Fine Interiors Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 December 2025

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Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 December 2025

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FINE INTERIORS

TUESDAY 9 & WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER, 10AM

Tuesday 9 December

Lots 1-16 The Selected Contents of a St John’s Wood Interior

Lots 17-298 Furniture and Works of Art

Wednesday 10 December

Lots 299-443 The Selected Contents from an East Anglian Private Collection

Lots 444-448 Silver

Lots 449-530 Furniture and Works of Art

Lots 531-538 Garden

VIEWING

Viewing will be held at our Stansted Mountfitchet Saleroom as follows:

Friday 5 December 10am-4pm

Sunday 7 December 10am-1pm

Monday 8 December 10am-4pm

BIDDING

IN ROOM Attend the live auction in person

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CONTACT

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Alexander

Hallett Head of Department Valuer & Cataloguer

Grace Julier

Sale Co-ordinator

Charlotte Lee-Finglas

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

STORAGE OF LOTS

Sworders and Abels Partnership

Furniture and large items, and small items if they form part of the same invoice, not collected within seven working days of the auction will be removed by Abels Moving Services Ltd (Abels), at your expense, and delivered to their depot at Potters Bar, where they will be subject to collection, administration and storage fees - see below.

Charges

Collection Fee

Collection from Sworders £25 per collection of 1 – 5 items and £50 per collection of 6-10 items listed on an invoice (plus VAT )

Items will be stored free of charge for 7 days from the Sworders collection date.

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Storage charges will commence on the 8th day after being collected by Abels at £4.00 per lot, per day.

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Day One

Tuesday 9 December at 10am

London Style: The Selected Contents of a St John’s Wood Interior

This charming collection, gathered over many years in a refined North London residence, reflects a taste for classical elegance and cosmopolitan style. From giltwood mirrors and Louis XVI commodes to chinoiserie screens, Empire candelabras, and sumptuous upholstered seating, the selection captures the aesthetic of a thoughtfully curated interior where European tradition meets decorative flair. Offered in excellent condition and with decorative appeal, these pieces together evoke the comfort and sophistication of a beautifully appointed St John’s Wood flat.

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LOT 1

A pair of upholstered three-seater sofas, late 20th century, each with a square back and arms covered in pale foliate fabric with tasselled fringe detail, raised on plain square supports and castors, presented with a group of ten cushions comprising Aubusson-style and foliate-embroidered examples,

210cm wide

90cm deep

76cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 2

An upholstered stool, of recent manufacture, of oval shape with a buttoned top and tasselled fringe detail, 93cm wide

63cm deep

46cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 3

A glass and composition coffee table, of recent manufacture, the canted rectangular top raised on four Buddhist lion supports, 152cm wide

92cm deep

47cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 4

A pair of large Empire-style gilt and patinated bronze candelabras, c.1900, each reeded Corinthian column issuing six cast sconces, raised on a tripartite base cast with griffin monopodia, with a tapered black card and parcel-gilt shade, 25cm diameter

107cm high including shades (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 5

A pair of Louis XV-style painted wood fauteuils, 20th century, each with scrolling foliate decoration and green foliate upholstery, raised on cabriole supports, presented with two small needlepoint cushions,

67cm wide

67cm deep

100cm high (4)

£300 - 500

LOT

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A Louis XVI mahogany and tulipwood commode, late 18th century and later, with a yellow marble top, above three short and two long drawers with all-over ormolu mounts, raised on tapering square supports, 125cm wide

62cm deep

90cm high

£1,200 - 1,800

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A pair of Louis XV-style painted wood fauteuils, 20th century, each with a foliate decorated frame and upholstered in red fabric, and each with a loose Aubusson-style cushion,

62cm wide

67cm deep

99cm high (4)

£400 - 600

LOT 8

A pair of giltwood table lamps, 20th century, each with a tapered silk, pleated shade over a barley-twist stem and circular base, 16cm diameter

79cm high including shade (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 9

A neoclassical glass and composition centre table, of recent manufacture, the circular top with a moulded edge, raised on a Corinthian capital base, 137cm diameter

77cm high

£600 - 800

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A Regenc y-style rosewood and parcel-gilt side cabinet, 20th century, of breakfront outline with a travertine top, above silk-lined doors enclosing shelves, raised on stylised paw feet,

175cm wide

42cm deep

95cm high

£600 - 800

A set of ten Regenc y-style black and gilt-painted wooden dining chairs, late 20th century, each with a pierced back and scrolling open arms, raised on ring-turned supports and outsplayed feet, each with a cane seat and loose cushion,

57cm wide

62cm deep

87cm high (10)

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 10

LOT 11

LOT 12

A pair of export parcel-gilt and black lacquer panels, 20th century, Chinese, each depicting geese in a garden, 23.5 x 33.5cm, each in a later painted and giltwood frame (2) £400 - 600 13

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LOT 13

A pair of blanc de Chine porcelain figural table lamps, 20th century, Chinese, each mounted on a circular wooden base, with a pleated shade, base 16cm diameter 78cm high including shade (2) £200 - 400

LOT 14

An Aubusson wool rug, 19th century, French, woven with flowers and foliate scrolls in tones of pink, orange and pale greens, 232 x 192cm

£400 - 600

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49cm wide

21cm deep

92cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

A painted and gilt leather

late

168cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 15

A pair

George III-style carved giltwood girandoles in the Chippendale taste, 20th century, each with a pagoda crest and a scrolling rococo frame, with a pair of foliate candle sconces and a shaped glass plate,

LOT 16

folding screen,

19th/early 20th century, Spanish, decorated in the chinoiserie style with birds, flowers and vases, with studded decoration, with four leaves, each leaf 48cm wide

FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART

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A mahogany and leather armchair in the George II taste, early 20th century, with a camel back and outswept arms, raised on cabriole front supports, terminating in claw and ball feet,

74cm wide

74cm deep

109cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 18

A pair of Louis XV-style gilt-metal and porcelain lamps, 20th century, each issuing two light sconces, with oak leaf and acorn branches and porcelain flowers, raised on a circular foot with a 13¼-inch tapered oval shade, base 14cm diameter

46cm high including shade (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 19

A painted pine buffet, late 19th/ early 20th century, Italian, of demilune outline, with two frieze drawers and four cupboard doors, raised on bracket feet, 220cm wide

52cm deep

99cm high

£600 - 800

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LOT 20

A small folk art painted wooden marriage chest, 19th century, French, Rouen, with a domed hinged lid and all-over floral decoration, 27cm wide

17cm deep

18cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 21

A Montelupo maiolica circular dish, 17th century, Italian, depicting a soldier carrying a flag against a bright yellow sky, the rim edged in green, 32cm diameter

£400 - 600

LOT 22

A Bessarabian kilim carpet, early 20th century, Eastern European, worked in silk on cotton, with a four-point lilac floral medallion to the centre, framed by similar spandrels to a peach ground and banded border, 300 x 192cm

£800 - 1,200

LOT 23

A cut-glass and gilt-metal chandelier, early 20th century, Continental, with eighteen lights, scrolling branches and numerous variously shaped drops, 97cm diameter

106cm high

£200 - 300

LOT 24

A William IV rosewood library table, c.1830, the rectangular top above a moulded frieze, fitted with a short drawer on either side, raised on ‘U’-shaped supports with shell-carved detail, terminating in scrolling feet and castors,

135cm wide

76cm deep

76cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 25

A pair of George III-style mahogany peat buckets, of recent manufacture, in the Irish taste, each with a twisted brass swing handle and a ribbed tapering body, with brass banding and removable liner,

37cm diameter

42cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 26

A wool carpet of Arts and Crafts design, of recent manufacture, woven with a stylised floral lattice in green, blue and orange, interspersed with blue tendrils and yellow foliage to a pale ground,

309 x 220cm

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 27

A pair of rococo carved giltwood girandole mirrors, mid-18th century, Italian, each frame of shield shape with neoclassical decoration and foliate scrolls, enclosing a mercury glass plate,

54cm wide

71cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 28

A Regency mahogany settee, early 19th century, with a square back and downswept open arms, covered in studded oilcloth, and raised on tapering supports terminating in brass caps and castors,

186cm wide

79cm deep

93cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 29

A pair of Louis XVI-style patinated bronze and marble candelabra, late 19th/early 20th century, in the manner of Clodion, each modelled as a putto holding twin foliate branches, each set with a gilt-brass sconce, raised on a fluted column base with beaded detail, 26cm wide

15cm deep

46cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 30

Two leaded-bronze mortars, the larger cast ‘1719’, 18cm diameter

13cm high, the smaller of London late-17th century design, with a stag head medallion, each with an associated pestle (4)

£250 - 350

LOT 31

A leaded-bronze mortar, of early-17th-century design, with a flared rim cast with the legend ‘GREGORIVS

HERNDOERFER M F I 1618’, above a waisted band of scrolling foliage, 16.5cm diameter

15cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 32

A George III mahogany serpentine chest of drawers, late 18th century, fitted with a brushing slide and three graduated drawers, raised on fluted bracket feet, 114cm wide

57cm deep

86cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 33

A pair of George III-style painted satinwood elbow chairs, late 19th/early 20th century, in the Sheraton taste, each with a pierced back and open arms, with a caned seat and straw-filled squab cushion, raised on ring-turned supports, with all-over neoclassical decoration, 58cm wide

56cm deep

85cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 34

A rococo-style gilt gesso girandole, 19th century, with scrolling foliate decoration and three branches,

75cm wide

126cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 35

A George III mahogany tea table, third quarter of the 18th century, the serpentine fold-over top with re-entrant corners, above a frieze drawer, on ribbon-carved moulded supports, 89cm wide

44cm deep

72cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 36

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating floral motifs to a blue ground, 442 x 365cm

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 37

Two encased butterfly displays, with various butterfly and moth species, including Menelaus Blue Morpho, Starry Night Cracker and Horniman’s Swallowtail, each mounted on a circular base with a glass dome, 26cm diameter

55cm high including dome (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 38

A large group of curtains in Colefax and Fowler ‘Lincoln Damask’ linen, 20th century, lined and interlined, comprising: a pair, 102cm wide x 111cm long, a pair, 124cm wide x 210cm long, a pair, 90cm wide x 132cm long, a pair 130cm wide x 180cm long, a pair, 198cm wide x 206cm long, a single door curtain, 112cm wide x 212cm long, and two pairs of tie-backs (15)

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 39

A George III mahogany bedside cabinet, late 18th century, the tambour top section over a cupboard door with two faux drawer fronts, enclosing a single shelf, 50.5cm wide

47cm deep

81cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 40

A set of four printed glazed-cotton curtains by Charles Hammond, late 20th century, each with all-over chinoiserie decoration, 122cm wide at pleated top edge 242cm wide at bottom edge 310cm drop, with three fringed pelmets (7)

£400 - 600

LOT 41

A Queen Anne-style wingback armchair, early 20th century, with blue silk damask upholstery, over scroll-carved cabriole legs terminating in pad feet,

88cm wide

66cm deep

109cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 42

A Louis XVI Revival ormolu and porcelain mantel clock, c.1870, the 3½-inch porcelain dial painted with birds and Roman chapter ring, with an eight-day movement striking on a bell, housed in an architectural case with twin figural handles and porcelain urn surmount with pine cone finial, inset with further Sèvres-style panels and raised on acanthus scroll and toupie feet, with pendulum and winder,

38cm wide

12.5cm deep

48cm high

£250 - 350

LOT 43

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with scrolling foliate motifs to a blue ground, 455 x 299cm

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 44

A George I-style giltwood pier mirror, 20th century, of slender shape, with an arched top and acanthus detail, 57cm wide

145cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 45

A giltwood and black lacquer coffee table by Mallet, late 20th century, the rounded rectangular top with an inset chinoiserie panel of earlier date, raised on outsplayed faux bamboo supports, 112cm wide

75cm deep

45cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 46

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating geometric motifs in tones of green and yellow, 425 x 304cm

£2,000 - 4,000

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LOT 47

Three terracotta slipware jugs, 19th century, French, Val de Saône, Lyon, comprising two larger, each with a loop handle and upturned spout, approximately 25cm diameter 38cm high, and a smaller example with twin loop handles (3)

£400 - 600

LOT 48

A pair of giltwood table lamps, 20th century, each reeded stem with a stylised floral capital, raised on a flared circular foot, and with a pleated silk shade, base 17cm diameter

80cm high including shades (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 49

A Regency simulated-rosewood low bookcase, early 19th century, mounted with a brass gallery, with scrolled supports, fitted with two shelves, 136cm wide

29.5cm deep

117.5cm high

£1,200 - 1,800

LOT 50

A Heriz wool runner, 20th century, Persian, woven with repeating geometric motifs to a red ground, 384 x 70cm

£700 - 900

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A Victorian mahogany chaise longue, second half of the 19th century, with a scroll back, a reversible downswept arm and a buttoned seat, upholstered in a blue and white calico with arabesque decoration, raised on tapering ring-turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors,

198cm long

80cm wide

88cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 52

A toleware chinoiserie lantern, late 20th century, of hexagonal pagoda form, with four lights,

50cm wide

50cm deep

70cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 53

A Regenc y-style painted wooden waterfall bookcase, of recent manufacture, set with four shelves and a shallow drawer, raised on square supports, with scumbled decoration, 51cm wide

32cm deep

109cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 54

A pair of rococo-style painted canvas panels, early 20th century, French, each with scrolling floral and foliate decoration to both sides, 205 x 71cm (2)

£400 - 600

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LOT 55

A pair of George III-style barrel-back armchairs by Tetrad, of recent manufacture, each upholstered in Harris Tweed with buttoned detail and raised on tapering square supports, 82cm wide

90cm deep

118cm high (2)

£500 - 700

LOT 56

A delftware blue and white plate, c.1740, Lambeth, decorated in blue with Squirrel and Vine pattern, 22cm diameter

£250 - 350

The so-called ‘Squirrel and Vine’ pattern is based on a popular Chinese design also known as Rat and Vine.

LOT 57

A neoclassical gilt-metal and wooden console table by OKA, of recent manufacture, the rectangular top above a pierced frame with Greek-key decoration, raised on short square feet, with a verdigris finish,

166cm wide

40cm deep

82cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 58

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with scrolling foliage to a pale-blue ground, 360 x 270cm

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 59

A Pinxton porcelain tea service, early 19th century, comprising: 8 teacups, 6cm high, 8 saucers, 14.5cm diameter, a bowl, 17cm diameter, a twin-handled sugar bowl and cover, 13cm high, and a cream jug, 10cm high, each with gilt edges and painted in red and black with birds after Bewick, the names inscribed underneath (20)

£300 - 500

For a cup and saucer painted in the same pattern, see Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, accession number C.25&A-1943.

LOT 60

A large carved giltwood and gesso pier mirror, late 19th century, French, the bevelled plate within a frame worked with strapwork and beading, surmounted by a scroll and foliate-carved crest, 130cm wide

216cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 61

A set of three Regency mahogany hall chairs, c.1815, each with a balloon-shaped back centred with a painted elephant crest, the conforming seat raised on turned supports terminating in peg feet, 41.5cm wide

47cm deep

86cm high (3)

£700 - 900

LOT 62

A George III-style mahogany vitrine table, late 19th century, in the Chippendale taste, the rectangular glazed and hinged top over a frieze, and square supports with carved blind-fretwork decoration, terminating in brass and leather castors, 82.5cm wide

57.5cm deep

71.5cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 63

A George III oak and mahogany-banded plate rack, late 18th/early 19th century, with a moulded cornice above three shelves with wavy fret-cut decoration,

177cm wide

8cm deep

120cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 64

A Heriz wool carpet, late 19th/early 20th century, North-West Persia, the rust-red field with stylised polychrome palmettes, issuing further floral and foliate motifs forming a lozenge lattice, in a blue border of floral motifs linked by vines and tendrils, approximately 600 x 370cm

£3,000 - 5,000

Provenance: Mansour, London; gifted to the vendor’s father and thence by descent.

LOT 65

A tramp art mirror, 19th century, the rectangular plate within a carved and parcel-gilt frame decorated with hearts, 45cm wide

55cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 66

A Louis XV-style stripped oak cabinet, 19th century, French, with a serpentine outline and a rouge marble top, above a pair of panelled cupboard doors enclosing a shelf, raised on squat cabriole supports,

131cm wide

68cm deep

92cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 67

A George III mahogany and leather wing armchair, 19th century, with studded detail, raised on chamfered square supports,

79cm wide

82cm deep

111.5cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 68

An Anatolian goat’s wool rug, c.1920s, Turkish, woven with a central star-shaped medallion and stripes in tones of black and white,

177 x 128cm

£500 - 700

LOT 69

A pair of chrome adjustable floor lamps, 20th century, each with a telescopic column, a frosted glass shade and a square base, 50cm wide

25cm deep

127cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 70

A small bone, horn and softwood casket, early 15th century, Italian, Venice, in the manner of the workshop of Baldassare Embriachi, the rectangular case surmounted by a hipped pediment with canted crest and bronze handle, with inlaid geometric decoration, the front and sides mounted with nineteen figural relief panels, 17.5cm wide

12cm deep

17cm high

£3,000 - 5,000

For a similar example, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, accession number A.22-1952.

LOT 71

A pair of beech and leather stools, 20th century, Spanish, each with a slung seat and studded detail, raised on trestle supports united by a stretcher, 50cm wide

30cm deep

46cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 72

A teak, bone and ebony plantation chair, late 19th/early 20th century, Indian, Hoshiarpur, with a woven rattan seat and swivel arms, decorated throughout with inlaid floral and foliate scrolls, 75cm wide

126cm deep

93cm high

£400 - 600

For a similar example, see Christie’s, ‘The Claudio Bravo Collection: from the Artist’s Studio and Home, Morocco’, 13 July 2016, lot 71.

LOT 73

A mahogany linen or ‘Norfolk’ press, early 19th century, fitted with a press, over three drawers, on splayed bracket feet, 64cm wide

41cm deep

134cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 74

A carved giltwood mirror in the George III taste, 19th century, of cartouche shape, the frame carved with scrolling foliage, 51cm wide

85cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 75

A set of twelve simulated-rosewood dining chairs, 19th century, each with a foliate bar back and gilt-metal mounts, above a buttoned drop-in seat with a cane seat beneath, raised on sabre supports, 48cm wide

56cm deep

87cm high (12)

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 76

A Regency mahogany dining table, early 19th century, the rounded rectangular top with two additional leaves, raised on three pedestals, each with a reeded column and foliate-carved quadripartite supports with moulded detail, terminating in paw feet and brass castors,

311cm long

137cm wide

71cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 77

A Regency beech library armchair, early 19th century, with a curved caned back and seat and a leather squab cushion, raised on ring-turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors,

60cm wide

74cm deep

93cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 78

An Oushak wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with Shah Abbasi motifs to a pale-blue ground, 346 x 252cm

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 79

A Directoire mahogany and gilt-brass commode, c.1800, French, with a grey marble top, above three long drawers set between fluted column pilasters, and raised on tapering turned supports terminating in brass feet,

129cm wide

60cm deep

87cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 80

A near pair of shell-encrusted mirrors attributed to Anthony Redmile, c.1970, each with a circular plate within octagonal frame, 105cm diameter (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 81

A Regency mahogany sideboard, c.1820, of bow-front outline, fitted with three frieze drawers with ebony-inlaid Greek-key decoration, raised on spiral-fluted supports terminating in peg feet, 204cm wide

78cm deep

92cm high

£2,000 - 3,000

LOT 82

A pair of Louis XVI-style giltwood fauteuils, late 19th/early 20th century, French, each with foliate detail and greenish-yellow velvet upholstery, 64cm wide

64cm deep

100cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 83

A gabbeh wool carpet, mid-20th century, Persian, the field with a lozenge lattice design in black, filled with shades of browns and tan, 280 x 150cm

£1,200 - 1,800

LOT 84

An oak adjustable travel easel, 20th century, of rectangular form with hinged supports and adjustable height mechanism, 63cm wide

65cm deep closed 167cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 85

A George III padouk and satinwood centre table, fourth quarter of the 18th century, the hinged oval top with a banded border, raised on a turned column and four outswept supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, 133cm wide

100cm deep

72cm high

£1,800 - 2,200

LOT 86

A set of twelve engravings from ‘Bell’s New Pantheon’, classical sculptures from the British Museum, to include:

‘The Farnese Hercules’; ‘Pan and Apollo’; ‘The Muses’; ‘The Mercury of the Vatican’; ‘The Graces’;

‘Venus of Medicis’, published by John Bell, engraved by J Cook, after Giovanni Volpato and Raffaelle Morghen, each inscribed ‘London. printed for John Bell, British Library, Strand, Feby. 16th. 1789,’ plate 25 x 18cm, each in a modern glazed framed (12) £800 - 1,200

LOT 87

A folding studded leather library ladder, late 20th century, with six rungs, 32cm wide

open 201cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 88

A small upholstered sofa by OKA, of recent manufacture, with studded striped fabric and tasselled detail, raised on black-painted supports, 138cm wide

95cm deep

98cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 89

An Elizabeth I-style carved oak joint stool, late 19th/early 20th century, the rectangular top with a moulded edge, raised on cup and cover supports, united by stretchers, 41cm wide

28cm deep

48cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 90

A pair of gilt-metal and porcelain candlesticks, 20th century, French, each decorated with a bird among branches, 17cm diameter

33cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 91

A mahogany ‘Manx’ tripod table, 19th century, Isle of Man, with a hinged pie-crust top above a turned column, raised on a tripod base modelled as human legs, 60cm diameter

75cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 92

A pair of carved giltwood pedestal tables, 20th century, each of scrolling acanthus form, with a serpentine onyx top, 59cm wide

33cm deep

77cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 93

A pair of porcelain famille rose armorial plates, enamelled primarily in rose and yellow with the arms of the Dutch Republic, flanked by crowned lions and the ‘VOC’ monogram beneath, decorated in red, pink, green, yellow and black enamels, around the rim the inscription ‘CRESCUNT.1728.CONCORDIA’, 23.5cm diameter (2)

£200 - 400

The arms depicted on this plate are those of the State of Holland, positioned above the ‘VOC’ monogram of the Dutch East India Company. The design appears to derive from a silver ducatoon of 1728, with the striped border echoing the ribbed edge of the coin. This pair of plates appear to be after Yongzheng period examples created for use by Dutch East India Company officers posted both at home and abroad at the beginning of the 18th century. See Christie’s, ‘The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland’, 19 October 2023, lot 134.

LOT 94

A silver, enamel and rock crystal miniature pedestal cup, 19th century, Austro-Hungarian, the carved bowl mounted with two putti, over a figural column, in a velvet case, cup 6.5cm diameter

10.3cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 95

An oak credence table, 17th century and later, the canted top above a panelled cupboard door and sides, with inlaid decoration, raised on turned supports united by stretchers, 113cm wide

56cm deep

89cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 96

A Persian wool carpet, 20th century, Kerman, woven with scrolling foliate motifs to a blue ground, with a signature to the border, distressed,

430 x 312cm

£300 - 500

LOT 97

A small boarded oak chest, 17th century, the hinged lid enclosing a storage compartment fitted with a candle box, the front carved with flower heads and initialled ‘R.B.’, raised on stile supports, 74cm wide

31cm deep

49cm high

£600 - 800

A pair of barley-twist gilt-metal table lamps, late 19th century, each with a twisted stem over a circular foot, with a 16-inch pleated white shade, 19cm diameter

91cm high including shade (2)

£500 - 700

A George III oak press cupboard, second half of the 18th century, Welsh, fitted with a pair of panelled doors enclosing hanging space, above two base drawers, raised on bracket feet,

151cm wide

53cm deep

190cm high

£600 - 800

A Gurage carved wooden room divider, 20th century, Ethiopian, of stylised figural form, with traces of red pigment, raised on a metal stand, 39cm wide

30cm deep

156cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 100

LOT 99

LOT 98

A buttoned leather chesterfield sofa, late 19th/early 20th century, with studded detail, raised on bun feet and castors, 214cm wide

84cm deep

69cm high

£400 - 600

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Märta Måås-Fjetterström, woven with geometric motifs in monochrome tones, 423 x 307cm

£1,500 - 2,500

A bamboo and glass dining table, late 20th century, the rounded rectangular top raised on a lattice base with cluster column supports, 199cm wide

114cm deep

72cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 101

LOT 102

LOT 103

104

A kilim-upholstered armchair by George Smith, c.1990, with roll arms and a loose cushion upholstered in herringbone fabric, raised on ring-turned beech supports terminating in brass caps and castors,

88cm wide

112cm deep

85cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 105

A Persian Heriz wool rug, early 20th century, 214 x 177cm

£200 - 400

LOT

106

A carved oak centre table in the Louis XIV taste, early 20th century, French, with a rectangular grey marble top, above a carved frieze and tapering square supports, united by a wavy ‘X’-stretcher, 141cm wide

88cm deep

75cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

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LOT 107 

A Regency calamander and parquetry casket, c.1810, of rectangular shape, the hinged lid inlaid with various wood specimens in a geometric design, enclosing an interior fitted with a lift-out tray and with marbled paper lining, the body with ivory escutcheon and raised on four gilt-metal feet,

33cm wide

29cm deep

16cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 108

A Louis XV-style giltwood and gesso salon suite, 20th century, comprising a canapé, four fauteuils and a bergère, all with scrolling foliate decoration and raised on cabriole supports, canapé 148cm wide

80cm deep

98cm high (6)

£400 - 600

LOT 109

An Edwardian silver and simulated hardstone casket, the silver by Child & Child, London 1909, with a square hinged cover, mounted with a scroll handle and scalloped silver edges, over sides with pierced scrolling borders and a spreading foot, 12cm wide

11cm deep

7.5cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 110

A set of plaster portrait reliefs of Roman emperors, of recent manufacture, each with named inscription, to include ‘Otho’, ‘Claudias’, and ‘Nero’, 30 x 57.5cm overall, mounted and framed (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 111

A pair of bronze urns, 19th century, Italian, each body with ivy leaves and vine in relief, on a Siena marble plinth, 17cm wide 11cm deep

19cm high (2)

£200 - 300

LOT 112

A group of three grand tour black marble obelisks, 19th century, Italian, larger 15cm wide 15cm deep

67cm high (3)

£500 - 700

LOT 113

A micromosaic plaque, 19th century, Italian, of circular form, depicting a a butterfly in profile on a blue-coloured tesserae ground, with initials ‘A M’, 4.5cm diameter

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 114

A collection of grand tour red wax intaglios, early 19th century, Italian, of classical subjects, each mounted in gilt surrounds, 44 x 34cm overall, arranged in six, later, glazed giltwood frames (6)

£1,000 - 2,000

Provenance: Powderham Castle and Brocklesby Park.

A collection of grand tour plaster intaglios, 19th century, depicting French monarchs, to include Louis XVI and Charles IX, 43 x 33cm overall, mounted in six, later, glazed giltwood frames (6)

£1,200 - 1,800

LOT 116

A George II-style mahogany pier table, 19th century and later, with a grey marble top above a plain frieze and a foliate apron, raised on acanthus-carved cabriole supports terminating in claw and ball feet, 116cm wide

59cm deep

80cm high

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 115

LOT 117

Two carved oak ecclesiastical relief panels, probably 16th century, Northern European, each depicting angels, approximately 31 x 35cm (2)

£700 - 900

LOT 118

A baroque carved walnut angel, late 17th/early 18th century, Flemish, inscribed in ink to the reverse ‘M. de Maigucci[?] Rue Mondovi 7 Paris’, 12cm wide

9cm deep

44cm high

£200 - 300

119

A carved oak figure of Saint Margaret of Antioch, c.1500, Flemish, modelled standing with hands in prayer, with a dragon at her feet, 20cm wide

14cm deep

39cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 120

A carved walnut figure of a woman, possibly 15th or 16th century, French, with restorations, 15cm wide

12cm deep

52.5cm high

£800 - 1,200

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LOT 121

A pair of George II giltwood pier mirrors attributed to Matthias Lock, c.1740 and later, each frame surmounted by a carved ostrich-feather cresting, with foliate scrolls and swags and centred by a shell, the sides carved with hirsute masks on dolphin supports, with further foliate scrolls on a scaled ground, the apron with two crossed quivers flanking a shell, enclosing a mercury glass plate,

106cm wide

183cm high (2)

£40,000 - 60,000

Provenance: Charles Hughes, Billesley Manor, Warwickshire, possibly purchased from Christie’s, c.1940s; thence by descent.

This striking pair of mirrors display several stylistic similarities to other works attributed to Matthias Lock. The vertical scrolls headed by masks decorating the upper sides of the frames are a distinctive feature of Lock, and closely resemble those featured in his engraved mirror designs from several mid-18th-century publications, including Six Sconces (1744) [Figs. 1, 2]. Similar decorative elements, such as the scrolling foliage and asymmetrical flourishes, can be seen on the grand mirror Lock supplied to the 2nd Earl Poulett for the Tapestry Room at Hinton House, Somerset (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; illustrated in Geoffrey Wills, English Looking-Glasses, London 1965, p.86, fig.60).

The closest known comparable mirrors are a pair formerly belonging to the 1st Viscount Chandos (sold at Sotheby’s, 5 November 1971, lot 117; one illustrated in Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1990, London 1990, p.96, fig.113). Other similar examples include a pair of pier glasses at Uppark, West Sussex, pair formerly at Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire (illustrated in R Edwards and P Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol.II, p.339, fig.72), and a pair from the Van Cliburn collection (sold at Christie’s New York, 17 May 2012, lot 114).

Matthias Lock (c.1710-1765), the designer and woodcarver, was one of the foremost exponents of the rococo style in mid-18th-century England. Possibly born in Portsmouth, he first appears in London records in 1734 upon his marriage to Mary Lee at St Paul’s, Covent Garden. Although biographical details and documented commissions are scarce, Lock is chiefly recognised for his published engraved design books, including Six Tables (1746), A Book of Ornaments (1747, later reissued as A Book of Shields), A New Drawing Book of Ornaments, Shields, Compartments, Masks, &c., and The Principles of Ornament, or the Youth’s Guide to Drawing of Foliage (undated). His most significant work, A New Book of Ornaments with Twelve Leaves Consisting of Chimneys, Sconces, Tables, Spandle Panels, Spring Clock Cases, Stands, a Chandelier and Girandole, etc. (1752), was produced in collaboration with the engraver Henry Copland and stands as the principal rococo pattern book preceding Chippendale’s Director (1754). Thomas Johnson’s autobiography begun in 1777 reveals that Lock was working with James Whittle (d.1759), ‘Carver’ to Frederick, Prince of Wales (d.1752) by 1744, a relationship that lasted until at least 1755 (J Simon, ‘Thomas Johnson’s The Life of the Author,’ Furniture History, 2003, p. 3).

In 1862-63, the newly established Victoria and Albert Museum acquired more than two hundred of Lock’s original drawings from his descendants. Notes on some of these sheets indicate that Lock created furniture for Lord Holderness, the 1st Duke of Northumberland, and a ‘Mr Bradshaw,’ likely the London cabinetmaker William Bradshaw (fl.1728-d.1775). The collection also contains drawings attributed to Thomas Chippendale, suggesting that Lock may have undertaken subcontracted work for him. After Lock’s death, his designs were reissued by the publisher Roger Sayer in 1768, who described him as ‘the famous Mr. Matt Lock, recently deceased, who was reputed the best draftsman in that way that had ever been in England.’

We are very grateful to Adam Bowett and Christopher Coles for their assistance in the cataloguing of these mirrors.

A Coade stone Royal Coat of Arms, late 18th century, depicting the arms of King George III, the oval quartered shield raised in high relief with the royal devices, the motto ‘HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE’ to the outside edge, flanked by the lion and the unicorn, the rectangular base raised with the inscription ‘DIEU ET MON DROIT’ and impressed ‘COADE, LAMBETH 1791’, 122cm wide

47cm deep

85cm high

£6,000 - 8,000

Eleanor Coade (1733-1821), one of the most remarkable industrialists of the Georgian period, perfected a durable ceramic stoneware capable of withstanding the harshest weather while retaining the crispness of fine sculpture. From her Lambeth manufactory, established in 1769, she supplied architectural and ornamental commissions to leading architects including Robert Adam, James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane. The factory received the Royal Warrant, allowing Coade to reproduce and sell the Royal Arms to other warrant-holding firms, amongst others in Bond Street, Holborn, Charing Cross, the Strand, St James’s Street and Piccadilly.

The Royal Arms of George III appear in Coade’s 1784 catalogue (no. 429, ‘His Majesty’s on a Panel’, 4ft 6in × 3ft 10in, priced £15 15s, as well as three other models), illustrating the demand for such works in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Alison Kelly (‘Mrs Coade’s Stone’, 1990, pp.274-5) illustrates two reliefs with Royal Arms rampant (as opposed to couchant, where the lion and unicorn are lying down), of which one, on Beverley Sessions House, Yorkshire, is dated to 1807.

Comparable examples are recorded, including one sold at Christie’s, ‘Garden Statuary - Wrotham Park’, 9 November 1993, lot 78, and another at Sotheby’s, ‘Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art’, 2 July 2019, lot 128.

LOT 123

A Coade stone model of a tiger, of recent manufacture, by Stephen Pettifer, Coade Ltd., after a design by John Bacon, the beast modelled in a seated position and raised on a rectangular base, inscribed ‘Coade 2017’,

71cm wide

35cm deep

88cm high

£4,000 - 6,000

This tiger, by Stephen Pettifer at Coade Ltd., was made and fired in the true Coade manner, using the original Coade recipe and to the same scale. The original design for the tiger is illustrated in the book of Coade’s etchings, which correspond to those listed in the 1784 Decorative Catalogue of Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory: ‘Section 1, Statues, p.4, no. 59, Tiger, £8/8/0d’. A period version of this model, by repute from Alton Towers, sold at Christie’s, 20 June 2013.

A small group of Coade stone models by Stephen Pettifer, including a large model of a leg, were sold in the Christie’s ‘Dunsborough Park’ sale on 20 June 2013.

Lots 124-125

Strength and Serenity: Rediscovering the Sculptures of Barrington Hall

Two rediscovered sculptures from Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, will be offered for sale on the open market for the first time in nearly 300 years.

LOT 124

A carved limestone statue after the antique, first half of the 18th century, The Farnese Hercules, raised on a pedestal base, 95cm wide

98cm deep

233cm high overall (2)

£15,000 - 20,000

Provenance: Presumably supplied to John Shales Barrington at Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, c.1734-40; acquired from the above c.1980; Over Hall, Colne Engaine, Essex.

This large limestone model of the Farnese Hercules is derived from a Roman marble of about 200 CE, now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples, which in turn follows a 4thcentury BCE original attributed to the sculptor Lysippos. The original was discovered in the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, by 1556 and was acquired by Pope Paul III Farnese, who displayed it in the arcade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome.

This example, impressive in scale and stylistic quality, was purchased directly from Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, in the late 20th century and has since been in the collection at Over Hall, Essex. The figure is carved from limestone, and weathering to the surface indicates prolonged outdoor exposure. Through mention of the figure in an edition of ‘The Gardeners’ Chronicle’, 14 January 1882, as well as photographs taken in the gardens of Barrington Hall c.1900 and c.1977, we know that the Hercules was placed in the centre of the path leading from the house’s south façade to the lake. However, based on engravings dated 1777 and 1819, as well as a mid-18thcentury design for the south elevation of Barrington Hall by the architect Joseph Sanderson (c.1690-1747), it appears that the Palladian redesign featured three pieces of pediment sculpture, of which this Hercules was likely the central figure.

Barrington Hall was inherited by John Shales Barrington (c.1710-1788) in 1734, who immediately began an ambitious programme of rebuilding, working with Joseph Sanderson and his cousin John Sanderson (d.1774). The house was never fully completed, and remained unfinished until it was substantially enlarged and remodelled in 1863. According to local parish history records, the Palladian stone figures from the corners of the pediment were moved on to pedestals in the garden (Essex Record Office, Essex Parish History, ‘Notes on Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak’, 1970, ref. T/P 446A/1). It is in this new position that the Hercules appears to have remained. Presumably, when the Hall was sold in 1977 to the British Livestock Company for commercial use, any remaining sculptural or decorative elements were dispersed, although no direct documentation has yet been traced.

The building still retains exceptionally fine carved mahogany joinery, including doors, doorcases and overmantels, together with rococo plasterwork attributed to the brothers Henry Cheere (1703-1781) and John Cheere (1709-1787). Both trained alongside each other in the workshops of John Nost II. After Nost’s death, Henry set up business on his own, but in 1739 he and John took the lease on their former boss’s old yard on Piccadilly near Hyde Park Corner, which John was to run for the next 50 years. Both are documented as providing architectural ornament and decorative carving for Barrington Hall in the late 1730s. The presence of their hand in the fireplaces and staircases establishes a clear artistic connection between the Barrington commission and the output of the Hyde Park workshop, where models of the Farnese Hercules were produced in lead, plaster, and occasionally in stone for outdoor display. William Hogarth’s celebrated print ‘Analysis of Beauty, Plate II’ (1753) vividly depicts the interior of Cheere’s studio, filled with casts of classical statuary, including a recognisable Farnese Hercules, demonstrating both the popularity of the type and its ready availability to country house patrons such as Barrington.

The placement of the Hercules figure on the pediment accords with the programme of heroic statuary fashionable in English Palladian houses around 1730-1750. Comparable uses of Farnese-type figures in architectural settings include examples at Stourhead, Wrest Park, and in John Cheere’s lead and plaster series made for gardens and façades. The composition also invites comparison with the work of Peter Scheemakers (1691–1781), whose statuary at Rousham, Oxfordshire – including The Dying Gaul and A Lion Attacking a Horse – embodies the same translation of classical models into the moral and decorative language of the English Palladian garden.

Although no surviving bill links Cheere directly to Barrington, the handling of musculature and slightly simplified anatomy correspond closely to known casts by his workshop. Henry Cheere’s documented practice demonstrates that, while his Hyde Park Corner firm is best known for lead and plaster garden figures, he did accept high-status stone commissions for architectural settings. Surviving free-standing pediment and architectural sculptures securely ascribed to Henry Cheere – such as the allegorical figures ‘Poetry’, ‘Physick’, ‘Law’ and the figure of ‘Caroline, Queen Consort of George II’, at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford – show comparable largescale stone carving intended for prominent architectural display and underline the plausibility of a specially commissioned stone Hercules for Barrington. These works indicate that the Cheere circle could supply full-scale carved stone figures, either carved in-house for exceptional commissions or produced in close collaboration with skilled local masons.

A related female allegorical figure, Prudence – also believed to have originated from Barrington Hall – was sold at Bonhams (A Marble Figure of Prudence attributed to Peter Scheemakers, 12 November 2020, lot 237). Technical observation suggests that this Prudence could well be carved from limestone rather than marble and shares a comparable scale, stance, and carving technique with the Barrington Hercules, indicating that it may once have formed part of the same sculptural group, although this remains undocumented. According to the parish history source cited earlier, the Hercules was originally positioned on the pediment together with figures identified as Venus and Minerva, suggesting that the ensemble may have represented The Choice of Hercules – a popular baroque and rococo motif symbolising man’s struggle between Vice and Virtue. Given this context, it is plausible that the so-called Prudence may in fact represent Virtue herself, and that the Victorian account misidentified the figure.

We are very grateful to Dr Matthew Craske for his help in cataloguing this sculpture.

A carved limestone statue after the antique, first half of the 18th century, a river god, 190cm wide

60cm deep

116cm high

£10,000 - 15,000

Provenance: Presumably supplied to John Shales Barrington at Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, c.1734-40; acquired from the above c.1980; Over Hall, Colne Engaine, Essex.

This figure follows established classical prototypes of river gods, derived from Roman sculpture such as the Tiber and Nile figures in the Vatican Museums, Rome, and reinterpreted throughout the 17th and 18th centuries as emblems of natural plenty and local identity. The statue is carved from limestone, with marks and weathering consistent with prolonged outdoor display.

The River God was likely conceived as a garden or terrace ornament rather than part of the pediment group that included the Hercules. The subject matter, together with its reclining format and horizontal emphasis, suggests that it was intended to sit beside a water feature or pool within the formal landscape scheme recorded around the Hall in the mid-eighteenth century. Additionally, from at least the mid-nineteenth century, sources record that the sculpture was positioned at ‘the overflow of the lake’ (Essex Record Office, Essex Parish History, ‘Notes on Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak’, 1970, ref. T/P 446A/1).

Comparable examples of river-god statuary survive in other English gardens created in the eighteenth century, including Rousham, Oxfordshire, where William Kent’s designs incorporated reclining river figures as symbols of fertility and classical repose. Further instances occur at Stowe, Stourhead, and Hampton Court, each employing similar classical motifs within garden and architectural contexts. These analogies place the Barrington figure firmly within the same Palladian vocabulary of landscape design and allegory.

Stylistically, the modelling of the torso and drapery shares characteristics with the Hercules figure, indicating a probable shared origin within the same decorative campaign undertaken by John Shales Barrington during the 1730s and 1740s. The connection of both works to the orbit of Henry and John Cheere, who provided carved fireplaces, staircases and other ornament for Barrington Hall, further supports this dating. Like the Hercules, the River God reflects the Palladian taste for classical exempla - here transformed into a symbol of natural fertility and prosperity suited to the surrounding landscape.

We are very grateful to Dr Matthew Craske for his help in cataloguing this sculpture.

LOT 126

A George II provincial elm wing armchair, mid-18th century, upholstered in striped ticking and raised on cabriole supports, 75cm wide

66cm deep

117cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 127

A pair of Empire-style gilt and patinated bronze lamps, 19th century and later, each in the form of a candlestick with a tapered column and raised on a circular foot, with a 12-inch grey pleated shade, 12cm diameter

50cm high including shade (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 128

A neoclassical lacquered and parcel-gilt wooden guéridon, of recent manufacture, the dished top raised on three ram monopodia united by a round stretcher, with all-over imitation marble decoration,

66cm diameter

64cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 129

A pair of giltwood starburst mirrors, 20th century, Spanish, each of radiating form, with a small circular glass plate enclosed within a painted slip, 144cm diameter (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

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128 126

LOT 130

A mahogany campaign chest, c.1860, in two parts, with brass mounts and recessed handles, raised on turned supports, 98.5cm wide

45cm deep

100.5cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Märta Måås-Fjetterström, 365 x 281cm

£1,500 - 2,000

LOT 131

LOT 132

A matched set of six George II black and gilt-japanned dining chairs, second quarter of the 18th century and later, each with a shaped top rail decorated with floral sprays and a diaper trellis, above a splat painted with figures in a landscape, on cabriole legs united by shaped stretchers,

54cm wide

51cm deep

104cm high (6)

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 133

A Regency mahogany extending dining table, early 19th century, the moulded rectangular top with softened corners and five inset leaves, over ring-turned tapering supports terminating in brass castors, 174cm long closed, 442cm extended

137cm wide

73cm high (6)

£4,000 - 6,000

133 132

LOT 134

A Bloor Derby porcelain part dessert service, early 19th century, each decorated with gilt scrolls to a dark-blue ground, with topographical scenes painted to the centre, comprising: 4 oval serving dishes, 30cm wide, 2 shell dishes, 16 plates, a small tureen and cover, and another small oval dish with a plain centre, 23cm wide (25)

£200 - 400

LOT 135

A hammered brass preserve pan, 19th century, with a waisted body set with a pair of iron handles, 80cm wide

69cm deep

44cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 136

A Victorian mahogany pedestal desk by Harrison & Sons, c.1890, the rectangular top with an inset gilt-tooled leather writing surface, above three frieze drawers and two banks of further short drawers with rosewood knobs, each stamped to the back ‘Hemming’s’, on a plinth base,

150cm wide

77cm deep

77cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

Harrison & Sons were recorded at ‘38 & 40 Manchester Road & Hall Rake Mill, Burnley & Blackburn, Lancashire’, as cabinet makers, chair makers, wood carvers, upholsterers (fl.1881-85).

LOT 137

An adjustable iron rushlight holder, 18th/19th century, raised on a tripod supports, 22cm diameter

81cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 138

A painted wrought-metal chandelier, c.1920, French, with scrolling decoration and a moulded glass bowl, 46cm diameter

91cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 139

A pair of gilt-metal and glass wall lights, early 20th century, French, attributed to Maison Baguès, each with twin arms with cylindrical barbed edge candle holders above scalloped drip pans, issuing from an elongated intertwined backplate,

30cm wide

13cm deep

53cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 140

Three porcelain birds by Meissen, 20th century, German, comprising: a hoopoe, modelled after Johann J Kändler, incised to base ‘77073’, 10cm wide

23cm deep

32cm high, a waxwing, incised to base ‘77068’, and a golden oriole, incised to base ‘77123’, all with blue crossed sword marks (3)

£200 - 300

LOT 141

A Meissen porcelain bottle cooler from the ‘Red Dragon’ ser vice, mid-18th century, painted in iron-red and gilt with dragons, phoenixes and auspicious motifs, applied with entwined-branch handles with flower terminals, brown-edged rim, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue, impressed ‘21’, restored, 22cm wide

18cm deep

16cm high

£600 - 800

Provenance: Bonhams, ‘Fine European Ceramics including the Collezione Procida Mirabelli di Lauro’, 6 July 2010, lot 203.

A mahogany tripod table, c.1860, with a circular snap top with a moulded edge, over a turned and carved column, on scrolling supports, 52cm diameter

78cm high

£300 - 500

A pair of painted wooden side tables, of recent manufacture, each in the form of a stack of books, approximately 35cm wide

35cm deep

41cm high (2)

£200 - 400

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Barbro Nilsson, 360 x 276cm £1,500 - 2,000

LOT 142

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LOT 144

A George II-style giltwood overmantel mirror, probably 19th century but incorporating earlier glass, with a foliate-carved frame enclosing a bevelled triple plate, 130cm wide

51cm high

£400 - 600

A pair of Louis XVI-style ormolu candelabra, 19th century, French, each in the form of a standing putto, one cupid and the other holding a marotte, both with a large floral bloom behind issuing six light sconces, raised on a flared architectural pedestal with applied floral garlands and acanthus scrolls, 37cm diameter

66cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

A walnut low library bookcase, late 19th century, with a moulded cornice above short and long shelves, raised on a plinth base, with ebony-strung decoration, 212cm wide

33cm deep

109cm high

£300 - 500

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148

An 18ct gold-mounted enamel scent bottle, 19th century, of globe and shaft form, painted with putti, complete with an internal stopper, fitted in a later case, 3.5cm diameter

6.3cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 149

A biscuit porcelain portrait medallion of Napoleon, late 19th century, French, after Bertrand Andrieu, in a gilt-metal frame, 12.5cm diameter

£300 - 500

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150

A pair of George III-style painted wooden console tables, of recent manufacture, each slender demilune top raised on tapering fluted supports, united by a pierced stretcher, with all-over neoclassical detail, 115cm wide

37cm deep

81cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 151

A George IV mahogany and leather library armchair, c.1825, of square shape, with a buttoned back and brass studded detail, with a moulded frame, raised on tapering reeded supports terminating in castors, 71cm wide

73cm deep

103cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 152

An Elizabethan-style oak refectory table, probably 19th century but incorporating some earlier elements, the cleated plank top with draw leaves, above a guilloché-carved frieze, raised on bulbous cup and cover supports united by stretchers, extended 330cm long

90cm wide

82cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

Provenance: Sir Harry Hague (1881-1960); thence by descent to the current owner.

Exhibited: On loan to Paycocke’s House, Coggeshall, Essex, until October 2025. Sir Harry Hague (1881-1960) was the managing director of A Wander Ltd., the company that manufactured the malt drink Ovaltine. At the time of the Second World War, Ovaltine was one of the most popular brands in Britain, becoming the official drink of the London 1948 Olympics, and was taken up Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953. Sir Harry invested the fortune he amassed in his art collection and employed the renowned furniture historian and connoisseur R W Symonds to advise him.

LOT 153

A large Tabriz wool carpet, c.1940s, Persian, the field decorated with stylised palmettes interspersed by vine and leaf, to a red ground, 459 x 347cm

£3,000 - 5,000

153 152

LOT 154

A set of eight hand-coloured engravings from ‘Flora Universalis’, c.1838, after David Dietrich, plate 36 x 20cm, each in a silvered glazed frame (8)

£400 - 600

A small Regency mahogany canterbury, c.1810, with four divisions above a single drawer, raised on tapering turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors, 48cm wide

33cm deep

55cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 156

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, in the manner of Barbro Nilsson, woven with geometric motifs in tones of red, lilac and yellow, 364 x 286cm

£1,200 - 1,800

LOT 155

LOT 157

A giltwood and gesso mirror, late 19th century and later, with a floral and foliate-decorated frame enclosing an oval glass plate, 71cm wide

82cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 158

A large stoneware storage jar, late Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Chinese, of ovoid form, with a dark-brown glaze and loop handles to the shoulders, 33cm diameter

45cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 159

A George I walnut longcase clock, early 18th century, the brass dial set with a silvered chapter ring and inscribed ‘George Lomax, Brecon’, with an arched hood and a long door above a plinth base,

50cm wide

25cm deep

245cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 160

A pair of Louis XVI-style walnut and beech bergères, 19th century, French, each with a foliate top rail and lobed finials, raised on acanthus-carved fluted supports, upholstered in Japonesque fabric, 66cm wide

70cm deep

97cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 161

A set of Regenc y-style mahogany quartetto tables, early 20th century, each rectangular top raised on slender turned supports and splayed feet, the largest 46cm wide

35.5cm deep

72cm high (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 162

A George II-style giltwood overmantel mirror, 19th century, the triple rectangular plate within a fret-carved frame, decorated with foliage in relief and surrounded by a Prince of Wales feathered crest, 125cm wide

107cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 163

An upholstered ottoman, late 19th/early 20th century, with a hinged lid and waisted body, covered in a striped kilim with studded leather trim, raised on squat bun feet,

77cm wide

57cm deep

47cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 164

A George IV rosewood chiffonier, c.1825, of small proportions, with a shaped superstructure, above a pair of panelled doors enclosing shelves, raised on lobed feet,

72cm wide

38.5cm deep

127cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 165

A painted pine ‘La Grenouille’ bistrot game, c.1920, French, 52cm wide

65cm deep

91cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 166

A Louis XVI-style ormolu-cased cartel clock, 19th century, French, the 6¼-inch white enamel dial with Roman chapter ring, to an eight-day movement striking on a bell, the case decorated with neoclassical swags and pilasters and surmounted by a flaming urn,

33cm wide

12cm deep

66cm high

£1,000 - 1,200

LOT 167

A set of twelve Wedgwood black basalt medallions, late 18th/ early 19th century, decorated in relief with cameo busts of Roman emperors, each stamped ‘WEDGWOOD’ and titled to the reverse, each in a gilt-metal frame, 5.5 x 4.5cm (12)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 168

A George III burr maple Pembroke table, late 18th century and later, the oval hinged top above a frieze drawer and tapering square supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, re-veneered, 101cm wide

83cm deep

75cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 169

A set of four framed silk embroideries, c.1900, Chinese, comprising two pairs, each worked in polychrome silk threads on a pale silk ground, depicting birds, insects and floral motifs, visible 50 x 46cm, framed and glazed (4)

£400 - 600

LOT 170

A sorcerer’s mirror, 19th century, the square plate with large concave inclusions and etched floral details, 39cm wide

39cm high

£600 - 800

171

A Victorian cast iron stick stand, second half of the 19th century, in the form of a dog with a whip in its mouth, above a demilune drip tray and pierced base, 62cm wide

41cm deep

72cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 172

A provincial James II-style stripped oak chest of drawers, 18th century and later, with a moulded rectangular top above two short and three long drawers, with panelled sides, raised on bracket feet, 100cm wide

56cm deep

95cm high

£600 - 800

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LOT 173

A pair of large black and gilt lacquer chinoiserie panels, second half of the 20th century, each with an arched top, decorated with figures, trees and pagodas, in a moulded giltwood frame,

254 x 49cm (2)

£500 - 700

LOT 174

A wool carpet of Mamluk design, of recent manufacture, woven with foliate motifs to a pale ground,

304 x 245cm

£1,200 - 1,800

LOT 175

A Louis XV-style carved giltwood and gesso overmantel mirror, late 19th century, French, with a scrolling rococo crest and a ribbon-decorated frame, enclosing a glass plate, 137cm wide

181cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 176

A stoneware water-drum lamp, late 19th/early 20th century, Burmese (Myanmar), the body with bands of incised geometric motifs and mythical beast handles, converted,

35cm wide

33cm deep

64cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 177

An embroidered robe, late 19th/early 20th century, Central Asian, Uzbek, profusely worked in polychrome silk thread, 100cm long

£300 - 500

Provenance: The Museum of Applied Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; purchased from the above by the current vendor, c.1990s.

LOT 178

An embroidered suzani panel, late 19th/early 20th century, Uzbek, worked in polychrome wool threads on a cotton ground, the field with floral quatrefoil medallions interspersed by foliate tendrils forming a lozenge lattice, within a floral banded border, 134 x 90cm

£400 - 600

Provenance: The Museum of Applied Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; purchased from the above by the current vendor, c.1990s.

LOT 179

A carved teak settee, second half of the 19th century, Anglo-Indian, with a pierced foliate double-chair back and a serpentine seat, raised on cabriole supports terminating in castors, 168cm wide

92cm deep

90cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 180

A beech campaign daybed, 19th century, with brown buttoned-leather cushions and an adjustable caned seat, raised on ring-turned supports and brass castors, stamped with a serial number beneath,

194cm long

57cm wide

44cm high when flat

£400 - 600

LOT 181

A pair of carved walnut side chairs, 17th century and later, each pierced back with scrolling foliate detail and a caned panel, above an upholstered seat and foliate-capped cabriole supports, united by stretchers, terminating in paw feet,

52cm wide

59cm deep

126cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 182

A Victorian carved walnut ottoman, c.1860, with original overstuffed upholstery, the hinged seat enclosing a storage compartment, raised on carved cabriole supports,

127cm wide

51cm deep

51cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 183

A pair of Empire-style gilt and patinated bronze table lamps, 19th century and later, each in the form of a candlestick, with a reeded column over scroll feet and a triform base, with a 14¼-inch white pleated shade, 14cm diameter

60cm high including shade (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 184

A matched pair of brass bouillotte lamps, early 20th century, French, each with a green and parcel-gilt-decorated adjustable tole shade, over three candle sconces and a circular drip tray base,

34cm diameter

42cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 185

A George II mahogany double reading stand, second quarter of the 18th century, the rectangular top with twin sloping surfaces, above a turned column with a ratcheted action, raised on tripod cabriole supports, 67cm wide

52cm deep

80cm high at lowest

£300 - 500

LOT 186

A wool kilim runner, 20th century, woven with repeated geometric bands in orange, black and cream on a burgundy ground, 312 x 145cm

£300 - 500

A Regency painted and parcel-gilt wooden armchair, early 19th century, in the manner of Morel & Seddon, with a scrolling back and square arms, raised on foliate sabre supports and gilt-metal caps and castors,

64cm wide

76cm deep

100cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

A silk carpet of Persian Isfahan style, 20th century, woven with Shah Abbasi motifs and animals to a red ground, 334 x 255cm

£2,000 - 4,000

Two marble obelisks, late 19th century, French, each raised on a square plinth base, mounted with a white metal cypher of Napoleon III, 10cm wide 10cm deep

44cm high (2) £300 - 500

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A carved, painted and giltwood console table in the rococo taste, 19th century, Italian, of serpentine outline with a Siena marble top, above a foliate-carved frieze, and cabriole supports united by stretchers, 140cm wide

47cm deep

101cm high

£500 - 700

A George Smith sofa, of recent manufacture, with turned legs and floral upholstery, labelled ‘George Smith, Handmade by Craftsmen, Newcastle England’, 181cm wide

108cm deep

80cm high

£600 - 800

A wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, woven with geometric motifs in tones of red and cream, 314 x 261cm

£1,000 - 2,000

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LOT 193

A pair of George III carved giltwood pier mirrors, mid-18th century and later, each pierced frame with a floral crest, with elaborate scrolling rococo detail and an acanthus terminal, surrounding a mercury glass plate, 84cm wide

163cm high (2)

£15,000 - 20,000

This pair of pier mirrors, executed in the then fashionable rococo style, correspond to a series of mid-18th-century designs, including those of Thomas Chippendale’s, ‘The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director’ (1754, plate CXLI and CXLII), Thomas Johnson’s, ‘One Hundred and Fifty New Designs’ (1761, plate 1 and 34), and Matthias Lock & Henry Copland’s, ‘A New Book of Ornaments’ (1752 plate 8). The mirrors are typical of the middle period of the rococo taste, with the scrolls lighter than earlier models, and the use of open space to create airiness. The bellflower garlands and the plain inner frames also point towards a slightly later date and an evolution towards the neoclassical designs of the latter part of the 18th century.

LOT 194

A painted wooden model speedboat, 20th century, on a wooden stand, 121cm long

35cm wide

43cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 195

A pair of ormolu and porcelain parrot wall lights, 20th century, Continental, each in the form of a bird perched on a scrolling foliate branch, issuing two cast sconces and polychrome flower heads, 22cm wide

20cm deep

49cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 196

A Persian Heriz wool runner, c.1940, the red field woven with repeating geometric motifs within a blue-banded border, 437 x 115cm

£400 - 600

LOT 197

A large blue and white porcelain jar, 20th century, Japanese, of ovoid form, an inscribed Amida Butsu to the body within stylised borders, converted, 32cm diameter

55cm high overall

£150 - 250

LOT 198

A pair of giltwood mirrors, 19th century, Irish, each of oval form in a frame mounted with faceted glass cabochons, 47cm wide

37cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 199

An Apulian-style red-figure trefoil oinochoe, 20th century, decorated with a woman in profile wearing a tiara, necklace and earrings, heightened in white and surrounded by palmettes, rays and spirals, 8cm wide

22cm high

£200 - 400

Provenance: The collection of the late Sir Clinton Charles Donald Cory, 5th Baronet of Coryton; acquired by the above from Agora Ancient Art, Vienna, 18 July 1986.

LOT 200

A lacquered wooden hanging cabinet, 19th century, Continental, set with a pair of cupboard doors between shelves, with chinoiserie decoration, 56cm wide

17cm deep

81cm high

£200 - 300

LOT 201

A scagliola marble coffee table, 20th century, the rectangular top with floral and foliate decoration, raised on two column supports, 140cm wide

70cm deep

46cm high

£400 - 600

202

A pair of upholstered armchairs in the Howard & Sons style, of recent manufacture, each with roll arms and feather-filled cushions, raised on turned supports and castors, covered in William Yeoward striped herringbone fabric,

86cm wide

112cm deep

89cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 203

A George II-style walnut and parcel-gilt pier mirror, 19th century, enclosing a glass plate, with a carved foliate crest and a shaped frame,

48cm wide

97cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 204

A wool carpet of Arts and Crafts design, of recent manufacture, woven with a stylised floral lattice in green and red, interspersed with green tendrils and yellow foliage to a blue ground,

360 x 298cm

£3,000 - 5,000

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A group of tribal masks, predominantly 19th century, to include Ibibio (death mask), Dan, Ivory Coast, Guatemalan, and Cape Verde, Ibibio (largest) 20cm wide

9cm deep

36cm high (6)

£300 - 500

A carved walnut cupboard, late 17th/early 18th century, French, set with two pairs of panelled doors with star motifs and a pair of short drawers, raised on bun feet,

132cm wide

47cm deep

191cm high

£800 - 1,200

A flat-weave goat’s wool rug, c.1920s, Anatolian, woven with a central medallion and stripes in muted tones, 166 x 128cm

£500 - 700

LOT 206

LOT 205

A carved hardwood and brass centre table, 20th century, the circular top with scrolling decoration, raised on a foliate column and circular base,

72cm diameter

76cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 209

A carved oak chest, late 17th century, the hinged lid enclosing a storage space, fitted with a candle box and two short drawers, with a carved and panelled front with inlaid decoration above a pair of drawers, raised on square supports, inscribed ‘E.W’,

135cm wide

53cm deep

74cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 210

A neoclassical carved giltwood mirror, late 18th/early 19th century, Continental, with an urned crest and swag decoration, enclosing a rectangular glass plate,

51cm wide

78cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 208

211

A set of Regenc y-style mahogany quartetto tables, early 20th century, each with a rectangular beaded top, over ring-turned supports united by a stretcher, and raised on trestle feet,

largest 47cm wide

30cm deep

74cm high (4)

£400 - 600

212

A Heriz wool runner, 20th century, the field with repeating geometric medallions, each containing an eight-pointed star to the centre, on a red ground within a banded border enclosing flower heads,

360 x 66cm

£800 - 1,200

LOT 213

A George III mahogany cabinet, c.1770, of architectural form, with a broken pediment with fret-carved Greek-key decoration, above two pairs of panelled cupboard doors enclosing shelves, intersected by a brushing slide, raised on ogee bracket feet, 119cm wide

52cm deep

245cm high

£600 - 800

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A Louis XV-style walnut salon suite, c.1900, French, comprising two graduated bergères and a stool, each with canework and carved foliate decoration, larger bergère 75cm wide

75cm deep

103cm high (3)

£200 - 300

Three folding fire screens, 20th century, French, comprising a pair of black examples, 133cm wide 53cm high, and a brass example, 135cm wide

54cm high (3)

£300 - 500

LOT 216

A mahogany pedestal extending dining table, c.1890, the circular top over a frieze carved with ribbon swags, with four additional leaves extending to an oval top, raised on a platform base with four bracket feet,

137cm diameter

353cm wide extended

73cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

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A rosewood and agate-inset workbox, 19th century, the rectangular hinged top enclosing a silk-lined interior with lift-out tray, the exterior decorated with scrolling cut steel, 29.5cm wide

23cm deep

12.5cm high

£250 - 350

LOT 218

A pair of Renaissance-style gilt and patinated bronze ewer lamps, 19th century, each decorated in relief with putti and foliage, converted, 19cm wide

25cm deep

57cm high (2)

£500 - 700

LOT 219

A large Persian Bakhtiari wool carpet, second quarter of the 20th century, woven with floral and foliate motifs to a red ground, with navy and buff borders, 560 x 396cm

£1,500 - 2,500

£800 - 1,200

LOT 220

A large carved sandstone bust of a Roman emperor, late 17th/early 18th century, possibly Domitian, raised on an associated waisted socle and square base, inscribed ‘AU.CAESAR’, 72cm

27cm

66cm high

£800 - 1,200

28cm

39cm high overall

£200 - 400

LOT 221

A plaster bust of Augustus Caesar, 19th century, raised on an integrated socle base, 34cm wide

deep

222

LOT 222

A faux marble grand tour bust of Juno, 19th century, after the antique, raised on a waisted socle base, 18cm wide

deep

LOT 223

English School, 19th century, a portrait bust of the Rt Hon. John Inglis, Lord Glencorse (1810-1891), c.1880s, painted plaster, with head turned to sinister, depicted in Roman dress and raised on an integral waisted socle,

60cm wide

32cm deep

84cm high

£600 - 800

Provenance: Lady Geraldine Inglis of Glencorse; thence by descent.

LOT 224

Patric Park (1811-1855), a portrait bust of a young woman, carved white marble, her head slightly turned to sinister, hair in ringlets, wearing a draped gown, raised on a circular socle, inscribed verso, ‘PARK LONDN, 1846’

48cm wide

22cm deep

70cm high

£2,500 - 3,500

After studying for two years in Rome under Thorvaldson, Park returned to Glasgow to begin his career. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1839 to1855 and at the Royal Academy from 1836 to1855.

LOT 225

Attributed to Ignazio Collini (Italian, 1724-1793) and Filippo Collini (Italian, 1737-1800), a white marble bust of a young noblewoman, c.1770, on a Breccia Violetta socle base, 21cm wide

19cm deep

47cm high overall

£4,000 - 6,000

Provenance: Dreweatts, ‘Tomasso’, 19 October 2024, lot 74.

LOT 226

A specimen marble tabletop by Grimaldi & Lopes, second half of the 19th century, Sicilian, of circular shape, inlaid with various marble and hardstone specimens, including jasper, porphyry and Nero Portoro, retaining a papermaker’s label to the underside,

69cm diameter

3cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 227

A patinated bronze model of the Warwick Vase, late 19th century, after the antique, with a metal insert, 43cm wide

31cm deep

27cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 228

A grand tour bronze of the Medici Venus, 18th century, Italian, after the antique, the patinated figure standing next to a dolphin support,

7cm wide

6cm deep

23cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 229

A pair of bronze models of the Canova lions, 19th century, Italian, each raised on a black stone plinth, 14cm wide

7.5cm deep

9cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 230

A carved serpentine marble model of the ‘Porcellino’ or Uffizi Boar, 19th century, Italian, after the antique, 20cm wide

12cm deep

18cm high

£500 - 700

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LOT 231

A Renaissance-style bronze figure of a kneeling satyr, 19th century, Italian, in the manner of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna, 12.5cm wide

11cm deep

18cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 232

A gilt-bronze bust of Antinous, late 19th/early 20th century, French, inscribed ‘Thiebaut Fres 32 Avenue de l’Opera Paris...Épreuve originale’, on a black marble socle base, 8.5cm diameter

25cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 233

After Jean de Boulogne aka ‘Giambologna’, ‘Mercury flying on the breath of Aeolus’, patinated bronze, 19th century, raised on a circular stone base, 17cm diameter

87cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 234

After John Henning, a group of relief cast plaster plaques after the Parthenon frieze, c.1820s, most panels signed and dated, comprising twelve approximately 6 x 24cm two approximately 6 x 20cm, and three approximately 6 x 12cm, in four wooden trays (17)

£400 - 600

LOT 235

A Black Forest carved wooden cuckoo clock, 19th century, Swiss, surmounted with a stag and a pair of rifles, above hanging game amongst oak leaves, surrounding a circular dial with bone-inlaid Roman chapter ring, 80cm wide

56cm deep

130cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 236

A Black Forest carved wooden longcase clock, late 19th/early 20th century, Swiss, the circular silvered dial with black Arabic numerals and movement chiming on a gong, housed in a carved case with large eagle surmount, crossed mace and axe, scrolling vines and faux bois surface, over a base carved in relief with the lion of Lucerne, all raised on a later plinth, complete with two weights and a pendulum,

80cm wide

45cm deep

262cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 237

A carved Black Forest clock garniture by Bergen & Co., late 19th/early 20th century, Swiss, Interlaken, the case with a hunter holding a rabbit aloft, two hounds looking on, raised on a naturalistic oval base, the 6-inch ebonised dial with gilt-metal Roman chapter ring, striking on the hour and half hour, with pendulum and key, flanked by two coordinating models, one with foxes and the other with mountain goats, all with stamped marks, clock 45cm wide

21cm deep

69cm high (3)

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 238

Attributed to Johann Huggler (Swiss, 1834-1912),

a Black Forest carved figural group of a bull and a cow, 19th century, Swiss, Brienz Area, modelled on a naturalistic oval base, 34cm wide

23cm deep

29cm high

£300 - 500

238

A George II carved giltwood pier mirror, c.1740, with break-arch pediment centred by acanthus leaves and a shell, above a mask and matted border, enclosing a mercury glass plate

107cm wide

151cm high

£5,000 - 7,000

A pair of Louis XVI-style ormolu candelabra, 19th century, French, each in the form of a seated cherub supporting a tier of six acanthus branches terminating in sconces, centred by a further sconce, raised on a scrolling base, 38cm diameter

64cm high (2)

£500 - 700

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A William and Mary ebonised fruitwood and marquetry torchère stand, c.1690, English or Dutch, with all-over floral and foliate decoration, the octagonal top with mother-of-pearl and ivory inlay, raised on a turned and faceted column and a tripod base,

45cm diameter

94cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 242

A brown oak and coromandel chest of drawers, late 19th century, by James Shoolbred & Co., the moulded rectangular top with book-matched veneers, fitted with two short and three long drawers, raised on a plinth base, stamped to the drawer,

107cm wide

54cm deep

106cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 243

A Regency mahogany library armchair in the manner of Gillows, c.1820, with reeded scroll arms and ebonised bullseye roundels, raised on tapering reeded supports, terminating in brass caps and castors,

70cm wide

82cm deep

101cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 244

A Regency mahogany wine cooler in the manner of George Oakley, c.1820, of sarcophagus form, with all-over neoclassical bronze mounts and reeded pilasters, the hinged lid enclosing a lined interior, all raised on paw feet terminating in concealed castors,

79cm wide

57cm deep

56cm high

£2,000 - 3,000

A Regency kingwood and brass centre table, c.1820, the rounded rectangular snap top, above scrolling supports set with foliate bosses and raised on a quadripartite base terminating in paw feet, 141cm wide

111cm deep

70cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

A Tabriz wool carpet, mid-late 20th century, Persian, woven with large Shah Abbasi motifs on a red ground,

400 x 296cm

£1,500 - 2,500

A giltwood convex sunburst mirror, mid-20th century, Spanish, 64cm diameter

£500 - 700

A Regency mahogany canterbury, c.1810, with four divisions and a single drawer, raised on turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors, 48cm wide

37cm deep

53cm high

£250 - 450

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A Victorian walnut library armchair, mid-19th century, with a buttoned back and scroll frame, with an adjustable reading stand, raised on ring-turned supports terminating in castors,

71cm wide

86cm deep

97cm high not including reading stand

£1,000 - 2,000

A mahogany and brass peat bucket, early 19th century, Dutch, with ripple-moulded decoration, 32cm diameter

33cm high

£400 - 600

A wool carpet of mid-century Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating geometric motifs to a pale ground,

307 x 252cm

£1,000 - 2,000

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Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886), ‘The Horse Fair at Le Folgoet, Brittany’, c.1876, bronze, initialled ‘RC’, 16 x 37cm, within a moulded oak frame £400 - 600

LOT 253

An enamel sign, 20th century, French, inscribed ‘Vente de Cognac & Pineau de la Propriété - Dégustation Gratuite’, 56 x 86cm £200 - 400

LOT 254

A William IV rosewood breakfront bookcase, c.1835, the moulded cornice over open shelves and panelled cupboards, 250cm wide 48cm deep 220cm high £800 - 1,200

255

Two pairs of Louis XV Revival wall sconces, probably 20th century, each with a scrolling rocaille backboard, issuing three acanthus-cast branches, 33cm wide

65cm high (4)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 256

A pair of table lamps in the style of Jean Claude Mahey, of recent manufacture, each of square form with black-lacquered finish, raised on a chrome plinth base, 23cm square

52cm high overall (2)

£200 - 400

257

An Oushak wool rug in the European needlepoint style, early 20th century, Turkish, decorated with flowers and scrolls, 165 x 100cm £200 - 400

LOT 258

A copper lantern, late 19th/early 20th century, French, of typical tapering square form with an urn finial, with a verdigris finish, converted, 40cm wide

40cm deep

83cm high

£300 - 500

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A George II walnut tripod table, second quarter of the 18th century and later, the circular tilt top above a turned column and outswept legs, 55cm diameter

70cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 260

A Persian wool carpet, 20th century, woven with dense scrolling foliate motifs to a pale ground, 358 x 263cm

£300 - 500

LOT 261

A Louis XVI beech hall bench, late 18th century, French, with a studded velvet seat, raised on tapering square supports united by stretchers, stamped ‘H de V’ and ‘INVe’ beneath, 195cm wide

34cm deep

52cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 262

A William IV rosewood and specimen marble games table, c.1835, attributed to Gillows, the square chequerboard top inlaid with various hardstones, within a geometric border and a wide band of serpentine, with foliate-carved and gadroon-moulded border, raised on an elaborate vase-shaped column and a quadripartite base terminating in scroll feet and concealed brass castors, 63cm wide

63cm deep

74cm high

£1,500 - 2,000

Three marble panels, 19th century, with Celtic knot decoration, largest 36 x 29cm (3)

£400 - 600

A pair of Regenc y-style etched glass lanterns, of recent manufacture, each bell-shaped body decorated with fruiting vines, lacking lights, 35cm diameter

60cm high (2)

£200 - 400

A gabbeh wool rug, mid-20th century, Persian, woven with a chequerboard pattern in earthy tones, within a similarly decorated border, 181 x 117cm

£500 - 700

A neoclassical oak centre table, 20th century, the slatted rectangular top raised on carved and painted trestle ends, 120cm wide

91cm deep

77cm high

£500 - 700

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A set of six provincial oak stools, 20th century, each with a rectangular top above trestle supports, united by stretchers, 44cm wide

29cm deep

42cm high (6)

£300 - 500

A Regency simulated rosewood whatnot, early 19th century, with three square shelves above a magazine rack, with a short drawer, raised on turned supports,

46.5cm wide

42cm deep

140.5cm high

£400 - 600

A George II-style mahogany and coromandel card table, second quarter of the 18th century and later, the folding top enclosing a baize-lined surface, raised on shell-carved cabriole supports, terminating in pad feet, 92cm wide

48cm deep

73cm high

£400 - 600

A flat-weave wool carpet of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating poppy heads, 300 x 245cm

£1,000 - 2,000

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A walnut and cedar commode, first half of the 18th century, North Italian, of serpentine outline, fitted with three long drawers and raised on squat cabriole feet, with inlaid and crossbanded decoration, 150cm wide

65cm deep

107cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 272

A flat-weave wool stair runner of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating geometric motifs in tones of green and yellow, 1010 x 74cm

£800 - 1,200

LOT 273

A walnut hall chair, late 17th/early 18th century, North Italian, with turned decoration throughout, the pierced back above a moulded seat, raised on turned and square supports, terminating in peg feet, 48cm wide

40cm deep

110cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 274

An oak refectory table, 17th century, the plank top above a carved frieze, raised on turned supports and a central column, united by stretchers, terminating in block feet,

287cm long

75cm wide

86cm high

£2,000 - 3,000

A George IV rosewood library armchair, c.1825, the shaped frame upholstered in buttoned orchid-pink leather, with open arms and tapering reeded front supports, terminating in brass caps and castors, 66cm wide

92cm deep

105cm high

£1,500 - 2,000

A Persian wool carpet, 20th century, Tabriz, woven with scrolling Shah Abbasi motifs to a pale ground,

575 x 374

£600 - 800

A George III mahogany cellaret, c.1760, the caddy top enclosing a divisioned interior, set with a bone escutcheon and a pair of brass carry handles, and raised on bracket feet and castors,

60cm wide

47cm deep

44cm high

£300 - 500

Provenance: The collection of the late Rosemary and Theo Cutting.

LOT 278

A baroque walnut and cane open armchair, late 17th century, the curved back with an arched top and a moulded edge, with a pair of scrolling arms and square seat, raised on cabriole supports united by turned stretchers, 69cm wide

60cm deep

120cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 275

LOT 276

LOT 277

LOT 279

A Louis XVI-style carved giltwood and gesso mirror, late 19th century, French, with a foliate crest and floral swags issuing from a ribbon-and-stick detailed frame, enclosing a rectangular glass plate, 126cm wide

207cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 280

A small Queen Anne walnut and oak kneehole desk, early 18th century and later, the rectangular top with book-matched veneers, above a frieze drawer and two banks of three further drawers

flanking a cupboard, raised on bun feet,

75cm wide

45cm deep

76cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 281

A long flat-weave wool stair runner, of recent manufacture, 1114 x 76cm

£700 - 900

LOT 282

A pair of Regency mahogany hall chairs, c.1810, each with a foliate-carved back centred with a painted armorial, above a saddle-shaped seat, and raised on tapering lobed supports, 45cm wide

47cm deep

85cm high (2)

£300 - 500

Provenance: Christie’s, ‘The Contents of Headington Hill Hall: The Home of the late Robert Maxwell’, Thursday 14 January 1993, lot 11; a private collection, London.

LOT

283

A carved coconut bugbear, late 18th century, carved in low relief with a palm tree and anchor and inscribed ‘Robt. Crabb, Ann Ogilvie, Married Augt. 1st 1791. John Crabb, Born Sept. 21st 1793. In love we’ll both Agree Like this Anchor and Tree. Leviathan Cape, Nichola’s Mole, Hispanola, July 16th 1795’, 10cm diameter

£100 - 200

Provenance: The David and Sandy Fuller Collection.

LOT 284

Spare lot

LOT 285

A matched pair of Charles II oak armchairs, late 17th century and later, each with a carved back and seat, one rail decorated with a crown, on twist-carved stretchered supports,

61cm wide

61cm deep

116cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 286

An Attic-style black-glazed terracotta vase, 19th century, with an everted rim, waisted neck and twin handles over an ovoid body, 20cm diameter

45cm high

£400 - 600

The ‘Wartime Commanders’ Reunion, Photograph of Sir Winston Churchill at dinner with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, at the United States Embassy, London, 1 September 1959, and signed in ink by Churchill, Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan, inscribed ‘For [?] Leslie Nicholls with best wishes [?] from his friend Dwight Eisenhower’, also pictured Field Marshal Viscount Alexander and 1st Earl Harold Alexander, 23 x 28cm, framed and glazed, 39 x 46cm overall,

together with a brass cased bulkhead timepiece, by Chelsea Clock Co., issued 1940-1944, Boston, the 5½-inch dial inscribed ‘U.S. Army’, in a mahogany carrying case numbered 318921, case 20cm wide

14cm deep

21cm high (2)

£2,000 - 3,000

Provenance: Sir Leslie Burtonshaw Nicholls (1895-1975) (photographed); thence by descent.

A provincial painted wooden dining table, 19th century, French, 200cm wide

90cm deep

74cm high

£600 - 800

A cast-iron fireback in the 17th-century style, 19th century, decorated with a crown above a shield, flanked by palm fronds and inscribed ‘1659’, 72cm wide

72cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 288

LOT 289

LOT 287

LOT 290

A polished imperial porphyry fragment, of canted square form, 14.5cm wide

14.5cm deep

7.5cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 291

A flat-weave kilim wool runner, 20th century, woven with repeating geometric motifs, 320 x 122cm

£300 - 500

LOT 292

A painted pine cupboard, 19th century, Swedish, Västergötland, on an associated base,

137cm wide

50cm deep

183cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 293

A large maiolica wine cooler or basin, 19th century, Italian, of shaped rectangular form, a ram’s head to each side, decorated with scrolling foliage and grotesques,

58cm wide

28cm deep

33cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 294

English Naive School, late 19th century

‘Faith, Hope and Charity’ signed ‘E. Lee’ l.l. and inscribed with title l.c., oil on canvas

29 x 44cm

£600 - 800

LOT 295

A near pair of Heriz wool rugs, c.1940s, Persian, each woven with stylised floral and geometric motifs to a pale ground, 153 x 95cm and 148 x 93cm (2)

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 296

Three embroidered suzanis, 20th century, the first Kyrgyzstan, with two large medallions on a black ground, encased in a banded border with flowers, 233 x 151cm, with two others, Uzbekistan, each embroidered with floral medallions on a red ground (3)

£200 - 400

Provenance: A private UK collection, acquired in Uzbekistan in the 1990s.

LOT 297

A redware ‘Battle of the Nile’ teapot by Wedgwood, early 19th century, decorated in relief with Egyptian motifs, the lid with a crocodile knop, impressed mark to base, 23.5cm wide 16cm deep

11cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 298

A late Victorian mahogany artist’s cabinet, c.1900, the slanted top with a glazed lid enclosing numerous compartments filled with pencils, pens, inks and various other implements, above a series of short drawers filled with further accoutrements, the base fitted with a folding door and enclosing slides, raised on a plinth base and concealed castors, 98cm wide

72cm deep

110cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

298

295

Pablo Picasso | Artistry in Clay

Pablo Picasso’s ceramics embody a remarkable fusion of tradition and modernity, revealing the artist’s ability to bridge ancient craftsmanship with the avant-garde movements that defined his career. His foray into pottery began in 1947, when he was invited to collaborate with the Madoura pottery studio in Vallauris, a village in south-eastern France. Having visited the studio the previous year, Picasso was immediately captivated by the tactile and utilitarian nature of ceramics. He recognised that while abstract painting might alienate some viewers, a finely crafted and beautifully decorated vessel could appeal to a broader audience. Pottery, for him, offered a new way to merge artistry and function - transforming everyday objects into sculptural forms of expression.

Picasso’s collaboration with the artisans at Vallauris proved both prolific and transformative. Over the course of nearly twenty-five years, until 1971, he produced 633 different ceramic editions, along with many variants and unique pieces derived from these originals. His early experiments focused on simple decorated plates and bowls, but he went on to push the boundaries of form and imagination. Traditional vessels gave way to abstract, organic and zoomorphic creations that blurred the line between form and function. Once Picasso completed a prototype, the skilled ceramicists at Madoura would produce a limited series based on his design, ensuring that each piece carried both the artist’s vision and the studio’s craftsmanship.

A defining feature of Picasso’s ceramic work lies in its rich and varied iconography. The imagery spans an extraordinary range of subjects - from bullfighting scenes and mythological creatures to fish, owls, goats and human faces. Many of these motifs hark back to Picasso’s Andalusian roots, recalling the vivid colours and cultural symbols of his youth in Málaga and Barcelona. On his sun-drenched Mediterranean plates, one can find depictions of the corrida, radiant suns, birds in flight, and expressive, often tormented faces. Through these works, Picasso revisited the landscapes and memories of his early life, channelling a deep sense of nostalgia and vitality. His ceramics exude a Mediterranean joie de vivre combining playful spontaneity with masterful technique.

Ancient influences were equally important to Picasso’s ceramic process. Inspired by Cypriot and Hispano-Moorish pottery, he borrowed from their decorative traditions while infusing them with his distinctly modern sensibility. He often adorned amphora-like forms with female faces or bullfighting scenes, and, in a nod to historical precedent, decorated both sides of his plates. In doing so, Picasso reimagined the ancient craft, transforming it into a living dialogue between past and present.

Among his recurring subjects, the goat holds a special place. During his years in Vallauris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, goats wandered freely through the village streets and sunlit hillsides, becoming a familiar part of his surroundings. To Picasso, the goat symbolised independence, resilience and earthy vitality - qualities that mirrored his own temperament. His renderings of goats, whether in profile or sculptural form, elevate the humble animal to an emblem of creative freedom.

Today, Picasso’s ceramics are among the most sought-after works of his later career, celebrated for their inventiveness and enduring charm. They reside in major museums and private collections worldwide, and continue to attract critical and scholarly attention in literature and exhibitions. We are delighted to include Tête de chèvre de profil (AR 110) in our January Design auction, offered with a pre-sale estimate of £3,000-£5,000 - a testament to the timeless appeal of Picasso’s artistry in clay.

Design Tuesday 27 January 2026 | 10am design@sworder.co.uk

Sworders Supports | The HALO Trust

We’re proud to announce The HALO Trust as our Charity of the Year 2026. Throughout the year, we’ll be supporting HALO’s lifesaving work clearing landmines and explosive remnants of war, helping communities rebuild and thrive. We’ll be fundraising, learning and amplifying their missionbeginning with the powerful piece below, by Rob Thomson, Chief Strategy Officer at The HALO Trust.

A Day on the Minefield

By Rob Thomson, Chief Strategy Officer, The HALO Trust

My day starts at 4.50 am under an African night sky bright with stars. Dawn is still an hour away. The HALO camp, one of three along Zimbabwe’s border with Mozambique, begins to stir.

Seventy deminers - local men and women trained by HALO - line up for morning parade in the half-light. After a short briefing and a prayer in Shona, they climb into trucks, clutching fresh loaves of bread from the camp bakery. As the sun rises, we head for the minefields. Clad in bright blue body armour and bumping along a dirt road through the bush, this feels very different from my usual commute.

Why are we here? Nearly 50 years after Zimbabwe’s Liberation War, hundreds of thousands of lethal weapons remain buried beneath this soil. Landmines, many small enough to fit in a child’s hand, have killed or injured more than 1,500 civilians and over 120,000 cattle. Yet their most insidious impact is fear and lost opportunity. Fields cannot be farmed. Homes, clinics and roads cannot be built. People are unable to move freely or trade. Mothers worry as their children walk to school. For generations born long after the fighting stopped, the violence of the past still constrains daily life.

That’s why thousands of men and women from war-torn communities around the world dedicate themselves to clearing their countries of landmines as part of the HALO team.

Founded in Afghanistan in 1988 by two former British soldiers, HALO now operates in 32 conflictaffected and post-conflict countries, with a workforce of over 8,500 people. Around 90 percent are recruited locally and undergo intensive training to become life-saving professionals.

The work is not for the faint-hearted. After pulling on my safety visor, I watch detectors sweep the ground to locate mines, which are then carefully excavated by hand. Each device is soaked for 30 minutes before being detonated. Every action follows proven, rigorous procedures. In this minefield alone, the team finds an average of 35 deadly devices a day - each capable of claiming a life or a limb. Sharp minds and steady hands are essential.

By midday, the sun is high, my kit feels heavy, and I’m ready for a break. For my colleagues, it’s another day at the office. They will be back out tomorrow, and the day after. And the day after that. Around five more years of work lie ahead to make Zimbabwe mine-free. HALO plans to stay until that day comes.

While a safer future is finally within reach here, globally around two billion people - a quarter of the world’s population - now live in active conflict zones. Ukraine has seen an estimated two million mines laid since 2022. In Syria, hundreds of thousands of unexploded bombs litter towns and cities. In Afghanistan, approximately 40 children are killed or severely injured every month while scavenging for scrap metal to support their families.

HALO is rising to the challenge. New technology - like drones, robotics, advanced detectors and AI - is making demining faster and safer. Our goal is to triple the rate at which we return land to communities by 2030.

But at its heart, this work depends on human courage and commitment. The true measure of our success is in lives rebuilt, battlefields transformed into playgrounds and grazing land, in new job opportunities, and in restored feelings of security and hope. In Zimbabwe’s border villages, school enrolment surged once children no longer had to walk through a minefield each dayone primary school grew from just 20 to over 120 students. That transformation is what drives every member of the HALO team.

With Sworders’ support, we can bring that brighter future a little closer. Thank you for helping us make a difference.

To find out more about the life-saving work of The HALO Trust and become part of building a safer, mine-free world, please visit www.halotrust.org.

© Britten Pears Arts

Sworders Returns to Snape! | Art & Antiques Valuation Day

Building on the success of the first event held in partnership with Britten Pears Arts in autumn 2025, Sworders’ team of specialists will return to Snape Maltings early in the new year for the next in its series of Art & Antiques Valuation Days.

Sworders was delighted to welcome both new and familiar faces at the Valuation Day in September - uncovering stories, sharing expertise, and offering guidance on selling at auction, with several exciting consignments now on their way to future sales!

After the warm reception of the first event, the team from Sworders - including specialists from Design, Pictures, Jewellery, and Interiors - will return to the Britten Studio on Wednesday 11 February 2026. The day begins at 11am with a talk by Matthew Yeats, Head of Design - Composing Taste: How Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears Designed Their World (free to all to attend).

After the talk, guests are invited to enjoy complimentary auction valuations, offered on a firstcome, first-served basis (no appointment necessary). While waiting their turn, visitors can make the most of Snape Maltings - browsing its boutique shops or indulging in tea and cake!

Ample parking will be available close to the Britten Studio and Hoffmann Foyer, with refreshments served throughout the day.

For those with more items than they can carry, Sworders also offers home valuation visits, with further details available on request.

Snape Maltings Valuation Day

Wednesday 11 February 2026 | 11am - 4pm

The Britten Studio & Hoffmann Foyer, Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP valuations@sworder.co.uk | 01279 817778

Credit: Joe Short

In Good Order | The Expert Redefining the Art of Moving

From country estates to city apartments, the process of moving home demands not only logistics but a deep understanding of people and possessions alike. Within the world of fine interiors, professional relocation agents are quietly revolutionising the way we think about moving - turning a moment of upheaval into one of clarity and calm.

For Cornelia de Uphaugh, order isn’t about minimalism; it’s about creating space for what truly matters. As founder of The Professional Organiser , she helps clients rediscover calm, purpose and beauty within their homes. Below, we step inside her process and philosophy.

Moving house is widely regarded as one of life’s most stressful events. How do you transform it into a more positive, even restorative, experience for your clients?

Having been a PA for 15 years, I’m used to managing stressful situations and anticipating problems before they arise. By getting to know each client individually, I can make the process as smooth and stress-free as possible. In terms of it being restorative, I focus particularly on the bedroom because that needs to be a retreat, most especially at a time when things can feel topsy-turvy. I make sure it feels calm and organised, beds are made, curtains are hung, clothes are unpacked and everything is put away, so that when they wake up, they can start their day feeling ready for that next step. And then I move on to the kitchen. Those two spaces are the most important.

What does a typical day look like for you and your team?

There’s really no typical day and that’s one of the reasons I love this job. 90% of my time with clients is face to face, so most days start with jumping in my car and rolling up my sleeves. The rest of my time is spent on calls or Zoom meetings, as I stay available to support clients, even over the weekend. I particularly enjoy working on properties with history, handling complex tasks like liaising with lawyers and estates. These projects are challenging but also incredibly rewarding, offering opportunities to connect with a wide range of people in the industry.

How do you balance the practical side of a move with the emotional aspects that often come with leaving a long-term home?

It’s so important that clients feel surrounded by the things they love in their new home. I work to make sure these items fit naturally into the space. When that’s not possible, I help find new homes for cherished possessions, perhaps with a child or family member who will value them and keep the memories alive. Ensuring that these items continue to bring joy helps ease the emotional transition.

Has your approach evolved over time?

Over the years, I’ve learnt never to dismiss anything or assume an item should go straight to rehoming. Even something seemingly insignificant - a letter in the bottom drawer, a photo in a frame, a worn jumper - can hold immense sentimental value. I ask about everything with empathy and care, listening to the

stories behind each item. Those stories are, for me, the most meaningful part of my work.

You work with a broad range of clients - from private individuals to estates. How do you tailor your service to each situation?

I often find myself in rooms full of lawyers, PAs and estate managers, and it’s essential to approach every situation with the same empathy and understanding as I would with an individual client. Every project is about reducing stress, using the right people for the job and listening closely to everyone involved. It’s rarely just the individual - often children or family members are part of the equation - so managing expectations and tuning into everyone’s needs is key.

How do you approach collaboration with professionals such as valuers, auctioneers and interior specialists?

My address book is absolutely invaluable. I love collaborating with other professionals, sharing ideas and recommendations, and often working together on projects that come through word of mouth. My connections with antique dealers mean I can accurately assess the value of items, sometimes uncovering hidden treasures. On one occasion, we found a statue tucked away in a garage that sold for tens of thousands at auction. I have a trained eye for spotting the value in items that might otherwise be overlooked.

What are your top three organisation tips that readers can easily apply at home?

Start with something small: Don’t try to tackle everything at once. Begin with a single drawer or a small space that’s been bothering you.

Simplify: Clear out your larder, discarding anything that’s out of date and donating what you don’t need to a food bank. For your wardrobe, give away clothes you no longer wear to charity shops. Less is more - simplifying helps you appreciate the beautiful things you do own.

Take it step by step: Once you’ve completed a small area, move on to larger spaces. The key is making it manageable.

What does your own home look like - are you as organised as your clients imagine?

I moved house six months ago and I bought lots of lovely furniture from auction houses to help maximise storage - cabinets, wardrobes, chest of drawers. Without that, it would have been impossible to organise anything.

Through a thoughtful, people-centred approach, Cornelia shows that a move can be more than efficient - it can be restorative. By pairing calm precision with genuine empathy, she turns disruption into renewal, and leaves clients with something more than a beautifully organised home - a reassuring sense of being fully, finally, in place.

The Professional Organiser Cornelia de Uphaugh theprofessionalorganiser.com

Peter Petrou | Outward Bound

Peter Petrou’s journey through the antiques world is as intriguing as the stock with which he is synonymous. His stands, often the centrepiece of any fair, bring together objects from across continents and centuries, each one telling a story and captivating buyers.

From ancient Egyptian mummies to Black Forest carvings, by way of Rome and the jungles of the Far East, Petrou has never been bound by a single discipline. Instead, he has forged his own: an ever-changing trove of wonders, a collection that refuses to sit still and that oozes with vitality and humanity.

That sensibility now takes centre stage in a landmark auction celebrating his unique vision. Peter Petrou - Outward Bound , prompted by his relocation to France, is not merely a sale but a salutenever a farewell - to a remarkable career. It offers the chance to acquire exceptional works and to acknowledge the influence that Peter, and the ‘Petrou eye’, have had on connoisseurs, dealers, collectors, institutions and friends, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of antiques. A legacy shaped from the relics and objects of past civilisations, one of the most distinctive collections in the field today.

As a child, I would stand agog before Peter’s displays at the Olympia fairs, an enthralling, sometimes deliciously macabre mix that shone like a beacon amid a sea of the familiar brown. In an age of algorithms and endlessly refreshed feeds, this collection reminds us that great curation is a human art, practised object by object, choice by choice, knowing when to resist fashion and when to anticipate it.

Outward Bound is a sale that will fascinate and resonate with collectors old and new. It will educate and amuse; it will draw you close and make you recoil. Expect juxtapositions. Expect surprises. Expect objects that defy categorisation, that lure you in, and that you will covet. Look…and look again: collections of this depth and texture are seldom seen in exhibitions, let alone offered on the open market.

Peter Petrou | Outward Bound

Tuesday 24 February 2026 | 10am

auctions@sworder.co.uk | 01279 817778

The Richard Collins Collection | A Life in Pursuit of Beauty

In spring 2026, Sworders will offer works from the personal collection of the late Richard Collins (1952-2024) in three of their flagship sales. It is a rare opportunity to encounter the private world of a man whose life was devoted to the pursuit of architectural integrity, aesthetic refinement and the quiet joy of beautiful things.

Collins was not merely a property developer. He was a curator, a collector and a connoisseur, whose work and personal spaces bore the unmistakable imprint of a singular vision. His legacy is one of design-led development and layered sophistication; an ethos shaped by decades of collaboration with some of the most respected names in architecture and interiors, and a lifelong admiration for figures such as Robert Kime and Rose Uniacke.

His collection is a seamless harmony of tradition and modernism. It speaks of a man who understood that elegance lies not in perfection, but in the thoughtful juxtaposition of eras, materials and memories. Collins believed that every object should tell a story, whether inherited, discovered, or chosen for its quiet excellence. His interiors were never sterile; they were lived-in, loved and deeply personal.

This philosophy was beautifully realised in his Hyde Park penthouse, featured in House & Garden in May 2020. Part of a converted 1860s terrace, the space was transformed into a ‘barn in the sky’, with soaring ceilings, expansive skylights, and a palette inspired by the faded tones of garments - including a friend’s T-shirt and a pair of saffron trousers - translated into atmospheric hues by his trusted painter, Mathew Bray. The floors, crafted from reclaimed pine boards curved at the edges, caught the light like the floor of an old country house. He approached each of his design projects as a narrative, carefully composed through materials, layout and detail. This was clearly evident in the penthouse’s towering bookcases, filled with books collected over decades, which stood as an embodiment of his belief that a home should reflect the stories of the lives within. It was, as Collins admitted, ‘a bit bonkers’, but it brought him immense joy.

His Kensington Gardens residence, created in collaboration with Laurence Macadam of Mlinaric, Henry & Zervudachi, was another masterwork of quiet luxury. Together, they crafted a home that blended mid-century European furniture, contemporary photography and bespoke finishes, which spoke softly but with conviction. Leather flooring from Bill Amberg Studio, cream faux suede wallcoverings, and a custom Burlington stone-topped cabinet were among the many thoughtful details. The enormous terrace was designed with Tom Stuart-Smith and Charlie Harpur; planted with olives, myrtles and jasmine, it framed the view of the park, and created a tranquil urban oasis that felt a million miles away from the busy street below.

Throughout his career, Collins placed architectural merit above commercial gain. His developments ranged from the boldly contemporary Montevetro tower in Battersea, designed by Richard Rogers, to a meticulously recreated neo-Georgian residence in Chelsea. As founder of Fremantle Estates, he pioneered luxury serviced apartments in the early 1980s, restoring historic buildings with foresight and flair. Later, as a trustee of the Landmark Trust, he oversaw imaginative architectural interventions, including an award-winning group of holiday lets within the ruins of Astley Castle in Warwickshire - an enduring symbol of his belief that heritage and innovation could coexist.

His homes, his projects and his collection, all reflect a life lived with discernment, generosity and grace. Collins understood that beauty is not merely visual, but emotional, tangible and deeply human. His interiors were layered with meaning, his possessions chosen with care, and his collaborations marked by mutual respect and shared vision.

The Richard Collins Collection Spring 2026

auctions@sworder.co.uk | 01279 817778

© James Retief

Celebrating Georgian Heritage Sworders’ Auction in Support of The Georgian Group

Sworders is delighted to be partnering with The Georgian Group for a special fundraising auction taking place early in the new year, celebrating Britain’s Georgian heritage and supporting its continued preservation.

The auction – to be held as a timed online sale running from Friday 16 to Sunday 25 January 2026 – marks a significant collaboration between Sworders and The Georgian Group, reflecting a shared dedication to celebrating, appreciating and protecting the artistic and architectural achievements of the Georgian period.

Curated by Sworders’ Chairman, Guy Schooling, the sale will feature items generously donated by Georgian Group members, collectors and institutions. Among the highlights is the opportunity to bid for a private tour and afternoon tea at the spectacular Inveraray Castle, Scotland, seat of the Clan Campbell and home to the Dukes of Argyll. This rare opportunity to gain a glimpse into the lives of the Dukes of Argyll and their ancestors will be available from March through to October.

Proceeds from the auction will go towards The Group’s conservation and education initiatives, supporting their vital advisory role in protecting 18th- and early 19th-century buildings across Britain. Funds will also contribute to the refurbishment of the Group’s Fitzroy Square headquarters, a distinguished Palladian set piece designed by the Adam brothers in 1792, and to nationwide outreach and educational programmes marking the charity’s 90th anniversary in 2027.

Sworders is waiving all selling costs for the event – with no vendor’s commission and no buyer’s premium – ensuring that every pound raised goes directly towards supporting The Georgian Group’s vital work.

An exhibition of selected lots will be held at Sworders’ Cecil Court Gallery in London ahead of the sale, offering collectors, members and friends of both organisations an opportunity to view the highlights in person.

Guy Schooling, Chairman of Sworders, commented:

‘We are thrilled to support The Georgian Group in this important initiative. So many of the works of art that pass through Sworders are rooted in the Georgian era or inspired by it. This auction offers a unique way to celebrate that legacy while contributing directly to its preservation.’

Dr Anya Lucas, Director of The Georgian Group, added:

‘This collaboration with Sworders is an inspiring way to raise funds for our ongoing conservation work and for the restoration of our Fitzroy Square home. As we approach our 90th anniversary in 2027, it is heartening to see the enthusiasm shared by collectors and supporters in helping us safeguard Britain’s Georgian heritage for the future.’

The Georgian Group was founded in 1937 in response to growing threats to Georgian architecture. Among its early champions were Sir John Betjeman, Sir John Summerson, James Lees-Milne, Christopher Hussey, Albert Richardson and Trystan Edwards - names synonymous with Britain’s architectural preservation movement. Today, the Group continues its vital role as a statutory consultee in the planning system, providing expert advice and promoting understanding of the Georgian era through its lectures, publications and events.

Together, Sworders and The Georgian Group invite collectors, enthusiasts and heritage supporters to join them in celebrating the artistry and vision of Britain’s Georgian age - and in helping to ensure its treasures endure for generations to come.

The Georgian Group Charity Auction Friday 16 to Sunday 25 January 2026

guyschooling@sworder.co.uk | 01279 817778

Day Two Wednesday 10 December at 10am

The Selected Contents from an East Anglian Private Collection

This exceptional collection reflects a lifetime of discerning connoisseurship, uniting fine furniture, decorative objects, and works of art spanning the 17th to 20th centuries. Highlights include George III and Regency works, ormolu and enamel pieces, tortoiseshell and paper-scroll tea caddies, grand tour bronzes and finely cast silver. The collection reveals a deep appreciation for craftsmanship, classical design and curiosity, and embodies the cultivated taste - and charming eccentricity - of a fascinating English collector.

LOT 299

Two delftware punchbowls, 18th century, the first, possibly London or Bristol, polychrome decorated with trailing flowers, 33cm diameter

16cm high, the second, probably Bristol, polychrome decorated with cockerels and blossoming foliage (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 300

A George III mahogany Pembroke table of small proportions, c.1790, the folding serpentine top with strung detail, above a short frieze drawer with a bone escutcheon, raised on tapering square supports terminating in castors,

74cm wide

69cm deep

70cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 301

A two-seater Knole sofa, late 20th century, of typical form with drop arms, upholstered in suzani-inspired fabric, 210cm wide

100cm deep

84cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 302

Spare lot

LOT 303

Two Victorian shell and gilt-metal mounted chambersticks, 19th century, each with a bear paw clamshell (Hippopus hippopus), the larger with a glass inkwell and three candle holders, the smaller with a foliate cast candle holder, larger 21cm diameter 15cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 304

A pair of delft plates, mid-18th century, Dutch, decorated in blue, green and red, with foliate and floral panels radiating from a central floral medallion, 23cm diameter (2)

£100 - 200

LOT 305

A Regenc y-style mahogany ‘X’-framed stool, late 19th century, with carved and gilt ram’s head terminals and hairy cloven feet,

67cm wide

40cm deep

66cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 306 

A Regency tortoiseshell and ivory tea caddy, c.1820, of sarcophagus form with a turned ivory finial, the hinged cover enclosing compartments, fitted with covers surmounted by ivory knops, 14.5cm wide

9.5cm deep

15.5cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 307

A large grand tour black stone model of Cleopatra’s Needle, 19th century, raised on a square stepped base, 10cm wide

10cm deep

42cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 308

A Regency mahogany bergère library armchair, c.1815, with a reeded frame and caned back, arms and seat, raised on tapering supports, terminating in brass castors, 62cm wide

72cm deep

90cm high

£800 - 1,200

A parcel-gilt and black-lacquered papier mâché tray, late 19th/early 20th century, Japanese, of rectangular form with a large rim, decorated with bold floral sprays, 45 x 62cm

£300 - 500

LOT 310

A pair of Louis XVI-style ormolu, patinated bronze and marble candlesticks, 19th century, French, each in the form of a cherub holding a sconce aloft, raised on a waisted socle base, 8cm diameter

25.5cm high (2)

£200 - 300

LOT 309

A pair of ormolu-mounted blue -glazed porcelain vases, 20th century, the vases Chinese, the mounts French, each of baluster form with twin handles to the neck, each raised on a rocaille scrolling foliate base, 15cm wide

13cm deep

40cm high (4)

£2,000 - 3,000

A George III mahogany chest of drawers, c.1750, the moulded rectangular top with re-entrant corners above a brushing slide, with two dummy and two long drawers, with two drawers to the upper section of each side, raised on short bracket feet,

106cm wide

47cm deep

79cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 311

LOT 312

LOT 313

A neoclassical enamelled opaline glass vase, c.1870, in the manner of Richardson, decorated with a classical portrait in profile, 11cm diameter

29.7cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 314

Two ormolu candlesticks, late 19th/early 20th century, Continental, each modelled as winged cherub holding a sconce aloft, raised on a a circular base inset with jasper and malachite cabochons, 6cm diameter

10cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 315

A Regenc y-style rosewood and brass étagère, second half of the 19th century, with three shelves set between tubular columns raised on castors, 38cm wide

38cm deep

74cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 316

An ormolu and champlevé enamel desk stand, 19th century, French, in the manner of Maison Giroux, the inkwell flanked by two putti, over a shaped base on toupie feet, 30cm wide

14cm deep

15cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 317

A gilt-bronze and champlevé enamel jardinière on stand by Ferdinand Barbedienne, late 19th century, French, of square form, decorated with flowering vases and architectural motifs, signed ‘F. BARBEDIENNE’,

overall 19 x 19cm

20cm high (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 318

A pair of Regency mahogany hall chairs, c.1820, each with a bullseye roundel back with foliate and shell-carved decoration, above a saddle-shaped seat, raised on tapering reeded supports terminating in peg feet,

42cm wide

49cm deep

89cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 319

Two Meissen porcelain figurines, mid-18th century, German, each in the form of a recumbent hippocamp looking slightly to dexter, unmarked, 18cm wide

4cm deep

11cm high (2)

£500 - 700

These figurines were probably originally part of a larger piece representing a pair of gods, see: Sotheby’s, ‘European Collectors’, 25 October 2016, lot 133.

LOT 320

A grand tour Devonian fossil marble model of a cistern, 19th century, the octagonal body raised on column supports and a stepped base, 13cm wide

13cm deep

17cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 321

Three terracotta slipware dishes, the first, Winchcombe pottery, press moulded with green and brown glaze, 26cm long

25cm wide

4.5cm high, together with two further dishes, one circular, the other rectangular (3)

£200 - 400

LOT 322

A Regency rosewood ‘X’ frame stool, with a drop-in seat over an apron, the moulded supports in grained rosewood linked by a turned stretcher, all on lotus-carved scrolled feet,

44cm square

43cm high

£150 - 250

LOT 323

Two large salt-glazed bellarmine jugs, 17th century, German, each with a bearded mask over an armorial device, with a loop handle, slightly larger 20cm diameter

34cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 324

A redware ‘Battle of the Nile’ teapot by Wedgwood, early 19th century, decorated in relief with Egyptian motifs, the lid with a crocodile knop, impressed mark to base, 22.5cm long

17cm wide

10cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 325

A Napoleonic Wars commemorative pewter tobacco jar and cover, early 19th century, inscribed ‘John Page, 600 children Din’d at St Andrews Hall to Celebrate Peace July 7th 1814’, 11.5cm diameter

16cm high (2)

£100 - 200

LOT 326

A George III-style mahogany and satinwood marquetry display cabinet by Edwards & Roberts, c.1900, of serpentine outline with a broken swan-neck pediment and Greek-key fretwork decoration, with a long door enclosing two shelves, above two short drawers, and tapering square supports terminating in spade feet,

130cm wide

40cm deep

209cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 327

Three tobacco boxes, 18th/19th century, comprising: a George III horn example, indistinctly inscribed, 10cm wide 6cm deep 2cm high, a painted pressed composite and tortoiseshell box, decorated with nautical scenes, and another, circular, pressed horn example (3)

£600 - 800

LOT 328

Two metal door porters, 19th century, one cast iron example in the form of a stork drinking from an urn, 25.5cm wide 22cm high and a Regency brass and iron example on an acanthus cast base (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 329

A pair of small brass candlesticks, of recent manufacture, each of spreading lobed form, with engraved floral and foliate decoration, and applied turquoise cabochons,

10cm diameter

14cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 330

Spare lot

LOT 331

A pair of Regency mahogany cupboards, c.1820, each with a raised superstructure with two shelves set between bobbin-turned supports, above a long cupboard door enclosing further shelves, with turned column pilasters and raised on bun feet with all-over beaded decoration, with some losses, 74cm wide

41cm deep

135cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 332

Two Worcester King of Prussia mugs, c.1757, each of cylindrical form with reeded strap handle, transfer-printed in black by Robert Hancock with a half-length portrait, with military trophies, signed ‘R H Worcester’, the reverse with ‘Fame’ depicted as an angel blowing trumpets, 7cm wide

10cm deep

9cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 333

A painted porcelain pug dog by Meissen, early 20th century, German, 18cm wide

16cm deep

15cm high, together with two Meissen-style examples (3)

£200 - 400

LOT 334

A pair of Regency Egyptian Revival candelabra, c.1820, each in the form of a caryatid, raised on a circular marble base, damages and losses, 9cm diameter

27.5cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 335

A pair of cedar side chairs, mid-18th century, Italian or Dutch, each with a foliate-carved crest and a pierced fiddle back, above a shaped seat and knee-carved cabriole supports, terminating in Braganza feet,

56cm wide

60cm deep

101cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 336

A large brass chamberstick, 19th century, with a turned column over a wide drip pan with high lip and a loop handle, 29cm diameter

33cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 337

A beadwork picture, early 19th century, German, worked in multicoloured glass beads depicting figures and a dog walking in an ornamental garden, a fisherman by a river with swans, a temple folly in the background, signed and dated ‘M. D. Kohler Fecit. 1814’, panel 22 x 30cm, in a giltwood frame

£200 - 400

LOT 338

A George IV mahogany wine cooler, c.1825, of sarcophagus form, the hinged lid with a foliate finial, above a tapering body with panel sides and a beaded frieze, raised on paw feet,

75cm wide

47cm deep

70cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 339

A Victorian silkwork picture, 19th century, depicting two spaniels, worked in polychrome threads on a silk ground, picture 19 x 27cm, framed and glazed, and a needlepoint picture of a cat, 29 x 35cm, framed and glazed (2)

£100 - 200

LOT 340

Two bronze sundials, comprising one circular, with etched compass and Roman numerals, 30cm diameter, and one square, in 17th-century style (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 341

A Regency silkwork picture, early 19th century, worked in polychrome threads with silk and chenille, depicting a seated woman in a forest with a lion and a donkey,

36 x 29cm, framed and glazed

£300 - 500

LOT 342

A Victorian silk needlework panel, late 19th/early 20th century, worked in polychrome threads on a black silk ground, depicting a flowering cornucopia, 50 x 41cm, mounted and framed

£200 - 400

LOT 343

A gros and petit point needlework panel, early 18th century, French, the shaped rectangular panel worked in wool and silk polychrome threads, depicting two male figures in Turquerie style, two birds and a deer in petit point, against a ‘bizarre’-style design of stylised foliate motifs on a dark-brown ground, 86 x 73cm

£400 - 600

LOT 344

A Renaissance-style chamberstick, 19th century, modelled as an elf riding on a goat’s head, its stylised tongue supporting a sconce, stamped ‘H.P’ to the circular base, 17cm long

6cm wide

9cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 345

A pair of neoclassical bronze and marble candlesticks, 19th century, Continental, each modelled as a caryatid supporting a foliate-cast sconce, on a circular waisted marble base, 10.5cm diameter

27cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 346

A pair of black-glazed pottery neoclassical urn vases, mid-19th century, attributed to Samuel Alcock, each decorated with en grisaille classical scenes, 14cm diameter

33cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 347

A George IV maple and specimen wood occasional table, c.1830, the circular top inlaid with radiating veneers, above a turned column with low detail and a scrolling tripod base, 50cm diameter

70cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 348

A pair of bronze pricket candlesticks, 16th-17th century, Flemish, each with a knopped stem on a triangular base with paw feet, 9cm diameter

20cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 349

A group of pottery, comprising two medieval style jugs, an ‘Art Union London’ relief medallion, a pottery bowl and a footed cup, larger jug 18cm diameter 23cm high (5)

£300 - 500

LOT 350

A gilt-brass and tortoiseshell mantel clock by Andrew Barrett & Sons, third quarter of the 19th century, the circular white enamel dial with Roman chapter ring and signed ‘Barrett & Sons 63 & 64 Piccadilly London’, behind a convex glass door, the two-train movement striking on a coil, the case with glass panelled sides, an inverted bell top with carrying handle, and raised on four toupie feet, 19cm wide

13cm deep

30cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 351

A painted porcelain plaque, 19th century, depicting 18th-century figures in a neoclassical landscape, around a flowering urn, drinking and playing music, 20 x 28cm, in a giltwood frame

£300 - 500

LOT 352

A Regency mahogany hall chair,

c.1815, possibly Irish, with a slender ‘T’-shaped back, above a dished seat and ring-turned splayed supports, 42cm wide

47cm deep

82cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 353

A brass and iron warming pan, 17th century, with embossed decoration and ‘IHS’ to the centre, 33cm diameter

10cm deep

111cm long

£200 - 400

LOT 354

A group of Staffordshire pottery, 19th century, comprising a pair of cockerels and a spaniel with girl, cockerels 24cm wide

12cm deep

31cm high (3)

£100 - 200

LOT 355

Two bronze lionesses, late 19th/early 20th century, each modelled in attack, slightly larger 32cm wide 12cm deep 14cm high (2)

£150 - 250

LOT 356

James Minns (c.1825-1904), a relief carving of two birds, signed and dated ‘JAS MINNS 1890’, 21.5 x 27.5cm

£300 - 500 356

LOT 357

Two export camphorwood chests, late 19th century, Chinese, each with brass mounts, 98cm wide

47cm deep

49cm high (2)

£500 - 700

LOT 358

A pair of chinoiserie green japanned wall mirrors, early 20th century, each painted with figures, birds and flowering foliage,

36cm wide

56cm high (2)

£200 - 400

A George II mahogany occasional table, c.1740, with a serpentine rectangular top and a snap action, raised on a gun-barrel turned column and tripod supports, 82cm wide

66cm deep

70cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 360

A pair of bronze and ormolu urn vases, early 19th century, French, each with a flared and undulating neck, over a slender body set with twin eagle-head handles, 18cm wide

17cm deep

43cm high (2)

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 359

A walnut architectural model of a church, late 19th century, with a square tower and glazed windows,

42cm wide

22cm deep

25cm high

£200 - 400

A Regenc y-style mahogany and brass étagère, late 19th century, of tall form, set with nine shelves between fluted columns terminating in castors, 46cm wide

29cm deep

138cm high

£700 - 900

A Regency mahogany side cabinet, c.1820, the rectangular top above a plain frieze set with floral paterae, above two open shelves supported by ring-turned columns, terminating in a plinth base, 150cm wide

37cm deep

89cm high

£600 - 800

A pair of Regency, painted wooden, faux bamboo elbow chairs, early 19th century, each with a pierced back and arms, above a rush seat, and tapering turned supports united by stretchers, 54cm wide

50cm deep

84cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 361

LOT 362

LOT 363

LOT 364

LOT 365

A George III green-stained tortoiseshell and ivory tea caddy, c.1780, of octagonal form with ivory stringing, the hinged lid enclosing a single compartment, with removable cover surmounted by a turned ivory knop, 13cm wide

8.5cm deep

12cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

For a similar example, see Christie’s, ‘Interiors’, 2 October 2012, lot 119.

LOT 366

Two pairs of Regency papier mâché coasters, early 19th century, each decorated with gilt foliage, 12cm diameter (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 367

A mahogany occasional table, c.1840, the circular top raised on a faceted column and a triform base terminating in bun feet, 55cm diameter 70cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 368

A Victorian parcel-gilt and black-lacquered papier mâché tray by Jennens & Bettridge, mid-19th century, decorated all over with chinoiserie motifs, stamped to the reverse, 59 x 78cm

£300 - 500

LOT 369

A pair of mahogany salt boxes, early 19th century, each with a pierced and fret-cut crest, over a hinged cover and a square body, 21cm wide

16cm deep

38cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 370

A George IV solid maple wall mirror, c.1830, with a gilt slip enclosing a rectangular mercury glass plate, 50cm wide

60cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 371

A metal-mounted ostrich-egg box and cover, 19th century, the egg with removable cover, mounted on an athénienne base, 17cm diameter

25cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 372

A pair of copper and brass baskets, early 19th century, each of navette form, with a pierced rim and zinc liner,

46cm wide

32cm deep

18cm high (4)

£300 - 500

LOT 373

A rosewood, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl and ivory desk stand, early 19th century, with a serpent handle and various compartments over a single drawer, and raised on flared bracket feet, with all-over floral and foliate inlaid decoration, 28cm wide

23cm deep

17cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 374

A William IV mahogany plate stand, c.1830, with a foliate-carved support over a moulded rectangular base, 25.5cm wide

13cm deep

23cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 375

A pair of grand tour Renaissance-style mirrors, 19th century, Italian, each of octagonal form, the frame inlaid with lapis lazuli and jasper oval inserts, 32cm diameter (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 376

A Regency mahogany étagère, c.1815, set with three shelves between turned columns, raised on brass caps and castors, 34cm wide

34cm deep

81cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 377

Two George III paper scroll boxes, c.1790, the larger writing case with a hinged lid centred with a portrait of a gentleman, enclosing an interior fitted with a pair of ink bottles, 21cm wide

12cm deep

6cm high, together with a smaller example painted with a lady (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 378

A near pair of George III-style paper scroll tea caddies, late 19th/early 20th century, each of navette shape, with floral and foliate decoration, the slightly larger 20cm wide

10cm deep

14cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 379

A George III paper scroll tea caddy, late 18th century, of canted navette form, the hinged lid set with a silver-metal loop handle, with a shield-shaped escutcheon, decorated all over with floral and foliate motifs, and inlaid with seed pearls, 18.5cm wide

11cm deep

13cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 380

A folk art model of a house, 19th century, with applied cork facade, 35cm wide

20cm deep

39cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 381

A carved half-hull model of a ship, 19th century, oak with copper pinning, mounted on a rectangular board, 68cm wide 17cm deep 9cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 382

A set of George III steel and brass fire tools, 19th century, comprising a shovel, poker and a pair of tongs, shovel 82cm long (3)

£300 - 500

LOT 383

Two Admiral Lord Nelson commemorative reverse glass prints, 19th century, titled ‘Admiral Lord Nelson the Hero of the Nile, of the Battle of Copenhagen, falling into the Arms of Victory...21 Oct 1805’, and ‘A Monumental Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson’, glass 25.5 x 36cm, together with another reverse glass print, 19th century, titled ‘Happiness’ (3)

£400 - 600

LOT 384

A pair of reverse-painted glass pictures, 19th century, one depicting hunters in a landscape and the other a harbour scene, glass 18 x 24cm, in ebonised frames (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 385

François Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800), a part-set of ten later hand-coloured prints of birds, each titled with the name of the bird and inscribed ‘Dessine et Grave par Martinet’, 20 x 29cm, together with three similar watercolours (13)

£200 - 400

LOT 386

A reverse glass painting, 18th/19th century, Chinese export, in the manner of François Boucher, depicting a shepherd and shepherdess, with two further females, glass 27 x 50cm, framed

£300 - 500

LOT 387

A Regency toleware egg warmer, 19th century, of oval form with gilt-metal swan handles, the lift-out rack with two tiers for eggs, 25cm wide

13cm deep

26cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 388 

A George III tortoiseshell, ivor y and mother-of-pearl inlaid tea caddy, c.1790, of angled oval outline, the hinged lid with a handle within a radiating stellar dot motif, the front with a vacant shield-shaped white-metal cartouche, within a stylised drapery surround,

11cm wide

7cm deep

10cm high

£1,200 - 1,800

For a similar example, see Christie’s, ‘Fine English and Continental Furniture’, 15 September 2005, lot 1.

LOT 389 

A George III tortoiseshell and ivory tea caddy, of canted oval form, the hipped and hinged lid with turned ivory knop, enclosing two compartments fitted with removable covers, 14cm wide

9.5cm deep

14cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 390 

A George III tortoiseshell and ivory tea caddy, c.1790, of canted rectangular outline, the hinged lid with green-stained tortoiseshell edges and enclosing two divisions, each with a removable lid surmounted by a turned ivory knop, 19cm wide

10cm deep

11cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 391

A pair of grand tour gilt-metal bookends, 19th century, each in the form of a seated sphinx, raised on a wooden plinth, 12.5cm wide

5.5cm deep

13cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 392

David Morrison (fl.1793-1850), a pair of wax busts, c.1830, depicting George IV (1762-1830) and Prince Frederick (1763-1827), each inscribed verso ‘London Published by T. Flint May 1827 D. Morison Fecit’, raised on a circular wooden plinth with a glass dome, 10cm diameter overall 21cm high overall (4)

£200 - 400

David Morrison was active between 1793 and 1850 and was appointed ‘Miniature Modeller’ to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Augusta in 1826. Several examples by Morrison are housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection.

A large rosewood library magnifying glass, 19th century, with a moulded frame and turned handle, 24cm diameter

47cm long, together with two smaller examples, larger 18cm diameter 23cm long (3)

£400 - 600

A large carved corbel, probably 19th century, modelled as an eagle on an integrated circular backboard, 21cm diameter

46cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 393

LOT 394

LOT 395

A pair of baroque carved limewood figures, probably 17th century, Northern European, formerly furniture mounts, with traces of gilding, approximately 10cm wide

7cm deep

27cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 396

A Black Forest carved nutcracker, 19th century, in the form of a grotesque standing man, the body with a screw thread and vacant space to his back, 6cm wide

6cm deep

18.5cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 397

A Victorian boulle work correspondence box, c.1880, by Leuchars, London, the rectangular hinged and tortoiseshell-veneered top with two slots and a cast handle, over pierced brass sides, and raised on squat bun feet, 25cm wide

18cm deep

14cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 398

A pair of neoclassical gilt-bronze candlesticks, 19th century, each foliate sconce above a tapering Egyptian figural column, 9.5cm diameter 20cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 399

A George II mahogany tripod table, c.1755, the circular snap top above a twist-turned column and acanthus-carved support, terminating in French scroll feet, 80cm diameter

74cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 400

A Renaissance-style carved rock crystal and gilt-metal-mounted cup, 19th century, Central European, the faceted and knopped stem over a hexagonal base, 7cm diameter

15cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 401

A pair of Regency red-lacquered coasters, early 19th century, each with ribbed sides and twin metal loop handles, 14cm diameter (2)

£100 - 200

LOT 402

A turned yew wood tazza, 19th century, on a square cedar base, 21cm diameter

21cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 403

An early carved wood bedpost doll, mid-18th century, with traces of original gesso and set with an enamelled porcelain eye,

13cm wide

10cm deep

43cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 404

A carved oak doll, 18th century, with a naively carved face and integral legs, 9cm wide

7cm deep

40cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 405

A pair of Regenc y-style mahogany bottle coasters, late 19th/early 20th century, each with an everted rim and turned decoration, 17cm diameter

3.5cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 406

A grand tour gilt-metal inkwell, 19th century, French, of circular form surmounted by a flaming urn, the hinged cover enclosing a glass liner, 22cm diameter

11cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 407

A Karelian birch butter tub, late 18th/early 19th century, Baltic, 13cm diameter

11cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 408

A folk art steel and brass money box, 19th century, in the form of a bank, 14cm wide

7cm deep

23cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 409

A George II-style scarlet and gilt japanned side chair, 19th century, with a fiddle back and square seat, raised on supports united by stretchers terminating in Braganza feet, with all-over chinoiserie decoration, 52cm wide

49cm deep

98cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 410

A glass and reverse -painted glass model altarpiece, 19th century, possibly Italian, of portico form and raised on a stepped base, 18cm wide

9cm deep

21cm high

£150 - 250

LOT 411

A Palais Royal-type gilt-metal and cut-glass casket, 19th century, French, of rectangular form with fluted and cut-square sides, mounted with four hoof feet, opening to a void interior, with key, 13cm wide

9.5cm deep

8.5cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 412

A pair of carved Igbo stools, probably early 20th century, Nigerian, each with a dished seat over a pierced stem and four flared supports, 30cm diameter

30cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 413

A pair of Victorian walnut and inlaid footstools, mid-19th century, each with a waisted square seat, and a spreading square base with inlaid Greek-key decoration, terminating in short feet, 29cm wide

29cm deep

15cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 414

A pair of gilt and patinated bronze cassolettes, 19th century, each ovoid body supported on an athénienne base, with ram’s head monopodia and terminating in hoof feet on a circular stepped plinth, the removable domed cover with berried finial, inverting to enclose a candleholder, 10cm diameter

25cm high (4)

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 415

A collection of various fossils and specimens, to include mammoth tooth fragments, largest 29cm wide 16cm deep 9cm high (qty.)

£300 - 500

LOT 416

A large collection of shells, comprising conch, abalone, mother-of-pearl and snail examples, largest 21cm wide 16cm deep 12cm high (qty.)

£400 - 600

LOT 417

A collection of various geological specimens, to include two large septarian nodule fragments, each approximately 20cm wide 15cm deep

5cm high (qty.)

£300 - 500

LOT 418

A group of serpentine objects, 19th century, Cornish, comprising a pair of vases, labelled to the underside ‘Stevens & Sons Penzance’, 8cm diameter

23cm high, a pair of squat candlesticks, and another candlestick (5)

£400 - 600

LOT 419

An ormolu-mounted Blyberg porphyry butter box, c.1810, Swedish, the Älvdalen (Elfdal) porphyry of circular faceted form, the removable cover surmounted by a pine cone finial, 13cm diameter 11cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

For similar examples, see Christie’s, ‘Robert de Balkany Rome & the Côte d’Azur’, 23 March 2017, lot 193, and Sotheby’s, ‘The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian’, 21 January11 February 2025, lot 1774.

LOT 420

A large serpentine and gilt-metal-mounted inkstand, first half of the 19th century, of oval form, with a covered well to the centre, 31cm wide 20cm deep

10cm high

£300 - 400

LOT 421

Two turned doorstops, comprising a leather and brass example, 12cm diameter 22cm high, and a 19th-century Cornish serpentine doorstop (2)

£100 - 150

LOT 422

A group of Blue John specimen fragments, comprising one cube, 6cm wide

6cm deep

6cm high, one fragment, and four other polished examples (6)

£300 - 500

LOT 423

A bronze figural candleholder, 19th century, Continental, 12.5cm diameter

28.5cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 424

A bronze bust of Mellephebe (the young Eros), 20th century, after the antique, 12cm wide 11cm deep

17cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 425

A silver hanging lantern, 19th century, Continental, with Gothic motifs and floral decoration in relief, 34cm diameter

£500 - 700

LOT 426 Spare lot

LOT 427

A leaded bronze mortar, with two bands of scrolling foliage, 19cm diameter

15cm high, together with an associated bronze pestle, 23cm long (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 428

After Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, a bronze bust of a child, mid-19th century, raised on a turned marble column socle and a stepped base, 9.5cm wide

9.5cm deep

30cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 429

Attributed to the workshop of Enrico Bosi (Italian, fl.1850-1865), a pair of pietra dura panels, 19th century, Italian, Florence, each of oval form, depicting a floral bouquet including a lily and yellow roses to one and a white carnation, daisies and a pansy to the other, the reverse with a gilt-tooled panel inscribed ‘H. Bosi Florence’, 15 x 12cm (2)

£600 - 800

A bronze figure of Diana, 19th century, raised on a fluted marble column and a square stone base, 11cm diameter

37cm high

£200 - 400

A bronze figure group after the antique, a boy and a goose, 19th century, signed ‘F. Barbedienne Fondeur’, with réducteur mécanique stamp, 23cm wide

16cm deep

27cm high

£400 - 600

A collection of tin-glazed tiles, 20th century, Portuguese, painted in ‘azulejo’ style, with yellow, blue and white decoration, each approximately 14 x 14cm (35)

£400 - 600

LOT 432

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LOT 433

A metal leopard head finial, modelled with an open mouth, with a verdigris finish, 7cm wide

11cm deep

8cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 434

Two Inuit stone carvings, 20th century, comprising an insect, inscribed underside ‘N. SAMHOKORE[?]’, 21cm wide

30cm deep

5cm high, and a polished stone kneeling figure, inscribed to the underside ‘Aadamie Qautseok[?]’ (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 435

A Bamum stained bone tobacco pipe, early 20th century, Cameroon, the shaft carved with figural motifs, 37cm long, together with a collection of red stoneware pipe bowls, and a meerschaum example carved with a bearded man, largest 10cm long (6)

£100 - 200

LOT 436

A group of tribal items, 20th century, comprising a carved figure, probably Oceanic, fitted with a glass eye, 18cm wide 16cm deep 70cm high, another, similar, an African Songye figure with metal mounts, bone, horn and hide adornment, and a feathered knife (4)

£200 - 400

LOT 437

Spare lot

438

A Victorian silver-mounted and etched glass claret jug, the silver by W & G Sissons (William & George Sissons), Sheffield 1875, the jug of slender baluster form, etched with a huntsman and hounds, set with an elongated handle and hinged cover, 10cm wide

16cm deep

25.5cm high

£300 - 500

439

A silver-gilt caster, 19th century, Continental, in the form of a bird of prey seated on a branch, with glass eyes and a hinged lid enclosing a grille, 4cm diameter

9.2cm high, 4ozt

£200 - 400

440

Four George III silver-gilt salt cellars, by Thomas Harper II, London 1806, each with a shaped oval rim cast with shells, raised on four dolphin supports, 12cm wide

9.5cm deep

5cm high, 24.6ozt (4)

£400 - 600

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LOT 441

A pair of George IV silver coasters, Sheffield 1823, each with an egg-and-dart rim over pierced sides worked with fruiting vines, on a turned wooden base, 15cm diameter

6cm high (2)

£200 - 400

LOT 442

A Victorian silver model of the racehorse ‘Edenbridge Alfonso 1877’, by Alexander Crichton, London 1879, modelled in detail with saddle and harness, raised on an ebonised plinth with an applied title plaque, overall 34cm wide

15cm deep

39cm high, weighable 54ozt

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 443

A pair of Victorian silver casters, by Richards & Brown (Edward Charles Brown), London 1871, each in the form of a standing owl, with glass eyes, 4cm diameter

7.5cm high, 3ozt (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 444

A pair of Victorian silver and cut-glass tazzas, by John, Edward, Walter & John Barnard, London 1870, each with a hobnail-cut glass dish, over a column decorated with scrolls and harebells, one inscribed beneath the foot

‘Souvenir Four Silver Dessert Stands, Presented by Martin Gustav and Leopold Lilienfeld to their cousins Adolph and Henriette Mosenthal on the celebration of their silver wedding day, 15 March 1871’, 25cm wide

25cm high, weighable 49.7ozt (2)

£800 - 1,200

LOT 445

A large collection of wine labels, 20th century, comprising fifty-three examples, including a ‘PORT’ and ‘SHERRY’ in the form of a fox, by John Henry Odell, London 1975, a Chinese ‘MADEIRA’ label, with applied dragon, a ‘BRANDY’ label with applied elephant, three other ‘MADEIRA’, 65 x 74cm, mounted and framed (53)

£300 - 500

LOT 446

A large George IV silver salver, by Joseph Craddock & William Ker Reid, London 1823, with pie-crust rim, engraved to the underside ‘Mary Pratt to her Granddaughter Sarah Pratt Sparkes’, 48cm diameter, approximately 185ozt

£3,000 - 5,000

LOT 447

A George IV rosewood and silver-gilt cased dressing table set, second quarter of the 19th century, the fitted interior to include: two Dutch silver-gilt tea caddies, Haarlem, 1762, a pair of silver-gilt boxes, another of rectangular form, and two cut-glass dishes with silver-gilt lids, by Joseph Lock, London 1822, a silver-gilt shoe horn, by John Mortimer & John Samuel Hunt, London 1839 three cut-glass scent bottles with gilt-metal mounts,

with two lift-out trays, including further silver and white-metal-mounted accoutrements, various makers and dates all housed in a brass-bound rosewood case with green velvet interior, a secret compartment to the lid containing a removable tortoiseshell and inlaid dressing table mirror, over a base drawer, the sides with inset handles, within a leather travel case initialled ‘V. F. B.’, case 43cm wide

32cm deep

19cm high

£2,000 - 3,000

LOT 448

A George V silver hunting trophy, by D & J Wellby Ltd., London 1929, in the form of a running fox, inscribed to the front ‘East Essex Hunt. 1922-1930. Presented to Colonel Eustace Hill DSO’, and raised on an ebonised wooden base, overall 49cm wide

13cm deep

24cm high, weighable 63.5ozt

£2,000 - 4,000

FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART

LOTS 449-530

LOT 449

A carved giltwood and gesso overmantel mirror in the Louis XV style, late 19th century, with an elaborate scrolling floral and foliate frame, enclosing a shaped bevelled glass plate, 116cm wide

161cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 450

Three papier mâché candlesticks, 20th century, Indian, Kashmir, each with a triple helix bulbous stem, with floral decoration, largest 17cm diameter

43cm high (3)

£200 - 400

LOT 451

A mahogany collector’s cabinet, 19th century, fitted with nine graduated drawers, the lower section with a cupboard, mounted with two vertical divisions, on shaped bracket feet,

49.5cm wide

42cm deep

117.5cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 452 

A mahogany and brass-mounted marine chronometer, early 20th century, the movement signed ‘Dobbie Sons & Hutton, makers to the admiralty, 113 Fenchurch St., London’, and numbered ‘5512’, with a seconds dial inscribed ‘Glasgow House A. Dobbie & Son 45 Clyde Place’ and subsidiary dial, fitted in a mahogany case with an ivory plaque and hinged lid enclosing a glass viewing window, with winding key, case 18cm wide

18cm deep

20cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

A George II-style mahogany kettle stand, 19th century, with a pierced gallery and a tripod base,

44cm wide

44cm deep

60cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 454

An Oushak-style wool carpet, c.1920, European, the field woven with foliate scrolls, on a pale-green ground,

387 x 296cm

£600 - 800

LOT 455

A George III mahogany barrel-back armchair, late 18th century, upholstered in Suzani fabric, raised on square supports terminating in brass castors, 75cm wide

79cm deep

108cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 453

A George III yew and elm Windsor chair, early 19th century, Thames Valley, with a pierced wheel back, the seat raised on ring-turned supports united by a crinoline stretcher, 65cm wide

60cm deep

95cm high

£200 - 400

A pair of Regenc y-style black-painted wooden library steps, 20th century, with a brass-capped faux bamboo column and three leather-inset steps, raised on peg feet,

48cm wide

51cm deep

118cm high

£300 - 500

A small carved giltwood window seat, early 20th century, with pierced neoclassical decoration to the arms, above a calico-upholstered seat, raised on splayed supports,

93cm wide

35cm deep

77cm high

£500 - 700

A wool carpet of mid-century Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, 259 x 188cm

£600 - 800

LOT 456

LOT 457

LOT 458

LOT 459

LOT 460

A set of ten silk work embroideries, early 20th century, each within oval verre eglomisé mounts and giltwood frames, 30 x 34cm overall (10)

£500 - 700

LOT 461

A set of ten silk work embroideries, early 20th century, each within oval verre eglomisé mounts and giltwood frames, 30 x 34cm overall (10)

£500 - 700

462

A near pair of woolwork pictures, 19th century, worked in wool and cotton threads, each depicting a three-masted ship at sea flying the White Ensign, 15 x 22cm, each in a glazed bird’s-eye maple frame with gilt slip (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 463

A pair of silk and metal thread embroidered panels, 18th/19th century, in the 17th-century style, each of arched form and worked in polychrome threads, probably depicting William and Mary, surrounded by an intricately worked floral arch, a castle to the background, standing over a camel and a unicorn, and a lion and leopard respectively, each panel 37 x 16.5cm, framed and glazed as one £500 - 700

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LOT 464

A set of Charles II silk needlework slips, mid-17th century, worked in tent stitch with polychrome threads, depicting botanical motifs of birds, insects and flowers, appliquéd on a later pale silk ground, 12.5 x 16cm, in a glazed and ebonised frame

£400 - 600

LOT 465

A set of Charles II needlework slips, mid-17th century, worked in tent stitch, depicting animals, birds, insects and flowers, appliquéd on a later pale silk ground, 14 x 22.5cm, in a glazed bird’s-eye maple frame

£400 - 600

Such motifs were originally designed to embellish the luxurious soft furnishings found in wealthy households, including curtains, bed hangings, valances and cushions, or for smaller items such as caskets or picture frames. Comparable examples can be seen on the four-poster bed in the Mary Queen of Scots Room at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. The style of these embroidered patterns was heavily influenced by contemporary botanical publications, particularly works like John Gerard’s ‘Herball’, 1597, which served as a rich source of naturalistic imagery for needleworkers of the period.

LOT 466

A silk and metal thread sampler, early 19th century, worked by Martha Miller, 1824, the central verse within foliate decoration and surmounted by a sun crest and two angels, 47 x 33cm, framed and glazed

£200 - 400

LOT 467

A needlework sampler, 19th century, worked in silk threads on a canvas ground, with alphabetical and numerical bands, over a figure, animals and a ship, visible 24 x 17cm, in a glazed framed

£200 - 400

LOT 468

A Charles II needlework picture, mid-17th century, worked in tent stitch on canvas with polychrome threads, depicting a female figure in a landscape surrounded by animals, 42 x 41cm, in a glazed giltwood frame

£2,000 - 4,000

LOT 469

A George III mahogany oval butler’s tray, early 19th century, with folding sides, raised on an associated folding stand with turned supports,

82cm wide

53cm deep

95cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 470

A modernist metal and smoked glass ‘Modo’ chandelier by Roll & Hill, of recent manufacture, 105cm wide

105cm deep

115cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 471

A Regency mahogany settee, c.1820, with a reeded frame and scrolling arms, raised on outswept supports terminating in brass caps and castors, upholstered in pink silk damask, 185cm wide

72cm deep

86cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 472

A pair of brass table lamps, c.1900, each with a plain tapered stem, on a stepped circular base and square foot, with a flared silk shade, 13cm wide

71cm high including shade (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 473

A painted pine commode, of recent manufacture but incorporating some earlier elements, Italian, of serpentine outline with a faux marble top, above two long drawers, all raised on cabriole supports and decorated with chinoiserie motifs,

132cm wide

56cm deep

96cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 474

A matched pair of walnut and leather stools, 20th century, Continental, each with an inverted rectangular top with pierced detail and brass studs, raised on ‘os de mouton’ supports united by a turned stretcher, the slightly larger 40cm wide

29cm deep

31cm high (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 475

A Suzani-inspired flat-weave wool rug, of recent manufacture, with embroidered foliate decoration, 235 x 180cm

£600 - 800

LOT 476

An upholstered two-seater sofa by George Smith, of recent manufacture, with short scroll arms and ring-turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors, covered in pale calico, with original George Smith label underneath, 185cm wide

112cm deep

78cm high

£1,500 - 2,500

Provenance: Purchased from George Smith, 1980s.

LOT

477

An upholstered three-seater sofa by George Smith, of recent manufacture, with short scroll arms and ring-turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors, covered in pale calico, with original George Smith label underneath, 226cm wide

112cm deep

79cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

Provenance: Purchased from George Smith, 1980s.

LOT

478

An upholstered three-seater sofa by George Smith, of recent manufacture, with short scroll arms and ring-turned supports terminating in brass caps and castors, covered in pale calico, with original George Smith label underneath, 226cm wide

112cm deep

79cm high

£2,000 - 4,000

Provenance: Purchased from George Smith, 1980s.

478

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476

LOT 480

A patinated metal and wirework spark guard, of recent manufacture, with foliate cast handles and adjustable sides,

145cm wide (when fully extended)

84cm high

£200 - 400

A rococo carved oak overmantel mirror, late 19th/early 20th century, with a scrolling foliate frame enclosing a rectangular glass plate, 180cm wide

130cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 481

A Suzani-inspired flat-weave wool rug, of recent manufacture, with embroidered floral decoration, 240 x 166cm

£600 - 800

LOT 479

LOT 482

A large Russian-style porcelain vase, of recent manufacture, of campana shape, painted to each side with vases and flowers on a green ground enclosed in gilt bands, with twin scroll handles, raised on a square base bearing a spurious painted mark beneath,

43cm diameter

59cm high

£800 - 1,200

A mahogany and marble console table, c.1890, by Wilkinson & Son, the rectangular marble top over a frieze drawer, with scrolled supports with carved details, stamped to the drawer ‘Wilkinson & Son

8 Old Bond St 8824’,

106cm wide

63.5cm deep

91.5cm high

£500 - 700

A Regenc y-style painted pine waterfall bookcase, late 19th/early 20th century, with scumbled imitation rosewood decoration, set with three graduated shelves above a pair of panelled cupboard doors, raised on bracket feet, 78cm wide

33cm deep

123cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 485

A George II-style mahogany wing armchair, 19th century, upholstered in floral silk damask, and raised on knee-carved cabriole supports united by stretchers, 86cm wide

83cm deep

113cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 483

LOT 484

485

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LOT 486

A Bauhaus-inspired flat-weave wool carpet, of recent manufacture, woven with an abstract design in tones of black and white, 278 x 196cm

£600 - 800

LOT 487

A pair of George III-style carved giltwood torchères/jardinières, early 20th century, in the Adam taste, each with three ram’s-head supports, with guilloché-carved detail, raised on a triform base, 50cm diameter

142cm high (2)

£2,000 - 3,000

LOT 488

Two grand tour bronze figural groups, late 19th/early 20th century, comprising a young satyr carrying the infant Bacchus, 13.5cm diameter

31cm high, and Danaides, with ‘Fonderia Nelli Roma’ and ‘Nelli Roma’ foundry marks (2)

£1,000 - 1,500

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LOT 489

A patinated metal and stained-glass lantern, of recent manufacture, Moroccan, of architectural form with arabesque decoration, 46cm wide

46cm deep

107cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 490

A painted wooden and wrought-iron coffee table, 20th century, the moulded top with faux marble decoration, raised on a pierced scrolling base with parcel-gilt foliate detail, 91cm wide

50cm deep

50cm high

£200 - 400

LOT 491

A flat-weave wool rug, of recent manufacture, embroidered with birds, insects, flowers and houses to a pale ground, 209 x 155cm

£300 - 500

LOT 492

A Charles II oak backstool, late 17th century, with bobbin-turned decoration and a boarded seat,

49cm wide

46cm deep

95cm high

£200 - 400

492

LOT 493

A Louis Philippe mahogany armchair, c.1840, French, with a tall curved back above a pair of open arms with swan terminals, raised on lobed baluster supports terminating in ceramic castors,

61cm wide

81cm deep

112cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 494

A set of ten Victorian walnut dining chairs, c.1870, each upholstered in royal-blue velvet fabric, on fluted and turned supports,

50cm wide

55cm deep

82cm high (10)

£500 - 700

LOT 495

A George II-style mahogany pier table, c.1900, with a rectangular marble top above a shell-carved frieze, and raised on acanthus-capped cabriole supports terminating in pad feet,

146cm wide

64cm deep

81cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 496

An Elizabethan-style oak refectory table, 19th century but incorporating some late 16th-century elements, with a cleated plank top above a pair of bulbous cup-and-cover supports, united by a stretcher terminating in outsplayed feet,

370cm long

80cm wide

75cm high

£5,000 - 7,000

Provenance: Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff, Provender House, Faversham, Kent; acquired by the present owners from the above during the late 20th century.

A large export carved hardwood double bed, second half of the 19th century, Chinese, profusely carved with dragons, peonies, chrysanthemums and foliate scrolls, bearing a silver label to the footboard inscribed ‘the Czar of Russia slept in this bed’, 184cm wide

280cm long

161cm high, together with a Vispring Sublime Superb TK 592 Firm mattress, 189 x 157cm, and a Vispring Sovereign divan and a fitted bolster cushion (3) £800 - 1,200

While the precise origin of this attribution remains unverified, the presence of such a label suggests the bed may have been situated in a residence associated with the Russian Imperial family or used during a diplomatic visit or private tour.

LOT 498

A pair of George I-style gilt gesso girandoles, 19th century, each carved with acanthus scrolls, with a brass candle sconce and a glass plate,

26cm wide

17cm deep

42cm high (2)

£400 - 600

LOT 499

A George III mahogany pier table, c.1790, the demilune top with radiating veneers and inlaid detail, above a plain frieze and moulded tapering supports, terminating in spade feet,

99cm wide

46cm deep

81cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 500

A pair of William IV mahogany armchairs in the manner of Gillows, c.1835, each upholstered in buttoned green leather, with an arched back and scrolling arms, raised on cabriole supports, terminating in foliate feet,

62cm wide

70cm deep

91cm high (2)

£1,200 - 1,800

LOT 501

A Gothic carved oak chest, 16th century and later, French, the removable plank top enclosing a storage compartment, with tracery-decorated front and sides, raised on tapering square supports,

100cm wide

61cm deep

79cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 502

A Tibetan-style wool tiger rug, of recent manufacture,

174 x 116cm

£500 - 700

LOT 503

A Tibetan-style wool tiger rug, of recent manufacture,

150 x 102cm

£400 - 600

LOT 504

A Regency mahogany low bookcase, c.1820, the rectangular top with lobed front corners, above column pilasters flanking three open shelves, raised on lobed bun feet,

125cm wide

40cm deep

96cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 505

A William and Mary fruitwood side table, late 17th century, the moulded rectangular top above a frieze drawer with incised decoration, and a carved apron, raised on ring-turned supports united by a wavy ‘X’ stretcher,

76cm wide

55cm deep

67cm high

£300 - 500

LOT 507

A set of eight Louis XVI-style limed beech dining chairs, of recent manufacture, French, each with a pierced balloon-form back, above an oval seat upholstered in printed linen, raised on tapering fluted supports, 44cm wide

57cm deep

97cm high (8)

£400 - 600

A William IV giltwood and gesso overmantel mirror, c.1830, of architectural form with foliate-capped pilasters, and an ebonised slip enclosing a mercury glass plate, 136cm wide

97cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 508

A George III fruitwood and penwork chiffonier, late 18th century, with a raised superstructure above a frieze drawer and a pair of panelled doors, raised on turned supports, with all-over neoclassical decoration, 91cm wide

41cm deep

137cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 506

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A flat-weave wool rug of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, woven with geometric motifs in tones of cream, blue and green,

243 x 171cm

£400 - 600

LOT 510

A matched pair of painted wooden stools, 20th century, each seat upholstered in calico, raised on cabriole supports carved with grotesques and terminating in paw feet,

116cm wide

51cm deep

53cm high (2)

£600 - 800

LOT 511

A James II oak cupboard, c.1680, with geometric moulded decoration and pairs of column pilasters, set with brass drop handles and raised on stile legs, 116cm wide

48cm deep

116cm high

£700 - 900

LOT

A pair of George II-style walnut wing armchairs, first half of the 20th century, each upholstered in herringbone tweed with orange velvet piping, raised on shell-carved cabriole supports,

81cm wide

79cm deep

95cm high (2)

£1,500 - 2,500

LOT 513

A flat-weave wool runner of Scandinavian design, of recent manufacture, woven with repeating geometric motifs in tones of green and yellow,

461 x 72cm

£400 - 600

LOT 514

A marble and mahogany occasional table, 20th century and later, the circular top raised on a turned column and triform base, with bone and ivorine decoration, set with figural panels, 65cm diameter

80cm high

£600 - 800

LOT 512

514

513

512

A Gustavian-style painted beech settee, late 19th/early 20th century, Swedish, with a foliate-carved frame and open arms, raised on tapering fluted supports, with a removable back seat and armrests, upholstered in pale linen,

126cm wide

76cm deep

98cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 516

A figured walnut centre table, c.1860, the oval top with a wavy edge, raised on a lobed column and foliate-carved quadripartite base,

151cm wide

120cm deep

73cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 517

A pair of bronze figures of Venus and Arrotino, 19th century, each raised on a white marble base, larger (Venus) 29cm wide

17cm deep

40cm high (2)

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 515

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515

LOT 518

A Persian Heriz wool rug, c.1900, woven with all-over geometric and foliate motifs to a red ground, 290 x 197cm

£2,500 - 3,500

LOT 519

A carved giltwood marriage mirror, late 18th/early 19th century, Italian, the arched top decorated with flowers, birds and foliate scrolls, above a foliate frame enclosing a mercury glass plate, 65cm wide

127cm high

£800 - 1,200

LOT 520

Two similar George III mahogany night tables, late 18th/early 19th century, of Pembroke form, each with a fall-front enclosing a cupboard, each raised on tapering square supports, larger 46cm wide

28cm deep

76cm high (2)

£300 - 500

518

LOT 521

A pair of Moser enamelled glass candlesticks, 19th century, Czech, each of baluster form on a wide circular foot, profusely enamelled with deer and foliate motifs, with gilt rims,

24cm diameter (2)

£500 - 700

LOT 522

A Baccarat crystal glass suite, 20th century, French, in the ‘Provence’ pattern, comprising:

8 champagne flutes, 19cm high, 6 water goblets, 16cm high,

8 wine glasses, 14.5cm high, and 9 cordial glasses, 9cm high, each stamped ‘Baccarat France’ (31)

£300 - 500

LOT 523

After John Gould and H C Richter, a set of five prints from ‘A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Hummingbirds’, hand-coloured lithographs, 1849-1861, published by Hullmandel and Walton, sheet 50 x 32cm (5)

£800 - 1,200

522

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LOT 524

A Heriz wool carpet, 20th century, Persian, woven with a large stylised floral and geometric medallion to the field, the ivory-ground spandrels with similar geometric motifs within a wide border,

332 x 265cm

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 525

A pair of large white metal seven-light candelabra, 19th century, Continental, in the rococo style, each on a pierced base with an armorial shield surmounted by a crown, on four foliate and scroll cast feet, with six scrolling foliate branches, each with fixed cast drip pans and detachable nozzles, around a further central light, the stem with applied female figures,

40cm diameter

72cm high (2)

£1,000 - 1,500

LOT 526

A framed set of grass samples, 19th century, comprising twelve seed bundles by Edward Webb and Sons, Stourbridge, each with a typed card panel bearing the name of the variety, on a blue ground in a glazed box frame, frame size 89 x 58cm

£700 - 900

524

LOT 527

A toleware kettle bucket, 19th century, Dutch, of navette shape with a swing top handle, the body painted to one side with a farming scene, enclosed by floral and foliate decoration, raised on a flared base,

36cm wide

25cm deep

32cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 528

A Regenc y-style hardwood bench or window seat, of recent manufacture, with a pair of scrolled arms above a buttoned-leather seat, raised on a foliate-carved ‘X’ frame base, 143cm wide

38cm deep

56cm high

£400 - 600

LOT 529

A pair of silver-plated brass altar candlestick lamps, 18th or 19th century, Continental, each with scrolling repoussé decoration and a triform base, and each fitted with a 16½-inch embroidered silk shade, 18cm diameter

97cm high including shade (2)

£300 - 500

LOT 530

A bronze bust of Heraclitus, 19th century, after the antique from the Villa of the Papyri (Herculaneum), mounted on a marble base, 42cm wide

27cm deep

62cm high

£1,000 - 1,500

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LOT 531 ▲

Andrew Varah (1944-2012), a large oak garden table, of recent manufacture, with a slatted top, raised on three pedestals with oval bases, the central example set with a model of All Saints Church, Naseby, 540cm long

123cm wide

74cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

A Romanesque-style marble urn, 19th century, in the form of a Venetian well head, raised on a column and a stepped base, 40cm diameter

123cm high

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 533

A glazed terracotta sundial pedestal, late 19th century, probably by Doulton, Lambeth, the column modelled as a pair of swans, below a cavetto moulded top with concave corners, raised on four square plinths, overall 62cm wide

62cm deep

83cm high (5)

£1,000 - 2,000

LOT 532

A Victorian buff terracotta garden urn by J M Blashfield, late 19th century, with an acanthus-moulded rim and a gadrooned body, raised on a fluted column and spreading foot, stamped to the square base, 59cm diameter

37cm high

£400 - 600

A large riveted iron trough, early 20th century, of rectangular form, with partitioned interior, 155cm wide

63cm deep

62cm high

£400 - 600

A pair of painted and parcel-gilt wrought-iron gates, early 20th century, French, of arched form, with scrolling foliate decoration and applied acanthus leaves, 205cm wide overall

211cm high

£500 - 700

LOT 534

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LOT 536

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53cm high

£250 - 350

A pair of painted cast iron campana garden urns, second half of the 19th century, each decorated with flowers and foliate scrolls, with twin handles and a fluted square base, 44cm diameter 63cm high (2)

£500 - 700

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538

LOT 537

A painted

stone tomcat, 20th century, modelled seated, 36cm diameter

LOT 538

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Lots must be paid for before they are collected or shipped. For those attending the auction we ask that Lots are paid for on the day of the sale. Methods by which we accept payment are detailed on our Website, including online payment upon receipt of your invoice, and these should be paid by 5pm on the Friday following the sale. We accept cash to an upper limit of 10,000 euros equivalent. Any cheques will need to be cleared before you can take the Goods away.

Collection and storage

All Lots should be paid for and collected by 5pm on the Friday following the sale. Commission Bidders should check the success of their bids and arrange payment, and collection or shipping within this time. For our specialist auctions please refer to the collection and storage requirements detailed in the catalogue and on our Website, which specifies the applicable fees.

Furniture and large items sold in our Fine Interiors, Design or Specialist Single-Owner Sale Auctions, and small items if they form part of the same invoice, not collected within seven working days of the auction will be sent to Abels Moving Services Ltd. at your expense. Refer to clause 10 in Sworders Terms of Sale for more information.

Agency

As Auctioneers we usually act on behalf of the Seller whose identity, for reasons of confidentiality, is not normally disclosed. If you buy at auction your contract for the Goods is with the Seller, not with us as Auctioneer.

Estimates Estimates are designed to help you gauge what sort of sum might be involved for the purchase of a particular Lot. Estimates may change and should not be thought of as the sale Price. The lower estimate may represent the Reserve Price (the minimum Price for which a Lot may be sold) and will not be below the Reserve Price. Estimates do not include the Buyer’s Premium or VAT (where chargeable). Estimates are prepared some time before the auction and may be altered by a saleroom notice or announcement by the Auctioneer before the auction of the Lot. They are not definitive. Buyer’s Premium

The Terms of Sale oblige you to pay a Buyer’s Premium on the Hammer Price for each Lot purchased, at 25%, except for our Fine Wine and Spirits auctions when it is 18%. In addition, VAT is charged on these Premiums (see below).

Value Added Tax (VAT)

Items in our catalogue may be marked with a dagger † or double dagger ‡, which indicates that VAT is payable by the Buyer on the Hammer Price and the Buyer’s Premium at either the standard rate (currently 20%) or a reduced rate (currently 5%), depending upon the legal requirements relating to that Lot.

Lots which do not have either of the above symbols have no VAT payable on the Hammer Price. This is because such Lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. The VAT included within the Premium is not recoverable as input tax.

Shipping Costs are liable for VAT and are payable by the Buyer.

If you are exporting the items from the UK, you may be able to claim a reimbursement of the VAT, where:

1. you are using Sworders Delivery service.

In these cases, a zero rated (VAT exempt) invoice can be issued where the following criteria are met:

a. the items are exported within three months of the date of the auction

b. the total amount of VAT payable would exceed £75 per shipment

There is no administrative charge for clients using Sworders Delivery Service.

If you cancel shipping through Sworders Delivery Service, we will reinstate the VAT, which must be paid prior to the release of goods.

2. you arrange shipping through a private logistics company, agent or courier and the following criteria are met:

a. the invoice is paid in full, including VAT

b. the items are exported from the UK within three months of the date of the auction

c. the certificate of shipment and export documents are provided to us within a year of the date of export from the UK d. the total amount of VAT to be claimed exceeds £75 (from which you will be deducted a £25 administration fee.

See Terms of Sale clause 5 for more information relating to VAT. Inspection of Goods by the Buyer

As we act on behalf of the Seller, we are dependent on information provided by the Seller about their Goods. We may inspect Lots and will act reasonably in taking a general view about them. However, we are normally unable to carry out detailed examinations of Lots to check their condition in the way a Buyer would do. You will have ample opportunity to inspect the Goods. You must inspect and investigate Lots that you might wish to bid for. Please note carefully the exclusion of liability for the description and condition of Lots set out in the Terms of Sale at clauses 16.2 and 16.4.

Condition reports

We may be able to assist Buyers unable to view by emailing a condition report, but these are based solely on our own opinion and are for guidance only and no responsibility is accepted for their accuracy. Intending Buyers are strongly encouraged to view.

Shipping of Goods

We offer a delivery service for Lots purchased, either by shipping ourselves, in partnership with Bradleys Shipping Services, or use of a third party logistics company. Estimates for Shipping Costs for smaller items may be calculated pre-sale on our website under each Lot and are based on value, size and your chosen UK destination. For items purchased the actual cost can be added to your account and paid online after the sale. If you purchase multiple Lots from the same auction, we will combine packaging/ deliveries to reduce the Shipping Costs. Lots for which Shipping Costs cannot be automatically calculated, such as furniture, you can obtain a bespoke Shipping Cost from our website to any destination in the world after you have purchased an item, by clicking the link in your invoice.

Estimates of Shipping Costs on our website are based on the low estimate, whilst the actual cost is based on Hammer Price. Furniture and large items sold in our Fine Interiors, Design of Specialist Single Owner Sale Auctions, and small Items if they form par of the same invoice, will be removed from the premises after 4pm seven working days following the sale, by Abels Moving Services Ltd., the cost of which you will be liable for. See clauses 9 and 10 in the Terms of Sale for Title and Collection of Purchases and Costs relating to Collection Services, for more details.

Electrical Goods

These are sold as ‘antiques’ only for their historical or decorative attributes. If you buy electrical Goods for use you must ask a qualified electrician to check them for compliance with safety regulations before you use them.

Export of Goods

If you intend to export Goods you must find out:

a. whether an export licence is needed; and b. if there is a prohibition on importing Goods of that character e.g. because the Goods contain prohibited materials.

Restricted Items

We do not sell items that are prohibited under UK legislation from sale.

The sale of lots containing ivory from Elephants, hippopotamus, narwhal, killer whale, and sperm whale are banned, subject to some exemptions. For goods that contain ivory, you should satisfy yourself that they are correctly registered or certified and meet the exemption criteria as set out in applicable legislation.

If you intend to export goods that may fall to be a protected species, or one that requires to be registered or listed as exempt, you should find out:

a. whether you need an export licence

b. if there is a prohibition on the export of goods of that nature outside of the UK or on the import of goods into your intended country, for example, if the goods contain prohibited materials such as elephant ivory or protected fauna and flora

Post 1950 Upholstered Furniture

All items of furniture included in a sale are offered for sale as works of art. The items may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and for this reason, they should not be used in a private dwelling.

Furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia nigra)

To comply with CITES Regulations on Post-1947 furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood, all post-war rosewood furniture items must have an Article 10 certificate in place, prior to being offered for sale.

If you are purchasing rosewood furniture for commercial purposes and not solely for your own use, CITES regulations require you to obtain your own certificate. You would need to contact the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and, as part of the process of obtaining your document, it is a requirement that you have seen sight of the Sworders’ certificate or are aware of its reference number.

It is the responsibility of commercial Buyers to ensure that they obtain a copy of the appropriate certificate, or the certificate reference number, after purchase from Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers. Items are marked with this sign §.

Bidding

Bidders are required to register with us before the auction starts. We Reserve the right to impose a deadline prior to the auction by which you must register or by which we must receive a Commission bid. If you wish to bid on high value Lots this deadline may be several days before the auction to allow us sufficient time to carry out the necessary checks. In some cases, we may require a deposit to be paid against Lot, prior to confirming your bid. Lots will be invoiced to the name and address as registered for bidding. You may need to provide us with proof of your identity in a form acceptable to us and such other information as we may require. Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for telephone or online bidding. Please note that we may refuse to register you, if you do not provide us with all the information and documentation that we ask for or at our discretion.

Commission bidding

You may leave Commission bids with us indicating the maximum amount to be bid against a Lot (excluding the Buyers’ Premium and/or any applicable VAT). We will execute Commission bids as cheaply as possible having regard to the Reserve (if any) and competing bids. If two Buyers submit identical Commission bids we may prefer the first bid received (where this can be reasonably ascertained). We recommend leaving Commission bids online via our Website, though please contact us about leaving bids by telephone or fax/email. All absentee bids should be received at least 30 minutes before the auction commences; we cannot guarantee to execute Commission bids received after this time.

Telephone bidding

If you are unable to come to the auction it may be possible to bid on the telephone for higher value Lots. Please note that this service is generally for Lots with an estimate of £500 or more. The number of lines may be limited so we urge serious telephone bidding only and ask that you be prepared to bid over the top estimate. It is advisable to leave a maximum covering bid in case we are not able to contact you by telephone. All lines must be booked and confirmed in writing before the day of the auction and preferably some time in advance. Telephone bidding involves many variables and whilst we take every care to ensure the smooth operation of this service, we cannot be held liable if your bids are missed for any reason.

Online bidding Lots purchased via a live online bidding service may be subject to an additional Commission charge on the Hammer Price payable by the Bidder, in accordance with rates specified by the online service. These are charged at 0% if bidding via Sworders Website. If bidding through other online bidding platforms, you will be charged additional surcharges, which will be payable to us on top of the Hammer Price and our Buyer’s Premium at their advertised rate.

Artist’s Resale Right Lots marked with a ▲ indicate the item is subject to additional Artist’s Resale Right charges, payable by the buyer.

Financial Checks

As auctioneers we may have to conduct various checks into our customers under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (as amended), under sanctions legislation and other related legislation.

If you are successful in your bid, and your hammer total is in excess of £6,000.00, you may need to provide the documentation, as set out below, unless we confirm we already have this information from you:

a. For individuals

1.a.1. official photo identification (driving licence, passport or equivalent); and

1.a.2. proof of address (less than three months old)

b. For corporate entities

1.b.1. the certificate of incorporation (or equivalent) with the entity’s official name, registered number (if any) and registered address

1.b.2. details and ID documentation for directors and beneficial owners of the entity

c. For trusts and estates

1.c.1. details and ID documentation for executors/trustees; and 1.c.2. details of beneficiaries and settlor

We may ask you for further information if we deem this necessary. We may use third party software, to enable you to provide us with your identification documents, to verify your identity and ensure compliance with our legal responsibilities.

If you are bidding for another person (your “principal”) you will be required to provide the above information for yourself and your principal, along with a signed letter from your principal authorising you to bid on his/her behalf.

If we deem that you have not provided sufficient information for us to complete our anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions checks to our satisfaction, we may refuse to register you to bid and we may postpone completion of, or cancel, any contract made by you and the Seller in the event you have made a successful bid.

TERMS OF CONSIGNMENT FOR SELLERS

Not detailed here, but can be viewed at www.sworder.co.uk

3. TERMS OF SALE FOR BIDDERS AND BUYERS

Please note that if you register to bid and/or bid at auction this signifies that you agree to and will comply with these Terms of Sale. Please note that these Terms of Sale relate to auctions conducted by an Auctioneer only, where the opportunity is available to view the lots. We have separate terms for online only auctions and those where viewing is not available.

1. Definitions and interpretation

1.1 To make these Terms of Sale easier to read, we have given the following words a specific meaning:

In these Terms of Sale, the words ‘you’, ‘yours’, etc. refer to you as the Buyer. The words ‘we’, ‘us’, etc. refer to the Auctioneer. Any reference to a ‘Clause’ is to a clause of these Terms of Sale unless stated otherwise.

2. Information that we are required to give to Consumers

2.1 A description of the main characteristics of each Lot as contained in the auction catalogue.

2.2 Our name, address and contact details as set out herein, in our auction catalogues and/or on our Website.

2.3 The Price of the Goods and arrangements for payment as described in Clauses 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10.

2.4 The arrangements for collection or delivery of the Goods as set out in Clauses 9 and 10.

2.5 Your right to return a Lot and receive a refund if the Lot is a Deliberate Forgery as set out in Clause 15.

2.6 We and Trader Sellers have a legal duty to supply any Lots to you in accordance with these Terms of Sale.

2.7 If you have any complaints, please send them to us directly at auctions@sworder.co.uk.

2.8 We also refer you to your warranties as a Bidder and Buyer as set out in Clause 6.

‘Auctioneer’ means GES & Sons Ltd trading as Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, a company registered in England and Wales with registration number 6858916 and whose registered office is located at Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex CM24 8GE or its authorised Auctioneer, as appropriate;

‘Art Market Participant’ means an art market business registered with HMRC under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017;

‘Bidder’ means a person who places a bid for Goods at our auction;

‘Bidding Platform’ means the bidding platform on which the online auction is held operated by the Auctioneer, or by a third party service provider on the Auctioneer’s behalf;

‘Bidding Platform Fee’ means the fee equal to a % of the hammer price charged on the sale of a Lot, as advertised on the bidding platform on which the online auction is held, operated by a third party service provider;

‘Buyer’ means the person who makes the highest bid for the Goods accepted by the Auctioneer;

‘Buyer’s Premium’ means the commission we charge you on the purchase of a Lot;

‘Commission’ means the Commission that we charge a vendor on the sale of their Goods;

‘Consumer’ means an individual acting for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside that individual’s trade, business, craft or profession;

‘Deliberate Forgery’ means: (a) an imitation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source; (b) which is described in the catalogue as being the work of a particular creator without qualification; and (c) which at the date of the auction had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been as described;

‘FCA’ means the Financial Conduct Authority;

‘Goods’ means the Goods that have been consigned to us for sale at our auction;

‘Hammer Price’ means the level of the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer and recorded in the Auctioneer’s sale book;

‘Lot(s)’ means the goods that we offer for sale at our auctions;

‘Money Laundering Legislation’ means the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 and related legislation, together with any applicable terrorist financing legislation and legislation on restrictive measures;

‘Premium’ means the Premium charged to the Buyer on the sale of the Goods in accordance with the Terms of Sale as set out in clause 4;

‘Price’ means the total of the Hammer Price, Premium, Shipping Costs (if applicable) and any applicable VAT;

‘Principal’ means a person or entity you are acting on behalf of for the purposes of the consignment of the goods to the Auctioneer;

‘Proceeds’ means the Price less the Commission, the Premium, Shipping Costs, any expenses incurred to your account and any applicable VAT;

‘Reserve’ means the minimum Price at which the Goods may be sold;

Restrictive Measures’ means economic or financial sanctions, export controls, embargoes or any other restriction on trade under the laws of the European Union, the United Kingdom or the United States, or in the jurisdiction in which you, your Principal, or any agent acting for you does business;

‘Sale Proceeds’ means the net amount due to the seller;

‘Seller’ means the owner of the Goods and any agent who consigns the Goods for sale on the owner’s behalf (if applicable);

‘Shipping Costs’ means the charges applied to the shipping of all Goods purchased, should the Buyer ask for Sworders shipping agent to deliver the Goods (if applicable);

‘Terms of Consignment’ means the Terms on which we agree with sellers to offer Lots for sale in our auctions, as agent on their behalf;

‘Terms of Sale’ means the Terms of Sale for Bidders or Buyers at our auctions (as updated from time to time);

‘Total Amount Due’ means the hammer price for a Lot, the Premium, any applicable artist’s resale right royalty, any service charge or fee levied by an independent bidding platform through which the successful bid was placed, any VAT due and any additional charges payable by a defaulting buyer under these terms of sale;

‘Trader’ means a Seller who is acting for purposes relating to that Seller’s trade, business, craft or profession, whether acting personally or through another person acting in the Trader’s name or on the Trader’s behalf (such as an agent and/or the Auctioneer);

‘VAT’ means any value added tax or equivalent sales tax; and

‘Website’ means our Website available at www.sworder.co.uk.

3. Bidding procedures and the Buyer

3.1 You must register your details with us before bidding and provide us with any requested proof of identity and billing information, in a form acceptable to us. You must also satisfy any security arrangements we have in place before entering the auction room to view or bid. If you are bidding on behalf of someone else, you will be required to provide us with all information on the ultimate owner of the goods as we may require, to satisfy our checks under the Money Laundering Legislation.

3.2 We strongly recommend that you attend the auction in person. You are responsible for your decision to bid for a particular Lot. If you bid on a Lot, including by telephone and online bidding, or by placing a Commission bid, we assume that you have carefully inspected the Lot and satisfied yourself regarding its condition and other characteristics.

3.3 If you instruct us we may execute Commission bids on your behalf. We will confirm receipt of your instruction by sending you an email acknowledging your request and confirming your bid. Neither we nor our employees or agents will be responsible for any failure to execute your Commission bid, unless our failure to do so is unreasonable. Where two or more Commission bids at the same level are recorded, we have the right to prefer the first bid made (where this can be reasonably ascertained).

3.4 The Bidder placing the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer will be the Buyer at the Hammer Price. The Auctioneer shall retain discretion on the running of the auction and retains the right not to accept a bid and to prefer a bid over any other bids received at the same time. Any dispute about a bid will be settled at our discretion. We may reoffer the Lot during the auction or may settle the dispute in another way. We will act reasonably when deciding how to settle the dispute.

3.5 Bidders will be deemed to act as Principals, even if the Bidder is acting as an agent for a third party.

3.6 We may bid on Lots on behalf of the Seller up to one bid below the Reserve.

3.7 We may refuse to accept any bid if it is reasonable for us to do so.

3.8 Bidding increments will be at our sole discretion (but will be in line with standard auction practice).

3.9 If you participate in the auction using the services of an Independent Bidding Platform, other than Sworders Live, you will incur an additional fee or additional commission payable to that platform. We will collect this fee as part of the Total Amount Due if you are successful in your bid.

4. The purchase Price As the Buyer, you will pay:

a. the Hammer Price;

b. a Premium of 25% plus VAT of the Hammer Price or 18% plus VAT for our Fine Wine and Spirits Auction;

c. any artist’s resale right royalty payable on the sale of a Lot; and d. any Independent Bidding Platform fee payable on a Lot; and e. any VAT due.

5. Value Added TAX (VAT)

5.1 As the Buyer, you shall be liable for the payment of any VAT applicable on the Hammer Price, Premium and Shipping Costs (if applicable) due for a Lot, at the appropriate rate prevailing by law at the date of the auction. Please see the symbols used in the auction catalogue for that Lot and the ‘Information for Buyers’ in our auction catalogue for further information. Please see 5.6 for the conditions to be fulfilled before the VAT charged on the Hammer Price may be cancelled or refunded upon exporting from the UK

5.2 Lots affixed with (†): VAT on the Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium is imposed on all items affixed with a dagger (†). This imposition of VAT maybe because the Seller is registered for VAT within the UK and is not operating under a Margin Scheme.

5.3 Lots affixed with (‡): A reduced rate of Import VAT on the Hammer Price of 5% is payable. This indicates that a Lot has been imported from outside the UK.

5.4 Lots affixed with [Ω]: Standard rate of 20% of Import VAT on the Hammer Price and premium is payable. This applies to items that have been imported from outside the UK and do not fall within the reduced rate category.

5.5 Lots affixed with [Ω] or ‡ when these lots are released to buyers in the UK, the buyer will become the importer and must pay Sworders the import VAT at the rates noted above on the hammer price. The buyer should also note that the appropriate rate will be that in force on the date of our release and not that in force at the date of auction or payment.

5.6 Export from the UK: For lots offered under the VAT Margin Scheme and lots with [Ω] or ‡ symbols attached; you may be eligible to have a VAT refund in certain circumstances if the lot is exported. Should you show us proof of export within three months of collection a VAT refund may be arranged. No VAT amounts will be refunded where the total refund is under £75. Bank/transfer charges relating to any refund will be borne by the buyer and will not be reimbursed. Please note that all customs formalities of the destination country are the responsibility of the buyer.

6. Buyer Warranties

6.1 You warrant, and where you are acting on behalf of someone else, you will procure that your Principal warrants, that:

6.1.1 the funds to be used for the purchase of the lot(s) are not connected with, nor derived from, any criminal activity, including

without limitation tax evasion, money laundering or terrorist financing;

6.1.2 neither you, or an agent acting for you, nor your Principal, are to the best of your knowledge either under investigation, nor have you been charged with or convicted of without limitation tax evasion, money laundering, terrorist financing or other criminal activities; and

6.1.3 neither you, nor any agent acting for you, nor your Principal, are subject to restrictive measure or owned, partly owned or controlled by person(s) subject to such restrictive measures.

6.4 Where you are bidding on behalf of another person and you are an Art Market Participant, you warrant that:

(i) you have conducted appropriate customer due diligence on the ultimate Buyer of the goods, in accordance with all applicable Money Laundering Legislation (ii) upon request, you will provide us, or any independent third party auditor (employed at our cost), with any identification and any other relevant documents you have obtained for customer due diligence purposes on the ultimate buyer of the goods (iii) you consent to us relying on this due diligence; and (iv) you will retain for a period of not less than five years the documentation evidencing the due diligence

6.5 Where you are acting on behalf of another person and you are not an Art Market Participant, you warrant that you will provide accurate and complete information about your Principal to us.

7. The contract between you and the Seller

7.1 The contract for the purchase of the Lot between you and the Seller will be formed when the Auctioneer records the winning bidder in the sale book accepting the highest bid for the Lot at auction, unless due diligence information required by us under the Money Laundering Regulations in accordance with our internal procedure remains outstanding, in which case the contract will be formed when that information is accepted by us as complete.

7.2 You may directly enforce any terms in the Terms of Consignment against a Seller to the extent that you suffer damages and/or loss as a result of the Seller’s breach of the Terms of Consignment.

7.3 If you breach these Terms of Sale, you may be responsible for damages and/or losses suffered by a Seller or us. If we are contacted by a Seller who wishes to bring a claim against you, we may at our discretion provide the Seller with information or assistance in relation to that claim.

7.4 We normally act as an agent only and will not have any responsibility for default by you or the Seller (unless we are the Seller of the Lot).

7.5 In addition to any other rights we may have to cancel a contract for sale under these Terms of Sale, we may delay completion of a sale, delay the release of a lot or cancel the sale of a lot in the event:

7.5.1 you are in breach of your warranties in clause 6;

7.5.2 we have not completed our enquiries pursuant to the Money Laundering Legislation to our satisfaction;

7.5.3 we have reason to believe that the transaction might be unlawful for any reason or that the sale might put us under a civil or criminal liability.

8. Payment

8.1 Immediately following your successful bid on a Lot you will:

8.1.1 give to us, if not already provided to our satisfaction, proof of identity in a form acceptable to us (and any other information that we require in order to comply with our anti-money laundering obligations); and

8.1.2 pay to us the total amount due in any way that we agree to accept payment.

8.1.3 pay in full the Shipping Costs prior to the Goods being shipped, should you agree to Sworders shipping agent delivering the Goods.

8.2 If you owe us any money, we may use any payment made by you to repay these debts.

9. Title and collection of purchases

9.1 You are bound by the contract for the purchase of a lot at the recording of the winning bid in the auctioneers sale log, however, the transaction is not complete, and ownership will not pass to you and you and may not claim or collect a Lot until:

9.1.1you have paid us the total amount due, including any additional charges, in cleared funds; and

9.1.2 you have provided us with the information, and we have completed our enquiries, in relation to our responsibilities under Money Laundering Legislation, as set out in clause 8.1

9.2 You will (at your own expense) collect any Lots that you have purchased and paid for not later than 5pm on the Friday following the auction, or such later date as is specified in the printed catalogue, on our Website or agreed with us subsequently.

9.3 If you agree to using our delivery service, only when the full Shipping Costs have been paid will the Goods be dispatched. We reserve the right that some Lots will not be suitable for an automated shipping estimate and will require bespoke quotes from the shipping agent.

9.4 If you do not collect the Lot within the time period under Clause 9.2, you will be responsible for removal and storage charges in relation to that Lot – see clause 9.5 -9.7 below.

9.5 Furniture and large items sold in our Fine Interiors, Design or Specialist Single Owner Sale Auctions, and small items if they form part of the same invoice, will be removed from the premises after 4pm seven working days following the sale, by Abels Moving Services Ltd, for storage at their Potters Bar depot and subject to collection, storage and administration costs, the cost of which you will be liable for. See clause 10 for Costs relating to Collection and Storage Services

9.6 Items will be stored by Abels Moving Services Ltd free of charge for seven days from the date of collection. Storage charges will commence thereafter. All costs associated with collection and storage in these cases are payable directly to Abels Moving Services Ltd and must be paid prior to collection of the lot – see clause 10 on Costs Relating to Collection and Storage Services.

9.7 All lots must be collected by prior appointment at:

Abels Moving Services Ltd, The Heights, East, Cranborne Road, Potters Bar, EN6 3JN.

020 4259 4315

collectionsPB@abels.co.uk

Collections Monday – Friday 08:30-16:30 only.

9.8 Risk of loss or damage to the Lot will pass to you when you (or your agents) take physical possession of the Lot, or it is collected by Abels Moving Services Ltd.

9.9 If you do not collect the Lot that you have paid for within thirty days after the auction, we may sell the Lot. We will pay the Proceeds of any such sale to you but will deduct any storage charges or other sums that have been incurred in the storage and sale of the Lot. We reserve the right to charge you a selling Commission at our standard rates on any such resale of the Lot.

10. Costs Relating to Collection and Storage services

10.1 These fees relate to the collection and storage of your purchases by Abels Moving Services Ltd. and are payable directly to them.

10.2 Collection from Sworders £25 per collection of 1-5 items and £50 per collection of 6-10 items listed on an invoice (plus VAT).

10.3 Free storage for one week thereafter, then:

10.3.1 £4.00 (plus VAT) per lot, per day*

*Additional charges apply for items exceeding 8 x 8ft

*A levied liability charge (LLC) of £0.08 per £1,000 value of goods is payable

*Admin fees will be payable on collection of goods from Abels Moving Services Ltd.

*All charges are subject to VAT and 6.27% insurance on total charges.

11. Remedies for non-payment or failure to collect purchases

11.1 Please do not bid on a Lot if you do not intend to buy it. If your bid is successful, these Terms of Sale will apply to you. This means that you will have to carry out your obligations set out in these Terms of Sale. If you do not comply with these Terms of Sale, we may (acting on behalf of the Seller and ourselves) pursue one or more of the following measures:

11.1.1 take action against you for damages for breach of contract; 11.1.2 reverse the sale of the Lot to you and/or any other Lots sold by us to you;

11.1.3 resell the Lot by auction or private treaty (in which case you will have to pay any difference between the Price you should have paid for the Lot, and the Price we sell it for as well as the charges outlined in Clause 9.7). Please note that if we sell the Lot for a higher amount than your winning bid, the extra money will belong to the Seller;

11.1.4 remove, store and insure the Lot at your expense;

11.1.5 if you do not pay us within five business days of your successful bid, we may charge interest at a rate not exceeding 1.5% per month on the total amount due;

11.1.6 keep that Lot, or any other Lot sold to you, until you pay the total amount due, including Shipping and Storage Costs where applicable;

11.1.7 reject or ignore bids from you or your agent at future auctions or impose conditions before we accept bids from you; and/or

11.1.8 if we sell any Lots for you, use the money made on these Lots to repay any amount you owe us.

11.2 We will act reasonably when exercising our rights under Clause 11.1. We will contact you before exercising these rights and try to work with you to correct any non-compliance by you with these Terms of Sale.

12. Health and safety

Although we take reasonable precautions regarding health and safety, you are on our premises at your own risk. Please note the lay-out of the premises and security arrangements. Neither we nor our employees or agents are responsible for the safety of you or your property when you visit our premises, unless you suffer any injury to your person or damage to your property as a result of our employees’ or our agents’ negligence.

13. Sellers warranties

13.1 The Seller warrants to us and to you that:

13.1.1 the Seller is the true owner of the Lot for sale or is authorised by the true owner to offer and sell the Lot at auction;

13.1.2 the Seller is able to transfer good and marketable title of the Lot to you free from any third party rights or claims; and

13.1.3 as far as the Seller is aware, the main characteristics of the Lot set out in the auction catalogue (as amended by any notice displayed in the saleroom or announced by the Auctioneer at the auction), and any documentation provided to you by the seller in relation to the Lot, are correct.

13.2 If, after you have placed a successful bid and paid for a Lot, any of the warranties above are found not to be true, please notify us in writing. Neither we nor the Seller will be liable to pay you any sums over and above the total amount due and we will not be responsible for any inaccuracies in the information provided by the Seller except as set out below.

13.3 Please note that many of the Lots that you may bid on at our auction are second-hand.

13.4 If a Lot is not second-hand and you purchase the Lot as a Consumer from a Seller that is a Trader, a number of additional terms may be implied by law in addition to the Seller’s warranties set out at Clause 13.1 (in particular under the Consumer Rights Act 2015). These Terms of Sale do not seek to exclude your rights under law as they relate to the sale of these Lots.

13.5 Save as expressly set out above, all other warranties, conditions or other terms which might have effect between the Seller and you, or us and you, or be implied or incorporated by statue, common law or otherwise are excluded.

14. Descriptions and condition

14.1 Our descriptions of the Lot will be based on:

(a) information provided to us by the Seller of the Lot (for which we are not liable); and

(b) our opinion (although it is likely that we will not be able to carry out a detailed inspection of each Lot).

To Note: The actual colour of a Lot may vary from images in the auction catalogue or online listing.

14.2 We will give you a number of opportunities to view and inspect the Lots before the auction. You (and any independent consultants acting on your behalf) must satisfy yourself about the accuracy of any description of a Lot. We shall not be responsible for any failure by you or your consultants to properly inspect a Lot in advance of the auction.

14.3 Representations or statements by us as to authorship, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling Price involve matters of opinion. We undertake that any such opinion will be honestly and reasonably held and accept liability for opinions given negligently or fraudulently, but not otherwise.

14.4 Please note that Lots (in particular second-hand Lots) are unlikely to be in perfect condition. Lots are sold ‘as is’ (i.e. as you see them at the time of the auction). Neither we nor the Seller accept any liability for the condition of second-hand Lots, for their fitness or purpose, or for any condition issues affecting a Lot if such issues are included in the description of a Lot in the auction catalogue, online listing, the condition report for a lot (or in any saleroom notice) and/ or which the inspection of a Lot by the Buyer ought to have revealed.

14.5 Restricted Items containing Ivory

14.5.1 The sale of lots containing ivory from Elephants, hippopotamus, narwhal, killer whale, and sperm whale are banned, subject to some exemptions. In these cases, where these items are offered for sale, we rely on information provided to us by the Seller confirming that the item satisfies the relevant legal exemptions. We will display the Ivory Declaration Submission Reference relating to the application for exemption in the Lot description. Lots marked  contain ivory material.

14.6 Post 1950 Upholstered Furniture

14.6.1 All items of furniture included in a sale are offered for sale as works of art and may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988; for this reason, they should not be used in a private dwelling.

14.7 Furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia Nigra)

14.7.1 To comply with CITES Regulations on Post-1947 furniture made of Brazilian Rosewood, all post-war rosewood furniture will have an Article 10 certificate in place, prior to being offered for sale and we will display the Certificate Number in the information for each lot. These items are marked with this sign §.

14.7.2 If you are purchasing rosewood furniture for commercial purposes and not solely for your own use, CITES regulations require you to obtain your own certificate. You would need to contact the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and, as part of the process of obtaining your document, it is a requirement that you have seen sight of the Sworders’ certificate or are aware of its reference number.

14.8 Electrical items

14.8 Lots with electrical components are sold as ‘antiques’ only for their historical or decorative attributes and for display purposes only. If you buy electrical Goods for use, you must ask a qualified electrician to check them for compliance with safety regulations before you use them.

14.9 Fire Safety

14.9 All items of furniture are sold as a Collector’s item, for display purposes and are not supplied for use. Such lots may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and for this reason, you must first ensure that they are refurbished and rendered compliant with any applicable furniture and safety regulations.

15. Deliberate Forgeries

15.1 You may return any Lot which is found to be a Deliberate Forgery to us within twelve months of the auction provided that you return the Lot to us in the same condition as when it was released to you, accompanied by a written statement identifying the Lot from the relevant catalogue description and a written statement of defects.

15.2 If we are reasonably satisfied that the Lot is a Deliberate Forgery, and it has been returned to us within the specified time, in the condition in which it was released to you, we will refund the money paid by you for the Lot (including any Premium and applicable VAT), You will have no right to a refund under this clause if:

15.2.1 the catalogue description reflected the accepted view of experts as at the date of the auction; or

15.2.2 you personally are not able to transfer good and marketable title in the Lot to us

15.3 If you have sold the Lot to another person, we will only be liable to refund the Price that you paid for the Lot. We will not be responsible for repaying any additional money you may have made from selling the Lot. Your rights under this clause are given to you as a Buyer in our auction; they are not given to, and may not be transferred or assigned to, any third party.

15.4 Your right to return a Lot that is a Deliberate Forgery does not affect your legal rights and is in addition to any other right or remedy provided by law or by these Terms of Sale.

16. Our liability to you

16.1 We will not be liable for any loss of opportunity or disappointment suffered as a result of participating in our auction.

16.2 In addition to the above, neither we nor the Seller shall be responsible to you and you shall not be responsible to the Seller or us for any other loss or damage that any of us suffer that is not a foreseeable result of any of us not complying with the Terms and Conditions. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it is obvious that it will happen or if at the time of the sale of the Lot, we, you and the Seller knew it might happen.

16.3 Lots are sold as antiques for their decorative attributes rather than for use, and are often of considerable age and uncertain manufacture; neither we, nor the seller, accepts liability for loss or damage to Lots, or any other loss or damage that is caused by, or results from, any inherent vice or defect affecting the Lots

16.4 Subject to Clause 15.4, if we are found to be liable to you for any reason (including, amongst others, if we are found to be negligent, in breach of contract or to have made a misrepresentation), our liability will be limited to the total purchase Price paid by you to us for any Lot.

16.5 Notwithstanding the above, nothing in these Terms of Sale shall limit our liability (or that of our employees or agents) for:

16.5.1 death or personal injury resulting from negligence (as defined in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977);

16.5.2 fraudulent misrepresentation; or

16.5.3 any liability which cannot be excluded by law.

17. Notices

17.1 All notices between you and us regarding these Terms of Sale must be in writing and either from your registered email address, our email address, or if in hard copy letter, signed by or on behalf of the party sending it.

17.2 Any notice referred in Clause 17.1 may be given:

17.2.1 by delivering it by hand;

17.2.2 by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery; or

17.2.3 by email

17.3 Notices must be sent:

17.3.1 by hand or registered post;

a. to us, at our address set out in these Terms of Sale or at our registered office address appearing on our Website; and b. to you, at the last postal address that you have given to us as your contact address in writing; or

17.3.2 by email:

a. to us, by sending the notice to the following email address: auctions@sworder.co.uk

b. to you, by sending the notice to any email address that you have given to us as your contact email address in writing.

17.4 Notices will be deemed to have been received:

17.4.1 if delivered by hand, on the day of delivery;

17.4.2 if sent by first class pre-paid post or recorded delivery, two business days after posting, exclusive of the day of posting; or 17.4.3 if sent by email, at the time of transmission unless sent after 17.00 in the place of receipt in which case they will be deemed to have been received on the next business day in the place of receipt.

17.5 Any notice or communication given under these Terms of Sale will not be validly given if sent by fax, any form of messaging via social media or text message (including WhatsApp).

18. Data Protection

18.1 We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. We do not share your data unless there is a business, or legal reason for us to do so. We will hold and process any personal data in relation to you in accordance with our current privacy policy, a copy of which is available on our Website at www.sworder.co.uk.

18.2 We reserve the right, where we deem we are required for regulatory purposes, to reveal your identity and contact details (and

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those of your Principal) to the Seller).

18.3 In agreeing to these terms of sale, you agree that:

• should you decide to use Sworders delivery service, we may share relevant personal data that we hold with the shipping agent to allow effective communication between the shipping agent and you, and to enable delivery

• should you fail to collect your items within seven working days of the date of the auction, we may share your details with the shipping agent to allow effective communication between them and you, to arrange for the payment of storage and collection of your items from their store.

19. General

19.1 We may, acting reasonably, refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person.

19.2 We act as an agent for our Sellers. The rights we have to claim against you for breach of these Terms of Sale may be used by either us, our employees or agents, or the Seller, its employees or agents, as appropriate. Other than as set out in this Clause, these Terms of Sale are between you and us and no other person will have any rights to enforce any of these Terms of Sale.

19.3 We may use special terms in the catalogue descriptions of particular Lots. You must read these terms carefully along with any glossary provided in our auction catalogues or online listing.

19.4 Each of the clauses of these Terms of Sale operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining clauses will remain in full force and effect.

19.5 We may change these Terms of Sale from time to time, without notice to you. Please read these Terms of Sale carefully, as they may be different from the last time you read them.

19.6 Except as otherwise stated in these Terms of Sale, each of our rights and remedies: (a) are in addition to and not exclusive of any other rights or remedies under these Terms of Sale or general law; and (b) may be waived only in writing and specifically. Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale is not a waiver of that or any other right. Partial exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale will not preclude any further or other exercise of that right or any other right under these Terms of Sale. Waiver of a breach of any term of these Terms of Sale will not operate as a waiver of breach of any other term or any subsequent breach of that term.

19.7 These Terms of Sale and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them (including any non-contractual claims or disputes) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

These terms are based upon the recommended terms of sale by the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers.

Updated July 2025

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