COllECTORS' iTEMS, wORkS Of ART & ClOCkS

Works of Art & Collectors’ Items
Enquiries: Martin McIlroy
Tel. 01392 413100
Email: mcilroym@bhandl.co.uk
SECOND DAY’S SALE
THURSDAY 1st NOVEMBER 2012
COllECTORS’ iTEMS,
wORkS Of ART & ClOCkS
Commencing not before 12.30pm
Collectors’ Items, Works of Art and Clocks will be on view on:
Saturday 27th October 9.00am to 1.00pm
Sunday 28th October 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Monday 29th October 9.00am to 5.15pm
Tuesday 30th October 9.00am to 5.15pm
Wednesday 31st October 9.00am to 5.15pm
Limited viewing on sale day
Clocks
Enquiries: Leigh Extence
Tel: 01392 413100
Email: extencel@bhandl.co.uk

520.
A 19th century Russian icon
depicting the Mother of God
surrounded by disciples and
saints, overseen by the Creator,
on panel enclosed with a silver
riza or oklad, maker UG, assay
master’s mark B.II, Moscow,
1885, 32.5 x 26.5cm.
£400 - 600
521
A Japanese bronzed metal
tsuba with carved and inlaid
decoration depicting of storks
among reeds, heightened
with gold and with three
character carved signature,
Edo Period
£200 - 300
522
A painted shield armorial,
decorated with the crest of St
Mark, in a rope bound frame,
163 x 80cm
£150 - 200
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523
520
521
523
523
A french 19th century tapestry cartoon panel possibly for a
chair back, 66 x 67cm, and an Abusson style tapestry cartoon
panel of an Italianate lake.95 x 105cm.
£300 - 400

524
524
lord, Dublin - A pair of Georgian flinktlock pistols with 11cm.
brass turn-off barrels, the sidelocks signed Lord, Dublin, with
polished steel trigger guards, walnut grips with polished silver
pommel, overall length 27.5cm.
£1000 - 1200
135

525
A Georgian mahogany and
crossbanded oval twinhandled
tray with wavy edge
border and brass loop carrying
handles, 72cm. wide.
£150 - 200
526
An early 20th century Swiss
cylinder musical box playing
eight airs, with 16cm. cylinder
having ratchet lever winding,
tune indicator and three
bells in sight with butterfly
decorated hammers, with tune
sheet, contained in a simulated
rosewood box, 47cm. wide.
£300 - 400
527
An Edwardian satinwood and
painted oval two handled
tea tray with crossbanded and
wavy edge border and brass
loop carrying handles to the
sides, 72cm. wide.
£150 – 200
528-30 No Lots.
531
A Chinese brown agate snuff
bottle of plain ovoid form,
6 cm high and later brass
stopper.
£100 - 150
532
A Chinese white and grey
jade double peach and bat
carving with leafy stem,
18th/19th, 5cm wide, slight
damage.
136
£300 - 500
533
A 19th century mother-ofpearl
fan the lithographed
paper leaf decorated with
cherubs and angels, with gilt
decorated mother-of-pearl
sticks and guards, 30cm. long,
some damage.
£200 - 250
534
A 19th century Cantonese
fan with traditional decoration
of painted figures with ivory
faces, with gilt decorated
lacquered sticks and guards,
29cm. long, damaged.
£120 - 150
526
531, 532
535
A 19th century Cantonese
ivory brise fan carved to both
sides with figures in a pagoda
landscape, 22cm. long, needs
new ribbon.
£200 - 300

536
A Continental ivory and gilt
metal applied fan with plain
leaves, the guards with applied
enamel, turquoise and paste
set mounts, 20cm. long
£200 - 250
537
A Continental ivory brise
fan the leaves with pierced
cartouche of putti and trailing
foliage, the guards carved with
fruit and trailing foliage, 20cm.
long, some damage.
£150 - 180
538
A late 18th century pierced
ivory fan with silk and lace
leaves having pierced ivory
guards, 22cm. long damaged.
£200 - 250
539
A 19th century ivory brise
fan with solid leaves and foliate
carved guard, 20cm. long.
£150 - 180
540
An ivory brise fan with solid
leaves damaged 19.5cm. long,
and a few 18th century fan
sticks.
£50 - 70
541
A 19th Canton carved ivory
fan the silk leaf decorated
with painted vignettes, having
pierced ivory sticks and solid
carved ivory guards, 28cm.
long.
£200 - 300
542-7 No Lots.
548
An early 19th century
needlework sampler with
alphabet, verse, fruiting
shrubs, angels, Adam and
Eve, contained within a floral
meander border, worked in
coloured silks by M Dyke,
dated 1810, 41 x 33cm
£200 - 300
549
A 19th century sampler of
random design, with letters,
insects and animals flowering
shrubs and assorted motifs to
a black ground, within a triple
striped border, 29 x 24cm.
£200 – 250
550-4 No Lots.
555
A Chinese archaic-style
bronze vessel in the form of
two rams, cast with dragons
and scrollwork on a ground of
spirals, 21.5cm. high.
£200 - 400
558
556
A Chinese hardwood Ruyi
Sceptre the carved shaft
and three panels carved in
relief with figures, buildings,
animals, birds and foliage, late
19th/20th century, 45cm.
£400 - 500
557
A Chinese worked ivory
tusk carving of an elephant
amongst foliage, mounted on
wood together with a lacquer
and inlaid plaque.
£60 - 100
558
A Chinese carved ivory figure
of Shou-Hsing leaning on
a staff in his right hand and
holding a peach of immortality
in his left hand, 31cm. high.
£300 - 400
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559
A Chinese oval miniature
of a young girl in traditional
costume contained in an ivory
frame, 7.5cm. high.
£200 - 300
560
A Cantonese ivory figural
chess set one side stained red,
the other left natural, all pieces
raised on puzzleball feet, the
kings and queens in traditional
dress, the pawns mounted
on horseback, the king16cm.
high, the pawn 8cm. high.
£300 - 500
138
559
561
A Chinese celadon jade
pendant in the form of a
central shou medallion within
a carved and pierced ‘frame’,
metal loop, 6cm. diameter.
£100 - 150
562
A Chinese jadeite snuff bottle
of flattened ovoid form, carved
on both sides with phoenix
within geometric borders,
5.5cm. (small chips to rim).
£250 - 300
563
A Chinese agate snuff bottle
with mask ring handles,
one side with ‘tortoiseshell’
markings, coral mounted
stopper, 7.5cm. a plain bottle
of amber colour and jadeite
mounted stopper, 6cm; a
green and white overlay glass
bottle a Peking ruby glass
bottle and two mottled glass
bottles. (6).
£100 - 150
560
564
564
A pair of Chinese jadeite
figures of phoenix perched
on a naturalistic base, on wood
stands, total height 19cm.
high.
£300 – 500
565-8 No Lots.
569
A Chinese jade disc of celadon
and russet colour, carved with
four serrated notches, Ming or
later, 12.5cm. diameter.
£400 – 600

571
A collection of six Chinese
inside-painted glass snuff
bottles including a large
example painted with a battle
scene, signed, 8cm; another
with moulded base and mask
ring handles, signed, with
amethyst stopper; another
with red overlay decoration;
a blue glass bottle and two
others. (6).
£250 - 350
570
A Chinese carved stone Buddhist stele of rectangular form,
having an arched inset recess with dragon mask decoration
above, and figures to either lower corners, with inscribed
character marks to one side and date of 739 AD, the opposite
side with three rows each of two seated Buddha’s within arches
above an arch containing Buddha with attendants, 39cm. wide,
64cm. high and 23cm. deep. Tang dynasty
£2000 - 3000
572
A Chinese moulded famille rose porcelain snuff bottle
decorated in relief with the Eighteen Lohan, apocryphal four
character Qianlong mark, 7cm; a similar moulded bottle, 8cm;
a similar bottle moulded and heightened in gilt with precious
objects, bears a four character Qianlong mark, 7.5cm; (two tiny
chips) a famille rose cylindrical bottle painted with the Eighteen
Lohan, iron red mark ‘Precious Collection of Treasure’, 8cm.
(crack to neck); and a blue and white ovoid snuff bottle, with
hardstone stopper and white metal mounts, decorated with
dancing figures, 8.5cm. (some damage) (5)
£150 - 200
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140
573
A Chinese Rhinoceros horn libation cup finely carved overall with fruiting vines,
on a gnarled vine branch extending to the rim to form the handle, 17/18th
century, 17.5cm. long, minor damage and age cracks, on a matching carved
wood stand.
£20000 - 25000
* A C.I.T.I.E.S. licence of authority to sell this item of ‘worked’ rhino horn has
been granted. However it would be unlikely that a re-export certificate would be
granted under the restrictions currently in force in the UK .
** ViEwiNG BY APPOiNTMENT ONlY **

574
A Japanese cloisonne vase
with quatrelobed body and
slender neck, decorated with
panels of phoenix dragons,
lanterns and foliage on a
predominantly grey ground,
Meiji, 24.5cm, minor firing
damage.
£80 - 120
575
A small Japanese cloisonne
vase Hayashi Kodenji
workshops, decorated with
finches and bamboo on a
beige ground, lappet bands
to the neck and foot, signed,
Meiji, 12cm.
£200 - 300
576
577
576
A large Japanese bronze
caparisoned elephant with
trunk raised, jewelled and relief
decorated cloth, a two-tier
pagoda above with ho-o bird
finial and hung with tassels,
nine character mark in a
cartouche, Meiji period, 55cm.
high, minor damage to tail,
five tassels missing.
£400 - 600
577
A large Japanese ivory study
of a crayfish naturalistically
carved and inset with glass
eyes, unsigned, Meiji period,
30cm. long, minor damage,
some legs glued to the body.
£800 - 1200
578
A Shibiyama decorated
lacquered box the lift-off
lid decorated with a winged
figure holding a flower, to a
gold coloured ground, the
box of a deep maroon ground
decorated all over with floral
sprays, 22cm. wide.
£200 - 250
579
An Eastern carved ivory
cane handle in the form of a
reclining lion with long mane,
possibly Indonesian, 18th/19th
century, 11cm. wide, some
damage and age cracks, on
a later malacca cane, 90cm.
long.
£100 - 200
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580
A set of six Moghul indian
watercolours depicting
assorted hunting scenes with
figures mounted on horseback
and elephants, mounted in a
single frame, each panel 18 x
10cm.
£100 - 150
581
A 19th Century Dutch carved
oak cabinet with embossed
brass panels.
£800 - 1000
582
A pair of Japanese
embroidered silk panels
depicting owls perched on tree
stumps with flying insects and
exotic birds, 94 x 56cm.
£300 - 400
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588
583
A Japanese embroidered silk
picture depicting a lion and
lioness on a grassy knoll, 72 x
107cm.
£200 - 250
584
A Tibetan Tankha the central
wheel enclosing seated deities
and depicting several aspects
of Buddha, 52 x 41cm.
£100 - 200
585
A Tibetan Thanka having
seated figures enclosed within
a wheel and depicting several
aspects of Buddha, 52 x 41cm.
£100 - 150
586
A Japanese watercolour on
silk depicting urns containing
blossoming and flowering
shrubs, 84 x 37cm.
£200 - 250
587
After Chikashige, a Japanese
woodblock triptych of
four actors, each panel 35 x
22cm; together with another
Japanese woodblock triptych
of courtesans 37cm x 72cm.
£150 - 200
588
A Tibetan Buddhist Thanka
centred with seated figures
within a central wheel, with
similar wheels to the corners
and depicting several aspects
of Buddha, 87 x 62cm.
£150 – 200

589
An early 20th Century
Bamileke tribe (Cameroon)
carved wood mask:, having
turned bowl to crown with
exaggerated facial features and
bellowing cheeks, 31cm. high.
£200 - 300
590 No Lots.
591
An indian ebony stationery
box with domed hinged lid
and divided interior, carved
overall with panels of scrolling
flowers and foliage, 31cm.
long.
£200 - 300
592
A 19th century ivory
mounted aide-memoire the
two panels finely carved and
pierced with flowers, vines and
a monogram, 11 x 7.5cm.
£200 - 250
593
A Continental tortoiseshell
small casket in the 17th
century manner, with white
metal mounts in the form of
strapwork, rosettes and with
ornate lock, on bun feet, 11cm
wide. (some damage and
chipping).
£100 - 200
594
A 19th century continental
carved ivory figure of a seminaked
young woman, with
long flowing hair, holding
a posy of flowers in her left
hand, on a fir tree lined rocky
base, 7.5cm. high.
£500 - 700
594
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144
595
A 19th century indian ivory and pen work decorated box the
hinged lid with banded floral decoration and border, with brass
loop carrying handles to the sides, raised on paw feet, 52cm.
wide, on an associated gilt wood stand.
£800 - 1000

596
A limoges enamel plate
decorated with ‘The Labours
of the Month of February’ with
a farmyard scene with a figure
milking a cow, sheep in the
foreground and the Zodiac
symbol for Pisces in the sky,
the rim with a band of foliage,
the reverse with a classical
portrait in profile within a strap
work and vine border, 19.5 cm
diameter, 16th / 17th century,
some loss and damage.
£300 - 400
597
An Eastern European
champleve enamel bowl the
bowl and rim enamelled with
scroll and floliate decoration,
with embossed floral band
to the bowl, raised on a
spreading circular foot, 19cm.
diameter.
£250 - 350
596
verso
145

598
A 19th century walking cane
the handle carved in the form
of a negro’s head, with inset
glass eyes and wearing a bow
tie, 90cm. long.
£200 - 300
599
A late 18th/early 19th
century Staffordshire enamel
patchbox ‘Hope’ depicting
a young female waving to a
three-masted man-of-war,
3cm. diameter.
£100 - 150
146
600
598
600
A 19th century indo Colonial box inlaid in ebony and ivory
with trailing foliate decoration to the hinged lid and sides, with
loop carrying handles, 48cm. wide.
£400 - 600

601
A carved and decorated
horn with plated mounts of a
chicken’s head and legs to the
front and a lizard support to
the rear, overall length, 44cm.
£200 - 300
602
An 18th century Portuguese
Colonial ivory inlaid box of
rectangular outline, decorated
with inlaid floral stems and
banded foliate borders to the
sides, 20.5cm. wide.
£100 - 150
603
A tortoiseshell and pique
decorated necessaire and
two small tortoiseshell boxes
(3).
£100 - 150
604
A pair of late 18th century
french silver buckles with
traces of gilding, blue and
white enamelled roundel
decoration and original iron
fittings.
£200 - 250
605
A 19th century mother of
pearl inlaid tortoiseshell tea
caddy of bow front outline,
decorated with a pagoda
landscape with shallow domed
hinged lid enclosing two
lidded compartments and glass
blender, raised on squat bun
feet, 26cm. wide
£500 - 600
601
604
605
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148
606
An indian ivory figural chess set one side with black stained
bases , the other side left natural, kings and queens as elephants
with howdahs, bishops as camels, knights as horsemen, rooks as
elephants, pawns as horsemen, the king 10.5cm. high, the pawn
3.5cm. high.
£600 - 800

607
A 19th century Mother of
Pearl and abelone card case
with “tumbling cube” pattern
decoration with pen work
decorated panels, 10.5cm.
high.
£150 - 250
608
An English enamel pug’s
head patch box the cover
transfer printed with ‘Wou’d
you be happy/Learn to be
virtuous’, the interior with
mirror, probably South
Staffordshire, 3.5cm. (minor
damage to cover).
£150 - 200
609
A Birmingham Guild of
Handicraft brass jardiniere
stand of open cylindrical
strapwork form, with flared
end, raised on swept tripod
feet, stamped to the base BGH,
91cm. high.
£300 - 500
609A
five various 18th/19th
century Carved oak corbel’s
in the form of lions masks,
each 10cm. high.
£100-150
609B
A pair of 19th century
continental painted panels
with central vase of flowering
shrubs flanked by foliate
scrolls, each panel, 29 x 72cm.
£100-150
609C
A collection of six assorted
17th and 18th century
carved stiles depicting various
subjects including Cupid, Eve,
cherubs and fruit, sizes range
from 23cm to 64cm.
£400-600
609
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150
610
After Houdon an allegorical bronze study of ‘summer’
depicting a semi clad female holding a watering can in one
hand, a scythe in the other and a small wheatsheaf tucked
under her arm, on a circular base, signed to the bronze Houdin,
stamped with Collas reduction seal and F. Barbedienne, Fondeur,
Paris, and numbered 349, 61cm. high.
£800 - 1200

611
A bronze study of a peasant
boy holding a dead hare in
his left hand and dead game
hung round his waist, on a
naturalistic base, unsigned,
53cm. high.
£200 - 300
612
A 19th Century carved white
marble bust of katherine
Jane Scott Moncrieff wearing
a hair net and blouse, inscribed
as per title and ‘Born 26 Oct
1844 Died 25 Jany 1852’, on a
socle base, 51cm high.
£300 - 500
613
611
613
A Regency period inkstand by Thomas weeks the gilt bronze
dog chained to a tree stump surmounted by an urn, with gilt
bronze inkwell on a polished white hardstone base, the tree
stump inscribed Weeks’s Museum, Tichborne St, 14cm. wide. .
£600 - 700
* Thomas Weeks had a museum/shop, at 3/4 Tichborne Street
which opened in 1803 and closed on his death in 1833
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152
614
614
B. Morelli - A bronze study of a young boy
turning sideways to adjust his shorts, signed to
the bronze base, B. Morelli, 25cm. high.
£300 - 500
615
A bronze of two street urchins one looking
over the other’s shoulder, indistinctly stamped
to the base with foundry mark, numbered
to the underside 258910, 25cm. high, arm
damaged.
£150 - 250

616
Jules Bastien-lepage (1848 - 1884) A
bronze study of a woman, her hair tied
back with a scarf, wearing a long dress
and shawl, leaning on a staff, signed
J Bastien - Lepage to the naturalistic
circular base, 34cm. high.
£15000 - 20000
In her biography of the artist published
in 1894, Julia Cartwright mentions a
bronze study of Jean d’Arc modelled as
a sheperdess leaning on a crook.
153

617
After the antique, Venus di
Milo a bronze study bearing
Colas reduction seal, the base,
30.5cm. high.
£400 - 500
618
A 19th century bronze model
of the Borghese vase the
frieze depicting a Bacchanalian
procession of Dionysis and
Ariadne, the fluted arched
handles with satyr head
terminals, on spreading socle
foot and square base, 24cm.
high.
£150 - 250
154
618
617

619
Josef lorenzl (1892-1950) a pair of silvered bronze and ivory
figures modelled as dancers, both wearing short skirts, stamped
R.Loz. to the sole of their shoes, on polished green onyx bases,
31cm and 29cm. high.
£3000 - 4000
155

156
620
After lorenzl, a cold painted silvered bronze and ivory figure
of a dancer with outstretched arms and raised left leg, mounted
on a polished green onyx base, total height 24cm. high.
£500 - 700

621
A late 19th century alabaster bust of a young woman wearing
a shawl, held by a brooch under her chin, having a white face
and translucent shawl, mounted on a shaped white marble base,
unsigned, 34cm. high.
£1500 - 2000
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158
622
After Jean Baptiste Germain (1841-1910) Excelsior a bronze
study depicting a young woman holding a book entitled ‘The
Thouht’ being held aloft by an angel, signed to the bronze J B
Germain, inscribed to the cartouche on the socle base ‘Excelsior’
par J.B. Germain, Medaille au Salon. 79cm. high.
£1200 - 1500

623
A 19th century scrimshaw
decorated powder horn,
inscribed with a depiction
of a bachic woman holding
a Union Jack whilst seated
on a barrel of brandy, above
Royal coat of arms and panel
beneath “Wm. Kerby IVth
King’s Own Regimt”, with fully
rigged ship to the lower edge,
also decorated with kangaroo,
mermaid and floral motifs,
41cm long.
£400 - 500
624
Emmanuele Villanis,
’Coquelicot’ a bronze study
of a young woman holding a
poppy, draped in long robes
and standing on a stairway,
signed to the bronze E.Villanis,
with Bronze Garanti au Titre
seal, 35cm. high.
£600 - 800
623
624
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625
leopald wiener - ‘fille des
Bois’ bronze study of a
kneeling semi-naked female
tempting a squirrel on her
shoulder with a nut, on a
naturalistic oval base, signed
Leop Wiener, 45cm. high.
£600 – 800
626 No Lot
627
A 17th century stone motar
dated 1694 with ep verso,
and shaped lugs to the sides,
33cm. wide.
£300 - 500
628
An 18th century continental
polished steel basting spoon
of large size, the circular bowl
with slender handle incised
with geometric decoration,
74cm. long.
£100 - 150
629
A carved stone bust of a
hooded figure 18cm. high.
£150 - 250
630
A hardstone corbel carved
as a grotesque figure, 28cm.
high.
£200 - 300
631
A pair of 19th Century
brass candlesticks, with urn
shaped nozzles, the stems with
banded decoration of flowers,
raised on circular acanthus
decorated bases, 22.5cm.
high.
£150 - 200
632
A pair of gilt metal twobranch
wall lights the twin
branches held by an eagle
with spread wings, perched
on a tapering square column,
38cm. high.
£200 – 300
160
625
627 630

632A
A pair of french gilt brass
chenets: with flaming square
columns, on a swept tripod
base with eagle surmount
and female mask decoration,
47cm. high.
£250 - 350
633
A pair of 19th century
bronze and gilt brass oil
lamps of classical outline, with
gilded flames to the spout,
the curved handle in the form
of an eagle’s head, raised on
polished marble rectangular
bases, 23cm. wide.
£300 - 500
634
Jacot a Paris, a Gorge cased
carriage clock the eight-day
duration movement, with
platform lever escapement,
striking the hours and halfhours
on a gong with push
button repeat, the backplate
stamped with the Jacot
trademark and serial number
13553, the white enamel dial
with black Roman numerals,
Arabic five minute numerals,
typical Jacot inner ring and
with blued steel spade hands
(damaged), the Gorge case
with five ribbed handle and
repeat serial number to the
base, with original numbered
key, height 12cm (handle
down) 14cm (handle up)
£400 - 600
* Henri Jacot was one of the
most well known and best
makers of carriage clocks
in the Victorian period with
an address at 31, Rue de
Montmorency, Paris. The first
Henri Jacot died in 1868 and
was succeeded by his nephew
also Henri. They won many
medals at exhibitions in both
Paris and London including the
Gold medal in 1900.
633
634
635
J. Symons & Son, launceston, a french lacquered Corniche
carriage clock the eight-day duration timepiece movement with
a cylinder escapement and alarm on a bell, the white enamel
dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel spade hands
and signed for the retailer as above, with a brass Corniche case,
height 12cm (handle down), 14.5cm (handle up)
£100 - 120
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636
finnigans ltd, a french
lacquered carriage clock the
eight-day duration timepiece
movement with a platform
lever escapement and alarm
on a bell with the unusual
enamel alarm setting disc
to the backplate, the white
enamel dial having black
Roman numerals, blued steel
spade hands and signed for the
retailer as above, with a brass
Obis case, height 12cm (handle
down), 14.5cm (handle up).
£100 - 120
637
A french brass carriage clock
in a serpentine case the eightday
duration movement having
a cylinder escapement with the
white enamel dial having black
Roman numerals and blued steel
spade hands, height 12.5 cm
(handle down), 15cm (handle up)
£100 - 120
638
St James, london, a modern
brass carriage timepiece the
eight-day duration movement
having a platform lever
escapement, with the white
enamel dial having black
Roman numerals and blued
steel moon hands, with a
lacquered brass Cannalee case,
height 13.5cm (handle down),
15.5cm (handle up)
£80 - 120
639
A french lacquered Corniche
carriage clock the eight-day
duration timepiece movement
with a cylinder escapement, the
white enamel dial having black
Roman numerals, blued steel
spade hands and indistinctly
signed for the retailer, with a
brass Corniche case, height 12cm
(handle down), 14.5cm (handle
up). Plus one other Obis cased
carriage timepiece with an eightday
duration movement with
a platform lever escapement,
height 12cm (handle down),
14.5cm (handle up)
162
£100 - 120
640
640
Drocourt, Paris, an engraved Anglaise carriage clock
the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever
escapement and striking the hours and half hours on a gong with
push button repeat, the backplate stamped with the Drocourt
trademark and serial number 14591, the white enamel dial with
black Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands and engraved
mask, the Anglaise case fully engraved with c-scroll decoration
including to the shaped handle, complete with numbered leather
travelling box, height 15cm (handle down) 18.5cm (handle up)
£600 – 800
* Pierre & Alfred Drocourt were one of the top makers of carriage
clocks in the mid to late Victorian period, having a factory at
Saint-Nicolas-d’Ailermont, the most important town for carriage
clock manufacture at the time, as well as premises in Paris at Rue
Debelleyme 28 and Rue de Limoges. They made superb carriage
clocks which were often decorative and were awarded numerous
medals at exhibitions, such as the Bronze Medal at Paris 1867,
the Silver at Paris 1878 and the gold at Paris in 1889. The son,
Alfred, succeeded his father Pierre sometime in the 1870’s.

641
Charles frodsham & Co,
Paris, a small quarter
striking Gorge carriage
clock the eight-day duration
movement having a platform
lever escapement and striking
the hours and quarters on
two gongs with push button
repeat, with a ‘strike/silent’
lever to the underside of the
case, the backplate signed
‘Frodsham, 19797’, the white
enamel dial with black Roman
numerals, blued steel spade
hands and signed ‘Charles
Frodsham, & Co, Paris, 19797’,
with a lacquered brass Gorge
case, height 10.5cm (handle
down) 12.5cm (handle up)
£400 - 600
* Charles Frodsham, born on
the 15th of April 1810, was the
son of William Frodsham, see
lot 655, and was apprenticed
to his father for seven years.
In 1834 he set up his own
business making precision
timekeepers. In 1854 the firm
was granted the Royal Warrant
and made keeper of Her
Majesty’s clocks. He acquired
a number of prestigious clock
making firms including that of
J.R Arnold of 84, Strand. 641
642
Japy freres, Paris, a pink marble and gilt-metal clock
garniture the eight-day duration movement striking the hours
and half-hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the enamel
dial with black Arabic numerals, decorative swags between and
decorative brass hands, the marble case with four pillars and
surmounted by an urn, with various gilt-metal mounts, standing
on a shaped base, height 41cm. With matching two-piece side
candelabra.
£250 - 350
* Originally set up in circa 1771 in Beaucourt by Georges Frederic
Japy for the purpose of making ebauches (blanks) for watch
movements, by 1809 they were also producing clock movement
blanks. By 1810, Pierre’s sons Frederic-Guillaume, Louis-Frederic
and Jean-Pierre had joined the firm and soon after the death of
Frederic in 1812, his sons renamed the firm Japy Freres et Cie.
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643
A 19th century perpetual calendar mantel clock the eightday
duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on
a bell, stamped on the backplate ‘J.B.D’, with a visible Brocot
escapement to the centre of the two-piece enamel dial, with
black Roman numerals, a sweep seconds hand and blued
steel moon hands, with a glazed panel below the dial through
which is visible the Ellicott style compensating pendulum, with
two thermometers set either side of the dial, each with white
enamel dials and both signed ‘Paris 1838’, the left-hand side dial
showing Reaumur, the right-hand side showing Fahrenheit, with
a round barometer dial set to the lower right-hand side having
two badges stamped on, one reading ‘E. Bourdon and Richards,
Patent, Gold Medal, Paris Exhibition’, the other ‘Council Medal,
Universal Exhibition, London, 1851’, and numbered ‘21849’
with a further dial to the left-hand lower having three subsidiary
dials showing the moonphase, day and date, with the outer dial
marked for the perpetual calendar changes and the month, the
black and red marble case of Egyptian influence with pyramid
style sides, height 45cms.
£800 - 1200

644
A Sitzendorf porcelain
monkey band mantel
clock the eight-day duration
movement striking the hours
and half-hours on a bell, the
backplate stamped with the
trademark for Japy Freres, the
white enamel dial with black
Roman numerals and blued
steel spade hands, the case in
the form of floral decoration
surrounding a Monkey band,
height 33cm.
* For details of Japy Freres see
lot no. 642.
£400 - 600
645
Japy freres, Paris, a giltmetal
and porcelain mantel
clock the eight-day duration
movement striking the hours
and half hours on a bell with
an outside countwheel, the
backplate stamped with the
trademark for Japy Freres, the
arched pink porcelain dial
showing a scene depicting a
boy artist sat in a field, with
black Roman numerals, brass
spade hands and a decorative
centre, the shaped gilt-metal
case with decorative pink
porcelain panels and columns,
surmounted with a matching
urn having winged putto to
either side, the rear of the case
stamped with the case maker’s
name, ‘P.H. Mourey’, standing
on a shaped giltwood base,
height 48cm (inc. base).
£600 – 800
* For details of Japy Freres see
lot no.642
646
Henry Marc, Paris, a gilt-metal and marble mantel clock the
eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half hours
on a bell with an outside countwheel, the backplate stamped
with the trademark for Henri Marc, the white enamel dial with
black Roman numerals, blued steel hands and signed ‘Hry Marc
a Paris’, the shaped case surmounted by a figure depicting a
romantic artist within ruins, with shaped white marble panels
either side of the dial and foliate decoration beneath and
standing on scroll feet, height 28cm.
£150 - 200
* Henri Marc was known as both a retailer and maker with most
of their movement blanks being produced by Japy Freres.
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647
lepaute a Paris, a french Siena marble clock garniture the
eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours
on a bell with an outside countwheel, the backplate signed in
script with the roulant blanc makers’ name, ‘Pons’, the gilded
dial with engine-turned decoration to the centre, black Roman
numerals, blued steel moon hands and signed ‘Lepaute a Paris’,
the rectangular case of Siena marble, with bronze acanthus leaf
mouldings to the base, a bronze bezel and surmounted with a
bronze urn, with a pair of matching side pieces, height 45 cm
(clock), 28cm (side pieces).
£500 - 700
* The Lepaute family of well-known clockmakers are recorded as
working from the mid-1700’s with Jean-Andre and Jean-Babtiste
Lepaute working together before taking on the latter’s nephews,
Pierre-Henry and Pierre-Basile before his retirement in 1789.
Pierre-Basile’s son joined the business at a later date.
* Honore Pons (Pons-de-Paul) was born in circa 1780 and is
believed to have been apprenticed to the Lepaute workshop. He
moved to St Nicolas-d’Aliermont in circa 1806 where he helped
revise the French clock movement industry with the introduction
of more mass-production and advanced tooling.
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648
A french gilt-metal and
porcelain mantel clock the
eight-day duration movement
striking the hours and halfhours
on a bell, the backplate
stamped ‘JJS, 6697’, the
pink porcelain dial with a
riverside scene to the centre,
black Roman numerals and
decorative brass hands, with
two porcelain panels below,
one depicting a similar
scene, the other with floral
decoration, the shaped
gilt-metal case with fluted
half columns top the sides
and surmounted by a pink
porcelain urn, on a shaped
giltwood base and further
ebonised oval base, height
32.5 cm (clock), 37cm (inc.
base).
£400 - 500
649
T & f Mercer, St Albans
a brass cased mantel clock
with an eight-day duration
movement with lever
escapement, the eight-inch
round silvered dial engraved
with black Arabic numerals,
‘slow/fast’ regulation and
signed ‘T & F Mercer, Eywood
Rd, St Albans, Octo (within a
eight-pointed star), British’,
with blued steel spade hands,
contained within a round
brass case with a heavy screwfastening
bezel, sitting on a
wood base, height 28cm.
£300 - 400
* For details of Thomas Mercer
see lot no. 417
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650
Tupman, london, an ormolu mantel clock the eight-day
duration timepiece fusee movement, signed to the backplate
‘Baetens, London’, the white enamel dial with black Roman
numerals, blued steel moon hands, and signed with the retailer’s
name ‘Tupman, 44 Gt Russell, St’, the ormolu case with a
classical winged female figure holding a cornucopia of flowers
and leaning against the central block with raised decorative
mounts, with a pillar to the other side having a nautical theme,
the base with applied mounts and standing on turned feet,
height: 34cm.
£400 - 600
* Various members of the Tupman family are recorded working in
the early 19 th century including William Tupman, apprenticed in
1806, the son of the clockmaker George, who was working from
circa 1794, with the partnership of George & Henry recorded
from circa 1844. They were both clockmakers and retailers.
* Joseph Baetens is recorded as working in London circa 1832
specialising in bronze and ormolu clocks.
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654
Chas. frodsham & Co, a quarter-chiming bracket clock the eight-day duration,
triple-fusee movement, chiming the quarters on eight bells and the hour on a
gong, signed on the backplate ‘Chas Frodsham & Co, Clockmakers to the Queen,
84 Strand, 1658’, repeated to the seven-inch square brass dial, with the raised
silvered chapter ring having black Roman numerals, with cast brass floral spandrels
to the corners and two subsidiary dials for ‘slow/fast’ regulation and ‘chime on
eight bells/chime on four bells’, with a heavy cast bezel of acanthus leaf design,
the walnut case with a stepped mount to the top, canted corners, a serpentine
moulding to the base and standing on cast brass lions paw feet, height: 49cm.
£400 - 600
* For details of Charles Frodsham see lot 641.
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655
frodsham, london a brass inlaid rosewood bracket clock the eight-day
duration, double fusee, five pillar movement striking the hours on a bell, the
backplate engraved ‘Frodsham, Gracechurch Street, London’, the eight-inch
round convex painted dial with black Roman numerals, brass ‘moon’ hands and
signed ‘Frodsham, London’, the rosewood case with brass inlaid decoration to
the front, lower frieze and base, canted corners, brass fishscale side frets, floral
side handles and brass ball feet, with the chamfer top surmounted by a brass
pineapple finial, height 52cm.
£1000 - 1500
* John Frodsham, born 1781, is recorded as working as a watch, clock and
chronometer maker at 33, Gracechurch Street, London moving there in 1825
having taken over the firm following the death of his father William Frodsham in
1805 and his grandfather, also William, in 1807. He was made a Liveryman of the
Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1830 with the firm becoming Frodsham
& Sons between 1835 and his death in 1849, the sons being Henry John who was
apprenticed to him, and George Edward who was John Frodsham’s successor.
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656
Nathaniel Sergeant, london, a walnut bell-top bracket clock the eight-day
duration, double fusee, five pillar movement with verge escapement and striking
the hours on a bell with pull repeat, the six-inch silvered break-arch dial with black
Roman numerals, date aperture, a false-pendulum aperture, decorative blued steel
hands, a ‘strike/silent’ dial to the arch and signed to the centre ‘Nathl. Sergeant,
London’, the backplate fully engraved with floral and c-scroll decoration and with
repeat signature, the walnut bell-top case with glazed sides, brass bracket feet
and handle to the top with filled shaped panels either side of the dial arch, height
45cm (handle up).
£800 – 1200
* Two clockmakers by the name of Nathaniel Sergeant are recorded as working
at the period this clock was made, and may well have been the same person
with the records misinterpreted. The first was free of the Clockmakers Company
in 1763 and worked until at least 1786 and was also listed as an auctioneer; the
second is recorded working in Cannon Street and was free of the Clockmakers
Company in 1768 and worked until at least 1790.

657
A chiming oak mantel clock the eight-day duration movement
chiming the quarters on four gongs and the hour on a further
gong, the brass break-arch dial having black Roman numerals,
c-scroll spandrels, blued steel hands and a roundel to the arch
engraved ‘Tempus Fugit’, the oak break-arch case having barleytwist
columns, height 39cm.
£200 - 300
658
D. Bowen, Alfreton, a mahogany cased bulkhead timepiece,
the eight-day duration, chain fusee movement with a platform
lever escapement, the round seven-inch brass dial engraved with
black Roman numerals and maker’s name ‘D. Bowen, Alfreton’,
with blued steel spade hands, the mahogany drum case with a
cast brass bezel, diameter: 22cm.
£400 - 600
* David Bowen is known to have worked in Alfreton, Derbyshire
from before 1846 as both a watch and clockmaker with at least
four longcase clocks recorded by him and a shop regulator. A
gold watch signed D. Bowen, Alfreton is hallmarked for 1864 so
we can assume he was working up to at least this date. In the
1840’s he was in partnership with another clockmaker, Stevenson
(possibly William), although this may well have been alongside
his own business, and it is known he also had premises in Ripley.
* This piece was reputedly made for the present owners
grandfather, Mr Sturgess, a yacht Captain based in Cadland,
near, Fawley and who was a regular competitor at Cowes Week
on the Isle of Wight, in the mid-1800’s, and who it is believed
entertained Royalty on his yacht. Family tradition has it that the
casing of this timepiece was made from a yacht mast captained
by him at Cowes.
659
An Edwardian mahogany
chiming longcase clock the
eight-day duration movement
striking the hours on a gong
and the quarters on a set of
sixteen Gloria gongs set in four
runs of four, the twelve-inch
break-arch dial having a raised,
silvered chapter ring with
Arabic numerals, subsidiary
seconds dial to the centre and
with ‘strike/silent’ and ‘chime/
silent’ subsidiary dials within
the arch, the mahogany case
having a shaped, glazed trunk
door, a shaped raised panel
to the base, canted corners
to the trunk and base with
blind fretwork, the hood with
a swan-neck pediment with
fretwork below and pillars with
brass capitals, standing on
bracket feet, height 226cm.
£1000 - 1500
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660
James webb, Bristol an
early 18th century walnut
longcase clock the eight-day
duration, five pillar movement
(fifth pillar missing) striking
the hours on a bell with an
outside countwheel, the
eleven-inch square brass dial
having a silvered chapter ring
engraved with black Roman
numerals, outer Arabic fiveminute
numerals, meetingarrowhead
half-hour markings
and engraved either side of VI
o’clock ‘J. Webb, Bristol’, with
crown and cherub spandrels
to the four corners, a matted
centre with ringed winding
holes, a subsidiary seconds
dial and wheatear border
engraving to the date aperture,
with blued steel hands, the
walnut case with crossbanding
to the trunk door with a bullseye
lenticle, book-matched
veneers, panelled sides, a plain
base and tapered three-quarter
columns to the flat-top hood,
with a c-scroll sound fret to the
frieze, height 210cm.
£1200 - 1600
*James Webb was a member
of the well-known Somerset
clockmaking family and may
well have been the maker
recorded originally at Chipping
Sodbury being the son of
Edward of Chew Stoke where
a lantern clock signed by
him has been recorded. He is
known to have married Martha
Farmer on the 10th of October
1717 at St. Stephens Church,
Bristol.
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661
Samuel Pearson, Halifax, a mahogany
moon-phase longcase clock the eight-day
duration movement striking the hours on a
bell, the thirteen-inch break-arch dial with a
well painted scene to the centre depicting a
man with his dog looking over an estuary with
a masted ship sailing by, with black Roman
numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial to the
centre, with the date ring to the inner aspect
having a brass sweep hand, with female fourseason
decoration to the four corners and
moonphase disc to the arch, signed either side
of VI o’clock ‘Pearson, Halifax’, the mahogany
case with canted corners and cross-banding
to the base, Gothic moulding to the top of
the trunk door, inlay and decorative stringing
to the case edges, the break-arch hood with
a swan-neck pediment having carved rose
patrae and brass Corinthian capitals to the
fluted pillars, height 252cm.
£1000 - 1200
* Samuel Pearson is recorded as working in
Petticoat Lane, Halifax from circa 1790 before
moving to Cornmarket where he is known to
have been working in 1822.
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662
An oak & mahogany longcase clock the
associated eight-day duration movement
striking the hours on a bell, with the twelveinch
break-arch brass dial having a raised
silvered chapter ring engraved with black
Roman numerals, Arabic five minute numerals,
decorative flame half-hour markings and
an arcaded minute ring, the matted centre
engraved with c-scroll decoration and having a
subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with
cast brass cherub-head spandrels to the four
corners and a moonphase disc to the arch,
with decorative blued steel hands, the oak and
mahogany case with quartered inset columns
to the trunk, a shaped top to the door, cast
Corinthian columns to the full hood pillars and
a swan-neck pediment, height 232cm.
£800 - 1200
663
A 17th century walnut longcase clock the
month-duration, five-pillar movement striking
the hours on one bell and the half-hour on
a smaller bell, the ten-inch square brass dial
engraved at the base ‘Joseph Knibb, Londini
Fecit’ with wheatear border engraving and
‘strike/silent’ lever at XII o’clock, the raised
chapter ring engraved with Roman hour
numerals, Arabic five-minute markings and
half-hour decoration, with cast winged
cherub’s head spandrels to the corners and
decorative blued steel hands, the matted
centre with a subsidiary seconds dial, the
walnut veneered case having a rising hood
with barley twist columns and spoon and latch
locking, with geometric boxwood and ebony
stringing to the trunk door and base, with an
oval lenticle to the trunk door, height 198cm.
(with restorations and alterations)
£14000 - 16000
With a copy of a sales invoice, with full
description of the clock, from A.M. Willats,
a dealer from Judge Jeffreys’ lodgings,
Dorchester, dated January 1948.
* An almost identical case, albeit with not
quite as fine stringing, is known housing a
year duration movement by John Williamson
of Leeds who is recorded as being a member
of the Clockmakers Company in 1682 and
therefore working in London at this date
before moving back to Yorkshire.
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664
william & Thomas farmer, Stockton, an oak
and mahogany longcase clock the eight-day
duration movement striking the hours on a
bell, the thirteen-inch break-arch painted dial
with black Roman hour numerals subsidiary
seconds dial to the centre, shell decoration
to the four corners and a classical scene to
the arch depicting Britannia, with decorative
brass hands, signed to the centre with the
maker’s name ‘Farmers, Stockton’, the oak and
mahogany case with round inlaid decoration
to the door, an inset panel with gadrooned
moulding below the hood, the break-arch hood
with brass capitals to the full pillars and a swanneck
pediment, height 220cm.
£300 - 400
* William & Thomas Farmer are recorded as
working from before 1827 until at least 1851
with Thomas having worked alone from 1770
and William known to have been working circa
1820.
665
T. B., a walnut longcase clock the thirty-hour
duration birdcage movement with flat steel
pillars, striking the hour on a large bell with
an outside countwheel, the eleven-inch square
brass dial with a silvered chapter ring engraved
with black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys halfhour
markings and signed ‘T.B.’ either side of VI
o’clock, with brass female-head spandrels and a
matted centre with engraved round decoration
and a large single steel hand, the walnut case
with a glass lenticle to the trunk door, a short
base, shaped three-quarter columns to the hood
and caddy top, with a label within the trunk
giving some provenance, height 218cm.
£500 – 700
* The interior note suggests this clock as
belonging to T Baldwin of Ashton-under-Lyme
and having been there at least 120 years before
the date of this label, which itself has some age.
It makes the suggestion that T.B is the makers
initials, although it is more likely these are those
of the original owner who, in all probability, was
the Thomas Baldwin mentioned.
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666
A George iii mahogany moonphase
longcase clock the eight-day duration
movement striking the hours on a bell,
the fourteen-inch break-arch painted
dial having a finely painted Biblical
scene to the centre and female four
season decoration to the four corners,
with Arabic numerals and decorative
brass hands, with a moonphase disc to
the arch painted between the moons
with fisherman bringing in a catch and
shepherds in a field, the mahogany
case with Gothic shaped moulding to
the top of the door and fluted square
mouldings to the trunk corners with
inlaid oval floral decorative panels
below, the hood with fluted square
pillars, a swan neck pediment with
ebony and boxwood stringing and
turned wood finials, height 240cm.
£1000 - 1500
667
Boot jun, Sutton Ashfield, an oak
longcase clock with automata the
thirty-hour duration movement having
shaped plates and striking the hours
on a bell with an outside countwheel,
the twelve-inch break-arch brass dial
having a raised chapter ring engraved
with black Roman numerals, and floral
half-hour markings with cast brass
urn spandrels to the four corners, the
matted dial centre with engraved
decoration, date aperture and an inset
cartouche engraved with the maker’s
name ‘Boot jun, Sutton Ashfield’,
the arch having engraved decoration
depicting Noah’s Ark with a silvered
dove moving across with the beat of
the movement, the oak case having
a deep inset panel to the base and a
further shaped panel to the trunk door,
the break-arch hood with three-quarter
pillars having gilt-wood capitals and a
break-front moulding to the hood top,
height 208cm.
£500 - 700
* John Boot junior is recorded as
working in Sutton-in-Ashfield from
before 1775 and was the son of the
clockmaker John Boot Snr. He worked
in the late 18 th century in partnership
with his brother William.
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668
Emmanuel Hopperton, leeds, an
oak and walnut longcase clock
the eight-day duration movement
striking the hours on a bell with
an inside countwheel, the twelveinch
brass break-arch dial having a
raised chapter ring engraved with
black Roman numerals, Arabic
five-minute numerals and flame
half-hour markings, with cast brass
female-head corner spandrels,
with a date aperture to the matted
centre and decorative blued steel
hands, the arch with dolphin
spandrels and a roundel engraved
with the maker’s name ‘Emmanuel
Hopperton, Leeds’, the oak case
with walnut veneer to the door and
hood, with a raised panel to the
base, shaped top to the trunk door,
a break arch hood with brass finials
to the blocks and three-quarter
columns, height 240, inc. finial.
£400 - 600
* Emmanuel Hopperton, born
1705, is recorded as working in
Mill Hill, Leeds from circa 1720
until his death in 1753. A number
of longcases are recorded with
walnut veneer used as decoration
on an oak case as in this example.
669
Chadburns, liverpool. A
mahogany cased barograph
signed ‘Chadburn Ltd, 47 Castle
Street, Liverpool’, height 18cm.
£250 - 350
670
An early 19th Century inlaid
mahogany stick barometer the
silvered dial engraved with a single
gauge with sliding vernier and
with a thermometer set to one
side, the case having scroll ears
below the glazed door of the dial, a
curved top with inlaid decoration,
crossbanding to the trunk and
Sheraton style inlaid decoration
to the oval cistern cover, height
120cm.
£500 - 800
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671
Adie and Son Edinburgh, a mahogany stick barometer the bow fronted case
with shaped gadrooned top and cistern cover with a scroll moulding below, the
silvered dial engraved with a single gauge with sliding vernier, set via the bone
knob below, and signed ‘Adie & Son, Edinburgh’, height 120cm.
£2500 - 3000
Alexander Adie (born 1774) & his son Richard were a well-known partnership
of barometer and scientific instrument makers recorded working at 58, Princes
Street, Edinburgh from circa 1835 until 1842 when they are recorded at 50,
Princes Street until 1860, Alexander having died in 1858. Alexander is chiefly
known as the inventor and patentee of the sympiesometer which was granted
in 1818. Both he and his second son John were elected members of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh and are believed to be the only two scientific instrument
makers to have been granted this honour.