacre Hall and the Gooch family from 1746 onwards. Throughout the house there is the intermingling of the very fine with the more normal and the rare with the more usual. Included in the three-day sale is a selection of fine English furniture, Dutch Old Masters, a handsome group of Gooch family portraits, silver and vertu, Continental and English porcelain, militaria and the Gooch library comprising many thousands of volumes and texts, as well as objects associated with a great English country house sale from a stuffed swan to a bottle green velvet smoking jacket. The "Ceramics Stored in the Butler's Pantry & Housekeeper's Room" included a set of Lowestoft teabowls ( a large collection of Lowestoft was destroyed in a fire at the hall), a pair of Derby figures, 2 Chamberlain tea services, Bristol delft bowl, Doulton figure of an Owl etc. |
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| OS221)MAGAZINE
OF ART. Nov. 1898 to Apr. 1899 . 356 pages. 9 engravings. Approx.
460 other illustrations, some full page. Full leather spine and
corners. Leather to spine rubbed to corners and edges. Covers
part leather and black cloth & gilt. Marbled endpapers.Otherwise
very good. Six months of this art magazine bound in part leather. Includes numerous articles on Architecture, Design, Metalwork, Paintings, Sculpture etc. Under miscellaneous can be found Ceramics, Glass etc. In this volume is an articles on "Recent Royal Worcester" with 6 b/w & 1 full page colour plate. Two large articles on the Paris Salons of 1898 and one on a Tribute to Edward Burne-Jones also stand out. |
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| OS222)
The Price Guide to ANTIQUE FURNITURE
- Andrews J. 2nd edition. 1978 with price update for 1980. 290
pages. 1,015 b/w illustrations. Hardback.d/w. Good. Well illustrated and informative guide to all periods of furniture up to about 1880. |
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| OS223) THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. From Julius Caesar
to George II - A'Beckett G.A. C.1890. 339 pages. 220 illustrations
by John Leech. Disbound. Few separated pages at rear. Complete
but for 1 chapter index page. Fair. From the David Drakard collection. A collaborative effort by Punch Magazine contributors Gilbert Abbott À'Beckett (text) and John Leech (steel engravings and woodcuts). |
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| OS224) A History of ENGLISH FURNITURE. Volume One.
THE AGE OF OAK 1500-1600 & Volume Two. THE AGE OF WALNUT
1660-1720 - Macquoid P. 1972 reprints
of the 1905 originals. 1 colour. Vol. 1 241 pages. 215 b/w illustrations
& 15 b/w plates. 1 colour. Vol.2 245 pages. 223 b/w illustrations
& 15 b/w plates. Both soft covers. Good. The first two of four volumes of the standard works by Macquoid. |
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| OS226) The Marshall Guide to ANTIQUE CHINA & SILVER
- Forrest T. Editor Atterbury P. 1998.
16 pages. 275 colour illustrations. Hardback. Dust wrapper. very
good. An illustrated guide to tableware, identifying period detail and design from 1600 to 1950 in silver and ceramic forms. |
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| OS227) Sale. WORMINGTON MANOR. Country House Sale
- Sotheby's July 2003. 919 lots. All colour illustrtations. Soft.
Fine. Wormington Manor near Broadway Worcestershire home of Christopher Rowley the interior decorator. The mix of the finest17th to 20th century antiques of all forms show the talents of Rowley and his partner George-Hughes Hartman to the full. |
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| OS228) Sale. MENTMORE. Vol. 1. FURNITURE - Sotheby Parke Bernet. 18th-20th May 1977. 354 pages.
955 lots. 550 b/w & 98 colour plates. Hardback. D/w. French and continental furniture, tapestries and clocks from the Earle of Roseberry Mentmore House sale. |
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| OS229) Sale. The ROUS LENCH Collection. Volume Two.
Furniture and Works of Art - 3rd -
4th & 7th of July 1986. 203 pages. 620 lots. 230 lots in
b/w & 44 in colour. Soft covers. Fine. ( Part one was ceramics
only). The furniture, enamels, clocks, wood sculptures, stone & lead ornaments,Embroidery and other works of art from Rous Lench Court. |
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| OS230) Sale. The JOSEPH R. RITMAN Collection of 16th
and 17th Century Dutch Glass - Sotheby's.
14th November 1995. 83 lots. All lots illustrated in colour plus
some b/w illust. of signatures. With price list. Mostly diamond point engraved items including serpent stemmed glasses, flasks and other rare items. Rare examples of early Dutch glass with a forward to the catalogue by Frans Smit. |
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| OS231)
The Wallace Collection Catalogue. SCULPTURE. Marbles, Terra-Cottas
and Bronzes, Carvings --- , Medals,
Coins and Wax-reliefs. Mann J.G. 1935 HMSO. 264 pages of text.
100 pages of b/w plates. Soft. Good. 466 items are catalogued and described in detail and over 300 of these are illustrated, |
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| OS232)
Sale. The Krug Collection of GLASS Part.3 -
Sotheby's 15th November. 1982. 94 pages.144 lots. 75 in b/w and
47 lots in colour.Hardback.d/w. Important early Bohemian engraved and coloured glass. |
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| OS233)
MAGAZINE OF ART. Nov. 1899 to Apr. 1900 . 368 pages. 8 engravings.
Approx. 450 other illustrations, some full page. Full leather
spine and corners. Leather to spine rubbed to corners and edges.
Covers part leather and black cloth & gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Otherwise very good. Six months of this art magazine bound in part leather. Includes numerous articles on Architecture, Design, Metalwork, Paintings, Sclupture etc. Again 3 articles on the Paris Salons of 1899 and two on Limoge enamels stand out. |
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| OS234)
Exhibition. GLASS THROUGH THE AGES-
Alan Tilman Antiques. June 1974. 52 pages. 96 items. 29 in colour
& 67 in b/w. Soft. Good. The London dealers catalogue that contains mostly Venetian glass, English engraved glass, Bohemian and French paper weights. Includes a rare unrecorded glass teapot of silver form a Venetian mid 16th century Latticinio bowl . Also a few items of Roman and Damascus glass. |
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| OS235)
Exhibition. Circle of Glass Collectors. COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION
1937-1962 - V.&A. July 1962. 72
pages. 383 items. 65 illustrated. Soft. Good. Formed in 1937 the Glass circle celebrated 25 years of existence. Items are mostly 18th & 19th century English & European glass loaned from members with lenders names. |
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| OS236)
Collecting PICTURE POSTCARDS - Geoffrey
Godden. 1996. 222 pages. 212 b/w illustrations. Hard covers.
The history and development of picture postcards using Geoffrey Godden's home town of Worthing (a popular seaside resort) as a typical vehicle for his description of the history. The world famous ceramic author has written a detailed account based on his own private collection of postcards. |
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| OS237)
Sale. The Estate of PETER JAY SHARP. Sotheby's
New York. 13th January 1994. 138 pages. 100 colour plates. 76
lots. Hardback.d/w. Old masters including Reubens, important colour plate books including Thornton's 'Temple of Flora', Bronzes and furniture. |
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